Listening Library presents, Who Was Albert Einstein? by Jess Ambraliere, read for you by Kevin Pariseau. Who was Albert Einstein? For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope. Albert Einstein. Did you know that Albert Einstein was a very poor student who got kicked out of school? Well, he was. Yet he was one of the most brilliant people that the world has ever known. Did you know that Albert was a peace-loving person who hated war? Well, he was. Yet his work led to the creation of the most destructive bomb ever. Did you know that Albert was shy and hated publicity and attention? Yet he was a media superstar. Even now, fifty years after his death, Hollywood still makes movies about him and t-shirts, coffee mugs, and posters are decorated with pictures of his famous face. Who was Albert Einstein? You are about to find out. One. Born to think. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein made his entrance into the world on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. He certainly didn't seem like an extraordinary child. He was chubby and pale with thick black hair. He was so quiet and shy that his parents worried that there was something wrong with him. They took Albert to doctors. He doesn't talk, his parents explained. The doctors found nothing wrong. The story goes that Albert didn't speak a word.


It's decaying on back like I never left cause I'm cooking up content like a chef. Shoot videos like I've done. Curry, so here I'm subscribed cause it's time for us to sloooow. Huge shout out to everybody in the triple Cs. If you are not a part of the crew and you would like to be, make sure you smash the subscribe button, give me a thumbs up and throw them seeds, throw them seeds up in the comment section. Today we are starting off with a dispatch order. We are driving 16.4 miles for 4650 fold about to pull up and go and get this doughless gold. And just like that we are here at the pickup so we can go ahead and get booked. How you doing boss? Messenger, messenger service? No, I have an order on this mess to pick up and go to Pleasant Prairie.  Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know if it's called a messenger, that's right. It's this one right here. We just say messenger service. Oh, okay. It's on our order or whatever. We have M. Co messenger. So I know she called yesterday and put it in so this is what you're gonna get. I'm getting this right so we can get our pockets tight. There's still stuff that I gotta show them how to do like a little style and then he's teaching you with the inside. Yeah. So I'm just gonna get back out a little bit, yeah. Perfect, that's perfect. I can't fit two more skis in here, can you? I can fit three skis in here, but these are bigger. I know, yeah, I think I can fit three in here, three of these in here. Is this 48 by 48? This skid right here? I believe so, yeah. Yeah, I can fit three 48 by 48s in here. So this is a 2022 Mercedes Sprinter Vans 170 wheel base, 2500, 170 wheel base.  It depends if you get the extended one. They have one that's even longer. This is the 2500 and it's extended. So it's like 196 inches. So it can fit four skis, I think. Wow. Yeah. So that's the biggest and tallest one. That's the biggest and tallest one. Yeah, yeah, that's a little too big because I gotta be able to maneuver in the city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go to Chicago? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a nightmare all by itself. Yeah. You're in a car. Yeah, I don't like to go to Chicago. I try my best not to go there. I used to live there. I try my best not to go in there. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you have to to make some money. You gotta do what you gotta do. Yep. And we are good right there. All right.  We have went to like three different doors and no one has answered any of those doors. So I don't know where to go and what to do. Hey, how you doing, man? Mom, I have a drop off for you guys. I went to the receiving area but no one answered. No, I have a Sprinter van. It's two barrels. Like they were like 800 pounds together. Okay, if you want to go better. Okay. A few moments later. Sir? Yes, ma'am. Okay, I tried to get there. Okay, door 27. All right, thank you. You're on 416 or is it long enough to reset? No, they don't. Okay. If not, I can put up. It looks so far in there. They pushed it. I have a tow strap. I can pull it. We can pull it out. Okay. You want me to try to help push it or? Yeah, try to help push. I have some paperwork for you. Step back for the photo. Y'all know what I'm saying? There you go. Thank you very much. You have a great one. Let's go. Order number two. We just pulled up to wall. Migety to do what we need to do. We are picking up one item driving three miles for 2191. We just pulled up. About to get the job done. Let's go. I got a question for you. Can you see if I'm checked in on number 27? I don't see it. That's when he's popping up. Is that the red one? Yeah, it's the red one. Is the code work or no? I need to look up the name for me to put it in Q for you. But I don't see it when I search it up. Let me ask about it. Maybe you don't already know. That's me. That's my hang. That's my hang. That's my hang. The Commiss. Yeah, you'll see me. The Commiss. This is my guy. This is my guy. The Commiss. Watch this. Spark was a wave. When I was doing Spark, I was getting busy. I already know. It was sweet. Let me tell you something. It was sweet. Saturday was Spark. I did 360 in one day. And then we have all of them bonuses and stuff. You do this amount of orders. Sweet. What made you stop?   We used to come right here. These wasn't even here. These was back there in the back. Around this corner right here. Around the corner. Are you doing Spark now?  My boss is in the front with the customer. I don't know if he comes with me. Oh. OK. This one's for the customer. Got you. I'll be back. I might bring it out. OK. Appreciate you, boss. All right, man. Yeah, sir, you stay up, man. I'm not going to see you, man. You're going to see me. Hey, I'll be out here. I'm going to put my side right here. Slide this side in. Appreciate you, boss. Just stick on here already. Yeah, it should be on the front side, right? Oh, it's right here. I got it. OK. Appreciate you, boss. You have a good one. My guy just got a strike. I'm going to hit him with the scan ski so we can get these bands, G. You guys will not believe what just happened, baby. So we get the TV in the van until we go out and get them bands. Guess what? The order was canceled. I don't know how it was canceled. We never canceled anything. End of this process is $6 right now. So we do have the TV in the van. I'm going to take that joint back up there, give it to the guy, and hopefully the joint pop back up again so we can go out and get these dividends. Let's go. Whoop, I've whipped up the dolly so we can drop this joint back off because I ain't going to have to come all the way out here, bring a cart, drag it all the way back down. We ain't got to do all that, baby. Just put it on the dolly and slide. We can slide, baby. What's going on, boss? Him right here. They just canceled this order. They're joining on it no more. I don't know what happened. What's going on with you, man? What is it all? Say what you think. No, I'm going to do something. What's them call it? How you doing? I'm livin' to do my cake a plan. What to do? They canceled this. I don't know what happened. They canceled it? I don't know what happened. Sorry, bro. It's all good, bro. Damn, they ain't seen you in a minute. What's going on? How you livin'? Are you good? This? That's good to hear. Where my god? What's them call it? Yeah. He had delivery driver now. Oh, he getting that money? Yeah, you know y'all ain't here today. Oh, yeah, y'all keep getting that money, but I'm coming to y'all again soon, hopefully, if I get another order. Y'all think that's going to pop back up, or y'all don't know? I don't know yet. I don't know yet. I'm about to check in the system. OK, all right. Appreciate it. Y'all have a good one. So guess what, baby? We about to do something we haven't done in a long, long, long, long time. And guess what we're about to do? We're about to do some over-ease. We got us to order. We got to do something we can get an order, baby. Over-ease, the pickup location is Chick-fil-A, baby. We're picking up an item driving 2.3 miles for $10. About to go in and pop our car. Let's go. Just like that, we in here at Chick-fil-A, baby. But the good bit is that it's been so, so, so long, baby. I don't even remember last time I've been in this joint. It's been a long time. Picking up an order? Yeah, picking up for Sebastian G. I will check out. All right, appreciate it. Thank