Welcome back. We're getting into a new section after we've covered some of these topics. So over the course of time, we have looked at biblical foundations in Christian marriage. So where we had a brief understanding about what marriage is, marriage preparation, what are the roles and the personal preparation, the attitudes, temperament and behavior. So that was the first section that we looked into. We moved into quite a big section of elements of a good marriage where we spoke about communication, resolving conflicts, becoming a good team, managing the home, sexuality, establishing boundaries and spiritual nourishment. And then last week and this week, we looked at challenges in marriage. How do we overcome challenges? And we looked at the last class of how we can release the past and move forward. So these are a couple of sections that we've done. We're moving into our next session, which we'll take today and next week, which is foundations for parenting and the years that follow. So we are going to be focusing on two chapters in that, which is chapter 14 and chapter 15. So today we start with chapter 14 and in your books, it's 147. Or if you're following the PDF, page 147 in the PDF as well. So this week, we're going to be looking at insights on parenting. And next week, we'll be looking at how do you nurture children in different aspects of their lives. So we may not be able to cover the entire chapter today. I've broken it into two portions. So we will look at the first portion of it because of the opacity of time. We will look at the second half next week. So parenting primer. Now, through this chapter, we are going to learn biblical inputs and biblical principles and practical principles on parenting with the basic understanding of what it would mean to be parents or what does it mean to take on the role of a parent. So for those of you who are really young and who haven't even been married, you may be thinking, let me get married first and then I will think about parenting. But this is something I've heard from young parents who've done pre-narrative sessions. And when they become parents, they exactly tell me this. They say, this is what we thought of when we were doing this, that will come naturally. The more difficult part is living together with your spouse, but parenting will come naturally. But once they've had children, people have come back and said, these lessons were so needed and important to keep us prepared. So there have been couples who've come back after years of being married and having been parents and reworked two or three of these topics and come in for a discussion. So it's never too early to learn anything and consider it a privilege that you're being spoken about parenting even before you're married. So pay attention, keep your ears open, listen because these things are extremely useful. So what we've learned so far is that God is the one who's instituted knowledge. So all that happens under that institution of marriage is divinely appointed by God. So also parenting. Parenting is just as much as a ministry. It's a divine call. It's a ministry that is ordained by God where you are co-laboring with God to carry out his purposes. So it is something that is ordained by God. Also when we look at children, look at them as people who God has loaned to you for a particular season and time, loan. God has given them to you to bring them up in the way and the instruction and the training of the Lord so that they can be released back to God to fulfill his purposes. So you are like a person who God's put and said, okay, this is a family or this is a couple. I'm going to loan children too. So basically they're not our own. They are God's. They're given to us for a brief period of time to nourish, to encourage, to build, to bring up in the instruction of the Lord so that we can release them back to God for his work and for his purposes. So I hope that becomes like a good perspective in our mind even as we start this lesson. One of the biggest calls for us as parents is to represent God the Father to our children. When we look at ourselves in a relationship with God, God is our Heavenly Father and you and I are part of his family here on earth. And so because God is our Father, just like when you, your parents, you receive a lot of things that belongs to your Father. That is your family name, your identity, your culture, your property. All of that comes to you because you are his, right? You belong to your earthly Father. So similarly, we as family, we belong to God and we receive everything from our Father. That is our identity, our very being, our very security comes from God. So we, because he becomes our model, every parenting or fatherhood or motherhood comes from God who is the ultimate Father.  This means, like I said, the children belong to God but have been loaned to you. So it is a call what we are doing when we are parenting is to represent the Heavenly Father to our children when he has entrusted us to him. Now, as human parents, none of us are perfect. There are many mistakes we have, many mistakes we make. And for those of us who are parents here, you know, it is no count of the number of mistakes maybe you and I have made. And in fact, many of us are still learning. And in every stage of life, we are learning more and more. When we think that we finished, it comes to next season of life, whether there is so much to learn, whether they're infants or toddlers or children or adolescents or adult children. There is so much that we learn about what parenting is all about. And through every season and every stage of life, that's what we are called to do to represent Father God to our children. That is to show who God is through our own lives to our children. So this can be an extremely, it's a very big task, you know, that's what God is perfect. He's holy, there's no flaw, there's no blemish in him. But our desire should be that when our children meet with us, when our children deal with us, they are able to see God in us and through us. And they will begin to have the right picture of who God is, understand what the love of God is through our lives. And you know, that's a lot of times, I think, again, maybe just a little bit of sharing from what happens, you know, in counseling sessions to people, you know, the way that young children are helped or treated by their fathers becomes, it shows you a picture of how they see God later in their lives. Whatever they've experienced with their early, with their earthly father in the early days of their life, maybe as a child, what you see from your father is what you compute as you see from the heavenly father. And so when young children go through difficult trauma, there is a trauma caused by their own earthly fathers, the way that they see God is very coloured by what they see in their earthly father. Because as a child, they are your most important caretakers, and a child only knows how to trust, knows only how to depend. They don't know otherwise, right, because the caretakers, the father and mother become the strongest influencers in their life. So a lot of hurt comes from that. And that's, that's so important why as young parents, it's important to know and understand how we deal with children. Because we are representing the heavenly father to our children when you are that flesh and blood that your child sees. And it's only when they turn into more mature adults do they begin to see a representation of who God is in you, who God really is. But the first glimpse of that comes from you as an earthly parent. So that's so important why parenting in itself is something that should be intentional. And that's why we're taking this time to really dwell into this and discuss this. So the aim of parenting is to represent the father God to the children because children sees God through our lives, through our actions. How do we represent God the father? It is to be to be in a place to give God to give unconditional love. Only God's love has these is unconditional in itself. It's immeasurable. That is, you know, it's so vast. There's no limit to it. You can't measure it. There are no conditions to