Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with both Frank Bassa and Matt Halliday from Canada Silver Cobalt Works. How are you both today? Very good. Very good. Thanks, Tracy. Personally, I love having two people from the same company. So what I'm going to do today for Investor Intel audience members is actually throw this at you, Frank, and have you explain to our audience why Matt is on the call because I suspect it's quite exciting. Yeah, the reason we brought in Matt, because Matt is, we needed some more geological know-how. He's actually work in the area, and it is a bit of a successful crack record of finding things. And so we brought him in for size VP, then we moved him up as president and we're very happy where he is. And of course, you know, we've got that resource that we came out with, which Matt will kind of elaborate on. It's a combination of silver, very high-grade silver, also a fair amount of cobalt nickel. You know, these are our energy metals. So you know, I can notice we changed our name, but we still kept cobalt in our name. So you know, we kind of welcome Matt, and of course we add other people to the team, but Matt was kind of a critical link to our company. Thank you, Frank. Yeah, so our new Maiden resource at Galganda is extremely exciting. We are the first company to put on a 43-101-compliant in situ resource in the whole cobalt camp. So we're very excited about that. Being the first is great. We have a resource of 7.5 million ounces at over 8,000 grams per tonne, inferred. And it composes of a couple of lenses that are on echelon. We have extremely high-grade silver, and we also have some zonation where there's cobalt. And we're really excited to continue to expand this resource and show the world what we can do. So Frank, that sounds very exciting to me, but some of our audience that may be new to silver and cobalt may not understand what Matt just said. So could you just kind of explain how really interesting this is? Well, the cobalt camp is a lot of people don't understand the cobalt camp. It's actually called, there's a town called cobalt, but the reality is, since mining started here was at the beginning of the last century, grades were known to be exceptionally high. So basically we're talking like 250 ounces of tonne, extremely high grade, and it's the norm for the camp. The reasons like that, a lot of the silver in the camp is massive native silver. And so, you know, the normal approach is you find it, you drill it, you find it, then you put down the shaft. I think we're looking at putting down the ramp. The intent is, as we do a ramp, it'd be what we call a combination exploration development ramp. And in the event the ounces are there, we're kind of fully integrated. Now we do have a facility whereby we can treat the silver in our, what we call, to Michigan testing labs. That's where historic there, but he did treat the silver in a camp. And the facility can't pour over a million ounces of silver a year. So it's kind of a nice win-win. The other exciting part of it, like I said, is the cobalt. And there's a lot of nickel, also copper shot up. And so we're kind of a win-win on multiple levels. Recently, you just announced being substantially oversubscribed. How can I say this, but congratulations. Can you tell me where we should anticipate these funds being directed to, Frank? Most sort of funds will be used specifically for carrying out with a drill program. We're looking at doing about 50,000 meters. It might not be enough, but the intent is to do 50,000 meters of drilling. We want to hit more structures down there, then hopefully follow up with a ramp. And by putting it on the ramp, we'll do what I said, like it's going to be a production development, exploration ramp. And usually when you go to the loan adapts, you find even more structures. And of course, since we have the pleasure of Matt being participating in this call, Matt, you know, Frank is telling me these are some pretty exciting results. Would you like to comment further on this? Sure. So and, you know, the Cobalt camp itself is it's been dominated by these extremely high grade structures and they range anywhere from about two, three centimeters up to about 30 centimeters. And so when you compare it to anywhere else in the world, you're never going to see these grades. It's the silver is just these big, massive lenses of silver and cobalt mixed together with some nickel and copper. And, you know, in the early days, they actually would chop this off of the walls with axes.  So it's really exciting, you know, when you compare it to other places in the world, you know, we're 10, 20 times higher in grade than most camps in the world. So it's pretty exciting stuff. It looks beautiful, too. It's really something to see. OK, well, I heard several of your comments. And obviously, we're looking forward to regular updates from you, actually. Matt, so you can explain more of this to us because it sounds to us like we have a bit of it. Is it a silver rush and a cobalt rush that we have here at Canada? Silver cobalt works or just one? Well, I think what we're trying to do here, Tracy, we did this when I was with Technique Wheel Mines. Basically, we mined the silver and we produced the cobalt for free. And I think cobalt and nickel would be kind of the new oil of the industry. And sooner or later, the demand for cobalt will be so great and hardly anybody has it. Even two, three years ago, I was in Hong Kong and China and Japan. And even then, they had no cobalt or worried about cobalt. And everybody thought there's cobalt in a DRC. And when I spoke to the Chinese and China, they said, no, there's not enough of cobalt. They're really worried. So it's a combination. Like I said, it's a multiple win for us. But what we're trying to do is we'll mine the asset for the silver. We'll produce the cobalt and nickel and copper for free. So we can compete on a global scale. Well, of course, we cover the issues regarding cobalt on a regular basis at Investor Intel. But after that answer, it almost seems underwhelming to ask you the next question in which we had prepared because you have been making a series of announcements having to do with acquisitions. And we believe it's a very good time for making acquisitions. You recently did your acquisition from PolyMet Resources. You repurchased back in options from Granada Gold. Would you like to comment and give us a bit of an update on that, Frank? Because we haven't heard from you in a while. We're dying to know what's going on. Well, what we wanted to do, like we kind of long-range planners, we kind of felt we'll take back our position from our sister company called Granada Gold Mines. And so basically, we gave them paper for 50%. And when you look at it, there's about 7, 8 million ounces of silver, even at $20 an ounce. So basically, I know this sounds a little odd, but you're talking about $160 million worth of silver value. And we basically paid, I think, three million shares of CCW. So three million shares, about $2 million. So we did pretty good on that transaction. And then we acquired this facility. Historic was called the Musqueen Testing Labs. This facility was run by the government. It processes all the silver, the high grade silver, for all the mines in the camp. And we're able to buy that at a huge discount to market. And we paid it in paper and part of it in cash. And we're, like I said, now fully integrated. So in the event when we do go now, get the ramp, hit the high grade, we can port the bar. We also did a proof of concept. We've poured a few bars out of that facility just to show the world that things still works. So Frank, please promise me you'll have Matt back on to join us as you have drilling results into the fall. And what should we as shareholders and interested parties anticipate for the fall? Can you give us any hints? I think primary thing we'll still focus on the drilling and Matt will be looking after that program. We're also doing some other things going forward. We might be drilling the tailings. The tailings are very high grade. We're trying to get a contract to drill the tailings. That'll add to our silver ounces to our current inferred resource. We'll start planning for the ramp. And of course, we still have our added. We've got certain permits. So proceed with taking up or from the stops. Don't have all our permits, but everything's a little slow because of COVID. The ministry people are working out of their homes. So things are not moving as fast as normal. But we're looking at being basically if we can, a silver producer with cobalt nickel copper credits. Well, as always, it's a pleasure to see and hear an update from you. And of course, Matt, it's a pleasure to have you join us as well. Thank you both. Yeah, thanks a lot, Tracy. Always a pleasure. Have a wonderful day. Thank you, Tracy.


