This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network We are at pretty critical junctures right now for both the NBA and the NHL in the NBA We've got scoring binges with guys going for 60 70 seeming like every single night in the NHL It's the final night before the all-star break as well So who better to break down thoughts on both of those sports than Tom Vecchio We're gonna talk to Tom about NBA for tonight to talk about that weird scoring output We've seen recently and break down his hair bets across the NHL for tonight as well This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for a Fandall research joined here as mentioned by Tom Vecchio Check him out on Twitter at Tom underscore Vecchio Well, you of course a writer for us here at Fandall research the host of the Daily ISO as well in prime time Tom Tom happy Wednesday to you. How you doing today? I'm doing good. Yeah, really interesting time All-star break for the NHL trade deadline all-star break for the NBA coming up We're seeing a lot of unique and milestone games from some players But I do think there is something actionable out of that Oh a little tease from Tom about so we'll be discussing later on We're gonna dig into Tom and see what that theory may be about why scoring is up there We'll break down thoughts on the NHL slate for tonight as well to get you ready for your Wednesday night But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast had John Rothstein on yesterday Breaking down his thoughts on the college basketball landscape who he thinks is the number one team It is not the current favorite of Fandall sportsbook to win the national title got some Conference thoughts as well out of John find that in the covering the spread podcast feed on Fandall's YouTube page and over on Fandall TV plus as well along with my thoughts on Super Bowl 58 Talked about a money line there and a total that I like for chiefs and versus 49ers Happy Super Bowl to all who celebrate from Fandall America's number one sportsbook If you're like me Super Bowl Sunday is all about scoring the best scene on the couch grabbing your favorite football snacks and placing some bets Fandall has so many ways for you to end the season with a W or two or three Not only can you bet on who will win Super Bowl 58, but Fandall also has bets for which players will score a touchdown How many points will be scored and so much more new customers join today? You'll get $200 and bonus bets if your first bet of $5 or more wins Make every moment more a fandall and official sports betting partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and President select states Fandall is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino LLC $10 first deposit required bonus issued as non withdrawal bonus bets that expire seven days after a seat See terms at sportsbook dot Fandall comm gambling problem call 1 800 gambler over the fandall comm slash Rg in Colorado Iowa Michigan New Jersey, Ohio Pennsylvania Illinois Kentucky, Tennessee Virginia and Vermont call 1 800 next step or text next set to 5 3 3 4 2 in Arizona 1 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 or visit ccpg.org slash chat Connecticut 1 809 with it in Indiana 1 800 5 2 2 4700 visit ks gambling health comm in Kansas 1 877 770 stop in Louisiana visit md gambling health at Oregon, Maryland 1 800 gambler net in West, Virginia 1 800 5 2 2 4700 in Wyoming Hope is here visit gambling helpline ma.org or call you into 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 supporting Massachusetts or call 1 877 hoping y or text open y in New York Let's begin things by Tom by talking about those wild games We have seen here recently across the NBA Devin Booker is an action for tonight So very relevant for one of the national TV games huge single game outputs in the NBA from individuals Is there some sort of trend that's actionable for betting here or is it just variants? We've seen all these guys group them together and it happened to be in a one-week span Well the variants that it all happened within a few days of each other is just it is what it is however When we actually like dig into it. I do think we can find some trends that all these players are Similar so the players would be you know in bead going for 70 plus luka going for 70 plus Booker going for 40 50 60 and Crohn thing towns going for 60 plus So the first three players, you know Booker luka and bead all of them are in the top six of the league when it comes to total field goal attempts per game No, I should say, you know an average per game All these players also shooting the ball very effectively 48 percent for luka 53 for a four and bead and 50 percent for Booker So they're high volume shooters and they're also very effective They also take plenty of free throws especially like something like in bead now We could dig into each player and say You know go to like every detailed usage rate per 36 minutes Which we don't have to do but like the point is they're all very high volume shooters and they're also very effective at So if we're looking at players to like reach for the ceiling like what do they realistically need to do they need to be the primary shot taker on their team and When we try and equate that to like how do we make this actionable the example tonight is Obviously, as you said Devin Booker in action and one of these prime-time games his points props at 30 and a half minus 113 So it's where it should be, you know, that's where and I'm not saying this is one of my bets for tonight I'm just using right example So when we're looking at him, okay He's going off these 40 50 point scoring So we've been doing his whole career dating back to 2017 when we went for 70 points against Boston and You know, you look for 35 plus points on his alt market and it's at plus 190 now and 40 plus points that plus 500 so these are obviously huge outcomes, but This is within his like range of outcomes like if you look at a bell curve of his point production per night Like obviously these are on the higher end, but it's not like they're they are outliers. They are viable outcomes so like the example or the Kind of a comparison I would use is like a wide receiver in the NFL if his yardage total is at 78 79 80 Realistically that means he's like one or two and probably number one on the team when it comes to target He probably has a high air yard share high a doll like all these things So if you woke up one morning and saw him go for 100 plus yards, you're not surprised at all eight catches hundred yards You look okay, that's his normal thing So if we use the underlying metrics of players that are high usage high volume shooters good effective, you know efficiency from the field that Indicates us to a spot of saying they should be taking these shots. They can reach for 40 now I will add the caveat you can't have Just being super effective Like some players like Nick Claxton on on the Nets or Jared Allen who I've spoken about before in the Cavaliers They're their centers So they're shooting the ball like 60 plus percent from the field But they're only taking 11 field ball attempts again 10 field ball attempts So it's not just one or the other it has to be high usage high volume and effective overall so you're looking for the combination of both and looking into all markets and Taking advantage of volatility in the positive sense. I know the word volatility as a negative connotation But for betting it's good if you can look into all markets and try to find some value there now Booker as you alluded to Currently five to one to go for 40 plus. He has done that five times is here out of I think 38 games It's a it's a 13% clip implied odds there are 16% the Nets, you know Still pretty good defense, right? Okay, yeah, you've been a bit up and down as flee. Yeah, so like you have to take these things in consideration, but 16% is not that far off of 13% So you think it's a good environment if you think that he'll be for whatever reason inclined to shoot a bit more and be more effective It makes sense why you at least give consideration to all markets, even though that is a very high number, right? and You know part of that You know part of the problem is in like some of these Outcomes especially for something like in beat hood. I've talked about before where His points prop is gonna be like 36 37 and a half and some of these games like when they play Washington Or they play Detroit or Charlotte because they're in the east at the play max amount of times Like there are times and beat only gets to 34 points And he just doesn't play in the fourth quarter because they're like 20, right? So While he's in a super soft matchup He just doesn't have to be out there for 38 or 40 minutes, right? So taking the overall game into account is also vital along with their underlying metrics of efficiency and usage and whatnot Right. So thinking about do they have the building blocks for a bonanza? Yes, basically asking yourself Do they have those building blocks? If so, look at all markets. Obviously ask yourself. Is this good value? If not pass on it's okay But if it is good value there is a path to that it sounds like we've seen a lot of that here recently across the NBA Yes, let's dig in now and talk about that Suns and Nets games That is a national TV game for tonight Suns and Nets on ABC followed by Bucks and trailblazers blazers over on ESPN What are you seeing for these games as far as value for tonight at Fandall Sports Booktown? That would be going to Booker's teammate Kevin Durant making his return to Brooklyn And this is for the team I am buying into the narrative over 25 and a half points For Durant obviously there are some you know alternative pointals you can take but I like the 25 and a half point His shot volume is super strong. He's not in the top 10 league But he's you know in that top portion His shot volume actually has been a little bit lower in some of these recent games because Booker has been so good And so, you know, I'm trying to play a little bit of a narrative But it does make sense that you know as a Nets fan. I can tell you that them being like 5 and 15 over their last 20 games absolutely horrible whatever it is So they're struggling this game has a close three point spread It's a 231 over under a 233 over under for this game 233 three point spread. So we have these kind of core elements for a game environment Durant taking 12 field go temps or 15 field with temps is below his 19 average So just because Booker's had some hot games yet Durant took a back seat for a few games Not a big deal So I'm going to play into the narrative a little bit But it really does make sense with his overall shot volume his overall usage and the matchup I do think the Nets are struggling on defense. So we need over 25 and a half points for Durant So this is a situation where we haven't seen the Suns with all three of their big three healthy the entire year It's been more than a month or about a month now that we've had all three with Beale being healthy as well Does that play into it at all too or have we seen enough of a sample here where you're not worried about the fact they have three Legitimately very good mouse feeding this offense where you can still feel good about Durant Putting out the volume you need. Yeah, it's it's It's like sometimes one player just has the hot hand and that's been Booker So they can also get there