And I'd love to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel for my first installment here of many in 2024 on Aduro Clean Technologies. We've just been made prevy to an interview with the CEO, Mr. Ofer Weikus. The interview I will share with you in the description below as well as in the comments section for you to link over and catch that 20 minutes. It will be 20 minutes well spent. There were a number of different nuggets within that interview and it is a must-watch. For anybody who's interested in the story, for existing and would be share owners in the company, it is a must-watch. I am going to summarize for you guys my reaction. I've now listened to the interview a couple of times. Ofer does a great job of providing some historical context for those of you who don't know Aduro Clean Technology on their story for 14 years in the making here. And reporting out on it in 2024 is quite frankly my honor to pay forward this story that has been evolving over that same time period. But more importantly to look to the future and what 2024 and beyond is going to hold for Aduro. They were provided some fantastic color around what is going to be some realistic expectation in way of goals. Aduro has a sterling track record of not only placing those goals out there for share owners in the company but also achieving those goals. They are a team of merit. They are a team of deliberate evolution in this company and they do what they say. It is an impressive company to cover. I have just recently added another share block. I know in 2024 and moving out of December of last year and into this year I know the stock has taken a small digression back. I'm not concerned at all. It was an opportunity for me to pick up some more shares. Before we get into the highlights of the interview that Ofer provided I'd like to bring your attention to the description below. I will provide all of the disclaimers and descriptions about my interaction and my involvement with Aduro. I am providing this content for awareness purposes. I am a paid contractor with Aduro. I provide this information also as a share owner in the company. My share thesis over the company as an investor for going on 16 months now has never moved away from a bullish posture. I provide the buy dates, the cost basis, as well as the total share count for any would-be patrons that are catching this message. In full transparency you guys understand where I'm coming from. The idea here is not to be misconstrued that because I own shares you need to own shares as well. It only is a call for you to do your own due diligence and review the information that we put right out there for would-be investors who may not have even known that the Aduro Clean technology story even existed.  So let's get right into it. I talked about the 14-year evolution of the company. This company really, Ofer, talked about kind of surprising the market a little bit. I think there is some continued discovery going on with this company. I contend that they are, as we speak, unknown. Their current market cap has just dipped again below the 70 million mark and I think from a perspective of looking at a company and what they bring to the table, I think any fair school of thought with what they've got going on would deem this company currently undervalued and significantly so. They talked about the patent portfolio, which I thought was interesting and gave some historical context around the plastic recycling in and of itself being a rather old idea. Companies have been attempting this and failing at the plastic problem and addressing it head-on historically for many, many years. But what separates Aduro, and he said it a couple times in the interview to suggest that Aduro does in fact have the best technology. In my research, I cannot dispute that. Aduro certainly needs to continue along its testing and evaluation with customers as part of their customer engagement program and then moving into the collaborator stage. And when that happens, it's going to be game on and it's going to be great to report out on that, but we'll have to just continue to monitor the program and their opportunity through their customer engagement program in 2024 and beyond. We're talking about a $200 billion total addressable market across their three verticals. I typically spend about 90% of my time, if not more, focused on the plastic recycling piece. Ofer kind of doubled down and said that is really the area of focus right now, even looking to add to their patent portfolio eight owned, excuse me, seven that are currently issued and one currently pending in their portfolio, but one of their strategic goals in 2024 is to continue to add to that intellectual property catalog that they have with the company. And I think that's going to be exciting, but the focus and the addressable market here and the pressure of the larger companies and the mandates that are coming, these companies are hungry. And these are some of the largest companies in the world that are currently looking and evaluating those solutions that are out there on the market and attempting to evaluate and eventually choose the correct one that's going to help us move past these glaring statistics that I'll talk about with how we are really failing in this battle in tackling the plastic problem. He talked a lot about contaminated material and I found this to be very interesting. He talked about it from the perspective and I've been covering Aduro for quite some time. I covered it just right before they got selected for the Shell Game Changer program. Ofer briefly mentioned it in true Ofer style in that we do not want to talk about that because that is in an ongoing process and is now 15 months removed of being selected to the program. And we want to respect that. But to talk generally more about Aduro's place in competing for the feedstock and specifically contaminated feedstock puts them in a realm all by themselves to be able to tackle that hard to recycle plastic and go after that feedstock that potentially other entities could not touch. And that two-fold allows Aduro to enter into a blue ocean, no pun intended, of contaminated material that Aduro has the technology to boast being able to not only tackle but to be able to recycle and execute on high yield on the back end but also set them apart from having to compete for that cleaner feedstock, the stuff that has to go through pre-cleansing and pre-wash types of processes to make sure that they are even eligible to be introduced to some of the existing technology on the market now. And I found that to be an extremely important differentiator when evaluating what Aduro brings to the table. Now, as the story evolves, I would expect that as more of the technology evaluation customers come into the pipeline and we end up actually making more collaborators with Aduro, the second that the one collaborator signs, I expect that to be the very domino that's going to start this acceleration in not only the company but as well as well the stock price as well because Aduro trades like an undiscovered company. The volumes do not speak of a company that most of the bulls and long share owners in the company see with regard to the value that exists currently below the surface and as myself and many others understand about value investing, a lot of people struggle with seeing below the surface and Aduro currently right now has most of their value below the surface. My friends, over the coming years, that is going to slowly change and it's going to change in a way that is going to put Aduro into the forefront and have them emerge from the shadows and be able to really showcase what we know now to be true about the company but we're kind of screaming at the top of our lungs trying to get people's attention and right now we are currently in that in the shadows phase in my opinion. Okay, so the contaminated plastic, a big, big opportunity there. Of course, Aduro sports the lower temperature compared to the peers who operate significantly above 400 degrees and then also with the high yield with the application of their chemistry over that contaminated plastic that they're going after can really sport a fantastic return on economic value for those companies that are deploying the Aduro clean technologies platform. With the modularity of offer talked about, you know, he talked about not