It's beautiful. Anybody here feel like you've you've gained wisdom in the last day and a half?  I can see it. You're glowing. You're shiny. Glory to God. I love speaking to this group in particular Applied Biblical Studies Conference because you're the people who don't just want milk. You want meat. Isn't that right? You're hungry for a meat. You're biblical carnivores. I love it. So I'm going to be speaking about the secret wisdom of God. Let's begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, thank you for the incredible privilege we have of being your adopted sons and daughters in Christ and having access to the immensity of all of the riches of heaven in the Holy Spirit. And we ask you Father to send your Holy Spirit upon us now. Send your holy fire on us, oh Lord, to enlighten our minds and awaken our understanding to the breadth and length and height and depth of what you have given us that we might know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that we might be filled with all your fullness, oh God.  In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I want to just start by proposing to you a little case scenario. You are a priest or deacon or lay ecclesial minister or volunteer who just got assigned to serve in a new parish. When you arrive you find that there are a few challenges. You find that many of the parishioners are poorly cataclyzed and in fact just like the recent Pew survey showed only about half of them even understand the church's teaching on the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.  There's also some liturgical abuse going on. There's a lot of irreverence at the liturgy. Besides all that, there's tensions among the parishioners. Clicks have formed. The Charismatic Prayer Group is at war with the traditionalists. You also discover that some of the parishioners are dabbling in new age forms of spirituality like horoscopes and reiki. And then as you dig deeper, you also find that a lot of the couples in the congregation are really struggling with marital problems. Meanwhile, some of the wealthier parishioners seem indifferent to the needs of the families that are really struggling just to make ends meet. Besides all that, there's a lot of gossip going on. There's arrogance. There's pride. There's judgmentalism. So finally, feeling rather discouraged and desperate for guidance about what to do, you write to a wise pastor to let him know what's going on and ask him for his advice. What parish have I described? Wait, don't answer that. I have just described to you St. Paul's in Corinth. In the first century, the church founded by no less than St. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles. And you, whom I have just described are one of Chloe's people that you find mentioned in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 11 who have just written a letter to the founding pastor, Paul. And lo and behold, he actually writes back to your surprise and delight and he writes back a letter to the whole parish. And it becomes known in history as 1 Corinthians, St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Did you know that every single one of the problems that I just mentioned, some of which you possibly may have experienced at one time or another, is actually addressed by St. Paul in the letter we know as 1 Corinthians. A church founded only about five years previously by the great apostle. Founded in the city of Corinth, which was basically the Las Vegas of the ancient Near East. And on this slide you see a picture of Corinth with a big mountain behind it. On the top of that mountain was the temple to Aphrodite, who was the Greek goddess of love and romance and sexuality. So you can kind of imagine what life might have been like in Corinth when Paul went there preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. And now he hears back these reports from the people in Corinth about five years later about all of these troubles going on. But amazingly, he's not discouraged. And in fact, right at the beginning of his letter, he calls these very wayward people those made holy in Christ Jesus, called to be holy. He calls them God's holy temple for whom he thanks God continually. These people, he thanks God for them continually because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus. That's not flattery. Paul is speaking profound truth. He is not discouraged or downhearted or defeated by their conduct because he knows the deeper truth of who they are in Christ. He does, however, confront their problems head on. And in this talk, I am going to unpack a passage in that letter for Corinthians that I believe is the key to Paul's response to the array of troubles in that parish and likewise in the church today. That passage is 1 Corinthians 2, 6 to 16. I'm going to unpack it so that we can learn from his wisdom as a theologian and as a pastor and apply it to the myriad of problems we're facing in our own situations in our own local church today. Now the essence of Paul's answer is not. He doesn't start out simply by saying, hey guys, shape up, cut it out, be nice. Can't we all just get along with one another? No, his answer is he lays a profound theological foundation. He lays a foundation of truth for the radical transformation of life that he's calling them to. And that's something characteristic of St. Paul. In all his letters in one way or another, he always begins with what God has done for us. And then he moves on to what we ought to do in response. Sometimes I listen to various homilies and teachings and preaching today and it looks to me like sometimes, very often, it's about 90% what we ought to do. We ought to pray more. We ought to give more. We ought to be kind to one another. We ought to sacrifice more. And that's all good and it's all right and true and we need to hear it. And it's 90% what we ought to do, 10%, if that, what God has done for us. But Paul spends far more time talking about who God is and what he has done for us. And only then does he talk about what we are to do in response. Now, of all the problems that Paul identifies in Corinth, disunity, sexual immorality, liturgical abuse, dissent from the church's doctrine, lack of care for the poor, immature, chaotic use of spiritual gifts, which is the one that disturbs him the most? Which one does he attack first? Divisiveness. Divisiveness. Tearing apart the unity of the body of Christ. That's the one that exercises the most. That's the one that he finds the most destructive that has to be dealt with first in order to deal with the other problems. So, right off the bat, he says, I urge you brothers in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all of you agree in what you say and that there be no divisions. The Greek word is schismata. What word do you think we get from that? Schisms, right? That there be no schismata among you, but that you be united in the same mind in the same purpose. You know, we think of the great ecclesial schisms that have happened in history. 1054, the split between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. And then in the 16th century, the divide with Protestants. And since then, further splitting among different Protestant groups. All of those great ecclesial schisms that have torn apart the unity of the body of Christ, they begin in the local church. They begin in the family. They begin with individuals being self-centered and prideful and judgmental and tearing apart that unity that is so sacred to God. Symbolized by the robe of Jesus that wasn't torn when he was crucified. And that's why Paul finds it so crucial to stand against this spirit of disunity that's going on in Corinth. Now he talks about a lot of different facets of the problem, the disunity, their rivalries. He talks about boasting. A lot of you are boasting. And he says, you know, I'm looking at you. You don't look so hot. You're not such hot stuff in the eyes of the world. Why are you boasting? There's jealousy. There's inflated pride. There's factions. There's party lines. And it seems like at the heart of their divisions is competition over their favorite leader. They're arguing about who's the greatest. Sounds a little like something that happened with the 12 apostles, right? Arguing about who's the greatest. I'm for Paul. He's our founder. He founded this church. I'm for Apollos. He's much smarter and more eloquent. And