Well, anyway, I will start then, because this is not so important, so a couple of words about me. And I appreciate your negative as a volunteer in several of the open source projects in my spare time, because in my real life, everyday life, I'm a developer and a scientist, and I do not do anything for open source projects except for those that we use in our day job in terms of office suite. But in my spare time, I am a time volunteer in a part of an office where I also serve as a project chair a few years ago and a few years ago. And I'm still focused on data visualization, text mining and data journalism as part of my job. So I try just bringing the windowpan office and trying to... They're coming back with a microphone. Okay, trying to see what we could do with that. Thanks a lot, sir. Sorry, because then you can use my pointers and everyone may not have to have checked. I think I was not working out with the microphone, but... Just to check if it works. Can you speak into it? I mean... By the way, it was recording also via the... Yeah, I know. Let's check it. There is nothing on channel 1 currently. Yeah. How are you, buddy? Pick. Run, test. Can you look him? I believe there is a pair button. There we go. There we go. Okay. Can I press the pair button? Can you check? Speak? No, not yet, not yet. Maybe you have to push here. It's still blinking. I'm sorry. Wait. Try speaking. No, no, no. Not yet. Tell me if I should... Try, try. No, I can't see anything. Should I push something? It's green now. Speak? No, I still can't see anything. I'm still empty. But it's green. It's green. It's become green. Shouldn't be a pair. No, not yet. Anymore? Try speaking? No. No, nothing. I'm sorry. Should I try? I just pushed again. A pair. Let's try. I don't know if it was a timeout. Not yet. Now it's not blinking? Try speaking? No. No, it looks like not. I'm sorry. What? Maybe it's muted? No, it's not. Okay. It will be really funny. No, nothing. I'm sorry. Just my voice in channel 2. Sorry, this is a bit unexpected. Does this mean that the previous thoughts were not recorded? No, I was here. It wasn't recorded. Okay. By the way, there is still the in-channel microphone, so you may speak louder. Okay, so if there is some traffic. I tried. So, well, enough about myself and let's really try to respect this schedule. There is a mining in general. There is a microphone. I don't know what to say. Here is this. I don't know. I don't know if it is thought. So text categorization, like I signed it over to a certain class, automated summarization of documents to machine learning. So trying to find a shorter way to say the same things or finding out what the important sentences are. And the sentence in general is much more common on social media these times. Understanding the sentence is positive, negative or neutral with respect to a certain program. But there is a more basic form of text mining that we can play with, even without special ideas. Like statistics on text, lines of sentences, most common words. They connect indicators about the writing style. They try to profile the writers and define their writing style based on numbers and these two writing words. So it is possible to have a fingerprint of an author by checking how frequent these users observe certain words or patterns. You can identify this button in the text. And the more basic form of text mining is visualizing the text in the form of a word. In general we would use Python as the preferred language because it's the one with the richest library set for all data sites, but specifically for text mining. With advanced use cases you would need specialized libraries and high computational power. But for the basic use cases, a local review there is more than that. A typical example of a basic text mining exercise would be read a text file, process the text appropriately, and then produce a word cloud that represents the picture the most common words we have seen. So this is an exercise I did with my students, with my well-communicated students. We produced an animated word cloud, with a value that was selected in the topic of the week. So this animation doesn't matter to me. Of course I'm speaking with that. Words become larger or smaller. According to popularities they had in recent weeks. So you can capture the trends visually, the news trends visually. But we are trying to see what we can do using the internet as a tool. That one goes down and may be the main part without any usage of an office. Our built-in feature basically has built-in parts. As Python is available within an office, we have the Python interpreter in the within office. We have the Python unit bridge which allows to basically internalize the two-part owner. You can use the text within part. One, two, three. Both sides. Okay. I'm not going back to previous slides. Let's just start from here. We have Python in Apache open office and we are trying to do something that's some simple text mind without the within open office. Getting the text is extremely easy. It is just one line of code. You go to the user's script or whatever you want to put your Python script. And the first part just gets the text of the current document. And it is trivial. I can show it in a proper text editor. But basically it's here. It's just a few lines of code. And then you have the text available. So from now on we are doing all the processing. We're using the internal Python. Then we will resort back to open office for the kind of visualization, the very, very low visualization we can have within Writer. Writer has a lot of limitations. So what do we do in the Python environment? Tokenization. We strip out our punctuation. Text is converted to lower case. Text becomes a list of words. We remove stop words. Because otherwise for any text to analyze we would see that and or they would be the most used words. And of course we don't want them to skew statistics. Then we filter to remove noise. The word that is only appearing once is the word that can be removed. This allows us to take a very long text with a variety of words and condensate it into a couple of hundreds of relevant words. And okay, we can... I don't want to waste time on this, but again it is a few lines of code here and you just get... There are some tricks to show. Okay. There are some tricks to properly extract the words and replacing everything with space if it is not available. Then with the counter object in Python we can very simply summarize our list and just extract in frequencies. So our list of words with repetition becomes a native Python data structure. Each word and the... like the word computer appears 34 times. And here again it becomes trivial to assign a popularity score to each word just to single out the ones that are really popular and the ones that are less popular. And this is what we do here. The stop words removal was already done as part of the previous step and basically here we just calculate the frequency and we generate the counters and we compute frequencies. And now we have to go back to... This is the kind of tricky part but still within an absolutely manageable complexity. Let's say that we start with an open office document and we want to append the visualization kind of a word cloud, the visualization of word frequencies to the end of this document. Then we use a cursor and this is documented in APIs and it is the missing link that brings back our Python objects to something that we can use in Python. So we generate the cursor, we go to the end of the document since we want to append the word cloud to the existing text and with the cursor we'll also apply style information. We are seeing it in a minute. Style information, why? Because a writer is very, very limited. For example, all text in writer has to be on lines. While the word cloud is a much more free visualization in general with the words that can be freely placed, okay, a writer does support floating objects but this would be totally overkill for our example as if we wanted we'd rather move to the engine of a drop and generate an interest slide. But here, if we want to stay within a writer we want it to be done in 20 lines, everything. We just can set these properties for the text we are going to write to append to the end of text and for each word we compute the right color and size so that it is a little bit nicer and all of this literally takes 20 lines of code. You know what is shown here. It is just down here. If you remove the includes basically it's a word cloud generator in 20 lines of code. The projector has a wrong resolution so it cannot show it properly but you go from here by executing the macro. This is a famous inaugural speech of President Obama and if we want to extract the key topics from here we just run the macro and this is what we get. It is still extremely simple but one gets the idea in writer. Okay, that would be it. So you get America, American nation you can single out the most frequent words and this is as far as you get in writer with just an absolutely simple approach like we did, which is this. Possible improvements how to use other functionality. Here there is a lot of stuff that we could improve starting from this very basic use case which is of course appearance now it is too static and there basically one would start with creating something with the drawing press engine rather than the writer engine and once you are there there you have native floating objects that you can place everywhere and with that it comes complexity. So now this word cloud is just a stream of words one after each other where we put the appropriate style to its word. There we would have to compute about the box for its word and make sure they do not overact too much. So it is a substantial amount of new work but that would be the way to do this. Basically we would need the algorithm that currently we just don't have just dump it all out in one line and this is for appearance but then we are within a word processor and this means we can improve the quality of our word cloud in ways that would be quite hard to do in other contexts. For example, OpenOffice knows about stemming, meaning recognizing in our example that America and American are basically the same word share the same root word. And we can do that since our spellchecker within OpenOffice already does it at a much, much population and I haven't tested it but if it was possible to interface with the hand spell engine that we use for spell checking this would automatically improve the quality by reducing each word to its most common appearance. And technically the stemming and lematizing, lematizing means choosing the right representative between America and American for example. Another thing that we could do in an excellent way if we wanted to improve this further is using synonyms because the word cloud inherently has a big limitation. It mixes up the significant and the meaning. The significant is the word you use to express a concept and the meaning is of course what you want to convey. So if I say brilliant and I want to actually say the same thing the two frequencies will be separated and there is no way to understanding it but we do have a synonyms engine so we could resort to it and trying to interface with the tutorials and try to cluster words with the same meaning and again this would be as the same process we've seen before but with the fact that we are now going into the semantic word trying to figure out what the word actually means and not just the way it looks. Another improvement that would be possible in theory is the part of speech tagging. We do have limited support for grammar checkers. Part of speech tagging means find out if a word is a noun or an adjective like a good boy or for the common good. And this would allow us to restrict our word cloud to only a text, for example making it much more homogeneous and much nicer to read for a real reader. The appearance would be the same but the meaning to a reader would be much richer. This is quite hard and the rest is probably feasible here we are going into something that becomes harder to do. Going back to stuff that we could do rather easily, sentiment analysis and other things we would be able to probably do and also the coupled from the word listings. Like one creates word lists with known, bad or good characterizations and this could be implemented with a similar statistical approach outside of the word cloud. And okay, we rushed a bit during the time that that's it. Thank you. If you have any questions or want to see the code or anything, please. Do you have kind of a range when you give ranking to the words in the actual implementation?  