Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys, getting here, buddy. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com Nightly Wrap-Up Show. Hope everybody is doing well. So last Friday, right? Last Friday, we had what we wanted, right? We got what we wanted. And when we talk about stocks coming out of ranges, indexes coming out of ranges from the macro good or the macro clarity, this is exactly what we were talking about.  This kind of ugly distribution channel. And Friday, because of the big 300-point rally, we finally got above, right? Everything was good. Food tasted better. You got better looking. You got taller. Twitter gave you some extra money in your account. Everything was good, right? Everything was good. Okay. 24 hours later, 24 hours later, a trading session comes along. And now we are, in the mindset, going into this week, right? It's bullish. It's bullish. It's bullish. There is no macro news that's going to stop this bullish train. The market finally got above supply. All we need to do is just build over the supply and everything is all good. And everything was good, right? We woke up this morning. Futures are down a little bit, which was fine. Again, at the end of the day, could we had a structural inside day? And again, you could make an argument. We did have an inside day today, right? Okay. We had a 300-point move in the Dow on Friday that pretty much got us flat on the indexes for the week. Today, the Dow was roughly down about 100. Okay. So again, the bull case scenario could turn around and say, ah, what's the big deal, right? We're down 100 points today, not a big deal, right? We're up 300. It's an inside day that's bullish. It's constructive stocks are taking a rest. It's all good. What's the problem? There is no problem, right? There is no problem. When you're a professional trader, you always play devil's advocate. Okay.  Everything matters. Like, for example, somebody asked me, hey, Dan, do you use pre-market and aftermarket data? Absolutely, because there's just more data that I'm collecting. So everything that I see throughout the course of the day, the news, how the market handles the news, all that good stuff, it's all information that I use to figure out where my next safest bet is. And when you look at the news on Friday, right? And you look at the news on Friday, you had great economic numbers. The market is all-time highs. Everything is great. We're going to go higher. Everything's the best, right? We woke up this morning. I looked. I said, wow, Tesla looks great, which it was. Ironically, if it wasn't for Tesla today, I'd be in a much more, I can't believe the market did absolutely nothing mode, but Tesla is Tesla and knock on wood for good things. Other than that, if you looked at pre-market, especially the morning strategy we had today, we were looking at this. We were looking at that. Everything was going to trigger and everything was going to confirm, because the market finally got above supply and the market got above supply, and it was good, and it was great, and it was great, and it was good, and it was wonderful, and it was good, it was great, it sucked.  We went back, right? For the three, four, five days we were trying to get above the supply, we fell back into it just like that, right? Just like that. And if you look at the action today, right, what started out very, very strong, you had very, very aggressive candles, right? You had very aggressive candles in Facebook. All over the place, 207.50 calls are coming in, 210 calls, everything was good. Shop looked like it was going to be up 1,000 today, right? Shop was going to be up 1,000 today. NVIDIA, I was waiting for that confirmation, I'm like such a good little boy, I was waiting for it, waiting for it. I go, oh, this is going to be such a high value day. Even Netflix, even Netflix, there was a pivot in Netflix that we had in the webinar, right? 310, I go, hey, should get to 11.50 in seconds, it should get there, and it got there. Everything was all good, right? Everything was good. Tesla was great, right? We talked about Tesla and Nausea, 339, we'll get the 341.50, 341.50, we'll get the 344.50, it's all good, right? It's all good. It's all good until it's not. And the moral of the story is very simple.  Like what happens if the plan doesn't play out like we see it? What do you do, right? What do you do? And the most important part is how the market always closes, okay? It's never how it opens, it's always how it closes, because again, we start getting more clues. And the moral of the story is the bulls are really doing a crappy job of making the Santa Claus rally a reality, okay? Now you can make a case, right? You can make a case. We already had that rally, right? Dan, what are you talking about? What's the difference if we have a Santa Claus rally? It really does not make this difference. You're absolutely right. Anybody who's thinking that is exactly right. Where stones throw away from 52 week highs, all time highs, what's the difference if we rally into the market, right? And into the year. What's the difference, okay? Is it going to really matter to us that much? We had a phenomenal year in the stock market, all time highs, jobs are great, no recession, everybody's great, right?   All these pieces of information matters, because if it took four days to get out of a channel and it took one hour to go back into that channel, well, we have a problem, right? We have a problem. So last week, when I was literally, I mean, and again, surprisingly last week, we caught some pretty good value on the market that was contracting. So does it really scare me going into tomorrow's session knowing we're kind of in the same scenario that we were right here, that we are going into tomorrow? Probably not. Again, you're still going to wait for your value. And again, there are some stocks on a good news kind of basis that are setting up to the downside like your Amazons and your Netflix and your Ubers of the world and your BY and these of the world. So there's things to do. Okay, don't get me wrong. But what I think the biggest problem is today could have really set the tone, really, really set the tone. And if that second bar would have gotten bought and we would have confirmed and closed above 206, we would have had a very aggressive fierce market rally for them the week. And now we're not going to happen, right? It's just not going to happen. At least the high probability, right? Unless the market reclaims supply again tomorrow and starts building back over 204 and 205, that's a whole different story. Is that possible? Anything's possible. This is the stock market. Anything literally that you can imagine that you think is impossible, you're wrong. Anything can happen in the market. And the most encouraging thing about a market doing the complete opposite of what you think is going to do, the encouraging part is at least we're in control, right? At least we're not going into tomorrow's session depressed, losing control, losing interest with some FOMO in the air.  