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So the Ranger is a type of caster known as a half caster, a title earned by being less of a bathrobe wearing magic blasting master blaster and more of a fighter that just has a fetish for robes and wizard hats.  This means that as a ranger, your magic isn't the main draw. It's the silver lining that you use to accentuate your martial combat abilities. Think of your spells less as actual spells and more like special class abilities that you have the luxury of choosing between, and you'll have a good idea. Especially given the fact that unlike mainline casters, your spell levels only go up to fifth level and you get them at a much slower rate than the wizard. Especially the wizard. It's also worth noting that the Ranger doesn't get cantrips, meaning the spells that you do have are gonna be much more important and the spells that don't directly benefit you will be better off taken by full casters since their parents were rich enough to buy their kids' way into private wizard school.  You also only start getting spells at level two, you have the second smallest spell list in the game even if you only measure up the other lists to level five and you can't just swap out spells whenever you want, which is especially annoying because you don't get that many spells in the first place, so planning matters.  This means that spells that do damage are going to become less and less impressive as the levels go up because they're balanced around other spells that players would normally have gotten in half the time and spells that provide utility bonuses are going to be praised for being able to withstand the test of time. Finally, the biggest thing holding the Ranger spell list back is also the class' biggest strength, Hunter's Mark. Hunter's Mark is invaluable for rangers everywhere because the Ranger doesn't have a lot of good ways to keep up its damage output compared to other classes besides the extra damage and the ability to conserve spell slots that Hunter's Mark provides. This would be okay if it weren't for the fact that Hunter's Mark is a concentration spell, meaning you can't cast any other concentration spell, or else Hunter's Mark will fizzle out and you'll have to waste an already limited spell slot to get it back. It's a frustrating snafu because it means that all those spells that add variety to your kit are completely locked out due to the necessity of one good spell. So for the purposes of this list, I'm going to assume that you won't be riding the big girthy dong of Hunter's Mark or else we could just throw out every other concentration spell for not being Hunter's Mark. But let's get this guide going, starting with First level! Absorb elements, grab it when you need it, staying alive is fun. Alarm! Tell the wizard to take this if you want it so badly. Animal friendship. Again, take it if you need it, otherwise leave it alone. Beast bond. It's okay if you're a beast master, but speak with animals is just better. Cure wounds. Okay, this is gonna sound crazy, but you actually don't need this.  Take it at your own risk. Detect magic. Just have a wizard do it. Detect poison and disease. Not useful when you have slots to spare and it won't be useful now. In snaring strike. Not as good as the druid it can snare from which the spell takes inspiration, but it's still a really good spell against solo enemies. Fog cloud.  Good berry.  Hail of thorns. A little tough to set up, but good damage either way. Hunter's Mark. I literally gave this spell its own paragraph. Nuff said. Jump. Longstrider. Under most circumstances, you don't need this, but who knows? Snare. Good to keep on if you're tracking down a target that you might want to interrogate. Speak with animals. You never know what that dumbass bird has been up to. Zephyr strike. A get out of jail free card that also acts as a one-off reliable damage dealer. Animal messenger. Good for talking to people. Not much to say there. Bark skin. You literally start with scale mail. Your AC is already 16 if you prioritize decks, which you did. And this clogs your concentration? No. Beast sense. It's like beast bond, but better. Horde of arrows.  Dark vision. You will have ways of beating dark vision by this point. Don't waste your spell slots trying to do what a high wisdom or intelligence check can do better. Healing spirit.  Lesser restoration. Again, think of this as a class feature, not a spell, and you'll get a good idea of when to use this. Locate animals or plants. Please don't waste your TM's time with this. Locate object.  Pass without trace. Good to help you out with stealthy missions, especially if you need to offset scale mail's stealth penalty. Protection from poison. Silence. Pocket sand for spellcasters. Spike growth. If there's a druid in your party, let them do this instead. If not, then it's your time to shine, baby. Conjure animals.  Conjure brage. For a third level spell, 3D8 isn't gonna compete with a Fireball's 8D6, but please remember that these are being measured against other spells in the class list this time around, so it's not awful comparatively. Daylight. A bigger light spell. Someone's bound to have it. Flame arrows. Not gonna lie, it's probably better that one of your spellcasting allies cast this on you. I know it's embarrassing, but you'll get it way sooner that way. Lightning arrow. It's like Halo Thorns, but better. Nondetection. Divination doesn't come up that often, and if it does, it's not the ranger's problem. Plant growth. Sure, you're not a druid, but this is a pretty nice spell for stopping movement outdoors. Grass is plants too. Protection from energy. I would argue that while this spell is a better spell for slot economy, absorb elements is better to take normally if you fight melee since this is concentration, and absorb elements does damage back. Speak with plants. Again, you're not a druid, but useful spells are useful spells. Water breathing. Take it if you need it. Water walk. Unless you're about to drown, do not take this. Wind wall.  Conjure woodland beings. Charge into battle with a squad of unfair folk backing you up. Freedom of movement. Utility spells get more leeway on this list. It's just the rules. Grasping vine. It really does a bad job of keeping people at bay, and it costs concentration. Guardian of nature. Everybody gangsta until the ranger shows off its giant woody. Locate creature. You can usually circumvent this if you know what the creature is holding, but it's not bad to have anyway. Stoneskin. If you use a bow, you don't need this because you can run away. If you use melee, you don't want this because it'll just get wiped off of you. Commune with nature. Knowledge of the terrain is great, so long as it's an outdoors problem. Conjure volley. It's a pretty great ranged ability for the rangers spellcasting capstone. Steel wind strike. This is the most anime spell ever, and for some reason wizards get it too. Swift quiver. The true successor to Hunter's Mark, so long as your fight only lasts for one minute. Tree stride. I normally don't really care about this spell, but for the utility-centric ranger, being able to teleport all over the forest is fantastic. Wrath of nature. A variety of good abilities that, while overshadowed by the other fifth level spells, are still pretty great. Buuuut that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to like, comment, subscribe, ring the bell. Like my Twitter, Instagram, maybe my Twitch, I don't know. 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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning market kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Friday morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, company of live firm TFNN. Just after 9 a.m. Eastern time, we got about 24 minutes to go until the start of trading. We got option expiration coming at you and we got markets trading lower yet again. We got the S&P's off almost 25 points trading at 43.60, China in the news yet again weighing on markets. We talked about some of these trend lines of where we were. S&P makes it to the low of that trend we were looking at yesterday. You could say it made an acceleration below that trend line, right? Where does that trend line fall? You might have just slammed through that trend line yesterday. Depending on where you lined that up, maybe that was even a retest in terms of the bounce you got overnight. But nonetheless, we are lower by 25 points. NASDAQ 100, you're off by 125 points, similar action right out of these trend lines and that was quite a trend itself. But we are making new lows in pretty dramatic fashion. You get the Dow right now, 144 points to the Russell, off by 9 trading at 1846. Boy, we got some action in yields. We got some action in commodities. Crude, we're trading at 79.11, testing the lows we had of Wednesday evening in that crude market at under $80. Let's jump over to the Dollar Index first. You get the Dollar Index, excuse me, we push a recent high like we were talking about yesterday. What do we have? Look at the reversal of yields. I was going to talk about the reprieve we were getting, but boy, just since I was looking at the charts at 8 o'clock this morning, I'm looking at the charts, I'm saying, I wonder if we're going to get 110 by the time on the air at 9 o'clock in the morning. We had just come from basically 109 yesterday, so I'm saying, man, we're going to get a 110. Nope, just like that in the last hour, you drop off, we're talking about a 10-year yield, still sitting at about 4.26, 4.264 to be exact. About 4.25%, the yield on the 10-year right now, that's driving a lot of the action.  