is an unpaved space and we were thinking that we could have a circle of trees and we pass through it so that when we are passing through the park yes we have trees around but there is part where it's open and the trees are holding us and let us understand this that the trees are holding us literally so and an experience of that and this this is without the built areas the green blue and the red and the places for impromptu, panipuri, dosas, chais and also the seating we could not mark it separately the seating because i was told it's very important thing of seating from at different spaces and then i was asked by one of the participants by one of the residents of when we are talking of a street which is not following a perfect shape of a curve or straight line what is the rationale behind this logical so one of the rationale is of course that movement we are thinking of rather than only mobility this is from ddp luis feduchi and you know it has been proved already that when we have narrower roads winding roads automatically the speed is less and in fact luis feduchi this is a crown in residential zone sector one and two it's not straight it is what you see and then what we did was because we were stuck with just one area we said now let us really take a fresh sheet of paper and put in our ideas what we have been trying to say and so we are talking about built spaces which are having mixed land use over here there is a possibility of tram and here's the pedestrians and it's a shared space but we have other pedestrian spaces also there are options it's not like you have to walk in the middle of the road so that the car becomes slow no you can walk wherever you want and then there are different types of pedestrian spaces at different levels so as to accommodate different activities some areas given away only to green and only to blue of course and which creates you know different the minimum size you have taken here is six meters and it increases we have also some parking spaces because if we are talking about cafes there'll be some parking on the sides and we are talking here about the relationship of the pathways to the built spaces of the you know of yeah the areas consider the dimensions and of through connections which are shaded shaded connectivity and also very important you know we know about open semi-covered covered semi-covered open but we keep forgetting that very important to use semi-covered spaces for for internal mobility walking mobility and these are just the different types of pavings and the green and the blue and what we are saying here is that when we have yeah when we plot our built spaces now then when we plot them we need to have guidelines for porosity so what kind of porosity are we thinking of how much of percentage of porosity is required so that the through connectivity is facilitated the idea of built spaces conversing with the street is facilitated and then what are the kind of connections that we give which are built which are in as pathways which are semi-covered spaces which which are the common spaces which the two plots will have to you know put together so that it's a larger common space to be used so that when we are working on one plot we are not working in an isolated way we are at the same time thinking of the plot next to us because only then we will be able to work with the connectivity the envision connectivity and then the building materials because you know if we are having concrete jungles it's not because concrete is the best element it's because it is the cheapest and the builder can make the most money so if we are saying that we don't want to do concrete we want to try different materials if we are saying that we want to have connectivity across shaded pathways bridges across then these require funding and the funding that we get should be accommodated for these kind of things so that the the conventional built buildings will not have a reason to be conventional anymore then we will have support for the vision that we hold and we have worked out the areas here because i feel finally it is a plotting that is important and the urban design features and and and the the water and soil conservation guidelines that have to come with every plot as well of what kind of water conservation where how much and so on and so forth and and yes space for impromptu activities to unfold that should be not plotted a close up of this i think sufficiently you can see that there is there are different types of mobilities possible and that is a shared space with ample walking around and through and these are certain some areas we have worked out and the population in this given diagram harita you want to say something about it or it's okay we go on if anybody's interested we can explain and then this is one more option we have done because not only built spaces need to be connected and given here there can be different other activities that we envision around the crown be given and they also form the part of the connected fabric and here now we have again worked with connecting across so you know at parts the crown road or street if i may say is wide at parts it is narrow both for a reason both giving different chances and different opportunities and different environment for us to you know experience different connectivities connectivity through and yeah close up of the same i mean why so many urban design guidelines why it is because somewhere in being the modern people that we are we have forgotten that every line has a meaning which you know the architects used to know before and when they drew a line it had a meaning to it it had interconnectivity thought of beforehand it had various layers already in one sketch there would be layers of thought put in and this is what we need to bring back and therefore the guidelines and you know to be really aware that the edges that we have hold a meaning in the way they are porous in the way they are folding into each other or opening out and the way they fold in give us different opportunities of spaces and usages and that the hierarchy and scale of the spaces is something that we need to remember even if you are working on a small plot because it is part of a whole and we need to have that in our consciousness and having said that i come back to the last two three slides which i was told i should present again today of having art as a forerunner in our minds when we are designing because if we say we want to make a circle and even our vastu shastra expert has said that whether it's a circle or it's an organic shape it has actually the same impact in vastu shastra so what is a circle and what are the elements that go into making a circle and can we try out different possibilities and different scales and different lines of the circle so that cohesively it is or maybe circular in shape if that is what we wish and thank you that's it for today. So i come from the city called Chandigarh i'm sure many of you know what it is about and with that you know i would like to sort of introduce this sort of famous adage you know like map is not the territory i'm sure you heard about it so what is a map and what is the territory so map is essentially a concept an idea could be a word it could be you know a diagram and what is a territory territory is basically you know the land the water the people you know the lived reality and Chandigarh is you know in a way it's it's a it the map is the territory there you know because it's so literal i mean Kurbuzia and Nehru when they were designing it they were they were very sure you know they were like they were too sure you know they they kind of almost it was it's so top-down that there's there's hardly any presence of people the presence of process presence of change you know of course it happens you know it's happened it's still happening but but is the plan able to or is the concept able to hold that is is really a question and and and i think we're here in Auroville and and i think the first time i came to Auroville you know i i would get lost you know like Chandigarh is like a great iron you know it's everything so predictable and every time i would come here there it will take me like years to actually kind of remember the ways because you know it was so windy you know as far as there's you know you don't know where you are so it was like a fascination you know for for this kind of a place so so that's kind of the territory of the place that's you know that's that's the that's what you have you know that's that's that's the lived reality you know however it is unfolding at the same time we have this map you know a very strong you know in a way if you look at this model it's a literal model you know if you want somebody wants to take it literally it's it's it's concrete and green and blue and whatever you know you can build it you can build it as it is but but do we want to do that you know do we want to go beyond the map in the sense you know what is what is it what is it the idea you know today Marie and Neha were talking about the the the park the four parks and the values you know what does it represent what does it really represent you know can we can we get the kind of deeper into that you know and see what it reveals you know for us you know when we are when we are looking at you know really trying to bring that map on the territory in a way you know so so I I believe we always meet somewhere in between you know it's never either the map of the territory it's always something in between and that's that's the wonderful process I think that's the that's the nature of you know a good lived city so if we if you want to do that you know how do we how do we go about planning how do we really you know build infrastructure how we do build road how we take the next steps so I mean it's it's a wonderful the stream weaving I guess is is kind of a process you know it's not I would I don't see it as a I think probably it's going to be an ongoing process for for whoever wants to participate in it because I mean planning is a continuous process you know it's not it's not going to you know end here and we're going to arrive at answers but some of the questions or some of these kinds of insights you know that we've collectively got or some of them you know have been shared are are kind of worth noting I feel you know the fact that we're looking at the crown here and and I kind of overlaid it you know Marie's and Ganesha and Neha's and and then the topography and and we start seeing basically you know the need for example for the blue green you know looking at looking at the like in this diagram Neha and Ganesh were they were trying to do is they're seeing the the negative of the galaxy you know as a positive you know they're looking at it as something that could kind of pre-exist in a way you know that and that that doesn't then doesn't necessarily come from just the form of it I feel it it can come from the you know from from our experiences with water with you know how the slopes are working how where the trees are you know all that so and also the diagram you know the diagram of the galaxy you know what it's doing and and what it's doing you know in terms of you know how it's intersecting with those does it make sense to to actually translate it like that or deviate from it so I looked at you know you know this Marie's diagram also is fascinating where you know the crown you know can obviously we all have kind of understood that it doesn't need to be the same width so it can it can change in different zones so I kind of looked at the darkly area and the industrial zone it's still like like a lot of exploratory it's like an exploratory process so there actually I just have a couple of sketches that I'll share and just go back and forth so zooming in I'm sorry so as looking at these areas basically trying to draw what is there you know in terms of pathways in terms of canyons in terms of the trees and at sea what are the possibilities you know of whatever we've been talking about you know where we're saying you know for example you know this definitely the line of life isn't as a wonderful idea because it's already sitting in the canyon and one could have like this series of cones maybe tree houses or or something you know a fabric that still has some remnants some kind of some resonance with the galaxy but doesn't have to be literally that so this was this was a challenging thing that kind of we kind of try to take on in the sense can we can how can we build this let's say this intersection you know it came from this intersection where the crown obviously thins out here and we're looking at it as you know as as as something that that obviously wherever it needs to widen it widens but wherever it needs to be thinner and and just like allowing the water to flow or the silt to flow through it but this junction became something that we will I'll talk about it a little later but so these are some of the images you know we were talking about this area today I think Ganesh kind of was saying this could be a bridge and then there could be whatever we don't need to build this right now obviously you know we don't but but what could be the vision for it you know so is looking at it as you know you know a lot of these sort of villages that are built on the stills all world over you know where the similar kind of prerequisites of you know the water or you know letting the floods kind of happen through it but I what I'm trying to do here with the with the crown here is to actually have it as kind of a porous positive mass which allows for that percolation it can also you know we were talking about you know through you know the last discussion with the infrastructure consultants you know we could have a walk in like a move I mean a duct that one can walk into which can be integrated within this sorry they're faded out but this is more like this area looking at it from here some of the cross sections we've been thinking of what the what this could be and it could