Hi, this is Tracy Takahama Espinosa, and this is a video for Module 4 on how to conduct action research. Today we're going to look at action research in context, play understanding what does it mean within the broader categories of quantitative, qualitative research, then question ourselves about why we do action research, look at some of the visual models that we have, the steps in action research, and then actually disaggregate each of those steps in a plan so that we make it manageable to follow. So globally, now don't get scared by this kind of complicated slide, but I wanted to share this idea with you. The research in Yen came out in 2015, so it's kind of new, and it was terrific because it took all these different layers of research and put it into one single graphic, which hadn't been done before, which was a pretty smart idea here. So on this most outer level, researchers are asked to think more about their paradigm that they're using, their points of reference. What is it that they believe in before they even begin? So this is almost at a philosophical level. Researchers are asked to think, you know, how am I approaching this topic? Am I doing this from a critical feminism perspective, or am I being a very pragmatic or realistic? Right? At a second level, though, you have these approaches to reasoning. You know, how do you think about the world? So practically, what kind of reasoning am I going to use? Will it be deductive or inductive reasoning? So these are kind of broader questions which are really, really helpful over time. So for researchers, for example, writing a PhD dissertation or something, this is really fundamental because it really points to some of the belief systems that people have that influence or can bias some of the things that they find. So in our research, within our course, we're going to be looking at this. Just to be aware of it, you don't have to really apply it. But to think a bit about it because we don't have enough time to really dig deep enough and to think about this. But it is very important because we will talk about how some of the research findings that we look for are biased by our own belief systems. At the next level, though, a little bit more inwards are things that we call methods. And this is asking us to determine if we're going to be approaching the problem through a quantitative or a qualitative or a mixed method structure. So do I want to measure something or do I want to describe something? So basically coming to that decision before you launch into the research and collect data. So in order to collect data, you have to have a strategy or a design of how you're going to do that. And what's so interesting is these break down into basic tools. Am I going to use a survey or am I going to do an experiment? Shall I use a case study of an individual person? If you use something like grounded theory, it's because you're thinking of something nobody else has thought of before. And you're coming up with something from the ground up. You're basically collecting a lot of information and saying how this points to something new that hasn't been thought before. So these are strategies or research designs. And then at the next level, we have the big job of data collection. And we know there's a lot of errors that can occur as you collect data. And there's also a lot of errors that can occur when you analyze the data.  How am I going to get the information? So if I'm going to do the surveys, how is it going to be distributed? How will I tabulate it? Right? But then there's this next level of analyzing it, which is also very complicated. Once you've got that data and you've collected it, now what are you going to do? Are you going to apply a formula to get a number? Or are you going to, you know, code all the words that the kids said to each other to be able to, to categorize the information? How will you approach the data collection and the data analysis? So these are the different layers of research that are indicated here. Now, it's clear that something, this is not a totally, even though it's complicated, it's not a complete model because it is missing certain types of strategies or experimental designs. For example, another strategy or experimental design is looking at correlational studies, right? How two things might happen at the same time or looking at narrative studies, which are basically great descriptions of structures or contexts or how classrooms might look or whatever, right? But then there's also action research. And action research is a different kind of design, research design that we're going to be focusing on today. Kurt Lewin, who was a professor at MIT, coined this phrase when he was looking at a specific problem within the MIT context, which had to do with looking at minority problems within the MIT structure. So he described action research as being a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action or change, right? So basically how does something occur within a social context that we take actions upon or that actors act upon and that change that other thing, okay? So that was the first time back in 1940s and that was something that over the past almost 80 years has really evolved into really getting into very defined areas. And so the biggest clear definition we have is that traditional research is trying to reach a conclusion. It's trying to give us a yes or a no is my hypothesis correct, right? Or incorrect. Whereas action research is conducted mainly to help me make decisions. Basically it's to resolve problems as opposed to draw a conclusion about something. And many people are motivated to do action research for various reasons, right? Some people believe that it is the way to develop a reflective practitioner. And this is why we have a lot of new models these days called the teacher researcher practitioner model, right? So it's the researcher practitioner means the person who is a researcher, but they're actually the practitioner, they're the teacher in the classroom doing things, right? So the need to have reflective practice within that context. How do I stop at the end of every day and say, what did I do well? What did I do wrong? What could I do better tomorrow in order to improve continually improve my practice? Other people do action research because it helps promote school wide priorities. For example, if we're all trying to reduce bullying or enhance social emotional awareness or get our test scores up or something like that, different teachers might take on different types of initiatives to meet those shared goals, school-wide goals. It also in some school context builds professional cultures. In many schools, action research is required of teachers every single year. It's also professionalizes teachers instead of just saying, well, I had a gut feeling I did this. You can say, well, actually I did a research project last year that really confirmed this hunch I had about the way kids interact or whatever it is, right? So there's a professionalization element to this because of the documentation that's involved. We also think that it enhances the motivation and efficiency of people who might just be getting tired and worn down by their practice. It's very rejuvenating and interesting to follow up on something that we're curious about, you know, that pushes us to be students as well, right? So it's another way of energizing maybe people who've gotten tired of the same old teaching routine to have research in there really adds a new dimension to the job. Other people think it meets the needs of an increasing diverse student body because we're able to address multiple questions that can arise from different types of learners. And yet others think it achieves success by sort of aiming towards standard-based reforms. How can we have evidence in our pockets when we now approach different types of policy decisions? So what I'd like to ask you to do is to think, you know, why are you doing the action research? That's a really important thing to sort of own this process and decide, well, you know, if I'm doing this for myself or for the group. So when we think about that, there's basically three types of researchers, right? There are some people who are driven by their students. They're looking at their own agenda and they see that there's a need here, there's a problem I'm addressing. There's also people who are out to change the world. Sometimes these are things as lofty as goals of, you know, I'm going to transform society, I'm trying to create better people who are better society members and who care for each other. Or it might just be out for a type of instrumental goal attainment, like I need to score five points better on a specific standardized test or something like that, right? A third way would be to look at this as a reflective process for personal change or for changing, for example, the goals that we have as our department or a group that we're working within, right? But for personal change. So think about that. Decide which of these types of a researcher you are when you're doing action research. Are you driven by your students? Are you driven by this maybe greater goal that's been probably something extrinsically imposed upon you? Or are you doing something very internal for personal change and growth? And at the end of the day, what ends up happening is that you are doing both things, right? You're doing things for yourself, but also for the collective good. You are all taking on some research that may very well improve the chances that other teachers in the future can learn from the things that you've learned. So while it's addressing a particular personal need that you've identified a problem issue for you, it's also something that would largely benefit the community at the end of the day once it's shared. So to be clear, we've been using this word generically action research, but there are different types of action research, right? So as I go through this list, try to identify which one you are, right? Are you doing collaborative action research? This is means that you're working with at least one other person, maybe another teacher or TA on a shared goal. Are you doing participatory action research, which tends to be the most used within schools? It's where the teacher is actually part of the entire learning process and their actions are also measured as they go through the process as well.  This is where different stakeholders from the community structure are also involved throughout this entire process. Are you doing youth action research? This is something where maybe your students have laid out a plan for you that they're going to do something, but you're going to be doing the documentation of all of this. Are you doing action research for action learning? This is if you were somebody going out to the fish pond and teaching fine culture-based education based on contact with your local environment, for example, so experiential learning. Are you doing something that's called Pilar right now, this participatory action learning and action research, which really havers around 21st century soft skills, right? Are you looking into lifelong learning or collaborative learning structures or ways to do leadership skills with students, right? Or are you doing collective action research where maybe your entire department has a single goal about doing things? For example, we want to enhance social-emotional learning or reduce rates of bullying or whatever, but different teachers will have different things they do, different types of interventions, and then after a certain period of time people get together and they share the results of their collective efforts to reach that specific goal. Think about the type of action research that you're doing, because the more specific, the more precise you are with the type of research you're doing, the easier it is to choose the right kind of tool to gather the data and to measure things. So we go back to our onion again, okay? So in action research, we're going to not specifically address those first two layers of philosophically, how am I approaching this?  