 Welcome back, folks. This is our man, Mr. Bud Rolfs, right there, the Channel Master extraordinaire. Bottom line, folks. Unfortunately, Bud passed away September 10th after battling leukemia. He was surrounded by his wife, his two children, when he passed. I just want to read a little bit about Bud, because he was an amazing person. So he was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1951. He was one of three children of the late Walter A. and Mary A. Rolfs. During his youth, Bud resided with his family in Monkjoy, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dongle High School in 1969. Now check this out, folks, with the acceptances to the Merchant Marine Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and the United States Military Academy. Bottom line, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he established a lifelong brotherhood with several of his classmates. And on June 6, 1973, he graduated. He served with the Army from 1973 to 1978 and had been stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, with the headquarters' 36 field artillery, first infantry division, and held the rank of captain. After his honorable discharge, Bud later continued his education at River College, now Riviera College in Nashville. We earned his MBA and then successfully completed an executive development program from Cornell University, New York, in 1986. In his leisure time, Bud enjoyed fishing, writing beautiful poetry, and reading and educating others on the Bible. He was an avid sports fan. He loved watching football, whether it was Army, Navy, NFL games, or his son and later grandson's high school football games. He loved spending time with his family and doing quality time with his magnificent seven grandchildren. He loved traveling, including leisure drives to the main coastline of the Big Island Adventures to the Bahamas, one of his favorite island destinations. Okay, let's play this video. We have a prize for everyone out here. Including ourselves. Including ourselves. We got the channel master, the channel master of the world of the TFNN. That's right, man. We got our man, Mr. Bud Rolfs. Bud, what's going on, brother? Hey, Tom and Tommy, two of my favorite people in the whole world. Rolfs, what's happening, man? I love that voice, man. Totally. The Tigers' den's going wild, Bud. The Tigers and Tigers is going wild in the trading room. Yeah, I didn't think anybody would remember me down there. You're ingrained in everybody's head, baby. How you been, man? Well, you know, I have been suffering through a lot of health problems over the years and stuff like that, but I think I got a lot of that under control at this point. God has blessed me with so many wonderful things, seven grandchildren. The last three of which were triplets. I know, man. And they're seven years old now. I remember those baby pitches, man. Seven years old now. Wow. Yeah, they are. My oldest is just starting to drive, Megan, and it just, you know, you can't believe how time goes by. I know, man. Unbelievable. That is really unbelievable. So your oldest is 16 now. The oldest grandchild, right? Yes, yes, Megan. Oh, my. And it won't be long before she's going to college, Tom. That's a beautiful thing. That's a beautiful thing. It just seems like yesterday when my kids were going to college. Yeah, it was. I tell you, man. I stopped by. I looked at the website a bunch of times and stuff. I can't believe what you guys have done with it. Tiger TV and the presentation is so professional. And Tommy Jr., I got to tell you, you are slick on the air. Listen, you are a slickster yourself, bud. Thank you, man. You are a star, Tommy. No doubt. For everybody that doesn't know, join it. Bud was a star on TFN. He is a star for, man, a solid decade, 15 years. Time is crazy when it goes. You know, everyone's clamoring for your poems, bud. For my poems? The poetry sessions, man. Yeah, man. They kick off those holidays. I still write them for holidays and different occasions. You know, whatever strikes me as something worth writing about. That's awesome, man. And how is Nancy doing? Nancy is fine. God bless her. We've been together now 46 years, Tom. So cool, man. I always tell the story that I went to West Point and you can't be married at West Point. And Nancy and I met there and we found love at first sight. And we couldn't get married. So I had to wait till after graduation. So I graduated June 6, 1973. We got married on June 17, 1973. And the only mistake I made was I wasted 11 days. I love that story. I know. It was so cool, man. It was so cool. Hey, so let me ask you something. Every time I'm bringing up a biotech, man, we talk about it, you're on the air. Are you still hunting these biotechs? Well, I'm in to the one that I got. Tommy, you don't believe us, but there's a stock called SREPTA, SRPT. And they do gene therapies, particularly on muscular dystrophy. And I came across this stock way back when I was at TFNN and I bought it for under a buck. Oh, my God. And folks, it's a $121 stock right now. Wow. And I'm telling you, you can actively trade this. You can hold a long position. It's a great stock. Folks, this stock is going over $200. I'll tell you that right now. That gene therapy is so cool in terms of the revolutionary things that they're doing. You know, by the way, just brought back, I just got the revenue, right? So check this out, folks. In 2015, they took in $1 million. 2019, $395 million. Not bad. Yeah. Wow. And so they, let's see. So RNA and what? So rare and infectious diseases, right? Yeah. They focus on muscular dystrophy. Oh, which is huge. Okay, right. Yeah. And there is no cure for muscular dystrophy. And what happens in muscular dystrophy is you lack a certain protein in your genetic structure and you can't make the thing that makes your muscles work, okay? Okay. The secret sauce there. And what they've done is been able to counter that genetically and cause the genes to begin to express that protein and kids that have muscular dystrophy now suddenly can get out of their wheelchairs and walk. Wow. That's cool. That's pretty intense. Just unbelievable. That is unbelievable. And usually kids with MD, it hits boys almost exclusively, but usually those kids die by about 20, 25 years old and they're in wheelchairs by age 10. And so this is a drug that is just a miracle. And it's right in Cambridge, Mass. I was going to say, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I've been into that heavily for years and I got a lot of people into it. So I'm usually unpopular in those circles. I bet, man. Slightly, right? Making friends left and right, I'm sure. Yeah. I mean, you know, you can bring this back even to 2016 folks was an eight dollar stock. Amazing. It's just pretty wild. Yeah. I thought about it. Yeah. So you're coming into the spring up there. Yeah. That was beautiful, Nashua. Oh, yeah. You know, we have just about got rid of all of our snow. It's April. Perfect. That makes any sense to you folks down the floor. And we hear about it. Yes. And I heard you guys move to a new headquarters, right? We did. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. We get a studio on one floor and then we get the offices on another floor. Well, we have some of some both floors, but yeah, it's pretty neat. Well, you live in the most beautiful part of the world. That's for sure. Yeah. Listen, man. Very lucky. But the last, like what, six weeks have been like. Beautiful. It's hard to comprehend, man. This is our time of the year, man. You know, it is. I'm bracing for heat. And you guys are still fishing, I assume, once in a while? Are you fishing? I haven't been out enough. No, I haven't been out enough. I've got to. No. I got to stop. You said go out and catch those big wahoo, didn't you? I, well, we caught a couple. Right? Yeah. We did. We ate those wrong. I know. That was a good deal. I know. I keep saying I'm going to do it. I just got to do it. I just got to do it. I know. Well, to do what you do, as well as you do it, the two of you, to get to work together with father and son, and to hang around with the Tigers and Tigresses of TFNN, the best people in the world. I am telling you, I have, I've been all over the world time. I've talked to all kinds of folks, gotten to mingle with all kinds of crowds, and the TFNN folks are the clearest bunch I've ever come across. Yeah. Greatest people. You're the best, too, bud. I miss your show, man. Yeah, I know. In the days I was in front of that board running Bud's show, man. You run to that great program, man. Oh, I remember that. It was awesome. Yeah, but you used to have, my bumper music had to be Sinatra. That was the key. That's right. No messing around, baby. The good stuff. Well, listen. All right, well, look, I don't want to hold you guys up, but I just wanted to call in as an alumni and a proud Tiger and tell you that you are still the greatest Tommy and Tom O'Brien that you can't go wrong with these two folks. Hey, listen, bud, this is awesome. One of the Tigers, he's saying from the training and the master training series, bud, he's still the TFNN master trading jacket from your master trader. Oh, wow. Love you, man. Love you, bud. You made our day, man. Hey, God bless you guys. Take care. God bless you, too, man. Love you. That was awesome. Welcome back, folks. Now, that was from April of 2019, folks. And as you're watching Tiger TV, bottom line is that he was talking about that equity that he got into and got Tigers into a list of the dollar. And, you know, bottom line, he was looking for $200. Well, he got pretty close. It went to $181.83, folks. Okay. So you're going to love that. Now, what we're going to do, I'm going to read one of his poems because he was definitely the master. He was the master of just so many things in life. A Memorial Day poem by Bud Ralfs. So what will you do on Memorial Day? Maybe you go to the mall. If your wife has her way, maybe fill up the pool so the kids can get a thrill. Or spend the day cooking on your barbecue grill. You can go to a ball game or take in a movie. How about sneaking a nap? Now, that sounds really groovy. Do whatever you want. It's okay, don't you see? It's okay because this country is the land of the free. Thanks to long ago courage at the twilight's last gleaming, it's okay that you're spending your weekend day dreaming. It was barefooted soldiers in the valley ford snow that gave you the freedom to choose where to go. If Adams and Jefferson had not heard their calls, do you think you'd have ball games, movies and malls? If so many brave soldiers had not made their choices, could you still go to Fenway and hear those fans' voices? If no one had showed up to take Omaha Beach, would your old family Bible still be within reach? Can you see those firemen running toward the towers and their windows left open with memories and flowers? See, for most of us sadly each Memorial Day is just a time to party, not remember and pray. Prayers of thanks to those patriots who came long before us and who sing to us now from their heavily chorus. It's because of some choices they made centuries past that our country's still great and our freedom's still last. So perhaps at the beach, you'll take time to remember a place called Pearl Harbor on an ancient December. Or you might take a moment when the ball game is done to think of the courage it took at Bull Run. See, whatever you do, it could never repay what so many have chosen on some long ago day. When their service was needed, they gave their full measures to give you the freedom to choose your own pleasures. So will you make any time for the holiday spot to thank those who gave you all the freedoms you've got? So what will you do on Memorial Day? I think I'll take some time, give thanks, and to pray. That's our man, Mr. Budroffs, folks. And what we are going to do, we're going to finish this program. I'm going to go on with the program. We're going to finish this program. You heard him when he was talking with Tommy about... So Tommy at this point, when he was saying that they were talking about the aspect of Tommy at the board. And so what happened, folks, is that we had a radio station up in Nashua. That's where I had met Bud, okay? And the bottom line, Tommy ran the station. You talk about work. So this is a 24-hour station. We had financials all day. We had sports all night. We had the Patriots. We had everyone. Tommy used to have to open this... I had a full newsroom, man. I mean, it was insane. But anyway, Tommy used to have to open that place up, get everything going at 6 o'clock in the morning, and of course him and Bud, you know, the bottom line, of course they were always talking, because Tommy was running the whole place. So listen, we love you, Bud. We'll always remember you, Bud. And you're going to go down on history as the Channel Master. There's no two ways about that, okay? And when we finish this program off, we're going to do a Sinatra song, you know, for a tribute to our man, Mr. Bud Rolfs. That's right. It's a beautiful thing. You know, he's just an amazing man.