Sunday night football from M&T Bank Stadium Ravens and all black by the way the black-on black combo That's my favorite and they are taking on an AFC North opponent in the Cincinnati Bengals this should be a really good one and This is an opportunity for both teams both sitting at two and two both had some excruciating losses and Some dignified wins, but now it's time for that tiebreaker Because the winner of this game They take first place in the AFC North and I know it's super super early. It's very very early But this can sort of be a confidence boost To whichever team comes out with the victory because you much rather be sitting at three and two then two and three Even though it's a long season up ahead you want to try to get ahead of this long season But to talk about this game because you know, we could talk about it all day or every day But it's a very special game. 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So We got a big game on Sunday night primetime the world will be watching The two and two Ravens taking on the two and two Bengals right now How would y'all say the vibe is right now for Bengals fans? it's You know, it's one of those things where I think people kind of Joe Burr when we were on to He came to the podium and he said everybody relax because it was like this state of shock where No one thought that the Bengals if you're a Bengals fan thought that would be on to since he said that You know like he's from six touchdowns. No interceptions. He's leading the air see no from yards all these all these other different things He's doing really good and I feel like he's kind of got the fan base back into our emotion a little bit But there's still like a reoccurring theme of a good amount of fans are still questioning a lot of different things with the coaching There's still PTSD from different, you know things that the Bengals have filled at many times in past So that's always going to be there. So I think ultimately for this game The average fan I think feels really confident when they look at like some of the matchups Whether it be like the you know, the defense The passing yard is allowed as though as it relates to as it relates to what we do best in that's passing the football Right, but but at the end of the day is still the Ravens and it's still a team that you better respect And it's just a concept that I If you aren't prepared and the team comes out flat, especially like these division was going to use your butt Well, I think everybody really realizes that and I don't think there's a person alive. That's a Or I don't know how the Ravens fans feel but I don't feel like any baby fan think like they're whooping the Ravens I think that they feel confident and winning and I speak for myself I think that they you know, I feel pretty good about the game, you know, there's a lot of things I guess we'll talk about though. Oh, yeah, I will probably say Along with them, I think a lot of us were thrown off with the on to the start But I feel like they kind of found themselves in these last two games and it's like, okay This is the team that we remember from last year showing some of those strides that we've seen them take recently And they seem to be they seem like they're back I hate to say it because it's cliche, but it seems like we're back Now I haven't got a chance to watch a lot of bangles I did get to see the end of that first that they game with the craziness with the Pittsburgh Steelers and that was just Wow And then I also got to catch the Dolphins game just the the other Thursday night But how would y'all say the bangles have sort of responded to adversity? I know you mentioned Joe Burrell told everybody just to chill just to relax He ended up throwing six touchdowns and no interceptions But how have you seen this team respond just as a collective unit to the adversity that they faced this season? I Think we haven't seen them panic I mean, I think even when they were owing to you know We didn't see a lot of panic in from the players didn't see much panic in from the coaching staff So I think that they just believed that they would get this thing right and I think they've just really kind of right at that ship rallied around each other and Just maintained on what they needed to do which was go out and win these two games Put themselves back in the position knowing that it's a long season. And so I think that they've done that Okay. Now if we know about Joe Burrell, we definitely know about Jamal Chase Very familiar with Mr. Fourth and 12 Tyler Boyd. We know about T. Higgins We even got some a little bit of familiarity with that guy Hayden Hurst We know about Joe Mixon, but who would y'all say Is somebody and we'll do one for each side of the ball one on Bingles offense and one on bingles defense who Ravens really need to look out for let's start with the offense offense, I Mean you just hit on I mean it's It's Jamar Jason and T. Higgins and Tyler Boyd is you know, my brother here He made a shirt called amigos before like and it blew up and it put the three guys on there because It's not a crazy concept. I look at everything in life. Like it's all about opportunities These are three guys that are over a thousand yard receivers multiple times history sales is Talent tells us if you just give these guys the ball more than not you're going to win a football game It's not like rocket science. We don't have to go into like a big X and O like the games that we lose They fail to get the ball them early in the game now if the pass rush is disruptive enough then you know that It's like that that's just like the bread and butter of it It's like it's those three guys like if you see it, but I mean I guess it goes with Joe Mixon But we've proven we can win games without it But on offense, I just it's those three wide receivers if you can't check them There is no way in my mind that you know the bangles Offensively could be stopped on defense. I got it. I think that y'all should be watching for as a king Davis gate All all season. I heard that the bangles were super healthy. We just came up our show and just said this They weren't like there were many guys that were missing last year that we really really like a king Davis gate there was a guy that played in the first game in the week seven matchup against Lamar And he was the guy that they used as a spot. I thought he did Phenomenal in that game. That's not a household name But this guy then gets injured for the rest of the season I think the following week after that and then take it forward to now this season of Couple of weeks ago.  They're gonna be there now Speaking of defense You talked about your linebackers and I know yeah Logan Wilson. He'd be doing this thing But let's let's get to the secondary We saw last week. Oh, and I just realized y'all are coming off of y'all gonna be coming off of a 10-day break But we saw last week with von Bale Was von Bale number 24. Yeah, it was he he was just feeling extra greedy last week He's like, you know what I'm gonna intercept to him, you know As a matter of fact, I'll intercept Teddy as well. I'm gonna get to But somebody else Who I'm sure was really looking forward to the game last week, especially After Tyree kill had called him out Mr. Eli Apple and he has been a big topic of conversation Amongst amongst a lot of Ravens fans amongst bingo fans, of course, too. How has Eli Apple been this season so far? Eli is just Similar to what he was last season solid Like I think a lot of people really look at Eli Apple and they think about his time with the Giants and the Saints And they just think that that's who he is. He hasn't been that with Cincinnati. He's been very solid He hasn't been a guy that's been a liability or anything like that. He's you know made plays where he's broken up Balls made to play He's just been a solid guy and I think a lot of teams look at it and they're like, okay We're gonna go at Eli Apple But it's not like how it was years ago when the Bengals had some some liabilities in the secondary where you could just target a Specific guy and get a first down every time Eli's just been the epitome of solid I mean, I think that he gets a bad rap But honestly, he's a very solid player a lot of people thought that you know He was the weakness in the secondary He would be replaced that just hasn't been the case the guy has played extremely solid And I give a lot of credit to Lou Anna rumu our defensive coordinator That was a former secondary coach for developing him, you know, he was one of his coaches in New York So obviously he saw something with him there on brought him to Cincinnati And I think he's really just done a great job of developing him into a solid corner Okay, appreciate that and what about opposite of him with Cheeto as he looked Cheeto's a dog. Tell him Cheeto was a dog, man I'm telling you right now. I feel like I was telling ace this the other day. I feel like the game plan Like just to kind of skip ahead a little bit ahead I feel like they should just put Cheeto on the island or whoever like every single week Like he's never failed me in that aspect The only what the only way I receive it has gotten off on him in the last two years It's been AJ Brown and we won that game and in that game It was just too big passes and one of the passes was like some incredible throw He's gone up against every wide receiver one that you could think of like Cheeto Bay or Woosie should be mentioned in the top 10 corners in football right right now like Ace had a stat with his numbers versus Jalen Ramsey last year. I mean, it's not even close We've interviewed him on our pod. We I consider him a friend like he's one of the MVP's at a defense Okay, I love it. So, you know what jump into this game Where do you feel that the bingles as far as their defense first where they could really really because you talked about the offense With how the Ravens passing offense hasn't been the best so far and how the those receivers can really get after it with that But on defense, how do you feel like the the bingles can really attack the Ravens this week? for me defensively, I think it would probably Revolve around some of the things that they did last year and not complete cover zero But mixing up the looks like I think that's one thing that Lou is really good at they've actually ran some Tampa two this season But I think the main thing is is trying to get pressure with four right trying to confuse LJ Throw him some looks that might be confusing as they did with LJ in my home's last year That's kind of their bread and butter right and then trying to force any kind of turnover that you can and then getting Off of the off of the field on third down like if you can stop any team on third down and just get off of the field That's a victory. I think for the defense You're not gonna contain or you're not gonna stop this Ravens offense, right? You're talking about the number one scoring offense in the league But you got to contain them and I think you try to bend but not break it and try to get as many stops as you can Against this offense to get against that offense to give it back to your offense Can I give you can I give you some stats really quick on the bangles defense who I think is carried the whole entire team The fourth they've allowed the fourth leaves least amount of Russian yards The fourth lowest number of Russian first downs allow the second least passing touchdowns The third lowest completion percentage the second least amount of time on the field the fourth least Qbr allowed the third least third down completion percentage allowed in the whole entire NFL all of us And there's a now the competition that they had faced is nowhere near Lamar Jackson level But some of those same guys that we played Did work on a lot of different people like flacco had a really good game on some other people Like there's some guys that did some really good Cooper Russia, whatever did really good on some other guys the bangles On paper right now are top five defense, but they haven't