And the more important part of when you're in control of your trading, it doesn't make a difference if you're trading one stock today, three stocks or 30 stocks a day. It doesn't make a difference. As long as you are in control and you're able to control the risk and identify the market sentiment that's in front of you, there are no surprises, right? I'm not going into tomorrow's session to go, man, we can have some magnificent ranges. Maybe we could, right? If Netflix confirms down, if Amazon confirms down, right? We could. Okay, we could. But based on what we saw last week, right? On the same scenario, again, how do you not just go into scout mode for tomorrow's session? Look for some value, take some cash flow, use break even to just stop, rinse repeat, rinse repeat, rinse repeat until we either lose the bottom of the range or we start reclaiming the top of the range again. And unfortunately, that's the area where we are against. So when you go into tomorrow's session, you have no expectations, right? You have no expectations. That means you have no disappointments. And again, we don't trade because we are junkies or we are, you know, gamblers. We trade because there is value. And again, you can close your eyes and make like nothing of this is happening. You can wake up tomorrow and chase some $3 stock that's up 950% and make six cents and run around the internet how fabulous everything is. Or you're going to be adult about it, right? You can wait for value, kind of get some more clarity and make sure you are trading properly. That's the name of the game. It's not about, you know, it's not about the trading day tomorrow. It's about what you're doing today to put yourself in the future that you are whole, that you are solving. That's the name of the game, right? So if you look at today's day, it could have been good. It could have been really, really good, right? So this is the trade.   It turned out good.  That was the number, right? That was the number. And again, here it is 339 Monts the area needs to build 341 50 next, right? Next potential hit 341 50. Anything over 341 50 goes to 344 50, right? If you look at Tesla, it was nothing wrong, right? It actually traded perfectly. I was happy with the trade, right? Here's the 339 and it went to 341, right? 341 and a half, which was again, which is the 50 day, which is the supply zone here. And I said, if it could reclaim, right, it could go to right here, which is 344 50 and look at the high today, 344 50 magic, right? Technical analysis. And again, other than that, that's it. That was the end. That was literally the end of the day. We were just waiting. I was waiting for NVIDIA to confirm, never confirmed. I was waiting for Uber, excuse me, not Uber. I was waiting for a Goldman Sachs, right? One hit wonder, right? One hit wonder on Friday. I love that Goldman Sachs pivot above 225. It didn't smell anything next to 25. Amazon is still like for tomorrow. Didn't quite get there today, but again, 1740. That looks good for tomorrow. I was looking for Roku to the downside. And again, Roku did it completely the opposite. What I thought I was going to do today, it went up, never got there.  You know, it's just going lower, right? It's just going to trickle down lower. It closed below that 2780 level. You know, can you get to 2670s? I guess it could, right? Is it thrilled me? Does it really light a fire under me? No, really not my thing. Apple never got up there. Obviously, Apple got the really, really aggressive poll. And again, when you don't think people know something, again, there was a million dollar bet on Apple intraday for the 265 puts. Stock collapsed $3, $4 right away. Somebody always knows something. Lulu made it back that 233.15, never confirmed. Adobe made it back that 310.50 area, never confirmed. Right? You kind of get the point, right? You kind of get the point. But in the video, I was waiting, right? It looked great. 213.70, 214.15 needs to build, right? So here's the video. 213.70 needs to build. You know, I was waiting for that confirmation. I'm still waiting for it, right? I'm still waiting for it. I'm still waiting for it, right? And again, that was the theme. You were thinking you have a premium day. It was setting up to be a premium day. It was all good, right? Technically sentiment, macro, everything. And everything died on the vine. Just like that.  Or you could just take it like an adult. It's a sign of maturity to understand process information and make your next move, right? Make your next logical move. Again, sitting and kind of thinking about, well, Facebook went up today. Okay, that's great. The video went up today. Okay, at one point yet, that's great. Tesla, you know, again, if Tesla were to close at 343, right, it would be good. Tesla closed at 340, 339. So everything got skewed. The worst thing that could happen today was that everything went back into their ranges. The only good part about stocks going back to the ranges, the weaker names, okay, and we all know what the weaker names were going back to last week, right? The weaker names are now going to start to set up. So again, going into tomorrow, right?  And the more important part is stock prices need to start reclaiming their supply. If that doesn't happen, you have to start looking at weaker names. Again, we don't care which way we want to trade, but God darn it, man, give us a bias, right? Give us a bias, don't start giving us mixed signals. It's like, you know, it's like sitting there, it's like sitting there on a first date, and your lady friend is rubbing your leg and all of a sudden turns around and says, I'm not that type of girl. Okay, maybe you are, maybe you're not. But again, we'd like a little bit more of a clear, you know, clear signal. So going into tomorrow, flip a coin, I have no idea. I will start looking at the sell side a little bit more. You know, I like Amazon. I mean, Amazon just can't rally, just cannot rally. This is kind of what we want to start off the day, start off the evening here. 1740 held several times, right? 1740, 1740. If it starts building below 1740, could it get down to the 1720 level, right? The bottom of this channel here, it could, right? It could, especially if they start really hammering this thing, it could. So I like Amazon below 1740. I like Netflix. It starts losing. Congratulations for putting in the time to take control of your trading. You're one step closer to owning your future and achieving the success you desire. Want daily trade ideas directly from Dan, straight off his personal watch list? Unlock our free PS60 vault where you'll get nightly updates on pivot opportunities we're watching for the next day's session. Click the link in the description to get started today. Thank you.


