through winter's frail and biting nights and summer's fleeting escapades you've been there with me by my side a bond that cannot be betrayed we've made each other laugh and cry we've seen the world through rosy shades you've guarded me throughout it all your columns built like palisades you are my true and deepest love your name is like my own heart's beat I hear it when I close my eyes spreadsheet spreadsheet spreadsheet I know without a single doubt I'll be with you till end of time we'll travel all across the world from cell a1 to z 9 9 I'll roll you down the river Sen and say two one eleven eight and wear the rest but numbers here you'll know it is in fact a date the sum of you and I is love our souls tuned like an orchestra they make up more than just their parts it's provable by formula and as the years begin to fly time's hand will guide me to my grave for while we are both made of cells mine sadly do not auto-save but do not fret my gridded friend for in this bitter sweet farewell I'll know it's thanks to only you that in this life I did excel thank you everyone I'm Graham and I'm Ashkan and we're here giving this talk because we are in love with spreadsheets and it's a wonderful kind of love one that doesn't involve jealousy fighting or divorce except on some rare occasions loving spreadsheets is like loving duct tape it's the love of an unexpectedly useful tool that with enough creativity and dedication you can do almost anything with now I know there are some people out there who believe that love between humans and spreadsheets is unnatural but we're here to make a stand and say that it's one of the most natural things in the world in fact we believe that humans and spreadsheets are meant to be with each other and this love goes far back into the history of human civilization there was a point in human history when things as basic as writing numbers and three-dimensional stacked area charts didn't exist all humans had back then was a dream a dream that has been present in human beings since we could call ourselves human the dream of spreadsheets the earliest records of counting go back 40 to 75 thousand years and even before we had numbers we could still compare marks on an object or drawing with the number of animals in a herd or track the number of magic mushroom trips that you accidentally went on written language came around 5500 years ago etched into stone and clay and with this came tax forms which actually make up a humongous portion of early writings that we've discovered with some hymns laws and crude jokes thrown in there as well here you can actually see early papyrus from about 4600 years ago and oh wait does something there look a little familiar this early spreadsheet shows detailed accounting for the construction of the pyramid of Giza one of hundreds of sheets discovered proving once and for all that its spreadsheets and not aliens responsible for the pyramids if you're an ancient record keeper and you're in charge of collecting and making sense of all this information it's hard to imagine that you didn't dream of some kind of magic grid that can tabulate its own numbers from plotting stars to making crop charts to organizing large projects to of course taxes there's likely not a single human in charge of all this data who didn't fantasize of something that in all likelihood looks a lot what our modern like what our modern spreadsheets look like mainly because throughout history human still did all the things that we currently do in spreadsheets they just did them a lot slower and a lot worse even if we look just at the very basic spreadsheet functions like adding and subtracting we can see how primitive our options have been over time the abacus was the best we had for a long time pretty much 4,000 years literally the only other mathematical tool that we used for longer was our fingers it wasn't until the 1600s that the slide rule finally ended the abacus's reign of mathematical terror and from there it wasn't long before these clunky calculating machines were created with wooden and metal gears and dials not commonly in use until the 1800s and then after that you might be surprised to know that the next real revolution and calculation wasn't until we got big honking computers in the 1940s only available to specially trained people who were deemed worthy of access most of us were still using slide rules or doing math longhand like chumps 20 years later in the late 1960s the first handheld electronic calculators were made and just look at those beauties and within just a decade and a half they had dethroned slide rules personal computers for hobbyists were also around at that same time in the 1970s but they were still pretty technical actually had a little paper printout and no screen not a lot of people had the resources or the interest to purchase one and 1977 is what actually marked the birth of the age of personal mass market computers like the apple to two years later in 1979 humans produced what is to this day considered to be one of the pinnacles of human achievement visit calc the first ever spreadsheet program it's considered to be the first killer app like literally the phrase was invented and then applied to it before visit calc people shop for computers based on technical specifications and after visit calc came out people shop for computers based on whether or not they could run visit calc through the 80s and into the 90s ever improving spreadsheet applications continue to be one of the largest driving forces behind computer sales including the introduction of Microsoft excel in 1985 and from there things just kept getting more and more advanced to the point that you could be sitting at a conference watching a presentation and not even realize that the entire thing is in fact a spreadsheet and this is enough just glorifying the impact of spreadsheets because we happen to love them this is actually a well-established history there have been two real explosions that have propelled the industry forward the first one really happened in 1977 and it was the spreadsheet I remember when Dan filestra who ran the company that marketed the first spreadsheet walked into my office at apple one day pulled out this disk from his vest pocket and said I have this incredible new program I call it a visual calculator became visit calc and that's what really drove propelled the apple to to the success it achieved and beyond just moving apple forward visit calc was one of the early reasons that businesses and individuals purchased computers at all check out this clip of a panel with the developers where they're talking about one of the many numerous awards that they got for developing visit calc together they were honored by the western society of engineers washington award and I want to read to you as I change the citation from the award letter where they were recognized for the invention of the first computer spreadsheet software program which led to the proliferation of the computer industry which in turn led to the economic expansion of the late 20th century perhaps living as you do in modern luxury with a plethora of free and paid spreadsheet apps for simply strewn about your hard drive this reaction to their initial launch might be surprising to others of us it's the result of the millennia's old dream of a traceable ancestral desire finally come to fruition and now one of the most powerful and sophisticated tools humans have ever designed lies waiting for you to wield and as you start to use it you'll feel yourself becoming more and more powerful like a sorcerer slowly learning to harness the abilities that they possess so let's take you through the journey of learning to wield the might of a spreadsheet and explore what sort of new powers you'll unlock along the way before you've ever started using spreadsheets you're just a normal human nothing more than a skin sack full of meat popsicles who has yet to realize their full potential but now you're ready to take your first step towards that potential and the first step is when you realize that you can use spreadsheets to simply take information and display it nicer than you could in a normal text document some information is just better suited to being laid out in a table and putting it into a table does more than just make it easier to digest it can also make it more functional for example here's a list of some of the float-on owners and a couple of interesting facts about each of us not only can you easily compare specific pieces of information between us but if I need to quickly get a list of just our favorite colors I can highlight just this column over here or if I wanted to look at information for just one of us I could highlight that row good so now you've had your first sip from this wellspring of spreadsheet etude but instead of finding yourself quench you feel parched your lips ever thirsty for the ambrosia that you have just tasted as you keep pushing forward the next thing you learn is how to effectively use how effectively spreadsheets can help you stay organized the columns of a spreadsheet make it simple to easily track a person or thing and track its progress through a series of different steps it basically becomes a simplified CRM system it can really help you stay on top of large projects we've used spreadsheets to help organize things like our art program our music program and when we were planning the conference it was basically nothing more than a big series of spreadsheets with a little layer of Steven Johnson thrown on top so you didn't notice at this point creating a spreadsheet is basically the first move we make when we start in on almost any project and the key here is to have absolutely no faith in your ability to remember anything once you give up that delusion and instead start treating spreadsheets as your external brain your mind will become unburdened and allow itself to spend its time doing what it really wants to do wondering if a pet giraffe would love you the same way that you would love it you're now starting to feel more powerful in your spreadsheet training but you know there's so much more thus far you've only been exploring the innate powers within you but a vast world of abilities is simply waiting at your fingertips it's time to learn your first spells and begin to use spreadsheet formulas need to sum up sales numbers to get a total figure out the average price paid of a certain retail item count how many of your customers phone numbers have an eight in them so that you can see if your numerological chart says that you're going to be blessed with extra sales this moon cycle no problem spreadsheets can eat these tasks for breakfast for example here's a spreadsheet full of phrases we're trying to bring back in fashion we can easily count how many of them include dogs with this formula which should be a pretty reliable indicator for how successful we're likely to be and the thing is once you learn some of the basics in terms of how to use spreadsheet formulas you unlock the ability to access a tremendous amount of data about your business now lots of software that you use for business is going to have built-in reporting but there's always a thousand different ways to cut and slice data and you don't really know if that program is going to give you the information exactly as you wanted fortunately almost all of that data can be exported to raw spreadsheets and