If you get to it, if you get to it, I'm just going to put it right here.  All right. Of course, of course. Oh, my God. He's like, we lent it to him. Yeah. I'm just going to put it right here. It hires. In fact, it's the weirdest thing. Yeah, I do. He was his first New York show. He was a great guy. But like, me, we lent it to him. I sold it to him. He was like, we lent it to him. He was like, we lent it to him. I'm just going to put it right here. Oh, my God. It's very, very nice. Wait, wait, wait. I'm going to get it. I'm just going to put it right here. I wasn't expecting that. All right, go. Hello? Yeah. She's like, a suspect, We're a group of strong, we would have said the quote, actually, we read the text, we should see it, maybe talk to Shakespeare, we should see it. We hear, we have a few. We have a few, we're here, we have a few, and we've been two people. We're gonna just, this is just a long time, man, and he says brothers. And we're not brothers, we're, we have these views. We've been like brothers. Sisters with brothers. We have a few, we've been like sisters with a brother. It sounds better, it sounds like, it sounds, it sounds better than me. Anyway, we're gonna do a watchover, we have these two, we've been like sisters with a brother, and we're only gonna watch the 30 minutes of this raining and, let's say I've booked my child, except for me and my son. Okay, so, and then you ask questions about your crazy house, or if you want this question, if you have to go on watching, it's not raining, and you want to do this question, I just want to tell you how to do it. We get to act, watch me work, X, L, P, with the hashtag do, and act. Watch me work, I separate the hashtag in your life. Great, okay, so we will do that, we'll work hard just to have the knowledge. Ask us this question. I'll go, I'll go, I'll go. You'll be asking us, I will count on you. Okay. I'll just take a minute to speak one word, say something. One word, just say something.  Um, 66, 67, are you? Yeah, I'm actually like, all right, this is the next week, this is the next week. Okay. All right, I'm good here, and I will assume that this is the stairway. So, so two versions of the plan. I have the old version and the new version. Okay, the old version worked, and I'm trying to get the old version better. Okay. But I'm learning to get that one, that you assume that the old version is really good. So, the problem I have with the old version is that they kind of engage the audience in some way, and I just thought that that was, um, that was, I was worried that that was lazy. You know, the sort of, the sort of storytelling, you know, having a drama happen on the stage between the two, but I haven't. I have a whole little big answer, and also to this background, this other team game, I'm not sure the audience, but I'm taking that one out of the people. I was like, so I'm going for a lot. Oh, I'm going for a lot. Remind me of Christmas. I think I said Christmas. I forgot, I mean, I remember that I was a chef. Christmas, Christmas. Okay, I have a mnemonic device. Yes. I know, it works. Julie. It's kind of right. It's a good one. Oh, a shoe. I know, where's my shoe? But that's mine. Julie. Julie. Let's take Seattle. Cindy needs the racer. Hang on. So, have you seen that poster? A pattern. A.K.A. Tonya. Which is, yeah, look it up. When she was reportedly kidnapped by the Cindy needs the racer. Basically, she went to hang out with some people of color. I needed a way to explain herself. This is a long time ago when people would do that on a regular basis. So, Christy, it's a fan, I'm sitting on a microphone. So, Christy, so you have a play and it's a two character play. It's like a short one act. It's a short one act. Okay, so it's a short one act. And you say that the original draft for the original manifestation of it works. You're making it better now. Okay, and you're making it better and bigger. Well, those things, you know.  Like longer. It's something that you can have a life with in theater. So, how long will it run now? And it's a short version. The short version was 60 minutes. Right, let me see, far away. Carol Churchill's play. It's far away. It's right there. Far away. Quick. Yeah. Far away. So, let me just say, she's Carol Churchill. And how do you think she got to be Carol Churchill? Right, right, far away, right? This was called, I saw it in her through the workshop several years ago. And you really get it. And you quit. But I'm asking you these questions because I'm wondering where you get these notes from. So, you say, you know, it needs to be longer. Or, I don't know about the direct address thing. Is that taking the easy way out? I'm wondering, I'm just telling you these things? Is it you or are you getting notes from people, or? Well, it does need to be longer, I think. It's powerful for, you know, it's in that version, but it can't, it's not going to be much longer, like 30 minutes, like it's still going to be one hour long on that side. But, and you needed more flexion. It's a little bit too late. Okay. But yeah, I think it's both. I've had people, you know, some people I trust say, no, no, no, no, no, wrong. So, speaking to the audience part, that was all, that was all, because it's not all fierce. Right. Then it was, and what, was it concern? And it was, I don't know, I just don't, I, that it wasn't legitimate, or that it was a, or that it was maybe, you know. That same thing. Yeah. Like it's beyond, it's beyond. Yeah. I'm talking to the audience now. As a writer. Right. Right. So it's like, and I had asked you that question before about writing a play where a character speaks to the audience, and I had written two of them, but I actually think those two are sister plays and the device is no longer serving me. So it kind of, for me, the reason who is the audience supposed to be to the character is what I went back and asked myself. And in each case, the one, in the one case, the audience is probably like the voices in her head that she's talking back to. And in the other case, it's a literal like seminar that this one is open for the audience. So just, I don't know. It helped me to go back and figure out who the audience is, the character, because we're kind of always thinking about the audience, but the audience, it's kind of like a symbiotic relationship where your audience is also like this, y'all are already together. So figure out who, maybe the audience is to your character. That might help, it helped me. Yeah. Yeah, and the reason why I asked who's giving you the note is because if you're feeling, after you've written a play and let it cool, you feel like it's good and as you're looking at it, it's like, well, I'm gonna give you some rights on this. Do you feel like it's not working? And it's probably not. It's probably something to work on. That's what we're talking about here. You feel like, oh, I don't feel so good about this anymore. Maybe it's talking to work on it. So I think what I'm thinking is it's a legitimate thing to want to work on.  No, I don't. No, I think, I mean, we have a long tradition of people talking, our character's talking to the audience. Now I'm talking. I'm right now talking to the audience, so. And Shakespeare, you know, began with Romeo and Juliet, we're talking about in a mid-summer night's dream, all the way through all the plays. The characters have all their soul and breathes and the sides and, you know, we're traveling and getting up on stage to talk to the audience and the beginning, and I end up following her for a reason, you know what I mean? So it's used, and, yeah, but if it's bothering you, then it could be something perfect. But are you, in there, you're feeling like it's not because of work or the other way, you're feeling that? Yeah, well, the only way, other way, because the only way to know what's going on in this character's mind is to have her speak it, and she can speak it to their character, and the only other way she can do it is just to turn the phone to a friend, you know? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, we have to hear what she's thinking. That's the, that's the, I can't trust the audience that's gonna pick up. So what makes you feel like it's not working? I guess it's just an insecurity. I'm not, you know, I'm not, I'm a self-taught playwright, so I don't really need to know. I don't mind looking raw, but I, you know, this is a genuine question right now, is there? Stand up, I mean, is it? I want it to be, I want it to be able to stand up. Yeah, it's very, it's very, you know, depends what they're saying, you know what I mean? So, let's think, think, as we go in the next 15 minutes, let's see who plays at our sort of, I mean, there's so many players with characters talking to each other. I think Art does, I think. Okay, yeah. Try and talk to each other. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna go, I think there's one, that's good, if you like that. And as, you know, my personal preference is, it's unless it's a really strong reason to talk to each other and I'm like, I feel like it is a slack, it is a poorly used device. But I'm not the guy, I have it right in your place, I'm not saying you are using it perfectly, you know what I'm saying, right? I'm saying just, when I see players and I see that, I'm like, but they get on stage and they tell you everything, right? Instead of showing you anything, they're gonna tell you everything that happened. And then we're gonna do all of the scene and who are they telling you? Well, that's, that's, you know, I think I would, I prefer where I'm showing stuff instead of talking at them, just as my preference is. And those are the things that I went back and worked on in my show is I pulled, that's the exact note I got from the professor who made me read it, he was like, go back and take out everything that's expositioned. Right. And especially with the seminar one, it was really getting dangerous where she was giving a lot of information but I scaled back on that and made it more about human insight. Even now, it's kind of dangerous. And again, exposition isn't a bad thing to get either. I know you came up with some work. There's a lot of storytelling in there. But it's done, it's in a way. It fits the world of the show. Exactly, it fits the world of the show, it furthers the story, it's part of the convention that's employed throughout, you know, so it's a different kind of thing. So we don't say like, noxless show, but if there was really no other way to convey the information, you know, they could play as like, like, why don't know, look at two of the character plays where they don't talk to the audience. There's a lot of information. Nightly. Okay. You know, where they don't talk to the audience and there are also a lot of ways to convey the information, force them to just ask them, do we need to know what's going on in their heads? Do we? And it's telling the audience the only way to know. You know what I'm saying? I mean, if I like, drop the microphone and walk out of the room, would you know something about what I might be feeling?  