 Up to welcome everybody back to the independent investor channel. This is what I consider and deem to be the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube Why it's because we try to capture Lifelong lessons and we try to jam it through the channel in a matter of minutes. So Most people don't have the necessary Patience to sit through an offering of 60 minutes So if you need to split it up into quadrants, you can do that. Okay So just put yourself a little governor on the channel. Stop it at 15 minutes Go back review the content because trust me guys I'm trying to jam a lot of information through and I'm only one voice. I'm only one voice through a very very Deep and dark place in social media. All right My name is Ryan Been doing the independent investor channel for a while now going on six years I guess I didn't even know how long I held the portfolio somebody corrected me on that that was three years But certainly had a few people reach out to me. I it's awesome I just released a video this evening on the dividend portfolio. We'll approach the next financial threshold of $50,000 I speak openly about Personal finance budgeting. Those are the politically correct ways of codifying Money money, right? Society I need more money. I got to work harder so I can get more money I got to join the rat race so I can get more money. I've got to fall on tilt or I got to do this I got to do that. It's all aimed at Pursuing money but the more we face the topic and understand that It is one of those topics to be embraced. It's one of those topics to really run yourself through a self-jack and I'm continually doing it myself. I look to share that Opportunity for self deliberation self review self assessment Happy Thanksgiving to everybody now is the time to really be thankful for What is important? I put what was important to me on Twitter. You guys can follow me over there. I'm actually pretty funny it was family health employment and Highly on I drew highly on on there just to really quantify my appreciation for the investing opportunity. I Do think a lot of people fail miserably at the investing gig What really gets me interested in teaching about the psychology of stock market investing is The right answers there The potential for more people to succeed is there There's no doubt in my mind now, you don't have to have but half of the motivation that I have to Who to will myself to something special? And people will take note on the channel someday when I'm able to will myself to something special Because that in essence is the very criteria that I'm judged by there's no doubt Okay, I'm a good person now. I was a good person 10 20 years ago Alright, but when we talk about the money topic The only thing that people really resonate to is if I've got a Tesla parked behind me Or I'm driving around in a lotus seemingly with no care in the world, right? Share these stories with a grander YouTube audience so that they they can believe that I live in the land of bliss and To get myself up in the morning all I have to do is just hit my easy button and boom I fall out onto my cloud and over to my you know enormous walk-in shower and I think what a lot of people might Appreciate with me is when you're going through this evolution with me I look at the independent investor channel as a tutorial to tell my story. Okay What makes me different is I talk about my portfolio going down I Talk about a lot of people actually suffering from stock market investing. I talk about a lot of people out there that Maybe want to do the right thing and they think doing the right thing is picking the right stock And I'm one to quickly point out to that People are their worst of their their own worst enemy. They really are in a lot of different capacities But when we talk about stock market investing in general People want to do the right thing. They really do and they define the right thing as being put money to work to make more money Okay, and they're willing to take chances. They really are they're willing to put that risk on the table I think most people can agree that there is some some interest in Pursuing a better tomorrow. Okay it's the very means of how people deliberate around and The criteria that is vetted to make those decisions for themselves This is where I think we slightly get a rye and I don't think a lot of people like watching me because I'm not all Polished and I'm not Perfect far-freaking from it. I point out my deficiencies just as quickly as I'll point out yours because I know I know you've got them, too and I think it's Very apparent to me that if you are going to pursue success in life It is absolutely critical that you break yourself down and identify what those deficiencies are Don't be naive about what you can and can't do All right Don't set up barriers. Okay. Don't get me wrong. A lot of people say I can't do it Ryan I can't do it. It's what I said in the first sentence of the live stream tonight what baffles me about personal finance is You can do it and it's easier than a lot of people would Suggest to you that you would do it or I would even presume that a lot of people's again worst enemy is their own hesitation to put themselves on a plan or break bad habits or Identify what it is that they may need to change. Okay. I spend like a complete asshole I love spending like an asshole Ryan. I love spending money I Observe a lot of people that are really really good at spending money man really good at spending money Ryan Longwood's in the group here's joking about us is the turkey that the 60 whatever sense and he's like, you know people have an inability to Seek out a good deal and when they can't find a good deal they freaking freak out why because we're privileged age right now 2022 we are privileged if we don't have everything right in front of our face We are not willing to work for it. We are not willing to identify What needs to be done the answers are probably out there? All right, but we we we've we fail all too often and we want to succumb to the easy path Instead of just identifying what it is that works for us Okay, so as we close out this Thanksgiving and we enter into the holiday season I tell you what man 2022 is going to be one for the ages for me. It was such a dynamic year for me Personally and I would really hope that you guys would look back and you're thankful for what you have your health Major changes that are are looming or or came to fruition in 2022 Maybe some life plans that you're making Yeah Yeah, that's