I will now move on to the next item of business. As I see, the front bench has changed position, and the next item of business is a statement by Shona Robison on tackling child poverty progress report. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of her statement, so there should be no interventions or interruptions. I have published the third annual progress report due under the Child Poverty Scotland Act 2017. Over this unprecedented year, we have done everything in our power to support children and families impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and to continue driving progress on our ambition to eradicate child poverty. We have built upon the strong supports that are established to date and worked with partners to deliver entirely new support, rising to the challenge and demonstrating the capacity and capability to make significant change at pace. The report published today highlights that all 66 of the actions that we have previously reported on are either in progress or being delivered. It also highlights that the scale of our investment targeted at low income families with children continues to grow. Rising to £978 million in 2020-21, including £118 million of targeted investment made through our response to Covid-19. This is part of almost £2.5 billion invested to support low income households, including over £434 million of Covid-related investment in social assistance. However, the report also highlights the scale of the challenge that we face in eradicating child poverty in Scotland. We know that the Covid pandemic will make reducing poverty that much harder, so let me be clear that that is why we must work together across Scotland to deliver the change that is needed. Over the past year, we have continued to take action against each of the three key drivers of poverty and have stood up a wide range of new support to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and protect children and families, working in partnership with local authorities and wider partners, including the third sector. We have made strong progress to maximise household incomes through social security, with the introduction of three new benefits, each offering completely new support, unavailable elsewhere in the UK. That includes our job start payment, which supported over 230 young parents to transition into work, with payments of £400 to meet essential costs, and our child winter heating allowance, which supported over 14,000 children, and put £2.8 million in the pockets of families with the most severely disabled children, helping ease financial pressures caused by winter fuel costs and the Covid pandemic. Notably, we delivered on a landmark commitment commencing payment of the game-changing Scottish child payment in February for eligible families with children under the age of six. Our 10th benefit is worth £40 every four weeks, and I'm delighted that we've made payments for over 78,000 children worth over £3.6 million by the end of March. We introduced new pandemic support payments to provide immediate financial support to families in need, reaching nearly 145,000 children and young people. We'll build on this approach to deliver bridging payments of £520 each year until the Scottish child payment is rolled out in full at the end of 2022, as committed to. We will fulfil one of our 100 days commitments by paying a further £100 for each child around the start of the summer holidays in addition to the £100 paid at Easter. Importantly, we've now committed to doubling the Scottish child payment by the end of this parliamentary term, increasing payments to £80 every four weeks, and we'll look to do this as early as possible, putting money directly in the pockets of families who need it. We've also delivered new action to reduce living costs and ensure access to essentials. This includes launching Connecting Scotland in May 2021 of the most comprehensive national programmes aimed at tackling digital exclusion in the world. Since then, the programme has supported over 17,000 families with children and 4,000 young care leavers, helping them to get online and access the benefits that digital connectivity can bring. To tackle food insecurity and reduce the strain on family budgets, we invested over £56 million to support the continued provision of free school meals during school closure, periods of online learning and school holidays for around 156,000 children and young people, promoting a cash-first approach as parents know best what they need. We'll continue the support across the forthcoming school holidays, alongside commencing the expansion of our universal free school meal offer for all primary school children. Despite the impacts of the pandemic, we've also continued to deliver progress on our action to increase incomes from work and earnings. In 2020-21, more than 4,500 workers saw an increase in their earnings as a result of the living wage accreditation, and we've applied fair work first criteria to over £2.4 billion of public sector grant funding so far, helping to deliver fairer workplaces for workers across Scotland. The impact of the pandemic has meant that it has not been possible to deliver the progress that we had anticipated on all commitments. However, we have taken ambitious and realistic steps to ensure that we deliver those as quickly as possible and go further in the future. For example, our expansion of early learning and childcare is now set to be completed from August this year, but we know that over half of councils are already delivering the expanded offer of 1,140 hours to families. Given the importance of childcare to families, we have set out the next stage of our ambition to further expand childcare and develop a wraparound childcare system, providing care before and after school all year round. We will complete delivery against our 50,000 homes target from the previous parliamentary term as soon as possible, and we have committed to deliver a further 100,000 affordable homes by 2031-32. We have committed a further £8.65 million this year for our parental employability support fund, bringing total investment to over £23 million since 2019 and enabling even more parents to benefit from this service. We have also extended our commitment to fair start Scotland until 2023 to ensure that demand for employment support can be met moving forward. We are determined to maintain the pace and determination with which we responded to the Covid pandemic, and that is why, in addition to the measures that I have already mentioned, we have committed further steps to be taken in the first 100 days of this Parliament. That includes delivering our ambitious summer programme for children and young people, and further increasing both the minimum value of school clothing grants and our best start food payments. In Scotland, we are serious about ending child poverty, and we have committed a wide range of action to do just that. Early analysis on the impact of our Scottish child payments suggested that it could move 30,000 children out of poverty when paid at £40 every four weeks. Doubling it will enable us to go even further. However, the UK Government's cut of £20 to universal credit threatens to knock out the benefit of this ambitious measure and to push 20,000 Scottish children into poverty. With the Scottish Government quite literally giving with one hand whilst it is taken away with another, that is a disgrace that our efforts to tackle child poverty are at risk of being undermined by a regressive UK Government policy and a broken welfare system. Presiding Officer, we have declared a national mission to eradicate child poverty. We know the scale of the challenge that we face, and while the Scottish child payment is one game-changing policy, we need more, right across government to deliver the change required. This Government is hugely aspirational. Our commitment to explore the feasibility of a minimum income guarantee, which could be revolutionary in our fight against poverty, is a clear demonstration of our ambition for Scotland. Cabinet recognised that this is a cross-government responsibility, and we are 100 per cent committed to doing everything in our power to deliver the change needed using every lever at our disposal. However, it is not just government who needs to act. We need to take a Team Scotland approach and work collectively to eradicate child poverty. It will take this Parliament, Civic Scotland, the public sector and businesses included to do everything that they can to support those efforts. We will shortly commence consultation on our next tackling child poverty delivery plan to be published by the end of March 2022. We will, upon the action taken to date, and upon the strong evidence base established, will be guided by the recommendations and challenge offered by the Poverty and Inequality Commission and the blueprint of the social renewal advisory board. We will work closely with our partners, experts by experience and with children and young people in the plans development. As the report published today demonstrates, we are already taking wide-ranging action, but we must do more. I ask that you all help us to do just that. I call upon members to support us in taking action required to come forward with ideas, and I want to assure you that my door is always open to positive, serious suggestions. I ask you to back the Government in eradicating the blight of child poverty once and for all. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues raised in her statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes for questions, after which we will move on to the next item of business. It would be helpful if members who wish to ask a question were to press their request to speak buttons now. I call Miles Priggs. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of her statement. There is welcome cross-party agreement and support across the Parliament for the actions outlined to help tackle child poverty, including the doubling of the Scottish child payment. Many in the sector are asking what is preventing and holding up ministers from taking steps to double the Scottish child payment as soon as possible. The cabinet secretary states that this will be, and I quote, by the end of this parliamentary term, some five years, and we will look to do this as early as possible in the same paragraph. Can I therefore ask why the Scottish Government will not commit to a date for this to be delivered? One key area that the cabinet secretary has not touched upon is the Scottish Government's record on children living in temporary accommodation. The latest Scottish Government statistics show that there were 7,900 children living in temporary accommodation in Scotland, a 9 per cent increase from 2019-20. We all know that a safe and stable home is vital for child's wellbeing and development. After 14 years of this SNP government, the situation is getting worse and worse, especially here in the capital. Can I therefore ask the cabinet secretary what plans the Scottish Government will put in place to ensure that we end the number of households with children and pregnant women living in temporary accommodation and how that will be prioritised by the Scottish Government? I thank Miles Briggs for his questions. First, on the Scottish child payment, as Miles Briggs acknowledged, there is a huge game-changing policy in the fight against child poverty. Our manifesto, as I said earlier, commits us to doubling the payment to £80 per month by the end of this Parliament, which has been widely welcomed. However, we recognise the need for urgent action, and we will double that payment as soon as it is practical. We are considering the timetable for this increase, taking into account the impact on child poverty, legislative, delivery and financial considerations. I will make an announcement in due course, but I recognise as an appetite to go as quickly as we can. Miles Briggs also talked about children in temporary accommodation. Miles Briggs will be aware of the enormous efforts that have taken place during Covid-19 to try to ensure that people are in safe accommodation. I do not want anybody living in an unsuitable temporary accommodation. It is one of my top priorities to try to resolve that. He has alluded to the fact that there are regional variations in that, and some areas are more difficult to tackle than others. I want to engage with local authorities and housing associations within each of the areas to look at what more we can do. The 100,000 homes that we have delivered, our affordable homes are important, and the commitment to 100,000 more affordable homes is important, 70 per cent of which are for social rent. That will make a big impact, but I know that there is more to be done. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of her statement. It is a tragedy but sadly no surprise to any of us in the chamber that right when we need to do more, we are set to miss the child poverty targets set by this Parliament by 4 per cent. The poverty alliance and civic society are crystal clear and united that to move towards giving people a life free from poverty, we must double the Scottish child payment immediately. Today the Government is committed to doing that by the end of this Parliament, but that is not soon enough. I ask the minister what is the hold up and if not now when. I share the Government's concern around the removal of the £20 uplift for universal credit, so I find it hard to understand why it is not preparing to use its power right now to mitigate that. The fact that single-parent families, people of colour and families with disabled people or carers in them are more likely to live in poverty. They are being hit the hardest. A minimum income guarantee is needed to lift those people from poverty and ensure that we lift them above the poverty line. This Government has committed to a minimum income guarantee, but when will it begin to take steps towards this and can it outline what those will be? As the minister knows, it is my view that we cannot successfully reach a minimum income standard without making changes across government. Will the minister commit today to making a minimum income guarantee an organising principle for this Government? I thank Pam Duncan-Glancy for her questions. I will start with the minimum income guarantee first. I hope that she will not mind me sharing that we had a very constructive discussion about some of the issues around minimum income guarantee when we met just last week. I want to get the steering group up and running. It is one of our 100-day commitments, as she will be aware. I want to look at the feasibility of introducing a minimum income guarantee. We discussed the fact that that could encompass not just cash but in kind support across a myriad of areas of government. That work is important, and I can assure her that I want to see it progress at the earliest opportunity. On the Scottish child payment, as I said to Miles Briggs, we want to bring forward the doubling of the Scottish child payment as quickly as possible, but I am sure that she will recognise that, even in the 100 days that we have brought forward delivering the bridging payments of £520 each year until the Scottish child payment is ruled out in full to those who are in need. We are currently not eligible to full at the end of 2022, as committed to, and that will fulfil one of our 100-day commitments. I do not think that it could be a fair accusation that this Government is not going fast enough to try to put money into the pockets of families who need it most. The cabinet secretary will recognise that the UK Government's two-child policy is a major driver of child poverty, and that the UK benefit cap will still enforce this misery for many families, even if the two-child policy did not exist. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me, in organisations such as the Child Poverty Action Group, that both policies must go, and can she advise on what actions the Scottish Government will take to help support families impacted by these draconian measures? I very much agree with Mary McNair. To her, the Scottish ministers have written to the UK Government on four occasions since the start of the pandemic, calling upon the measures that trap many families in poverty to be scrapped. Over time, more and more families will be affected by the Calis-2 child cap. 8,500 families across Scotland have been denied entitlement for their children by April 2019, and in the long run up to £120 million a year could be cut from benefit spend in Scotland, pushing 20,000 children into poverty. Similarly, the damaging impacts of the benefit cap have been highlighted through the pandemic, with cases nearly doubling to 6,500, with 97 per cent of households containing children. I would reiterate my call. It is the UK Government's responsibility to ensure that their policies provide adequate support, and I hope that this Parliament can unite in calling them to do so. In the statement that the Government talks about working in partnership with local authorities, wider partners and the third sector, funding was set aside specifically to support disabled parents to access employment. Can I ask the cabinet secretary to confirm whether that funding has in fact been distributed to all local authorities, and if not, can a timescale be given as to when it will be? First of all, the partnership with the local government is important, and it is one of the main delivery partners in terms of many of the programmes that are outlined. I will write to the member on the specific question about the moneys to local authorities for parental employment, but that is a key pillar of the support to families. I will make sure that families are supported into work, reducing the cost of living and providing supports in cash and kind to families. I will follow up on that question and write to the member. Fiona Hyslop to be followed by Karen Mocken. The OECD report into education this week found that there has been apparent improvement in tackling poverty-related attainment and that the impact of socioeconomic status on performance is among the lowest across the OECD countries, while there is also a greater proportion of resilient young people from less well-off backgrounds who perform at high levels. That is quite a turnaround to previous OECD reports. As building resilience has been core to the SNP Government's early years education and development agenda, can the cabinet secretary commit to driving forward that early years agenda by working in partnership with the cabinet secretary for education in tackling the impact of poverty on children? I thank Fiona Hyslop for her question. The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills has underlined the importance of the OECD's findings and recommendations. As I said, we are investing £1 billion over this Parliament to close the attainment gap with record funding of more than £215 million in 2021-22, which will help to provide targeted help for some of the most disadvantaged children and young people. We recognise that more must be done to maintain that relentless pursuit of equality in education. In addition to that, that is why we are introducing free school lunches for primary 4 children as a first step to delivering free school breakfast and lunches for all primary school pupils. I mentioned the best start food funding and the school clothing grant. All that is taken together is important. I am keen to work with the cabinet secretary for education and skills to see what more we can do as I want to work with every cabinet secretary and minister to make sure that we double our efforts to tackle child poverty. The Scottish Government rightly recognised that low pay is at the heart of child poverty, and it is an issue that should preoccupy everyone right across this country.  She raises an important point about the social care workforce, and she will be aware of the work that is going on around the building of a national care service of which pay and conditions is a key part of that. It is important in this agenda, for a very important reason, that the three pillars that I talked about, the first being about employment, of course the care services are mainly female workforce supporting families. That is a really important pillar in making sure that we support those families and that workforce. I am confident that the issue of paying conditions will be taken forward and improved as part of the building of the national care service. We know that increasing household incomes from working earnings is one of the key ways to effectively tackle poverty. Can the cabinet secretary outline what impact the parental employability support fund will have on tackling poverty? It is one of the key three pillars of tackling poverty. We have now committed over £23 million since 2019 in the Parental Employability Support Fund, which provides employability support for parents to help them enter and progress within the labour market. The fund has a strong focus on each of the six priority family types identified in the tackling child poverty delivery plan, providing locally tailored support, which is responsive to need. Our 2019-20 progress report estimated that around 11,500 children could positively benefit from our investment in the fund, with parents seeing increases in their take-home earnings directly impacting on child poverty targets. Can the cabinet secretary outline what assessment of the current likelihood of meeting with child poverty reduction targets without new and additional action? I am looking at the cabinet secretary and I think that she has struggled to hear that in terms of the recording quality. Can the cabinet secretary repeat the whole question if that would be helpful? What is the Scottish Government's assessment of the current likelihood of meeting with child poverty reduction targets without new and additional action? It is tough, is my immediate response. I have laid out in this report, which I hope everybody has a look at, the extensive actions that have been taken by this Government, but I have also said very clearly in my statement that even all of that taken together and all of the investment is not going to be enough. That is why we have committed to, across the whole of Government, redouble our actions, look at absolutely everything that we do through a child poverty lens and whether it works to reduce child poverty. That is crucially important. I would also make to Jeremy Balfour that we could end up with all that work on trajectory to hit those targets but be prevented from doing so because of the actions of the UK Government in, for example, reducing the £20 universal credit uplift. I would implore him and his colleagues to make those representations to the UK Government because it would be a travesty if, on the one hand, the Scottish Government is making progress towards meeting those targets but is being held back by the actions of the UK Government welfare policy. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of the statement and the report. In her statement, she referred to the Scottish child payment as a game changer in the fight against child poverty, but it won't be a game changer for the children who are eligible but don't receive it because their families are unaware of it, not supported to claim it or put off by the toxic demonisation of benefits claimants. The Scottish Fiscal Commission projected in January that by 2025-26, around 99,000 children will be eligible but will not be receiving the payment and I think that that would be nothing short of a national disgrace. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what the Scottish Government is doing to ensure that all families who are eligible will receive this payment? Maggie Chapman makes a very important point about awareness of the Scottish child payment. She may be aware that Social Security Scotland has, from the start, taken very much a view of promotion of awareness of entitlements, which is maybe a bit different from the position taken by the Department of Work and Pensions. It is very much the job of Social Security Scotland to promote awareness of entitlement, but it is not just its job, it is all of our jobs, it is the job of health visitors, teachers, social care staff, anybody, GPs who come into contact with families that they think may be eligible to make sure that they heighten awareness. One of the important projects is the co-location of benefit advisers and GP surgeries, for example. We should miss no opportunity to make sure that families are aware of their entitlement, not just of the Scottish child payment but of all the other entitlements that they may be able to claim. Neil Gray is followed by Alex Cole-Hamilton. I welcome my friend Shona Robison to her place back in the cabinet. The impact of Covid on poverty is going to be a big challenge for us to address. On Monday, I took part in a meeting with the poverty alliance and groups across Scotland about just that. A clear issue highlighted was around renteriors and indebtedness. Can she outline what assessment the Scottish Government has made of the impact of removing the £20 per week uplift to universal credit that would have to debt and poverty levels in Scotland and what work she has done to persuade the UK Government to make it permanent? I thank Neil Gray for his question. I have very much enjoyed working with him on the social justice and fairness commission. The Scottish Government analysis published in November estimated that removing the £20 uplift and reinstating the minimum income floor would reduce benefit spend in Scotland by £476 million in 2021-22. Although the UK Government has extended those measures to the end of September, the scale of the loss to families will be hugely significant if it is cut. Removing the uplift, as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlighted, even with the uplift, families unable to work are still £1,600 a year worse off now than they were back in 2011. That is why we have written to the UK Government seven times calling for them to make the uplift permanent and to extend it to those in receipt of legacy benefits. Neil Gray also made a point about renteriors, and I recognise the importance of that. That is why the Deputy First Minister announced the establishment of a tenant grant fund to add to the other measures that we are trying to take to help people who have been impacted by Covid-19 during the pandemic in terms of their renteriors. Alex Cole-Hamilton, to be followed by Fulton MacGregor. The Scottish Liberal Democrats campaigned for years to convince the SNP of the value in offering funded childcare to two-year-olds from deprived backgrounds. Supporting children in their early years is one of the most effective ways of driving down the attainment gap. It also helps parents to return to work by easing the burden of childcare costs and by extension it drives down and work poverty. Statistics released last week show that there are still more than 8,000 two-year-olds missing out on that entitlement. What will the Scottish Government do to improve that terrible take-up rate and deliver flexible childcare to those who need it most? As I said in my statement, the expansion of early learning and childcare is now set to be completed from August this year. Of course, half of councils are already delivering the expanded offer of 1,140 hours to families. Given the importance of that, we have set out the next stage of our ambition to further expand childcare. We will develop a wraparound childcare system before and after school all year round. It makes an important point about two-year-olds. As I said, one of the three key pillars is about cash and kind support. Wraparound childcare is one of the most important in-kind support to families that can make such a big difference in lifting them out of poverty. That is something that I will be working with my Cabinet colleagues to make sure is delivered. Fulton MacGregor. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Interventions such as a child, the Scottish child payment, will make a huge difference, but while the majority of powers to tackle child poverty remain reserved to Westminster, there will always be a limit to what can be achieved. I know that the Cabinet Secretary made reference to that in her opening remarks, but I wonder if she can provide further examples of areas where the Scottish Government is unable to act to tackle child poverty because it is reserved. Fulton MacGregor is that, although around 15 per cent of social security spend is devolved to the Scottish Parliament and it is our job to make the most of that spend in tackling child poverty, 85 per cent of the spend is not. It remains at Westminster, including key income replacement benefits such as universal credit, which, of course, we have already outlined the damaging effect of withdrawing the £20 uplift and, of course, the benefit cap and the senseless to child limit just add to those issues and those problems. With full powers over social security, we could, of course, deliver a system that is fit for purpose, treats people with dignity and respect and which tackles and reduces poverty. Similarly, if we had powers over employment powers, we could make the real living wage mandatory. We could outlaw unfair fire and hire tactics and ban inappropriate and exploitative use of zero-hours contracts. That is just a few ideas of the potential that we could have if we had powers in this place over those matters. That concludes the statement. Before moving on to the next item of business, I am required to remind members that social distancing measures are in place in the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. I ask that members take care to observe those measures, including when entering and exiting the chamber.


