she left me roses by the stairs surprises let me know she cares say it ain't so Yanks at White Sox Ivan Nova take us home Jay Hap happer the happer Mike Talkman is back in pinstripes welcome back to Talking Yanks pregame show my name is John Boyd I'm here with Zimmer the dog how's everybody doing today Zimmer how Zim sleeping under the table you made me scared I was like where is he's not over there usually yeah it's getting that cold floor in yeah can you hear an echo or anything I don't have headphones I don't know if it's fine I think it's fine not too much of an echo no cool all right well let's talk in the next pregame show hey what do you say go the Yanks versus the White Sox in Chicago as Jake told you in his beautiful introduction on today's show much like every other YouTube Talking Yanks pregame show we will be discussing the lineups the pitching matchups what we're watching Homer Draft over under and then we'll take questions from the chat boom there we go Jake yeah let's do the line up how are you Jim yeah I would crash so hard about half an hour ago and I had to go to the liquor store which is you know it's right across the street to get a gain rate and five-hour energy because we gotta do this they're recording sharp stats and the games on then I got to record two movie podcasts after that so my day starts right now and I said you know what I said Jake I said hey I'll get I'm gonna put on a sunshirt oh wow that's bad the day was going wow I need to buy more well there's one from our store on its way yeah everyone in the in the chat go buy the Talking Yanks sunshirt we'll all match at our event talking Yanks I'll say no you're getting your own shirt for that okay in different anyway anyway how are you doing I'm good James I'm good kind of it did a little double take because we're playing in the central time zone so I was expecting the you know the seven Eastern tip it's the 80s turn tip that actually bought me it bought me 30 minutes when I needed 45 minutes which is all right because I I mean punctuality never my strength hey out there people looking to iron me but I'm doing good man excited for some Yankees baseball the punctuality is not your strength not a strength you're I don't I've never really had a problem with doing puncture I dislike people that aren't punctual no no no I'm not I'm not the constantly running late person it's just sometimes it's there and I actually I live in fear of punctuality so like I'm it's kind of like you and me when we wander the city like if we if I had to be in at an event for 8 p.m. in the city I'm aiming for 7 p.m. because I'm just assuming all of the worst things are gonna happen yeah I'm with you yeah all right Yankees lineup today is as follows DJ Lemay you did your limit is leading off plant third base over at the hot corner Aaron Hicks is in center field Luke Voight at first base Gary the love of my life Sanchez is catching D. D. Grigori said short labor Torah is that second Brett I hate Brett God not left field gaging and Mikey talk man talk dirty to me back the action gets called up because Morales went on the DL which I buy well now that I don't buy it I wouldn't be surprised if this was a phantom DL stint sure that's more talk for the pot the raid podcast in the pregame show and it happens on the bump or shella Romine Maven on the bench pick anything about this lineup um I think it's funny they threw talk daddy right in there good for you Michael let's see yeah I just just just just talked about him on the Rockies podcast BSN Rockies and yeah we'll see we'll see what he's got I'm I'm excited we saw some flashes out of talk it felt like he felt like he was a two for four with three ribbies or he was a guaranteed 0 for four so we'll see if we what talk men were getting but yeah man Noah no or shella well we'll give him him a day off and the the infield juggle has begun we'll see when Didi gets his day off this series but yeah I like this lineup and I know the big thing you've been pushing Jim is I every day are one through six hitters should be a quality lineup and we have that again today yeah I mean even with judge and stand out our one through six now is good and yeah that's good this is a four game set so I wonder how the infield rotation will work with D having to get on all that stuff you give us some background in the White Sox which everyone is wondering why you didn't do that already the Chikagi White Sox yeah well I mean if they were listening when we played them this second week of the season they would know they're currently 32 and 34 on the season I think Jimmy and I might possibly go on an ugly rant that if they were in the AL East they'd be a lot worse than that because the AL Central is how do you say stinky doodoo in your language but I mean lifetime pretty good franchise Jim 9,243 wins to 9,160 losses that's a 502 winning percentage nine playoff appearances six pennants three world championships and their winners thing winningest manager of all time is Jimmy Dykes and yes and the team we are rolling out there today for the White Sox Lori Garcia and center field Tim Anderson your best friend at shortstop Jose Abreu at first base James McCann catcher hitting clean up good for you James Eloy Jimenez left field we saw his kind of break on to the scene game earlier in the year Jose Rondon at third Yalmer Sanchez at second base and Ryan cut the cordel in right field with old friend Ivan no fun on the ball hey what's uh what's the other guys okay never mind so you just said that James McCann's deaching you you haven't been there as the catcher batting clean up when I meant deaching I meant batting clean up okay yes so we have two catchers hadn't clean up how about that I'm gonna tweet at James Smith and yes to research is having both catchers batting clean up as rare as my brain currently thinks it is okay maybe it's got me right yeah I think I'm I'm trying to think you know Wilson Contreras maybe real Mudo I I mean I'm sure it happens but yeah not I like I don't think he's gonna come back and be like this hasn't happened since Piazza and Posada in the in the subway series like I I think there's gonna be some examples but yeah it's a little bit of a rarity okay anyway the White Sox the White Sox actually have a better last 10 games than the Yankees they are five and five in their last 10 the Yankees are four and six it's kind of as hot as the White Sox have been getting this season yeah win five lose five there you go but him as has been hitting the hell out of all three home runs in his last seven days I believe pretty worried about him versus half they have good numbers versus half as a whole Jake we talk about half below right now half's coming off two good starts actually is coming off like three starts that I'm good with six innings pitch three runs five innings pitch one on run versus Boston and seven innings pitched one on run versus Toronto he had hit a slide where we were getting really worried but those three games in a row are decent so he should build on that but check this out Tim Anderson seven for 14 lifetime James McCann five for 16 there's a lot of good numbers there's a lot of good numbers yonder Alonzo four for six yeah it's yonder in the lineup yeah yonder is he's having a tough season so far I think the only thing that we we really need to also mention about the White Sox is one Makata the big prospect that was one of the main guys traded for Chris sale and in the Red Sox trade he started to figure out this year 295 348 OBP 854 OPS he tweaked his back so he's out this game how did you get again he was raking he was raking calls yeah he was raking calls and he got a mid back strain allegedly the sources so we'll see what's going on there yes it's gonna be interesting because Jimmy the this line up without Moncada they only have one player that has double-digit home run so far in the season that's Jose Abreu who again not having one of his best years OBP under 300 but yeah I mean yonder Alonzo tough start he's hitting 181 let's be honest they signed him so they could try to bring in Machado because they're extended family but yeah these these White Sox want to be chippy they want to be competing they have some young pieces that they're they're hoping to develop we Makata with a war over two on the season and good for James McCann breaking out so scrappy not not any layup games it's another road trip and maybe that's the first mini what to watch for Jim I mean our last road trip we played the Blue Jays who are bad and Cleveland who is solid and they had one of their better series but we looked not so great on the road so this will be an interesting little four game set and I wonder if on Saturday we'll be saying let's try to salvage this series or let's go for the jugular another thing to note is the White Sox have one of the loosest dugouts and club houses in the MLB they're full of fun I mean you got Tim Anderson back flipping but they just are blast in a good way so I'm actually excited to kind of see that and I think maybe it could be a fun game all around because they have a blast whether they're winning or losing Yankee should have a blast winning and the White Sox will stop on losing who cares you know yeah come on guys just lose because you'll still have fun losing just so it's loose we have speaking of no fun we've got our old friend Ivan Nova on the bump yeah who I actually liked as a Yankee but he never really figured it out and he's still kind of just like a middling pitcher had one really good year with Pittsburgh he's having I mean his ERA is brutal his ERA is brutal on this season but in the first month of the season was terrible actually no Jake you can't really find a section that's good he's having poor year something he has he has holy shit one two three four he has five starts out of 13 with five or more earned runs as bad it's not good yeah I mean arguably one of his best starts of the year was against the Yankees one run over six innings so we'll see if Ivan has that kind of heavy sinking fastball today and we'll see if Happer can keep guys in the park it like like I said with that you know no one Moncada that helps out but yeah I mean that top half of the White Sox lineup and well Anderson and a Bray you McCann and men as I mean those are the four you got a circle right there so let's this is a fun fun thing for Yankee fans let's look at the lineup the last time we faced the White Sox who Ivan Nova pitched against that game compared to now Brett Gardner let off Aaron Judge was batting second DJ Lemay you was betting third Labor Taurus was batting fourth great bird fifth Clint Frazier DHing Mikey Tachman left field oh this was this season Higashi was catching and Tyler Wade was at 9 hole what great bird Kyle Higashi Tyler Wade Mike Tachman we won Yankees one for nothing this has been a weird season man and talk daddy's back baby yeah I I don't know I guess you know we could say there's some upgrades not having Tyler Wade in there but yeah get get hit score runs that's what I say so what was your what to watch for my official what to watch for is gonna be eight hole Clint man we talked about how we like the strong top six DJ Hixey Voigt Gary Dee Dee Torres you know Clint Frazier feels like he's a part of that he's a he's a guy who's batting clean up for us during certain points this season you know I think he's a competitive guy and he's confidence driven and I bet he's looking at Brett Gardner above him in the lineup and saying like Brett Gardner's batting before