 And happy Friday to all the loyal subscribers to the independent investor channel and all of the viper group What a week it has been holy moly If I was going to look and assess the the financial markets right now I'm still a little bit in a state of confusion as I reflect back on where we've been What a what a tumultuous last couple of years the stock market has doled out It has been absolutely crazy In the long scheme of things. What does it actually mean? I think it begs for a lot of investments the opportunity to reevaluate What you're looking to achieve in this in this opportunity What in addition to your investing? Approach Is is supplemented by other aspects. I've had the absolute Craziest three weeks. I wish I could tell you about it because I can But it has been absolutely crazy and most everything has to do with my career which is Fire and all and all cylinders. I think if I was a 1271 I'd be hitting on all 12 cylinders for sure Absolutely incredible now when I'm mixed up in it. It's uh Very very busy But I know the payoff on the back end Always pays me back It's that feeling that you get when you grind and grind and grind and you work really really hard and Maybe even you test your limits of potential a little bit And then you have that moment of reprieve and you just You're like man alive. This is this is awesome. I'm kind of addicted to that payoff. I really am Detroit diesel Yeah, you recognize the 12 v 71 reference. I've been to the plant in redford. Thank you mitra date for picking that up a little bit I dropped those little subtle hints and I dropped little subtle hints about investing Welcome to the independent investor channel for all the new Subscribers to the channel for anybody who has not caught my live stream Um, you're in for a treat. I provide the goods every friday. No doubt about it What does that mean if I can just jump right into the nitty gritty I I think you need to approach investing especially Um from a contrarian perspective I do I just think that The way that most people approach investing They're looking for a payoff right away. You buy an article of clothing You get to come home. You get to put it on you get to feel a little boost of euphoria right away Anything that we do right You go and you get in and you commute in that car that you've worked so hard to purchase and you get that payback Right away instant gratification is what we're after Investing is the complete opposite it's the complete opposite And I'm not even going to suggest that at any time in your investing career. You're going to say All right, I'm 100 convinced in this thing. I can throw in the towel. I can actually close the door I'm investing. I'm good to go. Thank you very much investing and shut the door on it. Okay. What I mean by that is I monitor Financial markets the first three days of this week were just in the toilets in the toilets and I'm watching it And I'm like, yeah, it's in the toilets the last couple days. I made up everything and then some Week over week from last week. I'm up probably three or four thousand bucks just from last week week over week Doesn't feel like it. It feels like I'm in quicksand And the quicksand is pulling me down anybody feel like that is a quicksand, right? I shouldn't feel like that. I have no business feeling like that whatsoever But I think all too often retail investors get They succumb to the pressure They succumb to the pressure of this What is going to happen to my money? I'm going to lose all my money The initial thesis that I had when I got invested in the money is not playing out or got invested in the stock market Is not playing out the way that I thought it was going to play out Therefore, I need to maybe I don't know change my thesis or hell. I'm just going to throw in the towel and just give up everything Right Money's funny It plays a trick on you And it becomes very very apparent when you're working with a few hundred thousand dollars like I am close to a half a million dollars On a blue collar salary. I don't come from money I work very very hard for money when it's all said and done and I'm looking back over this entire kitten caboodle Trust me. I think that the governing principle behind my success will be Nothing short of providing credit to my career to career All right, and you're a fantastic investor. No kidding. I'm a badass investor. No doubt about it I'm down on a couple of speculative investments. I'm whipping some ass at my passive investments right now I'm up eight percent right now. I don't know how the hell I am up eight percent And that's part of the monitoring piece is that I wouldn't have been able to assess That I'm kicking ass right now on the passive program Okay, if I hadn't put myself in the driver's seat in the first place The very decision to take two percent of my pay and push it to A retirement vehicle mind being the tsp for a lot of people out there non government related out there Are working with a 401k Contributing to an employer sponsored program etc etc All right, if I hadn't made that decision on the onset I wouldn't have the ability to look at it and scrutinize it now scrutinize it now. My god that nine percent That's not enough. I tell you what I look at financial markets now I'd be hard-pressed There's a lot of names that are very very recessed Tech earnings this week Couldn't have been better Kick that ass How did you play it? I know how I played it I know how my boy played it So if you're not following matt you got to follow him. He's good. He's very present on twitter. I follow him a lot I don't I don't comment a lot on his stuff, but just I mean he's a friend of mine Um, and I support every project that he has but he talks about this all the time This guy right here gets a little hiccup to the north Um, he's not going to surpass the one million dollar mark He's going to surpass the two million dollar mark, right? Because that's the power of investing I had the distinct privilege of sitting down with one of my viper members This week who I won't disclose names, but it comes full circle with me when I sit down with people of different intensities different timeframes in their life and They've really embraced the investing opportunity the way that I expect it to be embraced I can make it yours You're not going to tune into my channel. I'm not going to tell thousands and thousands and thousands of people out there How to do it my way? Come on this on all that it doesn't matter What only matters is how you can look at the financial market and say how can I make this work for me? You can adhere to one of my tried and true fundamentals. Okay One of my tried and true within 10 minutes. I'm going to give you one of the goods. All right Stop buying into all the bs that you hear out there in the world It's it's all propaganda It's all a very elegant attempt to identify what's happening in the market at present. All right Cmbc would not exist if they just came on and said just invest in the markets What you can long term and be good with it. Okay, that's all I'd have to say They wouldn't be able to do all these like power lunch power lunch. No kidding I had a power bar for lunch today power lunch. I had a power bar Supplemented with an apple. I was a lucky man today because I was in Long Island today Doing some inspections today at the yacht club The tough life I've carved out for myself. No doubt about it And I wish that upon anybody. I really do when I look at the sheer success of people I look at the sheer success of people I find commonalities amongst successful people Did people rely on hard work or did they rely on luck? I would ask matt. I wouldn't speak for him I would ask him Do you do you honestly believe that your Secret to success he's going to have but I'm not going to speak for him. I know what mine is okay And it's a lot in line with adherence to hard work and having a career That's all I sense that the younger generation is looking for a lot of shortcuts a lot of shortcuts I don't want to work. I don't want to be part of the rat race. No kidding I get hella satisfaction out of my job. I really do