Okay. Yeah. Good morning. Welcome everybody. Thank you for joining this week. I know it is the holy week and maybe some of our students for some reason they're unable to connect, but thank you for joining in. We will pray and we will once again get into our study about the apostolic. So either one at the Tarun or Abhishek, could you please lead in prayer? Anyone? Father, thank you Lord. Thank you for this time where we could come together and study as we do this. We pray for your leading, supernatural understanding of what we are listening to. Father, we pray that you speak through Pastor Nancy as we spend this hour studying, Lord. We thank you and we ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you Tarun for praying. So far we have been trying to understand the features of the apostolic and understand how the apostolic will look in our modern or current times. And we have the features in mind now and therefore it will be easier to talk about how these can be applied through a local church, how this can be applied in a city, how it can be applied when it comes to discipling a nation. So that was the whole intention of us laying the scriptural foundation and then building on that and be able to recognize how the apostolic really looks as far as the church level is concerned, the city level is concerned, the national level is concerned. So today what I'm intending to do is to go over the remaining chapters in our in our portions here starting from chapter 5 all the way till chapter 10. So you know there we have discussed all the features and so I don't think I have to dwell too much on explaining each point that is written out in these chapters you already understand. So I just have to summarize each one of these chapters. So let me see if at all you know I can go over all the chapters today and if I can then this would be your last class and also just to inform all of us the assignments have already been posted and many of you would have noticed compared to last year I made it very simple. The first two assignments are in the form of a Google form. So there's not so much of writing, elaborate writing required. If you have understood the teaching so far, then it will be easy for you to just answer the questions. Many of them are in the form of multiple choice, true or false. The reason I did this is because I wanted your tests to be in sync with the e-learning portal students as well. So that is the reason but the third assignment it's more of a writing assignment because that also is something which is very important in the skill of being able to understand and explain. So the third assignment is a slightly lengthier one. Please take some time and again though it is about writing and sharing your understanding, it is not very tough and that's what I think. I've asked you two simple questions so you can definitely spend time, study further and answer those questions and we should be done with the assignments as well. Okay, so let's dive right into chapter five here. So this talks about the Apostolic Ministry and the local church. So basically what is shared here is the fact that as we see the Apostolic Anointing unfold, churches will look more like it's more of a team ministry. So we are familiar with a pastor establishing a local church and the church growing and becoming a large church and the pastor themselves being the prominent leader of that congregation. And similar churches start being established in the city and then there are lots of churches. So that is something that we are all familiar with. But when we talk about the Apostolic Ministry in and through the local church, it will look slightly different. What we will have is a model like the Antioch Church. The Antioch Church in Acts 11 is a church which was planted by some believers. When the leaders of Jerusalem hear about this church, they send certain people with certain caliber to the Antioch Church. So then you start having leaders who have come down from Jerusalem minister to the Antioch Church. So you have Barnabas and then Silas. All these people come and then they start to impart. You also have Paul. So they begin to impart. So they have teachers now in the church and so you would read the names of certain teachers in the Antioch Church and the ministry goes on in that way. But then you also begin to have prophets. So the five-fold ministry offices begin to take shape in the Antioch Church. So what is happening is, it is moving away from having one particular prominent leader and only that leader to having a team. So there is a team, a fully functional, you know, like a team which also has diversity in it.  So you have that kind of a multifunctional, if you want to call it team, and they're all ministering to impart to the church. And as you keep looking at the Antioch Church from chapter 13, it becomes a sending out base because you have Paul and Barnabas who go out of Antioch to do the ministry and impact other places. So then this remains as a base church. They keep coming back to the Antioch Church. You know, they go on the missionary journey, they come back, they report to the believers and they continue to have believers who pray for them and, you know, sort of, excuse me, support them in the ministry. So that is the model. So when we talk about the local church becoming more apostolic, this is what we will see. We will see team ministry. We will also see the grooming, the rising of strong leaders, many strong leaders. We will see the people of the church stepping out on ministry. That also is something. So it's more of an outward focused church as compared to the usual church that we understand. You know a church where there's a lot of inward care, which is not wrong. We definitely need people to be cared for and people to be taught the word of God. But, you know, once as people are growing, there's a stretching that comes about in an apostolic church where people are encouraged to share what they have learned. People are encouraged to step out. If they are called to the ministries, which have to do with the four walls of the church, then yeah, they're teaching, they're preaching, they're prophesying, they're evangelizing, they're doing a lot of that. But if they're called as apostolic believers in other areas, then you would see them making an impact for the gospel in their professional lives. So you would have somebody who is part of politics, you know, making a difference for God, bringing, upholding the standards of God's word in things out there. So, you know, stuff like that. Or somebody who is in media, they are upholding God's standards in that field. Maybe you have, you know, great films with good morals in them, which blesses the society, which disciples the society, you know, and better standards and entertainment. So in these ways as well, you have more apostolic believers rise up from an apostolic church. So that would be the difference. What is the regular way of doing church? Preach, grow as a body, continue to teach God's people, impart to them. So that would be the normal way. But the apostolic way is to nurture the believers to maturity as well as missions. That is the difference between a regular way of doing church and the apostolic way of doing church. So what are we saying? We're saying that we will see more of such churches rising up. So are there such churches right now? Yes, there are many churches in, you know, many parts of the globe. And some notable names would be new frontiers. They have a movement like this where they have churches that they plant across the globe. And I think Calvary Chapel that also is a church movement and a set of churches that continue to plant many churches. So similarly, if you look up, there are several such churches even locally. I'm sure there are churches, but maybe it's not written about on the Internet, but the sense of stepping out, the sense of making an impact, the sense of, you know, working together as a multifunctional team. It is beginning to take shape because there is an anointing that God is pouring out on the body of Christ. And that's what we expect. So that would be an apostolic church. So again, notice that the pastoral leadership looks very different from an apostolic leadership. So what will apostles in the local church do? They will father the church. It's more than just growing the church. They will father the church. Reason being, we need to groom many leaders. And for that, fathering is required. So then, when they are fathering the church, there will be many leaders who will emerge. And therefore, you will have strong leadership in the local church. Remember, we talked about the strength of a local church. The strength of a local church is one of the important keys is strong leadership. And we have many strong leaders, we can expect the church to be a strong church. So an apostolic church will be a strong church because there will be lots of people who are well trained, well equipped with a vision, working together, strengthening the local body. So these are features of an apostolic church. Strong leadership. Then we will see governmental responsibility. Governmental responsibility is governing. We would have an emphasis on governing right, governing well. So apostolic churches usually have their policies in place. They have their way of doing things in order. And that is helpful because then you know what kind of leadership you're expecting. And also as the church, the churches multiply, there can be many churches that arise out of this one base church. And that's how the Antioch church was. The Antioch church was making a huge difference in the region. And people were going out of the Antioch church and doing their ministry. So eventually we can expect many new churches to be planted. So the missionaries that went out of Antioch church, Paul, Barnabas, what happened? They were preaching the gospel. There were new set of believers in other cities. And those groups of believers then became the new churches. So governing, I'm talking about government. How did they oversee these churches? They never left the churches. Once the believers, once there are believers in a new place, this is the feature, governmental responsibility. What is governmental responsibility? You know, you don't just let