It is a murky slate at Pitcher for today in MLB DFS. When I look at the pitching pool for today, you don't see a lot of certainty, not a lot of sure things in the player pool. We got you, Darvish, Kevin Gosman, Joey Otani, but all those guys have some sort of question or imperfection around them, which makes this slate a little tough for sure. So I'm gonna take your questions on air for today and get you set for this slate of MLB DFS. Welcome on into the Fanduel Live Q&A. That's right here on the Fanduel YouTube Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com, here to take your questions live on air for the next half an hour to get you set for MLB DFS for tonight, but it's not just me for today because later on, 4.30, we've got Aaron Dolan coming on, breaking down game six of the NBA finals, taking your betting questions live on air for Sons vs. Bucks. If you got some betting questions for game six, get those lined up and ask Aaron at 4.30 later on today. But right now we're talking MLB DFS and getting you set for today's slate. We can start things off with a question over on Facebook via Julius, Julius Caesar, Abela, Jr. Better stack for the day, the Nets or the Reds. To me, Julius, I would say both are great. They are my top two stacks for today. So to me, it's a 1A, 1B type situation. I like both a lot. If I had to choose one, I would go with the Reds though against Jared Icoff. As you can see over here has had a rough go of it so far. The numbers I have on him here are in his three big league outings, but the triple A numbers for Icoff also, they're tough for sure. And it's a tough sport for sure, but they say to me we can stack against him for sure. In those three appearances in the big leagues, Icoff's 6.04 skill interactive ERA, 10% strikeout rate, a lot of hard contact, a lot of fly balls. Now has to go to Cincinnati, 85 degrees for today. Obviously it tends to be a Homer friendly park. And that to me says the Reds are going to be a top flight stack for today. But as you can see here, you know that that's a pretty good too. Basically Vladimir Gutierrez no longer doing as good of a job, limiting hard contact, still letting up fly balls, not getting a lot of strikeouts. So to me, I think Julius are kind of 1A, 1B. I like both a lot, but if I had to choose one, I would go with the Reds and they are my number one stack on the overall slate for today. Let's talk to Patrick over on Facebook. Are the Pirates a viable stack for today? The Pirates are facing Caleb Smith. For me, I would say no to that one. It's a combination of a couple of things. First one as you can see here is a Smith does limit hard contact. 27% are getting a lot of this over his past five starts with less movement on his foreseen fastball. Not a lot of hard contact. He does get some strikeouts. The Pirates are pretty bad. I would also note that the roof will be closed for today for that game out of Chasefield. So it's closed I think today and tomorrow, potentially Wednesday too. I know it's closed for a while because it's like 100 degrees, 103 degrees in Phoenix. So combining those things together, Smith suppressing our contact, the Pirates being bad and roof being closed, I will pass personally on the Pirates for today. Let's talk to Brandon over on Facebook. Need help deciding if I should pay up for Otani slash Darmish or Gibson? For me, I would say that Gibson is my preferred route. And a lot of that is because of the matchup. Otani facing the athletics, really tough spot for him. He can obviously overcome next. He's Joe Hay Otani can do anything. He's proven that to us so far, but it is a concern. Darmish in some bad weather, tough match with the Braves. I know there's no Acunia, but it's still a tough matchup for him. And there's also some weather there. So those are the concerns for you, Darmish. With Gibson facing the Tigers, as you can see here, the numbers for Gibson, not necessarily like standout type stuff. This is over his past eight starts with more curveballs, 23% strikeout rate. That's pretty low. But in the plus matchups he has had in that time, Gibson has come through. He has 10, seven and seven strikeouts over his past three starts. All of those coming against lower tier opponents. One of them was the Tigers. He did score five runs against him, but overall pretty good performance still. So I think that Gibson, definitely a guy that we should feel good about for today. He checks in $9,100 to me as my number one pitcher. So I would go with Gibson there for me personally, Brandon. Let's talk to Sean. What do you think of Yarbrough in a GPP? So Ryan Yarbrough is facing the Orioles and I will not be going there myself because he doesn't get enough strikeouts. The numbers for Yarbrough has passed five outings with less movement on his forcing fastball, 19% strikeout rate. I know I'm talking about Gibson who is at 23%, but I expect Gibson's forward looking number to be higher than that. Whereas Yarbrough, I think 19% is pretty appropriate. The Orioles, not bad against lefties, 106 WRC plus, 22% strikeout rate. Combine all that together. And I, for me personally, I am very okay not going to Yarbrough. I just don't think there's enough upside there for me to feel really good about him. All right, Michael over on YouTube is, who is the least likely guy to hit a tater for today? Is it Jeff McNeil again? So let's look at, it's probably Jeff McNeil for being honest. But if we're looking for situations where there's not a lot of hard contact expected, I would check out probably David Fletcher. If we're talking about like relevant guys, David Fletcher would be up there. But then also for Cleveland, Cesar Hernandez has some power. So I don't necessarily want to say him, but he'd be in consideration. We're talking about dudes who are actually like, are viable for DFS, Cesar Hernandez, David Fletcher probably up there for me. Let's talk to Aaron. How is this Mueller for Atlanta tonight? He is a guy with a wide range of outcomes because he walks a lot of people. All right, and that's the downside, but it also means he limits balls and play. And that means that I can't really stack against him. But I also don't want to use him as a pitcher because he just walks too many guys, tries to pitch counts, stuff like that. I can't feel great about that. I would also note for you, Aaron, that the weather there is not great. So we go over here to Rotor Grinders and check out Kevin Roth. He says that this game is in danger for sure of a postponement. So note that if you decide that you like Mueller more than I do, keep that in mind. Triple A number is good from a strikeout perspective as my internet's been kind of slow today. Probably shouldn't restart on my computer after a long weekend, but didn't do that. So, you know, here we are. Either way, Mueller in triple A, 31% strikeout rate, 16% swinging strike rate, good numbers there, but also a lot of walks. Now goes to the big leagues and that walk rate has stayed high. So to me, I don't really want to go there for DFS because the walks drive things up. The Padres is not a high strikeout team versus lefties, but I also don't want to stack against him because he doesn't let up enough balls and play. Let's talk to Kyle. Are you still on the reds without Castellanos? Also, do you like the rays lefties for tonight? Yeah, so I kind of assumed Castellanos wasn't going to play today based on the way that things sounded. As you can see here, there is no Castellanos. So obviously it's always a downgrade to not have a hitter as good as that in the lineup, but I still think that there are enough guys here who work. Naikwin's been in a really bad slump, but I'm not going to write it off entirely. And you'll get his advanced numbers. It's like, it's not just bad results. It's been just kind of questionable peripherals too. So can't be super high there. Winker's awesome. I think Suarez is trending up right now. Let's check out some of the peripheral guys here. So Stevenson, India, Vato and Akiyama to see if we can have confidence in them with Castellanos being out. Short here by plate appearances. Akiyama, one of the big samples so far this year. 87 plate appearances, not a lot of power. So I won't be going there personally. We have India. He's up to a 146 ice. So I believe that has been climbing. Also four stolen bases. So that works for me. Vato versus righties, 39% fly ball rate, 221 ice though. That definitely works. Winker, obviously tremendous. No objections there. Suarez, been getting better recently. Lot of hard contact. Strikeout rates slowly coming down. Definitely on board with that. Who was the other guy we were talking about here? Oh, Stevenson. Okay, Stevenson's the guy I tend to use mostly versus lefties versus righties, 092 ISO. So I think to me, if we're stacking the reds, is we'll go over here. And I'm gonna put Gibson in there because he's my top pitcher. We're gonna pull up the reds. Probably you're just gonna start with Winker and then Vato. So we'll go Vato at catcher slash first base, Winker in the outfield, and then India at second base and we'll go Suarez at shortstop. And if we do that, probably a lot of salary flexibility left, we are at $3,600. Yeah, that totally works. We can stack the Astros there. We can stack the Cubs there. So to me, I think this is the optimal stack for the reds. Kyle, it does limit our choices because it's one less viable. The guy we can use, I don't really wanna use not really super into Akiyama, not super into Stevenson, but I think that these guys work. And I'd probably rank these four above Naquan as well, just because I said the peripheral numbers do show some signs for concern there. I'd still use him for sure, but I ranked these four guys ahead of him and then Naquan would be fifth for me. Let's talk to Jackie Moon over on Twitch. Hey, Jim, hope you have a great weekend. I did. I had a wedding in Long Island. Terrible traffic as always, but hey, it was fun regardless. Jackie, also the day's the first day in a long time that I can't make any bets. I don't know what to do with myself. Yeah, Long Island is also in New York, which is disappointing. I love vacationing in Pennsylvania and stuff like that to get to more friendly laws. But alas, I empathize with you, Jackie. Let's talk to DJ over on Facebook. Granky, Gibson, Irvin, or Myze? To me, I think it is Gibson as mentioned before due to the matchup, due to the fact that he has done well in good matches before. He's been a good pitcher overall this year. I know I talk a lot about strikeouts, but I think that there is value in being a good