Welcome to NewsClick. As the year 2019 is coming to an end, it's time to really take a look at what were some of the significant changes that took place in this year alone. To talk to us about this, we're being joined with Prabir Purkayashta who's the editor of NewsClick and senior journalist Paranjay Guha Thakurtha.  What do you think has changed in these six months alone? We must understand that the Modi regime, both last time as well as this time, was distinctively different from any other government we had in the past. We had Manmohan Singh and liberalisation which was a departure in some sense. We had Bajpayee who led an India government where in fact BJP did rule though with allies but those were also versions which at least kept in front that we are all secular and while we may have differences of different kinds, we still believe in the larger constitutional framework. If that wasn't so, Bajpayee's government would not have got the allies it did. This time, Modi, particularly after this round of victory where he has got a single majority, he doesn't need any other party. The BJP can rule on its own if it wants to. This time, the CMT have decided that we are going to go hard on our basic agenda which till now we have not made it so open. So, we had Kashmir, 370 being abrogated, breaking up Jammu and Kashmir into union territories, depriving them of statehood itself and then we had the Citizens Amendment Act which we now see unfolding and coupled with it the NPR, NRC, particularly the NRC coming behind the NPR and both of which have been promised as a continuum that after the CA, we will have the NRC which Amit Shah said other ministers have said. I am not going to go into the detail. I think this time we could say that there has been for the first time an assertion that we are a secular country and an assertion particularly by the youth. They are the ones who have been at the forefront. This is very significant because this is not something that has happened just like that. We have had episodic instances of youth coming on the question of corruption. India against corruption. India against corruption kind of movements. We have had for instance partially also like Navnirvan Sabiti in Gujarat or you had the JP movement particularly in Bihar. But all of it taken together this is I think significant because it is harking back to the values of the national movement which is expressed in the constitution. Inclusive state all sections of people are equal before law and this is something that we do value. It was felt that these values probably have disappeared but suddenly we find the youth as well huge sections of people who otherwise normally don't come into this are willing to take to the street along with it what the government has lost in terms of credibility is the fact that its statistics and its claims nobody believes. The fact that is the statistical part of the government seems to be withholding reports after reports trying to conceal what is the state of the economy and at the same time these things cannot be hidden forever so they are coming out. So both in terms of what the government represents a hard communal turn so to say and also losing credibility on the face of the what the statistics are of the economy. Paranjaya if I could ask you the bit about what has changed Prabir has spoken to us about that why has this change come in? Let's first look at what has changed if you look at the first six months of the Modi government the second Modi government you find that what has actually happened which was out of the ordinary first as he pointed out the Hindu rastra agenda of the Bharti janta part and the rastra ashram se vaksang has been sought to be implemented first article 370 in the Kashmir we also saw the supreme court give a judgment which was favorable for the construction of the Ram Mandir. Now these two decisions did not you know attract widespread public protest so what was there about the citizenship amendment act and the implementation of the national register of citizens that got the youth out onto the streets. If you look at what has happened recently first let's look at Maharashtra I think what surprised a lot of people was not that the pre-polar alliance between the Shiv Sena and the Bharti janta party broke up but that having broken up Mr Modi used up the powers of the cabinet late at night literally directed the president of India to sign on the dotted line and you got the governor in Mumbai to swear in Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar and that government didn't even last four days I mean that was that surprised a lot of people I mean if the Modi government or if Mr Modi and Amit Shah thought that they could do all that they did not just in Goa and Manipur what they did in Karnataka could be replicated Maharashtra they were clearly wrong so that was in a sense the first hit and and the government lost a lot of credibility I mean to put it very mildly then I think all of these accumulated to a situation where the the the the protests by young people against the citizenship amendment acts built out of the streets if the Bharti janta party thought it would be confined to northeastern India or Bengal they were wrong spread all over the country if they thought that the agitators would be focused on you know a few universities in and around Delhi and the national capital region and Aligarh Muslim University Jamia Miliya Aslamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University again they were wrong it spread like wildfire across the country so this coupled with the fact that the Indian economy is in a terrible shape I mean it's not just the rate of growth of the GDP which has slowed down as probit pointed out the credibility of the government's numbers are at at at the lowest ever I guess all-time low and and you see this is all affecting the youth at a time when half your population of 130 crore or 135 crore are people below the age of 26 your median age is 27 so the unrest of the youth is palpable evident so what people thought that the youth are are are sort of apathetic no they came out on the streets in large numbers and it was not confined to Muslim young people you saw this across communities you saw this across educational institutions including the so-called elite educational institutions the Indian institutes of technology the Indian institutes of management so I think this is something the government certainly didn't expect and and the spontaneity of the protests all of this I think are in a sense new and and to a great extent was not and was not anticipated let me put it this way at this point of time what BJP is facing is another onslaught of people's verdict people's sentiments actually where they are not being able the students the young population of this country is standing up for the fact that they are worried about whether there will be citizens of this country or not how do you view the kind of movement that we are in right now you know I would think that this movement also got the resonance which Poranjaya talked about because of the kind of repression the government let loose on the students if the kind of brutality we saw hadn't happened if all those pictures hadn't gone out and today let's face it any event anywhere in the world does get propagated widely you have social media your cell phones all of that cannot be hidden anymore so while the government may talk about violence by the perpetrators will catch them we have our video cameras we will have facial recognition we'll identify them they're speaking the language of repression but nevertheless what happened that day in Jamia and what happened later in AMU these have been flashed across the country now there is a kind of anger among the students that you try to repress something which was a protest which we have seen all the time you know okay it's unfortunate that near Jamia there was an incident where buses were burned so the first time buses have been burned public property has been destroyed and let's face it when Babri Masjid was brought down there was large-scale violence on the Masjid as well as in other places we have had communal rights in the country but what we saw that day attempt was seems to be an attempt by the police immediately to silence any protest this is the same model of operation they did in AMU and what we see in the particularly the BJP run states you see really violence being perpetrated by the state machinery in order to see that no movements or no protest takes place we have section 144 across UP this is unprecedented and if you take the Supreme Court judgment which is which was there which says there must be imminent threat of violence for it to be a reasonable restriction all through entire UP Delhi we saw peaceful protests being again stopped the right to protest comes with democracy you can say ABCD should not be done that it is violence is public property being burned and so on but you cannot say nobody has a right to protest as they have done in UP and what is interesting is though the opposition has no right to protest those who are opposing the government has no right to protest at the