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Yukon Stanford Maryland, Oregon Zach W Kentucky 30 seconds gets super. I think I also have to add to it. I don't think I added to it last break Oh nice Let me update this by the way guys at the link in the chat for you guys are going to join the big dog It's there as well. No, the guest is at 440 101 baby Yes, the super just gotta need a name 10 seconds left y'all name any name anybody can actually yes Jumbot Diaz is a great guess. We guess five four three two and One time is up now Brooks will be the last one They've your Brooks. All right, we go James as in Ronnie James Williams. That's a great guest, too. Geez you got the light box going everywhere now You don't like Wuga Sort of dingle. I like dingle so much Come on chiefs. Oh, let's go Pacheco. Let's go Pacheco stay in bounds Fractures we got McNeely, Erin Green, Riyusha, we're running that at the end Cody Williams lava auto for Duke Tyrese Proctor number two one ninety nine Buffalo gave it up. I don't think game over There's still over 10 minutes left Wilshire first auto for St. John's Bradshaw on the auto number to 99 as Bradshaw for Kentucky got an extra auto in the first box We'll take those Refractor auto Darren Green, Florida State to 250. Is that was he down? I think that's a touch back, dude. Lou refractor Lou refractor one ninety nine Proctor for Duke Aquaway viscoby to two ninety nine for Tennessee purple mini diamond three ninety nine Yukon ball Aqua at two ninety nine 80 for Purdue and a purple to three ninety nine Norman for Marquette You try to reach you Fool hey, that's what Cole Hardman though That's how we Cole Hardman do it That's how we Cole Hardman do dude chief's receivers were literally me the reason they do not win this year His leg was not quite down. It's not quite touch or fractures of sheet Vanlith a league bay and an aqua viscoby on the answer here to 150 for Tennessee Green Michigan State Color Match AJ Hoggard auto number to 99 That's pretty nice They saw it for Texas still in desu and Then Iowa Katelyn Clark auto CC From the logo. That's right, baby. Congrats, Iowa. Go Iowa She's a tough pull in this one and she's good player pretty good. That's pretty good. Congrats, David on that one That's a nice one for Yukon. Aliyah Edwards yellow auto to 75 a Lava Justin Edwards for Kentucky number to one to one hundred actually you're a little blue to two ninety to one ninety nine Baylor Aqua wave Holloway to two ninety nine Auburn purple mini diamond three ninety nine steward for Duke and To two ninety nine fears for Michigan State refractors of Hall Evans Sears Wilshire on the St. John sharpshooters Autos you got Mom Shalovitch for Iowa State Fears the 250 for Michigan State a more auto for Virginia Tech Parallels you got Aqua wave to two ninety nine Chris Johnson Texas three ninety nine Collier for Notre Dame purple mini diamond Blue Ray wave Baycot to one ninety nine UNC 399 Edwards for Kentucky Blue to one ninety nine Caleb love for Zona and then a gold Bryce Hopkins for Providence Where do you want a 50 Sunday fund days down to six? Six on Sunday fund a dollar beasts. It's pretty wild lineup. They review it yet What do you want Peter Peter's ordering? Heritage all base edition Heritage no hit addition Super jumbo heritage all base edition no hits Sounds like a nightmare 500 cards per pack six packs per box 25 boxes per case or cases per palette Rich is listening a pallet break for you Jake refractor of hair Smith Shepherd and bill you yeah full pallet break Jared McCain sharpshooters How's it feel to lose the lion's you will go refractor out of 250 for Miami will go I do good. That's that's that's that's a terrible franchise Fractor will go to 250 for Miami boogie elisado for USC I'll have Jake pick the pick the boxes out tonight then purple mini diamond a 399 a hallway for Auburn So you can take all the he's gonna rip all the boxes to you can take all the all the fall and All the praise if it happens he'll be he'll be a Bachelor rewarded in all their buckets page buckets to 199 Yukon Aqua to 299 fears from Michigan State Purple to 399 Kugel for Florida and a railway for Kia Jackson number to 100 for Tennessee More chiefs get hurt. Sorry keep punching you Jake knows it's a Can't prove that fractors of a famous ball brawny brawny refractor it's a line down this I'm gonna send a boxer up. There's a line down the middle of this card Yikes all the way down to his knees. Geez and a big kahuna Omaha bill you nice Iowa states I'm saying stride lion stink go lions next weekend, but lion stink green refractor auto RJ Jones K state to 99 There we go K states So hard to find certain teams in this that was land in with K state nice green RJ That's probably the chase with that spot. That's a great hit base auto Freda de Leon for Tennessee Nova base auto Tyler Burton and gold now. We've got Milan M auto to 50 for Iowa State Any I we got she'd for Houston 299 McCain Duke 399 McKayla Williams color match LSU 150 Dingle Jordan Dingle for St. John's Yeah, Jake just like said it has Dingle and John's in the name And then the one that's 299 mirror little for Baylor the tough name You got fun it made fun of her his middle name Fractur of Baba Shellstad Chris Johnson and Paige buckets on the sharpshooters insert you call an auto a Leah Edwards first moment I'm going live lions and Ravens next week kind of no matter what I Don't care who wins game go Ravens Vesco V to 199 lava auto for Tennessee LSU McKayla Williams first woman based auto. That's pretty good, man The hobby boxes had a little over 200 or like really good value all really good value all around though But I'd at 300 can be a little more risky obviously because there's more there's more price in it, but you get a lot of numbered Number to 299 will you call Michigan State? It's a 399 a more for Virginia Tech It's 199 the color for Kansas color match on the blue ray wave It's 299 mom Shalovitch for Iowa States and a 399 McKayla Williams color match again for LSU purple Let's see why he's arguing he's arguing that he caught it and that's for sure not a catch Refractures of De Leon Norman Baycotts and let's go chrome Ron Hollen that'll be a random at the end SP Ron Hollen the second that'll be a random at the end Good luck on that first one. I've seen the let's goes. I think one of one of the other breakers hit a Let's get it. What's the other SP the diamond the diamonds? No No pin jams, I was gonna say it's something to do something like that Lava first auto Ashton hardaway from Memphis pennies on the 199 Houston auto Joanne Roberts nice Stanford Cameron Brink refractor auto to 250 big hits Rat Stanford Brink starting to come out now. We're gonna get that one in the mag numbered Brink auto Got a brawny James big 125 big card Got a garrison to 150 for okay states Aliyah Edwards to 199 to Yukon the key of Jackson a 399 Tennessee Dylan Jones Weber state to 299 purple to 399 Mookie Cook, Oregon and a yellow Sean Stewart for Duke to 75 Page buckets is good fractures if you got McKayla Williams Elijah Martin Blake Hinson and a brawny James sp USC Where's the university of school? Let's use it calm back on California. Oh Pasadena old old Pasadena 25 and they ran an interesting loss of the loss of the yards other defenses against ops now Auto is Trevon Brazil for Arkansas followed by green auto FAU Elijah Martin numbered to 99 Stanford auto Spencer Jones Spencer Jones Stanford And a yellow first woman auto Scotty Middleton to 75 Ohio States Green the 99 kelp Brenner that has a that has a ding on the top right as well We're gonna send a box ever to the Creighton spots They do sometimes though Connects to 299 Tennessee castle to 399 Yukon Shepard blu-ray wave to 199 Kentucky big card Awesome color match The cats the cats is Zach Congrats Zach and purple Bogey Ellis to 399 USC Dang Jordan See that Jake see what Jordan said chat. It's tough out here, man I mean, that's definitely whatever they wanted the call penalty on that. I guess it's Checked him in the middle of the field while he's throwing Evans mom Shalovitch McCain and Collier sharp shooters Lava auto is Jordan Dingle for st. John's a lot of Dingle lava to 199 Dingle Zach Idiotto for Purdue As a beast Purdue Pete Okay, state refractor auto Brandon Garrison out of 250 and Weber state with a yellow lot of Dylan Jones I think we're getting a lot of bonus autos. I'm gonna count them up at the end here yellow to 75 Dylan Jones for Weber You just got dingled Dude Joe Engels probably jingle the heat tonight. It's 199. Javante Taylor Memphis 299 Trey Norman Marquette 399 McCain Duke. You got a lava Dylan Jones for Weber the box for the Weber combo to 100 and A blue Dingle to 199 If you have a blue Dingle go see your doctor See your primary care provider Refractor is fears Hopkins and Terence Shannon That is a El Marco Jackson sharp shooters family channel. I said nothing. That was out of line Green auto to 99 Kyle Filipowski for Duke Congrats Duke the Jookies That guy's that guy's probably a top ten pick Caleb love