Hello and welcome to our summary video on an inspector calls. Now make this video for two reasons The first is for students who have been following my entire course now so far We've looked at a very detailed overview of the play as well as read through each of the three acts in detail And so this video is really useful in tying together everything in terms of taking a step back and understanding the plot more broadly The different themes the genres and characters. However I also made this video for some students who've joined this course and they don't necessarily have the luxury of time In other words, you don't necessarily have the time to go through the play in detail as well as other aspects of the course And you really just need to get a quick overview of what happens The key quotations to remember and then jump straight into our following video, which will be the exam practice Now if that's what you need you've come to the right place So with that further ado, let's get started now Let's begin with just a general broad summary and overview of the plot now just to recap Essentially the play begins with Sheila and Gerald having an engagement and of course in terms of the lighting It's very pink very soft and of course this shows that they all wear rose tinted glasses as a whole They are an upper middle-class family very detached from what's going on in an audience society and Sheila is presented as really childish She's very childlike and she's really excitable with regards to her engagement Then essentially we have Mr. Berling who we realize actually has got a lot to benefit from this wedding Between Gerald Croft and his daughter Sheila Berling. Gerald Croft comes from a very aristocratic family And hence this wedding will essentially be a business merger between the Berling family Which is a smaller company and the Croft family who run a larger and more competitive family Now Mr. Berling set both Gerald and Eric aside They go to his drawing room and he discusses essentially this idea that he doesn't really believe in social responsibility And this idea that rich people should look out for poorer people Now as the play progresses essentially this reverie and this happiness is interrupted by an inspector an inspector called Inspector Ball Who interrupts this happiness and comes in and at first the Berlings try to intimidate him Especially Mr. Berling who tries to use his social standing and social status to essentially intimidate the inspector to leave However, the inspector reveals that a young woman named essentially Eva Smith But later on Daisy Renton died by committed suicide and they are all Implicated in this death in other words that all held responsible now the inspector starts off with Mr. Berling And it turns out that Eva Smith essentially used to work for his factory She tried to get better pay because she was underpaid as well as all the other workers in his factory She tried to organize them to ask Mr. Berling for better pay He fired her and treated her essentially as cheap labor and he's implicated in her death because essentially She didn't have any kind of social stability or any kind of financial stability After being kicked out from her workplace for simply asking for just better pay Which is just a humane thing for Mr. Berling to do However, then he moves on to Sheila. So it's not really Mr. Berling that's responsible for this death We find that Eva Smith was luckily able to find another job in a shop called Millwards Which is where both Sheila and her mother shop in and this is ladies of leisure who go in and shop in this shop However, Sheila she tries on a dress and she becomes really annoyed with herself because she doesn't look very beautiful in this dress She notices Eva Smith and another shop assistant smirking at her and Essentially, she decides to use her power and her influence as someone who supports the shop and has a patron to get Eva fired So of course Eva had less options. She goes from not having a job with Mr. Berling She finds a job fortunately and she's then fired from this job simply because one of the people who is Really in a very powerful position like Sheila decides she doesn't take like into her and then she's fired So of course Eva Smith doesn't really have any options She may have killed herself here and of course Sheila learns her role in this However, the inspector then moves on to Gerald now We had found out that Gerald had Mysteriously disappeared the previous summer before this engagement now we find out the reason for why Gerald disappeared It turns out he was having an affair with Sheila or rather, sorry He was having an affair with Daisy Renton This is now Eva Smith who decided to because she didn't have any options and any job opportunities She decides to become a night worker in other words a prostitute now She meets Gerald who takes a liking to her and essentially Gerald has an affair with her But also he decides to financially support her however that comes to an end when he has to Essentially leave and he has to go back to basically living with his normal family and to push forward that engagement and of course at this point Maybe Daisy Renton who formerly was known as Eva Smith may have felt that her options even as a night worker were running out Now we then move on to Mrs. Burling now the inspector turns to Mrs. Burling and it turns out that Eva Smith now Daisy Renton became pregnant We don't yet quite know who caused this pregnancy however She approaches Mrs. Burling who we learn is in charge of the Brummel women's charity Organisations is a charity that's supposed to help working-class women who are maybe pregnant They don't necessarily have any financial support She's supposed to be the chair of this charity and she's supposed to be helping working-class women like Daisy Renton Now Daisy Renton when she presents herself She presents herself as a Burling and we find out of course that this is a hint that not only is she pregnant But she's pregnant by Eric's child now Mrs. Burling who's afraid of the scandal the social scandal This might cause to their family decides to use her influence to have any form of financial support Refused to Daisy Renton and she's therefore turned away So maybe at this stage could Daisy Renton have killed herself as a result of Mrs. Burling's Selfishness and of course not only has she killed herself She's killed the child within her and of course the final person who shows us who's the father of the child is Eric Except the inspector turns to Eric and it turns out that Eric not only is an alcoholic But he has a taste in women and he meets Daisy Renton who of course we know is a night worker He meets her before she fell pregnant and it turns out that not only does he have an affair with her She falls pregnant and he used to steal from his father in order to support Daisy Renton but once Daisy Renton found out that he was stealing in order to give her essentially an allowance She would she did the moral thing and she rejected any more money And of course Eric Falty couldn't do anything and so their affair ended However, of course, we then know that she was pregnant their affair ends and she tries to go to Mrs. Burling to get some help She runs out of options and ultimately because she has no options. She's now pregnant She ultimately feels she has no opportunities and she decides to kill herself So essentially all of these people have a part to play now how the play ends is that the inspector Then leaves them all by this stage. The happiness has been completely destroyed Effectively, they're all really really upset and especially Sheila and Eric are really moved by this story of Eva Smith Slash Daisy Renton. They already appear to want to be better people However, it's really interesting to see the difference in their opinions with the mother and father Both of them actually want to see how they can cover up their role They want to see what can be done Of course, also Gerald Croft appears rather than Sheila and Eric who are the younger ones rather than feeling the same sentiments as them Actually, he also wants to see how he can cover this up.  He tells this to the Berlings both Sybil and Arthur Burling are really pleased Because now they know that no scandal will fall upon them. However, both Eric and Sheila still feel responsible They know that someone has been killed here someone has committed suicide because actually how could they all be confessing to something and There's too much coincidence between the people who they are confessing to have hurt versus someone not really existing So essentially we find that there's a divide between Gerald on one side as well as the older Berlings Versus the younger Berlings. This is Eric and Sheila Ultimately whilst Mr. And Mrs. Berling are really happy They then get another phone call and they find out that someone has died in the infirmary and a police officer is coming to ask some questions So essentially it repeats and it goes back to where it started off from So that's the plot in detail So now let's talk about the genre and the genre is really straightforward Essentially, this is a play it belongs to the drama genre and essentially this play is really really powerful It's Priestley's way of making a social critique It was written after the second world war in 1945 which ended in 1945 And this is Priestley's way of essentially saying that it's really important for England not to have a repeat of the Social divides that had been seen during the Victorian era as well as Edwardian England So do remember that this genre is a drama Now let's talk about context and do remember that context is really important for your AO4 marks Context means what was happening at the time of writing What are the surrounding issues at the time of writing that Priestley wants our attention to be drawn to Now when it comes to context the first thing to remember is to do with when the play is supposed to be set in Which is of course very different to when it was written. So as I mentioned it was written after the second world war However, the play is meant to be set in the Edwardian period This is the period right after the Victorian era in the early 1900s up until the start of the first world war So you can roughly say Edwardian England was between 1900s all the way to 1914 and this was essentially a really deeply divided society There was a massive divide between the majority poor working class people like Eva Smith and the very very few Upper class and upper middle class people like the Berlin family who really benefited of the labor and of the hard work Of the industrial workers who had pushed for the industrial revolution But they didn't necessarily benefit from any of this wealth Now the other contextual factor to remember of course is a social