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“SunPower” and “bankruptcy” are two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence. But we should temper our schadenfreude. The solar industry owes SunPower and their employees tremendous gratitude. Without a doubt, our industry would be much smaller without SunPower's early and determined leadership. So rather than dance on their potential grave, this week's Energy Show will focus on SunPower's accomplishments that I've witnessed first-hand over the past 20 years. Think about back contact cells; best dealer network; utility-scale installations on five continents; horsepower behind CALSSA and SEIA; Million Solar Roofs; uncapped ITC; Swanson, Werner, Shugar, Wenger, Blunden, Starrs; NexTracker and Renova. The list goes on. There's plenty of news about SunPower's demise. For the other side of the story, please tune into this week's Energy Show at www.energyshow.biz.

While we were all at home during Covid desperately trying to get our hands on toilet paper, exercise equipment, and home furnishings, solar executives like Dan Sugar were trying to get steel and power electronics to massive PV farms under development. As equipment and workforce disruptions spiraled due to lockdowns, the cost of installed solar started going up for the first time in nearly a decade. “Costs just skyrocketed. And so at this point in my career. I wasn't going to proceed like that,” explained Shugar, the CEO of Nextracker, the world's top solar tracking company. It became very obvious that Nextracker had to build more US manufacturing to serve local markets, where utility-scale PV was still booming. And within a couple years, they built a large network of factories. “We've catalyzed over 20 factories across the United States with over 30 gigawatts of major components being manufactured here and shipping finished goods today. That's just a huge retooling of the supply chain,” explained Shugar. To date, Nextracker has shipped 100 gigawatts of trackers. More and more of them are being produced in key locations around the US. In this episode, produced in collaboration with Nextracker, Stephen Lacey speaks with Dan Sugar about progress in onshoring, innovations in tracker technology, and where the solar industry is headed next. Learn more about Nextracker's efforts to bolster domestic content for solar power generation in the US.

En este video te cuento la historia de un hombre muy bragado, masculino y buen charro pero de quien se decía vivía una vida oculta y por eso se relacionó con varias mujeres, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, hoy te contaré todas sus azañas el cine y en el amor y como fue que terminó sus días.

Hoy les quiero contar algunas anécdotas de las #Celebridades y #Estrellas del mundo, desde mujeres adelantadas a su tiempo, tragedias, oportunistas e inteligentes que supieron aprovechas las oportunidades, todo ello en el #Podcast del Filip.

Nuestro experto en finanzas, Kevin Umanzor, nos platica sobre cómo invertir bien nuestros ahorros a la hora de terminar de pagar la casa propia. ¡Ponte los audífonos y escucha el podcast del Free Guey Show en Uforia, Apple Podcast o Spotify o en tu plataforma favorita!

Enjoy this set from DJ Shugar at Groove Sundays with Beefeater London Gin. Stay on the lookout for updates for the next event!

Hosted by Matt Musselwhite, Jordan Modro, & Bryan Kern and streaming LIVE every Friday night at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern; iHateTheScene brings you the best and worst in the worlds of Music, Entertainment, Gaming, & Fashion. Jordan is back from sabbatical, Matt's grounded from Twitter, Coffee (Coffee & Shugar podcast) is here, and Bryan is a croissant bandit? I don't think he even eats them frequently. Topics tonight include: Vince McMahon retired, 50 Cent filming a horror movie, Pantera's reunion plus are they racist? Ricky Martin didn't have relations with his nephew, and crappy video games. IHATETHESCENE.com | | IG: @iHateTheScene ih8tethescene@gmail.com | Twitter: @SceneRadio

Hosted by Matt Musselwhite & Bryan Kern and streaming LIVE every Friday night at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern; iHateTheScene brings you the best and worst in the worlds of Music, Entertainment, Gaming, & Fashion. James Coffman (Coffee) of the Coffee & Shugar podcast joins us for a discussion on Jonny Depp VS Amber Heard, Dave Chapelle being attacked, new music, and marketing. IHATETHESCENE.com | | IG: @iHateTheScene ih8tethescene@gmail.com | Twitter: @SceneRadio