auto for Arizona For a red Dingle Peter, I think we would all rather see a red Dingle than a blue Dingle Ever seen a super dingle no Refractor auto Colorado out of 250 is Cody Williams nice hit for the buffs Go buffs. All right numbered Parallels we got Baba to 199. We got an orange coming up. Oh shepherd to 250 or to 399 now for Kentucky Orange Devon Royal Ohio State to 25 Orange Royal to 25 in Holloway blue to 199 Auburn and purple mini diamond Colect a 399 Marquette I'd pull a Super Factor Dingle. That'd be a big card I don't want to hit it now, so I can just yell Dingle real loud Big Dingle All right refractors of Aliyah Edwards Layton blocker El Marco Jackson. There's all Marco Jackson Aqua insert here numbered to 150 for Kansas Our intent big play Good coverage first auto is Dennis Evans for Louisville Expex guy organ auto Jackson shell stad Ducks quack-quack-quack-quack Malik haul lava auto from Michigan State's Malik hauled a 199 for Sparty Number of cards here. We got little to 299 You hit a little in Dingle back to back It's 299 Dingle for Baylor Holloway to 399 Auburn buckets page buckets a 299 Yukon Dixon a 399 for Nova and Green the 99 UCLA Devon Williams My needs to blur the screen Already looks blurry. All right last box Refractors of Castle Collier Jamir Young and Rios shade numbered Rios shade 150. It'll be a separate spot on the random Dylan Jones auto for Weber State Eagle Weber base Orange I like to look at that dude. Very nice looking throwback auto Mackenzie Mgokpo to 25 for Indiana a Terence Shannon first woman auto for Illinois numbered cards here. We've got Aliyah Edwards at 299 Yukon 399 to McDowell for Kansas to 150 is Jones for Weber that combo is done pretty well To 299 stromer for the Zags 399 is haul for Michigan State and To 75 we got Hopkins for Providence Johnny Hopkins Okay, yeah big big random here actually so we'll do Jake's hit Jake's hitting all the notes tonight All right, non-college here, so how we're gonna do this First spot is gonna get the let's go Ron Holland Second spot the Rios shade numbered insert to 150. There's gonna be a third spot on the random It's all other like non-college card. So there's like base or any other Inserts or refractors. There may not be any in the delay is I can't remember if we had any There may have been like one Rios shade refractor. So first spot second spot third spots any other that we have Good luck to everybody here go five times getting top three getting something here One two three four and five per do combo is gonna get the let's go Michigan states get in the Rios shade and Ohio State will get any others So You'll just write all other non-college cards basically Those got the ball back. They forced the punts Alan got time. He started deep Did he launch that ball that was a I was a 60-yard fast 60 ari-hards on it All right, let's recap so this will be Some cute colors There's some of the numbered cards here we had the Hopkins Orange Royal Devin Williams Shepherd purple Javante Taylor Norman Ellis Hopkins Stewart ball Escobie and Edie not all the number cards. There's just too many to go through Just the color for so many. All right, my favorite. I'll just we got Terence Shannon Gokbo to 25 Dylan Jones Dennis Evans Jackson Schelstad. We'll be call That's Cody Williams Caleb Love Victor Wembanyama Not the new Wembie.  So very good process Not quite the Wembie level of like hyper talent, but he will be drafted pretty high those guys don't come around But in the sense that he's French, you're gonna draft it really highly again. Yeah, kind of Phillip Mowski Dylan Jones Garrison Dingell Edie Middleton Jones Elijah Martin Brazil Hardaway Roberts Vaskovi Williams RJ Jones De Leon Edwards Mom Shalovitch Burton Ellis Poplar Mom Shalovitch Amor fears Edwards Dsu Hoggard Green Bradshaw Wilshire and Proctor. You're welcome Gotcha a blue ray wave Reed Shepherd to 199 sick card for Kentucky Cameron Brink Otto the 250 for Stanford and a Caitlyn Clark Otto Iowa that'll do everybody moving on now too. It's number 10. I believe


Hey guys, CJ here from Township Chevrolet in Somerside Prince Edward Island. Given the look here at the 2021 GMC Yukon XL, so the full-sized SUV we have in our lineup. Now as you can see here, beautiful white and it's very sporty and styling as well. Right off the hop you're going to see the C-shape LED headlights. So these are your daytime running lights. Down here you have your fog lights and then your standard LED headlights. Now the nice thing about those is the position of them. So they're actually a little bit lower for the size of this vehicle.  So when you're doing lots of driving at night, highway driving, it's going to be well lit for you. The signal lights are placed on the corner of the vehicle so the people in front and on the side all the way around are going to be able to see when you're turning and indicating. Keeps you and your passenger safe as well as the other drivers on the road. Now the beautiful, this is the SLT, so it's got chrome all throughout and parking sensors. So right down here you're going to see them on the corner as well as across the front. So when you're backing up like I'd mentioned before or even when you're pulling into a spot, it's going to beep to allow you to see how close you're getting. The other thing I want to show you here is the 360 camera. So all the way around this vehicle there's cameras. You have one here on the front, both mirrors on the back so you get the full view around the vehicle. It helps you when you're backing up, when you're pulling ahead, trying to parallel park. Just keeps it safe so you're not hitting that little vehicle in front of you, getting those little dings as well.  So if you want to follow me around the vehicle, we'll keep on going. So like I mentioned guys, this is the Yukon. I did tell you it is the Duramax diesel, the three-liter, the badging on the side, as well as the 20-inch wheels. They look really nice on this vehicle and they fit the wheel wells really well. Now on the inside here, it's got acoustic laminating, so as well the inside down here, it's got like a felt material. So it helps keep the road noise from the tires down and keep it quiet inside while you're driving. Your beautiful Yukon badging along the side, as well as your steps here. So it is a little bit higher of a vehicle, so sure people like myself you can use those, makes it easier to get in and out. Now this is the other camera, it's on the side here. So the one points out this way and you have one that points straight down to give you those extra views around, as well as signal lights placed right on the mirror to give it more visibility when you're making the turns in such a big vehicle. Now your keyless entry, so there's a little button right on your door handle. If you push those, it's going to unlock the door for you. So if you have kids, groceries, things like that, you can keep your key in your pocket like it is on my body here. Push your button, it's going to lock your door. You push that again, it's going to open it so you can hop right in. It's full keyless with the push to start. You don't need to take the key out of your pocket to drive this vehicle home. So as we continue around the back of the vehicle here guys, you have the chrome continued throat along the badging and the SLT. You know your back of camera here, it's a fisheye lens, so what that does and what that means for you as a customer, it's going to give you a view behind the vehicle, but you can also see the bumper as you're backing up. So if the kids leave the bikes in the driveway, you're backing into the garage, you're going to know how close you are to the things behind you to keep a safe, you're not running over your kids' bikes. As well as your parking sensors, you can see they're placed throughout the vehicle as well in the back. So those are going to beep as you get closer. The closer you get, the faster they beep, just so you're aware of how close you're getting.  It just helps keep the people behind you and as well as you and the vehicle, safe when you do hit the brake light, they're going to be able to see you and they're placed on the corner as well as the signal light, so everybody around is going to continue to be able to see when you're stopping. Again, the safety features on this thing are incredible offline. Now the space in the back here guys, like you get full power tailgate, so you can adjust the height of that as well to here. You can go all the way up, you can adjust it down, it'll stop here. Lots of options and variety for that. So like I mentioned, with this being the XL, it gives you that extra cargo space in the back. As you can see here, you don't have power seats, so if you push the button here, your seat's actually going to go down for you. So we'll push that, it's going to go down, so it gives you the comfort of having all that space as well as the ease of being able to put it down and you can put them back up with the power as well. Both sides, 60-40 split, as well as underneath here you do have storage, so if you need to put booster cables, golf shoes, gloves, winter hats, things like that, you can store them under there and they're not going to be sliding around. Now tons of space for groceries and a nice hard cover there as well, so it's not actually going to bend or break on you. Alright guys, here in the second row you do have your captain's seats.  