Welcome to Stocks and Stacks episode number 29. I'm your host of The Most Your Boy Rich from Rich TV. We are live and interactive on all devices and we're gonna talk about the mothership which I've been talking about all year. I hope you didn't miss it. I really hope you didn't miss it. Hope you didn't miss it because we on fire. We're on fire with Bitcoin and we are now at $44,000 for one Bitcoin. Congratulations for investors all over the world. What an exciting time for Bitcoin. What an exciting time for investors and what an exciting time for me and you here. Live and interactive on the Bull and Bear Show and we are going into the holidays with Bitcoin absolutely on fire. We're right at $44,000 for one Bitcoin right now. The highest has been in a year and I believe that we're going much, much, much, much higher. We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about why. We're gonna talk about the Bitcoin having, Bitcoin ETFs, Bitcoin stocks right here, right now exclusively on the Rich TV live podcast and I'm just getting set up here because we're going live on all devices and I'm really busy today. So I don't have a ton of time to be in 10 places at once but what I'm gonna do is I'm going to try to do my best to kind of share with you guys what's happening in the markets, what I'm seeing, what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, how I'm trading and guys like if you've been watching you're probably winning because we told you about Bitcoin in 2017 when it was at $1,000 a coin. Today Bitcoin is at $44,000 a coin. That's a 43X, 43X. If you got into Bitcoin when I first started talking about it in 2017 you're up 43 times your money. That's right, 43 times your money. So if you put in 10 grand in 2017 your 10 grand would be worth $430,000 in profit, in profit. So I told you guys, I told you guys I was bringing the heat, I wasn't joking and it's been a phenomenal year for me as an investor. I hope it's been a phenomenal year for you and if it hasn't, you're probably not in on Bitcoin because we're at 44,000 and it's absolutely on fire and it just continues to go higher. This is extremely bullish price action. This is extremely bullish sentiment. This is the whole world saying, hey, Bitcoin is the real deal and I need to get in. I can't tell you how many people recently have been telling me that they wanna get in on Bitcoin. It's becoming the thing to do. Now why do people have to wait for Bitcoin to go up to wanna get in? I have absolutely no idea. It blows my mind. More people wanna buy Bitcoin now at 44,000 than wanted to buy Bitcoin when it was at 15,000 which absolutely blows my mind. I don't know why, but it is what it is and the reality is we're at 44,000 and everybody now wants to get in for the win as they should, as they should because there's a lot of winning going on and if you're not winning on Bitcoin, you are missing out on the single greatest investment of your lifetime. Don't say they warn you. I ain't trying to force you. And it's not like I'm the government trying to force you to get vax. I ain't doing that. There's no forced vax here. There's no forced Bitcoin purchasing here.  Just saying. Just happens to be the single greatest investment of our lifetimes and that is a fact because Bitcoin right now as we speak is trading up around $1 billion. 1 billion percent, sorry. 1 billion percent higher than it was when it first became an asset that you could invest in and that's why Bitcoin is absolutely, in my opinion, the single greatest investment of our lifetimes and it would be silly and foolish for you to sit on the sidelines and miss out on the single greatest investment of our lifetimes. I ain't trying to force you. I ain't trying to force you. Tell me you gotta do it. You don't gotta do anything, okay? You don't gotta do anything. But if you care about your goals, if you care about your finances, if you care about your future, you probably want a little bit of Bitcoin. Did you know that only 1 million wallets in the world own one or more Bitcoin and iRichTVLive happened to be one of those wallets? That's a nice club to be a part of. The 1 million holders of at least one Bitcoin in the world club and I'm part of that club and I'm proud to be part of that club. That's a club that I'm proud to be a part of. Now, my question to you guys is why are you on the sidelines? What is your reasoning? What are you thinking? Why would you stay on the sidelines and miss out on the single greatest investment of our lifetimes? I know the answer is a lot of you don't understand Bitcoin. A lot of you don't get it. A lot of you don't like it. A lot of you don't wanna learn it. Everyone's got their reason, right? So I'm not here to tell you to do it.  That's not my concern.  It could, could change your life for the better. Could help you become financially free. You could become financially independent. I know lots of people that weren't involved in Bitcoin a year ago that are involved in Bitcoin now and they're making a killing. So why would you wanna miss out on that opportunity? Why would you? I mean, it doesn't make sense to me that you'd wanna miss out on that opportunity but there are people that are missing out on it all over the place. And all I can say to you guys is too bad. Too bad, you missed out. You missed out on the greatest single investment of your lifetime. You missed out on a 43X in five years. It was at 1,000 in 2017. It's at 44,000 now and I believe it's going to 50,000 coin. Why? We've got Bitcoin ETFs coming and the deadline is January 10th. So by January 10th, we could have 12 new Bitcoin ETFs approved. That's in about a month. We're a month away from potentially having 12 Bitcoin ETFs approved. I think that's gonna be a massive catalyst for Bitcoin. In addition to that, we've got the Bitcoin having coming which happens every four years which is always a massive catalyst for Bitcoin. I believe it will be the next massive catalyst for Bitcoin. It's already been, in my opinion, a massive catalyst for Bitcoin. People are pre-buying Bitcoin because of the Bitcoin having which is happening around March 24th. So we are literally months, just a few months away from the Bitcoin having. We are a month away from Bitcoin ETFs getting approved. Those are massive, massive catalysts that could send Bitcoin to the moon. So we're not gonna sit in the sidelines and miss out on that single greatest event in the history of our lifetimes. We're gonna participate and you should be participating. And if you don't know how, you should join us at richtv.io, an ecosystem built by investors, for investors, where we will show you how you can set up an account, invest in Bitcoin, buy Bitcoin, sell Bitcoin. I personally have my Bitcoin on a ledger hard wallet for safekeeping. We can show you how to do that as well. So everything you need to know about Bitcoin, we can help you and guide you all the way through. Now, it's not just Bitcoin that's being affected by this. Bitcoin is affecting everything around it, including Bitcoin stocks. So let's take a look at what's going on in the overall market. All right, first and foremost, Bitcoin is my largest crypto holding, full disclosure. I love Bitcoin, not telling you to buy it. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  My second largest crypto holding is Ethereum and Ethereum is also ripping. It's now at 2273. Congratulations to anyone that listened. That holds Ethereum. Congratulations if you hold Ethereum.  And the reality is I feel like we're going much, much, much, much higher. All right. Now, in addition to Bitcoin and in addition to Ethereum, there's a lot of assets out there that are benefiting from the price of Bitcoin going up, from cryptos going up. One of those is Robinhood. Robinhood has made a huge move here. Look at this. Robinhood has been struggling and all of a sudden now Robinhood is alive. But why? Because Bitcoin. Robinhood is alive because of Bitcoin because you can buy Bitcoin on Robinhood. It went down to eight bucks and now look at this move from eight dollars all the way to 11. It's shooting up just like Bitcoin. So it's not just Bitcoin. You can get exposure to Bitcoin. You can get exposure to cryptos through other assets in the stock market like Robinhood, which is up 8% today and up about 30% in the last month. Look at this. Up about 30%, not even in the last month. In the last couple of weeks, Robinhood has made a move from eight dollars to 11 dollars. So put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. They are heating up because Bitcoin's hot, cryptos are hot, and you can buy Bitcoin and cryptos on Robinhood. Makes sense, right? Neo. Okay, this has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but this is electric vehicles. This is an electric vehicle stock. It's been beat up all year, starting to make a move. It's up 7% today. So keep your eye on Neo as it's starting to make a move from the bottom. As you can see, it's been as high as $15 this year. And the bottom is right around where it's bouncing off of, which is around $7. So I would try to really buy this if it gets back to that $7 range, but even eight bucks, it's not that bad, especially if it goes back to 15. Because if you could get into Neo at eight and it goes to 15, you're pretty much going to double your money. Nothing wrong with doubling your money, right? So put Neo on your radar, on your watch list, electric vehicles out of Asia, and I think it has a huge gap to fill, and it's one that I'm watching. Square. We're talking to you guys about Square. It started to make this move off of bottom, and it's really gaining steam because it's been one of those stocks that's been beat up, but now Bitcoin's doing well. Square owns Bitcoin, and now Square is climbing. These are daily candles. You can see it's been up now for like two to three weeks straight going up every single day, and up another almost 7% today. So put Square on your radar, on your watch list. It is definitely benefiting from Bitcoin, and I believe that this trend will continue. Cureleaf. This is a cannabis stock, but it's heating up. See these daily candles and see all the green? It's moving in the