Take notes Steve Zanget everybody According to Wikipedia perseverance means continuing in a course of action without regard to Discouragement opposition or previous failure. I don't know leave this slide up for a second because we're gonna talk about a few of these things During this next 20 minutes. I want to start with a quote. I live my life Like there's no tomorrow this was spoken by One of the geniuses of my childhood David Lee Roth I Started Zeke in 1995 Right at the beginning of the internet we started as a CD-ROM company and we quickly formed ourselves into a casual games company And that's what we did throughout the 90s In 2000 I hired several animators from Cal Arts and we were starting to make some of our own original animation We had our client work. We were working on some of our own products And then March of 2000 happened Does anybody know what happened in March of 2000? the NASDAQ crashed tanked Pick your synonym Now I didn't have a lot of dot-com clients But the entire industry was gone Overnight I Couldn't get my clients on the phone. We couldn't get paid We were done And so I had to do the toughest thing that ever happened in my career. I Laid off 12 people in one day Now if you've ever heard me speak I've talked about firing employees And that's hard But typically if somebody's gotten to the point where they need to be fired It's deserved Laying off is the hardest thing you will ever do as a business owner And if you've never done it, I guarantee that and so I Dusted myself off. I Found the clients that would return my calls the ones who still had money I moved my business home Into my garage and I became a one-man shop and there was a project that I was working on that needed database work And I wasn't a database programmer So I called my friend Eddie Hartman Eddie Hartman started a company called legal zoom His Twitter handle I believe is at cake fart my memory might be fuzzy on that one And Eddie came in and he taught me how to program databases And I sat there night after night and lost I got no sleep and I fulfilled this project Because that's what it took to keep my company afloat And you know what Eddie said to me after it was all done. He said Steve You've got moxie You've got gumption Or again pick any synonym for perseverance But that stuck with me now Complacency isn't exactly the opposite of perseverance, but it is in my world and so because I went through that I Live my life like there's no tomorrow That's how I run my business I Know what it's like to lose everything and have to start over So every day I go in and I look at the financials and I look at the cushion and I look at how we're doing and I'm always on my toes and Thinking about what happens if all of our clients are gone tomorrow Because it does happen And I promise you you can't know what that feels like unless you go through it Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years And this comes from one of the greatest thinkers of our time Mr. LL Cool J In my mind is one of the best examples. I can think of a perseverance So LL started as a rapper when he was 16 in 1984 he cut four albums and he did pretty well, but he wasn't great He wasn't at the top of the charts, but you know what he did He just kept going and it wasn't till he came out with mama said knock you out Until he won his first Grammy in 1992 after eight years in the business LL didn't quit then He reinvented himself. He started acting in movies He's been in TV and now you can see him in NCIS which has been on for several seasons That's perseverance. That's longevity So several people in this room. I look to As the LL Cool J's of WordPress Karim Maruki has been in this business as long as I have selling client services for 21 years Chris Ford was up here earlier and she talked about how she graduated design school in 1996 Tony Perez started in 2000. That's longevity Chris Lemma was taking clarity FM calls in the womb Again, my memory might be fuzzy on that one. So let's talk about the hustle Since we're talking about Mr. LL Cool J This is what it takes There's something my dad used to say to me and it used to drive me nuts He used to say there's no free lunch and I hated it Because what it meant was you've got to work for everything you have Nobody's gonna give you shit You don't deserve anything You've got to work for it and this really didn't Resonate with me until I started my business Because I didn't make a dime For two years. I thought I'll go talk about I'm gonna date myself here Macramedee director to anybody who would listen and they're gonna hand me checks That's not how it works it takes hard work to succeed There are no free lunches Nobody's handing out anything Does anybody remember a Michael Douglas Sean Penn movie called The Game? Okay so Zeke Interactive Got an RFP To build the website for the game in 1998 Ish we loved this script I had a business partner time named Dan wool and we read the scripts and we were totally into it We wanted this project and So we put together an amazing proposal and an amazing website and we described this awesome project And we only have one competitor and so what we did To be creative and show polygram that we were creative is We sent out our initial email that said Zeke Interactive has decided to pass on this project and Then we sent out a follow-up email that said your game has begun And we'd let them on an adventure To find our proposal. They didn't read the second email This is a true story The other agency got the project This was a hundred thousand dollar project. I called out a mistake I don't get creative with proposals anymore My proposals are very clear and it's very clear how to find them And I'm sending a word doc and a PDF and a link to a Google doc and following up with the facts And then following up with a phone call to make sure you got my proposal my point is You're going to make mistakes. I promise you we all do it. I've done it several times I still do it, but if you don't learn from those mistakes You got issues Never burn a bridge and again This is a quote straight up my dad's rulebook. I don't care who it is. I don't care how you've been treated. I Don't care what happened on the other side of the table Treat everyone with respect and treat everybody With the attitude of you have no idea where they're going to end up Or who they're going to talk to or what they're going to tweet or what kind of yelp review they're going to review They're going to leave We lost out on a really big project recently It was a quick one. It probably wasn't the right fit, but it's a project that Sarah and I really really wanted We traveled for it. We spent a lot of time on the proposal and in the end They said we're going to keep the agency that we're already working with we have another we relationship with another agency and So I sent an email and I said go f yourself That's not what happened. I Said an email. I said thank you very much for this opportunity I really appreciate it. If there's anything that we can ever do for in the future for you in the future Please let us know in my 21 years of experience I've worked with several clients And they've gone from one large company to another large company or from a small company to a large company And they've taken us along with them So no matter what you do Take the high road no matter how the relationship ends take the high road. You don't know where that person is gonna end up You don't know who they're going to refer you So never burn a bridge the thing I learned from What happened in in March of 2000 is That you should always diversify What this means is if you have one large client and one large project that you're working on You might want to review that Because if that client pulls out You're dead meat It's much better to have a lot of small projects that you're juggling If you're a product company and you have one large product you might want to review review that Get some other skews Explore some other verticals. It's important This is the way you protect yourself if anything goes wrong I've talked about this rule in many many talks one thing I've always done and I believe has really Kept me in business is I've always done my best to surround myself with good people They represent me It's an extension of of me So when my people are talking to a client or they're at a word camp or they're anywhere and Representing Zeke. I want the best representation that bit that there is and I also strive To hire people that are smarter than me and along those same lines Reputation is king. I make most of my decisions Based on how it's going to affect my reputation. It's what's gotten me this far We're not perfect Zeke is not a perfect agency, but we have a great reputation of Treat our clients right delivering on time delivering on budget delivering and I say that because we've picked up a lot of our projects from other developers that just didn't deliver if you're not good at networking This is something you're gonna need to figure out You're here at a word camp Talk to people Figure out your circle and network within that circle But networking is very important and again. It's another skill. I got from my dad It's how I got ahead in this business. It's how I got ahead in every industry. I've been in in within digital I do my best to talk to people and just figure out what's going on because ultimately That leads to sales and my friends make fun of me and that's okay But coffee is for closers second places second places set of steak knives third place you're fired Does anybody not know what movie this is from I am always closing I am always selling But I do it in a way, which is not a hard sell. I sell by networking. I sell by talking to people When somebody talks to me they know what I do and they start talking about an app idea Or or a project they've got going on or something that's going on in their company And so that's where I steer the conversation so if you don't know who David Lee Roth is or Who LL Cool J is then I've chosen a quote That the under 30-somethings can relate to don't do nothing bless your hearts in it Don't do nothing Unless you're all in it and of course This is from the greatest motivational speaker of your time Justin Bieber in 1980 I got a trash 80 80 80 or 81. I got a trash 80. This is my first computer That's what it looked like it connected to the TV and that was cool And I got to play games on it and then I figured out that there was a way for you to write Software on this thing, but what really changed actually let me take a step back Raise your hand if you owned a cassette tape Keep them up if you owned a leaderless cassette tape That's a leaderless cassette recorder and what that did is it allowed you to save your programs off of the trash 80? It never worked right like a jazz desk I'm segmenting the audience by age right now But it allowed me to write programs Save them to leaderless cassettes and then come back to them later so that I can add to them And I didn't know that at the time, but I was learning code And what mr. Bieber was talking about in his quote is passion It's important that you know your passions. My passions are movies music basketball poker and technology That trash 80 gave me a passion for technology. I'm gonna leave you with this It's important that you ask yourself Why you're sitting in this room? It's important that you ask yourself Why am I in this industry? And if the first answer that came to your mind had anything to do with money or paycheck I Encourage you to do some self-reflection Passion is critical. It's critical to your success. It's critical to your longevity and it's critical to perseverance I'm Steve Zangit