The outside of your climate controls. Now as you can see here, you're able to adjust it yourself in the back seat, so your fan speed, temperature, auto, you can control your mode as well, and you also have heated seats in the back, so if you have people in the back like you're taking, you know, your parents out or you have friends, they're going to also have that heated seat in the winter to keep them warm. And it's beautiful leather back here, the stitching's fantastic. You also have charging ports, they're charge-only, so they can keep their phones connected without having to worry about connecting to the Bluetooth as well. And even in the second row you can take advantage of enjoying this beautiful dual-pane sunroof here. It's fantastic. Alright guys, let's go for a drive. A lot of people have questions about the three-liter turbo diesel and they have, you know, their concerns, but you're actually going to get better fuel mileage with this vehicle than you were with the 5.3, and with a vehicle this size, a lot of people like the 6.2, but you're going to get the same amount of torque, so better fuel mileage, same amount of torque. It's a win-win for everybody, plus it burns a little cleaner as well for those people that are concerned about the environment, which is a nice feature. We also have dual-pane acoustic laminating throughout the vehicle, so the windows are actually made of two panes with a sheet of acoustic laminating in the middle of it, which helps keep the road noise down as well as the wind and vehicles passing by. So it's nice and quiet if you have your family, friends, and you're trying to have a conversation, you don't get that excess road noise as well. It's the same with the noise cancelling system. It works hand in hand with that, so the Bose system has a great sound, but also helps reduce the excess noise that just pollutes the air. Now the driver's information is centered up here on the dash. It's super clean, very nice, easy to see and use. On your info page, you can have your speed, your trip, your fuel range to empty, so you can see how far you're going to be able to go, as well as your oil life, tire pressure, so you can keep up with the maintenance of the vehicle and have it running at its best throughout the life, as well as your air filter brake pads. Another cool thing on this one is it actually has your follow distance indicator right on the screen to tell yous of the time, how far you are behind the vehicle. So right now it's saying 1.8 seconds behind the vehicle in front of me and it's giving me the green light, which means I'm in the safe distance. As you approach that and it gets closer and closer, it's going to go to orange, saying that you're in an iffy spot and then if you do get too close it will come up red and it will flash lights on the dash in front of you to let you know that they are slowing down or stopping really fast to help avoid an accident, which is nice if you have your family in here, keeps them safe, gives you peace of mind while you're driving as well. Now I like the console here as you can see, it's not a column shift, it's not a big gear shift in the middle, it's just your little buttons on the dash here, frees up a lot of space for your phone, cops, keys, things like that. And it's got a nice sleek look to it as well, sits right beside the 10 inch screen, which is easily laid out, easy to use as well. So you have your audio phone, wireless care place, so right now I'm connected. I can have all my messaging as you can see here, I click on that, boom, there's no more cords laying around, cluttering up space. It's got my phone, music, maps, Spotify, messages, which can be voice dictated as well, it'll read it, you can respond so you can keep your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road and everybody's safe. If you want to get back out of that, just hit your little home button back here, takes you back to your main screen, which is a touch screen so you can fly through that. You're going to control the rear climate, so if you've got the kids in the back, you can help them out with that. And if you hit this camera button right here, it's actually going to give you a view behind you for eight seconds, so you can see you know, if there's, if you have a trailer, it'll show you your connections, it's going to show you if there's anybody getting too close or you can just creep on the people driving behind you, and then it just goes back to the main screen. I like that feature, it's one of my favorites that we have in our vehicles.  The person beside me can be nice and cool, vice versa, we can both have it the same, you can have it synced, totally up to you and totally customizable to keep you and your passengers comfortable as well. Along with the dual climate control, you also have your options for your heated seat, so it gives you three options, two for the heat and one for the cool. So for the heated side, you can have just the back of the seat or you can have the back and the actual seat bottom itself.   And with the cooled seats, it's nice in the summertime on days like this, when it's 28 degrees, you're not going to stick to the seat, you know, that gross feeling you get. And in the wintertime, you're not going to freeze to lift them as well. Now, this is a four-wheel drive, so you have an auto, two-eye, four-eye and four-low. Your controls are just down on the left-hand side here, right by your mirror controls as well. To the right of that, you have all your lights on the inside, fog lights, lights on the dash light. And if you find it too bright, you can dim it down. You can brighten it up during the day, so it's easy to see for you. Thanks again, guys, for watching the video on the 2021 GMC Yukon. If you have any questions, give us a call at the dealership Township Chevrolet<PHONE_NUMBER>. And like we always say, it's worth the trip to come to Township.


Another, everyone, welcome. This is Melissa Arma with Stock Swish and Reviewing the Market here today. A lot of action in the market today. Powell talking to get about interest rates. What's funny is he talked about lowering rates at the end of the year. And again, we went from people expecting five rate cuts this year, rate cuts in March. I'm supposed to talk about 2023. Then three rate cuts and two rate cuts. Now everyone's excited if we do one rate cut. I mean, it's funny because I didn't even know I was talking until this morning. I was on Schwab's network yesterday and said, you know what, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't cut rates at all this year or if they only do one cut. And it sounds like after today that's what it's going to be. But the market rally. The market rally today, I mean again, it fell into the close, but I'm probably the only person here that's not extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely bullish on this market. I think at some point it's going to come to a head that inflation really isn't going down fast enough. Interest rates are going to stay high for a long time. And whatever cuts they do are going to be not that much. And again, so again, they're going to eventually start to talk about 2025's expectations, but 2024's expectations have been blown out. So why is the market getting excited about one rate cut? I don't know. I mean, I just, you know, again, I think I could just focus on earnings season here going into the next week, but market had a big rally here this morning. Data, this thing, that thing, the other thing. And I'm, like I said, probably the only person that's not extremely bullish on this market. Of course I'm not shorting this market here. I'm just not going long in either. And I'm not missing out on anything because it's really not getting any traction. So we'll see, we'll see there's a lot of data out Thursday and a lot of data out Friday. And again, in the unemployment number Friday and this definitely going to move the market. So it's a way to see for me here on this market going into the next month. I think it's going to be a better year in season for me. And what really companies end up saying how that then affects you overall market. If you have any questions or interested in the next Golden Gap class, it's in April, but not till the end of the month. You can sign up now, start training with us. You'd have weeks of training with us actually before the class, which you'll get to take an opportunity and advantage of getting the earnings season straight because earnings season starts next week. So the next Golden Gap class is April 27th and 28th. If you're interested in joining, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day everyone.


