The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host Basil Chapman call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 on this eighth day of March this is Tuesday we down a hundred and ninety nine in the doubt down 205 down 207 there's some bees down 32 remember yesterday in the Chapman methodology we're always looking for at least from a bi-signal to a bi-mode you want to get to at least the fourth highest peak and that's peak D peak A is one peak B is higher highest peak B next highest peak is peak C then you get peak D you can go higher but D is where that's really kind of a target that's what you say that's the bi-signal should go to a bi-mode and the bi-mode implies at least four higher peaks look at the stop dead right on the 200 period exponential moving average but you remember yesterday during my show look right here we're doing the show and I said oh look there's a left side right side price time match blah blah blah but I said also we've got a little doji candle at a peak D in the 10-minute chart at 43 25 25 and it was just above the 200-period moving average and then it came down what it had come down to came to down to about 41 80 and then it ran into peak C1 C2 double top pulls back to a low low that was a low that was at about 130 this morning then goes to another peak C1 C2 but the closer you get to a 200-period exponential moving average is the 10-minute E-mini the closer you get the greater the chances are that you're going to touch that 200-period moving average well we touched it and now we are down in the futures down 36 points and what I see to subscribers we have no new trades today all we want to do is protect what we've got and look very closely at the levels because if 20 let me go back to the down right here because if Dow 20 32,750 gets taken out that's a big problem there should have been some kind of a rally based on many other factors but not based on this chapter wave arch formation what is this arch formation no wonder if I can do that let me just move this to the to the left move that to the right click on this for those of you are new to my work of course we're getting a lot of people not a new people coming in especially the Tigers Den look the pattern that I look for is either straight up or straight down that's number one number two is a cup formation number three is an arch formation you can get a mix of one and two and one and three in this particular case the red H pattern says be careful because if you take out this left side low you can go a lot lower here we are 32,589 down 225 points in the Dow that 32,272 now that we've taken out the low of the 24th of January 33,150 the next level of support is 32,272 doesn't it doesn't have to there's no rule it just says just be careful because that's the dreaded H pattern in this this right side slide like a slalom it just accelerates downs like one of those X games where you're looking at those those folks dropping from a helicopter and going down the unbelievable mountain slopes the momentum that you build up to the downside only stops when you really find some tremendous support there is no support yeah got to be careful and that's applies to the weekly chart that applies to the monthly chart and the month has only really begun we're only this is the 8th of March so let's hope that something can happen and one of the things that we're looking at here it can't happen if you're going to have crude oil trading at 128.52 you can talk all you want you can have all these political programs to help the needy to help the poor to help anyone is struggling financially but if you don't have prices of things people need all the time like gas like heating oil like your grocery price in fact there are some products of the grocery stores that are in short supply that is the crux of the matter and that means that this is not just a near term thing that's going to be resolved by something that sounds really positive it has to be constructive and watch this chart this is crude oil look at this chart in the monthly chart right here we have just smashed through any resistance that was at the hundred level and one of the things I was talking about some time ago and I said you know how dumb is that I have a rule of thumb and it's just a rule of thumb but it's a rule that you can you can't take it to you can't say this is this is absolutely a golden rule it's just kind of something that happens so often that prices of anything that especially in the stock market that go to 95 96 in a very short while if the momentum is still there just go right through to 103 to 105 well crude oil did that last month the higher last month was a hundred hundred point five four in the continuous contract it is twenty eight percent higher today it is up just on the day it's up seven point six up nine dollars and one twenty eight fifty four that means it's tackling the high that was made that was a whole series of highs back in 2010 and 2011 that went to and I I'm giving you these prices they get smoothed out so everything about the chart everything about it except the price is accurate because that gets changed but the price that we will talk about right now is a hundred and forty four way back in May of 2011 that whole area and that was coming down from Russia invades Georgia first of August 2008 to the 12th of August that was 12 days I would say we're a little bit more than 12 days into the into Ukrainian invasion and here we are that was a high July of 2008 at 219.41 I don't type the pricing because it gets smoothed out but everything except the price of notation a peak Dean the Chapman wave plummets down from that level in July 2008 to the lower February of 2009 and that was on this particular basis 92 so you're going from a hundred and 219 to 92 I would say that's more than a cut in half all right that's the issue that's the issue if you're looking at wheat let me just move this aside did I put that yes if 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or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be TFNN educating investors free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> hi folks we're back so let me just show you this is just a little shot of Pete Vinnie right there about 7 10 I think this must have been last night comes all the way down ready to peak deep pulls back makes another peak D and then you get this rogue wave to the upside where all the technicals are negative and suddenly pops up and then it plunges down and it comes from the 42 Travis area down to it's called a 41 80 and now we're at 41 41 80 41 60 and now we're at 41 79 so one of the things I'd say to subscribers to my opening call this morning is I had a chapter wave ching gauge a very low reading yesterday which suggested that the Dow should early very early on near the open should go negative so from the open you expected that should go negative before any system or sustained rally can be attempted well it looked like that was a complete miss but in fact after being up 140 or something in the futures the Dow did open and actually did rally and then it turned down and it came down sharply so now at this particular point this is more or less when you would start to get where the administration starts to leak a couple of things from the potential speech that's coming up in another now it's less than it's about 40 minutes at 30 minutes or so 25 minutes and this is where the market starts to say hey hey hey maybe there's some good news and a source to rally so to say that the arch formation that dreaded H pattern was saved by the bell well the bell hasn't rung but absolutely so now the market is free to have some kind of a breathing room for a little while until some of the facts out we'll see what happens now absolutely within the context of what we're looking at here these are the areas that I think are important I spoke about how the command how crude oil absolute imperative how that is an imperative because eight months ago nine months