Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Let's do this again. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today for this historic announcement. I am Chaplain Dr. Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin, and I have the distinct pleasure of serving as Chief Advisor to Mayor Eric Adams. I am thrilled to be joined by several of my colleagues, First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo, Deputy Mayor's Mira Joshi, Marie Torres Springer, Ann Morgan Isom, Sheena Wright, and the only male in the bunch, Phil Banks. Our Chief of Staff is also here, Frank Carone, New York NYPD Commissioner Keshon Sewell. Yes, come on, let's give her a hand. Corporate Counsel Justice Sylvia Hines-Raddix, Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz, and dozens of other amazing women in leadership from across our city, as well as colleagues in government, the mayor's colleagues in government. We have Assembly Member Raj Kumar, Assembly Members Resig, and Assembly Member Glick, as well as Council Majority Whip, Selvina Brook Powers, Council Members Ariela Shulman, and Russella. Thank you all for everything that you do to make our city thrive, grow, and prosper. It is indeed my privilege and honor to introduce my partner in government for close to 40 years, a man who throughout his tenure in government as a New York State Senator, former Brooklyn Borough President, and now as the mayor of our glorious city, who believes in the elevation of women, a man who understands the importance of having women in key and vital positions in his administration to, you know what we do, get stuff done. A man who has been cited and commended by the Office of the Public Advocate under Leticia James for having the most women in executive positions with the highest paid in all of New York City. Under his administration, there is no glass ceiling. The honor of knowing and working alongside Mayor Adams for decades and have seen firsthand his commitment to make sure that government reflects the diversity of the people that it is entrusted to serve. Throughout our time together, he has always focused on ensuring women, and particularly women of color, have a seat at the table, and it has helped us to drive policy for a fairer, stronger, and more equitable New York City. Just as he did when he announced that this administration would be the first in New York City's history with five deputy mayors, female deputy mayors, today's announcement represents another important step, and this mayors continue commitment to breaking down barriers. As I said, I will re-editate no glass ceilings in this administration. It is my utmost pleasure to present to you because he needs no introduction. Our 110th Mayor, Eric Adams. Thank you. Thank you. It was, no Tommy, just give me my cards when you get a moment, Tommy. It was important for me to have Ingrid do the introduction because she's right. We talked about this moment for so many years of as we went through this journey together on our analysis of government, our analysis of corporations, our analysis of how we run cities and institutions. It's just always that men will be the face and the women will be in place to make things successful. And when we built this team, we built this team with that concept in mind, making sure that we find qualified people to do the job. And that's what we hear today when you think about what Laura represents. And it's not an easy task to go through the vetting process that she went through. Phil Banks led our national search and many people presented their resumes and their credentials. Laura was going to be part of this administration no matter what. We knew her skillset, we knew her abilities. And I shared with her, I wanted her to be part of our team from the beginning. And she was willing to do whatever was needed. She said, my heart is with the FDNY but whatever way I could help the city, I'm willing to do so. And while we put in place the national search, looking over several names and interviewing several candidates, I kept coming back to Laura over and over again. Over and over again, I just kept coming back to her leadership and how devastating it was when the chief of the department, Laura and I had to respond to the fire in the Bronx. When we lost members of the department just in the few months we were here, we lost firefighters, both to acting and their official capacities while putting out fires and then while on duty and being assaulted. And each time I walked into the hospital with her, each time I spoke with the family, each time we had to go to a scene it didn't matter if it was three, four a.m. in the morning, she was one ring away and many times she was there before anyone else. Her style of leadership and commitment is just a reflection of what this city has to offer. Yes, this is historic. The first woman to lead the largest fire department in the country. So powerful and so significant. Just a moment that we have to think about this accomplishment. For every little girl, for every mother who has just wanted their babies to have the same opportunities as others, not to have a greater advantage but just not to have a disadvantage. Gender should not define who we are and what we could become. And this is not the first as Ingrid alluded to. There was no more proud and significant moment for me than when I was able to appoint Keith Sean Sewell to be the police commissioner of the city of New York and to the men who are here. What does that say about us? That we are willing not only to shatter the glass ceilings that we are willing to say we are confident enough in our abilities that we could be side by side without women leadership. The men of this city, you should be proud. You're sending a message to every agency and administration across the globe that the FDNY is the most important fire department in the country. And when you say as men in this agency that you will follow the leadership no matter what the gender may be, you are raising your standard as firefighters and you are willing to face the future head on. You earned the right to be called the bravest not only because you're willing to go into the flames of uncertainties and buildings but the flames that keep our futures burned down over and over again. I take my hat off to the men and women of the FDNY for this moment. And since February, Laura has served us well. She has served us in her role as the acting commissioner of the FDNY. She has done so much during her time here in service. She have lead the FDNY's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2015. She was very much part of the COVID impact on our city in 2020 and continued her leadership under my administration as the acting commissioner. She directed a firefighter recruitment program that resulted in the most diverse applicant pool in the department's history and graduated the largest and most diverse class of women in three decades. She has taken the lead in distributing smoke alarms at risk communities thinking differently and using technology like the new drone unit and FireCAD system in the department's incident command app. This is allowing us to provide real-time updates for fire units. And she has also made progress, reducing the backlog of business waiting for fire inspections, cutting the wait time in half. New Yorkers in New York City Braves deserves an exceptional leader. And Laura has the vision, skills, the compassion to lead the FDNY into the future. I thank her. I thank former commissioner, commissioner Nigro for his leadership. Even as he transitioned from his leadership, he was clear that he wanted to be here to make sure we had that smooth transition. This is what makes us special as a city. The continuation of knowledge and experience is allowing us to continue to function at the high capacity that we are. And this is so important for us to be here today with the visualization of the people who are part of our agency. Others are trying to write our story. Others are trying to put in the history books of what we have done and what we have not done. And my team, if we don't write our own stories, they would define it for us. This has been an unprecedented team of leaders. So many firsts, first allowing children to be screened from dyslexic, first increase in the number of summer youth employment, first increasing in earned income tax credit, the night of success, there's so much we have done. Yes, there's so much we have to do. But in order to accomplish that, you must build the right team. And no one is going to tell me how to build that team. The people of the city elected me to be the mayor of the city of New York to navigate us out of these turbulent waters that we are facing. And I built that team. And that team consists of some of the best people in general, specifically some of the best women the city has to offer. And now it gives me great pleasure to give the oath of office to our fire commissioner.  She's holding the Bible that was given to you by your grandmother. I know this is a significant moment for you your grandmother's looking down on you. So if you will raise your right hand, say your name. Laura Kappel.  Do solemnly swear that I will support? Do solemnly swear that I will support? The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the state of New York. The Constitution of the state of New York. And the Charter of the City of New York. And the Charter of the City of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge? And that I will faithfully discharge? The duties of commissioner of the fire department of New York City. The duties of commissioner of the fire department of New York City. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations, commissioner Laura Kappel. I was doing okay until I had to do that with mom, so forgive me. That was very special, so thank you. Oh, you're stuffed. Teamwork, getting stuffed on. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. For this privilege, this honor, and your trust and faith in me to lead this truly extraordinary department and its thousands of amazing historic dedicated people. To say it is the honor of a lifetime is an understatement. This story, my story, is a quintessentially New York City story. New York City's story is fundamentally one of making the impossible possible. Where a shy introverted only child could get a one-way ticket to New York City seeking to serve a higher purpose in the best city on earth. And two decades later, find yourself here leading the greatest fire department in the world through unprecedented times is something that could only happen here. Every person standing behind me, this mayor and all of these women are stories that are simply not possible anywhere else. Look at this picture. I almost cannot believe it. The FDNY2 is about making the impossible possible. Pulling lives from a wrecked car or from a burning building, bringing back people teetering on the cusp of death so that they can return home to their loved ones. Of rebounding from the lowest lows to the highest highs. Our city, our department stands above the rest. And I know New York City is the greatest city in the entire world because I chose it. I have lived in every borough and I have worked in every community. This city is the love of my life and I am relentlessly optimistic about its future. The FDNY makes up some of the very strongest strands of our city's DNA. It is seared into the psyche of New Yorkers. It is one of the most storied and hallowed institutions in New York and in the world. It touches thousands of lives every day without missing a beat. In raging infernos or car crashes or heart attacks or super storms or terror attacks, the FDNY shows up, shows us that the very best of humanity is there in our darkest moments. That is because the FDNY is made of everyday people that we all know. A dad, a sister, an uncle, a daughter, people who answered the call to serve to do extraordinary things. Its strength comes from its people, from the bonds they've built, their bonds to one another, their bonds and their eternal commitment to our city and their mission to serve and help others. The people of the FDNY, 17,000 firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, fire marshals, fire inspectors and civilian personnel have provided me with an enduring faith in something that I was raised with and I have long known to be true. That where you build a community, you create a force multiplier that does extraordinary things. This is the type of FDNY commissioner I will be. One that knows that I will succeed only if every person in my department and in our city sees my place as the table as also their own. This moment, me being first, only matters if I am not the last. Having a woman in this role is a change but change provides opportunity. Change in fact is the only constant in life and if we embrace it, change is a gift. It provides an opportunity to bring more people into the gift that is the FDNY. It is a reminder that we are alive and that we can move something we love forward to be even stronger. Change is what has made this department in this city continually stronger. It is why we are the best. This is a new look for the New York City Fire Commissioner but we should remember that our department has changed very much over its 157 year history and it has always emerged better for it over the years. Change is not about losing those core values that bond us and drive us. Bravery, sacrifice and service. No, change is about this department and this city getting continually stronger. It is why we are the best and we will always stay the best. It is why we have come back from the hardest times and the darkest days when we have been counted out. Thank you Mayor Adams for having faith in me. Thank you to the men and women of the FDNY who inspire me every single day truly. You are the reason I get up in the morning and thank you to my parents for giving me the exact right mix of love and toughness and for instilling a fierce belief that you can make the world a better place if you fully dedicate yourself to making it so. The FDNY has never met a mission that they could not complete. Let's get to work. We're gonna open the floor up but I'm going to tell you be very careful because these women are not gonna take any mess today. Hi, how you doing? Good. Yes, and Laura could respond as well. And you're right. It's, as you know, when Ingrid and I sat down and we did an analysis of just how many appointments we were going to do and we were blown away to see how many firsts we had to say and part of the mission was that we stated that we were going to just open our eyes. And the talent is all around us but the fact is we were just not open in our eyes. I will argue with anyone that, you know, appointed in the first Latino to the Department of Correction, he is one of the most talented individuals in corrections in this country. We just had to open our eyes and look, appointing the police commissioner. You know, Kishan is really shaping and taking this police department in another direction. I mean, who would have thought in her short period of time she was gonna have a double digit decrease in homicide, double digit decrease in shootings which I said was my primary focus and what she's continuing to do. And I mean, what this team has done, first of Filipino deputy mayor and deputy mayor Maria Torres Stringer, what she's doing, first Indian deputy mayor and Mayor Joshi and what she's doing. So, you know, we sat there and we were intentional. We said we're gonna look for the best but we're going to open our eyes because the best is among us. The best has just been ignored and you're right. For 2022 for us to still say the first, that's an indictment on what we have been doing but today is a day where we're gonna make sure the first is not the last commissioner. Yeah, I just wanna emphasize that. I think that, you know, it is easy to say what we want to change, it is harder to do it. And one of the things I have appreciated about this administration is that we are dedicated to getting stuff done. And the mayor has made a real commitment to that. And the women are there, the talent, the diverse talent all over the city is there but it takes a leap to do something different. And I think that's what we've done here. I think it's what I've done in the department. I think it's what you've tasked us with doing. And that's what it takes. It takes making the leap and we're finally doing that. I couldn't be more proud. Yes.  Yeah. Number one, I had to get it right. I understood policing. And it was easy for me to look at the commissioners that Chief Banks and his team, Sheena, Ingrid and the rest vetted the commissioners for policing. It was easy for me to look it over and sit down and talk about the things that I needed in the police department. And that's why it was easy for me to land on Commissioner Sewell. I didn't know FDNY. I didn't understand the culture. I didn't understand the agency. And this is an organization that is rooted in tradition. And you can't just drop anyone in FDNY. You better make sure you speak to, I had a number of conversations with the chief, the unions, the men and women. I would come in five houses and slide down the pole and just ask them what their thoughts were about the commissioner. And I just had to get it right. And it took the amount of time. And I had someone in place. And the house wasn't burning. She was holding it down. And from the time that we spent together over the last 10 months, I just saw that, like I said, I just kept coming back to the same person. I saw, I was hearing from the rank and file in the field. I was hearing from the men and women of the union. I was hearing from the leadership. And even when they critique, no one could take away her capabilities. And like I said, I wanted her in my administration no matter what. I knew that I needed her leadership. And it was the right fit. And it was the right time and fire safety month before we get out of the month.  Thank you. Thank you, everyone.


I want to talk to you about the stronghold of addiction. Now, there are many different forms of addiction. There's drug addiction, alcohol addiction, porn addiction, food addiction. So many different things can become addiction. I want you to remember this about addiction. People ask me all the time, Brother David, let's just use drug addiction for an example or alcohol addiction, like a substance. People ask me all the time, Brother David, is that spiritual or is that physical? And I tell them it's both. All addictions have some form of demonic influence. How can they not think about what an addiction does? It destroys someone who carries the image of God. Every addiction, every addiction that is destructive to the life of someone who bears the image of God has some element of demonic influence in it. You just look at addiction. Look what addiction does in someone's life. In someone's life. You tell me what other kind of influence could make a parent abandon their child. You tell me what other kind of influence can make someone give up everything that God blessed them with to pursue the pleasures of the world. There is demonic influence in all forms of addiction. Period. Now, don't confuse demonic deception for other forms of demonic attack. And I want to show you how this works. Okay, in just a moment. So it's partly demonic. It's partly the sin nature. And then it's partly physiological. Now, when I say that an addiction is partly demonic, people who don't believe in the supernatural say, oh, you're crazy. Oh, you're demon obsessed. Oh, you don't know what you're talking about. Oh, you're superstitious. And they neglect the reality of the supernatural. And then when I say that there's a physiological element to addiction, the people who are superstitious say, no, it's completely demonic. And there's nothing else a part of it that needs to be addressed. Both sides are wrong. An addiction is demonic in nature. It's fleshly in nature. And it's physiological in nature. Now, when I say fleshly, I'm using that term as it pertains to the sin nature. And that word you have to watch, because sometimes when the word flesh is used, it's talking about the sin nature. And other times when the word flesh is used, it's talking about the physical body. So context will give the meaning to that particular word. You have to address all these areas. Now let me show you how addiction works. Here's how addiction