Welcome to Church of the Chair, where Bachman equals Dark. I'm your host, E, and today we're raging out on a long walk because of road work. So we're running, man. In case you're new around here, I need to give you a warning. In this series, I will be spoiling all of Stephen King or Richard Bachman's books. So if you haven't read them all, I suggest you click away now. You've been warned. Okay, we're talking about the Bachman books by Richard Bachman or Stephen King, whatever. Let's move on. So how do the Bachman books tie into the Stephen King universe and the Dark Tower series? Let's get into that. Now, of course, all of these books were published separately way back before this collection existed. This collection is comprised of Rage, The Long Walk, Road Work, and The Running Man. And The Running Man is the only one of these so far that has gotten its own adaptation. On top of that, Rage was unpublished ages ago because of a school shooting which involved a young man who had a copy of Rage by Richard Bachman in his locker when it was searched. Ever since that incident, Stephen King has kept the book unpublished. You can still find versions with it in it. This is one. And this is one. And this is one, although I believe this is a UK edition. And this is one. All four of these, I guarantee you, will have Rage in it. And if you see this version of Rage on sale on Amazon, don't buy it. It's a bootleg copy of the original version of the book. It's been scanned. It's not good quality, really cheap. It's just like any other create space or independent publishing quality. So yeah, definitely stay away from that. I have a whole video on the channel about it resurfacing and I believe it's called Rage resurfaces. I believe I will try to remember to leave a link at the end of this video. With all that out of the way, we're going to start with Rage. And there's only one thing that connects Rage to the Stephen King universe and the dark tower. And that is the town of Harlow. Harlow Main is mentioned. Moving on to the long walk, the main character in the long walk, Raymond Davis Garrity. If you add up the letters in his name, it equals 19. And as my buddy Patrick mentions time and time again, a Miss Petrie is mentioned in the long walk. There's also a Miss Petrie that is mentioned in Gerald's game, Salem's Lot, of course Mark Petrie's mother, Kujo, and the last three dark tower books. But the reason why Petrie pops up in those, Wolves of the Kala, Song of Susanna and the dark tower is because he's referencing Mark Petrie from Salem's Lot. Now on to the third book in the collection, Roadwork, where the mangler is mentioned. If you don't know, the mangler is a short story in Stephen King's collection, The Night Shift, that ties into the Stephen King universe in odd ways, but we'll get more into that. It's mentioned in other books as well, but we'll get more into that when I do my theorist Redux video for Night Shift. The term off the beam is used in Roadwork also. And Stephen King does this in the books that do not obviously tie into the dark tower, such as Gerald's game and Misery and a couple other ones. Last but certainly not least, we have another instance of the number 19 if you want to reach for it, and that is Interstate 784. If you add 7 and 8, that's 15. If you add 4, it's 19. I know it's reaching, but King has brought up multiple times. Now if you look hard enough, there's a 19 in all of his stuff. The final book in the Bachman books is called The Running Man, which was made into an absolutely hilarious popcorn B movie flick. Actually it was probably more of a big budget thing back in the day because it had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. King doesn't like Arnie as the main character, and I don't blame him, but I still love the movie for what it is. And our connections there are in The Running Man, Derry, the town of Derry, Maine is mentioned. This book came out at a point where King was already getting comments about how much Richard Bachman was ripping off of his style, he would get letters, he would be brought up in news interviews and all that. And listening to his stories about it are pretty funny, so I'm thinking he slipped in the Derry there at the end. The Derry there at the end, just to give people the validation that they needed, that he was actually Richard Bachman, and it came out either shortly before or shortly after the book was published. One connection that I never hear anyone talk about that I brought up in my original theorist video for The Running Man is that Co-op City is where the majority of The Running Man takes place, and Co-op City is the same place where Eddie Dean tells Jake to go during a dream sequence in the Dark Tower books. I don't know why nobody talks about this, probably because Co-op City isn't that original of an idea, and King might have just repurposed the name, but I don't think so, especially when you think about Derry being mentioned, I feel like King was trying to point out that there is a tie-in, I believe it's in the Wasteland, it's definitely in the Wasteland because it has to do with the house that comes alive, and that's where Eddie Dean is trying to get Jake to go so that they can pull him through. But still, I want to ask you guys, and this is going to be the only question for this video, is do you guys believe it's the same Co-op City? And if so, do you guys think that there's a thinny in Co-op City with that house? And I said in the original video, wouldn't it be cool if the thinny in Co-op City is the same thinny that Pennywise came through when he crash landed here millennia ago? I went into more detail in the original video, you can go watch that if you want to, but I'm itching to know what you guys think about that because there were no comments on the original video about this theory, so let me know what you think down there But that's all the time I have for you today, I need to know from you, did I miss anything, do you have any corrections of anything I said in this video, or do you have any theories about how any of the Bachman books in this collection tie into the Dark Tower or the Stephen King universe in general, and you don't have to bring up blaze or regulators or thinner, we'll be doing a separate video for each one of those. But until next time, I'll hail the chair. Now let's see, go down to the comments after this video has been live for a while, go down there and look for Pat Costin or Patrick Costin, and I'm wondering how much I missed, probably quite a bit because he has several comments on the original video, but I wanted to do this video without that because he has some theories of his own that he's mentioned before, I don't want to take that credit from him, so definitely check out the comments in all the videos really because Patrick Costin is pretty much my fact-checker, he points out all the times that certain phrases and things are used in Stephen King books, so yeah, and go give him a follow on YouTube and all that stuff, he's a really good guy and I appreciate all of his help with these videos, so I'm sure there's going to be some stuff down there because The Long Walk is his favorite book of all time, I believe, and he's read it even more times than I've read it, I think he's up to like 21 or 24 or something like that, I'm sure he'll let me know down there, but anyways, I'll talk to you guys later, bye.


I don't have time for that, a common complaint in our always too busy world. We run from this to that to yet another thing, convincing ourselves that a busy schedule is the byproduct of a successful life, or is it the other way around. But the truth is, you do have time for that, whatever that might be. We all have the same 24 hour day.  Spare a moment or two and take an honest look at where your time and energy are going. What are you giving your time and energy to? Who is demanding them from you? And what do you need to change so that you do in fact have time for that?