go. If you do a crusade and let's say a thousand people have accepted Christ, the apostolic will take responsibility. The apostolic will think, okay, how can we ensure that these believers continue to grow? They mature in God. They embrace their calling. They walk in their calling. They accomplish great things. So that is the apostolic way of thinking. Just the evangelistic way of thinking could be. I'm not trying to put it down, but just for us to understand the difference. Okay, lots of people are saved. Wonderful. Let's do a crusade in another place. What happens to these thousand people who have already accepted Christ? So the apostolic way of thinking is, okay, they need churches now. Can we start a church or where can these thousand people go? Can we ensure in some way that their information is given out to good local churches in the city and they are planted in that church? How can we work with the pastors? You know, so the apostolic is looking at ensuring proper order. So there is governance in that sense. Now let's say that this particular group, apostolic group, they went, they preached, they did a crusade, a thousand people are born again and there are no local churches yet in that particular region. So most likely they will plant a church. Now once the church is planted, what happened? You know, Paul and Barnabas, they went on their trips. So they kept going to new cities and then they came back to these cities on their way back to Antioch because they want to make sure that the church is really growing. So this is governance. This is governmental authority. When something goes wrong, remember the whole circumcision issue, they just jumped into the issue and they rectified it. So this is governance to just have believers and, you know, let them go. That's not governance, but the apostolic is about governance. We want to make sure these churches are okay. They are doing things in line with God's word that believers are maturing. So you understand that is the difference. Just the pastoral way of doing things will not ensure all of this, but an apostolic way of doing things will ensure. And you need lots of people to be able to govern, you know, 10 churches, 20 churches, 50 churches, 100 churches. How are you going to govern? We need the principles in place. We need the processes in place. We need lots and lots of leaders. Okay, so that's how the apostolic will work. So apostolic will provide strong leadership, governmental responsibility. So now we have an idea of what that really means. Then doctrine is very important. And particularly when we are talking about multiplying, if the doctrine is not clear, what could happen? The danger is every offshoot is going its own way. We have 10 local churches and no clear doctrine. They are not established in the doctrine. We don't have a way of having the doctrine put down, maybe written or it's recorded. There's no clarity. So eventually, you know, how do you ensure that everyone is learning God's word rightly? It's difficult. It's very, very difficult. But this is a feature of the apostolic doctrine is important. So the apostolic leader will make sure that the doctrine is taught rightly and it continues to be taught rightly. So whatever it takes for that to happen. And thankfully, you know, we live in a day and an age where we have media, we have website, we have, you know, YouTube, we have so many things Google Drive. The transfer of information, the creation of content, it's just at an incredible speed. You know, it's going on and from what we hear about knowledge, it's multiplying. Initially, earlier it was multiplying, you know, every whatever 50 years, every 10 years, every five years. Now it's multiplying every year, every minute. You see that the amount of content that is created that goes up that can be recorded is it's just amazing. So all the more we can function well in the apostolic in the day and time that we live in right now. So what will the apostolic do? Establish doctrine, call out if someone is going away, string away from the doctrine. And you know, we have all this communication zoom and Google Classroom, we can meet. We have our outreach pastors call. Since the lockdown happened, we are having we have a call on which we we not just have teaching, but we also have a time of interaction sharing. So they share what's going on. It's so much easier to keep in touch now than ever before. So governance, responsibility doctrine. So the apostolic will move in that direction, then establish order within the local church. How do you establish order? One is doctrine. The other is the way the leadership is positioned and the way the church functions. We've learned so much about all of this in the house of God. So appointing leaders. And you notice this in the way Paul and Barnabas function, they appoint leaders. Even before Paul knows that he's going into Jerusalem, there's going to be trouble for him.  He talks to the leaders of the Church of Ephesus, and you know, he shares his heart and you see his love for the leaders. So there are a set of leaders. They are well equipped, well trained and he talks to them about the dangers that could happen, what is expected of them. So there is an order and he tells them keep doing this. Come on, keep doing this. Do it well. He writes to Timothy, he tells him, okay, when you appoint leaders, you make sure that these are the qualities of the leaders. So you see, everything is handed down in such a proper and an organized way that the next set of leaders know exactly what to expect. Now, of course, you know, God does much more with every generation. So that the freedom for that is there. But the basics, the core, the, you know, the primary order is in place and the apostolic is one which will establish it within the local church. So there will be leaders, they will take care and all of that. Okay, so it will establish an order, then develop new wine skin, God's order and structure for the local church. It simply means a better way, a better way of doing things. When we talked about the kingdom of God, the house of God, we said that the content doesn't change. Our content is always the word of God and, you know, our message is always Jesus, our method is always in the power of the Holy Spirit. Now those are core elements which should not be touched or tampered with. So we understand that. But what is the new wine skin? New wine skin simply means a new way of doing church, a new way of sharing the gospel. So if you just go back to the way church has been happening, you know, you will recognize once church was institutionalized, it was all way too formal. And, you know, there was laity, there was clergy, but as we saw, you know, God working in the body of Christ, there is a newer way. There started to be life groups or some people call them cell groups. This concept was in there earlier. But yeah, now people are open to that music in church earlier, maybe people felt that you shouldn't be using certain instruments. But people are more open now, you know, about, okay, fine, it's okay to sing in this way or to have these instruments. The church format, the way churches used to happen earlier, maybe now the newer churches, they understand you have a different crowd. Okay, let's limit the church service to let's say about an hour and a half or two hours and have it very structured where, you know, we have our announcements, we have time in the word, we have time in worship. So they plan it out. So what's happening? New wineskin, new ways of doing things. How does a church service feel now? Earlier, people were very restricted or it has to have a steeple and it has to, you know, have all that ancient stained glass paintings and things. But eventually people were like, hey, we can't afford it, but we have to do these church services. How about we just have it in a hall. And now people have auditoriums, you know, they have AC auditoriums. So new wineskin in various ways. You know, I don't think I'll be able to enlist everything to you, but just letting you know that things are being done differently now, which is okay. As long as we don't compromise on the core of what we believe and what, how we should do things. So the mission, we don't want to change that. The standards, we don't want to tamper with that. But the audience is, you know, the way the audience receives the message is changing. So, you know, people are more open, people are more open to a new way of doing church life groups. And you know, now recently I was hearing someone talk about teenagers and how their attention span is so short. Now, if the only way that we want to reach them is to tell them, hey, you got to be in church for an hour and a half and listen, listen, you know, give your attention. They may try, but you know, that might not be the most effective way. So someone was saying, hey, how about using gaming? How about using, you know, features like that because more interactive way of ministering to teenagers. So what are all the things that we can come up with new wineskin. So the church becoming open to different ways of doing the same thing, but doing it more effectively. So that, that is what we're seeing. So there'll be a new wineskin, but note that the apostolic will establish order and structure in the local church so that the important things are not meddled with. Then it'll help to pioneer new works outside, new works outside. So, you know, I think we get it by now. There are all these new fields. I just told about teenagers. Counseling. Counseling is another area. We live in a world particularly post COVID with newer mental issues, mental health issues. So why should we as the church not bring the kingdom to people who are going through issues like this. I know that at APC there is something going on with regard to mental health and, you know, counseling. So they're working on a new way of doing things and a new project. So why can't the church do that. That's pioneering and doing something new is pioneering breaking new ground. So the apostolic will lead us into new things.  