Hey everybody, how are you today? I should say every one person because there's two people. Oh three. There's two of you. Yay So We're gonna work on a canvas today a big canvas. I'm gonna open that chat so I can see it So this is the unexpected face that I did with leftover paint from one of our other live broadcasts. Hey, I I had some leftover paint after the broadcast. I basically slapped it on the canvas and then ended up creating this face out of it Which I love so we're gonna do another canvas because now of course now I did one now I'm itching to do some canvases So this is the unexpected face and she's all finished and I did some journaling around the edge Inspired by my friend Donna Mulholland who did some canvases with quotes on the edge Which I thought was a fabulous idea. So we're gonna do another one She's already and dry and ready for her clear coat, which I haven't done yet, but I love her We're gonna do another one and these pictures are inspiration when I did the unexpected face. I didn't have Any inspiration photos that was just something I made up out of my head in this case We have some inspiration photos. These are all my great aunt Marcella and I did a portrait a while back of her husband, Uncle Aldo and I gave it to their daughter my cousin sister friend Nancy And so now I decided I wanted to do aunt Marcella and these pictures are all taken in the late 1940s And while they're not, you know, perfectly crisp and clear. They're clear enough Yeah, some easel painting. We're probably not going to get this done today but we are going to work on it today and I want to show you the process I use for painting an acrylic especially faces because it's the opposite of the way I do it in watercolor and We're going to use these photos as inspiration. I'm not sure which Positioning of her head we're going to use. I think we might use this one I'm not sure there's something about this one though But I think we're going to use the straight on one. We'll see. I Always take my inspiration photos and I use some masking tape or painters tape and you know Make it into a wad and stick them on the side of my easel So they're right here next to the canvas and this is a painting failure That we're going to paint over and we're going to put aunt Marcella's face over this painting failure So I'm going to start with unlike water color Where I start with the lightest color and work my way darker with acrylic paint You can do whatever you want in whatever order you want because if you don't like it you can paint out let it dry Just paint over it. So I'm going to start with my darkest color. I'm actually This is one of the rare instances where I have the Impulse to start with black. I don't usually do that. I usually start with something dark But not black. Usually I start with like pains gray or something. We're going to start with black and I'm using the Deco art traditions artist acrylic paints this morning. I do have the Americana paints out and we will probably use some of those so First thing I have to do decide what photo I want to use she had very deep set eyes as you can tell on this photo and a very interesting face and Oh Thanks. Well, it's it's you know, I did this when I first got first was getting started and it's okay It's not one of my favorites. That's why we're going to paint over it. Um, anyway, she had very deep set eyes. So we're not going to We're going to use these other photos as inspiration to soften her face just a little bit because I don't think I want her face eyes that dark If you're wanting to do some kind of a face based on a real photo remember We're thinking for expressive artwork. We're not looking for realism.  Hey and Katie. Hello. Okay, so we're gonna get started here and I Still don't know I think I'm gonna shoot for the middle one So I'm gonna just and yeah, I've got this really big big brush, right? really big brush and lots of black paint and I'm going to just try to Get the shape get the shape in there, right? And you know, I'm not gonna there is no way on the planet I'll tell you right now.   So if I don't get it right the first time Well, it's not a big deal because I can just go over it and I can Refine lines like right here that probably goes in too much. I know what some of you were thinking. Oh my god. What is she doing? I Know Don't worry. I know crunch crunch crunch. That's probably annoying as hell Sorry, I'm gonna put that in the water We're gonna switch to a smaller brush and a different color and I did her husband my uncle's portrait and I you know I rarely use flesh tone colors when I do these portraits. Anyway, I use almost always use goofy colors Today's not gonna be any exception And her husband my uncle Aldo's portrait was done in reds and blues and yellows So hers will be done in Different colors. Also, I'm gonna go in with the Dekawar traditions color of aqua marine Just because I love aqua marine Get after I get the dried blobs off the top of the paint All right, and I've got a smaller the cranky crafter. Hello. So I've got a round brush it's still pretty big and the nice thing about that is I kind of have It forces you to kind of be expressive and Because you can't really you can't get You know perfect small precise line and I put my hair up because for some reason when I do canvas work I Don't know I always get my hair in the paint, you know I could be working at the table doing the same kind of thing and I don't have any problem with getting my hair in the paint But as soon as I am working on the canvas at the easel Suddenly it's an issue, so I don't know I'm reusing an old canvas. I didn't do anything to it It this canvas never got a clear coat So there was no need to prepare it because it never had its clear coat. It's time to break out a baby wipe the photo of my uncle should be on Facebook and I actually gave the painting to his daughter as a birthday present this year And it was painted of him as an older from an older a picture of him more recent picture. I should say I Like these pictures though of my aunt From the 1940s. I have some other pictures of her, but I just thought these were just These were perfect Now we're probably not going to finish this today But hopefully we're going to get it to a point where it actually looks less like a blue and black blob and more like an actual face But I think that this is going to be the project for the next couple of live sessions Until we can't amp Marcella done and if you guys like seeing the big campus work, then maybe we'll do another one Okay It's time to go with a lighter color So what the way I do this as I start dark and go light light light lightest and then go back to dark Light light light light lightest and then back again and sometimes in between the layers I'll do some stenciling maybe right on the middle of the face Mark making I have a couple of different tools on the table Okay, totally lost track of where I was going with that because you know That's what I do Okay, this is Indian yellow again. This is a deco art traditions paint. It's got another dried paint blob Let's see. Let's get rid of that and we'll go back to a flat brush. This is a smaller flat brush I can't see the iPad and I can't see the chat if you guys have any questions. Please let me know Yeah squirrel, right?  There's a reason my husband calls me Dory There's a good reason for that. That's because I get distracted a lot So the beauty of working with acrylic paints is you know You can really just layer your paints on top of each other And if you put a color somewhere where you don't like it just let it dry and then go over it with some more color it's a lot more forgiving than a Watercolor paint and I love the idea of painting these pictures over some of these canvas failures because that you know The old painting doesn't necessarily ever go away Some of that old character shows through and there was something about this painting that I thought Aunt Marcella's picture just needed to be on top of should this really strong Widows peek up here on her forehead. So we want to make sure we get that in I might yeah I might keep this background around here. It reminds me of wallpaper and Her house had their prettiest wallpaper in it. So I actually yeah, I might keep it because I think it might It might lend itself very nicely to the finished painting.  It looks like old time. It looks like old 1940s wallpaper and I think that's one of the things that drew me to Picking this canvas out of the failure pile to do this on Was that I thought it lended itself very well to the baby wipes and artists best tool baby wipes They're fabulous You can already see that's just a couple of colors in and a couple of brushstrokes. You can already see her face coming out Right if I can do this you guys can do this because believe me Believe me if I can do it. You can do it. Just believe me All right, I'm actually going to sneak under the table here and get another palette out another plate Okay, and I'm gonna spritz the couple colors I have here with water so they don't dry out all right Now we need to go with another color and I think I'm going to take some white We're not gonna use it straight We're gonna mix it because I don't like to use straight white on a canvas Except for like a couple of highlights. Sorry, Ian. You had a hard time finding me I had a hard time getting this broadcast started for this for some reason the network Here in my house was just not having it. I actually had to restart the computer I don't know what the heck was up with that Trying to decide on a color. Let's see. I think I'm gonna go with I don't know So this is the part I have trouble with we're gonna actually I'm gonna listen to my instincts, right?  