Look at the 30-year, man, we were just at 119, 1926, and boom, just like that, we're back to 119, so we got some volatility and bonds, man. We are one week out from Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, a week from today, Friday, August 25th, pretty remarkable. You come into basically summer trading after that. We're in summer trading as in, that's the end of the summer, that's real summer trading, when you're talking about coming into Labor Day weekend. Is that right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure Labor Day is the fourth. Yes it is, Monday, September 4th is Labor Day, so markets will be closed for that, and what are we? Yeah, we're two weeks out from that, and folks, if you know anywhere in the Northeast, right, final two weeks of the summer, I mean, Florida, we were already in our second week of school, but in most situations, you're coming into Labor Day final two week, especially the final week of August, et cetera. Nonetheless, we'll see if we get some quiet markets. We're going to be out from a Fed meeting, but we do get Jackson Hole August 25th, and maybe that's kind of the last bout before we get some light volatility, and don't mistake the fact that, excuse me, some light volume. We get some light markets in terms of volume, participants, final two weeks of August, people taking a couple vacations, maybe to Cape Cod, maybe to the Hamptons. This weekend's the Falmouth Road Race, man, many, many good childhood memories, and even adult memories in Cape Cod. I was at the Falmouth Road Race four years ago, folks, ran the Road Race four years ago. That was an awesome time. Never thought I'd do that, and very thankful I did, because you never know what's going to happen. Take advantage of those opportunities, because what happens? I run it in August of 2019, and there was no Road Race the next year, because of COVID. So keep that stuff in mind, man. You get opportunities, get it done, and then, of course, I have a son, becomes a little bit difficult as well, but we're going to get back up there. Maybe next summer, escape some of the seat. And look at this. As we're talking, you get the third year, back to about 119 right now, and we jump over to the 10-year right now. We're trading at 109.18, but we were just pushing almost 110. All right, what do we got going on? Let's kick things off with the Wall Street Journal headline, Investors for your China's Lehman Moment is Looming. Lots of headlines out there on China, man. You jump over to Bloomberg. Story out here, China steps up the efforts to stabilize markets. It looks like they're a little bit worried, man. Confidence slumps. The funds asked not to sell stocks. Banks are supposed to prop up the wand. The hang sang only down 8% this year. I was reading this this morning, and I said, man, that is not fear. That is not a Lehman Moment. The hang sang down just 8% this year. It's August 18th, folks. That is not a Lehman Moment in terms of being priced into that market and how it could reverberate. But yeah, China, they're trying to do everything they can, and they won't be able to stem it if things really get out of whack, as we always see. So you jump from there, and then the Journal. The big trust companies, they're missing payments, right? You have the big developer going BK recently. I'm sure that's in this article. I think that was last night. And that was more of an when moment, not an if, in terms of that developer going BK. I'm sure they mentioned it somewhere in this article as well. But nonetheless, so we got China trading lower. You jump over to Asia right now. You have the hang sang down 2% right now. Shanghai down a full percent right now. Nikkei down about half a percent over in Europe right now. We got the DAX down about 1.2%.  So our market's not quite down 1.2% yet. We're only down 25 points. We'll see where we go, but breaking those lows. Now, you put that on a daily, just going back a year. That was the channel line I was looking at. We've actually broken below that. We're trading at 43.60 right now. That is basically the beginning of the gap. It begins at 43.48, and that's the gap from June 12th when you gaped above what is now the 3.82. So we're talking about 43.20, which correlates to 43.25 is the fill of that gap going back to June 9th. Let's see if there's anything even back a little bit further than that. We're going to run into some resistance right now. While we get the highs of August of last year, check it out to the tee. That high 43.27, OK? 43.27, and then we got 43.20 on the 3.82, and we got 43.25 as a fill of the gap. So 43.20 to 43.30, something like that. You're talking about 20 to 30 points from where we're at right now. We got options, expiration going on today as well. We'll talk about that a little later in the program as we go forward. Yeah, and let's look at that China article. Why not? And this is what I was talking about, Evergrande. They filed for bankruptcy protection. Chapter 15, I guess, is, yes, Chapter 15, bankruptcy protection, Manhattan Bankruptcy Court. Some of the numbers. I saw a tweet out last night, man, saying, they lost like 80 billion. Yeah, here it is. In July, Evergrande posted a combined loss of $81 billion over the past two years after struggling to finish projects and repay suppliers and lenders. Net loss for 2001, 2022, $66.3 billion and $14.76 billion, respectively, that's over $81 billion. So that was not a shocker, but nonetheless. You lose $81 billion over two years. You got some problems, and China's got some problems right now, man. And the market's paying attention to that. Our yields are a whole different story that we have going higher. You know, I woke up this morning and I said, OK, that was it, right? We hit some recent highs in terms of yields recently. We hit $109.03. You're within a few pennies of where we were trading at in October of last year. Maybe we get a bounce, but boy, that bounce is pulling back. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be right back. Lots to talk about on Friday, Oxford Options Exploration. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. Sign up for Rocket Equities and Options Report today with a 30-day money-back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. 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I think it's something like 2.2 trillion dollars of options are expiring, but we'll get into that a little bit later in the program because the one thing that's remarkable, folks, nowadays is that when you talk about the value that you are controlling in equities with options, it is magnified by like a hundred times and sometimes even more than that in terms of, you know, if you're buying an option for a dollar, okay, and this is a tease, as we're gonna get into this later, we'll really do some of the math, but if you buy an option for a dollar that controls a hundred shares of an equity and that equity is trading at multiples of a dollar, already you're magnified that by almost a hundred times if you're trading at a hundred versus one. And I know that's quick math that doesn't do justice to the numbers and we'll talk about that later in the program. I do wanna talk about story little near and dear to me, Deerfield Academy. So I was very fortunate, folks, growing up. My dad believes in education like nothing and I believe in it as well. And I was very fortunate to go to an amazing school, Noble and Greeno, in Dettem, Massachusetts. And boy, if you are looking for an outstanding school, folks, it's private school, very expensive. They do offer tuition assistance. Some of the money that these schools have, man competes with some of the best schools in terms of colleges out there. I found this story interesting up on Bloomberg this morning. Deerfield Academy is raising $89 million to build a dining hall. Remarkable, man. They're basically small colleges, folks, but I can tell you myself, I was so fortunate, went to Nobles from middle school and high school. So six years, I'll bring up Nobles in a second as well. The years that I felt myself that you were able to transform yourself, learn, become an adult, educate yourself, become from a child to an adult human being. When I got to Villanova