of 20 plus points on the nightly basis who goes for 35 is obviously just You know pick your poison. Yeah, which player does it? But you know, I'm playing into the narrative along with I think Durant's shot volume has just been far too low Okay, so him Getting back to his positive regression to his average per game isn't a surprise even if this wasn't a revenge spot So you look to chill out basically. Well, yeah, I mean they could both go for 30. Sure. Sure. Very very true Okay, so Tom is on Kevin Durant in the revenge game over 25 and a points minus 113 f and dual sports because mentioned the other Games that in national tv is the Bucks and the Blazers that game on espn Late tip 10 10 p.m eastern for this one Bucks 10 and a half point favorites Doc rivers in town. We talked a bit about the implications of that last week here on the show Pretty decent spread in this game. What are you seeing for this one, Tom? Uh, another revenge spot for Damian Lillard Against his former team, but this one I think makes even even more sense where I spoke about dock rivers last week Like it's time to trust their veterans No more messing around with the rotation Coming off a loss in Denver And Lillard over three and a half made threes at plus 136. I think this number Is awesome a player that looked back at his game block and he takes nine 10 11 three point attempts on a nightly basis It's a massive spread in this. What would you say it was 12 points 10 and a half? Yeah 10 and a half Why because portland is terrible Right, they don't play good defense So seeing portland allow a lot of threes is kind of the calling card this year for anyone going against them or washington or Detroit all these terrible defenses So Lillard yeah his shot volume and three-point efficiency has been lower or I should say his efficiency has been lower He's still taking nine 10 threes per game Combined that with the fact that I said it's just time for the box to buckle down and trust your key players Which is a 10 scoompo and then Lillard in that order you throw in middle 10 you throw in brooklobe as and then you go from there so Lillard taking 10 threes doesn't shock anyone Getting it at plus money when we know that they should be tightening their rotation in a super soft match up against portland One of the worst teams in the league All of this lines up But I also think it goes back to the volatility discussion we had before Volatility is your friend in the right situations and three point shots are volatile three point made attempts are are volatile But you're getting plus 138 for him to get three and a half or get more than three and a half So in that sense you're benefiting from the volatility because you're getting more upside should it happen to be right So I think that makes a lot of sense Lillard is a very good shooter who has not been You know lighting it up recently from from deep But like there is regression there because we know long term Dude can shoot revenge game does not hurt either So I think it's another spot where different market, but you're still benefiting from the positive sides of volatility here Right. I I considered his pure a bet which I think is at 35 and a half 36 Because just saying okay. This is a player that again when he shoots for Uh, you know when he shoots and he gets hot Is a player that can hit 30 plus real points alone, right? But just based on the overall game environment This is a game where he may not need to have or he could just hit the four threes and have You know 20 some odd points and they kind of take care of business Yeah, so there are some permutations of how you approach this But again going with the upside of that volatility Lillard with over three and a half is the way to go the pra bet Tom alluded to 37 and a half right now for Lillard over is minus 102 for him in that revenge game for tonight Okay, let's take a look at the rest of the NBA slay any other bets stand out to use being good values at fandall sports book Tom Yeah, I was going to be on the magic and that number was four and a half but it moved to five So I want to actually go to a player prop instead if that you can get four and a half or four Yeah, whatever it may happen I would certainly be on with the magic I spoke about the magic a couple weeks ago They're this team that's great against the spread markets haven't caught up to them Etc etc. It's gonna be paula ben caro for the magic over 36 and a half pr a minus 115 awesome match up against san antonio san antonio top 10 league and offensive pace Uh magic playing up in pace paula ben caro leads at the magic with 30.5 offensive usage rate. He is Approaching superstar level As I've said, I think that he's ready to take the next step not this year fully But it's going to be next year when he takes that next step He's going to be averaging a double double on a nightly basis High volume shooter easy matchup pace up spot And again, I'm buying into the magic this season as being a very strong team And if they're going to be covering the spread, it's going to be paula ben caro one and then probably franz vagran Frans vagran number two as the reason as why they're coming away with the win And the market is buying the magic as you mentioned going from four and a half to five Ben caro is now minus 120 to go over 36 and a half pr a The implied odds there 54.5 versus a minus 115 53.5 So that's a tick up a percentage up a percentage point How high would you be willing to go with this number minus 125 the back out zone? If it goes up to 37 and a half are you out then what are you feeling as far as potential movement on this one? Not 37 and a half. Okay, but minus 125 is fine. Okay, so keeping on the month. Yeah, it's thin Okay, so keeping on the boncaro pr a number right now over 36 and a half is minus 120 But tom likes that in addition to daniel lillard over three and a half made threes at plus 138 And paolo bonk and kd over 25 and a half points, which is minus 113 Let's talk about the nhl tonight tom and this is the final game Final slate for them before the all-star break and When it comes to the nba, I give very nervous about betting things when it great for the all-star break So we can't see guys Get some additional rest Is that a concern in the nhl or is it pretty much all systems go on that side? For the most part it's pretty standard The only times players don't see normal minutes is in a blowout in either direction Where you know like a top top line center and and wingers they say they see 21 22 ishman's game 20 somewhere around there in a blowout in either direction if their team's up 5 to 1 in the third You know those numbers sometimes you see them at like 17 minutes because they rolled the third and the fourth line more So it's super situational I will say between last night's games both underdogs coming away with wins for you know, seattle was minus 250 last night and they got shut out and lost We're seeing some lack of energy games okay, so the teams are Still operating normally. It's just like it seems like almost early season games We're just like they're kind of just going through the motions. So that's the one caveat. I would I would know Okay So be a bit more wary when it comes to that and I think the energy thing might be reflected in the uh the totals for tonight because Three games in the slate two of them have totals of five and a half heavily juiced towards the over So you know keep that in mind as well But let's start things off here by talking kings versus predators Pretty even match up here money line for the kings minus 115 Predators minus 104 this game is on t and t tonight. It bets you like in that one specifically tom Only one and that's going to be with philliforsberg for the predators Over three and a half shots minus 130 and five plus shots at plus 172 The kings our team I spoke about earlier in the season and I said that they are a stanley cup contender And I said that they were doing everything right super deep down the middle At the center position, which is very important in the playoffs. They play great defense They play great goaltending and over the past month Literally everything has flipped to the other side where they look terrible So they are they cannot wait for the all-star break because things cannot be going worse for them I like forsberg because a this is a clear bounce back spot for the predators against a team that is Absolutely struggling right now forsberg is tied for sixth in the league the most shots on goal He's averaging 3.9 per game So yeah, there's a little bit juice on his normal over three and a half But when we look back at his game log and we're seeing nine five six five five five shots on goal The five plus at plus 172 when we're seeing it five or six times in the last ten games Now going up against the struggling team Really does make sense. I will also say his goal odds are a plus 140 If I remember correctly, he only has one goal over his last five games And he's shooting at this immense high volume at the top six in the league So 140 is accurate if you can get it at 150. That's a buy-in spot. It's just too low right now Okay, now I want to ask you about your process here when it comes to laddering shot props because I think about this in the same way I think about like Money lines for underdogs in the NFL. I if I show value on both I will bet both I take my typical bet size and I allocate typically about 70 to the spread 30 to the money line to give myself more upside How do you do that when it comes to obviously it changes based on the market and stuff like that But what percentage of your typical bet size are you putting towards the traditional market versus the all market to get that upside? It depends on matchup, but You know like tonight, for example with fordsburg, I wouldn't mind like personally I wouldn't mind putting on like two units on over three and a half Just because I feel very strongly about that five plus six plus as you ladder it up The five plus is probably just going to be like a half unit play for me Okay, where I like I love the odds on an a plus 172 I love his probability to actually hit it which is averaging 3.9 per game Especially it was a recent stretch now going up against a very struggling team in the kings Five plus is well within his range of outcomes when you see when you see you get them up up to nine That's obviously insane and we're not going to be banking on that on a nightly basis so I would go Heavy on the three and a half two units and then Five plus is probably half you know play for me tonight Okay, perfect So majority of it goes on the traditional market But then a little bit more upside just in case fordsburg does have one of those Nine shot nights so five plus shots for fordsburg plus 172 And then the over three and a half is minus 130 right now at vandal sportsbook two other games across the nhl for tonight Where are you seeing value there tom? Unfortunately, that's what the sharks and the docks two of the worst teams in the league The sharks are the actual worst team in the league They happen to be on the second night of a back-to-back by no means Do I think the docks are a good team? They are better than the sharks, but they're by no means a good team Sharks are dead last in the league this season for the most shot attempts allowed for 60 minutes in five and five situations The sharks also had to travel So the docks have been sitting at