 Welcome to the independent investor channel guys where the consistent theme of the message here is just that consistency and it applies to everything that you've got going on in your life This is a very very important product and it's actually a Passion of mine made possible through The technology I've been doing this for quite some time now I've been able over the years to meet a lot of very very good people man very very hardworking people from all different walks of life with different perspectives and you know different upbringings different value sets Rules that govern how it is they do what they do And and those things that govern the decisions that they make as well. I think that One of the singular goals on the channel has always been to bring investing to the forefront And and bring it out of what I have Discovered to be a topic that remains in the shadows all too often for a lot of people It's one of those uncomfortable topics and I know it's a stretch for someone like myself or others to come on to a social media type of venue and and share my intimate Personal details with regard to my stock investing approach my thesis my my beliefs my my rules that govern my Investing thesis as well as my imperfections. There's no doubt about that And I think that's what makes me somewhat unique in that. I'm not really trying to be Someone that will entertain you from week to week. I don't need to do that But some may consider it to me somewhat blasé in my approach and that I think you can sense At least some realism in my approach. I try to keep it real I try to really reach out and speak with people that may be feeling the same as me and This last couple of years going into the latter part of 2022 beginning in January of 2021 has been by far the worst investing stretch of my life Okay, now I put that out there on the forefront and I say, okay That is my observation right now based on the results and at the end of the day guys this whole Thing that we're doing here with regard to wealth building. There's a few tried and true fundamentals That we try to earmark for people and none of them are perfect Okay, if you expect to get involved with financial markets because you consume a lot of YouTube My friends you are you are going to be Awakened to the fact that the stock market like I have always contended is a humbling arena It is a humbling activity And it will be the very tried and true fundamentals that you rest upon To get you through times like this and make no mistake about it. My friends. I am doing just that I am doing just that my tolerance is stretched then The my attitude toward my largest holding in my portfolio Is being tested no doubt about it now? What is all that mean if we bottle it all up and we look at it? Does it does it change my investing? Approach does it change my actions with regard to my portfolio? It could as long as those actions are positive and I'll actually earmark some of those things for you guys But how are we supposed to know how it is that we're observing in the portfolio if we're not milling willing to make those observations One of the most cut-deep Applications that I make in my portfolio is to not look at it Because what's the point? I mean really what's the point and dragging your mind through? The mud when you wake up every single day. We had a five out of five this week every single day was a down day It's been a fairly Tough pill for investors to Take hold of we had a pretty good Bear market rally there over the last month and a half or so only to Exacerbate the sell-off over the last couple of weeks and it's been violent It's been brutal my friends if you've been monitoring stock market investing at all or if you're one of those People out there that come to the channel for a little bit of a maybe a renewed sense of motivation Perhaps maybe a little realism because I'm one of those fellows that wear my heart on my sleeve Okay, where my heart on my sleeve and I'll give you what it is that I'm feeling at this current juncture Okay, and it's always a much more Fulfilling to do it this way than it is to tweet Because there's so much that's missed in translation. I was telling my daughter tonight texting is almost like a step back in time Honestly, it's almost like we went back 20 years in technology. I feel the same way about streaming services I mean I'll sit there and I'll look through like peacock for an hour And I'll just waste a bunch of time and I'll watch anything since it's the search features horrible I don't know if any of you guys feel the same, but I'd almost rather just Look for activity elsewhere in way of you know reading a book or something much more productive I feel myself, you know, not wanting to sit on the couch and go through the deliberation of Overcoming the barriers of the search feature to actually try to find something that I haven't watched Just yet to kill a few hours or an hour or so at night Home just to kind of throttle my mind back, but I tell you what man I turned 45 next week never felt better in my life My triangle of hierarchy is is certainly being It's there's certain I guess bubbles of emphasis right now going on in certain portions of it that are just absolutely Fascinating to me. There really are I guess when you get older in life these are the types of things that You will continually come back to through times like this that we're experiencing and I Have just explained to many many people. I haven't purchased a stock for a long long time Outside of the dollar cost averaging, which we'll talk about as well I'm gonna earmark the three biggest mistakes that an investor can make during these times. I think it's prudent I think long and hard on these topics throughout the week before I summarize what I feel like is the real Essence of the weekly activity which in the eyes of the stock market is somewhat futile and irrelevant to be honest with you As you'll see one of my tried and true fundamentals or failings in investing is is one of those principles that People just can't hold a candle to the fire and markets like this. It becomes too overwhelming And they do succumb to the pressure and I think that's unfortunate for those Investors out there that have all of the capability. I don't teach upon an idea that certain few Can succeed in investing, okay? And I threw a little fishing line out there on Twitter today Providing a little bit of scrutiny over my favorite company right now make no mistake. It's my favorite company I wouldn't do a weekly Profile on a company that I wasn't just super super excited about okay, and the stock price as it reflects now was my area of focus and the progress that was Declared to shareholders many years ago two three years ago On the onset and having some of those projections kind of fall away Not be emphasized anymore as the company has evolved and so I voiced a little bit of my opinion And I'm always interested to see some of the response back some very interesting responses Some I always in the back of my mind would suggest and there's a lot of great great followers in the message and If it's anybody's secret to understand what I do here on Friday for one hour a week I kicked the door open on the channel and I open that door so wide That anybody around the world can download a very very simple piece of software if they have connectivity and Come on to my live stream that they feel so aggrieved or they feel so encouraged or Motivated