اللهم من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على السيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداء ومع بعد رسبكتد سكولرز ألدز برزن سيستز السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله تنايت we want to commemorate the martyrs that have been martyrs in the way of Ahl al-Bayt as that that the Ahl al-Bayt were martyred before them and we dedicate tonight's lecture in honor of these people that have fought to uphold the name of Ahl al-Bayt died and were martyred to uphold the message died for the people that died before them now insha'Allah tonight we want to analyze a very important aspect in relations to the society we live in today and this aspect insha'Allah we want to look at from three different steps or three different points and this aspect is the misconception and the viewpoint that people might take into consideration when looking at the school of thought of Ahl al-Bayt as you know many people may come forth and tell us that you know what kill them because they are kuffar other people may come forth and say what that they are مغالين other people may come forth and say you know what the shia are those that have elevated the imams over the prophets and many other misconceptions that have come forth now insha'Allah it's our duty as each and every individual in this particular Husayniyah and everywhere around the world it's our duty first and foremost to have knowledge of what the school of Ahl al-Bayt teaches us on the first level and secondly to correct every misconception that we may find within the world within the communities that we live in within universities within high schools even within primary schools even within someone's family and insha'Allah tonight we want to look at the very basis of these misconceptions and we want to look at the first point in which someone may view the school of thought of Ahl al-Bayt in which we look at the viewpoint insha'Allah tonight is dedicated to the viewpoint how someone may come forth and look at the school of Ahl al-Bayt and what problems arise when looking at the school of Ahl al-Bayt and how do misconceptions come forth and insha'Allah you can assist me in starting the lecture tonight by reciting about Ahl al-Bayt and Muhammad insha'Allah the first point I want to look at is the point we want to look at what is meant or what's the viewpoint of being poor and what's another viewpoint of being wealthy as you know someone was mentioned poor what do you think of when someone is mentioning someone that's poor often people come with the conclusion that he's lacking money other people may come to the conclusion that you know what he doesn't have enough sustenance for a day others may come forth and say that doesn't have enough sustenance for a week others may come and say month or a year different definitions of that which is poor Islam has its own definition of course however on the social level when you find saying that someone or refer to someone as poor often it's associated with sustenance often it's associated with wealth money status possessions little do we look at the health of someone as being poor if someone is lacking health is often referred to as having poor health the thing I want to look at tonight in reference to someone being poor is being poor in knowledge why because that's one of the most important faculties that we have to teach ourselves if we lack knowledge that is the true definition that we can take in this society nowadays in the modern world in the 21st century if we lack knowledge of everything around us if we lack the knowledge of our Imam if we lack the knowledge of what the Ahl al Bayt teach us that's in definition makes us poor as in when we look at the people that come towards the shrine of Aba Abdullah when we look at the people that come forth and say you know what we want to when we look at the people that come forth and say the school of thought of Ahl al Bayt should be fought and we have people such as ISIS such as the people that call themselves Wahhabis that come forth and say that all the Shi'as the followers of the prophet and his household are the people that should be prosecuted that should be killed anywhere in the land we have to look at why and this is the lack when we look at them when we not only look at them in anger and saying why do they believe this we should look at them with pity on the first level why because they do not have the knowledge they do not see that great aspect that we have that great miracle that Allah has gifted to us which is the willaya of Ali ibn Abi Talib if we look at it in essence these people we have to look and pity and say they do not have that which we have that is why they have come to the conclusion that if we kill look at the irony of their belief so you may acknowledge what kind of system they believe in they say until today you find the people that are going and bombing themselves they say we want to go and kill and especially the people that kill in and around the Iraq area in and around the shrines of Ahl al Bayt look at the analogy that they are giving us they say we want to go towards heaven by what by killing the people that are visiting one of Sayyidi Shabaab Ahl al Jannah now look at that in an instance the irony of the sentence in itself it contradicts itself I want to go towards heaven by killing the visitors of who the Prophet of Islam said is the master or one of the masters of the gate of paradise there is only two Sayyidi Shabaab Ahl al Jannah they say we will kill the people that visit them in order to have whatever it may be breakfast or lunch with the Prophet and they go towards bombing themselves and they have a spoon or a fork in their pocket when we are resurrected we will have breakfast or lunch with the Prophet look at the lack of knowledge this is what the truth is in being poor the lack of knowledge of who Muhammad و آل محمده and therefore on the reverse angle if we want to ask who in our communities who in the world that we can refer to as being wealthy is it the one that has a large bank balance is it the one that has cars lined up in front of these house is it the person that owns buildings upon buildings no if we want to look at the truth in the wealth the wealth that can be used in this dunya and the hereafter the true wealth is the knowledge and the will of صلى الله عليه و محمد و ألم and on that reference on the first hand we are wealthy to have the door to knowledge but we are not allowing ourselves to gain the full extent of this wealth because we do not go out and learn about the Ahl al Bayt as much as we should we don't go out and apply their knowledge to our lives and that instance when we do that will truly be wealthy in that instance now let's look at one particular example on the second level the first level we looked at the reference between being poor and being wealthy in knowledge in معرفة now let's look at the difference of viewpoints as in when someone looks at the school of thought of Ahl al Bayt and he seeks to understand he goes out and he endeavors to understand the way we view our imams the way we view not only our imams because that's what they firstly refer to the way we view Allah SWT the way we view the prophets and then the way we view the imams then you will realize how different the different schools of thought are as in when we look at these three concepts when we look at God when we look at the prophets and we look at the imams there is something known to us as unlimited when looking at Allah other schools of Islam other schools of thought not just in Islam other schools of theology other religions they limit God I'll give you an example before we move on to the analogy that should explain this in more detail when someone comes forth and says and takes Jesus as his Lord or when someone as we know and even in the time of Imam Ali the reference as in many lectures have come forth and they've given the example and the reference between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Jesus son of Mary why? because they both had miracles upon miracles they had great things that people cannot comprehend and they were both in their time or after their time looked at to be divine as in people have taken Jesus son of Mary and made him divine and they've said you know what he's God or the son of God والعيادة بالله and on the same level people have come forth and taken Ali ibn Abi Talib to be their Lord now we look at that and say no this is against Islam altogether and it's not only against Islam and it's not only Khufr however it's minimizing it's lowering number one from the rank of Allah because they're limiting him and secondly from the rank of the Prophet and the Imams as in how great if they take Ali ibn Abi Talib or if they take Jesus son of Mary as their God or their divine figure what injustice is that when a person comes home says look at the injustice that they've done to Ali ibn Abi Talib says how great is the God or the Lord of Ali and the Lord of Jesus if they and they referred to Ali ibn Abi Talib and Jesus son of Mary as Lord he says how great is the Lord if these people that they've made divine take that Lord and they are their slaves look at that analogy when we recite in the Shahada the Prophet of Islam what do we refer to him do we refer to him as a messenger first or a slave firstly we refer to him as a slave وأشهد أن محمد عبده ورسوله صلوا عليه صلوا عليه so someone may come forth and look at the religion of Islam through the spectacle or through the eyes of the Ahl al-Bait and say what and say these people that call themselves the followers of Ahl al-Bait are extremists how they say that they are مغالين as an example they say that you know what they give ranks to their imams to their prophets far greater than what they deserve now what's the problem with this when we look at the imams and they say to us نزهونا عن ربوبي it says lower us from divinity lower us from giving us the status of being divine lower us from