home There's no reason they should be a losing this game But i'm not willing to bet on them because they're not a good team So I would just simply go to troy terry for a shot prop over two and a half minus 132 He leads the team In shots over the last 10 games. He is he's a very good goal scorer He's having a very clear down year in terms of shot variance and shot percentage Very slow starts the season for him He's been picking the goals up as of late goals are highly variable They're also a terrible team. So they're actually getting consistent shots or consistent Scoring chances, I should say is is not something I'm willing to bank on but the shots are for troy terry So over two and a half very simple minus 132. There's a little bit of juice there. I would not ladder this player That there's a completely different You know way to go about it, but minus 132. I think is fine juice against the worst team in the league Okay, that is for troy terry and the sharks versus docks match up over two and a half shots Minus 132 at vandal sportsbook. That's in addition to the fill of fordsburg over three and a half shots minus 130 And fordsburg to get five plus shots, which is plus 172 That is tom vecchio check him out on twitter at tom underscore vecchio one find him over on the daily iso Today not the next couple of days because tom is on vacation tom enjoy the time off and we'll talk to you once again next week Thanks for having me see then All righty find tom on twitter at tom underscore vecchio one I am on twitter at jim sonnis you can find me on threads at jim dot sonnis and find fan dual research on twitter At fan dual research tomorrow. We're talking e pl with austin cast and i'll be talking Nascar with the bushlight clash out of the la coliseum. We'll talk to all of you that This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Anabaptist Perspectives. I'm here with Finney Caravella. Did I say your name? Yep. Right? Okay, awesome. We're in Boston, Massachusetts, here at Sattler College, which I believe you're the founder and had a lot to do with that getting started. But something I actually learned yesterday that interests me is you require your students to complete a certain number of classes in biblical languages. Can you just walk us through that? Like, why study biblical languages? And what's your past with studying biblical languages? So we require everyone to do one year of Hebrew and one year of Greek there. So I got started in biblical languages while I was in medical school. And while I was in med school, I read a lot of books in the Christian world. And you know how it is where you'll be reading a book and it'll say in the Greek, it says blah, blah, blah, blah, and then you read that and you think, okay, well I guess I'm just going to trust you. And I remember once being in a library of a local church and opening up this book and it had a section in the book where in the footnotes there was Greek, there were Greek letters on it. And I didn't know a word of Greek and I saw those characters there and I closed the book and I said, you know what, I'm too intimidated by this, I'm just not going to even take a crack at it. You quickly realize that there's a glass ceiling that's there where there's a whole world of deep thought that occurs where if you really want to get into the Bible, you need to use biblical languages. One of the best analogies that I heard years ago was saying, imagine that you're married to a woman who speaks a foreign language, say she speaks Italian or Chinese. Are you going to live your life with an interpreter always having to broker your conversations? Obviously not. You know, somebody's got to learn the other person's language if you're really going to have a close relationship. And I certainly don't want to say that it's impossible to relate to the Bible and have a great relationship with the Bible without the original languages, but there's going to be a barrier in between you and the text and no matter what, you're always going to be reading the Bible through that interpreter. And I just eventually got so frustrated with that glass ceiling and with that sense of barrier that I said, you know what, I want to take a class in Greek and just fell in love with it. And once you get into it and once you realize that, one, it's not as hard as you might think, particularly with Greek where there's so many words in English that come from Greek. And two, once you can actually read the New Testament in the original language, it's a rush like no other. You know, I remember, I'm ethnically Indian. I grew up in Southern California and we would go to India often. And I remember being with my dad and with other people and watching them switch to different languages just on the fly and engage with people. It's like a superpower, right? I mean, it's hard to capture how impressive that is and how, at least in my opinion, how incredibly vital that is to be a person who can move between different areas and different cultures very seamlessly. And that kind of superpower that people have who can speak different languages with great skill. It's a very similar ability with being able to engage in the biblical texts with Hebrew or Greek. So basically, you went to this other school, took a few classes. How in depth did you go? It was actually through a church and it was just once a week. It was every Sunday afternoon. It was like, I think, two hours, two or three hours each afternoon for a whole year. Oh, wow. And by the end of it, the deliverable was the teacher of the Greek class said that we'll be able to read the book of 1 John with decent proficiency. So as it turns out, there's another interesting thing is when you read the Bible in the original language, you will quickly learn that each writer has his own style and difficulty. So John is very easy to read. And so John writes in very simple Greek, say Luke or Paul. It'll take you 10 seconds and you realize these are very learned people and that their Greek is just much more sophisticated. And so you really can't get into Paul meaningfully until you probably had another year of Greek or so to get just that additional level of competency in the language. So that's another fun element, though, is just being able to perceive all the stylistic differences between the authors because the translation is just flattening it all out. You don't really get that texture and that difference in style when you read it in English there. So anyways, that was the delivery that we, the deliverable that we had at the end of it was being able to do the Book of First John. That's really interesting. So now you've already kind of hinted at this, but can you just give us an overview of how this benefited you in your personal Christian walk? Huge. So, you know, one of the things that this that is benefiting me. So first is now when I heard someone in a pulpit or in a book say, well, in the Greek, it says, it means this or it means that. Well, now I have some kind of basis to assess that. And I will tell you that at least half the time when you hear that expression used, when they say it means X, Y, Z, it doesn't mean X, Y, Z. They've done really sloppy, poor work and it's probably secondary, tertiary, or a quaternary reference to something. And so I've learned to take all those things with a grain of salt because, like I said, there's just a lot of misinformation and urban myths out there. So it gives you a level of confidence to engage that you just, you can't really have unless you've gone through that. So that's invaluable. And this is not a ministry that I think everyone needs to necessarily have. But for those who want a ministry of being able to engage with Protestants, with people who are professing Christians, who hold to different beliefs, well, they claim the same book, obviously. And they're going to say, well, what about this passage? What about that passage? To the extent that you can be confident and be able to engage with them in the various books and preachers and commentaries and all those things that are there, it's incredibly useful. And I personally feel a calling that one of my ministries is to engage with the Protestant evangelical world and say, hey, let's read the Bible together. Because we do have that shared norm, that shared standard. And that capacity to do that without biblical languages is severely hindered. So I would really encourage people who want that ministry of prophetic exegetical warriors, if you will. One of the ministries, really, of those who want to have that prophetic role is to be those who can challenge people to be faithful to a text. And to be faithful to a text, again, is so much more easily done if you have the ability to directly engage. Honestly, I've never quite thought of it the way you're laying it out. Yeah, so what's also interesting is that the standards have changed a lot over the year. So it used to be the case that every single person who went to the original colleges in America, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, places like that, it was required that to graduate at the end of four years, you showed proficiency in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. And if you didn't, you were just not even really a literate member of society. As a society, as a nation, back then in the 1600s and 1700s, they had such a belief in the value of the scriptures that they said, to, again, be a literate member of society, you need to do the biblical languages. And so we had that, and today, except for Sattler College, zero colleges have that as a requirement. So we went from 100% of colleges requiring proficiency in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. We don't require Hebrew and Greek. We don't require Latin to exactly one Sattler College that requires Hebrew and Greek. And so what I think it reflects is that the general societal belief or value of the word of God engaging in primary sources has just diminished tremendously over the centuries. And I know we're going a little off script here, but is this part of the mindset or the attitude that, oh, I can just pick it up and read it for myself, and I don't have to? Absolutely. I don't have to dive deep. I don't have to go to primary sources. Exactly, exactly. So there's this notion that is called so low scriptora, not so law scriptora, but so low. It really began in the 19th century, but we're now in a period where people believe that they are the adjudicator of truth. And instead of having a pope, there's a pope in every pulpit. There's a dynamic where you have this widespread, distributed belief that everyone can independently access a truth without reference or deference to primary sources, to say what the early church believed, to all those things. And that has led to this explosion in denominations and across the board and all different stripes where you have now so many different people who, frankly, import their own biases and their own prejudices to the text and form their own theologies that are really the product of their own mind as opposed to anything that's well-grounded in scripture or in church history. And a very lazy, undisciplined approach. And when you take that approach, you get poor conclusions, not surprisingly. And here we're right here in the middle of a week of Bible school. And I just had students go through Romans 9 to 11, which is a text that Calvinists