So they're really long-term things where you are able to take a lot of good time to reflect and think about that philosophical approach and also to decide and look at multiple ways of approaching the reasoning that you're going to be using. What we will be asking you though is to decide now, are you going to be approaching this quantitatively or qualitatively? And are you going to use a strategy or design that is pretty much where we're leaving its action research? But some of these can also be tools for action research, so we're going to talk about that in just a second, right? And then when you think about how you're collecting the data, make sure you go through those processes really clearly and how we analyze that. We're going to look at those in the steps in just a second, okay? So globally, if we skip those first two steps, the very first thing we're asking you to do is think about, is this quantitative or qualitative? And a quantitative question is going to have a hypothesis and it's out to show X or Y is true or not, right? Whereas qualitative is out to do a lot of problem-solving kind of things, it's anticipating answers, but it's not out to measure, but out to more or less to describe the actual process. So this means in our very first step then when we're looking at this idea, are we looking for quantitative or qualitative or mixed level data? This graph is a pretty straightforward look at this. It comes from Nicholas and the first level is, okay, are we doing this quantitatively? Am I measuring something? I want to measure something I can count, okay? Are we doing this qualitatively? I want to measure something I can describe, right? So think about that to yourself. What is it that you're out to do and make that first big decision? And if you say to yourself both, then that's called a mixed methodology, okay? The second question then is what methodology is best for my question, okay? So that means you have to look at the second step and decide at the technical level then how can I measure this? You know, how am I going to gather the data? How can I measure this? Which tool is really the right one? Same thing with the qualitative, right? Which of these tools best measures what I'm out to measure? So if I think that I'm going to increase critical thinking skills, I should not use a multiple choice test to do that because the tool is totally incompatible with what I'm trying to measure, right? And we'll get to that in a second that has to do with validity of the data that we're gathering because when you say something is measuring something and it's really not, that's not valid, okay? So we'll talk about that in a second. But think now to yourself what kinds of tools exist? Is a questionnaire a good thing? Should I interview students? Should we have small groups work on things? Can I do a pre- or post-test kind of a thing? Think about all the different tools that might exist that might be appropriate for your question. When you get down to it, and I will be sharing this in class, I just think this is very pretty, okay? Jan Spruitt, she came up with this pretty cool idea of plotting out all these different types of tools. There's lots of different types of things that help us test or evaluate or explore or describe or gather data, elaborate, experiment, analyze. There's a lot of different sub-elements here that she is sort of put on this beautiful, beautiful graphic here. This is not to scare you, it's just to sort of remind you there are a whole lot of tools out there. And the big idea to carry away from this is that you can do action research with just about any one of these tools, okay? The type of research, the fact that you're doing action research as opposed to an experimentation or other things like that doesn't exclude the tools, okay? So just be clear on that. And we have done a lot of mixing and matching. She's called this 50 research methodologies. I would actually call this outer circle tools. These are different ways of doing things, right? You can have case studies or you can use systematic literature review. You can observe people doing brainstorming or you can have role-playing. All of these things to me are the activities. Those are tools you can use to gather data, but it's just best to know that as you're doing action research, you're not excluded from any of these interesting tools. You can use questionnaires or interviews and you can use other types of experimentation. All of that can be within action research, okay? So then the third level question is how do I gather this data and how do I analyze it, right? So if you're doing the quantitative data, at the end of the day, you may just be asking yourself, okay, what's my formula? So am I just subtracting pre-test scores from post-test scores or just find a difference? What am I trying to do here? And if it's qualitative data, believe it or not, the analysis of qualitative data is really, really, probably a lot more time-consuming than a quantitative data because you may have to do things like coding. I'm listening to the dialogue of the students and seeing how they interact and I've got my own notes and interpretation, but I've also coded for the number of times that they've used specific key emotional vocabulary words or something like that, right? So the coding you can use actually quantitative structures within a qualitative analysis. So that's another complicated thing to think about. But just the idea is how will I gather the data and what would be the most appropriate tool and then understanding that the process of analysis one step further. It's not just that I have all this cool data. Now how do I actually analyze it? We'll be based on another step. It's either a formula tool, it's looking at coding or something like that. So now let's look at a bunch of models about action research. This is a very student-centered model. You know, I'm thinking about my kids. I've created this great classroom, but I see that there may be some problems going on there still that I want to fix, right?  And so I'm going to look at the literature on this and the fourth grade kids sometimes do that and I'll look at all the things and I'll come up with maybe a different kind of a hypothesis based on all of this new information. And all of that may just very well change my question. Remember in the prior class, we talked about radical neural constructivism. It's the way that we interact with our world has changed each time. Even if we're having the same experience, we're actually interpreting it different because we already have that experience once before, right? So the more ways we take in information, now we're going to look at our research question differently because we've had a lot of different literature. So this is what's going to happen during your literature review. You're going to begin to rethink your question maybe in a different way, right? So then we're going to revisit that question and look at our context again and maybe formulate an even better question. We're going to bounce this around with our peers and get some feedback and then we're going to have this interaction or in a class and we're going to see if that fixes anything. And the likelihood is because of the great nature of teaching, it just goes on. Now we'll have a new kind of a question, a new kind of a problem and this will continually be cyclical, okay? Another model, as Bond puts it, it's pretty much you have a plan, you put that plan into action. Even the act of putting it into action might make you change your plan. But then you're going to get some results from that intervention you did with a kid, right? I plan to read out loud to the kids for 20 minutes a day. You put that into action, but then you realize that maybe it's better if they read to themselves instead of you read to them. And so maybe you're changing your ideas here. Then you get some results. So it does seem like they're reading more for pleasure. But then you have to rethink this. And this is a general, again, cyclical process even though Bond chose to make it with little squares. And I put his in here, his modeling here, there's thousands of them. But I put his because it's one of the few that doesn't try to go in a circle. Because most of the models will basically say, you know, you have a plan, let's put it, let's put our plan into action, let's observe what happens, let's think about what happened, let's reflect on that and then let's have a new plan and let's put that into action and see what happens. Let's observe, let's reflect on that and then we have a new plan. So this is cyclical. The idea of action research is that this is an incredibly ongoing, iterative process that never has an end because each of our problems just becomes different and more sophisticated. And that's the art of teaching, basically, right?  So this describes the same cyclical process, but sort of in an ongoing way here. Other models are very, very similar. The biggest difference here is that the arrows go in the different directions.  That's the way it goes, right? But these four key stages of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting are basically the classic steps of action research, right? So we plan, we implement or act, we observe what happens, we reflect on this, and then we start again. We plan, we implement, we observe, we reflect, right? Plan, act, observe, reflect. All of this is basically an ongoing process, right? Probably one of the most seminal articles ever written on this was done by Chemist and McTaggart in 1988. Here's a concrete explanation here of, you know, this is my plan, this is the background information I had, this is the action I put into place, I observe what happened with the kids, I think about, you know, how they reacted to that particular teaching, and then I've revised my plan and now I have a new one. So his is kind of a little bit different, but it was one of the first to get out there, right? Same thing here, identify problems, reconnaissance, fact-finding, and analysis. This is basically what we're calling the literature review. You make a plan about what you're going to do, you implement it and observe what happens here, and then you think about what happened there. And all along the way, we have basically adjustments to our own teaching practice based on the results that we have at each of these different stages. And that's the real beauty of teaching is that we do this every single day for 20, 30 kids in our class over and over and they're almost unique to the individual kid. We'll have a global plan, but some of the kids, we're going to need to adjust this and do things slightly differently based on the entire dynamics of the class. And that is part of the beauty of teaching and one of the reasons it's so hard to document our practice. So last part here, let's look at seven steps in action research. Now there were multiple steps. We said that there were those four core ones there. Let's just look at this as seven steps to follow to make sure that we've created a great action research project. The very first thing we asked you to do when we met you was to come up with a problem or identify things. What do you want to know, right? And identify something that you would like to conduct your action research on. So what is it that you would like to improve or understand a little bit better to be able to be a better teacher? The second step we had in our process was to connect what you wanted to know to a research question. In this sense, we've incorporated here this onion level which was basically saying also think about your philosophical approach to this whole thing. What theoretical frameworks are you using to approach this? This is important mainly because we want you to have a balance of thinking. So as you were doing your literature reviews, we really wanted to push you to think about finding things that maybe disagree with what you think is true. Mainly because these different theoretical frameworks, the different approaches will expand the way that you can now understand that problem, right? And so this is a very important