So yeah, hello and welcome to another video here me plus you is yes And today we're gonna be talking about I always forget to take the phone out of my pocket. Take it out. Take it out Today we're gonna be talking about the Dutch perspectives Ghanaian perspective of what Self-care is maybe I mean it's difficult to talk for the whole population Yeah, but I mean generally we're gonna talk about the culture of Self-care and mental health. Yeah, and then what it means to both places. Yeah, what it means for me What it means for you what it means for us me plus you is us Are you you didn't introduce yourself, I just I didn't know no, okay. My name is Tommy. I'm Elaine. Yeah, and good to have you here so First of all, let me just say that before I met Elaine I Wasn't really I mean maybe I was doing these activities, especially of course, it's we're social animals and I have friends and I used to do a lot of things with my friends for my happiness for joy for Relaxation and everything. So yeah, I did all those things, but I hadn't Really put them in a category or in a very conscious place of saying that I'm doing this for me because it makes me feel a certain way and It's ultimately good for me In my mental health in the future so the buzzword which is mental health and Self-care or the buzzwords when it's really my dictionary as a conscious effort till We started like, you know Dating so how did I introduce you to it then or how? Yeah, so I realized that in the beginning of our relationship I didn't realize it's I didn't put a label on it but I realized that As I've come to know now your love language is Quality time, right and you would often want us to do things together And we have to like plan them or travel together or do this together or cook together or go here And it was all often very thoughtful You know, so that's what made me like realize that okay that there's some kind of deliberateness to Yeah, these activities You know, and I really enjoyed doing it or doing those activities with you except that I mean at a time because of work I wasn't fully present For the most part. Yeah, so maybe you need to Explain that a little bit. So I think one of the things that you were not familiar with was Going to places like travel.  Yeah, and just be yeah, and in the beginning it was Very grandma's very uncomfortable. Yeah, I was very uncomfortable with Just just going somewhere and not doing anything and Yeah, I mean holiday or like going away is also a luxury like it's it is Well, it's a luxury. I mean it's something you need to save up for like the same if you like shopping You should save up to shop.    Yeah, like when you get into a bolt You're not sure like we'll get to the right place Will there be something happening on the road like it's always Something even if you want to get something in town, will it be there like you don't know or maybe now with these prices I have to price a spice. Yeah, I got a heart attack from the price. Yeah, so yeah, it's nice to Yeah, it's not the easiest place to find peace. Yeah, you know So it's just more like on the move on the go all the time And that's what our crowd made mainly is and I'm happy that now that we we Um culturally or socially have an awareness to what it means to you know do self-care and Take care of your mental health. I'm realizing that it's something that's now changing people who are becoming much more Aware of you know the activities that's bring them peace of mind that slows them down that resets them Yeah, yeah, and it's becoming quite popular now as well Yeah, I mean, it's really out there is a social media like oh self-care this self-care that I think it's nice But I also realized there's a lot of like Commercialization of the self-care thing. It's like you need one white.  If you want to spend money on spotty. That's fine But self-care doesn't necessarily need to cost a lot of money. Yeah, like for so for me Walking the dog like after a work day or going for a walk with Eli after work days also self-care Yeah, just being outside of the house be getting some fresh air. It's it doesn't cost a thing. It's only cost time Right.  Yeah, so the deliverance which yeah So what other things do you do for self-care? Yeah, so um, I Don't know if I should talk about only mine or I should talk about generally what I've witnessed Oh, you can talk about both, but or okay, but for me, okay one of my self-care activities would be The Sunday ritual of going to eat for food. Mmm. What does it do for you? I don't know. It's okay So first of all on is to go together, but now Yeah, can I? But I mean, it's you know, the the the luxury bits or the the luxury attachment to self-care And like you're saying it doesn't have to be commercial although. Yes I'm spending to get for food at a particular place that I like but it's the fact that it only happens once a week makes you cherish it more and look forward to it and on on on the average or like from Monday to Saturday, I probably wouldn't even drink beer or any alcohol But for that particular day, I would drink one bottle of beer and have this meal And that's how my Sunday in and I relax after yeah, you know, so that's one of my self-care routines that I like religiously Love to do that's nice. Yeah. What about you? I think mine are a bit like smaller I mean, I like to write things down when I get the time and I like to go for walks when I get the time and For me, it's important to move my body So I feel in especially if you have an office job like I have you sit a lot so for me to Do some yoga either with YouTube or a class is really nice just to move your body and Just move like not like you're thinking a lot behind the screen a lot like Yeah, you're planning a lot you're coordinating a lot in your day-to-day So it's nice to just be on a mat and stretch your limbs and just be I think that's and I do it also a lot at home just with Searching for a YouTube video. I think it's nice to do and then I go But let's let's let's talk about the the social construct of self-care and mental health and What it means to I? Mean you're not speaking for the whole population, but in the Netherlands and in the Netherlands What's what do these people do? Yeah, I don't know if I'm necessarily doing it the Dutch way I don't know if there's one Dutch way of self-care. I think Dutch people We like to talk a lot Yeah, like whenever we have meetings or birthdays or meet-ups like if I go for coffee with a friend We would always talk while in Ghana. You also just go listen to music like it's a more like a free-floating kind of thing But self-care wise I think the walks and like being in nature is definitely a Dutch thing. I Not crowd as something I do miss like I mean you have Lake of Potetco Gardens, of course But it's like one place where you can go you can go to