pitcher, and Gibson's been that this year. So I think that all adds up to make Gibson pretty solid. All of the other guys, I guess I'd probably wind up going Myze highest. He had a dip in his pitch count. They said they were doing that to keep him fresh, heading the All-Star break. I would assume the pitch count goes back up, but it's not like a sure thing that he jumps back up to like 100 or so pitches. So that's the concern I had with Myze. Also, not a big strikeout guy recently, so not very high on my list. We have Irvin here facing the Angels, not a big strikeout team. Granky, low strikeout guy as well. So personally, I'm not gonna use any of those other three. It just Gibson for me for today, so feel very good in putting him atop that list. Let's talk to Jeremiah over on Facebook. Best third baseman for tonight. Eugenio Suarez will be up there for sure. I would assume that he'll be near the top for me. I think that India's third base eligible as well, yes he is. So they will probably be pretty high on that list for me. Chris Bryant is gonna be a pretty high option for me at third base, just because I think the matchup for him is pretty solid. Cubs are a tougher team to stack because they're not like great from a real-world perspective, but I do think that Bryant specifically works. Eduardo Escobar's not bad. I think that the Diamondbacks are another team you could turn to for one-offs. They're facing Chase DeYoung and lets up a lot of hard contact, a lot of fly balls. On board at that, JD Davis, Just Dongs. That's what the JD stands for, Just Dongs Davis. Had a two-homer game over the weekend. He's $2,200, love stack in the Mets. So I would say in your consideration set should be JD Davis, Eduardo Escobar, Suarez, Senzel, all those guys. If I had to pick just one, after considering a salary to me, it would wind up being probably a penny of Suarez because I think the power there is good. Bryant's probably two considering salary for me. Let's talk to Sean. Highest ceiling pitcher, GPP, $8,200 and under. So my favorite pitcher at that salary and lower is going to be Alec Mills. I don't think he fits this question though. I don't think he, I can count as being the highest upside guy. The reason I'm okay considering Mills is that he's actually been getting more strikeouts recently. I talked about the value of being a good real world pitcher with Gibson, that's applicable to Mills as well because he could just get so many ground balls. 18% fly ball rate allowed for him since he reached on the rotation. Strikeout right up to 24%. Had that nine strikeout game against the Reds. Facing the Cardinals, not a great team versus Righties. The reason I can't say he's the highest upside guy is that the Cardinals not a big strikeout team and he's had kind of just that one game of really getting a lot of strikeouts. So if we go $8,200 or lower, it might be mys. Actually, if we're just looking at just, just upside, it might be Nick Povetta. I don't want to use him because he's probably going to get rocked against Toronto but like he gets strikeouts, he goes decently deep in games. So if we're looking at just upside, probably Povetta but my favorite guy down there is Alec Mills for today, DJ best Cubs for a stack for tonight. Let's see if the lineup is out. It is not, or at least not the last time I refreshed. We'll give this one more refresh here and see if we can get the Cubs lineup in there. Guessing we won't. Still refreshing. Internet's slow. Okay, we'll just go over here and we'll play with the Cubs. Bryant will be in there. Probably buy it just because like the actual upside itself is going to be so high with him. It does stink not to have Jock there anymore because he was always kind of one of the more reliable pieces when it came to stacking the Cubs against the righty. So I think that that does downgrade the stack a bit and that's why I feel good ranking the Astros higher among the higher salary stacks for today. It's mostly Bryant and Baez but still they are a bit spendier than the Reds and the Mets specifically. So Bryant is up there, Baez. Let's check out what Wilson Contreras has been doing versus righties recently because I know before he wasn't a super high upside guy versus righties. Rizzo 190 ISO, Contreras a 163 ISO, that's not bad. So I would say it's Bryant won Baez two to get the two super high upside guys. Rizzo three and then probably Contreras being four. Patrick Wisdom, I mean he's been awesome. 410 ISO versus righties. Will it sustain? I don't know, but like, you know, it's fine. So I would say if I'm ranking them out it kind of goes Bryant won Baez two, Rizzo three. I'd probably go Contreras above Wisdom but if you want to put Wisdom higher I wouldn't push back. So I think that's the way I'd rank those guys four tonight. Let's talk to Michael over on YouTube. Most likely he had a single tonight. I'm going with Winker. Winker is no longer a singles hitter. He was when he came up but like now he's also just, he hits the axe. So I don't know, maybe Jesse Winker is too good to label as being the most likely to single for tonight. I don't know. And then Michael asked if you ever had sweet tea. Is this like regular sweet tea or is this something weird that I don't know about? It could be something weird. I don't know. Anyway, I don't like sweet tea. It's gross. So sorry, people from the South. It's not gross. I just don't want to have it because it makes my tummy feel upset if I have too much sugar. Let's talk to Michael. Who would you prioritize in a New York Mets stack? So Alonzo kind of has to be one. I feel like just out of like obligation, let's pull up the Mets here. I'm always going to want Michael Conforto in there. He's been hitting the ball a lot harder recently. I think the stat was three barrels in the past four games and 12 barrels for the entire season. So it does seem like the upside is trending upwards for Michael Conforto from where it was previously. Did I scroll past the Mets? I did. Nimo, Alonzo, McNeil, Smith, Davis, Conforto. So I would say, just based on my assumption here, I'm going to say Alonzo one, Davis two, Conforto three, probably going to be Dominic Smith number four if I had to guess, 128 ISO, 36% fly ball rate. That's not great, but it's better than McNeil. Does he have an extra base hit yet since he came back? Let's just check here for funsies. I'm assuming he does. So I haven't looked in like a week. Although I guess there was the all-star break, but just out of curiosity. Oh, he did. He had a double. Okay, so the Jeff McNeil extra base hit watch has been ended because he had a double back on July 10th. So there you go. Our long national nightmare is over. He got an extra base hit. I can't really get there for DFS as a result of that. So lower on McNeil, Nimo, I do want to see what he's done since he came back too, because he was also recently on a rehab assignment in general, Nimo is a guy much more capable of upside than McNeil is. So I tend to prefer Nimo, but because it came off of an injury, I do want to dig into the bat of ball data and see what he has done since he came back just to make sure that he's not still dealing with the injuries that held him out earlier. Okay, so we got him back here since, okay, July 3rd. Let's change the game logs here for Nimo to be just July 3rd on and see what we're working with. 29% strike area kind of high, 56 plate appearances, the stack cast data, one barrel, 12 hard hit balls. That's not too bad. The ground ball rate 41%, that's not terrible. So I would say if I'm ranking them out, oopsies, where did I go? Okay, if I'm ranking out the Mets here for today, I would say Alonzo one, Davis or Davis two, Conforto three, Dominic Smith four, Nimo five, and do I go Nido above or Nido above Nimo or above McNeil as well? I guess I'd put McNeil there if I have to. Oh, we'll see. Let's see here. Kyle, do you like the raised bats tonight against the O's? Kyle over on YouTube. Okay, so the raised are faced, actually someone asked this before and I totally missed it, my bad. Whoever asked about the raised before I missed it, that's my bad. Trying to scroll to find out who that was. Oh, it was Kyle. Sorry, Kyle, I missed your question before, my bad. I do like the raised today. The facing Spencer Walkins, Walkins really cool story because he's an older guy who just got promoted. So you do want to root for him, but numbers so far in the majors struggling so far, 6.25 skill interactive ERA, 15% strikeout rate, 15% walk rates has done a decent job with contact suppression, but not enough where we need to be scared of them. The one reason I was a bit, I didn't mention the raised earlier on is because this game is indoors, there are other games that are outdoors, much better hitting conditions. So that's the one downside here, but then the raised are a very good option for today. So I think that the raised for sure an option, Kyle, and I would say I might put them above the cubs upon like deeper thought about it, just because like not having Jock in there is a pretty decent bummer. So maybe I will go the raise above the cubs for today. Alvin, how do you rank the Al, or the Astros best? I almost called them the Alvins. Houston Alvins, I like that. We'll go with that instead. The Houston Alvins, okay. Facing and JC Mejia, we have, we do want to bump at the left easier because Mejia is a guy with pretty extreme platoon splits and when you look at the deeper numbers, strikeout rate, hard hit rate, et cetera, et cetera. So I would go Alvarez one, Tucker two, Alpube three, Brantley four, Correa five, and then Chas McCormick a really solid option if you want to stack the Astros while using Gosmin or Darvish, if he's, if we can use him or even Gibson. So if you're having troubles getting there, McCormick does still work for me, but assuming that you have got a lot of flexibility, which I think I will for today, I would say Alvarez, then Tucker, then Alpube, then Brantley, then Correa, and then Goriel, but then also considered McCormick as a lower salary guy for today. Mateo, I am late man. What's up Mateo? What's it going? Did you talk about Zach Cranky? If not, what do you think? None of the strikeouts for me, 20% strikeout for him. This is over, he is past four starts, really four. Four starts with more sliders and fewer foreseamers. So it seems like he's trying to get more strikeouts by using that slider more. It hasn't quite manifested yet. Cleveland, not a big strikeout team. They've been hitting the ball better recently. So not a big Granky guy in general, but not a big Granky guy tonight