We, like when I joined APC as staff, I was only familiar with, you know, going into a class and teaching a class which is students from all over the country come and you should do it that way. So when this happened, you know, online Bible college happened. Eventually, initially we did it for our regular students. So we needed to complete their semester. So that was also comfortable because we knew we had, we were working with the same students. But when the new semester started, and Pastor announced he said, Hey, we're going to do this. We're going to open it up to the world. It was so scary. We were like, Oh, please, you know, we're feeling stretched. But that is the apostolic. It'll call you to new things. And it's exciting. But it can also be, you know, we have to adapt soon. We also have to have an open mind to doing things. And of course, it's going to be a lot of hard work. So the apostolic is like that will call us to pioneer new works outside. Isn't it enough that we're doing our local church processes here in Bangalore Sunday services are running well. We have member care, we keep in touch with our members. You know, we are thinking of new ways in which we can evangelize here in Bangalore city. That's local church. That's a pastoral way of doing things. But what is the apostolic doing beyond that, beyond that. Okay, we're sitting here. And midweek, here is a great chance to impart something globally. Who would have thought of that. But you see the apostolic anointing is like that it'll move us into various, various arenas to impact the global body of Christ. So when you look at an apostle or an apostolic leader or an apostolic church, the apostolic church will be concerned about the body of Christ. How can we get the word out there? How can we disciple people faster? How can we evangelize people faster? You know, so how can we equip faster? And what's going to come out of it? So you're thinking way beyond that, you know, maybe a hall that we have and a set of 100 believers whom we are pastoring, which is important, we will not neglect that. But at the same time, God is calling us to new things. God is calling us to pioneer great things for His kingdom and the options are many. The world out there is exciting. You know, so it's really, what can I say? I think exciting is the only word I can think of right now. So the apostolic is very, very exciting. Okay, so we can do so many new things for God. And it also, when you look back, you just wonder God in my own understanding, I could never have done it. But thank you. Thank you for giving me an open mind to try this. And, you know, there you are making a bigger difference and touching more lives for God's glory. So that is the apostolic church. And I think, you know, we have a very good idea now. I'll keep moving on. If at all you have a question, then you please stop me. Okay, now moving on to Apostolic Ministry and the city, how would it look similar, very similar to what I talked about right now. The apostolic leaders of the city have a heart for the city. Okay, so we would see that local churches will unite their if obviously they they're all separate as as local churches and an entity by themselves have their own call have their own direction vision the way they do things. So that will remain the same, but there will be a heart for the city.  So, when we talk about impact on a city, unless this happens, a unity of hearts and apostolic leaders, it's very difficult. No, no one person can take the city, no one leader can take the city, no one local church can take the city. It's not going to happen. For a city wide impact, we need a city wide mission. And that can only happen when leaders unite their hearts and they decide to serve together. So there is a need for apostolic leaders in the city and unity of their hearts. Usually what do they do. So this is this is how it will look, they will, they will come together, firstly, and have a heart for the city, then they will also begin to bring unity among the pastors leaders, the mission, the missionaries, you know, the, the church organizations, so they will bring a sense of unity and not a sense of division, they'll just, you know, bring out a call and say, come on, we all need to get together, we all need to do something for the city, let's meet often, let's talk often, let's build relationships. So that is what the apostolic will do as far as making an impact on the city is concerned. So bringing unity among churches and ministries in the city. Also, the apostolic leaders who provide leadership, they will be more like fathers, or, yeah, fathers is the right word, fathers to the ministries, the leaders in the city.  How about we all do something together for the city. And a wonderful time that personally for me which impacted me a lot is the COVID second wave when things were so bad and we would hear that NGOs and government organizations, they are doing something for the people who are suffering all around us. But there was one call and I don't remember the exact date but I think it was roughly a year ago, April and or may something, first week of May, we had this call where pastor was leading the call, Pastor Ashish and he had invited many leaders to join that call and I too was on that call. And you know, the pastors were discussing, they were deliberating, they were thinking about what can we do, how can we as churches as Christians as leaders, do something, do something for the people who are suffering and out of that came the, you know, after that pastor shared with us that the plan would be the COVID relief plan and you're all aware about it. And so he said, Okay, APC will head it. Now we will provide the support the manpower we will do the stuff. And you know the other local churches can contribute into it. So that's how the COVID relief project began and what a difference it made and even today, as I look back at those meetings, it was more than just, you know, it was more than just us working, because we were talking to pastors who are struggling. One particular pastor, he wrote his testimony and he shared how he had little children and one morning he woke up, there was no milk to give his children because churches were not meeting. So there was no way of an income for these pastors. So all that brought tears to our eyes and we were hearing testimonies like this as we were doing the COVID relief project and it really impacted me for one to see what can happen when God's people come together. So many people contributed and they were not even, you know, professionals, they were not even church folk as in they were not in the ministry, they were professional people, but you know, they contributed through finances, though they could not give that time and then there were, you know, churches that contributed APC made a huge contribution. But this is apostolic. Apostolic says, Let's work together. Let's make a difference. Let's make an impact. So it will draw the set of leaders to do new things, greater things. Think about city transformation. How can we have transformation in the city spiritually, morally, you know, in other ways? How can we bring about transformation? So the apostolic will work together with the leaders of the church and cause all these things to happen in the city. Okay, represent the body of Christ toward government or local civic authorities. So I don't know if y'all are aware that currently in our state Karnataka, there is this whole thing about the anti conversion bill, which is going to which is being, you know, it's going through its own process. But there have been many leaders who have come together and, you know, across denominations to discuss, Hey, what is going to be the impact of this bill? So what should the churches do? What should Christians do in the state of Karnataka? And, you know, that again shows that it's so important. No one local church can stand up, you know, for it for all the believers in the city. It's going to take all of us to work together. So the apostolic will encourage it will encourage unity. It will, it will want the body of believers to, you know, have a representation and this representation even with the government with the civic authorities and somebody to step up somebody to speak for or on behalf of the city by church. And so, you know, the apostolic will contribute into all of these things, then influencing governmental regulatory policies. So I just gave you an example and I think you can think of other examples, even locally you can think of examples from about, you know, from you where you are from and see how so far something like this could have happened and even going forward, you know, how leaders can impact government policies. Okay, the apostolic will also have greater access will have greater access to places and people of influence, and obviously, you know, when there is that kind of a connectedness, it's a lot easier to communicate with maybe government officials or some sort of movers and shakers in the field of media or sports, this and that, and it's easier to get things moving. So the apostolic will do that, causing movements at the grassroots level, which, which simply means, you know, all the activities that have to do with growth and increase, we would see that taking place and the apostolic will encourage that, then execute God's plans and purpose for the city have an impact for social reformation. So, do we have great examples of this right now? I think, you know, small examples here and there are already there and also like I feel personally that more people should write about it, because as I look for content, you know, not too many people write about city transformation, but I'm sure it's happening, it's happening and it's happening at different levels. The one example which I gave us earlier was through prayer. In Kali, South America, there was this transformation that took place because the citywide church came together in prayer. And you know, there were examples of how the crime rate came down. There was drug trafficking and murders, all of that is reduced in the city and there was greater unity among the churches. So just one small example, but you know, I'm sure that there are so many more that we must really be hearing about. Now, coming to impacting nations, the same thing, you just take it to the national level, so fathering, fathering leaders across nations. So with the apostolic, there are no boundaries.  