love, a very famous text right in the heart of the book of Romans, John 6, John 10, Ephesians 1. And all of those texts are examples where they read them, and I think they would all say that they read them one way coming in. And now that they've gone deeper, they read them totally differently. I certainly read them totally differently. And I see that the Protestant evangelical perspectives on those passages as just ludicrous and so poorly done and shoddy scholarship and a really lazy, undisciplined approach to exegesis. And so again, the biblical languages are a great way to get started in this, right? And again, I don't want to be snotty or say like, oh, you must do this to be a Christian or anything like that. I don't want to say that because it is something that I believe is not for everyone. And it's something that is to be a ministry of those who want to be teachers, engage in this exegetical discussion, engage with parties outside of the four walls or whatever group you might be a part of for that. As I said, it's a very valuable tool. So you've laid out a pretty clear case why someone should study biblical languages. So now let's say someone in our audience wants to do that. What's the next step? Where do you even begin a process like this? Yeah, it's hard to do on your own. And the reason it's hard to do on your own is it's difficult to do. There's a couple of different ways of doing biblical languages. There's one way of doing languages, which is it's called the grammar translation way of doing it, where basically it's a highly intense approach where you learn and memorize tables. They're called paradigms of endings. A lot of people have been Spanish and languages like that and know what I'm talking about, where you'll learn a verb, lego, is a Greek word. That means I speak, and you'll memorize, you speak legis. He speaks legi. We speak legomen. You plural speak legate. They speak legacy. And so you kind of learn these tables. You memorize them, and then you go word by word through a sentence or a verse, and you parse it. It's called where you figure out, OK, this is the second person, singular, and then, OK, now I'm in a noun. That's in the nominative case. That's the way that most people learn Greek. Now, there's value in that, and I learned that way myself. The problem is that it's quite dry to do it that way, and to have someone who can help you through that process and give you that accountability and help you through that is invaluable. So very, very few people that I've ever met have been able to do it purely self-study. It's just difficult. There's another way, which we do at Sattler College, which I like even more, where you say, OK, how do children learn languages? Because as it turns out, God has made humans to be very good at speaking languages if you learn it in the ways that children learn languages. So when we learn as when we're young, we don't learn to read or write until many years later. We learn first by hearing and by responding to commands. Sit up, move over, drink this, sit down. We learn in a very deep, visceral way how to connect sounds to kinesthetic patterns of actions and colors and objects. And you don't learn by memorizing tables, for sure. And even right now, when we're talking, I'm not saying, OK, I'm talking to Reagan, so I've got to use second person singular. I'm talking about Dean Taylor. I'm going to use third person. We don't do that. It just comes out very naturally. And so there, what you want to do in class is you want to have the class be primarily in the target language from day one. So what we do here is day one, you'll hear, I'll go to you and say, Anastasi. And so that means stand up. And I'll make a motion, like, stand up. And you'll figure it out, and you'll stand up. And I'll go to someone else, Anastasi, and they'll stand up. And then kathison, and I'll make this motion.  Without knowing how anything is spelled, without knowing the Greek alphabet, you'll get an association, Anastasi, stand up. And you'll feel that, because your muscles are doing that. And hopefully, you do that 100 times. And you get this association, Anastasi means stand up, kathison means sit down. And then you'll learn the word for table and the word for pen and all these things. And you feel it, and you use it, and you engage it. And then, when you come into the New Testament text, or the Old Testament Septuagint, your experience of reading is much closer to our experience of reading English. Or when we read, we're not parsing. I'm not asking, you know, is this a preposition, and is this a participle? I'm just reading it, and somehow we figure it out, right? And so that approach is called the communicative approach of languages. So there's grammar translation, and then there's communicative. Communicative is way better if you have a teacher who knows how to do it. It's harder to do because you need someone who's got a level of confidence where they're basically doing the vast majority of the class in Greek or in Hebrew. But we've recruited faculty and teachers who can do this, whose level of proficiency. It's amazing. That's amazing, yeah. I sat in the last class of our Hebrew program here that we had for our freshmen. And the last class was, I think it was all in Hebrew, or 90% of it was in Hebrew. And it was a discussion of Jonah and the structure of Jonah in Hebrew. And I thought, hey, that's great. That was a really good example of how that can happen. And so if you go down that track, this is another reason why it's better to learn a language in a community of people. You know, you don't learn English on your own, right? If you tried to learn English, reading a textbook or something like that, it just wouldn't go very well. The best way to learn a language, whether it's English or Spanish or Chinese or Hebrew or Greek, is to do it in a group setting where you're hearing the language spoken to you, you're experiencing it. And again, it's replicating much more of that experience that all of us have as children. And the thesis that I have is that a lot of people are language phobic. They say like, oh, I just can't learn a language. It's too hard. Because they've had bad pedagogical principles applied where it's books and memorizing tables and things like that. And they're scarred and they write themselves off as I'm just bad with languages. Whereas in fact, if you can speak any language, then you know that you have an active language center in your brain and you probably can do very, very well if you can simply get the right pedagogy applied to your learning situation. So that's one of the reasons why we're very excited about our language program at Sadler College. That's a very interesting approach to learning, yeah. It is. And there's only a couple of places in the country that do this. And in fact, the leading place that does it is actually in Israel. And so that's obviously a big hassle to move home. Which university? It's called Polis. So that's right in Jerusalem. And we actually had the founder of Polis come speak at Sadler earlier this year. His name is Christoph Rico. So that's probably the top place in the world for this type approach. And we're trying to bring that to America and have a place that from the ground up, we're building out the communicative approach towards languages. So let's narrow it in a little. You're discussing how Sadler is going about this, the how it's going to be done. But walk me through the why. What is the desired outcome for your students when they take these classes? We're hoping that Sadler College becomes a place where people come to learn discipleship. So our main ambition is to have this be a place where people are trained and then sent out to other cities in America and then ultimately globally. And so the real vision here is to, as we say, light the world with relational discipleship and academic excellence. And then the main tagline we use is equipping Jesus's peaceful revolution. Jesus's peaceful revolution is obviously right at the heart of what I know you care about with non-resistance and I know what your church has been doing an excellent job at advocating. And we're trying to do that systematically across a wide range of kingdom teachings, whether that includes non-resistance, separation from the world. Evangelism, you know, that's something that is so often neglected here. And one of our goals for our students is that they're going to be very involved and they already are involved in doing primary evangelism. In a great city like Boston, where we're surrounded by about five million people here, there's just a lot of open people. And so we want this to be a training ground where people can come and be equipped, not to stay here, but ultimately to get launched back either, like I said, into their home communities or go back or go out rather to new places in the world, be at Sattler. We have a lot of different facets that feed into that where we're hoping that we get and communicate not just the head knowledge, but a whole way of life, which is really what discipleship is supposed to be about. And one of my burdens, especially, is evangelism and outreach starting in the US. You know, most people, they have these ambitions to go abroad and do great things here, but before you do that, hey, make disciples here where you live, right? Learn how to do that effectively before you think about going to some foreign country. And it's something that many people struggle with, but I think there's a great path for discipleship to be effective there. And we just had a baptism a couple of weeks ago. I was one who did the baptism, very excited about a young man from China who came here and didn't know anything about Christianity, didn't know what the Bible was, didn't know anything. And to watch him go all the way from total novice, kind of an atheist Buddhist background to now being a young, fledgling, but very excited disciple of Jesus is amazing. And I think that that should be a major part of a young person's experience. When I was in college, back then I was still the Protestant evangelical world, but I was very involved in evangelism and I got to lead a number of people to the Lord when I was in my late teens, early 20s. And people don't realize that that's some of the most precious time of your life or your effectiveness is incredible because people there are, at that age, are very moldable, they're highly relational, and you can be very, very effective at evangelism and discipleship at that time period. And it's much more difficult when you're later, in your 50s and 60s, and people just tend to ossify and they lose some of that dynamic moldability that they have. And so, again, to be here from, say, 18 to, you know, say early 30s, that time bracket that we're aiming for here, and to say, hey, come learn how to do this. Get yourself equipped, but in the context of that equipping, learn how to equip others, right?  And it grieves me that I just don't think generally we're doing well in any setting to really do effective discipleship, which should be marked by fruit, by making more disciples. Yeah, build a solid foundation to launch from. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you so much for taking the time and sharing, and the vision you're casting here just is really awesome. I've never thought about it like that, so. Yeah, you're very welcome. Yeah, excited about it as well.


