Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to react to Nothing Is More Basic Than This by Dr. Bilal Phillips on the channel digital meme bar. I have absolutely no idea what to expect of this video. Apparently it is very basic and it's only four minutes long. With no further ado, a quick one today. Let's have a look. Among the good deeds of Ramadan is the reading of the Quran. It's actually very interesting. When I was still in France, it was Ramadan and I saw many Arabs outside in the park when I was playing with my child and they were reading the Quran outside in the grass. It was beautiful to see. It's one of the good deeds. Now, Prophet Muhammad SAW didn't say to us, you need to read Quran in Ramadan. He didn't say to us, if you read the whole Quran in Ramadan, you will get this reward, that reward, a house in Jannah, etc. No hadith like that. If you heard it, you know it's false. I didn't know that. It's fake. No such hadith. He revised the Quran in Ramadan with Jibril. True. Right. But Allah connected the two. The month of Ramadan in which Allah revealed the Quran. Allah linked the two together. And the essence, the foundation of our Deen is the word of Allah. Nothing more basic than that.  What Allah said to us. The Quran is Allah speaking to us. This is absolutely beautiful. But at the same time, I have a question. I looked into Islamic law, for example, and I think over 90% of Islamic laws come from the hadiths and not from the Quran. So when Dr. Bilal Philips here speaks about the Quran being the essence of the religion, I'm really wondering how it then came to be that all the laws or 90% of the laws are based on hadiths. Please let me know in the comment section. And we need to understand the Quran that way. It's not a storybook. A lot of non-Muslims, when they pick up the Quran, they start reading in it. They find it's going here, there and everywhere. This book is confusing. I find it to be quite the opposite, to be honest. When I read the Quran, I found it very clarifying, not confusing at all, especially coming from a Christian background, because I read the Bible, those stories within the Quran that could potentially be confusing for some, weren't confusing for me at all. There were clarifications and references to the stories of the Bible. As it's translated, obviously, it's confusing. No, it's not a real book. Because they're used to reading the Bible, which is a bunch of stories, is a storybook, story after story after story, with great details about these stories. That's what they're used to. So when they pick up the Quran, and most books, when you get it, if it's a book with some kind of a message, not a science book, but a book with some kind of a message, it's a story. It's coming in some kind of story form. We're used to stories from where children, what do we like? Bedtime story. Again, I understand the argument, but nevertheless, for me, coming from the Christian perspective, reading the Bible, I didn't find it discouraging or confusing or strange that now I'm not finding a story. Quite the opposite. The Quran itself stated that it is a clarification only, so it made perfect sense that it will only clarify those stories, correct certain aspects of those stories, but it didn't have to reread all of those stories. No confusion. What kind of books do we like to read? Books with stories in it. We're raised on that. We're inclined to stories. So when they pick the book up, it's not following the story pattern. It's confusion. I'm expecting a story. I'm looking for a story. I mean, yes, there is the story of Prophet. I don't know, man. I'm not a special snowflake. So I'm not going to act that I'm special here, but I personally was very, very interested in how two books, manuals, books that I can learn something from. I wasn't very interested in storytelling books. Maybe this is why the Quran resonated with me. No idea. It's there, one story. But is there another chapter that we can say that whole chapter is a story? One story? Okay. So then what? This is the point that is lost on many that the Quran is talking to us. It is Allah speaking to us. Yeah, that's the idea. He is communicating with us. And just as when you sit down and communicate, if you listen to two people talking, do they talk in stories? They sit down for half an hour and they just tell one big long story. Not one big story, but the Bible doesn't tell only one story either. So this is not a fair comparison. And sometimes, yes, people tell each other stories as well. No. They will start something and something else comes up and this one adds this one and that one. That's how we speak. We don't speak in stories. But this is the Quran talking to us.  This is the word of Allah. All right, guys. And this is it for today's video. Nothing is more basic than this. To be totally honest, I didn't really find the thing that should have been basic within this video. I don't really know what this man is talking about. Moreover, I personally really dislike generalizations. This man generalized and said, well, the reason why people do not resonate with the Quran is because of the writing style, because people are used to books that story tell. But I would say this is plain wrong. The Quran itself states that Allah guides who he wills and therefore it has nothing to do with the writing style. This, of course, so miniscule. If Allah guides somebody to the Quran, then the Quran will resonate with that person. If not, then not. It has absolutely nothing to do with the writing style, if you ask me personally. But this is just my perspective. All right, guys. But this is it. If you liked the video, leave a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. I have to cut it off here because the sun is going down and very soon you're not going to see me at all anymore here, my little webcam. All right, but this is it, guys. If you want to support this channel via Patreon, all the links are in the description box below as well. Thank you so much. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Welcome to this episode of Door Hardware Nerds today. If you can't tell from my apparel, my decor, Benji's sweater, we're doing a holiday themed episode. So it's going to be a little bit different than our normal content, but we hope that you still enjoy what we're bringing to you today. So I am Mia Merrill. I am a product manager for Asa Abloy and Benji, why don't you introduce yourself? Benji Bullock, the doordork. Need I say more? I don't know. Probably not.  So we are going to actually start with some folklore around the holiday season. So different areas of the world. So we'll hop right into that. I'm actually really excited about this because there's some pretty crazy stuff around the world, some like folklore around Christmas and the holidays. And so I'm excited to learn more. Yeah. And I think my snowman is a little bit scared of what my, what we might be talking about. So we'll see how that goes. All right. So the first story we're going to talk about is Yola caught urine from Iceland. And he is a giant cat that wanders the countryside on Christmas Eve and eats those who didn't receive new clothing to wear for the holiday. And this lore was used to encourage giving to friends, family, and the less fortunate. Terrifying, I think. That is terrifying. Wait. So the cat eats people who didn't get new clothes for the holidays. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a giant, it's a giant cat. As you can see illustrated here, he is bigger than a house. Oh, the snowman did not like that. Like it says, it's mostly to, to encourage the giving to the less fortunate. So not to just be all about consumerism and things like that, but to make sure that you are looking out for your fellow man. Okay.  Yeah. Yeah. No, it's not a, not making sure you're trendy, but that you're keeping others from getting eaten, you know, you're, you're giving new clothes or okay, I get it. I get it. Yeah. That's scary. We'll go to the next one. So this is Bafana the witch and this originated in Italy. So she was a nice old lady that lived alone. And when Jesus was born, the three wise men stopped at her house to ask her for directions so that they could find baby Jesus, but she didn't know where he was. She offered them a place to stay and in return for her kindness, they offered for her to come on the journey with them, but she turned them down and they left to go on their way. Later she changed her mind. So she was gathering gifts to bring with her. And she set out to follow their tracks, their tracks had all blown away in the snow. And so she could not find them. And now she goes around from house to house, leaving presents for the children of Italy. Imagine if she caught up with the wise men, we would have this Italian witch part of the nativity scene. You know, like the three wise men and then this Italian witch, like I could just hear her accent like spaghetti. So I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. Making sure everybody was fed. I think a couple of things we've learned here at number one, which is may not always be bad. Number two, Italy has some great traditions around Christmas because I don't know if you also know the song Dominic the donkey, but that is my favorite Christmas song. If anybody doesn't know what that is, I encourage you to go look it up. That's that's one of those songs that will get stuck in your head. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I'm not sure how perched up the, the very in Christmas, which, but she is basically the polar opposite. She wanders from home to home with the knowledge of who was a hard worker during the past year.    