I think a lot of investors out there who have taken a position over the last year and a half and highly on is probably in the same boat as me and I think it's constructive to continue to strike up discussion in a manner that offers as many perspectives as we can possibly render and bring to the table on What we are faced with here as an industry not with a company who's struggling in the stock price, okay? I Listen to the last earnings call and I think before we get into the analysis I would recommend that each and every one of you get a hold of the conference call and stick around for what I found to be one of many very telling elements of of the last conference call To close out Q2 2021 so that does close out the first half of 2021 here And and lends us entering into Q3 Q4 2021 to close out what has been a pretty pretty poor year for the stock Okay. Now when I put out my deliberation, I do so to aim for value usefulness to anyone out there who either owns the stock or is more interested in the space in general highly on as a participant in The electrification of class 8 chassis It's intriguing and you don't need to have me read Grigitate the specifics of the company, but here's the thing I think I'm probably not alone in that I listened to the conference call and I was actually very satisfied I was I was satisfied when I got through the about one hour offering from highly on Especially some of the specifics that we'll get into on this video Discuss my specific opinion on on some of the things that I was very encouraged by now over the coming days the stock price just took a nosedive and I really can't put my finger on why that is. I really can't I think it may be necessary to chalk that up as Par for the course for this company anybody who's invested in this company above $10 a share has not made any money at all Does that mean that they're not ever going to sell product to fleets? I Think that there's so many influences out there one of which I was able to come across here And the title of the article was highly on the product Has a problem and as you read through the article I do highly encourage you to go on I do invite differing opinions certainly and Don't don't mean to be part of a fanboy club on highly on I will disclose up front that I'm actually a highly on bull I'm actually a proud stock owner in the company and will continue to be there will be no element of Shake-out with regard to my shares because I know how much this will mean to me as a retail investor who's done his due diligence and as the months and the quarters go by you start to Forget and as as anybody would What it is that was declared on the onset even back into the SPAC merger process and Then entering into the public domain as a publicly traded company You start to second guess some of those things and say did I review that correctly? You know my bullish thesis was built around The due diligence that I picked up through the investor presentations, of course that have all been submitted to the SCC You can go to highly on comm and pick out the newest one. I've saved all of the investor presentations From years past or months past as this thing has rolled out over the last and going on a couple years here now in the highly on story But I have to go back and I have to review some of that information Just to refresh my bullish the thesis and really Validate for myself if things have changed I Want to bring you guys's attention to the very very first investor presentation that came out And this is really where I hope to strike some value because where There is a ton of different articles out there I think some are really split and neutral on highly on right now with regard to their Opportunity going forward, but you really need to look at this and simplify What it is that we're looking at for the future of trucking, okay? our fleets are going to be able to make the transition from a Diesel dominated industry to something that can be more strategically applied to their roots As appropriate and I'm very careful with my wording here and understanding that Highly on doesn't need to take over the trucking industry to succeed Okay, as we'll show in this original investor presentation and timeline These guys have done nothing, but remain steadfast in their timelines declared to shareholders and also the Additional elements that were not disclosed in some of these Preliminary filings with the SEC and made available to would-be investors publicly that that has occurred over the over the last few months anyway in Identifying some necessary upgrades to specifically the hybrid product and then just the elective improvements to the hyper truck ERX Project and really becoming the dominant forefront product to be offered To strategically be put in the market specifically in California to address the the Fuel energy credits out there and make sure that those Those logistics elements can be happened because right now They really do stand the risk of making Of an inability to transport based on regulatory oversight there So the problem being the pollution here and and it just speaks to what we've always talked about here But I did I always read something different in these when I go across these and I really got my attention Yeah, we know that 86 percent of the companies are looking for a solution 96% are part of the Paris agreement here So, you know the real go for me is when they fight through this very difficult US market because we want to scrutinize and we have the ability to short a good company like this And all is fair in an open market, right? but once the those things get resolved and the short squeeze gets rid of some of that activity in the open market will be looking to Get a small share of the domestic market and then move globally And I think that's really the bread and butter for highly on and I also don't think that it gets talked about enough But one thing that caught my attention here was 80 percent of the consumers are demanding a cleaner future and Are are educated on who those polluters of the earth are and who it is they Feel have responsible environmental stewardship scores. It's it's even coming to a point where investors are actually considering as I do the investor or the environmental score And taking that into consideration as one of the criteria To factor into the deliberation of whether or not you do or do not take a position in a specific company so these are always important to go back and re-review here on on the statistics of what the problem is what's the demand right now and Thomas Healy talks about the bridge work that is happening between highly on Holdings company and these companies out there that are sitting down at the table And talking about number one addressed on the call was tco total cost of ownership Which I found really interesting. There's some schools of thought out there that the hyper truck erx is actually too expensive if you look at it in a In a one angle type of perspective and draw that conclusion compared to One specific element that may be true But when you look at it in its totality over the cost of of a seven year total cost of ownership It becomes very very clear that the additional horsepower the additional payload And and the ability to reduce carbon emissions all at the same time really do have kind of a Accumulative value to The the fleet operators of these trucks are very very important to understand that So as as you go back through these presentations here I think it's really important for you to continue to Refresh yourself on on these these specifics here Now one of the things that Thomas Healy talked about on the call is the actual engagement with industry and Really trying to frame the highly on opportunity as not being a product that's needing to be sold to to industry Okay, and I think it's interesting He was asked specifically or he just electively said I think it was one of the analysts at the end of the q&a session that asked them what What are fleets asking you? What are they telling you that they need? And it came down to the three criteria and that these are some that I've earmarked as well along the way Reliability in other words if you took a hundred diesel trucks and you ran them at full capacity Under load across the united states and back over and over again Would it be safe to say or safe to presume that the hyper truck erx would at least Perform on par with the diesel with regard to the reliability only reliability when we're looking at this In other words, are those hundred trucks going to still be running and we're going to have hyper truck erx's on the sideline being repaired for Unforeseen and unproven technology reasons, right? This is this is key Reliability is going to be key and dare I say the hyper truck erx is going to have to perform on par At least with how reliable diesel engines have been now This is irrespective of the carbon footprint. This is irrespective Of the driver experience, but when we're talking about reliability and talking about freight liners putting hard dollars to work in the investment they have to be able to bet on putting those trucks on the road and making sure that there is a certainty that they can complete those routes On time and they can complete them with reliability. So some things that highly on has done with regard to the The reliability of the product has really just been to revamp The hybrid unit specifically Now the the hyper truck erx improvements with the plug-in and the 75 Miles of additional range to be eligible for the fuel credits That came out of left field. That's something that I was not expecting at all It was a pleasant surprise one of many that highly on continues to pleasantly surprise with positive information and I guess I'm A little bit stuck here with having to deploy An extreme amount