ago ten months a year ago there was in the strategy of any administration you have to look to see who your friends are who the people are friends that you can trust who you the friends that mmm they good friends but you know what I wouldn't trust my life on that person and who who are the countries that have their own independence and are therefore a little bit more able to coalesce on your own projections and thoughts etc. I think that's really difficult at this particular time and therefore the strategy should have been that yes of course you want to talk about the environment of course you want to talk about global warming but you have to put into perspective of life and you have to say I'm running a country and the country's resources are absolutely imperative to the to the security financial humanitarian and health of the country and therefore we have to consider things that might be politically ungainly there might even be politically disastrous but you've got to consider them and that's the thing that concerns me the most is I don't know how we're going to deal with something that we absolutely need if we want some form of independence it's all very well saying bring production here back to America etc. you can talk about that but when oil prices are going through the not through the roof it's through the skyscraper that is really difficult to control and that's the reason why I said yesterday I'm going to jump to this to see that this is a leg E going to peak E in the monthly chart but look at the S&P and the big question for me has been for a while based on everything I'm looking at and based on my Chapman wave methodology having looked at easy half a million charts probably a million charts notated over the last 30 40 years that I've been doing the notation of the Chapman wave what is that is that really a peak B in the monthly chart that's about to come about when Chapman wave methodology that low of 21 91.86 on March the 20 in 2020 was the low minus 35% correction what do you mean bear market from 33 93 in February 2020 to March is low the speed I think what we're looking at now is time and probably price is there a chance that somehow some way in 2022 the market turns and we break to the 4820s to start a new leg C that's been the big question and the question is I'd said that everything about the Chambering methodology suggests that that should happen even now consider what's happened since even the 1st of January or when the when the markets most of the markets made their highs back at the turn of December to January December last year January this year when you think of what's going on to be down at 41 88 right now when you had 4818 three months ago that's that's fantastic action in a week's time we might not be saying that if we're down 40 down at 488 or 3988 but right now so you have to consider that a tremendous amount of geopolitical and economic negativity has transpired yes we came out we were pretty much out of covert right now hopefully and yet the market has been so stellar look at this stellar all right what we're looking at here is that this wick of the candle of last month is being tested and there's a pretty long good chance that we will go to 41 14.65 for the real test in the S&P but if we have only begun the whole extrapolation of an aberration in oil prices an aberration in grocery price growth just the whole sector of the commodity sector with grains because the DBA pulling back probably today a little bit yeah down 18 cents at 2206 I mean this is the DB agricultural fund so unless this really starts to go from 2205 and starts to trade below 20.80 in the next three weeks those commodity prices are going to be they're going to be pretty I wouldn't say devastating we don't know but they're going to be critical to people's pocketbooks so that's the reason why I'm saying I have said that I would consider last week that if you were in trying to put money to work over a 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This is this is tough stuff. Okay. Bonds. Bonds are trading right where did I type that in? I probably typed into the gen by mistake. I did. Sorry, again, the US. This is at US. So bonds are at this point down to almost three points. That means the rates today are going higher. That means that that 200 period moving average and exponential moving average in the daily at $159.5 was the repellent in a leg D. Remember leg D the fourth highest peak is where other things can happen. This is the saving grace here would have been if the TLT bonds the human 20 year treasury bond fund instead of being at $137 right now was over the 200 period moving average of $144, $145. It was over it and yields were coming down because that would say at least for the moment that one of the things is off the table. One of the things meaning with the Fed coming out with Fed speaker over the next couple of days, I mean, really within these conditions, do you think that? Wow, can you imagine power? What? What a challenge. I mean, it's the same as the President at this particular point.  And for the for for Fed chair, the natural thing is to say we should be raising rates. We've had all these economic reports that are really fabulous. We've had actually earnings that are terrific. Tell that to Shopify all these earnings. Even they had pretty darn good earnings, etc. And look at them going from 1762 down to the price today of 530. $60 per cent down, Shopify Inc online store for individuals to use as a platform. This is just telling us that the conditions at this particular point right through the different sectors. I like to look at Salesforce only as a proxy for being a company in an area that I don't know if they invented it, but they certainly in terms of selling and marketing are the Premier Company, Salesforce.com, Cloud Computing, 311 in November and trading right now at 192 with 184 the lowest and 24th. Where is and they came out with absolutely superb earnings and they're getting new customers and trillions. They're talking about trillions. I don't know down 100. So this means in the right. Can you imagine when we finally get a buy signal? What's going to happen? It might be it might be a minute and we shoot up 25 to 3000 points in the down and then you have to digest those gains. So at any point, I don't think there's a problem saying, you know what, I'm afraid I'll miss the low. You know, if you miss the list, just go to the down for the moment. If you miss the low, well, you know what, I think a lot of people would be happy if we just got back. What is today? Today is Tuesday. And it's not Tuesday. It's Tuesday. Just the first hour of trading. I would love if we got back to maybe last Thursday's high of 34,179 in the day, 34,170. Look how quickly we've come down and look how we're accelerating right now. This is the this is the dreaded age pattern where the last part of the right side of the arch just zips down. I hope it stops very soon because this could get really ugly. So this is what I'm saying. So I'm trying to deal and I want you to spend today. I wanted to take some time because I've had so many questions about it. And one of the reasons why I said we have raised cash, we've talked about cash for a long time. We've got other positions that we're trying. I don't mind them as just one, just two, maybe even three percent, very small entries and we can get taken out or they hold. This is a period where I think cash, at least for us, is king. And because of that, what we need to look at is start preparing over the next couple of weeks areas that you would like to get in for the long term. But you need to find some stabilization. In other words, even those stocks that we talk about all the time, like the DocuSign that's gone from 314 to today's low of 92, anyone who's in these stocks and has held them, you don't have to talk about a bear market. That is just the worst kind of bear market because you had an opportunity to get out. But the mindset was that these