University, again, so fortunate to go there, I learned a tremendous amount more, I believe, in my middle school and especially high school years than in college, which was more about a life experience scenario and growing up to really becoming a self-sufficient adult to that degree. An awesome time, period, right? Very fortunate to be able to spend four years at an institution like that, made some amazing friends, joined a great fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega. But, so $89 million, just go on over some of these numbers, okay? They have an endowment, $791 million. As of June 30th, 2022, that would put it among the top 100 richest US colleges if measured against institutions of higher education. And listen, folks, it's not gloating. I know I'm so fortunate, okay? In these schools, they're so expensive and of course, the richest people, powerful people out there, they try and get their kids in there. There's a lot of tuition assistance that comes from these types of endowments as well where they provide a vast amount of tuition because the tuition of these schools, folks, runs $60,000, something like that a year. These days, wasn't quite that level when I was going there from 1992, 93 to 1998, but still remarkable. We played Deerfield in some of our sporting events. Here's the other thing I'll say as we tangent a bit, okay? One of the most amazing things of going to Nobel and Grinow Nobles in Denim, Massachusetts, they require you to participate in three different team sports events, theater. You can join clubs, right? Every season, you have to do an activity. And then when you're in middle school, that's three sports. I thought that was so crucial, Megan. You don't need to go to one of these schools to get your kids involved in activities. When you're young, most of the time, that's doing some type of whether it's playing soccer. They have all the kids playing every sport, right? So you don't have to be a stud. What it teaches you is hanging out with the children, right? Forming those relationships when all the kids in the classes are playing sports together, it builds a relationship that you don't have just by sitting in a classroom and you can build those as well. When you get later into high school, those activities include clubs, like drama, et cetera.  You have to do an activity beyond just going to school. That was one of the most crucial things that I thought was amazing, that you had to play a sport or do an activity every single season, because otherwise, what do kids do, right? They get home from school at 2.33 o'clock. Maybe they eat some snacks. Maybe they watch some TV. Hopefully they go outside and play with their friends. Nonetheless, that is one of the most amazing parts is how they get you involved in all these activities. Tuition is bonkers, man. Now, this is just going back from 2019, and this is talking about boarding, okay?  I checked it. Now, this is, it's at a glance, man. You know, I'm just promo in this amazing school, because I think it was one of the most, you know, formative years of my life, changed my life in dramatic fashion. This is the middle school that I went to. This is John Gifford. He's the head of the middle school right now. He was a teacher when I was there, which is pretty cool, and man, the head of the middle school when I was back there, a man by the name of Tim Carey. He was at Nobles forever. He was an awesome, awesome guy, very fortunate. And looking at some of these, okay, to talk about the dining hall, why not, we'll promo in my school, because please check it out, folks, and if you think you can't afford it, okay? Listen, they have all types of income, tuition assistance at these schools. That's what these endowments do. Now, here's the kicker. Look at this beautiful castle we have at Nobles, okay? This is at a glance. Now, you talked about the dining hall. This dining hall was not around when I was there, but this is the dining hall at Nobles now. So when you talk about, when they say $89 million, I mean, these are structures, folks, that have been around forever in terms of our dining hall is this castle function here in Nobles over the fields. Pretty remarkable experience, to say the least. Now, the numbers, I think I had it, right? Was this the one? Yeah, so 630 total students at Nobles, 518 in the upper school, about 110 in the middle school. So seventh and eighth grade, you're looking at about 50 to 60 kids per class. In the upper school, you're looking at about 110 to 120, so they expand the class by basically doubling it. And yeah, day tuition, pretty remarkable, $60,000, five-day boarding, 66, paying that type of tuition, okay? I enjoy it, you know, you put your kid through high school and middle school, and middle school is a small break of that. Yeah, what are you talking about, man? You're talking about 360, 400 grand. So I get the scenario, folks, that that is cash, okay, that you could buy your 12, 13-year-old a $400,000 house practically, okay, to the same degree, and there's a lot of merit to that conversation as well.  I know it is an absurd amount of money. It was not at this level. When I was back there, it was still obviously a lofty level, but as colleges have risen, these have risen in lockstep, man, and it is the best investment you can make, for sure. But when you start talking about $400,000 for high school men, there's opportunity costs that go along with that. So I get that to a certain degree, but boy, it was a very informative, and I really felt, which a lot of people don't realize, I think, is that those years are so much more informative, and they shape you more than college when people are used to spending so much money for college these days. And I say I went to Villanova, and that was great, but boy, Nobles was the one that really changed me in a pretty dramatic fashion. And yeah, so they talk about this one, Phillips Exeter, right? They even mentioned, I didn't even make it to the bottom of this one. They got Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, 76. Yeah, I guess what they, they're talking about boarding schools in here, but boy, it was amazing. We had a great hockey team. A lot of amazing times out there. So opportunity, if you're looking for an outstanding school in the Winkland area, folks, I'm biased. I know I am. Noble and Grino, data mask. All right, we're coming back. We're talking markets. We got the S&P off by 27, and thanks so much to my dad for sending me that, man, and my mom, because that was awesome. You talked about a sacrifice, for sure. Stay tuned, folks, we're coming back to the market. Currencies, commodities, and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kegstad's Tiger Forex report. 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Go to TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Welcome back, folks. We've got markets open and you're pushing the pre-market session lows with the S&P off 31 points right now. We jump back to that chart. Trading at 43.52, we did just spike that low on the open at 43.50 and the S&P is off by 7.10% I mentioned Europe right now about 1.2% China, a little worse than that even depending where you are at Nasdaq 100 off about 9.10% we get the Dow off 4.10% and the Russell off 9.10% as well. So a quick example jumping around. Let's jump around to yields real quick before I'll see how we're opening up. Yeah, 10 year pulls back a bit 109.18 right now we jump over to the dollar index we get the dollar index backing off from those highs of 103.68 we're at 103.51 right now. So I mentioned talking about in terms of the dollar value of the options that are expiring. I think I saw somewhere out there just trying to find the article on Bloomberg and maybe I'm gonna try again at the next break. I had it up this morning I was reading it early talking about the value of options that are expiring today and the wall of options that are expiring. And in my head I was just thinking man this is so exaggerated sometimes when they talk about the value of the options expiring versus the underlying value of what those options represent. Now some of them can be very correlated as in if you have a deep in the money option right then the market value of that option versus the underlying equities that you're controlling are pretty closely aligned because you're so deep in the money. But a quick example to give you and I've talked about these short-term options before they call them zero days to expiration or zero DTE options okay. But just to illustrate sometimes what you can control for an equity versus what you're actually putting up for a cost of an option. Here's a quick example okay. We're gonna walk through this it's gonna take a couple minutes but pay attention man because it teaches you a thing or two about the zero days to expiration options as well. And who was it that came out yesterday I think it was Goldman saying that the zero DTEs are part of the