Yeah, I would be nice. I don't know what will. There are many different incantations of this one. And she's also linked to some of the pagan goddesses as well. So yeah, I would be terrified if I saw her show up. Hopefully she leaves a silver coin. Yeah. This is like totally more incentive than Santa's naughty and nice list because just coal. I would be terrified to get that silver coin. Our last. Krampus. So some say he is the companion to Santa Claus who punishes children when they misbehave. He actually has his own night, which is called Krampus knocked, which is December 5th. He goes from house to house hunting down naughty children and throwing them in a sack to take them to the underworld. But he can easily be bribed. If you have schnapps handy, he will let you go. Yeah, just stock up on schnapps. You'll be okay. I'm guessing that's the sack that he's taking that kid to the underworld in, right? Yeah. Wasn't there an episode of the office. And like Dwight comes in as Krampus. And is whipping people with raw or something. All right. So. We had some submissions for holiday door decor. So we're going to go through those now. I'm going to go through them. I'm going to go through them. Benji, you've seen some of them. Some of them you've not seen. Some of them. We'll have some good things to talk about. All right. So this was submitted by Beth Welch. This is her front porch. I like that they have a full size tree out on the front porch. Yeah. That's impressive. Yeah. It's very. Pitch risk. Yeah. Very like a Pinterest. Yeah, I like it. I like there's presents. She's got a little gnome Santa gnome out there. I'm going to show you on screen door. All right. We'll go to the next one. Lisa out. Calla. She's a product manager here. So she and her daughter did a little decoration, a little dressing up very cute. Family involved. Beautiful wreath. Beautiful family. Yeah. All right. So this one. I bet you can't guess what retailer. I would not want to be involved in a fire.  And if that's one of the few exits available, I'd be concerned of things knocking over and people trampling and tripping. And yeah, it says right there on the door, fire door, do not block. Hopefully this was like at the end of the shift and like somebody was just gonna start bringing cardboard out, but it probably wasn't, let's be honest. All that is a very flammable material leading up to the door, so. It'd be disastrous. So this was, I think it's a school decoration, right? Going into like a classroom maybe? Yeah, and it's a classroom with a sizable occupancy because of the exit device. I think it's cute. I think it's a nice festive thing. Hopefully the little awning that they put over it doesn't really interfere with anything, but I think the wall decoration is cute. Yeah, no, I thought it was a clever idea, just a fire inspector's nightmare. Yeah, this one, this is a lot. Yeah, I like to play a little game. I spy with my little eye the exit. Can you find the exit sign? I could not. I can see one set of doors, but I think there are doors leading into the kitchen. So yeah, I don't know where the exit is here. Where would you run? You're like in winter wonderland. Right, and also Christmas lights, you're only supposed to have a certain number attached together at any one time. And I don't think these are in compliance with their readings. A spark or a fuse blowout or, and all of this material is probably flammable, you know? Yeah. This is asking for a disaster. All right, so this one submitted by you, I love that right below, do not block, totally blocked. Yes, totally blocked. And they're probably like, oh, it's on the outside. We don't need to follow this, but yeah, no, somebody coming from inside that door still needs to get out. So I often, you know, the common excuses, oh, we don't use that door, or it's just temporary, right? And I'll reply, well, okay, I'll just start a fire right at the front door and see what happens.  Like, don't worry about it. We don't even use that door. Well, if you need to use that door, you're going to want to need to use that door, right? I didn't quite think about that or we're moving it around. As soon as we sell through them, we'll we'll scooch it out of the way, right? Emergencies don't wait for you to move stuff out of the way. Right. Yeah, there's like no hope for this one. So people might say, is that an actual exit? Because if it's not an exit, it's not like a violation. And I was actually in this shop and this was the only other path of egress. So there's the main entrance and this was the back entrance or like the escape. And so it'd have to be, according to code, would be an exit. So they're missing that little exit sign as well. They probably took it down to put up the Merry Christmas sign. Or maybe they just put that right over it. I bet it's like right through here. I bet I bet we see a lot of violations this time of the year. This is the season. All right. Last one, somebody made a nativity scene out of doors. I mean, this one's perfect for us. Yeah, this is great. I love the Wisemen. I'm guessing those are the three Wisemen and probably a shepherd. Mary just delivered Jesus. So she's got the little door, you know, like. Yeah, I think it's great. I think, and then the little major representation. Yeah, that's something I would set up in my front yard.  Apparently not. I mean, I think this one wins. Yes. All right. So thanks for coming on our journey today through a little bit of lore, a little bit of door decor and we wish you all a happy holiday season. A healthy holiday season as well. Yes, happy holidays, Merry Christmas and have a happy new year. Don't forget to click like and subscribe to our channel and we'll see you in the next video. Bye snowman.


Good morning. Good morning. So we have had some replies from the Environmental Protection Agency about this letter that we apparently need from them to allow Bumblebee to cross the border into the US. So I've been in contact with the guy from there and I've basically, I explained our situation, I explained that we've booked our wedding and that we really, really needed to get this letter to get Bumblebee across the border and this is his reply. Exemptions can take 14 to 21 business days for processing. That's like literally what it says on the website. Apparently he can't do anything for us to speed up the process so we are kind of stuck. Yeah it doesn't look like they're going to do it any favors. So I was having a look on some of the groups on Facebook and some of the forums to try and find out what people's experience of the border was and if they were actually asked for this letter and it's really interesting because it seems that nobody has been really asked for this letter. Everybody just said, oh they were just waved through or they didn't have to do anything about it. I don't know. You think we should email itchy boots and ask her? Yeah let's do it. Help us itchy boots! Because when we watched her episode we weren't really sure whether she was actually asked for this so yeah maybe she can tell us. She replied! Yay! Actually it's pretty good. She said that no one asked her when she crossed the border. Now that looks actually really promising so I wonder if we should just go for it. Of course we do. We just go for it. I mean it looks actually really promising what she said on every comment on our overlander and no one was mentioning anything. Once you're in, you're in basically. There is no temporary import permit that you have and need to return when you exit the country. So basically if we get to the border and they just check the passports and wave us through then that's it. We're in. I think it looks promising so I think we should go for it. At least we can try it and see how it goes. Our plan was to cross the border in one week so let's do it. Let's give it a go. Yeah let's do it. Okay. Is that okay if we say here for just here have some lunch or just here? No you need to stay here all day. You want, don't worry. Thank you. I'll make some tortillas at the moment. Wow! Just cold tortillas. I have cheese, I have avocados. Is here a micro, a little micro? Yeah I have some visual, yes. We are prepared. I'm not a vegetarian but I try to deny meat. Not too much. Fish? Yes. Okay that's good. I eat a lot of tortillas. Yes. Look how many. Yes. Why a lot? Because we eat.  For the first lunch, dinner. Yes. Thank you so much. Awesome. The lady from the reception is so super nice. It's nice air conditioning here and we will take the night ferry so we can pretty much just chill out for now here. Oh yes. I'm becoming a taco master I can tell you. Oh yes. And eat some tacos. Good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 383 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the town of Los Moshes in Mexico and we're just going from the hotel that we've been staying at for the past couple of days up to collect Bumblebee. Because Bumblebee is at a parking just around the corner. Well I hope Bumblebee is still around the corner. We dropped her off a couple of days ago so hopefully they've taken care of her. We have an exciting afternoon and evening ahead. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here and today we're going to be taking this little road down to Topolabambo to take a ferry across to the Baja California Peninsula. Yes it's just a short ride for us today because we are heading over to the ferry port at Topolabambo which is not very far from here. And we'll be going there to the office to get the tickets for the ferry. But the ferry won't be until about 11 o'clock tonight I think. So we're going to go get Bumblebee now from the parking. It should be just here. Bumblebee's still there? Yes Bumblebee's still here. So we're going to bring Bumblebee back to the hotel, pack her up and then head over to the ferry port. Wow it's five o'clock already. Yeah yeah. We just spent so much time chatting to Michael, another biker who just arrived at the hotel. Then we were just like oh it's actually going to get dark in a little bit. So we better make our way to the ferry. Yes. We haven't even got tickets yet. Yeah a really friendly guy and he told us a crazy story because he started his journey with a friend actually. They drove all the way from LA down to Mexico to the border to Guatemala and his friend got in an accident. The accident is apparently so bad that at the moment he can't even walk anymore. It's a really dangerous thing doing long motorcycle journeys. I mean just being on a motorcycle is just incredibly dangerous. It really makes you think about it and just how careful you have to be and just how conservatively you have to ride. Like how boring you have to be basically. You have to ride like super boring all the time. Because when you're sitting on this bike there's a risk. Totally. Always a risk. Totally. But today we have actually a ferry short ride from Los Moches to Topolabambo to the ferry terminal. We're not really in a rush because the ferry is not leaving until I think 11 o'clock tonight. It's an overnight ferry. I think it's 11 o'clock and then you arrive at 8 in the morning in La Paz on the Baja California Peninsula. Yeah, absolutely amazing. So we've spent most of the day just doing some work. Try to catch up with some editing, creating some thumbnails. Oh yeah, thumbnail creating is always a fun business. How can we get you guys to click on this? Looks quite cute here. Look at this collection of colorful houses. Yeah, that is actually really nice. Yeah.  