James sits down with Steve Cobucci to talk about their new album Eulogies, being a Christian band in the scene, touring, and what's next for the band. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Chris and Dan to talk about old hardcore music influences, their new single "Sugar", and how they came to be the band Highwind. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Besart and Jacob of the band Outsiders to chat the scene, labels, and friends in the music industry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Maggie Schneider of the band Glimmers to talk about her journey as a solo artist into creating the band, content creation, and So What! fest.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Greg Adams of Tioga to talk about their music focus, branding in the digital age, the metaverse, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with the band Driveways to talk about halloween, being a band in the scene with actual lives, and what the future looks like for them.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Matt Helmsworth of death metal band Ritual of Despair to chat about being a newer band in the Los Angeles scene, their writing process, and putting yourself out there. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Jason, the drummer of Ivypaint, and talk about the last year of their band and the cool things they have in store. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James sits down with Orion Stephens, front man of In Dying Arms, to talk about their 16 years as a band and the new things ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Your Bluetooth will get arrested for riding dirt bikes and quads in these streets when HLS Legend, S.A. Champion WestGrown power brakes into the PYFC with Big Lucks, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz and Chumhan, hear about hitting Florida and riding, how WestGrown pops wheelies, outruns cops shooting documentaries about urban dirtbikes WestSide Style at the same time, one hand camera, one hand on the bar. BONUS: Hear how bikes are about wild freedom.  #bikelife #westgrown #urbanbike #meekmill #freedomwww.hardluckshow.com/podcastSend your crazy shit to: hluckshow@gmail.comHLS: Ep. 287: WestGrown Moto WorldHLS: Ep. 287: WestGrown Moto WorldShareCBHLS: Ep. 287: WestGrown Moto WorldSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerWash marry me.Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, featuring a new song on my way by Jennifer Lopezmarry me directed by . Maybe inappropriate for children under 13 in theaters had streaming. Oh, we on peacock. Sign up now. Visit peacock tv.com.Come on right now. Right now.good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the hard luck show. I'm a certified qualify west side. Host Steve lucky channel. And today I'm talking to all of you from the Pico family center in the city of Santa Monica, California. Hello, citizens of Santa Monica and all California, all over the world.Sitting next to me as my cohost Hartman.Holy moly. Noli. I love it. Oh, top five right here. AmericanAmerican inSouthern California. I was thinkinglet's go. Let's jiggle those niblets let's jiggle those God damn nebulous.Yes. You at the flying J yes. You went loves trucks.put down that H and w hamburger. No, you don't need to listen to any Conway. Twitty. Come on.new eyes himself. Oh yeah. Come on shit back at it's shot. LouisCome on, Danny.talking to you, Taliban.You got the ride. I'm talking to you.extraordinary. And extraordinary show runner. Mr. . Yo, what up fellows? What's up shorty back again? Word you. Good? Good. How are you? Good. I like the black and gold. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit of, yeah, I know you like you like a little bits, right? Money. And, uh, ladies and gentlemen on visuals.Ali on the visuals. You already know. No,that didn't wake you up. When we got a hot cup of coffee that will all right. Boom. All right. Re occurring. In-house photography. Uh, Mr. Michelangelo, what's happening. Y'all greetings and salutations everybody out there. Her luck show what's up. Y'all we're hope. And this dude got shot right there. Went up guys, coming out there at greetings and salutations little rock gets his big pick.Mike coming at you. Wouldn't never cut from Jackson stock shit. You know what? Hecome on. Big, big, big, big money. He's the money. Mike's a walk on song should have been. Don't stop believing by journey. Oh dude, we love that song way too much, but listen, let's stop fucking around and come in a boar shit back again. It's been months when you get dark zero.zero, Dar. You never know what to expect.Danny.Danny pulling up on my family mother fucking right. Well, the fucking dude Danny sent, I mean, you were heading, and I don't know if everybody knows along with being motherfucking GI, Joe, and about that, a fucking super dad and a million other things. This mother fucker does. He's an incredible fuck photographer and great video of a great eye.And he was, he liked took off in between. When we last talked in him, he was really starting to kind of like engage and then we just lost sight of Danny. But all of a sudden, we started seeing him emerge on the digital world websites, a social immediately. You start seeing what this dude started, opening up a fucking can of fucking bad-ass shit.Wait a second. W w what did he emerge with, like, what is it fucking that whole modal inner city Moro, meek mill. I don't even know what you call there, riding with all the motor and the quads and everything fucking dropped in deep into that world. He'll tell you you've been bouncing from fucking Florida to fucking Philly, to fucking SF to New York.All the cities dude, like end it with these cats, representing soul assassin, cookies, and fucking capturing all this videos and photography. Correct. How did you come up? How did you come up with. Um, actually right after I did this, I had went to Florida with some friends and they introduced me to it. Cause I was, I just didn't want to be in the same lane as everybody else in our crew and everything.So, you know, I wanted to do my own thing and kind of branch off. Yeah. Even though it wasn't like part of our normal get down, you know what I mean? I seen something that was going to be bigger than people seeing over here. How did it, how did, how did it start out? Like a moon? When did you first, like in your mind, somebody come up and say, bro, you gotta check.No one of my friends at the time, she, uh, told me to come check this out. And I thought it was dope because I'm into extreme shit. So I've rode bikes before I did all that, I almost killed myself on our bikes. I was like, this is right up my alley. Let's go check it out. And I went out there and it was a wrap.After that you go out to check, you know, you talking about Florida. Okay. So when you go out to check something out, how do you, what, what gear do you bring with, are you bringing any gears? It's just, you know, I went out there and I had my camera there. But I just went out there and not knowing like, and it's different, like shooting action stuff is way different than, oh, I'm going to shoot this broad.That's half naked, like standing still, this is like, you have a moment to catch it and then it's gone. You can't replicate that scenario again in traffic live shit. Not like let's set up a whole thing. It's fucking at high speeds, dangerous oncoming traffic on top, all that. Right. So then let's, let's look at it.So it's kind of like it's, I mean, maybe it's a little bit like trying to capture nature. There's no redo it's whatever's happening right in front of you. Like hunts, kills audits, everything falls out. People wrecking, everything. I got all that kind of shit. Cops chasing us. Like every single thing that you could imagine.Uh, I've had it on camera. And how immersed is hip hop into that movement? Oh yeah. You'll see. In every music videos nowadays, it's huge. You'll see music videos. There's people on dirt bikes or these rappers that are, want to get dirt bikes and start doing shit. And, well, wait a second. Now, is it dirt bikes or is it rice rockets?No, no, no. We're talking dirt bikes.and four wheelers. Like how is that? Let me ask you this. How is it a hip hop, dirt bike? Would it be different or tricked out in a different way than a regular dirt bike or is it no, it's not even about the thereby being tricked out or nothing like that. It's about just your style, your riding, the vibe you bring, like everybody on a bike is literally on a bike to get away from shit.That's going on with. You know what I mean? So help me out a second here. All right. Dang. Cause I'm in, I'm in the world from the fashion standpoint or from the apparel standpoint industry, it's all our stuff, but at S so let's just say it was about 2011, maybe 2012, and I'm running, you know, sales marketing over at young and reckless.Right. And we engage in meek and we decide, we think at that point in time, that it's a good idea. We're just kind of being turned on to this whole Moto thing around 2012, but it's coming to us through meek mill where we know that it's in some other places, but there isn't a big face behind it, like meek was right.So we, we were like, you know, some of our guys were out there checking shit out, and then they came out here and brought their bikes. Chickpeas meat comes from Philly to LA and they have all their bikes fucking trucked over. Right. Zach goes to fifties quads and I throw out the idea to drama and D amen.Less. Cause we're going to do a shoot with him for young and records. I go, well, why don't we have a Stefan do the photo shoot and the video let's do it all. So we got to step on and we went out to the fucking dunes and fucking, we filmed this thing and I was blown away in real life. What that shit was when they mobbed out.And there was about, they had about 20 guys and 20 bikes. I mean, quad bikes, everything. And they were in LA and, uh, it was, the shoot was powerful, man. It had, it was dope, man, to see it, man, Steven did it got dope shit. And that's kinda how I got introduced. And that's what started introducing me to looking further into it and seeing.How this, this movement was spreading bro, and very deep and like the Northeast and some of the Southeast and super particular areas, you know, and how engage our, how many mashed hip hop was all this man, the hood, and like all that it's, it comes from that. We graduated from bikes, bicycles, you know, now the hood said, fuck it.We're going to get on a real bikes. Like that's the. Like we don't ride around on a bicycle bicycles, no more, this shit. We're 21, right? The smallest thing they're riding or those little fucking mini bikes. Right. Because I see those, I seen cruiser them that got him going 40 miles an hour yesterday, kids on the, on, in downtown LA where me and Mike been talking about doing something with cookies with them.I rode from downtown yesterday, all the way to, to Venice and fucking through sunset Melrose, everything. And there was a mini bike that was rocking with us the whole time. Really? Yeah. He was just, oh, we slowed down. We don't go fast because we're on quads. So we're just willing and. Yeah. Taking our time.We're not trying to speed Willie. And he was chilling. We'd have to stop a bunch just because it's gas. But after a while he was like, I might head back. We're like, yeah, cool. We were done babysitting running, but yeah, they're outside. Everybody's outside. And that's funny that you said the thing about meek, because one of my boys, one of my really good friends in the shit, he's a clutch, the bike star.He's he's from New York. Right. So me and him got super close. That's my boy clutch. Yeah. Clinton's from New York. Yeah. So there's and there's cliques within all of this shit. So that's what I heard. Yeah. So he's a bike star. So like they're their own click, like, so they got people all across America that they think that I wrapped them, wrap them that put them was for me.Right. It's like a hood, like right. They put them on now. They're whatever their name is. Club. Yeah, exactly. So name plus bikes are so. He's my boy. So he's like come out to New York, come out with me. Boom. He's like, all right, we're going to go do some show and ride that de. Pop up, fly to New York, hop in the car.He's got all kinds of weed for me. He's like here, what do you want? Whatever flavor you want. All right. Go to the mechanic. He's got phentenol Xanax, uh, nothing like that. So then we go, he's like, we're gonna go to the mechanic and leave your bag over there. I was like, all right, cool. Boom. We leave my bag.Don't even go to the house, hop on bikes and heads. Like heads-up really shit. Yeah. Fucking show up, bro. I didn't even sit down. I got hopped right on the bike and we rode all the way at the time. Square met up with meek mill, Jim Jones and all of them and rode through times square and all that shit with me within like hours of getting a fucking bad ass thing.Getting off of the fucking bike off the plane. I was on a bike with me. I was like, this shit is crazy. Mixer for going through times square. Like when you're going through times square like that, you're just like in awe, like, and everybody's there at times square to look, look at times square, but they're all looking at you and you're just like, that's the biggest stage that you, you know what I mean?Look at that shit, bro. It's crazy. I think it's dope, bro. Do you have a up for a camera on your bike so that you can. So you got like a, what? A golfer, like I'm like wondering no, wait, why you ask that? I've been wondering this whole time. What the fuck are you doing? Like, are you doing this shit? That's what, like, even my boy, one of our boys, the other day, we had a huge ride.I went through a huge here for MLK and had like hella bikes, probably a thousand bikes out here, riding with us right from across the nation. Like they came, right. So we're riding out there and we get off the bike and he's like, bro, how the fuck do you do. Because I literally have a camera set up for you to shoot with your right hand.Right. But the throttles on the right hand. So I'm on a quad too. So I use, I, Willie, I do everything too. So I'll fucking be riding, have my camera strapped around my neck, get in position, put my left hand across my body to grab that. And the whole time I'm shifting downshifting with my left foot, just engaging with the, you know what I mean, the gears without a clutch.And then I'm still leaning over lane down, like shooting pictures and doing all that shit at the same exact time, bad ass. So my boy. Bro. How the fuck do you usually people will be like, all right, we'll get a quad. I drive and you'll be on the back and you just shoot. Right, right. But I do it all by myself because, well, I got tired of fucking, I don't want to be a man on another man's back like that.Like, here's on the left side for it. You know what I mean? You could do well. Yeah. But, but, but do you think it changes the quality of your shots that you're engaged in activism? I probably miss some, but I make so many more than you miss a lot, but you know me, nobody can, right. Ain't nobody ain't told me shit.Ain't nobody shooting and doing that shit. Like. Doing the passenger word that I'm doing. Like, I don't give a fuck. Right. That's like some Vernor Hertzog shit, man. That's like, those are the types of documentarians that like get into the actual fucking thing and they're shooting it, directing it, you know, doing it and all that other stuff.Like yesterday, I, I wrote, I wrote, I didn't take my camera. Not nothing even my boys are like, man, west don't even want to fucking take pictures no more. He's just enjoying himself so much. And sometimes it's like the I'm not always out there just to take pictures. I want to go out there and to myself too, it just so happens.That that's what I do. But that's part of your, your lifestyle. Yeah. So you're working in, but you want to be able to put up the worksheet and your people and your shit. Yeah. And so when you go out to Florida and you're kind of, sort of being introduced to this and is that the time that you got hooked up with whoever.That was the time when I clocked in with started seeing this shit and building these relationships. And then once I got back over here, and it's weird though, because over there you see if I go over there right now, they're at the very beginning of their low-rider community really taken off now. So we're at the very beginning of our bike life stuff taken off.So it's like, I seen the exchange of culture starting to grow on both sides right now. Just, you know, I'll say I, because I've written quads all my life. Right. But I was like on a reservation or I was out in the sticks. So I wasn't. Doing anything in the city with it necessarily, and actually dirt, bikes and quads.At that time, when I was coming up was kind of like a kind of, I mean, all redneck thing kinda right. And Florida obviously is kind of famous for its rednecks, but the issue is, is I'm seeing other cultures grab that and put it in other kind of, um, environments and seeing what it can do in other environments.Do you think that the influence came from the Southeast and it, and it's pushing this dynamic? Um, no. I came from the east like Philly and all that shit. We're making them from that's like the, that's like the motherland of where the shit like started. It just grew from there because they don't even like to be honest, the east coast don't even pay attention to us like that on the west coast, on this bike life, shit yet quiet because we're so young, even though we got people out here that can put up with a lot of them, you know what I mean?But we're just so young. There's like so many dynamics behind things that we're not even up to date on, like people that are beefing because of this and that, but that whole bike life shit is like a whole community of, of stuff like that. That we're not even in tune yet without here. And I know because of the relationships that I have out east, you know what I mean?That's the only reason I know a bunch of shit about what the culture is and why people don't fuck with certain people and what the, really, the real dynamic behind the most of the relationships does everything have to have some kind of politics attached to it. Always, always. Oh, it is. That's just how human nature.And I think everybody too, man, like there's a piece of everybody wants to be a part of everybody wants to, once there's a few people want to create a community as something cool. And once that community starts to gain other people, see it and they want to be a part of that. They want to join something and it goes for everything I think goes for it.And that certainly car clubs, motorcycle, gangs, motorcycle club, all these kickoffs neighborhoods. So this, when, and when you have that, then you have. A group of people with a common goal. And that's where you're going to have all the politics that go on. You know what I agree with that in, in obviously every nation, every subculture, all that stuff represented, what does it mean?Who are, you know, all that shit. And Danny makes a good point in human, wherever the humans are. There's going to be some politics. But I am also thinking that while you're right, like there is a common goal. It's like a point at which in the, any culture where the common goal gets overridden by the goals of politics and you start losing the focus.Yeah. The pure that's why like, I've got to see that shit. So like, I, that's why I focus on shit with the guys that I fuck with out here. Like. Companies that I work with, like the bang shit or like cookies or the lit Coco or like solo sassy. I'll get these companies to fork out some bread. And then we go, like we went and handed out Turkey, whole ass Turkey dinners to families.This last Thanksgiving with some of the guys, another time we went out there and fed the homeless. With all the guys from bikes, like we all went out there, went to skid row. The other homie that I have lane, he has no legs. He rides with us. He has prosthetics on a four Wheeler. He went out there, he cooked for all the homeless people and we got together and gave out food, like guy with no legs over there cooking for a bunch of homeless people out of that.Is there an aspect of it that, because I mean, there's a certain kind of spirit that goes with riding a bike and being in the outdoors and feeling the fucking power, feeling the wind in your face and all that shit. At least that's how I feel when I ride bikes. Right? Like there's an aspect of it where you feel real free is any of that.Um, cause you know, does any of that seem like it is healing in a way? Yeah, of course. That's why everybody's out there. They're trying to escape here, get it in a moment away from everybody for freedom. All right. I hear that about car clubs. I hear that about all sources, the social surfing, skateboarding, whatever.But if they're in a group, it's a chance for them to break away from their normal life and almost be a kid or be with, you know what I'm saying? Like it's an escape, some sort, bro, especially our group that are our packs that ride together. We have packs. Our whole pack is a bunch of people that don't even, shouldn't even be in the same room, hanging out chilling.I got hell no, I got, we got bloods, Crips essays. You know what I mean? You got everybody you got every single crew there. That don't fuck with each other on the regular, like, you know what I mean? But then do you have a driver in there too? Somewhere? Probably I'll guarantee there's I was thinking maybe the ups and the FedEx guy get down parking lot.Um, no, but, but so through this, that's almost like this neutral thing where all of them it's, it's a brotherhood amongst. Yeah, exactly. So it, even the people that are there that, you know what I mean, they want to get away from that shit every once in a while. You know what I mean? That's bigger than their yeah.They was actually describes to that. Yeah. Because it's, they're there for that. There's an understanding amongst them because they know that they're there for that one, same reason that same they're there because they understand that, that person's there for the same reason that they're there, that feeling of getting away from all that bullshit that they're dealing with, you know what I mean?Exhilaration, having fun, enjoying your shit, like everybody's there initially to have fun. And then sometimes I, she gets lost into competition and this and that, because everybody wants to be seen, heard. That's why the. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. That's my perspective. At least I can't speak for everybody, but from what I see and what I see in the community, that's what, so we, but we, you feel like, or, you know, Philly was really the ones that really took this shit and really started making this happen.This is the east coast. I'll give it that. I don't want to say specifically, cause I know somebody will listen and be like, nah, my grandmaIf you think about it, you would almost want to say, how did that not come out of the west coast? We have so much more access to this stuff. There's way more. That makes way more sense. On the west coast than it does the east. Well, this is why I was thinking maybe it was like a country thing, right. Or country thing.Right. Or the west. Because the open spaces that you guys like before there was no, there was no like club maybe that never made it special. I don't know. But at blue mountain where my cabin is, right. My LA my whole entire. I've written quads and dirt bikes up and down that shit. And most of the roads are logging trails.So there's no, there's no like pavement or whatever, and you're doing shit and fucking around, but you're having that same experience of being free. No, one's watching you. You want to go fast, you go fast. You want to go? So you want to, you want to try something? You can, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.So I was thinking like maybe, and that's why I said redneck, but I was meaning country. And there's a lot of African-American rednecks, you know, they they're from the country and they might be doing the same shit or hunting I've hunted on quads before. So that's why I was thinking that. But if it started in Philly, this.Uh, east coast, inner city, east coast, and then that's that. But you know, I've read a lot of, uh, books about people who on the east. There's a lot of interchange between, uh, family members that some are living in the city and some are living in the country and they're related and they visit each other in the summers.And so there may be some influence that gets picked up that way. I've also seen situations where dudes that got gaffled up in the night. Then move down to the south, to their cousins that just let shit, you know, whatever cool out. And then they might get exposed to some country living. That's actually something they might enjoy.Yeah. So what, so what, and so where would meek mill, do you think meek mill was able to kind of center in on this? Or how did he around him? It's that whole area is just, and it was probably engulfed in it and there's probably was a couple other, but he was the guy that was hot and chose to take that with him.Right. You got it. You got into it as a kid, too. Right. There's videos of him doing it super young and the guy went to fucking jail for it, bro. Also, but he used that. He brought that with him too. Yeah. And he was hot and he stayed on it like it was around, but there wasn't a face. Stuart is what I'm saying.Meek mill was what I tie and associate the face of it. And it probably needed that to get it out there because, and I'm sure that that was responsible. That was fucking old 2011, 12. I'm talking about right in over that time, this thing has done nothing but grow like cancer. Sure. I'm an also think that like in certain level of economic situations that we're in right now, we're loaned itself to that, right?Absolutely cheaper gas, fucking Bubba, Bubba, Bubba. Right. Well, I, I could ride my bike all day on like $8. You know what I mean? Like why I could be distracted and have fun all day for $8. Y w what do you do for me? $8. That's going to make me have that much fun. You'll be distracted. And meanwhile, motherfucker, Ms.Kim fucking leaving her work or run your ass over. You're not paying attention. So what's up with the falls, man. You said you caught some of that footage. I mean, do these guys fall a lot? Oh yeah. Really? Everybody falls, especially that all trying to push it, like, right. There's a whole, there's a whole culture in it about like, who could do the best tricks, this and that.Right. Or like people that put passengers on the bikes and do stuff with them. Like there's different, like brackets within them. So it's just. When they push it. Yeah. It's inevitable. And I see them fall all the time too. This sometimes it would be really bad sometimes the name too bad, but any hospital trips, like all the time.Yeah. All the time road, rash road rashes. Normal aren't light. Fuck man. And my, my sister she's she's Prager. She's about to deliver a little fucking baby. My nephew in March, her husband, TD Tyler Daniels. If he's listening to this, I'm talking about you, you fucker, country, right? Uh, yeah. Out of Oakleigh, out of Oklahoma, you can't get much more like fucking country crop in that pan away.Good guys. Good to my sister at her baby shower. W it worked. She was in Arizona. He got on a quad in where we're at up in Scottsdale. There's a bunch of like, just desert behind the houses were washes and everything. And this jamoke gets on a and quieter and he's riding around and going with fast. I don't know what by himself, he hit Barb wire.Oh shit. Right. Wrapped around tie flew the thing landed on top of them. Right. A quad landed on tower and the fucking thing. So my, my sister who's like, you know, six months pregnant gets a call from TDSIC. She went to go, she rescued him. The pregnant mom went to rescue the husband and she got him and he was on the ground with a huge cut.Right below his eye, he had to get stitches, broke three ribs, right. And was laid up and his ribs still ain't. Right. And he's got a permanent scar on my sister was like, he's got his guy. I'm like, you're a girl. I know from your perspective of scarring, if it's the worst thing, but he's going to be able to lie about that scar later.And it looked like a tough motherfucker and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. Which do you prefer, do you prefer quiet or do you prefer dirt bike or you don't compare the two? Um, I'm just, I prefer a quad because I'm shooting pictures, you know, it's easier for me to manage all that shit on a dirt bike.It's going to be 10 times harder to do all that shit, you know? So I'm just like, fuck. Quads my way to go. And it's, it's less shit I got to worry about. I mean, people think quads are somehow saver, but they're not, they can be there like turning when you're going fast and turning, you can fuck on roller Quatro.Real fucking, yeah. You gotta know how to shift your weight and do all that shit. And then, especially when you're getting chased, it's lot harder too, because then you can't just squeeze between two last cars with the bike. So you got to, you're taking sidewalks, whatever the fuck you gotta do. You haven't chased last night, allegedly nothing.They just try, they can't fuck with us. Like. I got, all I got to do is turn around three times and get in traffic and you're fucked. So allegedly last night you were wrong. Yup. And who was it? Did the lights come on and when the lights come on, does that excite you? Like, yeah, I got this bitch now. I just think this guy's a dickhead and he's stupid.And why is he fucking with us? Cause he was like, bro, you know that you're not going to catch us. But then sometimes they do catch people. Cause there's like, we call them worms, new guys that are, get bikes and they don't know what the fuck they're doing. And then they panic and they're like, oh, freak the fuck out.So then they either like req they fucking stall out or fucking do something else stupid. And then. Right. Those, those are the guys that they're hoping to catch, but the rest, the rest of them just chill. A lot of times, they'll just, I'll just cruise and let them sit behind this for a little bit. And then I'll just like, well, just make one move.And then it's done. Like really they're waiting for it. Yeah. They're, they're sitting there too. They're just, do they ever, is there ever been a time where they chased you a little bit and then like, but it was like in a certain extent, like they were having fun and you're having fun. Um, sometimes here, but I've been in another state, like.Allegedly when I was in Atlanta, whatever your funny peacocks, got it. Exclusively stream classic sitcoms, like the office parks and recreation and Sue and a half net plus cats, peacock, original comedies like AP bio and saved by the bell for all your exclusive comedy phase could have peacock tv.com and get started, bro.That shit was crazy. That shit out there, like, no, they have, they're allowed to hit you there. And they are battering Rams on their shit and they kill people last year. They killed somebody and then my other homie, Joey Glocks, this will he fucking. Hit this full then drove his ass into the curb and crushed his leg, crushed his bike.And he's in, he's in a whole ass thing with them right now over it. He just got better now to where he's. He's cool. He can ride, bro. That shit is crazy that they don't play out there. They try to hit me, try to fuck me up and everything. I was gone. I had to get out on them, their helicopter, everything had to take him to the airport so I could lose the helicopter row.It was that shit was GTA five. George is on some other shit, man, no fly zone. You got to think about shit. This is shit that like people, they come into this bike shit don't know. Like they got to educate themselves on things like this. Like, all