me so I got a little circle on Clint man put put something together today show show him you're not an eighth hole guy show him you're a five-hole hitter show show him who you are so I'm watching DH Clint out of the eight hole out of the eight hole my what to watch for is he now make me say this correct Eli Jimenez yeah I think you're there I got it yeah all right well dude he's been crushing the ball hat gives up home runs he's batting fifth I believe don't put anyone on base I think he's gonna get half today and I wanted to shot okay fair yeah no no I'm I mean I'm kind of a half stand and I I don't know I mean it's very possible Eloy could get him I just think half has been pretty good for his last 10 starts and I I always like these matchups I mean it was kind of the the Jason Vargas Gary matchup that we we ended up enjoying Eloy is not on Gary Sanchez's level obviously but he's got that big power swing going and it's I mean it's gonna be a fun matchup every time I think kind of leaning into your point I mean if I do see Eloy Jimenez up there with the you know with ducks on the pond James I don't like that matchup but happer past 10 starts 58 innings three five seven ERA the Yankees are nine and one in those games so I don't know I'm a I'm a half believer I just thought about if Hawke Carlton was still calling White Sox games I guess he did a couple is like they got a lot of Latin names that when I read them I'm like shit I don't think I'm gonna pronounce this right like Hawk going yalmer yonder Eloy Laurie a lot of fun is though I mean they're they're fun names but they're all what's the what's the word frenetic they're all pronounced how they're spelled what about Lee Yuri Laurie yeah what about Eloy I don't think that's correct I think it is what about Tim Anderson all over it babe you're hot today Yvonne Nova let's move on to the home or draft it's the home or draft oh pitching path victory both these teams had off days yesterday full bull plant full bull pens should be available here's my fucking message to Yankees pitch Zach Burton today or face the wrath of an angry tweet from me wow which is three off days now in a row he's gonna be garbage I hope that we have a five plus lead and they throw Zach Britain in there he's gonna give up a run or two I say they throw him and he's good and I only thing where we're missed that we probably should have said and maybe you did Jim and I was just ignoring your dumb bumbling mouth DJ LaMahieu six for nine off Ivan Nova yeah he hates him don't personal vendetta 727 on base percentage set 73% of the time DJ LaMahieu comes up against Ivan Nova he gets on base yeah he hates him because every time he steps into the box Ivan Nova likes that phone with him he goes oh what's up JD and men don't call DJ BD yeah that's one way to get our clown town anyways the Homer draft Jim or draft it's the home or so the Chats one said it's Aloy and then the other guy said it's Aloy so a lot of people pronounce that name I guess who gets to go first I'm on the draft um let's see I think it's me I believe it's because I I went you took Gary I wouldn't say you're hot you're warm five correct pics in my last eight games yeah that's warm yeah you were you were celebrating the very same thing week ago I had nine and six games so let's let's talk about what's high and what's warm you're warm and I'm damn proud of you every day but two for my last two that's hot you bitch let's uh well if you keep it going this series then we'll call you appreciate that Homer draft it's the Homer draft I am going to go with Gary Sanchez is rude when you're rude no no no no no so it's it's not rude when you take Gary with the first pick but it's rude on boxes boxes full of El Gary hats because every time he hits a home run I ship out an El Gary hat to a fan for free right he's my guy I get him in the Homer draft you just stole him bullshit not how it works who are you taking well I'm gonna take Clint you talked about him I'm mad at you nice and boy yeah Clinton boy okay I like it I love it I want some more of it uh give me liberty or give me sir DD Gregorius DD okay so it's Gary and DD verse Clinton boy it was a four game set so we're gonna be which one of us probably should have taken taken talk man today because hot daddy because it's four game set but we'll see we got a lot of good players that aren't available now for the next three games give me interesting all right let's go to the over under I'm also burning hot in the over under two for my last two wow so hot how do the new because you're over your last few oh for my last two I'm 17 and 17 on the year you are 16 and 18 so this is a huge pick for you John boy yeah I think it's gonna be set at uh eight and a half eight and a half really um I've been going nine and a half I'm going nine and a half I took it back well that's just you being a lame copycat the people are very disappointed they haven't said it 10 10 holy I'll go under I'm a half stand you're a fan of happenstance happenstance um oh man 10 is pretty high what do you think the final score is that you're going under um I'm going uh seven two I'm scraping it but under okay this is tough because they both teams had off days yesterday so does the offense come out just like going crazy or are they going to be a little sluggish with the pitchers going nuts that's where my I'm trying to I don't know which way it falls I don't have a lean for are the bats hotter or colder after off days hmm I will say this I think the white socks their their plan isn't to win this season they love hitting home runs hap gives up home runs I think we're going to see the white socks swinging for the fences and I do think they will connect with a couple uh but the Yankees will win over under let me get there okay I have to start over I think the off day yesterday they couldn't see that they couldn't see that you always made jokes just for me it's nice yeah uh I'm going over nice I think it's going to be uh a nice six to five victory all right so we're both scraping it we got nine and 11 there you see Jake all right what's next chat is there any is there any in the chat is having a good time just ask the like do they get a spanish speaker in here and that there's just quizzing him on how to pronounce all these names it's really funny that's good though like hey do lory do uh yell on do uh okay do Javi bias um talk rangers yeah we won't reply him or on the mlb show or beat boston win that wild card yeah do it uh there's no real questions they're just all it's active chat's been active which is nice but no real questions like that well community thanks guys appreciate it um this guy says that I don't know I don't know if he knows how to pronounce things like someone asked him how do you pronounce Javi and he he wrote jav dash e which like would be jav e um so he doesn't get a phonetic spell no javi simple guys okay uh I think that's uh well what y'all's middle names Jake's middle name is Ronald we'll end the fucking show oh my god oh my god


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someone to show me my place in all this hey it's that time being guys for some this is the most anticipated film in the entire year was star wars the last jedi so what did i think about it well let's get into it my name is brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion hey guys thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for star wars the last jedi episode 8 i really do appreciate it but before we get into the review help your boy out by going ahead and clicking that subscribe button also click the bell so you'll be notified when i make uploads and also give me that thumbs up let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes so i was really looking forward to star wars the last jedi if you could possibly tell i mean pretty much everybody that's a film a movie geek was looking forward to this i wasn't looking forward to it as much as everybody else because why i am a star wars fan i am a casual star wars fan i am not a dial hard star wars fan and there's nothing wrong with it if you die hard i'm just you know letting you know before i give you my opinion my review my take i have seen all the star wars films i of course i saw the original trilogy back when i was in junior high then i saw the prequels as disappointed like most people and then i saw the force awakens and i like the force awakens but at the same time i was a little bit disappointed because i thought it copied a little bit more off of episode four a new hope i love rogue one that came out a year ago and now we have the last jedi episode eight and with the promotion materials and advertisements and trailers and stuff like that i wanted to go in fresh i only saw like the first two trailers and after that i didn't want to read any not read but see any more featurettes any more tv spots any more trailers anything like that i completely avoided all of them i'm filming this right now thursday night i did see it at seven o'clock and of course all the big people had saw the premiere this past saturday i looked at all those twitter reactions and that did get me excited but i didn't check out any reviews and i also didn't go to the press screening that was around the country on monday as well so really just those twitter reactions and then uh the first two trailers was pretty much all that you know i went in before i saw this movie and you know the movie is great i'll go ahead and get that out the way if you are a star wars fan i will say that you will be satisfied and one the first thing that i noticed that i really did like in this movie that really did appeal to me is of course in these star wars movies we have the you know in a galaxy far far away we have the opening crawl and of course this wouldn't be a star wars move without that but it's not just a crawl that i noticed that i like because that's been in previous films for some reason it just stood out to me that the aesthetic of the film the cinematography you know for some reason it just really stood out to me and didn't just seem all glossy like it did with the prequels that came out in the early like 99 and early 2000s like you can tell that this is a newer movie but at the same time they wanted to have that older feel like the original trilogy and that's just something that stood out to me at the very beginning of this movie that i really did appreciate of course i also liked uh well i don't want to say of course but i also really did i also really did enjoy uh majority of the characters and how the film picked up right where episode seven left off because if you know a lot of people were slightly disappointed with where they left uh where they left luke skywalker and ray at the very end because you know everybody's so excited we're getting a new star wars film after years and years and years and then we really don't get to see luke skywalker there is a lot of luke skywalker and it's played by mark hamill so you don't have to worry about that you know we get a bunch of new characters and we get old of course so what i i i what i liked about the story early on is how the story started started off so intense it picks up like i said right where the force awakens left off and then you have somewhat of a space battle and don't worry i'm not going to spoil this for you here but during this space battle the film goes back and for from the space battle and where everything is happening with fin and po dammin played by oscar isaac and kerry fisher and all that