right direction. If you're looking for a cannabis stock, that's hot. Cureleaf. C-U-R-A in Canada. C-U-R-L-F in America. It's hot, it's heating up, and I believe that this momentum could continue because if we look at the one-year chart, you can see it's been higher before. And if you look at the all-time chart, you can see it's been way higher before. So definitely a lot of opportunity here on Cureleaf. I believe you need to put them on your radar and put them on your watch list. One of the hot stocks of the last couple of weeks. Now, speaking of Bitcoin stocks, Mara. Mara is a Bitcoin miner. It's one of the top Bitcoin miners in America. And they are starting to heat up as the price of Bitcoin is going up. So as the price of Mara, you can see it's starting to go up. It's up 5% on the day. So as Bitcoin moves, Mara will move higher. So make sure you put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. This is to me not something I'd buy long-term, but it's a momentum trade. And if Mara dips, you could buy it. And if it rips, you could sell it. And I would treat it like that. Just something that I used to make money. Wouldn't fall in love with this stock. Not looking to hold it forever, but I would buy it on dips, sell it on rips. Mara, M-A-R-A, and it is gaining steam. PayPal. It's one of my top 10 stocks. I told you guys about PayPal. I've been talking about Square and PayPal. I've been saying that PayPal and Square are undervalued. I've been saying that Square and PayPal are going to go higher. I've been saying that I like PayPal. I've been saying PayPal has exposure to Bitcoin. And look, what PayPal is doing. It's starting to climb just like Square. And I think it has a lot of room to run. If we go to the all-time high on PayPal, it's been as high as $280. It's at 60 bucks. I think we're going to test those all-time highs in the future. I think Square and PayPal are secret weapons for 2022. And if Bitcoin continues its move, which I believe it will, with Bitcoin ETFs getting approved and Bitcoin having coming, I think Square and PayPal are secret weapons that can make us a lot of money.  Snapchat. So speaking of stocks that are starting to make a move off of bottom, Snapchat. Snapchat is starting to make this move. You can see it's starting to really make this move from $8 to $15. It's already doubled in a very short period of time. See that move? See that move? This is Daily Candles, all right? And you can see it's starting making that move in October. And since October, it's gone up from $8 to $15. So it's pretty much doubled since October. So nice move for Snapchat, very bullish. In the last couple of months, it's only had a few red days, more green than red days, a lot of momentum for Snapchat. A lot of people are rolling into Snapchat. It was a great opportunity here to make money on Snapchat. And then if we look at the one-year chart on Snapchat, you can see, sorry, the five-year, you can see Snapchat's been as high as $72. We're at $15. If this goes back to $70, you're gonna make like a 5X on your money. I love making a multiple on my money. If I can make 5X on a Snapchat, why the hell not, right? So put Snapchat on your radar, on your watch list, it's one to definitely watch. Tesla, now Tesla has cyber trucks going out, which is bulletproof, which looks like a tank. I mean, Elon Musk is getting ready for Armageddon. He's got his trucks ready. So if you want a tank, you can now buy a cyber truck. So Tesla's been climbing and Tesla also owns Bitcoin. And they own Bitcoin at $39,000. So with Bitcoin now at $44,000, Tesla's up on its Bitcoin investment. So Tesla's going up and it's up 3% of the day. And I think with Bitcoin going up and with cyber trucks being sold right now, we may see Tesla continue to go higher. Uber, Uber's been one of the top hot stocks of the year. You can see it's gone up from $19 all the way up to 60 bucks. So it's been a huge winner. Congratulations to anyone that got in on Uber. And I believe that this momentum will continue on Uber. Why? Because they've got great ride sharing program and everybody loves to use Uber Eats. So I think Uber will continue to go higher, put them on your radar, put them on your watch list, a technology company not involved with Bitcoin, but maybe in the future, they'll accept Bitcoin for payments.  I see it. I see it. It's coming. Don't be surprised when it happens and remember where you heard it first. BITF. Okay, this is a Bitcoin miner. It started to really climb. You can see it's up 3% on the day. Go to the last month and look at this chart. See that bullish move? So it's making a bullish move in correlation with Bitcoin. It's doubled. It was at $1 just a couple of weeks ago. It's gone from $1 to $2 in a couple of weeks. That's the type of price action you can see with Bitcoin stocks when Bitcoin makes a move. So that's why I think you need to really be aware of all the Bitcoin stocks that exist because there's a lot of money to be made in the stocks. GBTC, my number one Bitcoin stock for December. My number one Bitcoin stock that I think everybody should own. Everybody should hold. Everyone should buy. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. I'm not telling you to buy the stock. I'm saying that I think you should try to buy it and hold it and own it because this is physically buying Bitcoin. This company physically holds 660,000 Bitcoin. 660,000 Bitcoin this company holds. So they hold as much Bitcoin as anyone on the planet. So if you wanna actually buy physical Bitcoin, you can buy GBTC and you can see, this has gone from $7 this year to $35. That's 500% upside on GBTC in one year. 500% upside on GBTC in one year. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, GBTC, in my opinion, an absolute rocket and a brand new 52-icai again today. So it's the highest it's been in the last year. Nicole says, this is so funny. I literally was on my Weeble account putting in a limit order for Mara that you started speaking on it. Well, yeah, Mara is one of the top Bitcoin miners in America. It's very volatile, it goes up and down. My suggestion on Mara is buy it when it dips, sell it when it rips. So it's smart that you're putting a limit order, trying to buy it as low as possible. All right, talking about Bitcoin stocks and Bitcoin miners, BTBT, Bit Digital is another Bitcoin miner and look at this move. Look at this move up. See that move? You can see the one year chart, you can see it's clearly been going up and then just recently here in the last couple of weeks you can see that it is also climbing. So big move here on BTBT from $2 all the way to 340 as Bitcoin has made a big move up, BTBT follows. So these are all small cap Bitcoin miners that you can buy their stocks that if Bitcoin moves up, these will move up too. Put them on your radar, put them on your watches, not telling you to buy them, but be aware of them. And if Bitcoin explodes, I fully expect that a lot of these coins and a lot of these stocks will follow suit. I said coins because that's to get about Coinbase. Speaking of hot stocks, Coinbase has been one of the hottest stocks of the year, going from $31 to now at $141. Coinbase is the largest crypto exchange in America. It's public, so it's regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. They're also the chosen brokerage house where all the large Bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock, are gonna be custodying their Bitcoin, which means they're gonna be putting all of their Bitcoin at Coinbase. I think that is extremely bullish for Coinbase. I think the price of the Coinbase has a chance to absolutely explode. And you can see Coinbase has been as high as $400 when it first came out, dropped to $30, it's now back to $141, and it's going in the right direction. If Bitcoin continues to go higher, which I fully expect it will, I expect to see Coinbase go higher as well. So I wouldn't be surprised to see $200, $300, maybe even $400 in 2024 or 2025 for Coinbase. Not saying it's gonna stay up there, but as long as the hype and the momentum continues with Bitcoin, I fully expect that the hype and the momentum will continue with Coinbase as well. So be aware of Coin, C-O-I-N, Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in America, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, and they are fully regulated, compliant, and public, which means when you're a public company, you have to be fully transparent. So I like the fact that Coinbase is out there for us and the investors to be able to profit from. So don't sleep on Coinbase. Meta. All right, so Meta is Facebook, Meta, formerly Facebook, and they're at $319. They've been one of the hottest stocks of the year. I think we need to wait for Meta to have a pullback. I think it's a little bit too expensive for me at these prices, but if Meta has a pullback and they get back to the $100 range, maybe the $200 or $150 range, maybe then I'd be a buyer, but $319, I just, I can't do it. I can't do it. Gold, gold is over $2,000. It's at $2,029. So it's holding this $2,000 mark. This is very bullish for gold. If gold can stay above 2,000 and go higher, this could be a massive bullish cycle, super cycle for gold and precious metals. So keep your eye on gold and gold stocks. I'll keep my eye on it as well and I'll keep you updated on anything that happens with gold, but it's gonna be interesting to see if it can hold. I don't think it will, but you never know. We're in a crazy market right now where the stocks are up, Bitcoin's up, gold's up, everything's up, but oil's down. So that's just where we're at. So this might continue. Gold might continue higher. We did hit an all-time high for gold this week. So it might go higher. Bitcoin's hot, stock market's hot, gold's hot, oil's not, that's where we're at. All right, riots. Speaking on Bitcoin stocks and Bitcoin miners, another similar tomorrow is riots. Riot is another Bitcoin miner currently at $15. You can see it's been as low as three bucks in the last year, been as high as almost 20. So it does these crazy moves up and down and right now it's around 15. So it's closer to the high of the year than it is the low. So be