right, you're getting chased and you got helicopters are, listen to figure that out.And this world, they just don't know. But I mean, I didn't, there's also a part of me. That's like, you know, maybe you're built for this kind of shit, Danny. Yeah. Just set up for fame. No, no, no. I'm not trying to say it like that. I'm trying to say it like, I mean, go with him. Why can't you roll with them? Roll with them.You know why? I want to be real. I want to say, all right, listen, you want to know why, why you want to know why you're skinny. Ain't dark enough. Boy, my wife that's right. My wife's skin is dark and she gonna fucking rip my Dick off. If I get hurt. Because Tega my daughters, my wife, don't brother, man. I that's a one.My son, my son showed up wanting to ride a motorcycle. I'd be bummed the fuck out. No, no guilt right there, bro. I've lost friends in my life. You've lost friends early on. I lost three friends early on, got taken out and it was on all three. It wasn't even their fault. Right. Two are sitting on both on a bike ride, taken out.The other two ones just got ran over and the other one's got waiting at a light, just got taken out by a motherfucking cab. Listen, I written by X through LA. I've done it and I wasn't married other stuff. Ain't I wasn't trying to do anything crazy either. I wasn't like trying to. Nah, no, but the bike slid out from you at least once or twice.And I definitely fucked up my entire side of the leg and I pretended like it didn't hurt, you know, all the other shit, but every time I took a shower, it was like fucking fire on motherfucker. I laid the ballet at seven 50 triple down all last year, nigga on that on-ramp that fucking, that seven 50 triple Kawasaki.And when you hit a certain amount of RPMs, this VRBO kicked in and I was just getting on the bike, just getting on a bike. Wasn't even my bike, bro. And I was borrowing. Two hours and I got on and I was going too fast on this fucking on-ramp and I go, and I'm going to look and it fucking shout out for my bike man.And back then I ended up having to pay fucking hundreds of dollars. My dad fixed my towel. Shit was fucking, yeah, it was 360 pounds, but he was always trying to like fucking do some fucking buy just shit. So he had a real, a big ass Kawasaki, fucking dirt bikes street, legal right. Big fucker. I don't know what it was, but it was a real dirt bike.And it was in Arizona where they got the washers and all this other stuff. So he will ride around, but he was only on the pavement. Right. And you ride around and he would be mixing this giant fucking or venti size, fucking rum and Cokes, you know, and with the neighbors, right. He, Ron rum and Cokes out there on a fucking fat as fuck.I swear to God now listen for bus. He, he had a monster client, uh, Steve clap, if you're listening to this, uh, you don't pay him my money. So I could say whatever the fuck I want, but Steve clap his son, uh, to the Weyerhaeuser fortunate in Washington, which is the biggest logging. One of the biggest ones in the world guys were 350 million and my dad ingratiated himself.Right? So this guy, Steve clap, who only. To like, you know, like boarding schools and, you know, dah, dah, hair plugs, all that stuff. Want to be a tough guy. So my dad had him and Lou and everybody out in there drinking, and this guy, Steve Klatt got on the bike was going around the neighborhood circle. And then when he went in front of the guy, she was smoking a cigar too.When he went in front of the guys, Steve clacks stood up on the, on the pegs and he lifted his, his head and had the Shugar clenched in his teeth. Right. And he was like, ah, and he ran smack into someone's house. Oh shit. Fucked his whole face up. Fuck everything up. What's his name? Steve, clap to piece to Steve clap.Got clapped on. Got . Have you ever seen guys like show off and maybe they went like a worm showing up? Oh, it's all the time. Everybody that is in bike life that has a camera always says it. As soon as you bust out the camera, everybody tries to go crazy. They're like, this is my big, this is my moment to shine.And then that's when they fucking, they fucked up. That's the moment. Yeah, they got to juiced up on that shit because that shit goes Ziad. Sometime when you pull the camera out. Oh no. I to wait for the crowd has got to keep shooting. The thing is, cause sometimes I was like, oh fuck, I'll be right behind them when they wreck.So I got to look about the way. And not run over the motherfucker. So that's why it's like hard because I'm one hands on the wheel across my body and everything. So it's like, that's it. The reason why I was saying that Danny is built for this, not a gossip up, but I was thinking about the last time we talked to Danny, he was down in the middle of the protests and fucking on the front lines facing crazy fucking, I can only imagine the Drennan that was going on at that time.And then before that dude, you, you were in combat and stuff. So I'm thinking to myself, how does a guy like Danny? You know what I mean? Like, how do you say all right, well, now it's time for you to get your little house and your two car garage and you're going to lay down and chill out. And right now, am I wrong?No, you're right. I that's like, that's the thing that I probably have been battling with right now, like the most in my life. Like, cause since that last thing, like my marriage is gone, the shit is fucking done. So everything's kind of like gone awry. Yeah. I know. That was a, another kind of thing. Without me speaking out of term, you were kind of going through that.And would you say that you. Pursuing, this was, was kind of something that came along with the separation. Like you took advantage of that to kind of find yourself or, yeah, I kind of got out of it and I kinda like, I think I like got involved in it for the same reason everybody else is involved in it, of course, to get away to escape.But then I like complicated it by doing other shit, you know, that wasn't conducive to them part of my life, fucked that all up. Right. Cause you just dove in, I just like went all the way in and fucking use that and just ran right. That shit. Fuck it up. It's not just, it's not just vets or whatever, but I've been, I've read, I've been reading about, I did a lot of reading about the jungle.Not just the guys that sit back in pilot, the drones, and then the intelligence that goes in. But the teams that are working with the drone guys, once they get a target and they get the green light and those guys that are waiting for the drones to give the targets and give the green light, like they're waiting.They're not like, ah, we don't want to go out again. They're pumping up and waiting for the next mission. Cause they want ha that's how they're built. They want to have that fucking situation hunt. And then when these guys come home, right, what I'm like reading about it. And I'm like, you know, and it's a pretty, like, it happens a lot.A lot of these guys have a hard time trying to settle back down into some kind of domestic situation when they've been like three or four years out. They're in a real situation with different things going on. What do you think, do you think. I mean, of course it's possible, but I guess what I'm trying to get to is what kind of work would be required for somebody to be able to let that go so that they would settle down?Or is that maybe not possible? Uh, I don't even know. You see me fidgeting, buttoning up my jacket over here. Yeah, I man, there's a dude. You're on, I'm going to make a, I'm going to make a comparison, right? Go ahead and similarity right now because he is going there and he seeking that. Now, if you were to backtrack and start looking at motorcycle clubs.Yeah, bro. Yeah. When they really started growing in the sixties. Right. And there half of it was compiled of vets, that stuff. Like they had been done wrong and left out that's that we're almost rebels and that we're going to ban up because they showed up and they were shit on. And now all they had was each other and they jumped on these bikes with nowhere to go except their unity.Right. You know what I'm saying? That there's no coincidence that, that looks like this right now for him in this day and age, it's still seeking out. Where do I go to feel comfortable or folk, except I need to find my tribe that also lives on the edge as well. Well, so here's the thing like. Yeah, that and that on the road, nobody could stop me type of mentality.That guy unclench your fists. Okay. That guy, you know what I'm saying? No bond that they need to deal with to live in this world. They've got to have that. Yeah. But there's a disparity between, look what you're saying makes total sense to me. And I've been reading and preparation for black history month because I'm like, all right, Sean was like, well, but the person I'm reading on is a dude from LA.I won't give too many details. It's a dude from LA who fought in world war two and was one of the bravest motherfuckers again, when he came back right now, when he was over there, there were certain things he was fighting. Part of what he was fighting for. There was also the comradery and all that stuff, but there was something that he was fighting for that when he came back the world that he, that there was ready for him.There wasn't really about that. It was a different world. Did, was, does that's a world war two experience. Does that experience translate to you? I'm just like, all right. Remember the last time I was here, I said I had not been with a woman that had loved me remember. Yeah. So that became a whole thing and narrative in my life after I said that.So I had to further explain, like, I'm not a normal person. Like, you know what I mean? I'm not like some dude that didn't have all this craziest shit that we've talked about before happening in my life and I was wrong, you know what I mean? So my, my intention behind saying that is like, Everybody it's well, I think it goes for everybody.Everybody needs to be loved a certain way. Right. And everybody needs to be loved different. We just all have different love languages. Now imagine figuring that out with somebody that's been through all the shit I've been through. Like, it makes it even that more difficult. Not only that, but I'll put it even out here like this, because my girl and I go through this a little bit, and that is this, the expectations that society for the last 30 years has instructed people to think what love looks like is at odds with the realities of a real partnership, right?Like, like you're saying, love languages and dah, dah, dah, dah. And that's true, but there's another piece that's beyond that, which is. And I'm I, and when I say I'm dealing with it, I mean that my girl and I are going through these various stages together. And there's things that I thought when I was 20 things that she thought when she was 20, that love was supposed to be right.And it looks a lot like what's been pumped by the media and to everybody. So you buy silly shit, basically. Yeah. But the reality of it is a working partnership, as you know, would, dude's probably in, in, in a platoon or a fucking outfit, there's sometimes fighting there's sometimes this, that, and the other thing, that's part of it.That has to be part of it. It's not gonna look like, but to get to the place in a, in an outfit where the communication signals are, looks so nobody has to explain themselves and all that other stuff is a lot of actual work. It takes a long time to get there with a group of people and in a, in a relationship, the feeling of love.Doesn't mean that you're going to be able to communicate properly with the other. It's just a feeling. Yeah. Because the way that I've been taught and I'm sure for lucky too, is like, when we're younger, like we were never taught to communicate, like you shut the fuck up, keep that shit to yourself, mind your business.Don't fucking mind, nobody else's business. You know what I mean? And then I went to the military. Military is the same fucking way. Like we don't talk, we use hand signals, like, shut the fuck up, man up. Let's go do this, this and this and this. And then you come back and there are people who are like, Hey, you've had to use your words.You're like, yeah, you got to communicate. Tell me how you're feeling. Yeah. You're like, what the fuck? Like. But to be honest. Yeah. But to be honest, like the people that have been learning the most from about that shit is my kids. Right. Our kids nowadays there's their emotional intelligence is so crazy.It's remarkable. Like I sit down with my daughter and she'll talk to me and I'll be like, what the fuck? I'm like, wow. Right. You're tapped in. I agree with you that they're right there. I did. I'll tell you something. Our generation is still dealing with so much trauma, bro, for real like generational trauma that we've endured because of where we've come from.We've endured and perpetuated and you know, and do think about the amount of knowledge that a 15 year old kid has today. Knowledge. I'm not saying experience knowledge compared to when I was 15. Simply didn't have access to everything you have, but what does that do? Like what it does. It does a couple of things.Number one, this is another thing that I deal with in that regard. And that is, there is a lot of knowledge, right? And so a person can actually feel like I know about this, but the problem with it is, is that it's surface level knowledge. It's not expert experiential, right? So like it's a hard navigation because I have people in my farm that I work with that are like generation Z type people.And they have been exposed to a bunch of knowledge and it's not even necessarily experience, man. There's also a lack in our society of how to critique knowledge. Like you don't need a whole lot of experience to hear these messages or read an article and know like, wait a minute. There's certain elements that are missing or the logic doesn't flow.If you. Educated in understanding like this premise does not lead to the next premise, but you're just reading the information from a surface level. You're not even going to be able to evaluate the intelligence of that art, that article. And you may go back talking about, well, what love is is we're supposed to do X and I'm supposed to do Y and you're supposed to feel this.And, you know, man, I've been thinking about this so much with my girl. I'm building a malware. I look at it now between my wife and I I'm building an empire. And I'm not saying that lightly. I'm not saying like, oh, that's what every man and woman saying when they fucking get married for three years and then divorced.No, I'm talking about what I'm trying to build is more important than my own personal needs. Right, bro. Yes. But it doesn't look like always flowers. It also looks. Letting my family discipline me. Let him trying to take care of family members. You never even met before. No net. Oh, you mean in generations to come, right?Yes. But in order to do that, there are some things that I do that aren't good enough for that. There are some things that's been shown to me. It's not good enough for that. Right. And that's not about an end. It goes the other way too. I'm not some fucking dude that just lets people walk. But the thing of it is is that if what I'm trying to build is something for generations to come.That means my wife's generations to come to. That means my daughter's generations to come to it's beyond what it is that I'm thinking about for me personally, And I'm not perfect at it. I mean, there's pieces that I'm missing from there in my, and now I'm working on, it's kind of what I'm saying. I mean, I don't know about Jeffrey Mr.D's manager, but me personally at this age and where I'm at in life. I have a lot of the things I want on a day to day. Right. You know? Right. Sure. Really nice condo that's paid for no car note. Of course, you know, good Elsa. But I have the things, what I'm doing is I'm building what I'm building is I'm building for Vincent and Sophia, my grandson, right.I'm at this to turn that thing off. Oh, what do I want? Right. This is not about me at this stage. Again, there was time for that in my life that I maybe didn't take care of, but this is now has nothing to do with me. Right. What does that, what does that make you think about Danny? When you hear Stephen? I talk about that.I don't know. I'm just, this whole conversation went a whole different direction. I was like, oh shit. Like this shit guy. He worksfor four man. These kids are gorgeous, bro. He puts up videos with his kids, chasing him around and playing with them. Yeah. That's my light as your light man. Yeah. Is that, is that. This is that what's that dude, you man, when you come out of the real world and you're with your kids, you know, what, what is, that's probably been the hardest thing is like dealing with that whole aspect of co-parenting and like trying to figure that out and like not get into this whole cycle of emotions and trying to like keep it pool and like, you know, and that kids at a small age, when they're young like that, some were in them either.They talk about it when they're young or they wait and they talk about it older, but naturally kids, they want their parents to be together. And when parents split for no matter what it is better or for whatever, it might be, the kids don't understand all that is involved. And I think a lot of times, man, kids are somewhat sad that for sure, I was very happy that my parents.So I didn't believe that everybody felt sad, but I think most kids feel sad about it. Oh yeah. Like cry. Like there'll be with me and credit goes to her, her and the credit to be on me. And then there'll be, so it's like a fucking thing. Like, oh, it's time for you to go back to the mom. I don't want to go back with mom.No, sorry. That shit is the most heartbreaking thing ever. It is. It's like, I don't even think about you go to pick up your kidney. Don't want to come with you. I mean, it goes both ways. It happens. It happened. It happened to me last week. Yeah. That is hard, bro. I don't have to take it personally. Absolutely.Got to be a parent. You to be an adult cartel last week. Didn't want to do that. He didn't want to come with me, but also you wanted him to come with me. So I just took one of them. Let's make everybody happy. I'm like, all right, whatever you want. I want to make it happen. Yeah. When I think about that and I think about my daughter, I think about.Like, uh, I don't put it in terms of happy that they got divorced or sad that they got divorced. I don't really think about it like that because I don't even know if I'd even be honest with myself, like in protecting my own feelings. I don't even know if I'd be honest looking at it and be like, wow, it's glad they got divorced.Or I was, I was sad. They got divorced. I don't know it's but the thing that stuck with me the most more than anything else in terms of just food for thought was, um, a theorist that was talking about one of the crucial questions for every human is where did I come from? Like you, you know, there's millions of theories and we got science also shit.But at the immediate level, you know, as a child, you came from two humans coming together. And bonus or whatever, eventually, you know, that and the issue then becomes that those two make up no matter which if the kid knows it or doesn't know, it acknowledges that a service of his level or doesn't that kid immediately associates their complete being with those two halves.There's no way. So, and that's the first information that comes in. So as the child's developing, whoever they are, they're comparing and contrasting, I'm more like this. I'm more like that. What am I like? Right. So the relationship between those two hives that came together to create the existence of the person, that's actually doing the questioning that relationship without me saying which one is better and where I'm not even gonna say that.That whole thing is highly influential on how the child's identity is developed at how they think their existence or the answer to the question of how did I come about right. Flows from that. So when I think about dude, all right, I'll tell you one, I used to fucking argue with my wife, right. And, uh, and we still do from time to time, but we argue differently now, but there was a time where I took a little bit of man fucking pride and trying to put my wife in her, in her place.And I will be able to, because I'm an argumentative motherfucker and I, and I keep going. Sometimes even when my wife that's part of the, and that's part of the reason why she loves me, I'll tell you that. Or at least respects me on not some fucking punk dude. That's not going to push. And she might not admit it in the moment, but there's times where after she denied everything later, we'll come back and be like, I thought about what you said and it's right.Okay. So in my mind I thought, okay, that's a dance that we do. I wasn't even taking personally the arguments or whatever it was. I'm just saying, this is how she hears, this is how I hear we're going to push both lawyers. Like that's normal. Right. And then, and I was doing that in front of the baby. Right?Nothing major. I mean, I wasn't like throwing fucking plates against the wall, but I was just talking loud and saying shit. Right. And then one day it dawned on me that the baby, whether she thinks she understands or doesn't is being influenced by the way, my wife and I are relating to each other. And of course your energy, hell yeah.She taking notes on all of it. All right. And even though I may, and my wife may be play acting a little bit. The baby and all that. So I, and this is hard for me to do. I took a conscious and I'm telling you, but, oh bro, there are times that I work a full day. I come, we made a conscious decision that you weren't going to do this in front of your kid.Did you make that decision amongst alone that you weren't going to bite? You know why he's not even on that. You know why? Cause I was about to tell her, uh, no, I actually had told her, I said, Hey, watch how you talk to me in front of our daughter because our daughter doesn't know. And you can't be saying shit like that in front of the daughter, right?Hell no. Okay. Never. Right. Like if I talk back to you like that in front of our daughter, you would flip the fuck out. You don't want that shit. So I had said that shit. Right. But I was still engaging in the argument shit. Right. And boy, I'm telling you. And like, I make breakfast for the baby every day. I'm also an attorney and work all day.I lift weights. I come home, I get the shopping, I bring the thing I do at least one third of the fucking cooking and planning. Right. And Karen and the heavy shit. Right. And then there's times where I've done it. Everything that I'm supposed to do and at come in and my wife's first thing will be like, can you please build their data?Like one more fucking task. Fuck that shit, dude, fuck living like that. Listen, this is, I can't, I'm not honoring you because you were honest. So I'm going, I'm going right to fuck that shit. Fuck. I don't know what I'm saying. Listen, all I'm saying is like, listen, to say, she'd be like this, right. She'd be like to hell with that.She'd be like, can you please get some more fucking w the thing is not off the floor or whatever. Right. Getting rid of my fucking fee. You see me? That's probably why I snapped on Schwartz. I'm really yelling at my son. I'm like, Ugh, the cleaning guy, all of a sudden, you're cracking. I said to myself, building an empire and I love this woman.And then unload the baby. There will be a time for us to address that. Maybe she's not, she's putting too much sauce on it, but it's not now when I'm in my feelings. Okay. Cause we will pull her aside and be like, promise I've already done it. Okay. I pulled her aside and said, listen, I want you to understand how it comes off.Yeah. Right. When I come home, what was she doing? Oh, she's working. But she's watching the baby working, but she doesn't, she's my law partner. So she's right there with me. Right. And so in the, in the law firm, I'm the oldest attorney and I'm the most experienced, or I run it. So you guys are together all day though, as we are.And we are, we're fucking working and living and parenting all damn day. And to be honest with you, it works way better than it should. We, don't actually a lot of time to go the, a lot of time together, borough for us. Like it's healthy to have some time. Yeah. I'm in idea comes to this hard luck. That's why I love Saturdays is motorcycle club, bro.That is this hard luck show is the motorcycle club. I come in here and say, whatever, all my among and fucking mind it is. And also when I get up to, when I get up in the morning shorts, this is your motorcycle club, right? When I get up in the morning to Sean,But when I get to Ali to get away from your mom, Mr. And Mrs. Ear, bud, you too. But in the mornings, my way time, when I'm lifting weights, I got four. I get up at four. So that, and I don't you have that? Yeah. I run and get it. That's right. Every day. And I'm in the office, I got the door closed and I'm running the show.So it doesn't, it doesn't. But my point in saying all that is good deflection technique, Danny, Danny was like enough about me. What about your marriage? Bad. Like what's going on, Danny? Yeah, what's happening? What's on the counter. Yeah, come on. And Danny, we are going to do, do some more collab, work menu, some brand building stuff together, and it talk more cookie stopped like these vibe stuff with you.Maybe we figure out some supermax plays with them. And we can collab with you on Mike, but what do you have on the calendar this year? Let us know. Where are you going to be? What's um, this year, um, February, I'm going to Miami huge ride out over there. I just came back from Columbia, setting up stuff in Columbia.So like, I just, um, was the first one trying to like build something there so that everybody from America could just go and it's all taken whores in Columbia. Did you get a horror while you were down there? Fuck. And now it's disgusting. I hear all these great stories and they're just. That's it it's just like, listen, thank God we got that.I don't even like, I put a crazy question. Oh, who likes that buddy? Over there has tits and ass over there. It's crazy. You're just like, it's a factory. That's terrible. Everything over there, you know, that's horrible. What are, you know, what I like is you got coming. I like more natural. Where's the start.Right. Magazines and all the pressure. So what's coming up for 2022, 2022. You go to Miami, Columbia. Unfortunately he's got to go to Columbia. He's only doing it for, so now I'll probably be going to Columbia, like. Promise, right? Like every month or every couple of months, every couple of months. Wondering why you lost all that weight?I don't know. You're looking good. Doing a lot of exercise. I don't even lean though. I'm trying to, I switched my diet and shit. And put you only, only if it's begun.shade grown pussy. What are you planning to do? Trade? Oh, sorry. Oh, blue. I just trying to do a real show. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me stop talking about you planning to do with the footage. So I'm actually building stuff to try to get a movie started like a series from HBO or Netflix. So we already started filming, doing all the other stuff and I've just been building with everybody, everybody, all those teams.Bay area has like two active crew and chicken shit. Like we have Watts, Compton, LA bike, live, all that shit here. And then, yeah. So, but we have, I know everybody from all over the nation now pretty much. And, uh, yeah, it's, I think I could add to the culture, you know, so that's what I want to do with about this.Are you going to be like, once let's say, what about being a director? What about making movies? I think it would get in there. I just, do you have aspirations to do that beyond just you're in this live, but like, do you see yourself becoming like an artist? I don't think that this is my end or I don't think my photography is going to be my end all stuff.I think that my stuff is going to be producing, directing because. That's what I do. My network is crazy. Like I could go anywhere pretty much and I could get entire in and do stuff and develop shit for all the people that we know in our crew. Like I just link people in and, and I feather through like all the people and see who's a piece of shit who's not, and who deserves it?You know? Cause I'm not trying to put everybody on. Like everybody don't get everything. Right. That's the thing everybody doesn't get is everybody thinks that because they know me or they have this and that. And I give something to somebody that they deserve it. No, you don't deserve that shit. Like show me, you deserve it.Show me that you ain't a piece of shit. So me that you're loyal, like all that shit, everything that I try to form my shit around is the same pretense that essay's built around. You know what I mean? We all support each other. We all filter through each other, like bro, I'm the youngest one out of the crew.And I've known these guys for 20 years. Like. You know, like we don't let people in essay. That's not somebody that's valid. Like that's a big thing for everybody here. So I fucking feel like I'm going to carry that on in with what I do. So anybody that fucks with me, I got to make sure you're not a piece of shit.You're not gonna embarrass us. You're not gonna make us look bad and I need to know who you are. Right. So if I can't do that, you don't get shit. Well, you don't get shit if you can't do that. So I love it, man. Yeah. Just one more thing. What's your Instagram? So like people can check out some of that footage.My Instagram is west grown west underscore grown, w E S T underscore G R O w N. Fuck. And then you could see everybody, all my crew, everybody I fuck with is on my page. You go follow them, check them off. Let's see, tap in. You'll see all the collabs coming up this year. Yep. Boy's honest. Some shit. You'll see them on my Instagram as well.I'm going to be doing some things, so let's keep it moving, man. Thank you, Danny, for coming on the show, you know, this is always, this is the, this is like your home too, man. So you let's keep it up. Let's not wait a year. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And, uh, and we'll make sure that we tag everybody and add everybody correctly when your post goes up and when the show goes up and yeah, good shit too, mom, what you got?I got go to YouTube to see west grown as well. Yes. You see it. It was that guy. I saw the guy with the prosthetics with the metal prosthetics. Was that, that dude, man, this shit looks fucking fat. Whereas the shot, this is uh, the hood bounty hunters hood. Oh, that's why Christine gardens the gardens.Nickerson gardens way from the trenches. Wow. I love that. Yeah. So you can catch it all on YouTube to Instagram, YouTube boy's son right there. What's his name? Do you remember Billy?he got a Rolex watch. Rolex chain. Don't get the shit fucked up, dude. He's already tolerant and Bushwick. Bill www max hardware.com. Check out some gear, go to cosmic demise, check it out. Let's go to Sean at move mental. Media media for some, you know, podcasts. It's a user for these guys. Mike Angelo photography for Sam.Fantastic film, go to cosmic devise and buy some gear from my boy, Ali Ovando Bowman. Uh, they wear braids to court with man shorts, shorts. It does a number of things. He produces TV music, and Mr. D is here and he wants to say something.Hold on. He just, Hey Mr. D we can't hear you. Can you please speak up? All right, here comes this, this I'm miss V. And you should listen to the hard luck show. Cause that's the realest motherfucking podcast. Bob brown, stop fucking playing. Yeah, with that, I like to say adios, Amigos, heartless. So it is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.Watch marry me.Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma

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Subscribe to Benzinga Options NewsletterEpisode Summary:Coinbase $COIN drops on disappointing earnings reportAdding new stocks to our watchlist Buy or sell: LiveNation LYVGuests:Saagar Govil CEO of Cemtrex (Ticker: CETX) Greg Crawford CEO of Quipt $QIPT Jesse Kaylor, Elite TradingNic Chahine, author of the Benzinga Options NewsletterHosts:Spencer IsraelTwitter: https://twitter.com/sjisraelAaaron BryTwitter: https://twitter.com/aaronbry5Subscribe to all Benzinga Podcasts hereClick here for BENZINGA TRADING SCHOOL Get 20% off Benzinga PRO here Become a BENZINGA AFFILIATE and earn 30% on new subscriptionsDisclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited TranscriptCan you hear us? Why are we running away to AB that is a great question. I don't understand. I, so one of our, our colleagues, Adam Partridge brought in a big bag of Halloween candy that was left over from his house. I was enamored by the bag and just go in through it. Um, but yeah, uh, Brohan had to physically dragged me away from the candy, but now I am here.So without further ado, let's go ahead and get this show. Rolling. Bren says you could get hurt. You could hear me before. Great.CEO, Jason. Razak here with us. The man, the myth, the legend Skeeter shifts on the power hour with us live today. Interesting different innovative company. You are alive.we need a new intro. AB can we get a new intro? Yep. W w we'll get working on that. Spencer's we've got a jam packed show today. Uh, do you want to give us a rundown of our agenda for the day? Oh yes, I can do that because I wrote stuff down. Uh, we've got our first gas coming up in seven minutes at 12, 15 Eastern time.Cigar global, the CEO of Centrix. Did I get that right? Yep. Okay. I just want to help you get out of the right seminars. Tickers seeds DX will be on at 1215, uh, Lena Alena, chin, head of IRR at newborn town at 1230. Uh, the CEO of quipped, Greg Crawford at 1245, Jesse Kaler from elite trading at one. And then Nick Shaheen from the author of the big thing, the options newsletter will be on the show at one 30.We got a lot to talk about today. Let's start with, you know, I don't know. Where do you want to start? AB well, places I want to start, um, let's start with a nice little crypto update. Spencer's so as many of you may know. Bitcoin hit a brand new, all time high today. This was spurred by the CPI data that came out this morning.So CPI came in hotter than expected showing, um, inflation and investors went and rushed to buy Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. So we had Bitcoin, uh, almost reach up to 69,000 up about 3.2, 6%. A theorem is up 2.14% nearing 5,000. So I'm looking for that as a big psychological level. Spencer, when a theory, um, hits 5,000, um, Shiba, Inu, and doge coin to dog related cryptocurrencies are down today in this sea of green.So maybe that's showing that investors are leaving Sheba and dos to go buy Ethereum and Bitcoin. I don't know. Um, but overall good day for crypto so far, we will continue to watch crypto and see how it's performing today. Um, but since there's other stuff in the news, I want to talk about before we move on, though, I just want to mention, you can get some free Bitcoin ha.Look at the screen, it says it right there. Go to Voyager, go to the app on your mobile device of your choice, whether to Android or iPhone or some other third OSTP, I'm not aware of down on the Voyager app in the app store, fund your account with a hundred bucks, make your first trade, and they'll give you $50 in BTC.You should do it before Bitcoin goes to a million. I'm just saying that because then you'll be getting more bang for your buck, but that's just me. Okay. I know you have things on your mind today, Aaron. Yes, I do have things on my mind before we get to that though. I want to introduce a new little game noodle segment.We have a new segment. Yeah. If you're like me and you grew up watching Pokemon as a kid, you know that the show used to do a thing called guests, that Pokemon, where they would give you the outline of a Pokemon. And you had to guess which one it was his name. Fine. You're right. It was named that Pokemon.So we're going to do that with charts, name, that chart. This is the first one we're going to do. I'm going to go ahead and pull it up on screen. Uh, as you can see, this is a recent, uh, not, I, I have, again, I, this is an easy one. Yeah. We're going to start. We're going to, uh, well, it could be one of, one of several actually.Um, and I don't know the answer can, so can, I guess AB you can guess this is a, this is an easy one. We're just going to start off easy and get more difficult as we do more iterations of this game. Oh, wait. I was not looking at the, the, the x-axis this, so this was from my high was October of last year. Oh yeah.Chris, who's that Pokemon? That's the correct one. No, no, I'll wait. No, no. Wait, how, how far back does this chart out? Exactly. It goes further back then. Uh, wait, are we looking at that? That's October 20th of this year, correct? Uh, Cobra flash. Okay. I don't know why I thought that. Um, okay. Yes, the answer is on the shadow.I would guess Brenda. Got it. Is what I'm thinking. Um, my guess is the same as his DW AAC, are we right? Yes. You are D whack right up $49 in the past month. Um, of course this was a spec, so it was trading around $10 for a very long time. And then once the merger was announced, the stock ran all the way up to about $170 before coming back down, currently trading right at $60.Um, so congrats to Brenda who was the first correct? Guests are in the chat with D whack. Um, you know, we, we are going to do this more often, so we'll introduce, we have to give away prizes to bring saw was in the chat. We got to give away some schwag. I think Brent is right. Email us shows that bends and good.com.I will get you hooked up with some free swag. Um, you know, maybe you pick out a hat or a t-shirt, but we will do this more. I will, uh, say the charts will get more difficult. So we started you off easy, but Brenda, don't, don't get used to getting such easy charts. Uh, yeah, that was a surprisingly easy one.And maybe next time I'll do it and there'll be some totally obscure stop. Yeah, that barely trades. Okay. Wait, we got two minutes before first guests are running behind here. I know you have a rant like in your city. That, uh, even you've been talking to me about this stock today. Do you want to go get that out there now?Or do you want, wait, yeah. Wait, we've only got a couple minutes, so let me just share my Benzing a pro I'll get it pulled up. Um, you're right, Spencer. This has been on my mind. So I've been watching live nation's stock, um, all week. And so live nation, of course, uh, the company that put on the, the Travis Scott concert that tragically ended, uh, with eight deaths.And I've just been surprised that we haven't seen this stock, um, trade. I know necessarily the markets don't really care about that, but there've been about 30 lawsuits opened up against live nation and the company has a history of. Uh, safety problems in past concerts. Not only that, but Travis, Scott has a history of having safety problems in past concerts.So for live nation, as a company to know we've had safety issues and Travis Scott who's at safety issues to not, um, do a better job of making sure, you know, all the, all the concert attendees were safe, taken care of. I mean, to me, that's just a big oversight, so we'll see. And in due time, what the outcome is of these lawsuits filed against live nation.Uh, but to me, I'm surprised we didn't see this stock trading down 10%. I mean, I know the company reported earnings, uh, that, that were pretty good for the company. You know, what's interesting is the wa uh, the street doesn't a lot of times it doesn't really care about a little care about the lawsuits. If they end up being, uh, if they ended up implicating, I only care about like certain kinds of lawsuits, right?Like they care about. Like when the DOJ sues you, they care about that. They care about like antitrust lawsuits. They don't, I I'm not saying it's right or wrong. It's just seems like it's the way it is. Um, you know, I can think of like every automaker has had major lawsuits, uh, Toyota with the airbags. I don't really think the street cared about that.I, I think the street doesn't really care about product recalls. They don't really care about like wall suit risk, you know what, here's another one. Why don't you pull up the chart of match, match.com MTC gauge because they have a lawsuit going on, uh, right now, just when to trial or, or, or they're in jury selection, the proceedings have started, um, this is related to the founder.Resewing assuming IAC because he's saying that, um, he, uh, misled them as far as the value of the company when he was buying them. But, um, Yeah, you don't, you don't see stocks react really to tool a lot of times to lawsuits. I'm not really sure why that is. I don't know. Well, yeah, there's some crazy theories being thrown out there about the concert, Spencer.And I'm going to ask you, take it or leave it. The first one, um, being thrown out there is Travis. Scott is like a satanic devil worshiper. What are we talking about right now? That's look it up. That's the theory being thrown out there. I'm asking you to take it or leave it. Uh, I don't need, well, I don't even know who he is, so I like, I leave it.I don't know here. The article from Newsweek, Travis, Scott, satanic festival blood sacrifice, conspiracy theory. Okay. So you're leaving that. You're not buying it. Yeah. I don't even know what that means. So no, uh, it would sell that headline, whatever that means. Okay. There we go. I don't know. I don't even know.All I know is the concert ended in tragedy. It's not the first time. And nor would it be the last time that it happens. I fear cause these kinds of things, uh, um, they happen occasionally for whatever reason. So, um, Hey, I think we're running late for our first guest. That was quite a segue, but we're going to, uh, do that say w w we're going to commit to the segway here.Uh, cause we have, uh, the CEO of a chem tracks backstage right now. It's ticker a C E T X cigar. Goalball let's get him on the show AB well, let's do it. Shugar how are you doing today? I'm good. How are you? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Uh, you guys can tell what is on our mind right now by the kinds of companies that we're bringing on with bill, uh, cigar, you are in the VR AR space.We are thinking about that. We are interested in that. Um, so it is not enough for me to merely drop that nugget. Please tell us exactly what it is that you do. Sure. So soundtracks is a diversified technology company. We have several different operating brands, uh, from the IOT sprays to security technology, but also AR and VR, which is a big focus for us going forward.So, uh, we operate a number of different brands. We've been building in VR for the last, uh, three or four years already. So we're quite familiar with this space and we're very excited for sort of the next phase of the computing, uh, paradigm as we get into the metaverse, obviously with the recent news with Facebook.You know, transitioning to the metaverse, um, there's a lot of discussion around this and we think the time is perfect for, uh, for VR now to take off what exactly are you building? Because the metaverse can mean any number of things. It can be anything to do with the metaverse. Right. So, so w so what are, yeah, so, um, so we look at the, metaverse says.A number of different opportunities. It's going to evolve, uh, dramatically over the next 20, 30 years as, as, as it takes shape. Uh, but right now we're very much in the nascent stage of this. And so, you know, our group, our focus is to really, uh, drive growth for our business, uh, in areas where we see early adoption and areas where we see opportunities for, uh, growing our business.So right now, um, we've acquired, um, a training studio that is called virtual driver interactive, where we build simulation technology for, um, right now, just for drivers. But we plan to evolve that as VR is used for training applications, um, we also launched our first gaming studio. So we're building our first, uh, VR gaming experience, um, as part of the metaverse, uh, that'll be launched early next year.Um, and the, the name of that studio is called Bravo strong and reliance. Our first Saifai first person shooter, uh, in, in, in Q1. Uh, so that's really something that we're looking forward to as our first kind of foray of our own, uh, technology and platform in, in the, in the space. We also do make investments in, in VR as well.And so, you know, we kind of have an, all of the above approach of building our own technology, as well as finding and seeding companies that we see big potential in. It seems like everyone is, is, is thinking of training of professional training as like the primary aside from gaming. Uh, the primary use case of the metaverse, you're not, you're like the third, fourth, fourth person to come on our show and mentioned training specifically.So, yeah. And so, uh, I think that's an early, it's sort of, uh, some of the easier, uh, low adoption kind of, uh, uh, opportunities right in front of us. So, um, you know, for instance, I mean, you know, taking large equipment to trade shows, training your customers on, um, complex equipment, it can be challenged. Did you things like that, uh, inexpensive, right.So VR solves that problem. Uh, so, uh, you know, whether it's training sales teams or training your customers, um, that's clearly an opportunity where, um, you know, there's a number of opportunities and, you know, we've even seen this with, uh, you know, sort of in-person virtual training. You can train police forces, chain, you know, fire, firemen, you know, OSHA training.I mean, so there's a number of opportunities across the board when it comes to, to training, uh, you know, with VR, is there another use case outside of the training and obviously the gaming that's really exciting to you? Yeah. So we're heavily looking at, um, a couple of things. Uh, one is entertainment. So, um, I mean you've seen some of the things that Fortnite has done, uh, with, with, uh, their own experience with Ariana Grande day and, uh, uh, and some of the other artists that they've put.So we see a big opportunity as, as that evolves. And we're looking at forming some partnerships or joint ventures to. Uh, some kind of experience in terms of entertainment. Um, and then, uh, additionally, I mean, I think everybody's trying to figure out how to monetize. So you have lots of opt developers that are, um, you know, putting out products in there, but they don't have any easy way to monetize those applications.So we see that as a big opportunity in terms of, uh, you know, ad monetization strategies, you know, whether it's advertising or similar sort of paradigm. So, um, I think there's a number of things that are taking place. And I think as we, uh, we're planning to launch a number of initiatives in, in the first half of next year, as we make more headway in the metaverse space.So the other things that we're doing is we invest in, in VR companies. So we made an investment in a company called masterpiece VR. Um, and so there's going to be more development tools. So masterpiece VR is, is a content creator tool that will. People to rapidly create three-dimensional assets. And as you know, the metaverse comprises of all 3d digital assets.And so, um, you know, we view this as getting on the ground floor of a really great, uh, unique creation tool. Um, that will be, uh, you know, one of the primary tools as developers start to build more and more products in VR. So, um, you know, there, there are a number of different avenues that we're looking to capitalize on in terms of, uh, the next year or two within VR.Um, That concerns me here. Cause like, as I said at the top, we are very interested in the metaverse right now. It is the hot topic of the, of the last month. We, we can think, uh, Facebook slash Mehta for that, but we do this a lot, right. Where we get this idea, we focus on it, we get excited and we realize, oh wait, we're still awhile away from adoption.And then we move on. Um, and when I say we, I mean the public investors, the media, right? Whether it's cannabis, whether it's Evie stocks. Um, and, and that concerns me here now with the, with the metaverse um, I think I saw a comment. I think it was a CEO of 10 cent. I could be wrong that said like, everyone like slow down.Like it's gonna, it's going to be, this is a long-term thing, but it's going to take a while. Or maybe we're maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. Right now, do you do, do you agree with that sentiment? Okay. I do think this is early days, you know, I mean, when you think about Amazon, you know, it started in 1994.Right. But, you know, I mean, you know, you think about 20 years later, it was really when the true premise of what Amazon or the Bezos vision was really kind of materialized. I think this is sort of a similar kind of paradigm where we're in, uh, in the early stages of a, uh, computing revolution that could largely, you know, it could be larger than the mobile computing revolution and, um, has the potential for, you know, massive value creation.I think it is still very much early days and that we are, um, you know, there are a lot of opportunities, right. Uh, for, for picking, however, You know, it's going to take some time for the technology to evolve for the bandwidth constraints to evolve. And we're going to start to see that over the next two to three years.And I think from that point onwards, it's just going to get better and better with each, each year as the technology improves and makes it easier for the average person to spend more and more time in VR. Right. And so when you look at like computer usage in the early nineties or late eighties versus where it is today, it's a similar paradigm that you're going to see with how many people, how much time the average user spends in VR today versus 10 years from now and 15 years from now and so forth.So, um, but that doesn't mean that, um, there aren't, you know, the Amazons of tomorrow that are right for investing in or, or, or focusing on, right. People don't realize that Amazon. Like a decade to figure, figure it out, at least in terms of inter actually know in terms of the business, in terms of the stock.Right. Uh, so, um, I, I, and I, I guess, you know, you mentioned a couple of those initiatives that, that, that you're focusing on, uh, in the, in the first, I guess, quarter or so of next year. Can you, can you, can you pick one and tell them. Yeah. Sure. So, um, so we see obviously gaming is, is one of the biggest opportunities, um, to really enter the, enter the VR experience.And so, um, we want to build a brand for our sales, build a name for ourselves, and we felt that that was the easiest way to start to get in the door. And I think naturally, uh, you know, we believe that much bigger than gaming is our, is our, um, is our thinking. But, uh, you know, we want to kind of start with that inch into it and then start to evolve kind of what we're doing.Uh, I think in general, the entertainment experience is going to be crucial for, um, what can be done in VR. So we've see that as a launching pad for educational experiences in VR, um, for creating entertainment experiences in VR, you know, reading your favorite book, instead of reading it, you could experience it in VR.Um, you know, so things like that I think are where we want to see this go. And by building our first game, we started. Um, build that infrastructure in house and start to set the tone of what we're trying to do, um, and, and start to, uh, kind of unleash the potential of, of what's possible in VR. So I think this is sort of, um, you know, we are trying to ride the wave of VR and as you know, to your point, this is going to take some time to evolve.And so we kind of want to ride that natural organic wave into the, into the, uh, into the future. Uh, Kenneth, uh, Pivar prior, I'm not sure in our chat says that you need some paintings on your wall, but no, he doesn't. You just need some VR stuff on the wall, some AR stuff on the wall. I think that's the paintings are so 19th century.We don't need that. We, we need some VR on the wall. I'm sure I'm not, I don't know how that works. I'm sure you can probably figure it out. Um, and then, uh, the last thing is Ryan Norris asked if, uh, uh, if you can share what you'll be presenting, uh, at the, uh, AR uh, reality event coming. Um, I think, uh, that information should be available on our social media accounts, if you ping them, uh, you know, that information should be there or on our website.Um, you know, but we'll make sure we put it out on Twitter or something where, you know, when there'll be presenting. Uh, and then I