the beach, but then there's also a lot of party people there So it's not a serene as in the Netherlands I think people do a lot of walks and the nice thing about walking together is that you're both like Facing forward. So you have if you will notice also in the car You'll have different conversations now when you're sitting like across from each other I think that helps Yeah, and I mean I think people in the Netherlands also do a lot of retail therapy Yeah, but what yeah, but what I'm asking on the on the knowledge and Culture in terms of how conscious people are off These said activities being a self-care and I think people like the walks people do like so I hear a lot of people who go for a During their lunch break go for a walk just to be like gets fresh air and all these things and I know like Whenever the sun shines no matter how cold it is people go Dutch people go sits on the terrace like and they They have a park somewhere in the parks. Yeah, so these kind of things. I think the outside is definitely a Something people do for their mental health Yeah outside of that. I'm not sure like people meet up a lot for social stuff like doing a coffee But I don't know necessarily if people mark that as self-care Like as if they they're doing it for the amulet. Yeah, and I'm sure like there's a lot There's a gym culture in the Netherlands as well. So that's there doing sports is very important if you don't do sports It's you're bit an odd like everybody has one or two sports They do or go to the gym or it's you don't count cycling a sport. No like the cycling I don't transportation and getting around I think it's very functional I think people do enjoy the cycling But it's also something that is so common that is not seen as a sport. No and also not seen as self-care You would just move from a to B. That's I think Yeah, I'm asking I asked I asked because I mean that's also that the topic of conversation here But generally I think here in Ghana Also, I think we also have activities or social activities that we do like especially when we're kids would Playing groups, you know, all these things that we used to do the pump and other people low and everything When we grow up it's more the meeting your friends somewhere to eat and tease each other and drink and Only recently that I mean not recently on it's not only recently it's been there for a while, but the whole Knowledge or accessibility to these concepts that okay, like, you know, people go through depressive episodes and It's because we're just going like running back and forth with work And this is not doing a lot for ourselves and yeah, you know that the whole Idea or not idea or the knowledge of what's Mental health meant wasn't very popular But I think it's also now coming. No, yeah with our generation maybe the one before but yeah That there's more time for it or people prioritize it. Yeah Because I'm sure our parents also needed self care, but I'm sure there wasn't like a lot of space or Yeah, to actually implement these kind of things So I guess That would mean that it's more something that's becoming very common in From our generation going yeah, maybe all these things were done From our parents time, but then we didn't have a categorization or or vocabulary for it Yeah, vocabulary for it to know that this is what I mean people like I Don't know about your dad, but my dad would watch like Sunday football in the evening religiously that could have been For his voice routine as well. Yeah news news and football and all these yeah, so those were also moments I think for me I I think ever since the COVID lockdown I didn't use to watch a lot of TV But ever since the lockdown and ever since I became pregnant I Just like to watch TV because it just makes me tune out because I think a lot during the day When I watch TV it just slows down. Yeah, and especially I have these guilty pleasures watching trash TV Trash TV, it's not trash TV, but it's like reality TV and like series that doesn't make you think a lot Yes, which is also nice But I also noticed that Like what can is do or what I notice in my environment here in our cries that people are good in checking in on each other like the small calls Like the people call you like hey, how are you doing right? Yeah, or those are not or you feel like that's chit-chat Because it's you but you can also if there's something going on you can actually share Yeah, but I also realized that the depth of such conversations Again, we hadn't built the level of vocabulary that we have built now that I mean The for example like even to dates if you ask somebody Unless they know that oh you want to delve deeper into a certain kind of conversation. How are you doing? Do just say I'm fine. Yeah, okay You know I'm saying like if it's a good friend calling you like hey, what's up? Like what have you been up to you can actually share right? It's a platform that you can share but it depends on the person So I won't I won't generalize that's what I'm trying to know, but I think okay Okay, maybe I should say like the habit of calling like just briefly checking in yeah That's very for me. It's unique like I didn't know that in the Netherlands right now as we text a lot And I was becoming a thing as well here with texts. Yeah, but usually it was calls Yes, yeah people just call like hey, how are you doing? I haven't seen you a lot and it's also good because you know in our crowd and the traffic you might not be able to see each other like every week Because one person lives on this side one lives on this letter. You really have to that's why people meet at Abrea or yeah outside places.  Yeah, I think that the active life is also Like becoming more and more in the Ghana common Common yeah, yeah, but then now it's I like the fact that it's now become a It's been merged with our social interaction and you know a sense of belonging and Mental health as well. I think for me honestly. Hmm That's one thing I don't really like about kind of like people Responds so fast on their phones. So for me self-care sometimes to distance myself To know it a bit tune out a bit like put my phone in a corner Of course when it rings, I will go check but not be on a screen all the time For me that's self care, but I know for you is the other way around. Yeah, your self care is being on your phone Yeah, and Responding on time We used to actually fight about that because Elaine would go, you know, when Elaine goes out with her friends She tunes out completely. She's present. She's talking. I have my phone in my back. I'm not looking at it You've texted her and what you texted requires the response, but for the average Ghanaian Maybe I'm not speaking for everybody or but I realized that for the average Ghanaian Your phone is next to you even if you're not on the phone while speaking