And now let's move on to the next special address. When we speak about fashion, retail, there's no chance that especially for men, we don't talk about these few brands that really excites us. A next speaker represents brands that have redefined fashion in India, be it leading the formal wear segment who now tapping into smart casuals. He leads the iconic brand such as Louis Philip, Van Heuzen, Alan Solly, and Peter England. Welcoming Vishak Kumar, CEO, Mudra Fashion and Lifestyle. So I was saying let's welcome Vishak Kumar, the CEO, Mudra Fashion and Lifestyle, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited. To make you retrospect, is your brand future proof? Also, I think one thing brilliant for all the viewers out there is that Mr. Kumar wants this session to be very engaging and interactive. So please keep posting your questions in the Q&A tab and he will be happy to respond. So Vishak, over to you. Thank you, Weber and a very good afternoon to all of you. Yes, I agree with that. Let's try and make this interactive. So the way the technology is going to work is that you please real time keep typing into the chat box. And I've requested Simran to pass them on to me on WhatsApp since I'm not going to see them directly on the chat box. So please do keep them coming. I want to keep it real time. Don't save your thoughts. Don't save your questions till the end. Let's do this as we speak. Sardar, could you put up the presentation please? Thank you. Yeah, so we're talking about is your brand future proof, but this is almost assuming that the brand is fine today. So my first step to you and I've kept it in six steps for you to sort of future proof your brands. And while I have kept the presentation fairly generic, I will try and give you as many examples as possible from the business that I've been into so that it makes it as real as possible for you. Moving on Sardar. So the first step is to say, look, is my brand relevant today? A lot of things. It's nice to say here, let me future proof my brand. But my question to you is, what if your brand is already dead and that we're not aware of it yet? So there are some ways by which you could figure that. And in any case, if even if you are alive and kicking, it's important that you're setting the right foundation for your brand to be future proof. So let's look at some of the things that you could do to check if your brand is relevant for today, Sagar. So first thing I would say is, if you want to know how relevant is your brand today, first is, of course, you must check your sales. I'm sure all of you have your MIS reports and so on. But to look for the quality of sales, it's not just about your numbers. Of course, the fact that your numbers are growing would be a good sign that your brand is relevant today. But look for quality of sales. For example, are you selling more of your product at discounted prices? Are you selling to the right customer cohorts that you intend to sell to?  So I think it's important that you analyze your quality of sales. Equally important that we do research. Now, this is something which is never urgent and important, but it's very high on importance. It's just that it's never urgent. So I would say look at research in whichever forms you can, if you're a smaller business, do research through dipstick surveys and talking to customers directly. Don't limit it to awareness. Look at how people like your brand. How relatable is your brand? A lot of times, brands do stuff which consumers can't relate to. It's just that we fall in love with our brand so much that we think that that's stuff which is happening to other people. So it's extremely important that we also look at what's research telling us. Do people like me as a brand? Do people relate to me as a brand? Do people know me? Do people know my logo? Can people recognize my logo? Can people recognize the things that I stand for? Customer satisfaction scores absolutely vital. Before you can start any exercise of your brand, please look at how satisfied we follow a process called post purchase mission happiness. Post purchase mission happiness is a lot of us do things around customer satisfaction, net promoter scores and so on. Happy are you with what you bought. This goes one step further and it goes to the all of you would know that all new great. You know it's only after you purchase mission happiness does is to ask you this question of how happy are you with the government you bought exactly one month after your purchase. So if you bought from any of our stores let's say a Louis Philippe store exactly 30 days from today you would get a simple SMS with a link for just five questions which ask you basically how happy are you with the product you bought. We don't stop at that we compile that data and we are able to compile that at a fabric level, factory level, mill level in terms of all possible specifications so that it leads to further continuous improvements as a way of life. So please do look at how happy are your customers with you. Very vital that you also look at purchase data are people that you're selling to are they the same customers who are buying again or are you required to sell to new customers every time. It's a vast country so you will find a lot of first-time customers but what makes a brand a brand is when you have repeat consumers. So do look at your measures of business to see if you're getting enough of repeat sales of course as a healthy business you do need new customers that's your engine for growth but do keep looking at are the people who bought from you are they buying from you again and again. Okay Simran keep do please send me whatever screenshots you get as and when you get them so that I can read that into the conversation as we speak. Yeah go on Sagar. As you look at future proofing your business it is important that you identify the things that might change your industry that might change in your industry. There are things that all of us are familiar with as the shifts that might happen. Let's look at some which are most likely to happen Sagar. So clearly technology and this is something which is likely to affect every business. I had a friend in a leading watch business who told me 20 years back that our business has to change a lot of technology. We've been in this industry the watch industry has been around for hundreds of years and it's not going to change and look at how people wear watches today and how tectonic shifts have happened in the watch business. Almost every industry is going through changes like this. For example in our own business in Aparap technology has completely changed the way we sell and increasing amount of business. The previous speaker spoke about 2% in his industry. We are already close to 20% now as business which is happening through e-commerce and it is rapidly growing. Societal norms things change. Imagine if you were a business of selling ties, neck ties and you were the market leader in selling neck ties. If you didn't see the societal norms changing. When was the last time you saw somebody wearing a tie to work? Of course when was the last time we saw a person in a physical office but tied apart. When was the last time we saw even pre-Covid anybody wearing a tie to work? So it's extremely important that we recognize even definitions of what is dressing up, what is various norms of society at different points of time. Demographics and this is something again where is the nation aging? Is the nation getting younger? Where is the large part of the consumer cohorts? Where are they? Is again something very, very important to recognize. Who's got the money? At different points of time, different consumer cohorts are very vital from purchasing power perspectives as well. So I think keep a close eye on the demographics of which are likely to change. Now this is relatively easier to predict political landscape, economic progress. Look at, for example, small town India. Small town India is, you know, I was a couple of weeks back in a town called Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. A year back we had practically no business in Namakkal and today it's such an amazing story of how well the the van Houston store in Namakkal is doing. Some of these are happening as the country progresses and the business in these markets, of course. Now, can you just put up a store and forget it? No, it's extremely important that you understand the market, you understand the consumers in that market very, very different from the rest of the country and so on. But please do identify the things that are changing in your understanding, laws and regulations, entry barriers. How easy is it for international brands to come into your market? What will happen if more and more brands come into your market? How will you respond to that? All of these are things that one must prepare for as we prepare to future-proof our business. Needless to say, I think everybody's become very familiar with Black Swan events now. COVID is one such and it's what people call once-in-a-century event. But watch out for the next Black Swan events as well and how you would respond to them. Okay, I'm going to take a 10-second breather and look at some of the thoughts which have already come. Perfect, so there are nice questions. Thanks Tarun, thanks Neha on some of the stuff that you want addressed and I will take that on as we speak. Yeah, go on Sagar. I'm going to also give you some predictables in your business. As we look at the future, all of us worry about how uncertain it is and what is likely to happen and so on. What I do want to do is to give you some most likely predictions, which are almost foolproof. So yeah, just go forward Sagar. So here are some predictions for you. First is, consumer will buy it only if it's of good quality. Now, this is a sort of no regret action. Make sure that your products are good because people are not going to buy mediocre stuff. So this is one future-proof strategy that each one of us can have, easier said than done, but absolutely good advertising, good marketing. We're only sink a bad product faster. So make sure that your product is damn good. Remember that people prefer to buy stuff that is simple and easy to use. As you key in on WhatsApp, you know what I mean. The simplicity of a product, the ease of use is extremely wide. We see this even in the apparel business. For example, as we saw the pandemic and we saw more and more people working from home, we realized that a lot of people had lost their Gobi solution for ironing clothes, etc. And when we launched this line of wash and wear garments, which didn't require ironing, which was easy maintenance, it just flew from the shelves. So it's clear that if you're able to give people simplicity, if you're able to give people very easy operational product solutions, they do like it. Trust me, technology will keep disrupting business. So keep watching for technology. It affects every industry at some point of time or the other. Please remember, all of us used to buy cassettes and CDs and see how that industry got disrupted. So industry after industry, the way we used to take photographs while on a holiday across the business, you will see. And it's not just for tech industries that technology will be a disruptor. Technology will be a disruptor in very, very basic ways in all of our businesses. Do look at how technology is likely to disrupt your business. Consumers will increasingly, as the stress on the