guess my last question for you is like how far away is a company like yours from profitability? Not that that ma makes a difference necessarily now, but is that, is that on your radar?Yeah, I think, listen, uh, I, you know, focusing on profitability is crucial for us. I think, you know, we all also trying to balance that with driving top line growth, you know, so, uh, especially when it comes to these cutting edge industries where, you know, requires a good amount of software development and, and, uh, and, and investment in sales and marketing activities.Um, you know, our first focus right now is to continue to drive partnerships, drive top line growth. Um, I do think that profitability is on the horizon. Um, you know, but really right now, our focus is to get some of our key initiatives within all of our segments, um, uh, going to sort of the next phase of our, of our product roadmap and, and hopefully, you know, all of that will continue to drive top line growth and ultimately, um, a higher return on our equity and, and profitability.Awesome. cigarettes, CTX, and he's joining us here on Benzinga live and we appreciate that. Have a good day, have a good rest your day, sir. Thanks. You too. All right. Uh, AB are we running behind schedule? I don't think we are. I think we're somehow. No, we are on schedule. It looks like we're still waiting for our next, we never run on time.This is good. We're waiting for our next guests, Lana chin from a newborn town to join us. I'm sure she'll be joining any. Um, let's go ahead and get cigars banner off the screen. There we go. Spencer, anything in particular you're watching today? Uh, yeah. Yes, frankly. There is a lot of stuff going on in the pre-market session today between, uh, earnings between, uh, the inflation number, like you mentioned.Uh, I was watching Coinbase. I was watching Coinbase because I wasn't surprised by their, uh, by, by what they said in their earnings report that, you know, and maybe we can bring the chart up there and, uh, just, uh, they saw a massive slowdown, right. Uh, in, in activity. And that led to a dry mess, uh, in top line revenue.Um, you've got two catalysts, you've got a bear catalyst, which was the negative or the not so great earnings report. And then you have your bowl catalyst, which is the fact that crypto is at all time highs, but like you said, that was going to be, my point is it's sort of a. You've got on the one hand is a declining, declining retail activity, which they themselves said.We, on the other hand, in theory, there should be some kind of a correlation with Bitcoin. So here's your, you know, when I go down to the five minute chart, you can see here, the, you know, I guess tale of two tapes, you've got the, uh, big leg down after the earnings. But if you, if you just start right there and the stock's doing pretty well since then, um, like you said, I'm not surprised about the bad earnings report because of course this is going to the previous quarter, so it's not taking into account, uh, necessarily all the trading that's happened over the past month, two months since Bitcoin has had its epic turnaround.Um, and the previous quarter wasn't necessarily a great one for crypto. They talked about how, uh, trading was down, like you mentioned. So I dunno. I mean, I, if you went in there and bought the dip right here, you're looking pretty good. I, I think we'll have to see kind of how if Bitcoin and. Blast through there they're all time highs and continue to rip higher.I know a lot of people are calling for Bitcoin to hit a hundred thousand. By the end of the year. If that happens, you can bet your bottom dollar Coinbase will be trading significantly higher. But I think right now I'm just sticking on the sideline. Um, you know, waiting to see kind of what happens. Brent, Brent Slava must listen to the call and sort of Chris catchy because they're saying, oh, it's all about the NFTs, but I didn't know this until the call.So I'm sorry guys. I guess the hyped out the NFT, uh, bandwagon on their call. Uh, so I guess that's a cannabis that I didn't, that I have not considered yet, but, uh, Hey, I have a corn based account. That's where I have my, my, my crypto through. I feel sometimes like I didn't do enough research before.Deciding to open an account one day and, uh, on Coinbase, but that's the brakes? Um, well I think the NFT, it goes hand in hand. I think if we see the NFT hype continue the way what it's doing right now, then we'll see a theory, um, continue to arise. I mean, I think if we, if we see, uh, you know, some wind taken out of the NFT sales per se, then, uh, we'll, we'll see that in the price of Ethereum and other crypto.So I think it's all hand in hand. The NFT though, is I think being taken more and more seriously among the, from the institutional side. So really, no, this is not, this is a Rico story. That's not a bad thing. That's not a, I'm not saying institutions are going out by. Um, a bunch of NFTs. I'm saying more from the sense that like Coinbase is saying, okay.Yeah, we need to get into this space. Um, so more and more big players we'll see, get into all right. I'm also watching Riverton and Ford ravine. There's nothing to see right now. You've got the news feed up on the screen, right there from Benzinger probate that you can see. So, you know, not a real surprise here to see, uh, the stock, uh, going to open above its IPO price of $78 per share.Uh, if you think back to like a week and a half ago, the original, the estimated range was what like 55 to 60. They priced the last night 78. And you can see here all the headlines we have in the pro, as we wait for Vivian to open here, we have, Sherry's indicated as high as 125. Dollars today. Um, so they're still working through the order book, trying to figure out who gets what and at what price, um, and when they get through that, we will have, and we will open and then I'll be watching Ford on top of that.Um, I don't know where Luke Jacoby is or what he's doing right now, but I really, really hope that he sold some of his Ford costs today. He made a fan task trade, and I pulled the Ford chart. I just, I worry here, and this is a daily, so this is good. Let's keep this up. This is a daily chart of Ford. I don't know what the future holds, but if you're all big in, in Ford after this massive run, I would strongly, if it were me, I would definitely take some of my money if want all my money off the table here in Ford, if it was.I don't know about Uribe. Yeah. I mean, anytime that you have the type of returns that Luke has had on this trade, always a smart idea to trim some of those positions. Um, but it can be fun to let them ride too. We will see real fast. What is Ford's market cap? $80 billion. Okay. What is ravines market cap going to be?Well, the valuation was at 65 billion. What was that at? 78. Was that 78? I think that was, um, that was at 70 bucks a share. And we're now potentially $30 above that. Right? We're talking what, like 40%. I don't know that math is hard. I don't know. But, um, so is weaving going to have a higher evaluation than.What's uh, what's the thought process behind Ford owning 10% of heaviness? Is it just the fact that Vivian's going to be a direct competitor? So if they start taking some affords market share that at least forward has some stake in the game. Yeah. Ford and GM. We're both trying to invest in, in Vivian for, uh, for, I think Ford, uh, thought they had it and then thought they lost it to, uh, to GM and the GM thought they had it, but then Ford got it back.Um, uh, pickup trucks are the number one selling vehicle. It's Ford's number one selling vehicle pivoted to a few years ago. Right, exactly. So that's why I'm curious. It's because like I've revealed truck is directly competing with the Ford lightning electric truck. Yeah. But it's more. Yes, but it's more of a case of like, they all have to compete with Tesla in a way.Right. So not really, I don't think the cyber truck's going to be a thing for another. All right. Here's a good one. Take it or leave it. Buyers sell cyber trucks will be on the road. This time next year? No. No. So what about this time? Two years from now? Sure. You think so two years from now? I don't think so.Okay. Definitely not next year. Um, look I Ford and GM, they, they do, this is what they do. They make investments across the space, right? Why the GM go down then the Nico, the rabbit hole, right? It's the same idea. They have to make an investments in this space. So this is part of that. Um, all right. So young money is saying he's selling a one year out cyber truck, but buying two years.Yes. Brent, this is new. This is our new segment. Take it or leave it. Yeah, we came up with that like two minutes before Showtime. Yeah. Let me, well, let me try to think of some more, some good take it or leave it. Well, while you do that, I'm, I'm still just watching the news feed here on reveal and, uh, I would expect it would open within the next day.I obviously can't say for sure, take it or leave it Rivy and shares will be trading with why are we doing, I don't understand why we're doing this, the take of the, even on everything, take her to leave and take, Hey, take it or leave it on, take it or leave it, chat, chat, let us know what you think. But I go back to my point, Luke, I don't know where you are, but if you are, please sell your Ford a little bit.Thank you. Um, because he made a great trade and I worry about days like today being a topping event for, for, uh, uh, Suffolk Ford. So, um, there's that? Okay. Uh, it is 1237. I do not see our next guest here, which means we're going to just keep on rolling. And, uh, we will have, we will have a, uh, another guest coming up at 1245.Uh, the CEO of a equipped, uh, medical Greg Croft will be on the show, uh, in a few minutes from now. Uh, let's go back to our dock where we planned the show to. And I wanted to talk about, let's see, we hit on Coinbase. We hit on Trivian. Um, I want to talk about Disney actually, because Disney reports earnings tonight.They're in my never sell portfolio, but we have two events coming up. We have earnings tonight and we have their, uh, their Disney plus streaming extravaganza, whatever you want to call it event on Friday where they're going to like, say, Hey, look, look, you know, all the really cool stuff we have coming up on Disney plus.So two potential catalysts for Disney, the chart doesn't look great. Can you pull it out please? The chart does not look great right now. Um, I think it was trading around its 200 day moving average, uh, this morning, maybe, maybe the fifth today. Let's go out to the daily chart. I don't know Spencer it's been trading sideways.It's done nothing for the majority of the. Almost the entire year ranks and nothing for the last, what the high was in March. Right. Um, we go back out high was right here March. Yeah. So we've done nothing here for, for nine months. Sometimes stocks just like to take a little break from, yeah, I know. So I want to know how you feel about this.I want you to, you can, I don't intend to, I'm not selling this thing, but, but what can we think about this in the context of like Netflix and what they said? Cause they cause they're, you know, they pumped the brakes on their earnings report. Uh, Roku, Pomona, the brakes on theirs as well. Um, and I, I don't know.I I'm, I'm worried, like I can wake up on Monday and Disney's. I don't know what, if we did like a straddle on Disney where we said, we think it's going to move at least a 3% neither direction that yes, actually you want to set that up? Because I would definitely, I've never put it on a spread before, so Oscar it up, but I would take that bet who is, um, you know, let's wait, let's wait for Nick to come on.Okay. Nick Shaheen is our options guy, but what let's have Nick walk us through, uh, but he's not going to want it to it. Like I, it's not going to be as much of a Yolo trade once Nick is on your right. Nikki, Nick is not going to yellow his money on him. It's going to be very like defined loss and that's, that's fine.That's boring. Yeah. All right. Oh, uh, from affirms reporting earnings today, uh, I mean, uh, firm's just been an absolute monster ever since the, uh, the Amazon deal. It's coming off a little bit. Well, wait, the earnings are tonight and it's already down 12%. Sounded good side. He'd be running sorority. Yeah.Someone in the chat said, um, affirming there's 10,000 of these a day. I can't keep up. Yeah. And I'm sorry, the earnings were not out after close today. So does someone just know something we don't know? And that's why the stock is trading down. You have to look at it within the context of like, what is trading up and what is trading down today?Oh, so many of these hot stocks are just getting like punished right now. Like how has the pop up start ups T how's that hanging today? Not great. Spencer. It's down about 18 and a half percent. Yeah. I mean, it's up from the open, but the boat that's down this upstart do loans. Okay. That was it. That was a trick question.You're trying to get me. It was trying to get me. I know I've started. Does they do wounds? There are FinTech lenders smash. The like, if you got that right. Um, any, any other stocks that were watching some crazy movement on today? We I've been watching roadblocks all day. So roadblocks from mortgage monster quarter.Great earnings was up about 20, no 30% yesterday. And is now trading lower, uh, by about 8%. So this might just be a little sell off after that massive rip up or, uh, I don't know. I mean, a lot of times when a company reports great earnings and it goes up like 10%, my thought process is all this can't keep going up.And what does it do? It keeps going up. How many times have I said that to myself this year too many, but, so I actually bought some roadblocks yesterday while it was up about 30% and now it's down 10%, so who knows? Nice. Very nice. Uh, okay. We'll have our next guest on Greg Crawford in a couple of minutes.Let's catch up on the chat. Um, happy saying reveal and shares will be indicating at 105 that's unconfirmed, but, well, that's just, that's just the block. That's just a block of shares. We have to get to the whole thing first. So, um, yeah, but you know what let's do, let's do an informal survey slash poll on the chat and whoever gets closest, we'll get some swag.Okay. Drop your, and drop your price in the chat where we'll reveal and open know that the IPO price was 78. The most recent indication was 1 0 5. The highest indication was 1 25. Um, drop your number in the chat. What price does ravine open for trading at when, if it even opens today? That of course it opened that wasn't to.Ah, we got some numbers, 1 2197 96, 1 25, 1 to 32 voodoo. Wow. That's Polish 81 proton 81. I think you're on the low end of that one. Proton. Uh, we got, when we got 90 in there, we got 94, 1 29 50. I love the, the, the specificity of that down to the penny. 1 25 51 to three, one to 5 93, Shelly 64 K. Get out of here, Shelly, 64, come on.Be serious. Okay. So I seem to have a consensus of a, someone on the 1 0 5 to one 20 range. We're waiting for this. And when it, when it comes out, we will be, uh, we will be there for it when it happens. Of course, in Cal asking this. Uh, the million dollar question is where does it close? If I knew that answer, I'd be a very rich man.I guarantee you, man. I almost, I want to bet right now. You want to bet on, but I don't know. I want to bet it closes. It closes down from the open. So, uh, you're coming from the open. Huh? That's a good, that's a good point. Cause you can't trade it. You can't trade options. Yeah, it will close up from the IPO and down from the open is my, that's not a very hot take though.That's I think that's that's that's that's a common thing we see. There are sites you can bet on certain events on. I don't know. That's a good question, Spencer. Okay. Uh, while we digest that let's bring on our next guests. Um, this is an interesting one, uh, this, this company, uh, in many respects and you can see it in, in the chart of their stock, uh, is seen as a COVID play.Uh, and now that we are. Uh, hopefully maybe trying to come out of that, uh, companies like our next, uh, our next one, our, our, our, you know, figuring out where they stand in the future here in a real post code the world. So Greg Crawford is the CEO of Quip to medical. That's getting them up on the screen if we can.Mr. Crawford, how are we doing today? Doing great. How about yourself? Thanks was my, was my introduction, a fair assessment. I have to tell you as far as being a COVID play, I think you're off on that COVID is held this company down and that for over a year and a half from executing on our organic growth, although we've grown about 10% over the past couple of years, each year, we're on pace this year for 11% or so.Uh, but, uh, well, I had, I had assumed though, cause you, you make ventilators. Yeah. Yeah. But all of our services are, uh, home-based services, um, here, uh, patients inside their homes. And we have not been able to expand our Salesforce and, and our current Salesforce has not been able to quite go as deep as they'd like to in some of the different referral sources because of the visitation restrictions and things like that.So we think we're going to do much better once we get outside of COVID. So of all the different products. And I mentioned the home ventilation, but you guys also, you, you, you make a sleep apnea, um, uh, treatments, uh, and, uh, and of all your different products and services, what, what is, what is the highest growth area right now?Yeah, so the highest growth area for us really, it's just across our entire respiratory category. So this year we're up about the 40% and that just over 40%, about 10% of that is organic. Uh, so we continue to see strong demand for all of our products as just the overall. For home-based care and services.Uh, it has been going on for quite some time. And I think COVID is really just kind of brought it more to the limelight rationalization is that these patients can be taken care of in the home setting rather than a hospital setting. So, yeah, go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna say, so Greg, you you've spoke before about the company's acquisition strategy.Um, and I'm just curious if you, if you can outline that again for our audience here today. Yeah, sure. So we have a three tiered acquisition strategy. Um, right now we would consider ourselves kind of a regional player. We're currently in 15 states, uh, uh, this year to date we've added five new states. Uh, so we continue to look for opportunities in that to expand into new states, uh, obtain new insurance contracts within those states.Uh, and that's kind of the first tier in that of our acquisition strategy is, is really looking for so. Uh, $5 million type companies, but they, uh, they've got an infrastructure and they hold a lot of insurance contracts that allows us to kind of go in and capitalize on that particular market that they're in.And then also add continuum markets. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Keep going. Yeah, no. The second tier of our strategy is to look for heavily weighted respiratory companies. Uh, typically those companies we're seeing in the five to $20 million top line revenue range, uh, and then the third tier, and that is to look for much larger, more material size acquisition from a revenue standpoint and an EBITDA EBITDA standpoint.And right now with our a robust pipeline, we've got all three of those, uh, to date and that we've, uh, since about, uh, July, we've closed six acquisitions for a total of about $16 million in top line revenue growth. Wow. And how are you funding this? Um, mostly all cash with our. Current cash on hand. So, uh, occasionally we will, we will issue some shares if we want to align some management in that with our culture to keep them on.So Greg, I understand there was a, a recent acquisition. Do you want to go ahead and speak a little bit about that? Yeah, sure. So we just expanded in the state of Illinois in that, uh, via the way of an acquisition, uh, was a really, uh, Illinois, a very important state for us. It's one of the top, uh, states there with, uh, patients with, uh, high acuity of lung disease and COPD.And that's what we're really looking to heavily expand in that state, but it also kind of aligned a Metro market for us in, in that, between us St. Louis and Chicago, uh, where we currently have operations. Uh, so, uh, we were able to add about 3,700 patients and about, uh, two and a half million dollars in top line revenue and also connect to geographical areas along with some important insurance contracts to operate in that.Greg, you mentioned COVID being a headwind in that it, it did sort of hinder your Salesforce a little bit, but I'm curious aside from that, what have you observed in the last year and a half in terms of, um, patient behavior? Uh, for context, my, uh, fiance doesn't anymore, but she used to work in a senior living community and, uh, she just recently left, but having worked in, you know, there for, for a, for seven or eight years, uh, and the changes that she saw in the last year and a half, uh, we're we're startling just in terms of.Just their census was got so low. And part of that was due of course, to, to, uh, to people passing away, but also people not moving in. Right. So, and, and choosing to stay at home more. Uh, and I'm, I'm just curious what, what you've observed in terms of patient behavior in the last year. Yes, absolutely. In that, I mean, that kind of, uh, dovetails off of our story here in that, whereas we're taking care of the patients and the home-based setting in that, and they require our equipment and our services to go along with those particular products.So, so that's where we've really been, uh, stepping in and making a difference in the marketplace. There we've seen trends in our referrals, in that we've primarily been hospital-based in long-term care based kind of referrals in that, which is what we, that's where the majority of our business comes from.But we've seen a lot of that, uh, go direct to the physician. And that's a, rather than that, physician may be sending them to the hospital or long-term care. We feel that, uh, they're, they're ordering these products directly from their offices. Uh, and we think that we're also getting these patients earlier in the onset of their disease state, uh, which bodes very well for us because then we're able to keep them on service.Yeah, this, this to me seems like a demographics play more than anything else, right? It's it's, it's, it's a family thing. It's just a bet on getting older and needing, needing more medical attention. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. There's 10,000 people turning 65 or older every day. And that's, that's really, that's our core market.Uh, the market itself has grown about five or 6% a year. So we've kind of been, uh, doubling that the past few years. So you mentioned expanding to different states. You mentioned Illinois, uh, is the eventual plan here to be in every state because right now you're in, I believe what, like a dozen we're in 15.Yes, absolutely. We're looking to build out a national presence in that as we continue to expand in that, uh, both, uh, organically and inorganically through acquisition. So Greg, um, as the industry of kind of home health care grows, are there areas that you think investors should be looking out for ways to kind of invest in the home care industry as a whole?Like, is it in telehealth? Is it in companies like yours that provide, uh, equipment for people to have at-home care? Yeah. I mean, it could be all of the above. I think anything that's home-based care, whether it be home health or it'd be durable medical equipment or a, some type of tele-health or something, uh, you know, would definitely be a good investments if that's what you're looking to do with your money.And what do you think the timeline is on that? Do you think? Uh, like the whole look of healthcare looks different than it does today in, in 10, 20 years down the road? Yeah, I think, uh, the push for home health care, and that is only going to continue in that. Uh, and I think, uh, COVID has really kind of brought that to the limelight that, uh, now physicians.Insurance companies can see that these patients can be taken care of and in the home setting, rather than going to a long-term care type setting or a hospital or something for some of their, uh, elements that they need treated, especially with our remote monitoring patient, uh, features that we have on our ventilation and our sleep products and things like that.Greg, you mentioned in your investor deck, the, the strong regulatory or the favorable regulatory environment right now, uh, what, what exactly makes the regulatory environment so favorable for equipped? Yeah, so for us, so there's been a program that was implemented in 2010 called the DMV competitive bidding program.Uh, that's where the industry really had undertaken some drastic cuts from 10, 2010 to 2016. You've seen a lot of consolidation in the industry at that time. Um, but really since 2010, uh, or since 2016, I'm sorry, the industry has not seen any, uh, significant reimbursement. And the program, uh, the DME competitive bid program was set to take effect January 1st, 2021.And it was actually, uh, Medicare had removed, uh, 13 product categories, which is essentially everything that Quip provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Um, for this round, that was to begin January one. And the reason they removed it is quote their, their quote. They did not achieve the expected savings. Uh, so.When the rates actually came out in early January of this year and that they were actually about 30 to 40% higher in some major metropolitan areas, uh, for services that we provide. So, you know, we can definitely see why they remove those because they sure didn't want to pay us additional. So we think with where the rates sit right now, uh, you know, we're just got a clear outlook in that for what our fee for service looks like in that, uh, for the foreseeable future.Also we've recently here in 21, we've also received, uh, some increases, um, on oxygen rates that had begun, uh, April 1st, 2021 also, uh, for home oxygen, there has been some changes in that to the coverage determination, and also for the types of patients that they cover in that. Now patients with acute diagnosis is beginning in 2022 will become.Uh, for home oxygen services and also they've removed some of the burdensome paperwork that's required. Uh, in curious as the medical device side of your business, I'm wondering if you have seen or felt any sort of supply chain scrubbiness yes, absolutely. That's the official term, by the way, if we had to pick something wacky there in that, uh, you know, going on a headwind in the industry, it would definitely be supply chain.Uh, you know, so we've definitely had that. We've had it throughout the entire pandemic. We continue, uh, just access to a certain products and services at a given time. Uh, but we've done a great job of managing through that. Being able to forecast what our needs are and that's really, that's still kind of driving the organic growth is our ability to actually get products.So I think we're doing better than, uh, probably a lot of other providers out there, especially a lot of the quote, mom and pop providers out there. There's over 6,000. So with our buying abilities, uh, in our forecasting abilities and that we've been able to kind of preplan a little bit better. Yeah. I find it so fascinating because it seems like the access to this at-home medical care, it's almost like we're going back in time to when it was commonplace for doctors to make home visits, of course, with new technology.But, um, I just think this industry as a whole, as far as being able to get medical care at your home, uh, is fascinating. We'll continue to grow. Yes, no doubt about it. I think we're seeing everything home bare, uh, home-based care or anything kind of go home base from delivery service of food and, and Dayton all the way back to get your milk delivered.I guess you could say. You can get groceries delivered now. That's true. I hadn't thought I hadn't thought about it like that, but, uh, that's a good point. Greg Crawford is the CEO of Quip medical us here on Benzinger live. Greg, appreciate the time. Have a good one. Thank you. We appreciate it. Have a great day.All right. Uh, let's get that banner off the screen and we're going to have our next guest on in a couple of minutes. Jessica Kaylor will be joining us. So, uh, we'll be talking some trays and some charts with Jesse at one O clock. Uh, in the meantime, Riviera has not yet opened. I actually, haven't seen a new indication in a few minutes.Talk about Uber puts in the chat. Yeah, a lawsuit. Um, I guess from the DOJ regarding the America, the ADA, the American with disabilities act. Um, again, we talked about this off the top of the show, right? I just don't for whatever reason, I just don't think. The street really cares about this kind of a headline?Well, I think what's interesting. And what I always like to do is if I'm looking at a company like Uber, I want to see its relative strength or weakness compared to peers. So obviously with Uber it's biggest, uh, peer would be Lyft. Uh, but you have others as well. Like door dash is up a bunch today, I think on strong earnings.But, um, the, the fact to me, when, if you just look at it, I mean, Lyft is down too, but Lyft is down about one, about 1.3%. Well, Uber is down. Let's see about, about 3%. So to me, that's showing saying that look, investors are, uh, you know, there's more sell pressure on Uber than Lyft today. And I don't know. I mean, I, I can get behind some Uber puts, I already don't like Uber.As a, as a, as a stock. Really? Yeah. I mean, the company just has profitability issues. They have a legal problems as easy Mike is pointing out. And like you said, let's zoom out on a weekly. No, let's go to a monthly on Uber, Spencer. You were talking about this the other day that you, you just think the, um, I guess business model of, you know, the, the food delivery, the Uber, I think it's wrong.I think that, I think it's terrible for small businesses. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know. I think, I dunno. I, I, I'm looking at Uber puts, I'm not saying this is this stock's going to trade lower in, in the next week. I don't know. I don't know. Make a call. Um, give us a hot take, make a stand standing for something.I am buying I'm tailing. Easy mic, easy mic. That's good enough for me. Okay. All right. And the fact that I already don't like the business model. Uber, uh, for whatever it's worth, um, is, is, is trading above. Speaking of IPO is trading above its IPO price, um, and above its opening price of $38. So it took a long time to get there, took over.It took over a year to get there year and a half, but, uh, finally falling in the black, if you bought Uber on day one, um, okay. Are going to keep our eyes on reveal fun, just to see in this pulpit chart here, just to see when it opens. I don't think it, it has, uh, our IVN. It has not, but when it does open, we will know, and we will talk about it.But in the meantime, let's talk about, uh, some other charts with Jessica Kaylor from elite trading. Jones's every Wednesday on this show, we'll bring him on now, Jesse. What's up, man? How are we doing? Oh, it's doing great. How you guys doing? Uh, we're hanging in there, man. Hanging in there. It's Wednesday. It's daylight savings.It gets dark at like two o'clock now. And, uh, it is what it is. So, uh, what stocks do you watch them today? There's a lot going on out there. Um, I was watching the bank stocks, uh, looking at some hotel resorts, you know, rrr. Um, I've been looking at the Neo node. The one that I brought up actually with you guys, uh, sometime early last year when they were around six, we, we had that target of nine currently.I'm almost breaking that $10 mark. So I was going to go show you, share that one off today. Um, but let me share real quick. Did we, do we just get, do we open upour, it was $6 and 75 cents. $106. I have to refresh my, my chart now $106 and 75 cents for revealing bada Bing, bada, boom. I'm not going to go back into the chat and see who came close. I'm sure one of you came close here. It's 1 0 8. It's rolling. Let's see, I'll go. Since Spencer refuses to. Thank you. Thank you.I appreciate that. Yeah. Uh, we had someone guests one 10. What, what was it open at 1 0 8 grant Gibson with a 1 0 9 oh oh Dunkin. Bracey no. Oh, wait a minute. We didn't say what we're doing. Price is right. Rules are not. What is price is right rules. You can't go over and go closest without going over. Dunkin Gothic hosts without going over.But technically grant came closest. Ooh, wait, why did grant come open that? What 1 0 8 74. Sorry, James sands. He has, he always says hi every day. We had a couple of guesses for 1 0 9 AP grant Gibson. Um, yeah. So good guesses in the chat, everyone.200 and then back down to, no, I, you, you can talk me into one 50 as in the next, like 10 minutes and then, and the end of the day at like 90, but, uh, I think 200, 200 tad high. I remember, uh, when Coinbase opened, it opened at what, like two or 180 or something and went all the way up to like four 50 and came back down.Oh, ribbons already. Let's see. Well, there's your first road. Nice little red candle. There always wait, it was one of a six happy saying 1 0 6 75. Wait, did I misread? I may have misread it. Oh, it is 1 0 6. Oh my God, Spencer. I screwed up. I messed up. I screwed up. I thought it was 1 0 8. This was one of those off by only $2 back.I, I take back what I said about who was closest. So we're looking for 1 0 6. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My mistake. I'm sorry. 1 0 6 75 IPO price. It's 78. Congrats to all those people, because they're now making money on their long-term investment. Right. Um, anyway, so we got sidetracked with Vivian. Can we go back to what was on your list?Yeah. And just talk in, um, touch us. I just shared your charts. W w this is Teledyne. Yeah. TDY. They're the biggest competitor to Nia node. And neon was the one that I was talking about earlier, which is touchless. They do like touch of technology for like elevators, um, things of that nature for the future.So. Um, I will have a future. Yeah. Where, you know, a lot of people go in a lot of button touching. You don't want to get in and touch the elevator button. So if you could go up and just like, put just barely even put your hand over the button, then it'll actually put it up, pull it up for you in there. They got a big contract for that.And then they also have it to where they can attach to windows 10 capable computers. And it makes their screen touch screens, uh, touchless. But, well, this reminds me of a game that we used to play when I was a kid, uh, my cousins and I, whenever we w the family would all go to a hotel or whatever the game was run until the elevator hit everyone at the same time and see where you see where it takes here.And you wonder, how do you want to know how that game ended? This is the true story. You all know how that game ended and did it with us stuck in between the floors a little bit. Yes. I swear. I have a cousin who to this day will not get into an elevator with. That was like 20, it was 25 years ago that this happened a little bit less than that 20 years ago.Uh, and he will not get into an elevator with me cause we got stuck and true story anyway. So nobody get on the elevator with a joking. Hey and real quick, other side note, uh, that was actually not my first time being stuck inside an elevator. I've gotten stuck twice. Um, the first time was actually I, uh, the doors closed on me.Um, when I was like six years old, it was a traumatic experience. The bottom line is, do not get into an elevator with me. Okay. If the bottom line here. Um, anyway, let's go back on the charts. Yeah. So we were on, um, with you guys back where this line is here and near at. Um, . Of 2020 and we were watching the same play and we were talking about it as touchless technology.I think I just felt like it was, this is an old company they've been around since 1976. So it's not like a new company and they've, I think this is just finally the, the environment that they needed to. Maybe break away. And when you start looking up, okay, who's are their competitors and you look at TD why a $400 stock, you start thinking, okay, maybe there's, there's a space here that hasn't been touched by a lot of people.And these there they've been in it for a long time. So it's just kind of a long-term idea. Play for me. Maybe they get into this whole metaverse if there's a lot of need for touchless technology in the future. As in video gaming, uh, health wise restaurants going to touchless, um, ordering, servicing stuff, like order style.Um, I think that this is, I think they have a lot of room to grow, so just one that I'll be watching, but today in particular did take a little, um, position in GLD. Um, that was. What are you a boomer? Nah, just, I, I heard triple D talking about it and I was like, you know what? I'm already, I'm already thinking banks, everyone in the chats going and talking gold.And I think that, you know, it, wasn't working for a hedge play for a lot of people, but I just wanted to get maybe 80 cents to a dollar, just a little bit, just to have some green today out of the red morning, I woke up to and I made, you know, made that, made that dollar I needed out of them. And I'm not a huge move in a stock.That's $173, but at the same time, it, if it's green, it's green, right? Well, for people like me, that's looking at roadblocks and trying to figure out a way to play roadblocks when it was up 30% yesterday. Now down 10% today, or 8% today. Uh, w what are some options on how we can, you know, play this? Um, if you're synthetically longer, you can sell, puts that are deeply, um, out of the money, maybe, and at a, at a position that, you know, maybe a strike that you would feel comfortable buying them.And then you collect that premium every week or month until it gets down to that price. And until you're willing to pay for it, and you use that money that you make off the premiums to pay for more of the shares. Okay. What, so, so what if I sold puts at like $80 and then I bought a put at, I dunno, 95 or something.So if I thought it was going to continue to go down for a little bit, but not all the way to my lower strike price, then you're going to make that money off that 95 all the way as it goes down. And then you're going to also be able to collect that premium as long as it remains above that $80. You just want it to just end up between 80 and, um, what'd you say?95? Yeah, something like that. I mean, do you think something like that? Is it. Uh, yes. If you, if you're, if that's the opinion that you're taking on it, you know, if you think that it's going to fall, um, below that range, now you will lose that 95. If it stays above that, you know, you're going to lose out on that, whatever you pay for the premium on the 95, that's a potential loss there, but, um, it's going to make the, the play possibly a little cheaper for you.Um, it's a good way to do a spread, you know, on, on a stock that you're comfortable with, that you want to buy. Anyway, I would, I would strongly recommend for anyone that's trying, in my opinion, to buy a stock that they want to get in what they don't think that it's at the price they want to buy it. They just sell the puts at the price that they want to pay for it.And then if you get at you get, now, it can be dangerous, especially with Snapchat. Why didn't I do that? Well, so, so, but if I wanted to just sell. And I wasn't doing a spread. You need to have like a certain amount of money in your portfolio to be able to do so, correct? Correct. Yes. But buying us or doing a spread versus just selling the put alone makes it a little bit more affordable.Yes. It alleviates some of that, um, equity that you have to have. So it's, it's all about positions. You know, how, you know, when you're talking a hundred dollars stock, you'd expect someone to have that decent amount of, you know, buying power available. If they're looking to buy a hundred shares of a hundred dollars stock, you know, that's a, that's a big, that's a big one, you know, I think, um, that we're talking, but it's good for people when you're talking, just trying to make premium, even just to, just to do it, like uses, like you just suggested you could do that same way by the 95, sell the eighties and collect that premium regardless of what you want to do position wise in the.Got it. Uh, rich Williams saying good afternoon, everyone from Florida. Good afternoon, rich. How are you doing? Let us know in the chat, what stocks you were watching. We'll go ahead and take a look at them with Jesse. Uh, Jesse, any other trades that you're looking at that are setting up for you? Um, I did want us to just see where it's at one 16.Oh, nice. I'm also watching China stocks here. Cause I guess easy Mike noted it and I don't even know who care, but every grand officially defaulted. Do we care about that? I'm watching China. That sounds bearish for China stocks, right? Nah, that sounds bullish. Cause we brought the dip. So, um, but there has to be a dip to be bought.The dip already happened now we're buying it. Oh, okay. Beautiful. Oh, I'm watching something that I wasn't even mine on my radar until yesterday. That's highs on motors, a ticker, H Y, Z N having a breakout today. I've got some open calls on the stock. We had them on them. We had them on the show. Highs on uh you're you're going to helium.No, no, no. You sure. Yes. I'm sure they, we had them on one of, I don't remember which show take it or leave it. We've