reason the market's pulling back. Guess what folks they're just a new element. If they were part of the reason it's pulling back then they were part of the reason that it was going up okay. And nobody was out there crying at that point they are a part of the market at this point. That's like saying that short sellers are a reason the market's going down. Of course there are buyers, sellers in the market. Leverage is what should be talked about and should be understood okay. So here's the spy S&P 500 ETF. Trading right now at 434 pretty much on the dot we'll call it okay. You jump over to the trade tab and I think there's some platform we're in the spy we take a look at the options expiring today. They call it zero DTEs because those are till days until the last trading day and there's your zero okay. So we get zero days to expiration. They expire at the close today. And if you jump over and look at this market it's bouncing a bit. So now we're almost at 434.50 okay. But let's just look at the 434 call. We're about 40 cents in the money but it costs us a dollar. Let's just we're ballparking numbers here all right. We're looking at, sorry that's a put excuse me. Perfect 434 call is on the left side here. Here's your bid ask 434. It's at about a buck 50 okay. Now we have about 50 cents of intrinsic value and then we have about a dollar in premium and on the zero days to expiration options folks you can tell real quickly what you're paying in premium by looking at the theta which is how much you're gonna get a decay of premium and the reason why it's so correlated is because if this option stays where it is for the day you will lose a buck 10 because that's all premium and it expires at the end of the day all right. But here's the last kicker. Options trade in hundred share blocks lots okay. So if you're buying something for a dollar and you buy one option contract you're paying about $140 right now right. You're paying about $140. And your delta here is 52 cents. So basically you're getting 50% of the movement of the underlying index right now. So if the S&P goes up 50 cents the price of this option is probably gonna go up 25 cents right so you have a delta of about 50 I'm ballparking all these numbers okay. So last part of this conversation is how much do you put up for one options contract? You put up $141 which is a hundred shares of this option which cost a dollar 40 you multiply a dollar 40 times a hundred you're at $140. You've put up $140 that's all you've put up one option contract. You now own the right to buy 100 shares of the SPY ETF at 434. Well what does that control? Well that controls 434 times a hundred right which is $43,400 of control in terms of the underlying equity. So put that in context folks what did you just do? You just put up $140 to control equities that are worth $43,400. Now what is percentage wise? That's 310 times on your money okay. But you gotta do it percentage wise which you add a couple zeros to make it a percentage that would make it 31,000% in terms of you're controlling $43,400 for $140 investment okay. So when they say that there's $2.2 trillion of options expiring today I'm gonna pull this over now okay. That's what $2.2 trillion looks like right. There's your million, there's your billion, there's your trillion okay. And you're gonna divide that by 310 to show you that that's just $7 billion if you're doing the same type of multiple that could be out there today. Still a big number okay. Now here's the kicker of these zero data expiration options though to back it up for one more thing. You put up $140 to control a call option that has a 434 strike price. So you have 100 shares of this equity which is trading at $434. So if you wanted to buy 100 shares of the spy you would have to put up $43,400 right. No you only gotta put up $140 and then you'd say well hold on though that's just an option right. You're not really getting the full movement of the underlying no you're not you're correct. You're getting what? You're getting 50% of the movement, 54%, 55 now to be exact right. Your delta is 54, 55. So that means the underlying can move and this option will move about half of the value. Well then what do you do? So then what you do is you say okay so I'm controlling $43,400 worth of equities by entering this option but I'm only getting 50% of the action. So what are you really controlling versus the equities? Well you're still controlling what? $21,500, $21,700 to be exact. $21,700 of equities is the exposure you're getting in the spy by putting up $140 right. Yeah so when you hear sometimes the value of the options that are expiring I said $2.2 trillion right and then my head started to go I said wait a second man. They're talking about the value of the underlying equities that they are controlling and when you look at the value of the options and folks this is an extreme example of a zero days to expiration option that is almost at the money or near the money. And like I mentioned there's a lot of options contracts for instance where you have most of the value built into that option that you control but still it's a multiple of a multiple and those numbers skew pretty dramatically but that's a quick lesson man when you talk about why people love these you can see it okay. You get in there, you're controlling 100 shares of an equity trading at $435 and what do you put up for that cost? You put up 150 bucks pretty remarkable. All right folks we got markets in negative territory we bounce a bit on the open. Stay tuned we'll go over some of the individual equities that are moving on this Friday. Stay tuned folks we'll be right back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball. After all it's impossible to predict the future right? Like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts. 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That's putting a bid under the crude contract. You jump over to gold, slight bid, but nothing like we had in crude, right? Gold trading at 19.21. You're up by $6 right now. We keep our eye on yields. The 10 year right now back to 109.18. Basically pulling back to where we were at the start of yesterday. You dive down to 109.03. We move almost a full point up to almost a 110 handle. And just like that, we're back to yesterday morning in terms of the 10 year with a yield of about four point, I think we're at 4.26. Let's see where we are as we jump around because we've got some movement. That's where we were in the beginning of the year. Yeah, 4.26% the yield on the 10 year. That's a pretty attractive risk-free rate of return over the next 10 years, man. It's gonna be some competition for the market going forward, to say the least. All right, let's see how Darden's doing. So we have the headline out there.  I said, Darden's really not moving. Why are they talking about their moving? All-back Steakhouse owner stock rises after activist starboard value by Steak. They own 9.9%, just shy of that 10% number. But there's no real movement on Darden right now. No real movement at all. You check it out, right? We're trading at 158.58 right now for Darden restaurants, down about 20 cents on the session. We've pulled back recently. You check out the daily, off the highs about 173. I talked about Olive Garden recently earlier in the week. If you didn't catch the program folks, Olive Garden in Lakeland, Florida, man, they got no soda, they got no carbonation, they got no Pinot Grigio. They get some issues over there, that's in my piece. Okay, what else we got going on folks? Well, we got an awesome webinar coming up next Wednesday. We got our man Basil Chapman of the Tiger Technicians Hour, the opening call. He's up live next at 10 o'clock of course. He has put together a webinar for his subscribers to the opening call. So here's the deal. 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You jump over to the big dog, Apple. It's not stopping for Apple, man. Off another 910th percent. When are they gonna buy Disney? No, I kid, Disney. Off another 210th percent right now. We jump over to NVIDIA shares. NVIDIA off 2.3%. Now, NVIDIA, there you go. They're out with their numbers August 23rds. You know what's gonna be happening, man? I think they're out after the bell. How cool is that? So Basil's webinar, you're gonna get some NVIDIA earnings Wednesday after the bell, August 23rd, I believe. NVIDIA, that should be, I mean, can they live up to the hype, man? You're still $120. You're still 40% above where you were trading at on their last earnings, let alone starting the year at 150. You talk about optimism priced into this market. You jump over to Microsoft. Look at these stocks, man. You get the Nasdaq 100 right now off about 810th percent. Jump over to Tesla. Boy, the Magnificent Seven, man. That might be the end of the Magnificent Seven. Tesla just traded from 300 to 215, right? You got Apple with 16 billion shares that's off $26. What are we talking about? 26, that's about $400 billion. That's more, that's $420 billion. Why not? We'll call it 420. That Apple has shaved off their market cap. I mean, these are big moves, man. Yeah, you're at 2.7 billion. You were at about, excuse me, 2.7 trillion. You were approaching 3.1 trillion on Apple shares. Remarkable numbers when you think about that. That's why people talk about maybe they could buy Disney. They just lost 400 billion in market cap. And meanwhile, Disney right now is trading with a market cap of 157. Can't find a bit. Yeah, maybe they'll just take over ESPN as we talked about yesterday. Dan Ives over at Wedbush talking about. They've talked about that for a while though, folks. All right, let's talk a little bit of Hurricane. Watch out for Hillary. Can be more things than one, but this time it's a hurricane. Intensifies as storm charts path to California. And boy, yeah, these headlines catch my eye, folks, because we got some hot weather all across the country. I'll cross the globe right now. And water temperatures, okay? I'm gonna see if I can find some articles during this next break coming up. The water temperatures going on right now are five to seven degrees hotter some areas in Florida. That is worrisome as we come into hurricane season. It's just starting. This one's out in California. Hopefully it doesn't do anything too alarming out there, but nonetheless you get Hurricane Hillary as we're gonna start seeing those headlines, unfortunately. And we'll see where we go from there, but yes. Boy, we got some hot, hot waters to say the least. And we work. I would stay away from this one, man. They plant a one for 40 reverse stock split to save the listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares fell as much as 24% to 12 cents in pre-market trading. What is their symbol? Let's see, can I link us to them or the NYSE? No, that looks us the NYSE. Where's we work? Why isn't it linked? Is it delisted? Maybe somebody knows. Does somebody know what that, let's see if it comes up here. Up there it is, 12 pennies. All right, we're going 41, 44 one reverse split. Boy, this equity, man. Folks, remember this chart. Don't catch a falling knife. My goodness. And look at all the little bounces you got, right? From 450 to six bucks. That's a 33% pop right there that week, okay? Before you traded from six down to two. Then what did you do? 188 up to 271. What is that? That's a 50% acceleration if you caught that move right. Well, if you caught it wrong, then you traded from 270 down to a buck 06. Then what'd you do? You go from a buck 02 to 235, 235% return to peg the beginning of the year. And then what happened? Well, then you went from 235 down to 12 cents. Remember that one, folks. Yeah, that business, stay away. All right, folks, one more segment. Stay tuned. We're coming back. 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The one thing I'll keep my eye on, folks, is kind of that channel line that's somewhat, now this bottom trend line in the channel, okay? You can draw this onto your chart. We're just taking the highs we had, basically rolling over. How about it, right? We talked about it yesterday about midnight on August 1st. You roll into that. We've hit lower lows and lower highs since that area, getting a little bit outside of there. But you can line up that bottom line wherever you want. The thing I'm gonna say is, maybe we come back, we test that line. That's where I'm looking for it. As maybe you come back, you test that line up there. Okay, and jump it back to some of the articles. So here's the one I was talking about in terms of, boy, if you are anywhere that you're in the path of hurricanes, be safe this season, okay? Because some of the water temps that are out there, this article talks about some of it. And the one thing I just wanted to get here in terms of where they're talking about, surface, excuse me, surface temps around the keys have been averaging about 91 degrees, well above the normal mid-July average of 85. That is insanity to have a six degree difference. And I tell you folks, man, I went to the beach last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, day before school was back in session for the afternoon, unbearable. The water, I felt like I was jumping in a jacuzzi, no lie. Felt like I was jumping in a jacuzzi, did not cool you at all. We stayed for a bit. Tommy's cheeks were bright red like a lollipop. We had to get out of there and cool off in the AC in the car. It was fun, but the water temps, I had never, excuse me, felt water like that. And we were in a very shallow area. So that water especially, right? But you don't have to go far. Now these articles were all coming basically at the end of July. That's before we've had heat in August, right? With Florida ocean temps topping 100. So hopefully the coral can withstand it, man. And we finish up with the last two articles as we come in, Bank of America warns of a 5% world sinks in with yields pushing higher. Folks, it's not gonna be surprising. If the yields of past days are behind us, that's the 10 year we are breaking to higher yields. And the last part, economists, lift U.S. growth forecast sees the Fed higher for longer. There's a little bit of a repricing going on on these yields, man. So keep your eye on those yields and stay tuned. Basil Chapman coming up next, folks, with the Tiger Technicians Hour. Don't forget about his opening call, subscriber webinar. Have a great weekend. Have a safe weekend. I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday, folks. Stay tuned for Basil coming up now. Have a great one.


bother about them do you know it's one of one of Steven's I could name them all do you Greg that one of them the fentanyl one was a patch which whenever I phoned the doctor a few times and I was told it's an adult I can't talk to you and I said but I'm his voice I said because there's nobody else going to be a voice for him he was getting the fentanyl patches bringing them home here to my house cutting them into four with a pair of scissors and eating a quarter of them as the day went on through the day he ate them he didn't put them on his arm and his drugs journey started with smoking and it just escalated from there is that correct what did you say there Greg not a problem I think there's a radio one in the background which might be a slight distraction Steven started smoking he started smoking cannabis initially he started off with cannabis right and then of course he didn't ever say he didn't like cigarettes and he didn't like drink but I used to say he didn't like drink because it interfered with the drugs you know he didn't have the money for the two so he got the drugs and said Greg do you know what he used to go over the border in a taxi and he used to pick up a package from a post office over the border where they were ordered online the blues and the yellows and he brought them on here one day just opened the swunger open he didn't take his time to open it right over my work top all these and here's me sacred heart of God where did you get them do you want to be sweetie he says yellows and blue tablets about 500 and a package that he ordered on the internet Pamela you've been you tell me that they can't detect those coming through your post you've been through so much Pamela where do you get your strengths I don't know Greg I really don't and there was a thing on YouTube was put up a fella did he did it as he thought in good sense for the people which wasn't because what I didn't know that he had been to Stephen's house and did this video of Stephen and a few had seen the dirt of the house all lying around the floor and all over you would have thought Stephen was somebody that wasn't cared for and didn't look after himself and we went up there more times than enough and found him nearly dead and you know and I would read up the house and try my best to do what you could and we bought him more stuff and enough and you know what it all started with Greg I'm telling you that's true now Stephen started out with a lovely wee girl who took sick and she was taken to the royal and he went and he spent his time with him and the mammy to use the royal spent the time with the wee girl and one of the days they were told take her home and let her die in peace and they couldn't do any more for her and Stephen brought her home and he went through the internet and he found Dr. Han Grettinger in Trubigan in Germany and he explained the whole situation and he had to send on all the medical records in and Dr. Han Grettinger says yes that she was a good candidate for him because she was only a baby and Stephen and his partner went and an airplane to Trubigan in Germany spent their time with her and Stephen's stem cells saved her and it was through all the goodness of the people and Donnie Gaul and Derry and Afar that paid on a fund to pay for that but then during the time that he was there they were smoking this