good stuff but then it jumps back and forth to where ray is with luke skywalker on that island where she's trying to get training and whatnot and it was just a great transition back and forth like during the first act of this whole entire movie i was not bored at all i was loving every moment of it eating all up like every line of dialogue every frame every shot i was like this is like the perfect star wars movie and i just really cannot wait to see how this ends and you know um something that turned me off early on was something that's pretty difficult to for me to that i think is difficult for filmmakers to pull off in the film is combining comedic moments or comedic elements at times of seriousness and there was a little joke that was kind of early on between two characters and while it was funny i did chuckle it kind of did dilute the seriousness of the scene and just kind of let you know you know where the stakes are i mean i like i said i did laugh but i kind of felt that they could have you know done away with that but the opening battle the opening action scene was very intense um it i'm not going to say who lived or who died or how much was you know death of destruction or either side or whatever but i was actually you know kind of clenching my fists and clenching my toes and i don't want to say at the edge of my seat because i was in a recliner but at the same time i was like oh snap like how is this going to end or whatever and this is just the first act of the movie you know so i really did like that so i really love what they did with mark hamill and lou skyward the very beginning of the movie i really like what they did with ray played by daisy really of the movie carrie fisher and po dammer played by oscar isaac i really do like all of that i love how they picked up where things will color in um in this movie i love that but a character that i was not a fan of pretty much the majority of the movie was fin um you know i was pretty disappointed by john boy agus character in this like they to me in my opinion i just kind of feel like the director and writer ryan johnson who did uh the brother's bloom and he also did looper looper is a great movie and he wrote and directed this i just kind of feel like he didn't have anything for fin to do and he just kind of ran out of ideas and just kind of just like you know made some type of subplot for fin's character because i just it was not the real fin's character he was at the very beginning but he kind of picked up more in the second act and the film kind of focused on him and to be honest with you guys i was bored out of my mind i lost complete interest in the film i was kind of turning on my seat just like okay where are we going with this this this whole plot device just kind of seems like it's just taking up runtime and i kind of wanted to get back to either uh either the first order the resistance or the rebellion and also what ray and luke were doing on the island but this little thing over here what fin was doing you know i was over it and there is another character that he was with by the name of rose played by kelly marie tan kelly marie tran and she did a great job in her role as well and i'm not gonna say fin didn't do a good job either i mean he did but i was just bored with the scenes you know that he was giving me or whatever i just kind of thought that whole thing was pointless and i wanted to see something else now um somebody that really impressed me a lot was snook i love snook played by gosh the the anti-circus or whatever snook was a complete badass you know there it was rumored that snook would be more powerful than dark vader uh than darth vader and also the emperor from the previous star wars films and he is by a long shot in my opinion i love every single iota of snook on screen like seriously the dude was not messing around you know he didn't have a like you know we never really got to see the emperor's face too much unless it was like a hologram back in the past so he had his cloak on and of course you know darth vader had his mask on the whole time you know during his trilogy and whatnot but no snook you get to see him you know in his in his glory or whatever in his throne and it's just nice not only is he nice but the whole set design was for snook was lovely and he's just someone not to be messed with or whatever like seriously he will force choke you he will hit you with a lightning ball he will do this he will do that he's just no one to be messed with and i actually i won't even say more than that because i don't want to spoil the film anymore so guys i really love most majority of the characters uh at the very beginning of the film i like the aesthetic of the film i like the score by john williams i love the very first act but the second act i was kind of bored but then we get to the end and you know the the ending was great i really did appreciate that in the trailers lou skywalker says this is not going to end the way you think it is and oh my god she could not be telling the truth anymore than that because there was so many twists and turns with the plot and the story that i did not see coming so i was like oh okay i didn't know it was going to go here i didn't know it was going to go there i thought i thought these characters are about to die and maybe they did die i thought these characters are going to escape and maybe they didn't escape or whatever because some of it it kind of seemed like it was going to be predictable in some instances but then no it didn't it wasn't predictable they kind of turn the hard right or hard left right at the last moment i was like okay wow you know i mean okay you know this is not turning out the way i thought it would i also want to talk about oscar eyes this character po dameron because he's the best pilot in the fleet or whatever you know he can be labeled as kind of just cocky a hero and this you know whatever he says he's going to do in goals but no it doesn't necessarily turn out that way for his character and his character did have some growth there was an arc to his character where he did learn a lot to where he is uh you know a good guy and you know you're on his side and for the most part he has good ideas and then normally work for him in his favor and the rest of the team but at the same time he really did have to learn something in this movie and to really humble himself or whatever and i really did appreciate that as well as far as the fighting is concerned of course we have you know battles on land we have some space battles i don't necessarily i mean you know i'm just gonna go ahead and say there is a there's a lightsaber battle in this movie or multiple and for the most part i was thrilled with that i did appreciate it and when it first popped on i was like oh okay i didn't know that you know they was going to combine the fighting this way or whatever you know it was nice we did kind of get to see some new weapons and i did like that but i will say guys while i did enjoy the film you know most of the film there were three characters so where i was disappointed with and how do i want to wear this without spoiling it i was just really disappointed with where their characters ended up in this movie i think that's the safe way to see it now i like the characters i love them to death in this movie that was great but you know when at the end of the movie i kind of said to myself okay i wanted a little bit more from this character i want a bit of the more from this character and a little bit more from this character you know and i'm slightly disappointed so guys i really did enjoy the film it's great i like this film more than star wars episode seven the force awakens but to be honest with you i do like rogue one better than the last jedi that's just my opinion i'm just being honest with you and i did want a little bit more i i i really did enjoy this film i am going to buy it on blu-ray or 4k when it is released a number of months from now but while i did enjoy it i am slightly disappointed if i had to rate star wars the last jedi out of a one out of ten i would give it an eight out of ten yes an eight out of ten by guys that is just my opinion for star wars the last jedi what did you think have you seen it do you want to see it have i turned you on have i turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like 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And we'll welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel. Look, as we close out 2022, I think a lot of people out there would probably just say good riddance. I think the market's probably going to end the year down about 20%. The stock market typically does not have back-to-back down to years. So for you guys that have been holding true in the pocket in 2022, which is the right move and just a dollar averaging these markets, that's the prudent thing to do. So I commend you for those efforts. We've just here recently, coming into the year's end, incurred another all-time low, and I think it generated some churn in the Discord group, which is the premier drought point for information on all things. Highly on, I think the sense and the mood and the tone and tenor in the Discord group was really negative and rightfully so. I think shareholder sentiment is probably as low as it's ever been in the company. And I think that's really just a sign of where we are in the company. I think it's a sign of where we've been. I think it can exacerbate itself when opinions are compounded on top of each other. And I think when we do that, the actual areas of important focus are lost. And I think to offer this product here is a testament to my conviction on the company, my conviction on the company has not wavered. My questions with regard to OEM integration and the potential for bottlenecking at the end of 2023 are they're out there, and they are and will go on unanswered. I'm accepted of that. I don't need reaffirmation of a constructive piece of dialogue that I look to enter into with highly on holdings. I've never got a response through Twitter and I don't believe that I ever would. And the question is, do I deserve it? I don't do things for validation. I don't do things to receive some sort of acknowledgement or reciprocation of the message. I just do it because I feel like it's the right thing to do and I have felt compelled to offer this product. And I offer it with some consistency. I've done it with some consistency throughout the entire year here in 2022. And there's a few commonalities throughout the offering of the message here that I would like to bring to your attention with regard to how I look at the Hylian opportunity and how I will package up 2022 and put it in the rear view mirror and look to 2023 with the same anticipation that I entered into 2022 with. The same expectations for Hylian to execute along their path to commercialization. Do I think that Hylian will get to their eventual goal of commercialization? I sure hope so. I think when you look at this and strip away all the drama and you strip away all of the opinions and you strip away all the Twitter posts and you strip away all the Yahoo feeds. Hylian in its core is a great idea. It's a great idea. It's a great idea in so far as the company at this particular juncture really doesn't have sales to boast. It doesn't have revenues to boast. And of course, therein with those statistics of an early inception company do not have profits to boast either. But at its core, this company is looking to put all the right innovation in all the right places in Class 8 trucking. And I believe based on the validation that we've received over monitoring this company over the last let's just say two years of public markets we have been provided with incredible progress with the company. Now the tone and tenor that I speak of in the Discord group from yesterday, I was kind of cool actually. I really have a lot of respect for people whether or not they're on one side of the house or not. It doesn't even matter if you're angry at the current situation. No problem.  