Brilliant comedy. This bull gets canceled just after two seasons. Another Latino show left in the dust, gone with the wind. And who was to blame? Some saying of the Latino audience, some saying Hollywood. I say, listen to me now. Only here on The Latino Slant. Hit our website, TheLatinosLant.com. Subscribe to our newsletter for free. And you're going to get all kinds of great updates, emails once a week from me on all our great articles and videos happening here on the channel and on the dot com. So have you guys heard of this television show called This Fool? It's been it's been a TV show now for two seasons on Hulu. But I want to know, have you ever heard about it? Because despite me having spotlighted it the last couple of years, done panels on it, I know that it just did not get a big audience. So I was happy to hear that it got a second season this past year in 2023, which I did a episode by episode review of. I absolutely loved it. It's one of my favorite Latino comedies. It's one of my favorite comedies. So what I want to do in this video is I want to talk about its cancellation in particular. Then I want to go to a little back and forth between Allie Times and different writers and different opinions on who really is to blame. And I am going to give you examples of movies that in fact did not succeed and some that did despite of itself. So I'm going to break it down and I'm going to tell you exactly at the end of this video, who is to blame for not only this fool, but other TV shows and movies that happen to be Latino for their early exit of this fool, which I absolutely love it. This was one of the shows that got it right when I say it in meaning the portrayal of Allie life in it's a kind of multifaceted, just kind of a different angle that isn't over romanticized or there's no trauma stance, maybe other than hating yourself in a comedic satirical way, which was this fool. So I was not surprised when it got canceled because I never saw a huge upswell as far as a wider audience, you know, taking to this new comedy, you know, sort of like The Bear or Abbott Elementary, which to me, this fool should have been up there with Emmy nominations and in the claim. David Garile from Allie Times posted this, right posted this. This fool got Los Angeles, Latinos, right? Who's to blame for its cancellation?  And this is the article by Gustavo Ariano, which we will have linked here who's to blame for the cancellation, which I really liked the article and said it was fantastic to him. Someone in the community chimed in. This isn't Latino's fault, bro. That's the same Eva Longoria mindset I don't agree with. We can't blame Latino audiences if something hits or flops shows won't stick around if they don't find out ways to cross over into mainstream middle America to appeal to a broader audience. And then the writer Gustavo Ariano chimed in if he can't win at home, though, how do you expect, how do you expect to win anywhere else? He chimed back. Perhaps I'm jaded and still figuring out how to wrap my own head around this, but I'm honestly not sure anymore if it's possible to win at home at a mass scale with television content designed around a subculture that doesn't resonate with mass audience. Gustavo, I addressed that in my column. Did you read it? You read it, right? And Barry goes back, mad love for you big dog, but I disagree with your conclusion in the article. Also Insecure, the comedy show. Insecure wasn't wildly popular because it was localized to LA. It was wildly popular because the writing was stellar and the cast was perfect. They caught the zeitgeist at the perfect moment. He goes on to say, Latinos will support something out the gate, but if they don't stick around or continue to grow in numbers, then the fault isn't them. It's the show itself. If Insecure wasn't great, it wouldn't have gotten the axe. It would have gotten the axe. I'm not saying that this fool wasn't good. It was. It just wasn't great. Eva Longura used this Latino guilt trip strategy for flaming hot Cheetos. And honestly, it was weird. Now I'm going to pause right there. Marketing it to a bigger audience is not the job of the Latino audience. Even if you get every Latino to watch this show or watch other canceled shows from Vita to Hentify, to Promiseland, to Gordita Chronicles, to one day at a time, all those shows did not survive more than two or three seasons, which in this day and time of streaming, to get a second season is a pretty big deal. But those shows, what do they have in common? They did not get that mainstream audience. Ultimately, it is the studio's fault. It is Hollywood's fault. It is who's ever in charge of their particular marketing. I want to know what they did in the marketing, because if you're just marketing to Latinos, you're going to lose.  And it is a tightrope dance. So that's one thing. Now, he goes on to talk about, he starts mentioning other examples. And here, flaming hot, that Eva guilt-tripped the Latino audiences to like, are you coming? Why aren't you coming? I want to get back to that. Latino is already one of the highest watchers of movies. We show up. We just want great stuff to show up. Not average product that we're being guilt-tripped into watching, in my opinion. The bigger problem are studios who don't develop marketing budgets large enough to support wide adoption on films that can cross over. Then I finally chime in. The ongoing problem here is studios having a clue how to promote these films. Trust me, I've been covering them in TV shows as well from this fool to go to the Chronicles, Beatles, and now Problemista, which is set to release the same day as Dune. Then he says, how should they promote them? I'm glad you asked. Now, let's get to this part of the video as far as how they should promote them. I'm going to use four examples and one you pointed out, but let's go with In the Heights 2021. This was a huge flop commercially at the box office because they tried to sell this as the musical Latinos want, and they completely missed the mark that this isn't a, per se, a Latino story. It is an American Dream immigrant story, sure, but it is a musical from Broadway first. So how would I have been marking this one? Well, I would have made sure that every high school to college theater group had tickets to this film, had swag goodies marketed to them, marketed to their musicals, because all of those colleges, high school productions love Lin-Manuel Miranda's productions, Hamilton in the Heights, et cetera, et cetera. That's what you got to hit. This is not a Latino film. You've got to treat it as a new type of musical that young audiences love, and they will love these songs, and it never clicked. It doesn't matter who was in the film, what matters was the songs, and that was never promoted. We should have seen comedy groups, excuse me, drama clubs, high school clubs, theater, thespian clubs, and even colleges going in droves to see this film. How was it marketed? I think it was a really meager attempt at certain Latino groups to buy tickets for their for their database, and it failed, as that happens all the time, because Latinos have a very eclectic palette when it comes to entertainment, but not everyone likes a musical first of all, not every Latino likes a musical, not every Latino is from the East Coast. So that is ultimately why it failed, but I gave you right there an example of how you could have marketed. You should have marketed to its base, which is the musical theater base. Okay, there you go. Flaming hot. Now, you had a problem with flaming hot. You didn't like it. That doesn't matter, right? It still was a film that was made, I believe, for under 20 million. Fox Disney owned it, ultimately never got a theatrical release, only streaming, and it did pretty well on streaming. What Eva Longoria and the team did there is they did their own street promotions. They did their own marketing, social media, press tours. For that audience, I think that was a really smart idea, because they probably saw the writing on the wall is that they got no marketing budget. Now, if I was that person at Fox, at Disney, at Hulu, I would have selected a limited release in all the major Southwest cities. I would have pumped up Ricardo Montañez's story as a janitor cholo ex-gang member coming up and being born again, being this and that. You hit those victory outreaches. You hit those communities that are reflective and shown in this movie. And we're talking at least a dozen, a dozen Southwest towns from Chicago to Texas to California that this movie could have grown and could have tripled its popularity even before I hit the streaming. But again, I don't think I think that they were scared of this product. They just did not understand it. Blue Beetle. Blue Beetle is interesting because Blue Beetle, in its opening weekend, the track scores show that the Latino audience doubled in their audience going 20% of the country, 40% of the audience opening weekend were Latino, which is fantastic. Here's an example where a lot of Latinos went that opening weekend. But here's why it flopped. No one else went. No one else went. Why? Because Warner Brothers did not mark it out of the community. Latino neighborhoods from Houston to Montabello events just for rasa. And guess what? That's fine and dandy, but that does not translate at all to the bigger mainstream audience. So here's what I would have done months prior. You do a campaign similar to what I was telling you about within the Heights, but you do it to all the dojos across the country. Every dojo across the country should have had Sholomari Dwayne's face and then him in his Blue Beetle outfit, stand-ups with coupons, with limited tickets to give out to students, because every dojo, especially karate dojos, young ones, young kids, love Cobra Kai. There was no Cobra Kai time. You don't even have to say Cobra Kai. You don't even have to have that. And if you don't own the Cobra Kai name or the logo, you just say Sholomari Dwayne, your martial arts star. And you go to Martial Arts TV Star. Man, you're attracting blacks, whites, Asians, because at the end of the day, that's who you got to track. And that's why Blue Beetle flopped. It was a disaster, let's just be honest. And I loved the Blue Beetle. It's only now that people are coming to me emailing me, letting me know, oh my God, I finally saw Blue Beetle on Max. I loved it. I loved it. So that was another example. Three failures. Let's talk about one success. And I want to connect this with the brand, because unlike those other ones that I mentioned, this one has obviously the biggest brand, Spider-Man. And it was a monster hit. They did multi-platforms of music, fashion, animation as far as global marketing. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And even they did not expect the commercial success that it was. Now, I will tell you, this one was just a superior story in animation in just presentation. So you had a lot of people who weren't Latino hooked, absolutely hooked. And I feel that whoever did that, the marketing behind this was very wise not to just make this a Latino thing. You can't.  It just happens to be it's part of the story. It's interwoven. So Hollywood, if you don't know your brand of these new Latino stories, you've got to hire someone outside of Hollywood to help you. Because ultimately, it's your fault. If you think that all Latinos that are going to go and make this a hit, and it's not, it's your fault. You also got to recognize the palette, the diversity of what Latinos love. And I'm going to give you a recent example. Bob Marley, one love, which just crossed over 100 million, biopic on the great reggae star. Opening weekend was a smash. Okay. Caucasians went 43%. Blacks went in a high clip. Latinos, a higher clip than their population. When you have that combination of three, you are winning big. And why? There were no Latinos in Bob Marley. There was none of that. There was like absolutely none. But it didn't matter. Why? Because the brand was there. You have Bob Marley, you have his music, which is already a global treat. So what the marketing people did is that they leaned into the reggae colors of Jamaica, the music in their marketing, and a great leading man in Kingsley, Ben Adir, and you had gold. It's making money right now. I think I gave you guys a good argument as to how I would have promoted the last three examples. And then you had the winner with four. But ultimately, that answer is that marketing team has got to know their product. And if they can't comprehend how to market some elusive Latino story, they got to hire outside of their company. They got to bring in some experts. So finally, let's use your problemista. I heard it was delayed because it was supposed to be released during COVID. And then they pushed it back all the way to now. Problem is, is that most Latinos are going to go see Dune because they love, you know, the big budgets of sci-fies and Dias Chalamet. You got an incredible cast, that whole thing. Okay, how would I have market to this one? A Julio Torres fan did not know about this film. So that's already a bad thing. If I was this, this marketing company, I believe it's Lion Gates, Lionsgate, I would have gone together with Julio's fans because Julio does not like to even, he's stated time and time again, I don't like to push any card.  It's not who I am. I just leave, let the work speak for itself. Fair enough, get Julio's database. Who are his fans? Who is his fan club? Connect with them because this is a narrow niche art art house type of comedy. So that's where you got to go first. You go with this fan base, then you go with the fan base of maybe what are other films like this? Barry said it's a Michelle Gondry type of film, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Okay, you got to get creative in connecting to those fans, not Latino fans. Latinos en masse are not going to go see this film. Maybe they'll discover it later on on streaming, but you got to go after Julio Torres fans, Losa's spooky fans, Michelle Gondry fans treat this as an art house delight and packing those art houses. That's where I would have gone. The fact that a Julio Torres fan did not know that this film existed tells me that Lionsgate, whoever's responsible for this, failed, failed miserably. And ultimately, thank you guys for watching this whole video. It's a constant consistent failure of Hollywood execs, Hollywood marketing team, specialists, I don't know what, listening to the wrong ears on these fine Latino products from this fold of problemista to to Blue Beetle and other films that I imagined in the heights, absolutely loved in the heights. But you got to get creative. You got to think outside the box. And if all else fails, come to Polly, come to Latino slant, we'll set you straight. I will tell you how to market each film, and it'll be a bigger success than you could ever imagine. All right, folks, what do you guys think a lot to a digest? But that is the current state of things here with this full. Again, highly recommend you go watch this full on Hulu. Fantastic comedy. I loved it so much. Think of think of a kind of a lot. Just think of a new iteration of Friday.  Keepers


Nationally, the facilities where we dump our garbage and process dangerous chemicals tend to be located in poor and minority communities. The people who live there have little or no protection from the industries around them, and things could get worse. So there's this idea of environmental justice. It's pretty simple. Communities shouldn't be forced to deal with more pollution because they belong to a certain race, national origin, or income bracket. Yet America has struggled over the years to implement any serious policy that actually protects these communities. So let's lay out the ways the government has failed them. To become a dark side. The fight for environmental justice took off in 1982, when residents of Warren County, North Carolina, mounted mass demonstrations against a plan to dump contaminated soil in a landfill in their community. The EPA investigated for similar landfills in southern states and found that they were all located in black or low-income neighborhoods. In 1987, the United Church of Christ Racial Justice Commission found that around the country, hazardous waste facilities were more likely to be located in mostly minority communities. Amid mounting proof, the federal government was forced to act. So in 1992, President George H.W. Bush founded the Office of Environmental Justice inside the EPA. Two years later, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to consider environmental justice in all of their policies, as well as extending civil rights protection to environmental discrimination. But Congress never passed a bill to make Clinton's executive order law. Then came George W. Bush. His administration shifted the focus of the Office of Environmental Justice from protecting low-income and minority communities to all people, leaving vulnerable populations without a federal environmental advocate. 80% of New Orleans, including much of downtown, is underwater. Under Bush, many environmental civil rights claims were rejected or delayed for years. In 2009, after President Barack Obama's election, his administration recommitted to environmental justice. Generally speaking, in this country, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live. Yet, during the two years Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House, they didn't follow a single bill focused on strengthening environmental justice protections. Passing major environmental legislation faded further when Republicans took control of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. Now, President Donald J. Trump is making good on his vow to weaken the EPA. Environmental protection, what they do is a disgrace. Every week they come out with new regulations. They're making it impossible. Who's going to protect the environment? We'll be fine with the environment. We can leave a little bit. In this budget, a 31% cut to the EPA, $2.6 billion cut away from the EPA. That's what the president wants. As the EPA loses funding and regulations are rolled back, vulnerable communities may very likely fall through the cracks. I'm Talia Buford. I'll be covering these communities and digging into systemic environmental injustice. If you have something to tell me, email me at talia.bufordatpublica.org.


Hey friends, this is Dan Burke, Dan of Stephanie Burke, and you're watching Behind the Scenes, Divine Intimacy Radio, and the camera's not out of switching, beloved producer. There we go. And um, the uh... They just thought maybe my voice had changed. Yeah, right, right. That's a little weird, isn't it? Hey, Stephanie's got a beard. Her voice is kind of low. Well, I didn't have it, but they couldn't see me, so they just saw you. No beard. Okay, that's right. So welcome. You're watching Behind the Scenes, Divine Intimacy Radio. But I want to make a note. The vast majority of the books that we recommend on this show can be found at EWTN's Religious Catalog, so make sure you check that out there. One thing that's cool about EWTN's Religious Catalog is that they are... All the books are vetted there, and so you can trust them. And then when you buy a book from EWTN's Religious Catalog, two things happen. They actually send it to you, which is amazing. And then... And then the other thing is, is that you are participating in the important work of EWTN. Instead of the evil empire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did say it. Okay. So before we jump into the show, as usual, I want to tell you about a few things that you might be interested in. One is, we're going to do a webinar. Me, Father Matthew McDonald, and Eric Sammons, who's the editor of Crisis Magazine, on how to attend the Latin Mass. Why do that? Well, a lot of folks after COVID and all the goofiness that's gone on with the abuse of the Lord and the holy sacrifice in the Mass have just said, you know what? I've had it. I'm going to go to the Latin Mass, or I'm not going to stay in the church or whatever. You know, they're frustrated. And we're not, you know, as I say this, what I'm not doing is putting one mass over the other. I'm just saying there's a huge transition of people from the ordinary form to the extraordinary form, just due to frustration. And there are many beautiful extraordinary form masses, don't get me wrong. But for those who are making that decision, this isn't a bash any mass. It's not a critique of any mass. It's not anything negative about secondary. None of that. We're just telling you, if you want to go, we're going to tell you how to go, you know, because it's a very different experience. We've had friends go and just like, wow, this is very hard, you know? But it's just because if you don't have the right mentality and you don't know what to do, it's so different. The way of participation in the extraordinary form is very different than in the order. Well, the way it should be is the same. The way it normally is is very different. So if you want to sign up for that webinar and go to spiritualdirection.com forward slash events, all of our events are out there. The other thing, and then we'll jump into the show is we have our Avala summit coming up. It's been full for like, I don't know, how many nine months? A couple years. It's been full with a wait list for a couple of years. But we've added a very cool thing in this, you know, world of COVID or post COVID is that we're adding a live stream. A virtual part of it. Now those that are still attending in person, those seats are filled and they're still attending in person. Yeah. But now we've added extra seats as it were virtual seats. So it's a great way to participate in an enormous, amazing. The lineup is quite it's it's remarkable. Yeah, it's called Fire from Above and Bishop James Wall, Father Boniface Hicks, Dr. Kevin Bose, Dr. Ralph Martin, our own Dr. Joseph Holtcraft, just talking about the Holy Spirit and and Carmelite spirituality, Charismatic and Carmelite spirituality. And how do you live these two? What is this? Or are they compatible? And so how? And when I speak of Charismatic, what I mean by that is the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So so if you want to join that again, it's spiritsdirection.com forward slash events.  