Maybe, and maybe you could find ways. I'm not saying you should, but if it's kind of bothering you, and you think about it, you can only wait until it's over. Because basically I don't want to finish the play and have people see it, and then people, then it's isn't when the parts come from watches, and it says it is great, but then why is it getting like, you know what I'm saying?  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't want it to stand up. I want it to be, but in terms of that, I mean in terms of like, I mean just, I understand what you're saying, and let's just take it slow, really. I don't rewrite my plays because I'm thinking that someone's gonna come and see it and think so. No, I'm just, no, no, no, I'm just, I just want to see it. We're not gonna get a rewrite based on, that's why I want to know where your notes are coming from. Let's not do a rewrite based on what some person coming to your play might think. We do a rewrite, and we change stuff because of what we think. Wow, you see what I mean?  I'm serious? Okay. Okay, because the talking dog is gonna stay. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I'm not rewriting for the imagined audience, a lot of writers do. They imagine the audience over their shoulder, and they're rewriting in fear or in concern for the audience. Experienced writers, new writers, everybody, lots of people do that. Both guys homework, and rewrite this new feel of something that's such a good thing. Got it? Okay, so, yeah. Because there's so many ways to do plays and like I said, I love plays where characters talk to the audience if that is, you know, I don't know what the person said with the name of R.M.J. Roman Julia. Something, something, something. This is a story about these two star cross-movers, yo, and we're gonna go through it, right? It's great, great, okay, I'm cool. You know, I don't know if you said they're gonna, you want me to do an experiment? No. No, but it's like, it's very powerful, you know? To be or not to be. Okay, maybe he's talking to himself, but he's also probably talking to the audience, right? All the world's strange. Okay, he's talking to the other people. He's also talking to the world, you know? So those are, so yeah, keep the category and think, is that the only way we can know what's going on in our mind? Maybe not. Device, let me found this, like if the device to engage the audience and to take them on the ride with the kids, keep them on the ride with the kids. You can be done, you can be free. It's like, yeah, I'm done with my playing, it works, great. Thank you very much, ma'am. Oh, I was so engaged to your question. I know. I remember, I was like right there, and then it would just, it did for some reason, I just let the play be what it was, and I was good. I was just, because there was other stuff, because I looked at the body of what I've written, and not everything is, you know, everything is that, but there comes times, especially when, and in those particular cases, the shows are, like they kept me up at night, like you have the kind of way you have to jump up and you have to write, like that's how they hit me, and that's why I don't question them, like I did, and then I just let it go, because it would, they would just come so quickly. I don't even know how to explain that. It was just like I was, it was just moving through me and I was writing, and that was not interesting, and that's the way it came, and I got doubtful about it in that way, and then I, I'm good, I have another question. So like, in terms of character and dialogue, they say, I'm good, I'm good. Now no one speaks like the people in the play in normal life, right, in your play. No, no, I'm just saying like, okay, so, so there's the symbol, there's the world of the play, and there's the way that people speak in that play. Right. And that's not going to be the way to speak. We asked just to this play. So, for sure, now, so I was thinking about the like symbol that the character, is a character, great for instance, I just read, I read it before, I read it, then topped up in the room, and you have to make it a move, and to me they're real people for sure. I mean they're, I feel like I know they're going to love that, they're going to love that, but to me they're also symbols of something. Right. Now, to me, so, what a symbol is, I need the word, the symbol, I guess, but I'm not really sure what that means, what it means, what it really means, you know?  What does that mean? Well, it's a person and a play who wants something. You know, a symbol, I'm not really sure. Something that it means, something, something, it gets in all these layers of meaning that I think for my purposes, it's not my job. So for me, you know, my character is a character. The people who want that, trying to get things. I really think about symbols of things, or passage, I think there were, I think about, and I think about what it means, and what it means, and all that kind of thing. Do you, when I was trying to write an essay, there were like, can I, you know, does that have to be like redemption, or these, like, that's like a big, yeah, I don't know. I mean, who wants to learn how to do three card moffs? I don't know, is that a big thing? I don't know, is it? I don't know, I'm not sure, you know? All right. And Lincoln actually gets to the dead, I don't know, is that a big thing? He wants to get paid, you know? I want to see, you know, remember when they wanted to get married, I didn't get paid, I suppose, you know? They didn't want to get to the dead, you know? They didn't want to get to the dead, you know? So, I think the, it's kind of like, it gets you with the air, it gets you with the iron, just to be happy, you know? So, I think when we, I think of these, like, redemption, because we were, it's simple, it's about the words, it's beautiful words, and yet, disconnected, it makes me feel very disconnected, you know, from character, it makes me feel like, it's this, I mean, the world above the neck, right? You know, it's just like, well, you know? So, I just keep it very, I try to keep it very simple, and I say, just keep it simple. What does your character want?  Simple thing, that I think takes on me, and I mean, you want to think of me, because of the way it resonates, but I don't think the writer necessarily does the resonating, we set up the steps, and it resonates as a calculation of those words or moments, but not because we're trying to, you know, again, it's like, I build the bell, but it rings, you know? I'm not sitting there. I build the bell, and the sound kind of happens as a result of the question, how great now is your comment? How great now? But just sort of the, I don't, you know, I'm not thinking about, oh wait, because a lot of, I also thought about writing on the show, there are a lot of people think, yeah, well, I'm just gonna, you know, what are they gonna get? Yeah, I'm gonna think, this is your play, and there's your audience, and a lot of people write that way. What's my audience gonna think? What's my audience gonna think? Not that you're thinking of this, but a lot of people think that, and they'll say, let's say you have a 99-seat house, so there are 99 people at the show, so your show runs for, you know, whatever, 10 weeks, you know, so I can't even map, that's a lot of people, right? That's a whole bunch of people. Let's say each person has a different take on their show, given their personal experience, and then bring it to the evening. I don't know what they're thinking, but I know what I'm thinking. I write this way, what they're thinking. I just make sure that the story is being told with the appropriate, the really appropriate way, and that's unfolding in a way that's meaningful and makes sense to me, and to people working on the show, you know, and to note something that might be useful, et cetera, but I can't write for everybody so the top of my notes have been done, you know, again, you know, all over the world. Japan, Japanese, I don't know what they're thinking. In India, I don't know what they're thinking, you know? Write this way, both eyes on the work, and your shoulder, because they're not there. Fizzy, they're not there, they aren't. They're not there. And it's so, like, I go back and forth with the same thing, it's like, the stuff I like the most is the stuff that I do not know about what people are gonna think that they see, and it doesn't make apologies for anything, it's just what it is. That's the stuff I enjoy writing, and I'm not enjoying it, I do am, I'm not a fan of it, I know it's usually because I'm wondering what people are gonna think about it a little bit. So, when I'm having the best time sitting there and I find myself laughing as I write, I know, I'm saying what I'm gonna say, and not necessarily what's in my mind. And it's not that we don't care about the audience. Yeah, it's not that we're sitting there. It's pretty bad, we don't care about the audience.   You're not even there, right? I care so much what I'm going to be, and I'm going to be by writing the best thing that I can in collaboration with all my people, you know, director, actress, producers, you name it, et cetera, you know what we're talking about. But I'm going to be, and that's how much we care about the audience. And that's a great role that requires, you know, yeah, some kind of, yeah, you know what's called being self-taught. Self-taught or no corner, it's a good corner. Yeah, don't need to be self-taught. Yeah, I don't want to be self-taught. How do you feel about the press room? How do you feel about the press room now? Yeah, well anyway, to teach. To miss the money. Who does that to us? Right now, since we're doing it. How do you feel about the press room now? Did you look up the same thing as press room? Did it show Tarja? Yeah? Because we're good in her parade? Probably right. Right? She's like she's not yellow. I'm hanging up with him, I'm making gas masks and all, but I was patting her somewhere.


