All right. Good morning. Welcome to 8 a.m. Prayer for everyone in the room. Thank you for being here for everyone joining online Just grateful that we can open up today waiting in the Lord ministering to him how I want to open this morning I've uh Just been really struck with some of the messages that we shared at arise shine Pastor Michael Miller from upper rooms talking about the centrality of ministering to the Lord of ministering to his heart first of Coming and engaging with With the emotions of God the desires of God and recognizing that that our job and even in this place of prayer Our role is to come and and engage with with his emotions with his personality and seek to bless him First so what I want to do is I just want to open Just with a few minutes of just centering our hearts back on on that reality of ministering to him And I want to do that with Thanksgiving this morning. So right now can we just we're gonna soft or start soft start slow But I just believe God's gonna open a door from our praise this morning. Let me just open our hands wherever you're at And and even can you just begin to thank God? Thank God for Maybe you had a great Memorial Day great community I'm gonna thank God for you for the friendships. He's giving you the families. He's giving you Maybe you're you're in a hard season. Thank him that you're here this morning Right our Thanksgiving. It's not predicated on our circumstances. So it's a heart posture Thank God. Thank you that you're with me and just keep going again. We hit though It's like the quick Thanksgiving and then you hit the wall typically of if it's frustration if Things in your heart. It's for me. He's are getting exposed, but let's just keep going God, thank you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your faithfulness God, thank you for for your Your long suffering God Your long suffering that God even even in the process or you're still with us And out loud just keep leaning into this God. We thank you Lord. We make this place We make this room we make our homes an altar of praise and Thanksgiving this morning Lord and we realign our hearts We realign our hearts to the truth to the reality that we serve a God who loves us We serve a living God who who God you have thoughts you have emotions You have movements in your heart Lord and we line our hearts we line our lives back up to that today and Lord We say we want to minister to you We want to minister to you this morning, so Holy Spirit make us sensitive Lord make us sensitive to your presence to your word this morning God I just want to wait for him for a few minutes. This is let's just have this posture of waiting Continue to thank him. I just sense there's an invitation to to engage with his heart today Let's just let's rest here for a minute continue to thank him So we enter into prayer this morning Yeah, keep leaning in gonna pray softly just in the spirit. Just as we stir ourselves up Whispers in your heart go through the motions this morning line our hearts up Let's just begin to pray in the spirit out of sense. There's a there's a piece of God Resting in the room as he's relining our hearts.  The the musicians are gonna prophesy the singers are gonna sing Over us just continue to pray in the spirit I just sense the Lord is doing a work even inwardly in us in these next few minutes shoot my TV This past week where it wasn't playing playing an app where it kept pulling it up pulling it up And it would just load but then it wouldn't play and I was like trying everything else uninstalling it Reinstalling it wasn't shifting and what it took is it took a reset of the system to figure out like hey We have to hold the power button down. It's gonna reset the whole thing and I just feel like the Lord is doing a reset of some of our hearts right now We're you know, it's like you are doing five different things Praying believing God for multiple different things and sometimes if you're anything like me my my mind and my spirit Can just get so overwhelmed with everything that's going on that I'm doing it But it's like things aren't clicking even even my heart There's a disconnect between my spirit what I'm doing and I just sense that the Lord is doing a reset Right now as we rest in his presence that it's like he doesn't matter how much how many more times you push God let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do this, but it's that reset of God. Bring me back to that first place We're bringing back to that first thing Let's just receive that if that's if that's you this morning Can you just put your hand over your heart if you just feel like you need a reset from the Lord? I just want to invite him just to reset us today, Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, we welcome you this morning and we ask We ask God bring us back to the first place. I ask for a clarity and a rest Thank you, Lord. You say in Hebrews chapter 4 that there remains a Rest for God's people and we strive to enter into it. So God bring us back Bring us back to that rest right now and father father. I asked for a supernatural reset of hearts supernatural reset of hearts Father that you would come and do a work on the inside that only you can do And in the busyness and the way to ministry Lord, you're so faithful To our hearts God and Holy Spirit eyes for clarity Lord give us a clarity today God in a world of Urgent and important God bring us bring us Kingdom clarity Jesus and in the same way you saw what the father was doing Lord as you look through you look through your day look through your life You saw the things that were truly important I asked for a supernatural clarity in our hearts today as you reset our hearts as you reset our minds Father bring us back Bring us back to that supernatural clarity to see what you're doing to do what you're doing I just feel even even right now in the room Just even as it comes to mental mental health and different things I just sense that some of us that your thoughts have been really cluttered Just even these past couple weeks where even maybe like some OCD type symptoms Where it's just you can't get your brain to turn off and it's almost compulsively. I got to do this I got to do this. I got to do this. I got to do this And you just felt a real weight and a real assignment of hell even against your thoughts These past weeks and then I just feel like the Lord specifically specifically wants to release a breakthrough to some of our minds and Today I just want to have a minute just to lean in on this if you would say that in these past couple weeks You sense the real attack against your mind and again just compulsive thoughts you get stuck on a route You can't get out. It's like you're in a ditch.  