that it says and say whatever you want about us say whatever you want why it says whatever you say you will never reach the status that we are or what we are capable of however do not do injustice by making us divine yes they are great however they are still slaves of Allah that's the first instance that we must look at and I want to give you an example because the way we view our imams the way we view Allah the first aspect is he's infinite and he cannot be seen one of the aspects of توحيد other schools of thought say no they limit him to saying you know what and they refer to him as saying they say God is embodied by a young man that rides when he comes down other hadith say what that he puts his leg in bodies again giving him a body part objectifying him puts it into hellfire to allow hellfire to calm down and you find in the school of thought of أهل البيت they say no God cannot be comprehended nor can you objectify him on the first instance and then we believe that our imams are all infallible now the example I want to give you is a simile given by a philosopher a Greek philosopher by the name of Plato he gives a simile to give us an example on understanding of the knowledge of the prophets the knowledge of the imams what they can see what Allah has given them in reference to what we know and the belief that we have now I want you all to concentrate for 5 minutes just 5 minutes of your time I need your complete attention to this particular simile because if you miss one point it won't make sense to you the simile of the cave goes as follows I want you to imagine a group of people chained inside a dark cave example chained group of people their entire life they know nothing but this cave they've been chained to this cave and all they can see in front of them is a wall behind them is a fire in the entrance their whole life they've been chained they can't look right they can't look left they don't know what the people in either side look like they can only hear them what they see is anyone that goes past the entrance past the fire they can see their shadows on the wall in front of them and that's their life so imagine that the same particular figure would pass by every day or every month or every year and that particular shape they may refer to it as such and such or a particular noise it could be an animal it could be a human they recognize the voices they say that voice belongs to this particular person and that's the only knowledge that they have imagine that perspective now let's have that on our days if we are only encompassed to that which we see that's which we are accustomed to that's which we think we know now let's take the example of the cave imagine someone broke free of the chains and they went out of that cave and they began to see everything as it actually is in its essence they began to see that those shadows belonged to actual humans they begin to see that those voices and where it's being uttered from they begin to see that the shadows were formed by people going past that particular fire they begin to see everything in its essence now imagine this that person that went out and saw all of it and began to know the truth and understood the truth and the essence imagine when he goes back imagine that being prophets and being imams knowing the truth of the message of Allah understanding the miracles seeing that which is unseen such as the ملائكة such as the levels of heaven such as the levels of the earth the miracles of Allah having knowledge of all this now imagine that figure that went out of the cave returned to the cave imagine trying to explain himself towards the people that only know the shadows on the walls imagine what would you have to do people on the first hand would say that you're a liar because they can't comprehend it on the second they'll say you're a magician he'll be taken out of that circle he'll be looked down upon they will tell him stop talking like that because we can't comprehend it it doesn't fit into our capacity our mental capacity that person will be isolated now imagine the prophet of Islam do you remember what happened when he brought the message on the first level when the prophet brought the message and he began to tell them of the truth people couldn't comprehend it they say no we've always prostrated towards these idols we know not of a creator we cannot comprehend that there is a creator they could not comprehend that there is something greater than this universe because to them what they can see and the limit to what they can see that's the only limitations as in a person came towards Imam Sadaq and he asked him he came because he was an atheist and he wanted to ask the Imam he didn't know he was the Imam he was told he was in Medina he goes to Medina he was in Mecca he goes to Mecca in Tawaf he bumps shoulders look at the knowledge of the Imam they knew exactly what the people come to ask from them he hits shoulders with the Imam he doesn't know it's the Imam and the person straight away the Imam looks at him and he says what's your name look at the way the Imam approaches the questions and how they give each and every individual exactly what they want to hear he says what's your name he says my name is Abdul Melik so the Imam straight away he's got him in the circle he says I want to ask you this Melik that you say that you are a slave or a Abid 4 is he a Melik of the earth or the Melik of the heavens so the person is automatically saying how does he even know I'm going to ask that question the Imam says don't worry wait until I finish my Tawaf and I'll come to you he comes to him after he says oh man straight away he knows exactly what he's about to ask he says oh man he says have you gone all the way towards the east he says no he says have you gone all the way towards the west he says no he says have you gone and ascended towards the skies he says no he says do you believe there's anything in the earth he says well maybe he says that's not a legitimate answer he says if you haven't traveled all the way towards the east nor the west nor do you have knowledge of what's in the earth or the heavens if you haven't explored these places that you say that there is not a creator that exists if you haven't gone and explored and understood and endeavoured to understand how is it that you can come towards conclusions like that straight away the Imam the Prophet when he began to deliver his message the people what did they call him the first level they didn't comprehend it they called him you are a magician on the first level on the second they think they taught the Prophet that you are crazy you are insane it's ironic because before the message the people only used to refer to the Prophet as I mean the trustworthy and the truthful that's the two things he was known by nowadays because that's yes that's in the Prophet's time how does it apply to our days how does it apply to the 21st century and in precise reference to this simile nowadays when you look at people and you try to show them the way we look at أهل البيت the way we view أهل البيت the way we view the Prophet and his household even before that the way we view الله سبحانه وتعالى it's on a different level in different lenses in a different spectacle when they look through that lens they begin to say well we can't comprehend it we can't imagine this when you bring someone that believes solely and wholeheartedly he believes that Muawiyah was on the truth you bring someone like that or you bring someone that wholeheartedly believes that Yazid was on the truth those are their followers the people that come forth and say you know what we can't comprehend how أهل البيت is on the truth Imam Ali gives us a beautiful example after the battle of Jamal someone comes to Ali بن أبي طالب he says أو علي I was in the battle of Jamal Imam Ali عليه السلام looks at me he says which side were you on which side were you on the opposition or were you on the truth which side were you on he looks at the Imam and he says oh Imam I looked at particular figures I looked one side of the army I saw the wife of the Prophet I saw companions that were at the time of the Prophet or known to be companions such as Talha such as Zubair I saw these figures and I saw them alongside the Prophet once upon a time and on the other level I saw companions such as Malik I saw companions such as Ammar I saw companions such as yourself or أمير المؤمنين he says you cannot blame me for not choosing the correct size because there were people on both ends now let's look at it in a 21st century perspective nowadays and this is one of if not the biggest problem that we may have nowadays is when we look at figures throughout history and nowadays when we look towards our scholars or we look towards someone that is of an educated background we straight away say you know what he's educated I will follow in his footsteps or he is a scholar or he believes in أهل البيت or he says that he's Shi'a that I will follow him 100% علي ابنة ابطالب teaches us then and there a valuable lesson that we have to apply on the 21st century to each and every one of our lives what does he say look at the beauty of علي ابنة ابطالب's words two sentences but look how much it applies nowadays he says you need to seek the truth on the first level what does he say he says don't seek out the people he says first you have to seek the truth first you have to know what the truth is you have to know what the message is you have to understand what the أهل البيت stood for he says first level you have to know what the truth is then you will know its figures look at علي ابنة ابطالب he says know the truth and you will know its people when you look at the truth what does the prophet say even in that instance he says in an instance he says the truth is with علي as one of the examples and علي is with the truth that's the biggest deal someone can come bring forth in all the wars the truth is with علي and علي is with the truth it revolves