Guess what it's time for tech talk and we got lots of cool stuff to talk about this week in your ticket update We've got what we're gonna talk about the next mixer. You might want to buy Punch in recording and adobe audition. Where's that punch and roll? and also The ability to use your microphone correctly by putting it in the right place Which is important. We talk about Mike's Mike mistakes and a couple of great questions from our audience all coming up right now on voiceover body shop tech talk From the outer reaches they came Bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and Together from the center of the VO universe. 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Michael Collins demos when quality matters and voice over extra your daily resource for VO success And now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys And Now it's time for a tech talk here on voice over body shop and lots of cool stuff to talk about tonight I mean we've got we're gonna demonstrate something for you from an audition, which is really cool and Some other cool stuff. I also want to talk a little bit more about microphones We talked last time about Karen feeding of your microphone. Yeah this week Mistakes that people make with microphones Which would be fun to talk about and again if you have a tech question if you have a home voice over studio tech question remember we're the guys that know how to do this stuff and We're the guys that know how to answer this stuff and if we don't know the answer we asked the other one And if he doesn't know it then Google it Then we Google that's right and which we usually do anything it's stupid to hire one of us to Google things for you But trust me we know what the Google really good at Google. Yeah It's like no, and there's lots of stories that go with that. So what's up in your tech update this week? Oh boy Well, I guess the first thing that came to mind was a recent discovery that Adobe audition CC the creative cloud the one everybody's mostly using now the 2019's most recent update which is 12 when you think the versioning is so confusing they call it CC 2019 But in the verging thing it's verging thing it's called twelve point one the point one update Now has an actual built-in punch and rate punch in recording right which they lovingly call believe it or not punch and roll Which is funny because really it's only the voiceover industry that seems to call it punch and roll right? Whereas the recording industry calls it punch in or auto punch I mean since since the time of my otari for track recorder like punch in right So I mean I think that's kind of cool because what that tells me is that Adobe has been listening to the audio Recording are specifically the voice and narration and podcasting industry for you know feature updates I think that's pretty awesome. I'll also take credit for having someone from Adobe on the show right and telling them That's something that people want, but that's not sure. I'm sure that we'd have anything to do with it but anyway Adobe audition now has punch and roll recording and you don't have to there was a great Hack that somebody came up with they wrote a script and everything But now now it's actually baked into the system and it's it's it's crazy crazy easy I haven't really spent much time playing with it yet But let's see if we got that coming up on the screen. We certainly do So you get some audio up in an adobe audition. I'll see if playback comes up without creating an echo or a loop Let's see check check one two three four five six seven nine. There it is Okay, so if I wanted to punch in at some point in this so I want to punch in on one two three four five six seven eight nine ten I don't like the way I sort of stumbled over the end 79 ten seven eight nine ten. I'd rather have a nicer cleaner seven eight nine ten So I'm gonna find that point where the seven comes in And you gotta be really careful with your punch ends. They should be pretty darn accurate So you might want to zoom in a little bit But now you go down to the record button at the bottom and hold down control And now when you click on it this this menu now includes a punch and roll mode So when that's engaged and you've got to set it for a certain Pre-roll time you do that is preset and frankly I haven't even looked to see where that for that speck or that Preferences even located in here yet. Let's take a look together. Shall we yes? What would you look where would you look would you look at editing? Maybe would you look under appearance? No play back in recording perhaps. Absolutely. There it is at the bottom of playback and recording Under recording. There's a punch and roll pre-roll duration the The default is five seconds. That's rather long. Can't let's put it I'm gonna try this two for now. See if I can nail it in two Two seconds. Okay, and then you just use your hotkey shift space for record By the way, that's the same as I think pro tools Here we go check check one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Now I probably flubbed that but this is just to show you How punch and roll takes practice check check one two three four five six six seven eight nine ten So I over I doubled the six right basically this is to show that it works But it's also to show how not to do it if you're gonna punch in on something Don't pick something right in the center of a phrase or better You know do the whole phrase give yourself some space right if you're gonna do punch and roll Really on a short phrase like that start at the beginning right don't make it harder on yourself than it has to be You know, it's it's very difficult to squeeze in a punch in a spot like that And my my trick to that was always if you're gonna do a punch in or even an edit always do it on a consonant Okay, do it on if you do it and a hard constant be a T and not an F F sir hard I can do a check check one two three four five six Three four five six those are not hard one two three four five two, okay Pick it up at the two. Let's try that check check one two. So here's two two Check check one two. Okay. Let's try that shift space bar Three four five six seven eight nine ten now for some reason we didn't hear the play pre-roll that time I really don't have a good reason for that because I have it on you check check once three four So I think we found a bug mmm check check one two We do check check once three four five six seven eight nine ten So anyway, the point is it takes practice Because anything you got to get the timing right and you got to make sure that there's no lag in your system or latency because if there's a little bit of latency in the system if your Computer's hard drives a little bit slow or anything the timing of the punch in won't be perfect So, you know, this is this is why we tend to not be big on pushing punch and roll right in a traditional sense I know David who was just on last week's show. He talks about using punch and roll and it's own in a sort of unique audacity Specific method ready. We call He calls it a stair-step technique right because you're recording a new file underneath each one a new track, right? He has a special way to do it in audacity This time this technique you're working over the same track. This also does work in multi-track mode as well Oh, that I've not experimented with what I let you got to know what you're doing to do with multi-track mode You do have the ability to after the fact adjust the punch in point and all this here's the thing I mean if you have to go in and adjust your punch in points Why bother? Because the problem is now you have to fix if you have to go back and at any point of doing punch and roll is to Not have to go back and fix your edits. They they should be seamless So right and punch and roll really is for long format narration. I mean if I'm working on something I was working on something this morning and I I It was in another language and I had to edit these things in yeah, it's just re-record it copy it Paste it back in there. Yeah, take your time get it done right and make sure that the spacing is all right Yeah, but if you're if you're on a tight deadline you're trying to do an audiobook or a long format narration Something like that can be very very useful The other thing is you got to have control you have to have access to all your systems from the mic, right? And that for some of you maybe you're already set up that way many you many of you or not Many of you have just a simple booth with a mic and a headphone and really not much else now You got to bring all that into the booth. It's a little bit more complicated to set up So if you're really dedicated to long form narration and this is something you've been wanting to try to find a Way to speed it up give it a shot you could give it a try and see if it works for you Anyway punch in punch it in gear Had a pretty disappointing experience with personas is a r8 mixer We saw this thing at NAM a year or even two yet two