The title for today's talk is How Not to Answer a Christian Missionary. I want to be dividing this into three parts. The first segment I hope to address is the dynamics of the conversation. What's going on when you're speaking to a missionary? What's the underlying themes? What are the strategies that they use? What are the strategies that we use to counter their strategies? That's what I hope to accomplish in the first segment of today's talk, today's discussion. In the second segment, I hope to show how we apply those strategies to the subjects of idolatry and atonement. And in the third section, I hope to address how we use these strategies on the subject of the Messiah. So the question, how not to answer a Christian missionary implies that there's a right way, there's a correct way to answer a Christian missionary and an incorrect way to answer a Christian missionary. So before we figure out what is correct and what is incorrect, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we're trying to accomplish when we engage a Christian missionary, when we talk to a Christian missionary. What is our goal? What are we trying to achieve? And whatever is the ultimate goal that we are trying to achieve, what might be secondary goals that we would reach or we would shoot for on the way in our path to this ultimate goal? Now the ultimate goal is simple. This missionary, whoever it is that is initiating the conversation with you, again the title implies that the missionary is initiating the conversation with you, which is what quite often happens. What he's trying to do is get you to reconsider your faith and to make a decision in favor of his faith. Your ultimate goal is, or our ultimate goal when we engage with a missionary is to get him or her to reconsider their faith and to make a decision in favor of our faith. Now you would think one second, this is the person that he came here with the intention of changing you. He's all focused on converting you and you feel you can convert him. And the fact is, yes, by opening this conversation, by trying to convince someone to change their faith, he's opening the door for you. What do I mean by that? He's opening the door for you. Well, what is he going to do? What is his strategy? What is the missionary strategy? What the missionary is going to try to do is he's going to try to present arguments reasoning logic which would lead you towards the Christian faith. So what he wants you to do is to make a decision based on logic, based on reason, based on open-mindedness, being sensible, being reasonable. He wants to empower you. In other words, he's going to present what he considers a logical argument in favor of Christianity. What's standing in his way? Your commitment to Judaism is standing in his way. So what he's trying to do is elevate logic, reason, and open-mindedness and being a person that puts truth above just being the way I was yesterday. Think, be truthful, be honest. So that's often the spirit that the missionary is trying to generate in the conversation. And by doing that, he opened the door for you. He opened the door for you because that's exactly what you want him to do. You want him to use reason, logic, open-mindedness, and reconsider his faith. So he opened the door for you by generating a spirit of thinking. Be reasonable, be logical, ask yourself, be honest with yourself. Try to access that part of yourself that desires truth. He opened the door. And the most important thing is to keep that door open. This is actually the foundation of our conversation with him. The foundation of our conversation with any Christian really is, if we're trying to convince him, is follow the truth. Every human being, God planted into the heart of every human being a sensitivity to truth.   We all want truth. We want to follow truth. So by challenging you to reconsider your faith, the missionary opened the door. He opened the door because what he did was he elevated reason, he elevated logic. He said, let's put truth above anything else and you make sure that that door stays open. So that's the first step and that's the foundation of the conversation. The truth is it goes much further than the conversation itself. Because hopefully in one day it might happen that he will reconsider his faith. It's a very, just try to imagine what happens when that happens to a person. Imagine a person, he might be committed and I know people like that, that were committed Christians, committed missionaries. People that were committed to converting other people to Christianity. And they turned around and today they are active members in the Jewish community, members of the Jewish community that contribute to all of us, to help all of us be better Jews. So just think about that path, that path coming from being a committed Christian to being a committed Jew. It's a frightening path. See the way we work psychologically, there are certain things that we have as anchors in our life. And for a person of faith, no matter what faith it is, faith is an anchor in their life. It's something when things are shaky, things aren't working out the way they want, they fall back on their faith. And that comforts them and that's where they feel that, okay, my feet aren't solid ground because I have my faith. Now when you're talking to a person and trying to convince him to abandon his faith, you're basically pulling the ground out from under his feet. You're taking his anchor away. This was his anchor in life. When things get stormy, this is where he turned to. And you're taking that away from him. So what are you giving him in exchange? Now what you're giving him is a different faith. You're giving him Judaism, you're giving him another anchor. And that's beautiful and nice, but it takes time for people to absorb Judaism, especially if they're coming from Christianity. What are they going to hold on to as they travel, as they make that trip? What they're going to hold on to is truth. Truth is the strongest thing. But you have to be able to realize that it's the strongest thing. You have to find strength in truth.  And when you're asking honest questions, even if you don't have any answers yet, but if you're asking honest questions, you're closer to the God of truth than if you're not asking those questions. If there are honest questions to be asked and you're not asking them, no matter how religious you are and how committed to your religion you are, but if God is the God of truth, he wants truth. And if you're asking honest questions, you can be sure you're together with the God of truth wherever he is. So this is the anchor that you're giving them to travel that path. So the foundation of the conversation, the foundation of the conversation with the missionary is what actually he brings into the conversation. What he brings into the conversation is the elevation of the person's natural draw towards truth, natural inclination towards truth. You want to hold on to that. You want to make sure that door stays open. Let's talk for a minute about what stands in our way, what stands in our way when we're talking to a missionary. What are the obstacles? Now, besides the fact that what I mentioned before is that we're dealing with a lot of information and it takes time for people to process that, but I would divide the obstacles that are in a person's heart if he's a Christian. From coming from Christianity to Judaism, I would divide them into three.  I'll break them down into component parts soon. But first, just the general categories, just a certain mental box, just the basic bias that a person has, I don't want to change. Then there are stereotypes. When you're talking to somebody, if he thinks that he knows what you're going to be saying, then often that's how he's going to hear you. They have certain ideas about what Jews do, what Jews believe, what Jews teach, and that's very firmly entrenched in his mind. In fact, in the Christian scriptures, there's quite a bit of misinformation, fake news, about what Jews believe, what Jews believe and why they believe what they believe, and often when I'm speaking to a Christian missionary, he doesn't hear what I'm saying simply because he knows why I'm saying it, and I'll give a few examples as we go on. And the third obstacle that stands in our way is that besides that they have ideas about what we believe and why we believe what we believe, they have an idea about what the conversation is supposed to be about. What is the template of the conversation? There's a template when you write a newsletter, there's going to be a newspaper column, whatever it might be, there's a template of the conversation. They have an idea of what the argument is supposed to be about, and it's completely wrong. So these are the mental blocks that we're facing. We have to realize that underlying behind the argument, he's going to present an argument about a verse in Scripture, a passage in Scripture, but behind that the pillars that are standing behind what he's thinking and what he's arguing are these mental blocks. So let me just break them down. The three general, again, mental, the general mental bias, the stereotypes that they have about Judaism and the template of the conversation. So let me take the time to break them down into component parts. The first one is the obvious, the most obvious one, which is an invested bias. Anyone who is committed to any belief system or any team, whatever it might be, anyone who is associated with something and has been associated with that for a while and committed himself to that something, be it a religion, be it a sports team, be it a company, be it a country, be it a political party, he's biased towards that party. And just like you can't see, it's very difficult for us to see our own faults. When we do something wrong, we don't see that. We don't see it in the same light that other people see what we do wrong. Some people have it to an extreme, some people less of an extreme, but we all have it. To some degree, we don't see our own faults. So if we are committed to something, if we see ourselves as part of something, and in this case the missionary sees himself as part of the Christian religion, he cannot see the faults of the Christian religion. He has a bias towards it, that's just something we have to be aware of. Another bias that we have to deal with is that even though when the missionary is talking to you and he's trying to convince you, he's going to use a logical argument. He's going to use the argument of, it says in Scripture, this and this, and this proves that Jesus is the Messiah. We'll get to some of those arguments later. But even though on the surface there's a logical argument, what's underlying is his own personal spiritual experience. He experienced spiritual elevation, ecstasy, whatever it might be, in Christianity. And that's when you take away the argument, but the spiritual experience is still there. You're not dealing with what's really making him committed to his belief. And again, if your goal is to get him out of Christianity, then it's not enough to deal with the argument. You have to realize that you have that spiritual experience. There's a basic human attitude of gratitude. If he found meaning and he found purpose and he found acceptance in the Christian community and in the Christian faith, then he has positive feelings towards feelings of gratitude and that's not an easy thing to deal with. But again, that might be underlying, that might be the giving strength to his arguments. And then there is something which missionaries use, which is fear and guilt. In other words, they tell them that if you don't believe in Jesus, terrible things are going to happen to you. If not in this world and the next world, they build up a person's... Everyone of us has done things wrong in his life and they build up those feelings of guilt that people have and they say there's no way for you to deal with that guilt only through the services of Jesus. So people are dealing with fear and guilt and if you're going to take away their arguments and you're not dealing with the fear and guilt, you didn't start talking to them. So these, in short, are more mental blocks, but these are some of the basic mental blocks that are underlying that stand behind the argument of the Christian missionary and these are obstacles that stand in your way when you're trying to get the missionary to see things your way. And these actually are the most difficult obstacles to deal with because these are deeply embedded in the person's psyche and the way he's thinking and the way he sees reality all around him. The second category of obstacles that we come across when we're dealing with the missionary is stereotypes. They have a certain picture of Jews and Judaism. What Jews believe, why they