Yeah, I mean I could I could relate to that. I could see why a lot of the mystics and saints would go off into Into caves or live in the woods or whatever because once you start to peel away some of the Distractions and you start to really start to face the emotions. They're very very intense and one of the emotions you face is rage really intense rage and Once again, I would say that it's not really It's truly not our rage It's the ego's rage the ego is raging at God and as long as we identify with the ego we experience its feelings So it's not like we're raging beings, you know We were created in love and we're very loving we're a loving spiritual being but when we Misidentify with the ego we go through its feelings. So I Mean I went through some experiences as I started to let that the rage and the anger and the hatred come up Some of you might have seen that movie John Travolta was was in it called phenomenon Where at one point? He's just getting it so in touch with his psychic abilities You know like psycho kinesis and different things where you can move a pen around and this and that But you might remember that one scene where he goes in to this kind of like a bar and He's got so much anger that it just cracks The mirror behind the bar and it scares everybody, you know, it's one thing to get angry But it's another thing to have your anger Like seeming cracking mirrors and stuff like that and I remember that that started I had different experiences like that happening to me like like Like a like a windshield cracking when I was really angry And things like that as well where it was pretty direct About the power of the mind and and all this anger and rage coming up So that's why I kind of went off into more of a I call hermitage experience To actually allow that rage and that anger to come up and to actually face it and Yeah, I went off to several different houses at different time periods just to let that come up you know a lot of times they'll say get it out like supposed to you know do primal scream or Get the old bataka sticks and Start to go beat on things and this and that I found that you know Initially that could have some kind of a value in a symbol of allowing yourself to express But but that I really had to let all that come up And I really felt for myself that I really didn't want to be around people While that was happening That that could be misinterpreted You know they might come with the with the white jackets Go he's lost it You know, I considered it was essential for my healing. You know, I thought this could be grossly misinterpreted As if I'm really angry at somebody when it was more just getting in touch with it and allowing it to come up And I would say that I I felt like I was in a lot of denial and repression Like when I was in high school and I would look Look at the yearbook when I would see the face of David I would kind of see these half half asleep eyes That you know, you can almost read the face. It was like I don't like this world If there's nothing appealing about this world. It's kind of depressing. I don't want to be anything when I grow up Nothing and it had that kind of a look on it and I just didn't know where to go with that But it but I finally realized that there was a lot of denial and repression that had to be kind of removed So that I could feel my feelings Like for example, when I go to South America and I've been there quite a few times You know, they have the stereotypes of the male the macho macho man Macho man, it doesn't really help you spiritually when you're not in touch with your emotions It's really you're you're not very Open at all and and so a lot of the women down in South America That was a problem for them because they were opening spiritually and their partners were too afraid so they were playing out the strong silent type or the Emotionally repressed type and they were like this isn't working. They had to go to course groups and Talk with other women to continue their journeys and I think for myself. It was the same way. So in answer to your question, I I did go on these hermitage experiences and I felt like the trees and The rocks and the soil could handle my anger better than people at That point and so that's why I think that's why I went that route Later on I you know, I would use relationships, but but with all that rage It just didn't feel the most helpful thing to to try to be around people when I was going through that phase


Jamaican Creole, locally also known as Jamaican Patois, is a language mostly spoken in Jamaica, but also in Panama and Costa Rica. It has been influenced by English, French, Spanish, and West African languages, for example, Tweet. Jamaican Creole developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to, learn, and nativize the vernacular and dialectal forms of English. Therefore, this language reflects the struggles of slavery and ancestry from Africa as well as the European colonization and influence throughout history on the island of Jamaica. 3.2 million people speak Jamaican Creole. Even though it is regarded as the official language spoken in Jamaica, its status as being official is not regulated yet. Jamaican Creole differs from standard present-day English in many ways. Jamaican Creole does not use a TH sound, but substitutes the sound with two other sounds, namely the T and the sound. In English, we would say thicc, however, Jamaicans would pronounce this word as thicc. The same can be seen in the difference of pronouncing them as them. The vocabulary of Jamaican Creole is English-based, however, words are used differently and in non-English ways. For example, ignorant is translated as very upset and belly in Creole can also mean pregnancy. Another phenomenon in Creole are new compound nouns, such as eye water for tear. Furthermore, Jamaican Creole uses re-duplication to form new words, for instance, pretty pretty and chatty chatty.


The 2020 Nebraska Book Awards will honor authors and publishers of books with a Nebraska connection published in 2019. The award for cover design and illustration goes to a book that provides a first-hand account of Game Day in Lincoln, offering an in-depth look at where the Cornhusker fans' spirit began and how it evolved to today's Game Day experience. The winner is The Spirit of Nebraska, a history of Husker Game Day traditions, the Tunnel Walk, Mascots, Cheer and More by Deborah Cleave-White, designed by Concierge Marketing and Publishing Services, published by Cheerful Books. Hi everyone, I'm Deborah Cleave-White, the author of The Spirit of Nebraska, a history of Husker Game Day traditions, the Tunnel Walk, Mascots, Cheer and More. I would like to thank the Nebraska Center for the Book for awarding my book Best Cover, Design and Illustrations. I'm honored of the recognition my book received. Also, I would like to thank Lisa Pelto and her staff at Concierge Marketing and Publishing for their creative work and talent working on the book design. It was an incredible experience working with all of them. My book documents the history of UNL Game Day, including football, Yale squad, the scarlets, the band and the mascots just to name a few. Did you know the first UNL cheer was created in 1889? And on page 131 of my book, there is a QR code next to a picture of a record. When you scan the QR code with your smartphone, it will take you to a link to play the record. And it is a performance of the first 1889 cheer. I was inspired to write my book from my years of being on the UNL Yale squad, my love for the organization and my research to give back to the squad. Also, I wanted to share this information with the Cornhusker fans and I thought a book would be the perfect way to do that. I would like to do a reading from the book and to set the stage. It's a train ride that takes place on April 12, 1889 to a baseball game between Dome College and UNL and the 1889 cheer will be performed for the first time at a sporting event. The special train was crowded with students whose capacity for noise was unlimited. The brass band, the ball club, the university Yale, Frank Manley and H.C. Peterson were on board. We needed the band, the Yale was attached to Manley or rather Manley was attached to the Yale, and we were bound to scoop Dome with either the ball club or Peterson or with both. The trains started, the students were jubilant. It was 20 miles from Lincoln to Crete, but the students' melody could be heard in Crete long before the students arrived. Every few moments, some enthusiastic student would arise in their seat, and a regular war wolf would follow. We arrived at Crete. Dome students received us with a brass band. The UNIs crowded on the platform and Manley was heard. Now then, one, two, three, Yale and 200 students, Yale, U, U, U and I, Vir, Vir, Virsatite and I, Braski. Oh my! Crete stood amazed. The earthreal, the Yale was initiated. Again, thank you everyone for this honor.


Okay in this video, we're going to go ahead and configure the Docker file for a layered build. I'm going to collapse that down and what I'm going to do is I'm going to create another folder called Docker and this will come into play later on in this course where we'll be using a build tool with Maven to build Docker. So I'm just going to make that Docker and we'll come in and add in a Docker file and add this to get and Normally you wouldn't have two different folders for Docker. You'd only have one Docker file But for the purposes of the course, I want you to be able to compare and contrast between having a slim regular traditional Docker file and then also the layered Docker file So now we are actually building the layered Docker file and what I want to do is I want to come in and This is going to be a multi-stage build meaning that we will have two Docker Images start up. So one will build and we're going to be using that to run a command to extract out the layers and then the second one is going to be the actual Docker file that we're using for our image and We'll take the layers from the first one and copy those over. So let's take a little closer look as to what we're doing here Again, we just need that and we are going to call this as a builder So that is we're using this as a a builder image You know work dirt is going to be application is just fine and here I'm going to use the add command add and copy are very similar and Here I'm going to say target. We're going to get to the Directory a little bit different again, we want to take that a jar file and that's going to be KBE So that is going to add that in and here what we want to do is say run Java minus D jar mode equals tools Dot slash there And if I mistyped something we're going to copy it over. So we're gonna say minus jar So this is a Java command. We are saying use the layer tools to extract out the layers So that's all we want from this first builder So inside this image, it's going to start up as a container It's going to take in and we'll add in that target the jar file And we are using the layer tools to extract out those layers now. We're going to say from Open JDK. We'll use the same one JRE slim And we can use application is just fine And now we're going to say copy And actually I'm going to copy this over from my working notes It's going to speed up. I don't think you guys want to see me type all this out So I'm going to cut and paste this in So now you can see that we're saying copy from builder So that's doing a reference to this image saying from builder from the directory application Dependencies and we're going to bring those into our application. So this here is the first container that we're starting up and then this is the image that we are building and Note here that we have the four layers that we are copying. So we have dependencies spring boot loader snapshot dependencies, which is typically going to be empty Then the application and then the entry point and the entry point now We are going to use the spring boot loader the jar launcher. So slightly different. That's what allows all the class paths and stuff to get reassembled in this and before we actually try to build this remember Here we added in that maven configuration to do the layers. We want to do a clean on our project Now we can say go ahead and do a package step Now package things up with the new layers being built and while that's building we want to do this So I'm giving you that Docker command and now it's not Docker base. It's just going to be Docker And so it's the same commands, I'm going to copy that command and we'll take that into terminal So now rather than Docker base we are going Docker Docker file and we'll tag that to kbe rust again and See that we did have everything build properly and you can see here that we are doing the Multiple stages of the copy and then writing the image and you can see that's coming up cash That's because I ran up previously in my my testing if anything changed. It would have changed there just double checking everything and Now if we do Docker ps you can see that I still just have Postgres running. Let's do a Spec down this we can do Docker history And that'll be kbe rust that is our tag And here which you can see this is a history of that image And these lines down here that that is all from the base image. So that is from the JRE image so you can see that that's got a number of layers now we have a worker of application and Here you can see the actual dependency. So our dependencies. So that's 41 meg. That's a good chunk of data That is all our that's the fat jar dependency So all the various jars and that's actually pretty slim for a spring boot project So as you get into larger projects and having more complex applications that can grow significantly Then our spring boot loader that is pretty light snapshots and then there's our application. You can see that's only 90 kilobytes So if we were deploying this running multiple versions of our application and pulling that over and over and over Rather than having all this get copied into a single image now These files here are going to be staying the same. They'll get reused So if I have four applications running on the JRE These are all going to get reused automatically because we're using that JRE image if we have the exact same dependencies These will get reused and then only this one is going to be changing. So very very important Let's if you start living with Docker on machines You do realize that if you are tight on disk space It can really chew up a lot of disk space and this is a way to really make your Disk utilization by Docker a lot more efficient. So this is going to be a lot more efficient for Building and deploying applications in either a test or some type of production deployment environment So the layers that the Spring Boot team came up with it's a pretty clever way of saving yourself a lot of disk space and a lot of ongoing maintenance and having to go back and and clean up the old layers that you may have on your system


Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets. Man, break them down to bite-sized pieces. So today, I'm going to have on the founder and CEO of StormEx, Simon Yu. And usually we do like a couple of stories and then we bring in the guest. Then we talk to him for a little bit and then we kick him out of here. But today I just want to really dig into what this all is. We've already talked about the news. Now Dogecoin is going to the moon. I think it's going to be very bad for this space as things start to drop off. Also, we talked about how Turkey is trying to ban cryptocurrency. Good luck didn't work out well for India. And that's really the big thing that is going on. So for StormEx, just so you know, I own StormEx. Just like everything I talk about on this channel, everything I talk about I own. And you know why I talk about it because I'm biased and that's just the truth. So with StormEx, I got in this because Alex Massioli said, look, this thing actually does something and I was like, what does it do? And he says, well, when you download the app, you can actually get crypto cash back. And I'm like, who cares? Because other other ones do that.  You've got Rakuten honey. I'm not sure if they do that or not. But I'm like, there's a ton of that stuff, right? And he goes, yeah, genius. But what's great about StormEx is that you can hold it, stake it at 15%. And the more StormEx tokens that you hold, the more crypto cash back you can get when you're actually buying things. Then Ryan over there at TTC, you try the chain said, yeah, I bought some Adidas. This was like a couple of months ago. I bought some Adidas and because of the appreciation of the StormEx token, because he holds so much, he goes, the shoes were pretty much free. And I was like, now we're talking. So anyhow, I wanted to show you this on my phone because this is how you're going to actually look at it. This is how you can actually download it. So just so you know, I'm just going to go over here and go to Tukin. And then just so you know, also on the very top, the website is StormEx.io. I'll link in the description so you don't go to some scam website. But here is the whole tokenomics real quick. Actually, hold on, what I really want to do is I want to go to memberships. The token, I just pretty much explain it to you. So here's a bit to get a bronze membership. You need 3000 StormEx. Right now, StormEx is about six cents somewhere around there. So it doesn't take a lot for 1.25x. That's what you get for silver. You need 31,000 StormEx. You get one and a half X gold. You need 310,000. You get double the cashback rewards and a 25% reward time reduction. I think the reward time, I think it's like 45 days to 60 days. So maybe it could be 90. I can't remember. But yes, when you buy things, you do get crypto cashback. It just takes a little bit of time. But as you level up, it takes a little less time. Two and a half X for platinum. That's if you have over three million StormEx baller, 50% reduction. And diamond is three and a half X and 75% reward reduction. But that's like 6.2 million StormEx. That's a lot. Well, I'll talk to Simon about that. Anyhow, so when we're here and we're taking a look at the at the actual website on our phone, you just click on where you want to download it to. I've got, this is an iPhone. I'm going to click the app store. I also have it on my Chrome browser. And what's cool about that is if you ever go to any website where StormEx is actually accepted because they have 750 partners, it'll just pop up and go, you get 6% of Nike or you get 10% at ESPN plus or whatever else comes up. So it's kind of cool. You're doing this like, oh, I can get some free stuff. I'll do that. So I'm just going to click on the app store and actually just takes me to my the actual app because I already have it downloaded. And at first, on all honesty, I wasn't too impressed with this because I'm like, well, it's kind of sucks because they just lost Walmart. And Walmart goes in and out. And I'm like, that's where I do a lot of my shopping. So that's a bummer. Then I take a look at Albertsons and I know of Albertsons. And I was like, well, anything else you got, I have Kroger in here. So I'm like, okay. And I had Sam's Club. So I'm like, great. And what's great about this is that this is where I think the magic is. If you're looking for a specific item or something like that, or you want to search a store, you can search the store for whatever it is. But I like this shop by category because like, look at this right here. Like there's things that I would never really even think of. Okay. Electronics, let's try this. Samsung.   So like Samsung is pretty well known. What else is here? I don't know what one plus is, scout alarm, sharper image. That's pretty bad. White technology. What else they got? Alcohol. They can order wine.com. Sure. I guess. Beauty. Benefit cosmetics. Like again, these are things that you would never think about.  And then they, you know, separate those two and they give you the rewards. And that's pretty much how Stonemax makes it. That's how you make it. So I'll do this. It's pretty good.  