Sure, I could look at the current situation and say, okay, I'm disappointed. But I want to draw a distinction between perhaps maybe the lens of how I draw my disappointment in the current situation and perhaps maybe what I felt yesterday as a little bit of capitulation, a little bit of exacerbated snowballing within the Discord group. And I'm not going to sit here and judge. I think it was actually great for some of the people to actually be showing a little bit of emotion with regard to the story. My problem is the source of that negative energy. The stock price hit another all-time low yesterday. And it's my presumption that that hitting of an all-time low spurred off this conversation only to be tipped on its ear with a tweet that came out on some new hybrid installs from a dairy manufacturer, which in all actuality is just another customer to throw on the pile here, which in its core and in essence is quite positive. I just think that what got spun on its ear is the timeliness of it, of the CEO releasing the tweet after hours to maybe perhaps maybe buffer the stock entering into a new all-time low. And that's how it was perceived from a consensus perspective, from the greater highly unaired group of us that follow the company intimately and want to understand progress as it's announced. And I tell you what, there's some real merit to that. There really is.  I felt that there was some anger and whether or not it was based on the timeliness of the tweet, the stock entering into all-time low category, and really just being fairly light on the horizon with regard to the transparency that Hylian is looking to push out to the greater shareholder community. I've always contended that they've always been very, very conservative with their application. However, if the basis for your anger was the stock price alone, you need to back up a little bit. The stock market for you guys that have done this for a long, long time, and I don't want to patronize the group, I've done this a long, long time. And I've taken a lot of stocks into a downturn, only to see them turn back massive profits into the future. And I've owned them into a downturn. Furthermore, the amount of the holding that you have can only accelerate the downside on the potential capital that is decaying or coming down as the stock price actually goes down. This is part of the game. And I hate to lay it out to you like that, but then again, I kind of don't, because I think there's a lot of people who are probably in uncharted territory with regard to their current holdings of stock. I'm certain that there's people out there with over 500 shares. And I'm certain that there's a vast majority of people who maybe even exacerbate these conversations along the line when the actual skin in the game that they have is probably under 500. Now, I'd like you to leave in the comments section below how many shares you actually have, because I'll review those comments and you'll get a reply from me if you actually pay attention to my charge to you and actually drop your share count into the comments below. See, I represent kind of the tip of the spear of the highly on air community. And I look to be a voice of reason in what is not an era right now of calm. There is volatility in the markets. There is absolutely an exacerbated sell off in the grander stock market. I just had AMC today announced their reverse stock split. See, if you were on the AMC bandwagon last year, you would have been looked at as a stock guide. And all the while good investors are looking and saying, really, I haven't been to a movie for a long, long time because they don't make good movies anymore like they did back in the day. And it's too expensive. Why would I do that when I can just enjoy the comforts of a movie in my home? And if I have the means, then I just build my own theater and I can entertain myself at home for pennies on the dollar that I pay to support the AMC initiative. But if I was on that bandwagon last year, along with the Tesla bandwagon and many, many others, you were looked at as somehow having insight to the market. You were looked at as somehow being a voice or an advocate for a specific company. And it's convenient to do so when the company goes up. You are much less likely to find somebody like myself who has the courage enough. And I don't even believe it's courage because my head is in the right space with with regard to why I advocate for this company specifically as closely as I do for free. It's because they have the goods at its core. Hylian has the goods. Okay. So if your emotional state yesterday was exacerbated by the stock price hitting $2.19 or whatever, that is an improper way of reacting emotionally to a company that you at some point in the past, whether it be less than 500 shares or more than 500 shares, took an investment stake in this company. That is a an emotional reaction on false pretenses. In other words, it is not it is not the proper attribute or the proper criteria to use to set your emotional content in motion. It is not applicable. It is not acceptable to use the stock price as a an excuse to get emotional and start ripping into the company and say, well, Ryan, you started ripping into the company on Twitter right as soon as you saw the news because I was down in Rockefeller Center yesterday looking at the Christmas tree. It was pretty cool fighting for my my picture with my family, met up with some friends and actually didn't catch the tweet until later. It was fine. No big deal. I catch that news because I monitor the landscape pretty intimately. But when I saw the news, the criteria that I use to generate an emotional reaction to what I feel the company is or isn't doing has nothing to do with the stock. Nothing. Zero has nothing to do with the stock. And I really think you need to identify where it is the source of your anger or criticism comes from. Because if I were to ask you, what is your beef? You need to be able to tell me in a very, very succinct elevator pitch to me what your actual beef with this company is. Now that right there furthers the discussion. Furthermore, if we quality check that observation about Hylian and you give me that elevator pitch about where your grievances are coming from, would you air those grievances if you were sitting alongside the CEO Thomas Healy? Would you? It's a fair question. In other words, would you sit across from Thomas Healy and say, Thomas, I really like the Hylian story, but your stock price is at an all time low. I'm pissed. What are you doing about it? My friends, that does not meet muster. That is not a criteria to generate your angst from. It's not. This company might go to a dollar a share. It might go to 50 cents a share. I don't know. The company might go out of business and then I'll lock up shop and I'll get back to talking about other things because I'll always find something to talk about on the channel. Hylian will cease to exist and the world will be better off as a planet because we've sifted through this young technology company and we have determined that the world is better off without Hylian than it is with it. I could live with that. No problem. A lot of people would suggest maybe that Thomas Healy, the CEO who started off at a billion dollars, if he lost everything and the shares of Hylian ended up being worthless, that would be, I guess, some sweet revenge, I guess, for Thomas Healy, this young visionary to take this company looking to do right by the world and lower the carbon footprint for the very customers and for the very fleets that serve those customers that he's looking to do. That's the very initiative. If the company's going to cease to exist, then I guess that's just not a lofty enough aspiration for Mr. Thomas Healy to want to do right by the world, want to subject the company early to public markets. Yes, I do contend. However, to subject Hylian Holdings to the rigour of a very volatile stock market in the face of supply chain issues, a global pandemic, a geopolitical conflict, and, oh, by the way, a short seller group that would just as rather see this company fail to fatten their own wallets without any true understanding of what this company has looked to do from a core fundamental initiative, which is the very reason why you invest in the company. Now, where is it that my constructive criticism comes from? Say, Ryan, you're one of the staunchest critics of Hylian out there.  A lot of people don't read my Twitter feeds correctly. So I don't want to be rude, but learn how to read. Learn how to read. I'm in a habit now of putting to Twitter and people take and they screenshot my Twitter and put it in the Discord group. It's funny, too, because I'm really an accessible YouTube channel creator. I'm not big, I'm small, I'm accessible. I'm not so busy that you can't just reach out to me and say, hey, Ryan, what did you mean by this?  No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I said, you can just take your plan and f that off because the very merit to my criticism of Hylian and some might suggest that I'm off base and don't have the latitude to criticize the company I beg to differ is generated by the fact that this company, unfortunately, has lost integrity. Now, if I gave an elevator pitch to Thomas Healy and said, Thomas, you know, over the last couple of years, you've you've lost integrity with me. Would Thomas Healy agree or disagree with that statement? Play with me.  