same time BJP is allowed to hold meetings and marches now these things I think are something which is also what is fueling the protest and that is why this is not something which is so easy to tamp down as the government believes the young India understood a majoritarian government but they had not expected this government to be authoritarian or not just majoritarian and authoritarian but downright repressive and the heavy high handedness of the police what the people of Kashmir are still going through from the 5th of August till today as we talk as the year is ending internet facilities have come and gone but most of the time it's not been there suddenly you find that it's all over Uttar Pradesh parts of the national capital and Uttar Pradesh is no ordinary state one out of six Indians live there it is India's most popular state if it was an independent country it would have been the sixth most populous country in the world now Uttar Pradesh is also the place where you have Yogi Adityanath's government which given his background and you see there the maximum number of deaths and you see there the kind of repression that has been unleashed on people and it's interesting that wherever there's a non-BJP government there the protests have been in larger numbers and also more peaceful why because the police have not gone out of their way to you know act in a completely atrocious manner. Prabhir what has brought the credibility of this government down something has changed people have flinched quite quite hard with the CAA I think there are three things to register here one is for a long time the value of a secular inclusive constitution appeared to be something which we repeated but it did not really have a resonance of the people because those were things which were taken for granted okay India is a secular republic India is supposed to in you know everybody is supposed to be equal before law this is taken for granted for the first time we had the government after Asam we saw the NRC process there which left 1.9 million out after Kashmir we saw again the government going in for something which for most people was a direct attack on the constitution. Now you know you may try to put all kinds of spin on the issue but people have understood what it means they have the example of Asam that this is a very tortuous process of trying to prove your citizenship the onus is on us to prove we are citizens there is really no document which yet has been accepted as the basis of citizenship we don't know whether it will be the Aadhar it will be the voters ID card both have been sent in Asam not to be proof of citizenship and a lot of the Indian people don't have documents so the attack on Muslims in the guys that you are not proper citizens this is something which the Muslim community knew was anticipating were talking about so they have reacted quickly for the others they have been really taken aback by the lies that the government has continuously said no no no CA has nothing to do with NRC well there are clauses over there which make it clear there is what is an illegal immigrant those clauses are changed in the CAA and they have a direct link with the what is the NRC and what is citizenship and the fact that Amit Shah said time and again Khus Petu ko bahar nikal denge will throw out the infiltrators who is an infiltrator all these things have been said in the what is called the dog whistle language where people can understand who want who know what you are talking about but you pretend it is actually neutral so I think all of that has also meant that this movement is not a movement for something this movement is for the defense of the constitution itself and this is I think a very very significant departure as I said earlier that finally people are recognizing what does a secular country mean what does a constitution mean and these things have come back into discussion which for a long time were taken for granted the constitution is not a plaque written carved in stone you know the meanings of these words I think especially to a lot of young people have today I mean they have realized what is the meaning of these words what is the meaning what is the meaning of this word secularism I mean can you get away by demonizing one out of seven individuals in this country you know can you demonize a population which is you know I mean it's only Indonesia and Pakistan which have more Muslims than India and and you see at a time when because of the excessive centralization of power and we see a concerted attempt to undermine institutions you know you views law enforcing agencies as weapons to target your political opponents not that it wasn't done before but never so brazenly that's not all whether it be the bureaucracy whether it be the military whether it be bodies like the election commission of India the reserve bank of India the central bureau of investigation and the judiciary these I mean I have lost I mean these institutions which are responsible for upholding not just democracy but maintaining social political the order of things in this country have been so undermined I think the youth today are realizing it and that's why they're coming out on the street and especially as a journalist I feel very strongly they attempt to muzzle such a large section of the media by financially squeezing them by literally threatening them and the right to free expression which is again a fundamental right article 19 one eight I mean I think young people are today also realizing what it means the what does freedom of expression mean and what it means in today's India when such a large section of the media has you know acting like advertising agents of the government in power acting like their public relations officer sections who you would earlier consider apolitical apathetic today have come out on the streets something that absolutely has struck a chord with everyone all of us is the fact that just to be able to say I refuse these are mere words and to get a latte against it or to be picked up and detained against it to instill fear in those who are protesting or are coming to register their protest to a government they have democratically elected what is the way forward as we move into 2020 you know the crystal ball is always difficult to use but one thing is I think very sure that we see cracks in the kind of media management the BJP had achieved I think that's a very good sign that is also because there is this larger resonance within the people or cutting across sections that what has gone what is being done is actually something rather toxic that you are using prevaricating lying and trying to do something else and we know what that something else is trying to disenfranchise what a section large section of the Indian population if not deprive them of the citizenship actually make them non-citizens for next 10 years or give them a second class to run around 10 years run around trying to prove their citizenship put them at a disadvantage make them insecure so they don't vote against you which is what really wants you don't want them to vote against you you don't want them to make demands so this is one part of one part of the equation the second part of it is I think the students taking to the streets and cutting across all sections and this is something which particularly this movement we have to give it to the youth it's their protest which is no more but behind that let's not also forget there is a third element I know this is not exactly the best thing to say but it is also true for the first time Muslims in India have felt they need to come out and this kind of mobilization that we are seeing I don't think we have seen in the past because they have always said that if we come out in large numbers then we will alienate other sections so we should pay a more non-visible role not invisible but not be so visible I think this time they feel they're being pushed to the wall here they're really coming out for the constitution and I think that is is creating a resonance in the sec in different sections so I think that section that is one part of it and let's not forget the economy and as people say that this economy is stupid that that if the economy falls that no government really survives or at least survives with its good will intact you know where do we go from here what Praveer has said is I not only agree with him I want to add that you know you can fool some of the people as the old saying goes it been attributed to Australia and others you can fool all the people some of the time some of the people all the time not all the people all the time you know this whole attempt to say that I can constantly divert your attention from what really concerns you whether you have a jobless future ahead whether there's going to be inflation and and and to claim that we have a monopoly on nationalism that the BJP and the RSS determines who is pro-Indian who's not and if you disagree with them and their ideology then you're a Pakistani and anti-national so this attempt to polarize I think is being resisted here. Paranjaya in fact in India right now after demonetization and the way economy is