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That's a good thing. I agree with you. I don't get the impression that they are here short term. I've been speculating that they have long term goals here. And that doesn't mean shorts don't get squeezed. I believe they are buying more shares to sell at a higher price in the future. 6 months is completely fair.
Since they are the huge elephant in the room here, they have brought stability. Who are the paper hands now? That ever decreasing float! I agree. They did not take majority control for a quick profit. They want our cash, and they are talking about consolidating our reports with their's. That is not short term thinking. That is far longer than 6 months, which I think is great! I love it! They have an iron grip, and the float is very small and getting smaller daily. Hope looking dimmer and dimmer for shorts every passing day!
Beautiful!
I think that's just insider trading laws, which I agree with. But NILE didn't have insider information. They weren't insiders at the time they were trading or the last sale on record.
The rule was implemented to prevent insiders, who have greater access to material company information, from taking advantage of information for the purpose of making short-term profits.
Regardless, there is a 6 month window there, so NILE could wait 6 months regardless. Which pushes them up to Christmas season, and perfect time to "pump". I still don't see anything illegal here. And who knows what conversations happened this weekend when Ault was in Florida talking to them according to hsi podcast.
Maybe he'll put one or two people on the board. My gut is he leaves them completely alone. He likes the mgmt. team as he stated ont he record. And they all probably will benefit. And he would have the power to overrule any decisions like a capital raise unless it's way up there at $40 per share of course. :) I think it's good for all parties. MICS mgmt may have mixed feelings about it all. Bottom line, everybody can make money here. Except for shorts. Who need to just assume the position as I see it. And rightly so!
The CC and 10K should offer lots of clarity and should be very interesting. Our boring company is now exciting!
Now, that beign said, Ault MIGHT have vilated a security law by revealign inside information when he said he bought a company with $52 million in sales. That would come AFTER he took majority control and would have every legal right to know that figure to my understanding if he wasn't just "speculating" when he said that. If we see on our 10K exactly $52 millionin sales for the year, that would be interesting. I don't think he legally was able to say that since that would be inside information at that point to my understanding, but no biggie to me. Slip of the tongue perhaps. But I'm not a securities lawyer and maybe just a slap on wrist at worse case for him I would think. Again, all speculation on my part.
Looking again, I'm seeing the last sale on 6-10. Then from 6-10 to 6-13, 3 business days, they buy up over 800,000 shares very quickly. Pushing the stock up a dollar in the process. That's how I remember it and hence my interpretation about seeing an opening and taking it, even if it cost them an extra dollar. The tangible book value is even more than that at $6.80ish, so it seems like a wise business decision. I feel like they saw a reasonable chance and the supply of sellers available to take over. Buying a good business cheaper than one they could start from ground up. The market leader of Karaoke.
I don't think there are laws preventing what you propose. In most cases, they would chase the stock up in trying to take control I think The closer they got to 50%. In many cases, micro cap stocks have insider control over 50% that don't let go of power. Hence, nobody has any real vote. Like my situation of the nepotism at NROM. A huge screaming value at $7 million. Couldn't start theri business that cheap. But you can't take control from them. They own and don't sell. This case is rare here I think. I wish somebody like NILE would take control of them. But they simply won't let go of power. I'm just waiting for them to die! LOL They even made what I view as a Freudian slip when they applied for a PPP loan, referring to themselves as a family business. Which is exactly how they operate it seems. They have no business being a public company. Over their heads int hat capacity in my view. So, I'm stuck with them until they die.
The float generally prevents it just due to market dynamics. There is a macro ecnomic term for this that escapes my mine. Not price power. Oh, price discovery I think is the term. Price discovery changes in that situation. In this situation, it was fast, furious, and they got blindsided. They had no poison pill obviously. A lot of companies have poison pills, and I think that is unethical and should be illegal. Which prevents free markets. It's liek the gerrymandering of the stock market.
I don't think what they did on the surface here is illegal. Maybe something under darkness we can't see, but that would be pure speculation and require discovery. To my understanding.
I see their selling in the context of a change of mind. But that's only my interpretation. Because immediately after their last sell, there is a massive buying push over just 3 or 4 business days. As if a sudden change of mind happened: They saw an opening to take control and took it. That's a possible interpretation and how I lean. That explains the selling to me.
I don't know how it would be illegal though. Anybody can buy stock and take control of a company if people let them. That's what happened here. People voluntarily sold their shares to them. It's a free market. Even I sold 2/3 of my position. It was a quick power grab,and they did file immediately. Just blindsided us all I think.
I don't think buying the float and squeezing shorts is illegal. Why would it be? it's a free market. Shorts don't have any regard for anyone. They were happy with shorting and I'm sure would love to cover at 10 cents if given the opportunity. That's the risk they took. I say more power to NILE. They probaby are in a position now that they can't buy much without pushing the stock price up, hence they just take nibbles. Because they do appear bullish. More shares mean that much more profit if they see a future where they sell the shares at more than the current price they are paying.
The float is just those paper hands in my definition. Shorts have to make a decision as they get squeezed. Do they keep holding out, waiting for a lower price. Or do they see hope dwindling daily as NILEs strong grip gets tighter around their neck! Squeezing them all the more. Who do they buy to cover from? NILE? LOL If he keeps buying, that may be their only choice. So, they need to just assume the position and take their medicine as I see it. Either now or later. I personally enjoy it and don't see that as illegal! That's just free market dynamics! They chose to be here. Now, assume the position, shorts!
Ault
I also view the clone of my friend as someone that probably got lucky as I'm not sure how my deceased friend pulled it off. I was absent during that "blackout period" and what happened under cover. But somehow, they both get into a position where they have smarter people working for them. Like Ault is not a genius from what I see. And saying things he does is SOO UNPROFESSIONAL. LIke the "get your head out of your ass."" Does Warren Buffett talk like that? No.
So, he would be being advised by good lawyers at thsi point I imagine. I would suspect some person(s) bring him opportunities and maybe somebody brought the opening of MICS to his attention after someone smarter analyzed the balnance sheet, made sure there was no poison pills in the way, etc. That's just my guess. Which is good for Ault that he's smart enough to know to surround himself with good advisors if my hunch is correct. That's how I operate and how I would operate in his shoes.
Again, ALL SPECULATION. And in that podcast, that probably is his real friend and the girl is a relative. And I'm sure many people are benefiting, getting paid, but it's not his common shareholders. They are the funders. They are the ones donating their money to the cause for a tax break. That's my take. Because he is a great salesman. And I do not believe his motives are malicious. Or ever started out that way. Maybe it feels that way to some, but I doubt that was his intent. And I am biased by this being so much of a clone (and I'm not exaggerating) of a former deceased friend of mine.
It is strange. I can't say I've been in this situation before. Usually, you'd chase the stock up trying to do that. But in this case, I never understood why it was so low in the first place. It just seems they were met with a lot of selling.