around him wherever that he goes that's one of the aspect that we have to apply to our lives in the 21st century we have to have knowledge to decipher the fact we have to have knowledge of our religion before we can come towards conclusions who to we can't just come forth without hearing both parties we have to understand the ethics of أهل البيت apply it within our lives and that's one of the problems as I said going back to the example of the simile of the cave nowadays it's our duty to understand our duty to defend all these misconceptions that have come forth about the school of thought of أهل البيت when someone doesn't know the truth help them see the light be as a prophet says be like water purify all those around you purify all those around you have that effect on your friends on your family show them teach them by first teaching yourself and then delivering the correct message and I want to end in شاء الله on our notes looking at the شهاداء looking at the levels because we wholeheartedly believe and have yaqeen certainty in the levels that a شهاد can reach we have yaqeen that's Allah سبحانه وتعالى in reference to the شهاداء has elevated their ranks have given them specific ranks specific specific access in the day of judgment in the hereafter those of Shafa'a these people that have died defending the message their blood being spilt knowing that the شهاداء not only is he elevated in their rank but also even their blood even looking at their blood something that we may look at as impure their blood in itself is pure becomes imagine what level you have to be at to have that accustomed to you I want to give an example of a lecture that says this particular story and I may have said it previously but it applies tonight more than any other night when we look at the شهاداء as in when we look at these people that have a lack of knowledge that we refer to as being poor not knowing the truth about Ahl al-Bait not knowing the levels that they reached the close nudes that they have towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when we look at these people and we see that time and time again they think that by bombing they think by threatening scaring that they will minimize the visitors of Aba Abdullah by having weapons by having threats by having an army that they can minimize the people that go and visit Aba Abdullah and they think nowadays Subhan Allah people nowadays what do they think they're doing they're bombing people thrive and they have a thirst for شهاداء nowadays they want to be rid of this dunya and go towards the Ahl al-Bait die in the message attain that rank in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and they have yaqeen in this and we have yaqeen that whenever this happens that the imams are there and then will be there and take a شهاداء by his hand and I want to give you an example by a lecture by the name of Shaykh Jafar Al-Ibrahimi and he relates this story to one of his good friends he says I had a person he says I wouldn't be saying it on the pulpit if I didn't know this person was of a high status and he was telling the truth because it's something to hear something and it's another level believing it this say it he says that we were in a Muqib you know at the time of Mu'arram everyone has a Muqib from Najaf towards Karbala side by side Subhanallah it's a beautiful scene it's honestly a heavenly scene that you see and on the way he says that there was a bond that took place the person narrating it he says in the blast I didn't have too many injuries but I was still taking towards the hospital he says a person next to me he was a Sayyid he says as soon as the blast took place he was unconscious he says he remained unconscious next to me he says on the second day he awoke and he began to slap himself viciously slapping himself slapping himself so he says I begin to tell him why are you slapping yourself I began to give him reassurance telling him don't worry you're fine you haven't lost the limb your boys are safe everything's okay the person looks at him he says what are you talking about everything's okay he says do you know what's happened he says what's happened he says I want to ask you about Fulan and it refers to their names he says he attained martyrdom hasn't he he says yes he says another person he's attained martyrdom hasn't he he says yes but he says it's strange why he says you've been unconscious you have that knowledge that they've passed away that they've been martyred and that they've died in the blast how do you have knowledge of this you've been unconscious he says I want to tell you something he says when the blast took place he says I saw with my very eyes Imam Hussein عليه السلام be present there and then he says when he was present he looked at Fulan these two people that he mentioned that have been martyred he says he looked at that person he says do you want to come with me he says of course he looked at the other person he says do you want to come with me he says of course he says he looked at me and he says do you want to come the person says well I thought to myself I've just married my sons I still have to prepare them for marriage life I still have to make sure so I told the Imam I'm not yet ready he says and that moment I awoke and he says that's why I'm slapping myself why didn't I go with my Imam giving us the example that what the Shahada have a rank the Imam has a place in the hearts of every mu'min the Imam say there is a fire that emerges in the hearts of every mu'min when Hussein is mentioned the rank of a Shahid is beyond comprehension brothers and sisters and we commemorate on this night the people that have sacrificed their life in order for the message of Islam to remain in order for the teachings of أهل البيت to remain being taught if it wasn't for their sacrifice following in the footsteps of Sayyid al-Shuhada that not only sacrificed himself but his entire family so the name and the message of Islam survives throughout throughout the timeline of history and until the day of judgment we want to insha'Allah on this night pray to Allah on the first level that he may allow us to attain such a high rank if it's not a rank of Shahid then I want to attain a rank that Allah will be pleased with us and that our Imam صاحب العصر و الزمان is pleased with us and we want to recite صورة المباركة الفاتحة and reward this Surah to every Shahid to all the families of the Shuhada everyone that has lost any one of their family members whether it be near or distant we want to pray to Allah and recite them a Fatiha but before it three of your loudest صلاوات علاء محمد و آل محمد


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It's really nice. There's a lot of storage on the inside most rooms in Carpenter They either have a wardrobe or you have a walk-in closet Our room has the wardrobe, but the walk-in closets are really big They have shelving going around the tops and then over here is my side and then over here We have a bathroom. The bathroom is pretty nice. Something that I really like about living in Carpenter Tower Is that we're really close to Kobe and so we have the dining hall right across the street And then we're also really close to Stras and Stras has a gym and another dining hall


This is Lloyd here with the single guy. I got my buddy, oh Evil Stifler Yeah, so Lloyd wanted to come into the park today. You have a little conversation about One thing that I always find that helps me get laid more than everybody else in the world is Persistence now perseverance and persistence are the key to success You know, it's really true. It's so true that you know, you miss a hundred percent of the shots You don't take okay. We've all heard that before but More importantly Persistence to hang into the set when you might think that it's over because you're not getting the feedback You want from the girl at the time because maybe her friends came in Maybe your conversations running a little bit of dry so Persistence works in two ways for me. The conversation runs dry.  Let's go over to the drink. You're getting a drink. You do the hey Where's it from? How's he doing the regular questions?  Yeah, yeah, dude This is like like the the typical answer that you get from guys that give up really easily and don't get late Or like guys that are though. They'll come back to me and they'll say oh like her friends showed up or like Oh, she got in the cab and she She got she got in the cab and she went back to her place And it's like dude, why didn't you go meet her friends? Why didn't you go back to her place? It's when things don't go exactly the way people imagine them in their heads And well the way they imagine them is so narrow-minded like when you're going on you're meeting people like dude the complicated things Happened situations get crazy and you're gonna have to be able to be cool with them and figure out a way To get what she want out of it And that's if your goal is to go home with the chick that night then going to her place as opposed to your place Isn't really that big of a deal Her friends coming in and meeting them and then you get to talk to her after isn't that big of a deal But a lot of people get thrown off when exactly how they picture things going down if it doesn't go that way then they just give up and What we're trying to tell you right now is to not do that if things are gonna get thrown at you that you're not gonna see Every night you go out things happen that I've never pictured before happening But I've had similar things happen to me and I've still gotten the job done So it doesn't really throw me off and it doesn't throw evil sifflor off either a lot of the times that when I find like that situation where I meet some girls like we're at the bar hanging out and they go onto the dance floor and then we've you know So let's say that they haven't been in the dance floor.      We don't have to do anything. You don't want to kind of thing.  