the poor cannot purchase Parle G's five rupees packet the biscuit which was poor man's biscuit which I it no longer can be purchased because that purchasing power is not there for people to buy things from the market. So the question of economy. Absolutely you before the elections before the general elections you were able to divert attention with Pulwama with Balakot how long can you continue to do that that is the question this government is not willing to admit its mistakes it's still not willing to accept that what was done three years ago on the 8th of November 2016 ruined this country that it slowed down our growth that it destroyed the livelihoods of the weakest sections of our population farmers women senior citizens children dependent on women daily wage laborers small traders small shopkeepers but I think today that attempt to keeping on fooling people is slowly falling apart and Maharashtra and of course Jharkhand indicates that you know they are not invincible these people who you know have this big macho image of themselves that somewhere along the line they are not gods these gods are feet of clay I think the youth even that section of the youth at one point of time who believed in the strong leader this big macho image of Modi I have also got completely disillusioned and so let's see what happens in 2020 thank you for Pravee thank you for Anjaye to talk to us let's not forget when India stands for voting for elections that line is secular and to maintain that vote and to maintain that mandate any government will have to think about its people and its fabric keep watching news click and a happy new year


Good morning, everybody. Can everybody hear me OK? All right. So as we make our way to our seats, let's get started. And the goal for today will certainly be to stay on time and maybe even try to stay ahead of time, if we can. My name is Ashish John, I'm the faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. And I'm thrilled that you all made it here today. We're looking forward to what I think will be a very important day of a lot of hard work. I know it's a difficult day as well. Ashish, I want to take 30 seconds to acknowledge what I think a lot of us are feeling after the horrendous events of this past weekend in Orlando. And I think despite that, I think we have to understand that the work has to go on and we have a lot of work ahead of us. And as we reflect on what happened this past weekend, one of the things that we can try to do today is to try to make progress on some of these very important issues that bring us together and bind us together. So before I get into what today is going to be about, I want to actually just take 30 seconds and introduce our first sort of welcoming speaker, Dean Martha Minow, somebody who doesn't need a lot of introductions and I won't make it a long one, but I'll say very quickly a couple of things. She's not only the dean of the faculty of Harvard Law School, she's an expert on human rights. I think has been an extraordinary, both scholar and advocate for issues for people who are under-privileged and often disenfranchised. Beyond being a great scholar, I think there is broad consensus in the Harvard community that she has been an extraordinary leader of the Harvard Law School at a time when there have been some challenges at the law school. And her leadership and her steadfast vision has been something that I think we've all appreciated. So without further ado, Dean Minow, thank you for coming. Thank you for that very generous introduction. Once before I was dean, I did go to a restroom at another university and there was a by the hot air machine, was a little sign that said, press here for message from Provost. So I always think hard about any speaking engagement and I will be unbelievably brief. On the other hand, I think this topic is so important. I think, again in the light of the events of yesterday, I was thinking about a moment in the movie Silkwood where the victim of exposure to radioactivity is explaining this problem to her boyfriend and he says, just give me a problem I can solve. Actually, I think you are assembled here today to deal with a problem that can be solved. It's a hard one. But as I look around and the people in the room that I know have the capacity, I think, to do something extraordinary. And the people who I don't know, I know where you're from and I know that this meeting is an unusual opportunity to bring people together from different sectors, different points of view, different ideas and that's why I have great confidence that this will be a very meaningful event. It did lead me to look up the meaning of the word access in the dictionary. Access comes from a medieval term meaning approach which is also defined as being near. It's a more modern meaning to say that access involves a right or an authority to use something. And what I hope you do today and in your work together is make that transition from the medieval idea to the modern idea. And I, again, have great confidence that real progress will be made. The collaborations across academia, industry, civil society, philanthropy, the support from the Berkman Center Global Access Project, the office, the president, the provost initiative actually to get different parts of Harvard working together. If we did that, you can do anything. Thank you and best wishes. Thank you, Dean Minow. Brief, but very much to the point and indeed if we can get different parts of Harvard to work together, there's no shortage of what we can accomplish. So let me just take about two minutes and kind of frame where we are, what brings us together today. And then I'm gonna turn right over to Clinton Palfrey who's gonna moderate the first session. But I think as we start, I think we have to acknowledge the tension that brings us here, right? There is a tension, a tension of two communities who feel very strongly and deeply about what at times feels like competing set of ideas. One set of ideas is the real and practical need for more innovation. More innovation for treating diseases, more innovation for diagnostic tests. And innovation fundamentally is expensive. It costs a lot of money. And there is no shortcut that we know of to make innovation happen without resources. That I think is a very important part of the agenda and very important part of what drives attention because the second part, of course, the second opposing, what feels at times like opposing factors is that there is a very large proportion of the world's population that can't afford to pay for the innovation. That just can't afford it. Doesn't have the resources. And so the idea that innovation would only accrue and only benefit those who could afford to pay for it is an idea that we feel is both from a moral and economic and intellectual perspective unsustainable. And I think that is the tension that brings us here today. I think in putting this together, in putting together the background work that Quentin Terry Fisher, or Quentin Paul Fried, Terry Fisher have done, what they have tried to argue and what I at the Global Health Institute, I think all of us believe is that we have to move forward beyond this tension, beyond this point of contention that we get into and find practical solutions that both spur on innovation and yet ensure that there is broad access to that innovation so the whole world benefits from it. And that I think is the purpose of what brings us together. So we have a pretty rich agenda. And let me just lay out in very broad terms what we have. The morning session is really gonna be about identifying and discussing concrete best practices. There are things that we already know how to do and what to do and we have to figure out how to replicate those. We have to figure out how to scale them up. And that is gonna be, I think, a very important part of the day. And in the afternoon, we're gonna try to think outside the box, get beyond those concrete examples and think about what else we can do, where else we can go, how else we can push this envelope. We are not going to solve these issues today but I think as we were speaking just before this session started with Dean Minow and we were discussing what a win looks like. One of those wins is if we feel like we've taken a step forward in the conversation, if we have moved the ball forward, I think all of us will feel like today was a win. So that's in a big picture way the goal. I am very excited about today. So thank you all for making the journey to come here. I think we should just go ahead and get started with the first panel. Let me introduce Quentin and the rest of the panel, why don't you guys come up and Quentin, do you wanna introduce the panelists? I'll have you do that. But I wanna just actually, as you come up one more quick thing, I wanna acknowledge three people, Molly, Eba and Christine who did really the bulk of the work in getting everybody here. So let's take 10 seconds and give them a round of applause. All right, with that, I will turn it over to my colleague and compatriot and partner in crime, Quentin Palfrey. Quentin, thank you for organizing today. Thanks so much. Thank you Ashish.