What is a replica set? Remember when we mentioned that Kubernetes uses a declarative approach for the desired state of our application? A replica set is a Kubernetes abstraction that tries to fulfill your request for a certain number of instances of your containers.  And suppose any of those instances becomes unhealthy and dies or gets terminated. In that case, Kubernetes will create another instance so that you always have the two instances that you requested in your replica set. We rarely use replica sets directly as it's usually tied with a Kubernetes deployment, but for education purposes, let's create an independent replica set. Let's take a look at the YAML file for a replica set. You can see here that I have the kind which is of type replica set.  I can also specify the number of replicas, which in our particular case is 3, and I can specify what are the containers that I need to execute, which are in this particular case named quarkus-demo and the image is this one, key.io-rh-developers-quarkus-demo version 1. So let's see what happens when I apply this YAML file to my Kubernetes cluster. You can see that as soon as I apply the file, I already have pods being created in the lower side of my screen. And since my replica set requested three different instances of my application running in production, I already have these three different pods running in my cluster. And what happens when I delete one of these pods? So suppose that I ask one of these pods to be deleted, for example, this one. And please pay attention because it's going to be super fast. As soon as I hit the button here, as I ask it to be deleted, Kubernetes is already terminating the pods and another instance is already running. So it doesn't matter how many pods I kill, Kubernetes, the replica set, we always guarantee that I have the desire to request a number of instances running into production. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel.


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Okay, I'll come back everyone to our third lecture on Revelation Daniel. We are journeying through the book of Revelation. We are going to start with chapter 13. Any questions so far from chapter 12, which we just covered? Any questions, Sri Kumar, please? Yeah, thank you, sir. Sir, I want to know two things. When we say that the Satan is coming back or the devil is coming back, so he will manifest where people can see him or it is a spiritual manifestation, like how whatever we are facing at this point of time, or he will reveal himself where people can see him or worship him or whatever whichever way. And second thing, when we say that Christ, will he be a human being or a spiritual being? Or he is born of some like an angelic being or something like that? Or he is going to be a man or something? I just want to know. Thank you, sir. So to answer your first question, Satan will be operating just the way he operates today, meaning in a spiritual sense, Satan and the demonic powers will be operating the way they are operating today as spirit beings influencing life on earth. So they are going to continue doing that. So we are not going to see Satan himself or the people are not going to see Satan himself, but Satan is going to be carrying out his maneuvers, his work through people and by instigating people. Second question, Antichrist, the beast and the false prophet will be people, human beings, who are empowered by the dragon. And this is what we are actually going to see. We are actually going to see this in chapter 13. The very question you asked, we will see it in chapter 13, where the beast and the false prophet or the second beast, they are empowered by the dragon. So the dragon, meaning the devil, is a spiritual being.  Now we can understand this very easily because today we have people who are empowered by the devil carrying out various things. They are doing supernatural things or doing things, but they are empowered by the devil. But this is going to reach the highest point, meaning there will be no other man so empowered by the devil except for this Antichrist and by a false prophet. You will see that. Thank you. So let's read through chapter 13. Now I want to make a few comments about chapter 13 before we start reading it. Revelation 13 connects us back to a lot of what we looked in Daniel. So you will see that there is some prophetic imagery here in chapter 13, which we actually read about and studied about in Daniel. This is this wonderful connection happening and then we will see other things that are really amazing in chapter 13, which the first beast and the second beast or the Antichrist and the false prophet are going to do. And the third comment I want to make is that chapter 13, very much like chapter 11 and chapter 12, is talking about what these two people will be doing for three and a half years. So this is their activity. There's more coming up. There will be more revealed in chapters 17 and 18 about the Antichrist and the false prophet or the first beast and the second beast. But chapter 13 captures their activity for the second half of the tribulation, the three and a half years. Now remember, the Antichrist has come on the scene from the beginning of the tribulation. He was the man, the rider and the white horse. He came as a man of peace. He set up a seven-year peace treaty to establish peace, a covenant. But in the middle of the seven years, he has broken the covenant. He has set himself up as God and things have gone really bad. He is now attacking Israel, the Jewish people and also anybody who professes the name of Christ. So keep that in mind. And chapter 13 is saying, okay, this is how bad it's going to get in the second half of the tribulation. So let's read through chapter 13. We will read the first 10 verses. In relation 13, 1-10, 3 verses each please. You can start. Then I stood on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on his home stand trans, and on his head a blasphemous name. Now the beast, which I saw was like a little lamb.  The dragon gave him his power, his soul and great authority. And I saw one of his head as if it had been brutally wounded and his deadly wound was healed. And how the world marvels and followed the beast. Thank you. It was fun. Words, please. So there was Sid the dragon, gave authority to the beast, and there was Sid the beast saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make work with him? And he was given a mouth, speaking great things, and blasphemous. And he was given authority to continue for 42 months. Then he opened his mouth, and blasphemy had come to blaspheme his name. Mr. Ivan Mikkel and those who dwell in heaven. First have an onwards, please somebody. It is given power to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast. All whose name have not been written in the Lamb's book of life. The Lamb was slain from the creation of the world. Whoever has ears, let them hear. Okay, Westen also please. If anyone is to go into captivity, in captivity they will go. Anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed. This calls for patience, endurance and faithfulness on the part of God's people. Okay, thank you. So, big start of verse 1. So John is saying, of course, this is the continuation of his vision. He is seeing this beast come out of the sea. Now in the book of Revelation, like I said earlier, water, sea represents multitudes or the nations. Multitudes of peoples are the nations. And this is from Revelation 17 chapter. We'll come in there and there we get the interpretation of that figure, that picture, seas or waters represent nations and peoples. And so here comes this beast. Now there is some understanding here of where he comes from. What is his origins like? We'll come back to verse 1, but verse 2, there is the leopard, the bear, the lion. They're all, so the beast is a mix of the leopard, the bear, the lion. So this is where we go back to what we have learned from Daniel. Daniel talked about, in chapter 2, there was this image of the head of gold. Then there was the silver, the chest, then the bronze, then there was iron. And then the feet were a mix of iron and clay. And in the days of that, God set up his kingdom. And then as he progressed through Daniel, he sees various beasts coming out. And we can connect these images back to what Daniel saw. The leopard, we can connect it to the Greeks, the bear connected back to the Median Persians. There is no lion in Daniel's vision, but this represents for us the fourth kingdom. The Babylonian, sorry, the Babylonian kingdom, the starting point, the head, the Babylonian. So we see that basically this beast is coming from this particular region, which is clear to us. Which Daniel explained to us in chapters 8 and 9. So he's emerging from this region, which was a mix of all of these empires. Where these empires previously existed, Babylonians, the Medes, the Greeks, Medes and Persians, the Greeks. So the beast is coming out from that region. And he's got these ten horns. Again, we see that already in Daniel, meaning the ten leaders are going to come up from there. And he has seven heads. Talking about head chips, seven heads. And he has a blasphemous name, again, connecting back to Daniel. One of the key marks of this Antichrist, this beast, is he's going to blaspheme against God. We see this right here in Revelation 13. We've seen it in Daniel. Paul repeats it in 2 Thessalonians 2 that this man will be speaking blasphemous things. So it kind of gives us some identity to this beast. It's coming out of this region from the nations where previously there were these empires, the Babylonians, the Medes, the Persians and the Greeks. They existed in this region. And the beast is like a mixture of that. He's coming from that region. Specifically, Daniel had mentioned about ten horns and a little horn arising and overtaking three of these ten horns. And then they eventually, these ten leaders would put this beast into power. So these ten leaders are all from that same region have a role to play in pushing this little horn, the beast, the Antichrist, into a place of prominence in the natural. But in the spiritual, what John is telling us is the dragon, end of verse 2, the dragon gave him his power, his throne and great authority. So Daniel described the whole process in the natural. There are ten horns who will come, a little horn will come. He'll take over three of these horns and then he will be coming to power. These ten horns will push him up there. You will read about this later on in Revelation 17 what happens. So they are eventually going to push this little horn into power. But John is telling us overall, it's the devil behind this. The dragon, which is the devil, gave him his power. He's a throne and great authority, meaning this influence of this little horn, this beast is having, is actually coming from the devil. Verse 3 seems to indicate that this man was mortally wounded, but he survived, which causes everybody to marvel and choose to follow him. So if you interpret this into some modern terms, maybe, if you jump to verse 14 of the same chapter, we haven't read that yet, but it's referencing back to this beast. It says in the end of verse 14 of Revelation 13, it says, the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. So talking about the same beast, it's a cross reference to verse 3, Revelation 13.  