Awesome, you ready to see that? Nice to see you guys this morning. Beautiful day. Father, we come before you this morning to thank you so much for your grace, for your mercy that you give to us. Father, for all these men coming here today, Father, Lord, we want to hear from you, Father, and what the Spirit is saying to the church. Lord, that we would continue to be dedicated to you, Lord. Pray for their wives, pray for those that are single, for their children, for their grandchildren, Lord God. And we thank you so much for David allowing us to be here, Father, and to open this church to have this men's conference, Lord God. I pray for all the speakers, Lord, that you touch them, anoint them, and be with them, Lord. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we pray, God, amen. Feel your Bible sent a book of Romans chapter 13. What's the matter? We all took chapter 13. Verse 11 to 14, title of my message is living a life of integrity, a life of integrity. You know, this is sometimes missing in the church, especially these days we're living in. I feel like when you look at men today and you look at the church as a whole all over the country, and probably all over the world, that something is missing and that is integrity. You know, we need to not only be aware of what's going on around us, but at the same time, we need to have the fear of God in our lives, the fear of God in our lives. And then the answer to look out to the horizon, we see a world and we see a church that not only has become like the world that we become the Corinthian church, a church that lives by carnality, not having the fear of God, not walking by the power of the Holy Spirit, and thinking that we can be blessed by God and live the way we wanna live. Let's read the text, chapter 13, 11. And do this knowing the time that now is high time to get up and awake, either asleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believe. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day, not in revering our drunkenness, nor in lewdness, nor lust, not in strife, not in envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill his desires. Now we need to realize that the time is important, time is important, very important for each one of us individually. In this world we're not gonna live forever. And you see without time, man is not living according to the word of God. We know one day we're gonna be judged and surely we wanna stand before God and we wanna hear the voice of God saying that good and faithful servant come on in. That's really important for me. And yet without knowing the time today we live our lives without integrity. Integrity is so important for the child of God. We don't realize that any day could be not only your final day, but the day of judgment for each one of us individually. And one thing that I pray this morning that every one of us not only think about this, that we come to a place where we commit ourselves to that of integrity. Very important work. And this is why it's so critical not only for men's conferences, but it's critical, so important because some of you guys are husbands, you have wives, you have children. And yet think how the church today has come close to the world just as the world in divorce. No integrity. Married once, twice, thrice, three times. And then expecting the blessing of God when really a person really divorces without a biblical right, like the Bible teaches. Look at the first point here, verse 11, knowing the time again. And do this knowing the time that now it is high time to wake up out of sleep and how our salvation is nearer than when we first believe. You see, we are to be aware, time is very important to know exactly what time it is today. What time really is it today? The word knowing here in the Greek means to make sure that you know, do not there miss knowing. Don't miss knowing what's going on. Look around you. The word time means the critical, it's a critical period strategically, a special period of time that God has given to each one of us individually. The day of salvation is nearer than when we first believe how long you've been a Christian. Some of you here maybe a week, maybe two weeks, maybe a month, a year, maybe 30, 40 years, 50 years. One thing you want to make sure of, you want to finish well. You want to finish well the race that is set before us. So many already have not finished well. And the reason is because they have not submitted their life to the control of the Holy Spirit in our life, discipline, obedience. And yet it is time to really wake up of our sinful sleep. I look at the church and I look at the complacency in the church today, no fear of God. And yet he says time to awaken out of sleep, time to get up, to wake up, do what God's called you to do, he's tearing up your life so that you don't go to sleep spiritually in a way. Paul here gives us a strong exhortation to the church. He repeats himself to wake up because so many people in the church are slothful and sleeping spiritually. No fear of God. And yet it is a time not only to move, to be reading, to be praying, to be practicing what we preach, but the most important thing is being obedient and having integrity in our lives. The day of salvation, our redemption is near than when we first believed and came to Jesus Christ. By the way, this is the day that when salvation not only came to you and we were delivered from sin, the presence of evil and sin, we are not from the beginning of time are to walk by faith and believe in Jesus Christ and be obedient again. Obedience is so awesome. It is better to obey than to sacrifice, it says. So many times in your career, well I'm making a sacrifice to go to church to read my Bible, to do this. You know what? Don't do any more sacrifices. Be obedient. Think about getting up in the morning. You go to work or maybe you don't work. Maybe you sleep all day, I don't know about that. But you get up in the morning, you get ready to go to work.  And then you get up eat breakfast or get coffee.    When I was going to school, one of our teachers said, you know, if you really want to find out who you really are and you really have integrity, take seven pieces of paper and take one each day and take the time you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed.   Some people serve money.  Some people are serving pride, it's one of the things in their lives. But everyone has a God, which is your God, which is my God. We need so much, not only daily, to be separated from the world. And we need to realize that the world will take us down. God has called you, called me out of the world. In the Gospel of Luke 21, 28, Luke says, now when these things, notice when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your hands or your heads because your redemption is drawing near. Look around what's going on in the world today. The world's pretty messed up. First Peter 1.5 says, who are kept by the power of God through faith to forth salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time? In this, you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been greeners, you have been green by various trials. Surely we go through trials, but it's only what? To get closer to the heart, to the heart of God. And then in Timothy, he says, verse two, for men will be lovers of themselves. Surely that is today. Notice lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful and holy, unloving, unforgiving slanders without self-control, brutal, despisers of good traders, headstrong, haughty lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. And check this out, having a form of godliness that denying its power from such people, turn away. Don't hand God with them. They'll take you down. Second point, verse 12, knowing how to cast off the works of darkness. The night has far to span, the day is at hand, therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. You see, it is time for all of us, not only to cast out the darkness that we have in our lives, but to put on the armor of light. When you walk into a room that is dark, people say, well, how can I put on the light? Turn on the switch. The light comes on. The darkness disappears. When we came to Jesus Christ, we committed our lives by repenting, by faith receiving Him, being baptized by the Holy Spirit, which gives us the power not to sin against God. As the Holy Spirit checks us out, not perfection. Man, no way have we perfected yet that one day we will be perfected. We need to stop hiding the truth from people, walking in darkness by the way we live today. People are watching you. What do your neighbors think about you? The people you work with? Well, how about your own children? What do you think about you? Sometimes in Calvary where I'm at, you know, I have a building there that my window faces the parking lot. And as people are parking, I can see husbands and wives arguing in the parking lot and they have their children. And as they come through the doors, you know, they change. And those kids are going to Sunday school and the moment they leave the church, they arrive back fighting and arguing once again, what does that do to the children? It makes them turn away from God. If they don't see it in the home, then you have no integrity in your life. The Bible says in Romans chapter five, six and seven and eight that we need to what? Reckon the omen to be dead.  We need to stop hiding the truth. We need to live the truth. Jesus said, I am the way. Notice the truth and the life. And when he called you and I, it's to make a stand so that we can become solved in light, fully, completely. John 319 says, and this is the condemnation that the light has come into the world. Notice that men love darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light, excuse me. And does not come to the light less his works should be exposed. Ephesians five, 11 and have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness. But rather expose them for his shameful, even to speak of those things which are done in them in secret, in secret. God hears, God sees. You can't hide from God. The armor of lie differs from the clothing of darkness. There's a difference where we are to strip up the darkness so that we can live, pleasing God in everything that I say and do everything. What is the armor of light? Number one, the armor of light is righteousness. Righteousness. Second Corinthians six, four says, but in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God. In much patience, tribulation, in needs, stress, in strides, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepiness, in fastings, by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. It is the armor of God, Ephesians six, 10, putting on the armor of God. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his mind. Put on the whole armor of God that you may not be able to sit against the wiles of the, or the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, against rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, notice we're repeating that, that you may be able to withstand the evil day having done all to stand. Stand therefore, having gear your ways with truth, having put on the breast of righteousness and having shot your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith, which you will be able to quench all of the fire darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Pray always all prayer and supplications in the Holy spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. This is what the word of God teaches. Third point is knowing how to walk in the light, verse 13. Let us walk properly as in the day, not in rivalry, drunkenness, not in luneness, not in lust, not in strive or envy. You see, this is a time to really look at your life to walk straight. The word honesty here means proper honorable, decent noble. That's what we ought to be in honesty. The Christian is to live a life of honesty, decency, and nobility in order to please God. He is to live in honor and honesty before God. And then he uses the word rioting. It means rebelling, carousing, partying, feasting, debauchery, indulgence, giving license to basic urges. And then he uses the word drunkenness. It means taking intoxicating drink, drugs, to affect the sense of the faculties, to become intoxicated for the purpose of lust and pleasure. You do that? You call yourself a Christian?  The word wantonness means sensuality, running wild, less anxiousness, debauchery, homosexuality, lavishness, living, living, wild, parting in moral life. And how about strive? It means contentions, arguing, striving. And then the word ending means jealousy and begrudges other people. I mean, he gives you a whole list of the works of the flesh that a Christian is not supposed to be living and walking by that. And then let's say, fourthly, knowing how to walk in the light, verse 14, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill its desires of the lust, of the flesh. Now, I think it's really important that we understand one thing here. That many of us not only have accepted Christ, but a lot of times when you look at the cross of Jesus Christ, and one of the things where I look at the cross of Jesus Christ, it says this, if any man wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. When you look at the church today, how many truly are following the Lord? Following the Lord is to deny yourself, forget about yourself. Don't think about yourself all the time. Don't promote yourself all the time. He says, and then not only the now, but taking up the cross. What is the instrument of the cross? It's not something you wear on your neck. It's what, forgetting, not only forgetting about yourself, but what, dying to yourself. Dying to yourself, to your appetite, your desires. There are things that will destroy our lives, things that will not only move us away from the cross of Jesus Christ, but we will become hypocrites, actors, men with many faces, dependent on your mood, dependent on what you want to do in the world. You want to be sad or happy, or you want to be angry. And Jesus Christ told the Pharisees Christ and the Sadducees that they were hypocrites. He says, you say, but you don't do. And if we do that, what we're gonna do is push people away from Jesus Christ. Think of the world today that has no respect for the church. I'm not talking about a building, about people that have accepted Christ. When people look at us and they see us divorcing, they see us committing adultery and fornicating and drinking and taking drugs. They'll say, well, if the power of God doesn't work in them, it's not gonna work in my life. It has to work. And it can only work by true repentance, true repentance. Not wanting to show off, not wanting to be great, but humming ourselves before the Lord and take it as a blessing and a privilege that God will use our lives. To bring glory not to ourselves, but to Him. If people are constantly talking about you, something is wrong. They should talk about Jesus. They should give the glory to Jesus Christ. And the reason for that is because we have put on not only the Lord Jesus Christ, but the clothing that we wear now is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. As I came by faith to Jesus Christ. Every one of us are sinners. Every one of us have messed up our lives. And that's the reason Jesus Christ chose us and took our lives and He transformed us into His image. And when we came, we came because somebody shared with us. We saw a television program, heard a radio message or whatever it was. But God used that person or that incident to bring conviction to my heart, to your heart, to give us a choice either to accept Him, to reject Him, because God did not create puppets on the stream. He gave us a will, a will to decide. Should I be obedient? Should I be disobedient? Should I accept Him or deny Him? Should I go to heaven or should I go to hell? You make the choice. You make the choice. The Bible says in Matthew 25, 41 that God never made, God never made hell for anybody, but it was what? For the devil and his angels, Satan, the fallen star, that came here to destroy, to lie, to cheat, and to kill. We have to be aware, man, that we need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ fully and completely. The righteousness of Jesus Christ, secondly, we must make no provision for the flesh, for the flesh. Are you watching pornography? On your computers or TV, wherever it is at, cable TV. If you watch pornography, your marriage will break apart. It will not be right. Because you will expect your wife to perform in the filthiness that you're watching on television or on the internet. That what we forget is that God sees all things, hears all things, and we're grieving the Holy Spirit of God, which means we're bringing pain to the Holy Spirit because he's a person. He's a person. He's the one that convicted me. He's the one that convicts each one of us individually. And for me, it grieves me, it hurts me to see the body of Christ that we don't have a good reputation, but we have a bad reputation. And we're pushing people away from the truth because we cannot live for the truth and according to the truth. So they see us playing a role that's a phony role, it's not real. And you see the idea that we're not to give ourselves to the flesh or the loss of the flesh, and not to indulge or give license to the flesh, but to reckon the old man to be dead. Paul the Apostle in 1 Corinthians 3.16 says, don't you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Let no one deceive himself. Anyone of mine who seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. And in 1 Corinthians 5.3 or 5.9, I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexual immoral people, yet I certainly did not mean that with sexual immoral people of this world. He's not talking about the world. We gotta be in the world because we have to be like. He says, or excuse me, did not mean the sexual immoral people of the world or with covetous, extortioners, idolaters. Since then, you would have to need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother who is sexually immoral or covetous or an idolater or a reviler or a drunker or an extortioner, not even eat such person don't have breakfast, lunch or dinner with him. Did you know that every one of the epistles was written not to the world, but to the church? He speaks to the church. Listen to 1 Corinthians again, 6.9. Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived neither fornicators, idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God in such where some of you, that stands, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit of our God, by the spirit of our God. And if God not only has touched your life, why are you allowing the flesh to rule over your life? Don't you see the cross of Jesus Christ? When you went to the garden, I just came back from Israel, when you went to the garden, and he went to the garden, what did he do? He humbled himself before the fathers and father, if this cup can pass, let it pass, but if not, I will be obedient to it. How about you? Are you willing to go to the garden of the cemetery and surrender your life to him? It's not easy, you guys. Not easy, it's not easy for me, not easy for anybody. But when I think of eternity, and I think what God has called me to do, surely I don't want to spit in his face. I want to do what God's called me to do. And that's to be a light, a light to this world, to become salt, because salt heals wounds. Salt creates a thirst, and are we creating a thirst? Are we becoming a healing process to people because they see the healing in our lives, in our lives, as we have submitted, surrender fully, completely to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, fully, completely. It just breaks my heart.  You make a stand for the world, but you don't make a stand for Jesus Christ. What does the matter with you? The world will take you to hell, but if you're obedient, you'll be with Jesus forever. You need to understand, man, that there's nothing in this world that is worth to accomplish but only Jesus Christ. To come to His love and receive it, to receive His grace, to receive everything that He has for each one of us individually. So then when people talk to us, when people hear us, when people look at us, they're going to give glory and honor to Him because He changed us, He transformed us. And I get embarrassed many times when I see people call themselves a Christian, and yet there's nothing Christ-likeness in their lives, but the flesh dominates their lives. And by the way, in my conclusion, listen, the believer here, the believer is to endure, to endure with the Holy Spirit. And look 24, 40, 90, he says, Jesus, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tearing the city of Jerusalem into you are endured with the power of from on high, which is what the Holy Spirit. And then secondly, the believer is to put on the whole armor of God, but to be clothed with Jesus, Galatians 3, 27. For as many of you were baptized into Jesus Christ, he says, and have put on Christ Jesus, then let us walk. And then thirdly, the believer is to be clothed with Christ. Second Corinthians 5, 3, if indeed having been clothed, we have not been found naked, naked because of Jesus Christ. Fourthly, the believer is to be with a new man, become a new man, Colossians 3, 10. And I have put on the new man who is renewed in the knowledge according to the image of Jesus Christ who created him. And then lastly, the believer is to be clothed with the nature of God, Colossians 3, 12. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, and long suffering, long suffering. May God today speak to us, may God change us, may God transform us. May God baptize us with this Holy Spirit, that when we leave here this morning, we don't leave the same way we came here, but that we will be transformed to the power that he's given to us to become not only in the image of Jesus Christ, but to please the Lord, because we love him and because he loves us and because he wants to use our lives to bring glory and honor to his holy name. You wanna finish well, you guys. God bless you guys.