careful, but if this dips back down under $10 or back under five, I think it would be a good buy. And if Bitcoin goes higher, riot will go higher. If Bitcoin goes down, riot will go down and that's how you have to trade it and you've got to treat it as such. These are very volatile stocks, lots of ups and downs, just like Bitcoin, but if Bitcoin goes higher, expect that riots will follow suit. And crazy thing about riots, as we go to all-time highs, you can see riots been really, really high. Okay, crazy high, it's been as high as 2000 bucks. So obviously I don't expect that to happen again, but definitely has room to go higher, but I'd like to buy it on a dip because I just feel like it's moved up a lot with the price of Bitcoin. All right, Bitcoin just dropped below 44,000, probably won't last because it's going up, people are selling at 44,000, then it goes down and people buy it again, then it goes up and people are selling at 44,000, then it goes down and people buy it again. We're sitting at 43,981, but I fully expect that Bitcoin will probably go higher because that's where the momentum is going, it's going up. We're getting more buying than selling and it's supply and demand and there's only 21 million Bitcoin. So when there's more buying than selling, the price will go up. If there's more selling than buying, then the price will go down. So we are getting a lot of selling at 44,000, which is totally understandable. So it was at 16,000 to start the year, we're at 44,000. So if you're at 16,000 and it goes to 44,000, it's totally understandable that people are selling.  But once we get through all of that selling at 44,000, we go and write a 45,000 maybe. So we're at 43,958, but I fully expect that once we get rid of all this selling at 44,000, we're gonna shoot right to 45,000. So stay tuned, we'll keep you updated on all of that as it happens. All right, now speaking of Bitcoin, MicroStrategy's CEO, Michael Saylor, is one of the largest advocates of Bitcoin and biggest fans of Bitcoin. And all this company does is buy Bitcoin. I think they just bought another 15 or 16,000 Bitcoin. They have about 170,000 Bitcoin. So MicroStrategy is currently at $575. It was at 100 bucks this year. It's now at almost $600, that's five X on your money. And all they do is buy Bitcoin. Pretty smart business model right now. I heard that they are up $2 billion on their Bitcoin purchases. Their average price I think is about 29,000. And with Bitcoin at 44,000, MicroStrategy's is up $2 billion on their Bitcoin investments. And there are $575 stock. And they are proving that you can be a Bitcoin-only business and be very, very successful. So MicroStrategy's symbol is MSTR.  MicroStrategy's goes up. Google. All right, Google at $131. I really like Google. It was one that I bought last year on the dip, sold them this year on the rip. I'm just looking for another dip on Google. If it dips back down to that $100 range, I will 100% be a buyer. At these levels, not really that interested. But if it gets to like 120, 110 or lower, then I'll definitely be a buyer. Apple, largest microcap stock, microcap. Largest market cap stock in the world. Apple is the Bitcoin of the stock market. And Bitcoin is the apple of the crypto market. Bitcoin is the largest market cap crypto in the world by far, almost at 54% of the entire crypto market. And Apple is the largest market cap stock on the planet. Why? They got like 300 billion in cash. That's why. So Apple is a major player, loved them, traded them, bought them last year on the dip, sold them this year on the rip. I'd like to buy Apple if it goes back under $150, I'll be a buyer. But at these prices, it's too rich for me. Roblox, I told you guys I like Roblox. I told you it was too cheap. I told you it was going higher. And look, two months in a row in the green, starting to go up with a huge gap to fill. I haven't bought it yet, but this is one that I'm eyeing to buy. Nvidia. Okay, Nvidia at $460, a little bit too expensive for me. I like the company, been one of the biggest players of the day, one of the biggest winners of the year. The number one chip stock in the world, and the number one AI stock in the world is Nvidia. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. $460 stock, too rich for me at these levels. But if it goes to like 400 or less, maybe 350, maybe then I would consider a buy. Amazon, one that I bought last year on the dip, sold them this year on the rip, was a big winner for me. And I think they're a little bit rich right now. If they get to that 120 or lower mark, I'll be a buyer. Ethereum told you guys they're my second largest crypto holding and I'm celebrating as Ethereum continues to do well. COMT is starting to drop with the price of oil dropping. This is a large dividend payer, a 30% annual dividend payer. They're gonna be paying up their dividend pretty soon. Oil is dropping and that's why COMT is dropping, which might be a buying opportunity for COMT. KSCP, this is one of my AI stocks that I brought to you guys, had a big rip, doing a little bit of a pullback, put them on your radar, put them on your watch list, night scope ink, AI, autonomous vehicles. Oil, back down to $69, been a crazy up and down year for oil, which you can see I've been marking it here. And now we're on this downward trajectory. So we were at 95 bucks not too long ago and now we've gone all the way from $95, what maybe two months ago, all the way down to 69 bucks. So if you're looking at getting into oil, now's the time to buy. Very simple. I take all the emotion out of it. Oil is down, now's the time to buy oil. Gold is up, that's the time to sell. Bitcoin's up, maybe a time to take some profits, it's up. When stocks are up, Bitcoin's up, gold's up, I'm gonna tell you to sell. When oil is down, I'm gonna tell you to buy. The rich system is you buy low, you sell high. Now's the time to buy oil. Simple. All right, here's another Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Corp, symbol Hut H-U-T. They've been climbing with the price of Bitcoin climbing you can see here over the last month. You can see the move up here. So definitely one to watch, put Hut on your radar and on your watch list. S-K-U-R, this is a cybersecurity stock. Put them on your radar, put them on your watches. S-K-U-R in Canada, S-W-I-S-F in America. Here's a stock view that's been kind of doing well over the last little bit. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. All right, let's see if there's any other picks that I can give you guys before we say goodbye. Let me find a couple hot ones for you guys. All right, M-L-G-O and S-E-R-A. All right, M-L-G-O and S-E-R-A. All right, so these are two of the hottest stocks of the day. M-L-G-O at 153% up on the day. Now, if we look at the one-year chart, you can see it has been higher, well way higher, like 46 bucks. Let's just say $35 and it's been lower all the way down to $1.25 and currently up to six bucks and gaining steam. So definitely put it on your radar, put on your watches. M-L-G-O, one of the big players of the day. Look at that huge candle. Now I don't like to chase green, but what I do is I'll take the stock, put them on my radar, put them on my watch list, read the company, read the news, learn about the management, learn about their products and put them on my radar and watch for a dip. And if I wanna get in, I'll buy them when they dip. That's usually how I do it. I don't usually buy a stock when it's up 153%, that's not what I do. I like to wait for them to drop. And then if I really like them, I buy them when they drop and then I wait for them to pop and then when they pop, I sell. Simple. All right, CERA, S-E-R-A, another one that's had a huge, huge move today, up 231%, put CERA on your radar and on your watches, S-E-R-A, up 231% on the day. Now you can see, it's at a 52-week high for the year. So beware, be careful. I don't like to buy anything at a 52-week high because typically it will sell off, but anything can happen in these markets. It might go higher, anything's possible, but literally today trading at a 52-week high. So please beware, not a great idea in my opinion to buy something up 230% at a 52-week high because if I'm a short trader, I'm looking for those types of picks that are at a 52-week high and up 230% so I can short it down. So be careful, not to say that it won't go higher, anything's possible, but I wouldn't do it. That's just me. I'm your host of the most, I'm your boy. Am I profitable? I'm very profitable, extremely profitable, so profitable that I do this for a living, I trade for a living and my boy, my boy. My name is Rich from Rich TV Live and the Rich TV Live podcast and I hope you learned a lot from today's show and I wanted to talk to you guys about Bitcoin. I hope you guys learned a little bit about Bitcoin. I hope you guys start positioning yourself in Bitcoin, whether it's Bitcoin ETFs that are coming, Bitcoin-related stocks or physical Bitcoin which you can own at Coinbase. You can own at crypto.com. If you're in Canada, you can own it at Endax. So if you ever have any questions, feel free to message me or reach out to me. It's Rich from Rich TV Live. You can go to our website at richtv.io. Feel free to message me there and join us and we can talk about it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I'm always watching the markets. I'm always watching Bitcoin. I'm always watching the stock market and I hope you're watching too. Hope you have a great day. Guys, we are literally 19 days away from Christmas. Can you believe it? It's absolutely crazy. Thank you for watching. Hope you are taking advantage of this bull market in Bitcoin. I am, I hope you are as well. And if you're not, well, I guess you'll just have to wait for the next bull market. All right, thank you for watching. I'm your host of The Most Your Boy, Rich from Rich TV. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We're bringing the winners, we're bringing to you first. We bring you CO interviews, breaking news, trending topics, the biggest news in the world of sports and finance. I'm your host of The Most Your Boy, Rich from Rich TV. And I'm out. Peace.