by what it is that I share and I'd like to think I strike on both nerves. I do I get it I think you know on a day like today. It's probably Not in the best taste of an investor to come on and do that But my frustration and my tolerance are running thin and there's people out there who are like just stay positive Ryan This too shall pass Ryan You're worried about the wrong stuff Ryan That that that might be true. That might be true, but my tolerance is running a little thin It's not the stock price and it's not necessarily the money either. It really has to do with feeling duped Yep, feeling duped and this is where a lot of people would just disagree with me and say, you know The timing is off Ryan. You've got to continue to be patient blah blah blah, okay? I'm patient with Google Google's doing everything they can possibly do if they come up short on a quarter No problem. I can deal with that. Okay, but on a company like this that came to public markets with An expectation that they were further along the line to bring their product to bear Is a little bit frustrating to me and I'm not the only one who feels this way and I find it interesting all the time and I have to separate What it is that it would be in discussion if we were having said discussion face to face as opposed to having a Debate or or or a business disagreement or whatever it might be through social media Because I think a lot of people Feel a lot more comfortable taking their gloves off on social media because what's the you know, what's the ramification? You know What what is you know? There's a lot more freedom to do that through social media You can debate one way or the other one or not. You think that's a good thing or bad thing, but When I when I do the Friday livestream and I push that door open as wide as I do and I have as very few People walk through that door from week to week Kind of separates for me the people that do talk an opinion and it stops and ends there mm-hmm. Yeah, and I'm not suggesting that coming online and sharing your opinion would be a step above a tweet or a post in Facebook or an opinion that is just Nicely framed in a way that when you hit post to social media, it's posted Paul just did that today over Facebook with the h2 channel. It's the h2 channel now When I used to watch him, I just knew him as Paul just another just another person a human being right which I read the post today and the Impression that I got is that this individual was trying to satisfy social media My friends, I'm I'm here to tell you that I've stopped doing that if I ever started a long long time ago Okay, I do this channel for me. I Always insist that if I can teach upon a specific topic and I know in my heart if there's a small incline of reciprocation or benefit that somebody could get out of my perspective Then by God, we're going to continue to do that No, no, no problem. We're going to continue to do that But I don't post my resume in the description. Okay? I share with you some of the things and I know where I come from I've been there and I share some of those things about coming up through humble beginnings, etc I never share what it is that I do with my day-to-day life That's nobody's business yours included the friends that I know and those people that hit me up and are part of my private group And and close people to me. They know exactly what I do from day to day But when I get to be 50 or 60 and I'm still doing this project I'm I'm never ever going to come on and try to validate what it is that I bring to the table and How certain others may not bring those certain opinions to the table and therefore my opinion Which indeed is just what anybody out there ever has to offer is their opinion Is somehow better than the next? I I'm not one to really believe in that kind of stuff I'm one more so to believe that Me and you and most human beings out there my friends whether or not you want to hear this or not That's too bad our flawed Okay, the very fact that I come on and I have a social media Project that I've built up providing map me that lens and access to yes Provide my content number one number two come on every single Friday and kick the door open and provide Opportunity for kind folks like yourself to come on and spend a little bit of time together on this topic Talk about the pulse of the market has irrelevant as I say that it is the consistency in the message is what is key in providing people a little bit of infusion a little bit of infusion of hope a little bit of infusion on Maybe some task direction from week to week to understand what you could do but especially what you shouldn't do That's what we're going to talk about in tonight's message man We've got a pretty good gallery in tonight. You guys drop your comments in here. This is going to be definitely Q&A driven After I spend a few moments kind of dropping a little bit of my perspective in what I'm seeing how this market reaction is Bouncing off of me how my tolerance is taking it And what it absolutely could mean for the future and what we're going to do here in the short term to kind of combat this volatility that we've Encured over the last couple weeks, which it has been brutal and I know you guys are sharing in the same sentiment as me We will live to fight another day But before we do that we're going to take a quick moment here. I'll be back with you in just a moment guys This speaks to the opportunistic and contrarian attitude that I actually expect and I love this guy. He's part of the community. The ever clear boys. Awesome. Awesome guy Certainly doesn't need to qualify his statements. You guys are funny You may think that I'm going to react one way or another on a statement Now I have way too much respect for somebody who's put a little bit of time and thought into a well-laid comment And this is right on the money. It is right on the money. It's it's Absolutely what we need to be looking at I'm not worried about the opportunity that's been presented and highly on over the last You know year I mean if you could have picked the shares up anywhere from two dollars and sixty four cents Anyway anywhere up sub ten you're good I mean you were able to avoid a massive landmine When it fell from grace at fifty eight dollars now, there were people that were caught up on that, right? So it's the wide spectrum of what has transpired over the last couple of years in public markets With this company that I award the scrutiny that I do case in point You don't think that there were people that got involved in this company based on the literature that was not only submitted through the SEC, right? But in the disclaimer We don't want to put undue reliance upon the evidence that is presented to the marketplace, right? Right Here's my independent application for you guys that tune into me respect my opinion my decision my decision making and my Tact and my instinct for stock market investing is right on point. It's right on point Are we to suggest that we need to be so scrutinizing on new information that's released to the public to? Start with the idea that it isn't it is they are all lies Right when when the disclaimer suggests that you should not put undue reliance on information I think that really invites new investors to take a huge pause Will I do this again? No. Hell no. Hell no. Well, I think there will be another highly on in the next 50 years I don't there's some comments here that I want