It's about 2 a.m. Right now I have a lot of extra energy, so I'm taking a walk and I want to talk to you about Something that's very dear to me It's something I've been struggling with all my life and that's basically you being unique and how You shouldn't ever let somebody else dictate how your life should look and Nobody don't listen to anybody who tells you, you know, you're not normal.    I mean Look, everybody's unique. Everybody has their own style. I mean If you're depressed, obviously one, you know, you want to get help for that, but you know People look at depression, for example, and but they never ask like, okay, why That person is that person depressed or in my example, I'm bipolar. So, you know, I I Could have a manic episode have tons of energy Feel really good Next day I could be really down, you know, it happens but You know, I've always realized I'm not fit for the nine of five life, you know, wake wake up every single day at nine At seven go to the same job You know, I've always had a thing for diversity. I always have thing for traveling the world and In the past, let's say, you know, you wanted to to do that, you know, you could do that, but It would be a lot more complicated. Like you'd have to figure out some sort of a solution Where you can create that kind of situation and I think that's what I'm going to call this video. It's like like find a solution to fit your life Find a solution to live your life the way you want it to live You know, it's so simple and a lot a lot of people think about it They all they think about is the money all they think about is like, okay, once I have this much money I'll be able to live the way I want but it doesn't work like that. Like Your solution should be from the start exactly what you want. Like I Say that a lot you can't get you can't get to Where you want to get by doing the things you don't want to do When you do things you don't want to do you'll only create a situation where you get things you don't want to get and You can always tell whether you're on the right direction or not based on how you feel When you do what you do You can't Have a period of you know, just doing shit. You don't like to do and then get to a situation that you like it's it's always Doing things you want to do they might not be easy But you know you want to do them and then that supports a good life. So So for me again, I've always been special I've always been You know a lot of everybody's unique, but I've always been a bit more different Uh, you know, I've always had this for example, some people are nocturnal They they stay awake at night. Some people are morning people. Um, I'm both Um, sometimes I like to stay up all night And sleep during the day Sometimes I like to sleep during the day And just you know Do whatever during the night and sometimes I like to wake up very early at 5 a.m.  You can have a day job You know, you can do this you can do that. No, uh, create your own situation We're living in the 21st century. There's we're in the connected age like the the you know, we should read a job A book it's called the end of jobs And it talks about how, you know jobs are getting irrelevant like everybody has to have some entrepreneurial spirit Or you're going to be in trouble So, you know today you're being rewarded for being an innovator like you could go work at a job Make, you know, like $10 an hour $20 doesn't matter And on You know, so you get $10 per hour and you work eight hours a day So multiply that by a month, you know, you work Let's say a hundred hours a month Or 150 hours a month doesn't matter Again, $10 times 150 hours somebody else some entrepreneur He like creates an app or it has a business An online business that makes, you know, 150 sales of $10 in a day So he's basically multiplying your time And you know think more broad think think about people traveling the world.   Okay, and she paints And takes a video while painting and she explains how she paints. It's like she takes what she loves She makes it even better You know, and she gets paid for it and she gets walled walled recognition for it So it's it's awesome. It's it's crazy, you know, and For me My biggest passion is is coaching. It's lecturing. It's helping people. It's talking to people working with people Helping people get insights. Like that's me. That's what I like. I don't like anything else I'm sorry.  So Again, you want to create a situation in your life That's supportive of what you like. Like do you like music? Okay, now Make that the thing like make, you know Become a really good at it post a ton of content find a way, you know, you don't need to innovate you don't need to Again in the past you would need to innovate in the past People who wanted for example to travel needed to create a solution. They needed to create the solution innovate So that they could live the life they want to live today You don't need to do that the the solutions are there, you know, you have youtube you have twitter you have facebook You have instagram you have Snapchat You have the the other one I told you about the periscope one You can create your own blog, you know on the internet you can do amazon sales, you know And that's what I'm saying like you like doing amazon sales.  Fuck.  No greatest situation From the beginning where you make the money from doing something you love And then you know, everything is awesome So I've had multiple periods in my life where I had That kind of a situation and it was amazing, you know, I've had periods where I would coach people I would charge anywhere between two to four thousand dollars per client And I would travel the world and work with people on skype. I would literally work about 10 hours a week Coaching people and make more money than I've ever made from that, you know, and I've had other situations Where I just lived in one place, but all I did was lecture You know, I would just lecture at least two three times a week I would even set up the lectures. I just I was so good at it people would just set up the lectures for me And from every let's say 10 people that I lecture to I would get two three clients for, you know lower prices, but Instead of let's say for two thousand dollars.  Hey And life is short Okay, so And and not don't only take what you love. It's not about like, okay.  Uh, do you want to get married?  Um, you know, maybe you prefer to be single Do you like reading books? Would you rather spend eight hours a day reading books and only two hours a day working?  How's your personality do you like to be more like this or more like that like We spend all this time Trying to fit ourselves into the mold You know, we try to find a mold That bets that that best fits us And then we try to fit into that mold and we just hope it's Not so, you know different from us. So we have to contour a bit less We have to deform ourselves a bit less but But the way you should do it Is you need to be the mold Okay, you already are the mold. You don't need to Find a mold that fits you You need to find things that you can fit in your mold Okay so again take make a mental Summary for yourself ask yourself What are my biggest passions? What do I like? How do I like living? You know, do I want to be famous or do I want to be low-key? Do I want to travel every day or maybe just once a week or once a month or once a year? What is the standard of living I want?  Ask yourself all of these questions and start building a life around that shit And you do that your life is going to be amazing You don't do that and there's going to be discrepancies You know your life could be really good But there's going to be parts about it that that are really bad so I don't I'm I'm very total. I'm very I've always been very Black and white, you know very extreme You know, there's no such thing for me as Halfway compromise When it regards me and my life and the way I want to live There's no halfway. There's no like, okay, you do this Amount of hours you do something you like And then this many hours you do something you don't It was always No, I I want to live a life where I only do what I like It doesn't mean that I always want to do it. You know, it happens that You're not in the mood or something, but it has to be something where I would choose to do it anyway Even if I don't feel like it because I want to not because I have to Sorry, this is uh It's a topic that I've thought about for so long and Again, this this thing is the holy grail for me like this thing was What I based my life philosophy around You know, I've made so many sacrifices of Quit so many good positions I'm talking about amazing First it was good jobs Then it was an amazing job And then it was a super amazing job And I quit them all And then I built a business that made a shitload of money Doing what I love and then I quit that too because I was like maybe that's not the one You know, and then I built another business that was also extremely successful. And then you know what? I closed it down too Because I was like, no, that's not the one You know, and I've been burned so many times about going for shit That felt right to me And I've never regretted it Not even once I regret it, you know, maybe there's decisions I made that I was sorry for But there's nothing I regret it ever like no decision I've made Whereas like I'm not happy. I did that so Again, there's a good There's uh You know the light at the end of the tunnel you You're the one who basically creates the tunnel the tunnel doesn't really exist It's you choose to keep yourself captive Because you don't believe in yourself You don't believe that you'll find a solution Where you can Live a life that you like And you enjoy now I'm not saying It might not take you. You know, it might take a while to build it Obviously, whatever it is you like to do you might not get paid from day one But using the internet today You have so much leverage That It won't take you more than a few months You know, if you're I mean if you're really really bad It might take you a year or two of doing it on the side Before you get the sufficient income, but If you're smart, you know, you read books and you take a lot of action It should take you months And if you're really Smart and you know, you take a lot of action And you really come with the right headspace It could take you a month or two to Have your previous income from the job you had And this time you're doing what you love and I know it sounds wack because people's expectations are so low But this is the internet you have Millions of people connected You know So many people are becoming