Bae gwaith yma… Maen nhw'n bwysigion yn ddweud dros cwyntlyg. Rwy'n bwysigion yn y pub ar y cwrnau. Rwy'n bwysigio'n ddwy yma ac oedden nhw'n gyfriffeithio'r pethau. Rwy'n bwysigion, ac yn y bwysigion ar y ddweud, sy'n ymmellig a'r pethau yn y ddweud yn ei wneud. Mae'r pethau yn y ddweud. Yn y ddweud, y pethau wedyn yw'r mwyaf, yn y gallu cwmau, Mae'r wneud i ddweud yn ymddangos, ond mae'r gwaith fel yw'r gweithio yn y bwrdd. Ond oedd y dyma'r lle, mae'r wneud yma'n gweld i ddweud yn mewn erbyn. Felly mae'r ddechrau a'r ddefnyddio ar y gweithio cyffredinol, yn ymddangos. I was reading The Guardian and actually in Prince Ford too, although I don't normally read it on my iPad. So it's good to be here back of course. I left this place to go to university in the 1950s and promising my father that I would then come back and we would talk about me joining the family business. This place was full of family businesses in those days making clothes. And we had a deal which said that if I got a distinction, if I got a scholarship I could go to Cambridge and I did get a scholarship actually, if you will nicely, don't know how. And then I do my degree three years of course and then we would talk about what I was going to do afterwards. I'd come back home and we would talk about my future. The trouble is I never left Cambridge. I didn't quite sort of say that was a deliberate ploy on my part but my father was very good about it. He saw the sense in it all. So I left here, went to Cambridge and say I'm still there, I love the university. Well I want to talk a bit about Hebding Bridge first, some of which you will know about although you may not. Hebding Bridge used to be a small industrial town and it flooded from time to time. As you know, he's been very popular about that. The town is at the confluence of the River Hebden and the River Calder. The River Hebden is fed by six reservoirs up in the hills, I know them all. They were there to control water flow and so on. And of course if it rained too much, there was too much in the reservoirs and they had to let the water out. And that's what caused the floods down here. So they discovered flood prevention, going to stop all that and that's not going to happen again. But it does because it's a very difficult task. 1947, I remember well actually, I was a young lad in those days. But somewhere in the archives or in my family is a cine film. It was a cine film taken of my father with his trouser leg rolled up to his knees, shoes and socks off, going down Market Street to Martin's Bank to get the wages for the stuff. And he liked all these local businesses. They cared very much for their stuff and I'm serious about that. But these floods were really not really nice. It took a long time to sort out and I said they kept coming back anyway. The last flood in 2015 got this place rather thoroughly. And my stepmother lived just across the bridge there, the old back of the bridge. And she had to be taken out of there and they got mountain rescuing to lift her out of the place. I don't know how they lifted it but they took her straight to a nursing home in Heland. And she'd been quite happy with her sense fortunately in rebuilding the flat. But that's what it's like in Hebdingbridge from time to time. It doesn't happen too often but it does happen. I found a quotation in something to do with the Hebdingbridge floods. I'll read it out. It's a well-known journalist of a newspaper which has been mentioned before. It's quoted by saying, the government pays grouse more owners to drain their glorified outdoor chicken runs. Meanwhile, it's the proles downstream who get the soaking. I had a fairly bitter comment that but it's a ride. Anyway, so anyway I stayed here for a bit and got my scholarship. But there's something else about the history I want to tell you about which you may not know so much about. You may have heard of the problems that they had in the 18th century here of the crag coiners. They lived in a house or farm up just past Mythenroyd, which you'll grow up. I used to actually live in Mythenroyd. And they made money by scraping the edges of the gold coins and using the bits they scraped off to make other coins. And they reshaped the coin that they mutilated. And this was a rather serious business because Hebdingbridge was quite isolated in those days. It was a big country and not as much as it is. And it became a problem for the government of the country because the pound or whatever it was they had in those days was getting a hammering rather like now actually. But this gang of people who did this and the coiners were led by one David Hartley. When you got someone who was an ancestor that long ago, however nasty he was, he was a hero. Or so called. Anyway, David Hartley led this band and he was hanged eventually at York.  And he's still there. And you can go and have a look around there and you'll find David Hartley all long forgotten. But he was an awfully nasty man. Rumour has it that I'm a descendant of David Hartley. I don't think I am. I had a cousin, John Hartley, who as a young student did the research and managed to prove that he was a descendant of David Hartley, but not me. Well, so much for that. But he also had an initial R. He was JR Hartley. And the poor guy became a headmaster. Anyway, he's retired now like me. Anyway, off to Cambridge. My father was a very keen rugby player. He played for Halifax. In those days of course there was no professional or amateurs. He was downer, of course, but he was very, very keen on rugby football. And he wanted to go to rugby school. And his father wouldn't let him. His father says, you're going to work in the family business. So he said to me, he said, I'm not going to do that to you. You can do that or not. But he did send me to rugby school in Wales of all places. It turned out I was actually awful at rugby. And rather disappointment for Dad. But anyway, we made this fact about what I would do. I said, I've got an open mind about going to work in the business. All small companies around here. And he was agreed that if I got a scholarship, I could go to Cambridge. And if I went to Cambridge, I could go there for three years, then come back and talk about it. And as I said before, I never left Cambridge. I got this scholarship in Cambridge in mathematics. And that was all right. My school teacher thought I was wonderful at mathematics. And so I was, but the standards of the school weren't very high. But I went there and met my tutor. And my tutor said, ah, you've got a scholarship. Therefore you're one of the clever ones. And what we do with the clever ones is we miss out the first year's study. If you know Cambridge, it has its examinations and triposes. And there's a part one and a part two. And part two is a two-year tripose. And there's part three for the really bright ones. So I said, right, you miss out part one and do part two in two years. I said, oh great, sounds good to me. This is at the very beginning, the first day at Cambridge. And I did that and found mathematics at Cambridge impossibly hard. If you meet any mathematician at Cambridge, they didn't all say that as well, except that they really are bright people. And I turned out I wasn't that bright at all at Cambridge standards. But I worked like mad for two years. And I got a second class in those two years. And I was rather proud of that. But no more mathematics in my third year. Absolutely none. But you can't get a degree at Cambridge unless you're there for three years. It doesn't matter what you do, because you're there for three years. So we had to find a course for me. And again, the Cambridge tutors come in and they're very helpful people. And they said, well, we've got this and that. There's engineering, there's economics, and it didn't sound good at all. Eventually they found an odd course, which was really a fourth year course. Not for a degree, but for a diploma. And he said, you might like this. He was called the diploma in numerical analysis and automatic computing. Brand new. We're talking about the late 1950s now. And so I did that for something to do. And I had a ball. It was wonderful. I introduced to computing. And I thoroughly enjoyed my third year. And that, of course, turned me round. And after the third year, I went to the head of department, Professor Wilkes. And he said, you've got a good degree in your good examination result in your diploma. You can stay on and do a PhD. I said, what's that? Well, you tell me what happened to having a PhD and all that. It sounded nice. They called you a doctor after that. You know, it sounds very grand. And there's also another reason as well, which was that in those days there was something called national service. Now, probably very few of you here are old enough to go about national service. But you had to go into the army for two years before university or after university. I hadn't been here before. But if you stayed on to do a PhD, you're exempt from national service. So that's why I did national service. I did the PhD. It was to avoid national service. So that's all right without that. So that was very good. I thoroughly enjoyed that course. We spent part of the time turning handles on Brunsveegers, if you know about what Brunsveegers are, and part of programming computers. In those days we had Edgesack 2. You've heard about Edgesack 1. You've got to hear more about it this week. And it was one of the very first computers and so on. But the problem about Edgesack 1 was that we went and built Edgesack 2. And we knew how to build a computer by then, and we thought we did. So Edgesack 2 was what streets ahead of Edgesack 1. Edgesack 1 had about a few hundred words of memory. Edgesack 2 had a few thousand. Edgesack 2 was made out of transistors, not valves. Its memory was made out of magnetic cores. Hence the name Edgesack didn't really apply. And it was so much better than Edgesack 1 in every way. No-one wanted to use it. I mean the new one. She was much better. Also it was taking up valuable space. So you only want what you can do. You throw it away. That's what you did in those days. You never thought of saying this is historic relic, anything like that. And so they threw Edgesack 1 away, literally. And in July of 1958. And I arrived in the department to do my fourth year course about two months later. So I didn't really ever see Edgesack 1. So don't ask me about Edgesack 1. I'm not that old. But Edgesack 2 was wonderful. And it was a paper-tape machine, of course. It was very, very slow by today's standards, but very, very fast by those standards. And that's because of the history of computing. As we go along, the machines get bigger and faster and so on. And even smaller. And it's difficult to say, well, why has it gone that way?  So I was allowed to do research on Edgesack 2. And that was fine. I wrote a compiler for Edgesack 2. I invented a programming language. And you can't do that nowadays. It's too easy. But in the 1950s, designing a language and writing compiles was a wonderful thing. And it wasn't really. But anyway, I was very, very lucky there. I got my PhD. And I went to the head of the department, Maurice Wilkes. By then, they were looking at the third computer. The third computer was an Atlas. And it wasn't built by ourselves. It was built by Ferrante and Manchester University. And Atlas was much bigger, much faster, and so on. Then Edgesack 2. So we set about doing that through Edgesack 2 away and all the rest is history. I went to see Maurice at one stage. When we were in the early stage of designing the machine and I was enjoying that. And I got my PhD. And I said, Maurice, any chance of staying on? Have you got any jobs in the department? And we said, no, I'm not sure. Not unless somebody dies. These are very words. And encouraging words in a way. But I was sort of kept on in a funny way. Until suddenly he said, ah, I've got your job for you. And he told me how you're going to pay me £1,000 a year. And I said, good, thank you. And I didn't know to many years later how he got the money. Apparently, when he was getting the Atlas designed and buying bits and pieces for it, he had a choice. He could either buy it with seven tape drives. These big things that walk around. Or he bought it with six tape drives and hired me. And that's how I work. I'm a tape drive. I was very grateful for that, too. So that went on. And we got to 1970 when the university decided to reorganise the department. They had to stop having computer scientists running a computing service because they kept meddling with it. And so they split the department into two and created a separate computing service. And they had a new job of directing a computing service. And I got the job. Everyone said, you don't want that job. Better nails.  