Right, okay. Thank you for joining the average golfer in another episode two of I've called it this thing because I still don't know What a heck it is, but I've got we went to Australia for first episode with Alex Etches We're over in Indiana America pretty cold Indiana I believe and I'm really pleased to say we've got Randy from fried eggs golf hopefully on the end of the line and Randy welcome to the channel in the Well the first time we've ever spoken person. Yeah, this is true How it first of all tell everybody just again. How cold is Indiana right now? It's not comfortable I mean, I don't I don't even know the temperature outside right now because I don't look anymore because it just You haven't played golf for what two months At least yeah, the last time I played golf was on camera. So they would know just check the videotape Yeah, and how long is it before you're likely to get a golf club out again? it's gonna be I Would say another month. I would say wow that is hard work hard work. So any but I suppose you're ready for the masters That's the thing, isn't it? Yeah Right now then I'm sorry. You didn't see me there I just realized you can't see me But I held up my coffee cup and it says the masters on it that that is that that is the difficulty of So just so people understand I'll just maybe talk to the camera a little while this records the audio I'm effectively just having a phone conversation is is how this thing works. So I said before we went live if you like that It's a little bit odd. It's difficult. It's not like a Skype conversation where you see the reaction of people So that is a little bit difficult. But yeah So first of all for people who may have maybe most of the people who who watch my channel I think of what's yours, but how would you describe your channel who've never watched it before? What would you say Randy? It's it's really hard to categorize it I don't really know how to explain it to people because I get asked that question by People that find out that I have a YouTube channel They ask me what the content is and it's hard to explain because as soon as you say golf Their eyes glaze over and they don't care anymore, but you know, so I don't I don't know I just my whole thing has always been to let people Define it themselves let them come up with what it means because me telling them I just feel like it doesn't do it any justice because if I tell them it's funny They might not find it funny if I tell them it's informational. They might find it not Yeah, so okay, so if I describe it as a viewer I think it's fair to say that you It's very much looking at the golfing world in a humorous way Is that fair enough evaluation of it? It's simplistic But I think that's the you bring humor to a sport that's relatively boring So I think The thing is I suppose go and check out the channel after you haven't watched it go and have a look for yourselves I think that if If you're looking for something It's content in my this was my goal at least I'll say this was the goal When I started the channel when I decided what kind of content I wanted to make the goal was to combine both sides of the spectrum as far as the serious everyday golfer with the person who's maybe never touched a golf club in their life But has some interest in it and the idea was is that both of those people can sit down and watch my content and both Enjoy it for different reasons. I if I do that with a video then to me that video Served its purpose and it belongs on my channel because that's really the whole idea is it's more of an Invitation for everyone to kind of gather in a common area find a common thread and yeah and laugh or you know Just enjoy the content. Yeah, yeah that they whatever they get from it. Yeah, that's fair comment That's fair comment.  I think it's 2015 if I've got a bit of research, right? Your first video was how to adjust your tailor-made R15 driver. Is that right? Sound right riveting. Yes. It was very it was so there's a deep dive into the driver So that was video one video to and I think it's two days later This was posted was the Cobra fly driver and Already in two videos within sort of 48 hours of being released a bit more personality was coming out in the Cobra fly Driver, yeah, maybe in a TMR 15. Yeah, I was I was embarrassed to the first video. Yeah Well, I posted it and I did it in a format that I was like I Seen other people do this. I can do this. So I did it and then I was like that's not me So the very next video like you just said I made sure that I put some more personality into it Yeah, without doubt and that was like I said that was not in the research I've seen that sort of straight away, but then one month later And the first I think it's the first like I said, I hope my facts are right the first our rabbit and q-tip Collaboration was the Ping G 30 Turbulates. Is that right? That's spot on Okay So what so we're four weeks from going from roughly four or five weeks from going from the TMR 15 driver Which and he should I hope you don't mind me asking people to should go back and check this out because watch Randy in that first video and then watch him in the video four weeks later in the ping Turbulator video one that a video that if anybody asks me about your channel I think the Turbulator video is the first thing that I think is very synonymous with your channel, but how did you get so? I don't brave is the word so quick to go from the r15 video to the Turbulator video. What went on a lot behind the scenes and a lot of what people don't know about Me in general is that I started making videos When I started golfing when I was 12 years old I mean and not just like videos like I made comedy like satirical videos When I was in middle school like it was my that was my thing like golf golf They very much switched roles like I was very passionate about golf when I was younger and very I Video was my hobby and now that I've gotten older those two have completely switched roles where Video is my passion and golf is my hobby, but I've been making videos like that Since forever. I mean I made music videos when I was in Seventh eighth grade when I was you know 12 13 years old. I made music videos now I never showed them to anyone but my friends, but I this is not something new to me This is like everyone's always just like oh wow you're so you're you're a natural at this It's like no, I've been doing this for a long time And yeah, it's it's it was a process but the but the interesting thing so that's that's really long I know youtuber was in its found infancy as opposed But that's long before the kind of YouTube thing came along for anybody, isn't it? Oh, yeah, I know I made videos before YouTube was even a thing I actually had a channel when I when YouTube the first year YouTube came out I had a thousand subscribers on it. I used to post I used to post a video a week on there It was about it was like it was like a skit comedy show kind of like I do now But it was like a series like they all kind of all together and wow I Got out of it because back then you didn't make money off of YouTube like I had videos with Tens of thousands of views on it, but you didn't make money back then and I'm sitting here I'm like why am I putting content on here? This is silly and I shut the channel off just because I got tired, but no I've I've been doing this Literally since day one since YouTube became a thing. I've been posting videos on it So what what what did and what was the main core of the content for your early videos then? We're just any kind of skit comedy that you could make It was a friend of mine He was big into video gaming and we put a wig on him. You've seen the wig on the channel I wear I've worn it on Friday eggs golf before that real long just nasty looking wig Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did in the one-wheel video. Yeah, he used to wear that and He was a he was an agoraphobic He was someone who never left his house He always played video games and he played my brother And I was his younger brother who had like a day job and I was like you need to get out of the basement And then we just played off of that relationship And I think we did two seasons of it probably like 20 episodes. Wow. Yeah So you see did you not miss that would you not go back to that or is it? I miss it so much But yeah, we we got married we had kids and I mean you know as well as anybody that makes content It takes so much time and you only have so much time to devote to things and yeah golf I was working in a golf shop when I started this channel, and this was the only like I had access to everything I had you know the shop I had people and so I could make the content there now if I had my choice would I be making golf? Content on YouTube. No, I'd probably just be making comedy videos in general But yeah, I like doing the golf stuff and it seems like there's an audience for it And they appreciate what I do and I just it's a way for me to tie like I said my passion with my hobby And it's just it's fun for me if I if I did anything else I think it would eventually start feeling like work, but this is yeah, it feels like I'm having a good time Well, it's fantastic because we've just answered that Questions whatever they are three and four have just been answered together really because it was going to be is the passion Is it comedy golf or cinematography? I've called it all videography. Whatever you call it So it's the it's the creating this the videography really isn't it? Would you say yeah comedy or you? It's it's both. I mean, yeah, I don't I don't put I Mean in the early videos I didn't put a lot of Investing at any time into the cinematography of it because I was shooting on my cell phone like yeah The year before I started that channel. This is not a joke. I sold my $2,000 Sony handy cam that shot on to tape and I had yeah, yeah I had to sell it because everything went digital and it was just impossible. I mean That's how long I've been doing video I used to have to log in capture off a tape and then you had to edit it took forever and it was misery So so so so golf is literally the subject matter for you to write comedy and film it I suppose that's that that's that's that's where we're at isn't it Say that again. I said so golf really is just the subject matter I like you said the situation you were sort of thrown into yeah It allows you to write the comedy around it and therefore film it. Yeah I think so I it kind of was birthed from being in the golf shop and I