are fantastic companies, electronic signing. Who isn't doing electronic signing? I mean, what would be wrong with that? What's wrong with that is when the environment changes and you are out, it's like the media. I don't want to talk about the media today. I've talked about the media enough. You've got to treat the media with disdain and distrust. I think which side of the spectrum you're on, divide it in half and then divide again. Do your own homework because what you're hearing very often is just what they want to, whoever wants you to hear, it's easy. And I know that from people that I talk to all the time. I know they're political thinking and I know that they are listening to certain programs or shows and that kind of thinking means that they're just not getting a broader spectrum of both sides of the coin. And that's all I'm saying. I want both sides of the coin. I don't care how good or bad it is, I just want to hear it. And that's changed. For me, the media, there's really not much difference when they talk about, when they talk about confining ones or limiting ones. It's out there, but you really have to search for it. But one's choices. That's all. So, here we go. With that said, VIX index. And one of the things that is really quite important to me is the slowness of the VIX within these rectangle formations, making a cup formation, going to higher highs. How that, when you think that the market in the last four, five sessions has just gone straight down and yet the VIX index is still reluctant to break into the forties. It's a 37-18. This is telling you that there's just been a slow buildup of fund managers who are buying some kind of protection or they're playing a trend that they see and it's not letting up. None of the big rallies that we've seen has seen the VIX go back down under the 25 area. And there is a 37-21. So, no matter what is said in whatever the conference or news conference or if it's just a speech given, in the next from quarter to 11 or whatever, whatever the present makes the announcements, if the volatility index later in the day starts to drop from 37 to 35, 30 and hold at that low, in the low 35, not 36, in the 35s, with the Dow suddenly instead of being down 161 right now, holding 230 to 260 points, the S&P instead of being down 34 is actually up 45 to 50 points. That is what you want to see with some kind of a turnaround that has at least endurance since you go into Wednesday and Thursday a couple of days. That's what you'll need. 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No. The diamond long position, let me just do this from the, I'll go to the Dow chart right now, that was bought, the low that was made on March the 23rd of 2020, we bought options and kept rolling them for a long time, but in April the first week of April after that low, we actually also bought the Dow diamonds, but we've taken some of our, got a core position, that core position from the level down at about the equivalent of, what was it, I think I said, I've got it written down here, Dow diamonds long at $210.99, third of April, that was at about, I'd say it was under $21,000, that I'm, I am still convinced that the whole aspect of the general public coming into the market, et cetera, that has to still culminate. So if it, look, when I was talking about all these things, there wasn't an aspect of war, that's come about over the last three, four weeks, but what's really important is that war, and I think some of you might have seen Steve Rhodes did a great job, he showed charts at some point, he was showing charts of what happens to the market during war periods, it ain't pretty, at least for a while, it ain't pretty. And then after a while, the market gets used to it, and that's actually, I am talking right now, I wanted to say, markets get used to certain things.  No, the market hates uncertainty about uncertainty.  We are three times or more removed. Why? Because we've got the interest rates, just as a factor sitting there, because the Fed could mess things up or they could do the right thing. We don't know even what it is. That's number one. Number two is, crude oil on its own would be a massive reason to think that you could even get some kind of stagflation. Well, you add that to the grains, none of this can be resolved. Ukraine, the farmers aren't going to get back to where it is to say everything's fine. I think by next week we get all our grain, no. These things take time. So what I'm saying is that diamonds, I don't think we're going back down there. I think we've got a huge consolidation going on, and if we ameliorate the downside, I'll never forget once, and I could be wrong about the name. I think it was general foods. I think it was general foods. I was in the Dow, and there was takeover, and I had a sell signal, and the market should have gone down huge, but because of that one stock that, you know, it's price weighted, because of that one stock, it held the Dow for months. All right, let's say at least for three months, so that by the time the consolidation everything was done, when the market got going again, it went from a higher level, the base of support had risen. It shouldn't be much lower down, but the one stock changed that. So what I'm saying is if we can use a whole bunch of time and whatever it takes to at least ameliorate the terrible situation, I'm not even talking about the humanitarian side in Ukraine, because the question came in about when Ukraine is, when things are settled, well, I was listening to a talk last night by someone who is really experienced in the whole area of the Ukraine and Putin in particular, talking about he's been isolated for two years, he's been in his dush hour or whatever they call it, he's summer home or winter home. He has fewer and fewer friends. I don't know about all that stuff. This is here, so we can't really tell whether that's true. Maybe it is, but he is isolated and he's making decisions that are perhaps this is the one time that he's really making wrong decisions. He is ruthless to the core. Therefore, we don't know what the Ukraine situation is, as it is. I can't stand when I'm looking at it. I remember with Croatia or Lebanon, I don't care where it is. When you're looking at beautiful homes, just homes, I don't have to be beautiful, but homes suddenly being decimated. One minute this is great, lovely building. Next minute, boom, it's gone. People can't live in it anymore. That is a tragedy, a human tragedy, when lives are taken like that. I don't see how this is resolved. It's going to be a series of resolutions, and hopefully some or other, and even the talking of whatever is going on. There should have been no talking. Plains should have been given to Poland. Whatever it is should have been done quietly. I mean, when you're dealing with a bully, you don't say, hey, Mr. Bush, look, yeah, come and hit me. You turn around, you do every subterfuge you can to have them looking the wrong way, because when they get smacked, they come down hard, and we should have done it. And then once it's identified that Ukrainians are not using whatever it is they're using, then you can turn around and say, oh, yeah, by the way, two weeks ago, you don't say in a week's time at 12.45, you don't give times like that. There's a certain strategy, and that's what the market doesn't like. The market doesn't like that it cannot see a particular strategy working. So that's why I'm saying, yes, it's SMHs. One of our benchmarks, when the SMHs go to all-time highs, the market generally does that. When they fail just to go to all-time highs, it means that there's a stalling formation, and the market's probably going to have a bit of trouble. When they go to lows, it says, be careful, this is our benchmark. Semiconductors are the oil of the 1900s into the early 1900s. So semiconductors and the form of semiconductor is the energy source for the entire economies of the world going into the 21st century, where we are. So to see this