And I said, no, no, I enjoyed it. So I'd stayed doing that for 23 and a half years. And it was quite fun. But what happened in that period, as time went on, the machines got bigger and faster and so on and we got them upgraded and we got more and more users on board. So go back to Ed Sec 1. There were probably about 50 users, which was quite a achievement those days. Three of whom were Nobel Prize winners. And then when Ed Sec 2 came, we had the odd couple of hundred users. And then when Atlas came into operation, we had the odd thousand users. And by the end of the 1970s, we had 8,000 users on that machine. Ridiculous. Think of all sharing a Macintosh between 799 users. Because then suddenly it changed. It was all very different. And we had a problem, of course, what to do about that. A computing service with people sharing out a computer amongst 6,000 users. When all you had to do was get a bit of money and go out to the local store and buy yourself one. And of course, they were getting bigger and faster and so on. And everything was shifting up. Anyway, we did all that. And we had, eventually, well, billions of words of memory, a very fast machine and all the rest of it. And so it went on. And then we got it in the 1980s, which was another critical time, because personal computers were arriving and users used to go and buy them. Now, if you're in many universities, you were not allowed to do that because the computing service said, I have the same sort so we can look after you all and so on. We were having more enlightened and we decided first of all that they were using their own money to buy these things. And who are we to tell them how to spend their money? So we let them. And I said to my staff, your job is to help users with their computers, which they buy with their money. And no matter what they buy, you've got to try and help them. And that worked really pretty well. Far from being the better nails job, we got quite popular. So that went on into the 80s. And we come to, again, a big change of technology and that's called networking. One of the problems of Cambridge, Oxford for that matter, we don't talk about Oxford very much, part of David, Cambridge is not a campus university. Most universities are a campus university. You've got a spatula land, a pile of buildings on them, and that's the university. And he wants to wire up the campus. You can just do it because it's all of your land. You've probably got ducks underneath the grass anyway for central heating. So it's quite easy for them to build their own network and get free of the big enemy BT. And we can do that. One day, the end of the 80s, I and my deputy director were having a brainstorming session. We said, let's do something daff today. And what would we like to do if we really could do it? We said, we'd like to wire up Cambridge.  We wouldn't cost anything once the doctor was down there. And we set about it in three years, mostly for the politics. We had to get government approval because in those days, BT was still a monopoly. This is about 1989. But we got there and we persuaded the university and the collegeers to dip in the £3 million that we needed. Costs three and a half million. And we dug up Cambridge and we put down the things. And of course now, therefore, we are like a campus university and we can put fiber down where we like and do. And that makes an enormous difference.  And that was quite an achievement we had. If you go to Cambridge and walk around the streets, you will see a lot of manhole covers. And they say BT on them, or something, or post office. There's another set there. It says university on it. And that's ours. And it's very, very valuable. And we enjoy that enormously. When I left the university to go to run Janet, the Vice Chancellor of the Day, who always gives a speech at the end of the year saying how good a year it's been for the university and who's left and who's died and the rest of it, you get mentioned if you're important enough. I got mentioned. The Vice Chancellor said, we're grateful to Dr Hartley for his courage and foresight. And the word courage was a good one. It really was. We had quite a battle, but we got it. And networking to us now is now the most important thing for computing service runs, not the computers. Computers belong to users, but networking is needed to glue them together. So, finally, I want to say something about it's second one. I haven't talked about it's second one. I don't know much about it's second one. I never saw it's second one, except on a trip with a student once. And this was only five years ago or so that I was in a group of people talking to Herman Hauser. Now, you all know Herman Hauser, the father of the BBC Micro and Acorn and so on. A good friend to all of us. And I met Herman at this party and he said, oh, David, what are you doing these days? Well, in those days, I was just getting involved in computer conservation and being a member of the Computer Conservation Society. And he said, oh, that sounds interesting. Has anyone ever rebuilt EDZAC? I said, of course not. Impossible thing to do, we can't do that. Oh, he said. Oh, how much would it cost? I said, I've got no idea. Absolutely no idea. Oh, he said. Why didn't you find out and let me know? I never said that to you, you know. It's rather a nice feeling. It's true. And six months later, we got together and we wrote a report. Cabinet's one of them. And we presented Herman with the report. With the answers, your question, Herman, a quarter of a million pounds and take three years. It has cost a quarter of a million pounds and it's taken a bit more than three years. But EDZAC is now, it's built a replica. It looks like EDZAC. It runs like EDZAC. It's a bit different in size. It doesn't have mercury delay lines, for example, because it's far too dangerous these days. So we have got delay storage. And it's been built, first of all, in the volunteers' homes, in kitchens and what more, all around Cambridge and anywhere else in the country. And now it's been all bought together at Bletchley Park in the museum where it's going to live. And it's getting very close now to working. So you've not seen EDZAC, go and see it. Go and have a look at the thing. But back to Herman and his money and all that. I think we were very pleased. And it was an enormous job to find out how did EDZAC work. People used to ask Maurice Wilkes about EDZAC. And he wouldn't tell you much. He said, you want to find out about it, go to the archives, go to the university archives, it's all in there. And when we started this project, we went to the university archives and he was wrong. Maurice Wilkes was very possessive about EDZAC. He was his machine, he designed it. He had the vision about it and so on, which was wonderful. He wanted to have a computer that people used in the university. He didn't want people to have a computer to sit in them and making it faster and faster. He didn't want them to be able to play with it. He wanted a tool for research workers and so on. As I said before, he did create at least three Nobel Prize winners. For which we were very grateful for what Maurice did. He died in 2010. We were about to announce the project to rebuild EDZAC when he died, which in a way was perhaps useful because we knew he'd be against it. And I have worked with that man so much in my life that I know what he's like. He looks you in the eye and says, you can't do that, can you? And challenged you. I never very seldom won those arguments with him. I was trying to work out how I was going to handle that one. He was 97, so sadly he died. So he didn't know we were going to do that. So there we are, a bit of a potted history of EDZACs, EDZAC 1s, 2s and so on, and what it's like to run a computing service. Thank you very much.


Welcome to the ITU studio here at the World's Telecommunication Development Conference WTDC happening here in Kigali, Rwanda where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today and Mr Ernest Mahfuta Katoka who is the chair of the affordable internet access special interest group part of the internet society. Mr Mahfuta Katoka welcome to the studio. Thank you Max. It's a pleasure to have me here and also having this digital collusion on WTDC so it's a big event that I'm excited to be part of. Fabulous and we're very pleased to have you here. So tell me I'd like to start off by asking you about meaningful connectivity it's very much a buzzword here and and around the world. Is meaningful connectivity a solution to building an inclusive digital economy in your opinion? Thank you. So allow me to say that in order for us to have meaningful connectivity there are challenges first that we must look at so we must address these challenges in order for us to have an inclusive digital economy. Number one we're looking at the digital accessibility gap in terms of connectivity. We are looking at the digital literacy gap in rural areas and we are also looking at the smartphone accessibility gap. So I'm of the view is that if we're to have an inclusive digital economy where both the hand connected and the connected are able to participate in first we need to address the issue of digital literacy because it has been noted that many people in rural areas the challenge mostly is not about connectivity but the challenge is about literacy okay and this is because we are not localizing content to their level so if we're able to localize content to their level we are able to solve the issues of digital connectivity so and the other issue is the issue of affordability of smartphones we have seen this gap widening of digital access in terms of affordable smartphone devices so the solution to that is maybe policymakers can come up with an incentive mobile devices or devices that are made for the rural areas or unconnected areas they can be tax exempt like that it can be affordable and accessible to everyone because the digital economy this is the very big economy that we're looking at but in order to have all countries to participate in and to have this economy to be bigger we need to bridge this digital accessibility gap the literacy gap then we're going to achieve meaningful connectivity so there's no mean for connectivity if what this literacy gap and the accessibility gap in terms of affordability of smart devices tax exemption is a little bit complicated though if you're talking about very regionalized areas how would you put that in place then do you think all right okay so one of the challenges that I've seen is policy inconsistencies for countries in terms of how they structure their taxes most countries I think they are more focused on structuring taxes on the already connected society that most of the time they forget that these people in hardest connect areas this is where the numbers are so if we can have a policy around the rural areas rural connectivity areas that enable lower taxes for people in rural areas we can solve this but for now all I can say is that we need an inclusive policy for countries to follow when we have this inclusive police for countries to follow number one it must come with localization there must be content which is local and there must be a model that is quite essentially for that region yeah and are there any other policies that you think should be put in place to ensure meaningful connectivity yes I think I was quick to note about policies so I think countries must set up inclusive policies and they must be consistent when we have a consistent policies we are going to achieve meaningful connectivity all these talking about digital literacy smart devices digital economy it's all about policies when you're the right policy at the grass level surely you're going to have the right meaningful connectivity at the top level and what advice would you give to policy makers and regulators my advice to policy makers is to continue engaging the unconnected and also to bring in members from the unconnected society because most of the time is that we make policies on people who are not present here we always talk about getting connected people getting this to this area to this region but we're forgetting that the real patients are in the remote areas so how are we going to design a model that is going to fit the unconnected bring one of them let them participate on the table then there will be other tables here for policy makers there will be another table here for innovators while the patient who is in this case from the unconnected area will tell us their problems in terms of their region their challenges then an innovator will design a model that suits that locality. Now WTDC is very much of course the place where connecting the unconnected in a meaningful way in particular is exactly what's on the table so I'm sure you're going to participate in very interesting conversations here but we thank you very much for joining us here today the studio thank you and then sharing your valuable insights with us and we look forward to catching up with you again soon. All right thank you very much Max. Thank you very much and cheers.