you very much, boss. You guys have a good one. Let's see. And just like that, we are here to jump off this Chick-fil-A, baby, age. Trying to get a bit, is they? Jumping like it's hot. See, I'm leaving it at the front, though. We're going to step back, fit in with the photos. We go. Order number four. We just put up the CVS so we can get this dough. We are picking up some medicine. We're going to drive one mile for $10. They'll know I got my game from a scholar. Let's go. Just like that, we are here in Target to pick up this order from CVS, put the haters to rest. I don't know where to go to. Let's go right here. Is somebody right there? Go over here. How are you doing, sir? I'm going to have a rodeo to pick up four. OK, thank you very much, sir. All right, here you are. Thank you very much, sir. You have a great day. Let's go. And we are here at the drop-off location. The customer is coming to the door right now, so I'm going to give it to them. How are you doing, sir? Pretty good, you? I'm living a dream. I woke up this morning. I can't complain. I just have to take a photo right quick, and I'll be out of your hair. Thank you very much. You have a great day, sir. And just like that, look, man. I'm going to tell you guys a truth. The gig is up, baby. The gig is up. It is over. We only made $66.54, and we were out here for six hours. We definitely did let that money shower, baby. We ain't really getting any orders. We went out there and got an order. We tried our best to get as many orders as we can, but we could not make any bands. But on the right side, we did see one of the subscribers. So a huge shout out to him. That's the only thing that was good about today. And we also got to go to Chick-fil-A. We ain't been in that long time. Other than that, we went out there and got on the ground, but we did not shine. Every day you go out there, you just have to be willing to put your best foot forward, and some days are going to be good, and some days are going to be terrible like today. But either way, you got to keep on going and growing. Now, if you are not going to do a dedicated contract or OTR or local runs or whatever, if you're not going to do that, and you are relying just on gig apps, you might have a little trouble sometimes. Well, even, I didn't even get in front of the carrier company today. There were some orders that came, or some loads that came out, but nothing that was good enough for me to take. I did put some bids in on it, on some things, but I did not win anything. So we can go out and think of that green. So all of this comes to territory. You need to be prepared for this. And you're planning on getting a Sprinter Van, Box Truck, Simi, whatever you're planning on doing, you have to be prepared for this type of stuff. So you should have some money set aside, some reserve set aside, just in case you can't slide, baby. I just want to tell you guys that, I know some people, one hour they're going, they want to get them a van, so they want to do this, they want to do that. You must do a lot of research and you must be ready to sometimes not have the greatest of days. And today, like I think today, we ain't getting paid. So I do want to tell you guys that before we go, but either way go tomorrow, lock in tomorrow, cause we'll get back to this though, baby. Y'all know we go smoking in public like Crisco. I will see you guys on the next one. We going, we going, we flowing. You already know in the DDK, and I'm on my way.


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Today we're going to be taking a look at the Facebook ads audience insights tool. Since iOS 14 rollout has been completely revamped and the information it now gives us is somewhat limited in comparison to what it once did. But does that make the audience insights tool completely useless? In this video I'm going to take you through a live example of how I would build an audience out using the tool for a specific product. To start the video off, let's take a look at what the audience insights tool looks like today. To get to this tool, go to your Facebook business suite and then click this insights button on the left hand side. From here, go to the audience section and then we have two different tabs. Current audience will have a focus of demographics around the Facebook page you have selected at the top. Using the potential audience button, we can find different demographics for different audiences and interests. By hitting this filter button, we have a range of different options. We can select audiences from different locations, different age ranges, different genders, different interests and different languages. From this perspective, the same information we have to define our audience is pretty much the same as what it once was. So let's go through a broad example to start with. Let's put the UK into the location at the top. Let's remain at all ages, all genders and we'll keep the interests blank for now. If you want to save any particular audience once you've created it, hit the create audience button here at the bottom. So what I've done here is essentially just targeted everybody in the UK. We can see the potential audience size is 49 million people. What this 49 million people indicates is essentially how many people have seen ads over the past 30 days. We can see the split between men and women is almost 50-50 with women having 56.8% and men 43.2%. The top cities in which these people are based, we obviously have London at the top, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and so on. At the bottom we have the top 10 pages that people within the parameters of our audience like. So essentially what this means is that 15.72% of all people in the UK on Facebook that have seen an ad in the past 30 days like the Facebook page Ladd Bible. So now that we're familiar with the Facebook ads audience insights tool, let's look at the real example for a real product. The products I'm going to be using for this video are these golf shoes here. These are proven products that featured in one of my previous videos. To prove this, let's take a quick look at this listing on the exchange marketplace. We have bunkaliskgolf.com and they're asking $150,000 for their business. Let's take a quick look at their revenue. They made $550,000 selling these golf shoes. We can confirm this by going to their Shopify store using our free Shopify inspector tool, going straight to products, straight to their best selling products. And we can see number one is the new 2021 swing stabilizing shoe. If we flip back to Aliexpress just quickly, we can see the shoes are indeed identical. So if I wanted to build an audience out to sell this particular product, this would be the process I would go through. Let's go to filter. I'm going to keep the UK being based in the UK. I'm going to keep all demographics and all genders. The first interest I'm going to take a look at is the actual niche of the product, which is of course golf. Once the results have loaded, we can see the potential audience size is 16 million people, which is obviously very, very broad. This is confirmed. If we go down to the top pages, we can see that the pages are also random and not necessarily related to the golf interest. When you're doing your audience research, I find it's handy to have an ad manager open with an ad set loaded up. So you can go to the detailed tags in box and use the suggestions to find other similar interests to then put into the audience insights tool. So if we put golf into here, hit golf and then hit suggestions. Facebook will kindly give us lots of different other interests we can target that are similar to the base interest. Because the golf interest solely is so broad, then through my experience, what this can mean is you have to put quite a lot of money through a particular ad set in order for it to learn, find who your ideal customer is and optimize. For people with smaller budgets, this just isn't an option. Let's now compare this to a suggested interest from our ads manager. So we'll go to our ads manager, we'll hit suggestions and we'll find a smaller highly targeted interest. So by hovering over it, we get an idea of the size of the interest. The golf course is nearly 30 million people. Golf equipment is 5 million and golf magazine is 6. A good way to be thinking when selecting your interests, try and think of the behaviors of your customer and the sort of things they'll be linked to. So if you're trying to target a golfer, let's say think golf magazines. The only people buying and subscribing to golf magazines are people who are keen on golf and therefore more likely to buy our golf shoes. So let's take our golf magazine interest, head back to our audience insights tool. I'm going to