Today, we're having a $100 versus $1,000 budget fishing challenge. Fletcher is going to get $100, and your boy Noah is going to get $1,000. Each contestant must use their budget on a rod and reel and also buy baits. This challenge is made up of three separate contests. Whoever wins two out of the three contests wins the challenge. All right, Fletcher, you're up. I got to pick out a rod and reel first. We got a lot of options here. I don't think we're going to be picking this. This would be like $20. This is looking more like my section to choose from right here. We got a Zepco push button. Hey, dude, you can go with the kicking combo, but that's all you get. You just got to fish with the line, you know? You got $100 right there.  That would have been like, could we do like $150 versus $1,050? Oh, man. Well, let's see what we got on this side. Ooh, ooh, OK. We got the Zepco push button. I think this is like $30 or $40. And then we actually have a Zepco baitcaster. I have used this once before, and I was thoroughly impressed with the craftsmanship. I think it's like $50. Oh, the price tag is actually still on it. $59.99. So I got $40 to pick out. Dang, dude, that's a steal. Yeah, that's not bad. You can't beat that. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could, take the time. Hit the subscribe button. Really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. Let's take a visit over here to the tackle section. Right out the gate, the thing that is just my eyes going straight to is the Bitsy flipping jig. It's a perfect little jig, little finesse jig that really gets the job done. So I think we're gonna put this in our basket of goodies. Outside of that, I think I'm gonna splurge a little bit. You know, we only have $40 to play with, but I really, really like the two-tap. So I think I'm gonna go with the two-tap for my second bait. I think it's time to venture into the soft plastics. Chill, bro. Don't break it, this. I don't wanna have to use those push buttons. Come on now. I'm definitely liking what we're seeing here. Let's get some rage bugs and pluck those things off.  Well, suck, suck, man.  Let's grab these. The Striking Gamehawks. And these are just the regular size. They're not the magnums or anything like that. Come on, bro. Let's go pick this. No. But let's add those to the pile. And was that one, two, three, four? So I need one more bait. Maybe some topwater. Do I have room for patrollers? That might be slightly out of budget there. It's $315, $22. Yeah, 100%. Are you only have $22 in baits right now? All right, well, I'm gonna get the patroller. If I go over budget, that's on you, dog. So let's go ahead and go with the patroller. And I think that is my pick for $100. We got our five baits, we got our combo, and we're raked and ready to go, baby. All right, boys, it's time to spend some money. I know you're jealous, Fletcher, but you don't get the $1,000. I know he's been dying to use this beauty right here. Look at that. I wanna use the Elite TI. That is the Elite TI, boys. 500 bucks. Just for the real. Five smackaroos. I see the rods, what, 150? Hey, yeah, it's like 150-ish. 150-ish. We are looking at 650 bucks in this combo right here. And I wanna be honest with you guys, since we're only using five baits today, I really have to pick out another combo to use. You think it's something with braid? Listen, dude, definitely something with braid, because I gotta go with the topwater today. It's finally hot outside, the fish have been munching, and I'm gonna go with the old reliable. The kicking combo, ex-luse. Honestly, the best bang for your buck for what are they, 130, 40 bucks? It's 150. 150? Yep, you can get them on kickingtheirbats.com. I'll link them down below. Any of the loose stuff you can get on loose.com. But yeah, that's what we're gonna go with. So this is 150 plus 650, that's 800 bucks with two combos. Boom, right there. I got 200 bucks for five baits. I know you really think that's gonna happen. Maybe probably not, but you know what I do know? Is instead of counting my money, Fletcher, I can buy whatever I want, you know what I mean? Yeah. But, you know, Fletcher went to the discounted section over here, and he actually has a little hidden drawer. I know about it. This is the long drawer, hold on, I'm gonna come over here and unlock this for you. This got security on it. One thing, I did pick out a braided combo, so I need some topwater. So we got a couple different options in here. We got this big bird. That's definitely an option. As far as winning the challenge, I don't think that that bait's gonna technically win me the challenge today, but I do have two frogs right here. We got a poppin' perch, aka the poppin' pickle, and black, and then we got a regular striking hollow body frog. When it comes to the poppin' pickle, I really like the color that's similar to this with the green and the yellow. I'm a fan of the black, but usually on a cloudy day today, it is so sunny. So with that being said, I think I'm gonna go with the standard striking frog right there. So that is bait number one. We got a topwater on board. Let's see what else we got in here, Fletcher. Here's an S-waver right here, and that is actually a very large S-waver. Little bigger than the standard ones that we would fish with, but that is totally an option. Got a little trout pattern. Then we got a mock work bait. Two days ago, I smoked them on this thing, so I got my confidence high on this. So we might just have to go with that, but there's another mock option that we could go with. We got a mock shad. This is what I'm gonna do. I'm actually gonna go with the mock shad. I love it, dude. This is one of my favorite baits. It's grown on me a ton. I called them last week, killed them on, and some ponds, and I think we're gonna go with that as a natural color. And the reason I don't wanna go with the work bait, I want to go with the work bait, but I love. Come on, come on, boys. The chatter dunk, man.  So this is... I mean, I think it's the only logical choice. I know you're right, dude. That's a Thunder Cricket right there, black and blue. I think we gotta go with that. And so that is three moving baits right here. We got a topwater. We got a chatter dunk, and then we got a swim bait. I think for the last two baits, we could go with something a little more expensive in here, but I think our best option is definitely going to go with soft plastics. Fletcher already picked out the good ones I was gonna pick. I think I'm gonna pick one that you have. You got the game hog, and then you got this, right? Yes. I think I'm gonna go with...  We're gonna get the rage bug right there, and that's in black and blue. I like the rage bugs. My favorite is the rage crawl, but we'll go with the rage bug because I don't fish with that as often. It's still a great bait. I just prefer the rage crawl. All right, one more bait, boys. What do we got? The menace is a fire bait. Rage menace right there. Black and blue. Pretty simple. I think that's what we're gonna have to go with. So those are our five baits, guys. We got a menace. We got a rage bug. We got a topwater frog. That's gonna be a lot of fun. That's for the kicking combo. Got a chatter dunk, and then a mock shad. By the way, if you guys wanna get a discount on mock shad or any mock baits, I'll pop the code up on the screen. Link will be down below. As far as the rods and reels go, we were getting the ball out today. We got us a beautiful kick-in-the-bass TV-X lose combo, and then we got us an elite TI right here, $500 on a $150 rod. So we're gonna go ahead and get after it and get out to the pond and see who's gonna win this challenge. Do you guys think $100 or $1,000 is gonna win? Leave a comment down below and let's get out to the pond. $100 is gonna win. All right, boys. We are out at a pond that we have never fished at before. I've actually fished this pond one time, but it was seven years ago, and then all the fish died in it from some kind of event. And I have not fished it. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Did you hear that? No, what did you hear? Crazy top water blow-up. I think you're hearing stuff. No, no, no, no, no. I know what I heard. You literally know what I heard. Bro, listen, no. I don't know, something happened. No, it just got bit by a tick. I think he's going a little delusional or something. I told Fletch, you gotta watch out, guys. I'm serious.  They're little deer ticks.  And I saw two on me, it kind of freaked me out.  It is horrible. So make sure when you guys go outside, I'm serious, man. Check for those ticks because it ain't worth getting bit by. But we're gonna get to they started. Fletcher's been here, but it's been years. You know, we don't know what to really expect. We could be smoking five, six pounders. Well, are you ready to get into this, man? Listen, I'm ready to rock and roll. All right, well, I'm gonna start rigging up and let's hop right into it. I already have a little Texas rig rigged up on this thing. So I think the only sensible option out the gate is to go straight to soft plastics. So let's bust into these rage bugs and get one of these things hooked up. What you gonna start with over there, boy? I'm definitely not gonna start off with a frog because I'm kind of excited about it and I wanna savor it for a little bit. So I don't know if I'm gonna start off with a soft plastic just because you are. I think I'm gonna do a thunder cricket. I think that's the go, bro. So we didn't really think this through. Oh, no, I got the rage bugs I can put on the back of it. Ooh, no, the black and blue rage menace. Dude, look at that. That's beautiful, dude. That menace, I actually might start running menaces on the back of that. Look at how good that looks.  Okay, guys. I don't think it's ready to get smashed. And we only got $650 in our hands right now. I'm excited. Let's see what we can do. I'm hoping they bite, man. No way. Dude, it was a grass. That was kind of scary. I was like, I didn't even have to move my back. Oh yeah, there is. I think it's twinkie. A lot of grass in here. Big pool of it right there. Let's see how this Zepip performs. My only concern is, had the fish in here gotten to a reasonable size again. Man, it's been six years. Saw me out. Ooh, dude, that's a good one, bud.  Where are we fishing? Where are we fishing right? Look how he ate it. Look at that. That's a two and a half pounder. Dude, that's a dang good one, bro. Look at that. I'm actually excited for this. And I'm kind of bummed that we only have to catch five fish because this is probably gonna be a sleigh fest, guys.  