have it you know it could have a lot of character you know this built landscape you know it could have you know gabions could have you know eventually moss growing or you know things growing it really becomes you know a solid mass which can allow for this porosity we could also maybe can't deliver a bit of it so there are different possibilities so this cross section once again looking at how we can negotiate that corner or that intersection with the raised crown and you know these are different levels that one could enter into from the crown itself and then like through these widened areas one could enter the you know the line of force and create this very interesting urban form here so here we are kind of thinking of these as you know structural the structures the the services you know all could kind of happen through these cores which are coming ground so it's like stills basically everything is on stills but but allowing for the forest to weave in and so this is like the area in between the two lines of forces the so this this could like what we've been talking about which shall also just presented I mean this can this is very doable I feel you know where we have a character which we can you know we define like how much of how much areas they say in terms of percentages that we allow it to be really close to the crown so we could create sort of these zones almost you know and have that character emerge this is like some diagrams of what how we are kind of looking at the form of the line of force itself I mean this is in there's an intern who's working on this he's just came up with this so I thought I'll share this I've already talked some some examples of you know what could happen with you know these raised edge just a couple of more slides you know where we this is a project that we are working on which is in a bohar where we are looking at the blue green infrastructure inserting it into the city it's a small town which there was this old waterworks that you have two minutes to finish up so we are basically trying to connect you know the water here you know we're trying to like here there's a there was an existing tank this was old waterworks they had this huge underground tanks so we thought let's build around it and let's use it for for retention and all these bioswales around this around the stadium now this is not there's a bigger lake and then all this basically is connected so there's a whole park that can submerge that's like you're going to collect the water in the rainy season and it can be used during the dry seasons so this is that park this is the baoli we're trying to create with the existing infrastructure is an existing water tank something like this so what I'm saying is it's it's a water water water and that blue green infrastructure could become you know the key to this question to this kind of to at least at this stage you know how do we how do we sort of lay it out so other things can plug into it thank you Shaila Jaanjitesh so we are running a little behind schedule but we have time for a quick Q&A round so if Shaila Jaanjitesh and Raj want to come back on stage we can have one quick round of questions so my question is to you Shaila Jaanjitesh because the stretch I remember what I could see is like you have made the stretch from solar kitchen to our car right where it meandas and goes so I'm quite curious to say to see what made you to meander because you had quoted Feduchi and Feduchi had a different way of meandering than what you had proposed and if you see I think Henry Henry's one of the presentation you could actually see there is a there's a clear sketch of Roje in which like you know it's it's a circle of the same stretch very detailed quite exhaustively that sketch where you could see even the shuttles and cyclists flying and in the crown buildings which is on the inner side in between you could also see the street of the crown in Roje's sketch because I'm sure also I'm thankful that you quoted Doshiji's sketch where you say like you know architects for every line there's a meaning I'm sure like you know so if Roje has made such a detailed sketch he also had a meaning so after all these things why why do we need to deviate because I also find this little contradicting the design brief also given to you so that's my question we have one more question anybody okay then yeah so I have worked with Roje on one of the building projects that you are doing and I've actually seen how flexible he was with the interpretations of his lines and he has actually I mean I've worked with him and I've been with him and people were telling me that he's very rigid and his lines are like this and like that but he actually was talking of essence and the interpretation was left to us so long as the essence was not lost and that is the presumption I have worked with and the second reason why we have worked why we have made that meandering was also following Helmut's mobility presentation where he said that you know there are different ways of making mobility which is slower where the cars have a or or you know what he was saying as you know the armored vehicles have a secondary preference because the preference is given in a shared space to another and also because Roje's galaxy has connections across and the moment you take a particular width of a road and continue it in a straight fashion that connectivity becomes forced and not natural and taking all these factors into account we felt that this kind of movement would actually enrich what Roje has done and not deviate from it so I'm actually very very respectful of Roje's work because you know I galaxy is also part of my dream and I'm totally pro galaxy and I feel that if we go into the into the you know the sensibility of it then a lot is possible and the galaxy can manifest but I also feel at the same because I actually started first by drawing the galaxy footprint of the crown and then as input started coming I started realizing that no I need to rethink of what these lines are saying because although I respect them so much they actually are holding keys in them and I need to unlock them and this is a process of unlocking where I reached it is very intuitive and I can only logically explain it like this Thank you Shaila Chan. Thank you architects. Yes a big thank you to all the architects for doing this amazing work and for evolving your plans before I hand over to David and Mona for a final wrap-up I will just briefly go through what is planned for tomorrow so tomorrow is for all the participants to be here and we will have time for some silence for some reflection as well as an open space with all the architects where you can ask questions have interactions and also a dedicated time to fill out this form that you got at the beginning of the day so it's important to bring back this form tomorrow or if you think you might forget you can also give it to us and we will bring it back tomorrow and yes a big thank you to everyone for being here today and for all the viewers who joined us online this is the final presentation session of this exercise of dream weaving the crown and yeah I'll hand over to David and Mona for a final say. Okay so today's the last day where it will be live streamed so this is partly for people watching on the live stream but also for everybody here we'd like to emphasize we've come to the end of this particular dream weaving process as Aditi mentioned tomorrow there will be a few bits and pieces to do but this is the last presentation but I'd really like to emphasize that this is the end of this but the beginning hopefully of something much larger and long term so I think it's important for everybody who's been participating to realize that you've achieved something that you've reached the end of something but that we really have to keep in mind that we're really hoping this is the first step in a new direction and I wrote something else down yes so we had mentioned that there will be another presentation during birthday week as you may all have come to the same conclusion today I think everybody's a little bit tired of presentations that's not just the architects themselves giving the presentations but people listening to presentations of this type so what we've been thinking is that we'll actually put together an exhibition of some sort so we're going to discuss this tomorrow with the architects um with Rajiv and Jaydeep and we're going to see how we do that best and I think that's going to take a little bit more time so it'll probably be a couple of weeks maybe even three we don't know and we've got some various ideas of where this might be how this might be so sort of let's wait and see how that unfolds but the beauty the beauty of that would be that if we do an exhibition similar a little bit like what we've got here today from Roger's sketches it'll be a much more relaxed atmosphere people can come the architects can be standing there with their work you can have discussion with the architects and things like this so there won't be that rush and I will apologize again to the architects for rushing so many of you in in ways you were not wishing but we've had all these different factors to try and balance out and keep to certain times and so forth so I appreciate your patience speaking to the architects now not just the audience but hopefully this exhibition will provide more space for everybody to get what they need from that you wanted to add something we have to also thank all the people who have donated because this is made really I mean this is so touching that as soon as it was put in the news you know so many Orvilleans put some money and then we got something from Orville International and so that has all made this possible and also on a personal note I want to say like it's been quite a process a grace also and I think we've never done this so we're very grateful that all of you stuck it out and you know you are the real people who work but behind the scenes there's a lot of work and many times we were asked why didn't we give feedback like you know why are you silent especially me and David in the last table section sessions but I just felt like we were in such a different space you know like it's not possible like you can't just jump from one space to another and this time we were in this role so we hope that we try to do justice to whatever we took up and yeah I think dreaming is our inherent right so we shall not stop dreaming I mean if not in Orville where you know so this is not the end definitely I think this is just the beginning of many larger things and we are the many things already we are hoping which are going to come out of this so yeah but tomorrow is still another day and we hope that it'll be more interactive and you know that everybody will come here tomorrow we hope to have all of you back here and then we'll discuss with you further in the afternoon some of you will be here and then we'll see and then maybe Rajeev and Jaydeep will have something to say tomorrow so thank you very much and see you tomorrow and just to mention tomorrow we have breakfast here at 8 45 a.m. for those joining us and the sessions will start at 9 30 a.m. all right thank you and see you soon


Hello everyone, I am Dr.Santosh Patil, I am consultant in neurovascular intervention radiologist working at Manipar Hospital, Skharadi. Today we will know about brain stroke. So what is brain stroke? So we all know about cardiac attack or heart attack. Brain stroke is something similar, we call it as brain attack. Why does it happen? It can happen because of two reasons. One, we call it as ischemic stroke where the blood vessels supplying the brain, they get blocked because of formation of clot inside them. The other one is hemorrhagic stroke where the blood vessels supplying the brain can burst open and form bleeding inside the brain. So how do we come to know that a person is suffering from brain stroke? So we have formed a very simple mnemonic which is easy to remember. We call it as B-fast. The first letter in this mnemonic is B that means if there is a loss of balance or a person is suffering from headache or dizziness. E stands for eye, if there is loss of vision or the vision is impaired, the next letter is F, if the face is drooping to one side. The next letter is A, if you have weakness in the arms or the legs, if there is tingling sensation in the arms and legs, the next letter is S where there is impaired speech or you are finding it difficult to speak. So these are all the symptoms or signs of stroke. The next letter in the mnemonic is T which stands for time. It signifies that time is very important in stroke. If you are suffering from all these signs, you have to reach to a stroke-ready hospital as early as possible. Remember time is brain, so each minute of stroke about 20 lakh cells of brain die and we cannot recover them. So it is very important that you reach to a stroke-ready hospital as early as possible. A stroke-ready hospital can provide you treatments such as IV thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy wherein we can take out the blocks inside the blood vessels of the brain. So these treatments are very modern treatments are available in very few institutions and they can give you a good recovery from stroke. So how can we prevent stroke? There are different ways how we can modify our risk factors of stroke. Number one is you have to maintain your blood pressure and blood sugars. You have to have a tight control of your blood sugars as well as blood pressure by having regular medicines for these elements and you can have a proper follow-up with your physician. Apart from that, you have to follow a proper healthy lifestyle wherein you can do moderate exercises, follow a healthy diet where you can have more intake of green leafy vegetables and fruits and avoid junk foods. You also have to avoid smoking or any form of tobacco intake. So all these things can help you greatly in reducing your risk of getting stroke. Thank you.