start with a fresh one so we can do a side by side comparison. We'll go to filter, make sure everything's the same. We've still got the UK at the top and we're going to put golf magazine into our interests box. Now the results have changed accordingly. We can see our potential audience size is just over half a million people. Where the value comes from, the audience insights tool in my opinion is this top pages section. We can see the pages in this top 10 have actually changed and there's actually some interests in this list that are related to the golfing interest. We have Rory McElroy who is obviously one of the most popular golfers in the world. We have Sport Bible which obviously covers any sort of golfing related news. We have Sky Sports who obviously show the golf. We have American Golf who is a retail outlet of golfing equipment. We have Rick Shields who is a popular golfing influencer. We have the PGA tool which runs all the golf competitions. We have Match the Day which isn't relevant and we have Amazon. The biggest difference here and what this illustrates to me though is that this is a higher quality audience to target versus the golfing interest on its own. If we compare them side by side, a good metaphor to use is think that you've had a room full of 550,000 people who are interested in golf magazines. The room next door has 16 million people in and these people are related to golf broadly in general. Just because you're interested in golf and watch golf doesn't mean you necessarily play it and if you don't play it you're not going to be interested in buying some golf shoes. So let's say you have two hours to go into each room individually and try and find people who are interested in buying your golf shoes. In the room full of 16 million people there's quite a lot of people and you might only come across say 10 or 20 people who are actually interested in buying your shoes because it's such a broad audience. If we compare this against the half a million people because it's so much more specific and there's a higher percentage of people in that room that actually like other golfing interests in that same two hours you'll probably find 10 times the amount of people who are actually interested in your golf shoes. This will be the same case for your Facebook ads in a broader larger audience. The hit rate, i.e. the amount of people that your ad actually is displayed to that have an interest in your golfing shoes is going to be a lot smaller and therefore it's going to cost a lot more money to test that audience. Find that amount of people that like your product in order to help the pixel optimize. So one strategy you can use is use these smaller audiences build up those conversions, season your pixel and then scale out into bigger audiences. In my opinion, 550,000 people though is just too small. It's not going to take very long until you burn through this audience and essentially you've exhausted everyone. So what you can do and what I would recommend to build out your audience and make it larger while still keeping the same quality is to stack your interests. So to do this, we can go back to our ads manager in our loaded ad set. We need to make sure we have the original interest selected. With golf magazine selected, we can hit the suggestions button and Facebook is going to give us other interests which contains similar people to this original golf magazine interest. Again, when you're flicking through the interests hovering over and looking for different sizes, make sure you pick an interest which is relevant to the people who are going to be spending money in your niche. So the next interest that catches my eye is golf equipment. Before confirming this and running the test for it, we can always double check it by going back to our Facebook audience insights tool, hitting the filter button. We can remove the original golf magazine and put golf equipment. Once the results have loaded, we can go down to the top pages and just double check that in this top pages section, we still have other golf related interests. In this case, we have Rick Shields which is a golfing coach. We have American golf, Rory McElroy and a couple of other sports related interests. So in this case, this would also make a great interest to stack on top of our original interest which was golf magazines. To check the potential audience size, we know what we're going to be testing. We can add it to the interest box here. Once selected, the insights tool will adjust and that gives us an overall potential audience size of 1.7 million. We can also double check the quality of our overall audience by again doing the same thing. If we take a look at the top pages section, we still have some golf related interests. Once you're happy with an audience that you've got selected, one thing you can do is take a look at the gender and age demographics. We can see that men dominate this demographic 88.1% to 11.9. Typically in the testing stages though, I still like to leave it broad. Let Facebook put our ads out there, let the data come back, see what demographic it is which is indeed making the purchases and we can always narrow down at a later date. So just a quick recap then to quickly go over essentially what we've done. Instead of tagging a super broad interest like golf for a brand new pixel for somebody on a low budget, this is going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time before the pixel has a chance to find out who your ideal customers are, optimize and then produce efficient and sustainable results. A much better option would be to use the strategy I just showed you to find smaller, higher quality, more focused audiences, stack those interests together to create bigger potential audience sizes that still contain that quality. At 1.7 million people, we can see a significant amount of results in terms of orders and purchases through our website and once we have that data through the pixel, we can use it to then either target larger audiences, broader audiences like the golfing interest solely and we can also use it to build out our lookalike audiences and scale using that strategy as well. When it comes to picking the interests themselves, try and pick interests which will be related to people spending money in your niche. So let's go through some examples just to make sure that point is really clear because this can make a significant difference to the quality of your audiences. Interests like golf equipment and golf magazines are things that people spend money on within our niche and therefore that increases our chances of finding people who actually play golf and therefore increases our chances of finding people who would be interested in golf shoes. You can always double check the quality of an interest if you're not quite sure whether it's a good one to target by putting it into your insights tool, going to the top pages, looking for some pages which are related to the niche in which you're interested. There are some exceptions though that you need to be aware of and in my opinion, this is where the audience insights tool lets itself down. So if you're not familiar with my drop shipping background, the first successful product I found was in the dog niche. I've made a lot of money using the dog walk in interest as an audience and I know it's a good one but if I was to double check the quality of this by going to our insights tool and putting it into the interest section, double checking the top pages and if we quickly go through those, we can see none of those are indeed related to the dog niche. In this instance, it comes down to the fact that within the dog niche, there isn't actually that many massive pages that have millions of followers and therefore they'll never make it into this top 10 pages section. If this is the case for you, then unfortunately when it comes to testing audiences, you need to do a bit of free styling and what I would recommend for this in this situation, in this example, with dog walking selected, we can hit suggestions and find a similar interest. Let's go for something quite big because dog walking on its own is 3.6 million, we're gonna be narrow in the audience so we need something big so the audience size doesn't go too low. Let's try dog training. Instead of putting it into the box here and stacking them, I'm gonna hit the narrow audience box and then put it in here. With these two selected, we can see we have a potential reach of two million people. So essentially what I've done there is I've told Facebook that I wanna target people who have an interest in dog walking as well as an interest in dog training. Now unfortunately using the insights tool, there's no way of double checking whether these are quality interests. We just have to use a bit of common sense and assume that people who are interested in dog training and dog walking actually own dogs and therefore would like to buy our dog product. Fingers crossed that because this new audience insights tool is new, Facebook will develop it over time and add some more filters so we can be a bit more specific with our audiences. One feature that I personally like to see them add is that in the same fashion in your ad set where you can narrow your audience, the same thing for audience insights. That way you can be super specific with the audience that you want to check the quality of. With that being said guys, I'm gonna wrap the video up. If you're still watching, I really do appreciate all the support. So thank you very much. If you enjoyed the video, please make sure you hit that like button and please make sure you drop me a subscribe if you wanna see more of my content. 