either. Jackie, don't forget about Dinger Tuesday tomorrow. Jackie, the $20 is on your way, obviously, for the free publicity for Dinger Tuesday over at FanDuel Sportsbook. Karo, I like the raise a little. It seemed a bit underrated. Yeah, I think that they probably are. I mean, I glossed over them before. So I think that they probably are a bit underrated. If we want to look at that, we can go to the heat map over here on number fire, pull up implied totals, because that does drive a lot of sentiment towards different teams. I know the Reds will be high here and the Nets will be high. So that game in general will be pretty popular. So keep that in mind if you are deciding to stack that game. I still want to stack it personally because I think that all the different reader picture and stuff like that, but you will have to deal with some high popularity there. Rays, I guess, are fourth in implied totals. That's a little higher than I thought it was, but I'm okay putting them above the Cubs still. So to me, it's gonna go Reds, Mets, Astros, then Rays, and then we'll go with the Cubs after that. DJ says the Cubs lineup just came out. So let's refresh this one more time. Hopefully my internet's a little bit faster this time around. It is, wow, wow, so fast that time. Okay, so I'm gonna stick with Bryant one, Baez two, Rizzo three, I'll go Contreras four just because he's so much higher in the order than Wisdom. Wisdom five, I'm okay with Jason Hayward. He puts the ball in the air enough. So Hayward would be six for me. All of those top six are very much playable on the Cubs four today. Oh, Michael put the Cubs lineup over on YouTube for me, I didn't see it. So thank you for Michael, I appreciate that. I didn't see it, but good on you, I appreciate it. Jackie, sorry it's not DFS related, I need some positive vibes set my way. Hope we can finally get a new job this weekend.  That's awesome, good for you. Good luck, hope it goes well. Diffuse, rank the Marlins. Okay, facing John Lester for today. And no lineup yet for the Marlins. And part of the reason why the Marlins are tough for me from a full stacking perspective is it does depend on who plays. They are close to the trade deadline, which means they may hold guys out because they don't want to get hurt before the trade deadline. And I mean, a lot of the guys we'd want to use are the guys who could potentially be held out as a result of, you know, preserving them for the trade deadline, Marte, Duvall, Aguilar. All these guys are guys who could be on the move. But I would say it's probably Aguilar one, Duvall two, Marte three, and then, ah, Marte should probably be one. Okay, Marte's one, sorry. I shouldn't be too low on him. We'll go Marte one, Duvall two, Aguilar three. Gear Cooper four if he plays. I'm not a big Miguel Rojas guy just because the upside's not super high. It seems like Chisholm, he's getting MRI today. So probably not gonna play, but I think those would be the options for the Marlins. Let's talk to Alvin, assuming the Astros for the four stack, do you prefer the Reds or the Nets for three batters? So if I'm choosing just three batters, I feel like the combination of Winker, Suarez, and Vato is enticing enough where I would rank them above any combination of three from the Nets. So to me, I think the Reds are actually pretty decently ahead of the Nets in terms of the three batter stacks. So I'll go the Reds there. They're top three better than the top three for I would say most stacks, potentially all stacks for today. Jackie, do you get points for hitting as well? If you take Otani in the pitcher spot, you do not. You will receive points for him just as a pitcher for today. Obviously, it's a bummer, not get those hitting points, but they gotta choose one way or another. DJ, best home run call for tonight. Okay, we want some good hit weather, wanna good park, which means we're probably looking at the Nets Reds game because great park for hitting, two teams that we like for today from a matchup perspective. I would say if I'm just picking one, it's Jesse Winker because it's a good spot against Icoff, it's a great hitting situation. So if I'm picking one guy, I kind of think it's Jesse Winker. So I'll go Jesse Winker for the one call. For the second call, I had JD Davis, I believe is my home run pick this morning on the podcast. I'm probably just gonna stick with that if I had to guess. However, I will say that Conforto with what he's been doing recently and the increased hard contact and stuff like that, I would say maybe I wanna switch to Conforto. That seems like a hedge and probably kind of cheating, but like that's also fine, you know, whatever. I'll go my official picks right now. I'll go Winker and Conforto as a home run picks for today. Jackie is asking, when is the trade deadline? I thought Chris Bryant would be gone by now. Trade deadline I think is July 31st. That's when it usually is, but I know a lot of stuff got jacked around due to the changes this year. It's usually July 31st, always just my favorite day.  I got Luis Castillo, Shannon Stewart back in the day, but never Alfonso Soriano. They always broke my heart, but I still like the day for some reason. I was talking to Jerry, just joined, good day Jim, good day Jerry. How do you feel about these stacks? Cincinnati, Tampa Bay and Washington. Love Cincinnati, really like Tampa Bay. So very much on board with those two. Washington is facing what I'd assume will be a bullpen game here for the Marlins. I don't think they've announced their official starter as of yet, but it seems like it'll be a bullpen game for the Marlins and the Marlins bullpen is pretty good. Like they're a solid bullpen 3.10 ERA for their active roster bullpen this year. That to me pushes me lower on them and they've done pretty well in the bullpen games they've had. So the Nationals, not a super powerful team with no Schwerber. So I'd be lower on the Nationals but Jerry, I love Cincinnati, really into Tampa Bay as well. I've fully on board with those two. Michael's Chisholm is out for tonight, which means maybe we'll get the Marlins lineup in here or they just said that Chisholm is out due to the MRI. I'm guessing that's what it is because they were not refreshed as of last time I checked. Hopefully Chisholm is not going in the IL because I have a Dynasty League where every single pitcher is on the IL and I don't want to lose my hitting two. So let's keep Jazz Chisholm healthy. Let's manifest health for Jazz Chisholm but doesn't look like there's a Marlins lineup yet out as of yet. Jerry says his home run calls are Juan Soto and Pete Alonso. I have no rebuttal for that Jerry, I think that works. Soto probably not super high on my list just because of the bullpen game, but Alonso's great. Obviously those two guys are pretty fun to watch a week ago in the home run Derby. I think that Alonso definitely someone, I mentioned Confortant just because it's more fun to pick a more into the radar guy but Alonso probably go in a yard for sure. Jackie says that talking about Alfonso Soriano as a Cardinals fan, I hated it when he went to the Cubs. He was always so fun just because the two might like most, the three most exciting events in baseball are a home run, a strike out for me at least. The stolen bases are heavily influenced by DFS because of the upside plays but Alfonso Soriano willing to give all three, the strike out, the dinger and the stolen base. Alfonso says Chisholm and Cooper are both going to the IL. Boo, that makes me more firm in, I'm not booing you Alfonso, that was great. Thank you for letting me know. I'm booing the Marlins, I'm booing health, booing the injury gods for taking away Jazz, Chisholm and Garrett Cooper from us. This makes me sad so we'll boo them and that does make me feel more firm in saying the Marlins are one-offs only just because there'll probably be only three guys I like and those guys being Duvall, Aguilar and Marte for tonight. Final question here from Jerry before we get to Aaron. Jerry says, is Yarbrough in play for you? Not enough strike outs for me so I won't get there. I know that the implied total is very low. I'm guessing that it's probably gonna lead to some decent popularity for Yarbrough and if that's the case, I'm okay. Taking a look at higher upside guys elsewhere, specifically Gibson, Gosman's number two, Otani number three and then Alec Mills, my favorite value option for today. That is all that I have on the MLB DFS side of things for today, but don't go anywhere because we're gonna hand things over to Erin Dolan and she's gonna be talking about game six of the NBA finals. We've got the Suns and the Bucks coming up tomorrow night and Erin, fun weekend at basketball. How are you doing today? Good, how are you? I am excited to watch game number six. It has been a thrilling series thus far and just kind of hard to predict across the board of the way that things have swung. I don't think I'm giving picks out today. I was thinking about that right before this. I'm like, I don't even think I give it because so much can, I'm just not gonna call this game right. I could see the Suns just absolutely dominating but then again, the Bucks at home, I could see them winning it all. I don't really know how I feel about it. But I think the good thing, the other incentive to not like this, given what is here, I probably shouldn't say don't bet it. But like there is an incentive not to bet because like you just kind of want to enjoy these games. I know that betting makes help you enjoy it more, but like I want to sit back, man. I just want to sit back and enjoy. I know, I'm actually going to be really sad if it's over tomorrow just because I love the NBA season. So I don't have to wait. Now I'm excited for the NFL season. Not that I know we have MLB going on, but that's more your cup of tea. I'm ready for the NFL. We'll convince you again. We'll go back to our mission of getting you on board at the MLB DFS. It's the playoffs times. I'll be in as soon as the playoffs. I just can't do this long of a season. It's very, very long. It is tough. I agree with that. I was so excited for the all-star break to not think about it for a couple of days. So I understand that for sure. Awesome. All right. Well, I'll see you Wednesday. Yes, I will see you Wednesday. Thanks, Aaron. Yes. All right, guys. What's up? How's everybody doing? I hope everybody has a lot of questions today about game five. We'd love to answer them. Or excuse me about game six. Sorry, tomorrow. I forgot we just had the game on Saturday. I'm excited for it right now. On the Fandals