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Welcome back this week to Toffee TV USA as always. I'm with you. I'm your host Ryan Williams with my co-host Hamez Boyman himself. Hamez. How are we this evening doing? All right, Ryan ready to talk some toffees for yes with all the news again. We've had this week. Yeah I know again the light news week However, we figured we'd take some time to dedicate this week to a specific topic And mix in in our own American style viewpoints So this week we decided to pick a topic that's very pertinent right now at Everton Football Club and that is mr. Marcel Brands The DOF that's right the head honcho. Yes, the man the big cheese the man with a plan. Yes Potentially, maybe maybe some disagree. We'll get into it. Yeah Yeah, so so just to kick things off. So we did see there was an article in the athletic today great publication by Greg O'Keefe Really respect the guys at the athletic talking about the the new deal from Marcel Brands How it's coming along and the long and short of it is that it seems like it's it's very likely that he will sign some sort of extension He's been of course made a member of the board. There were some rumors recently Not all too credible that Manchester United were perhaps interested in trying to prize him away from Everton Wait, wait, are you suggesting the English tabloids are not incredibly factual and perfectly accurate every time? That is exactly what I'm suggesting to you Ryan that they are not factual at all But to their defense, I mean it makes a good headline and I think I could see the logic for why United would want him The question comes can they get him seems like Unlikely but let's get into some details on Marcel Brands We're gonna talk a lot about his progress so far and compare him to some of his or some of the other clubs in and around In the Premier League and I guess the first question would be I guess the question of the episode is should Marcel Brands get an extension So it's interesting. I put a poll out on Twitter and it's almost unanimously Yes, and as of this moment in time now some things can change It looks like they're gonna wait till January to make an official announcement or to do something Specific, but yeah, it's a good question I think we talked a little bit about how to kind of judge that which I think James You know, we talked offline. It's not that easy, but they're probably some basic things we can look at Yeah, I think the first thing we have to look at is How what the situation at Everton when he came in and it's not that long ago But I think many people perhaps underestimate just how bad the situation was not just from a perspective of the players on the pitch But also the things that a director of football needs to be mindful of the finances the academy all of these sorts of other factors That aren't just related to Everton's performance in the table Which of course with bad and the second piece of that is his individual performance since he's come in how has he done? What moves has he made? What progress can we see from Everton? Have we advanced have we moved forward in this so-called project of far hard mature that has been bankrolling now for some time? Yeah, so I mean really the best way to start really is just kind of taking us back and putting us back at the end of 2017-18 and where we were is the club. I know that we're gonna we're not gonna say his name We're not gonna say his name. Anyway, no, it's it's worth thinking about because I think Actually wrote an article for toffee analysis at one point to say that it's almost a shame that we finished eight in a way that year Because I think some casual fans look at that and say oh, they weren't that bad But the results itself when you really look at that season that they weren't good I mean we finished on what 49 points But that doesn't really tell and actually most years 49 points doesn't get you eight But when you look at it and you see only 44 goals for that was what 1158 goals against that's 14th goal differential negative 14 That's not good. I know the table can lie others may disagree with that But I don't know when you start to really pick apart the numbers. I mean, let's let's just take a look at the attacking numbers For example, I mean, were we the 11th best tack really? I mean, I'm looking at that I think it looks like a relegation level attack to me. I mean granted Omar Niasi did score eight goals. So I mean, that's the linchpin of your offense But when you look at this, I mean we were 19th in shots per game with under 10 No one dribbled on the whole team was unbelievably 19th and dribbles 19th and successes passing It was terrible 15 74% passing percentage Just awful all these long balls third in the whole league just hoof ball all over the place yet 19th and long ball accuracy Just giving the ball away right and left 20th and crosses remember McKellar Teta loves crosses this week. We did find that out It's all then it's math Ryan. Right. It's just math, right? All the numbers really like 31 percent of the time Everton was in its own third That was 19th in the whole league 19th and bad touches bad possession team The numbers are insane to me It's not an 11th attack that we are very fortunate to shore that many goals and the sad part is I don't know if the defense looks a whole lot better Do you know and those numbers? I mean, they've been discussed at length, but just hearing them fire it off in quick succession And I remember because it's so it's such a vivid memory of yeah, how Painfully bad we were to watch how talking about teams being easy on the eye We were like gouge your eyes out bad and attack route one long ball No direction very little creative impetus sit back absorb pressure Just everything that the man who shall not be named is is well renowned for and talking about the 8th place finish flattering us. I mean, I'm just glad that we didn't end up with an Alan Pardrew situation Of course given the infamous eight-year deal in 2012 when Newcastle finished fifth when they're there underlying metrics were of course Really poor. Yeah, yeah much in the same way as the one year We made the Champions League in recent memory in our underlying metrics are very bad too So I mean you got to really take a hard look at things the defense is the same way We're 14th and goals against but I mean That's bad. It might have been worse than that though. It could have been bad. I mean we conceded 58 goals good for 14th Expected goals against 54.77 so perhaps a little unlucky, but 46 goals against from open play I mean, oh, it's one thing when you're conceding offset pieces and then that's I guess something worse than the only different 20th dead last in goals from open play could not defend an opposition attack to save our lives and furthermore I mean we gave up. I guess six 16th and shots against meaning there were only four teams that gave up more shots per match than us So couldn't stop anyone from getting shots couldn't stop anyone from scoring and then also I mean terrible 13th and dual success rate Fourth in challenge intensity, which is duals tackles interception. That's okay at least we're combative But I mean so what I mean if you're not getting the ball really back I mean, yes, we had a lot of interceptions per game too, but that's because we're sitting back We fouled a lot though Yeah, second and interceptions again, like it doesn't really matter if you can turn around first and foul So we're just sitting back fouling guys occasionally getting in passing lanes intercepting um 18th and aerial success rate I mean 40 43 9th and safe percentage So nowhere in any of these metrics save challenge intensity and interceptions per game and fouls Are we close to being a team that deserve to finish eight? No, it's stylistically too It's it's a difficult team too and and that we're going to get to that in terms of transition And how important that is when you're moving from different managers Um, especially in selling players and being able to transition, but yeah, and there's a lot more details I mean, you know the cumin the man who shall not be named kind of balance I don't think there's any real early reason to dig those things up I think one guy was very unlucky. The other was very lucky, but either way We weren't very good. I mean, I think that's there's only so many ways you can say that I think on top of that too and then then then looking at the financial situation that Predated that it almost makes it worse Yeah, I mean the financial situation diabolical Everyone knows the Havoc that Steve Walsh and Ronald Cuman tandem reeked upon our finances Spent overspending for mediocre players Unable to really do anything with the assets that we were able to sell which we'll get into in a little bit is a Huge component of being a successfully run club is being able to sell good players and then replace them appropriately And we're going to compare to some some other clubs that people may not Love the fact that we're bringing up on toffee TV, but Ryan, I think You've got to give Liverpool a little bit of credit for what they've been able to do financially And from a squad management perspective over the last several years now Yeah, I mean they've spent a ton of money, but they've spent it relatively wisely But they've not been perfect either and that's why it's important to have a benchmark You know, they're they're the benchmark right now in terms of Stainability, I mean it's not like Manchester United is not playing well just spends blindly man city You know, we're never going to spend quite like that not on their financial fair play anyway But if you look at that pre-predecessing year that summer of 17 that we're all Some were excited, but and the sad part is you know, here's Steve Walsh give interviews afterwards I have no it's Steve Walsh. I bet you's a very good scout all impressions. I did I mean he was critical in building that Leicester team But it was disjointed for sure and I think that's the biggest problem and and it wasn't necessarily cost conscious So, I mean we had sales of 114 million about and part of that was Lukaku. I mean that's great, right? Lukaku was a savvy buy and that's what happens if if he wants to move on Okay, get a really good fee for him and see if you can't replace him and build in other areas We paid we had buys of 183 million pounds that that that year Including 50 million bought in January, which is just madness But the bigger kicker is we probably added 40 to 50 million on the wage bill in the two predecessor years um So I think it's important to disassociate that from brands because we're talking about Marcel Brands here And so you bring up Liverpool and it's a fair it's a fair comparison So so I thought it was interesting at least to look at it's taken clop a