works. It begins with deception that gives way to yielding to temptation. You say, how does addiction begin with deception? Well, think about this. All temptation is rooted in deception. In Matthew 4, you can go look at it later when the Lord Jesus was tempted by the devil in the wilderness. The devil would tempt him with lies or the challenge to his identity, which was a form of deception, if you are the Son of God. That's deception. That's the challenging of the truth. So deception is the framework for temptation. Deception is what gives temptation its power. So deception says the sin will satisfy, the drug will satisfy, the sex will satisfy, the alcohol will satisfy, overeating will satisfy. And then that deception gives way to temptation. Or another lie could be the presence of God can't fulfill you like this can. Or this doesn't have any real consequences. These are the lies we believe that cause us to yield to temptation. The ultimate lie being that it's worth it. Temptation produces sin. That sin becomes habitual. Now watch this. At some point, the habitual sin becomes a physical problem. Hear me now. At some point, the habitual sin becomes a physical problem. Watch this now. Deception, that's the demonic aspect. Temptation, that's a combination of your flesh and the demonic. Because the Bible says that when we're tempted, we're tempted because we're carried away by our own lusts. And then the Bible also makes it clear that the devil tempts us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. That's crying out for deliverance from temptation. Temptation is demonic and fleshly. Sin is of the flesh. You choose to sin. Demons can tempt you, but you choose to sin. And then it becomes habitual. Now the flesh is getting stronger with habitual sin. Now watch this. Eventually, that habitual sin of the sin nature, of the carnal nature, begins to become addiction. Now you've got a physiological problem on your hand. You have to deal with the demonic. You have to deal with the sin nature. And you have to deal with the body. So to deal with the demonic, you have to realize that the enemy is going to seek opportunities to tempt you. Now the context here will consider it, and then I'll show you the principle that we're gleaning from this. 1 Corinthians chapter seven, verse five, do not deprive each other of sexual relations talking to married couples, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so that you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. So he's talking to married couples saying, look, if you want to fast, if you will, sexual intimacy for the sake of prayer, you can do that, but watch the warning he gives. Afterward, you should come together so that Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. You see the combination there? Temptation of the devil, self-control. That's you. That's the flesh. So he can only tempt you because of your lack of self-control. He can only tempt you because of the desires that you have in the sin nature. Now watch this. This also shows us that the enemy looks for opportune moments. He looks for the moments that you are weakest and he tempts you with what tempts you most. And he'll always come after you in your weak points. And so, what's the answer? You defeat the enemy. The Bible gives it clearly here, James 4-7. So humble yourselves before God or submit yourselves before God. Resist the devil and he will flee. What does the Bible say, guys? Guys, what does the Bible say? Resist the devil and he'll fight. Resist the devil and he'll hide near you? No. It says resist the devil and he will flee. Now this has to be done from time to time. Whenever those temptations arise. How do you resist the devil? How did Jesus do it? It is written. You fight him with the word. You combat him with truth. It is written. So you resist the devil and he flees. So the temptation or the role that demons play in temptation is dealt with when you resist the devil, rebuke the devil in the authority of Christ. Simple exercise of authority. Now, then you have to deal with the sin nature. Romans 8.6-8 says, So letting your sinful nature control your minds leads to death. But letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. So the sinful nature is always hostile to God. Remember, it's both demonic and of the sin nature. Addiction is both demonic and of the sin nature. I want to be clear because when I talk about the physical elements of addiction, people are going to say, You don't believe it's demonic? And when I talk about the demonic elements of addiction, people are going to say, You don't believe it's of the physiological nature? We have to address both because both of these are realities. So letting your simple nature control your minds leads to death. But the spirit controls your mind will lead to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. How do you do this? Let the spirit control your mind. You should implement practical measures like accountability, like discipline, like exercising your will to resist. And that's part of it. But I'll tell you this. While you should strive against sin, you must also surrender to the spirit. Surrendering to the spirit solves 99% of the problem. Striving against sin solves 1% of it, but you need to do both. Yes, act against it. Yes, discipline. Yes, willpower. But now you also have to surrender to the spirit. How do you do that? Renewing your mind to the word, daily prayer, asking for his guidance, being mindful of his presence, slowing down your pace so that he has time to speak to you. These are all things that matter when it comes to dealing with addiction. Now, how do you deal with the physical body? Remember this. The eventual result of habitual sin is physical addiction. Let me read something to you. This is from my book coming out in June of 2023, Holy Spirit, The Bondage Breaker. It's a fact that the body and the brain can be altered, restructured to the point where its sinful cravings can be as strong as hunger, if not stronger. In the case of drugs and alcohol, your body becomes dependent upon the substance. At that point, in extreme cases, the body's need for advice can become life-threatening. Once the addiction has reached this point, willpower and discipline alone begin to lose their strength. The body begins to act on what it's been trained to do and crave. Sadly, these cravings are so strong that men and women give up all they love to fulfill them. I've seen parents abandon children, spouses abandon spouses, and people give up everything they've worked to achieve for just one more taste of what they crave. So the nature of addiction is thus, it begins in deception. That deception makes you more vulnerable to temptation. You choose to yield to that temptation. That yielding to temptation becomes a habit.  By the time the bondage has become an addiction, there are physical elements to it. Addiction is the physical consequence of a constant yielding to temptation. Let me say that again. Addiction is the physical consequence of a constant yielding to temptation. So you keep choosing to yield and to yield. The flesh gets stronger, stronger, stronger, and eventually the flesh begins to alter brain chemistry and bodily cravings to where now you're dealing with an addiction. So if it's come to this point, what do you do? Number one, and this is addressing now the physiological element. Remember we talked about the demonic, we talked about the flesh, now we're talking about the physiological element. Number one, deal with it early. James 1, 14 and 15 say, temptation comes from our own desires which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. So address it while it's still a smaller problem. This may not apply to everyone, but if you're noticing it beginning to form, you have to take action now. Number two, deal with it practically and spiritually. Now remember this, God can heal anyone of anything. I've seen drug addicts, I'm talking like heroin. I'm talking meth, I'm talking lifelong alcoholics. I've seen them delivered in an instant. And I would call that a deliverance slash healing because their physical body is being touched by the power of the Holy Spirit. And I've seen them never touch drugs again, never touch alcohol again and so forth. God does that, but that's not always the case. We cannot try to fit God in our boxes. God doesn't want to be put in a box. Those who say he can't heal people miraculously don't know what they're talking about. And those who say that God doesn't sometimes require of us to walk a journey, they don't know what they're talking about either. It's both and not either or. God does not want to be put in a box. And so yes, God can heal it instantly, but if he doesn't, you deal with it spiritually. Prayer, fasting, reading the word, church attendance, accountability, all of these things.  I got to be careful with the way I say this because not all practical attempts at addressing addiction are biblically consistent. Be very careful with where you go to get the help with the physical element. Be very careful who you get counsel from. Be very careful with medication and so forth. Really pray through these things and use discernment because there's lots of confusion there on some of these issues. But generally speaking, this is not to say there are no problems with these industries. Generally speaking, Jesus is not against medical professions. Matthew 9.12 says, But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Now Jesus here is talking about the fact that sinners need him, not the people who think they aren't sinners. But context considered, he's actually speaking positively of physicians. So he has nothing against them. Even when he healed the lepers, he told them, go and have yourselves checked, of course, by the religious leaders, but he's not against medical practice. Now there are some who say, you can't counsel out demons. And I agree, you cannot counsel demons out. You have to cast demons out. You can't rebuke what needs to be counseled and vice versa. But that doesn't mean that there's no room for this. Because once you've addressed the demonic power in the unbeliever, you have to cast it out with the believer, you rebuke it so that it's silent. And then now once you're dealing with the sin nature, that's up to the individual to submit themselves to God. And then you're dealing with the physiological element. God could heal that person. Absolutely positively. I've seen him do it 1000 times and many more. But when God doesn't do that, and sometimes he doesn't move the way we want him to move, it's okay to apply practical techniques as long as you're using discernment when you do so. And then finally, you want to deal with it aggressively. Romans 13, 14 says, But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, that's the sin nature, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Don't give the man of sin opportunity. If you're struggling with pornography, get rid of your phone and your internet connection. You say, David, how will we watch you? Get a friend who can show you our videos. You do what you must. You're struggling with the drug addiction.  