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There might not be, but this is Thursday theorist. This isn't Thursday facts. Welcome to Church of the Chair, where school might be out for summer, but the Institute never closes. I'm your host, E, and today we're coming into our powers. If you're new around here, I need to give you a warning. In this series, I will be spoiling all of Stephen King's books. There's no way around it. So if you haven't read them all, I'm talking every single novel, novella, short story, everything, I'd click away now. You've been warned. Today, we're talking about The Institute by Stephen King. That fresh-faced boy you saw in the intro, he has a lot to say. I don't hate my original Institute video, so I'm going to be putting several clips from that video, the majority of the video, and then I'll be back with you guys later on to talk about viewer comments. Take it away. A couple of things right off the top that really have no bearing on anything. I want to go ahead and get out. The first one is the mention of Harry Cross, who is the bully in The Institute. Of course, this is a reference. It's got to be a reference to not only Harold Laudner and Nadine Cross from The Stand, but oddly enough, there is a Harry or a Harold Cross in The Fireman, which was an obvious reference to those two characters in The Stand. Next up, we have a mention of an exit 181. The whole reason I bring this up is because Stephen King, all throughout his career, he's made note of, especially in The Dark Tower, the importance of the number 19. 181, if you take the 1, leave the 1 there, and then do 8 plus 1, you have 19. I know that might be a stretch for some of you, but Stephen King has mentioned how Room 217 in The Shining adds up to 19 also. Of course, it does not add up to 19, but if you take the number 2 and leave the number 2 alone and then add 17 to it, you have the number 19. So it is a stretch, but he has mentioned before how he will add numbers together to make that work. Also, a slight mention I'm going to bring up The Shining is Greta and Greta, Greta? They're twins that are mentioned in The Institute, and Grady from The Shining also had twins. He was the caretaker that murdered his family before Jack Torrance, and his family got there. So you have, it's Greta, G-R-E-T-A and G-R-E-D-A. So Greta and Greta? Odd enough. There is green everywhere in this book. There's a lot of green, and there's a lot of green in The Talisman. There's a lot of green in Black House. Both of those books are heavy on the green. Watch those Thursday Theors for more on that. But also, green is important through the Stephen King universe, because he has an affinity for the Wizard of Oz. In fact, in Wizard and Glass, the Fourth Dark Tower book, he ends up, they end up, the Cotet, Roland and his crew, end up at the literal Emerald City castle, whatever you want to call it, from Oz. So that, I have to feel like green is important. In this one, you have a green corridor on page 107. You have the mention of Emerald a lot. The first time I saw it was on page 214, and then you have on page 297, wrapped in green canvas. Each one of these scenes are important to the story, so I have to feel like there's a reason for the green. There might not be, but this is Thursday Theors. This isn't Thursday fact. The Levers and the Breakers. Talk about this because the ending of Black House is important for this book, I feel. It's also important for revival. But at the end of Black House, I'm going to spoil the ending, they get rid of the house. They break the spell or whatever, and all the kids are pouring out of it. Remember that. But before that, they're looking up and they're seeing all these children pulling these levers. But then in the Institute, there's one point where Avery, they're connecting all of the houses. Well, they're connecting all of the institutes all around the world, and he sees all these levers being pulled. Now, in Black House, like I said, you have all of these kids that were released from Shiel at the end, which is basically the version of Hell, which is the landscape that, what's his name, Jamie, I think ends up in at the end of revival. The reason that's important is there's a mention that there's institutes all over the world at the end of the Institute. There are mentions that there might be more than one Black House. In this book, there's literally a mention of the Black Houses, multiple ones. There's a mention of On the Beam on page 368. So that's another thing that Stephen King uses when he's trying to loosely connect things with misery. I don't know if it's when he's trying to loosely connect things, but it's just, it's little throws, little things that he throws out there. He says it in misery. He says it in Dolores Claiborne. He says it through several different books. He says On the Beam. And I haven't found anybody that can confirm whether or not that used to be a saying, or if it's just King that uses that saying. Going back real quick to the Black House, in this book, there's a thing called the Stasi Lights, or Stasi Lights. I'm not sure exactly how to pronounce it, but it's S-T-A-S-I, S-T-A-S-I. These are little balls of light, multicolored lights, that the kids see when they are being injected, when they are being enhanced by the Institute to try and draw out their power more. Now this is important, I believe, because I think this is more instances of things like the dead lights, or the lights that were inside the knights at the end of the talisman, or the creature at the entity known as Tac in Regulators.  Pennywise, or the entity known as It, is just balls of light, the dead lights. Now each one of these lights have different colors. In the Tommy Knockers, Green, once again, is a very important, very important color in that book. In that one, the Tommy Knockers, their psychic powers, leak, and infect the people in the town. And one of my theories with the Tommy Knockers is, the reason why there is so much psychic activity in the state of Maine, is because of the Tommy Knockers ship. And it had been in the ground for so long, it had leaked out and infected the entire state, just over the course of a, over however many decades, or however many millennia. We don't know how long that ship was in the ground. Now another thing to mention, as far as the colored lights are concerned, is the mention of Ruby Red, is mentioned several times. What is Ruby Red? It's pink grapefruit, right? So you have Maryland's pink grapefruit from the Dark Tower series, and you have Ruby Red mentioned here, plus you have the Stasi lights. So I can't help but connect it all. It just, it feels right. It feels like that's what was meant to bring to mind. It feels like that's where Stephen King was going. And I feel like all of the stuff throughout the Dark Tower series, throughout Stephen King's work, can all come back to lights.  Now we are going to go into the hard connect. All the stuff that I've been talking about before, other than maybe the on the beam reference, all the stuff that I have talked about beforehand, has been just my theories. A lot of that stuff is really reaching, especially like the exit 181, I'm aware at how much I'm reaching there. But with this one, there's some hard connects in here, and I'm going to break out the book for this one. It's page 364 on the first edition, at least the American, the US first edition of the Institute. Okay, so on page 364 of the Institute, you have a paragraph where Annie is talking about a show, a podcast done by a character named Greg Allman, called The Outsiders. The Outsiders. And this is one of the things she mentions. I'm going to read the entire dialogue here. She got up and shook out her Serape. Is that how you pronounce that? Not sure. That's right. You tell Sheriff John, y'all need to be on your guard. They're apt to come locked and loaded. There's a town in Maine, Jerusalem's Lot, and you could ask the people who live there about the men in black cars. This is one of several times Stephen King has mentioned throughout his career after the release of Salem's Lot. What happened to the town? There's another short story that happens after Salem's Lot happened, and it's called One for the Road. I believe it's called, it's in Night Shift, if I get the title wrong. But that story deals with a car that breaks down just outside of Salem's Lot, and it proposes that the vampires are still around. Well, in this one, we finally get mention of what happened to the town of Salem's Lot. Also in, let's see here, it's the Dark Tower Five. We are reintroduced to Father Callahan from Salem's Lot, and he is a main character in the last three books of the Dark Tower series. Woo, that boy do be long-winded though. Damn. Now on to viewer comments. The first comment I have is from longtime viewer and friend of mine, Pat Costin, and he had this to say, multi-colored lights show up in the raft also. Then we have this comment from T-Town Cowboy who brings up Bev's diner. And yeah, I'm sure, well I'm not sure, but it could possibly be tied in to Beverly Marsh from it. Next, we have another comment from another longtime viewer, I always want to say user, longtime viewer Pierce who had this to say, did I leave it out intentionally? No, I didn't, I just, I missed it, so congratulations. Next, and finally we have this comment from Cody Tidwell that brings up Zony Mart, which first appeared in the Mercedes trilogy or the Bill Hodges trilogy, if you prefer that. He thinks it was in The Outsider and is definitely in Kelly Braffit's Save Yourself. And the reason why Kelly Braffit is important is because Kelly Braffit is Owen King's wife. Owen King, of course, is Stephen King's youngest son. I lied, there's one more and it's from this user. Sorry, I had to cut because I read the name Italian, Italian herb and these, these what, play it, these what. Anyways, it says also one of the boys trying to run away from home in Dupre is named Roland. I know it's not a connection or anything, but I thought it was cool. I disagree with you. I fully think that the name Roland was used on purpose, but that's all the time I have for you today. Sorry, I still have the giggles, but I need to know from you guys, did I miss anything? Do you have any corrections of anything I said in this video? And the third one, of course, if you have your own theories for how the Institute ties in to the Stephen King universe and the Dark Tower, please leave your comments down there where you leave your comments. The doobly doo. But until next time.


