This is State Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Aloha and welcome to The Condo Insider, everything you ever wanted to know about living in a condo, owning a condo, maybe even being on the board of directors of a condo. And today we've got a very interesting subject that we haven't touched on before, but I thought it would be a good one for us to do. And that is in regards to leasehold condominiums, and my guest is an old friend and sitting commissioner right now on the Hawaii Real Estate Commission, and that's Mike Payne. I am glad to have you here, Mike. Me too. Are you sure about that now? We'll see. Well, before we get into this issue of leasehold condominiums, why don't you give us a little background on how you got involved in leasehold issues on condominium associations. Good place to start right from the beginning. Thank you. And pardon me if I refer to my notes. People will find in this half hour that leasehold is a ton of stuff. Oh, yes. And I'd have to say on track here. 1991, the Honolulu Board of Realtors was asked by the council to opine on land reform for condos, forced condo sales. Everybody looked at each other and had to have a clue of what to say. So they convened the task force and being the newest member of the Honolulu Board of Realtors, they gave it to me. But it was a heck of an education. We met with landowners, lessors, lessie groups, attorneys, appraisers. We looked at everything and came to the conclusion that the one imbalance we had was information. Having the right information on both sides and having a balance of information would balance the playing field. And so with that, they went off and they gave their opinion to the council. What happened to me, though, is the phone rang one day and somebody says, I've got a fee offer and I think it's too high. Can I negotiate it? So, well, everything's negotiable. So we took on a case more informally and then the phone rang the next day and says, I have a rent renegotiation. I've got to go through. Can you help us with that? And the phone kept ringing and ringing. So a few years later, the phone rang so much, I decided I would get into representing condo projects and fee conversions and rent renegotiation, ultimately lease extensions. To the point where, before I retired a couple of years ago, we had done about 80% of the condo fee conversions in the state over the past 15 years and the majority of rent renegotiation. It's a deep subject people find and so no one else really came around to take a piece of that marketplace and so we just got very busy with it. Well, you got a good chunk of that marketplace, but you also had to take an additional aspirin every day for dealing with it, right? Two. Okay. Well, you know, leasehold condominiums are a subject that's not talked about often and the reason I wanted you on the show is I taught a class recently and there were a few young students in there who really didn't understand the concept of a leasehold condominium or what it really means. So I thought, hey, this is a perfect subject for the condo insider as well. I think it is an excellent subject because people still have a very low understanding of the concepts and even realtors, even some attorneys. Sorry, Jay. Anyhow, I think what we should do is start at the beginning. How do we get into the system and what is the system basically? I think post-World War II, the GIs coming home, starting families, suddenly there was a great demand for housing on Oahu, but there wasn't a lot of landowners willing to sell their land outright for development. We didn't have condominiums. We didn't have co-ops. We had some apartment buildings. So there was this great demand. So in 1951, somebody came up with the idea of doing a leasehold co-op and they created the lease and here's the problem with the structure of roughly 55 years, 30 years of known lease rent. That was for mortgage purposes or fixed amounts of rent. You know exactly what it's going to be, and then you rent through some renegotiation periods. We'll talk about that in a minute. Lease rents went sky-high, but they also then stuck in a surrender clause at the end. The landowner was going to get the building and the land back. Everybody would have to leave at the end of the lease. Finally, landowners in bunches says, I'll sign on to that. So from 1951 to 1961, 39 leasehold cooperatives were developed on Oahu. Mostly on Oahu, mostly Waikiki, but a few outside of Waikiki. In 1961, Hawaii passed the first condo statute. And sure enough, the first condos to be developed, they did it in leasehold. Landowners couldn't wait to give up their land.  And they get this great concrete building back in 55 years. And they went on and on. At the high, we had about 600 plus or minus leasehold condo and co-op projects in the state, encompassing about 70,000 apartments. That was more than what we had in Fee Simple. We also had 25,000 or so leasehold single-family homes. We had almost 100,000 housing dwellets in a leasehold system that required unlimited lease rent increases during renegotiation times, uncapped, and a surrender of the property at the end of the lease. It was the greatest concentration of residential leasehold ever in the world. Although Japan is trying right now to catch us up very quickly for some reason. And a few little smidges of it around the United States, but not very much at all. The concept that we developed here became problematic right away because it was designed on a commercial leasehold concept. Known rents, unlimited rent renegotiation tied to land value fluctuation and surrender of the property at the end. It doesn't really work well in a residential context when it's people's homes. By 1969, the state legislature figured this out. Remember, this is only eight years after we started leasehold condos. And it passed land reform, which was mandatory conversion for... It was supposed to be for all properties in Hawaii. It didn't get adjudicated for 15 years. It had to go through a lot of appeals and challenges up to the US Supreme Court. It was finally cleared for use in 1984. By 1990, 80% of single-family leasehold was converted to fee simple. And I'll add to that is that my father lived in a single-family home in IAEA that was on leasehold land. Then he moved, sells it, moves to Maui, buys fee simple. He was so excited he got this house on half an acre that was fee simple.  For the rest of his life, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the system created some problems. The government started to get involved. But condos were eliminated from land reform along the way based on the concept of oligopoly. In other words, a few large landowners controlled almost all of the single-family leasehold. But many, many condo landowners controlled the condo leaseholds. And so based on oligopoly or the failure of oligopoly, they got tossed. And there was really nothing for condos until 1991 when the city council of Oahu, for Oahu only passed chapter 38 single, I'm sorry, condo mandatory fee conversion if you had certain qualifying amounts. By 1998, about seven years later, the law was fully adjudicated to the U.S. Supreme Court. And people started converting. At that time, there were about 50,000 leasehold condos and co-ops in Hawaii. By 2005, when the law got repealed, so seven years later, the law got repealed by the council, by a new council, we're down to about 15,000. So looking at single-family and condos, mandatory conversion laws result in what the original legislative intent was, was to get out of this leasehold system because it's onerous on people. It was a great argument, though, because landowners looked at the contract, the lessees looked at the social issues, and they had to be balanced very carefully. Well, there's also been this conception for years, I've heard it as well, is that the idea also was, well, if I buy the unit and rent the land, it's going to be cheaper to do it that way than buying a fee-simple condo. But even in my experience in the 80s and 90s, it didn't matter if it was leasehold or fee-simple, they were basically selling it about the same price, depending on where they were located at. Yeah, we'll get into valuation of things, but market trends, especially when the marketplace is very tight and there's not a lot of housing available, people in the 80s were buying up leasehold condos to be almost the same value as fee-simple, and they paid too much, but that was the market influences. They would buy anything, and it just got up quite a bit that way. And I'm glad you did bring up the subject of the leasehold single family, because that's sort of a little bit of history that people have forgotten that there was a period of time a good chunk of residential property, at least here on Oahu, was held in leasehold, and so that mandatory conversion, some people have forgotten about that little bit of history. Yeah, all of Kailua, all of Hawaii, and big chunks of A.I. were developed single family leasehold, and all of Waikiki, except for the Iliqai, was developed as leasehold condominiums. You know, 70% of Waikiki, so it was a rampant at one time. You'll see we're down to probably 60, I'm sorry, 6,000 or 7,000 leasehold condos left in the state, but it's been hard slugging it all out. Well, one of the points you made is on the residential leasehold, there were just a few large landowners who were involved in that, and that was part of the reason they got the mandatory conversion, but the individual condo buildings on leasehold land, a lot of times that was just family land or put into trust by the family for future use and things like that, so that's why it wasn't, let's say, a monopoly. Yeah, it's a period of numbers game. Many landowners, I think about 250 at one time owning leasehold condominiums under roughly 600 projects. The Waimea School was the largest with 112, and a lot of them were one-to-mom-and-pop landowners, as we call them, so there were many, many more of those, and it just didn't stand the test of oligopoly for the court. Because I've gotten that question before. Well, if they forced the residential wide in, they forced the condo, and that was basically the issue right there. Right, right. So, we got our little history lesson. And as you pointed out, the original idea on leasehold was more of a commercial idea, but they were applying it to residential. Yeah, that was the mistake. Yeah, yeah. Well, the legislature very rarely makes mistakes, so. So, then we get into this issue that, and I dealt with them, and that's one of the reasons I know you the way I do is because you do lease rent and renegotiations, or did before you retired. And I've been