Is there a limit of ranking? Meaning that it's just one decimal, for example? Or is there a limit? At the moment. At the moment, I simply take the data and compute maximum and minimum so I assign 0 and 1 to cover all the font sizes I want to cover. It depends on the amount of work. Exactly. So I take the text and I stretch it to be always between 0 and 1. That's because I was... I say that I really... I have to say I love to use styles but I'm obssessioned by the styles. So the first thing that came to me is that you've been talking about styles but if I'm not wrong, you were doing direct format. Yeah, sure. Okay, well, this is a good concept. I mean, we're not... No, no, no problem.  One could prepare character styles, indeed. Yeah, but I think that this applies... could apply if you have a limited number of styles. I mean, I mean, that's why the previous question... Yeah, okay. You can't place a new set on the other side. I think it's completely unusable. It's much better if you don't format it. Yes, if you want to use set styles, then you would... I mean, something to map categories, to map intervals to a certain style, yes. But it may apply, probably, in the future implementations of sentiment or, for example, you may use some kind of... Yeah, sure. We'll try something like that. Any other questions? Okay, we have time for one or two questions. Could I have a... Yes, there are more but, okay, it is a list of softwares. If you see it, the proof of concept is not really complete. Like here, for example, with you and you would have to be removed. What I mentioned, how the library functions to get this language dependent? Yes, with Python libraries, if you can leverage the full Python, then you don't need to hardcode stop words as a sequence, as a list of words that you make up yourself. There are existing softwares with most text processing libraries for Python and they are localized into languages. So that is just because I was doing it in 20 lines, but with the same approach, that's perfectly feasible. Question? Okay. So, in your code, what is this context script? What is it? Is it something you notice up here? Is it the interface to open office and grow this code that matters? That is a bridge that gives you the possibility here. You are in Python and you will run this within a writer, but this is the bridge that will get the text from the document to writer and the cursor here is the one doing the opposite thing, meaning bringing what you have and being able to insert it into the document. And these are the two, but the API is documented and it is just there by you. Question? No, grammar checker is not native in open office, so it is available through extensions and the extensions use either Java or Python, but it is not native engine. And I don't know what they internally use. I don't know what that is. Do you have a text to that one? That's okay. Okay. It's time to leave the floor, to the next speaker. Remove microphone. Yes. I will run the microphone. You know, the nice thing is that everything gets recorded since it is a Wi-Fi microphone. Overcomments. Thank you very much.


Electric vehicles that you are taking forward on behalf of the government, how do you foresee electric vehicle, you know, adaption in India in the next two to five years? So I think we are in the midst of a very big disruption. EVs are inevitable, they are inevitable because we need to clean up our cities, clean up our cities that we built it. And more than anything else, we need to cut down imported oil. The biggest strength India has is in terms of its sun. We need to do storage of electricity, renewable electricity which we produce. And if you look at India, 72% of the vehicles are two years, another five to six percent are three years. So our whole strategy is to actually to push to electric vehicles and renewable electricity. Brain body has done remarkably big announcements with respect to MSMEs and startups. So taking both the agenda forward, do you feel that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is now at the brink of explosion in India? So our objective has been to create the right ecosystem for both startups. So when we started in the startup in India, both of our startups were really proud, but they were going to Silicon Valley or Singapore. Now we are seeing the first trend in able to create that very ecosystem for startups. We've given a massive push to MSMEs. We want our micros to grow big and small and our school to grow in the medium. We also want our medium to grow in large companies. We've provided all kinds of credit, all kinds of our hand-holding. Government will act as a facility, as a catalyst. To make this product grow and expect it. So what is going to be Mithi Ayog's agenda for these next two years while you're in office? I think we'll drive all kinds of progressive things in India from education to health. There will be a lot of disruption in large areas including electric, including mobility, including mobile manufacturing. What would be your top tip for an entrepreneur that wants to start their business today in India? Just be passionate. Just be passionate, be committed and you're in for the role. Even if you fail, it doesn't matter. You have to fail to succeed. Many people who have succeeded will not fail. We in India must accept that there has to be some failure. But in India there's a lot of top-class entrepreneurs and all these are new entrepreneurs.


In 2022, I finished residency and took my first job as a full-time internal medicine hospice. But just a few months later, I decided to apply and go back to training to be a cardiologist. And after months of applications and interviews, I thankfully was accepted to my number one choice for cardiology fellowship. And here's ultimately why I chose to go into the field of cardiology. Let's break it down. Hey friends, welcome back to the channel. In case you're new here, my name is Lux, I'm an internal medicine physician. And as of last year, I took my first job as a full-time hospice. But as you saw, I've now made the transition to go into the field of cardiology, which I'll be starting in just a few short months. Now in the past, I've made several episodes of why I love the field of internal medicine. You guys can check those out down below. I still love the field. But today, I want to break down exactly the reasons that I ultimately made the switch to pursue cardiology for the rest of my life. So number one is intellectual attraction. Now to explain exactly what this means, quick story time. Now when I was a young upper level resident, my second year of residency, I was doing an overnight shift in the cardiology ICU. And at 3am, I got a call from my attending, which usually doesn't happen. But they told me on the phone, Lux, there's a 94 year old in the emergency room that they just called me about that they're concerned of having a heart attack. Can you go please take a look at her? Now again, it's not normal for your attending to call you. So it's clear that people are concerned about what was going on with this patient. So I quickly made myself down to the emergency room and see this very sweet lady who's clearly in a lot of discomfort. But to avoid getting biased by the story of having a heart attack, I took a quick look at her EKG, and I quickly noticed that she was actually in complete heart block. This is basically where the top and the bottom chambers of the heart aren't talking to each other and cause a lot of discomfort, including start replicating things like chest pain, which is why everyone was concerned about a heart attack in the first place. But because I was thankfully able to identify that this patient was in complete heart block and less so of a new heart attack, we're able to put in the right steps, including having the emergency room, putting in a temporary pacer to get our heart functioning back to normal, as well as having the electrophysiology team aware of her ready to come in the morning and putting in a permanent pacemaker for this patient. And sure enough, I was able to come see this patient on my next night shift and notice that she was feeling 100% better with her new pacemaker and her heart back to normal. Now this story for me is exactly what intellectual attraction means. Every field is going to have their bread and butter cases. You're going to have heart failure, you're going to have heart attacks, you're going to have arrhythmias, in other fields, for example, like pulmonary, you're going to have COPD exacerbations, you're going to have ILD exacerbations, you're going to have asthma exacerbations, lots of exacerbations. And you have to feel comfortable of saying, out of these fields, which ones am I okay of seeing on a daily basis and still not getting bored of? For me in cardiology, there's always intellectual attraction to those bread and butter cases. I love taking care of patients with heart failure exacerbations arrhythmias patients who come in with chest pain and being able to work them out but ultimately making them feel better. Even though those are bread and butter cases are relatively pretty routine, it's something that could easily see myself doing for the rest of my life and still being intellectually attracted to. Number two is the sheer amount of data that can be translated to patient improvement and care. Now every field, every specialty does research to better help manage their patients and diagnose them. But in the field of cardiology, not only is there a large amount of research, there's also a good amount of data that can easily be translated to patients at the bedside. So for instance, if I admit somebody with a heart failure exacerbation, I know from the data the best dose of diuretics to give them based off of their weight or their prior dosages