of sex. This designer not only has to read through scripts but prepare estimates of set course while I'm taking rehearsals and field tests as well. So clearly we see it's a lot of work and that's why we are awarding our female set designers right here in WIPA 2024. Now ladies and gentlemen, are we ready for the nominees? The best set designer WIPA 2024. And the nominees are... I'm listening to my breath. Ida Ochien. Mariam Va... Jokie Kichu. Ladies and gentlemen, the best set designer in WIPA 2024 is now other than... It's Wanjiku Vova. Wanjiku, Wanjiku the second to eight is for you. Four in WIPA 2024 is now other than... Ladies and gentlemen, we must get to all of you.  So yay! Yay! None other than... Make sure that the presentation is signed. So are we ready to know the best location signed recordist in WIPA 2024? And that particular... Right now, it's... Make it today, she's somewhere for work. So she definitely needs to do something. And happy women's day for everybody and everybody. WIPA 2024 is none other than Masi Kuneo. This evening, where are you Masi? Or if you are presenting her, come with that confidence of a sound recordist. So this evening, our nominees for best digital content creator, WIPA 2024 are... The first to interpret Rono content creator in WIPA 2024. Naktari is none other than that. Thank you all for giving me this talent and echo auditions. And next, I want to thank our women productions for accepting me as Stacey and Don Chita. I'm very grateful. Thank you for taking this opportunity out. Thank you to all men who are in that wisdom continuously. Thank you to Wally for always being there. It was Stomps responsibility. And from the room of mentality, she has done her bit. Mentoring. Making sure. And bringing change in this country. One creative at a time, ladies and gentlemen. What's up, ladies and gentlemen? I'm Ria Toro and this is G.


In the 1950s, there were at least 200 boot-making businesses in Australia, making boots mainly in Ballarat, Geelong, Goldburn, Hobart, Perth and Adelaide. Those centres had them established at the turn of the 19th century from the need for boots in Goldfield's towns and near agricultural centres. Some of them continue today, but they're down to double figures. Most of them have sent production overseas because of the loss of trade tariffs, government, industry support and the loss of skills as younger people just don't want to take up the career. This pair is from Australia's oldest boot company. Keep watching and I'll tell you how proud I am of them, but today, how you going? Welcome to Bootlossophy and my name is Tech. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands I live and work on, the Wajap people. Today, I'm taking a look at these Aussie Chelsea boots called the Gringo from Baxter Footwear, Australia's oldest boot company. They were established in 1850 and have gone up and down in the last few decades, but they're still here. I'll take a look at the history and dive into these boots called the Gringo. Interesting name that sets a theme as you will see and I'll tell you what I like and don't like about them. This is one summary section at the end of the video that you don't want to miss, the pros and cons section. Watch to the end. Okay, looking at the style, this is clearly a Chelsea boot. As you know by now, the Chelsea boot with its distinctive goring panels was first designed by Joseph Sparks Hall, Queen Victoria's bootmaker in 1837. Since then, they became a smart riding boot in London during her son, King Edward VII's reign, and were exported to the colonies, especially India, South Africa and Australia, as elastic-sided paddock work boots for riding and working on cattle and sheep stations. Back in England, they rediscovered their style when the 60s pop groups like the Beatles wore them as part of their costume and from that era got their name Chelsea boots from where the swinging 60s began in that suburb. In Australia, the style has always been a work boot as characterised by popular Australian brands like Bloodstone and Redback, and in fact, as they were first intended for use in RM Williams' designs, until the 1980s when RMs became iconic as the Australian boot and millionaires were wearing them with their suits in boardrooms and trading exchanges. This Baxter gringo boot has all the characteristics with a twist. It is six inches high at the shaft. It has a block heel and standard goring panels. It's made of three pieces of distressed leather, the vamp piece and the two rear pieces leading to the seams under the goring panels. I'll leave links to their websites below. The twist is that as hinted by the name, the last looks like the last of a cowboy boot, especially from the top, with an almond shaped toe that looks like a cowboy round toe boot.  I'll tell you how that feels when I talk about size and comfort. Aesthetically though, it does look pretty sharp, like a western boot. The Baxter gringo boot is made from a tan distressed leather and because the last has the look of a western boot about it, I'd say that it's a strictly casual boot and most appropriate with potentially work style gear. I don't think you could pair this with the more professional office business casual stuff. Because of that cowboy boot look, I think they look really good with longer straight leg jeans that give a full break like this pair of proof rover pants from Huckbury's Flint and Tinder brand. The longer full break takes the eye away from the goring and makes it look like a western boot. Baxter boots, or I think more technically correctly, Baxter Footwear Company was established in 1850 in Goldburn, New South Wales. A few weeks ago I brought to you Ian Harrell the bootmaker and I said it was arguably Australia's oldest bootmaker because the Harrell Company had bootmaking traditions from the 1400s in England and then came to Australia in the 1920s. Baxter is Australia's oldest boot company in the sense that it was the first one actually established in Australia. The company was actually founded by William Tease but was bought over by Henry Baxter in 1885 and since then has been owned and managed by the Baxter family now into its fifth generation. Baxter's history has been mainly in work boots making boots for primary producers, construction, firefighters and ambulance men and women. In fact there's a boot called the Ambo. Ambo is Australian for EMT technicians and ambulances. Like many if not all boot companies all over the world they make boots for soldiers in the first and second world wars and expand it there on and I believe they still make boots for the Australian Defence Forces, the ADF. In the late 1990s Baxter did also move to import their hides. Today the majority of their boots are made in Vietnam although I think some models are still made in Goldburn. Currently they produce and sell about 90,000 pairs a year. They're not really well known locally in Australia mainly selling in the eastern states and it really is good to hear about an old Australian company that still survives and continues their company's traditions. As my subscribers will know I'm a management consultant in real outside of YouTube life and in my professional work I have worked with clients all over the world on their systems and processes. In my professional opinion quality of product is not made in a specific country it's made by adopting processes and procedures that align to your vision and values. I don't really have much truck with people who say oh I only buy made in Australia or I only buy made in the USA because I think that's marginally myopic and if a company is Australian owned or American owned it's still bringing in a contribution to the nation. The fact that we're losing skill is a government issue for not supporting industry not for the manufacturing overseas process. However in my non-professional view I too still take pride in seeing something from here that tries to continue its traditions wherever they make their products. But let's take a look at the construction before I give you my views on the value. As usual I'll start from the bottom and work my way up. The gringo is a 270 degree Goodyear welted boot. If you're new to Goodyear welting you can check out this video up here click and the link will appear below this video. Basically in 270 degree Goodyear welting a thin strip of leather is sewn onto the inside of the uppers around three quarters of the boot. The outside of the welt is then stitched through a midsole and the outsole to fix the front together. The back end which is not welted is glued and nailed onto the insole to secure it. Goodyear welting means that the outsole can be easily replaced when worn and it provides good water resistance because there are no holes that go entirely all the way through from outside to inside. I am concerned about the construction quality on this pair. It's not that I believe they're going to fall apart, you know, far from it. They feel heavy and sturdy and uncomfortable that all the pieces making up the boot have been sturdily put together. It's the finishing I'm more concerned about but that may be reflective of the price which I'll talk about later. In the finishing there's a definite ledge on the back of the boot. The idea of a 270 degree Goodyear welt is that the thick welt doesn't extend around the back of the heel allowing the midsole and outsole to be trimmed very close to the heel. In this way it not only looks like sleeker and dressier but it also doesn't get caught in stirrups and ladders and it won't pick up dirt behind the heel. This un-welded heel is not only sticking out there's actually a concave curve to it which definitely will pick up dirt. Another thing about the quality of finish is the stitching. The stitching on the Goodyear welt starts on the left of each boot quite finely and then gradually opens out so that the stitch density is almost twice as much at the start than at the end. It almost seems like the person stitching these started on the left of each boot slowly and then whipped it around quickly. If you look under the sole of the left boot you see that the stitching went around got too close to the edge of the toe had to stop and start again and then five centimetres later got too far inboard and had to stop and start again.  