played anybody yet not not to the level of the Ravens Okay, and then that's a good point Now as far as the pass rush because Ravens offensive line Ravens offensive line has been a little bit shaky Run blocking just really hasn't been there but pass blocking. It's been up and down Trey Hendrickson Who was has been a great pickup for y'all from New Orleans? Sean Hubbard, how has the bingles pass rush been this year so far? So far it's like it's it's above average They have about seven sacks on the whole entire season as a collective I thought that Trey Hendrickson has gone against some really good guys like I thought he just went against Terran arms They are kind of misspoke on like offense like coming into this that last game the Dolphins were really hot They were the most efficient third down team. They were on fire So I did that is one team that did get off But but Trey Hendrickson saw as tough as matchup I thought what Terran arms did this past week and he looked really good in the third and fourth quarter early in that game They were like helping Terran arms set out, which I didn't think that they would do But ultimately Sam Hubbard looks really really good. B. J. Hill is very very underrated Defenses tackle now the number one guy that we me a she just did our quarter awards just now on our show The number one guy that I feel like is the number one the Joe always calling the Joe borough of our defense DJ reader He's predominantly a run defender But this season he had been offering some pass rush that I had never seen before like maybe early in his Texas days Whatever, but he's on injured reserve right now So that is one thing that I think bangles fans are a little bit worried about but from a pass rush stand point all together Trey Hendrickson To me is one of the premier pass rushes in the NFL, but the guys that he's gone against early in the season You know it was some tough ones and then when he got a week matchup against the Jets He was a FC like player of the week like two sacks two phone work up Like if you're tackle if you're left tackle, whatever isn't up the par.  So yeah, I guess he definitely took his game to another level then now We talked about the past Russia. Let's flip it to Ravens past rush because Ravens past rush has been It's been rough this year. It's been really rough But it's been rough for a long period of time But definitely this year has just it hasn't been getting home Consistently now bingles, we know bingles of course last year Joe Burrow was sacked a lot a whole lot And bingles they made some upgrades to that offensive line But how have those upgrades in that offensive line been doing around Joe Burrow? I think initially the first two games they struggle, right? I'd be lying to you if I said that they weren't right 13 sacks in two games It's funny because we were talking about our Disappointments and I forgot to mention Jonah Williams on that one. I'm Jonah Williams I think this season has really kind of had an uncharacteristic season for him, right? I think he's given up about four of those sacks on his side We also have seen some issues from Lyle Collins early on but I will say The rookie that we have Cordell Volsen. He's really shown some strides tag Harris He definitely took some strides the last couple of games and just the last two games They've only allowed some sacks So I think the light is finally coming on with this offensive line Now it could be that they weren't facing the Michael Parsons and the TJ Y right on in those situations They have looked a lot a lot Suspect but in the last two games against the Jets and against the Dolphins They have really short up the offensive line and they've really I feel like suited up those fronts So as far as away, if he is looking for someone that he might have some production on it Possibly could be Jonah Williams, but I think that I am confident that the line will be able to protect burrow in this one Okay. All right, so in closing Because this let me let me say this real quick. Let me say this real quick a Lot of people are down on the Bengals office a line like earlier like from the outside Even when they gave up seven sacks, they were better than last year like like they were bad last year, bro Like it's just Joe was kind of trying to get into a rhythm You know, it's just you know, you know how it goes like your office a line for your for you guys like with McCarty And in different guys like that like it takes time to like get with the guy that's right next to you You know, like it just doesn't happen overnight in another big factor and ace hit on it is this When teams and I saw this in a Giants game when the Cowboys played the Giants when teams play Micah Parsons I'm here to tell you, you know how you were I remember you found me one week If this is last year and you were like telling me about like Jamar chase you like I don't know what we're gonna do Like I don't know your exact words, but you was like bro, like they're I'm here to tell you when you play Micah Parsons Bro, I'm dead serious like I feel like if there's a top 10 in the NFL Micah Parsons got to be in it and I'm not saying that just because of the Bengals game any game that he meant Rex games does anything that you want to do Rex your game anything like it TJ Y did that in the first game and Bengals just recovered from it in TJ Why there's different things you could do to there's nothing you could do to Micah Parsons, bro Like he's playing like I seen a cut up the day where somebody was comparing them to like Lawrence Taylor And I was like rough shut up. They were showing side-by-side plays of Lawrence Taylor and Michael Park Like you he's got a bull rush that is like J. J. Watt and his prime, but he's got the speed of 4344 kind of Crazy thing is they line them up everywhere So anything that you want to play if you don't have protection or extra guy to slide on that side He wrecked the game and before we knew it We were down like 14-3 and then we had to go and fight inside the game back up But a lot of people like mental office luck. He may lie. Oh Collins looked like a rookie, bro Like he made him look for you be both. Yeah, because he was everywhere. They will they will bro. I'm look When you play the guy play the Cowboys, right? No, no y'all don't cuz I think Man, okay Y'all can dodge him but but I'm gonna tell you bro like that one thing about our off the line that people don't do is give Enough sometimes when our players and you might do that you might see this a lot Sometimes when our players don't perform that we like a lot a lot of people blame coaching they blame the player themselves I like to look at who am I facing sometimes? So the office online didn't look that great in week one week two But if you go look at that film on them guys TJ Watt looked amazing in that game Micah Parsons looked amazing week three They didn't have they didn't have that guy and we had a tree Hendry said and we looked amazing So it was it's one of those things that you got to kind of look at if away Can did drop and do be who's want him to be I feel like that he is the key to the game Coming up Sunday night. Oh, yeah for sure. And I know context matters Some that I've heard you bring out a lot with context, especially with the Bengals offensive line is that um You talked about how Joe Burrow he would hold on to the ball. Just really trying to make something happen So in the result of that was him taking a lot of sex So I know you sort of called them like sort of good sex in a way Because Joe Burrow is just trying to make a play and we do see that with a lot of young quarterbacks now in closing Game prediction from the both of y'all. How do y'all think this one is gonna go? I Think this is gonna be like the game that everybody's been asking for I don't think it's gonna be a blowout either way I think it's gonna be a game that's gonna come down to probably a field goal when it's all said and done Maybe a touchdown But I think that it's gonna be you know something that lives up to the hype Sunday night football I think whenever we had these bingles and Ravens games, they're always exciting. They're always a good battle You're gonna see Lamar Jackson. You're gonna see Joe Burrow You're gonna see a lot of guys on both sides So and you're gonna see two teams that don't really like each other, right? And they want to be you know the top of the division. So I think this is a very important game I think it's the game of the week I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I got the bangles barely winning this one I think that we're gonna try to get make a statement in this game being that we crawl back from 0 and 2 I think that they're gonna try to take advantage of this game. Okay. All right, Zim I'm in this. I feel like the bangles, you know, like our fan base is like Sam man take advantage Go crazy or whatever and I just I can't see that like I don't know like I don't see like a blowout on either side I feel like the defense has got to carry us for most of this game And and I think that that's what I think will happen and Lamar is gonna be Lamar. You know I'm saying so I Think the bank Maybe buy a touchdown. I don't think it's three points. Maybe a time That's just just so my gut tells me I wish it would be more comfortable in my heart wouldn't be you know, all pumping and all crazy and stuff like that But it's it's I think it's gonna be a great game though for sure Yeah, it should be a good one and enjoy your time there at a M&T Bank Stadium when you go So appreciate the both of y'all a lot for coming on. Thank you for joining me Like I said all the links to all of that stuff will be down below in the description I know my guy Kenyatta. He will be checking y'all out. He probably does already That's a bingles fan that comes through on just about every single video. So I appreciate the support He be talking this trash, but it's all in love. So I appreciate the both of y'all much love Keep doing what y'all been doing and just keep having that that that positive impact not just on the bingles community But just on the football community in general a lot of love for the both of y'all appreciate what both of y'all do and thank you again Thank you for having me bro. Really respect what you do man. Appreciate you. Oh, yeah All right team keeping clean appreciate y'all and we out