And if you want to make sure you don't miss what we do and make sure you sign up there and you'll always get our emails and that sort of thing. An awesome, you know, articles, all kinds of things that help you on your journey. There you go. So today we're talking about marriage spirituality. So if you have any questions before we even jump into the show, after the show is formally over in terms of the recording of the radio show we do for UWTN, if you want to ask some live questions, then we can do that right after the show. Just make sure you type those in. I guess they can, they can just type them in anytime. But we have plenty to get through the show. So you're ready to get rolling? I'm ready to get rolling. Okay. And your markets that go. This is Dan Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divined Intimacy Radio, your radio haven of rest. Your hermitage of the heart. Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw on the wisdom of the saints. And today we are talking about marriage spirituality. Why are we doing that Dan Burke? Because we just came back from we've been on the road for three weeks. Wow, I'm tired. Me too. Wow. And the last event we did was in Farmer's Branch, Texas at Mary Immaculate. Was that right? Right. And we did a marriage retreat. It was, it was like 10 and a half days, Friday sat all day, Friday, all day Saturday, and then a big chunk of the day Sunday on how to know divine intimacy. A lot of people think divine intimacy radio is about marriage in general, but it's a divine intimacy is a general term related to the interior life, the mystical life of grace in Christ. But sometimes we do talk about marriage and in this case today that's the topic. Well, and it can be realized in marriage. That's the beauty is that we can discover the divine intimacy that we are called to with the Lord in, in and through our marriage. It's actually a primary means of discovering divine intimacy. Our marriages. So what is in terms of marriage, what is divine intimacy in marriage? What does that mean? Oh, there's so many facets. It's like talking about all the different facets of a diamond. So, you know, how the subtitle of our retreat, which I love that we came up with was ascent to oneness, you know, and it's both a little O and a, in a capital O. Oneness with a little O and oneness with the big O. Right. Capital O, that oneness with the Lord, the oneness with one another. And so as we grow in holiness, please Jesus, then we grow in oneness with one another.  Yeah. And so it's, it's, it's a mystery. It's a challenge. It's also glorious. And it's really, really, really important. Yeah. It's, it's so incredibly important that that's the reason we do it. You know, we had, we've never really intended, honestly, we'd never intended to have marriage retreats. And when you see all of the attack, you know, against marriage, all, if you look politically, socially, culturally, that marriage is demeaned and torn down, then you see, okay, there's something going on, because if the culture, the world, the flesh and the devil goes after something, you know that there's, there's something behind that and you need to pay attention. And so all of the world, the flesh and the devil goes after marriage. They want to destroy it, they want to demean it, they want to flip it on its head, they want to redefine it, they want to annihilate it and make it irrelevant and unnecessary. Whereas it is, it is the very image, it's living out the very image of the triune God, you know, the triune, the relationship between Christ and God and the Holy Spirit and this beautiful Trinitarian love is what we're called to in marriage, in complete self-giving to one another, and that love that generates between the two is the essence of what it is to live in divine intimacy. And really, if we backed up and I said, what is the, what is the sacrament of marriage all about? You just gave a good summary of the same answer. I think back to your note about one, sent to oneness, the reason we use that title is, a sent is an illusion to John of the Cross and Carmelite spirituality, but also Jesus, speaking of the narrow way, is difficult. So this is sent to the cross, to the resurrection and oneness, as you noted, being oneness with God and with one another. And so one of the ways that we approach this, it's very different, is most of these kinds of events are approached, or even this topic is approached from a purely psychological standpoint, like what do you think about? How do you deal with your emotions between one another? We're not taking that approach necessarily, although those things are good. Our approach is that if you draw near to God, if you think of a triangle, right, and you're on the bottom left side of the triangle, and I'm in the bottom right, and God's at the top. And the base of a triangle is wider than the point at the top. As we ascend, if both of us ascend together, we're moving closer together. And it's not a straight idea. It's a really beautiful, powerful idea. Yeah, and it's more than an idea. It's necessary. You know, I heard someone recently say, you know, you cannot achieve oneness in your marriage without achieving oneness with the Lord. Right? It's there. Well, none other than Bob Shoots, right? Or was it the guy who does his podcast with him? Oh, Dr. Jake Kim. Yeah. Both psychologists. Yeah, they're both, you know, preaching the same thing. I just found out they're also doing series on this. And it's incredible. You know, when you think about, okay, it's not just this isn't just an idea. This is actually truth. This is the truth that the church teaches. This is the truth that you see in reality being lived out. As people, you know, the people that I know that have the holiest, most beautiful, most free, most joyous marriages are those that are holding hands and running to the Lord with all they've got. You know, they're just like chasing after the Lord. And in that suffering that the self-denial, the self-giving, the prayer, the sacrifice of what does it mean to be one with God? They're holding one another accountable, they're helping one another on the path. And in that, they find freedom and beauty in their marriage, this true oneness. Amen to that. And you know, what's interesting is when I first, when we first were recording, we studied the theology of the body together as a way of getting to know one another. We did it via Skype. I think I sent you a camera for Christmas. And we did that over Skype. One of the things that I found difficult to understand at first, which I think is very powerful and important to convey, is the idea of a sacrament. And the marriage is a sacrament, you know, so just like baptism and confirmation and the Eucharist and reconciliation. And in terms of reconciliation and the Eucharist, we have a theology that's, I think, relatively easy to understand, not that everybody knows it, which is that for me to receive the greatest grace as possible in the Eucharist, then I need to be properly disposed, right? So there's a thing that we do in order to correspond our hearts and minds to God and open ourselves to the heart. One is, you know, getting rid of making sure we don't come with mortal sin, which is a grave, grave, grave sin. And there are other things we can do, you know, just even studying to understand what the mass is, that we're more fully engaged so that the, so that the graces that one person receives in the mass is very different than the graces of another person, depending on the disposition of soul, was always really confusing to me or hard to understand is how do, how does, how does marriage, because how does that apply to marriage? Yeah, because the Eucharist and reconciliation are things that we do over and over. Baptism is one time confirmation is one. Sacrament of marriage is, there's an event, right? But then there's this, but it also has a similar characteristic to the Eucharist and reconciliation in the sense that the graces that can come are not just the one time, not just the first time, right? Not just that first event. Right. So how do those graces flow in the sacrament of marriage? Yeah, and it's just such a huge idea.  That's all applied to you. But not necessarily to me.  The issue is, is that when you move into that marriage, is that we can often forget those promises, we can forget those vows, and then we can start to look at one another through the lens of our brokenness and our failings and, you know, that sense of everything's wonderful.  