his biblical eyes said, Jesus is just amazing. He can take an Old Testament passage and get more insight out of it than John Bergsma. Well, I'm for Peter. Jesus chose him as the rock. I'm for Luther. I'm for Calvin. I'm for Cardinal So-and-So. I'm above it all. I'm for Jesus. Paul says, you're all wrong. You're all wrong because you're tearing apart the unity of the body of Christ. It seems like in the case of the Corinthians, right at the heart of their rivalry over who's the favorite leader is wisdom. In fact, wisdom, the word wisdom, is 17 times in one Corinthians. It's only 11 times in all the rest of the letters of Paul put together. So, wisdom is really the theme in one Corinthians. The Corinthians are enamored with it. They're Greeks, and Greek culture highly valued wisdom. And wisdom was understood as that kind of knowledge that leads to success and honor, power and influence. So, they really loved wisdom. So, Paul spends the first part of his letter blasting wisdom. So, he says, God says in Isaiah, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the cleverness of the clever, I will thwart. The world didn't come to know God through wisdom. You know, with all the great achievements of Greek philosophy, he didn't come to know God, the living God. The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom. God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. And then Paul says, I didn't come to you proclaiming the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. My speech and my message were not implausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. So, he's saying, stopping so infatuated with wisdom. Stop fighting over your favorite church leaders based on how wise you think they are. Now, just so you don't start to get worried that I'm tearing down everything that's been built up so far in this conference, I'm getting now to the place where Paul suddenly shifts gears. Chapter two, verses six to sixteen. All of a sudden, he begins to speak positively about wisdom. All of a sudden, Paul is saying, wait, don't get me wrong. I'm not against wisdom. I want you to be wise. There is a Christian wisdom. I want to impart to you when you're ready for it, but it's totally different from the wisdom of the world. Now, this passage, chapter two, verses six to sixteen, is the key to resolving their disunity and all their other problems. Now, full disclosure, I actually wrote my doctoral dissertation on this passage, so I'm packing 350 pages into 50 minutes, but it's okay because Scott said I could take an extra two hours. We'll get through it. There are three parts to this passage. The first part is God's plan for our glory. The second part is the Holy Spirit's revelation. And the third part is spiritual and unspiritual people. So let's look at each part of these, and I'm just going to give you my translation, which is a more literal translation. It's close to the RSV Catholic Bible, but it's a little bit more literal. So he says, now, even though I've been blasting human wisdom and all its pretensions yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away. The rulers of this age, who are the rulers of this age? All the people that run the show. Not only government powers, but the cultural elite. The people who set the tone. The educators who form the cream of the cream. All of those who set the cultural atmosphere belong to the rulers of this age. And Paul, in this case he's talking about very literally the Sanhedrin and Pilate who colluded in putting to death the Son of God. But there's something more behind them. The rulers of this age are not just human beings. The rulers of this age are also demonic authorities who are using human beings, usually unbeknownst to them. And that have a vast and intricate plan for the destruction of the human race. Jesus called Satan the ruler of this world. In any given era, including our own era, the rulers of this age can seem incredibly powerful. They're in place. They are successful. They're beautiful. Everybody looks to them for how to think and how to act and how to live and how to speak. And as Christians, we can be profoundly tempted to bow down to the rulers of this age. Even the church can be tempted to bend over backwards to avoid offending them. To tone down our message to get on their good side. Today we can think of the secular media, the global mega corporations that more and more are making no secret of their hatred for Christianity. And their willingness to punish those who don't toe the party line, the agenda of this age. FAMGA. Do you know what FAMGA is? Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple. They all belong to the rulers of this age. And they're tightening the screws on us Christians today, aren't they? They're starting to censor things that they don't like. They're starting to make things difficult for those who want to proclaim the gospel in the public square. And that's only going to increase. They seem, and in a human sense, they are incredibly powerful. More and more they control the economic system. I mean, they can actually make a state governor cower in fear because they're going to pull a huge amount of business out of that state. They don't support the party line about pro-abortion, same-sex marriage, etc. Paul says, they are doomed to pass away. Don't fear them. Because the whole present order of things when the rulers of this age are in control, it's illusory and it's very temporary. And it's soon to collapse. And there is another infinitely greater power at work in history. There isn't Jesus and his kingdom. And he's the only true ruler. So I'm not giving you a wisdom like the wisdom of this age, Paul says. He says, but we impart a wisdom of God hidden in mystery. Usually that's translated a secret hidden wisdom of God. A secret wisdom of God which God decreed before the ages for our glory. Now it's right here, Paul's getting right to the heart of what he wants to teach. The core to resolving all the problems at Corinth. There's a secret wisdom of God that I want to give you. Now wait a minute. Is Paul saying that he's got a secret knowledge for the elite? Is Paul saying that he's got an esoteric knowledge for the people who are really in? That's what some of the pagan Greek mystery religions used to teach. The way to salvation is the secret esoteric knowledge and only the insiders get it. The ancient heresy of Gnosticism taught the same thing. You've got to be one of the elite. It's a little bit like Freemasonry today. The higher you go in Freemasonry, the more access you get to the secret esoteric knowledge. Is Paul saying that some biblical scholars hold that that's what Paul is saying? That shows the danger of doing biblical scholarship without the Holy Spirit. You can read what Paul says and totally miss the meaning. You can understand the meaning of the words and the grammar. Totally miss what he's talking about. No, of course he's not saying that. For Paul, when he says mystery, the wisdom of God hidden in mystery, he's talking about the awesome incredible plan of God that was hidden for endless ages, but now has been revealed in Christ. It's been made known in the gospel, and yet it's still a mystery because it infinitely surpasses our capacity to understand it. It's infinitely beyond what we could grasp. It's what God decreed before the ages for our glory. The mystery is the glory of God's intention for us. Hidden in the heart of God for all eternity. An incredible mystery. And he says none of the rulers of this age understood this. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. None of them had any clue about the plan of God. It totally confounds human wisdom. It's totally other than what human logic would come up with. Now, you might wonder if the rulers of this age also include the demons. Don't the gospels tell us that the demons did know who Jesus was? Sometimes when Jesus does a miracle or when he casts out a demon, the demons shout, I know who you are, the Holy One of God. Didn't they know who he was? Yes, they knew who he was, but they didn't know the plan. They did not know the plan because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. That phrase is the, it's the starkest expression of the paradox of the cross. In fact, you can obliterate three or four major heresies with that phrase alone. They crucified the Lord of glory. They didn't crucify a mere man. It's not that Jesus just seemed to be human, or that the Son of God temporarily united with a human being, and then he left when things got rough. Some of the ancient heresies held that. Or that he, he's not really God. He's sort of a lower God. No, it's the Lord of glory. That's a title for God, the Holy One, the creator of all things. It's the living Son of the living God who was crucified, put to death by the rulers of this world. So when they did that, and when they whipped up the crowds to shout, Crucify him. The rulers of this age thought it was their greatest triumph. They thought it was their hour of finally doing away with a person who had really bothered them and was upsetting their plans. Instead, it was their utter defeat. That, says Paul, is the secret hidden wisdom of God. In 33 A.D., on a hill outside Jerusalem, the Lord of glory, the omnipotent Son of God through whom the worlds were created, was subjected to the most abhorrent, horrendous, grotesque form of capital punishment that had ever been known. A God who decides to win back his world by hanging helpless, powerless, naked, tortured on an instrument of torture to a worldly mind. That is total absurdity.  Paul, are you saying to us Corinthians that a guy who was executed 20 years ago by the state authorities in a backwater province called Judea is actually the king of kings and the Lord of lords through whom all things were created? Yeah. That's the secret wisdom of God. And now at this point, Paul brings in his lynchpin biblical quotation. And this is how he shows this is all part of the plan. And this verse is very famous. I'm sure you know this verse, verse nine. But as it is written, know what no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him. Now the question here is, what exactly is Paul quoting? If you look this up, you find there is no exact verse like that in the Old Testament. The closest verse there is is in Isaiah, Isaiah 64 verse four. Let's look at that because if you've ever learned from Scott Hahn, you know that when Paul quotes the Old Testament, he always quotes assuming the broader context, right? He assumes you know the word of God and he assumes you know the whole passage, not just the little snippet that he's quoting. So let's look at Isaiah 64. This is a prayer for God to reveal himself in power. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence as when fire kindles brush wood and the fire causes water to boil to make your name known to your adversaries and that the nations might tremble at your presence. When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence from of old, no one has heard or perceived by the ear. No, I has seen a God besides you who acts for those who wait for him. This is the prophet saying, God, look, your people are crushed. We've been in exile, we're humiliated, we're scattered, we've been clobbered by our enemies.  That's what Isaiah is praying. That's what Paul is quoting. But if you look carefully, you see that part of what Paul quotes is not here. There's nothing about the heart. The heart part is missing here. So there's actually another verse that Paul is combining with the Isaiah quote. It's from Deuteronomy 29. Now this is part of Moses' final speech at the end of his life when Israel is about to enter the Promised Land. They've been through the Exodus and all the miracles. They're about to enter the Promised Land. Moses is about to die and he reminds them of all God's mighty deeds.  The great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders. But to this day, the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. You saw it all, Israel. You saw the plagues on Egypt. You saw the red sea split in two. You saw the rock split in water gush forth. You saw manna from heaven. Yet you didn't see. You didn't get it. You saw God's incredible provision for you and you didn't get it. Otherwise you wouldn't be still distrusting him, turning to idols, walking away from him. You're spiritually deaf and blind and obtuse. Why didn't you get it? Because you're self-reliant. You didn't think you needed him. You didn't turn to him. You haven't sought him. Moses gives that kind of reproach to the people. But a little bit later he tells them, you know, because of your spiritual blindness, deafness and stubbornness, you're going to go into exile.  And there's going to come a day when you'll be humbled. And in that day, Deuteronomy 30 verse 6, he says, God will circumcise your heart.  God is finally going to give you the seeing and the hearing of the heart so that you get it. So that you get what he's done for you and you're able to respond to him with wholehearted love. So we have a lament for Moses. We have the prayer of Isaiah. Paul puts them together. Paul weaves them together. And what's his point? Now he's done it. Now God has done it. What Moses lamented hadn't yet happened. What Isaiah prayed for. Now God has done it. Now the thing about this verse, 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9, is that it's pretty much one of the most often misquoted verses in the Bible. Because I would guess that all of you have heard it quoted this way. As it is written, no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him. Period. How many have heard it quoted that way? Yeah, that's the way it's always quoted. Well, they neglect the fact that it's not the end of the sentence. Paul actually says at the end of the sentence, all of these things that nobody could have seen or heard or imagined, God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. In other words, Paul is not talking about things that are not to be revealed until we get to heaven one day. He's saying what nobody could have seen or heard or imagined has now been revealed to us. That changes the whole meaning. So when Moses said, Israel, God hasn't yet given you the eyes to really see or ears to hear. And Isaiah was praying, God rend the heavens and come down. Paul is saying, he has rend the heavens and come down. In fact, if you read the Gospel of Mark, what happens right after Jesus is baptized? Jesus getting baptized is his yes to the whole plan of the Father that he would be the suffering Messiah. What happens right after he comes up from the water? The heavens are rent. They're torn open. The prayer of Isaiah is fulfilled. And then what happens at the very moment Jesus dies on the cross, the curtain of the temple is rent. It's another sign that the rending of the heavens, the tearing of the barrier between God and man. Paul is saying what nobody could have imagined before. Now God has revealed to us through the Spirit. And he doesn't just say that we can understand. He says we can see, we can hear. It's very sensory. The hidden wisdom of God that's now revealed. It's not just a mental object. It's experienced. God has made his magnificent plan visible and audible. In fact, Jesus says something very like that in the Gospels. They ask him, Jesus, why do you always speak in parables? He says, this is why. Because seeing they don't see and hearing they don't hear, nor do they understand. Just like Isaiah prophesied. For this people's heart has grown dull. And with their ears they can barely hear.  But then he says, Yeah, all of that blindness and deafness applied in the past. And it applies to the people who are not receiving my word today, but it doesn't apply to you. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear. So now we've got to move to the second part where Paul explains what does that actually mean? That the Holy Spirit reveals this hidden wisdom of God. He says, the Spirit searches everything even the depths of God. The depths of God. What does he mean by the depths of God? The Spirit searches the depths of God. Let's look at a couple other places where Paul talks about the depth in Romans 11. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How insurchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways. Paul has just been talking about the awesome plan of salvation. Gentiles brought into the family of God along with Jews and he's saying who could have imagined? It's the depth of the plan of God. In Ephesians chapter three, he says, Oh, that you may have power to comprehend with all the saints. What is the bread, the length and height and depth? The same Greek word, Bathos. And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. It's also in the gospel. You know, at the beginning of this new millennium, the third millennium, Pope John Paul II wrote a beautiful letter called at the beginning of the millennium and he gave the entire church a theme basically to lead us into this third millennium of the church's history. Anybody remember what that theme was? Out into the deep. That was the theme that he announced. Put out into the deep. And it's from the Gospel of Luke where Peter has been fishing all night. He hasn't caught a thing and Jesus says to him, Put out into the deep. Same word, the Bathos. Now on one level, it literally means Peter, go to the deep water. In obedience to my word, you're going to catch the fish. But there's a much deeper level. What is the deep? The heart of God. You want to bear fruit? You want to catch fish? You want to have life in your ministry, in your mission? Put out into the deep. The deep is the heart of God. And then you'll catch the fish. And then you'll find the fruitfulness that goes beyond human fruitfulness. So when Paul says the Spirit searches the depths of God, he's talking about the very heart of God, the unfathomable, limitless ocean of love by which God gave us his only beloved Son, the Lord of glory to be crucified for us so that we could share his life forever. So we could share his glory. That's the hidden wisdom revealed by the Spirit. And he goes on to explain now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we might understand the things freely given us by God. So this is kind of a reproach. Paul is saying, look, look, Christians, look, look, church, you haven't received the Spirit of the world, but you're acting as if you had. Spirit of the world. That's the deep rooted values, assumptions, patterns of thinking that moves people today. Ignorant of God, often disregarding God, having nothing to do with the truth of the gospel, leading to all the jealousy and boasting and ambition and divisiveness that was going on in Corinth. That's not the Spirit you've received, but you're acting as if you had. No, rather, you've received the Spirit that is from God so that you can understand the free gifts of God, the things freely given to us by God. And what are the things freely given to us by God? In a word, Jesus, the whole mysterious, glorious plan by which God from all the eternity decided to give us what was most precious, the pearl of great price for God, the treasure of God's heart, which was His Son so that we could be free, forgiven, become sons and daughters, all the magnificent graces that have become ours in Him, freedom, access to heaven and to all the blessings of God. The Holy Spirit makes that known to us. Now, a little example, a priest friend, some of you might remember Father Francis Martin, he used to speak at conferences here a lot, and he used to say, what happened when that man died? Yeah, Jesus died on the cross. We could all give a religious answer about what happened when Jesus died, but what happened when that man died? What does it have to do with you? What does it have to do with you? That a Jew from Nazareth was crucified on a hill outside Jerusalem in 33 AD. What happened when that man died? Only the Holy Spirit can show us. And when He shows us, it changes everything. You could get an A on the religion test and still not know what happened when that man died and what it has to do with you. Just imagine, you know, saying to somebody, God loves you. God loves you. Without the Holy Spirit, it's a little bit like saying to a completely colorblind person, it's red. You could say it again. No, it's red and they don't get it because they're colorblind. You could say a million times, it's red, it's red, it's red. Don't you get it? It's red. And they won't get it. They won't have any clue what that means because they're colorblind. God loves you. Without the Holy Spirit, it has no meaning. Christ died for you. You've been forgiven. You can have a completely new life in Him. Without the Holy Spirit, it's like saying it's red. An example for my own life. When I was a student here at Steubenville in the grad program, spring break, two busloads of us students went down to Daytona Beach, Florida during spring break. Like so many college students, we went down to Daytona Beach to evangelize on the beach. That's Steubenville for you. And it was a beautiful, kind of scary experience in many ways but one thing that really changed my life. We just happened to be in a church on one of the nights there and we had a music band and it was kind of repetitive and the refrain of the song was, Jesus is alive. He is alive, He is alive, He is alive, He is alive. And all of a sudden as I was listening to that song, I suddenly realized, He is alive. He is alive. He is alive. And that changes everything. It suddenly hit me at a level it had never hit me before. It was a Holy Spirit moment. And suddenly I knew, it was like I began to see color for the first time. Suddenly I knew everything was different because Jesus really is alive. We need that Holy Spirit revelation. Or another little example.   Yeah? He says, it's yours. You've inherited it.  You see that river running like a silver thread through the valley? Yeah? It's yours. You've inherited it. You see the forest and the rolling hill? It's yours. That's the Holy Spirit telling us what we have inherited in Christ. Our baptismal inheritance. The Holy Spirit alone can make it known to us so that it's real to us. And when we receive that revelation from the Holy Spirit, the response is faith. He reveals we believe. We believe. He reveals our inheritance, the kingdom. Faith goes and explores the territory. We begin to take possession of the kingdom that is ours. Faith gets deep to the degree the revelation is personal. To the degree we have received the revelation of that hidden wisdom which is the awesome plan of God coming from the very heart of God. The gift of the crucifixion of the Lord of Glory to the degree we receive that revelation our faith gets deep. And once we discover the magnitude of what is ours in Christ we can't be dominated by other things anymore. Once we start to get that revelation from the Holy Spirit you can't be overcome by lesser things. You can't be dominated anymore by fear or anxiety or depression or guilt or anger or lust. No, those things are still going to rise up in you because we're falling in a fallen world they're still rise up but they can't dominate you anymore when you get that revelation from the Holy Spirit. Paul says that's what you need Corinthians. And he goes on to say the Holy Spirit is also necessary for teaching others that secret wisdom of God. So we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. Now here he's talking about anointed preaching anointed teaching. Why is there so much bland ineffective preaching in the church today?   So Paul says anyone who wants to impart the faith teachers, preachers, catechists, evangelists parents teaching their children the Holy Spirit has to give you the words you got to ask him you got to rely on him to give you the words and he will he will give you the words St. Thomas Aquinas one of the most brilliant minds in church history he would go to pray before the Tabernacle he would weep before the Lord every time he was about to give some kind of message or teaching begging the Lord to show him what to say and how to say it if he did it how could we not? Okay so let's go on very briefly to the third part of the passage Paul shows now what's the effect of receiving that revelation from the Holy Spirit of the hidden wisdom well surprisingly he begins to talk about two different kinds of people the spiritual and the unspiritual and he says the unspiritual person doesn't receive the gifts of the spirit of God because they are folly to him and he's not able to understand that because they are spiritually discerned now that word unspiritual it's one of those really hard to translate Greek words in Greek it's psukikos and it literally is like the soul-ish person it's the person who lives by the soul alone you could say psychic but that's not exactly the meaning he doesn't mean psychic person but he means a person who lives by their natural faculties alone now the human soul is beautiful it's created by God we have amazing faculties of memory and intellect and will but it can't understand the gifts of God by itself it cannot understand that secret wisdom of God and