NAMs ago. Yeah How long is that in dog ears? So we saw we saw this thing and I was like all this things cool It's got built-in recording to an SS an SD card, right? So you can have a backup recording and it's got some really neat features Bluetooth blah blah blah So I installed them in two different studios because at the time those two people clients happen to need mixers So I installed them within a few weeks of each other and though that was about over a year ago Right both of the personas a r8 mixers. I installed have both had technical issues like Catching on fire Okay in in a small Like the smallest whisper room that they make I Mean a small whisper room it was inside the whisper room and the club I'm not gonna say is there just since it's not embarrassing anybody, but he came in and he's texting me George There is smoke coming out of my mixer. What am I supposed to do? Like this is this is nuts Anyway, so one of them the the power supply blew out and there's parts in there that when they fail They fail with some Sturman drang or drama or something smoke. That's what happened So I felt very bad and had to get over there and I was like get your mic port pro and plug it into your mic Get back to work, you know But anyway, so that one failed in a more spectacular way The other one started creating these cloud rhythmic pop pop pop pop pop pop pop sounds out of the studio monitors Which are really loud really disconcerting and obnoxious And if you don't know what's going on as a voice actor that would probably freak you the heck out Somebody running a pulse jet some it was really freaking weird So I was able to figure out a way to get that sound out of the system temporarily, but I did replace it So the question maybe you may be thinking is what did you replace it with? No, I did not go buy two more personas a r8 mixer. Sorry Yeah, I'm not gonna rely on that one anymore so I decided to try another brand of mixer that Dan and I've used for a long time and They've got a very good proven track record as a company I figured I'd give a try to the Allen and Heath Zed I 10 right a cute name Zed I 10 But it's it's it's a very reasonably priced actually about half the price of the personas a r8 really Mixer it's a USB mixer. So it eliminates the need for the posterior scarlet and all that stuff and It's nice. It's clean the preamps work. It's Simple it sounds great, and it does what a voice actor needs it to do now. It's British and Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's made in China, of course I mean all of these these affordable pieces of gear are made in China But it's like a jaguar and ask if you do want a desktop mixer made in the UK SSL makes one. It's about yay big And it's about two grand and yes You may get an English made mixer for your desktop and it's beautiful little piece of gear But for the rest of you, that's probably crazy. Anyway, why do you even need a mixer and a stand a voice over studio? Really normally you don't know unless you're mixing more than one source Yeah If you've got an outboard piece of gear in both of these clients cases they happen to have believe it or not They still have a Zephyr So actually one of them has a Zephyr the other one has a traditional phone hybrid box A phone patch So don't use those, you know when they have something that works. It's hard to Migrate away, but anyway that gives them a way to send the audio out and then bring it back in the other thing I'm always trying to figure out how to do is I want to leave the speakers turned on for playback But I don't want the microphone to come out of the speakers And with both of these mixers all I basically do as a workaround is use an aux send right for the speakers Same idea we use here in the studio as well, and that creates a special mix just for the speakers Which works most of the time except now because why V mix I'm gonna start calling V mix wire cast By the way because now we're having problems and we don't know why so guess what But we've been having issues with that playback issue lady, but anyway, it's been it's so far so good I've got my fingers crossed if you see me here again in a year complaining about the ZI 10 I'll tell you about the next mixer to replace it with but I hope that's not the case I'm a little life-slash tech hack now you know you're you're You like having your tech in the car because you're constantly I'm in the car a lot and I'm in the phone I'm in the car a lot, you know, and you know hands-free is okay, but Yeah, I mean maybe if you've got a really good luxury vehicles They've probably figured out a way to get that hands-free Bluetooth mic to sound really good and Eliminate all the background noise. No, they got someone with a with a pole, and they're One of those really expensive guys are Turnin a little bit.  I gave up on it and I got a little Bluetooth headset. This one's called M-POW 20 bucks on Amazon Okay, so these have been around forever sometimes they call them trucker headsets Because the truckers use them because their trucks are so dang loud right um, but the thing I really like about this is and I haven't tried this on Apple, but on my Google phone this button summons the assistant So when it's on my head if I punched if I just tap this button It brings up the assistant and I can tell it what I need to do call mom text girlfriend Send send do a reminders I do a ton of reminders in the car Remind me when I get to the studio remember when I get home to X, you know I do a lot of those this does that all really really really well and the battery lasts forever I mean, I bought this thing charged it had it for maybe a month or so. I haven't charged it yet That's how long the battery lasts on this thing. It's amazing So if you're looking for a way to drive more safely get a little more done while you're driving and not be Dorking around on your phone, which is so easy to do You know, I can ask Spotify to play music. I'm not using Spotify to listen to podcasts There's a few that are not on there So the transition is not that great, you know, I still missing a few things But to be able to just ask Spotify to play a show is kind of handy So it's working out pretty well good to know so 20 bucks about 20 bucks for an MPAL There's probably others but this one I know for a fact works with the assistant feature Summoning the assistant by pressing the button. I think that's it's been really helpful. Oh, very cool What what some are you using in your car to communicate? Are you do you have the steering wheel button that you can press and it will do the same thing? It's got a steering wheel button. It's like very easy. Yeah, it's all by feel. It's almost like Braille Chris I can not see somebody having a braille car It's kind of a weird if they ever mandate Braille controls for the driver of a car. I don't know. We've really lost it It's absolutely. No, I mean, I've got my iPhone. I've got it You know, there's I've got a heavy magnet on it. Yeah, that you know makes it easy to remove, right? I played the music through Bluetooth like listening to radio paradise Yeah, it's like I cash that stuff and it's like I got music for as long as I want it Yeah, and and then the phone. It's a good Bluetooth phone except when I'm talking to my mom Right, like who can't hear very well anyway. Let's try it It is amazing that the technology is really hasn't completely caught up yet Where we can get a really good sounding Bluetooth in a car, right? It's not in my experience. Yeah, unless you're talking to somebody else who is also on a good If I'm talking to somebody who has a good audio setup on the other end. Yeah, and then it's then it's wonderful Yeah, I really like that. So, you know, I just use my iPhone in the car Cool, and then and it knows my phone numbers There's a voice assistant on the steering wheel like is there a button for the voice and then it triggers it on your car mom Does it try to hear? Yeah. Yes, it does. Oh, cool. Yeah, mine doesn't do that.  Yeah, then you're like home or work. Absolutely. Well, my mom doesn't have a job. So take home. 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Yeah, exactly and and it's important to understand what it takes to have a good home studio You got to learn from the people that know that Most importantly what it's supposed to sound like whistle finally remembered There's a certain sound that is inherent in a voice over studio that we're looking for it's not your job to be an engineer It's not your job to be doing all sorts of stuff to your audio Which will lead into what we're talking to talking about in a few minutes about mistakes that people make because you and I get questions all the time Sometimes it's serviceable. Sometimes it's people looking for free advice in which case we say go to our website We like we give out free advice every week here on this show on the show and on our in the forums and in our boats and a ton of forums Yeah, we like answering questions because that's what gets us going. 