what it's all about for sure because where I contend that there's so many different people around the world with different Attributes, you know, we all have eyes We all have heads and noses and mouths and we all can speak a common language some a different language Whatever that might be, but I tell you what the very makeup that makes us special that is really what I want to hit home on and and It seems like nowadays everybody wants to Find commonality in people Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm looking to challenge that idea I think when people buy into this idea that they're just one in the same They have nothing special to offer They are not willing to break away or maybe they want to but they've already bought into this idea that it is That it is hopeless for whatever reason, okay This is why successful people make it In this life because they've identified one very very simple attribute in themselves And I'll tell you what it is. I'm not one to keep secrets They at some point in their life, whether it be early in their life middle of their life or later in the life in their life Realize that it's something that they want to do Amazing, right They at some point have gotten tired Of the rut race, okay, and I'm not talking about going and working a job. I'm not talking about that I'm talking about the habitual Uh habit forming behavior that if you can reflect back over the last five years And you can say, you know what in all honesty ryan or whoever's Asking these rhetorical questions of you and yourself reflection Not a whole lot's changed, you know And five years in the grand scheme of things is a fairly short amount of time to quantify success in any way But it does give you an idea that if you continue along that trajectory That you can safely assume that over the next five years that not a whole lot's going to change there either Unless you're willing to change something about yourself that perhaps you you don't like You come into my channel. Listen after 60 minutes I'm going to give you all kinds of things. There's not a lot of people at least Let me qualify the statement and just suggest that I think that there's a lot of people who maybe come to the channel And they identify in me Something that they have inside themselves and that is a desire to do better and with me. It is a passion of it is uh At certain times perhaps maybe a curse. I don't know. Um, I choose not to look at it that way I really don't I think a lot of people Really can benefit in in finding their own personal capability In this deal and it all comes down to a desire to do all right My independent investor channel project I've I'm not having Any less fun now 2022 Has been a year that I have had the most fun on the independent investor channel. This is a big reason for it the live stream fantastic I've made the comment many many times that I don't I don't make a whole lot of money by coming on to a youtube opportunity that requires of me a 10 to 12 minute video Not 14 Not 16 Not 20 and it would be career suicide To expect to come on and do youtube for over 20 minutes I do 60 every single friday not because i'm trying to appease anybody But because I want to I want to This is what I want to do It feels right to me okay, um You know, it's it's one of those things to where If I were to get this validation through social media of Hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I had kyle on last week. It was kind of funny because he said, you know I don't want my channel to blow up. I I do just fine with a small channel. I'm proud of my project What does the number really mean? Outside of just a lot of people coming to your channel and just expecting that you have All the answers for people because you have a big subscriber number Come to find out they tune into your channel and they don't have that that primer Met for themselves and they find out something funny that there's Probably a whole hell of a lot less separation between the small channels And even some of the small channels that I endorse with a few thousand subscribers And those channels with hundreds and dare I say millions of subscribers It is the information that you're getting that much more grand. I don't know I tip my hat to all my youtube colleagues I'm thankful for the opportunity. I've watched youtube evolve Over the last six years. I've watched people come in And go from the channel. I've seen channel creators come in And drastically just fall off the radar. They're gone For me personally, I know how much the project means to me and I am very very thankful for You guys support in the message a lot of you guys are here every single friday and Let me be honest with you guys. I don't have much of a choice in this gig I enjoy it. I love my opportunity for a few moments every single week to talk about personal finance but but for you guys that You know are making your way into To this opportunity every friday, man. I'm real humbled. I really am I really want you to feel like You need you have some ownership over the channel Like if you bring somebody into the channel, you know exactly that they're going to hear something From me that's got the potential to to to meet my goal And that's to empower people to make them think about those things that maybe they can change or maybe even drastically change I tell you what man as much as i'm always thinking about this and I can tell you carte blanche Every single day for the last five years. I'm not asking you to do something that I haven't done myself But i'm very very critical of myself very critical Probably to the point of it being a little too much. All right But right now i'm kind of in the pocket and when I reflect back There wasn't a day that went by where I didn't think about doing something better or trying to better my situation or Continuing to earmark those prospective opportunities down the line Some of them came to fruition some didn't And now i'm in an interesting place at 45 years old that Things are really starting to snowball for me And like I said that that very vindication is one that is very very important to me Once I get to the seven figures guys You're going to find that i'm the funniest effin millionaire out there I am going to be a funny freaking millionaire because I won't change I won't um, I will use that as credibility because it's something that's very very important to me Wealth and accumulating personal finance and financial freedom is something that I share all the time on the channel