believe what they believe, what the mentality of Jewish people are and actually I have quite a long list over here. Number one, Jews don't think for themselves. The rabbis tell them what to think. There's a book that was sent around, it actually came to Lakewood to basically every house in Lakewood and the kids had a good time burning those books. But the title of the book was Ten Jews Who Thought For Themselves. These were ten people who were biologically Jewish that converted to Christianity. And the implication of the title is that these Jews thought for themselves. There's ten Jews that thought for themselves. The other sixteen million Jews don't think for themselves. That's the implication and that's what they believe. They believe Jews don't think for themselves. Jews are told what to think by the rabbis. The rabbis don't let you read Scripture. They point to our Tanakh. If you open a regular, you know, Khomeish Tanakh, five books in Moses, there's rabbinical commentary all over the place. See, the rabbis don't let you read a couple of verses without them getting their two words in there. The rabbis don't let you read the book for yourself. The rabbis are hiding information from us that these are ideas that they have about Jews, the Jewish community and the way Jews think or don't think. Another idea that they have about Jews is that Jews are somehow, I don't know how to put this, spiritually inferior. What do I mean? Is that the moral teachings of Jesus, people are blown away by those moral teachings of Jesus. Love your neighbor as yourself, which I actually took from Artoro. But isn't that such a beautiful teaching? How could it be that Jews are not just blown away and bowled over by these beautiful teachings? They're missing something. There's something wrong about them. There's something different about them. And the way they explain it is that Jews are legalistic. Legalistic means that their idea of religion is, and this is what they're thinking about us, is it's all about rules and regulations, what we are allowed to do, when we're supposed to stand, when we're supposed to sit, when we're supposed to do this, when we're supposed to do that. And it's not about a relationship. It's not about moral beauty. It's not about ethical beauty. It's not about being an elevated person. So this is an idea of how they're thinking about us. They're thinking that we're legalistic. We're people that are very much rules and regulations. They see Judaism, in a certain sense, as a dead religion. And I'm going to take a little aside to talk about that. I one time had the experience of bringing a Christian missionary to a shul, to Daven Minchah. He didn't Daven Minchah. He sat on the side and he watched how people were Daven Minchah. Now this wasn't the most exciting Hasid-i-Shastibl where everyone was Davening with the most fervor and the most... This was a regular average Minchah. And he sort of came to tell me, look, I'm right. Look how legalistic this was. They just went through the motions. They turned all the right pages. And the appropriate responses, yes, it was nice. No one was talking by Davening. But that's not Davening. This is the argument that he gave him. So I'll just, as an aside, what I told him at the time is, what is prayer? So his idea of prayer is pouring out your heart to God, telling God all your problems, bringing all your sins to God. Is that the foundation of prayer? What's the foundation? What's the underlying foundation of prayer? So what do you want? What do you mean? I come to pour out my heart. It's an unbelievable spiritual experience. So he's telling me that prayer is an experience. It's almost like entertaining me coming to feel something and walk out. Now I felt that thing. Is that what it is? So he tells me, what do you think prayer is supposed to be? Yes, prayer is supposed to be a beautiful spiritual experience. You're supposed to walk into the shul, Davening, and feel unbelievably elevated.  It's still possible that you prayed. The underlying theme of prayer is to come into contact, bring your mind into focus to one truth.  And if you walked into shul and you walked out of shul, having encountered that idea, that truth, then we could say that you prayed. But if you walked into shul and had the greatest spiritual experience, but you didn't encounter that truth, then no matter how fantastic your spiritual experience was, you didn't pray. You didn't pray. It was about you. It wasn't about God. So even if a person goes through the motions, but if he came into contact with that idea, in fact, when you go through the motions following the rules and the regulations, you're forced. It's not about me. I have to follow the rules. So in a certain sense, you're forced to come into contact with that idea. But again, there's a little bit of a side track. The point over here is they view Judaism as legalistic and dead religion. Another stereotype, Jews are biased against Jesus. The name Jesus just right away, a negative reaction. In fact, some of them will take it even further that the entire Judaism is a negative. I've seen missionaries write this. Judaism is a religion that arose as a negative reaction to Christianity. Jews don't believe in the Trinity because Christians do believe in the Trinity. Jews redefined the concept of Messiah so as to exclude Jesus. There's another stereotype, another idea that they have in their head, which is completely false. But again, this is what's standing behind their arguments, their thought process, their logic. Another stereotype, another idea what they have about Judaism is that the reason Jews reject Christianity is because they misunderstand Christianity. Jews are looking at the anti-Semitism of the Christian church over the years. They don't fully understand what Christianity, true Christianity, what they call true Christianity is all about. And it's just based on misunderstandings of Christianity. So there are these underlying stereotypes which have to be addressed if we're going to successfully get to the heart of the person that we're trying to talk to. It's not enough to deal with their arguments. We have to deal with the thought process that comes behind the arguments that's standing behind the arguments and that's giving the arguments strength. The third category of obstacles, of mental blocks, of challenges that we have as we're talking to a missionary trying to persuade him is what he believes or she believes is the template of the conversation. In other words, what is this all about? So usually the conversation is about scripture. It's about Tanakh. That's the one thing we supposedly have in common and what I mean supposedly have in common is because even though it's actually the same book and some of them actually know how to read it in Hebrew and some of them could look even in a Jewish translation but because they're coming from such a different perspective they see a different book. But that aside, the one thing we have in common is the Tanakh and usually the conversation centers on the Tanakh. So one thing that comes right away to the forefront is they are convinced that the conversation is about their proof texts. The texts in Tanakh that they use to support the, quote-unquote, the Messiahship of Jesus, the claims of the church and they believe that this is what the conversation is all about. I one time sat with a Christian, he was a very nice fellow and he told me that he was very well read on the polemics of the church and the rabbis and the various debates that went on through the years. He knows a lot about them. He told me he's well read about the subjects. I told him, fantastic, now we can have a conversation. I want to ask you a question. I could tell you, I told him, what you're going to tell me. I could tell you that you're going to tell me Isaiah 714, Isaiah 53, Jeremiah 31. Those are your proof texts. I want you to tell me now what texts from the scripture, what passages from the Bible, from the Jewish Bible I'm going to use to establish my point, to present my argument. So he said to me, well you're going to tell me that in Isaiah 714 the word is not virgin. It's not basula. It's Alma. It's a different word. And you're going to tell me that Isaiah 53 is not talking? I said one second. Those are your proof texts. Those are the texts that you are using to support your position. What are the texts, which passages in the Bible, which verses, which chapters will I be using to present my position? So he said, yes, you're going to tell me that Isaiah 53 is not talking about Jesus. He didn't know what I was talking about. But that's not where the Bible begins. It's not where it ends. In a different occasion I sat with a missionary and I mentioned the Book of Job. So he said, oh I know the Book of Job. In my Redeemer, Liveth, the Book of Job is like 40 chapters in it. He knows one verse in the Book of Job, which is not even one of them. It's like such a weak proof for them. But that was, I know the Book of Job because that's the one verse in the book that he could pull out as some perhaps half hearted support for Jesus. So that's mistake number one or a problem that they have. They have this idea in their head that this is what the conversation is about. It's about their proof texts. And if you're only going to respond by showing how Isaiah 53 isn't talking about what they want to believe it's talking about, he still thinks that that's what the conversation is about. You didn't change its perspective. You might have won an argument, but you didn't change the underlying template. In a similar vein, another template idea is they look at the Tanakh, the Book of Scripture as a, it's like it's a mystery book. They have to find the Messiah. They're being politically correct. They'll say the Messiah if they're being up, you know, up front, they're going to tell you to find Jesus.  We have to find, oh, there he is. That's how they look at the Tanakh in a certain sense. They have to find the reference to Jesus. We have to find that spot where we could find him. Now we could turn the page. We found him on this page. Now it's time for the next page. And again, that's a mistake. That's not what the Tanakh is all about. So again, even if you're going to answer and say, no, that's not Jesus, still you didn't address the underlying thought process behind the argument. Another mistake they make, and this is, they think that, here they come over to a secular Jew. Read Isaiah 53. Here, they'll give you Isaiah 53, just one chapter out of the book. Read it. Who is this talking about? And what they're basically telling you is that the secular Jew who never read the Book of Isaiah, didn't read the Book of Isaiah, didn't read the Book of Genesis. He never opened the Bible in his life. He's qualified to render a life-changing decision on the basis of his reading of one translated, or I say mistranslated chapter. This is a big book. There's a lot of meaning to it. There's a lot of weight to it. You wouldn't trust a doctor who just read one page in the medical book. Why would you make a life-changing decision on the basis of one read of a passage? But again, that's a template of the conversation. In their mind, if you read several passages, the passages that point to Jesus, the appropriate passages, in their mind, now you're qualified to render a decision. You're okay. You're good to go. And that's a mistake. In order to get them to see that they're wrong, it's not enough to show that they misread this passage. You have to show that the book is much deeper than they think it is. Another common mistake that they have is they like to blur the distinctions between Judaism and Christianity. They like to make it as, why don't you accept Jesus as your personal savior? Or why is Jesus not your Messiah? As if our concept of the Messiah is exactly the same, the question is who it is. In other words, that's blurring the distinctions. Judaism has a completely different concept of the Messiah than Christianity. It's not a matter of identity, what nameplate we should put on. There are vast differences between Judaism and Christianity, and the missionary in his own mind, those distinctions are blurred and fused together. He doesn't see those distinctions so clearly. It's important to make those distinctions clear. And another problem, the last one on this category, is Scripture is a document that stands alone. In other words, there's no context to Scripture. Scripture is a book that anyone could read it, no matter when, where, and how. And what I mean by a context to Scripture, there are a lot of words in Scripture that have, they're very rich in meaning, but they mean different things to different people. The first verse in the Bible, in the beginning God created heaven and earth. That word, God, what does it