So I've always wondered when I joined APC, it's called All People's Church and World Outreach, APCWO. And I remember one of the first things I told a friend of mine is, it sounds very presumptuous to me to imagine that, you know, one local church, World Outreach or you know, two ambitious World Outreach back then. So I would always wonder what is this, why is the name, why shouldn't it just be All People's Church Bangalore, All People's Church World Outreach. That is the organization of course, local churches, All People's Church Bangalore. But then as being part of the church, I've been observing and the apostolic anointing, it's taking over, right? So there's so many things, then eventually the five branches of the church in Bangalore happened and at the same time simultaneously, the Outreach churches were planted and they were growing. And you know, various ministries of the church, missions, sending people on missions, Bible college and you know, now it's scaling up at another level. But what is all this, the apostolic? So as we go forward, we are going to see churches being led very differently. Not just pastoral leadership, which is good, which is more inward focus, but more apostolic leadership where you know, we even impact nations, you know, through being directed by the Holy Spirit. So fathering leaders across nations. Is it possible? I think it's more possible now than ever before. Thanks to all the technology that we have and the easier way of doing things, then birthing new movements. Again, through the Holy Spirit, through the anointing, through the opportunities that we have, very much possible across the globe, very much possible. Releasing new strategies for the body of Christ. So yeah, new way of doing things. I talked about that power to change campaign. I never heard about something like that. So power to change. You could look it up. There is this campaign where every nation, they choose cities and it's a strategic way, strategic way to share the gospel. So they pick a city and they do this major project, they prepare six months prior, one year prior, and then they take up like a month and throughout that month, there is like a multiple, in multiple ways, they share the gospel. So there are some books, they prepare, those books are given out with testimonies of notable people in that particular city. And, you know, all the churches of the, all the churches of the city are involved. The believers are, you know, trained to follow up with those who choose to read this book.  So it's a strategy. Now, is it a perfect strategy? You know, we can talk all about it. We can talk about the loopholes and the shortfalls and all. But then you see, I think that's how it gets better. At least somebody had the courage to step out and do something new, which makes a larger impact. So we must not be scared when God gives us an idea or he's moving us in a new direction, giving us a new strategy. Just go with the Holy Spirit. It may seem very big, but God has all the details and we press into the ministry of the Spirit and we step out in these ways. And so we're really looking and as we are the times that we're living in now, we mustn't deny that we're so close. We're in the last of the last days and we're waiting for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is the time of the latter rain and the harvest. The Bible talks about it, the harvest of souls, a great and a mighty harvest of souls. This message of the kingdom, it will be preached across the world. Many will hear it and we have to find ways to reach people faster, more effectively and not just about sharing and forgetting about them. But the apostolic is about continuing to disciple them, nurture them. Isn't that the great commission? Make disciples of all nations, go into all the world, make disciples of all nations and God is releasing that anointing at this time. And I just encourage all of us, you know, pray, dream and say, you know, ask God, God stretch me and God has something for all of us to do. As this latter rain is being poured out or the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the harvest is being brought into the kingdom of God before the Lord Jesus returns. So there will be a national impact. There will be opening up of new regions, territories, impact national governmental authorities for the kingdom of God, strengthen churches, network of churches across the globe. So I'm just going to stop here. We have really, you know, small chapters following, but let's not rush. We still have some more classes. So tomorrow there is no class, but next Thursday we will complete our portions for the apostolic. And if you have any questions, it'll be, we can have a good discussion as well. So I'm just going to stop here. Any thoughts, any comments, any questions? Okay. All right, then we'll just wrap up for today then. We have another class to go. And I'm really hoping that we'll have some discussion in that class before we complete our course. So yeah, your questions are out. Please work on them and you have sufficient time to, you know, hand in your assignments as well. All right, let's, let's pray and close anybody who is able to pray from where you are. You could pray please. I think saying anybody doesn't work. So Christopher, are you comfortable to pray? Okay, I'm not sure he's hearing me. Okay, I'll just check with Beth if at all she can pray that would be nice. Yeah, if not, I'll come back to you. Okay, maybe, maybe side. There's some difficulty. Okay, fine. Kennedy, please go ahead. Hello Jehovah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the crew that we've learned. Thank you for everything that we've shared as a family and as a team. It's my prayer that we're going to give us the knowledge, the spirit of knowledge, wisdom to implement Jehovah. Thank you. I commit everybody into thy hands Jehovah as we, as we head towards the end of our classes. It's my prayer. All is going to be well with us. I commit our teacher, Madam Nancy, into thy hands Jehovah to bless her work, bless her and give her more knowledge and more courage. Do whatever she's doing all under taking Jehovah. I commit everybody into thy hands, hoping that all is going to be well in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Kennedy. Thank you everyone for connecting. God bless you. Have a great week and a wonderful, you know, holy, holy weekend. Okay, see you all next Thursday. Thank you. Bye bye. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you too. Thank you. Bye.


Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really adorable diorama card. This is one that I made during my Facebook live craft along. I'm doing these about three times a week and they're over on my Facebook page. I'll share the links below. It's a really really fun couple of hours. You know get to maybe meet some new like-minded crafters. Very very friendly group. So if you do want to do that to just kill a few hours then yeah check out that link. But here is the card. It's beautiful. I did say at the beginning that I wanted to go very over the top. You can see all of these vines. Well it's the leaves from the willow tree and there is a stamped image of a willow tree right in the background there. You can just about make it out. And then I've just added all this lovely detail. You can see I've used my glossy accents on the eyes just here to create that kind of water effect on the dragonfly here. And then I've combined two sentiments. The sentiment that goes with the stamp set is just swanning in to say. And then the high is actually from a craft as companion one. So again just you know maybe just give you some ideas to mix up your your sentiments and create them. But I think this looks absolutely adorable. It all folds completely flat and will fit into a five by seven maybe a bouncy envelope. That's what I'm calling the ones that I make. That's using the envelope punch board. Or you can use my box envelopes which again I will link as well for you. You've got all the space on the back here to stamp and write your message. I will also give you the measurements for a six by six size as well. So then you have the two to choose from. They stand up beautifully and I just think they're adorable. So let me show you how to make this really fun card. Okay so this is the stamp set. So it's by Creative Stamps and it's called Serene Swans. And you can see here the two together. So you can stamp them you know you don't have to have both in a card if you don't want to. But to create the scene I did use all of those and then like I said that sentiment there. Then this is where I use the high. So it's from the Floral Friends by Crafters Companion. It's a really nice stamp set. I've gone to it quite a lot actually. So yeah you've got some great ones awesome at any age. Flowers bloom all for you. I thought of you today. That's just a great card when you just want to send someone a card. How nice to just have that. You know I thought of you today. I think it's lovely. Then this was the one that I used to stamp this one here. You can see how that one looks. And also the lily there and the pads. And then there's the dragonfly which I haven't stamped yet so I can do that one later on. But there's also these here which I used to create the background. But I think I'm going to do more of an easier version for the video. If you do want to see how I created more of a I guess a layered with detail then you can check out that Facebook live. So that's that one. I also show you this lovely die set from Paper Discovery which will create the five by seven size for you. So if you're someone that would prefer to use the dies because I know we've all got our preferences then this is a really really nice one. You have all these different layers and I will share in my blog post for this video the cards that I created using this one as well. And there's also a video which I will pop up here just showing you the samples that I made using that one. And then I also used the vine die from the Paper Discovery kit. So this was kit number four. This one's now actually sold out but if you do have it you know it is a handy one. It's actually here on the paper you can just see on the front there and it's just this one here. But you know any kind of leaf kind of you know that dangle if you