I think they just said pick your favorite color. Yeah, but I mean, look, it's very evenly spread out. Otherwise it could be like everybody liked green and every house on this side is green. That's roaming there. Nice. Beautiful marina here. Yeah. And I think this is literally it's coming to the ferry port now. Oh, so we have to see where we got to get our tickets. I have no idea. I have no idea. So we'll keep riding forward. I think the entrance was actually back where we just were. Hey, it definitely looks like the entrance. Yeah. Terminal de transportadores. Hola. Hola. Hola. Baja ferry bilatera. Ah, okay. Okay. Perfect. ID? Yeah. Paper. Okay. Get the document from here. This page. Ah, yes. Ah, aduanas. Gracias. Very good, my friend. Ah, yes. Do you mean Oregon? Oregon? Oh, yeah. Oh, Oregon. Okay. Oh, Eugene. Ah, nice. Precivenas y Oregon. Sí. Sí. Oregon, Washington, Iváncouver. Very good. Yes. Gracias. Gracias.  The wheels always slide on them. Okay. Let's see where we have to go next. Yeah, that was like quite rigorous. Like it was almost like a border, wasn't it? Yeah. You're at the limit now, aren't you? I am. With everything going on with the U.S. border. Oh, my God. I'm so scared, really. I'm so scared that they won't let us in. We're at the logistical limit of what we can take on this journey, I reckon. Yeah, I think so too, actually, yeah. It's like it's really, really hard for my heart. That's all right. This will be easy.  Exactly. A nice eight-hour ferry ride. Yeah. I think they said, like, go, like, around, no? Okay. Only just went inside to buy the tickets. And I will take care of Landerby here. But it's pretty chilled at the moment. It's just six o'clock. And I think the ferry is leaving by, like, 11 or 12. We have a lot of hours to wait and to relax. 20 minutes later. So bad news. They've told us that the ferry for tonight is full. They have no space for us. So we decided just to book some tickets for tomorrow night instead. So it's really stupid because we've just been in town for two days, literally 30 minutes from here. I thought that we could just arrive here. We even contacted them online with a chat and said, yeah, we want to take the ferry tomorrow and then we'll buy the tickets. And they said, yeah, no worries. And they never mentioned once to us, oh, by the way, make sure you come early or this and that because maybe they'll be full. They were just like, yeah, no problem.  So we're going to get the tickets now. But before we can get the tickets, we have to get the bike weighed, which we have to pay for as well. We have to basically take this line here, go and get weighed and then take our weight over to the ticket office and then they'll look us in. All right. Let's get bumblebee weighed, weighed and measured. Hola. Aqui? Yeah? It's OK? Hola. Buenos. Placa KP70DNU. Nombre Oliver. Inglaterra. OK. Gracias. Perfecto. Ciao, ciao. Does it say how much bumblebee? Oh, 320 kilo. That's bumblebee's loaded weight. That's with a full, full, full tank, full with water as well. That's not too bad. I mean the dry weight is probably nearly 300 kilo. No, the dry weight's maybe 260 kilo. Gracias. Ah-ha. Para ti? OK, gracias. 300... 320. 320. 320. OK, gracias. So then this one... OK, muchas gracias. OK, so we're heading out of the ferry port now. We asked them at the ticket booth if it was worth waiting around until later because they did say that you could do that if you wanted to and then if they had some cancellations or extra space they would get us on but they did say that the chances of that were very low. So we decided in the end to just get our ticket for tomorrow. Yes, exactly. So at the end the ticket cost us 6465 Mexican pesos which is about 280 pounds. So a little bit over budget but Baja California is supposed to be a really nice peninsula so you really shouldn't miss out on it and it's really safe to travel there as well. And plus it's an eight hour ferry so you know 280 pounds for us and the bike I guess that's OK. It's not too bad and it will save us a night of accommodation. That's true. So now we've booked ourselves back in at Hotel Lorena the same hotel that we've been at for the last couple of days. So it's about a 26 minutes ride to our hotel and we will catch you tomorrow. Hey guys, I don't know if you've noticed us wearing these t-shirts before well these are our overlanded teas and we're selling them on our Etsy store. We actually designed them ourselves so you better like them. If you love what we do and want to show your support why not buy one of these super cool teas? By doing so you'll be helping us get a hot meal or a cozy air-conditioned room for the night. Head over to our Etsy store and order one today.  Thanks Mom and Dad. You can find the link to the store in the description below. Thanks so much guys and now back to the video. The next day. Alright, we are back at the ferry port at the terminal de Transporadores and now we are ready to take a ferry tonight. So we've made our reservation. We just have to go to the booth, the same booth we got the tickets from and get our reservation exchanged for an actual ticket. That should be all gravy. It should be good to go. Hola, buenas. Four straps. No. Okay, so we are leaving the port again because they just told us that we need to provide our own ratchet straps to strap down the bike on the ferry. And I said, no, it's fine. We'll just put it in gear, put it on the side stand. Like, that's fine for me, no problem. And then she said, no, the ferry requires that you have these straps. Like, you need these straps to get on the ferry. If you don't have the straps, you're not allowed on the ferry. I'm really regretting that we want to take this ferry. Really. So anyway, we are heading into town, back into town now to go to a shop called Autozone which luckily is open until 10 and they sell a pack of four straps. I think it costs about £25. All of this time and all these ferries we have not needed ratchet straps of our own for any reason. Well, let's go back into town then, hey. Yeah. Yeah. Head back into town, get the ratchet straps, get back to the ferry port. Hopefully that'll be all. Ollie just went inside the shop and sees if we can find some straps for us. It's not easy to take this ferry. It's not easy. Oh yes. We're all strapped up now. Yes. Oh, here we go. A pack of four ratchet straps that we're only going to need to use once. So they cost £377 which is about, I think it's about £15. They're three metres long. I hope that'll be enough. Back at the ferry port for the third time and hopefully for the last time. Yeah, seriously. If they need anything else to get this ferry then I'm swimming. Gracias. Okay. Mission complete. Got all our tickets here and she just told us as well that it's breakfast included. So tomorrow morning at 6am we can have a nice breakfast hopefully. That's got to be worth £300. That'll be a really, really good breakfast. I'll tell you. Hash browns, sausages, vegetarian, chips, beans, chips. What are you eating? Toast, beans. Another motorcyclist there who's like yeah, I had to go buy straps just before. Everyone's going to go buy straps. I'll tell you, there's something going on between this ferry company that sells straps in town. It's like a thing happening. It's only 7pm now. I don't board with the motorcyclist until 10pm. Lavi doesn't come on until 11pm. So we've got plenty of time now. So we're just going to unpack our stuff a bit, have some dinner and just chill out. Tea time. Obviously, bed is waiting for us on the ferry. I don't think so. Bye. Olli's going now with the motorbike with Bumblebee and I have to wait here and see what's going on next. It's already 11.30pm. So it's quite late. I hope you will be all right. Oh, there she is at the window. Bye-bye. Yeah, everything's taking ages. They're not really... Nothing seems to be happening. But anyway, I'm going to take the bike over to where all the cars are waiting and see if we're getting pretty close to actually getting on this ferry. It's kind of weird riding in sandals and socks. But it's kind of nice as well.  I have no idea where to go. So I'm just going to go to the front because that's where the bikers go. Oh, look, yeah, they're still loading. Still all the trucks still going. How big is this ferry? There's nobody in any of these cars either. All right? Just wait here then. I really don't know how everybody knows the order. But anyway, there's some trucks just going on it now. No way. The trucks are reversing onto the ferry. Wow, that's crazy.  And as far as I can see, I'm the only bike around. I cannot see any of the bikes. 20 Minutes. No. 80. 80 Minutes. No, I have one problem. Oh. One AM. One AM? Okay, gracias. I can finally board. It's 12.15. And I think actually Olli is still waiting in the queue. I can't see him. But I can just see that actually just the trucks are boarding. So he might still have to wait for a while. It looks actually that the trucks they have to reverse backwards onto the boat. Super crazy. It seems to be getting cold on but they're leaving the bike to the last so I'm still waiting. Everyone seems to be going on except me. I think Lavi is probably already on the boat chilling in her comfy seat. It's not that comfortable unfortunately. Oh yes. We've just had the call that we could start moving. It's amazing. It is 20 to 1 now. And on the ticket it says the ferry was supposed to leave at midnight. So that's not happening. But this is an improvement. We're getting closer. Okay. The motorcyclists have been called me and this fellow just here. I'll just follow him. I think we're going. I think we're going. Oh yeah. Nice. Wow. It looks much bigger up close. There we go. Our beloved ratchet straps. Useful for the first and only time. Do you need more? See? Yeah. YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. New fans of the channel. Alright. I've got to pack away these cameras. Ready? Okay. Perfect. Gracias. Alright. The cameras are secure. Bye, bubble bee. Gracias. Alright. Let's go up. Alright. Just arrived on the top deck. Where am I going? Hola. Hola. Okay. Gracias. Puerta. I think means door. So I'll go to the puerta. Passenger lounges. I really don't know where I'm walking. It feels like I'm not supposed to be here. Seat area. Where is Lavi? Where is Lavi? Oh, I see some seats. Ah, there you are.  Look, they got a little bar. How cool is that? So where's our seats? So our seats are taken. How do you know they're taken? Lay tail. So that's it. We've made it onto the ferry. And this is going to be us for the next eight hours. Yes, we will try to just get comfortable now. And that's it for us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Share the video with your friends and family. Comment below. And we'll see you next time.