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Okay, the recording is on. Good morning, Rowan, welcome to 308, our course on Revelation Daniel. Let's take a moment to pray and then we'll get started. Could one of us please lead in prayer for the class? Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for your new mercies and your praise upon us on the stages. God, I just give this class into your hands as we are about to learn about the book of Daniel and Revelation. But I just pray that Holy Spirit will be with us as the pastor explains the topics and all of which the things to us, God, you help us to understand with God so that we will know the meaning of the scriptures and the meaning will bring revelation into our heart and that it will transform our life and it will help us to be a blessing to others, Jesus. God, I just give all my classmates over here. I bless them all in the name of Jesus. Help us to have a good Wi-Fi connection throughout the session and whatever we do, let it be done for your glory, Lord. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen, thank you, thank you. All right, so just to introduce this course and we will get started today. In our second year course on the end times, the objective in our second year course was to give us an overview of the end times, to look at the sequence of events and also to look at the signs of the times. So that was the focus in the second year course on the end times. We did not, you know, go into detail. We did not necessarily go into detail into the books of Daniel and Revelation and other other references. We, it was more, second year was more of an overview. And so with that in mind, that background, in this course, 308, what we want to do is to go to read the passages, especially in Daniel and Revelation and explain, you know, explain, help us understand what has been written. Now, there are many prophetic scriptures. For example, we have Isaiah, prophet Isaiah, the book of Isaiah has a lot of prophetic scriptures. Zechariah, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Joel, all of them have a lot of prophetic scriptures and as well as other New Testament passages. The reason we picked Daniel and Revelation is because these two seem to be the most difficult to understand, right? There's a lot of imagery, prophetic, seem very complicated, looks very complicated. So what we are going to do is we're going to actually read through the prophetic scriptures. We'll start up with Daniel and then we will get into Revelation and read the passages and then help us understand the scriptures. And while we're doing that, we will cross-reference other passages, right? So we will focus on Daniel and Revelation, read through that primarily. And as we're doing, we can cross-reference other passages, right? So that's our goal. And the goal really is to read the text and try to understand the text itself, which we did not do in our second year. And the other thing is we will first do Daniel and then we will get to Revelation. Although this course title is Revelation and Daniel, I think we should, the way we will do it is we'll do Daniel first, then we will go through Revelation first by verse, right? Simply because that's the chronological order as well. And understanding Daniel will then give us better understanding of all that is said in Revelation. Okay? So I've just put out the content for Daniel. I've put out the lecture notes, which is an outline of what we will cover. And as we read the scriptures and do go to the lectures, you're most welcome to ask questions. There may be things that we discuss which may not be in the lecture notes. So it's important to just be part of the class because different people will ask different questions and it'll open up different things in the text which I may not have captured in the outline of the notes. So the notes have been posted. And I've also given two reference books. It's not mandatory. You're not going to be questioned on the content in the reference books. Reference books are just for your reading. I'll just to look at what other people have written. One of the things that I like about the reference books is that they capture a lot of historical information which we don't have to go and research, right? They have already done the research for us. And so it's easy for us to say, okay, this was the history. This was what happened. These are all the kingdoms that were there. These are the approximate dates. So you can always go to the reference books anytime you want to get that kind of information. I've tried to summarize that in the lecture notes. I've put that in a summary form. But if you want more historical information, a background, those things, the books are available. You can go to it. But I will not be asking any questions for any of the exams from those reference books. It's more for learning as well, okay? So we're getting started with Daniel today. We'll spend quite a few weeks on Daniel, chapter by chapter. And then we will, once we're done with Daniel, we will go into revelation. So let me share the lecture notes on Daniel and we'll get started. Yeah, so I've given you that. As usual, we'll, towards the end, I'll just give three assessments, break it down, basically covering the content. There'll be open book, open scripture exam, so don't have to memorize things. All right, so let's get started with Daniel. Right, so some interesting things about Daniel. All of these things that we are going to be looking at in the book of Daniel, historically took place somewhere between 605 to 535 BC. So somewhere in that ring of Daniel may have lived to about 80 plus years of age. And so he lived a long life and he served in that period of time. We're going back about 600 years before Christ, all the way to about 500 years before Christ. And it was also the time, as we are all familiar, it was also the time of the Babylonian captivity. So Nebuchadnezzar had come and attacked Jerusalem, attacked Israel, the city was destroyed, temple was destroyed, Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king had taken several of the Jews into exile, into Babylon, and Daniel, along with several of the young people, were also taken into exile into captivity in Babylon. And we know the story, we're not going to necessarily read the first few chapters, chapter one of Daniel, we'll skip that. We're going to read only the prophetic parts of the book of Daniel, but we know the story, how Daniel was selected to serve in the courts of King Nebuchadnezzar. And what is interesting is that Daniel served in four different kings, the Nebuchadnezzar and Belchazar, the Babylonian kings, Darius, the Mede, and Cyrus, the Persian. So three different empires, the Babylonians, the Medes, and then the Persians. So you can imagine that while in Babylon, the authority transitioned from different empires, the Babylonian empire, they were in power, they were overthrown by the Medes for a short period of time, the Medes were in power, the Medes were overthrown by the Persians, and they were in power. And Daniel was serving under three different empires, four kings, two of them were Babylonians, four kings, but three different world empires. So that's very interesting, because he must have been a person of great caliber to be kept in, to be maintained in his position even when the empires changed. So Daniel, you come and you serve us, you have to be selected by a different empire, a different king and say, you come and serve me. And then when he was overthrown, another Persian king came, Cyrus, you come and serve me. He must have been a person of great caliber to serve there. So he's not just an ordinary man, the hand of God was really upon him. That is from his service perspective, but from a prophet perspective, what we can say is the Lord Jesus, himself