I feel like the Lord today Wants to wants to release a peace over your mind And I'm and I just want to have a minute just to open up even some ministry in the room If that's you if you'd say hey, I have some I've some I've been in that spot with my mind been stuck I've been busy felt overwhelmed. You just raised your hand today. We're just gonna pray for each other and Again in this we're family. There's a number of us with our hands raised through the room What I just want to do is we're just gonna lay hands We're gonna pray for the next few minutes and again if you look like prayer for this You'd like prayer for this just raise your hand Again, this is just saying you felt a attack on your mind. You feel like there's just a lot of thoughts going on I just believe God wants to release peace So just if you're if you didn't raise your hand find somebody with their hand raised lays lay hands and we're just gonna pray For the peace of God to wash their minds Lord right now That's for a washing to take place in our thoughts a Washing to take place in our thoughts that you would wash us with the water of your word Like you promised in Ephesians chapter 5 that your words would wash Your words would wash every thought Every every even thought pattern that's not for me that we can get stuck in father I asked for a renewal of our minds today in Christ Jesus, so we would be transformed Transformed according to your word Yeah, just pray out. Just pray out in confidence over them release the peace of God over them We're gonna just minister to each other for a few minutes Every thought that exalts itself above your word take a captive According to the authority we have in Christ Lord and we ask We ask today Lord we pray Colossians 3 15 Lord let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts Father we we come in today let the peace of God rule in our hearts Let the peace of God rule in our hearts today we ask in Jesus name awesome guys we are gonna do kind of a Sharp pivot as we finish our time in prayer today I love how the Lord is even ministering to us specifically and uniquely in this time But what we're gonna do is we are gonna Receive God's goodness receive God's peace and then we're gonna go and approach with frontal grace and confidence and intercede for unity in our city So I'd ask if we're able to stand stand up We are gonna shift into intercession and we're gonna be praying for unity in our city That's an exciting time in Kalamazoo Many of you were at church this weekend where you heard that we are partnering with with another pastor in our city pastor Jeff Port from Center Point Church who's calling the city to pray for unity pray for unity and we're gonna be praying in Unity with other churches, but also praying in unity with Jesus as Jesus prayed for unity in his church in John chapter 17 So we're gonna pray Just for that and I just encourage us. Let's let's receive God's peace Let's receive God's ministry and then as he ministers to us Let's approach with frontal grace and confidence and intercede for others today. So Lord today We come before your throne of grace father and we lift up the church of Kalamazoo We lift up the church of Kalamazoo and God we pray the same words you prayed in John 17 Where you asked and you asked the father before you went to the cross you lifted up the church And you said father make them one like we are one Make them one like we are one and I ask God today that your glory Would rest on the church in Kalamazoo as you make us one father that the church in Kalamazoo would be United around the gospel united God around the the presence and the power of God in the word of Truth proclaimed God so right now we lift up different churches and even think of churches that you drive by on your way On your way to work on your way to church God We lift up the church in Kalamazoo and we ask for a supernatural unity and power to rest on us today in Jesus name Let's take authority to clear this today Doing a second is we're gonna go into a time of rapid fire prayer where we're gonna be praying blessing over different churches in in our city and region The the devil has a strategy where he forced he traps the church to compete against each other and we forget that it's his church Right we serve as undershippers to the great shepherd and it's his church in this city And I think the best way to review because spirit of competition is certainly some blessing So what we're gonna do in a few seconds that we're just gonna align right over here And we're gonna pray blessing over different churches in Kalamazoo that are preaching the gospel Releasing life releasing blessing asking God to increase his presence and their services Asking God to release the resources of heaven to accomplish the unique Assignment and calling that he's given them in the city and I encourage us like this feels this might feel small But but we're releasing heaven's blessing and we're also doing something in our hearts, right? We're rebuking a spirit of competition a spirit of Division and we're releasing heaven's resources in these the next minutes So we're gonna do that 15 20 second prayers and let's go Holy Spirit we ask for a spirit of unity to rest on the churches in Kalamazoo We ask that they would see themselves as one church one