from there you can do almost anything with it a little spreadsheet know how lets you figure out pretty much whatever metrics you want about your business which means you don't have to keep waiting for your software company to build in that new report you asked about which is constantly getting delayed because the owners are too busy trying to find the perfect outfit for their spreadsheet talks at this point there's no looking back a faint but noticeable grid of lines has started to overlay itself on everything you see numbers out in the world look like they're just begging to be tabulated summed and rounded but you know the well of spreadsheet knowledge is deep and right now you're about treading on the surface the next step of your journey begins when you start to use spreadsheets for actually modeling different scenarios let's say you're considering doing a price raise or you want to want to expand your hours but you're not sure at what point the extra payroll cost makes it not worth it you can easily set up factors you want to adjust in their own sales and then reference those sales using formulas to do your other number crunching for you automatically this allows you to easily model as many different scenarios as you want by simply changing the variables and seeing how it affects every other number along the way at this level you also gain the ability to drive yourself completely insane by over analyzing every possible version of every possible scenario so you've now completed a substantial amount of your training and you're ready to take your skills outside of the academy it's at this point that your grasp of spreadsheets is so powerful you begin to use spreadsheets just as a method to get through your everyday life you discover that spreadsheets have a myriad of purposes in your leisure activities for example here's a spreadsheet I use to make a sandwich now I don't always accompany my lunches with a spreadsheet but this particular sandwich was a concept I came up with where a single sandwich changes toppings every couple inches freeing you from the tyranny of needing to choose just a single type of sandwich to eat for lunch one day I decided to make one that fully transitioned between 24 different types of sandwiches which is simply more sandwich than a man can keep in his head but spreadsheets were there to help me accomplish my dreams allowing this beautiful sandwich to be born and the use of spreadsheets for fun goes beyond just inventing groundbreaking evolutions in the field of sandwich three this is a painting by Tatsuo Horiyuchi a Japanese artist who creates his artwork entirely using Excel and this is a game by Tyler Robertson that is a playable dungeon crawler that is entirely built in a spreadsheet you can click on the buttons up here to control the character collect keys and progress through a series of levels of course your hunger to harness the power of spreadsheets does not stop here you're no longer satisfied with the spells written by the Council of Excelsior's you're ready to take things in your own hands and tap into the pure energy at the source of spreadsheets itself it's at this point that you start to use macros and scripts programmatic tools that allow you to go beyond the scope of what you can do within the UI of the spreadsheet itself allowing you to have interactive elements sophisticated workflows automation and essentially endless control of what the say the spreadsheet is able to perform and at this level you can honestly just start to do some truly amazing things here's a video by Dylan Talche for he built an entire music creation program using Excel this is a fully 3d rendered Doom like game that blogger C bell built entirely inside of a spreadsheet as you can see it has active lighting effects and even has enemies that you can fight and that can hurt you the entire game is actually able to run without any macros only spreadsheet formulas but you have made a version with macros that allows you to use your keyboard as a controller to move around so at this stage your spreadsheet prowess has elevated you beyond the realm of mere mortals and you're ready to compete against other Titans of your stature that's when you decide to enter the financial modeling world cup which is a real competition that can really be watched online or on ESPN 8 the Ocho which really airs obscure sports grand masters of spreadsheets compete head-to-head by being given complicated scenarios that are modeled as data sets inside of a spreadsheet they're then asked to figure out the answers to various questions that take sophisticated spreadsheet manipulation to calculate and the gain points for every answer they get correct in a given amount of time it truly is the sport of kings at the final level of spreadsheet knowledge you're now a pseudo divinity able to use spreadsheets to manipulate the very fabric of reality around you peering deeper and deeper into the cell based structure of the universe while slowly phasing in and out of this material world you also know how to use pivot tables now I'm sure some of you have been on board with us the entire time and you probably already have a spreadsheet of all the times that spreadsheets have meaningfully impacted your life for others of you spreadsheets can seem intimidating and it makes sense when you're faced with such raw unmitigated power it's hard to know where to start but getting proficient at spreadsheets is easier than you probably think we think the best way to learn how to use spreadsheets is through a mix of faith and Google the faith part is having confidence that anything that you want to do in a spreadsheet is possible is how you figure out how to actually do it and as you start playing around with spreadsheets the best way to get better is just to resist the temptation to do anything by hand even if it would be faster to just go through and manually count something or clean up data in a column one by one spend the time and search the internet for how to do it with a formula or how to automate it if you do this every time you're faced with a problem you'll constantly be learning more and more formulas moving yourself higher and higher up the levels of spreadsheet mastery and bringing yourself one step closer to competing in the financial modeling World Cup and look we know what some of you out there are thinking though grandma Nash gone there's like a million pieces of fancy software out there nowadays why wouldn't I just use one of those instead of one of these smear sheets or whatever you guys are talking about yeah that's what you sound like pretty embarrassing listen we know there's a lot of software out there nowadays and that there are things that are much more user-friendly and slick than a spreadsheet and most of them will give you stats and graphs on your information faster and easier than a spreadsheet but the problem is the more you add slick user interfaces and pre-made graphs the more you're boxed into what that specific piece of software is designed to show you the beauty about spreadsheets is how many different things you can do with them it's sort of like how there are special tools for cutting all sorts of individual types of fruit does a pineapple slicer cut a pineapple more easily and evenly than you would be able to with a knife yeah sure but what happens when you want to cut a strawberry you need to go buy one of those fancy strawberry quarters and then what happens when you want some watermelon and you have to go buy this specialized watermelon cuber it's a little harder to cut any fruit with a knife than with a specialized tool but the knife gives you the freedom to cut any piece of fruit that comes your way and saves you from having a kitchen gadget or a drawer full of these crazy gadgets in your kitchen and at the end of the day the more you use the knife the better you get at cutting things with it which makes you that much more proficient and making an excellent fruit salad and if you add some fresh mint and a little bit of lemon juice I mean now we're really talking people wouldn't even take a bite of Cindy's famous artichoke dip at this year's fourth of July party the point here is that using spreadsheets lets you become that much better at using spreadsheets which then makes using spreadsheets that much more useful but like many things the most intimidating step is just knowing how to start so let's show you that's right it's time for a live spreadsheet demo which we're pretty sure will go down in history is the most exciting thing that has ever happened in this arena first let's collect some data so if everybody out there doesn't mind taking a second we have prepared a quick survey for you which you can get to by just scanning this qr code from your phone this is only for existing float centers so apologies to everyone else out there and this qr code itself is actually something that we generated using a spreadsheet formula so we'll give you guys a second if you don't know the exact answers to the questions that's fine put in your best guesses this isn't like the industry report or something which you should all feel out by the way industry report for people watching virtually you can scan this and fill it out too and while we wait for everyone to fill it out let's enjoy some footage from the financial modeling World Cup so you can experience the thrill firsthand you start out with 10,000 points each time you land on a cell you deduct some points but the red cells your points get cut in half the green cells your points are multiplied in two and the ultimate goal is to figure out how many points you have when you get to the finish line so just a lot a lot to model so Michael is on the board now let's look at Michael okay named ranges with those directions you know I did bring it into power three split columns into roles boom lookup table right there yeah just two columns just two columns so it was just an X lookup and no two-way lookup needed right oh look at that oh we have dear mid at 311 points which is bad news he should have 320 points if he completed three right yeah one of those one of those is an error if there's anything that had commas in it and didn't get copied correctly you know like sell online is you know really coming along it's getting much better but there's still with little weird bugs between win 32 and excel online so it's getting there yeah and those down in the corner there dims 8 p.m. actions per minute 195 which is pretty fast for a case that is this difficult so he's he's currently working level 4 this is worth 200 points 20 answers that are 10 points each and in general you know once you get the logic to build one answer you should be able to copy that logic down so generally thrilling truly all right so now we have some data let's start getting our hands dirty first thing we want to do is convert all these answers that people said are in kilograms over into pounds because we're in the United States and we'll just make a quick equation here to say that hey if people entered it in kilograms go ahead and convert it over into pounds using the convert formula and otherwise you can just keep it as the number was entered in pounds and that'll put everything into the same unit so we can actually compare them side by side and it'll make sense and once we have one cell done it's as easy as highlighting everything or sometimes even just hitting enter on Google