Absolutely thrilled to have won the award today. It just is a manifestation of all the work that we've done over the year. And it's always exciting to win an award and being compared to peers. And pretty excited, looking forward to a similar run through the year. Thank you so much.


intro for 2020 to our stupid reaction to Corbin you met 2021 no because we're doing 2020 today it's a very exciting day we are doing our 2020 our stupid reactions dummy award yeah we're calling up the dummies and so this is a little different than what we did last year last year we did everything that came out in 2020 we did the awards for that obviously there was much less that came out this year but I like this format anyway because it includes anything and everything under the sun and gives a lot of voice hopefully we'll see two films that otherwise wouldn't be talked about yes right and ought to be this is everything in TV and film that we watched and not that came out that we watched in 2020 yep the only exception in television sacred games is being included because we did not include it in the last years and it was the only one we watched so we will be including that into television so that'll give us five TV series to watch but we will go through each category and television and film yep everything we watched this year which is around 75 ish things saying television film and the way we put this together is we collectively came up with the things we felt deserved nomination but then we selected our own winners yes so you're gonna find out what we think ought to win and hopefully there's gonna be some combat and we'll both tell each other how stupid we are and but the nominees were agreed upon by us and you actually ran some of that by the stupid family too some of it yeah hold on let me get my thank your handy dandy list and while he's getting his list we actually are going to form there wasn't time to do it this year but we do want to have an actual award yeah the dummy we'll have it next year we'll have it next year I have some ideas but I think it'll be cool if we ran the ideas by you guys and we could vote on the statue that would be the dummy and we'll send it to every award winner every single one of them to put it right up there next to all of their other awards actually really funny if we did proud really what the is this anyway first it's something that we wish all award shows would implement screen actors Guild gets it right because they do it this is the stunt ensemble section of for television which also is the people who are responsible for fight scenes so obviously it includes every series we've watched sacred games but all lock family man misaper and deli crime that's it so this is obviously for the stunt ensemble so though any of the action how they did so we and I just realized that next year we're gonna have to agree on a winner because we can't give two dummies out if we both don't choose the same thing that's true so we'll do that next year next year but the fighting is this year sorry two one miserable great job great job guys you guys get the first dummy and it's also it had the most action so it kind of had an advantage they got to see the most yeah but it had some of the best action we've seen in anything and the staging I mean just like just that one the one thing where they were attacking the house and they came from the water and the camera followed it up through the window it's the totality of the stunt the team the final fight scene in oh yeah end of season 2 yep whenever anybody got shot the what the red wedding yes yeah so a bunch of great some work but up there was a bunch great some work in all these true but this was probably the one that I felt deserved it I agree most yep so next will be the actor in a supporting role pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam they are not necessarily in any particular order they would be pankaj tropathy for sacred games Abhishek Banerjee Patolog Rajesh Taleng for giving the miss financial name sir in Delhi crime Devyani Sharma Mirzapur and Ali Faizal in Mirzapur all phenomenal choices yes this is very difficult and it's Ali Faizal isn't it I think so Yeah, Ollie Faisal. And the winner is three, two, one, Ollie Faisal. Wow. Oh! This was actually a very difficult category. Very hard category. I could have honestly had an argument for every single one of these. Yes. And this was a very difficult category for me to pick, but I picked him because he was actually one that, at the beginning of the series, I was like, I'm probably not gonna like his character very much. And his character was a difficult character. A mean head. We talked about how hard that is. He did it incredibly well. So yeah, I... And then had to transform into pretty much a lead without the guy that was playing opposite him, went through a very interesting character arc, had to carry the physicality of woundedness from scene to scene that he did well. So yeah, absolutely phenomenal. Our dost. Yes, Ollie. And the next category would be actress in a leading role in a television series. Now this is one we're gonna talk about here because the nominees are Shafali Shah. There you go. Which means the winner is Shafali Shah. Great job. Where are all the leading actresses? Obviously, we have only seen five series. Yeah, but there's a... And none of them outside of this really had a leading, most of them were supporting. We're almost all supporting. Tons of supporting actresses. Obviously, we haven't seen every series yet out there. So I'm sure there's a bunch of series that have leading actresses we just haven't got to. But out of the five we saw, there was only one leading actress and she did a phenomenal job. So the award is yours. You phenomenal actress, you. She did a great job. And she would have been nominated anyway. Yeah, and probably deserved it regardless. Exactly. But yeah, I found it crazy that out of five shows, we really only could find one leading actress to nominate. Yep. Yep, craziness. So actress in a supporting role in a television series. And this is probably the most difficult category of all of them. Of everything. Film, TV, everything. Every single one of these would have won. And I could have argued that they should have won. 100%. So the nominees are... The nominees for actress in a supporting role are Rasika Dougal and Merzeper. Radhika Apke in Sacred Games. Kubrasate, Sacred Games. Rasika Dougal in Deli Crime. And Swastika Murkaji in Patalo. Crime, word. All of these. I know. All of these definitely, also double nominated for... Yep, Rasika. Exactly. Great job. Will that cancel out? That often happens. The winner is... Three, two, one. Kubrasite. Wow! We just should have picked them together. Yes! Yeah, I just go back to remembering how great of a job she did in this show and in that character. We loved her just as much as we loved Nawaz. We genuinely wondered if this was a transgender woman. It was an actress we'd never seen work holding her own with Nawazid and Siddiqui.  That, for me, was the stuff that put her barely. Just one fraction of an inch across the line than the other actresses. Absolutely. But like I said, I could have argued for every single one of these. Sure, me too. The second closest probably would have been Rasika and Mizapur. But I could have once again argued for every single one of these and they all deserved it. So next category is actor in a leading role in a television series. And the nominations are Nawazid and Siddiqui, Sacred Game, Pankaj Tripathi, Mersever, Manoj Bojpayee, Family Man, Jai Deep Alat, Patalok, and Saif Alikan, Sacred Game. We've only not interviewed one of those. Whoa, we're safe. What's going on? That's pretty cool, actually. That is amazing. That's pretty cool. That is amazing. Anyways, the winner is 3, 2, 1, Pankaj Tripathi. Well, I thought we were going to have some debate. Me too, some fighting. But it was between him and probably Nawaz in Sacred Gams. But Pankaj Tripathi was just right when he came on screen. He was giving me Brando and Godfather presents. Do you know what it really does come down to? Yeah, the neck. The neck, this is actually just for the neck. It goes to Tripathi's neck. That's it.  And now, a lot of you have been asking this question. What is our favorite television? Actually, this is the best television series. This technically wouldn't be our favorite. It might be. I don't know. But this is the best television series drama, I suppose, because that's all we watched. Right. Sacred Gams, Patalo, Family Man, Mizapur, and Delhi Crimes. And the winner is 3, 2, 1, Mizapur. Wow, we have been unanimous. Wow, we are very predictable, I guess, amongst each other. We have disagreed once. And that's all of TV. So we agreed about everything in television. Obviously, this is not really as fair, because one, some came before others, some inspired others. One, some only have one season. And none of them were bad. Love every one of these shows. I'd watch any one of these shows again. And I could have argued for all of these for best television series. Because the writing in Pataloque is so phenomenal, and it's obviously all well done. Obviously, Sacred Gams is almost equally as good as Mizapur. Especially season two. But it was hard not to pick Delhi Crime because of the importance of that. And Family Man just had a bunch of unique aspects to it that none of the other ones had. It's true. It was hard not to pick Delhi Crime because it's such an important story compared to the mall, because it's this true story about this ridiculously evil occurrence that these kinds of things still go on. But when I included everything, including the moral conundrums that take place, and the character developments, and everything, the edge. And it was by just a smidge for me above Delhi Crime. So that's no good to you. Yeah, those were the two. I love Sacred Gams. But if Mirzapur hadn't been in this, it would have been Delhi Crime just because it was so grounded, so real, so well done. It was between Mizapur and Pataloque for you and Sacred Gams. Oh, wow. Yeah, those were the three that I was choosing from. But Mizapur, you get the dummy. We love you. We can't wait for season three. And we can't wait for Family Man. Family Man season two is coming out. Oh, like I said, this whole thing is not equal because some came out in other years. Some have, we've seen more seasons than others. So it's kind of unfair. I have a feeling that the proverbial doo-doo is going to hit the fan in the film area. I think we're going to have Disagreements in film. Well, yeah, the first category in film is actually short film. Yeah, we included short film because we've seen quite a few. This year, and this is once again, just this year. We only saw one the prior year, so. Really? Yeah. Oh, really? We really did. We saw all of the majority of our short films juice. That was the only one? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Well, no, and two. Oh, yeah, we saw two. Juice and two. Yeah. The nominations are Rogan Josh, Chutney, Auch, Kanika, Kier, Devi, Bypass. You know what's interesting? They have short titles. They do. Short films, the short titles. It's kind of fitting. And the winner is three, two, one, Bypass. I knew you'd pick Bypass. I knew you'd pick Bypass. Honestly, it wasn't hard for me. Yeah. Obviously, actually, it was probably between that, Rogan Josh. I loved it a lot. I thought it was phenomenal, Chutney as well. What about the ladies? Devi was great. They were off-rate. We've only seen one bad one. I don't know if you can say it to the channel yet. But yeah, that was my favorite. It was so well done on your kashi up, obviously. Your fun and the waz. They didn't speak. And it was so powerful and great. So that's why that one was for me. I knew you would do that. But I could see Devi as well. Yeah, Devi was such an, you didn't know what was going on when it first started. It's all women. It's, again, like Delhi Crime, talking about something tremendously important. Absolutely. So for me, that is what put it up over the edge. Yeah. I don't have a problem with you picking Bypass. Next is Stunt Ensemble in a Film. Stunt Ensemble who do fight scenes. And so there are four nominations in this one. Yep. And once again, this is all unfair. These all came out in different years. But this is how we are doing it. Let's try. Which is why we're not including visual effects because that's really not fair to do, to compare a film that had visual effects in the day. That would be way too complex to do visual effects or sound, those really technological things that you can't, it's very, very difficult. You know, you could say, let's compare the Wizard of Oz to Endgame. OK, really? So you can't do that. So Stunt Ensemble, Ludo, Sanchiria, Varachanai, Jalikatu. Oh, phenomenal stunt. Great stunt ensemble. Yep. But the winner goes to three, two, one, Jalikatu. Varachanai. Oh. Yeah. All right. I think the film, one, I enjoyed that film, but it was a ton of action in that film, including a bunch of great fight scenes, especially the tent fight scene was a phenomenal. I think that just put it over the top. It was actually between that and Ludo. Ludo, I thought, had great stunt. These all had great stunt work. That's why we chose them all. Exactly. But those were mine. Why did you pick Jalikatu? I picked Jalikatu because it was one of the more subtle. So much of the film is driven by the ensemble and the frenetic frenzied running. And night stunt work is way more dangerous than daytime stunt work, especially when you're dealing with the kind of lighting that we know he said he had to work with. And then the final body count, flapping, jumping on top of each other, chasing the bull, falling into the pit, falling, running, and chasing each other. There wasn't one particular stand-up thing like the tent fight scene. And I don't have a problem with that being the one that gets it. But because I felt like so much of the stunt work was understated and underappreciated, I appreciated it all the more. Gotcha. Yeah. Cool. Excellent. Next category would be actress in a supporting role. Another tough category. It was? Jiko, go ahead. We have Karuna Banerjee in Path of Panchali. Anominal. Rinku Rajguru in Serrat. Radhika Apte in Rat Akeli Hai. And Manisha Kerala in Bombay. Absolutely. All right. And the winner goes to? Three, two, one. Rinku Serrat. Ruma Banerjee. I knew. I told you we wouldn't agree in film. No. I knew you were going to pick the Bengali. Yeah. That wasn't a shock. But I absolutely, she was phenomenal. She was one of my favorite parts of the entire Poo Trilogy. She was so, so, so good. Every female in that, I feel that series was phenomenal. Really, really good. But my favorite was the girl in Serrat.  Right. But the actresses fault, she did a phenomenal job. And yeah, that's. There you go. Yeah. Well, not a surprise. You? Yep. No, I just, the screen presence was so shocking. I remember just being, of all the actresses that we saw in supporting roles, there wasn't anyone whose screen presence astonished me as much as hers. Just the beauty of her presence, the way she embodied the role. I felt 100% of the time she was this person. And I also lean credit-wise toward the era in which this being done and the intimacy of Saatchajit Rai's filming, a way more difficult role to pull off than many would think at face value. So, but I have no problem. All of these ladies did great. Actor in a supporting role in a film. Who might it be? Who could it be? Very. Who's going to get the Dami? Difficult. Very. Category. Very. One of the most difficult. Yes. Go ahead. Jayesh Moir in Hela Rao. Manoj Bajpayee in Satya. Yep. Niraj Kabai in Sheep of Thesis. Phenomenal. Riddhi Sen in Nagatana. This is crazy. And Fahad Faseel in Kumbulandji Nights. Are you kidding me? And? Honorary mention, the Bolan Jolli Kattu. We had to. You had to mention them. You had to mention them. Had to give some notoriety to the Bolan Jolli Kattu for the supporting work. Like the Bear in The Revenant. Yeah, yeah, it was great. You got it. And the winner goes two, three, two, one, Fahad Faseel. There's no way I'm picking against Fahad Faseel. I knew you wouldn't. And zero chance. I, I, I, okay. So what? But I, I almost picked Riddhi Sen. Okay. So why did you pick Fahad Faseel over Riddhi Sen? It's that performance. Just the man crush. The man crush and the weight of that performance, the way it introduced me to him.  The ending. Man, that was. Agreed. If it was any less of an actor, it wouldn't have worked. So yeah, I just, I couldn't pick against Fahad Faseel. Yeah, and I couldn't pick against Riddhi Sen because he was my runner up. A thousand times. Yeah. You know all the reasons why. If you haven't seen that film, everybody, please, he does such, such a beautiful job. He's so believable, 100% believable in that role and an important role. So there you go. On to score. Ooh. Ooh. This is, I think, people are gonna be interested in this one. I agree. The nominations are, Mahul Sorti for the score in Hellerau, A.J. and Atul Gogoval for Serat, a newcomer, A.R. Rahman for Bombay, A.R. Rahman for Tramasha. Wow, double nominated. Yes, and Pritam Chakraborty for Yajwani Haidwani. I think that's, that one's gonna surprise a lot of people. Yeah. When we talked about this, we, you brought it up first. And I was like, yeah, I can't deny that. That absolutely. We have multiple songs in our play that we love so much. So, absolutely. So, I guess say the winner, the film, the film name. Yeah, just say the film name? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, cause we probably pick the one composer who's, anyway, three, two, one, Sairat. You can say the names for me for Sairat. Yeah, well for Sairat, it's A.J. and Atul Gogoval. And then, well, and for me, for Tramasha, it was A.R. Rahman, which is what I told you to say. I thought you said, say the film, cause we would say A.R. Rahman, and we wouldn't know which film we're talking about. Yeah. Cause he was nominated twice. This film's one, you know, I love the film. But the score in this was one, extremely unique. Yeah, I agree. Extremely, you get to hear a score like this. I've listened, I think all the songs are on my playlist, but they're just so unique and so well done. They were done here in Los Angeles, and they're just extremely powerful and unique. I think the uniqueness put it over the top. It's like nothing else. And it's obviously has that orchestra feel, but it's also has that very Indian feel to it. Agreed, and I can't deny that in any way, shape, or form. But yeah, well tell us why A.R. Rahman is good. Yeah, he's good cause we like him. That's true. And that's all that matters. Is that still one of your favorite films, Tramasha? That's what, yeah. The whole feeling of the film is the, the music throughout is what is the emotional template that carries everything through for me. And while I cannot deny the musical genius and gorgeousness of your choice, just of the two films, I love Tramasha so much. Yeah, just love that film. Next, extremely difficult category. Yes. It is screenwriting, a underappreciated... Yes. And this is an interesting one for us because our appreciation of this is gonna be driven far more by story than the way we would critique screenwriting with an American film. Because in American film, we can appreciate nuances in the dialect and nuances of what's meant with grammar and the English language that we cannot get in any other films that come out of India. So this is primarily story that we can grade. We cannot grade actual technicalities of screenwriting where we could in an American or English-speaking film. But, the nominees are Anirag Kashyap for Ugly. You knew he was gonna make an appearance. Anirag Basu, Samrat Chakraborty, and Safe Turan for Ludo. Vikramaditya Motwan, Anirag Kashyap, Devanshu Singh, and Satyamshu Singh for Udan. Siam Pushikaran for Kambalanji Knights. And Suniyana Dutta, Bhaskar Hazarika, Sagar Saurabh for Amis. And then R. J. Akumar and Harish S. for Jali Kattu. So there's actually six in this category. And yes, let's just go for the film name. Because there's too many names to try to decide. All of these deserve it. Yes. Absolutely, this is one of the, once again, hardest categories I had to pick. Very hard, but it was hard to pick nominees for this category. That's true. Three, two, one. Jali Kattu. Kambalanji Knights. That was my number two. My number two was actually either Ludo or Ugly. Yeah, I know how much you loved Ludo. Yeah. Ugly, come on, it's on your own. Ludo was so unique, even though I know it didn't win. But it was an extremely unique screenplay for Indian cinema that we've yet to see. So I thought it was phenomenal. But yeah. Kambalanji Knights was my number two. Kambalanji Knights. But Jali Kattu was my number two. You know how much I love it. And I think the writing was extremely well done and unique and everything about that film. Yeah, it's one of those where, you know, when we watch the Oscars, if you're, there's oftentimes where the one you picked didn't win, but when the one, the other one wins, you're like, I'm really happy for them. They deserve it. I would feel that way. But for me, taking that story and that metaphor for Jali Kattu is again an underappreciated way of screenwriting. So both Molly Yellen. Yep. That's true. Okay. Do, do we want to do this? Yeah, let's do this one now. So like the Oscars, we want, whenever we do this every year and do the dummies, we want a lifetime achievement award. Uh-huh. And oftentimes when an award ceremony does a lifetime achievement award, for the first time, they will name the lifetime achievement award for the recipient. So we're doing that. And every year, there's only one person, there's no nominees. This is just a lifetime. It's to honor somebody. There was nobody that I think we even, the minute we've both thought of it, it was no one else comes close. Lifetime achievement for the year of 2020 that people should always remember their work and never forget it. And we're going to name the lifetime achievement award the name of this actor, and that's Irfan. The Irfan. It will be the Irfan. So whoever receives the lifetime achievement award from here on out would receive the Irfan because I've said that before, he's not only one of my favorite actors of all time and like my top three, regardless of region, but he's my favorite male actor I've ever seen out of Indian cinema. And the lifetime of work, and we still have more stuff to see. A lot more. But he deserves it in this year where we had to say goodbye. So. He absolutely deserves it. Yep. Next. Cinematography. Ooh, it's getting deeper and richer and thicker. Another