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Good afternoon pastor David. Hey John welcome everybody to a random moment unfiltered with pastor David You know pastor we had our Israel meeting this last Sunday and Bill was here in and as he was going over the itinerary I was thinking about the different places that we visited and one of my favorite places that we Go to is Caesarea, Philippi and what makes it more special for me is the devotion that you give or the teaching that you gave there and You asked a question and you prefaced it By asking by saying this is the most important question in mankind Pastor, what was that question? Yeah, it's in Caesarea, Philippi it is a location where Jesus would take his men to actually have a vacation or a time of recreation Because Caesarea, Philippi at that time was kind of like a resort place. It was a resort area and So Jesus took his men there and as he did so he was taking his men to give him a place of relaxation and recuperation Because they're so busy in ministry and so not only did Jesus go to Caesarea, Philippi, but others would go there. It actually had a an established town resort because in that area it was cool, it's there by Mount Hermon and It's just a real relaxing area and it has a Cave that is there that water will come out from and and and it's been there for for many centuries and all and it has become one of the Main sources of the Jordan River There are actually three sources that Converge into the single that make the Jordan and this is one of those locations and so it's just a beautiful place and so Jesus is there with his his men and He asked them that most important question and I love to go to this place for this reason It's because that is the most important question that can be asked of anybody and that question that He asked is who do men say that I the son of man am and so that's the question every person has to answer Just this week. I had somebody who's been posting on Facebook and and actually wanting to argue with me Concerning who Jesus Christ is and all and and this person needs to answer that question because she thinks that That Jesus is just a manifestation of God but does not see him for who he actually is the second person of the Trinity and So I've written to her in response on a couple of occasions already Because she's missing the answer the answer. She is giving is the incorrect one And so she needs to know the true answer to the question as the Bible teaches that he is God in the flesh and so when Jesus asked the question of his men who do men say that I the son of man am He's already supplying the answer to them by saying the son of man the son of man is a Messianic title found in Daniel chapter 7 verse 13 in Reference to messiah as the son of man and so he supplied the answer It's one of those open book tests that you used to have on occasion in School well, the reason he's asking that is because His men being men are being influenced by the chatter that is Already taking place related to to Jesus's mission in his personhood You know Herod believed that Jesus was John the Baptist resurrected after and he says it he says this is not none other than John who might have beheaded There are others who thought of Jesus as being a prophet or even Jeremiah and You know, so they had various ideas and again the church over the centuries has been influenced by man's Opinions of who Christ is and we do get we do get influenced by what others say And so Jesus wants to clarify their confusion and so the most important question is who he is Who do men say that I am is the first question. Oh, some say John Jeremiah Elijah one of the prophets They supply these answers, but then he goes on and personalizes it by saying, but who do you say that I am? See, so it's not enough that I can repeat what others have said or have even been influenced by what others have said It's who I personally consider him to be and that's when the apostle Peter says you are the Christ the son of the living God and Blessed are you Simon by Jonah flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you, but my father in heaven this Information that you just supplied this belief that you just confessed to is a Supernational kind of an awareness that the Spirit of God My father's spirit has made you Aware of it isn't something that you through your great studies or even walking with me But it's the fact that that God has revealed this to you and that's what we talked about while we're there because It takes God to awaken us to who Jesus Christ is in the spirit of God draws us To that awareness through the conviction of the spirit And so I guess the biggest question and I don't guess I should say it like this the biggest question That those who are watching right now need to answer for themselves Is who is Jesus Christ? Is he the Son of God the Savior of the world? second person of the most holy Trinity who died on the cross that he might be a substitute for us Because the scripture says the soul that sentence shall die the wages of sin is death And so Jesus took upon himself my sin In order that he might be able to forgive me completely and then to give me something That I never had before which is his his righteousness and he became sin for us that we might through faith in him Become the righteousness of God in him And so that's the best and most important question when one could answer who is Jesus Christ and that will ultimately Determine our eternity it determines our eternity and so pastor. Thank you so much It's one of again one of my favorite teachings that when we do go to Israel I hear you say because now it becomes personalized. It's not who my mom and dad thought it what who Jesus is It's not what popular belief is it comes down to who do I say exactly that Jesus is and so Thank you so much and you know again you guys you have to come to Israel because when you're Sitting there in Caesarea Philippi and you're hearing these but Jesus is saying you can almost imagine them sitting in those Those little cutout areas and with the water coming down. Yeah, and you can hear the water flowing down Yeah, Bonyas temple exactly. There's that that water source that they believed was the gates of hell They called it the gates of hell So when Jesus says that you are Peter and upon this rock I shall build my church and the gates of hell are not going to be prevailing against it Well, he's got as his backdrop this pagan site that is called the gates of hell and so he's he's drawing Distinction between what truth is and what the mythology of the Greek was Well, thank you pastor David and we look forward for you guys to come join us this Sunday at 8 30 a.m. And 1045 as you're taking us through the book of Mark. Yes. It's a very interesting Yeah, why do you fear? That's gonna be a good one. Well, we'll see It is when you read it. Let's see how I can present it. You I'm not gonna spoil it, but you shared a statistic with me earlier and Iopening it can be and so want to invite you guys to invite your friends to come on out and join us and Again, we have our Israel trip coming up still time to sign up would love to have you guys join pastor David and Marie on This amazing trip and so pastor. Thank you so much church family. We'll see you next week God bless you. We'll see you on Sunday


tendencies and the options they have. So I get to, I get to a position, I'll be like, all right, I know all my options. I have a rough idea of all their options. So I got, I got predictable responses that I'm trying to read. Now, your creativity level is going to play a huge factor in how you progress through this. All right, so we're just going to try to open our brains a little bit. So he's going to shoot a single leg. All right. Now, I'm going to get to my single leg spin out position. I'm not going to rake stuff and cover now. All right, I'm going to get back to my single leg spin out position. I'm going to get to that 90 degree position and then I'm going to look for a leg pass. All right, I'm going to get you 90 degrees and then I'm going to let you figure out how to pass a leg from there. I'm not going to give you the answer to the test right now. So again, attacking the neck, attacking the grip, I'm stepping away, getting that grip below the knee and then I'm skipping the knee to the foot. Head's in the mat. I'm turning 90 degrees, hooking the hip and I'm driving off this free foot. When I get to this 90 degree position, I want you to figure out how to pass a leg from here. All right, we're going to get to this position and I want you to pass a leg. I'm not going to give you the answer to the test. You guys have been to this camp before. We'll know what to do. If you don't, figure it out. What's up? Whenever you have them in that position, is it possible to grab their ankle that's closest to you and then walking them back? You can. You're talking about getting a 90 degrees and just grabbing their ankle and running them over? Yeah. Talking about getting here and grabbing this ankle and running them over. The one thing that I caution you on and when we get the far ankle scrambling, which this is a real good question that opens up to spin a little bit more on your butt around a little bit more. This is what he's talking about, getting to this position and turning and using this ankle to run them over. If anytime I get to a position to where I have near ankle and they have far ankle, see how he has down my far ankle, if I have near ankle and he has far ankle and he knows what he's doing, he'll beat me 100% of the time. Because with him having far ankle, I can never turn and face him. With me having his near ankle, turn and face me. He can turn and face me no matter what. You see the big advantage he has when he has far ankle versus near ankle? We'll get into far ankle scrambling tomorrow. That is huge. So that's one of the reasons why, yeah, it's an option. But again, we got to evaluate risk factor. Because when I turn and grab near ankle and he has far ankle, man, his percentage of finishing goes way through the roof versus mine. But that's what you're thinking. You're thinking, you're asking questions. But I want you to get to this 90 degree position right here, hook the hip, we're still on the head, pass a leg from here. There's going to be some body parts that are in your way that you need to figure out how to get out of your way to get to a leg pass. Questions? All right, hop.