body with Jesus Christ as the head Would unity peace and power dwell in their midst in their people in Jesus name Raise up laborers for your church Lord that where churches in Kalamazoo or short staff or to short on volunteers Would you bring labor? Would you bring people to strengthen them in Jesus name? Father Lord, I pray for just the heart of the church is here in Kalamazoo Lord that there's just a continued understanding That there's one goal here that we're all we're all chasing after the same thing Lord It's you and your heart. It's Jesus. It's the truth Lord I pray that culture stays out the lies of culture states out of the church Lord I pray that there's strength in our leaders Lord and just an understanding in our The fellow churches that we are here for you. That's our one and only God Father, we pray for mom Zion Baptist Church Pray for dr. Addison Lord on the north side of Kalamazoo father We pray for increase of vision Creativity innovation and favor to impact the north side and all of Kalamazoo in Jesus name father, I just keep picturing like a vertebrae and one little vertebrae out of alignment messes up the whole system and so Lord we just thank you father for For each member of the body father We thank you for the pastors and the staff and the volunteers, but even those who are just walking in Lord We need them to align and find their place in in you and so Lord we just thank you for all the pastors all the leaders All those in authority Lord that you'd help their staff to be in alignment that there's not a link out of place And they're just all aligned and united in one accord unity in one accord So we pray for your blessing of unity in one accord in each of the pastors and each of the staff in the city In Jesus name Lord we speak blessing over every pastor and their family We speak blessing over their time in your word We pray that that there would be such a new level of awe over who you are that it brings them to Just a place of humility, but like the most beautiful humility because you're so good and you're so big and Everybody's like in awe of the same God and what he's doing in their home lives and their husband's lives in their Children's lives in their very the very structure of their homes. I also pray Lord for the Catholic Church They are preaching the gospel there. So Holy Spirit would you would you come as as priests are preparing? Messages as they're as they're doing what they do Lord, would you come as self Jesus unity among all churches? Who preach the gospel the leaders of this city the pastors of the churches that they would walk in a manner worthy of the calling in which They have been called with all humility and gentleness with patience Bearing with one another in love eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and Lord I just ask specifically Lord for the pastors and leaders of the church's this city where there has been Unforgiveness between them where there's been broken relationship where there's been a fence Lord That you would begin to move supernaturally and react miraculously even this month Lord where they're beginning to be healing of relationships There'd be forgiveness between brothers and sisters and there would be restoration Lord of the unity you have for this church Lord, I thank you for Center Point Church and Valley family Lord I ask in the name of Jesus that you pour out your spirit on them that you would just bring so much to life and Encouragement to them and Lord. I also pray for the inner city churches I pray Jehovah Jireh you are provide everything that they need to minister to the most vulnerable people Lord We love you Jesus move in our churches as you said I am in them and you are in me They they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and then you love them as you love Me Lord, I pray that the churches in Kalamazoo would experience such perfect unity that our city would know that you are Lord So Jesus even right now over specifically portage God We pray for the unity of the portage churches even the bridge right now Just feeling an impression Lord to just Holy Spirit move in and just pray for wisdom and revelation over the senior pastor and the youth Ministry and kids ministry at the bridge in Kalamazoo in Jesus name God I pray for a new life church that their name would be exactly what you called them to that They would be a place where a new life is birthed that they would be a place where eyes are turned back to the father And I pray for the leaders that they would that you would give in them new life And so that the things that they speak and the words they say and the things they do would pour out new life and God for The church of Kalamazoo would you just give us the eyes of Jesus for each other God with the church of Kalamazoo have Your eyes for the church in Jesus name what we pray for churches like Kalamazoo Christian Church God We pray for the river we pray for vertical life churches even churches right downtown Denominational churches not denominational churches. We pray that we would lay our plans and our agendas at your feet And we'd be able to hear what you're saying God and see what you're seeing to be able to bring your kingdom God We pray in unity let your kingdom come let your will be done in Kalamazoo as it is in heaven in Jesus name Jesus I just pray a blessing over North pines church. I thank you father for their strong emphasis on ministering to college students And I pray that they that ministry can continue They can continue to be a strong presence on Western's campus on K colleges campus and that College students people who just need you so badly that they can be a light to that they could preach the gospel to Jesus I just bless their pastors Nick Seamus all their leaders And I just pray Lord for a continual blessing over their ministry Father God, I just pray for Unity and our churches for the sake of our children. We can show them by example That we are unified and they will Teach that or talk about that till their friends