it. That is, God doesn't say, I will love you only if you sin no more. Or I will love you only if you do these 10 commandments. I will love you only if you become this or that. God's love is immeasurable. And we read of this kind of love the dimensions of God's love in Ephesians chapter 3 verses 17 to 19. Can some, can one of you read that Ephesians chapter 3 verses 17 to 19? Can someone read that? Okay, I think I'll read it. Ephesians 3 17 to 19. It says that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the sins. What is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of God which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. So it really shows you. Paul is saying that we have the ability to understand or the power to understand as God's people the dimensions of the love of God. It says how wide, how long, how high, how deep all dimensions. And that we will experience the love of Christ. And that even though we can't fully understand it, we will be filled with the fullness of that power. So that's what that unconditional love is what Paul is talking about. So when Paul is pointing that out, he's giving you a glimpse of what kind of love it is that you show to your children. You extend this God kind of love to your children in order to represent God, the Father, the heart of God to them. So our children need to know that they are always loved even when they have not been exemplary in their behavior. Even when they have done things to disappoint us, we love them regardless of their performance, their abilities, their capacities, their nature. We still love and we believe in them. We still desire whatever is good for them. So everything comes from this unconditional love that we have experienced of love of God. And that's what we represent. So representing our Heavenly Father comes from the way that we give that kind of love to God. Another way that we show or we bring about who God is is by being examples, by being that role model for our children. Proverbs 37 says, God loyal people living honest lives make it much easier for their children. So who is a person, a role model? A role model is someone who you follow, who you imitate. They are generally people who you may admire or you may want to imitate. And I'm sure even as we've grown up as children, we've all had some role model or the other. It may be an actor, it can be a sports person, it can be a business person, it can be someone who's a missionary, somebody who's been a role model to us because of their character or the success that they've reached, the lives that they've lived. Something has inspired us about them and we are motivated to act according to them even though we may not be directly involved with them. So for children, by default the role models become the parents. And it starts from a really small young age where you see in little ways children begin to imitate their parents. They want to be like their parents and because they're continuously being influenced by their parents, they want to be like them. And so as a parent, you have the opportunity to directly influence their lives, to shape and mold their lives. So it is often left to the parent to either make this, to build this and make this a strong positive influence or other way around. So there is this line that says, when you teach something, it's more than it is being taught, it is caught.   So the way that a parent interacts in the way our attitudes, our words, our behaviors, our actions is something that we consciously need to model to the children. And that's exactly what God wants us to be, to living our lives by example rather than by instruction. So what we do is a more powerful story than what we say because children see us walking, children see us doing the things more than what we say. So when they see you living a life that is honorable before the eyes of God, it makes it so much easier for them to follow through that. Because they know that they've seen it and they know that's something that it can be done. So as parents, you are your child's first teacher and you have a significant influence in the way your child behaves. And children are like the sponges. They take in as much water as possible. That means they absorb so many things which means both the good as well as the bad gets absorbed. So which means children learn so many things from us. They learn basic things, basic manners. They learn how to speak. They learn what kind of attitudes to have during different struggles, what behaviors, what are aspects of life and how do we deal with it? How do we deal with stress? How do we deal with conflicts when we are bothered or when we are frustrated? How do we respond? Do we respond with shouts and screams or anger? Or are we in a calmer state of learning to deal with it? So at all times, more than us giving an instruction, we are live visible examples for the children. So as parents, we need to be extremely careful that we live lives that help children see a good influence. So which means we must be very careful as parents to unlearn some of the things that our own parents did while they brought us up. Our parents may have been very strict in their disciplining. They could have been very controlling. There may have been certain behaviors that have been unhealthy for us. So we need to be, unlearn some of that and come to a place of consciously modeling that which is good and healthy and that which God is pleased with. So it is a good thing to think through your own character, your own behavior, your own attitude, your own lifestyle because that is exactly what you will be modeling to your children. So some traits or some attitudes, some behaviors, that's what you may be modeling. Now, an example is just look at your own life and think of certain things that you have found similar between yourself and your one of your parents. Right? And we say, okay, I am that that's the way that I am. That's because you have seen something, you have emulated it. And very often we move ahead in life without really paying much of attention or questioning ourselves if that's something that we need to alter or to change. So we need to come to a place of understanding that unlearn it for ourselves first and then, you know, for the sake of our children do something that will help them. Okay? So being your child's role model is a very, very important foundational understanding and belief that everything, however we respond, however we do things, that's exactly what our children will learn and see. Okay? I'll stop here for around two minutes. Do you all have any questions? Any questions? Nobody? Okay. So let's move on then. Okay. So just as much as, you know, as a responsibility of a parent, there are many things that we are called to do. It's just not to give them food, water, education, ensure that they get a job. As much as we are responsible to do that, there are many more things that as a parent we are responsible for. That is to provide them emotionally, provide for them spiritually, provide for them socially with regard to disciplines, values, morally principles, all of them. And that is what we are responsible for and that's what we say. We train them to know how to live. So remember that our children are not going to be mothered and fathered by us beyond a certain point, right, beyond the point of maybe 14, 15. After that, they start becoming their own person, their own people. So think of it like this.  