Welcome back. Now among the few billion dollar companies within the Tata group is a somewhat lesser known Tata communications which binds the world through its networking prowess. I'm told more than 24% of the world's internet roots are on the Tata communications network. So how do you position a B2B brand today and harness innovation and innovators in what is really the rapidly evolving world of technology. So let's talk about this in more. Julie Woods Moss, Chief Marketing Officer at Tata Communications and see you off the next gen business is joining us on the show. Great to have you with us. How are you doing? Yes it's great to have you in India and Julie as far as Tata communications is concerned when you talk essentially about the B2B business and how you position it right now there has been a sense of evolution hasn't there been. I mean over a period of time we've seen B2B businesses not really bother so much about the larger landscape right but that is changing right now there is this humanizing that's happening. So before you tell me that why don't you tell me a little bit about the business as it stands and how Tata communications business has evolved over a period of time since you've been around. Well we actually talk about the consumerization of the enterprise. If you think if you're CIO or CMO you now expect the same mobile apps you know agility in your corporate IT as you do in your home life so it's almost been a reverse sort of impetus from social back into the enterprise and you know the industry calls that it's quite unappealing but we call it smack. Social mobile analytics and cloud it's blown up expectations and crunched up you know pressure to deliver in terms of enterprise expectations. So part of what we have to do is ensure that the brand doesn't get too far ahead of the ability of the CIO to deliver so that's a nice balancing act. In terms of Tata communications we're you know I'm delighted to say we're growing we're now 75% of our business is outside the of India. We're doing the right things but boy we're just on the start of the journey. Yes so this is at a very nascent stage that you find yourselves in so my interest of course would be from the brand positioning side of it and how you're reaching out to your potential clients. Our unifying idea is we're the connection so we don't always have to be the you know the brand you know in front of you but actually what we do with our you know our critical role in the internet and cloud economy we actually are the connection that you know enables value across the whole ecosystem. Right having said that if that is the premise that you work in how do you communicate what you really stand for to people beyond your clients even are you even trying to do that because I'm seeing a lot more B2B businesses trying to reach out create a brand image that goes beyond reaching out to clients. Well we're clearly with a B2B brand you have to be more focused than B2C because we you know you you're more sort of vulnerable to brand leakage. The CIS I work with are influenced by their kids you know they're influenced by the people they meet in the golf club or the cricket club and so we have to we have to think of our challenge still as business to human. We can't think we're you know we're marketing to cold you know company structures. Yes. And that's been really quite a dramatic shift so I try and encourage my team to humanize the message. So when we've just launched some new services a year ago and you mentioned our prowess in terms of the internet. Yes. And so we decided to really humanize that and we got kids to talk about where does the internet come from. Yes. That was part of your campaign that you ran. And actually it was really crazy because even you know veteran industry people it made them think and it really humanized the topic and I could go to dinner parties and talk in a human way about what I do and also inform an intrigue. So that was a really successful digital campaign a great example of how we humanize the message. How do you see that in some of your campaigns because like for a Heathrow Express. Sure. You had the entire train shrouded in the branding of Tata communications. This is the train that essentially connects Paddington with Heathrow Airport. Everybody uses it. Absolutely. We went for the Heathrow Express because of the propensity of business travellers. So 18 million business people a year use it and that's almost 70% of the total passengers. So for me it was a very powerful platform. But again we humanize the message. We talked about you know India's Team Indus and the space mission. We talked about things that you know we talked about you know so many seconds between Hong Kong and Heathrow. So things that were more human and on the back of that we have actually started on this new journey of co-branding with our customers. And boy have we struck a goal because some of the most powerful brands in the world are already alongside us. So for example I'm doing co-branding with Google. Right. And you may have seen that. Yes. We talk about networks at the speed of Google and Tata communications is you know we're the connection. You're talking about co-branding over here. So I'm seeing that in Formula One's with Mercedes as well. The team Mercedes AMG Petronas. The World Champion.  So is that the broader context to work in now co-branding like you said is it really bringing in the dividends. Well as a challenger it's wonderful to share an experience. And what Formula One gives me which is sort of the story behind the story. I have a mobile showcase that goes to 40 of the most premier places in the world. Every year and for so many days I can take a CIO or CEO and say these are my services and actions that you know. What about the innovation part of it Julie because that's something that I'm hearing a lot about when you're reaching out to the start-up community and innovation and innovators is the kind of ecosystem that you're trying to kind of harness the potential of is this a marketing move really or is there a huge business waiting to be tapped. For sure the start-up move is creating real value. We are really encouraging how we work with start-ups and we've got a program that we call Shape the Future. And that was at multi-levels. We have an entrepreneurship so you can give up your job and pursue a dream but stay on the payroll. We've invested in a fund that actually does scouting for us. We're at any time looking at about 20 start-ups and seeing how we can work with them or invest in them. And we've done some investments in artificial intelligence and that whole piece and big data. So I think there's no secret source with start-ups. The odds are the odds. Instead of seeing companies in that category as a threat, we see them as actually creating market and if we can have a piece of the pie and some of the brand value, then that's... Here we were talking about being able to reach out to as many people. The market is huge in India. The possibilities are enormous but at the same time connectivity issues are still very, very strong and to break away from those, that seems to be a huge hurdle right now. With Facebook introducing free basics and then having to withdraw, how much of that do you see as a setback really in the entire drive towards getting more people on board and getting them on the internet and getting a bigger market to be able to work in? Well, in India we're the leader but we are also passionate about digital inclusion and digital inclusion has to be married with financial inclusion. Our network goes quite deep into India and from the edge of our network, we can probably find a way to get to the next 100 million rural but beyond that... In the existing context. Well, with some innovation, the industry needs to collaborate more on digital inclusion. This one I think is so big, we need a number of paths. And the number of paths is something that you are tracking very closely and you are attacking them as quickly as possible. That's what we've noticed so far in the run-up to the point that we find ourselves at great going so far at Auto Communications.  Thank you.


Before we get into the video guys, if you guys want to be in with a chance of winning this resurrectionist emblem leave a like and tell me in that comments section what you're most looking forward to from Destiny 2. Can we reach 4000 likes? That'd be absolutely epic if we could. What is going on guys?  I've decided to take what was easily my favourite Vortoglass weapon by an absolute, probably my favourite raid weapon of all time.  We're going to try and see what it's like and the weapon is none other than the vision of Confluence. This weapon just absolutely fucks people in the faces. Full auto, perfect balance and zen moment. But it's just on a different level. I mean you guys probably would have remembered me trying to get the Transpun Stars from I think it's couple strikes, it's an exclusive to them. And never been able to get a decent rolled one, but I'm so glad the Vortoglass is coming back now. That means we get this weapon back, hopefully it's got the same perks.   So I'm going to switch TV screens and I'll get back to you guys in a second. Okay so I'm on my favourite motherfucking map, I've switched TVs and we are ready to go. Show us of time and let's go. Now hopefully we can do quite decent.  I mean like... Get out of here Will.   There's one. Oh and he's down, Jesus. I see him like a teabag down, I didn't mean teabag down. I'm not like that scummy, you know what I mean?    Oh it's so good.  Oh then the full auto on this thing just makes it so good. The full auto on it just does it for me. I hate, that's the one thing I hate about skirts and pauses. To keep tapping them motherfuckers.   That's that first shot.   Oh wow, now this is how I always play short of time. I mean I don't camp, I always pull out a scout or a sniper and I always rotate between B and C's. Left and right, left and right and it's all dead.  But yes guys obviously you guys know you don't expect anything great from me from PVP because I'm just average at best. Average at best.  I just can't wait for, um, oh yes, got ya. Just to play the vault of glass and have something to play it for.  I just can't wait, they're on C lads. Yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming. Come on, come on. Just escaped. There's a sniper back there, careful will, careful will. Gone. But yeah, I just can't wait to play them old school. I'm just so hoping, I'm so hoping they come back with primary burns and the parameters, elemental burns, vision of confidence with that solar burn. To be honest though, I ain't fussed about the vision of confidence and solar burn, I mean like, yeah for sure.    But yeah, solar wind in night falls, which is so fun. But to be honest, I want the vision of confidence now for PvP. I mean I'm doing quite good with it now, I ain't died yet.  Trying to win, we are winning by what? Almost 5,000 points. So yeah, this is where I won the vision. I won it back so bad because of PvP. Obviously the fate bringer, fate bringer!   Just popping one and watching fireworks everywhere. I love it. My accuracy is so up.   Anybody else? Come on. Oh, there's someone else there. There's two there. Was he on the go? I'm on the 10 kills streak, we're late at this. First 10 kills streak, I've been on him.  Was that a sniper shot then? That brushed my face if it was. Jesus, getting out of there. Nasty fuckers!  No, what? Even when you've got teammates, no fuckers don't wait. Okay, who was? My fuckers. I'm so lucky. That's exotic tequila. Yes, Jesus. We know what the Twilight Gaster for the Titan is easily becoming my favourite exotic, especially for PvP.  It saves me so many times. Per game, it's unbelievable.  Normally. I die a lot. Anyway. On an average basis for every PvP game. But this saves me some games between 5 and 10 deaths. Just for the simple fact. Just for that, I'll take the kill. But yeah, it saves me so much. Oh, Jesus. Rain of Terror.  What's the 25 one? I don't even know. I can't think. I don't want to die. That's 16.  And I can't wait for that edge to drive.  I'm going to play you a lot more. PvP now for me. It's probably the best it's ever been. It's probably the best it's ever been. The diverse weapons people are using. The diversity is unbelievable. I haven't seen one weapon that's been used constantly. Every game like the Clever Dragon and the Matador and obviously side arms are still a little bit... I have no way to get one of them for anymore.  I don't get these medals in PvP. I'm dead. Jump away. But yeah, I don't get these medals in PvP. It's the vision of conflict.  I don't even know what I'm on now about. 18 kills? 19 kills? I don't even know the score.  Do you want to calm down?  I ain't come up to 20 kills streak yet. Scouts on it. This weapon is just...  Oh, shadow shot. I'm so dead. Someone save me. Jump it up. Just two of them. What? Melee got me on kills streak.  What is that? It's something like that. I don't even know. Where was this guy going? Yeah.  I'm dying. I'm going forward. I don't even know how many kills I got. I only died once. So my KD won't be affected. Bitch! Your team won. Objectively could. Don't get that in then. So what do they do? The vision of confluence is such a good weapon when you use it right. I mean, obviously on maps like that it's going to destroy. Close quarters maps, it probably won't be as great. But on maps like that, no weapon on X faces. 24 kills! So what did I get? I got two. Did I get two kills? Three kills after I died. So... What? I was four kills off. But guys, that is it for another video. Hope you enjoyed it. Smash that like button. I do appreciate the support. I'll catch you on that next one.


Good evening, good morning, good afternoon from wherever you may be. We welcome you to this hour of worship. It's been a whole week of Stewardship Week of Prayer here from Nairobi Central SDA church. We are streaming live from Kenya and we welcome everybody to enjoy this worship session with us. My name is Damaris Ndira. We are part of a family worship choir. We come from the same family. Ndira is my daughter, the second one. And later on we shall be joined by Jasmine, the last one. Joy is not here with us today and we want to welcome all of you. Please join us as we sing together. Before we start, I would also want to thank the pianist and his name is James Amayo. Let him give us a note. Yes, let's pray before we start. Lord, we come before you. We thank you for your goodness, for your kindness, for your mercy, for your grace that is renewed each time in our lives, Father. The day has come to an end and the Sabbath is here with us. How we pray that you may teach us to know how to bring all our burdens unto your feet that you may have right. It's been a difficult week for some of us. It's been a good one for some of us. People are in different situations. Lord, I want to put each and every person in your hands, especially those who are logged into this session and even those who are here in church with us. Father, I want in a special way to put the preacher of the day before you that you may bless him and put the words in his name. And us who have come here to worship you in song, we pray Jehovah that you might accept worship. Bless us and give us the Holy Spirit to dwell with us and in us. Forgive us our sins in Jesus' name I pray. So we'll start with song number 655 from the SBA Himnals. Happy the home. And we shall sing it in our mother tongue that is Lou. It is song number five connectivity as you continue praying for communication team that is bringing this at your comfort. Thank you for this worship. Wherever you are, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. It is a wonderful moment that we are here at the feet of Jesus Christ just to be fed with His bread. Those who are serving today, we have Jesse Orwa. He will do the scripture reading and the song service was presided over and willed by Damaris and Joel Andera. Those are the choristers. Our brother James Amayo is at the piano. Our sister Yoizkwamboka is giving us the sign language interpretation. Then the communication team is led by our brother Victor Nyacharo. It is the sixth day of our worship living in view of eternity and this is brought to us by our pastor, pastor Elijah Makhanu. Thank you and please feel welcome at the feet of Jesus. Evening to you all once again. I welcome you and we want to read from the word of the Lord. Our scripture reading will come from the book of Mark chapter 12 from verse 41 to verse 44 and it says Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts but a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, I tell you the truth. This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out their wealth but she out of her poverty put in everything and all that she had to live on. That is what the word of the Lord says. Be blessed. We are going to sing the theme song for this week. That is song number 359 from the SBA hymnals. Heart the voice of Jesus calling. The opportunity you've given us Lord to join in this worship as we also welcome all situations father.  We have those who are struggling to make ends meet. We have something in the table listening to their prayers. We have families who are believed father. We have families who are having turbulence in their family lives father. Turn your face, father. We have those who are living father. We thank you Christ Jesus for having given us various gifts. A gift which we should use to serve you father, your vineyard. Let us be good stewards as we serve you as a journey with you father. Remember us in a special day as you bless your children bless those who are also participating in this worship. Father we are now presenting our pastor Pastor Elijah and Lord as he delivers your word unto us let that make a difference and change the more we are and be closer to you. This is our humble prayer in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen. Okay. Good evening everyone. Happy Sabbath and happy day. We welcome all of us to our worship this evening as we celebrate the incoming Sabbath. We also want to thank God for the week that has been to thank God for the blessings we have experienced. Each one of us must be having a reason to say God thank you for what you have done and we want to thank all those who have had a chance to hear or follow us through whichever media to catch up with us. We just want to appreciate in a very special way. We don't take it for granted and I am so humbled that I got a chance to be here and as we come to the close of the week I want to let you know that I'm enjoying being here. Amen. Amen. I'm really enjoying and so grateful that the Lord gave me a chance to come and spend more time to read and spend more time to hear him talk to me and also get a chance to share. Amen. Amen. So you are welcome. Thank you for the peer crew. Thank you for the choristers. Thank you for the pianist. Thank you elder for the good introduction. We want to appreciate all of us who are in the sanctuary. Please feel at the feet of Jesus and all those following us online we also welcome you and ask that you may feel at the feet of Jesus. Today is day six and just before we go to the word I will invite all of us to a season of prayer. We would like to commune with our savior and our creator. Speak to him or talk to him. Open your heart to him. Alan Juhai tells us the wonderful gift that the Lord has given to mankind is the gift of prayer where we get a chance of being transported into the presence of God and in the presence of the Lord you know there are blessings. Amen. If you got a chance of visiting our state house just across here you can be sure that you when you go in you will not come out the way you went in. It's just earthly monax and when you visit things are different how much more the creator of heaven and earth amen. So I want to invite us to go into a season of prayer and in this season of prayer we are just going to open our hearts talk to God. If you have some burdens share with him if you have some joys to celebrate please remember to invite him to celebrate with you. Is that okay? Let us pray together. Our father and our God our creator and redeemer the monarch of the great galaxies to you or God is power and greatness and honor. You are so good you are so loving and so merciful that we who are human beings feeble and weak as we are we can get a chance to come into your presence by way of prayer and by faith that we are communicating with our savior and our creator it makes us feel so good it in itself is a blessing that makes our hearts excited yet we still as we praise you come along with burdens of the week the challenges that we may have gotten along the way interacting with others doing what we were doing we come with burdens and we want to thank you because at the feet of Jesus all burdens are always taken off and so we pray heavenly father that even as we sit in your presence to hear you speak to us we pray dear Lord that you may inline your ear to us or God and grant us your peace I pray that you forgive our sins or God and I pray that you minister to our individual challenges in your own way or God and we pray that each one of us may find a reason may have a testimony to attest to the fact that you are a loving God and that you are able, you are powerful there is nothing impossible with you or God so we present all our burdens to you and we also want to share with you the joys coming from the successes that you have given to us along the week the breakthroughs that we have seen the healing messes that we have experienced and many other blessings that have come our way or God, we want to celebrate with you and at the beginning of this Sabbath or God as we sit down we just pray that we may be able to contemplate on the wonderful works of creation and as we do so we offer our hearts to be recreated anew and afresh that we may experience you in a new way in a new fashion and in this worship or God we pray that you may come through to each one of us we pray in Jesus' name Amen Amen Amen Thank you so much brothers and sisters I would like to welcome all of us to the study of the word as written in the book of Mark 12 that is where our text is coming from Mark 12 and we are considering verse 41 up to verse 44 Mark 12 verse 41 it says and he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box many rich people put in large sums and a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins which make a penny and he called his disciples to him and said to them truly I say to you this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box verse 44 for they all contributed out of their abundance but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had all she had to live on this is the word of the Lord this is a very interesting story it's a very interesting story that Jesus shares with us and this story is going to help us to understand what we call the principle of sacrifice is one of the means through which those living in view of eternity are supposed to order themselves you know somebody has said that people live their lives in three ways one they waste it by living selfishly that's one way of living life and secondly they wreck their life by living sinfully living sin anything that you are attracted to any sinful thing that attracts you you go for it and the third group or the third way of living life is where people give their life away by living sacrificially and I would like to propose ladies and gentlemen at the onset of this presentation that we choose to live sacrificially because living sacrificially is very fulfilling amen you see one famous missionary called Jim Elliot had something that is so profound to say that no fool is a man who gives what he can't keep to gain what he can't lose it is not a fool when one chooses to do away with that which you can't keep even if you try to hold onto it time comes when you cannot continue holding onto it it's not a fool who gives it up so that you can in return receive that which once you have it you cannot lose there are several things about this passage of scripture that I have just read there are what we call upside downs in this passage things that are out of order things that disturb our intellectual abilities they throw us off balance take a close look at who for example Jesus is presenting as an example of a spiritual discernment and worship look at this particular individual this unlikely model that we are supposed to emulate has three fundamental things going against according to especially her society or the society of this particular person number one is that she is a woman so Jesus is presenting a woman as a model and especially a Jewish setup it is different from us number two this particular individual is a widow and number three she is a poor person both in the times of Jesus not so much like our time but in some societies and places yes it is like that but our traits would simply make some of the elites of her time and our time in societies where this problem exists to simply switch off God wish to sit in a place where an individual characterized by the three things is presented as a model to emulate her gender makes her inferior and voiceless her marital status makes her helpless and needy and her poverty makes her empty handed and a devoid of anything good to offer to anybody yet in the passage and the story as we are going to see Jesus presents her as an assembla she is presented as one that we are supposed to able to copy to emulate as one who presents an ineffable standard of worship and a standard of reverence as a standard of true living is what Jesus presents her to be everything about this particular person screams of scarcity not enough to give not enough to matter not enough to make an input or impact not enough to be noticed not enough to be special or significant not enough to justify her existence Jesus makes her to be a model for emulation that's why I said the passage has upside downs the story is within an event that took place on a Tuesday of the passion week Jesus has just had an event called triumphal entry in Jerusalem it comes in with pomban ceremony and songs are renditions and other carols filling the air and everybody else is disturbed those in power are not able to contain he has been to the temple and cleansed the temple he has come again on a Tuesday morning and on this occasion he encounters a team of lawyers they are asking him trying to put him to test to know whether he understands what he is saying or doing and so after encountering them and helping them to understand this and that then he goes to what we call the court of women in the temple of Jerusalem people did not sit together we didn't have men and women sitting together men occupied the main hall like this one women occupied another part it is a porch attached to the temple in the Solomon's temple it measured about 200 feet 200 feet square and so in that particular court of the women there were 13 collecting boxes of offerings they were called the trombets because of the shape they were in V shape what we call the offering plates they were in a V shape and they were hooked up on the pilas 13 in number each one of that particular box had an inscription of which kind of offering is supposed to be put there so there were all mana and the nature and kind of offerings that were placed there the sin offering the harvest offering and so many offering the offering for the poor, the offering for building the offering for oil the offering for timber the offering for calls to be used perhaps in most cases on the altar 13 in number for us I think the most that we know is the tithe and offering and then we end there the Jewish society had an elaborate system now this particular collecting boxes called the trombets in the Hebrew were called Shofa you may have perhaps heard of Shofa the choir called Shofa is the trombets that's what it simply means now on this particular occasion jesus sits there now the question is why have I said it was in the court of women because it is not written here in the passage and this is very very important because during that particular worship as they were offering a woman came in so you know in this particular separation women were never allowed to enter the official place of worship where men sat because they are a man but where women sat men were allowed to go there so because women were only allowed to go up to a smatch where their confines were that is why the setup of this particular thing was in the court of women is that very clear to everybody? very very important now Mark 12 verse 41 says that jesus sat opposite the treasury and he watched other versions say he beheld he sat there and he beheld he was watching he was looking at men and women as they were bringing their offering this is very very important that this this man jesus he sat and beheld and the word used what it is an imperfect taste meaning it is not a completed action which simply means beholding or watching refers to this thing that was happening continuously so jesus sat there and continuously watching he was kindly watching his eye was never removed from the act of worship that was taking place the offertory as they were offering that particular moment jesus kept on his eyes were glued to that place where the offering was being brought allow me to let you know that this occasion was what we call the past call week the Passover week and all Jews of necessity were supposed to travel from whichever countries they were living to come to Jerusalem and celebrate with the entire nation of Israel Passover was very very crucial and of course the day of atonement and some others they were of necessity to travel so they have traveled from different countries where they were they have come and those days we did not have the checks we did not have the ATMs that we have we did not have the electronic money transfers their monies were not even paper monies they were copper, silver and brass monies made of those coins so from wherever they have been several months have passed almost six, seven months have gone they have had their earnings, they are carrying it and they are coming to Jerusalem for a major celebration so jesus sat and watched as they were giving their offering on this occasion my friend people came with their servants helping them to carry sacks of coins and they would lift up and empty it in the shofas as everybody was watching as everybody else was following that was a great occasion a moment when men are giving back to the Lord big monies no joke celebrating God you have been so good we have come to this past circle week and we are so happy we are grateful God that we can come to remember our history of redemption as they were pouring monies in the offering plate now the Bible says that jesus sat just opposite the treasury and he watched as men emptied their bags into the offertory plate into the trombets or the shofas if you may please now please take note of the fact that Christ observes he is ever present in our worship and he observes he beholds he sees he watches as we come to worship and adore the king he is ever watching he keeps an eye on any element of worship that we participate in whether it is singing whether it is praying whether it is offering he keeps a close eye on those what would call elements of worship that is the cross that we worship he observes all men and all things all our actions are before his eyes what we do in public and what we do in private he also keeps a close eye he knows it and he sees it so clearly so clearly he saw the abundance of the rich and at the same time he saw the poverty of this poor widow he sees it he sees it they say when you keep quiet everybody thinks you are the most wise when you open your mouth you confirm either their worst fears or otherwise in worship if you are doing nothing you are not singing you are not praying, you are not praising you are not giving an offering we think you are okay until when you stand up to offer the element of worship that is what determines who you are it either confirms the worst fears or otherwise but when you are in your house the eye of Jesus keeps a close watch though I have little it doesn't matter it doesn't matter I have come to worship but Jesus keeps an eye not only to the element of worship that I do but keeps an eye even to the motive behind the element of worship that I offer that is why to this poor lady though little in itself that she gave it was an awful rebuke later at the end of the service to the abundances of the rich God sees every penny I possess constantly observes how I use it how I lay it because the most merciful and bountiful Jesus is continually watching beholding my poverty my abundance he watches and he is able to cause both my abundance or my poverty to work for my good and this is a case in point where he makes the poverty of this poor old widow she came in stealthily left when she had been pronounced the public figure cross sees different motives which lead men to perform their respective actions he knows whether people are acting out of vanity out of self love ambition interest hypocrisy or whether it is because of love charity zeal for his glory and a heart desire to please him he sees it and he knows it the principle of sacrifice he observes as he looks he observes the circumstances which accompany our actions especially in our case in elements of worship whether we act with care or negligence with the ready mind or with a reluctance he is ever watching he observes as towards how we operate how we practice our stewardship he watches skinly because he has an interest in the same way he had an interest in the fruit in the garden he has an interest in your stewardship you know Jesus is observing how the wealthy and the privileged are making their contributions to the treasury and at this time law and behold suddenly comes in a lawn and impoverished poor widow she also makes her contribution she goes I can imagine as she walks she doesn't want even to make some thuds that will be heard by people she has to walk perhaps at the end of her toes to go through and in the middle of man and stealthily throw in what she has unnoticiably and go back to her seat she also wants to participate in worship this leads me to a principle that is very very crucial whether rich or poor the Lord created us for His own glory to worship Him and honor Him with our substance none is excluded in the economy of God the reason for stewardship is does not exclude any individual best on your status or how much you have stewardship everybody whether poor or rich and stewardship has a way of bringing out the concept of Iguiti it is not equality therefore with my so little I can still worship and practice my stewardship and with my abundance I can also worship and still in the element of worship still practice my stewardship her contribution was so insignificant in Jesus eyes however it was an offering beyond ordinary measure suddenly he calls his disciples and the word calling here from its original is a command that is given by a king summoning people an urgent meeting he called the disciples and all of them stood and ran to where he was it is interesting that this so insignificant offering of this poor widow has got the attention of Jesus and not the huge amounts that had been put in the offering plate does it make sense to be filled with irony because the widow's offering is not greater according to Jesus it is greater she did not carry any bag she didn't have even a pass she only came holding clinging it in her face not much it is ironical Jesus he says this is greater than anyone else offering it is interesting he then explains that the value of the offering according to Jesus is best measured against the financial worth of the offerer it is only in accordance to your abilities and your abandonies that we can determine how much has been given in the kingdom of God God seems to be operating on a different kind of mathematics probably not Kel Franz it's not even Chiruel it is not even of Malki at Sino Patel it is a different kind of mathematics to him much is not determined by how much literally or arithmeticly but against the backdrop of the worth of the offerer there is determined how great or how much has been given we might say somewhat crudely perhaps that the quality of an offering is best measured as a percentage of the total assets considered in this way therefore the poor widow's offering was fast period to the others it was all that she owned this incident contrasts the spiritual poverty and the physical prosperity of the scribes on one hand and on the other side and spiritual prosperity of the widow it also contrasts the greed of the scribes with the generosity of this widow it explicates the difference between humble sincere anonymous devotion of the widow and the outward superficial ostentatious display of devotion on the side of the scribes according to this rate therefore the widow's two mites made in silver the weight of a middle balikon you know the worth of what we call the two mites was like the worth of one maize cob like you got passed by the road and these guys are roasting maize and you get there one cone one cob that is an equivalent of the two mites that she gave that was all that she had the saviour calls to the attention of everybody that she had given more than anyone else and in the original language this word Jesus uses it simply means she gave that she gave what she had between her life and herself this is the only thing that existed if she could have said I'm worth this this is the only thing that she could have said in fact whatever that she had was not enough to take her beyond today it was only able to give her a roasted cob of maize that is all that she could properly and then wait to die she is not as privileged like we are because some of us we have already stored grain that could take us the next 2, 3, 4 years she is not as privileged as we are because we have fat accounts but we can manage even if I lost a job today some of us if we lost a job today we can go for 6 months for one year for 2, 3, 4 years as we look for something else we still can live and survive she is not as much privileged and so Jesus calls to the attention of everyone and says all that she had to sustain her all that she had to uphold her life for one day this is what she gave for it is said that the quantity was usually reckoned as her livelihood that which she had the worth of it was what she would get probably a meal that is not even a good meal something just to ensure that the pangs of hunger won't beat so much against her this was all that she had then Jesus says she has given she has cast in more than any of the rest for the rest of the men Jesus makes it very clear look at how he puts it this is how Jesus makes it verse 44 for they all contributed out of their abundance that which remained was so much and if you calculate in terms of percentage that is how God operates it's equitable that's why he gives a percentage he says 10% and I can assure you 10% to a poor person is the same as 10% to a millionaire if one person who cannot afford food 3 times a day has to offer and return a tais that is faithful it is equally disturbing to a millionaire who has to give 10% the percentage is enough to arrest our selfishness and that is why Jesus reduced the percentage somebody says we should be thankful to God in terms of pay as you are I think some people are paying 40 others that is due at 2% I do that 3% that's what comes out of my salary and if they want to increase they increase like what they are doing any time they want to push it up they don't consult with you when you just go you are only shown you are only advised that this was taken God from time immemorial from creation to debt is still at 10% we should be thankful because he should have increased it a little bit that would have probably been better no wonder it's very hard for us to return because it is so small it equally bites to a poor person and to a rich person that percentage comes to you and to that person is the same and so when you look at what Jesus is simply saying is that in terms of how much one has given it is never how much you have given the figure that you will indicate on your taisa envelope the figure and the amount you will show whichever means God does not look at that amount in terms of what the figure that came in he looks at it at the backdrop of ya in terms of what this is given what is the percentage of what has remained that is a very difficult one out of the abundance they gave out of her poverty she gave their offerings though great in respect of hers bore but a little portion to their remaining estate but she of her wand did cast in all that she had her offering was the whole of her income on that day or perhaps you can say of the money in her position at that time here are a few lessons we can learn from this story God doesn't measure our gifts by the amount never rather he measures it by what it costs you how much does this gift you are giving how much does it cost you in other words how much of the sacrifice is behind the gift that you are giving praise the Lord no wonder David would say hey I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing what is the cost if you can simply go to the pocket and take out some coins throw in the offer to replace there is no sacrifice that has been made no cost to it God has not regarded it it is the principle behind our tites and offerings and all other offerings the principle is does it cost you is there something you have sacrificed for gone is there something that you have skipped from getting something that you have decided for the sake of others I am not going for this and so let it be for us is there a cost that is the concept behind the offerings that we give and so to Jesus we give much more because it costed her everything for that day real giving number two must be sacrificial the amount of the gift never matters so much as its cost to the giver not the size of the gift but the size of the sacrifice because real generosity until it hurts when it does not hurt then there is no sacrifice that has been made for many of us is a real question if ever our giving to God's work is any sacrifice or it is always out of abundance no wonder maybe even what we give that has not been so much blessed not done what it ought to have done point number three real giving has a certain recklessness in it the woman might have kept one coin and given out another coin it would not have been much but it would have been at least something has been given she also was seen dropping in the back yet she gave everything she had there is a great symbolic truth here it is our tragedy that there is so often some part of our lives some part of our activities some part of ourselves which we do not give to Christ we do not surrender totally it is a lesson we advise everything on the altar of Christ not on the altar of convenience and experience it is strange number four and lovely thing that the person whom the new testament and Jesus hands down to history to our time as a pattern of generosity was a person who gave a gift of half a far thing and equal to the prize of a roasted maize cob we may feel that we have not much in the way of material gifts or personal gifts to give to God but if we put all that we have and are at his disposal he can do things with it and with us that are beyond our common imaginations our life ought number six ought not to be dearer to us more than Jesus life was to him he left the courts of heaven above all the glory, the power, the greatness he came down, gave his life so that you and I could live we cannot make our gifts more dearer to us than his life to him unless we do not know the gospel the apostles and martyrs acted on this principle it is possible ladies and gentlemen to be poor and be a Christian but you can't be a Christian and be stingy you cannot it goes against the life and the teaching of our Lord Jesus you know, imagine there is a small little book Fox's book of Matayas if you can get time just to go and read about what happened to the apostles but then you can also get the earlier version about the death of the prophets and you'll be surprised prophet Isaiah because of his willingness to share the gospel he signed the gospel pages with his own blood it is said in some extra canonical books that he went and he was being chased by the king Manasseh and he went and hid himself in a hollow part of a tree and the king ordered that they don't have to struggle to get him out all they needed was to have a saw the kisi type of saw the saw that comes from kisi two men holding on both ends and they cut the tree and so they sliced him in between that was how he sealed the testimony of his life and there is not a single prophet according to Jesus all of them died while they were hanging on the gospel because they did not want to give up otherwise that was a different life other than the life that men and women who are called by God are supposed to live by now is your time to talk about the apostles when the Holy Spirit had come all of them collected their wives and children in Jerusalem and left them in the tents I can imagine that particular evening when they were bidding bye men hugging their wives and children crying because they would never ever meet again it was one way after hugging they told them bye see you in heaven period they left never came back they died from wherever they were they had sold everything they had everything however little it was and brought it to Jerusalem left it with the deacons who were then to be buying food and giving to them sacrifice a hundred percent to lay the foundation of the face that you and I belong to how can you receive these gifts of God at no cost that hurts how? I want you to move with me from here and imagine we are in heaven together to get to the sea of glass you meet these apostles you meet Peter you meet Paul you meet John you meet James and they are there having literally sacrificed everything including their own lives and for you it is not even life it is just an amount some section of your income and you can live out of your abundance you don't want to give the question is how will you find yourself in a kamban of such men on a Sabbath evening like now trying to bell job their carols singing glory the song of Moses and the Lamb how will you find yourself in such a group it is my prayer that the Lord helps us to choose wisely to sacrifice for the Lord it doesn't cost much even if it did it is worth it I challenge everyone listening to me tonight to consider reordering your stewardship priorities as I invite my sister to come and help me do this song take my life and let it be consecrated to you all God take my silver, take my feet, take my lips take my love, let it be I pray that this would be a blessing we sing together this song and I want to invite all of us to rise up whatever you are watching us from as we do this number it is 330 330 take my life and let it be and as we sing this song I want to challenge all of us to right fleachus take a right stand to declare themselves as faithful stewards of God from now because of the rewards that are there we can't miss them this is both sacrifice take Lord to death Father take my life Father in God we just do not know how else we could thank you we do not know how could have possibly been more than what you have been tonight to us we do not know which other time we could have made na kutua mkingi nakuha kufu'u na uwa mngu ya mmeri yukia kwa ta kutuja kwa nakimiti nga ni mngu takuwa hika kikirti kumodejo kwen And for speaking so directly to each heart tonight, save us oh God, because if you don't we will be lost.  Take our lips, use them, take our feet, use them oh God, take our wallet and use it to the honor and the glory of your name for by so doing oh God we are commended, we are commended, we long for that day when you will come when we will be home by the sea of glass we feel so ashamed oh God for what we have done all this with that which you have given to us we have molested you we have pitefully treated you we are ashamed before you oh God oh God we thank you because you are a forgiving God you are a merciful father accept us oh God remove our stone hearts fit us anew with the flesh hearts may we live according to your will oh God may the spirit order our states after your will may we be willing to practice and experience a new way of doing stewardship as a responsible and as men who will give an account one day we thank you oh Lord for hearing our prayer the pain we have with which we express these is more than what we can explain for having let you down all this time may this deep repentance bring about deeper convictions and and deeper changes in our hearts oh God we thank you for hearing this prayer as we go home please Lord we pray that you dismisses with your presence and blessings may we enjoy may we rejoice have been in the presence of the Lord and consider coming here in the morning to worship and celebrate in any given element of worship that your eye is focused on we pray that we'll do it out of hearts and not hypocritical and superficial as we have always done we thank you because we have prayed in Jesus name amen amen yeah we are going to sing a song that we always sing during family worship jasmine just introduced it it wasn't so clear so help this song talks about wherever we are God is always there watching over you so join us thank you donating the song service worship of today faster thank you very much for again calling upon us to remember to give and give until such a time that we given on because God the Father gave is the best and Christ Jesus gave his life so in giving we have to make sacrifice thank you again brethren saints for getting the opportunity to join us today for this worship and also to welcome the holy Sabbath which we are wishing you you have a lovely Sabbath evening and tomorrow tomorrow will be the climax of this worship and therefore we invite all of you to join virtually and also in person tomorrow and in the afternoon we have our young people the youth of this church will be having coordinating panel discussion otherwise thank you and welcome tomorrow may we all rise as we say praise may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more amen have a safe journey home and have a lovely Sabbath evening thank you


I'll go first drawing rectangles daily asking why five times Why why why why why why? using way too many post-its a yeah prefers to sketch and talk at the same time Deciding between a or B and finally wears too much black


Sure, maybe you're asking why? Why? Why? But maybe we shall be asking ourselves, but why not? Someone by the name of Kaelin Noose tweeted at me. Kaelin why? This beautiful picture of her gluing on just a bunch of fake nails to one finger and it said she thought of me while she did it. I felt so inspired by this picture. There is nothing else for me to do once I have been filled with this inspiration. I need to know what the longest actual fingernail measurement is and we need to beat that. 30 foot. Oh, I don't know if we can beat that. 30 feet? And that's not using acrylic. This point, all maddy, the longest single nail is six and a half feet. Oh, okay. We can do that. No. Yes, we can. We're not going to beat six and a half feet. I bought 400 nails. This is just something that when I see a picture like that, I have to do this. This is my purpose in life, is to just see how long I can make a fingernail. It's like polished mountain, but for length. You need it. No, I have Jesus. Jesus is making me do this. Story time.  Like they're not very big and some of them are black. Like the only ones that I got were the ones that you are straight up meant to glue onto your nail bed and like create a nail with.  Hopefully they're a little longer than those. The only thing I did not account for is that these all come in different shapes. So like it could get a little wonky. I like the thumb because hers got real curly, which I think is an elegant look. Oh my God. What? How many is that? 400. So that's super hot glue? Yes. Brilliant. It's super hot glue. It's nail glue. No one make fun of my finger or the fact that I like to pick at it.  So the first thing we need a nice strong base. So I'm going to cover this in glue. Get it on here. Whoa. Damn. Who is that?  Yes. Me. Oh my God. Nailathon. Nailathon. Yeah. It's definitely going to curl in the circles. That's what I like. I like that aesthetic. It's my aesthetic. It's not an aesthetic. It's just weird. I'm going to have to hold each and every one of these? Yeah.  How do I get it to curl like in a different direction? Look it. It's going to curl straight into my hand. What have I done? Am I messed up already? Get it offset like this. Don't be careful. The glue's not dry and that hurts my finger.  Damn. That'll be a great turn. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. This is going to be very subtle. It's not going to be an Aries right hand turn. All around me. What's the undo button? Delete, delete, delete.   They're all coming apart. My vision. Here, let me help you. No. It looks like it's also asking me why you're doing this. You need a hot glue gun, I think. You think so? I think it'll work. So we're going to try hot glue. Oh my god, Julian. Be careful. I'm going to burn my finger. Oh, this is going to be hairy now. This is ugly, boy.  Okay, don't have a meltdown. I'm melting down. We have to nail glue. Okay. This doesn't work. These are all wasted. Can we reuse them? You have 400 nails. Yeah, but I like these ones. They're pretty. This is turning out to be a lot more difficult than we thought. Well, the nail glue takes like a minute to dry each time. Okay. I mean, we're... Do you think the guy who invented acrylic nails gave up when it got tough? No. He kept going. You're right. He's looking down on you even though he's probably not dead. Just believe in him and help him with you. You're probably right. Every single part of my hand is going to be covered in nail glue after this. Getting a little concerned because it's starting to curl back into where we just were. But we did figure out that since the nail glue takes like a fair amount of time to dry, what's better is if we do them like this on the side and then try it, we'll glue them in like this. Oh, what is that?  See, the nail glue is so much better than all this one's coming apart.  I did take my hair wrap out. It did take a while. It was very sad, but I am so appreciative that all of you were there to have this funeral with me. It was a beautiful service. Julian played Spice Girls Say You'll Be There at my funerals after party for my hair wrap, which I found to be a little insensitive, but I know your heart was in the right place. My heart was on the dance floor.   Look at this. The clear ones that I bought have like a different curvature than the white ones. They don't really stick because they're too flat. So there's like a gap between the white ones and the clear ones. So we might be limited to like these 200 nails, which is disappointing for my world record. But like, I don't think we're going to be able to get those ones to stick. It's just a lot of like sitting here and letting it dry. It's a lot of sitting here. Welcome to my spelling tutorial. A-C-R-A-L-I-K. Acrylic, I told you I can spell it. This is really fulfilling a lot in my soul to have it be this long. I feel like one of those people that just walks around like this and that's their life. I love it. It's like an inner tube, but it's glamorous, but it's beautiful. It's falling apart. This sound.  You're sick. Hell yeah. This is like incredibly painstaking to glue all of them together. Painstaking is sort of the general theme of your ideas. It looks like a high-end water slide. It's so hard to do anything. It looks like something I'm holding. It doesn't look like part of my fingernail. I should pass. Ooh, see that. Five minutes into acrylics and shows. She gives you this look.  I don't think she likes it. Good girl.  You like what mommy pepped you with her nail? Oh, do not get under your hair. It's going to curl. Why not? Because you're going to tangle it. Done. Don't take a selfie using that hand. Oh. I can't press my home button. It's not functional. Yes, it is. Okay. I can't take a picture with it, but at least I have my other hand. It's the fashion nail. Okay. We're getting pretty small. These are like the pinky nails, right? There's not too much to film here. Aside from us just sitting here gluing nails together. Like we're going to do almost two boxes, which is like 200 nails. But like when you put them all together like this, it doesn't really look like that many. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Who do we appreciate this mess?  I know.  The show is starting. Like I feel like we've spent so long doing this, and it's like this is impressive, but like it's not a lot to show. Like my eyes hurt. Like there's a lot of glue. This has been pain-saking. This is the nail version of claymation. For hours and hours. For like three seconds. Nothing. Stop chewing on straw. It's like actually making me a little nauseous. You're blue on me. I don't know. It's like bothering something. I throw. Like it makes you feel like you're going to throw up. It'll be gone soon. Are you going to eat it? Let me see. Show them.   I want to go to VidCon.  I'm going to take you to VidCon, but I'll fly on one way flight.  Pretty much. You see how long this takes to do like one nail at a time? Are you ready? Well, the final reveal, it looks only slightly different than the last time you saw it. Longer than I thought it would ever be. Ever. I know it really doesn't look like that many, but it took forever. For anyone that's ever used nail glue, like it takes like an hour to dry each one. It really does take a long time to dry each one, and this is like probably just short of two internails. We went through two boxes, but did have a fair amount of casualties due to the hot glue. Nail tour. Like we did it from largest down to the smallest nail. I think it gives it a beautiful natural effect. It looks natural, honestly. I'd say that this is very... All right, I'll be back in like 15 minutes. This is going to be delicate. I have learned my lesson. Aside from it just tragically breaking. Julian, do you like it? Yeah, it's sick. I'm impressed with the length of it. Like we had a lot of casualties, but this is legit two boxes of nails.    Shit. Oh my God. Where did you get that? Did you grow that? I made it. Yeah, I grew it. It's all very natural. Every day I just take so many vitamins, and it goes straight to my thumb. But it's a really fun slinky. This calls for a celebration. I'm gonna take my glass. Ladies, does it look like elegance? Yeah, sure. How do you even approach a woman like this? There's too much woman for you. Too much, way too much woman. What is creepy about this? I don't know. It's my first day with my nail. Look it, you can just hide stuff with it. That's amazing. Ladies, you know, some people in life become doctors and lawyers, and other people push the boundaries of nails and nail glue. I'm an artist. Make art. I am a fancy lady. Someday when I die, remember my accomplishments. We've gotten ourselves in too deep. And forget it. Was this necessary? No. Did I need to do this? No. Does anyone ever need to do this? No. I just wanted to see what would happen, because I was inspired. I'm Katelyn on Twitter.  I only lost a little bit. It's about 200 nails, and I think it came out great. See what happens if you just punch it as hard as you can. All right, you ready? Keep going! This part's thrown out. Okay, it's starting to hurt. But yeah, that's it. Make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put out new videos every Wednesday, slash Thursday. Aw, I just broke it. I broke it off my nails. My nail had had it anyways.  I think it looks good, and I'm repurposing it. Okay.  It was, it was judgy. You want a bracelet? Yeah. Thank you. It literally doesn't even fit around my fingers. Jam your hand in there. No. Hey, we're supportive of me. I was. It's over. Brace yourself. Put it up as braces. What's so funny? Subscribe! Oh, God.


Well, it's finally here. We only waited near on a decade for this to be created, having tossed out multiple movie scripts, television show scripts, directors, producers, a buttload of people. We finally have a Halo media of some sort, and I still don't know how to feel about it. Hey guys, this is my review of the first episode of the new Halo series produced by Paramount. I've been a big Halo fan. It's pretty much the reason why I got a console in the first place. Playing Halo back in 2002, my cousin's console was a mind-blowing experience to me. Even with the recent shortcomings in certain areas withstanding, I've always been a fan of the media, the characters, the world, and just the entire universe it is based on. To see a television show clearly have a lot of visual and reference material to the games that it's based on. Yet it is a completely non-canical story, which means that it's not going to be following the events of the games. It's going to be doing it at its own pace, but it is clearly still trying to have some kind of respect for the original fanbase. But then it also does almost near on nothing to help introduce a newcomer to this show. To say that it does the bare minimum is a stretch, because this is an episode that is an hour long, yet they really tear and stretch a 22 minute pilot episode concept over the course of an hour.  Fricking first person gets blasted into pieces. I was not expecting that, but I am not going to complain about it either.  Just some things are a little bit clunky. Seeing the Chief on screen got me Jonesed every time. It was actually really cool. Admittedly, there were some bits where he was using the exact same guns that the rebels were using and it was shown that the bullets were just bouncing off the Covenant elites, yet when Chief did it, it worked just the same. I'm not gonna complain about it because he looked badass doing it every time. Definitely the action of this show is a high point. The first 20 minutes is this battle scene, essentially, and that's pretty cool. And then the other stuff starts to take over. We get introduced to this version of Catherine Halsey. We get introduced to Jacob Keys, Miranda Keys. Halsey I'm a little bit out on because I don't know if this woman is gonna try and emote anything more than a wet paper bag. To say that she's nothing like Halsey that we know is a disservice. To say that she's like any kind of human character would probably be a little bit more accurate because she's deadpan. Very little emotional curve or any kind of difference to her to make any sort of differentiation from any other what be character that this show could introduce. So they really have to improve that Halsey element. One thing I will say that I did like that is going to be a little bit controversial for some people is the chief because the chief definitely has a lot more of an emotional basis to him than he did when he was first introduced into the into the video games. They're really taking a lot of references from Halo 4 in particular. Maybe a little bit of Halo 5 which I'm gonna say really out of all the ones you're gonna reference you're gonna reference those two. Sure those do have a little bit more development for the chief per se because that is what you are trying to do especially for those audience members who don't really know a lot about Halo. You're trying to create this emotional connection with this main character who yeah they do something at the end of this first episode that might quite rightly should piss a lot of people off. Again this is the different direction they are trying so again this is not canon. This is their own interpretation of it so as long as they can kind of hold that line in terms of being respectful to Halo but also carving their own path. Sure but as I said at the beginning of this review it's a very short lived idea concept that is stretched over an hour and you don't get a lot of world building nowhere near as much as you would hope.  For the amount of time that we were given in this episode and so much of it was based on the chief and his actions that happened after him touching this they don't say the word but possibly forerunner artifact he starts to have kind of confictions and weird thoughts about who he is and what he means and there's this whole sort of insurgent thing where they almost kind of have a mutiny against him. Sure it's a little bit dramatic sure it's a little bit nail biting because you're kind of wondering how was the situation going to turn out regardless it still doesn't really hook you I really kind of questioned it why they would do just this episode first if they did release a second episode and I just don't know about it I'm not watching this on Paramount Plus because I don't have access to it I'm going to just do the 30 day trial once this is all said and done sure you don't want to pull all of your ace cards but I feel this is more like a seven of clubs rather than a face card or an ace really you should have done two episodes I think they should have done that because I'm very curious as to how the numbers will reflect the reception as they come out with more and more episodes because so far the most that we've seen in terms of anything is middling from most people are very kind of depressed sort of view which is also kind of my view on it I feel that this has some potential it's not going to follow the same storyline we are going a little bit of a different direction and if they can land those different jump points maybe this can work but they still have a lot of a ways to go and they definitely need to improve on the human characters but in the end I'm going to give this opening episode of the Halo series a three out of seven it's an entertaining first watch but then everything afterwards is quite drivel drawn out and doesn't take enough time to help further establish this universe both for people who are fans of the video game series and especially for those who have no fucking clue what's going on but anyways those are my thoughts on the opening episode what are your guys's I'm very interested to see what you guys have to say if you're going to be following along with this show or not I hope you enjoyed this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe either way guys I'll see you guys next week when the next episode comes out


Luke, so you're one of the newest Yankees, which means you have a lot of fresh pinstripe posts on your Instagram page. Are you ready to check out the feed? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. First one, player's weekend.  Is your real first name? Yeah. So, you know, last year I just did Boyd because everyone really calls me Boyd. And I want to do something different, you know, kind of honor my dad and my granddad because they're senior and junior. And, you know, I thought it'd be cool to, you know, I feel like a lot of people didn't know my real name is Lewis and my nickname's Luke, which everyone calls me too. So, you know, I thought it was something cool and, you know, something cool for the fantasy. And now your full name sounds very royal. You got Lewis, Linwood. Boyd the third. It's funny because I saw a lot of posts like King Louis just because of that name. So, yeah, it's a cool name. No one's got it. It makes me almost want to keep it going for when I have kids someday if I get a boy. I feel like I might get all girls, but who knows. And you said people call you King Louis. There's so many different things you can do with that name. Yeah, I know. Louis V, whatever it is. Louis V can get Louis Vuitton to get me a, you know, a discount or something. All right. So, another Yankees post you got. Your first hit. You saved the baseball. This is a special one, huh? Yeah. Super cool.  So it's pretty, you know, pretty cherishable. Congratulations and hopefully the first of many. Yeah. Yeah. Very true. All right.  Yeah. I got a dog. I got a, her name's Lola. She's my little princess, except she's giving my fiance some tough times.  And she's a lab half terrier mix. She's about 40 pounds and she's like perfect size. She's awesome. She's my fiance and check and, you know, gives her some love and support when I'm not there. So she's perfect for it. Now you mentioned your fiance. You guys just recently got engaged. Yep. How did it go down? It's out of winery and it kind of overlooks, you know, the Valley or whatever at Montel winery. It's out in the St. Louis area. Yeah, that was my buddy that took that picture there and kind of knew it was coming. And I didn't expect the picture. I wanted it to be kind of private anyway. And she loved it. She said yes. So that's my support part, right? What do you do? You're pretty smooth, huh? Yeah. Smooth blue. There you go. Good possible nickname. All right. You two like to have a lot of fun. Go to a lot of hockey games. Big hockey guy or what? Yeah. I love the St. Louis Blues. I grew up a blues fan. And it's pretty cool. We had a blues jersey like theme night for like, you know, BP. And I got to get Tarasenko's, you know, autograph, who's one of the best players in the NHL. And try to go as many blues games as I can. And, you know, hopefully it can win a Stanley Cup because, you know, they don't have one yet. So I'm hoping for that turnaround here soon. And now that you're at the Yankees in here in New York, you got to experience the game at Madison Square Garden and check out the Rangers, maybe? Yeah. I've never been to one. I want to check out Madison Square Garden.   And I'll be able to get a chance to go check one out. And you've got some pretty cool baseball cards. Check this one out. This one's pretty sweet. Yeah. So when I was in double A, I won the home run derby. And the champion got a buck knife. And we had, like, a little, like, Shaba thing we did at second base.  And it kind of went viral for a little bit.  It's pretty cool. I don't know if I can use it. I feel like it's too nice to use it.   Dude, that's meant to hit arm runs. You like to hit the gym. Yeah. This is all pretty impressive. Yeah.  And the Aussies, I'm in there five, six times a week. That crazy work ethic.  Guy's been awesome for me. And he makes me want to come back every day.    And, you know, I credit some of my success to him. So, yeah. It's, you know, I love working out and stuff and, you know, being in shape. And it helps with the power hitting. Yeah. Dude, you're looking like you're about to hit a ball 600 feet in this. So, funny story. I actually lost to freakin' Miggy and Ahar and the home run Derby in 2015. I got second place. And this is a picture from it. Depressing. We went down to, like, the finals in the championship when the swing off. And he ended up hitting bombs like he is right now. And I freakin' hit, like, a ground ball or something. But it's pretty cool and weird, you know, three years later that we're playing together and hitting back-to-back in the lineup. So it's pretty sweet. Is that kind of wild to see how your career has played out now that you guys are in the same lineup? Yes.  And, man, he's about to, he could possibly work it a year.  He was a talent then.  And now the final photo. You're not the only big dude in the Voight family. Your brother. He's got some football in his blood. Yeah. So my brother went to West Point right down the road. And he was captain there last year. You know, won the Army Navy game twice. Was a beast. All conference. You know, kind of balled out and, you know, super proud of him.  He was, when he was playing, he was like 6'4", like 265. He's bigger than I was. And, you know, he graduated and it's pretty impressive.  And so much love and go Army beat Navy, baby. So we see all these posts. What would you say is your favorite part about Instagram? Being able to express myself, you know, and, like, honestly, getting to see other people and got to meet Big Al yesterday. And a lot of the coolest things I get to do with the Yankees. But then in the off-season, like, stuff I like to do, like, you know, I like to work out.  I'm a big blues fan.  Because, I mean, there's a lot of guys that make funny videos and stuff like that. And, you know, I always find myself when I wake up in the morning just always scrolling through and stuff and looking for, you know, funny stuff. And I always put a smile on my face. What can fans expect from you and watch you? I'm not the biggest post, you know, I don't post all the time. But, you know, it's, you know, now I'm a Yankee. I want to kind of get myself out there. You know, I was in St. Louis and, you know, I was kind of more well known just from being there and stuff. And it's one of the biggest cities in the world.  So I'm going to show you guys that. And let's have fun with it.  So, you know, it should be interesting. All right, well, good luck. Shoot this guy, follow Louis Vuitton if you're watching. You want to deal. Yeah, let's go. I'm going to get my fiancee more stuff. So she's not begging me all the time.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. This is part two of two of our series two Jumbo doubleheader two casebreak random team one part two of random team number one basically the second case Throw out some of the old old trash Take a quick little breather before I dive into another one here. Good luck That's the same list if you want to look for the randomizer. That's in the first video the link to that will be In the video description. So once again, we did this randomizer in the in part one And if we did the first case recap at the end of the video for part one at the end of this video we'll do At the end of part two We'll do the recap for this case that we're doing right now and we'll do the randomizer for the wax party Invite and just double-check ladies and gentlemen make sure you are watching live Or just refresh your streams here at the live point of the Most current point of the live stream. All right the box hopper is Fernando Dutch East jr. No, we haven't looked at in a while. I think it's a good time to check in on this Rookie of the year odds so this website sportingdion.com actually does a Does a great job. I'll drop the link in the chat for you if you're watching live. It does a great job at tracking Odds how they go up and down For the AL and the NL. So Let's see. There are a couple updates May 21st Boston outfielder Masataka Yoshida is the heavy favorite two months in the season sitting at plus 134 With second favorite Bryce Miller at plus 917 The previous update was March 27th Orioles infielder Gunnar Henderson will start the season as the rookie of the year favorite. He's down to 25 to 1 plus 2500 plus 2500 As of now Yoshida's odds Have gone down to plus 125 There's one third plus 134 back in May and the second favorite was Bryce Miller, but he's fallen to 25 to 1 Second now is Josh young at plus 500 about five to one and look at that a Kyle Wright Super short print nice one good start Braves Kenneth with the Braves Here in doubleheader random team number one and Xander Bogarts To 72 as well and as a reminder sort of the key rookies that we're looking for Jordan Walker Yoshida Anthony Volpe Francis Galvez James Altman and Corbin Carroll hmm Rex is saying oh yeah Rex Fell on his knee. How high did you fall at what height? There's geo or Shella to 199 he's got to work on that autograph or maybe he wasn't just following directions But goes to mark in the angels. He's actually having a decent season Thus far you can walk fairly fine with limited pain. Let's say you move your leg just right However, I can only bend my leg backwards where's back my knees so far without it hurting like crazy I do that it shoots crazy pain through your knee down your leg a Three-step ladder in the second step. It's still it's still a decent distance though To land right on the knee What does the knee look like? Is uh, are you wearing shorts? Can you look at your knee? But no swelling, right? Not a doctor This is not medical advice Didn't notice swelling It's the the color of the knees. Is there a bruise there? Is there is there a purplish area? No swelling is usually a good sign We have any medical professionals in the industry There'd be no way to verify that if you're in a chat, but you bend your leg backwards and that's that sounds like it's got to be a If you landed right on your kneecap Feel like that's just gonna sting for a while all the Corbin Carroll's going to Brian another Corbin Carroll And you probably got like a little maybe a little bone bruise or something like that Maybe maybe jostled some ligaments a little bit So when you bend your leg back, probably some some pain being pressed up against there Did you take a couple Advil? 2023 I love I love looking at like WebMD for like stuff like this because first of all, they're very you know, they're very Cautious about giving you medical advice, right?  You're like, oh Everything just ends up in like cancer There's a Mike trout relic numbered to 199 You know, I'd pop a knee brace on that thing and then when you go home do What is it called rice? rest ice compression and elevation But there was a recent study. I feel like that says that yes, you You should do that, but There's like suggesting that that made just Mask pain instead of there's all the poohals right there Instead of actually addressing The actual issue some people actually think you know movement actually helps just keeps generating blood flow in that area And so people are questioning maybe the are a part of it the rest part of it, but I'd ice it heat it Pop a knee brace on that Then see how it feels in a couple days. I would give you just think get a knee brace. I think those a Lot of drug stores a Your local ride aid or Walgreens or CVS or whatever like they all of them have like some sort of Brace section give it another night Sleep on it, you know and then and then see how it feels in the morning each year So al rookie of the year favorites your top handful is Masataka Yoshida for the Red Sox Josh Young The shortstop corner infielder third baseman for the Rangers picture hunter Brown That's seven to one then kind of gets into into into the 12 to one range at estuary Ruiz who's just Stealing bases left and right all those thefts FBI's most wanted at this point and then it from there it jumped to 20 to one Taj Bradley Gunner Henderson 25 to one Tanner BB Royce Lewis Bryce Miller all 25 to one Volpe's 30 to one Yenir Kano picture for the oros is 40 to one plus 4,000 Logan Allen For the Guardians is 50 to one plus 5,000 Zack Neto Needle Neto the angels is plus 6,000 Yeah, if you broke something or tore like ligaments. Yeah, I don't I think you'd be in pain with every step you take every step you take We'll take a look at the NL And the next the box that I rip open Any thoughts on the AL rookie of the year odds, you know, if you were if you were a betting person What would you do? if anything Does Yoshida keep it up? No, I feel like rookie of the year races are a little strange because You know rookies tend to although you she's kind of not a rookie, right? Technically he's had a lot of professional baseball experience in Japan Volpe of course all those Volpe's go to Brandon Hall All those Jordan walkers will go to Brian T and the Cardinals all these James Altman's go to Stephen Carney and the Dodgers Corbin Carroll is going to Brian T a nice gold Volpe For Brandon and the Yankees Yeah, rookies can get hot and cold throughout the course of a season and here's Cody Thomas for the A's And that is for Austin and Oakland Austin and the A's Yeah, guys can guys can go up and down Have hot treats and cold streets, especially these youngsters So at this stage of season, I probably wouldn't I don't I'm bad with futures plays anyway But I'm more inclined to go with a longer shot. Is there really any value in in Yoshida at this point? I've almost basically even odds and the odds can Very wildly so on May 21st The second favorite was Bryce Miller at plus 917 and now he's plus 2,500 Just a couple weeks later Zach Wheeler and Justin Turner 2023 Red Sox, that'll be for Jared. So I wonder if there's You know some value in some of the longer shots. I mean obviously Yoshi's the favorite for a reason You know, that's probably the safer play There's some value place. I wonder as to every Ruiz 12 to 1 right plus 1,200 What happens if he steals a hundred bases? He's at 30 stolen bases. I believe right now He's got 29 stolen bases at this point of the season Sitting 260 one Homer 25 RBI's 29 stolen bases Two in the last week. I mean, we haven't seen a hundred base dealer in Lord knows how long All the Francisco Alvarez is going to Brian T and the Mets by the way. There's another one Chris Taylor Kyle Tucker orange for the Astros David Duffy. It's a 299. So I wonder is 12 plus 1200 good enough for that does does stolen bases ring move the needle for Rookie of the Year voters? I have no idea Gunnar Henderson did open the season as the Rookie of the Year favorite. He's at plus 2,500 It could be a late push India Louis Garcia to 2023 Tristan the White Sox Now we got major league material Reese Hoskins Nancy with the Phillies We're gonna look at the NL rookies in a second. I'm sure you heard the highlights in the background I think Corbin Carroll might be the favorite for NL Rookie of the Year Michael Conforto. Let's play two Ernie Banks commemorative relic for the Cubs Andy Oh What victory song does your uh, does your baseball team play at the end at the after a win Cub Cubs famously have the go Cubs go song the Dodgers. I think still do Rainy Newman's I love LA Everyone yells we love it. Yeah, probably This fella had her probably did scare everybody away record breakers Vlad how many teams have songs written specifically for that team? Like go Cubs go who did the go Cubs go song Rex? All right, NL Rookie of the Year odds Towards the beginning of the season Jordan Walker Was the slight favorite over Arizona outfield of Corbyn Carroll plus the 372 for Jordan Walker and Corbyn Carroll's plus 379 Kodai Senga for Senga for the Mets Was third at plus 820 Then a month later in May May 21st Dodgers outfielder James Altman was plus 137 Over Diamondbacks outfielder Corbyn Carroll was at plus 202 Then from May 21st to June 5th Corbyn Carroll is odds on favorite plus 100 After a couple strong weeks and then James Altman fades to a distance second at plus 700 7 to 1 now James Almond has had a rough Rough few weeks Francisco Alvarez is third at plus also at plus 700 Ali Della Cruz is sixteen hundred plus 1600 16 to 1 Is he up for is he called up for good or is he just covering for some injuries? It could be a good that could be a good play right there Kodai Senga is plus 2,500 Uri Perez Matt McClain for the Reds also 2,500 Spencer Steers actually having a good season, but no love in the betting market plus 3,000 Bobby Miller at plus 3,000 could be interesting, but I don't know if he's gonna I don't know how many more starts he's gonna get Or if he's gonna continue the whole season that might that might be an interesting bet too Scott Goodman wrote go Cubs go now we're a Of course the Cubs weren't under or were not under any obligation to use that song, right? But I guess it is kind of a catchy tune Rowdy Tellez and your autograph Ryan Creedler for the Tigers rookie auto for Tristan and Detroit Well, I guess he was commissioned to write this song. He's a life song Cubs fan The song is really my good man at the request of WGN 720, which was the Cubs radio broadcast partner In 81 good men who recorded a dying Cubs fans last request a song by the historic failures of the Cubs franchise But but had been banned from playing in a wriggly field So they were looking for a replacement For it's a beautiful day for a ballgame by Harry Simone songsters Which was a this is a classic It's a beautiful day for a ball game A ball game today From Walla Walla Washington to Kalamazoo, it's a beautiful day for a home run, but even a triple will do We're gonna shout and boom and raise a hullabaloo at the ball game today classic Classic Dylan Carlson to 2023. I've never heard that song My Pearl Jam Yeah, so I guess I guess He was commissioned to write that song back in the back in the 80s Harrison Bader. He's fired up. There's Michael Toglia to 199 That's for the Rock. He's out of B for Brian T It was first aired on WGN on opening day and played every game day for the rest of the season During that season he lost his 16-year battle with Kimia four days before the Cubs clinched the division title And in the next three years 60,000 copies of the song were sold to proceeds going to charity I guess there was a modern resurgence in like 20 2007 I'm kind of stuck Hordomo Trout I think Prince has actually done some songs for the Some Minnesota viking specific songs I want to say Hordomo to 2023 Hordomo for Brian T Francisco Alvarez for Brian T Relic card Eloy Jimenez The Dodgers used to play that Radio broadcast used to play that song for a while. I think they still might And some radio pregame intro or something like that Let's go We're taking the Very those very whimsical songs type songs from the 60s Tovar and there's crowning achievements. It's Ken Griffey, Jr. Home run an RBI leader back in what 1997? That's for a berry and Seattle And for the Reds to 499 Celebrating here having a good time. It's for David M and the Red Legs Halfway through the second case of this doubleheader break, this is the part two video if you're looking for part one that's in Video link is in the video description below Big Mac there is a ska punk version of go-cubs go by By manic sewing circle Thomas Boba Shett to 299 It's the Beach Boys have a cub song here come the cubs These are the Beatles cover. Here's a Julio Rodriguez autograph. Wake up everybody. Take a look at this All-Star American League Julio Rodriguez Otto for Barry Roberts and the Seattle Mariners Miguel Rojas to 2023 for the Dodgers We'll go to Steven C. I'm surprised there hasn't been I mean maybe there are but according to this Wikipedia page there aren't There's not like other covers of go-cubs go you would think there would be covers of go-cubs go You would think there'd be I don't know. It's a big music town, right? All sorts of music genres that it could be Tons Sarah judge an EDM version of it. It could be a Hip-hop version of it. Maybe I imagine dragon Z type of version for it the reggaeton version of it It could be a crooner version of it Country version of it. Yeah, it's gotta be it's it's gotta be a crazy Crazy to hear after a game. I heard it after a game We were at the National in Chicago back in 2016 and saw Cubs win 2016 yeah, I mean imagine a playoff game Albert Poole's piece of the jersey Going to Brian T. In the Cardinals We'll also get this Jordan Walker rookie card. There's Steve Carlton Triple crown back in the early 70s for the Phil's the fighting Phil's Nancy with Phillies Yeah, what a what an odd yip, right John John Lester not Not being able to throw to first. That's a cool shot of Derek Jeter Up in the air. All right Almost there folks two boxes to go Yeah, John John Lester has Hall of Very Good stats not Hall of Fame stats He has three rings, but I don't know that rings don't matter as much for a For baseball for some reason I mean, it's so much more of a team sport, I guess I feel like for NFL quarterbacks and for basketball players You know those kind of chips matter, but although basketball feels a little a little more lenient on On Hall of Fame, that's more like stat space. I think they include college too. He's got 200 wins But he's also played the zillion season three six six eRA Almost 2,500 strikeouts. I think he needed like He needed to like knock out a Cy Young or two I think that would have helped Maybe he got to a 3,000 strikeout milestone that could have helped never an eRA title a Lot of wins, but he's also on a lot of good teams too And there was really he was just a Hall of Very solid and very consistent for a long time until towards the end but for a long time those guys like that are very important, but there was never really like a run of You feel like a I don't know a five-year run of dominance or something like that, you know, maybe Two Cy Youngs in five years or a third late in a career or something random like that some eRA titles Maybe 3,000 strikeouts or something like that. Maybe that would have helped, but I think baseball reference has a Bunch of different Hall of Fame metrics saying just under maybe Black inks as pitching eight the average Hall of Famer has scored 40 gray inks has won 48 average Hall of Famer's 185 Hall of Fame monitor has him at 98 likely Hall of Famer 100 That's the that's the closest one Hall of Fame standards has him at 40 and average Hall of Famer has 50 in terms of their statistic scoring he could be like a Some riders give him some leeway because he helped break the 108 108-year World Series curse, but he didn't even win see now if he won a World Series MVP Then I think you can make a better case of that, but I don't think he won World Series MVP You know like if he was You know, I think that would have Maybe that would have carried a little more weight on Bryce Harper, I think I Don't think John Lester's a Hall of Famer but he did play for a long time and for For highly popular teams like the Red Sox and the Cubs So maybe he makes friends who ends up on the veterans player committee and they they vote him in after his Hall of Fame eligibility runs out redemption And he guesses on the redemption There's was Niskey the Cubs to 2023 Oh the coveted NLCS MVP Wow Everyone counts those Everyone's just like oh man You know how many how many CS MVP's this guy won? I don't think I've heard anyone ever use CS MVP's as a As part of their case for a players MVP campaign There's JT Real Muto to 299. I'm gonna go to the Phillies. That's for Nancy Tyler Freeman to 2023 We got a relic card Michael Harris Rookie relic for the brave that's for Kenneth the Bravo's There's a Yoshida gold. Nice That is for Jared. Nice and the relic triple crown winner Carl Yastremsky Yaz This is the You know, this is a long break when I think I've seen this episode of quick pitch already I've got to change your channel. Sorry It's too much too much quick pitch Some tennis on the tennis channel. It's French opens happening Alec Minot, hopefully he figures things out All right. See you guys All right final box. We made it ladies and gentlemen. All right the redemption. No, no guesses I was gonna give away a million dollars. It's Jordan Walker. Nice Brian T with the cardinal second to last auto nice Jordan Walker auto Sign your cards Jordan. Don't be a redemption guy. You don't want to be redemption guy Public service announcement. Don't be redemption guy future pro athletes I have seen that video was that it was that a high school game or was it a college game? That might have been a college world series. Give me was a high school game. I remember that that happened a little while back What round of the French open are we in? Come on tennis channel. You're supposed to tell me these things Bad job at a tennis channel. Oh, is it high in the high school? I remember the I remember the the incident I don't remember their faces the final box. We made it We to the end. Well, it's just you and me Rex No, KT is here need some pirates in this last box Let's go. Let's go. Let's go pirates Zach please act to 300 and something piratey. I mean, there's definitely pirates in here all card ship, but Maybe a numbered card and auto some sort of parallel a relic Miguel Vargas Alas not a pirate's Autograph there you go, Brian's watching. Oh, you're watching on the TV. Nice. Yeah, nice Jordan Walker black parallel to maybe numbered Maybe it's this actually All right So it should be it says 199 probably out of 199 Nice Miguel Vargas though Steven Carney in the Dodgers. All right. Now. We got to find KT. Maybe some sort of Pirate numbered card pirate relic. There's two more relics You know there's we've got some pirates here, but we're gonna still get something Something else rooting for KT staying up late with me There's a manual of Verra to 2023 Looking for some buckos That's an upset. It's a 14 seed being a 7 seed. Well that last that last point went fast 6-1. We've got Alexis Diaz to 299 for the Reds David M. There's Will Smith Jean Segura Green to 499 Eric and the Marlins and last half. Oh, they're going into the semifinals Cocoa got in the semifinals No, these ones who the quarter is going into the semifinals. That's not the Francisco we're looking for looking for Mr. Alvaro is not Mr. Indore Hunter Dozier and Hayden was Neske to 2023 for the Cubs they'll be for Andy you got Bubba Thompson and Jazz Chisholm piece of his lumber Going to Eric and the Marlins Another Corbin Carroll for Brian T. Those will all add up to 299 Rony Banks, let's play two. Let's play two Andy. We did play two. This is the Last little pile of the doubleheader and this part two of the doubleheader and the last little stack of The doubleheader. We've got a silver Pirates card right here PNC Park card Sorry, Kevin. I wish there was more and just a stack of Pirates cards Appreciate you getting in appreciate everybody getting in one way or the other Thanks to the thanks to like Rex was keeping me company throughout the break and everybody else Silver packs could be auto or numbered card opportunities here Not all the time, but sometimes Vientos for Don Sanga. There's the numbered card Dylan sees to 25 that will be for the White socks Tristan with the white socks There you go gang Done and now before I do this recap Let's uh, let's give away that wax party spot that invite to the wax party You're gonna be guaranteed some wax if you're in That's the party favor one through 30 new dice new list and name on top after eight Gets the invite. Good luck everybody two and a six eight times one two three four five six seven and eight after eight times Thanks everyone for giving this a shot Brandon very close, but not quite this time We'll get him next time, but after eight. Congrats to Eric Eric Christensen with the wax party invite after eight. There you go gang Thanks everybody for making this happen. This was part two of the doubleheader the second case Got that nice Jordan Walker that gold Yoshida A lot of funds the Julio Rodriguez, of course and a snap a picture of that So a lot of great stuff. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us ladies and gentlemen. Oh and that If you're wondering what's so special about that Kyle, right? That's a super short print That's pretty awesome, too. There you go ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jazpiececasebreaks.com Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. Um, we've got another doubleheader in the store If you want to run that back tomorrow jazpiececasebreaks.com