The outsole itself is an eight millimetre thick rubber outsole which is firm and has some curly corrugations moulded into it so it is quite grippy actually. The heel rubber top lift is a block of rubber on top of several layers of leather. Inside the boot the insole is leather and inside the cavity caused by the two or three millimetre thick wealth going around the outside edge Baxter does use a natural cork filling. Inside they fit a leather and foam back comfort non-removable full-slip insole. So all the materials used are good, natural leather and cork. The boot is unlined in the vamp but leather lined in the shaft which is a strange turnaround. Both the heel counter and the toe puff are not particularly stiff they can flex when you press them but that does help with comfort and weight. The goring feels pretty good and elastic and firmly returns the state after being stretched. They are securely sewn in as are the two pull tabs on each boot embroidered with Baxter handcrafted since 1850. The uppers leather in the gringo, there's only one choice is a distressed tan leather. You know the boot world needs to come to some agreement about what they call their products. I have heard other boot makers also call uppers distressed but they seem to be different from tannery to tannery. R&W for example use a leather that they call distressed but it's actually a crazy horse treatment. Blunstone's one of their models is called distressed but it's kip leather. In this case I'm pretty sure this is a new buck. Now new buck is not a bad thing. Unlike popular misconception true new buck is not a split leather like suede. It's a full grain leather meaning it's from the top of the hide which is the strongest but it has been corrected meaning that the smooth top layer has been lightly sanded to reveal a nap that feels almost like, well it feels velvety. The reason they do that is it scratches less easily than smooth leathers and can patina really beautifully. This leather is about two millimeters thick which is about average and it feels really supple. Caring for new buck is pretty easy. Baxter recommends that you apply a waterproofing agent before first wear. There's plenty on the market from Sofia and from its less expensive sister company, Turago, Redwing makes some, R&W and so on. To clean it Baxter recommends treating it like suede. Basically spot clean any marks with a suede eraser and then brush with a suede brush to remove dirt and to re-raise the nap. They are silent on conditioning and anyway I seldom condition my new buck or suede leathers. Although you can try a suede spray on conditioner from Sofia or Turago. Just make sure to reapply the waterproofer after cleaning and conditioning. When it comes to sizing this boot you can try true to size but when I bought them from an Aussie online store called Everything Australian I was told that maybe going up a half size might be better because of the narrower toe box. I listened to their advice and it works. Now just to summarize my true size in the UK convention is 7.5. To convert to the US sizing convention just add one number to whatever I say from here on. Normally in the US, in the service boots at least I size down by a half because US manufacturers seem to size large but UK, Australian and other Commonwealth countries usually size true to size. In this case I took a UK 8 and the sales guy Dwayne at Everything Australian he was right. The narrow toe box made an 8 a better fit. I do find the fit weird though. I think it's because this is lasted like a cowboy boot. If you look straight down at it the toes look like a rounded almond cowboy boot toe. Coming backwards the waist is wide and it doesn't narrow back in. This makes the fit feel like a cowboy boot where the heel and the waist are looser to allow you to pull the boots on and get your foot around the corner. But when you have it on the ball of the foot and the toe box holds your feet. I have been told and I do find that in cowboy boots there should be an appreciable heel slip which is what I get with this boot. Only this is a Chelsea and in a Chelsea is not particularly comfortable because it's a shorter boot and you really don't need that room to pull it on your foot to turn the corner especially with goring panels. When you walk in these there is that cowboy boot heel slip without a tall shaft that makes you feel secure. And then there is the weird walking gate. When I first put these on and went for a walk I got a funny feeling like my foot was striking the ground three times distinctly and not rolling from heel to ball to toe. Looking at the alignment of heels to the ball of the foot you can see why. The heels have been put on so that when you sit back on them they reveal a gap between the line of the heel and the line of the ball of the foot. So clearly as you walk you first hit the ground with your heel then there will be another click as your weight transfers to the front edge of the heel and then the ball of the foot slaps down on the ground. It's weird. On the plus side I had no break-in experience with these at all. Once I got used to the clip-clock effect of the walk it was comfortable. I guess aided by the nice supple leather and the comfort of the leather cork and foam under my feet. Now to value. Before I tell you the price I just want to say that in my view as a consumer and as a management consultant also dealing with marketing value is not about dollars but about how you perceive those dollars. In marketing it said that you're attracted to a product by the look and how you feel using the product. Then you justify your choice by analysing the price and telling yourself that the price is good. Heart first then head. So this is Aussie $240 on the Baxter website and I bought it from Everything Australia for $199 on sale. At $250 they compare with Blannies and the other TPU heat-fix sole boots like Rossi, Redback and Mongrel boots. But most of those sell for under that most of the time. This is good year-welted though and those others will have to be thrown away once the outsoles wear out. The Ian Harrow boots that I had up here a few weeks ago are over $300. And let's not forget RMs are over $600. So price-wise they are in the ballpark, that's what my head tells me. And when they're on sale for $200 just for the construction method alone they blow the TPU heat-fix sole boots out of the water. As for value, in my opinion not so much. I am not in love with the fit. I'm disappointed by that finishing. The heel thing really bothers me when I walk, especially on hard surfaces. Earlier I talked about how quality is defined by installing systems and procedures including checks and minimum standards. By this evidence they'll need their procedures looked at. At $200 I'm just okay. In summary, you know, I really wanted to love these boots. Australia's oldest boot company, family tradition through the generations helped to build Australia and helped to defend Australia. These are things to be proud of. In looks, apart from the top-down view, they have the looks of a blunt stone. In fact, that's why I chose them because I thought they could become my everyday but good year-welted blunnies. The method of construction is sturdy. The materials in the boot are good and the leather feels pretty good. But, but I'm disappointed. Yeah, it may be reflected in the price, but that's stitching under the sole. The incongruous cowboy boot fit that doesn't work in a Chelsea. The clickety-cuff-funk when I walk. Not happy, Jan. So, I hope you liked the review anyway. Tell me what you think in the comments below. Now, I'm not one of those guys who go, Oh, it's not real leather. Oh, it's not worth it. But I don't know. Am I being too harsh?  And of course, if you want to be notified of more boot reviews coming up, good or bad, click on the subscribe below. I have some interesting videos in the pipeline. Until the next time, you take care and I'll see you soon.