But John would not have understood if God showed him a gun.  So, which gives him that much more stature among people, people marvel, wow, he survived. So we don't know exactly what it is, but most likely they may have been an assassination attempt on this man, but he just, he lives. So people are like, wow, he survived and it draws more people to follow him. And then verse 4 says, people started worshiping the beast. The beast is the man, the antichrist. But the man in worshiping the beast, you're actually worshiping the dragon. That's verse 4. They worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast and they worshiped the beast. So now this antichrist has put himself in a place of being worshiped by people. And verse 5, he's speaking blasphemous things so much like what Daniel already prophesied about. And this is for 42 months, verse 5. So that's why we say Revelation 13 is describing what the antichrist is going to do or what's going to happen during the second half of the tribulation. 42 months, three and a half years, 1,000 to 60 days. Yeah, it's all very consistent. And verse 6, he's opening his mouth, he's blaspheming God, the tabernacle. And he's just speaking. And then he's going against the people of God. Verse 7, he's making war. And he's gaining global influence. Verse 7, authority was given to him over tribe, Tanzanian, his global influence. We're saying all on earth are going to worship him. People are going to start worshiping him. They're giving their devotion to this man. But these are the people whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life. But at this time, verse 10, for the saints, they're going to go into captivity, they're going to face death. And the only way to go through this, John says, is you've got to have patience and hold on to your faith. So he's telling us, hey, it's going to be a really difficult time for the saints, for those who believe in Jesus during this time. Second half, they're going to be put in prison or they're going to be killed. And the only way to go through this is to have endurance and faith. What else is going to happen? Verse 11 onwards, please. Verse 11 to verse 18. Somebody could read it. Sorry, three verses each. Then I saw another beast coming out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he excites all authority of the first beast in his presence and forces the earth and those to dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great sign so that he even makes fire come down from earth on the earth in the sight of men. Thank you. Verse 14 on. And he receives those who dwell in the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell in the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by this word and name. He was granted power to give birth to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all both small and big, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads. Okay. Last two verses, 17 and 18, somebody please. And that no one may die or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man. His number is 666. Thank you. So verse 11 onwards. John is saying there's another beast. So this we refer to as the second beast. Now later on in, let me just check chapter 16 verse 13, he's referred to as the false prophet. Revelation 16-13, the second beast is called the false prophet. And then in Revelation 19 and verse 20, once again he's called the false prophet. So the second beast is referred to as the false prophet.  But he speaks like a dragon. That means he's speaking actually inspired by the devil and he speaks very deceptively. So he's called the false prophet and he shows lots of signs and wonders. The second man. And his goal is to get people to worship the beast, the Antichrist. The Antichrist and the false prophet are both empowered by the dragon. That is the devil.  Like Elijah is calling fire from heaven and he's doing miracles. So you can imagine during these three and a half years, there are two prophets of God who are doing signs and wonders. There is this Antichrist, the first beast, who is gaining influence globally. And there is this false prophet who is getting people to worship the Antichrist. And as part of this, so we say, you know, the religious movement started by this false prophet, one religious movement or some people refer to as one world religion or a religious system by this false prophet. And his goal is you've got to worship the beast, the Antichrist. So he gets people to make an image of the beast to keep it with them. And this image is able to speak and is even able to kill people if they don't do what the image says and they worship the image. Now, how exactly that's going to play out, whether it's purely supernatural or whether he would use technology and things like that to do it, you don't know. But this is what John saw happening. An image that's speaking and people are worshiping the image of the beast. And it is during this time, new things happen. So we can see this in Revelation 13. First we are seeing what we refer to as a world religious system being set up. And the goal of this world religious system is for people to worship the beast or the image of the beast. But when you're worshiping the beast, you're worshiping the dragon, the devil. That's what the devil is after. He wanted God's throne because he wanted to be worshiped like God. He couldn't get it. He's making his best attempt here on earth for three and a half years. I mean, he's already done it, but this is his biggest attempt. The second thing we see here is that the first beast and the second beast, that is the antichrist and the false prophet, introduce what we can refer to it as a global economic system or a worldwide economic system. Meaning you cannot buy or sell. You cannot transact. You cannot have any financial transaction unless you have the mark of the beast. So the mark of beast is a number. He says 666, so it could be some actual number that's being used. But you've got to have this number on your hand or on your forehead. And only if you have it put upon you can you transact, can you buy or sell. Now, when you think about this, in today's world, this is very possible. It's very possible. Like in John's time, it couldn't have done it when John was writing these things. And I was being given a vision of these things. Hey, no way. But in our day and our time, everyone, I mean, everyone could fall in line to this. That was if you want to be a part of this global economic system, you've got to have the mark of the beast. Now, how this mark of the beast is going to be put up on people. There's so many options, right? You can embed a chip either in your right hand or in your forehead. Or there's so many other things that could be used these days.   But eventually, what John is saying is this, you know, if you want to use the word identification or this form of authentication in order to transact will be personalized. It'll be on your right hand or on your forehead. You know, it's going to get to that point right now. It's like we're all carrying cards or some, something to tap or swipe. But it's going to get closer than that. And we're all comfortable in the sense, you know, we, many of us do use these credit cards to, for a lot, for much of our financial transactions, or we can just do directly off the phone, so on and so forth. But the point is this, the technology to make this happen, what John has described here in Revelation chapter 13, verses 16 and 17, the technology to make it happen, to actually for this to happen, is right here today. It is not there in John's time. But today, verses 16 and 17 can literally be fulfilled. Then we can participate. Somebody can set up an economic system where you can participate, where you can transact through some form of identification that is placed upon your own person. It's available today. And to sign into your laptop, you can use your fingerprint or some other form of, you know, this personal identification. And then you can transact from there. So what we're seeing in Revelation 13 is, during the second half of the tribulation, the three and a half years, there's going to be the beast, the first beast and the second beast, or the Antichrist and the false prophet, who are going to have global influence. There's going to be a global economic system and there's going to be a global religious system. The goal of the global religious system is to get people to worship the beast. The goal of the global economic system is to pledge allegiance to the beast, the Antichrist. Yes, I'm under him.  Everybody good so far? Yes, it's a question. Okay. So, Christopher, you have a question, please. Go ahead. Yes, doctor. I just want to get some understanding on the timeline. So there may be a couple of questions on that. I just want to understand, you know, from the rapture to the tribulation, is that immediate or is there some gap in the time that it happens? That was one. The second thing is just going to understand when the Antichrist is, you know, doing that beast treaty, at that time, I mean, when does it actually happen? Is it happening at the beginning of the tribulation? What does it happen even before that? And the third one would be just around this, I mean, this model, more of a comment, where, as you mentioned, the devil is trying his best to take, trying to maintain some controlling on the earth. But this is also the time when God is, you know, showing his immense power in the form of these tribulations that are happening.  So that's more of a comment, right? So I'll get some answers on the first two questions. So the first question, the tribulation begins as soon as the rapture happens. How do we know that? Because second Thessalonians chapter 2 was 7 and 8. It says, when he is taken out of the way, the lawless one will be revealed. Second Thessalonians 2, 7 and 8. So as soon as the church is taken out of the way, the Antichrist will be revealed. And that is Revelation 6 verse 1. He comes riding on a white horse. So the tribulation begins as soon as the church is raptured. And the Antichrist immediately establishes, he comes into prominence mainly because of him setting up this covenant of peace. In Daniel 9 and verse 27, it says, he will confirm a covenant, which is in modern language, a peace treaty with many for one week. One week is seven years, as we explained from Daniel. So he sets up a peace treaty, a peace accord or a covenant for one week or for seven years. As soon as the rapture happens, the Antichrist comes into prominence because of his ability to set up a peace treaty. So the seven year peace treaty is established right at the beginning, but it also marks the beginning of that seven year tribulation. So all this happens at the very beginning. As soon as the rapture happens, peace fall in place. And that's the beginning of the seven year tribulation. And yes, during the seven year tribulation, God is pouring out his judgments on the earth, and here the Antichrist, the dragon Satan is also trying to do what he can to deceive, basically to deceive people, to keep people on his side. Right, so in some ways, some of the things that are happening right now in Israel and the Palestinians, and just what happened, as you mentioned earlier, where they are now trying to, they've gotten into the