It's been nearly a year since we sat down and chatted with the guys in Archetypes Collide. They give us some insight into what they've been up to and share some cool milestones. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James and Mo sit down with Kash and Justin of HKL HVL (pronounced "Ha-Kol Ha-Vel") to learn about their story as a band. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Avi Shugar. University of Oregon D1 ----more---- My name is Jose Antonio Fernandez I am a Coach, Author and Tennis Philosopher.  You can find me on: www.evolveyourgame.me  

This week we have Shanyah is founder and director of Bare TV. Bare TV is a production company she started to tell some raw real stories. Its be going amazing. She's a great person that wear many different hats and stays busy. Take a listen to this weeks episode and get inspired. Follow @shugar.doll @baretv.nc @shugarrihair

This is the first instalment of our guest features on the show. Introducing DJ Shugar as the first guest bringing you a mix of urban hip hop songs for your listening pleasure.   Follow him on socials: @shugar.dornez

Nigel Henderson & Omar Alcibar sit down with the Owner & Founder of the Shugar Shack. The Shugar Shack is a bakery that offers amazing gluten free, sugar free, vegan, dairy free + kosher products. Their Mantra “You can have your cake and eat it, too” – whatever your diet is, we have something sweet for you. The Shugar Shack services the greater LA/OC area and also deliver & ship nationwide products available on their online store. Social Media + Contact info: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok @THESHUGARSHACK www.theshugarshack.com www.TheGumboPotPodcast.com

We learn from the guys in ECHOES and how their band came to be. They discuss the history of the band, their connection to Archetypes Collide, and some stuff that may be coming in the future! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

James' brother Michael joins us for an episode to talk about their musical influences and some bands that defined their childhood. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Mo and James sit down and chat with a pop-punk band called Ivypaint and learn about how they started, where've they been, and their process of writing a song with Kellin Quinn. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Bonjour à tous et bienvenue dans ma salle de classe virtuelle.  Partons à New York, dans la ville qui ne dort jamais. Imaginez ..... Le ciel est bleu, COVID a disparu de nos vies, et vous êtes assis à l'extérieur d'un café. -Hello Luz! How are you doing today ?-Hi Cathy! I feel great! The sun is hot, I am healthy, I am happy and I am in love. How about you?-I'm doing really well, thank you!-Excuse me! Waiter !-Hello ladies, How can I help you today ?-Two coffees, please.-With or without sugar?-A coffee with sugar, and a coffee without.-With or without milk?-No milk, two black coffees, please.-Here you go. 10 dollars, please.-10 dollars? But it is very expensive!-Yes, coffees cost 5 dollars, each.-Here. Please keep the change. Thank you.-You are welcome, have a good day !-Bye1-Vocabulaire:How are you doing today ?How can I help you today ?Le mot TODAY signifie aujourd'hui. C'est un mot composé provenant du mot «DAY» qui veut dire «jour».Ce même mot « day » est d'ailleurs utilisé par le serveur pour dire au revoir. Comme en français, il est possible de substituer «au revoir» par «bonne journée»Have a good day !Have a nice day !Enjoy your day !2. Les prix - PricesCombien ça coûte ? – « How much is it? », « what is the cost ? »Ça coûte 5 dollars – « It costs 5 dollars »Ou, au pluriel : Coffees cost 5 dollars, each.C'est très cher! – It is very expensive!L'adverbe “Très”  - "very"C'est très cher!  It is very expensive !Comme en français, « very » compte de nombreux synonymes :Je me sens très bien ! I feel great ! l'adjectif « Great » remplace « very well » et peut être utilisé seul dans la phrase :How are you ?Great !Je vais super bien !  I'm doing really well !3. Avec” and “Sans - With et withoutAvec ou sans sucre? With or without sugar?Avec ou sans lait? With or without milk?Un café avec sucre, et un sans sucre – One coffee with sugar and one without.Prononciation❗️Le mot SUGAR commence par les lettres S-U mais dites « Shugar », comme si le mot commençait par CHConseil pratique : Luz dit au serveur de garder la monnaie: « Keep the change », mais attention, aux USA, n'oubliez pas d'ajouter un pourboire de 15% à 20% de la somme totale.4.Apprenons nos chiffres :Two Coffees, five dollars, ten dollars.1-One2-Two3-Three4-Four5-Five6-Six7-Seven8-Eight9-Nine10-TenLes couleurs: NOIR, BLANC, GRISBonne nouvelle !!! Les adjectifs sont invariables en anglais ! Voici quelques exemples :NOIR - BLACK1.Le pantalon est noir -  The pants are black (Pantalon est un nom invariable au pluriel car il couvre deux jambes! Pareil pour “shorts” d'ailleurs!)2. Les pantalons sont noirs -  The pants are black3. La maison est noire - The house is black4. Les maisons sont noires - The houses are black BLANC - WHITE1.Le pantalon est blanc – The pants are white2.Les pantalons sont blancs – The pants are white3.La maison est blanche - The house is white4. Les maisons sont blanches - The houses are white GRIS - GRAY1. Le pantalon est gris - The pants are gray2. Les pantalons sont gris – The pants are gray3. La maison est grise - The house is gray4. Les maisons sont grises - The houses are gray

Shirley from the Shugar Shack is here! She told us about her life growing up and how she went against the grain of what her family expected of her career. She’s lived a life well traveled growing up in New York and attending University of Miami, eventually making her way to Los Angeles. She’s taught herself everything she knows about the baking & decorating world! She brought her specialty treats 24 Carrot Gold Bars and Crack Cookies! Oh were we in love, these cookies are addicting. Listen in as Manny and Phil learn so much about how Shirley made her Shugar Shack a dream come true.

Mo and James chat with the members of Planet Mercury - a punk band from Worcester, Massachusetts. They talk about the east coast tour they did and some new things they have in the works. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Thank you for tuning into "Starting Small", a podcast about brand development, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world. In this episode I am joined by Greg Shugar, Founder of The Tie Bar, an affordable mens tie company. Working in law, Greg realized the void in affordable ties. This opened up an opportunity for Greg and his wife to start the first mens care brand through DTC that differed from other brands...a uniform price strategy. Each tie was $15 across the board, which allowed for customers to focus more on the design and fit, rather than price diverting them. Starting The Tie Bar out of their basement, Greg and his wife eventually grew it to over $19 million in annual revenue. Greg eventually sold the business to a private equity group in 2013. In 2019, Greg acquired Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont, where he now operates full time as CEO.Make sure to check out Beau Ties of Vermont at: https://www.beautiesltd.com  Follow Starting Small:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingsmallpod/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Startingsmallpod/?modal=admin_todo_tourLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/cameronnagle 

James and Mo sit down with Nick Ruffalo to talk about his musical journey around Ruff. He is a dance-pop artist who has a knack for creating great melodies and catchy hooks. He walks us through the making of "Self-Sabotage" and some other projects he is working on. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Archetypes Collide from Phoenix, Arizona joins us for a discussion about their history as a band and what they've been up to recently, including the new music coming soon. We also dive into the creative process of their EPs and singles from over the years. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

Listen to this special take with a dear friend, Morgan Shugars. Mo discusses his and fellow host James’s podcast, Coffee and Shugar. We also dive into our favorite musicians, our views on music videos and our favorite sports songs.

This is the beginning of Coffee & Shugar the Podcast and we are so excited about you joining us on this ride! In this episode we talk about how Coffee & Shugar came to be and what our individual musical journeys have been like growing up. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeeandshugar/support

07-29-20 protests, riots, chaos, and domestic terrorism. how unemployment is affecting businesses trying to restart. is the u.s. dollar able to sustain this economic dip? at what point did politics become the primary focus of people's lives? actors & actresses creating problems where there are non...and indirectly putting themselves out of work. what could the world look like if the leftists gain all the power they seek? where is the follow up on the ufo news from last week? in 50 years from now, how will we view the decisions we are making?