to the other person But it's next to you and you probably say that oh, can I reply this text or can I pick up this call? And you quickly just pick oh, it's my wife and then you reply it. Okay. This was happening But not to the point where like the phone is my back pocket. I didn't hear you call I didn't hear you text. I didn't see you text and then by the time I see it It's either too late or that means that you're always multi-tasking So for me, that's a bit sometimes I just want to be I'm somebody who needs to be very Present. I'm a very present person when I'm doing something. I'm doing it hundred percent Like when I'm doing something about 100% so if my phone is there like I get this pressure to oh I have to do this and then this then the person replies immediately. I'm like, oh, I don't want to reply Oh, like I get a lot of pressure from my phone. I want to know what the people watching think about this Is it something that you think? Yeah There's something that you do do you put your phone in your back and your present the whole time If you're gonna be there for three hours, you know, you know, what's I hear little judgment here You don't know what's happening or it's close by I mean you may look at it and judge by the importance of the messages like put it out Like maybe you tell the person oh, excuse me But tell them about your phone habit because you do you like to really indulge yourself in Your phone like he can be on his phone for one half hour just laughing to himself Like oh like really immersing yourself in social media. I don't I have it of watching trash TV Well, I I if I'm not working Yeah, if I'm not working. I'm just I mean scrolling through reels or tick tock laughing at things or learning things or getting inspired by new things Work on yeah, so it's basically like for a kid of all the different What all the music no, it's no so for me it Science has even proven how quickly people skip and How their attention before it catches my attention it takes a while before something catches my attention And if it does it's not too much for me I have chosen to stop here and watch but you still get that dopamine spike No, like I think it's very it's boom boom boom. Anyway, anyway, you like to distract yourself that way Which is also a form of self care form of self-care Block everything out just be a white phone So, yeah, this is this is our perspective I think again, I'll reiterate that our generation is becoming more aware having more vocabulary About self-care mental health. And so we're building new ways of Engaging each other and with travel, you know, also with the availability of the fact that I mean now they are cars You know So I know so notice in Ghana people Like people like to call in their cars Like whenever you see people driving mostly they're on their phone and then you told me I think I was we were talking about a thing You said like it was one of the few places where you actually alone. Yes in the car most of the time So it's funny that like a commute in our crowd Even though sometimes the road it can be hectic can be a place of self-care. Yeah it's hectic most of the time in traffic, but then I mean if you are in your car and Of course, you're using the AC or something or not and you're comfortable in the car for the most parts You're alone. Yeah, and it's also one of the places where if you want to have a long conversation with somebody You can't because most public places or even private places in the house when you go There's a lot of noises a lot of people and you have to engage those people, you know And this is not a lot of places or it's not it's not the right time for you to pick up a phone and just be there for Hours on end and yeah, it's minding anybody. So sometimes your calls either business or personal You pick them up in the car. Yeah, that was I don't I'm not sure if we do that than it I mean, I didn't have a car in England so I can't compare. Yeah, but it's nice that people use that kind of space, too Yeah, like I would be going home and I would call a friend. I haven't spoken to in a while Also selfishly to keep me company while I drive Yeah, so on speaker. I'm just driving and then we're having a conversation You know while I drive and then when I get home like yeah, so I've got like I'm home now. So yeah Bye. No. Yeah, I mean, would I take it to the WhatsApp or we'll talk? Well, it's a nice Habit.  Yeah, let us know in the comment session C session C-section another C-section Thank you so much for watching and we'll catch you in the next one. See you. Take care of yourself. Take care of yourself first and foremost. Yeah


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Ultimate Bundle giveaway through the gleam.io link Down in the description. It's absolutely free to enter And hey if you liked this video drop a like hit subscribe and let's get into the next story and that deals with Bayonetta 3 Yeah, that's right We're actually talking about Bayonetta 3 Something that I didn't think we would be talking about until the game awards at the end of this year now Bayonetta 3 was Unveiled at the game awards back in 2017, but it was just a little CGI trailer and Hideki Kamiya the director producer all that stuff behind the Bayonetta series at Platinum games was asked on Twitter When he or when we could expect to hear about Bayonetta 3 and he left well the following tweet and The big thing to take away from all of this is it says next week on a game site So yeah sounds like we're gonna be seeing Bayonetta 3 next week on some game site IGN GameSpot Game Informer. It's probably a major site So stay tuned for that. That's clearly Probably a gameplay reveal you assume because we got a little CGI last time probably gameplay this time And while Bayonetta 3 I do not believe is slated for this year and has not been announced at the 2019 game Still getting some news out there about it getting people though. Hey look We have all these great games coming to switch, but don't forget about Bayonetta I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing You know, I can see why you wouldn't maybe talk about it at E3 Because it might get overshadowed by some of the other games, especially if it's a 2020 title But you tease it now you could show a little trailer next week and then hey look You know hit the game awards up the end of the year get people ready for games for Switch in 2020 I think that's a nice little path for marketing for Bayonetta 3 So again Bayonetta 3 is definitely at least on track what it seems for whenever they plan to release it Because it hasn't been officially delayed because it doesn't have an official release date But still cool Bayonetta 3 I mean, I'm probably more excited for this than the Mario maker 2 stuff just because I know what Mario maker is right? I think all