dope and then the dope went from that to something else then with Stephen and Dr. Han Grettinger but he cared for that regard and she'll be 18 now next week Lovely, okay Pamela has gained sorry for everything you've gone through and thanks for helping us understand I really appreciate it and it's clear that you There's just no where for them Greg and it's time that these people that are running around doors asking for your vote let them get up and see where it's all coming from and let them provide a place they have to be willing to go as well they have to say yes I want to go but whenever the place is away in Nury or somewhere to get there's no way that they're going to go to Nury okay I get you Pamela it's too far away thank you very much for your time and condolences to you again we're also still in the company of Martin McFadden Addiction Chancellor but I just want to bring Sheila into the conversation Sheila good morning to you Sheila can you hear me okay what's your situation at the moment Sheila well my daughter has been drinking a lot weekly you know at night she would go down the town and get some drink and come back very drunk to the house and then she I could take no more so into the GP and they referred us to addiction counseling and she's at that now I don't know it's like it helps her but she tries to tell me now that she doesn't take any drink but I think that she's actually turned to taking you know weed and I don't know what else you know your suspicions what you don't know I'll call out for cannabis or cocaine yeah Martin's with us here now obviously that's a tough one and I know Sheila's doing everything she can to keep her daughter safe it's tough but how can she ascertain that or what would your advice be to Sheila firstly it's just to be and remain Sheila as supportive as you possibly can it's a difficult situation to watch somebody you love fall down that spiral or that whole of addiction and quite often people quite often people will leave down one drug and pick up another and that's a fairly regular occurrence you know and usually they end up back with their drug of choice anyway it's just to be to continue to be some supportive and you know if she is attending addiction counseling that's a good thing you know it's very difficult like a lot of work I would do would be around trauma and addiction and most people who find their way to an addiction service or find themselves in the position your daughters in there's usually something behind that and what they're doing to use drink or drugs or whatever it's to numb the pain and will the addiction counselor with the addiction services be able to tease that out with Sheila's daughter well again you see I suppose Greg it's the limited resources that are out there to follow your show regularly and you're a great advocate for lots of different things even this morning diabetes cancer care and you know when you consider that the services are not in place for those particular issues you know I mean alcoholics and addicts traditionally have been well down the pecking order in terms of supports because it's considered by some people as still a choice behaviour and for anyone who knows anything about addiction it's not just that simple it's more complex than that and just listening to the lady before as well and I sympathise with her on her losses you know there aren't a lot of supports out there it's very very difficult and it's becoming even more difficult now because of the number of people who are cross addicted and Sheila from your perspective obviously this is your baby and you know you want to do everything you can to protect her to help her for her addiction at this point and are you is it possible that you're overly worried that maybe she's on trying drugs as well because you're so worried about her she will admit to it but I just don't know her much or is it cocaine or is it just weed or you know she does tell me what she takes yeah it's a pity that there isn't more support for family members out there in terms of even education around it and what to look out for and how to manage that there's definitely not enough for that available either I don't think well Sheila obviously you're a fantastic mum doing your absolute best and we hope that these services work for your beautiful daughter and if we can offer anything else not on air or off air get back in touch with us in case we can do anything to put you in contact with other I don't need to feel alone because I presume it feels very lonely at times even when you've got people around you so if there's anything we can do or whatever I don't know what it might be this time I just don't want you to feel that when you get off this phone call that that's the end of it you know we can try and help if need be somewhere else down the line if that makes sense yeah that's great okay you don't feel as lonely as it can feel thanks Sheila who's obviously a great yeah absolutely yeah stay with us you're okay for another little we're gonna take a quick break I do have to catch up on these back in a sec the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio does the start of another week start you dreaming of adventure then swap your well-worn paths for the winding trails of Lock Key Forest Park or the meandering cobble streets of Kilkenny for more short break ideas visit discoverarland.ie book early for the best value and keep discovering Dunfanny Golf Club on the North Atlantic Coast come join us with opens on Wednesday and Saturday come challenge your game against the links course that will 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for less Expressway bringing you the time it's half past 11 we're in the company of Martin McFadden Addiction Cancer we're just trying to have an open frank conversation here about drugs usage if you want to get involved in the conversation<PHONE_NUMBER> give us a call or await 66025000 and I'm genuine in saying this Martin I get very frustrated and upset actually and you know you add the 14 billion of the Apple money if we didn't contest that and the reasons we are on top of the 34 million billion 34 billion odd surplus this year and next not to mention the 8 billion from last year so you're up around 50 odd, 52, 3 billion euro in a population of 5 million I can't understand whilst now in fairness to Sheila she seems to be getting the support but there's families out there who can't get even a counselling session for their young people because they're at the pin of the collar financially and they can't afford it privately or be affordably and publicly there's not much available I cannot I cannot square the circle of this all of this money and us letting us young people letting our young people and families down like we seem to be doing it's beyond you and I right but as I say I just cannot make sense of it we're Manchester right we've got 45 billion to sort Manchester out do you know what I mean why aren't we why are our young people why are we losing them to drugs we want to say losing I mean actually losing them I don't mean losing them in the sense that their personalities change Martin I suppose firstly it's important for me to say there are a lot of good people working who are absolutely stretched to the pin of their collar and burnt out and everything that comes with that and good really good compassionate caring people and they like us would be extremely frustrated I'm sure I mean I've been kind of at the co-face of this for quite a number of years and I suppose if you're asking me honestly the stuff you're talking about why is it happening I mean like I have come to the conclusion that it's happening by design it's happening by choice because why else would it happen you know do you know what I mean it's not rocket science people who have kind of had their eyes open for the last number of years anyway would have seen what's happening and what's coming down the track in terms of drugs and little or nothing has been done to try and avert or put an E into place to try and protect our young people you know the the education the early intervention all of that stuff hasn't been there and you know I think part of it is coming from that moralistic model of well you know if you take a drug or a drink then that's your responsibility and if you fall across the line into active addiction then that's your problem to get back from because you know and I get it I have a sense of humour you know what I don't mean and I get jokes and sometimes my humour can be dark right but you will see a significant haul of cocaine or cannabis and it'll be posted on a Facebook page and people will joke about it they'll say you know I've liked and shared in other words they want to win it and when I get that it's a humour right that's fine there's no harm in that to say I've got a bit of dark humour as well but then again on the flip side then you'll get someone who's convicted for for drug use or