The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning market's kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Friday morning everybody, I'm Tommy O'Brien, company live from TFNN, 9.06 a.m. As we come into the trading week, we get a long weekend to prepare for as well. Markets close Monday for President's Day and we got right now the S&Ps up two points, trading at 43.77, NASDAQ up 27 points. Dow, negative by 10 points right now, Russell, positive by two, markets across the board had men higher, you check out the action. They accelerate at about 10.30 p.m. Eastern time, S&Ps trade from about 43.70 up to 44.10. You're talking about 40 points, almost a full percentage point. We held on to most of those gains. We're sitting right at about 44.00 at 8 a.m. Eastern time. And then some news, geopolitical news tensions ratcheting up yet again in the market, sell off pretty quickly. 40 S&P points, we give it up, since then we've bounced 20 points, we got volatility in spades, quite the sell off yesterday as well. You jump over to the VIX, almost made it to 29 this morning, 28.66. That's above yesterday's high. We are sitting at 27.44. Commodities, Bitcoin, currencies, quite the acceleration, news out yesterday. I think President Biden is gonna sign executive order, having to do with cryptos possibly next week. I saw that headline hitting the tape and markets on the crypto sector, along with the whole market, right? Never a good thing when you got executive orders coming for crypto at the same time as you got the NASDAQ 100 trading off 3%. You had the Bitcoin trade off 10% almost from 44,000 down to 40,000. We take a look at Bitcoin on a weekly basis. We've just jumped off the low of 32,000. Excuse me, what is MBT? There we go. Yeah, and so yes, that's a bounce there on a weekly basis. We put it back on the daily. You can see the bounce off the trend to lower prices, but boy, we give it up pretty quickly off that 45,000 mark on Bitcoin. If you got executive orders coming next week, government regulation always a potential headwind in the crypto sector. Crude oil, under $90. What's going on in that market? We haven't seen this price in crude going back to February 3rd. Not that long ago, two weeks ago, folks. Slight pullback.  You take a look at the run we've had. This is just going back to, it's the most conservative estimate. You could say December 20th, when crude starts its run from 66 bucks up to 95. A 3A2 brings us back to about 85 bucks. That's where you chopped around for a bit. Late January, 85 bucks, all but natural, with $3 away from that area right now. That would just be your 3A2 of the entire run that we've got since just December 20th. Folks, you're talking about basically two months of action on that crude contract. We jumped to gold. Gold's been having quite a week, sitting right at about 1,900 bucks. Gold up at 1,899.50 right now. You got silver up 10 pennies as well, 23.97. And we jumped to the all-important notes and bonds and we're getting a little bit of a reprieve right now. You got the tenure right now. What do we have? Six ticks at 1.2619. You're talking about a yield 1.93%. I think we're sitting, what was it? 2.03, at least 2.06. A few ticks at least above 2% yields. We give up 10 basis points, a 10th of a percentage point in the tenure in a matter of a couple days as geopolitical risks ratchet up across the globe. Really in the Ukraine, right? So where do we start in terms of the headlines? Let's start with what moved this market at 8 a.m. Now, this story out there at about 2 a.m., but it had to do with women and children getting evacuated from the Far East in Ukraine. And let me see if I can get the exact verbiage there because yeah, I'll pull it up to get the exact verbiage in terms of women and children, but not exactly the de-escalation that we had going on a couple days ago. You got the US saying Russia masked up to 190,000 personnel on their borders, most significant military mobilization since World War II. We'll see how it goes, folks. I mean, the market reacted yesterday, that's for sure. Taking a look in the NASDAQ, we put it on a five-day, man. You get a small reprieve yesterday, up to 14,550, man. You gave up 400 points in the NASDAQ, and there was no positive action whatsoever. You got a 50-point bounce at about 10.45 in the morning, and that was literally about it as this market sold off the entire day. Don't be surprised if we get a bounce again today because you get pullbacks this quick. I was talking to my daddy, he makes some great points. We're right back to a similar area. Maybe you can creep down to 14,000 in the NASDAQ. Very possible. But we have some pretty dramatic selling. Yesterday especially, when you trade from 14,619, we are 450 points below that price level right now. You're talking about 3% in a day. It's a lot of selling. And we are now right back to where we were prior to the de-escalation acceleration higher. All right, now the one thing that I will say is we back this out. We come into the end of the year basically sitting at all-time highs in the NASDAQ. 100 I'm taking a look at. I mean, just from where we were January 4th, we're taking a look at the bounce we've gotten. Made it right up to the 50% right there. The 382 is sitting at about 14,879. We're almost back to that level. You take a look at the S&Ps for some context here in terms of the bounce. We got a much higher bounce because you didn't get as far of a pullback. And where do you rest this, right? Maybe the bodies, maybe the tails. You could be, if you bring it down to the tail from 4808 down to the flash low we got on January 24th. Interestingly, you're right at the 618, right? I'll leave it there. Right at the 618, you can see that bounce on two occasions. Got up to about 45, 50, 45, 81 before we sold off yet again. If you take it as where the bodies line up you're hovering around the 50% on that level. But nonetheless, we're gonna see where we go. We're pretty close to these levels. You're talking about 70 points away from where we were in the S&Ps in terms of that price level. 4,300 is where we were towards the end of January. We're sitting at 4,371. But my expectation is that people have wisened up to the fact that the words meant pretty much nothing earlier in the week from President Putin and that actions are what speaks volumes. And if you back things up, we are basically right back at the weekly lows that we came into. So maybe that's where we find a bid right now. If I was in this market today we'd be possibly looking for a bid early. Not sure I wanna be long over the weekend though with a three day weekend and war potentially on the verge of ensuing. Yeah, we'll leave it at that. All right, let's jump around to some of the stocks. We got some companies with earnings or lack of earnings, we'll call it. Started off with DraftKings. So gambling, not quite there yet. Forecast and customer growth disappoints. So DraftKings is dramatically lower. We're gonna get into Roku, which is really dramatically lower as well. But I guess this one's a pretty chunk lower as well. You're down $3.50 right now. That's almost gonna be a 15% acceleration lower on the open. You take a look at DraftKings. I haven't been talking about it. Man, if you liked it at 22, you might love it at 18. Kinda joke, but remarkable you've pulled back this far. Now at 18 bucks, you're talking about evaluation, market cap-wise of $7 billion. Folks, we're approaching the level that yes, they may take some time to make some money. But boy, when you get down to $4 or $5 billion for a company like DraftKings, they're gonna lose some money. But man, they're gonna make money in the long run. They are gonna have some competition, but they have a brand, folks. They have a brand that's gonna be around. They might have some competition from like an ESPN app, right, an MGM app, something like that. But DraftKings is a big one. And they're trading at 18, you're low $17.41. We'll get into their numbers after the break. We'll get into Roku. I wanna talk about Max Payne, man. Roku, back to $104. We'll talk about this one as well. Stay tuned, folks, we'll be right back. Everything in the universe is governed by the Fibonacci sequence. This mathematical principle is responsible for everything from the most aesthetically pleasing artwork to patterns in the stock market. 