referred to Daniel as a prophet, which is very powerful in Matthew 24, as Jesus is giving the signs of the end times, he says, even as we're spoken by the prophet Daniel, when you see the abomination of desolation coming into the temple. So Jesus is actually quoting Daniel, and he refers to Daniel as a prophet. The Lord himself is recognizing Daniel as a prophet. Isaiah, he prophesied in Isaiah 39 verse seven. We can turn the end of this, look at it very quickly. Isaiah 39 is, Isaiah was prophesying about the coming judgment, the coming captivity, stating that the king from the north, Nebuchadnezzar would come and take these people of a captive. And then he said, Isaiah 39, seven, that some of your sons will be taken and they will serve as eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Isaiah 39, seven. So eunuchs, they're not referring to being officials of people who are serving in the court or in the chamber of the Babylonian king. So Isaiah prophesied that some of the Jews will be taken captive and some of them will be given positions of authority in the kingdom or in the court of the Babylonian king. And Daniel was one of them fulfilling that prophecy. Now, of course we know they were, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego also brought him later and they were serving, they could have been others, but Daniel was actually a fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy that they're going to be serving under the king of Babylon. And Jeremiah prophesied about Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian captivity and the fall of Babylonian empire. And Daniel saw all of that fulfill. He saw the prophecies of Isaiah. He saw the prophecies of Jeremiah being fulfilled. And in fact, it was the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah that prompted Daniel to pray and intercede in Daniel chapter 10, which we will look at a little later on. So Daniel was very aware of the prophecies of the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. He had understood them and he was also waiting for the fulfillment of that 70 years of captivity based on which he prayed and said, God, it's time for us to go back. So he prayed. The purpose, so we know Daniel is among the major prophets. The purpose of this book, Daniel, is not only to record the history of Israel, part of very important part of the history that they were taken away into captivity and to show how God was with his people during the captivity. But the purpose of Daniel is much more than a historical record of what happened during the captivity. It is a very powerful prophetic book. In fact, most of the content in the book of Daniel is prophetic in nature, not historical in nature. There is a lot of history like Daniel was. This happened and this happened, this happened. Yes, of course, there is historical information about what happened to God's people. But more than that, the purpose of the book of Daniel is prophetic. God is revealing 500 years before Christ what is going to happen at the end of times, actually throughout history and then at the end of times. So it's a very prophetic book. There is prophecies that are near term fulfillment, meaning which were fulfilled starting from the time of Daniel and on into several hundred years following Daniel. And there is also prophecy about the very end of times which would happen at the end of the church age. We're talking specifically about the antichrist and the tribulation, what will have happened there and beyond. So there is near term prophecy and there is also long term prophecy which means prophecy towards the end of the church age and leading on into the millennium. So the purpose of the book of prophecy is primarily, the purpose of the book of Daniel is primarily prophetic. And of course, if it is a prophetic book, there will be a lot of revelatory nature character in the book. So what is very interesting is just like the book of Revelation the prophetic information is given in a lot of strange pictures or imagery. So throughout the book of Daniel, as we look, it's not direct information, the prophetic information, it's not direct, it's given in the form of images. Starting from chapter two, we'll look at it. He sees an image of a big statue and God is giving a meaning of that. Chapters seven and eight, he sees the image of many beasts, different kinds of animals, strange animals and all of that has meaning. And so a lot of the revelation given in the book of Daniel is given through prophetic imagery. So that is one reason why the book of Daniel is a little difficult because it's not direct. It's not saying this will happen and this will happen and this will not. Instead of saying that images are coming, I see a beast, I see another beast and I see a fourth beast. Oh, what does all this mean? It had been so much simply if you said, this will happen, this will happen, this will happen, this will happen. So the revelatory character of the information given to us is in these strange images, which make it difficult generally for people to read and understand. But what I want to highlight and which we will see in the book of Daniel is in every instance, the interpretation is contained and I shouldn't say in every, but in almost every instance, the interpretation is contained within the book of Daniel itself. In some cases, we will cross the reference other passages to understand, to get the interpretation. But in almost every instance, the interpretation of these prophetic images is contained within the book itself. That means you just read on, keep reading and you will understand, right? So the first time we look at the images is that what does this mean? I don't understand, okay, keep reading because the interpretation is given in the book of Daniel itself. And therefore, even though the revelatory character through prophetic images is quite difficult or strange, the good thing is the interpretation is contained within the book itself. And that's all we have to do is look at the read and this is the interpretation, okay? So that's how we are going to understand the book. In some cases, we will cross reference outside the book to understand the images. Now, just as information, most of the book of Daniel, like all the other parts of the Old Testament, what is in Hebrew except for the portion, oh, sorry, the chapters two to seven, that portion is written in Aramaic. The reason being Daniel was in Babylonian captivity and they used, they were using the language of the Babylonians there at that time. So that portion is written in Aramaic, the language of the Babylonians, the rest of it is written in Hebrew. So that's an interesting part of the book of Daniel. Traditionally, when people approach the book of Daniel, they look at it in two parts, one to six, which is primarily historical, seven through 12, which is primarily prophetic. So, you know, but within one through six itself, there is prophetic information which we will also look at, but that's generally how they approach it. Or if people want to look at it from a language perspective, they'll say, okay, chapters two to seven is one portion because that was written in Aramaic, chapter one, and then the rest of it, chapters eight through 12 in Hebrew, so they can divide them in three parts based on the language. All right, for us, for our study, the divisions of the book is not necessary. We are looking at the prophetic book itself. What I do want to remark or just point out is that a lot of people, I mean, I say a lot of people, I'm talking about secular people, people outside the church, they are very skeptical, very doubtful about the book of Daniel because they cannot accept that such accurate and such detailed prophecies were made ahead of time and they actually happened because Daniel, while he was serving under the Babylonian kingdom, while serving under the Babylonian kingdom, he is prophesying all the next three and four empires that are going to come. So Ethel's king Nebuchadnezzar, and we will see this in chapter two, after you, this empire will come, which we know as the Medes and the Persians, then after that will come another empire which we know as the Romans, and then after that this will happen. So people outside when they look at it and they say, no, no, no, no, it can't be, so it's not possible somebody to tell, basically he's writing history in advance, he's telling all these empires are going to come in advance and he speaks about Alexander the Great and he talks about, sorry, I missed out the Greek kingdom, so Medes and Persians, then the Greeks, then the Romans. So the Greeks, he talks about the leader of the Greek empire and how he's going to increase and so on and so forth and what will happen to that