class divide So again as I've mentioned before there was a massive divide between the very few who were really wealthy and who had lots of Opportunities versus the vast majority of people who were poor and they lacked opportunities And as we can see from Eva Smith and Daisy Renton their options narrowed and narrowed and narrowed until they had nothing else to do Ultimately this could cause suicide The other key contextual factor is to do with unequal workplaces. So of course always remember that UK and England's industrial growth was powered by the industrial revolution This means there were lots of factories that had opened in the 17 and 1800s Which powered the growth of the UK However, a lot of these factory workers who worked in really unsafe conditions really unsanitary conditions a lot of them died Very young. They also were paid very little and there was a lot of inequality Not only between what they would expect to pay but even inequality amongst the workers So women and children were paid far less than male workers And of course that's why priestly chose a woman as the character that dies Now the final contextual factor is to do with gender roles and this is especially shown Through Eva Smith slash Daisy Renton as well as Sheila and her mother Now when you're thinking about Edwardian England women did not really have that many opportunities Not only did working women have to accept very low pay and very unequal pay But upper-class women were essentially seen as the properties of their husbands So do remember that this is before the suffragette movement. The suffragette movement was a movement for equality between Women and men when it came to their voting rights prior to the suffragettes Essentially gaining women the right to vote women were considered property of men And of course this is highlighted through the marriage between Gerald Croft and Sheila Burling Mr. Burling actually is the one who stands most to benefit from this He's using his daughter as an object in order to essentially arrange a marriage to someone who he can profit from As a businessman So do remember in terms of gender roles if you're a woman who belonged to the upper-class section of society You were essentially property of your father and you were expected to engage in arranged marriages And you were expected to essentially be happy with your lot However, if you were a working-class woman, you really did not have very many options You were always often in a very insecure financial position And if you had to work you would essentially have to put up with very unequal workplace pay Now when it comes to themes before you go into characters and quotes There are four themes you need to be remembering when you are answering questions And so remember when it comes to exam questions, you either get a character related question or a theme related question So let's go through the themes. The first is to do with social responsibility And of course social responsibility also ties in contextually to social class Now as I mentioned during Edwardian England The English class structure was very unequal and essentially what priestly Is using this play for is to say that and to show that upper-class people have a social responsibility They have a duty to poorer people to essentially not only support charities But also they have a duty to pay them better in the workplaces. So that's the theme of social responsibility The rich have a duty to the poor to improve their working conditions But also more generally improve and minimize the social divides The other key theme is that to do with age and this is highlighted In the different attitudes that the older berlings have versus the younger berlings on the other hand Now what priestly felt was that young people are the most malleable They're the ones who are able to change in terms of their mindset and their mentality Whilst the older generation is perhaps more set in their ways And he shows this through the end of the play whereby when they learned that Inspectable doesn't necessarily exist the older berlings. So mr. Berling and mrs. Berling They're actually really jubilant. They're celebrating that they don't exist And they therefore don't have to worry about changing anything And they definitely don't have to worry about the reputation They don't necessarily think that actually from what they've learned about Eva Smith and Daisy Renton They should help others. In fact, all they do is just care about themselves Therefore the attitudes are really rigid and they're okay with the social divides In contrast, however, we find that Sheila and Eric actually want to see a social change They don't want to hear about more women like Eva Smith and Daisy Renton But even men They don't want to hear that these people who are in the working class position are dying Because needlessly they are dying because of unequal pay terrible living conditions and so on so they actually want to see social changes The other theme is that to do with gender and this is obviously highlighted through the roles that Eva Sheila as well as her mother play So of course there's unequal gender roles between the men and the women the men Have the opportunity to do exactly what they want, especially upper class aristocratic men like Gerald However, women like Sybil and Sheila essentially have to accept their lot and definitely women like Eva Not only do they need to accept their lot actually even if the lot is taking away That's that's how it goes for working class women. So in terms of gender Essentially priestly wanted to highlight and draw our attention to just how terrible The treatment of women was during Edwardian England Now the final theme of course is that of class and what Priestly is trying to draw attention to is how unequal class divisions ultimately does result not only in poverty But it also contributes to the death of millions of people who don't need to die If only we change these divisions and we create a more equitable and more fair society So now let's finally move on to key quotes to remember for each character So of course when it comes to key quotes to remember these are the main characters that you need to consider So of course, let's first start off with the inspector So in terms of the quotations to remember for the inspector The first is when he accuses Sheila and he says you pass the annoyance On to her and of course this is just showing how the upper class people especially upper class women Essentially they treat working class individuals as disposable But also they have so much disproportionate power relative to them The other key quotation to remember is when he speaks to mr. Burling and he says public men have responsibilities This is tying in of course the theme of social responsibility the idea that the welfare you are the more you have to give back to society The other key quotation that the inspector says is the millions of Eva smiths and john smiths This is to say that actually Eva smith is not an anomaly. She's not just an exception There's so many women like her and so many men in her position who are working class who have no opportunities And this leads needlessly to their deaths and we need to do something about this The other key characters to remember in terms of quotation is mr. Burling and the first quotation is when he says The titanic absolutely unthinkable. This shows just how detached socially he is from others He's so myopic. So he has my opr that's spelt my opia That essentially means that he's completely detached from society He doesn't really understand what's going on in the normal average working class household And this shows that of course this there's a lot of irony here because we know that the titanic did sink So he was so detached from what's going on socially He didn't even know that there was going to be a war that was brewing and of course the first world war also did happen The other key quotations to remember for mr. Burling is when he's described as a Hard-headed practical man of business and he calls himself that and again, this just shows that he is very much solely focused on profits and solely focused on greedy profits And this is to the this is against the idea of social responsibility So of course you can tie that into social responsibility and of course class So his idea of being a hard-headed practical man of business means that he is contributed to class divisions The other key character to remember key quotations for is of course mr. Burling The first is when she says gulls of that class and this is the term that she uses to justify Why she refused daisy rent in any kind of help She doesn't believe that women who are working class deserve any type of charity The second quotation to remember for mrs. Burling is I used my influence to have it refused And this is what she says to justify essentially turning away a pregnant daisy renton Before she committed suicide The other character to remember of course is Sheila and she gets really upset at her father and she says these girls aren't cheap labor This is another way of essentially questioning why he sees everyone as a business asset And she is essentially saying that people like Eva Smith, but even more broadly working class people are not disposable objects They are human beings The other quotation from Sheila is you don't seem to have learned anything. She says this towards the end of the play when The older Burlings as well as Gerald Croft Essentially are really really pleased and really happy that the inspector doesn't exist However, she's saying hang on a minute guys We need to learn from this experience that we need to do something about helping people who are less fortunate than us Now the other quotation and the other character of course to remember is Eric And the first quotation is when he talks to his mother and he says you killed them both He's essentially saying that his mother is responsible not only for keeling daisy renton But also for killing their children and of course this Implicates her and shows that she has not taken any form of social responsibility But also she's a criminal in what she's done to daisy renton The other quotation from Eric to remember is when he says what we did to her matters Now this shows that he's completely changed as a person He's gone from being a really self-absorbed alcoholic to someone who actually cares about others Now the other character to remember the final character in terms of quotations is Gerald The first quote is when he says we're respectable citizens and not criminals And of course this is said with irony Actually, this is the opposite based on what his family does based on what he does to daisy renton And certainly what mr. Mrs. Berlin do to daisy and either smith They are really criminal their behavior is criminal. And so this is a dramatic irony on priestly's part The second quotation to remember from Gerald is when he says I was sorry for her and this is to justify His funding of daisy renton when he was having an affair with her Actually this shows that he's trying to have some kind of charity But it's a false charity because it wasn't for free And of course it still shows that he was quite selfish in the way he treated daisy renton If he knew that she really needed help from him So that's all in terms of revising inspector courts and I hope you found this summary video useful Thank you so much for listening