Trig, does anybody ever ask you if you have, like, yellow fever? Well, my fiance is Korean, so I get accused of that. Yo, David and Andrew from the Phone Bros here, and thank you for clicking on that special Brooklyn food crawl. But before we get into that video, we got to tell you about a brand new media outlet and YouTube channel called Gold Thread. It is a publication based out of Hong Kong that is covering modern Chinese culture, what they eat and what they think. The stories on Gold Thread definitely relate to a lot of material that we've made before. So, if you are interested in our channel, definitely check out Gold Thread. Here is one of their stories called Shaolin Hip Hop. Alright, if you guys thought that video was cool, definitely check out more at Gold Thread. Subscribe to their channel down below in the description right here. But for now, enjoy this Brooklyn New Wave Asian food crawl. This is the next generation of Asian food in Brooklyn. Let's go! Alright everybody, I am sitting down with the two founders of Winsun right now. We got Josh and Trigman. Is this a hipster Taiwanese spot? And partially, is it because you're here? It unavoidably has hipster qualities because we're in Brooklyn. It's an easy way to group or categorize what we're doing very, very easy without effort. People can't use it in a really derogatory way. This is very honestly a culinary impression that Taiwan has made on us. And we're expressing it through a lens that is a new American background. Let's dive into some of these dishes real quick. Salty soy milk, you can see the black vinegar, the soy milk that we make here in-house. And this is like a classic Taiwanese breakfast. Yeah, this is, you know, a personal favorite of ours. And one of the best parts of Taiwan is the breakfast culture. Oh, by the way, that's a really great flavor, man. Thanks, thanks. That was so good. This is a clams and basil. It's just a very simple dish of clams with Shaoxing rice wine. So we put a scallion pancake underneath just to soak up some of the bra. You know, not really a typical way to serve clams and basil. It's extra thick. I think it's a thicker kind. I feel like it's not as airy. It soaks up a lot of the juice. I feel like, and I'm really into scallion pancakes, that chewiness is almost comparable more to like a pizza crust. Trig, does anybody ever ask you if you have like yellow fever? Well, my fiance is Korean, so I get accused of that often. So, fiance Korean, you're serving Taiwanese food. How does she feel about it? She's supportive. She just gets a little upset when I start telling her I want to go to like Chinese school and like learn, get better at Mandarin. And she's like, hey, you should learn Korean. And then you're like, I don't serve Korean food yet. Sangeinto, yeah. This is like a fun dish for us too that we bonded over super early. It's not necessarily the most iconic Taiwanese dish, but you do see it in a lot of Taiwanese restaurants. But it has like Szechuan roots. And it's a super balanced vegetable forward pork stir fry.  I'm not going to lie, it's hard for me. Yeah, it would be me too, but like, you know, like it's just... The key is you just shovel it into your mouth. But dude, yo Trig, Josh, thank you so much for your time and I appreciate it. You guys can go back to work. I'm going to finish up the food here. Winsun at 159 grand, you guys need to check it out. All right, everybody, I made it out to Bushwick, Brooklyn, and I'm in front of a spot that is blending two cuisines that a lot of people love out there. I'm talking about American barbecue and Vietnamese food. Yes, right now I'm outside of Lucy's Vietnamese kitchen, led by Chef Johnny. Let's go check it out. All right, we are in the back of the kitchen of Lucy's Vietnamese kitchen, man. I'm here with Chef Johnny Nguyen. Yo, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, man. You keep coming through. Excited, man. You got this smoked brisket fudge. That's what we do. Let's go make it. It looks delicious. The brisket looks fatty. The broth is a vegetarian broth. Vegetarian broth all the way. Vegan broth. Vegan? You took it a step further. You said vegan. Vegan broth, guys. Since the beef flavor is so strong from the brisket, then you wouldn't need to put in like beef broth. What do you need to? Dude, look at this beef right here. Oh my God. I basically took two things that I was really good at, which is smoking barbecue and basically pho. So I took a 14-hour smoked brisket, put in some pho, and took two cultures and just smashed it. It works really well. That is delicious, man. So I read that you got a lot of your influence from your grandmother. Inspiration from my grandmother, seeing her work so many jobs just to make sure I was happy. Hey, you could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here raising me. I wanted to open something in her name. People are like, yo, this is like the true American dream. This is the brisket banh mi. Pickle carrots, fresh cucumbers, fresh brisket, 14 hours. Basil, cilantro, bean sprouts, the pho banh mi.  Yeah, basically. The mayo. Housemade aioli? Housemade aioli. Crispy on the outside, airy in the middle. This is a good sandwich. This is not your typical Vietnamese restaurant. A small restaurant, one table that everyone can eat together, have conversations with each other, and just be able to interact, you know? You only have three things on the menu. Growing up in a restaurant, there's always like 20, 30, 40 different items. I don't want to make a shop that had a couple items that were really done well. Fresh ingredients, fresh bread, fresh meat, cooked well done. When you come, you get the same product, you get the same product over and over the same weight a million times. Who doesn't have to be hard? They don't have to be hard. Who don't have to be complicated? Yo, I'm off on that. Yo, thank you. Johnny, appreciate that. Man. Lucy's Vietnamese Kitchen. Check it out. You're going to see more of these spots popping up in the future. All right, everybody. We have made it to our third and final spot on this new wave Asian Brooklyn excursion. We're here out in Green Point, and we're outside of a spot called Baoburg, owned and operated by Chef Baobao. That's just her nickname. There are so many different influences in this spot. Everything from her French culinary techniques. To some Japanese influence. To a bunch of Southeast Asian and Chinese influences. Let's go check it out. All right, I'm here at Baoburg with Chef Baobao. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you for being here. So it's a mix of authentic dishes and then authentic parts of a dish with kind of new ways of doing it. Yes, yes. This one is Yamun Sen, which is like a Thai style ceviche. It's like chilled glass noodle with seafood and like spicy lamb dressing. Kind of looks like a papaya salad slash ceviche. Not like papaya salad. It's just like ceviche. Mabe. I love this shrimp that you got here. It's humongous. You butter-flied it. It's juicy. Look at that. You did not skimp on the shrimp. No. That's what my grandma said that never be cheap on ingredients. In Chinese, this is like Fun Si or like the rice noodles. So it's like I've never really had it in like a salad form, which I think is really cool. This dish, we call it Khao Soi. Everything here is authentic, besides the duck leg confit that I use my, you know, fusions. Your French culinary background, right? My French culinary background to merge them together. And for those who don't know, what is confit? It's like a slow cook process in the oven.  It's soaking inside the duck fat just to cover it. No. That duck is super soft. Just melting in my mouth. Look at all that seasoning that's stuck on that duck. Oh, those peppers? Those are coriander seeds. Coriander seeds. Look at that. Black pepper. That one is apple. And northern Thai means the fish that cooks in banana leaf. What is this? That one is a Thai eggplant. Thai eggplant? Yeah. I like the texture, like the flakiness and also the taste is not too fishy.  Not that many restaurants want to hire women to be a line cook. They probably... They don't want drama? They don't want drama. Probably things that, yeah, drama and also like weakness. In Asia, you will see so many women cooking than men. For sure. Steer typically or traditionally everybody's like, all women in the kitchen. But then all women can't cook in a competition. And you're like, wait, wait, wait, where does that balance make sense? Where you're going to say women should be in the kitchen and then you say that they can't cook. Just choose one. But when I get a job, I don't show my weakness. I just show them that I can do what you do. And I'm trying to prove that it's not just male can do it. Women can do it too. The last dish is a sizzling muscle pancake. And I like the way that Korean, they serve their pancake. The seafood pancake. Yeah, the seafood pancake. So that's why I was thinking like, maybe I should just using my Thai ingredient and adapt it to, you know, Southeast Asian fusions. Yeah. This is not just Sriracha. It's the sauce that I made. And I just add Sriracha on top of it. I like that a lot. You like it? Really crispy. Got some egg in there. Scallions. I love scallions. You don't pitch this as the most authentic Thai spot. But you know what I think is authentically Thai? Is the attitude and the vibe here. Like you guys are very hospitable, very nice. That is a trait of Thai spots. Land of smile. Thailand. Land of smiles. Yes. All right, everybody. That wraps up Bao Bao. Thank you. Bye. Ka ka ka. All right, everybody. That wraps up our Brooklyn crawl, man. I'm out in Green Point right now at Bedford in Manhattan. We went through East Williamsburg. We went through Bushwick. Now we're in Green Point with Windsun. You had a Taiwanese American team up with a Southern guy to create the new Taiwanese American food. And then Johnny Nguyen is combining barbecue with pho in a way that can probably expand into many, many different shops. And now with Chef Bao Bao and her unique mixture of influences. I mean, she's serving a really different style of food. Let me know in the comments below if you guys like this series. And until next time, I'm out. Peace. Until next time, we're the Fun Brothers. We're out. Peace. I met someone that they said they know Thai food and they've been to Thailand for just like a couple hours because of the landing. They need to just lay over. It was a layover. They said, yeah, I've been to Thailand. I've been to Thailand. This is not real Thai.  You say, instead of saying, I've been to the Thai airport, I've been to a Thai grandma's house. Never eaten at a Thai grandma's house.  No.