of us at this point in the history of Mario I have a great understanding of Mario maker You know, we had Super Mario maker on Wii U and 3ds and you got to make your own Mario levels And it was cool. There was limited Limitations with the tool set, but you could do a lot of really cool things of the tool set from music levels and puzzles and crazy difficult Celeste style level building Lots of crazy stuff that you could do with Mario maker And it's only gonna get even crazier in you know Mario maker 2 because with the slopes and the different warp pipes and different Settings and new costumes and new abilities being added in there from like 3d world and it's gonna be very interesting to see What people come up with I'm not someone who's ever been super creative with these builder style games But I do enjoy playing some crazy levels Although I admit the Celeste style super difficult having to spin Mario non-stop in the air bouncing on top of a spike is not something that I've ever been good at but It's obviously something that is very entertaining to watch I think I've watched so many Bob Wolf live streams of Mario maker at this point that My head just is still spinning from the amount of times that Mario spins on screen for those difficult levels But you know I get being excited for it of course because if you're really into Mario maker like Bob Wolf and many of you guys probably are The direct tomorrow is gonna be huge and I'm gonna be watching it and we'll see if they can get me super excited I think it's gonna be a really good game Honestly, I really was hoping they would do like a Zelda dungeon maker To follow up Mario maker, but hey more Mario maker is always good But beta 3 is a game that we really don't know anything about is it gonna be really different from the prior games Is it gonna be a continuation Bayonetta's back with the long hair like she wasn't made on a one but not in Bayonetta 2 Is there gonna be any crazy Nintendo crossovers like Nintendo? You know and platinum did in the past with the different costumes the link in the Samus Hector was that little Star Fox little side content Are we going to just see more of Bayonetta's? It's just gonna be you know Bayonetta as we've seen in the past But just more of it is they're gonna be drastic changes Are we going to see a future set up for Bayonetta 4 or Bayonetta 5? Like are we good? Is this the end of Bayonetta? Is it just gonna be a trilogy? I think there's a lot of unanswered questions that you know first thing first we got to see what the game looks like on switch Is it you know a big visual upgrade over what we got on Wii U? Or is it just looking more like the Wii U game again switch is more powerful than a Wii U But you know the exact Comparisons aren't 100% for sure known in terms of what you're able to do at maximum value on both chipsets So I'm very curious to see what PlatinumGames does. I love everything that PlatinumGames has ever put out on a Nintendo platform And I'm sure you do too. So hey Super Mario Maker 2 Direct coming tomorrow Supposedly next week. We'll probably see a gameplay unveiling for Bayonetta 3 Things are starting to ramp up guys You could tell E3 is around the corner if you haven't checked out our first week of E3 hype in our podcast I want you to go I'll put a link down in the description for that Why don't you go check that out? Eric and I go over many things including Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 if you guys are really interested in that We had an in-depth conversation on Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, which is very fascinating Eric's actually kind of a veteran at that game So it was very nice hearing from him and hearing what his excitement levels and the things he likes and don't like So both the prior games and what he has seen in the gameplay. We've gotten so far of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 we also talked a little bit about the ESA and E3 in general Because well the ESA appears to be in a little bit of trouble Whereas E3 is still a highly profitable venue, but obviously it's losing certain things like Sony's not there this year We talk a lot about that and how maybe things could be fixed if they even need to be fixed If there even is a real real problem or if the problem's more perception than reality It's a really fun conversation and I hope you guys go tune in and watch it It's actually one of our better podcast episodes and we have more to come There's a lot of stuff leading up to E3 here So stay tuned as a reminder. We are attending E3 this year and as attending E3 we do have some content plans and I've said it I think on live stream But not so much understand alone video.  We will play everything We will hopefully have footage of everything we're allowed to record footage of we will have hands-on impression videos of everything we play If we are able to record gameplay clips We will have put gameplay clips up of all the games that we play Hopefully of us playing them if not other people playing them that are showing off a similar experience to our own And then we also plan to review or check out nintendo switch accessories There are a lot of accessory companies that come out to these Places and last year we actually got to try out and look at some of those accessories But we never bothered to record any footage for it This year I think it would be cool to kind of check out some of those accessories get on camera Talk about things of it and see where it goes from there. So I'm pretty excited about all of that And I hope you're excited too I want to thank you guys for tuning in to nintendo prime sticking with me through a very weird start to this Month of May But hey, we're in that build up to e3 now Super Mario maker 2 direct tomorrow bayonetta 3 news e3 around the corner in three and a half weeks or so It's going to be a lot of fun. Thank you guys for sticking by nintendo prime and I'll catch you in the next video