involved in a couple. And that's where it really shocks some homeowners sometimes. Yeah, just going through one will be a surprise to a lot of people because there's no cap, there's no set dollar amount. Rent renegotiations occur generally three times during a lease. We talk the structure of about a 55-year lease, 30 years of fixed or known rent, but then they reopen or renegotiate once every 10 years. And that's so the landlord can bring their rents up to current market value for the time. The rent renegotiations clauses in the typical lease is based on a percentage of land value. For example, if you had a condominium with 100 units and a $10 million land value, and they had a lease that said the rent will be based on land value times 8%, it's $100,000 per unit, 8% of that is $8,000, and that would be the new rent for the next 10 years. Yeah. And they go through the whole process again. So lease rents are based on land value fluctuation over time, and in Hawaii, land values generally tend to only go up. And so the first rent re-openings, because landowners did a lousy job of estimating up front, were 7, 10, I saw 15 times higher than what the original was, and that was a surprise to a lot of people. Well, even one that I had on the outskirts of being involved in, they went from an average of, depending on the unit, $95 a month to $120 a month, and then they shot over $600 a month after renegotiation, and they were oceanfront. Especially for oceanfront. But that makes it unaffordable to some people. There's always going to be some people with marginal affordability that may be just retired, that kind of a bump they just can't handle, and so it jeopardizes their ownership or jeopardizes their staying there, which was the social issue. Okay, well let's take a quick break, and when we come back we'll learn some more about leasehold condominiums right here on the condo insider. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Aloha. I'm RV Kelly, host of Out of the Comfort Zone. And Think Tech is important to our community because it gives us a chance to learn more. We get to learn more, we get to give more, we get to grow more. 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It's not just a wahoo that are either on their last renegotiation or maybe coming close to the end of the lease. So in the time we have left, that'd be a great place because I think owners and realtors need to understand what those issues are. Yeah, and this is where it gets a little hard. The history lesson is pretty easy. This is where the difficulty comes. So I thought we'd start with understanding the different interests in real estate. Leasehold, leased fee and fee simple. So I decided to use a prop. I brought a piece of paper here. Sorry, it's a bad prop. This is the full bundle of rights.  Full feasible bundle of rights. Once they signed the lease with the developer to put the building up, they no longer own the fee simple value. They own what they call the leased fee interest. It's the fee interest subject to the lease. They don't own the use right of the bundle of rights. They've given that and they were leased to the lessees. So the apartment owner is a lessee under the lease. The lessor is the landowner is under the lease of the leased fee interest. And it stays like this until the end of the lease. At the end of the lease, the leasehold interest reverts back to the fee owner. The lease is gone and he owns the building and everything on it, the land and everything on it in fee. During the term here though, what's happened many times, remember we started with 70,000 condos. We're down to about 6,000 now. Many, many condominiums have converted to fee. So the leasehold apartment owner has bought the lease fee interest from the lessor and made a fee simple condominium unit. That's how the interest works. Very simple plane. The pi thing here works very well for that. The problem comes in valuing this stuff. Because in valuing the value of a leasehold apartment plus the value of the fee doesn't necessarily equal the full fee civil value. Or the mistake people have been making is they look at the full value of the fee. They say, well, some units of my project have sold at this value. So the difference must be the lease fee from the fee owner. And that's what I'll go in and offer them to buy the fee. Not necessarily the case. Case in example here, before I retired a couple years ago, one of the last conversions we handled was for a project. And I'm going to use round numbers. The units were selling for $500,000 fee simple. It was a mixed project. So there were also some leasehold units of the building. And they were selling for $200,000 leasehold. So people bought it for $200,000. One day I'll buy the fee, it'll be $300,000. They went to the fee owner and said, can I buy the fee? The fee owner says, well, appraise it. They appraise it and come back $450,000 just for the least fee interest. And so they just suddenly went, you know, I just bought and owned for $200,000 and went down to $50,000. The real answer on that is they didn't know what they were buying. They didn't know how to value it. They didn't know how to come to the value. So they paid too much for their leasehold interest. And that's very common out there. If there's only two things that everybody takes away from this today, is to understand that the value of the leasehold, the value of the leasefeed owner owns, doesn't necessarily equal the fee simple value of the unit. Here's why. Leasehold apartments, if you want to sell a leasehold apartment, you give it to your realtor. They stick it on the open market. The marketplace comes and they pay a certain amount of money. You look at the last three sales and you're building for similar leasehold units and that's roughly what your value is going to be. The same thing if you have a fee simple apartment. Okay. You go on the open market. The last three sales pretty much determine what your value is there. Lease fee sales are closed market transactions. You don't put them on the open market. You could. But the fact has been from the very beginning that the buyer that will pay the most is the leasehold owner of the apartment. The person who owns that leasehold interest. Yeah. They will pay the most. So why would a landowner stick it out looking for other people to pay a fraction of that? They just go right to the lessee of the apartment or the condo association. So because of that, the least fee interest, what the fee owner holds and sells and what you need to make your apartment fee simple is done by an economic calculation called discounted cash flow to determine the full present value of the lessor's interest. What is the value of the land today grown to the end of the lease? Discounted to today's present value by a discount rate. And all you need to know is a discount rate is the opposite of an interest rate where you grow interest, discounts into present value. And what is all the lease rent that you might pay to the end of the lease in today's dollar value? So then you come up with the present value of the lessor's lease fee interest and that's roughly what the market value would be for that interest. And as the leases get short and more of the interest proportions to the fee owner as funny things occur when it gets very short, like the appraisal start considering the improvements of the units and things, the value of the fee tends to spike upwards towards the end of the lease and things like that will happen. Okay, now I got to wrap my head around all that financial stuff, but I think one of the issues, not just on the pricing though, is a person who owns a lease hold, if they have the opportunity to go into fee, that's their incentive personally because they want to be whole, so to speak. And so that's where you have emotion and finance sort of working against or with each other, it depends on how it's working out. That's true, but we came up with an interesting stat. We kept a lot of stats when I was doing this. We kept interesting stats and in a condo project, whenever the fee came available, just so everybody could do it, would do it. That's owner occupants and investors who you think would be more cerebral with these things but for some reason they were equally incentivized to buy the fee. You would think the homeowner to protect their home would have more incentive, but they bought in the same proportions to investors. That was very interesting. There's also a misconception there as well. The last one was my own building that I was in a number of years ago. We converted to fee simple. All but three people bought fee and the board at that time says, okay, well, the association bought the fee for the other three units. Their thought process as well, once we own the fee, we can jack up the rent, the lease rent on those people. Of course, then they had a hard learning lesson after that from the person who was involved. Even the simple thought that you have to follow the formula and the lease to set the rents is escaped by a lot of people. Exactly. You had pointed out earlier that there's not as many leasehold units, so to speak, out there. I can remember there was an article in the Star Bulletin or something a number of years back who was sort of like the sky is falling type of article what's going to happen to all these condo units when their lease expires. I haven't seen the sky fall yet. Well, the reason is it hasn't fallen yet. Look at this very interesting thought. At one point we had 70,000 leasehold condos fast-forward roughly 20 years and suddenly we're down to 50,000. And then land reform comes or mandatory conversion for condo comes in 91 and by 2005 we're down to 15. And between 2005 and now, which is 12 years later, we're down to 6. Fee conversions happen without having to overly incentivize the fee owners. And the reason is the economics. It is more economically beneficial that I say that right. It is more economically beneficial for the fee owners to sell the fee to the lesses than do anything else. And so we've seen as some of these leases have come up. And I'm only talking condos now. About 15 condo leases have come up for expirations so far. And none of them have the lessors or the lender come back to retake the property and kick the people out. Number one reason is nobody wants to kick anybody out. But the bigger one is the economics. Famously, the last vehicle version I did was for two co-ops in Makiki. And the landowner said, for decades and decades I'll never sell, don't even ask, so they never even tried. Just before the lease expired a few years ago, he went in to see his attorney and he said, what should I do at the end of the lease? I'm going to get this thing back in six months.  