that they may have taken at home. I also know what the data says about continuously giving them a drip of infusion of diuresis or kind of intermittently giving them throughout the day and that there's no difference based off of the data that we have. And so the beauty of cardiology is that there's so much data out there that you can simply say, is this better for this patient or is this a better option? Or is either of them something I should consider? You can look at the data and say, actually, this is the best option for this patient in this setting. I'm able to basically personalize my care for this patient. And once I identify that this actually did help this patient, it made them feel better from their overload, their volume overload, the heart failure, I can then translate it and use that for future patients that I have. And we'll talk about this later in the episode about research within cardiology is by no means stagnant. If anything, it's increasing exponentially where we're asking better and more questions, have more data, ultimately to better help diagnose and manage our patients. Number three is job site flexibility. Now it's a better highlight why I enjoyed the flexibility within cardiology. I'm going to actually explain the flip side of my lack of flexibility currently as a hospice. And keep in mind, I have nothing of being a hospice actually really enjoy what I do. But the thing about being a hospice is that you're pretty much confined to working in the hospital on a certain schedule that somebody sets for you. So for me right now, it's seven days on seven days off. But if I decide in the future when I'm 45, when I'm 55, when I'm 65, and I still ideally want to practice medicine, then maybe I don't want to go seven days in a row or 12 hour shifts in the hospital and show up at seven a.m. What are my options? Usually in the field of hospice medicine, it's usually transitioning to either working less, thus making less money, or it's transitioning to a more admin heavy role, which is not something that I'm personally very interested in. But on the flip side in cardiology, the life that I can create can be pretty flexible. For example, they're cardiologists that will work on a weekly basis where they may do a few days of clinic and see their own patients. They may do a few days of consults over the month and go see patients in the hospital that other medicine positions are asking them to see. In addition, they may do procedures or read images on certain days or half days of the week. You can see how your weekly and monthly schedule can now have this little bit of variety. If you're doing imaging on one day, doing procedures on another, doing consults on a certain part of the month, seeing your patients in a clinic, you're always kind of moving through the field of cardiology that you enjoy without having to do too much of something that maybe still may not be your favorite. And for the sub-specialties within cardiology that are very procedure heavy, for example, somebody who's an interventional, somebody who does with valvular abnormalities, somebody who does with congenital or somebody who does electrophysiology, there's still a nice bit of variety and flexibility because you can do procedures on certain days, seeing patients in clinic that you just operated or did a procedure on on another. And again, the weeks and the months now have a little bit of variety and diversity to what you do. Number four for me is the most attractive, which is the teaching component. Now, the main reason I got interested in cardiology in the first place is I was a young fourth year medical student on the cardiology ICU service. And it was a very hard field to learn, EKGs, echoes, chest pain, heart failure. But thankfully for me during that June to July period, I was able to learn the pearls, the lingoes from some of these amazing residents, amazing physicians, and amazing fellows. Now, the reason that that was so important is that I had three weeks at advance before the new interns were brand new first year doctors joined the cardiology service and the month of July. By no means was I smarter than any of these first year doctors, but I did have three weeks within this cardiology rotation of learning how to better master echoes, EKGs, etc. So I found myself actually working with my interns and teaching them the things that I had just learned a few weeks prior. And I could see that I really enjoy when somebody was able to teach me something, I was able to teach somebody else something, and then see them better take care of their patients. And as I went through residency, the more pearls I was able to learn within the field of cardiology, the more attracted I was to try to pass that down to my interns and my other residents and being able to see again, them better able to take care of their patients. Because again, the field of cardiology is not easy, EKGs, echoes, looking at CAP images, managing all these disorders, there's lots of data, and this is lost forever, lots of little nuances to keep in mind while better taking care of your patients. And so when you can take a hard concept, better learn it for yourself, pass it down to somebody else. One, it sticks better with you, but then you can see tons of people, whether they go into the field of cards or not, better be able to manage their patients. And that's just one half of the teaching component. While I can teach other trainees to again selfishly get better at cardiology myself, the other half is I love teaching my patients about cardiology. Even as a hospice today, if I have a patient that comes in with heart failure or chest pain or arrhythmias, I'm always finding myself drawing things on the board, explaining them to the little nuances of why this medication is on board for them, because it's really life changing when you get these diagnoses and you never knew that you had heart failure in the first place. Being able to walk through your patient of A, B and C, what's going on, what they need to do is really satisfying for me and watching that light bulb happen when they understand that this doctor understands what the heck that they're talking about, and thus they're able to better manage their care. That is truly gratifying. And so I'm excited as both the cardiology fellow and then eventually as a cardiology attending, when my knowledge of cardiology will even be even better to be able to use that to better teach and educate my patients. Now, number five is the future outlook. Now, unfortunately, cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. And unfortunately, I don't see that changing anytime soon. But the attractive part about cardiology is that there's always going to be a need for my services. In addition, the technology that's going to advance with more data and information that we talked about earlier is so exciting. Now, often people talk about technology take over the jobs of people in healthcare, including cardiologists, but I actually think technology is going to just aid me doing my job better. For example, I see AI technology better being able to assess something like an EKG or a chest x-ray or a pacemaker or an echo reading and being able to best allow me to say, let me see what this is saying versus what can I do for this patient. And something else that I'm really excited about is as the research within cardiology increases, I think that the future of medicine is really having personalized medications. Sometimes, for example, we know patients have heart attacks and so we put you on a plethora of medications. But there's often a difference between why this patient has coronary artery disease versus why this patient and why their medications help while it didn't help this patient. Same thing for heart failure. This patient with heart failure may have a completely different pathophysiology on what actually led them to have heart failure and that sustained heart failure. And the future, which is exciting, is to be able to look at somebody's genetic and pathophysiology and finding medications that then can address those specific problems. We're already starting to see signs and research and medications that are coming tailored to be for a specific subset of patient populations within something that used to be just everybody take these subsets and that's. And so I'm excited for the future of being able to see a patient in my clinic and saying, well, these two patients have the same disorder based off their genetic and lab abnormalities. Here are the best forms of treatment for them. And here's the best form of treatments for this patient. Again, you can personalize that care and I'm really excited for what that can mean for the future of cardiovascular disease and for those individual patients. Next is having a career in cardiology that aligns with my goals.  I really enjoy what I do. I promise. But one let down honestly of the field is that I'm hoping when I discharge somebody that I never see them again. But I don't know if that means that that patient is doing well based off my treatments, my recommendations, my education, or maybe they went to another hospital or maybe they've already been taken care of by one of my colleagues. And I just didn't know that they were re admitted to the hospital. You just don't know what happens to these patients once you discharge them. But on the flip side, the field of cardiology allows me to have that long term continuation of care with the patient or maybe their families. So I can see them from their initial diagnoses or chief complaint all the way to being able to manage them ideally for years to decades. In addition, one thing that's really important to me, which fits into the idea of long term continuity of care is the idea of prevention and progress. I'm really big and running managing my health managing what I eat my fitness and being able to translate that to my patients of saying this is what the data says that these should be the best things that you eat to lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in patients who have family histories or have had a personal history of heart attacks or heart disease, being able to say these are the best preventative things that you could do based off the research based off my experience and really being able to use that love for education to again tailor the care for a specific patient. I don't always get that as a hospice and I'm really excited to have that in the field of cardiology. And in similar fashion to something we talked about, I get to have a career that is focused on education. Every time I have a patient have the opportunity of understanding what do they understand and where can I fill in my own lack of knowledge and cardiology understand that better and thus be able to better take care of my patients. And then also having that ability to work with future trainees, whether it's an intern or a medical student, a fellow or other attendings that are young in their career. Ideally, when I'm in my late 40s and 50s and 60s, I'm able to pass down those pearls that I've picked up throughout my decades and time in medicine. And then finally, as a flip side of something I'm really excited not to do anymore, as a hospice, again, nothing against the field, but one thing that your job is very focused on is disposition or discharging a patient. In the field of cardiology, it's just taking care of whatever their cardiovascular complication is. As a hospitalist, I may be taking care of a patient in the hospital five to seven days, but maybe a majority of them are not spent on the medicine. I may make them feel better in two or three, and then those last four or five, maybe trying to get them to a rehab or to a skilled facility. That last part is not as interesting. And so whenever you have several of those patients on your daily list, while it's easy to take care of them medically, it may not be the most intellectually attractive like we talked about earlier. And thus on some days, it makes it feel like where you don't actually want to go to work. And then finally, I don't think I would be doing this episode justice if we didn't talk about salary. Now for me, being able to take care of my family and doing it long term is very important, which is why there's an attractive component financially of being a physician.  