HBCU Digest, welcome back. Recent weeks have had a lot of positive developments with HBCUs and corporate partnerships and Norfolk State is at the heart of one of the biggest announced ones, a new partnership with Netflix that'll help students and faculty to become more integrated with their workforce development pipeline, their training and skills building. And today, one of the products of proud Norfolk State University graduate working with Netflix is gonna talk to us about the opportunities that can come about from a partnership like this. Michael Chase is a senior software engineer in Netflix Animation Technology Division. And Michael, it's a pleasure to have you on today, my man. Yeah, super excited. Donner is all mine. Tell us a little bit about your view of this program. Oh, and we're happy. We got Dr. Patricia Meade. She is the profession chair of the Department of Engineering at Norfolk State University. I thought she was firewall, but she's in. Dr. Meade, good morning to you as well. Good morning. And yeah, I feel good now that I figured out how to get past that firewall. That's a new one for Pat. We expect nothing less from the engineer, how to hack the network on your campus. We were asking Michael about his view of this partnership with Netflix and what it really speaks to in terms of opportunities for students and alumni like you who go from an HBCU to a major company like this. What does this kind of partnership mean? Yeah, it really, really means a lot. I think it's something that I definitely wish I could have had while I was at Norfolk State. Although I will say that the programs that Norfolk State has are always amazing and do a really good job at serving the students. This program honestly is nothing short of groundbreaking and I really believe that Netflix is stepping up as a leader and showing these companies out west like, hey, there's great talent at these schools, at these HBCUs and places like Norfolk State. And I think the students are really gonna enjoy it and gonna get some good insight and good information. And it's gonna set them up for a very successful career and future. So yeah, very excited about it. Dr. Meade, the partnership is gonna be constructed like a bootcamp starting in January of next year. And this is gonna go for a number of weeks and there's gonna be a plethora of opportunities to learn coding, to learn engineering. How valuable is that for Netflix to provide that kind of knowledge base on campus to faculty and students that you otherwise, probably it would be difficult to even pay for that or to pay somebody to come in and teach that. How much does that mean to the campus? Well, I mean, it's actually, as Michael just shared with you, it is highly innovative and groundbreaking. As a faculty member who actually spent a little time in industry and then came back and recognized the disconnect between the classroom and industry, the net, but that happened several years ago. I have to tell you that the experience that our students will have in this bootcamp is highly unique, very innovative and I cannot put a price on it. I'll put it to you that way. In some ways, I've kind of thought of this as a reality instruction. It's the real world, brought to the classroom and married in a way that both preserves the academic rigor while at the same time giving you the practical insight, the component that, well, the work that's gone into actually constructing the course, you can't put a price on that. That's just invaluable. And then to have the access to mentors while they're in this course, as well as the third partner is gonna provide some significant career service support to our students once they leave the course to market themselves and to get those opportunities in the real world that they're trying to get to. So I can't put a price on it. I can only tell you that in many ways, this is something that I've dreamed about and my dream has come true to some extent. So this is something that I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of this. Can both of you all speak to, and I hate to do this because I don't want, it's hard enough for black folks to always have to speak for all black folks whenever we're in some kind of position of talking. But for the sake of the conversation, why do you think that this stereotype prevails, that it's so hard to break into these major industries and these major jobs when you're coming from an HBCU? And yet, even without racial unrest, even without political upheaval, HBCUs are still a target for companies trying to find diverse talent and diverse expertise. How is it that the people think one thing but the industries think another? Well, I'm gonna go ahead and jump in first, Mr. Chase, if you don't mind. So the research tells us that the number one reason why young people go into the engineering profession, I'm gonna speak from engineering, that is my expertise, but I think it's broadly true of STEM, is do they have a family member or someone that they have access to, that is in that profession. So it starts with what can you see for yourself and the choices that you make highly aligned with what you can see for yourself. If you can't see yourself being successful in a tech career, guess what? You're most likely not gonna go into a tech career. And on the reverse side or on the other side of things, if you don't have any vision or any role model of what certain types of people can achieve and do, guess what?  Those are the kinds of things that influence our choices and our decisions.   And so from the perspective of why is it that we still, after 40 or 50 years of put underrepresented people, get them to go into STEM? We're still kind of at this place where we haven't achieved a critical mass. We haven't seen the fruit that we're looking for. I mean, there's some there, I'm an example of it, but it's just not where we want to be. So at some point you have to say, guess what? We have to be intentional about how we're gonna do this. And I think Netflix has taken a very big step forward on this is what intentionality looks like. First of all, we're gonna go where we can find underrepresented people. And second of all, we're gonna pave a pathway that gives them a real opportunity, including all the resource and access that everybody else would have access to. But these young people may not because they don't know as many people in the field. They don't have as many role models. They don't have as many mentors. So let's try to even the play and feel just a bit and see what happens next. Yeah, wow. Wow, I feel like you covered most, if not all of it. I think the one thing that I would add is just that really highlighting this access component that Dr. Mead talked about. It's one thing for us as individual black people to say, hey, I wanna go work at this tech company. But it's a whole nother thing to go from that statement to an interview even, right? Or even having your resume in a place where you can compete. And I think there's a lot of work that these companies have to do to bridge that gap, both for us as black people and specifically addressing the barriers that we face to education, the biases we face and being selected for those programs, and even some of the environmental factors. I don't wanna go off too much on a tangent, but this is way bigger than simply what is some company doing, right? And so we have to take that into account when we're having this conversation. And so I think that what Netflix is doing and why it really makes me proud to work there is we're saying, hey, we know that there are a multitude of factors involved. And so we are going to bring this program to these students and to these people and we're gonna make it accessible such that you don't even have to pay for it, right? And that in and of itself is huge. So yeah, a lot goes into it, but I think that's a big part. You touched on something that was critical and this interview is gonna be part of my who's hiring from HBCU series. And that is the, is it more than a notion to say that companies are getting better about rising above or in some cases being more conscious of stereotypes that hiring managers or mid-level officials may have because my brother's here, locks, facial hair, a shirt that says strong black lead.  Is it that because Netflix is a company that values diversity which you can see in its products but is it that companies have to become more conscious of how we look, how we sound, how we feel, how we act, what's important to us? And that is the true measure of diversity not just bringing in folks to do a job but that when we get to that job and go into the office or go on Zoom that we feel a part of it. And do HBCUs have a role to play in companies becoming that much more culturally aware and culturally celebratory of different people? Yeah, I mean, I think it's no secret that some companies are doing better than others. Netflix has done an amazing job of really ramping up this even just in my short almost three years and working there, all of the talent partners which is our kind of fancy word for recruiters they get this training, right? They learn these biases and they seek to understand them and they'll help to account for it as well. And so it does play a pretty big role in ensuring that when we show up to these interviews as we are, right? And as we should be accepted, we can make it through and no one is looking at us saying, well, maybe you're not a culture fit or I don't know, maybe you're just not quite what I'm looking for. I think to some degree I can see where HBCUs and other institutions could play a role but honestly I think it's really up to companies to take notice of what places like Netflix are doing to make sure that we're looking at these candidates and saying you are a incredibly intelligent individual and this company would be better off for having you. And that's really it, as long as the HBCUs are doing what they're already doing and providing us with a rigorous curriculum and set of skills and knowledge, then really the ball would be in the company's court. I think I can agree with that. I can agree with that a hundred percent.  But first of all, I still have to go get my hair done. No, I'm not changing my hair. But I decided to go into academe. I found that there was a coast bias there on the East Coast. I think they were a lot more sensitive, but on the West Coast, it was a lot more open. And I wonder if that's still the case. I mean, I'm talking about 15 or 20 years ago that was the case, but I think it is kind of up to the companies to begin to open up their ways of evaluating folks and trying to understand that you can't don't get turned off because of facial hair or braids or whatever your hairstyle is. You're trying to find the best talent because at the bottom line is you wanna make the money. You wanna be successful. So to the degree that you give folks opportunity and they demonstrate that, hey, we're doing just fine. I think that's kind of what will have to happen. But I think Mr. Chase has outlined it. I think it's mostly on the part of HR people and how they train and educate their workforce. Dr. Me, Michael Chase, it's been an honor to speak with you. We've looked forward to many of the exciting developments that are gonna come out of Norfolk State with this partnership with Netflix. And to your point, how a lot of the other companies will adjust to see what Netflix is doing and working to making that same thing possible for other HBCs around the country. We appreciate your time today. Thank you. Well, thank you.


U.S. strikes Hezbollah targets in Iraq, responding to drone attack on American base. A drone attack by an Iran-affiliated terrorist group on a military base in Iraq left three U.S. service members wounded, the Pentagon said, and prompted President Biden to order retaliatory strikes. The attack on the Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq was conducted by Qataib Hezbollah militants, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. One of the three service members wounded is in critical condition, Austin disclosed. It should be noted that on the morning of December 25th in northern Iraq, U.S. military personnel were attacked by a one-way drone. As a result of the attack, three soldiers were wounded, one of them is in serious condition. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Qataib Hezbollah militia and related groups operating under the auspices of Iranian-backed militants. In response, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the Department of Defense to prepare options for a response. Those options were then presented to the president during a call this afternoon with Secretary of Defense Austin and members of the president's national security team. During the call, the president directed strikes against three locations utilized by Qataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities the White House says. There have been dozens of attacks by Iranian-backed militias targeting U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria since the violent October 7 terrorist assault on Israel by Hamas, a group that U.S. officials have long said receives financial and material support from Iran. Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants regularly fire rockets at Israeli outposts and forces on the border. On December 20th, Israeli Defense Forces fighter jets attacked Hezbollah's operational command center in Lebanon.