sheets then we hit command enter boom fill out the entire column immediately and with selecting that column in the bottom right get rid of this one here that doesn't seem very realistic so once we select the entire column we can easily see things like the sum and the average we can also see the min and the max which someone said the minimum order was one pound of salt okay thank you and 10,000 it looks like was the max that someone entered over there but all of this is just child's play as far as spreadsheets are concerned new tab suppose what we really want to see isn't just individual float centers and how much salt they ordered but a visual of how much salt the entire industry is ordering on a month-by-month basis so we're going to take all these orders and move them over into this new tab and we're actually going to transpose the data so that it shows up horizontally along the top there as opposed to vertically and then we're just going to take a little styling make sure this sheet doesn't get too out of hand over here and that we can navigate and see things easily and then for the left-hand side we're going to mark chart months going along there so we'll start with the current month put in the next month and then use spreadsheet magic to just click and drag and it'll automatically in infer what months we're going to put after that so we'll drag it out for 10 years here so now we've made is a grid of everyone and all of the salt orders along the top and months going forward for 10 years along the left-hand side and the fun begins what we're going to do from here is to plot out everyone salt orders in the month that they made them so on months where they ordered nothing we're going to put zeros and on months where we forecast that they're going to order salt according to their numbers they put in or you guys put in we're going to put that exact number of salt in there so to start out we're just going to find when the last salt order they did is which we have the info for and then start plotting that forward on a graph with the order frequency that you have so we're going to use some fancy equations we use mod to divide those with each other and find out if there's a remainder which tells us what months you actually ordered salt in don't worry too much about the specifics and we're going to go back and just set some of these as constants using a dollar sign so that when we click and drag this over the entire sheet it's not going to get out of hand so now that we have that in one cell we select every other cell for 10 years and hit an error would you do and hit command enter there we go and it automatically fills in all of the salt orders projected for the next 10 years for everyone who filled this out blamo but thank you very much let's not stop there now that we have this we can sum up the rows of salt orders to get a total for every with every salt order that people are projected to order in the month that is ordered take all of those and then graph it out into its own graph then we can take this straight to Wall Street and start trading on Epsom salt futures being hailed as the most prodigious financial forecasters of the century and very very likely to be interviewed on mad money with Jim Kramer by the end of the week and as a final touch we can put a little photo of myself and Ash con in the corner giving us a thumbs up for a certified job well done and our project is complete we're also going to make this image available so that you can put it on all of your own internal spreadsheets which is highly recommended by pretty much all spreadsheet professionals out there so now you that you've seen some real life spreadsheet wizardry in action we wanted to wind things down by leaving you with your own little starter kit or spell book if you will it's a little something we call Graham and Ash con's super neat spreadsheet cheat sheet and it's available if you go over to Graham and Ash con super neat spreadsheet cheat sheet dot com just download it or save it to your own Google Drive to get it to work it contains a bunch of the most useful keyboard shortcuts and formulas just general tips that we found are the things we use most commonly when we're going to use which is ourselves which is a lot it also includes a little game that we made in spreadsheets to help you settle any small arguments that you get in during the conference so if you're trying to decide who's buying the next round of lobster rolls or who has to wait for the elevator just click over here and decide who's player one and two click this little button to duke it out and as an extra extra bonus there's a sheet in here with the recipe that we like to use when we're making Taiwanese style dumplings and you can actually just go up here adjust how many dumplings you want to make and with a little spreadsheet magic it'll automatically adjust all the different amounts of ingredients for you we like to make these in big batches and freeze them because we love them so much but not as much as we love spreadsheets thank you


It was like I got a call from the studio and it was like we're gonna do you doing your album There's another family and I was just tripping like it's like bun and pimp your man We're gonna do a song for you on your album.  We're just slinging with UGK Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one Yeah, we gonna talk about this music man this drill talk no pill talk man This guy right here number one blog in Texas. He's gonna put us out there You know, I'm saying what I know how to get on his page. I just bring him on the show He's gonna repost us all day long You know I'm in the whole conversation because you think he got some good questions answers. No, I don't usually get you now You know I'm saying you just gonna sit here and act right today and talk to these guys, man How you doing? We're gonna get into the music dude. Here's a music guru. He's studied both for y'all I ain't never seen nobody can break it down like him and GD down there GDP these two guys right here It's my number two one and two. I go to different I'm in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi to he right down you whatever he doing He doesn't seen it. So we about to get into it man You being from that no limit or you being from the UGK era, you know, I'm saying listen man We ain't we love y'all bruh. So we about to get into this music man. So you how did you first link with uh, uh UGK Pmc Bun B. Um Short story even shorter, um I had a friend that route from crystal spring, Mississippi named telefunctions And he was a part of a group called the black knights. They got a deal with a guy named cow burden out of Lansing, Michigan crazy cow records and so Me I was in the streets, but these were my partners that I hung with and you know They wanted me to come for one reason or another Short story even shorter. We got there.  Nobody's paying attention to him So I just took you know, like the kids and we made a song And um, it listed something like you already do this for real Like you know, and the name of the song was like the first song I ever made called a pimp mac hustle Okay, but I put the his son in the intro. You remember the old tussie road park? Come on, man. I made some street stuff to that We came back down south And uh, they had a club called underground in Jackson, Mississippi and just so happened The underground kings was coming to the underground so I had a Packet, you know back then they used to put the the photo The cassette tape You know, and I put a little weed in there that I have from michigan that nobody knew existed yet. So I you know gave it to a stokes Shout out to stokes kevin uh caven stokes club promoter show promoter, mississippi I gave it to him and he gave it to them And so, you know back then they had the pages of what now we riding around and working on the pager And he asked me to come to the club. So When I came to the club, I'm thinking, okay, somebody wants some of this good new weed I got right And so when I got there big security guard dude, I look up Come on. Well, I go out to the back. I get in the limousine. Okay. Let me see I get in on this door. It's a girl here. It's a girl there. It's a girl there Bond is over there on that seat pimp is here. So they were listening to the music, right? Smoking me. I'm thinking they won't smoke. So I'm still on trying to get my money I'll pull out some extra got the girls. He wrote it up and he played the songs and uh He played the song I did with the little child He was like, well, who is this and he said, man, that's jam You won't come to Texas for a couple of weeks Yeah But I had to ask my mom because I was in college, right? um I ended up going for two weeks and ended up staying two years and You know, I moved in with pimp and because I was from Jackson So I stayed with them two years and in that process I learned how to produce He showed me a lot of stuff about the music Because I have a way with words like, you know double untimes and whatnot if you will so A lot of the times when we was in there creating I was able to help him with hooks Do you know what I'm saying? Like the policeman or your friend? Stuff like that, you know, I was there just started like one day I was there Because we shared music. I had my own talent, but not like he is you see he helped me enhance What I was doing. Wow, so That's how that's how it began the first song that UGK had ever had was here with the front back side to side. Yeah, and that Is what led me back to Mississippi to the jealousy and the resentment in The jail time. Yeah, we don't get it Yeah, I want to I want to hear about that. I but I you said something earlier. You said that you were some kind of way Cousins with which one bun or pimp? No, or somebody on the camp DJ little daddy. He's known as baby t Okay, and let daddy used to come down You know what I'm saying? Yeah, my mom was like, um, um, baby t Your brother kevin this is cousin, you know what I'm saying And um, and my my brother had different fathers Biologically, but my dad rest in peace. You couldn't tell him kevin wasn't his own already. That's where it be. Um, so, um, he was like He let me come around and just so happened that uh, little daddy go hang out by devious and meet by devious And uh, UGK be meeting them over there. I didn't have to I'm not meeting smoke at the time But it was it was a bun and pimp. You know what I'm saying? And I was just like a just a man a student in the hallway I had to be in the way between 12 and 14. Wow, you were very young Yeah, and I was just a kid in the corner just listening and observing, you know, I just knew this was a soaking up game Oh man, like that's what they call it.   I was you know, I'm gonna just be quiet let these men Do the thing and I was telling him about earlier. I was like You know before I can finish it. He was like he said I'm saying like, you know, you just never know who's gonna be who You know what I mean? Oh my god years later Bro, I was in the tattoo parlor About to get new limit records tatter on my arm, right? Mack had Mack had just got out the man got out the mac mac He um, just got the chair. I got in the chair. It's like, uh, I got a call from the studio And he was like we're gonna do you doing your album? There's one there a family and I was just tripping like It's like burning pimple man. We're gonna do a song for you on your album I jumped sprung out the chair.