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It is kind of neat Like I do I went into one in old Hollywood this week. Oh cold apartment pre-deco Yeah, yeah, what stars lived in this place. Yeah, lots of mahogany Yeah, and lots of plaster lots of lots of echo. It's like okay. There's how we're gonna deal with this. Yeah, yeah fun stuff Anyway, we want to talk about mic mistakes. Let's do it. So let's let's start off with our good friend here the Studio condenser mic here is an old audio Technica 3035 but not a production but it was one of my first microphones when I got back at it's out of production But it's kind of been resurrected as the 2035 right, so that's the only mic that is on now, right? Yeah, so one of the problems I find someone will call or they'll I'll get I guess that's the only mic that's on right now Someone will call so you're not on you want me to turn that one on no, no, no, this is fine Okay, okay, someone will call and say or they'll send some audio and it sounds muffled uh-huh Nine times out of ten the reason is because they're talking into the wrong Mike oh Man, I know that sounds so here's the key to this kids Talk into talk into the logo It's amazing. It's amazing how many times people do that, you know, it's like I didn't know you what what side you I mean listen to the difference between talking into the front of the mic as opposed to the other side Even though it looks even though it looks just as good as the other side. It's not it's a one-sided mic It's what we call a side address mic right, you know Unidirectional side address mic right the other thing is the way a lot of people mount it and we talk about this all the time And you know you can see maybe you can see the way our mics are mounted in here You know, we don't use lav mics in here on our TV set. We use voice over We want you to know what it's supposed to sound like have mics are not up to par That's right. Your mic should be first off ups hung upside down for a lot of good reasons number one, it's it's going to get your copy Unobstructed because you gotta be able to read your copy and also By having the the mic at eye level. It's at the same plane as your ears and By having it that way. It's hearing you the way people are supposed to hear you Too many people try too much proximity effect To make their voices deeper, which is not really necessary The idea is not to make you sound amazing if you're a good voice actor you already sound amazing What you really want to be able to do is sound like you so why not have it? Mounted properly at the right distance of somebody else's ear so it's picking you up properly like that also the other advantage to this is You can go Peter Piper pick to pack a pickle peppers all day long and there will be no plosives We see all these pictures of people Using pop screens, you know even Harlan our good sponsor Harlan Hogan has pop screens And if you are a singer or you're something that's really working the mic There's spit screens. They really aren't for preventing plosives the way you prevent text them like there's more than anything else That's right, you know or if you don't have enough room in your booth also You can also have it like that as long as you're talking to the logo But that's like that the hugest mistake that people make okay You can turn these mics back and then we're gonna go to another mean remember that the capsule inside this microphone is around disc right and It's facing that direction now if you can turn the capsule you can turn the microphone 360 degrees Around like this and you're listening to me trying to do this without making a lot of noise That's okay And the tone of my voice really does not change in any appreciable way because the capsule is still pointing directly at my mouth So whatever way works in your particular system it can be sideways Absolutely, and I've had to do that in places also people forget that that pickup pattern is not in a flat plane It's in a hemisphere right so if you're talking, you know if you're you're talking to the mic here It's you're still in the pickup zone It's when you start going off to the side and you might you might start that's another cool thing to demonstrate I mean these mics change their tone as you turn them. That's right as you can hear from the back It's terrible because now you're talking to the dead zone of the mic So only here's low-end when you're right in front. It's very bright when you're about 50 50 It's sort of muddled. It's loses the top end But if you're overly sibilant there's a spot somewhere in the middle where the top end is an overly sibilant And so that's a way you can adjust the tone of a mic. That's too bright If you might that's too bright for your voice just twist a little bit move a little off axis Which which sort of means that it's really not the mic. It's how you use it All right, what's next the next one is We won't figure out what that is. Okay. This guy That's a thing. That's an old mic. That was an audio technique that I can handle that you could use it to hammer nails This is An electric voice re 20 yes, it is now we were talking with David H. Lawrence a little earlier about stuff that people brought home from the Radio studio right or as her one like to say what they stole from the last radio studio they worked at an re 20 is a lot of people in voiceover who like using an re 20 The question I have for them is what work are they not booking because they're using an re 20 The question the thing about an re 20 is it's I it's a dynamic Broadcast microphone, okay, so right so so I had to gain at 34 right right. Let's turn on the re 20 right This is the re 20 it has far less pickup That's about as far away and now people use it because the perhaps they have a noisy room or something along those lines Okay Okay, now that you can hear me again All right, and so if I keep talking so that and now what now we're at about the right level with this thing, right? When you're on the game, right when you're on the yeah, so you have to add a lot of gain Which means you need a pre amp ridiculous amounts of game. Yeah, so The only way that it really works, you know with a regular interface is if you talk right into it Like if you're on the radio But here's the thing if you're doing voiceover you're not on the radio You're just in your studio what makes it sound like you're on the radio is a whole nother technology that we don't even want to talk about so if If you're talking this close, it's doing a couple of things one It's adding proximity effect all of the re 20 is good at controlling proximity for the most part because it was designed as a Bass drum microphone originally We just use it for broadcasting and it's made for live broadcasting but It's an a wholly unnatural sound We don't talk to people an inch from their eardrum and even though this thing is designed for high SPL and And then how people use it it's still wholly unnatural And I think all the reasons a lot we get a lot of Requests and specs for no announcers is because we got a lot of people using mics like this I Okay, I'm so off I'm off Mike Let me turn the eq off because I've had a little eq on there if you've to make that mic sound a certain way right So now speaking of the mic now as one here now, it's flat. This is totally without eq, right? So how does it sound like like now? Oh, I got them. Oh, okay. Okay. No, that's the right one, right? I Playing microphone roulette I had a lot of bass boosts for because those mics are so far away right so that's flat now That's more about the what the mic sounds right, you know And there are adjustments on this for there's a bass roll off on this and stuff like that But this is not how you're supposed to do voice over as you're gonna get lots of plosives You're going to sound like you're talking into somebody's ear to a certain extent But you need a lot of gain To make it work if you want to work this mic in proper voiceover placement Like say here or here or something like that You're gonna need gobs of gain probably a lot more than your audio interface that your scarlet 2i 2 is gonna have right now I'm at plus 45 a lot of your USB interfaces don't go much more than that now. I'm up to Plus 55. I'm almost topped out on our preamp. Let's go full wide open. That's plus 60 This is the most gain I can give this microphone and now it sounds about right, right? You know at a at a at a voiceover proximity where it sounds somewhat natural that sounds pretty good But by the time you've done that you've negated all the advantages You've had to crank the gain way up getting his the mic becomes more sensitive it picks up more background noise So it just doesn't end up being in most people's advantages I'll turn my other mic back on to have a mic like that right great for podcasting You know where people can be like that because it's not voiceover. It's podcasting. You're it's like being on the radio. Yeah, anyway, so mistakes with