when I was in the golf shop it was right at that transition from like okay golf equipment needs to be more exciting and When these manufacturers started to market equipment, I mean it was right in the rocket balls. Hey day where I got Yeah, I got fed up with like everything's just like this is 15 yards longer. This is 10 yards longer And I was like listen, I could tell a better story than what you guys are telling I can make I can give people information and do it in a way that doesn't feel like you're you know throwing propaganda at them So that's why I made the that Ricky Fowler video the way I made that Ricky Fowler video with the Cobra driver And then also the reason I made the the Turbulators driver video the reason I did it that way was because like listen I put every single talking point in this video and I did it through a rap song and people Are hearing what message you're trying to give to them, but they're actually listening instead of like in one ear out the other Yeah, I think to be fair It's one of the most intelligent things that in part what you do is that ability to get in all those videos the whole Marketing aspect that the benefits that they at least try to promote are always gotten in there really really Concisely so it's it's it's humor. It's it's fun It might be in a song, but you do always get all that information across and that's the bit I'm gonna ask a question a bit later on so don't want to go into it too much now But that's the bit where I've never understood why still to this day at least I think that those bigger companies have not gotten Involved with you in a in a deeper way that allows you to create that type of content for them That's the bit that does surprise me because like I said you don't miss out the important bit Which is what the manufacturer wants people to hear so but like I said, that's a statement not a question at this day You know what I think I can form the question for you and it's why haven't any of the big Manufacturers asked you to make content for them. Yeah, and the answer I think to that question is very simple it's I Am a liability. I am I'm a wild card. I'm I'm not ever gonna play by the rules I'm not ever gonna say things that are politically correct just because I feel like you know People want me to say that I'll say whatever's on my mind and I'll do it in a way that I think is funny Which is not always it's not always consistent with everyone's viewpoint on humor So it's a risk, but I think said that I don't want to I don't want to alienate these Manufacturers and say that they haven't reached out to me because they absolutely have and I've done content with them One is I'll tell you right now that I will forever be grateful To Callaway and ping for what they've done for me Personally because it's not like they they had any interest the content was already made. They didn't yet They didn't have to do anything. It was already out there, but yeah, the very first person who ever reached out to me ever Was Harry Arnett from Callaway Golf? He was the first he responded to my ping g30 video before pinged it Like he was like this is fantastic and I was like, yeah, I don't even know who you are like But I still have a stand a good standing relationship with him and all the guys at Callaway I appreciate everything they do but then also a ping they just they've been one of those manufacturers that Consistently asked me if they can do anything for me and this is just to this day I just like last week. They just sent me an email like hey, what what can we do for you? Wow, and they just constantly check in and I do appreciate that, but they've they've all kind of in a Roundabout way offered me a job, but okay, it's all about I mean, they're they're a thousand miles away from where I live And I just I'm too much. I love my family too much and yeah Yeah, yeah, well, I'm almost pleased to hear that to be honest with you the fact that they've offered you something Like they have something to make a video out of but I've just feel better that That that the contact the content has been acknowledged then so maybe not the way as I'd seen it then really no I and I do such and this is this is my mo I'm just such a poor communicator with what's going on like behind the scenes and Just people they're so generous with their time and things that they they want to do that I just I say no and then that's where it ends and I don't yeah bring it up to people because I don't want to I don't want to be like oh guess who asked me to do a video with them. It's just like no I don't have the time now. I understand the same goes, you know with you You know, you've asked me to collaborate actually you are the only golf youtuber I have ever collaborated with as far as like well I should say it another way. You're the very first golf youtuber that I ever collaborated with and I just You asked and you seemed Passionate and you seem interested and that's all I look for like when people come out to me and they they asked me if I If I want to collaborate with them. It's almost always It almost always has a monetary angle to it. They always they want to make money off of me They want to they want they want they want the publicity. They want the they want my my viewers They want yes, they want something from me But yeah, you you just genuinely wanted to make something funny and I was like hey, I'm all about that. So yeah Well, I think I mean, you know, it's I mean even the same today even this chat now. It's just something I'm very I've always been personally intro. I'm a bit. I'm a big admirer in what you do in terms of the content that you make But I'm also very interested in and the questions. I'll ask you shortly again. I'm very interested in The whole process which is the next question really I suppose and so How do you begin the process in terms of I? Was gonna mention Taylor May then so a brand bring out a new product Okay, and you see it and how how where do you see the humor in it straight away? Is it a case of looking at what how do you how where do you start? It's it's it's a lightning bolt, you know, it's not like I I take a club and Or a product and I sit down in a room with it for 30 minutes And I'm like we're not leaving here until I come up with an idea. It's never like that. It's always my brain is In a way broken and I don't mean that in a way. It's like I Mean, I'll just yeah, it's broken.  My brain doesn't work like a normal person's brain things differently yet No, no, and this is not that's what I'm saying. It's not from a prodigy standpoint It's very much broken in a way of a functional standpoint like if I went to a doctor right now He would be like Randy you have ADD and you need to take medicine for it So you can function like a normal human, but rather than let that be the story of me and let that define me I've kind of embraced that because yeah, most people that aren't that I don't have trouble focusing They just they go through their day and they they have things they have to do and they stay on time And they do everything accordingly.  It must look. Yeah, I must look like a madman because my eyes They just have like a glaze over them I probably had drool coming out of my mouth But it just that's where my ideas come from is just like these deep dives into my own head that I don't think normal people take the time to sit there and Physically like disappear into their own minds and and kind of explore what comes up because it's it's messed up It's dark, but I mean you get genuine inspiration and you get genuine thought and idea that way and I mean I don't know anything about Psychology and I probably gonna get some text messages like you need to see a doctor, but Realistically, I just I feel like Those moments where I get lost that's where it all comes from. I mean your most creative. Yeah Yeah, well, I think anybody again that watches your content. I mean, it's like you said most most of like they're like He's definitely crazy Yeah, I was gonna put it a bit more polite than that But if you if you look at you know the way you look at it or what you end up producing from the new Whatever driver then nobody else is really I wouldn't have thought looking at it and being able to come out I mean the likes of the talking clubs that we've got at the moment and things like that No one's really looking at it in the way you are but that originality is with what's unique to you and to the channel Isn't it? That's what it is all about basically. Yeah I mean, no no one and I'm not saying this like I'm better than anybody But no one will make the content that I make in no and I think it's obvious because I'm I'm sitting here three years into it and I dare you to go out and find another video Exactly that they do things like I do and and there there are a couple that do stuff Still very safe very close to golf But they're starting you start to see humor and you start to see them add their personality into it Alex is a perfect example of that Yes, he is he's such a nice genuine person. I'm not sure if you ever met him in person, but no, I know the man is He's enormous. He's the biggest. He's the biggest really.  