Al-Aqsa mosque and they're trying to recover some ground over there where some of the Palestinian people are creating havoc over there. So they've actually crossed that. And it's happened before, but this is sometimes a precursor to a war that can happen. So it could be possible that a war like that could happen is also an opportunity for a peace treaty to happen after that. Because obviously, peace will happen only after a war. Just trying to understand from a point of view of timeline, again, where the rapture would happen in that case. But that could be one opportunity. So I think what the things we are observing currently is really setting the stage for this amazing peace treaty that the Antichrist will bring. There have been several attempts in the past starting from the 70s, 80s. Let's set up a peace treaty. I think he called the Palestinian leader, the leader, they had a peace accord. So many peace accords have been signed, but nothing really has settled the issue. So I think it's just building up to a place, a time and a place where somebody from that region itself, all along it's been somebody from North America, basically from North America trying to do something. But somebody from that region itself coming up and saying, hey, I can do this. It's setting up the stage where somebody from there is going to broker the 70s peace treaty. Just to add, I think the fundamental difference in this peace treaty is that in this case, the Temple Mount would actually be given to Israel. They would get their right to start operating the Temple Mount. It's probably one of the most contentious areas that Israel is going to get some advantage over there for the very first time. So let's step into chapter 14. Let's see, we might be able to finish this before. So chapter 14 is another one of those, what we could say, parenthetical chapters, meaning it's like, okay, we have finished seven seals, seven seal judgments, seven trumpet judgments. We're getting ready for the seven bones, which are like, this is the final deal. This is the final, the third wall that's going to be poured out. But before that, chapters 14 and 15 are sandwiched there. And they're telling us something that's going to happen before this third wall actually is poured out. Chapter 14 is very interesting. Chapter 14 is a chapter of announcements. That means John is seeing that in chapter 14, there are five angels that have been sent by God who announce messages to people. So that's one part of what we're going to see in chapter 14. It's very interesting to see the announcements these angels are making and also to think how is this going to happen practically. We'll get to it. And the other interesting thing in chapter 14 is the 144,000 Jewish servants. We saw them in chapter seven in the first half of the tribulation. They've been marked by God. They call the servants of God, which means they're going to serve God in some way. We've journeyed now into the second half of the tribulation. We've crossed the middle point. We're in the second half of the tribulation. We don't know exactly where exactly in the middle or where exactly in the second half, but we're in the second half. And by the time chapter 14 opens, these 144,000 Jews are in heaven. So a big question is how did they get to heaven?  Were they raptured? Taken to heaven? Did they die? Were they then resurrected and taken down? How did they get there? It's a question. So let's try to see what chapter 14 says. Let's read the first five verses please. Revelation 14, 1 through 5, 3 verses each. Go ahead. Then I looked and behold the Lamb spanning on Mount Zion. And with Him, 144,000, having His Father's name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many lovers, and like the voice of blood thunder. And I heard the sound of hearts playing their hearts. They sang as if it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except 144,000, who are redeemed from the earth. Thank you. This was four and five somebody please.  These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from the amendment being first to God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no deceit for their without fault before the throne of God. So this passage is giving us some more insight about these 144,000 Jews. So it's telling us that at this point in John's vision, he is seeing them in the heavenly Jerusalem, Mount Zion, there in heaven. Not on earth, in heaven. He's seeing them there in the presence of God and they are worshiping God with a song that nobody else sings. So they're very special. They've got their own song, very special. They're worshiping God. But then notice certain things he tells us. Verse three is telling us that they were redeemed from the earth. Yeah, we know that they were on the earth. They were anointed by God on the earth as servants. Now he's saying they were redeemed from the earth. Then he says it was four. They did not defile themselves with women. So it seems like these are based on that we say these 144,000 were men, Jewish men, and they were unmarried. They didn't marry. And so either it can be used to talk about physically their life or if this first part was four words to indicate spiritually. That means they were spiritually completely committed to Jesus Christ. They followed the lamb. That means they were totally committed to Jesus Christ. And once again, it's end of verse four says they were redeemed from among men being first fruits to God and to the lamb. So we say, okay, 144,000 Jews, they are now in heaven. These are wonderful men because it says here, there was no deceit in their mouth. I mean, they were very virtuous men, men of integrity. They are without fault, they were thrown. They didn't get married.  But what does it mean when it says they were redeemed from among men and were first fruits to God and to the lamb? So this is where we have tried to interpret what he's saying. They were redeemed from among men. This phrase was used earlier in chapter seven. When John sees people standing before the throne of God in chapter seven in white robes, they say, who are these people? And he says, they have come out of the great tribulation. They've washed and they're standing before the throne of God. So it's possible that term, they're redeemed from among men is telling us that God had taken them out of the earth. But the word first fruits is also key, first fruits. Now the word first fruits, you traced it in the New Testament. It is used to talk about being raised from the dead. It's used often in that context. Either your first fruits in terms of being born again, James chapter one, or first fruits being raised from the dead, first Corinthians 15. So based on these two terms being used, redeemed from among men, redeemed from the earth, first fruits to God, to the lamb. It's most likely. Again, we're only saying most likely because it's not stated plainly. We are trying to interpret that it's possible that these Jews 144,000, they were killed, but God raised them up and took them to heaven. Or maybe they were just raptured directly and taken up to heaven, something. We don't know for sure. But first fruit is significant because they seem to make up the first group of people taken out of the tribulation in a glorified body, whether they were raptured into their glorified body or whether they were resurrected into their glorified body. We don't know exactly. But the word first fruit is significant indicating that they received glorified bodies. Otherwise that first fruits would not have been used for them. So it seems to tell us that this was the first batch of people from among the Jews, the Jews who received the glorified bodies, or whether it's directly into rapture or death and then resurrection into the glorified. We don't know. These are the first batch of people from the tribulation who are likely to have received it. Now, when they come to Revelation 20, we will see that everybody who was marching during the tribulation will receive glorified bodies. That is at the end of the tribulation. But for these 144, God is not waiting till that time. He's giving them the resurrected bodies ahead of time, first fruits in that sense, coming out of the tribulation, treating these 144,000 Jews believers in a very special way. So what is unknown is did they die and receive their resurrected bodies or were they just raptured and received the resurrected bodies? We don't know. But the first fruits, the term first fruit seemed to indicate that they received their glorified bodies ahead of schedule. Because at the end of the tribulation, everybody who was marching in the tribulation receives their glorified bodies and they are there up in heaven worshipping God. Is that okay? Yes, Master. So in the rest of chapter 14, which we will pick up next week, I think next week we should be able to finish. We again have three hours and we should finish that. We should be able to finish the book of Revelation next week, Thursday. So next week we'll pick up here in chapter 14. We've got about eight chapters left. So I think we should be able to finish it next week. We go for three hours straight. And yeah, we will do this next week. I see Asha's question. Just curious. It's good to be curious. Do you suppose that all that we are reading and learning is taking place slowly in the world we are living in? Yeah. I mean, a lot of the things that, especially when we are going through the book of Revelation, and we will see some amazing things coming up, chapter 16, 17, 18. You'd say, hey, these are things that can actually happen right now, right now. It's amazing. It was an impossibility in John's time, but today it can happen like that. So, and we'd say we've already seen some of these things and we will continue to see as we go through 16, 17, 18. That's all the things that were written by John 2000 years ago. So like, man, these things can actually happen today. And we are living in that kind of a time. So, you know, now, of course, it hasn't happened yet, but it could happen. Now God will take us out of the way and then all of these things will be fulfilled. So before we dismiss any questions so far. All right, let's close in prayer. We'll dismiss and we'll connect again next Thursday. It should be our final day of lectures on Revelation. We'll try and finish it up. Good. Somebody pray and dismiss us please. Dear God, thank you so much for this time and we get to learn what it is to be knowing that, that what you live out to John, that as we're living these days and our God, we pray so to your presence. I'm here for more of you. I also want to ask you to go into the world and teach the good news, to bring your brothers and sisters to your changing that. Thank you Lord for this time more than maybe be aware of what you're doing in our lives and experience your spirit to move inside our life style. Thank you for your message and your blessing and congratulations as we have problems with greater things. I pray for my classmates and that as they are about to leave Lord, that they will come back and talk to them, hiding in their heart and meditated because you are a good father and you are such a wonderful faithful, loving person. Thank you for everything you need to pray. Amen. Thank you everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. See you again next week. God bless. Bye now.


I think it's been an excellent exercise in raising the awareness of the communities which somehow work on these issues, but not necessarily understand that there are different perspectives, different angles. I think it was also very useful to deepen the understanding and the knowledge of the various communities that are associated one way or another with IEDs and countering the threat of IEDs. We have gone one step further here to say multi-dimensional complex, we need a multi-dimensional response, we need a collective response, how do we make that happen? We have already outlined the various avenues of action, this is already tremendous in a few days. Now we need to make sure that we capitalize on these statements, that the participants are taking that back to their capitals at the right level and that it's followed by action and that resources are attached to these actions by national governments and with the assistance of the others. But everybody needs to buy into it, everybody has to show their commitment into action in dedicating the level of resources that is possible at respective levels. It's a first step. Now it was good to put together in the same room law enforcement and military from various countries when they go back home, they have to maintain this dialogue and a dialogue take place in my view when there is a common objective. This common objective is of vital interest for nations, that should be a good motivation for them to work together, but we must not forget that the police military dialogue has to be complemented by the political side of the house, the diplomats who ultimately give the foreign policy and security orders to their communities and which will be able to convey the position of a country and the strategy of a country. So I would say today in this room we really have the three sides.


Nicholas, what are some things we know about this hexagon? That all sides are equivalent. Equivalent? Very nice. What does that mean? It means they're all sides are equal. Excellent. You can write that down. What else? And the hexagon has six sides. It has six sides. And six angles. Oh, they're all equal. Anything else? Six sides, they're all equal. That might be just enough information that we need. Excellent. Write it down. Can you share for us when it's time to share? How about you, Kori? What are some things you notice? Most sides are equivalent. And it has six sides. And... Okay, that's great. Keep writing.


reasons why customer postpone adoption. So, this is a very nice model which is reflecting hierarchy of innovation rejection by innovators. Twitter adopted from Clegenon at all from 2009. So, this figure reflects in the first part the reasons for postponement. Let's wait for the adoption of this particular application or the technology. The reason is that if we use this product, we will have to change the pattern because of the adoption of this technology. Then there is also the risk averse because certain investment will be required and they will be afraid that the money we are going to put on it will not be wasted. So, there is an economic risk. So, let's think about it and wait for a while. The next stage is the most dangerous element in it. For example, we can see that there is a functional risk. You can think of it as a major major problem in the production process. For example, there is a social risk that your society can have a major pollution or environmental hazard. Or the image of the startup that is selling the technology or the application is not good enough to create a good image in the market. If these elements are there, then we will come to the rejection from postponement. Then there are some other negative elements. If they prevail, then we will have to change the range from postponement to opposition. For example, there are conflicts with the norms and traditions that are being challenged by the society, the industry, the nation, etc. Then there is a risk of physical harm. This is a very nice figure which reflects increased level of resistance for a new technology or adoption. This particular model states that resistance may be viewed as a hierarchical range ranging from resistance moving to postponement then to rejection and then to opposition depending on both the amount and type of change and risk present. If an innovation is likely to change existing usage patterns and has an economic risk, then prospective customers are likely to resist by postponing adoption. While when these two factors are combined with a functional risk, or a social risk, and a poor image, they all combined will move towards rejecting the innovation. I am not adopting it. Finally, when a conflict with existing traditions and norms is noted and perceived risk of physical harm is also added to the previous risk which we have just discussed, then consumers tend to move towards active opposition or even rebellion. This is the strongest form of resistance. So paying particular attention to these issues can help identify possible objections. To an innovation at an early stage and to develop strategies to reduce problems of customers. However, in case of customer concerns leading to active opposition, and rebellion, the entrepreneur will have a hard time changing customer belief. The first action is useful.


From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Moerler and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. ***A study has found that people who drink regularly have less risk of depression than people who never drink at all. Boy, am I feeling depressed today. Poor me. Poor poor me. Poor me another drink. New Jersey Pizza Chain Villa Italian Kitchen has created Pumpkin Spice Pizza. Spokesman says they landed on the perfect pumpkin spice pizza balance. It's a magical place where all the deliciousness of pizza meets the flavors of pumpkin spice. We have gone too far with the pumpkin spice stuff, people. Pumpkin spice does not belong in pizza. In fact, there are a few other things I think we need to avoid as well. There are five pumpkin spice things I hope they never make. Pumpkin spice flu shots. Pumpkin spice racks. Pumpkin spice old spice. Pumpkin spice pumpkin pie, because come on, let's face it, that would be redundant. And finally, pumpkin spice preparation H. 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Hey everybody, this is Hari Swaminathan from Option Tiger. I wanted to do a market update video because there's something going on and I'll get to what the cause is and you can see that the market, the S&P has basically sort of flattened out and this is a just a moving average crossover 5 period and a 15 period. So you can see that the 5 period is now trying to come down below the 15. Now as we can see just in the last six months, there's been quite a number of times where this has happened where the 5 period goes below the 15 and then it comes back up and you know goes up. So basically if you know the chart is bottom left to top right. So it's a bullish chart and so unless something materializes in terms of some kind of big news this kind of a pattern is to be expected. But there's something going on in the markets and that's pretty heavy and everybody's talking about it. So I'll cover that. So right here you can see that the 5 period is just about to sort of hit the 15 and perhaps may go down below it as well. And so you know the only up bar, really nice up bar, this one as you can see was on low volume. So wasn't very convincing. So that's as far as the S&P is concerned. This was a nice little bounce. You can see that very high volume and the bounce was very convincing and it took it up. But now we could potentially enter into a somewhat of a downward move like for example this one. But and so the question is what's exactly causing it because we did hit all-time highs and so the big deal is oil and if anybody's been following oil, oil is the futures are slash CL and so oil's been getting hammered and so you can see that the chart is the just the opposite which is you know top right to a bottom left. And so it's a bearish chart for the last six months and it's also been somewhat predictable and somewhat inversely correlated to the S&P and so but now oil is seems to be having an impact on the overall market itself and so we might see a direct correlation going forward. But what's happened is this particular point yesterday and that's why it was all in the big news today and today oil was down two and a half, two and a quarter percent again today. So this is pretty serious stuff because that's a big move for oil two and a half, two and a quarter percent and so what's happening was yesterday was this and if you can see the charts clearly the previous point of support was right here and so if you did a drawing this is what it would look like and let me just draw a trend line here so we are clear and so yesterday's support was broken in a very convincing way. So this is what so that's the trend line we are looking at and so you can see yesterday it clearly breached it and then today of course it breached it on very high volume. I mean this is pretty high volume. This is one of the top three or five highest volume in the last six months and so the question is what's going on and so you know it could be a little bit of oversupply but for the most part the analysts are saying that this is a reflection of demand in the global economy or the lack thereof rather and so this is what is and this has been driving the markets from yesterday from the last two or three days oil's been really driving the market so if you want to get a cue on what's going on with the S&P or what we can expect I think we should look at the oil and even today was a very volatile day. I was watching oil it started out in the positive actually today this morning and so if you looked at an intraday let's say one day five minutes of oil so this is what we are looking at and in the morning you can see that it was you know the futures were going up and then suddenly after the general markets opened you know it just started crashing and then this would have been a good trade actually all through the day because this was going down very rapidly at this point during midday. So oil is what is happening right now so this is just a quick market update and if you want to get a cue on what's going on with the overall markets look at oil you can look at oil by a couple of different methods one is slash cl is the futures the other one is the etf as well us o and you'll see that it's a very similar chart so that's it for the update for today we'll speak to you soon thank you