You can go ahead and open to John chapter 15 and verse 24 if you don't have a Bible in front of you You can just go to hungry gen.com slash notes and the notes for this message are there Hungry gen.com slash notes Gospel of John chapter 12 verse 24 Most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of weed falls into the ground and dies It remains alone, but if it dies it produces much grain as we celebrate it Jesus's death just few days ago and Watch carefully.  It's very tiny Jesus the same way when he came on this earth. He had a very humble beginnings He was born in a manger. He was born to very simple parents.  It's it's dirty. It's dark. It's cold. It's messy And god the father takes this seed jesus christ and he he throws him into the dirt of humanity But see god is not just throwing jesus out. He is not just Abandoning jesus. He is strategic and he invests jesus into humanity He throws him into the dirt of human suffering human pain And not only he goes into this dirt, but jesus fell jesus was sent from heaven And this dirt is dirty This dirt is dark this dirt Get trampled by man the bible says this seed when it goes into the ground in a few days ago I was sowing a little bit of grass seeds in my in my lawn and and I went and I Stumped on it so that it can go deeper into the dirt the same thing happened with christ this small seed Very humble beginning He Didn't do anything super great that other generals even did on the earth It was born full human and full god And god if I could use the word threw him into the earth He was planted into the soil of humanity And there he was surrounded by darkness On the cross he was surrounded by human sin that was placed on him and the bible says that he was trampled by man Betrayed by his close friend Forsaken by his disciples falsely accused by the people he came to save People who could justify him washed their hands and said we want to do nothing with him and this seed went through the turmoil went through the Heartbreak went through suffering of rejection betrayal and abandonment And jesus is describing his crucifixion In this short little parable. He says as the seed Was thrown into the ground and jesus the same way. He was rejected. He was trampled surrounded by rejection sin suffering Betrayal of friends the bible says and this seed it dies jesus not only suffered Not only he was forsaken Not only he was abandoned by those close to him But the bible says After hanging for about six hours on the cross from nine a.m. To three afternoon After that He died He didn't go into a coma. He actually died When they broke the legs of other criminals Romans and cheerian came to jesus and instead of breaking his legs He took a spear and he pierced his side and the bible says the water and blood came out jesus was already dead And then they took him down and as the seed that gets pushed deeper into the ground jesus christ was buried and three days later the scripture says He rose again on sunday morning He rose again because as the seed that goes into the ground as the seed that gets trampled by man As the seed that gets surrounded by darkness and dirt as the seed it leaves the hand of a farmer and it falls down It doesn't rise it falls down And then it gets deeper into the dirt and then it dies there It begins to come out from the ground Without the help of legs without the help of arms without any weaponry without the help of a farmer The seed breaks through the ground and most of us have seen it in our yard We've seen it in our driveway when a small little seed finds a crack in the asphalt It finds a crack in the concrete and begins to come out of it and we cut it and it keeps coming back few weeks later That's exactly what happened to jesus three days later The devil put a stone around the the grave and said he ain't coming out of this the soldiers were placed there There was a seal that was placed there so that he will not come out So nobody will not be able to break him in and then jesus rose again The reason why angels removed the stone is not so jesus can get out. It's so that we can all see He's no longer there Jesus did not need to remove the stone to get out He was already out The stone was removed so that we can see He has risen As we celebrate today his resurrection. I want to remind you that What he did on the cross had to happen for us to experience the harvest of salvation His death became our salvation His suffering became our hope His burial Is what we identify with it became our assurance That our sins are washed away That we have hope we have future and when we die We are not going to just disappear and vanish into the thin air We're not going to go into some spiritual coma, but we will go to be with jesus We will go to be with god jesus became the bridge between the humanity and divinity between us and heaven But what i love this verse for is not only that jesus described his death in a very agricultural way He gave this good analogy of how his death would look like but i want you to see in verse 25 In verse 24 he describes his death his burial his resurrection He describes what's going to happen that it will produce much grain meaning his death will produce much hope It will produce healing. It will produce salvation forgiveness of sins drug addicts will find their hope Religious people will find their freedom People that are bound by demons will find their liberty People who are sick will find their physical healing people who are depressed will find hope it will produce much grain But in verse 25 he says He who loves his life will lose it He who hates his life in this world will keep it for the eternal one If anyone serves me let him follow me and where i am There my servant will be also if anyone serves me Him my father will honor It's almost like jesus Is going from This is what's going to happen to me i'm going to be like a grain small at first Seem like i am being rejected by my father who throws me down, but in reality he is sowing me I will be surrounded by dirt and darkness I will be trampled by men deeper into the abyss of humanity But i will rise again At first it seems like jesus is describing his suffering his burial his resurrection But then in verse 25 jesus begins to talk about your suffering He begins to talk about my cross He begins to give us an example That as a master he died for my sin But at the same time as he is dying for my sin and he's rising again He's giving me an example of what i will be going through and how i should go through it Jesus is not just our master jesus is also our model He's also our example. That's why the bible says imitate christ That's why he says in matthew 11. He says come to me and i will give you rest and then he says learn from me because jesus is Death jesus is suffering and jesus's resurrection is not just one time event that happened to him for our redemption It's also an example of how we should go through our suffering as well Now it's true Our suffering doesn't add salvation our suffering doesn't bring us to redemption We don't suffer as a perfect lamb. We suffer to be perfected To be like the lamb We suffer to be sanctified. He suffered that we will be saved We suffer so we can also Have fellowship and see the same fruits in our life as he had in his Maybe you feel like a grain Very small and insignificant You were born maybe on the wrong side of the tracks. Maybe you feel like there's nothing really going in your life that's special Maybe you feel that you add no value to the world that you're around Maybe you feel like man, but I have great dreams But I look at my current situation and I don't see anything significant. I don't see anything valuable I want to encourage you today that god has a plan and a purpose for your life But the process through which god will take you is going to be very painful The promise is very beautiful promise is so awesome It's the process that is very painful We don't like the process We love the promise We want to become a forest We just don't like the dirt the darkness And dying in it and then coming back to life. But sometimes that is the process that it takes. I want to just encourage you this resurrection sunday With few simple thoughts and how to go through the process As savior did If you are writing notes, I want you to write this down trust in god's plan When it feels like your life Is a part of the devil's plot Trust in god's plan When it feels like your life Is right now Running on the tracks of the devil's plot I mean think about it Look at jesus Look at the seed being thrown from the hand of a farmer It looks like from the perspective of a seed it looks like i'm being betrayed I'm being abandoned. Why am I leaving the bag with the rest of the seeds? I enjoy the comfort of the rest of the grain seeds and now this mean farmer is throwing me out From the comfort of the community and he's not throwing me up. He's throwing me down From the vintage point of the seed this seems like a plot conspiracy to destroy me And on the top of the that what is what is he throwing me? He throws me into the dirt. He throws me into the darkness and on the top of that mean people Walk over me stump me and they push me down. It seems like god. Why are you doing this to me? Even jesus prayed the prayer on the cross his father. Why have you forsaken me? Because from the point of a seed it looks like a plot of the enemy But from the plan of the farmer it looks very different Never trust your perspective when you're suffering because your perspective is always deceptive Your perspective has always the filter of pain and it feels like you're being abandoned thrown down Where is god in all of this never trust your perspective