I don't know if you know what that means He could not be a more genuinely nice Just yeah warm like are you like it's just somebody you just want to pick you up and hold you like a baby He just is so it's so comforting and nice to be fair And like I said, I had the chat with him a week So go wherever it was now 10 days and he came across that I kind of again It was a bit like we've never spoke but you kind of I knew that I'd get on with him to be honest with you I knew that we get on and as soon as this We sort of press record. We were we were very comfortable in each other's companies He come and even in the comments that people made on the video They also said what a nice lad this fella seems to be do you know what I mean? So I think you've come but know that like what you see with Alex That's him like what he what is in his videos? That's him That's not like he's not like push forward He becomes another person because you see that a lot you see the people that they hit the record button Then they become somebody else he is that way and I think that that is important because That I think is kind of a recipe of someone who has a successful channel people always ask like hey How do you how do you get so many? Followers how do you get people to watch your content and people say just be yourself and you think they're being you know Yeah, yeah, they're messing with you But it's true and that's what like because I'll tell you right now Alex He's exactly like that in real life. Yeah Rick Rick Shields I've had the the pleasure of hanging out with Rick on numerous occasions. He is that person He's he's the nicest person and for no reason at all. I mean, I don't I can't help him I can't make him. Yeah popular. Yeah, he treats. He treats me like I'm the person that he came there to me Yeah, and he's just so genuine and straightforward and just a good all-around guy And I think that that's important and part of his success as well as other people's success including your own I've never met you personally, but I've had multiple conversations with you. I mean and I mean For crying out loud. You gave me a drone. You gave me yes drone and I I would I still to this day have no idea why you did I'm I mean, I I don't have any like dirty pictures of you to like blackmail you with you Just you just were like hey I want to send you something and then the next day or the you know a couple weeks later a drone shows up and it just It blew my mind. So that that that is once again You are who you are and you show that through your content You just you just you're not a fake person and I appreciate that Think well while we're on the drone question because I know it's it's a question I've got in everybody want to answer is that How did you make that drone look so smashed up in that video that you did is that was that CGI or something or? What are you talking about? We you know you said you crashed the drone And you made it you made it look like it's been smashed up didn't you? I Killed I mean any I killed it I killed your drone and I know now what you're getting that and I'm so sorry because like I just The week after I crashed it You just sent me like so many pictures of you like pushing it on a swing and like you know sitting there lighting birthday candles for it And you're like, oh, you know whatever what happened to my drone Yeah, I blew it up, and I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. It was a it was a it was a good old boy for a while I crashed that a few times, you know, but it never quite as bad as that It it I am so thankful that like Somebody wasn't standing under it because it like that's why they say don't fly it over people because it it felt like a rock Yeah, they're lethal that thing I did have a bit of a thing to just do its own thing every now and again And that sounds like what's happened. So yeah, anyway moving on from that and Thank you. Yeah The next question is about Being renowned for being funny. We are I asked a few questions early on the week and Twitter asking for some questions to be fired at you and We know that how'd that go? Say again, how'd that go? Yeah, well, yeah lead led me to this question because the the basis was we didn't get one serious question I mean anything was either fired up ace or Any other kind of again humorous element to the channel? So we didn't get I don't we might have a couple at your serious questions I will ask you we managed to get maybe three or four in the end, but How difficult is it? Is it a burden being renowned for being funny in the sense that does everybody want funny Randy all the time and is that difficult? I Not really because like I said earlier What you see is what you get with me and I am very much that type of person where I I Very seldomly and serious It's hard for me to be serious and it's probably a character flaw because there are times when you're expected as an adult To be serious. Yeah, and I just I don't have that. I don't have that in me. Now in my I'm not a class clown I'm not someone that you know, we'll stand up on a table and it's like look at me But I When people do have a conversation with me and they try to take it in a serious. I mean much like this Here, what do you know so far? I yeah, I feel like I've held on Serious aspect, but no, it's I always try to add in a little bit Yeah, of a funny because it's just who I am. It's what I enjoy.  We love to laugh We love to make fun and we just it's all it's all good. Yeah, but no, I think the biggest problem And you kind of alluded to it is that when people do see me They want ace They want they want me to be ace and I made a video on it on my channel We're like people will come into the shop and they're like, yeah, I'm helping somebody like though But that's real like I'll help somebody and then across the way. You're like And I'm just like I can't do that right now. I'm being paid to help people. I can't and then I but It's disappointing because I don't want to disappoint them, you know I I love the fact that they're fans of that, but at the same time It's like my boss is standing right there. If I yell How good must it be to have created a character that basically we all think is real I mean, that's what he is.  Well, yeah, I know I didn't I didn't create him He's not my creation now me putting him into that form and and recording video that was me, but You guys created him like every everybody doesn't that what they don't understand about ace is that I worked in a Retail golf shop for 13 years.  They love them more than me Yeah, they don't like Randy they get out of here Randy like right now all the comments down below are gonna be like Where's ace exactly? But that that's the that's what's so beautiful about it is that they helped create him You know by by essentially being him. So that's fantastic. Do you ever? I Know the answer to the question really, but I'm gonna I'm still gonna ask it is that do you ever wish you'd have taken? I'm gonna start a different way for the channel to have grown and to be bigger and to be maybe Doing this is a full-time job Do you think if you took a different route in more mainstream content golf content? That is would that have led to that and what do you've been happy doing that or that been a big sell-out? Andy if I had One ounce of ambition in my body Yeah, I I would be scared to see where I'm who could possibly be I It is like and that's another Misconception is that people think I'm like this outgoing like oh this guy's like he's he's he's he's he's next level Like we want to we want to do but like I'm so introverted. It's not even funny Yeah, like and it's a strange way because it's like I'm introverted When it comes to when I first like meet people and where I'm first in a social situation But yeah, more I get comfortable and the more you get to know me the more of me comes out But yeah, I'm just not outgoing like I said, I've been offered jobs to go work in Carlsbad I've been offered to go work in Arizona with Ping and I Been I was offered to go work at my golf spy and and it's just like I'm just like nah. No, thanks Yeah, yeah, but it's like why what like everybody else would be like dude What are you doing go do that? But I'm just I'm a strange Strange person. I am I can't explain it to you. It really I mean when Rick first met me Down at the PGA show like the next day he was like I Went home and told my wife cuz she's seen like the turbulence video And he's like you would not believe that that's the same guy Yeah, he's like you would not believe how like just quiet and yeah Level he is but then obviously the more I've gotten to know Rick. Yeah more.  I'm not I don't like being Center for attention at all quite the complete opposite really and It's funny how The last person I would have expected From my would be to be comfortable on a camera and to be happy and it's almost like It's almost like an alter ego thing where you become somebody different when the camera goes on really so I do get it I completely get it. It's it's strange. Let me explain to you This is the best way that I can describe my personality and It's like, you know those birds that go into other birds nests and lay an egg like yes I'm that egg like at first. I'm just like I'm like, hey, don't pay attention to me I'm just a regular egg. You know, I just I need incubated I need you to sit on me and keep me warm and then like as soon as I hatch though I shove all the other birds out of the nest, you know, it's like then it's then it's about me Like that's that's my personality like the closer I and the more I infiltrate The more I just take over everything you you don't want to invite me along to do a collaboration Because I'll just I'll just take over over you you you ask you asked me to collaborate with you You sent me over the video content and then I edited the video because I didn't and I'm not trying to be rude I didn't trust you to do it the right way.  Why did you do this? And I like I cleaned up the audio like I did it was I don't know how to do that to this state Well, I I just like I said, I I very much come out of my shell and I Just I have two faces. I have Who you first meet when you see me, which is not me because I just I kind of like feeling out the situation But as soon as I get out of that show, I mean you can ask anybody that's just like I'm quiet and then one day I'm not and then you're like, I wish you would go back to be Where's all Randy? Where's the old egg? Yeah, it would say and I do need to find out I there's a piece of audio in that video that I still don't know how you managed to get my The the voice part of it as clear as you did but I'll have to ask you that question at one point Um, why did I did it myself? I I do I do Welsh. So I just I spoke in a mic dubbed it over No, yeah, you saw you saw my what's in the bag. I mean, it's like I did a pretty good English accent. Yes Well, yeah, maybe But More importantly, I am I am well, so you do need to polish up on that Welsh accent Actually, I don't think I know that I don't know the difference between Welsh and like What do you you have Welsh you have language? It's a what you speak English.  No, I'm speaking English right now But well, she's a different language Well, this is because everybody I don't want to get I don't want to make this video political This is this is public schooling right here speaking on this and this is this is what you get for your tax dollars in America The problem is is all all the comments now down below We're all gonna be about the Welsh because the Great Britain is made up of of Scotland Island, England and Wales But unfortunately Everybody thinks it's just made up of England. I'll have to delete that bit because I know that It's good But yeah, it's a different language. Yeah, there you go Was it a fun job or was it just the bits that you made fun when you did the videos or was it?