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Game one of the NBA finals coming up tonight between the nuggets and the heat We broke down that game and that series yesterday with Tom Vecchia We also talked some Stanley Cup finals of Tom So if you want some thoughts on that make sure you check that those out over on the covering the spread podcast feed today Baseball Slade starts pretty early So a bit of an open day which means I wanted to go back to the NFL schedule release not talk about the schedule release itself because that's over with done with but instead talk about implications of the schedule and specifically I mean Knowing which teams to bet is one thing Knowing when to bet them is another and also very important because you want to make sure you're getting the best number So what we're gonna do today is break down some teams with tough early season schedules relative to their games later in the year and outline Which teams it might want to be worry about futures markets right now? Potentially under the hope of getting a better number in season once they've gotten through the tough part in that schedule We'll talk about that. We'll also break down some for me the one for Barcelona and NASCAR at Gateway Welcome on into covering the spread. That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonness. I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire here to talk some NFL Once again here on the show and then get to some racing later on should be a fun one as always We'll dive into the NFL stuff first You want to skip ahead to the racing stuff and check out the timestamp in the episode description? 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Maybe some things will transpire Maybe some things will happen like with the Texans their last year at the Sean Watson where they had a tough opening four games Struggled there and then torpedoed the rest of the year You want to know if a team opened things up with a relatively difficult schedule to know Maybe I didn't want to bet them now and I can get a better price in season So I'm gonna run through four teams Whose early season schedule is tougher than their late season schedule. We can dive into what that means with the futures market I'm gonna start things off for the team. You might not care about in the futures market But there are still implications of their schedule. That's the Tennessee Titans They have their buy in week seven and I have the Titans as underdogs in each of their first six games Which is weird because I actually don't have that bad of a rating for the Titans in my model I think the most controversial game as far as making them underdogs for this dress is going to be the Colts here in week number five That game is in indie I think that's kind of the key to cider here as far as making the Colts favored Basically a toss up there But the other games as you can see if you're watching on YouTube are the Bengals Ravens Chargers Browns and Saints The Titans expected record heading into the buy is a little bit better than two and four based on my numbers That means we could see them pull the trigger and swap out Ryan Tannehill Four-wheel Levis at some point after that buy. I think Tannehill is still fine Honestly, so which is why I'm a bit surprised that their dogs and their first six games by my model And I'm not as high and levis so to me that would be a downgrade it would hurt their outlook the rest of the way and positively impact the rest of the teams in their schedule by my numbers the Titans seven most Winnable games all come after their buy week I'd be worried about a tear down if things don't look at initially because they've had Based on the way they've operated each of the past two off seasons It seemed like they've had their eye toward the future justifiably each the past two off seasons. So Wouldn't be shocked if things get a bit interesting here if they don't come out hot The biggest ripple effect for me is that the Titans face the Jags twice after their buy week So if things do get pretty shaky for the Titans that could benefit the Jags And so did the Texans the Texans actually face them twice towards the tail end of the air which it increases the odds at Levis is the starter over Tannehill I am in line at the market as far as wind totals go with both the Jags and Texans So I'm not leaping to bet overs on them But I'm also in line with market on the Titans and I want no part of that I do think that this means hypothetically. Let's say the Titans going to the buy week They sneak out a couple wins in our four and two that means they could be pretty interesting as far as futures markets down the stretch So this can go both ways where maybe we want to avoid Teams early on but then maybe we're not getting the best number We can have more confidence in that number if they show a lot of strength in that tough schedule Even if they get to 500 that could imply to me the Titans could be feisty given again There's seven most winnable games all come after their buy week. The defense here is good So I'm a receptive to that But for me the bigger implication is what that could mean a slower start could mean with regards to Levis Tannehill that dynamic Again, I'm a lot lower on Levis and Tannehill. So if that's which were to occur I would be a lot lower on the Titans and Hire on their opponents on the stretch specifically benefiting the Jags and the Texans as a result The second team with a noteworthy early season schedule is probably of more interest for you in the futures market That is the New York Jets Their schedule gets a lot tougher down the stretch are a lot easier I should say down the stretch but the the beginning part for the jets is pretty tough Their buy is also week seven before that week seven buy They face the two teams that were in last year's Super Bowl. So they chase in the Eagles They face the Bills and the Cowboys other two games in there are against the Patriots and Broncos So more winnable games there, but the Broncos game is on the road in Denver. We know elevation can be kind of tough So that's difficult The schedule does open up a lot after that the three easiest game for the Jets are after their buy week a to their Easiest nine games are as well So I wouldn't be shocked if we see the narrative emerge early that Aaron Rodgers was not a big upgrade for the Jets because they could struggle to Get wins early on based on the schedule alone. I would disagree with that personally. I think he is a big upgrade, but I'm fine holding off on buying into the Jets futures market until we get through those first six games and dive into their buy week I've got the Jets at nine point seven wins their win total is nine point five with minus one eighteen on the over if Markets were to overreact after the opening games They could be primed for an in-season over or if they do well in those games again It could show that they're a legit threat to the Bills at the top of their division I've got the bills at ten point one wins So point four wins above the Jets that gap may seem kind of small But the Bills facing a tougher schedule than the Jets are that that matters quite a bit So I think the Jets are at least worth monitoring If you like the Jets and you're higher on them than I am where you actually do want to buy in a futures markets right now I'd hold off because that early season schedule is very difficult. We've seen Aaron Rodgers led teams You know r e la x and surged down the stretch So I would wait if you want to bet the Jets futures I'd wait see how things play out those first six games need to get a better number than you also lock up Bankroll for less time if you bet the futures market later on so The Jets are a team after their buy I want to be pretty invested and pretty interested in what they look like they're what they could look like down the stretch The Jets neighbors their I guess roommates at MetLife are also pretty interesting in this regard the New York Giants Interesting spot to begin with where they made the playoffs early in a rebuild and that has shifted expectations But my worry here is that they may get a pretty big reality check early on on their schedule In their first six games. They do get the Cardinals and Seahawks Those are both very winnable games the Seattle game is tougher, but they're at home for that one The Cardinals game doesn't matter where it is to be fully honest So they can win those two games, but I have the Giants win probability Under 40 need to their other four of the six games though They face the Cowboys 49ers dolphins and bills in that time the 49ers dolphins and bills games are all on the road so through the first six games I Have the Giants expected win total at 2.4 It does get a lot easier after that, but you kind of got a wonder about psyche at this point You know because they made the playoffs they got a lot of guys paid What happens to this team if they struggle out the gate? I've got their their win totals at 7.5. I'm a bit below that at 7.35 personally But if you're hiring the Giants, I'd want to hold off before investing because that Cowboys game is at home But if you look at fan dual sportsbook Cowboys are three-point favorites in that game. I have it at 2.9. I believe So right in line at the market there. It's pretty difficult. So If you wanted about the Giants futures, I'd hold off I don't think people are looking at divisional futures But if you want to bet like to make the playoff markets and stuff like that Be a bit wary just because things start tough Not really sure how teams may be may react given the dynamics with their not like saying anything like Brian Nables a great coach. Maybe he can overcome that but I would at least keep that in the back of your mind when considering the Giants The final one I want to touch on here is the Carolina Panthers because their schedule is also Pretty noteworthy for me because I'm hiring the Saints But a lot of people view the NFC South as being pretty wide open Which is fair Saints aren't on a great team but they have a pretty high win total by my model because of the schedule they'll face and You could view that that is translating to potentially buying into the Panthers in the NFC South. I Would not do that right now. I have the Panthers as underdogs needs their first six games They do get the Lions while James and Williams is suspended Which is a bump up for the Panthers in that regard because that game is in week five Williams will not be back as of that time. So that's a positive but that game is still in Detroit and I've got the Lions as almost touchdown favorites there. My model likes Detroit a lot So maybe that's a bit too high, but that's where I'm at with that one then they get the Dolphins That is their lowest win probability game of the entire year for me Which says two things and it says that you know met want to hold off on them But also it means that their schedule is pretty easy after the buy Things do look a whole lot better for the Panthers. They get the Texans right out of the buy They get Indy Chicago their first three games post buy and then later in the year They also the stretch where they get Atlanta Green Bay and Tampa Bay all at home late in the year They could end things on a very positive note to me I biggest takeaway here is to check out Panthers in season win total I'd want to see what that is heading into their buy week if the market is very sour on the Panthers and They haven't given huge reasons to worry in terms of like once you adjust for opponent how they play there I think that we might want to give them a sniff in terms of an early in in season win total over It's a new coaching staff new quarterback new weapons They might take time to jail anyway, which is also an argument favor of the Jets waiting on them But the schedule is winnable for the Panthers just not at the start So they're a team I want to look long and hard at once we get to week seven And they have a shot to reset So this futures market this the schedule analysis is really kind of two-fold where it's