He's going to sit across from me and he's going to completely disagree. How is it that somebody can have such conviction on an opinion? Only take it to the to the fact check and to the the ground true thing, true test of sitting across from the CEO and saying, I think your company has lost integrity, Thomas, and he looks across and said, I think you're dead wrong, Ryan. And here's why boom, boom, boom, boom, and boom. Do you think Thomas Healy or the investor crew or whatever decision was made to release that tweet yesterday after hours was done so with malicious intent? Honestly, do you think it was an attempt to cover up what has been an absolutely horrendous year for Healy on down close to 70% year over year to date? Or do you think it was something more simple than that in that the company was putting out that information with the best of intentions? Now, it was earmark November 18th. Okay, were they saving it up? Did they have what they needed for information enough to release that to the public? Did it just so happen to be ill timed in their release? Because the presumption was made that it was being retained and released to the grander audience to somehow buffer the fall of the stock entering into all time low category. Okay, I'm of the opinion that highly on can do more in a lot of different fronts. But when I come back to my assessment about integrity and my elevator pitch to Thomas Healy would be a hell of a lot different than Thomas. You've lost integrity with me and giving him an opportunity to disagree with me and say, Ryan, you're wrong. That's an unfair assessment. You know, I'm an honest and upstanding guy, yada, yada, yada. I've always taken the high road with the release of information. How can you say that we're not an integrist company? Right? It's the source of most of my angst with this company. And here's why. Okay. The investor presentation that was initially rolled out in 2020 had projections in there that they could not meet. They could not meet. And I'm still an investor in the company. I still believe in the company. I believe that the latter half of 2023 in the beginning of 2024 is going to offer a whole lot of padding to what we're identifying right now as very, very lean times. It doesn't feel like Hylian's ever going to get another order. It doesn't feel like they're ever going to emerge from this state. And it doesn't help to have a stock price that's stuck in the mud at all time lows day after day after day after day. Okay. The information that was released was misleading to investors. And the disclaimer would caution would be investors not to put undue reliance on the information and that any forward forecast that are put forward to investors, investors are charged with not putting an undue reliance in that information. Fair enough. Undue reliance does not mean that we have to look at every piece of information that is released by a publicly traded company and presume that it is a lie. That's not what undue reliance is. Okay. Undue reliance means that at the time that the company released the information that they had the best knowledge and the base data to support releasing those statistics at the time that they released that data. Okay. That's what it means. And if you put undue reliance in that said forecasting of information that is supposed to be based on data and the best information that is made available at the time of release. Okay. Putting undue reliance in that means that if the data was skewed or the projections were skewed a little bit and the numbers did not come out the way that they were projected to come out to. In other words, they were lower than forecasted. Hell, it could be even that they surpassed those forecasts. It doesn't mean that it just it's a wag down the line and if they make it great and if they fall completely short of it, that's okay too. That's not what undue reliance means. Undue reliance means that you cannot look at it as gospel. Okay, you can't. And you have to presume that the information that was put out is done so with good faith. That's why that information is submitted to the SEC. During the SPAC process, all of that was submitted to the SEC for review, scrutiny, etc, etc. Probably rubber stamped for all I care for all I know. I don't know. But when you look at that document and you look at the projections that were made, it is impossible to get away from the very fact that at the time that was released, Hylion could not have and did not have the ability to put that information out in the way that they did because they did not have a product that was commercially viable at the time. And certification is what makes you commercially viable, number one. They did not have a commercially viable product. So to forecast those numbers was to presume that they would meet that certification in between the time that the data was released and the time that the projections would be realized on the back end. They did not have any of that. And it was irresponsible for the company to put out projections and the thousands of units sold in 2022.  Look at 2023 and tell me where those projections were. But just 2022 alone was supposed to be 6,000 and 8100 units, respectively, close to 1415,000 units. Okay. In 2022, moving into 2023, I believe it's much, much more and I could be misconstruing those numbers a little bit, but we were up into the thousands of units sold in 2022. At the time that data was projected to would-be investors and shareholders alike, it was unfair to expect that an investor would say, wow, that's really exciting news, Thomas, but it's a lie. It's a lie. You're putting that down on paper and you're signing it on the bottom with highly unholding's letterhead and you're suggesting that you can meet these numbers, but in hindsight, those numbers were just a ball-faced lie because they did not have a product that was commercially viable to meet those sales expectation. Number two, they put out these expectations in the thousands when they did not have the production capability. Number one, nor did they have the arrangements through memorandums of agreements or understandings or business relationships and collaborations with companies like OEMs to suggest that somehow Peter Wilt was going to take them in as the younger brother and allow them to use their line to turn out thousands and thousands of units. I had a red flag when I reached out to Hylian right after the company came public and I wrote an interesting email and actually got a reply discussing that if the chassis is turned off the line and you go bolting on the battery pack and amending this chassis that's had its racking test and its weight test and you're changing the distributions of those certifications when they're turned off from the actual OEM doesn't that null and void the warranty that would be backed at that point by the subsidiaries of Pack Air, Pack R, Peter Bilt and allow them to seek remedy if something failed with that chassis after it was certified. In other words, if Hylian is going to put their system on this at the OEM line, who holds the ball if the owner operator takes that product on and the chassis cracks a weld? Who takes that on? Hylian got back to me and said that's a very good question. We'll get back to you. Silence on the line. Never heard a word about it. Never heard a whim of response. Never heard a whim of any type of acknowledgement to that and I just would have liked to have been a fly on the wall at Hylian to understand how that very good question went into the vacuum and stayed there because they did not have at the time of those projections when they went out the production capability to turn out those numbers in the thousands. They weren't going to do it from the Austin facility, which is now entered into the discussion as a primary type of mission here because they've woken up to the fact that in one word, my criticism to the company that has gone unanswered and I will continue to beat the drum on this is the fact that I anticipate the end of 2023 entering into 2024, an opportunity to enter into the potential to realize sales start to get the backlog knocked out, but they will be unable to do so because of the bottleneck effect at the OEM. If I could offer that elevator pitch to Thomas Healy in 20 seconds, I would sit contently and I would listen to his reasoning as to why I'm wrong. Well, Ryan, what you're not seeing is the established relationships. You're underscoring the relationship that we actually have with Peterbilt to actually give us so many slots or to use the mod centers and the capacity that I've released on quarters past to kind of explain how that proof of concept needs to go through the mod centers and then accept it into Peterbilt. We have everything in line. All we have to do is allow those stars to align. Why does it take me sitting across from Thomas Healy directly in person to get to that end? Right now, investors have every reason to be pissed off because if they're thinking about it the way I think about it, Healyone has lost credibility because of their inability to put out information that is credible, reliable and fact based because of their inability to put out a document at the initial that was hugely impactful to the company, generated a lot of churn, a lot of interest, got a lot of people excited about it and they failed to identify with that original investor presentation as the way that they should have as a lie. It was a ball faced lie. Now again, it would be interesting to say, look, the investor presentation Thomas from May of 2020, it was a lie. What say you? It would be interesting to understand his rationale.  We put the information out. I can deal with it. Nobody's suing us and that's usually the response you get from a professional organization like this. If they haven't done everything on the up, fine. If you don't like it, sue us. I feel so strongly about this information that I have actually for the third time submitted my complaint to the SEC and it has nothing to do with the stock price. You want to be angry about the stock price? Go right on ahead and do that. You are exercising emotion on false pretenses because the stock price is not a good enough. It's not a good enough reason to get upset, go into the discord group and get counsel or feel good comments to air your grievances to the discord group so that they can pad your ass and say, it'll be fine. Just buy lower, buy the dip. It's not good enough. But I calmly sat last night and submitted my complaint through the SEC. I've done that now three times and over the last two years of being a bullish share owner, I am tired of number one being ignored. I'm tired of being ignored. This is me. I'm just a little old me. I'm a singular shareholder and a retail shareholder at that. I'm quite certain that if I were even going to register on the ledger of priorities for highly on holdings, responding to me wouldn't even make their ledger in ways of priority. The problem is they don't respond to anybody. I've seen silent alert who's probably the most vocal and Andreas Rikowskas is probably, they're both very articulate individuals. I absolutely love it when they post to Twitter because they're absolutely both of them very, very sharp. They offer constructive posts in the right way. Me, I have no cooth. They have all the cooth in the world. They do it right. And I can't tell you how appreciative I am of their information. I'm just a teammate. Is highly unappreciated. I don't know. I've seen silent alert get one response from Thomas Healy one out of how many posts? 100, 250. If silent alert got a hold of me and said, yeah, Ryan, you're off on that number, man. I'm up close to 250 tweets. I believe him. I believe him. He's on their active every day just like I am. I'm an active Twitter active. I'm on their daily. I monitor the accounts to see the churn. It's the single source of drop point for initiation of energy that is put out there by Twitter by highly on through Twitter. And it's a great conduit for that. It's a great way to press out information to the masses. Am I ghosted? Maybe. Perhaps. Do I deserve it? Maybe. Perhaps. No problem. But what this ends up doing is it is it generates a shareholder community that also follow highly on and I endorse following highly on on Twitter to catch those pieces of information only to pose certain questions and have them fall on deaf ears. This my friends is the source of my angst. Now, it wasn't the source of my angst a half hour ago when I bought 500 more shares. I was just responding to somebody that I have 28 injects to the company 28 and I've lost on every single one of them. That's a fairly jaded perspective when people come to me for my understanding and knowledge about fundamental stock market investing. Dollar cost average being the fundamental strategy that's being played here on highly on 28 injects to the company. I've bought it all the way down. My cost average is less than $7 a share right now. The company's just north of two. What's the difference between two and seven? If you bought the company sub 10, you're probably sitting on a gold mine. If this thing eventually turns into something special, like we think that it will, right? It's not going to matter whether or not the stock price is at two or seven or 12 for that matter. It's not going to matter. There's not enough churn or activity with the company, especially with the headwind of the stock market right now. Having everything be drawn down. There's great companies right now being drawn down in the face of this volatility in the stock market, irrespective of what good things they may or may not be doing. Highly on right now is being perceived as not doing a whole lot. They're entering into the certification phase, runner testing, et cetera, et cetera. All the things that we're waiting for progress reports on. But if there's any stock that deserves to be drawn down, doesn't highly on fit into that category. In other words, give me an elevator pitch as to why highly on needs to go up. Oh, Ryan, it's in an all time low.  