to get to that would suggest that highly on is out front by a Moonshot and they are they are they are I Don't think investors need to be provided such an opportunity for such a prolonged amount of time to trip And fall into what I consider to be the investment opportunity of a lifetime now for us that know what we're looking at My friend we've been provided this opportunity in a prolonged fashion for many many moons okay, and Stocks just don't go down forever If they are this good So what gives Right remember I talked about it not so much being about the stock and it's not so much about the money It's really about what is being perceived as look here We are two years after the fact the projections for 2022 was aimed at really a beginning of mass scale, okay, which would Give investors the impression that they were further along in their presentation than they were They weren't Was it a lie? I'm not gonna go there because that's the game my friends. That is the game Now if there were institutions out there that had an inkling This is this is it guys if you think for a second as a retail investor, you're with the in community You are not you are on the outside. It is an all-out war right now You are on an island Okay, and guys like myself. I actually put myself on an island and I'm proud to be drinking my rum punch from week to week on My lot on my island. I'm proud of it. I don't I don't I don't want to be on the inside per se to Understand that if there were certain individuals that were prevy specifically with the corner knowledge Thomas Healy just admitted tonight on Jmax channel that they knew about it for for years for years Um, and we've just come to a point in time in the history's evolution that it made sense to actually roll that information out But was there was their knowledge of the amount of time that the company would need to actually come to public markets and actually incur What was going to be foreseeable with the supply chains with their absolute inability to follow along And advance their timelines as quickly as they initially Proposed to would-be investors Yeah, I don't know. I think that's the the worst part of it and what's it going to mean in two three years? I talk about all this Very very frequently and it's not going to matter at all but I Think if there was a takeaway from any of this and this is mine It is to be much more cynical which if if I wasn't cynical before I'm a cynic now. I'm highly on holdings has made me into that Do I think dragging people through the manure? pile for years and years and years and the impression that I get from the upper management is that they're doing just fine and You know those observations man They they they go to a point and a lot of people would just I'll just Rather have me just be quiet not Relate with the idea that upper management and the shareholders and those that have done the majority of liquidating shares have just made a truckload of money off of this and Then with an investor presentation in the face of investors That misled a lot of investors You know and this driving down sentiment You know this having an innovation council that half of the people have stepped on board and half of not even verbally committed to anything thus far is a little bit laissez as far as I'm concerned You know, they'll get around to it at some point If look if I was making a half a million bucks a year, would I be in a big rush? You know, it doesn't seem as if there's any type of sense of urgency to To perform for shareholders. I very rarely ever hear Thomas Healy talk about shareholder value very rarely General electric electric has just taken a huge stake in the company. Good for them. What was their entry price? I'll bet it was below 10 Dare I say it was below five Was that fair with the information that was retained two years ago to allow general electric to step into this opportunity sub five When there's a lot of people out there that won't even come on my channel because they know I'm a highly on bull But those people entered into the stock at 30 40 dare I say above $50 a share based on the information that in Some level of context was perceived to be to the best of their knowledge at the time it was released That there's a deeper responsibility that independent investors have to defend not only their own equity But also the equity of other people and we're scratching the surface guys. It will take us years to evolve in our Deliberation around this topic Understanding the way that I do that the institutions are designed to benefit the institutions my friends and not you It should piss you off and I've said this many many times I'm looking for fighters in the community that are like, you know what everything Ryan talks about on the bottom line Helps me. It doesn't help him. It doesn't help anybody else But me if you really sit back and you listen to the lessons that I talk about through volatility Through bullish and bearish markets. It does not matter the very essence of what I am looking to drive for is looking to Yes benefit individuals But in some cases defend The retail investors because I don't think we're given that VIP access to information I don't think we're given that yellow brick road I don't think we have red carpets rolled out before me at least I've never had one nor do I even want one I'm proud of where I come from. I'm proud of my instinct I'm proud of my evaluation on a company right now that in my assessment this morning as ill-timed as it might have been Is frustrated? All right. Now if I'm the only one that's frustrated in this journey Okay, so be it. I'll eat crow. No problem. You think I'm off base. No problem But I am not the only one Okay, and I know there's a lot of people that have the ability to just take the naive pill every single day and Just say Ryan enjoy the ride my friends. I'm not enjoying the ride right now. All right I mean, why don't we just push it to 20 30 or 20 40 that typically is a cop-out for a company That needs way way more time than they can ever ever estimate in the short term that they actually need to come to in this case Profitability, that's great to see you guys on a Friday. I'll tell you what man very cool stuff very busy week for me very cool to be on with you guys and Converse with you guys man. Let's get to some comments here Throw a couple here. Let's see. I got Andy in the group here about Google. There's a couple Google buys here 115 like I will eventually go up time patience and reward it The Narrative that I just gave you is completely different than my stop stock application my stock application and discipline I do not compromise for in any case. Okay, and I think a lot of people they muddle it They get it like and they come back and they're like right and you sound frustrated You've got to be patient. It's like and I know all that stuff, right? That that's that's over on the stock application piece Okay, my criticism of the company and the high executive compensation and all of that stuff I throw that out there. That's just for That's that's just for clarity. That's it like we really need to understand and Thomas Healy needs to understand but we understand that There needs to be a perceived Sense of urgency man get to work man alive I I go through stretches where I don't even hear a whim just come on to Twitter and say hi Highly on airs. How are you today? I'm doing fine. We're continuing to work toward that progression