really good category. Go ahead and hit those. All right. Girish Gangadharan for Jelly Katsu. Anurag Basu and Bhushan Kumar for Luda. Girish Gangadharan for Angamaladharis. Trivand Babu Salinani in Hela Rao. And Subrata Mitra for Pappar Panchali. And the winner is? Film name, right? Yes. Okay, three, two, one. Jelly Katsu. Yeah, there's no other option in this for me. The only other one that would have come close for me is Pappar Panchali because of the nature of the groundbreaking times and what was going on with Satish Rai. But Charlie Taco had some of the best cinematography I've seen in a film ever. And it's the one that should go to the Oscars for international film. So, yeah, no question. No question. Next, Direction. Ooh, who's directing this? Go ahead. Abhishek Shah, Hela Rao. Which, this is, how many, I didn't count the nominations but Hela Rao has shown up a lot. I think the most, well, I think this category probably is the most that's shown up, honestly. So, Abhishek Shah for Hela Rao. Anirag Basu for Ludo. Madhu C. Narayanan for Komalangi Nights. LJP for Jolly Katu. Anand Gandhi, Ship of Thesis. Film name or, no, we're just, yeah, film name. Film name, yeah. Three, two, one. Jolly Katu. Yeah. He was, same goes along with, it was his film. Yep. And him and the cinematography were the most extraordinary parts of that film. Yeah. And no, there were, I could have, honestly, given you arguments for all these. All of them. Absolutely, every single one of these. I could have given you strong arguments for it but he was the one that edged it out every single time. Yeah, I absolutely agree. I think, again, all of these were worthy of being nominated and noted and obviously our favorites of the year but the level of artistry and Jolly Katu and then our interview with him where he explained how they did the lighting. It just, and the bull, everything just ratcheted up another 100,000 notches for me. And he's everything we've envisioned him to be in more. So, yeah, yeah. Next actress in a leading role, Corbin's mom. Go ahead. Shrata Dangar, Hela Rao. Charmille Tagore, The World of Opu. Lima Das, Ames. This might surprise you. Depeca Padacón, Tamasha. And this might surprise you. Banita Das, Village Rockstars. Yay! Yay! And the winner, let's go with... Filmed? Yeah, sure. Some of these I can't pronounce. Sure, sure, sure. Three, two, one. Hela Rao. World of Opu, Opu. I said Opu, The World of Opu. You said Hela Rao, oh! So say their names for me. Yeah, for Hela Rao, it's Shrata Dangar and for The World of Opu, it's Charmille Tagore. Yes. I loved everything about Hela Rao. This actress was one of the main reasons she did such a phenomenal job throughout the film of just making you feel for this character. And it was so well-written, so well-acted. Yeah, it was so. Member supporting role for Path of Panchali, right? Even more so for her. This, I was, I remember when she first came on screen and then I started asking Andrani about her and looking up pictures of her. There's been a few actresses who when I first encountered them on screen, I thought just, I was just mesmerized at how much the camera loved them. And it was, it was her. Extremely tough category. Yeah, great category. Really hard. Second to last category. Du du du du du du du du du du du du du du du. Extremely hard category. You know what I appreciate with this award ceremony? What? We've had to do no playoff music for the acceptance speeches. Oh wow. Everybody's been really tight on this. Really good, really good. So, the nominations are, you wanna call them out? No. Okay. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raman Raghav 2.0, Manoj Bashpahi, Aligarh, Rajat Barmehka, Udan, Vicky Kishaw, Masan, and Sumitra Chatterjee, the world of opu. And an honorary mention to the flyaniga. Had to do it. Yes. Had to do it. He might win. Because even as an honorary mention, not only did he have the audacity to be so good on film in this motion picture, but he then lands on Mike Pence's head. That's true. Who would have thought?  Who would have thought? Very much, very much responsible for the turning of the whole election. Yeah, absolutely. So, but the extremely difficult category. Yeah. Man, this is hard. This one, I'm gonna tell you, it was hard for me to pick the number one because my number two I wanted to pick so bad. Me too. So, three, two, one. Nawaz Adansadiki. His performance was phenomenal. Runner up. Manoj Baishvai for me. Oh, for you? You don't guess who mine was. The one from Bengali. The Bengali, yes, of course. It was, even saying Nawaz. Mine. And he's 100% deserving. There's a very special place in my heart for us having Sumitra Chatterjee because of how well he did and he's no longer with us. So, but you can't, the role in Raman Raghav is as good a role as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of Newborn. It's an iconic legendary role.  It was just such a phenomenal performance. Obviously every single thing he does is phenomenal. Yeah, but I would, where would you place this in terms of the roles you've seen him do so far? His top three. It's my number one for him. Yeah, he has so many of the great ones that it would be very difficult for me. He really does, but this for me, like of all the things that Daniel de Lewis has done, I love every single one of them. My favorite incarnation for him is Bill the Butcher. It just always has been. Yeah, and he also has so much more we haven't seen yet. Right, right. So up to now. That's very exciting. There you go, but Manosh was actually my runner up. Got it. I very well, I went back and forth. Manosh was my winner for a while and then I switched it to Noyes. The same way it was hard for me, my number two, I love so much. The same is true for the final category. My number two, it was hard for me not to pick it, but I had to pick my number one. The nominations for best picture of 2020. The most stupidest of the stupidestestest we've seen thus far. The nominations are Hela Rao, Kumbalanji Knights, Ship of Thesis, Jali Taku, Ames, Panther Panjali, Udan, Village Rockstars, and, say, Naga Kurtan. Naga Kurtan. I'm sure I'm butchering that too, but look at that right there.  Also, Agudrati, Amali Alam, I believe it's Hendi. Yeah. Amali Alam. Bengali. Ames. Ames. Ames. Ames. Bengali. Yep. Hendi, and then another Asamese, and then a Bengali. There you go. And there was actually more that probably could have been on here. For sure. As well, that we just, we didn't have enough slots. Yeah. But the winner of the best picture of 2020. Once again, these are just films that we saw in 2020, not including the ones we saw in the year before. It's three, two, one, Jolly Topu. Jolly Topu Nights. You knew it was gonna end. Wow. Really? Absolutely. So why wasn't that your choice for the international submission? It came out the year before. Oh yeah. In fact, Jolly Topu also came out the year before, which is why I qualified. Yeah, I don't understand why it was. Well, Hela Rao did too. Yeah. But the extra cushion that the Academy gave, Jolly Topu Nights didn't meet. It was still too early in 2019. Really? So if Jolly Topu and Kumballanji Nights had been side by side, you would have picked Kumballanji Nights. In fact, if Hela Rao and Kumballanji Nights would have picked them before, Jolly Topu. See, my number two that was hard not to pick was Hela Rao. Because of the two films, the one I'm most likely to watch over and over and over and over again is Hela Rao. Yeah. But artistic-wise, artistic-wise, I totally get it. I totally get it. Yeah. I totally get it. You know I love that film. It's just, there's very few films I've loved more than Kumballanji Nights. I know. It's a phenomenal, phenomenal film. It actually shows me how long this year was. Because when we started this, I was like, we didn't watch Kumballanji Nights this year. We watched it like January 2nd or something like that of 2020. It stuck with us. And so it won most of the categories for me because it's that good of a film. It is. It's so, so good. Riding, directing, acting, cinematography, everything makes me wanna go to Kerala. Yeah, it does. So yeah, that's why I- And it would just depend on the mood. If I saw, if I opened up like Netflix and I saw side by side, I could watch Jolly Katsu or Kumballanji Nights. Kumballanji Nights. I would, it would depend on the mood on it. No, it would never depend on the mood, man. Yeah, it would for me. Because even though I, artistically- But if Hela Rao was up there? If Hela Rao was up there, I'm jumping to Hela Rao. That would be a conversation. Okay. I love Hela Rao. It's just because Jolly Taku is a, I think I said it in a view. I don't know if it's anybody's favorite film in terms of, I could watch this a thousand times because it doesn't have a character in it. That you can- Of course. That's one of the reasons people love, in terms of it being your favorite, is because you can relate to it, you care for a character. Well, that wasn't the point of that film. No, and it's like Schindler's List absolutely should win Best Picture, but no one wants to watch it over and over again. Yeah. That's not taking anything away from Jolly Taku. No, I know. I love that film. Exactly. But though my favorite and overall best, it might even win of everything we've ever seen. Well, and see for me, another thing that I like Hela Rao- My truck should be up there though. It is. Hela Rao compared to Kambalanji Nights for me, I would be more likely to recommend Hela Rao to Americans to see first than Kambalanji Nights. I don't know. Yeah. We'll have to see. We'll have to see. Let us also, we both picked a Mali Alam for our Best Picture. We sure did. Mali Alam got Best Picture, which isn't a surprise. We love a lot of them. I'm pretty sure all the Mali Alam would be like, yeah, that's exactly what it is. And I obviously picked quite a few Bengali things, but the, which shows the diversity of our palette of cinematic love in India. And now we'll do this with each year because there really isn't enough stuff to come out and for us to see, we should give credit. I love that in the same conversation we were just talking about Best Picture. It's Jallikantu and Pathir Panchali. Yeah.  So let us know what you thought of our picks. What were your picks from our nominations? Let us know why we're idiots. Yeah, why are we dummies? I'm sure you will down below. Also, come February, it will be classic months. We will only be watching classic films. I don't know the exact date, but it's going to be pre-80s. So anything, it has to be made before the 1980s. 1980s, qualify for us to watch it. It might even be before that. I don't know. Oh, it could be. Yeah, way earlier than that. But I just wanted to let you know that all of February from every region, we will only be watching classics. So let us know what you thought about it. Let us know your opinions if you have any good ideas for a statue that we should come out to all. Yeah, I had an idea. I had an idea for the dummy to be the pose of Amir Khan sitting on the butt from Three Idiots. Just when he's sitting like this and the butt's underneath him, I thought, would you just get that? But you let us know. What should the dummy look like? Let us know down below. Da, dinde, dinde. Dinde, dinde, dinde, dinde. Deena deena deena deena dinde. Deena dinda dinda. Dinda, deek, deek lease.  Hahahaha!


