All right, it's the top of the hour. So let's begin. Let me welcome everybody. Let me welcome you to the future transform My name is Brian Alexander. I'm your host the cat herder and organizer of this event And I'm delighted to see you all here I'm really looking forward to a conversation with one of my favorite people in the field of education technology Now let me welcome this week's guest I'm delighted to bring will Richard Sinon board will is a fantastic person Among other things. He was the fourth ever guest on the future transform. So it's wonderful to see him back here again He's one of the most powerful People who works I think on the future of education. He's been doing some tremendous work With K through 12 in New Jersey. He started several different enterprises I believe several companies written a stack of books consulting and speaking widely again Just somebody I really really respect. I'm delighted that you can make it here. Hello, Will welcome Thanks, Brian. Thanks for having me. It's it's great to be back and thank you for that great introduction I'm just gonna take the video of that and just Send it out to people because that sounds way more impressive than my reality. Thanks for that. Appreciate it We'll record this and make it available. So don't worry about that I have two questions to ask and we're going to introduce you And and you have such a career that there's so many things. I just want to begin with two very very Gentle ones. The first is where are you today? So I'm at home actually in central, New Jersey where it's about 21 degrees outside. It's pretty cold But yeah, and I just picked up my daughter from the airport So we're having Christmas here this year and I'm really looking forward to that. Well going was that Newark? Yeah, I went to Newark, which was crazed at seven o'clock this morning. She came in on a red-eye from LA But thankfully she wasn't going out Had to be at least a couple hours in line setting you up for kind of Dantean transition from Erno of new work to the hopefully the paradise of yeah the I'm glad that you're home and as is your daughter my second question is looking ahead to 2020 What are the big projects and ideas that you're going to be working on? Well, it's interesting. I think There's obviously a lot of work to be done a lot of conversations to be had I'm actually becoming more and more interested in in doing events like this and Also doing smaller group events around well, we're doing one that I found I think it's really interesting called the big questions Institute. That's kind of where my head is. I'm Filled with many many different questions about where things are headed and It's a it's an attempt to engage people in Asking first of all bigger questions because I think sometimes in our conversations on education We we ask some small questions. We ask a lot of how questions when I think basically we should be moving Into a lot more of the why Obviously, that's not new a lot of people are singing that song but Yeah, and and just trying again to to build people's capacity to engage in this conversation at a I think a higher level with with a greater capacity to understand how things are changing in the world and what that means for us in Education specifically in K through 12, right? And let me just say at the beginning that I can't tell you how much I appreciate your work in terms of helping me Understand the both the challenges and opportunities that are happening in higher ed I think that obviously the two are connected very closely, but yet separate in a lot of ways And so it's a it's such an important context for people to have And it goes the other way too, right? I mean you can't you can't Simply live in the world of higher ed without understanding some of the the challenges and opportunities at K through 12 as well So, you know, I like to say it's a really interesting time There's never been a better time to be a learner, but it's also probably one of the most challenging times ever to be an educator and So that's kind of where we're at and that's gonna be the conversation in 2020. I'm sure Is this the the big questions lab on the on modern learners calm? Yeah, it is and We're putting some new dates together. Hopefully around the country. Maybe in some places internationally as well I I I'm doing them with a good friend of mine. Homa to vanger is Someone who is very much in the conversation around global competencies equity all of those types of Conversations that are much needed in a world that's expanding and being connected at the rate that it is today So I'm learning a lot and that's always the best part of doing that stuff, right? Is that I get to learn as much as hopefully the people that were with that's one of the great secret powers of education? It is. Yeah Let me welcome folks who've just come in like Randall edge is L rock sand George Catherine and Ruben and Jessica and Roberta whole pile of people just came in. Hello, Heidi Good to see all of you Well, that sounds like fantastic work and I would love to learn more about these these events We have So much to talk about and and the theme that that we chose to anchor today's conversation is Changing the stories about education changing stories about school And I'm wondering kid. Can you kick us off? What are some of these stories that you see changing it? And what do they tell us about the future of education and learning? Well, it's interesting right because as many ways as you You can find new stories coming out of classrooms and coming out of some schools I'm not sure that the larger story is changing very much at all I Remember there was a pew report actually I was saying about this the other day I think there was a pew you may have even been a part of it in terms of They interviewed a group of experts educators trying to look into the future and I remember Justin Reich from Harvard Kind of surprised me when he said I think the question was what is education? How how is it going to change 15 20 years down the road and he said he didn't think it was going to change at all 15 or 20 years down the road and I think in a lot of ways he might be right that the Uber narrative that we have the the story that we tell about school is a very very difficult one to change Because so much of our society is dependent on that story, right? I mean structurally The idea that we're you know that the idea that school isn't gonna be compulsory is just something That's just a throwaway. That's not gonna happen anytime soon if ever The idea that you know, they're gonna the kids are gonna go Preciably longer than 180 days or six hours a day So a lot of that stuff is just so woven into our fabric the way that we conduct ourselves at work You know the way that we think about so many of the structures that we have in society are really built around in many cases The way school operates So that big narrative, I'm not sure the the the systems and structures narrative is really gonna change that much But what's interesting is that I think there is a shift in a pretty big shift actually in what the expectations of school are I think there are a lot of people a lot of parents who I've talked to in recent years who are questioning whether or not School as we know it is preparing kids for the world that they're gonna enter I think everyone feels a little more uncertainty and anxiety and and you know looking into the future What it's gonna take for kids to be quote-unquote successful depending on how you define that right and that's another part of the story that we We have to interrogate in terms of you know What is success in moving into the future and how is it different from the success that we've defined in the past? I think it's probably really different So and and there are a lot of people now who are pushing back against some of the pieces of the story that have been In grain for a long long time the one most interesting to me right now is is the pushback against grades I think it's been fascinating to watch Mastery org that group of schools that has gotten together and just said we're not doing this any longer grades are really stupid They don't really measure learning. They don't really give us a sense of whether or not kids will be successful in the future They put a high degree of anxiety and stress on our children And so we're not going to do them anymore and these are very reputable high-flying schools both independent and public who have just taken that on and said we're gonna stop that stupidity and Have become I think are on the cusp of being pretty successful in moving to a competency-based type of approach that You know higher education is gonna is gonna get a totally different type of transcript Without without any numbers on it Just just you know It's an interesting Attempt to reframe the experience of school that kids don't get grades that kids don't get numbers that that colleges don't need numbers that they don't that they that they can actually Evaluate what students can do and and their ability to you know to succeed in college based on on competencies and things like that so That's been really interesting and and I do think that that if that domino fell that a lot of other things might actually Begin to change in terms of how we think about it, you know Well, you know, I mean so the whole idea of subjects is kind of arbitrary that we that we parcel up learning into 90 minutes or 45 minutes for chemistry and then 45 minutes for English and then you know, whatever it is I mean, there are a lot of I call these things the unpleasant truths, right about school that not a lot of people Really want to acknowledge But we do a lot of things that don't make a lot of sense like that doesn't make a lot of sense at the end of the day That's not that's not conducive to learning in the way that we think about learning in our personal lives We would never do that on our own That's a construct that we put into schools that at the end of the day doesn't really serve kids But yet we continue to do it because that's kind of the way the structure is built I think the teaching changes pretty dramatically in a world where if the focus is on projects and if the focus is on You know doing real work for real purposes in schools, which a lot of schools now are beginning to do You know another another change that I've seen and it hasn't been a huge change but a lot of schools are doing genius hour and they are acknowledging that Kids need to have time to pursue things that they of their own choosing they need that agency That that's a good thing for learning that that inspires them that their curiosity is peaked when they do that Go ahead What is genius so genius hour basically is giving kids usually it's an hour a week Although I have seen some schools that are doing in fact I'm gonna visit a school in