I am a diehard linux fanboy. I don't think that that will come as a surprise to anyone who has seen my channel I literally have tux hanging on my wall back there and have had for a few years now, so I Really like linux. I make videos about linux. I talk about linux constantly on my social media channels I like linux a lot, but I try not to be too Judgy when it comes to people who use windows Because a lot of people don't like windows, but they are forced to use it for various reasons and you know I understand that from a certain perspective because like I have to have a Google account because of work and stuff So I have to use Google so I too have to spend my time with an evil corporation We all have to make sacrifices to do the work that we have to do in order to feed our families and all that stuff Right, so if you have to use windows I try not to be too judgy about it But there are surprisingly a number of people out there who genuinely like windows I don't understand these people. It's like people who don't like Star Wars or Star Trek Like I can understand that liking one or the other but liking the other of them doesn't really make sense to me or People who don't like pizza Like I'm sorry, but pizzas God's food You should definitely like it. I don't understand if you don't right People like windows or some people at least some people really like windows and I don't understand these people And well, most of the time I try to think well, you know people like what they like and that's just fine It doesn't pain me or cause me any real issues if other people like what they like So just let them go about their lives and be wrong and you know, it's fine, right? Well, I'll just continue on making my Linux videos and be happy. I'm a Linux nerd. I could be considered a Linux elitist I won't deny that but I try to at least just let it flow by me, right? But that doesn't mean that I don't try from time to time to get people to use Linux if I possibly can It's one of the reasons why I make so many videos is I try to with my videos make it clear how good Linux has become over the years to try to fight back against some of the stereotypes that have developed because of The poor hardware compatibility and software compatibility of yesteryear a lot of that stuff is no longer Present you can use Linux basically like you use Windows now on basically any hardware and it works out of the box Now do we still have some software blind spots? Sure, you know, we don't have the Adobe products We don't have easy access to Microsoft Word So there are a couple big ones that don't aren't here But we have alternatives to those things that are at least almost as good or at least good enough, right? so I try with my videos to Put forth Linux in a positive light in hopes that eventually or at least sometimes it will Draw some people in to Linux from Windows because I think that Windows is a terrible product Not in that it doesn't function well, but that it doesn't treat its Users humanely.  So what I want to do today is talk a little bit about Or at least let's let me put it this way. I'm gonna talk today. I'm gonna talk about one more reason why You should definitely use Linux and not Windows and that reason is this one right here So we're starting to see more and more blog posts in the mainstream media like this one Where people who have been covering Windows for a very long time are slowly awakening to the idea that? Microsoft isn't a good steward of their operating system that Microsoft is more focused on Building up their market share in certain pieces of software and services Then actually creating a good product. We're seeing more articles like this one now this one in particular is Just another Example of Microsoft doing something shady on Windows in order to get you to use their software or their services So in this case what Tom Warren is saying from the verge is that he has discovered that Microsoft is Creating pop-ups inside of Windows when you have Chrome installed and are using Chrome as your default web browser And your default search engine. They're putting actual pop-ups like 90s dial Web pop-ups on your desktop in order to try to get you to use Bing instead They try to get you to use Microsoft Edge instead And this is something that they've actually pushed out to a lot of people a lot of people have seen this It's been going on for months, but it's obviously not new Microsoft has Basically since Windows 10 if not before Tried to push their products onto you in a shady fashion So they've gone so far as to make it almost impossible to switch from Edge to Chrome or Firefox or whatever If you want to do so you have to basically walk across coals in order to get that to work and They've actually after an update switched you back to Edge Sometimes they do that at least once or twice a year to some people not everybody but some people right and That's obviously just one thing that they've done They've also gone and put a ton of advertisements inside of Windows now some people will argue well Yeah, I'm getting Windows for free I probably shouldn't care that there are some ads some Microsoft can make money to do this whatever We that was some of the art agreements when Ubuntu decided to put Amazon referral links inside of Ubuntu I'm getting Ubuntu for free therefore I should try to support pissed a lot of people off But some people really understood the problem with Windows doing it is that Windows isn't free actually just because you don't pay money You know directly to Microsoft doesn't mean that you're not paying somewhere along the line The manufacturer of your PC has no doubt paid Microsoft, you know a hundred dollars or more For the license that is on your machine that money is then baked into the cost of the hardware Or if you've built your own PC You'll know that you've had to buy a license in order to use Windows on your PC Or if you're like me You probably have only bought Windows exactly one time in your life, and you just keep using the same Mostly legally obtained license over and over and over and over again. I don't do that anymore So Microsoft if you're watching this I got away with it nanananabubu. I'm a Linux user now We don't have product keys. We don't need product keys We don't need no stinking product keys So there's that but anyways the point of this video is that Linux doesn't do this shit Linux just does not do pop-ups. Okay Linux doesn't push software on you at all. Okay now Some people would say well Matt. Yeah, they kind of do if you're using a boon to they do kind of push Snaps on to you and if you're using fedora They kind of force you to use flat packs, but do they really I mean if you want to you can uninstall Snaps on Ubuntu. I've seen people do it. I've done it myself. You can easily do it and once it's done No more snaps. You can just uninstall snapd and it's gone from your machine forever It's fantastic now Obviously there are going to be some Situations where you kind of do some workarounds if you're going to install something from a different certain repository That may end up pulling snapd back in is as a dependency So it's a little funky and I would say that that is kind of shady of canonical to do that But if you don't really like that you have other alternatives You can go use fedora or arts or gen 2 or Linux from scratch or whatever you want to do You have tons of options if the distro you're using does shady crap with windows All you have options are windows or moving to different platform like Mac OS or Linux and obviously Mac OS has its own problems So the point is is that even if you think windows functions great And I'm not going to argue that when you try to get work done as long as the tool works well for you That's all that anybody can ask for and a lot of people prefer the way windows works And you cannot deny even as a Linux fanboy. You can't deny That windows has a ton of software available to it and a lot of that software is not available for Linux And that is something that draws a lot of people into using windows You can't deny that but what windows fanboys can't also deny on the other side of things is that windows has become a dumping ground for Shady tactics to get you to use as many Microsoft services and products as possible And even if you don't see a bad thing about that, which I don't understand how you couldn't possibly think that that was bad The worst part about it is that you can't disable any of this stuff, right? Even if you during install choose no telemetry whatsoever Microsoft is still sending telemetry outside of your network to their servers and using it for whatever they want They've always been doing that obviously that's nothing new But they continue to push the envelope to do more and more stuff in order to get you to use as many of their services possible Basically what you're seeing here is the internet on your operating system on your local operating system And what I mean by that is that the internet has become inundated with advertisements so much so that people created ad blockers Can you imagine a day when you have to have an ad blocker to use your operating system before you even get to the internet? I can imagine that day happening quite soon The problem is that I don't think that you could do that very easily without a whole bunch of registry edits And of course Microsoft just like Google does with ad blockers would try to Constantly play whack-a-mole with that piece of software in order to get them your their ads shown to you No matter what because