Sportsbook, back a little bit here. We have the Bucks laying five at home. They can win it all. That total 221 and a half currently. And this has continued to move up. As you know, the over continues to hit between these two teams. The over seven, one and one in the last eight games that one game being a push in game three. If you got that total at 220. But I'm super excited for this game. It's crazy. The Bucks can win their second franchise title the first since 1971. As for the Suns, I kind of feel bad. I'm kind of surprised. You guys can comment this as well. If you are surprised, the Bucks were able to win three off them and even take that last game at home. I feel like some calls have been going towards the Bucks, I will say. But then there's just been some plays where you're like, Chris Paul, you can't get the ball just taken from you. You can't turn it over. Devon Booker, same thing with you last game. It's just, I thought there's been so many things going against the Suns, but we shall see. All right, let's get into some of the markets and then some of the trends. Everything's up right now in the Fandals Sports Book. Some of the odds boost you'll see will come up tomorrow such as for example, the BR betting three by two. I'm sure we're going to have that. We had the Parley last week. I will be on the BR betting group chat show tomorrow. So I won't be doing this tomorrow but I'll be recapping it on Wednesday whether the Bucks win or whether we have a game seven. I'm hoping for a game seven. It's Mr. Jackie Moon. I feel like this is always your best comment. Might be our last chance to bet crowd or five plus threes. Don't miss this opportunity people. He's actually been great. So Mr. Jackie Moon is constantly commenting this. So maybe everybody should ride with him in case this is the last game of the NBA for this particular season. I'm already like ready for October and the whole new season because I just miss the full slate of NBA games. I really do mean that. Mean that. It's Mr. Jackie Moon. I was saying eight needs to be benched after his lack of effort on rebounds. I took him over rebounds last game, 12 and a half. Thought it was a lock.  I will say in terms of double doubles, obviously there's no value to bet that at this point. Let's see. Of course. All right, yeah, minus 350. So he has been great this entire series. Giannis minus 750. And then of course, some of the most famous, or I shouldn't say famous, most popular markets would be player futures, for example. Look at Giannis moving to minus 430. That's wild. Devin Booker plus 650. He was a 12 to one at one point moving back. Chris Paul plus 700. He was at one point minus, I believe 250 minus 275 maybe. He has been absolutely terrible since his finals debut. I will say that. But it's not surprising Giannis is moving this far out. Obviously he's been dominating. He's been great. He had that one block against Aitton. And then the Bucks been able to win three straight. I feel like he's been such a great leader too in this entire NBA finals. You can just see it.  Let's see, what was the lead that they had? Bucks came back from a 16 point deficit, 43 points in the second quarter. Then they went on a 29 and 12 run, yes, in that second quarter. Then the Suns came back, trimmed a 10 point deficit in the fourth down to three after Booker drained that one three pointer. Like that was wild. The swings in that game were absolutely wild. It's Mr. Jackie Moon saying CP3 plus 700. You have to bet that if you think they're coming back. I agree with you. I was on a few shows over the past couple of weeks and I said, CP3 was too far out, it was like minus 200 something. I was like, wait till the Bucks win one and then it didn't move drastically and then the Bucks went through straight. Obviously you see him now plus 700. I still think there's a chance now with Devin Booker just considering he's moving up, he's been playing better. I would say overall in the series, I understand Chris Paul, everybody's saying that, himing would actually do this after how long he's been in the league. It makes a lot of sense to give it to somebody like him, but honestly, I don't think I could count on Chris Paul in the upcoming games. The Milwaukee Bucks play so well at home and the Suns are so good at home and on the road. The fact they didn't win that game, the last game is actually very puzzling to me, but the Milwaukee Bucks, like that crowd is absolutely amped up and crazy. I don't trust the Bucks on the road. I trust the Bucks at home. We know that they're able to go the distance just considering they went with the Brooklyn Nets to game seven and won it in Barclay Center, which is absolutely nuts. So I know that like I usually come on here and I give a ton of picks, but honestly, trying to handicap this type of NBA finals has been nuts for me. I just think that every game is so different and everything that you expect is gonna happen ends up not happening. I know in the first four games, the favorite was winning and the home team was winning. Then we saw finally an underdog winning and of course on the road. So that was good for the Bucks in terms of betting. We kind of saw a little bit of a switch up there, but now it's interesting to see the Bucks laying five. You'd think it maybe it'd be a little bit more just considering that they could win it all here. I don't know the best way to play that. If you think the Suns are gonna come back, what you need to do is you need to take like Jackie Moon actually just mentioned some of these players, Devin Booker plus 650, Chris Paul plus 700 in terms of finals MVP, if you actually think they're going to come back because it will be one of those two players. Everybody else is kind of too far out at this point. It's the under eight and plus 19,000. That's never going to hit. Just gonna throw it out there. All right, outright betting Bucks, minus 380 again, gonna give the same type of advice for the Suns plus 320. If you think they're going to come back, you should be betting this right now. If you think that the Bucks are going to be able to take it. Obviously you wouldn't want to take minus 380 at this point, but if you've got it over the last couple of games, it was still like plus, it's plus money I believe till after the third or fourth game still. But yeah, I can't believe Suns take a two game lead and then lose three straight. I just, it doesn't seem right. I'm very baffled by it. I did not think that was going to happen. I was saying Suns in six. Obviously game six is coming up and it could be technically Bucks in six. So we will see, but I'm excited for this game. As always, all the player props are available right now. Same game Parley, player points, player rebounds, player assist, so much more. I want to see some of the player points. Devon Booker 31 and a half, I believe this has come up considering the last two games he had 40 plus point performances. I was so convinced on Saturday when I was out, all my friends were taking the over on Devon Booker and first points prop. But I'm like, absolutely not like, do not take that it's such a bad bet, ends up hitting the over. So I was dead wrong about that. I was at 28 and a half, I believe it came up from 27 and a half. Obviously 31 and a half here. Chris Paul, 21 and a half, eight and 16 and a half. Giannis, 32 and a half. Chris Middleton, 25 and a half. Drew Holiday. They've really just this three. Giannis, Chris and Drew have been figuring it out. They really have been. Let's see you score 40 plus. Yeah, these are super high now. 35 plus all plus money. It's really not till you get to score 30 plus points that you start seeing minus money, some plus money here. But I feel like, like I mentioned, every single game totally different and one player always ends up stepping up. It's not, I feel like a ton of players hitting their player props, which is interesting. Let's see some of these match bets. These are all long numbers. I wouldn't be betting. Before we get into some other things, I just wanted to mention some of the trends that are on covers.com. Bucks four now against the spread in the last four games is a home favorite. Four now in the last four games. Five and one against the spread in the last six games is a favorite. And then of course we have the over-under trends. These of course under you can look at, but between the two teams head to head, the over, like I mentioned, seven, one and one last nine meetings. So it's been trending towards the over. I know in the one game that I bet the under, that was game three, or no, game three was a push, game four wasn't under, game five wasn't over. And then as you can see, the line keeps getting bet to the over. I hope this is a really high scoring game. I know it'll probably be one of the most defensive games, obviously, because everything is on the line in this game if the Bucks win, but these teams, this team can shoot lights out. And actually what we're doing this, let's look at how both these teams shot. Wow, this is such a difference than game four. When I was saying everything, it was like 24%. They shot terribly. This is crazy. 68% from the three, 55 from the field, that's wild and they still lost. The Bucks finally shooting well from three point range, 50% there. They've been slacking, slacking, slacking, slacking from beyond the arc. So I'm happy for them there that they were able to kind of figure that out, pull it together. But yeah, this second quarter killed them. 43 points, came back, made that run. Sons try to come back here. Obviously they couldn't by this point.  That was insane. All right, it's Mr. Ducky Moon.  Wait, you're predicting Middleton to shine. They would win tomorrow in Milwaukee because they're heading back to Milwaukee. If you predict Middleton to shine, he could do that, but to force a game seven, we're gonna have to have people from the sun definitely stepping up. Better probably the Bucks money line with some other props. If you bet them, yes, obviously, you wouldn't want to take anything laying this many points. Put them in a parlay for sure, but honestly, I'm not sure it's gonna add much value. Oh, it's minus two at five. It's not too bad. Oh, this just came up as well. Odds boost, 230 plus total points, scored in NBA finals, game six, plus 190 now, plus 240, this literally just popped up as I'm doing this. So if you like that, you should take that. We also have the NBA finals comeback bonuses. You can see these are all the top, same game parlay versus free. NBA playoffs enhanced odds. So guys, tomorrow we seriously could have, this just went up, this could be it. This could be it for the NBA season. The Milwaukee Bucks could win. And what's crazy is I talked so much smack for so long on this team, because they were terrible during the regular season. They weren't terrible. Obviously, they were number three seed in the East.  