What is up everybody it's Stas here and in this video we're going to be doing an overall market update taking a look at the Dow Jones the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. We're also going to be doing a trading update talking about what I did today in the markets as well as some stocks and ETFs that I'm watching and looking to trade right now in the end of November heading into the month of December of 2019. And as you guys read in the title we're also going to be breaking down the natural gas report. My opinion on that kind of going over the technical analysis on U-Gas, D-Gas and natural gas as well. And I'm going to go into one stock that I actually bought today that I'm looking to swing trade over these next couple of weeks. So if you guys find value in this video go down below hit that like button that's all I ask and consider subscribing if you want to see further content from me. And if you want to be a part of the Strive Smart community the Discord group chat as well as the Facebook group both of those are linked down below as well as the Strive Smart merch. So let's get into it guys let's start off here with the S&P like we always do right now it's up $13 it closed actually at $13.11 in the green up 0.42%. And yet again guys we hit another all-time high here really at the end of the market in the last couple of minutes of the market at $3154.26. So beautiful day today the bulls were in charge all day as you guys can see the uptrend continued from the previous session. And if we go to this one hour chart you guys can see we're riding that EMA we're getting higher and higher in terms of the price. And what's that doing guys that's actually bringing the R side to a more overbought spot. So at this point I really wouldn't be surprised if the markets maybe sold off a bit next week maybe on Friday as well because tomorrow is Thanksgiving the market is actually closed. So I'd watch and see if we do pull down in these next couple of days and the level I'd watch for is this 50 SMA on the hourly chart because as you guys can see we've held that over the past couple of weeks. So that could potentially put the SMP maybe down to about $31.28 maybe around $31.30 right around that level. So that's kind of what I'm watching right now obviously the bulls are in charge everything is looking solid but a retracement is in the near future a slight retracement in my personal opinion. And if we break down the SPY very quickly guys very similar to the SMP obviously because it tracks the SMP right the SPY it's probably the most popular ETF out there that tracks the SMP 500 and this one hit an all-time high today at $315.57 the up trend is beautiful on the on the hourly chart you guys can see hey maybe we do see a pull down right you know maybe down to that $180 SMA putting us at around $312 maybe $313 roughly over these next couple of days as we potentially see a retracement here so that's kind of what I'm watching of course those two are pretty much identical because the SPY again tracks the SMP. Now if we go to the Dow Jones industrial average guys this one's up 42 points at the close up .15% and if we go to the daily chart you can see yet again another all-time high $28174.97 for the Dow Jones and if we pull back to that hourly chart to see the performance you can see we pull down held that 180 SMA or actually the 50 SMA rather and we obviously hit a higher high from there so if we run up again guys in the Dow like the SMP in the short term I'd expect a pull down I honestly expect a pull down either way right even if we run up a day or two then we'll definitely see a pull down in my opinion or of course if we just pull down on Friday or maybe even on Monday right so that's kind of what I'm watching a pull down of the 50 SMA would be helpful here putting it down to about 27975 maybe 28,000 flat and at that point if the markets dip guys I'll probably buy the dip me personally let me know down below in the comments would you buy the dip in the markets I'd love to know what you have to think so going to the Nasdaq guys up .62% at the close actually this is still climbing after hours because it's the future so the future of the Nasdaq right now it's up 52 points up .6% and just like the Dow just like the SMP guys the Nasdaq absolutely crushed it today right we go to that 20-day chart actually we're already on the 20-day chart you guys can see we've been running up beautifully riding that uptrend riding those moving averages we just hit an all-time high roughly at 84.56 which is insane right so hey we might keep going in the short term but ultimately I think this one just like the SMP and the Dow it's going to pull down it's going to go down to this 50 SMA maybe a nice 1% of retracement or it might go to that 180 SMA giving it more of a probably a two to three percent retracement and more like a 1.5% retracement so that's very possible here in the short term before we continue up in my opinion and yeah would you buy that dip let me know down below in the comments I personally would buy the dip there's a bunch of ETFs that you could trade if you're purely just looking at the indexes right you can trade SQQQ and TQQQ these two right here that's a bull ETF is the T1 and the bear ETF is the S1 those track the Nasdaq right at a 3x leverage rate you can trade SPXS or XPX SPXL if you want to trade ETFs that track the S&P 500 and those are as well leveraged so that's kind of what you can do there if you want to purely play the markets and that's kind of just the market update in general for today so let me know again down below in the comments what are your thoughts on this market right now and let's hop quickly and talk about what I did in terms of my trading so you all know I was swing trading Shopify right from these past like 10 days or something like that maybe 1 to 2 weeks is the general range that I've been holding Shopify here and I accumulated my shares in the 315 to around 317 dollar range during this point right and that that was really because we started to break trend on Shopify right you guys can see here we slowly started to break this is the 90 day 2 hour chart we slowly started to break moving averages right we broke the 180 SMA 50 SMA we got the bullish crossed 50 SMA crossing above the 180 SMA and again this is when I was accumulating those shares as this was quite bullish from my point of view and then we got the ultimate breakout here and like I mentioned in yesterday's video 325 if we break that which we did obviously in yesterday's video I said we could probably fill up to 340 345 which as you guys can see we did that and I actually ended up selling into this strength to lock in my profit just before this holiday you know day tomorrow when the markets closed just to be safe right locking in that profit in my opinion is never a bad idea especially since Shopify is at a resistance and it's overbought on this 2 hour chart so where did I sell you know I sold right around here I believe it was more towards the beginning of the day if I held a little bit more guys I actually would have squeezed another 2% out of this thing but honestly I'm cool with what I ended up you know making it was around 6-7% I believe on the trade if we look here you know 315 up to here yeah it was more about 6-7% yep like I said so that's what I did in terms of Shopify and I actually ended up buying like you guys saw in title Home Depot guys ticker symbol HD and this is one that I actually started buying pre-market today actually if we go to this daily chart you guys can see we were gapping up pre-market I bought a couple shares here once we dipped I bought a little bit more here so my average cost is around like 221-90 maybe even in the cost of 222 right now so that's kind of where my cost is on Home Depot and you guys know if you watched my video yesterday especially this is one that I'm really interested in swing trading for about a week or two maybe even three weeks due to the weakness we're seeing here this is kind of what I like doing and I found success with swing trading companies like this right companies that are blue chip companies they end up falling after earnings but then ultimately they end up recovering and that's a nice setup that I'm seeing here with Home Depot right if we go to the long-term chart here guys I'm talking three-year chart maybe even the 20-year chart maybe that's too much actually yeah maybe it was the year chart that I was looking that looked really great yes here it is the year day the year day chart that you guys can see here this is a natural retracement for Home Depot in terms of the trend here you guys can see literally in the past year we've seen multiple pull downs like we've seen and we've recovered from all of them and we're actually already recovering from this pull down so that's giving me faith to at least scale into Home Depot here I'm not in crazily guys I always scale into my swing trade positions to mitigate risk right because if this thing turns downwards I'd cut losses right and I wouldn't lose as much money as if I put all my money in at first so little bit little bit here and there scaling in but as of now I'm up and I'm really liking this as a position that I'm probably going to hold for two three weeks maybe even upwards to a month plus right so that's what I'm doing with Home Depot sold off of Shopify like I mentioned and that's pretty much all I ended up doing today guys really the strategy that I've been following is really mitigating losses by cutting the losers like I did right I cut McDonald's at a good price I didn't really lose much money on that trade like I mentioned a couple days ago you know I cut PayPal a little early you know PayPal's crushing it right now if I held it guys I'd be up a lot on my position right I cut PayPal down here but either way at this point guys I was seeing a break in trend right hindsight's 2020 I was seeing a break in trend and I cut at a very very small loss if not break even so I'm really mitigating my risk here you know cutting off the losers and capitalizing heavily on the winners which at this point really my main winners over the past week two weeks have been Shopify and you guys remember Chipotle Mexican Grill I did quite well on got completely out of that yesterday and Facebook was also one that I swing traded about two three weeks ago that I sold out I believe last week that was another winner so that's kind of what I've been focusing on just looking at a lot of these large caps you know as I'm seeing the breakout potential so let me know what you guys did down below in the comment section now let's break down that natural gas report very quickly because we got it a day early because tomorrow is Thanksgiving right so let me pull it up and I'll show you guys these numbers and if you guys remember what we talked about over the past couple of weeks kind of the consensus based on my research and what I looked up and different analysts we were seeing you know a consensus of around a 50 to 60 BCF billion cubic feet withdrawal of natural gas for this week the weather was mild you know warmer than expected we all knew the draw wasn't