This is stock number 9674. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Remember we are the guys with the trucks on 41. Today we are checking out this super clean 2006 Chevy Silverado 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LLY motor which pumps out 310 horsepower. Victory red is the color from this HD video. You will be able to tell just how clean this truck is and then speaking of that we shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. Factory or I'm sorry Eagle alloy chromed rims has Falcon Wild Peak LT3 2560 R18 tires with about I'd say 60 to 70% of the tread lot frame and underbody. It's in really nice clean condition. Has a nice front billet grille aftermarket hood, factory fog lights, no dents or dings on that front bumper, passenger side rims in pretty nice condition. And as you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make a trip down you can still see the truck hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. You can see any dents or dings down this side of the truck. The cab is in excellent condition up there. Very very clean down this side of the vehicle. We take these HD videos so especially with vehicles that are a little bit older you can get the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible so when you get here there's no surprises. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and as we take a look underneath you can see that it has an MBRP exhaust and that the frame and underbody on this truck is extremely clean. All the lower rockers look really good as well. It has Weston chromed wheel-to-wheel side steps, chrome tipped exhaust with that MBRP, rear bumpers in really nice condition, no dents or dings on that. It has a full towing package which includes a receiver hitch and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. It has an access, light rider, soft roll-up tonneau cover that is in really nice shape. I didn't see any rips or tears on that and it has a very nice spray-in bed liner. Looks like it's a viper liner out of Oregon. Has a seven pin wiring inside. Looks like it had some sort of fifth wheel in it at one time. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as we go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side. No dents, no dings, very very clean for full disclosure. This back rim is in nice shape as well. Classic body styles are very hard to come by in this condition. This one has almost no corrosion on it whatsoever. It was very very well maintained. Inside you get the LT3 package which gives you the gray leather interior. There are no rips or tears in the seats. They're in really nice condition. Both these seats are heated. We have weather tech formats throughout. Auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, Bose sound, and as we hop inside here you can see that this truck has 69,732 miles. The instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You can see it does have an edge programmer on it. Leather wrapped multifunction steering wheel that is in really nice shape and this one has the six speed automatic Allison transmission with the manual tap shift option.  Up here you have your compass and temp and the headliner is in really nice clean condition. Passenger seat is in excellent shape as well and we have a weather tech format on that side. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood. Also wanted to point out that this one has the telescopic tow mirrors. So they come out like that. They also fold in and they have the built-in directional signals in there. Oh also aftermarket brake controller down there. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. Has the latch child safety system for your car seat and it has a fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up and down for extra storage so you have a nice flat area to put tools or boots or whatever. And you have a catch-all floor mat back here. Rear audio controls with headphone jacks. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this video you will have been able to tell just how nice this truck is inside and out. 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We had a viral news story with Bill Murray, three months into business.  So from that moment on, people knew who we were and we won Best Food Truck LA from LA Weekly. So I was about three to four months, which was unheard of to my friends that are in the business. Yeah, you had, you had some amazing early customers and early, you know, backers of the truck. Absolutely. We were living in Sherman Elks at the time and a location scout came to my house asking if they could film at our house. And my wife and I, I had worked in the business. I was like, no, I've seen them literally destroy hardwood floors, drilling into sea stands and like, we're not doing it. So I come home from work and she goes, Oh, this location scout came by to film. They went and, you know, I said, no. And I was like, what was it for? It's like some Bill Murray movie. He's like my, I'm like, wait, what? What'd you say? So I said, no, I'm like, you said no to Bill Murray out of your mind. So long story short, I'm like, this guy's my idol. I have an ice cream truck.  So I call it the Bill Murray ice cream social and I parked outside the set and I gave everyone for your ice cream hoping he would actually show up. He shows up. He comes on the truck. We take photos. I'm like, this is awesome. I posted to my Instagram the next day. My friend Chris calls me. He's like, Joe, you know, Bill Murray's stories are huge on Reddit. I had no clue what Reddit was. He posts it. You're never going to believe it came to my friend's ice cream truck. He called me. Chris is like a soft spoken guy. He calls me like a stockbroker screaming. He's like, Joe, you are the number one post on Reddit. And I was like, what does that mean? He's like, this is the most searched image on the internet right now. I was like, get out of here. And then instantly Rolling Stone, Today Show, Vanity Fair. I got emails. I'm like, what is happening? And everyone wanted to hear the story, like, tell us about Bill Murray because he does all these crazy things. We want to hear what happened. And I told the story and I just asked them that they use CBT soft sort of Los Angeles and their articles. And I mean, it was nuts. We were headlines right after that. So Bill Murray joke, no joke. Bill Murray helped my business take off 100 percent. Incredible story. Incredible.  Like those those people who won't have Bill Murray grace their business, they might also be the people who can't see the opportunity that you did where your neighbor had said yes to the filming location. And so you were like, well, if we can't be the the location that Bill Murray is going to film at, I'm going to be the next best thing. And I'm going to park my truck right outside. And it's it's like catching flies with honey. Sure. And not only that, a couple of things. He didn't have to show up.  I'm not going to do it. Like there's a lot of things that just happened to work out that night. It was insane. And then even for like, I now know how red it works. It didn't have to get voted up. It just got voted up. They just clicked on it. This is cool. Oh, this is cool. And that could have totally just died out. I'm sure there's crazy stories on Reddit that no one ever sees because people just don't vote it. There was a lot of luck with it for sure.


The high school softball season is finally sliding into gear, but for Brainerd, they're already in midseason form. AJ Feldman tells us why the Warriors think they have the formula to make a deep postseason run. The Warriors are off to a 5-0 start this season, and while the offense has been hot, scoring 55 runs over that span, it'll be the defense that takes Brainerd to the next level. I have no doubt that we can hit the ball and run the bases and score runs. We're going to play defense. Our pitchers are throwing strikes and doing great and getting ahead quick, and we're always behind them to back them up. They returned seven starters from last season, and the team says they're as close as they've ever been. I think the chemistry is what is holding us together. Even if we make a bad play or something, there's always a teammate to hold us up, and our talent and skill and our hard work is paying off. It's so nice to still have that chemistry with the girls that we've been playing with forever. We really have come along. We've gotten a lot closer this year for sure with everyone, so that's really helping us. But the team has added some new faces, a trio of eighth graders who are already making an impact. Our young kids are talented. They're young. They've got a lot to learn. They are talented. It just really makes us a whole, though. We have experience. We have good senior leadership. Our junior class is really good. But then you bring in those eighth graders, and it's fun to have young kids that are talented as well. I know they were a little bit nervous at first, but they definitely showed what they could do. The Warriors have a fitting motto given the long winter and hope to use it to propel them late into postseason play. Coach actually has this motto of us being a snowstorm. So instead of one individual snowflake, we all come together to make a big snowstorm to plow over the other team. So I think that's really key, actually. Reporting in Brainerd, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. The Warriors are back in action tomorrow on the road. They'll travel to take on Alexandria at five. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


It's now a complete clown show. The Circus has a bunch of clowns. There they are at the back. Ever should it be so that there's a very small one and a very tall one and a bunch in between? You know, one that's slightly more portly, others that are thinner. It's just a perfect comedy set up there. This is time for everybody to sit down. Nobody should be up. This is another disaster. They've moved themselves into exposed positions and they haven't prepared for this. So they're each framing each other terribly. And Paltrow is the axis of control. Now she's in a position that she is used to. All the other clowns, all the other acts move around. Perfect for her, extraordinary to see.