Handsy yellow and Mix it with some of the white We'll see how that looks the other thing about painting this way is with acrylic paint is if you put the wrong color on there You know, it's acrylic paint either get in there with a baby wipe right away and wipe it off or Let it dry and go over it. It's not a big deal Yeah, Ian, I might end up mixing these two together and making an orange Because that was where I was I almost reached for the pumpkin color But I think it's too. I think it's the wrong color So and this may not be the right color either, but we're gonna put a little bit of it on there and see Yeah, pink. Well pink There's always some pink that ends up in almost all my photos all my paintings after this one We're gonna have to go back in here with More dark because we're we're gonna we're gonna we're losing some of the The dark shadows So we're gonna have to come back in there with the dark shadows I don't want to go too far with my baby wipe. She had these large deep set eyes and We have a family trait of large under eye There's no nice way to say it bags. I have them so I can say it it comes from her side of the family Loved her dearly, but yes, it came from Aunt Marcella's side of the family. There's not enough puffy eye cream on the planet To Take care of them. We will have to at some point go in here with some white because that's gonna really help the face start to pop I see you guys commenting. I hang on Yes, I can't see right yet. No. Yeah, hang on. Oh good. Thank you it is at this point it is it's about getting the shadows and light in the right color then it is so much color harmony as you're Working on your portrait and you're adding layers because this is acrylic paint. You can do that Then when you start to get towards the finish layers where you've got all the features in the right place and you've got the shadows And about the right place then you want to start altering the colors Although as I'm going I try to not have my colors be too off And or too chalky, but this is definitely the stage where you can make a mistake And Sorry, hang on It's correctable. I'm already running right out of room. We just got started So I really need to go in here and put some white in her eyes I just threw a paintbrush just seeing the back of my head here. Sorry Yeah, the baggy eyes, you know Loved her dearly, but yeah, all right, let's Now in reality, you know whites of your eyes are not perfectly white So as you go along if you get a little bit of pink or something in here That's going to be fine as long as it's you know opaque This is just titanium white And I just I have very little of my brush So that I can really scrub it in and move it around and I I put it on the whites of her eyes and then I'm also Really trying to get the really high points of her facial features to pop And really kind of make the background go away So those features really show up really well And it's really more about prepping the background and erasing Erasing it so that her face will really show up in successive layers than it is about um having this white paint Be a part of the finished portrait Usually I don't do this on camera Usually I'm bouncing around the studio while I'm doing this with my hair up in a bun my apron on which I have and Music on really loud just K-shell we're wondering I've been known to be working on a portrait so long during the day that my husband comes home from work and Um, I still haven't cooked dinner yet because you know, I've been I forgot I've been in the studio. I forgot Okay, that works for me. Okay. I need some more Okay, now do I want black or panes gray? I actually think I want panes gray. So for that I'm going to go to um americana Panes gray because the traditions paint does not have a panes gray Panes gray is like a dark dark blue And I'm going to go to a small filbert brush What music so I have a number of different um channels on my pandora station uh Everything from aro smith and brian setzer to big band and monks chanting so So and I just play them at random. I don't um whatever comes on It helps me focus on what I'm doing Her eyebrows aren't as straight as I drew them the first time. So we're going to fix that I hopefully get her pupils in about the right place Okay, and then put a little bit of paint and then I'm going to get in here with the baby wipe and move it around to help me suggest My shapes rather than try to draw them exactly The nice thing about working from these older photos is You can just I mean, it's a black and white So you have a tonal photograph and you really can get in here and you can make her You know, whatever color that you want She doesn't have to be realistic at all I have a pandora Station it's called the goddess radio. So I don't know That much about how pandora works as far as staring sharing stations, but um, if you guys can find me There you have it I usually end up using quite a few I like having my plates be this big Um, because they're easy to hold on to So but that means I usually end up using four or five of them And I just use these plates from the dollar store don't you know the ones that you find at the art store are great and all But they're expensive and you can just get a white like ceramic plate from the dollar store and that works just fine Some days are like that In you just you're working on the same project all day until you get it right and it just takes forever Some projects are like that and you know some project all projects have an ugly duckling stage. You guys have heard me say that before um You just have to work through it And keep working at it Until you get something that you're happy with And there's always like when you're doing a portrait like right now her eyes are weird There's always a Something about it that's not perfect the first time you have to just keep working at it Until you get it right and see I just did that. I don't it's fine. Look Now i'm literally moving the paint around with my baby white I love to paint from old photos. I think for the most part Um for me at least they're more interesting than the newer ones Um Don't let my daughter hear me say that because you know she's a photographer Okay, so now we're gonna go back in with another extreme And i'm using this yellow that I mixed with um white At least for right now There's always a pop of something I always add usually it's a neon. It's frequently orange or pink Now you can get in here With of course with the baby wipes if you get some paint in the wrong place you can also get in here with um If the paint's kind of on the dry side if you get a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a paper towel It'll reactivate and remove the paint Yeah, that's one thing that you you can't That the depth of color the layers the marks you it's really you can do something similar with watercolor, but it's not the same It's just it's just not I love watercolor. Don't get me wrong. It's still my favorite But there's just some things that are easier and more effective to do um in acrylic paint This is one of them And if you really want to learn more about how to paint like this go take a class with pauline agnew She does online and in-person courses and she's a fabulous teacher I'm gonna come in back with some of our mid tones I also got my double chins from this side of the family I've done dearly, but yeah And she and uncle aldo are both passed away now So if you guys really like this, we'll keep working on this on the live Monday with deco arts And if you really like the process and you find it interesting enough We can work on these kind of things going forward on I got a cloth a garage full of canvas failures. So Yeah, exactly in It's something I really admire about the old photos So this is our aquamarine color, which is a cool color So it's going to be more of a shadow color like a mid-tone shadowy color And don't she and my uncle look so happy here So don't forget about the hair and you know Sometimes if I'm stuck on What to do next on the face Then I'll focus on the hair in the background for a little while and then it'll come to me. Okay. Good katie. All right. We'll keep doing it I've got a lot of canvas failures out in the garage. So I got plenty of work material to work with So as I'm pushing the paint around I'm constantly looking over to the reference photos Especially this middle one and looking to see where The shadows and highlights are so that I can push the paint in that direction I have to tell you guys. I really like where she's going Keeping your brushes kind of on the big side Forces you to let go of control If you're trying to be more expressive in your painting Yeah, well, we're yeah, that'll probably be one layer Maybe not today, but I will probably do some stenciling I may put some bible pages on the background.  