Even Nile's own trading record shows trading activity at first more than just all out buying. Could have been some luck on their part too. Because the record shows a massive power grab on that very last week. As if they saw an opening and took it. Like a sudden change of mind and decided to go for full control. Tthe stock would often be up 100% by traders, so they were met with massive profit taking perhaps and possibily was a magnet for shorts to come in, which put another way, handing the power to them freely. High supply combined with sneak attack allowed them to just walk in and take control. Caught the company with its pants down so to speak. And now shorts find themselves trapped and squeezed.
That's my interpertation of the data. A lucky and rare alignment of circumstances it seems. Took everybody by surprise, even MICS I bet. Plus, as Eric Nickerson noted when I brought this to his attention, how do they even get 58% when Stingray had 22? When a capital raise was only 4M shares? There seems to be more shares out there that were ever issued to get to such percentages. Which is why I really want to see the latest 10K to get to the truth on that matter. Because it does imply illegal naked short selling on top of all that, which would mean shorts borrowing shares that don't exist. Which puts them more in a squeeze as I understand it. And that would also play into the supply that allowed NILE entrance to majority control.
If you really want to get sinister, one could hypothize NILE was behing some naked short selling to take control of shares that don't even exist. LOL That wouldn't violate the MO of sleaziness and shadiness,, but that's pure grasping at straws with no supporting evidence.
I'm not a securities lawyer, but Nile could have a case. Ault would have his lawyers. He may have a case. I don't know. It sounds logical. Regardless, NILE can call the shots here regardless because they have 58% of the vote. It doesn't really matter because they can just overrule any decisions to dilute. Right?
Either way, no matter what scenario in any of the above micro possibilities, I love the macro conclusion to all of them. Either way, NILE calls the shots here. Bottom line, that's allt hat matters and I like their precense. Sleazy or not, it's good for me! :) Good bargaining chip too. So many things they coudl do. Bribe Stingray. Do they want autonomy back? Pay UP. Shorts? PAY UP. Anyone has any objections, PAY UP! We have everybody by the cahoonies the way I see it.
I don't think it would be a risk because the company needs them more than they need the company. I've seen the cars of these "mafia wives." LOL Plus, I've concluded they are investors and agents/franchisee types, so they can't be fired. But they can quit.
Also, I promote those that don't follow bad orders. What is Wang Fei going to do? Slap their hand? I'd show both of my hands for slapping. They need to toughen up. There are no bad laws on the books to stop them from showing their work or talking here. Just as their no laws on the books preventing me from doing the same.
If there is any inside information they have, then that would be illegal for them to have. So it's free for them to share anything they like. If it's the Chinese government blocking them from having access, then they should still break those bad laws too. There are ways around bad laws.
The policies implied are third world. They should want American investors on their team and not against them. After all, this is our stock market they want to exploit. They should want to show their work. So, I get the feeling they are disgruntled. At least, that's the message they are sending. Either way, all messaging, no matter what interpretation you put on it (low morale, censorship, or something more sinister), is not good for investors. It's terrible messaging.
And I'm goign to raise the volume if the messaging doesn't change soon. Or rather, the *lack* of messaging. The few company messaging we do get has been going downhill too. Which is unacceptable. Not professional behavior. Not going to do anything for motivating investors either when they want us on their side. And right now, I'm leaning on going against them and not with them.
I better walk this statement back a little. Probably our mgmt. has mixed feelings. I am happy for my selfish reasons. They may see an advantage. He seems like he'd want them to stay and be standoffish. But then again, he does want to mess with our cash so he does disrupt their plans.
But in some respect, I think it's poetic justice. Here Gary and company put their heart and soul into this company. Stingray comes along which is great, takes a board seat, but they seem to have gotten greedy and maybe pushy on the $4 secondary. Cash they didn't really need. So the trip to Nasdaq backfired on them I think, but the stock is strong. They may have mixed feelings. It's hard to speculate. The CC would be VERY interesting to listen to.
I can only speak for myself. POETIC JUSTIC. That's my viewpoint. Everybody needs to make money. No excuses. Since I'm making money, that's all that matters. I don't trust anybody! I'm just happy! For all the reasons I state.
I say to Nile, pump this sucker to the moon and squeeze the shorts. Those are sleazy bastards too! I'd like to clear out my margin debt again, down to zero. If we went to $20, after the secondary dilution, you're talking a $1.00 pre-split which was a very fair price I think. The stock is undervalued in my opinion and just wasn't getting the respect it deserved. NILE has given us the respect we deserve. So my verdict: POETIC JUSTICE SERVED.
The End.
Ohh, very clever. Yes, I missed that. Secret codes were always my weakness. I'm sad now but she is still my captive!
She has not confirmed out theory. Can't rule it out, but she's not waving and signaling back. So, maybe she wants to keep quiet. Or maybe she hasn't found us. Maybe she doesn't even have access. They could always make an acct and post here.
That's a very good point. But Eric Nickerson made a good counter-point to that here, which sounds logical to me:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169189286
One other thing. Bitnile has Gary Atkinson on record saying MICS doesn't need to raise any more money. So Bitnile can sue MICS if our company does move to sell more stock. This is an advantage the longs in Gamestop and AMC never had
I don't think they were in cahoots, but I feel like they probably look at him the same way I do. As a good stabilizing force. Sleazy but an alignment of interests. :) And I do suspect some illegal naked short trading, which would make a short squeeze all the better. There was definitely illegal short selling on the PHUN IPO because that turned up in investigations which brought about some regulation on those exercisable warrants. I don't know even know how you make the math work on that. A broker has to eat the difference? I don't know.
Maybe NILE could vote for a capital raise at $40 share in an AMC scenario down the line somewhere. That would be good for MICS. But we can always cross that bridge when/if we get there.
But, yes, the CC should be VERY interesting. I hope to hear Eric Nickerson asking questions during the Q&A too.
Oh, god, I have to re-listen after you said that. At 32 or 33 minutes in, he defends his stock price and promising never to have a reverse split and that those that propose it "have their head up their ass..." Well, wait hold on. I didn't catch this part where he says "you can never say never." So he does leave the door open. But he has zero plans to do so. Well, plans can change. They'd have to take a shareholder vote first, file a proxy, etc. etc.
He does say "we are on the New York American Stock Exchange" and that they are "not on the Nasdaq." So he does make the distinction between the NYSE. I just didn't catch it. My fault.
So, nothing bad there. Just still the whole rationalization to the ATM is sleazy justification. It's good for him. I'm sure he's not happy with it as he claims. But he is better off regardless as CEO of this empire rather than a college dropout. The problem is the trail of dead bodies left behind. That's my only gripe and hence my sleazy label. I just get the impression of deregulation gone wild. So I understand the libertarian friendly viewpoint. Scam artists or those that see that the means justify the ends always hate regulation. But that's just how I see it. And "long term" is always a convenient excuse. Which, admittedly, our own Gary of MICS has used to justify that sleazy $4 secondary price on the lowest end of the range. So, in short, two sleazy moves canceled themselves out for poetic justice from my perch as I see it! It all worked out.