being stuck to building out huge infrastructure and I do follow up your cycle and the story there because these guys are going down a track of building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to produce a product and tackle this problem and as important as that is, Aduro wants to be very, very clear in that they're approaching this from the perspective of going after their licensing model first and foremost just speaks about their evolution on seeking their revenues into the future as really being focused on collaborating with industry as opposed to build it now and they will come later. Ofer has spoke about this many, many times over and the modularity piece just speaks to how wide of a swath Aduro has defined for themselves in being able to take their modular opportunity to some of the smaller outfits out there and actually work with these companies to actually tailor the chemistry to an appropriate solution no matter what size the facility is. He talked about this at length about some of the smaller facilities needing this chemistry and needing these solutions just like the big boys but not having the opportunity to look to collaborate with or having to opt for recycling facilities that may not be conveniently located as close to these facilities as what they may need and I think that really sets Aduro apart and Ofer has talked about this throughout the history of the Aduro story and has openly conveyed this. He spoke specifically about Mexico and the opportunity for modularity there to take the chemistry and really offer those solutions on a case by case basis and I think as the story unfolds my friends over the coming years I think this is going to be air apparent in what sets Aduro apart in their ability to really take a solution to their customers why because in the words of Eric Appelman their goal is to give the customers what they want and not look to build something and look to sell the customers on something that may not fit. Aduro is really good at meeting the customer needs and I think they're on the right path to do that it'll be great to continue to monitor going forward. I talked about the regulated nature of competing for that top-end feedstock this is something that has kind of evolved in the discussion as of late and it's something as a bullish and long-term share owner in the company I certainly gravitate to in looking to differentiate my company Aduro Clean Technologies from the competition out there and there is going to be competition my friends the addressable market and the magnitude of the problem is too large it's been said that you could take a hundred Aduros and we would never solve this problem my friends there are only one and even with that there are going to be different solutions that evolve there are going to be solutions that yes do require high input and the companies will have to make those decisions based on their own individual needs and I do see Aduro playing a large part in tackling the magnitude of this problem with the companies that they eventually collaborate with and eventually go into commercialization with but I found that to be an interesting piece for me as a differentiator between the competition out there and what Aduro brings in their ability to compete really with the contaminated market and being able to deploy their chemistry and successfully introduce that to their technology and get such high results on the back end with deploying it on the contaminated plastic the growing list is exhausting and will work to grow daily this this is something interesting that Ofer talked about I look at 2024 as a continued bridging year for Aduro but I think with the buildout of the team and I think with their current structure their their buildout is is poised to add magnitude the question was asked by the interviewee if they are prepared to accept this this buildout and this grow out and and you know I think right now at Aduro I think we're going to see an evolution of the company really transform because as a small company right now with what we're talking about in total addressable market and potential going forward we're probably talking about a different Aduro clean technology in five years than the one we are evaluating now and and my friends just shy of a dollar us you can pick up this potential magnitude over the coming years okay now some small insights as a share owner that I want to convey to you is this if you invest in the company now under a dollar you probably stand a pretty good opportunity of entering into what I consider to be a very very de-risk asset even now and make money going forward okay I think where the misconception is going to be and I was really the the cream of the crop or the cherry on top on this interview was when Ofer Vaik has talked about share owners and owning the company long I thought that was really really smart in understanding that what he is trying to convey is not only the value that exists now in Aduro but also the value that they are looking to add and something that drives them day to day is adding that value in the company and for eventual share owners in the company going forward it drives what they do the reason I mentioned that is because here at sub one dollar I think is immaterial at this point I think if you tripped and fell into the stock now and you sold it a hundred and a half I would congratulate you on making some money but quickly remind you that by selling out I think that this company's best days are in front of us remember guys we are going on 15 years of evolution with this company we are just now starting on what Ofer defined for you guys just on the 2023 recap with the panel discussion last fall moving into the holiday season about what that structure will look like the technology evaluation stage which is what we have now with the 20 dossiers working with large oil and there's been some leaks on who those oil companies are I refrain from that discussion all I need to know is that there are evaluators in this process now and indeed there are an Ofer talked about it on a couple of different times if you pick up on it great what I picked up on is that they are adding new interest daily they're adding new interest daily now how is that not an opportunity to sit back and deem this company a bullish thesis and an evolving exciting company right before our eyes you'll have to make your own independent decisions about you know what these things mean perhaps maybe you have a different twist on it as me but that's why you tune into the weekly update to get my insights and reaction from what I feel like a company that's doing everything right is putting right out there via press releases and for us to pay that forward to somebody who may not feel like they have access or may not be plumbed into the right channels my friend absolutely I'm plumbed into the right channels and I provide those to you as quickly as I can so just know that if you're subscribed to the channel you're also subscribed and plumbed right into that conduit for information and it's very very exciting we are primed for 2024 as Ofer alluded to as being one of those years where we could potentially take some of those evaluators which is part of their strategic vision for 2024 and create some collaborators out of that their goal is two one will be good enough for me one again starts on that process of really entering into more of a binding agreement with these customers to to to up the empty and go from hey we've already evaluated this now let's look at how we can strategically fit this into your business and call you a collaborator with the aduro clean technologies application and I think that's going to be exciting now the cherry on the top is going to be the commercialization phase okay and I think we're a little bit removed of that and I think we're slightly if not in its entirety pretty premature of talking about that but I want to encourage you guys to think about this the time to get into the company is right now as we speak the time to get into the company is when I invested in the company 16 months ago okay this is the calm before the storm we are in it now okay don't think for a second that you're going to be able to wait and slow play this thing and inject your opportunity right before everything starts to skyrocket if nothing else late last year aduro prove proved to share owners