whatever and there's kind of words that Pamela used so societally right I don't we either have we either make a joke of it or something or else we just condemn people that in other words it is only their choice that they made decisions that they took a certain path so you know what I mean I don't think us as a population are actually really in the conversation I think it's on will I take it really light or else we condemn people I think what you're saying for me kind of it shows a kind of an uncomfortableness around it and probably a lack of understanding so we don't really know how to handle it you know we know it's somewhere along the line it's potentially harmful and dangerous but yet we do have that gallows humour around it but you know that like I mean you were talking to me you know a few minutes ago about the health approach and I think that's part of it as well the fact that you know well can I let's frame that if you don't mind because I don't want to interrupt your flow of thoughts you're effectively saying and you have said that cocaine and certain other drugs are absolutely everywhere it's such a part of society it would be like you know to try and discourage its use with the level of policing we have or with education we don't stop it right so when you talk about a healthcare approach that means decriminalisation doesn't it so talk to me about what you would see as how we deal and we'll focus on cocaine and cannabis yeah so how do we deal with the scourge of those two drugs in our society well again you know I would always have been an advocate for decriminalisation in terms of again because I suppose from a personal and professional perspective I would value people's autonomy and their right to choose the caveat with that is people and particularly probably young people who still have a developing brain don't always make or have the information to hand to make informed choices so you know the impulsivity in everything that comes with youth there are no disclaimers handed out by drug dealers as to what can potentially happen so you know that kind of education is not there so for people who make poor choices and they are poor choices they should not be criminalised for that so if you go out the weekend and you're in Dom's or wherever you are the McCafferty's whatever and you're doing a line of coke you should not be criminalised for that well then what discourages me from doing it well I mean the threat at this stage the threat of being arrested and maybe getting a fine or whatever else that has no bearing anymore there's no fear in that I mean like you walk into a pub now and it's easier to pick out the people who are not doing cocaine as opposed to the people who are so that's not a deterrent the legal aspect is not a deterrent anymore one thing I would have always kind of thought though from my own perspective the actual legalisation is something I would struggle a little bit with for a couple of reasons because of the message that it would send out and you just touched on it there a few minutes ago drugs were bad and all of a sudden if you legalise them then does that make them good do you know what I mean? So what does decriminalising then so in other words if I'm doing a line of coke in a pub and there's an undercover guard if they actually do that anymore if there are results to do it I don't get a fine or charged do I get referred to a drugs awareness programme? like Portugal and that's the model that's always held up it's not perfect but I suppose where I'm at now I don't think it really makes any difference whether you legalise or you don't because I think we've gone that far have we though and this is I don't know anyone that takes cocaine I don't believe I do I'll tell you you do I'll leave it at that then either that or you don't get out okay that's how bad it is and Fred's oh yeah and it's across all sectors I made the point to it's your local postman your local politician not mine by the way but that's where it's at and even the figures in terms of I was listening to Dr Colin O'Gara there and said John O'Gods and reading some of his stuff there's a cohort of farmers now have been really badly affected by cocaine and they're presenting for treatment you know young women from the ages of 15 to 24 there's been a six-fold increase you see also to what we don't I don't know how we gauge how bad something is but we I don't believe also and you could say the same of suicide for an example and there is efforts ongoing at the moment with coroners to try and get some figures on it because how can you address something properly or targeted approach unless you truly know the extent of a problem and the same with drug use okay we don't know the impacts on the mental health services from people taking drugs and I'm going to include alcohol in that in terms of suicides for that matter we don't know how definitively how big a factor is drinking drugs I mean what really opened my eyes is once the Gardie started to be able to test for drugs all of a sudden like it was 50-50 50% people on drugs 50% people on drink but that gave us some idea of what was going on I don't I think this country and our government needs to do a full across the board assessment of the use of drugs and what impact they're having on people's lives and death yeah I mean I get you and just right back to the point of thought or what we've been talking about you know I believe a lot of the figures that are projected and given to us are very conservative by their nature and those figures are quite often massaged and they're massage to suit the you know the narrative because Greg if you were to truly know the extent of the drug problem in numbers or suicide or any of those issues then you know we would be forced to set up and take notice and then if we have to set up and take notice then we have to do something about it like road traffic collisions for example so that's what I'm saying this often for me looks as if it's done by design I told me through the health-led approach then well the health-led approach again it's probably you know in terms of cost as well it would involve you know more educational programs that you know were not industry-led as we've had in the past in terms of you know alcohol or any other other addictions but also you know people in place who are able to work with trauma so it's like somebody comes to me I don't say Greg what's wrong with you I say what happened to you but when I ask you what happened to you then I have to sit down and work with you and listen to you and work through that where you know that's resources heavy that's resources and again not to put any sort of blame on the medical profession either but it's so much easier and has been to write a script and off you go and medicate yourself which we are saying record levels of certain prescription drugs absolutely where cancelling could be an alternative absolutely and I mean like again you know in terms of you know there is a time in a place that itself causes its own addictions as well absolutely you know medication works with talking therapy and that and you see the problem the problem for a lot of people in addiction Greg and I think maybe people miss this is the fact that if you are coming to an addiction service or counsellor or whatever is you are coming obviously with a bit of baggage and a history and you know I don't tell people now who come to me you have to stop drinking or you have to stop using because if I do that I'm taking away their crutch and there's a possibility they'll go out the door and they won't come back again because I've taken away the only friend of people and this is a health approach is okay I understand that you may need to have a drink at the weekend but let's try and work on the stuff that caused you to drink in the first place and if we can resolve that or get some sort of understanding and maybe clarity or even keep the conversation going then there's a good chance you may not need to drink as much if at all I mean you know they celebrated government celebrated a record announcement for mental health 78 million for 2023 now 78 million in a population of 5 million to me seems like chicken feed that should be a billion but it should only be a billion if we look at the structures and how everything is set up is on point throwing money in the problem either but personally I would not be celebrating 78 million on mental health service because a lot of that is wages, a lot of that is admin a lot of that is paying rent on buildings chicken feed chicken poo for that matter do you know what I mean that figure if we're serious about saving our young people and not just young people because addiction as many older people are addicted as well that figure should be 500 million look at the amount of money we're talking about but it can't be thrown into a black hole of administration 100% it needs to all be stripped back and put money at it