I just really did not expect this team to come out of the East. I really thought it was gonna be the Brooklyn Nets. I thought if they played Philly, they really would have gave, it would have been a tough matchup for them, but I didn't even think it was going to get to the point where they would have to play Philly, then Philly was knocked out by Atlanta. And then now in the, you know, in the Western side of the bracket, all good, Mr. Jackie, man. I see you said it backwards. It's surprising not to see the Clippers, the Lakers and some of their top teams. Denver Nuggets were terrible. Oh my gosh. Some of the things that have happened, I feel like in the NBA this season have just been so surprising. It's gonna be interesting to see who the favorites are to win it next season, because we're gonna get those odds probably, I believe tomorrow night, if the books are able to win it. I'm sure they're already working on those. They're probably been posted already at probably some of the other books, but in general, we'll have them posted. We'll already be talking about next season. I'm excited. We have the NBA draft coming up, I believe. That is July 29th. I think I'm gonna go to New York for that actually. So exciting things to come content-wise for that. No, don't say it. Don't speak it into existence. Speak what into existence? I'm assuming you're saying speak that the season would be over tomorrow. I wanna see game seven. I wanna see them playing back in the valley. I really will feel bad for Chris Paul. Devon Booker, I really want him to win. But sometimes I think about this at the end of it, because I really don't have ties to either of these teams, either of these players, or excuse me, any of these players.  Like it's one thing to get knocked out in the first round, second round, conference finals, but then to actually get it so close in the game six.  It just, that has to be so devastating. Like I can't even imagine the pressure and what these guys are thinking right now. And also like the bucks, like that, they have to be nervous. Like I wonder if that's gonna play a really big part in tomorrow. Just then, like obviously they've been playing so they're fine, but at the same time, like the nerves of, hey, we can all achieve the highest of the highest in the NBA right now. Like this is the end all be all basically, is pretty crazy. I don't know about how I would do under that pressure. I'd be excited, but I'd definitely be nervous. Nets 100% if I'm guessing, unless the Lakers get someone like Dame or Kemba. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see where Damien Ler goes in general. I would love for Dame to come to Philly and trade Ben Simmons. I'd be happy to get rid of him. So I would love to have a shooter on our team. I was for a while even saying like, it'd be awesome to get Bradley Beale when there was kind of some trade rumors going on earlier in the season. Or I guess it was around January, February with him. When he was having those 50 plus point games and the moisture wizards were still losing. Sixers need a shooter. I would love to see Dame come here. It's obviously gonna be interesting to see where he goes. I feel like I keep seeing it on the television of all the places he could potentially go, but yeah, Jackie Moon saying, it doesn't help that CP3 was in a promo before last game, talking about nothing matters if you don't win at all. Yeah, that's, I actually didn't see that promo, but that is definitely not going to age well, especially in the world of social media. Some of these players, when they say certain things, comes back to kind of bite them a little bit, especially if, I mean, this is gonna be tragic for him if he doesn't. He's never gonna probably get back to this point. The stars aligned also for the Bucks. The stars aligned for the Suns. Like this is things aligned for both of these teams, I believe, I don't think they're like, like I said, can't say they're not the best out of all the teams, because obviously they were able to win and get there, but I don't think next year we're gonna see the Bucks versus the Suns again in the NBA finals. We probably see different teams, but anyways, other than that, as I mentioned, very excited. I know I said I wasn't giving picks, but I guess if I was leaning towards something, I'd like to see the Suns at least cover, make it a close game, force a game seven. They can't let the Milwaukee Bucks go on a run. Both these teams shot great last game. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw a negative regression, which we're going to probably see. I don't, I can't see a world in which the Suns are able to shoot 68% from three. They were also great from the free throw line, 90% compared to the Bucks. They could have had this game won by even more points had they been able to shoot the free throws. I feel like a lot of people are getting a little annoyed with the honest per usual with the counting, especially when, you know, it's in the valley that one guy was doing it with the money. And I thought that was the weirdest thing because I thought it was funny the first time, but not the entire time. And also if you're going to do that, I thought he would like bend down to give $100 to somebody each time or do something funny with it when really he was just counting money and then putting it back in his pocket. Whole thing was a little weird for me. I knew that was going to go viral immediately. The 4K cameras love it, love to see it. I like seeing the crowd interaction and stuff, but I don't think we needed to see as much of that as we were seeing. And I think you should have started like handing hundreds out if he was really a baller, like he was trying to pose as in that, in that clip. But yeah, if you guys have any questions, please drop it, drop and comment them below. Again, I will not be on tomorrow because I'll be doing the VR betting group chat show. And then I'll be back Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I believe, which is exciting. Actually, let me see. When is would, if this is a game seven? Oh, game seven will be a Thursday. So if we need to go to a game seven, I will not be on Thursday. I'll be back on on Friday. I'm helping fingers crossed for a game seven. So we have a lot of things to talk about. I get so excited. And I actually really love the NBA. So that's just my feelings on that. But yeah, thank you for joining today. Always feel free to tweet at me at Aaron Kate Dolan. Any other questions that you guys have? And in general, I will see you guys on Wednesday.


In this video, we're going to talk about four aspects to take into account when writing assembly programs, how to define data, how to handle labels, what do we have to observe when we are manipulating the stack, and how to manipulate the registers. So these are things that we need to take into account when we write our assembly programs. Let's talk first about data. So as we said, data is defined whenever the assembly program encounters a line saying dot section dot data. Now inside that section, you can use several directives to define different types of data. The first one we're going to study is dot byte. Let's assume that we proceed that with the label numbers followed by a column and then dot byte. Dot byte is a directive as you can imagine, allows us to define certain values for the different bytes that will be stored in memory. And you can define a series of values. Let's say, for example, first we define 38, then and we can combine different formats. We define another one, which is 0B1101100. Then we can define another one that is, for example, 0X3F, then another one surrounded by a single quote that is A, and finally another one, which is 0633. And as you can imagine, and we've seen before, this would be in decimal. This is definitely with the 0B prefix a binary number, 8 bits, therefore, if it's an byte. This prefix definitely denotes hexadecimal. This is ASCII encoding, so it will be the representation of A in ASCII. And finally, the prefix 0 denotes octal. So here we have this directive that allows us to define different types of values that will be placed one next to each other in memory. So the effect of this directive would be, if we could take a look at memory, this would be the consecutive bytes. So number 38 would be stored in this position, then the 0B in the next one, 0X3F here, A would be stored in this position, and this value would be stored in this one. So two things to take into account. One byte in size, each number, as the directive says here, and very important consecutive positions. Okay, what else can we define here? So the other directive we can use, let's use it with something we call message. We can use this directive, which is called .ASCII, which allows us to define a string surrounded by double quotes. A similar one is .ASCIZ, which allows us to define also another string always surrounded by double quotes, and a third directive, which is .String, followed by, again, surrounded by double quotes as string. Now what are the difference between these three? This one is the regular one. They just take the representation or the ASCII encoding of these characters of this string, and they are placed in consecutive positions in memory, and nothing is added. What do we mean by nothing is added? Well, because the following one, the one that is .ASCIZ, adds an extra byte at the end with value 0X00. So the difference between this directive and this one is that whenever we see this string here, we can count on being in memory, the encoding all these letters plus 0X00, which is added at the end. Whereas in here, nothing is added at the end. The only thing that is encoded is the string as you see it here with the characters that you see it here. And the third directive, .String, is very easy because it's nothing more than a synonym for the previous one. So these two are the same. All right, so we know how to define numbers and how to define strings. The third directive that we're going to use is .Space. Now .Space allows us to define simply a chunk of memory in which we are going to store something. But we don't need to provide neither a byte nor an ASCII. Typically, the way we define it is with two numbers, A and B, separated by a comma. And this defines A consecutive