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We've got one of fifties a mere white rookie patch card Raiders The Yager of the NFL Jets color burst Garrett Wilson rookie nice Good stuff there for your jets a Cliff Kingsbury auto Got a Contours rookie Matt Corral to 150 Panthers 600 points random to everybody at the end and contours Randy Moss Pink McLaurin for the commanders to 199 rookie rising James and Williams Jerry Judy purple for Denver 95 125 contours Aaron Rodgers When is Aaron Rodgers? He said soon and it's definitely not soon When is he gonna announce anything? He's like, you know what? I need another darkness retreat Fire forage Rodgers sawback 38 is 75 cowboys, which is just code for I need to go finish Hogwarts legacy with nobody bothering me about my future in football Got Logan Hall rookie red for the Buccaneers to 250 Derek Carr flamed ours You didn't want one illegal so be quiet. There's so many base cards in this one. It's like there's like 15 base cards here. All right.  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What's your favorite type of donut?  We got a green rookie rising for the Falcons Desmond Ritter Number three of 25 nice Ritter hot routes Tyree kill Phoenix sprinkle parallel Ruin of my life, dude James Winston Saints numbered 435. Well, I guess my favorite donut is actually a donut. So I don't even I mean Yeah, it's like a fry. What do we draw the line of donuts for it's fried and it's ice like I don't really like It's a fried dough.  I guess what I'm always pissed I Can't make me I'm already show up like that Yeah, all donuts are fried. I mean you could bake a donut, but like Like what what's the definition of a damn donut? Can you pick it? Red Brandon I you for the for the 49ers to 250 Contours Matt Corral See you Lane apple fritters best Got pink I you for the Niners numbered two 199 Channing Tindall rookie silverado for the Dolphins jelly filled like it I can do silver key type one Thornton Patriots, but like Boston cream or even like a vanilla cream. 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You're getting it time now Teal rookie Leo Chanel for the chiefs numbered to 150 Drake London rookie high routes for the Falcons Do that leaf? And it wasn't it what the last night was worse for sure with the leaf But we still had some moments tonight where it was a bit of a Bit of an attempt a bit of an attempt Thank you James. Thank you for your service To 99 Isaiah Spiller rookie patch card charters three color color burst rookie Pierre Strong jr. For the Patriots Do you like Daki all I mean if you're Cowboys fan then why not you like the card? How much are you willing to pay? Lance red of flamethrowers for the for the Niners to 199 34 199 and flamethrowers staffer or that's cousins. Sorry cousins Yeah, I'll probably be at the national you might be able to find some Matt Ryan prisms Usually everything's at the nationally might have to walk around and ask for it Not many people are gonna have a bunch of Matt Ryan cards in their cases at least especially 2021 prisms Okay, rising Christian Watson for the Packers to 199 Contours Pat Tillman got J. Alexander Packers numbered to 250 Doesn't matter rookie rising for the Falcons Well, don't he be there. I do not know No idea who's gonna be there. I don't even know if I'm gonna be there. I've been told specifically I just assume Cooper cup to 199 Rams will find out like two weeks before our outs Christian Watson I'll just get an email with a with a Last year I had to ask and they're like, yeah, of course, you're going. I was like, okay On the Vickettsia rookie silver auto for the Falcons But no, I found out in chat I was breaking one night Lane was there. 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I Haven't spoken to Katy Perry recently Recently I have rookie green Kyler Elam 18 at 25 for the bills Nice Kyler Elam We are at 11 to go on NT if I got to go I'll go but the break It's a 149 rookie Jersey card Steelers Calvin Austin the third a Color burst cold strange Ricky Patriots, please don't start I find illegal Joshua Flamethrowers pink Derek Carr Raiders Number 17 of 175 hot routes Debo Samuel Kenny pick it to 149 to color RPA Hey congrats Steelers 13 of 149 there get that in a mag for you silver rookie Keyonte Ingram cardinals Matthew Stafford orange for the Rams Number 95 out of 99 A hot routes Garrett Wilson jets fire and ice trail on Birks Titans rookie nice 41 out of 50 on the Birks Packers flamethrowers Aaron Rogers Passmatch dissipants. Yeah, usually they have patches from the uniform shame Jonathan Taylor star signs Colts auto silver rookie cold strange Patriots yellow Antonio Gibson commanders Number six out of 75 contours James Koch rookie bills 11 to go on NT guys. Let's get that filled up Last break tonight red Jared Goff lions to 250 Rookie rising Kenneth Walker the third Seahawks So I like to see old Tyree kill dolphins number to 150 hot routes we're gonna cooks Shady, what's happening, dude? Tibidore rookie Giants red numbered 85 out of 250 contours burrow Jillian Tolber rookie pink for the Cowboys number 20 of 199 Don't aimeth fireforged. Yes. I mean, what would be all that bad if I just got timed out Would it be all that bad It's 150 Christian Watts and rookie jersey card for the Packers and color burst rookie Eagles Jordan Davis What happened Shady? I've been there been there this things but It's good for him in the long run Contours Paul Amalu to 175 Steelers playing coverage James Winston. I Can't wait to do the battle they're reading 299 Alec Pierce, rookie Jersey auto Colts No Colts solid hit big sleeves silver Dak Prescott Cowboys Jared got flamethrowers red for the Lions number to 199 Debo hot rats Charlie Weiss. Oh boy Lava Daniel Jones Giants to 175 151 of 175 flamethrowers Trey Lance Orange rookie Karen Williams for the Rams 94 of 99 hot routes DJ more a lot of boxes to go here backup for me I guess it's Dylan Ryan. Yeah Greg dulcich rookie Silverado for the Broncos. No, I won't silver rookie commanders for dairy Mathis. Not not right now I'm not in this break Purple rookie Devontae Wyatt Packers number three of 125 sort of like the principal of it and top running like a week Full-time like we got nuts gonna let him rip a box orange rookie Jeremy Rucker for the Jets Number 79 out of 99 Donny would lose mine, dude No, those are room box now contours Alvin Camara Saints number to 199 Hot routes to Marta's bangles all the side when it's time. I'm the coach here James Cook the 75 rookie four-color patch card Buffalo Color vs. Ricky Sam Howell commanders. I wouldn't I would see as his coach I would not allow him to do that for his sake rookie rising yellow Breeze Hall the 75 Jets Brian Tannehill flamethrowers. I probably would have given up on life if that was like my first week breaking Doing leaf in the game you sportsman this year purple rookie hot routes James and Williams Lyons to 125 Been all nervous and just like you want to see on crush the box too hard I say a likely rookie pink for the Ravens here to 199 only equal as Ricky rising Titans Traylon Burks on the lava for the Titans 48 of 175 and Traylon Burks hot routes To 35 George Kittle Niners Drake London hot routes Falcons everyone's choosing hostility tonight everyone's choosing violence tonight Trevor Lawrence read for the Jaguars number to 84 out of 250 in a Kirk Cousins To 149 rookie Jersey auto commanders Johan Dotson peel on the Dotson sending a box and wrapper Silver CD lamb cowboys Let's get in T filled up still at 11 1650 Matt Corral Panthers patch Work the patch there Jets color Burris Michael Carter Titans right in Tannehill number to 199 talking about family Jerry Judy to 175 lava for the Broncos Teal contours Paula mallu to 150 Steelers James Cook rookie contours bills to 229 Romeo Dobbs, Ricky Jersey auto packers Silver Brandon cooks Flamethrowers yellow Derek Carr for the Raiders number to 45 out of 75 flamethrowers Trey Lance Trevor Lawrence on the Teal number two of 150 for the Jags nice color match fire and ice bears rookie Kyler Gordon 50 of 50 Trey McBride rookie Silverado for Zona Silver rookie Kyle Phillips Titans Bride best rookie tight end from last year Wasn't very close wasn't well. There's a line he was all right for McBrides gonna be a piece there too because they're gonna have to get rid of a de hop I would think red rookie Brian Asamo at the second Vikings 250 Kenneth Walker the third rookie rising Seattle No Shane, I don't know Brian Tannehill to 199 Titans you say I'm gonna someone's gonna happen to me later. Is that a threat? Yellow Justin Fields bears flamethrowers number to 75 one of 75 Jersey number actually There you go bears. All right box eight Jeremy Ruckett rookie pink for the Jets number to 199 Marchase hot routes Teal rookie Romeo Dobbs to 150 Packers 249 Falcons Desmond Ritter rookie Jersey card color birch chiefs CEH is a combine still going on There's it over already. It's going on this week, right? Like yeah, Derek Henry teal contours to 150 for the Titans Dalton Schultz and T spots are 1340. There's like again Rookie Otto orange Jets breeze haul breeze the beast five of 25. That's nice Yep teams are right here always post on a site every random results post on the site silver rookie Demi Pierce for the Texans Hey guys, just in T left. Let's get that filled up Purple rookie quay Walker for the Packers number 22 of 35 Justin Fields flamethrowers on flago chiefs Joe Montana SSP going to the chiefs Joe Montana. How about that? That would mag for you purple Matt Ryan 75 a 125 40 colt and a rookie rising Malik Willis Titans corral flamethrowers red for the Panthers number 24 of 199 trail on Berks hot routes Titans rookie Jalen Petrie Texas rookie fire and ice 14 of 50 Tana Hill flamethrowers Trayvon Walker Jaguars rookie red numbered 89 out of 250 Contours Rogers EZE pink rookie for the Jack for the Dolphins excuse me Dolphins 136 of 199 Sorry 138 of 199 Davis price one of 125 rookie dual patch out of 49ers Silver Mac Jones Patriots Yeah, and now it's probably a pretty good time if you get suspended for like 50 games Probably even in better time hot routes to Hans Odson to 175 rookie commanders I might actually be able to get some rookie jaw if that's the case Yeah, I'll choose my money on some T Mac rookies the goats or the goats, you know Value is steady He's gonna turn into the Joker Then he's be worth even more rookie red Greg Dulcet Broncos numbered to 250 Down to Johnson Pink rookie Nicobi Dean Eagles Numbered 62 of 199 Josh Allen flamethrowers a Charlie Kohler rookie teal to 150 for the Ravens CDLM hot routes Mario to orange to 99 Falcons That's a winner flamethrowers Falcons rookie Got teal contours Pat Tillman for the Cardinals number to 150. Oh boy. Chaz has going in right now rookie Silverado Charlie Kohler for the Ravens Silver Charlie Kohler Ravens Chaz going in right now I'm staying out of this one I'm staying out of this one rookie red Jeremy Rucker to 250 for the Jets AJ Brown hot routes Niko Collins pink to 199 Texans flamethrowers Jalen Hertz Eagles to 35 CDLM patch card Fire fabrics for the Cowboys color burst Rams rookie Kyren Williams Fire and ice to Lonnie Woods Colts rookie 35 out of 50. Let's see. This is it. This is ridiculous James Williams is 75 and the Lions rookie dual patch auto. Yeah, I'll just keep going, huh? No, like I got one more in me you're like Paul you're like I was at Paul Pierce me I got one more in me Silver Saphon digs bills Yellow flamethrowers is 75 trailing snires Trailing Berkshire key rising with the Titans. I played Call of Duty. I can do it Play great the thought I know That's that's probably that's for honestly probably what Joss said hi, I play GT. 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It's the breaker life to 35 hot routes AJ Brown Flamethrowers Dak I haven't played Call of Duty in at least like five or six years Rookie silver auto Jerome Ford Browns rookie silver chaining Tindall for the Dolphins DJ more to 250 red for the Panthers Chris Godwin hot routes Wayne Brady red Sam Howell commanders rookie to 250 10 of 250 contours Kenny Pickett Steelers rookie It's a dent on the picket under the end and Kenny get you a boxing wrapper Steelers What box is that Kenny Pickett pink rookie Furious George to 199 sheeps John Alexander Rashad Penny Kenneth Walker the third to 99 triple Jersey Seahawks Color Burst rookie bears Kyler Gordon We've had a picket RPA Oh, yeah, the Enfuego Montana for the Chiefs blue Russell Wilson 24 of 35 Broncos Marquis Brown Some dick that doesn't think so But those are the two magnet cards we have two ninety-nine Vresol jets rookie Jersey autumn jets jets always do well in the stuff Silver burrow bangles got contours red Aaron Rodgers number 30 of 199 Silver Jared got flamethrowers lions, not silver, but just flamethrowers. Yeah, exactly Shane Yeah after after the personal NT case apparently pink DK to 199 Seahawks Flamethrowers picket Steelers steel rookie Danny Gray Niners number two 150 contours Randy Moss Vikings Dude, it really is trolley is It is everyone's piss that you went back to work go take it out on on the stream to 125 George Kittle 49ers Rookie rising Skymore Chiefs The bad the bad part is it wouldn't even get better if I put on members only jet. No, it wouldn't get better It is pay to troll isn't it Purple Matt Ryan flamethrowers for Doug Colts numbered 15 of 125 Trailance flamethrowers Rookie pink auto Khalil Shakir for Buffalo to 199 in order to 99 13 of 99 silver rookie Malik Willis Titans Yeah, dude, Sam Lois with them highlight clips on rookie red Kyler Gordon bears 121 out of 250 I get out of my chair like twice a night Fire and ice Rashad Penny Seahawks number to 50 10 to 50 These people are lunatics, dude Rookie red Trayvon Walker Jaguars numbered 63 to 250 if I was in a room with all these people at the same time I would fear for my life. They would call John Rant on me John Regans, Ladanian Tomlinson Bree salt triple jersey for the Jets. There we go. John Regans was a jet Well, I guess it's like LT. Like I did like Not many people remember that color burst rookie Patriots cold strange It is gonna happen in July I'm not leaving the booth Purple Jalen Hertz Eagles Number 61 of 125 Send you go to the national too. Oh my god It is it is literally it's literally going to happen Aiden Hutchinson to 149 rookie dual jersey auto for the Lions What's the product hit probably a picket shield rookie auto Josh Jacobs silver for the Raiders See you Brian. Have a good one man contours yellow rookie Garrett Wilson Jets numbered 44 of 75 They go Jets Pink DJ more Panthers Number 157 of 199 Every single box a absolutely enormous were they ripped what are you ripping I rip free box? And when they bought all the Phoenix that we had spondata 175 lava onto Ricky's and stars He's put a pretty odd of the 99 gold Brett far My box for me on Robinson to 150 rams on the teal Kenneth Walker the third rookie rising Seahawks Okay, make sure they're top-loaded, please and I'll walk them right at the PSA. I'll take them all Don't well done. I will split them Pink tea Higgins for the Bengals number to 199 leak Willis rookie rising for the Titans This is sounds this sounds pretty violent guys till the 150 Browns Miles Garrett trail on Berks hot routes for the Titans This is like legitimate threats, man I'm gonna need actual security flamethrowers trail ants to 99 for the Niners I think I must have some big card. Nope Derek Stanley jr. Rookie fire and ice Texans 1950 Yeah, I can certainly feel the love Carl Red Charleston Rambo rookie for the Panthers. He's on the Guardians now for the Orlando Guardians 173 of 250 Brock Lesnar Rookie green auto Eric he's a con medolphin's number two of 10 The printer scene in office space rookie silver Titans son haskens. We almost ended up this pretty the other night Elijah more Jets purple number 989 of 125 hot routes don't know the Schultz Trail on Berks 70 of 99 on the rookie patch card Titans. We're like begging rich rich. Don't even go to the national man Don't do it. Don't make me go man. I don't want to go Color burst Dave Montgomery Bears You don't understand red feeling 250 for the vikings Breeze Chris Alava at a 149 Saints rookie jersey auto. There we go Nice car for the Saints silver nick job Mark Andrews pink to 199 for the Ravens high routes chase Lava rookie for the Seahawks bow melt into 175 Derek Carr flamethrowers four more boxes Pink Davis mills Texans numbered to 199 Hot routes terry mclauren Got lava rookie Justin rush chiefs to 175 flamethrowers. Malik willis titans Chomeran of card slanging Garrett wilson pink hot routes Jets numbered to 175 Yeah, I see I was like I remember that now Travis calcy lava chiefs numbered 144 of 175 hot routes to march ace purple amari kuper browns Number 25 at a 125 To 75 ravens kyle hamilton rookie three color patch And Texans rookie color burst john mechie the third uh roger stallback red fire forged to 199 Cowboys breeze hall rookie rising jets I'll see a finition A one of one come on one of one Isas filler chargers rookie silver auto You base auto Oh no rookie silver bears jacquan brisker No chat chat chat chat John mentioned the third to 299 rookie jersey auto for the Texans Just have to turn chat off. I think Get a box wrapper to the Texans. There is some peeling on the back of this one on the bottom Silver mark Andrews ravens Hot routes orange brandon cooks Yeah Number 299 Number 299 Mr. Brandon cooks. That's the biggest hit of the week so far Number 299 Number 299 there you go, Texans It's a non-members only Got a yellow trail on berks titans rookie Number one of 75 yellow berks Silver flamethrowers bears uh jesson fields Congrats on that monster hit Texans Mr. Brandon cooks christian watson rookie red for green bay numbered 152 of 250 Contours Garrett wilson your boxes left your boxes left y'all Still 11 on nt two teams for spot you guys 13 40 apiece Great and soon. We just got an impeccable case after this that read nt 11 to go It's 149 Aiden Hutchinson rookie jersey card lions color vs rams matthew stafford David ball rookie pink for cleveland numbered 98 of 199 Flamethrowers mat corral Welcome Steve. What's going on man? Leo chanel lava rookie for the chiefs numbered 33 of 175 You know watch out for watch out for these loons and chat steve Lamar Jackson flamethrowers numbered 10 of 50 for the ravens bronze He's probably gonna get franchise tagged. I'm guessing right hot routes a lava sains and then probably try to Because you can get tagged and work out a deal, right? That's how it works. But yeah, they're gonna have to tag him to 25 patriots tyquan thorton rookie patch auto green 25 silver mohomes chiefs yellow joe nameeth fire forged 16 to 75 a jets pit manning fire forged Lava base avocati a rookie to 150 teal falcons mark angers hot routes jaymo lions rookie purple 43 of 125 Lamar Jackson flamethrowers The the contours i gotta see the contours real quick dallas goddard eagle silver auto silver rookie deathman ridder falcons you said he looks like He just witnessed a ufo blow up the empire state building in front of him fire and ice justin herbert chargers numbered 34 out of 50 Matt ryan looks like he just seen this chat right now red jacobi mires patriots numbered 32 out of 250 Contours patrick mohomes chiefs keeping reading chat for the past 45 minutes. That's what happens red a j brown hot routes for the eagles to 199 and Rookie rising gary wilson jets Oh boy Yeah, dude Dude, we're toast. We're done. We're cooked I Me you talk about me vaughn I feel like i'm the most sane person in this room right now like You guys are making me feel super normal. I never feel normal. I was feel weird I'm sure you read the 50 bills on the mythical patch on a four color. What's up cap? If we dare kind of be a buffalo bill I mean Sliver rookie jilani woods cults. I They're better like I'll never like not think the chiefs are gonna do it That's my only thing.  I just don't know when and I wouldn't I wouldn't bet against the chiefs anyway, yeah bills are legit They were hot at the wrong time last year. I think they needed they needed a wide receiver too more than a more than an actual running back tannihill lava to 175 titans Flame throwers trevor lorenz Oh, yeah Welcome back steve Flame throwers red davis mills texans 4 of 199. I was wondering what steve jones contours ricky aiden hygeson lions To 75 james and williams lions on the rookie patch card three colors removing disney world in the middle of texas rookie Calibur's cold strange patriots. We're just gonna be like patrick. Why don't we take disney world and push it somewhere else? green jahan dotts and commanders number 225 On the hot routes joe burrow flame throwers bangles These pills taste funny when I chew them. Yeah Y'all need to look inward look inward purple flame throwers josh allen bills 111 of 125 contours trevor lorenz Yeah, alligals been calling everybody all these games for the whole time Alligals a profit if you didn't know Can you pick it base? You got a darren waller raiders blue 14 to 35 I didn't know that him and kelsey plumb They just got married Yeah, kelsey plumb and darry waller got married Yeah, I was I saw that I'm like, I don't know where I saw I think it was twitter and I was like what? Red rookie jordan davis eagles number 182 of 250. I mean they both are in vegas, right? I like obviously I'm not like looking like I should know who NFL players are dating But I just like I figure when I figure when it's two professional athletes. I normally know I don't know pink burrow to 199 for the bangles. It's weird Surprised me Yeah, that's what I'm wondering now to 150 rookie epikete falcons Herbert flamed overs Dude, this is the biggest gaslighting chat. I've ever seen in my entire life John mechi to 149 rookie ball relic auto for the Texans nice one Texans. Yo, mechi Um, there is some peeling on the back of this one. Was there another Texans one that had peeling on it? Yeah, all right Texans are already getting a box. You got a couple to replace unfortunately texas silver deandre swift lions Oh, man This is a major gaslighting Who hurt you guys? I do every one of my fig mutants have a hard day Rookie lava bills it's 175. That's actually pretty funny. Uh contours gary wilson jets No, we do not even call shawning No Shawnee losing his mind if he was here right now rookie red sky morta 250 with the chiefs diva It's a 199 diva to white rookie packers is pretty funny joe Oh man, erin roger's the 35 patch card packers fire fabric Color burst michael thomas sainskin guys we got impeccable next and we got nt basketball still to fill up Brett's hand to go on nt Look at this. You think you're open to the pack Just that's just the pack of membrane right there Get the dissected pack membrane Kenny picket base Blue hot routes, I believe are purple It's like it's blue to 35 dalton schultz. Cowboys. Justin fields flame drivers Falcon star signs rookie auto drake london Hey, man, I thought chad was my friends. I thought they're just straight up They're just like coming after me rookie silver kyle hamilton ravens The mob the mob is here To davis prize calvin austin a third 22 out of 50 rookie patch auto stealers Tops for stealing this guy's silver mike williams chargers Can I even believe what illegal just tight can I believe that? Oh cooper cup rams arctype You know rams congrats on that one case hit rookie teal kaleel Shakir for a buffalo number to 150 hot route trail on berks titans Joe burrow flamethrowers pink for the bangles number 42 of 175 You never know where they're going to where they're going to spring a trap on you dylan yellow. Micah parson's cowboys 10 of 75 Jesus shane Yeah, let me I'll see if I I'll watch tomorrow night. See what you guys say to sam Micah parson's two of 35 cowboys purple flamethrowers erin rogers packers 39 of 125 stars reading the last And you can comment Our house jamar chase all right. We got a big recap to do If somebody watches this break in full like the day after they're gonna be like what is happening in chat right now What is going on? I guess we'll do the random first It is a 600 points got random to everybody 10 times whoever's up top gets them one two three four five six seven eight nine and 10 April april's getting points or relics. We had christian watson CD lamb zamir whites jameson williams erin rogers kyle hamilton adan hutchinson trail on berks desmond ridder wandale robinson riggens thompson and hall for the jets isaas spiller covin austin the third james cook matt corral and seahawks trio alexander pennie and walker autos drake london gallus goddard isaas spiller eric isacanma colliell schakir charlie kohler drone ford brice hall terry uh tray mcbryde greg dulcich uh jonathan taylor on the lebacatsy a chanting tindle romeo dobs brice hall tyquan thorton calvin austin the third john mechie the third chris halave andre read adan hutchinson jameson williams john mechie the third bailey zappy desmond ridder terrian davis brice alec pierce desmond ridder jahan dotson archetype cooper cub rams unflego chiefs joe montana and rpa steelers kenny pickets thanks again everybody we're on to impeccable


Hi! Welcome back to the Curious Giraffe Show. You see we have a new Curious Giraffe up front and you know George, and Jeanette and her friends are all in the back today. They're watching from over there, but we all know this song, so everybody can sing along. Here we go. When we sing together, I feel so much better. It's easy and simple. When we sing together, the day just gets better. I love making music with you. Feel so much better. It's easy. The day just gets better. I love reading stories with you. This is our youngest giraffe, new to the Curious Crew. Yes, but I've been watching the show and waiting to be big enough to be on the show. Well, today's the day. What are we going to read today? Well, today you'll be the Curious Giraffe we sing to and we'll find out. Here we go with the Curious Giraffe song. Okay, here we go. Giraffe looked over, adored me and said, I'm curious what book and song she'll share with us today. Little Pig saves the ship. Hooray! And we'll share it under one big sky. Oh yes, share one big sky, share one big sky. Give the- y'all get along because we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we- So, let's get right to it because we have lots to do. Pig saves the ship by David Hyde Castello. I hope you recognize that name because we've read his books before. First picture, see how busy all the brothers and sisters are. Little Pig wished he could go sailing to sailing camp with his brothers and sisters. This is going to be the best summer yet. When the seafaring pigs go sailing, I'm bringing my camera. I'm bringing my guide to aquatic life in case we see any. But he was too little. Now look at this picture. Tiny, the oldest, had been to sailing camp five summers in a row. He gave Little Pig his book of sailor's knots and a piece of rope. Carry this in your pocket so you can practice in your spare time. You'll be old enough next summer. See you in a week. Have fun. I'll send you a postcard. Poor Little Pig. The first day without his brothers and sisters. Look how hard he worked. He followed the directions in the book. Little Pig had a lot of spare time. Earned how to do it. Grandpa and Poppy came over that night to show Little Pig the beautiful ship Poppy had started making for him. Tomorrow we can finish building her together. On Sunday Little Pig sewed the sails. Poppy carved a little Poppy and a little Pig to sail the ship. And in the morning we'll sail her in the stream. Details that they're working on. They sailed the ship on Monday. Perfect spot. The sails work Poppy. And on Tuesday Sea Monster four points off the port bow. Ready about. And even in the rain on Wednesday. Batten down the hatches. Thursday they built a dock. The sailors can rest here and take on provisions. Food and drink and supplies. On Friday they sailed the ship all the way across the stream. Those sails really do work well. But on Saturday a gust of wind blew the ship into the current. Uh oh it's how Pig waited in to grab the ship. But the water was too deep for him. Don't worry Little Pig. I'll get her. You stay on land. It's slippery here. And flash. Whoopsies. Oh dear. Where are my glasses? Little Pig saw a fallen tree. If he laid it across the stream it would stop the ship. But he couldn't lift it. I can still catch her. I think. Little Pig ran ahead of the current that carried the ship downstream. Gulp. Maybe he could grab the ship as it sailed under the bridge. His arm was too short. He'd never be able to reach the ship. Then he remembered Tiny's rope in his pocket. Almost got it. Did it. Little Pig saved the ship. When they got back to Little Pig's house everyone was home from camp. So I tied a bowline knot and used it to catch the ship. Quick thinking Little Pig. You have the instincts of a sailor. Wow. We saw dolphins. Wait till you see the pictures and hear the new sea chanties. By the way I meant to mail you this. Little Pig still wished he could go sailing with his brothers and sisters. The next day he did. Nice ship Little Pig. Look at her go. Let's come here every day. This is going to be the best summer ever. So I was very impressed with Little Pig learning how to tie a bowline knot. So I decided to go back into the book and see if I could learn it. So I'm going to remind you where the directions are. And I'm going to tell you honestly this took me a few times before I got it right. I'm going to try again with you. And if ever you can get this book for yourself you will tie one too. Okay so it has a part that goes up and he makes a loop. He pokes this part up through the loop and then around the back of the up part and down here through here. Did I get it right? I might have to try it more than oh I missed. Okay so we have to try again. I wish I could show you the book at the same time but it's a little hard. Okay so I'm going to make the loop and come up on the back through and over here. That's what I did. Now I'm going to pull it tight. There that time it worked. Phew that took me several tries. It still takes me to practice so but I finally got it to come out with a nice loop that could hook onto something that you needed. So I was also very impressed with how they made their own boat. And that's why I have this big tub of water here because I had fun designing a boat out of things I had at our house. So I'm going to show you the little boat I made and I made it. I'm going to show you. I cut it from a Styrofoam vegetable tray and I'm going to take it apart so you can see how I made it. These pieces came out of here. Put little slits in them so they could fit together into a little propeller. Then I stretched a rubber band across the sides and I slipped the propeller in so that it holds it.  