I'm serious. I can't tell you how many times I've sat across from someone who says, I want to be free. I want to be free. And we've rebuked the devil. They're dealing with the sin nature. They're trying. But they just can't overcome that physical element. I say, I'll pay for you to go to rehab, but you have to leave because this area is not good for you. It's not good to be around these friends. And they'll say, oh, I don't know, it seems too drastic and they don't want to do it. It's okay. Then you don't really want freedom that badly. You have to deal with it aggressively, drastically. Jesus said, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off. And I'm not telling you to literally amputate your hand. What Jesus was talking about there was the severity of sin and how we should take great measures to avoid it. So you talk about the man of sin and this addiction. You're serious about this. Okay. Get serious. Prove it.  I really been really been praying and I just can't.  Prove it. Move away from where you can get the connections. Get rid of your phone.  Get rid of the internet connection. Get rid of social media. You should not even be on social media. You say, well, how do you receive these teachings and so forth? Well, I'll tell you, have a friend download them for you. Get a flip phone. Make no provision for the flesh. How serious are you? You do that for a season and then when that's broken and you can handle those things again, come back to it. But if you're serious about it, you'll get serious about it. Everyone I've talked to and I need to be careful about the way I say this because there are nuances to everyone's struggle. But generally speaking, the people I've talked to who've overcome these things with the Holy Spirit's help either were miraculously and instantly healed or they took aggressive action against this thing. And until you do that, you're not serious. I told you, I'm just going to tell you the truth, guys. I'm just going to tell you the truth. So you got to deal with the demonic. Resist the devil and he will flee. All addiction has some form of demonic influence. No one can convince me otherwise. All addiction has some form of demonic influence, period. Dealing with the sin nature, Romans 8, 6 to 8, let the spirit guide your life. Let's do practical basics of Christian living. Number three, deal with the body. How do you do that? You deal with it early. You deal with it practically and spiritually and you deal with it aggressive.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today we are switching gears just for a little bit to talk about something that is very relevant in this game right now, this next three days. These next three days, we have the last matchday of the European competitions, Champions League, Europa League and the Conference League. And that means that road to the knockout cards, this is their last chance for their teams to win another game or to get in a position in their competition where they would be moving to the knockout stages and that would upgrade some of these cards inside of FIFA. So big games today, tomorrow and on Thursday. I want to take a look at some of these fixtures and these road to the knockout cards, how I think they're going to act because again, these cards, we have not actually ever had road to the knockouts, right? We have always had road to the finals, but these cards are different because after this week and after the upgrades that come on these cards, which I'll talk about a potential timeframe for when these will upgrade, these cards are basically done, right? After this week, there's no more live aspect to these cards because again, it was all about getting to the knockouts, right? It's not road to the final. It's road to the knockout. So I want to talk about the matchday six that is today and how I think some of these cards are going to be impacted on the market as a lot of them are rising. People are investing in them for these upgrades that are going to be coming very soon. Fred is 500K, 490,000 coins for this Fred card. It's crazy. A lot of these cards are going up in price because people are expecting these upgrades very, very soon. So I want to talk about that also Tuesday content, right? I want to talk about the team of the group stage promo that is currently going on. Of course, a lot of these cards that a lot of you guys are wanting to know when is a good time to be investing in these. I don't think we're at that point yet because we are going to have more supply of these cards on the market today on Tuesday with UEFA Marquis matchups. So we'll talk about that as well and other Tuesday content and even look back yesterday at Monday just a little bit how we made some coins and the 75 plus player picks kind of a mess up from EA but that has been fixed. It's been rectified and now those player picks are operating as normal and as usual. So but let's get into it with road to the knockouts because this is really big, right? This is one of the biggest topics this week with these cards because as we all know and as we all have been watching these cards, they're getting close to their upgrades, right? Your beloved Bernardo Silva, your Fikir getting very close to an additional upgrade on those cards as we head towards the end of the group stages. Now I want to point out one major thing from this road to the knockout cards, right? Again, there's only two ways that they upgrade for getting the three wins or for qualifying for the knockout stages, right? Some cards that have gotten three wins have already already been awarded a plus one one upgrade, right? Sane is now an 89, the Dolls an 86, Rodrigo's an 86, Graven Birch is an 84. But I want to really point your attention down here at the bottom, right? Because this is really where I'm driving a lot of my points and where I think these cards are going to move in the next honestly week. A lot of these road to the knockouts are going to have crazy price movements in the next week because road to knockout players are only eligible for upgrades during the group stages, right? So these cards will no longer be live after this week, right? I think what's going to happen is if you guys remember earlier about a couple, about a week ago, it was actually seven days ago or eight days ago now, last Monday, November 29th is when they upgraded these road to knockout cards that have gotten three wins, right? If they got three wins, they got their upgrade, that might be the new upgrade time for these road to the knockout cards. So for all of you guys wanting to know, all right, Ajax, they're basically through, right? Ajax is going to get another upgrade. They're through to the knockout rounds. This Graven Birch is going to go to an 86. When's that going to happen? I think there's two kind of scenarios for that. EA used to upgrade these cards on Fridays. And now it seems like after the first upgrade, they upgraded them last Monday. So it might be like a Monday around midnight UK time frame or maybe I think it was like 10 p.m. UK on Monday when they upgraded these cards last week. So that might be the kind of thing we're expecting. Again, unless they do it differently, if they do it on Friday or some point during this next weekend, this coming weekend inside of the Foot Freeze promo because last year road to the finals were incorporated into Foot Freeze. So they might upgrade the cards a little bit early this time. I don't know. But sometime after Thursday, you can expect these cards to get upgraded and that will be their final upgrade. Now, where does this play into right now in the market? Again, as we look, so many of these cards are rising up in value. Fred is suspect number one. This Fred card on Friday was 399,000 coins. Fred is literally up almost 100K over the weekend and into today on Tuesday. It's crazy, right? Why are these cards up? Because people are expecting upgrades. They're expecting Manchester United to beat young boys when they play later on this week. They're expecting Bayern, right? We even have a showdown SBC with the Suley and with the Piquet that is kind of highlighting this game with Bayern and Barcelona. This Sane card was 280 over the weekend. He's now up to 310,000 coins. Literally every single one of the road to the knockouts right now in this game that has potential to get upgraded is up in price. They are up in price at the moment because again, people are expecting these upgrades to come. So with these cards up higher in price than what they were before, especially the ones that are getting upgraded, right? Now, there's a couple interesting places to talk about today. There's a lot of scenarios, right? But I want to talk about something first that is overarching for I think 90% of these cards. I think that almost all of these road to the knockouts cards by the end of next week. So I'm talking like after the upgrades, all of these cards are going to be dropping in price because a lot of why these cards are the price. They are like Timo Werner being a million coins on this game. Yes, I know Timo Werner is going to be 90 rated because Chelsea are through and they've already got the 3-win upgrade. So he went from an 88 to an 89. This has one more upgrade coming to it. But a lot of why these cards are so expensive in price is because they kind of have that upgrade hype and potential built