at school That we can just have peace and unity for their sake John 4 23 but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth Holy spirit right now. We just ask for a realignment in the churches of Kalamazoo with your spirit and truth We thank you Lord that in the book of John is said the hour is coming And I believe the hour is here Lord where we will see your spirit do a new thing And so holy spirit I ask right now that you would breathe in your church of Kalamazoo That you would pour out your spirit and worship I asked for anointing on the worship pastors and leaders right now that there would be a new song released Into Kalamazoo and Lord right now. I lift up great spring church I ask God that you would break down any Structures of religion and that you would pour out your spirit in a new way that they would see a move of your spirit Lord, so holy spirit. We asked now the hour is here. Would you pour out your spirit and spirit and truth in Jesus name? Our church is Lord. You're self-known. Make yourself known God. Kalamazoo imported. God in this city. As we prayed in John 17 This high priestly prayer we prayed to the father says I do not ask for these only but also those who will believe through their work That they may be one Just as you father are in me and I in you That they also may be in us that the world may believe That you have sent me the glory that you have given me I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one So Lord as you Pray to the father for unity in your church Jesus, and you even connected you connected the idea of a united church to your glory dwelling In your church Father as we prayed for unity we pray for your glory to dwell in the church of Kalamazoo Holy spirit right now I ask that as you unite your church Jesus let your glory dwell in The church of Kalamazoo the glory of God the presence and the power and the majesty of God Let it dwell in our land let it dwell in our city in our homes and in our churches today Father we lift up just even lift your hands Let's just stretch our hands if you're in the room just even picture churches as to the all around there I'm God we lift up your church today And we ask father in the name of Jesus let your glory dwell Let your glory dwell God in grace bring Let your glory dwell God in New Day Church God in Kalamazoo first assembly The valley family God at center point the bridge the river Trenches church God we ask we ask Lord let your glory dwell in our land Father do not let do not let The people in Kalamazoo not have a witness to the glory of God But father today is the church as the church Lord we ask and we commit to Supernatural unity that the world would have a witness to the glory and the power of your name and your gospel in our day In our city father and we pray we pray God with the psalmist prayed in Psalm 85 Lord that your glory would dwell that your glory would dwell in our land Father we need a touch from heaven we need to move from heaven Lord we rebuke a spirit a spirit of competition God a spirit of gossip of Disunity right now Lord we even repent God I repent For moments God where I've spoken negatively Spoken negatively of brothers and sisters in this city Father we repent for moments that we've spoken negatively God and we go we we say God clean our lips Clean our lips God I ask for for radiant church for this house that we would be a people with clean lips That we would speak blessing and not cursing God if we curse our brothers and sisters How can we speak life to the world that doesn't know you father? Give us clean lips and the clean heart Lord to speak blessing to your church today Father I ask God even in these next next days and weeks as we pray for your your church in the city Lord I ask for that you do it work in our heart a Work in our heart for unity and blessing and what we're gonna do as we finish this time is We're gonna be praying this in our prayer meetings. This is a prayer that the pastor Jeff Port Put together for for the church in Kalamazoo in this time We're so grateful for his leadership as one of the praying churches in Kalamazoo We're gonna pray this out together today. I think we might have it on the screen Do we have it on the screen? If not, I'm just gonna pray it negative goes right there We're just I'm just gonna pray it and you pray along and we'll keep going so King Jesus awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and Collaborate to seek the common good for our region Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized in our voices for the voiceless We endeavor to live such counter cultural lives that our places of work in neighborhoods will experience The beauty and the power of the gospel give us such an unquenchable passion for you in your words That we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable Kingdom for the glory of Jesus in the advancement of his kingdom. Amen God let it be so in Kalamazoo. We bless you today, Lord And we ask do a work in our city in Jesus name. Amen. Amen Everybody thank you for interceding with us today everyone online. We'll be back here at noon. Thanks so much