going to be that big but we didn't think it was going to be this small guys it came in at 28 billion cubic feet the withdrawal which again is completely under what we were expecting in terms of the analysts and kind of the you know consensus so we can see based on regions the east saw a 15 BCF withdrawal Midwest saw a 17 BCF withdrawal the mountain saw a one BCF withdrawal pacific actually saw an injection of one BCF south central two BCF injection salt for BCF injection non-salt one BCF withdrawal so you guys can see you know the withdrawal is about a third less than it was last week because last week we had a what was it a negative 96 BCF so we had 96 billion cubic feet withdrawal so that is not looking too great for the you gas holders out there and for the natural gas bulls right but we've been talking about how then the short term in the short term whether supposed to be warm heading into the early months or rather the early days of December the weather supposed to be warmer than expected and mild right but eventually what the you guys holders want is a cold sweep to come in and obviously demand sparking up and prices of natural gas going up and I still personally think that will eventually happen here but the question is when is it going to happen because in the short term here let's be honest guys D gas does look like it has a stronger potential so let's break down natural gas based on today then we'll talk about some screenshots that I do have here on my phone so NGF 20 let's pull this thing up and let's talk about what we're seeing so we'll break it down first on the four hour chart and guys this is looking quite ugly a falling knife in my opinion and it's clear that it's looking like a falling knife here based on the chart right we got rejected by that EMA lower high we hit that lower low here um you know at about 248 we broke that critical support at 257 that I was talking about over these past couple of videos so the bears are clearly in charge here guys natural gas it's not looking like it's bottoming out right now but one thing I do want to keep an eye on is going to be this level that we're at right now which happens to be a pretty big support at around 247 you guys can see we held that level a couple of weeks ago really towards the end of July into the month of August before we saw that big rally so it's worth watching that level 247-248 if we break that guys that's going to be very very bad in my opinion quite quite a bearish break there that could lead to more blood in the waters for natural gas at least here in the short term right so you can imagine that D gas did quite well today up 3.53% up almost five bucks and it's looking bullish right we're breaking above moving averages we're starting to test levels that we weren't at you know that we haven't been at since the late September to early October days so I'm interested in seeing what it does here and obviously you guys was down about 3.67% about 4% today down 45 cents so let's talk about these two screenshots that I have on my phone here and kind of how they relate to the price because this stuff is going to impact the short term price of natural gas and thus fluctuating D gas and you guys natural gas prices moved lower on Wednesday following a smaller than expected draw in natural gas inventories like we already talked about right despite the robust levels of short positions in the market there is no imminent impetus that is expected to drive up the price over ahead of the holiday weekend the weather is expected to be colder than normal only on the east coast of the US over the next six to ten days and then the weather is expected to become milder during the eight to fourteen day forecast so that reiterates my point in terms of the short term kind of mild weather that we're seeing across the country here really not in the east coast but mostly across other areas and that's kind of going to affect the price of natural gas to the downside like we said so you guys can see here one weather system will track across the great lakes and Ohio valley today with rain and snow while a second more potent storm slams into the west coast the western us storm will track into the central and eastern us this weekend and early next week with heavy rain and snow along with cold conditions with widespread lows of zeros two thirties for strong national demand high pressure will return across the western central and southern us mid next week with highs warming into the fifties to the seventies for much lighter demand overall demand will be moderate today which is right now that i'm recording this video then increasing to high early next week so based on that guys in my opinion short term degas still is in charge here in terms of the you guys degas leveraged etn's and that's kind of how i'm playing it but eventually like i've mentioned in all my videos once we start to see some real cold weather out there i believe you guys will recover but we just have to wait and see like i've been mentioning in these videos when that is going to happen and i'm eager to see when that will happen so let's talk about very quickly some other stocks and ETFs that i want to share with you all that i see a lot of potential in so we already talked about home depot we talked about Shopify although i didn't mention on Shopify i do believe eventually we can break up here into the next channel which is between 345 and 370 bucks and i think if we do get that 345 break and maybe some consolidation there you know i believe this thing could even pop higher and we could capitalize on that trade when we see the technical break so i'm watching that being very patient because again i just got out of Shopify so i want to let it breathe a little bit before getting into it again so another one that i'm watching that i talked about in yesterday's video is amazon ticker symbol amz and this one actually broke 1800 very very bullish move here now we're looking to fill the gap up to 1850 so this is one that i'm watching for friday session guys and probably heading into next week if we pull down we might see some consolidation at 1800 because honestly the r-size overbought here so if we get that that's going to be quite good and give it a lot of potential for upside if we get that pop after the consolidation so amz and Shopify home depot you guys degas these are all the ones on my list that i'm looking at down here guys so the last one that i didn't mention is neo ticker symbol and i oh this is one that really filled the gap that i was talking about in these past couple of videos and i did not capitalize on the move to be completely honest with you guys but you know that i own neo in my long-term account so i'm enjoying these gains right here i'm enjoying these gains on a position that i'm actually down quite a bit on so this is good this is slowly coming back and the fact that we broke 240 now it gives it some room to run even further up maybe upwards to 270 as we can see here maybe even upwards to about you know 280 and maybe even upwards to three bucks guys so these are some levels that neo can get to but in the short term here it does seem a bit hot so maybe it cools off before doing that but it's still worth watching in my opinion so i'm going to end off the video here guys if you enjoyed it feel free to go down below hit that like button and consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and also if you want to be a further part of the strive smart community the discord group chat link is down below as well as the facebook group and i'm actually running a black friday sale on the strive smart merge that's linked down below and you can use that code to get 10 off of the merge again that's linked down below as well as the pinned comment in the comment section so i hope you all have a fantastic thanksgiving if you celebrate thanksgiving i really hope you guys eat a lot of turkey mashed potatoes what else you guys eat what am i eating turkey mashed potatoes probably some gravy you guys know you got to put gravy on that turkey and uh yeah enjoy it with your families watch some sports kick back relax i'll catch you all in the next video again happy thanksgiving i hope you all have a great day tomorrow peace out


Is the hotel booking applied to other types of visas or for anyone coming to Qatar? No. The hotel booking, when we are talking about hotel booking, normally when the government comes in to specify which kind of hotels to book, then that means there is an arrangement that is being done rightly or to make sure they can do the follow up or they can make those prior arrangements to serve or give good services. So for you to do hotel booking if you are looking other types of visas, it depends on the kind of requirements for those visas. It will depend on the requirements that the visas say. If the visa requirement, let's say for example it's a business or it's another type of visa and it requires you to book a hotel and in the mention down this mention that you book using what you call the Discover Qatar website then probably that will be a requirement. But if that is not the case then it does not require you to book. These other types of visas do not require you to book a hotel using what you call the Discover Qatar website unless it is being stipulated. Remember when all this is be done or when the government instructs then probably that is what you call a mandate that you are supposed to follow at that time. But for these visas that we are looking at this time, when we are looking at the visas on arrival for these three nationalities, when we look at the three nationalities remember we are talking about people who are holding the Indian passports, people who are holding the Iranian passports then also people who are holding the what you call the Pakistan passports. So meaning that for you for this kind of case it is something that face that only applies to you from these countries. If you are going to book up an accommodation or booking it's your visa because it is visa on arrival and it's being put under the mandate or it's being stipulated that means you need to do a booking or you need to do what you call a hotel booking using what you call the Discover Discover Cata website because it is one of the requirements what is the requirements to fulfill of the requirements for you to get that visa. So no this does not apply for any other visa but it applies for the three nationalities that are being mentioned and that is going to come into effect in April 14. Meaning that for you need to have that visa then probably what you are going to do is that you need to have that booking because it's going to act as a proof of payment or it's going to act as a proof for you to have that visa. So if you're coming from India and you're coming from Pakistan or coming from Iran for any visa for you to have the visa on arrival then you probably going to have what you call the hotel booking voucher that will be given to you. Hope I've answered you very well. Thanks so much for coming back to this channel. Thank you so much. I'll see you again in the next video as we try to see more of the breakdowns.


Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique host. She's your boy, E-CEO, and I'm here with a lovely, amazing official Mr. Mako, what's going on? Not, not even on my day I walk on. Man, hey man, save man, check it, man. We got this special guest in here today, y'all. She been doing this a long time. She's been on different networks where I've seen her really just displaying her art with the tattooing that she does, man. She also, she's a rapper. She's a rap, she's an artist. I don't like to say rap, you know what I mean? Check it, man, Michelle, Elise is in the building. What's up, y'all? How y'all doing? Stop playing. What? She in here. It happened.   I like that. Man. So how you doing? I'm doing good, doing good.  We only been at this for a little over a year. Oh, wow. But the store's been here 15 years. Yeah, the store's been here 15 years. I'm a black entrepreneur. Newer. Niggur. You don't talk about how that took more than that. I never heard that, I like that. And it's not the niggur, it's niggur. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  So how is it like in Dallas, I mean, being at you from Arizona, right? Right, wow. How is it like you being from Dallas, like I'm being in Dallas and seeing the way the music has turned, because you've been here for a while, just seeing how things, and I'm gonna go back into your back turn because she liked to do that. But how is it for you, the music and just the way music is looking right now in the city? In the city. I'm excited. I'm excited. I've been around for a minute in the music scene. I was a painter first in the music scene, so I painted on stage and did different concerts and stuff like that. So, I've seen the progression of, sorry. I've seen the progression of the Dallas music scene. I feel like people are going hard. I feel like everybody's trying to be different, sound different, finally. Nope. But you're talking about overall, so how is it for females? For females, I would say it's the same thing. It's a little, a little different. I find females are starting to sound a little bit the same. Everybody want to sound like Meg or Cardi, you know what I mean? Or as far as the content, I'll say that. What they're talking about. It's a little different. But yeah, that's why you have me, I'm different. You're different. So let's go back. We want to go back first, okay? I want to know about a little Nichelle. Oh, okay. Okay, before you moved to Texas, how old were you when you moved here? Ooh, I was six, 16, 17. Oh, so you're still grown. So you remember things before. So tell us about how it was growing up. In Arizona? Well, is Arizona hot? Because Arizona is, I know this country is hot. Arizona was warm. What is there to do in Arizona? I didn't do anything. I went to school. We learned how to survive in the heat. So we did heat survival classes. How do you survive in the heat? So we had to play outside when it was 110 degrees. They made us go outside. So they made us learn how to cool off, like put the paper towel, the wet paper towel on your back, your neck, put it on your wrist. You know, different things like that because people would pass out on the playground all the time. And they teach you this in school. Yeah, they taught us how to make food outside. It was like a convention, it was like an oven you make. I made cinnamon rolls too, it was good. I remember that. But yeah, it was just, that's why I left. I'll tell you that. It was too hot. It was too hot. Tastes as hot, but Arizona's like the driest heat you ever go find. Okay, well I've said the same thing about Vegas. And Vegas is not very far from Arizona, but what's the difference between the heat and Vegas compared to the heat in Arizona? About the same. It's desert, desert vibes for sure. It's real desert-y dry, it's like a dry heat. It's that dry heat because like I tell anybody, I said if you want, and I've never been out of, come out of a microwave, but it feels that way. Like if I had imagined what it feels like walking into a microwave, when I'm walking out of the hotel and into the atmosphere, that's what it feels like. Yup, I'm happy to be a Texas, I'll tell you that. Brothers or sisters? I have two brothers. Two brothers? I got an older brother, and I got a little brother. So I'm the middle child. No, you're the only girl. Only girl. Wow, mom and dad together? Oh yeah, for sure. That's good.  That's what it is for my son. I take care of my son by myself. Mm-hmm. Oh yep, maybe like that for sure. But why is it that way? Why does never the dad take responsibility and take the child, especially that boy? Right.  I don't know. I don't know, I feel like it's been like that for a really long time.  You know what I mean? I have friends who have kids, or male friends who have kids, and maybe two of them, the baby mother is not really around, and you're like, that is so weird. But like, oh, the dad ain't not around. Okay, yeah. He doesn't wanna like, what in the world? But it is your child's father involved in his life? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You say it like that, like. No. That's your choice. Because that's what it sounded like. It's, you know, sometimes when you have someone that, let me see, I can't word this, is more of a hazard to your child and yourself. And they don't really do a good job as a father anyway, and they don't really care. You just say, okay, I'm gonna protect my kid. You know what I mean? Keep him safe. Well, let me be the devil's advocate. Okay. What would make you be with a guy like that? So I was young. And I was manipulated. I was young. I didn't really know much. I've taken responsibility though. Like I'm not like, oh, he ain't, I don't get on social media and talk about him. I know I made a mistake.   Seven. Oh, okay. He's a baby. But I had to come to terms like, okay, well, regardless of like how it happened and technically like, he's, huh? He's here. He's here and he's doing great. He's an amazing kid, but you know, I did do that. Well, we're gonna keep our prayers for that father to come. Yeah, we want him to come around and be, I still pray for him for sure.  I may have even looked in the mirror and seen him. And God, I know he can change people. Of course. You know what I mean? So I just don't ever play with the power of God. That's just me, my belief. I don't push my belief on nobody else. I just know that if you pray for people and if you really believe that people can change, things can change. Especially because I always feel like a child needs both parents in their life. It doesn't have to always be under the same roof. If possible, that's great, but active in their life because every child boy or girl go through stages where you can't deal with that child and he can't and vice versa. Exactly. My son is very, he responds well to like male, males kind of tell him what to do.  So he goes every week, but they teach him how to be, mama shouldn't be picking up your bag. Why you have her doing that? Your mama should, you need to be doing these things. You know what I mean? Just putting some discipline on him. Right. So, you know, I'm trying, I'm trying to get him influenced.  Is a blessing. You know, there's people like Hannah in the Bible and Elizabeth and just different people who had tests and trials and who couldn't have children, who wanted to have children. You know what I mean?  Is a blessing. Is a blessing, you know? So to have a son. Come on, man. He's dope. It's lit, man. It's lit, man. What? She's like what? I don't know. I don't know.  So let's go back to, okay, so when you moved to Texas, you were 16, so you didn't move here by yourself. You moved here with your mom? With my family, for sure. Okay, mom and dad, brothers and so forth. And, but you were, when did you find your love for art? I've always loved art. Oh my goodness, since I was a little, little thing. I was like three, maybe. Who introduced it to you? My babysitter. My babysitter, she needed something for me to do. She was a fashion designer. So she would be drawing her dresses and I would be drawing whatever I was drawing. And that's how we kind of, we got through the little babysitting session. Okay, that's cool. And that's good that you found a love for, so you were like a great kid, because you know how when you have a kid that find a passion early stage? I just sat there and did all day, doing arts and crafts every day. And your parents supported it? Oh yeah, they've always supported me, always. And when did you realize that this has become now a passion? How old were you? A passion.  I think when I started buying books, trying to learn more when I was 10, about 10 years old, I have family members who do art. So I'm like, hey auntie, can you help me learn how to draw these eyes the right way? You know, I'm looking for knowledge and I'm trying to get better every day. I figured, yeah, this is the part of me. I'm really putting forth the effort to get better. Some people just draw and they doodle. But I'm like, okay, let me read this book. Let me get a book on sketching hands. Let me get a book on drawing buildings and cars and all types of stuff. But at that age, did you know that there was a career in it? Yeah. Or you were just... I knew because my aunt does graphic design. My other aunts, she do art. My uncles do art. So it's in the family. Yeah, it's in the family. It is. So what at first, what did you want to become because you didn't want to become a tattoo artist at first? I mean, so I'm gonna say this. When I was probably like 13-ish, I discovered tattooing and I always said, oh man, I wanna do that. How did you discover it? I was watching TV. I was watching TV. I was watching TV and there was a tattoo show on or something was going on on TV. And I realized, wow, I could draw on people and get money for it. That's crazy. I'm about to try that. I never knew how I was gonna actually do it. I went and tried to do fashion design and all that other stuff. But I always said I wanted to do tattoos and I wanted to get tattoos. So I was drawing my little tattoos out. I'm gonna get this when I turn 18. That's when I'm getting it. It was ugly, but that's what I'm getting. That would not have worked as a tattoo, but yeah, I've always been into it. So did you go to school for it? I did. For arts? Yeah. Okay. I did. I went to Texas Women's University for drawing and painting or painting and drawing is how you say it. Two years. Or four years. Four. Four years? Yeah. Okay, you majored in that. Is it easy, hard? It was so easy for me. Because you loved