I don't know, man. Look at how he ate that Thunder Cricket too. I mean, just straight up destroyed it. Fletcher was under that tree. So I'm like, I wanna throw right on the edge of this.  I didn't throw way up under the trees just because of the grass. The grass, yeah. I saw through more on the edge and he ate it, man. I haven't had one eat a dang chatter. Oh. Oh no. I got it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, boy. All right, boys, we gotta get back in the water. This fish is actually bleeding a little bit. We're gonna get her back in. I'm on the boat forward, guys. All tied up now. Gonna throw that sucker back in there, just about a pound and a half. Seems like the fish are definitely down to eat in here. I think we just stumbled upon some absolute insanity. Dude, I'm pumped. Well, guys, I just rigged up basic little Texas rig. I think we're gonna go with the Rage Bug since we just caught the chatter donkey in a minute. We'll save that for after this. I'm just glad I had a T-Rig rigged up from the get go. I want you to go bang through these soft plastics right out the gate. Let's go ahead and get this Game Hog on my T-Rig and try to get that second fish. Well, there we go, guys. We got a Rage Bug on a Texas rig. Let's see what we can do with this. Dude, we ain't even gonna fish 10 foot down the bank. Oh, dude, that was a fish under you. Oh, dude, that was the craziest thing. Oh my goodness, man. What is going on, guys? Bro, this fish, look how healthy. Look at that. Just like beautiful. So this fish was under the bait. I watched him swim under the tree right when my bait hit and it was already done. Like it was just a game over scenario. Beautiful pound and a half or maybe kind of three quarters. These bass are insane. I don't know what to say, bro. This is probably the craziest fishing that we've done this year so far with how good they're biting. This is what I'm gonna do. I'm putting down the Texas rig so I can switch up. I'm gonna actually tie on the frog on my kicking combo now. I wanna get a little spicy with it. I think I'll skip under one of them branches. Oh, dude, this is gonna be electric. All right, guys, we're tying up a little Strike King frog, a little uni knot, on some more braid here. We're gonna get a clean little skip under one of these trees. There's bite. There's one. Oh, it's a little baby, but it counts. Oh, man. Smack my finger against my gut for all that hook set. People way too much business. Oh my gosh. Not my proudest fish, but for the sake of this competition, it counts. All we need to do is catch a fish on all five of our baits. And that's two down. Was that first time? Dude, there's multiple. There's multiple in there and it's a good one? That is a good one. Dude, I'm freaking out.  He choked it. Pleasure, it's in the back of his throat. What are we doing, dude? I don't know. Look, what did we just stumble upon? When's the last time you've seen a fishy to frog that perfect? That is almost a three pound bass and a two pound body. Dude, we're not gonna get 50 yards down this bank before this competition's over. Do we have to, I feel like we gotta do a bonus at the end, bro. I really do. I feel like there's gotta be like something because this is just going way too perfect. And I don't want to take the boat out of here when we're done. It's not, that's what I'm saying, bro. You know, I'm three baits done. Fletcher's two baits done. Is that your first cast with the frog? Yes, and there was two of them the same size with them. Taking combo. Thank you, baby.  By the way, like I said, if you guys want to check it out, chickenthebass.com. Perfect time to go fishing. Perfect time for a new fishing rod for the summer. Now we're off to bait number four already. This is unreal. With the three and a half years off fish with Fletcher, we've never been like, let's go fish this place. Little did we know it's probably the juiciest place that we've ever fished. Now we're going with the menace, guys. We're gonna go back to the Texas rig and that is gonna leave us with the mokshad for the final bait, which I think is gonna be insane. I think we're gonna get one to smoke it. But yeah, let's go ahead and put this menace on and get to work. I don't think it's gonna be long. I mean, that was one skip on the frog up under the trees and it was just done. All right, guys, I'm on to bait number three here. We got the bitsy jig rigged up. I pinched off a little bit of that game hog as a trailer. I think that's gonna be the perfect little combination of saw plastic and jig to get the job done. And I wish I could cast with some accuracy to the back of this thing. Oh, oh, oh, I literally just got smoked. Oh my gosh, okay, well. Yeah, I'm fine with it coming off. It was a dangle, dude. Just a dangler. Yeah, we're gonna have to do a little side pot. Winner takes all. Whoever wins this five fish challenge, we're gonna go into a big fish death period. And whoever does that wins it all. Sounds aggressive. Sounds a little, the big fish sudden death. Dude, what is happening, bro? What, like, like honestly, like I don't know what's going on. We did go fishing yesterday and we fished the trophy pond and we only caught them in one specific, it was the weirdest thing. We could only catch them on one spot of the lake, so look at that tiny one behind me, Fletch. Look, look how small he is, like six inches. That's a bluegill. There's some big bluegills. I've seen a few. Fletch. Are you doing another dangler? Oh no! Oh no! Oh my God! Is that your fourth lure? Yes, bro. Oh my gosh. I'm just like being weird. I can't stop with the dangle, bro. The danglemeister. We're gonna end out, dangle it out, man. We're gonna end out, dangle it out. I can't, I gotta try to purposely dangle because I just feel like it's too overpowered. I just already know I can skip up under that tree and it's just done. Like, right there, it's done. Just give it a little reel, give it a little pop. Look, look, that's a bluegill, Fletch. Look, Fletch, watch this, watch this.  Look at how aggressive he is. Look, look at this, look at this. Fletcher, Fletcher, Fletcher, Fletcher. What is going on? That's like a two pound bluegill. Dude, that. Oh, Fletcher, Fletcher, Fletcher. Dude, we gotta catch this thing. It's the most aggressive, like, dude, that fish is... Did he eat it again?  Oh my gosh. Oh! Does that count? Is this the best fishing challenge? No, that doesn't count, that doesn't count. That is literally the most aggressive bluegill I've ever seen in my life. He came after that thing a solid five or six times. Dude, look at this thing. That is like two hand sizes. That's not even a hand-sized bluegill. Look at it compared to my reel. If that does any justice. This thing is massive. In the midst of all that. Bro, what just happened? That bluegill just going crazy, like a shark on it was just like... You probably could see that well on the GoPro too. Dude, he was like so mad. Oh, you can do it. Dude, I have lost three bass on this thing, babe. All I'm saying, dude, I don't know what you're doing differently than me, but I'm throwing this little crawl in the same place as you are.  I'm making the worst cast in the world. Popping my bait in the weirdest way. Like, look at this. Look, what is going after it? I don't know. I don't know what's happening, dude. I'm just like, lost in the sauce here.  I mean, it seems like every fish, regardless of the size, is going after these baits. Oh, what? I lost him again. I'm honestly just playing around, but I gotta take it seriously now. I'm gonna honestly mess up and just let Fletcher just take it over here. Maybe the menace is just like... He's a menace. He a menace. This is probably the most fun I've had on a challenge in a long time. Like, actually, this is just unreal. I can't believe you can't buy a bite right now. I might have gotten some. I just can't feel anything with this rod, dude. All I feel is heavy grass, and unless that line moves, I just don't know if I have a fish or not. You see how I'm working? Oh, there's one. Oh, is that a... Oh, I thought that was a big bluegill with the frickin' jig. Let's go. Okay, okay. I gotta get serious. Get on in here. Oh, tied up. Let's go. Our last three baits have treble hooks, so I don't need to feel the bite for those. These were the three that I was the most worried about. Got the bitsy jig, got the game hog, and the rage bug all out of the way. Be sure to bite the rest of the buddy. Oh my gosh, that was way too close for concrete. You're about to take me out, son. I literally raised your head and lost another fish. I need to raise my life insurance if I won't be fishing with you more. Okay, guys. We're busting into our fourth bait here. Going with the two tap, just having in a little shad. Kella should do the trick. I'm just gonna throw it down the street line and see how the insanity of these fish reacted to this thing. I'm sure it's probably just gonna be instant. You're still on four, aren't you? Yeah, I'm still on four. Okay, we're all tied up now. Dude, I missed enough fish on this one bait to complete the whole time. Yeah. I don't know how you kept missing them. I really don't know, unless it's, what is this rod? Is that bar pinched or something? Oh yeah, first cast. Is that the fourth lure? First cast with the two tap. Yes, sir, it's the fourth lure. You already know. You already know what is going on in this pond, dude. This is not real life. This is not real life. I'm convinced this is a dream right now. Let's go ahead and clip this off. That took all of one cast. We have one lure left to go and that is this patroller right here. All right, guys, it's time for a little mock magic. Got the mock patroller tied up. To be fair, guys, we're gonna do big fish after this for when it takes all. So this is just bragging rights. Remember when this is just bragging rights right here? It's in the side over there, but... Dude, they are going crazy right there, too. Let's go ahead and fling this thing. Watch out, he's coming over the tree. Another dang one. He's in the tree. Another dang one. Look, he's in the tree. Oh my God. He's big. Oh my God. All right, I'm gonna have to go healthy now. Oh! I'm just over here trying to win this competition, but now I gotta go help Nell get a fish out of that tree. I will say this, I've filmed a good bit of challenges. I know the last few years we haven't filmed as many, but this has to be the most like just craziest little challenge I've ever had. Did you get them? Yep. All right, there you go. I gotta land. Dude, they're good fish, too, brother. I know. They're respectable. All quality. Man, like just a casual two pounder there. Thank you. What's your last lure? It's a Mock Shad. So it's the Mock Shad versus the patroller. These