of discipline on the stock holding side of it when I know in fact Excuse me the improvements at the company itself have been Extremely a positive and they've been impressive to be honest with you. So Interesting enough with the reliability the second being A cost-effective Thomas Healy again mentioned this when sitting down with fleets and making sure that the tco over time Paid off, right? Yes that carbon footprint reduction And making sure that the total score for environmental Impact is at least hitting that neutral category for most of The companies out there and the hyper truck erx being a net carbon negative when run off of rng Right can absolutely do that in other words The company doesn't have to be total net carbon negative across the board. They may have some Pollutive Elements of their of their business that they can't change But the hyper truck erx can really be that solution to help mitigate and get that company closer To the net neutral that we're looking to achieve The the last thing is what I would want to ask Thomas Healy on which I don't have a lot of granularity on Just little tidbits of third party reports coming back about the driver experience I think this is going to be an interesting piece because where owners will set up the ability to Run the rigor through on reliability and then determine With pen and paper the bottom line cost effectiveness TC over over the course of the the truck's lifespan It's really going to come down to that third tier whether or not the drivers enjoy The hyper truck erx experience and actually driving these trucks is the Extra power is the extra torque is it put to good use is the quiet ride worth it? You know in my experience a lot of old school, right? They don't like to change They like the growl of that diesel engine, right? I'm one of them So I'm really interested in this element of this and this will unfold in the coming months With the hyper truck innovation council as they start to get the demo units into the fleets And getting these units in the hands of some of their drivers now. This is going to be a sample size, right? So I think they're probably going to put them into the hands of a diverse sample size. I would imagine So that new drivers and older drivers that have seniority have an ample shot At at putting in to put these to the rigor of over the road from the driver's perspective I I think those three elements that thomas healy talked about really helped provide some granularity around the specifics that are happening at the tables between highly on holdings And the the fleet operators I I thought that was key and I really appreciated that as a shareholder to be offered I I think interesting enough. I think the hybrid product both on the diesel hybrid and the cng product Are really really mistaken a lot of the time in the industry and I I don't mean to presume That I know everything about highly on holdings. I've read every every sec document I've read every word on their website if you are a stock owner in the company with some significance This is active investing and this is how it's done. So if you haven't done your ample due diligence Um, I I would highly encourage you to start with at least the presentations that have been submitted and then to make sure that you fully understand Um, the um the hybrid product which I think unfortunately gets a bad rap Interestingly enough, I think a lot of people want to just jump to the hyper hyper truck erx and just believe that that's going to be Um, the end all be all solution in in in the future Okay, but I want to remind you guys something that really came to my mind that um That really caught my attention I want to scroll through here and see if I can't find this slide here and talk about it a little bit This was part of it with the oems that were Involved in it But but I want to cruise there's the total cost of ownership there at 279 776 Taking into consideration the totality of the ownership over seven years, right savings Versus diesel now that's total savings, right? That's assuming that the payload the additional mileage traveled, you know, not to mention I don't even know how you'd quantify driver experience But I think across the board. I think this is a very very telling number When you're when you're stacked up against the known competition in the industry and Look the article that was posed highly on the product has a problem by mr. Stephen Tobin It was marked as a neutral article and I found that interesting because it was pretty Pretty scathing in that mr. Tobin was basically saying that highly on will not sell product I I think that's a stretch. I think it takes a lot of imagination I I think it's a very very vague comment to make that statement In that highly on in and of itself has basically proposed We we don't need to do that. Um, their original sales calculation Was based on an anticipation Anticipated addressable market grab of just over two percent For every hundred trucks that are turned out through the rotation and back to thomas heli's call Spoke about this four-year rotation, which I really appreciated this as well To understand that fleets are putting in new orders for trucks every four every year And then rotating out the old trucks at the end of the four-year life cycle, right? It speaks to the reliability curve. They have data on all this stuff that shows That it's most reliable along its life cycle At a certain point to start to look to renew those fleets and four years was that magic number Highly on's not looking to come in there and and and grab a hundred percent of their business now. Do I Do I presume that maybe highly on stands a good chance of even grabbing more than two percent? I do but I do think it's a far cry to say that highly on will never sell a product to the fleets, which was really The essence of the article that was put through and if you read it closely There is certainly a disclosure at the end of it, which will tell you like in most cases these writers that are coming out Unfortunately do have an agenda if you can accuse me of having an agenda On highly on it is that I want to see the company succeed If my stock goes up because of that as a stock owner Well, I declare to you at the top of the video that I am indeed a highly on bull And have a significant position in this company But if this company succeeds the world will be better off for it And I'd like to think that by nature of large-scale fleet adoption The fleets are better off for it as well as the drivers And as well as our transportation system going forward to become robust Is the cost of A hyper truck erx with advanced technology doesn't have the potential on the onset To have a higher sticker price than diesel Certainly we're moving out of a century old industry Of just blowing smoke into the atmosphere And if we're going to step into a new world of technology Then there has to be some acknowledgement to the upfront cost that may be associated To integrate the new technology into the fleet I just want to cruise through here Because I want to show you guys what i'm talking about With regard to the hybrid electric And this is something that a lot of investors may have overlooked on the onset But look here guys deployed with customers today This investor presentation if i'm not mistaken came out may of 2020 Here we are in august of 2021 These hybrid products have been deployed with Wegmans penski rider You'll identify with some of those of course As they are all part of the innovation council ideally's if you hadn't forgotten Was also one of the fleets that was earmarked in one of the press releases that highly on had The other ones that caught my attention here with egl eagle and cr england if you pay attention to over the road trucking Those are some of the folks that are out there Quite significantly They have had the hybrid product In place this entire time Now where do you think the source of the feedback and the requirement to Sharpen these products came from it came from here These are the very customers right here that have provided the feedback to say here's what worked Here's what needed to be improved upon And this is exactly what is going on right now with highly on they talked about this on the call Sherry Baker talked about the immaterial earnings from 2021 here Being immaterial. I want to get to that proposal and show you guys That I don't think that they were that far off when they originally wrote this now that that was based on fleet size And data extrapolation to say look, you know, this is what we can assume We're going to be able to make and I think it was a an educated guess at the time of doing the investor presentation I think what is the most impressive to me is that highly on hits the stuff kind of on the nose And I think when we get to the The element there's the cost breakdown of the height of the hybrid system here But in in the article they talked about the diesel solution As not being an environmentally friendly initiative and I just couldn't disagree more And and and I don't mean to blame mr. Tobin by his admission He does not own stock and highly on he does own stock In a competitor to highly on which was probably some of the basis for the article I would like to think that it was put out with some You know in in a well-intentioned way Unfortunately any more you almost have to take everything that you read And consume on social media and the greater internet at face value And really not read too much into it in other words I'm not going to sell all my stock because mr. Tobin says the product has a problem and Furthermore will never sell to a fleet. I find that extremely imaginative On his part based on what we know about the product and what we know about fleets that have already purchased the product and have provided the positive