multimillionaires from the internet. It's not like a Phenomena, it's not like a thing Where it sort of happens To a very select few people anybody who gets you know Does they write on the internet Is making a lot of money Because it's leveraged because you have So many people there, you know So So You know, you just need to pull through the Short hard time That would take you to just sustain yourself at the minimal level Once you get there There's no ceiling to how much you can earn And there's no ceiling to how cool your life could get That's what I like about it and Again, check out every single Big youtube or you know people who are successful on amazon What else is there? Basically anybody who's on the internet and fairly big You know over let's say a hundred thousand Followers and does it right or over a million followers and even does a mediocre That person is a millionaire or he's going to become a millionaire Either way, they're all set because There's a huge enormous amount of abundance That you're just missing but you're not you're missing it Because you're not trying to tap into it. You know, you're not missing it because it's not there. It is there And the more time passes, you know, the more millionaires are created Uh, which by the way every year there's about two times As many millionaires created as the previous year Every year that passes you you get more and more Um a more clear sense of how undeniable this is that You know, the job era is pretty much over And basically it's it's gonna You know, it's it continues to go down Now, of course, there's going to be jobs that Kick ass, you know, there's going to be jobs like like a salesperson Or a salesperson who's really good Would always make a shitload of money Salespeople are, you know, great salespeople Have always been the most successful people in the world Um, you know other jobs like ceo or You know, just things that have need the human touch They're going to stay, um, whatever could be imported To places like India Would obviously be imported That job is going to be lost, but you know, some some of them cannot be imported But again, you know, obviously the people who are still watching this They're not watching this because they want to, you know, be really good at the job And they're watching this because they think there's something beyond So, you know, just go for it like, you know, feel free to Tell me whatever it is you like to do Or how your, um, character and personality Could fit into a cool life Again, for me, my biggest passion is coaching people I love to travel I love seeing new places I love meeting new people You know, and I do like, you know, fame and I do like fortune that's That's just things that I like So, um, that's for me At least that's my direction where I'm heading Um Hope to know what it is that you guys like to do And thanks for watching the video


Hello, we are going to do the Google Drive demo. This is the standard Google Drive demo I'll do for my courses. This may be a little different depending on the course you are currently enrolled in, so please pay attention to what is due on your Canvas page. So we have some instructions, and the first, we're going to do it step by step. So we're going to go to Pexels to search for a photograph of our favorite animal. So I already have it open here in a tab, and my favorite animal is a jellyfish. So I'm just going to search that image, and I'm just going to find an image of what I'm looking for and download whatever one I like. Again, this may have different instructions depending on what course you're enrolled in. So I really like this one, so I'm going to click on this photograph, and here it says Free Download, and I can download any size I want. I'm just going to download the original, and it's going to download. So once I have my image downloaded, I'm going to rename the file, so I'm going to actually take it from here and drag it into my hard drive so I can use it. And I'm going to have a specific file naming convention. This may be different by whatever course you're located in. So I'm just going to highlight this to make it simple and paste. Now where it says .exd, that's to mean extension. So that could be anything, a PNG, JPEG, MOV, whatever extension I'm looking for. Do not change anything after the dot. Keep the extension the same. Always have an extension. So I'm just going to paste this, and instead of saying your name, I'm just going to add my name there. No spaces are allowed, and this is exactly what I'm looking for. So next I'm going to go to my Google Drive and my Maricopa email. Again I can only accept submissions from your Maricopa email. And I'll need to make a folder with this specific naming convention. Again, this may be different from whatever class you're in. I have my Google Drive here.  I'm going to keep all my files in different folders to keep organization, and I'm just going to change create. So I'm going to double click and go into my folder, and I'm going to upload my file. I could go to new, and I can do file upload, folder upload, but I could just also just click and drag to make it very simple. Depending on what your file size, it may take longer or shorter, and also depending on your internet speed. So keep that in mind. The next step will be, alright, so we've uploaded our file. We want to create a link for our folder. So I'm right here is my folder, I can click this drop down to get link, or I can even go to the root folder, and I can click this link icon. Make sure you're sharing the folder, not the individual file. So click the link icon, and this dialog box will show up. Now we need to set the permissions, who is allowed to see these files. So I'm going to click this drop down, and there's three options, restricted, Maricopa Community College District, and anyone with the link. You need to select anyone with the link, because I am not in your Maricopa Community College District. Our emails are in separate servers, so they do not communicate. So you need to select anyone with a link, you can click copy link to hold it there. And this is another thing explaining your information, and we need to submit the assignment. So I have this window here, and I'm going to click start assignment, and I'm going to paste this URL, and I'm going to click submit assignment. Once I've submitted my assignment, I want to double check my work.  What I'm going to do is I'm going to open up an incognito browser. This means that I am not logged in to Maricopa. So I am going to copy this link, and paste it in my incognito browser. And I know that I'm successful because I can see the folder name, I can see my file, and actually it's asking me to sign in. I do not need to sign in, but this knows that anyone with the link can access it. I highly recommend you check every file you submit. Feel free to submit your assignment, and I wish you the best of luck. And if you have questions on the actual submission process, please feel free to send me an email. Thank you.


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Today we think about Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment insurance, religious and civic organizations, GoFundMe, and friends and family as providing help for us in times of need. We call this the Social Safety Net, but before this was the Garden. Since we as humans started living in one place, gardens have been our backstop against famine. We're losing our ability to help ourselves and our community by neglecting this mainstay of every single civilization in history. This is the Lotech Podcast. Hello and welcome. I'm Scott Johnson from Lotech Technology Institute. Your host for podcast number 54 on September 2nd, 2022. Coming to you are the Lotech Institutes Gardens in Cooksville, Wisconsin. Thanks for joining us today. We're talking about gardens before and after industrialization and the central role they've played and will play in our food system. We also have a few Institute updates. And don't forget to follow us on Twitter. Our handle is at low underscore techno. Like us on Facebook, find us on Instagram, subscribe to us on YouTube, and check out our website, LotechInstitute.org. There you can find both of our podcasts as well as information about joining and supporting the Institute and its research. Also some podcast distributors put ads on podcasts. Unless you hear me doing the ads, someone else is making money on that advertising. And while all of our podcast videos and other information are given freely, they take resources to make. And if you're in a position to help support our work and be part of this community, please consider becoming a monthly supporter for as little as $3 a month through our Patreon page, patreon.com slash Lotech Institute. Thanks to BeGribs, Phil J, and Sam B for signing up recently. If you'd like to sponsor an episode directly, please get in touch with us through our website, LotechInstitute.org. This episode is brought to you again by the Poor Pearls Almanac. Hey, this is Andy. And this is Elliott. And we're the Poor Pearls Almanac. We talk guns. Gardening. History. Ecology. Collapse. Agriculture. Hunting. Wait, wait, guys. What about boats? You know, in boats? Oh yeah, that too. If you're wondering what's wrong with the way we're living today, you're not wrong. And if you want to start thinking about solutions for when that check has to be cashed, you can find the Poor Pearls Almanac wherever you get your podcasts. This, this isn't a podcast. We're a commercial on a podcast. You don't need to tell them that. Today, we're going to hop in our time machine and head back to look at how everybody lived up until 100 years ago. And when I say everyone, I mean rich and poor alike. When I say everyone, I also mean in every country across the world where there are people who live in sedentary lifestyles. It's rare that we get to talk about something that is so universal, but yet is so far removed from how many of us live today. We're going to talk about gardens from the origin of domesticated plants through ancient Rome, Mesoamerica, onto medieval London and Germany by visiting each one of these stops along the way. We're going to come face to face with the dwindling importance of the garden in today's over industrialized world by looking at what our grandparents could do 100 years ago, that we're now becoming incapable of doing. So let's hop into our time machine and we'll press a few buttons, beep, beep, beep, and head back about 10,000 years to the Middle East. We could also be heading back 6,000 years in Mesoamerica, China, Europe or North