In short, I concur. SLEAZY. Even if we got to that conclusion by different methods. And sleazy does have its place. I wouldn't call it evil.
I don't know. I don't remember him saying "American." Maybe he did. I sure didn't even think of it that way. That could be another window-dressing sort of thing. So, what is the rule of the real NYSE then? He's on the old AMEX exchange. Not saying he is using language as a chamaleon on purpose, but it could be shifty that way IFF done intentionally. Wow. That's like David Copperfield stuff there. :)
They may raise a lot of cash from their investment in that SPAC. I may take a venture there. They haven't come through yet:
Ault Disruptive Technologies Corporation (ADRTU), a newly organized blank-check special purpose acquisition company formed as a Delaware corporation, today announced that it closed its initial public offering of 11,500,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit. This includes the exercise in full by the underwriters of their over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 units. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and three-fourths of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one share of common stock at $11.50 per share.
It's currently at $10. Maybe it will spike way up like PHUN did on its IPO before fleecing shareholders as I see it. So many restricted shares on those IPOs that keep the float low and hands tied. I'll have to think about it. It would be aligned with NILE's motives I think since they have 2.8M shares invested in it which is 20% of the OS currently. Before emergence. And it too is on the NYSE American. I think there was regulation after PHUN's fleecing, one of the first SPAC's, since everyone that bought those warrants that are actually tradeable couldn't exercise them. I know Ault's libertarian fringe would have negative things to say about regulation, which is why I have no problem punching them in the mouth! LOL They get what they deserve when they vote against themselves as I see it.
It's all interesting. And all soo sleazy. But the businesses he gets are good and very interesting. Like his hotels. May be good to invest in the dead. In the fleeced. That whole bitcoin crowd are primarily in the liberttarian camp. I can't think of a better crowd to get fleeced. So maybe I should take their gifts at walk over their dead bodies and take their property and say thank you.
I'm goign to think this over. This is fun, for sure. Sleazy. Shady. But fun.
ATM Offering
Wow. Unlike Berkshire, BitNile is like its anti-thesis towards its fiduciary duties to shareholders. That was a really sleazy ATM dillutive deal that fleeced shareholders. The float is astronomical on that. It's really not that much value even at its current price. Ault has the audacity to be offended in his podcast at the criticism of that deal as he defends it, claiming he saw the market falling off a cliff and thank god he shored up the balance sheet. But that only benefits him. It screws his shareholders over. It's all about him. It seems like a power trip to me. All about appearances.
Damn! Bitcoin is highly unstable too. Even though I'm learning that's a small percentage of their business. I think Ault has done very well for himself at the expense of everyone that trust him. He hooks them in with greed as I see it. Maybe his motives and intentions are pure, but I don't think he should be trusted. This must be how my unstable friend hurt so many people. In ways I couldn't see when he's a private company. Probably similar ways to this... An empire on the surface. But underneath, a foundation infested with termites and/or foundation problems. I'm not really liking what I see looking under the hood of NILE as an investor, but I see them as a hammer to shorts here. And good for shareholders here I think. They definitely brougth stability here. But, yes, perhaps he fumigates the termites, fixes the foundation, gets strong, but it's at the expense of a trail of destruction behind him. A trail of burned bodies it seems on the surface. Like my friend, I'm sad to say. Who is deceased now.
Basically shareholders funded all of NILE's many acquisitions. Including Singing machine. But they do benefit. They just get diluted to hell, and Ault defends it as a long term proposition. He claims he never sold a share and recently bought 1M. But how many shares did he have before? The float is showing almost the entire OS count.
That's shady stuff to me. Definitely no Berkshire but perhaps inspired by Berkshire. I may still take a small position in NILE for the adventure and average down IFF the opportunity comes. They have some interesting things. Which all their former shareholders paid for. So, I could just side in and take their gift. Now that Ault bought 1M shares at these low prices. The way he gets this power is by getting people to hand over their money tot hem it seems. For an ROI that is elusive and never comes. But he is an excellent salesman.
On a SKIM only so far, they have a position in a SPAC called Ault Disruptive Technologies (ADRT). SPACs themselves are shady. I still haven't seen one that ended well. Deregulated and ofcourse his sleazy friend in that podcast would like that from his pompous libertarian perch. More shareholders to fleece. So, that may be a good deal to buy also. Before they emerge. Just skimming, I don't htink they have yet. Basically, low float. Always a pump and dump on every SPAC it seems. Warrants below share price that aren't registered at $11. Classic arrangement most likely, so they can't be exercised. High manipulative and slowly comes crashing down. Not even seeing Lucid (LCID) perform well, and it too was a SPAC and highly over-priced like TSLA in its space.
Sleaziness all over. But, I like it. I'll fleece his libertarian friends. They voted against themselves, so I'll happily take their money. I'll have to look more into this SPAC deal.
A lightbulb thought:
After Ault's repeated references to Warren Buffett in that podcast, even though Buffett sees bitcoin as "rat poison squared," he might view his holding compay similarly to Berkshire Hathaway. He may be inspired of Warren's way of acquiring companies but leaving their mgmt. alone. Just allocating capital his way. Taking their cash and reinvesting it either in the business or elsewhere. Whatever is "best" as he sees it.
That might be his ultimate view with MICS. To keep us. Leave us alone. Just deploy our capital to BitNile's best interests! And just leave us alone. Well, I like that too. In Buffett's case, it keeps mgmt. from making dumb decisions witih they have too much cash an get themselves in trouble. With acquisitions or whatnot. In Ault's view, that remains to be seen...
Just thinking out loud is all.
High Level Accounting for me:
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/accounting/consolidation-method/
So if the NILE objective is to consolidate us as they claim themselves, does that mean we can be left alone and still report independently? I'd like that too. Maybe it' s just additional accounting on their end?
I've taken accounting classes but not at that level.
The consolidation method works by reporting the subsidiary’s balances in a combined statement along with the parent company’s balances, hence “consolidated”. Under the consolidation method, a parent company combines its own revenue with 100% of the revenue of the subsidiary.
I'd love an acccounting and/or finance major to step in and explain how that affects our individual reporting here.
52M in yearly revenue mentioned by Ault.
So, that would give us 7M this quarter if true. Revenue last quarter was 3M if you subtract their 10K number from the Q3 of 2021. They were at 42M for the first 9 months last year whereas we are 3M ahead at $45M.
As majority owner, I suppose Ault has every right to look at the current numbers. But was that slip of the tongue inside information he revealed in the podcast? Or was he speculating? Interesting number he threw up regardless. Because last year they ended the year with $46M in net revenue.