Yeah, so yeah, there you go, buddy Okay, so all these little things that evil stiflers talking about when it comes to Persistence and getting women they're all just like little little nitpicks that they're gonna happen to you in the night when you're going out and you're going about your day and all what I think separates the the guys that are actually successful and the guys that just end up giving up is Is That well for well first of all the guys who do well They want it more than the guys that don't the guys that just kind of give up They didn't really want it to begin with how much do you want it? it's like when you go to talk to a girl and I think we're talking about this and I heard you took you were talking about this in one of your videos Yeah, that is watching it. It's like when you when you talk to a girl, you know Are you talking to her just to amuse yourself to get this quota of oh I talked to the girl? Okay, well, I'm good for the night then or do you actually want to are you actually attracted? Are you actually interested and how bad do you want it?  So I really judge body language also a lot, too But what are you talking about the body language earlier? What were you saying? So with with body language and posture I Basically, well the way I conduct myself is I kind of make sure that I'm standing up straight and I have good posture But if I have to lean over and like their body language. Oh, they're body language If she's turned in facing to me, then that's what I look for if she's looking around like trying to see what else is going on Like and she's giving me and I'm talking to her shoulder basically or you sometimes get that Then that's not good And I try and make sure that I'm getting her for her full face and her shoulders are are tilted So there, you know, I could I can I could see her her whole front And that's kind of the stuff that I looked for but I kind of wanted to get into Tell some stories about persistence. Do you want to talk about some stories? I have a couple right now that I get that I get a dish out So so I'll do I'll do one story that really exemplifies mine's kind of like a long game I think evil stuff like the one he might tell is like what happened over the course of a night But mine happened over like a couple weeks. It happened over a couple weeks. He's never been on that journey So I met this chick my buddy. He works at one of the strip clubs here We're at this we're at this party. This happened like a year and a half ago That's kidding Not anymore not anymore so so basically We're at this we're at this party was open bar and I'm just chilling and I'm talking to one of the strippers And she's like really hot. I'm really into her and we're kind of gelling. We're having a good time and I Try and get her number at some point.  I'm like hey, what's going on?  It's gonna be cool. It's fine She's like nope can't do it runs off goes do goes to do her dance guys are throwing money at her She goes off with one of the dudes give him a lap dance.  I start talking to her again. I'm like you gotta give me like just please Stuff that I'm saying something Even to listen to it. Yeah, and so but eventually she she's like I'm like all right Cool, so I take a pen and I put it in her hand I'm gonna just write it right it down really quick on my hand She writes her number down really quick on her on my hand And then I never see her again So then the next day I messaged her she doesn't really respond and then I messaged her again psycho I Persistence and then I'm saying and then I'm saying that I'm saying something funny And then she finally responds and then we talk for like we talk for like a week or something like that messaging back and forth She's kind of giving me not much and eventually I don't know how I did this But I convinced her to come out on on a date with me I think I did it while I while I FaceTimed her actually that was that was a pretty that was a pretty good move Because I got her on the phone as I'm because you know obviously if I wasn't getting any signals that she was interested in me I would have stopped I would have stopped a long time ago, but I knew she was interested She was just kind of being It seemed like it was a little bit of a play playing hard to get type stuff But she was also just trying to protect herself too Yeah, she's you know, she's working in an environment where like guys are trying to get at her constantly And so eventually I took her out on the date and she was like kind of being mean to me at the beginning But I was persistent and I was nice no matter what and then I ended up I ended up taking her home We ended up having a good time. It was great Sorry I'm literally like a fucking Yeah, exactly so the point being was that like you know I knew that she was interested and I didn't let a lot of people would be in this like oh well I guess I can't do it cuz she works there and I'm a customer She said Stuck to it the kids So I stuck I'm gonna stuck to it cuz because I liked her and also I mean she was giving me I could tell this chick was interested in me It was just the fact that she was like it seemed like she was vetting me a little bit and at the same time She was also I knew her position I knew kind of the stuff that she was in and I knew that if I did get I did get the phone number like something Good could happen out of it.  Oh, no I went on a date and then and then I she was being kind of mean to me But like eventually at around 2 a.m. I brought her home and we ended up having sex and it was awesome Beautiful story. Yes So that was over the course of a couple weeks where you can be persistent and then evil stifler will tell you You want to tell the story what that happened to you? We go Yeah, it's a little it's a little long, but I'll tell it. So here's a quick one I'm sure it is. Yeah. So I walk into this restaurant. I see this hot chick. My buddies are there They weren't having the night that the chef thought I knew that was gonna work there So we we ended up leaving right went to a bar came out went back to my house to get a To get another jacket it was cold and on the way back to my house I walked by the restaurant and that girl was standing outside this time and I was like Hey, I saw you earlier for like two seconds when I was walking by and she was like, yeah, the two-second guy And I was like, that's me ha ha mr..    Where'd you go?  This bitch is badass right for real for real for real like she was that's my kind of girl and So then I start yelling at the girl on the ground.  Thanks for having my back on that.  Let's go to this club. So we go downtown We hop in the cab we all go to this club. We're partying. We're dancing here's the same situation I was just talking about they're on the go the dance floor and I'm like into this chick You know, we're having fun.  So it's two o'clock in the morning.  She's like I can't I gotta go to my girl.  Can I go with you? She's like, yeah, let's just drop off these guys first.    The sun is on the way up.      She doesn't she's want somebody to hang out with So finally the girl was like, no, honey tells her girlfriend that the girl that got show She has tells her girlfriend.  She's a beautiful house. We get there Awesome house and hung out all morning long till like noon.    I could have gave up. Yeah, exactly as soon as you start getting pissy and mad Like it's no one wants to hang out with you when you start doing that. It's done. That's when you really lose That's when people, you know lose your lose your attraction for you That's when people start start losing interest with kindness That's what happens and the same thing that happened with me too. I was always being nice I never I never lost my cool in that in that matter And I was always like cool calm and like, you know still still very interested and still smiling so When that happens, don't lose your cool maintain Maintain your confidence and keep going. All right. Well, you know what guys? It's getting a little chilly out here Thanks a lot for having me Lloyd always a good opportunity to be on the single guy good network good channel Subscribe to the single guy on the YouTube channel Lloyd's channel Yeah, thanks a lot you guys good luck out there if you made it to the end consider subscribing come up with videos like this every Single week. Thanks a lot and good luck out there


So let's explore this idea a little further than an adiabatic expansion of a gas. We'll cool it down and see if we can use that to get some useful cooling work out of a gas that we allow to expand. So we draw a different picture of what it would look like if I did an adiabatic expansion. So if I've got a gas at some initial P1 and V1, I'm going to let it expand. So instead of drawing my piston vertically, what I'm going to do in this case is I'll put that gas in a box and then I'll make a little pinhole exit in that box. So I've got a tiny little nozzle that the gas can expand out of. If out here the pressure is lower, then this gas will expand out into this external environment at the lower pressure. In fact, let me, so the gas will expand out into this outer environment or outer container. If that outside pressure is lower, and if I insulate this box very well, then that expansion can be made to happen adiabatically and the temperature of the gas will decrease. So I can use this adiabatically expanding gas to cool down whatever environment it's expanding into. There's two problems with that, however. One is that I'm allowing the gas to escape, I don't get to reuse it again. The other is if the gas I've got is at, let's say, atmospheric pressure, then I need to allow, I need to find a vacuum or I need to find a partially evacuated container to allow the gas to expand into, and that's not necessarily terribly convenient. What I'd rather do from a practical point of view is, again, let's say I have a gas at some initial P1 and V1, I want to have the outside gas, let's say, be at room temperature. So I want to be able to compress the