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It's pretty dramatic what SPACs have allowed people to do. The reason why people love SPACs is because you can make forward-looking statements that you would never be able to make in an IPO. This one is such a poster boy case for it. So he's now stepping down from the board of Virgin Galactic.  That article, we're gonna jump to it.  And you had the company drop 10% then after he dumped almost a quarter billion dollars of shares. Now the interesting part here is he does that back in last March. He still owns shares through social capital heterosophia holdings. And that's a SPAC that he formed with fellow investor Ian Osborn. But what I wanna show you here is, so there's the article of him stepping down today okay on the board. Now here is a chart of the equity, okay? You're below the $10 standard on SPACs. You're sitting at nine bucks, okay? Made it up to 62 bucks early last year. Made it up to 53 bucks when they actually pushed Branson into space ahead of Bezos. The price that Chamath got on his shares folks, okay? He sold his shares last March. So here's the article dated March 5th, 2021. I mean regulators need to do something about this because this is the stuff that was created so that rich, wealthy, powerful people couldn't swindle investors out of their money by promising things in companies for public raising of funds that was just not true, okay? So they talked this all up folks. They cashed out big time, at least Chamath did. The point is he dumped these shares. He had 6.2 million shares is what he sold, okay? Tuesday and Wednesday. So this is around March 5th. Now 6.2 million shares netted him $213 million. So he got an average price for his shares when he was selling that of $34.35, I believe. Let me do that again. I just did it prior, but I wanna get the exact number because it's pretty staggering how much money he siphoned out of this public company. $34.35 was the average price that he sold his 6.2 million shares at. $34.35 folks, there is the chart of $34.26, okay? Zoom it in, there's $34.34, $33.34. You get the point. Just a couple of weeks were over this level. He basically got better prices than most of the public did. Yeah, you could have cherry picked a couple tops if you happened to time that thing, but who knew it was gonna stop at 60 and not 600 with the way meme stocks were going back then. Now, in many companies you can say, well he deserves that money, right? He brought the thing to public. He established the SPAC they got it done. There's value created there. That's an argument you can make. But here's the problem with that, okay? You got a company here that's a public company. You got a company here with 258 million shares outstanding at nine bucks a pop. You got a company valued with a market cap of $2.3 billion, okay?  Okay, now $155 million folks is the money Chamath got for his 6.2 million shares trading out at 34 and change versus what he deserves right now at $9 in change. $155 million is what he pocketed by selling to the public, okay? At irrational prices, now that company has that much less funds to compete in the public arena. It's just unfortunate folks, it's gonna keep happening. SPACs are able to talk up crazy stuff. Remarkable, this is gonna be a poster boy for it. They're trading at nine bucks. You see the volume coming in this week, okay? We'll put it back to a 15 minute. You're even a little bit lower today. This thing was up to 11 bucks right now. They started taking deposits I think on Tuesday, $150,000 deposit for a ticket price of 450 grand I think. Don't get into this equity folks.  Be aware of that. This stock is under $10 now. When you see this stuff, you see irrational things happening. It's a real bummer though that that's able to happen because he's got more money than he ever needs. And that's just a straight scam folks, pushing this out to the public, getting it up at those prices, selling off your shares, ditching your board seat and taking the hundreds of millions of dollars from a company that's only valued at $2 billion. You're talking about 10 to 15% of their market cap just disappearing, because shares were given out to founders that cash in as opposed to holding it. And you cash in to retail investors buying shares in your public company that are basically getting swindled. Yeah, not surprising he's checking down from the board and I would stay away from all of that guy's investments. That is my take. All right, what else we got going on? Getting back into the DraftKings numbers because it's going to be interesting to see how they open folks. And I would be looking at DraftKings here. I would. You're trading at 1850. If you haven't got any action in DraftKings yet, I would not be buying my full position at these prices at all. But I would be scaling in because you've got a company now that's valued at $7 billion and they have a serious valuation in future terms. If you take a longer term investment goal, then I would think that we are nearing prices when you're at a level of $7 billion. In the context of what some companies and growth companies are worth today, that just doesn't seem like that much in terms of, yeah, it could be worth $4 or $5 billion. But in the long run, I imagine there's going to be some gambling companies out there that are worth well over $10 billion. Fewer new customers, not what you want to hear though to break down the real news that expected even after spending hundreds of millions of dollars to learn new better spending that will continue to generate deep losses this year. Fast market at 12 noon Eastern time, folks. Kevin Hicks had some great points yesterday. He was talking about a competition is stiff and that is going to eat into margins. He made some great points. I was listening to his program. I was thinking about potential bullish trade on DraftKings going into the earnings, decided to take a backseat and watch that one play out. And I'm happy I did. Thanks to our man, Kevin Hicks. Check it out, folks. 12 noon Eastern time, outstanding program. Analysts were looking for 2.1 million monthly payers according to the estimates. Average of 2 million is what they came in. That's quite a miss when you're talking about 100,000 people on a monthly basis. Company also forecast adjusted loss excluding some items in the range of 8 to 900 million bucks this year. Not that bad. Steeper than what the market was looking for. In the present environment where tech investors have displayed zero tolerance for large losses, they're getting punished. And that's, I can't deny that. Sports betting has spread to an increasing number of U.S. states since the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban in 2018. It's gonna explode, folks. It's a good area to be in. And I imagine they are gonna have a presence as one of the leaders in this market. You'll probably see ESPN have an app in some degree. Disney's talked about maybe licensing that brand to a sports app. You have, of course, the casinos. Bet MGM I've seen out there. Let alone fantasy, which will be around forever. They're gonna be spending some money to grow in the gambling arena. But man, it's around forever, folks. And young kids love to gamble, too. So you're gonna get some gamblers.  