how quickly the company can move because there is so much fundamental value here and the aduro clean technologies shares at least on the u.s. markets where I'm domiciled a cthf those shares are a premium okay I've got my broker barking up my tree to actually take my shares lend them out and pay me 18 percent annualized to lend out my shares now I'm not doing that but it's the only shares that my broker directly fidelity has reached out to me and said hey Ryan we're willing to pay you to loan out your aduro shares that's how high in high demand these shares are which only gives me an insight to know that I'm in the right place quite frankly and if you want to know where that place is in detail again I invite you to the description to review my current share position just upped within the last week to the tune of a small 3000 share position and I entered into it when it digressed back to 94 cents I'm up in that position already as I'm up in the remainder of all of my share blocks that I disclose to you why not because I'm lucky not because I picked the right time only because I picked the right company that as I speak and report out on is absolutely doing the right stuff okay so that path to commercialization is actually addressed Eric Appelman walked through that deliberation if you haven't caught that panel discussion there are multiple areas in my featured channels with Penny Queen with Mary Yousha Skanochki Skanochny who have shared that I was on the panel catch that information because my friends the calm before the storm is only going to last so long and eventually we are going to be reporting out on a different company and reporting out on it you're going to get the same deliberation as me when we're moving Mach 10 right now we're creeping down the freeway going about 11 miles an hour okay but when this thing starts to move don't expect me to apologize to you for not allowing you the opportunity to look at this opportunity when when nobody else is looking at it and that is the very time you want to be looking at this and quite frankly when we're moving at Mach 10 that the very fundamentals is what is going to carry this company to where we eventually think that it is going to go okay it's not going to be one of those companies that are driving high share prices out of hype because we'll always have to come back to evaluating the company and the fundamentals and making sure that those fundamentals justify or at least are somewhat related to the stock action and the price we just so happen to have right now a current disconnect between the fundamentals of the company and a recessed stock price it's an undiscovered stock price as we speak all right over and I'll close out my remarks on the nuggets of de-risking the process and de-risking the process is going to come through continued customer engagement and eventually taking on some of the collaborators he talked about the addition to the patent portfolio as a 2024 goal but I just want to add this a little bit when he talked about the pedigree of the aduro share owners being long-term I really found that to be very very exciting and he had a statistic that around 35% of current share owners are adding to their current position which with each capital raise that they do there has been no dilution in the company there has been a renewed efforts by the top guy in the company to add more shares and you can look at that however you want to I choose to look at it with my educated lens with over 20 years of market experience when the top guy is adding shares there's usually only one reason for that okay there's a thousand different reasons to sell a stock but there's only one reason to buy the stock and as we speak right under our noses the top guy is adding more shares to his position why because he believes that what they're doing is right and he believes that there's an opportunity here for aduro to do something special I'm in that camp as a bullish long-term share owner over the last 16 months I have done nothing but accumulate and I'm happy to report to you guys that I have sold all of zero shares over that time frame and that's how it will continue to shape I just do want to mention in the last final couple of minutes here that aduro has employed crystal technologies uh crystal research out of New York City which is actually very very exciting I look at it like a share owner to be piped into a conduit to information and this is a tell it story go tell it on the mountain because people need to understand this company they need to be given the opportunity to take a first look at the company and very rarely are people ever provided this opportunity to look at a company like this so so close to the ground floor with so much derisking that has already happened being so far advanced in the game changer program that I think crystal research is going to be a fantastic addition to what aduro is trying to do and that is scream at the top of their lungs and and get people to to deliberately and carefully take a look at this opportunity this is only an invitation I provide this opportunity through the independent investor channel to convey the developments with the company quite simple but my reach is only my reach and to expand upon that reach I think is a very very smart move by aduro the press release I will also link in the description to the addition of crystal research I will also provide that in the comment section for easy access for you guys and you need to review that information and in closing the nuggets and the perspective over the offer vikas interview that just came through this week I highly encourage you as a share owner in the company to review that information to review it with your own lens to draw your own conclusions from what that could potentially mean in where the top guy has in way of vision and where he sees aduro going in 2024 and beyond guys if you appreciate the information coming through on the independent investor channel plug yourself into the pipeline that we enjoy it's free of charge hit the subscribe button the notification bell if you like content like this share the message with anybody out there that's interested in the space bring them on to the message looking to grow the community of exciting opportunities and talking about it during a time where nobody else is talking about it I cannot stress this enough because when it starts my friends there's nothing I can do to slow it down for you right now is your opportunity and I highly encourage you to take a first look at aduro clean technology guys take thank you so much for tuning in for the entire video and good luck in your 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The joke? Rick, hold on, I can't see. Hold the funny. Hold the funny, Rick. Hold the funny. Don't waste any of this comedy gold. Comedy gold. We only have it when the lights are turned on and the camera's rolling. Other than that, we're boring as spit on the sidewalk of life. At least he is. Bunch of comments are like, we know.  It's I'm Corbin. I'm Funky. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. It's so juicy. Follow us on our official Patreon and on our official Twitter account. It's one of my favorite things about pigeons. What? They're funky, man. Everywhere they walk. So. Yeah, that's dumb. No, it's true. I love pigeons. No, I'm saying that. That sentence. Ah! Your existence. Where do you the bell that you've heard of the notification is calling? Boom! Today! You're ringing that like a pigeon.  We are doing a movie review. Was I supposed to watch a movie? Ah, same joke as last time. Uh-huh. Even funnier. Stand up comedy. Cause if it is, I can't.  