Argentina talk about entertainment. God, who would have thought? I remember being in Argentina last year and this possibility kind of came up and nobody thought it was possible or real or viable. But Javier Millier, I probably not pronouncing it right, just got the most votes in the first round of the Argentinian presidential election. He solidly beat everybody else. He solidly beat the Senate of left. He solidly beat the Senate right slash conservatives. He is now the leading candidate for president of Argentina. Now, who is this Javier Millier?  So some combination of Van Mises and Milton Friedman, those are his inclinations. So a free market guy. Now, every article I see compares him to Donald Trump and Bolsonaro. And there are certain elements that are comparable to both Bolsonaro and Donald Trump. But here's the difference. Bolsonaro and Donald Trump had no idea, no conception and no view of economics. They weren't free market guys. They were just guys of our power. They hated the left. They were conservatives. We'll get to Milliel's conservative part. They were reactionary. They were all over the place, right? But they had no economic policies. They had no strong views about economics.   Now, you know, this is what he stands for. And to compare him to Trump and Bolsonaro and so on is just, is lazy.  Now, there are respects in which he's similar to them. He hates the establishment. He's very anti-established and very anti-elites. But he also lives in Argentina where, yeah, God, they've had 100 years of just rotten, horrible, disastrous establishment politicians and elites who've just brought the country to the brink of collapse and who have instituted nothing but policies that have been destructive and horrific for the country. At least American politicians have done it, I guess, more slowly, right? More slowly. But, yeah, I mean, authoritarianism and military governments and the whole shebang. So, yes, here's a guy who does oppose all that, but what's there not to oppose? Absolutely oppose it. Given the corruption of Argentinian politics, given the statism, given the authoritarian nature of Argentinian politics, good for him. Now, he's got some bad ideas. He's very anti-abortion and even in the case of rape, he is religious. So he would try to overturn the abortion laws in Argentina. As I said, he's very religious. So in terms of all of that, bad stuff. But here's what the New York Times says is economic policy is. They, of course, think this is horrific, but this is what they say he wants to do. You know, he has proposed dollarizing the economy that is basically shutting down the Argentinian central bank and making Argentina move to the dollar. I think that's brilliant. I think that is a fantastic idea and really brilliant. I'm told by some Argentinians a fan of INRAN's, but he's also not, he's far from an objectivist and he's no real fan of INRAN. So let's not associate with him INRAN because, you know, he's not a Randian. He's a libertarian, but he's not a Randian in, I don't think, in any kind of respect. But here's what he wants to do. Abolish the central bank and dollarize the economy. Wow. That would revolutionize Argentina immediately and would reduce inflation immediately to the levels of inflation in America, which is 3%, 4%, whereas in Argentina it's 116%. So just like that would completely change the Argentinian economy for the better, put it on a stable footing, which is the dollar. I know some of you hate the dollar and think it's about to collapse, but I don't think so as I'll tell you tomorrow night. But Argentina, you know, by stabling it, wow, he wants to, but that's not the end of it, right? He's proposing drastically lowering taxes, not a little bit, not like Republicans in the United States. We're going to take the marginal tax rate and lower it a little bit and lower. He's talking about slashing taxes across the board, really reducing them. Now granted, Argentina has very high taxes and it has all kinds of weird taxes on export and on import and everything. Tariffs up the kazoo and he would eliminate all of that. He is proposing, here's something you don't hear ever from an American politician. He is actually proposing cutting spending. Again, dramatically cutting spending. He wants to charge people to use the public health care system. Now I'd prefer if he moved to privatize the public health care system. And my guess is that's what he really wants, but he's afraid he can't get there passed. Let's see, he wants to close or privatize all, every single one of the state-owned enterprises in Argentina.  Imagine what would happen if you privatized that and if you privatized the mining, if you privatized the companies that extracted it, if you privatized the export and import. He wants to eliminate, this is a little familiar, he wants to eliminate the health, education and environment ministers, ministries. By the way, Argentina sits on oil reserves. He would privatize that and encourage the exploitation of that. So he is a, this is the closest, by far, by far. Somebody who calls himself a libertarian has ever come to willing the presidency. The elections are going to be, I think in November, or maybe the runoff is in November. In October, the elections in October, and then if nobody wins that, there'll be a runoff in November. But he is now the favorite. And as such, we could have a small L, maybe it's a big L libertarian, as president of a country of 58 million people. Now, here's what he calls himself. He calls himself a short-term minicurist, i.e., somebody who believes in government, minicurists are people who believe in a government, in a limited government. He calls himself a short-term minicurist, but a long-term philosophic anarcho-capitalist. But he's a paleo. He's against, you know, a lot of, he's like the Mises Caucus. So he's probably, this is probably, I mean the libertarian party in the United States must be beyond itself. An anarcho-capitalist everywhere must be going crazy and nuts. And of course, the danger here is that he gets elected and he completely screws it up and he sets back the cause of economic liberty. Who knows how many decades because of that. But we could also hope that he gets in and he does a few of these things. He's not going to turn Argentina into an anarchist state, but he's going to do a few of these things and make Argentina a relatively rich country. And that will at least resurrect some support, maybe globally, for free markets. Anyway, somebody removed from Argentina, although plans are for me to go there at some point and give a talk, maybe early next year. You know, this is interesting and it's going to be fun to watch from the outside and it's fun to see how this evolves and what happens. At the very least, I would expect him to push whatever the candidates towards debating and talking about free market ideas. But Tista says, come soon, Iran. I wanted to come in December, but they've cancelled my trip. So in late November or early December, it looks like my trips can cancel. So, you know, I'll probably be coming in March, April, May, something like that next year. All right. Wow. I mean, very, very strange.  He's, you know, he also thinks he's a weird guy. He also thinks that Ben Bernanke is the greatest Fed shaman in all of history and is a huge admirer of Bernanke's. That's just weird and wrong, but okay. So he's kind of an admirer of monetarism and this is why I think he actually trusts the dollar because he trusts the people at the Fed somehow when he really shouldn't.