I'm very happy to be here. My husband, Peter, and I just recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. How many of you know Peter? Anyone ever seen Peter on TV? I know lots of women watch him on Crossing the Goal. I don't know if any men watch him, but I know lots of women tell me they watch him. But we were reminiscing about our early days of marriage. We used to come to the Steubenville Conferences with a couple toddlers in tow and speak and bring youth here, and that was back in the day when they just, this fieldhouse did not exist. I think it was just a big tent.  And it would just rain and pour cats and dogs, and they would just come in with these big bales of hay and just put them down in the mud, and young people would actually sleep in sleeping bags. Yeah, those were the days. So I am very glad to be back here in the fieldhouse and not in a tent. And I want to just make a disclaimer here before I begin to speak. And that is I am not an expert in anything that I'm going to talk about tonight. I am like all of you.  I'm like, as one saint said, one beggar telling other beggars where the banquet is. So I think I probably overprepared a little tonight. And what I want to do really is try and speak to you mostly from my heart. A few years ago, our family received a very pretty sizable inheritance. And it wasn't one that I necessarily welcomed because it was a result of my father's death. My mom had died about six years ago, and my father died a few years ago. But as I worked through the grief and the loss, and really the feeling of, I don't know if any of you have lost both your parents, but there really is a sense of being an orphan in a certain way when that happens. And it really causes you to reflect a lot on your own death, as Sister Ann Shields once said to me. It means you're next up on the ladder. But as we receive this inheritance, it really caused me to reflect a lot on its meaning, not just from a financial point of view, but really what it meant that my father worked his whole life to provide for our family, not only in this life while he was alive, but after he was gone. And the inheritance that we received really enabled us to do things for ourselves, for our family, that we couldn't do on our own. I was able to get that new kitchen that I'd been wanting for 30 years. We were able to help one of my children with their college tuition. We were able to pay off a mortgage. I should probably stop talking about our financial state right now. But you understand what I mean. There were things we were able to do. And it wasn't because my father gave me this money because I was a perfect child, far from it, or even that my life as an adult had turned out the way he wanted it to. I was converted from Judaism to Catholicism. And that was a very difficult thing for my family. But what I want to say is in spite of all those choices that I made that weren't my father's preference for the way that I live my life, he was so kind and so generous and so loving that he provided and cared for me in this way. And I think just reflecting on this inheritance that we received made me reflect even more on a more important inheritance. And that's what I want to talk to you about tonight. Because it made me think about the inheritance that I've received as a Catholic, as a believer in Jesus Christ. And that is that my Heavenly Father, who owns everything, did for me something that I couldn't do for myself. I was spiritually destitute. And I think it's good sometimes for us to go back to the beginnings, to remember how much God has done for us and where we would be without him. The inheritance that the Lord has given me is not because I did anything to deserve it or to earn it, but it really came out of his merciful love, his abundant love for me. Through baptism and through faith in Christ, we are heirs to the greatest inheritance that there is.  You won the lottery. It's funny, nobody looks like they won the lottery. Show me your face if you won the lottery. All right. We've all won the spiritual lottery, so to speak. Listen to what St. Peter says in the first chapter of his letter. Let me give you a little context, because it helps me to understand the scriptures. He's speaking to those believers who've been exiled, who are under tremendous persecution and hardship. And they're probably wondering, like I would be, is this really worth it? Is it really to live for this and to die for this? And this is what St. Peter says. By his great mercy, we have been born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. And not to be outdone, St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians says that we have everything that we need and could possibly want in Christ. He says, Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. And he's destined us in love through Jesus Christ to be his sons. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us. Now, if the words of scripture are true, and I believe they are, and we've been promised all the riches of the Father's kingdom, why are so many of us living like orphans and like poppers? Are we really living daily in the freedom of Christ? Are we really living like we've won the spiritual lottery, like we're sitting on that goldmine of spiritual wealth? Well, as Dave said, the name of this conference is power and purpose. I think we often live without spiritual power in our lives because we don't understand our purpose or we've forgotten it. We've forgotten our true identity as sons and daughters of God. How many of you have come to this conference seeking more power and more purpose? Can you raise your hand? OK. I will not ask those who don't know why they've come to this conference to say something, but I know you're out there. If you have come to find more greater power and purpose, if you've come to be awakened to a deeper faith, tonight is a good night to start. So I want to talk just really briefly about inheritance, and I'm going to just give you really three solid succinct points. So when I get to point number three, you can say, good, she's almost done. OK. So when I talk about inheritance, the promise of our heavenly inheritance, the down payment of what's to come is what. You can all say this with me. What is it? It's OK. I'm going to give you a little hint. It's a person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the down payment or the promise of what's to come for us. The scriptures say in Ephesians, you are marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit, which is the pledge of our inheritance. So if the Holy Spirit is in you, and I know he is because of baptism, that means you've been given a promise that you can hold on to, that there's more to come. When you were baptized, whether you slept through it or you cried through it, you were probably as an infant oblivious to what was happening. Maybe I was not baptized as an infant. I was actually dunked in a swimming pool in a school as a young adult. But however you were baptized, the point is when you were baptized, you received an indelible mark of the Spirit. You were born again to new life in Christ. And our Father, our Heavenly Father, who's the very definition of love, of lavish love, poured out upon you the gift of your spirit. And with that gift, he gives you the first point I'm going to make, and that is the power to become a child of God. I love this passage from 1 John. It's just so beautiful. John says, look and see what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. It's almost as if God was standing around thinking, what's the greatest way I can lavish my love, my children? I'm going to bring my children back to myself. I'm going to give them that identity. So the very first thing is that God gives us the power to become children of God. And this isn't just through a baptismal ceremony. It's not just a theological concept. It's a radical transformation. It's a reception into the family of God. I have four children, and two of them are married. And I have four grandchildren. And our grandchildren numbers have just doubled recently in the past. And besides having your own children, I don't know any greater joy than being a grandparent and watching this new life come into the family and realizing, wow, the Harbeck family is growing. It's really an amazing thing that these two people who you have been given life by their parents now have the power to actually bring children into the world and to be called children. It's the same with us. God's work in us through baptism really brings out a radical transformation. And we really are received into God's family. We move from a state of sin to a state of grace. And what it means is that we're no longer orphans. But it also means that each one of you, myself included, have been given in an estimable dignity and value because God has created you as his son or his daughter in his very image and likeness. And he looks upon you and he says, very good, not just good, but very good. And that means that we have access to everything that belongs to him and, more importantly, to his very own divine nature. Back in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I lead a Catholic Women's Bible study, Help Lead It. And one of the questions that comes up very often are discussions with the women. There are a lot of faith-filled wives and mothers and grandmothers. And they'll always start the question like this. They'll say, I have a son, or I have a daughter, or I have a husband, or I have grandchildren, and they're baptized Catholic. But they're not practicing their faith. Are they OK?  I mean, they're baptized. They're OK, right? And what I say to them, to the best of my ability, I say, baptism is an incredibly important initiation right, but it's not an insurance policy. It's not a guarantee. It's a gift or a pledge of life in the spirit, which only grows when we activate it through faith, when we nourish it, when we strengthen it, and when we fight for it. And then they ask me a very important question. How does that happen? And I say usually just two words, meet him. We have to meet the Lord. We have to come into a personal living relationship with Jesus Christ for that identity and that grace and that faith to be activated and to come to life in our own lives. Side note. If you're here this weekend and you haven't met him, that him, God has that for you this weekend. So we've been given power to become children of God. Why is it so often that it's hard to live with power and purpose? How many of you are regular attendees at these Franciscan conferences, been coming for a long time? OK, well, that's great, because it means there's a lot of new people. I think what can happen sometimes when we go to conferences like this that can be powerful and impactful and Holy Spirit filled is we have this kind of mountaintop experience. And then we kind of sink back into the valley and we start to think, what else can I do for that mountaintop experience? And that's where maybe the cycle of coming to these conferences comes from. I mean, keep coming. They're great. That was not a commercial not to come. I think they're great. But it's a bit like we get stuck in daily life and we don't know how to find our identity and to meet the Lord. It's a little bit like this passage in James, which I really like. James says, we become like a man who looks in the mirror and he sees his natural face. And then he goes away and he forgets what he was like. I think we get touched by the Lord sometimes at these conferences. And then we go away and we get bogged down by daily life and the cares and the anxieties and the fears that we deal with. And we forget that we are sons and daughters of the living God. And I think at times we can suffer from this kind of spiritual amnesia. And we allow the enemy and the world and the flesh to rob us of our identity. I think for me, it's when I'm going to talk a little more personally and if it applies to you, great. But I think for me it's when I hear a variation on this one lie and it's the same lie that was recited in the garden. Maybe you hear the same variations yourself.  Can I really depend on him? Does he really have my best interests at heart? Well, I'm not sure. So I guess I have to make my own way. I have to figure out who I am on my own. And I lose sight of who I am in God's eyes. And I begin to put my identity in what I do, in what I have, in what I accomplish. But you know what? Those things are never enough to give me a clear, stable, confident sense of who I am because they're constantly changing. For a lot of my married life, I was a mother with four kids. They're all out of the house now. So I'm not that mother with four kids in the same way that I was. So my identity has to be fixed and grounded in my identity as a daughter of God. I want to ask you a question. You don't have to answer, but I want you to think about it in terms of our identity.  I know Debbie Downer, right? Need to bring it up. But think about it. Would it be what you had done and accomplished? Or would it be who you are? When I thought about it today, I thought, today I would like it to say Debbie Herbeck, beloved daughter of God. You know, after Jesus was baptized, when he was baptized and he went under, remember, he received his identity. And the Lord said to him, said, behold my beloved son, his identity. And right after Jesus receives his identity, where does he go? Who knows? To the desert. He goes to the desert to battle for his identity. And the devil says to him right away, if you are the son of God, prove it. There's a battle going on for his identity, for his mission. And Jesus overcomes those temptations in the desert in order to be victorious over the temptation that Adam and Eve succumbed to in the garden.  