During a virtual town hall with Anderson Cooper on CNN Joe Biden got a question from someone who most likely has COVID-19 she has all the symptoms of COVID-19 and Healthcare professionals suspect that that's what she has although she hasn't been able to confirm that because she can't get a test Now she explained her situation to Joe Biden and how she has to pay 2,000 per month for her family's health care and they have to choose between food rent or health care Which one do they choose and Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee if we want to call him that at this point in time He was supposed to be a leader and reassure her that everything is going to be okay And come forward with real solutions to help people in her and her family's predicament But what he offered instead was nothing more than word salad. Take a look I'm wearing this mask to protect my family as I've been diagnosed based on my symptoms For the coronavirus although I cannot be tested Due to the limited number of tests available here in New York City. My husband and I are both hard-working College educated Americans who like countless other Americans will suffer as a result of this pandemic I work full-time for a small company that does not offer health benefits. My husband is a freelancer We currently pay over two thousand dollars a month For health insurance for our family of three. My question for you is that when our savings account inevitably runs out? Due to him not being able to work right now What is it that we sacrifice? Do we sacrifice food? rent or health care You should not have to sacrifice anything. Let me say that again. You should not have to sacrifice anything Not just because it's the fair thing you'd be taking care of your entire family and every family in your circumstance But because it's best for the whole country the entire economy It's not just doing a favor for any individual number one Your health care you should not have to pay a penny for testing and it should be available to you by now We were promised that a while ago You should it should be available for you to be tested and determine what needs to be done number two The house just passed an unemployment Proposal that increases by six hundred dollars the unemployment insurance should get whether or not you were part of you had been Covered by unemployment insurance or paid into it before including your husband who may have been he's a a A entrepreneur on his own doesn't have employees You will be covered and that should be done But that requires the government to be the federal government to help the states Set up the unemployment offices in a way that they can handle this enormous enormous call on the need for being the the unemployment insurance thirdly the cost of a test should be Absolutely zero for you number one and number two. I think the house and the Senate's gonna have to go back and make sure So after listening to him give that answer ask yourself if you were in that woman's predicament What would you take away from that? Would you feel any better? Would you have any sort of reassurance that everything is gonna be okay that if he's elected? He's going to fix the issues that led to her being in this current predicament Her job doesn't offer health insurance her husband. He does freelance work. So they have to pay two $2,000 per month. I'm assuming that they you know are Buying insurance on the exchanges that him and Obama put together. What are you going to do specifically to help her out? He offered her zero solutions Now he says you should not have to sacrifice anything. I'll repeat that you should not have to sacrifice anything Well, you know, nobody should have to sacrifice anything.  That's the question What are you gonna do and his answer in a nutshell is nothing nothing for them? Now he always likes to number his points, you know, he'll go through point one point two point three and Point number two. I believe was you should not have to pay a penny For a coven 19 test and then when he moved on to point number three He said the cost of the test should be zero dollars for her. Awesome Except let's extend that a little bit further. Let's assume that she tests positive for coven 19 and Then she needs health care Then what what if her husband and baby gets it then what? Do you understand why these types of milk toast solutions never suffice? Why people become increasingly desperate after each successive election? It's because a free test doesn't mean anything Health care is what people need so not only should she get that test for free Of course, she should get the health care that she needs for free. But again, we have to extend that logic Let's say somebody is experiencing cancer symptoms Should that test be free? Should treatment for their cancer be free? Joe Biden would answer. No, he probably wouldn't directly say it He'd beat around the bush and use double-speak to explain that But his answer is no if you don't have health care in America Joe Biden thinks it's perfectly reasonable for you to die He said this he admitted this by saying he would veto Medicare for all He admitted this in an interview on MSNBC with Florence O'Donnell in the event a Democratic controlled house and Senate Historically passed Medicare for all he would veto it. He would veto the bill that saves 68,000 American lives every single year and that's a conservative estimate because it doesn't take into account under insured people So do you understand why when progressives and the lefts told Democrats that the selectability argument was bullshit? Why we were so vocal about that because he's offering no solutions He's offering no solutions. Can anyone name a single Policy that Joe Biden has proposed Ask the average voter ask a Joe Biden supporter.   Because Democrats aren't offering them anything This used to be the party of the working class and now look at them.   There are so many people in this predicament so many people I know personally who lost their jobs or who work in health care and They're the one provider for the family because daycare is too expensive and they're working with COVID-19 people testing them like People are watching the world Devolve into chaos and they're worried about losing their livelihoods and the best thing that Democrats could do right now is Assured them with a huge policy vision that everything's going to be okay because they have fixes to all of these problems But what they're doing is offering nothing They're putting up an alleged rapist with you know cognitive decline and They're telling us we better be happy with this. Otherwise, we're to blame if Donald Trump wins. Yeah Well, we'll see about that Because if you lose again You have to take responsibility now. I know that that's a joke because they won't But don't let them guilt-trip you into thinking that you're responsible for their losses Their incompetence is what led to their defeat if you know Joe Biden in fact loses so I'll leave that there Girlie Mike Fettuccine needs your support on patreon. What a loser Visit patreon.com Slashed humanist report to support the low ratings humanist report sad My views are much higher


The 2021 Global Peace Index has ranked Nigeria 146 among 163 independent nations and territories according to its level of peacefulness. Nigeria moved one step from 147 in 2020, though it still ranked eighth among the least peaceful countries in Africa after South Sudan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Central African Republic, Sudan and Mali. In the report released, Nigeria finished with 2,712 points and was graded lower on the state of peace. Describing the situation, the report said that Nigeria continues to face challenges in safety and security, saying the conflict between government forces and Burkaw Haram in the Northeast led to the killing of about 1,000 people in 125 fatal incidents in 2020, making the average of 13 deaths per violent event in Burkaw Haram insurgency of last year. Joining us to discuss this is Agar Obo. He is a foreign affairs expert and Doni Ogwemi is a rotary peace fellow. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen for joining us. Agar, I'll start with you because you obviously understand the situation across the Sahel and the reason why some of these countries around the Sahel keep having this issue of insecurity and how they have been able to handle it and then we'll bring it to Nigeria. So, there's an arm struggle. I mean, I remember last year I talked about something that happened in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso had to deal with the three-pronged problem. They dealt with insecurity, they were dealing with some form of farming and they also had to deal with COVID-19. Just give us a brief idea as to what's happening in the Sahel and how it's affecting us here in Nigeria. So, I said the Sahel has been in trouble for several years now. If you take back 20 years ago when the drought and the farming and desertification began to affect to a large extent most parts of the Sahel. The countries around this Sahel haven't done much for those years. Rather than work and look for secondary solutions to resolving the problems instead of dragging their feet on many of those issues. And it would worsen the situation, have to do a lot also with political instability together with environmental problems facing several parts of the Sahel. So, if you take your mind back, a typical case study where you look at what is going on with the Lake Chad Basin. Lake Chad Basin from 1960 to date has lost about 90% of its coverage area. And if you look at the satellite images from 1960 and then you take it back into today, you see that millions of people who have depended on the Lake Chad Basin for survival have now become refugees because they cannot farm, they cannot fish. And then what has also worsened the situation for many of them also too, is you've had the, because of their basic means of survival, has been taken away from them. It means now that the poverty levels they have increased significantly. All Nigeria needs to, if you look at the global peace index from 2008 till date, you see that Nigeria hasn't really improved. We've