step. It's one that takes a lot more time and that oftentimes inaction research design in teaching and classroom settings, we don't spend enough time doing it. But we throw this in as another step that we hope that you're able to take though we are not doing it actively within this classroom structure, okay? So then you come up with your research question and after you've reviewed the literature, we want you to revisit that question, okay? Think about how your question might be changed by some of the new things that you've learned through the literature. And to rethink that research question, has your question changed? Now has it been modified by the new information that you now have? And again, reframe it in that structure if possible, you know, how to what extent does X influence or change Y? Because isolating those variables gets more and more important, the more information we have. Classroom settings are incredibly messy. And the reason that research is so difficult to conduct is that it's very, very difficult to pinpoint what is actually influencing what else. So in order to do this clearly and cleanly, we really want to force you into this research structure if possible, this questioning structure. The fourth step has a couple of different stages. The main idea here is that before you collect your data, before you launch out there and just apply the tool, think about your plan. What is it you're going to do? How are you going to approach this? Who is going to be involved? What's the timing of it? The main idea is that the data collection process of the stages is pretty much the most complicated. But if you have a good plan, it works out really easily. So this is the big idea is let's take a step, let's think about this. I'm going to do a pre-test and I'm going to do a post-test and that's going to be my day gathering. Or I'm going to collect journal entries digitally throughout the semester and then I'm going to compare the growth in their writing as far as a number of words or new vocabulary, whatever it is. Make a plan about how you're going to do it and when you're going to do it and that will save you a lot of problems in the long run. The good news is that classrooms are data-rich environments. The bad news is that we really have to take this time to purposely and conscientiously identify how we are going to be collecting that data. But the good news again is that once you've got that plan, it's really easy to follow. So hopefully we'll take the time to do that planning when we're together in class. Another thing to take into consideration is sort of looking at that research-union model but looking at it in more graphic form here is take into consideration as you create that plan other things. The theoretical frameworks that you have in mind, ethical considerations, what your topic is, the nature of your topic and how that might lend itself to a specific tool. But more than anything, be very practical in the sense of how much time you actually have to gather that data if you have access to those data sources that you're looking for, if you're depending on other people to be able to collect that data or not. So make sure that those things are all taken into consideration as you choose your tools. So once you've chosen the methodology, once you're clear on the data tools that you're going to be using and you've implemented the plan, make sure that you're thinking about the data collection at least on two different levels. All great data collection has at least two things in common. First, the data is valid. That means that the information that you think is represented by what you've collected is so, right? And that it's reliable, meaning the researchers are confident about the accuracy of their data, meaning it can be replicated by other researchers. So validity, for example, you may have a huge mistake when a researcher might presume that they have shown that mathematical reasoning in students has increased because test scores in a specific test increased. Well, that's not exactly true. There's a lot of interpretation there, right? Or you might presume that since you increased a total number of school days from 180 a year to 200, that students are learning more. Well, the truth of the matter, they're just going to school more. It doesn't mean that they're learning more, right? So you can't use one type of data to come to conclusions that don't bear the weight of that data. And in terms of reliability, this basically means that anybody could take your research protocol and if they followed it, they'd get the same results. So the idea of reliability means that what you are putting forth is something that could be replicated by other researchers. So all of this hinges on the right tool, choosing the right tool to measure and to gather the data that will give us the evidence that we are able to respond to the research question that we've planted in the first place. The fifth step then, once we've gathered all that data, what we have to do is now take that big collection of information and organize it, analyze it, interpret it. And this is probably the greatest stage of research because it's the point where you stop reporting what you found from other people and now this is really a lot higher order thinking. It's one thing to report children's test scores appear to go up and students reported they liked the intervention. Well, that's reporting and that's nice and that's good information. But the why their test scores went up and why did they enjoy that particular type of teaching activity or learning activity more, that is higher order thinking. So remember to go back to Bloom and Bloom's taxonomy and remember these different levels here. Reporting, just understanding is a very base level, right? But to get to this level where you can analyze and interpret and explain the why behind the findings is a much, much higher level of thinking. And that's really the beauty of most of the research is to get to that why. That also means taking not only the data that you've gathered, but combining that with the review of the literature that you did beforehand and looking what past people have also found in similar contexts, combine that with your own data and now what is your vision on your problem? So the key idea here is once you've resolved or identified or analyzed the information, now you can actually grow that problem to a different level. It becomes something different now that you have this new interpretation of the information. So the penultimate step is reporting your results. So once you've got all this great information, you've got the why's behind all this information, it's not only important to you, it's great that you know the information, but sharing it with others is huge. So come up with the plan about how you're going to be sharing these results and how you're going to be intellectually generous, how you may be saving somebody else from similar problems in the future, because you can explain to them within maybe the Kamehameha context seems to be true for 10th and 11th graders. This is what I found with my data. Hope you can try to replicate it as well. It'd be great because it may change certain policies about the way we interact with our kids, for example. So you're asked in this course to prepare a way to share your results. It can either be a video recording or it can be a paper, but what we want to do is to share and give back to the community because this is another step in your own thinking process. You had an idea. You had a problem. You're going to take the time to do research on it. You're going to do an intervention.  And once you put that out to the world, it again will change people's feedback, the way they see it. They might find other types of wise or analysis that maybe you didn't see. This will add to your growing understanding of your particular topic. Okay? And the last step is to take action. Now that we've had that entire feedback loop, now that we've had this problem, this intervention, we have our findings. We understand the information better. We've shared it with the outside world. We have a new vision now. Now what do we do? This is basically backward design thinking, right? Go back to the original objective of your work. What was it that you wanted to know? Now look at the tools that you used to gather data and how did you evaluate and answer your research question? And now, now that you have all of this information, where does that take you? How do you do something different or new within your own class structure? Do you want to recommend a different kind of a policy? Will you just change your interaction with the students? Do you want to recommend that everybody teaches science by going out to the fish pond? I don't know. There's maybe a hundred different things that will come out of this. The idea is to now take action. The key idea of action research is that you act upon information that you have interpreted and now you're going to do something even better the next time. That's a beautiful scientific background and this art of teaching. We continually do action research on a daily basis in our heads. The big idea is to now share it with the rest of the world and maybe carry it to that next level of thinking. That's action research in a nutshell. I hope there were things that you didn't know beforehand. I hope there's things you're going to continue to research and talk about and things that you may do differently now in your action research project that will improve it even further. Come ready to talk about this with all of your different questions. I'm looking forward to seeing you in class. Thanks.


Do I? Do I? I'm going to ask about this citadel, because I had a friend whose dad was terrifying growing up, and he was a teacher there. And he would bring a rifle sometimes to breakfast, just to screw with us. His name, anyways. But it seems like a very intimidating military institution. And I believe they didn't let African-Americans in until 1966. And they certainly didn't let women in until 1996. And I was just curious what your experience was like there. Well, the citadel, I always say, is a tough place to be, but a great place to be from. As an African-American, it was always, OK, well, when you're 6'3", 285, you don't really see racism up front, because you hear about it, happen to the smaller guys.  I love you. That's amazing. Well, you know, I mean, and I got to be careful, because actually, I'm the commencement speaker at the citadel this year. So unless they hear this podcast. OK. But it's being true. I mean, it's being truthful of a past that was. Well, the reality is, the citadel was founded as a garrison that was holding armory for it to watch actually the AME church where that kid killed all those people. That was the home site of the slave uprising in 1822. And when that happened, they built this building and housed it with people to watch that church to make sure nothing else like that happened. And then that building became a school, which is the citadel. That's how it started. It was an academic institution. So the deck was kind of stacked against me off the top. But you know, I would play ball there, and we'd score a touchdown, and I look up in the stands, and they're playing Dixie and Wave and Confederate Flags.  But it was one of the things that I think had helped me in the long run, because I realized that the real world is a microcosm of the real world. Not that it was all races, but there are all types of different things that you have to get used to, and lots of things you have to accept that you're not going to be the favorite all the time. I was an athlete, so I lived kind of a pampered life. People look up to me, I was a tough guy. But in certain environments, that's not going to carry you. So it forced me to work really hard and concentrate on my work. And if anything, I knew that I wanted to get out of that school what they were able to give me. So I needed to get my degree, and I wanted to have all the rights and privileges that anyone ever went there. So I would never look back and say I wasn't good enough.