And when he went to the desert, he went to fight for your identity and my identity as well. So we've been given power to become children of God. And everything that belongs to him belongs to us. OK, first point. The second point is that as heirs of the promise, we've been given power to move from death to life. I want to tell you some of my own story to illustrate this point. I think for a long time in my own life growing up, I was really enslaved to sin and to the fear of death.  And eventually, this fear of death was realized in a family tragedy. I grew up in a Jewish home. I don't know if I'd say it was a religious home, but it was a very, what would I say? It was not devout, but it was very traditional Jewish home. Had lots of religious education and culture, but I had no sense of a personal God. I had no understanding or knowledge of who Jesus was. It wasn't allowed in our family. And when I was 15, my older brother, who was two years older than myself, was in a very serious car accident. And although I had grown up in a Jewish home and had been taught how to pray in Hebrew, I had never prayed personally to God. I don't even know if I thought God existed or not. The best I can say is that if he did exist, he had no relevance to my life. But that night, when I was away from my family and got news of my brother's car accident, I did something for the very first time. I cried out to God, and I prayed. And I said, God, I don't know if you're real and I don't know if you can hear me and I don't know if you even care.  Shortly after I prayed that prayer, we received the news that my brother had died. And I remember very distinctly, besides the grief and the anger, saying to God, where were you? Why didn't you do anything? Where are you, God? If you were real, you would have saved my brother's life. And as I went on through high school and then eventually a few years later, I got to college at the University of Michigan. No matter what I did to distract myself from the grief, whether it was studying or playing sports or going to parties or boys or alcohol or money, any of those things, the reality of death took hold of me. And I began to think, what is the point of life if all we do is die? Well, through a series of circumstances, which I don't have time to tell you the whole story, about two-thirds of the way through my freshman year in college, I found myself in my dormitory in a lounge, sitting on the floor with a bunch of other girls watching a movie that was being shown on TV. I'd never read the Gospels. I didn't really know who Jesus was or what his message was. I knew he was the leader of some kind of some world religion, but I didn't know what he taught. And I remember sitting down with a friend who had brought me to this movie, and she, as the movie came on, I turned to her and I said, what movie is this? I thought it was kind of a strange movie. And she said, nothing. And I said, what movie is this? And she said, it's called Jesus of Nazareth. How many of you have ever seen that movie? Okay. Immediately I wanted to get up out of the room and leave because I knew that I shouldn't be there. But I was so shy and embarrassed to get up in front of all these people that I sat there and I watched as this movie unfolds and the story of Jesus' life from his birth unfolds. And I remember at one point, leaning over to my friend, Sarah, and whispering to her something that I discovered in watching this movie. He's Jewish. I mean, who knew, right? That's kept secret. And I watch as the story of his life unfolds and I feel so drawn to this man. He's Jewish. And not only is he a Jew, he's a good Jew. He goes to the temple. He fulfills the law. He listens to his mother. He's a good Jew. There's a point in the movie near the end of the first segment. They were gonna show it in two segments. Where Jesus comes to a town. It's a town called Bethany. And he's met at that town by a woman who's weeping. And her name is Martha. And Martha comes to the Lord. And she says to him in her tremendous grief and sorrow, Lord, where were you? If you had been here, our brother would not have died. And I watched that scene and I thought, this is a script from my own life. I said those words to God. Where are you, God? Why didn't you do anything? And at that moment, honestly, everything in me wanted to get up out of that room and run. But I felt like this hand was just holding me there, saying, watch. And I watch as that story unfolds. You know the end. I didn't. Jesus goes to that tomb of Lazarus. And I knew as a Jew that he had no business going to a tomb because it was ritually impure. And he goes to that tomb and he calls forth his friend Lazarus from the grave. He raises him from the dead. And I sat there and I watched the scene unfold. And I thought, who are you? Who is this man? Is he the one? Is he the Messiah? Is he the one who has power over death? The death that I feel so acutely in my own life. Is he the one? And I went back to my room that night and I couldn't sleep. And I went down to my friend's room, the one who took me to the movie. And I knocked on her door and she opened her door and she put her Bible out. And I opened it up where that little ribbon was to John. And I read an astounding line where Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will never die. But the one who believes in me will live forever. Honestly, I didn't know what most of those words meant. But I knew in my heart there was an implicit promise that death doesn't have the final answer. That there is something in this world and in this life greater than death that has overcome the power of death for me. And that night I got down on my knees in my dorm room and I prayed for the second time and I said, God, I don't know who you are or if you're real. But if this man Jesus is the Messiah, show me and give me the faith to believe. And I began to read the scriptures, hungry to know and to pray. And I prayed that prayer every single night for nine months. And I don't have time to tell you how it all unfolded. Maybe you'll have to come to my workshop to find out. But I met Jesus. I met the Lord. I met the Messiah. And I understood through faith that love is stronger than death. That he holds the power to conquer death. And my life began to change, began to be transformed. All my life I've been held in slavery really to a way of life that was really directed toward death. And I began to be set free from patterns of destructive way of living, patterns of sin and to really live confidently as a daughter of God. And I wanna say that happened years ago and since I've been involved in ministry and helping other people come to know the Lord, there is nothing more beautiful than to watch others make that journey from death to life. It's like watching captives being set free. It's like watching prisoners who are condemned to die being reprieved. And it's like watching Lazarus being raised from the dead. That power to move from death to life, to conquer sin, to live in a transformed way, to become a new creation is at work and available in each one of us because we have been called children of God. Jesus' power over death also means that I no longer have to fear death because death isn't the final answer, it's just a doorway that leads me to life with him. Recently I was, Peter and I were having dinner with a close friend of ours who's a very holy man and Peter said, John, what are you, what's the Lord doing in your life? And he said, and our friend John said, he's preparing me to die. And I kind of took a stack and thought, what's going on? Are you dying? And he looked at me and he said, Debbie, we're all dying. Am I living in a life that, living my life in a way that's preparing me for the next life? If I die tomorrow or in 25 years, actually my grandmother just died at 102 so I might be around for a while. Am I living in a way that's preparing me to meet the Lord? Am I freeing myself like my friend John is from the distractions of this life enough so that I can really know him more, so that I can really focus on that inheritance that is awaiting me. Okay, so the first one is we have been given power to what? Become children of God. Good, some of you are looking back at your notes, that's good, okay. The second one, he's really given us power to move from death to life. And the third one is that as heirs of the promise we've been given the greatest power of all and that's really the power of love. I'm sure many of you have heard this but I love the definition of the Holy Spirit which is beautifully often called the love between the Father and the Son. That love is so powerful that Jesus loves in us all the things that we find most unlovable about ourselves. I'm gonna say that again because I need to hear it. Jesus loves in us all the things we find the most unlovable about us. Doesn't that blow your mind? I don't know about you but sometimes I just go through this list about why all the reasons God can't love me. And the fact is he loves me in spite of those. I work with young women teenagers and junior high girls and one thing I say to them a lot is there is nothing you can do to make God love you more and there is nothing you can do to make him love you less. He just loves you. We've been given a tremendous power to know and comprehend that love and to take that love into our hearts in a way that transforms us and changes us. But one of the ultimate miracles of divine love is that we've actually been given this love not just for us but so that we can reflect Christ's love to others. It's a love that's not powered by emotions or circumstances but by the spirit of God living within us who teaches us how to love sacrificially and unconditionally. A priest friend of mine once said that he thought marriage was the school of love where we learn how to love. How many of you would agree with that? Okay, I want to broaden that. I think life is the school of love and I think that we can go through our day and remember that and think about it like that that we're actually here to learn how to love because what we're gonna be doing for all eternity is what? Loving. I don't know about you but I wanna get a head start on that so I can spend as much time there doing what I've been created to do. The power of love within us enables us to share God's love and to help others actually come to know him. One of the best lines I love when people talk to me and it doesn't happen often but I love it when somebody comes up to me and says I want what you have. Isn't that a great pickup line? I want what you have. That means in those rare moments when I'm yielding myself to the love of God that dwells in me, someone is actually seeing a flicker of light, they're seeing Christ in me. And the greatest thing that God has given us is to be able to reflect Christ to others. Little story I wanna tell you, I've mentioned a number of times that I work with young women and one of the things we talk to them a lot about is how to be God's love in the world today and we say it's so simple. Just start with small things, start with a smile. Mother Teresa talks about that often, the importance of smiling. So this young woman came to one of our meetings and she said, I did it, I did it, I did it. What did you do? She said, let me tell you, I love somebody today. I said, okay, great, how did that happen? She said, I was in the parking lot, I was going to Target, I was in the parking lot and I passed by a woman in the parking lot walking and I stopped and I smiled at her. And she said, an amazing thing happened. I walked by her and I kept walking and the woman came back, ran after me and tapped me on the shoulder and said, excuse me, this sounds kind of funny but I'm kind of having a hard day. Could you pray for me? And the young woman said, sure, I'd be glad to pray for you, why are you asking me? She said, because when you smiled at me, I just experienced God's love. Nobody ever smiles, nobody even hardly looks at me. So there's so many small, simple ways that we can reflect God's love to others. People don't come to me and say, I want what you have because I give talks or because I memorize scripture, which I don't. But people do that and they'll do that in you when they see God's love reflected in your life. First Corinthians 13, love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.  That's all that will be left will be love. Not speaking in the tongues of angels, not working miracles, not even giving up your body to be martyred, all that will be left is love. I believe this weekend that God wants to begin to or begin or continue a work of transformation in our hearts through his power. Whether we've been following him for a long time, or this is our first time really stepping into something like this. I believe he wants to show and confirm in each one of you your identity as a son or daughter of God and to say to each one of you, I'm well pleased and I love you. I wanna end with this quote by Pope Francis, which I think is really a wonderful challenge. He says, let the risen Jesus enter your life. Welcome him as a friend with trust. He is life. If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk. You won't be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don't be afraid. Trust him. Be confident that he is close to you. He is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do. Let's.