mean to you? What does it mean to you? Did the author of the book expect you to read it not knowing what that word means? He gave the book to people here, take the book, read it. Without giving them any other information, there was no background to it. You're supposed to open the book in the beginning, and you don't know what the word God means. You have to come to Matthew to find out what that word means. Is that really how you're supposed to read the book? And this is a mistake that they make. The Protestant Church prides itself on its motto as Sola Scriptura, which is Latin for just Scripture. Scripture alone and nothing else. That's a mistake. That's a mistake. The book was never meant to be read that way. God didn't give us the book in order that we opened the book. In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, and we don't know what the word God means. Not only did he expect us to know what the word means, God gave the book to a people after he sealed a covenant with them, after he took us out of land of Egypt, after the miracles of the Exodus, after the revelation at Sinai. He expected that word not only to have a meaning to us, but we should see ourselves as standing in a covenantal relationship with God. We have a deep and lasting relationship, a meaningful relationship with that God. When we read that word in the book, it talks to our heart. It means something to us. It's not a blank word, which we have to fill in. So there's another mistake that they have. So in short, what our strategy is, is that when you're dealing with a missionary, when you're talking to a missionary, realize what the mental blocks are, what the mental blocks, the biases, the stereotypes, the templates that he has that are supporting his arguments, and it's not enough to argue with his arguments. You can win the battle and lose the war. If you're going to take his proof text and show him how he mistranslated it, then he's going to walk away telling himself, perhaps I mistranslated it, but he still thinks that the discussion is all about his proof text. He still thinks that Jews are legalistic, because the only thing he had to tell me was that I mistranslated the verse. He didn't tell me anything about the meaning that you find in Judaism. Why are you Jewish, because it's a mistranslation? He still thinks that Jews are anti-Christian, because that was the extent of your conversation with him. It didn't go further than that, except knocking his understanding of the particular passage. You have to go beyond that. You have to go way beyond that, and you have to shake up those stereotypes. You have to shake up those templates. You have to give him a different perspective of what he thinks about the Jewish scriptures, a different perspective of what he thinks about Jews and Judaism are all about. I spoke about the ultimate goal would be to get the missionary to come around and to see things your way, to see things as Jews see them. It's a gigantic task. It's not something that's easy to do, but there are goals that we could aim for on the road. Goal number one is what I spoke about first, which is realized. He should realize, he should walk away realizing that you're someone who values truth. You're someone who truth is important to you, and if he asks a good question, honor the question, respect the question, and you should truly respect the question, because if it's coming from a place of honesty, it deserves respect. That's the only way he's going to be able to go any further. Your primary secondary goal, means your primary goal, your ultimate goal is to get him out of Christianity, but your primary secondary goal is to keep the door open.  He should want to ask more questions. He's not going to want to ask more questions if he didn't sense from you that truth is your highest value, that here's a place to come.  That's step number one. Step number two would be is he might not understand where you're coming from, but he has to see that Scripture, that Judaism is alive to you, that Tanach is alive to you, that the verses are alive to you, that the passages in Scripture talk to your heart, and they mean something to you, that Judaism is not a dead religion. You have to break that stereotype. It's not legalistic. He might not understand why you believe what you believe, but he has to see your confidence in what you believe, and he has to see that the confidence is not rooted in the fact that, oh, that happens to be the right translation. Yes, that is the right translation, and that's the truth, but the experience of the truth, the beauty of the truth, the beauty of connecting to God through the truth. Next would be to get them to see Scripture in a different light. There are other passages in Scripture. Get them to understand that there are other passages in Scripture besides the passages they're focusing on. Get them to hear Deuteronomy 4.35, Ata Haresa La Das. God's talking to the Jewish people, unto you it was shown in order that you know, Kiashem al-Lakim, that the Lord is God. Ain al-Mu'vada, that there is none else. How foundational that text is to the narrative of Scripture as a whole, how foundational it is to your life. He has to feel that. He has to feel and realize that there's something more over here than Isaiah 7.14 about the virgin birth. And ideally, you can get his very best the very same proof texts that he's using once he gets to see them in a different light, once he gets to see them in the context of Scripture as a whole, in the context of the passages around it. To see Scripture in a different light, to see Scripture that they should get the message of Scripture, that they should feel the heart of the author. If you can get them to see that, then they're most of the way they're already. If they could feel the heart of the author of Scripture you have to help them see it. You have to first see yourself. You have to find the tools. What is the heart of the author? What is the message that the author is trying to tell you? And if you get them to feel that together with you, you're moving along. You're most of the way there.


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why hustling is overrated. Yes, you heard that correctly. I, Amir, said hustling is overrated.  Hustling, let's first define what hustling is. I truly believe hustling in my definition is a strong, dedicated work ethic. Other people look at hustling as in how many hours you put in one day. For example, I put in 18 hours a day. Now, think about this. The reason why you're hustling in the first place is to, right, what is it? To get a result, to grow your business, to get the body you want, to get more money, to get the relationship, whatever it may be, it doesn't matter. There is an end result from that hustling. You're putting in time to get something back. Therefore, wouldn't you like to put in the most effective time in to get the maximal gains? And this goes to the Pareto principle or the Archimedes lever, the 80-20 rule, putting in 20% of precise action to get 80% maximum return. So, these are a couple things you have to take into consideration and I'm going to tell you a little bit of things that work for me. Maybe you can get some inspiration from that and adopt that into your regiment, into your protocol. But let's look at this. Most people view other individuals and they're like, oh my god, I have to work 18 hours a day. I got to wake up super early in the morning, work till midnight, yadda, yadda, yadda. I have to do that. That's the mindset people have. First, what you need to do is you need to reverse engineer all your goals and create things into simple models. I love to say and kiss. Keep it simple, stupid, right? Don't overcomplicate things. So, Gary Keller's book, the One Thing Fantastic Book, I recommend it. Get that book. If you look in Gary Keller's book, he talks about that one thing. You reverse engineering your goals from, let's say, 90 days. So, I'm going to kind of summarize the book and make it simple for you. You look at the whole year, then you break down the year into quarters and then within that quarter, you have probably like one or two primary goals you want to reach. Now, that's three months, 90 days. Each month, you have a goal you want to reach. Then each week, you have a goal that you want to reach. Then each day, you have a goal that you want to reach. Now, you know the goals you want to reach. You need to reverse engineer how you're going to get to those goals. And this is where the 80-20 rule comes in. What activities and what tactics, or I kind of like to put into the four levels that I use, high-level strategy or high-level thinking strategy, tactics and execution. So, I look at these four different pillars and at each single goal that I want to achieve, I go through the check mark of these pillars. What I have to do for high-level thinking to computize and create the template for this. Then what is a strategy to execute this template? Then who's going to execute the strategy? Then who's going to oversee everything? Okay? And then basically, that's it. You've now reverse engineered your 90-day, that quarterly plan, which equals out to that yearly plan, down to the weekly plan, down to the daily plan.  So, that takes care of kind of like the mathematics, the schemas, the formulations, the very, you know, pen-to-paper type of formula. That's on that side. The second part comes in with you, individually. See, a lot of people, they function differently. For me, I'm a morning person. I wake up at 4.45, 5 o'clock, straight out of bed. I don't know, I don't need any morning primer. I get to work ASAP and my mind is primed from 5 a.m. to lunch. I chunk off that time. I get my one thing that I have to do that day, the most important task and I finish it in the morning. Everything's chunks. So, for example, let's say today, I have to make sure that I got three pieces of content out for a business. Nothing else matters.  I don't care about any other business meetings. Today, this morning, is set for that, okay? And I give myself a very short window of opportunity and that window is maybe two, three hours. There's a law called the Parkinson's Law. If the time is allocated, the time will be filled. It's the same thing like you say, hey, Amir, go do that by tomorrow. I guarantee you I can do that by today. So, if you give time for this one task, that time will be filled and that's called Parkinson's Law and it's no good. It wastes time. So, I know me, I'm a morning individual. I wake up, I get to work, I crunch it out till lunchtime. Then my brain kind of slows down from a robotic model into a more creative model. So, the rest of my afternoon, I have for emails, for phone call, for business meetings, creative work, etc. It's not really growth. It's more nurturing. That's why I'm programmed. Other people are flip-flopped. In the morning, they're very creative. They can write, they can figure things out, work in their business from an existential point of view and view everything. And then in the evening, they're like robots, hardcore, right in the business working. But the key, the key over here is knowing who you are, knowing how you are primed, how you're programmed, both physically, mentally and spiritually. And going full circle, coming back to the hustling thing is, yo, hustling is important. It's strong work ethic. No one pushing you, not you taking motivation from anybody else internally comes from inside, but also programming your hustling for real success.  See, I got a beautiful path close to my condo, two seconds away. I walk it every day. Bliss, you know, Joseph Campbell talks it. Follow your bliss. Spend at least one to two hours a day enjoying what you love. I love walking. Walking is my meditation. I can walk for two days straight with no headset. Just walk and let my mind think, this is my bliss for me. So what's the point of working all these hours if you can't enjoy life? Remember, it's about the results that you get. It's not about how much time you put in every single day. What happens if I tell you, instead of working 18 hours a day, you can work two hours a day or three hours a day and get the same results? Would you accept that offer? I think you would. Then what you do for the rest of the time? Well, you maximize more returns. So now if you can get two, three hours of results that would take you 18, imagine out doing a couple of things so you can do 10 times more and get 10 times more ROI. So keep in mind over here. Don't follow the herd. How everyone says, just hustle and grind it out. Like I said, I'm all for it. But really know thyself. Reverse engineer your goals. Remember the Pareto's principle, the 80-20. Our committee's lever and the Parkinson's laws. Okay? Keep that in mind, guys. Till we meet again. Peace.