and I'll drink to it I'm here to provide the goods And the goods have everything to do with focusing on what I feel like is the truth I could come on board and I could yell and scream and say god, I hate people You just have to love yourself and do what it is that you need to do I've been in a place where I've had bills that I can't pay. It's a shitty feeling Bearer been there before I don't know. Are you from a privileged household? Where you can just turn yourself out into the world and you think that your only contribution that you owe to both the world and yourself Is just to fall into luck I If that's your thing, man, I wish y'all the best man it didn't add to you Go go whip that ass man. Give me a call and say I proved you wrong Ryan. I got lucky. That's great No problem. I wish nothing more Then good luck on my fellow mankind The problem is too many people are are relying on lock and they're it's not working out for them They're figuring it out that life kicks you in the teeth every now and then kicks you in the teeth When you don't have that supplement and things that are like really really underrated benefits Underrated insurance A solid career All right I tip my hat to those workers out there that are working actually by the hour and working on especially commission Those are the folks that I just am like you guys are awesome guys and gals. Okay Studs You're in sales You got all the respect in the world from me I don't know if I could do it. I don't know if I could wake up every every morning With the idea that I had to generate churn in the industry. Okay generate sales Right and I know it's very lucrative for those out there that are very good. What good about that? I'm not I'm not I It bothers me when I feel like I'm having to sell somebody to make a living and I need to do that I feel like there's inherent value in the business that I'm involved in Therefore I can sleep easy in that business Okay I want to welcome everybody. I I can't tell you here coming to an end in april If I was going to give you the pulse of the market here I think that we're probably coming to the end of the interest rate debacle. Yes. Yes What that could mean systemically for markets it could be a catalyst to the upside I am very very closely monitoring the micro cap market that has been absolutely crushed. I'm continuing to Strategically infuse my passive investments. What else do you want me to do? I can't make johnson and johnson double overnight. Okay. Am I involved invested in j&j? Sure. I am sure I am I've been invested in j&j for a good portion of over 10 years. Where has that got me? It's got me some dividend renderings. Let's be real Some of the quality names out there that I talk about all the time. Hell, I own them all png Home depot Lowe's Duke some of the strategic areas l3 Harris stuck out to me One of my favorite sub sectors of industrial in the defense sector, of course, Lockheed martin has just been an absolute crush Um, the last couple of years Lockheed martin would have been a good place to have your money No, not about it, but Lockheed martin's a good place to have your money. No no matter what But l3 surprised me general dynamics. I own it Raytheon, I own it Good place to have your money. Unfortunately, it's the overtone of the geopolitical conflict or you know the The conflict abroad that's going on that kind of drives those pieces of attention because we know that equipment is being sold As disclosed by the ceo of l3 Harris just this week and we have communications equipment that's going overseas Yeah, it's a good place to be Those defense contracts are pretty lucrative guys and anytime you can put your money in line with where the government contracts are going to come In the near medium and long term, you're good to go. Okay Those are companies that I could justify quite honestly just owning all the way I throw a north rip grumman in that there as well with my small top five of the defense sector Really good to see my boy shot out to dave shot out to dave I'll live him through you my friend looking at that blue water. No doubt about it. He knows what i'm talking about very cool Some frustration I guess on the highly on scene right now We're in the ice age That's just that's all I can say about that but he says he added 10 amazon today Brought me over 100 shares Fantastic. I think the timing on that is impeccable If nothing else of monitoring amazon over the last half a decade has provided us any information It's that amazon very rarely gives you an opportunity to inject and over the last 24 months it's given you that really really wide open door to walk through. I love the move I really do amazon is absolutely fantastic just fantastic The most telling of all of the tweets that I heard this week was actually from matt money on amazon And the opportunity that exists with their business And and generating some profit in one of their niche pieces of business with amazon I believe it was the cloud business matt correct me if i'm wrong I'm recalling from memory the tweet that I had Read from you and matt's really insightful. He reports on like what actual companies are doing Which is a far cry than what the propaganda would have you believe about certain opportunities out there And I just appreciate the hell out of those efforts. It gives me confidence to know that those efforts are out there for retail communities To understand where the opportunity lies Metta blew out the numbers this week. I wasn't surprised by that now Metta gave you that opportunity at 140 to pick some shares up At a time when there wasn't one single effing person out there talking about a bullish Thesis now what's happening now with the stock at 240 on its way to 300? There's no doubt about it. I don't think there's any I don't think there's any stopping it Have all jumped on the bandwagon and price targets increase and all of a sudden facebook. Wow those layoffs really did work and And and meta is actually doing great things and maybe they will be a player in the ai space and the metaverse I find that interesting their ad revenue interest went up And their ad rates went down. Think about that for a second for meta guys. Think about how powerful that is I've always looked to invest in meta for the idea that I feel like they've taken the advertising world and they flipped it upside down. They really have Now the the side piece of this Multidynamic dynamic story with meta is the instagram piece and the instagram competition with Tiktok on the on on that very competitive landscape that meta's got going on right now, but What a cash-generating juggernaut I guess the scary question for you guys my friends is when they decide to actually increase those ad rates From demand that has actually increased over the quarter quarter over quarter And the price of those ads have gone down. I did this like blew my freaking mind. It was a kick-ass quarter Meta has just absolutely skyrocketed just into this week. I own a huge position in meta. I was buying it down Buying it down all the way It hasn't really felt that great To put new capital to work in some of these digressions because I look across the stock market And everything is down Yeah, there hasn't been a whole lot of places to hide right here in this market So I've digressed to the like putting on my safety belt Approach to investing which is really really easy And and what I mean by that is to contribute what you can when you can Focus more on the plan Then you do the day-to-day fluctuations in the market And let the rest Kind of settle out over time because in the acute it really does not matter one single bit guys Thank you so much for tuning in to the friday live stream I appreciate you guys and take a short break and we'll be back with you in just a moment I Shout out to freeman jones, man. I give you guys a little bit of This guy's awesome. This is kind of part of the reason why I do social media And that's to connect with really good people to be honest with you I've talked to many many times The addicting part for me and yeah addicting is to Understand that there's really