Please welcome Jair, who's going to tell us a little bit about random module. Thank you. So, non-secretary, an exploration of Python's random module. Non-secretary means it does not follow in Latin. And I chose it as the name of the doc, because it sort of describes the behavior of random sequences, but also because my own interest in the topic was completely random. So, it does not have much practical relevance for me, but still I think it's an interesting and beautiful topic and worth talking about. So, my name is Jair Trejo. I work for Pink Orbeez, a small development shop in Mexico City. And I want to talk to you today about randomness in computers and in the Python Standard Library. So, I like the English word random because besides its basic meanings of unpredictability and impartiality, it also has a connotation of spontaneity or suddenness. In fact, it lightly comes from all French words that mean things like speed or violence or impulsiveness. The Spanish word is azar. It comes from Arabic and it refers to an old dice game. So, even now we call chance games juegos de azar. So, the mathematical term is very much related to the gambling meaning. It is no coincidence that the first explorations of probability, the mathematical theory that measures analysis into a point predicts random outcomes, has its roots on trying to understand gambling and what goes into predicting the outcome of gambling. One of the first examples of probabilistic analysis comes from a series of letters between Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys, concerning some dice bits that Samuel Pepys was going to make. We think of the rolling of dice as a process with a random outcome. For a fair die, we hope that each of the six phases has an equal probability to come up when we're rolling it. So, before throwing it, we don't really know what is it going to come up. And even when we do a series of rolls, the information about past outcomes of the dice does not give us any insight into what is going to come next. So, if I roll the dice and the number 4 comes up, is 4 a random number? Well, it certainly is a number chosen at random. But just by looking at it, we cannot know whether the process that produced it was actually random. So, we can't really talk about the randomness of individual numbers, but about sequences of numbers. And sequences of random numbers have many applications in real-world situations. They are often used for reducing the size of a problem by sampling it at random points. This can be seen, for instance, in statistics where you take a representative sample from a population, like when you pick people to call for an election poll, or in simulations where you want to approximate the probability for some event or property, we can randomly generate events and then statistically measure the probability that we're looking for. These applications require the sequence of random numbers to be uniformly distributed. So, this means that every number in a certain range needs to come up with roughly equal probability. Or otherwise, our result is going to exhibit those same biases. For instance, this sequence, it looks pretty random, reasonably uniform. So, it can conceivably be used in simulations as a source of numbers between 0 and 9. In fact, if we try and take the average, we will see that it's reasonably around 4.5. That's what we will expect for such a sort of sequence. And every number comes up roughly with the same frequency. But random numbers also have important applications in cryptography. Mini-secure communication algorithms use random numbers for secret generation so that only trusted parties will notice the secret random numbers. Cryptographic signing schemes also use random numbers for generating signatures in a way that doesn't reveal information about the key, even if you have a lot of signet messages. And for instance, in Django, there is a long random secret key that you need to use for every website that is used to sing sessions and encrypting them so that users or attackers cannot tamper with them. And there's been a recent scandal about the NSA back in making a trapdoor in the random number generator used by RSA in many of their products. So, apparently they can predict which random numbers the RSA products are picking which has disaster security implications. So, these cryptographic applications require more than just an unbiased sequence of numbers. They require the sequence of numbers to be actually unpredictable. An attacker that knows which random numbers I'm picking or even that has some insight on the word to look for the random numbers that I'm picking has to draw up into all of my secrets. So, the sequence we were talking about just before, it looks unpredictable, maybe, but it really isn't at all. So, they are the first digits of pi, which of course is a completely fixed predictable sequence. If an attacker knew that I was using digits from pi for generating random numbers, he will only have to compute pi and he will know all of my future pickings. So, keeping in mind these two requirements of impartiality and unpredictability, what can we use for getting suitable sequences of random numbers? One option is to use a natural phenomenon that we know to be unpredictable when measured with sufficient accuracy. For instance, the website random.org uses atmospheric noise. It measures it and it extracts random numbers from it. In the UK, there is a machine called Ernie that uses transistor noise measurements to pick winners in a national lottery. And we can also use radioactive isotope decay, which we know is pay-natured and predictable and independently of the precision of our instruments or even the quality of our models. But what this case is having in common is that it is often slow, expensive and require of specialized equipment to measure these sort of natural quantities to generate random numbers. So, it might be useful to generate this large quantity of random numbers once and then compiling this into a table of random numbers that we can draw from in the future. As a matter of fact, in 1955, the RAND Corporation published a table of a million random digits obtained from specialized hardware. This enormous book came to be widely used in simulations for engineering and science. But, of course, large numeric tables also have some disadvantages of their own. Especially with the computers from back then, it is very hard to store and efficiently access such a large table, which led researchers to look into techniques for random number generation on the fly. So, of course, computers are deterministic artifacts. So, the future state of the machine is completely determined by the present state. So, how can an algorithm actually generate random numbers? Well, it turns out that unless we incorporate input from outside devices, we can only generate pseudo-random numbers. That is, random number generators, output numbers that look random when statistically measuring them. But they are not actually hard to predict if you have enough information about the state of the generator. In the 1940s, Jumbo Newman was doing simulation work that required a stream of random numbers. He came up with the idea of generating it by taking a random number, squaring it, and then taking the middle digits to produce next. The output of the generator looks reasonably random, but it is crucial to pick the right seed for it, because, for instance, if we get a zero somewhere in there, that means that from then on the sequence is going to generate a zero. And it also has a tendency to fall into short loops, which, of course, there is no way to get it out of. In fact, we can use different seeds and measure just how long does the generator run before starting to repeat numbers. And we can see that even for 40, the sequences are not very long. But if we take one of those long sequences and check the average value and other statistical properties, we can see that they look reasonably random. So is it possible to evaluate randomness more precisely? If we want to mathematically evaluate randomness, we need ways to formalize what is impartiality and its unpredictability aspects. What we formally measure unpredictability is to look at the entropy of our output, which is a measure of the space of possibilities that it can take. It is important to know that this cannot be immediately told from looking at the numbers. You have to actually look into the process that generated them. For instance, if we see those numbers and I told you that I picked them at random, you might think that I picked them in the range from zero to a hundred. But if I told you that they are actually prime numbers, then you will see that the actual space from which I drew them was much smaller than we thought. It's similar to how my bank asked me to pick a password, but it only can be like A characters long and I cannot use repeating patterns or consecutive numbers. So in general, they are reducing and reducing the space of possible passwords that I can pick. Although it might be worth it if it stops people from using passwords as a ranking password. As for impartiality, we can look at the statistical properties of our random sequence and see if they are consistent with probabilistic predictions. When checking the randomness of the gates of pi, we used the very informal test, sort of a roll of thumb. We checked that the average of the values was what was to be expected in random sequence. And we strengthened this test by looking at individual frequencies for different leads and see that they are roughly the same. But we have much elements to assess whether this is sufficiently right or disasterally wrong. We need something a little bit more quantitative. A much better evaluation is the G-square test, which is using the statistics to see if a set of data conforms to a certain distribution. The general idea is to measure the squares of the difference between real and expected values weighted by the expected value. And summing them, so this gives us a sort of a measure of how much our observed frequencies deviates from what we will expect probabilistically in the real one. With this measure, we go to a table like this that gives us the likelihood of observing different values of this quantity. If it is too big, then we conclude that the sequence is too different or is too much deviated from what we will expect in a random sequence. But also, and different from the application in statistics, if it is too low, then the sequence is also suspect to be too uniform for being random. Other tests check the sequence for more complex patterns. For instance, in a random sequence, pairs of numbers need to be as uniformly distributed as numbers themselves. Or we can also check if there are gaps between successive appearances of the same number and whether the length of these gaps is consistent with what we will expect probabilistically. And there's also a number of other patterns that we can use. As a matter of fact, there are standard tests that can be used to check random sequences. There is one by the American NIST, which group a series of conventional mathematical