bytes with value B. So for example, .Space 3 comma 2 will define three bytes with the value 2 as the initial value. Or if we don't specify B, then it's taken as the value 0. So these are the three directives that we can use by this group of directives to specify strings or .Space to specify empty space. Let's now talk about labels. These are very important in assembly programs. I've written three labels here as a prefix for these three types of directives. Now remember, labels are optional. You do not necessarily need to write a label next to each of these directives. However, labels are used for two purposes. The first one, perhaps the most intuitive, is to refer to the data. So in here, as you can see, the label numbers is in a position. That would be this one here, which points to the value 38. The definition of the labels allows us then to do things like this. I would like to load, and I use the instruction LDS, in register R12, whatever points to in the label numbers. So what this thing means is that the number 38 is loaded in R12. So this is the first interpretation. When I put the label in an instruction LDS, I'm referring to the data stored in this position in memory. And this position in memory, the content of it, goes and is loaded in R12. I can use also the instruction STS and say STS numbers comma R12. And this is the opposite. Content of R12 is stored in memory. OK, but, and here comes the tricky part. Labels have a second interpretation. Sometimes we want to refer to the element in which they are placed. But some other times, what we want to do, we want to refer to their address. In other words, numbers refers to this position over here. But rather than getting number 38, I would like to get the address that this label is placed or corresponds to. And the way to do that in the AVR architecture, we need two instructions, which work like this. Suppose that I do LDI R28. So LDI stands for load and immediate. I'm going to load a constant. And the syntax careful with this is L08 numbers. And then another instruction, LDI R29 HI8 numbers. Now these two instructions are typically together for the following reason. First, the address has 16 bits. So how do I access to those 16 bits? Well, these two functions, LO8 parenthesis and HI8 HI8, sorry, parenthesis, are assembler directives. What it means is that these two expressions are replaced respectively by the eight bits, least significant eight bits of the address in which numbers is placed. And the eight most significant bits of this address. So as a result, the address is now placed in the register R29 column R28, which is our way of saying that we concatenate those two registers, each one eight bits, to refer to a 16-bit value. So these are two very different interpretations and very important of the label. So remember, label can refer to the data they point to. Or we can also get a hold of the address of that label. And we get a hold of that using these two directives, LO8 and HI8. Let's talk now briefly about the stack. So we talked about data. We talked about labels. Now we're going to talk about the stack. Now the stack in this architecture needs to be manipulated in using basically two rules. The first one is that it's used for temporary values. In other words, you shouldn't think of the stack as something that some portion of memory that you're going to leave a lot of data there for any purpose. It's just for temporary values. So you upload or you load data in the stack with the push operation. And then later, you remove that data with the pop operation. Remember to instructions, push, and pop. But perhaps the most important rule with the stack is that your code has to start and finish with the same stack. Now this is extremely important. I repeat, extremely important. Because if you don't do that, then your programs will not execute correctly. What this means precisely is that whenever you start the execution of a program, you have to assume that the stack is in certain position. You still can use it for temporary values. But you have to remove any other value that you have pushed to the stack, such that you comply with this requirement at the end, the start and finish of your program, observe or find exactly the same stack. And finally, after talking about data, labels, and stack, let's talk about registers. How do I handle registers in my assembly programs? So there are basically four rules that we need to observe. And these rules derive from the architecture. They are arbitrary, and they need to be observed. Register R0 is free to use. No restrictions on that one. You can do whatever you want with that. Register R1, on the other hand, must be 1 at all times. Sorry, must be 0 at all times. So you can change the value of that register. You always have to observe that it has to be 0. Registers R2, all the way up to R17 and then R28 and R29. Actually, these registers, be careful, because you have to save them at the beginning of your code and restore them at the end of your code. What does this mean? It means that if you plan to use any of the registers in your program, the first instruction that you have to place in your program are those instructions to push to the stack the value of these registers. Such that before finishing your program, you restore them and make sure that they have exactly the same value they had before your program started. So this translates into push and pop instructions. So remember, and this is again one of the most common reasons why assembly programs don't work, because you don't observe this rule. You have to make sure that before your program terminates, these registers have exactly the same values they had when it started. And for that, you use the stack, remembering that you have to restore exactly the same stack at the end. And finally, the other rule is that registers R18 through R27 and then registers R30 and R31 are for you to use freely. But in other words, you can do whatever you want with these registers. You don't need to observe these save and restore rules as we stated before. But you may lose their value if a call is made. So another way of looking at these four rules. R0, you can do whatever you want. No need to save or restore it. R1, you just leave it alone and set it to 0. These registers, you have to make sure that you make a copy of them in the stack and then restore the value before you finish.  In other words, any value that you would leave in any of these registers is not guaranteed to be there by the time the call to the subroutine is finished. So again, these are rules that you have to observe. Make sure you observe them in order for your assembly programs to work in the AVR architecture.


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Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Anabaptist Perspectives. I'm here with John D. Martin, we're in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. And yeah, first quite, like right off the bat we're just going to jump right into it. This is about, you know, the kingdom of God and what that looks like in our thought processes as Anabaptists. You've been a vocal apologist, I guess you could say, of Anabaptism.  Well, I would say I struggled to find a place in the tradition because the preaching that I would have heard growing up was what I would characterize as basically an evangelical Protestant message. And we were told that we were the same as other Protestants theologically, but we had two distinctive doctrines, nonconformity and nonresistance. It was very easy to think that that was sort of an add-on except for the nonresistance, but the nonconformity in the church I grew up in was built sort of as something that was superfluous and sort of an add-on. And so it was easy to think of myself as an evangelical. I didn't really understand even what Anabaptist was. I knew a couple of Anabaptist names. I had never been introduced to their concepts, what they believed, and what their concept of salvation was. That all came later in my life. I questioned almost from the beginning as a teenager just struggling, going to secular university, why am I an Anabaptist rather than, or a Mennonite, the word Anabaptist wasn't used much, why am I a Mennonite rather than these evangelicals that I met for instance in this secular university that were very wonderful testimony. So there was sort of a crisis of my identity all through my teenage years and into my early 20s. So this episode we're thinking Kingdom of God and we realize that's pretty broad and nuanced and there's a lot of angles to it. Can you just give us an introduction, what do you mean when you talk about the Kingdom of God? Well first of all the word Kingdom suggests a society of people. I would have grown up with a very individualistic concept of the Gospel that it's all about me, it's all about me getting to heaven, but the Kingdom is the idea of a society. And if you go back into the beginnings of the Bible, you find that God always wanted a people, not just individuals. And he called out Abraham, he said I'm going to make you a great nation. And if you go through the Old Testament he makes great promises how they're going to be greater than the other nations and they're going to demonstrate things that the other nations did not have, God was going to make them the greatest, he was going to make them the highest, they were going to be a testimony, the Queen of Sheba came, she saw that, she said that.   