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If you sign up to Curiosity Stream with the link in the description you'll also get access to Nebula where you can listen to episodes of my podcast Ghost Notes early and ad free. Through the entirety of his short life Jimmy Hendrix was an avid fan of science fiction. As a young child Hendrix and his brother Leon would escape their troubled upbringing by dreaming up stories of far off planets and flying saucers. According to Leon Hendrix's book Jimmy even made his family call him Buster a name he took from Buster Crab who starred in the serials Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. This love only intensified as an adult when Hendrix moved in with fellow musician and sci-fi fan Chaz Chandler. Chandler had a huge collection of sci-fi books that he would happily lend out to Hendrix and Chandler wound up being more than just a friend. He became Hendrix's manager and producer. Together Hendrix and Chandler moved their love of sci-fi from the literary world to the musical. One of the first sci-fi pieces that made it into Jimmy Hendrix's music was a novel by Philip Jose Farmer called Night of Light. That story is about a planet surrounding a binary star. Once every seven years the world is beset with strange radiation coming from the star and it causes reality itself to morph unpredictably. The book describes the sunspots that caused this effect as having a purplish haze. That phrase struck a chord with Hendrix and so he put it into a song, pairing it with lyrics that create a psychedelic confusion not unlike the surreal reality of Farmer's book. The science fiction influences on purple haze might be a little tenuous but the influences on third stone from the sun are plain as day. The lyrics of that song are from the perspective of an alien scout observing earth from afar but Hendrix and Chandler also embodied science fiction in the music. They used emerging studio technology as well as an array of guitar pedals and a whammy bar to create a cosmic sound system. Hendrix must have liked this alien perspective because he started his next album with another song from an alien point of view, Up From The Skies. This time the song is from the perspective of one who lived on earth long ago and is dismayed at the state of the planet when he returns to visit. By using science fiction to comment on the issues he saw in the world, Hendrix followed in the trend of some of the all-time greats of the genre. From Aldous Huxley and Isaac Asimov to Stanislav Lem and Ursula Le Guin, sci-fi has a long history of using futuristic narratives to comment on present circumstance. And the circumstances around Hendrix were pretty bleak. His entire career took place during an era of war and civil strife. There were riots in the streets and bombing campaigns across the seas. Many of the images that Hendrix would have seen coming from the Vietnam War at the time would have looked damn near apocalyptic, and that's not even to mention the imminent threat of nuclear war. Hendrix found parallels between the apocalypse he was witnessing and the apocalypses in some of his favorite fiction. One book that Hendrix was particularly fond of was a 1949 novel by George R. Stewart called Earth Abides. In Ultimate Hendrix, Chandler said that this was the first sci-fi novel he ever lent to Jimmy and that the young guitarist loved it. Hendrix went on to devour other post-apocalyptic stories like Lotte award Moore's story about a nuclear apocalypse. With all of these images of the end of the world playing in his head, Hendrix began to pen his own apocalyptic story. 1983. A Merman Should I Turn To Be? Hendrix's song is about finding escape from a war-torn world, but rather than looking like so much sci-fi does to the stars, 1983 finds its sanctuary in the deep sea. In the first verse, Hendrix's narrator looks at the state of the world around him and decides that he and his love are going to seek refuge so they turn to the ocean. The second verse is a more in-depth description of the carnage that the narrator sees, and it ties this sci-fi future to Hendrix's own reality. By opening the verse with the beginning of the Star-Spangled Banner, Hendrix is drawing a direct line between this destruction and his home nation who are currently embroiled in the Vietnam War. Hendrix recorded the song during the Tet Offensive, a massive series of coordinated attacks on South Vietnam by the Viet Cong. Images of the violence and destruction caused by these attacks brought a new level of rage to the anti-war movement in the US as they realized that their government had been lying to them about the success of the war. For Hendrix, things weren't much better on the home front either. When he went into the studio to record 1983, it was less than three weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., an event that had a profound impact on the young guitarist. Even Hendrix's personal life was complicated during this time, as his relationship with Chaz Chandler was falling apart. While both shared a love of sci-fi, Chandler and Hendrix had a number of creative difficulties when it came to making music together. Hendrix wanted to experiment with longer, more drawn-out songs, but Chandler wanted Jimmy to keep things short. In the end this led to a rift, and the two parted ways before Hendrix went into the studio to cut 1983. As a result, he was able to tease out the song and turn it into a true epic, stretching it more than 13 minutes long. Most of this length comes from a seven-minute instrumental break in the middle. This represents the narrator and his love descending into the ocean. They're able to do this because of a machine that Hendrix's narrator built. Hendrix never really explains what the machine is, but it seems to transform the narrator's body and make him able to breathe underwater. This machine represents a kind of salvation, a way to escape a cruel and dark world. Many have read the machine as a metaphor for a different kind of escapism that was popular in Hendrix's day, psychedelic drugs. For Hendrix's generation, psychedelics allowed a brief respite from the tumble to reality and allowed them to gain greater insight into the human mind. But Hendrix didn't want people to escape the world entirely. He said, 1983 is something to keep your mind off what's happening today, but not necessarily completely hiding away from it, like some people do with certain drugs and so forth. To provide that temporary escape, Hendrix turns to music, saying what words never could. In the later stages of his career, Hendrix became a kind of sound painter. On songs like Machine Gun or His Take on the Star Spangled Banner, he would use his electric guitar to depict the horrific sound skips of war. He uses similar techniques in 1983, albeit to completely different ends. The instrumental section starts on a typical Hendrix solo, but it quickly evolves into an open avant-garde jam. Carried by Mitch Mitchell's drumming, this section is open like the deep sea, spanning outwards and downwards to eternity. Mitchell's cymbals sound like the gentle dance of bubbles and Hendrix's guitars squeal in the distance. After an eerie start, a peace begins to come over the song as Hendrix solos, layering guitar over sitar and bass that he also put down in the studio. In this psychedelic breakdown, we understand the calm brought on by water, the place from which all life sprouts. After lingering in this peaceful mood, the song builds momentum and grows into a chaotic solo by Hendrix in anticipation of the last verse. In that final verse, we describe the auditory journey we just took, a descent into the deep ocean. At the end of this journey, Hendrix and his narrator find Atlantis waiting for him. In seeking escape from the horrors of their own world, the narrator and Katharina have discovered a utopia, and with it, hope of a new way of living. With 1983, Hendrix fully realized his science fiction ambition. He created a story that commented on the world he knew, but gave hope of a better existence. And that's the brilliance of science fiction as a medium. It allows you to slip away from the stress of the world and escape into space or into the deep sea. But it also gives you knowledge and perspective to bring with you back to reality. Tragically, Hendrix died before he got a chance to create more science fiction music. But the legacy of Hendrix and the legacy of 1983 still remain to this day as an important part of a long and ongoing tradition of science fiction and music. 