Hi everyone, Basel Trapp, and here this is the 1 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. The Dow is up 326 at $33,627, considering that ugly red candle yesterday. If we're able to close above, that was $33,645. The high serve for today is $33,638, 7, 8 points away. If we're able to close above that. Green 9 period moving average will still remain above the 14 period moving average, and that's the reason why I've been looking at this and saying there's residual strength. Until that residual strength dissipates, and you see the 9 under the 14, you can get these big, big spikes to the upside. This is actually a very nice action considering what happened yesterday. Looking at the S&P, the S&P is up 54 at 410, this is 1.34%, the Dow is only up 1%. This is very interesting because this is also very good, the 9 is still over the 14, and the QQQ went to pink yesterday. In other words, the 9 went under the 14 in the daily chart yesterday, and today it's gone back above. Very good action, of course, METO is one of the reasons why huge, we've up 14%, almost 15% up. You're looking at, I think, where was the other one, Microsoft also had a fabulous move yesterday. That's part of the Qs, very strong move. Even today it's up sharply from the 275s it was at, just the other day, it's a 302. So you're looking at crude oil, crude oil is still very weak. You're looking at the TLT, the TLT dropped quite sharply so that yields went up a little bit, but it's still just stuck in a range, the dollar tried to rally, but it's kind of stalled, it's up just at 101.63, it's just up a little bit from yesterday. Looking at it, this is going to be really interesting. The gold chart right here is holding quite well, it's only down 2.5% in 1993. So the gold trade, the one that's been in place for a long time, is still the kind of the go-to level, and I think part of that is the XLF. In this coming hour, I'll be talking about the XLF, the financials, S&P Select, Financial Spider Fund, really disappointing, doing very poorly. Even today it's only up 30 cents. I'll be back in a few moments for the 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock show. See you in a few.


Gutsville Agpabio has emerged as the new president of the Senate and the leader of the National Assembly after a keenly contested race and voted by the federal law makers. Voting commenced after Senator Ali-Undami nominated Senator Agpabio, favored by the willing all-progressive Congress A.P.C., while Senator Elisha Abo nominated from a governor of Zamfra, a state of the Lusizia before the same position. Agpabio's nomination was seconded by Senator Ulami Lee Konsalomon Yairi from Ergun State. The results are as follows. Total number of boat cast 109, absent knee, abstain knee. Abdul Aziz Yairi scored 46 boats. Gutsville Agpabio scored 63 boats. Therefore, Senator Elect, Gutsville Agpabio, who has received the highest number of boats, is hereby declared and returned president of the Senate. Senators of Gutsville Agpabio, Commander of the Order of the Niger, do solemnly swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that I will preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So help me God.


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A lot as intense as you can get. And you know, the bravery and heroics and all the above. I don't even know if there's that many people out of that heroic around anymore to tell you the truth. But I'm sure there are. But you know, anyway, it was an amazing program. I remember it last time. I watched it last night. And you know, you know, a lot of hurt out there. There's no doubt about it. And then on, now this is kind of cool.  That's how it goes. Now what I got, check this out. This is so cool. I talked to Nancy Rawls last week. And it's so applicable. This came in overnight today and it's taps, okay? So I'm gonna read what they wrote about Bud Rawls. This is from the West Point in the next section. You know, this is pretty cool. Anyway, so the next section, we're gonna read about that, what they were saying about Bud Rawls. Spy, what do you have with the spy out here? So the spy's doing 41 million shares. We have 448, 51. You have volume right now of 41 million. Now, if we go to the futures, this market's telling me it's gonna hold price right now. Because the highs to me still wanna get hit because of the fact that there's no more sellers at the lows again. That's just, you know, the volume was really low. So you can see, when we always talk about where the volume is, well, you had volume right off the bat this morning and then it gave it up. Now it's gonna go and try to reach that high again, which is the 4493. Right now you're at 4491. We're gonna take a look at the cues. Same type of setup inside the cues. What we have with the cues out here is that the cues actually have more, well, two different things that ended up happening with the cues. The cues didn't retrace as much as the spy, which is saying that the cues are more powerful than the spy, stronger. And the cues are gonna have more volume than Friday, which I don't think the spy won't. It's because we did 35 million of the cues Friday. We're gonna do a lot more than that. We're at 31 already. Now granted, we're going into 42, but we might even make 42. And if we make 42, your probability goes a lot higher that you're gonna go right into these highs. We take a look at the end cues. Yeah, see, the end cues, you can say, this is so cool when you look at different indices and you can see who has the strength. I mean, look at this. The end cues already took out the highs that the S&P's trying to get up to. You know, the high and the end cue versus the S&P was at that 15,000, with that 646. Well, we're at 15,676. We're blowing that away. We go to the Noton Bond market. Take a look at Noton Bonds, okay? So inside the Noton Bond market, this is a good setup. Meaning what I mean by a good setup is that your bonds, to me, Noton Bonds have topped out. Now look at this. This is really cool, ma'am. So first we came off the lows with a couple sounds of strength. We pulled back and as we pulled back, we pulled back last Wednesday, Thursday, try to go higher Friday. Wednesday, you did 1.4 million. Thursday, 1.2. Well, today you're doing 839,000 or rejected low and it's going into 2.7 million. Higher price is coming at us. Higher price, lower yield. We go to the good old dollar because it's still all about the dollar, but the dollar, well, the bonds are ringing the dollar. The dollar's ringing the market, the bonds are ringing the market. And what you have with the dollar is that this has been the magic number for quite some time and we'll see whether, you know, number one, can we close below it today? And can we get some follow through? You know, and it's so applicable that I'm gonna do this memorial on Bud coming up the next section because this is the channel master, man. You know, bottom line broke, come up and went back inside the range again. Now, what happened up happening here, this would be called the inside the range, that'd be a false break. Normally when there's a false break, you can turn and if you get follow through in the turn, it'll be a very large turn because it's very unusual that number one, you do such a small retracement because the dollar did a very small retracement. So that's saying that the dollar was very powerful, got back up there, couldn't hold it, then come back down. The reason I'm saying that the normally would end up happening, people would be piling and buying at this particular point. Now, if you look at the larger action and the dollar, though, see the larger action, the dollar's still been in a downtrend. You know, this has been a heck of a run for the dollar, but when you take a look at it, you're gonna see that all that's really done is that, you know, it's been coming up to its highs. And in fact, if this is it, what you're gonna have here is that you're gonna have three lower lows and two lower highs. Stay right there, folks, to come right back. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. 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We are pleased to present the 2023 edition of TAPS, the West Point Association of Graduates, official memorial publication of the Long Gray Line. This year's edition contains the most memorial articles ever published, 361. Each one fulfills TAPS mission to honor and record the legacy of the Long Gray Line, West Point, of course, you know, Army, you know, through the personal life stories and graduates of former cadets. Since this started in 1869, and there's been 15,000 memorial articles published, which represents more than 60% of the Long Gray Line's deceased members. So now let's go to it. So, and then this is the article. They give everyone a full page. And what happens is that other cadets write this about their friends, because of course it's a huge society. They could not have been a more appropriate home town for Walter Arnold Budroff's Jr. than Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. For throughout his life, Bud brought joy wherever he went. In high school, he was known as an athlete on the football, wrestling, and basketball team, as well as a poet, a singer, we know he's a poet, let's wish you a singer in the chorus and an avid chess player. His creative mind was always working on ways to amuse and otherwise entertain his friends. Whether it was as a leading cast member of the Music Man or producing or co-starring in video, parodies of Batman and Robin, using his friends Buick and Victor as their Batmobile. I could picture that, man. Bud was a commissioner entertainer. Bud was also a fierce competitor. One of his main traits he gleaned from his coach and