And so then you come over into the, well you can go through the Old Testament, see the tremendous promises he made to that nation which I've just alluded to. Then you come to the New Testament and you find that Jesus introduces his ministry by saying repent, not if you want to go to heaven, although that's true, he says repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And then a couple of verses later it says he went through all the cities of Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. And we have the term Kingdom of God or Gospel of the Kingdom used probably 125 times in the Gospels and I don't think Jesus used terms carelessly if he focused on the Gospel of the Kingdom which is what he always called his Gospel when he gave it its content. Then he wasn't just speaking meaninglessly, he meant a Kingdom. I find that as you go through the teachings of Jesus that the Kingdom is a very strong emphasis, the Kingdom parables, you have the Sermon on the Mount that begins blessed of the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Kingdom is referenced down through that. You have the Lord's Prayer, that Kingdom come, that will be done. You have all through the Gospels you have this emphasis on the Kingdom. And so then when you come finally to the end of Jesus' life in Acts chapter one, the last 40 days, if you turn there you will find that he spent those 40 days teaching things concerning the Kingdom. I find that very interesting that he's talking about the Kingdom right up to the end. And then you go into the book of Acts, you find Philip going down to Samaria. What's he preaching? He's preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. We could look up all these references. You come to the Apostle Paul, he spends two years at Ephesus, Acts 19. He spends all their time preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. You get to the book of Acts, the elders of Israel come to meet him there in Rome and he presents the Kingdom of God to them. At the end of the book, the very last verses, Paul is in his own hard house preaching to everybody who came to him, the Kingdom of God. So. Wow, okay, so this is like a thread, basically, through the all of the, yeah. It begins in Acts 19, Exodus 19 where God says through Moses, this nation shall be to me a kingdom of priests. And I want to emphasize that our expression of the Kingdom is not the absolute Kingdom of God. That is coming later. This is a mediatorial Kingdom. You get to Acts, for instance, the Church is not the absolute Kingdom because he says Jesus has to wash the Church by the water, the word, and make it holy. Well, the absolute Kingdom won't need any of that. So this Kingdom is not perfect. It's a mediatorial Kingdom where we are mediating God's absolute Kingdom by demonstrating a society of people who show the character of God to show what the world would look like, what the original society would have been, and what Jesus made possible so that we can demonstrate now what the whole world would look like if everybody obeyed the King. The scriptures that come to mind are the many scriptures that are promised in the Old Testament to this people who were demonstrating the Kingdom as a nation. You come into Jesus' teachings, you find lace through all the Gospels, like I said, about 125 times this concept of the Kingdom of God or the Gospel of the Kingdom. And it's interesting in the parable of the sower, when Jesus talked about the seed, if you ask most people what the seed is, they'd say the word of God. And that's true. In some of the other Gospels, it says that. But in Matthew, it says it's the word of the Kingdom. Okay, whoa. I had never thought of that, actually. Well, then you go over to the parable of the tears and he calls the seed the children of the Kingdom. So it's, you just can't escape it. Anyway, then you get to Peter and Peter says, you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, he's talking now about the church, a peculiar people that you should show for the praises of him who called out of darkness into his marvelous light. So he wants a corporate demonstration of a very special corporate body of people. In fact, when you look at the epistles, there's nothing much said in the epistles about going to heaven when you die.  There's a good point. You get the impression that the whole gospel is about getting us ready to go to heaven. Well, the emphasis is more getting heaven to earth. Demonstrating heaven on earth won't be perfect, but it will be credible because we'll live in repentance when we fail. But the whole emphasis, and so people on the billboard calls often say to me, what's the difference between evangelicalism and anabaptism or what you believe? And my standard answer to them is, well, the gospel that you normally hear is focused on getting people to heaven. Anabaptism, if it's really understood, was all about getting heaven to earth, like we pray in the Lord's prayer, that kingdom come, that will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Those are the scriptures I think about. Those are the concepts I think about when I think about the kingdom. So you've explained some of how you think about different Bible passages and so forth. How has the anabaptist tradition had a unique world view, I guess, in acknowledging the kingdom of God? Like how do we actually live that out, I guess? Well, there's something that was very strange about Mennonitism as I knew it growing up. There was always this stronger emphasis than any other group had on the church and community.  Just a strong emphasis on the importance of the church, the importance of the community. But then the preaching was about a save me gospel. So there was just a real disconnect there. So then why do we have all this emphasis on the community if it's also just about me getting to heaven? It's like trying to have both, I guess. The individualism and the community. Well, I guess the church was to get you ready to go to heaven, which there's some truth to that. The people who belong to the kingdom here, of course, are going to be the people who go to heaven. Yeah, sure. The whole thing of going to heaven is interesting to me because in the book of Revelation, if you turn to 21, it doesn't talk about us leaving this project that God had with earth and humanity. It pictures a new earth. It pictures the holy Jerusalem coming down. And then it makes this remarkable statement. It says, behold, the dwelling of God is with men. It doesn't say the dwelling of men is with God. It says the dwelling of God is with men. So as NT Wright has so beautifully pointed out, God never intends to abandon this project related to earth and humanity. He's going to bring it finally to its fulfillment and there will be a fulfillment on an earth, a new earth, and his dwelling will be with men, as he wanted from the very beginning. This just ties the whole Old Testament and the New Testament together. And of course, NT Wright goes on to say that the problem with modern Christianity is that he calls it the gospel of the empty cloak. It has the first couple chapters of Matthew and it has the last couple chapters. It has the first couple chapters of Luke. It has the last couple chapters. Let me read it to you. It comes right from the Apostle's Creed, which was, as far as I'm concerned, an early presentation of the gospel without the gospel of the kingdom. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creative heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Now listen to this. He suffered under Pontius Pilate. Right there is most of the gospel completely missing. And I find it interesting that at the end of those chapters, John 17, those chapters that are missing near the end, Jesus says before he went to the cross, I have finished the work, which I gave us to do. Now, if you say to most people, what's the finished work of Christ, they'll say what he did on the cross. And that's true. But there was a finished work before that. And that was a demonstration of the kingdom and the life that he was calling us to in that kingdom. So there's just so many interesting things about this. In fact, you look at all the early church creeds. None of them say anything about the kingdom except, I think, the creed of Constantinople. And then it places it as the kingdom in the future. Nothing about the kingdom here and now. So it's my understanding that the church lost this concept very early. And it became an individualistic, save me gospel. And that's basically what you hear. In fact, when I taught high school, I would ask my Bible class to begin to take a piece of paper and write on it why they were Christians.  So I go to heaven. I don't think I ever had a student. And I'm assuming this is what they distilled from what they had been hearing growing up. I don't think I ever had a student say, I'm a Christian because I want to be part of God's kingdom and express that here on this earth. I don't think I ever heard that from any student, which is sort of a testimony to the fact that that's what our gospel was focused on. And I would like to see that change because here's a young person who's struggling with present realities and needing a present purpose for life. But the only purpose he's given is way at the end, probably 50 years later for most of them, and he's supposed to live his whole life with a goal way out there. Where if we preach the kingdom, that gives him a present concept of reality that he can live in today and face all his struggles and be motivated to overcome those struggles. So I think this is a very crucial thing that we finally recapture the kingdom of God as the concept of the gospel. As in a present reality, too. I don't know if I'd ever quite thought of it that way, like how we typically think of the gospel as something way out there where we actually start, I don't know, quote, reaping the benefits from instead of right here, right now, present. And most people lose out. I mean, that's a goal too far in the future. There's nothing that captures the imagination for the present. I don't know if I've ever thought of it that way. Well, I mean, obviously I've done a lot of thinking about the kingdom. And I think the kingdom in our circles was really lost in the last generation in the 1900s, the last century, because you had dispensationalism that came in that put the kingdom in the future. You had revivalistic, evangelistic preaching, wanting to get people saved. And the main message was, you need to get saved so you can go to heaven. So it was heaven help preaching. You had the gospel song, which we sang all about how wonderful and glorious it will be to get saved and go to heaven and enjoy heaven forever. That's the songs we were singing. Very few songs about the kingdom, very few songs focused on the reality of Christ's kingdom here and now. So I think between dispensationalism, revivalistic, evangelistic preaching, and gospel singing, the focus got shifted to the future and not the present. Yeah. Wow. Now that's not saying that there was anything wrong with the basic messages.  