feedback but the the hybrid diesel solution And the apu fuel fuel savings enough right there is An environmental initiative right there to reduce the The effects of idling that that's necessary when The cabin has turned to a hotel feature for the for the driver But I do want to cruise down here and I do want to talk a little bit about this financial slide Here's the timeline and and this is another element of of you guys And and the greater bearish thesis on the stock is that somehow highly on is not You know not racing toward sales if you if you look at this testing and validation It's absolutely in line Fleet demo roll out right there toward q3 q4 into q4 and into to 2020 22 man if i'm reading this correctly If they can get fleet and demo rollouts done by q4 2021 man, they're ahead of schedule Now the conference call talked about fleet and demo rollout into 2022 which may extend that that time frame But but good grief is the expectation to be early on time or or late It's going to be one of those and by this time frame. They called it to be complete by q4 and have those hyper truck erx's in the hands of the fleets now The testing and validation of the original hybrid product has been in the hands of the aforementioned Companies wingman penske rider ideal ease eagle transport cr england egl all this time And that product is going to be finalized and ready for roll out in 2021 later half We've we've only went through half of 2021 here So we've got q3 and q4 To see what type of interest can be garnered on the hybrid product both on the diesel side And on the c and g side you need to understand the difference between those two One is a diesel savings initiative and the c and g option Through the hybrid product is uh additional horsepower Okay, as the infrastructure exists now to power our c and g fleet the power just does not exist For our class 8 to do heavier loads without the assistance of the hybrid c and g product So unlike a lot of people out there that just don't understand the hybrid product Which was indicated by some of the q and a that we got from look some really freaking smart people If they're really that interested in asking a question I would encourage them to go back through the highly on website because it lays it out Very explicitly on what they're looking to do with with that hybrid product. Okay Interesting enough to review here. I'd love for them to grab a relationship with with jb hunt And swift i.e. These are some now schniders on the innovation council dhl is not amazon ups Are not coca-cola right fedex So, you know, some of this one this was written up initially and things that I looked over when I initially looked at this was the fev relationship Which has been solidified So nothing but granular nuggets in here to pull out on what highly on has done We cruise over to the financials Again, and this is this is one of those slides that I've earmarked many many times I think it's very very important to understand here if we're looking at 2021 years end here 2021 Here revenue estimated at eight million. Okay now if sherry baker is considering eight million as In material I would totally agree with that assessment I I do I I think that we're probably looking at a burn rate here of 130 140 million dollars to yearly to operate the company I I think that's kind of where we comfortably sit The words that came out of sherry baker's mouth talking about highly on being a very very capital Intensive light Business and in other words, they don't have to have a lot of infrastructure in place To make these things work with the integration of the installs at the oems And how the austin plant is going to be kind of the central nerve system for All things ago with highly on holdings I I looked at this and I thought they're they're right on schedule And this is what I initially thought when I took the the call And at the end of it, I I was very very positive And then just to see the stock go down the next day and the next day Really kind of put me into well, maybe maybe there was a neutral overtone to the call even though the tone that I got from sherry baker on the financial element and the Prepared marks by thomas healy were extremely positive I I did not sense in any fashion at all that they weren't excited to take this thing To the trade shows at the end of august and into september as it's the hyper truck is going to be showcased at at some trade shows here Within the coming weeks. I I got nothing but positive out of that That element I really think something that investors miss if not the writers is it's it's it's all or nothing It's highly on needs to dominate and take over the industry and this is something that I will ask thomas healy about if he's a guest on the channel And the the question will be framed in a way that holly highly on does not need to dominate the class eight space They they don't These statistics are garnered from a two percent market share win for highly on that is it Every two out of a hundred now Look level with me guys and just be rational about this application for two freaking seconds Are you honestly telling me that the hyper truck innovation council? isn't going to justify After their validation of the demo units and the integration It does occur. This is where my investment thesis takes part If you're going to be bearish on highly on you need to you need to be very bearish on this element that fleets are going to get the demo units and they're not going to like the solution Okay, that's what's going to happen if highly on has trouble in the integration into Uh the the four year life cycle rotation of the the fleets. Okay when they're making new orders I don't think that's going to happen. I really don't I think highly on has done enough Both proactively internally and with collaboration with industry and with the multiple meetings Quotes from tom acilly that has been held since the innovation council was uh Was incepted To make me believe that we're marching in a direction that these fleets are going to integrate which is something that i've always contended as Being really the end all be all of the bear bullish case. Okay It's either one or the other is going to happen either. They don't and the and the bearish thesis wins out Or they do integrate to whatever scale is worth discussing On the bullish side now this reflects only a two percent just over two percent market penetration on these figures here going into 2022 where the revenue is expected to jump up to 344 million And then uh, uh, 20 23 years and up to over a billion of Realized revenue, uh, and then the EBITDA revenue you see there on the bottom line jumps to 214 million now We're talking now. We're getting into a very interesting solution that It again, if you think that highly on has all this good momentum going a good team behind it working through this working through Their commercialization with their new addition to their uh, communicate Uh commercialization chief that was also declared on the call Which I thought was a very very important element to really get down into the granular how the OEMs are going to accept orders What the cost of uh materials is going to be And and how that's going to play out and and what that how how that's going to affect that EBITDA revenue because that That's the important element right there is protecting that in the 2024 category the 602 million That's projected into 2024. Okay so Very very important to review the original statistics. Okay very very important there to understand Uh and look at what What it is we're looking at Over the course of the next three years with highly on very very important to understand And I think in closing I think I forced myself to come up with some some issues. Okay as as such a bowl I don't want to get into this habit of of of you know spearheading a group think or a You know a chat group that's that's really blinded by the risks that exist here with highly on I don't consider the fact that it's a pre-revenue company a risk You can either choose to invest on that or not. Okay, we all know that it's a pre-revenue company But it's working on some very very monumental things But some of the things that were mentioned during the call. I will earmark for your benefit now these are some of the things that I Really thought stuck out to me The delay based on the chip shortage. Okay, that's real And I think thomas healy did an okay job of addressing it Basically stating that they are He didn't say hoping but anticipating that those chip shortages would work themselves out On the initial roll out of the hybrid system in the back half of this year and those Systems start to be delivered to fleets. Okay. Now. We did talk about the work around by the highly on team there and I Don't doubt that there was probably some Some creative thinking some strategic problem solving to identify Some of the components that would work to allow those systems to remain a go Okay, but that's not quite good enough for me as a shareholder if there are Best available chips out there by some of the most reputable Manufacturers that are necessary in the supply chain for the highly on product And then they need to make sure that those are open and flowing And the presumption was that those supply chains would end up working it out We're just going through a very rough patch Right now and by thomas healy's admission. That's actually part of why some of the delay Occurred okay. I think the number one driver behind the delay was actually product improvement And he talked about some of that product improvement initiative in some of the cold weather applications Some of the reliability issues and then finally the ease of install at the oems These are discussions that I think are not happening with some of the other companies out there that I actually do Spend