moved from 242, the best they may be 213, 240, 241, 240. And all of this coincides with what's happening in the North Eastern part of the country. So you see, it just shows you that no real work has been done in resolving many of those issues beginning. First with the environmental issues which have now began to affect the economic situation in most of these countries in the Sahel. I want to push you further because you have said that nothing has really been done. So does it mean that political will has been the issue in all of those areas around the Sahel, including Nigeria? You're saying that there's much more of talking and reporting than the political will to deal with the situation in the Sahel. Is that it? Exactly, take Nigeria as a case study. If you look at most of the development indices running back from the 90s into 2000, you see a ticking time bomb in the way the numbers have risen. Numbers of children who are out of school, you find the major in those areas, those who don't have access to good health care, who don't have access to education health care and good infrastructure, there's so much on governed area in many of these places. So you see not being able to deal with these problems, you find out that you find the same problems, play out across most part of the Sahel in Niger, in Chad and the government that have been there perpetuated themselves in office some way to solve the problem by saying, even if we cannot provide the basic necessities, we can throw away the jagg boots and barrier and wear the abadda or the suits like in Chad's case where Idris Debi was there from the 90s. The irony is that what Debi had sought to strike out of Chad, for example, is what ended up killing him. I mean if you've been there for multi decades and at the end of the day, you're going to have to lose your life to an ambulance surgeon. It just shows you that not much work has really been done in terms of using the primary solutions to solve a primary problem. So we need to get back to the basics and dealing with what the real problems are with the countries in the Sahel. Beyond getting the guns and all of that to kick away poverty, it's never worked. The gun boats have never driven away poverty. They would have to invest critically in education, in healthcare, in the provision of jobs and an environment that people can find and strive to earn a good living. Let me go to Doni. Doni, you have worked with Rotary and you have been part of some peace committees. I'm guessing that you are aware of what Nigeria is going through. Agogol has outlined all of the problems and where we have loopholes. As someone who is a peace fellow, you obviously would have some solutions that we can maybe take advantage of or maybe our leaders might be willing to listen to. But in all of your research, what do you think can be the solution or a starting point in addressing the situation that we're having, especially here in Nigeria, because it's really bad if Africa's most populated country and the supposed big brother is facing what it is facing today. The deep dive of the Naira, the fact that the economy is in some shambles. The cost of living is rising high, robbery, kidnapping. The list is endless. Where do we start from? I'll take it from where he's left off. We ended by saying enough of the guns and now it's time to begin to do on something more preventing. So what we look like the government has been doing in terms of approach is trying to contain violence rather than prevent it. Preventing it takes a lot more effort than just going there and trying to stop it with force. Using that hard power that they continue to do. So back to the basics, the major cause for poverty, the poverty 40% or more Nigerians are experiencing at the moment is that they do not have access to livelihood. And as long as that remains, the youth will remain restless and they will take to streets, they will take to violence, they will take to anything that can bring that. So the first thing will be improve the economy via investing in people and investing in the environment in which they live and work and schooling. I also want to talk about security. I mean there's just, we cannot begin to talk about how bad security situation is now. So when you put the fact that there are young people there that can work, that affects security in itself. And insecurity itself also affects the ability to get good jobs and to work freely. And so all of this is just a vicious cycle. And the other thing is people having that sense that there is justice, you know, that there is some equitability in terms of resource that is available to people. As long as that gap is still so wide between who is rich and who is poor, I mean we're going to continue to have this kind of situation. So rather than use the go on to prevent protests in the last June 12, we had the government coming out to say that the police was going to be on the streets, they're not going to allow this. And we saw it happen. You know, what would have been better is diplomacy to call people to the table and say, what are the problems? How can we begin to solve the problems? Okay, where can we take it from? What is the road map? How do we ensure people are educated? How do we ensure they are skilled? How do we ensure that they have leadership ability and they have a sound business environment? You know, you don't begin to make things tougher and tougher, especially for young people. And that's really where Rotary comes into ensuring that key things like health, key things like economy, they're looking into it by building leadership skills among young people and women. I'm a beneficiary of the Rotary Peace Fellowship, for instance. And so many others are working in different ways. But apart from organisations like Rotary, we need the government to step in and begin to do good work. And I want to jump in there to quickly ask you because you're saying you've given us, you know, likely solutions and what government needs to focus its attention to. Government has come up with, you know, all kinds of programmes in the name of trying to lift people out of poverty. The president came out the other day to say he's lifted about 10 million people out of poverty. We're yet to see those people anyway, so that's still questionable. But as a Rotary Peace Fellow, and I'm sure that you've seen several committees that are advocating for things to be done differently. What's been the response of government, especially the government of Nigeria, to these ideas that you've brought to the table? Have they been receptive? Have they taken any of these into consideration? Well, it may be fair to say perhaps they want to take into consideration, but it's a bit of scratching the surface. So rather than say that we want to employ 1,000 young people with 774 local government over three months, that will not lift anybody. If you pay them for the three months and it's over, that will not lift people out of poverty. Lifting people out of poverty will make sure that public institutions where the children of the common man can afford to go. It remains renders quality service, both in education and health. In education and health, as long as it is not within the reach of that regular person, common man, then the government has not started. So they need to put funding more in those areas and we're not seeing it. I'm bouncing back to you. There's the saying that there are people who always benefit from these types of situations, insecurity, war. There are people who'd rather not this war's end because they are benefiting from it. I'll take your mind back to all the way to 2017 when we started seeing guns coming into the country, no one's claiming them. The most recent was I think 2018 or 2019. These guns keep coming, but nobody's able to trace. We've not had any intel till today as to where these guns are coming from. One was stopped by in South Africa, another was traced back to Turkey and it keeps coming back and forth. And you know how expensive a gun is. So the fact that we are seeing our government unable to deal with the situation, even though we keep talking about the lack of political will. Other people who are benefiting from this who supposedly might be also part of the government or politicians. And that's why this is not going away anytime soon. Absolutely. It's not going away anytime soon because a lot of what is going on is out of the hands of the state actors. If you take your mind back to 2011 when Mumal Gaddafi was in charge of BBA, he had a band of fighters from all across the Sahel who, as missionaries, came to fight for him. Many of those guys after Gaddafi's outstair found their way back to their home countries to cost mayhem in those countries. In fact, you can trace the radicalisation, swift radicalisation of Boko Haram, back to the after Gaddafi years and the problems you also had in Mali. Most of those weapons were there. So if you don't have a regional sort of force which can man the Sahel where you have this criminal elements and non-state actors, which I do say they keep growing in numbers. The fact that it has one like at Rokkesha Caerbun, who is now being killed by SWAP is one sign of relief to a number of people. But who is the bigger problem? Because the SWAP, which is the group responsible for his outstair according to reports we are getting, have now a foothold over the north-eastern part of the country. And then knowing what they did in the middle is they could pose a more formidable danger with a lot of connection and network. There's the AQI. So the Sahel is just what she's saying is just sitting right there in the garden to be blocked. Unfortunately, the countries of Bodin the Sahel haven't done much in that regard to stop this. The president even admitted in that Nigerian president that he shot the borders but yet the weapons still came in. Coming in. So it means that closing the borders still won't give you put a stop to those weapons. Then unaccounted Gaddafi weapons continue to roam freely across the Sahel and into any country. It's a game of the weakest link, any country that is territorial border forces and strong enough to stop them. They'll find their way in. Algeria chased them back into the desert and so they found their way in countries like Mali, Chad and Nigeria, unfortunately. Well, on that sad note, I want to say thank you to you. Algar Obal is an international news expert and of course I want to say thank you to you. Doenny Ogwemi for being part of the conversation. She's a Rotary Peace fellow. Thank you, lady and gentlemen for being part of the conversation. Thank you very much. All right. Well, on that note, we say thank you for being part of the show tonight. We'll see you on Monday on Plus Politics. I am Mary Anna Cohn. Have a good evening.