All my grievances in there and hope people come in there and feel sorry for me. Look, I read through the comments too. And I think a lot of you guys have really, really good criticisms. I think you guys really are coming from a genuine place. I really do. But the basis for your argument cannot be about the stock price. It cannot. It has to be about something else. And if I were to sit across from you and ask you what that something else is, I think I'd probably get a lot of blank stairs. And the people who are the most vocal honestly should be those folks that have maybe over 500 shares. I don't know. Is there people out there that honestly hold less than 500 shares that are down a few thousand box that are going to come and bark up my tree about how shitty their life is right now because Hylian is down with the grander market. Come on. A lot of you guys, man, if I could package up some perspective and put it into an envelope and send it to you post first class mail, I would because God dang it, you need it. You need it. The stock price is not adequate justification for losing your marbles over a company that just started to turn out revenue in 2022. That's it. Okay. Now, if you feel that strongly about your criticisms that come, I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what they're doing. Does Thomas Healy honestly operate on a premonition that everything is okay? His job as the CEO is to make that perception known to people that in the face of all adversity, in the face of all time low stock prices, in the face of all the criticism, in the face of all the posts and all the negatives and all of the exacerbated downtrends and all of the negative energy that's going toward this company, his job is to be that lone voice on the top of the mountain that projects that confidence no matter what. And it's that very confidence that we're chipping away at when we're challenging the lack of information, right? Hylian not being transparent enough, Hylian putting information out that SEC filing that complaint that I made, that's real. Okay. You can take that to the bank if you want. I feel 100% supported in my criticisms of the company that that initial stock presentation that they put out, that initial investor presentation was misleading. And it was misleading to the point where I call it a blatant lie. It was a blatant lie, and I think it's indefensible. I really do. I think if I had the opportunity to debate Thomas Healy, not interview him, but debate him, that would be my criticism is to have him sit across from the investor audience that they turn a blind eye to anyway, that I feel like he and Hylian owes an explanation. Wow, Ryan, that's good.    No, I'm not. I love the company. My complaint to the SEC was specifically geared toward that investor presentation that misled investors and it was put through under the scrutinizing eye of the SEC through at the time a spat craze that since then has fallen on deaf ears. I mean, there's no doubt about it. It's fallen on its face. Yep. Am I right in doing so? I don't know. I can do what I want. Okay. And there's going to be people who disagree with me. There's going to be people when they hear me because I've said it now three times, sit back and they're like, whoa, man, geez, our fearless leader, our voice of reason is putting in an SEC complaint on Hylian and that's all they hear. Ryan's angry with Hylian. No, I'm not. I'm angry at one specific aspect of the company in way of misleading information that they put forward to mislead investors. That data that went into that, there's no way that that could have come from a justifiable place. And we cannot live in a society where people think that they can just put anything that they want on paper, especially, especially at this high level of scrutiny and get away with it. They shouldn't get away with it. They should have to at least explain what it is that they're doing, what they had at the time, because the narrative has just completely shifted since that initial investor presentation came out. It's taken us three years to generate 2000 reservations and 200 orders backed by deposits up till now. We are nowhere near any type of mass scale and commercialization. As a matter of fact, we are very much prior to that phase and to my estimation, 12 months removed of that stage. According to that investor presentation, it was in 2021 that we would go from the pre-stage to the post-stage of commercialization. And were 12 months removed to that at the end of 2022? We cannot live in a society where that is allowed to happen. It is wrong. You guys can disagree with me all you want. It's a free country. I invite you to disagree with me. Disagree all you want. I'm right. I am right. Now, whether or not you want to take it to the level that I have only speaks to the fact that if I had 150 shares, I would have given up on this a long time ago. Your shares are just as important as mine. But here's the thing. If you're using money and the stock price as a rationale to be pissed off at Hylian Holdings, that's not going to hold water with me. Being critical of a company based on aspects of the company that deserve criticism, now we can talk.  And not thinking for a second as to why I did what I did is an escape from thinking. They need to be criticized. And there's going to be people to suggest, Ryan, that's really off base. It's a young company. They deserve all the leash in the world. No, they don't. No, they don't. They absolutely do not. No way. Not in the markets that I want to participate in. I've been around the markets a long, long time and I full well know that they're imperfect. And I also full well understand that when the tide shift, profits will be made from that imperfect aspect of the stock market. So it goes both ways. Okay. Now, if I was going to sit across from a YouTube audience and profess that my complaint is going to go anywhere other than fall on deaf ears, I would be completely, completely and incredibly naive to the fact that that complaint is going to go nowhere. It is going to go nowhere. Did it need to be done? Yes, it did. And I already did it. I've already done three on the company. Okay. The first one I got a response from the SEC on and I will not disclose the particulars of that response from the SEC. The latter two, I just submitted the third. We will see if I get a response to that because that investor presentation, the original one that was as misleading as it was, needs to be scrutinized and they need to be held accountable for putting that information and misleading investors who put a lot of faith into that document, understanding that it was something other than what it should have been taken for.  Now, that's done. With regard to the share purchase that I just made, 500 shares, it is what I would consider over the last two years, a scatter plot of buy points into the company. It's dollar cost averaging at its best. Okay. I like to consider it strategic buying because I like to look and monitor the share price and buy what I want to buy. In other words, true dollar cost averaging is done on a set date and you put it on autopilot and you'll let it go indefinitely. A dollar cost average, my 401k, which is the thrift savings plan, a dollar cost average, a lot of things. My bond portfolio, which I'm kind of heavily buying right now, and my dividend growth portfolio, those are set on true dollar cost average schedules. That money comes out of the account. Half of the time, I don't even know what comes out. It goes into the account. That's dollar cost averaging. But what's the difference between the strategy that I'm deploying on Hylian to buy Hylian now at these recessed prices? And it's all time low, Ryan. Say it for what it is. These are recessed stock prices.  This is a recessed stock. That's all it is. Okay.  Okay. Just calm down. It's a recessed stock price. Okay. In what I would consider to be a very, very tough year in 2022, it's a recessed stock price. And if you believe in the company, the further that it goes down, the more you should buy. Being able to pick the bottom in this company, good luck doing so. You will not be able to do that. So if you're trying and you're pissed off because you got caught in that euphoria a month ago when the stock was above $3, $4, just a couple of months ago, and everybody was like, ah, I bought the stock at $4.18. I'm awesome. Or like even as early as this week, the stock fell to $2.38. And there was everybody posting in the Yahoo feed. I bought at $2.38. Like you're some sort of stock god. Those are futile. Get over yourself. It's idiotic, moronic, investing one-on-one, if that, to actually think that people give two shits about where you bought the stock. It is a recessed stock price. Take it for what it is. If you think the company's going out of business, so be it. It'll go out of business. We can all be happy and celebrate. And I'll go to Vegas anyway and drink watermelon martinis because we like to look at successful people and we want to wish ill will on them like Thomas Healy, who went from a billionaire to nothing. What a story that would make. Highly on holdings, closes doors, billionaire investor ends up broke because his Highly on shares went to zero because again, the stock market and the short sellers and all the naysayers and the Yahoo thread single-handedly brought down Highly on holdings to its knees and took out the trash of the stock market because Highly on was not going to produce any type of value to the world. Altria, right? How do you go out of business? Thomas Healy will lose everything. We'll be happy. We'll celebrate. I won't feel terrible for the guy. Are we really operating on the pretenses that this company is going to go out of business? Is that really what we're doing right now? You tell me. I'm not. You tell me. You tell me. The tone and tenor yesterday was that it was time to close up shop and we need to slam the doors and we just need to give up on the opportunity because it ceased to exist because the stock hit an all-time low. That was the reason. There were some fragments of speaking along the lines of I'm talking about with regard to credibility and integrity. Credibility and integrity. When those things are compromised, man, it is very, very difficult to get those things back. So when I said F your plan for 2023, you need to focus on restoring some of the credibility with this company. So we don't have to feel like we're left out in the cold, which shareholders should never feel that way. Never. We own a piece of the company.  