Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Footies batch three prices continue to drop. All of these insane shape shifter team of the season, team of the year, everything that's in packs right now is still dropping in price off of just how insane the pack weight is. I think that's really, really the number one key as to why this stuff has dropped so much on the market. And of course, EA released yesterday the big upgrade SBCs that we now have available to go and grind and do the upgrade packs, the 75 times five and the 82 plus with the common gold upgrade, like all of the regular upgrades are back, GGs, the EA sports and 82 plus player picks specifically for batch three are absolutely insane. So I wanna talk about all that's going on and also cover the footies times 10 upgrade, which is a little bit, not even a little bit, it's just too expensive for our liking and it doesn't even give you a guaranteed rating. So some of the cards that you get from this are not that good. I wanna talk about that SBC for a bit. And of course, what to expect on Sunday because we have had the Asan player, you know, footies Bundesliga vote winner. We are expecting our second winner to be out via SBC today. We don't exactly know who that is. There's no leaks for that just yet. If I have to guess, it's gotta be Thomas Moyniere, but I would expect to see that today on Sunday and of course an icon moments player pick return. Hopefully it's 94 plus EA, come on. Just drop us a 94 plus, it is August now, go for it. So we'll talk about all that and more in today's video, but of course we do have to talk about the market and including SBC fodder because fodder went up yesterday for a bit, it's back down again and it is very, very viable. So all that and more in today's video, if you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. We talked about first though, the prices that are still moving on this market. I mean, I could go and show you just an absolute crazy number of these shapes here, if they're heroes, everything that's in batch three. What I'm gonna start off with though is just look at some prices that have continued to drop off. This is kind of what we expected, right? With these guys being in packs for the extended period of two weeks, they're gonna continue to drop over this weekend, but I think on the weekends, what you have is the most amount of supply because people are opening packs from weekend league rewards. A lot of people open save up packs on Friday, right? Now, yesterday you saw a lot of these prices drop even more. I mean, last night, I'm pretty sure I checked on the video and Dina Talley was like 800K still and right now Dina Talley is 578, right? If we take a look at the Saturday graph, he started off at 700, 800,000 coins and was just dropping all day, all day and even down further. And is it really because of the great content? I mean, if you take a look at the SBCs that we had yesterday, we had the footies times 10 upgrade, which was 93% downvoted, but people were absolutely still going out and doing this.  That's not, you know, the footies times 10 upgrade is an SBC that a lot of people were going and doing even though it was downvoted so much because people have fodder and they don't know what to do with it and they wanna gamble at this stage of the game. But, you know, I think it's the combination of supply and a little bit of that panic, but really I just think that EA have absolutely juiced the pack weight on like everything, batch three. Look at Hyunmin's son, 770,000 coins for this guy. Wow, that's crazy.  It's a weird combination of these cards getting packed so much, but they're still really high rated and they're shape shifters. So they seem to be somewhat rare as well and that's why you continue to see it like we just looked at on that Hyunmin's son graph. You see all these fluctuations. He goes down on Saturday to 850K, goes back up to 1.1 mil, then goes down to 750, back up to 860. You're gonna continue to see these fluctuations with these really, really high tier shapeshifter and team and season cards that are very, very popular. Now, today on Sunday, I think you're gonna see prices drop even lower again. It might not be as drastic as it was yesterday, right? Marcelo went from 1.1 mil to 1.3, back down to 900K and is now in that 900K range again. You know, if you're really wanting a card to use this week in FIFA, you really probably wanna take a look at some of these card prices tonight on Sunday. Whatever content is today, I think there could be some more supply of people finishing off their week in league. One thing we actually have seen pretty consistently on Sunday nights heading into Mondays and we'll talk about this maybe a little in tomorrow's video too is there's always a little bit of an uptick on the market on like Monday mornings, during Monday heading into content drop.  So I think that if you're trying to buy a card to try out and just use for a couple games, again, the Monday could bring us the repeatable 85 times 10, that would be my only worry of like, I'm not gonna go out and tell you right now to yeah, you gotta buy these cards on Sunday night or tonight because I think they're gonna go up in price. I really don't think that's gonna be the case here because if it is, it's gonna be a short rise on a Sunday morning timeframe or Monday morning, Sunday night to Monday morning. It would be a small rise, but then these cards are all still gonna keep dropping over the next two weeks they're in packs, right? That's, we know that that's gonna be happening. So any of these cards that you see really, really big drops on if you're trying to trade with them or flip with them, go for it. I think it's a very, you know, it's a very good market to be trading in because again, like I said, these cards are pretty rare. Frank Ribbery was just 875. He might be like rebounding a little bit right now. He had a fluctuation last night. Let's see how high this guy is gonna go. 915, 930, and then he doesn't have that many cards to like probably 900 highs. All right, he's got a decent amount. So the longer that we go, the fluctuations are gonna kind of be a little bit less. Those first day, first night ones were probably the biggest ones that you saw, right? With Sun, with Marcelo and stuff like that. But in general, all these cards that are in batch three are gonna go lower. Just watch for a bit of a fluctuation, you know, maybe tonight from Sunday into tomorrow on Monday for a few of these cards. But again, the content is just so much on this game at the moment. The packs are so good. That's gonna pull people away from using tradable cards on the market as well. And they'll say, hey, I'll go sell like a hazard shape-shift that I have. It's 270K and I'll go do a bunch of player picks because player picks are just hitting different right now. I don't know if I can do one from the club. I really want to though. My club, I really haven't done too much since Friday if I'm being completely honest. Let's see, what do I have in here? Okay, I've got some Serie A guys, perfect, perfect. This is gonna be absolutely banging for a player pick. Like every single player pick that I see people opening, I even need to show you guys some tweets that were sent to me. I mentioned that at the beginning of the video too. I gotta show you guys like how cracked these are. From one player pick, can I get a team of the season or a shape-shift their card? Let's see, I cannot. Okay, that was a dud of a player pick. But for most people, what they're getting is stuff like this. Like take a look at these player picks. So that being tweeted guys, like, we love that pack. Wait, look at this. Okay, that's a batch three player pick. So I guess that's a bit besides the point, but it gets ribbery, right? Pack win in general OP. 75 times five pack with Oscar and Vinny inside of it. He got assets Rashford seven packs ago and now this, another tweet that I was mentioned in, this guy said, I decided to do five player picks. And this almost seems like, like he's capping man, but still at the same time, I don't think that he is. And I really don't know if this guy is capping, but that almost seems way too good to be true. Five player picks. He got Ginola, Abedi Pillay, Tavernier, Thiago Mendez and Zaha. That's what he tweeted me. And he's got, he actually, he's got the receipts. He had Tats no way. Tats a lot and Abedi Pillay in the same. These are 82 plus player picks guys. Like these 82 plus player picks are 12,000 coins to do 13K. Like, and this is what people are packing from them.  That's, that's, that's disgusting. And I think that, you know, that's what everybody is going to want to do in this game this week. That's what I want to be doing day in and day out on this week. I will be draining as many coins as possible this next week. And of course, a lot of people are doing that too because how much are gold rares? Yeah, their gold rares are up, right? And if you bought some of these yesterday, you are feeling really good cause wow, no way. Gold rares are 1500 coins. That's crazy. Gold rares are probably going to be their highest. Probably Tuesday, like they were last week. You know, they might go over 2000 coins this week because again, like I've been saying all weekend, there's just so much more demand. And with all the cards and packs, it makes sense. With the shape shifters, you see player picks like that. The EA seemed to have juice to pack weight. Incredible. So GGs to EA for that.  If you pack anything sick, as always, make sure to tweet me. Link down below in the description, as I said. But the other SBCs that we had yesterday, we did have the Footies March favorite, Tony Cruz celebrating his foot birthday version. And I actually made a tweet yesterday and I kind of realized that after they dropped this Tony Cruz, I was like, wait a second. This last week of Footies, we have had not one, not two, but three Real Madrid midfielders added via Footies cards. Ferland-Mendi, Casamiro, and now Tony Cruz. This is becoming like a Real Madrid promo. But anyways, this card, five star, five star is very nice. Yeah, it's more of a fun card than anything else. Great shop power, great long shots. His passing is going to be absolutely phenomenal. So GGs to EA for this. The SBC is coming in on Footipin at 150K. Pretty craftable. It's about the same cost as LeCroix, if you think about it. So really not that bad. If you have a Real Madrid squad, if this card helps out your team with links, German, with some Bundesliga stuff going on right now, a lot of other German players released and Real Madrid links there, pretty usable. So that was a W for the price, if it is something that would be really good for your team. Now, the other SBC was the big one, the Footies times 10 upgrade. Now, this one is coming in at 400K and it's just, it's kind of too expensive. Especially, here's what I would say, if you are on your way of crafting Ferland-Mendi, with the fodder that you're getting right now, it's not doing this times 10 upgrade and doing the Ferland-Mendi squads with the same amount of fodder, would just put you so much further ahead, getting that SBC done. Now, I don't know about the 85 times 10, it says it's not repeatable, but I thought it was gonna be refreshing in two days from Friday and I thought that meant we were gonna be able to do it again today on Sunday. The way this looks right now, it doesn't look like it and this SBC is going away tomorrow and Monday, but if it is coming back tomorrow being unlimited repeatable, that means we can do as many 85 times 10s as we want, that's something that we kind of have to think about and prepare for. I still think it might be a smidge too early for EA to do that, but I also think it's possible. So, a couple ways that we can just kind of think about that as well, a day ahead of time, is SBC fodder and regardless of the 85 times 10 coming out today or tomorrow, it's gonna come back, right? SBC fodder yesterday, if you bought any cards, they did pretty well. I mean, take a look at our usual saboteur, right? We always look at this guy, 5,000 coins, he's back down, but yesterday he was 4.5, 4.7, spiked to 7K at the content drop and is now back down. Fodder is still a really, really good buy. Look at 85s, man, wow. DeVry is 7.6K, that's crazy. What did he do yesterday? He was also 7K yesterday and went back up to 9,000 coins. I still think it's a great opportunity, 83, 84, 85, do a club stock. Think it's a really, really good opportunity, especially with all gold rares are like 1.8, 1.5, 1.6, maybe even rising up further than that, closer to 2K and 83s are only like 2.5K, 84s at 4K, 4.5K, that's a W, 85s at 7.5, like under 8K for 85s, big W.  