Well, when the honeymoon's over, when you start to see each other in the reality of who you are, as you truly are, right? That's where true vulnerability comes in. And that's where the graces of the sacrament can then just be explored and really take an advantage of as it is, because then if we start to approach our marriage with, not, what am I going to get out of this? But rather, how am I called to love the other when they're no longer perfect on their best behavior and without sin? There's no longer, you're not on a high. You know, it's similar, interestingly enough, the way that you're letting that out. It's similar to just the normal interior life, which is why we call it a scent to oneness, in that when you first begin on your journey to God, and this means that, you know, you may be a cradle Catholic, but a lot of cradle Catholics don't know the Lord, and they don't know this really powerful conversion that the saints know. And so, but they come to it somehow, you know, you go to an event or you read a great book or you have a crisis, whatever. So you say yes to God in a bigger way. And then what happens is he often pours out a lot of graces on us that are experiential in nature. So we experience this new or renewed love for the faith. We experience this joy or maybe even a freedom from sin and that sort of thing. But where the rubber really meets the road in terms of whether or not we're going to be an authentic disciple of Jesus is not that moment, because those moments are actually kind of easy. You know, I think, I think Father Altier said, the easiest, you know, I think the easiest moment in the marriage is the wedding day, you know, when all of the emotions are high and all of that, the harder part is when it's sort of the luster wears off, we see each other in our sin and brokenness. We see all the, we're no longer putting the best foot forward like we were when we're recording, trying to win one another. And then, and then there's, there are challenges and difficulties and you got to show up whether you like it or not, and you got to stay in whether you like it or not. And that's when the, when you're saying the graces flow because it's difficult. And so when you get back from the break, I want you to answer the question, why is it the graces flow more fully in that time than when everything is feeling great? So we'll be right back. So 12, 15. That was when we ended that. 13. Okay. All right. Reset. Mark, it's at go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome back to Divinity and Mercy Radio. We're talking about marriage, spirituality, the progress of the soul, the progress of union to God, and how it is that we can come to know, increase sacramental graces. I mean, maybe why should we care is another question. But before the break, I asked, why is it that there are more graces that come when things are difficult than when they're easy? Well, if we think about who we're called to be, we're called to emulate Christ, to become other Christ on earth. And through that, that means we're going to live through his life, right? All the beauty and glory of it, but also the suffering, the agony, the scourging, the, you know, all of it, the passion. There is no resurrection without the crucifixion. And so that plays out in our marriages as well. Because I don't know anybody, I honestly don't know anybody that just got married and they just continued to ascend without any stumbling, without any suffering, just straight stratosphere all off to heaven, right? We all experience this challenge, we experience challenges and brokenness in one form or another. One of the greatest disappointments is this moment when you look at the other person and all the sudden, you know, as it were, the veil comes off or the shine and polish comes off and you see somebody in the fullness of who they are in their humanity, as it were, in their brokenness. And you have to make a real choice at that moment to say, I love you anyway. I love you. I love you as you are, not when you're perfect. You know, I choose to love you every day. And so in that act of self-denial to stay in the battle, it's really, really important. You know, I was just speaking to a young wife and her husband is suffering deeply.  I don't deserve your love. You know what's crazy about that? And she said to him, it's a gift. Right. My love is not because you've earned it. My love is a gift and it's just incredible. So that, that self-giving at that moment, huge graces are flowing through that. And it's so healing. And if he can learn to receive it, then it'll change everything for him. So, funny enough, I went through that with you in some ways. Like, I was so broken by the time we met in terms of relationships. It was, you know, pretty devout and, you know, heading the right direction spiritually, not perfect in any way, but, you know. But if you remember, I told you, it took me about five years. And in many ways, I have that, I had that same sentiment. It's like, I, why are you with me? What is wrong with you? I mean, how is this possible that I have this beautiful woman who's loving me? And even in the brokenness, even in your brokenness, I struggled with it. I always, I, you know, I've always had such high esteem and love for you and just thought, what are you doing with me? You know, what are you doing hanging out with me? But interestingly enough, I'm working on this book, The Devil and the Castle on St. Teresa of Avila and the Spiritual Warfare and the Progress of the Soul. And in the first mansion, it's like early on, there's this, I'm doing this reflection on how painful it is when we first begin to see God for who he is and who we really are and, and, and, and how it hurts because we're like, oh, we're like Peter when Jesus fills the boat and Peter's, you know, I can just see his eyes going. You are, you're the Messiah. You're, please, no, please don't come to hear me. I'm not worthy. You know, it's just, gosh, the emotion just hit me, but it's this sense of you're so good.  I'm a sinner.  Please stay away. It's not good. I'm not good. You know, and I think that the beauty of that, that's, that's not a problem as long as we don't stay there, right? That we really come to this process where we say, you know, then he says, follow me, right? And then so what do you do then?    Because in that moment, you know, if we can love our spouse in their brokenness and stay with them when they're at their worst and not leave them, don't desert them, don't run away, but, but pick up your cross, keep your eyes on Jesus, try to be holy and love so sacrificially that it builds that bridge over which truth can pass. And the truth of that, of your spouse's dignity and their worth in the eyes of God can break through and they can be transformed. Because I can tell you that it is remarkable how many marriages are unequally yoked. We talk about unequally yoked in that, and it's just, it's incredible. It's a praise that Jesus used, or that's used in the New Testament, I should say. So, so often people go into their marriage and there's, it's a little bit of pie in the sky and they get married because, you know, this person smells good and they're cute and whatever, right? So they end up getting married. But then one of the spouses has a, has a remarkable transformation. They have a conversion, but the other spouse doesn't. And, and so then it's, it's in that moment when you're dealing with those kind of situations that is so difficult, because you're looking at your spouse, you're on fire for the Lord, they're not, they're mired in sin and they don't understand what you're talking about and they feel often betrayed and abandoned or condemned or condemned and judged, criticized, whatever, whether it's true or not, because they're faced with this light of Christ and the other and the sacrificial love and this amazing, you know, gift that they have in their spouse. So when you come to that unequally yoked place, that's where the, the gift and the, I think the most divine graces flow, often in a marriage that are transformative, because if you can stay in that situation, be Christ to your spouse and not give up and not run, but remember your vows for better or for worse, right? And help them, love them into heaven. That's what we're called to do and, and the Lord can do amazing things. I've seen it time and time again. You know, when we were first married, you talked about our marriage and how radical, you know, radical the transformation was in the first five years or so. And I remember being so grateful for you, like I was just, you know, because I came from a place of darkness. You came from a place of darkness. We had both had, you know, unions with others that were, that were annulled and broken and, and there was tremendous darkness and, and injury and woundedness in that. So to have a spouse that was willing to fight towards heaven, right? With each other. With each other. We talk about fighting towards one another, towards Christ and one another. That was so life giving to me that I remember praying to God, please love Dan through me. Love him through me. Help him to see your love. Help him to see what I see. It worked, by the way. Yeah, you know, well, so it both ways. It worked. It did. And it healed me in a lot of ways. I mean, our relationship, and this is part of that sacramental grace flowing is your love for me and desire that God used you to love me has healed me a lot of wounds in relationship to what it means to be in an authentic marriage in Christ. I don't want to get too far into this final segment before I tell people about it, some resources that are very powerful. The most we have are out on apostolyva.org and if a producer could put up the address on the screen, but all for those who are live stream, but also say it for those who listen on radio. It's A P O S T O L I V I A E dot org apostoly va. It's basically spelled the way it sounds. Or and out on that site, you can find blog resources on unequal yoke marriage. We've written a few posts together on that inside the site. If you become a member, it's free. There's no gimmicks. It's all free. We did a 14 part series with Father Timothy Gallagher on discernment of spirits and marriage, which I, it's a game changer. I loved doing that series with him. It was awesome. And that's free. It's bundled as what we call a mini course. And then out on spiritualdirection.com, which is easier to spell and remember sometimes we have a marriage spirituality series there that you can check out. Right. Right. And, you know, if you want to join us for these marriage retreats, because what, what I have found, if we can talk a moment about the fruit of this, of this part of our ministry that, that we've been encouraged and kind of grabbed by our lapels and jumped into. Thanks to Mother Louise Marie. Yes, we love you always. Thank you for the push and the tug and the, the, encouragement, encouragement. So the fruit that we're seeing it is just remarkable because these couples come from all different walks in their marriage from those that are newly married, that are adjusting. We've even had engaged couples to those that have been married for 40 and 50 years. We have seen those that are on fire together and those that are unequally yoked. We've seen people that are struggling and the verge of divorce on the verge of divorce, some that have been completely renewed and had their marriage restored. And it's, we're just seeing all kinds of fruit from it. And the truth about every one of those is it, all it takes is to stay and fight. It was one of the things we tell couples is you only lose when you quit, right? You only lose when you quit. If you stay in and you stay in the right way in terms of, if you, if you stay in and you are orienting your heart and mind toward God and toward redemption and giving yourself away to the church, giving yourself in mental prayer, giving yourself in daily exam and going to get healing if you need it, deliverance ministry if you need it, whatever. When you do that, you will grow close to God. And if you both do that together, you, it is inevitable that what you struggle with will be healed. Everyone can be healed. Everyone, no matter where you are, how bad you are, we're coming to the end of the show. And I want to remind everybody that if they want to join us for the divine intimacy and marriage retreat, our next one's going to be in February of 2022, February of 2022. You can find it out at spiritualdirection.com, divine intimacy and marriage retreat. I guarantee, sorry, spiritual event, spiritualdirection.com forward slash events and make sure you take a look at the divine intimacy and marriage retreat in February of 2022. It will fill up, so don't miss it. Very good. Okay. Until next time, it is time to go. May the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire. Spirit, soul, and body irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Any questions we can address? All right. Is love a feeling or a decision? Both. Love is both a feeling and a decision. And in fact, you could think of duty and devotion when you do those. So the church, as an example, recognizes in the traditional act of contrition, I'm sorry for the loss of pains in hell, which is more of a duty apology. And then it goes on and then it basically causes you harm, Lord, which is a little bit more of a devotion side.  