But they did. And they went and they valued selling the fee to the lesses, taking the building back, refurbishing selling fee-simple condominiums, extending the lease for the lesses, taking the building back and doing it as a rental project long-term. And the economic fact was, selling it to the lesses was far more lucrative than any other of their other end uses from that end-use analysis. The funeral then goes, well, okay, I'm pushing 90 and I would like to set up my family, so let's just sell the thing. And that happens over and over again. We see today that when the landowner finally wants to look and address what to do at the end, they'll look at these end-use analyses and decide to sell it. And some who really have an attachment to the land will extend the leases. I expect from this point forward that most condo owners, not talking co-op, most condo owners will either have a chance to buy the fee or extend the leases and very few, I can think of one famous example on the coast of Kahala, but very few will actually have to surrender and get kicked out and the lander will take back the property just because it's against their economic benefit to do so. So do you think in your mind with what is left out there in leasehold condominiums that there is a market, there's still somebody who's going to buy a leasehold condominium? There's always risk takers. And I would say that buying a leasehold condominium has many risks. Rent renegotiations in the future, will the land want to take it back? Will they sell? If so, when? And for how much? Are they going to be what I call overly aggressive? Because they can ask whatever they want and it's up to you to take it or not. Or are they going to be fair and do it on a praise value? Are they going to be decent about it? And that's a lot of risk to take on if you don't understand each one of those different aspects to analyze whether you should buy it or how much should you pay or not. What we do see though is when leases get really short under 10 years and certainly by 5 years people will spend a certain amount of money on buying a leasehold condo just because it's cheaper than rents. I might kick in $20,000 here because that and plus maintenance fees is cheaper than rent for me over the next 10 years. And maybe I'll get a chance to buy it towards the end. It's funny you bring that up because I had a friend of mine who bought a very, very cheap leasehold unit paid 25 for it about 10 or 11 years later sold it for $2,500 because the lease was really getting close to ending. And I asked him, I said, were you upset about the difference in the price? And he says, no, it was a vacation rental all these years. I made my money back so the $2,500 was just gravy. Unfortunately, the realtor who sold it could only go to McDonald's dollar menu for her commission check. But like you said, there's always risk takers in any kind of environment like that. Oh, yeah. And they're there. And when leases get short, they'll buy them for $10,000, $20,000, and take their chances. But what will happen though, we've got leases, a lot of them are expiring now. Harvey Shapiro, who was the economist for the Board of Realtors, did amazing amount of statistics because there's no clearinghouse for leasehold information. When the lease is renegotiated, when's the peak of that, when they expire, when the end of it. I'm hoping that in the next few decades, we'll see the end of residential leasehold. I agree, I agree. It was a system that had really good intentions of creating housing, and it did. But then the concept that was brought into place to make it attractive for landowners, otherwise they wouldn't have done it, I think went a little overboard and had some social issues to it. So I think it'll be gone. Well, again, 30 minutes goes amazingly fast and you did a lot of information in that 30 minutes. So I want to thank you again for being here on The Condo Insider. It's been a pleasure to talk to you about this and maybe we'll get you in again, talk a little more about this later on once you've recovered from this episode. My pleasure as well. Thank you Scott. And again, thank you for joining us here on The Condo Insider. Be sure to tune in on Thursdays at 3 o'clock for more information on what it is to be in the condo world.


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People like to handle the Bible as though it were a mysterious or complicated story that can't be easily explained in clear terms. We do so precisely because the content of the Bible is crystal clear and at the same time totally inconvenient. That's why the Sadducees in Mark's Gospel can't comprehend Deuteronomy and why the Pharisees along with the Herodians unwittingly follow after false gods.  Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.  Richard and I discuss the Gospel of Mark chapter 12 verses 28 to 34. You're listening to the Bible as literature. Do you are listening to episode 190 of the Bible as literature podcast? I love an episode that ends with the expression, you are greatly mistaken. It's satisfying to hear Jesus be so direct. In the last episode, he talked about his adversaries or his detractors as being mistaken because the premise with which they approach their loyalty to God is framed in terms of loyalty either to their own teaching, to their own temple, or loyalty to Caesar. And that was the reason they were mistaken. And what God wants is loyalty to the commandment. And what we said last week was that loyalty to the commandment produces dedication not only to the teaching, but to your neighbor. The Lord is God. This is the basic teaching. I've just been working on Joel and Joel's name means the Lord is God. He is the son of Patuol, which means God opened. When God opens his word, you learn that the Lord is God. And anything that goes against that basic teaching is incorrect and moves you farther from him. And this is the problem that they've been running into over the past several pericapies because they don't understand that the entire land belongs to the Lord. They don't understand that even if there is a Caesar who happens to be doing some work on this land, it's not Caesar who owns the land. It's the Lord who is God. The Lord provides. It is always from the Lord and they want to have their own teaching about resurrection and marriage and theology and dogma. And it doesn't matter if it doesn't teach that the Lord is God. Right on the heels of this exchange with the Sadducees, one of the scribes came and heard them arguing and recognizing that he had answered them well, asked him what commandment is the foremost of all. Now this is a good question. Not which Caesar should I follow, which Pharisee or which Herodian has the valid claim? No, not who owns the land, but which commandment should be my priority. Now one might think that this sounds like the rich man who says, what must I do to enter the kingdom? But the rich man is trying to get something out of this. The rich man is not learning his duty. This scribe, what is the commandment that I have to do first? There is no discussion about reward. There's no discussion about what's in it for him. He is interested in learning what his duty is. It goes back to the question of one's premise. The rich man approaches Jesus with a premise and his premise is quid pro quo. The scribe approaches Jesus with a different premise. His only premise is that the commandment is what we're here for. And this is what Jesus has been fighting for all along. Are you here for the commandment or are you here for something else? For people who are scriptural, there is no something else. And as a pastor, I find that I have to make this case over and over and over again. Everyone who comes forward comes forward with something else. They want to justify it. They want to impose it. They want to explain it. They want to rationalize it. They want to cling to it. And the main argument I keep making with people is scripture is the priority. Scripture is the priority. Nothing else matters. And this causes a lot of emotional stress for people because the things that they claim matter are the foundation upon which they build empty false houses. Is the Lord God? Is what you're doing what you're committed to proving that the Lord is God? This is the question. And if you're not answering that question first and foremost, that's how easy it is to get off onto an incorrect presupposition. Another thing I find interesting about this is that it's one of the scribes. This guy is a renegade. He's leaving the rest of the scribes behind to come and listen to Jesus because he thinks that what Jesus is saying sounds reasonable. That as they're all arguing, this sounds like it could be the case, which is one step closer as opposed to trying to trap him. Now one thing that's important to emphasize here, Richard, you've said repeatedly, the Lord is God. In the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, very often in Proverbs and in other texts, you will hear a reference to the Lord's precepts, to his commandments, and then a direct reference to the Lord. If you follow the flow of this poetry, precepts, commandments, instruction, Lord are all used interchangeably. So Richard is saying that if your priority is the Lord God, nothing else matters. And then we're saying nothing else matters with the commandment. But understand that loving the commandment of the Lord is what Scripture means by loving the Lord. This is an important point because everyone in the Gospel of Matthew gives lip service to God. In Isaiah, people give lip service to God. So what does it mean when you say, I love the Lord. I love Jesus. Praise Jesus. I love God so much. People talk this way because they pick up on this language. But they're not talking about loving His commandment. They're talking about something psychological, something theoretical, something, dare I say, platonic that has nothing to do with the love of instruction, which is what Deuteronomy keeps driving at. When you get up in the morning, when you go to sleep at night, when you walk along the way with your children, teach them to recite the commandment, the instruction. Make them memorize Exodus. Remind them that they were once strangers, that they were once foreigners, that they were once in bondage. Teach them, teach them always to breathe the commandment at all times. Jesus answered, the foremost is here, oh Israel, the Lord, our God is one Lord. This verse has a long history of interpretation trying to understand exactly what it means. But in a nutshell, it means the Lord is God. Here that the Lord is God. Now, is Baal God? No. Baal is a false idol that you think is God. But the only one who is God is the Lord. And so you follow Him. But what does it mean to follow Him? It doesn't mean, like you said, praise Him. I love Him. It means do something.  