It is Thursday and that means acting analysis, right amateurs and today I'm gonna take a look at episode eight and nine of season one of Succession. All right, I got four parts, three shorter ones and a look at a longer sequence, which is fantastic. I can't wait to get into this. So let's go. First up is this sequence and this is about a prop. He is watching something that is bad news and he is selling a BS. Yes, this is bad news, blah, blah, blah. The thing I like about this is what he is going to do with his glasses. So watch this. He's angry, he's upset, he's frustrated, he wants to take them off and this happens and what I love about this is a couple things about this. Imagine you are mad, you're angry, right, and you want to get to the point and talk to him, but taking those glasses off and seeing how that is stuck behind the ear is only going to aggravate this person even more. It delays the immediate idea of I need to talk to this guy. So having this prop can emphasize and aggravate the whole frustration part. You can see how that face I react. He has to do this. And in order to make up time, and I'm making this up here, this is not probably what he did, but I love this to me. This is kind of like, come on, hurry, hurry, because he lost time doing this. So he's doing this as a sense of, come on, let's go, let's go there and let's get to the point. I need to complain about things. So when your character has glasses, think about what kind of glasses are they tiny from the nose, maybe they slip off the nose, and that's an aggravating point that's your conflict in the shot in a way, or they have those rubber band thingies or hooks behind here that will make this even more complicated to take off. So if you have glasses, think about the properties, the size, the weight, the gimmick that can be attached, all those things can help you create a more interesting and a more original performance with moments like this, where you can have some like a little quick look of just that anger, that frustration in there, so good. Second one is just all about posing. You got Greg in the back here, he's running, he is late, and he wants to say hi, and he is going to give her a hug. And the thing is, look at the hug, how awkward it is, ready and awkward. So he gets in and it's not like a full embrace, it's just a little bit, they're not quite touching here. He's not quite putting his head on the shoulder, because he realizes as well that she is not engaging at all, like her arms are not moving at all, there's no reciprocation of the hug, just kind of, okay, the head goes up, because she wants to create some distance here, it's great, all of that stuff.  This one is all about him and his reaction here. So in this sequence, she is briefing the company here, which is again him, saying now, well, you know, the angle is always that you are a good dad, he says here, you're a good dad, and he goes, go, well, why not? Like, to him, he's like, well, why wouldn't I be a good dad?  And he goes, and for him, it's, yeah, right, right. So it's kind of like, maybe he doubted himself for a moment, but she reassured him that, look, okay, and I love the next scene. Watch, and he cracks me up. Really, a good dad, really? Oh, and I love this. So why am I showing you this? So if you have a set up, right, where you have multiple people, and this could be shot in a way like this, where you can actually see the third person here. So we understand what's going on. We have three people in this room talking. And the lip sync is between this person and this person, right? But again, the focus is on the person listening. So you could do it like this, where they are talking, you got lip syncing profile here, and you got a reaction shot here. And you can play off with another reaction shot here. And you can still have lip sync from the person that's off screen. But you can still focus on this person reacting to what he just heard. Really? Did you really just say that? So good. I love how slow it is. It's not a what? What? What did you say? What? It's just very slow. Hmm. Really? All right. That little bit of a slight movement in the body too. It's almost like his body is kind of had like an inner laugh. Like, all right, with that slow look up here. So good. So good. And lastly, this is a longer sequence I can scrub through. This is basically they are about to get married. And she is not quite faithful to him. And he has a kind of an idea that's what she does. But he's a bit of a pushover. And he doesn't really have his own opinions and own agency in this show. That's part of his character. So as I'm scrubbing through here, this is a fairly long sequence discussing all of this, what is going on. He challenges her and she gives an excuse and has a certain reaction at the end. Now I want to go through this one by one. So they come in and she still needs something from him. She's asking for a favor. She needs more information that he so far hasn't given her. I want to talk about body language and movement and eye darts and looks and just attention in this room. So for now, she is fairly bouncy, is flippy.  