My father raised seven children practically on his own being both mother and father at the time. So when people speak about fathers, my father was a father among fathers. As we celebrate fathers day, it is I would say reflecting on having a dad maybe the most pleasant memories of my life. Having grown up with my father more than with my mother. I lived with my father from the time I was born until he passed away when I was about 15 years old. We had such a relationship. I was usually considered the spoiled one, being the last of my father's children. I want to really take this opportunity to wish all the fathers in Castro's South East a happy fathers day. Not just a happy fathers day to eat and drink and have a good time, but I want them to refocus on their responsibility as fathers to be there for their family and fatherhood is not just bringing children into this world, but it's part of the responsibility that we all take. And I tell people even if I'm not a biological father, but I can say that I have so many children in the constituency. It's one of the joys of being a politician. It gives you the opportunity to touch so many lives in so many ways that I take a lot of pleasure in being able to do so.


Post-Toasties, the heat-good cornflakes, is proud to present Gun Smoke. A hot city and in the territory on West There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers That's with a US Marshal and the smell of Gun Smoke. The story of a man who moved with it.  Maybe somebody just couldn't wait for his breakfast of crackling crisp post-toasties. And that's a treat you shouldn't miss. Post-toasties, you know, are the heat-good cornflakes. Why, after one taste, I'll bet anything you'll agree with me. Post-toasties is just the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. There's nothing quite like sweet kernel corn flavor when it's toasted right in. Toasted in the crisp fresh cornflakes. Man, oh man, that's post-toasties, heat-good cornflakes. Better try them. And now, Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad. It'll be too cold to set out here in the evening. Winter's too cold, summer's too hot. How do you like spring, Chester? Oh, spring's all right, up here. But I remember back in Waco, we all got the egg you ever spring. Terrible fever. Makes man feel like a harp with a thousand strings. Yeah, I know, I've had it. That stage is mighty late tonight.  But if that didn't work and we got the egg you anyway, she'd tie salt mackerel onto our feet. Well, that ought to toughen up your feet anyway. We all survive. Hey, look, here comes the stage driver. Oh, that's Jim Buck. Oh, yeah. Marshall. Hello, Chester. Hello, Jim. Trouble Jim? I'd call it trouble, Marshall. Not held up. One passenger shot down cold blood. What? There's a meanest thing I ever saw. Where'd this happen? Other side of Wagonbed Springs, between there and Jesse Daggett's. Daggett's? He runs a stage station out there near the Colorado line. And I got a mighty strong feeling Jesse Daggett's in on this, Marshall. What makes you think so, Jim? He knew I was carrying ghoul. After we'd laid over an hour or so at the station, I seen Daggett talking to a man who just rode in. Cussed looking at gunman, as he'd warned. Well, then what happened? Well, the fellow rode off. Left before we did. Was alone? Just him, with his face covered. Never said a word. He took the strong box and robbed the passengers. Then he got on his horse and turned around and shot one of them right through the head. Why would a man do that, Marshall? I don't understand. Maybe he just likes to kill, Jim. But I'll go back with you tomorrow. Maybe we can find out. We made the trip down to the Santa Fe Trail next day. Through wagonbed springs and on to Jesse Daggett's stage station. I sat on the box with Jim Buck while Chester rode inside with the passengers. And by evening everybody was glad when we reached Daggett's. It was a typical road ranch with a large eating room and a row of sleeping quarters for the travelers. Jesse Daggett himself was a tall, angular man. Gaunt and grave. He was quiet, but one could feel the trouble that lay inside him. The first chance I had to talk to him was in the yard after supper. The weather'd be coming soon. I'd have to lay in more whiskey. You, uh, had this station long? Three years come spring. Will it myself? Four knees try to burn it down now, then, but I'm still here. You plan to stay here, Daggett? Man's plans are his own, Marshal. I'm sorry. It was just an idle question. It's all right. Now, I think I'd like it here myself. No neighbors, but lots of company passing through. It ain't all good company. Now, lots of people travel, good and bad. Like, uh, the man who held up Jim Buck's stage yesterday and shot that passenger. What about him? Well, you might call him the bad kind, don't you think? What I think won't raise the dead, Marshal. It might keep more people from dying, though. I figured that's what you're doing here, looking for that fellow. Jim Buck thinks it might have been that gunman you were talking to here the day of the holdup. That was not Pilcher, but I don't care what Jim Buck thinks. Now, everybody expects a stage to get held up once in a while, but it's a different matter to shoot people down for nothing. And I'll figure this man, unless he's just a born killer. He could have a lot of reasons. Men are all different. Yeah, sure. All got different reasons for doing what they do, living the way they live. I guess it's what's happened to him in the past, spells it out. That's true. I'll tell you something, Marshal, but ain't what you want to hear. I believe in letting every man kill his own snakes. Now, this business is between whoever the bandit is and me. Is that it? That's it, exactly. Every man for himself, you might say. I won't interfere, but I won't help. I see. Got to be like that. Even though a man was killed for nothing.  I hope you won't regret it, Daggett. One more regret won't break me, Marshal. Trying to get anything out of Jesse Daggett was hopeless, but I still couldn't agree with Jim Buck that he was partners with the Road Agent. Daggett somehow wasn't that kind of man. Anyway, there was nothing to do but wait and let things happen. Two days passed while Chester and I sat in the eating room and played two-handed stud. Now we got mighty restless. Late afternoon of the second day, however, Jim Buck drove back with his stage. The travelers came in first, went to their rooms, and then Jim came over to say hello. I wish I had a job like yours. Nothing to do but sit around and play cards and drink whiskey. Well, we do a lot of thinking, Jim. That's what makes up for it. You do, huh? Uh-huh. Well, you done any about finding Jesse Daggett's friend, Nat Pilcher? Well, if we did find him, Jim, we couldn't prove anything. No, neither could I, I guess. But you might just shoot him for a look. You're too suspicious, Jim. He was probably just some cowboy riding through. Maybe. There's another pilgrim for supper. It was Daggett anyway. Well, he went outside just after you pulled in, didn't you see him? I was busy with the horses. And I still got work to do. I'll see you at supper. You know, that's a hard life, driving a stage, Mr. Dillon. I don't think I'd want to do that. Now, you might give it a try for us, Chester. Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you? Me? You can't do nothing for me, Marshal. Well, then what do you want? I just want to see what a Marshal looks like. A live one. Satisfied? Touchy, Marshal. Real touchy. Well, I want you to start no trouble.  What's your name? Pilcher. Nat Pilcher. I thought so. Sure. I'm a friend of Jesse Daggett's, an old friend. Where do you live, Pilcher? You got a job around here. I'm a cowboy, Marshal. Know anybody who needs a good hand? Well, what do you do besides riding? Funny. You have sense. Is it? You being a lawman, dear. Ever hear of Charlie Hall, sheriff over in the Mexico? I have. They say Clay Allison shot him. That's what they say, Marshal. But I know for a fact it wasn't Clay. Nice meeting you, Marshal. See you later. How are morning appetites at your house? Well, if they're pretty drowsy, here's a real good way to wake them up. Set a bowl full of post-toasties, the heap-good corn flakes at everybody's place. Just watch your folks take notice when they see how crisp post-toasties are. And wait until they taste that sweet, kernel corn flavor toasted in. Bet your whole tribe will agree with you. Post-toasties are the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. And here's a thought if you'd like to make a good thing even better. Try topping post-toasties with your favorite fruit. You'll find that's a mighty good way to start the day. Fact is, it's a downright delicious way. So next time you shop, be sure to ask for post-toasties. They're the heap-good corn flakes. You'll see. Post-toasties heap-good corn flakes. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Heap-good corn flakes. Post-toasties heap-good corn flakes. Now back to gun smoke. Jesse Daggett's state station lay on the prairie miles from anywhere. It would be an easy thing for a man like Nat Pilcher to ride in long enough to check on a stagecoach and the value of its cargo and then ride up the road a few miles and wait for it. But I still didn't believe Daggett was in on the deep even though he and Pilcher had obviously known each other somewhere before. The next morning at dawn, Jim Buck loaded his passengers aboard and pulled on. Daggett and I stood there and watched the little cloud of dust as it moved up the Santa Fe trail toward Wagon Bed Springs. Make dodge tonight and you'll be back here tomorrow. I, uh, met your friend Nat Pilcher last night, Daggett. Pilcher rode out before supper. Yeah, I know. Seems like he only came in to tell me what a hard case he is. He warned me about it. Didn't have much effect. You're still here. You don't think I scare that easy. All right, Marshal. Things will work out here without you. Daggett, I don't know what's going on down here even if I'm meddling in your affairs. I'm sorry, but, uh, a stage has been robbed and a man's been killed and that makes it my affair too. I want to thank you for not thinking I got anything to do with all that, Marshal. Well, I wasn't sure at first, but I am now. Even so, I'm not going back to dodge without a man. No, no, I suppose you won't. Well, let's go inside. Sure. You, uh, ought to plant some trees there, Daggett. Sure, improve the place. Not enough water. Now dig for it then.  How's that? There's no offense, I was just remarking that women like things growing around the place. Let's say I met it, uh, generally. No, thank you. I thought to have a woman here once when I first planned about running a stage station. That was over in New Mexico. It seemed like a long time ago. I think it's not always worked out. Yeah, it was mighty fond of her, Marshal. But I lost her. Been a little lonely ever since. You came close, that's better than some men do. I don't know about that. It is funny how a man goes right on a living even when his luck's about run out. Yeah. Come on inside. I'll heat up some coffee. Good. Mr. Dillon, do you mind if we don't play anymore? I'm beginning to see things. It's okay with me. The stage ought to be here soon anyway. I just think Jim Buck's been all the way to dodging back and we've just been sat in here another two days. Well, waiting's always the hardest part. Well, there's a stage now. At least there'll be some people around here. Yeah. Come out here, Marshal. What? More trouble, Jim? Of course she's dead. You've got a bullet in her. Or your other passenger. There ain't any. She's the only one this trip. Look at her, Marshal. He killed her.  You hit the bat. They're in the shoulder. Knock me off the box. I wasn't going to stop at all. And then he just rode up and put a bullet in her and rode off and never said a word. You think it was culture? Now let's ask Jesse Daggett here who it was. No. Take a look in the coach, Daggett. Take a good look. Do you think you're killing women? I told you. You ever see a gildier looking man? You're wrong, Jim. It doesn't even make sense. Well, he didn't do it. No. But he's in on it somehow. Jester, I'll help you bring the woman inside and then we'll see what we can do about your shoulder, Jim. Come on. Doesn't make sense. None at all. But I figured it would soon. And after I did what I could for Jim Buck's shoulder, Jester and I buried the woman. Put a cross over her grave. We'd find out later who she was. The rest of the night we took turns watching for a move from Jesse Daggett. And sure enough an hour before dawn he saddled up and rode out into the prairie. We let him get a little start and then took a couple of his horses and followed him. You think he's going to meet Pilcher? I can't find him. He must have come ten miles already. Yeah, about that. We shouldn't have let him get so far ahead of us, so. Well, we're right on his trail. Yeah, I know. Hey, what's that up there? Look. What's the man? Yeah, come on. He's been shot. Yeah, how about it? You hurt Daggett. Pretty bad. Pilcher?  Then he got me easy then. Luck left it all. Right? Any idea where Pilcher is now, Daggett? Said he was going back to the station to get you. Took my horse with him. I'd have come with you this morning. It wasn't your business. This was between me and Pilcher. I'm here looking for a fight. I didn't want to kill anybody no more. Not even him. So he drove me to it. Only that woman yesterday. Knew I couldn't stand that. You mean he shot her and the other passenger, just to prod you into a fight? Marshall, I'll tell you now. I had a woman out in New Mexico. And that Pilcher tried to run off with her. I didn't shoot him, though. I shot her instead. I figured it made more sense. You killed her? I don't think he'd have minded so much if I'd have killed him. But I figured he wasn't doing nothing. I didn't want to do myself. I didn't blame him. I blamed her. Pilcher's been after me ever since. I could have stopped all this if you'd told me sooner.  I tried. You can have him now.  I'm sorry, Daggett. Chester will stay with you. I'm going back to the station. We both go. I can die alone. I ain't afraid. No. Goodbye, Daggett. Goodbye, Marshall. Chester. Yes, sir. Do what you can for him. Poor fellow. I'll send somebody out to help you bring him in. Later. Yes, sir. Where's Pilcher, Jim? He's out back looking for whiskey. Where's everybody else? He's been a busy morning. How's your shoulder? It hurts. I got to get up to dodge some haunts, too. You been riding? So have you.  You should have kept going. I wanted to see you again before I left. That's what Jesse Daggett told me.  And then Jim here. Wait and shut up, Jim. Pilcher, you can drop your gun belt and take your chances in court. If you like. Now chances are better right here, Marshall. Short choice. It's always been my choice. But for the night, Jesse Daggett shot his wife. Did he tell you about that? It doesn't matter now. What's this all about? A woman chopped the stage and drove you into dodge. I'd be grateful for that. We'll have to go out of our way, son. Why? Daggett's luck ran all the way out this morning, that's why. In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week's adventure on gun smoke.  Well, may I suggest that you dish him up some sugar crinkles to start with? Sugar crinkles should now make breakfast more fun than a circus. Sugar crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.  Just pour out crisp, golden sugar crinkles and see how just right sweet a sugar coated cereal can be. Just right sweet. Be sure to get several packages of sugar crinkles because they're great for snacks. Kids love them that way. Kids love them anyway. Try sugar crinkles and you'll love them too. Remember, new sugar crinkles is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet. Gun smoke under the direction of Norman McDonnell stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. Tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Jack Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin and John Daener. Parley Bearer is Chester. Ken Peters speaking. Our freedom to worship God is a precious national heritage. Attend the church or synagogue of your choice with your family and support it actively. Light your children's life with faith. Bring them to worship this week. Join us again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall tracks a renegade during his fight to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in gun smoke. Listen next week at this time when gun smoke will be brought to you by sugar crinkles, the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet.


This study examined the effects of various environmental factors on the Piranha River floodplain over an eight-year period. It found that the degree of connectivity between the river and the lakes, as well as the amount of pollution entering the river, had a significant influence on the physical and chemical properties of the water. Additionally, the closing of the Porto Primavera Dam in 1998 led to an increase in water transparency, which may have contributed to biotic changes in the floodplain. Finally, the study concluded that the diluted phosphorus levels in the river water during major flooding events could have negative implications for the productivity of the floodplain's aquatic life. This article was authored by M. C. Roberto, N. F. Santana, and S. M. Thommage.


Student, I think the students sometimes find it confusing. They feel that there's a lot of information online that they still want me to give a little bit of lecture and I try to do that as a little bit of lecture, pointing to them where we are in the sequence of the whole course. Some students really, when I look at the student evaluations, some students really enjoy talking about their everyday experience. Some students, I must admit that they also find it confusing too. They are not quite sure why I spend 15 minutes on a current event. Some students are okay with that, some, again, like I said, they find it confusing. They feel that they need to be on the toes and pay attention to a class and know what other students are bringing to the classroom.


Welcome to the art grid and art list at a challenge. And why would you want to take part in this challenge? Because this is our biggest one yet. And that means a lot more prizes for 10 lucky winners. So what can you win? Let me tell you. Three Black Magic Pocket 4K Cinema Cameras. Three newly released Jiu-Wen Gimbals. Three DJI Mavic Mini Drones. Amazing Lighting Kits by Spiffy Gear, Loom Cube and Westcott. An MSI Monitor. Nine different RODE microphones. Red Giant Subscriptions. Artlist and art grid subscriptions. And many more prizes by these brands. This challenge will be open to all content creators. To enter the challenge, you need to edit a video for one of these three categories. A made-up brand ad. A music video. Or a movie trailer and use only artlist music and art grid footage. If you don't have a paid subscription to artlist and art grid, you can still take part. All you need to do is sign up for a free trial and use the watermark footage and music for your edit. The time limit for your edit in each category are 30 seconds for your made-up brand ad, a minute and a half for your movie trailer, and no more than five minutes for your music videos. And don't forget to use only art grid footage and artlist music. After you finished editing your video, you need to upload it to YouTube and use the hashtag AGEDITCHALLENGE in your video title. Each creator taking part in this challenge can submit only one video. There will be 10 winners, first, second, and third place for each category, and the judges' favorite. Who will be the judges you ask? Well, let me tell you. A panel of judges from the artlist creative team, Ryan Connelly from Film Riot, Brandon Lee, and Darius Britt from D4 Darius. Submissions will be judged by editing skills, storytelling, creativity, and the number of likes on your YouTube videos. So make sure you share your submissions with all your friends. Also, bonus points for posting a timeline breakdown of your video on Instagram using the AGEDITCHALLENGE hashtag. This challenge starts today, August 20th, and ends on September 20th, so make sure you submit your edits within this time frame. We will announce the winners on October 10th, and we will also be making a reaction video to all the winning submissions. And of course, all that we've talked about, like prizes, rules, and FAQs, will be down in the description below, so make sure you check it out. So what are you waiting for? Go to ArtGrid and Artlist, and start editing your videos. We can't wait to see what you create. Shoot out!


Today we open packs until I pull a $100 or more card. I'm 10, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2! What's up guys, we're back with another Epic Video and today we have a few different packs that have potential $100 plus cards in it. We're gonna be opening up as many of these as we need to get a $100 card. But first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this first edition Thousand Eyes Restrict from Pharaoh's Servant. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed to our notifications, and let me know which card we're gonna pull out of here. And if you think it's gonna be, we're not stopping until we get a $100 card. Alright, let's get right into it because this could be a very short video or it could be a very long video. In Dimension Force, there's only three cards that are over $100. And two of these star lights are not over $100. So we could pull a star light and not actually in the video, which would be pretty wild. I say we got the Amphibious Bug Ralph, we got the Scare Claw. We never did pull the Ash, not the Ash Blossom, the Ghost Bell out of here. Star lights, so it'd be great to get that. We also have not pulled a Ghost Rear out of Ghost on the Passive forever. And also some of these are not over $100. So this is gonna be interesting to see like how long this takes. Like it could take forever or it could be over in like five minutes because we have done that before where it's taken a very long time. And while we are, you know, going through these epic packs, opening stuff up, make sure to check out my new Pokemon channel. It's gonna be based on the stuff we're doing on Twitch, which you can follow me on Twitch as well, but we're doing Pokemon challenges and stuff like that. Okay, Vision Hero Faire. That's very nice. We've been doing it five days a week. So make sure to go check that out. And if you wanna follow the channel, you don't have time to watch it live. Go check out my PokeRucks channel. Yes, PokeRucks. I know, pretty crazy. Sounds just like, you know, Ruxen, except for Pokemon. So go check that out. That's something that we have been doing a lot recently and I've been putting a lot of time into. So I would appreciate it. If you guys are interested in that, of course, if you're not interested, don't bother, you know. If you're not gonna watch it, then there's no reason to go over there. But if you are interested in that kind of stuff, then head over. Let's see if we can pull a Dargneos Ultimate Rare, guys. These are hobby packs. So we are hoping to pull something incredible out of here, which that's obviously over $100. Let's keep going. Crop Circle, Destiny Hero Defender. We've got the Destiny Mirage. Destiny Hero Fear Monger. The Veachroy Connection Zone. Fossil Exivation. We've got an Alien Grey. And Destiny Hero Double Dudes. That's a super rare. It is a foil. This is definitely not a $100 card. Let's just see how close we can get. I'm kind of interested to see what our total amount of pulls will be before we get a $100 card. So will we pull like $500 worth of cards before we actually pull a $100 single card? I doubt it. That would be pretty insane. We'd have to open for a long time. Hopefully it's a not $500. That would be really, really crazy. Oh, look how bent this card is. Oh, my goodness. Cupid Pitch. We've got a Galaxy Soldier. That's nice. And number 60. It's actually pretty tough to be a $100 card in Yu-Gi-Oh.  Are these bent? What's going on here? Preda Plant Backup. Libro Mansor Fireburst. There's an Ultra Rare. Very cool. And a Colonel Sea String. Very cool. I feel like our best chance is probably goes from the past. I think some of the Ulties from Power of the Duelists are pretty good. Some of them, if we pull them, I'm not going to be sure if they're $100 cards or not. So we're just going to be sitting like, ehh, you know, maybe we got it, maybe we didn't. Last time we did a video like this, we did stop and we pulled a Ghost Share and we pulled that Ghost Share in like two minutes or something. It ended up being like a three minute video. So that was interesting. I kind of hope that doesn't happen. But I would, you know, because obviously it needs to be sort of a long video, even though you guys thought that was so funny and it honestly kind of was. So I see why you guys actually liked that video. I love it. Black Terra. Synthetic Seraphim. And... Submarine Roid, I do love this card. It's pretty good. Attack directly, change to defense mode, 1800, very nice. Alright, we're just going to open. We're going to open and we're going to open until we have success. Well, that's a bent, another bent card. What is going on? Majesty Hyperion, Deity Necro Slime. Dimension Force, we didn't really have good luck with this set. For a while, the Therion King like Regulus was almost $100, but I don't think it is now. Navy Dragon Mech, that was a big time but I don't think it's 100 anymore. Unfortunately, or else that would be a much easier card to pull for, you know, getting the $100 card. I think from Ghost in the Past, a few of the Ghost Shares like Dark Magician, Girl, Blue Eyes, Red Eyes, those are all definitely 100. What else? Dad, I think is under 100. Wing Dragon Raw Sphere Mode, Eye of Tamias, those are all, there's an Eluber, very nice. All under 100. Power of the Duelist definitely does have several cards because of all the Ultis and stuff like that. If we get Dark Nios, Flare Nios, that would be pretty big money. Synthetic Seraphim, we got a Black Terror, we got Orbal Embodiment, Or-de-bable, we got a Rescue Role, a Dark City, that's just a regular rare, a Destiny Hero Blade Master, a Blade Hunter, I should say. Alright, next pack, Ghost from the Past 2. Can we pull the Dark Magician Girl yet again? Let's go. We got a, okay, go. Oh, that one always looks like a Ghost Share. Every time, I'm like, whoa, because you can't really see the artwork, so it feels like a Ghost Share by one of our favorite Ultras from that set. Don't mention Fools. Let's go. Let us pull something amazing. Therion Bull, we've got the, oh, what is this? We got a Symphonic and a Weather Forecaster, just a super rare, nothing to go crazy about there. Power of the Duelist, can you bless us with an Epic Ultimate Rare? Give us a good one. I think actually, like, Dark Panther is over $100, so that, if we pull that, that's a good one. We got a Brainwashing Beam, we got a Miracle Jurassic Egg, Mausoleum of the Emperor, a Decoiroid, Alien Grey, Fossil Excavation, the Accroid Connection Zone, Destiny or Fearmonger, and a Super Charge. All right. That is not one you want as an Ulti. That's in retail though, so we're good. Back to Ghost from the Past 2, man. Ghost from the Past 2 just seems like yesterday just came out, and it's getting like, at this point, it's been out for like, what, two months or something? So it's still fun to open, but it just feels like it's brand new, but it's not anymore. It's so sad. I'm ready for Ghost from the Past 3 to get announced. I really think the Ghost Shards will be, if they do a Ghost from the Past 3, I can't imagine they wouldn't, because it's been so successful.  I would think, okay, this one is one of the Star Lights, and it's like 50 bucks, or 60 bucks, something like that. I think there's a good chance we get something like a Genzo coming up. Genzo, Gate Guardian, stuff like that. Summon Skull, some really classic monsters. Wandering, got a Galaxy Soldier, so I think there's potential for that kind of stuff, but you never really know, you know, it might happen, it might not, but let me know your predictions in the comments, if you guys are, you know, listening this far into the video, which isn't that far, it's only a couple minutes, but I do want to see what you guys are thinking, if you guys are listening, you know, want to see what you guys have on a point, or have an opinion, not an appointment, that is different. An appointment and an opinion are different. Can we pull something amazing like a Star Light? This is very, a little bent. Reverse Jar, we've got the Performapal Gyntrude. Okay, not looking too great out of there. The Dualist will have power. By the way, if you guys have some product that you are selling, some old school product, and you want to hit me up and, you know, see if I want to open it or see if I want to buy it, you know, you can hit me up, because I'm definitely interested for like videos and stuff like that. Mausoleum, we've got a Decoy Red. A lot of people selling their collections right now, but not a lot of sealed collections coming around. We've got a Destiny Mirage, Fear of Monger, Rescue Royne, and of course you guys know I like the sealed stuff. Orbital Bombardment, Black Terror, and a D-Chain. All right, nice. Dimension Force Time. Let's go. Let's pull something epic. The D-Force, the Therion, the Ikkuloki, Oroku, War Rock Medium. Branded Banishment. This is a few dollar card. That's actually a good pull. We've probably pulled like, you know, 20 bucks worth of stuff so far.  We've got a Go. Okay, I'm going to get the Mech Phantom Beast Gold Wing. Power of the Dualist yet again. Will this Ultimate Rare Pull Ended? Let's see. There'll be an Ultimate Rare Pull. We have a Brainwashing Beam, Black Stego, Fake Hero, Crop Circles, Black Terror, Orbital Bombardment, Reskiroid, Destiny Hero Fear Monger, and we've got a Cyclone Blade. All right, it's just a regular rare. I'm like really on edge whenever we open those up. I'm like, this could be it. This could be the end of the video.  It's like, oh, okay. These I'm like, whatever. We're not pulling a Starlight, we're like shocked because the Power of the Dualist, I'm like, okay, this is probably like one of our best chances to pull it. Ghost of the Past by Second Best, and Dimension Force probably the least likely that we pull like a $100 card. So it's kind of like, you know, when we open these, it's like, okay, we're still opening after this. This is definitely not the last back of the video. Like we pulled like a ghost bell right now, but whoa. Scareclaw, very cool. Scareclaws, it seemed pretty interesting. Look at that. Oh my goodness. The quality on these cards is horrible on this one. They're absolutely destroyed. Like the corners are so bad. All right, all right. Tini Spirit, we got a Domain, we got a Deco, Tucker, Heat Soul, another Decent Garden, Monju also a Decent Garden. Can we go back to back? Get another good card? Can we get a Ghost Shred? Ghost from the Past to Ghost from the Past, Dose. Back, Dark Magician Girl, and there it is, the $100 card. I'm gonna have to look this one up. $100 Dark Magician Girl. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. Shout out to TCG Trust Cards Tone Fall Show, Tomato Juice, Daxter JT Show, Clinton Fitzgerald 87, Bret Palm Puffins Doom, Ernesto D'Anda, Stanley Mimegeko, Ian Musa Jr. Barty, John Nolan, Anandatai Show, and Tom McLean. Thank you guys for supporting the channel, and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