want to create that kind of real detailed look that I've done. But that is the one I used so for those of you that do have this kit so I know a lot of you do then you could also use that as well. Okay so I've made a five by seven version so today I'm going to show you how to make a six by six but all the measurements for the five by seven version will be in my blog. Okay so if you do want to make the five by seven you put it together and follow you know the construction as I would with this one but for the actual measurements just follow my blog post. So for this one here again if you want to do that six by six you'll want a piece of 11 by six cardstock. And along that 11 inch side you want to score at half an inch one inch one and a half two and two and a half and you can continue and then score at eight and a half nine nine and a half ten and ten and a half or you can do that side flip and do this one the same so it would be that half an inch one one and a half two and two and a half. You know some people have a preference they like to do it that way you know at both ends or they just continue so I'll just give you the options there. Then your two inner score lines here because this is now your six by six panel you want to fold both of them in so they become mountain folds and then just work out so then it'll be a valley a mountain a valley and you'll finish with a mountain and you want to make sure that that panel is facing towards you you know it's flat and it's facing in so you've got your mountains here so if I bring it up you should have three mountains on the side there one two three so again just created my first mountain then a valley mountain valley finishing with the mountain so again both of those pieces off you know the the outer edge is facing towards the inside there of the card so I bring it up you'll see now that stands up on its own okay so that's all the scoring that you need done like I said the five by seven follow the score lines in the blob but you'll put it together just like that okay then I have cut a piece of six by six and I've cut two pieces there are two pieces stuck together here and what I use to create the aperture on the inside is the second largest dive from the Distress Squares by Daisy May but any square will do and you don't even have to have dyes you could also cut this using your trimmer and a score you know a metal ruler and a cutting knife you don't need to have the dyes either so but this one here if you do want to create a similar sized window but like I said you may have a circular window you might have a shaped window you know we've all got different dyes in our stash so go and have a look at what you've got yours might be rectangular oval all sorts so have a little look but this one if you want to get something similar to mine it's a four and seven eighths of an inch squared okay so like I said I cut two pieces there are two stuck together here just because you cut such a large amount out it could weaken so I've stuck two together there using my collow gluce that's actually now become a really strong you know piece of card and I use 300 gsm anyway so yeah very very strong but what you want to do is when before you cut that middle section out is put the two together and put the die over it and run both pieces through at the same time because even if it doesn't cut right through to the bottom one it will leave an embossed kind of square so then you could also put you know then you can put that over the top and then die cut the next one again but at least then your frames are exactly the same size okay so you want to create that then I have got this piece here this teal piece and this is where I said I'm going to do my background a little bit different because I think I'm just going to pop this colour here on the back and then I've got some more than I'm going to use to stick on the bottoms here to create this water effect so rather in the background of this one I've got the sky and like the land this one is just going to be the water just continuing so it's going to be the same colour cardstock which I'm going to have along the bottom here as well okay so what I've got here this is actually left over from when I done the live craft along but I want to make sure that it is six inches wide okay um for the very front one so this already has a curve so I'm going to keep this one for the very front and I'm going to do this so it is um it's a bit hard to cut because I've already cut into it so I'm just trying to make sure that I keep this all lined up so let's do it that way I'll go back to that way actually right okay and this one here because you want it to be the full we're going to stick that one inside in the minute but this length here is going to actually connect the front but I want it to look like the bottom you know I want it to look like the river or the lake whatever it is they're in so that one there but then the other two to go in here because you'll see there's two more inside okay and there's one on the very back which actually I didn't end up putting anything on but it's there so these will also be that same kind of um height so I'm gonna do that one because that's a bit crooked but we're cutting it it's all going to make sense but these ones here you want to be five and seven eight you want them to be slightly shorter purely because the card needs to be able to fold flat and if you do them exactly the same width it will buckle and it will become a little bit arched whereas you can see here mine's completely flat and that will fold completely flat nothing kind of lifts up and that's because these two behind are slightly shorter and like that's why it's good to do that five and seven eights and not the full six so you want the full six on the front piece because it's exactly the same width as the frame so that's this one here but these other two and then what I've done so that's my five and seven eights that's my six inch but just to create I don't want to look I don't want it to look like a wave I just wanted it to look like just little kind of you know ripples in the water so I just wanted it just to be not straight basically all right so you can see there they're just a little bit shaped now you can distress these you might want to do a lighter blue I pretty much just looked at this one in my scraps and um you know I don't really want to cut into a fresh piece and I knew that this could work so you can you know stamp onto this and everything that you want to but again because it gets very heavily decorated in my case you're really not going to see it all you're going to see is that color and but this time I just want to continue that kind of the water behind them so first of all whatever you're doing on your background you want to get that one stuck down first okay so this piece here also I've got to give the measurements was five and seven eight squared so it just gives you a very very small white border but again you don't want to do the whole six by six because it's just going to create bulk and also you know it may affect the card when you go to fold it flat but you'll see there now I've just got that very small white border okay then just double check I'm just making sure that this is the six inch one yes that's the last one I want to stick down on top of my frame so then you want to add these ones so you're going to stick these into the next kind of so where you have your first I guess well it's either a valley or a mountain depending on how you look at it because I said we've got three mountains here this is to me this is the valley but you're going to stick this one onto that but it'd be down at the bottom here but it's going to go onto that side there and that side of that one there okay but along the bottom so just so you know where we're sticking these you only need a very small amount of glue so I'm just popping a little bit there and a little bit there and again pop that one in and because I'm using a liquid glue it gives you that time to wiggle it around but you want to squeeze in the concertina folds so that piece folds flat like so okay and just hold that there make sure it's nice and flush with the bottom you don't want it coming out too far because otherwise the card won't be able to stand up but I'm just going to hold that there for a second okay so now when you see in there we've got our first section okay then the next one you're going to do the same and this time you're going to stick it on this one here this is the last one so I'm going to open up the top ones there and then just add my glue again just a little bit to either end and just pop that one in there and again just squeeze them down so everything's nice and flat and I can just see there just the two just like a little ripple in the water but it's just going to create a nice little effect so again just make sure everything folds nice and flat okay so now you can see our two sections there okay then you want to cut two pieces that are half an inch by five and seven eights and these are going to go along the top but this is only if you want to have things dangling down so I've done them the same colors as I've got the kind of reeds there or the leaves whatever you know you're using but again they're going to stick in exactly the same way but it just gives me those two sections to be able to attach all of these leaves okay so again just stick one down on the same one as the back blue pieces and you want these to be nice and flush with the top they can I mean they can come down a bit lower but you don't want them to drop down you know really below that frame so I'm going to keep mine just flush with the top of the the card there I'll stick this one down at the same time okay so that's all now in place and next I want to add glue to the front of these two side pieces and then just stick this one down and this will be the exact size and just frame your card okay and while that's drying this one I'm now going to stick onto the front so it looks like that water is just continuing out of the frame which is what I've done there okay so that's all done and like I said the top tip is is everyone you stick down make sure the card folds flat you don't want any bulkiness to it because you're already going to be having a lot of bulk with the sides anyway and then with everything that you add to it but these cards are just fantastic cards for any kind of I think underwater theme or just those kind of scene builders because this could be the inside of like a fish tank for example and other ones that I've done in my playlist you know I do give you lots of examples of just different ways to you know make some fun scenes but now this is all ready to decorate so I have quite a few here because I had more kind of prepped for the video but I have these I can keep for another card another day so I want two like that so they're spares and then we've got our little signets here which is super cute these were so easy to color as well I just kept you know just really kept them white and just add a little bit of gray like the signets are really gray and fluffy so they're a little bit darker but with the swans themselves there's just some gray along the bottom and in a few areas there on the and then I just done the orange beaks I've got my frog there and my lily pad I've also got my cattails there I forgot what they were during the live and I forgot again then so I've got those they look lovely again this is all spares for another card which is always handy and the frog there as well although I have got that one that's a slightly different might keep that one actually it's a little bit different and then I've got all these pieces here again was all left over I just went through and die cut tons of stuff so I'm going to start laying everything down I'm going to position these pieces first pretty much the same as I have you know with that card there maybe I do this one this side maybe I'll go a little bit different we do this one on the left and then we can have kind of he's just come back there and mums come to say hi but then I do like them on the front but this is why it's good to kind of sit down all the placement because this was a lot wider so with this one here I'm going to have to feed these back onto these other sections a little bit differently definitely got to have that one there well maybe he can be set back just coming out there that would look quite nice so maybe him there and then mum has just come back and we can have a couple just coming out from there and maybe this one just inside there so that's what we're going to do so slightly different arrangement the frog mmm where's mr frog going to go this time because he was there but there may be a bit too much going on so I might have him sitting in the back there or maybe he doesn't get used but now it's all these pieces here which are going to come in and stick on those panels that you've created at the top and I want these to come down quite you know far down you know they're going to come down right into the the square here and then the sentiment is going to go over the top like I've done with this one here so I'm going to pop the video now on high speed and just get this all stuck down just watch me put all that together and I ended up bringing in the other one of the cat tails here and I just had the idea to set these back so it actually looks really nice that they're kind of swimming you know in and around everything it's very full I just love it I think it looks great and then I've popped the other of the lily and the lily pads there in the background haven't put the frog in this one I just don't think it's going to work but I did go and stamp my dragonfly which I'm going to attach just coming down there from the side from the top right corner just going to pop a little bit of glue just on the tail just so it's held in place and I'm going to pop some glossy accents on the wings to finish it off and then I know I did say that I was going to have the sentiment coming in from the right because initially I thought that was going to be quite plain but now I've got this here and the dragonfly I'm going to stick it still on this side but just a little bit higher and all I'm doing there is just adding a tiny little bit of glue just to the side I'm using the calow glue so it dries very very strong and that will stay in place just there so while that's drying make sure it's nice and straight I think it's great I love that it just hangs and floats kind of in that section so now I'm just going to bring in the glossy accents if you've not seen this before it's by ranger it can be used as a glue but a lot of people use it to add that kind of glossy finish that's why it's got the glossy accent so it's great for using on eyes if you've got any stamped images faces things like that the lips and you think that might you know you want to create a shine or that's something that might be wet so it's great to use for fish if you're doing like underwater scenes I done the frog there thought that looked really good and then I done these kind of just I don't know just well I'll show you what I did so there was no kind of rhyme nor reason with this I just started to is this going to be blocked yeah it always gets blocked that's the one downer I'm not going to say it always comes out first time because it doesn't but I've just got a pin there just from one of my glues and then try it on something off camera there we go and then just go in and just kind of as if you're coloring in really it's the easiest way but I'm not squeezing too hard you see that and then when that dries you can see it does dry it dries clear but it's also dried darker can you see that and I still like it because you can really obviously see it but when it catches the light yeah how good does that look and then you can just go around and just pop a little bit on all of the little eyes and I think it's just a great way of finishing off your cards and then on the dragonfly here I just keep the nozzle down on the card don't lift it so you won't get any air like that I think that's everything I need there it dries pretty quick depending on obviously how heavy you go with it but now you can see just how that gloss finish just hits the light it's just a really nice detail I love it I think it's gorgeous I love the dimension I love you know there's just so much to look at all that detail so that's your six by six that's your five by seven I think they look fab so like I said all the measurements will be in my blog for the five by seven hopefully you know you've taken some inspiration from this video and you're able to create some scenes as I always say please go and join the Mixed Up Crafters Facebook page because over there lots of people share their versions of the cards that I make so you know like I say if you don't have these materials which not everybody does head over to the group because a lot of ladies and men share their cards with their supplies that they use and it gives you even more inspiration and it makes you think oh I wish I tried that well I've got that I can do that effect so yeah I hope you've enjoyed the video please give it a thumbs up if you have consider subscribing if you don't so you get to see more fun videos and I'll be back very very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


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He's a 30-year-old left-hander, his nickname is the Big Maple, this past year 11 and 6, 3.76 ERA and 28 starts, he threw 116 a third in his pitch, he struck out 208 with a whip of 1.098. So good numbers, again he's 30, he is not a free agent till 2021, so they have him controlled for 3 years. Here are the 3 players the Yankees are sending, their number one prospect Justice Sheffield who remember they got from the Indians in the Andrew Miller deal, outfielder Don Thompson Williams who is unranked as a prospect and right-handed pitcher Eric Swanson who has been on the come of late and he's their number 22 prospect. They didn't give up Thyro Estrada, they did not give up any of their other top 10 prospects which is, I think it's not a bad deal, Sheffield has a good arm, he's electric, made his debut with the Yankees in September coming out of the bullpen, he does not have great command, the Yankees were lucky to bring them up as a starter, they thought that his speed and velocity would play as a reliever, left-hander 22 years old so you're trading a 22 year old for 30 year old although with the 30 year old you still have control of him for 3 years. It's not a terrible deal people, it's not, the Yankees need quality starters, they get themselves a big time lefty, he walked 42, he struck out 108, gave up 134 hits in 160 and a third innings pitched, so 176 base runners in 160 and a third innings pitched with a 3.76 ERA, Sheffield in AA and AAA 7-6 2.48, he had 3 gains with the Yankees, he's allowed 3 innings in 2 and 2 third innings, struck out 123 in 116 minor league innings, 82 hits but 50 walks and that was a concern.  I was just going to say not a lot of innings in a career in which he is entering his seventh season of Major League Baseball, he hasn't gotten to 590 innings pitched, his most appearances last year 28 before that 24, 20, 13, 13 and 4, so he's got 102 appearances all starts in a six year career, so injuries have been a little bit of a problem, so he hasn't given you a ton of innings to work with but you know the stats look pretty good, what you like is more 2017 when he was 12 and 5 with a 2.98 as opposed to the 11 and 6 this pasture with a 3.76, so the Yankees are hoping to get to 2017 Paxton. Now JJ Cooper who covers baseball, he's executive editor for Baseball America, points out that Eric Swanson was going to be needed to be added to the 40 man roster, Yankees are out of time without protecting him and the Yankees 40 man roster with such talent relatively tight so this makes it easier for them, they take Sheffield off the roster, they put Paxton on the roster and they don't have to worry about putting Swanson on the roster and losing another player, so there you have it, so that's the deal, Yankees strike quickly and now you have to wonder well who do you want, you want Corbin who's younger or do you want Hap which would give you then three left handers in your rotation, CeCe, Paxton and Hap. Not bad, it's not awful for a sports event, especially in that ballpark. Have a lot of left-handers, yeah and you're right with a short porch in right field and you'll be able to dominate those left-handed batters.