is something that I have defined over the course of my entire life What does it mean to you? What what does it mean to you? Does it mean filming yourself driving around in a lotus? Okay, no problem. I don't I don't care. I don't judge. It's no problem I have my own ability as to what My own definition as to what I think that will mean Okay, but for the people who come and they're kind of on the fence about whether or not this is worth it or Whether or not i'm i'm going to steer you down the path of unrighteousness or you know I'm going to say something that's going to get you Into a micro cap stock like a duro clean technologies and you're going to lose $23 and 17 cents and you're going to be pissed off at me. I'm a bad person and You're high and mighty and you just got unlucky with coming into the opportunity I don't think so. I think it's going to provide that Very vindication that I need I'll be there whether or not I have you guys or not just that simple And the the very fact that I spend, you know my time A lot of time now I think if you added up the amount of minutes that I've spent on the live stream Over the last six years on the independent investor channel. I think it'd be relatively impressive actually I love doing it wouldn't have traded a second as a matter of fact if I could do it longer I would There was an impasse on the channel where I had to cut it down to 60 minutes cut it down And some of the new guests would be like jeez Louise man. What the hell is he talking about? I used to do this for two hours every friday because once I get on The left hand side of my brain I like to stay there as long as I can Because it is my creative It is my my my impassioned side It's my love for teaching. There's no doubt about it. I teach on other fronts, but for this particular Opportunity through the independent investor channel. We exploit the personal finance niche because where I do believe People could absolutely take a step up in their personal health and well-being Um, they could definitely take a step up in their spiritual approach to life and you know Really answering the most incredible question you could ever answer for yourself and Am I truly happy? That's key What what I find interesting is that personal finance can Be an undertone to all of those things. They really can in other words. You can be the happiest person in your life Into into retirement someday only to reflect back on your life and say man I was I was very happy and I'm happy now but I certainly wish I would have maybe focused and Focused more on those avenues personal finance is all about a discipline It's not about emotion. You've heard that cliche before I couldn't agree more. It's not about emotion That's why people come on and they're like Ryan. I'm highly on It's terrible. You suck and you I mean the hate that I've got over the last 18 months has been incredible It's been fantastic. I just absolutely love people proving my points over And over and over and over again on social media and in truly understanding now With the tide shifting and it will what's the vindication that you expect? $4 10 20 I don't know which each with each new dollar I Prove my point Prove my point and people will be like ryan you the greatest ever you had this thing knocked in from yeah, but people Don't understand. I was 18 months premature on the opportunity Who's to suggest it's going to come to fruition in the q1 or the final q4 of next year and q1 or q2 of next Year, right? It's the very insights that I want you to understand about That particular niche in the overall investing game, okay It takes balls Okay, I don't know how else to say it I'm going to share with you my top five micro cap stops tonight because it's interesting And it's a piece of the channel that this year in 2022 has kind of Captured a little bit of opportunity for me. I've been very hungry. I've had companies reach out to me It's been very interesting this year some of the profiling that I do on the channel a lot of people don't like it That's fine. You can continue to not like it. I like it. This is my thing Okay and If the validation is such that the profiling Rolls out companies that just fall on deaf ears and they fall on their ear They go tits up and they're belly up and they're bankrupt, right? That's one thing But what if what if that changes? Oh, it's never going to change right and it's never good. Yeah, I don't know Whenever you start saying one way or the other that the stock market is going to do what you think it's going to do over here Guess what it goes right this way I've learned that and I've had it for many many years If I can impart to you do not ever allow words to come out of your mouth that would suggest I know where the stock market's going. I was careful there. I really was I was careful because some of my friends on youtube do this and they do it very frequently And it's intriguing. It's fascinating It it's very very attractive to the sheet I'm the lemmings that want to come on and they want to identify with charisma And they want to identify with a little bit of a messy hairdo They would definitely want to identify this guy's got two teslas behind him. This guy must have all the answers, right? That's the sleight of hand, you know So I can tell this group anything they want to hear And I can throw it out there and I can just mention to do this this and this and I know they're going to do it All right It's all bullshit, man You can't do that The very opportunity that I talked about in stock market investing is So much more simple than that. It really is It has everything to do with tried and true discipline Will people look let's just play for a second. Okay. Let's just say that highly on Starts production the end of next year and it ends up at 25 bucks. Could it happen? I think it could I mean It's it's it's up over three. It is the standalone game in the class 8 space. There's no doubt about it I mean, I'm putting a value right now Of around 20 to 30 dollars on the stock easy just because it's so undervalued right now that it's not even funny Company needs to earn revenue and they will but Let's just suggest that the company is at 25 dollars going into 2024. Let's just say that, okay There's going to be a lot of things that happen people are going to come in and they're going to say Ryan you You're a great investor because you invested in this company wrong Wrong completely wrong Guys like myself who have been doing this a long long time have the maturity to sit back