They are doing a shitty job because those cats on Twitter, Andreas and silent alert sober trades has been more active myself. We do more in a day than they do in a month. Yeah, Ryan, that's unfair.  That's the truth of the matter right now. All right. And they need to wake up and they need to smell the coffee in understanding that my congratulations to them yesterday was to congratulate them on completely pulverizing investor sentiment at this point. It's gone. It's lost. If the tone and tenor, if I could take it and I could package it up and put it into a box and put a bow on it, I would send it to Thomas Healy and he could open it up and he could look and say, yep, it's broken sentiment, Ryan. Thank you very much. I got the message. I'm not going to be so naive. Yeah, sentiment is broke. And it wasn't until yesterday where I usually like to go into the discord group. And when I'm coming up with batches of criticism on the company, I like to see a little bit more of a, yeah, okay, it's extracurricular. This is extracurricular. This is extracurricular. But the core of the thesis, the core of this message, if we emerge from this dark period in this company's history, and I will refer to this as the ice age, the dark period, the firestorm from the heavens, Valhalla, as being the shittiest time in this company's evolution, we are in it. We are in the thick of things right now, my friends, us doing the waltz, holding hands right now as the ship is going down on highly on holdings. This is the dark period for the company right here and there. Make no mistake, we are in it. But if you can calmly acknowledge that and suggest ways that you feel aggrieved, which I've already done so on a personal basis, okay, I've already done that. It doesn't change my stock ownership in the company. I'm not going anywhere and I'm not going anywhere for a long, long time. Why? Because my core thesis on this company is absolutely 100% intact, minus a couple of deltas that are still open-ended, yet to be discussed. I don't know what that was a month ago when the solicitation came through to Twitter to ask questions about wanting to get answered.  There was one individual as well who posted a lot of questions in that Twitter feed, kind of like I did and I was happy to see that because that's the type of churn and interest we need to put toward those types of initiatives. Now to fall on deaf ears and not get any reciprocation from that, that's problematic. I'm sorry guys, that is problematic from a publicly traded company who wants to be more active on social media. Either be active or don't be active at all, but don't control the dialogue in a way that allows you to come on and place these churn-generating types of things and zero follow-through, zero. It causes more damage than it does positive. If your intention is to come on and provide more transparency through social media, have some follow-through, okay? Have some follow-through. Like I've said many, many times, man, I would gift the independent investor channel to Hylian. They can call it Hylian vision. I've said it many times, I mean it, they can have it. They can have it. It's yours. You can have it. It's yours. You can have the channel.  I don't deserve it, okay? At least an acknowledgement. Give a yep that you understand, straight from real Thomas Healy. That's the thing is they're not from him. They're not. And a lot of people are left on the Twitter feed to banter back and forth and say, see, I don't, he doesn't care. There might be some truth to that. If you don't care enough to respond to the people that you're soliciting for feedback, then don't solicit the feedback in the first place, okay? But if we come back to the core thesis of Hylian, okay? Hylian is looking to change the Class 8 space in all the right places, okay? Are they conceptual? No. Are they making deliveries in the Class 8 space? Yes. Is the feedback positive? Yes. Is the CEO competent enough to lead us into the next generation? 100%, okay? Stop with this whole like we need to fire Thomas Healy and somehow that's going to be better for Hylian. Do you truly believe that? Do you truly believe that? If you do, me and you are going to severely disagree, okay?  Thomas Healy is a good guy, okay? And I would sit across from the guy and be like, I truly believe you're a good guy to represent a company where integrity and credibility have been shaken based on previous releases to the investor populace. That's fair, okay? But when you want to suggest to me that you think Thomas Healy should step down or he should get fired, this earlier on in the story, no kidding. Remember my plotter? My plotter point? Over the last two years, I've caught 28 buy injects to the company. I'm sitting on about a cost average of less than $7 to the company. I'm fine with regard to my finances and my personal stock ownership in the company and the dollar amounts that I have committed to Hylian at this point. Perfect. Piece of cake. When you look at those two aspects, very, very easy. That's why people, when they want to tweet me, they're like, how many shares do you own Ryan? How much money do you have in the company here? How much have you lost in the company?   But this conversation that is surrounding the core, I think unfortunately misses the mark when we look to discuss the core and discuss where it is this company is looking to grow and evolve to in the future. Are we going to enter into an ice age next winter 2023? What are the over and under odds of having the same amount of exacerbated downturn or downdraft that we've had in 2022 in 2023 with the odds that a down market never follow, very rarely ever follow another year of down markets. Are we going to be in the same camp next year in 2023? Guys, mark my word. The stock market has a funny way of humbling people and this is setting up to be the turnaround of a lifetime because one of two things are going to happen and I've already drawn the parameters between those two options. Option A, company dissolves away. Thomas Healy goes broke. He forecloses on his house, his wife or his girlfriend or whatever the heck he has leaves him and the discord group shuts its door and dissolves away because Hylian doesn't exist anymore and the company goes away. That's option A, which there's some schools of thought that believe that this company is inevitably going there. Option A, is it going to happen? I don't know. Option B, this company follows through and it realizes with the progress that's being made and the relationships that's been made and the products and the commitments that have been made to fulfill on orders and acknowledge that perhaps maybe the 2000, maybe none of them get filled, but we know pretty, pretty certainly that those 200 that are backed by deposits are going to be filled. They're not filled yet. Not filled yet. Is that going to have a positive catalyst? I don't know. Don't mix A and B.  Option B, they're going to fill the orders and that order is going to spur additional orders.  You're being way too presumptuous. Fair enough. Maybe they do fill those 200 orders and that is the story of success with highly unholdings. Narria defined another order out there in the great landscape of the trillion dollar business that we call the Class 8 space worldwide. Perhaps maybe Option A, the odds makers, would put that into a foregone conclusion category. The company's going away. Going away. Ryan, there's no way that Option B is even a forego. It's not even a possibility at this point. The stock just hit an all-time low, Ryan. Aren't you paying attention? I look at a dollar-cost average program that I've injected to the company to build up the position that I've built up over the last months and even into years for the setup of what is going to transpire over the next coming years. The question you need to ask yourself, my friends, is we close down a terrible year of 2022. I'm glad to see it go down 20%. Not a good year. Not a good year to be an investor. I fought tooth and nail to stay in the pocket where most people would have just rolled over and just said, yeah, sure, I'm done throwing the towel. I don't play like that. Sometimes it's time to soldier up. When it's time to soldier up, that's the test of the true integrity of an individual. I think Hylian's going to soldier up. I think that companies are going to get it. I think the core thesis of this story is going to evolve and it's going to manifest itself. I think it's going to grow. I think the demand over companies and very few companies, I might add, that have the solution on this forefront, on the lowering carbon emissions footprint and doing well for the environment, I think there is tailwind that is going to be loose once the stock market gets done and their focus is off of inflation and interest rates and it turns to, okay, let's let the dust settle and let's just see where we are. See, I'm looking at a Dow right now at $32,000 and an SMP at $3,800 and my interpretation in 2022 is that this market is resilient. It's resilient and I'm super glad that we tore the Band-Aid off and that we've raised interest rates. And when the dust settles, my friends, that is going to be that very moment when people look at the dark period like this where very few people are willing to look at the dark period and say, yep, I was with you, Ryan. I soldiered up, okay? I soldiered up and I put the focus where it needs to be and that is to ask yourself the rhetorical question, are we going to end up better in 2023 than we did in 2022? Guys, only time will tell.  Sorry to bust your bubble. I really appreciate you tuning in to the highly on videos. We'll continue to push out the product into 2020 through, mark my word.  Guys, leave your share counts in the bottom of the video guys. Really appreciate you tuning in. If you like the message, man, I'd invite you to subscribe to the channel. I speak my voice. I speak my word. I speak from the heart and I do not script a thing in a world where we have way, way too much scripting. It's got to be refreshing for a guy to come on and speak from the heart with the emotion that I do as we close down 2022. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the message and good luck in your investment future.