You use those principles that you learned in the lab in different things in your work. Similarly, the years that a child spends with their parents at home is like a laboratory. It's a controlled, protected, careful environment where you can make all your mistakes. You know, there is correction, there is help, everything is given to you. So that's what we are called to do. Teaching them how to live, which is and how you do that is when you impart values, principles, disciplines, skills, and this happens over a period of time. And this happens slowly from simple to complex. You don't teach a two-year-old child about, you know, social manners that would need for a 14-year-old. You teach them small, maybe saying thank you, saying hello, saying sorry, but then as they grow up, it becomes, the teaching becomes more and more. So all these are imbibed early and it's done so very quickly. So when we as parents are able to teach them different things for life, then they are able to function like that. So there may be certain values or, you know, principles, maybe like values such as honesty, values of being kind to one another, generous, compassionate, considerate, being truthful, being integral. There may be certain principles or certain disciplines that you want to teach, being industrious, being punctual, being determined, working hard. Or there can be certain life skills that you're teaching, in the way they communicate, in the way they solve problems, in the way that they make decisions, in the way they make choices. So all of this comes from the parents, you know, you build them up through that. So it is good to list, to be able to know what are a set of values or principles you want to teach your children. And there are some exercises in the book that you can do for yourself.  So it's just not spiritual and physical. There's a lot more to a person in the sense of how they deal with them emotionally, how they are good stewards of their money financially, how they are, how they can think, you know, cognitively, how do they think. So all of this comes from you as a parent. So to be able to do that consistently as they are with you. Okay. Now, even as we bring up children, it's important to know your children, to understand your children. Because every child is made very, very different and unique. God did not make, you know, a vada maker to make children or a cookie cutter to make children. Everyone is very different. And there are each child, especially even in families, every child is very different. And let's look at some insights on to how you can understand your child. Okay. So can someone read Psalm 127, Chapter 127 versus 3 to 5. Psalm 127, 3 to 5. Anybody? Sam. Mom, can you hear? I can. I can, Anna. Go ahead. Psalm 127 versus 3 and 4. Behold children or a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the, the fruit of the womb is a reward like arrows in the hand of warriors or the children of one's youth. Can you read verse 5 also, Anna? Yeah, mom. Verse 5. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Anna. So when you look at this, you know, it's giving a picture. It's giving some word pictures of how children are like arrows. Okay. It's giving you that interesting picture.  You, it needs a certain target, right? If you aimlessly shoot an arrow, it'll go hit something else somewhere else will be in big trouble. So arrows are something that need to be aimed at the target, which, so what, what understanding do we have is it's talking about how we have to train and equip them so that our children follow a certain course, meet a certain target so that they are trained and equipped for certain things. So we need to have an idea about how our children are trained and equipped. Okay. Now arrows are also things that you can use for that, that can, that can cause victory or it can cause defeat. And here you see that it talks about how, you know, arrows, arrows can, can, can be like the children can be, can, can have a lot of influence on the outside. So they can either bring defeat or they can bring victory. So the, the, the children are, you know, when, when you, when you're intentional about bringing them up, they can be powerful in the land and they will be blessed. So the way that we release them, they should be in places where they can have impact and influence. Okay. Arrows also, you know, reach very far off in distance. They really go huge distances. And, you know, that arrows were really used in war earlier, right?  So it is how do we prepare them just like how they are released? How do we prepare them well so that they can really accomplish many things? Okay. And it also talks about a quiver full of arrows, meaning grown up children become that sense of defense and protection when they are bought up well. So it is when we set our children into that course, we need to know each of them. We really need to know what is their, what is their uniqueness? What are things in them that will set them to a place of impact and influence? So that is our responsibility. Taking time and effort to know every child who is with us. Now, our children needn't be the same. They're not expected to be the same. They could be very, very different. So when we're looking at understanding our children, we're also being careful not to compare them, right? Especially siblings, when you have siblings at home. Maybe one has a more tendency towards studies. The other has a tendency towards something else, maybe sport, right? In our minds, we feel, okay, unless and until this happens this way, nothing's going to work out. So what do we do? We attempt to mold children according to our beliefs and our understanding, right? But to know that each child is created very uniquely to do a different purpose. So we look to find out what really interests them, what encourages them, what inspires them. And that way, the only way we do that is only by conversing, talking or observation and doing things with them experientially. So we take time to engage with the children, to understand them so that they would be in a place of, you know, they can reach their greatest potential as we do so, okay? Now even as our children, children go through different stages in life. From the time they're born to the time they become adults, okay? There are different stages in their lives. So they start off with being infants, right, when they're just babies till they're around one year old. Then they become toddlers, one to three years of age. Then they start going to school. And then they become, get into middle school. They become adolescents. They become young adults. And then they become adult children. Now these are the different stages in childhood. Now the way that you engage with your infant, that is a one or a two year old, is not the way that you'll engage with your 15 year old. With your infant, you will feed them. You will clothe them. You will tell them what to do. You will carry them. But if you do the similar things, even when they're 15, there's something wrong. There's something absolutely wrong in the way you parent, right? So there are parents who do that, who still spoon feed their adolescent children. Maybe not carry them, but barring all that, they do everything else for them. But the way that you as a parent, or we as parents engage with them, needs to adapt to their age or to their stages. So the way that we instruct them, the way that we teach them, the way we discipline them all change according to the stage of life that they are in. For example, if you are going to use a belt or a cane to beat your adult child who's 21 year old, the same way that you used maybe for your preschooler, that is in work, right? The child will soon come back to you and there are going to be problems that arise. So every stage has a different way of engaging. So with the smaller babies, with the babies, what you're doing is you're only playing. You're only nurturing them. You're only ensuring that they feed, that they get love, they get affection, they go to the toilet and that's what they're looking for. Your initial years is just that. Slowly as they grow, you become like a playmate. You are the one who plays with them. You become the guide. You become, you start showing them different, different things about how life is. When they become a little older, after around seven, eight years, you become more instructive, you begin to discipline them, right? And then you begin to bring them up to a stage where they are able to reason with you. When they become adolescents between 13 to 18, you are participating alongside. You're encouraging, you're empowering them, you're equipping them. You are more like a teammate to them, right? As young adults, you're more like a coach, you're like a mentor. And after they turn adults, you're more like an advisor, more like a friend who shares and experiences ideas, you respect their opinion. Now, these