I've learned that. So we're going to count to ten. Ready? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Make it nice and tight. I'm going to try to tip the camera up so you can see watch it go in the water. Ready? There you go. And if you had that in a bathtub or on a stream or lake it would go much farther. So I invite you to try that at home. It was fun. And I thought what other toys could we make? So I looked around and I found a yogurt tub. I poked a hole in it. You might need help from a grown-up or bigger person to help you safely poke a hole, but just make it small and then force in your pencil. See how the pencil has a little point? I used a colored pencil and I took markers and drew colors on it. I don't know if you can see that sort of see-through. And now I'm going to spin it. Can you see it? It's working. I'm so excited. It didn't work the first time there. So that's another thing you can make at home. So I have songs about trying new things. And my friend Katie Tolles wrote a fun song and she made it to go can you stretch like a giraffe? Can you stretch like a giraffe? Try it, try it. Or fly like a bird. Fly like a bird. Try it, try it. So when I read this book about Little Pig trying new things, I wanted to sing her song about Little Pig. So this is what inspired me. Can you learn something new? Can you learn something new? Can you learn something new? Try it, try it. Learn something new. Can you learn something new? Can you learn something new? Try it, try it. Learn something new. Can you make something new? Can you make something new. Can you make something new? Try it, try it, make something new. Can you make something new? Can you make something new? Try it, make something new. Can you play outdoors? Can you play outdoors? Can you play outdoors? Because a little pig and Poppy kept adding to their game, didn't they? Can you play pretend? Can you play pretend? So this book really inspired me. And I have another song that we've done before, so I'm hoping you'll be able to sing along with Dave Canoine's song about I think I can. Here it goes. I'm the moment I say I think I can. So I'll try like trying things I never tried before, just to see what I can. But I'll take my chances just because I think I can. Such an exciting song, knowing what you can do if you just try it. Okay, now I was also thinking about how Little Pig was concerned about having to wait and wait to do things as he got older. Sometimes it's hard to wait for the things that are coming, but there's something really good about each age. So here's the song I wrote about them. I'm young and strong and quick and fast. I'm sure that it will always last. I just don't think about the time. So it feels good to do the things that's busy, the cycles. Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions, keep asking questions and never give up, keep. Bye, thanks for watching. Can you learn something new? Can you learn something new? Try it, learn something new. Make something new. Can you make something new? Can you make something new?


Young leaders that you've seen where have been the susceptibilities the vulnerabilities that over time they can work their way through Maybe giving them a little bit of guidance now I think the biggest problem With the so-called leaders of the days We are not really producing leaders.  This is what I'm saying Because leadership Doesn't come because of your ambition leadership happens See, let's understand this Ambition means you're tweaking up your desire, which is waste of time because Your desires are based on what's happening around you or what has happened till now an Exaggerated version of what's around you is your desire. You can't desire something that you have not seen You only desire something that you have seen Miley exaggerated or overly exaggerated it depends who you are but leadership is about being able to take a group of people or a nation or the entire world In a direction and to a destination that they have not imagined possible If it's something that they could imagine they don't need you They need a leader because He should be capable of taking them to a place where they themselves cannot imagine possible for this a Leader needs a profound sense of insight When I say insight that you're able to see something that other people cannot see People are interested in doing things But they're not interested in working upon themselves If you believe that what you're doing is important the most important thing in your life is to work upon yourself To enhance your perception skills to be able to see What others cannot see you have an insight into what you wish to do It is not even a question of what do I wish to do. It is a question of what is most needed right now Because if you do what's needed Only then it's leadership if I do something that's fanciful to me Then there'll be nobody behind because this is all about me So the young leaders The most important thing is that you don't tweak your desire in the name of ambition You tweak your competence if you keep on tweaking your camp competence Depending upon the times in which we live Opportunities that come up in front of us naturally you will fall into The rhythm of what is there if you have an enormous competence Then I don't think the world can put you down


So that extra $600 that people are currently receiving in federal benefits on top of their unemployment insurance will be running out really soon. And when I say it's running out really soon, it'll be running out on July 31st, if I'm not mistaken. So I mean, the logical thing to do obviously is to extend that $600 benefit at a minimum. But really what people should be getting is a monthly universal basic income throughout the duration of this pandemic, because when we're facing this unprecedented crisis and economic depression, a pandemic, now is not the time to concern troll about whether or not our social safety net is going to foster dependency on welfare programs. It's not the time to penny pinch. But because our politicians have their heads so far up their own asses, well, that's exactly what they're doing. I've got to say, they are not equipped to deal with this crisis.  And, you know, why we need to currently in the middle of a pandemic, make some tweaks to it to make sure that nobody's gaming the system. I mean, this is honestly insane. And politicians should be terrified right now. And I'm not saying that they should be terrified because, you know, if they fail and they don't meet this moment, they're going to lose their reelection. They should be terrified because it's going to get so bad that people are going to take to the streets. The peasants will revolt with their pitchforks if you don't take action. Because what we see coming, like what's ahead of us is a gigantic iceberg. And we're sailing right towards it. And we're not trying to even get onto a new course. Like it's it's baffling. But Republicans don't want to renew the $600 benefit for, you know, a number of reasons. But the number one reason that we've seen cited by the GOP is that it's too much money. So as Jake Johnson of Common Dreams reports, progressives are rejecting out of hand a proposal by Senate Republicans to temporarily slash the weekly federal boost to unemployment benefits from 600 to $200 until state develop the capacity to implement a more complex system that would pay laid off workers 70 percent of what they earn prior to losing their jobs. Bloomberg reported Monday that the Senate GOP plan, which was approved by the Trump White House, will call for a two month transition to the new unemployment system and provide states with an option to apply for a waiver for up to two additional months. Analysts warn that replacing the flat $600 per week payment with an individualized benefit that would overwhelm antiquated state unemployment insurance systems, potentially causing massive relief delays for millions of people on the brink of financial collapse. Now, believe it or not, that additional $200 that they're offering to people in unemployment, that is up from what they were proposing last week, which was, I believe, $100 extra per week. I mean, they just they don't get it. But I shouldn't say that because I think they do get it because when they propose a new change to the system, a technical fix to the system, if you will, that could potentially overwhelm the system and disrupt benefits delay benefits. That's the point. Like they want to