Is that really that difficult to do it takes seven eight seconds and evidently the answer is yes That's too much to do right I'll continue to beat my drum and look I mean my work ethic is a typical I get it You tried to work with me or keep up with me. I'd probably leave you in the dust. It's totally fine I totally understand that I am who I am. I will not apologize for that But if after 45 years in this life, I've learned anything on multiple multiple platforms multiple life tests Where I've been put up against a lot of people most people my friends disappoint me They do because they can do better and they're capable of doing better. They just choose not to They just choose not to and that and that's unfortunate. I didn't come from a privileged background I did go to college. I got straight A's But I was forced out of college because of finances Okay, you guys want a question where my motivation comes from man get to know me a little bit You'll understand exactly why it is I do what I do to fight a system that I don't think actually equally deploys Opportunity to people and I have my own definition of what that opportunity should look like for people If they would just show a little bit more personal initiative to make it happen in their life This is one way to do it personal finance. You bet. I appreciate you Andy. Thanks for coming on my friend Very very cool stuff. Maybe I'm overthinking But I think it's going to be a gap up I totally agree with this. I Totally agree and if I'm gonna take away some some benefit I think there could be a gap, you know, I wake up every day I watch the market go down three or four hundred points the market will go up three hundred points and I'll make you know 1,000-1,500-2,500 the portfolio it goes down three or four hundred man And I'm down like five six eight grand and it's like interesting. Um, I have not looked at stocks I'll be it for the last 18 months and had Any type of inkling that I've had over the last 10 years the last two years have been horrendous They've been horrible on the I-2 horrible. I am in an absolute Moratorium over my portfolio my friends make no mistake. I am 100% with my feet in the mud right now with regard to Hunkering down. I am holding true There's the Amazon that I bought now is the exact same Amazon that I wanted to own five years ago No problem. It doesn't change now because we are in non- conducive markets to holding equities Doesn't change doesn't change at all What does change is the application on the things that I know can it mold on the strategy here off a little bit But I do agree and this is the main reason why I insist that selling the stock or any stock right now Is a huge huge mistake and that's a great great segue into my lesson for this week I'm going to give you guys the three biggest mistakes that you can make and these are made in rogues, okay and These are typically at the hands of retail investors who for whatever reason have not set up rules and parameters in their life Perhaps maybe when they were a wee lad or a wee young lady, okay? They weren't taught those parameters anyway, so when they enter into their adult life They're just like oh my god. Why is why isn't it just giving me? Why is it choosing to take? I don't like this anymore. I'm out rule number one You lose track of the long-term strategy. It's number one. Okay, all of these are as equally as Important when we are talking about the pitfalls when we are talking about the massive mistakes I cringe I sit across at my table. I be having a cup of coffee or cocktail with friends And I've had a moment to meet three feet four four feet from the yellow of the last downturn We decided to pull our entire retirement out in the market and I tell you what that was a horrible horrible mistake Had we just stayed in the market? We would have been just fine boom you succumbed to the day-to-day pressures of the volatility and The stock market does a wonderful job of driving the masses down In a way that has you believing that your entire portfolio is going to zero my friends I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to suggest to you this and This has been a historically proven fact over the history of the stock market I'm going to go out on a limb and tell you that your stock portfolio is not going to zero Okay, so if you're making decisions based on your Evaluation that your portfolio is going to end up inevitably at dust That is one of the biggest mistakes that you can make furthermore if you lose track of the long-term It means that you're putting all of the value on the short term You find yourself looking at your your portfolio now guys. I monitor my stocks. I'm not going to come on and my mom I'm not I'm not a hypocrite. Okay. I look at the markets every single day I have and always been fascinated by financial markets, but I'm looking at it with the lens now of being opportunistic on a market that's Inevitably going to probably finish 2022 in the negative Unless we have just a huge run-up through the holiday season, which is a very very big possibility But I'm being opportunistic in this market when we're at all-time highs People can vouch for the fact that I get on here and I'm not all roses I come on here and I'm like, okay. The selling option is on the table I've taken the selling option off the table on my channel and I did it many moons ago Okay, because right now when people are looking at it day-to-day. Oh my goodness. Yep, it was down again I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and I'm gonna look at the market and guess what it's gonna be down again And when I check that and it's down again, it exacerbates that but what does it really mean? It means just about as much as the weekly YouTube Livestream on the I2 in the eyes of the stock market. It's irrelevant. It doesn't mean a thing It does not mean a thing because you're putting way too much value on what is irrelevant in the market at the expense of Your long-term gain lose track of the long term You lose track of the dividends and the passive investing and the tax protection that you've put in place on the onset Whether it be now whether it be many moons ago You lose that luster and that very Inception of your portfolio. It needs to be preserved over time. Okay It needs to be preserved and by preserving it It can be very very simply just an acknowledgement of the positive aspects of the portfolio If you're rendering dividends a lot of people would say say yes a lot of people are still remaining passive on Financial markets the answer is yes. It's the same for me and a lot of people have heard my warning About the importance of tax protection over time tax protection being one of the most underutilized underrated and especially un Acknowledged aspects of investing a lot of my highly on holdings are in my raw fire ray guys That's what's crazy is that this thing does gap up which has been suggested in the gallery Which is why I own shares here because you have to own the stock to appreciate it Highly on is so ripe for a gap up. It's not even funny. This stock gaps up to 10 12 bucks We're gonna be talking about a sentiment that shifts overnight and that that's gonna happen I'm calling it whether it's next month or or six months down the line or early next year or our summer of next year It is gonna happen and we are gonna wake up one morning And it has just gone bonkers overnight Because we have been beating the drum