some time listening to and say well am I getting too too far along this neon green path that I'm walking with highly on And I'm all I always come back to the very Um, the very unique discussions that are going on. They're very very real Discussions that are happening at the granular level. What is the discussion going on with fleets? What do fleets want? Do you have the ability To to show them bottom dollar the benefit Can the solution be put into place right now? And I think the the overwhelming Answers to those questions highly on has done a really quite done quite a good job in in addressing So I think that really kind of covers the call itself I would encourage each and every one of you guys to go and listen to the call all the way through the q&a Mark Delaney my favorite analyst of of highly on who's still got an eight dollar price target on the stock He may end up being right, but I think it's ironic I've already submitted my second complaint to the sec for stock manipulation I have because I think it's really unfortunate that Where the market gains favor on a company or where a company has been shorted for Realistic reasons. I think that's fair I think my problem is when those shorting initiatives or those stock Analyst ratings come out and then the company behind the scenes does something completely Contrary to that recommendation that's forward-leaning to the public I think that's extremely misleading and I really don't think there's a place for it I think there needs to be a moratorium Between the time that a recommendation is coming out If you want to come out and put a sell rating on the stock and put an eight dollar price target Then your company has to stand by that for let's say 30 days Nice round number out there and that way you're forced to stand by your your your number And that moratorium doesn't exist now So you can say whatever you want and then the very next business day do something completely Contrarian to what it is that you recommended and I think that's really unfortunate I think the vast majority of retail investors are put it at a disadvantage because they don't have the time in the market Of somebody like myself who understands that the game will be played And you will be forced to make decisions based on your own due diligence to the company And I hope I've done a good job of really walking you guys through what I saw On both the original investor presentation What it was during the earnings call that I helped heard that helped me validate What was being pushed out and what those time frames were for delivery? Back half of 2021 hybrid units will be available. That will be the v2 Hybrid option for both the diesel and the cng. I don't know how the product is going to do freak I don't know. Are they going to not sell any to any fleets? Well, they've already proven that they they they can sell to fleets, right? They've already proven that there's a strategic niche out there In in the fleets that they deal with that they are interested in and have received positive feedback About the performance of the product So it becomes very irresponsible for somebody like even myself to come out and say they're going to kill it They're going to sell the 300 units that they proposed for 2021 in the original documentation I don't know. I don't know But I think the cause for delay in the chip shortage and the cause for delay in the process for improvement I I think that's reasonable and I think any reasonable investor can kind of sit back and say well They had one of two choices either either they could have continued to jam the product through To the fleets right with known issues and deal with them at a later time Or they could deal with the issues right now and that's exactly what they've done And I don't see any reason why they're not going to still meet their timeframe For the end of 2021 q3 q4 roll out of the hybrid availability of the product It was alluded to In the highly on the product has a problem and then it won't sell any to fleets That the hybrid solution is available to customers now This is not true Highly on is taking the final stages to finalize the hybrid product and we'll make those available as appropriate For those Specific and strategic installs both on the diesel side and the cng side. So we'll see how it rolls out The hyper truck erx as the demos get rolled out to the fleets coming into this year And and going into the first part of 2022 That's going to be the real key and that I think investors are really going to be given a front seat No pun intended to the experience that these drivers and these fleets are having With having that hyper truck out there on the road under rigger under stress under tow And really testing that reliability from what the fleets are saying that they need Reliability cost effective and driver experience those are going to be the three criteria That come back and mirrored with that total cost of ownership element The highly on is looking to not sell to fleets They're not either you like it or you don't get in line Because the first come first serve There's going to be such a demand on this because we're Companies say they're interested in reducing their carbon footprint Customers are demanding the very same thing and the time is now What does it mean for the stock? I think unfortunately I think the stock is probably going to be subject to the rut The short selling rut that it's stuck in unless there is a major catalyst Over the next coming into the fall and into the winter. I think unfortunately It's going to only take a catalyst To get it above that $10 mark at this point. I have no reason to believe at all And I hope i'm wrong. I really do. I'm a stock owner in the company If it dips too aggressively, I will buy more Okay, when the company was above $10 11 and getting up into the $13 I wasn't buying I had already established my position So for you guys that are looking at highly on as a potential viable option for yourself going forward Now's the time to start looking at it When companies are saying or implying that the company will go bankrupt or that the company will not sell to fleets Do your own due diligence make your own decisions? Really the only one that you'll ever have to answer to if that's your criteria is yourself All right guys really hope you appreciated this deep dive into highly on in the q2 earnings We did beat my nine cents of four quarters in a row beaten earnings. That's a good thing man We're stacking up those earnings beats and I think it's going to take one of these catalysts We do have two additional earnings q3 q4 For the year ending 2021. Let's give it a little time here. All right investing in a company Companies have their own pedigree. They have their own ability to create value And for stock owners out there Remember the due diligence that you did Remember those things that you read on the onset and may have forgotten Over time and you start to get distracted a little bit by writers that come on that highly on will not sell a product I beg to differ and I make a stand based on the statistics that I've read and reviewed to say that highly on absolutely deserves the attention of the large fleets in making sure that the initiative and marching toward a at and or reducing Each individual fleet owners carbon footprint Is is is acknowledged and I think highly on has a lot of solution out there Again, they don't have to win the entire industry We're looking for a small market penetration and highly on finding that good repeatable business that they can rely upon Grow with gain that reputation as an industry leader of electrified powertrains And then it's off and rolling off to global Penetration and that's where the key is guys Thanks again. I really appreciate you tuning in and I hope you enjoyed this deep dive on the q2 Earnings for highly on guys. Thank you so much and good luck in your investment future


So if everything goes right, you should be seeing an empty screen right now, my screen actually. So the use case I'm going to demonstrate now is COVID related. Everyone is of course aware of the current pandemic. And what you are seeing on screen now is a structure of a protein from the virus, the one that you see in a kind of violet, light violet color. That's a domain of the virus, a domain of a large protein of the virus, the protein that you all know, if you know the picture of the virus and like the spikes that are on the outside of the virus. Now the way the virus penetrates our cell is to interact with a receptor, which is another protein, which is sitting on our cell. And the green ribbon representation that you show that you see here is actually the receptor on a human cell. So this is the first step in the infection process by the virus. So now we could think of a strategy to combat the virus, to compete with the receptor. So for example, see if I was to extract a small substructure from our receptor, in this case an NLX, and I could try to design a peptide that will bind stronger to the virus than our own receptors. So if you could use such a peptide, it will compete with our own receptors and prevent the entry. So we are now in a field of protein engineering, which is relevant for COVID of course, but it's also used in all kind of our life science application. So one way will be for example, and you see now a yellow part appearing to do a mutation in this peptide replacing an amino acid. Another question is is this a good choice? Is this a smart mutation? Will it lead to better binding of the peptide to this viral protein? Now that's a question that we can try to answer with one of our tools, Hadoq in particular, which is a tool we have been developing in Utrecht for almost 20 years by now and which has been offered as a web portal to our users using the EOSC infrastructure for more