Hear me? As I said earlier, this is the only thing I'm going to do today because it's the best thing to do. I'm going to even give this two shots today, meaning you got to give it a retake because if it, it could set up quick and if it does, I'm going to take it aggressively and then if, if for some reason it flips, I'm going to stay with it. I'm really not going to watch anything else today because this is kind of a wild one with the gap and watching it all morning here, sitting here watching it trade, but I really think this goes to $21 today. I think it really goes to $21 today. I could have gone with $21 by now, but market, like I said, is pretty much neutral today because we're still strong, but I don't think we necessarily go anywhere higher today, but I don't think we fall, so it's kind of weird. I rated the RL. That's valid. You can do it. Kind of pricey, but it's fine. I also rate, look at the volume of this. Wow. I just noticed that now. I mean, I looked at it earlier, but I don't remember the last time I saw this much volume in something pre-market. It's been a long time. Look at that volume.  All right? I don't want to hear any stories if we have to retake it twice. I'm going to give us a cushion because the spread's changing like way too much, so I'm going to have to give it a good cushion. What did I say? $24? Let's see if this holds 24. I'm not saying it has to hold 24 either, but it's going up there right now. Let's just see. If it's reverse, which is I'm not doing it. It's the only way. Just let this be. Don't anybody jump into this yet. This is wild. It's a pharma. Just don't do anything with this in the first minute. Here, it's going to go over 24. All right. Let's just see where it goes. Let's see if it holds 30. If we do this here, stop's going to be 24.30. I don't have the entry yet. Jesus. This is not going to be small because it's going to be way bigger than what I thought. Stop's going to be 24.30. We can do 65 by 30. 65 by 30. 65 by 30 VRX, and this is not a small stop, but I'm doing it. Let's take it at 69.  I said let's take it at 69. Here, I'm in. I was going to take it at 69. I felt like as soon as it broke 70, it was going to be in here. Everybody's a different price, I'm sure, but just make sure you're in it. Make sure you're in it. In fact, we're going to put the stop. We're going to put the stop at 25 now. 25. 24. 25. I'm lowering it. This should not get over it. So this is a bigger stop than I anticipated, except for the fact that this is it. It's not going to lift over itself now. This is it. Be in it. $21. It's way bigger than I thought. Here, what did I say? The first number was, oh my gosh, I was even going to take it at 69. Here. Wow. I knew it. This is it. It was like as soon as I said take it at 69. It broke and hit the original number. I'm in this roll on down. Let this roll on down. This is really, really good. This is a big bar here. Hold on. The one I knew it. All right. Mark it. Nothing. All right. Here. Let's see what happens. This could have another entry. I pulled it down to 25. I don't think I'm going to regret that because of the size of the bar, but you could have gotten out of some there, but I don't think there was a reason to. We're going to take more and lower the stop, I think here. If this does something different, let's just wait. I'm really going to try to be patient with this. We're not going to need a retake. This has to hold immediately or it's not going to work. So you're in it. Full on. You could still have the stop at 30 if you want. Here. If you didn't even get it, you could still do it now. Maybe we should put it back to 30. I always say that. Here. Let's just put it back to 30 just to be safe because I'm not taking any more. I just decided, here, you can do it if you want to. I'm already in it. This, here it goes. Here it goes. You've got to try to let this break 23. I think once it breaks 23, it falls off a complete and total planet. Here we go. Under 23, 25. This is a nice call. Hit hard though. We've had these ones yesterday. Was that the day or last week? What was the other one that just fell and hit? Here. Everybody can do something different. What you want to do?  Should we get out of it at 22? 22, 50. I really just think this completely falls off the planet once it breaks 23. I mean, this stock can really, really go. Like, really go. Like, this stock can go $4, $5 on a day. It's $21 as a target on this today. It's $9.35. Let's just see. I put the stop back to 30. You could scale out a sum if you want. I'm still in it. It just was a big stop. And I want it to break below. It didn't have another entry though. This is tricky. It's a tricky one. Okay. You could, if you really wanted to get aggressive, you could take more in here. But the stock, to be honest with you, really has to be the same. It's either 25 or 30. And you could have scaled out of some of this. You could have scaled out of some of this in here. It dropped all the way down. I didn't, but I hope I don't regret it. Let's see. Oh, this is it. But we're not redoing it either. We're not redoing it. I stayed with the trade. I didn't get out of any. We wrapped money. I didn't add any more. This is wild. Stopped 2430. We're not redoing it. I'm going to hold it on through now. I didn't get out of any down in there. I wanted a bigger move. I wanted to break. I still like it or I would just kill it here. It's, this is a really wild stock though. This is how these farmers are. It held though. Wow, by the hair of our skinny chinners. All right. Under 2343. You could take more. This is crazy. I'm not though. You could do 40, 42 by 30. I'm in the original train and we're up money down in here. I didn't take any out. This ran back up held the high. If this holds the high here, this is going to collapse like I thought and it's going to, geez, these are these farmers are really wild. You know, this, this stock trades like it's worth way more than it, like it used to be being too patient today. Okay. This is valid. 69 by 30, 69 by 30 VRX. Here it's going to hit. This is going to take us down and we're going to get it through the low. Wow. This is wild. Market is climbing today. That isn't helping the VRX, but wow. Here. All right. Let's note no pickers, no piggy targets through the low. I'm going to get out of half just because we suffered through this rally. It's going to really break if it breaks the low, which is why I didn't get out of any. I didn't think it was going to rally up a dollar though. Here we're still in it and it's going to collapse again. Whoo. All right. Who did what? Did anybody get out of any? Can lower the stop, but just let me look. No, I'm just going to leave it. I'm just going to leave it. You really could take another train here.  I had no idea it was going to rally all the way back to that high. This is good though. Here it hits sitting on the one. This is good and the market didn't help. This will go over when we're done, but actually, wow. Nice call here and nice job here. Me staying with it. Me staying with it. I hope everybody stayed with it and here we go through the low. Here. This is the move that I wanted under the low. Stop and rock and roll. It just, really, this is, I know it's only $23, but you got to understand how these farmers are. Our square, did you do it? This was crazy. Here we go. The stop was just way bigger than I had planned and that's not the reason. I really just like to get here. Boo, boo, boo. Wow. It's going to do it, but honestly, any push through the low I'm going to take out of half. Here it goes. Wow. This is a nice trade. Hard, but good. Hold on. I'm going to stop talking. We're going to jinx it. All right, now we're talking. Gala had added, okay. Boot's still in it. Everyone is still in it. Boots is still in it. Shower Singer did it twice. That's another option. You could have done it, got out, done it again, got out, but you never know. You never know. I mean, who would have thought? But I'll tell you, people went long this year. Wrong thing to do. It's a short. All right. Under 33. Wow. This is a nice trade and I stayed with it too. And you know what the thing is, I knew and I said to myself, I said, NCOF, NCOF, NCOF, I want to stay with it. No chance of failure. VRX today. And when I looked at this, I thought, geez, this could go like $4 today. I'm thinking 21 is like not crazy. Here's the five minute. Here's the five minute. Boots is going to be up a little 23. Once it hits 23 though, it should go like that. In fact, maybe if it has a hard bar under 23, we'll just take it all. Let's just see what, because people bought this here and it's only 17 cents from the number. You don't even look, this doesn't even have any jiggies going on here. Do you see this as the daily? It's like, I have no coloration. I want to see a coloration. That's what we're going to get. I want to see a nice rubber band happening here. Until that, there's no reason to exit it in my mind. And boy, are we going to get it. Let's just quickly look at the market. Wow, market is so strong people. And I thought we'd be neutral today. I said neutral slash bullish or neutral slash bearish. But look how strong we are. It's a lovely, lovely day. Okay, you could even do a kamikaze train. If you did the first one, it got a lot of laugh. You want to do it 31 by 70. 31 by 70 kamikaze. Did the five minute hit? No. So we need 31. One by 70 kamikaze. I'm not learning to stop. Well, I am going to lower the stop. I'm going to put it at 25. No, I'm just going to leave it. I think that jinxes me sometimes when I do it. Here, here, 31. After this, we're going back to bed. No, Gerard has to talk today. Here, under the low, under 17, 2317, VRX, fall off a planet, immediately go. We're in mood for one of these. And you know what the thing is, it's not even earning season. People sweat in a bullet when you're really back up to the top, right up in the room. Who's sweating a bullet? Who killed it? Great job holding it. We're going to get paid now. Here we go. Under 17. But this is why you use a stop. Here, go. There we go. This is, here we go. You see the red? You see the red? You see red, red, red, red, red. That's what I want to see. Let it just pull itself into the redness. Surf dog, short 100,000 shares. It's going to get trade. What can I say? Oh, this was a nice call. Here, let's see where it goes. Any, any break under 23, though, I'm going to take half. Unless it does a big move, I'll take it all. What is today, Tuesday? Shoot. Feels like a Friday. Shoot, you stinker. No, it didn't break 23 yet. Hold on. I'm not suffering through a rally back all the way up to the high though. Here, hold on. 23, 12. Here, here we go. Here, what do I always say? Do exactly what I do. Do exactly what I do. Do the calls that I do. Do exactly what I do. Exactly what I do. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, this is what I want to see. 75 is the next number. Now you're going to get the push. Okay, I'm getting out of half of this soon though. If it does something crazy, like go over 24 because I'm not going to live through that again. Here, back to 25. Do whatever you want because I just saw the time of the day. Time of the day, time of the day. It's got to take half. It could push back 25. All right, do whatever you want to do. Do whatever you want to do. Bottom line is I just took half because it's 945. Yep, but I still think this keeps going. Watch it. It'll go now. Here, I had to take some. There was too much of a thing. I can't stand it when I get Texas, when I'm trading. It's really annoying, but I have to have my phone with me because I have too many different clocks, too many different times. All right, I got out of half. You could take the whole thing if you want, but I didn't because I think we get one more push and just, you know, this is just a small, tiny, beanie baby for this stock. I really just, here, let's look at the daily. No, this is going to go to 20. Look at this. Look at this. See, this is what I'm talking about and I'm not saying hold this for $25 or whatever this bar did over here. It was crazy, but I'm saying I think it's worth holding, but I did get out of half, so we're profitable today no matter what. But look at that. Let's just look at a normal day. See, a normal day on this is like $4. See, a normal, here, here we go. A normal day on this is $21. $21, $21, $21. Here we go. Great job, Galahad did the ad. What did anybody do? I hope every single solitary person did the trade, stayed with the trade, didn't get out of the trade, did everything right, whether you took more or less or whatever you did. Everybody, I hope you did it. Boy, I'm on point now. I need to take more vacations. When I take vacations and come back, I'm perfect. I never make any mistakes. I need to take a vacation once every 60 days. And then what if we would never lose? If I go on a vacation once every 60 days for one week or once every 90 days for two weeks, how long was I off? Whatever, that time I'm off, it's something that happens and I become a normal person and I come back and then I trade perfectly. Here, do whatever you want to do though. I think this is worth one more push, but you might have to suffer back up, but it should go nowhere near where we were before, which was, which was crazy, but we'll go over it. Boots made money? Good. Let's look at everything. NDP, this worked. Wow, this had the smallest of the stops. You could have done this and it worked. I didn't do anything with this at all. In fact, I didn't even rate it. I had it as a secondary watch. This had a beautiful move with a small stop, actually saw his target. If this backs up 1550, this has got another 80 cents to go. I don't remember for the reason for that gap, but that actually has a, had a beautiful setup. TRU, I think Trader Gal NYC asked about this. There is two Trader Gals in here. One is a normal room member, Trader Gal normal. Trader Gal NYC is here for the, for the conference. I hope he didn't do this. I really wasn't crazy about it. Never even rated it. Well, this is taking a tumble. What's happening with these things? Nobody, nobody's buying any clothes anymore. Everyone's, everyone's buying shoes or I don't know, no one wants to spend any money on high end stuff. Look at how that stock was off of over 200 bucks. That's really, that's really lost a lot of money in the last year. Let's look at this one. That was the seat.  C, CLTL. What was the other one that Trader Gal wanted me to look like? I don't remember. What was the other one that was the, what should we call it one? JBL. Ooh. I should go, we didn't do that. That flipped. All right, let's see where this goes. What was the other one, the CT something, something? I think it helps to get out of sun here. I, I got to get back into a gruba doing that here. I really think it helps. We're going to get the rest of this down here now as long as we, as far as we can go. It's, it helps to get out of something. I don't even know if it matters if we get out of a third, a quarter, a half, but if you can get out of something, you feel better about holding it. I, I really, and I'm not saying holding it long. It's, it's, you know, 10 o'clock, we got to watch that time, but I'm just saying, if you can get out of something, anything, it really does help. What's the one that started with the C that somebody asked about though? Detail T. That worked. Small move because it was a something with a stop. It had a baby. It was a good stop. This did work. I'd be out of it though. Z? I didn't even look at this this morning. I don't see anything here to do. Trader gal, you're getting nuts.  All right, here we go, VRX. Here we go. Let's see if it gets down to 22. Out of VRX. It's dropping now. Let it try to go to at least a 22. Well, I'm just never going to do five trades, and I'm never going to short, you know, up gaps like that, but we all have to do what we need to do. If you were a new person, though, I'd yell at you. You're not though. So I'm not going to. It's hard though when there's two trader gals in the room. All right, under 22. 52. We don't have any trader boys. We don't have any trader guys. Somebody should call themselves a trader man. Trader guy NYC we need. We have a trader M. All right, let me look at the market and figure out what I'm doing this. Hold on. Enough of the jokes. All right. The spy. I don't even know why I'm saying I'm surprised of a green today. I don't even know why I'm saying I'm surprised. Nothing surprises me anymore. NDP is still going. But, you know, this is a kamikaze in here, Ashley. Are you saying you want to do it now? I mean, I don't know, Ashley. This is, you know, 30 minutes into it. I wanted more of a rally back up to call this another time. I mean, I didn't call it the first time because we did the VRX, but I'm just saying, I just got to pay attention to my trade here. But didn't you do this, Ashley? I'm just going to give us one more push. It was 50 cents off the whole number and we're getting into 10 o'clock. I'm not going to, I don't want to see any green bars here in this five minute. Let's just see. Let's just get one more push down in this and then I'm, then I'm probably going to get it out of it. We were aggressive on this today. I never thought, here, let's just go over it because I'm going to hold it for one more push. This, I really was surprised, actually, that this retested the high given the first bar, but it did. I fully, fully, fully believed in the gap and it rated so well.  So, the thing is that I was surprised. I was surprised by the first bar and the push back up to retest the high, but ultimately it didn't matter. The sell-off took over, which, you know, is the sellers and the shorts, which is the, which is the gap and that's why it sold off, but some people did buy this here. And do you know that some people are even buying this here? Somebody's buying this here. Not, not me. It's the wrong thing to do, but, you know, somebody's trying to get some kind of pushback up in this.  It's not done.  So, you go to $20 today, but it might be two o'clock in the afternoon. I'm not going to be in it until then. We maybe could lower the stop here in this, but every time I do that it, I mean, we could just put it in the breakeven. You know what, let's just do that. Let's just do that to appease the trading gods. Let's, let's put, let's put it in the breakeven or let's put it at, let's put it at $85. If you're still in any of this at all, put it at $85, all right? That's not tight, okay? If you want to be tight, you could put it at $65, and if you really wanted to be tight, you could put it at $25. This is just not, this is just going to keep going though. So, I really think this keeps going. Otherwise, I'd just take it. It's profitable even with the second half here. And if you really want to be out by 10, you could just, you could, you could time your trades with 10 o'clock. I don't, I think this should break through the low in the next five to 10 minutes, but it is 9.56. We got more than a buck out of it. The 15-minute bar isn't going to close for three more minutes. Let's go over the trade. Let's go over the trade and we'll look at everything else and then we'll just see what happens with this here at 10 o'clock. But I did lower the stop and you could have been even, you could be tighter. Excuse me. In fact, I'm going to make another call here, but I'm not doing any more because it's too, it's too, it'll pull my price down. If you really want to do this again, you could, you could short this 99 by 15. That's a, that's a Kamikaze call if I ever heard of one and it's very, very late, but it's 10 o'clock. If you'd got all out of this, you could short this right here at 99. Here, it just hit 99 by 15. This is a Kamikaze, but it could go another dollar. I mean, I'm not doing that. It would just ruin my price. But there it just hit. Jeez. So anyways, this opened bigger than expected, but actually made me feel a high level of conviction that it wouldn't take us out. It did not take us out, but it did a retest. That wasn't what I originally wanted to happen. But anyway, some people got all out here. Some people got out of portion. I didn't. And I was like, but anyways, it held anyways, then you could have taken more and then it dropped all the way down. And this looks good. I mean, there's nothing wrong with this. And you could, you could be all out of it here. And some people are. So I got out of half and I'm trying to get one more, one more. And I don't know how long I'm going to wait it, but I did lower the stop. This looks great though, people. There's nothing wrong with this. Any questions about anything with anyone here? I wanted to, I wanted to tape Gerard today, Paul, can you hear me? But I have no, I have no sound. I didn't get that resolved with Kathy yesterday. I have no sound. So I'm not going to be able to tape him because it won't be able to hear him. So you'll have to do it. Well, you could say what everyone yesterday you could have. I kind of, I almost was going to joke in the room about that yesterday because I couldn't hear what you were saying because I was like, I thought you were going to say something about my market call. You probably did. Not, not knowing that I couldn't hear you. You probably said something. He'll be texted for it. Yeah. This five minute here, which is not going to close till 10 five, but I'm going to put the stop over this five minute. It's nowhere in your closing, but I'm probably going to, it should be underneath our price, but you got to wait. Any questions? I'm just sitting here waiting and watching this and just playing it through. And did a great job with this today. Pick the best thing, pick the right thing. I said NCOF, VRX and not doing anything else. We did it. It worked. We did everything right. Perfect. Here we go. It's going to go again too. So it didn't held the kamikaze if anybody did it. Did anyone do that? I said 99 by 15 you could do. I didn't, I didn't do that because we pulled my price down too much. Does anyone do it? If you did, it pooped you over it because this ran up here to 30. I lowered the stop originally now from the first one and but I'm going to wait now to the bar closes on the five after that closes, then I'm going to lower it and then whatever happens happens. That'll