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This is Kenny and today I'm going to talk about running the Silverline into the Architect software and also using it as an audio interface. So all Silverline series works with the Architect software but the thing about the standard and the special is that it doesn't have a mid-control accessible on the face plate. So if you want to get in control of that you need to get into the Architect in order to control the mid-range. So we were using the Insider in order to control the Silverline internally but the new Architect software is very smooth, well-updated, looks cool and modern and it's very smooth and visually really fun to look at. And also the mid-range control also is usable in the Architect even on the standard and the special. So for the demo I was using three guitar tracks. Two for the rhythm, one for the lead. The first guitar track, the rhythm guitar, I was running this guitar into the EL84 response and the second one I was using a Telecaster into a KT88 and then for the lead guitar I was using this Les Paul into the EL34 response. The EL84 has that nice juicy sits well in the mixed tone and it sounds like this. I set the bass in mid around 1 o'clock and then the treble a little bit lower than noon just to kind of sit back in the mix it doesn't get too in your face. Sounds really good and juicy. Perfect for that rhythm guitar tone. So for the second guitar I was using the Telecaster into the KT88 response into the Super Crunch. So you could hear that tone like this. Real nice and twangy as you can see I lowered the bass, raised the mid-range and treble around 1 o'clock and mid-range at 2 to really get that punchiness of a single coil in your face. And also the KT88 is the least compressed response out of all the tube responses. You can get more of that open full sounding and having the Super Crunch kind of compensate the compression that way so you're kind of balancing it out with the Telecaster. And for the lead guitar I'm back with my Les Paul and I ran the EL34 response. I lowered the treble a little bit, raised the bass in mid and gain a little bit around like 10 o'clock-ish because it's got a lot of gain on OD1 and also just to have fun and paying homage to the good old EVH tone I put on the tape echo and I made it a little bit of a slap. So what I did was I turned down the feedback to 0% the time is at 157 millisecond and then I just kind of set the level to where I felt it sounded good. So this is the tone. So having that slapback delay really kind of fattened the tone quite a lot so this is without where you could really hear that big white tone as if you're in a really big open room. So this is how I set the lead tone. Thanks for watching. The Silverline is an amazing amp to really get all sorts of tone in one amp and using the architect really opens up even more options to change voices and switch amps and compare sounds on the fly. So it's very highly recommended. Have it in your home studio, use it live anywhere. It's an amazing amp. So for more information please check out blackstaramps.com. Thanks for watching. See ya.


All right. Good morning, separate traders. Welcome. I'm back here this Tuesday morning, August 23rd shortly after nine o'clock Eastern time. Great to see Wendy Grant, Nino. Great to see Leda and Norman and all of us inside the live trading room. Great to see all of us back on social media, Facebook, live YouTube. You could hear me. You can't see me today. I need a little bit more coffee here at least before I get going. But we had a really nice morning so far. It took a little while to get the gears going there, but a couple of trades moving right now. The AMC stock was, you know, chugging along pretty nicely here. You know, it's up over 3% to 4% close to. But with that, we ended up seeing that the trade ape, APE, and news that came out with ape was yesterday, it became listed across the New York Stock Exchange. It's basically an AMC break-off. So now it's shaking back down. I ended up taking half my position out before we started this meeting, not just to take profit, but actually right off of 670 is a level that I ended up charting on this ape trade from my pre-market. So with that, no surprise, it's, you know, holding here for the meantime under 670, big volume level. Right now, though, we'll look to see if this can make a higher high. If not before the market opens, then certainly afterwards. So the ape trades, the more interesting of the two. You know, of course, AMC has been a meme stock and all of that. Well, hey, with ape being very newly listed, perhaps if the star is a line, you can get a really nice initial squeeze up. And we ended up catching that to be transparent yesterday. Ended up pumping up early on, but then very shortly after, like three or four halts on the way up, it came crashing back down. Now, the level that you want to watch for today, should it pull back down a little bit lower? Well, you know, look for it to retest yesterday's closing print. That's like a 11 to 12 million share transaction, actually. That was found on the tape from the end of the day yesterday. So it's saying that should it pull back to six, I would anticipate on that support to initially hold. And then from there, you know, see if it can make the run back up. I was looking for at least 630 to test as support first. So that's where I'm currently in from. It's on a smaller position size in full. It was a half size position for what I normally trade out of the stock or out of this price stock. So I took half of that out and I still have half of my position left. So it's saying that the Abe trade I am going to put on the main morning watch list in hopes of a nice run up. If not, you know, hey, we'll find something else out there. You know, there was the MRIN trade from this morning early. Unfortunately, that one pulled back a little bit, but early after seven o'clock in the morning, that was making a pretty good push with the AVYA stock teasing us a bit. We'll see if that could break over a dollar and run. So there's a few things moving out there, folks. Let's go right from the top here to start. We have a couple of cheapies at the top of the list here between the QTNT trade and WINT. So I'm not going to be as like particular about trading these types of stocks as often, but WINT here ended up making a big pop just after eight o'clock Eastern. What you want to see out of this trade is for it to test support break under, but then right back over. And should you get that, that could be the beginning of a new slingshot on this trade. I'm not going to put this on the main list just yet. I want to see if there's anything just looking a lot sharper going up or more like above a dollar, something a little bit more tradable for us there. AERI, now I'm going to zoom out on this chart here for right now, because yesterday there was some news that came out on the stock, SGFY. And the stock here is a big in pre-market, ended up dropping off after the open. It was actually a pretty interesting short. We covered that in the phase two course just yesterday. But it is to say, though, that the news out on this stock from yesterday was a rumored buyout, rumored keyword, rumored Amazon. I think a few different suitors were rumored to have been interested in buying them out. We'll buy the rumors, sell the news, right? This is actually a trade to take. AERI, go back to this. I don't know if this is a rumor. This might just be a straight up official listed buyout here. So I'm going to just jump to the Benzinga Pro newsfeed here. Let's see. All right. So, yep, as I had assumed, this one is an official buyout. AERI now acquired by Alcon for $15.25 per share. So once the buyouts made official, it's like really going to flatten out and not really provide that type of trade that you would want up or down, does nothing. So at this stage, we're going to move on from this AERI. I just had the SGFY from yesterday in mind, wanted to at least go over that. If it's a rumored buyout, then there's a chance for a pullback, a day trade with that in mind. But once it's official, it's not worth it. All right. AVYA, another stock we had said from this morning pushed up. It was a cheapy below a dollar. Now it's testing a dollar. We'll look to see if this could break higher, perhaps over time. What I like about this trade also is that if you look at the daily chart, this has a gap to fill or potentially try and begin to fill. Ended up moving upwards here, heading into the mid-August and then came back down. So whatever news is out on the stock here today, it's up over 26 percent. It's teasing that runoff of a dollar. So maybe I'll come back to this at the end and put this on our main list. Doesn't hurt us to do that, right? You can see the same on the WINT, perhaps, but this one looking a little bit sharper already over a dollar. Right now, a couple of orders on the ask for it to break through. But we'll come back to this at the end. My Ape trade pulling back slightly. It's still holding over 650. So we'll go back to that at the end. That one's already on our main list, though. Marin, M-R-I-N. So the news out on this one's not too exciting. So I mean, it's each thrown on that, I reckon. But M-R-I-N shares trading higher after the company announced the ability to optimize Snapchat ad campaigns through its Marin 1 platform. If you're interested in social media and have your ear to the ground on social media, perhaps you know that Snapchat has grown a little bit year over year, but compared to other social media platforms, I don't think it's going to last long term.  