She'll say, then why are there still dishes on the counter? Go wash the dishes if you love me. It doesn't mean anything. So like you were saying, Father, without a commandment, without a word to follow, to show one's loyalty, then whatever lip service you may pay, it's not worth anything. In Deuteronomy, where this text is taken from, the Lord brings His people into the land and shows them the others being taken out as a warning and then gives them instruction.   Deuteronomy is one of the books of the law. So the Lord that is being imposed on you, the one Lord is the instruction. Don't follow after other things, whether it be other people, other teachings, things that you want, things that are interesting to you, things that will profit you. All of that has to be cast aside and you have to have a purity of heart where you are loyal and completely dedicated to one thing, which is your Lord who is God and He is one Lord. I mean, what's the difference between Israel and the other nations? Paul addresses this. The only difference is that they receive Torah. In the land, what's the difference between the Canaanites and Israel? Because the Canaanites were let in and then they were sent out. The Israelites were let in and then they were sent out. What's the difference between them? Israel had the commandments. Israel was taught that the Lord alone is God. God shows no partiality. There is no difference between a Gentile and a Jew. None whatsoever. The commandment is the differentiator. Now the rub in Scripture is that once you receive the commandment, it shows you not only that you're no better than anyone else, but now you're probably worse because you have the commandment and you still act like a Gentile. So all of this theology about chosenness is completely misplaced. This Sunday, Richard, when I was preaching on the selection from Matthew, I talked about the Kingdom coming and the uniqueness of the scriptural tradition is that the commandment tells you to lose to your enemies, which means that if everyone followed the commandment seriously and you were overrun by your enemies and the disciples of the commandment were wiped out on the cross with Jesus, it might be that your enemies conquered, but because you followed the commandment, the Torah has hegemony on the earth. That's a radical teaching. That's the stance Jesus takes on the cross that's the extent to which we have to take seriously the hegemony of the commandment because the commandment is what will usher in the Kingdom of God. And I don't know if people really understand how strong this word hegemony really is. Whether you win or lose depends exclusively, uniquely, on whether one follows the commandment or not. That is it. That is the Alpha and the Omega. You cannot succeed outside of following Torah and you cannot fail outside of rejecting Torah. That is the only question. And so when this scribe comes and asks this, this is potentially the only question that you're allowed to ask. Now, significantly, it's not one of the disciples that asked this. It is a scribe, someone who's not part of Jesus' school, who asked this question, but someone who has immersed themselves in Torah who at least has a chance of understanding.  You don't hire a scribe for his ability to explain the text. You hire him to make copies of the text. And I think even on this level, it's interesting that a scribe who simply repeats Torah was the one who had the best chance of understanding the priority of the commandment. Let me push that idea one more step. Hanging around with Jesus, thinking he's a great guy, did not lead the disciples to ask the correct question. But sitting 8 hours a day or 10 hours a day, I don't know how long the scribe's work day was, and reading and copying Scripture did lead him to this. So, maybe a piece of advice for the listener hanging out with Jesus is not as good as reading the Gospel. So for all you people out there who want to draw on your personal experience as opposed to your knowledge of some old book that was written, I don't know, millennia ago, my advice would be ignore your personal experience and your intuition and go in the room, close the door, and hang out with the old text for as long as you can.  And this is what we've been talking about. One of the things I mentioned in my own commentary on Galatians is the quote from Matthew where Jesus talks about seeking and knocking, seeking you shall find, knocking that shall be open to you. For as long as I can remember people talk about this verse as being a justification for asking God for something you want, but that is incorrect. The thing that you're supposed to seek is wisdom and knowledge of Scripture. And if you seek, if you pursue it, if you knock on Scripture's door, you will be rewarded with what you're seeking. This is all about pursuing wisdom and knowledge from the text. And as long as that knocking is infused with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength, then it's valid. If you're knocking and then standing and waiting for him to come and answer the door, that's not what this means. Any piece of your body, any piece of your person has to be not just pursuing, but obedient to the commandment. Until you're sitting in a church meeting and you get irritated when people talk about something other than Scripture. I mean, fine. There has to be some administrative discussion about paying the bills, keeping the lights on if you happen to have a building. But my point is beyond that, if you start talking about how do we grow our church? Or how do we reach our teens? Or how do we do this? Or how do we become more relevant? Should we have a class on how to sing better? All of this is waste of time. The only thing that matters is Scripture. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't try to improve your choir or your church's program. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying your priorities have to be correct. If your priorities are not correct, everything you do will be corrupt. If your priorities are correct, if you happen to have to do something like improve the singing, you'll do it, but you won't be living for improving the singing. And if you're not living for improving the singing, then you won't abuse each other over the worship service. Realize the singing is not going to get you into the Kingdom of Heaven. Everybody says, Lord, Lord, big deal. Now, we're going to go for two hours on a Sunday and sing. So the singing should be nice. But if there isn't a word preached, there's no point. It's empty.  Because nothing you do in church, nothing is on a par with the reading. First, the reading. Secondarily, the explanation of the reading. And you can even do without the sermon so long as the reading is there. But you can't do without the reading.  There is no other commandment greater than these. My sincere apologies, Anne Rand. Everything you wrote is baloney. It's not compatible because loving your neighbor as yourself not only is the most important thing we can be doing here on earth, but it only functions subordinate to the first one, which is that the Lord is God, the Lord alone. And you have to love him with this loyalty. But what does it mean to love the Lord God with all these things? How do we love God that we can't see? As John says, we have the neighbor who we can see. Now, you don't love the neighbor because of the good feeling you get.  You don't help them even because they're suffering and you want to relieve their suffering and feel better that there's less suffering in the world. All of these pursuits are empty.  Because the only thing you're going to be judged by if you go out to relieve suffering in the world, the world belongs to God and the Lord is God. You have to make that primary and then this flows from that and you only love the neighbor because you're loyal to the Lord God. Now, when you're loyal to Caesar, which we saw in the previous episodes, you are in this position where you are rooting for a camp. We often critique Hellenism. I'm very outspoken about the critique of Hellenism on this podcast, but if you look at the tradition of the Greek mythologies, of the classical literature, if you look at the paradigm in the ancient world, each city had a God and you rooted for your God and you rooted for your city the way kids today root for their high school, the way people in politics root for their nation. It's the same old nonsense. It builds their God, whatever it is, their idea that they rally around and then they smash people who come from other camps or other groups or other ideologies. That's how your pagan gods function, whether it's an actual statue of Zeus or it's your flag or it's your company logo or it's your religious group, whatever it is, whatever your tribe is, you're picking one God and then in the name of that one God, smashing people who are under other gods. In scripture, you're presented with the commandment of the one God and that commandment sets you up not only to not fight but to lose to the others. It's so powerful in Deuteronomy that it's explicitly stated here that to love this one God has to be the same as loving the neighbor. They go together. Imagine if in your school song when you're fighting the other school the song said you have to love the people from the other school in the same way you love the people from your own school, so much so that in the basketball game or the homecoming game, you have to lose so that they can enjoy the feeling of victory which will be your victory even though your team loses. It's deconstructing the way human civilization works and it's a frontal assault on Hellenism because Hellenism is the perfect expression of the way human beings work naturally but that's what scripture is fighting. You know, here's how I can prove to you that your leader is not God. Caesar is not God. How do we know that? Well, he was called Caesar of the world or the civilized world or the known world. Well, if Caesar is God how come he has to go and conquer other lands so that they belong to Caesar? He is not God because he does not own the land but he lives for land. The one who created the land the one who put the land there owns the land. That is his land. Even if the President of the United States wants to be the policeman of the world there are still places outside of his jurisdiction. He can't be the policeman of North Korea. He tried it, didn't work. You don't have that power.  