And the whole landscape. Somebody put online poker for many, many years. The whole landscape is about to change. And it's about to become completely normalized. All right. Almost in the way that poker was running online poker all the time. NBC had poker after dark were exploding. And they were willing to pay for that content to put it online, poker after dark, world poker tour, all that stuff. It was everywhere. I'm not sure sports betting is gonna take over like that because sports betting's been around forever.  Like we've never imagined. It already has in terms of ESPN. If you watch enough ESPN programming, you're gonna start having in-live betting, right? Europe was big on in-line betting. It's gonna take over folks. DraftKings $7 billion. We're up a little bit right now even. Maybe somebody's listening to me talk in the last 15 minutes as DraftKings just traded from 1832 to 19 bucks. Are you having fun trading the markets but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with? Become an Apex predator in the trading markets and join the Tiger's Den Trading Room only at tfnn.com. The Tiger's Den is an exclusive trading room where successful traders from around the world come to exchange trades and ideas. 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NASDAQ 100 up by 36. We get the Dow negative by 66 points right now. Gonna be interesting to see how this market reacts on the open with the volatility we've had in two directions going on this week. So getting back to that exact headline that kind of hit the market at 8 a.m. this morning to summarize the exacts of it. And what it was was Ukraine separatists, okay? So children, women, and elderly people began leaving for Russia due to an escalation of fighting along the line of contact with Ukrainian forces, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk. People's Republic said the separatists have an agreement with the government of the neighboring Russian region of Rostov to host people. Yeah, and the organization for security and co-operation in Europe has observed a spike in violence. So their separatists, and they're basically saying they're getting ready for the war to begin and they're sending the women and children out of that region to an area in Russia that they have an agreement that they can be hosted there. So that is what happened at 8 a.m. to sum it up. Not a good development in any way. But we'll see, as in, yeah, we're catching a little bit of a bit.  It is priced in. Anybody with real money in this market better figure out. Tensions are pretty high, man. It's a bummer. In the U.S., you're seeing all this politicized, saying that Biden's making it up and all this stuff. Very unfortunate what's happened with politics these days. But we have a real potential humanitarian crisis going on. We'll see how it plays out, but there is a real risk of it, folks. The market, recognizing that finally, and pricing things down by a few percent yesterday alone in the Nasdaq 100. Right now, you get the Nasdaq 100 up by 32 points, the Dow negative by 46, S&Ps, positive by four. Let's jump around to some of those companies with earnings and see how they're reacting on the open. You got DraftKings, up almost a dollar from when we were just chatting at it in 9.15. DraftKings trading down 13%, though. Quite a haircut. We jump over to Roku. Whoops, R-O-K-U is their symbol, 22.7%. Roku also catching a bid, though, on that open there, as the market's saying, maybe 25% was a little too much. We're more comfortable with a 23% hit for Roku. Now, Roku had to do with, they're chatting about it in the den.  Well, the market's wondering that a little bit, especially if they have supply chain issues, because, man, Roku, yeah, 26% at one point, better than expected earnings, but they missed on revenue, and it issued a weaker than expected outlook due to higher component prices and supply chain disruptions. But, boy, 22%, you back this thing up, let's put it on a five-year weekly. You're at 111, Roku was trading at 77 bucks in October of 2018. Roku was trading at 176 in September of 2019, and you're talking about right now a company that is valued at, excuse me, as I find it, 14.9. So $15 billion, that company, at 110, $15 billion, I mean, simple math, you were four and a half times higher. Right now, you're at 15, what's that? 60, 65, $70 billion, they were pushing out. Folks, you are nearing the area. If you're an executive in Roku, you better believe that you're actually probably worried that you're gonna start getting maybe takeover bids. They might not be making money right now, but they are portal to streaming. And you got some of the biggest tech giants out there that would probably love to have that type of built-in connectivity to control streaming boxes.  But boy, you're dealing with valuations that are much more likable. Is that the right word? At 110, then at 490, even if you're not growing as fast as they wanted to and you're dealing with some supply chain issues because that company's at $15 billion. And they are gonna be around, folks. When you're looking longer-term investing, one of the questions I like to ask myself right away is, is this company gonna be around? Do they have a place in economic business that it would be very hard to do away with? And yes, Roku has a place within streaming that would be very hard to do away with because they are the leader in set-top box streaming. I was listening to Fast Market again yesterday and they were talking about in many of the smart box, smart TVs, you have Roku technology in there, even though you may not know that. So yeah, it's a max-paying situation here, man. You're down at 110. The poor people that were buying this thing at 300 to 500, man, whew. And not even from yesterday, I was talking about it. Said you could scale into this thing. And if you were scaling, I hope you scaled small. And you'd wanna give yourself three, four times folks to scale in when you have this type of volatility going on. I mean, you could always take a position if you're looking to invest long-term, right? And you're at a point in the market that you're very worried that we have much further to go potentially, right? And you might think so and you might be right when you look at a chart of the NASDAQ 100. Even pre-pandemic folks, okay? If you think the irrational fears for the growth stocks were irrational during the bottom of the pandemic lows, which are probably correct. Everything got sold off because of margin, because of everything, right? So those numbers probably not fair, especially how some of the big tech companies had fared since then. But even if you take the pre-number, you just went from 10,000 to 14,000 in about two years. You better believe pullbacks are possible. You could just scale in once a quarter maybe you decide. If you're gonna buy S&P futures, you wanna scale in for retirement. You don't wanna put it all in right now or something like that. You could scale in over every month.  You can do similar things like that if you have cash and you wanna get into some of these equities that have really been hit hard because yeah. I mean, can it become to mine, man? This stock, right? You could have been trying to scale in this thing from 30 bucks thinking you're getting a bargain, from 20 bucks thinking you're getting a bargain. So never be afraid to go a little small. The only thing you're risking there is opportunity costs if the stock gets away from you and you have profits in your partial position. That's the only risk that you don't build the full position you want in some of these equities. Zoom comes to mind. Zoom, new lows, again, on a weekly basis, right? Check that out. You're talking about a low this week of 128.93. This stock was at almost 600 folks and they make money, but they don't make as money as the market thought they were gonna win, was it 5.88? Pretty remarkable. We also have John Deere out with their numbers this morning, little bit of volatility. We trade lower on the open. We're down just 1% right now for John Deere. You take a look at the three-year weekly on this thing. I talked to Kevin yesterday and they were talking about this on their program. Just been chopping around for a while. We near all-time highs. We make it to a high last week of 399.73 within a dollar of those highs we got last year. And since then we've pulled back a bit, but John Deere pretty tame after their earnings. It was last night of this morning. Maybe this morning? Yeah, this, yes, this morning with their numbers. And what is it? Let's pull up, they're there. 290 to a share. Market was looking for 226, revenue top forecast as well. And they raised the annual profit forecast amid solid demand and higher prices. Man, you talk about like barely getting rewarded if not even punished. You get the market lower. So that's playing into things potentially with the dial off 25 points. But John Deere with some pretty solid numbers and barely holding onto the price action, you're down almost 1% right now. Shake Shack out with their numbers as well. Let's see. CNBC out there always with the best updates. Adjusted quarter of the loss of 11 cents a share, narrower than the 11 cent loss. Analysts were anticipating. I think that seems like right in line actually. While the restaurant's chain revenue matched forecast, Omicron variant kept customers away and led to some temporary restaurant closures. Can't deny that. Issued a downbeat current quarter forecast amid increasing costs. And yeah, you're getting punished on this thing, man. Well, looks like the market. 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But we'll jump to some of the other companies that have their numbers out there. Nope, I'm jumping around. Here we go, we just caught up. Okay, let me reset my camera here and make sure you got me. So unfortunately, I'm dealing with a couple of internet issues this morning as the market's trading fast. And there we go, we should be back. With the NASDAQ negative 68 points, that's quite a drop-off. So much for that bid on the open. We just dropped about 100 points on the open. 14,218 was the opening high print. We're trading 14,104 right now. S&P's negative six right now. We jumped to some of those companies with earnings, DraftKings down 18% right now. Roku shares down 21.1% right now. John Deere, their numbers trading lower as well. Down 1.5% right now. Shake Shack down 8.8% even catching a bid on the open right now. Dropbox with their numbers, I believe, as well. DBX is their symbol. Trading higher up 1.3% after their numbers were out last night. They were down to 21.56. I was jumping around to Airbnb. They're getting punished today. Down 2.6% Delta Airlines right now. So he's travel getting punished. Maybe just the growth stocks. Delta's flat right now. Boeing shares down about 7.10%. Disney shares down 3.10% right now. Uber shares down about 6.10% right now. DoorDash with their numbers Wednesday night. Just remarkable, man. Strong, strong numbers. And just like that, we give up 25, $26. We gave it up almost all yesterday. But you're back to 100 bucks. You were up to 131. You were at 95 when he came into their numbers for DoorDash. All right, and jumping around to what else we have going on in the stocks. Let's see, Intel. Their CEO, total investor gathering, aiming to achieve double-digit annual revenue growth in three to four years. They may be interested in participating in a potential consortium if one is formed to buy British semiconductor arm limited. Intel, well, they were lower. Well, that's the last thing investors want to hear is you're going to be spending money to buy competitors. 4.5% now as things accelerate on the open there. And boy, this chart, man. You remember when this thing accelerated from 44 bucks up to where were we last year? I mean, look at this. Look at the technicals on this, folks. 69, 29 January of 2020, we make it up to 68.40. Within a dollar of that price level. Let's back it up even further on a five-year weekly. Boy, you're looking for a buy on Intel, man. 45 bucks is a nice area of support on Intel. Now, when you go longer term, right? I got trading down here. October 22nd of 2018, the week of, you actually make it to 42.36. But you're only talking about $3, man, on Intel. You haven't traded below 42.36 since the beginning of 2018. You haven't traded below $42 since 2017. Five years on Intel, you have an area of possible price support. Now, if you're trading longer term, maybe you can scale in there because you trade below this, $35 is right in the cards there. Let's back it up even a little bit further for Intel. Yeah, you trade below that price level. It's dicey, man, because you're probably trading right to 35 bucks pretty quickly for Intel. But maybe you scale in. Always nice to see a nice easy area of support on the chart and how many times. We got it in October of 2020. We got a flash low in March of 2020. That's where Intel found a bid as well, all the way from 70 bucks almost to 45 or so. 43.63 to be exact. We got down to 42.86 in 2019. And you see, also in 2018, we're in that area as well. So Intel, right back to the area, down 4.8%. Yeah, any time a company's gonna be spending money to buy one of their competitors arm limited, maybe a consortium is how they may go into things. But down 4.8%. Let's see how some of the other chip stocks, you got AMD. That's quite a parabolic chart if I've ever seen one, right? AMD on a longer term basis, man, you're trading at $16 at the end of 2018. You're trading at $16 at the beginning of 2019. You push 160 on this stock at the end of last year. You're basically flat this morning. And these markets trying to figure out whether today's a risk on or risk off day. They're not quite sure just yet as we have the S&Ps now, negative four points right now at 43.70. Let's jump around to some of the fang stocks and see how we're trading as we come into the long weekend, Amazon shares. Quite a pullback yesterday, continuing that pullback down half a percent right now. Microsoft shares trading up a quarter percent. Check that one out, right? Now Microsoft, you're now $60 off the high of Microsoft. Man, that's quite a pullback. 70 bucks is a solid 20% haircut. So you trade down to 280, right? And maybe that's where Microsoft is the buy because that's 280 right there. On October 4th, folks, you trade down to 280. That's a 20% pullback on this equity. That's a decent pullback on Microsoft for a strong company in a big way. Let's jump to Apple shares. Apple, not quite the pullback in terms of 20%, right?  You'd have to be 36 bucks to be 20% off of that equity. And remember, Microsoft crushed it on their earnings. They put it on the daily, right? They crushed it. They gave a lot of it back the next day, but they had some great earnings out there. They've continued to give it back though for Microsoft trading at 291.  You think that deal's getting done? You can buy Activision Blizzard at 81 right now and you get to sell it for 95 if it gets done. If it doesn't get done, it's trading down to at least $65 probably. So you are, what? You're risking about $16, give or take, for the ability to make $14. It's about a 50-50 shot, barely in the positive. Call it 55-45 that that deal gets done for Activision. If it does, I think it's a good thing though. In the short term, they're gonna have to spend a lot of money. What is it, $70 billion or something like that? In the longer term, gaming is gonna be a big part of the future. It already is from Microsoft and they're just solidifying their content library there, which is gonna be important. And the only reason I say it might not get done is because one of the things I saw for this to get done trying to deal with antitrust concerns is that Microsoft said that I believe was the Call of Duty game, which is maybe their biggest. Let's see if they listed here in terms of the company and the games they make. Let's see. Yes, Call of Duty. So they make Call of Duty, that's the biggest one. It's a big game on PlayStation as well. And they've said that they will continue to offer that game on PlayStation. I imagine that eventually that will not be the case. There's no reason why you're gonna be running your Xbox platform and have an internal gaming unit that is pushing out games for your biggest competitor, the PlayStation. They have to say that to get it done. I'm a Microsoft Bull, I have some Microsoft and long-term investment portfolios, okay? But of course they're gonna say that, man. They're gonna say that because if they don't say that, then the market might say, hey, that this is gonna be way too anti-competitive if you're buying some of the biggest game makers out there and making sure that you can't even put it on the competing game maker. But we'll see. Microsoft trading right now up 0.3%. Stay tuned folks, we come back. Take a look at some other companies out there with numbers. They're talking about Walmart in the den. They're talking about Salesforce. Stay tuned folks, we'll be right back. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. 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He is gonna be live, folks, at 11 a.m. this morning. He will be doing his program. We have Fast Market at 12. Steve Rhodes just did his program live at 8 in the morning, so we'll be playing that live for the replay at 1 o'clock. Dave White live with the Power Trading Hour from 2-Chill 3. Tom O'Brien, my dad, live, wraps it up for the final hour of the day. And remember, we're coming into a long weekend, man. In this market, we're catching a bid, folks, just like that, the S&Ps. You just jumped 20 points in the last nine minutes. You trade from a price point of 43.62. We're pushing 25 points now higher from the last nine minutes. NASDAQ 100, you're now right back to where we were at the open, 14,216. Some of these growth companies, man, the turnaround, the volatility these growth companies have when you're dealing with some big multiples, man. Salesforce, you're up 1.2%. This has been quite a pullback, but you just jumped $3 on this stock. Now we have some Salesforce in my newsletter. 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Welcome to this course on Transition Metal Organometallics in Catalysis and Biology. We have been talking about ring-opening metathesis reactions in the past few lectures. In this context, we have spoken about two types of ring-opening metathesis reactions. One is ring-opening cross-metathesis and then the other one that we have partially covered or we just mentioned is ring-opening metathesis polymerization. One of the key features of this ring-opening metathesis reaction is the fact that these reactions occur for substrates which have considerable ring strain and as a result of this olefin metathesis or ring-opening metathesis reaction, the ring strain is released and which is supposed to be the driving force for the reaction. This reaction as such is a thermonutrile and hence the ring strain release plays a considerable role in driving this reaction forward. So, continuing further in our discussion, today we are going to take up this subclass of ring-opening metathesis reaction in the form of ring-opening metathesis polymerization reaction. So, today we are going to be talking about RONP. Now, usually this RONP is observed for cyclic alkanes and this is because of the fact that these possess considerable ring strain. So, release of ring strain is sort of provides the driving force for the reaction observed for this is primarily because of release of ring strain or ring-opening metathesis polymerization reaction. This reaction is of considerable interest because of the fact that this has been used in industrially in industrial scale to produce polynorbene is used industrially. The first polynorbene has been produced for about more than 40 years since 1976 and has the trade name of Norsorex which is an elastomer for special applications. So, what we see that this reaction is one of the successful reactions which have been in practice for large-scale synthesis and it has been used since a long time for about last 46 years for polymerizing norbornene. In this regard, it is worth mentioning that in this course as we are covering several reactions which have been practiced in industrial scale. So, this particular reaction also falls in that subclass of reactions that we have been talking about by the applications of organometallic catalyst has made it to industry for large-scale productions. So, here we have norbornene in presence of ruthenium catalyst giving polynorbene. In this case, I think that is worth mentioning that the product is exclusively a trans product which is formed 90 % trans olefins are formed and this occurs when the two norbornene units sort of come together and undergo cleavage as is shown over here. So, this is interesting applications for producing polynorbene which also proceeds by R.O.M.P. We are going to now take a look at several other examples which have been used as a part of ring opening metathesis polymerizations. One of the popular substrates for this is norbornene and we are going to take up another example where there are two olefinic double bonds of differential reactivity and the double bond which is more strained or which is part of the thing that undergoes R.O.M.P. to sort of provide the polymer and the other one stays intact and be used for cross linking purpose. So, point to note as that C.C. double bond in R.O.M.P. polymer can be used for cross linking purpose. A nice example is demonstrated in this particular substrate which has two olefinic double bond. What is interesting is that in presence of tungsten catalyst, it gives the R.O.M.P. polymer as is shown over here. To note is that of the two olefinic bonds, only the one which is more strained or this particular bond undergoes R.O.M.P. to give the polymer whereas the other bond remains intact due to differential reactivity. As a result, these double bonds can be used for cross linking reaction. So, what is interesting about this example is that even though there are two olefinic bonds, the one which is highly constrained undergoes R.O.M. polymerization to give the product whereas the other bond remains intact and that can be used for cross linking applications. We are going to take a look at some more other interesting applications of R.O.M.P. and in this case, the substrate is cyclo octane for which the C.C. bond in cyclo octane undergoes as shown below. So, catalyst and the product is and as observed in the earlier case in this present case also about 60 to 80 % trans products are obtained and this trans is with respect to the double bond over here and it seems that for metathesis polymerization, the trans this product is the more stable product and the crystallinity of the compound depends on the trans component with increasing trans component crystallinity increases. So, this is something which is an interesting correlation that the stable olefin usually is obtained as the major product, which is the trans olefin and also increasing amount of the trans olefin, the polymer product becomes more crystalline in nature. Now, as far as the R.O.M.P. is concerned particularly the catalytic active species for the polymer is fixed at one end of the growing chain and which sort of helps propagate the polymerization process R.O.M.P. mechanism. One special particular attribute about the R.O.M.P. process is that the catalytically active species is fixed at one end of the growing chain. This is sort of gives rise to live in polymerization. So, what that implies is shown by the cartoon drawn over hillow. So, if this is a polymer, then the catalytic active species sort of is fixed at one end and when another monomer comes, let us say for example, this is the monomer that gets inserted into the polymer and the polymer sort of increases in the end, but the active species is always found in the end. So, active species at chain end all the time R.O.M.P. polymerization propagates. So, that is an interesting attribute which sort of helps in different kind of applications for R.O.M.P. So, for example, if all the monomer of one type get consumed, then the chain end is still active and it can do polymerization with a different kind of monomer and as a result one can get block polymerization or polymers of two different types joined together as is shown over here. So, subsequently once the first monomer ends is fully consumed, the reaction continues with different monomer giving and this is a sort of illustrated in obtaining a polymer which is of two different types as is shown here and they would have different properties. So, this is one block and this is another block and together they would thus be called block copolymer. So, this is an interesting application of R.O.M.P. where the active species resides on the chain end and the polymerization can proceed. Now, this active species in the chain end is usually metal CH2 unit which propagates the polymerization and this unit can be deactivated by reaction of carbonyl compounds and then the propagation can be stopped. So, interesting thing to note is that this active species which is nothing but this unit can be deactivated and be deactivated by reaction with carbonyl group through Wittig reaction, the famous Wittig reaction and so the polymerization can be stopped by reaction with Wittig reaction by reacting the metal carbene chain end with carbonyl group to give Wittig reaction and this helps to obtain narrow mass distribution narrow PDI or a narrow polydispersity in the XOR mass distribution. So, this is a nice example whereby the propagation of active chain end is stopped by reacting with carbonyl compound to give this carbonyl compound to give deactivated chain without active species through Wittig reaction and this was successfully demonstrated by Schrock in 1990. So, with this we sort of come to the end of the discussion talking about various types of ring opening metathesis examples and we have so far discussed in the last few lectures several examples of ring opening across metathesis as well as ring opening metathesis polymerization and now we move on to another kind of olefin metathesis reaction which is just the opposite of ring opening metathesis reaction and they are popularly called as ring closing metathesis or RCM metathesis or RCM now ring closing metathesis is kind of more common than cross metathesis and there are several examples so it is a reaction which is sort of more commonly observed RCM is more common cross metathesis or CM and this has been successfully used for synthesizing large unsaturated microcyclic compounds as is shown over here and early example includes the synthesis of unsaturated macrocyclic involving RCM and this is given by the equation as is shown here CH2 H7 is a ester CH2 H7 or in presence of tungsten hexachloride and Cp2 titanium by methyl giving this cyclic ester plus the trans olefin in 18% yield and this was reported by Suji in 1980. So, an interesting thing to note here is that this ring closing metathesis is however opposite to that of ring opening metathesis where ring strain sort of drives the forward reaction and in this case ring closing is just the opposite where rings are formed but please note that these rings are really large rings so that the ring strain are not formed as a part of the ring because the rings are really large and they are sort of like there is not much of ring strain significantly is strong to stop the reaction and also this probably is driven by the entropy because from one molecule one gets two molecules so there is entropy factor which sort of guides the formation of RCM products so with this we come to the end of today's discussion where we have started with ring opening metathesis polymerization. We have looked into various examples of ring opening metathesis polymerization we had looked also into the mechanism by which the ring opening metathesis polymerization propagates and what we had discussed that there is a the active species lies at the polymer one end of the polymer chain and as the monomer comes it just gets inserted into the polymer with the active species always residing at the chain end and when and this happens in a living fashion when one polymer one monomer gets consumed a second monomer can also be inserted in the chain end through the growing polymer chain and this results in a new type of polymer called block copolymer which has two different polymers attached to a single polymer chain and then finally one can stop even the polymerization process by deactivating the metal carbene active species in the chain end and this is done by reaction with ketone which results in a wittig reaction and this usually is done to control the molecular weight of the polymer to obtain a narrow molecular weight range polymer and this was successfully demonstrated by Schrock in 1990 so with that we had finished our discussion on ring opening metathesis polymerization and also initiated the discussion on another type of metathesis particularly the ring closing metathesis which is opposite of the ring opening metathesis and we had include examples where a large microcyclic unsaturated rings are formed using the ring closing metathesis polymerization. One thing to note however is the fact that these microcyclic rings are so large that there is not much strain generated in the ring closing process as a result these products are obtained as per will however to note that the yield was also not too large about 18 % as was discussed so with this we come to the end of today's discussion on various types of olefin metathesis reaction we started with our ring opening metathesis polymerization and we ended our discussion on rcm and we are going to be taking up a lot more examples of ring closing metathesis when we meet next in the course till then goodbye and thank you


All right, the large intestine, we are not breaking it down into its parts. We're just looking at it in general, and I'm going to tell you how I tell if I'm in the large intestine, and it's a relative feature. Most of these features are relative, which means that's one of the reasons why I think histology is frustrating for people, because it is relative. Depending on the critter that you pick, how long are the villi, how many glands do you see? Are there really billions of pyrus patches, like what you would expect, or are there fewer pyrus patches? And that's just normal variation. You're going to see some differences like that. In the large intestine, you're going to see lymphatic nodules. You're just not going to see billions of them. And the key that we're going to look for is goblet cells. Goblet cells in the epithelial tissue. Why? Just think on that little functional problem for a second. Like, why would we have billions of goblet cells in your large intestine? Remember those goblet cells? They look a little something like this. And what did they do? They're embedded in with all the rest of the simple columnar epithelium. Yeah, this is actually a really pretty drawing right now, so I'm going to keep going. What did they make? Holy mucus barfage. Mucus. You are absorbing water in the large intestine.  And if you do not want your doodoo to get stuck in there, you better make some mucus so it gets a little slippery so you can get it out. Makes complete functional sense that we would see such a structure in the large intestine. The last piece of histology that we have is the pancreas. We're going to look at pancreatic histology as well. And hopefully it will be relatively easy to do.