So despite the fact that the Rayleigh Jean's Law was correctly treating thermodynamics and was correctly treating light as an electromagnetic wave, its steadfast refusal to get an answer that agreed with experiment, or even made any kind of physical sense whatsoever, was becoming increasingly frustrating to another researcher whose work on the problem, who went by the name of Max Planck. And in 1900, Max Planck started getting so frustrated with this problem, they started making some really crazy assumptions. And one of the assumptions that it resorted to, finally worked. It had no physical justification whatsoever, he had no reason for it, he was going to go back and try and fix it later, but what it did do was it gave him the right form for the blackbody radiation spectrum. Classically, if you have lighter frequency F, then you can have any amount of energy of that frequency that you like. You can have a very, very small wave or a very large wave. And the energy in the wave is just related to the amplitude of the electromagnetic wave. But Planck made an assumption that it actually came in little packets. The only energies that it could have were multiples of this quantity. So the frequency times this constant that Planck had to invent, it's now called Planck's constant and has a value that is very small. So because the constant's so small, this amount of energy here is very, very small for any frequency that we're used to. And that means that energies can take almost any value we like. But instead of being continuous, they happen to be discrete. So the energy at a particular frequency has to come in multiples of this HF. So having made this assumption, Planck managed to get the following law for the spectral radiance. Now the Rayleigh-Jeans law was correct at low frequencies and went wrong at high frequencies. Now the Planck's law agrees at low frequencies, but it also gets this curve and the way it dips down again, correct at high frequencies. And so it gets the spectral radiance for a blackbody correct. Let's make sure we understand what this spectral radiance is, and the best way to understand what something is is to look at its units. So spectral radiance is how much power is coming off something and power is just energy per unit time. But the larger the object, of course, if it's all the same temperature, each piece of the object is radiating the same amount of energy. And so the more surface area you have, the more energy. And so this power is going to be proportional to the amount of area. So the spectral radiance is the energy per unit time per unit area. So that's the surface area. And remember it's coming off at different frequencies. So if we have a small range of frequencies like this, then that'll have a certain amount of power coming off it with those frequencies. And then we'll have more power coming off at these frequencies. And you can see at low frequencies, there's not very much power coming out. And so the spectral radiance has got the spectrum in it. And so it's also telling us how much power per unit area per unit frequency is radiated off a blackbody. So in other words, if we take all these slices, all these spectral radiances of different frequencies, and we add them all up, then we're going to get the total amount of power per unit area. And then if we multiply by the surface area of the object, we'll just get the total power being radiated by it. So Planck's law very accurately predicted the radiation coming off bodies, but it had to make this crazy assumption that an electromagnetic wave of a particular frequency could only come in packets of energy in these discrete quantized amounts. And so that was the real question that we're seeing there is, why did this work? It's the kind of thing you might expect if light were a particle, you'd expect it to come in little chunks of energy, but it's not the kind of thing you'd expect if light were a wave. And people were very sure the light was a wave. They had Young's double slit experiment and the Poisson spot, and they had Maxwell identifying light as being an electromagnetic wave from looking at the equations for electricity and magnetism. And all these things were very convincing. And so they didn't really understand why assuming that the energy was quantized was giving them the right answers. And that mystery stayed for several years until Einstein resolved it when he tried to explain a different effect called the photoelectric effect.


Let's begin reading together here in Mark chapter 6. We'll read verses 45 and 46 again I'll give you some introduction. We'll move into our study And then I'll be turning you to Matthew for a while bringing you back to Mark. So Mark chapter 6 Verses 45 and 46 Mark writes immediately. He made his disciples get into the boat and Go before him to the other side to that site where he sent the multitude away and when he had sent them away he departed to the mountain to pray as We've been seeing here in the gospel of Mark Jesus has been ministering in the region of Galilee for some time Galilee is the northern portion of Israel is really shaped very similarly to the state of California So in the south you have Judah in the center You have Samaria and to the north by the sea of Galilee in that region there just north of the border there of Samaria by Jericho going a little higher than that you have what is called the Galilee or the Galilee region and that's where Jesus has been ministering as we've been looking at this passage He's been in that area for a little over a year and he's been ministering there through teaching and performing miracles During that time we saw how he had extended his ministry because he had sent out the 12 Apostles and and we saw how they went out preaching repentance how they were casting out demons and that they were healing the sick and The result was that word about him had even reached the ears of a political official by the name of Herod antipas now Herod was a politician and history records that this man feared for his political power and So after Jesus had miraculously fed the huge multitude There were those who responded by wanting to make him their king They had hoped that he would overthrow Herod and the Romans and would bring in the the kingdom of God on earth and their hopes were not on eternity Their hopes were on the material the the temporary things and and that is pointed out in in John chapter 6 verse 26 because Jesus speaks to them and he says to them very truly I tell you you are looking for me not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and Had your fill so they were looking for the temporary not the eternal You see many of those who had eaten and were satisfied did not understand who Jesus was Even his own men had yet to understand what he was saying and what he was doing We'll see that in verse 52 Which speaks of them and says they had not understood about the loaves because their heart was hardened So even his own men were not completely aware of who Jesus is they didn't comprehend yet who he was We saw this in Mark chapter 4 verse 41 After Jesus had still the storm and they had said to one another who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him Who can this one be? Well after what they see Jesus do in this passage they begin to realize who he is Matthew will tell us in chapter 14 verse 33 that those who were in the boat came and worshipped him saying Truly you are the Son of God and so who can this be is answered by truly? You are the Son of God and so as we look at this passage Let's begin at verse 45 in verse 45 It says immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side to Bethsaida While he sent the multitude away now we saw how that Jesus had just fed a great multitude There were up to 15 to 20,000 people when you include the women and the children But now he made his disciples get into the boat and leave When the scripture says he made them that word made is a strong word in the original language It means to compel it means to force to even drive to drive his disciples to get into the boat and leave So the question has to be asked why would he make his disciples leave the area and go to Bethsaida? Well, he did it to protect his disciples from being influenced by the political fervor in Such a charged environment even his disciples could be drawn into such a desire Remember after Jesus had fed the multitude many in the crowd wanted to force him to become their king John 6 15 says when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king He departed again to the mountain by himself alone You see Jesus didn't want his disciples to be influenced by the world system of rulership He didn't come to establish a system of rule that was patterned after the existing model He came to bring God's rule to human hearts where humility and service actually prevail In Matthew's gospel in chapter 20 verses 27 and 28 Jesus said whoever desires to be first among you Let him be your slave Just as the Son of man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life a Ransom for many God's desire is to rule the human heart The kingdom of God is not like the kingdoms of men. The kingdom of God is spiritual in Romans 14 17 Paul said the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking But of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit the government cannot make us righteous The government cannot do anything other than to try and enforce peace It can't give us peace and the government cannot give us joy the Holy Spirit does that and the kingdom of God is a kingdom of righteousness and in that kingdom of righteousness You will have peace and you will have joy because Jesus Christ is the Prince of peace Then he by his spirit gives you the joy of the spirit you see and so These people are wanting to force him to be king and he doesn't want his people to be influenced in that way You see if the disciples are influenced by the crowd it's going to undermine his mission So to protect them from such an influence he compels him to go to the other side again in verse 45 He made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side Now John 6 17 says they got into the boat and went over the sea to toward Capernaum, which was on the center of the sea of Galilee a little to the west They were making their way in that direction So Jesus told his men to go away by way of Bethsaida, but they were going to make their way to the city of Capernaum And so as he sends them away verse 46 and he had sent them away. He departed notice to the mountain to pray and So he's praying because he was committed to fulfilling the will of his father Do you remember how the devil had tempted him the devil wanted him to wear a crown without a cross in Matthew 4 8 and 9 Matthew writes the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory And he said to him all these things that will give you if you will fall down and worship me he wanted him to wear a crown without a cross and Jesus didn't want his men to be influenced in that way and so there he is praying and he's communing with his father and he's Revealing his dependence on him and that's a model that we ought to also follow ourselves You see he prayed and he focused on his purpose. He was remaining steadfast He was obedient to the father He was committed to completing the will of his father and he was 10 verse 7 then I said behold I have come in the volume of the book. It is written of me to do your will. Oh, God And so there he is praying well verse 47 says now when evening came The boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land Now when it says when evening came that is what is called the second evening The Jews divided time the evening into two sections. There was what was called early evening It was three o'clock to six then there was the second evening and that would have been six o'clock to nine o'clock This is the second evening. That's the time. So it's between six and nine when this is taking place The disciples are beginning to make their way towards Capernaum and as they do so they're in a little ship the storm arises in John 618 the sea rose because a great wind was blowing But Jesus remained behind on land And the small boat was proceeding In John 6 19 they had road three or four miles, but they were not making any headway and so In verse 48 it says So he saw them straining at rowing For the wind was against them Now about the fourth watch of the night he came to them walking on the sea and would have passed them and so He sees them notice verse 48 He they are straining It's about the fourth watch now the fourth watch of the night is the roman method of calculating time Romans divided the night into what are called four watches. There was six to nine There was nine to twelve a.m 12 to three a.m. And then three to six a.m. This is the fourth watch That means it's between three and six a.m. So by this time they've been battling the wind in the sea for up to nine hours They would have been incredibly tired. They would have been frustrated They would have been alone The bible in verse 48 says that the disciples were straining at rowing that word straining is a greek word That means they were being tormented or tortured They were doing everything they could to survive as the storm began to grow more fierce Matthew 14 24 says they're in the middle of the sea and they're being tossed by the waves It's very possible that they were calling on the lord for help It's a question that a lot of us will say within ourselves when we go through tough times Where's god? Where's god when you need him? Where's god when i'm in my need? It's like what it says in psalm 130 verse 2 lord hear my voice