And it is called Udan. Or. Udan? Udan. Udan. Udan. I call it Udan. I think that's a yes. You see that movie Udan? You don't see that film from India called Udan. That's a good one. That one's a knee slapper. Anyway, yes. Finally watched it. We eat that film right there. Parentin 101. Oh yes, definitely. We actually watched the trailer for this over nine months ago. And that's all we're doing here. We're actually giving you a review based on our memory of that trailer from nine months ago. Read this in opposite for me. Expelled from his school. A 16 year old boy returns home to his abusive and depressive father. It sounds like a fun time for the whole family. Especially the dad. Yeah. I thought he was 17, by the way. Directed by, say his name. Move a little, there we go. So there's the whole spelling. Oh. Vikram Madh... Can you just... Sorry. Go on. Vikramaditya Motwani. Who was a... Somebody on Queen as well. And somebody on Devdha. It's not obviously the director. No, that was Sanjay Devanjali. Sanjay Devanjali. But also this was written by the wonderful and talented Anurad Kashyap and produced as well. Yeah. So it was a collaboration of... It was a trifecta of writers, wasn't it? Yes. And obviously we've heard a ton about this from either Stupid Babies. I did a poll. This one, the poll. That's why we reviewed it. Also the 10 best films of the past decade. Correct. I think that... What was his name? I don't remember his name, but we reacted to his list. It was his number one of the past... Was it his number one decade? Yeah. Of the past decade. More than Dahun III, wasn't it? Yes. Crazy. But, 100% spoiler review came out in 2010. Sorry. Yeah, so if you haven't seen it, go see it. Go see it. And then come back and hear our review. So we'll break it down into different groups, but... Yes, correct. Initial thoughts. Initial thoughts, R, S, T, A, Q. Those are my initial... Yes. Now, initial thoughts on the film. Oh, on the film. Yes. Loved it. It was pretty much not... There's not much to not like about this thing. It's just a really, really, really well-made film. Really well-made film. And also like a powerful... It's essentially a coming-of-age story. Very much. I'd say unique coming-of-age story, because it's not like coming-of-age stories usually after finding love, finding stuff. This is about finding his own person and getting away from his abusive, correct father. Yeah, in fact, I can't even find or think of a parallel film comparable to it, not that I need to. I just... It's definitely a coming-of-age film. It's definitely touching on a subject that's a big deal all over the place, but we know this is a big deal in India. Yeah, the whole time I was watching it, I was like, this seems very personal. Very personal. I'm hoping not all of India, but I'm sure a lot of people who have really strict fathers. Yeah. And I'm hoping it's not as extensive for a lot of people. I really hope, but I know it probably is for a lot. No, but it's been... There's been a theme throughout all of our movie watching. It started with three idiots. And it gets touched upon all the time. And it's this patriarchal, domineering, loveless relationship between a lot of fathers and sons. Yeah. That's pretty sad. Bricks my heart. Yeah, it's really sad. But before we get into the subject matter, as it were, just on the technical merits alone, let's just talk about, first of all, I don't know if you all can appreciate. You may, but for those of you who don't appreciate what it means for an actor as young as Rohan. Rajit Parmecha, is that how you pronounce his name? Yeah. For an actor, I don't know that he's the age of the character, but is a young man who, was he introduced? Was this his first film? It might have been. Because it's said introducing, and my suspicion is it's him. For someone at his age to carry a film. He did a short film in turns. Let's say this is the end. Yeah, so for a relatively inexperienced actor to carry a film where you're the lead. Do it well. Yeah, and it's your story. And it's a film that has no bells and whistles. It's pretty just raw.  And so it's a very like bare bones. Very basic bare bones. When you're that young, I mean, any actor, one of the hardest things, and it's why we applaud actors so often like Nawazuddin and Irfan, because one of the hardest things for an actor to do is to turn off performing.  Because you don't. You know you're gonna be, you're doing your work. And there's a sense of confidence for a young actor who's getting his first leading role to not perform. This is impressive. He gave off, right when he came on the screen and as it was going along, he gave off Miles Teller vibes to me. I didn't think that at the time, but I can see why you'd say that. Yeah, he looks similar, but he also just gave off vibes that, Miles Teller, he's a really good actor. If you don't know who that is, see Whiplash. Oh, just go see that now. That film's amazing. It's phenomenal. Anyways, but yeah, so he gave off those vibes. And sometimes I feel like it's better to, I don't know if he was an actor, if they just kind of, this happened before in old Hollywood where people go to like, Miles and pick out somebody who just fits the bill. Yeah. And sometimes that's actually Rye's style. That was his thing to do. And sometimes it works. Like I mentioned this film a lot, The Florida Project. The lead girl in that never acted a day in her life and she's mesmerizing. Which is why it works because they're not acting. Right. They don't have any bad habits yet. They don't know the tricks. Right. Even though like tricks are bad. Exactly. So they're not really tricks. Exactly. But like, so sometimes it's even better and he gave off those vibes. He did. And you know, who else did really well? The dad. Phenomenal. Phenomenal job. I don't know who this man is. I don't think we've seen him in anything else. Brilliant. But I hated him. Yep. And you're supposed to. Now I didn't hate exactly as I was saying. No, no, no, no. I hated the character. And as you're, it's what you're supposed to do. Right. We've seen some smaller characters where we've applauded this.  And we've applauded how well they did because it would have been so easy to just turn the character into a caricature versus making it seem like a real flesh and blood person. So you can also thank the screenplay and the writing of, on your Akashia in the collaborative team. But the acting of the dad. I believed. Ronit Roy. I absolutely believed that this family existed. This was a father and son with a little brother that became part of the family because his dad got married. That little boy was adorable. The uncle, was it the uncle? Oh, his name is, say it right here. Rahmet Kapoor. Kapoor. Just a great job. He did great. He did a great job. The scene between the brothers toward the end when he was telling him, don't send the little guy off to boarding school. And that was also writing. Just great, great writing. Great direction. One of my, we mentioned this a lot. My favorite styles of directing is just let things be. It felt very similar to like a malolium, the symbology nights, just flying the wall. Yeah. Kind of just let it happen. And not nearly as pretty, but it didn't need to be. No, I think it made itself grittier. I think it needed to be to convey the starkness of what this young guy was living in. Because when you're living in a situation like this, the entire spectrum of your world looks flat, you know? From his perspective, when you're living in a state of your life that feels hopeless and oppressed and you can't get out of it and that your dreams won't come true, that whole template of your life is everything's flat and colorless. I just, there's really, I have nothing to say about the film. I thought the music was extremely beautiful. It just makes sense. It's, I'm at the Trivedi in the music for it. So that makes sense. It does make sense. That the music behind it was just so fitting and so simple. And the little guy, I believe that little guy the whole time. I believe the relationship between the two. Yeah, this film got you immersed in that world pretty quickly. Pretty quick. And you're like, I believe where we are right now. I believe this family. I believe these friends. And it was just, it broke your heart in a lot of places. The fact that the dad was just like, no, you're not gonna be a writer, which I feel like is, like we say to India, a very personal thing. A lot of dads are like, no, you can't pursue that. There's no money in art. There's no money in acting. There's no money in writing. There's no money in whatever you want to, artistic that you want to do. You have to become an engineer. Or a doctor or whatever. Right. And I feel like that's a very personal story for a lot of people from India. Huge. And it is here too. Yeah. It's a universal story, but we know that it's a really big deal in India. And also I'm quite sad that do you, they not have a child protective services in India? I don't know. Because they needed to be called. Oh yeah, they needed to be called. Like my wife was saying she watched it with us. And she said if you, if a kid shows up with, he's injured, like as they fell down the stairs, they immediately suspect that here in the US, it was the parents that did it. And so you're going to be interrogated about like what actually happened. And they're going to ask a whole bunch of different questions because they want to make sure you're not the one hurting this child. Correct. And so if there's not, I'm hoping there's something that will be. Because you can't do that to a kid. Right when that happened, when he missed out on that big business deal and he was going to get a son, I was like, oh God, he's going to kill his son.  