So go with a small brush a bigger brush And or use your non-dominant hand because that forces you to let go of control And be more expressive in your mark making Wow, that's only a few minutes of paint Um like 45 minutes and I love that already Let's see And I love the way this is looking, but I have to tell you guys The hands are yellow and whites looking a little chalky for me So we have to warm that up a little bit and as we As we go forward with this Over the next week or two, we will be adding layers to it and colors Um to do that now you'll see I just put this other yellow on here this indian yellow Look how much warmer that is You can still see the kind of the hints of the other brush strokes through it, but it just totally warmed it up a lot That was a little chalky for me Thank you so much I don't always wash my brushes off either when i'm doing portraits like this and I let You know the secondary colors that may happen.   I love filbert. So you'll find that I use filbert brushes in different sizes a lot The other thing too is to let go of control of the paint brush And let it just make marks on the canvas wherever they may come and let that Suggest the shapes that you want Helps if I have paint on brush And you know, you can um Use save these baby wipes if you're so inclined they do make decent collage material Um, especially because they're just by the time you're done.  You can smudge it out with the baby wipe You can Do a lot of things Acrylic paint is really fabulous because you can just layer the colors on top of each other In a wonderful interesting way Sorry, I'm forgetting to talk aren't I oops except when the baby wipes start to get dirty you really Probably either want to get a clean one or make sure you do do this with a clean spot on the baby wipe Her nose is a little wide And don't treat any one part of the painting so precious So if you find like I am that you're kind of having to work at the nose a little bit to get the shadows Right because they're awful bit just go ahead and fix them and then you can come back and you can fix the highlights Oh, yeah, and I really I think you know for most of us that are doing art as almost a kind of therapy then Being expressive rather than realistic is really um What makes us happy I know I'm definitely that's definitely true for me So this is that pink color that we mixed I remember the upper lip would be darker and it is in the photo than the lower lip Her lower lip has this bright highlight on it And this is a warm color that would suggest sunlight, but it's not as warm as the yellow So it would sort of be a shadow color to the yellow And you know, don't be afraid to Be tentative with the paint and just put a little bit of it on And blend it around to see if you like it Oh, thanks Thanks, Lisa You're totally amazed the cranky crafter Painting like this and doing portraits like this almost remind me of like a Jackson Pollock You're giving the impression of the person and the feeling of the person Without using any realistic flush tones. That's why when students Ask me about doing flush tones. I kind of groan because yes, I know how but it's not my favorite thing I'd rather be this Just remember to keep your lines, you know soft and expressive Can tell it's almost time to stop because I'm running out of room on my baby wife Now I do have a habit of liking the unexpected portrait. Whatever colors I use in the face I end up putting in and around the eyes Um, I just think it makes it more interesting I do think we need like Not right. There's not right And I really do also have trouble stopping until um stopping Before I'm to a point. I'm comfortable with I should say So I have to be at a point that I'm comfortable stopping and letting it go Once I'm there. I'm good with stopping for a couple days a week even You know, I'm just now realizing as I'm painting this how much of a family resemblance there is between me and my great aunt I have to say We have the same shape head. I think So this kind of painting is less about being precise and more about putting the right color in the right place Yeah, there's nothing stereotypical about these colors at all So don't also don't forget, you know, we're mixed media artists, right? And this is definitely a mixed media painting. So what does that mean? You can get in here with a stabilo pencil Or a marker or a paint pen Make some suggestive expressive marks on your painting What's the worst that can happen, you know, you get in there and you make a mark you don't like like that one You just get the baby wipe in there and smudge it out or wipe it off Again, it helps if I use a clean corner There we go Okay, so now we're going to get in here with um We need a pop a pop a pop and we're going to use pink I don't know what there is about the neon pink lately, but it's my favorite color right now This is americana neon sizzling pink Okay, hold on in because I can't hold on Okay, this is neon pink Americana, this is going to be really bright and warm really give you give you a pop to your painting My my two favorite colors to use are the pink and the orange I do have all the american and conneons and I love them all but my favorite Are the Pink and the orange this is off over here, too It's turning a little bit purple because I had some blue on my brush, but that's okay Switch back to a bigger brush Um To pull the page together as a whole I think ian is what you're talking about So as you finish it as you get near nearer to where you think your Uh Shape and form is good and your color is good Then you want to start looking at your color wheel and making sure that you have um Like in the unexpected face I at some point did check the color wheel and I made sure That I had a nice tryout of colors going on that worked well together So I had some of that continuity going on in the in the painting It's very strongly pop art But so was the uncle aldo portrait and if you guys are members of my facebook group I will uh again. I don't have the original painting anymore. I gifted it to his daughter After he passed away, but I will post a picture a copy of the picture Of it in the facebook group for you all I'm really liking this indian yellow on this portrait today At least today And this yellowy orange color goes well with the turquoise and violet and Purple I haven't put any purple on here yet, but I could see me doing exactly that For some reason purple is just my color that I want to paint with right now And you notice as i'm doing this i'm not looking to cover up prior colors Or prior paint strokes. I'm just adding to them to create something more interesting And you know when I do these kind of portraits, I really just I kind of I put some paint out on my palette and I paint until that paint is done And then I let it sit for a while sometimes a couple days sometimes a week or more This right here is not right. So we're going to fix that before before we call it done So i'm going to um With a smaller brush put a little paint right here. This is the paint gray again And the other thing too is to you know Take a break definitely take a break from the painting when you feel like you're at that point where you can let it go for a while And um stand back from it take a picture of it let it sit for a while Don't rush it So if you rush it you're probably not going to be happy with the results And i'm literally painting with the baby wipe like that's And in some cases i'm pushing pretty hard on the canvas Now I still have a bunch of this black on here There's something about her portrait and this black which is again not a color I normally use when i'm doing any portraits Um at least not at this stage. Um, there's something about it. That's just She needs this black in here Maybe it's because of the color of the background I'll I'll see I'll look at the comments in a minute. I see comments comments flying Oh, yeah, okay. Let's see Yeah finger painting. Um, I I'm still thinking of warm and cool colors. I almost always am when I paint. Um I do try to get into the zone with the paintings. Um, this one's no exception. You know, each one's a little bit different and um some of them require different colors and and I'm totally distracted But for the most part part, yeah Um, I wouldn't recommend anything too small the bigger it is the easier your of a time You're gonna have So I wouldn't recommend anything too small 16 by 20 is a good size. This is a clay This is a clay tool. I don't know what it's called. It's a brush See, this is what happens. I said I was only gonna, you know I said to myself before we I turned the cameras on that I was only going to be on here for so long because I have Other stuff I should be doing But this is what happens.   