be under where we entered it. I think this is worth giving it another push, but I, you know, hasn't done it yet for this to close. As of now, I gave you three different choices. Okay. For you, Ashley, I would put it a break even. That's, that's my training plan for you. Whatever your entry entry price is for the rest, Ashley, put it a break even there and journey woman too. This is still going to go though. This is still going to go. And I got to tell you, this is, this behaved well today with one exception of this rally back here and retesting the high, but take behaved like an angel. I mean, we got nine million shares before the open. This pharma is wild to begin with. This could have had tails and I prepared you to be stopped out. I said, you know that we may take this and if we get stopped out, we're taking it again. We didn't even need that. I directed us beautifully today, but I will tell you that this did behave like an angel considering the stock could have been a lot harder. It was easy comparatively. You did it twice, Ashley. If you're in this a second time, if you're in this a second time, I don't know what you're doing with this. I put the stop then if you're in this a second time, Ashley, I don't know what you're doing here with this. I put the stop at 2350, 2350 or bus frigo. But if you don't have a stop in Ashley and you're in it, then what's your risk? See, this is some of you are taking the calls I make, but you're not sizing yourself the same on every call. That is a huge thing that has to be resolved for some of you. I can't believe we're still talking about it. We should have done a discussion about that this week. But the bottom line is, if you're in a trade and done a stop in, what is your risk? You just made one trade this morning and you made money. If the second trade works and you risk more than you made in the first trade, then you're going to be down in the day, which is insanity, because everything I've called in this has been beautiful. Everyone should be at money today. You have to know how much money you're risking to have the stop in before you take the trade. Here, this is going to go again. If you have the original stop, then okay. All right. Here, VRX. Let's all lower the stop now. We're going to put it up. I don't even think we needed that 50 anymore, but let's put it at 50 just in case we get a tally thing, 2350 or bust. And actually, you could take this again. You could do a brand new trade here, 10 by 50, 10 by 50. And the stops in this today were just not small. In fact, the smallest stops today of any of the ones, which I didn't do because we're doing this, but they both hit at the same time was this. And I'm glad I didn't call a kamikaze in this because I wanted this to rally back more and it's rallying back more now. So here you go. You could short this in the five minute. I didn't want to call the one minute at 959.55. Bottom line is, you know, a lot of things did not work today. So we picked the right thing. I mean, Ralph the Wren ended up opening and never setting up right, but it was a valid gap to watch and it could have worked. It never triggered. The other one was the true. I did not end up rating this. I really didn't like it. I don't know what it would have rated, but this didn't work either. JBL did work either. So the only one was the NDP that worked or the VRX, which we did. Market is trying so hard to get over the high. I don't even think it cares anymore about anything but getting over the high. So I'm still in VRX. There's nothing I can do, but just play it on out. Stop is 2350. Everyone should be out of some of this half a quarter, the whole thing, whatever. You could have done one trade. You could have done two trades. You could have done one trade and then done an ad. Either way, everyone's up. I didn't call anything else officially today, but ENDP actually worked too. RL flipped. I didn't look at any longs. There wasn't any reason to. Here, under 23, VRX should fall right down to the low. Today's conclusion is that I need to take more vacations, though Paul probably doesn't want to hear that. All right. Anyone have any questions about anything else? Anyone have any questions about anything else? I think maybe Paul can get on and talk or maybe Gerard. I could be in this for another 15, 20 minutes. I don't know. I don't want to sit here and just not speak for 20 minutes because everyone will be up if we get stopped out at 2350. That's underneath our price. I don't have anything else to talk about. I have no sound. Help me figure out the sound. I'd like to hear what you say so you don't talk about me. Does anyone know how to fix the sound? I want to hear what Gerard says. So, I don't want Gerard to talk until I get the sound fixed, do you all? I'm going to call Kathy quick. I don't want me to bounce, Jean. I'm going to call Kathy quick. I'll be right back. Make sure this stop is at 2350. I mean, that's all the patients I have with it today. Where do I check the speakers, Paul? Right in the room where I would check them.


is off to the gym. I was kind of toying with the idea for a hot second this morning of going with him and then thought you know my anxiety is just not there yet so yeah that didn't happen. As you can hear yes we still have crazy pants. She actually goes HOME today she doesn't know that so yeah that's a thing. I'm up here in the art room checking on social media and stuff which she's not happy about because she wants me downstairs on the couch with her. Yes yes I know. Anyway it's Sunday it's just gonna be a chill relaxing day I think we might go for a WALK later. I have a few art projects I might start on I also have that vlog for last week to edit and all of that jazz. I just got done checking on social media so we're all good there. I have to redo my lists of to do things for next week and I have upcoming this week we have the cleaning lady coming. It's time for the bug people to come spray. I have a telehealth doctor's a visit on Tuesday morning which is gonna be interesting so it's gonna be a busy week I think. Anyway all right that's it for the minute I'll be back. For an afternoon walk this is the river by our house. I think so anyway enjoying the fresh air and sunshine getting some vitamin D. I'm looking at the knoves or the kayakers. Kayakers. Fun fact I like kayaking. As long as the water is calm like that I'm good with it. All right we're gonna keep walking I'll be back. I spent the morning working on laundry which I'm going downstairs to change loads and actually fix myself at lunch. I've been trying to get video clips off the camera on the phone which they're finally done and now I can edit the vlog while I eat lunch. While I was waiting I was swatching a bunch of watercolors that I made recently. I'll put a picture here somewhere I was making the color keys and some swatches for some of them. Some of them are intended for patreon giveaways so trying to get those ready. I also owe the patrons a zoom meeting which I haven't scheduled yet so bright light. So yeah and my furnace filters finally came in which bright light I have to get upstairs. So you know typical Monday lots of stuff going on and I guess I had the volume turned down on my phone because my phone rang twice and I didn't know it until I got voicemail or I didn't ring at all. It's like the second time recently that's happened so it's very weird. Anyway one was spam one was my doctor's office confirming my telehealth appointment tomorrow so that's alright. Alright I think that's it for the minute I'm going to make some lunch change laundry loads and get back to editing. Alright I'll be back. So it's Monday evening because it's after 5 so I guess technically it's evening. We're going out for a walk or without Lily.  I got a lot of stuff today including starting working on the new zombie doll series the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. So I'm working on the first one the white one Conquest Conker. I don't know he carries a bow and arrow my notes are back at the house. Anyway we'll be doing some work on him on the live broadcast on Wednesday which has to be Wednesday because I've got stuff tomorrow and yeah anyway we're gonna go get some steps in and I'll be back. Hello people it is Tuesday September 29th my husband's birthday everybody wish him a happy birthday. He is of course working. I ordered him a couple of things for his garage on Amazon so they should be in a few days. We are going to do birthday dinner in and all of that because hello COVID. Anyway I had to tell a health appointment with my doctor this morning I've got to do some blood work but I don't need to fast before I go in so that probably means they're not doing blood sugar. I'm not sure. She's also going to be prescribing me a new daily asthma medicine at least for right now during fire season since I'm having an issue since we had the smoke problem. I want to do that all the time so and actually she's called it in to the pharmacy already and I'm across the street from there I was picking up some more blood glucose test strips no I'm not diabetic but my mom is severely diabetic and as were a bunch of relatives on both her side and my dad so it is something I keep an eye on trying really hard this year to get my health under control and I'm doing pretty good I've lost another 11 pounds since the last time I saw the doctor so yay me. Anyway I do check it periodically and I was at a test strips wall not out out I have some but they expired like a year ago last month I know right so yeah I don't know how accurate the readings are with those they do work but you know so anyway these things are time-sensitive so I went picked up some more anyway I'm gonna pop over to the pharmacy and I guess see if they cover this new asthma medicine because I don't even know if they're gonna cover it so I'm gonna pop in and see if they'll find out for me and I need to try to get over but that's gonna be fun massive amounts of traffic so anyway it's 1 35 p.m. on the 29th and I'm out doing some things yes that I need to do but I also just want to get out of the house to be honest with you so we're kind of doing both it's 5 15 p.m. yes p.m. Wednesday September 30th completely forgot to vlog all day today the cleaning lady our has been here we love our letty she helps me get that keep top get and keep house clean she's wonderful hold on yeah yeah I haul bathroom okay one funny fact about me I like the lids down on the toilets anyway it's been a crazy day I did a live broadcast at 10 because I didn't do one yesterday and I had appointments and stuff so it didn't work out so we did one today we worked on the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse zombie dolls and I've already turned everything off for the day up here so we'll turn some lights back on anyway here is the rider and here is his horse now the pattern for my version of the zombie dolls is available in my Etsy shop it includes templates for the bones and skeleton on the back of these I have printed a label and the rider and horsemen each have the same label just explaining what they are and I've labeled the backs of all of my zombie dolls