microphones Okay, you can turn that mic on I did okay. Good job. So we have a couple of questions. We do From this one is from Jane here. Erolah Erolah. I can read that cool I currently have a scarlet studios CM 25 mic and a focus rights guard that's so low preamp and low-end headphone. Uh-huh I think to be Quality competitive I need to upgrade could you suggest equipment that would help me be competitive in starting my voiceover career? Boy, how often do we hear this one? well The scarlet it's fine your face is fine fine the mic is the mic is bull. Yeah I don't know where they got this mic They must bought they must have bought it's a package thousand dollars of these 10,000 of these mics for $5 each because they are in the they're pretty noisy. They don't they're noisy. Yeah, I Hear the newer ones are a little better. I would imagine that we're complaining. They're gonna upgrade them eventually Right now man. Yeah, if you're gonna upgrade something like an audio technica 2020 even yeah, even the regular 2020 of the 20s the 20 35 for $50 more is a better capsule, right? It has a high-pass filter switch, which is pretty helpful. Yeah for getting less rumble in your recording, right? So, you know, those are 100 to $150 options, right? If you want to go up another at you know order of magnitude and costs and quality You know Harlan's V01 a I mean we're too great. We're biased. We're talking into it right now, but it sounds fantastic great microphone You know, but really almost any hundred dollar plus microphone. That's made by Audio Technica Mxl AKG Series reception stuff is gonna probably sound better than the CM 25 So that would be money well spent probably and then making sure that which you did not mention Your room is dialed in right acoustically All you're mentioning is your gear you didn't mention anything about where you're recording What's the space like what you've done to make the room sound better? That all definitely needs to be sorted as well So we need to hear that so we can understand what's going on in your room. Yeah, all right one last question from Brad Stevenson all right says I currently use audio mute sound absorption sheets in my recording space Actually, the brand is audio mute audio mute audio mute. Yeah flat against the walls how far away from the walls should I have What I have to space the sheets in order to take advantage of any additional sound absorption by utilizing the air pocket Thanks pocket. Well, you've written you've written a lot of stuff on on acoustics and you know I had studio suit which is similar to audio mute It's like draping it right it doesn't it you don't want to like write up on the wall But it can be I mean if it's flat up against the wall, you're getting the least of overall effectiveness Right, it's gonna help right, but yeah as there's a gap you get more Better you get more and better control over lower frequencies now. I honestly man. I don't know what that measurement is I'd have to Get information from auto mute about the properties of the blanket What's the NRC the noise reduction coefficient blah blah blah so frankly? I don't know exactly but any gap that you can if you have room to have a gap Then it's a good thing like give yourself some space So now the sound will pass through the blanket go through that blanket barrier travel on reflect off the wall Come back be further attenuated by over that distance right then go back through the blanket so it gets a second dosing of Absorption and if it does that yeah, so you will definitely get better performance from it I I'm gonna give you just a number and say six inches You know it's gonna help I can do it in four inches There you go four inches and better yet experiment. Yeah, I have a friend hold the blanket up Okay, I'm about six inches do a recording I mean, that's the only way you really know about the times you have to experiment because every room is different Yeah, and every voice is different Plus the louder you talk the more the acoustics of the room come into play. That's true Having something overhead is not to be overrated I mean if you make a four-sided booth around you and you leave the ceiling open That can sometimes be that last point of reflection where you're getting some Fazy weird sounding stuff. So don't completely ignore the ceiling and sometimes when you treat the ceiling Then you don't have to do as much stuff around you so you can make your room feel a little bit more open So that can be another way to work it. That's what we're doing here by the way, right? We don't have we have a big absorber behind us. It's behind the green screen And then the walls on that side that side and Okay, the wall behind the camera and the wall on that side is pretty much Untreated there's a little bit of blanket there and random stuff over there But it's pretty but the majority of the treatment is on the ceiling in this room Right, and that's what allows us to be this far away from the mic Have a pretty nice open natural sound and when we talk loud it it's still pretty controlled. It is. Yeah This is a pretty big room. 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The NBC University of the Air, a public service of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations, presents We Came This Way, a new historical series for listeners at home and overseas. With Clifton Utley as narrator, we present Chapter 10, Emile Zola. The pen is mightier than the sword on We Came This Way. The day is Sunday, October 7th, 1902. August the autumn wind blows across Paris, the kind of a day you loved. But never again will you feel your pulse quicken to the seasons.  Listening to Anatole Frantz tell them how great you were. Look at him. Look at him, but do not pity him because he endured and suffered. End him instead. The Prince of Monaco is there listening. The artist Renoir. The tired man with the neat moustache. That's Alfred Dreyfus. Next to him a working man in blouse and cap. Weeping old friend Cézanne. And Anatole Frantz making your funeral oration. His genius and humanity, one for him the grandest of destinies. For one splendid moment, Emile Zola was the conscience of mankind. The conscience of mankind. You were entombed forever in those marble words. Posterity will remember the words. But the man, will they remember Zola the man? Not marble, but flesh and blood. Remember those days of your youth on the left bank, struggling, starving, dreaming? Louis Napoleon was on the throne of France. The rich were so rich, the poor so poor. You were living in a garret. Cézanne, your dearest friend lived with you. You were going to be the greatest poet in the world, he the greatest painter. Someday, Emile, I shall paint a carrot as a carrot is. An art will be born again. Carrots. I like your women better, Paul.  That's good, color of mourning. I should make a note of it and put it in a poem. Poetry isn't written out of notebooks, Emile.  I'd say that. But it's true. Forget poetry. Right about the world as you see it. Harsh, cruel, ugly. Then write it that way. No one will buy it. The world wants poetry. Have they bought your poetry? Well, no. Have they bought your pictures? They will. And meanwhile, you're content to starve, to be unknown, despised.  I want fame. I want it now. I want money to stuff myself on bouillabaisse and pheasant, caviar, duckling.  I'm hungry, Paul. You were always hungry those first years. You lived on bread dipped in olive oil. When the oil and bread gave out, you trapped the friendly sparrows on the windowsill and roasted them on the curtain rod, massacre of the innocents. Cézanne returned to X. You were alone, rejected, destitute. Then you met Alexandrine, and you were not alone anymore. She came to share your garret and your poverty. Emile, we ate the last of the bread this morning. I'm afraid there's nothing left for supper. I meant to pawn my coat. Where is it? You haven't got it on. There was a girl. She stopped me on the street. She was shivering. She couldn't have been more than 20, but she was an old woman.  