So that's why I'm gonna keep telling you guys to buy fodder when it's low on these weekends. I think today, like when you're looking at these prices right here, this might be one of the last low times for fodder for the next week and a half, maybe, if the supply really is gonna end up stopping pretty soon because last week during batch two, week number two, they didn't run any lightning rounds and there's really not been a lot of tradeable supply recently on the market as well. So I would just say it's, again, a great time to pick up on some of those SBC fodder just because the prices are down again and the 85 times 10 is gonna be a big catalyst for these cards as well. Number one, if it does come back today and number two, if it's released tomorrow as an unlimited repeatable SBC. So let's talk about Sunday content a little bit. Of course, we know Sundays bring us two things like almost guaranteed in the past couple of weeks of footies. Sundays always bring us the second winner of the footies vote. Now, we've already had the Asan player, right? This SBC really, really good. Recommend getting it done.  I really think that Thomas Moynier is gonna win. Like, I would love Kevin Prince Boateng FIFA legend, right? But little concept here, whipped up by the boss foot on Twitter, he did like a voting poll and actually Moynier and Playa, he showed in his Twitter poll or Instagram poll, wherever this was, had the highest two percentage votes out of both the cards. Evidently, EA said that Playa had number one from their vote, from the real vote, and I would just have to assume that Thomas Moynier got second place. If it's Boateng today, I would be a little bit surprised. So I think we would see the second place winners SBC dropped on the game today as a premium footies item. So maybe a new Bundesliga right back in Moynier coming for a lot of people today on the game. That's something to watch out for today. And of course, Sundays also bring us icon upgrade SBCs, the 93 plus moments pick, which I believe we have had for at least two weeks now. At least two weeks, we've had the same one. It is going away today. And I don't know why EA have not released. It seriously guys, it has been months since we have had a repeatable icon moments or icon upgrade pack that is repeatable with no limit. They don't like to do these no limit repeatables. They just give us like two every week or one every other day or something like that for the 85 times tens. And just give us the old unlimited repeatable. When you make it repeatable, we can do it as many times as we want. I missed that with some icon player picks. Even though at this stage of the game, they're not the most hype. People are getting fodder so much right now that it's something that we can grind. So EA, please give us a 94 plus moments today and make it unlimited times repeatable. That's what we want at this stage of the game. So hopefully something like that comes today. I don't know if they would drop a new sort of like player pick or anything along those lines. We have the Bundesliga campaign. We have the bash three upgrade for the footies player pick which if I'm doing any of these gamble packs right now, man, that's kind of a tough one. Like the footies player pick, this one is really not good value. I even though I just showed you one that was really, really good. I think that to me is just, that's such a big hit or miss. 88 rated squad. According to footbin, this is costing, okay, that's only costing you 80,000 coins. That's not as bad as I thought it was. So maybe this is something that since fodder is super duper cheap on the high tier, maybe this is something that you look into. Like I don't know if I can do one of these right now. I really doubt it. Like I don't have that much high rated fodder in the club because I use a lot of it on the main man himself, Furlan Mendy was a disgusting card by the way, really, really good item. But like Oscar, I'd have to turn into this. I have to really rinse the club through a lot of players if I was gonna try to get this done. Yeah, and I'm really missing a lot of fodder. I need to do a lot of player picks is really what I need to do. And then I'll go ahead and maybe try one of these footies batch three ones just to see what it's like. I think I will try the times 10 upgrade even though it's so much more expensive. You do get 10 players instead of only getting one from a player pick. So that's kind of nice. But yeah, I think this has me see yesterday. It was a lot more hyped up and I was hoping that it would be a lot better than it actually was. So that's a bit of a disappointment just because it's so expensive, man. 400K, four squads, it's a lot to grind even at this stage of the game when a lot of the other upgrade packs are just one squad, get it done and boom, you get a player pick or you get an 85 times 10. So that's a bit of a bummer. I was really hoping for a little bit better from EA on that one, which does suck. But again, the biggest part of the menus right now is that the pack weight is incredible and you can see it because the prices are dropping. People are packing all of these cards and people want to go out and do SBCs at the same time as well and that's just causing these prices to drop down and the menus are a great place to be on FIFA right now. There's just so much to do, there's a lot of fun. And that's why I think these shapeshifters are going to keep dropping because going out and buying cards right now, the only people that are doing that or going out and buying cards just to try a player out that they have not used. I want to go buy this Ramos and try them out. So that's kind of the only way I see the market moving and I think it could move a little bit tonight on Sunday. So I just wanted to preface that a little bit in this video. I think fodder is a great buy on the low tier, even as early as possible. Today, before the content drop, I also think that some of these, maybe especially some of the shapeshifter cards, Rivery, Marcello, Ramos, Sinaldo, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, some of those guys that are still down like literally 50, 60% in price. Like Ronaldo, even like Messi, right? Messi was seven million coins and now he's 3.3 or something like this. Absolutely insane. Wow, he's going to keep going lower too. Look at all those listings at 3.3. So I mean, all these cards I do think are going to go lower but I think that some of them will reach kind of an inflection point in the next day where they could potentially bounce back up a little bit. So that's just something to keep an eye out for if you're still trying to make a few coins or try a card out for your team and try not to lose that many coins on it. I completely, completely understand. Also watch for Twitter leaks today on Sunday because I would imagine that they would drop a leak for who is actually going to be our SBC winner from the second place SBC winner that's something I watch out for today. And then maybe they'll have some other sort of like, what footies favorite are we on now? We're on March. We've got this week of footies, we've got next week of footies and we've got to cover April, May, and I think they're going to do June and maybe even July, but probably just June. So somewhere between two to three more of the favorite SBCs. And this is the first one that we have had since, who's our last footies favorite? What is it? Was it Laquat? I think Laquat was our last one. Yeah, Laquat and then Tony Cruz. So you would think that an April footies favorite would potentially be coming later on this week. So leaks for that could be coming pretty soon as well as it's actually kind of weird to think about it. This week is week four of footies. After this, we have only one more week of FIFA with the footies promo being out. Now there'll be some stuff after that and we'll continue to talk about that as we go on. There's going to be a promo after this, but that promo might not be as hype as footies. So that's why I'm really trying to spend a lot of my coins this week, really grind it out, do as many player picks and packs as possible in the next two weeks really, because I just think after this, it is going to slow down a decent amount. But for right now, the game is popping, the menus are fun. There's a lot of objectives to do as well. With the Bundesliga Cup, I'm way behind on this, but we'll hopefully be able to get still 27 if we go on some nice, the score up of kickoff or something and get those wins pretty fast. That would be very, very nice. But every day that I don't play, I'm lowering my, or I'm actually increasing my percentage wins that I have to have for all the games. Since it's 10 per day, it was 27 out of 70, but I missed all of yesterday's games. I might miss some of today's, so I'm going to have to end up having like a 50% or a 60% win rate if I'm going to get that done. So there's just a lot to grind and it's a W, right?  And that's the biggest draw to the game at the moment with Batch 3 and packs. So let me know down in the comments what you guys are doing on this game right now. I know a lot of people are crafting. Mindy, you're doing the Bundesliga objective games, you're doing 82 plus player picks and today's content hopefully with an 85 times 10 re-up, hopefully, although it doesn't look very promising. A good icon player pick would help things today as well. And you know, EA, just drop us some other great SBC, whether it's a player or a player pick, just let us have some fun. Keep dropping these big boy SBCs that are a lot of fun in August. We would appreciate it. So let me know again down in the comments how you're feeling, but if you did enjoy today's video, hit the thumbs up on it and of course, subscribe if you're new. It has been Nate for the Count and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