And so while I get paid well as an internal medicine, I make about 250k currently in central Texas. The field of cardiology gives me the options of making even more, again, being able to take care of those long term future goals that my family and I have. So as a reference here is the Doximity Report from 2021. Now these numbers can vary from the true salary for tons of reasons. Geographic locations, demand, exactly what you do. So for example, internal medicine, it says here that you make 295,000. That's actually significantly higher than what I make now in central Texas, but it may be significantly lower compared to somewhere else in the country. But if we look at the field within cardiology, we see that here in the U.S., it's actually one of the highest paid specialties at an average of $537,000. Now there's a few nuances to this number. One, it includes people who do interventional as well as somebody who's non-invasive. So somebody who is doing, you know, a lot of cats and stents and valve repairs and electrophysiologists, for example, will make a little bit maybe more than this. And then thus people who are non-invasive, somebody who is a general cardiologist, prevention cardiologist, somebody who is reading images or doing consults, may make less than this. And this is what brings the average there. So I expect my salary to be in probably the $400,000 range. I'm not sure. It just depends again on where you live, the demand for what you have, how many patients you see, how busy you are, how the group works. There's tons of things that go into this number. But this number again just serves as a reference that cardiologists are well paid for what they do. But those friends are the big reasons that I ultimately made that transition to go into the field of cardiology. I'm really excited to start my fellowship in just a few months from the making of today's episode. So if you want to follow me in that transition, my life as a fellow, my life as a cardiology attending, when that time comes, make sure you hit that license arrive and follow on whether it's YouTube or podcast, wherever you're listening. And if there's anything in this episode that I didn't answer about my decision to go into cards or specific questions you may have, make sure you drop them in the comment section if you're watching on YouTube. I'd love to use those as ideas on episodes I can make future in this kind of series I will do about my life going into cardiology. So make sure you hit that follow, like and subscribe. Now if you're interested in learning what my life looks like right now as a full-time hospitalist, check out this episode right here where I break down exactly what the field means, what my salary, what my job, my hours look like.  But as always my friends, thank you so much for being a part of my journey. Hopefully I was just a little help to you guys on yours. Let me know what questions you have and I'll see you guys in the next


I am truly a born-again anthropologist, but in my heart, I'm first and foremost a poet. And so I'd like to close with a bit of poetry. This is poem for my black anthropology sisters today and forever. And what I want to do is to begin with the epigram. One of the things I began with was a quote that I found in Zora. And she quotes it in her essay called What White Publishers Won't Print that was originally published in 1970. And this is the quote she uses. We don't know who the author of it is, but it says, quote, yes, he can certainly know his higher mathematics and he can read Latin better than any white man I know, but I cannot bring myself to believe that he understands a thing he is doing. It is all an aping of our culture, all on the outside. You're crazy if you think that has changed him inside in the least. Turn him loose and he will work at once back to the jungle. He is still a savage and no amount of translating Virgil and Ovid is going to change him. In fact, all you have done is to turn a useful savage into a dangerous beast, end quote. They see us as dangerous beast. They treat us as if we don't belong intruders, if you will, occasionally we are mentored but when we rise above our mentors as brilliant people want to do, they try to push us back down. Pull us on to lockdown. Sometimes the threats that block us from achieving to our fullest potential may even come from people who look like us, skin folk as Sister Burkett Williams labeled them. Even from other women who may turn out not to be skin folk, not to be supporters but negators, haters in today's parlance, who would rather see us all fall than one of us, especially one of us of color rise above the crowd. No feminist anthropology scholars you still don't cite us as Sister Lynn Bowles and Sister Fay Harrison continue to remind us. You still don't use our books, our words and experiences as black women and women of color are not part of the canon of must read feminist literature. Occasionally and on certain occasions, one or two of us, never more, are given the key to the intellectual Sister John but at what price anthropology tells its own history of women in the discipline. We valorize and elevate, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ellen Q. Parsons, but that history even when viewed through a feminist lens continues to turn its intellectual back on Zora Neale Hurston and on us, her intellectual progeny. As I have traveled and been fortunate to move around this country and the world, I've encountered a fair share of my black sister anthropologist, my sister of color anthropologist, my LGBT sister anthropologist. I have inscribed on my heart these sister's narratives of how we continue to struggle against being labeled dangerous intelligent beasts. We labor as our mothers and relatives before us without much support in the fields of academic departments, planting and tending the crops of anthropology and women's studies and black studies where far too often, though not always, but far too often are treatment is barely one step above academic sharecropping. Where we are forced to feel indebted and grateful if granted tenure as if we had not earned our place. They treat us like dangerous beasts and make us feel routinely as if we don't belong. They block us from the professional mobility we have earned. They intervene and still are best students. They ignore our contributions to the growth of the departments until someone else who does not look like us recycles our very same idea and then it is viewed as brilliance. We are tired. We are sick and tired of being treated like dangerous beasts. We are your former students. We are your colleagues. And some of us thought we were your friends. Is into this field that black feminist anthropology makes its grand entrance. It is a collection of testimonies, a personal and professional witnessing. It is an archive of our black women's resistance and resiliency in the field of anthropology. It is our historical anthropological legacy. It is our small but powerful contribution to the ongoing tradition of cultural critique and anthropology in general and feminist anthropology. Specifically, it is our righteous way of saying we are here to stay. Deal with us. But with justice, with equality and above all else with respect. But deal, you must. But most importantly, it is a survival guide for black feminist everywhere. Doesn't matter the discipline, this book is for you. May it be your intellectual guide. May it be your spiritual support. May it remind you of the transitions, the traditions from which you have evolved. May it provide you the ammunition and the ambition to challenge those who dare stand in your way. To black feminist and anthropology and everywhere else. This book of black feminist anthropology, theory, politics, proxies and poetics is our gift to you. The gift of nine black feminist sisters brave enough to bear our souls and share with you the truth of our lives. Our research and our experiences with anthropology and feminism. Cherish the gift. May it give you strength but above all else. Remember, it is our legacy to you. Add to it, strengthen it and pass it forward. Thank you. Thank you.


Alright, my buddy Matt and I are just going into the Regal Theater to see a Monday mystery movie. We have no idea what it is because it's a mystery that's part of the magic. We'll report back when we're done. Wish us luck. Hey guys, we just got done seeing Kandahar, Kandahar with Jared Butler.  Not that anybody cares because they don't, anybody's, like, planning on seeing this movie. No one's seeing this place. Yeah, I'm telling you right now, don't see it.  Two hours of wasted time, very slow moving, the ghost know our action's terrible. Jared Butler has almost no character. It's a complete waste of time.


Spicy Chipotle Salsa, check out how I made it. Now we're going to dry roast. Dry roast means no oil. I like to separate the onion pieces. The more surface area to burn. Now we're done, let's add in our blender. Squeeze the juice. You can also dry roast some fresh tomatillos. I forgot to get them so I'm gonna use these canned ones. One whole can of Chipotle peppers and adobo sauce. I'm gonna add a couple tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. And we're gonna use our dirty can to get some water. Rinse it around. Add your water in. Now grab your Daniels original and spices. We're gonna add a little bit of each. And we blend.


Have you always knew that you've wanted to build a restaurant? Well, I've fought it for a long time, to be honest. You fought it? What do you mean? Well, honestly, the restaurant life is not the best for everybody.  There's a lot easier ways out there to make a buck, you know? So you have to kind of like to do it. And that's kind of like why I'm super inspired by chefs like you, that you guys have so much passion, you guys spend so many hours here. R&D, cook the food, and then you still need to deal with the business side of everything. Well, I think that's also what is fun for me, is the fact that there's a lot of things that I wasn't allowed to play with in other restaurants, you know? Like I'm working at this like fine dining restaurant.