We have an artist in studio, he's an Abban Afro-Hip-Hop, Abban Afro-Hip-Hop artist. And he came all the way from Migori, well he doesn't live in Migori, but he is, he hails from Migori and he is right here in studio to represent the people of Migori and he goes by the name of Reptaan, what's happening, what's popping, you good? He's a person from Migori, he's from Fiti, he's from the show, he's from Mugwana Saidiya. Oh Mugwana Saidiya, ok that's the slogan now. Mugwana Saidiya. Mugwana Saidiya is from Mugwana Saidiya. He looks like a man from Mugwana Saidiya. He looks like Mugwana Saidiya. He's laughing at me, I can't see him. I can't see him. I just can't see him, I can't see him. Now she can't see him. Now she can't see him. Welcome to this show. We talked about Reptaan, the last time we spoke, you were going by a different name. Ok, ok. And now you're going by Reptaan, let me tell us about that, what happened? Ok, last time to Kibonga, I was going by the name of Robert Fuku Gang. Yes. But Robert Fuku Gang was a group. Yes, we talked about that last time to Kibonga. Last time to Kibonga, I was going by the name of Robert Fuku Gang. I was the leader of the group, Robert Fuku Gang. But we broke up in 2019, I got signed. So it could be a little break. Because I had to focus on major things. So I went under Robert Fuku Gang, I was still Reptaan. I was still reptaan. So people break up because of my muscles. Like you're like, I'm the leader. And I'm going to do my own thing. Is that what happened? It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was easy. It was a creative difference. It was a search for a Axan. Because I did slow down and then for my max. But you guys are still菜 too I am an Abanafro rap artist. I don't know how to say it. Abanafro rap. Oh rap, not hip hop. That's my own genre. So under Abanafro rap, I'm versatile. I don't know how to say it. Okay, define for us that. What is Abanafro rap? Abanafro rap, it's my own style. It's my own style. It's my own language. I don't know how to say it. I don't know how to say it. I'm from the same family, I'm Italian, and I'm French. Okay, we can hear you. We hear you.  You've been in the game for a minute, you're still pushing. Industry, what's it? Industry will be. My husband is working in the industry. It's been good. I've learned a lot. I get by good chance, I go to sign. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I saw that, I saw that. You are top brass. Top brass music. I go to sign deals, but it depends on who I sign. And who I'm with. What are the terms? I don't know if I sign or not, I just saw what I was saying. But it's just a matter of time. That's good. All right, so for you, the terms were favorable. Are they the ones now pushing your music? Have you seen any difference before?  You have different school buys there. What are they doing for you that you couldn't do for yourself? Like now, I sign as a production. I'm a panda, I do some quality stuff for myself. Another thing, they push my brand. Another thing, I work as a creator. Before I was a singer, I didn't have a platform. Oh, so they are giving you a platform. And since the industry is growing, the hip-hop scene is growing, the rap scene is growing. Why do you want to see yourself? Are you looking to work with the likes of Akina Kali? What's your inspiration as you continue working? What are your aims? You know what, you look back and you're like, Mama, I made it. We're here. I'm like, under my management, I'm like, next year, it's going to be good, because I have plans. I have plans to work in Amsterdam, I'm going to Tanzania, and Ibra, Ibra. Shout out to Ibra. And what he's doing, you know Tanzanian artists, mostly they don't support Kenyan artists. But Ibra, he actually just released a song recently with the big classic, Wapa Kenya. And now you are also going to work with him. And he's big in Tanzania. And even in Kenya. So your management is going to make a connection with him. One organization, the first international collab I've done with him is just. Yeah. This is when I opened up. Then I organized with Ibra, then I went to South Africa. Hey, I'm a Piano Vibes. Yeah, and that's the way right now. I'm going to show you the Neza. Yes, yes, yes. Neza is a killer place here. So that's the vibe here. Right. And so you have all these great collabs coming through and also working hard on yourself. We love that. And you have new music. Tell us about that. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. When we came, the one that was, the one that was right there. And you're going to also perform for us, the new one. All right, so tell us about that. Do you see me talking back-to-back and bad on our videos? Okay, okay, okay, okay. You might be doing something right. Okay, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, before she got a chance. Yeah. I can't say I got a chance, I'm going to say. Not to make good use of a chance. Soon it will come to a resolution. I will be releasing music every month. Wow. Like last month alone, I released two videos, I'm going to say. Did you release Rumi Amigori, I released Gengelov. We are in a new month. Today I'm releasing another music. Hey, today? Today. Wow. Okay, so I wish we could have it so that we drop it here first. But we're so glad that we made it to Ambiahapa. This song you're releasing, what is it called and what is it all about? Okay, okay. The song I'm releasing is going to be this. The first song in my new EP. My new EP is called, it's called Python Under My Bed. Hey, do you have a Python under your bed? Okay, basically I'm a reptile. Oh yeah, yeah. See, see. Wow. See, see. I'm going to say. I know. I'm going to say Python Under My Bed. See, I'm going to say Python Under My Bed. Like in life, we face something, do not have to do anything, it's not true. It's not true. It's just joy. Let's check it. Some things eat us, not just joy, let's check it. So those are the Python Under Your Beds. All right.  You know what's going to happen. So like, now we don't have that. So the first song. When you press your own D, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly what you're talking about. All right, that's amazing. And we are really, really excited for you and what you're doing in the industry. You, you're doing your part. What do you think the industry is doing wrong? But like when I talk to you, and at the end of the day, like as Jafika, Maluna, though you're actually getting a lot of views, videos in Asonga, but you're still not there yet. What do you think the industry is doing wrong? The industry. It's not the same. It's the same, it's the same, it's the same. The industry promotes what's popular. Like, We, we bring up everybody, yeah. You bring us to the limelight. But they are bigger industry. Right. Because they want numbers, they want to play what's not popular. They'll play what's popular.  Everybody's playing the same thing. And yet there are people who are talented who don't have a platform.  Yeah. Yeah? But it's good music. Right. I think the industry play this popular music, but there's still some good music, not the same as me. Yeah. Yeah, that's the fact. That's true. So what do you think should be done? Oh, I say work with a console, then what happens? Easy, easy, easy. I think. I just like, they should just keep pushing, right? I think one day we'll just wake up. Yeah. To Tamuka. Mm-hmm. One day, I mean. All right. But, yeah, I mean, there are still doubt, I mean. Like, actually, for example, we're not going to get mutiny promoter. Right? The same person is an artist. Oh, yeah. You see, it's going to be greedy. So we're going to push. Yeah, okay. We're not going to be greedy. It won't work. Well, for others. We're not going to be greedy. We're going to work in PDD. We're going to work in SME. We're going to work in KACHA. We're going to be greedy. We're going to work in DUNINI. They are business. Business and we're going to push music. We're going to be greedy. Yeah, they are. So it'll be greedy. We're going to work in KACHA. So you want to do it all. You want to be an artist and the producer and the director. You want to do everything. All right. Now, I understand what you mean. But because of time, we'll have to wind up their interview, but you'll have to perform for us. But before you do that, your social media handles NANGOMA, WATRON, APATAWAPI, what do they search? Okay, okay, okay. Me, it's simple. Play a sequel to TIKTOK, I don't know. It's all right. It's not good. Yeah, it was a play sequel to TIKTOK too, but everywhere NIKO, Reptile Kenya. Reptile Kenya. Everywhere. YouTube Kilomali. Kilomali. Reptile Kenya. YouTube on the Reptile Kenya Vivo. Yeah, Reptile Kenya Vivo, but we can get to... I want to talk better. Thank you Corada. We appreciate you. Thank you so much for coming through and do you have any shout outs, any last remarks? What do you want to tell your fans? Do you have some projects on the way that you should look forward to? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  They're my bill of fans. They're my top press music. They're my playlists. Top press music.  Like a baby. JB. J.C. Bukinlu. Now I do. You do? Yeah. I switch to the same song. Yeah. Like, my last song was produced. It's called Hairy. It's a very sad song, but I'm just kidding. Okay. Big up fans, they're my... Yeah. Now, big up to 5.4. Shout out to you. Thank you so much. Way to Angoma. We'll let you know. Shout out to Chesa. Because on this show, in circuit, they play 100% Kenyan music. Yeah. We don't mix it up. No, 100% Kenyan music. So, we love that and we love that you are here. You came today. So, I think Mike will learn a lot from you. So, you can perform for us your latest single. All right. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here in today's video? I'm going to be sharing some news I found out today about the Jeepers creepers franchise in the future of what's to come So it appears that Jeepers creepers for isn't something that we could potentially be getting in the near future In fact Jeepers creepers for seems to not even be something victor salva is considering anymore Today I was actually sent a few Messages from someone who is close to victor salva. They know him on a personal level I'm not going to share the name of this person in this video So if you're looking for the name of this person, I'm not going to share that with you for personal reasons I'm just gonna read some of the messages. He sent me also if you want to see Pick a picture of one of the messages that was sent you can look at the You can go into my the description of my video and go on to my Instagram page where I posted a photo prior to posting this video So I'm gonna go ahead and read one of the questions that were at that was asked to this person It says, okay, how good are the scripts and what do you think the budget would be and what will it be about? The person that's close to victor says He told me he didn't want to do the origin story in the lowest budget film of the series I think he's not interested in doing another movie. Just the show he got screwed on part 3 I'm not sure of the whole story, but it definitely has its touches, but it doesn't feel like his film It's not good overall. The pros don't outweigh the cons This person is referencing The disaster that was Jeepers Creepers 3 because Jeepers Creepers 3 was a film that had been in Fans have been anticipating the film for 15 years today. In fact is actually the 15th anniversary since Jeepers Creepers 2 It was nice to finally see that we did get a follow-up 14 years later But it wasn't in fact a follow-up this movie took place in between Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2 and it followed a task force Who was held been on destroying the creeper before the end of its 23 day feeding frenzy That was one of the official synopsis for the film Trish Jenner is returns in this film played by Gina Phillips again She doesn't have a major role in it. She's the narrator and then she's exposed at the very end 23 years later And she's prepared for the creeper and she's ready to get revenge for it taking her brother all those years ago Another mess I'm gonna go ahead and read so let me talk about what this guy said in this message here He's he said he says Victor told him that he didn't want to do the origin story with the lowest budget film of the series So Victor salva himself does not want to Give the best with such low with such a low Budget to work off of so that's kind of why Jeepers Creepers 3 because like I said I don't know if I made this clear in my last video This wasn't even all on Victor Victor wants to do the best he can with this series But of course his past is not allowing him to and he didn't want to do the cathedral script Which if you want the cathedral script I will actually I actually have the cathedral script So if you want of it's posted online somewhere I can send a link to the cathedral script down in the comment section You just have to comment if you want that it's online somewhere. I just have to find it now post the link to it He actually wants to do a full budget film not something that's Michael Bay Ask budget or anything nothing over the top nothing over a hundred million, but somewhere around what the first two movies were like 10 million to 17 million That's what Victor wants to ultimately do might make he probably wants to do something a bit a bit higher Just a bit higher than what jeepers creepers 3 was because apparently jeepers creepers 3 was working with a budget of 4 million dollars Which is the lowest in the series and Victor didn't want to spend time focusing on the origins of the creeper in In an entry that had the weakest budget out of the three So what Victor salva is instead focusing on now is this TV series now if you recall in my last jeepers creepers video I Would I told I talked to you guys and told you that my that a friend of mine met Victor salva over the summer And he sat down with him and he got some details on this Victor salva apparently told him That there were still plans to do a fourth film But I guess Victor salva isn't quite too sure because now a person who was actually who knows him on a personal level and the reason I know that this person knows him on a personal level is because I did look the page up on Facebook And I saw that he had a few pictures of him him and Victor in in a more personal setting One picture I think was in a living room and the other one was him and Victor sitting down At a restaurant eating food together now He could also just be someone who worked on jeepers creepers 3 and then him and Victor became good friends But either way this is like the most reliable source because this guy actually has contact with Victor salva He says this information was given to him like last weekend Victor salva wants to stay passionate about this tv series. He doesn't want to focus too much on doing another film It seems let me read another one of the questions he was asked um He said Someone asked him they asked him how good the scripts were for the tv series Because victor salva actually has finished writing the scripts for them. He responded saying the scripts what I've read are good I wouldn't want to make them if they weren't good I don't know what the budget will be discussions haven't got that deep yet But the so the he's getting into details about the tv series now It'll be about the county of poho and the weird things that go on there I've still got a handful of episodes to read, but I can't say much about it right now So victor salva is actually giving his friend copies of the tv series to read over Oh, and this person this person is giving this information. He he is 100 100 percent someone Someone reliable because he's actually is in uh, there's a jeepers creepers group chat on facebook There's a jeepers creepers group. It's ran by It's ran by one of the people who is uh parents of one of the bikers in the third film One of the bikers in the third film They're their uh mother is one of the admins of this page and then the group another admin is uh I can't think of his name. I think it's He's the nephew of heather langing camp if you if you're familiar with the nightmare nail industry films You know heather langing camp played nancy in the original film in the third film if i'm not mistaken her nephew was actually Apparently he was originally scheduled to be dairy in jeepers creepers three cathedral when that film was getting ready to happen Back when jeepers creepers three was going to take place 23 years later This guy was one of the characters that had been casted to play He had been casted to play the role of dairy who would be playing he would be playing the role of trish's son that's the cast that's the role he was playing because He actually was the one that had a lot of information about what happened What was going on with jeepers creepers three because he was involved with the original project when it was called cathedral He's another one of the admins in this page or in that group chat and The person who's been giving the information on the fourth film Or the tv series to me He is also a member of that group. He's been sharing this information in the group Everyone has been asking him to provide valid evidence and he has done everything to provide valid evidence to show that he is legit Um, again, i'm not going to say his name for personal reasons. I do not want him getting flooded with messages but yes he He's saying in this in this excerpt here. He's saying that the tv show is going to be about poho county or it's going to be set in poho county is going to be about I guess the creepers adventures in poho county, whether it be of the past Or in the future now what he also did mention is that this tv series is going to be set 23 years in the future after the first two films. So this tv series is going to Be the sequel that we ultimately wanted jeepers creepers three to be this tv series is going to be that of Yes, the tv series that victor salvo wants to do is going to be the real sequel that fans have been waiting for since jeepers creepers two came out in 2003 So with that information and knowing that it's going to be following poho county Or following something in poho county that tells me That i'm hoping that ray wise can return to play the taggert taggert farmer again I hope lute edwards is able to return so he can get he can get a crack in um I'm just hoping i'm just hoping everything victor salvo wants to do with this tv series comes to light and that he can at least find some financing for it. I'm pretty sure Trying to find who's going to actually show the tv series is going to be something of a challenge I don't think victor salvo wants to direct it actually another thing that his friend is mentioning here Is that he has he's trying to get one of those he's trying to He's trying to take the concept that victor has sent him and he's trying to launch it as a pilot for a For this tv series. He's trying to get it launched as a pilot. So he's trying to help victor Get this moving along I hope this happens I would like to see it land on either netflix or hulu That's just wishful thinking because I mean netflix. I don't see why netflix wouldn't If netflix doesn't wouldn't be willing to do the tv series They're going to get a lot of backlash because netflix has been they've had gibberish creepers 3 on on their Subscription lineup for several months now almost up to a year They've had gibberish creepers 3 on there ever since it came out last september a few months later It was on netflix and it's been there ever since it's been there all year So for them to turn if news comes out that they turned down Licenses or they turned down a distribution for a tv series That's going to have a lot of people scratching their heads because why would you turn that down? But then you want to you want to broadcast victor's movie for up to a year That's kind of strange I would like to see either land on netflix or hulu Last resort. I want to say would be shutter. I don't think it's going to land on shutter I I highly see it either landing on netflix and then like a major major last resort Of course would be the sci-fi network if it lands on the sci-fi network That tells me that this is not going to be anything. I should be getting too excited about But I hope victor can get Get his vision put out to the public I hope he can get this I hope he can turn these scripts into something that we can visibly see on screen For the entertainment for our entertainment purposes so that we can sit down and finally learn what the creeper is Where did it come from we can learn a few things about the creepers past We can see trish jenner come back jenna phyllis. We can see ray wise Possibly a cameo from justin longan when I say a cameo I don't mean bring justin longan because justin longan is too old to play that role They could probably slide in a few clips from the first two films or from the first film Uh, or some of the deleted scenes that because they have deleted scenes that they didn't use in jeepers creepers So maybe they could throw some of that in I just want to see jeepers creepers end in a way that gives a series closure Whether it's with another film or with a tv series. I don't really care at this point I just want to get closure on this series because Honestly jeepers creepers are supposed to be a done deal back in 2006 jeepers creepers three was supposed to have been out jeepers creepers three was originally originally scheduled to come out in 2006 It was going to end the series. It was going to be set 23 years later It was all set and stoned and then there was a lot of problems started rising with mgm victor's past Already becoming more of an issue with the studio was never one involved So yeah, I just hope this series can get the closure that I feel it deserves and that I feel the fans deserve on it Let me know what you guys think about this video down in the comment section below Turn on post notifications so you never miss future videos