mentor, Mr. Walter Pierce, remained a respected and positive influence to Bud's adult life. Bud received nominations to the US Military Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, and the Merchant Marine Academy, which by the way, folks, every one of them is so hard to get into, it's amazing. And he chose West Point for a reason that he never explained to us, his classmates. After our eight-week beast barracks, Bud became a member of the initial club class of company I-4. He quickly was well-known for his quick wit and friendly nature. It was particularly fortunate for our I-4 club to be assigned to the mess hall table with Bud because obtaining a fallout was ceremony, was certainly whenever Bud would seize the opportunity to raise from his chair and parade up and down the aisles, singing, oh, we got trouble here in River City with a capital T, that rhymes with P, that stands for pool. Nothing in the cadet experienced not the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Office of Physical Education, nor the tactical department phased him. Potentially irritating experiences such as the Buckner Company commander addicted to double timing and some of he, double timing folks, okay, if you haven't been in the military, you're running, okay. Just provided fodder for Bud's creative mind to produce jokes and funny songs. In the summer beginning of the year, Bud met Nancy Marie Formatato, for my, sorry, Nancy. A Newburgh native and rising sophomore of SUNY at Newplatz, which had grown up, who had grown up resolved to have nothing to do with the member of the Corps of Cadets. Bud's charm and inherent goodness changed her mind on that school. And on January 17th, 1973, they married. This was 11 days after graduation and Bud's only regret, fought it nine years later, was that he had wasted 11 days of his life. He's told us that many times on the year live folks. Bud became a field artillery officer and served as military obligations at Fort Raleigh, Kansas in the First Entity Division. He and Nancy Marie were blessed with their daughter Amy in May 1975 and their son, Eric, on Christmas Day, 1976. Followers on his discharge from the regular army, Bud joins the Polaroid Corporation of Massachusetts. Over the next 20 years, he rose steadily for Polaroid and led many high profile projects, eventually becoming vice president overseeing the Instant Film Global Division. One significant innovation that he introduced to enhance the quality of Polaroid's manufacturing processes, became the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study. He obtained an MBA from Rivario College and completed the executive development program at Cornell University. He later worked at Analogic Corporation and developed a second career as a stock market analyst on a national radio program earning the nickname the Channel Master. And you know this little applicable man? He's up there taking care of me right now. He's taking care of all of us, but I'm telling you, I'm long gold. I want a failure on this. It's his Channel Master and fail today. So we'll go from there. Okay. Throughout his successful career, he believed that the most important lessons from the iniquidad was the response and attitude of no excuse, sir, which he had learned on our day. He lived by that credo and obtained that he had served him well in his life. Throughout his life, Bud's primary focus was his beloved Nancy and their family. Theirs was a very happy home and a tight knit community family. They were delighted when Bud graduated from the University of... When Amy graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977 and obtained her Master of Engineering degree from MIT the following year. In 1999, they proudly witnessed Eric graduate from the United States Military Academy West Point following Bud's footsteps. Eric went on to receive an MBA and a degree from MIT. As the years progressed, Bud and Nancy were blessed with three grandchildren and four grandsons, whom Bud lovingly designated as the Magnificent Seven. We heard about them. These children became the son of his universe for Nancy and Bud. Sorry. Jesus. Sorry for... Sorry about that. The kids adored their papa and all his West Point stories, his jokes, the amazing poems that he wrote for them, the delicious feasts that he cooked, and the ever-adventurous trips that he shared with them. Although in his late years, Bud suffered greatly from a series of delimitating ill illnesses. He refused to let them interfere with his goal of helping and caring for others. When he chatted from his sick bed with classmates, he was always more interested in the lives and their lives than in his own. His belief in Jesus Christ and the redemption power of prayer caused Bud to be outspoken in his convictions. His faith remained steadfast, even in the wake of receiving his terminal diagnosis. During the months before he died, Bud changed his opinion about the best thing he took from West Point. While still valuing, no sir, no excuse sir, he concluded that the lifelong friendships he had made were what he valued most from being a West Point cadet. Knowing and loving Bud has been a treasured aspect of the lives of his family and classmates. He remains with us when we recall his stories and jokes, read his poems, think of his family to get together, and whenever we ponder, the select group of special people who have made our lives better. Well done, Mr. Ross, well done, indeed, grip hands. And that was written by Paul F. Bennett in 1973. He was also, you know, a graduate with Bud. Stay right there, folks, come right back. Steve Rhodes started his trading career as a student almost 20 years ago, and the student has now become the master. Steve won the prestigious Timer of the Year award in 2018 and barely missed that mark again in 2019, finishing at number two for the year, an amazing accomplishment. 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So you had Disney and Charter. This would have been the first football game, NFL game. Football game, NFL game, they came to an agreement so that they can run the NFL tonight on Monday Night Football. So you get Disney up a dollar, that's trading at 82. You get Charter up $12 and Charter's been at the high where Disney's been at the low. So it's going to be really interesting to see just what was given up or what was taken away from the vice versa and all of the above. Bottom line is that I suspect what it's done more than anything is giving most folks a real heads up that your ma's will look at what you're getting for what you're paying, because we're all paying too much if you're paying that spectrum bundle. There's no doubt, man. There's just, yeah, well I'll find out when I start doing the numbers. Let's go take a look at the inside, the NDX, the straight versus the weakness. Tesla is the number out here today. Tesla's up 10%, Qualcomm's up 4.2. We'll get to Qualcomm and Apple. That's the Qualcomm and Apple deal. Data dog's up, so Qualcomm's up 4%, Data dog's up 3.9. You get, take it away from it, is that you have Diamond Rock Energy down 2.5, AstraZeneca's up 2.4, Walgreen Boots is up 2, and Illumina's up 2. So if we go to Qualcomm first, let's take a look at Qualcomm. That's trading up 4.40. So Apple made another deal with Qualcomm. That's saying that the Apple chip's not ready. Pull this back a bit. Well, yeah, see, there's not much in both of these equities, you know? You don't, Qualcomm, to me, still wants to go lower price. Like, down to about 110, like 88. That's 80? Yeah, 88 is game. We go to Apple, let's take a look at Apple. Apple's in trouble then. Yeah, Apple's trading 179. That didn't give them any juice. Apple won't even have as much volume as it did on Friday. Friday, it went up a late volume, 64 million, it's only done 45. Apple looks like it's gonna be, most times when you see a couple of gaps like this, folks, big gaps, they don't come in twos, they come in threes. And I suspect what we're gonna have with that, Apple, is that you're inside the lower range now, and you know, the lower range on this is 124. The thing that's amazing, right, is that, let's all picture this, the Nasdaq is still stronger. Now, Apple has been the biggest weighting structure in all of these indices. But then, as someone else always seems to take over, if markets wanna go higher. And in this particular case, you can see what Tesla's doing, Tesla's on a run, man. We go into the Dow industrials, we take a look at the Dow industrials. In fact, when you look at, I went through this before, well, if you look at this though, this is like pretty impressive, man. So look at this, look at these numbers. You know, I know they're coming down on price pretty dramatically, but when you look at, Tesla has gone from $24 billion in 2019 to $100 billion this year, and they're gonna go another 28% above that next year. And the bottom line is that the last time they lost any money was five years ago. They actually made 13 cents. They had two quarters of losing and two quarters of winning. And the acceleration, you know, is not big, but you know, they went from making 13 cents in 2019, they're playing on 336 this year and then 479 next year. So when you look at the expansion of Tesla, and then you look at the other big car companies, I mean, it's not even close. The other car companies are not growing at all. You know, not at all. In fact, they're contracting.  