let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication Where are you? Listen to me What's happening here is they're continuing their training because they're becoming men of god They've had a long and difficult day. They need a simple time of rest But now they're straining at rowing And they're in a what would be called a pressing and frightening place They're in need Do you think that I love about this is this is very simple notice again in verse 48. He saw them straining He saw them Jesus was aware of their situation His eyes were upon them Even when they didn't know it Like a parent will watch their baby Even when the baby doesn't know it Mama might be there at the park with some friends and the baby decides to the little kid the toddler decides to go and play on a swing or climb up A ladder to slide down a slide And very often the mama those you may be visiting with her friends has her eye On that baby And the baby may think that they're in total control that everything's going fine But mama's watching them very closely To make sure that they don't hurt themselves and sometimes make sure that somebody else doesn't hurt them The mama's eyes are always on the baby That's the way it works. That's the way it's always worked And jesus is doing that now. He's watching those whom he loves They don't know it the way that the kid doesn't know that mama or daddy's watching them You don't know you're being watched But the eyes of that mama the eyes of that dad are on that baby And they even even as they grow older They may not know that they're being watched by someone who loves them when my my brother frank have a brother named frank who Married his high school sweetheart and then their marriage didn't last they divorced after After seven years of marriage. They had two sons and The sons didn't have anything to do very often if at all With my mom and my dad their grandparents and my mom told me one day. She said, you know, I know where they work Because I guess they were working together at a gas station and she says your dad and I will go and we'll park across the street And we'll watch them as they're working They don't know we're watching them but we are And I think that loving parents and even loving grandparents their eyes remain on the child, especially if that child has a need And though jesus is there and he's praying and he's communing with his father The bible makes it very clear that he saw them and he saw them straining And so what happens? Well at the right moment jesus came down To their rescue Like it says in psalm 34 15 the eyes of the lord are on the righteous his ears are inclined to their cry So they're tired. They're drained. They're at the end of the rope And verse 48 says he came to them walking on the sea and notice how it says and would have passed them by Mark writes from the perspective of the apostles. They thought that he was passing them by In the storm conditions dark. It's misty from the wind. They didn't recognize him verse 49 says they supposed it was a ghost And they cried out That was a common superstition during that day the the people believed that spirits Of the night would bring disaster But jesus immediately calms their frightened hearts notice what he says in verse 50 They all saw him And were troubled but immediately he talked with them and said to them Shut up. No, he didn't say that Cowards he said be of good cheer. It is I Do not be Afraid it is I When he says be of good cheer that means be courageous take courage be brave Don't be afraid In the midst of the storm They hear a voice and it's calming them. It's soothing them Your situation may be overwhelming But you could have peace You need to trust me He knew what he was about to do But he first had to bring comfort to them It was more important to still the storm of their hearts first In john 16 33 it says these things I have spoken into you That in me you might have peace in the world you shall have tribulation But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world And so jesus is bringing a word of calmness to them And now I want you to turn to chapter 14 of matthew with me So I can develop this with something matthew gives to us that mark didn't Matthew chapter 14. I want to show you something in verses 28 through 32 In verse 28 through 32 Matthew chapter 14 Jesus had just said be of good cheer. It is I Don't be afraid Peter answered him and said lord if it is you command me to come to you on the water So he said come And when peter had come down out of the boat He walked on the water To go to jesus But when he saw that the wind was boisterous He was afraid in beginning to sink He cried out saying lord save me And immediately jesus stretched out his hand and caught him And said to him no drown coward and shoved his head under the water He said to him oh you of little faith Why did you doubt? It's kind of obvious And when they got into the boat the wind ceased Think about that for a minute. Let me develop something with you We see how peter's overjoyed. He sees jesus Immediately he feels relief. He even has hope And he even asked jesus He says to him if it's you If it is you Command me to come to you on the water You see he knew that it was safer to be with jesus on the water Then for him to remain in the boat And so in verse 29 jesus had come and peter came out of the boat. He walked on the water Peter come to me Come to where it's safe Now obviously we don't get specifically asked to walk on water. Obviously None of us has ever literally become been commanded To walk on water when we go to israel We're on the sea of galilee Every time we've been on that sea The captain of the little boat that we take Will say if anybody feels like taking a walk feel free And we obviously all laugh ha ha ha never heard that before But obviously none of us ever get out of that boat because none of us could do that So we're not really ever specifically asked to walk on water. Are we? We've never been literally With a real demand We've never been literally been commanded to walk on water So I want to look at this and i'm going to find some application for us because what we need to see in this event Is that the walk that peter takes is a walk that is motivated by faith And the lesson Well when we pray and receive directions we need to step out It can be god's way of showing us that with god All things are possible So you see he's making his his way there. He's walking but Verses 30 and 31 tells us that he saw that the wind was boisterous. He was afraid He began to sink and then he prays the wisest prayer that can be prayed. Lord save me That's the prayer that that does get you saved It's when you when you realize that you can't do what you're doing And it's not just walking on water as a christian and it can be just life itself Lord this this life that i'm living is so difficult. It's actually impossible. I have no joy. I have no peace I have an absence of love. I'm concerned about everything all the time God I need your help. That's how I got saved. That's how we get saved Lord save me Help me and that was the wisest thing that he could do is to say god I need you lord save me song 40 verse 17. I'm poor and needy May the lord think of me you are my help and my deliverer.  It's not that peter had an absence of faith It's that his trust didn't go far enough Peter your your faith is incomplete It didn't bring you all the way to the end You started out well You didn't finish well In hebrus 10 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering For he who promised is faithful You started out well But you didn't finish well Notice how it says in verse 32 when they got into the boat the wind ceased verse 33 says Those in the boat worshiped him And so with that said as the backdrop I want to give to you Applications I've listed six basic applications to our own lives from this miracle And and this is what I'll be saying One jesus sent them into a storm Two he left them on their own Three he watched over them Four he came to their aid Five he gave them a teaching about faith And then sixth he provoked them to worship him. We'll look at those one at a time the first thing We see that in verse 22 how it had said in Matthew 14 jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side The first thing I want to point to is he made his disciples get into the boat What's that mean while he sent them into a storm He sent them into a storm In order that they might learn to trust in him Here's an application for us as christians Believers can actually be sent directly into storms To make us dependent upon him I know there's a lot of tv preachers I've heard many of them who seem to give us a guarantee that every day is a good day Once you give your heart to christ, you'll never have another problem never have another A situation that causes you concern. You'll never have another another bad day in your life And and that's just just not true And all of us know that if you've been walking with the lord for any given time You know that after giving your heart to the lord It's almost like there's that amazing piece that he gives you and and then it's one thing after another And and I discovered a long time ago that that the the lord will use the different circumstances and situations in my life In order to train me up to become a man of god And and sometimes he will actually send me some place that I didn't even want to go Peace and prosperity are often the greatest pitfalls a believer can experience because faith is best developed matured and refined In what has been called the furnace of adversity In psalm 66 10 through 12 for you.  You've caused men to ride over our heads We went through fire and through water But you brought us out to rich fulfillment You led us into a place Where everything we depended upon was stripped away from us So that the only thing left that I could do was trust you do you want to grow do you want to be A mature Christian some of you are thinking not now If you put it that way Every one of you if you drive a car Every one of you drives a car that has had various stress tests Engines different parts they go through stress tests Why is that they want to see at what point they'll break? So they can improve it or at least let you know this is as far as you should go with this everything That you use goes through various tests. Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't I be put in a place where I am helpless and hopeless? And then finally I realize I should cast my care on the lord because It's at that place when I find my own weakness that I discover his incredible strength So jesus sent him into the storm. Maybe some of you were in a storm right now. I know some of you are Going through a real tough time a real tough time And you're thinking lord, I don't even know why celebrate christmas. I don't have joy in my heart. What's going on? It feels like so much has been stripped from me. I feel so alone. I feel Helpless I feel weak not every one of you. Thank god for those of us who aren't Perhaps in that but some of us are and somebody watching online is most definitely You ever stopped to think that the lord allowed you to go and actually sent you into that place So he could break you and make you more like him. Have you ever said god? I want to be like you How do you think that takes place? Remember, I say at 53. He is the wounded healer. He was he was wounded for us This is one who had sympathy for all of his brother and he knew what it was like to be tempted yet without sin This is one who went through affliction for us. What makes me think that I'm going to be avoiding that in my life And I've discovered that the deeper pain I've experienced has deepened me as a believer in him When I've been at my lowest he's always had his hand underneath me to raise me up I've discovered that and these men need to learn the same thing He made his disciples get into the boat. The second thing is he left them alone He left them alone that he might teach them that they really are never alone You see we walk by faith and not by sight And though he has left them alone in reality, they're never out of his sight In job 36 verse 7 it says he does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous He was watching them And then a third thing we saw in mark 648 how he saw them straining at rowing Matthew 14 24 says that they were being tossed by the waves They're straining and being tossed While they were concentrated on rowing He was concentrated on them And they needed to learn that God is always vigilant and always concerned for them In Psalm 121 3 and 4 he will not allow your foot to be moved He who keeps you will not slumber Behold he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep He knows what you're going through. He was watching them. They weren't out of his sight They needed to learn that he's there that he's concentrating on them Vigilant for them concerned about them and then fourth he came to their aid at the right time He didn't leave them in the midst of the struggle He came to their aid at the right moment. Psalm 18 verses 1 and 2. I love you. Oh lord my strength The lord is my rock my fortress my deliverer My god is my rock in whom I take refuge He is my shield and the horn of my salvation My stronghold he came to their aid He didn't leave them in their struggle And then a fifth thing he revealed to them how great he was It says in Matthew 14 32 when they got into the boat the wind ceased In John 6 21 they willingly received him into the boat and immediately the boat was at the land Where they were going The storm ceased and they saw that they were near land Psalm 107 verses 20 to 30 they cried out to the lord in their trouble He brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper The waves of the sea were hushed They were glad when it grew calm And he guided them to their desired Haven And then six he taught them That he was much more than they thought he was They received a deeper understanding of who he was they discovered This is the lord of creation Mark 6 651 they were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure and they marveled Matthew 14 33 those who were in the boat came and they worshiped him Have you been in a storm? Have you been in a storm?   Have you ever been in the place where? Somebody said all the things that you think and thought and planned and prayed for and hoped for and expected Are those things aren't going to take place you've been there many of us have I don't remember exactly when it was some of you have heard this story before let me share it now because this Is one of those times where I was sent into a storm. I've been in many storms over the years this next week Next week I celebrate my 51st anniversary of coming to faith in Jesus Christ. I've been in a lot of storms A lot of storms if you haven't been in a storm you you aren't married. No, I I've And you don't have children. I've been in a lot of storms And so my wife Marie and I went to florida. I don't remember exactly when it was About 13 years or so ago And while we were there on our flight As we're flying I turned to Marie and I said there's something going on in my body I can feel something Something's going on inside of me And then I got quiet for a moment We arrived and we get to the Miami area And we go to the place that we're going to be Then I was going to teach I was going to teach a wednesday night bible study And then I was going to be teaching a friday saturday and sunday Married couples conference and so we were gone for a few days and all and and we'd been to miami before and We'd gone to a dunk in donuts For communion.  I'd like a Cuban coffee You know What she brings me to And they were Big cups of Cuban coffee. I'm looking at this. It's really a very strong espresso is what it is This isn't what I was expecting I was expecting something that they called Cuban which was a cappuccino These are two good size good size cups and when I drink espresso I'm not one of these guys who sip with my little pinky up like that. I don't do that I do bang It's over John.  Uh, but anyway So I I drank both of them Not realizing some Cubans. I have Cubans in this church. You know where I'm going with this It was so strong Well, I go out to teach I lost my memory I was hospitalized for four days because I didn't know I had high blood pressure And this coffee Brought me into a state where my blood pressure what happened is this I should tell you what happened I gave the study now Marie. I'd lost my memory before I'd I'd been Having trouble with it before I didn't know what it was So what had happened is I gave the study but Marie knew that I had lost my memory because what happened is I went directly to reading my notes And I read them a second time. She knew something happened So at the I gave an invitation people got saved it went down and prayed with people Marie came up the aisle to me put her arm in my arm and and I looked at her and I said I don't know where I am She was the only person I knew and I under I recognize I don't know where I'm at get me out of here I had completely lost my memory They took me into the back room called the paramedic He took my blood pressure. It was over 200 And they said he's going to have a stroke They put me in an ambulance I don't I remember kind of being in an ambulance Took me to a hospital dade county and They questioned me. I didn't know I didn't I couldn't answer questions. They put me in a hospital bed And I I woke up about three in the morning and I looked down Next to me in my bed They had brought a cot and my girl my wife was laying in that cot. She couldn't leave me She's laying there next to me for four days. I was hospitalized So I came home and I thought I don't know what's going on and so I have to go to these doctors appointments and They put me in In those little that little tube then I got a PET scan and And an MRI and so many different. I don't even remember what they all of them. There were so many And then I had to go to a neuropsychologist because they wanted to check my brain And the neuropsychologist and I were sitting and I said I was sitting across from her after going through all of these tests and And I said you need to tell me In very direct terms or I won't hear you What you think What is my prognosis according to your expertise?   I don't want to burden you My life was gone It's gone A minister relies on its memory I rely on my memory Without a memory What am I going to do so the lady says You've got dementia. You've got you've got you have seven years I was 58 at the time You've got seven years So I look at my wife And I said take care of the bill, baby And I went and sat in the car put my hand 10 o'clock 2 o'clock some of you have done that 10 o'clock 2 o'clock and you just I held on to and he said jesus what i'm going to do I was hoping to be able to spend time with my girl Enjoy my grandchildren My life has just ended I had to go and have some pet scans some of you in the medical profession know what those are and so I spoke to the doctor the neurologist who did that And he said you have calcification on your left and right temporal lobe Not only that I found out I had glaucoma not only that I found out I had diabetes One thing after another at this it was just like a storm One after another after another So mary and I left for a week or so We had set up a Uh church get away to to mowie we used to take the church to mowie and I said i'm going to go i've got to get away i've got to just get my I gotta gotta come to grips with this because I don't know what I don't know what i'm going to do jesus you're gonna have to help me Brought my kids into the back room before he left and I told him I said you know Marie had said well he's going to and I said no mama don't do that I said this is what the doctor actually said And I told him the news I didn't tell the church anything Sometimes the church isn't very gracious to those who were sick So I didn't say anything And we took it to the lord which is what you do right And we started walking on water It was safer with jesus than it was in the boat And I said god if it's you Tell me to come and he said come So I did in the back of my mind I'm thinking I have to make plans how am I going to take care of my girl my kids The righteous man leaves an inheritance for his children and his children's children What am I going to do for my family because I won't leave them Without being cared for and I started making decisions and doing things And in preparing the doctor said I want to see you I didn't want to go see him, but I did And we went to see the doctor. I'll I'll never forget the neurologist as I sat there And I don't know why doctors like to make you wait when you have an eight o'clock, but Around nine o'clock were inside his office And this is what he says to me He's the one who had said I had calcification He kind of like looks at me and then shakes his head like this And this this is three or four weeks or so later I don't know he goes Sometimes we just make mistakes. There's nothing wrong with you So I hit him Something's wrong with you Why did I tell you that story I tell you that story because sometimes people Think that people like me just tell you hey, you can do it, but we don't go through things Sometimes people think that people like me play golf five days out of the week and then teach two days out of the week But I'm in the same boat you are in My life is the same as yours We go through the pains and the sorrows and the griefs and the losses The disappointments the rejections The judgment We go through it too I've been walking on water For many years And I can tell you he will not let you drown I can tell you he'll say come with me.  What makes you think I will not save you What makes you think I will not care for you? Don't you know how much I love you? Don't you know That's what keeps me going I'm sorry for the emotion This is real to me I've been there I live there That's where I live. That's my address Walk on water lane That's my life Because jesus I can't do this without you I can't be a good man Without you I can't be a good dad without you. I can't be a good father I can't be a good husband. I can't be a good grandfather. I can't be a good friend I can't be anything for without you I can do nothing but with you I can do all things and that's what jesus teaches us So how does it work? You worship him That's what the men did he There's p I can almost picture though. This is my imagination and not scripture But I wonder if perhaps jesus might have placed his hand on on the apostle peter shoulder And brought him back with his strength walked him back to that boat He had these other guys who were thinking oh man. He almost drowned. Yeah, but he got out of the boat and took a walk There are always people who will tell you what you're doing wrong when you're walking on water And they're in a boat They're not stepping out They're not doing anything.  