Right. So again, I think the big difference here is that first you can actually stake some things. And actually, let me show you this. So when you're clicking on staking on the app itself, 15% just to stake Stonemax. So now you get crypto cash back, you know, you can also stake it for 15%. And then we're, so that part's awesome. Just so you know, you're going to have to use the trust wallet, which is down here or see how it's, it's lighting up your metamask wallet. And you can stake it. A lot of the places where you want to be able to get a Stonemax token, Voyager has it, Binance and some other places. I'll link them in the description as well. But it's pretty simple to do. Also the rewards, just so you know how this works. If you want to do this, so the more, like we talked about, the more Stonemax you have, you just click on the, where it says join now for free. And it says connect your wallet. And you can verify your wallet. However it is, like, let's see here, verify wallet. Ah, right here. Any wallet with a web three enabled browser. I'm going to use that because I have the brave one. It's telling me to copy. It says copy paste the URL. I'm going to copy this. Let me see here. Let me go back. And here's the browser itself. I got nothing. And then, uh, so I'm going to put this in. I want to paste this into the, and there it is. Let me try this again. And then let's put it on this ledger. Ooh, I got two ETH now, the one. So next, connect sign. And that's pretty much it. So now all you got to do is just transfer everything from, uh, Voyager over to here. Let's hope that works out, Steve. And, uh, that's the big thing. So that is pretty much. Storm max and a nutshell. And, uh, the questions that I have now is for Simon, which, oh, and then real quick, let me show you this. If you're really bored and you want to fill out some surveys, they also give you crypto right here in the play, the play section. I think that's a big deal, but whatever. But, uh, the questions that I have is this looks like it actually does something, it has some utility. It has some function. The question I have for Simon is, uh, well, we know how it differs from the other ones, what's going on right now? How are they going to improve this and bring more stores into it? Because like rackets in that has like 750 stores, right? Honey's already been purchased by, um, PayPal. So that's all we're already there. Um, storm x looks to be very global. So what's going on right now? Where are they going to be in the next year, three years, five years? And then I just want to give his opinion on, uh, dogecoin as well. So let's jump in and talk to Simon. All right, everybody. So great. So Simon is here to set us straight. So we know exactly what, uh, storm x is what it does and how it all works. Thanks, Simon, you, thanks for coming on the show. Really appreciate it. Let's get down to it. What so much for having your up? This is great. So look, so storm x, what are we doing here? What are you guys doing right now? What's going to happen the next year, three years and five years? Is it all just a big progression or like, are there some big things coming on? Yeah, I mean, uh, everything is, you know, progressing based on stages, right? So we've been, you know, building this company for about seven years, which ultimately all flow into, uh, creating a marketplace for earning. And so we started out with micro tasks where you can do surveys, you know, check out the products and all that stuff. And then, uh, we added shopping and cashback. We boosted that even further with the rewards cashback and then we added staking and now we're launching this debit card, which we're really excited about.  So people can create their own jobs as well too. So, uh, yeah, overall, all the products that are building is just, you know, how can we get a single platform or anywhere, you know, anyone could come from regardless of what country they live in and just find different ways to earn money online. Yeah, cool. So I remember you, we were on Alex's show and you were talking about some VC was talking about this is the next trillion dollar company. And I was thinking to myself, that's crazy. However, I mean, using the app, everything else. But when you talked about the whole gigs thing, I was like, I don't see it. And then I saw another interview that you did where you talked about how you guys have a patent where you're able to actually transfer funds, trap transfer cryptocurrency for like next to nothing. So, so real quick talk about that. Cause I think that might be the big game changer and one of those things in your arsenal. Yeah. Um, so I, I don't know if you guys, if you've ever used like prepaid phone cards back in the days, but you know, coming from Asian immigrants, right? So, um, you know, my family, we used to always use prepaid phone cards to call relatives halfway across the world, right?  So it's to talk to someone halfway across the world. It's free. We don't, we don't think about it. But until that technology came about it, it was expensive, but we're sort of seeing the same trend happening with blockchain with payments, right?  If you're in India or China or Korea or something like that in Europe, it would cost you $100, right? Yeah. Cause the wire transfer fees, foreign transaction spreads and all that stuff. But, um, yeah, I mean, what we've really identified back in the early days when Bitcoin was a little bit more scalable too was that like being able to send value across for like pennies and dollars did not make sense in the past, but now it does. And like we've, we've been one of the early adopters to be able to, you know, hone in on this technology. So yes, like a few dollars to watch a game, like you watch a survey or I mean, do a survey or watch a video or do something like that might not have made sense in the past, but to someone like in India or, you know, emerging countries, it does make a lot of sense. Or somewhere in Europe or US, if you're trying to hire someone halfway across the world without all these fees, all of a sudden this global marketplace becomes like for talent is it doesn't matter where you live anymore. And we've seen that huge shift shift this year, especially with COVID, everyone working remote. And now, you know, you see a lot of traditional tech companies too. That's hiring from Europe and some countries in Asia, for example, and people in those countries getting to work for US companies. But this is just the beginning, right? So there's so many jobs out there and a lot of it is just being shifted online. And so there's a huge untapped marketplace that hasn't been able to be penetrated yet just because the payment process was so expensive. And that's where we can disrupt. I gotta tell you, man, it makes a lot of sense now that I'm listening to it. And now if you really think about it, this all started off with an idea, right? You were a poor college kid. You want to save some people some money in blockchain. You did that in 2014 moving forward. You started off with crypto cashback awards. Now you're moving into this area. You know what it sounds like to me? It's almost and not to not for hyperbole and really go off case, but Amazon was all about books like, look, we're going to do a ton of books. We're going to give you all the books that she can possibly use. And we're going to put it all in one place. Then all of a sudden they branched off into another department, then another department, another department. I always talk about investing into people. And that's why I'm happy that you came on, Simon. Because look, it's not just about an idea or what's going to happen. It's actually about putting these things together. So you got a good a good people, good group together. And it's not about what you what you what you know, it's about who you know. And you guys have how many partnerships with how many different organizations now? I think we have like a close to a thousand stores now. Yeah, that's enough, man. That's that's awesome. A lot more is coming though. OK, so I just wanted to put a so everybody here who's already watched the first half of the video, look in the description below. There's going to be a link. You can download Star Max. You can take it for a test run. You can see much crypto cash back. You can save also the rewards and also I mean, all the things we talked about staking, doing those surveys and everything else. So just take a look and then my goal, my goal, Simon, is to start to use your app a little bit more so I can buy some things that I want to buy. I was like I said in the video, it's kind of ticked off that you guys lost Walmart, but I'm hoping that you guys get them back. So the last two questions I have for you is this. One is, who is your ultimate store to actually land? The ultimate, ultimate stores to actually get to save people a ton of money. And the last thing is we in Alex's show, you talked about charity and giving back any kind of plans with that for Storm Max. And I'll let you I'll let you get out of here and do the magic that you do. Yeah, so I don't want to put a quick disclaimer, though, for the gigs part. You know, that's so in a couple of years out. But yeah, right now our focus is around the debit card that's building sort of disrupting fintech right now. It's just it's going to be pretty awesome. But yeah, the number one store definitely is Amazon.  And, you know, I think one of the reasons why it's so hard. So until last year, their program was a lot more flexible. But then I think they started making a lot of money because everyone started ordering everything from Amazon. So they sort of have all the power in the court. So but, you know, that's like sort of, you know, when I first started the company as well, too, or not just this one with Johnny Calvin, but my first one with the food truck is just, you know, plenty of people told me that I was going to fail, right? So like they told me like 8 percent of its small businesses failed in the first few years. Oh, everybody just give me a statistic. But, you know, for me, I was always thinking like, OK, then that means 20 percent of the people actually succeeded. Like, I wonder how those guys succeeded.  And, you know, there's a lot of problem solving involved and trying to figure out, OK, most people can't figure out how to do it, but we can. So I we're working on it. I think we found some creative solutions too, which, you know, should be exciting if we can launch that. I think it would be definitely a lot more adoption. And the second, yeah, regarding the charity stuff, too, I mean, yeah, just going back to my college days, I got to the point where I just didn't have enough money to eat food like on a regular basis. And then like I was working at Bank of America as a teller at that time. And I was, you know, trying to start this talk with delivery business. I still didn't have enough money for rent. And so like my coworkers would be like, hey, let's go to lunch.  And I was just taking a nap instead because I didn't have money. So I think, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of good reasons as to why people need money. But I think the basic human like just need is food. And so like I've really been trying to focus on donating to like local food banks and stuff like that, too, but really trying to make sure that no one goes hungry. You know, so like just for me personally, too, if like a homeless person asked like, hey, can you buy me some food? Like I never chimed down. Like if it's money, I think it's I have to see like what the reasoning and stuff like that. But I think the basic need is definitely everyone needs to be able to eat and then they can sort of find different opportunities. So that's it right there. We'll talk after I'm going to introduce you to Kiva.org. That's the one that we always donate to for our Cardano steak pool. We'll talk about that later. And then there was there was last one, of course, because of Dogecoin. Yeah, lastly, and then look out here. Give us your give us your opinion on Dogecoin. I personally think it's going to it's going to go down and it's going to be a kind of a black mark for a little bit. But what do you think? Yeah, I mean, I I got a lot of heat for posting this tweet yesterday. Right. But, you know, for me, I really like, you know, just posting my own opinions on things just because I get to hear both side, whether people are triggered or not, I tend to learn from what happened. So yeah, I actually did happen to learn a ton about Dogecoin.  It was super exciting. But then the founders all left, sold all their coins and hasn't worked on for a while. And there's an unlimited supply. But yeah, I mean, recently with the price increasing, it seems like there's been a lot more developers that are just, you know, taking on projects, trying to make Dogecoin more useful. And instead of being a store of value play like Bitcoin, they're trying to be more of a currency play. So it is it's pretty interesting what does, you know, and I was trying to put those tweets because I just keep seeing like people and some of my friends from like people that I haven't talked to in like like 10 years or something to say, should I buy Doge? And I'm just like, I know you should buy Stormax. No, I don't ever say that.  Like, do you know what it is? I was just like, no, I just heard Elon, you know, posting tweeting about it. And it seems like the Reddit army is behind it. But it's like, that's so dangerous. So you don't understand what it actually is.  And that's completely fine, right?  And it's just like, especially 2018, right?   It's a scam and never coming back. Three years later, you would think that a lot of people learned the lesson. Same thing happening all over again, except it's worse. Now we have like DeFi, Yield Farm, like Ponzi schemes and stuff like that, too. Like there's a lot of great technology being built on DeFi, like, you know, compound, Aave, like, there's some really cool projects. But then there's like 90 percent scams that other people are promoting and stuff like that out there just to try to take advantage of the money that's coming in and then it's just it makes the whole sort of like industry. Like it'll make, you know, if that crashes because of those scams, then it'll make all of DeFi bad, right? So that is what scares me. Simon, me and you could talk about this for hours. Well, we'll get together, have some tacos and beer, and we'll discuss the whole thing. So anyhow, so look, Simon, thanks for stopping by. You watching the video. Thanks for watching the whole thing. Link in the description. Hit the thumbs up and subscribe and we'll see you on the next one.