the unspiritual person is the person who lives by the natural reason alone but the spiritual person the pneumaticos person lives by the revelation of the Holy Spirit he gets it now is Paul again endorsing the kind of spiritual elitism and he's saying some of you are spiritual some of you are unspiritual in a church already prone to boasting and division no he's saying examine yourself examine yourself you have the spirit you're Christians, you're baptized into Christ you have the spirit but are you a pneumaticos person are you thinking by the spirit are you receiving his revelation and taking it in are you living by it or are you living by the wisdom of this world and the rulers of this age Femga what are you living by the unspiritual person doesn't receive the gifts of the spirit of God they're folly to him he doesn't get them they don't make sense the spiritual person on the other hand judges all things but is to be judged by no one well now is Paul giving a pass for arrogance, presumption no but he's saying if you live by the revelation of the Holy Spirit you have an unclouded vision that lets you see everything in God's perspective in kingdom perspective you're able to rightly discern relationships family issues the economy elections, national news the troubles in the church everything you can rightly discern in the light of the Holy Spirit that is enlightening your mind on the other hand the unspiritual person can't even rightly discern things of this world much less the things of God and later in the letter Paul gives some examples he says you Corinthians you should be able to recognize your spiritual leaders that you're fighting over as just servants of God you should be able to recognize the church as the holy temple that you can't tear apart you should recognize your body as a holy temple of God you should be able to recognize the Lord's body in the Eucharist you should be able to discern prophetic words you can do all that if you're living by the revelation of the Holy Spirit the spiritual person is to be judged by no one he can't be understood by the blind a seeing person can see everything the blind man does the blind man can't see anything that the sighted person is doing Paul is calling all of us be those who live by the Spirit and then he sums up at the very end for who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him but we have the mind of Christ what a bold thing to say we have the mind of Christ who can understand God's mind Paul says you can who can understand the wisdom hidden for ages and generations you can through the Holy Spirit you have that incredible privilege a couple verses later which I won't go into Paul says look if you don't have that if you're living by worldly wisdom you're actually living by the flesh it's even worse than you think you're fleshly people and he says if you're still fighting with each other and saying I belong to Paul I belong to Paulus I belong to Cephas you're acting like human beings Paul actually says to them stop acting like human beings Paul what are we supposed to act like like God to have the mind of Christ it's not only to have his understanding it's to have his mentality and what's his mentality pure outpoured self-giving love utter humility utter gift of himself that's the way to unity in the body of Christ that's the way to resolve all the other issues in your local parish that's the hidden wisdom that God wants to give you I'd like to end with a prayer from another passage in St. Paul one of my favorites it's very closely connected with the passage I just unpacked and this one is from Ephesians chapter one the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of Glory may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him having the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe according to the working of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named not only in this age but in that which is to come and he put all things under his feet and made him head over all things for the church which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all amen in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen


Will KD Plasma get quick toggles or control center or whatever you want to call it? Welcome to yet another episode of Nikolov. Does a click bake title and then hands off, I don't know. So this is how it goes. I can actually provide some insight about this. Apparently lately everybody has started noticing that something like a quick control, which I think comes from the fact that a lot of users now have phones as the main drivers actually. And they do want to have something similar to what they have in phones in desktops as well with something like a control center that makes the user feel in control. They have one place where they can edit everything and I can see the point of it really. And personally, I'm actually a big fan of this kind of things. I would like personally KD to have quick toggles and things like this. And I've actually advocated for them for years, way before Macintosh had them actually, way before GNOME, way before Deepin. This is actually a screenshot candle leaked. I mean, it was removed after negative feedback, but this was a screenshot of the beta of the Deepin version, version number 23. We also get the very same idea in GNOME 43. And lately there is even this control for KDE. And you might say that this just answers the question in the title, will KDE get quick toggles? Yes, you can just download this, but the real question is, will KDE get quick toggles out of the box for everyone? That's much different than just having a third party update. So the first question is, will something like this be upstreamed to KDE? Now, this is my take. Obviously, I think the answer is no, as somebody who has some insights on how KDE works. Something like this is not something that the KDE visual design team is currently interested in. And I think it's very, very clear, that is very, very clear just by reading the chats. And again, if it was up to me, we could consider it, but I'm not KDE, so it's not up to me. However, look, in fact, there is even a webpage. Let me bring that up. Let me. Yes, there is a page called Lesson Learned, which is mostly, I think, maintained by Nate, who's doing a great job of putting together things that we get together and discuss every month or something like that. And the 13th is, why don't we have a control center? And here there are many arguments against using a control center, which are generally valid, actually. And the fact is that our system tree is very good, as it is right now. And bringing, making the system tree be something like quick settings might just ruin it. And there are some arguments in that sense. As an example, currently you can already very quickly change the status of Bluetooth and WiFi, these kind of things just by using middle click on most elements. However, at the same time, obviously, that is not very user-intuitive, which is also why Nate has added that information as a tooltip text when you hover those icons. Now, KDE does have something very, very similar, actually exactly equally, like exactly the same as quick settings. And as I've said before, it is not about the desktop, it is about the mobile phone. And Plasma Mobile does have quick settings. If we just look, this one, just look at how pretty they are. So could something like that be implemented in Plasma Desktop as well? Now, the actual question is, could something exactly like that be implemented in Plasma Desktop? Could we take the code from Plasma Mobile and just literally use it in Plasma Desktop instead of Plasma Mobile? From a technical point of view, yes. I mean, why not? We could have an applet that uses these same very elements in Plasma Desktop. It could be an opt-in applet, because as I've said, the VDG is not interested in something like that. However, it does have some flaws. Like it's a cool idea, you could do it. All of these buttons, actually, all of them are their own little package, not as in-packet manager. Like under the hood, they are modular, so they are implemented as little packages, which actually allows for a lot of customization, being able to do your own third-party projects, being able to add them. However, they don't support sliders, which is a bit limiting. Stuff like brightness, the volume, and possibly other things could require a slider, or, more in general, some more complex things that just on and off, but really, it's something. However, here's the plot twist. I am currently planning to port something like this into the system tray, and I want to do it and I want to do it right. First of all, I do not plan to use currently the same implementation as Plasma Mobile, and there's a reason for that. If we do want to have something like this in the system tray, let's look at the system tray. So yeah, in the system tray, we have icons, obviously, and then we have this arrow. This is the general representation of the system tray. This is just the system tray, not any particular applet. So my plan is, if you click on any element, any element, battery, audio, Bluetooth, then you still get the same exact applet as you get now, normally. However, if you click on the arrow like this, instead of this rather boring and useless view, you get quick settings. Now, to do this, we require two things. First, we need to still be able to access all of the applets just using one click as we currently do. As an example, I can still go into battery and brightness just by clicking. We still have to have the option to get inside battery and brightness with just one click. Otherwise, we are actually making it harder for users to get inside their applets that they want to use. So all the applets that currently are available with just one click, still has to be available with one click. So let's make an example. Let's say that Wi-Fi, which currently is here, wasn't here, but it was in this view. Of course, you would have an icon, similarly to this one, to turn on and off Wi-Fi. That's the whole point of a quick setting. However, what we can do is along that button also show another button, which could be an arrow, as an example, and if you click on the arrow, it actually gets you inside the Wi-Fi applet. So you have one button to turn on and off Wi-Fi quickly, and then another button just next street to get inside the Wi-Fi applet if you need to do anything more than that. As an example, you know, connect to a particular Wi-Fi. Similar, same thing goes for the battery brightness. So currently we have it here. We can access it one click. The battery in brightness could expose a slider for the brightness, obviously. And that is really, again, the whole point of a quick setting, showing the slider for the brightness. However, next to the slider, we could have an arrow that actually opens up this applet, right? So you still have the slider, but you still also have the button to get inside the applet if you need. That's the bare minimum. We have to address that. So the first way I could do this is to take these applets, quick settings, and just bring them to the assistant. Those there, there, in the assistant. I could do that. However, there is a big issue. Most of these quick settings, actually all of the quick settings by implementation are not directly linked to a particular applet. As an example, Caffeine, which suspend sleep, is not directly connected to any applet, just like in the actual implementation, Wi-Fi is either. It's, they are actually their own little things, their own little packages that have nothing to do with the Wi-Fi applet that we see normally in the assistant tray. Can I just, oh, that's much simpler, much simpler. Okay. Sorry about that. So what this means is that, yes, I could do that. However, those quick settings would not have a direct link to the applet that you would expect them to bring up. So if you have like this Wi-Fi thingy, you would expect next to it to have another button that opens up the Wi-Fi applet. However, since there is no link between the Wi-Fi little toggle and the Wi-Fi applet, there's no clear way on how I would even implement that, on how I would tell that quick toggle to have next to it a button that opens up the right applet. And some of these little thingies don't even have an applet in the first place to open up. So another approach is to reimplement this. Let's do this again, which is usually not an amazing idea, but it's an idea. I'm brainstorming. I'm not implementing anything right now, but the idea is we implement this again, again, but this time it is the actual applets that contain these quick settings. So the Wi-Fi applet will contain inside of it the little quick settings setting for Wi-Fi and maybe the little quick setting for mobile data and surely the little quick setting for the airplane mode, maybe even more than one as we just seen. So now I do actually have a clear idea of what applet is exposing what quick settings, which means that when I actually go here and see the full view of the system tree, instead of just having the icons for the system tree elements, I can have, yes, this icon, but next to them, also the quick settings that each of these exposes. This means that we maintain the usability of the system settings fully, all of it. We also add the ability to have quick settings, which again, I think is a good idea and something to have in a modern operating system, but at the same time, we retain the powerfulness of the quick settings and its modularity. As an example, any third-party applet could expose their own quick settings and it would just work for any third-party applet. So maybe you're, I don't know, a distro, like say you are Fedora, you want, you're doing a system tree applet. I think Manjaro is doing that actually. Maybe you do want that applet to have a quick setting associated to it and you can do that. This is something that is very limited instead on something like the KD Control Center applet from the third-party. Yes, it works. Yes, it's pretty. It is not customizable. You get that. You get those elements. You can not customize them at all. They're just there. And if you're a third-party who wants to add something to it just by having their own applet, of course you can't do that. So we are KDE. We can't just upstream something that's hard coded. Obviously, we have to make it customizable and make sure that everybody can see that it's super powerful and modular. Same goes with something like this. Even in its own layout, you can see that this is how it looks and this is how it's always going to look like. You can't adaptively show icons depending on what applets you have installed. This is the layout. It's like this. It won't change. You just set this. It's not as powerful as what KDE could achieve thanks to the modularity that KDE has introduced with applets. So will KDE get quick settings? Huh, good question. This is a possible approach, what I've just described. It could work, but to be fully honest, it could also not work. We could see that there is no clear way to do user interface that clearly shows the fact that you have both quick settings and also the applets that are exposing those quick settings. That is not immediately simple to do. You can see that in here, there's something very similar. You have the Wi-Fi and then you have the arrow which actually opens up the Wi-Fi applet. So something like this, this is the general idea. We might discover that it's not that easy if you have, as an example, multiple quick settings for the same applet. Like the Wi-Fi both has Wi-Fi and airplane mode. How do you do that? Not so clear. In this case, the airplane mode doesn't get a narrow at all. Eh, not good. It could also be that all of this is implemented and then we realize that it's bad. The users don't like it. It's not working. It's too complex. It's too visually heavy. Who knows? It's an attempt. And if I get any free time from here to Plasma 6, I will attempt at implementing this before Plasma 6. That is my hope. That is my goal. I think I should be able to do it. I think. But if you do want to help, if you do want something like this, I hope that I've shown that I just don't want to come here and destroy everything that was previously done by KD developers. Like I am seriously trying to build up a serious alternative. I do accept donations. And currently, as far as KD development and maintaining this channel goes, I, well, let's just say that if I was employed, it would not be even minimum wage. So that's not good. So if you want to help me out, actually help me out to reach these goals, then there's link to donate in the description and stuff. Anything will be extremely welcome. So thanks everybody for following and see you tomorrow with another video.