Australia in a few weeks That's doing it an hour and a half a day where actually kids get to choose projects and they get to Pursue those projects with the help of teachers it so it reframes basically the role of the teacher which is not to Decide what content to be delivered at what time and what you know in what fashion But to support kids to help them answer the questions to develop the skills that they need in the moment that they Need them and so teachers become I guess coaches or consultants whatever however You want to frame that but it changes the role of the teacher in some pretty interesting ways and The just briefly the interesting thing about genius hour whenever I talk to teachers in K2 K12 who are doing it Every one of them raise every single one of them will tell you that it's some of the best learning the kids do It's some of them. They're they're more engaged more excited And so, you know, my kind of throwaway laugh line is if it's so wonderful Then why don't you just have curriculum hour and make the rest of it genius, right? Because it would seem that would be a better environment for learning but So yeah, I mean, I do think that there are some some pressures that are beginning to bear on this You know eight to three You know, whatever it is six and a half hours a day six different classes, you know GPA valedictorian all that kind of stuff I think a lot of those things are now people are beginning to look at them and hold them up and say Is this really the experience that we want kids to have in Order to to try to best prepare them for a world that is not very You know, it doesn't seem at least to be very consistent or not consistent, but predictable, let's say or less predictable And You know, certainly again just going back to your blog I mean, you could riff off the last five things that you've been talking about in terms of, you know Numbers in higher ed are declining even I found it so fascinating that That post you wrote a couple days ago about how people feel about higher education, you know that that with I guess It's generation Z. There's like a 30-point drop in six years of people who say that higher ed is very important And I think that's trickling down. I think that that's becoming a Part of how parents are beginning to think about the futures of their kids Not at scale yet, and there's still a lot of work to be done in terms of again engaging people in that conversation but I'm finding it a little bit more interesting these days in terms of how people are thinking and talking about what they Want to pursue in the future So we seem to be in the cost of all kinds of changes Potentials Let me bring up another Another participant to ask a question about this Let me bring up Tom Hames from Texas Who had a great question and I wanted to if you're new by the way to the forum This is just how easy it is to bring some up on stage for video You might not be as cool looking as Tom But on the other hand you might have a beard so that might more Tom you had a question about different nations and Just kind of practice. Yeah, so yeah And just so I have a sophomore in college right now who I was just on the phone Kind of help him come up with some thesis statements for a couple of essays that he's got a right And then I also just for full disclosure have a 22 year old daughter Who is pretty much self-sufficient in Los Angeles with no college degree? So there you go, right? So I'm talking about different stories. I mean, I'm living different stories too in terms of my kids So It's it's in terms of the international piece of it There are a couple places that I think are more progressive than others I would say the most progressive thinking around education right now might be British Columbia In terms of K through 12 education they have really really pulled back on testing and on those types of evaluations they are Building much more opportunities for student agency into the school day And they're I think at least creating attempting to create a culture which you know kind of is the Overlap for all of this in terms of when we talk about how the the story changes They're trying to build more cultures within their schools that suggests that teachers and students both have more agency to pursue learning on their own terms and And it's a it's pretty much of a pushback against a lot of those Uncommon sense things that that we do in schools where they've just Come to the conclusion that the the narrative needs to shift New Zealand is another country where they've always been kind of edgy and thinking differently And there are other you know other spots Singapore actually is Even though that's it's still a very kind of test centric and achievement centric Small country obviously They're having some very interesting conversations as well about how to do it differently and So there are some places around the world that that are beginning to to at least have some Some different again ask some different questions. Some have gotten to the point of policy like British Columbia and and New Zealand and some others but By and large, I think most of the innovation and change is happening in individual classrooms in individual schools Or it's happening in people who are going outside of the system, which I think is beginning to happen a little bit more and more These days I'm seeing more examples of innovative schools that are starting from the ground up and you know in the with the people who we work with I mean most of my work Is with leadership in K through 12 and when there are conversations about doing things really differently We always at some point come to the conclusion that it is easier to start something brand new That fits a model that you want to pursue than it is to change the old model Changing a school that's been around for a long long time is excruciatingly difficult and and in the long run to be honest with you I I'm a huge fan of Seymour Pappert who wrote extensively about technology and change in kids and schools and one of his One of his beliefs was basically that the system itself has an autoimmune response to change Which I love that line, right? And so it remains to be seen how? To the extent to which real innovation can take root anywhere Because there's lots of places lots of individual programs in schools that I'll go visit and I'll say wow That's really amazing and come back five years later And it's not so amazing anymore Because it's been kind of it's been kind of neutered or it's become you know There's been a change in leadership or whatever, right? You know how that goes so And it's really really hard to be out there on a limb on your own You know as much as as much as there may be rhetoric that suggests well we need to innovate We need to try new things. We need to do all this other stuff at the end of the day Really the experience of school is driven more by the consumer of education and their Expectations than it is by the educators and that's one of the realizations that I've come to in the last two or three years That's kind of disturbing to be honest with you, but Is then a little bit of a different challenge? Is that again, you know schools serve a particular? Purpose in this society that people expect And then to change that purpose or to change that experience is to go against Society's expectations and that's really hard to do without some larger You know federal Type of initiative that says, you know, we're gonna change things or without higher education coming out en masse and saying We're not gonna do this We're not gonna look at kids the same way we've been looking at them for the last 200 years in terms of who we accept or who we don't accept and and and again to be honest if we really were truthful about the experience of school and I think you know You'd probably agreed Tom if you have three kids in high school. I mean my question is always to parents Well, what are they learning actually? What are they actually learning in school and the responses very rarely has anything to do with what's happening in Classrooms what they're learning how to do is succeed at school, right? Which is a signal to higher ed that those kids can succeed in school And so they'll probably succeed in college and you know, then we get to the Brian Kaplan argument that Heist that higher ed is basically a signal more than anything else to employers that kids can do college so therefore they have the the you know the skills or the Dispositions or the literacies whatever else to to manage that and they'll be they'll be able to manage a career in some in some In something so just to kind of tie a bow on that I mean, you know my my son is in a top 50 University in the United States by just about every ranking and he's there as a as a scholarship athlete But basically he's what he's really learning is how to how to get through college you know and and There's some merit in that don't get me wrong, right? He's learning some skills that will serve him probably pretty well in his life But I think the the idea that you know, it's the content and the the things he's being Tested on and all that kind of stuff. That's a little bit more of a difficult argument to make I'm not saying that the higher education is worthless or what happens in classrooms isn't isn't doesn't have some value but I don't think it has as much value as as we want to pretend that it does honestly and I do think that We're at a moment in in our history right now Where we have to interrogate whether or not the experience of getting through school is enough to serve kids in getting Through life, which is I think changing in some pretty dramatic ways So well ask your kids and ask ask your kids next year what they remember from learning last year and Almost a hundred percent of the people who I asked that question to will answer it the same way as you do yet We don't we don't use that lens then to engage in a really difficult conversation about well That what should classrooms be if it and and you know, let's be honest if they're not going to be about learning Well, then let's just say that okay Look the school experience is to get through school and to learn some skills and that kind of thing but it's really not about learning chemistry and it's really not about learning history and it's really not about learning Spanish because You know the way that we learn those things anything like that a stupid be immersed in those things we learn Almost everything that we learn as adults. We learn on the job Certainly there's reading writing communication skills literacies that we need to get from school that school can help us with I'm not suggesting that it's again. It's totally valueless, but We do pretend or we do kind of you know not not go there very often and say yeah You know what that chemistry class or algebra class, you know fill