She's looking pretty good You know now my my instinct is to fix this widow's peak, but in reality she had a pretty strong widow's peak So we kind of need to leave it alone And you know as we do the layers that might change but let's see let me catch up on that comments Yeah, thanks. Thanks Ian and everybody. Yeah, so this is really just the first layer now I do have stencils here And there is plenty of times where I take my portrait even though I love the way this looks And slap a stencil right on the middle of her face And put some stenciling there and then continue on with the layers and I did that with the unexpected face And you can see as I finish her That I left some of the stencil marks on her face and it just gave it something interesting And we're not going to do the stenciling today, but we may do it next week. We're going to keep working on this portrait For the next few weeks We're going to stop here because we've already been on for an hour and I don't like to make the Viewers sit who are watching the replay for two hours to watch me paint. Oh, yeah, it's not super clear It's pretty blurry because the original was only like a one inch square But here you go This is my cody doll. This is my great aunt marcella My grandfather's sister I did a portrait. Those of you who have been following me for a while Probably remember the portrait I did a while back of uncle aldo. It's been posted on facebook a couple of times And so now i'm going to paint his wife. This is his wife So the proportions are pretty good. I mean sure she's not done And she needs some more layers and she needs refinement, but it's a really good start And if I stopped here, I'd be happy with that. I'm not going to but But if I did stop here, I'd be happy with that so I mean looking at the the photo and looking at her You know, there's some refinement of the shapes that need to be done around her hair up here And around her chin down here, but that'll be done in successive layers But I've captured the flavor of the photo. I think very well So that's it for today. We will continue working on aunt marcella in future episodes next monday We'll continue working on her and we'll see how far we get then And in the meantime, don't be afraid to Paint and express the face have some fun with it. Um, what's the worst that can happen? You know, you mess it up. Okay. Well, it's just paint and it's acrylic paint. So that means you can paint over it Yeah, so next week. We'll probably add um Collogged paper and stenciling to it and then we'll continue with our layers Yeah, a lot of photos from the late 1940s Um are well any at any time in the 1940s are a bit fuzzy and blurry um Plus these were really small to begin with but um There is enough detail there for me to get an expressive portrait It'll be it'll work And in the meantime, I will make sure as I'm cleaning up that I post for you guys the picture of uncle aldo and um We will try to get this picture done In the over the next few weeks All right, that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing. Y'all know what that is by now, right? Hopefully you all know what that is by now And see you can tell I was having fun because look at my hands They're all icky And yes, this paint will go to waste we will be slapping it on something All right, so we the most important thing is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself and maybe someone else because you deserve it. They they probably do too All right, start a face Don't be afraid and don't be ashamed if you have if you're if you're not comfortable starting out without a sketch Then of course trace your blow your photo up to the size of your canvas and trace it on with the deco art has great tracing paper There's no shame in that And it saves you a lot of steps I find some joy in pushing the paint around and adjusting the shape of the face To match the photo more. I enjoy that process. Not everybody does So if you want to start with a sketch, there's no shame in that do that And just make up a face and just use the photo as a suggestion for where to put the highlights and shadows Um, okay, so overdry acrylic So brush and other water soluble mediums can be added over acrylic if you cover the acrylic with a clear Uh water color ground If you don't it's just going to beat up because the flat acrylic paint is just like plastic And so it would be like painting it on upo. It really would not stick I'll be here. Yeah, I'll be here on wednesday for watercolor wednesday. We will continue working on ant marcella next monday And um I am going to be out of town for a week starting on the 13th, but when I get back we will hopefully finish her All right, that's it for today everybody. I am hopefully going to be finding out about my cards in the shop again Soon and I will talk to you all later. Bye guys


Hi, I'm Chief Master Sergeant Heather Richens, 419th Fighter Wing Command Chief. I'm a citizen airman, which is what a lot of our reservists are. Born and raised in the 419th, started in medical. So I was a 4AO Health Services Management, was in the medical squadron for 21 years, then I moved over to Mission Support Group. I was the group superintendent there for five years. Here I am now as the Command Chief. On the civilian side, I'm a Human Resources Director for a global health care company focused on kidney dialysis, which is medical manufacturing. HR is very similar to what I do in the Air Force as a Chief, now as a Command Chief. A huge majority of us are traditional reservists and have that civilian experience, which is a lot that we bring to the fight. And we're able to implement that experience in conjunction with our military jobs, which I think is really important. I want to be able to speak to the airman. I work a lot with Chiefs, you know, colonels, everyone very high ranking, but I want to be me and I want to be relatable so that the airman feel like I can be approached. So my priorities are first, people and culture. If you don't have a good culture, you really don't have anything. People need to want to come to work and feel like they matter and feel like they're part of a team. So that's something that I believe that I need to focus on is the Command Chief. Second is mission readiness. We have to be 100% mission ready at all times. We need to be able to answer the nation's call whenever we get it. And then third, professional development. We're all leaders, regardless of our rank. We need to make sure we're developing our pipeline behind us. The 419th is my family, no question. I'm in a leadership position, but I'm wearing this uniform for you, for our airman. That's 100% what it's about. I'm going to show up to work and I'm working for you. I need to know what it is that you need. Tell me what you need. And I'm going to do whatever I can to break down barriers, break down walls to make sure that you are successful.


Get your bats ready. Use flexibility with numbers to create numbers to hit your players around the bases. Use probability to strategically label the bases. To play, you'll need an at bat with math game board, two dice, number cards 0-12, 20-30 markers for each team, and three pennies. To set up the game, cut out the number cards and place them face down next to the game board. If there are more than two players, split players into two teams. Choose which team will be the home team and which will be the away team. The goal of the game is to add or subtract numbers to create new numbers. Label the bases with strategically chosen numbers to help your team score runs while keeping your opponents from winning the game. To win, be the team with the highest score at the end of round three. The game is played in three rounds. In round one, the away team begins by randomly selecting four numbers and placing them on the bases. The home team bats first. On your turn, roll the dice. You can either add the two numbers or subtract them to create a number that equals one of the numbers on the bases. If you create one of the numbers on the bases, move your marker to the base with that number. If other team members' markers are on the bases, advance markers but only if they are forced forward. Move markers that reach home into the scoreboard for your team. If you cannot create a number on the bases, your team receives an out. Use the pennies to mark outs in the middle of the board. After ten runs or three outs, the home team's turn ends. Remove markers from the bases. Change the numbers on the bases. The away team bats now. Round one ends when the away team rolls its third out. Next, we'll see an example of round one of at bat with math being played. And you add four to six. What would you get? If you had six and you added four, what would you get? Is there a ten on the bases? Yes, there is. Okay, so place the player right there and then use that number. That's nine. Nine. Minus four. Okay, so where does the other purple one need to run? Right here. There you go. Okay. Round two begins with the away team randomly selecting four number cards again. This time the bases are labeled in order of how likely the numbers chosen are to be rolled. First base will be labeled with the most likely number to be rolled and home base will be the least likely number to be rolled. Play continues as in round one. Round two ends when the away team earns ten runs or its third out. Before round three, instead of randomly selecting number cards, both teams choose which numbers they want to place on the bases. The home team sets their numbers aside. The away team labels the bases first. The home team bats first. Play continues as in round one. The goal of this round is to try and win the game. After the home team bats, they arrange the numbers they chose at the beginning of round three on the bases. Round three ends when the away team earns ten runs or its third out. Here are some questions to think about while playing or after play. Is there an equal chance of getting each number zero through twelve? What are all the possible outcomes that can be rolled using two dice? What labels on the bases give your team the greatest chance for rolling a hit? What strategies did you use when labeling the bases in round three? One variation of the game is to play a multiplication league where batters can use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to combine two numbers rolled. Another variation for more advanced players is advanced league where players can use any operations to combine the two numbers rolled. Ask more advanced players to avoid addition and subtraction if possible. What's the probability that you will hit it out of the park?