transitions are extremely important to take. And that's a place where as parents, we need to keep growing. We need to keep developing our styles of dealing with them just like how they are different, how they are turning to be different. Now, in the midst of all of this, one of the hardest phases of parenting comes when the transition happens from them becoming a child to a teenager. Now, some of the hallmarks of a teenager is they are discovering themselves. They are building their own identity as people. They're moving away from their identity, from their parents and discovering themselves, their identity, their interests, their beliefs and values. They are growing to be little adults. And so they would like to do things on their own. They begin to experiment. They begin to look forward to finding new things. They make personal statements about their lives. So as parents, it's very important to understand and work out these things with them as teenagers. Now, if you look into the book, there is a table of different situations that is given that can help you to see how as a parent you can work with them, right? Whether it is the things that they want to do or whether they defy you, whether they may be different opinions that they may have or the way that they see their friends, whatever, there are different situations that's given. And maybe if you can go back and read that, it's helpful. There are day-to-day situations that take place that you can look at and understand. I'll stop here because the next whole section is about discipline and it's a huge section. I may not finish that in 10 minutes, but we will close today till that point. I want to open this out for questions. If you don't have any questions today, I will be 100% sure that you have not listened. Okay, so I am hoping for at least one or two questions to bring up a discussion. Yes, over to you. Yes? Yeah, Pastor. Yes. Nina, is that you? Yes. Yes, Nina, tell me. Yeah, so sometimes growing up years, we are not aware of so many of these truths. So now, I know it's difficult, but still how to handle things in a better way. Okay, so I think that's a wonderful question. This is a question that I often get when I do these parenting sessions is we never knew all of this. Our children are such and such age. How do we make that change? So I think first and foremost, Nina, the important thing to know and to understand is that to remember that God is in control. Okay, any bad situation, he can reverse, he can change for our good. That is the foundational truth we need to have, right? Especially when we see things much later on in life and a lot of things are behind us. The second thing is, you know, in case, if at points of time the Holy Spirit convicts us of mistakes we've made as parents, one of the most humble things that we can do is to approach our children and really seek forgiveness from them. Because when we are convicted, it leads to repentance. So when we repent, we are also sharing with our children that I am committing not to make these mistakes again. And I want to have a different way of dealing with you from here on. And I choose to do such and such and such and such. So when you do that, you're actually, it's a very powerful thing to commit to your children. When you have made a mistake, you know, asking for forgiveness and then committing to them that you are choosing to do better, choosing to do things differently. And that in itself can bring about so much of a change. I believe nothing is late even when we have lost many, many years. We can go back to our children, repent, express how you would like to change things depending on the age of your child. Let's say you may have a adolescent or a young adult.  You are equally participating, maybe sitting together and finding out better ways of how you can interact with one another. That can sometimes be very helpful. If your child is older, you know, you can actually converse and talk with your child on how you can make things better. What is to hear their ideas. And so they may say, you know, this is what you've never done or this is how you have been. I really wish you were like this. And so taking that feedback and approaching it differently is humbling. It is, it's also, it also shows your children that you really, you really desire to make a change. So depending on what stage of life your child is in, you can make some of those changes. And it's never too late. It's never too late to build a relationship to restore something. It's never too late because as you know, as the Bible says, he is the one who helps to restore it in our relationships. So he will restore those relationships as well. I hope that was helpful, Nina. I don't think like sometimes, you know, parents, one person will be ready to do the changes. Like the other one will be very stubborn. No, I will not like any, like a character or something. They'll be very stubborn in showing that good attitudes. So the other one person is already like ready to show the good attitude. But other sometimes, you know, I will do my way. So kids are literally learning all these things. Like, yeah, yeah. Actually, if you look at, you know, the next portion that we're going to do, one of the points is the fifth point is parents need to be in agreement. So yes, it is important. And this is probably something that's very, very difficult and challenging for most parents because each of them have to change and have to come to a unified agreement. On being parents. Yes, it is difficult. Nevertheless, it's important. And that's why maybe conversations about important things like parenting and all of that is something that, you know, doing early on in life, especially like that. And that's what I said. Those of you who aren't married, who are yet to get onto this, these are very, very important discussions to have, you know. People often ask me, you know, while you're quoting, while you're dating, what do you talk about? Yeah, instead of talking about, you know, everything outside, these are important things you can talk about so that you align one page and in sync with one another. All right. So yes, it's a challenge. Nina, that's a challenge. Nevertheless, I said, like, like we know, the Holy Spirit is the one who leads us, convicts us and brings us to all truth. So the parent whose, whose eyes have opened may, you know, spend more time in prayer, asking the Lord to bring the two, both the husband and the wife in unity, especially with regard to parenting. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Okay. All right. If there are no questions, let's close. Can I request somebody to please pray today? Nina, Nina, John, would you like to pray if you can unmute? Would it be okay for you to pray? Yeah, sure. Gracious loving father. Thank you so much, Lord, for the time that we had. With your word and all these wonderful truths that would be so useful to each of us, those who are already parents and those who are going to be parents, but we want to thank you, Lord. And we pray that your spirit, we would truly be a totally under the guidance and the control of the Holy Spirit so that we know Lord at every given time. How to go about these things so that we would be an example to the children and otherwise, Lord, in all the difficult and difficult areas that come about in this journey. We pray Lord that we would be able to really set an example and like if we even have friends who are maybe struggling with parenting in some area or the other. We would really be able to help in whichever way we can. And in this way, Lord, we would bring about children who are the church of tomorrow, you know, and there would really be somebody. All these children would really be people of faith and a wonderful example to their contemporaries. And in this way, really establish your kingdom here on Earth, Lord. Thank you once again for giving us this time to be with you in your presence and with all of us. Thank you for Pastor Jean and all the truths that we learn. Thank you so much. In Jesus precious name we pray. Thank you. Thank you so much, Nina. Thank you all. God bless you. We meet next week again. Thank you.