really good people out there like freeman And freeman's an individual I meet lots of people like freeman I think he feels the same about me and I'm out there kicking ass every day. Okay There's a lot of people out there like that. That's the heart of the country in my opinion I'm speaking about the u.s. I know we have a global presence on the independent investor channel, but The u.s. Is special, man. It really is there's a lot of cool people like freeman out there that are working really really hard I appreciate his efforts I'm a little disappointed. I just came across. I didn't know there was dissension amongst the highly on community It just speaks to my insistence that People don't need to follow The opinions of a crowd. Okay I like to have my impartial opinion of A company that I cover and I own That being in this case highly on I've had a lot of people reach out to me and they're like ryan Why aren't you going to the investor? Thing in first to june. I've got stuff going on. Okay. I'm I'm taking a Two decade a weighted promotion first to june That takes paramount out of everything My family will be there etc etc Going down there for a five hour window is not attractive to me at all now Could that flip on a dime? Yes, it could it could if I was shown one iota of reciprocity And you might think who are you ryan? Who do you think you are? I'm a guy that does some advertising for a lot of different companies out there I've touched base with a lot of ceos companies in the zone of four or five million dollars on the low end And upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars on the high end Okay, I do advertising for them. I'm happy to do it But Companies that don't know me or shouldn't know me as well as highly on have actually embraced my Site visits. I finished up the chronicle on aduro clean technologies This week I was glad to put the cap on that because I wanted to share that content with the audience This is if it awesome, you know, I'm telling you That opportunity to go up there was absolutely kick-ass and I What I thought I perceived through the information that I was able to review Was solidified in my visit My only hope is that I was able to pay that forward whether or not you invest in the company I could care less that that's not my intention. My intention was to provide fairly neutral information to a grander audience open arms open arms They took out some logistics for me Made me feel like I was one of the family and quite frankly, I'd still to this day as I'm speaking to you feel like I'm part of the family unlike highly on I monitor a guy like silent alert Who deserves a response to every single one of his tweets? And best I can tell he's gotten one out of how many? A few hundred right and my boy david mora was a little bit The scrutinizing of that I back him up on that. There's a reason for that and it's justified And it's freaking all right Okay Stop being a bitch all the time about thinking that we're being so hard over See the split in the community which just bothers the hell out of me. I don't understand it We need to get a lot tougher with our application guys Um rick schnellman's an awesome guy Christopher's an awesome guy Andrius ritoscus all awesome guys silent alert. There's a lot of really really good people There's a few people in the discord group that I'd love to punch in the face. It'd be awesome I just love to punch him in the face. It'd be awesome. It'd be cool. I mean, I'm down I'm challenging if somebody wants to challenge me to a boxing match. I'm down. We'll do it We'll do a social media boxing match. It'd be awesome They know I throw down on my project they can come in and they can throw all the venom They want straight at me. It's all good. But to split the community I don't understand. I was a little disappointed this week to hear that information. I I've gotten to know rick over the last couple of years I don't think he's a pumper. I think he's very very positive On on this opportunity as I am That doesn't mean I can't be scrutinizing and it doesn't mean that he can't be reserved with his scrutiny right I think I think certainly the financial topic and drives Unfortunately emotional responses for a lot of people I think that's unfortunate. I think whatever emotional contents you want to Bring forward Is is totally up to you, but don't let it affect your decisions. Don't let it affect your interactions with people That's what I don't get Is like I don't know these people that i'm saying I want to punch in the face But by nature of their response to me over social media, I just think that their tact is lacking They would say the same about me because my responses are short and smart ass and like right back in your face because Again, I don't dislike Pro chalk pull chalks and go start another facebook group. I don't do that. I fight back. It's all good. I enjoy it It's fine Because a lot of people need to be taught a lesson. It's okay If you listen to me, I teach you a lesson a lot of people are like I have way better things to listen to you than a friday. Good. Go do that That's fine. Do whatever it is that you did before the independent investor channel came into the independent investor channel Determined that it wasn't for you Badmouthed the independent investor channel and go digress to whatever it is You feel like it's more important in your life than getting a little bit of financial tutelage counseling a little bit of perspective It's a lot of the problem that people just don't have is Is perspective on this deal getting emotionally tied up and in stock. I just told you the numbers If I look at it, I can feel bad. Maybe that I'm not a multimillionaire, right? That's not realistic I'm not relying on luck I'm relying on hard work. All right I made a list here that I am going to get to but I'm going to jump in and get some uh get some questions here John Langtis is born officer senior chief. Very cool. I'll give you the answer right now my friend very cool Sean's my boy. Sean's been with the channel a long long time. I gave you the answer right there I typically don't try to Cross paths without life I keep the independent investor channel very very separate from that This project represents an out for me represents an opportunity to engage in a thread of passion for me, especially me. Yes, but um, I have seen many many many times over that my influence Helps a lot of people a lot of people people come in and be like you influenced me to Sell my house and invest everything in highly on Okay, now hold on a second back the truck up here if you've if you've watched my message from the beginning all 914 videos You would know me You would know me and you would understand a few things about me and that is the micro cap Investing sector is very very risky. It can be very very risky to the downside It can be very very lucrative to the upside For the people who have the fortitude to realize losses to the downside Or appreciation of the upside is very very far between Therefore by nature of that explanation that I just gave you it's not for everybody. It's not for everybody. All right So if you understand the message that i'm trying to put forward to people I think you need to understand the holistic approach that i'm talking about matt says ryan prince ryan prince because I go to work every day Ryan prince because I am granular enough to understand the importance of funding my accounts with as little as 25 dollars I do 50 bucks to the bond account. I do 100 and a half now I've got about a little over three grand in in in white meat going out the door in funding every single month That's pretty badass Now if you want to know somebody who's funding on a schedule that's even more badass than me It's this guy I would attribute that to the fact that he makes more than me Okay, but there's also people out there that make more than me and him And they don't have shit in their bank account. Okay, I don't mean to be rude But if you're one of those people out there Be pissed off shut me off or I've gotten your attention I've gotten your attention Okay, if you are one