Welcome back everyone. We are at verse 26 of Acts chapter 8 and we have seen so far the work of God performed in Samaria initially through Philip and later on by the Apostles Peter and John. We have seen the response of the city as well where people accepted what God was doing in their midst. We saw that the gospel impacted influential people like Simon and that there was great joy in the city. Many people turned to the Lord and once this work was done Peter and John went back to Jerusalem but they ministered to villages of Samaria along the way. We understood so many things about the way to disciple people and the pattern of equipping people in the things of God. We have seen how a church is emerging in the region of Samaria. Even a community that it was not honored by the Jews of their times. So now coming to verse 26 we saw that this work of God began through Philip, one of the volunteers with a good witness in the church of Jerusalem. Now Philip's ministry continues in Acts chapter 8. So what kind of a ministry is this? So far we have seen that his work was more evangelistic. Evangelistic but it included the supernatural. Let's see further verse 26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is desert. So Philip is continuing to do what God wants him to do. How is God guiding Philip at this point in his journey through an angel? So God guides us in many different ways. Primarily through his word but there are times that God may guide us in unusual ways. Different ways maybe we see a signpost and we recognize oh wow Holy Spirit is speaking to me. God is saying something or somebody speaks to us and we hear from God. So God can lead us in all these ways but you see God can also speak through an angel. So the word of God came to Philip through an angel. There is an instruction in this word and it says arise go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he is getting directions from the Holy Spirit. So in prophetic ministry we have seen this. God speaks to us and he gives us directions. So he is getting a route. This is desert. So there are commentators who write things like Philip had celebrated ministry in Samaria. So when a minister of God has a wonderful ministry where people recognize people, talk about the work of that minister, it is very difficult to leave and go to another place. But what is God calling Philip to do? Leave everything Philip. Go to Gaza. This is desert. So commentators some of them interpret and say that God is taking him from all the acclaim and accomplishment to a dry place, a desert. But what is important for us as ministers, what is important for us as believers to go where God is leading, not to get caught up in what is happening in that place. Our fame and our recognition that is not what should keep us moving forward in the ministry. It should be the voice of the Lord, the purpose of God. In this situation, very funny because God is taking Philip from all the fame to a desert land. What is Philip going to do? Verse 27, obedient. He's so obedient. So he arose. What did God say? Arise and go. Verse 27. So he arose. He did. And it says so he arose and went. So when we listen to the leading of God, even if it doesn't make sense to our five senses, God has a purpose. God has a plan. God has an open door in that path. See what happens now that Philip is obedient and behold a man of Ethiopia, eunuch of great authority under Candice, the queen of the Ethiopians who had charge of all her treasury and had come to Jerusalem to worship. So God creates God appointments. Did Philip know anything about this man of Ethiopia? Nothing. He only heard from the angel arise and go toward the south. So the angel is giving him the location. It's like Google Maps, right? He's like GPS. Here is the pin. Go there. How does the angel know? God, omniscient God knows where the people are who need to hear the gospel. So God asks Philip to go to a place where somebody needs to be ministered to. So there was an open door where God had asked Philip to go. He arose and went and there was a man of Ethiopia. What is so special about this Ethiopian man? He was a eunuch of great authority. Sometimes the kingdoms of these times had eunuchs. So they had eunuchs who were part of the king's team. So they were ministers in the palace. So there were eunuchs in some of the kingdoms. So here is another eunuch. And what else is special about this Ethiopian eunuch? He had great authority under the Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians. So again an influential man. In Samaria, a spiritual influential man, now Philip is able to minister to an influential person in the kingdom of Ethiopia, under the queen of the Ethiopians. So very influential. What ability does this Ethiopian have? He had charge of all her treasury and had come to Jerusalem to worship. So here is a person, you could say something like the finance minister of a country. So it simply says, has charge over all her treasury. In other words, he has the keys. He can open the treasury. Oh, is there a what? Okay, this is the budget. Is there a famine? This is the budget.  He has these incredible powers under the queen of the Ethiopian Candace. Did Philip know all these things? Zero. He has no idea. He's just following what God is telling him to do. And sometimes I walk with the Lord should be as simple as that. We may not know the details. All we need to know, like Abraham and like Philip is, go. You just go. And God takes you to the right person. So there is a divine connection that God himself is making in the situation. It was one more beautiful thing about this unit. Okay, he's influential. He has authority. It says he had come to Jerusalem to worship. So God fearing. He was a God fearing person. He came to Jerusalem because he was seeking God. He had a hungry heart before the Lord. What about Simon in Samaria? We don't know whether he was seeking God, but the word of the Lord came to Samaria. He happened to hear it. He believed his response was belief and he became a believer. This is a different situation. There is a man who is seeking God. Sometimes there are people, they are looking for God. They are asking the questions. What is the purpose of my life? Who has created this world? Who has created me? So they are seeking God through all these questions. So there are some people in that situation and look at the mercy of God. God makes the connection. He just tells Philip, I know where such people are. I will take you. Just follow.  Go down south to Gaza. So Philip goes and there is a Ethiopian eunuch who is also a worshiper, a seeker of God. And in the journey of the Ethiopian eunuch, verse 28 says he was returning and sitting in his chariot he was reading Isaiah the prophet. So it's like you think about finance minister of a country. He has come to Jerusalem. He has worshiped. Maybe he has a Mercedes or something like that. He is just sitting in his car and that's the point where God makes Philip and this Ethiopian eunuch meet. Verse 29, Then the spirit said to Philip, Go near and overtake this chariot. So we don't know. Maybe Philip was on a two wheeler or in an auto rickshaw.  I am going and here is the Mercedes. And he just feels in his spirit as he is driving the bike. Can you please go a little fast? Overtake. Go near and overtake the Mercedes. So something like that. Just for us to imagine. So he overtakes. See sometimes the promptings of God in our heart know it might look very funny. It might be very simple. Can you do and how much is God talking to him? Not one paragraph, one book just one one line. Do this. Do that. Overtake. Go near and overtake this chariot. But what is important in the prophetic? We read about the prophetic. Obedience is the most important thing in the prophetic. You hear from God. You do it. Philip did it. So Philip ran to him. Isn't that beautiful? Everything God is telling. He is doing it. No wonder he is getting more instructions. So he ran to him and when he went close to this Mercedes, he hears the man reading the prophet Isaiah. So maybe he just went near the chariot and loudly he can hear this man is reading from the book of Isaiah. We know that the book of Isaiah was also something that the devout people, the devout Jews, they used to study and read and honor. And to notice that this man is sitting in the chariot and reading from the book of Isaiah also tells us that he is very wealthy because people of his times would not have had a copy. Today we have copy everywhere. Copy of the Bible on the phone, on the internet, on your iPad. So copies are easily available. But in the times when this eunuch was there, the scribes had to write out a copy and an entire scroll would have been the book of Isaiah. So it's very expensive to get somebody to copy the book and carry the scroll. But he is sitting in the chariot and he is reading the prophet Isaiah. So he had a copy. So it tells us he was very wealthy. This man was very wealthy. And when he is reading, Philip asks, do you understand what you are reading? So this is again, you know, about evangelism. Sometimes we have to take people from what they know to what they don't know. The eunuch knew some passage in Isaiah. That's all he was reading. But there was no understanding. So Philip makes use of that opportunity and says, hey, he asks a question. You know, asking a question is always a good way of leading people to seek God. So he asks a question. Do you understand what you're reading? So when you find a seeker, instead of telling them many things, maybe asking questions is very good. Make them think. Okay, so what do you think the purpose of life is? What do you think God created you for? What do you think? So he's asking a question. Do you understand what you are reading? Verse 31. And he said, how can I, unless someone guides me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. So it's a divine connection. It's a divine moment. Just the right question is asked. Just the right response comes. So maybe this man, this Ethiopian eunuch, he was like the, you know, the right fruit on the tree. Sometimes the right fruits, you just touch them, they just fall. And God knew that there is such a man who is ready to listen. And when we follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, even in evangelism, look at the kind of evangelist that Philip is. He's following the leading of the Spirit. He's not just going, oh, I finished Samaria. Let me go, you know, to Caesarea. No. Holy Spirit. Where do you want me to go? So the leading of the Spirit, the Spirit shows him. There is a man. He is ready. He's asking questions. You go there. I'll tell you. This is the address. So he goes. He asked the question and immediately this man responds and he says, no, I don't understand. How will I understand if somebody will not explain? If someone doesn't guide me? So he tells Philip only, okay, looks like you probably know the answer. So come up and sit with me. So favor. How can an ordinary, you know, believer like Philip get an audience with the finance minister? Supernatural favor. It was just a moment of favor. And he said, come, Philip, sit with me. Verse 32, the place in the scripture where he read was this. So this is what the eunuch was reading. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb before its shirrer is silent. So he opened not his mouth in his humiliation. His justice was taken away and who will declare his generation for his life is taken from me. So this is what he was reading. And this passage, you know, it refers to Isaiah 53. So that's what it refers to. So some portions from there and Isaiah 53, as you and I know, that is the passage that talks about Jesus Christ and how he is going to become a sacrifice to redeem us. So as soon as this passage, you know, Philip saw that this is what he was reading. Or rather in verse 34, we are told that he asks Philip a question. So he says, I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this of himself or of some other man? So it's a very good question that the eunuch asks. So who is this passage talking about? So this was Philip's chance. It says, then Philip opened his mouth. Okay, so sometimes we have to wait by the leading of the spiritual people ask the right question. It says, then Philip opened his mouth, then he answered. Okay, now is every technique of ministering to people evangelism like this? No, there are times when you have to just go preach. And that's the right thing to do. But in this situation, Philip had to wait. So the eunuch asked him, tell me who is this about? Who is this about? Who am I reading about? Is it some prophet? Is Isaiah talking about himself? Or is this somebody else? That's when Philip opened his mouth and beginning at the scripture preached Jesus to him.  