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It's like oh, I just pulled the Jason fracter of LeBron James He has the Cavs even P with the Bulls Ryan H This is what's this is the stuff that goes through my head Ryan H with the Rockets Oliver with the magic Ryan H with the Nicks Ryan S back from a quick little vacay with his fam Raptors and jazz Ray Hughes last spot mojo star next to your name Milwaukee Bucks Rick with my Lakers Robert with the Pells nice Ryan S with the Clips Matthew with the Hawks David with the Thunder and the Pistons He won the spot getting him the thunder the spotty bot straight up Pistons Nicholas with the Warriors David with the Trailblazers George with the Gris nice one George Kevin with the Heat Wizards Washington Wizards for Rokeo George with the Suns Aissa Spurs Brianna the Pacers Zachary with the Cornets Mike with the Nuggets Zach with the Sixers Ryan H with the Mavs a bill with the Kings George with the Nets Ryan Gomez with the Timberwolves and Sean with my rivals the Boston Celtics All right, so I'm gonna pause the video really quick allow people to kind of get an idea of their teams and maybe study that That list of boxes right here, too. We've got two three nineteen twenty boxes One eighteen nineteen boxes and two seventeen eighteen boxes. So think about that while you're considering trades Stick around. I'll be right back All right, welcome back folks. Look at that. There was a deal done So Brianna is out of the Pacers spot. She's now with the Hornets a little tea next to there So if you're following along at home, you'll know who draws first blood in that trade and Zach gets the Pacers a little tea next to his name as well. Good luck to the both of you Let's print and rip print baby print All right, this is what we're giving away at the end nice pink ice Trey young This will get you to the spot money back and then some Here's all the different boxes that we have here We'll do this and maybe we'll do those mosaic packs first get those out of the way What happened here? Although this is our only Should we save some for the end? Let's just do them now. We've got the White Tox and Indians on in the background second game of the doubleheader Indians at 5-1 and we've got basketball starting up soon, man That's that's gonna be weird Seeing basketball this late into the summer like meaningful basketball and playoff basketball Deep into the summer Baseball starting this late baseball is gonna go late, too There'll be some days where we'll have like World Series games right next to like Monday night football games What's that John? I Know if we certainly do deserve this overload of sports absolutely, hopefully All that continues without any trouble PJ Dozier joins the Nuggets in Orlando ladies and gentlemen breaking news Zion Williamson clears quarantine set to practice with Pelican. I think that happened a day or two ago There's a possibility of the Timberwolves on sale. It looks like an off-season extension unlikely for Bama to buy This is all according to hoops rumors.com Which is an extension of one of my favorite websites MLB trade rumors.com Anthony Davis is status for Thursday to be determined interesting Financial impacts effects of pandemic likely to impact and NBA off-season. Well, yeah, of course Aaron Baines receives clearance to travel to Orlando. How do I handle all of my picks at four sports play on the same day? I don't know I have to make I'll have to study all the sports and then see which picks have the best value and go with that Some sports may just be I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'll figure it out I mean, isn't there a Dodger game happening? Yes, which that they're facing they're in Houston for the first time since 2017 Although I think both teams are facing very different lineups now And then the Lakers play my Lakers play on Thursday with a Lou Williams less Clippers who had to get lemon pepper wings, which got me thinking about lemon pepper wings, which Might be what I get tomorrow or Thursday. I don't know That's what I hear too GM that that Magic City in Atlanta has excellent wings That's what Corey heard too. I heard on the I heard on the radio today Saying that hey the the radio host was like I've got friends in Atlanta and they say it's legit It's just known around town. That's what I heard Corey those hit. We got more hip-hacks tonight, too What do we have here? Is this is this Framber Valdez? It's like I always have a box core thing open here so I can check that out Yeah, Framber Valdez. I think he's a he's a relative youngster, so Maybe maybe dust off your Framber Valdez Well, I'd love to see a dodger slide in hard into Jose Altuve. I wish Chase Utley was still on the team Or or what George Springer? Yeah, I don't like Altuve either. I know I know I know Altuve Now to me it is a little guy and that is inspirational for a little guy like myself Matthew Scott are you in the ATL? Love being a postmates driver and picking up from Magic City. I Always tell them take as long as they want. I didn't even think about that. That's a good call. I would too I would too You know, I'm not and I'm not a I'm not a big adult club kind of guy at all But I mean if I was there for work All right, there's a green Tybal for Zachary G Rex says I'm saving all my Rui Hachimura cards because of me. Well, it's not it's not just me I think a lot of people agree that Rui Hachimura is a good is a good keeper and his stock could increase significantly Because I mean, I think he's really the only offensive threat on that team. So he'll get his touches. He'll get his shots So I think that's a good keeper Jackson Hayes MBA debut silver for the Palakins Robert Runkle with that one he is as as Sean has said before he is Zion adjacent so That helps his stock NBA debut John Merant Now remember veteran commons don't ship so sorry that gore and draugage isn't gonna ship But but this since it's a parallel Brian Forbes does ship I think that makes sense right the only vet commons that do ship would be a second-year Luca Donchich base cards LeBron James commons Yanis commons Grizzlies that'll be for George with the gris Obviously Yanis inserts like this will ship anyway Just like that Luca Donchich There's Yanis. I'm not a fan of magic. I'm a fan of her. She's great. She's got good songs Really nice Nice to talk to There's Heather hero green. Here's a guy Kevin M Who has a chance to raise his stock? during these seating games that are happening and as well as the playoffs so that James Harden. I mean that could be another player. There's poor zinc as well to Donchich given go and the goga James Harden here's a guy that could also increase His stock. I mean he's refreshed.  