gas that I'm going to allow to expand and allow it to expand into a one atmosphere surrounding, so that's already a little bit more convenient. Let's say, so let me draw my container again with a little pinhole, a little nozzle that the gas is going to expand out of, in fact, let me connect these two containers by that nozzle. So I'm going to allow this gas to, at a pressure that's larger than atmospheric pressure to expand into this container, but now I am going to imagine using a piston because another inconvenience, at least computationally, calculationally about this process is as the gas expands, there's less of it in here, so the pressure keeps dropping as it does the expansion. But what if I use this piston and have an external pressure always pushing on this piston with a pressure P1, so a large external pressure pushing on this piston, forcing the gas through this nozzle, so you can think of this almost like a syringe, when you push down the plunger on a syringe, you would be squeezing in this case a gas, not a liquid, out the nozzle of the syringe and into what we can think of as perhaps another syringe or another piston, so this gas is constantly being held at an external pressure of P2 by the external pressure here. So initially, let's say, in fact let me erase this and say initially the plunger on the second piston is all the way down. So when I push this plunger, the gas is forced through the constricting nozzle and is going to start to push the plunger of this piston back. As it goes, I can partially let part of the gas expand, this plunger gets pushed back to a little bit, it remains at a pressure of P2 as I continue pushing the plunger almost all the way down, so this gas ends up at a much larger volume than what it started because the final pressure P2 is lower than that pressure P1, but I can forcibly compress this gas pushing it through this nozzle, letting it expand into this lower pressure environment from this initial pressure in volume P1 and V1 to some final P2 and V2 once I've got all the gas into the second container or piston or syringe. So there's a sketch of a slightly more convenient way of compressing this gas and allowing it to do this expansion. If I wrap the whole thing in enough insulation, I can manage to do that in an adiabatic process, but now that I've constructed this more convenient process, it turns out it's not going to be as effective because whereas before in the adiabatic expansion, the PV work, remember the gas does some work pushing back on the external pressure so that all of the energy required to do that work had to come from the internal energy of the gas. That's what did the cooling process. Now that I've constructed this process, it looks in hindsight like maybe that wasn't a good idea because in this case, all of the PV work of doing the expansion into this second container is being paid for by the PV work of compression that I've had to do to compress the gas in the first place and in fact, if we had an ideal gas, P1 V1 would be equal to P2 V2 and I wouldn't get any net cooling out of this process, but it turns out if you do this in the real world, you do get some cooling effect for a non-ideal for real gas so we're going to be able to understand where that comes from. So let's think a little more about this specific process so not the perfectly adiabatic expansion into a second container but this sort of forest expansion with an external pressure P1 into a second container at a lower pressure P2. So I want to say for that process, what do we know about, in fact let's not use differentials, let's use delta, delta U is Q plus W. For an adiabatic process, if we manage to do this adiabatically, the heat is zero so delta U and work are the same thing. The only changes in the energy of this gas come from the changes in work and I've done some compression of the gas on the P1 V1 side and I've done some expansion of the gas from this initial volume zero up to a final volume V2. So any change in the energy, so final minus initial energy, must be related to the work of the gas. The work on the left, so I've got work is always minus P times dV, or delta V. On the left, so let's mark these on the left side, the external pressure was P1. The change in volume, I went from a volume V1 down to a volume of V0. So the change in volume was final volume minus initial volume. And then I can add to that the PV work on the right. External pressure in this case is P2 and the change in the volume in this case I've gone from an initial volume of zero to a final volume of V2. So my volume changes V2, final minus zero for my initial volume and I can rewrite all those so I've got a minus P1 times a minus V1 and I've got a minus P2 times a V2. So that's equal to U2 minus U1. If I rearrange that equation just a little bit to get to twos over the left side and the ones over to the right hand side, I see that U2 plus P2 V2, bringing these over to the other side. When I bring U1 over to the right side, it becomes positive. So I've got U1 plus P1 over V1 and this quantity U plus PV. We know another name for the internal energy plus the PV product. That's just equal to the enthalpy. So on the left side, I've got U plus PV at conditions two. In other words, the enthalpy at the final conditions. And on the right side, I've got U plus PV at the initial conditions or the enthalpy at the initial conditions. So what that has just showed us is, despite the fact that I'm changing the pressures and the volumes, and despite the fact that some PV work is going on, the internal energy may be changing, but the enthalpy is not changing. The enthalpy of the system before and after the PV expansion is exactly the same. And that's sort of the point of the enthalpy, remember, is to allow us to not have to worry too much about the PV work. So what we've just found is that this process, this not perfectly adiabatic expansion, but this forced compression and then expansion of a gas under adiabatic conditions, turns out to not change the enthalpy. So that's yet another type of process that we can give a name to. A process that doesn't have a change in the enthalpy is called an isenthalpic process, like isoenthalpic process. So if we're interested in the temperature change of a gas, so I mentioned a minute ago that if I did this for an ideal gas, we would see no temperature change. But if I did this for a real gas, if I stick oxygen or nitrogen or carbon dioxide or something in this container and perform this process, we do in fact see a little bit of cooling. And the reason that's true is because real gases are not ideal gases. Real gases do have some intermolecular attraction between them. So let's say if I take, at this higher pressure, the gas molecules are relatively close together. Still a gas, so they're not terribly close together. But they're closer together than they are at P2. At P2, the gas molecules are at a lower pressure, so they're farther apart from one another. For an ideal gas, they don't care how close together they are. Their kinetic energy is just determined by their internal energy and vice versa. But for a real gas, they do have some potential energy. And they attract each other. So molecules that are close together or attracting each other have some favorable negative potential energy. If I expand the gas and make those molecules get further apart, then I've had to move against that attraction. I've had to put some energy in to increase their potential energy. So their potential energy goes up as I do that expansion. So the reason that this process cools the gas down for a real gas is because that potential energy increase is associated with a kinetic energy decrease. If I've done the process adiabatically and I can't pay for that increase in potential energy with heat, then it has to come from a decrease in the potential and in the kinetic energy which cools the gas down. So in particular, that change in the temperature as I change the pressure. So as I expand, let's say, a two atmosphere gas down to one atmosphere, it's going to come with a temperature decrease. That temperature decrease, at least for this process, happens at constant enthalpy. So this quantity we're interested in. How much does the temperature drop as I change the pressure, as I decrease the pressure at constant enthalpy? We can give that a name. The name we call that quantity is Greek letter mu with a subscript Jt, which stands for the Joule-Thompson. This is called the Joule-Thompson coefficient. And it describes how effective a gas is at cooling down when I allow it to expand under this particular set of conditions. An isenthalpic expansion that is also adiabatic. So to give you an idea of the size of that effect, I'll list some data here for a few gases and their values of the Joule-Thompson coefficient. So these Joule-Thompson coefficients, I'll give you in units of Kelvin per atmosphere. So if I drop the pressure of a gas by one atmosphere, this is how many Kelvin the gas will drop in temperature. So as I've mentioned, if I do that for an ideal gas under isenthalpic and adiabatic conditions, then there is no cooling down. The Joule-Thompson coefficient is zero. But if I do that for a gas like nitrogen or oxygen, which behave fairly ideally under standard one atmosphere room temperature conditions, their Joule-Thompson coefficient is only about 0.2. So if I let a gas drop from two atmospheres, if I force a gas to expand through this nozzle and drop from two atmospheres to one atmosphere, it's going to decrease in temperature by a few tenths of a Kelvin. Not terribly much. But if I take a gas that's a little bit less ideal, remember the whole source of this effect is the interaction between the molecules. Nitrogen and oxygen don't interact very strongly with themselves. Carbon dioxide interacts a little more strongly with itself. And the Joule-Thompson coefficient for carbon dioxide is up to about 1.4 degrees per atmosphere that it drops in pressure.