So this person who was led as a sheep to the slaughter was the Lord Jesus who sacrificed his life for you. And so he goes on to explain and preaches Christ to the eunuch. Verse 36, now as they went down the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, see, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized? So there is a little bit of information that kind of is not available in between. And that is to say that the eunuch became a believer immediately in the Lord Jesus Christ. So that is why he is asking for baptism, isn't it? Philip told him this passage is about Jesus. The eunuch believed. Next verse 36, he's ready for baptism. Now some people ask the question, when should I take water baptism? Should I take water baptism five years after I become a believer? Three months after I become a believer, you know, two weeks after I become a believer. When did the eunuch take baptism? Almost immediately. He heard, he believed, he desired to be water baptized. So he says, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized? Verse 37, then Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may. Okay. So what is the criteria for water baptism? When water baptism, when one believes in their heart, they can be water baptized. So then the eunuch says, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. So he affirms his faith, he confirms his faith, he confesses his faith. And then, you know, the eunuch commands the chariot to stand still and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and he baptized him. Okay. So very interesting things here. The baptism took place almost immediately. Where did it take place? Any water body which was seen close by? Who baptized? Not an apostle. Who is Philip? He's just a believer. Till now, Philip has not even been called an evangelist. Later, we will see in the book of Acts, that's where you will read about Philip the evangelist. And his daughters. But now, who is Philip? Ordinary believer. Ordinary believer is baptizing another. Maybe not that ordinary believer. I'll tell you why. But he's baptizing somebody who believes Jesus. Right then and there. Okay. So quite clear. Philip baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. Okay. So what is so special about this Ethiopian eunuch? This was the first time as a recorded in scripture that somebody, you know, that the gospel is being taken to Africa. So Ethiopian eunuch. He came, he traveled out of Ethiopia and he came and the gospel, we are saying it because he is an influential person who can now go back and use his influence to share what he has learned about the Lord Jesus. So in that sense, the gospel went to Africa for the first time. Through the continent of Africa, through this Ethiopian eunuch. Did Philip know God's agenda, God's plan? Why is God telling me to go to MG Road? Why is God telling me, you know, to go to some other place, St. George's Street or some other street? Sometimes we don't have the full picture. When Philip went to Gaza, he did not know that God's agenda was to take the gospel, not to the next village or the town or the region or even a nation, but a continent, an entire continent. But what made it possible? Very simple, not complicated at all. Obedience. God said, arise and go. Philip arose, he went. Overtake the chariot, he overtook the chariot. God says something, just do it. That's all. And we will be amazed sometimes when we look back and see, oh wow, I didn't know this was so and so or I didn't know they could do this and that. We don't know. God knows. All that should matter to us is God said it. I did it. That's all. And through the simple obedience, the doors for the gospel were opened up in an entire continent. Okay, so that is the beauty of Philip's journey here. And now let's see how God leads this man of obedience. Verse 39. Now, when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the Yonah saw him no more and he went on his way, rejoicing. So as Philip is being obedient to what God is saying, supernatural experience after supernatural experience for Philip, isn't it? Earlier he's ministering with signs, wonders where people are, you know, people received it, people received the miraculous, the entire city was rejoicing. Later on, what is the next supernatural experience? The angel said he heard from an angel. What is the next supernatural experience? He heard from God, a prophetic within his spirit. Okay, go overtake the chariot, supernatural experience. After that, what happens? He ministers to this Yonah and the spirit of the Lord caught Philip away. Supernatural transportation. Okay, so, you know, you see this like quite rarely in the Bible because it's so against the laws of nature that we know. Nobody just disappears. You know, I'm sitting here and I've disappeared, I've gone to the first year classroom. But that's exactly what this scripture says about Philip. The spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, meaning he just disappeared physically. How do we know? Yonah saw him no more. Supernatural transportation if you want to call it. In a minute, he's here. Next minute, he's somewhere else. Can this happen today? Why not? We don't see anything in scripture which says, you know, it has stopped or God has stopped doing the supernatural. Nothing in scripture tells us that. So, can people for, you know, the purposes of God get transported supernaturally? Why not? So, the Yonah saw him no more. What is the impact of the gospel on the Yonah? See, in Acts chapter 8, the city of Samaria received joy. They were joyful. The Yonah went on his way, rejoicing. So, what does the gospel bring? The true gospel when we preach it, the genuine gospel when we preach it. What will happen to people and the hearts of the people, cities, nations? There will be joy. There will be rejoicing because the salvation of Jesus brings what? Liberty. It brings restoration. It brings, you know, peace and everything that the cross has to offer. So, when the gospel is preached, as those of us who are preaching, let's remember, sharing Christ with somebody, they will be filled with joy. Because that is the result. When you share the gospel in this passage, we saw twice the Samarian region. Samarian region they rejoiced. The Yonah went on his way, rejoicing. So, that's what the gospel does for people. That's what Jesus does for people. He brings joy into the lives of the people. He was 40, but Philip was found at Azotus. Okay, so, we can also understand where was his pickup? Where was his drop? So, he was picked up from Gaza. He's dropped at Azotus, supernaturally. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. So, what was this? Did God just give him a vacation? No, he was on assignment. He was on duty. Most of the times, we see that the supernatural is manifesting as we are walking according to the purposes of God. The supernatural is not for entertainment. God simply doesn't do these things. Earlier also, we saw an angel bringing the apostles out of the prison. But they were on assignment and they were told, go back to the temple, preach there. They still went back and they were on assignment. Even now, these supernatural experiences that Philip is having, it's because he's walking in the purposes of God, not outside of that. So, we must not try to use the supernatural for our own pleasure and our own whims and fancies. That's not God's best way for the supernatural. Okay, so quite a long journey there of Philip. And some questions here. Let me take a pause and a breather for all of you and then we'll go to Acts 9. Kennedy says, why was this Ethiopian eunuch castrated? So, Kennedy, I am not too sure. But historical reports tell us that many of the ministers in some of these kingdoms, they were castrated. They were made eunuchs because there was some policy, I guess, in those times. I don't understand fully what that was, but this was a common practice. So, if there was a skilled person, a trustworthy person, a high ranking official, sometimes the kings chose to make them eunuchs and have them in their team. So, I don't know if I've answered your question, but yeah, that's the input I have. Okay, so any other comments, questions, anything before we proceed to Acts 9? Or any observations? Mine is about Simon. Mine is about Simon. Now you see what the Bible does not tell us whether Simon was forgiven because he said, please ask the Lord so that I'm not punished. Is there any other church writing that he would be explaining about what followed next? Thank you. Thank you, Charles. And as I said, since we don't have it in scripture, I would look at everything else as speculation. Moreover, I haven't researched this. I don't know if I want to research it in detail. So, yeah, maybe you could look it up, Charles, and you let us know. Would that be okay? I don't know even where to take over which are the writing, which is not canonical because there are many. Maybe I will try and see. Yes, please. Just give it a shot and let us know what you find. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes. Say I saw your hand raised. Anything you wanted to share? Can't hear you say you're on mute. My apologies. Sorry. No problem. Go ahead. This may be out of the scope of our course, but I was just wondering. We heard of Stephen. We heard of Philip. And just like you mentioned later, we're going to see that he's later called the evangelist. My question is, is it that as I've heard some preachers or let me not say preachers, just some people who have commented on the fact that seven people were appointed to be deacons. We only hear about just two people. In your own opinion, or maybe based on historical facts outside of the Bible, I don't know. Do you think these other ones were ineffective? They didn't have any impact? Or do we just say that, you know, it's out of fact that this is only what we know and look was privy to write. It says that this was the only information he got about Philip and about Stephen. And for the rest, he had no personal contact or had no direct knowledge of what they had accomplished. So what would be your standard on that? Okay. Thank you. Good question. And as I said earlier, my view is that Luke was very selective in what he put down. He has covered 30 years, three decades, the birth and the growth of the early church in Jerusalem and then it's spread. So we will notice that he is in a little bit of a hurry to cover the first 10 years quite quickly. So far we've understood the birth of the church, persecution rising, the church is growing. Many believers are serving very well and just spreading out to reach the nearby community. So then quickly he will shift to our main focus, which is Apostle Paul. I'm going to talk about Apostle Paul in Acts 9. So he'll shift focus into the next 10 years and then quickly to the ministry of Apostle Paul. Because as I told you, it's likely that Luke wrote the Book of Acts as a defense brief. So he is selective, not that the other men and their ministry was not important, but Luke is in a hurry. He wants to quickly bring in Paul and his ministry. So maybe that is why they couldn't find place in the Book of Acts, the other volunteers and believers in the church. The second reason is as I shared, people mentioned about the scroll that one couldn't write too much also because then the scroll would become very heavy. So most of the gospels, I mean all the gospels, the epistles, the New Testament works when you look at them, they're not very long. So they have a sort of an average limited size and one of the reasons people speculate is the size of the scrolls. They wanted to keep it short, they didn't want to make it too long. So I hope it somehow answers your question. Yes, yes, Pastor, it does. Okay, great. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Good, that's nice. Anything else, anything else attached to you? Ma'am, can I just say a point? Yes, yes, please. I believe the whole scripture, whatever long or short is written under the influence of the Holy Spirit God. And what all we have to know as a church is already revealed, we don't have to speculate or go into things which we don't know because they don't edify us in any way. But sometimes there is a curiosity to know that is not wrong because we are human. But I think Bible is everything we need to know that's just like 1st Chronicles 29, 29, all that we need to know God has revealed. Thank you ma'am, just wanted to add that. Okay, thank you, sister. Thank you for sharing your view and opinion regarding understanding God's word. Yes, say just a moment before I let you share. Kennedy has a comment here. Kind of talk about the Black Jews in relation, Queen of Sheba. If only the Ethiopian Yonak brought Christ Christianity to Africa. So Queen of Sheba is in the Old Testament, no Kennedy. So we are talking about Jesus Christ and the Gospel. So after the death burial resurrection of Christ, this is the first reference that we have. Okay, so I'll move to Sayi. Please go ahead Sayi. Yes ma'am, apologies if I'm bringing up this question. No, go ahead. Was Luke a medical doctor in his time? Again, when we look at the book of Luke itself, the Gospel, and then we look at the book of parts, we see how meticulous he writes, detailed and all that. And can that be attributed to the fact that he was a medical doctor who wanted to be very detailed in his writing and all those. I just wanted to bring that up. So yes, Sayi Luke is a medical doctor and historians confirm that about Luke, which also can explain to us why his writings are so systematic and so focused. So yeah, anything else you were looking for? Not at all, just the confirmation basically. I just like to have all this background. He helps appreciate the Bible more and the writings that I just wanted to bring up. Thank you. I understand, yes, definitely. So yes, Luke is a medical doctor. So we know that as a fact. All right. So if we don't have any more comments, I will move on to Acts chapter nine, another very beautiful chapter. You know, you could just stay stuck on the book of Acts for a year. I don't know how long, but we're just trying our best to keep moving forward. Okay, Asha has shared my learning of this chapter eight is that obedience is what is required from us. Obedience is most important in prophetic ministry and also is good to ask question. And Kong shares for me, I liked how you mentioned that obedience is important when we are in ministry. Okay, wonderful. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Asha and Kong. Okay, so let's move forward to Acts chapter nine. And let's see what's happening here. But before that, I wanted to project for us the journey of Philip. Okay, it's good to see a picture from time to time. Hope you're able to see everyone. Okay, wonderful. So here you have the, you know, Samaritan region, Samaria and then from Samaria. I don't know if you can see, but the road to Gaza. Okay. And from here, he moves to Azotus. So he's picked up supernaturally. He goes from here to Azotus. In a moment he appears in Azotus. And after Azotus, we learn that he continued to preach about Christ and he went all the way to Caesarea. So this is the journey which Philip made. Okay, so Philip made. And we can see here Jerusalem, Jerusalem in this region. So from Jerusalem, Peter and John would have gone all the way to Samaria, ministered to the people there and then came back to Jerusalem. So Jerusalem is like your base church or mother church or, you know, whatever term you want to use it. So the apostles are functioning from here, the headquarters and the work is beginning to take place in the nearby regions as of now. So this is what Acts 1.8 said, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. And then we will see how through Apostle Paul the ends of the earth is, you know, where the gospel will begin to move towards. So a little bit for us to sort of lock in all that we have learned so far. So coming back here to Acts 9. Okay, much to share. Again, a very, very beautiful passage. Then Saul, we talked about Saul in the beginning of Acts 8. And we saw how he was so passionate about persecuting the believers. Again, it talks of his passion. Then Saul still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord went to the high priest. So it just shows to us that he was very proactive in his ministry at that time. What was his ministry? He must persecute people who believe in Jesus. That was his ministry when he was not a believer. So proactively, zealously, he goes to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus. So what does he do? He wants to keep traveling and moving about many kilometers persecuting those who believed in Jesus.  Saul is moving up to that region. He's taking the official letters necessary to keep persecuting. And, you know, the verse 2 says, so that if he found any who were of the way, so the way is the earliest term that was used to describe the believers of the Lord Jesus. So there's no term like church that you see so far. The term which is used for believers of Jesus is the way. So they were known as the people of the way. So he is persecuting these people, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. So he wants to catch them. He wants to tie them up, bring them back to Jerusalem as his trophy.  Now verse 3. So before I go any further, you know, scriptures tell us in Galatians, Paul admits. I'll just see if I have which passage. Galatians 1 verses 13 and 14 where Paul says about himself, For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and destroy and destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. So NKJV version. Galatians 1 verses 13 and 14. So Paul himself admits that why he did what he did was because he thought he was serving God. So in Judaism zealously, he's trying to serve God. He's trying to preserve the culture and the faith of Judaism. And so you see the personality of Paul as an unbeliever, he's passionate as a believer also he is passionate. So sometimes God uses our natural personality also. All of us are different and you would see different other people. Barnabas has a completely different personality. God uses his personality. Paul's personality, a passionate man. It's the same whether he's on, you know, one side of the fence or the other. Now verse 3. Now he has deliberately taken permission. He's moving towards Damascus to catch these people who believe in Jesus, bring them bound to Jerusalem. So he's on his journey, assignment. And we are told as he journeyed, he came near Damascus. So he's reaching quite close to Damascus. And suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? So a persecutor is on his way to do what he wants to do. And God interrupts him. Scripture says, suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. And later on when Paul explains himself, you know, we will see this in Acts, I think, 26. You'll see that when he narrates the story, he will tell us that this was noonday. And those of the people who have been to these regions, you know, the Judean region and all. You know that the afternoon in these regions is so bright. The Middle Eastern sun, people talk about it. And noonday sun must be super bright. But what is Paul saying? Suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. So we registered it this way. A light brighter than the sunlight. Noonday Mediterranean sunlight. Now I don't know what kind of light that was, but obviously it was too bright for him to take. So he fell to the ground. Why did he fall to the ground? Normal reaction. He's afraid. He's afraid. He sees a light so bright in the afternoon that he just falls maybe to protect himself. He fell to the ground and it also says he heard a voice. Saying to him. So God is speaking personally to a persecutor. Calling him by name. Saul, Saul. Whenever you see a repetition of a name like this, when Jesus says this or the scripture says. Martha, Martha. Jerusalem, Jerusalem. It's a lot of emotion there. Twice God is repeating that name. Saul, Saul. Saul, Saul. And notice what he's saying. You remember what happened when Stephen saw the heavens open? Jesus was standing. Standing ovation for somebody who fought the good fight of faith. We will see. I'm just saying using the word God. But later the voice will introduce himself as Jesus. But Jesus tells Saul. All these people you are persecuting from Jerusalem to Damascus. He just sums it up and he says. Why are you persecuting me? So when people are persecuted, when believers are persecuted, Jesus takes it personally. So on this note I'm going to stop. It's really like heart touching and warming. So we'll get deeper into this in the next class. Let's pray and close off. I invite anyone to please pray. Then I will close this class. Could somebody please step up and pray, please? Thank you so much for this. Thank you for helping us to learn about the biblical facts. The biblical facts, chapter 8, God that the Lord has the meaning of obedience. And also to understand the depths of who you are and what you're doing. Lord that will be God, fair and person. And also that maybe spread the joy among the cities and all the places. God, thank you so much. Lord, I pray you're blessing all of my classmates and my teachers. Blessing all of you. Thank you. Amen. Thank you, Asha. God bless you. Meet you again in the next class. Bye for now.


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That's how you can support a brand. Join our membership. Man, listen, man, we got some guys here today, y'all. They don't really need no introduction. You know they been on here before. Well, one of them have. You ain't been on here before. It's my first time, first time. And it ain't the last time. God got me. No, y'all, God got you. Man, Bob and Doug, who you got with you here, man? I got my homeboy, man. Anthony Corbin, one of the dopest writers, movie writers in the business.  Now you got him here, man. Big facts. And I met him, you know, I'm gon' be gon' tell the truth. My people need to know the truth, nothing but the truth, so help me God. I met him at the barbershop. You remember that day? And he wrote some stuff for us. It hadn't came out yet. See, you wonder where it was. See, I'm like a real, I do real movies. I don't know if you, but when you do it, let me tell you what, and I'm sorry, Bob Doug. Was he actually over here and then we went over here? No, no, no, no, no, no, we're here. We're here, we're here, we're over here at the barbershop. Let me tell you something. You don't understand what you get dealing with here. I'm a real producer. I'm waiting to see. Three, four years to come by. Yeah, it ain't gotta do it. Yeah, no, I mean, it's gon' be great. I'm doing my thing just like the old, I'm not with this new stuff. He Kanye West, bro. Okay, okay. There you go, perfect. On Dr. Dre, I'm gonna drop that album. Yeah, eventually. But nah, man, thank you guys for coming on the show, man. So how did you guys link up? Actually, we were shooting at a friend of his house. We were shooting a short, like a skit I had wrote. And she connected us. Why you laughing, dawg? Why you laughing, dawg? No, I'm letting him tell us the story. So I still got love for her. She blocked me from shooting with her. Wait a minute, she blocked me. See, I still got love for her. You know, some dirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she blocked me coming right after. Yeah, I've been blocked for some years now, you know. What did you do? It ain't what I did. It just, I'm putting it like this. I could be a little difficult at that time. And one thing, me and him, me and him would go at it all the time about patience, weight, stuff like that. You know, so I'm more, I'm militant. So I'm like, hey, I gotta do this, this, this, this. Or when you do this, he was like, nah, bro, don't work like that. So I'm new to the game. So she connected us. We worked together. We linked up. So he was like, man, I like the way you structure this. So if he need me to do something, I just put it on paper for him. He just tell me, I put it on paper. Just out. I did for y'all that day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's still good. People I got love for, like her kids and stuff. You know, I'm forgiving God, man. You know, she brought us together.  I'm going to interview the earth. I don't want the dirt, but I'm just saying, I know what you just did. It ain't no dirt, no dirt. Okay. Well, yeah. You just didn't do a job.  Which one? Or she was too slow. She was, she was too anxious. And I'm like, you, I'm patient. I wanted to be done right. It ain't coming out for three more years. Yeah. This, me and him, this almost three years ago. Facts. Yeah. And we both like checked it out. Like, hey, I don't think this is ready. And she was just so ready to put it out.  Oh, no. In that undefeated. Dove, no, I understand that. Me and him got a little situation. It's a little underhanded joke. But he know, he know, I understand that the utmost. Yeah. Sometimes you just don't want to just move on.  You know what I'm saying? That's right. So how did you get in the right? So I did 12 years in a military arm reserve. Deployed twice. Oh, that'll make a nigga right there. Yeah, man. So I knew, I never fit in. I used to have two gold teeth. I went in in 19. I thought you were from New Orleans. I was about to see the, I seen them two golds. Permanent since I was 12 years old. New Orleans. 12. So let me tell you how I got them. My mom was asleep once. She says you're going to get it for me. It was income tax time. Like around now. She was asleep. I called, I said, mom, you taking them to gold teeth? Yeah, baby, go ahead and get out my purse. I woke up, my mom tried to beat the line in that market. You ain't got a smile. She said, boy, what the, I was shining. Yeah, I was shining.  Permanent. Permanent. How were you able to go get permanent at 12 years old by yourself? Dr. Watts. Dr. Watts. I knew you were answering on the Dr. Watts. Dr. Watts. He ain't asking no idea. No. He said you got 190. I said here you go. I gave him 200. He popped him holes in there like it wasn't nothing. I fell asleep in there. I was a young. I skipped school there and everything. So my mom was like, that's crazy. So. That nigga came through with them golds at a early age like that. The women love that, didn't they? Oh man. But I got to a lot of stuff too because people try you, you know what I'm saying? They stay stereo type me every time. I had tattoo, gold teeth and stuff young. But I ain't like that. Mama's boy, I'm a good guy. But I got the other side if I have to get there. But I don't never want to get there with nobody. So when I was in the military, I knew often to get out. I said, I need to find my niche in life. And I said, let me write. And I came across a Master P Eddie Griffin video. And he said Master P gave him $10 for the screw foolish. So I met P when I was a kid at the Larry Johnson and him Eddie Griffin and my mom know Eddie personally. So then fast forward later, I met P everything just came for a circle. And then I started writing P actually connecting me with a network for my movie then COVID happened.  So I still got the emails, the notes, everything. And the lady went cold turkey on me. So, you know, shout out to P for that. And my man Rizzo, I'll be with his marketing director. And then that's how me and Doug, that's how we linked up. We were rocking almost three years. Wow, that's dope, man. I love to see it, love to hear it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you writing. And what's the most difficult thing that you've been challenged to write on? The writing part was hard for me was formatting and having the right software and stuff like that. But what I did when I say I grind it, I called every Writers Guild of America number that's on the list, every agency. So I'm talking about this over 300 list numbers on there. I called every one of them every day. Email, email, I still do it to this day. I showed the email people still to this day. Like, cause right now in the scripts, they were to go, I got the pitch decks in the work. I got some stuff for Netflix in the works. So everything's starting to come full circle, but it's the writing part cause it's easy to miss, like natural, I just can go. So, cause I'm thinking about doing skits, you know, dove getting too much money now. So he ain't really doing it like he used to. Now he got so much going on. I got some skits. You seen my people, I'm still got the same. I still got the same people too. Except for a few of them. You know, we made changes with the structure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I still got the majority of them and I really want to get back into doing the skits and really I had never dropped any. I dropped maybe two just on my other channel. Test run. Yeah, but I still got about 30. 30, and I'm looking to drive it even further. I ain't like, I can't do it above the, I'm not knowing if I'm really good at this. You know that? Yeah, look, the people gonna let you know then you can't be afraid to fail either.   They ain't me alive in the comments. I say, damn, it was on my other channel. You're nobody to know I'm out here doing it. But yeah, I got, you've seen the cast. Yeah, they ready. They were legit too. They worked hard. Oh, they ready. They ready, they ready. It's about eight of them. Them niggas, eight is enough. Yeah. How hard is it though, Dub? Like I know you do it and you kind of have your own way of doing it where it's just you. And it's easy to control just you and maybe maybe your girl or something. But how hard you think a crew would be to do? I'm trying to do a crew. Well, you know, it is hard to get people on the same page, bro. But if everybody on the same page and everybody got that one belief that, you know, one goal, like we from the garden, we from the do this. And then it could work, especially, but did this day and they, you got to have a little paper, you got to pay them. You got to pay them. You putting some money in their pocket. They gonna do what they supposed to do. Yeah, yeah. I always think about y'all cause y'all so dope, man, but y'all don't know nothing. I ain't gonna say nothing. Y'all dope, bro. But I really don't like you niggas no more, man. You're niggas too good, man. The internet made it too easy. I hate that. I want to pull the range back. But I mean, if I could call Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, somebody need to. Why you messing up Facebook the other day? Man, hey, man. Why don't you throw down? He had them hoes scared. Put them hoes off the news and everything before it come out them hoes. But I just know that we'd have a dope movie with all these.  From you, there's a country, Wayne, they went pick and shout out to TI scene departments. That was cool. But I want to see these key players.  We got cooking. You see what I'm saying? You see this. I want to see something. I want to see something. Real script. Real script. Real script. Real script. You know what I'm saying? Right now we working on the budget. That's all. That's it right now. Everything else I already script done. And it's about casting and stuff like that, too. Got to cast, though. Yeah, to cast. You think I can let me just show you something. You see the look? Yeah.  We need you to invest. I'm trying to get a point there, though. You see the look. Don't invest. Give me the points you want. You see that? Executive producer. Say, man, we might need to talk. Because I know it's going to be. I know it's going to be. It's dope. I ain't no captain. And tell them why I'm trying to, I want to add, I never co-written a script with nobody, but I want DJ Poo. Really? Yeah, because you got to think. You linked to him? Nah, me and Dougie. I am. I reached out to him. He hit me back, but then I haven't been. He'd be on my page. I'm kind of linked to him.  Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm linked to him for real. Yeah, he really is. A couple of ways. He's actually in the phase. I can get him. We're trying to get it. We're trying to get it in theaters, man. I'm talking about this. Remember you talking about Roger's home? Yeah, this is it. Wow. This is the script. This is the one. Well, like I said, I do rewrites. So he'll call me like, bro, I want this character in here. What you think about this?  So I got to write all it, like describe it. But I studied. I studied him, what he do, his movements, action and stuff, how he might say some stuff like that.  You got to tell me, nigga. You just saw. Yeah, I already be telling you. Can I tell the skin? I'll be on your finger. Hard. Yeah. Old and the new school. Yeah. Bruce Bruce tell us. He said, it's the best. Shit. I didn't heard him in years. I already know. Like, I don't tell a nigga. I know funny. Yeah. You know, that's something funny. I didn't want to sleep on that funny. Yeah. I'll be in that old sleep, nigga. I do this number right here, nigga. Yeah, he'd be going there by show.  You better have it together. And be telling them to. That's how you get better, though, man. You got to have understanding and criticism. Oh, yeah, I'm going to talk. I ain't going to ever not talk. We going to talk about it. Yeah, yeah, quick. But I got to ask you a question.  That's where you raised up. I'm going to say that was a long time, a long time. Big talk. Made a statement in that song. You say he rolled down the X at night. It looked like Vegas.  Oh, damn!  Big talk, man. That nigga said that. And he meant that.  See, people don't understand the hood. It's so much beauty out there. You know what I'm saying?  Look out downtown. You ride on a freeway right now. Dallas lit up. Oakland. But we're from the hood. That was Oakland Street. You niggas change it from Oakland and then start getting fly. I ain't from there, though. I'm from five minutes back young. I seen a nigga get his head blowed out right there. I'm an old nigga. I've been around. See, I just played basketball.  No, they moved up there by the front park. You know what I'm saying? By the front park, they got security. They got Capitol there one night. And then they still asked me, do you still want the chicken? That's for hell, no. Yeah, that's when they used to be able to walk up to them little. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's security, though. Yeah, that's security. That's the only one I know. It was. They got security. So out the hill is the chicken. That was back in 19 or eight or nine. We were babies. Yeah, yeah. I was a baby. But no, man, I just like to say, man, I'm going to be watching and I'm going to be asking. Like if you can carry an extra load, right? But we need I need somebody to help me, too.  You got to go through with him, man. See what I ain't tripping on him. What his schedule look like. I ain't tripping on him, nigga. I'm coming in. And you understand, I don't never come right. I always come wrong. I'm the I'm the I will show up at the house and steal your cologne, nigga.  I'm in Dallas. You know, I'm in Dallas. I take the cologne from a cousin. I take it back, set it down after I use it a week. I'm that nigga.  Yeah, yeah, I'm coming in. All wrong is what I'm telling you. I got you, man. I'm out of here in detail. Yeah, I know you're in Dallas and I respect it, but like I said, thank you so much, man. Like I said, I'm always, you know, rock out with you and bubble up with you. I'm with you a hundred percent anyway. Well, I ain't got no choice when he gone. I just said he with you. I'm going to say the screen shot. I don't think that nigga be calling me like that. Do it, baby.  Most niggas, I mean, since you want to put it out there, we on boss talk, right? You ain't tag me and nothing. You ain't like no pictures of me.  Yeah. That's the only way you know now.  Look, I got out of this office.  But it's crazy. You say it because it's real. A lot of people like that, though. That just go and look. Mm hmm. That's ghost watching. I remember cam for whoop. You see whoop that nigga. He said, you know, several. It was about 13. I'm with him. I'm with him. I'm with him. I'm with him. Don't you say that. We got a whole thing to talk about, man. Second, baby. We go slow down and then come back into it. Do we get everything? That's everything. I'm sure, man. I'm going to clip that over. I'm telling you already. I'm good with them clip. He's going to pop in that over here. He's going to love it. He's going to love it. I promise. I'm going to pop him in there, man. Yeah, he got pop. Thank you for coming on the show, man. I appreciate it, bro. Big love, man. Yes, sir. Yeah. Bubba dub, man. What's going on, man? What's good about something? Man, come on, man. You been going around, man. I'm going to be real with you, man. You be everywhere, dude. Doing everything, man. I got to. Man, I see you everywhere, bro. I seen you mention something about Shannon Sharp, one time, I thought you was joining club, Shea Shea or something. What was that all about? Yeah, man. Yeah. I'm probably joining the volume right now, you know. Is that still going down? Hopefully it do. You know, it's complicated with the paperwork right now, man. So you know, I don't want to just speak too much on there, but I just tell people this, man. Just make sure you sign the right contracts.  You know, a lot of things is happening for you and everybody coming at you for it going north. You know what I'm saying? So I get it, man. So just be real with me, man. Like, like, how is it now with you and you've established a relationship with money made weather pretty much? My brother, man. Like, that's what I'm saying. How is he doing? And I know he's dealing with the boxing world, Vegas lights, there's a lot of lights out there. There's a strip club out there. There's a lot of people mentioning his name right now. You know, Bill hanging in there. Bill there, what's going on? What's going on? You know, Bill, Bill been talking some stuff, man.  Oh, damn! I knew it was coming, man.  What happened with Bill, man? Yeah, Bill cool, good. Bill be going off on me. Bill doing what he posts to do. You know, I respect that he'll follow. He posts a look out for it.  You know, I'm flowed to the day I die, man. So I never knew the boxing world like that, bro. I just like that. It's really like that. I was tripping off of that. Like, I'm like, these things, but it's a lot of money involved. It's a bag involved. I should have knew when I started thinking about it like, damn, man, they ain't playing no game about this boxing, man. No game, no game. Man, well, I'm going to be honest with you, the one, was you the one pull Mike Epps and Shannon Sharpe to the side and said, guys, we got to figure this out. No, I wasn't one. I thought I thought it. No, I can't take credit for that. I didn't care, but I think I'm I think God that on realized that you got to come to Nap Town and you can't come to Nap Town with that kind of talk about Mike Epps. Mike Epps really what he would how they said he really liked that. It ain't that he really liked that. It's that the people love Mike. So the people what you saying is the people love him. And basically, OK, what is too far, though? But like, when have you gone too far when it comes down to joking? Who's off? OK. When the when the video comes out, kids, people, kids is all way off limits with me. OK, I don't talk about nobody, kids. But when I seen Cat Williams do the interview, I knew just like me. Once you start dealing with the comedy where you know, I've been dealing with a long time, you open yourself up to where these comedians they're going to come for you for sure. So was Mike really wrong? Was Eddie really really wrong for for for going at Mr. Sharp? I hate to ask you a difficult question. It's not difficult. It's not Mike a comedian. Mike did what he's supposed to do. I just think that the fact that Shannon got mad that he lied and said that he reached out to him, saying he didn't reach out to Mike. That's what Shannon was mad about. Um, but no, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike ain't went too far on them. So all that other stuff was a green light. Yeah, I mean, he a comedian. He's going to what we do. We find funnier in people and talk about it. It's not personal. Yeah. But no, some people get personal. It's not personal, man. It's not that we dislike you or just something that we see.  Damn, so do I'm still cool with him.  I see how you're doing, Mr. Howard behind your back.  Does he know? No, it's crazy in the world. You know sports, right? Bro, dude, and you can say no, you wrong. But man, I sure think when when when Shannon did that interview with Cat Williams, Steven, they seemed like he jumped out the window trying to figure some stuff out to make to make it show go viral. I'm just being real. Like, like it's a petition in this game. Everybody's going to be number one. And right now, Shannon Sharp is number one. So everybody's going to say anything they can about that, man. And that's the crazy part because it looks like damn, I think Steven, he came out and said something about that other guy. I don't forgot the bigger name, the little nigga. They always he they all go back and forth. Man, 70 percent of these niggas who got shows are jealous of Shannon Sharp. They can say what they want to say.    It's the most. Most of what she jumping out the jumping out the gym. Like crazy. Jason, what Jason went like, fuck, Jason. Be like that. Beethoven dog chasing a lot. Pat McAfee, he was hired when he hired because he really like a social media. Like, like him, his he got he had a previous situation, but this social media blew up for how much did he change the game when he came into it? You know, he's on the he changed the game a lot. He really did. I got to give him that Pat McAfee. Yeah, he changed the game. He changed it, didn't he? I think that's what what people are looking at. This internet and change everything, bro. Yeah, man. The world wide. Well, it got internet is a monster, man, because you got to think about you got people who get behind them phones or them computers and type anything. Yeah, yeah.    It's a gift and it's a curse. You just got to not use it. Well, once you know how to use it, you know what I'm saying? You you'll keep on doing what you need to be doing. Well, I think when you look at like different people that have been on show and show up, show them and get off of them here in a minute, Monique, they've been coming through country, Wayne, these four digit banks, you know what I'm saying? Like it's crazy how that platform is like you say number one right now. You know what I'm saying? What do you what does all these interviews and these podcasts? What does it do for the game, though? It just get people a certain perspective on certain people, give them insight on what's going on, get the normal little big book or some people don't don't do interviews. And, you know, a lot of time I'll watch them because they be giving game. Me too. I'll be watching for the game. And then some of the people that I know, who I know, some of them be lying. Yeah, you're right. So, you know how the site was like, OK, whatever. Because I hate about this game.  And those black people, I got to be real. Y'all be taking everything these motherfuckers say like it's like it's like it's true. Damn, you show right.  When you wear it, you said that he made a contract to say if he wear a dress in the next movie. Yeah. I'm like, I can't I don't see how he could be that calculated, bro. No way. He was young. He just was getting apart itself. I hate when people say, well, this person got on because they did this and that.  Wow. People will never stop to think to ask that question. And I hate another thing in the black community when you start doing good, start being successful. Oh, you saw your soul.  Oh, that's how you got with floor. I know floor jumped in my DM. I ain't going to look for none of these niggas. I can jump and shag them. They jumped in my DM. Wow. My my my path different from the rest of these niggas. They reach out to me. No, that's real.  And you know, if it if it's real, then it's going to be real. If it's fake, it's fake. So but me and floor, she is really like like a big brother to me. He called me one in the morning. He playing cards in Iceland. Well, what you doing? Man, I'm in the bed. Chow was good. I'm not just checking on you. Make sure you straight. I'll be back in the states. Certainly my time pull up on me.  Man, you gonna do them a lot of me, man.   But like, we just talk about investments. Like I'll tell him I want this certain car.  Go get that house. That's real. Shit like that. That's real. What? You made me watch Vlad TV the whole thing, nigga. How was the Vlad TV interview? Very cool, man.   Very cool. Well, I just seen the interview. I watched it. You seem like you handle it very well. Yeah, he was, you know, people clip. They see how they want to clip it up. Oh, wait a minute. It was a difference?  They make it like I will just continue to talk about Dwight Howard and I just really wouldn't just own it.  The boy was a Hall of Famer, boy Hall of Famer, what NBA star.  That's just what he did. That's what he do. That's him. But on this court, Dwight Howard was an NBA Hall of Famer. He should have been top NBA 75. I stand by that. Dwight Howard should be NBA top 75 player. Well, you know, what else I've seen that I was going to ask you about that Johnny Manziel. Man, show up. Johnny Shaw killed that interview. Oh, for sure. He killed that whole. For sure.    Dr. Heisman. But I like his honesty, though.  He did. And they knew it back then, but they wouldn't cover it like that. They wouldn't cover it like that.  But respect to Johnny Manziel. One of the best, one of the best quarterbacks that will come through Texas, right? I got to give him his credit on that. Wow, like, did you like when you? How was it? Because I hadn't talked to you since Skip Bayless and y'all sit down together. Yeah. And will that ever happen again? Well, I don't know. Because the way it's looking, the podcast taking over and they take it on certain shows like that. You can't say what you really want to say. OK. The podcast, you could talk your talk the way you want to talk it. And it seemed like the future is the way it is. That's the way it's going now. So it wouldn't surprise me. It won't be long for ESPN. All of them boys are trying to fade out the way. That's why Steven A. Wayne got his podcast going. So he can say what he want to say on there. That's right. And I feel like what I'm doing and it's from the Chinese to game because who needs ESPN and Skip Bayless now when I'm already giving you a report on the sports. It's too late. You know what I'm saying? That's real. It's all about now. Instant, instant. So by the time they come on TV and all this and that, I already talked about it. Damn. But I see some people, although, you know, podcast is going the way how it is. And people like it because of the freedom of speech.  Yeah. So what do you think about that?  Do you, do you, let me ask you this. You still going to have to ride with Cowboy next year. They got Jimmy Johnson as a consultant. Is that going to change again?  What? They don't know. So a consultant, Doc River was consulting for that black coach up there. Me walking. What they doing up there?  Ain't nothing going to change. It ain't nothing going to be happy for a little while and sad enough will come January. Man. And that's the whole game. I'll be tripping. I'll be tripping off the way they do in these sports. Man, don't seem like nothing be changing. But they act like it's just change the game. I mean, when you see Jerry Jones, I heard taking paternity test. I was about to ask you about that. Did I come back yet? Is that his daughter?   That's his daughter, man. Oh, damn, man. Yeah, Jerry's dog. Can they say he had put up a trust somewhere anyway for her?  Maybe they got that bread. He ain't tripping. Jerry's paper's different. Man, I seen you on a picture with Boosie. Uh, it was Mike Epps and who else? It was just you. That was just y'all. What y'all got going? I don't know. We can say Mike has chilling. He knew he had a live band in his house. Bro, was that real? Was that old TV real? My nigga? That's real TV. Don't play me. Real TV, bro. I seen that TV. I said it got a prop. Nah, no prop. Real TV. Mike got like five houses on that block. How big is that? How big is that? The bottom block. Stope. Stope is fucked, man. It's inspiration for me. And Mike just bringing me on these wings and just teaching me the game and talking to me and just being patient. Because he just telling me just be patient for a long.   I want it to do it the right way. I want to bring other people that's deserving and give them their signs well. But I tell people right now they be hitting you up, dub, I need you to do this and that. Bro, I ain't even got my foot in the dough yet. It just looked like this. I'm on all grind right now. That's real. So. Man. OK, you you're going to be and I don't have all the particulars down in Mississippi. Did you that fly? I seen it. Where the hell is it at? Do you even know? All I know is a meridian, Mississippi. It's a meridian. I know they got good water down there. What we going? I'm not doing nothing down there, man. We got good water. What we going? Got them. We're going to work on the rest of Mississippi. We're going to make sure we get the right water down and help you out a lot. But Meridian, Mississippi got good drinking water. Good drinking water. We going to be down there at the 26th. Every 26th is going down. Going down. Man, I can't wait. Man, I can't wait either. I'm coming down there too. You know that. I'm like, got to. Got to get down there. I'm pulling up with you. I'm doing some more interviewing and cutting up with y'all for show. So, man. I heard you have your own weed strand.  Tell me. How did you get that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm real, I'm shy to my boy Mike the Cricket channel. OK.  So I got to them. They get signed for this two times too. He's going to have his own strand come out over there, leaning from turkey leg hood. So I got to my guy. He got his own. Got his own strand coming out.  And then with turkey leg.  You know, he's still married to it, but he ain't running. They fired that motherfucker. But it was a wild fire.  That was crazy. So he running in there. Running now. He cooking oysters. But it's OK. He's going to bounce back now. A real nigga going all the way to bounce back. But the main thing is that they still married, and they good. For now. Ain't no good. Ain't no good. Ain't no guy done well. You fired me, and we still good. It's problems, ain't it? Shit. It's going to be some big problems. Going to jail. No, but it's not. I'm going to jail. That nigga crazy. It's going to be all over new.  That nigga got up. You know how black people do it. Then you lose it all that way, then? You know, I won't. You know she ain't going to go around and press charges. City can pick it up. Shit. It's ways around there. If she going to go to court, no case. Oh, that's what it's like. She's going to go to court, no case. What's the thing on that list I sent you? Yeah, hold on. No, so the Wheatstrand, will it be also, I know Texas, it ain't legal. When it will be, it will be everywhere. OK, but no. I got one in the war. Texas definitely coming. Because D'Rose said that. He did his, and he said they did something where you can even order it online and ship it anywhere. Including Texas. Well, his ain't weed, then. Side to the road, but he ain't got that payout. He said it is. I got that motherfucker, baby. You can't ship this. You can smell it through anything. I can't ship this. I'm telling you right now. You bet not. Bet not. No, I'm dead. Well, how was the Super Bowl experience? Super Bowl experience was dope. Somebody ain't never experienced in my life. Let me tell you a quick story for the world. I'm out there in Vegas the whole week because I was meeting with Shaggy Sharp. Now I'm getting acquainted with the whole volume team just that in the third. And I went over to Champaels, did the skit. He wanted to do the skit. Now let's do a skit. All right, Champa, let's do a skit. We do a skit. So it's game day. So I hit floor up. I said, man, what y'all going to be at after the game? You know, I could meet up with you. He's like, we're going to be at the skating rink.  So pull up. Cool. So I met the room chilling. I'm like, I'm going to watch the game. Two ball. So about 30 minutes later, floor driver hit me up, South Roy. He hit me up. He said, man, where you at? I said, man, I'm at the room. He said, man, don't make no sense to you coming out here.  I thought for y'all to go to the game. He's like, yeah.  Me going to set the stadium. I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, I got your ticket. I forgot to tell you. Like what ticket? Your Super Bowl ticket, idiot? Floor, I didn't know about your Super Bowl ticket. You didn't know? I was like, nah, he didn't tell me. Like, man, yeah, he's been nothing about your Super Bowl ticket.  Like walking in, walking into the game, I started to go real early. I seen her standing there. They had her. Really? They had her. He hung up the people. I come in above the door. What's up, baby? Sleep right on through that little crowd. It was dope experience, man. Wow. I mean, like being there is different from watching it on TV. Man, I know it was. It just, it just loved, man. So let me ask you this now. The P Diddy, everybody's seeing P Diddy going crazy in social media. I even see some stuff coming up. They showing pictures like he really just doing a whole bunch of stuff. And I'm like, where did all this come from? I mean, I think it all come from the fact that Diggie tried to, I think he got into it with Sir Rock. No, Diggie never owned Sir Rock. Well, he had his food. He had his food. Yeah, because he was pushing that. Like crazy. And they got into it and I think they started spilling the beans on him.   Diggie done fondled a lot of niggas. A lot of niggas. So you believe all those allegations to be true?  Take that, take that. Like, man, I don't care what nobody says. But I don't know what I'm saying allegedly but from what I'm seeing, from what I'm seeing, his, his, the way he act around certain men. You seen that video?  Want another man, count on another man, daddy, like that. Diggie, Diggie fondled them, boy, he give them, man. He give them a lot. Money and power. People do anything forward, man. People do anything to be famous, man. And Diggie, and Diggie know that. That's how he control them. You want to be big. Yeah, I want to be big, daddy. All right, give you a million dollars. I'll blow you up in two months. Come on, get in this room. Oh, Diggie.  This old dog guy can't bring light to him. Dang it, no. No.  Oh, no. Relax. Pause, pause, pause, pause, stop. Diggie neck is going down through the heart. Wow. Man, I had S.U.M. that I would let you go, man. It's like Cam Newton. Yeah, by Cam Newton, by this couple, man. Like, man, it was. Cam got. He got hands. Cam got old man strength. He was moving the niggas around. He was moving them niggas around like they were water jugs. They were trying to run up on him. You can't whoop no niggas dressed like Cat in the Hat. No. That niggas cold. That niggas in here can't whoop no niggas dressed like Cat in the Hat. They would have come up off of it.   Damn, I seen it. I was like, damn, man, it's getting active. And it was, he was moving them around. And Cam, a good guy, man. He wasn't even really wanting to stew all that. He was trying to stop a fight from what I heard. He belling the niggas, I've been shooting in the air. You know, I can't fight. So I won't scurr.   That's the way niggas do, boy. You know niggas, boy. You definitely from the country. Definitely, man. That's what we do. We ain't going to fight. Now we're going to shoot in the eye. Yeah, niggas, I could have killed all them niggas down there. So I'm saved them. They got set up there in the bushes for about 30 minutes. And they didn't show up. One of them niggas came up out and killed one of them niggas. That's the way they do it. The guy was on the niggas side, man. That's what I knew. The guy was on the niggas side.   So I got to ask you, because that's all you posted it on your Instagram that you're doing some business with Kyrie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just love Kyrie. But you said coming soon. So I'm hoping that you can give us a little bit. I just love Kyrie, man.  You know, Kyrie, I'm a down-the-earth guy. And they just had his shoes just dropped today. So I wanted to chop it up with him.  Yeah, I got them. OK. I just called them out in the basketball game. You want to go whooping? Oh, I lied. But you know, I'm going to make it sound good. I'm going to run up on this. No, I didn't talk, and I thought it was family. What happened? Man, that's what I've been. Problem, I've been having.  Them niggas giant. They like, Duh, what's up now? Shit, you got it, fam? No, I got it, as you are, ma'am. So what you got coming out with? No, what you got coming out with Kyrie? Because you said something coming soon, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. We're going to wake up during the summer on something in his hometown, but I'm trying to bring something to light with him. I can't really say, because people still y'all did. That's right. But it'll be dope. If the world see what I'm trying to do with something with him on this level, it'll be game changing. Not only for me, but for other content artists as well. Like, what I'm trying to do, what I'm trying to build. And he's all about that. You know, he's all about that, helping his people. He's all about that. OK, can you just tell me? You coming to the improv, when? I'm going to be in the improv. March the 15th through the 17th. Arlington, Texas. It's going down. Gragom tickets. Boy, I went to the lab. You know I'm going to be there. It's almost sold out. A couple of days already sold out, right? Well, Saturday, I'm going to sold out. It's for the go. I'm going to get to Friday. I'm going to sold out. What can we expect to see if we come to this show, man? New jokes. It's going down. New jokes. New jokes. Growth. Growth. You're going to see Jerry Morgan now. Oh, man, I can't wait, bro. I can't wait. Man, I love seeing you on that stage, bro. Everybody see you in your element of funny when they see the skits. But it's a whole different beast on that stage, bro. I've got five new jokes. That's all it takes for you. It don't take much for this to go off up there. Got five new jokes. I can't wait, bro. Mixed with some of the old, but I've got five new jokes there. I'm being that whole, man. I'm coming. As soon as I get back in town, I'm at that hole, man. I'm with you. It's going to be good. When are we going to get a Netflix special? When the time is right. That's all I can say now. When the time is right. Is that something you're shooting for now? That's that's that's a goal of mine. That's a goal. That's a goal of mine. But the biggest goal of mine is to be in Hollywood movies. Yeah, I guess don't want to do the Hollywood things to get to the movies. That's the only thing I know. I hate to ask you this question, but where is where is the podcast when we want to see Bubba Dub now? Because everybody started to move it. You know, your people looking for it. Yeah, they're asking every day. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying them all right now. That's all I can say. Me and you know who I'm with. We still trying to get this contract by is not happening yet.  I've been depressed. Really? Yeah, it's been had me down, man. I saw you posted that one day and I'm like, Hold up, hold up, hold up. I never heard Bubba Dub talk about being depressed, but you posted something and said you was depressed. Was you really jiving or was you really just really? It's real. I was really depressed. And it wasn't number to double. For me to say that, you know, sometimes you want things you want to happen then and it don't happen for you. That's real.  I stopped doing comedy shows for a whole month just gearing up. So I probably missed out on about four to K. Just putting that to the side to grow up for something to happen. Because I wanted to be in line and it didn't happen. And it wasn't about the money. It's just that I was telling my fans to show coming. It's coming, it's coming. One thing I want to do is live with my fans. That's what did it. What's you, because watching your journey and I see you doing the show over here and doing this. I'm talking podcasts over here doing this, doing that. I know you, entrepreneurs, we try different things so we can find something that's thick. I know that you said it can be discouraging, but what pulled you out of that? What keep you going? Oh man, just coming from where I come from.  Come on now. Like coming from where I come from and where I've been through, I'm trippin'.   Got it. Here I am able to move around, fly here and there, whatever I want. You havin' a great life. By my family, whatever they want, this and that, go get whatever car, whatever I want.  I'm not doin' like that.  Right. And I want to apologize for that. I want to come in to my friends too. That's real. Cause we love you, nigga.  But how many calls, how many calls you got? How many calls you got after that first? Man, I got a lot of calls and I got a lot of calls. Bro, gon' do it. We love you. Yes, I can imagine. Let me hold 20,000. Thank you. No, you know they gon' have it for it. I can't wait to see you at the impromptu, man. I can't wait to see you down in Meridian, Mississippi. It's goin' down, man, bubbled up and I can't wait to see you back on this show. Cause every time the ground crack, we comin' again. I'm doin' somethin' for some kids too here in Dallas, Texas, April 13th, here in Dallas, Texas, Dallas United. Where? Fair Park. Okay. It's gon' be at the Fair Park. What you doin' for them?  Okay. Helping people, you know, having mental problems for the teens. Just talkin' to them. Even the police, I took a police who'd been doin' the right things when people were callin' me. I'd be in there on time, protectin' people and not shootin' my brothers. Yeah, you right. I just made them laugh. Yeah, cause some people feel like our police is bad, that's not true. No, I got problem.   I don't niggas, come on, let me tell you, man. You be mappin' to see him, don't you? You like, man, what? Jumpin' his own? Ain't somebody happin' to see him.  Well, man, we love you, Bubba Dub. If I know you got a lot goin' on, man, just know that we always prayin' for you. We love you, bruh. If you need me, you know I'm there. I don't care what nobody say. I got Bubba Dub, you niggas in trouble. I can call Bubba Dub. It's a problem. Yeah. I have one last question. Oh, you got one more? One last question. I'm gonna set the thing down. I know you watch comics because you're in that job. So, give me one of your most favorite joke that you hear your best comedian say that can never get old to you. And every time you hear it, you gon' crack up? Probably earthquake. What is it?  It's a joke that he said about his kid, his son. He can't get his son to take a bath, but Kobe Bryant could. Yeah, you gotta watch it. It's crazy. It's crazy, like he said, he can't make his kid do nothin', but basketball players can.  Got it, got it, got it, got it. I like that joke a lot. It was a question I was gonna ask, but I didn't ask you because I'm done with this, but cause, you know, Kat talked about jokes stillin'. Yeah, ain't doin' all the time. People be stillin' jokes. But you can't stop it.  That's real. That's real. Cause you went through that already where people stole your jokes. Yeah, and that's cool, man. That's the way it is. It'd be like that, but at the end of the day, that nigga be workin' right there. I'm waitin' on a new slogan comin' in just a minute, man. Thank you so much for comin' on the show, man. Make sure you guys get in these comments, get in these, and look at this next clip for show. Make sure y'all look at this next clip that's comin' up with Bubba Dub, man. We love you, bro. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101 where the boss is talkin'.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a two box random team break number two of 2019 2020 panini noir basketball Just came out yesterday The sneaker spotlights are really cool. Just some amazing stuff in this big. Thanks to these folks right here for giving this a shot Really appreciate it All 30 teams are in on this half case random team break. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it 11 times one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten and 11 the final time after 11. We've got Russell all the way down to Clayton Five and a six eleven times for the teams. Good luck one two three four five six seven seven or seven eight nine Ten I'm not always acting weird for a second 11 the final time. There you go five and a six eleven after 11 times We've got the timber wolves all the way down to the Indiana Pacers All right, so Russell with the timber wolves James with the nuggets Jeremy 33 with the Kings Dylan with the Hawks Robert with the heat Dale with the Celtics Chris with the jazz Caleb with the Mavs Chan with the Spurs Anthony with my Lakers Marco with the Bulls Kevin with the Knicks Chris Grizzlies nice pistons and Raptors Derek with the Cavs Robert with the Warriors Chris with the Rockets Chris last bottom Ojo star next to your name Magic Rockets and Magic for you Chris with the Suns Jeremy 33 with the Pelicans interesting Zach Paul Hornets Brian Zeller with the Wizards Chad with the 76ers So Tyrus with the Nets Matthew shear with the trailblazers Danny with the Bucks Chris with the Thunder Ray with the Clippers and Clayton Jones with the Indiana Pacers Let's get all this on one screen right here. Let's sort by column B I'm going to pause the video or allow for a little bit of trading time and when we come back ladies and gentlemen We'll see if there's any trades and then the break stick around All right, welcome back So little bit of trade chatter, but no deals were done here in half-case ram team to we got another Random team case break on the site right now. Jasper's case breaks calm and that is from a fresh case Remember kind of hard to see right here, but I marked that number two right here So you know that it's all from the same case Love this noir. Here's what I tell you here's what I don't love though in Panini We let's hope we can get this change next year because I love this product the box Terrible hard to get the cards out of the box which I think ends up On it, you know inadvertently hurting the corners and the edges sometimes they're it's like operation All right, that frame is a base card on the bottom. Let's slide that out Right up here Let's grab a blank card right here to slow play the hits a little bit We're gonna start off with Nikola Jokic three out of 25 feature length That'll go to James and the Nuggets There's the Montess a bonus to 99 Yes, of course Monica we we're we're a real live e-commerce site So yeah, there'll be a spot to put your address so we can ship it to you Indiana Pacers Clayton Jones Yeah, we're just think of us as the Amazon of group breakers Steph Curry 29 out of 99 Warriors Robert Grease Now the hits. Yes two-shot rookie jerseys dual relic Five out of 99 Matisse Tybal Jalen Noel. That'll be a randomizer between the Sixers and the T Wolves Why are those two players paired together? Did they play on the same? College where the college team makes I guess So that'll be a randomizer between Russell Green and the T Wolves and Chad Watanabe and the Sixers Sixers T Wolves randomizer. We'll set that aside there We got elegant decor relic 25 out of 65 Cameron Johnson Chris Maxwell and the Suns here come the Suns Here come the Suns. Oh, yeah, keep an eye out on couch cam in case That Dodger's pillow might be alive. It could move if it moves you let me know It could be ghosts there Don't miss a moment. Josh Richardson 9 out of 10 Josh Richardson going to that Sixers edition Not Sixers Jersey right there that goes to Chad We've got for the Hawks Bruno Fernando 56 out of 99 That will be for the Hawks nice patch auto for Dylan We've got go a God bless you says Mark Jackson 11 out of 99 Noir autograph for the Knicks That's gonna go to Kevin with the Knicks There's Cameron Johnson to 125 gold ink autograph To 125 my tower saying Tybalt and Noel both Washington Huskies That's that's why they're paired together more Suns for Chris Maxwell's silver hammers With the here comes the Suns doo doo doo doo And Brandon Clark for the gris 21 out of 99 in focus autograph That'll be for Chris as well in the gris It does kind of look like God bless Jay, right? I'm assuming he means God bless Jaspie's is what he means right here, which I appreciate Which I appreciate thanks Mark Jackson All right, that's box one Sean Mandel says Bubba needs to make a return to Jaspie that is his couch And he does like that couch I know he's a little too He's only a few years old going on for so he's a little too rambunctious For the store we have to wait until he gets a little older and then slows down Otherwise he's he's gonna spend most of the day sleeping or at my feet Nipping at the hem of my shorts and Wining and saying why aren't you playing with me?  So he gets into trouble He gets into trouble. All right, there's a redemption down there ladies and gentlemen. I've heard that some redemptions could be pretty big There's Darius Basely 11 out of 25 For the thunder that'll be going to Chris Tyler hero 49 out of 99 Miami Heat Robert Grease We got Marcus Morris senior 78 out of 99 for the Knicks that'll be for Kevin sometimes Mike Tower and We got a Jersey Bowl Bowl 20 out of 99 new wave jerseys new wave jerseys what like New order talking heads Depeche Mode that goes to James Cook in the Nuggets. We have Rookie Jumbo material PJ watching junior for the Hornets 64 out of 99 that will go to Zach Paul who has the Charlotte murder Hornets John Moran 17 out of 25 nice three-color patch more new wave jerseys Grizzlies Chris Maxwell Nice one Chris you will find his autograph from here somewhere Just like just signed John Next one is whoo for my Lakers Freeze frame signatures four out of 49 Luke Walton Lakers edition Former Laker player former Laker coach We've got gold ink autograph raining nights Alan Houston three out of five Out of five's and under get the train whistle lays jump the world famous that goes to Chris Maxwell with Detroit nice break for Maxwell Silver hammer Chris all aboard the Big Head Express Jersey in auto Romeo Langford 24 out of 99 Jersey not oh where for art thou? Dale with the Celtics Redemption critically acclaimed signature. I think this is my first critically acclaimed signature card number 30 G G unit I a Gion Giannis Onto Tocompo That goes to Chris no that goes to Danny Connell in the box. I was looking at a different M not Memphis But Milwaukee, I need a pen. I don't have one Well, you know where it goes.  All right now. Let's make one person happy And let's make one person sad Dual relic randomizer former college teammates Matisse Tybal for Philadelphia and Jalen Noel with the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's roll it. Let's randomize it Three and a one four times team on top after four gets it one two three four Apologies to Minnesota. Congrats to Philadelphia. That is for Chad. You've got this dual relic Number to 99. Thanks very much for getting in. Thanks everybody for watching. I'm Joe for jaspy's case breaks calm plenty of Noir in the store We got a fresh case for random teams and we got a number of full case pick your teams jaspy's case breaks calm Thanks very much. I'll see you next time. Bye. 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Hi everyone, welcome to part three which is the soloing part. So you're going to learn two iconic blues scales, the major blues and the minor blues. We'll first figure out how to form the notes and then what to do with those notes. Now that you already have a foundation of what the left hand will do, also the blues chord progression, I think we can do a lot of work now on the right hand, assuming of course that all the foundations are sorted out. So if you haven't already do head over and watch part one where we look at the chord progression, how to form everything, the foundational stuff and then go over to part two where I build important left hand rhythms which make it bluesy and a right hand rhythm which makes it even more bluesy. Okay, to make the blues solo what you need to learn is the blues scale and there are two blues scales we have in music. We have the major blues and the minor blues. Let's first learn how we can form them. The major blues scale is derived from the major pentatonic scale or at least you could derive it from the major pentatonic scale. Penta as the word suggests in Latin means five, five notes. So if you take the major pentatonic it'll be one, two, three, skip the four, play the five, six, skip the seven and you have your octave. It's C major pentatonic. So to make the major pentatonic into the major blues what do we do? You add the minor third which is E flat or the note in between the second and the third which is still E flat. So you go that's the major blues. Major pentatonic, five notes, major blues. So this is the blue note for major blues. That's what creates that vibe. Okay, so let's now look at the minor pentatonic scale which will in turn help us form the minor blues scale. So the minor pentatonic is one root C, minor third which is E flat, perfect fourth which is F, perfect fifth which is G, minor seventh which is B flat and then the octave. Very popular for rock music. So to make that a bit more bluesy what we then do we add the tritone. There we go, what's the tritone? The note between the four and the five that's F sharp or G flat. So that's your C minor blues as we call it. So you could just use those notes actually and just go up and down and if you can manage it with your left hand rhythm which we learned earlier. Okay, major blues up, little slower. Play around with that. Works for the entire blues progression. Yeah, so that's your major blues. Minor blues also works just as well. Feel free to also cross the octave, you know. Just enjoy the scale, you know and then follow the blues chords there, right? Another nice way to get cracking with a solo now that you know these two scales is to just develop a very, very small hook or a motif as we call it and then play the motif over the entire 12 bar cycle or entire 12 bar progression. So let's just try and come up with a motif, a short phrase right now, something like something like that or maybe let's try and figure that out on the piano. Now the motif you make could be either on the major blues or the minor blues. What I've sung now appears to be like a combination of both. Let's just see. So I'm doing that's G, F sharp, F, E flat, C, B flat, C, E flat, C. So I'll play it once. Doing a nice glide there, you can do that if you want. If you don't like this B flat, you can even play A. That'll create another sound variety, right? I like that. Don't overdo it, but do it. It's fun. Okay. Another thing with your melodic or solo playing, you need to enunciate the twos and the fours and even though I'm snapping it, you need to bring it out there as well. So play the two and the four rather louder and that again brings out the blues flavor in your playing. So there we go. There we go. And you can play this with the entire 12 bar form. Anything on that blues scale, it's a magic scale, guys. It's an absolutely magic scale. It can work on anything. It can work on major chords, minor chords and both the blues scales, the major blues as well as the minor blues. So works. If you've created a phrase, a few tips could be make the phrase very lyrical. In other words, just make it something a singer could sing. You should also try singing it. Yeah, I can sing it. It's easy to sing. So if it's easy to sing, it's going to sound great on the piano. Everyone's also going to enjoy it a lot more. So I have my phrase again and the other tip when it comes to creating a motif or a phrase or a lick like this is to extract small bits and pieces out of it. You don't have to play the whole thing. You can just create a few subsets of it. For example, you can just keep there and then later somewhere. So now you have two subphrases. Even though you made one, you can milk it over two phrases. So I have a gap there or have something else. Then and this makes your line interesting. So let's do that in a variety of ways with the same 12 bar. And I'm going to try to keep the same melody running shorter phrase, long second, second half and the whole thing. So those are the melodic ideas for the blues, which will help you build a melody as a songwriter or even build a piano solo, which you can play with your band at a concert. So how did we do it? Two scales, major blues or minor blues? How do we form it using the pentatonic scale and then adding what we call as the blue note? And when you improvise, first try patterns going up and down, get your fingers going and then build these sort of short motifs or phrases, which can be very catchy, very lyrical, singable and then extract even more juice out of it by creating subphrases out of the motif. So that was how we can look at soloing on the piano over the 12 bar blues form. Guys, thanks a ton for watching our blues piano lesson series. 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In this video, we're going to solve a problem where a plane is flying with an airspeed of 170 miles per hour with a heading of 52.5 degrees. It's true course on the other hand will have a heading of 64.1 degrees. If the wind currents are our constant 40 miles per hour, what are the possibilities for the ground speed of the plane? Now we introduced the ideas of airspeed, heading, ground speed, all of this type of stuff in a previous video. If you're not familiar with this terminology, take a look at that video first, but we're going to proceed forward, assuming you have that knowledge here. So when it comes to these headings, as we decided upon earlier, these headings are always with reference to a clockwise rotation from north. So if the plane has an airspeed of 170 and a heading of 52.5, that means the airplanes, its intended path, right, will be this vector you see right here. It's measurement from north is 52.5 degrees. The length there would be 170 degrees. All right. What do we know about the true course? We know its direction. We don't know the ground speed. That is the magnitude of the true course there. So we have this vector right here going along, right? The direction is 64.1 degrees, but we don't know the ground speed. And so we want to consider what that's going to be. All right. So we also know something about the wind, right? The wind is going at 40 miles per hour, but we actually don't know what the direction the wind is blowing in, which causes somewhat of a difficulty here. But if the wind is blowing at 40 miles per hour with this other information, what could what could be the possible ground speed and say, what are the possibilities plural? Is that a possibility? Well, notice what we have right here. OK, because we know the heading and the true course, these directions, we can calculate the difference between those, right? 64.1 minus 52.5 degrees. That is equal to 11.6 degrees. Let's call that angle theta, which we represented here on the diagram. We have that right there. Notice we have a side. We have a side and we have an angle. So we are currently in the side, side angle situation, the so-called ambiguous case with the ambiguous case could have no possible triangles, one possible triangle or two possible triangles. So there in fact, there is some ambiguity on what the possible ground speeds could be. We don't have enough information. Maybe, maybe there is only one possibility we'll see here. So we have to investigate this a little bit more now in order to investigate this further, we're going to want to use the law of signs. That's that's the best approach when considering the ambiguous case because we know this angle theta, we know the wind speed and that gives us an angle opposite side pair in AOS. So if we want to think of X over here, we could try to compare it with this angle beta right there, right, which we don't know that one is at all. But we do know this right here and there is an alpha. So that's really what we need to try first. We need to do this AOS, which is given and we need to solve for alpha in this situation to see what's going on here. So we're going to take sine of alpha over 170 and set that equal to sine of theta over 40, like so to solve for alpha. We're going to times both sides by 170 and take arc sine. So alpha is equal to arc sine of 170 times sine of 11.6 degrees over 40, for which when you put this in the calculator, you're going to end up with sine inverse of this quantity. This will give your calculator, will give you 58.7 degrees. Now, since your calculator did not give an error, that means there is a solution here, but there could also be a second solution, right? Remember arc sine can't tell the difference between angle and its supplement. It can't tell the difference between acute and obtuse angles. So we have to take 58.7. We also have to take 180 degrees minus 58.7 degrees, which is 121.3 degrees. That's a second possibility that we have to consider. Now, the first situation, right? Let's investigate that one. So the first situation is when alpha is 58.7 degrees, like so. So since we already know theta, we can then solve for beta in this situation. So beta would equal 180, take away theta, which was 11.6, take away alpha, which is 58.7. This would mean that beta is 109.7 degrees, like so. So that's acceptable. Nothing wrong with this so far. And so applying the law of sines, we get that X over sine of beta is equal to 40 over sine of theta, 11.6, right? Solve for X, we end up with X is equal to 40 times sine of 109.7 degrees over sine of 11.6 degrees. Use your calculator to approximate this thing and you would end up, make sure you're in degree mode, 187 miles per hour. All right. So that is a possible ground speed for the airplane. But that's one of two possibilities. Maybe we have to investigate the obtuse case. Maybe 121.3 degrees works. It actually seems quite feasible. So if alpha was equal to 121.3 degrees, we have to still compute beta. Beta would be 180 degrees minus theta, which is 11.6 minus alpha, which in this case is equal to 121.3. In that situation, you actually do get a positive value for beta. You get 47.1 degrees. So it turns out there are two possibilities. Once we get beta, we're still going to do the law of sines. So X over sine beta is equal to 40 over sine theta, like so. Solving for X, you still get X equals 40 times sine of beta. Beta, of course, is different this time. Beta is going to be a lot smaller, so you get 47.1 degrees. And then this is going to sit over sine of 11.6 as well. Use your calculator, again, make sure you're in degree mode. And this time you're going to get 146 miles per hour, like so. So the ground speed is much smaller that time, 187 versus 146. Why the big difference there? Well, remember that the airspeed of the plane was 170. So one of them, you're getting a bonus. One of them, you're getting a penalty. And let's think about the possibilities there for a moment. So the two choices for alpha were 58.7 degrees, as the picture seems to suggest, right? It's an acute angle. The other possibility would be something where A or alpha is obtuse. And so you actually get something like the following, like so. In which case, if alpha is much bigger, then that kind of forces this vector to be a lot smaller, because instead of the original one where the wind is kind of pointing off to this direction and you can get much more distance, right? So in one direction, the wind is kind of pointing in the direction, thus giving a bonus. And then the other one, it's pushing against, which is why the speed is a little bit retarded there. And so that brings us to the end of lecture 29, which we've been talking about some of the applications of vectors with respect to direction and static equilibrium and some other things like that, right? It turns out that the trigonometry we've learned can be very, very useful, whether we're using right triangle trigonometry or this oblique triangle trigonometry, law of sines, law of cosines. We can do it, but it can get really tricky as you see in examples like this in the next lecture. We'll actually introduce a simplification of this process known as an algebraic representation of the vectors. It still uses trigonometry, but it dramatically simplifies it that we don't have to be working with this oblique triangle trigonometry anymore. And I think you're going to appreciate it. Thanks for watching this video, though. If you learned anything, please give it a like and subscribe to the channel to see more videos like this in the future. 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