empire. In such detail, with such accuracy, people questioned that Daniel actually wrote this and they come up with other theories that this was written later on by somebody else and given ascribed it to Daniel. So they questioned the genuineness of this book and so they reject its inspiration, its detailed prophecy, its miracles, they argue about the language and so on and so forth. So that is there, but for us, historically, we know conclusively that Daniel was a real person, he actually existed in that time period and that these scriptures have been ascribed to be given to, the revelations have been ascribed to be given to Daniel and be recorded for us by Daniel and the Lord Jesus himself. When he referred to the book of Daniel, he himself said, don't you know what Daniel, the prophet Daniel wrote, right? So he is recognizing the authenticity of the scripture and that it was actually given by the prophet Daniel himself. So we are not shaken by these allegations, we understand that people outside the church find it difficult to accept such prophecy that this could be prophesied in such accuracy and such detail, but that's their problem, not ours and so on. About the interpretation, like I said, one key thing to keep in mind is almost all the prophetic language, the interpretation is contained within the book of Daniel. So we will stay with that, we don't have to add our own interpretation, no. Stay with the interpretation that is already given in the book of Daniel, stay with it. And the, as we go a little later, in chapters 11 especially, chapter 11 is also a very difficult chapter, we will come to it later. Because it is near-term prophecy as well as long-term prophecy put in one chapter, right? So that is where it makes it difficult, meaning you need to understand the timeline. In one chapter, there is immediate near-term prophecy, he was prophesying about what's gonna happen to the different kingdoms, and then he shifts to what is gonna happen at the end of times, which kind of leads into chapter 12. So that transition we need to pick up. And just keep in mind that when Daniel was writing these prophecies, he was not writing in chapter and verse, right? We find it difficult because, hey, there is chapter 11 and suddenly in the middle, he's talking about near-term things and suddenly in the middle of the chapter, he's going to the end of times. Well, for us it becomes a problem because it is put in chapter 11. But while Daniel was writing and speaking, recording these prophecies, he was not writing, this is chapter 11, this is chapter 12. No, he was giving the revelation as he was receiving it and he had here recorded it. And so for him, it was clear. All these things are happening. Then God says, this will happen at the end of times. So that interpretation, the timeline is something we have to understand from outside the chapter and verse perspective. And I'll explain it when we come to chapter 11, right? Another comment about the theology, the book of Daniel is so amazing in its theology because, and we will see this in chapter seven, that the book of Daniel is actually unveiling to us the triune God, the Trinity of the Triune God. Daniel chapter seven, Daniel has a vision and he sees the ancient of days. We would refer to this, to this person as God the father. And then he sees one like the son of man, we would say, that's God, the eternal word, the Lord Jesus, God the son, right? And so it is so clear in Daniel seven about the triune God, the ancient of days sitting on the throne, the son of man being ushered into his presence and then all authority and dominion over all the kingdoms of the earth being given to the son of man and to the saints of the most high. So just imagine what a vision that is, Daniel chapter seven, he is seeing the triune God. God the father, God the son, the Holy Spirit, of course is giving Daniel this ability to see this vision and he's also seeing the saints of the most high. And he's seeing what God is going to do, the kingdoms of the earth are being given to the saints of the most high is amazing, amazing. And it is from this book, Daniel chapter seven, that the Lord Jesus uses the title son of man. So when Jesus is walking on the earth, he starts talking to his, you know, the people are following him. You will see the son of man referring to himself now as the son of man. Now for his audience, the Jewish audience, they recognize this title. It is a title used by Daniel and Daniel chapter seven to whom? To the being right next to the ancient of this to whom all the kingdoms of the earth has been given. And here is Jesus saying, he's using that title for himself is in, you know, in, for example, many examples you can see, when Philip calls at Daniel and at Daniel says, you know, you are the son of God. And what this is, you will see the son of man coming in the clouds of glory. So he's referring to himself as a son of man and he uses the title over and over again for himself and the people are amazed because this is a sacred title. There's a title that was used by Daniel to the one next to the ancient of dates. And Jesus is using that for himself. So in terms of the theology that's being revealed, it is amazing. Another amazing part of the theology revealed in Daniel is in chapter nine, which we will see is that Daniel exactly prophesied about the crucifixion of the Messiah, Daniel nine, 23, 24, 25 he says, you know, after 483 years from the time of the decree issued by Cyrus to go and rebuild Jerusalem, the Messiah will be killed, the olive. Messiah, Messiah, the anointed one, he will be killed. And you know, in that same context, which we will study, we will study this passage in detail. He says, why will the Messiah die? He's going to die for the sins of the people. You know, so the whole substitutionary work of Jesus is captured in just two or three verses in Daniel chapter nine. Now we know Isaiah prophesied a lot about the Lord Jesus, Messiah, Isaiah prophesied a lot. But what I want to point out is that in the book of Daniel, Daniel chapter nine, 23, 24, the cross, the Messiah, the purpose of his death is actually revealed, Daniel chapter nine. So again, a very important aspect of theology is contained in this prophetic book, very powerful, very, very amazing, right? So we will look at all of these in detail, but I'm just, this is just an introduction, just overview, right? Now, just a little bit of history so that we understand what happened. We must, just to keep in mind the sequence of the different kingdoms that transitioned, we are primarily talking about in and around the Mediterranean. So if you look at, if you imagine the world map today, we're talking about all along the Mediterranean where Israel is and Lebanon, Syria and Turkey and getting over into, if you go a little west to the eastern part of Europe, and if you go a little south, it's the northern part of Africa, if you go a little east, we're coming into the western part of Asia. So in that region, all around the Mediterranean, that is a history we are interested in with reference to the book of Daniel. And that region saw transitions of different empires. There were the Assyrians approximately, and these are all approximate dates because we historians reconstruct history which took place more than 100,000 years ago based on whatever findings that are there. So they kind of reconstruct the dates and so on. So all dates are approximately, we think that this is when this would have happened. So the Assyrians from 880 BC to about 612 BC then came the Babylonians, then the Medes and the Persians. Now usually the Medes and Persians, they are clubbed together because the Medes were a much smaller empire and they were very, very short lived and they're very connected to the Persians. The Persians were the most stronger and the more powerful. So they took over immediately after the Medes, but Medes and Persians are clubbed together very often. Then came the Greek Empire, which we understand, we recognize, we are quite familiar with Alexander the Great, the Macedonian or the Greek Empire. And then what happened is, again, Alexander the Great had a very short time and when he died at a very young age, his kingdom was divided into four parts and governed by four of his generals, army generals that took place. And then subsequently in between, we will mention here later on, there were transitions with smaller, smaller empires happening, but the next big major empire was the Roman Empire, which came on the scene around 60 BC and went on through 143, 1453 AD. But within the Roman Empire, there was also a division that took place to be referred to it as the Western Empire and then the Eastern Empire, which continued on much longer. The Western Empire dissolved around 476 AD. So there's this information for us to keep in mind, historical permission. Now, just keep in mind also that historians, how they view these empires could vary and how they interpret things would vary, but in general, these are the empires that existed or transitioned in and around the military union over that time period. Putting it in the same information, I'll just put in a little bit more detail in the table form. We know that Israel, they came, they settled in that region around the land of Canaan or referred to and then later on, Israel itself was divided as the Northern Kingdom, the Southern Kingdom. The Southern Kingdom basically had one tribe, Judah. The other tribes were part of the Northern Kingdom. The Assyrians came, they came and they really attacked the Northern Kingdom of Israel. They captured that part. They also attacked Judah, but they didn't, were not able to overthrow Judah fully, but that happened when Nebuchadnezzar came. The Babylonian came, kingdom came and he overthrew Jerusalem and Judah destroyed the temple, the walls, and they were taken into captivity. 