But no, he didn't repent. He was just, I guess, didn't want to get in trouble. And that's why he was all, which is why he was great writing. Yeah, great writing, very believable.  But there's a, the primary message of the thing, there was a line that the brother, the uncle said to the dad, when he said that every dad wants his son to grow up and be like him, I audibly said to the TV screen, no, dads, if you're doing that, please stop. That's actually the opposite of what I want. Thank you. I am, two things about- I've said many times, I said, I hope he's like you. I, two things that I've wanted for my kids and I remember this for my son as well. I remember thinking that my son might love baseball because my dad loved baseball and I love baseball and baseball has been a deep connection for my dad and I. And I saw he was a left-hander, very young.  And then when he started to get tall, I'm like, he's gonna be a tall left-hander. And he took the basketball first. I'm like, that's fine. And then when I introduced him to baseball, he liked it. He played little league, but he wasn't like me as a kid saying, dad, let's go have a cat. So let's go play stickball. Let's go play baseball. You want to watch the baseball game? I was like freaking addicted to movies and baseball, movies and baseball. Micah could take it or leave it. And for me, I didn't need him to be me and my dad.  What's gonna come up? What's gonna be his thing? And the competitiveness too.  I just, I don't understand that. I also don't understand the, I can comprehend something, which is this. I can comprehend parents who had a rough time and sacrificed and they had parents who did that and they have high expectations for their kids and they want the best for them. And they really believe that if they don't follow this path, it's gonna suck. However, if that's not what floats the kid's boat, and there's a lot of parents who would disagree with this statement, I would rather my kid be poor and unsuccessful, but living the life they felt they were supposed to live and be happy. Cause when all is said and done, that's what's gonna matter. Yeah, I feel very blessed and I never felt pressured to go in any different direction from any of my parents. I have four sets, one's in the military. I mean, I'm sure my dad would have wished I would have went into the military. Would have loved it. Yeah, but no, I never felt any pressure.  Not just a theater major, but he likes what kind of theater, my friend? Musical theater. Yes, and he's at his major, so you know, that's a worthless degree. But they let him do it, cause he loves it. Yeah, and so it's, I feel very blessed, but it was great writing in the fact that the dad became his dad. And at the beginning, the kid was treating the younger kid like the dad treated him. Yes, he was. And then it was great to see him grow. And what he said at the end, he was like, I love my little brother who I didn't even know I had. Yeah, I didn't see that coming. Did you see the end coming? Yeah. I actually thought, you know what I thought the end was gonna be? I thought, well actually, for a while, once I knew he was leaving, I was like, he's gonna come back and he's gonna take him. I didn't mean- For a while, I thought it was gonna end like dead poet society. Thank you. And if you haven't seen dead poet society, we're not gonna say another word. Yeah, go see him. That is exactly what I thought was gonna happen. Yeah, so that's what I thought was going almost the whole time. Me too. So it was a nice surprise. A nice surprise. It didn't, but I did see once that happened, I was like, he's gonna take the kid as well. I love the returning of the watch. Yeah. And he did it in a way that wasn't spitting in your face. It was a very- He was much nicer than I would have been. Much nicer. Much nicer. Oh, I would have hit that man so many times. I loved when he hit him. Yeah. And then I loved the foot race at the end and he can't catch him. But for those, any of you watching this, okay, I'm sure you get the same thing.  And there's a lot of you who are out there in watch, who are living in what this movie depicts.  I wanna go in this direction. My family either totally objects or if they found out I wanted to do that, that I would be disowned. What do I do? Or I'm just going through this hard time. I have this awful relationship. I wish I had this relationship with my dad. All I can tell you to help you get through those seasons is that every season changes. And one of my favorite things to say is that even the darkest, coldest winter, no matter how dark and cold it feels, it's inevitable that season is gonna change.  And the reality is that instrument of change is probably gonna have to be you.  Like the lyrics of the song at the end says, freedom isn't just given to you. Most freedoms have to be fought for. They're not just given to you. I know a particular person right now, his age, 17, who needs to become the lion, not be the cub, and actually needs to say to mom and dad, I am an adult and you need to treat me like one now. And there's a way to do that. And it's like crossing a line and being respectful or not, but you sometimes have to fight for your freedoms. So, yeah. Also, this is a very, I think, I think any American could watch this and get it. 100%. Like this is one of the most digestible. Like if we did a list, I think this would be, it's definitely a top five. I don't know where or place I'd have to think, but I would say it's probably the most digestible. Because there's no bad quality in it. There's no bad acting in it. There's no bad writing. I think they can understand even the cultural differences. Yeah, I think the cultural differences are so minimal. I think that goes to speak to Anurakashyap's writing. Yeah. He just, he's so good at it. And so this is just, I could recommend this to anybody, just as a film. If this wasn't one of the nominations, the submissions for the Oscars in 2010, I don't know what was for India. I actually think this was submitted. Was this submitted? I think this was submitted, frankly so. I'd be interested to see what won over it. Yeah. Man, because this is a film that could win. Yeah. This is one of those that's. It's a great movie. Overcoming some stereotypes in India that a lot of people feel the pressure of. And so it's, I think it would have done very well. I don't know what won. So you have to listen to that. But for now I'm in a movie. Great movie. Go see it. Great movie, great acting, great writing, great directing. Yeah, there's really, I can't, I'm trying to think of a nitpick. I don't have one. Yeah. All the kids were great. The only, I mean, yeah, there's nothing I can nitpick. You know, which is hard to say about a film. I would, I would love, you know, I love it when I see cinematography, like there's moments in 1917 where I went, how did they do that shot? I love it when that happens. This doesn't need that. No, I actually like what the Gritty filter they had over it. The Gritty flat, I liked it a lot. Everything was believable. Everything felt like it was genuinely motivated. There was no performing. I believe the relationships, it tied itself up without being a fairy tale. Yeah. It's just, it's a fantastic movie. How are they drinking at 17? Cause I know at least some parts of India, the drinking age of 25. It's a good question. Cause he'd have been carted here in the States. Yeah, no question. Also don't drink a drive. Yeah, don't drink a drive. That's a bad thing. Okay. Let us know what we should watch and review next. This was a phenomenal film. Go on Twitter because I do do polls there. He does do do. And dads love your sons and your daughters. Just love your kids, would you? Unless you're Rick.