You gave her the coat. Of course. What else? But it's no good. Peacemeal charity. The causes. The causes should be laid bare. Emile, what are we going to eat for supper? Eat? By night trousers, I suppose. Won't be the first time. Here, I'll take them off. You can pawn them. I'll buy bread and cheese. And a candle. Get me a candle. I want her right tonight. That girl, I can't forget her. You're going to write a poem about her? No, not a poem, Alexandrine. To heal you must use a knife, not poetry. Cézanne was right. Words that cut like knives. Poverty and suffering. Yours and Alexandrine's. The girls in the street. The workers on the docks. The children. The children begging rotten fish in the markets. All around you, poverty and suffering. Poverty and suffering against the background of the gayest court in Europe. The court of the Emperor Napoleon III. It was driving poetry out of your head. You took a job in a publishing house as a clerk. You worked ten hours a day and at night you wrote a thousand words a night. Two hundred times a thousand. That makes a book. We have read your book, Monsieur Soler. We are not interested. The theme is distasteful. The theme is poverty. If you find it distasteful or read about, what do you think it's like to live it? The book, I'm afraid, it would be dangerous to publish it, Monsieur. Dangerous not to, you mean. The reality is only strong that throws a light of day upon the truth. I'm not all afraid of your book. Then one day... Alexandrine! Alexandrine! My book, Hetzelin Require. They like it. They're going to publish it. They want to see me at once about turn. Amen, my darling. Take the trousers. Go at once. Get us a bottle of wine. We must celebrate. Wait, I've got to see Hetzelin Require. Can't see my publishers, my underwear. You had some naive hope of fame. But when the book came out, only the public censor took any notice of it. He called at the publishing house where you worked. Monsieur Soler, you are a very young man.  I have lived in the world a long time. And you haven't discovered yet there is something wrong with it? You say my book is dirty. I did not invent the theme. Society saved me the trouble. Now, Monsieur, I may bid you good day. I must get back to my work. Monsieur Soler. Yes, Monsieur? I overheard what the public prosecutor had to say to you. How much does this firm owe you? Why, I don't understand. Don't try to say it simply then. There is no place here for a young man of your radical tendencies. You're fired. Well, Amy, I'm glad. Glad you lost the job. Glad? Makes you say that. Means you'll be hungry again, Alexandre. It means you can write, write all the time. You believe in me, don't you? More than you believe in yourself. You see yourself as you are. I see you as one day you'll be a giant among men. Believe in my Soler, Amy. Yes. You knew now what you must do. It must be something big. You had to swallow the whole of society. I suggest it. You went about with a notebook poking into cafes, brothels, factories, churches, mines, peasant cottages. Monsieur, how dare you? Go away or I shall call the police. But ma'am, I only asked you to tell me how it feels to experience childbirth. Even your friends laughed at you. It says Donald's planning to hang himself run down by a hex so he'll know how it feels to be trampled by a horse. They laughed, but the notes became a book. Two books. A gigantic series, Rougan-Marcar. Life under the Empire. The heights and depth. All its rottenness, injustice, corruption. Rougan-Marcar showing society, not man is bad. Man was good. Always you believed that. You were 37 years old. Had written eight novels. Few of them had sold. You were as poor as ever. But here is the question, what Chester's been doing with him? He's been taking down their jobs.  You never thought he'd do that, but she did. I thought you accepted the challenge. You wanted to be rich. You were a hero. You wanted to be an actor. You wanted to be rich. You were a hero. You wanted to be rich. You wanted to be rich. First of this man, Nana, has sold out Mrs. Ola. They're resting for a second. Have a take here for your royalties. ["Pinche Me, Alexandrine"] 20,000 francs. 20,000 francs. Pinch me, Alexandrine. Pinch me. And kiss that float bear, Alexandrine. Kiss that float bear. The greatest of them all. He wants to come to see me. To come to me. Not me to him. You were a meteor shooting across a literary scene after Nana Geminault. Geminault, a cry for pity and justice for the working men of France. It made you their idol, the prophet of democracy, they called you. In the debacle, the prophet thundered. Everything you wrote made enemies for you, but they listened to you nonetheless. You were a public figure. Your success a tidal wave. There was a villa at my dawn now, a townhouse. All your old hungers could be satisfied. Could I take your order now, Monsieur? Yes. Yes, I think I'll begin with the bouillabaisse. And the shellfish. After that, the poulet with truffles on Antoine, and other jokes, and champagne, of course. Remember, in your novel, The Belly of Paris, you were divided the world into the fat and the lean. Now, you belong to the fat. The years passed. You were so long ago. Alexandrine, I'm fat. Fat and middle-aged. No, not middle-aged. I'm getting old. And there's an emptiness in me, hunger. Novels, novels, novels, nothing but novels. I'm weary of them. My last book critics say I'm getting soft. Is it true, Alexandrine? Is it true what they say? The bear has lost his claws. Is the battle over? Was the battle over? Even as you asked the question of Alexandrine in your study, the question was being decided for you. Decided in the courtyard of the accoled militia. By unanimous vote of the court marshal, you, Alfred Grayford, captain of the 14th Regiment of Artillery, have been found guilty of the crime of grief. Lucy, my darling wife. They have at last given me permission to write to you. They are sending me away, where I know not for forever. Forever the long time, Lucy. I am very weary. Over and over for two months, I've said it. I'm innocent. I'm innocent.  My record is spotless. The only thing of which I am guilty is of being a Jew. Of being a Jew? Yes.  The case was closed. But anti-Semitism in France remained an open running sore. Around the time-worn slogan, down with the Jews, all the forces of reaction gathered. Royalists, disgruntled conservatives, unscrupulous members of the clergy. There was madness in their hate. But beneath the madness lay a plan, inflame the people with hatred of the Jews. Then behind this smokescreen, work through the army to seize power and destroy the republic.   But it will blow over in a few years. People will say, who was Dreyfus? Amy, suppose, suppose he were innocent. Impossible. The army, for all its rottenness, couldn't perpetrate a thing like that. Such things don't happen, not in 19th century France. You retired to your villa at Médon to work on a ballet. Three years went by. Three years, and Alfred Dreyfus shackled to his sickbed on Devil's Island. He returned to Paris in the autumn of 1897. The Dreyfus case had been reopened. Colonel Picard of the Secret Service had unearthed evidence that pointed to one major esterhase as the man who had delivered the secret papers to Prussia. Esterhase was court-martialed, acquitted. The Dreyfus case was closed again. One day a woman with sunken, burning eyes, once she must have been pretty, was shown into your study. It was good of you to see me, Monsieur Zola. Madame, I'm afraid it's useless you're coming. If there's a man alive who can help my husband, you can. All France knows your name, and their mind, Zola, stands for justice. Phew. But, Madame, you see, while I hate from the bottom of my heart the religious prejudice and hate the cases aroused, I, well, frankly, I have never been convinced of your husband's innocence. He's dying, Monsieur Zola. On his deathbed, he declares his innocence. No proof of innocence was offered at his trial? Oh, the trial was a mockery, Monsieur. I have proof here, here in this portfolio. If you would only read it... But I am very busy, Madame. You see, I've just begun a novel. A novel? Yes. My husband is dying, Monsieur. Dying out there alone, an innocent man. We have children.  But no, this doesn't interest you. This human drama. You must write a novel. Oh, forgive me, Monsieur Zola. I had no right. I don't know what I'm saying. But Alfred is dying. Forgive me, I'll go now. No, Madame, it is I who must be forgiven. Leave the portfolio. Monsieur, you are good, you are good. I can promise nothing except to read the evidence. Well, you must read. For two days, I... Alessia, Andrin. Jorifus, he's innocent. Etrahasi is the man. Amy, you're sure? All the evidence is here. Alexandrin, what are we going to do? We end? It is our decision. Public opinion is a juggernaut, Alexandrin. To hurt yourself against it, they can ruin us. And we've struggled so long, so hard for what we have. I'm old, I'm tired. Twenty-five times, Alexandrin, I presented my name to the academy. Twenty-five times I've been refused. This year I have reason to believe I'll be accepted. A man wants immortality. But use that dress which is innocent, Amy. I'd stake my life on it. Then there is no choice. All that night, and the next night, a lamp burned in the study in the root of the cell. The only light in the darkness of the sleeping street. Alexandrin came and went with coffee. You'd rank it without knowing, without looking up from your writing. To the president of the Republic of France. I must speak the truth, whatever the cost. To remain silent means to be haunted forever by the dreadful specter of an innocent man, suffering this very moment, the tortures of a dam, paying for a crime he never committed. Therefore, Mr. President, I accuse, I accuse Colonel-Departee Declan of having been the diabolical author of a judicial role. I accuse General Biot of