deteriorate like that, I've been saying all the time, semiconductors are telling us there's a problem, and they themselves have a problem. So the semiconductor index is at 242. It's made a lower low. The highs that were made up at the 320 level, goodbye. It's on its way down. Look how it's filled in the wicks of the candles. The month is young. Yeah, it could be a bounce, but it's already gone underneath the lows that were made last summer. So we've just got to be careful, and that's really what I'm saying. Please just think of yourself as being at the mercy of a lot of things that are activating the market's direction. That's all. Okay, let's go on. We've got to go through questions came in. Let's just run them down. Could I look at GE? Yep, GE. This is a company. I'm kind of intrigued. I think GE is in some kind of a sweet spot, as opposed to where it was. But that sweet spot might not be recognized, at least for another maybe a month or two. And Australia in 1986 said that whole area of 150s that it kept trying for made the double top, and now it's coming down. Just be real careful. That's GE. And yeah, a couple of questions came in that I, you're right now. Let's just stick with CCJ, a question in the 10. Yep, CCJ. This is, CCJ is coming out for the radiant energy, trying to get a nice pop to the upside here. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts. At TFNN, you'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis. And it's not just dry, tedious text either. TFNN airs live financial content streamed live on TFNN.com and TFNN's YouTube channel with Tiger TV, live every market day from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Eastern for free. Each host is an experienced trader and gives their take on the market while taking calls and questions live from around the world. 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To try to isolate these things, we've just had a big spike and now the dollar is up 14 S&Bs only down six. Coming up to the speech, you know that whatever's going to happen is they're going to try to, you have to give it at this point to the market needs some positivity. So you've got to get a positive something. We'll see how long the rally, I hope the rally lasts. So we need a rally. Gosh, this is unfortunate. Okay, make it as clear as I can. The VIX index needs to start. If there is a sustained, if there is going to be a sustained rally, you want to see the VIX index, vix.x, there we are. Come on. You want to see the VIX trading not at 3612. I don't know why this is not coming in correctly. I must probably messed up something. You want to see the VIX index start to slide and must go to the low 35s and the market, the down is to be up about 100, really 200 something points off the three o'clock to sustain a move that is. Sorry about that right background chart. We'll just try it one more time. I'm going to wrap up now. I'll be back with Tom O'Brien later on this afternoon and don't forget great programming coming up later in this event next. And you've got thinkorswim, see you road, statewide, Tom O'Brien, see you later.


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in different countries throughout the world that this took place. For us, the Native Americans used gourds for almost everything. Even their children learned how to swim by taking two gourds tying together with a piece of raw hide and they could float in the water. Like our children's use the blow up now, the Native Americans use the gourds. In the old west times, the canteen gourd was extremely popular for holding water because the canteen gourd on the front of here you can see it and it is shaped and that's how it got its name by the cowboys or the people out west cut a hole in the top of that gourd, find some small rocks put inside and shake that gourd and then empty it and empty it and keep going until it could get the inside of the gourd as clean as possible because a gourd is extremely bitter. It has no nutritional value whatsoever. If you take your finger and wet it or a sponge or whatever on the inside or outside, the inside and then take your finger and put it in your mouth it'll take you a while to get rid of the bitterness and I got to meet a gentleman from Africa several years ago and he came over to see the artwork. He was a curator from Africa and he came over to see our artwork because they had gourds in Africa and I asked him, so what do you use them for? Well they had the big kettle gourds. They made their beer in the kettle gourds and he said we would not like it because the beer was extremely bitter and it would be because the beer was made in the inside of a gourd which would give it a very bitter taste. Musical instruments run from flutes to like banjos. There's all types of instruments that we've seen where artists have taken a big kettle gourd and made the bottom of it like the shape cut the top out flat and insert a piece of wood put an arm on it stretch the strings cut their hole and so forth. Some of the pieces are extremely expensive because there's the amount of time that's put in making musical instruments in gourds. If you have any questions at any time please feel free to stop me and ask because it won't interfere with my chain of thought. I'll miss half of what's on there. Yes sir, no, but they will cross pollinate with each other. That has happened. They have a gourd that about three years ago and I bought several of them and they're kind of a long round at the top round at the bottom and they're called potato gourd. A couple years before that I found some gourds that are shaped like a strawberry. They call them a strawberry gourd. So that's this the common name that they use. So those had cross pollinated with something and some ornamental gourds you have to hand pollinate and in order to hand pollinate you have to find the male and the female and so underneath the blossom there would be a knot. That would be where the gourd would be produced. You take another blossom and rub it together and then tape that shut for overnight or 24 hours depending on who you talk to and then take the tape off and that pollinates because they will not get pollinated by insects or wind and so forth. Growing gourds I know very little about. All I do know is they take up a lot of space. One plant can just about fill this room if you've got a good season and if you think I'm exaggerating well you need to look around the different places. Your big vendors that grow gourds to sell to artists because that's what has evolved with the gourd. The gourd has become very very popular throughout the United States and the world for creating artwork on. So they have huge trellises some of them are 13 feet tall and they plant at the base of the trellis all the way around and that will cover it and gourds will hang down the middle of the trellis and that keeps them up off of the ground which keeps them extremely clean. This is a fairly clean gourd here. This is a gourd that I'm working on not complete one that I've just got some wood burning done on it but those gourds that hang from a trellis or the ones that are kept off of the ground are the cleanest and so that those are more valuable to artists because if you are in competition at the shows that are throughout the United States if the cleaner the gourd the better the score is in the judging if you're into the competition so sometimes your green clean gourds are the ones that you want and other cases such as this little canteen gourd right here I chose it because it has I call a modeled area that kind of looks like wood. In fact I had a gourd that I sold that is now in Japan and it was a container with a lid and when I finished with it when you stood back and looked at it number one you could not see where the lid came off and number two it looked like wood it had so much texture in it from the mother nature so it looked like wood and so I was very proud of it and it was very hard for me to get rid of it because I don't