Perhaps it would behoove NILE to continue to SQUEEZE shorts with a slow steady march forward. Positioning themselves for a future pump? Get the stock high with high liquidity so that all warrant holders exercise, thus giving them another $15M cash to consolidate. Which, in fact, would pay for all their majority control of MICS itself wouldn't it? Then consolidate us! Maybe that is the plan. Or maybe not. Just thinking out loud. I like it regardless.
NILE is talking about us again on their new Podcast yesterday:
Wow, Hweb! 58% ownership now acccording to this filing:
https://seekingalpha.com/filing/6538924
My broker isn't showing a date yet. I hope we do get a 10K next week. It's time, but I just don't see a date anywhere given...
Also ending the first quarter next week, the second worse quarter of the year. Maybe coming off the lows, poised for PR madness in August when sales really start ramping up is where they wanted to position themselves.
In the meantime, they just keep accumulating shares, slowly squeezing the shorts as their wiggle room gets smaller and smaller. And their percentage occupancy within the float gets larger and larger. That's just one theory is all.
Somewhere over $9 or $10 or $11 (I don't rememer where) 1.5 million warrants would become exercisable as well given enough liquidity. That would be interesting and another $10M cash for the company.
Potential signs of promotion coming?
A new ad posted last night:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112788721077882152?modeFrom=searchResult
Yongbaichao Sauce-flavored Liquor, a big brand was born. #Enterprise #Guizhou Zunyi #Sauce-flavored wine #High-speed rail #High-speed rail title
The account belongs to a company:
https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAJ7h8EUgu93iDWiZRIJRf2tZ_t5xvi_8l3YJtPNo2lhA
CCTV advertising agency of CCTV, providing
CCTV advertisements, satellite TV advertisements, news reports, advertisment promotion, interview columns,
star blessings, star endorsements, star flipping bags, star shop visits, star business performances,
celebrity messages, and Olympic champions for small and medium-sized enterprises , on-site shooting, public opinion public relations, event marketing
I saw one of our agents mention CCTV before. They are obviously connected to our train marketing. Could there be "interview columns" coming some were? Public relations? It's not going to be for the stock I don't think. Maybe for recruitment since they weren't ready to go public yet.
I can't say I like it. The music is bad. The presentation is bad. Maybe something good can come from them. It can't replace the higher quality COMMERCIAL category I had. So, I'm still seeing downhill production value across even the company now. It can't even replace the TRAINS category. It could fit in either category.
Lord help us. I think they pissed off the Peng Clan. That's my best working theory at this time. Based on absolute silence from them. And there signature production work has vanished. And everything is deteriorating.
Well, it can't get any worse I guess. I think we should be priced at .002. Maybe if the stagnation condtinues, we will be. Somebody will have to throw in the towel. But, at least it's safe to say that no paper hands are here when/iff a crowd does come one day. We've been flogged. Given crappy candy wrappers and were expected gratitude for that. We've been stripped of all entertainment. In fact, we are the examples of how USA shareholders should NOT be treated.
So, I guess that commendable for the strong hands here. We can take lots of abuse. Good to know for when the paper hands come one day. IFF the company ever gets their act together. Still not seeing it.
So far, no message from EndToEnd. So, can't rule it out. But also, she's not confirming her awareness with a special waving video in response to my message.
ALTHOUGH, her more talkitive sister (I hypothesize) did send a message saying don't complain. Maybe that was for me. I don't know:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7111142161403383080?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAfqPIZ8W2YmMxq6-ZW-a5hrdf4Eo9T8rtK9omB3M-X8U
# Come on, dear self , the harder you work, the luckier you will be, complaining will only add a burden to your life, and being positive will get better and better!
She says this on a video of playing and nothing related to YBCN. As I said, we keep going downhill here. I'm complaining about this message. The harder you work at getting the Peng Clan back on board, the luckier we will be. Believe me when I say that our luck is going downhill here. Please get everyone back in sync and put this work message to PRACTICE. For real! Seriously!
I think that EndToEnd his Allow's sister. She must be the quiet one of the two.
MESSAGE TO ENDTOEND
Since you may be aware of this board according to DD, and if that's true, you know that you are the center of attention with your informative video here:
https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAC3DiUIMN3yo8SDcJeKx-9XI-xnzu9_DkZoNBtDCGOVY?modal_id=7045962947222424873
Thank you for that! Your work was some of the BEST. Original, high quality. Sometimes good music. Could you PLEASE start posting more videos and more informative videos. Can you make a detailed explanation of your stock goals here. You are a very strong pillar of information, but you stopped with no explanation. I think somebody told you to stop posting and you should not listen to them!
I don't care if you are with the Chinese mafia, a librarian, or both. All I care about is that you are a contribution to our spy satellite network. Now, I know I'm probably your favorite despite what DD says. Stockholm Syndrome and all. So can you give me a sign this week. Just make a new video and WAVE TO US. And put something informative. Make sure you wave as signal to receiving this message.
Thank you!
Translation to Chinese:
That's good marketing. They have the marketing-know-how for sure. I hope they can translate all that into great stock promotion when the time comes. They have the talent.
It's really sad that so many former members decided to go Awol. The company is just that much weaker. The wrong message is being sent out over here.
NEW RED BOTTLE revisted:
In this post I say:
I understand what she's saying now. LetsBecomeBeautiful says the following:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112007016331119903?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAxLmf9d3gqQxqXUWHVXyDPHZcRnUtTexjM9sx2fN1yX2agqbZNO_VqbAly7iKVUtt
Yong Bai Dynasty! ???Jiang Hong is newly listed. Welcome to taste[Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose]
That is an exact artist rendition of this new bottle here:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7104546144637766920?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAxT0QVraz3x_4kCvJp7YNf0txhi18dknfx_KI5aKACn4
Yongbaichao Sauce-flavored wine, is in the mountains and waters, the entrance is into the heart!
It's not a "new listing." It's this new bottle. A new wine. One with great music that falls off a cliff at the end. Hopefully the music doesn't foreshadow its reception. Looks good! Has potential. If only the Peng Clan can get in on this collaboration and take a good thing and make it great here.
AND NOW look at this article from yesterday at WeChat:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JE9IUg9Wpn6bcTs9s1pmUQ
Same red bottle with explanation. Same photo that it's in LetsBecomeWhatIAlreadyAM's video. So Jiang Hong is the name of the new wine as speculated. Or "ManJianghong" as it's spelled at the bottom of the article.
Master Feng Xianing whom is in the huge advertisement on this main page is mentioned.
Nice bottle. Now we need MORE VIDEOS of new wine stores being opened. I'd like to see a 3rd small boutique store opened, a 4th clinic proven in video, a 5th one opened up if a 4th actually exists.
I don't want candy! I want videos!