when you're in pain trust god's plan When it feels like all of this is the plot of the devil sometimes When it feels like a plot it's actually a plan of god that's behind the scenes that god is in control God is sovereign god is faithful and jesus knew Going into suffering that it will feel like a plot of the enemy, but in reality it has a plan of god Don't trust your feelings When you're suffering trust the farmer Remember you're the seed in the hand of a farmer and your farmer is jesus christ your farmer is god the father You are not just aimlessly being thrown by life. There is a god and the bible says we are in his hand So when i am suffering when i'm going through the cross when i'm going through the gethsemane When i'm going through rejection when i'm going through isolation when things are being stripped away from me I must understand just because it feels like a plot of the devil to destroy me I don't trust my feelings I trust my farmer I trust his plan I trust his promise I trust his peace. I trust his presence From the point of a seed It looks like betrayal But from the point of a farmer This is the only way to produce a forest Your vintage point Your perspective will never be accurate If you have it from the point of your pain But when you see a breakthrough When you see an answer from god When you stand on sunday morning Friday night makes sense When you stand on sunday morning And you see the resurrection Cross makes sense But when you are being whipped Scorched betrayed and spit on it feels like a plot of the devil It feels like your life is spinning out of control. Yes, it is spinning You're spinning down and down and down, but you must understand. It's the farmer that released you The enemy is not in control in your life.   There is the god He is in control and your life belongs to him Even if his spirals down it belongs to him You are a seed and you have to trust a farmer Even if you cannot trust your feelings Even if you don't see the future Even if the devil paints in your mind and says your future is a funeral you have to say devil my future is a forest My future is a farm Not a funeral jesus had a perspective That helped him To go through the cross Trust in god's plan not in your perspective Trust in the farmer not in your feelings Trust in faith Not in your fear What looks like burial sometimes Is farmer planting a forest They both look alike From a point of a seed But from a point of a farmer One is producing a harvest the other one is simply hiding a corpse And it's important to find our faith I have been in situations in my life Even in some situations right now where certain things they just don't make sense Certain things the perspective Messes up with my reality the sight Lies to me what I see What I feel and how things look Is so convincing And it doesn't line up with the plan of god And I've learned one thing when my perspective Feels like my life is spinning out of control and what I see looks like I'm being abandoned. I must understand. I have to trust in him not in what I see I have to trust in him not in what I feel I have to trust in him not in how I can explain and translate things in my mind because not everything That I see Is the truth and the reality Jesus wasn't being abandoned on the cross He was being planted. He wasn't being buried. He was simply being planted A lot of people abandon god Because they're attached to their perspective. They're attached to what they see what they feel and we have to trust someone bigger Than our feelings and our sight I want to share with you a second thought from this Prophetic insight Gives us positive outlook on life When jesus talked about his suffering before he suffered He always included resurrection When he he didn't shy away from how much pain he's gonna have to endure The moment disciples came to the revelation that he is the son of god He did not spare any details from how gruesome Painful and gory his death is going to be he would describe the rejection He would describe the betrayal, but he never finished his description with the cross He always would finish with this statement and I will rise three days later even in here They're glorifying him these people came greeks came asking for jesus and jesus switches the whole thing He says yeah, yeah, I know everybody right now is following me, but you have to understand I'm gonna be like a grain see thrown down in the dirt in the darkness And he doesn't finish with the dirt in the darkness. He always finished it with his resurrection jesus trusted the prophetic insight by prophet david Who said you will not leave my soul in the grave He trusted in the prophetic plan from god the father for his life That even looking at his suffering. He always had positive Outlook through that suffering Jesus was not a pessimist Knowing what he's going to go through he always finished that thing saying I will rise again Jesus is a faith man Jesus is a positive man Jesus is an optimist It oozed out of him. It came out of his language. It came out out of his tongue. It came out out of his speech true model jesus left us is this If i'm going through something i must understand I have to have a prophetic insight Into my future to know that when it's dark when it's uncertain when it's scary The words god has given to me through the prophet so and so so and so so and so So and so and if you did not get any prophetic words Come to hungry generation You will get a lot of prophetic words, but let's just say you go to a church where you did not get prophetic words You have the best prophetic word. It's called the bible Prophet Jeremiah can give you a prophetic word in Jeremiah 29 verse 11 There is other prophets that can give you other words and when you have a prophetic insight into the future You can look into the darkness without seeing the light and you can have a positive outlook Why because prophetic insight gives you a positive outlook Prophetic insight helps you not to be a pessimist when things are bad when things are dead When things are not turning around when things are getting worse you have to be like jesus i will rise again I will smile again. I will love again. I will prosper again. I will walk again I will hear again. I will see again. I will marry again I will restart my business again. My ministry will grow again. You have to have the spirit of christ Yes, I will suffer. Yes, it will hurt. Yes, it will be difficult But I have a prophetic insight through the thick darkness. I will rise again There will be sunday morning and I will rise on sunday morning My family will rise again. My mom and dad will serve god. My brother and sister will serve god My children will be healthy. My children will serve god. I will rise again Or it might not be today. It might not be tomorrow, but on a third day I will rise This encourages me because see prophecy helps me to see the future If I don't have a prophetic word I will see a funeral I will see that it will end I will see that i'm it's over for me, but having a prophetic word I look beyond The betrayal beyond my feelings beyond all of what i'm feeling my mood And I declare with christ I'll rise again I'll breathe again I'll walk again I will serve again. I will work again I will preach again.  Jesus was not A pessimist naysayer Jesus was not a pitiful suffering messiah He was a powerful suffering messiah When he suffered he told his friends things will be hard But he always told them I'm coming back Like a palm tree that goes through the storm and it gets bent and rises back up. Jesus always told his followers We're coming back I'm coming back I will lose all my followers I will lose the crowd Pharisees will destroy my reputation But on the third day I will rise again and we will not just have a small following We will have a movement The world will not be able to stop That's jesus's optimistic View of his future. What do you see about your future? I see thousands locally and millions globally When I look at even right now this sanctuary It's empty with an exception of about few people that are in this room But I see a large auditorium of people that are coming the largest conference that we had at the track center When over 3 000 people that showed up I see that every single Sunday coming to our church for just one service I see that our conference services They will be held at the largest stadiums and I see hundreds of people coming to know jesus every single weekend I see the testimonies we get now of just few healings that happen every single day We're gonna see hundreds of them every single week. We have to look through the cross We have to see the crowd. We have to look through the cross and we have to see the calling We have to look through the cross and we have to see our cause We have to look through all of this and we have to have a prophetic picture. We will rise again If you lost your marriage to divorce, you have to look through that and see that you will rise again If you've been betrayed abused and taken advantage of you have to look through that And you have to have a prophetic insight into your future the dream that you had as a child That dream is not postponed.  He was committing adultery It would have been a good excuse for jesus to say I can't trust my future into prophet david. He's not even a prophet See some of us we see words from some people and you're like That's not even they're not like a real legitimate prophet Just because their first name on youtube doesn't start with prophet It doesn't mean god cannot give you prophetic insight into your future through somebody that he has called into your life Take that word And believe it. It's going to be like mary said as god said Not as I see it not as I feel it not as my circumstances look like but as god said Because somebody say man And lastly I want you to understand.  