while to build the team But let's look at Jürgen Klopp's first three legitimate years at Liverpool. You know, he started in October of 2015 So in the first three seasons comparatively speaking In terms of sellable assets because I think that's really important because if you're going to From Kuman to Marco Silva, you're gonna have to change some things they play different from that other guy to Marco Silva very very different, right? So yeah, you're gonna have to sell some people and move some people on so Liverpool in the first full three full seasons under clop 281.5 million dollars in sales But 261 million of it were players that he inherited that were just there Brands in his three years at Everton has sold 105.5 million dollars of players All players he inherited too But so a lot of this is there's kind of some mythology around Liverpool and their spending and that they've Done it perfectly. There were a lot of benefits that Jürgen Klopp walked into It's just a very different situation. I think comparison between the two is silly I think the other really big means of comparison is this the players that are still here right now And and you know Klopp's been there for much longer than Brands was there Um, and it's worth mentioning Michael Edwards joined about a year later So the big spending only happened under Michael Edwards and the big selling So comparison speaking in terms of the players that are still there that Klopp inherited Current market value. We're looking at six key players and several other peripheral players 277.6 million pounds of current market value for those players guys like Firmino Trent Alexander Arnold Jordan Henderson now some of these guys he brought along and that's worth noting too um Everton right now has 168.5 0.5 million And that's six key players But I think those numbers are very dubious because I'm sorry. He's not getting 16.2 million for Guilfe I'm just taking transfer market values when we look at this pickford Is not getting 23.4 million. I don't think we could sell Jordan pickford if we try no one could afford his wage bill I also kind of wonder who's responsible for giving him the extension, but that's another story but but the point is That's kind of the standard and one of the reasons why that team was able to spend so much Is number one, it sold a lot of players that it did need to transition to a new kind of way of playing and The situation was different brands did not inherit that kind of talent at all No, I mean brands was looking we were looking any any said as much when he came in that we're looking at He said if you want to win short term, don't don't hire me Right. And so clearly the mandate from the get go was to make this kind of a slow burn A project that would be built over several years And it is it is a little bit Unfair to compare because he obviously had these ridiculously high value assets that he could could sell and move on whereas we Haven't had that But I think if you if you look at some other clubs besides liverpool that are alongside us and compare them it's really interesting to kind of see exact because because When when journalists in the in the mainstream football soccer media talk about transfer dealings They generally just talk about like outlays and transfer fees And there's not a whole lot of of actually digging into the underlying financials and things like net spend if they they might gloss over it But it is it's so important when you look at how how Successful and winning clubs are able to fuel further business by moving players along That's wherever to need to look to get to and so Looking at clops first three seasons you look at you're looking or I guess the last three seasons. You're looking at 281 million in sales And then 261 a million of which are players that arrive pre-clob, and then they only they spent 392 so and net spend of 110 million. Yeah, that's that's critical So think about that so those sales fused fueled buys Of 392 million pounds Over three years. That's a massive outlay but again It's not hard to do your net spend is only 110 And as you get better you're gonna have to pay wages and stuff But that right there that right there is the foundation Of what they built and we'll get into that a little more detail in terms of the player by player thing But I think what's very interesting is let's look at sales of some of the other clubs that we're competing with We looked at wolves lester arsenal villa and west ham so Wolves and lester are higher than everton By quite a bit. I mean wolves basically had sales of 114 million. We didn't have that Lester has had sales of 212.4 million pounds And look, they don't have the revenues that everton have they don't But that alone if you can take that money and then spend it wisely You know in theory a good dff will improve based on a sale in theory, you know, some guys are hard to replace I get it. Um, and some of the other guys, I mean arsenal is closed us a 72 million west ham at sales of 83 million So they're not way out of the ballpark, but then you look at the buying and that's where things are very interesting. I think So we talked about liverpool almost 400 million after three years. I get it But like knowing that you're gonna have to buy players through tactics and make changes So let's take a look at arsenal They didn't have many sales, but their buys are 293 million. We had buys of 254 million You know what I mean? um And you look at wolves has more wolves had like 285 um Lester's right there with us at 252 and a lot of people would assume well villa hasn't spent that much 234 million and buys two over three year periods. I get part of that's promotion And and west ham is right with us at 243 So when you start looking at this you start to dispel this myth that brands have spent all this money because I mean He hasn't had massive sales for sure and the buys. I mean some of these guys are buying more but james I think the biggest component it is You start putting these things together and then looking at net spend We're not spending more than these teams. No, and that's that's the important thing It's like if you just take a number you say, okay 150 million It's like, yeah, that's a lot of money to me and to you But when you're comparing it to other primarily clubs, you have it's all relative, right? So if you're spending 20 30 million more than a club that's theoretically right around your level or competing for the same spot in the table Then you really the application of that money and how well that player performs obviously is absolutely massive And when you're trying to improve your over year you need To not just spend more but spend spend wisely and and brands has done an okay job But again the mess that he came into you could argue that I mean wolves are different because wolves have been spending They've got this ridiculous ownership structure and they're just buying guys They're spending even in the championship. So they kind of got boosted Their their squad was ridiculous and their wages were ridiculous even before they were promoted But in villa 2 and you also think about Liverpool I mean lester won won the title not too long ago and had to obviously profited very Substantially off of that. Yeah, but when but when Liverpool are spending they're buying A smaller number of players for large fees generally you're looking at guys like Allison You're looking at guys like tiago. They're not buying guys for 10 15 million very often They're spending 60 70 in a lot of cases and so you compare that to everton where we basically need an entire squad overhaul and I almost think we're more um, you could you could liken us maybe more to like an Aston villa who are They're the other extreme right you've at Liverpool on one end Aston villa on the other We're somewhere in the middle probably closer to villa than Liverpool where we need to spend wisely On and get big improvements in a lot of different areas with roughly the same amount spent So it's really hard to balance that equation. Yeah, I agree. I would argue that wolves team coming up from the championship was better than ours I mean, they certainly perform that way the next year, but but if you look at just the net spend figure Of the ones that are comparable teams wolves lester arsenal villa west ham Only lester's lower than everton. Yeah, so the idea that we're spending all this money We are spending a lot of money. So is everybody else in the premier league So it's largely a myth under brands. We're not talking about before brands. We're just talking about him.  On twitter said it very well If you don't care how old players are you don't understand what it takes to build a winning team What's very important is is if you're changing managers if you need to adapt to new tactics If someone just wants to move before you're at the loftiness of a club of a place like psg. We're gonna went Um, you know, you've got to have players of value if you transition at all You've got to sell people and get new people that fit tactics better Underperforming players still may have value if you didn't pay that much with them to begin with So that's why sales can drive turnover and make it so that those edson flows and valleys Don't don't hurt you as much. Um Now that being said that being said it is important I think a fair thing to do is to look at the actual transfer record as well from our cell brands because it's mixed But again, it's But it's got to be put in context too because it's not like so if you ignore the fact Do you realize that under brands are not spending more than anybody else? Then it's a very different context. So now you're not saying well, we should be amazing because we're spending so much No, we're not So I think it's then important to really start to pick these people apart and every gm misses and and I think it's important to get more right than wrong But I think liverpool this is where liverpool have done very well and I can't argue with it They've spent a lot of money True, but they haven't had too many misses that were big dollars right now. That's now. Here's the question though Is that because spending big money on players means there's less risk of them being bad? Is that it or is michael edwards just a Genius, I don't know. What do you think? I'm not going to call anyone a genius, but I do think there's something to be said I mean look at look at united Manchester united have spent over spent for a ton of players And I think that that's just other clubs being savvy to their the size of united's pocket books in the amount that they're They're willing to spend the key is and I think brands what brands isn't a really good job of is The negotiation aspect of it and in talking clubs down and getting lower fees for players But back to the initial point. I mean, I think