it. It was easy for me. It was almost too easy, though. Shout out to Texas Women's, but it was so easy. I was like, okay. They're like, yeah, this is good. This is good. This is good. It was never like, maybe you should put that tree over there. It's probably because you're talented. Yeah, but even talented, you should be pushed. Or maybe because it's the school. Maybe it's the school. What is the best art school in Dallas? I'm actually not sure. It's a good question. I went to school in New York. You know what I mean? If I had the courage to, yeah, I'd probably go to New York or something. Something like that, I don't know. Because I'd see how it's like. Relationship building? Just to meet people? No, because whenever I go to New York, it's art everywhere. It's more embraced, I feel like. Did you feel, did you see the art when you was there? That's why I saw it a lot in Washington. Man, we went to DCN. Okay, that's dope. But I didn't see it a lot in New York. Really? It depends on what part. You were in Manhattan. You were in Manhattan. Oh, it's like Brooklyn, Harlem and stuff like that. Yeah, we didn't know that. You went to the hood. Yeah. Let that. No, we went to Queens, got my cousin living in Queens, but I still didn't really see a lot. I've never been to Queens. I went to Brooklyn. I went to Queens because that's where I come into America, it's gonna be real with you. That's where I be at. Okay. Because that's where Joaquin met his wife, his girl, his true love. It is, it is. We're better to meet a queen than Joaquin. Okay, I hear that. But no, I think you're one of the dopest females that, are you gonna give me 16 on here? You got some. You want me to give you a 16? Heck yeah. I didn't, okay. What does it mean? Yeah, we'll get you on the trip. I got a card and I'm gonna get you too. Okay, so before we get into that. No, we never do it now. I just let her get ready. She better be thinking over there. I am thinking over there. You know what, we could do, I loved the one with you when you stood the latest one that you did with the mic and everything. Shelly Giuseppe. Yeah, that should be here. Yeah, that should be here. That should have went down on both. So just like that, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, then took it out there. Okay, I hear that, my bad. Okay, so we're tattooing because you went to school for tattooing. When you go to school for art, is it art or are you going to school for tattooing? Art, art. I did an apprenticeship though. Okay, so. I did an apprenticeship simultaneously. Okay, while you're in school. So did the school actually help you to get that apprenticeship? Or you had to go get it? No, I had to go get it. So. You had to go get it.  So how did you do that?  So how, I had said earlier that I was a painter. So everyone knew me as being this painter chick. So when I. So, hold on, so you were painting while you were going to school? Yeah. Were you painting on stage at that time? Yep, mm-hmm. So I would go to class and run and go do a show. Okay, so how did you, so okay, so let me go to reverse before you answer that question. So how did you get on stage? How did you get, because network can get you everywhere too.  So how do you get there? Oh man, I haven't thought about that since it happened. I, oh, I know what happened.  It was a purple couch and then everything else was blue and like real cool. It's like cool colors, which is what you call them. I posted it on Facebook and it went viral. Like, we like to say viral. And I got hit up from everybody like, oh my God, you did this painting? Can I get a print? And then I did a time lapse of it and did another one to the time lapse. Started posting time lapse videos on YouTube so people can see my process. And it really just went up from there. I met people doing hip hop mics and stuff like that.  What do you think that looked like? So that's really how it started. Pretty excited to do it. It was just a little experiment. Was it nervous? Because I always wonder, I'm like, if somebody is doing music, because doing art doesn't take you 10 minutes to do it. It takes you a while to do it.  How much pressure is that to finish this by a certain time? It was, at first, I was shaking. I was shaking like a strip on stage. I was so scared. My first show was at the Palladium, I believe. It was a big show. And that's big. It was a very big show. And that was your first show? First show ever. Oh my gosh, I was so scared. But that's how a lot of people found me. Like they saw, they were at that show and they saw me painting on live. Got my little Instagram and all my Facebook. What did you paint that day? I painted a like a really cool gas mask looking thing with like bright colors flying off of it and stuff like that. So when you're doing something like that, you don't paint something that's very intricate, something that you paint it sort of like easy so you can hurry up and get it done and over with. Maybe just more expressive and minimal at the same time.  But it could be read from somebody at the back of the venue. So that was a major part of it. Like I could do something cute and small but can you see it from the last person in the back of the venue? So it was, I made it a point to make it something that everybody could see from where they were standing. Did you get a lot of work? From that? Yeah. So how did you manage school with all the work you were getting and the baby and all of that? How did you manage all of that? I don't know. I don't know. That's just how I am. I like being busy. So it's go to class in Denton and you about to drive to Dallas and do this show, drive back so you could be up for class at 7 a.m. Not gonna lie, I failed one class because of that. But I changed my major so it don't even matter because I went for fashion design first and I kept missing that sewing class at 7 a.m. because I was out hustling, you know? So they're like, at the end of the semester, she was like, yeah, you need to change your major because you can't sew. I was like, dang, all right. So I changed it to iron and here we are. But yeah, I was just hustling. Really, I like that. I like, okay, let me go, he gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. I just, I've seen it work for me. So why not? But were you tattooing? When did you start tattooing? Did you tattoo after college? After? No, in college, in college. So you were tattooing in college? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you don't need, so to tattoo, can anybody just tattoo or you need a certificate? Do you need a license? Depending on where you live. So depending on where you live, you always need a license. But in Texas, the shop has to have a license. So you don't have to be licensed to yourself, but any, you have to work in a shop. So any shop you work in has to be licensed. So you're under a license in Texas. So that's, I just went and did an apprenticeship and I was licensed under that shop. So tell me how you met that person to do the apprenticeship and where was it? Instagram, I believe. They saw me doing them art shows and Pain Live and we just had a brief conversation. Like, hey, what do you think about being our first apprentice? First apprentice? Yeah, was their first apprentice ever? So they just, I went and, okay, so listen, apprenticeship, you're not supposed to tattoo anybody for the first year, sometimes even two years. Just, right. Because technically what they're doing is for that first year, for that first year, that second year, you're learning how to draw. You're like, it's like you're in art school. You're learning how to draw. Yeah, but it's boring. Mm-mm, it's not boring. Because I'm like, it's like I'm watching you do, like, cause if I come in, cause if I come in, I feel like I can already draw. I already know what I'm doing. But if you can already draw, it might cut down the time.  Like, I tattooed, but I say I went on Monday, I was tattooed on Tuesday. Oh, oh. It depends on who you are, what you got going on. So for me, I tattooed the first 48 hours that I was in apprentice, but that's not coming at all. How hard is it to, cause when you're drawing, cause I see my daughter draw all the time, and you're using brushes and the colors and stuff like that, but now you're going to, I tattooed gun. Right. Where? Machine. A machine, I'm sorry. No, you're fine. Where you have to be careful of how deep you go. Of course. Light you go, all of that sort of stuff. Definitely. How hard it was for you to try to learn that and transition to that. It was hard. It wasn't even hard. It's getting over the fear of doing it wrong. You just have to do it. So like, I always went to light it first when I was an apprentice. It was like, oh, this is, it wasn't like the contrast wasn't there, I wasn't punching it in, cause I was afraid. I'm not going to lie. But some people will just drop that needle right into somebody's arm, and I'm like, dang, about to scar this person. So it's just figuring out your hand. You're going to have to mess some people up here and there to get better or get fakes.   And why were you such a blamer? You just blamed the other person. Like, there's wasn't good enough. I mean, we just, we're just dope. I mean, cause you saying, hey, I see, but I just wanted to know about that season. Just how it was, just run me down that road to even how, how it was being on that show. And just how, you know, just give me the rundown. Ooh. So I was minding my business one day and I got a call and they asked if I wanted to do it or email or something like that. They asked if I wanted to be on Ink Master season 13. Of course they said yes, cause that was a personal goal of mine. And how long were you doing tattooing at that time? I like four years, five years or something like that. Oh, so not that long. Not long, no. I had like, probably the least amount of experience. Maybe one other person had the same amount of experience, but it was an experience, I'll say that. A lot of adversity I had to get over.  But it's another thing to have to show your personality and then produce work that you don't have time to really prepare for. Like they tell you what you're doing and you about to just figure it out and tattoo it right there. It's a lot of pressure. So I didn't know it was gonna be like that. I didn't know it was gonna be so stressful. And so you don't get a lot of sleep. How much politics was involved? I don't know. What do you mean as far as like favoritism or you know, or somebody like cause a lot of times even though you don't wanna want that type of thing to be a thing, but it's always there. It's always there because, yeah, because somebody might've knew somebody or anything. I'm just asking you how much did politics play a part in it? I'm not sure what played a part in anything. I was just there trying to survive as a contestant. I don't know.  