really enjoy selling. Let me see if I've missed anything very important here of course the rattles that was probably the first instrument that the gourd was used you could take and shake it some gourds the seeds end up in a ball inside so they make no noise and so you're getting ready to work on the gourd depending on what you're going to do and how you're going to work on it the first thing you want to do is to shake it and if the seeds are loose it's probably going to be fairly easy to clean out if it doesn't rattle those seeds have ended up into a hard ball on the inside so when you cut it open such as this gourd right here has been cut open then this with the opening here and I'll get to this one here later but they're very you have to take like dental tools and so forth to clean until it takes hours to clean because once you open a gourd you need to clean all the white membrane out especially if you're going to enter it in competition and that because if the judges find any white membrane you probably will get disqualified even if your gourd artwork is the best on the table because you didn't follow the rules and the gourd rules have gotten stricter and stricter over the years I myself got involved yes ma'am oh yes a birdhouse gourd birdhouses will last for years if you have treated them properly yes yes well the most popular is a purple martin and they're normally sprayed white you know that helps they say that helps attract and so forth and I've I've seen the last for years I've got a little ren house that's about two years old because my wooden red house gave out on me and that's the only birdhouse that I've ever made out of a gourd so a lot of people you know when you talk about gourd is either a dipper to drink or you're making birdhouses I've never made but one birdhouse and that was for myself or for the rins I should say I beg your pardon I couldn't tell you I just picked out a gourd and and put a lip on the top of it I think it was a cannonball if I remember right but that uh I'm not sure I'd have to look at it when I got home it's been years ago but yes okay I know where that is purple martins yeah yes yes uh my first experience with the gourd was on the farm because my grandfather would get a dipper gourd every year cut the top out of the ball and clean the inside and yes the water would be it would be bitter but you were drinking water from a well or a cistern that had a lot of iron depending on where you live so it didn't make much difference you didn't know any difference if you had a glass of city water and you took a dipper gourd in you probably would uh near to my knowledge my grandfather did not treat the inside of it but you can treat the inside of a gourd and make it food safe and one of the best things to put on the inside of a gourd to make it food safe is beeswax you can buy beeswax you take a rag and you rub and rub the inside of it it seals it let it set for a month and do it again and you can put just about anything in there that you want to now you don't want water to sit in there for you know days and days and days some people will take gourds and use them as planters for flowers they're probably going to get one season out of it because the inside of a gourd is extremely soft and it absorbs water the exterior of the gourd repels water i don't know how long it would take for a gourd to float before it would get water inside and sink because a gourd that weighs 100 pounds in the field and i've i saw one in ohio several years ago that weighed 138 pounds it was green and when that gourd dries it would weigh a little over 10 pounds 13 pounds something like that so i always use 100 pound gourds will end up weighing about 10 pounds maybe 12 depending on the thickness of the gourd how thick is it oh i don't know because i bought it dried so i don't have i don't have any idea i got there are five gourds i think in there totally so they're all it this gourd is is right now is pretty heavy because there are several gourds and all the gourds are fairly thick so i i couldn't i couldn't even guess i'd have you'd have to weigh it when it was green in order to know how much it weighed in the field the one i'm talking about the weight of 138 pounds it took a forklift to get it from it to the truck to get it to the to the show you have any more questions the gourds there's three basic groups there's the ornamental that's the small gourds the ones that some of those have to be hand pollinated and then you have the hard shelled gourd and that's as you see here on the table every one of these gourds are hard shelled gourd and then the luffa are luffas didn't anybody know what that is like a sponge uh the native americans used it to scrub their bodies and probably scratch the heck out of them because it's not uh it's not very soft it might be when it gets wet and it's called a sponge gourd because it gives us name from that let me take a second here so the the people that are in the business of growing gourds to sell if they have clean gourds they can get more money for clean than you can dirty there's two ways to clean a gourd that i know of if anybody knows a better way i want to hear it i buy almost all my gourds clean now because of the amount of time it takes if a gourd has gone through the season which is like any other you know starting to spring and goes into the fall into the winter and turns brown then i soak those gourds for about 24 hours in water bleach and soap and then i take a tire brush or a plastic like an emery cloth not emery cloth what i want to say pat help me um to to scrub them anything to scrub the membrane on the outside because every gourd has a membrane on the outside that you have to get off before you can do your artwork on it or any kind of artwork on it and if you see a white spot on the gourd that is a membrane that you left on so all you have to do is dampen that area take an exacto knife always keep the gourd wet when you're cleaning it if it's dried gourd never try to clean it with it dried because it'll scratch whatever you use like a scouring pad type it will scratch it but if it's wet it will not scratch it there are sanders out that you can sand gourds and uh craftsman used to make one and i think another company has taken it over and uh it it does real well and for sanding the gourd and what it does it smooths the gourd and gives the gourd a sheen but uh you never want to do anything uh you know with anything coarse on a dried gourd because it will scratch and yes right yes but it would still be best in my opinion to take the outside membrane off but you didn't you wouldn't have to some people joke they don't even paint them white they just cut the size a hole and you always have a drain hole in the bottom some people don't know that that helps keep it from rotting so if it does get wet inside the water has a place for to drain out so you always have a drain hole in your purple martin houses your other way is to green clean a green cleaning gourd you're taking a gamble on the gourd shriveling on you like pumpkins and squash and so forth but i had a tremendous experience last year i have a a dust catcher because i do a lot of carving as you can see this here and i can take this and pass it around here in a little bit so you can look at it i have a dust catcher and i wear a mask and i wear headphones because my dust catcher is inside my house i take my dust catcher fortunately i have an empty lot next door to me and if they never build a house on it i'll be in good shape so i emptied my dust catcher out and uh last fall pat my wife this is my bride right over here uh 53 years in fact very proud of that she came in and she says we've got something growing in the lot next door there's a bunch of white spots out here and um pat doesn't drink so i knew she was you know wasn't seeing things so i went out low and behold on the side of this rocky hill and where i live in the lake of the ozarks it's almost all rock and the vine was huge and so i