planet increases, as the stress on sustainability increases, there will be increasingly pressure from consumers to give you products, to give them products which are good for the planet. Now a lot of brands today, a lot of companies today have done what is called green washing, which is basically tokenism in the name of sustainability. Remember that consumers will see through this very, very quickly. Good brands will be those which are able to tangibly, demonstrably show to consumers that they are good for the planet. Another very, very important, almost short shot prediction, consumers are increasingly becoming aware of the health impact of products. So make sure that your products help consumers to stay healthier. So to do look at, again another example, in recent times with COVID, where people have become increasingly aware of how they have to improve their immunity, etc., are athleisure lines, are lines of sportier merchandise, etc. They've just been flying from the shelves and online as well. So please remember this, that there are things which are going to stay stable and you just need to make sure that you're really good at those. Move on. Now here is where we come to the meat of it on how do we future-proof our business. Please understand the true positioning of your brands. And here is what I mean by true positioning. A lot of times we write these marketing statements, positioning statements in PowerPoints, in our own boardrooms, meeting rooms. Don't start believing in those. The only positioning to remember is the one which is in the minds of consumers. You will have to get that out of their mind and understand that. Sometimes there are people who believe in the taglines or strap lines of their campaigns and believe that to be their positioning. It's very, very important that you understand truly what consumers think of your brands. And all of us make this mistake of starting to believe our advertising message to be our brand positioning. That's what we want as intended position. That's what we are trying to influence consumers into thinking about us, but they make their own minds. And it's very, very important that we understand what does our brand stand for today. Of course, then it becomes relatively easier to know where do you want them, how do you want them to think about you. Another important thing to understand as we speak about positioning is this whole notion of marketing myopia. So I can just page down. Beware of now, some of you who've read Kotler would know marketing myopia. It's basically how sharply, how tightly versus how loosely, how widely do you want to define your business. In a conventional thinking, all of us have been told to have razor sharp positionings, especially those who are more FMCG inclined. It's extremely important heart. This brand stands for germ kill. This brand is strengthens, fights tooth decay, strengthens gums. So we have all grown up with very, very successful stories about how brands have worked, which have worked with very, very sharp positions have done extremely well. And yet I want to also caution you about the reverse, which is what is Theodore Leavitt calls marketing myopia.  Okay, do look at this. And I'm going to now make this a little more interactive and seek your answers on the chat box. All of you know which company I'm talking about as I write this. So most innovative film role company, good to have that, good to be an innovative 20 years back, it was damn good to be the most innovative film role company. The question to you is, how would you rather have positioned the business so that it, in the 1980s and perhaps in the early 90s, could have future proofed itself? Here was another business which was leader in cassettes and CDs. How could this business have redefined itself at that point of time, so that it future proved itself and was relevant even today? Best training institute for your hostesses. Now, this is an amazing company does extremely well, but what would happen if airline travel reduces? How could this business future proof itself going ahead? Best brands for men's office where what would happen if the future of office itself changes? How can this brand redefine itself? Copying equipment, video game business. So I'm going to wait for some of your chats on this one to see what's the kind of positionings that you would recommend for these companies so that you could make them future proof. And perhaps Simran, somebody could even read them out as you get in the chats. We already have questions for you. If you could look at it, we have 10 minutes time left. We've already sent you questions. Yeah, I've got that, but I just trying to see if Simran, if people want to just respond to that this. Yes, so we have a chat coming in. It says that the leader in cassettes and CDs could go to doing a podcast and turn into a digital podcast company. Hang on, hang on. But now that is what I would call in my next slide as a pivot and we will come to that. But the larger question is how could I broad base myself? One is to say I switch to something else. Second is how do I position myself in such a way that I widen my horizon? I widen my position for the business. Are you getting any more, Ritika? I'm looking, so I'm looking. Yeah, thank you so much. There's a gentleman who's mentioned, we bring games alive. Okay, so gaming can go beyond video games. It can go wider into gaming. Please do look at it in respective industries. Look at, for example, the best brand for men's office where could easily extend to, for example, the best brand for men's lifestyle across different usage occasions. Best trading institute for air hostesses could perhaps extend to saying best trading institute for hospitality. So you could widen the scope of the business that you're in to be able to make your business more future proof. And that brings me to the last thought, which is pivot, which is at some point of time. Go on, Sagar.  There were brands which sold only neckties. What happens to them when consumers just stop wearing neckties? Countless examples of such things and that's when you learn to pivot. I'll give you one example, one sample. Just go on, Sagar. Here is an example of, here is a camera business, which said that their target customer is creative professionals with an eye for capturing and sharing beauty. And this brand is the digital point and shoot camera that delivers a window to their world, which is the point of difference so that they can experience deeper connections through a shared perspective. That's the end goal because brand X has a long history of developing new technologies that allow you to, so basically that's the reason to buy. And the point is this, if at some point of time you believe that this company is losing that target customer or it's losing that category, digital point and shoot perhaps is no longer relevant. The business would need to pivot. And different companies must recognize the time at which they pivot so that they are able to spread themselves to a wider audience because at the heart of it, consumers buy us because we give them reasons to buy. So this brand, let's say, has a long history of developing new technologies. This is their opportunity to extend that to many more new categories. So as you can see, it's very, very possible that brands pivot and brands are able to scale beyond their current position. So I will summarize in the interest of time.  Identify the things that might change in your industry. Be prepared for those changes. Know the stuff that is less likely to change. You need to anchor around some things at least. Understand the true positioning of your brand. It's not enough to link your advertising is equal to your positioning kind of equation. Beware of marketing myopia. Don't position yourself so sharply that it doesn't give you any room for maneuver. And finally, learn to pivot at the right time. If you think that your current position is untenable, learn to pivot at the right time. So that brings me, ladies and gentlemen, to the end of my discussion. I think we have five minutes for some Q&A. So maybe this might be a good time, Simran. Yes. Ankita has also asked, you know, she just replied to your mail saying that scan on the go, the question you put, scan on the go and be fashionable, be comfortably fashionable for work anywhere. Absolutely. Fantastic. I think, yeah. So every business, ladies and gentlemen, will give you some of these opportunities to be able to redefine who and what you stand for. So do look at some of those. I have some more questions which had let me take on a couple of them. How do you create balance between brand values and ever-changing consumer needs? asks Tarun. I think it's the same point that I made about where do you pivot and where do you know. It's important that you know the core of your brand and that core of your brand cannot change. So let's say if a brand like Louis Philippe is built around the core, which is excellence, craftsmanship. So everything that Louis Philippe does will have to be built around craftsmanship, will have to be built around excellence. Can Louis Philippe do a shabby garment even if consumers ask for it? Answer is no. So some of these are, you know, in that sense, Tarun best addressed if you know the core of what your brand stands for. Okay. Very, very wide question. How is Aditya Birla fashion aligning its strategies to achieve 25,000 cross revenue? Pritha, that's a very, very large question. But at a very simple level, I think continue to make very, very exciting products which are in touch with the customers of today, which help customers to live their life better, go deep and wide into the country and be where consumers want us to be, become an extremely digitally strong omnichannel business, create a portfolio of brands which addresses every consumer opportunity. Is there any other question which I'm missing, Simran, which is there on the chat box, which perhaps you think I should address? Yes, so there is a question that it's from Dria and it reads with increasing AI and data driven personalization, how do you stand out in a cluttered digital space? It's a very, very difficult challenge that most market years today are facing, which is the sheer amount of clutter. And I think this is where brands have a bit of a head start, because brands do get a little extra attention from consumers. That's one. Second is relevance. How do you constantly strive, especially in the digital world, it becomes possible to personalize, possible to serve unique to consumers advertising, possible to serve unique to consumer solutions, products. I think the critical challenge as you go forward is going to be, how do I work to a segment of one? How do I address single customers as marketing segments and give them products and services, give them communication in that context? Thank you so much, Mr. Kumar. I think the session was fantastic. I'm hoping that if Sagar can send me the presentation, I would be able to re-jog it and understand the nuances that you mentioned. So thank you so much for your time. Please do connect with him on Twitter or on any other platform. I know you are not available on Twitter, I think, but let's get connected with him. If you guys have any questions, do connect. But thank you so much for your time and hoping to learn a lot from you in the future. Thank you, Weber. Thank you, Weber. And thank you all. Have a wonderful rest of the session. Thank you very much for having me.