Hi, everyone. Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with a one-pack sell-o-prack break of 2019-2020 Panini Donner's Optic basketball, with a chance to win impeccable spots. Is that full? That's sold out. We just need to do one more, and we can get that on the schedule for tonight. I think that'll be actually, that'll actually break with Nick if that sells out. Okay. Big thanks to all these folks for getting into the action. All the teams are there, so let's do the break first, and then we'll re-randomize your names in a different dice roll for the winning spots. But let's see what's in this pack first. 10 times. 10th and final time, we got Matt Medlin down to Jed. I was telling Matt last week that I've been watching Nauticos, so now I look at Matt's last name, and I almost want to say it's Medellin. But it's not. It's Medlin. 6-4, 10 times. Finally finished all three seasons of Nauticos, and now I'm in Nauticos, Mexico. Season one. Actually, I think I just finished season one, maybe season two. 10 times. And 10th and final time. 6-4, 10 times, 10 times. For you Star Wars fans out there, of which I am one. Rogue One's Cassian Andor, Diego Luna, is in Nauticos, Mexico. Mexico. So it's pretty entertaining. You can see him be a bad guy. There you go. There's the list right there. Basically, well this is 1920, so who has the gris? Who has the palakins is basically what we want to know, right? Eric, you have the gris, and Greg, you have the palakins. All right, let's order this by column B, by team. Let's print, let's rip. All right, so there's the final printout right there. There you go. I mean, basically people want to say, hey, who's going to win that impeccable basketball spot? There's really the whole point of this. So I guess the special things are the blue velocities in here. Oh, de verdad. Mandalorian guys in Narkos too? Which, really? I don't know that. I forget what character does he play. Nerseku Demboya, Kezi Okpala. We've got, that's it. The blue velocities are Jimmy Butler, Miles Bridges, and Rudy Gay. No rookies in here. These aren't numbered, by the way. All sorts of Star Wars crossover in Narkos. All right, so there you go. Let's leave those up there. So Segu Demboya rated rookie, not too shabby Chad. Now, how many spots are we giving away here? Top four names? Wait, does that? No, wait, we need to do one more, I think. It doesn't sell at the break, because we need to do one more sell-o-pack. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, right, okay. Get it together, Joe. All right, top four. Then I copied that. Control C. Control V. There you go. All right, so top four after nine, we'll get spots in impeccable basketball. Nine times. One, two, and ninth and final time. After nine times, top four, congrats to Jed, Zach, Dante, and Anthony. Thanks, everyone, for giving this shot. Congrats to these four right here. Remember, there's one more sell-o-pack to do to try to win the last four spots. Get it going on jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


So my opinion doesn't mean you're fighting women, throwing them to the side to try to get to a man. It just means that you're presenting your best self because you understand other women also want said man that you think is the ideal candidate. Somebody's not going to get them. Listen, it's the message right here. Black boy, tell me how you really feel because I just want to build with you.  I want to keep it real with you. I want to live better, eat better. I want to love better, sleep better. Yeah, I want to feel so aligned. Here's the first question. In an alternative universe, what kind of woman would you be? That's a good one. In an alternative universe, what kind of woman would I be? I've never thought about that. I've never thought about what kind of woman I would be. Hopefully pretty because I definitely want to use my pretty privilege. But because I'm a guy who complains a lot about women who are only pretty, meaning they have nothing else. Hopefully I'm one who has substance as well because they come feeling far between. So yeah, is that enough? Is that enough of a kind of woman I would be? Definitely fierce too. They're definitely into fashion and all of that good stuff. Yeah. Okay, so I guess we can go deeper into the pretty privilege thing. Do you think that pretty privilege is serving women in 2022 in a positive way? And then how do you think it's affecting women in a negative way? I think it's serving women in a positive way in the sense that a woman who's pretty can experience a lifestyle that she can't afford for herself. In ways that's a blessing, I guess. How was it hurting them? What's the negative side of it, do you think? I feel like a lot of women who are pretty, they forget that at some point it runs out. So I would say that's how they think it's like a forever thing. So they prolong the part where they are supposed to settle down or if that's their goal, if marriage is your goal, I feel like they postpone that maybe a little too long because of that pretty privileged serving them and all the experiences that they want to be forever. But all good things come to an end. Yeah. Okay. So when you were talking about the positive side of it, you said pretty women, it affords them a lifestyle they wouldn't be able to get themselves. So I'm going to play devil's advocate a little bit here. Women, feminists usually will say, well, they wouldn't take that comment very well because they're like, women can do anything. Oh, they can. But there are a lot of pretty women who just don't have the resources. Right. And that's so saying that it affords you a lifestyle that you might not be I'm provide for yourself doesn't mean that you're not capable of going and getting it. But if we're talking about the real world, which you and I live in, there are more pretty women who don't have it and they are the ones that do have it. And it I mean the resources to go live this flamboyant lifestyle. But if you're a pretty woman who doesn't have it, which most are, then your looks can get you on yachts and jets. Women who aren't as pretty don't get that lifestyle. Most of them who can't do it for themselves, they don't get picked to experience that lifestyle. So I don't think it's a matter of women can do anything that men can show. I mean, you can if you want, but the ones that don't, they can still get to experience all those things. Sure. Okay. So what is your view of the standard that women have, whether they're pretty decent looking, whatever, what's your view of the standard that women have when it comes to lifestyle? I think it's been skewed and worked by social media. And to be fair, I think social media has done that to everyone. Because we get to see a lifestyle that like 2% of America lives. And we think that's the norm. And obviously that I feel like that makes a lot of women feel like I don't want to be average. Like average men don't deserve me. I deserve this. Everyone deserves their lifestyle now in 2022. So I think it's unrealistic. I think the expectations have become unrealistic, to be honest. Because most people are average. Like literally, most people are average. But average has become an insult in 2022. Like how dare you? Like, you know what I mean? I deserve the jets and the yachts. And sure, in a perfect world, I wish we could all live that lifestyle. But it's unreasonable. I guess it doesn't happen. Okay. So how do you think that's affecting the dating market? Or the way that men and women are communicating with each other?  That's how it's affecting the date market. At least from what I hear and I see on a daily basis. I feel like men are competing with, average men are competing with, not only rich men, they're competing with the highlight tape of those rich men. So like, how do you even compete with that? How do you compete with the elite's highlight tape? Like the best part of the 2%. You can't compete with that. So it's like you go into the dating market and you already know you're fighting an uphill battle as a man. Because a lot of women feel like men are not born rich. We're not born with a check. You know what I mean? So we have to go and we have to make ourselves whatever we become. And I think social media makes that, makes dating 20 times harder for just the average man. Like the average man can't even get an average woman anymore. Because no woman feels like she's average. She feels like she's above it. So let me ask you, because I think that's a very important concept of the fact that men are not born wealthy and they have to really work for what they get. No one's going to hand it to them versus, you know, women, you're beautiful. You're beautiful. So I want you to give me a scenario or maybe explain a little bit if you were to talk to, if you were to talk to like a woman who has that mindset. How would you describe that to her for it to register? So I actually did that kind of recently. I asked the woman I was dating to look up like the average salary, not just like for men, period. And when she saw the result, she was like, no way people are living off like this is poor. And I'm like, no, it's not poor. It's average. Like this is average. You know what I mean? But that's I feel like that's that reality is the best way to get it to register. Just like Google is your friend. Just Google the average or the median rather, the median male salary in America. And then Google the median female salary in America. It's eye opening. Like you would never like the way Instagram operates. You were like, so all these people are rich. Like, no, they're not. We're not. We're not all rich. So I think that's that's the most eye opening thing average to actually see those figures in black and white. I agree. And it's logical. It's a logical thing. A lot of women just cannot wrap their minds. Yeah. So how are we going to help push women in the more logical direction? As I guess, I don't know, honestly. I think it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I think it's one of those things where women are gonna want to be more logical when it's almost too late. So like when they are like, and again, I don't want to not hate to be politically correct. I know people say it's never too late for marriages now too late for this. But if we're operating on the under the assumption that most people do want to get don't want to wait till their latter years to get married, I feel like most women are going to realize, realize a lot of things in their latter years. Where it's like, okay, so clearly I was doing something wrong. If marriage or companionship is my angle, and I'm just now realizing that my expectations are unrealistic. It's almost too late at that point. And that's what I mean. I feel like it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I think a lot of people are going to realize it when it's almost too late. Now that's going to look different for men than women. So what do you think almost too