of those people that are making over the average income Whatever the average household salary is it sits about 56 000 last time I checked A lot of you guys are making double incomes in the in the household You guys don't have anything you don't have any money to rub together why It's because you haven't realized that you don't need everything that you make I'll let you marinate on that for a second. All right. Give me a sec I was waiting for the viewership to drop while I took a drink of a Cocktail I've earned it trust me Yeah, money's a crazy topic man. It really is it is absolutely It is absolutely relative to the individual perspectives that we look to To to to speak about And really get people to understand that no matter how much you make no matter how little you make Realizing the potential in either one of those two categories Is what's going to set you apart against who against me against matt No, no, no, no, it's yourself It's yourself It's your best version of yourself five years from now. I'm borrowing now from matthew mccana hay who is one of my favorite motivational speakers out there You might not think so But he's pretty awesome He talks about you know his mentor or the person that he admires most is the person that he is striving to be five years from now And that's not mine. I just resonated with him. I thought yeah, you're right on matt You seem like a pretty pretty cool guy right on right on right on Yeah We need to stop comparing what it is we feel like we need to do and You know these people over here have this this and this therefore I have to somehow devote my life to having This this and this you'll get it. It's not going to make any sense to you trust me Because you haven't identified what is going to make sense for you. What is going to make sense for you? A lot of people it might not be Achieving millions and millions and millions of dollars of wealth might not be it might be something Completely different. That's why I talk about the multiple phases Of your application whether it be your career and the biggest secret that I can give you guys The biggest thing that ever happened to me at 26 years old. My life was saved My life was saved. I was 26 I married the Greatest thing ever in my entire history of my life She's awesome. Yeah, it's really good. I would highly employ you to do the same It's it's really quite unbelievable. It's unbelievable. That's number one in the same year I got my career. Okay. I got my career and I always said with the knowledge that I had about compounding interest and that the power of Dollar cost averaging. I really don't like to say that. I like to say strategic confusion Taking what it is that you would just normally piss away every month and putting it to Something with merit something with girth, right? Something with girth. Okay Investing your money in something that is gonna. I don't know pay you back someday I don't know Ryan you're kidding me. There's no such thing as putting your money to work in a capacity that actually pays you back I don't know others may disagree with you. I don't know I I think one of the greatest guarantees in the stock market is to invest x number of dollars into proctor and gamble And then to see that proctor and gamble pay out four times a year I don't know Look if you got it all figured out you figure that by wasting your money every single month You can get a little bit more of a guarantee or much more of a guarantee than I just articulated for you No problem. I'm not wishing you ill will I'm trying to help you Okay, understand that a p and g or an hd or a or a j and j Or a fizer or a merc dividend is just about as close to a guarantee in the stock market as we can possibly get And I'm up against a barrier of people who are inundated By this is now a good time to buy Investing is gambling Or people actually believe that there are people on youtube that have Insight to the stock market enough to sell hundreds of thousands of dollars hundreds of thousands of people On this idea that somehow They're going to accelerate their wealth This is the stupidest thing I ever heard is stupid if you follow me because you think i'm going to show you to the promise land okay Find your center And then come back Because I am one of the best youtubers on youtube. No doubt about it 27.7 thousand subscribers on youtube. I'm one of the best No doubt about it. Okay, the big guys. They don't need to touch me No way they will empower My opportunity and people come in and be like, I dang this guy is right. Absolutely He's a little crazy and he's not very good looking. He's not graham stefan. All right But he's right I am I'm right Okay, that's why I appeal to people like becky who's been in the community for a long long time Who understand some of those guarantees and are I don't know exercising those guarantees to such a material end that How much more material can you get than payments that you are rendering in a guaranteed state? Okay, that I talk about as possible for all investors out there Okay, I want to go for some capital appreciation Want to go for some dividend income Me I play in all pots. I do I'm not one of those guys who would come on and suggest that the rogues out there need to buy one etf And that's it just buy one etf Coward out into your corner and take your place in line with the rest of the lemmings. No, I'm not that Take your shot. It's all good. You only got one shot at life With that ass. All right, best thing you could ever do for yourself. You get yourself a nice career that you're happy with Yeah, the hell with the stock market Yeah, how the hell are you going to fund the stock market with strategic infusion if you don't have a mechanism to Infuse that that stock market investment or or thesis or portfolio or plan, right? That's all right, Ryan. I'm gonna I'm gonna invest my way to millions I'm gonna when dust my weight so I can retire at 23 No, you're not statistics Statistics would prove that you're not That is statistically impossible Unless I'm wrong I don't know I have wisdom coming out my ears. I'm 45 years old. I've lived some life. I've been around the corners I have a lot of street street cred. All right Lot of street smarts a lot of street cred. I got all kinds of stories I'm a really really fun guy to hang around with because I can dig into the archives Mm-hmm. Yeah Yeah If you think that somehow you're gonna Figure out the stock market in a way that's going to show you to the promised land See, that's the that's the misconception that a lot of youtubers will sell you on us that they figured out the stock market No, they haven't they figured out how to manipulate people on youtube. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm manipulate people on youtube Yeah, yeah Yeah, and it's amazing to me how many people will step on others to get to that end Yeah Yeah Anyway, well cool cool stuff, man. I want to get to some of these questions here. See what's up I just click on it and see what we've got financial security Via deferred gratification Is better than desperately clinging to overnight riches That's pretty smart stuff, man. I dig it the kickover. I enjoy that. I'm gonna He got the moderator of the night He's a standard moderator there it is For that comment. Why because it was really smart Music recommender, man. Thanks for coming in this evening. Appreciate you Sal two or nine. You know how many people are named sal here in the new york area metro area There's like what nine million people here in new york city. I'll bet you one million of them are named sal I appreciate you coming in recently doing some research on x y l g etf Anyone have an opinion on it? Thanks if you do, please help sal out in the comment section I for one do not but I will make a note here a mental note to take a look at it for you sal Thanks for coming on. Um, I don't invest in it myself. So unfortunately, I can't give you any type of like Hey, I own it. Okay Kind of kind of tough here. So um, very cool stuff Music says whoo-hoo. That's how I am. I'm I'm crazy like that. I don't really care I look at the independence investor project as being the actual subscribers to the channel's project Not hey, come on and have communion with me every single friday. It's not like that. No, no, no, no I'm the least of your concerns. You should be the greatest of your concerns. You should be, okay Change your f and life tonight. It's okay. Do it. All right Have that revelation you ever had one of those things where you just like you're really really motivated to do something different in your life You can do it. You can do it You just got to put that put that in motion and change those little things that that you're That you want to change if you're younger likely better to stick with a balanced growth value etf like s and p 500 That's very prudent advice and Matt's in my top five like on my fingers top five VIP VIP people on youtube and it's funny too. Like matt's got over 10 000 subscribers He's got a nice nice niche on youtube. He's got a really good following on twitter I just treat him like he's got 500 000 subscribers because that's what he deserves Whether or not he'll ever garner that like me or some of the other youtubers is irrelevant, right? And I just hope he understands that as well That the information Is far greater because some of the youtube channels that garner far greater attention um are probably Catering to those that are easily persuaded Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah matt don't give a shit. He's he's he's independent man. That's what I love about him man It's great. He comes in spend some time with me man I'm gonna shout him out on the live stream because it's the least I can do man It's just a good. He's a good dude man. He's a good dude. I dig it Very cool stuff cruising up here and say well see what's up here in the channel I think the shorts for allowing me to snatch shares of crazy price due diligence Trump's emotions The due diligence that I've put in highly on I'm calmly very very aware of I think we might be in This trough period which I guess in the lens of a novice retail investor Would look at this and say you're absolutely crazy It makes the most sense to me Right now And I totally agree with you. I'm smartly accumulating shares whether it be in the size of 300 or 500 shares at a time I've got a pretty significant share base now smartly built um all the while drawing down my entrance price and It will be incredible to see what I have monitored in the stock or the company for the last three years is being pretty darn positive For a company of this size and the magnitude of impact that they're looking to make and in my assessment can make And have not made as of yet. They are being chalked up as a loss Before they can even get started And as far as the short goes I mean I I mean I accuse them of being rapist all the time I'm right and um, that's what they want to do they want to live their life like that I don't I live my life doing good things Live my life doing good things. I don't invest in good. Here's the thing. I ask you look if there's something I'm missing with highly on and there is um potential of You know run away with their batteries safety issues that I have missed Battery management systems that I have missed in way of the rigor that has been put over the technology They've rushed to market and missed a lot of things with that There is explosive capabilities have said battery on board with compressed metal gas and those two just Were rushed to market and were not provided its proper rigor outside of that If there's something that I've absolutely missed This story seems pretty simple to me And in my industry, it's been being practiced for a long long time the fact of using generated power and um Basically using that generated power to provide energy for other services, whether it be Propulsion in my industry and or in this particular industry to to drive that unit It's not novel. It's not Highly on is right. They're kind of at the forefront of of this initiative and it'll be awesome really to see This technology get a chance to work and and fail Let it fail if that's what the way it's going to be but failure to me is not at the hands of a bunch of rapists who want to see An Company that's doing great things Fail Right and make many on Somebody tweeted this week and suggested that in europe There's some moratorium rules over companies that have come to market and they are Exempt from shorting for the first couple years of their infancy We of course have no rules in this country because of the sleeping and exchange commission What can I say? I'll continue to make my independent thesis And i'll make those decisions based on that independent thesis based on The addressable opportunity The need for said solution The opportunity made available based on partnerships and perceived agreements With certain players in the industry that I think will make all the difference once this thing kind of starts to snowball a little bit And some of these orders start to get filled I think that's going to be the momentum shift to kind of break this log jam up a little bit that we have going on right now Um And that's supposed to happen the back half of this year is it supposed to happen in april of 2023? No, no, it's not according to prior projections. Yes. Yes, it was Um, but in all actuality based on the revised timelines that the company has come out with Which haven't been that atrocious in all honesty If you look at what's going on right now with tesla and the debacle that they've got with their Bev semi truck What highly on has provided has been really nothing short and positive up till then You can accuse them of pushing back time frames You can accuse them of all kinds of things But if you look at the geopolitical headwind with the supply chain issues right now I think it's hard to not give highly on at least a partial pass in this crazy market Is it going to be too much to overcome? Perhaps I don't know who knows doesn't matter. I'll be there for the long call. It's not not a not a problem to me Um, whether or not I need to go down and fly to austin for five hours on an investor conference Just doesn't sit well with me. That's my personal independent application I would like more actually to meet some of the patrons of the community rather than shake thomas heli's hand and have him act like he doesn't know me I think I do just as much if if if on par With most of the social media communities out there and I don't know what kind of backdoor handshake agreements are going on out there um with highly on to be paid and compensated Where I've offered that opportunity free of charge to come into the channel and share the story I would have some pretty awesome Pretty awesome questions for thomas heli and I think it would benefit everybody, but It's all it's all good. That's just where we are right now Very cool stuff. Mr. James palmers in the house man. What's up, Brian? We got a small blip today We got a small we got a bigger blip yesterday, which those two days Made up for the first three days this week the market doesn't know where to go. It's been in a training range It's been in a trading range for multiple multiple months And I think it speaks to the deeper Consensus that we can all come to in that is there anybody out there who feels like that they can just trade this market I don't know man. If you can again, I wish y'all the best. I I'm not seeing that. I'm just not seeing it I'd rather hold markets. I'd rather hold true on the stuff that I believe in That's just my way It's been my way for a long long time. There's a lot of people that are giving me some grief about you know The highly on videos and the and the aduro content right now That is just giving you a short term insight To my inject to the stock market as it reflects to the total overall whole in other words when people Are satisfied with me coming on and droning about dividend income and passive investing They're happy with that But the idea that somehow i'm going to build my channel and appeal to the masses on that That's just not true Because people don't want to hear that I can come out with a video on monday talking about Everything that can get you to the promised land. I'll get 400 views And that just speaks to the overall interest in my particular project What appeals to people it doesn't mean that people Hate me or like me doesn't mean any of that It just means that there's not that appeal factor when I start talking about that kind of stuff. That's all that's all Um When highly on find gets footing and it ends up going to 10 or 15 dollars You don't think i'm going to garner attention on the independent investor channel You have another thing coming if it goes to zero. I'm okay with that too. See I don't operate on this whole like I need to get lucky somehow and win the lottery with the stock. I don't think that way I've already done my work. I'm good to go It's that simple, but it's good to see you my brother. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you No doubt about it It'd be the coolest thing for me to actually get to meet some of you guys in the channel very cool That would be what I would be interested in But I tell you what man, it would take one tweet one from tomas haley to say independent investor Thanks for all you've done for the channel over the last three years both pre spack and post spack We cordially invite you to austin to be present for and be counted upon with the many highly on investors At our investor conference. That's all they would have to do I would pay thousands of dollars to spend my money to fly to austin texas Which I have no earthly business to do Then to go down there and support not tomas haley and not highly on but support the Community that has been pretty steadfast thus far and has been provided zero zero in way of reciprocation With regard to the performance of highly on acknowledging this specific niche one of the guys who've been with the channel for like So in In in the military. We we have a term called plank owner Brent investing as a plank owner on the channel Um, he says I'm part of the 99 Yeah, Brent's good people. He's been with me since the beginning man. It's really cool to reach back into the archive And actually acknowledge some of these cool cats. I'm a funny guy like that. I remember that stuff I remember some of the patrons to the channel that have come and just absolutely hated me Some people I've had a couple people I've probably got a half a dozen people that I've just had to block because They needed help. They needed help Okay, and and and like bagging on me was their therapy, you know That's like, okay, and this is not working. Let's just I'm going to make your decision for you Okay, you're blocked from the channel But it's really cool to to see some of these legacy cats man still doing it still hustling Still doing the deed You know Brent when I did diversion with real estate a couple of years back and I I hope nothing More than success for this individual just speaks to my insistence of You know kind of acknowledging some of the cool stuff that's going out there by and I don't mean any offense by this Brent, but regular people That's kind of cool stuff Yeah, you can do some really really cool stuff in this life if you just put your mind to it no doubt about it Matt says keep crushing the tsp into the month dividends coming up. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool They get absorbed in the tsp. It's one thing. I don't really like about it Whereas I can actually see the dividend rendering come in there for the etf Investments there that's kind of cool In other words vanguard just doesn't absorb that, you know, I get I get that paid out and I get to select what I want buy more shares, but Yeah, my dividend over my s&p holdings is very very real When I brought Becky on she's one of my vipers and and and really one of my top community members and Kind of feeds into really the the lifeblood of the channel You know patrons like that really give me calm in times like these where Financial markets have not been conducive. They have not been kind. We don't come in here every friday and what do you look at me? I'm awesome. You know, I'm invested. It's just a shot in time. That's not very positive right now and You know, we talk about those things that we can do to kind of buffer the storm and right now man I'm I'm fighting. I'm a fighter. I'm fighting. I'm not succumbing to the pressure. I'm fighting. That's what I do Hell brother, I do you one better miss ma'am. I don't know who that is I've been I've been bit by that when I'm like, yeah, I'm hey ma'am or hey, sir And it's like a guy and or a girl I don't know it's the beauty of social media when I look at these as a glimpse and I see these These these comments come through I really want people to understand that they own part of the channel they own it Independent investor. I am he I own my small niche and what I share with you guys. All right, you guys own You guys own You own What it is that you can carve out from the stock market and make make your own I don't I don't hear any other I don't hear any other he says guy. That's cool. Cool. Don't want to offend you You get to carve out your part of the community and it's a cool thing about my message is I Put the focus on that stuff I think the retail community gets a black eye. I think they get forgotten I think they get patronized Mm-hmm If cmbc understood that there was a bunch of brilliant minds like mine out there They would understand that I have a shit filter on all the time when I listen to their garbage message And I love cmbc. I really do because I'm very much into the stock market It's just that I don't agree with a lot of the figureheads that they bring on if it's a down day They bring all the bears on and it's like, oh, let's exacerbate the shit to the downside It's let's let's drive it into the ground because that's what sells people and emotion sells On the up days same thing We're under estuary admitting the market You know the market's green the market's green. It's going to be green soft landing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah It's like give me a break man But I appreciate you jbj fantastic man. Thanks for coming in and I mean it's Everybody's always welcome on the channel. This is an opportunity to come on Um get get a little bit of face time with some people get to know people get to connect with people Where they are where they're hailing from? I've got some cool representations from all over the u.s. And both globally And it's a cool thing. I keep foot stomping the market, you know And when the market picks up these live streams become very very lively they do because people are like, yeah Hey, all right the market proves that it can make money Ah, right and you were you were right man. Yeah, right. It's like look, okay I'm right in so far as I want to be right for you to where you buy into the fact that You know you stayed true in the plan and you didn't succumb to all this pressure and you didn't sell out of the market Because you think there's an inevitable recession and you know You kind of listen to me when I told you that the market low was last June of last year And you would have had to have like I don't know buy everything then or or sell everything now And and and try to time the market, which I I just contend to a lot of people is absolutely impossible. It's impossible Yeah But I'm happy that you made your way in man. Very cool stuff. I appreciate you my friend. Thank you so much proper 19s in the house Proper's one of those like vip's man I'm gonna solidify some cool stuff someday guys I'm gonna have some retreats man for the latter part of my retirement every single one of you guys Going to get invitation to my place We're we're still talking about where that's going to be where that's going to be the retirement south carolina tennessee north carolina It's probably where we're going to be Proper 19 is going to get an invitation every single year. We'll call it You know, I don't know ryan fest or independent investor fest or something We're going to have we're going to have some cool stuff going on. I'm going to get to meet you guys Some day there's no doubt about it. What I'm looking to put together here is something special I'm not looking to put put together something shallow where I'm trying to make a ton of money on youtube La la na na na na. I celebrate people celebrate people man Celebrate the power that people have I celebrate people and the power that they have that they don't think that they have Yeah Yeah Yeah power but power that people have that they don't think that they have Super important man I'm proper man. It's been with me a long long time man. You always will be man. Very cool. I appreciate all the support Very cool stuff, man. I appreciate you. It's awesome stuff Is a very clean technology is in the same as line line to help us sell. That's a good question I haven't seen that connection yet But as far as like your major major oil producers your major plastic producers It's just going to be awesome to see this this thing unfold and I'm gonna be like well ryan. It's really risky whatever 25 000 shares. I bought it about a 62 cent price average here It's run up pretty good My friend mariusz kanoski who's really good. He covers the story just came out with a really good explanation as to some of the warrants that were expiring Back in may of 2021 that were due to expire in may of 2023 that my friends is just a month and a half away Okay, um, which is a pretty good explanation as to why the stock actually has digressed on us a little bit since the last capital raise Um, I'm in it. I'm in it for the long haul. It's the best story. I see I do follow pure cycle I don't like their technology. That's why I don't invest in them I invest in a duro clean technology and just like highly on I think both of these bulls have a chance to Really accelerate I made the comment to one of my folks in the viper group this week I won't name names, but I will say that you know, what we're talking about now has the potential of doubling I mean you could be sitting on you know, you're on 800 thousand now You could be you know 1.6 million fairly quick. That's the power of investing You guys have to understand that um And I think these guys have got the goods there was some insider buying just today I tweeted out the insider buying from upper management there on The duro story It was 13,500 shares. It was a relatively small buy, but hey, that's insider buying not selling Some of the other stories that I kind of monitor the landscape are just an absolutely disaster Where I'd like to see some buying with highly on there's not a lot of selling They're not selling I'd like to see more buying at these levels. I'm strategically buying not with some of the ferocity that maybe I could Um, certainly I could ramp up the buying on either one of these two names, but I haven't bought I don't think in a duro clean technology since Early this year. I think I disclose all that information through the videos that I release Yeah, but um Yeah, I'm very very bullish on this story. I need to see them Walk along their path to progression and highly on the same way. They've given a roadmap We need to see that roadmap play out and enter into some of these different phases of the company And I'm excited by the prospects of each and every one of them both of them Both of them have the niche of Earth management It's an area of focus that I think is going to be red hot Coming into The middle and the latter part of this decade if you want to know my Multi-year thesis give me the goods ryan God dang it. Jeremy tells me all the time how I can get rich. It never works out for me But at least he tells me how I can get rich Let me go out on a limb here and just suggest that plastic recycling Okay, plastic recycling And reducing the pollution in the class 8 space Is going to become more of a focus As the years go by rather than less. It's that simple Do with it what you may I've shared openly what it is that I do with my 20,000 shares of highly on and 25,000 shares of aduro right now Fairly small positions for a retail investor. Nothing crazy guys. Nothing crazy, right? I'm still working my blue collar job I'm okay I haven't got lucky yet I haven't quit my blue collar job to get lucky All right I'm happier now that I've ever been in my entire life Um, I have taken some strategic shots here Um, I will patiently wait Until those catalysts come to a place of a little more strength and we can comment a little more positively on them Very cool stuff but Until then I'm going to continue to be patient I'm going to continue to focus on the hundred other things that I've got going on with my life very cool stuff Yeah, james. I was in the I've commented on this in the beginning of the live stream. I don't know if you ran on it Whatever rick wants to do You can do whatever he wants. I love the guy I'm cool with him I'm sure even sometimes my negative Overton with highly on maybe even bothers him because sometimes he comes over the top with me and he's like, oh ryan You know get a positive all the time. It's like no, I don't just like you don't have to be negative Um, I'm choosing to be constructively criticism critical critical over a company that I don't think has become being as forthcoming as they need to be um, but yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'll join both. I don't care. Um, I think there's people Equally who hate me and it doesn't matter to me Um, the only people that I care about are my kids that love me and my wife who loves me and my immediate family Who love me and some of the devote subscribers to the channel? I certainly have them Embraced everybody on the channel and hopefully they've found more positive than negative through the channel That's all I ever care about Um, I'll let this divisiveness just kind of play out I'll continue to do my weekly updates on on highly on I enjoy that stuff. I really do My bullish Fundamental thesis on on highly on has not changed for one bit not one bit Um, I think their idea is phenomenal. I I think they're Um, really poised to really make an awesome dent. There needs to be a few things That go in their favor Mm-hmm. Whereas I think the short selling You know, I joke about the rapist thing and I know that probably offends a lot of people out there That's all right. You guys need to get thicker skin because they are I mean their rapist they look at opportunities to Take advantage of something weak uh-huh so but It's it's one of those things to where they just need to weather the storm And they need to get a few things go their way And I think once they do that And they start to achieve these milestones like certification Yeah, I'm getting a couple of those orders, you know closer to the oem line I I think it's going to be gangbusters and look you guys can tell me i'm wrong now. You can tell me i'm right later It's not going to matter one way or the other with regards to my share Uh count and my share holding doesn't matter. Okay Um, the the real tangible benefit that you guys should be like extrapolating from my message Really does speak to that commitment thing and not the whole wishy washy thing like my ryan's dead wrong He sure is committed. There you go. Now. You're stepping into a much better understanding of how I interpret financial markets. Okay Very cool stuff Very cool. He says thanks for the shout out. I'll definitely be there man I'll be cooking some shrimp and some barbecue. Yeah, we'll be doing it up some salmon Some halibut Yeah, the good things in life, right my friend, right? Absolutely, man. That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about big oil companies spend billions to reduce Their carbon footprint. They're very cognizant of the fact that partnering with companies like bureau Isn't everyone's best interest If i'm going to give you the pulse freeman of what these guys are telling me There's a collective effort going on right now on this front and it's very very exciting. Um I sit back sometimes and i'm like look man. I look if we want to continue to just fill our landfills with plastic Okay, that's the status quo Oh ryan uses just a scared tactic and just no like i need you to pull head out of backside. Okay I need you to wake up and i need you to figure out What is going on right now is unacceptable now whether or not we want to remain naive as a society and as a global Approach to the plastic problem. We can do that. Okay Make no mistake about it doesn't affect me. I end up waking up I put my pants on I go to work in most cases They're not pants. They're coveralls and a hard hat right freeman and I go to work and I come home I get paid for my job. Okay the plastic that goes into the landfills I could be naive and say that doesn't affect me. It has nothing to do with me and god dang it ryan You're trying to make money off of that It's a lot simpler than that for me These companies like aduro who've been around for not two years not three years, but 10 years 10 10 Have reached out to me because they know how badass I am. Okay. I I don't accept all projects that are posed to me. Okay. This is something that a lot of people don't understand about the channel I turned down a lot of lucrative projects a lot people solicit me every single day Every single day I get solicited Okay As people come in and like ryan you sell out use company companies like this. It's only 40 million I can get the back out of my face They're trying to solve the plastic problem By nature of the chemistry that they put forward They have a what they consider to be a novel approach. Ah, it's not novel ryan is eminent. Okay look Can they take feedstock? And have the ability to put that feedstock into a reactor and produce a product that can be upcycled into new product They do They do are they in their infancy? Yes, they are have they proven that they can generate meaningful revenue. No Can they produce meaningful revenue? Yeah, you bet your ass they can they sure can Whether or not i'm around to identify With that revenue that I know is inevitable for aduro In other words if it takes A hundred years Or it takes 50 I've got a time horizon of about three years Original projections from aduro would have investors on the path to 2027 before meaningful either Intellectual technological contracts could be rendered right where they sell their ip Uh for that residual income or look to establish reactors on their own. I don't think they're going to do that I think they're going to partner with companies like Linedale will sell that's the first time i've seen that name floated I've seen other names floated with regard to aduro Um shelving the most obvious guys. That's out in the mainstream right now and Mary use conoski a friend of mine actually pointed out that the stock is actually shade trading at or below The value that was being Demanded from the market before the game changer and now that's idiotic and stupid It's no problem. I can sit back calmly and say that that's idiotic and stupid whatever The market isn't always going to agree with me Okay, if if if there was anybody out there who could look at the market the stock market and say it agrees with me all the time Okay, agrees with me all the time when I say who the market says, huh It doesn't that doesn't what doesn't work that way Um, I I know aduro is going to be be fine. I know it's going to be successful Um, the only thing that I could suggest as far as aduro that could be of interest to me is if A company steps in and says i'm going to pay 1.5 billion for it right now and take it off the market It'll just absorb into a company like line Linedale Whatever any of the major plastic producers any of the major petroleum companies out there BP steps in makes a strategic Takeover bid for aduro clean technologies that could be a print that I see on monday And there's nothing I can do about that other than I would own Exponentially the same amount of shares of BP instead of aduro exclusively right I'd be okay with that. I think aduro's Prospects are off the charts now as a shareholder. I own aduro exclusively if they end up doing it exclusively I'm not looking at I'm not looking at single figures make millions. I'm looking at tens of millions of dollars. I'm not it's like, okay All right. Now. I'm an fn player, right? And then I get to charge people to come into the live stream. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding I would be the same guy people would come in and be like, you're the man, right? You've got And I'll be like no no man people came to me Use the independent investor channel as a conduit to introduce people to a great opportunity Could it fall on its face? Yeah, maybe that's the stock market guys My job is to identify with all extremes in the stock market The extreme is you invest a thousand dollars. You lose a hundred percent of that investment The other extreme is you invest a thousand dollars and it ends up Exponentially going to the upside to a capacity that I there's infinite upside capacity The only thing that you can lose is a hundred percent of your investment But the upside potential is in the thousands tens of thousands Right and in the case of like, let's say amazon, which we talked about is 37 000 percent 47 000 40 000 percent since coming public. I don't know check my math on that. I think it's between 30 and 40 000 percent rate of return since coming public not too shabby not too shabby Am I making the comparison between a duro and amazon? No, of course not I own amazon I'm happy to do so I've made whip-ass money with amazon. Okay. Am I going to make Thousands and thousands of percent of return now buying amazon at this particular juncture? No No Could I make that with an opportunity that I see in a duro? Could be interesting to the tune of thousands of percent. I don't really care A few hundred percent Yeah, yeah, depending on how long I want to hold the stock Returns of a thousand percent. Yeah depends on how long I want to own the stock right It really just comes down to Getting in on what I consider to be the ground floor and then deploying an abnormal approach to Buying these companies and holding them indefinitely indefinitely Yep, and I have come to a revelation to understand that Buying a few really really good companies buying on conviction And not succumbing to the short-term injects like I expect a duro to come over the top and provide strategic Injects with regard to their customer engagement The commissioning of a potential for r3. I've pushed r3 personally to 2024 I've pushed it myself. That's my I've not been provided that insight from a duro at all But I expect catalysts to come and go In some frequency Or not But when they do come The question will become do you own a position in that company? The answer will be quite simply yes We do Because we identified on the onset That they are tackling a problem that They alone cannot solve There has to be And that's what you guys would have got if you would have caught my three-part series of my site visit up there To a duro clean technologies. I was glad to roll that content out. It was pretty awesome I was I was really really touched By their efforts to welcome me. There was no hesitation whatsoever Um, and and that that goes a long way with me as a stock owner I'm I'm I'm forged in fire. I'm not going anywhere I'm very open with my position I'll be open with my position if I choose to add to it. I have not as of late But that's the cool transparency and understanding that if you just wanted to sit back and watch the show You could watch a would-be retail investor To try to take his stake in what has traditionally been a game that has been closed off to retail investors at large That's why I consider to be 99 percent of retail investors royally suck at investing Because they don't see the grander picture in really leveraging the opportunity and profiting from it Guys, I appreciate you tuning in man. The live stream fast to 60 in this case It's been about 75 minutes of live stream anyway I'm starting to get closer to that long-standing live stream that I was used to deliver it on the channel But I appreciate you guys have a good rest of the weekend We will catch you next Friday on the independent investor channel live stream. Thank you so much guys. Be well. We'll catch you next Friday