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The story is part of a larger being, that includes many levels, including a feeling level. Because so someone might have a very paranoid story of the world, or a very judgmental story of the world and other people, but then they have a healing experience, they have an experience of safety, and beliefs about the world that had seemed so logical and compelling before, now they no longer seem that way and new beliefs are available. So yeah, the story can be almost a symptom of something deeper, but it also can be a cause. I don't think we can, especially on a collective level, the way that we interpret events is part of how we make our personal and collective choices. So really though, it's not so much okay, I'm going to impose a new story on the world, and simply it's intellectual coherency and beauty is going to make everybody change their mind. Now it's part of a bigger change, it's speaking to a readiness for that story. And the readiness comes through all kinds of processes, all kinds of healing processes. But it's also a landmark moment, it's not just a symptom, it's also a choice too, like at some point we come to a readiness, am I ready to step into the state of being of which that story is a part. The story itself can be a trauma, you know, the thing to tell us about ourselves, especially if it's coming from an authority figure, like the apparent or a parentalized figure, like that can be traumatic, you know, the story, especially when it's backed up with emotion and backed up with power, like the story is important too. Yeah. No, definitely, definitely. Yeah, lovely, like when we see it as a whole physical, emotional, mental experience of ourselves and the world. So when you spoke, you also speak about the normalized trauma. Can you say a few words, what do you mean? Yeah, there are some experiences that we would all agree are traumatic experiences of abuse, for example, or abandonment. Well, abuse and abandonment have a more muted form or a more dilute form that is so ubiquitous in our society that we take it as normal. We take trauma as normal. I would include in that birth trauma, not only the biological trauma, which I mean trauma is not necessarily a bad thing. It's one of the ways that an organism grows. So in addition to the normal biological trauma of birth, there's also the trauma of, in many cases, being taken away from your mother and put in isolation under bright lights, where the trauma of, if you're a man, being mutilated on the most sensitive part of your body without anesthesia, which is how it used to be done. The trauma of not being held all the time when your nervous system needs that.  And then getting moved again and again from one daycare center to another, where the bonds that you have begun to make and the familiarity gets cut, gets severed. And here's a new one and a new one and a new one. The trauma of being shamed and yelled at by the person who you are biologically programmed to trust the most and to see as the universe speaking to you. Like all of these things, even just the ways that we talk to children, things like, you should be ashamed of yourself or why did you do that or what's wrong with you? Like those kinds of outbursts are traumas. Even the trauma of being indoors all the time and not receiving the infinity of stimulation of many, many varieties that a human is supposed to have through interactions with nature. And eventually, maybe we don't want to use the word trauma for these things. It's a useful lens to help understand our development and who we are in this world. But it's not always the right lens to use. But a lot of the effects of these experiences are very similar to the effects of trauma. So trauma of our social, political, scientific, intellectual authorities telling us things that on some level we know are not true. That the result of that is a cut off just as acute trauma, acute physical trauma causes a cut off until it's integrated and healed. It causes a cut off from some of our feeling body. This repeated cognitive dissonance between what we're being told by authority who are supposed to respect and what we know to be true also causes a cut off that leaves some of our mental and emotional faculties unavailable to us. And disables our critical thinking and our independence and our sovereignty. This cults, one way that they control their members is through, by traumatizing them. And then we probably know a lot more about how that works than I do. But it creates dependency and destroys one's ability to, as you were saying, self-regulate or to have full access to one's power. And so to the extent that this has happened universally in our civilization, people are left very dependent on, so one way maybe that it happens is when we are traumatized as children and then as citizens by the conditional approval or rejection of authority. I mean, that's very traumatic for a child to be rejected by the parent. It's a form of abandonment really, which is the biggest trauma probably for at least any mammal or a bird that's kicked out of its nest, you know, falls out of its nest. I mean, that's the biggest trauma there is. So this isn't new information to you, but parents can control their children by invoking that trauma through punishment and praise even. So once someone has been living with that fear, they're easy to control, at least for a while. Eventually they rebel against this life and death control because really that's what it is.   It was to be rejected by the community. So we have this trauma that is, it starts in childhood and then it's reinforced continually and yeah, it makes us either we knuckle under to authority, as you were saying, or we reflexively rebel and defy authority and both responses actually make us easier to control. Then there's also the cutoff from the meeting of our human needs for identity and connection and belonging. The cutoff from these needs is itself traumatic and as I was saying before with not being in nature, for example, or not being allowed to make lasting ties, probably just because of the modern economy and how many people live in their extended family. So that is itself traumatic and then it engenders further trauma. So this cutoff leaves us hungry for those unmet needs that we are economically, socially and psychologically unable to meet for ourselves, like maybe we've never had practice in forming lasting ties and negotiating complex relationships. So that hunger for connection, belonging and identity can then get channeled onto consumerism or political affiliation where that need to connect to or any other addiction really, but the need to connect, the need to belong, the need for the kind of security that comes from safety. If you don't have that security, that basic experiential security, how much money do you need to actually feel safe?  How many surveillance cameras do you need? How many authorities keeping you safe do you need? Like you're going to be attracted to fascism and to authoritarianism and to the totalitarian parent state that is providing what you never had, what has been taken away from you and then now it's dangled in front of you forever. So these are some of the ways that trauma makes us politically manipulable and also psychologically.


World will fall. Written by Rob Aspinall. Narrated by Ella Lynch. CHAPTER I. DEEP WATERS Philippe wrapped one blood-stained finger after another around the chunky leather steering-wheel of the Range Rover. I squeezed the padded door-handle with one hand, the velour cushion of the passenger seat with the other. At both ends of the bridge, a stack of Berlin police car's flashed emergency blue. Yet, except for the heavy metal beat of a chopper overhead and the faint echo of a police megaphone, all was quiet. The traffic had been diverted away from the area by the Berlin PD, who'd tricked us onto a stretch of road from which there was no escape. I breathed in the new car smell of the Range Rover. Philippe's right hand moved over to the gear stick. I heard the deep honk of a large white tour-boat approaching the bridge from our left. Philippe raised an eyebrow at me. So, what do you think? I looked at the boat. Long, wide, rows of blue plastic seats on the top deck, but empty of passengers.  I said. I've turned stupider. Philippe put the Range Rover in reverse. He backed it up fast, gears whining. He slammed on the brakes. The boat glided under the bridge, not far ahead of us. Brace yourself, Philippe said, slipping the gear stick into first. I clenched everything there was to clench. Teeth, bladder, bum-hole, you name it. The bridge squatted wide and low over the water, with a pavement either side. A large, rusty blue water pipe sat elevated above the road to the left. One of the many old pipes that seemed to run through the city like water-park tube slides. A five-foot-high steel lattice barrier ran along the edge of the bridge. I hoped it had some give. I was just watching the boat disappear underneath, weighing up the odds of survival when Philippe stamped hard on the accelerator. The stolen black Range Rover revved and squealed out of the blocks. Philippe jammed the stick into second and spun the wheel to the right at the last nanosecond. We veered across the road and hit the curb with a whomp. The Range Rover bumped up off the pavement, the front grill smashing through the barrier with a bang and flying off the bridge. The impact knocked us forward in our seats, belts locking tight. The bonnet dipped as the boat emerged from the other side. We came down nose over wheels, wrong angle, wrong timing. The sight of the tour boat replaced by a windscreen full of the throffing white water kicked out by its propellers.  We ve only gone amiss. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Back here this Wednesday afternoon, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time, September 6th. Let me get a quick sound check just to begin from Robert, one of our new trial members joining us here, as well as Michael, of course, and all of our students joining us here. Just give me a quick chat back. Let me know if you could hear me. So there we go, perfect. Great to see Mario, Jeff, Kevin, Charles, Lauren.  