When you are a citizen of the United States then you treat the Syrian differently than you treat the American. You treat the illegal immigrant from El Salvador differently than you treat the one who was born in the United States because you are a citizen of the world.  When you are a citizen of God who owns all the land there is no boundary. You can't be me or you because everyone is within the land, within the boundaries of the Lord's kingdom. And for all of you who want to feel Jesus in your heart and answer from your personal experience and your feelings and your inspiration describe the guy who sits down as you said Richard for eight hours a day copying texts and back then he couldn't watch Netflix while he was doing it, okay? The scribe said to him Right teacher, you have truly stated that he is one and there is no one else besides him and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength and to love one's neighbor as himself is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Now what's notable about his answer is that he's quoting a text. This is the point. He didn't say you're right because I agree with you. He said you're right because if I look at the text that's exactly what it says. The scribe only uses as his reference the text not what he thinks is happening with the resurrection and divorce and marriage. Correct. It's not his theology. He is a man of scripture. He is a man literally of the word, a person of the book and he and Jesus are engaged in an intelligent discussion about Deuteronomy. It's like two scholars sitting down in Deuteronomy what is prioritized as the most important commandment in Deuteronomy. This according to Deuteronomy is what's most important. Yes, you're correct. I see here in Deuteronomy that this is corroborated by this text. Thank you very much. I just had Bible study with Jesus Christ. And how did Jesus respond? This is unprecedented. Jesus is not a guy who throws out compliments. When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, he said to him, you are not far from the kingdom of God. He is ascribing intelligence to the commandment. You've answered intelligently because the commandment makes you intelligent. It's like in church Richard when a 13 year old or an 11 year old reads the epistle. They don't have to know what they're talking about, but because they're reciting the words of Paul, they sound intelligent. So Jesus is saying you answered intelligently, parenthetically, because Deuteronomy is intelligent and you're reflecting its intelligence by digesting it and repeating it. You are not far from the kingdom of God. And note, he didn't say good job. He said even though you answered intelligently you're still not there yet. You're not in the kingdom yet, but you're getting there. And this is what we were saying in the beginning. What is the kingdom of God? The kingdom of God is the kingdom that's ruled by the Torah, just like the United States is the kingdom that's ruled by the Constitution in the exact same way. So if you are acting according to the Constitution, no matter what country you're in, you're acting according to the laws of the United States. Now the difference about the United States is that the United States does not have jurisdiction in France. So it doesn't matter if you follow it or not.  Why is he not quite in the kingdom yet? He recited the text, but he's not yet doing it. We'll see how well he does it, because God always wants to be sure that it's not lip service, but in fact he is acting according to the commandment. That's why in Mark you call no man good. It's a reflection of Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians chapter 4 that you should withhold judgment until the time. Because God will decide whether or not you followed the commandment. But at least as you said, you now acknowledge that your priority is the commandment. It's amazing how many people who are all talking about the kingdom of God haven't taken step one which is to throw everything away except the commandment. After that, no one would venture to ask him any more questions. And I love this example in Mark because it reminds me of a classroom. There are people who ask questions that they pull out of nowhere, because they're wandering off and thinking about nonsense. And there are people who ask questions that are useful. Jesus, like a classical professor not the modern professor who is a friendship with his class and lets them call him by their first name and wants to meet them at coffee shops and understand where they're at. That's baloney. All that is a waste of time. All that matters is the content of the lecture. What is the priority? What is being fed to you in the lecture? So your question has to be germane and it has to reflect an understanding of the content of the lecture. So what's happening is that there are no more questions because people are not serious about the content. No, in fact, their heart has been hardened. They have not been humbled by Jesus. They're just turned off. They are set in their ways because if they actually cared about what scripture said they would start asking him more questions so that they could learn more. Like you said, asking intelligent questions because this is what the scribe does the scribe asks an intelligent question Okay, I want to be loyal. So what do I need to do? Do these things? Sounds very reasonable based on what I read in scripture. Okay, you're on your way then. That's all he says. You're on your way. He doesn't say you're there. He's not putting an A in the grade book. He said there's a possibility that you're going to get an A. We'll see how this plays out. The reason there are no more questions is because the people who want Caesar or who want the temple or who want their religious ideology already have what they want. They've been shut out by Jesus because he's not interested in talking to them. Conversely, the scribe doesn't need to keep talking to Jesus because he and the Lord just discussed Deuteronomy. And he knows that what he needs is in Deuteronomy. There's nothing left to discuss. This is the problem. There's too much vain talk. It's a zero-sum game. Either you're interested in the commandment or you're not. If you aren't, yalla bye.  What are we doing standing here?


Good morning guys. Welcome back to vlog week day two. I just woke up I think it's like 8 a.m. I ended up just cleaning the entire kitchen the dog She's got back in from going outside.  Hi Coco. She's just smiling Oh my gosh. Hi Coco. I love you. Anyways today's vlog I'm going to kind of go in more detail on like what I eat today and like my fitness routine. I normally run on Fridays Okay, Fitz. All right. Seriously. Let's go feed them really quick. Okay. Hi Lee. Are we not? Fitz. Coco. Eat your own. So the dogs are eating in the background But I'm gonna show you guys what I eat today a little more about my fitness routine Normally on Friday because I do Pilates at noon. I'll do like I'll run and I'll do Pilates But I'm actually just gonna go on like a long walk today and then do Pilates But we're gonna go more into that later making my lemon water now That's something I'm really trying to get back into as of today. Here's my mug. These are from William Sonoma They're the best mugs ever you can probably get like a good dupe on Amazon though So I'll link those down below. Anyways, I'm gonna start off my day with just some lemon water and then some like coconut yogurt Fruit concoction I just have some yogurt with mango cinnamon and then some honey Normally I put like chia seeds in or something but I just didn't today and then I just have some hot lemon water I used to drink hot lemon water as soon as I woke up every day last summer and it was the best thing ever So I'm gonna get back to that But this is like my favorite thing and then normally I'll go like work out or whatever And then I have like a little bit of a bigger breakfast Slash a brunch after but this is what I'm having right now guys I'm reading right now, but like there's a rainbow. It's so cool Guys, I've been reading a lot. Oh You're just like on the cure. I don't don't worry. I'm a Celsius instead of making coffee this morning I'm really tired. But when I wake up and I read obviously, it's just like relaxing and I've been reading for what is it? It's almost like 9 50. Okay, so I knew I have an IG live with they let which is a Pilates class So we're doing that at noon. So I like 10 45 or something 11 I'm gonna go on like an hour long walk and take Cocoa because Fitz does not understand walk still as far as fitness goes I work out probably at least like five days a week and I pretty much always move so if I'm not like doing an actual workout I will go and Take a longer walk or whatever that might be which I walk pretty much every day anyways Just because I have dogs so normally my schedule is a little bit off because I was gone But normally Monday Wednesday Friday. I run and I've been using the couch to 5k apps So that app basically gives you an individual plan for You're running to get you up to three miles. So I'm on I think I'm on week seven now Yeah, when I start back so I have like six more runs and then I've completed it. Wow I can't believe I've done it. I've done 18 runs already guys. Um, but Then I'll be up at three miles and then after that I kind of want to do like list or something I think I'm gonna run two days a week do list three days a week and then which is like a low interval thing I've been seeing a lot on Instagram and then I do a lot of like Pilates style stuff So I normally do one class obviously this is all virtually one class a week with daylight also Here's the Celsius packet. These are this one's really good. It's the Cranberry something cranberry lemon It's Q's favorite. That's why I have all these they're really his you can only get this one on Amazon though I think I'm pretty sure that's what he said Here we go And then I would normally do like a Melissa would health workout once a day I mean I was doing like other workouts. I really like hit workouts and stuff that on YouTube That I just really don't like like if it's a YouTube video I don't like it but I can like do it if I'm just like at the gym or with people I don't know. I'm like picky when it comes to that I found the thing that works best for me has just been running and then doing Pilates So I'll do Melissa would health.  