The first person that went up, her tattoo was terrible. It was so bad.  And then we talk about it. And there was other people, no one said my name. No one, everybody thought it was a beautiful tattoo. And then when they critiqued that same person, thank you. When they were critiqued that same person that everybody was dogging on, they said it was beautiful. And that's when I knew. I literally, if they could have showed it, I looked to my life, I said, I'm going home. And I looked back to the camera. Cause you knew it was something other than your work. I was like, I'm going home. It was so bad. You knew it was something other than your art. Yeah, I was like, yo, everybody said it was bad. That's the politics I'm talking about. I see what you're saying. Cause it's always there. It's always the mess is there, even on jobs. And it's always something. And it's forever be as long as we got humans in it because of behavior patterns and the way that they look at things a lot of times. And certain people may be the grand wizard with the Ku Klux Klan or whatever. Some people may, and they're not gonna tell you this is what they're dealing with. This is something internally that they can't kick and they're gonna play it off and try to figure out a way to inject it into what they're trying to accomplish. So I'm not saying that's what they did, but I'm saying it makes sense how TV works. But I can't remember. How many other black people were on the show? A lot of black people. There was also black people on the show.  I mean.  Go and look, black women, for whatever reason we don't stand on them.  There was one guy. There was his name. Oh my God, Anthony, something. That's bad. But he was one guy, but he didn't look black. He looked like, oh, maybe he Puerto Rican or something. Or maybe he's, and he was very like, I just want them to know that I did my best. You know, like he was not a strong black man. He was like, yeah, I've never done it before. So I hope the judges really like my tattoo. I'm like, what is this? He could have been doing that act because he know what it is too. Right, no, I think that's how he is. Because I've seen it. He talks like that. You're right. I mean, you know people that do that. I know people that do that. They know how to play. They know how to do different things and keep jobs. Oh, wow. Oh, it go hard. It's a thing, but it's a thing. That's crazy. People know how to play. Play the part. I was myself. I was like, y'all about to just get this because I'm not about to do all that. But yes, it's a whole nother world. Did it boost your career just to even be on the show? Yeah, it did. Because people know that they like my work. So I've been busy since, since I aired. I've been booked and busy since I aired for sure. Any city I go to, I'm booked. How do you market? I just kind of get on social media and post it.  I don't do much. Yeah, I don't do too much marketing. I'm not that good at it. So you would advise any artist to be on one of those shows to try to boost their career? Boost their career. Because it can break you, too. It can break you. Because I know some people went on there and did some bad tattoos. And can't get work.  Why would I go to you to get a tattoo? I've seen that you did this tattoo on Ink Master. It was bad. So it can make a break? It can break you, definitely. Oh, I have a question. Have you ever met a tattoo artist that don't have any tattoos? No, but I've heard of these people. I've heard of these folks before. And they make money. If your work is good and people like your work, what can you do? But I hear some people say, oh, I would never go to a tattoo artist that don't have tattoos.  And then you meet them. They ain't got no tattoos. You going to walk out? You like the tattoos? You might as well get the tattoo. But even like, the way how you're dressed right now, I can't see your tattoo. So you can still be dressed a certain way that you have tattoos and you can't see them. I just don't have my arms tattooed. I have everything else tattooed, just on my arms and my chest. Because I do other stuff. So it's like, I don't want to be typecast theater. Which makes sense. I want my face tattooed. You do? I do. But I won't. I won't. Let me ask you, did we get all the tattoo? Y'all tattooed this thing to death, you know? For 30 minutes, y'all been doing it. No, but at least 17, 17 and 20. I want to talk about the music a little bit before we end this, man. Just talk about, you know, your career, the love for music.  Or I'm just asking. I'm listening. You just have that voice. No, I've heard the other ones early on was like, I'm going to die, die, die, die, die, die, by, by. But then the new ones, like, oh, that's it. It was just the vibe. You understand why I'm coming for a go. You're like this dude is really looking there. It don't take long for me to see what's going on. I just started during quarantine. So I started in 2020. Me and Lauri did that song and it went viral. I love that song. And then, thank you, that was fun. And then I dropped my single after that. And I was very aggressive on the beat because I didn't, that's all I knew how to do. I just knew how to yell in the mic, not yelling the mic, but you know, yelling the mic. How long ago was that? 2020? 2020. 2020, 2021-ish, yeah. So when did you figure out you could rap? What was the name of the song? Which one? The one you was just talking about, you and? Lauri? Lauri. Oh, WAP, it was WAP. She was on there? I didn't even know that. That's when I saw her for the first time. No, I didn't go to that. I wanted you by yourself. Yeah, that was, yeah. But the first song was the WAP song was Lauri. So that's what got me in the door, basically. OK, I get it. But how long before that you were rapping? Not that long. So, OK, so when I told you I was around in music for so long, I was inspired forever. I'm an artist. I just like creating. I like different mediums. I like the challenge. So when I was around these people, like we did a TD East stuff, like Schoolboy Q, I played on stage live, Kendrick Lamar, all these people. But I was like, OK, well, I'm the tattoo girl. I'm the art girl. I'm not supposed to venture out and try to do music. But I knew everything I needed to know. I was around these people. I was picking the openers for these people. I knew what was good music. But I was kind of trying to stay in my lane as a visual artist. So during quarantine, I was going crazy because I couldn't do anything and I was stuck in the house. And I said, you know what? I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it. I have nothing else to do. I have all the time in the world to write, all the time in the world to figure out these rhyming schemes. Let's just do it. And that's really how it happened. Like I was like, this is the only time I'm going to have where nothing's pulling me anywhere. I have time to just sit down and write. You wrote your own verses for what? Yeah, I did. Me and Lardi Wood in the studio, like we did that. OK. She said, hey, I want to do this parody with you. OK, cool. We went to the studio the next day. Then we shot the video the day after that. It was like boom, boom, boom. It was like 72-hour turnaround from her idea to coming out on YouTube. Wow. Yeah. Wow, what was the craziest thing that happened after that? Because I know that. I know it did numbers. It did. It did. It's got, I don't know, like three, four million views on it, too. So did anybody ask you about it? Or had anybody noticed you for being on it? Yeah, a lot of my clients come in and they're like, you did that song? I didn't know you did it. My daughter loves that song. It keeps going viral over and over. So it's always someone like, that was you. That was you. You know, so, yeah. That's pretty cool. When you, tell me about the song, What They Want? What They Want. So that was my first single. That was me on my little braggadocious vibes. That's the one I'm talking about when you get to it. Yeah, I was getting to it. I was being as braggadocious as I could. I was having fun with it. I wanted to see how far I could push it, what I could say that to make people look at me differently than other female rappers, because I don't want to talk about, you know, the normal stuff. The City Girls. I like City Girls. And I turned up to City Girls. But I didn't want to be another one. There's already the City Girls. So what can I do to be different? No, what? Let's talk about Pay For It. Pay For It. I like that song. That song, that was just a song I was playing around with. Like I made a little studio in my house. And I played the beat. My brother was there. And I just started mumbling it, though.  He's like, that's a dope cadence. I was like, OK, let me see. Started writing. And then Goods is a battle rapper. He's like a well-known battle rapper.  I want to do something different. So I sent him like, hey, I just did this reference track, kind of just trying to figure something out, like trying to sound a little different. What you think? He's like, that's perfect. I want to do that. And that's literally how it happened. Yeah, he's like, that's different. And I want to get on that. We're going to do it. Because I noticed you do a lot of features with, like, a lot of these songs have features on them right now. I mean, like two, three, two, three songs. I want to ask about what do you think that you'll ever do something with the tattoo and why you're rapping? Oh, yeah, it's coming. It's coming. Oh, yeah. You see what I'm saying? Because you could be doing that. And then. But how hard would that be? It won't be hard because you ain't going to be really tattooing. You're just going to be acting a lot of times. I got visuals coming from it. I shot a video like that. I just haven't put it out. OK, I just was thinking, I'm like. Yeah, it's been advised that I need to. I started to try and separate everything. And they're like, that's what makes you different. That's right. So I'm working on doing both of them. You can tell I'm a good manager. I'm already working on it. I know what I'm talking about. Let's get it. For sure. But no, so a top-through artist of all time, Dead or Alive. Dead or Alive. Number one. Any genre. Any genre. I like that. Number one. Number one. Missy Elliott. I love her so much. That creativity. That's what she loves. That's the creativity that I listen to. I can see that. Yes, I love Missy. Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar. Obviously. Yeah. I put a lot of people on to Kendrick when I first heard about him. Number three. Number three of all time. I'm a lever. We're so bad at picking things. Three is always the one to give them trouble anyway. So you ain't, you know. Yeah, and that's everyone.  I mean, we could say Michael Jackson because. Money Mike. He got the most. Because, you know, he showed us how to be a superstar. He did it all, like dancing and music. And like nobody, I feel like he was like the first superstar. You know what I mean? He showed us how to do it. So why not? So when I think about it, you said Missy Elliott is your number one. Cabe Reasy. She's a dope artist. She's fire. And she kind of put me in the mind of that. Would you be willing to work with her? I love her. I've been seeing her on Instagram She talked to her. She's dope. So I'd love to see you and her work together. That'd be fire. I'm just thinking of the style. She can go. She probably wanted to, in Dallas, hang on lyrically. Lyrically in Dallas that from Dallas or from. Yeah, I put my money on her. Yeah, she came in here and lit these mics up. That's fire.   No, no, she's so, so dope. Like, that's one of the dope ones that came on.  So you said you've painted with Kendra Lamar on stage. On stage, yeah, TV stuff. And would you ever do a feature with him? What? That's a crazy question. Oh my gosh, it would be a blessing. Because since you already have that networking, you're already in the door somewhat. Like, why not? Reach out. That's a lot of money. That's a lot. But it's not to say it wouldn't have, right, about to say it, but it can happen. It can happen. So I'll never say it wouldn't happen. But, you know, we'll see what happens in the future. That would be amazing. I'll crack. I'll crack right then and there. For sure. Keep on talking. So I wanted to know, so when, OK, going back to tattooing. OK. When you tattoo, how many of your tattoos percentage wise that you've ever done in your life on someone is your creation compared to someone walking in and saying, hey, I want this tattoo? Right. About 90% is mine. Huh? Yeah. Well, because I don't do the, let me have like a flashbook where you can flip through things and pick something out that 20 people already did. Or somebody already looked up and be like, OK, I want this design. You can tell me what you want, but I'm going to change it. Oh. Because if I do something that somebody else did already or like copy someone else's tattoo, because people would do that, like I want this tattoo on this that this person got.  That's my design. You stole my design. You making money off of my design. You know what I mean? So I, I don't want to do that. I don't want the problem. I didn't know you can do that. You can't do that because you have all these tattoo designs and people always look, oh, I love this. I love this. I'm going to get this at, da, da, da. So I got to go to this tattoo shop and, you know, get it. Yeah. I thought that all you have to do is come to you and say, this is what I want. That's what I'm going to get. Right. And you can, you can find artists that will copy what's there. Now, if it's something that's like flash or something like that, that was intended to be produced a billion times over, that's cool. Maybe I'll do it. Or like a lion that's like. Yeah. Like, you know, but I'm not going to take this person's design line for line and just copy it. I don't want this. I don't want no smoke. Yeah. People get really, social media has a lot of people to really get bold and they will, they will, they'll go off on you. Yeah. Social media is like that now. I'll go off. If I, if I took five hours to design someone's tattoo and then I posted it, I'm so proud of it. And then someone else behind, comes behind me, takes the whole tattoo and does it and makes, I don't know, twice as much as I made. How did that happen before? Not that I, oh, one time. But like, I didn't do anything, but it was one time and they didn't do a good job. So it was like, whatever, bro, like good, good traffic. Has anybody been like, hated what you did? No, God. No, I'm just, I'm just, I'm talking ever since from you started, it could have been like in your earlier days, it might not be now, but it could have been here. No, you know what? I'm blessed cause unless they, they didn't tell me, I'd tell you that. That, ooh, I would cry. You know what I hate? Um, a lot of people like, do tattoos that are all black and white. You don't like black and gray? I don't like black and gray. I like color tattoos. I like, I want to see color everywhere. It's just beautiful to me. Okay. Well, color is pretty, but. It fades. It, it fades because the, the way that color ink is made over time, it just breaks apart.  Like it's not gonna look like what it did. Like say you got it today and it was beautiful, vibrant, detailed 20 years from now. No. So you tell your clients to get black and gray. Um, I tell them they, they can get whatever they want, but I tell them, okay, in the future it's gonna fade out. So you're gonna have to keep, keep getting it touched up. Some people like, oh, that's fine, I don't care. And some people are like, oh no, I'm not with them. I'm trying to be one and done. So, yeah, definitely. Is he ready to drop you 16? Oh my gosh. I forgot about that. Yeah, give me a second. Let me think, let me think. You know I've been sitting over just chilling. Just chilling, bro. You know already I'm sitting here trying to get it done. Let me think. Let's go. Check it, man. My girl Michelle, she's in the building, man. Elise, let's get it. Let's go. Ball's top one on one. Yeah, shells. Okay. Big dog riding to the beat. Keep your baby mama on the leash. Pop a nigga right about to sleep.  I'm the goddess, niggas pray to me. I'm the goddess, niggas pray to me. I'm just really used to being ruler. I don't like my niggas close to me.  Dream catcher ain't no ghost to me. Bend flyer ain't no post to me. Niggas ain't no coast to me. I ain't never been in too religion. Bucky something holy on my feet. Champagne toaster on the beach. Guess I wasn't only for the streets. CEO, CFO, COO. Need a hundred to walk to the door. MSG, TransFat, GMO.  Door dashed on like shopping in stores. Hate flowers, but my cop me a rose. Wrist loaded, but the diamonds is froze. New designer, I can help it, but pose. Check it, man. Hold on, man. Let me stop that. Hey, man, let's stop that thing. Man, she killed that, man. Say, man, I'm gonna give it, man, hey, man. I gotta get started back, man. Yeah, I like that. That was it right there. I know when it's it. That's it, nigga, I get too excited. I love music. So I know when it's it, bro. Man, that's what gonna go down on here. Yeah, I already know. No, so how do you feel when you do the music? Like when you writing it and just vibing out and something like, you know what you just done? I feel great. I'm an artist, right, like we said before. And as long as I'm creating, I'm happy. If I'm not creative, something's not right. So when I'm writing, I'm performing, I'm in the studio. It's kind of like a form of therapy for me. Trying to get away from all the other crazy stuff going on in the world. Turn on the TV, it's nothing on, but sad stuff. So when I go to the studio, it's like, I can make my own environment. I can control what I hear, what I say, what's around me. So yeah. What would you do different if you would go back and change something, say when you were 18 starting out your whole, you know, your whole run here, what would you do differently if you could do something? If I could, the only thing, I wouldn't change anything, but I would say to trust myself more, really. A lot of things I didn't do because I was doubtful and I wish I did do them. That's probably the main thing. Just believe in myself. I'm good, I'm be good. Are you single? I'm single. Wow, so are you looking for love in all the wrong places? I have a song called looking for love in all the wrong places. I think so. I stopped looking though. I feel like it's just gonna come to me. It's gonna come to me. Yeah, when looking for it, you find the wrong people every time. Man, I just want to tell you thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. We love you. Yes, we do. You did a great job. I mean, we talked about a lot of things. Mostly tattooing, so I want to be interested in watching this one because like I said, I love the way that, I mean, we have, we had a tattoo artist on it before. No, no. Oh my gosh, I feel special. Okay. I love that. Is there anything we've missed? Anything coming up that we want to talk about? What's your Instagram and all that? Well, we did, but you didn't talk about tattooing when you talked about something else. But we did have one. Brooklyn, she was on it. Not only Brooklyn, you had IBYB as well. Yeah, but we didn't talk about it. IBYB, wow, I work, I, wow, IBYB. He said, look, he was at the candy shop, right? Yeah, like I was around at IBYB for years trying to learn, he was doing their names fast. I was like, I'll have to do these names right now. IBYB, he's supposed to be coming back on the show. He's been on here. That was when we first started to. Wow, that's crazy. So I remember that. I was like, whoa, I remember that, I know. He's DJ as well. Yeah, he do. Mm-hmm. Check it, man. Hey, man. I haven't heard his name in so long. That's amazing. How can people get a hold of you if they're trying to reach out? You can find me on social media, obviously, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, at Nichelle Elyse. And do you have a studio that people come to? I do. Where is your studio? I own a tattoo shop called Nichelle Elyse Studios. Named it after myself. But at Nichelle Elyse Studios, it's in Plano, off of Parker. Hey. Oh, someone told me to ask you for tattoos. Like, what's your range price-wise? You gonna put it out there like that? Yeah, I know. I don't think so. Just make sure you got your money up. Get your money right. You shouldn't have to even ask, right?  So we don't know what kind of tattoo you want.  It's an investment. That's how you got it. A long-term investment. Yeah, long-term investment. It's the one thing you take to the grave with you. For a show, for a show. Check it, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101, where the bosses talk, man. Oh, yeah.