The other is I really love you and I don't want to harm you. So authentic love is both a commitment and a feeling. But if you get up every morning expecting to feel elated and impassioned by your spouse, that's not reality. You know, those feelings ebb and flow, but the more that you live out of the decision to love, the more that the feelings continue. And I have to say that because you have to nurture that and stoke that, that feeling of oneness with your spouse. And what's beautiful is when you start to feel the oneness of Christ in your marriage, he fuels that he fuels this drawing together of one another. And we've talked about being each other's best friend. There's nobody else that we'd rather spend time with than one another, working and talking and struggling and being together. So that feeling of love, of oneness that we have shared is the oneness of Christ. The only qualifier I will say to all of that is, is everything you said is true. Feelings don't matter.  Otherwise, you won't stick. And that's in the spiritual life. That's in relationship to God. That's in relationship to your spouse, anyone. So feelings really don't matter. But we can attest that you can have a beautiful marriage with the mutual increasing love for one another, which is both commitment and feeling if you're oriented to God and all that you do in relationship to marriage. Yeah, absolutely. We have another question. Do you recommend a specific prayer to pray over your spouse? Kim, that is such a good question. I guess it depends on what the issue is. But yeah, I don't have deliverance prayers, obviously. You can pray. In fact, probably if we go to what have we prayed most, we won't use the word over because there's some technical issues there. But one of the things we prayed for the most in terms of touching one another, sign of the cross in the forehead, holy water has been the Lord's intervention for spirits to warfare that either of us are suffering. Right. I mean, all of our prayers for our spouse or even our children is we're supplicating heaven to pour down blessings on our spouse, right? So Lord, I ask you to bless my husband. I ask you to strengthen him in his role as the head of our family. I ask you to strengthen him in the leadership in our home or in his ministry or in his work and his ability to persevere and to die to himself and continue to be strong for our family. And then hopefully Dan would pray that I would be strengthened in our vows and in all of that. So I think the most beautiful prayer for one another is supplicating heaven extemporaneously for all the blessings that you want on your spouse. Extemporaneous means prayer of the heart. Right. Prayer of the heart. Very good. Yeah. I think we do one more. Yeah. What are the differences between a justice of the peace marriage and a marriage to the church? Well, of course, one is in some sense inconsequential. There is no true marriage just because a justice of the peace gives you a marriage license doesn't mean it's a sacramental marriage. It isn't a sacramental marriage. Right. So the, well, it could be depending on how things are done. But yeah, just the justice of the peace is. In and of itself, it can't be a sacramental marriage. It has to be within the, it has to be recognized by the church. Yeah. So yeah. But regardless of the technicalities of those things, right? A marriage in the church means that you are, that your church is being blessed inside the marriage, that it's in the context. Your marriage is being blessed in the church. Yes. Not the church being blessed in the marriage. I think my beloved is tired. Yeah. I am very tired. It's been a long week. Holy marriage is blessed in the church. Yeah. Well, that's true. That's true too. Yeah. So bottom line is justice of the peace is not sufficient to have to have, it does not in and of itself define or note that there's a proper sacramental reality to the marriage. There has to be a sacramental reality to the marriage for it to be a true marriage, which is the, and we only get one of those. Just Jesus said there's one true, authentic sacramental marriage and that can, you know, you need to do that inside the church. Right. So if you've been marriage, if you've created a civil union with the justice of the peace and you are free to marry, which means you don't have prior marriages. That have not been annulled. Annulled. Yeah. Yeah. Then it's important that you go to your parish priest and ask him to bless your marriage. Yeah. You know, and then it becomes sacramental and blessed by the church, by our Lord, so that you can get all the graces that you want from it because you want to make sure it's strong. Yeah. And just a side note about that. You may, when they go, you know, you may hear, well, you have to have get an annulment or something like that. Here's the thing. We've both been through the process and in some cases it's abused and that's a whole nother discussion. But in both of our cases, we were not free to marry and it's really, it's very, very clear. The first time around. We were not free. We were civilly married, but we were not sacramentally married in both cases. Yeah. And don't be afraid of the annulment process. It can be very healing. You have to be submissive to it. And you know, I mean, I remember when we were in our process, one of the hardest things you ever heard, I think you've said is when I said, you know, we're friends right now, because that's where we were. I said, and I can't go any further beyond friends. If my marriage is not annulled, then I, then we can't be married. We can't have a relationship beyond friends. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah. Annulments are incredibly, you know, all the, all the drama and, you know, controversy aside, when it's properly done, it can be incredibly healing because it forces you as an individual to look back and figure everything out, to look what, why is it not sacramental? So that when you do the one true marriage, it's done right. Amen. All right. Thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for, thanks for EWTN allowing us to live stream this on their Facebook page and airing our show. We're grateful to that great ministry and may Jesus Christ be praised now and forever. Amen.


Hello, what can I help you with, soul friend? Hmm, I'm not sure, I'm not a crystal expert or anything, but they're all so beautiful. Do you recommend anything? Well, there's Amethyst, which is known for its stress-relieving properties and balancing of the crown chakra. But then there's Citrine, which is great for brain function, including creativity and self-expression. Not to mention it's a wealth generator. There's also Fluorite for concentration and decision-making. Carnelian, which helps with motivation, vitality and self-perception. Tiger's Eye, a great source of protection, confidence and luck. And Rose Quartz, which is perfect for the heart chakra, helping you with love, peace, compassion and feminine energies. So usually I just tell people to pick out crystals that will most improve their current problems in life.


Let's talk about the two running backs in this game because both Alvin Cook and Alvin Camara I think are you could make the case they are the top two running backs on the slates the full four game slates I would put Devon Singletary in that discussion once you consider salary But Dalvin Cook and Alvin Camara both awesome if we look at Dalvin Cook before his shoulder injury which occurred in week 13 He averaged 19.5 carries and 4.9 targets per game Those are amazing numbers Alvin Camara since the teams by week 10.6 carries and 7.3 targets per game Kind of got pedaled back in week 17 because they were just torching the panthers didn't need to use them all that much We seen the touchdowns kind of come there finally. So we got Alvin Camara. He is at home He is favored and he's been really good. We also have Dalvin Cook who is Has a higher share of his team's touchdowns. I think we're for projecting things out He is 8000 Alvin Camara is 82 for the full slate Who you got if you had to pick one between those two guys uh, I My heart says Dalvin Cook, but my head just based on the offense's expectations says Alvin Camara But i'm with you. I mean if you assume full full health for Dalvin Cook These are the two best plays running back plays on the slate. They're both pretty much game script proof Uh, really when Dalvin Cook is off the field It's because the Vikings are up big and that's really not something that we'll see He's actually averaged a better snap rate of losses than wins because it's just how the the team's treated treated him Uh, so I mean if he's healthy, which I mean we can maybe assume we don't know but I mean It's very close. I guess I would go with Camara just because of the offense But I'm also just always hesitant to let up on Camara because of the touchdowns Yeah, I think that Dalvin Cook is actually like I think I put him a little bit above Camara, um, he has a lot of receiving juice. He has a lot of rushing juice He benefits quite a bit from Sheldon Rankins being out as well We've talked about this at times during the regular podcast But like you said they use him more in tight games and this is not going to be a Vikings blow out most likely It's a kind of be a tough back and forth affair and that's going to bode well for Dalvin Cook So I think that I'd put Cook a hair above Camara, but I think they're both Top two or three running back plays to the full four game slate Yeah, the other thing is like if the Vikings Do somehow get a blowout lead Dalvin Cook is almost guaranteed guaranteed to be involved The Saints could put up 45 and Alvin Camara could have like 11 carries and four targets in like 60 yards And everyone else gets all the touchdowns