delay benefits. They don't want to pay out people benefits because they genuinely believe that if people are on unemployment because they lost their jobs, well, if you give them too much money, then they're just going to become lazy. And don't take my word for it. This is literally what the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on national television. We want to make sure with the expiring unemployment insurance, we have the technical fix so people don't get paid more to stay home than they do to work. Wow. OK. So let me get this straight. During an unprecedented crisis, an economic depression and a pandemic, a worldwide pandemic that is extremely contagious and deadly, he's worried that people are currently losing everything are getting too much money. And if we give people too much money, if we don't just give them barely enough to survive so that way they're starving, but they're still alive, then they might get lazy. I don't know what to say, but they do not realize what's coming if they do not take swift action to try to ameliorate this crisis. So back in June, 30 percent of all American households missed their housing payment. In July, that number rose to 32 percent. So we are facing an unprecedented eviction crisis unlike anything this country has ever seen. And if they don't take swift action, this is what they're looking at. This graphic should terrify every single politician. Some states have half of their populations or more facing eviction. That is insane. I mean, look at Florida, 51 percent. West Virginia, 59 percent facing eviction. Tennessee, 58 percent facing eviction. And even when you look at like other examples, states that aren't doing as bad, still a third of households in those states are facing eviction. Now, as CNBC's Annie Nova explains, on Friday, the federal moratorium on evictions and properties with federally backed mortgages and for tenants who received government-assisted housing expired, the Urban Institute estimated that provision covered nearly 30 percent of the country's rental units. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Sunday that he would extend that moratorium, but these tenants are now unprotected from eviction. At the same time, some 25 million Americans will stop receiving the 600 weekly federal unemployment checks by July 31st, and most of the statewide eviction moratoriums are winding down. By one estimate, some 40 million Americans could be evicted during the public health crisis. It's like nothing we've ever seen, said John Pollock, coordinator of the National Coalition for a Civil Rights Council. In 2016, there were 2.3 million evictions, Pollock said. There could be that many evictions in August, he said. Massive unemployment has left more than 40 percent of renter households at risk of eviction, according to a new analysis by Global Advisory Stout Resus Ross, people of color are especially vulnerable, while almost half of white tenants say they're highly confident they can continue to pay their rent. Just 26 percent of African-American tenants could say the same. Around half of Hispanic tenants said they have little to no confidence. They'll be able to stay in their homes. So for the time being, these people are unprotected. The moratorium on rent has expired. Now they say they're going to renew it. We'll wait and see, but if they truly allow this to happen and they let 40 million Americans in a single year be evicted, a majority of people in some states, they have no idea what's coming. So rather than, you know, literally worrying about people getting too lazy, actually help these people, they're suffering. And if you don't take action, you don't realize like you're not just going to lose this election. Like we're talking revolution.  So it's time that you take care of your own people.  Like this is honestly insane. Like in a functioning country, this would never happen. We would never be faced with 40 million people getting evicted if our government actually function. But the way that we've responded to this economic crisis and pandemic, it's what we'd expect from a failed state. So the fact that they're just allowing this to happen is much towards an eviction crisis, economic devastation. I mean, they have no idea what's coming. They honestly believe that everything will be perfectly normal if they just let people lose everything. It's not going to play out that way. People are going to take to the streets and we're talking about a revolution. If you don't actually take swift action. So if you care about the Republic, then now is the time to make sure that you don't leave millions of people behind. I mean, the fact that we even have to beg them at this point with the crisis this deep to take action and they're still talking about laziness and welfare and how it's, you know, fosters this sense of dependency. Like it's going to make my head explode. I don't even know what to say about this. It's just it's genuinely shocking that they're not doing everything in their power to stop this crisis and help people and we have to fight them to do what's normally expected in other countries.


Are you ready for exercise number three? Take a short break if you need to. Move your shoulders. Your shoulders must be tired now. My wrist. Move them around. Move your elbows. Move your hips. Move your knees. Move your ankles. Listen it up.


What's up guys it's Yuval here and in today's video I want to take you on a tour on one of the most holy places for any youtube L which is the youtube studio. I'm going to show you all the lights that we're using, audio gear, that kind of stuff, so kick back and enjoy and as always we're gonna have a cool giveaway at the end of this video so make sure you stick around but let's jump right in. So this is what our studio looks like when we're not shooting youtube videos. This is actually my workstation here at the art list so this is also what I do of my editing, color grading and anything else created. This room was actually originally designed to be an audio recording studio so all of the walls here including the ceilings are covered with high quality acoustic panels giving us the perfect environment to record great sounding youtube videos plus it kind of looks nice. So let's start off with our camera. We're using the black magic pocket 6k with the 18 to 35 and 24 to 70 sigma outlenses. We have V mount batteries if we need them to power the camera but usually we just have it directly plugged to electricity since we're in a studio anyway. I use manual focus to film myself if there's nobody else helping me out and I currently don't use a monitor but I'm planning to get one it will definitely make my life easier and if you're wondering about the tripod it's a marfrotto 456d which is perfect for this setup. In terms of lighting for our key light I'm using this nanolite mix panel which is an ld panel that has tons of features like rgb lighting special effects and more but for this setup I'm just using it in daylight mode and I'm also taking advantage of the soft light mode that it provides. To diffuse the light and make it even softer and nicer on my face I'm using the nanolite softbox and I'm also using a grid to really control the light and reduce the amount of spill light on the background. If any of you guys are shooting in a small space especially if all the walls around you are white using a grid is really gonna help you out. The reason I'm using a fairly small softbox and not a huge light dome like pretty much everyone else on youtube it's because this room is fairly small and using a huge light is harder to set up and it's also harder to control. I have the light placed to my right camera left to kind of motivate the light coming from my monitors and I have it coming in from around a 45 degree angle so that I get all of these nice shadows as well as this nice triangle of light on the far side of my face. This is probably what you want to do as well to get beautiful fluttering light so that is my key light and for the background I'm using two nanolite rgb tubes to give this room some character and also separate myself from the background. To add some more spice I have one of these aperture mc lights on my desk behind my monitors. These are great because they can fit in pretty much anywhere they're full rgb and they're just really easy and quick to set up. I really like having the ability to change the color of all of these lights so I can always switch things up and just have that flexibility. So that is how we light our videos and now let's move on to audio which is just as important if not more important than lighting. Now like I said before we have a professional audio recording room which is a huge advantage but you can do some simple things like using carpets or blankets to fill up the space and absorb some of the audio and really make your videos sound great. We're usually using one of two options. The first one which is what I'm using to record this video is the Rode NT-5 which gives out great sound. We plug it in directly into the Blackmagic Pocket 6k using an XLR to XLR mini adapter. The second option is the DD Connect Love Mic which is great for when we're out and about when we're on set and not in the studio. It's really quick and easy to set up. So that is it. This is our YouTube studio. I really hope you guys enjoyed this one. If you did give this video a like and consider subscribing. We always really appreciate that and for today's giveaway three of you guys could win three of these Artlist sweatshirts. It's new so we have it in gray and black so you get to choose. All you have to do to enter is comment down below what other videos would you like for us to make on this channel. Here's the winner from our last giveaway. Congratulations to you. Until the next one, stay creative.