If I didn't chat you right there, my apologies. Margaret, Sam, Donald, Robert, Chuck, and Leda, and Grant, and all of our students here. Perfect, great to see all of them. Great to have all of us back on social media, Facebook Live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, et cetera. Hey, I have it on the screen to begin to end Vax. It's actually pushing back up right now, so we'll likely put this on our watch list to begin the afternoon. But more so to go over just to move from the morning. It was a stock from earlier today that had a nice breakout. And even on a pullback, ended up leading to a great bounce just before. Now, that's easy to say normally, just looking at a chart after it already happened. But from earlier today, we were calling this out real time, you're calling it out live. And I'll show you it on level four right now. And we were posting pictures earlier today in the chat board. So this is the run-up that we had, broke above resistance off of like 928, moved up pretty well, flipped that resistance into support pretty well here. Even after a nasty shake, it recouped and moved back up to break new highs. Well, just earlier here, beginning at 1130, shortly after, we had this 100 plus thousand share bid. It popped up and it stayed out there for a long time. And ended up getting filled under, maybe even, yeah, under and then over. So that led to a beautiful entry. And then from that point, it's still pushing up. I ended up getting out on a trade earlier just to take the money and run. But beautiful move here so far on NVACs taking us into this afternoon. So, yeah, like I'd said, it's still pushing up right now, maybe until this last candle. Nasty little shake right now, actually towards the VWAP here, roughly off of 975, 976. We'll see if it can keep holding support. I have no problem putting this on our watch list still to start off. And it makes the cut at least for right now. See if there's anything else that looks better even. There was something looking a lot better before, Pali, and it's still, I guess, sticking here near the highs. Ended up making a beautiful push when the market opened up as well as earlier in pre-market, pushing up from like 80 cents all the way up towards like buck 50 and plus. And then broke higher heading up towards two going into the late morning. I mean, hey, dove off, but even now it's still kind of hanging in there, right? Just nasty little shake just now over the last few minutes, but hasn't made a lower low. It's still kind of retaining that trend for the meantime. Now, if I turn back this in three minutes and it tanks, then at least, you know, I'll definitely write it off. For right now, I'll actually just put this on the side list for right now. It doesn't make the full mean list just yet. I say that because normally for a stock that's much lower float, we tend to see just exhaustion for it to just dud out. Now don't listen to, don't let verb hear me say that because VERB yesterday was the one that popped and that was really low float. Now this is about a six to seven million share float where right now today it's trading about 140, 135 plus million shares.  If not within the same day, then within the next day.  I guess trying to build a little support right now, but yeah, even this for the meantime, I'm not as keen to put this on the afternoon list. It's just more so to say, watch out for stocks like the Pali stocks, like the MBSE from earlier as well. So, you know what, I may as well just go right from top to bottom here. You know, we'll check back in on Pali at least. MBSE actually, let me get back to that scanner I had because what do we got here? MBSE at 1.43 million share float with only 2 plus million shares outstanding, stocks trading nearly 100 mil today. So you tell me, exhausted or not? You know, very similar to Pali, actually a little under Pali even because this I feel like is already shaking down a lot. It's already making that second wind type of move wouldn't shock me if this ends up breaking lower over time. But for right now, I guess I'll check back in with it at the end.   I, we weren't following it back then but it was more over the last few years. Even from mid-21, it dropped off from 25 down at 66 cents. So could there be more room on this trade? The reason I say that, it's not related to the pot stocks whatsoever in terms of just news or the sector, but in terms of the trend and the pattern that you see on the chart, well, that's why I was kind of calling out CGC, the last like week or so and you know, all the pot stocks were starting to move. I normally don't, normally don't, right? But you know, that's where I saw an opportunity there and there still could be one on CGC and there could still be one over time on Marin. I just say that solely in relation to how much it had dropped off. Now when the volume begins to dump off on this type of trade, well look what happens, right? Pumped all the way up but then came crashing back down. So if you were late to the party on this type of trade and if you weren't as focused on the cyber clock, then what do you think's gonna happen?  So I ended up pulling back. Maybe over time this could look to make another play but I don't think we're gonna really put this on our afternoon list right now, the Marin. Maybe check back in with it in the morning. PW, ooh, ooh, make room for this APLT, a nice little pop right now. It's already up 44% but it has good volume on the book for the meantime. So hopefully it continues and not only that but you have a big level right here, bunch of volume getting filled from the tape just a moment ago. But you can see it on level three on my matrix here right off of 180. Pretty big discrepancy between 180 and all the surrounding prices there. So I do like that as a big level to keep your eyes on. Yeah, I like it, APLT. Another type of low volume day trade though, not a swing trade. Say that with the THTX trade, popped up earlier, we'd called it out and why not? It was at the high of the day, setting itself up pretty well here, has good volume on the book and it did before and fortunately, not all gonna work out it.  It's not gonna hold past resistance into support. What do you think's gonna happen?  I'm not talking about here, I'm talking about here. Not only that, let me go to a couple poppin' drops from earlier today. Remember Roku? Yeah, coming off good earnings and raised guidance. Oh yeah, sounds so great, right? Yeah, well hey, I say that when I took the trade but I waited for this to pull back towards 90 bucks. Little under 90, I was looking for a bounce and we had a great opportunity but I even wrote it in the chat board, I'm not gonna take the time to repost, little easy today, but I wrote in the chat board earlier and you could take the time to search. I said, you know, Roku holding over support but we know that doesn't make us money. So over time, what do you think is gonna happen? I'm gonna repost that right now, that was at 10.59 in the morning, I wrote that. So hey, over time, if it's not gonna continue to bounce up pretty nicely here, what was the other one? There was one more, right? There was one more that was earnings related, I thought.  Let me go to my bookmark page really quick. Pardon me, there was another one that was another poppin' drop type of trade. The GitLab trade, definitely. I thought there was one more though that was, was it GitLab? Yeah, it was GitLab then, you're right John. Yeah, GitLab too. Hey, it was odd. This morning, once the market opened up, I was actually down a little bit coming off the earnings pop, which was like freaky given the pop that it had. So I ended up bailing out on this trade pretty quickly once I was able to scrounge up break even. And from there, I was just, if it pops up a little bit higher, maybe I'll jump back in, but ended up pulling back. So with that, hey, can't always get what you want. This one ended up dying off to the GitLab trade. But that's where I say, hey, just for what we call out, don't get stuck holding onto it, that's all.  G tech, Durham, all right, we'll keep it going. How about this for Leda and for Kathleen, for Brad, for John, for Grant, for all of our students here. What do you think the news is on this NXG entry? What do you think the news is out on it? It's the other type of stock to at least cover because it's really quick for us to cover because we're not gonna trade this type of trends, right? Don't trade a flat stock, right, John? So with that, I mean, just, hey, what do you think the news is, guys? A buyout, right? It's a buyout. So when there's a buyout, once it's made official, that's where we're not gonna really see much movement on the equity. So buy the rumor, sell the news, but with this, it's gonna just flatten out as far as a day trade. You can't really hope to follow up much on it. Let's see what else we can have here. So again, pot stocks here, saying earlier in CGC, little move up right now on that. I'm not gonna put them on our watch list for this afternoon for as bullish as you know I am on them this week. And right now I'm looking for a pop-on till rate. I'm not gonna put them on the list because they're really slow. If I'm wrong in that assessment, or at least for today if I'm wrong, and then I'll bounce today and then tomorrow they do, I don't want us to be being stuck watching the grass grow. So for right now, at least, let's see if there's anything else moving better. Robert asking one of our new trial members, welcome aboard Robert and all of our new members here. I'm gonna make a new welcome message here at the end of this meeting, but asking, where did you get the buyout? Where was it discussed? So that is just really a pattern that we often see here in our trading room and we teach that in our main curriculum. In the phase one stock course, I teach a class just going over how we interpret news, what to look for in terms of just common patterns that we see based off news. So that is just a really simple one for me to slip in, just kind of tip of tongue during a meeting like this. But that's something that I show a lot further in our phase one stock course and then other news related patterns that we tend to see. Like, hey, just because a company raised guidance and had good earnings doesn't mean it's gonna continue. It might pop up at first, but hey, I'll tell you right now, GitLab's not the first time that I've seen that happen or Roku, go back last earning season to Delta, my favorite stock now, Delta Airlines. I'm never gonna forget it. They raised guidance and had strong earnings. This day they gapped up, they're up 5% pre-market. That was a weak whistle, but you could tell they obviously dropped and then over time pulled back the market a bit. But yep, you don't wanna get stuck holding on. So what else could we add to our watch list right now? We are kind of stuck for a little while here. SE, not really doing much there. Weight Watchers, I know Sam had brought that up earlier from not mistaken or from yesterday, 24 hours ago I think. So yeah, Weight Watchers, another squeeze up here, right? At the highs, not much resistance off 11. See Sam, I remember. There we go. Yeah, I mean, for right now, I wish it had a little bit better volume on the book, but I'm gonna add this to our watch list for right now. It's still pretty strong here. Intel, it's too slow I feel. NVacs, we had NVacs on our side list, right? Or no, no, we had it on the main list and yeah, we're gonna keep it on there. Still looking pretty active and right now it's holding its own right now, trying to bounce. It's gotta flip the view up into strong support here though, it's been chopping around it. So sooner rather than later there. TGTX, look at this, big gap down. I forgot about this one, back from like end of July, early August here. Pushed up a little bit earlier today, but it's at the highs. There's chance to see this try and potentially fill the gap or get up towards there maybe, whatever that high is. A little over 11.83, like 12 bucks basically. It's got a ways to go to get up towards there, but it's at the high. So I like it for right now. We'll add this to our watch list, the TGTX, dead cat bounce opportunity. Be careful when the volume dies off again on the stock, whenever that may be. All right, so let's see what else we can go and put on our watch list here.  