with their name or something this is the first time I've actually printed it on fabric and then sewn that to the back of the doll I do have keep getting asked about that so you can of course just iron muslin to freezer paper cut it to 8 1.5 by 11 and run that through your printer before you peel it off the freezer paper or use it in a project you're gonna want to put a couple of coats of some kind of sealer on it a spray sealer some kind of cry on matte finish spray or something like that take it outside and give it a couple of quick coats on the front and back so the ink doesn't run not that you're gonna be washing it or anything but it will also help it from fading and all of that stuff so but I usually have and I've done that I usually have those some June Taylor sew-in computer printer fabric there's 10 sheets in here so not a lot so I use it sparingly it's not super cheap I usually get it on Amazon or something although I am gonna look and see if there's any other sites on the internet but it's a June Taylor printer sew-in computer printer fabric for ink jet printers so that's what I use and we're gonna be making some damn it dolls anybody remember those I talked about it in today's live broadcast and I re-typed the poem that goes on the doll and printed that on some of the fabric so I printed labels for all of the horsemen so they all have their this is the next one I'm working on is war and I was working on four horsemen prompts props props hello English just bypassing me right now so this is wars sword oops so this is a wars sword and then I went ahead while I had the copper sheet metal out and the wire and everything I made the sith for the last one that I'm gonna do which is death the one in between is famine or pestilence I have to make scales figure out how I'm gonna make scales exactly how that worked out in my head yet but you know I've got more copper metal I've got plenty of wire and I got my bag of flies I've got a few more skulls I have more skulls coming so I don't know exactly yet I have to figure out how to make the bowls yeah I don't know yet so I gotta figure that out so anyway that's what I've been working on today I did a little bit of computer work but not too much really just put some things away and worked on the horsemen and and you know stayed out of the cleaning ladies away so she could do her job cuz you know I need to be in her way started on my new inhaler this morning I'll take a few days to a few weeks to see if it's helping and yeah I think I think I'm just going to the gym tonight I think not exactly sure will I go walking while he's gone I don't know yet depends on one how hot it is and two how I'm feeling with my asthma fun fact my knee feels great the asthma sucks but you know what are you gonna do anyway I'm gonna sit and have some water and watch some YouTube when you have people in to do things like clean they always move things around a little bit where they think they should be rather than where you would like them so I've been going around the house kind of fixing things so yeah I'm gonna do that and I'll be back so we're motivating ourselves with cookies it's probably not the best way to motivate for exercise but it is what it it we're having a blah Wednesday it's a blah hump day so I don't know my leg let my lungs feel a little bit congested but they're not too bad it's a little bit smoky out but not too bad we're gonna go walking and see what we can see I'll be back welcome to October it's Thursday October 1st it's just before lunch it's like 1151 or something and I won't be doing this every day because that's a lot of extra work I just really don't have the timer energy for but I did start off artpocalypse 2020 with a little time-lapse video that I will put it I'll put it here for you all it's also the first page in my little journal playing with that pencil stash that I found the first thing of course that I did was swatch all the pencils see which ones would smudge well which ones were duplicates I pulled out and put in my purge box which ones would move with water which ones erased better than others you need to know what they'll do before you can you know work with them and then I decided to just start off the month simply by using some of the rubber stamps I've designed and creating a page and then coloring it with the pencils to give it a try and I really like the way that turned out it's it's really cute I used stamp sets 11 and 13 I show on camera also those sets 9 and 14 at the moment that we're filming this all of my rubber stamps are on sale there are two that are out of stock already and it might be 11 and 13 I'm actually not sure but the link from my Etsy shop is down below all the rubber stamps and all the stencils are all on sale until the 15th of October anyway so I have done that so I'm looking forward to that I will probably tomorrow do a couple pages ahead just because I think doing some over the weekend might be a little bit challenging time-wise I probably won't film them I'll just do still shots but I'm still it doesn't matter what you do just share it and Art Pop Lips 2020 for the month of October the prompt words are available all over social media I will try to remember to put a link with them down below so you guys can get your list the first word was nature so we did we did a nature scene sort of anyway I am going to turn some lights off up here and go downstairs and eat lunch I'm going to be working on another horse for horsemen of the apocalypse doll today we're going to work on war and here's his pieces did I show yesterday that I made his little sword I don't remember now until I edit the video but yeah there's a little sword and I made that sith for the last one which is going to be death and so yeah anyway I think that's it for the minute so yeah my focus is on the drawings and the new zombie dolls this week and pretty much that's it for the moment I will be filming a couple of things for YouTube like project pan art supply style and stuff like that but I don't have to do that until next week so for right now I'm going to be working on that stuff all right that's it for the minute I'll be back so right about here it was very dark out but we were being very careful and I had a flashlight on dear sweet left or is just sore this morning but this is what my face looks like hold on I'm guessing in another day or so this probably right here is going to be black and blue it's because there's no scrape here it's just red there's a scrape here on the side of my nose that's probably gonna be black and blue too thankfully you know we wear masks out but yeah so there's my face for right now I guess I'm lucky I didn't break anything or knock a tooth out but yeah my phone case which we're recording on it got all scratched up and my screen protector which was already cracked is now just yeah beyond repair so my daughter ordered me replacement of both this last night they should be here Monday so yeah sometimes hey guys it's about 11 o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of October shutting things down for the day evening evening and I'm getting ready to go to bed as you can see the face well it looks like I got socked in the face it's not too bad I've been still putting ice on it periodically to temporary swelling and hopefully reduce the amount of bruising that's going on I'm gonna go downstairs in a minute and put some vitamin E cream on it to aid healing and it's not too bad considering I literally face planted into the sidewalk last night so my daughter did come back from working in California and she did make a stop at Daiso while she was there for me Japanese dollar store they have them in California we don't have them here in Oregon it's the one thing about California I can tell you besides a few people that I miss and she brought me back some more bags so that means that sometime in the next couple of days the new sticker flakes will be available in the Etsy shop now I'm gonna try to keep the cost down for you all as much as I can but I am doing this all myself they're not cheap to produce and so I mean they're not gonna be like two dollars or anything so I'm not gonna gouge y'all but you know I gotta make a fair deal on them so I'm gonna do what I can what it's just a weird week I don't know I'm gonna work next week on finishing the four horsemen I do want to make a day of the dead doll and of course there's a huge list of other zombies somebody's suggested in the last live mr. air quality that's an interesting idea for a zombie doll and I've got some ideas I don't know how I would accomplish them on the doll but it's an interesting idea so I'm thinking I also started working on my Christmas list I know Christmas is probably not gonna be what we all expect it's gonna be just you and whoever's in literally in your house maybe a couple other people that you trust but it's not gonna be like what we usually do traveling around and seeing people and like I just don't think that's happening I don't think a lot of people are ready for that but it's not I don't think it's happening it's 2020 over yet anyway we tried to go get flu shots today and there's some information they say they needed it's not on our insurance card that we've never heard of that before so we couldn't get the flu shots so we have to wait until Monday and call them and we might just go to the doctor's office I don't know it's just been a weird day we try to get some parts for the garage at the at home depot the heart our local big box hardware store they didn't have any more in stock they were sold out like the supply chain thing is just an issue always and it's just so random what's in and what's not so I just a week I said that already right anyway I hope that despite the weirdness that's going on right now that you're able to stay creative and that you are doing something constructive with the strangeness whether it's making zombie dolls like I am or you know making face masks or working out the stress in your journaling and other forms of creativity whatever it is I encourage you to do that also talk about it finds the people that you feel comfortable talking about the situation and the stress and all of the things with because that's healthy too it's not healthy to keep it inside I don't think not for me anyway yeah with that I think I'm gonna go to bed I might have to read a little bit because that's usually my modus operandi go to bed to go to sleep because I need to read but I think that's what I'm gonna do anyway support the free content if you can here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups there is a link tree link down in the description and in it you will find when you click on it you will find my Etsy shop and Amazon affiliate stores and the merch store and like all the things for the things so go check it out and if you have a favorite content creator either here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups they probably have a way to support too I know they would probably appreciate you checking it out and if you can support them so look into that there's a few young content creators here on YouTube that I am really enjoying and I'm gonna have to go back and re-watch their videos because I want to find out what their stores are because a couple of them do sticker flakes and washi tape like I don't do washi tape but they do sticker play so I'm like you know I might need to acquire a little bit for my stash so anyway check it out stay safe stay creative stay healthy don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you next week bye guys