I I do think that it's important to um I mean we inherited it was a really poor team that was inherited and It's easy to miss. I mean look at nicola pepe for arsenal has really underperformed They're every club every club misses in the transfer market. It's yeah, or or you misuse them I mean, I don't think that's the case of everton. So like if I look at liverpool for example You've got some misses there in those first three years. I mean grouchik karius oxley chambers and changer Yeah, the ox the oxley chamberlain is probably the only guy they spent significant money on that has not been great Um, and maybe liverpool fans that argue. I don't really give a flip, but they think clavin They sold for for a loss later Naby kata was really expensive. He's been okay. Shakiri for the money has been okay But then you got joel mattip for free. You can't argue that robertson was on the cheap But then then five so they we have them at eight hits four misses two maybes out of 14 players Of the eight hits five word big money So I I think they bought during that time they bought seven players that cost more than re charlison Re charlison is the biggest spend that brands has made and frankly we didn't even spend More than 27 million on a player Other than re charlison during brands's entire three years. So that's to your point earlier They're spending money on big players. So if you look at our record, I'm kind of curious what you think about it How many players we got here? I think we had 13 players at brands that brought in that's first team I'm not counting a loss. I just right. No, how would you um, I I don't want to admit their misses, but I'd say oh first of all, I don't think any of them are complete Another disaster like a pepe or a joel linton. But again, those guys joel linton's not a bad player But if you play him as a target striker, it doesn't make any sense So I think every one of these guys was bought for a reason. I saw the logic behind it So I would put our two misses is andre gomes And maybe part of that's injury too. That's just my opinion Yeah, and and alexa woeby who I dearly love but at least I understand why we bought him, you know what I mean He was perfect on the left side. They wanted him to compete for sigertson. He was great at open play creativity We needed someone to break people down in the final third. Our defense was excellent under silva. So What do we do? Um, and then there's some maybes in there too, but yeah And I think we're charlison dean allen and hamas. I think are the four that I would say are definitely hits But I don't think any of these guys are a lost case like would you say JPG is a is a is a maybe Yeah, I I think there's still questions to be asked about certain guys and to be honest even Even the guys that you have I mean gomes in a woeby as miss is Gomez we've talked so much about I know the problems with him and a woeby gets a lot of stick But woeby's still pretty young and can still improve so I'm not saying like and this is this is just kind of at this specific moment in time What do we make of these guys and I think To your point ryan, I think it's really important to emphasize when we were signing these guys There was a very clear Reason for it. There was this wasn't a signing where I don't think there's any single player on this list that I was like Why I think ben godfrey might be the one that that maybe took me back But even at the same time we needed that extra center back. Yeah, I was okay with him functionally I I think it's a huge overpay in my opinion and I think maybe we could have done more with the money But I get it. It's not crazy. He you know, it maybe he's not going to be perfect right now But what he's 22 years old, right? So it's hard like moise keen We send a lot of money on him. Is that a bad signing? He wasn't banging him in for us But he's 20 years old and do we think his value's gone down No, exactly. And that's the thing we will turn a profit on moise keen without a doubt And so there's a there's a there's one thing about a player being an immediate success on the pitch And then there's another about like are they a good transfer in the sense from a financial standpoint And moise keen is one that he may not work out at Everton And we said in a previous episode that we don't think he's ever really going to return But when when me inevitably or most likely sell him We will make money on that and that even if he never If his contributions stay what they have been I still think that's a win for us Even though maybe if we'd made a move for a different striker that had panned out But you can't get into this like what about ism about transfers It's just kind of did they pan out on the pitch? No. Well, did we make money on them? Okay, if we do then I say that's a win to me Yeah, and I mean it's a some of these guys have bought for a more long term viewpoint as well and I get it, you know And and this summer was different and for various reasons. So I mean we can get into that extensively But I think that's driven by managers, but anyway So if you look at the sales we talked about that a little bit I mean look brands I'm sure brands would prefer not to have sold lassic and lookman for example because they're good young talented players But you have to turn over you've got to find a way To get around financial fair play and buy players for the incoming manager and he got solid fees for those guys Ghana like we talked about wanted to go He made the deal that he promised to sell him provided He stayed in january when we still had a chance for europe. So And I mean, what are you gonna? The one thing that drives me crazy is I swear people still blame him Why because he didn't get a fee for sandro I actually would blame a little bit for that because I think sander ramirez is okay But I mean he sold morgan schneiderland for example when we badly needed to defense a midfielder Right, that was a longer term view. He knew we weren't going to make Europe at that point and we're in trouble I mean, but is it his fault that jenke toson gets hurt? Even though he sent him out the door and had an option to buy Is it his fault where he had a deal to take guffy to al-halal or wherever it was in saudi arabia And guffy wanted to stay. I mean Is it his fault? He didn't sell besik or belasi There's so much of it that he inherited in these contracts that right He just hasn't been able to move and I think that's part of what fueled perhaps the sales of lukman and blasters Is like you have these guys who are on reasonable wages young Desirable for other clubs to take on and develop Well, you gotta sell what you can sell to get the money in to to make the the moves outward or inward I guess that you need to so He's just been such a victim of circumstance And as you said like the injury thing you can talk about it with fabian delphi You can talk about it with jpg you talk about it with jenke It's really kind of affected the perception of the transfer business And it's really just chance at that point regardless Irrespective of a player's like performance on the pitch fabian delphi been hurt like the whole time he's been here Yeah, that's bad luck and we should we're getting to results in a second So jake holton out there who I dearly love since an addy's own the pride of since he Ohio No, his comments good. He said of course they should in terms of regarding to extending brands He's worked miracles to this point in terms of clearing out deadwood and upgrading the starting squad Hasn't hit on every player, but you never will also the reason we have carlo is as manager no brainer So the deadwood is key. I mean, I think a lot of people think he has done a decent job with that I mean some of these guys you're not gonna be able to move. I also think something that's not considered to is wages He's dropped them significantly this year the summer window. I think he dropped it 2.8 million I think pounds a year which isn't a ton the year before it's like 13 And I think the year before it was a lot even though he went back on some loan fees for guys like zuma But really it comes down to results and that's the question You know jay contends that the first team is better than it was. I I totally agree. We just went through the results in 1718 I think that eight that was not the eighth best team if anything it was more like a relegation type team And so look at what what marco silva did in the first year and you could argue whether that's marco Or marcel brand's buying re charlis another thing too brand scouted with charlis and up front Some of these ideas that this is marco's fine. There are no secret fines anymore really except for rare cases I mean I can go right now on the why scout and watch video of i'm dvr An independent day valley game right now in copa libre doors because I love that surprises me I love that tournament man. It's like my favorite tournament. It's awesome But I can watch talent from all over the world any time I want so it doesn't really work that way But but look I mean 20 goal differential in the first year coming back increased To 54 points One of the worst defenses in open play. We know we already talked about that to one of the best And look 1920 was tough last year. Um, we had lots of bad luck Um, carlo had us back into the european picture, but look injuries killed us So you can't evaluate that outside of context. We were number one far and away in the injury table We had the most major injuries of any team in the league by a mile I remember I tweeted something about it out there and it was kind of crazy The chart was stunning. It was stunning and marcel brand selling morgan schneiderland in a time where we couldn't afford to lose a defense Amid was fine, but that's one where you got to look at the longer view I mean he got he got a massive wage off the books and he got a got a fee from him so You know and look one thing people got to realize is we look okay right now There's been some hiccups recently, but you got to make a move on someone like marcel now You can't wait till the end of the season. He's gonna he's gonna arrange work elsewhere. Don't you agree? Yeah, I totally agree And and I think the last piece well, I think overall it's hard to I think there's been so much positivity coming into the start of this season with the business has been done and everyone was raving and I think Recent results have maybe clouded that perspective a little bit But I do still think that as far as the first team is concerned that we are on the right track to building a strong squad And I think we're better. Yes. I think we're I think we're better I don't think it's I think the style of football we played I mean the the attacking moves that we've seen this season are some of the best I think since roberto martinez Uh was in charge