late? I guess you kind of explain what that looks like for women. But what do you think that looks like for men, whether it's they're going to date outside their race or whatever, just because men have a little bit more time. It's not really a comparison. And that's why it's hard to explain it for men because it's naturally men prolong when they want to get married based on where they are in life. So to be honest, it's not a question I can ask because I don't know what it looks like for men in general. I know for me, we kind of create our own timetables because we don't have a biological time clock. We get to create our own timetable. So most men have done that. They're like, I want to be here at this time. So it literally goes from case to case. Whatever your timetable is will determine if what almost too late looks like for you. For me, it's like I want to be married by like 35. That's my... Where that number come from? And have you always thought about that number? I moved that number like six times. When I was 18, I wanted to be married at like 25. Then it was like 27. Then it was 30. Now I'm 32 and it's like, all right, 35. So that's what almost too late looks like for me right now is when I'm... If I'm 35 and I'm not married, it's almost too late for me. Does your view, if you want to explain what your view of marriage was at 18 or 25 was, does it look different than what your view of marriage is going to be? Will you see it being at 35 as far as the quality of the relationship and what marriage means? I don't seem so much more adultish when I was younger. Like at 32, I'm still like... I mean, I feel like an adult now and I realize I'm an adult. But when I was 18, people who were 25 seemed so much more adultish. But when I was 13, maybe people who were 25 seemed so much more adultish. But for me, I feel like marriage has... I don't think it's changed too much how I view it. I think what I want to be able to provide for my family has changed in that regard. So for me, it's more of... I now think of the kind of lifestyle I want my children to have. I always say one of my biggest goals in life is to create a head start for my children because most black kids don't have a head start. We don't have the room to fail. And that's why we almost get born with a handicap. So yeah, having a safety net for my kids, affording them the option to fail and still fail upwards and be able to keep going is what my goal is for family, not just marriage. Okay, so your view is more like your family, all right. So let's talk about then describe the partner in... If that's your goal, describe the partner that you feel like you have to align yourself with that would get you and your family to that goal at this age, not at 18-year-old. Which goes back to the question you asked me, the kind of woman I would want to be in the alternate reality, right. So you're saying the type of woman you would be, would be the woman that you see yourself be when others are interested. Yeah, in a sense, but now I think about a couple of things that I might have left off. So a woman that I can trust to raise my kids. What does that look like when you say raise? Because it looks differently for everyone. No, for sure. Educated. First of all, education is very important to me and maybe it's because of how I was raised, but sometimes I see parents who I look at and I'm like, I know they can't help their children with homework. And I don't want that for me and my family. Like I want a woman who can help and I can help, but I want us to be able to help our kids. So I feel like education is important to me. I want a married woman who's definitely educated. If we're talking about things beyond surface level, I think that's like number one on the list. Okay, okay. So you seem like a very man with a good head on the shoulders, right.  I don't need any good men, this and that. Do you find that to be your reality? And don't compare it to the men that you might attract as friends, the men that you just run into on a daily basis. Do you find that to be the reality? Not many shit, but that men don't have the wisdom that you just explained, I guess you could say. I think a lot of men don't. And I think a lot of men do. Okay. And I have to make that distinction. And here's why. Because let's let's flip it, right? I think there are a lot of women, I think there's a certain pocket of men who are everything that most women say they want. And if those are the type of men that you want, then they're out there. You can find them. And you can figure out how to make yourself attractive to those type of men. The same way that men have to figure out how to make themselves attractive to the type of women that they want.   Like if you're saying if you're pretty, whatever, you're going to attract a wider way of men. Now you have to select the ones that you're going to date.  No, you attract all men.  You know what I mean? Like, and the same thing goes with men.  So let's dig into that. Why do you think that is? What?  Because the things that we want often contradict each other. Like women, for instance, right? They want a guy who is so contradicting. They want a guy who, they want a popular guy that's low key.  You know what I mean? It's like a lot of things are so contradicting, whereas though you end up choosing the things you want or lust over the things you need as a grown woman who's looking for a certain type of angle. Do you think a man can do both? Yes, I do. However, those men come very few and far between. And for that to be the expectation that women have for majority of men is unrealistic again. So it comes back to, it's a numbers game. Like every man cannot fit that mode. It's unreasonable.  It almost can't even coexist in the same man. So even if there's a chance that it somehow can and does, that kind of man is going to come so few and far between that it's going to be like finding a needle in the haystack. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. So let's switch up a little bit. I still kind of want to stay on the top of like community and family a little bit. Are you or would you raise your daughter differently than you raise your son? Absolutely. Because the world is a double standard for everyone. The world is, it's one of the most dangerous things that we could do just as people is not accept that there are double standards in society. And I find that people only want to accept the double standards that benefit them. And then they reject the ones that don't, which is unreasonable because you still have to live on earth. You still have to live, if you live in America, in this country, which has double standards. So absolutely, I would instill different values in my son than I would in my daughter. Go into that. As most people will. What would you like go into the values and the differences if you can? Well, gender roles in itself are double standards. We say boys would should, well, let's start with, we say men should protect and provide. Women are not expected to do that. That's a double standard. No, women don't have a problem with that double standard. Would you say that it's a double standard or is it something that is catered to the natural ability of what a man is designed to do? Some double standards come from natural abilities, some don't, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still under the umbrella of a double standard because one is expected from one sex and the other isn't. So yeah, as far as the differences in how I raise my daughter versus my son, I would raise my son to be a husband, to be somebody that a woman would be proud of if he gets to that point in his life. I think it's important that men see men growing up and as far as my daughter, it will be the reverse. I won't be raising my daughter to be a husband. You understand what I'm saying? I'll be raising her to be a woman and a wife if that's her end goal at some point. So there's always a double standard on how you're going to raise different genders, whether we want to admit it or not. Yeah. Okay. So a lot of, okay, okay. Hold up. Let me craft this question. So with single motherhood being so high, there are a lot of single woman raising both young men and young women, right? I think I know the answer to this question, but do you think that that has had an effect on where we are now because we're still young? So do you see that in the people that you know with single mothers? And I'm sure we all know them. Do you think that has had an effect? And let's start there. Do you think that that's how single motherhood has had an effect? By all of the numbers, they show that it has had an effect.  It's just based on single parent households. So absolutely that has an effect. And most single parent households are mother and children. So yes, that absolutely has an effect. And I know I don't want that for me or my kids. I'm sorry. What was your follow up question? I didn't have one. So that was good. Okay. So you do think that it's had an effect. Okay. So moving forward, I'm assuming that you do believe two-parent households are going to be important in order to make a change. Absolutely. Do you think that the primary... I think family structure is absolutely important for us to change the trajectory of just where we are. Okay. So that's obviously a big issue within the black community. Do you think that marriage is the best way to get there when it comes to two people coming together? Or do you think that two people don't necessarily need to be married in order to create that? No one has to do anything on this earth. The pushback that we... This generation is so weird. The pushback that I often hear, particularly with single parents is, well, marriage doesn't guarantee anything. That's the number one pushback you get. Right? Nothing guarantees anything though. So why do we have to be so extreme? Nothing is 100% guaranteed, but it's a commitment. It's like, at least you know this person is saying, I'm going to try to do this thing with you. You know what I mean? So when we talk about marriage and let's make it more even more specific. When you talk about, say, marrying before you have kids, it's not to say that you can't get a divorce at some point or it's absolutely going to work. But the message behind it is that you're with someone who's at least telling you that this is something I want to do with you.  Like there's no promise. There's no commitment behind that. You understand what I'm saying? So again, it's not to say that marriage is a guarantee. Nothing is a guarantee in life. If that's the standard, then nothing will get done because nothing is a guarantee. Like you went to school for a degree. It wasn't guaranteed that you were going to get your dream job, but you took that chance because you knew like this was the best way to go about it. So nothing is guaranteed. That cannot be the standard that it has to be 100% guaranteed. It's unreasonable. Yeah. Okay. Cool. All right.