INTERESTING TRIVIA: This same exact new bottle is also framed as a picture in the last comic posted in the prior message.
I don't like the candy. I like Ice Cream. I can't be bought that cheaply with crap candy. ;)
Actually, this is pretty amazing. It's actually 122 fans and they get happy when it goes to plus 4. I put it in the translator and the douyin number was translated. Then it hit me. That little snapshot they are looking at is this on YBCN's main acct:
https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAARt-UERGwyMTtkHa-ZX5h0P635rfo7fQJLTkehviR_6N57oHep2GExlW5lUjSKYog
Look at the Douyin Number in top left corner. It's the same as what they are looking at in the comic:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112762777151851809?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAARt-UERGwyMTtkHa-ZX5h0P635rfo7fQJLTkehviR_6N57oHep2GExlW5lUjSKYog
Then it says 122 fans. They rejoice in the comic at 126 fans. And now the real account is up to 127 fans. I wonder what it means, exactly? New memership? The group is growing? Plus a little taunting perhaps. LOL
It's most definitely focused on TIK TOK viewing. Awesome! Sooo interesting! This is going to be a great journey.
Another Cartoon from YBCN:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112762777151851809?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAARt-UERGwyMTtkHa-ZX5h0P635rfo7fQJLTkehviR_6N57oHep2GExlW5lUjSKYog
Don't be fooled by temporary events, don't be afraid of risks, and face challenges bravely. #Record real life #Yongbaichao Wine Industry
Maybe these are motivational videos since they need to get back to the "original mission" and things weren't moving forward. Maybe this is his way of saying that's a temporary setback. Just reaching. Pure interpretation from other side of the world and a different culture.
Maybe that's caricatures of Allow, EndToEnd, Zhong, National OneBell, and SuperDad all gathered together on their computer reading my message board and posts. Getting sad the stock isn't doing anything.
And Wang Fei is saying RECORD REAL LIFE. Like I keep asking over and over. RECORD YOUR REAL LIFE again and get back to the original mission. So that I can be happy. And y'all can party and drink the wine. And the only way for that happen is for y'all to WORK so that the stock can go UP. Then you can celebrate!
Remember when the Peng Clan used to make GREAT videos with smokey backgrounds, and great music, and professional photography? Remember when NationalOneBell was posting great professional clinic videos with WENDY in them? Before they all started getting sad, hunched around the computer watching me and not doing anything?
Well, don't focus on me. Focus on the job at hand! Get back to making GOOD VIDEOS, fix the websites, hire professional PR firms, make some Ailexi educational videos, go public, and get this stock to $3! So you can be happy like the end of your cartoon. Stop sitting and moping and start DOING! That's the message I'm getting from these motivational videos coming from YBCN.
I give up. I can't figure out how you would know that. Tell me! :) And how do you know she's your favorite? Because I'm holding her hostage against her will?
She used to be my second favorite. She was running a close second to Allow, but then she took to Sunset's example and went Awol. If she's your favorite, can you ask her to get back to her former self? She was sooo good. Almost my favorite, and then she just stopped. I've been very nice. I could bug her apartment, car, and work place and put her on surveillance 24/7. But I'm trying to give her, her space! :)
Allow should be the pedestal of how everybody should be. And Zhong2. Zhong2 is now my #2 in close competition with Zhong1. Zhong2 is more independent. They all need to get back to work if you could please communicate that to EndToEnd and the others...
And are you sure she's aware of this forum? Are they even allowed to read this forum in China? They banned FaceBook, why not Ihub? Can they even read English or does my cultural slang render it meanngless like so much of their stuff?
And, lastly, EndToEnd, IFF you are truly reading and aware, can y'all start talking ENGLISH just for us. Since your govt. is much better in the area of education and requires y'all to know two languages to my understanding? We learn only one. We should be taught five languages when our minds are sponges in our formative years, but we go to school after brain develoment which makes no logical sense.
I feel like this has potential to be huge, DD.
Look at this YouTube link:
https://www.ixigua.com/7111953300970439171?logTag=2093e7526cd142472c9c
The same cartoon that doesn't seem to make sense on the surface from my cultural background and loose translations. But to them, it means something. It's new and already has over 280 views. Whereas this same YBCN account has much older videos with very few views. I feel like they are linking this particular video to something, somewhere...
The one that links from website has 580 views, but that's because it links from website and has been there much longer.
I keep looking for a CLUB video. I've seen them but many things have vanished. I see soo many faces in the past. There are soo many people involved, and that's only the ones that have revealed themselves.
Heck, that cartoon could be interpreted to be me. YBCN pictures on my wall. I'm at my desk watching paint dry. Falling asleep. Getting annoyed. And all they give me is a little piece of crap candy here and there. IFFF I'm lucky.
I think this thing can really fly under the right circumstances, the right time, and a good marketing firm behind it. A professional firm. Not the worse one you can find like Fineqia and NROM like to pick. But a good PR firm. More than one, preferred!
And IFF they can get a working website with all working links, a decent investors relation section, a better clinic website. They need a better front face. And they really need to get an Aleixi program underway.
LetsBeBeautiful sends a second message:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112000513306037545?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAC3DiUIMN3yo8SDcJeKx-9XI-xnzu9_DkZoNBtDCGOVY
Look at the present with the eyes of the future [rose] Look at the industry with the eyes of the industry [rose] Look at the enterprise with the eyes of the industry [rose] Look at the products with the eyes of capital [rose] Yongbaichao sauce wine is worth owning [rose]# Maotai-flavor liquor# wine culture#gift gift
Over 600,000 shares here, LetsBB. Unpatiently waiting... and waiting... with eyes to the future. Looking at the products on the very rare occasion you decide to present them for public view. Y'all do know you're in China and not North Korea, right? Does your team understand that they can post their work product online? Have you talked about illegally setting up a FaceBook account yet?
Are your lawyers like American lawyers? Just dragging their feet, extending deadlines, waiting for the last minute to get their exhibits in order, then realizing they don't have anything ready just before deadline? Do they have no sense of urgency there too?
Message Understood
I understand what she's saying now. LetsBecomeBeautiful says the following:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112007016331119903?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAxLmf9d3gqQxqXUWHVXyDPHZcRnUtTexjM9sx2fN1yX2agqbZNO_VqbAly7iKVUtt
Yong Bai Dynasty! ???Jiang Hong is newly listed. Welcome to taste[Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose]
That is an exact artist rendition of this new bottle here:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7104546144637766920?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAxT0QVraz3x_4kCvJp7YNf0txhi18dknfx_KI5aKACn4
Yongbaichao Sauce-flavored wine, is in the mountains and waters, the entrance is into the heart!
It's not a "new listing." It's this new bottle. A new wine. One with great music that falls off a cliff at the end. Hopefully the music doesn't foreshadow its reception. Looks good! Has potential. If only the Peng Clan can get in on this collaboration and take a good thing and make it great here.