Africa. The story of domestication is largely the same. As our time machine stops, we see a group of people we might think are hunter gatherers. They probably wear clothing woven of fibers and are living in semi-temporary shelters. And if we stick the babblefish from the Hintjager's Guide to the Galaxy in our ear and ask the people we see, how long have you been staying here? They might say, oh, we've been here a few months. Most people transition from hunter gathering to permanent sedentary societies through an intermediate stage called seasonal sedentism. Basically, they would spend a season near a great resource, like a nut tree or a series of nut trees in the fall or rivers during the spring salmon run. As they begin to spend more and more time at the same locations each year during a season, they begin to have an effect on the plants around them. They would often kill and cut down plants that are poisonous or dangerous and help encourage the growth of the plants they could use or eat. And over time, they would select for plants that had a suite of traits, fruits that hold their seeds or meat, fruits and vegetables with less chemical or physical defenses, meaning they tasted less bitter and they were less work to digest. They often selected plants that produced more. They encouraged something called synchronous germination, which is something that wild plants don't like to do. And that is they don't all like to grow and bloom and fruit at the same time in case the weather is bad at that time. So they spread out there blooming and fruiting over a season to ensure that some plants will survive the year. Domesticated plants are easier to harvest when they all are ready at the same time. Over generations of selecting the traits they want and discouraging those they didn't, plants become domesticated. And obviously I'm glossing over a lot of research on this, but we're only visiting this group in the Neolithic for a short time and now we're getting back in our time machine and heading to ancient Rome. We're visiting Rome, but we could be visiting many other pre-industrial large-scale complex societies. It just so happens that we have good records of gardening from ancient Rome. We have gardening and cookbooks as well as preserved gardens at Pompeii. And I'm going to read a long quotation from a book by Lawson into the record here as our time machine travels forward 8,000 years in history. Quote, until the first century BC, almost all Roman gardens were cottage gardens. Their plan and culture were governed solely by practical needs. From them the mistress of the house used to replenish her larder and medicine chest and adorn the family shrine with flowers. Pliny the elder reminds the luxury-seeking populace of later states that in the past a Roman garden was a poor man's only estate. It was the only market he had from which to provide himself with food. The prime function of a garden was to make its owner self-sufficient. This self-sufficiency was more easy of attainment in ancient Italy than in the Northern countries for the diet of the Romans consisted for the most part of salads. One of the chief considerations which made the Romans so fond of the garden was that its produce was always fresh and ready for the table without any cooking and thus ensured a great economy in wood fuel. End quote. And now as we see an example of this as we arrive in the Roman town of Pompeii just before the volcano Vesuvius covered in an ash in 76 BCE we arrive at the house of Panza which is a modest compound in town probably owned by an upper middle class family. Within its walls a quarter acre is devoted to a garden with eight foot wide beds, paths, canals, a spring and murals. The plots in ancient Rome our guide would tell us are called Ariae and anyone who's seen a garden in the United States would recognize them immediately. Beds were supposed to be four feet wide so you could weed them from either side just like gardening books tell you today. They had raised beds with wooden sides, little shovels and trowels and pots and fertilizer. They understood soil drainage and companion planting even if they didn't know about the exact biological reason for the success of growing different species together. But here we could even see a family that would be wealthy enough to buy all their food if they were transplanted to today's economy yet in ancient Rome they had an extensive garden for fresh fruits and vegetables. We have to keep moving and so we jump back in our time machine and head forward about 700 years and a half a world away to the village of Saren El Salvador. Like Pompeii this village was buried in Ash in the year five ninety five of the common era and as we get out of our time machine we see gardens bursting with a huge diversity of crops in a garden near a relatively modest thatched hut. Much more than we would expect to see instead of being grown in beds like in Rome they grew in what are called ridge and furrow gardens with one crop filling each ridge. The furrows are about two and a half feet apart and create a really beautiful striped mini landscape of a garden. And as we look around a little more we see almost all the trees in town are fruit or nut trees. Everything on the landscape is either medicinal edible or in some way useful. We hop back in our time machine and move forward a half a millennium to medieval Europe. In London we know a lot about what they were growing because seed purchases and garden allotments allotment rentals were recorded. The European medieval diet was sadly devoid of many of the exciting Mesoamerican vegetables like tomato potato squash beans and corn. Much of their diet was made up of root crops brassicas wheat nuts beans peas and greens and especially kales. Most of us think of wheat as the primary food of the European plate but much of the vitamins minerals and protein and diets came from potage that's potage P O double T A G E not porridge. Potage was an ever-evolving soup that lived in a big pot over the family's hearth. Each day new ingredients would be tossed in adding beans peas kale leeks onions garlic and when it was available meat fish or poultry. The next day the leftovers would just be added to create today's new potage. Even in London people had little gardens called kale yard or wart yards which provided most of their fresh ingredients. In Germany and Eastern parts of Europe people didn't have gardens attached to their properties but instead had small allotments up on the hills surrounding many of the valley towns. I remember when I was an exchange student in Germany many families had little gardens on the outside of town with a little shack and we would go up on a Saturday and take care of the gardens. We'd weed, we'd harvest, we'd have a picnic and of course drink a lot of German beer. Every weekend a harvest from the garden would be taken back to the house and this model that was still in place today has been around since the Middle Ages. Now we take our time machine back forward in time to the industrial age. We come to the early 1900s and the world is locked in the throes of the First World War. An article in Garden magazine from 1918 entitled Making a Nation of Garden Cities by Charles Lathrop Pack sums up the current state or aspired state of things during wartime. Quote, probably no other appeal to the patriotism of the American people has ever met with more widespread and generous response than war gardening. It's at the great heart of America beating from coast to coast. Inspired by the excellence showing made last year and spurred on by the knowledge that food will win the war. Men, women and children all over the United States took up war gardening this year, both as individuals and as members of various organizations they have gone about this as true soldiers of the soil in the same spirit with which their husband's father's brothers and friends went into the army and Navy and quote, obviously this is propagandistic, but during both World Wars and the Great Depression, food from far away became very expensive. Does this sound familiar to you today? At the time women controlled 90% of domestic food consumption and were the primary target of victory garden propaganda. So called slacker lands were brought into cultivation and these were basically any vacant lot, railroad right of way or even playgrounds under slogans like grass and weeds won't feed an army. And some municipalities like Cleveland even created ordinances to seize vacant lots and turn them into gardens. And the advice given to new gardeners then is also useful for us today. Don't bite off more than you can chew when you are just starting out. Build up to a large garden over a few years. And although the victory garden program ended with World War One, within a decade, relief gardens were springing up to combat food shortages during the Great Depression. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration recorded 1.8 million gardens registered with them growing 39% of all the fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States at the time. Although the government tried to discourage home gardens during World War Two under the assumption that industrial agriculture was more efficient and it was better for people to just buy food using ration stamps by the end of the war. They had given up and again supported homegrown food by the end of the war 50% of US households had gardens which provided about 40% of the US vegetable supply. And that was only 80 years ago, but it seems like much longer when we think about the capacity of American households today. So let's jump back in our time machine and come back to our present time for a minute. The pandemic significantly increased the amount of gardening done in the US. About half of households grew at least some food at home. The average value of the produce grown is about $600, according to a recent study. But this is only a small percent of the total vegetables consumed by an average household. There is a resurgence of interest in gardening among millennials and younger generations, but there is a significant break between our generations and those of our great grandparents who weathered two world wars and the depression growing lots of food at home. During the 1950s and 60s, growing consumer culture put social pressure on families to purchase all of their food at the supermarket. It was a sign of upward mobility to not have to grow any of your own food. Indeed, some honours associations forbid vegetable gardening, especially in public view. This is a disruption of a long line of generations of