We're going to look at Acts 4-13 to begin and the message I titled it Peter the breaking and making of a pillar and we will see that Played out throughout the study. So Acts 4 verse 13 Let's read that we'll pray and then I'll get into the study Acts 4-13 says now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and Perceive that they were uneducated and untrained men they marveled and They realized that they had been with Jesus. Let's pray Father as we see your word as we look at this pillar this man whom you called who you Chose Lord and and drew him to yourself To be a pillar in your church father as we look at his life and as we see the love that you had for him Lord May we also see that that same love is for us That that same forgiveness is for us Lord may you open our eyes Lord? May you fill your servants mind and heart may you fill me with your spirit Lord that I would be able to share those Things that you have showed me through your scriptures Lord that my brothers and sisters would be encouraged in your word today We ask all this in Jesus name Amen God is perfect and he never makes mistakes There's a story that I've read that always illuminates that for me There was a king who who did not believe in the goodness of God And he had a servant who in every and all circumstances would always tell the king my king do not be discouraged because Everything God does is perfect.  He is never wrong An outrage by the response the king ordered the arrest of his servant and Later he left by himself mad and furious on another hunt and he was captured by savages who made human sacrifices And on the altar ready to sacrifice the nobleman the savages found the victim was missing one of his fingers So he was released you see according to them. He was not complete so he cannot be offered to the gods So upon his return he comes back and he releases his servant and he says all my servant God was good to me I was caught and they were gonna sacrifice me, but because I'm missing a finger.  If I had been with you, they would have sacrificed me because I have all my fingers Story makes the point. Wow, isn't that the truth? Romans 828 tells us and we know that all things work together for the good of Those who are called according to his purpose God is working out his plan in every one of us yet sometimes We are in a trial or in a disappointment and it's easy to lose sight of that fact Today, I want to look with you at some of the portions of the life of Peter Peter's life illustrates for us from beginning to end How Jesus took a man broke him and made him a pillar in the church and I started in the book of Acts because it shows the product of the man that has been with Jesus I mean, I started in the end because in the end we see here in Acts How Peter let me give you some examples how how we show the product we show the boldness who this man had become and As we look at it. Let me let me give you some examples for example in Acts 2 41 We see that after preaching a powerful sermon. It says that about 3,000 people were added to the church And then later Peter was walking by a lame beggar and in Acts 3 6 It says that he looked at this lame beggar and he looked at him and he said silver and gold I do not have but what I do have I give you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth Rise up and walk and then later we saw that the religious leaders put him in jail on Trial for healing the lame beggar and Peter confronts them and he gives glory to God for what had happened And he tells him in Acts 4 11 through 12 This is the stone which was rejected by you builders Which has become the chief cornerstone and then he tells him no nor is their salvation by any other For there is no other name in under heaven given among men by which we must be saved And then we read again here in Acts 4 13 These religious leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John Peter was a pillar the apostle Paul reminds us that he was a pillar in the church He was a man bold for the witness for his witness to Christ and These these verses that we just looked through show a bold Peter. He was fearless He was controlled. He was effective in his speech and it's easy to see this Peter and Marvel at his boldness his undeterred commitment But as we know that wasn't always the case, right? Peter wasn't always this bold Before a young servant girl, he said I have no clue what you're talking about. I don't know him He denied Christ, right? That was his biggest failure. And yet here we see him bold. So what happened? What happened with this? Peter Well, we see here that he had been with Jesus They said he wasn't educated and I've often thought about this this You know many people point out use this verse as well. We don't have to get educated But if you think about it think about this Peter You know when when you get educated nowadays you go what four years if you have kids and you work full-time and All that other stuff you take ten years like me to get a four-year degree But hey, you get it eventually, right? But four years if you can go full-time You get an education and they say well Peter wasn't educated But no he wasn't educated in the way that they were but he was educated think about it He's but he spent three years Walking with the creator of the universe, you know in school We sit before professors who have taken some time to study certain Material certain subjects that they hopefully have learned really well and they kind of impart to you, but they're not perfect, right? Well imagine sitting before the creator of the universe How did this happen? Boom. He tell him how did that happen? Boom. He tell him another thing that he could do He could see in your heart What's wrong? Why are you doubting? Oh, whoa, what happened? Your teachers can't do that now, right? So three years spent asking any question hearing his sermons not only that not only in a classroom But walking with him living with him eating with him serving with him They had been with Jesus. These men were educated by the creator of the universe I have thought maybe they didn't have an Ivy League education that they sure had a heavenly one These guys were educated before the master the creator of the universe Peter had learned from being with Jesus that Jesus love for him was deep and enduring That his love Jesus love for him did not change regardless of the mishaps or failures that Peter did It is my prayer that we will see that Jesus love for us is deep and enduring That you will see that if you are in Christ, you are a pillar because Jesus loves you even when he fully knows you He loves you even when the trials that you go through make it feel like maybe he doesn't love you He loves you even when you feel that you have failed or maybe you have failed and you've disappointed him or yourself So let's begin with the first one.  No surprise to God Anything Jeremiah 1 5 speaking to Jeremiah God said before I formed you in the womb. I knew you Before you were born. I sanctified you.  Oh Lord, you know it all together And speaking about Jesus John 2 24 to 25 says But Jesus did not commit himself to them because he knew all men and Had no need that anyone should testify of man for he knew what was in man You see when Jesus commissioned Peter from the beginning he knew all together who Peter was He knew Peter needed work and one specific thing as I examined the scriptures that Peter needed help with with pride There was pride hidden within Peter's heart and Jesus needed to expose that and he did Didn't love him any less. I don't even remember Jesus ever telling him Peter.  Let me wash your feet. No, not my feet Peter You know, he gave him Opportunities to that but he never changed his love for him But he had a pride issue. Let me give you some examples Remember when Jesus told Peter that he would make him a fisher a man Peter was out there fishing with John And they were fishing for a long time all night. It says they toiled and they were catching nothing and Jesus came and said hey throw your net over on that side and Well, Peter felt like he had to educate Jesus, you know, he he was a fisherman after all, right? So he tells a master we've been toiling at this all night and we haven't caught nothing But okay, I'm warning you but I'll throw it in because you tell me So what does he do throws it in and he catches so many fish that they were having trouble dragging it in and Peter at that point began to realize his response was Lord step away from me I am a sinful man He started realizing that he was before Divinity that he was before the God of the universe that knew way more than he would ever know in his finite life Another example was when Peter went to wash his feet when Jesus went to wash Peter's feet in John 13 What was Peter's reaction? Lord you are washing my feet No, not mine and then Jesus told them well if I don't wash your feet you have nothing with me Okay, in that case wash everything of me, you know the pride quickly kind of disappeared But he had this issue going on in his heart When Jesus began to tell Peter how he was going to die in John 21 Peter was like, you know instead of listening He was like, well, what about him?  