Big Blue Huddle

Woman on the Fifth - This eclectic drama stars Ethan Hawke as an author who flies to Paris to try to make up with his estranged wife. She rejects him and he is crushed. While falling asleep on the bus, his money and suitcase is taken. He wanders into a run down cafe/hotel where the shady owner allows him to stay. Ethan begins an affair with a woman he met at an artsy social event. She may not be who she seems. The movie is mostly in French with English subtitles. I didn

Painter,

I was being somewhat whimsical in asking you about free will but at the same time I find deep philosophical and religious discussions interesting. I also know you have wisdom and knowledge that I rarely come across. You wrote a lot to chew on and my brain is trying to digest it.

I consider myself a little above average intelligence-wise but it would have been nice if I had the facilities to be a published philosopher or theologian.  Several years ago I took a liking to reading books by biblical scholars or historians such as EP Sanders who wrote

Jolly Blue,

I lost money in a gene editing company. They are on the grey market now. They came out with a Covid test and shortly after, the SEC came down on them. No one seems to know if there was any wrong doing but the stock is still on the grey market after 9 months.

I think the market is quite overblown too. If I make money on my two gambles, I will sit on the money for a while. If there is a big correction down the road, I probably will buy some undervalued stuff.

I'm sure you know the Federal Reserve is a big reason why the market is holding it's value but how long can the FR do that?

Lenn, I know what you mean. 90% of my money is in very conservative investments. I like to swing for the fences a little because it could mean lots of fun travel, etc..

I do. I don't have a lot of patience so I bet on microcap stocks that are usually OTC.  I had one nice hit but most of my picks didn't pan out. One went dark. One was poorly managed and was ran into the ground. Another one was kicked off of the OTC and now trades on the grey market.

I have only two stocks now and I like my chances. I learned something in my bad picks. One of my stocks is not a microcap and it soon won't be a small cap. I like the business model. The chairman and CEO is from India the country and he manages retirement accounts for 35k Indians. He also has connections with billionaires. His company is focused on buying companies at value or distressed prices. His company does intense research around the world. He either buys companies for his own group using the mentioned retirement funds or he locates companies for other companies or billionaires to buy. He gets a nice 13% commission.  These are not 1 to 2 million dollar transactions. They are up to a billion dollar transaction. They are growing fast. There are only 6.9 million shares and only a 350k float.

The down side is they have yet to file financials with the SEC so that is one reason the are trading at $3.50/share. That's about a four year time span. One investor told me the reason they have not filed yet is because they were focused on building the company and only started having revenue months ago. The CEO swears up and down that all the financials will be filed with the SEC by the end of this month. He plans to apply for the NYSE in the spring.  The CEO was once a market maker in the Indian exchange so he is a market man and knows how to get the story out there. Most of the 6.9 million shares are with family and friends so the motivation is there to unlock shareholder value. The book value of the stock is projected to be $300/share in the not so distant future(not sure of time frame). So this could be a 100-300 bagger some day but obviously many things can go wrong. The shorts are betting the company won't file the financials by the end of this month. The company didn't follow through on filing the financials before so there is skepticism but the CEO sounds convincing to me that this time is different. So my 6k investment could be 300k-900K somewhere in the future.  Wish me luck. If it hits, I will buy steak dinners at the next BBH get together.

Whitewash - Another quirky Thomas Haden Church movie. Thomas plays a loner in a small Canadian town. One night while drunk, he runs over his house guest with a snow plow. Thomas panics and drives off the road and into the woods. He drives and drives until he crashes and passes out. He wakes up in the middle of the snowy forest not knowing where he is.

Forget About It - Stars Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning. The movie is a silly poorly written comedy about three retirees who find a suitcase full of mob money. If you are nostalgic and like Burt and Charles(Raquel Welsh too), this movie is watchable. Some occasional good laughs.

Thanks, Painter! I posted my question on The Front Porch.

Author Sam Harris believes in limited free will. He said

Gee, Painter, I would have loved to ask you a philosophical question.

Does free will exist?

Maybe next year.

The Good Neighbor - This is a good movie. James Caan plays a creepy old hermit. Across the street from him are two teens that are into

Bob, Thanks. I don

Lenn, the second billionaire will premiere soon. I think there will be two more after that. I saw all eight episodes of the first billionaire.

The first billionaire ended up starting Underdog Barbecue in Erie, Pa. and it is still thriving. One thing that helped the billionaire is he was able to get several Erie residents to help him get the place going without pay but with the promise they will share in the success of the restaurant. You have to wonder how much the tv cameras motivated people to help him. Still, the way the billionaire dealt with personnel issues, setbacks, etc. was interesting.

If you enjoy reality shows(I know, most are fake) and you like shark tank, you might like the new series Undercover Billionaire on the Discovery Channel. A billionaire is challenged to anonymously go to a new city with only $100 and they have 90 days to build it into a million dollar business. Eight episodes are filmed for each billionaire so you see the daily hustling, hardships, set backs, deals, etc..

Lenn, regarding Triangle, the killer isn

Lenn, I saw some of those B&W movies like Maltese Falcon but I got out of the habit for some reason. I will have to record some of those TCM movies