I still want to know and that she has a smile. It's all playful. It's all good. Then look at him, right? As she turns around, all right. So he's not bouncy. He's leaning a bit, hands in the pocket, like something's going on. He's thinking, all right, well, let me just talk to you about something. This might or might not make her uncomfortable. She already has crossed arms. You can read into this, whatever you want to. But look at this. He has a lot of moments where he's thinking, not looking at her. And then bam, starts to look. And usually he's not really good at eye contact and holding eye contact. So for him to be this calm and not nervous and fidgety is unusual. So already going, oh, this is kind of serious. And what he says here is that, well, I met Nate. Nate is what he says here. Nate is a person she's working with and she has a relationship with. And he is not happy about that. And he's challenging her now. So what about Nate? And look at her.  And now she realizes, oh, that's just a coworker. And now she's trying to be evasive. And she doesn't like that confrontation. She wants to get rid of that awkward moment. So what does she do? She walks away from that discussion, turns her back towards him. And you can see how he goes, all right, then it's a cool moment of putting her out of focus. And she gives all those excuses. Oh, you know, it's just a coworker. It's fine. Look at his reaction here. Can't believe she just did that. Oh, right. She turned around. Really? She tell me all of this. She knows. And look at that. It's like, uh, uh-huh. Okay. So now he takes steps closer because again, this is for him not over. So, all right, well, let's talk about this. And again, she is trying to have some other business and like, I kind of waves it off. Ah, she's fine. It's just a guy.  And she still has her smile brings up lots of excuses. I thought I told you this. Again, no eye contact. She's just trying to evade all of this. Lots of busy body stuff here. She's kind of nervous. Look at how she does this. And then she has that look. Oh, I thought, purse lips here. Oh, I thought you're okay with this. And look at him. It's that very defeated sit down.  He realizes, all right, she's going to lie about this. She is not honest about that. And look at that. Every now and then couple looks, that's a very questioning look. That's kind of unusual for him here. It's like, all right. And this is almost like an internal dialogue for him. He looks at her and judges her like, all right, well, she's not going to tell me the truth. All right. There's no, there's no audio here. There's no dialogue. And he does that not. It's almost a not to himself. All right. Well, I see where this is going. So then he starts like, all right. And now he's getting a bit nervous because he has to challenge her and he's not comfortable in that position, touching the face, trying to get into a pose, lots of fidgeting. And he starts to question, okay, what is going on? Are we, are we okay? Are we doing this? Again, they're about to marry each other. You can see this massive distance between the two.  Yeah, we need to do this. I want to do this. It's not like she gets closer to him or sits next to him, comforts him, assures him or is honest. No, no, no. I'm going to sit down here as well, slightly tense, slightly awkward. Because again, there's a massive trust distance between those two. So right. So you got your hand out. It's almost, it's not, he's accusing her in a way where it's a pointy finger.  Like, help me. I want to, I need help. I want you to help me and be honest with me. And again, he's a bit nervous here doing all that stuff.  You, we're getting married. Like, yeah, I want to do this. And he tells him, everybody's here. And he goes, yeah. And look at that. No awkward blinking, no nothing. It's just kind of his reaction of, yeah, they're all here. Bam, stare. And then look at that. And then she gets a bit more nervous here. Lots of little quick moves.  That big contrast of him. Let's go back here. Silent. Look at that. Bam, no movement. Just a challenge in here. Oh, no, no. I mean, yeah, that's, let's do this. All those little gestures. That for me is, because I complain a lot about gestures. If you watch my channel, I'm always, oh, not too many gestures. In her case, she is nervous. She's fidgeting around. And that to me makes sense. All those little moves, all that stuff, busy stuff, because she's nervous, contrasting with him was not arms down. And then look at that. So now he's getting a bit frustrated. All right, what's going on? You can see this. He's slightly uncomfortable. He wants to say it. All right, he goes, all right, well, and then he's starting to question her. All right, so are we, what's going on? Are you cheating on me? And then that's when she has that reaction. Tom, no, I would never do that. But of course he is. And now, because he said that, and she had a bit more of a stern reaction, he has a reaction. All right, okay, well, it's, I got it. I got it. Tell her this and you can see now, eyebrows up, more eye darts, lots of different mouth shapes and a little shakiness. Look at that. He's just uncomfortable. You know, he has to change position and be like, I don't want to say this, but you know, this is just not right. So now he goes, all right, I got to do damage control. Let's fidgety. So now she's trying to regain control of the situation. And then she starts to lie and say, oh, no, no, I am not doing any of this. And look at that. Again, he's like, all right, well, she's still lying, bit more eye contact, a bit more fidgeting around, but a bit more. Look at that. Just a little thing. There's still that energy, that nervous energy, that frustration in there, but he still looks at her. He still says all of this. Okay, well, you know, this is just not right. We need to do this. And look at that. So he's asking, is this real? Are we, are you with me? Do you love me? Basically, that's what he says. And look at her. Look at that. This light changed there. She has a very hard swallow and you can hear it in the voice where she goes, yes. She goes, honestly, and then she has that big exhale and you can see a little bit in here, and you can hear it in the sound. If you, if you watch the