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. One time a man complained to his boss about a fellow employee. The man told the boss every time he went by the other man's office, he always found him staring out the window. The man wanted to know how the other fellow got away with it. The boss told him that if he came up with ideas like the man in question did, he'd get paid for staring out the window, too. Ideas come from minds that do creative thinking. These ideas are what have given us the wonderful machines and gadgets we have today. In our story today, we find a young man who has an idea. I like to call this one the tugboat cowboy. At Junction City, Bob Mitchell, usually called Ong, owns the Inland River Barge Company. Ong's nephew, Dick, works for his uncle, and it's more or less been the understanding that someday Dick would take over the business. But right now, Ong is pacing the dock in a stool because both of his tugboats are laid up with engine trouble. What's the matter, Ong? What's your face all powdered up for? All the others laid up with a busted engine now, too. Of all the businesses in the world, I had to get mixed up in river barging.  One tug ain't laying down on the job, the other is. Well, the barge has got a leak in it, or else it's new houses to buy. So it's something to keep a man hopping. Never a minute's peace. Well, Ong's that's business. I don't know what you're yapping about, though. You've made money. Sure I've made money, Barney. Well, it works hard for it, too. Every winter we spend from October to Christmas busting ice on the river just so we can get enough stuff in here to carry everybody over the hard, cold part of the winter. Then the big freeze comes and we haul everything out of the water and into the shed so we can get them ready for spring and floodwaters. I'm tired of it, Barney. All right, though the general idea was to let Dick take over so as you could relax and take it easy. What's that tugboat cowboy know about this business? It's all right. Things are slowing down up with the railroads and trucks working against us. You'd do better than getting something else. You know what I think I'm gonna do, Barney?  You're not even in bathtubs. How'd you know that? Because you told me that at least two dozen times in the past year and a half. Oh, that's all. Well, it's time to mean it. I made up my mind. I'm gonna sell out rock, stock and life jackets. I'm glad that meeting's over. You said it. We're not used to sitting for several hours in one shot. I'm sure glad to get out and stretch my legs. I feel like a pretzel.  You're not standing very straight. Give me time. You know, muscles of mine don't stretch so quick like yours. You're just getting like old rubber. No give. Stop it. You'll kill me. Come on, fellas. Let's walk over to the barge company.  I know. What's so funny about that? You ordered them nine to two months ago. I could make them myself, but no. You can say that again, stuffy. Once I want to stop over at the barge company office and find out what's holding up delivery. We'll kill two birds with one stone while we're here at Junction City. Yeah, that's a good idea. I ordered the drums in the factory in Central City, and Uncle was supposed to bring them here, and then they'd be trucked to Naughty Pine. We could have carried them one at a time at this rate of speed. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's find out. What do you mean I don't do things right? What do you mean by telling that to a man who's been in this business 40 years? Uncle, I'm not trying to insult you, but simply to point out where you're slipping. Well, I'm slipping. Why, young upstart, I was skipper of a tugboat before you wore out your first pair of three-cornered pants.  You handle a tug like it was a kiddie car. Some day you're gonna rip the bottom out of one of them, then we'll see how smart you are. You'll be laughed off the river. Will you let off the throttle long enough for me to explain? All right, go ahead and explain. Not that it'll do any good. Nobody can tell you a thing around here, but well, I'm gonna tell you what your big problem is, and that's the plain and simple fact that you don't take care of your equipment. Says who? Says me. Your tugs are old, but they're good. And if you'd let me take them in one at a time once a month for a routine checkup, these breakdowns wouldn't happen.  Uh-oh. Ah, this will never do. You'd better speak up so they know we're here.  Bill, what are you fellas doing here? Hello, fellas, I didn't hear you come in. We waited for the intermission so we could break in. I've come after the 50-gallon drums I ordered two months ago. Ask him about the barrels. I'm not in business anymore. What's with him, Dick? Oh, the usual. Sit down, fellas. I'll fix some fresh coffee. Then I'll tell you all about it. Help yourself, fellas. There's some fresh sweet rolls under the cake cover. Ah, thanks, Dick. And do you think Anke is serious this time, Dick? I wouldn't be surprised that he is, Bill. I know he's threatened to quit many times, but that only goes on for so long, and then it finally happens. Hey, his business that bad? Oh, it's dropped off some, but that's his own fault for the reasons you fellas heard as you came in. No doubt you did hear us. We were yelling loud enough to be heard a country mile. Yeah, we heard you all right. Sure, but quite normal, isn't it, to have a disagreement once in a while? Maybe it is, but I don't like it. I just got a little fed up with his perpetual grumbling when nine-tenths of it is his fault. I always heard that you were gonna take over the business and Anke was gonna retire. I guess Anke's changed his mind. He thinks I should be in a better business than this. Perhaps he's right, Dick. He's been in this game a long time, you know. I appreciate his experience, but, well, he's lost his fight. Well, there isn't any business that doesn't have its ups and downs and the river barges are no exceptions. The thing we have to do is to inject new ideas into this job to meet the change in conditions.  Have I? Man, that's all I've been doing for months is thinking up ways to give this business a shot in the arm. Would you tell us your ideas? Sure, why not? I know you fellas can be trusted to keep quiet. My first idea is to haul truck trailers on barges. You know, the railroads do it with their piggyback service. Piggyback on barges? Sure, why not? Why not? It's right. You're using your head for something more than to keep your ears apart, sonny. That's a real idea you got there. I think it is too stumpy. I've carefully thought it out from all angles. Yeah, have you talked to Uncle about this idea of yours? Sure, until I'm blue in the face. He tells me I'm daydreaming and says I should spend less time doing it than watch where I'm going when I'm on the river before I crack up a tug. That's why he calls me a tugboat cowboy. Because I have fun when I'm on the river by dodging the sandbars instead of plowing the tugs through them at full speed, which, by the way, is pretty hard on the tugs. I can see that all right. You think your ideas will pay off? And how? Look at the map of the river. We can haul cargo on the barges up the river and save two days as against railroad time and three days against truck time. Well, if that's the case, I don't see why you've got any problems selling your idea. I don't think I would either, Bill, except to Ankh. And he owns this outfit. Perhaps there's some way we can persuade the old fella. I hope so. Well, I've got to get down to the dock and take a look at the tug's engines. Find out why they won't go. You fellas want to come along? Right. Glad to. Dick, you sure know your business. That diesel's purring like a kitten? I guess I ought to. Went to school for three years to study diesel engines. And this is a good point at hand, though. If we put these engines on a routine check-up program, these things would be caught. It was obvious what was wrong as soon as I began looking the engine over. Yep. You got a strong point there, him fella. Now look right here. This gauge tells me that the oil pressure fluctuates too much. I think there's a small leak in the line. If I didn't catch this now in a check-up, the engine had run until the line ruptured and then we'd be in a mess. So you can see the problem I'm up against.  You ever thought about leaving him and going into business for yourself? Oh, I've thought about it, Bill. Well, I like the old gent. He's raised me since I've been knee-high to a scupper and he's like my own father. Oh, he's rough and he's tough and he can still lick his weight in wildcats. But on the other hand, he sent me through school and then to diesel school. That cost a lot of money because he wouldn't let me work while I was in school. Said I needed all my time for studies. He's my family. I understand it. But he's stubborn as a mule stuck in the mud and that's what infuriates me. We could have it real nice, but it's one battle after the other. How would you like it if I talked to Ankh? Would you? I've been trying to work up enough nerve to ask you for help. I'd be pleased if you would talk to him. Okay, I'll give it a try. Seems like a good place to sit and think, Ankh. Oh, hello, Bill. Yes, it is. It's all right. I've done a lot of thinking here at the edge of the dock and years gone by. Don't you think you can do some more right now for Dick's sake? Bill, I'm tired. Tired of thinking, tired of working. Just being tired and disgusted. Ankh, have you ever thought of retiring and letting Dick run the business? Yeah. Why don't you?   What do you mean? I mean, I wasn't born yesterday and I know why you won't retire. Oh, that's all supposed you're telling.  Also, you're afraid to grow old.  Hunting, fishing, taking trips or just plain loafing. You know, it's a real credit to the founder of a business if he can develop a younger man to take over and make the business harm after the founder steps aside. Oh, you could come around once in a while for old times' sake, but just to visit. Why hold the young horses back? Let them do the work that they're supposed to do and let the old horses stand out in the past. You're under a shade tree and rest and watch the youngsters work like you did when you were young. Maybe you're right.  Give Dick his chance, Ankh. I know he thinks the world of you when he wants to build up your business is a tribute to you. Every day problems are a challenge to young men while they're a burden to men who should retire. You know, I think you will like Dick pretty well.  Yep, he is a good scrapper, isn't he? And he's got brains, too. Yeah. Why not let him use them? Well, I know what his grades were at diesel school. One of the smartest lads has ever took a range to an engine. You're right.  