Hey everyone SheaBear1000 here today we got a travel mug we're going to check out It's hot and cold travel mug double wall. Let's check this out together Okay, so let's get this opened up here This is the way it came That piece of tape on there And looks like Maybe a carrier tried to get into it or something 24 ounce bottle stainless steel Hey, let's open this up There will be a link to this in the description on Amazon It's the model OD 335a some information on it for you to read right there Okay Let's open this up. I'll tell you some things about it here in a second. I do not waste 1.1lb that I heard something in there user instructions The body and lid of the drinking cup are dishwasher safe. So you can put this in the dishwasher Air drying the bottle completely before storing Do not microwave This stainless steel product so you can't put it in the microwave of course it's stainless Do not use bleaches or cleaner that contain chlorine. Do not fill Fill it fully with high temperature water due to physical Air pressure is recommended to let it flat and open The air hole to avoid overflowing and burns The bottle can be placed on In most cars is recommended to use it with caution to avoid water leakage if it is to be placed on the car due to The differences in car models And that's all it says there Okay, all right. Well Let me read you something about this thing Um it can It's supposed to be able to it is a uh Double wall vacuum insulation it can keep the beverage hot For up to six hours or cold for 18 hours with the sliding lid closed so Here's the lid slides Put that in there Now i'm not going to do you know An 18 hour test on a six hour test And i'm not going to do that because anything that's supposed to be hot I'm not going to drink after six hours even if it's still hot Same way with 18 hours if I put water in here. I'm not going to drink in 18 hours later. I'm going to dump it out so But what we can do Is let's do a leak test on it and see if it leaks and then we'll take it out to the truck See if it fits in the cup holder. Okay, I got some water in here Let's close this up Okay, not one drop is leaking out of that So that's good If you knock over that's loud it's not going to leak it is a nice looking cup um I don't usually use these cups, but monkey uses them quite a bit these kinds For coffee and whatnot I guess it'd be all right for tea I would actually have it like that if I was going to use it I may use it But yeah, that's um I mean who's going to sit and go like this anyway. I mean if it gets knocked over I'm just going to pick it up immediately anyhow natural reaction Okay, so all right Well, I'm going to dump this water out And let's take it out to the truck And see how well it fits Into the drink holder and the truck. Okay. We're out here in our Chevy Traverse I should mention that If you have coffee or hot tea or hot chocolate in here when you put the lid on make sure That your top is open Because if you don't it's a snug fit if you don't it'll build up pressure Doesn't want to go on You may not get a tight There you hear that Same with taking it off it helps to take it off But here let's put this try to put it on see it doesn't want to go on now once I do this Hear that little Okay, let's see if it fits in the I uh, I don't see a problem with that There's the bottom of it So yeah, it should fit in most most uh cup holders and vehicles In fact, some vehicles have a place for your Handle to go in but that's like all the way down there and that's You know Yeah Uh, seems to be fine Um, let's go back in the house I'll give you my thoughts on it. Okay, so I mean You know other than that there's really not much we can do Other than drink out of it, but like I said, I'm not doing an 18 hour and a six hour Test on it. I have used these double walled like thermoses before wide mouth thermoses for soups and stuff and they seem to work fine like I said for coffee You know six hours are you going to drink coffee after itself for six hours even if it's still hot? Probably not same way with a drink if you if you put a soda pop in here Well, um, you know 18 hours It's you know, going to be flat anyway. You're going to drink it be done when you're Done you dump it out. No, this is This is the one we've got here And there is also one That is pink and green That you can choose from so there's two different color schemes you can choose from um You got the dark blue and the pink and green. All right So what do I think of the mug? I would have to say it seems to be fine. Um, it feels good. It's nice Uh One and a half pound or 1.1 pound. So it's a pound So, I mean, you're probably not going to want to backpack with this if you're one of the The minimalists that like to have their backpack really nice and light But again, um You know, if you take this camping or you know, you get your coffee coffee in the morning go to work It seems like it fits in a cup holder fine It's not going to spill out all over you Yeah, I think it's a great cup. Um, it this is does have a four and a half star rating on amazon, so I'm going to give it a two thumbs up for sure um I don't know if I'll use it. I may use it for tea or hot chocolate But I'm sure monkey will use it for her coffee. So Um, I think she'll probably do a review on it as well. Um, but I think she'll like it. So Yeah Very nice does feel good handle fits its ergonomic Yeah, they uh did a good one on on this one 24 ounce water bottle stainless steel Very nice product. I would recommend it and The link will be in the description below. Thanks for watching guys. Appreciate it. Shea bear the mythomenal legend gone for now We'll see you guys in the next one. Bye. Bye and take care


All right, so Judges chapter 21 is the last book the last chapter in the book of judges So every time I read this this story in these three chapters I get to the end here, and I'm just like You know enough already I'm glad this story is over, you know I mean just keeps getting worse and worse and worse so you remember You know from Judges chapter 19 We're basically ending a story that started in Judges chapter 19 went through Judges chapter 20 And now it ends in Judges chapter 21 if you remember, you know the Levite and his concubine his Levite, you know went to You know the city in Benjamin and his concubine was you know killed by the sodomites by these murderers They killed her and he sends her you know body to all parts of Israel And they basically declare war on this they asked for them to turn over You know the the guilty parties, but Benjamin would not do it so they go to war with the tribe of Benjamin and Basically all not basically but all of Benjamin is destroyed in the war in chapter 20 except for these 600 men that are hiding up in the mountains are hiding up in the rock Rimon and now we're dealing with in Judges chapter 21 We're seeing how the children of Israel dealt with these 600 men that remained so Keep in mind that you know they destroyed every single person in the tribe of Benjamin in this war Except for these 600 men look down at verse number one and let's finish out Judges chapter 21 and then we'll kind of look back at the whole book of judges and see what we can learn from that But let's finish out this story first in judges chapter 21 verse 1 the Bible says now the men of Israel had sworn in mitzvah Saying that there shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. So basically They had already made a pact in if you go back to judges chapter 20 Look at verse number one there and they met they met in mitzvah first Then all the children of Israel look at judges chapter 20 and verse number one They made this pact and they met in mitzvah The Bible says in judges 20 verse 1 then all the children of Israel went out and the congregation was gathered together as one man From Dan even to bear sheba with the land of Gilead unto the Lord in mitzvah So we now learn that when they gathered together before they went to the war they made a pact They swore they swore an oath so to speak and the oath was that They would not give any they were going to go to war It kind of gives you an idea that they knew what they were going to do when they went to Benjamin But they said that you know when we go and we do this and we destroy Benjamin We're not going to give any of our daughters to marry the men of Benjamin Meaning they kind of knew that there was going to be need for them to marry somebody that they were going to destroy the entire tribe now look down at verse number two of Judges chapter 21 and let's continue and the people so we see the first pact or oath and the people came to the house of God and a Bode there till even before God and lifted up their voices and Wept soar and this is now after it's over okay and said oh Lord God of Israel Why has this come to pass in Israel that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and Peace offerings now this is I'm going to delve into a little bit of my opinion on this But turn to Leviticus chapter 4 we see a couple things here first of all They're very upset that you know Benjamin is completely destroyed and then we see that they're offering burnt offerings and peace offerings Let's take a look at what those are in verse number 22 of Leviticus chapter 4 So this kind of gives us an idea of you know, maybe what happened. It was not really the right thing So look at verse 22 of Leviticus chapter 4 and the Bible says this it says when a ruler has sinned and Done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord is God Concerning these things which he should not be done and is guilty down to look down at verse number 35 It goes through this big Process of this sacrifice and in verse 35 it says in Leviticus 4 35 He shall take away all the fat thereof as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings And the priests shall burn them upon the altar according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord and the priests Shall make an atonement for his sin that he had committed and it shall be forgiven him So this peace offering is to atone especially in Leviticus chapter 4 Verse 22 is to atone for the sin of a ruler of someone who's in charge It's why they would give a peace offering. So look there's a strong indication here That they went overboard with the tribe of Benjamin. That's that's all I'm really getting at here Is a strong indication that maybe they weren't supposed to kill every single person in every single city in The tribe of Benjamin, you know, yes God said go up against Benjamin fight against Benjamin fight against these men But they went into these cities. I mean just imagine this for a minute They fought the army. They beat the army except for these 600 men But then they went and they destroyed every city in Benjamin killing Every man woman and child in those cities So there's a strong indication and it's my opinion that they went a little overboard here And they you can see that they repented themselves. They're offering peace offerings saying, you know They're lamenting the fact that oh, what have we done? What have we done? We've destroyed all the whole entire tribe. They're like now. There's one less tribe in Israel is what they're saying look at verse 5 of the judges 21 and The Bible says in verse 5 and the children of Israel said who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation? Unto the Lord for they had made a great oath Concerning him that came not up to the Lord mitzvah saying he shall surely be put to death So here's the second oath first of all so first of all, what do we see in judges 21? We see that you know There's there's some remorse here for what they've done to the entire tribe and number two now They're figuring trying to figure out what to do with these 600 men They all made an oath at the very beginning before they even went to war They made an oath that nobody's gonna give a daughter to the man of Benjamin to marry now There's no one for them to marry because everybody's dead every man woman and child in Benjamin is dead So now they're like what do we do? What do we do? And they're like hey, remember that other oath we made? They made another oath in verse 5 it talks about this oath that they made that hey anybody that