And now I'm very, very happy to introduce Daniel Silbert and Carissa Whiting who are going to be talking to us about their awesome GT summary package. Take it away guys. Oh, never mind. This is going to be a pre-recorded talk. So they're going to be in the background listening to your questions and I'm going to be playing the talk. Hello everyone. My name is Daniel Silbert and I'm here with my friend and colleague Carissa Whiting and we're going to be talking about the GT summary package and how it can help you improve your reproducibility of your reports. So we're going to just want to talk a little bit about the reproducibility problem in medical research. It's been quite a bit over the last few decades and there have been some incredible tools that have been introduced to improve the reproducibility of our work. For me, one of the big game-changing developments has been the R Markdown document. Being able to integrate my code along with the report text has been incredibly valuable. There's always been this gap that I have never been able to bridge. And that is after I create my Markdown reports, many of the tables that I've made, I still need to do a bunch of tweaking by hand. And what we wanted to do is make it possible to have a 100% reproducible workflow using our Markdown that required no tweaking, which led us to create this package GT summary. The goal of GT summary was to, one, make this syntax incredibly simple. Two, to make the output look exactly like it's ready for publication, no tweaking necessary. And three, to make it very easy to customize your output. There are several types of summary tables that are available within GT summary. The first we're going to talk about are table one types now in medical research. When you look at the journals, the most frequent table one is a description of your cohort to want to summarize regression models, create cross-tabulations, and summarize survival data. Some important things that we wanted to do was to make these resulting tables very easy to work with. It's not infrequent that I need to regression models side by side, so it's easy to merge any two GT summary tables. One other gap that has been bridged by the GT summary package is that once you've created your beautiful tables, when you're writing your report, if you're talking about the odds ratios that you have estimated in your model that you've now beautifully summarized with GT summary, you need to be able to easily grab those odds ratios with the confidence interval and the p-value and slip them straight into your report and with the inline text function, that is possible. Now talking about the flexibility, we also introduced themes. Now themes are something that you can run once at the top of your script and it will change the defaults for all of your GT summary tables. You can set a theme that says, oh, I'm going to be publishing this in JAMA. Let me use the JAMA theme and now all of your results will follow the JAMA reporting guidelines. TBL summary is our primary function that summarizes data sets. This is the data set we're going to be using as our example. It's called trial but I'm making a small version of it, so that's SM trial. It only has four columns and each of these columns has been labeled using the label package. Let's just get started with the most basic TBL summary. We are taking our data set SM trial and we're passing it to the TBL summary function and we're using the argument ITRT. What that's going to do is that's going to create a table for you that's separated by treatment, TRT. What it does is it takes every column in your data set and it adds it to the summary table. You can see here there are three types of variables here. We have a continuous variable that's age, categorical, that's great, and dichotomous. That's tumor response. When you pass a data frame to TBL summary, it's going to do a lot of inspection of your data to find out what the best default should be. It's looking at that column age saying, there's a lot of levels, there's a lot of spread here. That's definitely a continuous variable. It's going to default to presenting the median in the IQR for you. It's going to next look at grades, say, okay, three unique levels in its character. Definitely that is a categorical variable. Let me present that that way. Lastly, dichotomous variables. What it's going to do, it's going to look for variables that are coded as 0, 1, true, false, yes and no. It's going to automatically assume that that dichotomous line. We're only going to present the yes or true or 1 or row. This is tumor responses coded as 0, 1. You're seeing the proportion of tumors that responded on a single line. You'll also see here that for age, we are showing the results to the nearest integer. When TVL summary sees a continuous variable, it also inspects the spread of the data to say, oh, I think that this should be rounded to the nearest integer or to the nearest decimal place or two decimal places. It makes that assertion based off of the spread of your data. Let's, in this example, change it up again. Rather than reporting the median in IQR for age, I'm going to report the mean and the standard deviation in parentheses. What I'm doing here is using the statistic argument, and I'm selecting all continuous variables, and I'm telling it that I want the mean and the standard deviation. This string that I'm passing up right here, it has mean in curly brackets, then it has a set of parentheses, and then in curly brackets, again, the standard deviation. Anything in the curly brackets is going to be evaluated, just like it would be in a glue syntax type, where it's taking what's in the curly brackets, and it's going to evaluate it. Now, in this case, it's doing two things. It's looking for the mean function and saying, oh, well, I'm going to take that vector of age or that vector of continuous variable, and I'm going to execute the mean function on it, and then also the SD function later. And I'm going to put the results in the format indicated in this string. So this is a very concise way to report these things. So here's a quick schematic that shows what parts of those tables, each of those arguments are modifying. So here in orange, the statistic argument changed the age from mean and standard deviation. The digits argument changed from the default zero decimal places for age to two decimal places. Below that in green, statistic argument added the denominator for grade. The label argument can change the variable labels and the missing text can change the text that's shown for missing variables. Throughout the GT summary package, we use a special formula notation for selecting variables and telling it what we want those variables, how those variables behave in our resulting tables. So here's a quick example of how you can select your variables. You can use the bare name age, you can put the names in a vector, so you can use high select, starts with, and there are a couple of internal functions within GT summary called all continuous, all categorical, and all dichotomously. So let's just start at the top. This is the simplest one. You can just say age on the left hand side of that formula, tilde, and on the right hand side you say, okay, for the column age, I want the label to be patient age. Moving on to type, you can select multiple columns by putting them in a vector. Age and marker, I want those to be displayed as continuous variables, which is the default in this case, but just for illustration, we have it here. For the digits, I'm saying anything that starts with age, now that's any tidy select function can be used here, which is fantastic. In this case, there's only one variable that starts with age, and it is the variable age, and I'm saying here to display it to the nearest integer or to zero digits. And for the statistic, I can change the statistic presented for all continuous variables at the same time, with a single line saying all continuous, tilde, on the right side, mean it's inner deviation. Now for the statistic argument, it's finding that function mean like I mentioned earlier, but I want to also say that any function can be used from any package as well. So it's quite flexible and really concrete summaries for anything that you may need. Now if you needed to pass two or more sets of instructions, you're just going to pop each of those formulas into a list. So in addition to the arguments of TBL summary, there are a bunch of helper functions that you can use as well. Now how you use these is you take the resulting TBL summary object and you just pipe it right into one of these functions. So there's this add family. Now add an additional column of statistics or information to your table. So the most common one I use is called add p, and it adds p values to your table to compare two or more treatment groups. Now let's review an example using the add p and a few of these other functions. Here's a schematic showing how some of those functions can be used. It does not include all of them, but you can see here in blue at the top we've used the modified spending header function to add a header over the treatment, a and b. And we just say should we receive, drug a, drug b. It's quite informative. So over here in green on the right has been used to add a p value column. At the bottom in team, modified footnotes, then used to update the standard footnote that is shown. Talking orange, just above that we've added an additional column of overall statistics. To the left of that in yellow, add n. It's been used to add the number of non-missing observations for each one of those variables. Just to the left of that, bold labels in purple, holding the labels for age and grade. And just above that Modify header in turquoise has changed the default header of two variables from the default characteristic. And there's a code example of this depending on the slides if you're interested in taking it away. Mike, do you have the time to talk to Kuretsi who's going to talk to us about summarizing models with the TBL regression function. Hello, I'm Karissa Whiting and I'm going to talk a little bit more about table regression which is a function in the GT summary package that makes it very easy to display nicely formatted regression model results with any of the lines. Show what table regression can do. I'm going to use this logistic regression model example using the trial data set that Dan introduced earlier in the talk. But before that I just want to mention under the hood table regression is using the Broom package to do some initial tidying of the model outputs. And then it's allowing some powerful customizations on top of that. So if a model method already has a Broom tidier available, which many of them do, it's most likely going to be compatible with the table regression function. So for example, LM or GLM, STATS package or COXPH for the survival package, LNER from the LME4 package, these are all going to be compatible as well as many more. So in this example, we're going to use tumor responses as our outcome which is a binary outcome and we're interested in using age and tumor stage as covariates of interest. So if we're building and presenting this model, we're probably interested in displaying what the odds ratio estimates are in their confidence intervals. We're probably interested in showing the p-values for the covariates and we want to make clear what the reference levels are for the categorical variables. So here on the right is just the very raw output of the model object. And then here's the basic table regression code and the very basic table output on the right. Here we're just going to be passing the model object to the table regression function and we see already that the reference rows are created for the categorical variables and it's very clear which one is the reference level. Variable labels are displayed, so similar as with the table summary function if your data set is labeled, those labels will be carried through and displayed at the table. Additionally, because we specified this exponentiate equals true argument, our coefficients are exponentiated and the function's able to detect that these are odds ratios because it's a logistic model, so it's able to give that correct OR heading as well as this odds ratio of that. So next we might be interested in customizing these regression tables a little bit and one nice thing with this package is that the framework is pretty unified so a lot of those helper functions or arguments that Dan already talked about that were relevant to table summary are also relevant here to table regression. So for example, all of those bold functions like bold labels, bold p or italicized levels, all of these formatting functions can be used here as well. And also here we're specifying that we want p-values specified to two specific digits, so that's also available to both table summary and table regression as well as some other model objects we'll talk about later. But one new one I'll introduce you to here is add global p. So by default the function's going to calculate level specific p-values for categorical variables, but by passing our table to this add global p function it's going to use the ANOVA function from the car package to go ahead and calculate a global p-value. And for full transparency it'll print a note to your console specifying that that's the function that it needs to calculate that. So here's a schematic just to kind of review what we've discussed. So we use the bold labels