Watch what god will do and when jesus walks him back to the boat They worshiped him. They said What man or man is this? And that's why I worship him because he's the one who pulls me out He's the one who makes water as as hard as concrete and walks me back to a place of safety That's what the god that we worship does for us And that's the god that I worship now. Let me close real quickly I told you I was going to take you to the end of the chapter. You may be saying oh really? Yes Let's go back to chapter six And we'll close with just a few closing words here In verse 52 it said they had not understood about the loaves because their heart was hardened He had multiplied fish and he had multiplied the bread. He had walked on water But now they're beginning to see who he is So verse 53 when they had crossed over they came to the land of gnessaret and anchored there And when they came out of the boat immediately the people recognized him Ran through that whole surrounding region And began to carry about on beds those who were sick To wherever they heard he was Wherever he entered into villages cities or the country they laid the sick in the market places and begged him That they might just touch the hem of his garment and as many as touched him were made well We'll close very quickly by just saying this They arrive in a place called gnessaret, which if you were looking at a map, it's the sea of gellerly It's a little northwest of Capernaum and they're making their way to the city of Capernaum There's no synagogue or building large enough to contain these multitudes and because of this He's ministering to the people in an open-air meeting And so they become they begin to come they're bringing people And all it and a pattern has been established. They're they're coming to jesus and droves And they carried the sick to him and others just tried to touch the hem of his garment Like the the men who had carried their friend to jesus and it opened up that roof and dropped him before him Or the woman who had the issue of blood. This is taking place. They're seizing an unexpected opportunity They're not about to let this moment pass by without receiving from him like it says on a isai of 556 Seek the lord while he may be found call upon him while he's near Now why are they bringing these people what what is drawing them what's drawing them to him is his compassion and his love That's a beautiful and very attractive thing Somebody once said a man's intelligence may win a person's mind His force of will may compel their obedience His personality may win their affection. His eloquence may gain their admiration His courage may inspire their loyalty, but only love will win their souls And they could see that jesus loved them They brought those that they loved To jesus that he might touch them And we ought to do the same We had to bring those whom we love To hear of jesus That he might touch their lives You see the invitation is still open in this season. We have great opportunity America still hasn't forgotten that there's such a thing as christmas And a lot of americans still will go to a church service Because that's what you do around christmas invite your friends invite your family Perhaps they'll come to know jesus Revelation 22 17 says the spirit and the bride say come And let him who hears say come Whoever is thirsty Let him come Whoever wishes Let him take the free gift of the water of life People can still come And take of that free life free water of life that comes through jesus christ Why did they bring their friends and family? Because jesus is loving compassionate and available He was then and he still is today Our father we ask that you would work in our hearts


It's exciting to be here as I was telling you earlier, it's exciting for me and I know for all the City of Columbia family, meaning those of us, part of the government and municipal corporation, as well as the people that we represent and advocate for every single day to be here because people are emotionally bound to this facility. There's no place in this city, indeed, in this country, like the Bull Street campus. What it means to the past and the future of historic preservation, this beautiful silver canopy, the high-tech lines that run underneath here because of the investment of the men and women standing behind me, well beyond professional sports returning to Columbia and now people beginning to take a residence in the new Bull Street campus. People are emotionally bound to this very special place that just 30 years ago saw its last patients leave, what was then known as the, originally known as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, this propelay fallow for decades. Looking for a vision that I would submit was developed over several years under several administrations, under several leaders of this city and as province would have it at the right time, our collective vision presented itself to us. I couldn't be more excited to be here. We were heartbroken last September when flames engulfed the Babcock building. We watched in horror as a couple collapsed into the building and some of us wondered. I know that people across the community wondered those of us who drove into here either from the west or from the northeast every single day and we saw this beautiful building, visitors often wondered if it was our capital building because of how stately it indeed was. Many begin to wonder if this viable 21st century vision that we had for this campus was in doubt and I think it's quite clear that it has never been in doubt. Because of our partners, specifically here because of our partners clacking properties, they never wavered in their commitment to making this project happen. Hugh and I shared a laugh over one phone call we had last year that was, we were perfectly fine, we were cool. We were cool but we weren't too cool with some other folks who were slowing the project down and as a result we got some real steam behind this, working with amazing professionals at the city and the county and this team and Hugh's development as well. We are now at a point where the vision is becoming a reality. Clacken as you know specializes in the renovation and management of historic properties, preserving history and creating one of a kind communities is at the heart of every project that they take on. And so now the Babcock building, Columbia's Babcock building and its couple are slated to be replaced next year, can live on not just as a symbol of the Bull Street development but as a symbol of the resilience of a great city. As of now we are six months into a 30 month construction schedule. His visit is an early sneak peek at the progress so far. We can see how Clacken will transform this rambling 254,000 square foot, a quarter of a million square feet structure in the 208, 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments when completed. The complex is going to include a pool, a dog park, a grilling garden, lounging and exercise facilities. It's going to be a gem, a gem of Bull Street and a gem for the city of Columbia, the first of five phases is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy early 2022. The entire project will be completed in three years and yes, you heard me correctly, thrilled to announce the first units will be available for occupancy in early 2022, just next year. Every few months thereafter more units will come online with every phase of vibrancy of the site and the vitality of the campus will come even more to life. It's not that far in the future, the future is now here and I know everyone's really, really excited to tour the site so I won't belabor this point, it's my pleasure to introduce the chair of the Bull Street Commission, my friend, Councilman Howard DeVall. Thank you Mayor Benjamin. On behalf of the commission, I want to express our collective excitement about the restoration of the Babcock building and the excitement we feel to have a team like the Clacken Group heading up this restoration. From the first time I met them, I could see that they had a passion for this project. It's different than their usual type of project of restoring old mills. This is a building that was built to take care of mental health facilities in South Carolina, one point of history. This is the second building on the Bull Street campus for mental health. The first building is behind us, the Robert Bill's building which was built in 1821. That means that we are celebrating the bicentennial year of mental health as a state responsibility in South Carolina. We were the second state in the United States to accept mental health services as being a state responsibility. This building, the Babcock building, was built in 12 stages and each one of them will be filled soon within two years with 208 families that will bring life and vitality to this project. We have always said that the restoration of the Babcock building was the linchpin for the successful completion of the restoration of Bull Street property. We are delighted that this is this far along. As the mayor said, there were some ups and downs and the progress getting it this far, but now that we're under construction, I can't wait to see the tour this afternoon, this morning to find out what they've done already and can't wait for the finished product to bring the 208 families to Bull Street. Thank you. And obviously we're honored to also be joined here today by Councilwoman Tamika as Divine and Councilman Will Brennan. Did you guys want to say something? No, Will, you're good? Okay. And obviously in their absence, I know that Councilman McDowell, Councilman Rickerman, and Councilman Davis, this has also been a very important project for each of them and also I think it would be remiss not to mention everyone from Councilman, Councilwoman Gurgle, Councilman Badura, Mayor Kobel, and even Councilman Cramarty and Newman, and even a late Councilwoman Plow. When you have complex projects like this, there's always going to be some really, I think, legitimate back and forth significant investment that manifests itself in a collective vision, some give and take, but also you show the stick-tuitiveness to make it happen and what we're seeing here today as it relates to the policymakers as I believe the consensus of the fact that Columbia is going to take big steps forward. I was so excited and wanted to make sure we recognize our colleagues, those who preceded us and those who have gone on the glory as well. It's my pleasure to introduce the Founder and President of Clackin Properties, the man who's going to make it all happen. Hugh Shadow, all yours, brother. Thank you. Thanks. I'm not the guy that's going to make this happen. There are hundreds of people that are going to make this happen. And so why don't I just do two things today? One is frame what you're going to see. As the mayor mentioned, we're six months into a 30-month construction cycle. So parts of the building are farther along than other parts. Parts you're going to see and you're going to be able to look at and say, I could see how that could be an apartment really soon. Other parts, you'll scratch your head wondering how we're ever going to make it an apartment. But we're going to try to show you both sides of what Babcock is today at this relatively early stage. The other thing I wanted to do is acknowledge that there are hundreds of people working on this. And I could go on and on and on talking about the impact that our architect has had or the impact that the State Historic Preservation Officer has had or the role that the fire chief had in saving the building. And I could go on and on and on, but in the interest of brevity, I just wanted to tell one story about how the community came together to make this happen. So this is a HUD loan. And HUD is very mission focused on making sure that they enable and facilitate projects that the community really wants and needs. And so we went around talking to political leaders about getting their support, asking them to write letters on our behalf. Council members, the mayor, the governor, senators, everyone was supportive. But when I go back and I read the mayor's letter, it is very heartfelt, very poignant about the role that this building plays in this community and why he felt and others feel that it's important to be done. And I think that letter was a major turning point in our ability to get a HUD loan. So I wanted to recognize that and thank you for that help. So Ryan Tobin is going to be leading us on the tour. Walter Park, our architect, did you want to say something, Mr. Park? No.  Of course, we have Katie Coleman, our project manager as well with us. And of course, whenever you get into the habit of naming names, I did not mention Councilwoman Anson Claire, who I think actually also worked on this site as well. And I think maybe the first person to raise, at least to my awareness, the importance of daylight and Smith's branch and what that could mean for this property as well. So we want to thank Councilwoman Anson Claire as well. So I think we're going to pass it off to Ryan. Let's begin this tour.