This is just the perfect streamer because she is not doing only fans, she is doing lesson plans! David, for the kids! This Chinese teacher just made 10 years worth of her salary in a single live stream. Now, what does this have to say about beauty and the future of education? Yeah, we gotta talk about it. This story of Miss Huang is going viral in the western media right now, especially in Asian circles. I believe it's been going viral in China for the past month or so. Long story short, Andrew, Miss Huang was posting her lessons and the songs that she was singing with her kindergarten students on Dou Ying. She built up a platform and a following. They asked her to live stream. She opened up her live stream and they gave her 10 years worth of salary in one live stream session. Now, I would say a lot of people are happy to see a teacher and educator get paid this much money and finally get rewarded. However, a lot of people are also like, oh, this is only because she is very beautiful. If she did not look like this, how could she get this much money? Now, guys, we're going to go through the comments section. Please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hot pop boys as we delve into this conversation that people are having. From silly to serious, guys, I'm telling you, it's like a silly thing, but I guess there is some serious implications for the future of work or particularly, I guess, beautiful people or beautiful women. What type of jobs they enter or what are their best opportunities in life? David, I would say just initially, I could only think of dad's reaction if we showed him the story. He'd be like, see, David, this is just a perfect streamer because she is not doing only fans. She is doing lesson plans, David, for the kids. Please, David, why you should find a Miss Huang, okay? She's an educator. This is the streamer we should all aspire to be. Yeah. I think a lot of wholesome Chinese guys, they're looking for their Miss Huang in life right now. Obviously, might be pretty difficult to secure, to be honest. Let's get into the comments section. Somebody said, good for her, man. Finally, something good coming out of Wuhan, a pretty Asian female teacher making money the wholesome way. I could get behind this more than I can. The other stuff coming out of Wuhan. Yeah. I mean, all right. What's the next comment? Somebody said, let's be honest. It was her looks, guys. It was her looks. Everybody knows the number one rule in streaming is to be beautiful. And the number two rule in streaming is to not be not beautiful.  Definitely her looks help. She is, she is very pretty, like naturally. And I do think the school that she was teaching at from the background, from what I can see, it's not like, it's not like a super poor school. It looks like a high-end school. Yeah, it looks like a good school. They got the touchscreen LCD behind the back. Shout out to her because she was already posting her lessons online and already garnering a following. But who's the following like adult men? Yeah, I mean, I do think there was a lot of particularly single men on desktop computers because there was a lot of comments like, oh, yeah, I wish I could go back to kindergarten. And do you think that she looked like sort of like how you would imagine Asian flight attendants to look like the really, you know, the ones on the brochure? Definitely. I mean, she's got the whole package. Listen, she seems like a good teacher and she's also good looking. But yeah, let's be honest, Andrew. Online entertainment just like in mainstream media entertainment looks, they matter a lot. Listen, when you're trying to garner an audience on the internet, how you look unfortunately does matter a lot. It doesn't mean you can't give views if you're not very good looking, but it just means that your audience is going to be looking to you for for different things. Somebody said finally a teacher actually educating youth getting rich off social media and not all these ratchet people and only fans showing God knows what. I don't even know if that'd be possible here for such a wholesome figure to get popular and then get money off that following. It's only because in China and somebody said, yeah, that's because China loves STEM. And not only do they love STEM culturally, but it's because it's governmental control. There's good and bad things about having such a heavy handed government because they will prevent those populace from being so ratchet. Yeah, I mean, I think there have been cases in America of school teachers who found only fans during the pandemic and they kind of got sexy on only fans got a lot of money and then they quit teaching versus this girl who's doing it wholesomely. Now I do think obviously a lot of our audience still watches because she's good looking because they're not kindergarteners giving her this much money, right? It's adult guys who are still like kind of fantasizing about her, but not in that X rated way. Maybe. Yeah, I mean, I think China is a very different society. Obviously they have different legal regulations about censorship that are big too. But I think a lot of people because China is such an academic society, I could see way more teacher centric thinking. Yeah, just in general for everything. I do think that it's a breath of fresh air to see an educator, albeit that she's very beautiful, but like just an educator kind of get put on this pedestal, at least get this famous. Somebody said, man, I wish you would have stayed a teacher. It's a noble profession. It's educating the youth for society and the youth are the future. And of course, a lot of people said, yeah, but teachers everywhere, whether it's the US, China underpaid, overworked, underappreciated, noble jobs are not in vogue anymore in 2023.  They're probably the teachers who couldn't even enter industry. That's the only reason why they're teaching because they can't do. So interestingly enough, Andrew, you have pro teacher comments and anti teacher comments. Of course, it's a political thing. Yeah. And I think it's an interesting discussion to have as technology moves forward and it allows people to have all these different options. Think about it.  Does that mean you go and do it? Because it's probably easier than your regular job. Now I know David, we know Dr. Mike who is actually a famous doctor on YouTube. He's still a doctor while running his YouTube channel, although he is considered the sexiest doctor in America. Yeah. And I actually think that this next shark article reported that Ms. Squan quit her job just to do live streaming full time. But I leave, I believe she's doing both. And I don't know if she's doing both because she loves the kids so much or realistically, if you get known for showing your lessons, plans and songs, you should as an influencer continue doing the thing that got you big in the first place. Yeah. I mean, there could be multiple reasons. Yeah. But it is true that they are not paid that much and it's true that teachers are underpaid for the job that they do. Now, how can the world incentivize teachers, good teachers to stay at their job? You don't need hot teachers. You don't need hot teachers. You just need good teachers. Somebody said, yeah, and she didn't even have to take her clothes off, unlike all these young women in America, starring only fans. Classic comment. Somebody said, she only was making $6,000 a year as a kindergarten teacher. What?  And then somebody else said, actually, if you know the story of Ms. Huang and this is a Chinese commenter, she was not a full time teacher. She was a special programs like almost like a song teacher or like a special programs teacher. But a average teacher in China, I guess makes anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 per year, still much less than an American teacher. But is that like a third or a fourth? However, it is true that like the cost of eating out in China or at the cafeteria is much lower too, right? Right. Right. Right. Yeah. The cost of living in most Chinese cities is a lot lower. Somebody said, man, life sure is easy for beautiful women. And of course, Andrew, this whole thread descended into lookism, talking about in 2023 as every woman who's like above a 7 to 7.5 out of 10, just going to use her looks online, whether it's in a wholesome way or a more extreme way. I guess in the comments down below, anybody watching, I'd like you to leave a comment to let me know, like, if you have the looks or the appeal and you can use it to your advantage, do you? And I think most people are going to say, hey, if those are tools that you're born with, so be it. You should use it for your advantage and use it for good, right? And at least Ms. Wong is using it for good. Yeah. Maybe she's not a regular school teacher. She's doing some special programming or after school. I don't know what it is if she's actually even full time. But regardless, you know, I guess it's good that at least hot educators are making money. Somebody said, yeah, man, the internet is inundated with pretty women who make a living from hopeless simps on their computers at home. I mean, I guess, is that the future, though? I mean, there's a lot of people. Andrew, the world is more digital. I guess there's more lonely people, I guess, particularly, let's be honest, more lonely men than there probably are lonely women. And the digital currency allows you to just donate. I think this is a function of the current situation and even the situation that's happening in the West about the dating pool and everything, that's actually happening globally, too. And especially in China, they actually do have like their own problems and gender imbalance. Somebody said, man, why are entertainers so much more value than educators? It seems like it's not just an American thing. It's everywhere in the world right now. Where's the world headed? But I mean, celebrities have always been valued more than teachers because it's more rare and it's more captivating. But I do think that somehow in the culture and maybe in the next 10 years, we need to give educators or at least maybe not. I mean, if not teachers, at least like people on the internet who are posting educational material, we need to like reward them and