and let's become a world leader you know we're here we're going to be a world leader we're going to be labels on bottles of alcohol right and you know like I'm like seriously presenter are you going to challenge this person seriously let's become a world leader on freaking dealing with people who have problems helping them then we can be proud but the labels are easier it's easier to do that well it's effectively a sticky plaster you know almost literally that's what it is and listen is there anything you want to add I mean keep up the work that you're doing I think it's an eye-opener I don't think there's any exaggeration in anything that we've talked about I mean it's a difficult subject difficult topic and I mean again I get very frustrated and like yourself and angry and I have to kind of I suppose one other just to finish on maybe the fact that and it's quite a stark statistic and I think it really should alarm anybody you know the fact that we are the fourth most consumers of cocaine in the world right now behind only Australia Spain and the Netherlands you know that to me is just you know it's mind boggling you know it's gotten this far you know a lot of countries in the world okay listen thanks for all of your time I appreciate it Mark I wanted to I know you were up since just after 10 but with the other things that we had to do I didn't want to rush it in a couple of minutes so I appreciate you hanging about it's an important conversation and you know maybe we also need to make sure we're talking to our younger people as well because we have to talk to them presuming that they know where to get cocaine one of their friends is taking cocaine they've taken cocaine or they're hanging around with people taking cocaine and we have to presume that that's it then because I mean you laugh me out of it when I said I didn't know anyone that takes cocaine so do you know what I mean it is at that point we definitely need a more compassionate approach anyway and a more understanding I think you know whether that happens or not I don't know okay Martin McFadden addiction cancer thanks for your time thanks for watching preparing for a 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Frayl this and every Friday night from it for rock and hits on Highland Radio in association with Arena 7 Letterkenny the best family entertainment complex around with bowling, laser quest, soft play center and more visit arena7.ie okay you're very welcome back to the program we're joined on it now by Len Porter author and journalist in Portugal Len thank you very much for joining us good morning right for those who aren't aware police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will begin search of a reservoir in Portugal today how significant is this development in this case Len do you think well it's very difficult at this stage to say the reservoir has been searched before but it's another search is on the way today and this reservoir in question is near the town of the city of Souves which is about half an hour away from prior to Louis where Madeleine disappeared from in 2007 Wilkner this terrible pedophile is said to have requested or sorry sequenced the area and so that's what it called for the search today now previously my understanding is this area was searched and it was funded privately presumably this is intelligence led by the German police who are obviously taking this very seriously and in that you would hope that they have the best of equipment and people to thoroughly either confirm or otherwise that this could be the final resting place of Madeleine McCann her current resting place let me put it like that well the search is being coordinated by the Portuguese police it has been instigated as you say by the German police and there will be a presence by buddies police the metropolitan police the searching is going on in the water and in the woodland next to the reservoir as far as I know and there have been lots of digs for Madeleine since her disappearance the last big dig by the metropolitan police was a near proud illusion 2014 there were many many searches in 2007 they were gone for more than a year now the reservoir was searched in late 2007 and in 2008 now that search was initiated as I understand on behalf of Kate and Jerry McCann and it was initiated by the multimillionaire Brian Kennedy a friend of the McCanns the search was done by a Spanish group of private detectives but doubts remain about the honesty of that early 2008 searching just a distraction from the truth is what some people say is Bruckner Christian Bruckner this German TV file being made a scapegoat and there does seem to be a circumstantial case against him though nonetheless does there not in that his mobile phone records show him in the vicinity of the area where Madeleine disappeared from he was known to be in and around this reservoir it depends on I suppose which coverage you read of it it would seem to be a slam dunk you're suggesting otherwise well there is circumstantial evidence there's lots of circumstantial evidence on this case but there's virtually no solid evidence there's virtually no solid evidence as to what happened to Madeleine since 2007 now the German prosecutor has said about Bruckner that he has said that he was 100% sure that Bruckner was involved but he hasn't produced or certainly not publicly produced any solid evidence to support this and as I say 16 years on there's lots of speculation lots of contradiction contradictions and lots of confusion but very little solid evidence and that's what's needed in this case and finally is there any confidence at all then amongst you or others very familiar with this case will these latest searches might produce any answers well I think we all hope so and at this date that's the best we can do we can just hope that the search over the next couple of days does produce an answer Len, thank you very much for your time this morning I appreciate it, that is Len Porter who's an author and journalist in Portugal as we mentioned their divers will look at an area around 30 miles away from where the toddler went missing in the Algarve in 2007 the suspect Christian B is known to have camped in the area officers have already done a search of the dam but found nothing so not only will her Madeline's parents be watching on very closely as to what happens but the eyes of the world I think it's just one of those cases that a lot of people feel very invested in will be watching on as well okay, let us get to some of your comments as we head towards the end of the programme for this Tuesday drug dealers getting off too light in the courts finds and sentences don't match the destruction these evil people cause to families yeah, maybe at the low level but I mean at the highest level there's an awful lot of people involved in the drug industry that have been sentence and there will never see the light of day again but I do take your point I suppose if you're involved in any activity at all and you fear you might be caught for doing such a legal activity and it's very very lucrative you would have to feel that the sentence was such that it wouldn't be worth your while maybe that's just simply not the case at the moment a caller wants to know or asks how many people with undiagnosed ADHD have addiction problems I don't know really enough about that to comment do we have time for this email ok, I'll try it here I just want to highlight something that I'm sure has been discussed but until it comes knocking at your door unfortunately we like most people had no awareness of I've been recently diagnosed with breast cancer and have had to briefly is the plan and reluctantly leave my work as a preschool manager whilst undergoing treatment as I'm only at the start of my journey I'm unsure how long I'll be at home so I contacted citizens advice to see how I'm going to manage my rent bills and outgoings the shock I had to be told I'm entitled to 210 euro a week, that's it my rent's 194 euro a week I can live happily on beans and toast but I'm going to need electricity to heat those beans and make toast maybe some heat to heat this old bean, seriously is this the society we live in the caller says luckily they're entitled to a medical card because they've got cancer but then they go on to talk about all the other expenses they've had to take time off work to go through their cancer treatment and they're entitled to 210 euro a week, rent alone 194, have any of you any input or advice in that regard I'll come back to that and give it a little bit more time a little bit earlier in the show the next time but just thought I'd throw it out there in case of any of you want to consider it throughout the day and text in or call in that's where we have to leave it on the program today thank you to all of you who listen to the show and those of you who chose to watch the show we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine