Yes, we're just checking this sound. That's everything is working. Yeah, we're using American using American American English especially when posting on Twitter or YouTube and LinkedIn as well We should be live Talking to a friendly eG near celebrating hundred years of first since first Human eG recording. So that should be nice. Let's see So we focusing around this eG spectrogram spectrum Spectrum is easier So start of that first We help this up a Flat complication That looks like this We'll actually execute. Yes, I can select your channel change the window size that doesn't work Turning the trending on and off well main problem is that we do not see anything and This problem is that a channel that is undefined why if the filter order Is to why we get that as well if you love a filter what is fine? What's the default value? Zero it's not here a channel number zero Five Yeah, five Okay, let's close this we don't Have any errors we have the data displayed. Yeah, there's a triple the whole spectrum is actually not showing anything right we We need a developer That's often developer Full stack Chage of default default and we normally start And so we have those Prompt prompts prompts prompts we already used them before That was yesterday Start with this girl right so we started we had a beginning of a code that another bot actually created So we have the continuation of that you can always detail that we are using a Teller scheme, but that's a bit. Yeah Messy have to clean it up can do it later Yeah, that filter order works to change the default Rossing which has not showing any signal a window size Input is Not a team Chats a also a the whole Yeah, whole spectrum Is not working properly. How did you know? Yeah, I'm not sure about the frequency scale Yeah, frequency scales if we don't have to play but We don't have the scroller as well File scroller is missing a this second chart show second chart is this frequency as X axis and Power is why access a raw signal just not showing any signal Also make Sure shirt is Time is X axis and Then the choose Y axis. Yes, we have those Prompt play Button is missing as well Right, so let's start a And they've indexed HTML Let's generate for a bit just to make sure it's actually read the thing the Java script Can stop generating at the JavaScript And they show flask application Python code Yeah, we can stop generating that This is the third pile the Python code Still Generating okay, we can stop that and now we have our prompts with all the issues That we are having I think this should be plenty By now This is what it's currently looks like there's a lot of Problems with that. They also make sure The linear logarithmic scale should be applied To Yet the file score is updating the charts. That's a good idea make sure Hey the play button the Log Linear scale is Changing meant to be the X the X Access of the second chart. That's right So we have a bunch of prompts We're ready to pop in See what it says It's also take this out and yes, we're celebrating 100 years will be in there. So so the first human EEG Was recorded by Hans Berger back in 1924 So we're celebrating that well next year Let's lose that By the way, the more bands we're currently doing only alpha beta theta but there's also a Gamma Which is pretty much anything above 32 Hertz And also me between 8 and 12 It's the same as alpha is it like fielded differently or something. I Don't know But yeah alpha beta delta theta should be a good start It's several issues. Yeah, I didn't generate any code Yeah, I would like a I would like you to hold my hand and give me step-by-step Guidance so essentially it's saying too too much too many too many prompts at once Everything correct time and I'm to data. So it's a good start Do we do that? Let's verify back-end Can the process EEG function in Python Have a process EEG function somewhere over here We should contain the time They filled the data right over here using the field field function converting to least The forward backward Basic filter. This is the same Yes, so why did you mention it? So when returning the Jason Jason five We have filtered data whole spectrum Fill the data. So I need to get this right As a channel number be a doing a butter wharf Field Hey, it's a band pass This good. Yeah, and was filter Right. Those are the coefficients and then the coefficients are being used in here. So that's that should be fine a filter order is taken from the Taking from here No from there. Yeah, this is not a great GUI. We'll have to be Improved a lot but first we need it Just working And anyone just go with the board suggestion It's suggesting that We are not Passing the right values as instead of dead Into Jason a want to pass this Doesn't make sense though. Doesn't make sense Can you explain this Can we use Copilot for that too many bots. That's okay. It's generic generic a Diction I could ask you called filter data And copilot do this filter data In other bands the front end This is in chalice. I think this this makes more sense Is the who guess not displaying something? This is obviously wrong should be starting of Filter of Delta isn't stable. That's normally what we need to Decrease the folder the Order sorry Of the filter So now it doesn't say Unstable anymore, but it's also not showing anything useful Okay, so because we haven't also finished a modifying the code So we have this time That's correct and just script So need to pass into To an integer into an integer integer Channel number to integer pretty sure There's already an integer So we're really doing that place Show number get element by the number Wouldn't be an integer already. I don't know what's talking about verify that we're receiving correct data Yeah console log is not a bad idea And just see if a Turning delta isn't stable what so there are no nouns before we had a problem with the nouns serve that to Again, that's a thing larger channel That is undefined We show we have this console already showing some data yes, but common a HTML container called raw signal It does exist Now let's try A something unusual And let's try this try print screen Straight into gpt for this is the front And to fix Yeah, that's what I thought that's probably not the case because there No, there is nothing when zooming in And where's the top? It's still giving me that Right well, it's still giving me that undefined It's giving me some data Okay, we have to And let's try Copilot for Let's go Back to the window This raw signal JS raw signal plot raw signal data It's one appearing twice This after a sec Same thing No, what's up Okay, raw signal My plotting that was essentially a empty array The object has probably filled the data and if they filled it up, it has an array element at the index So this should be true One nation of this Yeah, there is a confusion with the names when calling without any conditions This is plotly This can be replaced First in the html We need this value smaller to a second Let's raw signal I'm wise undefined Check the data source a raw signal Yeah, this should be a filtered data channel number What is just an example What is the data structure? A format document, the whole document Okay, so we have to adjust this based on So this filtered data has a different bands We should have the whole thing as well So whole spectrum data is this time I'm domain talking about specific No, sorry, this is obviously a frequency domain Okay, we have nothing in Y Okay, let's Can you fix this for us? I don't know how to do it It's already there Yeah, filtered data would not have a channel number Okay, let's try this again That will be instead of this would it? No, it doesn't have it Just give it the code What's the problem There is inconsistency We have to be least It's not valid, Jason Channel number be passed on in another way Then what's the why is it not able to fix the problem Let it run First, we have an issue in JavaScript 29 So we're having a problem with this server client data exchange Yeah, this bit It's still generating Definitely stop generating Yeah, why is the channel number Why is channel number in the should be there Yeah, no, that's what I have But that's the problem The reason that's always strings in fighter channel current channel data we already have we're already converting it to list This doesn't make any sense Doesn't make any sense at all Okay, currently what we have is not exactly working doesn't to make sure it's showing signal show window sizes would is dating the chats all spectrum is working properly while scroller it's not to the chat to the bottom of the chat Okay, it's clean play button make sure fast scroll is updating the chats make sure the log limit is changing the x-axis of the second chat it do not generate any code yet because it won't be able to do it in one go I'll ask it to regenerate files one by one leave style css alone for now scope plot html no make show place all the original code that remains the same let's do index html first run out of time just keep going taking break in a second copies close that for a second and JavaScript stop with that there would be additional modification wait a second new function to add a file it's not file input silly goose it's file scroller no, there's only one file file scroller it's a horizontal file scroller to through the file again something went wrong keep doing it quite a bit here's the plan signal the correct channel window size second chart so it should be similar to this but with quite a few changes but should have a file a scroller like that here play button scroll during the charts it's the file horizontal scroller moves through the file yep scroller slider sounds good we'll need to update the CSS as well just take a quick break obviously we are not ready to deploy anything yet my ignoring my instructions still generating sure to include all necessary code I'll hit the limit, won't I? the 50 was it now 50 prompts 50 a cap of 50 messages every 3 hours meant to be moving windows now it seems to generate a whole code without any missing parts it's still generating I don't know if I stopped give it some more time or do you want to look at my youtube analytics in the meantime I'm telling you I'm doing better than last 28 days it's like yep it's quite significant 100 more watch hours than previous 28 days so getting more views more watch time maybe had some a few unsubscribed but for every unsubscribed I get 10.20 subscribers not too bad just stuck here for the reason what's going on it sounds bad why GPT4 is getting stuck a lot recently GPT4 is still recording recently network error that's why should I regenerate restart the window it's the new shit from today this the old code should be no it's a hint no that was restructured enhanced version given that I'm pretty sure you have for completeness there might be more functionalities original I would be ideal to provide the original JS you have it see a path it seems like it's losing context throttling it's doing something re-visit the previous code provider I'll maintain the original structure and comment the changes ok now it's right while it's doing it let's go it's not complete do we have a complete python css and this should be html check it out the css have changed and that's the css more than here I'm not using the css should have been using the colors would change it in a sec now this JavaScript h JavaScript last application the python code it's loading something takes a while it's not getting any data let's stop this for a sec closing as well shift c it's the one we got an error with this is the python code now we had an update to the JavaScript that wasn't complete said no placeholders where is it ok it's not happening let's just continue later on I guess we're doing it several times gonna helps wait do we even have what to load the we have these separate bits let's start again shall we what we currently have when this isn't working so default gpt4 we have this first create an update in the time and frequency domains the app should have a file scroll or play button frequency scale frequency scale I'm not sure about the frequency scale selector should also have a filter window setting the trend and ok generate any code I know it's crazy it's crazy long outline and forget about the requirements file I said do not generate any code ok so this code we want the bot to keep generating creating api, root, fetch, update the database to the input post request that makes sense templates is fine is a lot of to-dos doesn't look like ok we got the html in the app e-g-j-s this is a shell script now the style css we want it in this colors these variables interesting thing about maybe not I shouldn't be saying anything about the youtube algorithm I don't get canceled by youtube let's see what we got what's there it's not much go through the whole prompt but it ignored a whole heap of stuff and continue a html would look something like this it's pretty basic we expected to have this fine window size is ok still we're ready no, what's the type we're calling a javascript already yes we are and Python code now I was using JSON versus now I keep changing its mind as if it has a mind assume it does cause that's what it's was suggesting me doing let's get to the charts showing any being just keep it nice and simple had a better version of it already but I got too complicated 51 in j S generic stuff so we do have this error do we have channel selector let's say we use pop-up lighting placeholder 16 channels can we do it differently ok right yes start button no there's no stop button ok let's go back to gbt instead of that ht update generate the whole code see what it does what do you not ask for index html it's generating up html so this would be the same obviously a channel number window size those would be scrollers but that's ok why it's refusing just to do the whole lot why not just complete the code still generating I do want the signal obviously we already have an id there we already have that plotly yeah plotly is fine generate oh pggs someone can do it something have changed it's not generating whole batch data yet I'm up to choose frequency power that's correct that's exactly what I want that looks much better let's see that will still not work have the JSON file we want the whole please I can only assume it's working better when it's nighttime in the united states or something because it's actually generating whole complete the code is it shorter than what I had before JSON file find constant to run this you stuffed up the file it looks legit it changed to be capital can read of capital letter that looks legit we have this arrow pretty basic yet data so the same so looks legit wait now we do want fs it's actually fs in non-capital let this this be it's get get data signal is not defined the current cap I thought I will reach it much sooner I only reached it in 2 hours so I did more than 30 prompts what's it 50 prompts per 3 hour rate now it's giving me a timeout of almost 1 hour can keep using default what signal it's sometimes we're getting signal all this other stuff is not actually being used in a month not import to separately I don't know why it's actually running yeah this JSON serial serialization thing object type we're sending this get request and we're getting a 500 error for it can you fix it it's generating code much quicker Python get data be the same same if the trend the trend signal the trend it's the same the same delta beta same spectrum should be convert to list this list conversion stuff convert to list convert to list spawns data we're already converting to list can we clear restart that yeah we're getting some nans getting that yeah we had that before hope they see the shit well still in the Python code sure we need to take the Javascript at some stage as well data get data clear control f5 invalid value it's actually working there's no play button last time we had yeah no raw signal no index html no raw signal totally we actually do pin the whole html will tell us not correct is it you just said all individual correct plot you have the following element give the correct ID actually do not don't have it at the moment should have picked up on it regenerate for index html windows size whole code frequency scale yeah there's been there is a play post button it just looks doesn't look like a button but that's okay because we mainly get data probably tell me to check the charts are visible at all am I, yeah we haven't changed Javascript in a while do we have raw we generate a whole file here constants 6 then we here a raw signal xy where is xy this is odd this is what I have now to understand this and we need don't have api adjacent let's go back we need to add console yep can be there we have to continue this next time it's not happening today see you bye


Task Force Phoenix strains at North Fort Hood for Middle East deployment. California National Guard, Sunday, March 28, 2021. North Fort Hood, Texas, flexibility and adaptability have been key words for the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade in the lead-up to a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. The brigade is poised to deploy to the region for the third time in 10 years. At this time around, the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest over the summer and a record-breaking wildfire season have resulted in shifting timelines in heavy workloads. To top it all off, on the weekend cab soldiers were set to depart their home stations for a final train-up and validation exercise at North Fort Hood, a freak-blizzard hit the fort causing power outages and water main breaks. The snowstorm delayed the cab's arrival by three weeks. But in early March, North Fort Hood was back online and more than 1,100 brigade soldiers arrived eager to complete their final training requirements before departing on their overseas mission. �This is the first time we've actually brought all our soldiers from nine different states together at once,� 40th Combat Aviation Brigade Commander Colonel Alan Granwald said. Normally, you would think that would be a pretty difficult challenge, but because of great leadership and great planning everyone has come together fairly seamlessly. And as we talk to folks, everyone is all about being a part of the bigger task force and coming together as one unit. Granwald is from the Oregon Army National Guard. His command staff and headquarters company are from the California Army National Guard. The aviation arm of his brigade is the Washington Army National Guard led 1st Battalion 168th Aviation Regiment, General Support Aviation Battalion. The California Army National Guard's 640th Aviation Support Battalion, ASB, is responsible for the brigade's logistics, maintenance, communications and ground transportation. In addition to California and Washington, the task forces battalions have elements from 7 more states, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and New Mexico. The brigade's aerial assets include UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters that will perform full-spectrum aviation operations, everything from aerosalt and med-effect to heavy lift transport. Once in country, the brigade will be joined by an active-duty Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter battalion. Upon arrival at North Fort Hood, cab soldiers were placed in a 14-day restriction of movement, ROM, quarantine to mitigate any spread of the COVID-19 virus. They were divided into cohorts with separate dining tents, morale, welfare and recreation, MWR, tents and physical fitness tents. They have been required to wear masks and take other precautionary measures, such as frequent hand-washing and sanitizing of work areas and barracks, and they've been frequently tested for COVID-19. During the ROM, they still conducted their regular duties and pre-deployment training. Lieutenant Colonel John King, commander of the first 168 KSAB, said the COVID restrictions and the changes made to timelines and training schedules caused by the blizzard did not phase his soldiers. In the state of Washington, we did COVID relief support early in 2020. We were activated for riots. We've fought wildfires. We pushed out two other Washington aviation units during the last calendar year for mobilization. The soldiers of the 1168 have been dealing with change and adapting to change for the past year. This past year has taught our soldiers resiliency and to be very adaptive, King said. Our battalion motto is, ready when needed, because we are a multifaceted battalion that's able to do a multitude of different missions, so we're excited to go over there and do the missions that we're designed to do. At North Fort Hood, the brigade's various elements from nine states came together as Task Force Phoenix. The soldiers of Task Force Phoenix have been training, working and living together as they will for the duration of their mission overseas. Colonel Christopher Renner, commander of the 640th ASB, said the training at North Fort Hood is going well. The 640th ASB keeps the aircraft flying, the brigade talking, the fuel flowing, and performs all the logistics functions that go with that. The training here is really important for all of us, as a battalion and a brigade, to basically start working together. We're all individually good at our jobs. The training here gives us a chance to work collectively before we deploy. Renner said morale in his battalion is high. Our soldiers have maintained a high level of morale throughout our National Guard support of civil agencies, the Riots in June, and our annual training. They've come into this knowing what we're getting ourselves into and knowing of the restrictions due to COVID. They're hunting the good, which I think is great. The train up includes local orientation flights, refueling and logistics operations, soldier readiness training and aerial gunnery qualifications at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The training culminates with a collective training exercise that involves all of the variety of functions the brigade will perform overseas. The 166th Aviation Brigade, First Army, Division West has been facilitating the training at North Fort Hood and Fort Sill and will conduct the final validation of the task force, ensuring that Army-directed readiness objectives in support of combatant commander requirements are met. Approximately 50 percent of Army aviation is National Guard and Reserves, 166th Aviation Brigade Commander Colonel Jennifer Reynolds said. Our main mission here is to provide observer coach, trainers to assist units that come through with whatever they need so that they leave here much more ready for their mission downrange than when they came in. The 166th has been extremely helpful in training us and getting us in the direction we need to go, Gwana Wilde said. Once validated by the 166th, the soldiers of Task Force Phoenix will depart for the Middle East where they will be responsible for conducting aviation operations and support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Spartan Shield. We'll have a mission of supporting combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve in the fight against Dush and ISIS and to maintain peace and stability in the region, Gwana Wilde said. He added that the flexibility and adaptability displayed by the soldiers of Task Force Phoenix should serve them well overseas, and that they understand the importance of their mission. Most people who join the military, whether guard or active duty, have a sense of patriotism and serving their country, serving others, he said. I think that's the common thread amongst all of us. And it's pretty evident that that's the case here.


Right now, we're going to look at Matthew 27, verses 45 through 50. And so let me read to you, beginning at verse 45. I'll read to verse 50. We'll look at our study tonight, and I do appreciate your prayers as I go through this. Like I said, this is something I pulled off my computer. I taught this a few years ago, and yet I really think this is what I wanted to share tonight. So beginning at verse 45, reading to verse 50, Matthew chapter 27. Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour, there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Ali, Ali, Lama sabbaktani. That is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, This man is calling for Elijah. Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. The rest said, let him alone. Let us see if Elijah will come to save him.  Now as we begin our study, we need to know that at this point, Jesus Christ has been crucified, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, had contended that Jesus was not guilty, and yet Pontius Pilate allowed Jesus Christ to be crucified. As you begin to look in the Word of God, and you begin to compare Scripture with Scripture, you discover that Jesus was sentenced at 6 a.m. And then you see that he was crucified at 9 a.m. And then from 9 a.m. until noon, several events had transpired. Soldiers gambled for his garments. He endured ridicule of the thieves, as well as those passing by. The chief priests, scribes, and the elders. And in that time he welcomed a thief into paradise. At this point in Matthew's study, it's at least 3 p.m. And Jesus has been on the cross now for several hours. Matthew records that from noon until 3 p.m. he says there was darkness, notice verse 45, over all the land. Luke tells us in Luke 23, 44, and 45, it was now about the sixth hour. And darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. Darkness over all the land, the sun stopped shining. So the question is, why? Why would it be dark? Why was it dark, and why was there darkness over the land? Well, in the Bible we know that darkness very often is used as a symbol. It's used as a symbol for judgment. In the book of Exodus, for example, in chapter 10, 21 and 22, it says the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that darkness will spread over Egypt, darkness that can be felt. So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. In the book of Amos, in chapter 5, verse 20, Amos writes, will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light, pitch dark, without a ray of brightness? And then in Matthew 25, 30, Jesus said, throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And so darkness very often is used in Scripture as a symbol of judgment. And so what we have here is a picture of divine judgment. The sins of the world are being poured out vicariously on Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The darkness that existed reveals the judgment of God upon the sin of all mankind. Now Jesus took upon himself the judgment that rightfully was ours. He's the perfect sacrifice. He satisfies his father's righteous requirements. He satisfies God's wrath. In John's Gospel, in chapter 1, verse 29, John wrote the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him. John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. In 2 Corinthians 5, 21, Paul said, Christ never sinned, but God put our sin on him. Then we are made right with God because of what Christ has done for us. The cross is a place of judgment. It's a place of divine judgment. The sins of the world poured out vicariously on Jesus Christ. He who knew no sin became sin for us. That we might become the righteousness of God in him. And so this is a place of divine judgment. And so it says in verse 45, from the sixth hour until the ninth hour, there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lamas abhaktani. That is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? That is straight out of the Psalms, Psalm 22, verse 1. And the Lord Jesus Christ is in anguish. He's in anguish because of the separation he felt for the first and for the only time in all of eternity. You see, the Bible teaches us something about sin. It actually teaches us many things about sin as well as warning us against it. But the Bible teaches that sin may be pleasurable because sin can be pleasurable for a season. Sin can be pleasurable for a short time. Indeed, it can. If you didn't enjoy sinning, you wouldn't sin. But sin is pleasurable and it is pleasurable for a season. But sin has horrible results. It might be something that a person may want to do. They may be at work. They may find a person at work to be desirable, even become more desirable for them than their own wife or husband. And in their mind, they begin to orchestrate all kinds of things related to having an affair. And in their mind, everything's going to be great. In their mind, they're going to have relationships. In their mind, the relationships will always be stimulating and wonderful. They just build it up. But ultimately, what happens, and we know this to be true, many have experienced this firsthand. And I've ministered to many who've fallen prey to this temptation. It was pleasurable, but only for a season. And ultimately, it came back and destroyed them. The Bible says that sin actually separates a person from God. Somebody wrote, spiritual death is broken communion. Jesus had a taste of such broken communion, the first and last he ever experienced in those desolate hours when darkness lay upon the earth and upon his soul. Jesus was our forerunner in every kind of experience, even to the feeling of God's frown of disapproval on sin, that he might become our high priest, understanding all our infirmities, being tempted in all points, like as we, apart from sin. He felt the way a lost sinner feels without himself having sin. And there he is, crying out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? That it's a cry that he was crying on our behalf. He's experiencing that, which sinners experience every day, every moment of the life of forsakenness. You see, Jesus became the perfect sacrifice. He paid our price and he purchased us. He redeemed us. The Bible in Galatians 3.13 says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. Isaiah 53.5 says, he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. So he suffered. And as he suffered on the cross, he experienced man's separation from God, and taken upon himself the sin of the world, he experienced the isolation that sin produces. And sin does create separation, and it does produce an isolation. The Bible tells us in Isaiah 59.1 and 2, surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God.  There are times that before you got saved, you might have prayed, and you might have asked God for help. And it seemed like the heavens were brass, and God's ear was not inclined towards you. Well, Isaiah tells us why. It's because sin makes separation. You have to deal with the sin issue that you might have fellowship with God. And Jesus Christ went through that on our behalf.  So Jesus experienced being forsaken by God. It wasn't a separation of nature. It was not a separation of essence. It was not a separation of substance. It was a separation of fellowship. Somebody wrote, he did not cry out when accused, and he did not cry when he was crucified, but he did cry out when he was separated. These words mark the conclusion of the suffering of Jesus for a lost world. Here he drank to the dregs the cup of sorrow, grief, and pain on our behalf. In these hours when the sun refused to shine upon suffering deity, Jesus found fitting expression to his feeling of desolation in the words of the psalmist. As this is taking place in verse 47, some of those who stood there when they heard that said, this man is calling for Elijah. Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. The rest said, let him alone. Let us see if Elijah will come and save him. Now, this was a reaction of mockery. This wasn't really what you would call religious curiosity. And this was not religious fear. That is made clear by their reaction. They said, let him alone. Let us see if Elijah will come and save him. You know, in the Old Testament once again in Psalm 22, which is referred to as a Messianic Psalm because it's a prophetic picture of Messiah. In Psalm 22, verses 7 and 8, it reads, everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their head saying, is this the one who relies on the Lord? Then let the Lord save him. If the Lord loves him so much, let the Lord rescue him. And that's what the Lord Jesus Christ was going through as he sensed the frown of his father on sin and experienced the separation and then endured the mocking of those who were passing by. Again in verse 48, notice, one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him. Now this particular action was one of mercy. Perhaps it was done by a Roman military guard. The sour wine was high in water and low in alcohol content. It was used really to quench thirst and it was more than likely a response what Jesus was saying because John tells us that Jesus in John 19, 28 and 29 had spoken. He writes, later knowing that all was now completed so that the scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty. A jar of wine vinegar was there so they soaked a sponge in it but the sponge on a stalk of the Hissa plant lifted it to Jesus' lips. Now this is one of the few tender and merciful acts that occurred at the cross. Again, it was more than likely done by one of the Roman military guard. With his lips moistened and with his throat cleared, he was able to cry out again. And what did he cry? Well, we know in John 19, verse 30, that it says, when he had received the drink, Jesus said, it is finished. The word finished when it's written out in the original language, Greek. It is finished is the Greek word paid in full. And what Jesus was saying is salvation has been won. The price has been paid and it has been paid completely. Redemption has been secured. The sacrifice has been completed. If you go and you purchase something at a store, there was a time when you would purchase something and as you purchase it, you would be making your payments and then ultimately what would happen is when you made your last payment, you would receive a receipt and the receipt sometimes had stamped on it, paid in full. And that's what Jesus was saying. He was saying that the debt was paid. The sin debt had been completely paid. It was paid there while Jesus was on the cross and he cried that out. He said, it is finished. It is done. And what we need to do, what we as people today need to do in order to be able to take advantage of that debt that has been paid is to simply receive it, to receive the payment to say to the Lord, God, I thank you for the work that you did. It's not works of righteousness that I have done but it's according to your mercy. You saved us. You washed us. You regenerated us. It isn't my good works. It isn't the things that I've tried to do. It isn't the religious behavior that I've experienced. It's not the prayers and it's not the fasting. It's not the giving and it's not the serving. All of those are evidences that have relationship with you but those are simply evidences. Those are things that actually spring out of a relationship with you. I don't do those things to be saved. I do those things because I am saved. Because I can look back at the cross and I can say that when the Lord Jesus Christ died on that cross and he cried that out, it is finished, that it was finished. And my relationship with him has been purchased by his redemption. He paid for me and he did so by his blood. In 1 Peter 1, 18 and 19 it says, you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He also said something else. Luke gives us insight into what occurred because in Luke 23, 46 it says, when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he breathed his last. I was sharing today in our noon service that the words into thy hands I commit my spirit are actually out of a Psalm. It's taken from Psalm 31, verse five, into your hands I commit my spirit. These words into thy hands I commit my spirit have formed part of the evening prayers for centuries. There were prayers that children would pray as they're laying their head on their pillow at night. They would say to the Lord into thy hand I commit my spirit as their heads were placed on their pillows. And I was sharing this noon service how that, that's a beautiful prayer to teach your child because some of the prayers that parents have taught their children have not been so encouraging. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Who wants to go to sleep? I wouldn't want to go to sleep. He's going to take my soul. I'm going to stay awake all night. But the idea that the Lord Jesus Christ used these words gives to you some sense of the sentiment of the moment. Father into thy hands I commit my spirit. The cross became his pillow. And he prayed and placed his head on that pillow. And he died. He died with a Psalm on his lips. He gently, he peacefully and he willingly died. Matthew tells us in verse 50 that with a loud voice he had cried out again with a loud voice, he yielded up his spirit. He yielded up his spirit. John 19.30 says, bowing his head, he willingly gave up his spirit. That's a picture of a peaceful death. To yield means to send it away. To yield, he yielded it means he dismissed it. He determined when it occurred and he sent away his spirit at the precise moment. He surrendered his spirit by a conscious act of his own will. That determination was made by him. In John 10 verses 14 through 18, Jesus said this. He said, I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. Just as a father knows me and I know the father and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my father loves me is that I lay down my life only to take it up again. No one takes it from me but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my father. So there he is. He's on a cross. His body has been broken. He'd been scourged. Scourging was called the living death because many who went under the lash didn't survive it. The individual who had rendered the scourging even as you saw an illustration of it in the video this evening was called a lictor. And he would take what we today would call a cat of nine tails and in this whip that had several strands within the leather would be embedded broken pottery, ceramic, sharpened stones. The individual who would inflict the scourging that Jesus endured was expert at doing that. They had learned how to even use their wrist to snap so that they could take entire portions of that victim's body off with a single swipe. And they very often would flay them alive. Their bodies would be torn open. They looked like hamburger. Eyes would be torn out of the socket. The face would have large rips in it. The neck, the back. Under Jewish law, it was permissible to receive 40 stripes minus one. 40 in Jewish way of looking at numbers represents judgment. 39 represents mercy. And so judgment was always to be tempered by mercy. So when Jesus received these stripes, it's possible that the Romans gave them 39. It's also possible that they went beyond that to make a mockery of the Jewish religious sentiment. Jesus had been mocked. They had placed the crown of thorns on his head. And with the staff, they had pressed it into his brow. His face was already swollen because of the beating that they had given to him. They had blindfolded him and played a game mocking him. They had put a robe on him, clothing him in purple and played the game that the soldiers during his day would do to mock the prisoners and entertain themselves. They had handed him over to be crucified, ultimately. And after all of that had been done, they placed on Jesus the cross. And as he carried this, the cross that he was placed on was rough. It wasn't sanded, it had all kinds of roughness to it so that when he was on that cross, it would dig into his back that had been opened and wounded through the scourging. And as Jesus was there and he had been impaled, they had placed nails between his wrists to hold him up and a single nail went to hold his ankles together and they had twisted him in the shape of an S. And they had placed him on a beam that had a sharpened saddle peg that was placed close to his center of his body so that he could rest a bit on it. But when he rested on it, it would dig into your skin because it was sharpened like a sharpened pencil. In order for him to breathe, he would have to lift himself up so that his lungs could open up. And every time he lifted himself in order to breathe, this sharpened saddle peg would go up and down his back. And that had been going on for hours. And as he's there, his mom and John and Mary, Madeline, watched. And they saw him go through his pain. And at one point, Jesus looks at Mary and he says, woman, behold your son. And he wasn't saying, look at me and pity me. He was saying, look to John because the next thing he says is to John, behold your mother. And what he was doing is he was commending his mother into the care of John because he wasn't about to take his mom and place her into the hands of those who didn't love her as Christians. John did. And as he was there suffering and dying, the other apostles had fled and were in hiding. They watched him as he breathed his last and they listened to him as he said his last words. And then they watched him as he dismissed his spirit and it was over. Can you imagine? But that would have been like all of the trauma and all of the trauma that's going on at that moment. And it's suddenly still your heart would break. My heart would have broken. As far as they were concerned, the promise of the kingdom, the promise of the kingdom had died with Jesus. But that was Friday, Sunday was coming. And that's what we celebrate this upcoming Sunday. Yes, he died, but he's alive. He's alive.


Y'all saw that boy, Roquon Smith, wanna be traded from Chicago. Anyway, YouTube team keep it clean before we get into this episode of questions from subs. Gotta give a shout out to the newest team keep it clean, Patron. His name is Stanley. We appreciate you, Stanley. Shout out to you. And you know what? We just gonna start off with a question straight from Stanley. He said, thank you for all that you do.  I've been a follower for a long time and wanted to up my level of support. Your content is always 10 out of 10. Keep up the great work. Hey, I appreciate that a lot, Stanley. I don't agree. I definitely would not say it's 10 out of 10. But no, I seriously appreciate you though, man. Thank you for becoming a patron. He said, I like to know where your fandom as a Ravens fan originated from. What event or decision in your life sealed your love for the Ravens? Oh, that's always a fun question. I'm originally from Maryland. I originally from Maryland. And I was like kind of in the football when I was way younger. Just like a little bit, but nothing too crazy. But then my uncle, he had season tickets to the Ravens and they were like, hey, you wanna go to a football game? And I had never been before. I was like, okay, yeah, cool, whatever. And I was always also, when I was younger, big, big, big wrestling fan too. Love, WWF, WCW, ECW, all that good stuff. Now, not so much, I tune in every now and then, but not really no more. But anyway, so my uncle, they took me to a Ravens game and I watched these players come out and I watched the entrances and everybody was getting all hyped and jumping up and down. And it reminded me a lot of wrestling when they come out with all the pyro techniques and all that and the smoking, the music and all that. And then last, but obviously certain not least, Ray Lewis came out. Ray Lewis came out and he was doing, of course, the squirrel dance and everybody was going crazy. And I was like, oh, I just felt them vibes too. And then it was from that point on where I just started, I started paying attention to them a little more, started checking for the Ravens a little more and then just start really like developing, I guess, a love for the Ravens that much more. And then it just, it grew over time. And over time, they would take me to different football games and stuff. And I'd be like, okay, I will start following them more and just start really paying attention to them a lot more. And then over the years, it just grew, like watching them and a lot changed too. I feel like I have a deeper appreciation for a lot of the stuff that they do. A really deeper appreciation from football just from watching it as a fan and flipping that to actually covering everything that they do, not just on Sundays for 16, 17 weeks out of the year, but actually covering everything that they do in detail, like all the transactions, all the business moves, all the hiring, the firings, the personnel decisions, the coaching decisions, covering it from that perspective has made me just love football that much more. And I really appreciate the business side of it that much more because it is fun to pay attention to all that stuff. Of course, you wanna watch the final product on Sundays. All right, how does team looking, how they gonna be? What moves that they made this off season and coaching hires and personnel, hires, players, signings and all that, what moves that they made this off season will impact them every Sunday? That's cool and that's super fun, but it's also a lot of fun to just watch the process. That was a little fun question to start off with. Anyway, next question came from my boy, Marco, who's also a Patreon y'all familiar with his name. He said, ain't Draven, what's good? I was thinking, well, you surprised that the Ravens didn't sign a natural left tackle. Like Dwayne Brown, who is still available to back up Ronnie Stanley in electing to cross train a player who hasn't played in two seasons. Let me know your thoughts, take care and peace. No, it's no shocker. That's a really good question though. But with Ja'wan James, he was already on the roster. So since he was already on the roster, no comp picks, even though Ravens like this was not the year for them to get comp picks anyway, but they already had somebody who was on the roster.  He's familiar with the team, you already got them under contract. Everything is just easier that way.   So yeah, it ain't really no surprise why they didn't sign a natural left tackle. I understand why you would want them to sign a natural left tackle because with Ronnie Stanley is a big question mark, but I understand though why. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. Boy, that's my homie. Ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. So team, keep it clean. Welcome to another episode of NFL questions from subs. I appreciate y'all always sending great fire questions. Thank you for being patient. We do send in your question. Special shout out to all the team, keep it clean patrons. If you want to become a team, keep it clean patron. You can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. And if you want to cool, if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine as well. I love y'all and you know what? Let's get into this next question from Tanja. Shout out to Tanja because she been rocking with team, keep it clean for a super, super, super long time. So she said, all the Ravens trying to play Lamar. Well, I certainly hope not, but let's see what you're talking about. She said, I am fuming right now. I was just watching the Ravens first week of training camp summary with Ryan Mink and his partner. Oh, so it must have been gear down. Shout out to gear, by the way. She said, they talked the same song and dance about the Ravens and Lamar might get the deal done before the season starts, but maybe not. Okay, so all that's true is, we won't know till we know. She said, then they proceed to talk about how much work Lamar has done in the off season. Okay, all right, cool, so far so good, no problems. But while firing me up, they talked about how he has worked on his passing and how good he is looking as a passer and how Lamar really bulked up to take the hits, then Ryan says, I see him going for more rushing yards this year, okay, well, okay, I see where you going with it now, man. I really hope that doesn't end up being the case. And not that, again, I don't want to put a number because you can't put a number on Lamar's rushing yards in my opinion. I'm not one of them people. Oh, Lamar should only have 500 rushing yards this year. Now you can't put a number on it because you never know what's gonna happen in the game. You never know if he looking to pass, pass, pass, and ain't nobody coming open, he takes off. Okay, cool, get it how you get it. But at the same time, I just feel like while we always talk about more emphasis should be put on the wide receivers in the passing game as it should, but in the running game, these running backs are there for a reason. I don't think Lamar should be the leading Russia every single year. But anyway, she says, so what is making me so mad is that I am starting to feel like this prestige organization called the Ravens is trying to play Lamar. The reason I say this, Lamar has improved his passing every season without them giving him a proven receiver because they want him to run. Lamar has a quarterback coach and they talk about how he has improved as a passer. But yet on the show, the three of them talk about Lamar running again. What are you paying the running backs for? It seems like they just wanna run him in the ground but don't wanna pay him his worth. Lamar showed he can pass the ball by default last season because they had no choice. So why are they going back to running him again? So with that, it's really one of them things we won't know till we know. I mean, based off of how the past four seasons have been, they got an allegiance to believe that he will be running the ball a lot and a lot of it will be by design. And not that it's always a bad thing because it's had gotten the Ravens a lot of success over the seasons because he just, besides passing, he presents another element of his game that's dangerous with running the ball. But yeah, as far as, you know, all the receiving talk, you already know how we feel about that. But yeah, we just, we want them to focus on using his legs less and his arm in the passing game that much more. Of course, again, like we said, he's still gonna have that element of the Lamar taking off. But you just, sometimes it feels like they just abuse it. They abuse it and a lot of the stuff it can be obvious sometimes. Anyway, she said they will never get past the division around because they refuse to be balanced on both sides of the ball. I wouldn't blame Lamar if he franchised tags and then moves on. Lamar is a generational talent that shows he has the drive to improve every year and the yearning to be great. And the Ravens are limiting his growth and don't want to pay him his value. If they don't pay Lamar, then I would rather see him go somewhere else that appreciates him and will build around him so he can get his Superbowl and show the world how special he is. She said, sorry, I was so mad. I forgot to say, how are you, my friend? Hey, no, you're good, it was completely fine. Yeah, man, I'm with you on that with the part where I just, because I've said it before, I just don't feel like they've maximized Lamar Jackson as a quarterback. I don't feel like they have. I feel like they've maximized him as a runner but not as a thrower. They have not provided him with the best of the best that they could have. They've gotten quantity, but it hasn't always been quality. And I think a lot of people, they get stuff confused because when we talk about stuff like that, they'll be like, oh, the Ravens, they drafted two receivers in the first round, Shaw Baby and Hollywood, hey, great job. Then they'll be like, oh, the Ravens, over the past couple of years, the Ravens drafted the most receivers than any other team in the league. What are you guys talking about they haven't provided for Lamar Jackson? But that's just quantity. It's quantity. Hey, you got two third round receivers, you got a fourth round receiver, you got a fifth round receiver too. And who am I missing? Am I missing somebody? But then you look at the signings. You look at the proven guys that they brought in and it's like old Seth Roberts, okay, yeah. I don't even know if he's on the team right now. Oh, there's Brian, some guy who hadn't played in years. Oh, okay, cool. Willie Snead, he's still going. He just got signed by the 49ers a couple of days ago. Who else? But the Ravens haven't gotten somebody like that, for Lamar Jackson. Shout out to Pookie, at least he even Pookie upset about how the Ravens have been doing Lamar Jackson. So Ravens, Pookie said, step it up. Next question came from a guy, Joshua B. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope you and your family are doing well, plus Pookie, L-O-L. Just want to say love the videos and all the information from you and Team Keep It Clean. Yeah, I don't provide any information, I just relay it. Team Keep It Clean, y'all be on providing information because y'all always again, present so many different viewpoints and perspectives on stuff going on. So I appreciate y'all. He said, I recently got hurt at football practice in the sideline for probably a month and some change and we'll probably miss the first three games of the season. Oh man, you a real Ravens fan then.  But now we hope you get better, man, for real. Your videos always are in escape for a little bit. So I just want to say thank you. Oh, now I appreciate that, man. My question is something no one is really talking about, mostly because of JK coming back on Monday in the Y-Receiver Group. Yeah, that is a popular conversation, especially over here. He said, but with no cold cap. Oh no, but with cold cap retiring and the impact he had on special teams, who do you think will replace him? Me, I was thinking Tony Jefferson because I predict him making a 53 man roster with Chuck, Marcus Williams, Kyle Hamilton and Gino Stone. Oh, okay. All right, man. I don't see him getting out there that much. He will be a waste to just be sitting on the sidelines the whole game. And I'm thinking for him to get on the field more will be through special teams. And I think he will take up that cold cap role. What do you think? Thanks for listening. I hope it wasn't too long. Oh, no, man. I can see that because like you said, he, I think his best way to get on the field, to get on the field more would be special teams, to just be out there for them to have a hitter on special teams. Somebody that ain't afraid to lay somebody out. And that's Tony Jefferson. And I remember just seeing him last year, it was crazy because last year to me, he looked better than, and I know it was a sample size, but he looked better than he did from when he was with the Ravens before. He looked younger. He looked quicker. He ain't like super fast at it, but he looked quicker, a lot quicker than me than he did before with the Ravens. And maybe it's a rejuvenated Tony Jefferson, but yeah, I could see him taking that sort of cold cap road where you drop back your safety. You also come in the box as a linebacker. That's Tony Jefferson all day. That's him all day. So yeah, I agree, it would be him. Shout out to my guy, Romeo, because he sent me a video that ESPN did about this. And my guy, Manuel, is talking about it as well. Said, O'Dell to the Ravens makes sense for both sides. What's up in Graven? Shout out from Mexico. I know what tie to hand about OBJ to Baltimore. Give OBJ this and that. And fictitious as it sounds, it makes sense. And here's why. Number one, he gets to recover and learn the playbook while watching his teammates do the routes during the games. And when he's back, he can put his spin on them since he would know how to get open and get meac. Number two, by that time, my wide receiver core has proved that without OBJ, they are threatened by themselves. Hope so. So having OBJ on the field puts much more pressure on opposing defenses to stop the Ravens offense. Number three, we'll run every team, but because Lamar is throwing it better than before, it will force Giro to call more passing plays than runs, even though the game dictates different stuff. Is he really throwing it better than before? Is he gonna just be getting more opportunity to throw it more? So anyway, it could be a mix of both, but we ain't even gonna get into that right now. Number four, O'Dell is coming off of an injury. And even if he wants money, teams all around him are thinking damaged goods on him for as much as he has an impact on the field. So a cheap deal for two years to prove he's still got it after his injury will be something he won't pass. You talking Ravens cheap or a different kind of cheap? Ravens cheap is different. Ravens cheap is like, cause they be trying to okey-dog some people.  And if you ain't got the right people on your side, you gonna get okey-dog, man. Ravens be getting over on some people for me. But anyway, he said, number five, J.K. Dobbins came back faster than expected, not only because of his will, but also because of our new medical staff to get our players healthier, faster, and in the right way. He could come over here and we could check him and say, do this and you'll be back even better. That sound like you talking about some dear endless break. Anyway, he said number six, sticking to the Browns twice when he's back, even though he won a Super Bowl, but nothing beats the taste of victory when you defeat the team that wasted your talent and time. Yeah, but he already defeated them last year. When him and the Rams, they won that Super Bowl and he was a big part of that, he already beat the Browns. That, enough say it, enough will say it. That was it. And then he said number seven, oh, they already has a ring and knows how to play in the big one in LaMarnie is that kind of helping his revenge tour. That's my favorite one that you said this whole, this whole email. That is my favorite one. By far. I love it. He said, hope you are well and let us know how good LaMarn's restaurant is. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on, oh yeah, you know, that is fire. It is fire. But yeah, man, that's, yeah, that the, about LaMarn, him O'Dill having that experience and no one had to win a, oh yeah, that was the one.  This is a different question, by the way. He said a few hours ago, I watched Elvis. If you haven't watched it, I recommend that you see it. I have no interest in watching that movie, you know? I have like negative interest in watching that movie. I just, I don't care for it at all. No offense to anybody that does, but I just have no interest in watching it. He said, anyway, after the movie, something came into my mind about the dynamic Elvis had with his representative and it reminded me of Harbys and LaMars. We all know LaMars saved Harbys career by Miles and even in 2019 put him as head coach of the year. Oh yeah, he didn't get that. But again, that year it was a group effort. So everybody played their part. So Harbys was a part of it. So anyway, he said, but like we said, after that, the passing game needs to evolve and LaMars was ready for it. Yes, COVID hit and could have impacted the practice and new passing plays, but all we saw was the same place 2019 and the predictability of G-Roll's offense in general. Hollywood Snead and even Steve Smith's senior pointed out that G-Roll has no passing concepts so much that I bet LaMars told DeCosta in private, change it or we won't win. Hence, T-Martin and Keith Williams were brought and that was more a DeCosta move than Harbys because let's be honest, Harbys knew about G-Roll's passing plays before LaMars drafted. Harbys knew that their wide receiver call was weak before the 2019 season. Yet LaMars said, I'll do what I can and he did. But it wasn't enough. LaMars wanted more and Harbys wasn't giving him the full offense he wanted in one steal. Harbys knows LaMars can throw it, but I worry that he might have told him, you're not throwing it good enough for us to call the plays you want. Well, LaMars went to a QB coach for the off season, came Super Sion, blew better and showed it in training camp to tell Harbys, I can throw it better than you told me I could. Now give me my plays with my voice. Oh, I like that. Has LaMars told Harbys, enough games. Let me play LaMars ball and not Harbys ball.  Oh, man, okay now.  But, hey, you never know, man. You really never know that it could be the case. Well, LaMars like, hey, let's like, come on, man. Get real, get real. Cause all this play, play stuff. No, man, let's be serious about it. I can do this. And he's continued to say for years, I can pass. I don't feel like running. I wanna throw the ball. I'd rather pass than run. And then we even see it in his game. We see it in his game. Like again, I bring it up so much because it happens so much. We be watching, we watching the Ravens play. They on offense, passing play. LaMars drops back, he's looking, looking. And he's screaming, LaMars take off, run, run, run. But no, he's still looking. He looking, he keep looking, looking downfield, looking for somebody to come open. And then he either, sometimes he'll throw it, sometimes he'll throw it away. Sometimes he'll try to take off and get some. Sometimes it'll get sacked. But we'll be screaming, LaMars take off and he won't take off. It's like, man, but we know like, he wants to pass the ball. He's a quarterback. And it's like for him to have been having to prove to people for years, not just in the NFL, but on a collegiate level too.  So let me be that. It shouldn't, it should not still be happening. It should not still be happening. The same way, and we talk about it with wide receivers all the time, but we also need to talk about it with quarterbacks too. With wide receivers, I feel like with Ravens, there's so many wide receivers that we just, we never, we will never know what their true potential was because the Ravens never maximized them. And it seems that way too, with the quarterbacks. And I know they haven't had many franchise quarterbacks. So I get that. But with Joe, the most recent was with Mark Jackson and Joe Flacco. Yeah, Joe Flacco did win a Super Bowl, which was great. But I would have loved to have seen Joe Flacco with a lead talent at the wide receiving position consistently or more. They gave Manquan Bolton, and well, coincidence, but here they gave Manquan Bolton, he won a Super Bowl. Wow, how about that? That's crazy, man. That's what that, wow, wow. They gave him an old Steve Smith senior. He still got it. Well, he got it in the first year, the last two years. Ooh, yikes. But Derek Mason, another guy who was good, but passed his prime. So it's like they didn't even max out Flacco. They didn't consistently max out Flacco out. When they gave him the best receiving group he had, he won a Super Bowl. So that's what with Lamar, it's the same thing. They have not maxed Lamar out. They haven't. And oh, man, I would love to see them do that. Will they ever? I don't know, man. I really don't know, but let's just hope that the guys that they got can get it done. And we'll see what they do. We'll see what they do. But I love how you put this question, how you worded everything, because I can't say a spot on, because we don't know what kind of conversations they had behind closed doors. But I love your thinking on it. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated. Well, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Right engraving. Shout out to engraving.


This is crazy. What's up, money geeks, Mr. V here. Welcome to another video, guys. So into this video, I want us to talk about ticket symbol, B-I-G-C, big comments. So I think two weeks ago, when I was at August 11, I posted a video here about big comments and I said this was a poor man's version of Shopify. Because Shopify is currently trading at over $1,000. And so big comments, which is a competitor of Shopify, you know, IPO this month, August 5th. And I was like, hey, if you're looking to get something in that space, I mean, big comments would be a good way to get in because the stock price is relatively cheap. And right now it's just a major competition for Shopify. So I'm thinking if they come in and only take, I don't know, 10, 15, 20, 30% of the market, they're still gonna be sitting pretty good. Even if they don't go to a $1,000 at Shopify, if they trade at three, four, $500 a share, that is still good.  Boy, was I wrong. The quick win became so fast. And just within two weeks or so alone, this stock has been up over 300%, which is ridiculous. So the question is, why did the stock just kind of rip so quick in, I mean, what's going on? So we're gonna take a look at that. And then I'll tell you guys, my perspective is right now if it's a buy to sell or if it's a hold. So the reason for this crazy run that Big Comments has had this past week is because Big Comments shared search in the regular and after our session Tuesday as the company announced a partnership with social media Facebook. Now, so for the most part, just the fact that Facebook is partnering with them and it just IPO'd on August 5th. That tells me that Facebook has seen something in them that they won and they're going after it. You know, Facebook, they got the money. If they like what you have, they'll go for it. Look, they bought Instagram and now they're bringing Big Comments to partner with them. Again, to help people be able to shop for products, check out and make payments using the Big Comments service. So that's the reason why the stock just went crazy. So let's take a look at what this stock has done from it IPO. So I'll just break it down. So let's zoom back here. So this stock actually IPO'd on August 5th. And then so look at that IPO right off the bat, you know, kind of went up to about nine something on that same day, and then pulled back down and then just from there hit 104 for a high, you know, on August 6th, so thank you, August 6th. And then from there it started pulling back in. Everybody was like, whoa, what's going on? This is not the next Shopify, people are saying that. And then August 11th, this is when I posted the video here in the channel was, I mean, we had a high of about $78 or so. And then since then in our just kind of up and down just regular movement, nothing special, down all the way back to 63, I think this is August 20th. And then start pulling back up a little bit but still moving at a relatively slow pace. So here is, and if you notice at the bottom here, look at the volume, look at the spikes here at the bottom. So if you look at the spikes, that's where you want to see how this went crazy. So after hours, this is August the 25th when Facebook announced that partnership, it just went crazy. Look at that pop, so it popped from there. And then fast forward to the 26th, it just went crazy, hit a high of, let's see here, hit a high of about 151, that's insane. And then pull back after hours again and then open on the 27th and hit a high of 162 before pulling back again after hours. So currently sitting somewhere at about 139. So this is insane. I mean, just think about it. So from when I did the video, which was August the 11th at $78, and now it hit a high of 162, man, that's insane. Just imagine that if you bought them, how much profit you would have made. So my take is that big comments is coming. It's just starting and it's starting really, really hot. So watch out for them. Are they gonna be Shopify? Who knows? That would be my response now, but I definitely know that they have a really good upside. Again, if you, for people that were swing trading this, you'd have made a ton of money, if you're holding it, I would say put a stop loss and start securing some of that profit. If you really double your money, I would say take out your profit or take out your initial investment and only play with house money.  So take your initial investment and only play with house money.  So as you can see, big comments has huge potential. This partnership with Facebook gives them tremendous amount of exposure. There's millions of people on Instagram that are looking to buy products. People have influences on Instagram but they're pushing a ton of products and they're trying to make it as easy as possible for people to just shop. So click a button right there by and make a payment directly on Instagram. You don't have to get up the platform and then come back on Instagram, simplifying that process. And the fact that Facebook decided to go with big comments and not Shopify tells me something about big comments. I don't know if it's because they're not as big as Shopify and Facebook can easily bully them. That might be the case, but who knows? But I mean, from an investment standpoint, it's a good investment. This is a good partnership. You have somebody that has the platform, that has the eyeballs, which is Facebook, and they have somebody that has the technology, the service, which is big comments and put them together, it's a good match. So I see tremendous amount of upside here. And the question is again, should you buy, should you sell, or should you hold? My personal take is wait for a dip, buy and hold for the long run. Do I take in profits along the way? Wait for a good dip. Because right now, because initially right after, something like this, there's so much excitement as we saw right there on the charts, you see that spike is because of that excitement, but this is gonna kind of slow down a little bit. And they have, I think they have their earnings report coming out in September. So again, if that earnings report comes out and shows some profitability, boy, this is gonna spike. I can see this hitting $200 easily like that. So again, keep an eye on them, check out and see the earnings report and hopefully it'll be something that you can get in and enjoy some of the run. So question of the day, what do you think about big comments?  Or you think, oh no, this is just a little player in the space, it cannot touch Shopify in any shape or form. Let me know in the comment section. 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internal revenue service IRS tax news there's no new news today so we'll just go into a random joke America these days is starting to look like that new Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars series things are not looking good positive or in any way coherent that last one being the most disturbing but every once in a while they throw some member berries hey check this scene out that resembles the original remember how it used to be you know when it was good and member berries that call back to the original good old times are great however you're not supposed to get your member berries by going back to the original and cast trading it it defeats the point we like the original it's like trying to impress somebody by presenting them with their old friends severed head and saying what I thought you liked good old Joe and it's like well first of all good old Joe was never the one we liked he was just the useless tag or honor that nobody paid any attention to and for good reason and second of all that old Joe is clearly dead and third it seems you're desecrating poor old Joe's corpse which although I was never fond of old Joe in the beginning is quite disturbing I mean just leave poor old Joe's corpse alone for the love of God honestly I know that in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series people rise from the dead more often than they did in the old soap opera days of our lives but that's no excuse bringing that poor man back to life is less likely than lightning striking twice in the same place or less likely than a lightsaber striking the same exact person twice and the same exact place twice the lightsaber wielded by the same exact dark dude twice that dark dude leaving you to die in the same exact way twice even though the dark dude totally knows you survived the first time back when you were six but still left you to die the second time I mean it's silly no man you just don't understand like in the original it was all about cutting people's hands off and like Luke's robotic hand resembled Vader's roboticness which was like super deep symbolically speaking but now it's all about skewering someone through their belly but then like letting them live presumably getting robotic bowels and getting your bowels and most likely your spine skewered it's way deeper symbolically speaking then just cutting off like a hand it's like they took it way up to another level man no it's not symbolically deeper it's literally deeper there's a difference it's literally deeper and symbolically stupid


How to make money on YouTube without a million subscribers. There have been fortunes made on YouTube. And if you're interested in that, if you're interested in making money on YouTube, then you're gonna wanna watch this video to the very end so you can see how it's done. Hey, thanks for watching this video. I wanna jump right into this, I don't wanna waste any time, but if you haven't subscribed, please do so by clicking the button below, the red button, turn it gray, and turn on all bell notifications so that you will be notified every single time I do a video, okay? So there's some pretty big earners on YouTube. Now, I'm sure you've heard some of the stories, and I'd like to go through some of that with you too, but according to Forbes, okay, according to Forbes, these top 10 channels were top earners on YouTube. From June, 2017 to June, 2018, they're still compiling the numbers from last year. First one is Ryan's World, $22 million, and he has 22.4 million subscribers. Jake Paul, which is 21.5 million. Now, keep in mind, this is in one year. Okay, 19.7 million subscribers. Dude Perfect, 20 million. He has 47.1 million subscribers. Dan TDM is $18.5 million, and that's 22.3 million subscribers. Jeffrey Star, 18 million, 16.5 million subscribers. Markiplier, 17.5 million, 24.5 million subscribers. And Vanoss Gaming, 17 million, or 24.9 million subscribers. Jake Septiceye, 16 million, 23 million subscribers. Now, I just got through saying, how can you make money and not have a million subscribers? Well, that's exactly what I'm gonna show you. Hang on, let's get going. PewDiePie is number nine, 15.9 million dollars per year, 102 million subscribers, and Logan Paul, 14.5 million, 19.9 million subscribers. Now, you may say, well, yeah, these people have huge audiences. Of course, they're making huge money. There's no way I can do that. First, let's look at the ways you make money. Do you make money when you upload a video to YouTube? No, technically you don't, but it still can make you money. Once you've uploaded a video and you've reached a certain threshold, that's 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time, you can join their partner program, which means when ads run on your videos, they actually pay you a portion of the revenue that they receive off that ad. So that tells you right there, you only have to have 1,000 subscribers. So at 1,000 subscribers, you can start earning money from ads off YouTube. From these earnings, you may be saying, wow, there's a lot of ads, man. They're making a lot of money off ads. I will tell you the majority of their income is not from ads. That's generally about 20% of your income, give or take depending on your channel. It's usually from merchandise. It's usually from courses. It's usually from downloads that they sell, t-shirts, hats, mugs, whatever. That's where the money is being made. It can also be affiliate links where they go to Amazon or some other site where they get paid when it's a click-through. The thing to think about is this ad revenue is not the same for every single channel. So you gotta be cognizant in the beginning who's watching your channel. What audience are you attracting? You know, these ad rates can be as low as a dollar or two and they can go up to 30 or 40 dollars depending on what your audience is. You know, YouTube is aware of the fact that if you're the majority of the people that watch your channel are 21 year olds and they don't have a job and they're still in college, they're not as valuable as somebody who's 45 looking to invest, who sees an ad for an investment firm where somebody can make millions of dollars on them, okay? They're wise to that. So your niche is so very important.  This is all about making money. But if that's the case, then you don't have to worry about a niche. What are some of the ways you can actually make money on YouTube? That's what I wanna talk about real quick. See, when you create these multiple money streams, it's a whole lot easier to monetize your channel and make it profitable that much faster. So let's look at some of these things. First thing of course, and I told you is to become a partner with YouTube once you've reached 1,000 subscribers, 4,000 hours of watch time. But you can also sell products in merchandise. You can do that immediately. You don't have to have any subscribers, any views or any of that stuff, no watch time. Just having those links down there where somebody can buy something from you. You can let your audience support you through fan funding, through things like Patreon or something along those lines where people just give you money because they like your content. You can also license your content to other media and make money off that if you choose to do so. Once you've built up a little bit of an audience and I've been contacted by a lot of companies now and I don't have that big of an audience yet. We just started working on this channel but it's been growing a lot. Thanks to you guys. I really do appreciate it. If you haven't subscribed, please subscribe. Turn on notifications, do all that stuff. Gotta tell you to do that because that's the only way to grow the channel. But you can become an influencer. You can become an actual brand. I've had people contact me and say, hey, make this video. We'll pay $1,000 to make this video. Now, I rarely take any of those. For a couple of reasons really, it takes out a lot of time and I don't have the time to waste on something like that right now. That's not my focus.  Secondly, a lot of them that contact me don't meet with my brand. They don't fit with my brand or if I don't know something about their product or service, like I had one the other day that some investment firm, some stock place, and I don't know anything about them. I can't recommend them to you guys if I don't know anything about them. This is wrong, so I don't do that. Another was a software company. I hadn't used their software. It was a video editing software, so I didn't do the video for that one either. But as soon as you start getting a little bit of a following, anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 subscribers, you're gonna get contacted by these people and they're gonna wanna give you money. Now, I do wanna tell you, the first thing that I talked about was ad revenue and that's not gonna be the first way you're gonna make money, because you can't in the beginning. But I want you to be thinking about that now. And you have to think about it now because you gotta think about what kind of videos you're gonna make and you gotta think about the length of the videos that you're gonna make. YouTube likes to put at least four ads on a video. They need an eight minute video to do that. So if you make a whole bunch of three minute videos, they can't put four ads in there. And since they can't put four ads in there, they're less likely to show your videos as suggested videos, which is the number one way to get views. So all of my videos are approximately, some are a lot longer, but approximately 10 to 14 minutes. That way I can hit that sweet spot of how many ads they can put on my videos. You can also check out YouTube premium where people actually pay for special content on your videos. And that will give you more revenue, another revenue stream. So another reason I say, you don't wanna just worry about the ad revenue is because you could make some videos that people don't like and they're just not gonna run ads on them for that reason. It may have content in there that companies don't like. So don't think of that as your primary source of income. It can be a source of income, but there's some reasons that, YouTube will not run ads on your videos. Some of them like, if you have sexually suggestive content, a lot of companies will not run an ad there. If you have violence, including displays of serious injury and events related to violent extremism, a lot of ads will not run in there. If you have inappropriate language, if you curse in your videos, I try not to, but if you curse in your videos, a lot of companies won't run an ad on there. If you have any type of promotion or drugs or regulated substances, including selling use of such items, no ads are gonna be able to be run on there. If you have any controversial or sensitive subjects and events, and that can be war, politics, natural disasters, any type of tragedies, a lot of times you can't get ads to run on there. They'll be demonetized. And the scary thing about that is, since 2012, YouTube has been demonetizing channels and videos through an automated process, and there's no warning or anything along those lines, and they can just take away your ad revenue. Nowadays, it's a little bit better. They will let you know if your video or channel has been flagged for demonetization and what the violation is, and then you can appeal it or take down that video or that content and do whatever you want. Now, I did talk about selling products. I have courses that are down below in the links. You can actually find those courses for sale down there. That's a great way for you to generate money. You can sell t-shirts and hats and mugs and all these different things. Once your channel gets to a certain size, you can actually run a banner of all your t-shirts below and actually sell those also.  And I thought there's no way people are doing this, and I watched a couple live videos from some food reviewers that I know and people were giving them money right and left, just $5 here, $10 there, $2. That's pretty cool. And those questions normally will get answered by the person doing the live video because they see that they got a tip, so they're gonna talk to those people first. Now, the other thing I mentioned earlier was Patreon. Patreon's pretty cool, and what it does is it's a membership platform that allows the members to actually give money to the creators and they get access to extra content or more content than they would normally get if they just went to the channel. And like I say, there are sites where you can actually sell your content and license it to other people. There's a site called Junkin Media, and Junkin Media, you can actually put your content there and it makes it easier for people to find it. And like I said earlier, being an influencer is pretty cool, and you don't have to necessarily do a video on somebody's product. They may want to sponsor your video. They may say, here's $5,000 when you at least talk about our product in the beginning of your video. I've seen a lot of creators do that. They'll talk about some earbuds they like.  You know, here's some earbuds. I like these earbuds. You ought to check them out. You get a discount below if you click the link, that type of thing. So they get affiliate money when somebody buys that product, plus they get the placement of that particular sponsor when they talk about it for a minute or two in the video, and they may get a payment for that too. So when you're selling the stuff on your channel, if you are doing a sponsored thing, you don't wanna annoy your audience. You don't wanna say, hey, you gotta go buy this right now, it's really important. You just wanna matter of factly mention it, you know? You do have to go by the guidelines of whatever the sponsor tells you to say, but if you don't feel comfortable with it, don't do it, okay? I don't want anybody to feel like they have to buy one of my courses or somebody has to buy a product that I'm talking about. There's very few products that I really am really into. I am into Cartra. If you look below, you'll see a link for Cartra. That's what I use all my marketing for, my sales letters, my emails, my videos, my sales pages, my funnels. Cartra is the deal. I am an affiliate of Cartra, full disclosure, but if you go down and click on that Cartra link, you don't have to buy anything. There's a free video there and for $1, you can get a 14-day trial. And of course, call to action in your videos for somebody to do something. I have a free course down there. It's a $97 course, but you can get it for free by just clicking the link, okay? There you go. There's a call to action. Check out that course down there. And of course, the last thing I was talking about is affiliate links. If you look in my description below, I have a lot of affiliate links to Amazon. I'm an affiliate for them. So if you like my cameras, my computers, my lighting or some of the tools that I use, you can click on one of those links down there and buy it. It doesn't cost you any more at all, okay?  So you can make money. You don't need a million people. Matter of fact, they say you really only need about a thousand real loyal fans to make a really good living, to make 100 grand, 150 grand a year, which is not bad nowadays. So I want you to check out all that, try it out. Let me know how it works for you. Put a comment below. Let me know what you thought of this video. Give me a thumbs up if you like it. Thumbs up or thumbs down if you didn't. 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