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In this video, we're going to conclude our lecture 19 about midpoints and bisectors and we're going to prove the so-called best approximation theorem. So I want to remind you that in the previous video of lecture 19, we proved the so-called AOS relation, the angle opposite side relation, which tells us that if you have a triangle ABC, the angle A is going to be larger than the angle B if and only if you have that the side length BC is greater than the side length AC. So basically the bigger side coincides with the bigger angle and the bigger angle coincides with the bigger side. That's what we proved in the previous video here and we're going to use the AOS relation to prove a corollary of it known as this best approximation theorem. So best approximation actually says two things and it has to do with right triangles. So suppose that angle Q is a right angle for some triangle PQR. Then in that situation, we have that the angle P is less than Q and the angle R is less than Q as well. So in a congruent geometry, we have that for right triangles, the right angle is the biggest angle in the triangle. Now I want to put this in contrast to like elliptic geometry where you can have, for example, a triple right triangle. Best approximation would fail in such a situation because the right angle is not the biggest angle because they're all right angles. Why doesn't this not hold in elliptic geometry? Well, elliptic geometry is not a congruent geometry because it does have some issues with incidents and or betweenness. And in particular, in elliptic geometry, you don't have the alternate interior angle theorem, which from the alternate interior angle theorem, we get exterior angle theorems. We get the midpoint theorem, we get the bisector theorem, we get the angle opposite side relation. So all of these things are valid in congruent geometry, not in elliptic geometry because it's not a congruent geometry. But in a congruent geometry, it turns out the right angle is in fact the largest angle in the triangle. That's the first part. The second part of the theorem is going to say that if we have some point P, that's off of a line L. And if M is perpendicular to the line containing the point P, then it turns out that the intersection between L and M, call that point Q, if that's the point and then R is some other point on L other than Q, that's going to form your triangle PQR. Let me try to draw the picture here. So we have a line L, we have some line M that's perpendicular to it. Whoops, it's perpendicular to it. And so Q was the point of intersection. P was some point off of L. R is some other point over here. If we look at the line segment, the line segment PR is bigger than the line segment PQ. In other words, the closest distance from the point P to the line L is the perpendicular path. And so the second part is an immediate consequence of the first part because you have this right triangle. The angle Q is the biggest angle in this triangle.  So this side here is going to be bigger than the small side over here. So part B is just an immediate consequence of AOS using part A of the best approximation theorem. And this is actually where it gets its name, that if you're trying to find the best approximation, that is, what's the point on the line L that best approximates the point P? Well, it's going to be the perpendicular, the orthogonal projection. This has many important applications in geometry. For example, linear algebra use these things all the time. The orthogonal projection is the closest point to the point that's off of the linear space, or in fact it's off of the affine set like so. So the reason we use perpendicular distances, I should say the reason we use perpendicular lines to measure distance in affine geometry and Euclidean geometry is because it's the shortest distance. The least square solution in linear algebra has a consequence of this, which is why we call it the best approximation theorem. The best approximation to P on the line L is the point Q. And there's higher dimensional analogs of that, but we'll just stick with the two dimensional one right now. And so we've proven part B. So part B follows by part A. It follows from part A and the angle opposite side relation, which we've proven in the previous video. So let's then prove part A. So we have some right triangle. Oops, that's not a right angle, like so. I said that the right angle coincides with Q. So we'll put that label on this screen. And then P and R are just the other ones, just other points of the triangle. So we have this right triangle. We have to prove that the angle Q is larger than angle P and angle R. So let S be a point such that the angle PQS is an exterior angle to the triangle PQR. So we're just adding S to get an exterior angle right, for which then S would be over here somewhere. So here's S. So notice that S is an exterior angle. So the point PQS is we have this exterior angle right here. So by the exterior angle theorem, this angle SQP is going to be larger than the remote interior angles. So SQP is larger than angle P and angle R by the exterior angle theorem. But on the other hand, this is a right angle. So it's congruent to its supplement and therefore it has to also be a right angle from what we already saw here. So this tells us that angle Q is larger than the other ones as well. So this is a very simple theorem, very quick application of the exterior angle theorem and the angle opposite side relation that we've proven in this lecture and previous lectures and congruence. And that brings us to the end of lecture 19 about midpoints and bisectors. Thanks for watching this video. If you learned anything, please like these videos, subscribe to the channel to see more videos like this in the future, and please post any questions in the comments below if you have any, and I'll be glad to answer them. Bye, everyone.