gardening knowledge, and this means that many of us have had to relearn the skills that would otherwise have been taught to us by our parents and grandparents at any other point in the last five to 10,000 years of human history. And of course, I have to point out that the only reason that we're able to get away without growing so much of our own food is because we have so much power at our disposal by using fossil fuels produced from California can only reach eastern markets without spoiling by rail or in some cases air. I don't think many people of this time period realize how absolutely decadent it is to have so much food available at grocery stores. Tomatoes and asparagus in the middle of winter are flown in from the southern hemisphere. The only time that people think about the seasonality of produce and fruits is when they notice prices going up and down significantly. So let's get back in our time machine for one last ride and jump 50 years into the future. It's now 2075 and fossil fuels have been largely unavailable for a whole generation. And that means industrial agriculture has been curtailed significantly. Transporting fresh fruits and vegetables across the continent is prohibitively expensive and new local alternatives are both cheaper and fresher. When we go to a typical neighborhood instead of seeing large lawns of monoculture grass dependent on fertilizer, we see backyards full of vegetable gardens. Some look like typical American style beds, while others have embraced more laissez-faire growing schemes like ours here behind me, allowing species to intermingle and create a thicket of vegetation. Former green spaces have been converted into shared potato fields, which provide much of this community's caloric needs with minimal labor. Many neighborhoods share some specialized tools and equipment that only gets used for a short time each year. Orchards that have been abandoned have been revived and expanded as community share both the work and produce of these resources. Gardening techniques from all over the world have been tried and adapted to work in different climates. Old ways that hadn't worked well have been adapted or discarded and new ideas have been developed. But much of the work comes down to elbow grease and building soil the old fashioned way, using so called waste products to increase soil fertility. While some staples can be purchased from larger scale production, much of the fresh and preserved fruits and vegetables come from local sources. If you talk to the locals in 2075, they find it hard to believe that people from just a century ago grew practically none of their own food. And when they look back at the timeline of human history, the exception is clearly the short time period between 1950 and 2030 when gardening was not a significant source of food. And now for a brief recap of the research we have going on around the Institute. This last weekend we had people out to the Institute to learn to spin flax into linen. 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Welcome back. Hopefully we're all excited. I am so relieved. The 4th of July week is finished. Caput, we're done. What's the next biggest holiday coming up? Maybe we've got a while.  August is a really popular month where people go away. I mean, everywhere in my town is just there in Greece or there in Italy. Okay. Or there's somewhere out west or in the Hamptons. But August might get a little bit slow, but we're probably going to... I don't know what I said this week because between Juneteenth and 4th of July and falling on a Tuesday, actually, you know what I found out? I've got to mention to you. Remember what I was telling you last week?  Well, I found out that the next year is a leap year. So what does that mean? So 4th of July is not going to fall on a Wednesday. It's going to be a Thursday. So that's usually a little bit better going into a weekend. So we don't have to worry about until next year. But we saw what happened. Let me tell you. Last week was phenomenal. We had some unbelievable moves on last week on some of the stocks. And we're going to go through them. I mean, everyone saw the stock mob.  I get a lot of likes from you guys, which was awesome. You know, regarding that, we took a screenshot and we were telling everyone a little bit early about the mob, what will be that stock when we posted it. I mean, a lot of you logged in early right around 745. This thing was around 250. It was just, you know, if you look at the stock right here, it's everything that we look for. It's got a good spread. It's got 19 million shares worth of volume. It's up 100%. I mean, it's a level one stock. It's everything that you were looking for. So it was just a really, really nice mover. And you know what? I look it over here and seeing this thing is going up right there. I mean, it started to trend down now. And I'll bring up level four beers. You guys can see what's going on right here. You can see right here, we had a nice little pop right here, broke this resistance. And then I'm not really seeing that many iceberg orders on it as some other stocks. I mean, it was testing this order here at 350 when he showed up, but it took this guy out right here around $3. And that was actually pretty good right there. I kind of like that right there. But anyway, nice little, nice way to start the morning. I like this morning was pretty good so far coming back. Overall, not real. We're going to go through the watch list, but let's talk about what happened on last week because last week was a pretty good day on Friday. I want to start off the GRRR. So this thing, if you look at this stock, I mean, look at this run up in the morning, right around 9.30, we found it. It was on the watch list. And let me just bring this here. OK, so everyone right here, you'll probably see it right here. Everybody see that on my list right there? That's Friday's list. I took a screenshot of this. And by the way, like on our Instagram, and by the way, we're going to have a lot of new YouTube videos coming out of how to use certain platforms and stuff like that. But I posted this up there. And if you're watching on YouTube right now and on Instagram, you'll see like, we take these screenshots and right there is a GRR. So anyway, it didn't really move until about 10 o'clock. And then out of nowhere, this thing just literally just popped from like 3.30, went up to $4 and just like nonstop. The thing ran to $4.75 up to $5.75. So even if you came late, that stock had a really, really good move. And if you remember what I said on Friday, that the main reason what made this stock so attractive and it went up the way it did is because there wasn't that much out there trading. And then what happened sometimes the day traders start catching up and the things start making a big move. But you know what? There was a lot of other ones that didn't move up. AAOI was a nice one. You could see it right here. It's been a really good swing trade since June was $2. Things up about 400%. It's continued to go higher stock this morning. We're from 6.40 up to $8. Rebion just won't stop. This thing is back on the Fausto list. Okay. It's on the Cybertrain, the C2 watch list. Rebion has been a unbelievable swing trade. I mean, Josh just sent me the photograph of that new pickup truck. It looks like people starting to catch wind of it. I think I got some really good reviews, but you can see here $14 stock up to 25. Great mover on Friday went from like 22 up to 25. This thing was $14 at the end of July. That was like less than a week ago. Okay. And it's funny not too many people are really talking about it. The other big thing is this Mara. Mara also has been on a really, really big tear. Stock was $10. We had a good move up on this day right here. What was that day right there? It was on the 20th of June. So that thing has been on a really good move. And I think we're going to talk about it. I know Josh will talk a bit about it when we were in the class, but the big thing that really attracts me about Mara is that BlackRock might be coming out with an ETF and they have to invest billions of dollars into it. But I don't know if everyone would have heard about that. If that happens, Bitcoin could take a big, big run up, but also if you're not going to trade the Bitcoin, you could always trade these blockchains that we kind of trade on also. So that, yeah, that one you also had, what was the other one? It was Riot, right? Riot was the other one? All right. What was that? I spelled it wrong. To boil and then riot. There's boil. Riot didn't move that much actually. It was, it was, it didn't move, but I thought, I thought that I thought the matter actually moved a little bit better, but let's look at some of the other stock. There was a couple of other ones here. So we talked about this one. We talked, oh, Carnival Cruise Line also moved pretty nicely. And then this last one right here, CRUB. That one also $5 all the way up to about seven bucks. The, the right, yeah, that was it. R-O-T. Yeah, that's it. Well, why do I keep spelling it wrong? R-O-T. There you go. There we go. Thank you. I felt that one actually did make a big move. You can see it right there. $13 up to about $15. And she's still on the move. And that's going to go back on the watch list. Riot actually is moving a little bit nicer than Mara as of right now. Many people starting to catch wind of it. But I think it's what, what more? A category two, three maybe sometimes. Nice little stock. But good day on Friday. And you know, I told you this just happens when it comes up to those days of a holiday. Usually, you know, these companies have to come out with news. They make out. So make, they come out with something or something happens in with, with the, I don't know, government news, whatever it has. And maybe it's really good pops. Anyway, let's talk about what's moving this morning because today is Monday. Now we know Mondays, you got to be careful because you finally coming back from a long weekend and people just starting to get their feet wet. The market is literally up nine points. That's it. Oh, it just went up 10. Okay. So we had a little correction in the Dow. You could see it. It took a little bit of a big hit. Big resistance at 34,534,500. Right now we're hitting about 33. You could see it took a really big turn on Friday. A big, big crack out right there. And it still didn't really come back that much. So I would be really careful on what, what to trade on a day like today. We had a couple of stocks on there. We had MOB. We've been throwing out watch list. There was this other stock that is moving to a 48% 2 million shares. Spread. I'm not too crazy about tier size or really small flat trading. We got the, so we got, we got the CRBU, which is from Friday CRBU. We're throwing that on the watch list. We got MOB. We're going to keep an eye with that one is from this morning. We got Revon RIVN. Okay. That's continuing from front and from the past week. Riot. We're going to put that one on the watch list. You can see that one still has got a nice little push on it. Let's check on level four on this stock really quick. Got level four on riot right here. You can see we got a push over here. Let me show it in here on a bigger screen so you guys can see it. So you got a couple of big buyers right here, some sellers out here around 16. And what do we got going on with riot? So be here. There we go. So a little bit buyer here, 1550 starting a little ladder effect, 10,000, 10,000 right here, 1560 and 60. So you get a little bit of a push out there. Let me scroll out a little bit further. You can see how nice and dark it gets right there. So we're getting a little bit, nothing, nothing super spectacular. And then listen, let me see something showed up because I was looking earlier. I didn't see that much. I saw this stock was too expensive. HGLE. Not crazy about that one. This one TMC is moving. Okay.  