over and over and over again To jump on the opportunity, but you lose track of long term number two is you stop funding And this is usually brought on by your mental Acceptance that you Are going to fund into markets that is just gonna be consumed by By by downturn, okay, and people stop the stop DCA. I've got to put more money to cash I I've got a throttle back on the DCA Schedule the stock market is gonna go to zero Okay, you start to get caught up in the day-to-day activity and that's really what can exacerbate falling victim to strategy number two and it kind of goes hand-in-hand with losing your long-term strategy but stopping funding into Markets is a big make big mistake because you're losing out on all of that effect of Picking up stock at a cheaper price got to continue to at least fund through the volatility and dare I suggest perhaps maybe even adding more to that so there's always a flip side to this application And I it's amazing to me guys. You might be sitting there saying Ryan. I'm good. I hear you out. You're exactly right Which I am these are the pitfalls. I'm good. I will not succumb my dollars to these mistakes I don't I don't I don't blame you and I'm not surprised But remember you come into the eye to every single week a lot of these people. This is like, oh my god This is my hard-earned dollars. This is how they talk when they are uneducated The stock market is really horrible right now Ryan. This is this is crazy. What should I do? Should I stop funding the market? I get this all the time and people They fall victim to this mistake over and over and over again They are falling victim to it right now my friends right now and Whether it be six months into a recovery or one year or two years or five years down the line We were reflect on this very time right here when people were like God That was my opportunity to get into the market for of their first time That was my opportunity to really strategically buy the market. That was my opportunity What in the hell was wrong with me? That was my that was my in right there This is what I always looked at and said if the market rolled off 20% I was gonna get into the market for the first time You know what I'm saying and people will miss the opportunity and then what are they gonna do? they're gonna invest when it's more convenient mentally for them to do so when the market is at an all-time high and That can be good or bad. It doesn't really matter But the chances of them actually Inqueering a downturn after they've entered into the market at strategically high times Right is a lot different than actually being a little bit more Opportunistic and just throwing in the towel right now and saying whoa whoa. I need to take a time out on this I can't continue to fund financial markets. The third one is the biggest one. This is the biggest one If I can just give you there's 73 patrons into the live stream right now and I Do this for the sheer lifeblood that it gives me as it ticks through my ticker 45 years old. I feel better than I've ever felt in my entire life That has a lot to do with I'm savaging it in the gym for 45. I would recommend if you're looking for a Counterweight to volatility in the market try an exercise program. I don't know pick up a guitar pick up a Counteractivity to the stock market. You'll be so so much better off if you can do that This is one of many of my counterweights to the stock market And it's just an absolute honor that I get to come on here and converse with you guys This is the big one. Who's the big one? They panic and they sell everything No matter what? 10,000 25 50 100 Whatever it is that your perception about money is to suggest that man a hundred thousands a lot of money Ryan I don't want to lose everything Continue to work on your perspective about money Because outside of the paper form of money It goes much much deeper than that my friends and until you can figure out that holding highly on holdings as recessed as it is makes So much more sense than having a stack of paper in a safe. I Get that perspective about you Do you have a job that's consistent enough to pay you that paper every couple of weeks? Is it solid take solace in that okay? You take that paper and you turn it into Insurance benefits Yeah, yeah that paper doesn't take on as much meaning Right if you don't have access to those certain services out there that are worth their weight in gold, man And it's a sheer contributor to what I consider to be An aspect of success in this life I'm successful Ryan. I've got I've got five hundred thousand dollars in the bank. I'm on I'm I'm successful I have a hundred thousand in the bank. I mean I have people all the time and they're Teach his own I commend you if you saved up ten thousand dollars and that's in your savings account Or you and your spouse have got up to twenty five thousand and you guys you guys want to segue into an investing program See I don't I don't discriminate Because somebody who has twenty five thousand dollars worth of a portfolio Could have successes far beyond these people who will come on and be braggadocious about having a quarter million in the bank Success is relative my friends. It's six. It's relative Don't for a second think because you have money or especially because you can spend the hell out of money That you are somehow successful. I am here to break that bubble for you my friends It it lends nothing Nothing to the the degree of success that I will apply to you if you want my perspective and lens on your particular Situation and I typically don't even go there. I typically don't and it's funny to me How many people want to wear their resume on their sleeve? It's amazing to me. Yeah, I've got this It's all good. Oh, I hear you're a good stock guy Ryan. I'll hear it. Yeah, what's your what's your program? I don't know I eat well Merry well, there's a good one. I don't know pick somebody that you just love to hang out with all the time Right, but I got a quarter million dollars. I've been divorced four times, right? Because nobody can stand to be around me I'm not a good person Okay, but if I'm able to double my portfolio size, I'll be double double the person I'll be I'll be double the person if I'm a factor of five right now on the coolness category If I can double my portfolio, I'll go to a 10 and It'll make me that much more employable when I go to the bar looking for my spouse Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I will be doubly as happy if I can gain some financial security in my life I will it will make me happy The happiest times in my life I share this through the channel. I told you it'd be intimate Was when I had no money at all and I was just having this discussion with a friend of mine actually this week I just met him actually here in Sandy Hook, New Jersey and shot out to you Coleman if you're in the group here my friend But just had a very very good discussion We were taking a launch back from from we were out doing some some workout out at sea when they were doing some dredging And I was riding back from I was like, you know, the best thing that ever happened to me was spending my time on the sea Learning the basic necessities of life air food water Cleanliness happiness activity All of the things that really don't have too much to do with the amount of paper That you want to wear on your sleeve and show everybody how much you have right or you want to transform that paper