My grandmother was the first senior member of the family that made a match. She had no idea what it all consisted of. So it was a bit of a it was a bit of a shock to this. It was a bit of a shock to the system for her. Here's what we're seeing. The foot movement up and down starts spiking way up. This is a bad sign. There's really unusual hand movement that we haven't seen much of before in in Harry's baseline. There's contempt on the face for about a 15th of a second. There's a shift to internal dialogue mid-sentence, which is not typical for people. You typically see this before someone starts speaking. Then we see lip licking, then we see facial touchings. And then three times repeating, it was a bit of a it was a bit of a it was a bit of a was a bit of a it was a bit of a shock to this. It was a bit of a shock to the system for that's a big deal. That is a mountain of deception indicators. And these may be suspicious as hell.


So excited, okay Try to go natural Guess who? Try to go natural. Guess what? Purple hair I'm coming on to show you that venture show you how I got it all done. Show you how I did my purple basically So stay tuned Actually, I'm done washing going so long. I'm almost nervous about it especially since I'm gonna try adding this color. I figured I might as well go big or go home. So I bought like purple Yeah, but first I guess let me get to the wash and go I'm gonna be using this Pomegranate NPM moisture milk never used it had it for a while as you can tell This is gonna go in there and I was debating about what gel to use but I decided to go with the extreme wet line. Oh Scratch that I guess I'm way with super wet because that's what I picked up But what is kind of extreme wet line but no glycerin so just a little bit more Predictable, I guess so yeah, I'm gonna use this pretty much cheap kind of a gel because I want to put some oil over the Wax just to hopefully prevent transfer and I figure if I'm gonna put oil over it I might as well go with like a gel that needs oil over it. So I'm gonna go with this Yes, so here I am kind of in the middle of the madness literally I did the back I'm gonna show you how I did this different Usually that's kind of put leaving by the bunk but I have to be careful with a side part because I under put this small section But anyway, I love the texture of this is kind of Felt like not super thin which I like actually But it's not like I'm thin as some of the other she said to believe in But it gives good moisture to everything If you're somebody looking for a kind of virtual even that's still light Definitely check this out All right, so this is the section after adding the leaving And I'm going to add the gel so as usual for me with these kind of plastic you gel Once I apply it, I'm gonna add more water over it to help distribute it because for me It just goes like this and there's just no water after I apply these kind of gels Just like some water and then go back to raking So this is it without shaking right here. So once the gel is suitably applied Sufficiently applied. I'm gonna get to putting on the wax, which I guess is the style of this publisher So the wax is actually kind of nice to apply it's is somewhat alarming for the more vanilla person like myself But it has a lot of slip It's very kind of waxy, which is good about feels very sealing but at the same time It doesn't feel like it's a stain at all. It feels like it'll rinse off easily So this is it And you basically just kind of put it on And work it through So what I've been doing like I put it on and work it through then I check in the mirror to see if Any spot needs some more or something like that Before I see that in with the oil So this is a pretty small section, so hopefully You should be able to get done with the Distributing I like this even kind of adds a bit of sleep to help me deal with the gel problems It's not going on Completely purple or anything like that. It's kind of like purple and black so Whatever color my hair is so You know, so I'm not sure how it will dry, but it's not the worst either So I hope I want to say a little bit goes along with this because I wasn't sure You know, I would need more than one, but it seems like one will be enough to Do my thick hair. So my hand looks after so it's not bad. It's not staining at all At least I'm So I'm adding this oil and I was gonna kind of review it for you guys But it is literally impossible to review with this much gunk on my hands and my hair So yeah, we'll be reviewing this one at a time I guess but you can just see me use it I'm putting a lot and this is way more than I would usually use for washing over like I said I'm just hoping prevent my pillows and stuff from being purple. So I'm hoping that the oil does that So that's why I'm putting that much and I will be shampoos the color anyway, so we'll all come out Otherwise, I'm a lot more sparing with them. That's it. That's my process. That's how I'm getting my purple hair I said like you know go back I'll go home like if I'm gonna be doing some kind of color might as well go wild So that's why I'm doing purple I started using a wax. I will say that this wax was relatively pain-free. It doesn't seem like it's the same it Rinses off your hands at least easily It actually adds some slip. I will say it feels very waxy So definitely put all your moisture under it because it definitely feels like it might be a sealant But I like it adds slip.  What are we doing?  I'm pretty happy with it I'm actually pretty happy that I only had to use one of these I bought two just in case they didn't know like how far it would go But this goes a long way for sure because of my hair is really thick and I only had to use that one In fact, I probably won't even finish it So that's great news So I put a bit more on the part and then I'm shaking it on. I'll be looking forward to my result Looking on the wild side in quarantine life This is how much I have left I do have a lot left I'm happy about that. It's not very sticky which I'd rather not be sticky than Be the trauma to get out. So I guess this is what we're working with purple I like to see what it dries. I said I have a fair bit left But I definitely haven't enough to do again because I have a whole other container and even touch I want to bought two different colors if I knew it would stretch so well Yeah, that's what you think but I'm gonna wait and do a try. That's only gonna be like 10 seconds for you But they're like a day for me But this is my wet result. I'm just extra shaking just because I'm even doing a washing go Two months is a good one I think Quarantine life quarantine here. Just kind of having big plants Okay, see you on the other side So what you guys think my result welcome back as you can see, I'm very happy with it I'm a bit more muted than when it was wet But that's kind of good for me because I'm not really I was trying to be wild But like it'd be a kind of muted color. It's kind of making me happy You know when you try to be why we didn't really want to be wild, but it didn't quite go all the way while Yes, you could be happy that will be the look now so you can definitely see the color But it's at the same time, it's kind of that kind of luck and purple. So yeah liking it since day four You do have to mix it and good like I mix it in but it's still kind of maybe Dark like black in some places on purple in some places So you definitely get what you put in in terms of mixing it in well it has no hole So that part where she was saying kind of use it like leaving and then back like I'm just supposed to put a gel over that But it has no holes for the type fours. It didn't get how crunchy didn't dry my hair out My scalp is a little bit a Little bit itchy not really itchy and she bought a little bit more aware. I guess that it should be for this day I'm even like the first day of stuff like my scalp isn't super sensitive But I could kind of feel it on there So if you have a super sensitive scalp, I'll be careful on a game like I said the ingredients definitely wouldn't be the best