First Samuel chapter 25. We're going to look at the entire chapter. Let's begin at verse one together I'll read verse one get into our study and move on into the chapter first Samuel chapter 25 verse one then Samuel died and The Israelites gathered together and lamented for him and buried him at his home in Ramah and David arose and went down to wilderness of Peron Now Samuel is a very famous very famous individual here in in the book Obviously a first Samuel he was a judge as well as the last judge that the nation of Israel had and He judged something like 18 years This is a man who who had been dedicated to the Lord for the Lord's service and spent his entire lifetime in the temple and In his latter years was a judge there in the nation of Israel and saw great things happen as we've been going through first Samuel We've seen how that Samuel was the one who anointed Saul who was the very first king of the nation of Israel We also saw how that he had anointed David who was to replace Saul So this is a man who was there anointing the first king as well as the second king in this mighty nation as a matter of fact He was there watching the nation as it grew into a military power So he had a lot to do with the greatness of this nation the nation of Israel But one of the things about him that that comes to mind is the fact that in spite of the fact that he Saw many great things. He's also one who sorrowed over the sorrowful things that took place because he's the one who anointed Saul as first king But he's also the one who announced to Saul that Saul was going to be removed because of his disobedience In first Samuel 1535 We read Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul Samuel mourned every day until he died for Saul because Saul had rejected God It isn't enough that there was great potential in this man this king named Saul That's not what caused him to weep into sorrow and and to have this great pain and grief in his life until the day He died it's that that Saul rejected God and one of the things that we need to understand is those who have a righteous heart Those who have a righteous life have a tendency of grieving for those who have rejected the Lord And that's what happened in the life of this man and In Samuel's life and he grieved until until until until he died Samuel died And the Bible here makes it clear that the Israelites gathered together and buried him so as it's common with all men Samuel as good as he was finally died You see some of the saddest words that you're ever going to read in your Bible are found in the book of Genesis rather Genesis chapter 5 verse 5 In Genesis chapter 5 verse 5 we we read these words all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died 930 years and he died you see God's intent for man was to experience beauty and joy peace Love to be with him forever but because sin entered in through Satan and the temptation whereby Eve Handed to her husband this forbidden fruit and and he took of it and died Adam was held accountable for that and and as a father of mankind it passed on his sinful nature to all men so that All of us are actually born spiritually dead we're in need of regeneration you see and So when you read the Bible when you see that God had created all things intended A man and woman to enjoy them to have pleasure the the peace and all fellowship with God and then to read the words And he died he gives to us an insight into what happens the wages of sin is death And the Bible tells us in Hebrews 9 27. It's appointed unto men to die once and after this the judgment You see there are those who believe that you get second chances after you die The Bible does not teach that I Was raised in a system that taught a that there was a place called purgatory that you'd go to this place and and that your Residual effects of your sin on earth would be dealt with purged if you will in this place called purgatory Where residual sins are dealt with but we don't have there's no such place as purgatory outside of junior high ministry Now that's the closest thing you're gonna get to purgatory But the bottom line is is there's no second chances. It's appointed unto men to die once And after this the judgment it doesn't say that you have reincarnation. It doesn't speak about souls being Transmigrated and taking up residence in some other physical essence It speaks simply in the scriptures as one chance to get right with God One lifetime you don't have two opportunities.  He was buried in the family plot at his home All Israel gathers together and they mourn such a loss The Bible in verse 1 also says that David arose and went to the wilderness of Paran So as this was taking place David and his men went south towards the Sinai Peninsula And that's where he was as you know that he's been running from from King Saul So now he has moved when Samuel has died David has moved on down south into this wilderness Now as we move on we're introduced to a married couple It says in verse 2 there was a man in my own whose business was in Carmel the man was very rich He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel the name of the man was Naval and the name of his wife Abigail and She was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance But the man was harsh and evil in his doings He was at the house of Caleb. So what we have here as someone once once spoke of it in this way And therefore I call it the same thing what we have here is beauty and the beast You have Abigail a woman who is of great understanding and beautiful appearance who is married to a man by the name of Naval Now when you look at these people the the name Abigail that literally means the cause of joy The word nabal speaks of that which is foolish or wicked beauty and the beast So you have the ball who's described as being a very wealthy man married to this very wise woman by the name of Abigail She undoubtedly had an arranged marriage so that she was given to this man as his wife So he did a lot better than he deserved when he got Abigail And so we're introduced to these two people here as Individuals who are going to have a tremendous impact in in the life of David notice verse four when David heard in the wilderness That nabal was sharing his sheep David sent ten young men and David said to the young men go up to Carmel go to nabal and greet him in my name and thus you shall say to him Who lives in prosperity peace be to you peace to your house and peace to all you have Now I have heard that you have shearers Your shepherds were with us. We did not hurt them nor was there anything missing from them all the while They were in Carmel asked your young men They'll tell you Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes for we come on a feast day Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David Well during this time when they were shearing the sheep as this is a celebration It's a festival a fiesta That's when they would get together and they would they would they would have a banquet and and enjoy themselves So it was a time of celebration David is aware of this David's down south Carmel is up north And so what he says is I'm gonna send ten of my young men there in order that they might greet nabal in order that he might give us some supplies because our men have been taking care of of Him and and his his wealth and and it's a festival time It's a time when people will be generous and also I better send ten men to collect all the goods that he's gonna give to them So they can bring it back and supply us because David has an army that needs to be supplied And so he he sends them with a real courteous greeting He says that they're to greet him in a proper fashion and greet him in my name He says give him a blessing peace be to you peace on your house peace to all that you have The refresh his memory by letting him know that we are the ones who took care of your sheep Nothing was ever stolen and we took care of the people that were there guarding your sheep We actually were guarding your people as they took care of the sheep and therefore if we have found favor in your site Can you give us something because we have need now? That's a customary thing David is expecting this man to respond in a good way well It says in verse 9 so when David's young men came they spoke to nabal according to all these words in the name Of David and waited then nabal answered David's servants and said who's David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat and that I've killed for my Shearers and give it to men when I do not know where they are from So his response is absolute rudeness. Who are these guys anyway? What are you escape slaves? Why should I supply food for a trader anyway a renegade somebody who is disloyal to the king? Why should I do any good for him when he's done so much evil to others and that's how he speaks well notice What happens it says in verse 12 David's young men turned on their heels and went back They didn't wait a moment the many said that they turned around and left and they came and told him all these words David said to his men Every man gird on his sword So every man girded on his sword and David also girded on his sword and about 400 men went with David and 200 stayed with the supplies Now one of the young men told Abigail nabal's wife saying look David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master and he reviled them But the men were very good to us and we were not hurt Nor did we miss anything as long as we accompanied them when we were in the fields They were a wall to us both by night and day all the time we were with them keeping the sheep Now therefore no one consider what you will do for harm is determined against our master and against all his household For he's such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him So he gives a good report David and his men have cared for us Something has to be done No ball won't listen to wise advice.  I'm concerned for you But he says something in verse 17 that we can look at for a moment It says in verse 17 the last portion for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him You know how unreasonable this man is When he says he's a scoundrel that is literally he is the son of Belial That means he is a completely worthless person. This man rejects advice This is somebody that you can't reason with this is somebody that has got a Proudful spirit that that even when they're wrong you cannot reason with this person at all You can't speak to them. You can't bring to him anything any logic or anything.   You're gonna end up with lost opportunities You're gonna end up just messed up Stop I had a friend of mine by the name of angel Angel and I were high school, but he's good friend Angel got into taking second all Reds Downers He took so many that something happened in his blood And he started having bloody noses nosebleeds And I can still remember I was hanging around with him one night and his nose was just pouring out blood And I said you know all you need to do is just you know apply pressure And he says you don't understand he says I've been taking so many drugs and so many reds that my blood doesn't coagulate You got to get me to the hospital and you could talk to people like angel and you could talk to others like him And and you could try to reason with them and you try to explain to them. This is gonna hurt you The way that people tried to reason with me the way that they would say look at if you stay in the drugs You're gonna harm yourself if you stay in the alcohol.  