70 years there, there were transitions from the Babylonian to the Median Persians. Towards the end of the 70 years, the Persians took over, Cyrus was the Persian king, and as soon as he came into power, he issued a decree for the Jews to return to Jerusalem, go rebuild this temple and rebuild the city. And that took place under, we are familiar with Zerugapal, Nehemiah, Ezra. So during that time, the temple was rebuilt, the walls of the city was rebuilt, Jerusalem was restored. About that time, Alexander the Great came into power over through the Persian Empire. He came into power and then at the fall of the Greek Empire, there were smaller empires that are kingdoms, I should say, who were acting in that region around that time. The Seleucid Empire, and Daniel prophesied about these, which in Daniel 11, Seleucid Empire, as well as the northern and the southern parts of this kingdom, which Daniel prophesied about. Then the Jews revolted against them. There was opposition, they tried to overthrow this empire during that time, and Daniel prophesied about this as well. So this is just a little history to keep in mind as we journey through the book of Daniel, and we will see all of these things in the book of Daniel as Daniel foretold or wrote about these world empires. All right, before we dive into chapter two and start reading the text and understanding the text, any questions on the introduction? So this is just giving us a little background. Any questions on the introduction? You don't have to memorize all of this, it's just to know the context before we start reading the scriptures. Any questions? Go ahead, please. Levega? Yeah, it is just something that has been confusing me for some time about, we all know that there were three stages of deposition, starting from 605 AD up to around 586. The only challenge I used to have, but now maybe I have an answer for, is the counting of the 70 years. When we see there is a political deposition and religious deposition, political is the one which happened in 605 AD and religious is the one that went to the destruction of the temple in 586. So I don't know if that assumption is right, but it has been, it has taken me over a decade to find out what that one really means, because usually people, some commentaries will say deposition of 586 and yet we know that the deposition started in 605. So I don't know if you take on that is pastor. Thank you. Yeah, good question Collins. And the way I resolve these in my mind and for example, I mean, you've highlighted one example, the 70 years of captivity. There is another challenge, which in the book of Daniel, so we'll see the 483 years that Daniel prophesied when he talked about 69 weeks. So like this, the way I resolve it is one, all dates that are given by historians are only estimates. Nobody knows like exactly for sure, because it is all a reconstruction of history from our time today.  So literally we are sitting about 2500 years after things have happened and we are trying to reconstruct the dates, the year, right, so the best anybody can do, any historian can do is come to some sort of an estimate using archaeological findings, findings of artifacts, books, literature, whatever is recorded. So they put all this thing together and they say, okay, this archaeological thing must have been from 550 BC, that must be from here. And so therefore, an estimated year. It's not accurate. Nobody knows for exact, nobody knows exactly, sure. So there could be a variation, maybe 15 years, 10 years, 20 years, because the best is it's only an estimate. So that's how I resolve these things in my mind. Yeah, the Bible said 70 years, so it would have been exactly 70 years, but from which year till which year, there is always, those things are an estimate because we are trying to reconstruct back in according to a calendar time, so on. So I don't struggle with it too much, simply because I know that even for the best historian, they can only come to some sort of an estimate, nobody knows accurately because the calendars were not necessarily kept away, we are keeping it and so on. So that's how I resolve all those issues in my mind. And I just say, yeah, I'm gonna say 70 years, 70 years is exactly what happened from which year to which year, it's just a lot of variation, doesn't matter. Okay, any other questions? Okay, so what we're going to start off with is in Daniel chapter two, and we will go for our break, come back and we will pick up, we will start with Daniel chapter two, which is basically the dream which Nebuchadnezzar had, which Daniel was able to narrate the dream and give the interpretation, and it's just amazing, one amazing, amazing introduction to the prophetic content of Daniel. So we'll go for a break and we'll come back at 11 Indian times and get this started. Thank you.


Hey Bidgetts, my name is Li Shang from Move On, you know, the one where she goes If you couldn't hear the game screaming since May 1st, you should know by now that today, June 1st, 2019, is the first day of Pride Month Just so you know, I'm going to make all these videos this month of Pride theme and you're not going to stop me because I said so Before I start this video though, I just want to say, I have gay merch! Wait, this is not the right outfit. I have gay merch. Wait, we need a celebration. Woo! You all know that I've already had the Bidget hoodie out for a little bit. I've worn it on my Instagram But now we have the gay version.  It's also going to be on the dad hat and it's going to be a dump hit They're only going to be selling until the end of Pride Month. Thank you, Layden, for helping me design them. You're amazing I just want to thank Proud Maid so much once again for always being supportive of LGBT YouTubers Also, at the end of each video, I'm going to talk about a coming out story of one of you guys Because I will always encourage you guys to be your true selves So if you want to come out this way, send me a DM of you wearing the hoodie Tell me how you came out or how you're going to come out on my channel if you want to And let's just celebrate Pride while we still can because after this... Let's get to the video. I already came out before I started this channel So you guys didn't really get to see my evolution, my transformation My metamorphosis as a gay person Because everyone goes through one. It dramatically gets more and more colorful So I thought it'd be ideal to just go through some pictures on my camera roll These go way back, by the way And just see how I grew as a person before and after I came out Morning, it's cringey so prepare yourself I'm also gonna scoot this way Okay, first of all, my old elementary school friend is above me I'm just propping her out for the sake of privacy Don't pay attention to the rubber chicken above my head Pay attention to my face and my hair and my shirt In this photo, I didn't really know what sexuality was In fact, I don't think anyone in elementary school knows what sexuality is But I definitely did like girls Like, facial-wise I like girls' faces, they're very pretty Didn't know about what goes down under, you know, this area But I also thought boys look pretty at the same time I didn't think twice about it However, looking back, I'm really questioning the Minecraft Lego shirt That was classic gamer Frederick It still exists, obviously, but I would never ever wear that shirt in real life ever again Never ever? Never ever ever Never never ever ever for never ever?   