incentivize them. Somebody said, how come the Asian American actresses look worse than just a teacher influencer in China? I always wondered that. This is a common comment you hear from more like, you know, people who are kind of between worlds, right? Yeah, people from China, they know that the looks requirement to be an actress in China is a lot higher than even in Hollywood, because Hollywood has a lot of different characters. They take on a lot of comedians, a lot of different looks, they like that. However, in Asia, it's very like, you have to look like Miss Huang or better to even be an actress. Yeah, it is true that I would be interested to see an Asian American actress that looks more like Miss Huang though, because there hasn't been one yet. But you could also argue, Andrew, that if you're born looking like Miss Huang, you may never develop the chops or sort of this Americana persona you need to also enter mainstream entertainment in America. It's not like she tried to be an actress in China either. She became a teacher. Yeah, somebody said, man, why is, what's the appeal of Miss Huang, man? She's super toned deaf when she's singing. I'm listening to the songs. Andrew, we watched some of her songs, not the best singer, but it is, it's captivating. Good material, man. Somebody said, yeah, well, you know, at least they got homesomeness over there. She's not the best singer, but they got zero fear of a mass shooter. People actually respect the teacher. They're not throwing spitballs at her. The West is in decline. Yeah. I mean, I think it's so funny because people are going to look at things from China and either use that as a case against America. Like, oh, look at what China's doing. China's doing things better than us.   Right. Is it Miss Huang being wholesome and all the students having respect for, or is it her making $600 a month and the economic boom being way overrated? It depends on your perspective. All right, you guys, let's get into our takeaways. Like I said, Andrew, what do you think about entertainers getting valued way more than educators? Is this trend just going to extrapolate, which theoretically will provide the opportunity cost for a beautiful educators, particularly a female to hop into other professions, whether that is obviously using your looks for a job or just a more lucrative career. Well, I don't think you want to look at just entertainers versus educators as people. I think you have to look at the industry and how education is not as valued as much as entertainment or making money, because basically the whole culture is based around if you can make money doing something entertaining and just making people laugh or being appealing. You're talking about the hardcore ROI projections. Yeah, then just do it, right? That's the American culture is to say, if do pranks, look good, go show sexy photos, just dance in front of the camera. Only toes. Whatever it is, you should do it to make money because making money is the number one thing. Don't be educated. That's the culture right now. So does this show that America and China are similar or dissimilar? Like we were just saying before, you saw comments on both sides. Some people saying, yeah, it's the hyper capitalism in the looks industry. And other people are like, wow, nah, it's so different. I mean, it's funny because I would say, and I always said this, that there are surprisingly a lot more similarities between China and America than people think. In ways that people wouldn't think of. Yeah, I'm not saying that they are more similar than different. I'm just saying it's more similar than people usually think. But I would say, yeah, this culture, dude, when you have a streaming service where people can pay money, human nature is going to be the same. And male nature is going to be the same where we're like, we want to see a pretty girl do something.  But, you know, in China, they're just singing song to the kids. It's still a guy on a computer getting stimulated. It's still a lonely guy giving money to a pretty girl. Period. That's the dynamic. Um, yeah. So long story short, guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below. I think that the Chinese internet has way more details. I heard that she didn't have her ECE or something like that, which is early education, child education, license or something like that. But, you know, these details are not fully relevant for the Western version. Well, you know how like professionals, like I have professional friends that are always looking down on the influencer friends of me. Oh man, you know, they're not real professionals in this. Anyways, but one thing I would ask everybody, leave a comment down below. If you think that this is going to promote more people in China to become teachers or promote more people in China to become streamers. Because obviously, if you can, if, you know, top level streamers are going to make way more money. Listen guys, 10 years of pay within like three hours is crazy. Hard to beat. It's hard to beat. Anyways, you got to support real small businesses. Businesses of all sizes. I might need to mobile after this.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now. Call free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning, everyone. My name is Basil Chapman. Here on this Monday, the 4th of March, we're looking at down 80 at 39,002. This is very interesting. We've been 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 sessions in a consolidation, not breaking down, but not moving to new highs, holding that 14-period moving average, which is at 38,861, as key support, hasn't gotten down there today. What I see is the subscribers based on this Chapman Wave Roman candle that we had on Friday. If the Dow holds for 90 minutes below 38,920, there's a real good chance of not any break in the lower of yesterday, but go even lower, and the resistance is up a little bit higher than where we are. The higher today is 39,035. I think we could even test 39,080, maybe 39,120. But I'm looking at this and saying, oh, just on a trading position, we're still short to Dow. The long-term is still very positive. Those weekly charts are fabulous. Looking at the S&P, S&P at this particular point had a high, oh, I forgot to type it in. Let me do that right now. High on Friday of 5,104.99. Type it in. Oh, calm down. What am I saying? 1,040.33. There we go. 1,040.33. Down four and a half at 51, 32.62 right now, so it hasn't taken out that high, but it's still holding pretty well. I mean, 5.2 can do that in an eye blink, right? But it's a leg B in the weekly chart, and if it doesn't go above 51, 40.33 this week, that becomes a peak B. I'm watching this really closely, and I'm going to tell you why in a moment. Let's go to the Q, Q, Q. Down 0.76 on a big deal of 444.81. Had an all-time high. I thought I'd done that during the weekend when I showed my weekend overview. 4446.58. Type that in. There we go. 446. Now we're looking at 444.84 with down 74 cents. Leg C in the weekly chart. I'm watching this very closely because the MACD is just cross positive. The stochastics at 93, that's very good. On-bounders volume is running. It's not overboard. It's just running very nicely. The 90 is over the 14, so there's still internal strength. Looking at the AWM Russell 2000. This is a leg E in the daily chart. It's up 85 cents at 206.76. It hit 207.77. That's nicely above the 205.49 high of December of this past year. All-time high is 244.46. So we're going to be watching this. Let me just move this across here. I do always have this nice and neat. There it is, leg E. Now, this is going to be very interesting. Why? Because the SMHs, I want to see where they close today. If they close well off the highs. I'm going to be watching this because it broke the Chapman Rate inside track repellent zone. This is now a propellent zone, a very short term. And that makes the first level of support 217.30. And the next level of support is 215.88. Those are the levels to watch in the SMHs. If there's any pullback at all. I'm going to go through in the moment. Yes, we'll look at that, Piki. GBTC will do that right now. GBTC is Bitcoin. Another very strong session today. I'm calling this a leg F in the daily chart. Leg G. It could be an instant restart, but I'll call G for now. In the weekly chart, it's up 2.8 to 59.19. That is outstanding action. So E and we go for an F right now. And then we might have to make adjustments. You can see all the technicals are very overboard. Overboard technicals are overboard, but until the price acknowledges that. Let's just look at the Bitcoin because you wanted to see that as well. Bitcoin is in a leg F on the daily chart. Very strong up 3,000 and 10 up 3,000. At 66,860, this is, in fact, as far as I can see, it's going for a test sometime in the next month or so. But I'm saying in the next month or so of the all-time high in the Bitcoin continuous contract that was made back in November of 2021 at 73,790. Who would have thought that it could go back so quickly? Yes, going back is one thing. But from a low that was in 18,000. What was the low 18,740? That's quite a move. Let's get back to our story. EURUSD, that's the Eurodollar currency pair. Up at 1.08, up 0.0017. Looking at the USDJPY. That is the US dollar Japanese currency pair. Up 0.32 at 150.42. Can they all be right? Can the dollar, which is just pulling back a hair, now it's down two ticks at the 200-period moving average. Now it's done that before. This was resistance. Now it supports this line, the 200-period moving average. I'm going to be watching this very closely. I want to see if your goal closes the day. The follow-through to the upside so far up 10 is very good action considering that this is the third big green candle in a row. And making the 2080 key support, if there's a close by Wednesday of this week below 2080, this is like a one-off? I don't know about that because we're looking at the GDX on Friday. The GDX now is up very nicely. Very good candle on Friday. A gap up. Continuous move up. Up 59 cents at 27.91. Now look at this. If you look at the GLD. The GLD is the spider gold trust. It trades at one-tenth the price of gold, spot gold. Now isn't this interesting when you're looking at the big picture? It's leg D in the weekly, leg C in the monthly, leg C in the daily. That's like a big arch formation. Sorry, a big cup formation right here. And it's breaking above the previous high. Is it breaking above the previous high? Just double check here. I think that was it. I forgot to type it in. At 1.94.45. Let me type that in. 1.94.45. And look at this. Today's high is 1.94.60. It broke it by a couple of pennies. That's very important because that makes us a leg C. Not an alternate count. Leg C in the monthly chart. I was asked if I could look at physical. That's P.H. Right back there in the wrong place. Right here, physical gold. Yeah, that is also broken through above that high. I think it's July or August of 2020. And that was 16.15 today's highest. 