tests or programs that can evaluate a list of random numbers. So we can see if our generators are random enough. On the other hand, there's some more exotic tests like the Marsaglia dihar battery tests that prove that tests random numbers in some quicker situations, like the spacing of birdies in a random population, or it tries to place circles and see which circles overlap in a plane. And many other random experiments that we know what values to expect. And we can check that against the performance of our random or supposedly random sequence. Taking into account these tests of randomness, better generators have been devised. One very popular is the Linear Congressional Generator, which is a recurrence where we take an initial value and use this equation to produce subsequent values. Of course, this is going to eventually repeat itself with a period no greater than m. But if we pick the right values for a, c, and m, we can get reasonably large sequences that exhibit very good statistical properties. The problem with this algorithm is that it's very easy to fall into this situation. Even if numbers look random when seen linearly, when you plot pairs of them, they sometimes exhibit this kind of behavior, like they are all falling in the same straight lines. We can choose better a, c, and ms to get rid of this behavior, but it always ends up happening in higher dimensions. So how can we get rid of even these deviations from truly random behavior? Well, the Mercent Twister is an algorithm proposed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takujini Shimura, which consists of a large linear feedback register. And it operates in a way that permits the sequence to have a very, very large period of 2 to the 19 or 20,000 potency, more or less. It is also interesting that this sequence has internal state and uses that internal state to produce the actual random numbers. So even if you know the random numbers themselves, you cannot predict immediately the next number in the sequence. You need a large sample of them. And if you actually measure the statistical properties of the sequence that it produces, they are very, very close to randomness, and they don't exhibit these weird correlations in many dimensions up to 623 dimensions. So it is a very good random number generator. These desirable characteristics have made it a very popular generator. It is making it in many languages. Python is one of them. The Python Random Rule uses Mercent Twister as its underlying default random number generator. There's also the question of how to get random numbers that are cryptographic as a queue. This obviously cannot be obtained from an algorithm because algorithms are deterministic. So they have to be gathered from system activity. Linux and some other Unix systems provide a source of random numbers in Dev Random that is feed by an entropy pool that derives randomness from various sources like keyboard inputs or the timing of mouse movements, noise in sound or network interfaces, et cetera. So when users need random numbers, they can get true random numbers from this pool. Of course, getting random numbers out of the pool sort of drink a bit of our entropy milkshake. So we need to replenish the pool with more entropy. Besides the regular sources for a consumer system like the keyboard or the mouse, modern computer systems often incorporate some form of hardware random number generation. Intel chips, the eBay Bridge family come with a dedicated random number generator in the hardware. So now we have finally arrived to the actual random module. The Python Random Rule starts from this generator of numbers between 0 and 1, only firmly distributed, and provides a lot of other interesting distributions based on that. So the way to use it is there's a class in the module, random, which can be seeded, and that provides a method random that is going to produce a sequence of numbers from 0 to 1. If we can use a seed if we are going to repeat or we need the same sequence, or we use the same sequence several times, then we can just let Python seed it with a number get from the view random or from the number of seconds at the time of the call. From real random numbers between 0 and 1, it is very easy to get real or integer random numbers up to a certain number. We just multiply the random real by the maximum value. If you have a specific range, you have to generate a random number up to the width of the range and then offset it by the start. So it is still very easily derivated from the random real. And if you also need a certain step in this sequence of possible random numbers, you just generate an integer up to the number of steps and then offset it by the start and you have your random integer. So we can generate random reals. We can generate random integers. And if we need to include the whole interval of numbers, so we need a number between A and B, including A and B, we can use this special function, randint, that just calls randrange with the appropriate arguments. We can also pick or we can also perform some operations or random operations in a sequence. For instance, we might want to get a random element in the sequence, which is very easy to generate an integer in the range of indexes for the sequence and pick the element corresponding to that index. If we need a sample, we just repeat this process several times. If we want a sample without replacement, we need some form of tracking of which numbers we have already picked. There are two ways to do it. You can track which numbers you can still pick in a list and then remove from them every time you pick one. Or you can use a set to remember which numbers you have already picked. Which is more efficient depends on the size of the population compared to the size of the sample that you want to get. And the Python random variable actually computes this on the fly and uses the more efficient method. You also might want to shuffle the list. The algorithm used by the random variable is the featured jade shuffle which just goes to the list and exchange every item with another one that is randomly picked. This, of course, destroys the sequence. So if we need a simpler way to do it that gives us a new list, we can just sort by a random key. This is not as efficient, but it's much more simple. Now, we might be interested in random real numbers that have another distribution other than the uniform one. How may we go about it? Well, let's consider the normal distribution. It is determined by two parameters, me and sigma. In this plot, we can see that for each real number we can know the probability of picking it with this normal distribution. But we can also plot the probability of a random variable with this distribution falling before every real number. This is called the cumulative distribution function for the variable. And we can see that it's always increasing. This means that to get a sequence of normally distributed random numbers we can generate a uniform random number that we will use as a probability in this plot. And then we can check to what x does that probability correspond. And the result of that selection is going to be normally distributed. This does not only apply to the normal distribution but to any distribution for which we know the distribution function. But it is not always obvious or easy to generate the inverse cumulative distribution function just from looking at the distribution function. So there are many mathematical tricks that have been devised to ease these computations. For instance, for the normal variant distribution we use sort of a mathematical trick where we pick two random numbers, use them to generate a point in a circle and the x and y coordinates of that point end up being normally distributed. And from there we can get a number of interesting distributions that you might know from science and engineering like the triangular distribution, gamma and beta distributions, the Pareto distribution or the Weeble distribution that is very popular in engineering because it can be used to approximate the other ones. Another one of note is the von Meister's distribution that is sort of like the normal distribution but for angles in a circle because when we have angles we can see that several angles may actually correspond to the same point in the circle. So the von Meister's distribution is wrapped around the circle to consider the effect of these like double angles for every point. And finally the random middle creates the following instance of the random class and provides the bounded methods as module methods. So you can just import random and if you don't care about the state of the generator you can just use the module functions. If you need separate generators like for multi-threading applications or because you need two independent generators for different experiments you can actually instance the class and cheat them individually. You can also subclass the random class to provide your own random number generator. The Python random middle comes with the Wigman hill for backwards compatibility reasons and as an example of how to provide your own random number generator. There's also a system random that will get numbers from the system provided random number generator in Unix systems. And there is even a library that will connect to the random.org server and use that as a source for random numbers. In true random numbers you can use this. And since all of the other methods rely only on the generator of real numbers from 0 to 1 they will still work even if changing the source of the actual numbers. So concluding, the definition of randomness is more philosophical than a mathematical problem. But we can use mathematical definitions that are useful for our purposes. If you need sequences that are deterministic but behave as if random we can use pseudo random number generation. But if we need numbers that are completely unpredictable we need sources of entropy like input devices, noise measurements or other external natural phenomena. And for most of our random number needs Python provides more than adequate capabilities. Finally I would like to talk about a book that inspired this talk. This is a very good book that takes this very short basic program and uses literary criticism techniques to analyze it word by word. It sounds far-fetched but it's actually a very interesting book and the chapter of randomness is what got me interested into this very beautiful topic. The art of computer programming volume 2 half of this book is about random numbers. It is very theoretical but it's also very fun. Lots of really nice mathematics in there. And finally if you want to read a little bit more there is a series of really good articles about randomness in cryptography by Clothfair that might help you understand why is randomness important in cryptography. There is a very good description in the second link there is a very good description of how statistical testing of random numbers work and if you want to read more about the possible backdoor in the RSA's random number generator this art's technical article is also very good. So that will be it. Thank you very much.