I want to be the very best that no one ever was. In order to attain this goal, I need to surround myself with only the finest things in life. When it comes to Pokemon films, nothing beats the original. I've traveled across the land, searching far and wide. Watching each Pokemon movie to understand the power that's inside. And that power resides within Pokemon the movie 2000. So Brian gotta wear my shirt. All right, Chris, if he could choose to throw down with me, that's just fine. The pun counters back, Pokemon edition. Let's feud. Enough of this original cast gets me all misty eyed. So many fond memories of my heroes.  He's ordered to be found in the mediocre sequel. Then there's the always spunky misty. Ash is, of course, the main star with his right hand rodent Pikachu. One of the cutest creations ever conceived, right up there with Gizma from Gremlins. Talking about Pikachu, not Ash. Although Ash is a striking child, that sounded really bad. Wow, you sure are Bulbasaur about that thing. But admittedly, I am too because Brock was my boy and they replaced him with something nasty, something putrid, something vile. Tracy. They had to do something to tone down the awesomeness so it wouldn't exceed the legal limit. You see, they got misty back in full force.  You got Bell professors, Oak and Ivy. And then we got Team Rocket in an expanded role. The biggest draw to a Pokemon film are the Pokemon themselves and the original has the classics. You can't beat them. I'm talking Charizard. I'm talking Squirtle, Venusaur, or is it Ivisaur? It's been a while since I've seen the movie some little rusty when it comes to my Pokemon knowledge. The fact remains, nothing can top the originals. I don't know why I'm whispering like I have a smoker's lung. The show runners come from the amazing Mewtwo and Mew. Legendary birds are fine and all but clone Pokemon hell bent on world domination is just a tad cooler. Pokemon 2000 had a very similar draw. Those clone Pokemon are cooling everything but the legendary birds engage in an all out war to destroy each other. Have you ever seen birds go that hard? Have you? It was insane. Ash almost died and not by getting turned to stone or getting saved by the power of love. The stakes were larger because our heroes were actually in real danger plus that mixing freaking Lugia? It wasn't the three birds, we had four. What did you have?  It's gonna be the feathered west. Prepare for Joel Adam and make it double. This second film had twice the heart and twice the adventure as the first. Twice the heart, Ash is straight up murdered and then resurrected again by the tears of Pokemon. That's not just heart, that's the power of love, baby. It is the power of love and it's one of the most cliche and contrived plot points in movie history. Whenever a movie uses the power of love, all you know is that the writers didn't know how the freaking ended. But in Pokemon 2000, they had to go in character development. They had to go all actiony. They had to do something even stronger than just grasping at your heart strings. There's no way the clones are gonna show up.  It doesn't happen. I'm Clefair Lee, sir, and you forgot how good the first movie is.  Only to come to the realization later that thanks to the sacrifice of one young trainer, there's more good in this world than there is bad. Wow. And I find it rather oddish that you would rather watch an hour and a half of new two moping around like a freaking, like I don't know, a teenager who's moping. 2000, get it right. And don't get me wrong. As a kid, the first movie was amazing. But now that I've matured into a 30-year-old adult with an ability to grow a mustache, I see the truth. Pokemon 2000 is just better. The second film is a snore, lax to get through. And the action doesn't come into play until that final act.  Then there's the big throwdown between the clones and the originals with a final boss battle raging between Mew and Mewtwo. Wow, can't oversell this enough. Except the Pokemon fights were nowhere near as epic. The choreography consists of gently rocking back and forth doing nothing and shoving each other half the time.  Sure, just a while to get started, but once it starts, it's incredible. And Lugia's monologues are nowhere near as in sepid and ongoing.  I know she's a cartoon, but I mean something about her, man. You know what I'm saying.  Team Rocket's not the only thing blasts enough again, right? What? What? Game over in this category. The cartoon series theme song is back in remix fashion. Remix! It is awesome. There's also a string of pop music, which I just nom nom nom eat up. M2M's don't say you love me. Christina Aguileras were a miracle and even the queen bee herself, Brittany, buss out a jam called Soda Pop. In sync, 98 degrees, Aaron Carter, vitamin C, the list goes on. This is a celebration of terrible late 90s pop music at its finest. It's a shame the follow-up film had such a ghastly soundtrack. I'll give it up to you on this one, but there's one thing I must note. The Pokemon 2000 soundtrack has a little hidden gem by the name of, follow with me guys, Pole Come On, by weird owl freakin' Yankovic. We've been cuffing up a lot of hate for each other, but these are both fun little flicks. Thanks for coming on the program, Chris. I called it a program because I'm 80 years old.  That's gonna mean, Adam, but any hoot-hoot. At different points in my life, I've learned to appreciate both of these films for very different reasons. They are hard to compare because they're so different. One has mature storytelling, incredible action, and the other pulls into your heart strings the entire time. You see, Pokemon for me is more than just a video game. Pokemon for me is more than just a movie. One is a TV show. It helps shake me into the person that I am. So when I watch these films, I can't just look at them as films. They're like time capsules to me. They mean something, and each one is just very, very different from different points in my life. The first movie, again, you do that nostalgic feeling that can't ever let go. The second movie, however, show me that Pokemon can be more than just fan service. If you guys want to understand where I'm coming from, you can find me on my channel at CeceAndreas, or YouTube.com at CeceAndreas, or nerdyvills.com, you can type it into the search box, or to send me Chris Sanders if you're feeling lazy. But you guys want to understand where I'm coming from because I try my best to relate to everybody on my channel and reach out to people in ways that don't, they really, even truly understand. But try me anyway. Pokemon Feud done. Want to see some more animated battles? Maybe something Avatar the Last Airbender related? 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