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Most of you are probably going to say, yeah, I could probably use more clients. Well, this is why selling is necessary because you don't have as many clients as you would like and selling doesn't have to be a bad word and doesn't have to have a bad feeling if you do the kind of thing that I'm going to talk about in this video. All right, so hopefully you agree with me that, yeah, to get enough clients or as many as you would like, you need to sell. Yes, you need to sell your services, your programs, your events, your business, essentially. All right, but how do we do it in a way that feels good rather than feeling like we're persuading? Because when we're persuading someone, when we're trying to get someone to do something, this is why we don't like selling because we sense into the fact that that act of persuading instantly makes us inauthentic. We lose the grounding of our integrity when we say, when we act as if I need to do something and say something so that the other person will like me enough or will find my product or service valuable enough to then want to take a closer look or want to buy it. We know we lose our grounding and our authentic power when we have to contort ourselves or to figure out the best words to say to get someone to be interested in what we're selling. So we know that. So let me suggest why don't we do the opposite, which is only describe our services and products and our message, only describe it to the people who we imagine are already eager. This is what I mean by sell only to the eager. Now you might be, for example, right now I'm making this video not knowing exactly who's on the other side. There could be hundreds of people, maybe thousands over time who watch this. I don't, I mean, there's been possible for me to know exactly who's going to watch this video. Now I might know based on a few comments below or a few likes, I might be able to look at who it is. But right now as I'm making this, I don't know who's out there. And so it's up to my imagination, you see. So if I am imagining someone who is skeptical of me, you know, who doesn't know and doesn't care about who I am and what my message is, you know, they might be going, well, prove to yourself that you're worthy to be watched for the next five seconds. If I'm talking to someone like that, I'm going to, like I said, contort myself or try to perform in a way that, oh, I got to get the person to keep watching, you see. But I'm not imagining that person because I can imagine anybody. I don't know who's out there right now. So I'm going to imagine somebody who is so eager, as I mentioned, to receive what I'm going to say and who is so patient with my presence because there is an energy signature match. There is a resonance between what they find interesting and meaningful to the way I show up just as I am. That's who I'm going to imagine, not going to imagine someone who needs me to perform and be super entertaining or, you know, inspiring or whatever it is that is not already naturally how I want to show up, how I feel is true for me to show up for this message in this moment in service to my ideal client. So if I imagine my ideal client, my ideal viewer, then my shoulders drop and I'm relaxed talking to you, the ideal viewer who is like part of my soul group, perhaps, right, we might say that, and who just has a deep felt sense that something is right between us, that it's meant to be that we talk with each other or something like that, right, and that who is interested in this message. That's what, so same thing, when you think about selling your services and your programs, you might be blocked because you naturally imagine someone who is skeptical and who is not eager to work with you. So like I said, when you are writing your sales copy, when you're writing your website, when you're writing your email newsletter or your social media, like I said, if you want any clients, if you want enough clients beyond the few friends and family who are kind enough to say yes and let's try out your service and let me refer my best friend to you.  And let me first say, one day if you are doing the kinds of things that I always urge you to do, encourage you to do in these videos, authentic content marketing, collaborations, content caring, gentle launches, being consistent in your joyful productivity and doing these things, if you are, one day you only have to whisper whenever you have a service you want to fill with clients or a program you want to fill, you only have to whisper and you get more than enough. I mean, I'm grateful that the day has come for me. This is what I experienced now. When I have a program to fill, when I have courses to sell, I just whisper and I get more than enough people who sign up. My launches are so gentle compared to other people in my industry, mainstream marketers who are so much louder and like they send 85 emails instead of two emails like I do when I want to launch something. So I'm at the stage now where I can simply whisper, but it wasn't always like this. Obviously, I started where many of you are, which is like I, George, I just need clients, I can't whisper, right? I got to do what the mainstream marketers, I got to yell, I got to shout, I got to create sales funnels, I have to be clever, persuasive, I have to be polished and have all my branding amazing together. I can't just whisper, right? If you continue, like I said, with joyful productivity to do authentic content marketing consistently, which is the intersection of exploring your passion and your service to humanity, that intersection is called authentic content marketing. If you keep doing that consistently, you will grow, grow, grow an audience of true fans, the people that you are imagining you want to talk to are going to show up, they will. That's the miracle, but you have to be consistent for several years. You do. I'm sorry to report that to you. If someone else is saying something different, I don't know that they're telling the truth because I've seen, I've seen this again amongst hundreds of people that this is how this is how it works. Not not not everyone takes years depends on, you know, obviously depends so much on your content and the match between your content and what the world is wanting at this time and, you know, the collaborations are able to form. If you know how to run ads like on Facebook, Instagram, I mean, it depends on so much how long it's take you five, 10 years or take you three to five months. I don't know. But but what I do know is that the consistency of authenticity and service creates an audience of true fans of eager people to whom you just have to whisper. So I when it comes to selling when it comes to George, I need clients. I need to talk to people about my services or I need to post about it. I don't I don't want to think about the selling stuff, George, because I just want people to come to me. I just want and yet I know I need to because they're not they're not just randomly showing up and not enough of them are. And so I need to at least make my services available that people need to be aware that this exists. Now, I don't want to think about that, George. But let me tell you, if you think and imagine the person who perhaps is suffering because they need something like what you offer, or they have this deep yearning to experience something, the kind of thing you offer, if you imagine that person, they're looking for you, they might not have the words to know how to search for you. They might not even know exactly how to describe what it is, but they have this deep yearning that when they see what your offer is, they will lean in and say, Oh, my gosh, can you tell me more about that? That sounds fascinating. I've been wondering about that. I've been thinking about this. Maybe maybe I've heard of this kind of thing before. I'd like to give it a try. There are many, many people like that out there looking for you right now. And so selling is just making yourself available to those people. My marketing, right, is, and I want to thank Gil Friend, my colleague, Gil Friend for coming up with this, marketing is to share something you love with the people you care about. I'll say that again. Marketing is sharing something you love with the people you care about. And I'll say authentic selling is making yourself and your service available to those who are eager and deeply want what you offer. It's up to your imagination. Are you willing to use your imagination for a little bit? That's what defines us as truly human, is we are able to imagine and envision the kind of person we want to draw forth to us. And so I want you to use your imagination a little bit now and say, OK, what is that person like who is so eager to receive what the service and product is and is naturally resonant with who I am just as I show up? Who is that? Imagine that person. Describe that person. If you would like to, you can describe that person below this video in a comment if you wish to. But whenever you write your website or write your social media posts or write an email newsletter or even reach out individually to someone, I want you to imagine that eager person so that your shoulders can drop. You can feel relaxed in the presence of someone who genuinely likes you for who you are and who is eager to know about your service because they need it and they want it. In the presence of someone like that, you feel confident. You feel alive because they want, they say, please tell me. Please tell me what it is you offer because I know it's going to be something that I'm so excited about and inspired by and are deeply interested in signing up for. Be in the presence of someone like that when you write, when you make videos, when you record your podcasts, when you sell, again, selling, authentic selling, being, making yourself available to those who eagerly are seeking your service. So let me give you a couple of, I guess analogies. Keep getting confused analogies, I think, or metaphors of what this is like. So it's like having your own Ivy League program, Ivy League meaning one of the top colleges in the world, imagine you're a college student and you're trying to apply to colleges and then this top academy, this top university, your college is available to you or you can apply to that college. How are you going to approach that opportunity?  