You don't want to hear what they have to say. Are you kidding? What do you know about my life?  He will despise the wisdom of your words And then you can tell him if you keep going down this path a fool just continues to go down that path They don't care what you're saying and that's what Nabal was like He was a scoundrel. No one could speak to him And so this man comes and speaks and shares with Abigail and says, you know how he is well notice verse 18 Abigail made haste and took 200 loaves of bread two skins of wine Five sheep already dressed so they had little ties and suit jackets on Five seas of roasted grain a seo that represents about 80 rather eight gallons seahs eight eight gallons so they had about 40 Dry gallons of roasted grain 100 clusters of raisins 200 cakes of figs loaded them on donkeys She said to her servants go on before me. See I am coming after you But she did not tell her husband of all So it was that she wrote on the donkey that she went down under cover of the hill and there was David and his men coming Down toward her and she met them now David had said surely in vain I've protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him And he has repaid me evil for good May God do so and more also to the enemies of David if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light Now when Abigail saw David she dismounted quickly from the donkey fell on her face before David bowed down to the ground So she fell on at its at his feet and said on me my Lord on me let this iniquity be Please let your maid servant speak in your ears and hear the words of your maid servant Please let not my Lord regard this scoundrel nabal for as his name is so is he nabal is his name Folly is with him, but I your maid servant did not see the young man my Lord Men of my Lord whom you sent now therefore my Lord as the Lord lives and as your soul lives Since the Lord has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand now then Let your enemies and those who seek harm for my Lord be as nabal And and now this present which your maid servant has brought to my Lord let it be given to the young men who follow my Lord Please forgive the trespass of your maid servant The Lord will certainly make for my Lord an enduring house because my Lord fights the battles of the Lord Evil is not found in you throughout your days So she comes into your reasons Without saying a word to her husband. She acts wisely and what she does is she sends a generous supply to David Not only did she send a generous supply, but she also made her way to him in order that she might personally appease his anger by coming in a friendly manner Proverbs 21 verse 14 says a gift in secret pacifies anger and that's exactly what she was doing So Abigail makes her way to David and as he she does so David is making his way down to kill her husband And as David is on his way He's making a strong oath that he will definitely kill the ball and notice what he's saying in verse 21 How he says he has repaid me evil for good In spite of the good David had done in other words and a ball has insulted me and his inclination is to seek Retribution and he's going to annihilate every male now under normal circumstances This is not the proper way to deal with this kind of situation Under normal circumstances, we're called to take the higher ground And what David is doing is he's giving Into his his carnal nature his desire for retribution for vengeance and and as he's giving into it He is he is breathing out within himself a threatening.   We've had this desire to get even that's what David has David saying I'm not going to put up with this I've been taking care of his if his wealth all of this time and this guy has the the the ability to To insult my messengers after we have put ourselves between them in danger We've never taken anything never harmed anyone. We've actually treated them well and look at the way we're being repaid Are you kidding me? He was so angry. He said let's just go arm up. We're going to take him out Here comes Abigail. She sends them all of these goods and now she's falling down before him and saying please Don't let your anger do this Under normal circumstances believers take higher ground Jesus and Luke 6 28 said this he said bless those who curse you pray for those who spitefully use you That's what Jesus taught us to do Romans 12 21 says do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good Jesus was the greatest example of this the apostle Peter in 1st Peter 221 through 23 said it like this 40 you For to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example That you should follow his steps who committed no sin nor was the seed found in his mouth Who when he was reviled did not revile in return when he suffered he did not threaten but committed himself to him We judges righteously We've been taught to turn the other cheek. We've been taught to pray for those who despitefully use it David is given into his his inclinations of his flesh.   He is what his name implies.  He doesn't doesn't know what he's doing and Then she reasons in this way in verses 26 through 28.  It's not even good enough for you.  God has better things for you and if you go out and Have bloodshed it's gonna diminish you It's interesting in verse 29 how it says a man is risen to pursue you. That's Saul To pursue your life, but the life of my Lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God and The lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the pocket of a sling And it shall come to pass when the Lord has done For my Lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you ruler over Israel That this will be no grief to you nor offense of heart to my Lord either That you have shed blood without cause or that my Lord has avenged himself When the Lord has dealt well with my Lord, then remember your maid servant. Don't bring yourself down Don't do this. God has a plan for your life Let God work. I was 26 once my bride My young wife Marie It's pregnant with Corinne We went and visited some people Climbed into the car. We were about to leave When she started to cry. I had started the engine put it in gear. I was driving Away from the curb when all of a sudden my little girl 24 years old at the time Starts to cry and I'm not talking about just I'm talking about loud Like her heart was broken and I hit the brakes I had just started to pull away from the curb Which she cried and I hit the brakes and I said what's wrong What's wrong? And she tells me someone hurt me and I said, oh I Sped up and made a u-turn and went back to the house With her holding on to the steering wheel She grabbed the steering wheel and I yanked it so hard it pulled out of her hand And I rolled up into the driveway and I started to take off my seatbelt because I was going to talk to somebody Who just hurt my wife and I was going to speak to them in a way that he would never forget I was going to go beat the snot out of them is what I was going to do I was so mad.  Are you kidding me? It's on and that's the truth It's on and I started to go out of that car and she's grabbing hold of me and she says don't Don't don't she's that's just my hormones. You know, I'm just pregnant.  That's just the way it is and that's how a lot of you men understand exactly what I mean You know what I mean just The switch goes off. Are you kidding me? Bang. It's on and and with Murray. I'm extremely protective. Oh, really? She held on to me. Don't go. Don't go. Don't go. Obviously. I didn't I sat there for a moment and She was an Abigail in my life. She still is to this day. She whispers into my ear good things Do the right thing honey do the right thing glorify the Lord That's the voice of an Abigail and I have one in my life and I didn't go in there and and cause any problems I didn't do anything. I sat there in the car. I fumed for a moment I drove home and the Lord ministered to me because I have had so many opportunities Since then to minister to this person that I was gonna go and harm I've had so many Opportunities since then those doors would have been closed forever if I'd have gone in with the flesh if I'd have gone in as angry as I was It would not have been a good thing at all and I'd never had a chance to to minister to them as I have and to and and and they asked me spiritual questions and Things like that. They don't know to this day how angry I was sitting there in a in a driveway Ready to just go in and and to beat them up frankly to beat them up and you know what I Thank God for that Abigail's in our life I do I thank God for the calm spirits and and the heart that sees something beyond the right now And that's what Abigail is here Abigail is saying to him listen if you go out and do that You're gonna be just like Saul a man who is busy always defended himself and always seek him for himself David you're not like that as a matter of fact this man is after you don't be like him Don't be a man of the flesh. You see we have battles that we have guys We have battles that we fight and then we have the outside enemy Yes, we have things on the outside that we fight, but there's a greater foe that I have to overcome and that's myself That's what's inside of me That's my sin nature the nature that rises up to say look at you're not gonna insult me You're not gonna insult my wife. You're not gonna do that. It's that sin nature that I have to die to At the inclination of the flesh to go and just take care of matters Just do it in your own strength or in your own wisdom your own ability your own power And and you have to have somebody like an Abigail the Abigail in a way It's like the Holy Spirit whispering into the into the heart of David listen You can be like Saul or you can be a man of God. What is it gonna be and? That's a question that is still asked to this day. You can act in the flesh or you can act by the spirit What is it gonna be?      What are you gonna do?  