are both killer baits. Come on, fish. Just work with me. Hold Fletcher up real quick. Hold Fletcher up. What is this? It's a gator. Oh, it's a gator. Oh, he's angry. Oh, God. He's mad. What are we doing here? Look at the flesh. I mean, it's going down. You're the water. It's anybody's game now. Dude, it's about to be mine. I feel it, dude. You feel it? Oh, it's shaking. It's a micro. Oh, it's like five micros. Oh my goodness. And Fletcher's hunk. Oh, no. Any hung on me? I almost was. Yes. Not bad for a $60 rod. This gator does not like this patroller. You like those, don't you? He is a sassy gator. Why do we catch a fish? I feel like. Oh, golly scared me. Oh my gosh. Well, I think I think I got the first point. Are we going to do like a 15, 30 minute speed round? Biggest fish, most fish? Yeah, biggest fish, most fish. And I like that whoever has the most points after that 30 minute period is going to be the champ. Let me get this off and we'll do a little intermission here set up for round two while we figure out exactly what these rules are going to be. All right guys, so pretty much whoever catches the most fish in 30 minutes gets a point and whoever catches the biggest gets a point. So in order for you to win, you got to win both. I got to win both. You got to win both. I had it so easy, bro. I had it so easy. I'm going to go ahead and cut this off and this two tap delivered on the first cast for me. So I think I'm going with this just for the sake of like securing hookups and bites. So I think I'm going to go with this Chatter Dawn guys. I think that this has an opportunity to catch the biggest fish today, but I also think we can catch numbers. I want to say I threw one cast on this bait and caught a fish. So we're going to go with this for the start. We have to switch up. I mean, we got 30 minutes, so we have time. But yeah, you want to do the honors? I'll set us up with the timer here. Let's get to 30 minutes and three, two, one, go. All right, made the best man win. Come on. If there's a bait I have confidence in, it's a Chatter Dawn. But I'm limited to the open water and the outskirts of the trees. It's going to be a hard to get this two tap in there. Come on. Let's get it rocking. Let's get it rocking. Let's get that, that's all the way up under that. See, this thing's very versatile. I could almost work it on the bottom like I did the minutes too. You know what I mean? That's one fish boys. Should we swap a weight on this one?  We might as well. Oh no way. Let's go. Oh, that's bigger than mine. I'm going to let you weigh yours. All right, I got one fish boys. I'm pretty sure that. Yo. Oh yeah, that's a contender. That's a good fish man. Two years? Oh my goodness. All right, I'm glad we're starting out with a decent one. Now that we have something to work off of here. Is that another fish? Yes. Dude, this is about to be a freaking slay fest. That's two fish guys. Two cast, two fish. We just got to keep the ball rolling here. I choked, kind of not getting that first round. That was a good, better than just bragging, right? So it was more of like really taking over here because I got to win both. I got to win big fish and all the many fish. We got a two pound, two ounce lead. That's what you're going to have to be to get big fish. Not bad at all. Two pounds, two ounces. We got the lead in one category. Noah's got the lead in the other. Got to just stay ahead in one or the other and we're looking good. Try to take it from the cast. Oh, that's how to get it. That was a four pounder. I saw him. I literally saw him. There was a perfect skip up there and he just ate it as I skipped it in. She's big and running right at me. Out there in the middle. Oh, she got a little size. I think she's going to be two too, but. Yeah, she's not enough. It's a complete fish. That's a big, or a good one, I mean. Oh, I almost came off it. Oh, you didn't touch it? I didn't touch it. Oh no. That's not good. Yeah, this one ain't going to beat yours. Very fat though. All right, well, I'm on three. I'm still at one. This wind's whipping across. All right, Fletcher has a big fish, but I have three fish, he has one. I need to start catching them. I feel like you can get on a nasty bite in the middle of that trap, you know. Oh, back, we're on. We got to double up. We got to double trouble. That was another dangle, dude. Another dangler? Oh, Fletch. Fletch, I got you beat. You got me beat? Yep. That's like, that's a big one, dude. Fish number four. Oh, that's a good one. All right, boys, so we got this fish number four. That's a dang good one. Two pounds, nine ounces. Two pounds, nine ounces. Not a three pounder like I thought he was, but I'll take it, that's a beautiful fish. We got four, you have what, too? Yeah. And I just took the lead on big fish for exactly where we need to be, boys. This is fish number two. At least getting shallow over here. This might work in my favor. I'm in the three, I'm falling apart. I'm falling apart. That's getting way too carried away over there with that set it off. Fish number five, boys. Fish number five. It's just hard to compete with a $650 God set up. Can you stop? Dude, I'm on fire. Can you stop? I'm on fire. That's six, baby. Got a little MLF's found here. We're on six, boys. What are you on to? We're on two, all right. You don't have to remind me.  This side of the pond is working in my favor, I feel like, because it's kind of... Can you stop? Oh, that was a good one. Oh, yes, yes. Stay on. That was just what I actually feel. I might have used my two knots. This one feels like it could have some size. It's kind of hard to tell. It's coming at me. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.  That's three. That's three. What are you at, six? I think I hooked one. That's seven fish that I hooked, I think, was medium fish. Oh, there we go. There we go. Stay on. Stay on. I'm really thinking on size now. Ooh, feisty, feisty. That's four. Touched him. I touched him. Oh, there we go. Yes, yes.  Yeah, that one's respectable. All right. Oh, come on, come on, come on. Five. She's hooked right there on the edge. Don't make it easy for me. One more fish to catch up. Right here by this tree, I feel it. No. No. Look how fast they are, bro. They're zooming out here. OK, that's not big fish, which I'm fine with, because I'm still leading. Got to get him in the boat, get him a little touch. That's fish number seven. You have five. I got five. Your bait's definitely a contender. I know, I know. I think that one fish that got off right as I was trying to put my hand on it could come back to bite me. Yeah, we on, we on, we on. Come on, fish number six. Fish number six. 13 fish. Yeah. Touched it. All right, I know what's messing me up. I am running low on this menace train. I think it might be good for us to put a rage bug on, just because we got fresh ones. And I don't know, it's going to be a bigger profile, but I don't think it's going to matter. OK, got the rage bug. It's a little bigger. This would be, this would be more realistic if I was going for size here. Oh, boy. That's tight. Ball game. Got to land them. We get this in. Now you get another one. And she's got like some size. Oh, dude. She looks decent. Like a double landing, a big one. Yes. You're on seven. I'm on eight. God, this is competitive. 13 minutes left. Oh, my gosh. How many fit? Wait, wait, wait, we call it 15 fish in 15 minutes. Oh, my gosh. There's 17 minutes. That is unreal. This is intense, dude. It really is. No. Chase her. There's one. Yes, yes, yes, yes.  Hey, let's try ball there. Guess what? That's big fish, leader. That's big fish, leader. Oh, no. I don't know. It's close. I'm going to be honest. I don't know. It's going to tie it. So I'm not even going to weigh it. But that's nine. You have eight. Oh, you're not even going to weigh it. Not even going to weigh it. I think it's better off if I don't. I think it might beat it by an ounce. I hope I catch big fish and beat you by one ounce. Wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something? That would make my day. I hope you win those fish. And I catch big fish and beat you by one ounce. And you regret not weighing that fish. I'll regret a lot of things in this challenge when that happens. There's one. Yes. Stay on, stay on. Oh, she's got some ties, too. I don't think she's too... Oh, she might. She might, she might be. I don't think so. I don't think she is. We're not going to weigh that one. I'm not going to hang it on her. I don't think she's too annoying, man. Hot numbers, game. I'll take it. I catch a fish. I put myself back to even with you. You catch one immediately. Ten to nine. This is coming down really to the minute. If we just keep this pace, I'm golden. Yeah, you're looking good. You're looking good. Oh, there's one. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'll tie it. Boom. Finally, tie it up without no catching one in the process. And now my face all tangled.  One more. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go. Oh, come on. Get on in here.  Don't shake it, don't shake it. Don't shake it. It's 11-11. That was so close. I actually got a quicker release because that fish gave you some trouble too. Whoo, baby, this is, this is something else, man. I'm not at disbelief that we're already at 22 fish in 30 minutes. That isn't even hot. I don't think we've ever been able to do that. We've had some crazy days of fishing, but this is just like the craziest place I've ever fished. Fish. I need to get ahead. Slowing down a little bit. One fish for every five casts. Instead of one fish for every two to three casts. I'll take that any day, man. Total 11. Really curious as to what the time left is here. I'm checking really fast. Minute 45 seconds. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. Down to the wire. Oh, there's one. Yes. Stay on. Stay on. No shot. Oh. You okay? Yeah, I'm good. Oh, no. I'm good. Oh, no. He's going to cave up all the time. Dude, you didn't have a missed one like that today. I know. It just had to happen. It just had to wrap around your entire freaking rod. Oh, no. You're in no rush to get that undone. God. No, what am I stuck on? All that bad luck I had in the first round might have just came back and gave me some good luck. Oh, my God. Freaking challenge. Oh, my gosh. 23 fish in 30 minutes. We might need to apply for the world record and come out to this place because I think we could do it. If you guys enjoyed it, hit the like button. If you want to see more challenges like this, let us know. I finally secured the dub at the end. I won't even know how I did that, but I pulled it off. Thank you so much for watching. I'll catch you all in the next video.