into them and people buy these cards when they're in packs and they literally hold on to them until the last upgrade happens and then they sell. You look at these road to the final cards from last year, they always drop off in price heavily when there's no more upgrades possible for these cards, right? So especially since these cards are done upgrading after this week, then I honestly think that a lot of these cards are going to drop in price. I think this Werner is significantly overpriced, still at a million coins. That is way too high for me. I think Fred is overpriced. I mean, even from the lower tier level, I feel like this Renan Lodi is a bit overpriced. I know he has the insane links to Vinny Jr. But his upgrade is very much on the line. This is a very interesting card that we're going to have to keep an eye on today as group B, which I believe Athletic Go are in. Yes, group B has games today on Tuesday. So group A, B, C, and D are playing today on Tuesday. And out of all these groups, the only one that can really cause some turmoil and some commotion for prices on the market and for upgrades to these cards is really group B. All the other groups are like locked in. Dortmund is not going to be making it in, Sporting and IX are basically confirmed through. But for group B is Liverpool and the fight for second place between Porto, Milan, and Athletico. Now on Wednesday and Thursday, when you bring in the second day of the Champions League games, you've got a battle for second place in group E with Barcelona and Benfica, Villarreal, Atlanta vying for second place in group F. Even Villarreal at first place if Man United were to lose. And then group G has a lot of action going on between these four teams. So these live items are still going to be moving. The ones that are expected to win, right?  They're expected to get that double upgrade, to finish first in the group, get those three wins, and move on to the knockout rounds. A lot of those cards are up the most. These are the cards, in my opinion, that after they get their upgrade, you're going to see some of the biggest drops on.  And a lot of people are going to want to use him. But again, like I mentioned, so many people are just holding onto these cards, waiting for the upgrades. And I think that's going to drop some of their prices. I'm really scared about this Diyoung. I'm honestly very scared about this Diyoung. I know that it has a decent upgrade in pace, defense, and shooting over this Informed Diyoung. But the Informed is 245K, which is actually up. But that for me, this card has a lot of room to drop. Like this Diyoung card could literally be 400,000 coins later on this week. After, in my opinion, I think Bayern's going to beat Barcelona. That's just my opinion. But if that happens, this card is going to drop off a ton because it's not going to get any upgrades. And it doesn't have a live aspect to it anymore, right? I know that road to the finals that we again, we've been talking about, you look at these graphs as well. This is Luis Muriel from last year, right? He got very high on this last matchday in December, right? And then Champions League and all these European competitions, they're done until like February when the knockout rounds kind of heat up again. So you always see a bit of a drop off. But take a look at this, right? Muriel from 100,000 coins, right when the upgrade happens, boom, he goes down because everybody sells. Same thing with Yvonne Parisich from last year, right? Boom, 51,000 coins down to 16K. I think this card was, they were knocked out of the competition, I believe. And so there were no more further upgrades going to be placed on these cards. So for a lot of these road to the knockouts, they're just, they're going to lose their live upgrading status this week. So like, I've got some D up that is on my transfer list at the moment. Now, of course, a lot of these cards, they're going to probably stay high. If they're getting upgraded, I think they're going to stay higher in price until, you know, this weekend, whenever the upgrades get very close and when the upgrades actually happen, that's when I think you'll see a lot of the prices like dive down as there'll be more people looking to sell than to buy. On a few of these cards, again, like TapSoul, but even D up with an upgrade, it's going to go to an 85, then to an 86, if he gets the double, then, you know, some of these cards are going to look really, really good. Like Gravenbridge. So many people are investing in Gravenbridge. You're probably going to see these cards maintain a pretty high price until the upgrades happen. So either this weekend or next Monday. But I honestly think that the peak for a lot of these cards is, in my opinion, going to be, especially with a big time freeze promo expected to come later this weekend, I think the peak is going to be like during the game, like especially this Gravenbridge or maybe even post game goes up to like a little over 100,000 coins. We have a lot of IAX links right now that are pushing this card up even further. I mean, this is a card that is very hyped up and I would sell into that hype, right? So that's kind of where I'm coming from with a lot of these cards. It's going to be very interesting to watch like Tonali, Manafa, and the Ren and Lodi, like I mentioned, because those cards are on the brink of getting in. If cards do not get in, like I think this Royce is going to get destroyed in price, because this card can't upgrade. And I know he's up right now because of the links to Suley. But like he's, last time, he went from 355k down to 218, right? That was kind of during Black Friday as well. But now he's kind of risen back to 332. But again, I don't know if people are still thinking that Dortmund are in it or something. I don't know why this card keeps rising up with all the road to the knockouts. They are out. They are literally out. They are not moving on. And I think a lot of people are forgetting that these cards don't upgrade past the group stages. So that's kind of my talk about road to the knockouts. Now I've got a few of them that are on my transfer list still at the moment. I don't have any investments that I made recently. But a lot of these cards that I bought, I bought them during Black Friday. I bought D.O.P.S at 27,000 coins. Again, we just looked at him and he's like 40,000 coins. I have a couple other ones in the club. I think that's all that I have on my transfer list. But I have a couple other random ones in the club that I bought. I think like an L-Shot like 22 or 23k and stuff like that. So I'm going to be looking to sell some of these cards off this week. You know, as the hype is still very, very high. Is it D.O.P.? No, I always get it wrong. What's this guy's first name? D.O.P. Sofian? Dang it. I'm going to find this out. I better just go look at his card because football knowledge is escaping me at the moment. What is this guy's first name, man? There's so many D.O.P.S. Dude, wait. I was on. Is it what? Oh man, I messed it up. Anyways, he's like 40,000 coins. You're going to laugh at that in the comments. I already know it. But I'm just going to sell that in the hype, right? Again, that center back card from the Prem is going to look pretty good if West Ham can get another W. It's going to get the double upgrade, I believe.  But I'm going to sell in the hype because I would rather take my safe coins there and then just move on and move forward. So I just see a lot of those cards dropping off in price in the next week or so. So I wanted to kind of give you this warning today on this video and talk up through a few of these just so that if you're holding these as investments, my gut feeling is to sell on the hype because, again, it's going to be even bigger drop offs than what we saw with Road to the Finals, like the Muriel and the Parisage that I showed you because these cards literally, they're just going to become informs and have no more live aspect to them. Although they are pretty rare and they will still be good to trade with, there'll be a lot of great fluctuations with these cards. Long-term, they're not going to hold and their value that they have so far because there's no more upgrades to them. So that's all the information on the Road to the Knockouts that I want to share with you. Let's look again at today on Tuesday in terms of this market and this content that we should be seeing today. Now, since it is a Champions League day, like we mentioned, there's going to be Road to the Final or Road to the Knockout movements. But there's also going to be Champions League team of the group stage movements as well because we're going to have some tradeable pack supply coming into this game today with UEFA Marquis matchups. And I think people are expecting this as well. Every single UCL match they expect this stuff. That's a nice undercut on Lewandowski to 70. But if I can't get a sale at 290, I mean, I really don't think I will either, then I'm not going to mess with that. But a lot of these cards went up yesterday. If we take a look at this team, people got their Weekend League rewards. I bought, if you saw last night's video, I was buying Antony's at 150k. I sold them for 197. He actually went up to like 240. So I sold too early on that one. But Tiago Jalo, Don Ruma has been a really good flip. A lot of these cards, Lewandowski, Chiesa have actually gone up in price from where they were before rewards. I think these cards are going to take another dip today. There's going to be people knowing that the supply is coming. And of course, we have player picks that are out as well. So EA released a 75 plus player pick yesterday that was at first an error. And now it has been fixed. The 75 plus player pick is here and it's able to be done like normal. Why don't we just do one for the video sake right now, just for the fun of it. But yesterday when they released this, it was like messed up. And it was actually non-repeatable, which is a pain. Because of course, if you're wanting to do this SBC, you're probably wanting to do more than one of them when you go and set these up. So that's why there were some issues with this SBC yesterday. But it has been fixed and it looks like it's working now. And this is going