and the italicized levels just to kind of format our table and make it look a little nicer. We use the p-value function to specify we wanted two specific digits. We have the global p, we experimented to get those odds ratios and then I use the full p function to specify I wanted any p-value under the threshold of 0.1 to be bold. So by default it's 0.5, but here it just changes to 0.1. In addition to the table regression function there's also table UV regression which allows you to very easily run univariate regressions for a set of select variables. So here in this example I'm taking the trial data set and I'm again selecting age, stage, and response and then I'm passing those to the table UV function specifying which of those is our outcome which is why it was response. I'm specifying what method to use for the univariate regression which is GLM and then I'm going to meet the any method arcs that I might need. So in this, for example, we express the families binomial and then again I can use a lot of the same arguments helper functions like exponentiate and the old functions that add global p function. So those can also be used here as table regression. So it's a bit of an aside from the regression functions. I just want to talk quickly about this really helpful function inline text. So this function can be used with any sort of GT summary object like a table summary a table regression or a table UV regression object and with this function you can pluck out any element or statistic from your table and report it inline in your R-marked-out report. So for example, here if I want to report the odds ratio for age I can just go ahead and specify this with this inline our po-chunk and then when I knit it it'll come out like this and it'll give me that really nicely formatted odds ratio and this is really useful for making your reports extremely reproducible because you can guarantee if any tables are changing or if your underlying data changes the text in your R-marked-out report will change as well. So I'm just very briefly going to talk about these two functions, table merge and table stack and these are just functions that allow you to combine results from any of the other functions we've previously discussed. So for example, we built a regression table and a UV regression table. If I use this table merge function I can go ahead and put them in one nice concise unified table to present the results all at once. Similarly table stack just allows you to stack tables on top of each other whether summary tables or regression tables, whatever they are you can combine them in these ways. So we've shown how to customize individual elements of tables using things like function arguments or helper functions but now I want to introduce you to themes which are a way you can package a lot of these different customizations together into bundles and then you can easily set and re-set these across your reports or even across your projects. So a theme is basically a fine set of customization preferences and again you can easily set and reuse these themes control a lot of the default settings for existing functions. So for example Dan talked about the statistic argument at table summary. If you always want to present for continuous variables I mean instead of a median you can do that you can do that as the defaults and set that within your theme. Additionally themes can control some more fine-grained customization options that may not be available via existing arguments or helper functions. So they really give you a lot of additional options in that way and we already have a couple available package themes I'm ready to use but it's also very easy to create your own if you have a very specific set of preferences you prefer. So just to go over a couple of the currently available themes we have a couple journal themes and these are great because they already have a lot of settings built in to give you the exact specific formatting you need to submit to journals. So right now we have a JAMA theme and a Lancet theme available and these do things like ground repeat values with the correct number of different digits and also format your statistics. So for example I know JAMA requires you have a dash between your inter-co-tell range statistics so this theme will go ahead and do that for you. Additionally we have several language themes available so I think we have about 12 languages currently supported and these will change the statistics and the footnotes to be to the language of your choice. So for both this and the journal theme we're definitely going to expand these to add more journals and more languages in so if you're interested in helping out with that please let us know we'd love to collaborate to make our library a theme see bigger. And then we have some formatting themes so the theme compact just reduces the padding font size of your tables and I use this one a lot just to make sure reports are really neat and really tight so this is just a useful aesthetically pleasing formatting theme. And as I mentioned before it's really easy to create your own. A theme is essentially just a named list of different theme elements and there's a glossary of available theme elements of the documentation. So here I just made a kind of crazy theme where I made my Leibold's rainbow. I put heart-sensitive values. I subbed my percentage signs and statistics to be smiley faces so this is just to show there's a lot of things you can do with these themes and a lot of options. So now I'm going to pass it back to Dan who's going to talk a little bit more in depth about how GCD summary tables work with our markdowns and some of our available print engines. We're going to finish by talking a little bit about our markdown output formats and print engines that are available within GT summary. Now obviously the packages called GT summary were optimized to use the GT package as your primary printer. With HTML output GT is a fantastic engine to select. But while PDF and RTF are under construction you may find yourself needing something else. For example I often use FlexTable when I need word output. To use any of these print engines you simply take any GT summary object and you pipe it straight into as GT or as FlexTable for example. And what will happen is that a series of formatting functions within each of those packages will be applied to your GT summary object. The result is that you will no longer have a GT summary object. You will have in the end a GT object that has been formatted or a FlexTable object that has been formatted. This allows you to have long flexibility in the types of outputs that you use with your markdown. If you already know a family of formatting functions and know it well it's easy to just stick with that in what you already know. Lastly just thank you all for taking the time to listen to us. I'll talk about our package GT summary and thank you to all the authors and the contributors and the many people who have tested the package over the last year. It's been a pleasure to be here with you all. Thank you. Great. Thank you all very much for the presentation. That was fantastic. There's quite a few questions. The first one that has the most responses is not a question. I just want to say thank you for this awesome package. The next runner up is change the format of the output presentation. For example I mean put mean, median and IQR in a different row for a continuous variable. To put them on separate actual rows in the table at the moment it's in an open pull request.  You can use that escape n to do a line break within a cell to get it on separate rows as well. Great. I think I can sneak in another question. In terms of adding statistics with GT summary, is it possible to do post hoc analysis? There is a very general function called add stat that you can add literally any statistic that you want to a tbl summary object. In that sense yes, you can add almost anything you want and we try to create functions to do the most common stuff. Looks like we're out of time and should probably move to the next session. Thank you guys very much for your talk. I think that was fantastic. Thank you.


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That was almost an int good start I have acrobat and crusher. Yeah crusher is crazy good right here. Right here Oh Not even on offense yet.  I'm gonna try and widen out his safeties. We'll just block Zonka I'm gonna throw it to two tall Jones.  No, it doesn't even matter This is actually just a clean route to be honest. I think if I put him on a corner out here There's no way he gets covered. Let's see how they cover this He's kind of blanketed Not with deep out elite and red zone threat that's like that's a catch every single time and you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna intentionally not get this just in case my opponent wants to rage quit I'm gonna make it look like he stopped me now. Now you've got something going buddy You don't have to quit now. Oh, I've got the X factor on the wrong two tall Jones But can you really blame me universal coverage? Oh, I'm really just sad because we're gonna get a rage quit I won't be able to forget a full game with this stats. That's what I'm sad about He is gonna go with the run. We're gonna get it. Oh, okay. Never mind. Take one.  He's gonna quit dude if I score now. He's for sure quitting. This appears to be oh my god He torched him. Oh You see how he reached for it, that's why you don't need the ability, but that's not a touchdown.  This is a perfect example. We are outside the numbers That's deep out elite should be activating right now. He might just torch him though. Is he gonna torch him? Oh, no, he's not I gotta go He's gonna quit I won't get to see these glorious stats I'm at five receptions five receptions a hundred forty yards three touchdowns Wait, don't catch that. Okay. Well, he caught it, but he didn't get it five or five hundred thirty nine yards two touchdowns They're all to two tall. That's the 99 Xavier roads from the draft promo. That's not like some shitty bronze corner He has a 99 corner over there. Are we gonna chalk this up to a poverty W? Let's see how I get another lurk with two tall come on throw it right here. You know you want to I Should run something worse cover three sky Like why can't I get this game in a wheel of mud? Why can't this be the first game? I play a wheel of mud, dude I think I can pick that myself.  I'm supposed to go back to two tall, but he went to go block somebody This is the first quarter, bro. I pray he lets me run this game out I will have the sickest most un-toppable stat line of all time if he lets me play this out He's there. He's there. He's there. Oh Just barely. Yes His expectors going off already. It's only gonna get worse now boys. It's only worse now. I'm so sorry That's actually crazy though that the first time I don't get a moss is when I have the ability I assume I just lost the ability although. I wouldn't be too shocked if I Reactivated it in this game. Oh, huh? Oh, huh? All right. Let's go.  Oh, he goes with the run on third and 10. I respect it bark Like it's rocked one more time and he wants to throw right here Not it chief to talk you had the x-factor. I have no excuses for you now We've we've expended them so now when I rifle you this ball you catch it, okay? Those buttons at all all I wanted to do is catch it and then truck, but he's he's so good I hate you and he totally looked like he was gonna play it out. All right Well, I also know that in the house rules right now your x-factor is always on already So I'm actually gonna take two tall Jones into here.    I didn't think I didn't think you'd be double coverage down there Damn wait for it.  He's gonna throw left side. Oh somebody boys You're right there. Pick it off. Why is there not a blue over there also? Bubbles we swerve inside of my homes and get taken down and we are back on offense. Wow I'm telling you.  Oh, there's a matcalf easy throw. Maybe Just barely just barely Suck into the one and now we bring two tall Jones back in I am blocking everyone It's literally just two tall Jones catch the fucking ball Yes, sir Although I don't know I've to lead by 15 Oh, if I get the two point I win if I get the two point I win not our best showing with two tall But our two tall defensively was the best player on the field at any given time. Okay, here's what we're doing I'm rolling out right. We're looking at two tall in the back of the end zone.   I'm throwing it. Good luck.  All right. Well, it's still a game You have to lead by 15. Okay. I've clamped this every time I finally figured this play out And there goes TJ want 90 overall.  What okay? I saw him put this dude on a streak and there's TJ want again TJ.   Let's go I think I could just chew clock win the game. No, no send it cam.    He could never have caught that Sean Taylor getting in there and that is the ball game. Oh, no, no, no one more play. Sorry lead in the fourth quarter GG's GG's Do you really think I could get a better highlight than what we just got right there? I think the answer is no if you're serious about man 23 and you need a you need a quick little bailout Deep out elite red zone threat and two tall Jones will get the job done And he's really not that expensive. You'd think he'd be like two mill or something. I'm pretty sure I got him at 200k Just not expensive. I hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you in the next video. Thanks for watching as always. Peace