than 10 years. So I'm going to demonstrate you how this could be done. So now I'm switching and so I'm a user. I've heard about EOSC as a tool or European infrastructure, so I'm going to search for EOSC and I've heard about Hadoq as well. Now you see the first page and the first page I've all to do with EOSC and Hadoq, so that's good. So we are well visible and actually the first link in this page points me to the EOSC marketplace and Hadoq. So let's go there and I'm getting this page which tells me okay I'm on the European Open Science Clouds processing analysis as a service and Hadoq for the integrative modeling of biomolecular complexes. So let's well I agree to get rid of this and now I'm accessing the service. This brings me to like an intermediate step. There is no need here in principle for applying for the service directly from the EOSC but users will have to register first to be able to use our services. So let's go to the service. This brings me, got it, to the Hadoq portal and what you are seeing here is the Hadoq portal version 2.2. Now for the sake of this demonstration I want to present you a brand new portal which is the Hadoq 2.4 portal, which if everything is correct. So this is the entry point in Utrecht for the thematic services, the EOSC, we have a more thematic services in my laboratory. So now I'm going to scroll and we see that we have actually quite a number of services that operating from Utrecht and the one that we are interested in is Hadoq. Now before being able to do any submission to these portals I need to be registered which I am of course but I need to log in into the portal. I click on the login window and you see another component of the EOSC infrastructure which is the single sign-on component the EGI check-in. So now I'm going to connect to the portal and the goal here is to use my university credentials to do that. So I'm working at Utrecht and Utrecht University is here. So this is bringing me to my university login page. No typos, fantastic. So it's connected me to the EGI check-in. Yes, continue, I'm fine. And if everything goes right the portal now tells me you have been successfully logged in. Good. So now I can go to the Hadoq portal and start trying to answer this question was the change I make in this peptide good or not. So we're going to submit a new job. By the way you see here also BioXL showing up. So Hadoq is core software in the BioXL Center of Excellence project. So let's submit a new job and you will see that in these steps there is quite a lot of parameters that the user can change. So this is EOSC demo. I have two molecules. I'm going to submit it. So I need to upload a file which could come from the database but in this case it's my design peptide. And I want to use chain A from that one. So this was the peptide from the human receptor. So now I'm going to give it the viral protein which is chain B. Next. So the data have been already validated. The portal presents me with a number of options. Nothing needs to be changed for this particular use case in this case. And now I'm getting into another page which offers a lot of options and parameters. And I'm going to change them for the use case that we want to do. So we don't want to model from scratch the entire interactions. We just want to basically refine this new mutated complex and define if this is a good solution or not. You see a lot of menus that are clickable that expose all kind of parameters. So while I'm changing the parameters to something which is sensible, I could probably do anything because there might not be many experts that are understanding what I'm doing. But what you see another component of basically running thematic services is that you need to provide training to your users. Users are not going to use the resource without the proper training. So that's also a lot of investment in time, in efforts. You need people to do that. You need to put tutorials online so that people do the right things. And you also need to be ready to answer a lot of questions. So everything is ready. I can submit my computation to the portal. And now since the beginning of April, we have added options to tag our jobs as being COVID-related research. So this pop-up window appears. Is this a COVID-related research? Yes. And now the job is being submitted. So we see it has been successfully processed. And at some point it's going to start running on the grid. Now this COVID tagging that we added in the last months basically allows us on the back end to send the jobs to sites, resources that are specifically supporting COVID-related research. So negotiation between EOSC and EGI, we gain access since the months now to the US Open Science Grid resources. And we have several high-energy physics groups that are physics sites that are providing resource for this kind of COVID research. So now we don't need to wait for this job to finish, because it will take some time. So these are not question of seconds. But I have some pre-calculated results we can go to. So I'm going to the job information. So this is the one I just submitted. And here we see a previous run. And this is bringing you to the result page, what the user, what the end user will be presented with. Now users also get notified by email. So it's a very user-friendly way of dealing with complex workflow, complex computations, which completely hide the complexity of high throughput computing to the end user. So the user can look at these results. We have some citations, proper citation of the European projects and sites that are supporting us. We constantly monitor the satisfaction of your users. And then you are presented with results statistics. In this case, you see here a score. And this score would have been to, would need to be compared with the score of the wild-type protein, the unmuted one. And actually, I am not going to show you the comparison, but this is better than the receptor in our cells. So yes, we have improved the peptide and maybe we can do more mutations. This is of course all in-silical predictions. We need to do experiments to validate those things. Another feature of the portal, we can look at the structure directly online from the web browser. You can see here this particular residue. Of course, when I move my mouse connection might be a bit slow, but this is the mutation that we introduced and yet it's there. So now I mentioned in my introduction that we have a large user community. So I'm going to bring you to a statistic page, which is online, so everyone can look at it. So these are the number of user requests that are actually active on our portal. So we have two entry points. So you see there's about 120 that are actually active. There's a large number which is queued. You can find here the total number of jobs that have been served on the portal since the portal had been running in 2008. So it's more than 270,000. And each job submitted to the portal might translate into 1,000 high throughput jobs being sent to the EOSC high throughput resources. You can also see here that we are monitoring COVID related research since months now. And we can also have a look at the worldwide distribution of our users. So you see a map. Let's sort the users. So you see the total number of registered users for all of the Vienna Mathematics Services is reaching almost 18,000. We have seen an increasing registration in the last months because of the COVID pandemic. So a lot of people are doing COVID related projects. All together, Europe aggregated is the largest community, but you see that Asia is falling very closely in the US as well. Now finally, I'm going to show you actually the real time statistics about jobs that are running now. Actually, this is the statistics from last hour. So this has been running on the EOSC resources. So we have about more than 2,000 jobs. And in this case, it's about one third of the jobs that are running for the last hours where COVID related one. Where have those jobs been running? This is the distribution again over the last hour, over sites. So half of them have run actually in Karlsruhe, which is good in the context of the EOSC week. We don't pre-define where jobs are running. So we are using more an opportunistic computing model, but DRAC for EGI does all the magic for us and distributes where there are resources. So currently, Kit is giving us a lot of resources. This is specific also for COVID related research, like the high energy physics sites in Marseille, which put up resources specifically for COVID, but you also see the Dutch resource very importantly represented there. And finally, the last bit I want to show you. So this is the number of jobs that have been running on the infrastructure for the last 30 days. The violet color that you see there is related to COVID research. So these are all jobs that have been tagged as COVID over the last months. And this represents a significant fraction of the jobs. So with that, I want to conclude this demo. And I hope that I gave you a real life example of what the several or the thematic services can mean for users for also a real life important research question related to COVID pandemic. Thank you very much.


Hopefully it'll be really good for me because I'll be able to stay home and like still let my community help me out and softball and stuff whenever I'm not there practicing and stuff so hopefully it'll be real good for me. Hopefully I can be really good to the team this year and hopefully I can throw some strikes over the plate this year whenever I go up there and play and hopefully whenever I can get my batting average up and stuff. I'm hoping to be real close to the team and real close to all my friends that used to come here and be just a big part of the team and meet new people down there because that's what it's all about.