Market grinding up right now, spy, we had called out support off of 4.44 and some change. That was a historical level. I had recalled back from like a number of months ago. I just had that in the back of my head. So the more it dropped and dropped and dropped, even after reversal time, you're not trying to catch a fall on the knife, but you're wondering, when are we gonna see a bounce in the market?  How long that will last? I think that we're gonna bounce sooner than most people think. In terms of like September being a bad month, I normally would agree with that. I am very bullish on the market over time. So I think that we're gonna get a really strong bullish market sooner than later. Getting back to this now. Getting back to this, the losers list and AMC in particular. So Fausto had a great call out earlier today. When the market opened up, hey, we had this on our watch list and he had called out specifically, hey, wait to see this test around like 11 and then he cut himself off. He's like, wait, wait, no, no, no. We got like support like 10.70, 10.70 we had support at. And when he has strong conviction in his voice, which he normally does, but there's a certain sense that you could tell when he's on the mic at times like, all right, let's see what this could do. So as soon as it pulled back towards 10.70, I said, all right, well, let's look for that bounce and then try and see if this could squeeze up. Well, hey, it squeezed up, it squeezed up, but then it failed to continue. And just like I was saying with a lot of these dead cap bounce opportunities, especially, well, in this case, again, we're gonna talk about this in the phase one course, actually coming up this month in September as we restart our education cycle again from the top. But with news and a reverse stock split, it's normally not a good thing to begin with.  So if it's not gonna make that stronger reaction like you wanna see, especially with AMC being that like meme stock, that Reddit Wall Street bet stock back from a few years ago. Well, if you remember that, and you know the potential it has, if you're right with that assessment, if you're wrong with that assessment, then you should know what this is gonna end up looking like.  So it was a great call out at the time. I even wrote that to him like after I private chat, I'm like, I appreciate that call out. That was one that got me some money at first. But if it's not gonna continue, you don't wanna be stuck holding and held liable for a move up over time because obviously look at where it's at now. So yeah, we're gonna at least remove AMC from our main list because unless if you're buying puts on it, you're not gonna try in longness at this point, it's just a straight dart on the way down. I don't think that anyone can short the stock. So if you could buy the puts, maybe that's the only thing that you could do there. But for right now, we'll just keep it on a radar over time like tomorrow we'll check back in on it, probably next week once it eventually drops down to five bucks. All right, OSTK and a little bounce right now off a major psychological level. Speaking of AMC at five, we'll OSTK here at 20 and then again, a small little dollar bounce. How much more could it keep going than I'm not really too certain. So, nice move for the meantime, but I'll pass on it here. Snapchat, good short, it's actually pretty close to the lows right now, I like that. Peloton is at the lows, I like that. So both of those, I'm gonna slip on our main list as more like slower moving level one to two short opportunities that are near at the lows. That whoever stock was a nice one, a little bounce there. All right, so, hey, let me know if there's anything else looking good folks. We had the Pali on our side list, it's still hanging in there, right? So until this makes a lower low, I'll put this on our main list here for right now, it makes the cut now. Then the MBSC, I'm not as certain about this one comparative to the Pali, but you know what, I guess I'm in a giving mood. I'll put this on our list as well, MBSC, but hey, unless if there's anything that is popping in our face right now folks, let me know, but otherwise, I think that we'll call it. Got a few call outs here, Mike saying lift up all last week down this week, it is at the lows, right? It is, yeah, actually, if I slip Peloton and snap on our watch list, I got it. It would be hard to pass up on lift, Mike, right? A really good call out from Mike right now, I gotta say, in terms of just trying not to put too many on our list, what the hell happened here?  Wow, this thing took a smacking earlier today. Didn't notice that until right now, maybe Rich called out the halts earlier if he didn't, then probably because it was too thin volume, but this thing down big, looking at the daily chart, this thing has been through the spin cycle, up and down, left and right, this thing's been all over the place. So you know what, I don't like all over the place. So nice drop off, maybe it could bounce over time, but interesting call out from later. I appreciate seeing this, because it's just cool to look at and cool to like, oh wow, how does a stock drop 61% in one day, right? That's a nice show and tell right there. I like that in terms of just looking at it, but otherwise, let's see what else we can get.  Thoughts on IO&Q, you know, I'm a fan of IO&Q, definitely a good stock from our side list. It's up like 2.7%, that also is trending up pretty nice, like the AI stock. I often say this folks, right? So for a more active day, perhaps like today, I always say start and stick with the watch list. If you are already in a position, then I'm not gonna put on the main watch list, then stick with that, focus on that, because especially if it's tradable like AI or IO&Q, then if it ends up making a better pot, then perhaps you shout it out to the rest of us too, right? So I'm rooting all of those trades on, the AI and the IO&Q, and all of them seem just really fine for right now. Zero problem with either of those, or, you know, Carvana, I do have an issue with this, it's way too choppy for its price. Let's see what other sideless stocks we could muster up that I could say looked pretty damn good. I know one of our students had mentioned AAL at first earlier today. I haven't even checked in with it since, so it doesn't look as good now, but nice pop from before.  I think that we're gonna drop lower before we, I think that we're gonna drop off a little bit more before we end up squeezing up a lot higher on Bitcoin. So, Pali poppin, there we go. All right, so I'm gonna stop talking right now because we have a lot of stocks to focus on here already at this point. Pali included from Scott, yeah. It's on our list here at this point. So, Bill at the Horn, yeah, Jeff King is another sideless stock, looks good, but we'll start with what we got here, NVACs, APLT, the Pali trade, and a few more out there and a couple of shorts. Hey, I mean, hey, Snapchat and Peloton and then Lift, I slipped on there at the tail end, but for right now, start and stick with that list right there is what we got and then we'll go from that point folks like at three o'clock we'll see what else is out there once Rich jumps on the mic in about 10, 15 minutes. So, for all of us on social media, Facebook, live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works, I appreciate you folks sticking with me each and every day and each and every afternoon. Send over a quick email if you have any questions or thoughts, I do have to get back to a few of our students here first from yesterday. 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Good morning everyone, it's Wednesday morning, it's currently at 10am, I just made some coffee with collagen, cause I'm a collagen girl now, and I have my overnight oats. If you guys want to see how to make these, these are the best overnight oats I've ever made, I make them in the last vlog that I post in. So anyways, if you guys are new here, subscribe, I'm trying to like crouch down to get into this. Not cute. Today is an office day, I'm running a few errands and I'm getting a lot of work done, I'm also, okay, so I have this whiteboard here that I hate, like I literally hate it. It was supposed to be one of those peel and stick ones, and then it like wouldn't peel and all the Amazon reviews hadn't read them, said that. So I've had that for a while, and I actually found those Polaroids are all really old, and I got like an actual nice whiteboard, so I need to do that, and I'm gonna be scheduling out a bunch of stuff, answering a lot of emails, like today is kind of more of a task-oriented day, I'm getting a lot of stuff done, I have someone who's coming over right now to clean my house, because I, like I just need, you know when it's like, you just need a very very good deep clean, that's what's happening right now, so I hired someone of handy, if you guys want to use handy, this is like not, I literally don't remember what I was saying because I got this email. Oh, I just really need that, anyway so if you guys want to use handy, which is what I used, you guys get $55 in credit, and that would cover like majority of the cleaning, or they also do other things like they do, carpet cleaning, organization, errands, tasks, if you need someone's like mouth to TV, stuff like that, use my link down below, and you guys get $55 in credit, it's like really good, this is not sponsored, this is just like actually a really good deal, and majority of the time, the first time you book a cleaning, it's 50% off anyways, so that would like probably cover your entire cleaning, amazing, but I love you guys so much, I'm gonna get some work done, and it's gonna be good, okay, and I'm working out tonight, not this morning, it's raining outside, and I'm just like so happy, oh my gosh, this looks so much better, I'm gonna hang it up here, but I can't hang it up myself, so I don't know who's gonna hang it up, because not my guy friends can either, so actually, no, I think I'm gonna have one, so this is gonna be really cute, I think Sam will be able to help me maybe, but it's gonna look so nice, and just much better up on this wall, I'm very excited, so I just had a call, I actually don't know if I can say it was an interview for something that's coming out in August, but my house is being cleaned, I'm very excited, and Eritzia is having