And I mean, I think the company, the stock ticker itself, is going to completely tank. It already has to be transparent, breaking, if not all-time lows, then coming right back down towards them. But Marin, listen, I mean, they end up doing some partnership with Snapchat to optimize their ad campaigns. Nice little pop from the after hours there, but it's done nothing since. So, you know, take that for what it's worth. I'm not even as particular about putting this on our main list. I'm sure at some point this could look to make a move. And for that reason, that would be the only reason as to why I would. Let's just keep going down the list. I'll probably slip this on the back end here, the Marin trade. It's one that we are familiar with at least over the years. We ended up trading that stock off of news. We actually have done really well on that Marin stock in the past. iLag, iLag we've done really well on, too, dating back to the beginning of this month, right around the same time, around August 7th or 8th year. Ended up making a big run for us back then. And right now it's trying to repeat. So, ended up making a squeeze after 7 o'clock. This one beginning to show a little bit more of a bounce from support here. So, hopefully the wheels keep moving upward on this iLag trade. I'll put this on our main list here for now. We have the Ape trade and we have the iLag trade so far on our main list. All right, quick reminder folks for all of us inside the live trading room at least. Later on this morning, coming up at 11 o'clock Eastern time, 11.05 to be exact. We're going to be doing our weekly traders talk workshop that's live inside our cyber trading room exclusively. So, for all of us on social media, go right to the link on the blue banner below to just sign up for your trial. But for Wendy, Norman, Michael and all of us there right now, about 100 of us right now inside the live trading room, that'll begin right at 11 o'clock Eastern time right here. So, you don't need to click a link or go anywhere. Just stay right inside the live trading room. I'm of course more so saying that to any of our new trial members joining us over the last week or so. But any questions that anyone has regarding the stocks that we have on our watch list or callouts or what you see on the screen, feel more than free to email me and we'll look to answer these questions collectively as a team at 11 o'clock this morning. We'll recap a couple of the moves that we'll look to trade here once the market does open up and we'll go from there. All right, so just want to remind everyone at least this morning of traders talk. Now, as I've been flapping the gums here, I lag making even bigger squeeze this time popping above the VWAP right from that 350 and beginning to run off it. So, looking pretty good here. Nice. Now, stock not looking as nice. Blue apron. And yeah, from earlier after 8 o'clock it ended up making a pretty good run. But this was a choppy trade from yesterday. You know, the after hours here, it ran a lot better than it did from the regular session here. Ran nicely heading into the late morning, early afternoon. But after that point, very staticky, very choppy. It was right near the highs. So, it was teasing us, you know, looking for that big squeeze up and right place, wrong time there. And in the after hours, this thing ended up running. So, for right now, yeah, it moved up higher and it did make a pretty nice initial pop. But history is repeating itself where this is becoming a very choppy trade once again. So, you know, I'd be pretty careful. The reason I have my interest on this stock is, well, not only is it moving upward still, you know, respect the trends. But it's a pretty heavily shorted stock if I'm not mistaken. If the stars could align for blue apron, it could really explode. It already has really over the last two weeks and we've been spotting that, calling that out. But let me just take a quick look here. Short float percentage on blue apron is like over 23%. So, that is pretty high. Nearly a quarter of the float is short right now on blue apron. Now, what does that mean for stocks like AMC and Bed Bath Beyond, right? So, you know, it's not to say that the more shorted the stock is, it's gonna pop. The stars have to align for the pop to begin with. Well, this has already been moving on, you know, lately over the last week and a half and it's up big again this morning. So, just given the uptrend here in pre-market, all right, I'll slip it on our list. But again though, history could repeat itself with it being choppy if it doesn't make that big pop that you want it to make. And that's not a good sign for the trade afterwards. I meant to click on this one here, WETG, my skin and refresh there. The wet G trade, we ended up seeing this pop right at 8 o'clock, pretty hopeful for continuation. But obviously that has not happened. So, you know, in terms of just trying to be picky and choosy here, let's just try and skip over that for right now. You could say the same on INDO, pretty unfortunate because we've done really well on this INDO stock in the past dating back to the beginning of this year, right? I mean, first ended up popping, heading back into the end of January, early Feb, and then from there, a couple months later or a month and a half later, ended up completely exploding. So, this is a real run that we ended up calling out day over day. Listen, we're not trying to swing trade this stock. What goes up comes back down, but this is a stock that you day trade. So, you know, this provided an incredible opportunity across like a week or two's time. Well, from that point came crashing down. We looked to see a micro version of that run over time, right? You know, even if it can get back up to 12 or 15, God bless. So, when it ended up popping yesterday, we were hopeful to see this continue. It has, but early in pre-market, hopefully this makes a better move once the market opens up. But either way for right now, it's still pretty flat here since eight o'clock, just not really showing much in the order book. All right, let's skim down the gainer's side here to wrap up because, well, the market's down a little bit. Perhaps it'll be a little bit more of a squeeze lower once the market opens up. Then maybe a slingshot from there. But let's see what's on the gainer's side to wrap up. We'll jump over to the loser's list next. We had the Fubo trade popping earlier, or at least pushing up, I don't want to say popping, but pushing up pretty nicely here, but ended up stalling out. So, it could be one to throw on our list, but I'll pass on it here just for right now. You could say the same on an FFIE, it's up like 4% to 5%, real level one stock here, but it's more hope than anything. There's not a whole lot here that's making me too interested just aside from the volume traded collectively and it's up 4% to 5%, but you could say the same on a lot of these stocks that are on the gainer's side. So, that's where I say for stocks like Ape, ILAG, and even Blue Apron, those at least will put a lot more of a spotlight on once the market opens up. All right, so we jump over to the loser's side here, ASRT, it's not doing a whole lot right now, it is shortable and it is down big, trading a lot of volume, spreads great. Big iceberg order on the ask, actually they're acting as resistance, but direction is bad here since eight o'clock. So, it's more of a hope that this continues to drop and could be a good short, but again, not really a great need to put that on our main list. This has better direction. I mean, the Zoom trade coming off bad earnings from yesterday, right? There's a few headlines out with their conference call after, but we ended up seeing them get crushed in the after hours. They're showing a drop off here after eight o'clock, steady downtrend off the highs at least. Hopefully the order book fills in a lot more on this trade. No, I'm not as particular about the more expensive stocks as much as I am not particular about the stocks below a dollar, but Zoom here, I'll put on our main list. Hopefully the order book fills in a lot more as this continues to drop off in price. What else do we have here folks? What else we got? Skinner just reloaded again on me there. Twitter, Twitter down about 3.6% right now. I knew there was some headline that came out Jack, Dorsey and Elon, something going on there. So, it led to a drop off early in pre-market. Little flat for right now, but it is trading a lot of volume, very active stock. You could easily hear me call this out once the market opens up, but for right now, I'll keep this on our side list. Twitter and write this down at least on my notepad. All right, folks, what do you have for me? Anything else up, down, left, right, more than 5% that would look good here heading into the market open? For all of us on social media, I believe this is the last morning that you got me. You got Fausto back in his seat tomorrow morning or at least for the morning meeting.  I know he's looking forward to getting back into trading here. He's finishing up with the great Tom Busby in DTI with their on-site course in Orlando, I believe. All right, folks, I'm checking Ben Zingo right now, not a whole lot out there, so I don't see any chat otherwise for all of us on YouTube. I had a couple of call-outs from us inside the live trading room, but we already went over those at least before, just as we were scanning through. I'll tell you what, just hey, early this morning in pre-market at eight o'clock, I took one look at my scanner and I was like, ah, there's not a whole lot out there. A couple moves early after seven o'clock that ran, but if my broker allows me to begin to trade pre-market at eight o'clock, I can't trade those stocks that are moving at seven, right? So at eight o'clock, there wasn't really a whole lot out there. I was like, all right, this might not be the greatest day out there at day trade. I'll tell you what, between eight and now we'll jump back to AMC because really we didn't really build up too big of a list. So I don't mind slipping AMC back on the main list here at this point in hopes of the Wall Street that's people out there, the memesters out there. If anyone's looking to run up a stock, it could be them. So between eight still holding strong and AMC ended up making a little move up earlier today too. I'm gonna put the AMC trade on our list, that and the eight look pretty strong. Karen asking about Bed Bath Beyond, which I should certainly look at, Bed Bath Beyond meme stock, but the last week and a half has done incredible for us as along and God bless if you're able to short this stock as it tanked. But what goes up comes back down. This could look to go with the others, right? And we ended up doing really well on both AMC and Bed Bath Beyond yesterday. Doesn't hurt us to put Bed Bath Beyond back on our list. So I'll do that. Ape just popped. Nice little move up. I'm still on half my position right now. I told you before I ended up closing half my position out at 665, I'm in from 633. I will look to cover that move in full in our Traders Talk Workshop, all right? So again, for all of us on social media, Facebook, live YouTube, if you're looking to join us inside our live trading room, just go right down to the link on the blue banner below. We do a live audio commentary from 9.30 to 10.30 Eastern every day, then from three to 4pm daily as well. And again, this morning at 11 o'clock we'll be doing our weekly Traders Talk Workshop there. Any questions that you folks have for all of us inside the live trading room, just email me at that being josh at ctutrading.com. The same to be said for all of us on social media, just any questions you folks have, especially if you're looking to join for this morning's workshop, just send over a quick email and we'll look to cover it right at the top of 11 o'clock this morning. All right, folks, I look forward to it and gotta refill up the water bottle before the market opens up. Best of luck trading here, heading into the market open, folks. Talk to you soon. Come a Cyber Group member today. Just click the link below and receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge for just $9. Do it today.