Interesting Message from LetsBecomeBeautifulAndRich:
She's in the Allow Clique. The only working clan left. Becoming beautiful and rich obviously referring to their focus on the clinic from my speculation. Since she's already beautiful, perhaps she should consider changing her goals to Becoming rich and informative! Rather than VagueIfYou'reLucky as her work reflects below:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112007016331119903?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAxLmf9d3gqQxqXUWHVXyDPHZcRnUtTexjM9sx2fN1yX2agqbZNO_VqbAly7iKVUtt
Yong Bai Dynasty! ???Jiang Hong is newly listed. Welcome to taste[Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose][Rose]
I wonder what Jiang Hong means? And what does newly listed mean? That sounds like being listed to stock exchange. Or maybe it's just a wine be added (not listed) to their product list?
EndToEnd finally did some work. She used to be running neck and neck with Allow but then thought that Sunset was setting a good example?
https://www.douyin.com/video/7112005509804281088?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAC3DiUIMN3yo8SDcJeKx-9XI-xnzu9_DkZoNBtDCGOVY
Maybe there are signs she's coming back to her senses? God, I hope so. She is making a cartoon there. Is that a reflection of maybe a new obsession coming? Anime? Our official count posted yet another cartoon:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7111953275187940619?modeFrom=userPost&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAARt-UERGwyMTtkHa-ZX5h0P635rfo7fQJLTkehviR_6N57oHep2GExlW5lUjSKYog
"Don't Give It For Nothing" #funny #touching fish #yongbaichao wine industry
This cartoon doesn't make sense like the last one. But at least it has our picture hanging up in its background. What does it all mean? Is that Wang's way of saying, how can you produce if you don't work? Because maybe he's seeing what I'm seeing? Lethargic "workers" across our entire network? And SuperDad already failing me after his first week on the job.
I love my entire portfolio!!!!! I don't know what will rocket first. I love them all for different reasons!!!!!
TTE (Total Energies) - Just long term energy company with great yield. Transitioning to green energy - the future
KMI (natural gas Kinder Morgan) - Bridge to the future, great div yield.
CWEN.A (Green Clearyway Energy) - The future and ironically, TTE above just took a 50% stake in it. Didn't see that coming but good endorsement!
PCYO (Pure Cycle Water) - Utility company but not a govt. municipality. Small, monetizing land it bought in the 2008 financial crisis. Building out an entire community, selling lots to builders, holding back 10% of them for their own rental. Own mineral rights, and sells them water for life too! Could pay out a good divident now but stock piling cash instead. Good way to be a landlord without the hassles I think and water is a scarce resource that is not priced correctly.
WFC and BAC -- my banks. Society will crumble without them. Too big to fail.
NROM and RAVE - two pizza penny stocks. Both cheap. First suffers from nepotism. Waiting for them to die! Second is Pizza Inn and PIe Five under new mgmt. and good CEO.
YBCN as you noted. Shady. But, waiting for a big pop! LOL Sleazy, but I like sleazy too. I don't want to jump to any conclusions. I think overvalued, but a big pop is coming one day. But a sleeper for now.
MICS -- Everything on this board.
RMCF -- The See's candy of my portfolio. Love it. Little chocolate factory. Mini cap. Low OS, new CEO that is just perfect for the job. All he needs to do is get the factory up to 100% capacity, resolve the conflicts, and fix the franchise model.
M - Macy's! Real estate galore like Herald Square. In A-Malls. They've been performing well, confusing analysts when Target and Walmart disappoint.
FNQQF - Fineqia -- Good mgmt. with the worst book cover you could ever imagine. Says scam all over the surface, but actually incompetent integrity. Currently trying to raise capital to be a disrupter. Sub penny.
TAST -- Burger King's largest franchisee! It's Burger King and Popeyes Chicken. What else does one need to know? :) QSR is their parent, and QSR is on my wish list for 1,000 shares. I actually bought 10 LEAP contracts as a price reservation on that one.
BB (Blackberry) - I have a *negative $23* per share cost average there. They report this week. In two years, they will be doing what the Reddit crowd was way too early to see. Future textbook case study for universities I think.
AVNI -- Shell. I have a monopoly almost on the finite supply. Don't think you could get in. Float too miniscule. I don't like who is trying to emerge, but I'm stuck with him. Oh well. Low float will be good fuel for liftoff I think.
CNK - Cinemark! Far more financially secure than AMC. I don't think the moview are dead.
CIDM - Very interesting penny stock in the movie business as well. Transitioning to streaming. Mostly crap movies *in my opinion*, but really big expanding library, legit, and good fundamentals. Good mgmt. Focusing on niche categories. Free and/or subscription models.
IVFH - Another penny stock. Very low p/s for good reason. Train wreck! But perhaps a proxy war brewing? Has Chris Pappas and Bandera partners on the BOD. That's enough for me to be long.
STLY - Formerly stanley furniture. Sleeper cell. Trading at tangible book. Lots of cash, earning interest, and trying to get into the mortgage title business now. Couldn't be a more boring stock on the Earth. But it's been a good foxhole this year.
Long on most! Not really looking for a fast turnaround except on YBCN and AVNI, and FNQQF. But, all sleepers. Everything I have are sleepers. If they were swarming with activity and hypsters, I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole. But, when they come, that's when I sell. And keep some on the table just for fun.
There are fundamentals I like about all them. Even if some are shady or blurry or murky. Those energy and banks, however, are my foundation. Good anchors. Designed to be recession resistant a few years ago, and boy am I glad I was prepared! Maybe some other stragglers in there, but that's the gist of it.
Been in most of these a long time. MICS being the newest, and I have long term mindsets on all. I marry my stocks against the advice of a former gypsy on this board. And I do good if I do say so myself. VERY GOOD. And I have no passengers. No backseat drivers. And IFF I did, which I'll never put myself in that position, I'd throw them out the window! I don't fly like an airline pilot. I fly like Han Solo! My cargo can be good, bad, and/or ugly! :)
Would be very boring to most up there. But I find them all very exciting for different reasons. And if it was exciting to the masses of the dumbasses, as I like to call them from my contrarian viewpoint, the future would not be so glorious!
Ault Mentions us Again in the same clip:
I like some of these Twitter comments the last few business days:
Source: https://twitter.com/search?lang=zh-Hant&src=cashtag_click&q=%24MICS
CgTrade
@CGtrAde28
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6?16?
Watching this bad boy for volume. Should def be on your watchlist. Almost picked some up the other day around 5.7. Kicking myself now. Watching for a 7.05 break with volume. Float is tiny. So could be dangerous. $mics
MY COMMENTARY: What part did you not understand about my front page when the stock was at $3.50? Are you allergic to value?
Drew Brock
@dbtrades12
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6?16?