a sale, I need to be doing school work, but Eritzia is having a sale, so I'm gonna be doing some online shopping, and then I will get back to you. Okay, so I'm picking up these four items, I'm so sad because the perfect oversized crew neck is not available anymore, and I wanted to get it in like four colors, because I would literally wear it every day, like that's my exact style, but I'm gonna try out the biker shorts that everyone is raving about, you guys will see this, because I'll haul it when it gets here, but I'm really excited. Okay, so I just did a rough cut of my video with Olivia, I don't know when this is going up, I'm just editing a ton, because I have so many videos going up right now, currently it just heated up some lunch, I really like these, this is the Fiji apple pear one, this is my favorites, or my sister's favorite flavor, and I'm catching up on Danny's vlogs while I eat, then it's currently 120, then I want to finish editing this vlog, I did the rough cut of the one with Olivia, and then I'm going to take Coco on a walk, and listen to a podcast, and kind of just chill, take a break, and then come back and get some more stuff done. Okay guys, the house just got cleaned, so we are going to go look at it, so I need to take my food to the kitchen, I just, oh my gosh, why is my phone, I just realized I closed my laptop and it's supposed to be exporting things, why do I always do this? Oh sorry, this entire vlog isn't for my desk, so. Okay, so this has all been deep cleaned, because I really want more rings, like I just stock these just to get them in another room, but like I just really need more rings from the M jewelers, or like Adina's jewels or something, like they're just so cute, I need more. The floors have been deep cleaned, okay, why is this always out of focus? Again, all just a deep clean, I'm actually getting the car, or my couch, like majorly clean tomorrow, because if you look at this, like it just has like stains on it, and just random stuff, and I want it like majorly deep cleaned, my mom's coming in like three weeks, and I'm basically just prepping for that, so that is good, I haven't even been over to the bathroom or anything yet, so let's see here, yes it's so much better, it is better, I just, this looks cluttered because we just have random things right now, but, oh and like it's all so much cleaner, this bathtub it's so old, it just like no one uses it, but it just gets gross, but like literally no one uses it, and it's so old and annoying, but alright and then my room, the floors have been cleaned, everything is just cleaner here, alright, it probably doesn't look that big of a difference to you, honestly it really doesn't even make a big difference to me, but it's just like major deep cleaning, so I'm just glad that's out of the way, and why can't I forget rid of these glares, okay, I'm just laid out and read for like 30 minutes, now the next day, oh we know how much I love these white glares, doesn't matter how many times I wipe this lens, if anyone wants to explain to me how I can stop those, let me know, but yeah, so yesterday I filmed a night routine, and then this morning I filmed a like self-care morning routine, so I just got back from getting a massage, and I feel so incredible, like oh my gosh incredible, I went to squeeze, if you guys want my relaxing morning routine though I'm gonna talk more about it, but I got some new products in the mail last night, and well first off, today I'm just gonna be editing, I have someone coming over that's gonna clean my couch, I have someone coming over to look at a room in my house, and I'm gonna get some editing done and then I'm going to an event tonight with K-Swiss, really throwing it back, and Clueless are doing a collab, so I'm gonna go and do that, Saf is coming with me, so I'm picking her up from work, but I wanted to do a little first impressions, I will do a nice little first impressions for you guys, um also, vital proteins, I haven't tried the shots yet, I'm kind of scared, I didn't have, oh my god this morning was just so good guys, I'm like one so excited for this video and two, it was such a good morning, I feel so good, here's really mess right now, anyways I didn't have collagen in my coffee, so I'm gonna have a collagen shot question, how much collagen should I be taking a day, like anyone know this, oh god I just spilled some on me, so that's awesome, but I have a lot of these, this is the Zen one, because I'm Zen today, because I got a massage, alright I'm pretty good at shots for my past life, so let's see if I can do this, don't be discouraged, if you aren't as good as me guys, I've had a lot of practice, not at all, like I don't think anyone would think that it tastes bad at all, this one was the chamomile lemon, definitely you can taste the chamomile, it's very relaxing, because I was literally just thinking about how I really want like cream blushes, and to like try those out, and I get, and then yesterday, and then I get home, and wonder beauty sent me a package, their CEO is actually coming to the broadcast next month, which would be great, but yeah they sent me a bunch of stuff to try out, which I'm really excited for, so I thought I would just do a little first impressions for you guys, I'm gonna put a little bit of their glow head face oil on, I really like this, and I'm going to use their foundation, I don't really wear foundation as you guys know, especially as a recently, but we're gonna try it today, and I'm going to an event, so like this is the time to try I guess, I really do like this face oil though, it feels amazing, I also want to spend class, this one in my skin is bright red, but it looks way more red I get when it doesn't really, I went to spend class this morning outside class again, it was incredible, I've gone to three this week, no two, three, I don't know, doesn't matter, I've been using class fast, but okay now I'm gonna try the wonder beauty, oh this is golden medium foundation, wait this is probably not going to be my color at all, oh yeah I know, definitely is not my color, so I will not be using this until I self tan, so never mind guys, I'm like the palest I've ever been, I think I am gonna do like a very minimal amount of foundation though, just because this is like an event, okay I'm gonna use the two face born this way in pearl, I'm gonna try to put like not on basically, I put a little bit more on my cheeks, just for more coverage, that massage this morning was so incredible, alright so this is the foundation, I still don't have a good concealer, I need to just go and get a bunch of makeup, like I need to go to Sephora and just like clean house basically, that doesn't even make sense but you know whatever, I'm gonna brush out my brows a little bit, I'm afraid of using cream blush, I'm afraid of using cream blush because how does that work and how does it like work with your foundation, like I've tried it before forever ago and it just didn't really work for me, okay so this is the nude glow, so I'm just gonna, wait I think I like it, my fangs right, I like this because it gives you a very natural glow, like little fun youthful summer glow, I'm just gonna try two bronze at my face a little bit, guys I ordered 26 items from princess Polly last night which is insane, so we're gonna be having a very big haul, very very soon, okay I want my eyes to have that really like dewy thing, I'm honestly, I wonder if this could work, I'm gonna do it, I need to have, maybe like gloss, it would have to be a good buy for me, kind of wish I wouldn't have the bronzer on my eyes but I like how dewy my skin looks, I'm gonna set it just a little bit with some powder, I really want to try some cosmetics powders because as you guys know, as you know it cosmetics is my favorite makeup, like maybe you don't know that but it is my favorite, I'm just setting a little bit and then as always my Imbian powder and then I'm going to try out the Wonder Beauty mascara, volumic curl mascara, I hate putting on my mascara, PRB guys, okay totally forgot that I slightly have mascara on so that's just completely ruined it because now it like doesn't look good even mascara on so it's not fair to the Wonder Beauty stuff but I will try this out soon and let you guys know what I think but I really do like the cream blush, like I like how that's like very dewy, very fun, you know, I'm into it, alright so ignore my hair but I really like how it turned out, it's very just dewy and youthful and very simple, I like this, it's like the perfect amount of makeup for me, like if I'm doing like, this is what I want my like full face to be, you know, so I feel good, I like it, I'm gonna pick up my outfit, actually no, I'm not gonna change until way later today but I am gonna pick up my outfit for tonight just so I'm ready, okay I never wear this dress, it's from Princess Polly and it's really cute, it has red hearts all over it, it's like perfect for like, well I don't know, I feel like I wouldn't wear this on a day because I almost don't think you're like trying too hard, you know what I'm saying but it's just really cute so I think I might wear this with just some sneakers tonight, I'm trying to like, yeah I feel like that's a good idea and then maybe my like yellow bag so it's a little more fun and I like these earrings and I really do like my hair back like this with this outfit but in photos I never really like my hair back so I will probably just curl it and just have like loose curls and whatever but I really like this, I think it's cute okay wait if you guys want style with me videos let me know because I would be down for that, that would be so fun, wow I'm into that idea but I also have this dress, comment down below which one you guys like better, nothing at this point it's talking about it, I still feel like I'm gonna wear this one, this one like ties up and it's really cute but it's not really my vibe for tonight, I'm basically gonna wear, I ordered 16 dresses on Princess Polly last night so I'm not messing around dresses but I think this is more of the vibe for tonight because it's like clueless theme so it's a little more fun, not that this is anything like clueless but you know what I'm saying so I think this is the, this is the vibe, oh but I also have this red dress, this is not for tonight but this is really cute I need to wear it really soon, I just have so many dresses, oh my gosh, okay guys so I have perfected my meal prep for when I am home so I only have one left, that kind of sucks, I want to have one left, I really think I'm going crazy, anyways so as you guys saw my last one you guys saw me meal prep this so what I do, this is just when I'm home like I could just take this to like work or school or whatever if I needed to and heat it up and it's fine but it's already pretty much made and then I just do like, oh my gosh I just heat it up on the stove and I add some more spices and more sauce so like I actually like cook it you know but it's