So, about twice a year I shave a section of my legs because of an injury and last year it was a little bit of shin splint action and so basically with the plantar fasciitis I'm massaging a lot and stretching and I'm just now starting to tape my PF using different techniques that I've learned. Hopefully it starts to help. Stay tuned. I'll keep you posted. But it's kind of funny because I really didn't understand why runners used to shave their legs and a lot of my college teammates at the University of Colorado, boom, boom, boom, we use they used to shave their legs and I've never quite understood why but now I do. When you pull that tape off or you're getting a deep tissue massage, yeah, it kind of hurts. It kind of hurts. So, anyway, that's what I was doing today. All right, we're going downtown for a run and then work and run and work and all that good stuff. So, it's Monday YouTube. Let's get this week. Let's get this week. Come on, YouTube. Oh, baby. All right. I'm going to go downtown. All right. I'm going to get a run in down here before talking about the running books tonight but I'm really trying to be intentional with my stretching. So, tip of the day, you can go out and buy these rubber bands that are really big rubber bands for stretching and I'll probably do that at some point. But if you don't have the time or you don't have the money or you just need to use something really quick and especially if you're a parent, these baby blankets work like a charm for stretching your leg and you're seeing me do it right now in downtown Denver. Basically, it can stretch really well and you can massage your foot in the process by just pulling it back and forth over the bottom of your foot. So, if you have plantar fasciitis, anyway, it's working for me and I'm just pulling my leg back trying to stretch those hamstrings and the calves and everything. Oh, it hurts. Stretching hurts more than running by far. I need to be more intentional and consistent and persistent and patient with my stretching. Oh, so painful. Alright, let's go run through downtown Denver. Come on. I give a shout out to New Balance. Remember, as I'm purchasing these running shoes and reviewing them for you guys, I'm also reviewing running shoes stores and the customer service that I receive in these stores and hopefully you're receiving great customer service at the running shoes stores that you frequent to take care of your feet and to make sure you're staying healthy. Well, I got a personal postcard in the mail from New Balance, handwritten, handwritten, like written out by hand. It's amazing and it's from Taylor at the New Balance store and she said, Seth, I am so glad you like those beacons. It will be a nice shoe for you to rotate with. Good luck getting ready for your next race. Come see us again if you need anything else. Taylor, that's amazing. That is the type of customer service that will get me back in the New Balance store. Now, of course, I need to love the shoes that I'm buying and so far I do love the New Balance beacons but I just had to give a shout out and we'll see if a postcard shows up from other running shoe stores that I'm frequenting and buying shoes from. Anyway, I digress. Okay. Books. I love books. True love and I. It turns out we actually had about 20 duplicate books, maybe even maybe 30 duplicate books where we were reading the same books through college. Well, I know books are kind of, you know, a little archaic these days, but if you look around our house, we have books everywhere. We just love books. So in addition, well, I love running books and there's many books and I want to share some of those books with you to help basically inspire you guys to learn about the sport that we all adore. Now, we're all busy. We don't always have time to read, but as I mentioned, no, I did not mention this yesterday. Basically, winter is made for reading as the days get darker and it gets colder out and maybe we're not running quite as much, you know, instead of maybe 50 miles a week, we're running 35 miles a week. Anyway, winter is a great time to run to read running books. And so I want to talk to you guys about my running book collection. But first, we got to get the books organized. We got to get them all good. Come on. And one of the books in this stack of running books changed my life forever. It really did. It changed the trajectory of my life and I'm going to talk to you about that book soon. I'm not going to tell you what it is yet, but it's amazing if we're open to the message, open to the story and we're really entered into what is being communicated through the words on the page. Books can really change our lives forever. So it's really, I don't know, I know books, again, I've already said this, but the books are kind of becoming archaic or, you know, antiquated. But I really believe that there's a good, good tradition in reading and reading as often as we can. And I wish I could read more, especially running books. So I'm going to show you the stack of books. And of course, the keyword of the day is books. All right, here's the stack. It's not huge, but here's the stack. There you go. About 20 books. About 20 books. Not too shabby, not too shabby. And again, there might be a few more tucked away somewhere. But all right, let's go out to the shed. Talk about a few of these. We're going to get to the running books in one second, one second. But first, the comment, the comment of the week. I give a shout out to the best comment in the previous seven days every Monday. And this comment of the week goes out to Bryce from Strava. So either let's connect on Strava or you can comment here on YouTube. But this comment from Bryce is just like, wow, it's kind of a tough one, but it's inspiring. So thank you, Bryce. He said this. Seth, I just wanted to say thank you for the motivation. In 2016, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and struggled to run even one nine-minute mile without gastrointestinal issues. Today I ran a 129 half marathon. I had low points during my training and flare ups, but your YouTube videos helped me get through them from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, Bryce. Bryce. Thank you for sharing your story, for being open about your Crohn's disease, and for fighting, for fighting to run a 129 half marathon, a fast half marathon, and like, just keep fighting and like, we're here for you. And by you being open about your story, I guarantee other people listening right now and or reading comments down below, like, they're going to see that you're overcoming your disease and it's like, you're inspiring people. So I don't know, man. Just thank you for being open and thank you for the comment of the week. It's amazing. All right. Before we dive into the books real quick, I did run today in the turbos. They were amazing again, but I do just have to make it an observation about the insert. It's amazing. Just so you know, like the insole inside that you can pull out of the shoe. I know this is a little off topic, but I just had to mention that I did run in the turbos today and this insert is well cushioned. It's just well cushioned. All right. I just had to throw that in there. All right. On to the running books and yes, the question of the day. What is your favorite running book? And maybe that is too difficult to answer because maybe you have more than one favorite running book. But if you can pick one, if you had to pick one, what would it be and why? Comment below and I am fascinated to hear your answers because I love running and I love reading. And so I'm always looking for more good running books to read, but it's kind of a hard genre of books to find. It's not like they have a running book section in bookstores or on Amazon. So anyway, if you can drop ideas for me and everybody else watching this video, go down below and type out your answer, but start scanning all those different answers from everybody else and I bet you're going to get some really good Christmas ideas, right? Right. So anyway, I want to talk about two books tonight. Not my favorite book. My favorite book is sitting right over there in the stack. The first book I just want to touch upon real quick is called In Quest of Gold, the Jim Ryan story. As many of you probably know, Jim Ryan was the first American to break the four minute mile big deal. And so when I was in middle school, my cross country coach basically he taught me about Jim Ryan. There was a documentary out there, very archaic, you know, old, not very well filmed documentary on Jim Ryan. And I watched that documentary with my cross country coach and it planted a seed in me guys. It planted a seed in me. I had no clue that running was really even a sport and that people did it professionally. And so anyway, this book, In Quest of Gold is a great book. And so if you don't know the Jim Ryan story, I would strongly recommend picking up this book, In Quest of Gold. Great story about Jim Ryan. All right. So I want to mention one other book from my collection just for tonight. We could go on and on, right? All night long. But we're just going to do one more and it's called The Perfect Mile. And to all the viewers over in the UK, shout out to the UK runners out there. There's so many of you now commenting from London and from Liverpool and different parts of the UK. And so welcome. This is all about your guy, Roger Banister. I'm sure many of you have already read this book. It's called The Perfect Mile by Neil Baskham. And essentially a great book, one of the more well written running books out there. Like it's a really well, well written story. I really enjoyed reading this book called The Perfect Mile. Would highly recommend it if you're looking for a Christmas gift for a runner out there. And a side story real quick on this book. I read this book to the track team in high school on the bus rides. Where I lived our bus rides were like four hours sometimes to our track meets because we lived up in the mountains in Colorado. And so I was really into running and I wanted other people to fall in love with running in high school. And so I actually bought this book in high school. I wonder if I have a date written. I do not. Anyway, I bought this book in high school and read it to the high school track team as we travel. You know, the sprinters didn't really care to listen. And so all the distance runners, we like huddled all the milers and two milers and, you know, some of the 800 meter runners. We huddled around and read this book and anyway, great book, The Perfect Mile on Roger Bannister highly recommend this book. Many more books that we could talk about. I will talk about my favorite book soon. Maybe in the next week. I will see. We'll see. Stay tuned.  I want to make an entire video just about this book. So we'll do that another day. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching, for commenting, subscribing, and again, the question of the day. I cannot wait to read your answers. So I will be typing back. Make sure you check back in. I can't wait. I can't wait. Running, reading, running, reading. It's both good. It's both good things. Both good things. Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. Thank you again to Bryce for the amazing talent. See you guys tomorrow.