U.S. economy will narrowly avoid recession in 2022 and 2023," IMF says. The U.S. economy is likely to slow in 2022 and 2023 but will narrowly avoid a recession as the Federal Reserve implements its rate-tightening plan to curb inflation," the International Monetary Fund said. The policy priority now must be to expeditiously slow wage and price growth without precipitating a recession the IMF said in a statement Friday. This will be a tricky task, as global supply constraints and domestic labor shortages are likely to persist, and the war in Ukraine creates additional uncertainties, it said. The Fed's plan of quickly getting its benchmark rate to 3.5% to 4% should create an upfront tightening of financial conditions which will quickly bring inflation back to target, managing director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters following the release of the concluding statement on its Article IV consultation, the IMF's assessment of countries' economic and financial developments following meetings with lawmakers and public officials. Based on the policy path outlined at the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting, and an expected reduction in the fiscal deficit, the IMF expects the U.S. economy will slow, Georgieva said. The fund has also just concluded a very useful set of discussions with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Fed Chair Jerome Powell, she said. �We are conscious that there is a narrowing path to avoiding a recession in the U.S,� Georgieva said. We also have to recognize the uncertainty of the current situation. Georgieva at the press conference on Friday went on to say there are very significant downside risks this year and especially in 2023. If there ultimately is a recession, it would likely be relatively short, said Nigel Chalk, deputy director in the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department. Policymakers raised interest rates by 75 basis points last week, the single biggest move since 1994, and Powell signaled that another increase either of the same magnitude or of 50 basis points was on the table for July. The Fed chief and his colleagues have pivoted aggressively to fight the hottest inflation in 40 years amid criticism that they left monetary policy too easy for too long as the economy recovered from COVID-19. They've raised rates by 1.5 percentage points this year and officials forecast about 1.75 points of further cumulative tightening in 2022. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, global oil prices have risen dramatically, exacerbating inflation that had been stoked by pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and, especially in the U.S., the fiscal response to COVID-19. In the press conference, Georgieva said the IMF sees the need for a policy that would prevent further upward pressure on oil prices, something she discussed with Yellen this week. Noting that American price pressures are now broad-based and go well beyond increases in energy and food prices, Georgieva said Yellen and Powell left no doubt as to their commitment to bring inflation back down. One suggestion the IMF had for alleviating inflation pressures is for the Biden administration to roll back tariffs that have been placed on steel, aluminum and a range of Chinese goods over the past five years. President Joe Biden's trade chief, Catherine Tai, has previously said the tariffs on more than $300 billion in annual U.S. imports of Chinese products provide significant leverage and are useful from a negotiating standpoint. The IMF has supported the Biden administration's so-called build-back-better agenda, saying it would help release supply-side constraints, improve the safety net, support labor force participation, and incentivize investment and innovation. The failure to pass the package in Congress represents a missed opportunity, Georgieva said. The administration should continue making the case for changes to tax, spending, and immigration policy that would help create jobs, increase supply and support the poor, she said.


Hey everyone, we need to talk I Haven't been completely honest with all of you folks because there are things in my life that I Firmly believe you keep to yourself Things that maybe in the past I have shared too much of One mistake. I feel like I have made it this channel over the past two years Maybe the biggest mistakes I've ever made is Involving my children in any discussions on this channel involving my fiancee Involving my personal life be it finances be it related to things like Job loss I guess I was that was a big thing that started off this year Be it related to things like my relationship or my children's well-being or Anything that involves that stuff.  I'm not depressed by the way shout out to wood Be sure to check out beat-em-ups channel on Monday. He's actually doing a charity live stream I believe Monday evening To support a bunch of depression related causes, which I have a lot of personal experience with which again I probably shouldn't have talked about either because my experiences with it are less of my own although I've had it before and more so talking about what I deal with in terms of my fiancee or even Eric, you know the co-host of the Nintendo Prime podcast I Need to clarify a few things here just because I Can't help but pay attention to negativity It is a character flaw of mine That's probably gonna eat away at me as long as I maintain myself as a youtuber and some sort of public person My face is on this video. It's all over my channel and social media profiles Like I think I I posted a picture of me right after my my first workout on my 90-day weight loss plan and I Do some of these things in part because it helps motivate me, right? So in the past I've done things on live streams like Where you know do a dollar per push up a dollar per sit up or whatever on that Just help motivate me to get healthier But obviously in the grand scheme that's only gonna get you so far and there are people that don't like the effect Oh, we're paying you to work out Let me just kind of clarify a few things here because we are going to E3 this year Eric and Myself are going to E3 Regardless of anything else that happens any drama any silliness because I hate silliness and I hate drama There's a reason that I don't cover a lot of drama topics on my channel because I don't really like it But that being said this is about me. This is about the channel This is about the future of the channel and I need to address it So first off we are going to E3 and no I don't need your money to go to E3 I know I did that live stream And I feel like I need to make this video in response maybe to myself because I was eating during that live stream Maybe things weren't 100% clear but realities I don't need anyone's money to go to E3 and if I take out a business loan to pay for my trip to E3 It's none of your guys's business if I take out that loan or not, right? It's got nothing to do with you If I take out a business loan to go to E3 guess who has to pay it back this guy You're not going to see me making a live stream talking about how I can't make my loan payments. No, that is not something that's ever existed That's not something I've ever done. I don't think I've ever had a single live stream where I said pay my bills I I'm not maybe someone can call me out on that Maybe you'll find a video clip somewhere, but I am like 99% sure I've never said anywhere I want your money to pay my bills I want you to pay for my rent my electricity my internet bill my cell phone bill my whatever I want you to pay for my bills I don't think that's ever been a point of emphasis I've ever used in my few years here on this platform And a couple years now doing it full-time. I What I have used this phrasing is like if you would like to support me You could do so through patreon through donations through super chats If you would like to help alleviate some of my costs for e3 this year You can do so through the stream labs donation link down in the description, but here's the thing You don't have to give anything. There's no pressure My coverage isn't going to change because you gave me more money My coverage isn't going to get better because you give me more money All you are doing is alleviating some of the costs for me to go to an event to create videos for this channel That you might enjoy it's basically to me like when you go support on patreon when you go support on patreon All you are doing is saying look I value your content I want to give you a little bit of money in you know in exchange for you making that content and in return All I expect you need to do is to continue to make Content and that's what our patreon is for our patreon is nothing more than hey look We want you to spend more time making content ergo We want to give you money to ensure that you can continue to spend time making content That's really all the patreon's for there's stretch goals and there's all this stuff and little perks and benefits But honestly the overall patreon is just there as a way to basically give me an extra paycheck To afford me not to have to work so much at other jobs and spend more time making content It's just a direct support of the overall thing I do here just like if you do decide to donate to our e3 cause It's not really even a cause right I would almost rather you take your money and give it to beat-em-ups charity stream tomorrow