They're going 24 hours a day right now. That's how they're gonna go. Hopefully they won't strike. They'll come to agreement. We take a look at the inside the Dow industrials. You get Microsoft putting 24 positive points, Amgen 17, you got Procter and Gamble 12, Apple 11. Taken away from it. We have Chevron down 27, no, putting 27 negative points, United Health 12, Nike 6, not much all around. Oil, let's go to the oil market because that thing still has juice, man. Oil right now, it's hanging up there, man. If we put this on, let me put this CL-1, I'll put this on a continuous contract. I'm putting this back 20 years. Never thought 20 years would be like quick. And it is, come on, there it is, okay. So I see you got one big range, that's about it. Yeah, you know, when you put this like this, that's what you're talking. It's how can it's range bound. I mean, realistically, you know, 91 old, 95, 101 is a game. That's where it came down off the highs last time.  So when you do a 38% retracement, that is saying that you can not only go to the highs, you can break the highs, you can do an ABC up. And, you know, as I said earlier, it's all gonna be contingent on that good old US dollar. We take a look at the gold contract, you know, gold out here today. Last week we came into the strength. We did it with tremendously lighter volume. Today, you got to 1954, you trade in 1946, but this needs more volume, you know. It's showing there's no sellers, but you don't have any buyers here either, even though it's positive. You know, we need this number here, meaning the contract number in gold to start banging out 200, 225, you know. The setup's still all right. And, you know, as I went through the gold report, there is divergence, for sure, in the equities. But what there also is, is that the RAND is saying that it doesn't want to go higher, which is a confirmation that the dollar wants to go lower. Stay right there, folks, we'll come right back. We have the Dow, Dow Industries up 82, Nasdaq up 170, S&P's up 28, we'll come right back. 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So we have the Dow. Dow investors right now up 87, as except 171, S&P's are up 29. Let's go with our man, Jose from Lakeland. Jose, what's going on, brother? Hello, Tom. Tom, what the heck is Amazon doing here? It's teetering. It's right at the highs here. You liked it a month ago. What's going on with it? It looks to me like you had an ABC up, man. Let's take a look. So you got Amazon. The low of Amazon this year is 81. The highs 143. Next time they come up with numbers is October 27th.  So when I put this on a weekly, you have a weekly ABC up. You took out the B point. The B point was at 136. The A point is the 88. That gives you a price projection of 174. So, yeah, that's what it was looking like.  I don't know if you're, I think you are a football fan, but anyway. This Thursday night deal, they're gonna, you know, they're hitting a lot of different cylinders. So it looks like it's gonna launch again, man. Once it launches 146, see this 146, that 146 right there is kind of, no, is where it broke down. That's where ICE is. You launched the 146 and then, you know, the ABC- So would you, would you be cautious and wait until it got above 146? Yeah, that'd be a good way of doing it. Yeah, because that's only three points away. You know, and what you'd wanna see. So here, this is the number. On the weekly, you want more than 231 million shares. And last week, we did 169. You get that on the weekly and you're gonna have some good sailing, man. I got you. Hey, Tom, one more. Cadence design system, CDNS. That broke down a little bit last week with, did it come down on volume? Do you not like the volume on that? Let's take a look. The lowest 138, the highest 248. You're trading 243. Next time it comes out with numbers is October 24th. No, that's all right. Yeah, I see what you're saying though. So what that's doing, so this is gonna consolidate more because the, let me see this here. So we came down with 1.5, but yet it was going into the 2.3 going all the way back to May. Let me put this on a weekly. So on a weekly, yeah, you're still all right, man. The number to keep your eye on here is 232. So Jose, when you're looking at a chop, put it on a weekly, right? What you're gonna see, that is a nice sign of strength right there. It has good volume at the top. And for the way this made the run from this 138 coming up was a straight line move. It's gonna take more time. It's building. I got you. Yeah. Tom, the overall market, September, October, what are your thoughts? I know it's so, I mean, this is about as DVD as you get. I think we're going up, man. My take is that we're going up because what should have happened is that we already should have taken a hit. The hits that we've taken on the way down, the volume is contracted immediately. And as I have Tim Moore on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and what has happened is that people freak out with just a small pullback. Yeah. And so when that happens, that's just more fuel. And if that's what we get, if we get the breakdown, my take right now is the dollar's running everything. And if that breaks, then the market's going higher, man. And what that is, so overall what that is, is that, yes, you're at a higher number, but we've been in inflation for a while. I think inflation's beat too. But what does happen when I say beat, well, we probably already went up 30% compared to, you know, three years ago, right?  So you have a higher number, but you can't buy what you bought with that higher number. I got you. Tom, mortgage applications at a 30 year low. However, supply of homes still a problem. Does that make sense to you? My take is that it's a frozen market. And a frozen market's not a great market. Now that being said, I put a couple of places up this weekend and I have always flooded. So, you know, there's people out there. There's gonna be a bid coming in right now. I know there is. You know, so I think it's untharren right now. When I talked to this mortgage broker that I've done a lot of business with, and this was really intriguing. He was talking about the aspect that, you know, you have mortgages at PAW folks. And when mortgage at PAW means, if they're quoting you seven percent, you're gonna pay seven percent, you don't pay points. While he was saying, there's no such thing as PAW right now because Wall Street, so pitchless, they get the mortgage in the hand. They sell at the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ASAP. That's how it goes. So what ends up happening is that they have a pullback when they sell that. If the mortgage gets paid off too quickly, meaning like three, four years, there's a pullback to the brokerage that they have to turn around and pay who they're selling it to. So what they're doing is that they're paddling it with a point and a half to two points. So there, you know, so Wall Street is also thinking the bottom line is that, you know, the rates of basically, if they're not at the top, they're very close to the top and that it's gonna be a refinancing boom, probably in a couple of years, that's beyond belief again.  Yeah, right. And this is gonna coincide with the new president coming in or whatever is gonna happen in a year, pretty much, Tom, do investors do any buying of homes in this environment, investors? They haven't, no, they haven't. They have not, they have not, that's right. It's, you know, what happens is this, is that the difference here, there is a huge amount of equity, everyone has a huge amount of equity. So that's why you have a frozen market. And if in fact that this is it and the market's starting back again, which it looks like it is, I mean, in a big way, you know, the bottom line is that that, I was telling Besved, who you know was on with me, I remember this the last time this happened because I was just starting to buy homes. I'm going back to the 70s now. And I remember as soon as they knew that the market felt like inflation was beat, the price of homes skyrocketed for the next three years. Because it's like, oh, yeah. Say that again, when interest rates say that again. As soon as, as soon as everyone understood that the rates have topped, right? The price of homes skyrocketed in the next three years. I got you, I got you. But does that mean rates have to start to, does that mean the Fed has to do its pivot? That's correct. That, and it's all contingent of course on what is the monthly payment. The monthly payment goes down, the price of the house goes up. I got you, great deal, good deal, thank you. 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And normally, when you have something like this, I mean, this was a straight-line move from, you know, 60 bucks to 127. Normally, you're gonna have to build a lot more cars in order to get to a higher price. And I suspect that's gonna do it, so I don't expect, you know, big moves out of Oracle. We take a look at the spy. The spy's done 48 million, and that's not an expansion of Friday, but still wants higher price. Now, the queues have. Let's take a look at this. So the queues have done 35 million. Friday, you only did, oh, you did 35. Oh, no, 35? Yeah, you did 35. You know, so you're gonna do probably about 38, and that's saying that these highs wanna be had. And, you know, the note and bonds is what it's all about, folks. You know, note, bonds, and the dollar. What you have with the note market is that the volume is anemic today. It rejected 109.20. You're at 109.26, you only did 886,000. And then, of course, the good old dollar. And it looks like we're gonna be under that magic number of 104, 699. We're at 104, 544. So you get another nice move down like this. Then you have game of, you know, the bottom of this consolidation, which is a 99, which is saying that the S&P will go higher. Notes and bonds will go higher price, lower yield. S&P will go gold and silver, and the equities will go higher. Have a great night, folks. Have a safe night. Come back and visit us tomorrow morning, nine o'clock.  Look at him, folks.