You know, it's kind of like us when we come to service and the Lord's ministering to us and convicting our heart And we're like, oh man, I wish my cousin would be here today He would really be ministered to today and the Lord's trying to speak to your art or my art And we're like man, if they would be here, they would that pride would just go out the door You know, they would grow up so quickly Peter did that he looked at others and started focusing on everybody else but himself When Jesus was telling them that they would all scatter What was Peter's response in Matthew 26-33? He says even if all are made to stumble because of you I will never be made to stumble and when Jesus told him he would deny him He said even if I have to die with you, I will not deny you Peter had a pride issue of which he was not aware. You see you guys pride is subtle It is hard to detect it in yourself Peter had no clue about this pride His dependence on himself to do God's work how to be exposed in a different way and I wanted to point out that pride This is an obvious pride that you can see on the other side, right? When somebody I can do it I don't need you get away from me. I don't need no help. That's an obvious pride But there's another type of pride that is not so obvious, but it's still pride.  Oh, no, brother's not me. It's the Lord God does it all You know, it reminds me of a story of a of a preacher old You know He got up to the pulpit and in his in his congregation was an old seasoned preacher who had retired wasn't preaching anymore But he saw this guy preaching with power and he saw that he put a lot of work into a study So the old man thought he'd encouragement and he comes up to him afterwards and he says son That was a tremendous study Good job. Oh, no, you know, it was it was all God So the seasoned preacher goes Son, it wasn't all God because if it was all God, it would have been a lot better False humility is pride too We have to find that balance and it's really hard to do it ourselves God has to expose it for us and he will and he does and we will see as we move forward Jesus knew all these things about Peter and yet his love did not waver toward Peter He still trained him. He's still poured into Peter. He's still mentored Peter. He loved Peter You see God knows everything about you.  I just ask your wife has been there all the time, but you just didn't see it, right?  So remember that remember that Some things in our life God obliterates instantly drugs. I mean for me drugs drinking everything you just wipe them all out and Other things are purged through sanctification. You guys know what sanctification is, right? Justification the moment you believe the moment you accept Christ into your life into your heart that day your your name is in heaven So and so belongs here. Jose Ramirez belongs here You're saved.   He left his career He knew he left what he knew best being a fisherman Peter was personally mentored by Jesus. He was one of the elite three if you read throughout scriptures There's certain times when Jesus just takes three people with him Peter James and John and he shows them special He transfigured himself before them. He had a special calling for these men and Peter was one of them Peter saw some amazing things being performed by Jesus. He saw the healing of his mother-in-law He saw the transfiguration. He saw Jesus walk on water and he walked on water Remember that when Jesus called him out and he started walking and while he kept his eyes on Jesus Everything was okay the moment he looked at the waves he started to sink right and Jesus saved me And he took him out, but he walked on water Remember that time when Jesus was being confronted about not paying taxes and Peter was being confronted How come you guys don't pay taxes and Jesus told Peter go go grab a fish and inside the fish are going to find Some money pay him for you and for me. I Don't know about you and some people might say what was it there or did he make it? I don't care if He made the money in his mouth That's amazing. If he knew X-ray vision somehow and saw the money in the fish's mouth What an awesome miracle anyway, right? Or if the fish just happened to be at the right time and he says get that one It doesn't matter Peter had the opportunity to see all these things we hear about him. He saw them first hand Peter loved Jesus and was loyal to him remember he was willing to Fight for Jesus when they came to arrest him What do he do first thing without even thinking takes out the knife and Tries to slice the guy and cut his ear off and Jesus has to take care of him.  He loved him When Jesus was arrested and murdered eventually that was a great trial for Peter He had given it all up He invested the last three years Into this man who believed to be the Messiah who he believed to be the Messiah and now he is gone Perhaps the sentiment was what other people were already saying He saved others. Why didn't he save himself? Was he the Messiah? I could imagine all these things probably going to his head Was it really the Messiah? What happened? What happened why? Did I really believe I just denied him what happened all these things that could have probably been racing to his mind And it's the same thing that can often and does happen to us We know God's power. He has done some great things in us and around us. He's transformed us We've been following him faithfully and Then trials come our way and we are often shaken an unexpected disease An unexpected death of a loved one a job loss a weight-worth son or daughter and we can often ask wait What happened? You see we are human and we wonder in fact This is one of the areas that atheists like to focus on You've heard it. If God is so powerful and so good then why does evil happen? Why terrorism? Why death? Why are planes falling from the sky? Why pain? You see I was there. I remember clearly When I was 15 I was exactly This was exactly what Satan used in my life to alienate me from God. I Was at my mom's funeral And I was not in you know not in throat. I was tired of crying. I was done You see three six months before that. I was at my grandpa's funeral and My grandpa has I respected him with all my heart. I loved him and he gave me hope When three months from his funeral my dad died and I was like What happened in nine months? I lost the three most important people of my life God What God Where is he?  I would be with my parents wherever they were. I didn't care at that point I just wanted to reunite and it'd be all okay and Obviously God intervened in my life But one of the things throughout all these trials and 19 years later walking with the Lord One of these things that the Lord has taught me through trials is to be careful That because you've gone through certain things sometimes it's very easy to look at somebody else who in your eyes Oh, that's nothing, you know and don't get caught into what I like to call a trial athelon. You've ever been in a triathlon Who knows what I'm talking about Well, you should have seen what I did I was a druggy and I did three types of drugs. Oh, yeah Well, I did this, you know, don't do that and we will do that be careful that you don't do that and Be careful that your trials that somebody who's coming to you and saying, you know what I feel rejected I feel dejected. I feel like I don't fit anywhere and If you've gone through certain things you might say, oh, come on get over it.  I lost this and this and this and all I can think of is looking in their eyes and saying I'm hurting right now Don't come and tell me about all your things. There's a time for that guys. Trust me What does scripture say? That he will comfort you so that you may comfort others with the comfort that you have received one day You'll have that opportunity and somebody will come to you and say How did you do it? But what did God tell you that is the appropriate time to share your heart To share what God has done. She might just say I have no idea man God transformed my life and he's been teaching me to scriptures, but there's an appropriate time What somebody's hurting and in a trial don't dismiss it so quickly just listen, you know Job's friends did that for a good time until they got tired and then they started giving them all the wrong advice Don't be like that.  He opened my eyes He forgave my rebellion He helped me understand through his word that it isn't God who brings the evil and the death It took a while as I was studying to scripture and with those questions in my mind When God drew me to himself. I was reading scripture Loaded, you know, I was on methamphetamines and I would read scripture all night You know people like to draw and write I was reading scripture and all of a sudden it started lighting up Well, no, that's not a good metaphor for that right now lighting up. It started opening up And my mind started comprehending and my heart started breaking. I had no idea The bitterness started going away. I started having compassion and I was like, oh, what's that? Why do I care about people? You know before I could care less about anybody because it was all about me I was mad.  So I don't care about anybody. I didn't want to get married I didn't want to work. I didn't want to go to school dropped out in ninth grade I said schools for dummies who need to learn something I so I was 15. So I guess I thought I knew it all So I dropped out But God intervened and as I was reading scripture and as I was studying as I was coming to Pastor here pastor david and I was hearing the scriptures.  