I started learning this lesson a long time ago when I was a young man When God started saying either you can represent my kingdom or the kingdom of this world, but you can't Do both you have to make a choice What's it gonna be and for me at 26 sitting in that car holding on 10 o'clock 2 o'clock to that steering wheel just angry as any young man might be because my bride There is crying and you're not gonna are you kidding me? And the Holy Spirit from that point on has been working over time in this man's life to teach me gentleness Compassion the spirit of God how he moves what he can do when you die to yourself And it abagales to in that but guys you can't do that in your own strength You might want to you might want to be the best person that there's ever been you might really have a heart to be a very good person But if you don't have the power of the Spirit in your life if God is not resident within you by faith You haven't received Jesus Christ's Lord and Savior Who empowers you to live all life that is godly you're gonna fail David listened David listened to what Abigail had to say It calmed his spirit down And he made it very clear When David in verse 32 said to Abigail blessed is the Lord God of Israel who sent you this day to meet me Blessed is your advice and blessed are you because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself With my own hand indeed as the Lord God of Israel lives who has kept me back from hurting you Unless you had heard and come to meet me Surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal David received from her hand what she brought him and said to her go in peace to your house See I have heeded your voice respected your person a wise man according to Proverbs 1 5 Will hear and increase learning man of understanding Will attain wise counsel and that's what happened now verse 36 Abigail went to Nabal and There he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king Balls heart was merry within him or he was very drunk Therefore she told him nothing little or much until morning light So it was in the morning when the wine had gone from Nabal His wife had told him these things that his heart died within him and he became like a stone It happened after about ten days that the Lord struck Nabal and he died there He was having a feast like a king. He was partying like a rock star is what he's saying there And as he was doing that he was so drunk and so incoherent That she couldn't even speak to him. I mentioned my friend Bill When Bill and I were 16 years old We went to a supermarket in Norwalk on front street for those of you who might be familiar with that area I don't even know what's going on there anymore, but there was a supermarket wasn't even that was a small market Bill and I went into this market and we both stole three bottles of wine We were 16 years old We went out and drank these three bottles of wine and a friend of ours Mike Santa Maria had a 64 Chevy Impala Super Sport And he drove us to Whittier But Bill and I were so very drunk that he let us out of his car at Sierra High School in Whittier and Left us there to 16 year olds on Washington's birthday drunk Wandering around the streets We ended up in some backyard of some house. We still don't know how we got there We were reported the police came and arrested Bill and me put us in the Norwalk substation the sheriff station put us in jail. We just talked about that I'm still mad at Bill because I was so drunk I couldn't sit on the bench that they put us on and I fell down and Bill was seated right above me Right above me my face was looking straight at his as he vomited all three bottles on my face And I said to him stop and he said I can't Over me. I still remember it and he told my one of my kids.  How cool is that?  How cool is that? How cool?  I became a pastor.  There's no reasoning with the drunk You can't you cannot present to them anything that makes sense. They'll just look at you and agree with you or fight you You know or whatever. That's what they do. I mean you could argue with me all day long when I was drunk And I go, what do you know, you know, and and I wouldn't listen to you It's just not worth it.  She says oh by the way While you were busy being drunk.  He's on the ground and the Lord takes him home now. It's interesting not take some home. Lord killed him He didn't go home anyway It happened after about ten days that the Lord struck nabal and he died David heard that nabal was dead. He said blessed be the Lord Who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of nabal has kept his servant from evil For the Lord has returned the wickedness of nabal on his own head In other words vengeance is mine. I will recompense sayeth the Lord David sent and proposed to Abigail to take her as wife When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel they spoke to her saying David sent us to ask you to ask you to Become his wife It's your rose bowed her face to the earth. Here's your maid servant a servant To wash the feet of the servants of my Lord Abigail rose in haste and wrote on a donkey attended by five of her maidens She followed the messengers of David and became his wife Nabal died as it was appointed unto him He died you can accumulate so many Material possessions over the course of a lifetime.  Why would we get married and be in debt at the same time? Why would we do that? But a lot of people are a lot of people spend so much money on their on their wedding itself the $50,000 $70,000 wedding And they just put it on the card They expect mom and dad to pay for everything they even send out as many as many as announcements and as many Invitations because they're they're saying well I sent out 500 that means everybody's gonna bring me a gift to give me some money And that's how a lot of people think it's almost as if they're wedding is it's an affair that they're gonna profit from and that's how A lot of people think today. It's unfortunate, but it's true It's true I've told my kids listen. You can have an expensive wedding or you can have a great honeymoon. What do you want? But you can't have both You can't have both You can have a nice honeymoon or you can have an expensive wedding. What do you want? You're not gonna get both Because we can't afford that.  I'll marry you here in the backyard We'll have a barbecue I'll let you swim in the pool. No problem And I'll rent you a room for the night No big deal You know what I'm saying.  He died. That's it. There's nothing you can do and it goes into eternity without God There's nothing you can do That's why you better make sure that you're right now. There are no second chances You better make sure you're right with the Lord now Because it's a plunit and demanded I once and after this the judgment. That's why and in this case the ball dies but that leaves Abigail and David was so impressed by Abigail. He said go get her and ask her to be my wife She says I will be I'll wash the feet of the servants and that is a great woman who said I will be this man's wife And she comes to be his wife, but notice verse 43 and 44 David also took a henoum of Jezreel Both of them were his wives Saul had given Michal his daughter David's wife to Palti the son of Leish was from Galim You suppose to marry one woman David? You got too many too many wives hard enough to be married to one woman You don't want to you don't want this David You don't want this But that's what he did does God does God in the Bible did God say it's okay to have more than one wife God allowed but God did not design marriage to have more than one husband one wife God gave Adam one woman Eve The first person to have more than one wife was a man who was not a son of God This is a man who was actually a sinful man God permitted it, but God did not ordain it it in the New Testament when God gave Qualifications for a leader in the church he said that this leader be a husband of one wife and that set the tone That made it very clear in the body of Christ one man and one woman for one lifetime God did not Say that polygamy was his plan. He allowed it, but it ceased in the New Testament You don't see it in the New Testament. You see it only in the old and it was by by God allowing it but not by design But you're gonna see what took place because he had more than one wife and the trouble that comes as we continue our study In first Samuel our father we asked that you would continue to work in us Lord we know that You have a way that you want to work in us and therefore we ask that you would have your way in us Lord that we would Be those who serve you with all of our hearts Lord and be aware of the fact that That our old nature is constantly rising in opposition to the work of your spirit And I'm asking now Lord that you would work within the hearts of many in this room right now We need to get right with you Our eyes are closed and our heads are bowed And I want to give an invitation today and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do it in an open fashion Normally, I'll ask you just to raise your hand, but today. I really I really believe that the Lord would have me to give an open Invitation in other words give you an opportunity if you need to get right with God today To in a moment stand and to come and stand in front of this platform and openly say yes to Jesus Christ I want to give an open invitation this morning Some of you need to get right with the Lord and you know the spirit of God has been speaking to you And so I'm gonna ask you in a moment as we stand and worship the Lord in song to Slip out from where you're standing and come and stand and humble yourself and stand here in front of this platform And say yes to Jesus Christ. Yes. I need to get right with you Lord You may be a backslider You may be a person who's never opened your heart to christ either way Today's your opportunity to openly confess christ Jesus said if you confess me before men, I will confess you before my father in heaven So I give you an opportunity to openly say yes to him to come and stand in front of this platform as we worship When the song concludes to pray with me a simple prayer opening your heart to christ And spending a moment with one of our follow-up counselors after service Who will share with you a few things that you need to know If the spirit of God is speaking to you I'm gonna ask you To take courage step in faith come forward and say yes to the Lord and get right with God today Father I ask that you bind the enemy I ask that you set the captive free And lord you receive all glory for any work that's done Because it's to you. They're coming lord We pray this now in jesus name amen. Let's all stand