to impact the market a little bit because you're going to have some of these cards as we get our chemistry there. Boom. You're going to have some of these cards and some of these people on this game selling Team of the Groups Age cards to do a few upgrade packs. And because they know supply is coming today with the UEFA Marquee matchup. So I do honestly expect to see Team of the Groups Age cards dropping into today on Tuesday with that supply. Might be a good time to trade with some of them and to flip a few of them. Oh, an inform. I will take that. We'll take a nice little inform. Thank you, sir. That's why these player picks are actually not that bad. So I'm going to be doing a few of these this week to try to maybe craft this like SBC, get some fodder in the club ahead of Foot Freeze, which is a huge promo for SBC fodder. But yeah, I get to think that most people are going to pull the demand on the market is going to be lessened, right? Because yesterday you had people that were getting their weakening rewards, going out and trying out some of these brand new players. That's why you saw the fluctuations and the movements on these cards that you did, right? People got coins, they got rewards, and they said, Hey, I'm going to go try one of these cards out in my team right now. A little bit of gameplay, man. But again, with the people knowing supplies coming today, that's why you're seeing Anthony was 230,000 coins. He's now down to 200k as people are, you know, selling this card like they this guy bought them, used them for a few games and said, All right, I'm going to sell them. And I think you're going to see these prices drop a decent amount today on Tuesday, as well. I don't expect any other type of crazy content today, unless EA is of course, as they always could do, do something wild. The showdown SBCs for Suley and PK are going away as that big game is tomorrow and Wednesday. So if last chance to do one of those, I'm going to be passing in my opinion, I'm not going to be doing any of those just doesn't fit the squad. It's a really cool concept, but none of those really fit the team. For me, we might get another, wait, is that a dynamic image on Salah? They added a dynamic image for Salah. All right, that's that's nice. Finally, after this SBC has been out, it's going away in three days. You get a nice dynamic image on your Mohammed Salah, after it was there for forever. Now we're going to talk more about Player the Months coming very soon, because it's about to be a crazy week of Player the Months. There's a lot of hype around POTM, and that's going to be unfolding later on this week. I think Friday we're going to see a La Liga Player the Month. I think it is going to be on Friday. They're going to drop it probably with the Foot Freeze promo. Of course, everybody's talking about Vinny Jr. So the voting is out for multiple POTMs now, and we're going to talk about that later on in this week, but you're probably going to see people start preparing, especially for that Vinny Jr. Player the Month, selling the inform, selling this team the group stage, as they expect that SBC to be one insane, insane card coming onto this game. So keeping out for that early speculation, I guess early watching out for those price movements, although Vinny Jr. right now is actually up a decent amount. He is 670,000 coins, and he was like 620 yesterday before weakening rewards were paid out to everybody. So that's kind of the video for today. It's going to be a great day to trade with Road to the Knockouts if you find the right card, especially if a team like, let's say Manchester United would get scored on first. And that would mean that if they did not win the game, or sorry, that's going to be tomorrow's game, but let's talk about this Renan Lodi just for one quick second. If one of these teams gets scored on first and Renan Lodi goes from 180,000 coins down to like 130K in like 10 minutes time or 20 minutes time, and it's looking like Athletico Madrid might score again. They end up scoring. This card probably shoot way back up in price. There's going to be tons of fluctuations if the games are exciting today, tomorrow and on Thursday on some of these cards. Some of the favorites might get knocked off and lose, which would prevent them from getting a double upgrade, or some of the underdogs might come back and win. Like right now, we thought there was no shot that Milan would get out of Group B, but Tonali right now is looking as alive and ever to get out. If they can pull off some sort of crazy win, Milan, I believe they play Liverpool. Is that correct? What's our game that we have today? Is it Milan Liverpool? It is Milan Liverpool and then Porto Athletico. So if somehow if Liverpool is resting and Zlatan shows up big, and I think Zlatan is back from injury, yeah, he scored a free kick last week, right? So if Zlatan goes off today and Milan beat Liverpool, then that would look really good potentially for whatever happens in the Porto Athletico game. There's still a chance, right, that a card like this could get upgraded, and this would go to an 86.  So there's going to be tons of movement like that and potential movements on the market today.  GGs, if you traded with any of these cards, I think I just sold another Donoruma, 157 dub. I bought that at 140 last night. So that is a nice W on that one. We made a lot of coins yesterday flipping with these items as I talked about a little bit last night in the YouTube video. Flipped a couple icons and then flipped a couple more just, you know, position change, chem style trading cards, a couple of the center backs that we bought over the weekend, Klosterman 157 to Mori 150. I got this at 125, got this at 138. So a couple day holds, if you bought any of those center backs that were low when the Suley and when the PK dropped, you are seeing those kind of come back in price a little bit, the most meta ones. So GGs, if you got involved in any of those as well. But it should be another interesting day on FIFA, man, especially with the RTTK cards and whatever team of the group stage content EA decides to drop on us today. So that's the video for today. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Ford Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding Theatre of Thrills suspense. Tonight, the story of a man's search for the murderer of his brother. We call it, A Killing in Abilene. So now, starring Parley Bear, here is tonight's suspense play, A Killing in Abilene. I'd come down out of the snake range that morning, had followed the river trail through the canyon, and that afternoon had found Pleasant Valley. A handful of buildings, desolate, huddled in the cold shadows of the mountains around, all in dark. Quarter of a mile, this side of town, on an easy rise, I saw a handful of people standing in a circle. As I got closer, I saw they were gathered around two men who were digging. You boys, take over. I'll do it, Jim. Somebody's got to. It's him, all right. I've seen his shirt. You was right then, dad. Let the sheriff take a look. Yeah. Jake? Jake Garvey. Yeah? That's him. That's Fred Costin, all right. Danger we are. What are you doing here, stranger? Where are you from? You the sheriff? That's right. Jake Garvey. Mander's my name from Abilene. So, I'm looking for a man in these parts called himself Lee Burridge. Who'd he say, Sheriff? He said, Lee Burridge, Ben. You come along with us, Mr. We'll find him for you. What do you want him for? What's it matter what he wants him for? We know what we want him for. Come on. There ain't gonna be no trouble. I'm the law in Pleasant Valley. I'll do what we say. Fred Costin lay in cold and his widow weeping. That's trouble enough. We elected you, Sheriff Jake. We can unelect you. Like Ben said, it was Burridge killed him and you know it. I've got to talk to you about Burridge, Sheriff. It's important. All right. My office back at the meeting house. We don't need no talk about Burridge.  Come on, boys. Let's get on back to town. We'll take her as she comes. No thanks. The boys want to know why you're here, so do I. I'll tell you, we don't like strangers. What do you want with Lady Burridge? I had a brother who was killed out in Abilene Burridge, did he? No. Him and another one drove a herd into the railroad. Burridge got drunk and killed my brother. Burridge did. Same as here. We found this pouch near the grave. His name burned into it. It's taken me two years to find him. Now, I want to talk to him about it.  So am I now. Maybe so. Fred Costin isn't my business, my brother is. And I want to see his killer back in Abilene's standing trial. I made a promise I'd bring him back. Oh. You don't look like the kind of a man who could use a gun. Now, look. We didn't know you're a brother. But we knew Fred and we liked him. You can help take care of Burridge here if you've got mine to. Try him here, you mean, on both charges? For that? Then what do you mean, take care of it?  His head was beating. He was beat to death. Yeah. Same as he did to Fred. A man who'd do a thing like that don't need no trial. Not for you, maybe. But there'll be no more killing in my family. We'll give him a fair trial in Abilene. If Burridge done these killings, he's gonna pay for it here. I don't go for Linsen. Strong talk. We don't call it Linsen when we hang a man for murder. If you don't like it, come on back to Abilene. Maybe I'll do that. When I take Lee Burridge out for trial, I don't know what you're trying to do. I suspect us to get Burridge out of town. If I'm right, you're heading into a lot of trouble. Only you boys direct me to where Lee Burridge lives. Of course, if we've built him flying. What you want with him? Just want to talk. Anybody got any objections? Yeah. Who are you? Ben Chaffee. There ain't gonna be no talking. He's done what he's done, he's gonna pay for it. And nobody's gonna stand in the way. It's time he was riding out of here. And if I don't? Then I'll help you. Climb off, Ben. We don't need no private wars here. Where does he live? Come on, boys. He turned away from me and moved into the sheriff's office, leaving me alone to walk down the dusty street. I asked the blacksmith where Lee Burridge lived, he just looked at me and shook his head. Towards the hills, the thunderhead was beginning to gather, moving in slowly. Near the end of the street, two men were building a coffin. Is this where I'll find Mrs. Costin? Where do you have to come meddling around here at a time like this? Can't you leave a widow to her sorrow? She's a stranger, Bob Boy. Strangers don't have no time for other people's style. Maybe you're right, old timer. Maybe they got too many of themselves. I'd like to talk to you, ma'am. Could I come in? No. Can't you see this house is in mourning? My friends are making a coffin for Fred's decent burial. I've got nothing to say to you. Ma'am, I know how you feel. How can you know how I feel? I had a brother once killed by this man Burridge. Oh. I'd like you to help me. It was two years ago my brother was killed. His wife would like the killer brought back to Abilene for trial. I'd like you to speak to your friend. Let me take him away. He didn't give my Fred a chance before he killed him.  