I said there's no way I'm going to cry for anybody. I'm done crying And my heart became bitter and my life started emulating a rejection of God completely But I remember as now as I studied I looked back and said that was satan in my mind That was satan just alienating me and he does that to believers and to nonbelievers. He alienates you from God And then what do they say after that? What do atheists or people reject God? They say well, then if God is powerful and loving, why doesn't he just destroy evil? Why is it still here? And the answer to those who reject God You can look at them in the face and say it is still here because he loves you Because he loves you you see when God obliterates evil in the end.  Oh house of Israel And second Peter 3 9 it says the Lord is not slack concerning his promise talking about his promise of returning as some count slackness But he is long suffering towards us not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance Evil will be obliterated completely one day. We know that Jesus will return and reign and he will take care of the devil and all the evil that exists But you see The souls of those that are being saved are far more important to god than proving to an atheist that he has power The souls of those that are being saved are far more important to god than proving To a militant atheist that he has power In fact, he already has showed his power He created the world and everything in it by his word He raised his son from the dead after he was unjustly treated and murdered They want to see power? Check it out. It was written 2000 years ago But they choose to reject it. They willfully forget that and deny god's power and goodness They try to convince themselves that what they do and have is by their own strength You know that what they do what they're able to do But the truth is as I've I've examined this over and over with people I work not everybody believes And and I I love hanging out with them. You know why? I've been studying chi studied a while back common grace and common grace is just a grace that god gives to everybody in creation He made people in his image And I work with people who reject god or don't talk about god But you know what when I see their lives and I see the things that they're able to create The things that they're able to draw or program or make or work or I mean the project plans amazing project plans I trip out And I and I'm glorifying god because even though they don't want to accept god with their lips They're affirming him with the works that they did and the only reason they can do those things is because god created them Because god made them in his image, right from the beginning He made them he created them. We all have intelligence. We all have creativity because of god They choose to reject it But if you start doing that and you look and see beyond the abuse that they give you or call you names and all this and You see wow the things you do if you only knew the source You would be amazed yourself at yourself You know because it's not from you god put it there god made it One day evil will be obliterated, but they will fully forget They try to convince themselves But as we just mentioned the the truth is that the intelligence the creativity That they display the talents that they have acquired Have come because they have been designed to be able to do that They are affirming again by their works the very god. They reject with their mouths They are affirming by their works the very Creator who made them the ability To gave them the ability to do that They are they do they think because god designed them with those traits it reminds me Of a story, you know talking about They think it's all about them and that they did it all remind me of a story of an old lady who who loved and trusted god One day she was praying at her window like she was always used to doing But she she was asking for provision. She ran out of grocery. So she was praying lord. I need groceries You've probably heard this And this guy's passing by and he doesn't believe and he's like he hears her asking for groceries He's like i'm going to show this christian and he goes to the store He buys two bagfuls of groceries and stacks them up to the brim brings them puts them at the door And knocks and runs behind the bush like a little boy along with a kidder, right? And she's hiding and the lady comes out and looks and Immediately turns up to heaven god. Thank you For providing and he jumps out and runs right in front of her and says it wasn't god It was me. I bought them for you. I heard you in your window when you were crying out to god And I went and bought them for you and she smiles and looks at him and looks up back to heaven and says Thank you for providing and you even used the devil to bring him to me He wouldn't have been able to buy them if he didn't have work He wouldn't have work if he didn't have a brain. He wouldn't have a brain if god didn't put it there It all comes from god He makes man. He designs them Jesus told us in john 16 33 these things. I have spoken to you that in me You may have peace in the world it's a promise you will have tribulation But what else does he say but be of good cheer? I have overcome the world While we are in this world that is tainted with sin Where satan instigates against god We will see things happen that are unfair That don't seem right that are evil because they are evil But we can always know that he has overcome the world You see you guys trials for the believer are part as we explained of the sanctification process They are used to build our character James 1 2 to 3 says my brother and count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience These trials are used also to show us issues in our own heart that we may not have seen without them Peter had pride And even though jesus himself had warned him of an upcoming denial Peter's pride blinded him even to the possibility that he could ever fail Jesus And it wasn't until the trial hit until that trial happened that peter saw What he was capable of in his fleshly heart Matthew 26 75 says And peter after he denied him Remembered the word of jesus who had said to him before the rooster crows You will deny me three times So he went out and wept bitterly He had to go through that trial to be able to see what he was capable of Trials and tests are also used to show us our continual need for god's grace Jesus knows it all. He's not surprised. Why do trials and tests come to our life so that we can see What's in our heart so that we can become aware Wow, I can deny god in an instant if I'm trusting in myself Deuteronomy 8 2 says and you shall remember that the lord your god led you all the way these 40 years In the wilderness to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart Whether you would keep his commandments or not Job 23 10 says but he knows the way that I take when he has tested me I shall come forth as gold So does it mean that christianity and walking with god is all doom and gloom It's all trials and tests Nothing good No way You see i'm always careful I don't like to tell people come to jesus and he's going to give you a mansion here on earth come to jesus And he's going to give you a bmw come to jesus and your life's going to be the best thing ever Because sometimes it doesn't work that way right We are in a fallen world But on the other hand I also don't want to hold back and and tell him what the scripture does say and what god has done in my life You see He forgave me And he and he does many things but he still works he does manifest himself in this trial ridden world I had a friend joe who who passed away A few years ago now, but he passed away and he he was an iranian guy Good friend of mine, and you know we had our differences obviously differences and we would talk about politics and god and all kinds of things But one thing that he would tell me he loved his father-in-law You see his father-in-law was like a third generation Pastor or i mean he was of a line of pastors and he loved god and joe would see him and always be like wow That guy is the real deal You know he he he he would just he just inspired joe even though joe at that time didn't believe And one of the stories he told me about his father-in-law really touched my heart and showed me how god works in the natural Sometimes so natural that you miss the supernatural. You know he he he he um he told me about his father-in-law Who was praying for a car and he was asking he told his son, you know my car is about to Break it's not working and in that moment his son in his mind. He didn't say anything But in his heart, he's like, you know what i'm gonna get my dad a car So he started working overtime He started working saving what he could saving saving saving so that he can buy that car for his father father-in-law And finally he saved it all up and he went so excited and bought this car And he drove it up and he didn't tell his dad anything But that day When he drove up and he knocked on the door he looked at his mom and says, where's dad? Oh, he's in the garage And he walks in the garage And his dad was on his knee With his bible on the car Asking god saying my car it was broken that day And his son just looked at him and he goes dad I got you a car And he grabbed his son Put him down on his knees and together They praised god You see in the natural It seems so natural But god works all things together for good And he did this at the perfect timing to show that he still manifests himself In this fallen world For me God forgave me of all my anger All the hurt all the cussing that i Sent his way God blessed my life with an amazing wife that i did not deserve You see i was a punk And he gave me this beautiful