Good morning everybody and welcome to a whole new breakdown of a very old book that was banned a very long time ago from the Christian Church. This episode is kicking off the apocalypse of Abraham. Now if you're new to this channel, first of all, welcome. Second of all, on Wednesdays we always recap what we talk about on the Dark Outpost TV on Tuesdays. Now if you join us on Tuesdays on the Dark Outpost TV, we do a live show with David Zublik from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time where you are able to also call in if you would like to call into the show and participate in the discussion over these banned or quote-unquote heretical books. But if you're not on that platform, Wednesdays I like to recap it for you. In my opinion, these books are super important. I haven't covered one book yet that I feel like is actual heresy. In fact, the deeper I get into these missing books, the more I realize that the church itself is the heresy, not these books that they've taken out of the Bible. For those who don't know, there are supposed to be 777 books in our Bible. We only have about 60 of them at the Council of Nicea in the fourth century. That was the first time that they axed a lot of the written material that was originally from the Christian faith. And they also edited the 60-ish books left in the canonized Bible. So we actually on this channel, going through these missing books, we found places of discrepancy where, for example, in the book of Jubilees that we just finished, we found areas where we can see where they edited Genesis. Why did they do that? Do you ask? Well, it's because the church is not run by Christians. The church is run by Satanists. That's right, my friends. Welcome to the free fall of the Great Awakening. A lot of people nowadays understand that we've been lied to a lot in the world, but are still having a really hard time recognizing that the church has also lied to us.  Of course, the church was the first thing Satan infiltrated. I do have a video, which I'll link down in the description box below, where I covered Constantine the Great, who was not so great, where basically archaeologists have debunked the whole story of him seeing the vision of Jesus and being a Christian. He was not a Christian. He was Mithraic, which is a Canaanite faith. And with his counsel of Nicaea in the fourth century, where a lot of books were chucked out and the Bible was edited, he was able to start the manipulation of this new found faith called Christianity. And we're the ones that are lucky enough to live in a time where a lot of these banned books are being found. Yes, most of them still live in the Vatican library, which is 56 miles long. But in the fourth century, when these books were banned, under penalty of death, if somebody owned these books, it was under penalty of death. A lot of the early Christians back in those days, back in the fourth century, who like us were fighting censorship, hid these books down in caves and also in tombs in Egypt and in the Middle East. And it wasn't until the end of the 19th century, going into the 20th century, that these old books started to be excavated and found. Once again, the Vatican has not released any of these books. The ones we have accessible to us today were ones that just happened to be found. With that being said, we only have about 45 books at our disposal. So there's still a whole lot left in the Vatican library or left to be unearthed that we still have not read yet. For me, these books have deepened my faith in God, but my faith has always been in God and not in the church. At a very young age, I saw a lot of manipulations happening in the church that I was not a fan of. So my perspective of the church has always been to take it with a grain of salt. Again, my relationship is with God, not with the church. And it's funny, I'll give you guys a little story of a memory that I've had of one, one incident that happened in the church. There were many, but this is one that is a prime example in my opinion of how churches can manipulate people and make them vulnerable. So this happened when I was a teenager. I was in youth group, and this youth group director got into a lot of trouble later on anyway, and de-facts was called in. There was a lot of shenanigans happening. And of course, the church did not take the proper steps they should have legally. It was a parent of a child that was in the youth group that called de-facts over a situation that had happened that was extremely inappropriate. And all the church did, all the Presbyterian church did, was basically just move this youth director to another church instead of actually doing a thorough investigation as to what was happening with children in the youth department. But the story I'm going to tell you guys happened long before that big incident happened. I must have been about 13 or 14 years old. And as most of you guys know, especially if you grew up in like a Protestant church or evangelical Southern Baptist or Presbyterian or Methodist or whatever church, the youth group will take like weekend getaways.  The boys will have another cabin. They'll meet at the common area for like Bible studies and group activities and singing and all sorts of stuff. I went with a lot of my friends away for this weekend trip to this youth program. And the trip was fine. And it was the evening time. It was after dinner and the youth director was playing his guitar and singing a song. And all of a sudden it came time for like the group exercise that we were going to do. And the youth director told all these like young kids, these young teenagers that we needed to think of all the bad thoughts that we had had about other kids in our youth group. And then we needed to go and confess those bad thoughts to these other children in our youth group. Well, immediately myself and a couple of my little girlfriends decided we weren't going to participate in this. This is mean. My mother told me basically the same thing that in the movie Bambi, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Why would you go and tell somebody a mean thought that you've had about them that's cruel and it's mean and it makes people insecure and it makes them vulnerable. And so at like 13, 14 years old, I can't remember exactly how old I was. I don't think I was driving yet. My two little friends and I decided that we were going to go back to our cabin and just go to bed. Like we weren't going to do this exercise. And we turned to leave and the doors were locked. And the people that were assisting at this weekend get away, probably were that much older than we were, told us that we could not leave, that we had to participate. We told them that we didn't want to participate because this made us very uncomfortable and wasn't good. The youth director came up and spoke with us and one of my friends was told him basically like this is mean. You're being mean. This is not nice to do. And he told us that we had to participate. And so my two friends and I sat down on the seats. We said, okay, well, people can tell us what they feel about us or what they thought about us, but we're not going to tell other people any thoughts we've had about them because we don't want to be mean to people. We don't want to hurt people. That's not necessary. And so that's what we did. We sat there and we had to have all these people come up to us and tell us all these mean things that they had thought about us, but we didn't say anything in return. Looking back at that now at 38 years old, I am proud of my young self and my two friends for being so young and seeing how horrible that was. That was not godly. That was not Christian. It was mean. It was horrible and it was cruel, but that's the type of deluded bullshit that's taught a lot in these organizations to make people think they're doing a good thing by admitting to other people bad thoughts they've had about them and asking for that person's forgiveness when the issue didn't need to be brought up anyway. And we see these levels of manipulation all the time in these Christian organizations. Of course, they also exist in other organizations as well, but we heavily see it in the evangelical church.  And if you can look back on those little incidents of times you've experienced and then look at the church at a greater whole and everything it's done to hurt people, not help them, it starts to make more sense when we look at the missing texts, the heretical texts. The organization of the church doesn't want you to have a private personal relationship with God. They want you to be insecure in your relationship with God so therefore they can dictate that relationship. And reading a lot of these heretical quote unquote heretical books, I personally do not feel like they are heretical. I feel like they should absolutely be in the Bible, but that's just my opinion. Reading them, I personally have been even more secure in my relationship with God, even more certain in what I believe and more certain of what evil actually looks like. And I can tell you here and now I have seen more evil in my church growing up than I have ever seen in the quote unquote secular world. But we do know that the church is run by the deep state. We do know it's run by Luciferians, Satanist. You get to the top of the ladder of each organization, the Catholic church, the top of the Presbyterian corporation, the top of the Methodist, Baptist corporation, whatever it is, you're not going to find Christians there. Your pastor might be a good-hearted Christian, but the people he answers to most likely aren't. If you look at your pastor's seminary school, follow the money. Follow the money all the way up to the top when you find that person. Do a deep dive on who they are. Guarantee you they are not who you think they are. They're probably a bloodline family. And y'all know what I'm talking about. All right, so now getting into the apocalypse of Abraham. Now y'all know I love to research stuff. I love learning new things. I thoroughly enjoy it. And every time I go to research a new book, because as you guys know, I don't just read it, I want to know what happened to it. I want to know the history of the text, what scholars think about this text, X, Y, and Z. Y'all know that though. But when I get into the history of these texts, sometimes I find the history even more fascinating than the text itself. And sometimes with the history of these manuscripts of these books, there are so many more rabbit holes to go down. And the apocalypse of Abraham is one of these books. There are so many different avenues to dig through regarding the history of this book. And I probably will on a later date do a deep dive into some of the organizations that this book has been associated with not today for the sake of time for the sake of actually getting to the text. But in the future, absolutely for sure, I'm going to do a deep dive on some of these organizations. All right, so let's get into the history of this text. I'm going to be looking between my notes on my computer as well as notes in my notebook. So if you hear some papers rustling around, that's what is coming from because I have notes everywhere on this text. Because as I said earlier, this is a very fascinating history, in my opinion. So a lot of historians consider this text to be a Palestinian Jewish text. Now this is important because there's another group of historians that believe that this text was created outside of Palestine. And we're going to get into that. I tend to believe that this is actually a Palestinian Jewish text. This was actually around for a really long time, which I'll explain to you guys as we get into my research. So the author of this text is unknown. It's told from the perspective of Abraham. But again, we don't really know for sure who wrote this text. It is considered part of the apocalyptic literature. And so this is a specific subsection of literature that would be prophetic writing during what is called the post Jewish exile or exilic Jewish culture. So this is when the Jewish people first, well, I take that back. We've seen the Jewish people kind of come and go from their whole homeland throughout the course of history. But this is what the first major immigration or forced removal of the Jewish people from the Middle East. This type of culture started to exist outside of the Middle East. I don't blame them if you're dispersed from your homeland. Of course, as the generations were to pass, you do still want to try to keep that culture alive with your family, with new generations. And so we start to see these writings becoming really important culturally in the apocalyptic literature. So as of today, the text is not an authoritative text by modern Christian churches or Jewish temples and institutions. However, historians do believe that this work was very, very prominent during the first century AD. It's funny how a lot of these texts that are quote unquote not authoritative nowadays, we do know were super important during the beginnings of the Christian faith. Very interesting, isn't it? But yet the church tells you they're heresy now. So we have two main places where we can find this text now. One is at the Codex Sylvester, which is a codex that's in the library of the printing department of the Holy Synod in Moscow, which is important because that's kind of more Eastern Europe. And we're going to get into that with the second place where we can find this text is in the Tokovaya Polygia. And I hope I'm saying that right. So the Tokovaya Polygia is a book that contains six