into a Metal object that sits out in your driveway And and that can be seen you want to park it at the end of the driveway to make sure that all the neighbors can see it Okay All right, what's the use of having something like that if nobody can see that you have it? That doesn't make any sense Ryan. How are people going to understand about me that I'm successful? Paul's post to Facebook. I read through it and I was like I felt bad for him. I did Because it was like man all the things that are important in life, man family happiness spiritual Enlightenment All that stuff is what's important man not selling people that H2 is the wave of the future That's not where it's at It's not Do you think my motive in life is to come and sell people that highly on is the wave of the future? It was alluded to today by highly on about his educational series when dooner pressed him on it on what the truck And we don't want to come on to YouTube and just try to sell the company on people We want to educate people on the company. I don't do that. I don't do that I'm truly trying to educate people from my perspective on what I see and I tell you what I can give a different perspective than Tom Healy I can And I'm coming from a perspective that has interpreted it on the recipient end of Extrapolating meaning behind that and the initiative and the vision that they're looking to to have into the future, right? But panic and sell everything man. Just throwing in the towel It's the worst thing that you could ever ever do and the reason why it takes me 10 minutes to explain it Is because that counterweight in your life is what's going to put this thing in a lot smaller a lot smaller of a context Then it being consuming of a thing every single day every single day Jim Kramer comes on and he says, oh my god. Here we go. Here it is folks. Here it is No, that matters. Okay. What matters is the time from now until then from now We're alive. We're on the live stream independent investor channel. We are Talking about this topic. We are revolving around this topic and what it is that we can do to find that counterbalance And tell the time that we all expire You wonder about my sense of urgency on this message and my sense of a lot of people would be like dang every Friday, Ryan I tell people yeah every Friday come on man. That's that's incredible. Not really. It's 60 minutes It's actually very very simple I actually enjoy the hell out of this project. I enjoy it but 60 minutes when we are measuring the amount of impact when they are we are measuring the amount of time that I carve out of my weekly schedule The release that I get from it from doing what it is that I do day to day I'm a grinder Like I said if you can follow in my footsteps man. Good luck to you I bear the brunt of most of that because it's all contained right here And I'm the one who has to deal with my own demons right But I get a lot of sack satisfaction after a hard week's of work man and I get to chill out and I get to reflect at the impact that we've made and Derived that meaning that I'm addicted to I'm addicted to it. There's no doubt I get a huge huge payoff and benefit from doing what I love and It's one of those things that I would wish upon anybody if you could ever experience the Satisfaction that you get from whatever it is that you do Whatever your project is whatever your contribution on this earth to somebody else for that self fulfillment that you can find Do it and I just find that any more in 2022 people are trying to seek out their fulfillment in all the wrong places They really are and I did man. I felt sorry for that post. I really did I can't watch it anymore I can't watch the channel. I used to endorse the channel because I know there's a good guy there I don't think there's a bad guy there. I don't it's just unfortunate for me Talking about being a consultant for a big large firm and being a lawyer and being a truck driver and being this and that and this And I'm this and this and that and this and that and this and that and therefore you should put more credence in what it is That comes out of my mouth than others You're missing the point man You are you're missing the point man, and I actually feel sorry for you my heart goes out to you I hope you can find Some level of peace and fulfillment in your life man because trying to find it through social media You'll never find it. You'll never find it. I love you. I totally agree with you must develop a new successful habits It's really what it comes down to and I share mine. I've shared it It's one of my the best videos. I've shared man I think like if you guys I hooked a lot of people that night when I shared that with people They loved it and I loved it and I love to share it because I find myself thinking about it from day to day and you know, I had a revelation that I Music has a lot to do with My supplement I go to the gym every single day and I I listen to music when I'm in the gym It's a very very good escape. I love music. I can listen to music in the tree in the car any time And it's one of those things that kind of can satisfy any of those other aspects of what it is That I value as a counterweight in life and you know And and it's it's one of those things that speaks about my perspective And it was my quick retort to somebody who said yeah, that's probably a lot of reason why Tom Healy won't come on the channel I'm not I'm not looking to gain favor from Thomas Healy I said look I don't I don't kiss that ass and it might have been inappropriate to say that But there's an element to truth to that. I do bring something to the table. That's a fact Okay, and and I'm not gonna try to sell somebody on that. I don't need to do that I don't need to fly somewhere on my own dime to try to validate what I what it is that I already know I don't put people on a pedestal like that. I just don't do that. Okay. That's just not what I do The only people that we need to try to embolden and empower through the independent investor community Outside of Thomas Healy or Shiri Baker or Joe Biden or Michael Jordan or anybody else that this world the Kardashians want to put on a freaking pedestal man The only people that I'm looking to do that for on the channel are individuals. That's it regular people Regular whatever it is that means people who have carved out a level of success that Maybe somebody else would look at and say man. That's crazy You know, how are you even happy right? Because the sheer irony in the whole thing is to challenge Whether or not those people out there that we put on a pedestal all the time are indeed happy right That's it Yeah, so no, I will not apologize for my approach forget it I'm not going to do that because that would be An acknowledgement to somehow this company does not oh or oh sure owners more and I believe that they do And I believe that over time that will come to fruition and as of yet today it has not my friends Um, will we go below three dollars again? Probably the trajectory of the stock To one dollar. When does it stop? When does the madness stop? It has done nothing but go down. When does the madness stop? I asked that rhetorically of the of the of the group Absolutely Some of these folks are you going to sell highly on no, no, I'm not not this time I've got some tax harvesting that'll roll over from last year actually last year 2021 was kind of a kind of a bitch for me I'm really not the losses that