16.30. 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It's trading right now at 10.66 up 36 cents. Yeah, this is holding very nicely. All the technicals are very good. And I would just say to you 9.83 to 8.80 is key support on the shorter term. If it takes it out then that weekly chart says I'm going to have a bit of a rest here. And I'm anticipating that the Bitcoin is getting close to some kind of a rest period. But wow, a rest period, what? When you're up in a week and a half from the 50,000 level to the 67,000 level. Here we have to put the consolidation at between 58,000 and I'd say 55,000. That's going to be key support if there is a pullback. And now the question comes in, if Bitcoin does pull, if it stays high, are you going to see a continuation in the gold? Well, gold up 12 right now, this is really good action on the short term. The weekly chart says there's still a lot to go. But remember I spoke about this Friday. I said that on that pullback three weeks ago, the 9-period moving average held green. It didn't go pink. And that's usually a big positive when it comes back and holds it. It means you've got a nice springboard. You've got a trampoline type move, which is exactly what we've got. Does it stall is the question? And will money come out of the trading of not the longer term positions, but the trading positions of Bitcoin maybe going to gold if the gold starts? This is, look at it. We look at ASA very often, South African and gold miner. It's up 31 at 14.19. Very good action. Very good action on the last two days. But if you look at the weekly chart and monthly chart, horrible, horrible action. Let's look at GLD, G-O-L-D, gold that used to be barric gold, I believe. Yep, barric gold. Oops, what happened there? Let's see if we can get that. There it is. In leg B, very nice move. It was down to the 13s. Now it's at 15.22. Looking at the weekly chart, gold needs a lot to repair the damage. But this is good action. This is a good silver. Is that commensurate? Silver is trading up towards the 200-period moving average at 23.81. It's at 23.70 right now, up 33 cents. I'm looking at this on a weekly basis. Yeah, we've seen this kind of action before. It's what happens next. And that to me is really important. And I do think, yes, in a way we have to, I've looked at these and said, you've got to think of each one separately. The relationship between gold and the dollar isn't like it used to be. One went soaring to the upside. The other one just plummeted. You've got support. You've had support in gold, even as the dollar has held well. If you look at the dollar on a weekly basis, it's just, it's pretty good. It did a nice rally, but now it's just stalled. But it's not breaking down yet. It's at 103.81. Now it's down five ticks. I wouldn't be surprised if a little later on, in the day by three o'clock, we'll start to see, is this going to be a test that it starts to take out the 10, the 103.40 key support this week? Could do that today. Could do it tomorrow. We'll see what happens. Or does it rebound a little bit? Very important. I just showed you the other currencies in a way that are all in their own trajectory. Just for the moment, I wanted to show you bonds. Bonds, let's go to the TLT. The TLT is down 57 cents at 93.91. See, not all the little ducks are sitting in a row. This should be up at the 95 area, not 93.90 right now, if it's going to go commensurate with gold. Just to say, dollar pulls back, yields come down, gold goes up, and that is still very bullish. Does that mean that the market is ready for yet another buying phase? It's getting a little questionable that. And as I see it right now, let me just go to crude oil, because crude oil, if it was spiraling to the upside into the 82, 83 area, I think that would add another bit of pressure. No, this is a normal pullback. 50 cents at 79.46. So here's the big question for me. The XLF. I like to look at the different sectors. XLF is holding quite nicely. It did go to a leg F, a peak F that is on Thursday, I believe it was right there. Is they going to recycle? What is that going to do right now? It's holding very nicely. JP Morgan. JP Morgan is trading right now. Oops. Type it onto that little rectangle right there. JP Morgan. Yeah, JP Morgan is making a new all-time high as we speak. It's up at 186.55, up $1.27. I think that's a leg E. Yeah, that's a leg E. Oh, why do I get an E? FG. Yeah, that's right. Sorry. Let me just notate this correctly. Not sure why I did that. F and a G slash C after the instant restart. Remember how important those restarts are? If after peak D, within three bars, you're making a higher high than the left side peak D, that gives you an alternate count. If it's within three bars, it's done that. Now, I wanted to show you something else. RTH. RTH is the retail index. So Amazon, of course, is part of that RTH.  Look at this. Higher high is higher low. It's just a very narrow move. This is usually extremely positive. It just keeps going until suddenly it takes out three or four left side bars because it has a big pullback. But that doesn't mean to say that's the end of the road. Except look at the nine period exponential moving average. Look how high that is. But yet the MACD is at 99.2. Almost 100%. I've never seen 100%, but I have seen, wait, did I ever see 100%? I think that's what I said recently, that I saw 100% and I forgot to write down what it was. But it's very seldom, right? It trades between 100% and 0%. So in this particular instance, 2.85 up 39 cents. Leg D in the week and the daily. Leg C, still only a leg C.  This could actually be a B. If that's the case, this is the most incredibly bullish market scenario that we've had forever. And what we're looking at is leg D, S in the week, in the monthly chart. But so far, let's look at the XRT because this is retail as well. This is the S&P retail sector. Now this is in a leg E to the upside, the daily. Leg D in the monthly. So that's the weekly chart. I was doing two things at once. Leg E, right there. And the left side, high that I was looking at when I drew the cup formation, is right there again, right here. No, that was a mistake.  Look at that. So look, it's gone to all the resistance levels on the left side going back to 2022, 2023. I could have drawn this in as one long horizontal line. It's gone above that. There's a chat wave inside which target resistance line. It's gone above that. Nothing to say that this is bullish, that isn't bullish. This is all very bullish so far. And the XRT weekly on balance volume is on the very short term getting a little bit overboard. But actually, this is still pretty going good action. You know, so far. It really looks like bullish, doesn't it? But I want to go to something as we return to a look at the semi-combat. I'll be right back. 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And that's going to be important for this stock. So the question is, rather support resistance levels. Obviously, the resistance level on a closing basis is a high of 70, a 53 that was made on the ninth of February. That was the high of the little doger candle at PD before it pulled back. And support, bigger term support is the daily chart, low of 66.09 that was made on the 21st. So within that context, I'm just going to draw the rectangle here. And that rectangle says, this is the parameters we're looking at. But normally without earnings, I'd say, let's make it a little bit different. Let's make it more like this right there. And that's the inner rectangle that we'd be looking at, making the 7680 level resistance and making the 70, you could call it 69 level, very near term support. Now, I don't know what you want to do if you're long. What I would do is, because it's making higher highs and higher lows in a very steady way, I'd keep a core position. And I would just let it do what it's going to do. If it pulls back and then has a bounce, then maybe you take something off. I don't want to say to you right now, change your position. It's done well. It's had a consolidation. Anything can happen after earnings these days. If it does spiral higher, I would say take that as a gift. And that you want to take something off if it bounces sharply. If it's say tonight and it bounces sharply and holds it in the morning, I take a little bit off. But other than that, it's just in this rectangle. It can digest these gains for a little bit longer. And it has the Georgia period moving average in the weekly chart, which should be, I'd say that's a pretty good magnet line, 72.29. Just bounce up and down around that for a little bit before it makes up its mind whether it wants a venue, running to the upside to break that leg B. Either it's going to be a peak B because it pulls back immediately or it goes extends leg B. And that would be very positive. Yes, it's looking good. Dating is a little bit over, how can I put this? A nine period moving average. It's just in a digestive phase for the dating. And the weekly chart tells you that the technicals are still very good. Let's see what happens in price. So I wouldn't be doing anything right now. The next question came in. Did I go there? I didn't. I'm going to just go there for a moment. Yeah, so question. Yeah, let's just do this. So let's look at AMU, Micron. Micron is trading up 84 cents at 95.96. So that's in a lay. I'm calling this a leg B because that took out the start of leg B right there. That was back in January. That was at 80. At 80.59. And that was the third. Yes, the third of January. It ran up to peak A, peak B, peak C, peak D. D is what you want to get in the chat way methodology. It did 90.04 and pullback sharpening. But this move up now from the 79.15 low of the 20th of February, peak A, leg B. I have to call that a B. There's no other way. That's the way we want to get this report right now. We're eating the weekly and leg C in the monthly with all time. Well, most recent time in the monthly chart in 2022 of 98.45, the double top. They remember 96.96. Then it goes to 98.98. 95. And the plummets down to the 49s. And here it is at 95. So everything here is still very positive. So key support will be underneath this gap. They said 95.99, the resistance is up in the 98th, right? So that's that, NVIDIA. Now this is fascinating to me. NVIDIA had an 800, let me just show you, it's trading right now at 850.10, up 27.31. It had an 800 open on Friday and it closed at around number 823.00 on Friday. Today it gaps up and I typed in the round numbers but they're already gone. So the round number, I have 823, how can that be, 823, oh that was the close on Friday. So this morning I saw a round number, I didn't type in it, but now it's all gone. So that's what's been happening because if you look at ARM, holding, semis, licensing, had a round number, 164.00, I should have put the date in the car and I have to keep going back to this. That was on the 12th of February, comes down to the 115, 17s, and it's trading at 139.00 and I didn't see any round number today. The open was 145.39, no I didn't, not yet. And the other one I was looking at was SMCI, super micro computer in the semis. Look at the round numbers, I've actually made them gray now because it's spoiling the look of the chart and even today what happened was it had, oh is that changed? Yes, it's changed, that is fascinating. Yes, so today I thought it had a round number at the open, yes it did, 1039.00, you're up in the thousands and you trade with the round number, it had a high on, it's got tons of highs, on Thursday it had a high of 997 round number, then 839.00, on Friday at 927.00 high and then 881.00 round numbers and today's spiked up and it had that round number at the open. I don't know, I'm trying to figure out, my gut tells me what it means, it means people are so hysterically buying it that they just grab it and that's how you see the round numbers, but you never got the round numbers before so I'm going to look and see what it means later on in March if we start to pull back sharply, but if it goes up then I've never seen anything like this before, if in three weeks time this is trading in the 1300s or 1400s, not this week, I'm talking about in three weeks time, that'll be unbelievable action because most of the time when I see round numbers it's either a significant low or a significant high if it doesn't take it out very quickly, so we've got leg D in the weekly chart, leg E in the monthly chart and this is now a leg E, I'm calling it E for now, in the daily chart that's supermike, SNCI, I'll be right back, we've got a bunch of things to talk about, questions that have come in, what would you do with SNCI right now after this run in D-SP500? 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But on a trading position, I'd take a tad off and I'd have a stop, but if you're taking a tad off now, and yes, on Friday you're 186 points lower, I'd rather take the tad off now than have a trading stop. Why? Because this is what you've got in hand right now. It's a gift that was given to you number one. And number two is if you want, you could split that by saying two-thirds of whatever. I was in a take-off now. I'm taking off. One-third, you've got a trading stop. I just put a stop right here, like at 1,000. Nice round number, 1,000. What was the higher right there? It was 900. That was 1,003. Yeah, on the 22nd, 20-second affair. So I would I put something off I take right now and I'd have a trading stop if you're able to watch it. You can even put in as a fixed stop, right? Now, what would I do? Let's just say in a week's time is trading under 700. All right? That means it's a 300 point decline from here. That's what I would say, think time and probably price as a consolidation. But until you see it really doing that, you have to consider the weight of effort and suggests that buyers keep coming in. That's why you're getting the round numbers and they've been rewarded. That's really the most important thing. All these buyers, all these things in the 600 and 700, 945.00, 865.00, they've all been rewarded even here at 862 and 814. Everybody even right here, what is this? 790. I've just got over and over. They've all been rewarded for just grabbing and running with it. And if you're buying in the 700 or 800 area or the 600, you're looking fantastic. So as soon as we start to see hubris, as soon as people take their hands off the wheel to pat themselves on the back, consider themselves geniuses, there's buying coming in here. When this suddenly ends, there'll be speed. I suspect when this pulls back, it's not going to be a little highs and lows. It's just a sudden whopper of a pullback taking out a whole bunch of supports. But you aren't there yet. That's what it looks like so far. So that's why I'm saying take a little bit off, even if you split that by taking a little bit more of that little bit off and keeping some part of it, that's fine. Next question was a statement. IBM is starting to move again. So IBM is trading up 2.44%. It's up 4.57 at 192.70. So this has been a real great winner. Look at that spectacular one, two, three, four, four months. It's straight up moved from the 130s to the most recent dive of 196.90. Here at 192.76, IBM is in the Dow. And that's kind of important just in the sense that it's also helping the Dow.  Why is it gray? Because I don't have all the technicals, even the MACD hasn't turned positive yet. Stochast is actually quite good. The on-balance volume is quite good. And the 90 is over the 14. So what I'm looking at here is in this arch formation, and this just says maybe you've got even a little bit more time until the test 196.90. Let's go to, I would love to use that candle icon. So I have to use this right here. So this is not your standard left side right side price time match. That's the bar symmetry or... Yeah, I'll just do that for the moment. I want you to take to this tiny doji candle. I have to, I can't take it down. I'm going to give it another two days, put it over there. Yeah, that says by Thursday or Friday, there could be a test of the 196.90 all-time high. And we'll have to see because if, and I call it gray, let me make it gray, because the technicals haven't confirmed. Even a buy signal is very close, but it isn't there. That's a brand new buy signal. So that's the way I'm looking at IBM, fabulous action, and you remember, we're looking at the oldies morphing into something that's so contemporary that they're looking absolutely fabulous. IBM has been reincarnated as, I don't know whether it's the cloud of the AI, whatever it is, IBM is right in there. Okay, I am AI. Yeah, I've got to look at AI. AI is, so AI is the global ex artificial intelligence ETF is trading at 33.99 up 8 cents. It's really not spectacular moves. It's good moves, but not spectacular when you consider, this is the AI sector. It hasn't even taken out their left side high in the weekly chart that we were looking at for so long. And that's the 33.45 all-time high of the week of the 19th of November 2021 with a tiny dojo candle at 33.43. And that was it. It came all the way down to the 18.01 area. That was 18.01 in October, I think it was of 18.01 of 2022. So yeah, it's acting quite nice. Oh, going up support levels. So support levels is at 33.99. It's gone above the 96 high of Friday. So that says the support level will be 33. I would just say 33 to 32 would be key support. And I'm saying this on a daily basis and on the weekly basis, a break under that says, uh-oh, that's not good. What you want to see is this week, preferably even today, it breaks now it's at 34 round number high. No, 34.02 is being hit. I want to see it try to get to the 34.50s. If it can do that, that's telling me that the generics, the sector itself, the AI, artificial intelligence, EDF is doing well. All right, let's do this. I said, look at it AMZ, AMZN, Amazon right here, trading at no new all-time high. That was at 188.65 back in July of 2021. But it's a very nice move up at 179.94. High so far is 180.00. I just never seen this before. Let's go to Apple. Apple was looking lousy last week, looking lousy. Oh, down to there, down to 5.39. Apple is in the down. That's an impact in the down negative while IBM is coming up. 174.43 down 5.23. I had mentioned the 200-period moving average of 180.40. If it goes through that decisively, that's a big deal. That makes Apple a very weak link in this whole tech sector. Let's take a goog, looking at goog down. Also sharply down 4.134.08. Getting to the 200-period moving average of 180.09. And I said that I don't know how to count this. There's no other way. That is a peak C in the weekly chart, but a peak D in the monthly chart. Not a good action. This is very selective. That's 107.00. That's a peak down just 2.40.000. Are you ready to take charge of your financial future? TFNN is your gateway to the world of trading and investing. Whether you're starting out or scaling up, TFNN empowers traders and investors of all skill levels with top-notch investing systems, strategies and techniques. It's time to protect and grow your money with insight you can trust. Join us live Monday through Friday during market hours for exclusive content that moves with the markets. At TFNN, we bring the trading floor to you. Our season hosts are here to answer your calls and questions live on the air. Check out the Tiger's Den for just one dollar and follow us on YouTube and become part of our vibrant community. 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And if the semis start to fall back, then we've got to see what takes its place. How does the iDouble-M philosophy go? Are we moving sector to sector? Are we then going to Gold? What's going to happen? Very important to keep this week in check.