and be Very very critical Will it make money? I guess Probably I hope so my bullish conviction tells me that it will right It doesn't make it a good investment It does not make it a good investment for you It doesn't mean that because I made money on it. It's it's a good investment for me. Okay Because because here's the thing A lot of people want to make rationalizations about other people's due diligence and that is the fallacy in stock market investing that is Rampant, okay. It's rampant The folks that are the closest to my network are those people who give Resonating ideas that can be scaled to the masses and when you're talking about micro cap stocks Very very difficult to teach not only the discipline but to Allow people to realize that maybe even they're not even at a point in their financial savvy to even engage in that game It doesn't make sense They don't need it It's not right for them They don't have the risk tolerance to To to to to deal with the swings I'm dealing with something right now in the stock market that I'm absolutely capable of dealing with and it is Very difficult It's not easy very very very few people who are Interested in following me Can can follow me And a lot of people out there will watch me and say hell, that's really arrogant Ryan I can follow you Ryan. I really can and I'm I'm gonna tell you right now. I love you I love you, but I wouldn't expect my worst enemy to try to follow me In pursuit of my passion What it is that I'm trying to take care of in this gig The legacy that I'm trying to make The idea of rationalizing the chance that I took in accordance with what I had Built up for two and a half decades in preparation of taking that that that shot right, right I can't bundle that up And I can't give that to somebody enough to have them look at it and say right on Ryan I fully understand what you're talking about Okay, so When I talk about finding that that personal Rational for why it is that you do what you do. Yeah, I'm perfectly open with that But I am going to be a really really funny millionaire. Trust me guys. It's going to be so much fun I'm having a blast now But I don't have the millions of subscribers. I don't have the tens of thousands of subscribers 50 whatever it is Um, I think I should have whatever it is that I have coming to me Okay, and I'm willing to make the investment in the channel because What I'm trying to teach people is that you you don't need to believe in me I already believe in me enough When we can get people to believe in themselves And start to really embrace this idea of personal success and hold themselves accountable Walk a line that they didn't think they were capable of walking Now we're getting to that empowerment piece be back with you in just a moment Fantastic Um, just awesome awesome to be with you guys this evening man. I'm in such good spirits. I really am um The transition and the the shift in the channel Um, I'm having a lot of fun right now. I really am I hope you guys feel it You know the renderings and the money and the funny ass millionaire thing I will be there. There's no doubt about it Once I get to the seven figure mark. It will be um, one of the milestones that I ferociously Went after I made decisions in my life to pursue employment when you start from nothing You've got to make some decisions to say look Do I want to continue this pie in the sky type of idea? And I I pursued a lot of those ends. I really did I ran small businesses I you know pursued opportunity made investments that didn't work out some of it which were close with close family and Had a few knives in the back right because people want to gravitate toward success Um, and I'm a target in that way because if you guys that have been sleeping under a rock in the community I am that okay You got to start thinking like that Okay, don't think that you're going to pursue and end up in mediocrity and then be Uh, completely oblivious or surprised that you achieve mediocrity Okay You want to pursue something badass pursue it. What's the worst that can happen? You don't make it See, it's the whole fight Um fight and go down fighting type of mentality Uh-huh, and I've fought my whole life. I've made hard decisions Sometimes in a position of complete hopelessness You know 2022 has been a drag For me on the on the portfolio side the dollars the the dollars and cents the renderings but there's been other pockets through my ferocity and Pursuing and and chopping through those jungle bushes, you know, looking for something not sure if I'm going to find something but Pursuing that have emerged in 2022 To the likes that I could have never perceived possible entering into 2022 I closed this year out. It's been it's been really really incredible and for you guys that You know are loyal to the channel. I've had a few folks enter back into the viper group I thank you for that patronage That's very nice That's a project. It's kind of self sustaining, you know, it pays for the cost of the website, etc Um, I I don't I don't make a whole lot it pays for itself And I I really like it. I like having that Opportunity for people to come in and engage with me on a little bit more of a frequent basis Not to be completely consumed By by providing, you know complete strangers with that type of access But I feel like I know a lot of the people in the viper group They're my brothers and sisters and you know, I'm glad to push that product out there We don't have thousands of people as a matter of fact There's less than a hundred people in that group and it's nice. It's um, it's special It's it's very cool I share some cool stuff in there every now and then I'll drop nuggets I don't get too crazy about it, but It's a lot of fun to have that opportunity The podcast is on ice Now I'm the highly on every single week, man. I I love Talking about that company. I just love it, man I really do um, I I've kind of discovered through referral Another company that I really love covering as well and that's a duro clean technologies because You notice a niche here I believe the technology is emerging so fast that we need to start to segue some of those technologies Into emerging opportunities i.e. Those companies that solve a problem. Okay I've been working with mary euston itchki who runs microcap explosions. Very brilliant brilliant guy Very sharp. I love his attitude His attitude is what put him into those riches and there's a real takeaway from you know, listening to the guy's philosophy and his Lack of sympathy for