were capped last year on just a small block of shares That was that was fine and I accumulated those shares back at a lower price Yeah, so I took the tax loss. I waited the 90 days, right? Waited the 90 days and I repurchased earlier on this year. I was glad to do so So you guys know for a while there that I had less than the 12,200 that that was declared I chopped 4 000 shares for tax loss last fall Right and then added those shares back in so I still have the shares. I just entered back into it Because and I'm actually considering now you guys think that Okay, yeah, the stock price is gonna be I'm gonna start buying more You guys like no, I was not buying at 4 75 not with this track record. Hell no There was a lot of people. Hey, I got it for 4 75 man. I got it I was like y'all are crazy y'all are crazy stop Stop but as this thing approaches three. I'd look at the three dollar puts right here I'd look at the cash secured puts right here with a three dollar strike If you wanted to get really aggressive. I just don't see this going to 250. I sure as hell don't but who the hell am I? Um, it seemingly thomas heli's got this thing all figured out by a lot of people's admission So therefore we are in a uh in thomas. We trust type of phase. Okay. He seems very very confident He seems very very happy Somebody pointed out that he's happy because he's making a half a million a year. Um, he's a multi-millionaire. All right And he owns the same shares as we do in the company close to 30 million shares in the company Why wouldn't he be happy stoked? Where would be the sense of urgency? Does he really have the pedigree to to push this thing where it needs to go? No, I will not be selling. There's no need to do that. The stock has really been at this leveling Um, uh basing type of share activity in between three and five for a long long time So unless you've bought for six seven eight this year Um, then you wouldn't be able to to to even look to realize that but yeah My benefit was realized last year and I did not realize all of it. So that's a cool question my friend Thanks for thanks for offering it. I appreciate you throwing it my way. Very cool stuff Uh stops when it stops and not before That's I gotta hand it to this guy man Um, seemingly it does not get to him. Um, I think if I pulled him aside and I I I poured a nice bourbon or whatever And enjoyed it with this man because I have not met rick in person But I can tell you based on the conversations we've had behind the scenes man. I would like to This guy really seems like he's um Really really good person And that's more so what I'm interested in as opposed to the whole hey ryan keep it together You know, you're not enjoying the ride which right now hell rick. I'm not I'm not. Um I'm not a wealthy man. Um How much fate do I throw to the wind, you know, knowing how hard my father and mother worked to provide me What little opportunity that they could provide to me, right? How much do I step out on a limb here? um, and and if you want to suggest somehow that I'm not entitled to worry a little bit or Suggest that wow can't can they do it? Um, what what's going to happen when we you know run out of funding? Are they just going to release the rest of the share float and just push it another two years? You know anything's possible into the future, but um, I do appreciate your support and all that but Yeah, I think I'd ask you you know, hey did this did this bother you at all? And I'd really like to know the honest answer to that And I know over social media you would say no it doesn't bother me at all, but uh, Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's what separates me from the masses is I like to come on board and share with people that I am in fact just a human being no more no less Imperfect Trying to strive to be as best as I can possibly be But nowhere near perfect nowhere near nowhere That was that was evident by this morning's twitter And the quick response that maybe somehow I'm less of a youtuber to somehow deserve a shot And I won't take kindly to that because My work speaks for itself Yeah, my edgy attitude speaks for itself My interpretation and degree of pressure that me and me alone has been willing to Be willing to put on this At every turn Every ordered chronicle on the channel with no love Not even a thank you Not even a quick email So that type of stuff right there if it's not going to be rendered Then why would I put an iota a thought in it? I have a family to support I have a job to do where the implication is huge And I have a community to to help and and provide some counsel and And motivation too and and that's What I've defined for myself. I'm doing exactly what I want to do It has nothing to do with seeking any type of acceptance by anyone And my motive has never ever been in line with that man And I think there's a lot of people that share in that sentiment There's a bunch of badasses in my community man. They work hard. They work hard And where you'd be quick to scrutinize somebody like that through social media You'd be hard-pressed to do it to their face because the people that I work with man and are They they like truth and and they like hard work and they like real talk And they value those things So if you're going to try to scheme and and and manipulate and try to say this and that about whatever else You better be able to back it up Because that's the cloth that I'm cut from and my friends trust me. I am absolutely cut from that cloth No doubt about that I'll always talking down. I hate the fact that he tags highly and to get yep. That's that's that's a problem that I have Um, I always just think about wishy washy Uh, you know, he got a thousand views on his last highly on video And I'm releasing two because I like to give people the opportunity to stay relevant with my 10-minute offering because I don't think a lot of people like the 60-minute offering It did better on the search. So that gives me some indication on that But I I don't um, yeah, I don't appreciate that I I think it's wishy washy and I think it plays in with what I feel like is a very very egotistical social media landscape everybody's trying to sell people on the idea that they have more to offer than the next and I don't know What I wholeheartedly believe in is that nothing that anybody has is that damn important nothing I who do you think you are man? Let it go It's it's not right. It's just not right And that's the thing is you know Just six eight months ago. It was 100 percent. I'm in the stock I'm and now I'm out of the stock and I'm in the stock again There was one time when the admittance to the stock holding came through on the channel I could have swore. He said he had a hundred shares and I was like what in the freak is this guy talking about like Are people really that pathetic where they can't just Believe what it is that they're saying You know I've got all these sources and I provide those sources to you exclusive through my channel Bullshit bullshit Give me a break Give me a break If you have all these sources, how are you so misguided On renaming your channel a fuel channel and thinking that that's going to be the end all be all I never hear the guy talking about driver experience. I never hear him talking about Toeing capacity. I never hear him talk about h2 availability Except for the last video that I did watch of him where he had the audacity to suggest that c and g