So, Judges 18. So, I don't even know where to begin here. Does anybody have any ideas? It's quite a story in Judges 18. Of course, it's continuing the story of Micah and his priest from Judges chapter 17. And the story just kind of gets worse and worse in Judges 18. And even if you think this story is bad, wait till next week. Anyway, let's finish off the story of Micah tonight and look at what's happening in this story. So, let's go verse by verse through in Judges chapter 18 and then afterwards we'll see if there's anything we can possibly learn from this mess. So, look at Judges chapter 18 and a key verse in Judges chapter 18. Judges chapter 18, I'm sorry, is verse number one. This kind of gives us the premise for the main lesson for the whole chapter here. Look at Judges 18 and verse number one. The Bible says in those days there was no king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them inheritance to dwell in. For unto that day their inheritance had not fallen under them among the tribes of Israel. And look at verse number two. So, first of all, we're talking about the tribe of Dan here. The tribe of Dan comes into this story of Micah and his priest. And the Bible says that unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. And look at verse number two. And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of Valor, from Zorah, from Eshtal to spy out the land and to search it. And they said unto them, Go, search the land. Who when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, they lodged there. So, the whole premise of this story turned to Judges chapter one. The whole premise of this story is that Dan did not have enough land. Dan didn't have enough land and they sent out these five guys to go find more. Go find us more land. Because unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them. So, you're saying why is that? Why has Dan's inheritance not fallen unto them? So, either God made a mistake and didn't give Dan enough land according to what he deserved or according to what he needed or whatever.  Throughout the entire book of Joshua they're conquering the land. Then Joshua dies and we see something happen in Judges chapter one. And you'll also see tonight that Judges, the book of Judges is not in chronological order, especially this chapter in the story of Micah. Okay, so I'll get to that later. But look at Judges chapter one in verse number 28. So, let's find out why that Dan did not have all his inheritance. Why did the tribe of Dan not have all their land? Look at verse number 28. And I know we've studied this but it's very important in this story. And it came to pass in Judges 1.28. It came to pass when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly drive them out. And then in the following verses it goes through all the different tribes and how they did not utterly destroy the people that they were supposed to. Remember, when they were sent into the land they were to utterly destroy the people. And that is how they would get their entire inheritance. But at the end, after Joshua, at the end of Joshua, they stopped at some point during the conquest. They stopped utterly destroying the people. They started making deals with them and putting them to tribute. Remember, they started saying, okay, we'll not utterly destroy you. You can just pay us taxes and we'll put you under tribute. I mean, it's tempting, right? Why would I utterly destroy this entire city when they could pay me all this money? So, they started not listening to what God said for them to do. And then if you look at verse 34 of Judges chapter 1, it talks specifically about Dan. So, of course, you know, what are the spies? What are the 12 spies except for Caleb and Joshua? What did they see when they went to the Promised Land? You have to remember that when the Promised Land was conquered, when Joshua took the people across the Jordan River and started in Jericho and started conquering the Promised Land, it's not like they were just rolling right over a bunch of people that didn't know how to fight.  The difference is that they had faith that God would deliver the land unto them. And while they had that faith and they went forth to God, the Lord won the battles for them. And the Lord won the battles for them. But they got in the midst of their enemies, remember? They got in the midst of their enemies, and they started, you know, turning against the Lord, and they started not listening to the Lord and lacking faith in the Lord. And then their enemies started gaining victories over them. I mean, look at the entire book of Judges. They fell away from the Lord and their enemies came in. So we see this pattern that when they turn away from the Lord, the victories stop, and not only do the victories stop, but the people overcome them. The Philistines, the Amorites, I mean everybody. And especially in verse 34, it says, the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain, for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley. So either God made a mistake here when he gave Dan this valley, or the people of Dan just lacked faith in the Lord and lacked, you know, that faith for God to fight their battles for them, and they stopped gaining those victories, and they were forced into the mountains. So they didn't have this valley, and the valley was their inheritance. So these guys, without getting too deep into this yet, these guys are looking for new land to settle. You know, their state of their relationship with the Lord is such where they are not able to conquer their land. Let's just leave it there for a few minutes. But they're looking for more land. So instead of fixing themself and taking what God has given them in the right way with God with them, they send these five guys out to look for new land. That's what's happening here in Judges chapter 18. Look at verse number 3. And when they were by the house of Micah, these five guys, they knew the voice of the young man, the Levite, and they turned in thither and said unto him, who brought thee hither? And what makeest thou in this place, and what hast thou here? And he said unto them, thus and thus deal with Micah with me, and he hath hired me, I am his priest. So they knew the Levite, and they talked to the Levite, and the Levite says, hey, this is the deal. You know, he basically explains Judges 17 to them. And they said unto him, ask counsel, we pray thee of God, that we may know whether our way, which we shall go, shall be prosperous. So this shows you the state of the children of Dan, of these men of Dan. They come across this priest, and remember, this guy looks like a priest. He's got, you know, the outfit, and he's got all the stuff. But he's a priest of a temple of idols, a temple of false gods. But these guys don't know or don't care, or both. And they ask the guy for advice. And the priest said unto them, go in peace, before the Lord is your way wherein you go. So I mean, it's pretty good. He sounds like a priest.  He's speaking for the Lord, must be a priest. You know, so these guys clearly don't know their Bible. Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw that the people were therein. How they dwelt careless. After the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure. And there was no magistrate in the land that might put them to shame in anything. And they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any man. Turn to Romans 13. Turn to Romans 13. So these guys, these guys stumble upon basically like a commune or something. This city, kind of in the middle of nowhere, this civilization in the middle of nowhere, there were Zidonians, but they were far away from the other Zidonians. They were kind of just off by themselves, living careless. It didn't mean careless. It just meant that they were just living like there was no danger. They didn't have cares. They didn't have walled cities. They didn't have defenses. And there was no magistrate in the land. Well, how is that relevant? Look at Romans 13 in verse number 3. Basically what this is saying is that they had no protection. Look at Romans 3 in verse number 3. This Romans 3 is talking about the purpose of government. You know, the purpose of government. In verse number 3, the Bible says, For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. So he's talking about here how government's job is to, you know, make sure there's no evil and to revenge evil, meaning bad things, hurt, danger, okay? And there was no government. There was no magistrate. There was no sheriff in town. There was no government protection in place for these people. And the men of Dan thought that was pretty good, because they were there to do evil. That's what they were there to do. Look at verse number 8. They were there to do hurt. And they came under their brethren, Tezora and Estrual, and their brethren sat under them. What say ye? So they went back to their original inherited land on the coast. So this spot here is in the far north. If you ever look at a tribe of the children of Israel in the 12 tribes, you know, this spot that Dan is about to acquire is in the far north. But what God actually gave them, we'll talk about in a little bit, is right on the border, right on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. We'll talk about that in a little bit. Look at verse 9. And they said, For we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And are ye still? Be not slothful to go and to enter to possess the land. So look, they came back and they're like, hey, we found an easy way. We found an easy way to get some land. This is what they reported back to the children of Dan. Verse number 10. Look, turn to Joshua chapter 19. Turn to Joshua chapter 19. Joshua chapter 19. Let's look at the land that God gave to Dan. And let's take a look at what's happening here. Look at Joshua chapter 19 and look down at verse number... Now look up at verse number 41. So it's basically, in verse number 40, it's talking about the lot, the land that Dan was given. And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan, according to their families. And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah and Estriol and Amrash. And there's a whole list of places of this, you know, the border of what Dan's inheritance is. And look, there's a Zidonians or Leshem, is not listed here. Okay, this is not the inheritance that they went out these five guys and found. Their inheritance was along the coast. And the coast, 47, and the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them. Therefore, the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and took it. So it lists what the inheritance was, and it says it was too little for them. It doesn't explain why here, but we'll get to that in a minute. And so they went out and they took it and they smote it with the edge of the sword. So in verse number 47 is talking about the events of Judges chapter 18, about what they did and they went out and they got this extra land. So it's... Judges chapter 18 is happening sometime after Joshua has died and they have stopped conquering the land, utterly destroying the people. I'm not going to say exactly when it happened. A lot of people think they know exactly when that date was or whatever. But sometime after and according to, you know, the fact that they stopped utterly destroying the people is when Judges 18 is taking place. And so much so that Joshua chapter 19 here mentions it, okay? So in verse number 48 it says, this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. So we see that in Joshua chapter 19. Look at verse number 12 of Judges 18. And they went up, verse 11, they went from there a family of the Danites out of Zorah and out of Estel, 600 men appointed with weapons of war. So they go get an army and they're going to head back and they went up and pitched in Kyrgyzath-Jiram in Judah. Wherefore they called that place Manahadan till this day, behold it is behind Kyrgyzath-Jiram. And they passed then to Mount Ephraim and came to the house of Micah. So they come through Micah's territory again. Then answered the five men that went out to spy the country of Leish and said unto their brethren, you not know that we're in these houses is an Ephod, a terraphan, and a graven image and a molten image. Now therefore consider what you have to do. And they turned to their word and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, Micah and saluted him. And the 600 men appointed with their weapons of war which were the children of Dan stood by the entering of the gate. And the five men that went out to spy the land went up and came in the other and took the graven image and the Ephod and the terraphan and the molten image. And the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the 600 men that were appointed with weapons of war. And these went into Micah's house and fetched the car of image, the Ephod, the terraphan and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, what do ye? So these guys came through with their army and they saw the priest and they went into Micah's house. They went into Micah's temple and they took everything. They took all the priestly stuff and they took all the idols and they took the graven image and the molten image and they're basically stealing all his stuff. And the priest comes out, Micah's priest, he comes out and he's like, what are you guys doing? He's like, why are you taking all this stuff and look at verse 19. So the priest is going to stand up for Micah and they said unto him, hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.  