in the blank whatever you want Yeah, kids aren't learning really learning very much in there. No, but I'm not saying I don't think it's the students as much as the parents I think the parents expect the same type of experience that they had That's what they want. They that's what makes them comfortable Anything that that goes outside of that experience makes them very uneasy. There's a great There's a great movie. I don't know if you've seen it But you know most likely to succeed which talks about high-tech high and there's a scene in there where this parent is being interviewed And she goes I'm really scared because this is not what I did You know all this project-based stuff that they're doing all these exhibitions and things that wasn't my experience I just don't know if this is okay for my kid. That's that's where the narrative has to change I think at the end of the day parents are gonna have to demand something different before something really different Manifests itself in the K through 12 system at least Tom, thank you so much for these great questions and thank you as well for sharing from your own experience Much obliged much appreciated. Well So thanks for the softball Look just a couple things right so and I think they're they're interrelated the technology piece is really interesting because in most schools 98% of the ways that schools use technology is to teach not to learn And I think there's a huge distinction there right to me technology is an opportunity to give learners more agency and to allow them to really create and make things and and You know do things that they couldn't do without the technology too much of of how teachers use it is to You know post documents or or assignments or Hand in homework or whatever else I again my kids through eight years of high school each of them had a laptop the entire time Very little interesting use of technology. So number one. I think that we have to we have to be willing to Change the way that we just think about how how learning happens in classrooms to begin with that It has to be more about student agency. It has to be more about Giving kids more opportunities to pursue learning on their own terms That's kind of the phrase that I've become a little fond of maybe too fond of but anyway Where to start? Well, we always start with the most important question in the work and that is well, how do you define learning? What is it? and and it's It's kind of Shocking how difficult the question that is for educators to answer It's not one that many people actually talk about very much and it's It's one that when you really get down to it when you really check in to your own personal experience around learning when you really try to Define it or describe it in ways that That match again the way you understand it in your own life. It looks very different from what we do in classrooms Because you know good really powerful learning requires agency it requires time it requires passion and curiosity it requires Creating things and and you know all that type of stuff and then If you can get to that point and then just map that to the experience the kids are having in school That's a great place to start the conversation because more often than not those two things are totally in dissonance right what you believe is not what you do in most cases in schools and and a lot of that again is is Structural a lot of that is cultural a lot of that is just tradition whatever else But if you're not starting from that frame, I know I'm not sure that that anything sticks in terms of innovation or change so Well if the question is Can we change the learning experience given the structures of current schools that we have it's difficult It's really hard, you know, I mean we're putting kids in the spaces that comfortably hold maybe 20 25 kids They're isolated from other classrooms usually You know, whatever else I mean the structures in the classroom environments and the structures that we have in schools Are not conducive to the type of learning that we would hope kids would experience Again, if we've had those conversations on learning, so you're right. This is a really I think Interesting moment when it comes to design of schools and there are there are a lot of people out there who are doing some very very interesting things but what I find most powerful about it is that Most of the innovative designs that I see are really Based on a conversation around what learning is and how it happens and what it requires There's a great school Called design 39 campus out in outside of San Diego Where they spent a couple of years basically is asking the question, you know, what is learning? How does it happen? What does it look like what's required they built a beautiful school where the the classroom environments are They're collaborative. They you know, they have a lot of flexibility Flexible open spaces all that type of stuff, right and they they also but they also built that to employ a very different Narrative a very different story or a very different experience of how kids go through school and So they don't do grades. They don't do they don't separate kids out by grade as much, you know And this was basically a K through 8 school when they started it I think they're about five or six years in just as a side note They're about five or six years in and parents have come to them now And they've said you now have to build a high school because we don't want our kids to experience the high school That currently exists after they've had this experience and and so, you know and and again design had a lot to do with that in terms of What it looks like what it feels like what it sounds like all that kind of stuff The most innovative place. I've ever seen by the way is a school outside of Sydney, Australia, which is it was just mind-bogglingly beautiful and in Just innovative and whatever else but they again started with the conversation. What kinds of environments do kids need to learn most powerfully? What needs to be present? I knew you were gonna ask me that it's I'll remember it Either tweet it out or Thank you. Yeah, I'll remember it, but but yeah But so there's a lot of innovation that's happening with school design right now Yeah, Northern Beach is Christian school. There you go Northern Beach is Christian school So Yeah, it's a it's a really interesting moment for design as well but only if it's if it's grounded in a Conversation around well, how does learning really happen? You know, I think you have to throw out You have to start almost with a blank slate and you start from there and If you can do that, then I think you can build really interesting spaces. I mean if you've articulated the definition of learning that Is probably the one that all of us would come up with the 21 of us give us, you know 20 minutes or so in this forum We'd come up with probably a fairly similar definition that you know learning is when it's your choice when you have freedom When you know all those types of things right if you've articulated the definition of learning which many schools have to right now They're doing that work then then yeah your curriculum the way that you teach should be built on that definition The people you hire the budgets that you create the assessments that you create You know everything that you do has to map back to that definition. Otherwise, what's the point? Why would you why would you articulate a definition of what you believe learning is and then not? employ that definition in every decision that you make and by the way, you know just for the sake of saying it I guess but I'm almost you know, I'm almost Better off or happier when schools say well, we be learning we believe that learning We actually believe that learning happens when kids sit in 60 minute classes in rows listening to a teacher If that's what you believe then do that at least that makes it a consistent experience for kids They all understand what the game is what the rules are instead of saying to kids Well, we really don't know and so my kids experience school They went to block one had to figure out what that had teacher meant by learning then they went to block two It was a totally different definition block three was something totally different again Because there's no there's just no cohesiveness or no coherence around what learning means Thank you John Thank you for the great questions especially based on your experience just one quick question for you Is the third teacher book from Canon design? Yeah. Yes, it is. Yep That's it. Hi will Okay, I'm I'm thinking about Your your term student agency quite a lot. Hi Brian. I hope you're feeling better I'm thinking about the term Student agency because that's thrown a lot around a lot and it's one of those talking points as well But I want to bring it to the conversation now teacher agency we Don't often recognize teachers need to be empowered and and what do you think about? environments that facilitate and cultivate teacher agency and how do you see this Unfolding like in the next five years with innovation and technologies This comes the students are saying okay, what what does my professor want me to do so I can Culture in K through 12 you're talking about College as well. So it's a systemic change from let's say preschool through 20 Well, we're almost out of time, but we had more great questions that came in From a long-term friend of the program George station terrific guy asks How can our high-red colleagues as well as our parents demand an experience different from their own for today's students?  Is there a space to do this outside rogue pockets of rebellion? We have a another question from the awesome Giselle Let me bring it from Giselle LaRose who asked have you seen a breakthrough results? We're a school district or college has approached organizational change by harnessing a common interpretation of learning the questions are burbling in Right as a completely out of time April had a question about what kind of schools you want your kids to attend My pastor and Prince just asked what will be some characteristics of narratives Let's think about that and maybe maybe take it to Twitter I'm I hate to wrap things up so quickly, but we we are out of time Will it's fantastic talking with you You you're necessary of change and new ways of learning One of the best ways for people to keep up with you. I mean your Twitter feed will Richard 45 now if you'd like to catch up on Will's first appearance on the forum way back in 2016 Or if you'd like to catch up on almost 200 other videos Please just head to tiny world comm slash FTF archive where you can find them all if you'd like to keep talking about What is learning and how do we redesign the narratives around schooling? 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What's text? Oh Man anybody got trading question.  Just keep riffing Just keep talking. Oh, dude. Oh Roku man I mean talk me out of why I shouldn't swing long on Roku.  So Netflix is like so what I think people are anticipating is this, okay? Disney puts out that Disney plus numbers are at like 50 million subscribers or something like that and the stock rips and Then Roku does the same thing and they say subscriptions are up in the stock rips and now Everybody's buying Netflix up thinking that the same thing is coming But I think when that news hits it's gonna be a sell the news type of situation on Netflix Got it.   Oh My god, oh Don't know man, but honestly Roku looks like our favorite type of power gapper Yeah, it's that it's that setup that Brian talked about in the webinar with Austin look at a daily chart Just look at a daily chart on Roku. Well, bro You get a stock tip ever last week on zoom short.  I hate that. I know I got about TD Here here. I'm gonna do something for you. I'm gonna do something for you right now. Do it watch this. Do it It's the easiest and silliest thing, okay but What you got for me Use that V-wap script and it won't show on your daily chart anymore get out of here That's it's the same V-wap But if you just use that one when you go to a daily chart on thinkorswim, it won't show it anymore That's so sick. I'm gonna put that on later. See that dude. That's the thing man is like About I clicked it and he just stole my password. Yeah, I just fish everyone's passwords Bro, that's the thing though like we should we should really like clarify this dude It either services what Joe just posted for members people are charging for Yeah, I thought a service charging for relative volume.  Here you go. I got another one for you guys, dude We like what do we man? We lose so much money given all this stuff for free to my seat, bro We don't charge for scanners.  We give you all the videos you just got we give you the M. I see I got you just got to get an annual lifetime membership Yep, bro, we give you every frickin thing that you've ever needed to be a trader ask Joe And he's got a hundred think scripts at the ready. He'll put he'll put think script businesses out of business If you want our ball, there you go Free our ball. I'll screen that I'll do that one too later Thanks, Joe. You got to do is put it put it as a column on your watch list or are your scanner or whatever It is and it'll show you the our ball for the ticker Awesome, bro, you will see a high relative volume. It tells you in multiple So if it's like a one that means it's a one-to-one. It means it's not above average volume.  Hold on. What's that and posh is gone. I just gotta cover it. Oh Shit, I just put a cover in on a limit. Let's see if I get triggered What were you saying about a things?  We squeeze and It's a pen pen. Okay. Easy tiger. Yeah, I would love for this to go up to like two or two thirty tomorrow So we have more room for the downside. This would be great. This is this is crap This is this I forgot what this webinar is about. It's about Q&A. Just fun educational content entertainment free entertainment Is here's here's here's two hundred dollars worth of education right now for you If you are longing and holding and swinging stocks with daily charts like this you need MIC in your life.  Oh, Lord Jesus, dude, if you but Joe if you swing a day to try to look like this long Oh, yeah, yeah, you just asking for it. You're asking for it TBLT not that much different not that much different Guys, this is why we short this is with there's certain parameters There's certain indicators that give you a great edge once you have that trend break Once you have that death channel once you have that death line snap. There are things that can grow your confidence I'm just like how If something is up seven hundred percent and it's TBLT, okay TBLT is tough built industry they make like Hardware that is sold at home Depot and it's not even that great but How is your first thought it's up seven hundred percent and you're like long it Like how is that the first thought? How is it not? Whoa?  It was at fourteen cents yesterday Trading in a dollar twenty like how is your first thought not? reverse split and And it and so once you do the conversion it's actually read on the day or it's break even it's like It's the worst worst Method I I just I I don't know how I Don't know why people were longing TBLT.  It's rare.  It's like blowing my mind every day I've never seen a market like this in seven years, dude Joe two things brother two things Let I want you to talk really quick about the DVD what exactly it is what people are getting when can they expect it Who can expect it when? Just everything about it man We don't necessarily have to post the PDF unless you feel that's necessary, but what did you just create man? And when's it coming out so The series is a it's an accelerator series and basically it takes all of Of our content all 1000 videos of it all 82 pages of videos Condenses everything down into seven and a half hours and no I don't just go grab old video lessons like other Services do and then turn it into a DVD in Quotation and then respell it as regurgitated material. No, we are filming and Redoing everything live all over again completely reproduced and Remastered breathe. I mean it's going through a test group and it's been in the test group for nearly a month now We're beta testing it literally right now. Yeah, we're we're and we're not just out here to to To pump it to make money we're out here to actually put together a piece of content that helps members Accelerate their learning curve So yes, it helps you learn all of the necessary skills in Order to navigate through the video library to learn the valuable lessons in becoming a day trader Learn what we talk about every single day without having to watch, you know 80 videos to get the full picture you come out Guns blazing, you know what we're talking about and if you hear something in the DVD that you don't understand You'll now have the ability to go back to the video library because we're revamping the video library Big time video library is going to be tailored to this accelerator series So anything you hear in there you're gonna be able to get to it Dude, we're gonna make this even better than it is right now man and this accelerator course like Joe just said dude I mean we've already said it, but I'll just say it one last time is this is if you know nothing guys Even if you're an experienced trader or a veteran This is gonna take you from minute one to minute end getting the confidence to place your first trades if you guys have the discipline and the You know just just able to sit down for seven hours straight or accomplishing in a day or two Dude, you're gonna have a level of confidence that you've never had especially if you're new man This is this is such a game changer. I don't think anyone's ever done something like this man. Honestly Not not completely reproduced material. I've seen people take old regurgitated video lessons and old Things or they or they say it's basic, but it's not It's not basic. They don't go all the way back from ground zero You could literally know Nothing about day trading and you will know what you need to know After the video is done That's so sick, dude, thank you for thank you for doing that Joe seriously. I mean members man You got Joe to thank for that one Thank you Thank the Texan redneck Yeah, yes Who's got some trading questions, man? Oh by the way guys, this is my contact information which I've posted many times So just text me I'm an intense guy, but I'm also fun and and lively If this is this is the passion I have when I see LT PRA or whatever that stock is Who's got some who's got some trading questions who needs help with their trading Joe or are you or Alex on the YouTube live? Can people post there as well? Yeah? Yeah There's there's not many questions coming with the only question. I have that I have not answered already Is want sign up and you're ready to begin trading and your account is super muskrow But still can't afford venom. Do y'all have any recommendations to any other brokers? Mine would be trade zero That's pretty much your only option Yeah, if you can't get banned probably for cobra. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna your best option is going to be Probably trade zero for small caps You're going with luck. Yeah, it's that's just gonna be the nature of it So trade zero. Yeah, man.  I'm not part of any communities man I do like the last thing I want to do is sound like a salesman, but bro if someone came to me Who was experienced seven years ago when I first started when I had 2.5k to my name He would have slapped the shit at me and said don't try to trade a loan instead of putting in a brokerage account man Get a membership and I'm not even talking about M. I see dude I'm just obviously I rep M.  I only have a thousand my name. I'm like bro. You have five months of pure Unbelievable education.  I tend to lose that money and Then you know that right now There's no better time right now to invest in yourself.  I'm sorry. I'm just gonna be that blatant.  That would be the relevance Not that I can't shoot a mean jump shot as we sit right now, but I'm just saying if I were not a basketball player and I knew nothing of basketball.  Look at the look at these guys Joe look at anybody who longed work were ex or works if 13 or above Look at them two days later, dude in this sell the news scenario and then these are new traders who go Oh, I thought it was a great company. I thought they had great news They're getting 25 million a week for the next 24 weeks. The news was great blah blah blah I Thought that that purchase order was gonna change the entire company Yeah, I thought that was gonna change everything why? Obviously guys I'm being sarcastic for those of you, right, right Like it boils down to UABS, bro I I longed it here and I and I sold 10 days later for a huge loss because I didn't look at the daily chart and know that You have to look at things like this and what does float mean and short float percentage and what is trend and it's like, dude You're gonna lose your money Yeah Invest in your education know if you're buying UABS Why you're buying it and what it is man in the potential downside risk that it has like and this is the and it's the same for shorting Something like Roku like if you're gonna buy UABS know the downside risk if you are going to short Roku Know the upside risk dude people don't know this they just go. Oh Everybody likes Netflix. I'll buy Netflix. You know what I mean? They get a little lucky then they find small caps on their own and then lose all their money because they don't know that Actually trading is very hard to do alone, but it's death. Yeah people who don't have a process and that's what we teach man That's what we teach Yep Bro it Joe a nutless monkey could make money in the markets But dude it takes a genius to keep that money. It really does man. It's dude. You got a little Yep, well said I just always love the analogy man of a broken clock is always right twice a day because dude How many how many stories do you have of friends or traders or you know?  I love this.  That's what I might see is for you 100% well in the beauty of having a 20 person plus team man like literally no joke, dude How many people do we have on the moderate team with the mentors the whole point is? Kailin judging by your photo Kailin, I'm assuming you're pretty bummed that the gyms are close Dude I want to look like Man, I think he's got it. I think he's got like a little bit of room to Maybe he's got a little bit to work with let's just say Kailin if the gyms are close for the next two months, bro I think you're good Yeah, you'll be fine Man Kyle I just been doing prison style and not in the shower with soap I've been doing just sit-ups and push-ups. Yeah, not in the shower was so sit-up push-up and Pull up.  Hey, someone someone Photoshop bows face on Kailin's body Where's five nine here? We go hang where's five nine put bows face on this and this is what this is what he's gonna look like when he's in the matrix Someone please edit that dude huge props to Kailin man if you have that kind of discipline for your body, bro Guess what that means? You're gonna have the discipline to learn how to be a really good trader, bro That's huge As well if you have that discipline to change your physique into that you have to apply the same discipline to trading Well, and that's what is doing is duty like the thing about trading, bro Is it mirrors everything you do in your life or whatever you do in your life is gonna mirror in your trading? So that's why I said if you're this discipline to do this here, bro, you could be a phenomenal trader man It's so correlated. It's crazy, bro. Put Joe and Kailin side-by-side Joe. Do you have a diva before and after for us?  Here's Joe Dude this this is literally what the quarantine is is us right now this is that one out Day 57 of Day 57 the ganja guru, bro, how much fun do we have at MIC man and people are like, dude What am I gonna get out of my seat? I'm like, what aren't you? All right, we got some we got some YouTube questions. We got a UABS tank. Let's go baby. Oh There goes, but I thought it was blasting. I'm just like I'm just kidding.  So what are the differences between UABS and pixie and CH CI and GR IL? So why did those two turn into all-day faders and the other two hung on? Number one that I would say to that is that was a lot, but I'll just keep it simple is When you don't have a process and just pay to play the lines You're gonna wonder all day why stocks go up while they go down Why did this one fade it dude? It doesn't matter that what matters is knowing where to get in when to pay yourself When to get out.  But dude at the end of the day Process will tell you the front side and process will tell me that this is most likely gonna go lower Because guess what and I say it every week We got the trend break the the break that I'm looking for to start shorting shorting on this I do I couldn't get a borrow for this and then boom guess what I'm gonna pay myself along the way And then if it if it happens so much that I get a home run out of this by happenstance because I keep taking Money on the way down and I keep recycling and that's then that's the name of the game and honestly It's like I I don't have a future ball who gives a shit about having a future You know tell our ball and see predicting the future and seeing everything that's gonna fade and do offerings line to line Make your money in get out. That's my that's my answer Yep, and if you want to know from a fundamental standpoint or you want to know a deeper dive into why then Dig in the filings and look for convertibles look for warrants look for things that are gonna Give the company and insiders the ability to dilute the stock and create selling pressure and That That if you want to know the why there you go you can go dig into I would I would argue that Fundamentally those companies are probably slightly different than one another Either active purchase agreements or sales agreements, which will act as ATMs and Those are the ones that will generally turn into the all-day phase almost always they just they just slowly get Diluted and they just use the company uses as much of that offering as they possibly can yeah, bro There's 10,000 reasons why these things fade all day in the filings You see when you see something overextended it finally starts giving back and you see a daily chart like this chances are it will probably do that But the point is whether it does it or not take advantage of what you know the only thing I was paying attention to on this I couldn't get locates. I was dying for them, but here's what I wanted. I look for the death Factors, what's that?  Yeah, that's always a huge factor right there. I couldn't get shares, but here's dude Bro outside of that it did exactly what I wanted that does every day that is my process a death cantal slams review I guess what I wanted to start scaling up the halfway mark if I had locates and I my risk as Kaylin Just asked my wrist would definitely not have been high day because that's way too much range forces sixes I would have gone at the top of the death cantal with a hard stop right there and guess what?  Here's what I want a harp on here. I really want to talk about this for a second Look at this I get pms. Joe probably Five times a week where people ask me hey, what's bow and alex's trading account? Do they think bow and alex are making two and five thousand dollars a day because they've got ten million dollar accounts, bro Nope way vs. Nope only traded this tiny size 1.5k shares times two During this webinar and bow made to bow made two grand What does that tell you that you need a fortune to learn how to trade or you need a fortune to be bow No, dude, you need a process bow traded at most 1,500 shares twice and made two G's Look at this chart dude yep back in First time I ever met bow. Oh 4k was his name. Okay 4k first time I ever met bow was in San Jose the San Jose meet-up in the very beginning of MIT and He said there that he Did for he did this for fun and for education, but he opened a new or Rebalanced his account new and he showed all of us From and he started with it was either 35k or 40k something like that and in Like 90 days. It was like 120 or 150,000 Just making two to four thousand dollars a day Joe on that somebody somebody texted me three days ago and he's like bro I I don't know man. I don't know if I can join and trade with you guys I think Alex has a 15 million dollar account and I've only got like a like a 10,000 dollar account I go bro. Are you kidding me right now? Do you know how much money you can make with 10 to 30 grand account? You can literally make $500 a day You don't need 15 million Dude I trade I have been trading a 15,000 dollar cash account in options and just letting the just letting everything settle t plus one and I'm consistently making anywhere between 500 to 700 to a thousand dollars a day Exactly, bro. Exactly It's about 700 bucks a day and I'm using a 15k account trading options You don't need a big account Dude Alex bound myself guess what guys we barely keep I don't even think we keep between the three of us over 50k in our accounts Obviously each one but dude you can make consistent money for the rest of your life with a 30 to 50k account You do look what Alex turned his what Alex would you start with like was it I think it was 35 with like Yeah, 35 dude, how are you fucking kidding me, bro? We literally just talked about this yesterday We started with 35 and in in 30 days 100,000 dollar account dude this selling point for you guys is this man It's do you have a process when you have a process and something that works every day? It's not about size man. It's not about bullying stocks It's not about oh, I'm gonna throw a hundred thousand shares at here get a death can on bully this time No, dude It's about in and out mail and bail getting a process for day twos low hangers first resistance first bounce things like this First red date and you can maximize here is this other account I use for this. So this is vows other account today Like dode it thirty two hundred bucks, right? Like yeah on a thirty nine thousand dollar account All he does all he keeps in there is thirty nine K And that's probably just because he hasn't rebalanced it yet and hasn't wired anything else Look at the difference and this is dude. None of this is to brag or anything This is to show you guys that you don't need a fortune to make money every day So if you bring it down and be like, okay, I don't have what bow started with today thirty six or thirty seven thousand dollars in this account I only have fifteen well look at what he did with the half of it You know you have half of that. You know what I mean? Hey bow. Did you use your windows screenshot shortcut to get that screenshot? Did you do? Yeah, we're gonna have to talk about that dollar sixteen that you lost What's happening here, bro? What's what's I thought you're better than this? He over covered and that's what happened he over covered up that you yeah, exactly probably yeah, you're probably right No, and I guarantee you I guarantee you on the exit on the long He still had to add liquidity to get the ECN rebate probably Guarantee you he did not hit the ask For the bit I Guarantee you didn't hit the bid with himself. He was like damn it. I've got an exit Just to put it in perspective guys that dollar sixteen is probably a net positive based on his ECN rebates Just he probably actually made money on so this is actually a green Yeah Shit, that's so funny man. All right, who's got some questions. All right, so oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's that's ever oh Yeah, yeah, do you ever create shit? Let me click this button again. I accidentally pause the YouTube live I'm just make sure that's still going. Oh my god.  