of optimistic when you talk to us back I think in March after being traded here but to be on the field in the OTAs even with the non-contact Jersey how how's things going and how good does it feel to be on the field right now feels good to be just out there with the guys learning this offense be out there and just build some chemistry with Ryan or other receivers and really just everybody in our huddle but it feels good just to be back playing football again I guess easing back into it but I'm just feels good to be on grass and just just be out there with the guys was just talking about how you know you have the choice first of all to be here for OTAs and then second of all to rehab here as opposed to anywhere else what made you rehab here and also choose to be here for OTAs too just getting acclimated kind of goes hand in hand if I'm gonna be here I might as well you know just be out here so being able to get with Todd who was able to just be one of the one of the top trainers in NFL being able to get me on track and where I need to be being able to rehab with Caleb another guy who's rehabbing his ACL and just being able to push each other and stuff like that but being able to like I said it's my first year with the team being able to pick up this offense as fast as I can since I'm not being able to be out there fully so when I am ready to go I'm ready to have that knowledge of the offense and just just be able to go full speed by then like mentally maybe when you're coming back from an ACL building confidence and what do you feel like y'all are from a confidence standpoint like making cuts doing things where you're feeling like hey this is feeling good I gotta try I feel like you gotta you gotta do it to to have that confidence and I feel like we're able to do these things at slower speeds and being able to build up as I go and I think that's just really the start of it being able to do these things in a jog through period an individual period of Rob I feel like that's the kind of stuff that allows me to have confidence and being able to pick it up and as we get to go full speed as I already made these cuts at a certain level and as we start picking up the speeds I feel like it just comes from being able to do the drills and translate it to the field you have a chance to talk with trailing to work with trailing what are your impressions of where he is as he's kind of seemingly had a difficult time getting started yeah I would say I mean it's the NFL this is the highest level of football it's not gonna be easy for any rookie to just pick up especially this offense now we run it's a it's a lot of learning a lot of studying and that's what I tell you know make sure you just stay in your book play fast you're gonna make mistakes as long as you make them full speed we just we just need you going and I think right now he's a he's always been quizzed you know by Rob Moore TD coach rapes always throwing out questions picking his brain so we always he's always kind of always on a on a hot seat and in the hot spot when when the questions come out but that's that's what every rookie everybody's gonna be challenged and we're just doing that so he could pick up his offense as fast as he can but a great player great athlete gonna need a lot from this season going back to the rehabbing with Caleb what's that like what's the dynamic like with the guy that's kind of just coming out of college football and a guy that's a veteran yeah really good I'll say the top corner elite corner being able to train with him he's strong he's fast I think that's really good for me to to have someone next to me and kind of gauge off of that but really I think just just a leap leap leap player and I guess with my me being a veteran being able to just we really just we just talk a lot I mean we we rehab and obviously but being able to just pick each other's brains of why I do a certain release or what is he prefer as a corner and press what's what's the range but like really just being able to get reps being on the side and being off the field but just it goes hand-in-hand I'm learning from him you're learning from me yeah I don't I don't think he he believes he's like been hurt a lot see injuries are a part of the game it's a hundred percent of every player is gonna get hurt playing football but he's confident in his ability trusting his trust in his body knowing what he can and can do and I think that's the biggest thing of being NFL players you're not trying to be somebody else you got to learn to be your best self and I think Caleb is he's learning that and being able to prepare like that being able to trust his speed trust his power and really just he's a confident player I think he just got to be able to get out here on the grass and and and be able to do it I think he has the the confidence to be a locked down corner communication Ryan Tanao wise with you guys after the plays is that something that's unique to what you've seen and also how is that development process you getting that chemistry that synergy with him yeah I'll say Ryan is a really good leader being able to not only talk out here on the football field but talk in the meeting room talk in between plays I think that's one of the biggest thing you expect from a quarterback in the leader is there's there's no time off really he's always leading he's I want to say interrupting coaches at a meeting but he's throwing in his two center and what he expect from the receiver and where he wants us to be and kind of what he sees and how he wants to throw the ball so I think like really just being able to pick his brain and being able to have that conversation in between plays in between reps in between meetings in between walking to a different meeting I think that's really good from your quarterback because the more you know about him the more you know what he's thinking I think we're able to play fast and have that anticipation out there on the field Robert beyond beyond the trainers giving you their advice and all a lot of guys who've had an ACL injury will consult with fellow players who've been through the same process and all is there anybody that you've kind of picked their brain and kind of ask them what the rehab process has been like as you go through it not as of now I feel like early on my rehab I did more so like kind of just getting to know what it was like I never had a serious injury so this is like my first my first one so really like when it first happened I was picking Odell's brain Cooper Cubs brain those who had experiences with ACLs but I think now at this point where I'm kind of along or in my recovery is more so about I guess me or my trainer is getting back to my top shape and even with Todd it's just like obviously we want to do everything that's correct and make sure the injuries come back but now it's more so let's get back to an elite level of playing yeah big time even just with him and Brandon cooks I got word from Brandon cooks when he was in Houston talking about it was a great coach in a passing game being able to have him out here when we're doing drills and phase one being able to pick his brain and talk about a lot of our route concepts and passing concepts and then even just hearing them speak in the meeting rooms being able to have that experience is really big for myself and and Hooper at the tight end position being able to play fast and be able to tag zones in the passing game since AJ was sorry since AJ was traded have you looked at your role coming into this team differently or have you maybe kind of approached it the same way how do you kind of look at that approach is the same way I came in attacking attacking this offense in this team trying to be the most dominant receiver obviously I'm always competing as every player should we have to compete and be at a high level my competition was AJ he got traded now my competition is trailing and all these other receivers but we need to compete and I know I'm a veteran and he's a rookie but it's like I need him to compete with me so I could you know better myself and everybody that's how you really become good it's a competition all around in every position and that's how you keep guys playing at an elite level you don't want guys to get complacent and comfortable so I think when you talk to the Super Bowl last year Robert I know you said you figured you'd be ready for for minicamp was that just talking optimistically at the time or did you really suspect that would be the case and do you have you impressed yourself when how things how quickly things have progressed here yeah I'm not sure if I said minicamp but it was minicamp I'm sure wasn't training camp all right well no time tables now and I'm here but really but really I'm just I'm just trying to get back to plan at a high level being able to be out here and do what I am doing is a really impressive me being able to run on a side with Frank and seeing certain speeds that I'm hitting being able to trust my my knee and some cuts or Rob I think I'm really good on pace being able to do some training on my own and really just being being confident and where I'm at and being prepared and being ready obviously we don't know how long it's gonna take or what could come up but I'll say like right now we're we're all on pace and doing really good to be ready for a camp but really just just just trying to be my best me and be ready when I can and whenever they need me to be on the field being able to be at my best when I'm out there but what do you already thought on Nashville after living in L.A. and kind of being born raised in L.A. yeah Nashville's way better than I expected and I thought I thought I was really just going to this country town and not gonna have anything but it really has a lot to offer whether it's food entertainment obviously a lot of music but really just I'm I know I'm from L.A. but I love experiencing different cultures and stuff like that having a different experience other than fast-paced living L.A. lifestyle so I've been loving Nashville being a getting acclimated with it the guys everybody's been welcoming not just a team even just around and in public my daughter sorry not not something I always wear but just every now and then I just put her on yes when you're out there doing you can do are you tempted at all to kind of push it a little bit more do you have to remind yourself am I in the yellow jersey you know just stay at the same pace and what's that like for you from a mental standpoint yeah I'm always obviously being smart and and what I can and do can and can't do but I would say I'm always gonna push it and try to fill it out like I said for me to get confidence I have to do it and know what I can and can't do but I'm gonna go out there until they tell me I can't or if I'm doing too much but other than that is just being smart and knowing my body know my limitations I do have that brace on to protect me but other than that is I got to experience it and feel what it's like the yellow jersey yeah oh I could yeah yeah I usually do forget it for the first now because I'm kind of switching periods and then I get a rep in and then go go grab the yellow jersey gotta be smart and be protected because these these guys are definitely coming after us on the defensive side