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@SleighJustin
$MICS is once to keep on watch. About 1mil floating. Recent OTC uplist. Business is kinda lame but they have decent numbers.
MY COMMENTARY: You are half right. Low float, but great business. I'm surrounded by idiots!
Spam
@Spamass25
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6?17?
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@BoredBilionaire
Just like $MICS - nice conviction and sticking with the play
MY COMMENTARY: WSB profile here. I like the way you think!
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@DraculaTrading
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6?16?
$MICS another tiny float pushing for $7+
MY COMMENTARY: Glad y'all are getting the word out about the LOW FLOAT. That is just a fact. Even the entire OS unto itself is a low float. IFF that were the entire float, it would still be super low.
Marshall Odom
@MarshallOdom
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6?17?
Eyes on $MICS@$7.20!! Daily candles look solid!
MY COMMENTARY: Another Astrologist! They think the future is in the stars. Well, glad your horoscopes are giving you good solid candles! Line up as the float is small! Take a seat IFFF you can find one.
FullPort$
@full_port
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6?17?
Weird price action on $MICS
MY COMMENTARY: Nothing weird here. Low float, our captor is a behemoth and broght us stability. Unexpected, but not weird
assailed
@assailed
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6?17?
$MICS short term IPO pump. Moving now on Holiday numbers. Just remember it's a fancy microphone and tape recorder. Under 2 by September. IMHO.
MY COMMENTARY: I think it's a very safe bet to say it WON'T be under $2 ever. But your dillusion is duly noted. There may indeeed be a short term pump though. Or not. The physics would allow it. And as GME shows, it may never come down. One never knows. Quit trying to act like have a crystal ball.
Watchlist News
@WatchlistN
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6?19?
The Singing Machine Company, Inc. $MICS Major Shareholder Purchases $135,735.60 in Stock
MY COMMENTARY: Way ahead of you! I'll be looking for MANY MORE tweets next week. Any of you have good relations with the corrupt moderators at WallStreet Bets? If so, let them know. Thank you!
Very nice! Hope they bring those sales to market! I love their little photos on their app at WeChat. Would be nice if they go to an Iphone app as well! I hope they make a new article over there soon that's informative of their current plans.
I feel like I'm holding them underwater. They don't want to talk, but if they don't talk, they can't move. And if they can't move, they die! Sharks must move! LOL So, they should just start TALKING again. Because I'm not going anywhere!
Sunset, Peng, Allow, Zhong2, Wang, and company: Release all your pent up energy across all networks! No more hiding! No more pouting! And if you must sing, try to harness that energy towards YBCN related videos. And articles! And let's get this show on the road! :)
I'm going to have to go see if anybody has reported anything now...
Oh shoot. So far, the VIP has delivered nothing. I'm afraid to see what the others did over the weekend. Or rather, find out what they *didn't do* over the weekend. Two VIP's posted two unrelated trips on a high speed train that has no marketing on it. So, what was their point?
I miss the days of Wendy and her sales pitches caught on video. And the great production quality and good music selections. What happened to us? We went backwards. We went from marketing geniuses to marketing flops!
I think their strategy seems to be "Let's see how long we can hold our breath underwater until we die." At least, that's the message I'm getting. I hope they come to their senses soon and start acting the way they claimed they were going to act. Original missions? Time to get to work now? I'm not seeing it yet...
Comparing his background to my flood of memory stories in the post I'm reponding to:
Now I try to find a little background on my captor. Any similarities between my friend I talked about?
https://disruptmagazine.com/how-milton-todd-ault-iii-made-a-name-for-himself/
Ault has overcome many setbacks, both personally and professionally. In his early life his hurdles ranged from being raised by a single mother with little financial stability while battling dyslexia, to having to drop out of college in order to help support his family.
My friend was raised by a single mother. I don't know if they were financially stressed. It was a nice townhouse in my eyes. Modest but very tidy. His mother seemed responsible to me. In fact, he used her help in his business ventures.
I have dyslexia! I don't know about him. He never mentioned it if he did. He didn't drop out of college. He just didn't go. He did try many things. He did have many setbacks. Many things he tried didn't work out, like staffing for catering companies from his one-bedroom apartment. I never saw him as stable. Just adventure/fun loving. Then my wife isolated me from all my friends. Then I catch up with him years later and he has a huge empire. And I was speechless. How could he have done all of this? I didn't know he had it in him.
Maybe Ault hasn't exploded yet. Or maybe he won't. I don't know. Interesting.
He also strongly believes in getting a personal or professional coach.
My friend did later become obsessed with the Rich Dad/Poor Dad books at some later point in time. I don't know if that counts as a personal coach. He did say things like "a good idea can come from anywhere" and didn't like pompous people. But he did like fancy cars as Ault posing in front of one here. But he was too big for them and said later he wasn't comfortable in it and abandoned the idea.
He did talk about getting a personal coach. He wanted to get back into shape. Always talked about a year of "boot camp" to get fit the way he used to be. Having a personal chef to make his meals, etc. But he exploded before that happened, and his drinking never stopped, which I think was a big crux of a lot of his problems. When I was with him, it was hard not to drink. And I didn't like the feeling of it myself.
In this one he says:
https://www.theceomagazine.com/executive-interviews/finance-banking/one-man-industry-milton-todd-ault-iii/
Being a risk-taker led me to run a hedge fund and to invest in venture capital and what the industry considers ‘high-risk’ startups. As a risk-taker, I think of them more as undervalued assets.”
Well, that's interesting! Hedge funds are less regulated. That would be fun. I wouldn't want to deal with the backseat drivers myself. I couldn't do that. I'd throw my passengers out the window! I have to fly solo. I don't have patience for that crap. My friend didn't go down this path, but he did try his hand as a stock broker in early '90s that didn't work out. One of many failed things he tried before his empire.
ALTHOUGH, this source says he was a former broker:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/still-too-hard-tell-bitnile-133318716.html
BitNile Holdings (NYSEAMERICAN:NILE), run by Milton “Todd” Ault III, a former broker and now a charismatic YouTube personality, might be a bargain
Former broker? There may be a lot of parallels to my deceased friend that blew up. But he may be more competent. I don't know. A lot of common personality traits. Some parallel background. Maybe if my friend stayed as a broker, which he was very excited about as first and landed in a hedge fund, maybe he would have done something similar. Who knows. Being able to delegate and find investors is a skillset. And having passengers are things that are just not my MO. That would not be fun to me. I like flying solo, but that's just me.
Interesting!!!!! That's all I can say. INTERESTING! Will be a fun adventure! Interesting man!
$MICS on Ault's Twitter Account:
Look at this Rado:
https://twitter.com/search?lang=zh-Hant&src=cashtag_click&q=%24MICS
Ault is also talking us up on his Twitter account. He has two tweets that are about MICS. One tweet says (emphasis mine):
$NILE, through a subsidiary, purchased more than 50% of $MICS, a leading provider of karaoke products to consumers across the world with global distrubtioon and an experienced management team. Plans will be revealed over time. See the attached 13 filing.