people's deficiencies. I mean really he's very non apologetic to people but The theme amongst this group that i'm going to tell you right now and i've shared this with my viper group They all solve a problem and very very different very very diverse in their niche of the problems that they solve But a duro clean technologies will be entering into a campaign that helps share that story I've been invited to the onsite I'm actively engaged. I own 15 000 shares in the company Very exciting times. I was excited to get the company Into the portfolio because it was tricky It was tricky. I had to use interactive broker to actually To actually buy the shares for you guys that have fidelity and td americ trade That's probably top one and two for this type of trade and then ib is probably below that in third Charles Schwab is good. You can get an assisted trade to it, but it's a pain in the ass to get a hold of the shares There was 15 800 shares that traded hands today and when the shell a duro news news came out Um, it was trading four x that volume over a three month average So pretty exciting times, but the ticker symbol hell, I'll leave it down here for you guys The first one is a duro The ticker symbol is a cthf And there it is it's at the bottom. So you guys can grab that you can go take a look at it if you want to my purchasing is On hold right now with the cut with the company just shy of 72 cents us It's right around a dollar CAD. So depending on where and what markets you're purchasing the stock on Again, do what you will I'm not doing this to tell you to buy the stock or not I'm telling you these are the five companies that I've profiled in 2022 that are very very exciting and I think You know When micro caps recover they recover just about as fast as they went down Right, so why would I mention such a thing when everybody's like, you know pull and tail and they're like, yeah I'm gonna buy healthcare now Okay. Good. Good luck. You're gonna buy value now I mean Good luck. I don't know what 2023 is going to look like. I have no idea I actually presume that it'll look a lot like 2022 does But we'll see. I mean, that's just a guess on my end but um These micro cap companies that are doing amazing things with their technology and their ability to change the world Uh, we'll soon get realized in the top and bottom lines when they start to generate some profit and You know, I have this belief that My portfolio is fine. It's working the value aspect is is working For the people that I shared the hundred dividend growth stocks with this evening Half a dozen people hit me up and they're like send it over If you do invest five hundred dollars to me It's like you're going from zero to a hundred good quality dividend stocks And a lot of people will say You suck ryan. I don't like those hundred. I don't like the allocation. I don't like this. I don't like that I don't like the percentage. I don't like m1 finance. I don't I don't I don't I don't like ryan It's like, okay All i'm really trying to do man is take you from zero to a hundred badass gems of the stock market Do what you want to do. I don't care, right? So when i'm looking at providing potential opportunity to people, I don't want people to say Oh, oh my god, you know, this is this is horrible. They're not making they're not making money. That's a fact. Okay but Having them enter into and the big news that i've chronicled over the last month is entering into the game changer program Are being selected by shell oil which Every large company and if shells acceptance of aduro into the program is any indication Of the other major oil companies out there And dare I suggest the major plastic producers through product? Okay product and if you think about product tylenol tide j and j Every product that you get in some form or fashion Is packaged using plastic, right? and aduro sports the hydrochymaletic technology that they have at That reduces and breaks down the feedstock to produce a solution on the back end that can be used to either recycle or I've suggested and chronicled the ability to upcycle Because they have the ability to process and use The big problem has been condemn contamination A big problem has been the input cost to the feedstock Horrible, right? We have not found a solution for this problem in 2022 Until this company came along. So I'm very excited about that. I'll continue the coverage on that. It'll be fun If the company goes to zero, all right I'm a bad man I'm not a bad man But What if it goes up 30% All right, right on man, right on you just chronicled cvs tonight that went up 30% right and you you can do better Okay, all right. What if it goes up 300% 300% all right, Ryan now we're talking man. Now we're talking basic minimum numbers there, right? We invest in the s&p for an 8 to 10% rate of return every single year That's awesome. You can get wealthy on that guys 300% from a year over year weighted Uh, uh average for an investor is like laughably awesome Mm-hmm. It's awesome from a time weighted perspective. You garner 300% on any investment You're d&i you're doing all right. You're accelerating those dollars There I suggest perhaps that aduro has the potential of far greater than that Again with the caveat that the stock could falter for whatever reason I get it I only use this as a very very real example That I have staking. Okay. I've staked the game So therefore you can sit across from me and say I don't really care what you you do. I'm telling you what I've done already. Okay, if it falters I lose, okay However, is there a potential chance with what we know that the stock? I don't know does something funny and actually appreciates in value And there I suggest that this company at a 50 million dollar market cap Right now has comparable comps in their particular niche in the recycling space That are garnering market caps at 1.5 billion dollars And a duro clean technology Based on all schools of thought that I engage with have a far superior solution because Their input cost is really low. In other words, they don't have to use heat As an input to actually Break down these chemicals in a way that actually Creates kind of a net net right the net net is we are recycling. Yes, but the input costs are so cost prohibitive Right that the two kind of negate each other And the big companies are hungry for this solution. So I'm glad to share that anyway Parcel piles is one that I've done in 2022 will continue to help with that story as well I do own shares in that company