different manuscripts. They're all written in Old Slavic or Old Church Slavic. And this copy, these manuscripts that we have were probably written between 70 and 150 AD. So here's where things get interesting because some people will say, oh, this was when this story was created. But other people will say, no, the story that we have in this manuscript obviously came from another place first because there are some wordings within the apocalypse of Abraham that point back to Hebrew heritage, which we're going to get into. And we believe that these manuscripts were first in Hebrew and Aramaic, then were translated into Greek and then into Old Slavic, which is how we have them today. These were texts that were full of Old Testament writings and stories. Obviously, this includes the apocalypse of Abraham and the ladder of Jacob, which we're going to cover later on. And this survived as the basis for the Eastern Orthodox or Catholic faith. So in Eastern Europe, if you are from Eastern Europe, you might be more familiar with this story. And I do know from other people who have reached out to me from Eastern Europe that a lot of these books that have been banned by the clergy here in the western side of the world are still acceptable in the eastern side, which is very, very interesting. So let's talk about the Old Slavic language. This is a language that dates back to the Byzantine Empire. Now, some people call it Byzantium. I call it Byzantine, tomato, tomato. This would include places like Turkey. Now, this is important because when Constantine created his own little new world order and basically ended the Republic and turned it into a one world government of the Roman Empire, he moved his capital from Rome to what we call then, now it's Istanbul, but then he called it Constantinople after himself because he was a narcissistic little prick. All right. But before it was Constantinople, this was called Byzantium. That was the name of the city that was right there where Istanbul is today was the crossroads between the east and the west. Now, what's also important about Turkey is that long before Constantine was ever even born, if you can remember back when we read the Acts of Philip and I'll put that down in the description box below. I will also put down a video about Constantine. I did down in the description box below as well, but Philip went into Turkey. Philip wasn't the only apostle who went into Turkey. We've seen many apostles going in that direction. And so we do know that because of some of these apostles that went over to this area, Old Testament works were brought with them. All right. So we know that after Jesus was crucified or executed as he was, the apostles basically had were fugitives. They had basically warrants out for their arrest as well. And so they had to skedaddle out of the Middle East. Some went up into France, some went into Egypt, into Africa, African area. We know that Mark was in Alexandria. And then Philip went into Turkey. We know that Thomas, when we covered the book of Thomas, went into India. They all dispersed everywhere. So very, very likely that that if this text is truly from old Hebrew culture, the apostles were Hebrew, they were Jewish, and they were all very well educated within the temple. So it is highly likely that the apocalypse of Abraham would have been with them in their journeys along with the Torah. All right. And as you guys know, the New Testament at this time was in the process of being created. We've talked about this. We had the book of the Holy 12, which was my favorite so far, which was probably a template that they had, as well as the book of Q, which we also spoke about as well, that they had with them as far as what we would see as New Testament literature. Now neither the book of the Holy 12 or the book of Q have made it into the Bible, but those allegedly were the original gospels. We also know that the apostles, most of them could not read or write a few of them could, but most of them couldn't. So any gospels that are attributed to them by their name, a.k.a. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were most likely written by their students. So if you can put yourself kind of step back and look at the situation as a whole, the bigger picture of the situation, it is very highly likely that the Old Testament literature was absolutely brought with Philip and some of the other apostles into Turkey, into this area. And that's how the story became so ingrained in the Byzantine Empire. Interesting thing about the Byzantine Empire, when the Roman Empire in the West fell, the Byzantine Empire, which was basically the Roman Empire in the East, did not fall. It survived the fall of Rome by about a thousand years. It only fell in 1453 to the Ottoman Empire. All right, so now we look at the English translations. So this work was first translated into English by the Mormons, by the Latter-day Saints, by E. H. Anderson and R. T. Hag in 1898 for a Latter-day Saint magazine called Improvement Era. Now this magazine for the Church of the Latter-day Saints was in publication from 1897 to 1790, and they titled this book, The Book of the Revelation of Abraham. Now I have read the Book of Mormon before, just long before I ever did YouTube, I'm just, as you'll know, I'm just really super curious about what people believe. And I believe that the Church, just the Church of the Mormon Church as well as the Christian Churches are obviously very, very corrupt, but we can't ever throw the baby out with the bathwater. So I think it's kind of cool that they were the first to kind of say, hey, let's take a look at this. What is this literature that the Eastern Orthodox Church has in Old Slavic? Let's see what it says.   And I immediately called him when I learned about the Mormon's input into the translation of this work. And even though I have read the Book of Mormon, I have not read the Pearl of Great Price. And I know that there is a book in the Pearl of Great Price, the Book of Abraham, I believe it's called. And I'm not sure if the Book of the Revelation of Abraham and the Book of Abraham are the same. I don't know because I have not read it yet. And I'm just now looking at the Apocalypse of Abraham. However, the story of their conception and how both of these books came to be are two different stories. I double-checked that. The Book of Abraham and the Pearl of Great Price came about in Mormon doctrine in more of the middle of the 19th century, whereas this obviously came about and was translated in the end of the 19th century. And I'm just not certain if the Book of the Revelation of Abraham or the Apocalypse of Abraham, as it was translated for the magazine in 1898, is a part of the Mormon doctrine today. I don't know or if it was just translated for a magazine for people to see. If you are Mormon or you have more of information on that, I'd love to hear from you. I am going to talk more about this with Tom as I learn more, as we read more to try to figure out if there is a correlation between the two or not. It could very well be that there absolutely isn't, which is kind of what I'm seeing because it is the same person. So you are going to hear some of the same stories regarding the same person. But I just thought that was interesting and I wanted to point that out before we move further into this story. Now, 20 years later, this book was re-translated by a man named G.H. Box in J.I. Landsman. Now, this is the copy that I'm going to be reading from. It just happened to be the copy that I downloaded originally when I downloaded the PDF of the Apocalypse of Abraham before I really knew anything about the text at all. Now, I went into research G.H. Box as the person who translated it. Turns out that he is a Hebrew lecturer or professor or was, he's no longer with us, but he was a Hebrew lecturer at King's College in London. And the first edition of this book was released in 1918. That's when I'm saying he's no longer with us. I wish he were with us because I have a lot of questions, but no, he is no longer with us. And I studied a lot of what he found with this book from a scholarly point of view and I agree with his findings. Even though in a lot of his works, he goes back and forth between the two arguments between whether this book is as old as like the Old Testament or the Torah or whether it's a newer copy, he plays both sides of the fence a lot. But there is some compelling evidence which leads me to believe that he probably thought that it was an older text, more of like the Torah-based text than a newer one from some of his findings in Hebrew, which we're going to get into. So I'm going to read you a quote from him. He said, our principal aim in a word is to make some difficult text important for the study of Christian origins, more generally accessible and faithful and scholarly translations. And so that in itself, again, makes me believe that he is more along the lines that this was definitely a legitimate text that was there in the origins of the Christian faith, which of course would have then go back to the origins of the Jewish faith, seeing that Christianity is basically another form or should be another form of Judaism. It's like Judaism 2.0. So now box talks a lot about some of the names that are used in this text being of Hebrew origin. For example, in the book, we're going to see an idol called Mariamath. I hope I'm saying that right. That's M-E-R-U-M-A-T-H. And from Hebrew, this can be translated into the Stone of Deceit. And these are idols that are worshiped in the story by a polytheist, which we're all get into when I go through what the books, what the story is going to entail. There's also an idol called Beresat, which is Aramaic for son of fire. And we know Aramaic was also a language that was spoken by possibly by Jesus, that this is an older language from that area. Now he also talks about something called Termus Aquo. Again, I hope I'm saying that right. That's Hebrew. And this is referring to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. Now this destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem happened in 70 AD. However, as we see in this book, this book was a book of prophecy. So that doesn't mean necessarily that this was talking about stuff happening relevant to the day. This was a modern writing. It could mean that it was very much prophesied in the Apocalypse of Abraham, that this Temple of Jerusalem would eventually come down, which was many, many over a thousand years away from Abraham's life himself. Now another place that Box talks about where you see references to the Apocalypse of Abraham is the Clementine Recognitions. And this Clementine Recognitions is a whole rabbit hole, again, unto itself that we get absolutely do a deep dive into. That's all I'm going to leave it at today because there's just so much to say about the Clementine Recognitions. And I will say the cool thing though is when I was looking into the Clementine Recognitions, I found a ton of people who had worked for churches, like one guy who used to be a Baptist preacher, one girl who used to be heavily involved in her church. And then when they found the Clementine Recognitions and they started researching into them and realized that the church had called this heretical as well. And it absolutely didn't seem to be that way. They started to back away from the church. And one guy called it, you're leaving religion for freedom. You know, you're leaving the bounds of religion to actually find freedom when you step away from the organization and you question why they say certain things are heretical and you start to take that power back for yourself and read the stuff for yourself as we're doing. And I thought that was really great.  And the religion of Christianity has turned into anything but freedom. So when we do start to take that power back and we do start to look at these texts for ourselves, it is almost like you're taking your relationship with God into your own hands.  