thought what i want to do is i want to green clean these so i left them alone and i took a gallon bucket out pat was in town i took a gallon bucket out when the the stem started turning brown some of them were already broken off some of them i just touched they fell off some of them i had to snap off i filled that gallon bucket and had to go get another bucket and i had 82 of the most beautiful egg gourds you ever saw in your life free of charge mother nature and so i took my pocket knife that i use all the time with the gourds and i scraped all the membrane off and i never lost one i found one that was already shriveled which is it's a very fortunate the advantage to that those gourds are all a real light tan i mean almost white and that's how we spotted them so there there is an advantage to green cleaning but you can't you do you take a chance on getting um getting in trouble with them shrinking and i wish i could remember and i need for my wife to get on the computer for me because i don't touch the computer i don't have a cell phone that tells you how old and and bullheaded i am uh i forgot where i'm going or where i was uh forgot what i wanted to talk about uh now i'm showing my age good get me started the the best way is to go through the full season off of the ground if that'll make it the cleanest yes yeah and they're yes go ahead some people have done that yes and uh you may get a little spot uh no i don't have it with me it's on the table over there i have one over there that a bottle big bottle gourd known is it this one no anyway but no it's um i've heard of people doing that i don't know how well it works there's all kinds of tricks like you take a dipper gourd and then i've seen dipper gourds that are in competition that are taller than i am and some of those growers will take a nylon hose and put rocks or bricks in it and as it grows it stretches that neck and makes it taller some people take a rope and they put a rope around and that makes that dipper gourd grow in a spiral so there and some people take and they tie knots in dipper gourds and that's a long drawn-out process from my understanding you get about one out of ten with a knot tied in it i've seen as many as two knots tied and the the uh the most fantastic gourds that i've ever seen was either china or japan and the american gordon magazine had an article and the gourd work there was phenomenal i mean it it it was beautiful and now i would like to get in a little bit here i've still got some good time left i got involved in this in about 1999 uh my wife and a real good friend came home and they had two gourds they had been to a craft festival in arkansas and patsy our friend she collects santa clauses so they wanted santa clauses painted on these two gourds well the last gourd i'd ever seen in my life was a dipper gourd on the farm when i was about 10 or 12 years old so i ended up painting on these two gourds which i do not like to paint i do not have any formal education in painting i did work as a graphic artist for one of the largest screen printing companies in the world up in the can city metropolitan area and that was a Cinderella story no matter what our government tries to tell you uh when i started there in 1960 with 20 employees when i left there were 537 years later and uh we never took a government contract so i just wanted to throw that out there so i hope i haven't lost some of you people but anyway it this i thought was really interesting because artists normally are painting on a flat surface and when you pick up a gourd the challenging part especially if you're drawing an animal or a person or a bird or something that gourd is very unforgiving like a cannonball gourd may look like it's perfect but when you start laying that out to do work on it you will find out there's one little bulge over here that's not over here so when you're measuring that because i will divide certain of my drawings such as this one right here i will divide them up in vertical and horizontal panels so they can end up square or rectangle or whatever the closer together that i make them the finer the cutting gets the farther apart the thicker the cutting gets so this was separated here about three-eighths of an inch apart in order to get that gap so it's uh i'm losing my thought again i need some more help but anyway i knew that i was going to get involved in something so the next year i went to the craft festival with patsy and and all four of us went her husband dean and i bought 12 gourds and i bought a i call it a boy scout wood burning set that was a mistake because i did not know anything about artwork on gourds and i went through those 12 gourds in no time at all with doing all kinds of drawings i don't even remember what they look like i have a photo magazine or a album with pictures and so forth that i'd be ashamed to show you from then to today so i got ahold of a friend of mine because i ran out of gourds and he had a computer and he lived at the lake of the ozarks to make a long story story short i went down and i bought 82 gourds from this orchard west of springfield missouri and so i had pats little honda full of these gourds because they were from this size to this size and so forth and i had 82 of them and now if i don't have 300 or more gourds to work on i i'm panicky and i'm kind of panicky right now because i've got a project in my head and i don't have the gourds i need to work on so i'm going to have to take a trip evidently but you get bit i think artists get bit by gourd art because of the shape that they're working with just dividing this up equally all the way around takes longer than it does to cut it out it takes hours to lay it out and it could take just a few minutes or just an hour to cut every one of these out at the top not the whole thing but just the top so it's my wife always says how do you have the patience to sit there and do that and gourd art is about the only thing that i have a lot of patience with now she's not in her head yes i can tell without even looking over there so and i don't know why and i've worked on trying to have more patience with other things but i do not do the artwork on the gourds to sell because i do not like to sell i'd rather give gourds away than i would sell yes sir any kind of gourd any kind of gourd in the art community and one of the best place to sell them would be at the show me gourd society gourd show the last full weekend of april and show me gourd society it's it's on the front of the if you got it one of those papers and if you'll stop by my booth i will be here for short for a short period of time after this i have some cards i can give you giving the details and so forth and because we just moved down to the springfield area uh last year so uh 2013 will be our second year and and it's a great place to sell yes i'm not a grower if i would i'd hate i would hate to answer that uh i've heard two different stories about gourd seeds i've heard that if a gourd freezes the seeds no good i've heard that's not true so i don't know you would have to talk to gourd grower uh go ahead clean that's real simple and yes ma'am what i've paid as much as $50 for one gourd clean and has a big gourd go ahead it would have probably been at least half that or maybe less and then when you got it home and you cleaned it it might not be worth two cents so when i first got involved in it i had no idea of what i was buying why i wanted to buy it i just like the shape and this that and the other and so forth but you learn over time of you pick up a gourd and in fact gourd has some heft to it it's heavy or feels heavy there's two things either it's not cured not it's wet inside and you can't see it which is probably not the case if it's gone through the full season like the gourd this summer around this area may not have been a great year because of the of the drought on gourd so i'm anxious to see what we get next year because we'll be buying this year's gourd next year at the