All right, Cyber Traders. Welcome on back and good morning to all this Thursday, April 21st, shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern time. Great to see Cliff, Patrick, Steve, Mark, Felix, Leda, Alex, Bobby, and all of us live inside the Cyber Group Room for all of us in social media. Once again, second time this week, you could tell this is not the voice of one Fausto Puglisi. I like to say my name is Josh Levitin. Great to see all of us in social media as well, though. Listen, then you heard it from Fausto yesterday. He didn't exactly have the best start to this week, of course. So he ended up actually going away. I think that was planned. Anyway, with family. So spending a little time, I think, in Delaware with some family around there.  That's part of what we do here as Day Traders.  So he ended up taking the next couple of days off. So for all of us in social media, you got me here at least in the mornings for today and tomorrow. But let's hop to it, folks. We have the CYN trade on the screen to begin. We have a couple of good movers from today. I normally don't trade pre-market.  So I don't always have the chance to trade pre-market. I didn't catch the CYN. I ended up catching the American Airlines trade, though. So we'll go over both of those. We'll go over a couple of the stocks that we ended up trading from yesterday. And then ultimately, much like we always do here in the morning meeting, we'll look to rescan the market, see what else we could put on the watch list going into the market open. So CYN right now, it ended up making a big pop shortly after 8.30, ended up popping from 1.10 upwards to 2.00, 2.00 and above. And then from there, it's had a hard time trying to move up higher, making actually a really clean, rounded top and beginning to pull back down. So quick news update from your newsmen once again for this morning. CYN shares trading higher after the company announced the official launch of DriveMod Kit, a turnkey autonomous vehicle solution. That sounds cool. All right. Well, nonetheless, led to a big pop. Stock's been taking a beating, though, from the beginning of last year all the way till now, basically. So I don't think this would be the exact type of stock you'd want to swing trade, per se. You never know what could end up being an incredibly short squeeze throughout the week. But it definitely is a day trade to begin. Hey, we'll put this on our watch list right now, the CYN trade. And then alongside that, hey, going into the pre-market this morning, this wasn't even on the pre-market list. It had popped after 8.30. We had only three or four stocks featured on the pre-market list. I tagged the airlines collectively on the pre-market list at least. But no, American Airlines in particular ended up posting earnings. So let me just get that out for you folks here. The earnings report on American Airlines, obviously up near 11% still here, although dropping off from 22%. American Airlines, their quarter one EPS ended up beating the estimate, their sales beat the estimate, and this is the kicker normally, and they ended up raising quarter two guidance, issuing quarter two guidance, let me just say. So with that, hey, made a big pop early in the pre-market this morning. But I ended up catching this trade. It was right off an iceberg level. So I would love to bring up level four. I'm not in it right now. And I did that mainly just to get out before we started this meeting. I'm happy I ended up getting out at least. But I know it was on a smaller share size, wasn't on anything crazy. It's to say that once this ended up breaking under and over off the 21-25 here led to a beautiful bounce. So for the news that came out on American Airlines, you'd hope to see some move upward throughout pre-market or after the market opens. So for something as liquid as this, I gave it a shot and with that ended up making a nice break off that 21-25 iceberg level. And then I ended up getting out at the 38 cent profit. I got out right around 21-65. So it led to a good trade, but ended up pushing a bit higher. There was a couple of big prints on the tape that were filled from pre-market early. Those big dots that you see on book map, they're about the same person, but 200,000 shares filled off 21-46. They ended up getting out just a few minutes later, just a bit later on off of 21-75. So those are two big levels to keep in mind. Outside of that, I would just say keep an eye on the 22 level up top about 87,000 shares, 88,000 shares on the offer right now. I'm sure that's only going to get a lot bigger once the market does open. But hey, just for right now, I just wanted to start off showing a couple of the stocks that we were calling out from pre-market. I'll put the American Airlines trade on the watch list here too. All right, we had a decent afternoon yesterday, although I was teaching in class. We had a couple of good stocks that we were following on the way down here. So give me a quick moment. Roblox, Netflix obviously, but that's a little bit more expensive. RBLX ended up making a huge drop off this more yesterday morning from 41, just all the way down, clean shot to sub 36, ended up dropping all the way down there, roughly by 10-15 Eastern, and then from there, more so heading into the early or mid to late afternoon even, ended up beginning to pull back down. We thought it was going to make a really good sweep the lows again and even break lower. From there, ended up just beginning to bounce back up a bit into consolidation. But at least this one was so nice to us in the morning as a short. I wanted to just check back in on this trade in the pre-market. It's just a good sideless stock. It's not up a lot. It's trading good volume in pre-market. I'm sure when the market opens up, it'll become more liquid. So this could be a good sideless stock to follow, but I'm not really going to put this on the main specialist just yet. We had the LGVN trade on the way up yesterday, ended up making more of a run for us heading into the early afternoon, right around 1pm Eastern time. That's when we really first started to catch it.  It was like super low volume at the time. So it was moving up. It was climbing up the gainers list, rightfully so at the time. But we ended up having our eyes on it as it ended up beginning to break the high off the false breakout at first. And then from there, well, it ended up thankfully building back up for us once again, heading into the early afternoon, broke above the 1150 level from there, took off. But again, this one, unlike the RBLX, unlike it, if you look at level three, I mean, this is just pre-market right now. So perhaps it'll fill in more after the open, but it was really thin. This is not the type of stock as an inexperienced day trader or newly enrolled student here for you to follow. It is not.  If you don't know how to follow something, either this volatile or this thinly traded, it would not make sense for you to trade a lot of money on it, trade a lot of shares, risk a lot of your no hard earned money, as I like to phrase in class. Hey, good side list stock once again. It's trading about 62K this morning in terms of volume. The AMC trade, which was a good short from yesterday, mainly in the morning, similar move to RBLX, but this one ended up breaking down lower, heading into the close. So this one was a pretty good short. We had the BAOS trade, I think, little pop, at least taking us into the early afternoon, from one upwards to 140, close to 150. Hey, this one was really liquid, unlike actually that LGVN. This one actually had a really tight spread liquid order book. But hey, the same thing happened to this as the LGVN had dropped off really sharply after. Although this was liquid on the order book, it normally doesn't trade a lot of volume day to day. That's where you got to be careful too. All right, so all in all, we had a decent outing yesterday. It's been a really good week altogether. Obviously, the market has been pushing up pretty nicely for us, at least since tax day, pretty much. Hopefully, we have another nice run up this morning. So with that, let's just go across the gainers and losers list to your folks and we'll see what else we got. Normally, we're not as much of a fan of the real cheapies below a dollar. We're not looking to trade penny stocks or stocks that are below a dollar. GFAI, we're actually familiar with, ended up making a big run for us back in March and broke above a dollar and moved up at that point. So this one's familiar. Ended up making a big pop after 7 o'clock, 70 cents upwards to close to a dollar here after 8 o'clock. But flat. It's not doing a whole lot right now at this point. I'm going to pass on it. All right, a stock. I'm not going to pass on it, at least just yet. The MULN trade, this one we ended up putting on the pre-market watch list, also one that we're extremely familiar with back from March time. This was one of the energy oil stocks, I think. And if I'm wrong on that, then perhaps this was EV affiliated. But nonetheless, MULN ended up making a huge run for us back then in early March off a dollar upwards to 4 plus, dropped off quite a bit after. So I'll say this here, as I say on a lot of these former runners, if we can see this stock make a fraction of the type of run it made for us back in March, go 4x, I'll take it. Brian and Cliff there, helping me out there on that MULN traded is EV related, not energy oil related. I think I got that mixed up with IMPP. I'm not mistaken.  