It puts you in the best moon I will pretty much do a Melissa would health workout like every day Just because I really really love them. It really changes. That's pretty much my fitness routine today long walk and Pilates class with they let which I'm really excited for also all the Pilates classes with they let are on my Instagram at TV If you guys want to go work out with us, we're doing a live at noon We normally do lives on Fridays. Here's my Celsius guys look how much stuff I have on top of my fridge not happy about that Anyways, this stuff is so good and it actually gives me so much energy and I love drinking Celsius before I work out All right guys trying out this Trader Joe's sunscreen that I just don't trust. I'm gonna take the dogs on a walk. I Really need to like self tan, but it's just like it's a little bit rough right now guys.  Who's ready fits? I can not believe how big you've gotten. I was looking at Pictures from the first day we got him guys and he has grown So much hey come back and it's been like not even two weeks yet We're off on our walk guys and back from the walk it is so hot outside guys I cannot even describe it But the IG live is happening pretty soon Probably just going to get some work done or I don't know guys like gonna be real I got a text today that has like not the best news So I'm trying to not freak out and have a good day. So All right guys it is now 1130 I have my Pilates class soon. I made some avocado toast on gluten free bread Sorry, the morning toast is on in the background everything with the bagel seasoning and then this Trader Joe's glaze It's so good when you put it on avocado toast All right guys, so on the morning toast They just said that I wasn't really listening because I was cooking but there's a new Epstein documentary coming out on Sunday It's a four hour special and I believe it's from the victims Um So I'm really looking forward to watching that if you guys have not looked into the Epstein stuff and watch this stuff on Netflix It is absolutely insane. I do not know how this stuff happens like it's just Literally so heartbreaking and absolutely insane. So anyways, I'm gonna give my avocado toast and Get back to watching the morning toast. That was so good I just made I went back after I put everything away and made another because it was just incredible All right, I have my mat. I just realized I forgot my weights, but I don't feel like going upstairs again It's fine though. Look if you want to follow along with the workout on Instagram She do like just a five minutes. Okay, then you guys don't need weights I just have like ball of angles. So that's why I was using those but I just don't feel like going downstairs I finished the workout. I feel so good. It was so hard It was literally just a 30 minute workout and it was really difficult The music is getting like hit and the ID live keeps getting taken down from ID TV So I'm gonna edit the ID TV and then pitch it and post it and hopefully it still works If not, I already have another live that's been posted to my page with daylight So if you guys want to go watch that I'm in the one we did today should be up to you But it's like a really hard workout for 30 minutes Also, it's supporting a block on business if you guys are able to just kind of them or donate to day That's business. We also have done a few of these like zoom classes that you sign up for and it's like ten dollars Which ends up just being a donation. I don't know what is on my floor guys. I have water damage in my house right now Not ideal. Um, anyways, it ends up being a donation to Some sort of organization whether it be like Breonna Taylor or George Floyd or like a black woman business or you know Whatever we decide that week So if you guys ever want to be a part of that just follow me on Instagram because I normally am sharing it like Real time and I normally share it within like a few days of it happening and it's super fun It's a really great time Honestly, like my zoom Pilates classes with daylight had been like the highlight of my quarantine So we're definitely down to do more of those if you guys just Why isn't this light working if you guys just let us know? So it is now like 3 p.m. I Showered I self-tanned I was trying to relax and then Quinton came over unannounced and said that we're going to get lunch Which I was going to cook lunch So we're actually we had a meeting set for two, so I'm not sure what she means You pushed our meeting back Lee Yeah, but we agreed it was that too so she says unannounced It's because I left my phone at my place So technically I didn't text here. Okay, so anyways, um, we're waiting for a chick flaring out this guy's about to give it to us hold on Okay, thank you. Okay, so on the road trip. I found the best salad chip boy It's the market salad and then you get it with the zesty apple cider vinegar, right? Yeah Anyways, it's really good. I actually am a huge fan of the salad and then I got lemonade, so you know It's all about balance people. Wait, did they give you straws? Anyways, I'm really tired and I'm not having the best day so We got chick-fil-a and then we're gonna go home and have a meeting honestly I am really impressed by the salad though I actually used to make fun of my friends for getting salad to chick-fil-a because I was like if you're going to chick-fil-a Just go all out, but then I started going to chick-fil-a like so much and I was like, you know I actually am craving a salad so not to say I'm sure this is probably still really bad for you somehow except like most fast food Most fast food salads are do you have Braved the Texas heat for these straws. Maybe I need to get a coffee. I haven't actually had coffee today That would make sense as to why I'm so tired. Didn't you this morning? No, I have a hot lemon water If I close my eyes, this is sweet green. Oh my gosh She does love the Hollywood Bowl. Just kidding though. This salad's actually really good. Alright guys It's 4 p.m. And what do you know? I have my energy back. It's literally first off My hair looks crazy. I was just laying on the couch, but it is literally between the hours of one and three I am worthless good for nothing can't do anything then it hits around 4 p.m. And I'm just back so Part of me wants to like get out of this but the other part of me just wants to like use it to my advantage, you know Anyways, I'm gonna make some coffee still just in case you know It's not like cured coffee really does much for me.  Coco's upstairs right now, but Fitz. Oh my gosh. I cannot believe how big you've gotten It's so crazy. It's so crazy Isn't it so crazy? Coco was hanging out with me all afternoon Fitz had some me time He needed some time by himself He still doesn't understand the concept of walks.  He doesn't want to go. He just sits there tries to sleep on the grass Just a lot Here we go. I'm making Can you come to my meeting guys? I even got new stuff and everything Up down my brown Bible It's not what I would have chosen But I actually really like it so I'll link it down below if any of you guys are interested But I just got new this is how you know you're serious about stuff guys you get new office supplies like how exciting We should be at my desk, but it's just really hot up there honestly So we're just gonna sit down here Coco's just hard at work with us guys Look at her. Oh My gosh, you're so cute. Oh my gosh, you're so cute She just wants to see what's going on So much for working I just woke her up because I accidentally moved but she was snoring so Big working gal, huh? Also guys, I have been looking at new fridges who will be so excited when I get a new Counter-depth fridge. I'm now making dinner. I'm gonna make one of my old go-to dinners I made it last time. It was so good. Um, this is only three seven What's you but Melissa? What's you really it comes from Melissa wood health show? We have the Brown rice the spicy not So I can see the new I'm gonna saute Broccoli and kale and okay. This is the secret ingredient that makes the world go round this trader Joe's Seasoning I'm sure so many of you guys. I don't know why it's not focusing So many of you guys have probably seen it because it's pretty popular on YouTube now But it is so freaking good. Um, I've been using this now for like a year and I've probably purchased like I Mean at one point I had like five of my pantry Like at least probably how do you think of these? I've bought like 20 Plus you okay So anyways, I'm gonna saute some stuff. I'm actually using this pan I use my our place always pan for pretty much every single thing that I cook But I thought that I would bring this one out and just change things up, you know guys actually just ran out of this Thank God. I had another just waiting for me. Okay Dinner's ready. This is like my favorite dinner so easy sauteed broccoli and kale and then just brown rice pasta with my favorite Sauce I made this in yesterday's vlog too, but it is what I'm eating today So I kind of had to share Also, I just like cannot believe how big he is now. It's seven. I just walked the dogs again Um, I guess my bug bites are absolutely out of control Anyways, um, I know a lot of you guys been asking about like dog training and stuff And I would not say I'm the best at this Um, I definitely did not like coconut is not the most trained dog at all because she's so little in like She's not awful like by any means but because she's so little and really doesn't cause problems It just hasn't really caused an issue, but then when we got fits I was like, okay, we're great training and like, you know doing the whole thing So we're doing a cocoa and she's doing totally fine. Of course. She's an angel. She's perfect Um, so anyways, I'm like not a pro at this but a lot of you guys been asking questions So if you guys want me to do something about how we've been training like I just wouldn't even know like what do You guys want so it is Friday night guys It is you and me I haven't had a night to myself to just read for hours on end in so long So I need to go upstairs and get this vlog edited the past few months You guys know my favorite thing to do was to order a smoothie from DoorDash link below $15 credit and Read my book in bed from 7 p.m.  On a Friday night. I'm about why change it to pajamas I'm about to start editing this vlog and then I'm gonna read after this is like my This isn't even plugged in but this is honestly like my perfect just night to myself Hey guys, just took the dogs out again Finished editing at the vlog up until now and I'm about to get in bed. Oh guys I also did DoorDash smoothie king the angel. I'm just gonna change this name to angel hair officially the angel food I almost said angel food pasta podcast. What am I saying guys? It's not even it's like 8 p.m. Right now Anyways, this is my favorite smoothie. I just don't know why I'm so obsessed with smoothie king guys It's like not cute or trendy But you know when is what it is have some candles burning and then I'm going to read for the rest of the night Guys, it just guys it just feels so good in here. I am finishing at night road tonight I started this book like a week or two ago And I normally read like two or three books a week rented like I was on a road trip and I've just been busy But still update on the book. Okay, so here's the thing I feel like if I read it when I was in a different kind of mood and like more of a mood to read it It would be one of my favorite books But if you guys are readers you'll understand what I'm saying what sometimes you just like can't even think about like Reading a thriller and then you read a romance and then sometimes you can't think about reading a romance I need to read a thriller whatever that might be I got this book knowing I was in the mood to read it But I have this curse where I have to finish every book I start so I really do like it I wouldn't say it's a page turner. It's definitely like did I say night road? I mean 19 minutes I just realized it's a night road. I did read that that was good 19 minutes. It's definitely really a book It's a heavy read so maybe that's part of it too But I feel like it's definitely one of those books that I always remember and always think about so anyways I'm gonna finish it tonight. It's also really long Anyways, no one cares just giving guys my book rack. I'm posting book reviews on tiktok You know, I found my niche anyways Love you guys so much subscribe if you guys are new here, and I'll talk to you guys soon. Bye