Hello everyone and welcome to this webinar on the impact of online shopping on the UK High Street. I'm Margarita Seraulo. I'm an outreach officer working for the UK Data Service based in Manchester at JISC and I'm presenting today with Lester Lager. He's a lecturer in Geographical Data Science for the Consumer Data Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. This is just a quick overview today. I will introduce the phase two of the big data network and the Consumer Data Research Centre in particular. And then Les will tell you more about his research on your resilience, including the data and methodology he used.  Right, so the ESRC has created a big data network which is divided in three phases. As part of the phase two, it is investing in the establishment of data research centres with a focus on business and local government data. These three centres are the BLG Data Research as you can see. So the ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre based at the University of Essex, the Consumer Data Research Centre which I'm going to show you more about later, and the Urban Big Data Centre based at the University of Glasgow. So these three research centres make data routinely collected by business and local government organisations accessible for research and they benefit to data owners and society and they always ensure that individuals' identities are safeguarded. So the UK Data Service has a big data team called Big Data Network Support. So the ESRC has invested in us to enable research to make the most out of these data for knowledge exchange and impact. And we support and coordinate the activities between the three data research centres. Our aims are to unify data discovery across the phase two of the Big Data Network collections. We encourage the sharing of information and expertise across these centres and coordinate user training capacity building in Big Data Analytics for researchers using the data. Just a few words about the CDRC in particular because Les does work for the CDRC. They combine expertise from four different universities or researchers within those universities at the University of Leeds, the University College London, University of Liverpool and the University of Oxford. They do provide data that cover a range of topics concerning the characteristics, constraints and outcomes of consumption. You can find the searchable data catalogue on their website and they do offer open, safe, guarded and secure data. So with different access conditions depending on the sensitivity of the information contained in the data set. They do offer some training as well in data analytics mainly on how to use R and GIS. And I strongly suggest you check their website out where there's more information about it and it's cdrc.ac.uk. And now I'm going to hand over to Les who's going to talk to you more about his research. Hello, my name is Les Dovegan and I'm going to talk today about irresilience of UK retail centers. This is a project I've been working on for about last 18 months or so. So I will start with a bit of a background on the retail sector in the UK and the evolution of retail town centers in the UK. Then I will introduce the irresilience concept and move on to the empirical analysis of and research outputs. Lastly, I will outline the value added by this study. So let's start with a bit of information about retail sector in the UK. Many commentators claim that Britain is a nation of shopkeepers. Shopping is a national pastime so there must be something to it. As the UK retail sector has been very successful over the past 25 to 30 years and it's an important part of UK's economy. There are almost three million people working in retailing at the moment which is about 10% of the UK workforce. Retail sales stood at 7.1 billion pounds per week last year in 2015 and this is an equivalent of 21% of UK's GDP as you can see is a massive chunk of that GDP. On average, we make about 200 shopping trips per year which comes to about just under four trips shopping trips per week. There are various shopping destinations but in this study I will look mainly at town centers and shopping centers. So let's start with the evolution of town centers. Town centers, they constantly evolve and this is viewed as a good thing. Sometimes that allows them to adapt to things like shifting consumer demand or external internal shocks. In the UK, the evolution has been driven by four major forces, the first of which is competition from out of center large retail development. This type of developments have largely resulted from the policies of touchers government and they lose approach to planning system. The so-called vitality and viability of UK town centers was only prioritized in the mid-1990s by adoption of the so-called sequential test which prioritized retail developments within town centers followed by edge of center, district centers and only as a last resort out of town sites. Then we've got the second force which is a shock of the economic crisis and the following era of austerity. In broad terms, the impact was complex but it was largely associated with sharp increases in vacancy rates. The average vacancy rate in England and well in the UK had increased from about 8% in the pre-crisis period sort of 2007-8 to 14.5% in 2012 and since then it was gradually declining and it stands at the moment at about 12%. Then we've got the changing demographics and consumer culture. These include some trends that have been going on for some time such as aging society or decreasing household size. However, really interesting here are the recent trends such as increased demands for value for money or progressive rise of convenience culture. That's why we can see in our high streets an increasing number of pound loans, savers, home bargains or convenience stores such as Tesca Express or Science British Local and then we've got the fourth force rapid growth of online sales. Online sales have essentially tripled over the past seven, eight years and now they exceed 15% of total UK retail sales and I have to say this is the highest figure in the entire world. This can be nicely symbolized by Amazon having become the country's eighth largest retailer. The major retailers they have adapted to that change relatively quickly. The traditional store-based retailers, we call them sometimes bricks-and-mortar transferred part of their business online which was relatively easy and this new business model is also is referred to as bricks-and-clicks. However, it is worth mentioning that this transformation wasn't as successful for many smaller and independent retailers. And what is really interesting here shown on this bottom graph is that the online penetration rates, they vary considerably by retail or service sector. The sales of products that can be easily digitized such as music, films, games or software take place mainly online nowadays. And at the other end of the spectrum, these types of retail services that provide some sort of experience such as health and beauty or leisure services. There are also products that we like to expect in person physically and also just groceries. So what is the research question? Well, I was interested in the response of UK town centers to the increasing online sales. So far most researchers have focused on supply factors and as a result the geography of online sales was little understated. So I've addressed the issue and answered some of other questions as well related to both supply and demand factors. And in particular, there were these two questions here. How the structure of traditional high streets is being impacted by consumers' propensity for online shopping? And a second question, how irresilience of retail centers can be measured in a meaningful, useful, helpful way? The novel thing about this research was that we employed big data from various sources in order to examine the propensity for online shopping at local level area. We estimated the exposure of retail centers to online shopping and we estimated retail catchments at a national extent. So let's have a quick look at the concept of irresilience. Retail irresilience is a novel concept, a concept that defines the vulnerability of British retail centers to the effects of rapidly growing internet sales. In other words, it's a concept that defines and measures the impact of online sales on more traditional retailers and traditional high streets in the UK. So as this is a novel concept, the study required a theoretical framework but also a robust method of irresilience can be measured. So the empirical study consisted of the following parts which are listed here. It was the estimation of catchment areas for UK retail centers. It was the obtaining of internet user classification at a small area level, that was the LSOA, lower super output area level. There was the assessment of the exposure of retail centers to online shopping estimation of retail supply vulnerability and I will talk about those in a minute in more detail. So let's start with the theoretical framework. So the irresilience is about both supply and demand factors. On the supply side we have connectivity which essentially is available infrastructure to get online and we proxy this by speed and rurality. On the demand side we have consumer behavior and essentially the decision of whether or not to shop online. That's very crucial whether or not to shop online. This decision depends on customer's engagement with information and communication technologies so-called ICT but also on the catchment demographics. In particular factors like age and socioeconomic status turn out to be very important. That decision of whether or not to shop online is also closely related to retail supply factors in this box here. And we looked at things like retail center attractiveness, safety, accessibility, shopping convenience. So the assumption was if the retail center offers a safe, convenient shopping environment, one which is really attractive, the center will be more resilient. So let's have a look at our data. First is applied and demand data. So overall there are about 1,300 town centers in the UK and twice as many shopping centers and retail parks. The map on the right shows spatial distribution of these town centers, 13,000 town centers depicted by the size and as you can see the size of London it's much bigger than any other center. Not even any other center is close to that size is completely. In terms of retail occupancy data we got it from local data company. Another supplier of such data is GoatXperien. This data provides detailed information on the location of all retail and service units and the different classifications. There is a broad classification which includes these four categories, comparison, convenience, services and vacant. Comparison retailing essentially is the non-food retailing, convenience retailing is the food related retailing, services and vacant which are our empty units. And there is also much more detailed classification with more than 100 categories and in here you will have categories like convenience stores, supermarkets, shoemakers, post offices, estate agents and so on and so on. We also used 4.7 million unit postcode level internet speed test results which are available from broadband speed tracker.co.uk and we also used distances from the nearest mobile mass the so-called base stations. In terms of demand data I have to say that the data were assembled at the 2011 lower layer super output areas so-called LSOA level which comprises over 34,000 zones in England and Wales of between 1,000 and 3,000 people. So each LSOA had about 1,000 to 3,000 people in it. So firstly a range of socio-demographic indicators from the 2011 census was collected including levels of education, employment sector, prevalence of full-time students, age structure and population density and secondly the Oxford Internet Institute Survey the so-called OXIS were employed. That was a sample for the whole Great Britain with a sampling method that enabled the projection of estimates to the whole country and comparison over time at LSOA level again. So one of the first steps was after the conceptual framework it was estimation of retail catchment areas. So the aim was to estimate catchment areas for a national network of retail centers. This is a complex task and one that requires a large degree of generalization and a substantial computational power to say the least. So traditionally there are two types of methods used to estimate retail catchments that are the simple methods such as buffers or drive distances or drive times. They are still popular and used by many retailers however they are unlikely to sufficiently capture the complexity of different attributes that may influence true catchment extent. So our preferred approach was to use spatial interaction models the so-called gravity or probabilistic models. This type of models they apply Newtonian laws of physics to the modeling of shoppers behavior based on the influence and the attractiveness of the store or retail center or network of retail centers and influence declines with distance between origin and shopping destination. These types of models they provide much more accurate catchment areas. However one of the major limitation is that there is a need for some sort of customer insight data in order to calibrate the model otherwise we end up using only arbitrary values which is not might end up with you know irrelevant output. So here is the half probability model we use bespoke version of it and in here you've got got the formula of that model and graphical representation just to help you to understand how the model works. So the simple version of proof I calculated so I calculated the probability P for each customer's location I in our case this where I saw us of using a particular center J. So we calculated probability P for customer's locations I of using retail center J and this turned out to be a function between retail center attractiveness A and a distance D between the actual retail centers and consumer domicile. Of course you can disaggregate that model parameters into things like large small medium town centers we used in about five or six parameters in that case this is just a simple version of it. So then we have some outputs and model calibration as well depicted here on these two figures. So we can see here Manchester on the top and Birmingham on the bottom so the output looks quite reasonable I have to say it looks quite good in fact in red we have the primary catchments in orange you have the secondary and yellow the tertiary catchment. So for the catchment for Liverpool sorry for Liverpool for Manchester city center it's really large and the catchments for the surrounding satellite towns are much much smaller. But in terms of model calibration I used axioms data on shopping flows. These are origin destination matrices derived from surveys on non-food primary shopping destinations okay non-food primary shopping destinations. By creating the probabilities for each of the SOA I mapped axioms data the real world catchments if you like and these are on the left hand side. And that was quite easy to compare against our model output which is on the right hand side. Overall the correlation was just around 90% which is quite good however the inner city location in the inner city location the response rate was relatively low and therefore we've got this fragmented picture as the error tends to be higher in that central area. And we published the results of this study in a journal of retailing and consumer services so if you want to have a look please do so. Then we've got the internet user classification. It is a purpose-built classification of internet use and engagement and we use k-means clustering method and we employed three major blocks of data. This were Oxford internet surveys, I've already mentioned those before, the so-called oxys, internet and ablic infrastructures and socio-demographic indicators from the 2011 census. And an example of such classification is shown in these maps for Liverpool and London. There are 11 major groups that engage with ICT in completely different ways so each of these groups which is here they engage in different ways with information communication technology or also what it means that some of these groups will be engaging in online shopping more than other groups. In London there is a quite distinctive spatial pattern but in Liverpool it's not that clear. And here I've got one of these rendered pictures of internet user classification. It looks like satellite picture or something in London by night but it's not. It's internet user classification. It's just different types of rendering. Then we've got consumers propensity for online shopping. So as you can see on this graph here on the right hand side nationally rates of online shopping quite to 53%. So this is our zero basically in fact and here we're showing the differences from the national mean. And so that clear difference is between different IUC groups. These are the same groups as I showed in the previous map. So for example the low density by high connectivity group which is here and the other two groups called constrained by infrastructure in French are most likely to engage in online shopping whereas uncommitted and casual users, emerging as all these three or four groups here less likely to engage in online shopping. So having the information for the whole country we could create catchment profiles based on that classification. And having catchment profiles for every single town center we could create index of high exposure. And this map here on the left hand side provides evidence that predominantly the secondary and tertiary little centers located around major metropolitan areas reveal the greatest exposure to the impacts of online sales. This trend has been reiterated in other parts of the country although to a smaller extent. So all the bigger metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds will have similar trends but to slightly smaller extent. What's also very interesting is that none of the big centers, town centers, city centers was classified as highly exposed. They were all basically like commuter belt in southern East England. And then we've got vulnerability to online shopping. I used the evidence from literature and I calculated the composite measure of retail centers vulnerability based on supply factors. Essentially these were data on retail occupancy occupancy. So I look at the proportion of different retail types, broader, more detailed categories and then and calculated the indices. So what you need to know here that there were two types of impacts is the distinguished. So there was a positive impact for anchor stores and leisure units. As if a center had relatively many anchor stores and quite rich leisure units, this center was much more likely to be resilient as people were much more likely to come to this center and stay a bit longer. Also leisure units, leisure offer is very difficult to digitize. And there was a negative wave of the so-called digitalization retail. These were the types of retail services that have high online penetration levels. So just to recap, higher proportions of digitalization retail were associated with enhanced vulnerability, whereas higher proportions of anchor stores and leisure units indicated greater resilience to online sales. So by exploring and then intersecting the exposure and vulnerability indices, I could calculate the resilience scores for each retail centers. And here I've got two tables showing 10 most and 10 least resilience town centers in the UK. The final scores were scaled into the range between 1 and 100 for the clarity reasons. So it can be seen quite clearly what is the score and where that center is placed in the index between 101. And here we've got flow diagram of the way we calculated the resilience scores. So just to recap again, we had this, on the left-hand side, we had this OXIS surveys, sensors and internet infrastructure data. And based on this data, we came up with these internet user classifications, the so-called IUC, by using K-means clustering methods. And on the other hand, we had this local data company data, town center boundaries data and road network. So by using this data, I was able to calculate retail catchments for every town center in the country by using the bespoke half model. In stage two, using those two internet users classification and retail catchments, I could calculate index of high exposure to online shopping. And directly from this data, I could calculate index of supply vulnerability. And by intersecting those two indices, I came up with this irresilience measure that I showed you before. And the results of this study were published in GeoForm quite recently. So what is the value added to this study? Well, the study provides new insights into the debate on the impacts of online retailing on traditional brick and mortar retailers. It also tries to rebalance the current debates which has focused on supply factors. So I'm trying to show the importance of demand factors as well, in other words, geodemographics. The study investigates how the resistance to impact of online sales can be measured and what role local demographics may have in that context. Okay. And the study also offers valuable tools for various stakeholders. Basically, people who are engaged in revaluation of retail capacity models or people who are engaged in different schemes of town center, improving town center performance will find this tool pretty useful. And all these models, all tools are open source, so they're really available online. And the last slide, it's about next steps. So at the moment I'm working on updating retail center boundaries. As the official DCLG department for communities and local government boundaries, which we used were from 2004, which is quite old, but that's the official boundaries half at the moment. So the extent has changed in many cases quite significantly. So for this reason we are updating these boundaries, but also creating a new method which will be more robust and will be much easier to rerun the model and update town center boundaries, let's say, on an annual basis after each survey or something like that. Second project I'm working on at the moment is related to irresilience, is revaluation of retail catchments based on variable propensity for online shopping. So the current catchment model assumes uniform propensity for online shopping, which in other words doesn't account for it at all. Okay. So the irresilience project provides empirical evidence that variable propensity can have an impact on catchment extent. So it would be useful to rerun the model using our irresilience score. And you've got two maps in here showing that's how catchment for Gloucester, how this irresilience can impact potentially the catchment extent. And we also are working on evaluation of our model using consumer insight data. We have quite lots of data on the CDRC website. So one of these data set is about click and collect from one of the major retailers, and we will use that data to evaluate our models. And thank you very much. I'm going to thank you for presenting today. And I'm going to thank all the attendees. I hope you found it interesting. And have a good afternoon. Bye everyone. Thank you. Bye bye.


Hello, hello, Andrea Maesky here with Dental Tutoring. Let's talk about how you can feel more comfortable taking a test, especially if it's been, let's say, 20 years since you've taken a test because you've been in the dental hygiene profession for a while, but you are audited. So if you have thought about it long and hard and you don't want to do your portfolio because you would have to get organized, you would have to put all of your courses together, you might not have taken any courses for a while, or even if you have, you just don't know how to put it all together, it does make more sense to take your quality assurance exam.  I was audited about six years ago and I did my portfolio, even with your best of intentions, it can be tricky to stay organized and you end up putting it off until you can't put it off anymore and then you have to submit this portfolio, but you just might not feel comfortable enough doing that because if you don't do it well, then you will have to submit it again. But so if you want to take the quality assurance exam, but you have other challenges too, so not only talking about the portfolio, but now the exam and you're thinking, oh my goodness, I haven't taken an exam for 10 years, 20 years, I don't even know how to get started. So it can be very, very nerve wracking, but I'm going to talk about how I can make it so much easier for you. But just first know, you're not alone. Even if you've taken your board exam two years ago and it's time to take your quality assurance exam because you are audited, it can still be nerve wracking because hey, we all want to pass, right? If you knew you would pass and be successful, you probably wouldn't be worried about taking the exam. So then you're thinking of everything else. Well, if I don't pass, do I have to do it again? Do I lose my license? Do I do this? Do I do that? So don't think about all of that because you will pass your exam and I'm going to tell you how and how to be a lot more confident in doing it. So have a look inside my dental hygiene quality assurance study guide, study guide.  So have a look, but this is what it all has, okay? So notice how module one has one topic. So I try to keep things simple. You do need to know a lot for the exam but you don't need to know as much as you think you do, trust me. And in my opinion, reading all of these modules over is a good thing to do anyway because if you haven't opened up a textbook or taken courses for a while, it's good to read over things because this is all things that you have to know for your practice anyway. But notice how in all of the modules, I keep it simple and there's a mock exam after a lot of these topics too because it's one thing to read through everything but then you don't know for sure if you're on the right track or if you actually understood it. So let's say you were going through module number four. Read through all of these PowerPoints. It's not going to take you a couple hours. It'll probably take you a couple of days to a week even depending on how long these PowerPoints are. But then after you feel comfortable learning everything in module four, take the mock exam afterwards to see, well, are you actually comfortable? And then if you do well on the mock exam, then you know, okay, well, I can move on to module number five and then module number six. Well, let's say you don't do well, that's okay, that happens but then that means you have to go through that module again, read over the parts that you didn't quite understand and then you will do a lot better next time. So I don't just simply give you guys PowerPoints. I give you mock exams after that because I want you to really know if you understand the material, if that makes sense. So this is the best way to be confident because if you're confident in what you're learning, then when you take your exam, you won't be as nervous. It's normal to be nervous but you won't be nervous because you're thinking, okay, I didn't know what to study. I just took a textbook, studied a couple chapters, that was it. But you will feel so much more confident taking this course because you will know that all of this is what you have to study. So I have been tutoring on the quality assurance exam since it actually came out and everybody says afterwards, like, yes, that was a lot of material but that did help me for the exam and that's the main thing, right? Is that you want to take the exam and go, oh, shoot, okay. That's a hard question but I do remember in module three we had talked about that. So you will feel so much more confident taking the exam since you have this clear study plan in place. If you feel confident, you will be less nervous. So does that make sense? And I am always here to help. So please let me know if you have any questions, if you need any help. We have a lot of people inside the course and they are all saying this has helped them so much. They're not all done studying everything yet but everybody says this does help a lot. So obviously that is a good thing and everybody who has taken the course so far, so talking about last year, they were all able to pass their exam. So I take that as a very good sign, right? So people who take this course pass because it just helps them bring everything together. So you do not have to purchase a $200 textbook. No, this will give you everything that you have to know, not too much and not enough either, okay? So just everything that you have to know. So let me know you guys if you have any questions. Thank you so much for listening. I will leave the link for you guys to sign up for this on the bottom because that would be, oh, I just wanted to open up the sales page. Ah, here it is. So I will leave the link for you guys to sign up on the bottom here. This has everything that you need to know for the exam. Thank you so much you guys and I will talk to you pretty soon because I'll be uploading another video in about like two hours. So I will see you very, very soon.