you can't turn them off this new pop-up that they're talking about you can't turn it off Okay, at least without doing I'm sure some things will violate their terms of service I'm sure any of the advertisements that you have on there you can probably get rid of them But that's not the way Microsoft wants you to use their product, right? It's basically like using an ad blocker. It definitely violates the terms of service So the biggest issue with Windows the number one reason why you should not use Windows And you should at least consider using Linux is that Linux isn't shady They're not run by evil corporations. Yes, we have some corporations. Yes We sometimes call them evil, but if you compare canonical you compare red hat to Microsoft they sure do look not so evil in my opinion at least right and also even if you don't want to use a corporate District we have other options where you have arts we have Debbie and we have things like that that aren't corporate batch So if you want options like that you can find them And that's really the dot the whole point is that on Linux you have options and none of them are really evil options so if you are one of those folks who use Windows and you are Sick of Microsoft doing their damnedest to ruin your experience with all of the pop-ups and the Advertisements and the telemetry give Linux a try. It's really not that hard to install anymore It's not something that you're going to have a hard time getting running on your computer If you're using a mainstream distribution Everything is probably just going to work spend the first couple weeks trying to find alternatives to the software that you use because you will Have to find alternatives. That's probably the biggest hurdle for most people So you know you have to if you're a photoshop user You have to go find an alternative photoshop if you're a Microsoft word user you have to go Find an alternative to your office suite all those things are possible It just takes a little bit of effort and the willingness to do so and the willingness to learn new things as I always say so if you are a Windows user use Linux you'll be happy you did so that is it for this video if you have thoughts on this You can leave those in the comment section below. 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Last night we started to see how the world, the linear world, is a hoax. And we put so much faith in the future and spend so much energy preparing for future outcomes. We really are taking our lines and our energy away from the present moment. We're just getting distracted. I know we're thinking about the past for a minute, for the future. Whether we're feeling regret. And replaying, rehashing memories that we've learned since they could have been different. Or whether we're concerned, worried about possible outcomes in the future that we don't like. It's really a distraction away from the stillness and the freedom of the present moment. And so I'd like to talk about something that most, of course, American teachers don't talk about. I don't know if you're anybody talking about it, but it's called hypothetical thinking. That's the problem. It's not so much just the linearity. But when we're thinking about the future and imagining possible future outcomes, sometimes many possible future outcomes, those are hypotheticals. Whenever you're having a conversation with somebody and you're pondering a number of possibilities that could occur in the future, it's common to be saying, well, hypothetically speaking. Just say so and so did this or I did that, but this happened. Or hypothetically speaking if there was a tsunami or a hurricane or a tornado. Or hypothetically speaking, if we go into a recession or a depression, so much energy is placed on these hypotheticals. And think of it in terms of like imagining pondering relationships that you've had. Where are the relationships heading? Will we last? Won't we last? All these energies put into hypotheticals in terms of relationships. Or it could be a spiritual community that just hypothetically speaking. And the thing that you have to have in order to have hypotheticals is when you're trying, you have to have cause and effect apart. As if there are these real scenarios and real memories that occurred in the past and these real possibilities that could occur in the future. It's really a system of lies. It's like a cobweb that the ego has set up. And there comes a point on the spiritual journey where instead of like, we've been talking about practical speaking, we're going to join people this week about next steps, what's coming next. That can be practical, but what's even more practical than next steps is starting to explore the whole idea of hypotheticals. Can they really be hypotheticals? Or perhaps is, some of you have heard of like, sense material or physical teachings on parallel universes. Sometimes they'll say, well you've got this going on in this universe. But in a parallel universe, you have to be the exact opposite going on simultaneously. It's a real reminder. Simultaneously, I'm getting divorced in this life and I'm getting married in the parallel universe. I was like just a flipside or an opposite. And parallel or simultaneous is an interesting kind of thing. And what you find is that's what the teachings of the Course in Miracles are, is that cause and effect are together and not apart. In order to have hypotheticals, in fact in order to have past and future, you have to have cause and effect apart. And if cause and effect are together, then what does that mean in terms of time? It means that time is simultaneous and not linear. It means that all time is, we'll say, so to speak, happening at the same time. Talk about a mind-bender. If you're kind of addicted to thinking time is linear and then you're like, what is simultaneous? That's quite an interesting idea. Now, if time is simultaneous, then you really don't have any problems. You've just solved the whole given condition and the whole conundrum. Because problems are always remembered or anticipated. You never have a problem just right now. There is no problems right now. They're always remembered or anticipated. And so, if you could realize the impossibility of hypothetical thinking, how quiet and still your mind would be, because you wouldn't waste any more time trying to figure out the future or lamenting the past, trying to plan a better future, or trying to say, I wish I could forget when this happened to me, or that happened to me, or when so-and-so attacked me, or so-and-so grievances. What would happen to grievances if time was simultaneous? If it was no longer a sense of the past having a reality, grievances would be gone too. So this is kind of an important topic to start to see at the time of simultaneous. Now, some of you have learned a little bit about quantum physics. Of course, years ago, they thought the world was flat, and then they thought that all the stars revolved around the Earth. And then Isaac Newton comes along and says, there's a sun, and Earth is just one among the planets that revolve around the sun. Everything's turned completely around from what everyone believed. And then we had Newtonian physics, which was basically measuring and kind of ensuring the physical laws from what was observable and empirical evidence. And then once we got into quantum physics, then we started to realize that everything that we thought we knew from Newtonian physics, which is basically everything we were taught in our science books and in our history books and everything, was not true. You know, it's kind of disheartening when you've, especially if you've put a lot of time into learning things to just find out that you should be right, just got pulled out. And quantum is completely different than Newtonian.  And that's what it seems to be absorbing through the human senses, this tiny little sliver of perception. And in the Course in Miracles, Jesus says, perception is selective. It's so selective that you're only perceiving what you want to see. And what you don't want to see is not there. That's how powerful the mind is. You just perceive what you want to see. You don't want to see, you don't see, you don't perceive. You just feel the emotions that you want to feel. And the emotions that you don't want to feel, you don't feel. It's like a filter based on the ego, based on the belief system of the ego, which just selects perception.  And isn't it fascinating when you get on the highway with that car and you start looking around and you go, damn, I can't believe it. Because it's really, it's like, it's got to be more than coincidental that you start seeing that make, and that model, and that color, driving by it, and you're driving by it. And it's like, what's going on here? Is this my mind or what?  We'll be in there just talking, you know, all the colors and everything, and as we're mentioning names here, you always want to come across the screen. What we have to do is mention your name, and there you go. We'll talk about what they're going to be mentioning in the video. There you go. It's like a treatment show, they're on a loop. What we have to do is think of them and mention your name. There you go. Every time. Interesting. Fascinating. I mean, if it happened once or twice, you could say it's a quiz, but when you sit there all day, and it happens over and over and over, it's like, Fascinating. Just thinking about it, there they go. You're right here, that's me. And so, we're going to get into a bit of quantum intellect, because it's like the way we've been thinking in linear terms, it's just full of guilt. It's like the past, the karmic, and the past seems to repeat, and we seem to be making some of the same mistakes again, and we can even recognize it. We scratch our head like, this looks vaguely familiar, this relationship thing I'm dealing with, didn't I? Chest, and then the tongue before, and then the tongue before. It's like, here it is. It's kind of like that Carly Simon song, and if you're willing to play the game, it will be coming around again, it just loops like in the Truman Show. They're all on a loop, just keeps coming around and around and around. It looks to say scientifically, not at random at all. It's like the same patterns over and over and over. And so, the movie tonight is a quantum movie, but it's not like what The Bleak was. A lot of theory, a lot of pondering from a lot of scientists and physicists. No, this is a drama. This is a relationship movie, and also this movie is really great for teaching by hypotheticals. It's one of the best movies you can ever pick.


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Hi everybody, I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com and that is 2022-23, Panini Impeccable Basketball. Three box, pick your team number six from jaspyscasebrakes.com. Alright, so we have a few things happening here. We have the main list, which I can separate from the other lists, that would be great. Alright, we've got the main list for the people who bought their spots straight up. So thanks everyone who made that happen. Pick your team six. Larry, you ended up with last bot Mojo with the Mavs. Alright now, you can see that there are two different random number block groups right here. An Orlando one and an OKC one. We did those randomizers in separate videos and here are the results. Here's the OKC Lakers blah blah blah one. All uploaded in separate videos. That right over here next to me. We got another one where CKH got all the numbers, bought all the spots and making life easy for old Joe here. So thanks to him for that. Alright, so let's set these right here. Alright, so good luck to everybody in this one. Let's see what monsters are in here. Hopefully there's monsters. Better be monsters in here. Better be monsters in here. Alright, there it is. Nine trading cards plus the case hit, which is right here. We'll do that last. We met the guy. I think Nick's dad, the boss man, knows the person who sources these pieces of metal. We met him at the live event, it's been national. I think for the first time, I think Nick's met him before. His dad obviously knows him from the old industry days. Didn't have a chance to ask too many specifics about it. But he sources those metal bits somehow for these products, which is cool. I think he even showed us a peek of some of the metal pieces he was delivering. I don't know if he actually, I guess my blank card is gone. Have to make a new one. But anyway, I thought that was pretty cool. It's always cool to run to see how multi-layered the industry is. Eight out of 20, Zach Levine. That will be for the bulls. The bulls are a number block team. So if you're not familiar with it, we go by that digit right there. So that's going to go to Chicago, eight. And that will be for Nicholas S. Nicholas L, there's no Nicholas S in that. Nicholas L, Nicholas C, that goes Nicholas L. We got Lamello, eight out of 49 for Charlotte. That's going to be also for Nicholas L with eight. Then we've got Tyler Hero, 30 out of 99. That goes to Miami, Sean TKO with the heat. Next up is Jamal Wilkes. Watercolor, 11 out of 99. Old school Laker going to the OKC number block group. And that's for Nicholas C. So we go by that digit right there. Nice. We got one for the Cavs. Jared Allen, 83 out of 99. Cavs are also part of the OKC random number block group. That will be for Nicholas L with the number three. Max Christie, 62 out of 99. I'm kind of bullish about Max Christie. He looked really good in Summer League. I think he's going to get a lot of minutes on that Lakers team, maybe future All-Star. Lakers two, part of the OKC group. That's going to go to Steve Barry. There you go, Steve. Nice rookie Otto here. I do remember how exciting Lamello was, especially his rookie year. He's just got to stay healthy. That's probably the main thing. Loses too much time. There's Nikola Jovic, rookie autograph on a piece of metal, which looks pretty sharp. Miami, Sean TKO, 55 out of 99. I suppose Damon and Lillard talks have sort of faded away at this point. AJ Griffin for the Hawks, Richard S, 85 out of 99 with the ATL. All right, box one. Now where the case hit came out of the box. We're going to leave that back there. We'll rip that last. Obviously silver is the most common, but if we pull the gold, it would be real nice. Damn nice. If you don't mind me cursing. Remember when Dan was a curse word? I guess to some people it still is. Plates are usually numbered. Ooh, Steph Curry. Cool Steph Curry plate, 70 out of 99. That's going to be four. That's four Jan Wallace and the Warriors. Randall, you're in a break. Nice. Thank you. All right, we've got a plate auto on the bottom. We've got a LeBron James up top. LeBron is 14 out of 49. Scary moment with his kid the other week, the other day. Nicholas with the number four, but it looks like he's OK. Kevin Porter, Jr. 25 out of 75. That's for the Rockets. That's the first car for Carl. That Orlando, Houston, et cetera, et cetera group. That's a start. And we've got BAM out of bio for the Heat, 83 out of 99. That'll be for Sean TKO. We've got Herbert Jones, 25 out of 99. Jonesy going to the Orlando, Houston group. And that's going to be for Carl. And there's a Mall Crawford, 22 out of 75. Illustrious Ink autograph for Ed P. and the Clippers. Wow, what an endorsement, Randall. You should send that to the people. We should tell that to the people. Fanatics, I'm sure they're listening. Fanatics, look at this endorsement. Watching Fanatics Live. I'll clean it up here for you, Randall. Watching the Fanatics Live app is making me get the itch back for breaking. What an endorsement. I love that. Patrick Baldwin, Jr., 41 out of 99. Two color, Jerosian autograph. They really would actually. Jan, with the Warriors. Why is Fanatics only on iPhone? Garbage? Oh, ye of little faith, Arthur. They're working on it. I talked to them. I talked to them on our Saturday meeting, or Friday, Friday meeting. And I pounded my fist on the table. Hey, I'm a Galaxy owner. I'm an Android owner. What's with this iOS stuff, guys? Gals, some gals in the room, too. And I puffed and I puffed, and they're like, yeah, OK. Yes, sir, we'll be working on that right away. I think they're going to get it done within a month or so. I mean, obviously, it's a flexible deadline. Who knows what technology, things can happen. But that's what they said. How are they going to release and not be ready for it? Because it's not a release, Arthur. It's a beta. It's still a beta version. 72 out of 99, New York Knicks, Jalen Brunson, Ed P with the Knicks. Yeah, I think there would be a desktop version, too. Ooh, and a nice Shaden Sharp on-plate autograph. That is sharp. Trailblazers. Adam with the Trailblazers. Now, I didn't have to do any, in all seriousness, I didn't have to do any raised voices. 48S75. They're working on it already. Last box and the case hit. We have a chess piece on it. It is a proper release. You should let them know that, too.  But they thought they were excited about it. They wanted to roll it out and kind of get some real time feedback from everybody. That's really the best way. There's only so many internal testing you can do on something like this before you're just like, well, we just have to put it out there. And then we've got to catch the stuff that we didn't catch before and put all that together. Obviously, stuff like, and here's a yoke it's for Denver, OKC goes to 4. Obviously, stuff like the Android stuff, I think they were definitely already planning on, including a number of other features. But the best way to figure out and iron out all these wrinkles is just to put it out there and give it a go. So they're working on it. I mean, even some stuff when we did our first stream a couple of Fridays ago, we gave them some feedback. And by the next stream on Tuesday, something like that, they had like half of our requests already set and ready to go. Like the being able to disappear the chat and reappear with just a tap, I think was one of the bigger ones. Malchai Branham, 27 out of 75. And that is for Spurs 7. No, that's for Zingyu, who picked up the Spurs straight up. Trey Murphy, the third for the Pelicans, one out of 49. It's going to go to Carl. And we have De'Aaron Fox, 65 out of 99 for the Kings. That's going to be that's also for Carl and that Orlando Houston Sacramento group. They do not know the tales of Air Bud. Arthur, 64 out of 99. Immortal, Inc. 20 Allen. Memphis Grizzlies, that's part of the OKC group. So that will go to Memphis 4. That'll be for Nicholas C. Six out of 10. Musa Diabate, two color patch and autograph. That's a good looking card. They're going to Ed P. and the Clippers. A few more to go here. We've got a Malchai Branham, 76 out of 99. Let me pull, I don't know if we pull it. Did we pull one? I thought I saw them earlier. Maybe it was a different card. Maybe I'm just losing my mind. Oh, I saw this base card. That's what it was. There's a numbered base card. Now you have the RPA. Orlando Houston Kings Group, which will be for Carl. No, I'm sorry. Spurs is someone else. It's Zingen. I'm losing my mind. Zingen with that one. That's the Spurs. All right, two more to go. We got a Sean Kemp, Immortal, Inc. 12 out of 49. Supersonic Stuff goes to OKC and that will be 12 out of 49. So Steve with OKC 2. All right, and the Plate Auto Rookie Auto. Nice, it's Benedict Matherian. Could be a color match with a bit of that blue and gold. Pacers, that's part of the OKC, Lakers, Detroit, et cetera, et cetera group. Let's see what the number is on that. That's gonna be 55 out of 75. Number five, Steve Barry at Last Fault Mojo. Now the case hit. Good luck. It's gonna be Silver. It's gonna be Logo Man. It's gonna be Nikola Jokic. Nine out of 20. Denver, but yeah, the OKC block did crush. Sorry, Carl, he was in the other block. But this is again for the OKC block. It's usually more balance in this, but sometimes that's how it goes. I mean, these teams are just randomly put together. Denver, Denver nine, what did I say? Nine out of 20.  Very nice. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. We got some more unpackable in the store. Check it out, jaskyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Please help me welcome Trina Robbins Hopefully most of you know that what we're talking about here is a history of women who drew comics from 1896 to 2013 and What I've done since obviously I can't include the entire book I've just put in the very most interesting and the ones you may not know of well I bet there's a lot you don't know about this This is Rose O'Neill the old subscriber calls. It's from Truth magazine 1896 and as far as I know and as far as anyone knows this is the first comic by a woman at least in America Rose O'Neill by the way if you can I don't know if you can read it, but it's actually funny I mean sometimes you know the you know really really old humor is sometimes kind of strange and doesn't make sense But this is funny. Can you read it? Okay, I'll tell you what happens the Kai comes into the office and he says Are you the gent that wrote about me in the paper and he says yes And he says well I got something to tell you and he beats him up as you could see then he marches out and The secretary all this while who's been terrified runs over to the boss and says gee for a minute I was scared he was gonna gonna Drop his subscription Rose O'Neill is most famous for being the creator of the Cupid's and this is This is an announcement from Good Housekeeping magazine in about 1906 Saying that the Cupid's were coming they were going to be appearing in Good House Housekeeping magazine. They also appeared in the ladies home journal and later in the form of comics and newspapers And of course everybody has seen Cupid dolls Okay This beautiful woman standing up with the world's tiniest waistline is Grace Drayton if Rose O'Neill could be considered the the First woman to draw comics Grace Drayton was not far behind I believe this is from 1903 She drew a series of cute little kids with names like toodles and and Suddenly I can't think of all the names Billy and Betty bump names like that they all look the same They were all these cute little kids now. Do these does this cute little kid look familiar to you? Yes That's from 1945 Grace Drayton created the Campbell kids in about 1906 and Campbell soup actually originally wanted her to sign a contract Saying she would not draw those cute kids for anyone else, but that was impossible Because that was what she drew she drew those cute kids and this this is Kate Karoo Again all of these women are from the very early 20th century Kate Karoo Was a caricaturist and a journalist what she would do is This is the bottom part of an entire page She would interview famous people and then at the bottom she would do this cute little strip You know about her adventures with these people she interviewed and that's her in the big hat She always drew herself as as very big-eyed and innocent and she's meeting count Tolstoy She's she interviewed everyone she interviewed the Wright brothers she interviewed Mark Twain Picasso She interviewed Picasso in 1909 when he said he was dead set against women having the vote this is she also did caricatures of Actors and actresses in the theater and again you see how she draws herself Kate Karoo who drew herself as this this cute little big-eyed innocent was far from innocent She was very bohemian. She traveled all over Europe. She was married several times and She lived in Carmel back when it was a real artist's colony She also drew this Strange and wonderful comic called the angel child now around this early 20th century It was it was very popular to draw comics comics with cute little kids were very popular You've probably already noticed that by men and women not just by women, but Kate Karoo's angel child is really a horror I mean if you can tell she's a dreadful child And that wretched little dog is also in every strip Okay, this is little Reggie and the heavenly twins and the artist is Marjorie organ still I think not even the tens yet, you know the single digits of the 20th century Marjorie organ along with drawing this strip. These were newspaper strips by the way comic books had not been invented yet Okay along with drawing this trip Marjorie organ is a very interesting person because She actually caused a scandal when she married the painter Robert Henri Who was twice her age? but This is Marjorie organ painted by Robert Henri and It's at the de Young Museum. It's just called miss. Oh But you see now when you go to it, you will know something that no one else knows that is Marjorie organ and she drew comics And this is Faye King Also came in the to New York from Colorado in the early 20th century Hurst sent for her Hurst had talent scouts all over the country finding talent and so he sent for her She I think it was 1912 when she arrived and the story goes that Everyone was ignoring her. She was like I'm here. Hello and everybody was just busy doing something else And she finally asked someone why isn't anyone paying attention to me? This is my first day and they said haven't you heard the titanic sank This is the strips that she did she had commentary on the bottom And she drew the women very in a kind of a cartoony realistic style, but when she drew herself She drew herself looking like olive oil all tall and skinny and funny This is Ethel Hayes In 1918 teaching art to wounded veterans of the first world war We're moving on to another period because you know comics have styles and the styles change The new period these from the 20s through the early 30s that women were drawing were flappers Um the flapper was the new woman really of the 20th century. She smoked. She drank. She could vote She threw away her corsets. She wore short skirts and Ethel Hayes memorialized them in her comics This is a strip. She did called flapper fanny Ethel Hayes was so prolific. She didn't just draw comics or this daily strip. She drew Illustrated kids books. She drew paper dolls. She did everything So really she was overworked. She had taken on more than she could handle So she passed this is like sisterhood. She passed the flapper fanny cartoon on to another woman This is flapper fanny by sylvia snideman. It's a little later. It's the 30s now Okay sylvia snideman passed the car the flapper fanny on to yet another woman who changed it quite drastically while keeping the main character You can see now. It's in full color comic form rather than just a strip It this is by now. This is the late 30s. Well, maybe yeah, I think it's the late 30s and the artist is gladis parker Now what's interesting about gladis parker is she had two careers She didn't just draw flapper fanny. Oh, and by the way, okay, so this is like the late 30s. All right by 1940 Really by 1938 39 flappers were passé Right, there were no more flappers. So but she wanted to of course continue drawing her character So she changed the name To mobsi. This is from 1948 or 1950, but it's the same character. You can see Just minor changes in the hairstyle, but really the same character. The interesting thing About gladis parker is she looked like the character And this is what I was about to tell you before she had two careers There she is looking just like mobsi in about 1939 And she also was a dress designer a very famous and successful dress designer This is from look magazine 1939 and look, I love she's wearing something that she designed Look at the little heart-shaped pocket with a hankie coming out of it. She's wearing her heart on her sleeve This wonderful woman who looks exactly she's looks like the quintessential flapper is virginia huge And she's there with her husband. Uh, she was another one of the flapper cartoonists There were a lot of women drawing flapper comics in the 20s This is what she drew. She drew many many strips. This is really only one of them and they were serialized They were ran in the sunday papers, which is why they're so big and such beautiful color and they were serialized And she also did ads a lot of these women also did commercial work. This is an ad for lux soap This is edwina dum in her studio And you know something tells me she didn't really wear white and white shoes Because look at all that black ink. I think she just dressed up for the photographer Edwina was a little different from all the other women Because there they were all drawing flappers and before that cute kids Edwina drew dogs. She was the quintessential dog artist.  I have about four different pieces of tippy sheet music And there she is with her own little dog Edwina owned a whole series of little dogs little fluffy white dogs that all looked like tippy She also drew drew dogs not just for comics. This is an illustration from a book called verdun bell It's short stories about uh world war one famous dogs of world war one and she illustrated that She was just the dog artist This glamorous woman is dale messick Dale messick was born dahlia messick She likes to tell a story. She died in 2006 But she used to like to tell a story about how she had to change her name Because they wouldn't accept her strips when it was signed dahlia Because they knew she was a woman so she had to change her name to dale before she could sell a strip This isn't she had a nice story, but it isn't quite true Yeah, there you are it says dale messick. These are her unpublished strips They were unsold. They these were her rejected strips before she did The the one that sold um, and you can see she's already really really good And that her work is already signed dale messick So the name change had nothing to do with it. They were still rejected um I think it's because you look at her art and you say this is a woman And that there were editors who were extremely Misogynist and just because they could tell from looking at her art It didn't matter. She could have signed her work edwin messick and they would have still known This is what she finally sold brenda star and I think a lot of you might be familiar with brenda star It lasted a long time This is one of the earliest strips. It started in 1940 Ah, okay, uh, we're at the war now. The war has just started. It's the 40s and comic books by the way are being published now You know those early ones that I showed you were all from newspapers But comic books came around the early 30s and just really got big by the end of the 30s So it's war time and all the young men most of the young men who were drawing comics working for the comic books Went off to fight the war. They either enlisted or they were drafted and for the first time Not in newspaper strips, but in comic books for the first time Women stepped in to take their place and were drawing comics And what the women drew this is very interesting Because it was war time and women were really they were becoming real action heroines. They were working in the factories They were building the planes. They were flying the planes So what they drew were strong beautiful competent action heroines I won't call them super heroines because they don't have superpower And they're not wearing funny costumes They're wearing kind of glamorized uniforms. Um, this is by Jill Elgin Girl commandos. It's really, you know, when you think of the politics of those days It was quite amazing. This is These women this group of women who fight the nazis each one of them is from a different country from a different country That's been invaded by the nazis And you see mobs. He's gotten into the act. She's joined the wax She also drew this trip flying Jenny, which was about an aviatrix It's um, it's credited to Russell Keaton who actually had drawn it But he was now off in the military and so she took it over And she's still designing clothes. This is for a magazine war time magazine Closed to where to your bomb shelter what the well bombed woman will wear This is Ruth Atkinson. I still were a war two This is what she was drawing Plains Not, you know, I mean here were all these women drawing these strong wonderful fighting women and she went one better She's drawing the planes that they flew Jungle girls all of these these were the different kinds of of wonderful strong Beautiful women that these women were drawing the artist is Marcia Snyder Camilla is the jungle queen Here's glory Forbes. She's a girl detective and the artist is Fran Hopper Ah, this is Lily Renee Maybe my my favorite Just not just cartoonist, but favorite person who is a cartoonist She's sitting at her desk at fiction house comics where she worked Lily Started out as a Jewish teenager in vienna In 1938 when the nazis marched in she escaped in 1939 escaped to england via something called kinder transport Uh, do you know about it? I think most people know. Yeah, good. Okay. Meanwhile Her parents of course she had to leave them behind And then england declared war on germany and she lost all touch with her parents didn't know if they were dead or alive There's a happy ending They had escaped to america and of course they didn't know where she was but they finally found her and she wound up in new york Okay, there they were they had been very well off In vienna, but of course they had lost everything So they were living hand to mouth with other refugees When her mother saw an ad in the paper that said a company called fiction house comics was looking for artists And remember what I told you all the men had gone off to the war Um, lily had never drawn a comic in her life, but she went to the newsstand. She was an artist She went to the newsstand bought a couple of comics drew a couple of sample panels went to fiction house comics and got the job Um, this is drawn by excuse me drawn by lily rene. It's jane martin She is a flying nurse who fights the nazis This is the first and at this point, I believe possibly the only Native american woman cartoonist her name is eva mirabal She was a whack during the war And she drew a strip for the whack newspaper called g. I. Gertie And you see it says by pfc eva mirabal When she when she was finally mustered out it was signed by sergeant eva mirabal She was also after the war and even during the war. She was a poster artist and later became a muralist This is a a war bonds poster. She drew Okay, the war ended the boys came back the women lost their jobs the boys wanted their jobs back and here's mobsi again Echoing the times She says she wants to lose the muscles. She got on her war job It was the women were sent Literally back to the kitchen And this is ruth adkinson who drew airplanes and now she's in the kitchen married that's her husband And they weren't it wasn't like they didn't get pink slips because they were all freelancers. They simply weren't hired anymore This is hilda terry Okay, this is all right. You had the flappers earlier than that. You had the cute little roly poly kids Teenagers emerged in the 40s Teenage comics about teenagers hilda terry drew a comic called tina At that time in 1949 The very prestigious cartoonist society named the national cartoonist society the ncs Did not allow women to be members. It was all men and the excuse they used they said that if women are in the room They can't curse so hilda terry fought that she did one of the most important things that women Have ever done for comics. She fought that And her husband Gregory d'alessio who was a new yorker and saturday evening post cartoonist he He introduced her name as a possible member And she was black bald But because she was a woman But a lot of the artists a lot of the members of the ncs were on her side And there was a a real battle over this for about a year until the next time she was elected into the ncs and immediately Put up the names of her female cartoonist friends like lattice parker and so she broke the ceiling She broke the ceiling Okay teen comics. I just showed you tina. What happened was the women were still given work They were no longer what happened was the end of the beautiful action heroine They were no more action heroines for these women to draw times had changed But they were still drawing teenagers for a brief while And this is remember virginia huge and her flabber cartoons. This is virginia huge Now she's drawing teen strips and she's also changed. She's gone back to her maiden name virginia clark patsy walker drawn by ruth adkinson who later went back to the kitchen Also drawn by fran hopper. They'd all because they couldn't get work anymore drawing action heroines there. They were all drawing teen comics Kitty by lily renae Ah This is an illustration from little women. You probably recognize it. It's drawn by jill elgin Jill elgin who drew the girl commandos that beautiful united nation of fighting women The only work she can get now is illustrating for children's books. I have nothing against little women I love it. I cry when beth dies But i mean think of it think of what she had drawn and now what she could do to make money Love comics that was the other thing that women could do because it was romance This is ruth adkinson. You can see that it's signed And this is virginia clark again who had been virginia huge. Now she's doing love comics By 1974 Elizabeth ruby was the last woman to draw for dc's romance comics the last love comic published by dc Folded in 1974 and there were no more love comics And there were no more women drawing comics for the the major comic book companies. Actually, there were two This is marie severin for marvel And this is remona frayden for dc And these two women were the only two women drawing comics And the reason really is to me pretty obvious they could actually draw superheroes even though that's funny You know, they could draw superheroes most women are not interested in drawing or reading about overly muscled guys punching each other out and marie severin and remona frayden didn't even meet until the 1980s because they worked for two different companies So, you know, what's a girl to do if she wants to draw comics?  This was 1970 the days of women's liberation the first the second second feminist wave I think they called it This is the very first All-woman comic book and I produced it in 1970 There was a newspaper the very first women's liberation newspaper in america called it ain't me babe And I was on the staff and because I had their moral support behind me I was brave enough to put together this comic because at that point the underground was totally a boys club Then I was not welcome into their boys club two years later 1972 10 women met in a house in san francisco and came up with the longest ongoing Women's anthology comic and this is the cover of the first one The artist is patty patty moody in and she's the woman who got us all together at her house So she got to do the first cover And you can see that we're dealing with things That men don't deal with you know, we're not drawing the same stuff the men do This is by lee morris and you can you know, you can see what it says men didn't do covers like that Uh, here's another one.  It's by sherry flanagan Betsy ross who had hoped to lead the battle the troops up bunker hill Unfortunately has to stay home and make the flag and george washington is saying can you have it ready by next week? And this is a cover that I did in 1982 For women's comics and I think it's kind of funny, you know, because it's like the 21st century woman Look at the size of the computer. She's holding computer cassette briefcase Um, okay, this is very interesting women's comics was actually not the first ongoing women's comic anthology They were beat we were beat By two weeks on the newsstand by two women joist farmer and lynn chevley who their reaction to the incredible Misogyny that they saw in men's underground comics was to do their own Comic that dealt with sex from a woman's viewpoint as you can see and that's why the outrageous named hits and clits I mean they were there to outrage And they did what's funny is that We were in san francisco and joist and lynn putting out hits and clits were in southern california And we didn't even know about each other yet within a space of two weeks Our first comics came out and of course by the way we all became friends Once we once we knew each other But you know, is there something in the air in california? Is it the water? Which by the way we need more of But it all happened in california And this is by mary wings. It's the first Lesbian underground comic it came out in 1974 And at the same time, this is dynamite damsels Also the first lesbian comic they both came out around the same time So it would be hard to tell which came first. This is by reberda greggory And this is the last issue of women's comics 1992 That cover is karin lesion who's a really good writer. She was also the editor and she wrote an editorial that basically said This you know this this book Will turn yellow it's made of cheap newsprint. It'll turn yellow in in six months You won't be able to find it in comic book stores Because they'll have ordered two copies and sold out and they won't reorder and if you ask them why they'll say Oh, but women don't read comics and she ended it by saying bullshit How did it sell out to start with and that is what happened? Women's comics ended because at this point the only place you could get The comics was in comic book stores and the comic book stores were strictly superheroes And if you walked in if a woman walked in or a girl what she saw was wall to wall 12 year old to 21 year old boys Standing around reading comics and the place usually smelled like old gym socks So she didn't go any further So they could actually say editors and and comic bookstore managers could say Girls don't read comics, but obviously as we know now You give a girl a comic she likes to read and she'll read it because all you have to do Is go to up Down upstairs is go upstairs and go to the graphic novel section and you will see So many graphic novels by women and so many graphic novels that girls like to read You'll see teenage girls. They are Reading the the books taking them out But i'm i'm not going to get into that because all you'd have to do is go upstairs and you'll find out for yourself This is all a history so women's comics this was an uh exhibit we had in 1974 i believe Maybe 75 there we all are that's our publisher ron turner in the back The only one who isn't a woman. That's me peering peering out Between the two women so right here in this library in 2012 It was the 40th anniversary of women's comics and we had a big exhibit right here in this library And we had a reunion and here we are at the library with our exhibit and the man who looks like santa claus is ron turner We've all changed except that i'm still peering out between two women I don't know why that always happens and and this is this is it and I really thank you very much


Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. Here, the purpose is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. Today's topic is intuition. Is everybody psychic? Is everybody intuitive? Now the word psychic and the word intuitive are very different. Can you feel the difference between the energy of these words? Words have vibration and therefore bring energy meaning to them. Psychic and intuition. Intuition is much more socially acceptable. It's actually in personal development. Now you can read personal development books or hear great TED talks that talk about the topic of intuition. It's really mainstream. The concept, though, of psychic still seems a bit mystical, medieval, and kind of out there. Which is probably why I choose to utilize that word specifically to talk about myself. Because I'd love to bust the myths and the stereotypes around the concepts of labels and ideas around psychic. So yes, everybody is intuitive. Let's talk about intuition. Intuition is a relationship within yourself. Everybody has a spirit. You have a soul. And intuition is basically your soul connection. Your soul communication channel. So you can channel your own spirit. That's basically, you guys, that's basically what I do when I'm in session with you. Remember, I'm a medium and a psychic. And so I channel. Well, I channel your soul. I hear your spirit and you can too. It just takes practice, commitment and it does not take, it's not difficult. It is not difficult. It doesn't take like intensive discipline or a 10-week course or you don't have to invest in someone else to teach you how to do that. You can do it yourself with some simple daily practices. It's got to be consistent. It's got to have commitment and you've got to do it. You just got to do it and if you fall off the wagon, it's not like an exercise program. You can just get right back on. It's not, it's not supposed to be someone that's hard to do or or struggle for you. Something mount and decline. Intuition is having a relationship with your soul where you speak a language or you, you sense feel language. So it's not in traditional terms. You may not hear, actually physically hear in clairaudient terms. That's the psychic term for psychic hearing is clairaudient and you may not actually hear, but we use the term here because it is a language and it's a sensing or a feeling and that is a language and that's the language of energy. The language of energy gives us sensations or feelings and you oftentimes within your physical body and that helps to communicate how your soul is, is interpreting the information or is responding to your request for guidance and so it takes practice to tune into that. But again, it's not something that's outside of you.  It takes commitment just like any relationship does. It takes consistency. You got to show up for your soul, right? And it also takes practice. So you're not going to be able to, you're not going to have the same experience as every time you ask yourself for guidance, but you, you have to consistently, continuously ask that. Then you notice, you notice, you become aware of the patterns of how you feel, how your body is responding, how the energy feels within you and around you. That's your soul speaking to you. Now, in intuitive, intuitive terms, in psychic work and session, when I hear the voice of your soul, it whispers. You've probably heard that. That's a popular term to use for your soul's voice. Your soul whispers and that's a really good description because it's very subtle. It's like a graceful energy. It's a calming, a very subtle voice. And sometimes it's so subtle, it's hard to know, is this a yes? Is this a no? Oftentimes it's, if you don't feel a strong sense of something, of a movement forward or of a standing still, then it's simply a not right now. It's a not, not now. If you don't get a response, then it's a not now. It's a non-action. Just to give you one example, kind of a sensory or sensing in building this energetic language, this spiritual connection that you have within yourself, using your own, own relationship with your own soul. Okay. Again, this is not outside of you. You don't have to go outside of you and ask angels and guides to help you or a coach or a psychic to help you. You can do this yourself. And there's plenty of free resources available to you that there's just a huge variety of resources available to you to be able to search, find and discover what really works best for you. And you've got to try some different things out. And the same things aren't going to work every time. The same techniques or practices or approaches aren't going to work every time because you're going to grow. You're going to evolve. Think of it like, like learning a foreign language. It takes time. It takes time. All right. So that's just some basic information about intuition.   It just takes commitment, consistency and practice to build the relationship, to nurture the relationship that you have with your soul. This is Bridget at Above Life channel. Remember, the goal here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. If you're interested in the work that we do here, go ahead and subscribe to the channel so you never miss a weekly channel. And I look forward to being part of the journey and to hearing from you as well. Please be sure to like, share and comment on this video if you'd like to see more like it. Thanks for being here.