Going on everyone, Sam here with late in sports cards from 23, between three and two baseball hobby 10 box case break number four, random team style. There is a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the websites under the results tab, as well as at the Lincoln shack. Give me one second, let me do one thing before we get started again here. What's happening to me like Mark Desheris? Chill, dude. Chill, Vaughn. One thing I wanna do, I just wanna get this out on social media that we are back in live. Get our viewers back. I know, Dylan's trying to top load the router over there. That's what illegal said one time when it crashes, like, Donny's top loading the router again. Oh, that was pretty funny. Now Dylan's in here, like, I'll go to commercial break and Dylan will run over and just, just like turn the Wi-Fi off. They're like, ha ha, gotcha.   What are we doing? What are we, what are you, three? You're probably uncut, yeah. I'm gonna have to give a yellow card to OBS on that one. Yellow on OBS. Bushing red. Heavily, heavily pushing red. Heavily. Classic springs. I know someone got this guy under control, please. Good luck, guys, here we go. We've got a buck Leonard to 150. That'll be a random two all at the end. See, that's no MLB buck Leonard to 150. That is a whitey Ford to 150 for the Yankees. Nice one there. And Jackson Cheerio, 14 of 32. Nice one there for the Brewers. Take that, OBS. Take that, show them that. There's Andy Pajes, one of three on the Prospect Quad jerseys for the Dodgers. Nice one there, LA. Kyle's off today. So we're running for it later, Kyle, or what? K-Riz. K-Riz. One of three, that is Legendary Signatures, Larry Walker. Nice one there for the Rockies. Nice one there, Frankie, picking up the Larry Walker. That's awesome. MVP, Larry Walker, that is. Call a famer, Larry Walker, that is. All right, we've got a one-gone Juan Gonzalez to 150 for the Rangers, followed by a Robin Yacht, Count on Yacht on the Moments to 150 for the Brew Crew. That's one there, Brewers, Milwaukee. And Randy Johnson, the big unit, 19 of 32 for the Diamondbacks.  That's like the picture of Randy Johnson right there. Let's go, Herman, who do you have in this one? Matt, oh, we gotta pull you a Matt, then. That's gonna be a Tamar Johnson, 14 of 25, full count swatches. Three color, three color, and then one color on the right. And nice one here for the Dodgers. Andy Pajes, two of two, on the Purple Foil Prospect Patch Auto. Brats on that there, L.A. Very nice, one of their top prospects, slated to most likely come up soon. That is photography. That's R51 Photos, or RJ51 Photos on Instagram. Good old big unit. That's pretty sick, actually. Okay, I'm a fan of one of the autos in here, or the auto in here. We've got Bert Blileven, 20 of 20, going to the Twins. By a yellow, William Covey, two of 25 for the Giants. And Jordan Walker on the horizon to 150 for the Cardinals. Jersey Card, Zach Beene, 24 of 49. Nice one there for the Rockies. And really cool one coming up here. That is gonna be numbered 10 of 10, Buster Posey. Legendary signatures for the Giants. Let's go, episode. Grats on that. Brown's gone in the first one, thank you guys. Browns are done, Select is sold out on the first break of the day. We're also down to 10 to go on Tiered. Impeccable as well, breaking at the end. I don't know how they got away with one of the cards in here. I'm interested. One gone, nine to 15 on the gold. That is a Paul Molleter for the Brew Crew, four of 25 on the yellow. And A-Rod to 150, Sluggers for the Yankees. There's the correct A-Rod. Riches, boy. We've got Curtis Mead, nice one there. Need for Mead to 49. I don't know how they got away with this one, but we've got Jersey Auto. Bobby Whit Jr., 40 of 75. I have no idea how this is in here, because he started as a player. Nice, we'll take it though for sure. Player Warren on the Bobby Whit, nice one there, Royals. Patrick. Into the bigs. Right, no, sorry, I don't know. Enos Slaughter to 150, let's go into the Cardinals. We've got Brooks Lee, 49 to 50, and we're going to the Twins. I'm just gonna make sure Slaughter is a Cardinal. Yup. And Marcello Meyer, nice one there to 99 for the Red Sox. 7 of 10, Prospect Patches, three color, Kevin Alcantra for the Cubs, former Yankee. And really cool one here, that's gonna be 21 of 30, Andrew Jones. Nice one for the Braves on that. We'll take it, man. Papa Drew. Yes, sir. Hopefully we'll be in the Hall of Fame soon, Andrew Jones. Ooh, that's disgusting.  Uncle Drew, Robert Essel to 50, Kyrie Ring Legend. Me too. For the Nats. Jackson Merrill, that's to 150, go into the Padres. Take a look at this patch coming up in just a second. Jason Dominguez, the Martian, 33 of 99. We've got a 20 of 20, that is Michael Bush for the Dodgers. That's so sick. Yeah, that is pretty sick. That is awesome, that is gonna be numbered five of eight, Raphael Paul Merrill, that is player worn, very nice. We'll take that, yeah. That's so sick. That's one thing, the patches are so sick. Oh my God, we pulled the Jase Young one of one, it's like Nike's solution there too, which is so sick. Yeah, Raphael Paul Merrill on the autograph jersey, that's awesome, that's so sick, dude. Nasty patch on that, congrats Cubs. Yeah, really cool card for the Cubs right there, congrats. Again, Chicago. Jordan Walker, one of one, go into the Cardinals. Let's go, congrats St. Louis. Go to Chamez D, let's go Chamez, congrats buddy. It's one of the biggest rookies you wanna pull right there. That's true, Platinum Foil, uno de uno. Very nice. Let's go, we'll get that right into a mag. Hell yeah, dude. All right, Jackson Merrill, all prospect team to 50 for the Padres. And Trishon Kossus to 150 for the Red Sox. Yeah, that'll work right there. Jordan Walker will work for sure. Nice one here is gonna be the Sandman, 19 of 25, Mariano Rivera, that is game worn. There you go, Yanks, nice one there, Yankees. There, W, let's go Derek. And I think this is an update, yes it is. This is gonna be Leaf Extra Edition Update, Harry Ford for the Mariners, nice one there. He is the only one I think in the checklist of the Leaf Extra Edition Update Auto. That's one there, that is from 2021, maybe, or Elite Extra Edition, not Leaf, Elite Extra Edition, Elite Extra Edition. Yeah, there's like one update, I think he legitimately think he's the only one on that checklist. I think it's just Harry Ford. Yeah, one card, card number 12, Harry Ford. Ooh, nice, a good case, man. They're a really good case so far. I'm liking it, I'm liking it a lot. We've got on the horizon, Gavin Stone for the Dodgers to 150, followed by Noel V. Marte to 150 for the Reds. And Marcella Meyer, 44 of 99 for the Red Sox. That is gonna be Justin Crawford, seven of 10 going to the Phillies on the two-color patch. Jake Raw, this one there, Philadelphia, and nice one here. How about 10 of 25, Cam Collier. Two-color patch auto for the Reds. There you go, Sinsey, very nice. Grads, Reds. Up sold out, 332 and down to nine on Impeccable everybody. Let me drop you that link real fast for good ol' Impeccable basketball tier to random team style. None to go, we're gonna do the single digits for everything today. None to go. Again, Forrest does have a dual case, flawless in eminence tonight. Mega dual case. I'm gonna drop you guys a link to that really quick as well. I know he's excited for that.  Mega dual case. All right, on to the next one. Dude, I'm liking these, man. I'm liking these a lot. This is a case for me right here. This is the last one, loving it. Goose Goslin, that is 19 of 32. I think that's St. Louis Browns. Yeah, does that go Orioles of St. Louis Browns? St. Louis Browns, yeah. Think so, I'm just gonna double check that. I think that goes Orioles. Browns. Okay, I would have done the Cardinals if... Yes, relocated 1953 to become the Orioles. So that'll go Orioles right there in the Goose Goslin. We've got a Rhino, Rhine Sandberg, 32 of 99 for the Cubs. Nice Rhino. Let's go Joey, taking the Cardinals in 18. Thank you Joey. That's two to go now. And Ken Griffey Jr. to 150 moments for the Mariners. That is a Mariner this time. His auto is red, which is kind of cool. Hunter Brown for the Astros to 35. There you go, I think Alvin. Alvin's got the, Alvin also had the Orioles, so nice. There you go, Alvin with the Astros. And two of eight for the Twins. How about a Tori Hunter on the one and one, or the three and two auto? What's that one and one? I'm so used to it. One of them. Nice one there, nice Tori. Congrats on that Tori Hunter. All right, last box of the case guys. We'll do a quick random, a quick recap and we'll be on to our full case divisional after. Ooh, nice. You know, like one of these right here. Not like joking, but actually like Ken Griffey, five of 50, Sluggers for the Mariners. We've got a Joe Cronin, that is one of 25. I'm just gonna double check, make sure that's not Boston Graves. Yep, that is Red Sox. Nice one there, Boston. And Lee Smith for the Cubs to 20, four of 20. Annoying freaking show guy. Nice one here, 10 of 15, Ted Williams for the Red Sox. Game used Jersey.  Very nice. And going to the Orioles. Lone Star signatures, Justin Crawford on the redemption, son of Carl and Philadelphia Philly prospect, Mr. Justin Crawford. All right guys, we're gonna do the random for the Buck Leonard really quick. Let me grab those teams. Yes. All right guys, again, doing the random for the Buck Leonard to 150. All teams are in on this, we're gonna go four times. Whatever team's on top, we'll receive the card. One, two, three and four. Going to the athletics. Going to Oakland, picking up the Buck Leonard. Congrats Oakland, do a quick recap here. Start with our jerseys. We've got Curtis Mead is Hunter Brown, Zach Beane, Tamar Johnson, Mariano Rivera, game used. Ted Williams, game used. Michael Bush, Kevin Alcantra, Justin Crawford. A Andy Pajes, one of one, Jordan Walker. Nice one there for the Cardinals. That's so sick.  Yeah, that's so clean. We have got a Justin Crawford. That is Harry Ford update from 21 Elite Extra Edition. Bobby Whit Jr., which again, do not, that was allowed in this. We've got Andrew Jones, Cam Collier, Buster Posey. Nasty Raphael Palmero patch auto. So sick. Tori Hunter, that's Larry Walker, and Andy Pajes, that is two of two. That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill. Up next, number five, random divisions.