Good morning, CyberTraders! Happy Thursday, everybody, on this lovely December—I mean, December—September 6th, how's everybody doing? All right, good, good, good. Happy Thursday, everybody. Super, good morning, Lou, John, Neil, good, good, good. Phil, Dana, Grant, everyone. Looks like everyone's having a good time, right? Who's going fishing? Andra, are you going to get smoked some fish? I'm reading the chat over here, and it looks like you guys got a lot of cooking going on, huh? Andra says it's cold here. It feels like Christmas. I know, actually, it's supposed to be cold this weekend, too. But that's pretty good. Grant, are you going to be smoking some fish? All right. This is the greatest job in the world, right? Let's think about it. We trade an hour, right?  You saw it, right? 8 o'clock this morning. Beautiful trend. 14.50 up to 18.50. Where are you going to make $4,000 to buy 1,000 shares of the stock? Where are you going to find a job like that? Nowhere. You know where? Right here in the cybergroup room. That's where it's all about. But we're going to talk about this ARWR. But before we do that, let's talk about what a lot of you missed yesterday, and what we did because yesterday we did have a really good day. We had a lot of good stocks that made some big moves. So we're going to start off with that. First of all, let's talk about the AMD trade. So let me just bring this five-minute chart right here. AMD had another nice little rally. She's down today. But look, you could see that stock right at the gate. 27 to 29.20. Another great, great, great run. That stock did really, really well for us. The other one was the TLRY. I mean, that thing just was an animal. That thing ran from 76 to 96. It just would not stop. Great, great mover. It's been a great swing trade for us. She's down a lot a little bit now. Regarding about your swing trade, guys, listen, we rode this thing up from $22. Unfortunately, I had to chase it to $44 because I was stuck in some other swing trades. It was not really a good day trade. You've got to be a level five trader to trade a stock like this. But overall, we killed it with this one. This one did great. Also, another one that was probably the easiest one that most of you made and most money was the mankind trade, the MNKD. That one was just a very, very easy move. That stock has been great in the past two days. You could see how it was about a dollar, ran already three bucks yesterday, right at the open. Boom. It was just such an easy trade. We found it in pre-market, which is what we always do, which, by the way, I got a pretty decent move. Not as nice as yesterday, I'll have to admit. But you could see the stock had a really nice move. It went from $2.30 all the way to $3. A lot of us have pretty much done. Came right back down. Could have bought it right back at $2.40 again. Right up to $2.90 up until one o'clock. But this is really where we make our most money in the first 30 minutes. MNKD was a really nice one. The PRQR, that one also, nice, nice rally. That was probably the nicest afternoon trade that I've seen in a long, long time. Look at that stock. It did exactly what it was supposed to do at $3.30. This is what we were looking for. It was great in the morning.  But once we saw that stock, and this is what we look for going to the afternoon, we found this in the afternoon market. That thing just ran from $14.00 to $16.50. Listen, guys, I always tell everybody. Obviously, there's people going to be listening on YouTube and on Facebook changing their channel. They're saying, I don't know if I could trade in the morning. I'm from the West Coast, whatever it is. Listen, if you missed the morning, you could trade the clothes. The last 30 minutes where we make most of our money, that one was a great, great move. Everyone did pretty well. A couple other ones. I want to kind of just talk about the PR. QR was another big winner that had a really nice, that one right there. I'm sorry about that. What was really cool about that one is that there was a $400,000 print on time in sales at $13.40. And then the thing just took off a minute later, which is another thing that we teach here. A lot of people don't, it's funny, but today at 12 o'clock, we're going to be doing another open house. Guys, we want you to come in at 12 o'clock because you know we're not going to be doing anything around that time. And you'll see how many people that just don't understand how important time in sales is. And that big print of 400,000 shares of what made that stock rally. And if you guys weren't here and you didn't see it, you know what? You just lost $2,000 winner right there. One last one I just want to bring up. Well, there's a couple of them. The CRO went did really well. I'm going to bring that one up. That one was another nice little move. CGC was another one. That also was trading side by side. That thing on a great swing trade has been at 25 and went all the way up to about 55. And then everyone's obviously was talking about the Twitter trade yesterday. Oops, spelled it wrong. TWTR. Twitter obviously was up at Capitol Hill today. It was getting reamed. Same thing with Facebook. And listen, we did really well not too long ago, but this thing was been a great short. It's got, you know, listen, the good thing about it's got mage support levels right around here around 3150, I would say. 31. So if it holds here pretty strong, it could be a good swing trade. But you could see that was an easy day trade on a short because, you know, listen, what do you expect? You think they're going into a positive situation, you know? The only thing that still hasn't made a big move, and I think it might be a good leap trade, is the Nike trade. Nike, like, took that big hit. The commercial on Kaepernick is going to be on tonight, on Thursday Night Football, they said. A lot of people, I was just watching some of the financial stations. There's some people that they were talking that had big positions in Nike, and they all dumped it. They got out of it. I don't know. We'll see. Listen, I don't know who's smarter. Obviously, they know their business model. We'll see what happens when they come out with next earnings announcements. See if they meet them, all right? But overall, it's kind of holding pretty flat here, so we'll see how that goes. But anyway, social media taking a big hit, and we talked about that with Facebook, too, when they came up on Capitol Hill. And let's bring up that Facebook trade. Facebook now looking too good. Look at that, 220, and things all the way down to 167. What do we know about trading? Whatever goes up comes down twice as fast. All right, so anyway, that pretty much does it when it comes to that, what happened yesterday. Now, guys, that's a new archives. Forget about it. You know, if there's anything that I like going into from yesterday, I will throw it on. But you know what? There's always a new list of stocks, and that's what it's all about. So let's go over some of them. First of all, the ARWR, which we brought up a little bit earlier. ARWR, why aren't they coming up? There we go. All right, so this one you can see it's building a little bit nice little Faustal flag. Let me just change my time frame here. It's a two-minute chart. There's a nice little Faustal flag right there at stock. If you were here when you were supposed to be here, you're probably done already trading. But if you missed it, listen, it still looks strong. Let's see what happens after the first five minutes of the open. So that one made the Faustal watch list. NYSZ is another one that came and showed up. This stock has been taking a big hit, but she's up a little bit nicely. She's got great volume of 14% of cheap little stock. I personally don't like to trade anything under $1 because you're dealing with tens of a penny, and I want to stay away from that. But if it holds above $1, the stock could be pretty decent. We'll see how that one works. The other one, NBEV, here's another one that gapped up really nicely from yesterday. She's spitting over into today. Look at that volume kicking everywhere. She actually just took off right now, but she was at $220. You can see, look at the volume. Look at the iceberg orders on this one. Tons and tons and tons of orders out there. 846,000 shares already traded this morning. That's phenomenal. Let's see if she breaks this resistance level that hit from yesterday at four and what's going on right now. But that stock, unbelievable. Look at that thing. It's that Christmas tree on high-speed light. So that one looks great. Next one on the list, INSG. We've got about four more. This one right here has been a great swing trade of $880 already at $320. She's gapping up from yesterday, but she's trending down in pre-market. So I'm a little nervous on that one. The TLRY, listen, we killed it on this stock. I'm putting it back on the watch list in a way of, you probably can't short it, but if you had a big profit in it, listen, it's okay. Take the money and run. That's the slogan we always go by. You killed it. I killed it. I killed it on this one. You know what? No big deal went to $95. Listen, I had no, you know, thought that this would even go that high. So this is like basically hitting a home run. Last but not least, the IGC. Another one that I found this morning, it's up, she backed off. You know what? The stock had a big rally. She's on a trend down. So if you had this on a swing trade, I'd probably get out of it. She's breaking lower lows. All right. So that pretty much does it. We got one, two, three, four, five, six. Now, anything I'm missing, guys, I did not call out. Benid already made $0.10 and $0.11 and NBEV. Let me bring that up. Yeah.  It's a really, really nice little trend. Let's see how it holds right here. You know, but overall it's a pretty good moving stock. I did mention earlier though, it does got major resistance levels at $240. I said that in pre-market. So be careful right around that resistance. Ken says short on the CLDR. You know, the thing gapped up pretty big yesterday. I mean, it went from 14 to 16. She's on a trend down. You know, if she's on your short list, maybe, but she's testing some major resistance levels, support levels. I'm sorry. Right around here, you know, late into the after hours trading. So remember, a lot of that could also help you because people do own at that price. So go by that. But let's see how it holds right there. She's up pretty big. There's always profit-taking. Maybe. But anyway, so those are our lists. Now, for everybody to know, listen, not all these stocks are going to move. We always found new ones that it did come pop out. We didn't have Twitter, you know, yesterday and you saw it was a great short. So listen, two or three of them are going to make a move. We'll find some new ones.  Hopefully, everybody's been enjoying their stay here in the room. You know, and hopefully, you want to be part of the team. You know, but remember, it's not for everyone. So I know that, you know, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to talk to your advisor. And then in the meantime, guys, today at 12 o'clock, we're doing another open house. All right, guys? So look forward to seeing you there. It's always great for you guys to come to open houses, even the students, because remember, you are one of them. And just to show how much you appreciate where you're at, just to show you where some of the people are. And it's just, you know, and let's try to kind of explain to them, if you're not going to do it the right way, don't trade. All right? Because it's, you know, you just want to have bad negativity on trading. It's the greatest job in the world. All right? So go out and fish today. All right? Guys, good luck today. Happy trading. Thank you.