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Hi there, I'm Miss Sandy and I'm going to be the teacher for the Creative Self-Portraits class for kids and I'm really excited to see what you're going to make. I'm posting this video on YouTube because I think there's some grown-ups who also need to hear my message. In the class, we're going to study five different types of self-portraits. A self-portrait is when you make a picture of yourself.  All of your favorite colors and your favorite shapes and your favorite hobbies can make it into a self-portrait that's really beautiful. There's only a few rules in this class and the first rule is that it's okay to have fun. Just explore and be crazy and silly. Feel free to laugh while you're doing your drawing and bring your personality into it.  Some of my portraits that you're going to see in the class are really simple. Some of them I just do stick figures and other ones I do a little more realistically and you can do a lot of different styles as well and you can try different things. That's why we take classes so we can learn new things. The second rule is it's okay to explore. If I say something in the class about using pastels in a certain way and that makes you think, hmm, what if I did that with my watercolor paint? Then it's okay to stop for a little bit and go try it with your watercolor paints and see if it works. If it does great and if it doesn't, that's okay too because you've learned something. And the third rule is that we're going to keep on the positive side. When we do self-portraits, a lot of what we end up putting into the portrait is thinking about who we are. What are our personality traits? What are the things that we do well? And what are the skills and the gifts that we already have? I also like to think about things that I'm not good at yet that I want to still learn. I have so many things in science that I don't know and I don't understand yet. But instead of telling myself that I'm not good at science, I just say I'm still learning at science and I'm a really good student.  I want you to go talk to somebody else about it. Talk to a grown-up that you trust. Might be one of your parents or a grandparent or an aunt or an uncle, somebody at school like a teacher or a counselor. There's lots of people who would love to help you get through some of those sad thoughts and get back to feeling good and positive and happy about your life and your future. And art is a great way to do that because we can process all of that while we're making beautiful pictures. And the fourth rule is that you don't have to do anything that I do in the way that I do it in class. I'm going to show you an approximate way to do it, but I want you to be creative and use your own style to create your artwork. There is no right or wrong. It's all good when you're making art because you're expressing yourself and whatever you make is just fine. In the coming months, I'm going to be adding some of the student artwork to the lesson pages so that you can see lots of different ways that you can interpret the same idea. It's really exciting to see what other people do. So if you have a grown-up who's on Facebook and they can take a picture of your artwork and post it there, maybe you can even get them to open Facebook so you can see what other students are doing as well. It's really exciting to take a class as a community of artists and be able to share what we're learning and what we're creating. I hope you're ready for an exciting adventure in making beautiful self-portraits. And I'll see you in lesson one.


This is Alex and I've got a little video here on heat-treating steel. This is a skill that is generally useful for those of us who make our own tools, picks, pension tools, whatever you have, whatever you may need. I'm gonna be sort of fixing up this old pick so that I can attempt to pick some very heavily warded locks. I'm gonna be doing the initial annealing and heat treatment hardening on my kitchen stove. So it's indoors. You want to be careful.  The first step is annealing the metal, which is heating it to a certain temperature about a cherry red and then letting it cool in air. This relaxes the metal and creates a particular crystalline grain structure in it and gets it ready for the hardening step, which comes next. You can see that the metal is just blending in with the burner. So we turn the heat off and let it air cool. The next thing we'll see is that the metal, as you might expect, is magnetic. When it reaches a certain temperature later on, we're gonna test for that temperature by checking that it's non-magnetic. We have the quenching solution I'm gonna use. It's a brine made of table salt and warm water. For quenching, you can use plain water, oil, quenching oil, or brine. I chose brine because it's kind of in the middle as far as how quickly it hardens. Here we have the metal is heated up to non-magnetic, so I know that it's hot enough and I'm gonna dunk it into my quenching solution, which would make some hissing noises. Keep the metal moving to evenly cool it. Now we're gonna check that the metal is hard, or what they call glass hard, by running a file along it. The file should sort of slip off of it and not in the t-shirt and grab in. If they do, that means we haven't done a good job hardening it. In this case, it looks pretty good. I want to now clean off the oxidation and scale from the workpiece so that I can see the oxidation products that we will need to look at while we are doing the tempering step of this process. Don't have a proper heat-treating oven, but my toaster oven will get hot enough to take the metal out of the brittle stage and get the handle to the point where I don't have to worry about it breaking or anything. Obviously, again, there's a chance of fire. Make sure you're safe. So we're gonna be heating this up to about 260-280 Celsius, which about as hot as my toaster oven will get in its bake mode. And this should take it to a light straw or straw color. Which is hard, but not brittle. After a few minutes, I'm starting to see. It's hard to see in the picture, but I'm starting to see that color change. And I want to pop it out and make sure I'm not gonna overheat it and make sure that the temper has gone as far as I want it to at this point. After looking at it a little more carefully, I decided to put it back into the oven on broil, which is giving me a little bit more heat and let it go a little bit further to sort of get the the entire thing tempered down a little bit more. And here it is at high speed. Took about five minutes to get this point. I stopped when I started seeing a tiny bit of blue towards the end, which might be an indication that it was overheating. I'm now going to use a torch, which you probably should use outside. To complete the tempering, this is very tricky. It takes a little practice, and I think I actually screwed it up very slightly as we'll see later. But we're basically trying to get that rainbow sort of color through there. Note that the oxidation products will not show up while the flame is on the metal. So you have to keep moving it on and off, or you will overheat it and burn it. So the final result is I got the tip to sort of a dark brown, which is hard. And the shaft had kind of a spring tension. And I'm pretty happy with what I'm seeing so far. Looks durable and doesn't seem to be breakable. And finally, most of what I know about this subject is from this book by Tubal Kane. Getting on amazon.co.uk. Keep it safe and keep it legal. Thanks.