أنه 1400 سنوات قبل أنه يوم عشورة أنت ترى الناس يركبون في سنواتهم وملاحظون من المدينة الإمامة الحسين أنت ترى ونظر إلى الإمامة الحسين أنت ترى سادة وصورة في أجلها في ذلك الوقت أنت عبس وقلت أن تبقى و to be the 73rd companion of إمامة الحسين الآن يوم عشورة يوم إمامة تقول لك أنت تساعدك لتساعدني في أي طريق أنت تريد ما يجب أن تكون في أين تريد إنه ي your choice Where would you go and volunteer yourself in service How would you aid the Imam on the day of عشورة Some will say I will help Abu Favr Retrieve water for the children of Imam Al-Hussain Some will say I will stand in front of Imam Al-Hussain when they were doing prayer and take all the arrows Some will say I will stand in front of Bibi Sakina I stopped that person ripping off the earring from her ear Some will say I will stand and defend Say the Zainab and not allow her to be slapped Where would you be It's a question I've never even thought about But I've always envisaged that I would have wanted to be the person that would want to go I mean it's said that when Imam Al-Hussain came and said his final farewell to say the Sajad Imam Sajad describes his father looking like someone who's just covered from head to toe in blood and his back is bent and it's said that Imam Hussain from the first moment of the day of عشورة all the way until the end he was the one that was going out to pick up the bodies and I would want to be the one to go and help him pick up the bodies so his back is less bent and as you just finished work today you drive back home your mom your dad your family they open the door they let you in you see your family is in a frantic state you see everyone running around gathering food fruits drinks etc you you ask your dad have we got guests today they turn around and say to you and they say a man has come to see you and he's waiting for you in the living room so you go to the living room you open the door and you see they're sitting Imam Al-Hussain what would you want him to say to you in that moment from day one from the moment that I came to Imam Al-Hussain this has always been my dream to finally meet Imam Al-Hussain I think one of the things that I would want him to say one of the major things I would want him to say is that all this work that we're doing to spread his mission all the the tireless hours the sleepless nights that we've spent is accepted in his way I think I think obviously seeing Imam Al-Hussain I would probably be speechless for a very very long time and just want to weep it's not something that the heart can take to see Imam Al-Hussain I don't think now you have sat with him and it's time to say you farewell he's leaving your house what would you do in that situation what would you say to him before he goes there's a lot that I would want to say to Imam Al-Hussain a lot of questions that I would want to ask him but I think it would suffice to say that I would want Imam Al-Hussain to send my salam to his mother Sayyed Al-Fatima so at the beginning I asked you to imagine we was on the night of عشورة 1400 years ago then on the day of عشورة how would you serve now knowing the events that took place then it might be easy to say I would go and get the water of the Bufadil or go get the bodies of Imam Al-Hussain or I would stand with the women and children in case someone came to hit them I would I would give my life fighting with Ali Al-Akbar with Imam Al-Qasim maybe or maybe going with Imam Al-Hussain when he took Ali Al-Azhar to the enemies now I am asking you today in this day and age what have you done for our 12 Imam what would you like to do and what do you think he deserves from us now what would you give to your children I think one of the main lessons one of the main things that I would try to put into my life and to teach my future, my daughter my children I think that's probably one of the first place I'll start is by educating our children about the importance of serving the Ahlul Bait about who the Ahlul Bait are and completely committing our entire life or committing my upbringing of my children to eventually serving the 12th Imam when he does reappear one of the things that I would say to my children is that Imam Hussain on the day of Ashwara taught us a few things one of the first things that he taught us was that only through destruction in order to smell the fragrance of the roses you must learn how to hold onto the thorns he taught us that forgiveness from the story of حور is so much more bitter but yet so much more sweeter at the same time than vengeance because vengeance is very easy forgiveness is a lot more difficult but finally that Imam Hussain he was in a very unique position there were the bodies of his loved ones and his children and on the other side was his family inside the tents staying in hope that he would come back safely so he was in a unique position between destruction and hope and one of the main things that as he was passing away he passed on was remaining confident in Allah it's very easy for us to doubt you know doubt God on many levels is this something if God was truly just but one of the main lessons I've learnt from Imam Hussain is to always remain confident that Allah is watching over you and so before doubting God doubt your doubts


Marithe Marokovic standing by with the clubhouse report presented by your local forwardstores and Marithe that absolutely does begin with the starting pitching. Garrett Cole can really set a tone for the Yankees in game one today. Bob they need Garrett Cole to be their ace this afternoon. They really need to lean on him and have him set that tone and he's actually pitching in his first subway series. Now last time out Cole struggled a little bit giving up five earned runs and five innings pitched. I spoke to him the other day about that outing and perhaps some adjustments he will make coming into this afternoon. I thought that I got stronger as the game went on but the delivery in the first wasn't allowing me to to make pitches. I've looked over it. You know there's a little bit of there's a little bit of slightly slightly different tempo and slightly different rhythm to it. And so just looking to try to slide into that earlier and play catch this week and went through the routine with with that intent. There's one thing to identify it one thing to be able to change it how easy are those fixes for you. Yeah I mean they're they're I guess we'll see but I mean you know it comes down to really comes down to the Devers pitch. I mean if I live to die another day and get that ball out of strike zone maybe things are a bit different. So you know we'll look to improve on on the things that we can control in terms of delivery and executing the pitches and and and hopefully you know hopefully that hopefully that helps the execution and if not hopefully maybe we get away with you know those mistakes and some critical situations early and and allow us to allow us to settle in with the doubleheader the Yankees could sure use some length from Garrett Cole this afternoon. They did reinstate Wandy Peralta from the injured list. He'll serve as the 27th man. Nester Cortez is slated to get the ball in game two of this doubleheader. As far as the lineup is concerned Tim La Castro will get the nod in left field.  They were more excited than me because they were having to stay up to one two in the morning to watch games so now they can actually watch games on East Coast Times that's a good thing. What was it like for you to step into that clubhouse put the pinstripes on? It's something you literally dream about as a kid and finally came a reality and I can't wait to get started with this team I'm very excited. I told them any role you need me if you want me to come off the bench pincher on pinch hit start a game I'll be ready I've done those roles my whole career and I'll continue to do that now. Tim growing up with the Yankee fan like do you have any favorite memories of games you went to? Who are your guys? I remember I was here run Raul Abanyas hit the home run in the playoffs he pinched it for A-Rod tied the game up that he won it and I think it was the 12th or 13th that was probably the coolest and most memorable moment of the recent time. We're reset. I was sitting down on the third baseline going nuts. I remember me and my buddy who drove down from college in Ithaca and it was a great experience. And LeCaster told me the other day that he's expecting to have about 40 to 50 family and friends in attendance this afternoon and described getting traded to the Yankees and putting on the pinstripes as a dream come true. Now Aaron Boone said he really likes his versatility he's a guy that can play all three outfield positions and has a lead speed Boone said with lefties on the mound you're often going to see him in center field as this season continues. Now at about 12 30 this afternoon Corey Kluber was in the outfield here at Yankee stadium throwing on flat ground continuing the throwing program. He's at about 90 feet. Now after that session I asked Corey Kluber how his shoulder is holding up and what the next steps will be for him in the rehab process. You know just going through a throwing program. I think anybody who you know goes through an injury obviously would like it to go quicker than it does but just got to try to be smart about it and you know hopefully get myself to the point where when I do come back you don't have anything that that occurs. Have you felt anything since you started that throwing program? No I mean I think that's the point of giving stuff time to heal and then you know being smart about the throwing program is hopefully you do it in intelligent enough way that you don't feel stuff when you know the stuff that was bothering you. What will the progression be any idea when you'll actually get on a mound? I haven't looked out far ahead yet you know I think that I guess I've had too much experience with this the last couple years but I think that for me if I start looking ahead to that I kind of I guess don't don't do the best job of trying to you know attack that day's work the best I can start looking ahead too far so just trying to take it a day at a time and you know do the best I can with what the schedule is for that day.  Yeah I don't think I have any reason not to be. And there's no question the Yankees could use Corey Kluber in that rotation. Another guy that is on the mound is Luis Severino. They are hoping to get him back at some point in time this season. He'll throw another bullpen session most likely with the Somerset Patriots Aaron Boone said that he will not travel with the team on this road trip. Zach Brittain is also scheduled to throw another bullpen and he could rejoin this team as early as next week. Boone said probably not Tuesday in Seattle but not too long thereafter that would be another boost for the bullpen.