Did you see the hitbox on that move? What is this Street Fighter 4? That was sick! How's it going everybody? DatoDoi here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighter's rank matches and this time due to a lot of requests Somebody really wanted to see some Android 17 and I got no problem playing them. I love this character. Oh, I won't I won't I might miss though because my limbs are extremely short I'm gonna go ahead and skip 17th intro. Not the flashiest one of the bunch. Alright back it up That Goku GT just fell in right in line Gojita mate.  I'm gonna switch out. I know I know this is a 17 style video, but No Super Dash. No no instant transmish Okay, okay No, I tried to get that fist out. I try to get that amp here didn't work out to what we're gonna get the sliding Damn it. Oh, can we optimize? Mmm that that Kamehameha is actually pretty great up close. I gotta be honest. It's stuffing a lot of my stuff Uh level three. Yep GT Goku. It's time for the mix. I think we might spark here honestly Uh not because oh, we're out of the corner though. You know what? Just messed me up, sir Yeah, full-spring Super Dash isn't the best course of action Ground attack No way.  No, we're good. All right, we're out That's a measure to save some face This is back Oh nice. We get the same side level three beautiful In fact, I'd be pretty upset if we didn't All right, there's his sparking Okay, what's the mix? Oh just a standard cross up drops it though That's a hit. That's a hit and I think Oh, we gotta go for the extension dude Missed it up No down heavy comes out man. We were really putting the pressure on the Goku there. I needed that knockout I should have probably just gone for a norm. Hmm. I've never seen that extension actually Oh, I tried to exchange some blows with them 17 goes down not not having done much this round Not gonna lie to you. I didn't I didn't put my 17 socks on right this morning There we go That's simple yonk just stuff though. Let's not get too hyped up about it. I didn't get down heavy Probably should have been Oh, the super dash goes right through those L's Ah, I tried not having there not the safest thing Seven bars is a definite kill unless a big drop happened. He's going for the spear bomb I wouldn't even I hit it. I wouldn't have even done that though. I probably just would have taken the guaranteed. Um Just you know dhg out Who knows maybe he wants Goku gt to stay out. It's a pretty good character to have Ah, yeah, I knew he's gonna click a button there. I had to get the light out first Get the lead out still the best mario party minigame to this day.  This is such a doable comeback. That's why I'm not I'm not stressing too hard super saying goku is Top tier. Let's put it lightly This dude's top tier You see that was uh Down heavy murder. She wrote that would have been a great time to do it See get level three. Okay. He does. All right, so that's game one Pretty shoddy performance from my 17. I think this this rematch should go better though Let's try, you know sit back game one always the warm-up Of course, you like to win those warm-ups All right, that's game one first the three set All right, super same rose a lot of points on the line I feel the need to stress this to myself every time because let's be honest. I need the points Dude, that's the one problem, dude. I wish that that 2l was a little bit better off that I just uh, I don't know why I always go for I know it never works That was hot though Eight the reflect 17 is just gonna do it now All right, we're switching out Switching out is the only Oh, but uh, I didn't think he'd take that long to get to me. No the reeds Backdash on that. Yep. All right. Good. The 17 assist did come in clutch. Oh, and that came in clutch Dude, let's go boy.  What is this street fighter for?  Yeah Always underestimate that angle. Who's coming out? Who's coming out? A lot of bar down the drain here. Also Goku GT versus yamcha is genuinely a bad matchup because the key blast just isn't worth throwing out Also, I feel like yamcha's moves just do not connect against this guy. I know they probably do That's just a feeling thing but Goddamn does it Again, it covered me, but it didn't protect me. Oh Oh, you reset it too for the knockout.  Don't get me wrong.  This is the whole classic then no need to keep why go any different Do you think he'll spark? Honestly, I think he will. You know, he's kind of a sparking guy Yeah, well Oh, we cover all options, baby. We cover all these options.  That's right bean game.  Yep That's the second beam was a no go Oh, we're dead. Sparking is powerful Miss. Oh sparking Okay This I'm a little less confident in I'd rather have sparking super saying goku out, but You know, I'll take a yamcha in my time of need Sparking yamcha is not too shabby himself We'll three sparking in the bank Dude, the light didn't connect. I don't know why it missed. Maybe it just was poorly timed sliding beam assist I'm getting done in I'm getting absolutely done in by this gp goku. Am I dead? That's sliding Um, am I dead? He let over dead Dude, look at the gt goku on this man. Oh my god. Okay. All right. Focus up boys. Focus up Gt goku is a problem character for me right now I can't let him stay a problem character That's we're gonna take down everybody but gt goku After I get mixed real quick.  Oh, that was great Damn Life in the corner is not all it's shocked up to b boys. I should have switched to goku for that. Whoo Nice That's the pickup. I like to see honestly Can we kill with a dragon rush here? I don't think so No, we can we can again Really he sparks this early Okay, uh, this I did not think he was gonna do this. All right. This threw off a lot of my mental game plan Why do I always down heavy there? Oh, we're out.  All right goku in the air man. He has so much health left Maybe we got an early spark too All right, hold on hold on on that early spark idea Nicely done goku Best character in the game Hold on on that early spark boys Please kill Please kill I sent you out because you got the most damaging level one in the business. Let's go Let's go. I like that 17 That's a teammate Backdash watch the assist super dash from across the screen We didn't get on the other side in time to block Lag Y'all see what I'm dealing with though I just want to leave Don't okay. Don't oh my god goku gt is yusted Look at the busted on this man guys Guys goku gt might be the best character in the game. Oh, I could attack Guys, I might be the worst player in the game I thought that would work. Damn. I guess they I guess you really shouldn't give up Do we want to switch him out? No, we take the sliding. I think What what how did that not reflect wait? I got to watch that back in editing is that That was crazy that genuinely was crazy though It was he just did he stop the multi punch move or did I reflect too early? Either way, I'm big mad Okay, it's a super easy decision for me. I'm doing I'm doing 2m. This guy has gotten away from everything so far Nice Just keep the pressure going game. We can't let him win the set. That's That's the goal. Oh, I couldn't block it. I tried Tried it Ah sliding down tech Oh, that's death. Nice. Okay, so we take game three. Let me hold on. Let me not say anything too early All right, good. We got the supersaw if I dropped it at this point. That would be a miracle Good. Okay. Still sloppy with 17. We have as a lot we can clean up that reflect was off That's something I got to take into training mode. See if that's consistent That might just be like some I don't know one in a million stuff, but I don't know my uh my my laggy Real-life eyes with the reaction time I have It looked like he was like too low to get reflected again or something Oh, that's why yonks is the best assist in the game That's why yonks is the best assist in the game. I can feel 17 Yep Yeah It's crazy how yonks is the best assist. This isn't gonna kill it The yonks just came in clutch every time I pulled it out That was insane Ah missed my chance Could have jumped up in super dash that would have been the best play But right now we gotta we gotta figure way out of this mess should attack That should have been the way out of the mess We got to keep our character advantage by the way. So early sparking is the route After we get mixed of course because the spear bomb down tech just in case Let's learn.   Ah, that was my bad. I tried to run up and block I'm dead, but it's gonna take him two bars Are we not dead Again, I didn't get the block off that that's killing me, dude When the beam when you get a beam kill, that's like a huge momentum shift Down heavy doesn't connect. That's bad news I wish that was angled a bit more Dude, they're dude. I would make 17 the most broken character if they were like, all right Uh, what do you want to change with them and they brought me into the room? I'd be like I got out. I got a few things I could work on He just It didn't even tech.  He was like get that out of here. No dragon rush No again. I got caught by a beam. I'm good. Nice. He saw it coming, but Nice That was beautiful. In fact, that might be the only reason I'm not Dead in the ground right now Oh, I tried to down heavy. That was a real poor decision. Full health yamsha though sparking should be almost out It's the seven bars. That's really gonna do me in if anything Thank god he ran out of sparking by the way How do you hit this dude with yamsha? Oh, man Okay, I know I'm spending a lot of bar, but I need the confirmed kill I I don't know if it's genuinely a bad matchup for yamsha or if it's just by like The way I think about the matchup that it's affecting my ability to play it so bad Oh, I really tried to down heavy. I was so So convinced he was gonna mix me up All right, we'll take a level three and I think we'll live Honestly, we might not wait a minute. This is the end of the set. Hold on yamsha Wow the last take. No, there was a few more ticks. Damn Is that it dude? I got messed up this set I got messed up I got messed up one more one more one more gotta leave after this though. So if I wait, it's it's gg. No re All right, I'm getting messed up again Okay nice Ah goku wasn't up yet Nice. Okay. I think if I just take into account the reflex, I'm okay Okay, take into the account the reflex This is uh, this is cheating. I would have lost the set way before this but Wow, that was a quick guard cancel to the point where I'm not even sure if he meant to guard cancel Oh put myself in the corner And I'm dead too. Jesus. That was a bad mistake Let's have to waste the bar though. I guess Such a bad mistake you get caught. You lose that character. That's the character advantage gone. All right What what can we bring the heat? I'm trying to bring the heat because I have not been bringing the heat this set Goku GT has been wrecking me That's the stuff That's the heat. I like to see Bring the heat. What no way. I didn't block it. Oh, I can't believe it level three schmicks He doesn't want it. He just wants the the real level three Okay, dragon fist is a pretty long animation The pressure at all angles Throw me back into the corner. God this dude is crazy.  That was bad defense Okay Same side that we're gonna get that corner. Maybe he's gonna be closer to the corner There we go dragon rush This is such a hard matchup.  I gotta get better That's the it's the problem, dude. I I think you might be the best character of the game though Goku's pretty good himself Dude goku has the best buttons in the game Just in general the character the characters of goku Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, it's so it's over Jesus what's happening? Oh my god, he's Dead Three frames is back though. That's good. That's good. Nice Can we stop the lag Stop the lag All right, well we take the win But that is the furthest thing from making me pride. I have no pride though All right, well, we're gonna go ahead and get out of here. That was a great match before that lag I'm very sorry about that, dude. You got a good goku gt on your hands though I got to admit uh The pressure was real if you have a favorite moment from this rank session Make sure to go down below in the comments and let me know Let me know if you guys have ever been messed up by a goku gt like that because that was insane Other than that while you're down there if you like the video and the channel Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe so that I can keep these videos coming your way If you really want some more videos right now, there should be some up on your screen So feel free to give those a watch if any of them catch your eye Once again, I'm dr. Doya. Thanks so much for watching this particular video and I will see you in the next one