doesn't join us in this war We're gonna kill them. We're gonna put them to death. So they made all kinds of oaths here. Just note that okay look at verse 6 And the children of Israel Repented them for Benjamin their brother once again I mean they didn't it doesn't say repent of your sins. I get it But they're having a change of mind about what's happened here. Okay, they're they're you know thinking okay You know, maybe we shouldn't have killed everybody right so And said there's none there's one tribe cut off from Israel this day How should we do for wives for them that remain now? They have compassion towards these 600 men all of a sudden seeing that we have sworn by the Lord that we will Not give them of our daughters to wives so they made an oath There's that oath again, and they said what one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to mitzvah to the Lord So now they made an oath and they made it not they made two oaths And they're gonna fix the problem with these two oaths that they made you know makes sense right? They're like hey, we made these two oaths and they kind of match right So they said what one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to mitzvah to the Lord And behold there came none to the camp from JBash Gilead to the assembly This is a city okay This is a city for the people were numbered and behold there were none of the inhabitants Habitants of JBash Gilead there so they go through and they count up You know they do kind of a census so to speak of who went to the war and they find that there was no one that came from this Specific city JBash Gilead to go fight with them verse number 10 and the congregation sent thither 12,000 men of the valiant valiantist and commanded them saying go and smite the inhabitants of JBash Gilead With the edge of the sword with the women and the children so this is the town They're gonna go and they're gonna you know kill everyone in this town And this is the thing that you shall do you shall utterly destroy every male and every woman that has lain by a man and They found among the inhabitants of jade had Billy Gilead 400 young virgins So basically they said you're gonna go and you're gonna kill every man woman and child Except for the women that have never been with a man before so there was these 400 Virges that had not known a man by lying with any male and they brought them onto the camp to Shiloh Which is in the land of Canaan so basically they made this oath They feel some remorse towards what they did to Benjamin and they go and they slaughter everyone in this city And then they kidnap and steal the women that they don't kill So they can give them to wives to the 600 men that they're feeling remorse towards so you're just like What it's going on here, right? So they keep trying to and the irony of the whole thing is that they're trying to right a wrong They're trying to I mean throughout all of of judges chapter 21 They're trying to right a wrong and they just keep doing more wrong things Okay, and they're trying to cover up this wrong. We'll get to that in a minute But look at verse so number one they kidnap and steal these women the problem is if you know You're doing the math on this whole thing when you have 400 women and 600 men, you know 200 men are coming up shy on a wife here. Okay, so look at verse 13 And the whole congregation Sent some to speak with the children of Benjamin that were in the rock reman and to call peaceably unto them and Benjamin came again at that time and they were giving them wives which had saved alive of the woman of Jbash Gilead and yet so they suffered them not or suffice to them I'm sorry They suffice them not because there were 600 men and there's only 400 women so it's still not enough So what must we do? We must fix this problem. They say look at verse 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel Then the elders of the congregation said How shall we do for the wives of them that remain the 200? Seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin and they said there must be an inheritance for them That be escaped of Benjamin that is tribe be not destroyed out of Israel How be it so they asked the you know the elders the the leaders the rulers and they say you know Here's what you should do They're wise men come up with another wonderful plan here. How be it we may not give them wives of our daughters Why now because we made an oath? Dummy, you know you keep your oaths right judges chapter 11. You don't go against oaths Not in not in this nation anyway How be it we may not give them wives of our daughters for the children of Israel have sworn saying cursed to be he They'd give it the wife to Benjamin So they're bound by all these oaths, but look at Matthew chapter 5 turn there real quickly Look another thing that we've learned in judges is that you know that these men in this nation They were making oaths that you know, they shouldn't have been making They were making oaths that that they were swearing by heaven and they were swearing To God and they were making these oaths that you know, they were just they were evil oaths Plain and simple look at Matthew chapter 5. This is why Jesus said this in Matthew chapter 5 It's not that an oath on itself is bad It's not that making a promise to God is a bad thing But if you promise evil in God's name, you know God doesn't want any part of that That's what Jesus is getting at here in Matthew chapter 5 look at verse 34 and this is just more example of This these evil oaths in in judges chapter 21. Look at Matthew 5 34 Jesus says but I say and do you swear not at all? Neither by heaven for it is God's throne nor by the earth for it is his footstool Neither by Jerusalem for is the city of the great king?  He's saying hey just let your yes be yes, and your no be no That's it Just do what you say you're gonna do and you know You don't have to go and just over the top swear all these things because what that is doing is that's just creating all these Evil oaths judges is a perfect book to show this Okay, and we see it again in judges chapter 21 They swore this oath that they would not give any wives to Benjamin then they go and they slaughter Everyone in Benjamin every female in the tribe of Benjamin was killed and now oh, but we made an oath So since we made the oath, let's go kidnap Let's go murder a bunch more people and let's kidnap a bunch of women and steal them So look that the oath is causing them to do evil again. Okay, so look Jesus was just like Please stop I mean, you know, he's watching men do this You know, I mean they swore an oath that caused them to kill the entire tribe now steal a bunch of women from their Own brothers by the way from their own, you know, Christian brothers Jephtha is the same thing and oath that led to evil Go back to judges chapter 21 So that's just a side note, you know judges is a really bad for oaths in the Bible But Jesus took care of that Matthew chapter 20 or Matthew chapter 5 look at judges chapter 21 and verse number 19 So now the elders the elders they have a plan they have a plan to fix this missing You know gap of 200 wives So there's 200 men that don't have wives look at judges 21 19 then they said behold There's a feast of the Lord and Shiloh Yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel on the east side of the highway That goeth up from Bethel to Shechem and on the south of Lebanon Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin saying go and lie and wait in the vineyards saying like go and hide in The vineyards and see and behold if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances Then you come out of the vineyards and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh And go to the land of Benjamin. So I mean That's one way to go Here's what you guys can do the elders look they had to I mean the leaders All right these are the best and the brightest of the nation of Israel at this point and They have this problem where we've done this thing and there's no one for these 200 men to marry Instead of just being like hey, you know, maybe they shouldn't have been part of such an evil war Maybe they should remain single for the rest of their life as their punishment They're like no here's what you can do You go and once again to their own brothers their own nation in their own nation go to Shiloh and there's this There's this barn dance or whatever it is and and all these gals come out and all you got to do is just grab you One and go home to Benjamin. That's literally what they said. Just go grab you one Just I mean, but I mean, it's not really funny. They went literally went and stole, you know 200 more women here so look, I mean, it's a where where we add here verse 23 and Then they did it then they did it so look and the children of Benjamin did so and took them wives according to their number of them that danced whom they Caught and they went and returned onto their inheritance and repaired the cities and Dwelt and then so look oh no verse 22 I didn't even say so he's like look when their fathers of their brethren come to us to complain I mean look do you think you think there's someone's going to complain?  I mean you think they're going to complain We will say to them be favor unto them for our sakes because we reserve not to each man his wife in the war Look look what we'll say is they like look. I'm sorry, but we forgot about their wives and we killed them all You know that's going to make them feel better. So so because we killed their wives in the war We decided that the best plan of action was to have them steal your daughter You know, it's just like it just gets weirder and weirder and weirder in Judges chapter 21 That's why I always I always get to the end of this story, and I'm just like man. I'm glad the story is over Until I until I read the Bible again Judges chapter 19 20 and 21 well look Verse 23 and the children of Benjamin did so and they took them wives according to their number verse 24 and the children of Israel departed thence at that time Every man to his a tribe and to his family and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance And then verse 25 here. We go verse 25 kind of kind of puts a bow on the whole thing And it says in those days there was no king in Israel instead, you know I mean can you imagine why the children of Israel look we're asking for a king? I mean these were the elders these are the elders that they had you know This is the rocket surgeons that they had running, you know the country at this point, you know just go and you know You know what we're in Fresno here There's a problem with not enough women in Fresno go steal some from Visalia You know it doesn't make any sense what's going on here It was it was one decision one bad decision led to another bad decision led to another bad It shows you by the way It shows you not the point of the sermon, but it shows you that covering sin with sin is never gonna work out You know it's best look when you get when you find yourself in sin boy I mean I see this all the time. I see this all the time with people that just won't take responsibility for stuff I don't know why it's so common. I don't know why it's so common when you mess something up to just take Responsibility for it because look when you when you have when you have sin or you I mean, I mean Let's just let's take something at work, and you're like you've done something wrong You've done something wrong look just just own it Just just own it just throw yourself on the grenade You know instead, you know you start tossing grenades all over the place and other people and then everyone's mad at you for tossing grenades at them You know over something that you know was mainly your fault What covering sin with sin just never works just own it just own up Just own up covering sin with sin is not gonna work. It's a it's a great sermon Topic and another thing is you know swearing oaths to evil is a huge thing in judges You know don't swear oaths. Just let your name be name your yay be yay as Jesus says But really this evening for the application on judges chapter 21 And then I want to kind of wrap it up with the whole book of judges I really want to focus on this last verse