Missouri Gourd Show and maybe some that are three or four years old that hadn't been sold they just keep bringing back so depending on what you want to make with the gourd if you don't want to open it up you really don't care how thick it is it doesn't make much difference to you those egg gourds that i have that i have cut a couple of them apart and i've gotten away without breaking them so far but i may not get that lucky you know and if i break it i keep all my pieces i got five gallon buckets everything that's cut out here is in my five gallon bucket somewhere or i made that flower if you can see that flower inside there that flower is all gourd and gourd seeds gourd seeds for the center of it and gourd pieces and that gourd was an accident and some of them are accidents i was cutting that gourd so i could cut that all the way around just like you see those little cutouts it slipped out of my hands and two of those pieces and there broke and sometimes they can break and you can glue them back together and you can't find the break i knew that was not going to work on this and then pat she came down and said well that would really be neat if you made something and put inside there so what i did is cut out the same amount of number on each side and then i would burn the back of it and then i started picking pieces up and i made the petals and the leaves and so forth and and made the flower so that gourd would have to go in a sculptured category a sculptured is where you take pieces to make something like i've made a giraffe for my wife she likes she has a collection of giraffes i think we've got a hundred or more in the house and so i you know you made different animals i've made oriental doll for her so there's a lot of sculpturing we have a very very fortunate in the state of missouri we probably have six artists or more that are nationally known artists and i am fortunate enough to be one of them and on my little business card there in front i want to brag a little bit and that's very that's very hard for me to do but that gourd there on that business card i entered in what they called a juried show that's where you fill out an application and it was in curvil texas it's a national show they take about 25 artists out of everybody that applies and you don't get your money back if you don't get chosen and then you have to deliver your gourds and they have about four different categories that you can enter in or you can enter in one category and that year i entered i think four gourds that gourd on my business card got a blue ribbon and got best of show that gourd came apart the outside gourd came apart in three pieces i still have the gourd at home i did not bring it today i chose this gourd over it and so i was very proud of that gourd and i still have it i have somebody in mind to give that to and you know i've got prices if you look i've got prices on my gourds my gourds run from twenty dollars up to several hundred dollars or into the thousands depends on you know what it is my wife has one gourd that i carved three bonsai trees out of on it's a bowl type and it's her gourd so she put the price on it and i told her one of these days somebody's going to pay it and you're not going to have it and i do not like to duplicate artwork i will if i have to but it has to be a very special occasion but the i want to get into the show just a little bit if i may and promote uh we got time and i don't want to run over but please feel free to interrupt me and ask me any questions we have i think around seventy seven different categories in our show in the show me gourd society maybe it's more than that now we have a growing category so you have dried gourds category where you would have the smallest the largest the longest the most unusual that grew in around the fence or three grew together uh so forth so you have categories for growers and then we start with the children because we're trying to get young people interested in gourd art and i'm in hopes and i have a good opportunity in springfield to spend one full day in an art class whatever art class this teacher has and i'm just waiting for that phone call because i'm dying to do that because it's uh it it it'll be a lot of fun because i haven't been to school for years so that would be a lot of fun but then and that runs up to i think seventeen years old and then you get into the novice category the novice categories of category where you're just beginning you have never ever entered a show you've never won a ribbon first second or third place and then we have the open category and that's where you have one one or more two or three whatever it is i don't remember all the rules of blue ribbons so now you're in the open category and after you start doing that for a while and you won best of show and you did this then we have a master's category and it just gets tougher and tougher and tougher believe me and the master's category i think has about four categories so in the missouri show i could only enter four gourds and there's normally a category that i stay clear out of i do not do any weaving or anything like that and i've never tried it but if i did try weaving i would not have to enter the masters because i've never done that before so it that's that's kind of the way that the show has run and then uh there's all kinds of difference awards in the towns we usually have the mayor come out and have the mayor pick out his favorite gourd that's in the competition and that just kind of a publicity stunt that we try to get you know more people involved but to see that to see the children get involved in it i think is one of the most exciting part for me anyway any more questions that you have yes yeah i wouldn't pick it green and let it dry without scraping the membrane off and i would not pick it green until the stem turns brown now that's what i've been told by growers but because i'm not a grower and i don't have a really a lot of background in that other than the questions that i've asked so to answer your question you either i think you're better off if you're going to sell them to grow them to sell i think you're better off letting them go through you might want to pick out so many if you have a good crop of a certain kind and because it takes it takes quite a bit of time to scrape that green membrane off and then you have to lay them out so they're not touching each other to let them come to dry i laid these out in my basement on a rug in my workshop and like i said none of them shrunk so i've i got real lucky in that area there but i know they can shrink one thing that did enter my mind and i'm not trying to be a politician or anything and i wish i could remember where i found this because i want my wife to try to find it i won't because i want to print it out and and share it with everybody years ago and i think it was in the 1800s there was a controversy and some some states still have a controversy on whether it's a fruit or a vegetable and i cannot remember so i can't answer that question but i can tell you this when in the 18 whatever it was the dates were they were trying to determine whether it was fruit or vegetable and our government got involved and our government had a tax tariff on one guess what the government called it and i don't remember whether it was vegetable or fruit but i thought i'd just share that with you i thought it was kind of interesting at the time and i just i let it go and i didn't i didn't keep that thought i'm going to glance through here real quick if you'll bear with me and see if there's something that i left out yet there are countries that gourds have played a part in their religion and their beliefs in different countries i thought that was rather interesting in Haiti in 1807 the gourd became valued for more than a functional use at this time the country was bankrupt and its people were entirely dependent on gourds as utensils and the food sources in order to get people to grow coffee beans instead