as well as secure, which is just up listed to the nasdaq Within the last month. So really kind of cool to see a company that I covered on otc qb Actually upgrade. I love the team over there kyle and spencer and and past gal Those guys have worked with me and you know, it's cool, man Like I get to share that stuff with you guys If you watch jeremy with financial education and and I don't watch him anymore Because there was a time there when I tried to really give him a chance and I think beat down inside the guy's probably an all right guy Okay, I give anybody and I'm that's how I am. I forgive. I forget or whatever Um, I just never thought he was really that good because he doesn't talk about stuff that I talk about I'd sit through the lesson and I'd be like, I just sat through 15 minutes and I didn't hear a damn thing I didn't hear anything If you were critical of my message a lot of people say I'm long-winded. Yeah, come on and talk for 60 minutes But if you thought back right as soon as I turned the live stream off and you're like, what did ryan talk about tonight? Wow, he talked about an awful lot man, he talked about this and this and this and this and this You know used a very very simple 50 million dollar market cap company to explain his rationale and thesis as to why he owns shares in the company, right? but Vox Royalty got up listed to the NASDAQ and I'm really happy for that team because they're kicking ass. They're doing well They're they're they're they're garnering about two and a half million in top-end revenue Um ever just declared a 1.7 percent dividend Was a 1.7 or over two Actually, I think it was over two percent dividend To get them a little bit more on par with their peers But the most undervalued Commodities royalty company and they own some of the most prestigious companies Have royalties through some of the most prestigious Mining operations, especially australia if you've been paying attention to my chronicle. Hang on that And then finally the big one the elephant in the room the freaking neon green elephant in the room People from the nicola camp are coming and listening to me talk about ilion. I Whatever man, I don't pit the two against each other I don't I'm not one to suggest that one is this and that and blah blah blah If you just freaking listen to me all i'm talking about is stock Market investing that's it. Okay, you can try to make it all kinds of stuff under the sun You can pretend that stock market investing makes your johnson bigger That's what you want to do. Go ahead You can pretend that if you get this stock market investing thing licked that you're going to finally find a companion out there That's going to love you Okay, right? Perhaps maybe if I get to that seven figures, perhaps maybe I'll become a better father Right Come on guys. Keep it in a box, right? Keep it in a box But highly on I will continue to chronicle I throughout the course of this year considered the phase Of the investment journey with highly on to be a bridging opportunity We entered into this bridge because I felt like it was going to be somewhat of an ice age for the company much of which has been Validated through the course of 2022. There's been a few ups and a lot of downs The downs predominantly with the stock itself The vast majority of the ups have been everything to do with the company itself and the developments I'll go out on a limb. I'd like to see nichola actually engage and maybe more of the five to seven Class five to six ish, right? I just I don't see with what their current offering is breaking into class eight and that is the crown jewel That's what I'm invested in Whether or not they do it or not. I have no freaking idea highly on I have no doubt at all They delivered a christmas tree today. They got some hate through twitter, you know, it's funny man. I'm critical, but I'm fair That's pretty awesome stuff I saw some criticism on there, you know Looks like why My criticism is when they're quiet. They're a publicly traded company share stuff like that I think it's wonderful as a shareholder. I sit back and I eat that stuff up. I love it I think it's wonderful as long as they're forthcoming until we get to that point where the proactive push to To the pr on the company Takes care of itself and it starts to organically grow and I think we're probably marching toward that end I do in 2024 where These companies really start to get this product Under their belt. There's a long way from now until then. We're still in the bridging phase Final certification has to come. I believe that'll come in early 2023. That's going to be a big milestone But this isn't small potatoes, man I was just out on the jersey highway tonight on my way back from an obligation And it is just freaking truck after truck after truck after truck after truck You read the one trillion dollars of addressable market. You're like, damn the trucking industry is freaking huge. It's freaking huge So if you're going to go after a market like this and it's a ballsy move, no doubt by this guy There's ballsy and I went through a transition with the company and I was like, all right Yeah, this is getting a little bit close for comfort They may fail in this bastard They may they may just put this skip. Yeah, this is getting too bad You can have the greatest idea in the entire world and they're still vulnerable They are but they showed some real relative strength They had a nice upgrade which was great after the debacle of the goldman sacks downgrade that I covered Intimately call bullshit on all that. So what's fair in in love and war is what goes on and and I think what I'm noticing right now Is a very very predictable pattern in the stock market that would have us Recognizing what's going on right now? And that is that those companies that are trying to emerge that are doing some really really good things They're all getting crushed so fi palantir Matterport highly on holdings many many more have just gotten an absolute crush No matter what you bring to the table doesn't matter you get an absolute crush Highly on still has a 13 percent short interest I can't even imagine these crackers that are out there actually shorting the stock right here On the verge of a 2023 to start delivering And and and some of the who's who and their innovation council. I don't know do what you got to do That's all good Maybe it'll work out for them and they'll be dubbed the best shorters with the best short interest in the right names Inevitably, I just think