Thanks for joining me for this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Brick. Today we're going to do a beer by Moylan's brewing out of Navado, California. This beer in particular was given to me by Kyla Miller and she got it from her sister Danny Miller who if you've been watching all of these Danny Miller had sent in some beer for this as well. So thank you very much to both you Kyla and Danny. Appreciate it a lot. So this is Moylan's and this was a special beer that they put out. This was to celebrate the win of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series of 2014. So not sure how it's going to be at the moment, but this is their Orange and Black Congrats ale.  This is a American black ale which to other people means black IPA with actually California oranges added to it. Sounds weird, and it's 6% out. Oh, bye-bye. Let's get this going. Very brown as I'm pouring it as you can imagine. Black ale's typically are that way. As you can probably see it looks very very black right there. But when I can look around the edges, it's very much brown. A little bit of a reddish tinge to it. Smell it? Yeah, it's like fresh oranges actually. Oranges with a little bit of like a zest, like an orange zest to it. So a little bit of orange fruit, a lot of orange zest on the nose. There's a little bit of a chocolatey aspect in there. Very slight. A little bit of a roasty note from the malt coming through as well on the nose. It smells really interesting. I just don't know how this is going to play on the palate. Huh? Significantly less body than I was expecting it to have. I was expecting it to have a little bit more, because typically black ale's because they're more on the darker malts. They have a little bit more body. This is very thin body. I definitely get the orange. I get a fleeting moment of the fruit of the orange, but I get a lot of the orange zest to it. I do get that roasty aspect from the malt that I was talking about smelling. I'm wondering when this was fresher, if there was more of a hot presence to it that could have like bolstered the citrus fruit aspect a little bit more. Not sure, but it's actually pretty decent the way it is right now. It's really interesting. I've just never experienced that level of orange zest and orange, a little bit of orange fruit in a beer like this. So it's it's an interesting one. I wouldn't say I love it. Do I like it? Yes, I like it. It's good. I would certainly drink this. Moylan's interesting beer. Kyla and Danny, thank you very much for letting me try this. And I guess I should say congratulations to the Giants. Like you're late, but hey, you did it. And then this beer was created for you. I hope they actually tried some of it. But anyway, everyone, thanks for checking this out and go get yourself an awesome beer.


Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to another video. So today I want to show you a Shopify store that made over half a million dollars drop shipping jewelry. As always, I'm going to be breaking down the whole business model and kind of set up of this business. So we're going to be taking a look at the Shopify store they're using, the actual products they sold to make those sorts of sales and then the actual ads that have been running as well. What's different about this store to the typical ones I review is they actually generated those sales running TikTok ads. TikTok ads are obviously really popular at the moment and what they do is allow us to reach a demographic that we might not necessarily be able to reach on a platform like Facebook. If you take a look at the average demographic for a particular platform, then it definitely kind of sets you up to drop ship certain products or to at least use different platforms to match to a different product. And that's the reason why I wanted to show you this store then is because it's a great example of somebody who's found a pretty cool, pretty unique product from AliExpress branded a site around it. So it makes it look like they're the original seller and creator of this product. But then what they've also done is they haven't just typically gone straight to Facebook or straight to Google, they've matched the product to the ideal demographic for the person who's gonna be buying the product. What I really like about their marketing strategy as well is yes, they're focused on TikTok to drive the majority of their traffic. They've then used all the other platforms kind of like a retargeting basis.  And with that being said guys, thanks for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed the video. I hope you learned something new that you can take away and implement into your own business which will ultimately help you be more successful and let's jump straight into it. So the store we're looking at today is called foreverbracelet.shop on the exchange marketplace. A lot of funny stores on the exchange marketplace for sale that aren't private listings because essentially you can see everything there is to that business, their whole kind of business model, their whole setup, how they're running their business, the profits they're making, the success they're having. And you can learn so much that you can take away and then implement into your own business. It also makes a great product research tool because if there's proven sales and success behind a particular product, then obviously there's no reason why you can't take that same product, market it in your own unique way, improve on what these guys are doing and essentially see the same, if not better, fingers crossed results. So what's different about this shop is they don't have the typical domain, they don't have a .com or .co.uk, it's actually .shop. The golfing brand I'm starting actually kind of follows this as well and it's the actual name of the business .golf. So hopefully if it can work for these guys it can work for me too. I am gonna be releasing the first episode next week. There's a couple of things I wanna put in place so the episode isn't just me talking about what I'm doing. I can actually show you some kind of tangible results and the stages I'm up to. So to give you some background information about this particular site, it's pretty much your typical drop ship and store apart from, I don't believe they source the products from AliExpress. I found the products in AliExpress so you can see roughly how much sort of profit they're making, but he says in this paragraph in this section here that he's actually got an agent, a private supplier in which he exports his order info to, sends it across and then re-imports to go on the track and information and things like that. So the average revenue is about 36K across since when he started with an average profit. So he says of $21,000. Now, I think that's a bit over exaggerated. It's probably not that high with a profit margin of 40%. And that's pretty awesome for drop shipping terms. But what I wanna kinda talk about is the fact that he stopped running ads in June but he still had over 7K sales which is pretty good for organic traffic. But if you look at the previous couple of months over 50K, over 70K and then over 80K. So it just goes to show there's still quite a lot of potential for a particular site like this. And obviously the product as well. Total traffic, three quarters of a million. If we take a look at the expenses, we can see they're on the advanced plan to cut down their transaction fees. They have employees, VA's doing customer service, order fulfillment, that sort of thing. Domain, $27 a year, paid apps and research software, 500. And then they have Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and influencers at seven grand a month. When you see the product, it's a super kind of passionate product. There's no way you'd be able to see this sort of success if you didn't have user-generated content behind the site, behind the product, actually advertising it. One thing I'm really big on and having a big push on them for my own businesses is trying to get as much user-generated content together as much as possible, because no one sells a product better than somebody who already has that loyal trust and following that you can kind of piggyback off. So if we take a look at the actual Shopify store itself, we can see they haven't got a fabric on installed at the top. There's definitely a lot of improvement to the site. They've had some great success, but I definitely believe that if you make a few tweaks to the site, you could actually increase that success with the particular niche that it's in as well. Then there's definitely lots of other products you could branch out onto. So you haven't just got to focus on one product, and this could be a brand that could keep going for many years, in my opinion. The logo itself, in my opinion, looks a bit basic. It doesn't look very professional, so that would be kind of like my first port of call for this particular site if I was trying to improve it. And then if you look at the cover photo, treat your boo with a smile they face. Obviously it's not very professional, but when you see the actual product and see the ads they're running and the target demographic they're going after, it just shows why this product or why this particular business has done so well because everything they've done is based around that demographic they're gonna be advertising to. And if I'm not mistaken, if I had to guess, sorry, I would say the person who created this site is the ideal target market for this product as well. That's also a super important piece of advice is that try and focus on what you know because when it comes to the design of the site, the pricing of the product, the actual products themselves, the more knowledge you have about a particular niche, then the easier things will come to you and it'll certainly be a lot less work because things will just come naturally. So at the top they have a track your order page which is recommended, they have a contact us page but what I wanna show you this is all it is is a contact us form. So it just goes to show the most important things about any business are the product and the actual marketing campaign itself. In my opinion this should be developed with things like contact number, physical address and just generally more information about the actual business itself. Just kinda make it more trustworthy and professional but ultimately they've done the most important things correctly which is reflected in their success. So this is the product in question, it's called the Forever Bracelet, TM, trademarked, two piece set. So they haven't just named it Rope Bracelet, Custom Name, they've actually branded it to the name of the shop. What it is essentially is just two separate bracelets, one for one partner, one for another partner, you can get your name inscribed onto it and then when you go near each other this magnet kinda joins on. So it's a pretty cool, pretty unique product. See they have a custom app installed so people can import their name before making a purchase and they also have this, I believe this looks like a debutify theme which is a default option but basically you can put in when the product itself is actually going to arrive. There's not a lot really you can say about this particular product so all they've