You will be destroyed through your suffering because you lost hope You will be so focused on what you're going through that you're going to forget where you're going to You're going to forget your dream Because of that nightmare Surrounding you jesus did not do that if you think jesus was walking around talking about how bad suffering will be he did But he always ended with I will rise again The last thing I want to share with you is that I believe this to me has become a very important secret From the sufferings of jesus in hybrus 9 verses 14 it says the following how much more shall the blood of christ Who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god? I used to appreciate the braveness of jesus to get through the cross The suffering he was able to endure But the verse in hybron 9 14 has gave me a little insight into the secret of jesus's strength We know jesus was born by the spirit. He was filled by the spirit. He was led by the spirit He was empowered by the spirit, but I want you to see this jesus offered himself through the holy spirit on the cross jesus did not get through the cross Through self-discipline He did not get through the cross through the mere willpower Holy spirit gave him the strength To get through the cross. Why is that important? Because the spirit of god That helped him through the cross Was the same spirit That raised him on sunday morning Bible says is that the same spirit that raised christ from the dead lives inside of you Jesus did not get through suffering because he was strong It's because his strength was the holy spirit He didn't just rely on the holy spirit to heal the sick He didn't rely on the holy spirit only to move in power He relied on the holy spirit to get through suffering and as the spirit helped him to get through suffering The holy spirit raised him up On the third day What does that mean? If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down Follow the comforter When all comforts fail Follow the comforter when all comforts fail No wonder why the lord said Do not love life But follow me and love me why Because when you go through the cross Your comforts will fail you We all have comforts in our life In three things Places we are in Possessions we have And people that like us One thing cross does Is it strips all three peas out of your life Because when you go through the cross The comforts are stripped away from you And the people who don't know the holy spirit their life falls apart because their whole life is around the comforts that they have Their dream is to make sure their life is comfortable But jesus teaches us one lesson if you want to get through the cross and get to the crown You have to have a loose relationship with your comforts and attachment to the comforter You have to understand there will be a moment You won't have a house you might not have a car You might not have the reputation that you have But jesus says The same way i went through what i lost everything i worked for for three and a half years Is slipped through me the comforts faded away, but my comfort of the holy spirit he never left me And because he never left me he helped me through the cross and the same comforter He resurrected my body and he gave me new comforts because he gave me a crown He gave me a new body He gave me a new level in life He raised me up Comfort brings happiness, but comforter brings joy Only people who follow comfort are those who forgot they have a comforter Don't follow comfort follow the comforter Comforter doesn't keep us in comfort And comforter will never leave us on the cross A few days ago actually about a week ago. There was one thing i got convicted by the holy spirit in uh To do Which led my life Mine and my wife's life made it very uncomfortable. They very thought of it made me sick When i finally did what i was supposed to do that i felt like i needed to do I felt stripped from the comfort That i lost in the process of following the holy spirit and honestly it made me feel grieving And as i was praying about it I felt the holy spirit says he says you will never be able to be close to me if you're addicted to comfort He says the only people i give myself to are those who love me The comforter not the comfort and he says the reason why i am the comforter is because when i come into your life You can be sure of one thing in order for you to go to the next level You're gonna have to give up the comfort of this one I cannot give you the crown until you let go of the comfort of this season But if you are addicted attached and in love with me and you lose the comfort of life You will still have my comfort because i am your comforter And i will raise you up on a third day and you will experience new level of comfort But don't get attached to that because if you stay close to me Even that comfort one day will be given up because i'll take you somewhere else My friend i want to encourage you jesus was not addicted to the reputation. He was not addicted to crowds He was not addicted to what people thought of him jesus was in touch with the holy spirit And when everything left him the spirit of god was still there And the same spirit is still with you and the same spirit is still with you If you don't have a comfort of your job you have a comforter in your house If you don't have a comfort right now somebody loving you having a boyfriend or having a husband You have a comforter his name is the holy spirit If you don't have the comfort of your savings account you have the comforter the holy spirit If you don't have the comfort right now of this and that you have the comforter the Holy Spirit If you let the Holy Spirit lead you through the cross He will never bury you after the cross. He will raise you up Yes, the sign of Christianity is the cross But the foundation of Christianity is the empty grave The cross is the sign, but it's the empty grave That's the power of Christianity Everybody a lot of people were crucified only one rose from the dead after the crucifixion When I follow the comforter, it's not only I go through suffering. I Get to the victory You get to victory You get to break through Jesus name And my master died for my sin while dying for my sin He became the model of how to go through suffering He teaches me not to trust my perspective by trust in God's plan. He teaches me Never lose prophetic insight into your future even though when life is painful and he teaches me Never be addicted to comfort in life When they come enjoy them when they leave Hold on to the comforter of your soul the Holy Spirit. He will never leave you He will never abandon you and he's committed to your calling not to your comfort So don't be surprised if he will pluck all the feathers out of your nest Because you were never created to live in a nest you were created to soar to run to walk and to fly and to live for his glory in Jesus name If you're watching us right now And maybe you have not made a decision to give your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and as your Savior Perhaps you don't know of this comforter Your whole life is on this big chase to get more comfort You're getting a degree so your life can be more comfortable You're exercising so your life can be more comfortable everything that you're doing Your whole goal your God if I could say is comfort As a Christian our God is the Holy Spirit is Jesus And this Resurrection Sunday he died on a cross for you So that he can be your Savior He died on a cross for you so he can take away the penalty and the power of sin from your life He not only died for you But he left you an example of how to go through difficult things and the best part He sends you a mentor the comforter to help you through Everything you going through Following Jesus doesn't make life easier, but it makes life better and the Holy Spirit Will be every step of the way with you If you have not given your life to Jesus Christ Or maybe something happened along the way And you lost that connection and today you would like to recommit your life Give me the greatest pleasure of leading you to that relationship right now All you got to do is place your trust in Jesus again Repent of your sin. I'm gonna lead you in prayer, but make no mistake prayer doesn't save you Jesus saves you prayer is just an expression of a cry For relationship with God. Let's pray Say Lord Jesus I'm a sinner Please forgive me of all my sin and wash me With your precious blood. I believe You have died on a cross For someone like me I Trust in you. I repent of my sin Come and live in me Be my Savior and be my Lord Holy Spirit Guide me in the way of life in Jesus name If you pray that prayer with me right now If you recommit it your life to Jesus or you pray that prayer for the first time Could you let us know we would like to actually connect with you today? We would like to do a video chat with you to just connect with you Go to hungry gen.com slash VIP Fill out that cord and our office will get hold of you today so that we can connect with you