I'm Samar Singla, and I'm CEO and founder of Jugno, which is a ride-sharing app. And we're based out of India. We are the third largest ride-sharing app in India. And we do about 50,000 transactions every day. So we use tuk-tuk to do delivery and rides from A to B. And we're also today at a point where the next step for us is to answer a very critical question that almost everyone in the tech industry needs to think about at least. Because one of the most important questions is that there's a lot of concentration of wealth, which is being accelerated by technology companies. And what is the future? And how do we reduce it? Because people are increasingly not happy with the situation. How very few people control most of the resources. And most of the people don't really have any say in the decision-making of these technology companies. So that's what we want to answer. And we have a few approaches. And I would like to discuss them with you. So all the marketplaces, all the on-demand apps like Uber and Airbnb have essentially been marketplaces. They are based on the promise that free markets are efficient because there's competition. All the players in these markets are rational. And regulations are not good. So the government should stay out of it and let people compete. And the best player technologically and socially and product-wise will win. But today, that promise is not really being kept because there is one of these rules being messed around with. And that is the players are not really rational. In a rational free market, everybody would just try to compete on products, compete on strategy of marketing, compete on messaging. But everybody would essentially work for profits and would try to work for run a business. But today what happens is companies raise massive amount of capital. They burn artificially and create monopolies very, very quickly. And then the next step is that they start to exploit the people who work on their platform. So in this case, drivers. And after that, once a monopoly is completely created, then the customers are also exploited by increasing the pricing and also increasing the profit margins, which is what capitalism is. But at the same time, competition is essential if capitalism has to work well. And that is what is not happening today. This artificial monopoly creation is so fast that many companies don't really stand a chance. It's one company and that grows. So we have thought of a solution. That solution is basically having a different type of company, which has these three aspects. One is that the company should be decentralized on two levels. One of them is ownership. So essentially, in simple words, what it means is that we want to give ownership to the people working on the platform. So essentially, if it's a ride-sharing platform, the drivers on the platform should have ownership in the company. And secondly, in the decision-making. So from a ride-sharing perspective, the most important decision is pricing. So the way we think it should work is that every driver should put in their own pricing. And based upon a real-time consensus, a ride price should be achieved at. A central authority should not be deciding the price because a central authority is actually, most of the times, increasing or maximizing their own profits rather than trying to maximize the liquidity in the marketplace, which is what a group consensus would do. And secondly, we want to make it very dynamic. Because today, all the marketplaces try to push the participating players into a scenario where they are almost full-time working on that marketplace because it serves them their supplies smoother. But that also increases the stress level in those suppliers. So we want to keep it very, very dynamic so that there should be no commitments of advanced timings. And finally, we want to have it built into a distributed platform. What it means is that every entity, all these marketplaces are fairly disjoint companies or entities based upon region. So if you think about London versus Paris, ridesharing app in London is completely disjoint from Paris because there is no network effect across these two marketplaces. And one same company in London can be doing really well and can be doing really badly in Paris. So what we feel is that the legal entity should be different in London and Paris because a company that is only concerned with the business of a particular small geographic region is going to do what is best for that region. They should not be thinking about what the global company would want them to do. So these are the three aspects. We think if we bring into the model somehow, we can really change how ridesharing is being done today. And this could become a movement which changes how wealth is being distributed across the people who work on ridesharing platforms. So how do we do this? To be very honest, we don't really have a solution yet. We have an approach which we will go forward with. And then we'll tweak as we go along and we'll figure out what the right solution is probably over the next one year or so. So here are the next steps, possible next steps. One of the very interesting possibility is that we make a blockchain-based ridesharing app which is completely decentralized. The problem today is that it's very, very expensive in terms of energy and computation to really run a ridesharing application on top of the blockchain platforms that are existing today. So we'll really either have to wait for the platform to mature or just use it partially for something like consensus-based decision-making, not really something else. And the second approach is that we go back to the way taxi companies have traditionally worked as cooperatives, but try to make them tech-enabled so that they are much more inclusive and much more dynamic. And finally, there is the Wikipedia model, which is basically have a nonprofit organization own all the IP and technology, and that is being licensed for free or for very minimal prices to run the operations and to these local entities. So the way we think of getting started is to build an organization, which is a nonprofit organization globally, and move all the technology into it so that it can be shared with anybody who wants to create something for free. And then have these local cooperative chapters in cities, and all of these cities, city chapters, would be autonomous in their decision-making, but they'll still depend upon the parent organization for the technology and for simple rules to be followed. So this is essentially taking the Wikipedia model and applying it to ride-sharing. So that is what we want to do. And we are going to go live in London by end of January in this approach, and we'll see how it goes. And so one thing that we should mention is that there is obviously a risk in this approach, because it sounds very good, but at the same time, it hasn't really worked so far. The reason for that is, one, maybe people will not like it at all.  Second possibility is that the competitors which are these existing ride-sharing companies, they start to burn a lot of money and try to make sure that no driver actually gets onto this platform. That's the second possibility. And the third possibility is that it actually works, and the drivers catalyze, and we come back to the square zero where actually consumers start getting exploited again by high prices. So I think what we want to do is the first and the second are really the key points where we hope that if people are long-sighted and they want to think about long-term future, they are going to be interested and on board on this. But at the same time, if people are myopic and they want to really think about the short-term and want to make short-term money, they'd probably go for the burning companies and not come onto this platform. So it's really just an experiment. It's a social experiment to see if people choose long-term over short-term. And third point, which is drivers catalyzing, that has to be taken care of by us. We have to make sure the rules of the platform are always such that beyond a certain margin is not permitted if you are using the platform's technology. So this is our plan, and let's see how it goes. So I think I'll send you all an update on how it goes. Thank you very much.


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Alright, I know this episode is late. Usually, we make the episodes available every Friday 6am. But here I am, 10am on a Friday recording today's episode. And usually, I make it a point of being punctual because one of the things I've noticed about content creation is that you have to be regular. And it's easy to fall off the horse once you say, oh, I can let one episode go, I can be a little bit late, I can take a day off, and it doesn't work like that. Or, and you know, I do try to keep a consistent work ethic. So, even though I do have a good excuse slash reason, I usually record on a Thursday, but yesterday, holy Thursday, I was out most of the day doing personal deliveries and you can check out the live drive stream of that on our YouTube channel. But you know, I got home and I was really kind of beat out. But again, the show must go on and we do have some interesting news. This holy week, long weekend, and I hope you're having a good time wherever and whenever you're listening to this. Jumping right in with hardware news, AMD 7800X3D just released and just to give a quick backtrack, the X3D tag means that they added additional cash and all of the tech gooblidook at side. Bottom line for this technology is that it allows faster performance, usually in single core applications, i.e. gaming. So, in particular, the X3D series has been good for all sorts of things. They started it with the 5000 series, but in particular, they serve as very good CPUs for running games. Now, AMD has already come out with the 7950X3D, which is their most expensive and now the 7900X3D is also out now. But reviews about those first two CPUs have been mixed. Yes, the performance is good, but the price is also quite high and you're not seeing the superlative performance that you're expecting to see from an X3D CPU, at least for gaming, for single core applications. But the earlier views of the 7800X3D do appear to be quite promising. In part because of the way the chip was designed, apparently only one chiplet was added to enable or to get the additional 3D cache for this particular CPU. The two more expensive CPUs in the line used additional chiplets and apparently that creates inefficiencies between shifting between the 3D cache and the non-3D cache. So, the single chiplet design for the 7800X3D allows it to be more efficient in processing instructions which may be why it handles games better and it is cheaper than the first two generations or sorry, the first two chips above it. And I mentioned this not because a lot of people are probably thinking of upgrading, a lot of people have already settled into their gaming rigs. But it's interesting to point out that at least for gaming, you don't really need to get the top of the line when it comes to CPUs. A lot of people with a budget just assume that oh, the most expensive CPU for Intel is 3900K and I want that. Or for AMD, it's a 7900X3D. Yes, you are getting additional performance but particularly for games, you don't need a lot of cores and threads which is what you're paying for with those more expensive CPUs. So while your games will run great on those CPUs, price to performance, you're not gaining a whole lot more compared to if you have gone, would say, 3900K for example. And these multi-core CPUs are really meant for a lot of multitasking if you're doing heavy rendering and things like that. So there are specific use cases where you would want multi-core CPUs but gaming isn't really one of them. So if you're making a gaming rig on a budget, do keep that in mind that you don't automatically need to jump to the latest and greatest CPU. And the 7800X3D, while being a bit pricier than some other CPUs, is definitely a lot cheaper than the 7900X3D and the 7950X3D. So that's something to keep in mind that you do need to look at the single-core performance more if you're getting a gaming rig compared to some other use cases that you might have. And speaking of gaming, one game that doesn't really need a lot of force power to run is Dota 2, but it certainly runs on drama. And we have a Sai player, 23 Savage. He recently made a statement saying that Filipinos spread like cancer, I guess in gaming communities and Dota in general. And well, this Sai player was a bit annoyed because he was streaming a game and he felt that somebody was stream sniping him. Now back in the day, when I was playing games like way back when we used to call that commsat from commsat from Starcraft 1, it was the Terran ability which you added to your command center. Basically, you could reveal parts of the map. But since we were playing IRL in a LAN cafe, commsat just meant like, dumaan ka sa likod ng kalabad mo at nakita mo yung position niya, nakita mo what units he had and things like that. So stream sniping is basically commsat, but online. So you're playing a match, but you're watching the other player's stream.  