Here's you know just think about the timeline think about let's just think back to the whole book the whole study of Judges for a minute think about the timeline think about Othniel and E hood and Debra and Gideon and Jephthah and Samson and then later Eli and you know the last judge Samuel You know which we haven't talked about yet, but look and then up to that leads up to the first king of Israel You know King Saul But look what do you see again and again and again and again in judges? You what was this phrase that I kept pointing out for the first few chapters? You know the chapter 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 when we started going through this and the children of Israel Did evil in the sight of the Lord and the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord look It was just this pattern that kept coming up again and again and again and again And many times turn back to judges chapter 8 Many times let's look back at Gideon you know when Gideon died But you think about you know as we're going through this in judges We see this this rise and this fall and this rise and this fall and this rise and this fall There's a definite cycle here. You don't be blind to not see it But look at judges chapter 8 look at verse 33 many times this cycle took place in just one generation Just one generation or in a case of judges chapter 8 verse 33 look at this and it came to pass as Soon as underline those three words as soon as Gideon was dead that the children of Israel turned again It went a whoring after Balaam and made Bail Barath their God and the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God Who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side which is those 300 men and Gideon neither showed their kindness to the house of Jerubo namely Gideon According to all the goodness which he had shown on to Israel. So look with Gideon I mean think about it. Maybe I don't know maybe the best judge You could make that argument pretty good. He was he went he he literally did what he was told God raised him up He went God took away his entire entire army God took away his army. He said no, I'm just going to give you this many 300 men against thousands against tens of thousands and Gideon went and he was victorious and then he even combed things down with his Brethren when they wanted to come up and fight against him. I mean, it's a great story Probably probably the you know best story of a godly judge in judges You could make that argument, but here's the thing as soon as he was dead as soon as He was dead They turned away just like that and not only did they turn away. They forgot everything that Gideon had done for them Pretty much immediately But I mean we just see the story again and again and again in judges that is not very long 10 20 30 years and they turn away from the Lord again They turn away from the Lord look at judges Chapter 21 and verse 25 one more time look I just want to point out something about the last verse in judges We see this nation turn against God again and again and again And I'm going to read it for you one more time in those days There was no king in Israel and the last part of this sentence.  It's us It's us Every man did that which was right in his own eyes you read those words Look, you think it's an accident that you read the most messed up story in the entire Bible and then you read those words right after That's not an accident. The Bible is telling you look.   I Mean everyone was just look that's pretty much what that's pretty much where we're at In this country. I mean look from from the rampant perversion That's just just being accepted and just growing and growing and growing in this country You can't even say, you know, it's really one thing anymore. It's like all this Unnaturness that's just being accepted by everybody All the general just general immorality in the country look and it's changing so quickly Look if you're older than 30, you know that it's changing very quickly. It makes look it makes me wonder It makes me wonder what this place is going to look like in 20 years. I Mean when you look at just what it what it used to look like 15 years ago What it used to look like 10 years ago what it used to look like 20 years ago. I mean I can't even imagine But look Here's another thing that I want to point out we're changing just as fast as The nation in judges was changing throughout these chapters with the acceptance of everything with the moral just the general moral decline But I want to point something out turn to Joel chapter 3 right after Daniel You're gonna have a couple small books and you'll have Joel of Hosea and Joel But I want to I want to point out something I want to point out There's something that we need to understand from Judges and from these patterns like I love recognizing patterns I love looking for trends and patterns and things like that and and look there's a pattern that we need to understand Because it's coming to us we can already see it But the pattern I want to show you is this look at Joel chapter 3 and verse 19 The point I want trying to make here and I want to define a word for you this evening Is that with all this moral decline and all this? acceptance of everything and all this Doing what is right in our own eyes in our country with that will always come violence With that will always come violence. You say what is violent? What do you mean violence? Well, I'm gonna tell you what violence is With every single story when the children of Israel turned against God and turned against the country Especially in judges 19 judges 20 and judges 21. You know what you saw you saw a whole lot of violence Look at Joel chapter 3 and verse 19 This is the definition of violence look violence violence is not defined as Anyone doing physical harm to anybody that is not what the Bible defines violence as Joel chapter 3 and verse 19 Gives us a very specific definition of violence Look what it says in verse 19 Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness for the violence Against the children of Judah now the nice thing about it is it defines it in this next part of the sentence right here Well the violence. Oh, okay violence. What do you mean? Because? They have shed innocent blood in their land violence is harm against the innocent That's why abortion is so violent That's why the the sermon that I did on abortion. You know what it was called violence Because there is no more definition. There is no better definition of violence There is no more innocent person than a poor helpless unborn human being That is the definition of violence in its purest form in this world today is abortion But that's not even what I'm talking about what I am talking about I want you to think of it think of the think of the violence that we've just studied and think of what happened to the Levites wife violence She was innocent and she was murdered in a horrible way Think of the violence against the the women and children in the cities of Benjamin Think of they look they had no they had no say in whether or not, you know, these men were protected or not They weren't even in the same city think of the violence there think think of the violence of You know being kidnapped and stolen from your family These these women just think about all the violence especially look, you know what you know who suffers from violence You know who always suffers from the violence, you know, you know, it's the weaker people The weaker. Oh, what's the weaker vessel? They typically suffer from the most violence whether there's wars or just terrible things happening Look, it's the women and children that suffer Look men going to war men to men on a battlefield fighting in a war It might be an unjust war, but it's not considered violence to two soldiers against each other That is not what the Bible would consider violence Violence is when the soldier goes into a city and murders innocent people that is violence And that is what the Bible is talking about But I want to tell you something here that when these nations when these nations turn against God And you'll see it with not only the nation of Israel, but you'll see it throughout history Whenever there's moral decline and people turn against the guy and people people start to do what is right in their own eyes There's always massive violence that follows. I Mean look, I mean we see it. We see it in judges, right? Didn't we see it? I mean did we see it before the flood? Why did God destroy the whole earth? Because of violence We saw it with Benjamin. We saw it with the other tribes murdering kidnapping women children Extreme violence.   Why? Because we're just doing what's right in our own eyes We're not following the Bible. We've turned our back on God's the bombings There's going to be more I Mean look as everyone turned to Jeremiah chapter 6 as everyone does that that is right in his own eyes violence will increase Why why can't people get this through their head? I mean you don't have to be a saved Christian to say you know what? I don't think that this is a good idea You know what? I don't think that this is a good idea that we enter into a society. That's going to be more and more violent I mean who in the world? Would agree to that? Even the most liberal hippie would not want more violence But this is what they it leads to as you turn away from God and everybody does what they feel is right This society is going to get more violent. I mean the Bible is super clear about this Look at Jeremiah 6 and verse 13 But they say this they say this when they say no no no we need to do more We need to make up more what what's right in our own eyes. We need to go more down this road We need to be more you know just accepting of everything and just whatever whatever you feel man That's what's right. Look at Jeremiah 6 13 for for them for from the least of them Even under the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness So here I mean here's a sin that's coming in and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone dealeth falsely So we got a sin. We got a society look that's falling into some sin here in verse 13 Covetousness and basically cheating each other. So they're they're cheating each other. I mean it's a sin Right when they're going into this sin They have also healed verse 14. They have healed also the hurt of thy daughter of my people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace. You know what came upon these people in verse 13? violence and The whole time that they were just kept going into sin and just you know Ripping each other off and whatever other sin that they were into they were just like all peace peace sound familiar Like all peace peace Love love as things just keep getting more violent and more violent and more violent. Look at some of these riots That's look like love to you. I Mean what in the world? I mean what you know look it starts with covetousness But it's acceptance and spreading of sin is what it is in the society and it just look it destroys peace That's what Jeremiah is saying.  We want peace. Let's follow God's word Let's do things God's way and then things you know what then things will get better Things will not mean how can you? How can we not persuade people? I mean do you more of a hey hey Bob? You know Bob doesn't go to church Bob not save Bob more violence or less violence pick one I mean everybody would choose less violence peaceful society Violent society everybody would choose peaceful society, but you know what even the unsaved even the average unsaved Joe Has no knowledge of the Bible anymore That's a problem That's a problem.  I mean But we can see it happening folks. There was another shooting today We can see it happening. It's happening right before our very eyes And they'll say oh, it's the guns. No It's it's the violence It's it's it's wickedness It's it's people that they've turned against God. It's a it's a nation that is turned against God So look violence will increase in our country. I mean I hate to break it to you You know, is this the opposite of prosperity gospel or what?  