That was three months later What happened? By the way, this is my birthday And I wore money science because it's about me And I wanted bank in fifth grade My mom cut my hair at the time And she definitely cut that way too short I used to have a bus cut And then when I told my mom I wanted longer hair She's like, okay, I'll give it to you But when I cut your hair, you're going to still have a bus cut I think I ate one too many cheesecakes Also the filter Ooh, middle schoolers want to understand the fact that we went through a harshly edited phase We're the bigger the vignette, the cooler you were I really just... I don't want to look back at all Move on This is one of those examples By the way, that's my sister If anyone calls her ugly, I will rip you apart to shreds Yeah, sky is not that blue The sky also does not come in dark blue and light blue But I'm just going to focus on the fact that I am crossing my arms That is an early sign of the gayness coming out Also, in elementary school, I always braided girls' hair Because I was the only boy who could braid hair Very proud about that With the rainbow loom, I did those stupid wax strings where you can make figurines I love doing those plastic beads where you iron them and make a design If you did not play with these, you are not my friend And I will gladly make videos doing these again if you want me to I really like, as seen on TV stuff, that was meant for girls Doesn't mean I didn't play with fucking like-ups though And Pokemon I was a boy's boy And a girl's boy Versatility, okay? Don't take it the other Next one This is us on vacation My sister's beautiful, let's just point that out And my hair was starting to turn into that like, swept back wavy hair And I hated wavy hair I don't know why I watched anime at the time And I got so jealous, so jealous that I can have that black shiny hair that flows in the wind It's like, offensively straight, like very hetero And I actually told myself, if my hair did not fall when I went upside down on monkey bars Not straight enough So I started stealing my sister's straightener Another sign that I'm gay because we use straighteners in this household And I actually thought this was one of my best pictures at the time Definitely not good now because I can see the mustache there That's 12 years old It was during this time that I learned what waxing and shaving and tweezing meant My parents never taught me shit I actually watched my sister do this stuff and I would repeat So yeah, I did shave my legs until 8th grade Can you feel the rainbow coming out at this point? Next!  Yeah, hell no And this is also where I went into my emo phase It was also here where I found my love for lemons Alright, I'm going to block out my friends And we're just going to focus on me My bangs? Yeah, that's pretty bad That's how bad the bangs were That's 8th grade dance by the way I also hate wearing the plaid checkered pattern shirts They just give me, you know, heterosexual male working at a desk job Or going to church I hate doing both of those things So, yeah, I don't wear those shirts anymore Alright, oh god By the way, it was the transition between 8th grade and 9th grade that I finally came out First time I ever told someone was October of my freshman year And it was my best friend Eliza And let's just see what I look like the day after This picture, taken the day after I came out Already, you can see it, the pose And I also thought I dressed so cute at the time I was like, yeah Blue shorts, crew neck tee Let's just find some other pictures right after I came out Alright, to the right is Eliza And if you look to the side of my cheek You'll see that she painted a rainbow in the cloud Because I just came out And it was right after this That I told my mom, can we please get skinny jeans? Could you buy me flannels? I literally had 3 pairs of jeans Black, grey, khaki I had 8 different flannels And I wore them over white shirts Thinking it looked good Let's just show you what I look like Yup, that was it Notice how I'm one guy in 10 girls That's clear sign of gay I thought I was the cutest boy in the world Literally baffled that no one wanted to date me Now I know why Oh my god, he tied the flannel next to his hips and pops his leg out This is a classic example of a gay guy Next to his girl's space friends That is us shopping at an Urban Outfitters Once again, fashion is so boring It's literally dark blue shirts and a red beanie And I thought I looked great I was like, this is my peak I'm peaking right now Oh, let me just insert this photo right now My shorts are light grey And they have little pirates on them Notice how we're in the same outfit in this other photo Which was taken a few months after I think I had 5 outfits I would only wear I also bought grey vans and thought Wow, so fashionable Grey vans, good GRAY VANS Alright, that was more than photos of Not my true self At the time, I didn't have a lot of Gay people to look up to I mean, Tyler Oakley Conor Franta, Joey Graceffa were the only ones And then I learned How to take care of myself Finally learned about skincare I have more products than probably you do at this point This is a photo when I moved here And I went through my own grey skill phase Look back at my old videos I said grey is my favorite color That lasted about 3 months This was my 10th grade dance And I actually thought I looked cute as hell I discovered fake glasses at the time Here's a picture of me with my first dyed hair And I don't care what you say I know it's bad Okay, don't try to praise me It looked terrible on camera too I don't know why I ever uploaded this As my profile picture I had an obsession Like unhealthy obsession with Melanie Martinez But at the time I was like I'm sad, I want the tear drop I actually think I look Way more like myself in 10th grade in this photo That was during the summer And I was like Take a photo of me walking in the wind on the beach But make sure I'm smiling in it Cause that's what gays do We do the same thing girls do We fake happiness in candid This is one of the gayest faces I've ever made This was my first profile picture I just looked back at it Not good That's me discovering the color yellow The leaves were green at the time by the way People said it looked like Harry Potter And honestly, I don't know what I did with my hair But it looked great back then That was before bleach ruined it Oh, here's one of the first self-portraits I took Yeah, I think a string-like crown is Like a little gay, right? Could pass as heterosexual, definitely Definitely could pass as heterosexual Who am I kidding?  That's called an hourglass, oh my god This is me discovering kombucha And editing way too much And then I discovered the beautiful combination Of yellow and blue It's still one of the gayest photos I took And you guys make so much fan art of this photo still That's me with my sister This shirt And if you notice, my hair went through a lot of different phases I don't know about you, but I get bored Of the way I dress easily So I go through different phases of I want to wear this type of clothing I want my hair up, down, bangs This way, that way Currently, I'm leashing So I get bored After a few months of the way I dress This was during my really colorful phase It's what I called color vomit fashion Oh, gay shirt First gay shirt Woo, everyone First gay shirt First gay hat Because that says pride on it Then I discovered makeup I discovered makeup again Dyeing my hair was silver-purple Dyeed it red a week later This is also me learning to appreciate wavy hair Wearing even more makeup That is a double cut crease, by the way And I looked New years did my own makeup Star freckles, by the way Fucking star freckles How did you not know I was gay? Getting accepted to NYU And this is when I changed from Wearing color every day to Trying out khakis And the color purple Because I only had one purple shirt at the time I have 10 nap, by the way And my friend calls it English Frederick Because I think Europeans dress so good It's so well, you illiterate Why do you even watch me?  I look good in it And this is the latest selfie I took of myself That I really enjoyed with my bangs again So, that is the evolution of Frederick There's definitely been some growth Since the first day I was on YouTube But I just wanted to show you how I transitioned from Hiding my sexuality to Being completely open about it I just want you guys to know that You should not be ashamed of being prideful Ever So if you're prideful and you want to come out Or you have come out Leave a comment down below too About your story Because I want to read them And I think a lot of people want to read them too Because They want to know That's all I have though If you enjoyed, give it a like Leave a comment about what I said Subscribe for more videos every Saturday slash Sunday And as always I love you guys And everything is less than three