some colors are worse than others So yeah, putting that on your scalp, but not on the sky, but you know, it's gonna get on your scalp one near Isn't something I would do all the time, but as you know, I saw every now and then thing It's kind of fun So it was kind of messy, but not super messy because it stayed on your hands It was easy to apply your hands that purple anything attached to a purple but also rinsed easily almost has like a Slightly I wouldn't say oily but kind of oily or buttery feet I feel like if you put like paint in a hair oil or something basically, that's kind of mostly the texture of it Not sure if I'm feeling well enough to Dip my fingers again. So this I think she's actually calling it Gemini natural now. I'm a Gemini So hey, but it was pumpkins when I bought it PJ problems. I guess let me show you the ingredients again Yes, too, since why are we here? I Didn't use most I didn't use all So I would say a little goes along with for sure I'm working with a lot of hair and I didn't use all so I have this bit and I have a full other one So I'll be purple again some of the time. Maybe next black Friday if they're gonna say I might pick up some colors I don't know, but I liked it So I would say when it's wet it transfers easily and even when it's rewet, so if you go to the gym if it rains Expect to have transfer, but when it's dry You don't get transfer It's pretty much oil, so I really get chance for when it's dry. So that's good. Well, that's can I say about it? Loving it. I can't get it to be a little while. I think so. Yeah, I'm loving it I would be willing to try it again, but the titanium dioxide and manganese violet and oxide Those kind of things I really wouldn't want to put on my scalp often. So yeah, this smells a bit like like paint Like just like, you know regular old Art store finger paint puff paint that kind of thing. So definitely has that kind of scent It doesn't smell natural or like hair products or anything. It smells like paint, but it's not a bad scent It is kind of strong but not bad. Does it feel? I don't really smell it on my hair either I would say it feels like a sealant on my hair not in a bad way But I wouldn't try to put moisture over it I did feel like if I was using like a butter or something not in terms of texture But that's in terms of like feel over your hair. So yeah, my hair was definitely stood up after I put leave in Gel so you have a good shampoo session. Maybe hitting this again next week to get it off So this is a shirt review because I'm starting from the end and going back and I'll keep going in reverse This was a surprise nice find for me and I did check on the website and she still does how it for sale So this is a moisture milk slash leave in very moisturizing leave in Still feels like a leave in terms of conditioning and kind of like smoothie and critical and everything But also rich and creamy and moisturizing So I want to say this is my new favorite leave in from she sent it and I would definitely repurchase it. The typical she sent it kind of Fruity candy type scent, but I really like the thickness of it and the moisture, you know definition and slip and everything like that I also use the oil But again, like it was really hard to review this oil just because it was going on on top of everything I put it on last just to help prevent transfer and prevent dryness from the gel and everything But I will review this again or review it. I'll show you guys this again in the future Let me see if I could just touch it now and see what I would give it that it's a very light oil So if you're looking for a light oil, give it a try It smells kind of like the mask which is kind of Minty People probably hated me for saying avocado, but I don't know that's what I'm getting like a peppermint tea Maybe I don't know if it's tea tree aloe. I don't know what I'm smelling in here But I'm smelling mint and I'm smelling it kind of soft and somewhat which is why I'm saying avocado But I like the scent of this line and it's not fruity for whoever doesn't like fruity So I wasn't really gonna show you the gel, but I'll show it to you just in case you're curious It's super wet And it's basically the same as like all those Kabama gel, so it's a typical Kabama gel I just pick it up because it doesn't have glycerin Which can sometimes make your life easy so like in summer winter and stuff if I have to use a gel like this I use this of course the weather isn't that bad No, what I like I said, I meant to pick up the election wet line and have them with this into my bathroom I was like, whatever. I'll use it. So thanks for watching. Let me know if you've tried these kind of hair color Paint, oil, thingies, can't say gel and it's not really waxy. What did you think and what colors did you try? What did you think of this purple? Let me know down below. I just really wanted to get it to you Why my hair wasn't so some kind of situation before my hair went too south and just show you the color and everything So yeah, loving it. Enjoy my week and I'll see you in the next one. Bye


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All right, this week's IonMPI, brought to you by Digikey and Adafruit, is from Epson. Yes. This one is right on time. I don't have a lot of clock and time jokes because it's a precision RTC set from Epson. These RTCs, you know, what's interesting is I don't think of Epson necessarily as making chips and RTCs, but they are really famous for their crystals. We use Epson crystals all the time in our devices, and so it makes sense that they take something, this is basically a 3.2 by 2.5 millimeter crystal, and they're like, we're already really good at the crystal part, let's shove an RTC chip in there, and they did. So we're gonna feature the RX 8901 CE, but there's also the 4901, which is the SPI version, and basically this is, you know, Epson's really good at crystals and temperature compensation for crystals. Now they've added a microcontroller, a silicon chip inside that acts as a real-time clock and is temperature compensated, which is really important because this is something that people ask us about all the time, is how can you have precision timekeeping.  If you're a time nerd, you know it. You want to have the best, most accurate time possible. Turns out that's actually pretty hard to do. You know, a lot of people have used chips like this, temperature compensated RTCs from Maxim, and I do love these chips, but I do want to mention that this is basically, you know, another option, so if you aren't able to get these chips because they've been really strongly affected by the chip shortage, or you want to try, you know, another vendor or something that's a little more affordable, this chip is a really good option.  And I think one of the issues is that people have, they have not misinterpretations, but they have experiences with clocks and timers around them that influence how they think time works with electronics, and there's actually a lot of work behind the scenes to make time very accurate that you're like, you're not even aware of.   And what's interesting is like, you know, the 60 Hertz is actually really good enough that you can have extremely accurate timekeeping, because that frequency is generated by, you know, the power plant in your town or outside your town, and they can synchronize it to make it like a perfect 60 Hertz. And, you know, if you look at this website, LeapSecond, they actually did analysis. So, during peak hours when there's a lot of power, actually the frequency kind of goes up and down a little bit, but at the end of the day when the power usage is lower, the power plant will actually adjust the frequency back. Like they'll kind of like give you some extra cycles or remove some cycles or kind of tweak the frequency so that on average, it really is like extremely precise 60 Hertz. Problem is, is that a lot of people don't plug into mains voltage anymore. Oftentimes, you're using a switching power supply or USB, and so you don't have access to this like pre-calibrated 60 Hertz signal that will give you like really accurate timekeeping. So, a couple options that people have used historically are, you know, a WWVB, this radio receiver kit. So, this is a radio transmitter that's, I think, in Colorado in the United States, maybe a couple other locations.  