I bought a one-way ticket to China to learn about the Far East's approach to longevity. You know, for thousands of years, East Asia has been associated with longevity, with mysticism, and with monks, and these cloud-covered peaks where hermits and sages have lived in these little grottoes. And seekers from the West have gone, myself included, over there to try to figure out what these rituals are that these mystics, monks, and medical practitioners do every single day. In this video, we're going to talk about one of those rituals in particular. Hey guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hain, doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, and author of the health book, Master of the Day. Let's jump in. Now, on one particular trip of mine, this was actually me right here in a monastery in the Sichuan province. I was staying as part of a group of foreigners that had gone under one of my mentors to stay in a traditional Taoist and Buddhist monastery to live in this little enclave where the monks lived, to wake in the morning every single day doing qigong and doing meditation, to eat with the monks three times a day, and in the afternoons and during the day to listen to lectures from doctors of traditional Chinese medicine that came in from all the surrounding medical schools and from the countryside and their little local clinics to learn about longevity, wellness, and disease and how we treat those from a traditional Chinese medicine point of view. In the evenings, we would again do qigong, we would do our own little practice that my mentor led, and from there, we would do a closing sort of zazen meditation and then wind down to repeat it all again. Now one particular thing struck me and really jumped out at me when I was there. I was having this conversation with one of the monks and in particular, she's the head avis, the female head monk, and I was observing that she was always so smiley, so happy even though her day-to-day life seems sort of mundane, it was kind of the same thing every single day. And I said to her in my broken Chinese, I said, 我每一次看到你,你很开心,为什么? So basically every time I see you, you seem so happy, why? And she said something along the lines I can't quite remember, my Chinese is not so good, but she said, 生活是开心的. If I got that right, that life is happiness. And it opened up this whole conversation about life is about flow and expansion and movement and growth. And she talked about nature and that the nature of plants is to grow and come out of the ground and have these, but these leaves and then to die and then for that to be absorbed again and then to grow. And that in the same way, people have to daily cultivate themselves and about how in traditional Confucianism and Taoism, every day the cultivated person works and chisels away at their character and is working on greater ease and greater flow in their life. And in general, I got this impression that what she was saying was really a lot about this term flow, right? She was talking about movement and continuity and this kind of flowy quality. And she said that, you know, to the Taoist, proper Qi flow is the key to longevity and the key to health. And when I sort of asked her to clarify, I didn't really quite understood what she meant and I, I thought that Qi was sort of like a mystical energy, but she also explained it from a very practical and a pragmatic point of view that I want to share here. You know, when she talks about Qi flow, flow is something that exists. Yes, not only in the energetic, if you want to use that term, but also physical flow, right? Physical exercise, physical lymphatic movement, bowel flow, emotional flow, the flow of having something positive to look forward to in your life or the light of the spirit, just doing something that lights you up, that gives an otherwise boring and Monday life real meaning. The Taoists talk about doing without doing or trying to be like water. And I like to think of the analogy of, you know, this development of disease is like, there's a river. And let's just say the river is your intestines to make it simple because we can visualize that big two. And let's say you're eating the wrong kinds of foods. So some foods are getting stuck in your intestines and you're getting constipated for a couple of days and other foods are causing inflammation in the intestines and you're having, let's say diverticulosis. And other foods are maybe causing a lot of bloating, maybe some bacterial overgrowth or some fungal issues. And all of these are sort of clogging this river. So this river that was a nice, beautiful, serene river is now like a muddy pond where there's nasty green algae and there's beavers building dams and damming it up even more. And there's fungal issues and mold and lichens growing off it. And that once beautiful serene river that was flowing now has something that actually looks like a festering sore. And in this way, we can understand how proper flow of digestion can lead to healthy digestion while improper flow leads to disease. Now, one of the free guides I've put together here, it's the first link below the video on this concept of health and longevity is four daily rituals that can potentially help you live to 100 with traditional Chinese medicine, all about four essential principles from actually a very famous Taoist hermit. It's a pretty neat story. So you can check it out, it's the first link below the video, and there's also info below on how to book a visit with me as a patient or doing a telemedicine visit with me as well in my practice in Los Angeles. So when we talk about flow, we can talk about flow in the context of the physical body. Cardiovascular disease still is the number one cause of death in probably all of North America and increasingly in developing countries as well that have the diets of civilization and the diseases of civilization. For example, check out this one research paper here. Now in this particular paper, it's called a brief review of cardiovascular diseases, associated risk factors and current treatment regimes. The authors here talk about how cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of premature death and disability in humans and their incidence is on the rise globally. The underlying pathogenesis and progression associated with nearly all of them is predominantly of atherosclerotic origin. Now, just to clarify what atherosclerosis is, we're gonna jump on over to here to Johns Hopkins Medicine and I wanna highlight this one line. Atherosclerosis is thickening or hardening of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaque in the inner lining of an artery and it talks about some of the risk factors here that we know, diet, activity, certain kinds of smoking and that sort of thing. And what is perhaps the most fascinating is that when you look at studies on centenarians, the people who live to 100 in very high percentages, much higher than normal populations, what is fascinating is that these people are not going to the gym. What they're doing is lots of low level, day to day exercise just over the course of life. They're hiking around and walking up these steep hills. They're shepherds with their sheep. They're working in their gardens or they're walking to meet their relatives instead of driving. It's lots of low level movement. So movement is the key to longevity and one of the keys to life. But flow can also exist on a psychological or emotional level, like the flow that happens in the mind or in the spirit. When someone is doing something that makes them feel so alive. You know, I'll never forget the story of a guy I knew that was broken up with once. He was broken up by the love of his life. And so what happened? He went from being a totally functional adult man to no longer wearing his suit to work, leaving dishes pile up all over his kitchen. His apartment looked like actual hell, just trashed, disaster. And he was like that for a few weeks. He always ordered out pizza. He ate out of these pizza boxes every day. He stopped cooking. He gained five or 10 pounds in the first month. Everything stopped. His life came to a crashing halt. One day his ex-girlfriend called him back. After a month apart and she said, you know what John, I made a mistake and I wanna try us again and see where it goes. I can't even explain how fast this dude shaved, arranged his hair, took a shower, cleaned his apartment, cleaned all his dishes, stocked his fridge, and his life went from zero to 100 in literally 24 hours. But what just happened there? Because nothing actually changed in the moment. He's sitting in his room alone. There's no woman there. But what happened was that positive expectancy changed his spirits, right? The psychology, the emotions, and the effect that cascade has in your physiology is a powerful healing force, or it is a force for disease at the same time. Because of that, that activation of the spirit, if you wanna use that term, it began a powerful healing force that was very cathartic for him. And even for me in my own life, I often tell the story of when I was coming back from my chip, when I was living in China, I bought this one book for the very long flight back from Beijing where I was living and I wandered into this one little bookstore. And it was the typical tabloids, right? The best-selling magazines, the best-selling books.  And I opened up the textbook and it's full of all these practices of herbal medicine and acupuncture channels and mysticism and healing. And I just thought this was the thing I've always wanted to learn my entire life. This is the thing. So I take this book back home. I translate it every Sunday for a couple hours. And after a few years, this guy approaches me in a coffee shop seeing me read this book.  Did you know you're translating the most important book in all of traditional Chinese medicine? The actual tomb of Chinese medicine, the canon. And I just thought, how is that possible that I'm now a doctor of this medicine? And a decade before, I went into one obscure bookstore in an airport that didn't have a medical section. I picked up one book that was a textbook in an airport that happened to be not just a book on Chinese medicine, but the most important book in history. And I was translating it forefront every Sunday. That feels a lot like fate to me, whether that is real or not. That is the way I choose to believe it and view it. And the purpose and the drive that I get from everyday doing work that feels like work I'm called to do, that feels like a divine purpose, is more than I can get just from being a driven person willing to succeed. In the same way as we have flow in the physical body, flow in the mind and in the spirit can happen in this way as well. And those are healing forces too. So these were some simple lessons I learned in terms of healing while living in China, this particular recent trip I took. I've also began opening up this brand new program. It's called Healing with Traditional Chinese Medicine, the original science of longevity.  And it's basically going to keep this channel permanently ad-free, no sponsorships, no other marketing messages, but I'm building out this healing library full of courses on how you can heal with Traditional Chinese Medicine. So if you guys want to know about this program when it comes out, it's the first link right below and add your name to the wait list on that newsletter and I'll let you know as soon as it comes out in about two or three weeks. So before you guys go, I have a related video on healing right there and I'll see you soon.