Hi everybody, this is Ashley with DAV and I am joined by past DAV national commander Dennis Joyner Dennis Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you, Ashley And today is actually a pretty big day something that many veterans and their caregivers have to celebrate and something DAV has fought For quite some time to bring about and so we're very proud to announce that today The VA finally announced the expansion to phase one veterans of their program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers Which is the program that provides, you know a modest stipend other education and support services to those family caregivers of veterans who were disabled in service and phase one is now officially open for veterans to apply for those support services and Phase one includes those veterans who were injured or became ill due to their service By May 7th 1975 or prior So that's including all Vietnam era veterans Korean War veterans and World War two veterans So something we're we're very excited about again. This is something DAV has been Fighting for for quite some time and we're very excited that it includes not only veterans who were injured, but also veterans Who now suffer from illnesses due to their service? So Dennis, can you tell me a little bit about your service and how it is? You know, most of our viewers are probably familiar with you But for those who might not be can you tell me just a little bit about your service history? And how it is that you came to be a veteran who was in need of a family caregiver. Yeah Yeah, back in 1969. I was drafted into the Army After my you know training. I was sent off to Vietnam I served with the 9th Infantry Division and this is may Kong Delta Was there only 32 days and on a patrol? I was I tripped a Booby-trap 105 rounds what they think it was and it immediately blew off both of my legs above the knee and my left arm so after You know being sent back, you know to the States and recovering at Valley Forge Army Hospital for four or five months I went back home to to pick up my life At the time, you know that this happened. I was 20 years old. I actually spent my 21st birthday at Valley Forge From that point when I went back home Obviously, you know, I was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of my life At the time I I tried artificial limbs, but with my my limbs Legs off above the knee. It was quite difficult at the time They don't have you know the the high technology and in the prosthesis that they have today So I I just found it easier You know and it became as mobile as I possibly could you know in my wheelchair Well, obviously there's a lot of things you know over the years that that I could do and of course That's what I focused on but there's obviously a lot of things that I needed assistance with and You know, that's you know, what happened to me and you know back then. Yeah, I joined the DAV You know immediately, you know after you know coming back and you know that is what you know made me You know a veteran So, you know, you're certainly not alone. There are many many other veterans and with you know within our organization We know personally many of these veterans who have you know, they've suffered injuries or illnesses decades ago and They've been living with those making a life with those and in many cases They've had a family caregiver assisting with daily necessities from for many many years all Without the support services that are provided through this program to post 9-eleven veterans So my question to you is you know, what does this mean to you and to Donna?   I may need some some help, you know and making sure That you know the cleanliness, you know the body, etc. So physically Even and also preparing meals.   Is it accessible, you know there's a lot of a lot of You know little things like that that you know really affect your your everyday life The other side of it is how it really is affected, you know Donna and just looking at at the financial side of it Back in 2008 my my right shoulder after 35 or so years pushing one-arm drive wheelchair It gave out had to have major major rotator cuff surgery one doctor even Put in notes that basically it put me in a situation and I was probably somewhat equivalent to someone that you know was You know struggling, you know, maybe with four for limbs missing Maybe not quite that bad, but bad enough and so Donna gave up her job You know, she came came home. She had worked for a number of years. Where's her pension went away? It affected, you know, what she's going to be receiving, you know for social security And it obviously, you know the the social side for her. I mean she wasn't around, you know co-workers Like she she was for a number of years. She came home to to care care for me because you know, I I had quit working, you know with the shoulder problem, etc and You know, it just had a lot of effect on her and has obviously changed her life Maybe not physically, but you know in the things that she's able to do and making sure that you know She is here and assisting me and helping me move around and you know, it is it also has taken, you know somewhat of a toll physically, you know on on her too So it As I said to me getting two sides to it, you know the physical and emotional difficulties that someone with a major disability Amputation or whatever it might be and maybe some PTSD, you know or a major illness I mean what we have to go through plus the physical or financial side, you know of what, you know Our caregiver our spouse would have to go through You know, I mean you touch on so many important points there and it kind of made me think You know a large portion of the veterans that I'm sure will be applying for this program Our Vietnam era veterans and they came home From the war to a country that that was not as welcoming or grateful as as it very well should have been So it seems almost like this is It almost is a little bit of recognition too for what you What you did for what you did in the war for what you came home and had to to work with So do you feel that at all like this is a it's almost a sense of recognizing your service in a way? well Maybe not so much recognizing my actual service in the military But it's recognizing what happened to me, you know in my service the country where I was willing to go No questions asked and I was willing to put my life on the line.  It sure wasn't our fault Um, it probably wasn't as difficult for me in facing the public when I came back home because I came back to the hospital system And I also came from a small small community. So when I come home, you know, there was a lot of Individuals that you know, were very caring and and wanted to see that You know, my life was going to be, you know, as good as possibly could be even though I had, you know You know severe disabilities Because of it right Well, I Dennis, I appreciate you you sharing all that with me today once again wanted to just note today again big day for veterans and their caregivers If you are a veteran who has a family caregiver and and you think you might be eligible for VA's program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers I would encourage you to click the link above Check out the new eligibility criteria if you find yourself eligible Do apply If you currently have a caregiver those benefits will be marked back to the date of application If if you do not have a family caregiver at that point It might it might vary when those benefits might kick in or when when retroactive benefits might be applied But again visit the link above and you can find all the information That you need right on VA's website And we'll we'll be sure to be posting more Dennis. I'm sure there will be no time wasted. I know that you've been keenly Watching this issue and so yours will be your application will be top of the stack. I'm sure In that application process. So Big day for you Yeah, I'm I'm excited about it. I mean we worked hard Meaning the organization and some of us individually to to see this day finally come to pass I personally always felt that it was quite discriminatory Against those of us that had served many years ago But I'm sure it wouldn't take away from, you know, the service of those, you know Who were eligible for it whenever, you know, the first part of it That come to pass. So, yeah very Exciting day. I think it's a day in which, you know, it's been a long time coming and They're sure a lot of deserving caregivers out there that Sure deserve, you know, what what little bit they're going to get can never make up for You know, all the the lost time or lost finances and those effects in life, but It's it's finally here. It's a great day and We, you know, I know the dav Has been so supportive and has pushed this and fought for it for so long and It's it's a great feeling, you know, for me individually and I'm sure for the organization itself And we thank you Thank you, Dennis. And of course pass my thanks on to Donna as well. I know she's she is truly a Superstar and what she does and and she she does everything she does out of a labor of love. So Thanks to her and all the caregivers Again, click the link above Check out the the new eligibility criteria and and if you have any questions go ahead and comment below And we will be sure to check those comments. Thanks so much. Thank you


Recently we did a short about swearing and whether or not it was spiritually right to do so. Let's go a bit deeper. There's a reason why swears are usually called curse words, in that you can literally use them to curse people or send sharp negative energy outwardly into the world. And this is not necessarily a good thing to practice. However, underlying the use of any word is the thought, energy, and intention behind it. If we are cursing at others and intending harm, yeah, that's no good. But when these words are used in other ways, it changes the energy underlying them. And that's not as bad. Generally speaking though, it seems best to me to reserve such words for special occasions and not just to be tossed around every five minutes to punctuate our remarks. That is, if we're going to use them at all.