and that was an unbelievable attacking season and that team scored for fun so, um, I think the last piece of this is the academy which Yep A lot of people are giving him a lot of criticism for but forgetting about the the youth transfer band that he kind of inherited As well on top of the horrible first team squad I think the question is though people still look at and say god you haven't made Significant changes yet. I mean, I don't this one's hard to tell, you know what? I mean, it's really hard kevindore dony Has a really good line here on twitter that that we want to steal any consistent strategy It's probably better than changing every three years But this is a good one hard to tell how he's done from afar certainly doesn't rush things anyway, so He said himself. It's a longer term thing So maybe the right thing to do was not rock the boat too much and make change over time Unswear to saying some of the right things I cannot imagine. I know he's a legend and he was a fantastic player in his own right, but I just I don't I don't know if he's the right guy in that position It seems like and bringing back john ebberle. I think back as head of academy coaching is interesting I ultimately if a brand is going to tell him how it's going to be and they'll salute and execute the proper strategy I mean, they're capable individuals, but I think a lot of people see that and view that as a red flag Yeah, I think I think people were kind of hopeful that maybe he would come in and just clean house and bring in all his new staff But that that's not always the way to go like when carlo took over for big dump dunk Excuse me as interim manager. Yeah, he stuck with the 442, right? He didn't try to dramatically change things So sometimes it's the gradual changes. You come and try to rip everything out by the root and start from scratch That can be really I think disorienting for the entire organization People who have been in those roles everyone's down to the The people in the kitchens, for example, like you don't want to it's such a Gigantic organization when you try to make these wholesale changes it I think it's a lot harder than most people appreciate Yeah, and I'm sure there is some cultural changes that need to happen in stuff But you know, you know, it's funny. Everyone knows the sunderland till I die documentary and stuff Yeah I you know some of the guys coming in there I think we're interesting guys and you could tell that they Had trouble changing culture and it's so important to have someone at the top That's that you're on the full same page with to do it over time as long as you got that strategy And you keep plugging along and and so for me so in conclusion In conclusion, let's wrap it up. I think Marcel's done. Okay I think it's important to look in context and we took him four years at both az az Pardon me. Pardon me Europeans. Um and psv Uh, sorry to produce a winner and and it it's funny at alchymar. He actually fired kumin before he left That's pretty funny. Uh psv too. I mean, there were consistent winners after that point and he had hiccups in either place I mean at psv. He had him in the round of 16 You know at the time when he came out he was considered one of the top 10 sporting directors in all the world of football and You know, even though he had hiccups like az they finished 11th at one point Louis van Gaal Like tended his resignation brands is like, what are you doing? They stuck with him and they won the league the next year So it's a process. It's going to take time. Like he said, I think there's some So I I think a very good summary to this is Matthew Neil has one out here on twitter that we liked and in his line is Clearly made mistakes still think the squad is massively unbalanced even after two years But this was always a long-term project and it's taken him a while wherever he's been to get it right So for me, he should 100 stay on and get the project where he wants it. I I think you know, he said it's not going to be a quick fix I say keep them. I like a lot of the things he's done. I see a more coherent team and consistent strategy We still have gaps that's going to happen when you transition tactics a little bit We still have injuries, but um, you know, I'm excited to what the season remains We do have some key guys out, but I'm still optimistic I say keep them 100 I think And I think Farhad Moshiri really trusts him and respects him as well I think that really bodes well plus the fact that again, he was named as a member of the board I think that was a real statement of intent from the club that no question And brands as well to accept the role that he is here for the long haul. He's here for to build the project There's so much going on behind the scenes that Everton is regarding like the new stadium and all that sort of stuff It's a really intriguing project and I don't think Marcel I think Marcel would be the first one to admit behind closed doors that he hasn't Some of these guys haven't panned out the way he expected them to but As we mentioned earlier, there was a strong reasoning and rationale behind and there's a clear strategy That's being executed on I think people might have questions. Well, why don't we sign a right back? Why didn't we sign? Well, look the transfer mark is tough. You can't always feel you can't sign every position You can't sign 10 guys every window. It's not sustainable. No, and so I mean, I think I just think that I trust Marcel he certainly knows a heck of a lot more than I do about football and players So who am I to really criticize him? But I think as fans, you know, we watch weekend week out and we have these opinions, but It'd be Who would we replace him with? I think the director of football model is the ideal choice for Everton for long term sustainability and I think we're almost everyone Yeah, he's the right man for the job. And I think Carlos worked under so many different guys at this point I mean in some absolute tyrants If you look at his history, it's pretty remarkable He's very complimentary of brands brands clearly listens to him I mean this summer was not a very Marcel brands this transfer window if you've looked it in the past So if those two are on the same page and working together and like we've said the model works because The manager has so many other things he needs to be focused on man management tactics Planning the team training things like that you want them to be hands-on with the first team like that You want to let the sporting director in his scouting department find the people to match the needs Brands is clearly listening and he's and if Carlos happy he's gotten some stuff wrong I think recently, but I have faith that eventually He's going to get us where we need to be and I think that pretty much wraps us up Hamez if you want to take us out of here. Yeah, that's a very uh Appropriate way to end it. Thanks everyone for listening for watching. Give toffee tv a subscribe Check out our channel at american toffee podcast find us Link tr dot ee slash usa toffee pod. You can find all of our socials and all that good stuff Definitely check us out next week. We'll uh on the channel all that good stuff Hope you enjoyed leave us a comment below and until next time up the toffees


Our inspectors are all over the world and they're safeguarding various facilities across the entire nuclear fuel cycle from the very beginning where the uranium is being converted to the point at the end of the fuel cycle where we've got actual reprocessing of the spent nuclear fuel to separate the uranium and plutonium. And throughout these different facilities, our inspectors are collecting samples. The main role of this laboratory is to receive the samples and to process the samples so that we can get them in a form of to measure. And then we measure basically the uranium and the plutonium contents of the samples and the isotopic composition of the uranium plutonium in order to help the agency verify the declared quantities of nuclear material from the facilities that the samples were collected from. We receive nuclear materials from all points of the nuclear fuel cycle. This means coming from almost the point that the uranium is extracted from the ground to the point in a reprocessing plant when the plutonium has been separated from the spent fuel and everything in between. So we're getting samples, for instance, in this plutonium laboratory of plutonium samples or plutonium and uranium mixed samples coming from reprocessing plants. And this is extremely important because the agency needs to confirm that plutonium stays in the civilian nuclear fuel cycle and it's not being used for any other purposes other than peaceful purposes. In the uranium laboratory, which is across the hall, we're getting samples that basically are from the front end of the fuel cycle, have not been in the reactor, and we're checking those samples to make sure that none of the enrichments have been falsified or that none of the material, the quantity of material that's been checked, has been diverted for any purpose that might be for military use. There are many ways that a proliferator could actually divert nuclear material for making a nuclear weapon. And one of the ways that they could do it is by taking a small quantity of this material over a long period of time, which would be very hard to determine by an inspector by just item counting or by using hand-held measurement systems. The beauty of this laboratory is that we have processes and measurement systems in place that have very high precision and accuracy for measurement of uranium plutonium. And so by collecting samples from certain material balance areas, we can determine whether this small diversion, we call it a bias defect, we can determine whether a bias defect has taken place or not because of the high precision and high accuracy of our measurement systems.


From Soju's radio and television, this is the Army Now. Specialist Angova is an artist of sorts. I've been doing this for about two years. In about 45 minutes, medics and doctors will practice life-saving techniques on volunteers in a mass-casualty environment. Specialist Angova does the mock victims' makeup and wounds. It's called moulage, and every patient is different. Superficial abrasions and burns to the face and arms. There's some injuries that take more time. For example, burns are more time-consuming versus lacerations or abrasions. It may look difficult, but for Specialist Angova, it's second nature. There isn't anything hard about moulage, as long as you have proper equipment, proper supplies. And she's very good at it, making exercises like today's feel and look a lot more real. The biggest reason why I do it is because I want to provide realistic training to our soldiers. That's The Army Now.