And you'll say like, why mom, why can't I do that? And the mom might say, because I said so, that might work for a three or four year old, but that doesn't work for an adult. The church can't say because I said so. There has to be valid reason and a lot of churches cannot give valid reason as to why these texts are heretical. We also know that this text was used by the Gnostic and we've talked a lot about the Gnostics on this channel. They were the original Christians. The main world, the church world will tell you that Gnostics were satanic. They absolutely were not. They were very, very, very spiritual. Anything that is coming out of the mainstream narrative, basically just flip it. It's kind of like when you watch the news, whatever the news tell you, it's just the opposite. It's kind of like whatever, you know, these higher people in the church are telling you just, it's the opposite. You know, if they say the Gnostics were heretical, no, they were not. They were not at all heretical. They were very spiritual people and they were the original Christians. So we have the Gnostic Gospels, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Thomas, you know, these beautiful pieces about the soul of man, which was very Gnostic. We also see Gnostic features. So a Gnostic feature would be the right hand path versus the left hand path. The right hand path was a path of purity and light or of God. The left hand path was in purity and darkness. So that's a Gnostic theme. If you've ever talked about the right hand path or the left hand path, that's a Gnostic theme. If you remember from our deep dive into Anton Leves, the founder of the church of Satan, he baptized his daughter's Zina to the left hand path, which is the path of darkness and impurity. So obviously, there's something to the Gnostics. If we're still using themes and concepts that were big in their faith, although the church wants to tell you they were heretical, it's a little bit of gaslighting there, isn't it? They weren't heretical, they were just the original Christians. All right. So just a brief look into the Apocalypse of Abraham, what to expect. You know, if this was a book reading the back of the book, what are we going to get? So the book is basically divided into two parts. The first part is chapters one through eight. And this is a narrative about Abraham's leaving the polytheism behind the worship of many gods to finding out what it means to be monotheistic. We know that that Abraham was born to people who worshiped many gods, his father made idols. We're going to get into that into the Apocalypse of Abraham. And we're going to see him start to figure it out. We're going to see something about nature, how he starts to realize that nature is stronger than any of the idols that they worship, but yet there's a force that's behind nature that is guiding nature. And he starts to have these kind of like aha moments. And that's going to lead him on a monotheistic path. We do know that Abraham was an astronomer and he was an astrologist. He was able to read the stars. A lot of Christians don't like hearing that, but astrology is not satanic. Again, that all started with the Hess Act during World War II. Factually speaking, the Pope, who is the head of the Catholic Church, was very much in line with the party that starts with an N that was run by a man named Mr. H. That's all I can really say on YouTube. And there's lots of historical references to that. So if you don't believe me, do your own research on that. The Catholic Church was very much behind, behind what was happening in Germany during World War II. And Mr. H and the Pope decided to basically create this narrative that astrology, tarot cards, all these things were completely satanic because we know that Mr. H's party was heavily into the occult. Now all the, all occult means is hidden knowledge and spirituality is both light and darkness. You know, demons are spirits as well as angels, right? Hillary Clinton is spiritual as well as Donald Trump. You know, they're just two different, two different ways of practicing spirituality. The spirit world isn't just good stuff. It's also bad stuff. It isn't just bad stuff. It's also good stuff. The battle is fought on all levels of existence. So they started this narrative that these tools of divination were, were basically demonic so that human regular people, us would stop using them. And this would give the bad guys a leg up basically to be able to divinate because you can divinate bad spirits as well as good spirits. I've, you know, I've never had a situation with divination where I've felt anything bad come through, but I know other people have. I think it's, you know, you, you can discern for yourself what's going on by the person who's doing the divination. I mean, look at our friend Jeanine from Tarot by Jeanine that she's on our channel a lot. She reads tarot cards and the tarot cards are what woke her up or what red pilled her about Mr. T and the white hats and what was really going on. And so we know that there is good behind these divination tools and we're taking that back and we're making them good again. And that's the same thing with astrology. You know, Melissa Red Pill The Nation said all the constellations that we see, Aquarius, Leo, Gemini, Capricorn, all of them, they're all given those names by God and they all have biblical stories by God. We know that the writers of the Old Testament were reading the stars. We saw that in the book of Jubilees where Enoch was taught how to read the stars just like the people before him were as was Abraham. They were able to read into what was going on in the heavens so that we would see what was forecasted to play out on earth. It's a way of communication from God. So that was Abraham. He was an astrologer. He was able to read the stars and he learned how to do that because he walked away from the idols because he realized that nature was so much more powerful. And behind that power of nature was another power. That was moving nature, which we know to be God. And so after he figures this out, we have the second part of the Apocalypse of Abraham, which is more apocalyptic. Again, this is where we see revelations made to Abraham about the future of his people, of what is to become his people. And he also ascends into the heavenly reigns with an archangel Joel. Now, I hope I'm saying that right. I've never seen this name before, but J-A-O-E-L, if that's not correct, let me know. And this is like an initiation to knowledge. Like God all of a sudden realizes that there's this kid down on earth named Abraham who has figured it out. And so he initiates them into the truth of the universe. And that's why we call the Abrahamic religions, the Abrahamic religions, or the God of Abraham because he was the starting point at and on our timeline after Adam and Eve, after the flood, Noah, where things got all kind of perverted again. All of a sudden Abraham has that aha moment as a very young person as to what's really going on. And so through the Apocalypse of Abraham, the second part, we do see like this initiation where then he's able to teach his son Isaac. And Isaac then is able to teach Jacob and then Jacob with his 12 tribes, which we just left off on with the book of Jubilee. Alright, so with that being said, let's get started into reading some of the Apocalypse of Abraham. Alright, the Apocalypse of Abraham part one, the legend.  And so we start with Abraham's conversion from idolatry. So this is going to be told, it looks like, in the first person. On the day when I plan the gods of my father, Tara, the gods of Nahor, his brother, when I was searching as to who the mighty God in truth is, I, Abraham, at the time when it fell to my lot, when I fulfilled the services, or quote-unquote the sacrifices, of my father, Tara, to his gods of wood and stone, gold and silver, brass and iron, having entered into their temple for service, I found the God whose name was Maramath. Again, that's the one I said earlier, which means, in Hebrew, the stone of the descent. Hewn out of stone, fallen forward at the feet of the iron God Nahon. And it came to pass when I saw it, my heart was perplexed. And I considered in my mind that I should not be able to bring him back to his place. I, Abraham, alone, because he was heavy and being of a large stone. And I went forth and made it known to my father, and he entered with me.  And it came to pass when my father saw that the head of Maramath had fallen before him. He said to me, Abraham, and I said, here I am. And he said, bring me an axe of the small ones from the house, and I brought it to him. And I hewed a rite, another Maramath, out of another stone, without a head. And the head which had been thrown down from Maramath, he placed on it the rest of Maramath. He shattered. So I guess what we're seeing is Abraham observing how these idols can fall and break. And he is like, well, that's kind of weird if they're gods. Why are they falling and breaking? And his dad just quickly goes and fixes another god that looks like the one that just broke. And he made five other gods and gave them all to me, and commanded me to sell them outside in the street of town. And I saddled my father's ass, and I placed them upon it, and went towards the end to sell them, and lo, merchants from Fandana and Syria were traveling with camels going to Egypt to trade.  And the three of them were smashed, and two were preserved, and it came to pass. When the Syrians saw that I had the gods, they said to me, why didest thou not tell us that thou hadst God, then we would have had brought them? Basically, we're dealing with these fragile idols that keep breaking. And we see this young Abraham kind of watching this. Why are the gods breaking? And now we see these travelers who are like, if you told us you had these gods with you, we would not have brought our horses and our donkeys, because obviously they've scared them and shattered them, instead of realizing that if these were real gods, then they wouldn't have broken to begin with.  Give us at any rate the goods that remain, and we will give thee the proper price for the broken gods, also for the gods that have been preserved. For I was concerned in my heart as to how I would bring to my father the purchase price, and the three broken ones I cast into the water of the river, which was at the place, and they sank into the depths, and there was nothing more of them. So Abraham, young Abraham, was more concerned about bringing the money back to his dad than actually selling somebody a god. But he got the money because these people that he sold them to really thought these breakable idols were gods. When I was still going on the way, my heart was perplexed within me, and my mind was distracted. And I said in my heart, what evil deed is this that my father is doing? Is not he rather than the god of his gods, since they came into existence through his chiefs and latches and his wisdoms? And is it not rather fitting that he should worship my father since they are his work? What is the delusion of my father and his work? Alright, so again he's saying, my father's the one that created these idols. So why aren't the idols worshipping my father who created them instead of my father worshipping these idols that he created? This is weird. Behold, mere math fell and could not rise in his own temple, nor could I by myself move him until my father came, and the two of us moved him.   Nor did their broken fragments come up out of the river, and I said in my heart, if this be so, how can mere math my father's god having the head of another stone and himself being made of another stone rescue a man or hear a man's prayer and reward him?  I brought the silver and gave it into the hands of my father, Tara. When he saw it, he was glad, and he said, blessed art thou, Abraham of my gods, because thou hast brought the price of the gods, so that my work was not in vain. Now, notice here, he's already calling him Abraham, and we know from the book of Jubilee that Abraham's name was first Abram. Now, in my opinion, just because they have Abraham written here before, technically, the name was changed to Abraham from Abram doesn't really mean a whole lot, because this is a translated copy, and we know him as Abraham, so it simply could have just been Professor Box just putting the name that we all knew, which was Abraham here instead of Abram. And I answered to him, here, oh, my father, Tara, blessed are the gods of thee, for thou art their gods, since thou hast made them, for their blessing is in ruination, and their power is vain. They who did not help themselves, how shall they then help thee or bless thee? And I have been kind to thee in this affair because of using my intelligence, I have brought thee the money for the broken gods. And when he heard my word, he became furiously angry with me, because I had spoken hard word against his gods. That sounds familiar, doesn't it? We get, at least I do, I get a lot of very, very vicious emails from people claiming to be Christian, because I'm pointing out where the church might not be a Christian organization, right? And so sometimes people get mad when you show them, you're the messenger, you're showing them where there might be some corruption. I've even gotten DEATH threats in my email from Christians from reading these books that are considered heresy by the church, and still I say, as in one of you guys said in an awesome comment, are you practicing Christianity or Churchianity? Because if you're actually practicing Christianity, you would never send an email like that to somebody else. So obviously, the church in that point becomes your God, not God. And so we see Tara getting upset with Abraham, because Abraham's pointing it out to him like, Dad, you made these idols, you are their creator, so why aren't they worshiping you? So reading forward, I, however, having thought over my father's anger went out, and after I had gone out, my father cried, saying Abraham, and I said, here I am, and he said, take and collect the splinters of wood out of which I made gods of pine wood before thou camest, and make ready for me the food of the midday meal, and it came to pass. When I collected the splinters of wood, I found under them a little God, which had been lying among the brushwood on my left, and on the forehead was written God Barasset. So notice on his left. So now we're seeing, we're starting to see that Gnostic notion of the right path and the left path, which again, in my opinion, according to all my research, the Gnostics were the original Christians. So they were the Jewish 2.0. And so this left and right path obviously came before in the Old Testament from the Old Jewish faith, which we're reading right now in the Apocalypse of Abraham. And I did not inform my father that I had found the wood and God of Barasset under the chips, and again Barasset is an Aramaic word for son of the fire. And it came to pass when I had laid the splinters in the fire in order that I might make ready food for my father on going out to ask a question regarding the food, I placed Barasset before the kindled fire, saying threateningly to him, pay careful attention Barasset, the fire, do not die down until I come. If however, it dives down, blow on it that it might burn up again. And I went out and accomplished my purpose.  