having had conclusive proof of the innocence of Alfred Gratius, proof which he deliberately withheld. I accuse the First Court Marshal of having made a mockery of justice by condemning Alfred Gratius on testimony kept secret from him. I accuse the Second Court Marshal of having covered up the sins of the First, by acquitting the guilty man, Major Esther Housing, acquitting him with full knowledge of his guilt. Lastly, I accuse the War Office of having conducted a vile campaign in the press, in order to mislead public opinion and stir up religious strife. Now, let them dare to bring me into court. Let there be an inquiry into the duration case, an inquiry not in darkness and shadow, but in a strong and healing light of day. I wait. If truth has a sound, it was the sound of the presses of La Rore on that morning of January 13th, 1898. By noon, 300,000 copies of I accuse were on the streets of Paris. Mobs had begun to gather. They stormed the office of La Rore. They carried you in effigy through the streets and hurled you into the scene. By night, they had gathered outside your window. Now, they are burning, I accuse fools. Let them burn it. Do they think they can destroy it that way? Truth is, a phoenix will rise up again from its own ashes. Behind closed doors guarded by the police, you waited. Waited while hate ran through France like a forest fire spread to the continent. At Lyon, not Marseilles, there were riots. Jews were beaten, stoned. Their homes sacked and burned. In Algeria, they were killed. Their bodies thrown into the sea. On the seventh day of waiting, your summons came. A summons to the court of the sizes to defend the charges in your letter. As you walked into court, a cry went up. When you began your defense, your voice cracked for a moment. Gentlemen of the jury. Then suddenly your fear vanished. It was as though your whole life had been directed to this moment. Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard me called by all the names in the decalogue. Even my love of France has been called into question. Gentlemen, I say to you, there are many ways a man may serve his country. He may do so with a sword and he may do so with the pen. If the sword has won victories for France, so shall my pen. The victory of truth over bigotry, of justice over tyranny. Dreyfus is innocent, I swear it. By my 40 years of labor, by the authority that labor has given me, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. May all my labor crumble. My words perish. If Dreyfus is not innocent, he is innocent. Everything seems to be against me now. The two chambers, the civil authorities, military, most of the newspapers, and the public opinion they have poisoned. On my side, I have only the ideal of the truth. Justice. You may convict me here, but I say to you, truth will prevail. And one day, France will thank me for having saved her honor. The jury was out last in an hour. Gentlemen of the jury, what is your verdict? Her honor, we find a defendant, Emile Zola, guilty. They found you guilty. Guilty of speaking the truth. They sentenced you to a year in jail and rendered judgments against you that brought you to the brink of financial ruin. All of your books were banned. Your household goods offered for sale. Your friends held counsel. If you accept the sentence, the Dreyfus case is closed forever. You must leave the country. Go to England and bombard the world with the truth from there. It was a year later. You were writing in your cottage at Penn in England the day the telegram came. Dreyfus recalled from David's Island for new trial, returned to France. Dreyfus was tried a second time. A second time found guilty. But truth was on the march. On the 19th of September, 1899, I, Emile Loupe, president of the Republic of France, do hereby extend to Alfred Dreyfus full pardon for the crime of treason. Truth had prevailed as always you believed it would. You could have rested now, but there was still so much to be done. It was at your desk they found you that morning. Slumped over a manuscript, your Penn still clutched in your hand. You had been writing when fumes from the coal stove overcame you. This was what you left behind. To work with Penn's speech, action, to work for progress, a peaceful revolution in mind and heart. Our democracy welded together, the evil strife. That is our enormous task. Our battle order. Let us carry it out so that tomorrow may be ours. 62 years of struggle and now you're dead. 10,000 people stand before your coffin, heads uncovered, listening to Anatol France tell them how great you were. His genius and his humanity, one for him the grandest of destiny. For one splendid moment Emile Zola was the conscience of mankind. Then suddenly, above the voice of Anatol France, another voice, a fanatics cry of hate. Even at your grave, this cry of hate. Perhaps it will always be there, somewhere in the world. You've done what you could do to shout it down. For you the battle's over. It's for others to take up the fight. For every man in his own way is a voice, a conscience. Out of the clamour of many voices for truth, for justice has come democracy. So must it be safeguarded by your voice and mine. We came this way. The NBC University of the Air has brought you Chapter 10 of the historical series, We Came This Way. Next week, We Came This Way will present The Revolt of a Prince. Would you like to know more of the life and times of Emile Zola portrayed in the program you just heard? Or other men like Hugo, Tolstoy and Whitman. A handbook containing the life stories of 13 great leaders in the struggle for independence has been prepared as an interesting supplement to the broadcast series. To obtain your copy, write for We Came This Way and enclose 25 cents to cover costs of printing and mailing. Address your request to Volume 2, Columbia University Press Station J, Box 30 New York, 27 by Frank and Virginia Wells and directed by Norman Felton. The original music was composed by Emile Soderstrom and conducted by Joseph Gallicchio. Clifton Utley was the narrator and the role of Emile Zola was played by Wilms Herbert. Others in the cast were Grace, Philip Lord, Geraldine Kay, Jim Gott, Jane Elliott and Charles Eggleston. This series is presented each week as a public service feature of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations. 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St. Jude Hospital operations have been housed in the George Audlum Stadium for more than 13 years. The St. Jude Hospital Board of Directors, led by Chairperson Lucius Elevic, is confronted with a myriad of challenges. Hospital employees continue to endure substandard occupational conditions, and the structural integrity of the stadium itself continues to deteriorate. Committed to alleviating the issues affecting the St. Jude Hospital, Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Peer allocated more than $1.5 million in his maiden budget for remedial works on the George Audlum Stadium. That money has addressed some of the more urgent concerns at the hospital. We were indeed thankful in terms of the $1.5 million that was allocated to St. Jude to kind of address and to some extent remedy some of the infrastructural difficulties we were encountering at this location. So we think that went a long way in helping us, even in still confidence, in the persons coming here in terms of the debris that are likely to be flown off the roof.  It has that kind of psychological impact. And we think that even the personnel, the doctors and the nurses, also had some complaints, meaningful issues in terms of their accommodation. And we were able to do some work in the lunch rooms, we were able to do some work in the sleeping quarters. So we think all put together it would actually impact the quality of care that our service personnel would render to our patients when they visit here. Honourable pair, on October 18th, held an audience with members of the Board of Directors for the St. Jude Hospital. Board members and the Prime Minister engaged in fruitful dialogue and exchanged views on St. Jude Hospital operations. Honourable pair, who was also joined by the Minister for Health, apprised Board members of his administration's plans to transfer St. Jude Hospital operations out of the George-Odelham Stadium to more suitable facilities. In September, Honourable pair announced external work on the original construction site, which was abandoned in 2016, will resume in November. The Prime Minister's announcement was welcomed by St. Jude Hospital Board members. We are presently on borrowed time. We are living here by the graces of God, and I think God gave us a brain and we probably should use it actively. I say that to mean that, yes, we need to expedite the activities, the processes that would enable us to leave St. Jude and go over to OJ at our, let's go, our Premier site. We are very heartened to hear that work on the new facility, not the new facility, but let's call it our Premier site would commence in November. There's that kind of expectation. What I'm happy to know is that that project moved into what we call a project mode with some kind of a long time frame, with a start date and an end date. And I think that would inspire confidence in a number of people in the south. An independent technical committee appointed last August was tasked with assessing both phases of the St. Jude Hospital construction project. The committee's report concluded construction on phase one or the original construction site could have been completed as early as 2017. Guided by the recommendations from multiple technical audits on the St. Jude Hospital construction project, Prime Minister Pierre has honored his commitment to St. Lucia and has actioned the most prudent, safest and immediate option to deliver the St. Jude Hospital to the people of St. Lucia from the office of the Prime Minister, Rihanny Isidou.