they're wrong I'm entitled to my opinion and again people come back and they'll say Ah Ryan you were so right on this and I'll remind them that I had to weather a storm An ice age on the company for 18 long months And I would also just double down and suggest that people don't try to follow What it is that I was willing to follow and is yet to to Materialize Right. There's no guarantee that this thing materializes over time. No guarantee I believe that it will and I think the best times are ahead and it's going to be great to cover the story and I'll continue to do that for sure, man I get that very lowest comment on the in the group here, man Actually, I got one here taking some heat in here. That's all right. I'm pretty tough It's been pretty awesome actually over the last Three weeks and I'll probably talk about it on my sunday highly on video, but I think rick would probably agree with me that the sentiment the sentiment Super important with any company stock Okay bullish shareholders identify the value in the company and have for many many months if not years, right? But if the sentiment is not there then Your those two have to come together at in time I don't know what rick's feeling on this and be interested to to hear it out. I'm a very staunch um, and and very intimate I pay attention to the stock market And if I'm going to tell you I've paid attention to this story as it's evolved because I'm fascinated by the story Sentiment has shift It shifted can it shift again? Can it shift to the south? Yes, yes, it can Do I think we're probably in for a ride of our lifetime? As this thing gets its footing under it and starts to get up into a respectable market cap Two to three billion stepping into the mid cap category, which I believe are all inevitable eventually But for now The sentiment has changed and I think it's changed for the better It's it's it's been an interesting story to ride here highly on discord members are the emotion driven retail investor exception What's interesting? You said that I'd like to suggest that You know a lot of my mission before I was introduced to highly on has a lot to do with helping retail investors I think it's a noble cause I think that It takes a specific mental application to this gig that very few people have the natural ability to deploy And even if they do A lot of people don't they don't have the wherewithal or the understanding of the value that can be had by deploying the necessary Mental approach to this game and I think you would agree with me there. I really do I've seen some comments in the the discord that would disappoint me I've seen some comments that have been garnered by myself That would disappoint the retail community, right? But I think in all actuality what what only matters is your ability to hold the stock. That's it And I just like anybody else has the ability to trip and fall into this opportunity right here at three dollars and twenty cents You know Does the person who invests next week at three twenty? You know get dubbed a phenomenal investor because they know nothing about the company And they step into what I would consider a very very opportune time to pick up shares sub 10 Certainly, right doesn't make them a great investor Of course not of course not That's the crazy thing about stock market investing is a lot of people think that it's just all about the money And entering into shares it has a lot to do with timing It has a lot to do with mental fortitude i.e. tolerance your ability to hold long and your ability to Really transform what it is that you have as a thesis into something that is actually tangible That's great to see you rick happy. Thanks giving to you and thank you so much for all the support this year It's been awesome 2023 is going to be a lot of fun and like I said, I'm going to be a funny millionaire Funny funny funny. I'm not giving up on this project anytime I'll be probably covering this and I think Highly on will probably be a holding that I will I will hold indefinitely It's going to be great to see it actually solidify Get that good base return in sales year over year etc Top line bottom line profit see them expand. It's going to be fun I really don't foresee myself ever not owning the company And that's just me happy Thanksgiving to you my friend. I appreciate everything from this year It's been a kind of a bright spot getting to meet you this year Very cool stuff man. I will work up here got Holland in the group here and about I think there's some points with What the hell I've spent more money in one night at the casino, right? That's funny the things we justify, right? It's a noble cause fun to invest in It'll be it'll be cool. I was interested in the company and the technology third party verified Before they got picked up on on the game changer program. So We will see we need to see some progress on that front and and I believe that we will We'll continue to monitor it going forward. It'll be fun But I think I've got a pretty interesting suite of microcaps here to be monitored And people will hear that and they'll be like dang Ryan, you're Terrible invest in and all these penny stocks. They don't understand. I've got a half a million dollars of wealth You know in passive boring investment. I never look at them that dividend coverage in the vanguard portfolio. There's 75 65 thousand dollars wrapped up in those two portfolios. I haven't looked at them for months Months why they're they're doing great. I established them not to sit there and salivate over them every single day I established them to do the complete opposite opposite of salivating over them every day No, it's just let them go and make me money simple Right. It's good stuff, man That's awesome. It's great to see you my friend happy. Thanksgiving to you these companies You mentioned sponsored not I just totally disagree with this sentiment man. I'm sorry Sean Um, I don't think the two have anything to do with each other I don't there's been a lot of companies that have sponsored youtubers, right that have gone down Some of them have gone up the two don't have anything to do with each other And I think that it's a fallacy to suggest that because a company is mentioned through it youtube conduit That somehow that's gonna automatically pump the stock up. I don't believe that happens I watch the companies I covered. They don't go up A duro went up because they got selected by shell that nothing to do with the independent investor channel Not only not only should you acknowledge