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The Yens trading at $150 and the British Pound is at $122 to $1.00 US Dollar. iPhone numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call folks. I know it's going on in your world and the world of the S&Ps. Let's take a look at them. Let's actually take a look at the futures first because you're up 76 points, which is a gain of 1.8% inside the S&P. And I just wanted to take a look at this and see if they're going to run this baby right into the clothes because when you're up this high folks, okay, you know, bottom line is that you can get a run. That's what it comes down to. You know, right now the futures aren't telling me anything actually.  That's about 18 points lower than where we are right now. That being said though, my take is that we're on the way to a lot higher prices. And why? Because my take is that the note in bond market has bottomed and the dollar has topped. We take a look at the spy. What you're going to see is 63 million in the spy. So what you have here is this. You already broke, yesterday we broke into one range. We're now going to be basically going to the next range. The next range is on the S&P is at 433. We're at 430 right now. Now the NDX100, different ballgame. So the NDX100 never even broke. It's 200 day on this way, on the way down. It was right before it. Let me just put that up for you so you can see if you're watching Tiger TV. You can see what happened. It came down, but it didn't ever broke it, okay. That being said, that just shows how strong it is. Now come on baby, here we go. We put that in here and what you're going to see is that right now this word 463, well we have game out here is the 487. Now what's going to be intriguing, of course, is that we're going to have Apple come out with numbers after the close out here today. And the numbers that Apple's looking for, Apple, I mean there's a powerhouse, but the bottom line is that when you take a look at these numbers, last year Apple did 394 billion. This year it's 383. So it's down. Now next year they're looking to do 404 billion. That's going to be just a raising of prices across the board. So Apple's going to be looking for 89.4 billion to the top line, $1.39 to the bottom line. And I suspect what we're going to see is that it's going to be on some of that, see that one is product 316 billion, the other service is 78 billion.  Normally they come out of 415. Now what Apple has also done, Apple is basically right where this came down the last time. So it's going to be a toss-up with Apple after the close. Notes and bonds, however, are not a toss-up. Here we go with notes and bonds. This has been trying to make a bottom. I think we've got a decent bottom in now. It was trying to make a bottom 7. Well, it was making a bottom for about 10 days. We're doing 2.1 million contracts right now. It was a great contract volume. We have broken the down trend. You broke it with conviction. That's saying that the 10-year wants to rent it with now $1,403. Now we're at $107. Now if that's what we get, what you're going to see inside this 10-year, we'll put this 10-year up for a second so you can take a look at it. The high of the 10-year is 4.990. That was only two weeks ago. We're at 4.665. You'll see this thing under 4 if that's where we go. That's going to be the beginning of bottom line. As I said the last few days, the Fed may not be pulling back on rates, but the market is going to do the Fed's job just as the market did the Fed's job on bringing rates higher. If you remember how this worked out, the market itself was pushing rates high at three months before the Fed actually even went up. We take a look at the dollar. Bottom line is that the dollar, we're down 766, which isn't bad, but the dollar is still struggling to stay higher. That's the reality. It's still in this range up here. Now my take is that we're building cars in this range to get down to where we broke out from. Where we broke out from is at 104.699 level. That's on the smaller time frame. Smaller time frame I'm talking about two or three weeks. I think we'll be there within a couple of weeks. Larger time frame, I'm expecting this to get all the way under a buck. 99 is going to be the move. Why? Because this was a break with conviction on the way down. You're building cars up at this level. It should get some support at this 104.699 because it took that long to break that. You can see that we're messing with that for about 10 days. First it looked like I'm going to give it up, then I'm going to above and below. It did the whole bottle wax. That's what normally happens when you're coming into swing points that are very important. This is a really important swing point. The gold. Gold contract continues at one higher price. That's the bottom line, no matter what happens. It's going to be intriguing, folks, because as rates come down now gold can really run. Gold was up when rates were up and now rates are pulling back. Gold's only up $6 today, but it looks to me you're building cars to try to first get through this 2008. $21.29 is game and I suspect more than likely we're going to end up seeing somehow it's going to end up being an ABC structure up. We'll take the B, point out we've been building cars now for two weeks inside of the gold market. Stay right there, folks. We've got our man, Mr. Tim Moyd, coming up with us. And don't forget, folks, Tim is going to be doing a workshop for us. This is coming Tuesday and, you know, bottom line. If you've been following Tim, Tim absolutely hit it out of the park and the gold market and hit it out of the park in the S&P. So if you want to understand what he looks at, go over and sign up for that webinar right now. Coming right back. Tires. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Tim Moyd joins the Tom O'Brien show to share his unique insight that he's developed over decades of trading. 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You got Home Depot putting 50 points, positive points. This is all about interest rate structure folks. Home Depot, 50 points, you get Caterpillar, 47 points, positive into the Dow, Goldman 42. The only one that is negative is five points into Travelers. And in the NDX100, we take a look at the strength versus the weakness inside the NDX. And what you have, you have the Carmaker Lucid. That's up 13.5 percent. Starbucks is up 10. We're going to look at that. That's intriguing. You got Walgreen Boots is up eight, and you got Trade Desk is up seven and a half. Taken away from it is Moderna's off seven and a half.  So let's go take a look at Starbucks here. This gets interesting. Okay, so Starbucks, 9.15. That's some real juice, man. They come up with some good numbers, evidently. Yeah, so let's take a look here. They got a new CFO, and the bottom line, the new CFO, gave a big forecast in 2024. And we're going to be drinking evidently a lot of coffee and eating a lot of sweets. 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And if you can't make it live, folks, remember that it's always archived and you can go over as many times as you want. Tim Ord, what's going on? All right. I kind of made the charts, hopefully a little bit more easier to read. I think we were going so fast on Tuesday. I think people were kind of confused what the chart's all about. So, I'm hoping that to make this lot clearer and so people can understand. This, man, it's always clear what happened there. And I apologize, folks, okay? It was on my side and, you know, it really was Tim, so I apologize. But this is sweet. You got the mocked off right now. And first off, congratulations, man.  You know, first you hit the gold market and, you know, the bottom line is that you hit this one nice. And I don't know if you have the swag deal on this one, but before you get off, I want to know what that number is. We'll start with John 1, though. Yeah, we got it on. Oh, cool. Cool. So, yeah, this is start from chart one. Okay.  Well, sometimes they didn't trigger on this last decline that ticks and trend really, the 10 day didn't really get into bullish territory. And it happens every while. So you got to have more tools in your toolbox. That's right. To pick out, to pick out what's going on. You're like Robin Hood when your quiver is full. That's right. Yeah. So, you know, you can't, I don't rely on one indicator, but if you get two or three lining up like this time around, I did, then you kind of step up and you catch the following knife, as they say. And, you know, we went long Friday and basically that was a closing low. Yes. So, buddy, let's look at chart one. Okay, have it up. All right. Anyhow, the middle window is a chart one is basically the VIX. It's the daily VIX. That's all it is. VIX trades opposite of the SPY or SPX. Yes. So, in other words, if VIX goes up, usually the mark goes down. And if the SPs go up, the VIX goes down. But when you get the VIX going up, or if you get the VIX actually going up, how's that? I think here, if you get the VIX going up when the SPs are going down, that's usually the right way to look at. So, I look at, instead of running out, I do the SPX VIX ratio. What that does is reverse the ratio to look similar to the SPY chart. So, when the SPX VIX ratio is going up, also the SPI is going up. And when that happens, you got a confirmed uptrend. But when you get diverges is going on, in other words, you got the S&Ps going down and the VIX going down with it, that's the divergence. And if you look over to the right side window, the very right side, you