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All right. Good afternoon, cyber trader is welcome on back here this Wednesday, December 28. Great to see Mark still with us here as well as a bunch of us right now. Great to see Norman as well. And just all of us rejoining us otherwise inside the live trading room. Great to see all of us back on social media, Facebook, Live or YouTube folks. We got to move quick. We got the phase two stock course continuing at three o'clock Eastern time, 305 to be exact. So we'll look to post the link for that class coming up just in a moment. We actually recently did it two o'clock, but we'll repost that in just a bit here. So great to see Ron still with us here and a few more. So with that said, let's hop right to it folks. Actually, hey, for Norman or Mark or any one of us that were a part of the phase two stock course earlier this morning, maybe a little pop quiz. Why do I have this lineup here on TGTX? It's a yellow line at 1050. So if you can recall back from our morning class, I had a couple of yellow lines on my charts, I was kind of explaining to you what those meant. If you're following us inside the live trading room just a moment ago, you could actually see Rich's call out and well, Norman writes in the chat board, a halt print. Yeah, I mean, it's a big print from time and sales and in this case to be very exact like Norman wrote, well, the stock got halted earlier today. I think it was off of news pending TGTX got halted at 1251 Eastern reopened up. I mean, just before we started our meeting here at 221. So let me actually bring up Benzinga Pro. We got to move quick, but we got a little time. Then check the updated news as to why TGTX got halted and reopened up. So TG Therapeutics announces FDA approval of their drug. I'm not sure as to what it treats. So I'm not going to dip through all the riffraff, but company to host conference call on Thursday at 830 Eastern time. So 830 a.m. Eastern that is so that'll be on Thursday. So coming up tomorrow be pretty interesting to see what's ahead, at least on that conference call for TG Therapeutics. But yeah, I mean, just given what happened recently, right, let me bring up book map. Let me bring up level four. Just a moment ago here we had a 276,000 share print. Ended up seeing that right off of 1050. Just a moment ago after it broke under it, it ended up acting as resistance, still acting as resistance to a great degree. So if you're looking for continuation on this trade, that is the level to look for it from. So we'll see if this could re-break one more time over 1050 before the close. It might just be a short from this point, though, if it could hold resistance at 1050. If it fails to break higher, then the stock actually is shortable in trade station. I think it's easy to borrow on thinkorswim. Mark, if you can confirm that for me, I know he was saying, wow, this would have been a great short, perhaps coming to this trade a bit late. But there could still be some more room on the stock if it could hold this 1050 as resistance. So Mark says it's easy to borrow on thinkorswim. There we go, even better. So you can trade it both ways. We'll at least start by putting this on our watch list here. Otherwise, though, let's just go across the board suit also we got here. Again, just because it popped and it's up big off of news doesn't mean it's going to continue.  Now we're going to cover the Kala trade at least in our Phase II course later on at 3 o'clock Eastern 305. Really just going over the morning move for this stock. Not as much the noon time pop. I'll cover that right now with you folks. But at least simple to say right now, this stock took off after the market opened up this morning, ran up as high as 950 close to 10.  I mean, really, this stock was making lower highs. It was kind of just going sideways for a little while. So it's easy to take your eyes off of this trade. It really is. I mean, we did borrow on it from the morning. You can't keep expecting a stock to push up perfectly. Not every stock is going to be COSM, COSM from, you know, the other week went up to God knows how much 25 bucks. But man, once the roof got broken on this trade, holy smokes, this thing ended up launching way over 10, got halted three, four times over. And even when it got halted on the way down here, it ended up actually retracing back up, trying to break out one more time, failed to do so from there. And now at this point, this thing is just dead. So, you know, am I likely to put this on our watch list for the afternoon right now? No. But I want to give a couple of big shout outs right now, if I may, actually one in particular stands out. She posted earlier in the trading room. I just want to give her a big, big congratulations as I did earlier through chat. But Barbara, Barbara, oh, Barbara, oh, got $6.60 per share on this trade. That's all I'll mention. And with that, what I'll mention is like, hey, this could be, it is, it's life changing money actually on this type of trade. So, you know, this is what we honestly train everyone here for. You're not going to catch this type of move every singular day of the week. But if you know what to look for, if you know the levels and the preparation behind it, and once you see a stock break through a big level, if you're expecting a big move, and if it works out, then, you know, that's exactly what we train you for. So, Barbara killed it on this stock here today.  I saw Robert get in and out for about 50 cents himself earlier. Phil got 47 cents. Charles R got about 51 cents. Chuck got like a dollar and 50 cents, I think, on his trade. Alex got a dollar. He was in from 6.60. You know, John got a dollar. I mean, it looks like a lot of us did really well on this trade. So, congratulations to any one of us. But, you know, with that in mind here, you don't want to fall in love with the stock too much. Hey, look at the stock right now. It could pop up a little bit more.  It's a gamble right now, folks. It's a gamble. I mean, more now than it was from the morning. It was pretty high risk from the morning, and it ended up working out, worked out even better heading into the, you know, noon time session. It's a huge risk right now. Maybe by the end of this meeting, perhaps. Actually, I'm not going to go a step further. I'm actually going to rewind a little bit, folks. Right back to TGTX. Wow. This thing is dropping right back down.  It was pulling back to 10 when we were talking about potentially shorting the stock and continuing the gap fill. Oh, my goodness. Look at this trade. What a gap fill this is. Incredible. The next support off of nine, but if it breaks below nine, you could even say like 850, 851 basically where it got halted to begin with. A nasty shake, but a really good gap fill as a short. I got to ask right now, is anyone in this trade as a short right now? Mark, perhaps, or Michael. Any of our students here that look to follow some good shorts. Allison, you are very nice. Love to hear that. Allison, another trade says Mark. Hopefully, another trade that made you some money, not as much as what this could have, right? We got plenty of ball left to play, right? Actually, that's if you're not joining me in class, right? If you're joining me in class, then we're not going to be trading live as much. We're going to be going back on the morning, at least that was, but I can just watch this thing right now with the rest of this meeting. This might get halted on the way down, actually. Look at this. This might be getting halted on the way down soon. One more big drop like this, and it definitely will. I thought it was about to here at 884. Mark saying in response, it showed him some love. How about that? Not L-O-V-E. Well, L-O-V-E, definitely, but L-U-V, he wrote. So, L-U-V Southwest Airlines. We'll jump to that next, then we'll continue our top to bottom, right? But L-U-V, we were talking about this from yesterday. It was a really good short, at least heading into the afternoon yesterday. Mark referencing this trade, at least he missed out on TGTX, but he called us out earlier off the 33 level, if I'm not mistaken, or at least as it was breaking towards the lows. It looks like he did pretty well on this trade too, and then this is right back to the lows of the day right now. If your heart's not put this on our list as well here, it's down 4%. Stock's down more percentage-wise, but it's coming off of news. It's at the lows. It's a nice trade for right now, this L-U-V. All right. Jeez, what is TGTX going to zero right now? Oh my goodness, look at this. Still down. It's like at the 878 right now. There's a big iceberg on the bid. It's about to get in test right now. Check this out. About a 46,000 share order, if not more, getting filled right off of 875, right here from Bookmap. Don't expect the bounce all the way.  