This video is sponsored by Shortform. So what's your name? I'm Jordan. Jordan, my name's Isaac. Wait a minute, pause for a second. That was 17-year-old me behind the camera. I think my voice was like three octaves higher at that point. But anyway, I was out with a couple of my buddies. We were sharing the Gospel with strangers on the street and filming the encounters. We were new to this, very new, but we were inspired by Ray Comfort of Living Waters Ministry. He went out on the street, shared the Gospel with folks, filmed the encounters, we watched some of them, and man, we were like, we can do this too. So we grabbed our camcorder and we headed out. What transpired was an unexpected conversation with, well, I'll get to that. But first, I want to share with you three of the things that I was trying to keep in mind as I was going out there to share the Gospel. This might be helpful for you as you look to do evangelism on your own. So first was my key question. Are you a good person? This is such a powerful question. It didn't come from me. It came from Ray Comfort. And I think it gets at the heart of what we believe about ourselves. Are we good? Are we evil? Do we believe we are sinners? Do we think we need God's grace? And this gives us a gateway. This question gives us a gateway into actually unpacking. Are you a good person according to God's law? And we can walk through the law and then we can see, hey, wait, we're actually all sinners. We've all fallen short of the glory of God. And that's why we need Jesus. It's a powerful question. The second thing that I was trying to keep in mind was stay focused on the law and the Gospel. Look, at that point in my life, 17 years old, I was no apologist. Yes, I had done some apologetics work in the past, but ultimately I wasn't that thoroughly equipped to answer a lot of the accusations around the faith. I could do some, but there were some things that I just wasn't super aware of or equipped in. And that's okay. And that's why I want to encourage you guys to get out there and do it because you don't need to know all the answers to everything because your mission and your focus is to stay on the bad news of sin and the good news of Jesus. That's where I want to stay focused. Ultimately, apologetics should serve as a pit stop, not a destination. And that was my mindset going into it. Number three, and it's pretty basic, but have a conversation, not a confrontation. I think we, as Christians, can have a little bit of a tendency to become defensive. At least I can when somebody says, hey, I don't believe the Bible or Christianity is not true or Jesus didn't say that or whatever else. You can start to feel yourself getting a little tense and you're like, no, I need to fight back against this. And that's not to say that you can't give good answers to objections that people bring forward, but stay grounded. That was my mentality. Okay, Isaac, you got to stay in the conversation. Let them share what they believe. Don't feel the need to just cut them off all of a sudden just because you disagree with it. Let them say their piece and ask them probing questions to get to the heart of their worldview. Now back to the story. Me and my friends, we were out witnessing, filming the encounters. We had just finished up an interview witnessing encounter with one young fellow, kind of our age. And another guy walked up to us and he asked to be interviewed.  Like, would you like to have a conversation with us? That's pretty nerve wracking to have to do that to a whole bunch of people and get rejected. It wasn't very fun. So it felt like a godsend when this guy just came up to us and he said, hey, interview me. I'm like, this is amazing. I remember him telling us that he ran some sort of YouTube channel and us grabbing a scrap piece of paper from the camcorder bag, writing it down and waiting with anticipation to get home to finally look up this channel. When we got back to my parents' place, we headed down to the basement, which was our hangout space and we typed into YouTube the channel name and what we saw blew us away. What I didn't realize till after this conversation was that this man was the creator of a very popular YouTube new agey spirituality YouTube channel. We couldn't believe that this popular YouTuber guy lived in our random Canadian city and also we had the opportunity to share the gospel with him. Now the reaction from all of us externally was excitement. We were pumped, but internally, I was sick to my stomach. And the reason is I really didn't feel like I did a good job. He questioned the idea of a conscience. The idea of a conscience was actually invented by the Greeks long time ago. So they were trying to describe something, but it's kind of like Osho said. If the moment that you like create a religion or a belief or ideology about a thing, then you take away from the magic of what the thing is. And from that regard, Buddhism is anti-Buddha. Christianity is the anti-Christ. He rejected the biblical understanding of future judgment. And so just as I have lied and just as I have hated, so have I told the truth and so have I loved. And in fact, it was the doing of the lie in the first place and experiencing how that felt that allowed me to be like, to make a change in my consciousness and say, you know what? I can actually, I can, hold on, I can fix this and fix the vibe. And so then when you create a healing amongst the lie, then the lie, you've created a recompense. That's what God wants. That's what Jesus wants. He embraced what could be seen as a pantheistic or panentheistic worldview. Do you associate with yourself with any worldview of any kind or are you kind of a free threat thinker? All. What do you mean by that? It is the only word that I've been able to find or learn so far that accurately describes all. It's all. That's God. God is all. Like I said, I had some apologetics training but in the moment trying to respond, especially with the pressure of the camera, it made me sweat. Now, fast forward back to my parents' place and I was letting my insecurities really get ahold of me. Why did I talk so loud? Why do I sound so dumb? Why does my voice sound like that? Why did I respond that way? Oh, that's what he was talking about. I didn't understand that and otherwise I would have responded differently. I was just letting these thoughts consume me. At that time in my life, nearly seven years ago, as I've shared here before, I really tied my performance to God's love for me, that God's love for me was proportional on how I performed, how good I was. For a moment, I considered to try to convince the guys to not post the video at all but ultimately it was this tension because I wanted people to watch the video. I wanted them to see the gospel but I didn't want them to see how much of a fool I was or felt like I was. But the one comfort I had at that time was that we only had 200 subscribers. Great, nobody would really watch it and the people that were supposed to watch it to hear the gospel, they'd watch it but for the most part, it would just go into obscurity. The next day, something happened that I never expected but before I share the second half of the story with you, I want to share with you a service that I really love. Shortform has the best book guides to thousands of nonfiction books. I use Shortform for overviews on books I'm curious about and to learn the key ideas that I can apply to my life and ministry. A few of my favorite genres are productivity, leadership, and communication. I just finished the guide to Cal Newport's book, Deep Work. One of the helpful strategies in the book is to disconnect ourselves from social media for a distinct chunk of time in order to let boredom happen because our brains need downtime in order to produce great ideas and to achieve focus. I love this, so Shortform drops new articles and guides every single week and they get the subscribers to vote on what books to cover. By joining through my link in the description, shortform.com slash daily disciple. You'll receive five days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discounted annual membership. This will give you access to thousands of book guides for the price of like one book a month. Thanks so much to Shortform for sponsoring this video. Now, back to the story. So the next day I kid you not, my dream came true and my greatest nightmare. The video started blowing up and for us with a YouTube channel of about 200 subscribers, that meant that it got a thousand views and then 10,000 views and then 30,000 views. We had been in the YouTube space for a while. We tried all sorts of different things to try to catch the algorithm, but finally a video was catching and a video that was really cool. We were sharing the gospel in it, like that's awesome and amazing. But for me, I had a pit in my stomach. Like what's going on? I should be thrilled. What we wanted to happen is happening and yet I feel this great anxiety in my soul and looking at the comments was my final blow. Comment after comment tearing me apart. At least that's what it felt like. My fears were confirmed. I'm a joke. Pause for a second though. At this point in the story, where was my attention? It was on myself. It was on my flaws or my perceived flaws, my perceived inadequacies or my actual inadequacies. I was self-focused. There's no doubt about it. But because I was so consumed with those things, I hid myself relationally from God because I felt like I didn't deserve to be a part of his work. I felt like unfit to be a part of God's mission. And I was also wanted to protect myself from receiving any more rejection or perceived hate. But if I'm honest, here's the hard truth that I needed to hear. Number one, our standards aren't always God's standards. You may be holding unrealistic expectations over your head. You won't always say the perfect things or come up with the perfect responses. But that's okay. Like God calls us to faithfulness. Number two, you are inadequate and flawed. But God planned it this way that in everything you would have to trust in him that you would remain humble and that all the fruit that would come from this would be as a result of God's work and not your own. But don't get discouraged. In Philippians 1-6 it says, I'm sure of this, that he who began a good work and you will bring it to completion on the day of Jesus Christ. Second Corinthians 12-9, but he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weakness so that the power of Christ may rest on me. Getting all those hate comments back then almost marked the end of my online ministry.  But ultimately I needed to hone into what God said of me and what he equipped me in that, yes, I am flawed. Yes, I make mistakes. Yes, I am inadequate in a lot of ways. But God wants to use me even in the midst of my weaknesses because he is strong.  And where he has called you because what I'm learning is you will encounter resistance. You will, whether that's internal or external. But if you're following Christ, you're on the right path. So trust in him, submit to him. He knows what he's doing. Thanks so much for watching guys and I'll see you next time. God bless.