looking both at which teams You might want to be wary on early on in terms of buying the futures market now Getting a better number later on but it's also then to keep in the back of your mind as far as okay In season this team has gotten through what we thought would be their toughest stretch Do I want to buy into them now and potentially? That a futures market that a division market bed and in season win total over stuff like that I think we'll have a segment later on we talked about teams with easy early season schedules where you might want to buy in early on To get the flip side of the coin maybe a letter MLB day later on but for now. I think all those teams The Titans Jets Giants Panthers It's very know where they to me that their early season schedules are a lot tougher than what they'll face in the later part of the year Let's transition now and talk about some formula one formula one this week is in Barcelona throwing things up at Monaco from last weekend the toughest thing to account for when it comes to modeling formula one I think at least is upgrades because You don't really know how big of an impact it'll have you can get rumors You can hear win total data, but how much of that is always true There is a lot of guesswork involved and for this week Ferrari is bringing Upgrades this week and it's the second week of Mercedes upgrades It's the first two tests of those upgrades because Monaco is such a unique track and very different memory track on the schedule I think it's very possible as a result these upgrades my model is underestimating Mercedes relative to where the market is right now and Even with the potential for me to be too low on them My model shows value on George Russell to finish in the podium. That is plus 350 a fandal Which is 22.2% implied. I'm at 22.4% Typically, I'm not taking that point two percentage points of value not enough at that margin But I think for this week specifically I am going to do it once you account for those upgrades now Mercedes Just one podium so far this year that was by Lewis Hamilton in Australia But they've been four three separate times to which we're by Russell the tiering is definitely Red Bull one which occupies two spots because it's Max Verstappen and Checo Perez Fernando Alonso in a tier of his own above Mercedes as well and then depending on the day either Ferrari or Mercedes Depending on which one, you know happens to fit the track pad or stuff like that Now Mercedes has the potential to be faster. Maybe that helps them bridge the gap between them I'm not saying Red Bull. They can't catch them right now, but like maybe that gets them closer to Fernando Alonso Russell has been good in qualifying. He's actually out qualified Hamilton in four out of six races and His race pace has not been bad But he's also been below Alonso and all but one race and he's been below Red Bull, obviously But he's been at least some power of Charles Leclerc, if not stronger than Leclerc a lot of the time So the margin here is very thin on the Russell podium and plus 350, but I think the model may be too low on Mercedes It's still a tiny bit above market That's enough for me to dive in it might not work but plus 350 pretty forgiving to offset the risk at least in my eyes, so I Think that the gap between Hamilton and Russell in terms of the podium market specifically is a bit too wide Hamilton plus 270 Russell plus 350 that Hamilton should be higher I think that makes sense But I think the gap is a bit too large based on the way these two guys have performed So if I want to bet one F1 bet for this week before practice in qualifying, I would say Russell the finish on the podium at plus 350 is where I'd want to go a Bit more value for me in NASCAR as they had to gateway for this week Just second time they've been to this track and this week I actually do like the betting board quite a bit a decent number of spots where I show value and sometimes that Could mean that I'm off it could mean that my numbers are not great if they are Deviating pretty heavily from the market But I think for this week. I actually Disagree with a lot of what the market is saying because it's an intermediate track a gateway But it's using the rules package for places like Darlington Charlotte, Kansas, Vegas, Dover, and I think bookmakers may be overweighing Races that have been run in different packages this year So there are a decent number of spots where I see value where I'm higher on the market than drivers or in some instances This is a lot lower on them as well One of those spots is an outright that I want to lock in before practice on Saturday That's on Denny Hamlin attend to one to win a Fandall sports book I have a tier of four drivers in my model who are above the pack those guys are Kyle Larson and William Byron Obviously, they have to be there if they've been phenomenal We're gone to package they've been the class of the field so far this year Other two guys in the tier are Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain, which is fun because this is where their beef began last Here at gateway Chastain is also a value in the outright market for me, too But we'll circle back on him in a second Hamlin's win odds by my model are above 10% The implied odds here are 9.1% Hamlin was fantastic in both Kansas and Dover both those races Did use the same rules package that is in place this week and he was good in Phoenix too If you want to add that in to get a look at the short or the flat tracks It's a different package, but it does help that it was a flat track So good on a flat track good in this package Hamlin last year in Gateway did not finish well, but it's important to remember the context again Chastain wrecked him Which is what led to this year-long feud. He was good in practice. He qualified six so had speed there and I think the bigger takeaway is there was nothing there to dissuade me from thinking Hamlin can run well this weekend My model has Hamlin as a top-ranked Toyota. Whereas the Betty markets have Truex there They've got Bell there. I think that he is bunched up with them in the betting market, but I have them a bit higher So I want Hamlin to win 10 to 1 a Fandals sportsbook I feel pretty good about this one do like it quite a bit So I want to lock that one in before practicing qualifying in case Hamlin does show a lot of speed there As for Chastain, I do like him outright and I'm going to add him later on the week I think what I want to do with him is make sure he gets track position because in the all-star race and in Charlotte's he didn't have that didn't have traditional qualifying there So he struggled couldn't pick his way through traffic and didn't do so well too well So if I want to do it outright on Chastain, I want that later in the week But he's also plus 350 to podium. That's 22.2 percent implied and I'm above that He's above 25 percent for me. He was fast and gateway last year but Hamlin and also chase LA kept messing with him after he wrecked them in that same race and Despite that despite them trying to ruin his ruin his day Chastain still finished top 10. He's been very good in this package outside of Charlotte last week He was good enough in Phoenix. We'd not worry about the flat aspect of it If you want more flexibility, you can get Chastain top five at plus 170 elsewhere I like that a lot too took that personally and I might prefer that honestly over the podium at plus 350 But among Fandals markets plus 350 to podium is good I would also say that you can bet Chastain had it's up over Kevin Harvick at minus 112 Fords in general have not been great in this package. I know that Ryan Blaney won in this package last week But I do think that Chevy still holds the edge So I would go Chastain minus 112 over Harvick as a head-to-head bet I like the podium at plus 350 top five at plus 170 Maybe I like the head-to-head more than the podium. I don't know maybe yeah Okay, so let's do the head-to-head Chastain minus 112 over Harvick now And maybe we'll add the podium at the outright later on I do think the top five is also more attractive from me than podium at plus 170 so let's go with Chastain over Harvick minus 112 is the preferred bet for this week Chastain and then adding higher upside markets later on depending what happens in practice and qualify finally Fandals is not at top 10 odds up as of yet, but they are up elsewhere and I'm seeing some value right now on Alex Bowman at plus 110 and Brad keselowski at plus 140 you shop around you can get both Those numbers I have both those guys above 50% and you're getting pretty solid plus money on them Bowman came back from his back injury last week and didn't light things up But he survived and that ups my faith in him this week one extra race under his belt extra time to heal up Bowman was very good in this rules package before his injury this year at Fontana and Vegas I have value on him to win at 30 to 1 That might be tougher, but I might be willing to add that if he's fast in practice So I think the preferred market for Bowman is the top 10 at plus 110 Keselowski also slight value to win at 30 to 1 for me right now But again great speed in this package had an awesome car in Charlotte But got caught up in incidents and didn't get to flash that full speed He was also very good in Dalton very good in Dover. He had speed in Phoenix So no matter which races you want to look at that kind of thick gateway I think keselowski should be in a good position. I want to say both. It's just kind of a matter of timing here Maybe Fandle puts up top 10 odds and both these guys wind up being longer that could wind up happening. So What I would do for right now is kind of hope that markets don't shorten elsewhere because I Think I want to wait and see I want to see what Fandle opens that for Bowman and keselowski Let's say Fandle puts up top 10 odds on Friday morning Check out Bowman and keselowski first if they are plus 110 plus 140 here to get that number Awesome once Fandle is open I would find the best odds you can on Bowman and keselowski and Take that number for top 10 as long as this plus money will be a value based on my number So I'd hold off for now see what Fandle opens that like the probably Friday morning based on the way they've done things previously and then Take the best number you can get on both keselowski and Bowman right now It's plus 110 for Bowman plus 140 for keselowski fully okay with both those but I'd wait and see what you can get on Friday If Fandle does wind up opening top 10 markets at that time That is all that we have here for today on covering the spread covering a lot of fun topics back to Some NBA and NHL for tomorrow maybe squeezing some baseball as well So make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever your podcasts also check out the NBA and Stanley Cup finals previews with Tom Vecchio From the Wednesday's show if you've got any questions for me I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J-i-m-s-a-n-n-e-s you can also follow the Fandle podcast network at Fandle podcast I want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your bets across whatever it may be for tonight for game one and joy We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break it all down This has been covering the spread right here on the Fandle podcast network