just easier because it's already made for me and it's very healthy, my camera is dying, not good, okay one sec guys okay so I'm just cooking this on the stove and it is so good, I had it for dinner last night and it was incredible, I really am a chef guys, there's like nothing else that I could really call myself other than a chef you know so I made this incredible one but I hate these boxes because it makes it like it's a dinner or TV thing, not a home cooked meal but I just had some rice, chicken, Brussels sprouts, water, I put some collagen in this because I didn't have my collagen coffee and then I'm gonna have this later in my office when I get to editing so I've been working at my computer for quite some time now, I edited an entire video and pre uploaded it and I imported so many videos I look forward to edit but I just don't think I'm gonna do that today because honestly I don't really need to, I feel like next week is gonna be like a big editing week um but I just yeah I got a lot done already and I already shot this is this is literally the same clip from yesterday and I'm wearing the exact same top but it's fine it literally it's so fine all right guys I'm not wearing either the dress since I'm wearing this red dress from Princess Polly, my boobs are like out in it which I hate but this is literally every single dress and you know whatever you want some you know some it's a long sleeve red dress and I have this jacket over from Princess Polly, my normal hoops um just sneakers and socks and that is my outfit for tonight so my lift is on its way and then I'm going to head out this is what the dress looks like without the jacket I'm waiting for my lift driver I have my lift code on the screen if you guys want a discount on your ride so I'm wearing this red dress and that is it I feel like I haven't gotten dressed up in a second I really like this dress I like dresses not wrap in the front because they're more flattering but I also have a black another black dress that's more casual that I'll change into after the event I think we're going out with friends um and if we do I have a dress to change into because I'm not gonna want to wear this I can already tell that so packing my disposables I take disposables and then I scan them and that's when I post someone on Instagram for you guys wondering how I edit it like it's literally just from a disposable I'll link them down below just grabbed a water for the drive we are getting picked up right now and then I'm gonna meet stop like we're picking stuff up on the way so like a 30 minute drive to her and we look at another 30 minute drive there so I'm gonna listen to like a podcast while I wait this event the drinks are called as it and something else very very cute JoJo's my hand of love for you guys very cute they're doing a shoe line we just finished at the K-Swiss event we are gonna go to grassy as mantra like one of my favorite restaurants for dinner with a friend wow the sliding is really good I'm like into this wait did you get my backpack oh yeah she's literally okay so Ryan can Ernie this is something else you just start with side type profile as you guys need to start something about Ryan and his gym bag carries with them every day he's had he wears that thing every night he he told me the other day oh wait I think that's us that car right there is definitely us do we have everything yeah oh okay we literally have our whole lives right now oh okay I'm gonna go because like I don't want to have to explain this you know so bye


It's happening. What's up? Money Geeks Mr. V here. Welcome to another video, guys. So, in today's video, I'm going to take a look at Tika Symbol mRNA Moderna. It's a pharmaceutical company, and it's actually engaged in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. So, I did a video in the past talking about my top five companies to watch, or pharmaceutical companies to watch that are actually in the process of developing a vaccine or creating a test for the coronavirus. So, I'm going to hook that video up here so you can definitely go check it out. So, yesterday, Moderna actually kind of put out some really good news that their vaccine is actually moving from phase one to phase two, that the FDA has actually approved phase two trier of the vaccine, which is an excellent news. But just be very, very cautious here that to develop a vaccine to the point where it can actually be effective usually takes a long amount of time. So, if Moderna can actually nail this at their first pass, that would be excellent. So, what does that mean for you and me? It means that if they can come up with this vaccine, as soon as possible, it means all these millions of people that don't have jobs right now would be going back to work because you know that you can get a vaccine that will either protect you from the virus, which is awesome. So, the question is now that they're actually talking about is what do we do as investors? Is it a good time to buy or just wait and see where this goes? Because what if phase two trier fails? What happens? So, most analysts on Worst Street have actually upgraded the stock. The price target was $35 and now they've moved that to $58. And as of today, when I was actually recording the video, they were trading at $58 and some change, which is crazy. So, imagine that if let's say the next two or three months or four, they came out and said, hey, phase two, it's awesome and we're ready to start distributing. I'm assuming the price of this stock is going to skyrocket. This is going to go off the charts and then you're probably going to sit there and kick yourself and be like, why didn't I invest when it was $58? But on the flip side, if they come out and say, phase two of the vaccine trier completely flopped, it didn't work at all, the price is going to go down. Then you're going to probably kick yourself again like, why did I invest in this stock? So, I would say for a stock like this, when you invest in a stock like this, I want you to use what we call a stop loss. So, if you buy this stock today at, say, $58, you can set your stop loss to, say, $50 just in case. So, if anything would happen, you have to get some bad news and the price drops, then you only stand to lose like $8 a share.  And so, that would be a better way. So, right now, I'm still watching on the sideline. I don't have Madonna just for transparency purposes. I did trade at it and made some money. That's about it. I don't have it as a position. But I'm actually seriously debating if I should because, again, the price has been upgraded to $58. So, I might pick up a few shares just in case it goes up, but I'm definitely going to set my stop loss to $50 just in case because I don't want to lose any money beyond $8 a share. So, if I buy it at $58, I don't want to lose $50. So, question of the day, what do you think about this new development? The CEO was actually on CNBC and saying that, hey, where it stands right now, they're anticipating that the vaccine might cost about $4,000 a shot, which is crazy. And they plan on working with the government to distribute the vaccine if it turns out that it's a goal. So, they're going to reach out to the government to determine who gets it and to prioritize now the distribution of the vaccine in the country because they don't have enough for everybody if the vaccine was proven to work, which is kind of scary. So, the vaccine could be out there, but yet you cannot lay your hands on them. I mean, does that ring a bell in any shape or form? Think about the test just for the virus, right? The COVID-19 test is not available to everybody. You cannot go to Walgreens and just buy you a test and use it. It's kind of a selective test for other people. So, that is a scary thing. Just the price. Again, for me as an investor, that's exciting. They're going to make a ton of money if I buy into the company. I'm going to be fine, but just as a human being, people that don't have the money for that, for the price of the vaccine to be looking somewhere between $4,000, that is scary. Not a lot of people have $4,000 sitting around. The government itself, or the government itself, it's actually giving out stimulus packages for $1,200. I mean, so even if you took your stimulus package, $1,200, you will be able to buy the vaccine. Isn't that insane? They're thinking about putting in another package out for $2,000 a month for one year. That's still in Congress. I might have to do a video about that. But I just want to take a minute and think about it. As an investor, it's exciting that you can invest and potentially make some money. But just as a human being, that price is ridiculous in my opinion. And the company even says they don't have the capacity to manufacture enough to be able to help all the millions of people across the world that have the virus. So that is a crazy situation. So let me know in the comment section what you think about this. Do you think it's a buy, or do you think it's like, hey, I'm just going to pump the brakes and wait until they say they have the vaccine before I can definitely jump in and buy? And then, oh, you think like, what about the price? Do you think the price that is set forward, or the anticipated price is something that makes you feel comfortable? Again, let me know in the comment section. And as always, guys, like, share, subscribe. YouTube tells me that 90% of you guys haven't already subscribed to my channel. So if you can do me a favor, hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so that when I post new videos, you get notified. And as always, stay motivated.


in six nights with nothing more than two canteens of water and MRE cookie and then buried in the wall. That was what he had with him.  That's gonna be your thing to focus on. MTX is the entire battalion going up into some pretty hard weather conditions and terrain and learning how to operate at the individual level all the way up to the battalion level. If you're trying to boil water, right? You're trying to shave off that time and you don't bring your water all the way to a boil and all of a sudden you catch gerardia. Survival night was something interesting not a lot of people get to do so that was definitely an experience living off a bare minimum for a night. With the cold weather there's a few extra things you have to consider other than just the enemy. If you are considered combat ineffective then obviously you won't be able to fight the enemy. Our first company tactical movement down the mountain where we had to go and secure an LZ it was good to have the whole company working together and each individual platoon. I think Bridgeport is a good place for this training because of all the elevation change and it brings in all the cold weather elements that the Marine Corps is looking for for the Marines to be trained up on. For myself in 3-6 once we leave here at the end of February we'll be going down to 29 Palms in California and doing a ITX with two Rangers.