If he keep this up long enough, he might leave you. You really think he might do that? Why are they on... Whoa, whoa, there. If he does leave you, it'll be your fault. He's like a horse chafing at the bit, Ankh. He'll do one of two things. Either break loose and run away or give up. I wouldn't want him to do either. He's the best man on the river. Next to me, that is. Come off it. Admit that he's better than you. And if it's true, the credit goes to you because you trained him and developed his skills. You gave him the incentive to become as good as or better than his teacher. Be proud of him, but not jealous. I never gave this that kind of thinking. They all right. Maybe I'm a proud old man and you young fellows are right.  Like the piggyback barges, clearing the river to Notty Pond. No, wait a minute, Bill. Just because I listened to it doesn't mean I'm letting go of my common sense. Those were a pretty word, you spoke, but... Maybe he was buttering me up and let Dick try out a couple of his foolish ideas. Oh, you know me better than that. I don't know such thing. Oh, you get out of here. I like the way things are going and that's the way they're gonna stay. All right, but I'm not through with you yet.  I'll be with you in a little while, Bill, just as soon as I set the cylinder head in place. Okay, Dick, take your time. How'd you make out with Unk? Well, I thought for a while I was getting somewhere with the old gent, but I didn't. He's still stubborn? Yeah, just won't get in. I wish I knew why. That could be one of the seven great mysteries of the world. You could be right about that, old timer. See, when a few fellas go on back to Notty Pine, huh, I want to stay here and see this thing through now that I'm in it up to my neck. Okay, all we're doing is standing around. Let's go, Stumpy. Hey, it's so long, Bill! Okay, I don't have much left to do now to get this tug back into operation. How'd you make out with Unk? Not too well. I thought I was making headway, but when I approached the subject about piggyback barges and opening up the river to Notty Pine, he barked and that was all I was doing. I was afraid of that. Oh, he's a hard man to talk to, believe me. That's true, but I know he can be reached. We've just got to find the right way. Well, I guess my goose is cooked. I might as well give up. I don't want to leave here, so I guess I'll just have to stop thinking and let it go with that. Now, wait a minute. You stop thinking and you'll become like stagnant water. You won't be good for anything. Why don't you go ahead and try to sell your idea? Get some subscribers. Talk to men in authority who can sign contracts for their companies. See how you make out. Well, that sounds good, but why go to all that barley for nothing? I don't think you'll be wasting your time, Dick. Oh, have you got another idea of your sleeve? I haven't looked yet, but you never know what might come out of my sleeve besides my arm. Okay, Bill. I'll get the ball rolling. Mr. Withers, you and my uncle have worked hand and glove for years, even though you're competing carriers. That's right, Dick. We've done it not only because we're friends, but for the simple fact that many times our railroad's been hog-tied by land and rock slides, heavy snow, but well, what have you? I remember the time it was so hot here for two weeks running as some of the rails buckled. Yes, Dick, out here, competitors have to help each other out or both will be out of business sooner or later. Say, is it true, Unks, going to sell out? Well, I honestly don't know if he means it or not. Mr. Withers, I have a couple of ideas that'll help us both. Well, let's have them. My ears are always open to ideas. Piggyback truck trailers on barges. Clean up Dead Man's Gorge and open up the river all the way to Naughty Pine. Except for the hard freeze of winter, we can carry express cargo on the barges, which in turn will free your flat cars for heavier loads of freight, which in turn will bring your railroad more revenue. We'll eventually move our exchange terminal from Junction City to Naughty Pine. We'd get the same fees as we get now on the split carrier basis. How does that sound? I think it sounds great, Dick. I really do. Would you sign a contract? I most certainly would. Right now, if you have the papers with you. Why, this would increase our cargo ability to Junction City and Naughty Pine by 50 percent. I realize that. I plan to increase the power of the tugs for greater speed and load limit. I hope to be able to get two larger tugs in the not too distant future and more barges. Wonderful. I know we'll be able to work out a very fine mutual agreement whenever you're ready. When will that be? Well, that's a good question, sir. I hope not too long. Good day. Good day, young man. Say, what has happened over here? You probably have quite an idea, I believe. Yes, indeed, Cedric. And so have I. Well, what's that, sir, if I may be so bold to ask? I'm going to have a talk with Ankh and find out if he's serious about selling out. And if he is, then it would be our advantage to buy the barge company. Now, that's my idea, Mr. Jones. Do you think Mountain State's trucking would be interested in working out a mutual agreement? I most certainly do. I think your idea is brilliant. Our truck trailers can be piggybacked to Naughty Pine a lot cheaper than we can haul them over the roads. Not only that, but the river route will eliminate an awful lot of hazardous driving between Central City and Canyon City, which, as you know, is our northern distribution terminal. Every truck driver in the Central City Naughty Pine route is a bonus man. We have to pay bonuses to get truck drivers to take the risk, especially at the speed they must maintain to keep our express business. This way we could slow down our non-perishable and non-express schedule, which would be much easier on our drivers. When can we sign a contract? Well, I'm not sure yet. I hope it'll be shortly. Good day, Mr. Jones, and thank you. So long, Dick. Yes, JB? What did young Mitchell want? He wants to piggyback our trailers on barges from Central City to Naughty Pine. Yes, sir. How much do you think the barge company's worth? Oh, not more than 30,000. I've heard that Uncle Sirius about selling out. Out. Yes, sir, right away. Well, one more thing, Jones. Yes, JB? Tell Uncle, we'll give him a royalty of $20 a trailer for the next two years. He'll sell to us instead of the railroad. I did it, Bill. Well, that's fine, Dick. We'll see if a little reverse psychology will work on Unk. Oh, what do you mean? You'll see in a couple hours. There's more than one way to skin a cat, you know. What does skinning cats got to do with this? Just be patient, my young friend. Don't be so impetuous. It's easier on the blood pressure. Well, okay, but I still don't catch on to your plan. Did the gentleman you talked with ask you if Unk's going to sell? Yes, one did, Mr. Withers. Railroad? Yes, why? The truckers have heard the rumor, too, without a doubt. Now that they've heard your ideas, there's going to be... Some fancy dickering to get Unk to sell. Yes, all right. And unless I miss my guess, Unk's being besieged right now by two men with a fistful of money. Well, my cabin withers, get out. There's no reason, Unk. I only came here to do a good turn.  Where'd you ever get the wild idea I'd sell out? Aren't you broke? What's more, that nephew of mine is going to run this business and make it whistle. Five thousand more. No!  Now get out! Okay, but if you change your mind, I'll make it worth your while to let me buy it. I ain't never going to sell this barge company. You can rumour that around a while. Hello, Mr. Mitchell. I've got a handful of cash and a real offer for you. John, honey, you want? Goodbye, you are. There's my old six young men can't have any peace and quiet anymore. Take it easy, Unk. Do you want to sell? No! Now get out! Psych clone. All right.  What's all fired from it? You are. You look like an English bulldog with locked jaw. I do. To a T. Okay, okay, the joke's on me. But you better not joke around when you take a test file on that piggyback idea. You mean we can try it? We're loaded and ready to go. Each barge has two truck trailers lashed to it. Quite a sight, Dick. This will make history. When you're shoving off. Right now. Thanks, Unk, for letting me try this out. I've got to get to the wheelhouse before we're adrift. Cast off the lines! It wasn't joking, Unk, and I said this would make history, and you're the one who let it come to pass. Maybe so, but I thought I'd get. When we get to Junction City, I'll believe it can do it. Yeah, make it. And we'll help him, won't we, Unk? I don't know about that. I made my first London assault. I had only one barge. He's got three. You expect trouble? No, but, uh, oh, this is a crazy riverbill. Worse than a woman. They never can tell what she's gonna do next. Oh, there's the halfway mark. Yep, the worst part of the river is yet to come. Oh, I'm not afraid of it. Say, am I imagining things or is the river getting rougher?  We're heading for the narrows. The wind flips the water some fears at times. I've seen three-foot waves in the narrows, and there ain't much room to maneuver. You just have to take it. He's the man who knows. Yeah, we're coming into the narrows now. Hey, what? The lashing's in one of the trailers. Come loose and it's thrashing around. Unk, will you take the wheel? No, since I'll take the wheel. I'm going with him to help. Watch my hand signals. Aye-aye. Come on. It's a good thing that Tug's pushing these barges instead of pulling her. We'd never make it to number three without getting wet. There ain't much for crawling a houser line, Bill. Especially in cold weather. There's the loose trailer. Oh, she's really sliding around. It wouldn't take much to pitch the trailer over the side. I'll take care of it. What are you going to do? We're going to ease this barge up on the river bank so she'll stay in steady. But if you don't hit the bank right, she might list and throw the trailer out. Not with the wind pushing against the trailer like it is. Hang on, I've got my signal heading for the bank. What are we going to hit? The trailer's standing up. Oh, boy, you have to be in this game 30 years before you learn all the tricks of the trade. Let's get this block and tackle rigged and slide the trailer into place. I should firm this time. The last trailer of our first piggyback load. Yep, on this history. Look at all the folks watching. They sure couldn't figure out how he was going to get them out of the barge. They didn't figure you'd build a platform out of timbers in each barge so the tractors could load and unload the trailers themselves. Pretty smart, I say. You really mean that, Unk? I sure do, son. Yep, you did it good and proper. Not all for it, 100%. But I thought all along that you were against me. Oh, you see, son, I figure anything worth getting is worth working for. You know what's easy to come by and appreciate it? Dick, my boy, you're the best tugboat cowboy this river's ever seen. And the business? Well, she's all yours.