done, their product description is pretty short but they just have a nice gift essentially saying everything that needs to be said about this particular product and showing what it actually does. So a little bit of a paragraph at the top, the gift sales, the product to be honest and then most people probably won't be that bothered about the materials or even the guarantee to be honest because it's such a cheap product at $20. Most people think it's a cool product, they'll put their names in, hit it to cart and they won't think twice about reading any further. At the top two you can see 155 style reviews so if people did wanna check out the reviews they could scroll down here and see so many different picture reviews of two people holding hands. It's just great material that will help sell the product which again is reflected in the success that they've had. So this is the product itself we can see it's identical, literally everything about it is exactly the same. If we go through the process and we'll have this stone color then it's $8.83 plus that includes free shipping. So you're looking at about $9 delivered, they're selling it for $20 which doesn't leave a lot of room so you must be having hot super high conversion rates unless they're sourcing it a lot cheaper. As I mentioned in the intro they're not sourcing it from AliExpress, they're using an agent. So if I had to guess for a particular product like this they're probably sourcing it for around $5, $6 which then bumps up that profit margins a little bit. I haven't actually been through the purchase process so let's do that now just to see if they do actually have an upsell in which they do. So again this will be bumping up the average order value which actually explains how they can afford to sell it for so cheap. Let's jump into TikTok then. It's a platform I haven't spent much time on whatsoever but I always love doing research into different businesses especially if they have a different setup to my own because it just gives me loads of ideas of what I can take away for certain products, how to kind of, how they actually market the products and the strategy behind them and I always like to try and think of things if you're watching this video try and think how can I implement this into my own business. So let's take a look at their videos. It's good for this first one in the bottom right corner which is 10K Views. Let's just play this. They're really cute whenever you put your hands together they connect, watch. See that? Now you can hold hands. It's really cute. Just like that. What do you think? They're more connected. They're connected. Then you feel the tug, you feel the tension so it makes you feel actually more connected to each other. It's a great gift, you know what I'm saying? What day's coming up real soon? It's my national GoFest day. So make sure you guys grab one. Link will be in our bio for the next few days so grab one and thank you. Peace. So what that actually looks like then is it's the owners, the creators of the business filming a video themselves taking on that role as the users and actually using it as a video to help sell the products. They have the link in the bio which they're directing people to so there's a call to action but then obviously they nicely demonstrate how the products works. They also time the release of this brand, this product to their site, their business in time for National Girlfriends Day. So obviously what they've done there is pretty smart because it's the sort of time in which there's going to be lots of people thinking about what sort of gifts to get their girlfriend and then this ad pops up. It's pretty cool, it's pretty unique and it's just a no-brainer at the price point as well. So you can see how simple but effective videos like this really, really are. If you've been struggling to kind of come up with your own videos or paying a designer you're not sure what company to go with, try reaching out to some small-time influencers, thousand followers, give or take. Ask them for a prize or ask them if they're even dirt for free if you let them keep the products because videos like this which show real people using the real products and just how it does work and smiling and just bringing emotion and life to the actual video itself rather than just a cold product image, it can really make a huge difference. If you look at some of the most successful e-commerce brands or stores on Facebook or on TikTok then there's always one common theme with the ads they're running and it's featuring real people actually demonstrating the product. And with that being said guys, let's wrap the video up and do a quick recap just to go over what we've learned in this video. So number one is they've found a pretty cool, pretty unique product and they've branded it as their own and built a store around that particular product. Then to sell that product and generate over half a million dollars in sales they've focused on user-generated content which is real people featuring the product. They've posted it out. We heard the girl in that video say this company has sent me these particular bracelets and we're gonna surprise my boyfriend with them. Live reaction just showing how a real person would use that product and surprise their own boyfriend. It creates like a real life example that people can connect to, people can relate to which transforms into cheap clicks because it's gonna be super high engagement and the cheaper you can get people onto your website then obviously the cheaper you're going to convert them as well. So with that being said guys, I hope you enjoyed that video. I hope you learned something new. If you did let me know down in the comments below I always like to know kind of what stages people are at in their journey. Let me know what you wanna see next as well. What sort of videos will help you out with the kind of position that you're in. And one final thing then before you do go if you're looking for a program that comes with my full support and guidance as well as all the content and resources you could possibly need, make sure you check out my Econ Academy. There'll be a link in the video description down below. There is a free callback service too with myself. So if you wanna hop on the phone with me go for any questions you have about joining. Just let me know if there's a link down in the video description below. Thanks again, I'll see you in the next one.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com coming at you with a two box break of 2022 tops sterling baseball Random hit break number two the deuces are wild as Vince Gully would say So it's only a four-spot break.  So, thank you appreciate that Bought all four spots. So I let him choose the boxes. So in the chat. He's saying two and three So that's one two and three We'll save those for next time. So here here are the two boxes there. Let's slide those out and over And these will save for next time In fact, we'll just keep these right here in case somebody wants to roll and run these back In a normal group break, I would have just rolled the dice and we would have let the dice Pick since Rick got all the spots We uh, we broke protocol on that all right Good luck. Can you use a knife? There it is back here. All right. What do we got? We got silver slugger award winners And 2010's MLB all-stars Sounds like a like a jeopardy category So this is 2010's MLB all-stars. Who is? Christian Yellich 13 out of 25 piece of his lumber piece of the jersey and his on-card autograph Now Yellich authored a pair of the greatest seasons in Brewer's history in 2018 2019 When he became their only player to sustain an ops of 1000 plus Over a two-year spin. He was an nl batting champ both years In 2021 Christian bounced back from injury playgear to swat 353 in his first 10 games nice silver slugger award winners silver slugger award winners that could be could be anybody across Many different years Looks like a thicker card stock than that Yellich What do we have here? Ooh That's Dale Murphy. That's a one of one Wow one two three four five patches Dale Murphy's nice penmanship and a one of one Is that going to fit into a 180? Do I have to put that back into the slider box? This is going to be pretty secure in this In this top loader here nice There you go Dale Murphy's pretty great People say he's one of the nicest guys in baseball too seven seasons into his career Murphy mustered a breakout of seismic magnitude in 1982 And what was the first of his back-to-back nl MVP campaigns? He paired 36 home runs with 23 steals and topped the nl with 109 rbis Dave's uh Dale silver slugger and his fielding awards were his first of four in a row It's a good stretch of baseball for Dale Murphy And rick out of fives and under All aboard the big hit express But wait There's more We have 1960s mlb all-stars Calgary with another goal. They're up nine six now Everyone had the over on that hockey game right? Sai young award winners as well Sai young award winners I think they're all plural though all-stars Sai young winners. Maybe I don't know. Maybe you're right. That's a good eye though This said silver slugger award winners and all-stars I wouldn't mind a duel though Yeah, I see where your head's at though. David. That's it's a good call And it's just a one person, but it's a big person It's a big person the big unit Randy Johnson Triple relic and autograph 10 out of 10 Sterling strikes autographed relic That's mariners edition Does a lot of photography now Yeah, and we could use some feathers in here some feather relics Maybe a man, but they want multiple bird relics Did he win multiple of that award? No, I think I think it just means like This could be any Sai young award winner from the history of baseball is what they're saying It's the group of winners and you can get one of those winners All right 1960s MLB all-stars Old yeah Oh, could be a really it's a really thick card Could be a cut auto jason jaspy. That's for sure It's not a cut auto, but it's a quad relic and autograph of Rod Carew and it's a one out of five Rod Carew That's a twins edition of rod Carew Quad relic three pieces of his lumber piece of his jersey and his autograph I think the I think the al batting title award is named after him Carew sages yearly hitfest in 1974 by topping the al in both knocks with 218 an average at 364 364 plenty of walks 74 and steals 38 only enhances status as a machine like superstar Rod who was still swatting 400s latest june 27th ripped at least three hits a game a whopping 24 times And that's another train whistle for you rick all aboard the big hit express There you go rick. Thank you very much We got the out of five rod Carew the 10 out of 10 randy johnson the one of one dale murphy And he started off with christian yellich so a few old school guys an old school guy an older school guy a real old school guy And a current guy right here some good guys some good guys Thanks for watching rick. Thanks for breaking everyone else If you want to follow in rick's footsteps right here, I want to chase after some hits one spot guarantees you a random something So you'll get something I'm joe for jasmies case ricks dot com rick. Thank you very much for grabbing those two boxes I'll see you next time for your next break. Bye. Bye