And you're also going to blow on it and keep it going for me for when I return. So here's young Abraham testing these gods. And on returning, I found Barasset fallen backwards and his feet surrounded by fire and horribly burnt.  And it came to pass while I spake thus in my laughter, he Barasset was gradually burnt up by the fire and reduced to ashes. And I brought the food to my father and he did eat. And I gave him wine and milk, and he was gladdened and blessed his God Merrimath. And I said unto him, O Father Thera, bless not thy God Merrimath, and praise him not. But rather praise thy God Barasset, because loving thee more, he hast cast himself into the fire to cook thy food. And he said to me, and where is he now? Is he burnt to ashes in the violence of the fire and reduced to dust? And he said, great is the power of Barasset, I will make another today and tomorrow he will prepare my food. So again, Abraham's father is not getting it.  He fell into the fire to cook your food. The idol didn't survive. And still his dad's not getting it. He's like, okay, well I'll just make another one tomorrow. When I Abraham however heard such words from my father, I laughed in my mind inside in the grief and in the anger of my soul and said, how then can that which is made by him manufacture statues be a helper of my father? Or shall the body then be subject to its soul and the soul to the spirit and the spirit to the folly and ignorance? And I said it is fitting once to endure evil. So I will direct my mind to what is pure and lay my thoughts open before him. And I answered saying, O Father Thera, whichever of these thou praises as a God, thou art foolish in thy mind. Behold the gods of thy brother aura, which stand in the holy temple, are more worthy of honor than of these. For behold, Zacchaeus, the God of thy brother aura, is more worthy of honor than thy God. Merrimath, because he is made of gold, which is highly valued by the people. And when he groweth old in his years, he will be remodeled. But if your God Merrimath is changed or broken, he will not be renewed, because he is a stone, that which is also the case of the God Joavon. Who standeth with Zacchaeus over the other gods? How much more worthy of honor is he than the God of Barasat, who is made of wood, while he is forged in silver? How is he made by adaption of man valuable to outward appearances? But thy God Barasat, while he was still before, he and been prepared, rooted up upon the earth, and was great and wonderful, with the glory of branches and blossom. Thou didst chew out with an axe, and by the means of thy art, he hath been given into a God. In lo, his fatness is already withered and perished. He has fallen from the height to the ground, he hath come from great estate to littleness, and the appearance of his continents hath vanished, and he Barasat himself is burned up by the fire, and reduced to ashes, and is no more. Thou sayest, today I will make another, which tomorrow I shall make ready for food. He hath presided to utter destruction. Behold, the fire is more worthy of honor than all things formed, because even that which is not subjected is subjected unto it, and things easily perishable are mocked by its flames. So we see Abraham starting again to recognize nature. Fire, earth, wind, the stars, water, these are all elements of nature. And he's starting to realize that this nature is more powerful than these so-called gods that his father has made. And so he's starting to figure out that there's a source, a life force behind nature that's directing nature that is not of these gods.  But even I do not call God because it is subjected to the earth under which the water is inclineth. But I call the earth much more worthy of honor because it overpowereth the nature and the fullness of water. Even it, however, I do not call God, because it too is dried up by the sun, is a portion to man to be titled. I call the sun more worthy of honor than the earth, because it with its rays illuminated the whole world and the different atmospheres. But even it I do not call God because at night and by clouds of its course is obscured, nor again do I call the moon or the star's God, because they are also in their seasons obscure their light at night. So we know that constellations again the stars have seasons, we're in the season of cancer right now. Tara, my father, for I will make known to thee the God who hath made everything, not these we consider as God, who is he or what is he? Who hath crimson the heavens and made the sun golden and the moon lustrous and with it the stars and hath made the earth dry and midst of the many waters, and set it in thee and tested me in the confusion of my thoughts. Yet may God reveal himself to us through himself. And it came to pass while I spake thus to my father, Tara, in the court of my house. There cometh down the voice of a mighty one, from the heaven in the fiery cloud burst, saying and crying, Abraham, Abraham, and I said, here I am. And he said thou art not seeking an understanding of thy heart of the God, the God of this creation. I am he. Go out from thy father, Tara, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain in the sins of thy father's house. And I went out, and it came to pass when I went out, that before I succeeded in getting out in the front of the house of the court, there came a sound of great thunder and burnt him and his house and everything whatsoever in his house down to the ground forty cubits. So that ends part one, which we're going to end it there today before we get into part two. So again, to recap, basically, young Abraham is very, very confused by these idols that his father worships and makes. He's starting to realize that there are elements in life, which is nature that are stronger than these idols. And then he realizes that all of nature basically works together under the hand of an Almighty Creator. And once he figures this out, and once he calls out to know that Almighty Creator, God answers back to him, tells him to leave his father's house. And as he's leaving his father's house burns down. Okay, so picking up next week, we will start with part two, which starts the second part, the apocalypse, which again comes into the revelations. So that should be super exciting. All right, guys, I hope that you enjoyed this episode. Leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below. I hope you all are having a wonderful, wonderful day and I will talk to you soon. Bye.


Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius, the Honorable Minister Praveen Jagannathji, Senior Ministers and dignitaries of Mauritius, distinguished guests, friends, namaskar, Baju, I would like to extend very warm greetings to all our friends in Mauritius. This interaction is a special occasion for our nations. This is a new chapter in our shared history, heritage and cooperation. Not long ago, Mauritius hosted the Indian Ocean Island games and achieved glory in them. Both our countries are celebrating Durga Puja and will soon celebrate the Pavli. These developments make the inauguration of the first phase of the metro project and your more joyous occasion. The metro will provide clean, efficient and time-saving transport. It will contribute to economic activities and tourism. The other projects inaugurated today, state-of-the-art ENTO Hospital will contribute the quality healthcare. The hospital has an energy efficient building and will offer paperless services. Both these projects will serve the people of Mauritius. They are a symbol of India's strong commitment to development of Mauritius. Thousands of workers have worked hard day and night in sun and in rain for these projects. But unlike in the past centuries, we today work for the better future of our people. I commend the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Praveen Jagannath, who conceived modern infrastructure and services for Mauritius. I also sincerely thank him and the government of Mauritius for their active cooperation which has been the key to timely completion of these projects. Friends, we are proud that India has partnered Mauritius in these and other projects of direct public interest. Last year, a joint project provided e-tablets to young children. The new Supreme Court building and 1,000 social housing units are coming up rapidly. I am happy to announce that India will support the construction of a renal unit as well as medical clinics and area health centers suggested by Prime Minister Jagannath. Friends, both India and Mauritius are diverse and vibrant democracies committed to working for prosperity of our peoples as well as for peace in our region and the world. Our mutual regard for each other finds expression in a number of ways. This year, Prime Minister Jagannath graced the largest ever Pravasiv Bhartiya Divas as the chief guest and also the inauguration of the second term of my government. Our President Bush invited as a chief guest on the fifth anniversary celebration of the independence of Mauritius. In the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi, Mauritius pays homage to his abiding memory and remembers his special bond with him. Friends, the Indian Ocean is a bridge between India and Mauritius. Ocean economy holds great promise for our people. The vision of saga, security and growth for all in the region will guide us to work closely together on all aspects of maritime economy, security and disaster risk resolution. I would like to thank the government of Mauritius for joining the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure as a founding member. Excellency, in a month's time, our Pravasiv Divas will be celebrated at the World Heritage Site of our Pravasiv God. It will mark the successful struggle of our brave ancestors. Their struggle had born rich fruits in the form of great success of Mauritius in this country, in this century. We salute the remarkable spirit of the people of Mauritius. Thank you, thank you very much.


Matt ydw, haylau y cyffliadau sydd wedi bod wedi'i bwysig yw Llywodraeth, Edwaad. Yn y séltiaidd. Felly mae'r gwaith... Byddwn yn mynd yn gwneud ei ffordd fel hynny, dweud yr ysbyt iawn iddi'r ysbyt, doedd yn gallu'n bapod ar gael ysbyt. Rydym yn dangos, yn y balei'r gwlad i weithio am eu ysbyt, sydd wedi'u bod yn rhyngwlad ar hyn yn dweithio mewn sphwyd ysbyt rwyng. Mae'n gwneud yn chyfl y gallu amilydd ysbyt, Rwy'n credu yn gwneud, rwy'n credu'n gwneud. Rwy'n credu sydd wedi'u rydw i gyd yn gwneud ffwrdd fel hynny, ac rwy'n credu bod ar y bil, 22 oed. Mae'r Ymddiwylai Ysgrwyffydd. Rydw i'n credu ffwrdd yr ystafell. Rydw i'n credu'n credu ffwrdd yr ystafell, ac rwy'n credu ymddiwch, Rydym yn ymddangos yma, yn y Cymru, ac rwy'n credu'n credu'n credu'n credu'n credu'n credu. Mae'n credu'n credu'n credu'n credu'n credu. 3. E'n 32. E'n got ar eich spherin. But aren't we trying to get away from those kind of players? Aren't we trying to build a young... But we've got three young strikers. No, I'm one for thinking we should have. I just don't know whether he'd be the one. He's only little, that's the only thing. What I'm saying is that I want four. That's it. It depends who that fourth one is, but I'd like four. I mean, I love strikers, I love having options. And we've got four at the moment, if you'd include Ewan Nias. If Ewan Nias was any... No, but think about it. If Ewan Nias was any better, he would be in the squad. No, no, we have got four that too. We had Towson and now... OK, Nias is in it, but we have got four. So they went out. Mil Nias has gone, hasn't he, let's be honest. Towson hopefully will go to Palace. So then, the man that you might look and go, you do need another striker, and that might be at least maintenance just because he's free. And therefore, you're only worrying about his wages. Or it might be someone like Edward who is 22 years of age and they think he can get... But allegedly, the look on Johnathan David, who I would say is well better than Edward, and it's only 19, 20, he's a hell of a player and he can play in the field as we can play a couple of roles. I would rather us invest that kind of money. I've looked at Edward and it's not convinced. He's obviously scored a lot of goals. He looks like quite... He looks like... He might as well have made me ask, but a bit better where it's like he gets opportunities that he doesn't know how he's got them. It's a link, and listen, there'll be loads of links we mentioned this year, so there's loads of links at this time. You just have to... I do think, though, we do need four strikers, but I do like the idea of having three strikers and a moment your fourth that would come in, someone who's been there, seen it a little bit, and is looking for that maybe, that challenge you've been in the Premier League, so a man's will be different from what we've got already. Clever player as well, and scored a lot of goals, knows where the net is. So it'd just be like, do you need another young one or do you want to bring that experience into the squad? Someone who's a good player, be near done it. Score the word. In your priorities, and I know it's always difficult when you go prioritise something, where would the striker be? If you had like it to do that, where would the striker be on you to do that? I think he'd be after centre midfield and after possibly a right winger, definitely. But these things don't always come up like that. No, no.