because I don't need your money Let me make that very clear. I don't need money But I obviously would appreciate if people do want to support because it does make things easier for me now Because I have brought up things like my children and my fiance and stuff in the past I need to make this clear as well No one in this household is suffering because of me my children are not suffering or left wanting heck This past weekend we actually went to the Wisconsin Dells on a three-day vacation in Kalahari And let me tell you that a three-day vacation in Kalahari costed me way the hell more than this trip to e3 does I just want to make this like really clear people think my priorities are messed up We had a family vacation for the first time in three years We spent three years saving up for that family vacation and my kids Well, I was a little stressful for me My kids had an absolute blast and all that stress was worth it for them all the money spent was worth it for them and I never at any point made a video a stream or a mention that I wanted anyone to give a cent to pay for that Vacation I budgeted for that vacation save for it and we ultimately went now You might say why can't you budget and just save for e3? The thing with e3 is it is a business expense for me when I go to file my taxes at the end of the year And I'm filing the taxes for Nintendo Prime There's a bunch of different things that I do as you know a sole proprietorship But essentially it all breaks down into the fact that I can write this off as a business expense My entire trip to e3 however much I spend on food while I'm there on Transportation on flights on hotel on the ticket to get into e3 Whatever I spend is all considered a business expense So it counts as a tax write-off which means I pay less taxes on my income So what ends up happening is if I didn't go to e3 and I didn't spend that money on other things related to the business Right, I took my family on vacation as some people had suggested I do well You know what ends up happening? I still got to pay all that money in taxes at the end of the year or really quarterly back to the federal government and my state government and Instead I decide instead of just handing the government, you know four or five grand every single year out of my business I'd rather reinvest that money back into the business. This is how a lot of top-end businesses What more so like the really high-up businesses avoid a lot of paint a lot of taxes They avoid taxes by reinvesting their profits back into the company Even if it feels like those reinvestments back in the company aren't turning bigger profits And that is something to talk about as well here Some people brought up how I shouldn't go to e3 because investing that money into going to e3 Is not a smart investment if I was gonna spend that money at something for the channel then I should buy maybe new equipment Maybe getting a second camera. Maybe get some new lenses. Maybe get some new lights.  I don't even know what this sounds like right now. I have a backup microphone Recording it. Maybe I should buy extra sets of microphones Maybe I should consider it's a zillion other things upgrading the editing computer Which is under consideration for this year finish building the stage for the one in the other room that I want to build I you know, that's obviously something on the back burner, but that's something I could invest in reality is I could reinvest that money in a way to make it I Guess a smarter purchase for some people where you might not even notice because there's not like a lump-sum purchase of you Know $2,000 $3,000 on something.  And some people I think that's a smarter way to invest the money and that is your opinion and your choice Here's what I know about me attending E3 is here's the content I cannot make if I don't go to E3 one I cannot make daily vlogs that take you guys who unfortunately might not be able to attend E3 Inside E3. So I basically take you from the moment I leave and get all my stuff packed to the flight to the hotel To picking up badges to actually attending E3 every single day We go through that you also get to meet a bunch of people in those vlogs that you wouldn't otherwise get to meet We have Bob Wolfe in our vlog last year. We had Supermetal Dave in a vlog last year We had Nintendo Kate in a vlog last year We had game over Jesse and Daniel in a vlog last year and who knows who's gonna end up in vlogs this year What's really cool about the vlogs is it gets to take you to hey you look if you went to E3 You too would get to meet all these people if you if you happen to bump into them And I don't go seeking them out. I don't plan to meet with those people they're just people that I bumped into and That's a really neat part of the E3 experience And I like bringing what I possibly can from that experience to you guys And I can't do that if I'm just sitting at home in my office chair just covering the E3 like I cover a Nintendo Direct and To be fair, we don't really get a boost in viewership due to Nintendo Direct's And when I covered E3 normally not last year, but the year before just from my house We didn't see a boost in viewership because lo and behold We weren't providing any content that people weren't already getting by just watching Nintendo's live stream so That's It's kind of a frustrating part there when people talk about the content itself right now The other kind of content you get besides the vlogs and taking you inside E3 It's obviously hands-on impressions. Those are the videos I maybe enjoy making the most because it involves I actually played a game or Eric played a game or we both got to play a game And we get to have a discussion about our time with that game And those discussions are literally impossible to have without going hands-on with games In fact, they were so amazing and performed so well last year You're an E3 that there was a lot of talks about how can we continue to have hands-on impressions with games Before they come out some people suggested we start traveling to like packs east and packs west or the nintendo new york store Or we had people being like how can we get review copies of games in so we can get your early impressions of stuff It became a big talking point last year that ultimately didn't go where we wanted it to go But maybe this year off of E3, maybe we start to do hands-on impressions anyways Like if we don't review every game at least we can get out You know an impression a video about it right something like that So who knows but all I know is the hands-on impressions is something that sure There'll be other people doing it You'll have other fans that are there other gamers that are there that might make an impression video about this game Or that game, but we make an impression video about basically everything that's in nintendo's booth What's also really cool Is there is networking opportunities, of course I didn't take a huge advantage of those networking opportunities the two times I've been to E3 But there are networking opportunities where you can meet different people and meet pr people We actually got a contact inside activision last year Because we directly attended E3 and he happened to be staying at the same hotel We were so we got to chitchat with him exchange Details business cards all that stuff and that's that's something that just happens at E3 Because it's just a big event it can happen at packs it can happen anywhere But E3 just happens to be the event we're at I live in wisconsin So there's like zero events to network here with anyone. Yes. I know about several wisconsin creators But this is wisconsin So we're spread all over the state and live nowhere near each other So things never happen between us right like it's just we all live in our own little worlds out here in the middle of the country That being said I just want to make this very clear that like those are just two kinds of videos The other kind of videos that performed well for us last year were gameplay Like we had gameplay videos of smash gameplay videos of pokemon Let's go very little bits We kind of had to sneak a little footage in there because they didn't really want footage recorded for some reason They're literally were showing the game off in tree house. So why they didn't want footage was beyond me But whatever they didn't want footage But we got a we got you know, I don't know 30 seconds or a minute of it We got footage of fifa 19, which they didn't want us to record footage of But to be fair one of their reps actually said look, why don't you record footage of it? It's fine I'll just turn my back So they actually encouraged just to do it because they didn't understand why EA is like oh hush hush You can't like you could play fifa for for switch, but you can't actually record fifa for switch like why that made no sense And just a lot of things like that So we got a lot of footage of a lot of different games from killer queen black star link battle for atlas Our star link battle for atlas impression video Exploded as did our gameplay clips of it because of star fox and all that so bottom line is That all this coverage. I'm talking about is stuff. I can't do from my home. Here's what I can do from my home All right I could still live stream react to all of the Perten media events which I do as well when I'm there. So that's not a piece of content That's lost when I go there, but What else can I do from home? I can still make news recap videos prime news Which I plan to do when I'm there as well this year, but whatever I can do that from home And I can have a podcast which we're going to do there and I could also have Discussion videos What I think about various games and then obviously live streams we do daily live streams the d3 as well But we do live stream discussions about all the stuff happening at e3 All of that could still happen When I'm there In addition to all the other videos I get to make because I'm there now in terms of investments because And we touched a little bit on investing or getting a business loan investing money into e3 The thing is I'm not looking to profit really off at e3, right? Like I'm going to lose money going to e3 I lose money going to e3 every year.  