You just made a pop right now. Obviously eight o'clock move, which is program trading. By the way, this is not AMC. This is TMC pretty close to it. But what a great run up the stock was 75 cents in the back of June. It's up literally up about 300%. If not higher, been on a really big move all of a sudden really curious to the news is on that. We'll check it out. We'll throw it in the, on the watch list, uh, in the cyber group room, in the training room. We'll look up the benzene and see what the news is. Got to sell it right here for 11,000 at three bucks. That's about it. Nothing crazy. But you know what? Things moving up pretty, pretty nicely. But remember what I always taught you traders when we trade. And if you're in my advanced class and so much students out there, whatever goes up very fast comes down twice as very fast. So just always think about just taking the profit. Hopping over here on the New York stock and change anything out there. Biggest percentage gain or 13% WBX garbage boils, making a little bit of a comeback. $60 stock. You know, we did a swing trade on that one. Nothing crazy about that. All right. We're at 4%. So we're done. Anything at least that 10% we're pretty much done. All right. So like you can see the list is not huge. Okay. It's not really that big right there. You can see it, but it's okay. I mean, we got some stocks on here. We always know something's going to pop up. Cyber traders, anything I'm missing, um, any traders up here that I'm missing up there that I did not call out. Anyone also on YouTube, Facebook, anyone out there, Instagram, anyone out there looking at anything else. I think that pretty much it's Monday, you know, that's what we got to expect that pretty much. All right. Good. All right. So anyway, let's get ready for the market opened up. Um, by the way, if you want to join our trading room, let me just post this up here for you. For some of you here, you can click over here. I posted up a little QR code. So, for those traders, like I said, you see something, say something. I know we have a lot of new members that are joining us in a trading room. Once again, don't buy anything. All you supposed to do is watch. Okay. That's all we ask you to do. Listen to how the traders think for themselves. And hopefully you'll like it. Maybe you want to continue with that and be part of our family. So everybody, good luck today. Happy trading. Be safe. And we'll start commentary once the market opens up, everyone else on social media, we back here at 230. All right. Good luck everyone. Trade safe.


This time, subscribers also get a 30-day money back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up. 6-6-4-8 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Larry Pesavento. Okay, folks. I posted a chart of the 1991 oil market. We were making new highs at $41 a barrel. I mentioned there was a three-drive pattern. I went short at 41. I was getting my hair cut. My daughter called me and said, turn on CNN. And it was midnight over there for eight hours difference. And they were lighting up Baghdad. It looked like the 4th of July. And bombs were going off anywhere. And the war had started. And of course, everybody expected crude oil to be up a lot and gold to be up a lot and stocks to be down a lot. Well, the war only lasted 36 hours. And that was the big key. Well, later on that evening, this was four o'clock, I would start calling every five minutes for five and a half hours to get through to the New York office of the old Drexel Burnham Group, Goldburn Brothers, to find out what was going on. Remember, we didn't have overnight markets in the U.S. They did in Europe because Europe, it was over there midnight. It was in the morning, but they did have overnight markets in crude oil and gold, nothing in stocks. And I asked Richie, I said, you know, where's the gold? He said, 25 lower. And I said, limit down. And he said, yeah. And I said, crude oil, where's crude oil? I said, there's no bids. And I said, Richie, come on, where's it at? 39, 38, where's it at? And he said, no, there's no bids, Larry. He said, there hasn't been a trade and we're trading at $28 a barrel. I said, you mean we're down $13 a barrel and there's not been a trade? He said, that's absolutely right. Well, finally, oil did open at around 15 lower, rallied about $4 and then proceeded to go to $11 a barrel in January of the following year. The reason why I'm trying to bring this history back to yourself, folks, these things, these charts that we look at, believe it or not, they have some predictive ability and they follow the market and the news. They know what's going on. So when it's over, it's over. And someday here, soon in the stock market, we're going to have one hell of a rally. I talked to Tim Boss last night and he is not going to be able to come on maybe till Thursday or Friday of this week and we'll be able to see if we can get him on. But he's in the midst of that flood down there in Florida, plus he moved. So he's just got a lot of things going, but he'll get back to us. You remember, he pointed out the importance of the September 28th period and then we had the rally and then he also mentioned to look for a low sometime around the 20th of October, 20th to 21st of October.  Stan was looking for pretty much the same thing. One is looking at it on the eyes of an astrologer. The other one is looking at it the eyes of an engineer who happens to be a mathematician. That's Stan Harley. So when they come together, that makes it very, very interesting. Now on Wednesday, we're going to have Bill Meridian of Cycles Research on and Bill's also looking end of October for something pretty significant to happen because when this short covering thing does happen, it's going to be a really big one. The news is so bearish now. I'm surprised that Dow Jones isn't down a thousand points, given the fact that what happened with China and some of the other things that we call it. The US dollar is still screaming, the euro's collapsing expecting, but more than that folks, more than that, there's a market out there that we've been bearish on for a long time and folks, now the cat's out of the bag. I mean, this thing is really getting nasty and that is our treasury bonds and treasury notes. I'll get this up here so you can see it here one second and then we'll be able to talk about a little bit. Remember, we've been very bearish this for several years because of the big ABCD that was up here and then you can see the 135 pattern that formed here. Now remember, this is a weekly and our target on this was 128. Folks, we're at a 123 handle right now. So whenever we get this bottom right in here, we are going to have a pretty good rally. It looks like it could get to 117 is what it's looking like. The treasury notes looking the same and the rates are just going skyrocket because they've got to be able to control some of this stuff in the marketplace. The only way they can do that is through the bond market, but unfortunately the bond market is collapsing. There's where the problem. The problem is in the debt market. Stop and think where stocks are folks. Look how much bonds have come down, folks. We're from 176. We're trading at 123. That's a huge, that's 40% of the value of the bond. Hello, operator. Same thing is happening in England. The same thing is happening in Italy and the same thing is happening in several South American countries are having the same problems. So there's the problem. It's in the equity markets partly, but the big part is in the interest rate markets and that's why these things are so far down and it's going to be more difficult for the Fed to even do anything if they want to do anything because as the price of the bonds go lower, that means people when they convert them, they have to convert them back to dollars, which is strong. And so they can buy these bonds back at a much smaller price than the issued amount. But the problem is if the interest rates keep going higher, which they do, because when the bond drops, interest rates go up, they have to pay more interest on that bond. If it's a coupon bond, like the 6% bonds are. Okay. Anyway, that's what we're watching here. But we're watching that timeframe of October. It's always saying, remember, we haven't even taken out the June lows yet in the, I don't know if we've done it in the NASDAQ. I know we were really close earlier this morning, but when we take that out, I think it's going to make it apparent to some folks that, yes, yeah, well, maybe it could be, oh, I've got to show you something else that where I wanted to show you dogged on it. Here is the stock market. This is where we were on January the 17th. I'll get this up here to see it here. It's going to be because it's there's the little pullback right here. That was January 17th, right at the eclipse of New Moon. We were setting at a 61% retracement in the Dow Jones and the S&P. I was doing the S&P, and it was just absolutely perfect. It was a Wednesday, and I bought it and actually had about a five or six point profit in it at the close. And remember, this is when it was trading at $500 a point. So what happened was when they came in in the morning, the next morning on the 18th of January, the Dow Jones gapped up. Remember, there was no overnight trading in these things that we have now. That was way long before the internet. Anyway, that's what happened was anyway, gapped up and that gap is still unfilled. You can see we went all the way up to $35,000. What I'm concerned about here in the markets now is this liquidity factor that we have going on. If you remember, Jeff Hughes was on last week, and he mentioned the fact that these companies have been buying this stock all the way up, propping the price of the stock up. But if they have to start selling to get capital, oh dear, that's going to be a really bad thing. So liquidity is drying up a bit, and that makes it a little bit of a different situation here of what we're looking at. So let's say we've got some other things we've got to cover. We've got to cover the DAX, and we need to cover the gold and the silver very close. We're going to have some tremendous buying opportunities soon, folks. So stay with us. We'll be right back after this break,<PHONE_NUMBER>. At the time of booming inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your harder and money than a gold. Vista Gold's flagship asset is the Monctard Gold Project in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in a tier one mining district. 