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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Today we are going to continue our exploration into the animal kingdom, this time by examining the majestic creatures of flight in the world. Birds are a much larger part of One Piece than you may initially think, managing to thrive and survive on this planet that is primarily covered by water. So I dare say it's about time these majestic creatures got some focus. The criteria for this list is fairly simple, you have to be a bird. Not a human with a bird type, zoan fruit such as pearl, an actual bird.  Also all the birds on this list must be canon. I don't want to be dealing with crap like Random Bird A from so and so movie, it's just easier this way. So with that out of the way, let's begin. Welcome to the top 5 birds in One Piece. 5. Miss Friday Alright, we are kicking things off strong with one half of the Unluckies from Baroque Works. In case there was any confusion, Miss Friday is this one, the vulture, not the other. And as one of the Unluckies, Miss Friday is actually one of the most trusted agents of Sir Crocodile who uses the pair of agents for a wide array of tasks, including reconnaissance and assassination. Now you might say those are some pretty complex ideas for a bird to handle, but Miss Friday is more than up to the task, complete with a pair of machine guns fixed to her avian back. Which makes a lot of sense given that Miss Friday and her otter ally are classified as type D creatures, small and savage. Now as a bird, and this is going to shock you, but Miss Friday's primary method of transportation is flight. And that's really cool because Miss Friday possesses the speed, stamina, and sheer navigational ability to traverse the grand line wherever required. Pretty damn impressive skills for a bird, and that is why Miss Friday finds herself here on this list. Number four, Heartory. Next up we have the seemingly plain old pigeon who acts as a companion to rob Luchy. Now despite appearing as a mere pigeon, Heartory is actually incredibly intelligent and mimics a lot of human behavior, such as drinking from a glass. What a classy bird. But Heartory actually takes this a step further and is able to mimic his master to the point where Luchy is able to use him as a ventriloquist act. And as we can see, simply acting like Luchy isn't quite enough for Heartory, as the pigeon also prefers to dress like him. Also rather interestingly, as Heartory has been with Luchy since childhood, that would make Heartory at least 24 years old, which is absolutely stunning, since the average lifespan of a pigeon is roughly 15 years. And it should also be said that exactly why Heartory prefers to spend most of his time where their heartless murderer is unknown, perhaps Heartory is also a sociopath. And if so, that would make him the most evil bird on this list by quite a margin. But the most evil does not equal the best. Number three, Karoo. Alright, here we have the only honorary straw hat on the top five best birds list, the leader of the super spot build duck squad, Karoo. Like all birds thus far, Karoo displays a level of intelligence on par with humans, and is able to communicate quite effectively, despite not being able to speak a human language. Very notably though, he appears to be able to read, which was demonstrated when he and Vivi were perusing a newspaper. I mean, I guess it is entirely possible that Karoo is just looking at the pretty pictures, but we're going to give him a bit more credit than that. And while he is definitely a bird, Karoo displays qualities quite similar to that of other animals. For example, his loyalty is akin to that of a dog, as he has been Princess Vivi's companion since she was a child, and he would go so far as to sacrifice his life for hers. And of course, Karoo can also be ridden like a horse. And with that said, despite being a bird, Karoo almost never engages in flight. So he really may as well be a flightless bird, kind of like an ostrich, a much more capable ostrich. Who can read?  Number 2 The Southbird Now this pic may be controversial for some, or not so much the pic itself, but how high the glorious Southbird has managed to find itself on this list. And to put this quite simply, it's because I really like the Southbird and this is my video, so here he is. These fantastic creatures are native to the island of Jaya in the paradise portion of the Grand Line. However, a much larger variant of them can be found on skypeer due to that portion of land being sent up into the sky via the knock-up stream. They are called Southbirds due to their habit of always pointing their heads in a southerly direction. In fact, they seem to find it actually quite uncomfortable to face any other direction. Although Toei clearly forgot this fact when they animated this particular scene. But as a result of their quirk centuries ago, these birds were used as navigational tools to sail the Grand Line. And rather interestingly, North, East and West birds also exist, but we are focusing on the Southbird here because they have personality. Specifically, they have really dickish personalities. In fact, Southbirds are quite sadistic and have been known to laugh at the misfortune of others. This coupled with their brilliant design certainly makes them worthy of their spot on this list in my opinion. However, there remains one bird in the world who simply cannot be ignored. Number 1 Big News Morgans At the pinnacle of today's list, we have the president of the World Economic Journal and all around Big Bird impersonator, Big News Morgans. He is probably the most powerful bird in the world, not in terms of strength, or who knows, maybe actually in terms of strength, which is minimal, just to be clear. But the true power of Big News Morgans comes in the form of the influence one garners from owning a globally distributed newspaper. Essentially, Morgans operates on an entirely different level to most birds and is even considered to be one of the emperors of the underworld. He is a sly, intelligent business bird with a keen eye for big news. As a result, Morgans can travel seamlessly between world factions, which was seen as he was invited to Big Mom's Tea Party, and then in the very next arc, he was also present at the Red Port to cover the royals arriving for the reverie. Sadly, despite being a bird, Morgans cannot fly. Luckily, he employs an army of newsgoos, which are adorably dressed seagulls, to deliver his propaganda, I mean news to the world. Plus, he dresses like an absolute boss. I mean, just look at that style. How many other birds could pull off a top hat cloak and checkered pants? I'd like to see to be honest, but as of right now, Morgans is the only bird who has done it. So for that and many other arbitrary reasons, Big News Morgans shall be crowned the avian king on this list. And that pretty much does it for the top five birds in one piece. If you enjoyed this video, then feel free to like, favorite, or subscribe. And if you are in any way keen on supporting this independent channel, then please do check out my Patreon Discord server or Twitter, the links to which are in the handy description below. Finally, please do comment with your own favorite birds in the series. This has been the Grand Line Review, and I'll see you next time.