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Kwa hwaja nga bimbiajo wa nyuduwa watu na bimiajo wa tia mafzuidi kwa repeatu kwa nkshai bwaja na uwa hwaja hwaja nliwa hwaja hwaja. We are getting patriotic and the national team is official. They have qualified to the African cup of nations slated for Egypt later this year in June. It's official amongst 24 countries that will be taking part in the continental showpiece. But the last formality tie against Blackstas of Ghana, that is last Saturday. I and you were together at the boxing ring in KIC while that game was under where we were streaming. But how do you assess of Kenya's readiness going by that tie ahead of the continental competition? Good game they played, they were defensively tied even though they managed to concede one goal against the Blackstas of Ghana. But I think even if it was a formality game and everything is done under Rambe Staza and the Afghan right now, the big question and the work starts right now for Sebastian Mena. Because now you are in an Africa cup of nations which you have not been there for the last 15 years. Some other teams in Africa have really really improved. You look at teams from the North African side, the likes of Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria. These are teams that have improved in infrastructure in the quality of sports that they have. And you look at other teams that are coming in from the likes of South Africa, the likes of Madagascar, Mauritius, who are coming on to the side Angola, Togo. These are teams that have made actually to the world cup. Also Cameroon is also there because they are actually the current champions. But now Kenya being one of the East African sides because we have got Uganda, Uganda which is going there for the second year now that they will be making an appearance at the Africa cup of nations. Kenya which is there for the very first time in 15 years. Tanzania being there for also I think something like 30 years that they have not been there and also Burundi. For all these teams for them is you have got to be ready for the Africa cup of nations. It is good this time round, it's an expanded Africa cup of nations of 24 teams but how ready will you be for that show piece? Because at the end of the day you will be meeting the best sides. Look at team like Senegal that has most of its players playing in Europe. There will be a different side. Led by Sadio Mane who plays at Liverpool. Yes, Sadio Mane, Kulibali. You look at Ghana itself. Tomas Pati. They are Samoa brothers. They are Kwado, Samoa himself. They are you brothers. The quality of the players that will be expecting at this year's Africa cup of nations will be good. The quality of the management itself that will be in the Africa cup of nations will be good. So Kenya has got to be ready. As a fan, as a journalist here in the country, I don't expect Wanda's from Kenya but I expect them to have a good fight but then again make it to the next edition of Africa cup of nations. Kenya is one of the 24 nations that have made it to the African cup of nations later for Egypt later this year. Of course, East Africa contributing 4 countries taking part in continental shop is just few months from now. You speak Kenya, Uganda cranes of Uganda, Tanzania as well. Andrew, you remember that time beating Uganda and Tifa stars of Tanzania but we're going to get to that in a while but before then, let's listen in to Sebastian Minya, the Frenchman and the tactician for the national team Arambe stars alongside goalkeeper Patrick Matasi who considered a goal, though accidental of course upon the arrival at the Jomukiniat International Airport speaking to members of the press with regards to what happened and the future expectation going forward. Let's listen in. A mistake but I don't forget what he did before for us, for me, you know. It's a life of a team. It's different for goalkeeper because Victor Masud, Holunga when he's there can commit a mistake after there is some teammate to come back and to try to repair the mistake. When you're a goalkeeper it's more difficult it's not easy to be a goalkeeper and to be a good goalkeeper but he's on the way. Since I'm here with a full squad he realized at least five clean sheets and it was Matasi. So don't forget it. And yesterday it was Ghana and until the 80th minute it was a clean sheet also. It was a good game. All of us we played according to instruction from the coach we expected to get something on that much but definitely we didn't. So it was our last match so I think we have enough time to prepare and face the big stage. You know this football and when something rises people will have just to look for something to talk about. If you look at that ball that we considered in the 30th minute we lost the ball in the midfield and then when my defence was still going out the striker managed to beat them so the reaction I did was it was just a little miscalculation in terms of seconds going down. So that's why the ball slipped in. Coach Sebastian Minyant is Kastodian Patrick. Matasi speaking upon the arrival at Jomokiniat International Airport from Akra, Ghana where they were taking on black stars of Ghana in their formality last group tie that ended one nil in favour of the hosts and still with Matasi football but with the under 23 of the national team the emerging stars also were bundled out of the under 23 African Cup of Nations Qualifier Kamu Olympic qualification tournament and of course remember during the first leg they were beaten 2 nil by Sudan. Coach by Aman who's been in charge of the local teams both Gorma Football Club and FC Leipards that is Dravko Lugerusi and at home of course Francis Kimansi probably thought that he would overturn the first leg deficit by scoring 3 goals but it didn't turn to be what was expected to be the outcome the game ending in a stalemate but what do you assess of the potentiality amongst the young tux? I think it's you've got the talent you've got the players but you need the continuity of the players and you realise that the under 23 have not been playing for a very long time together as a team I think this is the third time that we are losing an Olympic qualifier in the penultimate stage we are starting off in that stage so it is very bad for the young stars that are coming out but it's a good lesson for them in that most of it that they need is more of continuity in the team and also the young players who are coming in because they play local club football most of the players are from the club like Madari Karubangishats and everything I think it's more about continuity of these players after the under 23 is done most of the players will move out their other new ones will be coming in because the next time we are going under 23 we will be coming out with players who are born I think in 1997 1998 so we will be getting more of the under 17s under 19 graduating on to the under 23 so that continuity is what can help us move the next step ahead of course after that particular outcome both coaches Francis Kimansi of the emerging stars alongside Drafko Lugarusi who said that he didn't want to celebrate the outcome despite his earlier sentiments that he had lined up as code comprising from the street saying that if only fielded players who are his first 11 players then he would have beaten Kenya by a spectacular scoreline but of course saying that he loves Kenya is patriotic he's been in charge of the local teams of celebers and gorma football club therefore deciding not to celebrate but let's listen in to both Francis Kimansi and Zidrafko Lugarusi both for Kenya and Sudan respectively speaking after the match at Kasarani stadium today Kenya were unlucky they didn't score they had their chances and they didn't score if they score the goal the game will be completely open but they have three really good chances they didn't score if you don't score at home you must be punished that's for sure but other thing also I must give credit to my team in two games we didn't receive a goal against Kenya that's not a small thing also I have to say only I have four players they play premier league the rest of them are first division second division and third division some of them from the schools that means I took them 15 days in Egypt to try to make a team we worked very hard and with peace of luck today we passed for today especially because our way may be very few chances but I think we had a lot of chances to knock in the net but we have to accept I think the only thing is converting the chances because to open up the game you need a goal you need it you can even win the game before the end of the time but you need to open the score so I believe we had opportunity to do that early in the first half but again we were a little bit unlucky so a lot of missed chances of course we kept the game on their side because they play again this time they want to slow every single moment because they have an advantage so for us it was a really tough task then you don't deserve to go through if you don't want to open the game in the beginning and you can only open