Greg Shugar is an entrepreneur who's one of the earliest players in ecommerce still playing in the space some 15+ years later. In 2004, while practicing law in Chicago by day, he and his wife spent their nights creating The Tie Bar in the basement of their home. Soon enough, The Tie Bar, which was one of the first-ever native online menswear brands, became a $20 million business selling more neckwear online than any other brand. For more info or to listen to the entire show, visit https://shrimptankpodcast.com/bocaraton/

07-15-20 covid in the US and the issues of re-shutdowns will sports returning be a crutch for mental health? how politics are playing this crisis like a puppet using fear how supplements & vitamins play an enormous role in assisting immune functionality global economic impact from covid why is this country being so divided? will this chaos end in Nov...regardless of the results? how the "racist" term has cast such a wide net in today's definition

In today's episode we begin by reflecting on the skills and interventions used in episode 6: building trust. We will then present our next case, in which the genetic counsellor reflected on the diagnostic odyssey faced by her client. References we found useful in our discussion:   Bernhardt, B. A., Rushton, C. H., Carrese, J., Pyeritz, R. E., Kolodner, K., & Geller, G. (2009). Distress and burnout among genetic service providers. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 11(7), 527-535. doi:10.1097/GIM.0b013e3181a6a1c2 Bernhardt, B. A., Silver, R., Rushton, C. H., Micco, E., & Geller, G. (2010). What keeps you up at night? Genetics professionals' distressing experiences in patient care. Genet Med, 12(5), 289-297. doi:10.1097/GIM.0b013e3181db82d9 Injeyan, M. C., Shuman, C., Shugar, A., Chitayat, D., Atenafu, E. G., & Kaiser, A. (2011). Personality traits associated with genetic counselor compassion fatigue: The roles of dispositional optimism and locus of control. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 20(5), 526-540. doi:10.1007/s10897-011-9379-4 Lee, W., Veach, P. M., MacFarlane, I. M., & LeRoy, B. S. (2015). Who is at risk for compassion fatigue? An investigation of genetic counselor demographics, anxiety, compassion satisfaction, and burnout. J Genet Couns, 24(2), 358-370. doi:10.1007/s10897-014-9716-5 Silver, J., Caleshu, C., Casson-Parkin, S., & Ormond, K. (2018). Mindfulness Among Genetic Counselors Is Associated with Increased Empathy and Work Engagement and Decreased Burnout and Compassion Fatigue. J Genet Couns, 27(5), 1175-1186. doi:10.1007/s10897-018-0236-6 https://www.heti.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/courses-and-programs/international-medical-graduate-information/cultural-awareness Join the discussion on social media with #GCchatpodcast  On our website, you will find suggestions for support, our privacy statement and disclaimer, and more information about topics referenced in our discussion.  http://www.gcchatpodcast.libsyn.com 

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Greg Shugar / Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont Greg Shugar is an entrepreneur who's one of the earliest players in ecommerce still playing in the space some 15+ years later. In 2004, while practicing law in Chicago by day, he and his wife spent their nights creating The Tie Bar in the basement of their […]

Ocean Love   she rolls in she rolls out without a care in the world her beauty is like no other she does not shrug or push you away embracing like no other it’s how she states I LOVE you for you No matter what baggage you may carry  life is just here, to be lived to the fullest just like the sun rises and sets without a thought why the moon lights the path to greatness for all who seek it I have a wish for humanity And it is a very simple one LIVE each day without judging embrace others like you want to be embraced don’t judge for you have not walked in their shoes  just LOVE and help light the path stand up for you and those who need a lift up for we will all be better off I know today will be full of LOVE which is all we can ask  who knows what tomorrow will bring but if we are lucky it will be like today all over again…. Lucidly LOVING and teaching PEACE  Shugar

This is a poem from Thoughts Beneath the Stars! I hppe you enjoy Poem by Wendy Shugar Music by Marc Bosserman

WENDY said in her late 40s she remembers the exact defining moment she knew she needed to change from being at her heaviest 315 lbs. so she decided to go on a hike but became so tired after a mile, a stranger had to get down and tie her shoe. Then came the constant reprimands, self-put downs, which she mentions on this podcast ... ultimately asking herself, “Who am I hiding from; who am I kidding then realizing “I am hiding from myself.” Yes there was good that came out of Wendy’s experience and she says when facing a very difficult issue, no matter how bad things got for her or for others today, there is always a solution. When that solution comes from the point of view of ones true purpose in life, then it reflects growth and happiness, which means for her she is more fun, reliable and healthy to be around. Out of all those experiences Wendy has created an amazing brand designed to help you get healthy and importantly kill the mind drama! Whether your hiking, doing yoga or simply having a purposeful conversation, Wendy is sure to help you along your path to enlightenment and healthy living. Wendy is also a published Author most recently “thoughts Beneath the Stars” Poetry written in nature! Go here for more: Happyhikersfitness.com Wendy said she is definitely a Mature Preneur on a mission to help others get healthy not only with their bodies but with their minds also! It all starts on the inside! And says, “Not all who wander are lost!”

Wendy is a entrepreneur on a mission to help others get healthy not only with their bodies but with their minds also! It all starts on the inside! If you want transformation to be systematic you have to start at the source. Wendy has created an amazing brand that features and hosts retreats designed to help you get healthy and kill the mind drama! Whether your hiking, doing yoga or simply having a purposeful conversation, Wendy is sure to help you along your path to enlightenment and healthy living. So sit back relax and get ready for this awe inspiring episode! Check it out I’m now on Podcoin Learn more about life coaching and her retreats by visiting www.happyhikersfitness.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/creative-intuitive/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creative-intuitive/support

Join us for #IndieMusicLIVE! 172 - Get the latest in #IndieMusic news and listen to the best #IndieMusicians we have found in the past week! LIVE HERE: Featured Artist: Cayla Brooke Music: Cayla Brooke - "Plush Red Chair" Not For Lease - "She's Got A Hemi" Shugar - "Temptation" Promote your music NOW: http://www.indiemusicplus.ecwid.com/ Hosted by JoeJoeKeys & David Werba Produced by Robert Hix of Hixvideo Submit your music for consideration at http://www.indiemusicplus.com/

The guys sit down with Jess Shugar to talk about the early days of CrossFit Yards and cast themselves in a movie and of course some beer and bacon discussion.

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Dan Shugar lives, breathes and bleeds solar. "If you cut my wrist, pure silicon comes out," he exclaimed in an interview with Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch, as part of the Watt It Takes interview series. This week, Shugar steps behind the microphone to talk about turning his passion for PV into deals and acquisitions worth over $1 billion.Shugar has a storied career. Some call him the "King Midas" of solar, because he's turned so many ventures into gold. He's the former president of Powerlight, the pioneering developer acquired by SunPower in 2006. He's now CEO of the tracker company NEXTracker, which was sold to Flextronics for $330 million last year. In this edition of Watt It Takes, Shugar describes the moment he realized solar's potential while working for PG&E; how Powerlight was founded and funded; the risks he took when getting into solar; his passion for the environment; and why everyone is underestimating the growth of PV.This conversation was recorded live in Oakland, California at Powerhouse. In the next episode, GTM Co-Founder Scott Clavenna takes the stage.This podcast is sponsored by Schneider Electric. Want to protect yourself from escalating energy costs? Invest in a microgrid. Find out more: www.schneider-electric.us/microgridListen to earlier episodes of Watt It Takes:SunPower Founder Dick Swanson's Guide to Launching a Cleantech StartupLessons From the Fall of SungevityLike our shows? Make sure to give The Interchange and The Energy Gang a rating and review on Apple podcasts. And make sure to subscribe to both shows on Apple podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Dan Shugar lives, breathes and bleeds solar. "If you cut my wrist, pure silicon comes out," he exclaimed in an interview with Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch, as part of the Watt It Takes interview series. This week, Shugar steps behind the microphone to talk about turning his passion for PV into deals and acquisitions worth over $1 billion.Shugar has a storied career. Some call him the "King Midas" of solar, because he's turned so many ventures into gold. He's the former president of Powerlight, the pioneering developer acquired by SunPower in 2006. He's now CEO of the tracker company NEXTracker, which was sold to Flextronics for $330 million last year. In this edition of Watt It Takes, Shugar describes the moment he realized solar's potential while working for PG&E; how Powerlight was founded and funded; the risks he took when getting into solar; his passion for the environment; and why everyone is underestimating the growth of PV.This conversation was recorded live in Oakland, California at Powerhouse. In the next episode, GTM Co-Founder Scott Clavenna takes the stage.This podcast is brought to you by Mission Solar. Find out more about Mission's high-quality, American-made solar modules. Listen to earlier episodes of Watt It Takes:SunPower Founder Dick Swanson’s Guide to Launching a Cleantech StartupLessons From the Fall of SungevityLike our shows? Make sure to give The Interchange and The Energy Gang a rating and review on Apple podcasts. And make sure to subscribe to both shows on Apple podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she interviews Greg Shugar, serial entrepreneur and prolific writer. He, along with his wife Gina started Tie Bar in 2004 in true entrepreneurial fashion. They built the business from the ground up, starting alone in their basement with no employees. Over the next 9 years, they grew their brand and their business, employing 55 employees. Having sold the majority share to a private equity firm in 2013, Greg sheds a little light on his newest venture, Thread Experiment, the only brand in the world dedicated to the design of masculine bedding.  They discuss what it truly means to disrupt the market and the opportunities that are out there when you develop the entrepreneurial mindset. Believe it or not, there was a day when going directly to e-commerce was just not done. They revisit his journey discussing the difference between obstacles in 2008 as opposed to the challenges we face now in 2017. He shares some of their best wins and most hard-won lessons.  Be sure to connect with Greg on LinkedIn here and get wow'd with the masculine bedding options at Thread Experiment.  He also shares his favorite apps just to make it more fun! Original theme music by the illustrious Leighton Cordell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Solar Speaks podcast, NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar discusses what he’s looking forward to seeing and doing at Intersolar North America, happening July 12 to 14 in San Francisco. Shugar also comments on the following subjects: • NX Fusion, NEXTracker’s latest product for mid-sized projects • What’s driving an industry trend toward 1,500-V equipment • How NEXTracker will use its new Center for Solar Excellence, a power plant and field-learning center • What’s pushing developers toward using trackers in the U.S. and globally • NEXTracker’s advanced monitoring technology for trackers in the field • Why NEXTracker is a “differentiated” company Click play to listen and learn.

In Episode 003, we interview Greg Shugar, Creator of Thread Experiment, a men's bedding company geared specifically towards the guy who wants bring their personal style into their home. We also talk about how to break into the menswear industry.

We all know by now that men have embraced shopping for clothes. A recent Wall Street Journal article cites a study from the Boutique at Ogilvy saying 94% of men claim to have a defined sense of personal style. That same survey estimates that on average, men spend about $10 more a month on clothing than women. But how does a carefully self-constructed uniform inform the place where a man keeps all his stuff? The hypermasculine notion of a “man cave” teeming with sports memorabilia, softcore, cheesecake photographs of women, and a La-Z-Boy recliner is outdated in an age where guys are defining masculinity for themselves. As the notion of fashion and sexual orientation being correlated is more and more thrown out the window, so has interior design. After all, what good is buying luxurious clothes if you’re still laying your head down on an Ikea bed? That’s why it makes sense that menswear brands like The Hill-Side collaborating with home goods stores like CB2, and new start-ups like Floyd specialize in minimal platform beds, while similar companies like Casper have a mission to make luxe-feeling mattresses and pillows not just comfortable, but accessibly priced. There’s a rich middle ground for guys wanting to step up their interior game without having to dive into storied luxury furniture labels like Herman Miller, and to get more insight, I hit up two experts in this burgeoning market. On this episode, we speak to Greg Shugar, founder of ThreadExperiment, a start-up that focuses on masculine bedding. Shugar previously founded The Tie Bar, now a go-to accessories destination for affordable neckwear that appears everywhere from the pages of GQ to the necks of actual men. Then we catch up with Tariq Dixon. In 2013, Tariq co-founded TRNK with Nick Nemechek. They’re two menswear veterans who saw a need for an online, men’s-focused interiors destination, so they built one. TRNK combines beautifully shot editorials of men’s homes around the world with an e-commerce site that sells everything from ruggedly handsome couches made from WWII-era fabrics by Stephen Kenn to black Icelandic sheepskin rugs. Companies Mentioned: ThreadExperiment: http://www.threadexperiment.com TRNK: https://www.trnk-nyc.com Casper: http://www.casper.com Floyd: http://www.floyddetroit.com Articles Mentioned: http://www.wsj.com/articles/men-are-shopping-like-women-1455657516 Visit www.highsnobiety.com for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all know by now that men have embraced shopping for clothes. A recent Wall Street Journal article cites a study from the Boutique at Ogilvy saying 94% of men claim to have a defined sense of personal style. That same survey estimates that on average, men spend about $10 more a month on clothing than women. But how does a carefully self-constructed uniform inform the place where a man keeps all his stuff? The hypermasculine notion of a “man cave” teeming with sports memorabilia, softcore, cheesecake photographs of women, and a La-Z-Boy recliner is outdated in an age where guys are defining masculinity for themselves. As the notion of fashion and sexual orientation being correlated is more and more thrown out the window, so has interior design. After all, what good is buying luxurious clothes if you’re still laying your head down on an Ikea bed? That’s why it makes sense that menswear brands like The Hill-Side collaborating with home goods stores like CB2, and new start-ups like Floyd specialize in minimal platform beds, while similar companies like Casper have a mission to make luxe-feeling mattresses and pillows not just comfortable, but accessibly priced. There’s a rich middle ground for guys wanting to step up their interior game without having to dive into storied luxury furniture labels like Herman Miller, and to get more insight, I hit up two experts in this burgeoning market. On this episode, we speak to Greg Shugar, founder of ThreadExperiment, a start-up that focuses on masculine bedding. Shugar previously founded The Tie Bar, now a go-to accessories destination for affordable neckwear that appears everywhere from the pages of GQ to the necks of actual men. Then we catch up with Tariq Dixon. In 2013, Tariq co-founded TRNK with Nick Nemechek. They’re two menswear veterans who saw a need for an online, men’s-focused interiors destination, so they built one. TRNK combines beautifully shot editorials of men’s homes around the world with an e-commerce site that sells everything from ruggedly handsome couches made from WWII-era fabrics by Stephen Kenn to black Icelandic sheepskin rugs. Companies Mentioned: ThreadExperiment: http://www.threadexperiment.com TRNK: https://www.trnk-nyc.com Casper: http://www.casper.com Floyd: http://www.floyddetroit.com Articles Mentioned: http://www.wsj.com/articles/men-are-shopping-like-women-1455657516 Visit www.highsnobiety.com for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sun Up Dan Shugar, CEO, Solaria Tom Dinwoodie, CTO, SunPower In the wake of the collapse of solar panel maker Solyndra, the solar industry has received front-page treatment for the first time. Unfortunately, most of the coverage has been negative and ill-informed. In danger of being lost, industry veterans Dan Shugar and Tom Dinwoodie tell this Climate One audience is the good news – that solar is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. Dan Shugar, CEO, Solaria, offers a sense of the scale of the growth. “Solar is, for the last 10 years, the fastest-growing energy technology,” he says, recording 69% annually compounded growth, 10 years in a row. “Last year, our industry manufactured, shipped, and installed for homes, businesses, and power plants 17 gigawatts of power. That’s the daytime equivalent of what 17 nuclear power plants put out,” he says. Tom Dinwoodie, CTO, SunPower, adds that even assuming a slower annual growth rate, say 15%, solar could supply 100% of the United States’ electricity requirement by 2040. “In the last three years, if you just look at North America, there’s been three times more wind and solar installations, in megawatts installed, than coal,” says Dan Shugar. Dinwoodie and Shugar also address two recent events that have buffeted the industry – German firm SolarWorld’s WTO complaint alleging that Chinese state support has facilitated the flooding of the market with low-cost panels, and the bankruptcy of Solyndra. Yes, the SolarWorld dumping complaint has divided the industry, says Dinwoodie. But “you’ll see demand in the world pick up as a result of these low costs, and there will be more a supply-demand balance in the future.” Overlooked in media coverage of the issue, Dan Shugar adds, is that China maintains a 17% import duty on foreign panels. “We think having a conversation and trying to level the playing field would be the right way to go about equalizing that,” he says. On Solyndra, Dinwoodie says the firm “is basically a victim of the success of the solar industry.” Remember, adds Dan Shugar, that Solyndra’s loan guarantee, even at $535 million, represented just 2% of the Department of Energy loan guarantee portfolio. The real issue, he argues, is that “in a capital-starved economy, which is what we are now, it’s very difficult to get loans for proven manufacturing entities.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on November 17, 2011

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