I particularly love the phrase, "plans will be revealed over time."
I hope that was a code for "Shorts, assume the position!" :)
Then other Twitter accounts in that search are showing some stock charts of MICS like a "JC Capital" saying "$MICS She's getting ready to sand bag and make a run to double digits."
And some others in there. A Reddit-type army starting to congregate? Which would play into ENickerson's prediction. Which would be music to my ears if that is in the cards here.
Nice! The customers like to put stuff on your isle that don't belong just like they do over here! Must be a universal annoyance trait of customers. LOL
My Amateur Pyschological Profile of our Captor.
I just got back from a 3 mile scorching hot walk. And I was typing this as I was walking at SA. I don't know anything of his past and still very NILE ignorant. Just the mannerisms of what I saw brought back this flood of memories below of someone I knew. He acts, talks, behaves exactly the same way. So anybody knows Mr. A at Nile, tell me what, if anything, is similar.
My First Post:
Your link fits my percetions. There is a trail of burned bodies everywhere he goes. He would be fun to have a drink with though. I don't know if you recall, ,but I once mentioned an old friend that made created a huge catering empire. Which all crumbled. And in his wake, many upet brides and accusations. All I can say is that his heart was in the right place I think. He became an alcoholic later. He did drink and party a lot. When I first knew him, he was like John Travolta. Looked like him, girls fell all over him. It was good to be in his shadow! Back int he day.
He's dead now. Died last year, in fact. His dreams never realized. But there was a point when he was on top of the world. He looks a lot like this Ault guy as I remember him about ten years ago. Adn his mannerisms, the way he talks, the way he jumps around in topic, interrupts, dominates in the conversation, etc. He was indeed a great delegator. He was able to put togethe something amazing. But it all crumbled in the end, as well as his life. It's sad. Just a memory is all. I like to remember the good in him. His motives were not malicious.
Racer-X
Today, 2:08 PM
@Racer-X come to think of it. There is a magnificent building that stands a today that he designed. He went to Mexico and picked Things out. It’s a breathtaking venue. His name has been erased like the lost pharaoh. Disgraced. The current owner refers to him as “evil”. He took ownership amidst a huge disaster filled with drama that almost destroyed his life too. It did change it as he knew it. There are marks left scattered across Houston. Very tangible marks on the world he literally made. But his name appears nowhere. Erased from history. But I remember him. Truly tragic. Even though he did leave a trail of carnage behind him. People still picking up The pieces. I don’t think he was evil. He just dreamed too big. He was so close in some of the things he said in retrospect. Some bad choices that lead to some bad spirals. Might be a similar situation on this profile. Not sure.
Really sad. I won’t remember him as evil. I also remember him being a big fan and avid reader of the rich dad poor dad books. I think that was the title. He kept thinking big. Thinking rich. Took risks. Didn’t have a college degree. He was doing more than what many finance majors couod do however. Natural leadership skills. It just all blew up. That wasn’t his intent. He blew up too. Despite perceptions and accusations.
That’s all the memories that come back to me when I watch the video of our captor talk. All his mannerisms. All the same.
My final thoughts here:
I can remember some first signs of "sleaziness" from my friend from my first job. I did not know he would going to be the owner of a huge empire that ultimately crumbled. He was just a lazy waiter to me. LOL But fun. His fiance was actually my friend, which is how he became my friend. He gave her a vineral diseas from one of his many one-night stands, and that was the final straw. Wedding terminated, and she kicked him out on the street. True story. And she still owes me $500, but that's another story. A zero-interest loan (God, what was I thinking) which is probably $1,500 in today's money. Still haven't seen a red penny back. Everybody was irresponsible with money except for me. I learned the hard way, keep fits of money tight. When you hear the words "you kn ow me," RUN!!! I had to re-learn that over a few times through my life.
I was jealous. He didn't have to try. Why did women fall over him and not me? Just because he's tall and looks like John Travolta (in his hey day) and has the gift of gab? He's sooo immature and reckless though. He drinks way too much and spends all his money he makes at the bar after work.
Anyway, we were working at Steak & Ale. Which had a prestigous wine list when I went in, but starting going downhill after a Pilsbury bought it. Super stars in the restaurant industry emerged from there like Michael Jenkins (who later died of cancer during his last turnaround attempt at Diedrich Coffee). And evertyhing Pilsbury did was wrong, and my friend knew it and it pissed him off. When they took Dom Perignon off the wine list, my friend convinced the manager to sell it anyway on New Years Eve. I became his first "investor" I think. I put up the money for his inventory, a bunch of Dom Perignon bottles that he bought. So not a penny of his own money. I was promised a return, and I did make a great return. We banked so huge! And he made a deal with the liquor store that whatever didn't sell, eh could return.
The manager got his cut too. We offered guests what they wanted. Dom Perignong at prices that were not inflated. Simply the prices that Steak & Ale took away from us, thus reducing our commission and standard of living. So, he took matters into his own hands. And we all benefited. We were so motivated to sell the Dom too. We split all the profits, and that was probably the most I ever made on New Years Eve.
Sleazy? Yes. Good business and leadership qualities? Yes. Was Pilsbury wrong? Yes.
True story. Then, flash forward ten years later after I got married and we lost contact, and re-united, and he had this huge empire. Which ultimately crashed and burned. He even had some actors from Hollywood visit his place, and I was there where there was some car from a movie. That movie.. it was kinda sadistic. I have to think about what movie that was. Allegedly anyway... But that investor backed out at last minute. And he just couldn't keep the dream alive. It was a good dream though. And his intent was not malicious. Never. Not to his fiance, not to anyone. He just had big dreams, big risks, and obviously controversial "ethics." But, sex is good, money is good. Righting wrongs is good. He wasn't evil.
Anyway, I don't know anything about NILE at all. Just the flood of memories that came back to me. Watching that interview was like listening to that friend as I knew him 10 years ago. He looks so similar to my last mental images, and his mannerisms exactly the same. Almost the same voice. I know nothing of the background of NILE. I just don't see "evil" here, but I do see a trail of carnage left behind. He may very well believe what he says. Maybe he is a fan of Rich Dad/Poor Dad too. I don't know. I didn't even read the books either.
Found it! Thanks for making me do a second look:
Starting at 23:45 to 25:00
He talks about some fundamentals posted on this front page. I'm such a good influence on people. LOL He talks about loving our mgmt. team. Loves Gary. Calls them "rock stars."
I think that's a good statement from our kidnappers. They don't want to hurt us or change things. They just want to stomp on our shorts. My stockholm syndrome just went up to dark green!
I love our captors. My understanding of stockholm syndrome just had a lightbulb moment. I get it now! LOL I love my kidnappers!