So 23 Savage got upset when he thought an opposing player was stream sniping him. And then it came to, I don't know, I guess he suspected the stream sniper was Filipino. And so there was a, he mentioned in the stream which I guess was recorded on YouTube, which has been set to private now, I think based on the news report. He said that Filipino spread like cancer. And if I were to manage a team and choose players, I will only allow one Filipino player in my team at most. Interesting to me that we are, well, number one, it's a little interesting to me that Filipinas are considered quite toxic online. And this is a constant theme and refrain that I've heard from people that I've interviewed. We've done YouTube videos, YouTube collaborations with other tech YouTubers from other Asian countries, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand as well. And there's this one YouTube video. I think it's by Pinoy. He goes to Singapore where they were having the Dota Finals just recently and then he interviews people and like the challenge was, say something or what would you chat or say online in game that would show that you're a Filipino player but without saying that you're a Filipino player. And like even other nationalities new like our curse words, yung mga PI natin, yung mga bobo, yung mga ganyan. And it's just like, it's interesting to me how universally pervasive we have become or rather the image of us has become of being these very aggressive, not just in-game but also in the way we communicate players. And it's even more interesting, doubly interesting to me that Filipinos, we run with it. Like we don't deny that we're like this. In fact, based on the comments to 23 Savage, they're like, a lot of Filipinos agreed. They're like, yeah, well, that's us. That's what we do. And they weren't offended. They were like, yeah, we're really kind of, I mean, a lot of Filipinos agreed with him with his description that we are cancer. I mean that we're this very kind of agro. Again, not just as a playing style, but as a teammate, a very toxic kind of teammate that will berate you, that will constantly get in your face about not doing the right thing. And it's interesting to me that we, yeah, just let that go. That we admit that this is our national identity as if nationalities had a gaming identity, that would be the Filipino player in a nutshell, very toxic as a teammate. From a sociological point of view, not to get too heavy, but I'm always fascinated by these kind of analysis of like, a culture is like this because it's reacting to this traumatic event in the nation's history. We have a lot of literature even discussing whether the Philippines is a proper nation because we were born out of, we weren't united previously before we were colonized.  And then suddenly this political unit was forced on us by someone from outside and while it had hundreds of years of history behind this kind of idea that these group of islands are one unit that didn't, you know, prepare us for independence as it were or so it was the Spanish, the Americans, and then briefly the Japanese and all of that time the political unit was always just this thing foisted from outside and we're even now we can see that we're very regionalistic rather than nationalistic and so all of these kind of cultural things coming into play at least for our country and it's been, you know, I find it fascinating that as a national identity as gamers our gaming identity would be this very toxic kind of character which we have embraced. We don't shy away from that image of us and it's become so much so that I'm kind of thinking of making a video out of it or like a long form podcast really kind of exploring where the the origins of this toxic Filipino gaming identity and why? Yeah, what does that reveal about us as players, as a nation, as a culture, as a society? Shifting from sort of local flavor to more international news the US Department of Justice filed a antitrust suit against Activision claiming that they came out with they came out with rules for the Overwatch League this was like way back like a couple of years ago where they put salary caps on players and and the US DOJ took that as an antitrust action or basically you have a monopoly and you're abusing that monopoly to the detriment of other players or other competitors in your space and I'm kind of blank on the legal details or the legal details aren't very clear to me. I just find it weird that something like this would get filed because a lot of the professional sports have those kind of salary caps and you hear about it all the time when people talk about the NBA where oh well this team has to trade this guy because they're over the salary cap although at least in the NBA to my understanding you can go over the salary cap but you get taxed perhaps the problem with the Overwatch rules was that it was a hard cap like you can't earn more than 100,000 a year or a month or something or whatever so it was a hard cap compared to a soft cap where you have to pay more luxury tax which is how I think it is in the NBA and it was a bit weird because they filed the suit like the DOJ filed the suit on a certain day and in a couple of days later they already came out with a statement saying that the thing had been settled so the so activation had already proposed a plan to the judge where both parties the court needs to approve the plan but then the charges or that particular suit would get dropped it was very quick it was a very quick resolution to this of course activation has more antitrust issues with their Microsoft wants to purchase them and a lot of antitrust bodies around the world not just in the US are looking into that proposed purchase but I just bring this up because it's really it really brings home how big gaming has become I mean, you know again, you know, when if you have been gaming for a long time you would never have thought that our hobby would come would become this big juggernaut where you have the government the US government stepping in and saying that oh, you know, one publishers actions are antitrust I mean, you think antitrust you think the big telco companies in the states before the big oil companies in the states before here in the Philippines we have a small but very thriving antitrust practice as it were a lot of the big companies because we do have a new law in place not new but relatively new the Philippine Competition Commission which needs to sign off on these big trade big acquisitions and things like that so it is a big practice market here in the Philippines as well as abroad but who knew that gaming would grow to such an extent that it would become or there would be antitrust issues involved and just my two cents a little bit I do miss gaming when it was less of a juggernaut I mean, gaming now is everywhere you see it in the advertisements you see it in the hype for the new games and you see it in the number of people, right? I mean, you have so many people playing all kinds of different games and I love the diversity like diversity in the sense that we have so many games available to us now but because it has become so big the industry has become so large a certain kind of like ironically the types of games that I just mentioned you know, we have so many games available now for choosing but a lot of the genres I grew up with are effectively dead or effectively they they don't gain they aren't mainstream now so we don't see a lot of releases for them talking about adventure games talking about simulator games I mean, yes you do see releases but not like back in the day and also this kind of like the gaming culture has really changed I mean, going back to the report on 23 Savage and even just like it's so big now that governments are looking into the antitrust dimension of it gaming back then I mean, yes, you could have a toxic teammate and of course, trash talk was part of it but it wasn't this kind of big intense like in your face or at least, you know, when I played and I usually played with friends in real life it wasn't like it was still kind of enjoyable which I think maybe some of the joy gets leached out when you go online and you get screamed at by a total stranger and you know, there's all sorts of other things coming into play now with gaming there's like identity politics and just all kinds of other politics that don't really have to do with just playing a game like you can't play a game in a vacuum anymore I guess this is just an old man's kind of complaint that things were simpler back then and I know all old men feel like that I mean, that's a trope since Hector, no, not Hector Nestor, Nestor from the Iliad I think Nestor from the Iliad is the old guy who's just basically like, oh, back in the day and I had a recent conversation with a friend just yesterday where we were doing our own versions of oh, back in the day because we are feeling our age it was a bit simpler, you know you didn't have it was just a start of at least when I started playing you got your gaming news from magazines and the reviews were like substantial reviews there weren't just like comedians trying to be funny and using games as a medium nothing wrong with that but again, it has become the overwhelming type of gaming related content you have streamers which are to be funny and like the art of picking apart a game but not to be just negative so that you can get views but rather it's like I really care about gaming and I'd like to see games succeed and this is not a good game for me because 1, 2, 3 bang you know, the heyday of computer gaming world or electro EGM I think was it electro gaming monthly or something like that I mean, I remember EGM more for the for the the initials rather than the actual name but I mean, I do still game I do still enjoy games but there's a lot of the culture now that I really can't wrap my head around and a part of me does miss the old timey-wimey kind of insulated world of gaming but with that said I hope you're enjoying the games that you're playing this holy weekend or whenever you're listening to this thank you so much for joining us for another episode of Tech Show but Friendly our or the podcast from Hardware Sugar this has been Anton your host mostly usually for this show and sometimes on our Hardware Sugar YouTube channel please do check us out on YouTube and please do leave us a review on Apple Podcast or wherever it's possible to review this podcast because I'd really like to get some feedback whether up or down on what you guys are enjoying thanks so much and till next Friday have a good week