I want to make that clear. We do believe in those realities, and we believe it's a prepared people that are going to spend eternity with God. No, we don't believe in dispensationalism. I'm sorry. A whole other can of worms right there. I want that on the record. We're not dispensationalists. We're living in the kingdom of God now. But that could really reorient a way a church and a people would operate. It's things, this is something we can invest in right now, things we can be building the kingdom right now. Oh, it revolutionizes people's concept of the church. That's amazing. Yeah. If the church is the apple of God's eye, and it is the thing we are to seek first, then we don't mess around. And we don't split churches, except under most extraordinary circumstances. And we pour our whole heart into making that church the spotless church that God wants it to be, the society that demonstrates the ideals, what the whole world would look like if everybody obeyed the king. This is a tremendous concept. When I give this to people who call in on the billboard and I'm giving my concept of what the gospel is all about, very frequently they say, if I had heard that growing up, I would still be a Christian. But I did not like the scare tactics that the church used to motivate people spiritually. And I got turned off by that. And yeah, this is a very appealing message. Yeah, the scare tactics thing. That has bothered me for a while. Like where it's just like, let's try to scare everybody and to become a Christian. And keep scaring them. Yeah, and keep scaring them. If you dare leave, and that doesn't seem sustainable. This is a unique concept from our heritage. Because like I said, during the Reformation, nobody was talking about this except the Anabaptist. And since that, I really thought hard and I couldn't think of any other groups except Anabaptist related groups. This is a unique concept. And it has such appeal because down deep in our hearts, we carry those ideals. What society should be like. It should be a society where there's equity. It should be a society where people, there's not the rich and the poor, things are shared. In fact, that's the appeal that Bernie Sanders has. And the reason he has such tremendous appeal is because that is the eternity we carry in our hearts. God gave us, he hardwired us with those ideals. And when people hear those, they gravitate to them. Every day when I talk about this, people say, I like that, that's fabulous. And then I say to them, well, there have been many attempts to have a society like that. They all turn into nightmares. For one reason, this will not work until something is done about selfishness. We are basically selfish. And to me, selfishness is just a sin and an infrasin. It's just, those are the same thing. And if you don't, if there's nothing done about selfishness, selfishness destroys the ideal. It destroys all of our ideals. And it turns into a nightmare like you see every time socialism is tried. And Jesus is the only solution to selfishness. So when I give the gospel of the kingdom, I know I'm talking to something that resonates down in the heart of my hearer. There's an ideal there that they're reaching out for. And this resonates. So this is a tremendous way to present the gospel. And it answers a lot of questions.  And I say, well, now let's think about this. Jesus didn't really focus so much on getting people to heaven. He focused on getting heaven to earth. And then I give all of this. Then I give God's ideal. He created male and female to be one flesh. I say, Jesus repeated that in Matthew 19. Do you think that this fits that ideal? Well, I guess not. Well, then that's why Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6, 9 and 10, a long list of things that cannot be part of his kingdom. This is one of them. But then it says in verse 11, but such were some of you, but you're watched, you're sanctified and you're justified. So Paul is saying that all of you can become part of Christ's kingdom because he's going to change you and make you into those ideals. It doesn't matter almost what subject people bring up to me. I can find a context of the kingdom that gives that tremendous meaning. I would like to think what would have happened had this gospel been taken to the far reaches of the earth. Jesus said that he's going to go preach the gospel to all these different cities because he said, there too am I sent to preach the gospel to the kingdom? So he was sent. And then it says, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to the ends of the earth. And then the end shall come. Has the gospel of the kingdom been preached? Jesus is describing the kingdom in all of his teachings, especially the Sermon on the Mount. And I try to think when the gospel was taken to Russia a thousand years ago, suppose that gospel had included that it's wrong to kill. Suppose that gospel had included it's wrong to accumulate wealth for yourself. Suppose that had been the Christianity that the Russian people had gotten. Would Marxism have ever had any message for them? See, the problem with the gospel is it has often been taken without most of those teachings. In fact, you can be a member of some of the most conservative Bible-believing churches, and you can be divorced and remarried. You can just begin to eat away at the very basic building block of this society. You can swear oaths, which means that your yes now doesn't mean yes, and your no doesn't mean no. You have to have two standards for honesty. You can go to war and kill. You can pretty well disobey all the kingdom teachings because you don't really think the kingdom is the subject. The subject is getting to heaven. So what you do is you take all those things and you rationalize that Jesus didn't really mean what he said. You can go to heaven if you do these things. Pictures the holistic goal that God has for the gospel. It's a beautiful society where marriages are permanent. People's yes means yes. Their no means no. They don't commit violence. They're meek people. They're gentle people. They may hurt people by the things they say because the things they say, people find hurtful. But they don't say them in hurtful ways. You have a society of people where marriages are permanent. People are honest. They are gentle and kind. If the gospel had been presented the way it should have been, people would say of the Christians, look when they come to your community, they'll probably create a revolution of your whole concept of life, but they won't hurt anybody. They are absolutely harmless.  You might not like their message. You may stone them to death.  They are nonviolent. And then the whole thing of economic equality, which unfortunately the Anabaptists still have a lot of progress to make there. But put that all together. Look at what kind of society that would be. And we're to go and establish little outposts of that all over the world so that everybody has a chance to see the lost ideal for man, the lost ideal for society, and they have the opportunity to join it. We are to demonstrate the kingdom wherever we go. And I think missionaries perhaps in spite that save me gospel, maybe do a pretty good job of demonstrating to people. You know, you have these missionaries all living together, and if they live the way they're supposed to, they demonstrate the kingdom.  I think a lot of times people's life ends up being better than their theology. So I'm going to say there are a lot of people that have preached the gospel and have actually preached some of these concepts. They maybe didn't come together too well, and they maybe didn't fit the theology that they claimed to believe. So the gospel did get preached, but I think, you know, where the gospel goes without the gospel of the kingdom, especially non-resistance, then war breaks out, and these converts take up weapons and kill people. Rwanda was touted as the most Christian country in the world. Four years before the genocides. The Hutus and the Tutsis were both Christian tribes. You had it in Lebanon. You had it in North Ireland. Yeah. Where you take the gospel without the gospel of the peace, you have this horrible record that the church has, to its account, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the conquest of the Native Americans, the enslavement of the blacks, the worst to end that slavery, the conquest of Latin America under the sign of the cross.  If we could just get rid of Christianity, we could get rid of most of the atrocities that have happened. Of course, then I tell them, well, no, wait a minute. Let's talk about atheism. 100 million people died in Russia and China. So anyway, that puts that in perspective. But still, the church has this tremendously black record because it did not preach the gospel of the kingdom. So it's my passion that we would get this gospel taught. And then I think people would have a real passion and love for the church. And they would think twice before they create some unnecessary problem. And they would work hard to keep people reconciled that this picture gets rounded out and beautifully presented. But as it is, people treat the church. However, if I disagree, I'll go off somewhere else. I get up a faction of people and we split the church. And all this stuff is done sort of with impunity because they really don't understand that God is watching this. Ephesians 1 calls it his inheritance. We're always talking about our inheritance. The church is his inheritance. Oh, wow. And he's looking at that just like you'd look at any inheritance. What's the potential here? He sees the potentialship as a Christian fellowship. And he's jealously wanting that potential to be realized. And that's why Paul's saying, I'm praying that your eyes would be opened, that you would see what God sees in the church. And then he ends with that fabulous verse that I remember the first time it hit me. I thought I was going to levitate and fly off into the air. It talks about all the wonderful power of Christ rising from the dead and all that. And it says, and it has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who felleth all in all. You don't experience all of divinity by yourself. Sure, we have the Holy Spirit. And sure, Christ, in a sense, dwells within. But the fullness of God is in the church. But if we ever understood that, we would work, I think, with much more passion to realize the potential of God's kingdom in the church. You know, we often quote that verse. He is able to abundantly exceedingly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in. Listen, us, not me. To him be glory in the church. I never hear that verse quoted. Yeah. That's the verse that follows. So the exceeding abundantly great things he wants to do is not in me. It's in the church. And so I hope our listeners understand that if we could ever get back to this concept, it would inspire within us a passion for the church. Like we're probably not going to have unless we have this concept. That's the start here. Yeah. That's fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing. Yeah. It's my favorite subject. And it shows. This is great. Like, yeah, I really appreciate you taking the time. Well, it's my privilege.