Okay, just earlier today I had a lucky find or earlier today on the day I'm recording this. I'll be uploading this probably a week later. I had this lucky find while I was at the comic shop. I was at Cloud9 Comics in Portland and I was looking for some back issues of the comics I liked from that last comic book roundup review. I was especially looking for Hillbilly. I didn't find any Hillbilly comics but I did find this next issue of Reborn because I liked that one issue that I had. I'll keep looking for Hillbilly. But then they had some Golden Age stuff in a box on the counter and I saw this Superdup comic. I don't know if I ever knew that there was a Superdup series. I remember long before I began a comic book collector in the early 70s, I would buy the occasional superhero comic book just to read in the car while we were driving somewhere or whatever. But my sisters would always buy the Archie comics, the little digests. And they always contained these little one-off comic strips like little jinx and also Superduck. And I remember liking Superduck. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any superpowers even though he's called the cock-eyed wonder here. He's just a funny animal character. He wears leaderhosen. I do remember that about him. And wow, this looks right out of a Disney rip-off. In fact, it is a Disney rip-off, good Lord. But this is Archie as you can see in early Archie comics. I haven't opened this yet. Let's see what year this is from. It's a 10-cent book. So it has to be early 60s. This is issue number 31, April 10 cents. And I like that title. The other thing I was going to say about Superduck was that the comic book that turned me into a collector, in 1977, right after I saw Star Wars, I picked up issue number 15 of Howard the Duck at a local drug store. And I remember, I don't remember exactly what I was thinking, but I remember equating Howard the Duck somehow with Superduck. And it must have been because of this logo. If I were, let me put this logo here next to the Howard the Duck logo. I'll put it over there on the left. See, from across the room, or from across the aisle at the drug store, this must have looked like the same thing. That must have been what caught my attention. And Howard the Duck taught me everything I know. Okay, Superduck. Let's see what April 1950. Yeah, April 1950, volume one number 31. This is a lot older than I was expecting. Wow. It says a relative surprise, Harry Shorten editor. Does it list the artist? No. I'm wondering who the artist was. I was looking for a credit on the interior, but here's his here's his signature. I'll have to look up Superduck and see who the artist was on here because I can't read that. I doubt you can either. And look, this is pre pre comics code. And yet it's approved reading. I wonder who was doing the approving. I think I can see why as a kid I liked the Superduck strips in the Archie Digest. Look at this art has a lot of emotion to it, a lot of animation, a real classic look to it. But yeah, this looks like Archie comics trying to get a piece of Donald Duck action here. Because aside from the shoes and the shorts, this looks an awful lot like Donald Duck. I'm gonna have to actually read these. I can't stop and actually read it right now, but there's these. They've got these sexy anthropomorphic animal women here. They're everywhere. Katie King necktie. Wow. I don't think I'll thumb all the way through it. Okay, the interior pages are loose. It doesn't look like there's anything missing though. Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy reading this and studying the art closer. Do I see the name Agnes Moorhead here? I do. One thing that I never did all the years that I collected comics, I never read the letters pages. I didn't care what other people, other readers had to say about the comics. But maybe I should read these old letters pages. There's an Agnes Moorhead reference here. And of course there's the traditional Daisy Red Ryder air rifle ad on the back. Be a cowboy.  All right, there we go. A happy accidental find. Super Duck. It turns out the Super Duck was originally a Superman parody. Look at this weirdness. Weird art and bad attempts at humor. How did I go all these decades and never see this? Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book, TV, and movie reviews all the time. And please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.


This is stock number 10140A, we are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used sports car headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2004 Pontiac GTO. This vehicle has the 5.7 liter V8 motor which pumps out 350 horsepower. Quite a bit of horsepower for such a little car. Pearl is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. And definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. Comes with the 20 inch painted alloy rims. This car has brand new Kelly Edge tires on it. These are 245, 45 R17s. We put those on in our safety inspection and they are brand new all the way around. Driver side fender is in excellent condition. Didn't see any dents or dings on that. Has the projector lamp headlamps. Front bumper, I didn't see any major cracks, dents or scuffs on that. The hood looks like it's in really nice condition. Passengers side fender is in nice shape as well. No dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim is in all right condition. Down this side of the car you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down but you're still interested in the car, you can still see the car, hear the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. Once again down that side, very, very clean. The back rim is in nice condition as well. I think it's just got a little plastic dip on the wheels here. That stuff actually comes off so we'll be able to get any of that black stuff off of there. But very nice condition. Looks like the back brakes are in pretty nice condition as well and these back tires are brand new too. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, you'll notice that that rear bumper and that black pearl, the metal flake in the paint, looks really good. It's Flowmaster dual tip exhaust, deck lid spoiler with the brake light built in. Trunk area is nice and clean, no rips or tears on the carpeting back there and as we go down this side of the car, just as clean as that passenger side. Yeah, for full disclosure, this back rim, nice shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes. Once again, just a little bit of that black residue on there must have been plastic dipped, but definitely can get that off. Driver side door is an excellent condition.  There are no rips or tears on the seats. Get the GTO stitched into the backrest. Just a little bit of wear on the edge there, pretty common on these cars. Factory floor mats throughout, auto headlamps. And as we hop inside the car here, you can see that it has a digital speedometer, 68,900 or it has a digital odometer, but you can also do your speedometer here as well, 68,922 miles. Like I said, you can do distance to empty, distance to arrival, range, the units and then there's your digital speedometer right there. Did you get the red faced GTO instrument cluster? The leather wrapped steering wheel. This one has an aftermarket JVC KW-ADV 65BT Arsenal receiver on it, CD player, AM FM radio. Is your climate control, turn that down just so we can hear a little bit better. This one has the automatic transmission, passenger floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. Didn't see any rips or tears on that. The headliner is in really nice condition on this car. I think you might have Bluetooth with that radio, but I just don't have the time to test it out right now. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood. Get to these back seats, you've got to release right there. Back seats are in nice shape as well. Two buckets, no rips or tears back there. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around. Like I said, under the hood we have the 5.7 liter V8 motor, I can get the release there. Has a cold air intake, K&N cold air intake. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, 5.7 liter V8, 350 horsepower. This car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. Has four brand new tires. The car has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this car, one of our other 450 new news, cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftons, three-quarter tons, one-tons, sports cars, do you name it? We've got it.  If you want to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share. On this video and all the videos that you see there, in fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left, a link to more sports car videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom, a link to this vehicle on our website, click those, check us out. We really look forward to helping you with this super clean 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe automatic. Thank you. Thank you.


No one's just trying to, you know, keep being fast in and out of the facility, you know, guys are hanging around. If they have questions, you know, they're not afraid to ask because they know that the older guys will, you know, give them the answers. Yeah, I mean, that was good, but, you know, we got to make sure we can, you know, keep having turnovers and making sure that every day, you know, we can have our hands on the ball and make an impact and, you know, anyway, we can take the ball away or stop the offense from scoring. You know, that's our goal.  And when we come together, we understand that, you know, the guy next to me has been doing that same work and trusting each other.    Overall, I mean, I barely started. I only started three games last year, so I have a lot to prove. A little bit, but, you know, I still haven't started the whole full season yet, but, you know, for me, I just want to make sure I can improve and help the guys around me. Oh, it's hot. It's hot out here, you know, we have good training staff and good trainers making sure we're hydrated and making sure we've got the towels for sure. Right.


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