projects and r and g are Not happening and that h2 is accelerating at a record pace It doesn't get any better than just pulling it out of your ass Seriously, he could probably just put his butt to the microphone and just fart out all this information Because it's just downright wrong. It's just wrong There is more of a holistic focus in this in this opportunity in the ev space than just the fuel It's all h2 and it's nothing else. It's all h2 and nothing else You want to know something crazy? Thomas Healy just mentioned on dooners interview ammonia. Do you guys pick that up? Pick it up. I did I did don't think it's real Do more self-study from an international perspective It could very well be a player into the future Could very well be Doesn't really matter does it it's about the availability and the needs of the customer Okay, not this whole like hey, we're going to do this and the industry is going to conform to us All right, that's that's it. But I never hear any of that I never hear any of that It's always what highly on has not done and everything that nicola is just doing and has already won the game It's already won the game I saw a tweet come through from biff my favorite tweeter who always comes on I wants to ripple rip apart highly on Every time they do something good and it was It was of interest to me. What would we say? He said something about God, it was it was so so good and I can't I can't remember what it was I had it and I lost it if I think about it. I will share it, but it was just incredible to hear Them talking about I wish I could remember because it was really really good It was really really good. Oh, yeah, I got it Talking about how highly on is dead in the water and nicola is so far ahead in the race Nicola doesn't need to be speaking from a position of of strength at all their stock prices at five dollars a share This is a three billion dollar company and I don't understand how it seeks that valuation. I have no idea but He Paul Paul was suggesting that that thomas heli has finally given some admittance that hydrogen is the way of the future I'm actually of the belief that thomas heli in the back of his mind is actually playing gamesmanship right here I do I do because if you are an h2 bull And you have a vision And it is it is an imaginary vision That next year h2 is going to own a respectable percentage of the Class eight trucking space. Oh my goodness. I'd say that tongue-in-cheek. Oh lemole Then then you you have your head up your backside And then I push it out five years from now and I say are you suggesting that h2 is going to have A respectable degree of the class eight space five years from now He would suggest yes Yes, that is absolutely what we're going to have. That's exactly what we're going to have thomas heli just expressed this today when the dooner interview dropped on what the truck to suggest the diesel Run in the carno generator can actually drive a lower emissions score Right now and actually Meet those mandates through carbon that's on the epa to meet those standards by burning conventional fuel conventional fuel If you watch paul's channel He would have you believe that the class eight space dare I say next year I'll give him the latitude of suggesting maybe even the possibility of five years now Down the line is going to be powered predominantly by hydrogen fuel cell Do you honestly think that's going to be the case in five years and this is where I'm disappointed Because somebody like him who I did I respected a lot man. I liked him just for who he was Um, and I've seen him transition into what he feels like he has to transition to That's the big disappointment for me That's the big disappointment for me And now I watch the channel and I don't I don't know who the individual is I see who he's trying to be He's trying to be a social media figure. I wish them all the bust I see a lot of people doing this Mm-hmm They get onto social media and they sell out they sell out not to the patrons of their channel. No no no They sell out to themselves Because they're trying to supplement something about themselves the deficiencies within themselves And they think that social media somehow is going to fill that void and it's just not going to happen That's just not how it happens man They had a robust Night tonight man very very cool live stream tonight. I'm going to watch this one back. I think this was cool I think I said a few things. I got to address my three things. I'm sorry about the rants on some of the things My tolerance is wearing thin. It will continue to wear thin I'm I'm a I'm a I'm a study of play dough and infinite divisibility If you have any inkling at all to mind boggle yourself Through some ancient philosophy, I would highly encourage you. I think that's probably the medieval era actually Interesting enough, but I will stretch my tolerance as thin as I need to to see this thing through And I will not get a get up and down and I will not jump and down for for joy I will attend the party when it happens Because I like I love life And I love actually seeing a plan through I love your marking an opportunity and seeing it through no matter what and your investing Should absolutely fit into that philosophy You made a promise to yourself at some point in your past to grow wealth for yourself and your your kids If if if if nothing else Tell yourself Beth it If if I can't make a A go at this stock market if by watching this stock market, I can't change the stock market every single day To hell with it. All right. I'm a loser fine I'm gonna give it to my kids and they'll have a whole another generation to build wealth And fund it and stay true to the tried and true fundamentals that have been proven to work over time Continuing to be opportunistic on financial markets to continue to dollar cost average at all cost Even maybe improve upon or increase those dca contributions How about being a little opportunistic with actually some initial fundings? Maybe starting another bucket Now now is the time we're buying it needs to ensue. We are in that phase right now my friends and The more volatility we get in the market the more opportunity is created within financial markets Remember that folks. I hope this hit home with you. I really hope that this made an impact on you Um, I am a man of my word. I do and I preach what I what I what I practice Okay, this is what I do and that my friends are the swim lanes and the rules that govern my investment thesis And they are rock solid. They are pillars of my application. I will not surrender them for anything There's nothing that the stock market can throw at me in way of volatility That's going to shake my pillar loose And I would expect you guys to try to define that same level of Conviction for yourself because that at the end of the day is the only thing that is going to carry you through to better times As I appreciate you tuning in to the independent investor channel live stream passed to 60 minutes on youtube We will be back next friday On the uh, we plan to be back anyway. Uh, I typically don't miss. I'm kind of like the iron man cal ripken I never miss a game and uh, I do it for you guys. I appreciate the time Have a great labor day weekend. Enjoy friends. Enjoy family, which is what the most important thing is Thank you for taking a few moments with me on this labor day weekend on the friday live stream Be well guys and we'll check you next week No