I think I'm right. All right, so Do you ever create a watch list for afternoon trading and if so does that process Differ from a typical morning plan. Well, dude I ask because I trade the afternoon more often than the morning, bro You wouldn't need it after you watch this we're giving live commentary on everything that's running all day Look at bow is still right now posting about UABS. What's running? Sometimes we post scans like we're talking pixie We're talking about UABS works like you don't need a midday watch list. You just need to follow chat Yeah Then I'm gonna try to make a habit of actually like posting these questions in the channel Oh, good idea a question later instead of like if they can't understand me or something like that So I'm gonna try to make a habit of posting the question. So Yeah, I think that's a great idea and and it should probably differ from your morning watch list, but unfortunately Unfortunately the And this is just me. This is just me When I come back to the screens I tend to start to try to find trades that are not there and in the afternoon you need to Adjust your bias a Lot because in the afternoon, you're probably going to be more short biased You don't need to be buying in the afternoon. You need to be buying in the morning when there's a lot of volatility In the afternoon, that's when things continue. That's when things start to fade So if you're having trouble with consistency, you probably need to consider that the plan you have is is Not that great going into the battle because of the time of day We talk about this in my seat. We talk about why later in the day is more valuable to the short side than the long side and then we probably have 40 or 50 videos on that but Just be careful trading the long side in the afternoon be careful buying the dip Yeah, I see support here. Let me get long and then all of a sudden why does everything always go further?    Looks like Yeah, when she's at the bar you're aqua man But when she sees you in the morning waking up at 3 a.m. to get your locates, this is what you look like Bro, that's me coming to the screen every morning just rolling out of bed like I Like like Alex text me or something I can't I don't even remember if it was mid-day or in the morning, dude I think it was Saturday and like we were gunning up for the Q&A and I woken up super early right cuz like sometimes my body doesn't let me sleep in just because we're so designed to be traders I woke up like blind and deaf for five minutes couldn't even hit up. I was like dude, welcome to being a trader, man Oh, yeah, you're just like I Know exactly which I know the feeling I know exactly what you're talking about have to Kaylin Yeah, that was really easy as your broker allows man and get those locates brother. Yep every single morning That was me trading small caps I was like as soon as I was when I was talking to Brian and he was like He was like you don't even need to get locates and I was like hang on you mean to tell me I don't need to wake up at 4 a.m. Anymore Oh my god done. See Joe was good at small caps. He just stopped trading them because Bro for real I was like hang on hang on a second. You mean I could sleep in and Boom Well, did you really do have an excuse? I mean you've got two children Joe You have an excuse Bro, I'm like I haven't I don't know what I haven't slept in in five years I don't know what it is ever since my son was born every time the sun rises He does as well. He's just like, huh? It's all right. We had a rule.   We're gonna we're gonna about what you want to create a special link for the webinar guys Just so they know how to do it. We have no public sales right now But we are gonna do something for people attending this webinar. What do you think that you got an idea or if members want to upgrade That's so funny, Joe What's a good code guys Text all right, I'll tell you what anybody who has seen this text UAVS because that's what bow made his last bit of money on Text UAVS to this number two one three four five eight I'm gonna talk with bow after this I'll talk with Alex. We'll see what we can do But we'll open up a small discount small promotion We'll we'll figure something out for the guys more than enjoying that are watching this exclusively This is not available to the public For anybody who missed what do you wake up and see your child? Oh my god, dude, I can't Yeah, when you wake up at four it when they hit mom mom guys tech right here UAVS if you're interested in joining and and we'll do something to take care of you I'll talk with Alex about we'll see what we can figure out for the guys right now There's no here's another question to invest in your education, man There's no better time stop watching Netflix, man Stop blast you go Next YouTube question When you add to a winner, do you usually wait to add on pops or do you add on weakness? Considering you also lower your risk. I'm assuming obviously on the short side since Navi's that's how that question reads That's a short question for sure Add to a winner. Do you usually wait to add up? There's there's only one identifier for me brother on this whoever's asking this. There's one identifier I am old it is a lady to a winner What's that Joe? It is a female. It is a female. Okay. I am If it's if it is like this CHCI if the death canal is in place it is under VWAP and I know that there's a very small chance It'll go back over my wrist line I will add to a winner because these are usually the start of a really big down move These are the only ones I add to winners man only once bro. This is the only one So that's yeah, and if you're if you're a field If you're a skilled trader you can use you can you know like I mean Alex will do it He'll take the bids, you know what I mean like if he sees it on the tape and he sees that it's about to give up he'll whack the bids himself, but for a less advanced trader or a smaller size trader where your trading size is not gonna take the bid out it's It's best to me is You're shorting you're gonna want to short a pop after a sign of weakness So it's always the after effect. So it's like what it's what it's like what we teach on death line And and when you guys take a look at all the death line videos and everything that goes along with it You'll see exactly how we attack a death line setup. We're not shorting weakness Okay, we're shorting strength after a sign of weakness and how we do that is in all the video lessons Dude, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I cannot say enough if we look We've we've covered everything that there has ever been talked about in 200 years of trading. Whatever it is in our video library I promise you so if you guys need help, obviously you can reach out to us through pms You can get on calls every every day every day were available But if there is something you guys need to figure out believe me when I say it is in the video library Literally Colton just said everything is in the videos and dude Colton's been with us a while and guess what dude He's getting good man. He's really understanding because I see his progress. I see him grow I see all our members grow and dude take take it from Colton man. He's literally like he just said it, bro Everything is in the videos Go to the video library really quick and I'll show you what we're working on. I'm just gonna make sure everybody Yeah, let's get that let's get that open again Sorry, I'm trying to avoid the bar that you guys can't see so I can pull this up Let's go the videos tab. What are we looking at Joe? So in here, let's do what are you talking about the search bar? Yeah, but one thing I want to mention let's just type in Hang on click this. Let me give you the link Because we're gonna be taking it to a different location. Oh by the way guys Joe really quick. I just want to say before Or something but guys every single day at the end of the day We have an end of day watch list. So if that makes sense. So anything that ran today, right? Like anything that ran today. So APD and CHCI do these are on watch tomorrow for outer levels for low hangers This is called a day to continuation place. So anything that was in play day one is Extremely a possibility for tomorrow on the short side. So you guys are gonna learn this man We have two watch list a day one in the morning from Alex and one end of day by bow We post the tickers for the members just so people know I just wanted to incorporate that real quick. So take her away Joe What we are working on is a new Tag feature that is not just In the in the search bar itself, okay And I don't know why I'm not finding this freaking page all of a sudden hang on God help me moon moment the board father were oh, there it is Were you okay? What's that? What you got brother? What you got for us? What you got what you got? What kind of present you got? Oh nice So now take a look at all the tags all of those tags are going to be Specific to every single video and they're all tailored all the way down to if you want to watch videos about greed Click greed right there next to the fundamental analysis Am I going crazy? Where am I? Where am I? Oh God? There it is And now scroll down. Okay. I was getting stressed out for a second.   Look at that. He did the window shift. I teach this old dog some new snippet tricks Yep But anyway, so if you want to watch first red day setups There's first red day if you want to if you want to look at stuff that has to do with emotional training Everything click emotions right there Yeah, so if you want to watch stuff that has to do with fundamental analysis There's all the fundamental analysis There's every video that has that talks about emotions in your trading if you want to Discover, you know data tracking you click data tracking and everything we talked about with data tracking is going to be there if you just want to watch vows recaps all you do is you're going to click vows recaps and So yeah, it's all there it's all there and it's all navigable I Love it. I love it. If if you guys aren't impressed with that. I don't know how we're gonna impress you Yeah That's awesome.   Are you kidding? Oh, we all for talk about a phrase We also talk about a phrase head of the snake. Okay, and this is something Alex and bow coined On Twitter back in the day.  