We didn't go in 2017 2018 We went all because of you guys, but I still dished out an additional thousand dollars out of pocket And this year I'm going to be dishing out, you know, probably thousands out of pocket yet again to go regardless of your support or the business loan or any of that and The reason that we do this is because We think We suppose we hope that long haul a decade from now 20 years down the road That we're building towards something that we are building the foundation blocks that we are investing all of this money in time and hardship and nights of no sleep and flights where my knees are killing me because I don't do well with flights And all this stuff that all this pain and agony and and exhaustion and oh my gosh Just outright being completely worn out. I almost needed a vacation from e3 when e3 is over and all of it will be worthwhile because We're building towards something and you know what even if Viewership doesn't increase subscribers don't increase this channel bombs in 10 years from now and Nintendo Prime no longer exists I'll never look back on these trips to e3 as a waste of time or a waste of money because One thing that gets forgotten at these channels as money gets involved and we start talking about doing them for a living and how It's a job and all that stuff. What gets lost in all of that is why we make these videos in the first place I'm a youtuber making content about nintendo and you know some other games going on in the industry Xbox PlayStation whatever because I'm passionate about making that content because I enjoy making that content because It completes me in a way that other parts of my life don't It makes me feel proud of myself It makes me feel like I'm personally building towards something instead of building something up for somebody else Which is what happened at my last gig so I want to make this very clear that regardless of if this ever turns into a good return on investment Money-wise, you know decade down the road What it does make make a good investment for me is on my own personal happiness and on my own personal vision for this channel I have a lot of ambition for what I want this channel to become and attending e3 It's really just the beginning Um There's actually a roadmap I have down where we attend packs east and packs west Where we attend new york comic con and potentially this is the more if you want going to gamescom out in germany and Possibly the tokyo game show someday. We'll see That one's a little more tricky because um, I have to hire a translator Because there's still english-speaking stuff happening at gamescom at uh in tokyo I actually have to hire like a personal translator to be around me all the time And tell me what signs say and what people are, you know, what people are saying because I I'm probably not going to learn japanese if I haven't learned it at this point. I'm probably not going to learn it now, but um So basically that's where I kind of want to leave this video. There's a lot I could talk about at this channel There's a lot I could say and I'm not going to sit here and defend and act like oh You know, Nate's such an e-bagger and this and that like what I what do you want me to say? um People if you believe in my content and you want to support it We have a patreon. We have a donation link if you don't believe my content don't want to support it I'll be just fine. My kids will be just fine. My family will be just fine. Everyone's going to be just fine My family has always come first and they've always been well provided for I think the biggest thing I need to do moving forward Is I need to de-personalize my channel a bit and I know some people aren't going to like that because some of you are here for that personal touch but I honestly think that For my own sanity, I might have to do that Where I can't talk about my my fiance anymore I can't talk about my kids Have to try really hard to make sure my kids and my fiance don't appear in any videos Moving forward, which means yes prime family is probably going to have to be dead There's just people that make like videos about my fiance and my kids that just disgust me and I I don't want I don't want my kids growing up to find this stuff and just Having to go through whatever Mental hurdles there might be to understand why someone would say these things about their father or say these things about their mother Or say these things about them There's just some nastiness out there So I need to do a better job protecting them and just keep them away from the channel Disassociate them from the channel and do better trying to keep this channel more professional If there's one thing I could say about channels like spawnwave Or other channels out there that I respect as they do a better job of keeping things professional Keeping it about the work if I I was all happy when I made that stream the other day Not because I was going to tell people if they want to support, you know my trip to e3 They can do it But because I was announcing I was going to e3 I was also announcing that I was going to keep being a full-time youtuber for like almost the rest of this year Maybe even longer. I was excited to announce these things But it got marred in this idea that I'm asking people for $2,000 to send me on a vacation when Man, if I was just going to go on a vacation I would take that $2,000 and take my fiance and go on a cruise Forget going to e3 e3 is not fun for me. I'm sorry to say I'm not going to say there's not enjoyable aspects of it But in general e3 is not fun It's a lot of stress because it's a work trip and I treat it like a work trip because that's why I'm there I am there to cover games. I'm not there to just have a good time Maybe someday I will go to e3 to have a good time when I no longer run a youtube channel And and or when I'm so big I can hire people to cover e3 for me. So I can sit back and enjoy the event instead of Planning out routes to hit the best The best possible boost and the best games or like, oh, I know there's a five hour wait for pokemon every day So we don't go to pokemon day one but day two we plan to be at e3 Oh, I don't know four hours early So we can be first in line So we don't have to wait five hours to play the game or if we're like, oh, we have gamer passes And we're only being let in at the exact same time As media on the final day Well, then we got a plan to be there even earlier the media members get there on the final day So we can get pokemon in and there's just all this stuff that you have to plan out all this stress all the lack of sleep You eat lots of junky foods. You don't got time to cook or deal with any of that Doesn't matter you're burning so many calories and plus I try to get workouts in and I oh man My mind is just swimming and how much stress this trip is going to be But ultimately I'm going to be so proud of what that what comes out of this Because we're going to have some of the best content this channel's ever had I'm hoping to improve on our e3 content year over year And ultimately I do this all for myself and I do it all for you guys So whether you want to support me or not, it doesn't matter This content's coming either way and I do want to thank everyone who has supported me in the past Who might support me in the future all of our current patrons because our patrons more than anything Are what enabled me to spend so much time making videos as I do As I said, I do now technically have a second job. It's just part time I'm not going to dive too deep into it because you guys don't need to know about it. It's not your business And I think that's my own fault for making my life Everyone's business. So I promise from this video moving forward I'm going to try to create a bigger disconnect between Nate and his life and Nate The nintendo prime youtuber Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next episode of prime answers, which should be landing tonight


What do you feel like you guys have accomplished for this team and this franchise as far as kind of pulling it forward into like the next strata, I guess? We did good for this year, making it this far, but we wanted a lot more. But it's something to build off for next year, even though there's going to be a lot of new faces in here. So I'm just thankful to be in a situation to play with the guys in this locker room. Looking forward to next year. Came together, we believed in each other. It was a real family. Bought into everything the coaches were saying and doing and we just stuck together. So I'll never forget this moment and got to remember this for the years to come until we get all the way.