notice the S&Ps kind of fell through the floor going into last Friday for March 27th. And if you see the VIX, it was actually going up in that time frame. That's the reason I got those little dotted lines there to show that the mark was going down and the VIX was also going down. And that's one of the reasons why I went into the market. Yeah, three times. You know, if you go back and look on the chart, you know, go back to the 2022 high, way back there, it's kind of circled in kind of a light pink there. If you notice the S&Ps were going up and right above that's the VIX, the VIX was also making higher lows. So, that was the reason why I got buried in 2022. Right. Now, yeah, just give me one second, Tim, because I want to show the folks this. So, to cut to the chase, folks, okay, what Tim was saying here, when he went long Friday, okay, which is important, and this is what he's going to be going over on this coming Tuesday. I want to show you, I'm just going to bring another chart on top of his. I want to show you on Friday. So, when you look at on Friday, you're going to see what Tim's talking about, what should have been happening there when the S&P was getting smoked. Well, guess what? The VIX went from 22 to 19.75. So, it went the opposite way, meaning that if the S&P is getting smoked, well, we should have been going after those highs and we weren't. And that was, that's the kicker. And that's one of the big signals that he's talking about. Okay, Tim, go ahead. Right. Yeah, that's good. And another time in 2023, that's a kind of light blue area in the middle of the chart. Okay. Yes, I see that. We were talking on the radio and everybody, I remember it was kind of bearish around that April, May period. And then I got that little, the market was kind of going sideways there. Yes. And if you notice, the chart, the VIX was actually going down. Right. So, that was the reason why I stayed long and the market went up to that top. To stay right there, Tim and I are coming right back and then the commercial break folks, you can get over there and sign up for this workshop. Tim and I are coming right back. 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Welcome back folks to Tim O'Tommel Brown. We do appreciate your growl and prowl on us. We have the dial up about 5.10 now. That's except 2.24. S&Ps are up 75. Okay, Tim. All right. Actually, we were talking about, I meant to put that swag indicator in today's list, and I forgot to do it, but I did check it as 0.58 and it needs to be 0.6 by November 10th, which is a week from tomorrow. I like it. Yeah. And so if the market just leaves holds here in this percent, most likely, there's a high probability that will trigger. And when the swag breath for us indicator triggers, that means it'll end me a term rally. So that gives you quite a bit of information that in general, this market is probably going to work higher all the way to year end. It is. And what's so cool, Tim, and folks, is that, you know, I'm sure you've been following Tim and myself, right? And what had happened, folks, on the last one, is that, you know, you can see that this is what's so cool about Tim's indicators, folks, okay? You can see he had given you the number prior to it, right? The bottom line is that, well, two weeks ago when we hit that thing, the bottom line, well, the number didn't hit. Well, okay, the number didn't hit, number didn't hit. That's where patience comes in. Bottom line, we go a little bit lower. S&P comes and we'll see whether it hits this time. But it's that the indicators that Tim uses, folks, there's no, sublittly, they're not subtle. The bottom line is that they're black and white, which makes them so cool. Okay, so that's great news, Tim. That's a point to chart two. Chart two, okay. All right. So we kind of covered, you know, the SBX-VIX ratio. Yep. And then now this is the tilt, you know, the 20-year bond to the VVIX. Yep. And the VVIX is the VIX of the VIX. Right. And why this works, I really don't know, really don't care. But I went back in years and it seems to work really well. So probably nobody ever tried this, but anyhow, in a nutshell... Which is so cool, I know. When the S&Ps make a lower low, I got circles in blue. The middle chart is the TLT-VVIX ratio and below that on the bottom is the SPY. And I got circles in blue. In other words, when the market goes down, there's actually two things on this indicator. The top window is the rate of change, the 10 period, for the TLT-VVIX ratio. The next window down is the RSI of the TLT-VIX ratio. So I measured the velocity or the acceleration of this ratio. Yes. And when things really move fast, that's really a good sign. In other words, not only I got this idea when the market panics, it moves really fast. Right. And that's when everybody scatters. Well, that's the best time to get in the market. Right. And so you have to figure out the velocity of the market to see where that bottom is. Yes. So I used this on the TLT-VIX ratio. So anyhow, when these two indicators, the RSI of the TLT-VIX ratio, both hit in bearish territory. Another is on the RSI, below 30. And on the RLC rate of change is below 20. When both those happen, you're at a short-term low. And all those red lines across the graph there are times when both those indicators reached bullish levels. And pretty much they all came at low. It's so consistent. If you're in a car, folks, remember that you can go watch this program tonight. But if you're watching it, you're going to see the consistency here is amazing. You know what's really cool, Tim, is that looking at this last one, right, you can see what a higher high actually the S&P was when you got the signal. Right. That's, I mean, and I can see why. Left to the right. Yeah, we're going to blow that one up and look at it a little bit closer. Yeah. But all right, so that's one part of this chart is you get short-term lows and all those red lines are showing when the short-term lows. Then it turns around, that's usually not the bottom. It has been bottomed in some cases, but not all the cases. Then the market takes a balance and it comes back down again, breaks new lows on the S&Ps. That's like a circle down low there. But the TLT-VIX ratio makes higher lows. Now you're looking at a worthwhile low. Right. Something as a multi-week, if not a multi-month low. Okay. So this is kind of a two-prong indicator. Yes. So if you're playing options, this is good when both those indicators hit below. You can have a week or two of a trade up on a long call or something like that. Right. But also you can do a multi-week, if not a multi-month trade, because when you get to versions to make higher lows on the TLT-VIX ratio and the S&Ps make a lower low, you've got a multi-month rally. So anyhow, let me... That's pretty cool, man. No, I get it. All right. I get it. I'm telling you, yeah. All right. All right, so let's go to chart three. Okay. So this is a blown-up portion of this ratio. I see. Okay. If you go way to the right there, you got a short-term low on the two ROC-RSI ratios. You got a minor bounce when the last couple of days. Then the market plummets again to new lows. Right. But look what the ratio does, TLT-VIX ratio. Right. It's different than the SPY-VIX ratio. This is the tilt that bonds to the... So yeah. To the VIX-of-the-VIX, right? The information going in on the close of last Friday, March 20, or not March, but October 27th. Yes. That I had a couple of different major diversities happening here. So I kind of leaned on that trade. It only comes on Fridays. They make you sweat the whole weekend. I hate that. Right. And if you want to understand that trade, folks, just look at this trade for a second, okay? Because this is really cool. So I bring this over here. You're talking about the SPY-409 and we're at 430. Okay? Because that's where this was. And maybe, okay, it might have got at 410, 411, whatever that is. But the bottom line is that that's where Tim went long. Because that's where I was going through these charts. And if you want to understand this, guess what? Come Tuesday.  The bottom line, the first time that he came, I brought him to Boston, I think it was 1995. And it changed my life.  You know? But the bottom line is that he catches these moves, man. So pretty cool, Tim. Yeah. Pretty cool. Right. If you notice, we were talking, I got out back in late July. Yes. And this is one of the reasons why, if you look at late July period, the S&P's were going up and up. And that ratio started going down. Right. And so that's one of the reasons I got out. And trading short to market and a bull market kind of, you know, the market went down, I don't know, 8, 10%, whatever. And I tried a short, or actually, I tried a long on a bounce. That didn't work out well. I lost 2%. Went long again and didn't work out. But anyhow, the whole decline, I think Mark went down 10%. I was down 1%. Which is pretty cool. So it's a good overtake. Yeah, which is better than being down 10%. Totally. Yeah, I caught the bottom. So, you know, it's been good. Life's been good. I hear the music. That's right, stay right there. Tim and I are coming right back, folks. Tires. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Tim Ord joins the Tom O'Brien show to share his unique insight that he's developed over decades of trading. Now, on Tuesday, November 7th, from 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Eastern time, Tim Ord will be hosting his own live webinar. Tim's analysis has been outperforming market returns by almost double, and his gold analysis is on track to be a winner as well. Tim will be delving into six secret ratios that every trader should know. In this webinar, Tim will be covering the daily TLT VIX, the daily and weekly SPI VIX, the American Association of Individual Investors' Bull Bear Ratios, and the Trin Panic Levels. 