There you go. So now If you click head of the snake on that page. Oh, yeah, where we at. All right head of the snake boom If you hear us talking about the phrase head of the snake, what are we talking about? But you're gonna be able to watch them through here. Obviously, we're still building the videos Into this so as you continue to look at these the library is going to get a larger and larger and larger and larger We just started this this week getting more detailed with the categories in the tax But it's going to get even more advanced and basically it's gonna become like a big video library search engine, so That's so cool Oh Now that's the camera I'm talking about the only problem is it's never a good time to open up short the last 30 minutes The day dude if if this candle closes in here and was like midday, I'd be all over this shit. Yeah late in the day We're closing the discount because bow didn't make money Yeah, oh they missed the tank Yeah, so one last time guys before we wrap this up Feel free to text me only the people who saw this webinar and text me you ABS You will get a secret discount for only today. I'm not kidding. This is will only be available today I'll talk with bow and see how it is but text you ABS to two one three four five eight five nine nine seven Or email me or palm pilot me Palm pilot Now you About With so much you want to talk about videos that discuss FOMO just go click the word FOMO Yes, exactly guys. So the two major ones you're gonna want to pay attention to in here Honestly is truly greed and probably FOMO. These are the ones you guys are gonna want to watch some videos on which I'm sure we have a million Yeah, shocker we have already two pages shocker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's more to come there more to come We've only made it through about 80 videos so far of the Endless amount and Austin still got to go through all of his psychology webinars and and categorize though So there those so there's there is a lot of content to go through so the library is going to get Um Massive massive Dude, yeah, so Guys we do this every single Wednesday Let's see if bow makes money next week. Maybe he'll do some but I don't know guys It's a limited time just because we're really just trying to help out during the quarantine So thank you guys so much for coming man. If he loses money next week We're actually doing a promotion where we raised the That's funny Dude, he could bring up like 10,000 analogies the second you say something.  Why would I sign up with MIC? over any other service and I'm gonna summarize that simply in One very simple sentence very simple sentence one on one coaching and help The actual personal contact that you get from everyone Here in MIC not just the members but the moderators and the mentors and the people teaching you and the people you are looking to get Education from you have the ability and we are always around answering your questions Giving you are up most undivided attention at any given time every other service Does it at their convenience and maybe not at all? And I want you to ask yourself direct you to the video library or they may just direct you to their DVDs They don't help you whatsoever Here's another thing that I just want to end with because that's that's kind of Joe's last word Here's my last word guys if you think another service one of the mentors myself We'll get on the phone with you personally and figure out your trading future and what's best for your needs You have endless PNs or or however much you want to talk to the moderators You can get on the phone with them if you can find that somewhere else.  I doubt it Dude, we are so hands-on with MIC. You will not find anywhere else. I can guarantee that almost entirely the fact that we go go ask those Those other rooms and I'm not gonna name names, but just go in there and ask if you can get on a phone call with them Just go go or or Ask them what your rotation is and if they give you a one-word answer you're in the wrong place Yep And now pixie tanks. Oh now bow's raising rates today because pixie tanks. Oh Shit you guys better act now. I think lifetime just became eight G's.  Oh That's tough All right guys well before before bow throws his computer because he missed on both of those I'm gonna Awesome, thank you Tom. Thanks so much guys for showing up Joe Kelly Thank you for everything you do man.  Let's do it next week, brother I'm a wizard at compartmentalizing my emotions, too Dude, I see that Trader I compartmentalize everything I'll see you tonight at redab. Yeah Where he raises rates Yeah Alright guys. Catch you later, man till next week. See you Joe later


Whenever I take a look at a Linux distribution one of the questions I asked to myself is what does this bring to the table that other distributions don't and I always try to find that one thing Because every Linux distribution is created for a reason like Linux meant split off from Ubuntu for a reason Elementary OS was created for a reason manjaro was created for a reason you get the idea So when I look at one of these off the road very small distributions I asked myself why does this exist and Usually for the most part I can Discover that purpose and it doesn't have to be a unique purpose Let's write if you want to create your own arch-based distribution Even if it's exactly the same as all the other arch-based distributions out there. That's fine with me That's a good enough reason to do it as long as you're not making odd claims about how this is going to be the distribution that changes everything and You got to just got to try this because it's going to be the most amazing Linux distribution you've ever tried as long as you're not doing That I'm okay with you making your own distribution Even if it doesn't have a unique purpose for being so today I'm going to be taking a look at an arch-based distribution and this arch-based distribution is called stormer west and Going into this. I wanted to answer the question of why does this exist? And I think that at the end of the day This is going to be one of those distributions that exists in the realm of a lot of other arch-based distributions in that it's meant to make arch as easy to install as possible and When it comes to that goal Stormer West has done a really good job another thing that it does a really good job of is that it has some Applications that are installed by default that are actually pretty unique like I've very rarely seen these applications Installed by default on a distro. So what we're going to do today is I'm going to talk about the Installation of storm west and then we'll go through the system just a little bit and talk about what makes it different At least in some subtle ways from other Linux distributions. So let's go ahead and jump in so what you're seeing now is a Fast-forward through the installation of stormer west and the reason why I'm doing it this way is because the installation is really nothing to write Home about it. It's not bad nor good. It's just a calamari's installer With one extra page where you can select some software to install prior to the installation of the distra Or during the installation of the distra. That's really all it is There's nothing here that it stands out amongst the rest of Dozens of arch based distributions to also use calamari's again, that's not a ding That's just kind of the way it is. This is installing arch Linux the easy way, right? You're using calamari's to install arch Linux and for the most part, that's a good thing to do So once you get past the installer, you're presented with a login screen that looks like this now I believe this is light DM now one of the things that I don't really care for right off the top is that Despite it actually knowing your username. Oh, well, I actually see I didn't even know that if you click on that It it takes you that because if you're actually down here It makes you type in your username and this is the default thing This is what shows up by default you have to actually click on this and I didn't even know that so Learning right up to that so I type in my password and The one thing you'll see upon boot up is this uses XFC as default desktop environment and It is somewhat customized So you'll notice that they have deemed bash and they have a profile for the XFC terminal That is fairly unique and I'm gonna fix that display resolution that way it's full screen and you can see by default It runs the latest of everything remember this is arch Linux basically it even says it's arch Linux Interestingly, they changed the ASCII art, but they didn't change the OS name But anyways, it doesn't really matter. They have the latest version of the kernel bash 5.1 XFC 4.16 all the latest stuff, but again, this is our clinic. So that's kind of what you'd expect now in terms of Memory if you care about that kind of thing You're gonna look at about 601 megabytes of RAM used. That's about normal for XFC So once you get to this stage one of the things that I found very interesting is that you don't get a welcome screen one of the things that This distribution kind of proclaims itself as is being a new user friendly distribution But there's no welcome screen, but there is a welcome screen It just doesn't come up by default which is very confusing to me Like if we go into the menu here and click on StormOS system tool this is the welcome screen and The thing is is that I know that they don't call it a welcome screen because it's not called that It's called the StormOS utilities program or in the menu It's called StormOS system tool whichever that you want to call it I call it the welcome screen because it has things that you'd want to do right upon boot up You know refresh the mirrors do the system updates check for a you update a you are updates Refresh the arch key ring which I'm not sure why you'd want that as number four Usually when you update your system the arch key ring should be first thing because that updates the GPG keys And you can't actually update arch as far as I'm aware without doing that first So I'm not sure why that's number four could be wrong, but again This is the welcome screen, but it doesn't pop up by default It does have some interesting choices that it gives you to do certain things So like install team viewer not something that I've ever seen before not something that I would ever want for myself But if you use team viewer, it's interesting that there's a button here for you to do that I'm not sure again why that's here when you could install team viewer I'm pretty sure in that list of software in the installer why it's in both places again Doesn't really matter, but definitely something that I noticed and there are some other things here that are for installing things like Nvidia packages in order to use like VMs and stuff like that and then The I'm not actually sure what I to see tools are or what LS HW is actually LS HW is the tool To give you hardware information I think again an interesting choice to put here right up front not something that I've Ever seen before like this is like I'd never heard of LS HW before I had to look it up So yeah, it's there and it's cool again I'm not sure why this here isn't given to you by start up Like it feels like this is something that should pop up that start up at least on the first boot, right? But it doesn't now it does have other tabs So you can install things like steam heroic launcher Lutris proton GE Mangle HUD and bottles all from right here You can also install other things like flame shot and transmission and Thunderbird right from here You can install on the office from here the media stream installer You can also launch some settings panels from here as well we also have things for printer and cups drivers donations and The arts university which is a place where you would to get information and support So things like the arch wikis link to here the arch website some of the commands for the specific version of Linux you can get here as well. So this is welcome app, but again doesn't start up by default So I actually find this tool really good. There are some Weird choices like I'm not sure why some of this stuff, you know Like why is team viewer here to begin with? It's a choice that I would not necessarily have made myself, but I'm guessing that it's here because Again, this is a new user focus distro And it's possible that they're expecting you to be helping someone else to install this So you would tell whoever you're helping to install this to Start up the storm OS tweak tool or whatever it's called do seven or five So it installs team viewer for them Then you can take control of their computer and show them how to do stuff Maybe that's the rationale. I'm not actually sure it seems a little niche for me, but again, you know, whatever So that is that Now there are other programs that are automatically installed So and some of these are things that I've never seen before Installed by default on a Linux distribution. So we get gimp by default, which is always nice We have Firefox and Thunderbird as our internet tools VLC and simple screen recorder are both here simple screen recorder is not something that you see very often Installed by default so you get Abbey word as the word processor Which is again a choice that I've never actually seen made before Usually you see Libre office sometimes open office sometimes only office Never seen Abbey word before I mean I've heard of it before but I never used it things like planner are also here Like this is a elementary OS app. This is primarily Developed for the elementary OS platform. It's really good It's got a front-end for to do us which is something that I've always wanted to use But it doesn't work with all well and window managers So I've never been able to use it, but it's actually quite nice for a to-do list application and very very powerful Again, never seen it installed by default on something outside of elementary OS And even then it's not installed by default there We also have a something called Osmo, which is a like a planning personal planner Which again, I've never even heard of this application before That's something that you know installed. I've just never seen before usually. It's something like K organizer or You know calendar, you know is what you normally see here and we have some other things here as well So there are some things for playing and downloading movies Which I'm not actually sure what these things are and I don't really have a way to test them because I don't have any movies or anything on here I don't know what kind of movies this accepts in order to download them Maybe maybe it's a front-end for like YouTube DL or something I'm not sure it doesn't have any as far as I'm aware like about, you know options here So I'm not sure what those actually are but again things that I've never seen before The rest of the stuff is going to be just your typical XFCE fare So you're getting all the XFC settings and stuff like that all the traditional ways of managing the XFCE desktop environment like the themes and stuff like that. So if you open up the Settings manager, this is the standard XFC window manager now a lot of distributions will add stuff to this and This distribution is no different. So they've added the storm more system tool So if you ever need to get back to that and you don't remember that it's in the menu Or you maybe you removed it from the menu you could get to it from here Let's go ahead and briefly take a look at the theming which is done in appearance So this has quite a few themes installed by default. So there's one called Colloid that has several different variants I believe that mostly that's just going to change the buttons up there at the top But it does give you a lot of options if you happen to like that theme, which I have to say It's very in a very attractive theme. It's definitely better than the default XFC stuff So well done on that. I'm not sure what these things are. Is this elementary elementary style sheet grape lime? I'm not excited. I'm not sure what if we Go back and then we open up like the the open up funer here I'm not sure what makes that elementary, but it's an interesting theme very flat, but you know kind of cool Anyways, other than that That is what you get with storm OS There's not a lot of extra stuff here outside of the things that I've shown you and it's very minimal so there is a problem with storm OS and that is The Documentation so if we go and I saved this for last because I didn't want to ding this Distribution too hard because it's actually kind of cool But the biggest problem that they have is all of their distribution all of their documentation is here on Source forge. So this is the documentation that you get and there is Something here that I've not paid much attention to and that is the storm OS repo installer I'm assuming what that does is it adds a Arch repo to Pac-Man.com I'm assuming that that's what that does again I don't know because the documentation isn't great. So if we go back here to this And we zoom in just a little bit so I can actually read that because it's black and white And that's always hard for me to read most of this stuff here is just the updates from the developer and There's no organization. I guess chronological sure But there's a lot of updates and you'd have to read through all of them and there doesn't seem to be a place For you to find out what that repo thing is if we go to the actual storm OS website Again, there's not much here in terms of documentation and it's still I've not been able to Find a written place where it explains what that repo thing is or if you're supposed to use it I have no clue, right? But really the Documentation is the biggest downside I have of this whole distribution. There's just Not a lot there and what is there seems to be mostly just the updates like the Updates from the developer and again, that's not a big ding like that's there are a ton of distributions out there that are much more lacking in any documentation like they have none whatsoever and This is just arch Linux. So if you ever really need documentation, you could just use the arch wiki So that's not a big deal. But again, it's just something that I noticed Also, I don't know if you notice this or not, but they have themed Firefox, which is kind of cool It's not something again that you see very often usually they don't take the time to theme Firefox put their own custom theme in for that. That's kind of cool that they did that. So Very cool. Anyway, so that is storm OS if you have thoughts on this You can leave those in the comment section below. It's a very good arch based distribution If that is something that interests you go ahead and give this a try You can follow me on Twitter at the Linux cast You can follow me on mastodon and all my other social media networks You can find those links in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast like all these fine people. Thanks to all of my current patrons I really truly do appreciate every single one of you all of you have supported me throughout the last year and a half And I truly do appreciate it if you would like to support me on patreon You can again do so at patreon.com slash Linux cast. I truly do appreciate all that support So thank you for watching. I'll see you next time


In this step, we'll take a look at how you go about importing assets into Unreal Engine and in this case we're going to be importing the textures that we'll need to improve the look of our grass. So what we'll do first of all, I'll show you. If you are supporting me through Patreon, you've got access to this. Here we go. So in the Unreal Engine 4 for beginners shared folder, there's the Unreal Engine project folder here. There's the height map that we used a little while ago. And there's also this textures folder as well. Now within here, it's splitting to four of the folders. And the ones that we're using in this video today are the terrain ones. So I'll just double click on this and you need to download these images and just save them somewhere on your computer that you can find them. So in my case, the Google Drive folder is fine for me. I know where they are. And we're not going to be using all of them yet. We're just going to be using this grass D, grass N and grass R. And that naming convention, in case you're wondering, the D denotes that it's a diffuse texture. The N means it's a normal map and R is the roughness map. So we'll be looking at using those certainly all of these in this folder in future videos. But for now, it's just the grass ones that you'll need. So you either need to download them from my shared drive if you are a patron or you're going to need to find your own grass, diffuse and normal maps so that you can move forward. So making sure that you've got those saved somewhere. What we're going to do is move to the textures folder that we created earlier. So I'm going to go back into my content folder and then I'll see here. There's my textures folder and currently there's nothing in it. So let's import. So I'm going to click on the import button up here. There we go. And you can see I've already been working through these steps. I've been writing it down so it takes me straight to that folder. But if not, I'd go to my textures folder, double click on terrain. And I'm actually going to just import all of these like so. And click on our press control and a there to select them all by the way. And then click on open. And this is going to import all of these to that folder. You'll also notice at the end down here that if they've got an underscore n or meal will tell you that it's imported them as a normal map. So it's just saying, yes, I've recognized that this is a normal map and I've imported it with the correct settings. So we'll just let this finish. OK, so they're all imported and they've appeared in my textures folder. You can see that they've all got this little star here, which means that they've not been saved yet. So it is a good idea to save them. So I'm just going to click on save while they're all selected and that will get rid of that little asterisk that's on there. And then they'll be ready to use. So now that we've got these textures imported in the next step, we'll be ready to start to bring these textures into the landscape material. So I'll see you in the next step for that. Thanks for watching. If you want to take your learning further, I recommend an introduction to Unreal Engine 4 by Andrew Sanders and Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials by SatishPV. Check them out using the links in the video description below. Special thanks to my awesome patrons whose names are displayed on screen for supporting this video. If you'd also like to support my channel, then go to patreon.com forward slash Shane Whittington.