the government collected all of the gourds on the island as property of the state they collected well over 200 000 when the coffee beans harvest was ready he exchanged gourds for coffee which then sold to the europeans for gold so it kind of tells you that gourd has really played a huge part in our world as we know it today and and still does so it's uh i'm just about to run out of gas and just about to run out of ideas unless you have any more questions i thought i could talk for an hour and a half but maybe i can't yes there that's a good point i think there's about 28 states now that have gourd societies hawaii does i think michigan was the last state that got their chapter recognized i've not been to michigan uh to them i've pat and i have traveled from uh yes a company that was making toys and all kinds of sellable products out of the gourds instead of decorating them and is that part of yours categories and do you know anything about that part of the gourd industry or the gourd world okay now back get that to me again here there was a company using gourds to make all kinds of toys and craft items i think they made helmets out of them and masks and different kinds of sellable items they had we have categories that uh like wall hangings or mask categories i have seen a lot of hats uh remember the old baseball hats that used to have the propeller on top of them i made one of those uh i know a man named rob gaio who rob was raised emus and he carved on emu eggs and in laid the emu carving in the the gourd and had beautiful artwork in it and he made a pith helmet out of a gourd that was just phenomenal i mean in pieces that was a sculptured gourd because it was in two pieces so no i i don't know about a company doing that but it's very interesting because i'd be interested to know where they're they're growing their own or if they're buying them or what they're doing because gourds are very strong i mean that they're stronger than than you realize and if you drop them on a concrete floor you know it's probably gonna crack and if it's a cannonball gourd and it's fairly thick it may bounce just like a ball and not not crack at all uh but at any time that you know anytime that i don't like a gourd i put it on the floor and i throw it in my five gallon bucket nobody sees it if i don't like it then i don't want anybody to see it people think that's kind of silly but to get back to myself and then i'm i always like to close with this because i shied away from artwork my entire life and something or somebody kept coming back and coming back and coming back and pounded me on the head that you should get involved in art and i kept ignoring it i was an athlete i wanted to go to school and play football and run track and i did and i had art as a minor i have very little formal art degree or education i have no degree from college i met this beautiful lady over here my junior year and about four months later it was all over and got married we went to work and then i went to work for gill studios the company but i looked and i said a while ago i i would rather give a gourd away than to sell a gourd because i finally come to my senses and by sheer luck i got that job at gill studios where an old sign painter taught me the trade of how to lay out and do this that and the other and i had a god's gift in this hand left-handed and that's how i made my living and i was on the drawing board for about seven or eight years so whenever i give a gourd away it's my way of thanking the good lord for the talent that he gave me and to make my living at that because i can remember the day that i went into this company thinking they're going to pay me to draw i couldn't believe it and they're going to give me a dollar and a half an hour and that was in 1960 i thank all of you and god bless


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Very briefly, investigations have continued into the attack on the elderly woman on Friday night in the Mermaid Beach area. As a result of our enquiries, we've identified a number of witnesses that saw a male person acting suspiciously on Friday night during the evening in the Hedges Avenue area, in particular in the vicinity of Dudley Street and Francis Street. This person was variously described as a male person, about ranging in height, about 165 to 175 centimetres tall, slim build, late 20s, early 30s, and with an olive complexion similar, and I repeat, that's similar to a person of Mediterranean or possibly South American extraction, and that's similar too. We'd be interested to hear from any person who may have seen a person, any person acting suspiciously in that area, that's the Hedges Avenue area in that vicinity around Dudley Street and Francis Street. Also, we'd like to hear from anyone who may have seen anything out of place or out of the ordinary in the vicinity of Hilda Street on Friday evening. As well as that, we'd ask anyone who may have seen something in the days leading up to Friday if they saw anything suspicious or out of place in that area to contact police or crime stoppers with that information. No clothing description at all, Brian, on this guy. Just a very general clothing description, again, variously described as shorts and a jacket that zipped up at the front. I think you're wanting information from the days leading up to it. Are you suspecting that this was very planned and this person may have stacked out the area? Look, there is an indication that there was an element of planning in this offence, and it is possible that the offender may have been in the area beforehand. Is this a local? It's too early to say, but we certainly haven't discounted a local person, and we certainly haven't discounted someone from outside of the area. The other gentleman termed this a very perverse crime. Are police worried about the safety of public other people in the area? Look, I agree with the comments made by the other gentleman in that this kind of crime, I think, strikes at the core of our community and what our community values are.  And certainly we treat this type of offence very seriously. So are you worried that he might act again? Look, I can't say if he will or won't, but certainly we've been increasing patrols in that area and taking steps to increase our activities in that area. Any links with any other attacks that you're looking at? Certainly looking at links to other offences in the general area. It's too early to say if we can link this offence to any other, definitively, to any other offence. What sort of offence has broken into this? Could be any offence. There's no, specifically looking at no similar attacks in recent times. No, there isn't, no. If this person is found, what's the maximum penalty that they'll face? The offence, the legal offence for this type of matter is called indecent assault. And imprisonment varies depending on the circumstances, so it's too early to say. You've got quite a large squad of people working on the coast. Yes, we've got a team of detectives from the Gold Coast and we're being assisted by our colleagues from Crime Operations Command as well. And how is it that you think you gained access to the movement? I can't comment on that, sorry. What about any property missing? Was there any property missing? I can't comment on that either. That's certainly one of our lines of inquiry. Task force results are not involved in this one at all? No. Is it at all possible that the offender knew the victim? That is a possibility, but at this stage I'm not able to comment on that. How have you got away, whether you ran away or...? We don't know what form of transport the offender used. He could have been on foot, he could have had a vehicle, he could have been on a bicycle. That's why we're appealing for anyone who saw anything that may have been untoward or it may not seem untoward to them, but it may be of assistance to our investigation. Thank you. Thanks, friend. Thank you.


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