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That VIX will kind of be unchanged or even up a little bit when you get close to that. It'll be a minor or low. I mean, you'll have some sort of a consolidation at some point. But today we'll mark four days up in a row. I forgot what you call it. But if you're up four days in a row, quantitative analysis. If you're up four days in a row, the market will be higher 73% of the time within five days. If you're up five days in a row and our tomorrow's up, the market will be higher within five days, 83% of the time. So this rally, it may get back up to those previous highs we had in what, October up there, 440 range? Yeah. So I'm glad you brought this up with the VIX, too, Tim. So I just put the VIX up, too, folks. So you can see the VIX is staying low today. As long as it's down and the FPP is up, that's okay. That's what you want, exactly. If the VIX is kind of unchanged or even up today with the market up this much, chances are tomorrow's going to be a down day. But we don't have that here. VIX is down decent. And if you notice, we're back below 17 again. Right. And remember, on our previous show, we talked about when usually the VIX is below 17, a lot of times you get a trending market. Yes. And so we're at 15.70 right now. So there's a chance that this market actually could keep just moving higher. Not every day is going to be an up day. But if that VIX stays below 17, going into the weekend, chances are next week will be up, too. Right. Now, and there's something, folks, let me, Tim, just because what I want you to understand, folks, is this. Is that, okay, so we've been talking about the bottom coming in here. Tim had just mentioned the aspect of, and I remember this specifically, okay, in the July deal that he got out of the market. So what I want you to understand is that when you're coming over to this webinar, right, the bottom line is that these tools, folks, okay, can help you on both ways. That's the bottom line. This is not a one-way shot. This is what's so cool about what he does generally. Okay, no, in general, period. That's the bottom line.  But it's very tough to just turn around and say that, okay, man, I'm going to go longer. I'm going to go shot. I'm going to give it a shot without any real analysis behind it. Do you know what I'm saying? So, you know, pretty cool. So none of this. Yeah, you'll have reasons.  And so the interpretation's not hard. You know, the hard part was figuring out what charts to look at, you know, and what ratios to look at to give you the information you need to make wise decisions on your investments. Exactly.  You know, and folks, this is real work, okay.  I mean, I mean, that's the type of work. You're right, you're right. Yeah, see my office, I'm a visual person. So I don't, I don't, to me, I'm at hard time writing. And so everything's visual to me.  I love it.  Listen, I'm the exact same way, man. Yeah, I love it because I can't, you know, it's so crazy. Yeah, visuals is where it's at. I have to actually hear something and see something in order to understand it. I, you know, I just do, let's see. Yeah, that's the same with me. To me, I understand that. I can figure it out once it gets in front of my face. Yes. You know, after a while I think, well, this thing makes sense or, you know, I can't find anything here. And so I kind of move on. Pretty cool. But once I find something, I try to hone it down, put different moving averages on it, or put all stuff to it. So that's how I came up with these ratios. And I did one, and I'm thinking, there's a lot of information and stuff. There is a lot of information. There is a lot of information. Yeah. I know of. And well, in particular, because you know what's so cool here, Tim, right? I mean, I always watch the bond market, okay? And this is what's so cool to see about this T-L-T and the VIX, the VIX of the VIX. Because what happens, folks, is this. Bonds run the world. Interest-rate structure runs the world. And what he has here is he has interest-rate structure with a fear gauge. So it's like heaven. I mean, it's like, that's, that's, well, it's actually a fear of a fear. Which is even better, right? Yeah, there was, I tried it with the VIX, or VIX, just the VIX. Yeah. Didn't seem about to work well. For some reason, it works really well with this. Okay.  Yes.  They're probably, they're like 90 or better. You know, that's a good indicator to watch. It is. So, especially if you, you know, if you can start stacking them. I know. This is the second indicator that we covered today. I gave a bullish signal. Exactly. You know, exactly. And so, and also look at weekly. Let's just flip to the weekly chart, which is the last chart here. Okay. And the top window is the weekly SPYs. Yep. And it's the weekly timeframe. And I got to put a Bollinger Band on it. And every time this S&P is closed below the upper or lower Bollinger Band, usually the market reverses. And it works a lot better at bottom for some reason. So, and that lower Bollinger Band is two deviations away from the norm, which is the mid Bollinger Band. I see. So, what it, what it does is stress, the market is stressed on a short term basis. So, if you start going below the lower Bollinger Band, it's really stretched. Yeah. And a lot of times you get a nat-back rally. And if you notice, that's what happened last Friday, which was below the mid, or the lower Bollinger Band. There you go folks. And so, I knew, I knew the market was stretched. I get it. So, and that was another indicator. Now, when you look at the bottom window, which is the VIX, and that's another reason, this is on weekly timeframes. The VIX didn't confirm it. The VIX went sideways. And all those little blue areas there, where the market, you know, breaks new lows. And the VIX goes sideways. And this is on a weekly timeframe, not a daily. Right. So, there was a huge divergence last Friday. Yeah. So, pretty amazing. No doubt. It'll love it. Yeah. So, anyhow, that's the reason why I'm long. So, you know, where's the sell signal at? I don't know. But I'll get some indicators. We'll present them as we go forward with this trade. Right. You know, when it gets to maybe a danger level, I'll have to wait and see what happens. But the way it's going so far right now is four days up. You know, we've got a 73% chance. Mark will be higher. And if tomorrow's up, we have an 83% chance. It'll be higher in the next five days. Well, listen, man, I appreciate all the work. You know, and once again, congratulations, man. I mean, because just the way you break markets down is just phenomenal, man. You have a great weekend, Tim, a safe weekend, and we're going to talk in on Tuesday, and you're going to be doing that webinar on Tuesday, man. All right. I'll talk to you then. Okay, man. 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Subscribe to the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter today. TFNN.com, educating investors. The notes and bonds folks, you can see the note and bond.  You can see, I mean, we've been on a one-way trip for a year and a half inside the note and bond market, folks, okay? Now, the correction in the S&P was really small compared to note and bond market and that's why you're seeing what you're actually seeing. You know, because if I'm correct, if I am correct in the aspect that we have topped, you're going to see quite a bit of business being done, you know, right across the United States, I mean, in a monster way, you know, because what had happened is that, you know, the interest rate structure hits everything, including durable goods. Durable goods, folks, is a monster part of our economy. And once this releases, and when you do release off-bottoms, folks, most of the time, it's pretty quick. So I think the first percentage point, meaning like if we go to the mortgage market today, you know, we were at eight, we're probably already at about seven and a half, seven, three-quarter, seven and a half, we'll be on this under seven pretty quickly. You know, five and a half is the number, just so if you understand, five and a half is the number that you get an explosion. And as I was talking about yesterday, you know, what does happen, if you're all looking for a house, you better keep this in mind, because as those rates go down, you're going to see houses go up, because they've been, you know, they've been saying they go up one or two percent of something, but the bottom line, you'll see them go up, because it's all about the signature once again. And that's one side of it. Now, the other side of it, there'll be other people that are pushing houses into the marketplace, but you're still not going to get people pushing houses into the marketplace that have interest rate structure at basically, you know, three, three or four. It doesn't make any sense. Oh, as you remember, folks, the bank and claw your heart out, the bull can run you over, and thank God, there's always another trade. Health happens in prosperity. Have a great night, folks. Have a safe night. Apple, 415, Apple's coming out with numbers, folks, okay? That is going to make a difference inside the marketplace. We'll see just how this baby shakes out. So, have a great one, folks. Have a safe one.