It's like, it is the NIST timekeeper. The problem is, is that, honestly, all the way on the East Coast here in New York, we never got this working really well. We just had a lot of difficulty, especially inside of an apartment. You really have to have the antenna either outside or, you know, pointing in the direction of Colorado or whatever in order to get good signal. Look, I bet if you're in Nebraska, you're gonna get amazing signal. We had a lot of trouble here in New York City. And of course, again, you can't have it be indoors. It has to be kind of outdoors-ish or near a window. Another way that people get accurate time is with GPS.  You have to face the sky with the antenna. But, you know, once you get signal from there, you get the absolute accurate time. But again, it's kind of expensive, uses a lot of power. You need to synchronize with these satellites. And then, you know, finally, if you have network capability, if you could use NTP, again, also, this is a atomic clock synchronized timekeeping service. But all of these things, you know, the 60 Hertz mains is inexpensive, but a lot of people don't connect to mains anymore. They're going to do a switching, through a switching power supply. But the radio, the GPS and NTP are all very power hungry. Like, you need to have internet, or you need to have a receiver or a radio. And so, while those are really good ways to keep your project synchronized really well, a lot of people want something that's standalone. And so, when you use something like a real-time clock, you're going to connect it to a crystal. And usually, it's a 32 kilohertz, 32.768 kilohertz crystal, which means that, you know, one out of, one to the, sorry, two to the 15th power times divider of the clock frequency 32.768 is one Hertz, and then that's your one second timer. And the circuitry that does a dividing is perfect, right? Like, it's very easy to make something that divides by 32.768, because again, it's a power of two. The problem is that the crystal itself has some variability. Even the highest quality crystals are going to have some variability of about 10 to 20 ppm, depending on the temperature, especially with temperature, but also just natural variability, because crystals aren't, you know, they don't oscillate perfectly on time. You know, atomic clocks do, but they're again, extremely expensive. So you get these crystals, they're 20 ppm, you do the math, 20 parts per million, ends up being, you know, you calculate there's 86 something, something thousand seconds per day and, you know, multiply that by the 20 over one million and basically turns out to be two seconds a day of plus or minus loss. And over a month that adds up to, you know, almost a minute. So it's like two seconds, you know, 2.8, 1.8 seconds a day, but it can also be a little bit more depending on aging and if the temperature gets very extreme. So basically, you know, you're losing up to a minute a day, a minute a month, and that can be quite a lot. It's a very annoying thing. It means you're constantly, you know, you have to synchronize your clock with, again, one of these atomic clocks, or you can go with a temperature compensated crystal oscillator with Epson has. And what that does is it'll be able to cut it down from, you know, maybe 20 ppm to like three or even, you know, two ppm, depending on if it's commercial versus industrial temperature range. It's a little bit more expensive. You're adding a dollar or two, but it's not as expensive as a GPS. It's not as, it's not very power hungry. The circuit is, you know, does little tweaks here and there to get the, the oscillation to be much closer to 32.768, or it'll add or remove pulses to, to even it out. So you basically end up getting closer to true 32 kilohertz signal. So this is the, you know, this is what we've got here. It's a temperature compensated crystal with a real time clock in it. There's two versions, I squared C SPI. There's also two pin options, pin A and pin B. I think one has frequency out. The other one has more event in inputs. But the interesting thing is the frequency tolerance, that's what you want to look at.  It's about, you know, one 10th, one, you know, one eighth of as much variation in frequency over minus 40C to 85C. And then for very hot temperatures, you know, it is going to be a little bit more than that. So above 85C, which again is, is very hot. It's not 85F, 85C plus or minus five. So this could be very good in hot environments where you want to get a better timing rate. And then there's an I squared C version, SPI version. There's also, you know, all the RTC stuff you'd expect. The calibrated, the temperature calibrated frequency output event input pin. So you can like timestamp stuff without having to wake up, separate battery and V out. Power supply can be, you know, 1.6 to 5.5 volts. So really nice wide range, wide temperature range, you know, auto switch from V out to V bat. Everything you want in your RTC and it's temperature compensated and the price is really good. Compared to many other temperature compensated RTCs, you know, it's a look kind of like half the price is quite, quite nice. Available on Digikey and it's in stock. Yes, that's the best part. There's a lot of them in stock, both the I squared C and the SPI version.  This is a little different. Epson has a really beautiful video that goes along with this. This was so relaxing. I guess felt like so much better watching this video. This is really, really good. We rarely play, you know, just like, here's the sales and marketing video. It's actually really nice. Epson did a really good job. So we are going to play it. Maintainance is a work of art. In the end, it's a micro-onetime test. This is what's required of us. And that's the only thing we can do to gain experience. It takes years to get used to it. This is the artificial water-based principle used for water-based devices. Especially for sensors-related devices, artificial water-based devices are very high-quality materials. It's been three months. It's been six months since we started. I'm always excited to work with the manufacturer. The material is the source of the material, so when you make good material, it becomes the advantage of water-based devices. To make good water-based devices, you need raw material, solid water-based materials, mold, and people. You can't use anything. Water-based devices are alive. Isn't that cool? I promised I wouldn't cry during an Ion API, but... No, I was just so peaceful, this crystal so beautiful. I've been doing this biz with you for a while. I've never seen a video where they go through and show the process of growing crystals like this. I know. Actually, I didn't realize that they... I also thought they were mine.  You could grow them. But they're beautiful. I mean, they're enormous and they're perfectly clear. Yeah, I mean, it's like they grow them for three to six months. So it's like, you have to have perfect cleanliness. Everything has to be temperature. You know, everything has to be set up to make these gorgeous, perfect crystals every single time.  Yeah. Can we get a crystal growing machine around here? I kind of want one now. I mean, like, that thing is cool. Yeah. Can we get some of that government money to do a crystal fab? I don't know. They're beautiful. I mean, it's, I mean, it's, and it's cool how you can tell, like, if they get one big crystal on that, that turns into millions of little crystal oscillators that you guys use in your circuit. So a little bit of every microcontroller board that you've ever made. This is why we like doing IONMPI, because we learned something new every single time. I really didn't know how crystals were grown. I don't know. And that's this week's IONMPI.


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