because I'm telling you and I own this company I don't have that much influence. I really don't And it shows in the stock price man. The idea is that we throw the information out there if people want to pick it up They can if not no big deal, okay But I do not see the correlation in this because it's it's not a good investment because youtube I don't understand your thought process and I think I would consider Um changing my thesis because the environment is changing man. Either you get on board with it Or you can continue to try to read your stock picks out of the newspaper Very cool stuff man. I got mitra date in the house chuck. What's your number one stock pick? Very cool fun stuff the irony of calling everyone morons and trying to pump your own Garbage stocks laughing. Is this me? You can come on to my channel here. I'll drop an invite in there for you You can come on and talk to me There you go. See you can't hide behind social media. There you go Let me get back into focus again It's cool because like the very attitude of of people like this Are the very ones that I talk about Because none of what was just said in that sentence makes any cognitive sense whatsoever nothing Try to get my camera back into focus. There we go Tripped up for just a second man. Very cool. Kevin Ryan. You're great been following you for years I'm not great. I'm just a regular human being that's the thing is either people hate me or they love me Take more of a neutral approach, man. I'd be a cool guy to have a beer with and cook hamburgers with It's just that simple but because I Pump stocks or I talk about a stock to somehow pump my message really really I can guarantee I'll check on monday and it will make a damn bit of difference in my ad revenue on my channel All right So at least be educated on what you're talking about and what you presume To be the impact through my channel. All right, I'll just tell you straight up It has zero zero impact as a matter of fact, it hurts the channel Hurts the channel. I have to say it's paid promotion, right? So know what you're talking about before you do Speculating stocks is such a dangerous game especially to new investors couldn't agree more, right? This is what I'm talking about and people will come on and they'll hear what they want to hear They really will It's like Then don't invest at all man. Just don't invest man. I don't want you to find the opportunity in investing I don't I don't want you to come in and challenge the idea that I'm already a value investor I'd dollar cost average more in a month than you probably have in your entire portfolio Bold statement really I told you it was going to be bold and in your face, you know Retail investors suck man start to identify why you get that reputation. We get that reputation as sucking It's because we have zero risk tolerance and we don't have any patients whatsoever to try to pursue an opportunity Or dare I say take a chance really most of the people that I talk to They're completely happy with going and buying a vehicle that is Way way above what their budget calls for but when you start to talk about like stock and maybe I don't know taking $500 $500 and maybe putting it to work in the stock market They start to come up with a thousand reasons as to why they can't do it And I have no sympathy for those people none. I will be in a millionaire a million I will it's just that simple and people will be jealous and people will be envious for all the wrong reasons Because they're choosing to look at everybody else and not just take one single look in the mirror And ask themselves what it is that they need to do better Or what did they do wrong or what do they need to change or what do they need to do to maybe just listen Listen to what people are talking about Instead of always having all the answers for people Oh, I'm and I'm going to change the world by coming and throwing pop shots at the at the i2 tonight right on man Hope I made your night by providing you a target Fantastic man. Uh, here we go. Here we go shall announce their closing of all their hydrogen stations That is correct. That is correct R and g c and g is an interesting thing us Shell wells are becoming yes and less little time think about that Yep, absolutely couldn't agree more that it cool stuff. We got about a minute left I appreciate the hate there we go They didn't want to come in and talk to me. Um, they can come in. I do my channel every single Friday I pose that invitation to all the haters And all the pieces of shit out there to come on and talk to me directly Bold move. Yeah Yeah, if you want to Tango with my razor tongue you're more than welcome to do so because People's lack of perspective in life. Just absolutely floor me entertainment value to me Cannot even be Close to being codified for me. It's amazing to me how so many people want to figure out What it is that somebody else is doing with their time And they don't want to just take one second to try to figure out and be like, you know what ryan, I hear you I totally disagree with you. Here's my thing over here, man. Very cool And we can have a discussion right we can have a discussion about maybe pushing the envelope a little bit Maybe not buying into what has been Common thought for many many years and that is retail investors getting crushed By all of these opportunities being posed to the institutions, right? I'm talking to more and more and more people where Fortunes were made getting in on the ground floor of a company. Okay. Does it happen every time? No, it doesn't it doesn't Has it happened to me? No, it hasn't what's worked for me is value investing. Okay But is there a potential there to actually Accelerate that type of opportunity only time will tell my friends. I really appreciate you tune in and to the fastest 60 minutes on youtube, man I bid you all the best in this weekend Taking heed of what there is to be thankful for 2022 has been an awful dynamic year I'm probably coming into my own here in 2022 because you know what they say about Hate on youtube when you start to get hate through youtube You're actually on the verge of actually being successful as a social media content creator We're always aiming to get to one investor at a time to try to help them understand what it is that they can do I hope some of the things that we've talked about this evening Helps in that end of empowering one investor at a time guys. I appreciate it We'll catch you next week on the fastest 60 minutes on youtube. Cheers