My trader's dyslexia. All right, so MULN at least goes on the watch list for right now. Definitely more of a level one, maybe level two stock, if anything. It's not going to be volatile. This would be a great introductory type of stock for any of our newly enrolled students. CRXT though, more volatile than MULN, but at least a really liquid order book here in pre-market, right? This one was a crazy mover from yesterday, ended up popping from like two all the way up towards close to four, topped off I think off 385 there, and then pulled back down really sharply taking us into the afternoon. So now that was a big pop and drop type of play. And then with now or with this morning in pre- market, we ended up seeing the stock make a nice slingshot roughly after eight o'clock, bounce from 210 up to 270 and for right now trying to shake around here. Let me bring book map up one more time. Here's my American Airlines. Here's CRXT. So CRXT, you happen to have here a couple of big iceberg orders on the bid popping up. And this was shortly after 830. So that was at $2.20 and then from there at 227. These two orange lines here. So hey, it seems like someone's trying to squeeze the stock up for right now. Nonetheless, there's still an order on the ask for it to break over at $2.63. So keep an eye on that. And we'll keep this CRXT on the watch list. All right. Let's see what else we got here, folks. We'll keep it go and we'll keep it moving. We want to make sure our students have enough time to prep and make sure they're ready to go heading into the market open. So it's not just about me taking time scanning the market. It's a matter of us identifying big levels and just making sure that we're prepped and ready to go. We're not rushed. CGRN, this one we had called out after 8 o'clock. Nice little pop up at first, but then it pulled back sharply. This stock actually is shortable. It actually is shortable. So for what it's worth if it continues to dump off, it could be a good trade going down. Perhaps this could make a nice bounce after the market opens. Looks like some buying finally came in off the four level there. I don't know. I feel like there's better stocks in this even right now heading into the open. I'll even slip this on the side list. If we come down to it at the end and check this one out again, perhaps I'll add it, but I want to see what else is on there. Obviously Tesla ended up making a big push up more so from the after hours yesterday, but another big push this morning in pre-market. So that was earnings related. I'm not mistaken. I don't think they ended up having any changes to their digital asset portfolio, Elon and them. I got a bunch of price targets and firms giving different upgrades or updates on their standings with Tesla, seeing price targets anywhere between $1,300 to $375. How about that? That doesn't give us too much information, but with the earnings coming out yesterday afternoon on Tesla, we ended up seeing a big move. Perhaps some of the other EV stocks could look to go with it. That could be a thought. So hey, that MULN, that's EV related. How about my NEO? It's only up 2% here actually. It's very choppy this morning. I'm not really too particular about NEO this morning. The GM trade, very spotty in pre-market, doing Jack honestly, XPAP, another EV related company, EV auto company. So this one also pretty flat. We'll check on these more after the market opens and perhaps some of the other EV related stocks if Tesla can make a nice squeeze. But if Tesla makes a nice squeeze after the open, that means that the entire market is likely making that squeeze with it. Likely, not guaranteed, but should that be the case, then why not follow some of the other major name brand stocks, especially like American Airlines like we talked about coming off of news of its own, earnings of its own. Then United Airlines that could tag along with it. So I'm going to collectively just label the airlines on the watch list. I'll single AAL out just because that's like the most tradable in the sense of price and liquidity, but UAL, JetBlue, Save, blah, blah, blah. All right. Let's see what else we got here, folks. Across the Gainer side, there's JetBlue. I don't really see many other familiar names that look back or $827 stock here, BX. All right. Let's hop on over to the loser's list here for the last five minutes. I don't know if you've been hearing that in the background of this audio broadcast I've been doing. I don't know, but for the last five minutes, I've had this sparrow like pecking at my window as loud as you could possibly imagine. I kind of trooped through that pretty nicely. That was pretty crazy. I wish we have a webcam to show on the window I have here. That was wild. Nonetheless, XRX, leading off the loser's list, not technically leading off. It's number two, but it is shortable. Ended up dropping off early this morning Xerox. I honestly didn't even realize they were still around. I'm sure they do a bunch of business commercially, but I didn't even realize they're still around. I know they've been around obviously forever. They ended up having earnings. Looks like their EPS quarter one is down year over year. Their sales beat the estimate, but that's all I got. For right now, it's just a tradable stock and it's shortable. Hey, we'll take it. XRX, we'll put on the watch list. Hopefully that bird does not come back. Mark says, glad it's not a woodpecker. I don't know, man. I don't know what bird that was, but that was different than the one from the last few weeks.  That was loud. All right. Enough of that. Let's see what else is on this loser's list for right now. You never know what you get here in these meetings, folks. All right. Let's see what else we got. Honestly, I wasn't thrilled with pre-market when I scanned really early at eight o'clock Eastern time. Of course, things could easily change within a moment's notice, but right now it doesn't really seem like I'm seeing much else that looks great. I know that ALVR we did trade from yesterday, so give this a quick shout. Popped after the market opened up yesterday, but look at where it is here. Not really too interested in following this just yet this morning. We'll pass. All right, folks. Aside from that, if there's anything else that you have, uptown left, right, more than 5% type it in the chat board, let me know here pretty quick. Patrick on the Roblox. Redbox, my dyslexia here. RDBX. Hey, it's really active. I actually did not cover this one just yet. It was dropping off in pre-market really early. It's still tailing down. I hope that this finds some legs. It's not a really volatile stock, so I would definitely say this one could go on our watch list, RDBX, but just follow the trend leading into the open. That's not the type of trend you want to follow here, at least heading into the open, this downtrend. It leads me to think so far that we'll only continue to see this drop off. From that point, we've got to make sure this breaks under then back over major support, perhaps off the 250 level. Ron with a couple of shorts. Alcoa, that's one of his favorite stocks I know from over the years. Down big. It is down over 9%, and it is on the way down. Trending down really nicely. It is shortable. It's hard to not actually put this on our watch list, little expensive. That's the only thing I'll say, but this is actually normally a pretty liquid stock to follow Alcoa. I know it trades several million shares a day. You know what? That looks good. CENX not so much, Ron. Definitely not yet. Down big technically, it's 7% plus, but it's only trading 12K. You know that that's not tradable yet, but the other one though, that one looks good. That Alcoa, I like. SEV from Glenn asking my thoughts on it. That whole happened here. Big pop at least after 9 o'clock. I forgot to go over this at least from this morning. Failed to cover the afternoon pop that we had. Ended up making a big move. It was actually more so from the late morning if I'm not mistaken. Ended up starting off early pre-market after the open. We had a pop, but then really taking us into the early afternoon, it was making this slow gradual trend up. It honestly doesn't look like a lot compared to the real explosive move that it made later on, but really from the beginning of the early afternoon, we started to follow this on the way up, hopeful for a type of breakout, and then it was really heading into the final 30 minutes. Ended up exploding, and then in the after hours going again. Hey, it's up that 4-5% or so that I asked for. I forgot about this actually. Given this pop here, I'm interested in it. I don't like the reaction off the pop, that's for sure. Anytime you see a pop and then instantly a drop right back down, that's no bueno. I like the activity on this at least. I'll slip this on the back end of the watch list. I do like the CRXT more. I like that Alcoa more as a short. The American Airlines is a long perhaps if that can keep going with the market after the open. All right, so folks, I think that we're going to close the show for this morning. I'll be back on the sticks later on this afternoon for all of us on Facebook Live and YouTube. If you wanted to continue our audio broadcast or audio commentary inside the Cyber Group Room, just go right down to the link on the blue banner below of the stream. If you're joining us on social media, you can join us for a small week-long trial. You don't have to begin today. Even you could begin as next week. All right, but otherwise for Brian, Norman, Ron, Glenn, Mark, Patrick, where are the ladies here at the other room? I see Nina. I saw Lita just before and I'm sure all of us otherwise coming up. Karen, Barbara, there we go. There we go. The ladies at the trading room there. I look forward to talking to everybody coming up though shortly after the market opens up. Now, just give me a few moments to copy and tweet the pics and then I'll be back on right at the opening bell, folks. Talk to you all soon. And receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge.


Now, as part of efforts to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal, Governor Jorbozadema has increased the minimum wage of workers in the state to $40,000 in dinero, with consequential salary adjustments of other levels. Speaking in a worry during stakeholders' meeting, Governor Jorbozadema says the wage increment is to ensure that sufferings of workers in the state is highly reduced. Other issues that Governor highlighted include procurement of more buses for workers to strengthen the free transport system in order to cover more routes, while a meal will guarantee one free meal every day for workers has been introduced. I feel pain. This is why I have come up with a number of broad policy initiatives that I'm folding here now to cushion the burdens. It is therefore my pleasure to unfold the following policies for human workers and the non-workers and all our people, maybe most straight in line. This policy, after being read here this afternoon, will become a government document and the most immediate implementation must start. There shall be an immediate upward review of salaries and wages of workers in the state. The minimum wage is hereby raised to $40,000, with the discretionary consequential adjustments of other levels. Your salaries will be able not only to take you home but also provide your basic necessities to enable you to make ends meet. Residents in Benin City, the adult state capital, have reacted to the Senate's approval of President Borla Tinnibir's request for $800 million borrowing from the World Bank. The president in a letter to the Senate revealed the decision of the federal government to transfer the sum of $8,000 a month to 12 million poor and low-income households for six months. The move has generated mixed reactions in adult states as some persons are of the opinion that Nigerians must be patient while others differ. Wanted to remove one of the best first ways or you have a tumor or you first thing you have to do you go under the knife. It's always a painful process. If you say you don't want to remove the tumor you have to do if you don't want to go through the pain to get the game. Then you have to live with the tumor. So what actually what you do is like you know if you see a surgeon is actually trying to operate on every sector of Nigeria. First thing, subsidy removal. We all know that there's corruption with that subsidy reaching for years and no presidents have been bold enough to actually remove it. Even while some will say, oh we are removing it next month. Before you know it, you hear that we are still paying subsidy and all that. Before the issue of subsidy removal, it may be a little bit. But now the man have pretty much problem with this subsidy. Although they claim it's a bold move. I don't know how bold this boom is. 8,000 cannot get anybody to anywhere no matter the level of alcohol you are in the family. Definitely 8,000 cannot go. Look at the transport school. Let's look at, you said the poorest of the poorest. Maybe the poorest of the poorest, maybe they are in the town, they are in this. Even in the town, how many of them can it do for any month? Where can it take them to? Those in the village is even worse. Even those in town can't do it, they have nowhere else to go, they can't take. In the village, for you to move your produce from one village to the other, it's a problem. It's a problem. So when you pay the man 8,000 to do what, not to food, they are gone. The first, your inauguration day, you told us you are removing the petroleum subsidy that is going to save money for the people. Now you are not writing. Just a few weeks down the line, after you increase fuel from 220 naira to 520 naira, the profit you made from the removal of petroleum subsidy, what happened to it? Where is the money? Now you want to be giving money to the poor people, 80,000 naira. Do you know the cost of feeding as we speak today? Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Big news from our Baltimore Ravens and let's get straight into it. So we all know the Baltimore Ravens, they had to get down to 53 men on their roster yesterday and they did just that. They had some real tough decisions to make but they made them, but they're not done making decisions yet because there's still a lot more transactions that are to take place. Now, for instance, the Y receivers, it was always expected that the Ravens had five locks at Y receiver that being Odell Beckham, Jr. Rashad Bateman, Devon Duvenay, Nelson Aguilore and first round pick this year, Zay Flowers and those five locks, they all made the team. But then there was some battle for that six Y receiver spot. And most people assumed that it would be Tylen Wallace because of the plays that he made in the pre-season and just because of his familiarity with the team. And it ended up being Tylen Wallace because of the plays he made in the pre-season and his familiarity with the team. So he got that six Y receiver spot. But then y'all remember when it was being said it was floating around that the Ravens, though they're the first team that could have five first round picks at Y receiver on their team at one time because that's never happened before. And again, Odell Beckham, Jr. first rounder, Nelson Aguilore, Rashad Bateman, Zay Flowers and the fifth one was Laquan Treadwell, but Laquan Treadwell, he was cut in the 53 man roster cut down. And even though he made that nice touchdown catch against the Bucks the other night and I felt like he just wasn't used to being so wide open. He was like, man, how did I get so wide open on his play that he hesitated to celebrate for a bit? But anyway, he did not make the initial roster, but all hope is not lost for Laquan Treadwell because according to Ian Rappaport, he said veteran Y receiver Laquan Treadwell plans to sign a practice squad deal with the Ravens tomorrow. So Laquan Treadwell is going to be a Raven. He won't be on the active roster, but he'll be on the 16 man practice squad roster. So this is telling me the Ravens are like, Hey, we got to stay ready so we don't got to get ready. And with the Baltimore Ravens, it is on the in the back and the front of a lot of people's minds. This year is health, obviously every year is health. Cause that's been a thing that has really been taking the Ravens out of the post season. It's been taking them out of contention every single year since 2020. It's been health. Remember 2020 Lamar Jackson concussion in a playoff game. 2021 Lamar Jackson, he, what was it? The high angle sprain. And then last year he got the injury too. So that there's just been injuries and not Lamar Jackson hasn't been the only person that's been getting hurt, but he's been our main guy that's been getting hurt, but our receivers too. Think about Odell Beckham Jr. He didn't even play last year. You think about Rashad Babin. He hasn't played the full two years of his tenure as a Baltimore Raven yet. So there's injuries at different positions, but specifically why receiver? You gotta be careful with it.  So just in case, hopefully they don't need to use them, but just in case because, you know, stuff happens. Anyway, moving on. The Baltimore Ravens also, they cut some veterans and I was like, whoa, I thought those guys were gonna make the roster. Some of those cuts that they made were to guys like a quarterback, Josh Johnson, who had, he had looked decent this preseason. I know it started off a bit slow for him, but then he started to not necessarily catch fire, but he started to look a lot better, a lot more comfortable and whatnot.  They cut Melvin Gordon. They cut Kevan Seymour, who, y'all know, I said that he was a lot to make this Ravens roster. I really thought he was gonna be there for sure. And they also cut Daryl Worley. I'm like, man, remember Daryl Worley? I remember him in that week, 18 game last year against the Bengals. He was like, locking up. I said, whoa, Daryl Worley, where this come from? But I ain't complaining, I love it. But they cut him and they also cut Brent Urban as well. But all hope is not lost, at least for a few of those guys because this morning, Josena Anderson, she reported, she said, I'm told QB Josh Johnson, defensive back Kevan Seymour and defensive end Brent Urban are currently expected to be added to the Ravens 53 man roster per source. So, if they are added to the roster, Ravens are already a 53 men right now. That means three men would have to step down. Three men would have to probably be put on short-term in your reserve, meaning they could come back later because that would open up three roster spots. That would be the only way to open up three roster spots unless you release three players, but the Ravens are not going to do that. So, when you look around the roster, who could be some of the guys that get put on IAR? Now, one of them could possibly be Tyler Huntley. Ravens quarterback, their backup quarterback, Tyler Huntley, because he played in the first game against the Eagles. And he came in there and did his thing, but then he left with a hamstring injury. And I remember thinking like, okay, Ravens are just, they just be an extra cautious or whatnot. It ain't nothing serious. The ball ball said it ain't nothing serious. Like, okay, cool, it ain't nothing serious. I ain't going to trip. Ravens fans, let's not trip. We'll team keep it clean, we good. Then we hadn't seen Tyler Huntley play since. And it was like, okay, it is pre-season. He's a backup quarterback. They normally play what's going on. We hadn't seen him play or practice at all. It was reported just yesterday that he was running on the adjacent side of the field. Him and Tyus Bowser, that was actually two days ago. So that was good news. That was nice to hear about. So he's getting closer to coming back, but he didn't practice yet. So he's not ready yet. So I think Tyler Huntley, he could be a candidate for injured reserve. Also, when you look at the Ravens running backs, they got J.K. Dobbins, Gus, it was Justice Hill and Keaton Mitchell. Now Keaton Mitchell, he also had an injury scare in the pre-season similar to Tyler Huntley. But he had a shoulder stinger. And with a shoulder stinger, it could take a little bit to heal. It could take a, maybe like a couple of weeks sometimes to heal. It fluctuates, but it's not a serious injury. It's nothing that will keep him out for too long. But the Ravens could look at him like, huh, you've had that shoulder stinger. You're not gonna be a starter for us right now. You'd primarily be a special teams guy. So maybe they could look at him like, all right, we could use your spot for one of those three guys. So he would be another candidate in my opinion for them to possibly put him on injured reserve. So we'll see what happens with that. Also somebody else who, I think the Ravens could do that with as well. And this is just my opinion. Again, NFL outside of no plugs, no sources, no connects, no, none of that. I think Sala, the rookie six round pick offensive lineman, I think he could be somebody that they could actually put on injured reserve because I don't really feel like there will be a spot for him because they have their offensive line already. Obviously the starters, Linda Baum, Kevin Zitler, John Simpson, Morgan Moses and Ronnie Stanley. And he is a guard slash tackle, but you got Pat McCurry. He could play all the offensive line spots. You got Daniel Philelli and you got Ben Cleveland as well. That could be your backup. So Ben Cleveland did look better than Sala in this preseason.  I could be wrong about that one. And any other spots, maybe Malik Ham, he could be another candidate for injured reserve. Oh, another one that will be on injured reserve. So we ain't even got to think about candidates. Pepe Williams, that is one that's definitely going to be being put on injured reserve because he's not expected to be back till October. So you're not going to have him just sitting on a roster hurt if he's not expected to be back till October. That's a roster spot that will definitely be getting opened up like right away. So that clears up a lot of confusion. So that's one spot right there. So those three guys again, Josh Johnson, Brent Urban and Kevon Seymour, that's one spot right there for them for sure, Pepe Williams spot. So we'll see what happens with that, but Raven's got a lot of maneuvering, a lot of roster maneuvering to continue to do. Now another person who could go to a short-term injured reserve, depending on the severity of his injury and the recovery is Malik Humphrey. So another cornerback spot. John Harbaugh has continued to say, Malik Humphrey is going to be back in the early part of the season. We haven't gotten any clarification on exactly how early it will be. It sounds like whenever they talk about it, it sounds like he'll miss maybe two or three games, maybe four, it doesn't sound like it's anything past five, but that's just what I got from what everybody's been saying. We don't have any for sure certain dates or anything like that that tell us how long Malik Humphrey is going to miss. So we'll just keep waiting for that. Now, another thing that happened with current, that's, we covered everything that happened with current Ravens, but there's some stuff that happened with some former Ravens and there was some former Ravens that were getting cut. And I was like, oh man, it's crazy how things can change just like that. Like in an instant, things can change. Remember Tyler Baty? Ravens drafted him thing last season. They drafted Tyler Baty, didn't really find a place for him. Then they ended up cutting him, ended up cutting Tyler Baty. Then he ended up catching on with the Denver Broncos in his very first game. He had a big touchdown play. And I was like, oh yeah, okay, Tyler Baty, we see you baby. And then that was it. So he was on there and then they ended up cutting him. Also, our running back, what was his name? Tyson Williams, there we go. Tyson Williams who, oh man, he had made, he was nice. I had really like Tyson Williams, man, because he was somebody that you could tell, he was always a big play where he had some nice speed, nice cuts. Sometimes he had some trouble holding on to the ball. And then there were some times when I think just, his head wasn't in the game. Cause I remember, I never forget that play against the Cincinnati Bengals. It was a fourth down play. Game was on the line and Lamar Jackson throws it to Tyson Williams. And he runs out of bounds before he gets the first down market. And it's fourth, this is fourth down. So you running out of bounds, that ends it. That's it, that's a wrap. That it's over at that point. But I do remember his good plays against the Raiders. He made some big, some nice long runs. And I remember he had a nice long touchdown run too. But anyway, the Ravens had cut him. And I remember being upset about that.  But they cut him. He signed with the Colts, but then he ended up getting cut this off season as well. And then there was Eric Tomlinson, they're tight in Ravens tight in from a couple of years back, just primarily a blocking tight in. He caught a few passes here and there, but he ended up getting cut as well. But anyway, that's all the big updates we got for now. Got more coming later on. So y'all stay tuned for that now. There was something that I was shocked that the Ravens did in this roster cut down. I was really shocked and surprised that they did it. 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