So now we're ready to pick a real protein structure from the protein data bank and I've done that for you. Here is one It's the beginning of a file Simple old-style files from the 1970s each line in this file corresponds to an atom in the protein Number of atoms the name of the atoms nitrogen C a stands for C alpha I can't use Greek letters here. C o is are also backbone atoms C b is sebita C g is SIGAMA Od 1 and 2 is oxygen Delta 1 and 2 again the Greek letters, and that's an asparatine sidechain ASP a Means that this is the first chain in the entire protein if there is ever a break and move over to another polypeptide sequence That would be B This is the number of the residue The X the Y and the Z coordinates measured in angstroms of those residues People tend to use angstroms in structure biology This column we're not going to care about and that column this actually has to do with those temperature factors But in the interest of time I won't bother you with that Based on this we could actually let a computer take this and translate this to parameters at the force field Add all the bonds torsions partial charges and everything from the recipes in that force field and set up a simulation based on this But before we do that you see something missing here Or rather is there something you don't see There are no hydrogens, right? That's very common that hydrogens are frequently not that visible in particular not in x-ray structures because it's the electrons that are responsible for the interaction with the electromagnetic field and The electrons are going to be shared with the bond to the closed heavy atom, right? So the hydrogen per se is almost only a proton There are a few high-resolution structures today where you see them you will see them NNMR structures too But they're it's going to be very common in the protein data bank to have structures without hydrogens That's actually one of our least issues because the programs we all have if I know what the heavy atoms are I know what the amino acids are I can reconstruct and calculate what the positions of those hydrogens should be I know that their bond length is one angstrom and I know what the ideal bond geometry should be So we create the hydrogens We add the water and then we run a small energy minimization and then we're more or less ready to start the simulations


Hi, everybody. Happy Sunday. I'm Joe for jaspeescasebreaks.com, coming at you with 2022, Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball. I think this dropped on Friday. Five box, half case, random team break number five. Second half is already loaded up.  No vet commons ship. And a lot of fun stuff in this Gypsy Queen. So big thanks to this group for making it happen. Let's triple you up. There's one, there's two, and there's three. And all 30 baseball teams are in. Let's roll in randomized names and teams. Three and a three, six the hard way. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Got Edgar, Dan Robb. Three and a three, six the hard way for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, and six, and final time. And after six, we got Toronto down to the brew crew. All right, so Edgar with the Blue Jays. Lonnie with the Nationals and the Phillies. Robb with the A's. Lonnie with the Orioles. The Cubs, the Rays. Michael with the Mets. Austin with the Rockies. Lonnie with the White Sox. Michael with the Giants. Lonnie with the Royals. Austin with the Guardians. Robb with the Pirates. John with my Dodgers. Austin with the Twins. Lonnie with the Rangers. Edgar with the Cardinals. Robb with the Marlins. Edgar with the Astros. Michael with the Braves. John with the Tigers. Lonnie with the Yankees. Robb with the Padres. Lonnie with the Red Sox. Robb with the Diamondbacks. Lonnie with the Angels. John with the Mariners. Lonnie with the Reds. And Robb with the Brew Crew. All right, let's alphabetize by team. We're in a positive video. I'm going to go run and grab the case. The trade window is now open. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades. And then the break. Stick around. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. No deals were done, so that list I'll show you in just a second remains the same. First we're going to pick which five boxes we're going to do right here. There's the Gypsy Queen. Appreciate everybody getting in on it. This case open. Looks like there's going to be five on the left side and five on the right side. So we're going to select a die. We're going to select that one right there. We'll go one, two, three for the left side and four, five, six for the right side. Six, so we'll do the right side right here and this side. We'll save for next time. So we'll put those blue X's across the GQ, the Gypsy Queen logo. There's all five boxes right there. There are two on-card autographs per box on average. I'm sure there's all sorts of fun inserts and parallels as well. Let's see what we got inside, ladies and gentlemen. Good luck. We got the sounds of White Sox at Yankees on in the background. A lot of sports going on today. Justin Thomas came back big. He was down big and then ended up winning in a playoff scenario. Will Zalatoris, if you could putt a little bit. Man, that might be a different tournament for him. But he's pretty young for those of you into the golf. It's kind of a longer break so we can talk about all sorts of different things here. Double Bogey for the Chilean Mido Pereira. He was leading most of the way in the last two days. But yeah, so your top five, Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris ending minus five. Justin Thomas winning the playoffs, Cameron Young third tied with Pereira, both minus four. Tommy Fleetwood at minus three. There must be a number of golfers at minus three. So as a playoff hole, OT and golf, correct. So if they're all tied up at the last hole, they do... Sometimes it's different. I think this course, they did a three-hole playoff. So it's just your best score after three holes. I feel like some places may do four. I think it just depends on how the tournament decides to do it. But I think this was a three-hole playoff. Yeah, so Justin Thomas, Will Zalatoris finishing at minus five. Cameron Young, Mido Pereira minus four. Tommy Fleetwood, Chris Kirk, Matthew Fitzpatrick, or minus three. Roy McElroy, sort of an up-and-down tournament for him, minus two. Cameron Smith was shooting pretty well early, but he fell to 13th today. This was a pretty tough course. A lot of wind. I think a lot of wind messed up a lot of days, messed up a lot of scores. Also, Gilo, I'm pretty sure that if after three... Because you're like, wait, what if they're tied after those three playoff holes? Then I think each hole is a sudden death. So whoever has the best score on the hole after that. All right, baseball. My first live look at Gypsy Queen. I kind of like the sort of... I don't know what they're doing here, is it an old ticket taking machine or something like that? Or a jukebox? Or what have we got here? Some sort of ticket machine type look here. I kind of like that. I kind of have almost seems like some metal in the background. And we've got these little guys here too. I'm assuming all cards ship in this? No, no vet commons ship. So these are commons. Those aren't going to ship. That's a rookie that will ship. That insert will ship, of course. That will ship. Blue border will ship. It's also because it's numbered. Carlos Carrasco to 250. Oh, I should probably show you who's in this break. Oh, no, you already saw the randomizer, but here's the official printout. So there were no trades, of course. So Carlos Carrasco for the Mets, that's going to go to Michael L. And the Metropolitan's. Oh, and there's our autograph. There's a top certified stamp right there too. That's pretty cool. Is this a variation? Actually, I haven't brushed up on mine because there's no name right here. It's Adam Frazier. Maybe a no name variation autograph. I know they kind of do all that, all those variations and stuff like that.  Mariners, that's going to be for John McCall. GQ Gems, Minnie, Raphael Devers. And in case I miss any variations, I'm sure our shipping team will be well informed of those and be able to find those. Yeah, so there's missing name plate, team logo swap, missing black plate, burnt umber. Those are numbered. Those are all numbered. And then missing name plate, team logo swap. Those are pretty short printed, but those are the base short print parallels. The rest of them are numbered. Let's see if there's anything else I need to look out for. Everything else will be numbered. Onwards. Got a Nick Madrigal gold to 50. That will be for Lonnie and the Cubbies. Pretty sure Bobby Witt has an auto in here. Did they get Bobby Witt autos in here? It's George Springer, Aqua to 199 for Toronto. That'll be for Edgar and the Blue Jays. I do have the checklist open. Yeah, Bobby Witt Jr. is on the autograph checklist. So that's something Lonnie, who has the Royals, would be looking out for. I think it's just autos though and not part of the base set. Yeah, I think it's just part of the Gypsy Queen Autograph checklist. That's to 399. And there's our second autograph of the box. It's actually Aubergé for Cincinnati. It's going to go to Lonnie. It's like the artwork and the design of Gypsy Queen. It's kind of like, there's a lot of similarities to Alan and Ginter. But this is basically for like, hey, do you like Alan and Ginter, but don't like all the other extra stuff? Then this is your set, because this is mostly, if not all, baseball. I don't think there's other any extra stuff at all. Nice Wander Franco rookie die cut for the Rays. That's going to go to Lonnie. All right, box one in the books. What else is happening in the world of sports today? Michigan declines Laker. Michigan's coach Howard declining Laker's interest and him as a head coach on Howard. Parker, oldest WNBA player to log a triple-double. Pools, homering twice. And Yachty pitches, apparently, in a cardinal victory. Brown said to have reached a deal to sign Jadavion Clowney, apparently. Tampa Bay Lightning and Hockey. It's Stanley Cup playoff time. We do have a Stanley Cup playoff mixer on the site, jaskyscasebreaks.com. I think we're giving them an economic data. Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Panthers 5-1. They have a commanding lead of the series 3-0. Rangers scratching a game back. They beat the Hurricanes 3-1. Carolina leads series 2-1. And then in about, I think right about now, Calgary and Edmonton are going to be playing. They're tied at 1. That's on ESPN 2. I might switch over to that. And then we got, in about an hour, we got basketball. Golden State, they're in Dallas. We'll go through some baseball scores in the next box. Oh, no. He's below, saying his royals below a 6-run lead in the 8. What happened? It's a little bullpen meltdown, huh? As much as I want to watch White Sox Yankees, maybe Flames at Oilers, little playoff hockey. This is some background noise. All right, second box. Two more autographs. Good luck. It's Tre Mancini for the Orioles. That's for Lonnie. That's a 399. 270 out of 399. Jesse Winker, refractor, or chrome card, actually. Oopsie, clean chrome. There is a no-name front right there. That's for Rob and the Diamondbacks. That's Kettle Marte. And our first autograph, some good penmanship there. Ron Darling. That's for the Metz. That's going to go to Michael L. And the Metropolitan's. I'll do an autograph recap at the end of the break as well. Adley Rushman got called up. Everyone see his debut last night? Okay, his first hit as a big leaguer was a triple, I want to say. If I remember correctly. Hans Kraus to 250. That was yesterday. Lonnie with the Phillies. And our second autograph is Jared Kalane. Nice on-card auto for the Ems. That will be for John and the Mariners. They find, yeah, some numbered cards here. There's Videl Bruhan. 13 out of 50 for the Reyes, Lonnie. Second box in the books. I have a stronger shrink wrap on this this time around. That was a little too precarious for my tastes. All right. What about some baseball? What do we got baseball-wise? We got a final in Anaheim. Angels beat the A's for one. And what are the A's going to do? No fans in the stands. I think there is going to be a vote on what they're going to do with a plot of land that the Oakland A's are kind of looking at to build a new stadium. But if that falls through, that doesn't get approved. And I think that vote may be in the next month or so. And that could lead to a path where the A's may no longer be an Oakland. Padres pounded the Giants 10-1. Giants only managing four hits on whoever was pitching today. Padres' five-run fourth inning propellism to a 10-1 winner.  Game one of a double header. A make-up game from May 20th. White Sox beat the Yankees 3-1. A.J. Pollock with a go-ahead home run against the Rollins chap. Kind of miss A.J. Pollock. Former Dodger. Cubs beat the Dimebacks 5-4. Wisdom and Schwindel back-to-back homers. Nationals beat the Brewers 8-2. Lane Thomas doubles to left to make it 3-0 Nats. They pounded out 14 hits. Astros beat the Rangers 5-2. I'll 2-0 lead off home run in that game. Go through the rest after this. All right, next box. We've got JT Real Muto to 1-99. 68 out of 1-99 for the Fightin' Fills. Jeff McNeil to 3-99 for the Mets. And our first autograph is an old school gym cat. Gym cat? Austin with the twins. And Michael has the Mets gets the McNeil. Chris Paddock may be in line for another Tommy John. Unfortunately. Rudolfo Castro. Chrome card. It's a no-name variation for the Phillies. Dodger's given a win to the Phillies with a... with an uncharacteristically bad defensive play by Max Muncie. Allowed some runs to score and extras and that was that. That's all she wrote. Got Trevor Storey. Rocky's addition to 2-50. And there's Andrew Vaughn. Chicago White Sox autograph for Lonnie. 80 out of 99 on that one. Still Rocky's addition on this one, Austin with the rocks. I think Trevor Storey may be starting to come alive a little bit for the Red Sox. There he is, Max Muncie. Kind of booted a ball away. A very slow hit ball. And there's Kettle Marte. 4 out of 5. Wow, nice. Well, train whistle for Rob and the Dimebacks out of 5 and under. Gets the train whistle. Congrats. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-woo! Nice. All right, next box. We saw a Trey Turner card here. I think he's got another sort of double-digit hitting streak going. Maybe he had like 11 or 12, maybe? Got some other scores here. Yeah, as Gilo was mentioning, Twins beat the Royal 7-6. Apparently a 6-run lead evaporated in the 8th, led by Gio Arcella. Tigers beat the Guardians 4-2. Josh Naylor smacks a 416-foot home run to center. Wow. Alcantara K-7 in a complete game victory over the Braves. Marlins beat the Rays 4-3. Reds edged out the Blue Jays 3-2 after a really bad start for the Reds. They've been winning some games here and there. They're being a little more competitive. Joshua, what's up? Can you buy insurance? Yes, you can. Go to jaskyscasebreaks.com, hit the Support button, and then let our team know. They're out today, but it's a Sunday, but they should be able to get to you tomorrow. That's not going to chip for a few days anyway, so there should be plenty of time. Rex says, hi, everyone, new here. I've been hearing a lot about this Braving thing. Rex, welcome. Go to jaskyscasebreaks.com. There is a Frequently Asked Questions area there. Browse that. And even if you're not new to Braving, if you haven't looked at that, take a look. Just kind of, even if even, that's just a refresher. Orioles and extras beat the Rays 7-6. Wow. Rushman scores to walk it off for the Orioles. So he was on base. Good for him. Adley Rushman, just one for five, but that's an important one. So the Adley Rushman time. It's Adley Rushman time. So if you've been holding those, maybe take a look and see how his cards are reacting in the secondary market. Another X-raying game, Red Sox beat the Mariners 8-4. Mariners started off the season kind of hot, but then they've cooled. Cooled a little bit. All right, next box. There's Will Smith, 17 out of 199. And there's the autographed, Davey Garcia. Yankees, that's going to be for Lonnie and the Bronx Bombers. Dodgers will get that John with the Dodgers. Rex is saying in all seriousness, the Reds, they may not be able to help themselves, but they can change.  Maybe a couple other players, but I think that may stand as one of the bigger names. Next little stack here. If the Reds keep up and continue playing, they can change the standings quickly. Like as some sort of spoiler for potential playoff teams, yeah.  We got a Stuart Fairchild of 399. Right, originally, everyone's kind of thinking, oh, the Reds, that's just a team we can just walk all over, but yeah, they say competitive. All right, there's the oldest Chapman to 150. And there's our second autograph, that's Garrett Whitlock. Whitlock, cool Whit. Whitlock, going to Lani and the Red Sox. Right, yeah, exactly. Exactly, Rex. It's a long season, so things could change her at the season. That's what's great about it. That's what's great about the sport. You find yourself not really paying attention too closely, especially for casual fans. They're not really paying attention to these garbage teams, and they're like, wait, where did this team come from? I thought they were terrible. Here they are. We were talking about this a little bit before Phillies beat my Dodgers in extras, four to three, on a Max Muncie blunder, kind of booted away a ball. I think I was listening to the post-game show on the radio on my drive here, and they were saying that the exit Velo on that hit to Max Muncie was like 68 miles per hour.  You know, Cardinals pounding the Pirates, 18-4. Pujol's home were twice, and Yachty was the position player that got to a little pitching. Right, mid-season trades can change things drastically. Absolutely, Rex. That's a hot take. But maybe not for the Reds, though, because I think they'll probably be sellers. But every game counts. You know, there are teams that may miss the play-offs by a game, and they're like, boy, you can point to that game they lost to any team, like May, and be like, should have been a series that we should have won. Alright, final box. Good luck. There's Colton Wong. He's been heating up a little bit for the Brewers. At least that's what I've noticed. I've got him on my fantasy team. That'll be for Rob and the Brew crew. Joe Adele raking in the Miners, but not but struggling in the majors. Maybe he's figured something out in the Miners, though. Still pretty young, Jerry's still out on him. Rex, he's a Cubs fan. He's expecting a Contreras trade in the next month or so. Hate to see it, but it has to be coming. After, you know, they're essentially rebuilding. No real need to hold on to him, especially if a team like the Yankees come calling. And we've got an Alex Kierloch. 38 out of 50 for the Twins. That'll be for Austin, especially when it gets close to the postseason. Well, they can't trade past July 31st, I think. So it's not like they can just make a trade in late September. If they're going to do it, they're going to have to do it by the trading deadline. And that waiver deadline, I'm pretty sure is no longer there. Remember how there was an extra waiver deadline that went to the end of August? Teams have chances like release players or something like that. I think that's all wrapped up into one trading deadline at the end of July. It's Devin Williams of 3.99. It's another brewer going to Rob. But it wasn't. There's 10 out of 99. I forget what they call it. Do I still have that cardboard connection page up? If you call it something, is it Sepia? They're calling it... No, they're calling it Sepia. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, a lot of teams will be figuring out... Zeraldo Perdomo. Rob with the Diamondbacks. Unlikely though, Rex, that the Yankees, especially with the expanded standings that they're going to not be in the hunt for a playoff spot. So they'll be looking to, like all the other playoff teams, will be looking to make some moves. So we'll stick with us, ladies and gentlemen. Keep breaking baseball with us all season long. And we'll keep chatting baseball all season long. And we'll have our shipping team get all these before they're sorted and shipped out. It's a lot of fun parallels. Gypsy Queen is a fun look. Second half of the case is in the store right now. I'm Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next baseball break. Bye-bye.