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But folks, you know, we talk a lot about that pattern that we like, which is the 382 pattern. So all I'm going to do now is go down to a smaller time frame here in the NASDAQ and show you what actually happened today. So bear with me here and we'll be right back with you. And I hope this is it. And here it is. Remember, this is as of Sunday night and all day today. You'll see this as of the opening, folks. That's where the opening we were having that rally. No guest today, Al. Tomorrow, I'm not sure. I haven't been able to check. I know I have Bill Meridian is scheduled on Wednesday. Tomorrow, I don't... I'm supposed to have Tim Boss, but he's just swamped with the flood and all that stuff. Anyway, that's a chart of the 382 on the NASDAQ. You can see it had a pretty nice move. And we've got a guest today, Mr. Z. John Cheney from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is in the house. John, how are you? Sorry, I'm doing that. Well, glad to hear you're doing well and we're sending some white light out there to Tim Boss. Hope that he's got some helping hands to help him recover. He does. He's hanging in there pretty good, buddy. Thank you for asking. Excellent. Larry, I called you for a couple of reasons. One was to just discuss on air with you an observation I made over the weekend, which you and I have talked about here. But before doing that, just to compliment the points you made on liquidity concerns, in the Tiger's Den just a minute ago, I posted the yield on the German Bund, the monthly chart going back 15 years or so. And the same phenomenon in the rising rates, rising yields that you see in the US, in Britain, in Italy, to which you just referred, you have the same thing going on in Germany. The thing that is noteworthy there that I just point out to you and your listeners, reinforced to myself, is that back in 2019, the yield on the Bund went negative and stayed negative all of 2020 and 2021 and now has screamed higher. And I just mentioned that to say there are so many debt securities in Europe that are so dramatically underwater now because all those market participants, pension funds, government actors and the like, were buying those instruments at negative yields and now have just, frankly, catastrophic capital losses, which my suspicion is, is just going to wreak havoc with things and only in the fullness of time will we quite understand exactly what that was and what has gone on. John, I agree with you 100%. When you look at the long-term bond market and long-term treasury note market, we topped a year and a half ago, almost a little more than two years ago. And now we're in a free fall now. We don't know how far these bonds are going to go to the downside because there's a giant unknown out there because there's $31 trillion in debt, you know, a lot of it's underwritten by the treasury notes and bonds. And if these start to fail, that thing in the front of our bill that says, in God we trust might have to be changed to in God we trusted. And then that's when the proverbial, that's when the- I love it. Yes, that's right. Well, that's when the proverbial, poop will hit the fan if that happens. But you're correct. I'm going to post, stay with us here for just a second, John. I'm going to post a chart in the den just to show you where we are with this because we've never seen spikes like this. This is only the fifth time in history where this is going back to the last 40 years. In the last 40 years, it's only happened four times. I'll get it up here and take a look at it. If you look at this first one on the far left, that was in August of 1985. That's when they had the Plaza Accord in New York City when all the G6, it was G6 at the time, came together and said, well, the dollar stops going up here and they changed a whole bunch of stuff and you can see that's what happened. But there's been other times along in here, but this thing has shot up so fast. This has been the fastest rise in the history of the world. We have never seen rises like this in interest rate. John, 8% is the interest rate now for mortgages here in Tucson. We were three and a half just a few months ago and people, they can't afford to buy a house because it basically doubles the price of the house or the mortgage and that's what's killing it. So those things are not good for the economy, but maybe it'll all change. We'll wake up tomorrow and Putin will surrender and become a servant to Ukraine who knows, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on out there, nothing like I've ever seen and I thought I'd seen everything. Indeed, we're seeing something every day. Larry, in keeping with a ABCD projection target that you have given on the S&P 500 for weeks and maybe a month or two now, down at the roughly 3,150 level. In keeping with that, I posted in the Tiger's Den and shared it with you this weekend a development that I haven't seen people share and that is the very tight correlation of the S&P 500 to total U.S. commercial bank reserves over going back to the great financial crisis and coming out of that from 2009 into 2020, the stock market was incredibly tightly correlated to the increase in size of the Federal Reserve balance sheet as it was doing QE like crazy. That changed and what I observed I was doing some study and got a note from a colleague and then investigated the data myself and saw that in 2021 and 2022 here, the S&P is incredibly tightly correlated, not so much with the Federal Reserve balance sheet any longer, but with reserves held at the Federal Reserve by commercial banks and during 2021, those reserve balances were increasing peaked out late 2021 and have been in dramatic decline since. Now of course, as I mentioned just in a note that I shared with you this weekend, the financial system is a highly complex system and the major players of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, U.S. commercial banks, perhaps the Bank of International Settlements and others all play a role in that system and for reasons I don't entirely comprehend, reserve balances at commercial banks held by yes, reserve balances at commercial banks held at the Federal Reserve have become tightly correlated to the S&P so I have to share that with you. 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I'm at Los Angeles, California, and I'm at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and I'm in the delivery room, and my wife was getting ready to give birth to our little daughter, the second one, Laryn, and she was due anytime now, and I was in the room getting ready to help deliver, and the little sweetie came out, and I cleaned her up. I gave her her first bath, and they don't use water and stuff.  My mother was in the waiting room. She came in from tarot to take care of Jilly and also helped the wife and stuff, so she was there, and I had a $50 bet on the Mets and the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series 1969, and by golly, I lost the bet as the Mets beat them in five games, and the game ended while Laryn was in the delivery room, and so I have her in my arms. I walk out into the waiting room there, and there was my mother, and I said, here she is. She's a beauty, I said, but she's not as cute as Jill, and the next thing I heard was this terrible sound on the side of my face. My mother hit me so hard. She slapped me so hard. Everybody heard it. I mean, I was totally shocked, and she says to me in Italian, you're going to be very sorry you said this, and then she said a few other words that I can't mention here on the air, and I said, oh my god, mom, I said, I didn't mean that. I said, at first of all, it was a very emotional day. In the morning, I got a phone call from Eli Lilly's home office, and I got a huge promotion to a product manager for cephalosporin antibiotics, so I was going to have to move the family back from California back to Indianapolis, and then the Mets were playing the Orioles, and then they had this beautiful baby delivered. Well, my mom really got even, because 14 years later, my little daughter, Laryn, was picked as the Noxima cover girl for all the stuff going on in Southern California.  