I want him killed. Here. Where I can watch. Will you tell me where he lives? Don't tell him nothing, Mrs. Custon.  Let him go if you want. I say a man's got one life to live and he's got a right to lose it any dang way he pleases. I'll tell you where you can find Lee Burridge. On the way I passed the open pit that had been aggraved and turned up a side canyon. A few miles farther on where the canyon spread I saw his hut, set against a fire blackened hill. There was no growing thing in the rocky ground except one sick twisted tree. Its stunted limbs reaching out, empty, waiting. Oh. Easy, easy. Lee Burridge. I'm Jeff Mander. It was my brother Seth you killed in Abilene. Is that not out here? They'll give you a fair trial there. Stay here and you're going to be lynched for Fred Coston's killing. Nobody's hurt. You listen to me. I don't hold no love for you.  But it took me two years to find you. Now I'm taking you out. Put up your gun. I'm warning you. Put up your gun. It didn't work. I'm too smart for him. You see, he ain't wearing your gun. Did he get the drop on you? Yeah. Otherwise he didn't kid you. So was I. Did you tell him I'd gone there? Yep. What'd they say? They said if you get Burridge first, they'd get you. They said you should go back where you come from while you still can. I will. After I settle with Burridge, where's the sheriff? Went off with the boys. After Burridge? Yeah. They're going to wait till dark. Then they're going to bring him up. Where are they going to wait till dark? I want to be with them. I thought you didn't like lynching. I don't, but I want to be there. I was told if you came back to town, you have to be with them. Don't make me use this gun, son. I'll just turn around and we'll join the rest of them. Farrah? And I'd suggest you stop your talking about Lee Burridge. And when I overheard, you're close to sharing a rope with him. We're listening to A Killing in Abilene, tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrill's Suspense. Fires are easier to prevent than to extinguish.  If you can't make your own electrical repairs, get an electrician in to check the house, especially if it's been a while since your wiring's had any attention.  Be fire sighted. And now we bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, Parley Bear starring in tonight's production of A Killing in Abilene, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. We rode out of Pleasant Valley, the old man, and up speaking through scattered herds of cattle on the lower rangelands, rolling in from the east to black clouds smothered the mountain top. The old man still held a gun on me. No use swindling the horses. Won't be dark for a couple hours yet. The lynching party's got their guts after dark.  Waiting for you. I thought you'd be around. I had seen a lynching once. Too much trouble. Yeah. You still figuring to take the barge with you to Abilene? I can try. Ain't that going to be a might daring without a shooting iron? Might be. I'm surprised after two years looking for him, you didn't shoot him when you found him. That's not what I come for. Why not? He killed your brother. I made a promise to somebody. His life? Yes. And mine too. What was it between Costin and Burge? I don't know. Nobody's seen much of Burge in the past couple of years. Ever since Ben told us about how he was a killer. Ugly man. I guess it was your brother he killed too. I guess so. Now, because of him, you might get killed. Why? They know you're trying to take Burge away. Whoa. We poured the stream here. We haven't seen you yet. You still got time to get out. You'd let me go? Seen a lynch in once. Started a lot of trouble. How come this far I'll finish it? Hello, Sheriff. Thought you'd left Pleasant Valley. I told the old man to bring him. We decided he ought to be with us where we can watch him. We're not letting him take Burge out. You decided, Ben? What do you say, mister? Are you still going to try and take him? I'll tell you what he says, Sheriff. He says he wants Burge one way or the other. He asked to join. That's what he says. Shut up, old man.  All right. I want Burge as bad as the rest of you. I'd prefer him to stand trial. That's the difference. I don't want this lynching. You...  He ain't armed. Let's take it easy, Ben. We decided what to do. I want you here. Burge killed Fred Costin in a fight. Now we're going to settle it. Burge kills easy. I've seen him do it once before. He's not going to do it again.  I saw it. You need more of a trial than that? I thought of the ugly man up the canyon and the broken down shack. I wondered if he knew what was waiting for him a mile or so away. It was quiet then. The storm clouds were quickening the end of day and the party became shadow. Sitting nervously and smoking. Two of the men had some whiskey and were building up their courage for the night's work. It's nearly dark. I didn't think you'd come. I had to. My Fred's dead. So is my brother. My Fred was a good man. Never hit me. But he was a dark man with a drink. What was it between Burge and him? Well, we lost some chickens. Fred said that Burge stole them and he came to town for supplies. Fred and him got to fighting. Burge hated him and beat him. Fred was horrible hurt. Afterage everybody laughed and made jokes. They laughed at their friends? Oh, it was man laughing. No harm. But a dark man like Fred, it was bad. He swore to get even. That was last Saturday. He went in to drink and didn't come back. We all thought he rode out some place for shame. Why do you think Burge killed him? Oh, there's all talking about it. Who are? All the men, Saturday night. They said Fred and that man is arguing. Who heard you? Ben did. And when Fred didn't come back, we all knew that man had killed him. Well, he did. And he's gonna pay for it. Who found the grave, ma'am? Ben did. I... I'm sorry for your brother's wife, but it must be this way. It's like the holy book says, an eye for an eye. Let's go, boys. It's time. All right, enough. There's a light inside. Hold up, boys. Bob, you, Jim, and he will come with me. We'll bring them up. The rest of you stay here. What's the idea? You're too quick tonight. Ben ain't given too many orders.  I might. You're like an engine I knew once. Had to shoot him five times before he knew he was dead. What do you want here? You know what we want for each. Get out of here.  You come outside quietly. We don't want no trouble. I ain't asking for trouble. Yes, for it when you killed Fred Costin. Killed him.   Come on. Let go. Let go of me.   You've done your last killing. Get the rope over that limb. Is this your doing, Ben?  Fire his hands, Bob. I'll hold him. Are you gonna blame this one on me, too, Ben?  Bridge didn't do it. He didn't do it. Let it go, son. You can't stop him now. I gotta talk to him before they do it. He didn't kill. I know it. Wait a minute. Take my gun. Thanks. He was around his neck and he knew he was gonna die. But as I came near him and could see him in the light, there was no fear in his eyes. He was lifted onto the horse, the rope was tightened, and he was ready to be lynched. Then he saw me. One request, Sheriff. What, Burry? Let me talk to him a minute. The stranger here? For a minute. No more talking. Take that horse out from under him. Not yet. Let him talk. Take it out.  Ben, you are Burry's. Let him talk. Why do you think I killed your brother? They're trying to get away with something, Jake. Let's string them up. Come on. A minute. Don't matter. Get up and let them have their say. We found your pouch near my brother's grave, Burry. Your name on it.  I didn't. I wasn't with Ben that night, naveling. Ben wanted to drink. I didn't. He left me and took my pouch with him. What does it matter about his brother? We're hanging him for. I didn't kill Fred Costin either.  Ben told everybody I did, never since I've had no friends. He's talked enough. He killed Fred Costin. I told you that. What about Burry? I didn't kill Fred Costin. He's lying. Let's get it over with. I say let him talk. Where'd you get that gun, mister? How'd you know where Fred was buried, Ben? How'd you know where Fred was buried? Mr. Costin says you found the grave. How'd you know where it was? Answer him, Ben. He told me where it was, Ben. I saw him bury him, poor Fred. That's how I know. If you saw the burial, why didn't you stop bridge then? It wasn't none of my business. But it is now. What made you change your mind so fast?   Cut him down! You, Bob, cut him down! I think you'll be coming back to Abilene with me, Ben. You think so? You all right, son. My shoulder. How about Burrage? Oh, he'll live. Rest easy, son. You've done a good job. But you ain't gonna keep your promise about your brother's killer. There's no sense taking Ben Chaffee back to Abilene. We'll bury him here. Suspense. In which Polly Bear starred in A Killing in Abilene by Anthony Ellis and Gildowd. Next week, the story of a man who thought the only way to escape death was to search for it. It's called Diagnosis of Death. That's next week on Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. Featured in the cast were Paula Winslow, Jack Kruschen, Frank Gerstle, Jim Nussar, Vic Perrin, Joe Devall, and Will Wright. Listen for the Radio Hall of Fame every Sunday night on the CBS Radio Network.