Okay, we're back here live, this is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the silver from the noise. This is SiliconANGLE's exclusive coverage of EMC World here in Las Vegas. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by my co-host. Hi everybody, I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org. Excuse me. John Taunthad is here. He's the director of marketing and business development at Avnet. John, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks a lot. Great to be here. Appreciate it. You're a very interesting company. You guys are a fantastic brand and very partner-oriented in a lot of places. So, let's start there. Tell us about Avnet. I've always been fascinated by the business model. I watched the ascendancy of Avnet during the early days of the PC and from there you just have transformed the company a number of times and have evolved. So, talk about where you guys are today and that unique business model and why you're so strong in the marketplace. Appreciate that. What, if you sort of think about distribution, it's been an evolution of sort of pick-pack-and-ship and then supply chain. And where Avnet is today is we've moved into solutions distribution. And for us, what solutions distribution means is not only helping our partners deliver solutions to the marketplace, but effectively helping them in a number of different areas, right? So, first and foremost, a services component from a marketing and verticalization approach. We actually spent a fair amount of resources at helping our partners define white space and how to go attack that white space. And then from a product perspective, VSpecs for us is a game changer, right? Because it allows us to bring the full value of our line card to the VSpecs motion and bring out really differentiated solutions. Yeah, so this move toward solutions, what's driving that? Is it just there's so much complexity in IT? Is it the, we got to do more with less, small, mid-sized businesses just don't have the resources? Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, sure. The solutions distribution comment, I think can be addressed at several levels. The first level is how our partners are taking their end solutions out to the marketplace, right? So, it's gone past a point product into a multi-branded, multi-vendor approach. I think overall, the market's driven our partners to do that. From an Avnet context, solutions distribution means that we help our partners deliver solutions in a context where they may not have the existing resources and capabilities to do that. Most of those resources has been helping our partners to define just that white space. How do they bring incremental technologies to the marketplace and find it through a verticalized market approach? So, take us back a year. So, you had this whole converged infrastructure trend. You had certain guys focusing on the infrastructure piece. Other guys like Oracle trying to do the whole stack. And you saw, for instance, Vblock come out very high-end, totally integrated. And then Vspecs announced around about last April, I think. That's right. So, what was the white space at the time and what did Vspecs fill? Sure. So, if you sort of think about Vblock and our message to the community is consistent with EMC and that is VC is the single shortest path to TCO, right? The challenge around some of our partners delivering a solution like Vblock is that choice is limited, right? So, some number of our partners have different compute choices, have different hypervisor choices, different networking choices. And so, Vspecs allows a partner to bring that ecosystem together and still deliver a converged infrastructure. So, for us, we sort of accelerate that conversation a little bit further because we've got the broadest list of Vspecs Alliance partners, right? Every one of those Alliance partners is on our line card. Yes, so, you know, it's funny, you mentioned that we used to joke with Mike Capellis, you know, any color you want as long as it's black. Right. On the cube. Black is beautiful. Yeah, okay, so, okay, so now, so why Vspecs? There's other solutions in the marketplace. I know you're a tight EMC partner, but why Vspecs? So, I think the single biggest driver for both Avnet and our partners in the most simplest of terms is choice and profitability, right? So, from a choice perspective, it significantly expands our partner's ability to pick and choose the components under EMC's proven architectures. And the second piece is it allows our partners to deliver a great deal of services, right? So, from a services enablement motion, Vspecs is probably the single biggest generator. So, Pat Gelsinger was just on the cube here, now CEO of VMware, talk about, they want to be a service broker.  They essentially, it's service brokering. So, how is this new world changing? You just mentioned some of those points. What are some of the dynamics in the marketplace that you're experiencing with the Vspecs, that in particular that kind of telegraphs the new world? Right. So, I answered it in a couple of ways. The first one is, as part of the Velocity program, we were recently authorized to provide services and specifically implementation of VNX, right? And so, what that did at that moment was significantly expand the number of partners who can deliver now a Vspec solution to the market, right? Because we're sort of think of the Verizon commercial, right? So, we're the army behind the partner that allows the partner to then deliver a variety of different solutions. That is probably the single biggest lever from our context and from an EMC context over the last several years. Right. Can you talk a little bit more, John, about services? Services means margin to a lot of partners. Absolutely. So, talk about the types of services and how that drives profitability for the partner. Sure. So, from a, most of our partners have a meaningful or substantial bench that the way they increase their profitability is about using the right bench for the right opportunity, right? And so, if you sort of think where rack and stack services and or then consulting services, say, around VMware, you clearly make a great deal more money with an EMC certified VMware engineer in a consulting environment versus a rack and stack environment. So, the partners now are allowed to sort of get out of the drudgery of the lower end part of the market and really focus on consulting services and that's really the highest part of the profitability model. Now, how are they approaching that? What can you share with us in terms of do they have to reskill, do they have to retrain and what are you and EMC doing to help them get there? Sure. So, if you sort of think about us from a pure distribution context, we sort of have three very important jobs. The first job that we have is to enable and train our partners, right? Both from a technical perspective and then from a marketing and sales enablement perspective. Avnet does a great deal of that heavy lifting. So, once we're able to operationalize a partner from a technical perspective, that partner then can go out and capitalize on sort of high-valid services. We have a service model that allows a partner to scale the partner's bench as needed, right? So, if they need sort of the lower end of services, we'll take care of that. We can augment the partner and then equally if the partner has competencies that we're not involved with, there's a great deal of partnering going on. So, you also talked about the verticalization aspect. Sure. Can you be more specific and add a little bit of color to that? What are you talking about in terms of verticals, what kind of verticals, what does that all mean? Yeah, so Avnet invested a fair amount of time, effort and energy in looking at how our partners grow and at our core, we believe that you can grow faster than the marketplace by focusing on a specific vertical. In our instance, healthcare is our single largest vertical practice that has enabled our partners to grow literally faster in some instances, two to three times faster than the market, than if they were to focus on a horizontal basis. So, if you think about healthcare and what it takes for a partner to start from zero and then be able to speak, articulate, position solutions in a healthcare environment, that is a significant value prop that we bring to the market. Okay, so when you think of verticalization, you think of the big consulting firms, like an Accenture, Deloitte, and of course the small guys can't afford those. Right, I mean, so, if I understand it correctly, you're enabling your partners to sort of do lighter weight versions of that for their customers, is that right? That's exactly right. So to your point, I think that a lot of our partners today sort of look at the market from a horizontal perspective and the cost that it takes to get the intelligence, all of the business intelligence around the data analysis of where the white space is in a particular market, right? So whether it be hospitals, where it be other healthcare providers, that takes a certain amount of investment to do. And so to your point, our small partners can't do that. And so when they partner with Avnet, we essentially accelerate their ability to get into the space and then we help them once they develop a specific vertical, we then have five others to focus on. So you guys like a machine, take some time to get all it right and then the program and then it goes. Can you talk about some of the impacts that you've had generally, but specifically with V-specs in terms of any metrics that you can share? I mean, what's the business case for the customer's benefit? Can you talk about that a little bit? Sure. So if you sort of think about the evolution of how and when V-specs was announced, it was roughly this time last year. And it started out as a reference architecture to give partners the ability to start talking about a private cloud deployment with a broad reach of compute network and storage. From the time it started to where it is today, I think a lot of partners are seeing the growth in the converge infrastructure space and that V-specs has definitely filled the void of how to accelerate delivering those solutions to the market, right? So the solutions are pre-validated by EMC, right? And so a lot of the guesswork has been removed from a DIY model to now a V-specs model. And I think with the latest announcement around services, both partner and distribution services, now we can really look at how the acceleration of V-specs can really be brought to the market. So is role your own pretty much dead in your view or still? No, I wouldn't say it's dead. I would say that everything in life sort of comes down to time and money. And so it's about ROI. If you're looking to deliver convergent infrastructures and do it quickly, DIY is still an option for partners who have the technical bandwidth to do that. The reality is if you look at what the market is looking for in terms of the desire to consume convergent infrastructures and the partner's ability to deliver that, V-specs really answers the call. And so I wouldn't say DIY is dead. I would say it's, it's... It's on live support. Yeah, it's on live support. Fair point. That's great. Well, thanks very much for coming in theCUBE. Really appreciate the time. Thank you very much. All right, everybody, keep it right there. We'll be right back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from EMC World Day Two.