She made $15,000 on that, and they never let me forget it. Every time this time of the year, do you remember what you did, and I go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they rubbed my nose in it, and I should have it rubbed in. I didn't mean it anyway, but that's what basically happened. So anyway, that's neither here nor there. My kids still, they still follow Dodger baseball. They just can't get it out of their system, so I'm certainly glad of that. Okay, let's talk about some markets, folks. I posted a chart of the Dow E-mini up there. We rallied 350 points overnight, folks, from being down 200 to be up 150. It stopped exactly at the 382 retracement, and if we take a look at the E-mini S&P, let's just get it up here, and you'll be able to see we did exactly the same thing in the S&P. Let me get it up here a little bit differently. The reason why I'm bringing this to your attention here is because remember the two things that we have in strong trending markets to help us move is one is the 382, and the second one is the ABCD. Now, here's the S&P here on Friday. You see we had that 382 retracement to the exact price up here, 37.20. Look at this. We break all the way down. We don't make a 382 here. You see how we miss it by about 20 points, but we make a, in this red box, you can see the little ABCD right there. There it is, and we're already breaking down way into this level right here. Once we take this out, I think the market's going to start to accelerate, but that's just a guess, and guesses don't count here, except in tiddlywinks, horseshoes, and hand grenades. Let's watch that as we go through and look at some of these others. Now, there's some other markets that are the one market that we've been watching strongly on Friday. If I remember, I pointed this out to you that there was a great deal of support in the wheat down here at the 78% level, folks. And today, believe it or not, we hit, but believe it or not, we went above this, folks. We went all the way up to 946. Here we are. That's a dollar, almost a dollar, 80 cents a bushel in two days. Somebody's starting to buy a lot of grain, folks, if they think something's going on over the Crimea or whatever it is. All I know is that is acting extremely good. So if you're in that one, hang on, bite your nails, and you'll be able to see whether it's going to go much higher or not. So we want to watch it very, very closely. I think it's important that we do that. Now, I want to bring this next one up with a NASDAQ here, because this is where the problem lies, because of what's going on in the computer chip industry. Folks, computer chips have been dropping for months and months and months. Just look at the chart of AMD and Intel. They've been going down. They've been in a bear market. So today they wake up and say, oh, they're not going to be selling any to China. That must be buried. So now there's more coming in. Folks, these charts have predictive natures. This is why Andrew Lowe wrote his book, The Non-Random Walkdown Wall Street. They don't repeat all the time, but they repeat most of the time. And nobody's going to be right all the time. So all you've got to do is pick the ones that you want to trade. And as Warren Buffett said, the two major rules is don't lose any money. He's rule number one. And rule number two is don't break rule number one. Well, you've got to take a risk somewhere, and that's what it's all about. And that leads me to something that I really think you folks ought to listen to. Okay. And give me one second here. Oh, where are you, Mr. J.O.B.? Oh, I got this thing written down and everything. I just can't find it. Give me a break, please. I have it.  I've got such a great quote from Steve Jobs. And by golly, I know it's here somewhere, and I cannot find it. Well, I keep looking and looking and looking and looking and looking. I can't find it. T. and I was just reading it just a little yesterday. Son of a god, that just thrusts the top of my head. Anyway, let's, all right. I don't want to spend, I'll tell, let's move over to the gold market, something I do know a little bit about. Here's the gold, folks. This is a monthly chart. If you'll remember here, we've been bearish on this for quite some time. We still think we're going to get down below 1600 very shortly. But this is the monthly chart. And I wanted to show you certain things. Look at this monthly range in here. You see when the market broke the monthly range, how the bias was to the downside. Look what we've done now, folks. We've broken the monthly range now on the gold. This is very, very bearish. That's the thing that you've got to remind us. Once these things break these, they have a tendency to be very, very bearish. And what do we know? Johnny's raising his hand back there. Yes, Johnny. Johnny's back with us, folks. It didn't work out flipping burgers over at McDonald's. He ate as many as he could, then he got tired. So he's back trading. Yes, Johnny. We see your little sign that 382. And let's just see how you would have done today if you would have been doing something in the old gold today.  Look at this, folks. Right there, your 382 retracement market rally, $17 breaks. Look at Sunday night, folks. We're lower. We rally up to the 382 off of that primary high here on Friday. And look at this. It just keeps dropping and dropping and dropping and dropping and dropping. So keep it in your armamentarium for when you run out of bullets, use your, use the last bullets on the 382 is what I would suggest. I believe if I'm not mistaken by the old clock on the wall, that we have a pretty interesting commercial coming up here in 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1. And when we get back from this, we're going to take a look at the FTSE and the DAX. And we have a couple requests for things to look at. 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The low was 3600, and now you can see we're rallying again. We're right up near the 382 retracement on this here at 3625. That should be it if it's bearish. It shouldn't get any higher than that, but if we start moving higher, and if we start moving higher, it could get a lot higher because it breaks that. It tells you that that A, B, C, D, that took a good six and a half hours to form, four and a half hours to form, could be a pretty substantial bottom. I don't think that it is, but again, I'm just guessing, and guessing doesn't do much for you. So let's keep that in mind as we're watching some of these things here unfold here this morning. Okay, let me get back here. I'm trying to find out where I am in the scheme of things, and I've lost one of my charts. How did I ever do that? Now that's not fair. Son of a gun, we're going to have to figure out what to do next here, so I'm not going to worry about it very much. Let's get back and talk about, hold on, just about the footsie. Several people have asked me about that because they have friends in the UK, and we will get that footsie chart up here. Looks very similar to what we're watching here. Not good, not good. Got to remember to hit the right button. Larry, okay, here's where we are, and here is the footsie. As you can see, it's been in a downtrend, and it looks like the targets are a little bit lower down in here, which is about normal. You can see the big one right here, just to write exact the 3A2. Even the footsie can speak Italian, and it sees the 3A2 right here. That tells us we're going to come down a little bit lower here in the footsie. Now the next one we want to take a look at is we're going to go over to Germany, where they make the German cars, including Volkswagen, Porsche, and the BMW. Let's get this up, and Mercedes-Benz. Don't want to forget the big daddy rabbit in the room. We'll get up here, and here is the chart of the DAX. You can see it's been much weaker than the, why I don't know, because you would think the European one, the footsie, would be lower. But the difference is footsie is really international stocks. There are very few London stocks on the footsie index, even though it's traded there. But you can see here, this is a big 135 pattern here, folks, on this, I believe it is a four-hour chart. No, it's an hourly chart, and you can see here that's a 135 pattern. We came down and tested the 61% retracement, and that's holding okay. But given everything that's going on, folks, you just got to be really, really careful in here, because these markets, boy, they have the tendency. We haven't seen really fear come in, folks, even with all the negative things that are going on today.  But you would think that the people would be a little bit more concerned given all the things that are happening. Now, if you remember, I'm going to bring this up again, because I think it's important, and we're going to have Tim Boston this week, hopefully Thursday or Friday, if not next week for sure, and he's going to go over this sequence of events that he pointed out to us way back on September the 26th, because, boys and girls, this was exactly what was happening in our market at that time. In 1987, the market bottomed here on the 28th, it was an eclipse. It rallied up into October the 2nd, that seven-day rally. That's what we just completed, folks, just completed back there on October the 4th. Here we are a week later, and then they're wondering why the thing. See, we haven't broken below this key level right here. See, once we break below that key level, that's when the selling should start. And if it's correct, and if it's time sequences from low to high to low to high, it's going to be 34 days from the high we made back here.  Blackjack, 21st of October. So that's where we're looking at. There happens to be eclipse at that time. I believe that's a lunar eclipse at that time. So that's going to be a big one. So let's watch this. It's going to be interesting. Anyway, Tim's going to explain the whole ramifications of why the planets were lined up exactly like they were. I mean, he said, as close as you can possibly get to a Swiss watch, that same thing was happening this year, and it's happening, and that means if it's correct, and so far it has been, we're not going to bottom for another two weeks, and that'll take us right down to October. The two weeks would be October the 20th, around 21st. So that's 11 days from today. So that's what we'll be watching 11 days from today. Let's look at that one. That would be the 21st. And that, oh, that's a Friday. That'll be triple-witching probably. Yeah, that's going to be a, that'll be a bonsai day. So we got to watch that one, you know, very, very closely here. So I hope you stay tuned to when we have Tim Boss. He will explain to us again, you know, exactly, you know, what he was doing and why. And I think it'll be interesting, interesting for everybody. Now I want to just get back for just a second here and talk about the silver market because we've been involved with that for a while. I want to get this up here. You'll be able to see this. We did this on the air while it was happening. So I hope that few of you remember that some of these patterns work. And when they do, they work very well. You'll notice that right here was a 1.618 expansion on this four-hour chart. And not only that, it was also the 382 on the long-term monthly folks going back three years. It stopped exactly at the same price, 2130. The high was 2131. And you'll notice we broke down to the 382 the first time, then we rallied right up to the 61% retracement. And what we've done now, we've completed to an ABCD, very, very strong support coming in here. So far it's not holding, but if we can hold this level somewhere in this level of the 61% retracement down around 18 bucks, it's got a chance to be something really, really special. I'm watching this one like a hawk because I think the long side is the side to be, but I haven't triggered the buy point as of yet. But we're getting closer and closer. This will also be a 20-minute line, folks. When you draw the line from the far left through this high and over to here, that's going to get you right into that level right here. And that level is right about, I think, just a little under $15 an ounce in the silver. So that's really, really important. It's also a fact that this thing maybe have topped for a long time and it's going to break and gold's going to go down to $1,100 or something. That's also the possibility. So remind ourselves that these things are not etched in stone. We're just dealing in probabilities for heaven's sakes and that's really all you can do. So wow, we had one heck of a rally while I was gone here. I see the S&P got all the way up to $39.40. Boy, that's a heck of a run here. This is great. It went through the 382 like it didn't even exist. Boy, here's one here, folks. We'll be right back. I'll show you this one in just a second. Vista Gold owns and operates the largest undeveloped gold project in Australia, the Mount Todd Gold Project. Vista Gold just completed their feasibility study, resulting in a 7 million ounce gold reserve. Vista Gold has all major permits approved and has retained CIBC Capital Market Assistance in evaluating alternatives and in completing an accretive transaction. Vista Gold trades on the NYSE American and TSX under the ticker symbol VGC. Vista Gold executing a strategy to create shareholder value. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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Go to tfnn.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's tfnn.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Okay folks, we're gonna have a nice lesson here. Here is the, you can see the three drive to a bottom pattern right down here on this four minute, I think it's an eight minute chart. There's drive one, drive two, drive three. There was your three, eight, two. I marked this while we were talking just a little while ago and look how quickly it went through, folks. This is a losing trade. I mean, you go right through the three, eight, two, stop has got to be right above the 50% level. As you can see, we're above the 61% retrace for now. So this could be pretty substantial. Well, it already is a substantial bottom because the dials already rallied 350 points and the S&P's rallied 40 some handles. So that's why it stops her for protection, folks. These markets do not repeat 100%. They only repeat about 65 or 70% of the time. And remember, it's not chaos because within the chaos or non random patterns, they do repeat, but they do fail.   And I am going to do a special on this thing for Steve Jobs here, coming in here tomorrow because it's really a spectacular. It was his last words, folks, and at the last iPhone meeting right before he passed away. And I think you're going to really enjoy what his thoughts are on what was coming in the next life because it was really, really super cool. And I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit. Now, tomorrow, I don't have a guest yet. I'm still trying to get someone. And Wednesday, we will have Bill Meridian. He'll be on for the full show. He's got a lot of things on the gold, the interest rate stocks and currencies and stuff. So that'll be really, really good. Cycles research out of Vienna, Austria. Then on Thursday or Friday, I still have a chance of getting Tim Boss depending how things go down in Florida. So live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless and do something nice for your neighbors, folks, because things are tough out there. And we'll see you on the flip side tomorrow and may God bless.


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This is the making of Odyssey, my unofficial best customs contest for 2022. Odyssey was created without knowing if I was going to be able to enter the contest or not, but I wanted to follow the rules of the contest and I wanted to create an even better, more extreme, drastic custom. And in order to make this super extreme, I decided to take a Shire draft horse model and shrink it down to a stock horse model. So this would be unrecognizable of what mold this horse started as. I started with this sketch of a Pintelusa Mustang stocky type horse and I knew that I wanted to use this draft Otheo model to create the customization. Starting with the sketch is really helpful so I laid out the pose I wanted to do and I knew I was going to have to cut a lot of these feathers off of the legs. This was going to be a lot of sanding and removal of the plastic. So I got right to it and started hacking up the horse. This was a lot of plastic on this model so he needed so much plastic removal. So here we pop off the tail. I always remove the ears because we don't need those. And I start by sawing off the small portions so I'll start with the ears. Then I'll go to the mane, then I'll go to the legs, then I'll go to the head and I like slowly remove everything so that I have a solid base to cut into because if you cut off the leg and then have to cut off all these feathers it would be a lot more work. I started just by hacksawing chunks then dremeling all of the plastic off. I'm basically looking for a skeleton to insert inside of the model because we're reducing him down so much and this guy just is very plastic heavy. For the feathers I proceeded to hacksaw off majority of the plastic and then dremel it down a lot. So I didn't film too much of this because it was very repetitive and it just took several hours of basically this and trying to carve a normal sized horse hoof out of that chunk of feather plastic. So this was the outcome that I got and he has legs and I chopped off his head. I was playing with the placement of everything and it ended up turning into a demolition and I just cut him up into a million pieces and I thought this was crazy that this is how the horse started.  Then I was able to print out my drawing to the briar size and I was able to reposition all of these shoulders hips and legs to better fit the pose of the model and so this is kind of my process in general cutting everything up and kind of puzzle piecing it back together. So here I'm doing that with my toilet paper roll filler method which I have another video on.  He ended up being a little bit bigger than I had originally hoped for. So then I ended up cutting some of this foam and adding that into the crevasse of the model here. That was just helping as like a filler for something to glue together. I got him standing here on three legs and this is a lot of checking how everything is going to go, that the balance is correct because he needed to stand on the three legs and I was deciding if I wanted the same head pose as the drawing so it's fun to when the head is loose to kind of play with that. And once I was fairly happy with how the body was coming together I wanted to solidify it so that's where I used my smooth on freeform air and I mashed that all over the horse so we fill in all those large gaps with this because it's very lightweight and it also solidifies the model so that I have a stronger sculpture to kind of work with. So when we're working with the leg positions we just want to get it together and then we can remove parts and resurface it a little bit better. After that cures I sand it down a little bit so that I have a smooth surface to kind of work on and get like the anatomy a little bit better because some of that was a bit chunky in there. And then I can continue to build so I attach the head and neck with some wire and then I fill in the gap with that with some tin foil. You can see that all of this plastic has been sanded at this point he's got no black left basically and then we start the sculpting process and I didn't film too much of this particular horse but we reworked him and I just built up the muscles on top of that plastic base to fable my original at the time and then when I gave him hair he really started to come to life and then you can see him next to his counterpart he looks nothing like the Othelmo is able to prep him and sand him down. I was able to start the painting process so I always start with airbrushing a base coat so I use white generally and that helps check for flaws and everything. Painted him with some brown tones and some gray tones and really adding those tones into his armpits his flank around his muzzle around his eyes. Gray tone on top of that brown tone but I'm bearing in mind that he's going to be in apollosa so I don't need to focus too much on his hindquarters. I added a slightly darker gray shade on top of that to help build up those layers of color. I give him to my pastel station and I proceed to pastel some herring detail onto him this helps with the shading so I get into those creases make those a bit darker and make the high points of the muzzle a little bit lighter so this is also the layer that I was going to add dapples. I make these layers really dark really nice and how I would want them really smooth. I can pull out the pastel to make dapples using a pencil eraser I like the favorite castel pencil erasers for this but I am avoiding his hindquarters entirely because I know that he's gonna have an apollosa bum so he doesn't need dappling on his hind end. So here's the phase that he was in and then I can start mapping out those markings with white paint. His blanket I wanted to leave spots so I actually am literally painting the spots on making them a little bit bigger than I would want because we're going to add some herring edging to them all. Some markings mapped out and then it's a process of just continuing forwards with this until things are solid white so lots of hair detailing around all of the spots around the edging of the blanket and many many many layers of white so this just takes a lot of time to reach full of pastel. There he was with both of the markings mapped out. He was also able to paint his mane and tail and I also took a little fan brush and proceeded to hair detail most of his body and I was accentuating some of those dapples a little bit more kind of painting them on and then dabbing with them with my finger so that there wasn't a harsh contrast. And that is basically the creation process of Odyssey. He turned out really cool. This has been the creation of Odyssey. I hope you enjoyed. Maybe you learned something. Thank you so much for watching and happy customizing.