One of the great topics that we're going to be exploring together has to do with this concept of social-emotional learning and we want to approach this maybe in a slightly different way from an educational Neuroscientific perspective from a mind-brain education science viewpoint and that's to consider mindfulness Activities and how that contributes to social-emotional learning, but also understanding what are the underlying or underpinning neural Mechanisms that occur during mindfulness practice and we're going to explore something called the default mode Network which has to do with this space in your brain, which is activated when You're not really thinking of anything in particular Your brain is never never dormant. It's never just doing nothing.  And so I'm going to try to understand this concept a little bit better because the sort of free-floating Connections that are made when your brain is not asked to do anything in particular just sort of please lie still there what happens in your brain and How is that related then to this balance that we can find related to social-emotional learning? We're going to spend a teeny bit of time looking at mindfulness mainly from Ellen Langer's perspective I'm at Harvard who does a lot of work and research in this particular area and her perspective basically that no matter What we're doing? It's either mindful or mindless everything that happens in a daily basis is either mindful or mindless And so are we conscious of how that is occurring and it's kind of big and terrible and awful idea But it's also wonderful is that we think we know what we're doing We think that we're always being conscious, but the more sure we are of something Certainty is pretty much mindlessness And so to confuse a stability of our mindsets with the stability of underlying phenomena is a really common occurrence And so trying to understand what it means to be mindful of our own thoughts our own actions our own decisions And the way that we interact with others is a big idea and it's easier expressed in words than it is in actions And so we'll look at that a bit to when we're together as well and the key takeaway idea sort of if we can reach this level of being mindful being open to Uncertainty and then there is a greater possibility that we can do other things So the enhancement of creativity the openness to being innovative can grow there's some really Interesting neuroscience behind this it talks about decision-making models and how do people actually? Choose when they're willing to dare to air to make wrong answers or to launch or to try and to think and And the way that interaction occurs in our classrooms really depends on us Do we celebrate the errors that our students make are we dismissive of anything that's less than the correct answer? Part of this has to do with the idea that your brain adapts to what it does most so have we created this habituated environment in which the kids are Applauded for being open to new ideas or have the kids become accustomed to thinking that I'm better not open my mouth Because I definitely don't have the right answer. We'll talk about that when we're together as well We'll take some time. We're together Yeah, I want you to choose one of your favorite quotes here either from Schopenhauer or Gandhi Einstein or Edison About what it means to have that open space that open mindedness To be so mindful that you're open to Possibilities to be able to reach that level of creativity. Is that possible? Is that something that we value enough to take the time to become more mindful more conscious about how to do that? explicitly in our classroom settings and a related concept very very different but related in the sense that it has to do with the Attitudinal approach that we take to new learning is the concept of mindsets by Carol Dweck Which we'll also look at when we're together and I'm aware that many of you have been working very very conscientiously With your students to work on these growth mindsets We'll talk about some of the strategies that others other teachers have managed to use to implement this in their classroom settings as Well to share that idea those ideas with you then we'll move on to explain a little bit more technically the default mode Network what's going on in your head when you're told don't do anything? So how how is it that those thoughts go ping-ponging around and what is it that actually occurs in your brain? And why is that something that might be potentially a positive thing? And what are the studies that exist now? Showing the relationship between the default mode mechanism and creative or divergent thinking and Sort of illustrate the connectedness of these neural networks in the brain It's not really the specific area that they're located in it's so important that what we want to Emphasize is how certain things are related we didn't realize for example until the case of Phineas cage how closely tied Emotion or affect is to cognition and so we're going to look at some of these really interesting case studies to sort of Illustrate those points of how some things that might not intuitively be related are actually very closely related in the brain Connected to this has to do with you know the way that we perceive others especially through Faces and tones of voices so we'll look at Paul Ekman's work Related to universally perceived emotions and then we'll circle back to something that many of you are very aware of or know about Emotional intelligence finally will link emotional intelligence to this idea and neuroscience of social contagion and social cognition How it is that an individual can actually change how others act and feel about their context Based on their interactions together. So that's the quick preview of what we're going to be working on together If you have any questions beforehand go ahead and write to me beforehand the idea is that we're going to really take the time to unpack all of those things that we went over super quick right now in This video and explore how this has implications for what you do in your own classroom settings So please come with tons of questions so that we can make this encounter as interactive as possible and really related to Your own classroom settings. Thanks looking forward to seeing you


The River State governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress APC and the 2023 elections have resolved to zone the seat to the River Rhine jaw area of the state. The aspirants state a days in a communique they issued after their meeting in Potahakot to the state capital. The aspirants said their will for the consul or the relevant stakeholders and key politicians in order to gain support and ensure power rotation to the zone for the sake of justice and fairness in the distribution of political offices in the state. The progressive aspirants called on the party leadership to ensure a level playing field for all aspirants during the primaries to give everyone a sense of belonging, fairness and equity. The progressive aspirants also agreed to work in unity and support whoever emerges at the party primaries either by way of consensus or election as exemplified by the party leadership at the Just Conclusion National Convention. The progressive aspirants agreed to consume other stakeholders, elder statesmen, opinion leaders and key politicians in the states to support power rotation into the River Rhine jaw concrete territory as a way of ensuring equity, justice and fairness in the distribution of political offices. The group called on members of the party in the state to seek reconciliation, close ranks and work with leadership of the party to ensure victory at all levels in the 2023 elections. A shared vision for the future of river states has been compromised and has also been sacrificed on the altar of partisanship, self-interest and political expediency. What we have come to do here this morning is simply to make a bold statement that it's morning again in river states. I and all my co-aspirants endorsed this document for the unity of APC, for the progress of the state, river state and for the development of our great nation, Nigeria. We believe that we can do things differently and we stand true to the affirmation that that which we have signed we will stand by and we will live by. Our position is very clear. We are united in a common goal, success at the election, no matter which one of us here is chosen. The rest of us have signed and have also spoken to the fact that we are all aligned to support whoever emerges. The spirit and letter is to put the interest of river states and our party first above our own personal considerations. That is the purpose of this joint statement. I want to clearly state that I endorse this. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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