Wait, so this is really going to be the most boring talk from old LGM, but I think it's the most necessary one because at the end of the day we all have to work at something. We're not going to sit into our houses or offices or desktops and pretend that we're going to start eating our keyboards and technically through internet and brief connections and interactions. That's not going to happen even if we try it at some point, but no, it's not going to work. So let me ask, how many of you are actually employees? It doesn't matter if you work as a waitress or whatever, if you have jobs. Seriously, bad you do have a job. Okay, yeah. And how many of you work into the IT industry or at least what you're here trying to present or learn about? Less than half the people that has actually jobs. And how many of you do actually enjoy what you're doing at your jobs? That's great, really great. So when you go into the business environment, for me it's always like the light side and the dark side. I mean, you get into the job like forcefully you have to wake up early and pretend that you'd like to have a coffee at 6am and commute and do all of that and think that your life has a meaning because you're earning money to keep coding and stay into the community. And it shouldn't be like that. I mean, seriously, it should not be like that because your best resource is time. People might say that knowledge or whatever, no. Everything that you get to work with in the community or in your work is because you invest time. To invest time and to learn and to have interactions and to ask people and to hang and to see videos every single time that you can with articles. And the next, the next second mandatory resource that you have is the people because we are gathered here because we actually share something that we're passionate about. So we're using your time and our time and everybody's time to gather with people that has similar interest in to create something that is probably going to make a really nice piece of software, artwork, documentation or anything. Isn't that what a community is? Like what we're doing right now, investing our time with a lot of awesome people. But what if I want to make it bigger, bigger and better and totally with a more deeply meaning? So the thing about business is that you want to keep it real. So your employees and everybody that is related in there knows what they're doing, no hiding stuff. And you want to keep it simple, but as you see, certain conditions apply. Having a business is never simple, but having a community is either simple as well. When you have to interact with just five, ten people, maybe it's manageable. But when you have a user base or a contributor space over a thousand, ten thousand people, then it goes really, really crazy. And it's even worse than having a job. Running a community as a manager, as an advocate or having something to do that you need to organize people is worse than having a job. I don't know if any of you are in a management position inside the community. If you know what I mean, yeah. Because at your work, you just go at 8 a.m. and then you left at 5 p.m. at least in my country. But then it starts the community work. And it can last until 8 a.m. from the Monday. So you are stuck two days dealing with people that doesn't get paid to you, not even a coffee man. I need a coffee. So they can both actually coexist. If we take business and we try to make something more sustainable and something more deeply than just, you know, fulfilling clients' requests and doing stuff, we can actually have a business that works as a community where people feel the value of being part of something. Well, your employees are not there just to have a meeting or just to have a job or just make some money so they can have a life outside the job. Because when you're in that community, when you read that first website and you say, OK, I'm going to use this piece of software. And then you enter into IRC and you say, OK, well, I'm going to hang up with these guys and see what they're talking about. And then you go into the ticket systems and you say, OK, I'm going to try to help them solve some parts or whatever. It's like something inside you tells you that you can be actually part of something that's something that is cool. Why can't business work the same way but getting paid? So at the end of the community is just people that is actually doing development, people that is working on UX, websites, more websites, translations, marketing, documentation. To have a piece of software, a piece or whatever, you do need people that does a lot of work. But you also need a knife. You need money for food, money for beer, to have a suitable location to work, internet, electricity, hardware, new laptops that doesn't work when you need to give a presentation, stuff like that. So why can't you have both of them? Again, so any project has developers, staff and users. And I wanted to tell you a little bit about my personal experience in this field. At some point I was so stuck into the community that I almost lost my job. It consumed my life. I was always being on IRC by people, always getting emails, always getting phone calls. Could you help us doing this? And I was the good girl, yeah, I can do everything. No, we cannot do everything. So we need to surround those of people that actually can help us. But in certain situations, then you go and see people that actually needs your help more than you need them. So I took like this experiment in my country right now. I'm from Venezuela, that crazy country. If nobody knows where it is, let me buy your coffee, please. And we don't have too many university teachers right now because they left the country. I didn't even went to university, I had to drop off because I discovered the community actually. And I took over 20 interns that were into the sixth semester and haven't even done any graphic design. And they are still doing actually graphic design. They were just reading papers that their teachers were sending through email because they didn't even went to university to read them. So I took them and told all these people, OK, so I'm trying to be independent because all the shitty works that I got didn't fill me as a person. I want to have my own studio and do the things that I like on my own rhythm and with open source because I have always been working with open source graphic tools. So let me just get to pay you to teach you what I know and let's see what happens. And the thing is that I started this with only two interns. Right now I have three only seven interns. All of them are getting paid with this but not on the country. I don't know if in other countries or internships are paid, but no. And they are actually being part of the community just by working. I don't have this red hat figure or ideas that everybody has to work for our community plus working for the job and doing all this kind of stuff. No big corporations involved just trying to learn, create and earn some money in the process. And each one of us are in a position to actually change people's life with knowledge. And you should be taking this more serious because there is people who actually uses the pieces of software that most of developers in this room are creating to live off. It's not bad to have a business and be part of a community at the same time. If you can manage to get something from both worlds then why aren't we doing that? I mean it's pretty cool just to hide and do software for fun. But if you actually have really nice software why can't we take that further? Make people have a little bit of it. So if you have a healthy environment everybody is going to win something. It's going to win knowledge, experience, friends, probably. Really nice resume because when you get out of university you're probably 25 or something and they ask somebody that is under 22 with five years experience. The student is not going to get that by only studying. You need to train them technically from the first semester. So if every single person that is in a position just to help somebody else but thinking about also work not just a tutorial to, I don't know, do frequencies or stuff like that. I mean something that is part of your experience into the real world. Why are you going to use this piece of software and not the other one? Are you using it to work with? Do you know somebody that's actually working with it and making a life of it? Then try to share those stories as well. Because that's going to really show the non geeky community that this kind of software actually works in a business and is actually being used for work, not just for fun. Do not compare software, never with anything. Just try to show people that it's worth it. It's worth to have the trip. It's worth to invest the time into creating the software. It's worth to have the time dealing with users, getting bug reports, requests and all of that. But why are we using this software? It's just because of fun. It's just because it's cool to be doing a bit of hacking. No, it's because people are going to work with it at the end. So if anybody is interested in the open source design tools, I would like to talk to you in private, because there is this crazy idea that I got some time ago. And it's to build an open source art academy. So you can teach open source art tools. And I try to emphasize in arts, because you can get the LPI, you can get all the spread out tests and all of that. But there is nothing for arts. There is nothing that as professionals, you can get into some place and say, you know how to do this. There is no certification. There is nothing beyond just showing some pictures online or some graphics. And that's not enough. That's not enough into a working environment. You need to have something that says, not like a university degree or something. But would that be something viable that the main runners of the apps would be willing to work at? Having a certification, it doesn't have to be like tests. I don't know. It can be more simple than that. But it would be viable to do it. Would you be interested to do it? So those artists who are always wondering how to demonstrate the knowledge that they have beyond just showing what they do, can they have something real to showcase that they really know that? That's what I would really like to do, if you all allow me to at least have the idea. So thank you for listening to this really boring talk. But think about it. If you can actually do something that you like and you can get money from it without hurting other people or getting involved into a really awful corporate system, then do it. Thank you so much.


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