College students don't. I mean, they're like, really? Harvard is interested in me? Stanford's interested in me? Oh my gosh.  You see what I mean? So in that, if that's true, how will you approach your writing and your speaking and your communications where your ideal clients are involved?  Let me do whatever I can. Oh, today only. You have to sign up today. Otherwise, you have this penalty or whatever or this bonus disappeared.  It's like, that's not an Ivy League. Ivy Leagues don't do that. You know, they're sitting back confidently saying, we know our product is amazing. And we know that if you were to get in, you'd be so, you'd be the lucky one. Sure. We are lucky too, because we recruited a great student like you, a great client like you. But really, you are very, very lucky to be able to work with us. Right. So I want you to understand that to the ideal client, to the eager potential customer, you are the Ivy League to them. They're like, oh my gosh, I'm so grateful I found you. How much, how much, I hope I can afford what you offer, whatever it is, I'm going to do my best to, you know, budget that money because it's so worthwhile to work with you. I want you to imagine that whenever you sell, again, I just want to transform that idea and that word for you sell, just making yourself available to the eager potential client. So you are the Ivy League for your potential client or your ideal client. Right. So especially if it's like a, especially if you sell something that's a higher ticket item or premium program that costs maybe thousands of dollars or someone, certainly that's a very apt analogy for you to think, oh, I'm the Ivy League here. Let me, whoever's talking with me as a potential client, they should be eager. They should, I'm only going to talk to the eager people because if they're not eager, they don't understand the value of what I offer. They don't understand the value of it. And I'm, why am I working so hard to try to persuade them of the value? No, no, there's other people out there who would be eager. And let me just find the, let me just only talk to those people and whatever I write online, I'm going to imagine it's, I'm talking to those people. Right. Like I said, over time, as you do your authentic content marketing with a spirit of joyful productivity, do it consistently, you are going to have plenty of those eager people saying, oh my gosh, how can I work with you? So that's one analogy. Another analogy that's also useful, especially for those of us who sell lower priced things, like if you're selling an online course or you're selling a, you know, something that's a few hundred dollars or less, maybe a few dozen dollars, then think of your offer as like your Black Friday product. Black Friday is those we don't know. It's in the United States. Well, it's probably global by now, but it's after the U.S. Thanksgiving when lots of retailers have the best deals of the year, Black Friday, you know, and then it's like, oh my gosh, I mean, waiting a lot of people, a lot of shoppers, you know, kind of wait all year for Black Friday to get the great deals on things that they've been looking at buying. But now it's a great deal. Well, think of your low price offering like the Black Friday offering, like I'm not saying you need to make a discount, but I'm just saying when you are writing, when you are speaking about it, when you are thinking about selling it, remember, selling is just making yourself available to eager buyers.  Oh, wow, you offer that product for only that price. I'm not saying you have to offer at a super low price. I'm just saying whatever price you offer is naturally an amazing deal to the perfect buyer. And the perfect buyer are the people, either are the people that I only want you to talk to in your mind so that when you show up in your marketing and you're selling, it has a different energy to it. It has the energy of, I know my stuff has great value. And I don't have to bend over back or to convince you of anything. I'm just going to share. For those who are eager, I'm going to describe what this thing is and just to make sure that they understand what they're going to get and who it's for. You see what I mean. So whether you want to use the Ivy League analogy or the Black Friday analogy or maybe you have another analogy that you want to share below that's on this theme of selling only to the eager, I would love to get your ideas as well. So long story short, our energy and time is so precious that if we spend this life source, this life energy that we have, this limited lifetime that we have, contorting ourselves into various persuasive shapes and trying so hard to get people to do this or that, I feel like that's not the most meaningful use of our life. Rather, to use our life energy to imagine using our brilliant human capacities to imagine the eager ideal client or reader or customer and share and show up for that person who we imagine our mind. And over time, your network and your audience will say, wow, you seem really like you offer a lot of value. It does. Your energy signature changes or upgrades itself to be that kind of business owner. And that's what I've been practicing now for since, I would say 2014 or so is when I kind of made that shift. And as you can tell, I'm quite proxed about it. I'm quite leaning back, not trying to persuade you of anything, just leaning back when I sell something and then I get more than enough sales. So I wish that for you as well. And I know that it can happen when you understand that to the ideal person, your presence and your product is so valuable. Worth way more than the price, whatever price, that you're charging. I hope this is helpful. Thank you so much for joining me.


And trying to earn the respect day in and day out. This business is what have you done for me lately business, so you can't take a day off or you start falling behind. So I think I'll just come out here every day and try to do whatever I can to help. I think there's some similarities and there's some differences as well. It's just getting to know those, getting your instincts trained on those. Some of the new things that we do here and having a lot of fun with it. Well, I think it's just a group of guys we're with, the coaching staff that we have, just a fast physical group who likes to be out there and play ball and something that I can appreciate. Yeah, I feel great. Yeah. I think, yeah, you don't want to get stuck in one situation. You play certain players who maybe that move doesn't work on. I'm not going to speak for Harold, but he's had a great camp so far. He's a great player and whatever he's doing seems to be working. Yeah, I think you try to go out there and practice new techniques every day and see how they work for you. See if you can implement them into your game and just trying to constantly get better. Well, I mean, it definitely didn't hurt. I know Shane, I know Mike, I respect them both tremendously, have played under them before, so I think that was definitely a good selling point for me to come here. Well, you never can be too comfortable because that's when you start falling behind. So like I told them, I'm just coming out here day in and day out trying to earn the respect of the guys, the coaching staff, the organization, and just proving that I belong. Just keep working.  It's a told them again, it's a what have you done for me lately business, so once you start not having good days or put stacking good days together, you start falling behind everybody else. So just coming out here, working as hard as you can day in and day out and things seem to take care of themselves. Yeah, we've got a great group of guys, different personalities, everyone seems to get along real well, communicate well with one another, and that's only progressed as camp has gone on. I think we're building, I think we've got a good group of guys, like I said, I think we've put together some good days here, but we haven't done it in a real situation yet, so we just gotta keep stacking those days and hopefully it'll translate to week one. Yeah, we just gotta keep going going out there. I mean, we give up touchdowns in practice, that's not acceptable either, so just keep grinding day in and day out and keep putting in the work and things, like I said, it'll take care of themselves.