sequence, if you have access to the show, it's a very suppressed swallow. And now she goes, yes, this is real, but it's this look of, I have to lie. This is real. And she waits and she tells him this. No, no, this is working for us. Look at that. Long look. Oh, this is so good for him. He's usually so fidgety for, for this. Look at this. Long look, long look. All right. All right. And that's this little, that one blink going, all right. Well, she made that choice. And look at that. It's not like he's relieved, gets up close to her or she's like, no, no, I love you. It's up and there's a hug or anything. This is this very uncomfortable pause of, no, this is real. I love you. He goes really, bam, into the next shot. Oh, still the very, very cold distance, even just the way she sits there and the way he's hunched over. No, there's more power, there's more strength in there. And he's just kind of defeated. So good. It's so good. And then his reaction after all of this realizing, all right, she's going to lie, he goes, all right. And he goes back into his usual self, push over a forced smile. And he says, all right, well, that's all I need to know. That's fine. And look at her. Look at her. The relief, the relief where she goes, oh, good. She relaxes all that tension is gone. All right. But slightly embarrassed, slightly nervous still. She realizes I did something wrong. This is really pushing it. And he is just doing his usual thing. Because again, he says, all right, well, you know, it's fine with me. I'm relieved. That's all I need to hear. And you can see that look there. It's almost, is it pity? It'll tilt her, is it? Is she questioning herself? Is she pitying him? But now she starts saying things like, well, you know, this is good. I love you. And I need you. Now she realizes I got to do some damage control. Look at that. All right, I got to do something. So what does she do? She gets up. She goes, well, I need you. And it's not like she says, I love you. I want to be with you. She's actually honest. She needs him. That's all she needs. She forces that contact, trying to be more warm and sensitive. And he, you know, no eye contact there. And look at this. This forced hug, because she doesn't want to look at him and look at her face. Ready, end? Uh-oh. She knows. Look at that. She knows something's wrong. I think I pushed it. He doesn't believe me. It's no good. Now, not a massive hug. As you can see, he's not quite into this. But once again, the push over, trying to be helpful to everybody.  So once again, he does this. And you can see the status, high status, low status. Once again, he's the underlings. All right, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to do this. And look at her face. Like, oh, I got my thing. All right. That's good. She's slightly shocked. But yes, because he says, I want to tell you this because this relationship is based on trust, right? Another challenge. Look at her. Oh, look at that. Oh, I love this. Just that little moment of not quite there. Not quite there. Not quite honest. Can't hold eye contact. And then the scene ends. So good. I love this. It's so uncomfortable to watch, but I love it. And if you have access to the show on HBO, I highly recommend you watch it. There are so many different characters, and they have all their different quirks and personalities and the conflict between all of them. They're all different enough. So good. I love it. Now, if you love this as much as I did and you want me to try to find a segue at the end, but if you like, this is cool and helpful. You want to take those points and put that into your shots. I have workshops, link in the description for all the information. Workshops are open at any time you can sign up whenever you want to. And let's work together so I can help you with your shots and then give me your ideas and you can make your shots even more awesome. Speaking of awesome, if you're still watching this after all this time, you're very patient. Thank you so much. 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update welcome folks we have the down initiatives finished up 369 naziq up 197 s&p's up 56 gold gold contract up $5 20 cents trading at 2072 an ounce we had silver up 11 cents $23 28 cents an ounce of light sweet crew down $2 73 $85 cents a barrel notes and bonds big moves at the 10 year up 19 ticks 1 12 29 the 30 year up a full point plus 23 ticks at 12402 and you get the 10 year right now at 3.8 it looks like it's on the ABC structure up folks to a 3.24 yield big number and King dollar King dollar gave it up on price out here it was up about 600 ticks it ended up closing down 208 ticks at 103 0 6 euros at 108 yen straight into the price point of 146 British pound at 127 to 1 US dollar let's get over and see if we get anything out here yet an Amazon and on meta so you get Amazon straight in 161 here it is okay so net sales 1.138 billion to 143 the estimate was 142 so that's kind of that's that's a low income first quarter net sales there operating income 8 billion to 12 billion estimate was 9 billion oh that's a that's a big one man that's that's a good that's a good number man net sales 138 to 140 why I already gave you that one net operating income the estimate is oh my god look at him the only Amazon could do this the estimate of net operating income was $10 and 49 cents they took in 1321 let me see what that's doing now yeah there you go now you're up $7 you're up $4 and 40 cents now you're up to 165 that would totally make sense let me let me see if we get meta meta come out yet so matters trading 394 it doesn't look like it's come out yet yeah let's go back to Amazon because they've given us a lot of information AMZN okay so you got yeah that what I want to what a beat 78 cents to a dollar they're up look at that operating margins they're up to 7.8 percent from 6.17 off to the races here we go folks have a great one have a safe one come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning kicks us off 9 a.m. great show folks