Don't get me wrong. Wouldn't shock me if they bring the thunder back down on this trade soon, and it smashes back below 875. It would not shock me if we get that coming up in the next few minutes, but I don't want to waste too much time now. To start off this meeting, we got to move quick. Really, let's just go right from top to bottom otherwise. Let's see what else we can get. All right. Lucy, and we ended up doing, I don't even want to say good, because it was kind of a dud after the market opened up. We really didn't focus on this after 930 as much. We were expecting a pullback, but it didn't pull back low enough down to 109. Even when it broke above little resistance here, it offered us nothing. Honestly, this Lucy trade was a pretty decent in pre-market. I know myself, Norman, a couple of us jumped in on it early. I'll go over that trade with you, folks, coming up to begin the Phase 2 class. That's actually the first trade that started my morning off. It was after 830 in the morning, but otherwise, this didn't really offer us much after. J-N-C-E, not much either on this. We'll skip over this and just see what else we got. You knew I had to pronounce it that way. It's like a bear growling, right? What's the name of this company? Actually, Gorilla. There we go. All right. It's not a bear. It's a Gorilla. Gorilla Technology Group. This stock, either way, isn't looking too good right now. Let me keep it moving. This stock is PDSB, not only just on the intraday, but looking at this stock back from... I got to jump back here on my chart. Maybe I'm thinking of a different ticker, but we ended up doing well on this. Oh, no, no, no. We did all right. This was back from last year, pumped all the way up towards 14. I forgot that this ended up breaking higher afterwards, though. We ended up doing really well on this stock back from midway of last year. Initially, it was breaking over 6, but we didn't really call it out at that point. We called it out the following day as it blasted over 7, and then just, geez, just a massive run up towards 14, broke even higher after that. We know this stock has some legs. The order book is a little thin, so I'm not too particular about that part, but the fact that it's at the highs, I don't mind it. Let's definitely respect this trend. Let's not go counter-trend on this suddenly. It's on a pretty tight trend, if I must say so myself. GLYC, not looking terrible. You got an order on the ask as resistance at 279, about 25,000 shares. It's at the highs. It broke above the highs from the last several days, if not weeks here. Mid-November broke these highs today. There could be more on this GLYC trade. I don't mind it. Definitely want to see some more volume start trading on it soon, more and more over time. MMAT at the high of the day here, skipped over PGY. Not much happening on this right now. A little pot from the morning. There's our TGTX coming right back down to 9. I think that comes back down to 875 sooner than later. That's a shoot from the hip prediction. We'll see what happens there. Hold the VWAP as resistance, perhaps. But gosh, GLSS, I forgot about this thing. We ended up doing well on this back last year at the meme stocks, like AMC and all of those. Ended up popping for us back then. Probably have to go to the weekly chart for that. Up here. With that though, it ended up dumping off, and that's what I forgot about. This thing had a huge gap down to begin this month. A little short covering. Moved up 14 plus percent. It's on a nice trend, so that's where I say you don't want to counter trend it. If anything, let's respect this trend up. I don't mind putting this on our list for right now. If it ends up dudding off though, and that also wouldn't shock me right from two. Let's really begin to see this show some more volume around the two level. It might not be right now. It might take later on in the day, around that 315, 330 Eastern time slot. We'll see what's out there. VKTX, same deal. Where's Chuck right now? VKTX looking pretty healthy once again today. This is easy to say in hindsight. It's been a pretty good swing trade, but nonetheless we've been calling it out primarily as a day trade. You don't know, and this is going to begin to pull back, revert back to seven. We weren't necessarily looking for it as a swing trade, but with that in mind, today this could really begin to squeeze up a lot higher. I don't have level four open for this right now, so I'd assume resistance to be off of nine next. After that, we'll kind of go step by step. We'll post the link just after we finish up the meeting. At least for right now, we got six stocks on our watch list, and the markets are flat right now. They dropped off earlier today. We'll probably find more on the loser side anyway. This is actually a really good start. KPTI, just kind of finishing up the gainer side here. That just about wraps it up. We got cold, natural gas, ETF, not much happening there for right now, pushed up from the morning. All right, let's hop over to the loser's list right now, folks, seeing if there's anything looking just as good if not better, and while I'll do that, let me just ask in advance for Mark and for Barbara and Allison and Grant, all of us otherwise inside the live trading room. Definitely let me know if there's anything up down left or right that you want me to check out just before we finish up. Class coming up today at 3.05 Eastern Time, folks. One more reminder on that for all of us here inside this chat board. I'm going to jump to Benzinga Pro right now, seeing if there's anything looking just as good right there. Cal is trying to go back up again, right?  I'd said perhaps this can make like a freak $0.50 move, and honestly, that's kind of undershooting it because of how much this stock ran today. Technically, it's possible to see a bit more, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that right now. All right, so I don't mind slipping this back on our list here in the meantime. HOTH, not much happening here. Got old friend Tops at the high of the day, not fully sold on that yet. Peggy, I wish this was trading more volume per minute. It's kind of been right now. If it could hold here, maybe there can get some more eyeballs on that trade. Allison brought up CV&A earlier, I think, right? One of us, I think Allison brought it up, and just a slow poke. I just saw a pop back up on Benzinga Pro right there, so it's back towards the highs. There could be some short covering on this trade, perhaps. I'll put this on the side list for right now. All right, back to TGTX, back under nine. Be careful. I think that we could see more on that downtrend there for right now. All right, folks, for all of us on social media, Facebook Live or YouTube. Got Tim right now saying, I need a better microphone. That will cause me extreme paranoia, Tim. Hopefully, all audio is good. I didn't really notice the audio is that bad right now. It should have been good across the board. It might be on your end, perhaps a quick reset, but otherwise, though, I'm not going to sleep at night now. So, I'm going to make sure my audio is good to go. Come tomorrow morning, Tim, or tomorrow afternoon. I appreciate you joining us, though, on YouTube. For all of us on YouTube or Facebook Live, though, otherwise, if you have any other questions or emails you'd like to send on over, please email myself here, josh at ctutrading.com. That's my email address. Always like to post that at the end of the streams. Otherwise, though, if you're interested in joining our live trading room, just go right down to the link in the green banner below the stream right there to get yourself started. But for Ronnie Grant, Leda, Mark, Allison, Barbara, Dan, and all of us just here live, I look forward to seeing most of us, at least in the Phase II stock course coming up. I believe that Rich will try and get on the mic coming up this afternoon, folks, so he's actually recovering from the flu.  Throat's like bad. So, you know, he's going to do his best, so be on the lookout for that. But otherwise, best of luck trading for all of us not joining us here in class heading into the market close. Talk to you soon.