girl Pure girl and i was like are you sure lord? You couldn't trust me with her you see if my wife would have seen me when i was in the world She would have walked on the other side and been like watch that guy and if she would have walked close she would have been like Let's get away from that guy But god saved me forgave me gave me his son forgiveness for all eternity And still gave me a beautiful wife And not only that i didn't want kids, but now i have four That i love with all my heart Education who needs education Something happened when i got saved i started getting hunger for knowledge I want to go back to school. It was hard. You know all those burnt cells that were like not working. I was like, what happened? And But by god's grace In 2011 i finished my bachelor's degree And you know what? Yeah, praise god Praise god And right now i just i'm on my second graduate level Class i might get a master's degree. Oh my goodness God is amazing He does do good works. He changes your life. He changes your perspective and if he wants you in an office He's going to get you the work to go to the office. He's going to make you work to get in that office Right. I remember going to kmart to get my typing because I was like pick pick pick pick that wasn't working So he starts putting desires in your heart and he starts fulfilling them and he starts using you You see you guys not all of us are going to be behind the pulpit But all of us are called to take the gospel wherever we are And wherever you are do it with all your might If you're a programmer make the best program, maybe you'll be like the facebook guys, you know Or the google guys. I still want to meet him, but But if god has gifted you something Do that It's not less. It's not better if you're in In the pulpit or if you're in the full-time ministry. It's not whatever god calls you to do That is the best for you because you know what he might use you in that office to read somebody who would have never Heard the gospel unless he put you there So take every opportunity to magnify him wherever he places you God has manifested himself So much in my life and he will in yours too. Yes, he will change you and yes, there will be difficulties But he has overcome the world Peter was made keenly aware of his weaknesses You see without that trial. He wouldn't never have seen what he was capable of He was made a pillar first by breaking his flesh He had to fail in his own strength to learn to fully depend on god's strength You are a pillar because jesus loves you even when the trials may feel otherwise Third point you are a pillar Because jesus loves you even when you fail and you feel you have disappointed him or yourself Turn with me to john 21 real quick Let's read john 21 1 through 5 As we get ready to wrap up here John 21 1 through 5 It says after these things jesus showed himself Again to the disciples of the at the sea of tiberias And in this way, he showed himself Simon peter Thomas called the twin nathanio of cana and galilee the sons of zebedee and two others of his disciples were together Simon peter said to them i am going fishing And they said to him what we're going with you also They went out and immediately got into the boat and that night they caught nothing But when the morning had now come jesus stood on the shore Yet the disciples did not know that it was jesus and then jesus said to them children have you any food? And they answered him no Notice that peter says i'm going fishing He felt like a failure. He was discouraged. He denied christ christ was not around. I mean he had seen him already, but he still Was struggling he was anxious So he says i'm going fishing and and as we read earlier He had failed and he had denied and and he had failed himself So what does he do? He leaves the mountain where jesus had asked him to wait Matthew 28 16 jesus had asked him to stay in the mountain, but he went fishing he returns to what he was comfortable with You've probably been there You've gone or are going through a trial or a disappointment. You're frustrated. And what do you do? You find something you're comfortable with right? I'm going shopping I'm going eating. That's what I do. I'm going programming to get my mind off of everything and or learn how to do it Peter's was i'm going fishing But for peter it was not just a quick fix he was seeking He was discouraged and he was returning to the old livelihood even though jesus had already told them He was called to be a fisher of men So what happens? Look at the lord's humor in this in verse five He could have well said hey, how's that working for you? They caught nothing right they weren't able to catch anything jesus was showing peter That he was called to a specific role And peter's attempts to thwart that Were not going to work why because jesus was going to make sure of it He had called him for a specific purpose So what does jesus do? He replays the whole scenario of when he had commissioned peter to be a fisher of men Again remember that time when jesus when peter was fishing and they weren't catching anything it happened before And peter tries to educate jesus it's happening again This time he didn't try to educate jesus But the whole scenario happened again And that was the moment that jesus told him you will be a fisher of men So he allows it to happen again so that he can remember what he was supposed to do And stop trying to get away from it Let's read john after that After that reminder he proceeds to verbally recommission peter when he reaffirms his love and restores him right In john 21 15 through 17. Let's read that really quickly here It says so when they had eaten breakfast Jesus said to simon peter simon son of jonah Do you love me more than these? And he said to him. Yes lord, you know that I love you He said to him feed my lambs And he said to him again a second time sign and simon son of jonah. Do you love me? And he said to him.  Do you love me? And peter was grieved because he said to him the third time. Do you love me?  Three how many times did jesus ask peter if he loved him? How many times did peter need to ask jesus if he still loved him? Big zero none peter didn't need To ask jesus how much he loved him All he had to do was look back at what had just taken place The death the crucifixion the burial For him for his sin He had that etched in his mind forever Peter became a pillar because that was etched in his mind He would never forget the love that his savior showed him on the cross All he had to do was look back now peter understood the words of jesus in jon 15 3 When jesus said greater love has no man than this Than to lay down one's life for his friends Jesus had given the ultimate sign of his love For his people for us So when you're in that trial When you're in that difficulty when you're having trouble trying to find joy Turn your mind To the cross when the enemy puts in your heart You just messed up You think jesus loves you you can very easily say Yeah, because he knew me before he chose me he knew me all together Yes, because he died on the cross for my sins The enemy hates that because that is the place where he couldn't win Jesus stomped on his head right and he won the victory. He overcame satan He overcame the world. So when you're having trouble remember the cross And that will remind you of his love and nobody can take that from you If you believe the gospel jesus christ has transformed you has opened your eyes to understand that it is for you There's nothing nobody can take you and snatch you from his hands. You are his And in closing here. So what do we do? Do we just kick back and I mean god forgives us and loves us? Well, no, we know that right Roman 612 shall us so we continue in sin that grace may abound we don't try to sin But when we do sin we know we have our redeemer right John 1 9 tells us that if you have sinned confess your sins and he is faithful and just to forgive you of all your sins What else do we do? Well, you've heard it over and over pastor david telling us for 33 years for me 19 years But sometimes the basics are the first to go when you're in a trial The things that are going to hold you the strongest are the first things we let go So just a reminder The word of god and if you want to look at 1st peter 2 1 through 3 The worship of god 1st peter 2 4 through 5 the witness with god's people 1st peter 1 22 And the witness to god's creatures his creation go witness the gospel These are the things that we have to keep doing no matter your 19 years in the lord 50 years in the lord Don't forget these principles.  He's right there Waiting for you to come back


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people's questions like, Ty, how quickly can I run through a dangerous jungle and get the treasure at the other side? And I'm saying for a lot of people, see, Joel never went in that jungle of trying to make as much money as Elon Musk. And I'm like, I think that was maybe smart, you know, because like, I don't think, now I've gone into that jungle. And sometimes I'm like, maybe I shouldn't have, you know, I think it's okay for some people to go into the jungle. Some people have the gift of knowing how to do business. Some of you have that gift, you know, about how to make money, and you can use that gift. But a lot of people who don't have the gift of making money ask me, how can I be the king of the jungle? And I'm like, well, maybe you ain't making men for the jungle. Maybe you're meant to be Joel Salatin.


This study proposes a computer-aided diagnosis, CAD, system to distinguish between benign and malignant peripheral pulmonary lesions, PPLs, detected via endobronchial ultrasound, EBU-S. The system achieved an accuracy of 0.7, AF1 score of 0.63, an area under the curve, AUC of 0.75, a positive predictive value, PPV of 0.84, a negative predictive value, and PV of 0.68, a sensitivity of 0.56, and a specificity of 0.85. These results suggest that the proposed CAD system can be used to accurately identify PPLs detected via EBU-S. This article was authored by Hui Al-Wang, Kohei Shikano, Takhiro Nakajima, and others.


Thank you very much. So, yeah, this is a three way match. This is going to be about new construction of non-interactive zero-on-edge proof systems I'm going to present what is a common result in all three works and then a willy-and-choichi will present More specific results obtained in the other works So a zero-on-edge proof That's an interactive protocol between a prover and the verifier whereas a prover tries to convince the verifiers That some statement is true The protocol should be correct. It should also be sound meaning that if the statement is incorrect Then normally shows prover shall be able to convince the very first that the statement is true And it should be zero-on-edge meaning that the very first should not learn anything from the protocol Other than the fact that the statement is true A non-interactive zero-on-edge proof That's a special kind of zero-on-edge proof that consists of a single flow from the prover to the verifier And in this work will be interested into a special forms of non-interactive zero-on-edge proof So in this first part, I will focus on something that's called designated very fair non-interactive zero-on-edge proof or divinizic in short So in a divinizic The verifier is given a secret verification key. He can verify the proof sent by the prover using some secret information Now here's something that's very important is that the standard soundness notion which states that the prover Should not be able to prove an incorrect statement Does not suffice to adequately capture the security we want from such a system anymore? Because it doesn't prevent the prover from learning information about the secret verification key of the verifier by receiving feedbacks on previous proof So the right security notion for divinizic and the one we will consider in all these works is the notion of unbounded soundness Which state that it should not be feasible to forge a proof or incorrect statement even if you're given arbitrary polynomial access to verification oracle that has a secret verification key hard-coded Very brief history of nizics and designated very fair nizics nizics have been introduced in 1988 and in terms of assumption We essentially know three main Assumption that imply nizics we can build nizics from the factorization assumption. We can build nizic from pairing related assumptions and very recently in a brexit result we learned that we can build nizics from the LW assumption Without going into all the details for divinizics Actually all the early results Regarding the possibility of building this relaxed variance of nizics They had the issue that they only satisfy bounded soundness Meaning that it was possible to completely break the soundness of the protocol If the prover was given feedback on previous proofs by the verifier So this is not really a realistic security Notion and the desirable one is unbounded soundness as I said and All that has been some recent work on achieving those relaxed variants of nizics with unbounded soundness Essentially the main takeoff is that until our works It was not known whether it's possible to build designated refer nizics with unbounded soundness from assumptions Which are not already known to imply standard nizics And so this is exactly the problem we solve in this work We achieve designated refer nizics from an assumption that's not known to imply standard nizics And we build the designated refer nizics for all of NP from the standard computational DFL man assumption There is a second result in our work that builds a new nizics from LWE plus non-interactive witness indistinguishable proof For a bounded distance decoding language But since that was recently Subtuned by the wonderful result of piekert and shehan I will not discuss it in this work in this talk So here is a roadmap Our starting point is a work by Dwork and Naur that builds Non-interactive zero-nudge proof starting from two main building blocks The first one is a cryptographic building block. It's called verifiable pseudonym generator and the second one is an idealized model It's and this is this is the existence of non-interactive zero-nudge proof in the hidden bit model. So our Construction proceeding two steps. First, we will relax this notion of verifiable pseudonym generators That was invented by Dwork and Naur by relaxing the soundness notion of these VPRGs and generalizing them to the designated refer setting and We will show that this relaxation and generalization still allow for a construction of non-interactive or of Music or designated refer music using in addition musics in the hidden bit model And at the same time, we will show that actually those veralax VPRG are easier to build and we will provide a construction of Relax designated refer PRG From the computational DFL my assumption So let's go over musics in the hidden bit model Here this eye that they show on this slide denotes what each of the parties sees So our prover on top sees a long hidden bit string. So this is a truly random string that have been sampled Honestly, and that is somewhere in the sky At the same time the verifier does not see anything about this hidden bit string hence the name a hidden bit model and So to design a music in this model What the prover is allowed to do is first to write some message any message of its choice and Then to select a subset of the beat of the hidden bit string Then the prover will send this message to the verifier and reveal The location of the hidden bit string Indexed by this subset and you can really think of it as turning up some care cards that were faced down So you cannot put the very the prover cannot possibly cheat about that in this idealized model So we know since the work of Feigal lapid on Shamir in 1990 that Non-interactive zero-image proof for all of NP do exist unconditionally in this idealized model The question is now how to transform a proof in this idealized model into a proof in the standard a common reference string model Intuitively the main tool that we need is something that will allow the very the prover to generate a long string that should look random That should also allow him to probably open some position of this string to the verifier in a verifiable way and Those opening should not leak any information about the values that the prover decided not to open Well as you can guess this is exactly what a verifiable pseudo random generator does a VP agit at three algorithm VP agit takes as input some seed and produces a long string of pseudo random bits together with a value that will bind The prover to the seed you can think of it as being a commitment to the seed Then there is a proving algorithm that essentially allows to show when you have the seed that some specific position of the hidden bit string corresponding to the committed seed is equal to the right value and The verification algorithm takes as input is commitment to the seed takes as input a position of the hidden bit string a proof and The candidate bit an output CS or no indicating whether EX it accepts or rejects a proof Among the properties we need for this property for this primitive. We want the seed to be short We want our proof the proofs that we do not to leak any information about the seed except that the fact that some specific position of the hidden of the Psyronum string is equal to the right value and the proof through certifies son nests in a very strong sense and I insist that in the initial work of Dwork on our son There's had to be a very strong notion of son nests So Dwork on our required that every possible commitment to the seed even maliciously formed has to be in the image of the VP agit That for every possible even maliciously formed commitment to the seed there has to be unique associated Psyronum string and that proof of opening to incorrect bits should not exist So our starting point is relaxing this strong son nests notion First we entirely drop the first requirement. We don't require the commitment to the seed to be All correctly formed they can be maliciously formed and not be in the image of the VP agit Then instead of asking incorrect proof not to exist We only require that proofs for an incorrect statement are hard to find and this is crucial because in the designated very fair setting It's always possible for the prove to cheat by guessing the secret key. He can use the secret key the secret verification key to forge proofs So proofs for an incorrect statement do always exist. We can only hope to guarantee that they are hard to find and Then if we only had those requirements then that would be a trivial primitive It will be satisfied by something that just takes the PRG Stretches it to a pseudoronum string and commit to the output bit by bit and that will be the commitment to the seed So we add just a minimal additional requirement to make this non trivial Which is that the commitment to the sheets will be short much shorter much shorter than the long pseudoronum string With this we can actually build now a music for all of NP the idea is as follow The prover will pick a seed generate a long pseudoronum string and XOR it with the common reference string Which is just a long random string and it will think of this long of this XOR of two string as being his string in the hidden Bit model and in his head you run the proof in the hidden bit model Obtaining a message and a subset of positions to open Then the prover sends to the verifier the commitment to the seed that he used The message for the proof in the hidden bit model The subset of the position he wants to open together with the value He wants to open them to and proves that he's not lying about the opening to those position Why is that secure? Intuitively that's because in the hidden bit model our music is unconditionally sent meaning that with sufficient parallel repetition We can ensure that only a tiny negligible fraction of all possible hidden bit string For only a tiny negligible fraction of all possible hidden bit string there exist proofs for incorrect statement So what we look at is all possible CRS And we say that the CRS is close to being a bad string if there exists a commitment to the seed such that if you take the The pseudoronum string associated to this commitment and you XOR that with the Common reference string you obtain a hidden bit string for which a bad proof exists but since the commitment are short and since we can make the The the fraction of bad hidden bit string as small as we like by a union bound We can ensure that with overwhelming probability of as a choice of the common reference string It will not be close enough to a bad string for the prover to be able to find a short commitment To the seed that will allow him to create a bad hidden bit string So then the hidden bit string will have to be correct and the prover cannot cheat about this message and the subset So he has to find incorrect proofs for the opening if he wants to cheat But by finding such incorrect proofs he will break the third property of our relaxed Sunnest notion Which contradicts the security notion of our VP AG and That essentially concludes the proof of the Sunnest the proof of the zero-knowledge part Essentially reduces to the fact that the VP AG does not leak any information about the non-opened position The main instantiation that we have is from the computational Diffie element assumption So the idea is quite simple CDH states that given G G to the AG to the B. It should be hard to build G to the AB Actually, we will use two well-known results first It's known that it's a result by a cash kills shoot Into some eight that if you're given G G to the AG to the B and G to the C It is hard to build G to the AB and G to the AC Even if you're given a specific checking key that allows you to check the corresponding decisional problem Like checking given G to the AB and G to the AC that they satisfy the corresponding decisional relation with G to the A, G to the B and G to the C So essentially what has been shown in this paper is that the CDH problem the standard one is equivalent to this gap between CDH problem So We will use a second much well-known result. I mean extremely well-known result which is the the Goldreich-Levin CRM, which is that We can't find a hard core bit for any computational problem. So we will denote B this hard core bit So the problem will rely on is the fact that it should be hard to find this bit B of G to the AB G to the AC Even given G G to the AG to the B G to the C and a secret key that allows us to check The decisional relation between G to the AB G to the AC and the previous values and this can be proven to be equivalent to CDH Now in our construction intuitively this G to the A here will be our commitment to the seed A will be the seed and We will think as those G to the B and G to the C as being public parameters We will have many of them as many as the size of the hidden B string we want to produce and Now this bit B will correspond to the pseudo random bit associated to the commitment to the seed with respect to those public parameters So how do you open? So the fact that this is pseudo random that it cannot be found that reduces easily to this computational D.Fielman assumption by the argument I just gave And how do you open a position of the string? You simply reveal G to the AB G to the AC Then the very fairer can check that if you take the out car bit you obtain the right bit And at the same time you can use his twin Decisional D.Fielman checking key to check that you've not lied by sending G to the AB and G to the AC and they satisfy the correct decision or relation So that gives essentially the construction we like we want We will switch to the NEL talk if you have any question first


Week and a half from Major League Baseball. Cheechy. All right. Tigers made two incredible catches in camp so far. They were awful last year, and I guess they're deciding to be. I don't even know if these guys are part of the team. I don't know them. It is so much more fun doing breakdowns of stuff that is current. So I'm excited about that. I think I got it set up. I'm not confident in what I'll say. The... The Detroit Tigers were horrible last year, but they're having some fun in camp. Their defenders are putting on an absolute show. Check it out. Well, let's zoom in. The ball is loose. The ball is loose. He's gonna spider grab it from underneath. And then he's just gonna post up in the dugout, looking like a stud daydreaming about the catch, just loving it. Loving himself, some him. No weird line at the end. Loving himself, some him. Makes sense, right? Did you see it? He's licking his lips. Like, I have it so. I have it so he's thinking about it. That's a weird line. I don't know why I said that. Loving you, dad. And then we record today. One, two, three, four, five. That's a really light day for us, actually. We have been doing six or seven episodes a day for a while. It's a Monday business cleanup day. Business cleanup day. I did two breakdowns, though, so that's the equals something. What's our fantasy league at? Where are we driving? I just joined today. I'm excited. I don't know. Talking Yanks pregame show is coming back and a talking baseball pregame show, but we do a Homer Draft. Homer Draft, it's the Homer Draft. We need a graphic. This is what I sent to our graphic designer. Make this look better. But yeah, so each game I get to pick two guys, Jake gets to pick two guys. This is from last year. So I got in this stretch that I chose, I beat Jake 3-0. He beat me on the whole season. How about that? Convenient. Yeah, we hit 100K. Bang! Should we do a little video saying thanks? Probably post poo. That top's coming with me. Doing my taxes. Ha ha. I'm gonna work it in the night. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, baby. Yes, how beard is that? Yes. And let go. How's proper still cold to the kids? Know what that is. Hello and welcome to Jombo and Jake Radio. It is Tuesday, July 14th, the Tuesday monster. Has he poked his head out yet? Jake. Every day, my fuel bar, my video game health bar gets a little more to it. I like that. Gets a little more to it. We should do a picture of you standing next to the whiteboard and we should draw a life-size like baseball mode graphic. Okay. And like just like color it in every day. Sure. I had it as like a character in like a health bar going this way. Oh no, so I'm thinking like Tony Hawk can you choose your skater and like you're standing there and you're like him. We'll do like stop frame, so you're like rotating.  Well, we're just gonna have, yeah, yeah, like that. We're just gonna have, we're just gonna have an energy bar. Jake's energy, because he's getting fueled by sports. Yeah. So I just want to do like, like zoom in. Oh, that's the actual wall. The bottom part is not, that's the wall. It's not whiteboard, to me. It's not whiteboard, to me. Yeah. My bad. Oh! Oh yeah, it's just on. Yeah, that's just there now. I'll wait, I'll wait. I'll wait. Little elbow grease. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not into this. Yeah, looks like it's gonna take a lot of work. We need that, what's that magic erase? Shit, that bleach. I think meter's gotta be in there. Well, that looks pretty good, though. Crashed it. Crashed it? So where do you think you're at right now? Label some points. Okay, I'll give you a saying. I'm gonna do like a, like, season spring training, and then I'll be like, bam. Yeah. Corona, I'm gonna ch-ch-ch, and then like, eh. And then, like, nature squad. Yeah. Or like, we can label the different points. So, who wants to draw a square that fits that book better? It's perfect. Jake's gonna stand here. So then this should be the map. I think this should be the final product. I'm terrible at drawing straight lines, so. That's pretty good. I went and started on the wall. Hello. Yes, it's true. We have 100,000 followers on Instagram now. Thanks for calling. Never noticed that phone. I just installed it. Let's do it.  We appreciate it. And we're posting behind the scenes blogs every week. Number one. On YouTube and Facebook, if you're not there. But, hang out on Instagram. Thank you very much. Now Jake will eat the back. Let's go. I'm doing sound effects. Edit it, Zach. 100K. It's good. You can't really eat that. The typical. And that was like. You can just hang all the slack in the top of it. Ooh, heavy. How's that camera angle look on? Super good. It's not perfect. Who is? Not yet. Welcome to Talking Baseball. It is time to preview the West Region Dodgers, Astros, and all those teams. The East and the West, when we had our rap battle back in 1993-ish, early 90s. I think the West took that one. Did we ever get a score? I don't know. Is there ever a final? I think they lost a scorecard. But Biggie's pretty good. Yeah, that's the guess at one player. You guys are like the Angels before they He was sicker than your average, though. Yeah. Well, I don't know if he's my trout. What about a two-pot gun? OK. Jimmy is deep in thought. Scary. Hove.  Jay-Z. H-O-V. Weird you remembered Hove and not Jay-Z. Yeah, it was blowing my mind. I didn't want to say Hove. Yeah, what about him? What about him? We're starting to see some worth with these inner squad games, which I wasn't anticipating. So I thought that's cool to talk about and share like what's going on. These guys are saying like maybe we should even continue this next year. Let's just maybe do half games against teams, half games against our own guys, because you know what is spring training for, but to get ready for the season and their feeling like this is going to help these guys out a little bit. Have you been talking to pitchers or hitters? Because from the Yankees' camp and the Yankees' interviews, the pitchers love it, and the hitters are dying to not face their own pitchers anymore. Big show. About to do a talking yanks. Just short enough that I don't hit the table. I did not fart, but I'm thinking about it. Always. Big talking yank show. Always. Don't feel too good. Just had a monster. Going back. You did? Yeah. I want some. There's one in the fridge for you. I don't want a full one. It's crazy. Just have those. They're fully used. They help you get up. 37 times it by two. What's that? 74. What's that mean? It's OK. It's fine. Isn't that great? Yeah. It's kind of crazy, right? Yeah. Stuff's inside. You ever try to look at me and imagine my skeleton? Oh, yeah. Like my face? Like the nose? Not your face. I'm all skeleton, but normal. I'm trying to imagine what your skull would look like. Oh, my god.  I wanted to do a Shakespeare play. What would yours look like? Have you ever dissected an owl pellet? Yeah. With my mouth? No, man. It's your fruit, man. Hell, no. It was the stone age. No, but seriously, it wasn't the stone age. It was the ice age. I went to camp. My little sea. Day by day. Welcome to Talking Yanks. My name is Jimmy. I got Jake right next. And we've got producer BBD in the corner. We've got Scott Titmiss in the chat who says his newborn is wearing her John Boy onesie. So I love that. Huge jealous. Love it. We have so many updates for you about Yankee's summer camp. How many bullet points did I have, Jake? You said nine. Nine bullet points. I don't know if anywhere added. Wow. You definitely don't have some of my bullet points. So we're going to be in double-digit bullet points this episode. You have at least one, then. Yes. OK, huge.      So that old video. That picture is fine. Yeah, you want to share that one? Yeah. Let's see what Espo thinks. Let's see. Do I look good in that pic? I don't know. It's up to you. A lot of water weight. Instantly got out of everything.  Dude, I don't know. Just bad at technology. It was a bad handoff by you. Luckily, we have it on camera. I agree it was. I was going to let you take the fall. Thank you. Here's my good section on my phone. Nothing but Sean Wallace skiffs. Yeah, that was a big day for you. Yeah. I have so many. Like, if you ever wanted Sean Wallace, you're not a cop. It's good.  That's pretty funny. Look at what he does. He is. Do you think this guy reminds you of Jake? Re-enact this one. That would be tough. I'm going to dig a hole. Bye-bye. This was the last week. Oh, I thought we were going every other word. This was the last week. Without? Sports. It was puff. We got sports next week, so thank you for tuning in. We did it. We did it. We did it. We did it. Yeah, pretty excited. Not only will baseball be back, we have three shows starting up, talking baseball pre-game show, talking Yanks pre-game show. Jake in the morning. Wake and Jake. Wake and Jake, baby. It's just going to be covering sports. It'll be easy with the baseball to start, but with everything coming back. So that'll be in the morning. I think the logo is going to be a cartoon drawing of you, right?  With the bomb.  Whoa. Taster. Pro Taster Pod. Be cool. Thursday is going to be cool. Thursday is going to be weird.  All day. Nervous energy. Like this. No, it's going to be. All day. You want to see my impression of a hot dog? Yeah. Friday is going to be cool. Yeah. Friday is going to be awesome. Friday is going to be more like this. Friday is going to be awesome because the Yankees don't play. And do you hear that? Oh, yeah. How's that shot look? This was supposed to be a quick end of the vlog video. We got it. Bye. See you there.


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