That'll be for James. I got the twins at minus 142 Diamondbacks at minus 110 Are those games in progress now? I think they should be Twins are up five nothing good on the Cardinals bottom of the third still a lot of time left and Diamondbacks up early in the top of the first or no, they're threatening their second and third Top of the first a lot of game to go, but we'll see and obviously all these rookie cards will ship Who knows what what they could do a couple great games and some of those rookies Let's get some hoops out of the way here. That's 1920 hoop. So it should we save? 1920 stuff is very older stuff here. That was one two three four five six. Let's go back in time a little bit to 2017-18 Donner's optic basketball fast break edition. So heads up Celtics Sean Maddock. Oh, there's Walker Bueller making a season debut against the Astros Does he plunk anybody? Plunk watch This is 2020 plunk watch Yeah, I don't look kind of face masks is hard and have without with all that beard nothing First pitch fastball George Springer nothing on George Springer Although he wasn't Walker Bueller wasn't around in 2017. So I don't know if he has it's like Like if the Dodgers are leading comfortably And see it the Dodgers are leading comfortably and maybe like I don't know a Kenley Jansen is out there Who hasn't really been getting a lot of work in so maybe they'll put him out there He'll do it It's like Altuve Correa Springer one of those guys. He'll do it bring back Eric Eric Kanye was excited to watch even with the Roy It's yeah, what's on the dial? Thomas Bryant rated rookie purple parallel And behind Wes O'Oondoo is James Ennis for the Grizzlies Fast break autograph for George Cobb Deandre Bembrie to 50 for the Hawks Matthew Yes, Tyler branch on will be on tonight Although it's been kind of quiet. I don't know maybe maybe all the action will happen later We got a lot. We do have a lot of breaks that are pretty close. There's Jason Tatum the rookies Would sports cards coming have photographers at these games? I Don't think so I mean we would see them. There's only a certain amount of people. I'll bet they'll they'll license team License photos from like team photographer. This is my guess. I would also guess Yeah, that would be that would be my guess. That's a good question though Mike, but yeah, would we be seeing? You know like stadium club photography, you know with With no fans or cardboard cutouts NBA games are gonna be empty too So NBA games will see people We'll see no people in the in the stands It'll all look like summer league games or something like that Or practice practice games from there like from their like facilities or something Donovan Mitchell rookie and Devon Reed Devon Reed orange to 193 that'll be for George and the Suns And nice jazz for Ryan S Donovan Mitchell rated rookie break. I feel like Bregman is the one. I hate the most From that 2017 Astros team I don't know why Yeah, he does have a punchable face Sean you're right I think he was the most he had like he had that YouTube channel He had some Twitter chatter Like trading barbs with Trevor Bauer this goes to the Sixers by the way late bloomer, maybe Zach Markel folds But he was the one time the most trash on I Think so, I mean he would be like oh look at this Dinger that I hit off of you Trevor Bauer and like there there was like some some of that kind of trash talk happening, but But I don't know Right, it's like Bregman knew he was cheating But he was the most outspoken about how clutch he was and how many homers he would hit and be like come on At least Al Tuve in Korea like didn't really tout that too much All right 1819 Chronicles basketball hangar box Trey young hunting there he is Trey young may so maybe a luka dodge it in there somewhere Marvin Bagley, Devon Chenzo, Robinson Brunson, Miles Just a couple Trey youngs in there not bad are these classics cars exclusive to hangar boxes That's what Mike Tower is saying has Trump not thrown Is he the only president not to throw a first pitch as a president I Thought he did it at a Nationals game ages ago. Oh, he's done it before he was president. Oh Maybe that's what I'm thinking of he should he should do one. All right, so this is old When they used to call it prism mosaic Once again Matthew D. Had those couple of those two Trey young so now we're in are we still in 2017-18? In 27 back to 2017-18 now. Well, I think he should he should keep up with tradition There's the honest So these aren't numbered this one isn't numbered. I guess those aren't numbered Isaiah Thomas Kaz edition for Jason Yanis for the bucks all those bucks will go to Ray Hughes Believe it or not Ray those non rookie Yanis onto decompose You know carry some carry some decent value more than a lot of other vet players In these sets Maybe I'm thinking of a different set the purple ones Marta Rosen rafters. That'll be for Ryan S Kauai Leonard Alfred Payton Anthony Davis Oji on OB And let's do these 19-20 hoops cards first, I guess we'll close with Crown Royale And then we'll give away that Trey young George cops. I don't think George Washington if I remember correctly. I don't think baseball is around During George Washington times. I think since the invention of baseball Yeah, but it's technically true, right? Anthony says I'm pretty sure he did and the Nats fans booed him But maybe you're thinking about what Matthew Scott was saying I think he said actually sat in a box at a national game cup, but got booed I know is this all like Mandela effect now where we're all convinced that Trump did or did not throw first first pitch probably Mandela effect He was there and in my head he threw a first pitch Yeah, MTG saying Taft the fattest president Mass challenge says Stephen K. Yeah It's easy there Still it's still a president whether you agree with Taft's policies or not There was that teacup dome incident. I don't know if that was Taft sounds like I think it was that era Mike Tower doesn't know if it was a joke or a rumor or a joke that Seventh inning stretch may have started with Taft He got up and the crowd got up Matthew Scott saying Grover Cleveland actually insisted on being the catcher for the first pitch interesting That's leadership right there. Most catchers are the are the smart guys on the team, right? President Cleveland underage President George L. V. Bush has the most first most first pitches. It's got a decent arm though, doesn't he? I think he divested his stake in the Rangers when he became president I don't know if he's back in with him now. All right Quinn Buckner is our Auto right here that goes to the gris George Cobb Grizzlies Why don't we have celebrities and and and public figures do like coin tosses and stuff like that No one does that What is what is what do we have in basketball? Tip-off I guess I guess you wouldn't really trust someone to do the tip-off a ceremonial tip-off ceremonial puck drop Huh, I feel like that's not as publicized as much like NBA finals game one, you know Like let's let's see a Let's see a public figure go out there and do Throw the ball up for the for the tip almost knocked over my camera throw the ball up for the tip pelicans That'll go to Robert Runkel with the pals Maybe a presidential trampoline dunk says MTG Wow Wow And now the president of the United States President Trump And then jumps off a trampoline 360s and dunks. That's a reelection right there for Trump There's time to roam for the Suns George Cobb Connie is gonna do it There's Yanis, I don't know why he was flipped around that that made me It made me think that it might have been an autograph, but it's just trying to fool me here Ray I Know that's what I thought Rick Zach it was flipped around. I was like, it's not a Yanis Otto Do I get hyped up? Do I just keep it cool? So Sean Cora was saying and he'll be on a little bit later. Chuma O'Keekey You're on the Chuma O'Keekey train Frontrunner for rookie of the year next year Because folks he did not play a single minute of NBA basketball So could it be a candidate? Could this be a candidate? That could be a nice by-law right here. Oh An opportunity for someone to slide strong in the second high voltage DeMartha Rosen for the Spurs What's the notch at the top of the Yanis card? Oh, I think they're trying to make it look like a Retail like hanger thing. I think that's what they're trying to make it look like a little like a backstage Oh, I get it. You know when you put like the lanyard or whatever through there and You hang it your backstage pass when you're going backstage of concerts. Well, they use these stickers now, but Badges we don't need no stinking badges. I have no idea what movie that's from but it's from a movie Maybe an old old Western maybe What's a concert? Yeah, that got canceled in 2020 Although I'm still working on the Joe Jaspie summer concert series I'll bring in the geek play a couple songs once a week I could work on it. I could do a song a week There's Luke Knard But I don't know I think I'd have to do it at the beginning of the week the end of the week My voice is just so So wrecked that I don't think I'd want to do it the end of the week Maybe at the beginning of the week Maybe next Tuesday Matthew Scott saying or no, Mike Tower saying terror treasure Sierra Madre is where the badges quote comes from Matthew Scott's is three amigos Kevin. Kevin Jeffries has blazing saddles Hmm you originally think it's from what? The Sierra Madre movie might have been the original but three amigos at a playoff of it. All right with those comedy Titans Steve Martin Martin short and third guy Chevy Chase right I Don't like all three of those guys. Oh No, I like Chevy Chase. I think Kind of I don't know. I don't get those guys. I don't get them There's a crown around to close things off Yeah, no, I can objectively objectively appreciate the comedic brilliance of of Chevy Chase Martin short and Steve Martin, I just don't think I get them Like I don't get it like Steve Martin, especially and all my friends just like bug their eyes just get there like what? Thought you'd totally be a Steve Martin guy because you're just so funny and witty Which I guess is something Steve Martin would say but I just I don't know I guess that the sort of Larry David kind of vibe is what is what I like But I That's what people tell me Rex that he's brilliant, but I've watched the movies I've seen the stand-up and I'm just like so he plays banjo and has an arrow through his head like I don't get it Like you know like I could watch a bunch of other old-school guys and be like alright.  It's funny You know I great. I get the guy who smashes watermelon So it's like alright. I can get that a couple John Marantz is nice for the great is George Cobb. I get that But I don't get the banjo and an arrow through his head and walking like an Egyptian and wins a Mark Twain prize Ryan S with the Clippers I guess Cameron Johnson is gonna be your autograph no Zion here Sorry guys and girls five out of 99 die cut auto for the Suns that will be for George Cobb I think no one nobody drew any first blood in the trade. There may have been some Couple PJ Washington rookie cards here in there Maybe some goga batazes for the paper paper side Pacers side. There's another one right here Nothing too crazy in this mixer ladies and gentlemen, but that is the way the cookie crumbles good thing We've got this Good thing we got that got to give away that tray young so let's flip back to the list right here Everybody has a shot the tray young So from Matthew down to Roku and the wizards to clear that list out that's from a different thing Oh not walk like an Egyptian. That was the bangles King the King Tut bit.  All right Let's roll it. Let's randomize it five and a two seven times a name on top gets the tray young pink ice graded PSA 10 gem meant and after seven lucky lucky seven name on top after seven two three four five Six and seven then final time after seven times Need a drumroll here or something like that All right, so congrats to the name on top big. Thanks everybody else by hooker by crook However, you got into this mixer. I appreciate it name on top is gonna be Ray Hughes last spot mojo Just had a couple bucks cards. I had a couple of Yanis cards. I think was it nothing significant, but this is pretty significant 2018 from 2018-19 prison basketball tray young it's rookie here. Obviously Pink eyes pink cracked ice Gem meant already graded for you don't have to wait for the grading services or anything already done for you The time itself that you save would be worth the cost of the break There you go ladies and gentlemen we talked presidential first pitches we talked We talked comedy talked a little baseball talked a little basketball. What a great mixer. Thanks everybody I try to do a quick little recap. I guess it's a 40 minute break So maybe we'll just breeze through these pretty quickly nothing significant some some Zion some Jaws You know some nice old-school Tatums, but nothing earth shattering in terms of the autos and the in the big rookie cards But there was the opportunity for that. Thanks for breaking with us ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jazby's case breaks calm We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye


Hello everybody he here happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and everybody If you're not in the United States happy, whatever you celebrate if there's nothing going on today, then don't celebrate anything Okay, you do you all right first? I want to give a shout out to Landon my buddy Landon He is a amazing dude great guy I'm going to link him down in the doobly-doo in case I forget to put a link up here But if I remember then it's up there if not Just click down in the doobly-doo. He did a in fact I'll link to the his specific video Five books that he's thankful for I got the thinking and yet he mentions me in there This is not a shameless plug. I just want you guys to for real go check his stuff out He does some videos on me. Also. He does an Edward Lauren theorist, which is weird As far as I'm concerned, but hey, he does it of his own accord, but I am inspired by Landon today. So I am going to do his Top five books that I'm thankful for I'm gonna start right off and get it right out of the way because we all know it's coming There's a Stephen King book here it is the Lord's Claiborne is the very first Novel I read by Stephen King when I was a I don't know. I don't know really how old I was when I used to flip through The cycle of the werewolf, but that was the first book. I actually looked at that kind of made me realize that Stephen King existed and then I saw Pet cemetery when I was nine and then I finally stole this one out of a mailbox My our own mailbox, but it was my mother's Subscription to the Stephen King library. This has just came out in 1993 I hope that's right. I think that's right. My childhood is kind of a blur But I think it was 93 and I grabbed this one out and I read it over the course of two days 13 year old with 13 year old attention span and I read this in two days two or three days some like that But I know I blew right through it and then I snuck it into my mom's collection as if you know Nothing ever happened, but this is I'm thankful for this book because it introduced me to Stephen King And if you've been watching the channel at all then you know how much of a Stephen King that I am Next most of the rest of these have to do with my own writing. If you don't know I am a writer You can look me up on Amazon, whatever or you down there in the doobly-doo There's always links to my books It'll say buy a book and it'll take me take you not me take you to the my Amazon page The very first one is the book. I read just before I wrote my debut novel under this name Bay's End, that's the girl next door by Jack Ketchum this book destroyed me and it gave me a Appreciation for books that do not end well Now I'd been a Stephen King fan for the longest time and Some of his books are sad, but nothing was ever quite as sad as this not even pet cemetery this book is just that there are points of Pet cemetery that make you feel hopeful. There are points. I there there's no hope in this book whatsoever in fact my friend Tracy Over on Twitter just got through Tracy Robinson. She just got got through reading it and wrote a terrific review for it next up, I'm going to talk about After Dark by Hiriki Minakami and tomorrow's video is going to be Seemed along this line also as far as authors like Hiriki Minakami But this book specifically the absolute worst piece of advice I ever got I was working with a publisher and the editor told me that people don't read certain types of books anymore They don't read omniscient books. They don't read the only books. They care about is first-person thrillers literally that's That's all that they said and that that that that's that's what they said That's all people cared about. Um, I got Caught up with this publisher and I started to believe everything that was being fed to me And the best thing I ever did was read this book, which I have to thank my friend Gregor Zane For pointing me in this direction because if I had not read this book Then the Bayes End series would not have went to the places that it went to I would never have considered those things possibilities We would have gotten a lot more You would have gotten a lot more books like Life After Dane or Hope for the Wicked and some people might Think that that would have been great and maybe you would have been happy with it But I wouldn't have been happy with it. I am not I have never wanted to be a thriller writer I have played a thriller writer In several several points in my life. I have been a thriller writer, but that's not what I want to do anymore so This book opened up the possibilities again because it's a relatively new book at least relatively new Transation and he's a popular author and that's all he does this stuff like this That's why I point people to this book when they're when they want to Read her to keep it economy, but they don't know where to start because it's short and it's it's a perfect example Sample of his work and again Gregor. Thank you. Thank you so much Next up we have I'm gonna leave one for last I Was gonna do it next but I think I want to leave that for the last One for the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kessie I read I've read this book three times every single point in time in my life that I've read it It's meant something completely different to me the first time I read it. It was a It was letting me know that I was okay for being different It was okay to maybe not be all there all the time the next time I read it was right after Well not right after I mean heroin Any drug addiction and recovery lasts, you know your entire life once your brain is chemically altered And it wants that stuff and it's just like, you know, whether beef nicotine caffeine heroin cocaine any of that stuff Um, I don't know probably about a year all this all this time right here is but is blurry right around 2001 I had just met my wife And she's to thank for me getting off the junk but I just met shell and I'd finally Gotten away from the drugs and the people who were enabling the drug use and making it very easy to get a hold of product I got away from those people and I picked this book up again and it it was a it really showed me that Life is even if you're stuck in a place and this is the chief metaphor of the book if you're stuck in a place that does not mean that You will be there forever and you can move on out of that place and grow because I already grown grown once You know realizing that I could be weird and then I grew again realizing that I didn't have to be this at it and then I read it again and It was about the time right after I wrote Bayes and and published that and it was well received and I realized that sometimes The people in your life that you trust and that you respect are not the best people for you Sometimes they are well a lot of times they're just there for themselves and That's what this story showed me also as far as a nurse ratchet character was Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional as far as the nurse ratchet character She was a person in a position of power that was supposed to be helping these people But she's the villain and to this day. I call this one of the best horror novels. I've ever read I don't put it on any of the lists because I know so many people Disagree with that But I believe that horror is every in every genre horror is conflict Horror is meeting a group of people or characters or whatever and not wanting anything bad to happen to them And then something bad happens to them or there is the threat of something bad happening to them Anyways, let's move on before I start crying another thing is landing your video made me sob up when you were talking about me dude and Yeah, I mean feelings mutual, but I Appreciate you I do So let's get into the next one so we can go and wrap this up so I can get out of the shed It's cold out here y'all It is going on toward night. This is the fourth video. I've shot that we are going to jump into you by Carolina Kepnes This book came around and it's it's this book as much as it is the circumstances around this book I fell in love with this book right off the bat. I am a Big supporter of books where the bad guy is the main character Because we're not nobody is a hundred percent bad. Nobody is a hundred percent evil Going back to the whole drug addiction thing You know you look at people a different way after you've been the bad guy and to this day I'm still a bad guy in certain circles, you know If you run around certain circles of the horror community, I'm the villain Because I hold my peers to a certain standard and when they don't want to be held to a certain standard They get their feelings hurt but with this book I read this book and I Read this with it was a recommendation by a person that I probably shouldn't have been friends with at the time But I will always Always appreciate them turning me on to this book because I probably would I know I wouldn't have read it because it was being marketed As a suspense thriller. No a romantic thriller romantic suspense. That's it romantic suspense It was being marketed as that and I just don't care for that boy. This change This change that I still don't think this is a romantic thriller or suspense. Sorry Romantic suspense. I still don't think that the relationship in here I don't think there's anything romantic about it if I'm wrong sue me But the relationships in this book it really it really touches on some key aspects of Again, sometimes the best people in our lives are the worst people for us at The time sometimes the worst people that the people who we perceive as the worst are The best people for us at the time it goes both ways and that's the thought I'm gonna leave you on today So these are the five books that I am most thankful for That changed my life Landon once again. Thank you so much for your video dude I really do appreciate it, but until next time I have been a you have been you it's been a list of sorts I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye


You remember the old giant coach Jim Fossil before they went to the Super Bowl they were struggling so we're going to put all our chips in the middle of the table that's exactly what the Yankees did. This guy has such wide reaching ramifications for what the Yankees do. They have established themselves very clearly as the best team in the American League and you could actually say they're the best team in baseball. The Dodgers continue to struggle to make improvements although there's plenty of offseason left. The Yankees really laid the gauntlet down with the rest of the teams in baseball. We are the best team by this signing. I was shocked on social media maybe you got some of it on your radio show as well Michael that there are a few people that said all the Yankees are back to buying championships and I'm like wait a minute they've shown so much fiscal responsibility they didn't go after Machado last year well I mean they winded down him a little bit. Bryce Harper they've shown so much restraint built up their minors have these home grown stars like Aaron Judge but this was that one jewel they had to go after.  The Yankees got into position to get Garrett Call because of how fiscally responsible they have been over the previous couple of years and how they've built up their farm system. This was not by accident they knew Cole was going to be a free agent this year.