App images are really starting to grow on me. App images have really become my preferred dystro agnostic packaging format. Although I love snaps and I love flat packs as well, app images have some really unique qualities about them that I think make them the best choice out of all the containerized dystro agnostic formats that are being pushed out there. The more I play with app images, the more I realize how much easier they are to use than snaps and especially flat packs. And I think that's the one thing that we need to start focusing on. If we're trying to get as much software in the hands of as many people as possible, ease of use is something to think about. And app images are absolutely dead simple to use if you have the right tools installed alongside app images. And that's what we're gonna talk about today is I'm gonna show you a website you need to know about and I'm gonna show you a few apps that you probably should have installed on your system if you plan on using a lot of app images. The first thing I think everybody needs to know about is this particular website here, App Image Hub, appimghub.com. It currently has a catalog of 811 app images and counting and it explains to you what app images are, they're self-contained applications that can be simply downloaded. All you have to do is download the app image and it's ready to run. All you need to do is make it executable and it will run on any Linux distribution according to the webpage. Now that's actually not entirely true. There are some GNU slash Linux distributions, app images will not run on, but they're really specialty kind of distributions that really don't look and feel like your typical GNU slash Linux distribution. So I know for a fact, GNU Geeks has a problem running snaps and app images. I think it also has a problem with flatbacks as well, but GNU Geeks is a really weird distribution that has a strange directory structure and it causes some issues for these kinds of package formats. But one of the reasons I think snaps gained early adoption as far as fast early adoption was the fact that snaps, they had the central snapcraft.io store the one store where all the snap packages are and you could just go and browse all the snap packages. That's something that Flatpak didn't have. That's something that app image didn't have since then. Flatpak has created flat hub and now app image also has the app image hub as well. So they're not necessarily central repositories where you can go find all the flat packs and all the app images, but at least they have this one site anyway where they're trying to collect as many app images as possible to give people a central location where they can go get all their software. So I wanna show you some really neat applications that will help you organize and maintain your app images. So let me switch over to the desktop here. I'm gonna open up a graphical file manager. Let me open up PCman FM. And in my home directory, I have applications. If you do not have an applications folder, create one with a capital A because this is kind of where many app image tools expect you to have your app images. They expect you to have this applications folder in your home directory and that is where all of your app images, so all the files that end in dot app image should go in this directory. And the reason for that is I'm gonna install some really neat packages here. The first thing I wanna install is a program called the app image launcher. So if I get back into the browser here and the app image launcher, the code is hosted over on GitHub, this is just a very simple program. There's really not much to it, but it really does help, especially those of you that use traditional desktop environments and traditional menu systems.  What is a dot desktop file? Well, that's the file that places that program in your menu system. So your start menu and things like GNOME and Cinnamon and KDE, you go through a menu system and you have all your applications listed. Well, the reason that menu knows they're there is because there's these dot desktop files on your Linux system for all of your applications. App images, of course, don't create one just by you downloading it. You have to create them yourself while the app image launcher will create those for you. Oddly enough, the app image launcher, I could not find an app image to install it, but it is in most Linux distributions. On Arch, it is in the AUR, just do a yay dash capital S app image launcher. And that's exactly what I did. And if I get back over to the desktop and if I go to the applications folder here and I just right click on one of these, how about Belina Etcher? That is the USB writer. Instead of just double clicking and running it, well, first of all, let's assume I downloaded this and I haven't run it yet. The first thing you need to do is make sure it is executable. So go under permissions and make sure execute that the owner has permission to execute because by default, nobody will have permission to execute. And that means the program won't run. Nobody's allowed to run it. Well, make sure that you, the owner at least are allowed to run that program. And now I could double click it and it would run. But I don't want you to double click it. I want you to right click it and I want you to run it through the app image launcher. Now it's still going to launch and run. So etcher pops up. So what exactly was the point of running it through the app image launcher? Well, the point was that, well, let me close Belina Etcher. The point was it now created that dot desktop file for us. So it should be in our menu system. And I'm in the awesome window manager today. Awesome does have a menu system. If I right click on the desktop, here's the menu system. If I go down to accessories, let's see. Now, all of these are going to have dot desktop files and Belina Etcher did not before. I ran it through the app image launcher, but now it does. You see Belina Etcher is now listed under the accessories category. I actually had to think about that for a second. I never used that menu system in awesome window manager. I sometimes forget it's even there. So at the very least, I would launch all of your app images at least one time through the app image launcher just to create those dot desktop files. If you need these programs in a menu system, you can actually set it up to where it launches all your app images through the app image launcher every time because what's the harm in that? The next really cool program you guys should check out is one called the app outlet. And let me find it here in the app image hub. Here it is. It is listed under utilities and the app outlet is a graphical app store similar to like the GNOME Software Center or Muon and Discover and you know, things like that. But the difference with this application is that this app store is specifically for app images, flat packs and snap packs. So your GNOME slash Linux distribution, of course it's going to have a package manager, a command line package manager. It may have a graphical front end to that package manager but typically they don't list things like snaps, flat packs and app images in their official package manager. So this third party app store here gives you access to all of those other packaging formats. So if I go back to my applications folder here, you can see that I've already downloaded the app outlet app image. Let me right click. I'm gonna go ahead and run it through the app image launcher to make sure we get that desktop file created. Let's see if I can make this floating here in awesome window manager so you guys can see the application. So it's really pretty simple as far as the format. You've got a search bar, you've got some categories that you could search through. And of course on the homepage, you got the popular apps, including things like Belina Etcher and new releases. You could scroll through this kind of stuff. If you knew exactly what you were searching for, you could just do a search. And it does tell you, hey, this is a snap. This is a flat pack, right? So it gives you the package format before you install it. Pretty neat application. I think that makes a lot of sense for those of you that use app images or even snaps and flat packs. And me, I use all three packaging formats. I'm surprised I did not know about this application before because I think that the app app that is probably one that not many people are aware of and probably most desktop Linux users need to know about this particular software center. The next application I wanna talk about is one called the app image installer. Now this is a command line tool because I don't really need a graphical software center. I typically don't use them. They're kinda slow, they kinda slow you down too. If you know exactly what it is you wanna install, well, this solves that problem. Go ahead and install the app image installer. And you can find that over at the app image hub. So what this does is once it's installed and you can execute it, they pull up a terminal here and you run the app image installer simply by running the command app APP. App install and then whatever the name of the program you wanna install actually, it pulls it down from a URL. And the URLs can come from app image hub. They can come from GitHub. If it's an app image on GitHub, you just give it the URL. Let me find something to install just for practice here. So this is a terminal application, the app image installer. Let me go to that category and find maybe another terminal application. Edex UI, I actually did a video about that particular terminal emulator. It's an electron terminal emulator. Then it's got fancy push buttons and it looks like something out of Hollywood and it's actually a pretty amazing program. I haven't checked it out in a long time. So let me install that. So I'll paste that URL there. So apt install the URL, hit enter and you shouldn't have to do anything as far as root passwords or anything because we're not actually installing anything on the system. It's just downloading an app image and you don't need elevated privileges just to download something. Now the URLs that the app command line interface uses, it uses any URL that uses OCS. That's the open collaboration services protocol. And it's not going to work unless you also have a package on your system installed called OCS dash URL, I believe. Let me check that out. I know in ARCH it is in the AUR. Actually, is it in the AUR? Is it in the standard ARCH repositories? No, it is in the AUR OCS dash URL. It's the package you need. That gives you the protocol you need to be able to pull these packages down from app image hub and GitHub and anything else that uses the OCS format. And the installation has completed. You can see it looks like it did it create a dot desktop file for us? No, but it did place some icons on the system for us. I guess for edex UI. So if I right click, and let me just see if I can find edex in my menu system here without actually having to run it through the app image launcher. I do not see edex UI here under system tools which was probably where it would be. I didn't see it under accessories. Also didn't see it under development. So I probably do need to run this through the app image launcher. So I'm going to go back to my file manager here. And there is edex UI. It actually placed it in the applications folder. Typically when you download something from the internet, it always goes to a downloads folder. But the app command line installer knows it's an app image. It needs to be placed in this applications directory. Let's run it through the app image launcher. This is an electronic app. So it may take a minute to launch. It is kind of a neat application though if it actually does launch. Did I not make it executable though? I may not have. Let me go to permissions. Now it looks like it's already set to be executable. Probably the app installer took care of that for us. This is edex UI.  It is a Hollywood inspired touchscreen terminal. If I had a touchscreen monitor, I don't and I actually don't want to do anything with this. I'm already getting some kind of panic new versions available. I guess this is an older app image of edex UI. Anyway, pretty neat program. Let me close that. But anyway, this was just a very quick video to share with you guys a little bit of some of the neat tools I found when playing with app images. And I hope you guys, if you're not checking out some of the really cool app images out there because one of the things about app image is it's kind of built by the community. It's a community format. There's no billion dollar corporation behind it, right? The way Red Hat is behind Flatback. The way Canonical is behind Snaps. And they're really pushing those particular formats. App image is more of the community format. Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of the show. I need to thank Michael, Gabe, Corbinion, Mitchell, Devin, Fran, Arch 5530, Akami, Chuck, Claudio, Donnie, Dylan, George Gregory, Kellogg Devils, Lewis, Paul, Scott, and Willie, these guys. They're the highest tiered patrons over on Patreon. And they are the producers of this episode about all of these amazing app image utilities. I also need to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well. All these names you see on the screen right now, these are all my supporters over on Patreon because this channel is supported by you guys, the community. If you'd like to support my work, look for DistroTube over on Patreon. All right guys, peace.


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Traditions in the Navy run much deeper than the ones taught in Huken. Sailors in CB Battalion 74 share a tradition that only the CBs in Sasebo are familiar with. Zoe is our mascot here in Sasebo. She has been here for about three years. Every time a new battalion deploys here, she gets turned over. The sailors have accepted Zoe as family, even though they know they have to leave her when they rotate out of Japan. When it's time for us to rotate out of Sasebo, the most important thing I can do with her, is to really emphasize the tradition that comes along with keeping her here. She's not just the dog that's here, she's our CB mascot. As Battalion 74 packs up their gear and says goodbye, in the MCB-5 becomes the newest part of Zoe's family. Petty Officer Che Rose, fleet activity, Sasebo, Japan.