Alright, so this recent buzz around AI and, you know, generative AI, chat GPT, right? All of this seems like a deja vu to me, they told y'all I had a long career, right? And for folks who've been in the field long enough, y'all know why, but for those of y'all who are like fairly new, I'm going to kind of take y'all back in time a little bit, right? Let's go back to 2016, 2017, right? According to Guardian, that was the year AI came of age. There was a lot of AI going on. There were like a lot of, you know, transcription services, AI based.  And so we had, you know, a lot of like self-driving cars were, you know, kind of on then. That's when it all started. That's also the time IBM had launched what kind of the Watson in IBM was getting popularity. The Watson's, you know, cognitive capabilities. It was all cognitive capabilities and machine learning at that point of time. That's kind of what the AI space was during then. And IBM had launched a lot of initiatives to try and incorporate Watson's AI capabilities into every single, you know, product as best as they could, right? So that was the directive at that point of time. Go figure out how you can make your products better. Go figure out how you can embed AI in your products to kind of leverage Watson, right? Every product wanted the Watson tag and you had to work hard for it, right? And so we did a lot of, you know, idea generation days and hackathons. Hackathons are a thing in IBM where we spend, you know, days trying to come up with like innovative ideas of what we can do to incorporate that. We recently had one for the gen AI capabilities. We call those Watson X, but this one here I'm talking about the Watson hackathons like long ago in 2016, right? I was leading a portfolio of products at that time that helped digital marketers create, plan and manage their marketing campaigns, right? And so as part of our idea generation days and as part of our hackathons, we were tasked with and, you know, go figure out how you can implement, how you can incorporate AI in your capabilities. And that's what we did, you know, like three or four days or one week's worth of ideas. And then here's what we had, you know, we could do predictions, we could do, you know, insights, we could give recommendations, we could help simplify search for y'all. We could leverage national language capabilities and all of that. And, you know, these were like our ideas that the team came up with. And then we decided, okay, let's run this by the users, you know, let's see what excites them. Let's check with our users what they really want to see or what would make them feel empowered, right? And so when we reached out to the users, we really had, you know, at that point of time, two kinds of users, the line of business users who are mostly marketers, very comfortable with their day job. They knew everything about digital marketing, but they were not fairly comfortable or fairly aware of the technology at that point of time, right? So they knew their job, but they sort of knew AI, everybody had seen Terminator, so they all knew about robots, right? AI, at that point of time, mostly translated into robots and the concerns at that point of time were, you know, very real around, are you going to make me interact with robots? Okay, incorporating AI, does it mean you're going to replace your system behind the scenes with some kind of robots, right? How is it going to know to recommend, right? How is it going to, like, I've been in the field for 15 years. I know what I'm doing. How does it know what it's doing? How is it going to generate its recommendations, right? And we had to tell them that, you know, it's going to kind of start, it has models behind it and, you know, it's going to work with the models and it's going to learn as it goes and it's going to get better with time and that made them really skeptical. I was like, okay, so are you going to monitor what I do at my job? Are you going to, you know, watch what I'm doing? Are you going to then generate reports and send to my boss?  So it was like generally skepticism, not a lot of awareness, you know. People thought they knew but they had some concepts confused and so they didn't know kind of what to do. Mostly intimidation, mostly, you know, unsurety about where is the expertise coming from, right? That was about the regular line of business users. Then we had what we call the technical marketers who were, you know, aware of the technology at the same time, right? And so they were not as confused about what it meant. They knew, they understood, you know, how AI would help make their lives better. Their concerns were a little on the flip side. They were worried about whether we would get it right for them. In the sense, when we started implementing AI capability, so what the feedback, you know, it was like a legacy product. It was there for a long time. Every product has its quirks, especially enterprise products which have been there for a long time, right? And people have spent quite a lot of time trying to get used to it, trying to figure out the quirks in it, trying to work around it. They have a routine. They know I need to do these 10 steps, right, to get my job done. And they were all fairly comfortable with that.  I'm not going to wait for you.  I'm a busy person. I need to get things done. Now, if you start throwing recommendations at me when I'm trying to do these things, hey, do this, you know, hey, do that.  I don't have time for all of that, right? That was one part. The other one was, you know, again, to do with it. I've been in this field for so long. So your recommendations, one, they better be good, right? They better be on the lines of what I would have done anyways, given the situation, right? Because if it's counterintuitive, then I'm going to be confused and I'm going to trust my intuition. I'm not going to go with your recommendations, right? Because I kind of have been in the field, I know what I'm doing, and I'm just going to trust my gut feel, right? The second is, unless you tell me how you're generating those recommendations, back it up with, you know, some kind of a reasoning. Tell me how you've arrived at that reasoning. And then it'll help me to trust it better, right? That said, I'm not just going to blindly accept your recommendations, okay? I want to kind of test it out with a small sample first and see if it really works. See if it gives me the results you're saying it will give, right?  Just give me a way to do my job like I do it. I don't even want the AI.  Clearly, Mark, this is AI. This is regular stuff. So I know that, you know, okay, this thing, I need to test it out. I like it. I keep it. If not, I just turn it off. So that was kind of the whole, you know, feedback that we had listened to at that point of time, okay? Back to today.  What has changed with the users, okay? So has it changed a lot, right? Sure. I mean, the awareness has increased, right? There's a lot of information about AI available on the social media now, on basically every single source, right? People have asked chat GPT itself, you know, tell me what you are, right? And it has done that, right? So, but yes, there's like not as much fear factor now. People are not intimidated. People have used AI one form or another. People are fairly comfortable talking to chatbots and all of that, right? But there is still this real gap of, you know, who are these people who are really aware, right? People like you and me, people who are in technology, people who are early professionals, right? People who are designers, who are in the product space, who own products, who want to make their products better. So all of this excitement now is in that category of people. There is still this other category that still exists. You know, the older users, the longtime users of your products who are still kind of in between that I'm aware and I'm not aware kind of a space. They know a lot more terms these days because, you know, there's enough WhatsApp, enough, you know, Facebook, enough chat GPT everywhere, and they've used it. But there is a recent survey that Forbes ran in July of 2023, right? And the numbers were fairly astonishing there. So 77% of the folks are still concerned about misinformation being generated by AI. So that trust factor or the trust issue is still there, right? People are really, really concerned now about their jobs being taken away by these AI capabilities, right? So while they are fairly comfortable using AI as consumers, they are really skeptical about allowing AI in their work life, right? Because they are worried that the moment AI is, you know, they are teaching it to take away their jobs, right, basically, and they don't want to do that, right? And so job displacement is a real fear, right? Privacy concerns, like I said, people are fairly comfortable with AI tracking things like their social media usage, things like, you know, what do they buy, where do they drive, and then, you know, any kind of recommendations that you might generate or AI might generate around that. All that is good, but are they really open to AI stepping into their work life, trying to monitor their work usage? Not so much, right? Not really not so much. And so all of these concerns haven't gone away, right? And so when we start off or to look at designing for incorporating AI capabilities, or when we start out, you know, reaching out to our users, trying to figure out what would make their life better, right? All our user research mostly is centered around, you know, what are your goals? What are you trying to achieve? What are your pain points? How are you using our products? And, you know, all of that, right? What I'm trying to say is, maybe, maybe, if you're trying to pitch in AI capabilities, we should also try and do a little hopes and fears exercise with them to try and understand, you know, are they comfortable? If not, why not, right? What are they afraid of? You know, what are they worried about, right? What are they hopeful about? Actually, there are use cases where people will tell you, yes, you know, something like this would be nice. So it's nice to kind of get that insights from your users. Let's look at, you know, deeper motivations rather than immediate needs because, you know, they might need something today, but AI capabilities are here to stay. They learn over time. They get better with time. So focus on those kind of, you know, sustainable long-term needs when you're trying to think about how you can make your, you know, how you can leverage AI capabilities to make your products better. That said, yes, we want to make our users feel empowered, but again, I think the first step to do that is, you know, understand a little bit about what is bothering them.  Help alleviate some of the fears, and then I think we'll have a little less resistance in terms of user adoption. So that's it, I guess. Oh, and I'm an IBMmer, by the way, as she mentioned, and we are hiring, so please feel free to join. Thank you.