So it's the same in that sense that we're all doing what's right in our own eyes But we're different in this sense. Here's a way. It's not us Here's a way that judges is not us and it puts us at a significant Disadvantage think about this how many times just in the book of judges There was many more judges that I'm sure we didn't hear about in the book of judges But you're not in the book of judges, but it's in history of Israel But look how many times do we read that they got corrected? God raised up a judge freed them they turned against God then they went into captivity There was violence. I mean there's so much violence. They were hiding in the hills. They were hiding in the mountains They were hiding in the rocks that by the Bible said several times They wouldn't even go down and live in their cities because there's so much violence against them Because these countries came in and just committed violence against them, but then God raised up another judge To deliver them anybody seen any judges getting raised up around here Anybody seen any judges got raised up 30 years ago 20 years ago Ronald Reagan now No Look, I was thinking about this. I was thinking about some some examples in the Bible turn to Daniel chapter 5 Because look, I mean God was pretty like he kept reaching out You know what he was doing with the judges? He was reaching out to them and he was pulling them they turned back to him and he was pulling them back Because they turned again to him and he pulled them back and then they were under chastisement And then he pulled them back again. It's kind of like it's kind of like yeah What's that relationship kind of like a father and a and a child and a son? But you know that there were some Nations some empires even in the Bible that this was not the case look at Daniel chapter 5 I think about Babylon. I think about literal. I'm talking about literal Babylon in the Bible look at Daniel chapter 5 So I don't have time to read the whole story, but I just want to you know Daniel interprets this dream for Belshazzar the the new king after Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar's grandson and look at verse 23 and Daniel is explaining what this dream this writing on the wall meant that he saw in the meantime this man is having a party and he's brought all the the The goods from the house of God and he's getting drunk with all his friends using the The the dishes and the cups and everything from the house of God look at verse 23 But as lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven Daniel's telling them And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee and thou and thy lords and thy wives and thy concubines Have drunk wine in them and now has praised the gods of silver of gold and brass and iron and wood and stone Which see not nor hear not nor know and the God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways Has now thou not glorified then was part of the hand sent from him and this writing was written and this thing that was written Was mine mine teacol a parzan and this into this is the interpretation of the thing mine God hath a numbered thy kingdom and finished it Tecol thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting Perez thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians then commanded Belchazar So he's all happy that he interpreted what happened here And they clothed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck I made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom Verse 30 in that night was Belchazar the king of the Chaldeans slain this empire was ended in one night This empire was ended and Darius the mead took the kingdom being about three score and two years old Look Nebuchadnezzar if you remember Nebuchadnezzar look, I think Nebuchadnezzar was saved. I think Nebuchadnezzar got saved But Nebuchadnezzar was chastised remember God gave him the heart of a beast and made him You know his hair and his nails and meeting but he basically took it We made him go crazy in his mind.  Here's n times Babylon n times Babylon No, look, I don't know what n times Babylon is going to be maybe it's us. Maybe it's not well look Here's the thing we fit in the category whether or not we become that literal n times battle Babylon look at revelation 18 And look at verse number two So we see that there's nations in Daniel chapter 5 the nation of Babylon the empire of Babylon Was overthrown in one night There was no judge to bring them back and then get them right. It was just you're done Just like that They were overthrown. Look at Revelation 18 verse number two. This is n times Babylon This is a prophecy of a city and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon the great has fallen It's fallen it has become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath or fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies saying This nation Exported all its filth throughout the entire world and I heard another voice from heaven saying come come out of her my People that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues For her sins have reached unto heaven and got had rem God hath remembered her iniquities Reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she had filled to her double How much she had glorified herself and lived deliciously so much torrent torment and sorrow give her it saying look as Greatest things were for her make it that much Tormentful for this city For she has said in her heart I sit a queen and I am no widow and she'll see no sorrow Therefore shall her plagues come in one day Death and mourning and famine and she should be utterly burned with fire for strong as the Lord God who judged with her and The kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her When they shall see the smoke of her burning standing a far off for the fear of her torment saying Alas alas that great city Babylon that mighty city for in one hour is That judgment come this city whatever this city is is is done in one hour It says one day and then it gets more specific. It says one hour This city is done. So look we see that there's this idea now look I mean as far as exporting filter I mean how many of you bend a foreign country and see that you know They're basically like following our culture except they're 15 years behind I mean it's pitiful. It's pitiful that maybe a good country that you know has you know some Christian values at least Would be you know trying to follow American pop culture You know we're trying to be you know accepting our music and our celebrity culture and all this garbage that we're just exporting across the world But that's that's the way I mean so it definitely fits us But the point I'm really trying to make is that there are these nations They are not they're just judged by God They're not children of God where God is gonna bring them back Where God is gonna you know try to you know Bring a judge and raise them and bring them back to him like he did with the nation of Israel These nations are just gonna pay all at once Just like Babylon did and just like end times Babylon is going to as well So look, I think I think we're in that category I think we're in that category, but look so it brings us to the conclusion of why you know why the judges You know they went into captivity God raised the judge to save them us Us think about this they you hear what I just said they went into captivity and then God raised the judge to say I mean do you remember when we got invaded 15 years ago and then The rushes took over and then we we got out of that kept it. No It's never happened We've never gone into captivity here. No one's invaded us. We've never been under servitude to you know I mean yeah, we're going under servitude to our own government. I get it I mean that's not really the point the point is is that that we don't fit the pattern of the nation of Israel here You know it's God is God is for some reason God is not chasing us In the same way that You know, we've never been invaded We've never been taken over by a foreign country Also, you know also look there. There's no judges. There's no judges being I mean we could we use a judge Could we use a godly leader in this country? Where where where? Where where is one? No, I think it's almost like our nation is not his child Is kind of what I'm thinking that's kind of what it's looking like It's kind of like we're gonna be more like a Rome You know more like a like a Babylon You know the judges were raised up to deliver Israel folks To bring the people Back to the Lord. That's what they were that's what they were there for and they the people Had cried out to God for that before it happened Maybe that's the problem Because we haven't cried out to God look we don't have judges today We don't have judges today in this country. It's pretty much just us It's pretty much just us and instead of you know fighting, you know, you know, it's you know, we just knock We just knock One door at a time and You know, we're the only ones it seems like sometimes it's we're the only ones doing anything You know, I know there's more of us out there, but it seems like we're the only ones doing anything, you know One, you know, that's that's that's our judgeship if you want to think about it that way is just one door at a time One soul at a time That's I mean that's the only chance that I see one church at a time That's the only chance that I see for this country. I mean look, I'm all about recalling, you know, the governor I signed it four times or whatever. No, I didn't that's probably what I signed it, right? But here's the thing it Whatever it where's the judge that's gonna take his place. There isn't one I'm all for kicking him out, you know, that would make me feel good for five minutes But there ultimately until the people turn back to the Lord, it'll do nothing and That's what we do. We need more people. We need more time. We need more doors. That's what we're doing You know, this is this is our, you know pray look pray Pray that things don't I mean all you can really do look, I'm not trying to depress you But all you can really do is pray that we know what's coming All you can really do is pray that this violence comes slower All you can do is pray for God to you know grow this ministry All you can do is pray for God to give us more time to reach more people because I mean he looked even if you know The more people we reach the more this church grows the more churches will be sent out the more you know I mean look, it's an exponential game if we play it, right and we allow God, you know to do what he can do So look, this is our judgeship and just pray that we have more time and more laborers That that's really it That's really it. I mean we're the judgeship here We're the judgeship here So don't go and read the Bible like I used to do About the children of Israel and just roll your eyes at these people because we are worse We are worse. We change just as fast We're worse. We're bastards and not sons In this nation and look, I mean honestly people have not changed from the beginning.  I can't even fathom it. He's been watching this pattern since the beginning of the world the fact that he hasn't just And just ended it all and just put revelation into motion is is beyond me But look the reason that he's not is because he wants, you know, it's God's will that all be saved And that's why we are so important Is that we're carrying out this mission? We're carrying out this mission in this wicked environment that we're in and like I said before It's pretty simple being us because no matter what changes our mission is the same No matter what weird stuff gets going on or what they say should be good and shouldn't be and whatever is is good in their own eyes Our eyes are the same and our mission doesn't change that. I mean that's our judgeship So the book of judges has a lot of similarities For us in this idea that we're just creating our own truth in this country and We can take from that the consequences that are going to come with it But we can also understand that, you know, we're not the nation of Israel and and all we have is Getting one person the gospel at a time and that's that I mean, it's the only thing It's the only thing let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


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