it Zidraf Koluga Rusikan Francis Kimandi both of Kenya and Sudan respectively speaking at Mo International Sports Center Kassarana on Wednesday after the out-competing Kenya and Sudan that ended in a stalemate and therefore Kenya is officially out over under 23 African cup of nations qualifier Olympic qualifiers big blow as we seek to transition from the junior to the senior I don't think it's a big blow because we have never been there it's all about investing in that team what they deserve and I think from the onset there's got a good coach in Francis Kimandi just investing the coach and the team then we can see the fruits of it going forward because if we can get our under 23 to the African cup of nations that will be a very big and good step if we can get to the Olympics that's a good step but you don't want to get in such tournaments and be ashamed of yourself because you'll be getting teams that are better prepared than you don't want scores like 8-0 you are out here but work hard to get the quality that can go to such tournaments of course moving on to another headline yesterday I don't know whether you are keen on social media platforms especially on Twitter KOT they call themselves they pile much pressure on sports Kenya after you know that pronouncement from the sports Kenya led by Puse Metro Director General that Kasarani Stadium wouldn't be available for gorma football club as they seek to take on Birkani from Morocco in their continental football but after that no matter in pressure from Kenyan football followers then Amina Muhamed New CS Sports Arts and Culture had to say that now it would be available and like before because the Expo was supposed to take place at Kasarani till 7th next Sunday but just getting on that we are speaking about Jaya National Stadium which is under renovation and of course inspection happened on Friday led by Amina herself alongside parliamentarians especially in sports committee and of course following the assessment they say that in a few weeks or months from now the stadium would be ready to host Kenya Premier League matches and even continental ties because as we speak right now Roaraka Stadium that is meant for task KFC look Shambolic I don't know what do you assess of in the matters of stadium the readiness of facilities they are worse they are bad but on the issue of yesterday regarding Kasarani Stadium I don't buy that that Kormaya had to use that sports facility because for a team like Kormaya that was formed way back in 1968 50 years down the line and you don't have a facility it's really bad for you it's really really bad and even if sports study and the cabinet sector for sports had to see pressure from many football followers for Kormaya to have that much in the Kasarani Stadium the expo deserved to be there because they planned it earlier Kormaya never knew that they were going to get into the quarterfinals let me finish my point and if Kormaya are getting into the quarterfinals and they are going to use that facility they should just thank God that these people allowed them to use that facility because at the end of the day they could have said no you are not going to use this facility go to Machakos what's the key priority for sports stadium? sports stadium is not only about football but what's the key priority? you can say sports events then if it's sports events why don't you have your own stadium for those sports events look at England how many stadiums does the country have each club has its own stadium if you can't compare your football to the best of the best in quality and everything in the world then what are you doing in the world of football probably the main and big of Kormaya football club was a failure to have an earlier booking for the facility it's not failure because the company is it the Kenya Manufacturer Association Private Manufacturer Association that was going to have their expo at the Kasarani Stadium for them they planned earlier and they had booked the event prior to this event Kormaya they could not have booked the event earlier because this is a knockout competition they never knew that we going from the knockout stages we get onto the group stages and now we are back into the what a final stages so that is a scenario which Kormaya do not know that they are going to have but at the end of the day it is just a wake up call to all the clubs in Kenya Kormaya it is time to start following the cuff lancising mechanisms where you should start having your own fields start having your own study not even a big study start having your own training ground because it's very bad for a club like Kormaya in this day and age you are still fighting we need to use the Kasarani Stadium I think that will form the basis of our discussion next time in our subsequent programming so that we internalize matas spoting facilities in the country remember of Kenya mist on hosting chant atonament for local best players following lack of readiness and unpreparedness with regards to those spoting facilities available to host the tournament but before that let's listen in to Amina Muhamed C.A. Sports and Culture alongside P.S. Ambassador Kirimi Kaberia speaking at Nyae National Stadium on Friday after the inspection Miss that we are going to do our best to make sure that we complete this outstanding as you said it's 70% complete the 30% will be completed we can assure you it's always been an issue of resources of course but now with the sports fund we expect to get the resources that are required to complete this the works here but also in the other study that you visited and so we take that challenge seriously and we'll be working around the clock to make sure generally when members have gone around we have noticed this facility works are going on well apart from some shortcomings we have seen some cracks which the engineer has promised to look into it and rectify we want a facility which may not be dangerous to the fans we want a strong facility Amina Muhamed C.A. Sports Arts and Culture alongside Victor Muniaka Machakos Member of Parliament who is in charge the chairperson of Parliamentary Sports Committee spooking exclusively to members of the press on Friday yesterday at Nyaya National Stadium immediately after the inspection of the ground seeing from going by the pictures you've seen on screen are you looking forward to a state of the art facility I think it will be a very good study for Kenya and it will be hosting many events what I was trying to put across was Fuma U.S. President Jeff Kennedy said look at not what the government can do for you but what can you do for the government I don't deny it our government is badly off can debate that on another day but in mother's sports infrastructure no matter how bad we want them and no matter how the government can chip it to have them the sports stakeholders themselves should start thinking of having their own good stadiums not only for playing surfaces because they bring in a lot of money you look at fields how Tottenham is opening their new ground think you have seen the virtual video of how that stadium looks like it's a very good field England right now if Qatar fails to host 2022 England just needs a month and they will have a world cup tournament in their country without using even the facilities of the government so as much as the government needs to do this the sport patches in the country also needs to start doing their own part of course as we wind up on the sports pages we are going to speak about Kenya rugby as well the elections was conducted I think 2 weeks ago we have got new affairs led by Gangla Odwar Jeff who is the chairperson of Kenya rugby union replacing Richard Ommella who decided not to defend his seat but now we are going to speak about the boards who are named on Thursday at the RFUA grounds but not able names including the top tri-scorer for Kenya calling Sinjera, William Barker Brian Tanga missing in action but of course we have other regulars coming on board Jeffrey now the captain replacing Jacob Oji alongside people like Dan Sikuta Andrew Amont is also back the former captain but what do you make of the capability of the squad ahead of Hong Kong and Singapore 7s and it's a leg that Kenya was crowned the champions over under the tutelage of Benjamin Naim but in 2016 if I'm not wrong what do you assess of the sport? They add value, they add experience coming in on to the side because most of the players who have played in the first 6 legs of the circuit are not that experienced to be in that kind of side so this kind of players who have come in they are giving the team more experience, they are giving the other young players a lot of moral in this tournament. I think the only thing that they can go out there is the youth and the players who are in is just trying to get a win because you realize from the other legs that we were there like in the Vancouver 7s the 7s team did not manage even a win in the 5 matches that they played. Now you are going on to the Hong Kong 7s and you are in a group with Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. That pulsi is a very tough pulsi for Kenya and you are a team going there, you are not organized the coach doesn't know which players is going to have because you have been using players who are not experienced the experienced players are coming in, you have very short time to make sure that these players are fit and good enough to go and represent the country so it's a catch 22 situation for the coach and everybody but I think at the end of the day it is just trying and green sort of result that you can get from the Hong Kong and Singapore 7s This is the touch line on Y25 a very good afternoon. My name is Maksoil Wasiko alongside Robert Osoro just trying to put things into perspective as far as matter sports pages what has been trending in terms of headlines for the sports in the country is concerned of course coming up next big man is in studio Moriso Dumbe cricket legend and iconic figures as far as the sport is concerned probably what you seek engaging him on is a question that you would like him to respond to I think as an experienced player in the country in matters of cricket we like to know where we went wrong and how can we come out of it state of cricket in the country coming up next, don't go away stay tuned but before that know your sport of course golf is a sport that is closely associated with the rich but having spoken to several people are involved in the sport PGK captain CJ Wangai says that Osoro Robert can as well play golf despite not making it to the current country club during the last just concluded Kenya Open don't go away stay tuned