That's what they basically said to him. And go with us and to be with us a father and a priest. It is better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man that thou may be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel. So basically what they say to him is, look, you're a priest right now to one man. He's like, how would you like to be a priest to an entire tribe? Promotion. And the guy's like, no, I'm loyal to Micah. And the priest's heart was glad. He's like, I'm in. Just like that. So he leaves Micah just like right now. He's like, are you kidding me? I can be a priest to an entire nation? To an entire tribe? He's like, sign me up. And the priest's heart was glad. And he took the ephah and the tariff and the graven image and went into the midst of the people. So they turned and departed and put the little ones in the cattle and the carers before them. And they were a good way from the house of Micah. The men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together and overtook the children of Dan. Now Micah sees all his stuff is gone and his priest is gone. And he chases these guys down and they cried under the children of Dan and they turned their faces and said unto Micah, what aleeth thee? That thou comest with such a company. So they stole all his stuff and they took his priest and they're like, what's the problem? And he said, you've taken my gods which I made and the priest and you're gone away and what have I more and what is this that you say unto me what aleeth me? So that's kind of, I mean, I love parts like this in the Bible because it shows you that people talk the same back then as they do today. So basically Micah chases down this army that stole all his stuff and his priest and he goes up to them and he's like, what are you doing? And they go to him and they're like, no they say to him, what are you doing?  He's like yelling at them for stealing everything that he has basically and he said you stole my idol and my priest and you ask me, what is wrong?   Translation, just be quiet or we're going to kill you and the children of Dan went their way and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him he turned and went back unto his house so basically they said we have more people than you we're going to kill you if you just don't go away so Micah goes away and they took the things which Micah had made and the priest which he had and came unto Leish unto a people that were quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword and burnt the city with fire and there was no deliverer because it was far from Zidon and they had no business with any man and it was a valley that lieth by Bethlehem and they built the city and dwelt therein so basically they took this city, this town whatever you want to call it that was just living on their own they were off the grid, these people they were not connected to Zidon they didn't have any protection from a larger city or a larger government or a larger army and they found this city tucked in this area of land and they just killed everybody they killed everybody, they burnt the city and this is actually where the city of Dan is where they set up the city that's called Dan so they called the name of the city Dan after the name of Dan their father who was born unto Israel albeit the name of the city was Leish at first so literally they renamed this burnt city Dan and the children of Dan set up the graven image and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh and he and his sons were priests to the drive of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land in Judges 5, 17 let's look a little bit more at this tribe of Dan look at Judges chapter 5 in verse number 17 remember in Judges chapter 5 in verse number 17 I just want to give you kind of a picture because you can't really tell by one verse what actually happened with the children of Dan here even in Judges 18 it's pretty clear that they just came upon these people that were living in peace but you know what maybe Dan was just you know they were brave and the people were just too strong for them we kind of know that that's not the case from Joshua 19 but in Judges chapter 5 we see the story of Deborah remember Deborah when she had to she was looking for people to stand up and fight the battle against Cicera and she couldn't find everybody and she had to even persuade Barak to go and fight the battle well there were several nations that were listed that would not join Deborah that would not join the good fight and look at Judges 5 in verse number 17 it's talking about look at verse 16 for the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart so Reuben was this unstable tribe which she was an unstable person so there's definitely the Bible's ripping on Reuben here for not joining this fight and a boat beyond Jordan and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the seashore and a boat in his breeches so it's now talking about Dan is on the coast Dan's on the coast and his original inheritance before this happened and Dan just remained Dan did not come to join this fight either so look Dan was not this this tribe that was just known for its courage and its bravery that they couldn't have enough faith to conquer their own land so they went and they just found an easy target they went outside of God's inheritance and they just burned these people so look at verse number 30 of Judges 18 I'm sorry verse 31 and they set them up Micah's graven image which he made all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh so when they named this city Dan and they named this area for their territory turn to Judges chapter 18 Judges chapter 18 remember where the house of God was in Judges chapter 18 verse 1 tells us this I'm sorry Joshua 18 1 I'll just read it for you and the whole congregation of Israel assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there and the land was subdued before them so look the Bible says here that they stayed here until the day of captivity of the land this wasn't the captivity of the nation it was just the captivity of this particular area here as you can see all these different tribes went into captivity at different times because of their lack of faith and their turning on the Lord so basically you have this situation where this tribe of Dan chose to not conquer, chose to not to turn on the Lord and to not have the Lord fight their battles for them and they weren't able to drive out the people that were in their inherited land so they go out searching for the easy way out and they find an easy way right here with these people and they end up stealing Micah's priest and taking him but the important thing to look at here is that when they do conquer these people and they do get these people conquered and they name the city Dan they just set up all these idolatrous temples and they start worshiping false gods right away so you know that this was not of God they basically were an idolatrous tribe already which makes perfect sense because one of the reasons they started making alliances with all these nations around them is because they were joining them they were adopting their cultures which is why God said utterly destroy them do not make marriages with them so they did all these things and by the time they even got here they were into idolatry and they asked the priest the priest says, oh the Lord says go here but look the priest, he wasn't a priest of the Lord he was a priest of false gods he was a self ordained priest basically it was worshiping false gods so what can we learn from this it's a messed up story that had a lot of serious results the first thing, there's a big picture here but there's a couple small things that we need to take from this and the first one is, you have to make sure as far as application goes don't take advice from the wrong people you need to make sure turn to Proverbs chapter 20 you need to be careful who you take counsel from turn to Proverbs chapter 20 Proverbs chapter 20 look at verse number 18 the bible says every purpose is established by counsel and with good advice make war that's pretty much the opposite of what Dan did here especially in war especially in decisions of going to war, you would think that you would want to be established by godly counsel in situations where you're literally going to be costing people taking people's lives in war I mean I wonder if our leaders get down on their knees and pray to god on whether or not we should go to war in situations you know I tend to doubt it I tend to doubt it in this day and age but look is this what Dan did, did they take wise counsel they did not I mean turn to Jeremiah chapter 7 here's what Dan did in Jeremiah chapter 7 look at verse number 4 it wasn't their inheritance we saw that already we saw that this land was not the inheritance that god wanted them to have but look at Jeremiah chapter 7 in verse number 4 the bible says this trust you not in lying words saying the temple of the lord, the temple of the lord the temple of the lord are these for if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between man and his neighbor if you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place, either walk after other gods to your hurt and dwell in this place and in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever here we see the same methodology that if you do the right things and you are loyal to god he will let you dwell in the land he will give you the land look the land the idea that the land was just always there is just the dumbest thing in the world I mean it's you've clearly not opened the bible it came with a clause the agreement and the agreement is right here look he's like don't walk after other gods why? because it's going to hurt you don't walk after other gods to your hurt behold you trust in lying words that cannot profit this is what dan did look at verse 24 but instead of following the lord and letting the lord have them dwell in their own inheritance in their own land verse 24 is what dan did but they hearken not nor incline their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart that's really what's going on here and went backward and not forwards really so look it really wasn't about the priest it really wasn't about Micah's priest they had these evil imaginations in their own heart and they just found counsel to tell them what they were at they just found someone to back up what they wanted to do anyway it was their evil heart that caused them to do this and look it was too hard where they were at according to the way they were living and the relationship they had with the lord it was just too hard for them to take their land so they went to an easy place that was the evil intentions of their heart but look here's the thing you will always be able to find somebody to give you counsel that goes along with your evil heart intentions if you do not have intentions that are towards the lord and towards the bible you will always be able to find somebody that says yeah that's okay yeah I agree with what you're doing there that's why you need to be careful who you are getting counsel from faithful look faithful are the wounds of a friend the bible says it doesn't say faithful are the words of a friend a friend a christian brother or sister or spiritual leader that will look you in the face and say look what you're doing is not the right thing you are not supposed to go there and conquer these people you are supposed to go back to your own inheritance have faith turn back to the lord and he will win the battles for you that's not what they wanted to hear go go go take over the look at all the hills look at all the nice views and it's just one little town they don't even have a sheriff the lord be with you look you will always be able to find somebody that will give you the advice that will give you the counsel that will go along with the evil intentions of your own heart even in the smallest things so don't remember that be careful who you get counsel from it's a super important thing turn to Proverbs chapter 20 because look be careful because if you do have evil intentions in your heart if you do have wrong intentions in your heart and you go and you get that counsel to back you up and then you continue down that road look this story shows us that the results will be disastrous and I'll show you how disastrous they were in a little bit Proverbs chapter 20 the second point I want to make about this situation is this loyalty easily won is easily lost look at Proverbs chapter 6 I'm sorry Proverbs chapter 6 and verse number 20 Proverbs chapter 6 and verse number 20 look at what the bible says Proverbs chapter 6 and verse number 20 no maybe it is Proverbs chapter 20 I'm sorry Proverbs chapter 20 and verse number 6 I was dyslexic when I wrote this Proverbs chapter 20 and verse number 6 the bible says but a faithful man who can find finding a man who will tell you how great he is is easy the bible is saying here but finding one that is truly loyal and faithful is hard true loyalty is hard to find go back to judges chapter 17 you say why did the Levite stay with Micah in the first place go to judges 17 judges chapter 17 look what Micah said to him remember last week Micah said unto him dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel and thy victuals so the Levite went in and the Levite was content to dwell with the man and the young man was unto him as one of his sons and Micah consecrated the Levite and the young man became his priest and was in the house of Micah now turn to judges 18 so why did the Levite stay with Micah because Micah paid him he offered to pay him silver he wanted to he just gave him money look at judges 18 verse 19 and he left for basically the same reason for selfish reasons in verse 19 they said unto him this is the children of Dan hold thy peace lay thine hand upon thy mouth and go with us and be to us a father and a priest for thee to be a priest unto the house is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel and the priest's heart was glad and he went so look he found a better deal he was just all about the you know finding the better deal for himself so loyalty easily won is easily lost the problem and the problem wasn't that he wasn't treated well in verse 11 of judges 17 the young man was unto him as one of his own sons he treated him like he was family but look he was purchased he was swayed by money thus he was easily he was easily led away to get loyal people is a difficult thing it requires work respect is earned life would be too easy if you could just pay people off effectively anyway remember Abimelech I'll just read for you judges 9 verse 4 Abimelech the whole story and they gave him 3 score and 10 pieces of silver out of the house of Belbereth were with Abimelech hired what? vain and light persons which followed him so Abimelech they wanted him to you know take over and he took over and he hired all these mercenaries these vain and light people and look everybody turned on him so I mean how did it turn out respect is earned and once you have it it lasts as long as you keep it so it's hard to it's easy to lose too this is why you know so you have to remember that that you know this is why people that you know if you ever heard about someone who's you know gotten divorced because their spouse left them for somebody else or something like that so I mean somebody you know that breaks up their marriage and marry somebody that they've gotten to leave their husband or their wife or whatever then they're just shocked when that person does the same thing for them like five years later or two years later or one year later or six months later because it's just it's just Micah's priest it's just the type of person that they are they're just going to look for the better deal all the time and as soon as they find something that's a better deal for them they're gone that's it so loyalty easily won is easily lost but the main point I want to make of this sermon is this Dan should not have been looking turned to Joshua chapter 9 no we saw in Joshua chapter 19 I've already read it for you they failed to conquer the land that the Lord gave them turned to Proverbs 16 they had a lack of faith that caused them to not conquer their full territory and then this is what I really want to point out it wasn't just a lack of faith it wasn't just a lack of faith because when you look at it from that perspective it wasn't just a lack of faith that the God would win their battles but they actually when you look at the story closer then not only had a lack of faith in God but they had literal faith in the wrong things they had faith in these idols in these false gods look at Proverbs chapter 16 look at verse 25 the Bible says there's a way that seameth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death this led Dan it began with a lack of faith and it turned into faith in the wrong things turned to 1 Kings chapter 12 as a matter of fact as a matter of fact this became Dan's legacy this became Dan's legacy especially this city that we're talking about that was burnt with fire look at 1 Kings chapter 12 in verse 25 the Bible's talking about Jeroboam he's just created the northern kingdom there was the split now you have Judah the southern kingdom and you have the northern kingdom in the north and Jeroboam is the king of the northern kingdom and Jeroboam is terrified that the people will go to Jerusalem to worship so he's going to create his own religion he's going to create his own false religion to keep the people there and look where he creates it verse 25 he built sesham in Mount Ephraim and dwelt therein and went out from Dan's and built penuel and Jeroboam said in his heart now shall the kingdom return to the house of David he's worried that the people are going to go back if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the lord of Jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn again under their lord even under Rehoboam the king of Judah and they shall kill me and go again to Rehoboam the king of Judah whereupon the king took counsel and he said unto them is it too much for you to go up it is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem behold thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt so he goes and he creates his own religion he creates his own this kind of reminds me of communism actually this kind of reminds me of how how communism takes over and they have to be like you know what we can't have all these religious people worshiping God we can't have people worshiping God they need to realize that the state is God they need to realize that we are God that's why whenever you had a communist takeover I don't care where it is they kill all the religious people that's the first thing they do they kill all the religious people they make religion illegal as basically what Rehoboam is doing here except he's doing it by creating a false religion he creates these two calves of gold that people can go worship instead of going back to Jerusalem because he doesn't want to lose to David and look where he puts them and he set one in Bethel and the other and we were talking about cities here and the other where did he put it what city did he put it, he put it in Dan they were already idol worshipers they were known for being idolatrous literally idolatrous so it wasn't the point I'm trying to get at is it wasn't just a lack of faith it was that they had turned to God and they had faith in the wrong thing and this is where it will always go this is where the lack of faith will always go I mean because look you will have faith in something you will have faith in something they in this case they turn to literal idolatry is where their faith went sometime after the death of Joshua but it's not like I mean God vs. Mammon it doesn't say God vs. Mammon and you're going to like mix the two it says no you'll hate one of them you know it says you'll hate one or you'll hate the other it kind of puts to bed this idea that you can have one foot in and one foot out in this Christian life because you're either going to go the wrong way and fall into something bad or you're going to get right I mean so you need to check the areas of your life where you lack faith is the message here you know where where are you fighting the word of God in your life everybody in this room is fighting the word of God at some point in their life and I'm telling you it will continue it will either continue in the wrong direction and get worse and worse and worse or you will get it right there's no cruise control one foot in one foot out that's not how it works and look there will be major consequences that you don't see today if you don't get this right they just wanted a little bit more land I mean soony I just want a little bit more land we had all these battles were losing all the time we just need a little bit more land seemed harmless at first the entire nation is known for idolatry the whole legacy of Dan is known for turning against the Lord they destroyed the whole nation the whole tribe because they went their own way so look where what are those areas in your life everybody in this room has one what are those areas in your life there's two things I want to stick in your brain before you leave number one what are those areas in your life that you are having a hard time putting your faith in God what are those areas identify the areas areas where you want to have one foot in and one foot out you know it's kind of like the land that area in your life is half conquered and you just can't conquer the whole land so you're going to find your own way and then number two when you identify that and by the way in those areas you'll find your idols in those areas in those areas where your land is half conquered in your Christian life that is where you will find your idols and then on top of that in you will find where your faith lies besides the Lord you will find what you are putting your faith in other than the Lord are you following me here in those areas where you are half in in the Christian life where your Christian life is half conquered there you will find your idols and there you will find where your faith is when it should be in the Lord in those areas this story shows us that it's not just not in God but it's actually somewhere else their faith wasn't just not in God it wasn't just a lack of faith it was somewhere else it's why it wasn't in God it's a zero sum game it's either all in the Lord or it's going to be somewhere else and that somewhere else will have progressively worse consequences maybe you're hanging on to some sin you say I can't think of any maybe you I know the Bible teaches against this but I think I can do both I think I can handle this sin and still go to church and look it will be a disaster it will be a disaster because you know why you know why it will be a disaster you say it's just a look at the sin and it's just a little sin it doesn't seem serious it will be a disaster because the problem is an issue with your heart it's a problem in your heart is what is the issue I'm just not going to go all in I'm just going to hang on to sin in this area you're trusting something else you're not trusting God and maybe that's the worst part about it you're just not trusting God you're trusting something else raising kids is a perfect example raising kids is a perfect example we talk about discipline here and what the Bible says about raising your children and how you should do it I just didn't grow up that way that's uncomfortable for me to do that well you're not trusting the Lord you're not trusting God you're putting your faith in your parents or however you were raised that's what you're putting your faith in not God when you talk about homeschooling your kids we're talking about it's just it's too much separation it's too obvious it's going to be too uncomfortable for people these are the ones that are really hard for people when you pull your kids out of public school people are going to notice that people are going to notice that you don't put your kids in public school that's unnoticeable separation when you start doing things different noticeably different people are going to notice it they're going to take it personally and you're like what they're going to take it personally maybe it causes trouble with your family you know what it's too much trouble it's too much trouble people in my family they put their kids in public school a generation ago insulting them it's just causing too much trouble when you're putting your faith in that not the Lord you're putting your faith in your culture or the status quo you grew up in you're not putting it in the Lord it's not like you have a lack of faith in the Lord you're literally putting your faith somewhere else I mean what are you putting your faith in? Secular philosophy good luck the public school talk about Micah's priest talk about Micah's priest talk about a false prophet talk about a false prophet that's out there destroying people for money that's Micah's priest the public school system is Micah's priest today a false priest paid to destroy your children but these areas the hardest areas are the ones that show outward separation look that's what takes the faith that's what takes the faith that actually show people outward separation of your life look it doesn't take a lot of faith to tell people that you go to church you know people go to church people go to church oh you know they go to church two days a week that's not really a big one people go to church maybe not anymore but they used to but look it's not just it's things that normal people in the status quo today don't do those are the things that take the real faith because it's outside it's outside the status quo look when you make those types of moves and you put that faith you make those outward moves that people can see and you put that faith totally in the Lord it shows where your heart is it shows where your heart is so it's a big deal it's a big deal especially the things that show that you're outside that status quo you know that outside that normal box that everybody else is in but look here's the thing you want to be where that box is leading everybody it's not a hard decision to make but this story shows us that this half conquered idea is a lack of faith it shows a heart problem and hopefully we don't have any of those areas that beat those areas out of our life because they will not be without consequences that's why this story is so important because we see the major consequences that happened not only just in this story but in the future for this tribe let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer