وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ اَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوْ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوْهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوْوَالُوْ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى in today's Friday night reflection we'll be talking about أحكام العشر من دل حجة والأضحية والعيد we'll be talking about three things إن شاء الله تعالى أحكام regarding the ten days of دل حجة these ten days that we're in and we'll also be speaking about the أضحية the slaughtering the sacrifice and the third thing that we'll be speaking about is the عيد all three of them we're gonna mainly focus on the أحكام the jurisprudence rulings the do's and the don'ts what you can and what you can't do الله سبحانه وتعالى he chooses days of the week and he chooses months وربك يخلقوا ما يشاء ويختار وربك يولود وربك يخلقوا الله creates ويختار and he chooses الله chooses whichever day he wants to give superiority to he chooses which month he wants to give شرف وبركة he does what he wishes and from the days in which الله تبارك وتعالى chose is these ten days that we're in the first ten days of دل حجة الله chose them سبحانه وتعالى he picked them the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he narrated in the صحيح and and he narrated in the سنان من حديث ابن عباس ابن عباس he said قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger said ما من أيام العمل ما من أيام العمل الصالح فيه احبه إلى الله there is no days which righteous actions are moved beloved to Allah then من هذه الأيام then these ten days فقالوا يا رسول الله the companions they said oh messenger of Allah وللجهاد في سبيل الله even jihad the messenger said ولجهاد في سبيل الله and even jihad إلا رجل except a man خرج به نفسه وماله فلم يرجع من ذلك بشيء even jihad except a man who went to the battlefield and he died and his wealth also went with him meaning it perished his wealth got destroyed and his nafs got destroyed that's an exception but other than that these ten days are better than everything so these ten days الله تبارك وتعالى chose them what are the things that we need to do in these ten days how should we deal with these ten days number one التوبة الصادقة we have to come with true repentance we have to repent to Allah تبارك وتعالى the three conditions of repentance and that we regret what we did in the past number two القلاع that we free ourselves from that sin and we get away from it and the third is العزم we make the unwavering conviction that we don't want to go back to that sin ever again the second thing that we need to do is we make the decision العزم الجاد على اختنام هذه الأيام من الأجور that we make unwavering conviction that we are going to benefit from these days we make that decision we say to ourselves that these days we will make sure that we come with righteous actions righteous deeds we will do what Allah told us to do and we will stay away from what Allah told us to stay away from and the third is البعض عن المعاصي staying away from sins you stay away from sinning and shortcoming those are the three things that we need to do in these ten days I want to first answer a question which is why has Allah why has Allah who سبحانه وتعالى chosen these ten days why has He chosen these ten days the answer to your question is in the following number one أن الله التعالى اقسم بها الله سوى by these ten days الله who سبحانه وتعالى He's swore by these ten days إذ العظيم لا يُقصِم إلا بالعظيم the great one الله عز و جل He won't swear by something unless it's great so these days have to be great الله سبحانه وتعالى He said والفجر واليال العشر and this is the view of the جمهور المفصرين the overwhelming majority of scholars of Tafseer they have the opinion that واليال العشر is meant by the ten days of الحجة and it's the view that إبنو كثير الرحمة الله He said وهو الصحيح عين دي أكون إبنو كثير said واليال العشرين it means these ten days that we're in but when we were doing the Tafseer of صورة الفجر we strengthened the opposite opinion but scholars like إبنو كثير and others they hold the opinion that واليال العشرين it means these ten days that we're in so الله سبحانه وتعالى I swore by it the second reason why these ten days are virtuous that they are noble ten days is because إنه يوم الإكمال الديني وإتمام النعمة it is the day when Allah completed the religion and He bestowed His complete blessing onto His creation قالت اليهود الي عمار بن الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه a group of Jews they said to عمار رضي الله عنه إنكم تقرأون آية you guys are reciting a verse لو نزلت فينا was to come down on us Jews لتخذناها عيدة we would have made that day aeid there is a verse in your Qur'an that you are all reading if it came down on us Jews we would have made that day aeid فقال عمار said to him إني آي لأعلى محيث ووزلت the ayah that you're talking about I know where it came down on and what it came down for وإينا أنزلت and when it was sent down and where it was sent down وإينا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I even know where the messenger was when this ayah came down حين أنزلت when it was sent down on to him يوم عرفة it was the day of Arafa وإنه والله بي الله يوم عرفة يوم عرفة سوفيان الثوريو who is in the senate who narrated it from Qais he had a doubt was it a friday or not but there is another Rewire that Misar who narrated from Qais that he said that it was on friday so the narration where Soufian is doubtful is eradicated is ignored because there is another senate where it came where it is clear that it was friday so listen اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمة وراضيت لكم الإسلام الدينة that was the verse this verse it came down on a friday which is the Eid of the week and it also came down on the day of Arafa and the day of Arafa was the day after it إيد الأضحة إيد الأضحة is the day so what Umar was saying to him is we don't need to make it a Eid it already came down on two Eids because what the Jew man wanted to do to Umar was he wanted Umar to do innovation and take that verse as celebration and celebrate it but Umar was clever and smart enough to realize that he is not going to fall for that the point that we want to take from this is this verse came down in these 10 days it came down on the 9th of the Al-Hijjah which is the day of Arafa are we all together brothers so this shows us the virtue of these 10 days also the virtues of these 10 days number 3 is المباعفة the righteous deeds are multiplied these days number 4 أنها الأيام المعلومات التي شرع فيها ذكره it is the days where Allah legislated and prescribed for his remembrance to be done Allah says in the Quran ويذكر اسم الله في أيام المعلومات على ما رزقهم من بهيمة العام ويذكر اسم الله they remember Allah في أيام المعلومات prescribed days appointed days عبد الله بن عمر عبد الله بن عبس جمهور العلماء the overwhelming majority of scholars they said that أيام المعلومات here is referring to what these 10 days of the Al-Hijjah these first 10 days of the Al-Hijjah so this is the Tafseer of Ibn Abbas and Ibn Umar and the view that Ibn Kathir strengthened and Mujahid and Baha'a all of them they said it means أيام المعلومات means what these 10 days of the Al-Hijjah number 5 the fifth reason why these 10 days are chosen by Allah سبحانه وتعالى is بأنها أفضل أيام الدنيا these are the best days in the whole entire days in the world these 10 days these 10 days are the 10 best days in the world the messenger said this الإمام البزار narrated by Isnad in Hassanin and Abu Ya'la narrated it as well الشيخ ناصر رحمه الله authenticated it and Ibn Ha'ban mentioned it in his Sahih that he said that the prophet جابرنا عبد الله he said that the messenger said أفضل أيام الدنيا العشر the best 10 the best days are the 10 days of the Al-Hijjah ولا مثلهن في سبيل الله there is no day in the cause of Allah equal to it this is very powerful that these 10 days are the 10 best days in the entire world number 6 أن فيها يوم عرفة the day of Arafa is in these 10 days وما أدراكة ما يوم عرفة what do you know about the day of Arafa the messenger told us in a hadith با الإمام البخاري narrated in his Sahih أحمد narrated in his Musnad ترميدي narrated in his Sunan that the messenger said يكفر صنة الماضية والباقية the day of Arafa last year since that you done and next year since that you're going to do you'll be forgiven for it and Shaykhul Islam ibn Taymeh said it encompasses the major sins as well it encompasses the major sins as well so it's the minor and the major sins will be forgiven for you if you do what we will talk about later about يوم عرفة يوم عرفة the past year sin that you did is all gone and the year to come it's forgiven for you the messenger told us the best dua that a human being can ever make the best one is on the day of Arafa the messenger said خير دعاء دعاء عرفة وخير ما قلت أنا والنبيون من قبل لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك لا لو الملك ولو الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير the messenger said خير الدعاء دعاء عرفة the best dua is the dua of Arafa the best there is no dua like the day of Arafa then the messenger told us what is the best thing to say وخير ما قلت and the best thing I said not only me والنبيون من قبل and the prophets who came before me the best thing that they said was لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك لا لو الملك ولو الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير and the people who told me the narrated it and the people who narrated it in his Mwatta and Sheikh Nasser رحمه الله he authenticated it the seventh reason why these ten days are virtuous is انفها يوم النحر the day of Nahr is in it and the day of Nahr is يوم العاشر it's the tenth day of منذ الحجاء the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and look what he said about this day the prophet said إن أعظم الأيامي from the greatest days إن الله to Allah عز وجل is تبارك وتعالى يوم النحري ثم يوم القرر The best days to Allah تبارك وتعالى is from the best days to Allah تبارك وتعالى is the day of نحر the day of the sacrifice will talk about that in great detail soon إن شاء الله تبارك وتعالى And next comes what يوم القرر يوم القرر is what it is the day after the يوم النحر it's the eleventh day it is the eleventh day of the الحجة and the reason why it's called القرر is يوم الاستقراري بمنى it's the day where the حجاج they remain residents in منى So ponder here and contemplate with me إن أعظم الأيامي one of the best days is that day يوم النحري and the day of القرر which are part of the ten days or يوم القرر is not it's on the eleventh day لكن يوم النحري is it's in the ten days number eight the eighth reason why these ten days Allah gave it virtue over any days in the year is اجتماع أمهات العبادة فيها the mother the mother of عبادة are found only in these ten days no other time in the year would you find the types of عبادة that combine in these ten days no other place حافظه من حجر and he said in فتح الباري the second volume page 534 he said والذي يظهروا النس سبب في امهات العبادة فيه وهي الصلاة والسيام والصدقة والحج ولا يتأثى ذلك في غيره he says والذي يظهر even Hajar says what seems apparent for the reason why these ten days were given the virtue that it was given over every other days in the year is لمكان اجتماع أمهات العبادة the mother of عبادة are present in it وهي and they are الصلاة والصيام صلاة this is the month these are the ten days which we will talk about later and the fasting and صدقة the charity والحج going to do Haj and he said after that ولا يتأثى ذلك في غيره and it's not present in any other time in the year of these ten days these are the eight reasons والله تباركوا تعالى he chose these ten days they're not the only reasons but some of the reasons now I want to go into العمال المستحبة the recommended acts that a person should come with in these ten days acts that I will encourage you all to come with the first one I already mentioned it before but I'm going to emphasize it on it again التوبة repent والإقلاع عن المعاصي و جميع الذنوب repent to Allah تباركوا تعالى and come back from your short coming and your mistakes ask Allah for forgiveness for everything because Ibn ul Qayyim said رحمه الله المعاصي سبب البعدي والطرد since are the reasons والله تباركوا تعالى he distanced his mercy from you he distanced from you his forgiveness this is the reason why what took us out of Jannah because Allah was disobeyed why was Iblis taken out of Jannah from the gathering of the angels was sins since brothers are سبب البعدي والطرد the reason why you are distanced and you are chucked out of the mercy of Allah تباركوا تعالى وطعا to obedience is أسباب القربي والود it is the reason why Allah will bring you close and he will love you سبحانه وتعالى so this month sorry this is 10 days you work hard in repenting and coming back from your sins and your shortcomings and asking Allah for forgiveness the messing that told us in the hadith narrated in Bukhari and Muslim إن الله يغار وإن المؤمن يغار وغيرت الله أن يأتي المؤمن ما حرم عليه إن الله يغار الله تباركوا تعالى has protective jealousy وإن المؤمن يغار and so does the believer وغيرت الله and the jealousy of Allah تباركوا تعالى is أن يأتي المؤمن that the believer comes with ما حرم عليه he comes with that which Allah prohibited from him is it sensible to use the word jealousy for Allah is there a better translation but you understand them in protective jealousy نعم the second thing that we need to work hard to doing this month so these 10 days sorry is الصلاة praying we need to pray a lot brothers الجمعة والجماعات make sure that you come to the Friday congregation early make sure that you are there where no one is there make sure that you come to the congregation تكبيرت الحرام and you pray the Salah with the Imam you come early to the masjid you sit there and you wait for the Salah make sure that after you pray Salatul Al-Fajiri you don't move from your position you stay there until the sun rises this is days of righteous actions a days where you exert effort the third thing is that you do Hajj and Umrah in these 10 days if you are able to that you go and you do Hajj and you do Umrah number 4 is الصيام فاستن الإمام مسلم on the authority of أبي قتاد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم that the messenger said صيام يوم عرفة the fasting of the day of عرفة احتسب على الله I hope from Allah the messenger said ان يكفر سنة التي قبلة والسنة التي بعدة the messenger said the fasting of the day of عرفة I hope from it that Allah will forgive you for the year that passed the sins that you did and the year to come Allah will forgive you for both of those years the sins who from amongst us does not want to be forgiven who doesn't we all want it then this day is the day you need to fast so the fasting of these 10 days I've broken it into two if you can't fast the 10 days then at least get ready for your معرفة and fast on the day of عرفة and the second one is the fasting of all of these 10 days حفصة she said ألمان محمد نريتن is مسلم للنسائي she said أرباعون four لم يكن يجعوهن the messenger never used to leave it صلى الله عليه وسلم صيام عاشورة the fasting of عاشورة والعشراء and the ten وثلاثة أيام من كل شهر and three days of every month ورقعتيني قبل الغدات and the two rقع before Fajar these four the messenger never used to leave it صلى الله عليه وسلم so we need to make sure that these 10 days if we don't fast at all what are we going to do we at least fast the day of عرفة number five التكبير والتحميد والتهليل والذك we need to do تكبير say الله أكبر we need to do تحميد say الحمد لله we need to say لا إله إلا الله and we need to make many اذكار our mouth should not be dry from the remembrance of Allah that's why Allah said ويذكر اسم الله في أيام معلومات in these ten days remembrance of Allah تبارك وتعالى the men they raise their voices they raise their voices but the women don't and I'll expand on that later the تكبير that the person needs to say in these days when you look at the statement of the scholars it's categorized into two التكبير المطلق the unrestricted تكبير and that is the one that you do في كل وقت every time من ليلة أو نهارة ويبدأوا بدخول شهر يلحجة it is the one that you do whether it's day whether it's night as the day that it's announced when it's entered يبدأ from your mouth especially the تكبير and it carries on إلى آخر أيام التشريق it carries on three days after the day of عيد you carry on it you don't stop that's the general unrestricted تكبير and then there's a second type which is التكبير المقيد the restricted type of تكبير and this is the one that he said يكونوا عقب الصلاة it's the one that's done after the prayer and what he's chosen is that it's said after every salah whatever salah it may be and it starts in the morning of يوم عرفة and it carries on until صلاة العصري the last day of أيام التشريق which is the thirteenth of دلحجة it carries on so it starts فجر يوم عرفة and it carries on to when the last the day of the last salah for it is what? عصر مغربين it enters like ألمان مشرفعي he put مغرب in there like what seems apparent is that it's not the person should make a lot of ذكر وليذلك it is recommended to say a lot of ذكر عبد الله ابن عمر رضي الله وتعالى عنه as an Imam Muhammad narrated in his Muslim he used to say فأكثروا فيهن من التهليل والتكبير والتحميل he used to say to the people when he would see them out not moving عبد الله ابن عمر and would say to them أكثروا فيهن increase in these days تهليل لا إله إلا الله الله أكبر أنا الحمد لله and an Imam Al-Bukhari you mentioned that عبد الله ابن عمر and Abu Huraira both of them would go together كان يخروا جانين they would both go out إلى السوق to the market in these ten days فأكبروانا وكبيروا الناس وكبيروا الناس وبتكبرهم they would do the takbir and the people would do the takbir after they hear them say it but that does not mean that the takbir was said once it wasn't said in one voice raising the takbira with one voice is not from the sunnah and it's not transmitted from the Salaf-ul-Saal-يح but what it means is that عبد الله بن عمر ون أبو هوريرا سيقوم بعملها ون يتذكر الناس ون يقوم بعملها أيضا لكن لا يقوم بعملها معاً يجب أن يقوم بعملها معاً ون نحن ممتعاً لكي نفعلها بعض المجردين يعتقدون أنه يجب أن يعملها لأنه من المتحدة بالله وليد كبير الله على ما هداكم بعمل تكبير لأنه ما الله يساعدنا to سبحانه وتعالى وصغة التكبير وفق من تكبيرك الخوان is Donc isishment forこんな where these three forms the first form is and the first way which you should say it is الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر كبير that's the first the second one is الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله وعوا الله أكبر الله أكبر وليلله الحمد the third one is الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله والله أكبر، والله أكبر، والله أكبر و لله الحمد والسيخة التي نحتاج لها هو تثرت الأعمال الصالحة لدينا أن نتكفي في الأخبار الصحيحة هذه 10 داستي تتتعبوا إلى السيخ هذه 10 داستي تتعبوا بأجد and تبقوا بأسوأ هذه 10 داستي تتعبوا صدقا هذه 10 داستي تتعبوا بأسوأة منك إذا كانت تتعبوا بأسوأة لك كانت تتعبوا بأسوأة لك في هذه 10 داستي تتعبوا بأسوأة لكي لا تستطيع التعب نمتة 7 و أنا going to stand on this for a little bit من الأفقات التي نحتاج لها مفتاحا ركما أنها صحية و أنا going to speak about it in detail إن شاء الله و تعالى الالاردانه مثل يوم النهر It's done on يوم النهر and يوم النهر is أولو أيام العيد it's the first day of the عيد and then after that comes What? أيام التشريق the slaughtering is also done in the days of the تشريق which is the second the third and the fourth day after رمضان this is the سلعبه second and the third and the fourth day is رمضان so it's 3 days and وَنَ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكُوَةَ عَلَى تَوْدَسْ فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَا بَلَغَ مَا بَلَغَ مَا عَوْسَّعِيْ قال يا بُنَيَّ اِنِّيْ اَرَافِ الْمَلَامِ اَنِّيْ اَذْبَحُكَ فَا فَانْظُرْ مَا دَا تَرَاءَ قال يا أبَةِ فْعَلْمَا تُؤْمرَ نبي الله إبراهيم كامته سان إسماعيد وقال أنه رأيته في حراراته وراءه ماهذا ونبي الله إسماعيد ساته هو أبراهيم أبراهيم أبراهيم أبراهيم أبراهيم أبراهيم كما أنك كامانته تفعله وذلك الله قلت لنا أنه عندما يجب أن يدفعه للسلوة الله قلت لنا وفديناه بذبح العظيم الله قلت لنا بذبح العظيم وذلك now became that became the slaughter and it started from there ونحن نسأل الله عليه وسلم أنه سلوة وإمام البخاري والمسلم and it became both narrated من حريفه أنس رضي الله وتعالى عنه that he said باح عن نبيه the messenger he sacrificed بكبشين أملحين أقرنين دباحه ما بيده two goats or sheeps goats goats who had horns he slaughtered them صلى الله عليه وسلم with his two hands وكبر عنه did the takbir he said بسم الله الله أكبر the messenger put his knee on the animal and he pulled the neck of the animal and he slaughtered it himself عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم so it's a sunnah to slaughter but the one who wants to slaughter what is it that he needs to do number one if you're planning to do the slaughter what are the things that you need to do number one if the ten days of the al-Hijjah entered and you've made the decision that you want to slaughter the ten days of the al-Hijjah entered and you've made the decision to slaughter then you should not take from your nails you should not take from your hair whether that hair is on your face or your body based on the حديث أم السلامة that is found in صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا دخلت العشر if the ten days of the al-Hijjah entered وأراد أحدكم and one of you intends أن يبحية one of you wants to slaughter فلا يمس من شعره وبشره شيئا don't touch your hair and don't touch your body parts meaning don't touch your nails and don't touch the hair that's on your body second point this prohibition is specific to the person who is slaughtering not the family members that is slaughtering on their behalf so the wife is allowed to cut her hair the wife is allowed to take from her nails even if her husband isn't allowed to because he's the one who's doing the slaughtering because the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا أراد أحدكم if one of you intends the one who's doing it and it wasn't mentioned on behalf of those who is doing it and so because the messengers didn't say it no one can make obligatory on them that they have to keep their body parts or they can't cut no one can prohibit it from them number three anyone who takes from their body parts meaning their hair, their nails, their beard their nails their hair anyone who takes from it deliberately with no excuse he does it then this person has done a sin they need to repent but there's no expiation and they can still go forward in their slaughter they can still go forward in doing their slaughter و لكن عليهم التوبة إلى الله عز و جل they need to repent to Allah by what they did number four is the slaughtering it's done بعد صلاة العيد after the صلاة العيد the messengers said من ذبح قبل أن يصليها anyone who slaughters before he prays فليعد مكانها أخرى و من لم يذبح فليذبح if a person slaughters and does the sacrifice before the salah the messengers said then do another one after the salah exchange it with another one and if you didn't slaughter at all then slaughter the slaughtering is done in four days يوم النحر and the three days of أيام التشريق because the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said in a hadith كل أيام التشريق ذبح the messenger said كل أيام التشريق ذبح all of the days of the تشريق is slaughter so يوم النحر and the three days this answers many people's questions what about if they sent a slaughter to another country and they are slaughtering it and they are one day or two days after me etc it doesn't matter as long as he's done what after the salah it can be done in any of those three days okay و سنة the sooner is the person who the slaughter is doing it he participates in the slaughter that's the sooner number six is it's recommended that you yourself do the slaughtering you take the blade yourself and you try to do it and you do the تكبير you say بسم الله الله أكبر like the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم did number seven و أيقل منها شيان it's also recommended that you eat from it and this is based on the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم at the hadith كان لا يطعم with the messenger never used to eat the day of عيد الأضحى he never used to eat before he went to the salah he wouldn't eat عليه الصلاة والسلام and he would only eat when he came back and he would eat from what food the أضحية that he slaughtered عليه الصلاة والسلام so based on that شيخو الاسلام بيبنو تيميا and ابنو القيم زاد المعاد they mentioned that the عيد الأضحى the salah should be made one hour at least earlier than صلاة الفطري عيد الفطري because عيد الفطري the people are going to eat enjoy themselves and then they're going to go out like in عيد الأضحى the people have slaughtering to do so it's recommended that it's what that it's done early because people are going to wake up and straight away they're going to go number 8 the slaughtering is better than giving money some people they give money to the poor and the needy the slaughtering is better and the animal is better because this is the sunnah of our messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم number 9 one goat will suffice a man in his family this is based on the hadith of أبو أيوب ربي الله تعالى عنه لما سؤاله when he was asked كيف كانت بحايا على أهد رسول الله how was the sacrifice at the time of the messenger فقاله سد كان الرجل يضحي بالشاتي and a man would sacrifice with a goat for himself عنه وعن أهلي بيتي and his family فا يأكلون they will eat it ويطعمون and they will give others حتى تباه الناس فصارت كما ترى الامام ماليك narrated in still midi authenticated and narrated in the sunnah and also ابن ماجه وإسناده صحيح and the chain is authentic what about seven people and their families seven people and their families a camel or a cow a camel or a cow will suffice seven people and their families this is based on the hadith of jabir مسلم narrated in his صحيح حججنا مع رسول الله we did Hajj with the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم فنحرنا البعيرة we slaughtered the camel and subatin for seven والبقرة and subatin and the cow for seven what's the difference between نحر and دبح هاية هاية نحر is specific for the camel and دبح is what it's for anything other than the camel generally number eleven what is the bare minimum the bare minimum a person can do if he has to slaughter the bare minimum that the Sharia I will accept from him the bare minimum is من الضعني ماله نصف سنة and it's the one they call الجذع the Arabs call it جذع if it's half a year six months the sheep الضعني الضعني is what it is the sheep that six months is the bare minimum that can be accepted from anyone okay this is based on the hadith حكبة عمرين he said ضحينا مع رسول الله we sacrificed with the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم بجذع رين من الضعني a sheep that was six months number twelve what type of camel and goat and cow is allowed what type of cow and camel and goat is permissible the cow and the camel and the goat which is permissible is the one that the Arabs called مسنة you can only do that the camel which is مسنة and the bakar which is مسنة and the معيز the goat which is مسنة and what is that it's the camel which is five years the camel when it's five years the Arabs they call it مسنة when the cow is two years they call it مسنة and the معيز when it's one year they call it مسنة and this is based on the hadith of Jabir رضي الله وطعاله عنو قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger said لا تدبعوا إلا مسنة توسلو تا except the مسنة إلا أن يعصر أحدكم عليكم unless it's hard on one of you فتدبعوا جد عتين من أبطاني that when you can't then go for the sheep that we just mentioned which is six months then you're allowed or a goat that's six months you're allowed no problem but that's when there is a week you're unable to number 13 what is the best one for me to slaughter can you give us the order of the best to the lowest the best is the إبل it's the كامل then the cow if you're slaughtering the whole entire cow and you're giving it out that's the best one from the بطن are you with me the بطن is the reason why I said the whole cow because some people they just take half of the cow and they leave the rest no, it's all of it and then the ضعن which is the sheep and then the معيز which is the goat it is in that order what about the characteristics of that animal that it's أسمن it's شبي the more chubby is the more better it is the more complete the animal is and the more well-mannered that animal is meaning the whole reason why the شريعة wants is something you love to give it out for the sake of Allah four things brothers and sisters لا تجزوا فيه الأضاحي and animal that has these four characteristics you're not allowed to slaughter you're not allowed to sacrifice and this is taken from the حديث of برايبن العازب برايبن العازب رضي الله تعالى عنه البرايبن العازب رضي الله تعالى عنه he said that the Prophet ﷺ he said أربع لا تجزوا فيه الأضاحي four sacrifices are not allowed العوراء والبين عورها a one-eyed animal which is obvious that it's lost one of his eyesight والمريضة البين مرضها a sick animal which is obviously sick it's apparent that it's sick والعرجاء البين ظلعها the third one is a lame animal which obviously lives one body part missing it's got three legs and number four والكسيرة التي لا تنقي and an old animal which has no marrow it's old and the meat on it and it's very very little those four that are جوزوا فيه الأضاحي you are not allowed to sacrifice those four what about الأضحية عن الميتي I have a family member who died I lost my father or my uncle or whatever I want to slot on his behalf it has situations الحال الأولى the first situation is إذا كانت إنفاذا للوصية if you are doing a وصية a family member died and they made it their وصية their farewell that it be done for them a slaughter and you're fulfilling that for the person who was dying or who died then فيه صحيحة then it's correct your slaughtering is allowed ويصل أجروها إلى الميتي إن شاء الله تعالى and the reward will reach that person who died on his death but he said to you سلوطة في مي and you said I will إن شاء الله تعالى then this one إن شاء الله reach the dead the second one is the second situation is ايام فريد الميتي to be أضحية تبروعا a person goes and he slaughtes and he says I am not doing this slaughter or this sacrifice only for فولان who passed away this one we will say it is not permissible and it won't reach the dead because Allah said in the Quran وَأَلَّيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَى everybody will only get what they work for and the only actions that the Sharia allow for you to do for your family that will reach them is what was mentioned okay number 3 the third situation is the person he slaughtes for himself and he slaughtes for his family members and he also slaughtes for somebody who died so he's not specific to that person then insha'Allah we will say فَيُرُجَا we hope insha'Allah that it reaches them and this is the these three steps was mentioned by شيخ العلمة محمد من الصالح العثيمين has a book called أحكام الأضحية which he mentioned رضي رحمه الله رحمة واسعة now I'm going to go to the last point which is صلاة العيد صلاة العيد صلاة العيد what is it that we need to do I'm going to mention 8 things إن شاء الله first of all is التكبير from the day of عرفة in the fajr of عرفة until the last day of أيام التشريق تكبير brothers don't stop the تكبير number 2 الذهابوا إلى مصلاة العيد the place where the صلاة is being done go there ماشيا walking into الصراة if you're able to don't drive because the مصلاة is close to you then walk to it إن شاء الله walking is better number 3 The sunnah is وصنة صلاة that the sunnah is that the صلاة العيد is done in the مصلاة إلا إذا كان هناك عذر من مطرن unless there is a reason like rain is descending on the people then it's permissible for people to go and pray or it's then good for people to pray in the masjid not to bring harm to the people number 4 الصلاة مع المسلمين the صلاة with the muslims the person should do that rather it is obligatory to participate in صلاة العيد it's wajib and the evidence for it being wajib is فصل لي لي ربكة ونحر فصل لي لي ربكة is a command and the عرب the علما they mention the علما they mention والأمر والأمر والأمر تقتضي الوجوب the أمر it shows obligation والأمر يقتضي الوجوب the أمر it shows obligation فصل لي pray لي ربكة ونحر and this is talking about صلاة العيد because what is mentioned here is the slota as you can see and sheikh will Islam be and he argued that same point to show you that it's obligatory is even the women who are on their menses and that are on their postnatal bleeding are also combining towards for them to participate in the عيد the prophet said أخرجوهم take the women out of from their houses ألحو يضي ونفساء the women who are on their menses and the women who are on their postnatal bring them out they're not praying but they still have to come so there's no excuse for not to come number 5 is مخالفة الطريق if you've taken one path then take the opposite path if you went on one particular road when you were going there then when you're coming back take another route إن شاء الله تعالى alternate change the routes number 6 التهنية greet one another that day greet each other some people they will say to you do I know you if you greet them and you hug them they only greet those who they know now this day it's a day that I don't need to know who you are we're here together we're gonna hug we're gonna we're gonna greet each other ودي ذلك عبداللعبن عمرين and many other صحابة they used to say تقبل الله من now ومن كأ they say to each other may Allah accept it from تقبل الله من me ومن كأ may Allah accept it from me and accept it from you so they would say this to each other so it's recommended to say to say this to the person and to greet the person number 8 sorry number 7 right number 7 I'm only gonna mention 7 number 7 is the person has to know the wisdom and the reason why this day was given to us what was the حكمة why Allah legislated this عيد it's for us to remember to remember Allah تبارك وتعالى that which He's given us سبحانه وتعالى and that which He's bestowed upon us it is not a day where we disobey Allah it's not a day where we listen to music and we watch films we go to the cinema and we disobey Allah تبارك وتعالى and we go against His commands no it's not it's a day where we are happy but we still remember that we are slaves of Allah and we stay within those boundaries anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shayqan and Allah and His message are free from it سبحانك اللهم أحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستوفيروك وأتوب إليك


Ice fishing season has already begun in the some places but today there was a parade celebrating fish houses and ice and the ice sport. Our Anthony Scott has more. You don't expect to have a parade in November. Well expect the unexpected because today was the annual fish house parade in Aiken, a tradition that has been going on since 1991. Oh this is definitely my first no there's no ice fishing where I'm from so this is awesome it's totally fun love the enthusiasm great costumes just ever is really just a good nice town bonding experience. It's really fun time and something to do the day after Thanksgiving instead of sitting around the house. Although the start of ice fishing season depends on the lake people were showcasing their creative fish houses and preparation for the season. People were competing for the titles of most hilarious and the fan favorite ice house and the crowd really enjoyed this year's designs. Of course the fish houses and people get into it. It's funny you know it's humorous and they bring the excitement and entertainment. But not everyone was there for the fish houses. Seeing Santa Claus. Santa Claus? Having candy. In November you never know what the Minnesota weather will bring but I think everyone was thankful for 40 degree temperatures on parade day. I can't remember if it was last year the year before it was windy and snowy and cold so we were happy with the weather. The weather was great I mean they said it was going to rain it held off you know it was just great for the crowd. We've had them where it's five or ten degrees and you know wearing costumes like everybody we're we're hoping we're dressed warm enough but boy we have fun we just have a blast. With so many extra people in town for the holidays the city of Aiken did a great job capitalizing on the extra foot traffic as business was booming all throughout Aiken for the fish house parade. I think the businesses make a point to be open and have you know good deals and draw people in so I think it brings in a lot of revenue for businesses around here. Some people come from afar they don't know what Aiken has to offer until they actually drive up you know see us having fun and then actually walk Main Street and stuff you know we're still vibrant Main Street that has you know businesses that are open. Soon enough the fish houses will leave the street and find a spot on the lake for the winter. Reporting from Aiken Anthony Scott Lakeland News. Before the parade there was a 5k a snowmills bill display and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right everybody, welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Sunday, Sunday night, it's the weekend. I hope everybody's had a fantastic weekend and yeah, all right let's see, let me just play around with a sound here just for a second. I want to get this up a little bit. One, two, all right, yeah I think that's better. All right, we're going to do that, I should put myself on video, there I am. All right, hi everybody, and today we are going to be talking about selfishness. So I'm going to take a little bit of a break from talking about new stuff. We'll do that in the morning, talk about my new show, but you know the day-to-day stuff we will be talking about selfishness today. And in particular we'll be watching a video of Patrick Bendavid who was a big shot on YouTube and value entertainment and who has four million subscribers. And he did a little segment on selfishness versus selflessness, selfishness versus selflessness, which I think was very revealing and really, really interesting. So I thought we would go over that today and it's a good opportunity to just talk about being selfish, what it means, and remind everybody also we've always got newbies here. So it's a good opportunity to kind of let everybody, let everybody know that what selfishness actually means, some of the new people. All right, if you guys can tell me, let me know if the sound is okay, as I'm still tinkering with stuff. It was okay, but the podcast sound was too soft I was told in the previous podcast. So I'm trying to calibrate it so we get the right amount of sound on the YouTube, but also the right amount of sound for the podcast so that the podcast doesn't come across at too low of a volume. So let me know what the volume is good, the volume for you guys who are listening on YouTube is good. And when I play Patrick Bindavid, let him know if that is good and we'll go from there. And we'll go from there. Anyway, Patrick Bindavid is big, he's interviewed everybody. He did come to Ocon one year basically to interview me. So he contacted me in advance that he wanted to interview me, said he would like to have to Ocon to do it. I mean, it was great. He was there and we did it on the main stage. And I thought it was a good interview. I've posted the link to that interview in the chat. I will post it again. So I'll post it now. So anybody who wants to reference it later, bookmark it and watch. If you haven't watched the interview, watch it because I thought it was a really, I thought it was a really good interview of mine that I did. So hopefully you'll enjoy that. All right, if anybody's listening on the, well, I know lots of people are listening on the podcast, audio only. If you want to let me know, just drop me an email or drop me a note somewhere. Just let me know what the volume is like. Is the volume okay? Is it too soft? I know it was too soft on the Greg Salmiere video. I'm going to correct that on the Greg Salmiere podcasting. I'll correct that. But let me know if it's too soft here as well. And if there's a bigger problem that I can solve. In the previous setup, I had it all worked out. I don't think I've worked out yet on this setup, which I'm going to kill anyway, because I've got this massive soundboard here. And I need to buy a small soundboard and get rid of this. This is like a 12 channel soundboard and I'm just using two. All right, let's see. Have I seen A yet? I have not, but I plan to. It's on my list to see. And I know I still owe two movie reviews, which I do intend to do really, really soon. And then get those Puss in Boots and Whiplash. Whiplash. And did Shaz about to ask for another movie review? I can't remember. It's listed here, if it is. So it shouldn't be a problem. Oh, the last of a season one, episode three. Okay, I've got that. I've watched that. So I just need to watch it again so I can do the review. All right, let's jump in with Patrick and David. We are talking about selfishness. I don't want you to see that. That wasn't what I want you to see. I want you to see this. There you go. So this is a show. Now, first, before we even start, let me just say this is great. This is great. I mean, we've got a major player in the podcasting world. Four million subscribers who does a video, a 10 minute video, on selfish versus selfless. And that's already good. I mean, who has these kind of conversations? Who uses the word selfish even semi-positively? And here you'll see he uses it wrong. We'll talk about that. But at least there's an element of positivism in it's kind of. So we're going to listen to this. We're going to critique it. I think it's a great opportunity to really think about what selfish is and to really kind of peel off what the misconceptions are and show you how it plays out, how the misconceptions play out in somebody's thinking. Now, here's Patrick Grindavid. He's already interviewed me. He has read Ayn Rand. So he's, we've talked about selfishness. He's read Ayn Rand, but it doesn't have a reality to him. It hasn't, he hasn't absorbed whatever Ayn Rand said or whatever I said. He still has, or at least he, or the alternative, of course, is he doesn't agree with it. But my sense is he just hasn't absorbed it. He hasn't absorbed this alternative view of what selfishness is, can be. Oh no, properly is, not can be, properly is. Hasn't really integrated this. Action Jackson likes this topic because he chose it. He sent me the video. Catherine's here. Let me just remind you of a bit. Catherine's here somewhere. She's been silent for a little bit. Catherine's here and I have no super chat questions. So I don't know, this might be, this might be like you guys, you know, upset because Catherine hasn't been here for a long time and, and you're snubbing her a little bit right now. But hey, Catherine's here and, and, right. And it's, it's super chat is available. So please use it. It's a way to fund the show, but importantly, you guys, this is a way in which you guys determine the content of the show because you ask questions and then I get to, I get to talk about the things you want me to talk about because you ask the questions, it's your content. So please think about questions, think about things you want me to talk about, use the super chat in order to get me to talk about them. All right, let's press play and let me know what the sound is like if it's too loud or too soft or whatever. So before I show this chart to, let me tell you a story about Mario Aguilom. Sounds too loud to me. So what am I going to do here? Maybe it's my headphones. Maybe it's not you. It's my headphones. All right. You tell me if this, if it was, it was loud. Okay, it was loud. Let me, let me see what I can do. All right. Let's try this. Push it back. So before I show this chart to, let me tell you a story about Mario Aguilom. Mario has been with me now for 18 years. Mario just had a wedding. He got married this past weekend at my house. Beautiful wedding. He had a great time. But I want to tell you about a conversation I had with him five years ago. We're sitting down in the office in Dallas. I said, Mario, why don't you own a car? Cars don't move me. How come you don't own a watch? I don't need to have a nice watch. How come you don't have money and savings? I don't care if I have money. If I have it, I give it to other people. And I'm going through like. Notice all the examples. Notice all the examples he's giving, right? All the examples, a watch, a, I can increase it somewhere else. A watch, a car, all the examples about material things. And this is really, really important. So everything's about, all those examples about this Mario guy in terms of material things. I'm going to take it back a little bit. See you can, so you can listen to this again. But this, we'll come back to this because this is, I think, really, really important. Why don't you own a car? Cars don't move me. How come you don't own a watch? I don't need to have a nice watch. How come you never have money and savings? I don't care if I have money. If I have it, I give it to other people. And I'm going through like, what selfish goals do you have in place? Nothing. I said, you realize. But notice all the selfish goals, all the things that he defined as selfish. Every single one of them is a goal that is a material goal. There's no spiritual goal. There's no, even career goal is not mentioned. So selfish is narrowly construed as, at least right now, as material, as stuff, stuff. This guy doesn't like stuff. But it is interesting. Listen to what he says about this. It is interesting. Kind of, this is the positive element that Patrick brings to this discussion.  He says, what are you? That's the other thing to note. And I'm sorry, I'm stopping him every two seconds, but we'll get to a flow here in a minute. The other thing is, from the beginning, the standard of value is the world. So what he's criticizing this guy is, hey, you're not a knit positive to the world. What about being a knit positive to you? Because he'll talk positively about selfishness in a sense. But always in the context of what selfishness makes possible for you to do for the world. That's the context. The context is not you. So there's no, there's no real selfishness.  It's out there. What can you do to make out there better? And it turns out that thinking about yourself, making your life a little bit better, is good for the world out there to do it. But the standard is the world. And so if you take the standard as the world, then you've undermined the whole concept of selfishness to begin with. The whole selfishness you've predetermined it to be immoral and bad and unacceptable. Because your standard, where they're implicitly, and in this case explicitly, is others. Is the world. Is external to you. That's the standard. And yeah, you should think about yourself more in order to make them better off. But you see, this is how we're conditioned. All of them are conditioning in the culture. All of them are conditioning in the world out there. Is oriented around conditioning you to think of others, to place others first. And even in thinking about yourself and being quote selfish, it's because that motivates you, that gets you excited, that gets you going for the world out there, for somebody else. All right, we're going to rewind it a little bit again. I mean, if I have it, I give it to other people. And I'm going through like, what selfish goals do you have in place? Nothing.  This is what you mean. I said, if you're slightly more driven, other people win.  Everybody wins. So if you're slightly more selfishly driven, that is, if you're more driven towards values, everybody wins. Now, there's a truth to that. But notice that your family wins. I win. They win. They win over there. They win. But the whole point is I win.  All right, all right. So slightly. So the standard, the standard, note the standard. Driven, other people win.  Everybody wins. If you have something, you're going after. The world is a better place if you're in the hunt for some of your selfish goals. So he sits there and starts thinking about it. Which is absolutely true. Absolutely true. Everybody's better off if people are self-interested, if people are selfish, if people pursue values, if people pursue selfish goals, you know, in a selfish way. We'll talk about what selfish goals and selfish way means. Everybody's better off, including you. Which is great. I mean, what he's showing is what happens to people once they engage in their values, once they develop loves and passions and favorites and things they desire. Now again, the focus here is almost all on material things. But even in the material world, we have to desire, we have to want, we have to value, we have to appreciate, we have to strive. It makes our life better. Material things make our life better. We should want material things because they make our life better. What's sad is that it's totally limited to that and that limits you completely in terms of your understanding of selfishness. We'll get to that, right? But yeah, I mean, this guy suddenly discovers he likes stuff. He wants stuff. He values stuff and surprise, surprise. His life becomes more meaningful. His life becomes more fun. His life becomes more exciting. Watch, then a nice suit, then nice shoes. Then he starts saving money. Fast forward to today. He's been living on the water in Florida for a few years now.  And I'm talking a few hundred thousand dollars of savings. Just three years ago, he had $1,000 in a bank. He's got $300,000 in savings today. Doing good for himself. Just got married, about to be a father. Parents was here. Family was here. They're looking at him so proud of him. What happened to this guy? Just in five years. We don't recognize this guy anymore. What happened to this guy? He finally chose to be a little bit more selfish. So watch this. And here, what I would say is, yeah, there's a sense in which he chose to be more selfish. But what's really happened here is he chose to be a valuer. And that's ultimately what it means to be selfish. What it means to be selfish in the most important sense is to become a valuer, to choose your values, to pursue your values, to gain your values, to identify your values, to go after your values, to live for your values, for your own values. And indeed, you know, we took a guy who didn't care about anything. It wasn't that he was, he was selfless. He was selfless in a sense that he didn't care about self. He didn't care about what he liked. He didn't, he didn't like anything. He didn't focus on liking anything. He didn't think about liking anything. He didn't value liking anything. And suddenly he oriented himself towards valuing, towards liking, towards caring. Patrick caused us being selfish. That's good. That's a good, you know, it's a good presentation of selfishness up to this point, up to this limited point.  It indeed is win-win. This is good. This is the positive influence that maybe Ayn Rand has had on Patrick Bendavid, in terms of, you know, he's willing to at least say that something can be selfish is good. I create this chart, yes. And I want you to think about and kind of grade yourself as well. Then I'm going to give you different levels. Say we have a chart. In this chart that you're looking at, on the top left, this is a person that's 100% selfish and they're zero selfless. The center where the two collide is 50-50, meaning they're 50% selfish, 50% selfless. And then the person on the top right is a person that's 100% selfless, meaning they don't care anything about themselves. Everything's about other people. And in the bottom right, if somebody that has zero selfish genes, meaning all I care about is as much as I do for you, I don't need anything from anybody. So then we continue this conversation and we said, so which one is more realistic and which one doesn't exist? So we created a chart and gave it a name with 11 different levels on where people would be based on their breakdown. And here's what we found out. On the top and the bottom, if a person is 100% selfless and zero percent selfish on the bottom, that's non-existent. Yeah, so he's saying selfless people don't exist. You can't be selfless. And this is actually pretty good. It's a myth. You know why? It's impossible for a person not to be selfish. If you're not selfish, you don't eat, you don't drink, you don't take care of yourself, you don't wash, you don't do anything. You don't exist. So that's a myth. A person cannot be 100% selfless.  However, at the top. So that's good, right? So at least he's rejecting the idea that anybody can be selfless. He recognizes that basic survival, basic existence, basic existence in any kind of world requires you to think about yourself. It requires you to take care of yourself. It requires you to do some basic things that allow you to live.  So pretty, so so far so good. Let's see where he goes with 100% self-interest. When you look at the person that's 100% selfish and 0% selfless, those people can actually exist. Some of them are criminals, sociopaths. They're a danger to society because they're willing to sacrifice friends, family, relative, business, career. It doesn't matter. They're 100% all about themselves. However, now this is the amazing thing, right? How does he not get this? How does he not get that criminals and psychopaths and all these others are not selfish? Isn't it obvious that these people are undermining themselves? Isn't it obvious that these people are self-destructive? You know, isn't the criminal going to jail? Is going to jail a selfish thing?  Is that self-interested? Is that in your self-interest? Is that selfish? If selfish means, and here is an important point, you have to define it, right? But he's defined selfless as not caring about yourself, only caring about other people. Then let's say selfish means caring only about yourself and not caring about other people, only caring about yourself. But if you only care about yourself, doesn't that mean that you don't want to go to jail? Doesn't only caring about yourself mean that you want to have friends? Doesn't only caring about yourself mean that you want to succeed in business and you don't want everybody in business to be alienated from you? Or to shun you? If you only care about yourself, don't you want to still have a romantic relationship with somebody? Just because sex is great and love is great and you feel great when you do it. So they can't escape and sadly Patrick can't escape this conventional notion that selfishness just means self-gratification, short-term self-gratification. Why can't they integrate into this conception the idea of, but there's a future and in order to achieve my goals in the future, if I piss everybody off today, I'm not going to achieve my goals in the future. So why wouldn't I incorporate my future goals into my self-interest today? And isn't that too self-interest?  Isn't that self-destructive, not selfish?  The selfish, the self-less, well, but an element of being self-less is being self-destructive. Wouldn't you say that being a criminal is actually self-less? Because it actually hurts you. It actually destroys you. It actually does things, it makes you worse off. So it's curious how difficult this concept is. It's curious how really hard it is for people to embrace the idea that the future is part of you and that in order to succeed in life, you have to take the future and take out.  In order to succeed in life, you can't lie, steal, and cheat.  That's not successful in life. That doesn't lead to success. So it's not selfish. And I think that the fundamental, one of the reasons, there are many reasons they can't integrate this, but one of the reasons they don't integrate it is that they don't actually, in order to integrate it, I think what you have to identify is reason as man's basic means of survival, is that in order to be selfish, in order to be successful in life, you have to reason, you have to think. And while when you talk to people in an telescope, if I asked Patrick with David, if you want to be good in, if you want to make a lot of money over time, over time, is lying, cheating, stealing a good strategy? He would say, no, of course not. Is alienating everybody around you? Is turning other people you do business with off against you? Is that a good strategy? He needs to go, well, no, of course not. And he would actually recognize that it's thinking important in setting a strategy like that. Yeah, probably. So in any given narrow goal, I think they would see it. But I don't think they could see it as a general. They can't see it beyond that. And then he can't connect that to selfishness, because selfishness is so being corrupted. So even he who's trying to give it a positive spin, you need some selfishness, just not the lying, stealing, cheating part. And you need some selflessness we'll see. We'll see how that integrates. What does it even mean to be selfless? But he does, he has some good stuff coming up on selflessness. So I think you're getting it, right? It's this lack of reason, long-term thinking. And it's all about selfishness, at least in its pure form, is 100% about instant gratification. It's 100% about exploiting other people. However, we looked at the different tiers and here's what we came up with. So the next level would be somebody that is 10% selfish and 90% selfless, meaning there's 10% selfish, 90% selfless. Selfish enough to eat, to shower, to have a job, to do the basic type of things, but they'll agree with anything anybody tells them. These are people that are weak-willed and generally cowardly. Now I love this. This is actually really, really good. Because he's identifying selflessness with weak-willed, with second-handedness, with having no opinion for themselves, with being weak. That's fantastic because that's a good integration. I wish he integrated the other side as well. I wish he integrated the selfish as being rational. He gets that a little bit. You'll see it later. He gets a little bit of it, but he can't get it at 100%. 100% is only caring about yourself. Well, reason just imploded. Reason just went out the window. Now you're just being self-gratifying, self-destructive, doing anything, exploiting people, even though it doesn't help you. It doesn't make you better. It doesn't add to your life. All right, let's listen to that again. 10% selfless, meaning they're selfish enough to eat, to shower, to have a job, to do the basic type of things, but they'll agree with anything anybody tells them. These are people that are weak-willed and generally cowardly. They're a net negative to society. Now the other thing I like about this is the net cowardly. Sorry, the cowardly. They associate cowardly with self-lessness. I think he's absolutely right. I think courage comes from selfishness. So again, some good integrations here. Second-handed, don't think for themselves, look to other people for everything, and are cowards. And then he has to add net negative to society. Also true, just that's not the point. We're not trying to evaluate it here by that standard. And what does it even mean, the standard of society? Who's measuring? How do you measure? Which society? In what world? In what era? A net negative to society. One minute they're having a conversation with somebody saying, do you know what that person said? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, wow, I can't believe it. Then they'll go to the next person who completely disagrees with that person. No, that person said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Zero backbone. Okay, there's other words for it, but that's the level of 1090. I like that, zero backbone. If you're 10% selfish, 90% selflessness, according to him, no backbone, fantastic, because absolutely true. Okay, there's other words for it, but that's the level of 1090. The next person is somebody that's 2080. These are folks that are indecisive. They're conforming to everyone. They can't make a decision. So I don't know, I don't know. They're afraid to make selfish goals and selfish dreams. And I don't know if this is good for me. I don't want to offend anybody. I'm just kind of like conforming again. I'm indecisive, so I'm staying out of it. No pride. Again, conformity, lack of values, lack of drive. He's identifying it. That comes from caring about your own life. Selflessness means caring about your own life, which means setting your own values, living by your own standards. He gets the opposite. He gets the selflessness, means no values for yourself. It means not living by your own standard, but other people whispering. It means conformity. It means negation of you and not even having values. That's what selflessness means. So he gets the negative, which is good. Proud. 3070, these are people that are passive, meek, submissive, tame, still a little more selfish than others, but not enough yet to start getting some kind of progress about them. They're still more in the net negative community. Then you have 4060, supporting cast, very good supporting cast, very helpful. They're great people to be having a business to help out with different structures, but they're in the 4060 mode still. So notice that once we get into the middle, the selflessness translates now into what? It now translates into being helpful, helping others, being nice to people, opening doors to grandma, helping the old woman cross the street. It's gone is the, so that and a little bit of selfishness, right? It's this mixture. I mean, there's something very wrong about this whole approach. And of course, we all want to ultimately be 100% of something, right? 100% of the good, 100% of being selfish and what that implies. But it's interesting to see how he's conceiving of it. And it's interesting to see the true identifications that he is making about the role that thinking about self serves in one's life and the role and what happens when and what doesn't do enough thinking about oneself. The problem is that he views selflessness as kind and nice to people. And it's much worse than that, of course. And to some extent, he's identified that that it's the water down selflessness that is kindness, but you can be kind and still be selfish. The middle is thinker advisor. These are people that are 50-50. They're good thinkers. What do you think about this? I think we should do this. What about that? I don't know. Let me think about the other person's side. Well, you know what? Their side is this. This side is that. So they get you to think because they can both be selfish and they're selfless. So they're actually a good person to have on the team because they can give you both sides of what to do and what not. So what's sense in what sense of being selfless here? What's the sense in which people are being selfless in the sense that they can think about what other people might think? Think about what other people might want. They might have some empathy. So now selflessness becomes empathy. If you're truly selfish and you're in a team, isn't it selfish to try to understand what the other team members want? Isn't it selfish to try to understand what the context is? Isn't it selfish to try to think and not jump to answers? So again, this conceptual confusion that he has is really screwing this up because all the good things he's saying now about 50, 50, 60, 40 are all consistent with 100% selfish. There's nothing selfless about it because now he's confusing selflessness before he got what it was. Now in this watered-down form because it's watered-down by selfishness, now it's becoming kindness, friendliness, thoughtfulness, but all those are characteristics of somebody who is potentially 100% selfish. It's frustrating that he can't see it. To do. The synergist and the great teammate is the 60, 40. They have goals. They have dreams.  They push other people. There's somebody that you're going to want in any great organization because they are 60, 40 and they have their own things that they still want to drive to improve the company, improve themselves. They're reading. They're improving. They're doing all that. They're not content with where they are. So they have bigger selfish goals than being selfless. Then you have the kingmaker. And what is sense in which, what's the sense in which they're selfless? See, the way he's construing it is somebody who's selfish doesn't deal with other people, isn't interested in other people, doesn't care about other people, doesn't want to trade with other people, doesn't want to cooperate with other people, doesn't want other people. But that's screwed up because it's in your selfish interest to deal with other people. It's in their selfish interest to want other people. It's in their selfish interest to trade with other people.  So what is it? But he cannot acknowledge that. To him, being selfish means no other people. It doesn't mean taking care of self. It means no other people. So note, here's the interesting thing that integrates it all. At the end, everything is about other people. Being selfish is not taking care of self. Being selfish to Patrick Wintervid means negating other people. Being selfless is approving of other people, is working for other people, is all about other people. So the balance here is not about so much about self, although that doesn't enter into the values and so on.  But to be selfish means to cooperate with other people, to trade with other people, to identify other people who are good for you and to bring them close into your life, to have friendship, to have love. And that he can't get. That he can't get. All right, let's see. The driver, these people are misunderstood. These people are going to be pushing everybody, raising standards, disturbing people. But at the same time, they are selfless enough. It's about a bigger dream, a bigger cause, a bigger vision where everybody wins instead of just being about themselves.  Is that really selfless? They're winning by it. Again, massive confusion here about what these terms refer to and what is actually going on and what these human beings actually are. So there's something he's capturing here. Something is capturing here. But he's not capturing a spectrum of selfishness to selflessness. Even though there is value in such a spectrum, we could imagine such a spectrum. Such a spectrum would evolve maybe guilt, maybe people who are selfish in some way and some of them they're life and selfless in other realms of their life. But selfishness means thinking about what's good for you and doing what's good for you, but what's good over the long run. Thinking, using reason. That is the 30% mixture of selfless and selfish to be able to drive the organization to the next level. The next one is a solopreneur, 80-20. Selfish, 20% selfless. They're still in that positive to society. They set an example of success, but they're bad at duplicating, meaning, look, I'm good. I'm not disrespectful to you. I don't hurt you. I don't take advantage of you, but I'm just taking care of myself.  Not a great leader, not great at driving other people, but they're good at for themselves. Then yeah. Now again, they are, he is identifying characteristics. It's just nothing to do with selfishness to selfless. The next level, which is 90-10. This is a narcissist. The world revolves around them. And a narcissist is actually not a net positive to society. They're bigger net positive to society than the weak world cowardly, but they're not a net positive to society. But how is a narcissist selfish?  But how is a narcissist selfish? How is thinking that the world revolves around you, which is clearly false, for pretty much every one of us, even even somebody like Donald Trump, where it comes very close to rotating around him. For those people, it's a narcissist. The world doesn't revolve around you. So you're living a lie. You cannot be happy. You cannot be successful. You cannot win. You cannot be great at anything. Well, they might not know that they, but they know they're failing. They know they're unhappy. They know they're not successful. So reality is the judge in the end. And that ultimately is the standard. But the standard is also, the standard philosophically, or the standard is really, you know, human nature, what human beings require, what human beings need. And this is the biggest issue of selfishness. Selfishness needs not just to value a bunch of material stuff. It needs a moral framework. It needs a, you know, a moral system. You need principles by which to live. It's purely about them, and they're willing to do it generally at all costs. They'll use you as a pawn. They'll look at you as a way to get what they can get out of you. It's not about how they can help you. It's what they can get out of you, rather than making everybody at the same time. So when you look at this chart here, some people will come back and say, I can't believe you just said that, Pat. You mean to tell me somebody that's this, they're weak world cowardly? Yes, that's generally what happens. You just called me out, Pat. I don't like this feeling you're giving me.  When I create charts like this, I go and think about myself, how I was at 18, then 28, and what I had to choose to change, and it wasn't easy, then 34, then 35. The only reason I'm looking at this, because the last 20 years and having been in the insurance industry, having trained 40,000 different licensed agents in the insurance industry, you look at traits of qualities, and you say, man, that guy could have been very big. But man, it was all about him.  He wanted to please everybody. She could have been amazing, but her mom made her feel so guilty all the time when she fell for it. That person could have been amazing that they could never make up their minds. It was always one day this, one day that. That person was an incredible driver and they built so many different leaders. They pissed a lot of people off, but they also built a lot of different leaders. So if you judge them on success, they helped a lot of people become financially free. These are case studies on different people. Now, somebody may say, does this apply to every aspect of your life? Now, this is important. So does this apply to every aspect of your life, right? And given that he doesn't have a proper definition of selfish and selfless, given that he doesn't really grasp it, although he's getting close to some things, but he doesn't quite grasp it, the answer, of course, is going to be no. As a mother, if I'm pregnant, shouldn't I be selfless? Yes, this applies. If you're mother and pregnant, you're going to be selfless 100%. So you should have the baby even if you don't want it. Right? Really? I mean, this is part of the, yes, I mean, this is certainly the Christian ideal, ideal, and this is certainly the anti-abortionist. Aren't you having a baby because you want to have a baby? Aren't you having a baby because you love the idea of being a mother? Aren't you having a baby for selfish reasons?  Why? Because it's your baby. So again, viewing selfish as this narrow thing, as this narrow materialistic short-term thing is deadly. It really is deadly because now he's going to say, you should be selfless in your family life.  Now that's a disaster. We can, you can go and look at, God, what was I going to say? I was going to say something. Anyway, we'll get back to it, but you know, it's a disaster to live this bifurcated life. Selflessness, just as you described in business, is bad for you and everything. Is it good to be a coward in your family life? Is it good to be a coward in any part of your life? But to be selfless means not to have values, means not, so, oh yeah, I was going to give the example I'm always given. I always use about the wedding, right? You go to your spouse to be, the night before the wedding you say, I'm not getting married with you for any selfish reasons. You know, it's not because you make me feel any better. I'm doing it purely for you. This is completely selfless. I am, this is a major sacrifice for me to marry you tomorrow. Really? Priced the business. Let me read a quote to you that maybe this makes sense to you. And this is by Nassim Taleb. He wrote a book called Skinning Again and he said this. He said, I am at the federal level a libertarian, at the state level a republican, at the local level a democrat, and at my friends and family a socialist. Pretty weird. Yeah, I mean, he's a man of no principle in other words. He doesn't stand for anything. But what does that even mean? Right? What does it mean to be a socialist at the family level?  One kid gets an A and one kid gets an F. That's okay. Love them both. Treat them exactly the same. Both get deserts. One is an excellent athlete. You maybe suppress him and the other ones mediocre and you try to raise him up just to make them all equal. Really? What does it even mean? I mean, people say this. I think Hayek said this. In the family, we're all altruists. In the family, we're all socialists. But we're not. Now, it's true that you cannot take a political concept and apply it to the family. Family is not a political concept. But it's still true that in a family, you have to be selfish. You have to do what's good for you. Now, the reason you have a family is because you have a selfish motivation to have a family because you love them, because you care for them, because you want them to be successful, not out of a selfless regard for them, but out of a selfish regard for them.  Other families, because they're your kids. So again, this complete confusion, what does it mean that the local level to be Democrat? At the local level, we should regulate and control everything. Really? Why does that make sense? If it's wrong at the federal level, then what makes it suddenly right at the local level? So no, I mean, a principle is a principle is a principle. It applies federal level, local level. If you believe that to use force, to use coercion, to violate somebody's rights is wrong at the federal level, then it's also wrong at the state level. It's also wrong at the local level. And hey, it's even wrong in the family. Although again, you're conflating many different issues here. Federal, state, and local law political institutions, the family is not. Different kind of institution, different kind of relationship, particularly when you get into children. Democrat and at my friends and family are socialists. Pretty weird, right? Wait a minute. You can be a socialist and you can be a libertarian and a Republican and a Democrat. Yes, at different levels. No, you can't. You actually can't. That is a completely confusing, unprincipled, bizarre way of living your life, completely fragmented. I'm simply giving you who benefits. If you are somebody that you have some selfish goals.  So why are you not being selfish in the family? Your family wins. Your heritage wins. The company you're working for wins. The industry wins. Everybody wins. The challenge with this conversation is this. You ever rented a car and you're like, this is supposed to go 120 miles an hour. How come when I go to 80, it goes back down. That car is a speed governor. And what it does is it doesn't allow to go over 80 miles per hour, right? And the rental companies do this so they don't have too many accidents because it's expensive and they've done the research to know what the numbers they don't want drivers to go about because it's not their car. They don't treat it like their car. The reason why this chart is being shared with you is you may be watching this and you may say, man, I'm kind of part of the narcissist community. No problem. Bring your governor down to 70, okay?  But you may be somebody that's at the other level.  Maybe you need to bring your governor up and start talking about your selfish goals, like Mario did. You know what happened to his life? It changed. Almost everybody I know that's bitter. They tend to come more from a place of self-list than a little... That's true. That's true. So it's very good at kind of critiquing the fact that people who are bitter, people who are sad, people who don't have a life, are people who don't have values and are not self-interested and not pursue their own goals, not pursue their own life. That's true. But then he doesn't understand what pursuing all that actually is. All right. A little bit of selfish. The world is a better place if you have a little bit more selfish gene in you than selfless gene in you. Everybody around you wins if you have that. So if you want the net positive index... All right. So yes, super, super important to get your concepts right. Super, super important to define them clearly. Super, super important to think it really through. What does it mean to be selfish? What does it mean to be selfless? And neither one of them is really about other people. To be selfless means not to care about self, not to take care of self, not to consider self. And in that selfless category, you would include somebody like Bernie Madoff. You would include a lot of the narcissists because what they're doing is not taking care of themselves, not doing what's good for them, not making their life the best life that it can be. They're diminishing their own life. And what it means to be selfish is to take care of yourself. And that includes cooperating with other people. It means loving friendship. It means engaging with other people. It means motivating them in a business context. It means leading. It means encouraging. It means being kind when the context is appropriate. It means taking care of your own life and making your life the best life that it can be. No, there is no such thing as destructively selfish. That's a contradiction in terms. How can you be destructive and selfish at the same time? What Madoff was is self-destructive, but self-destructive is selflessness. If Bernie Madoff had stopped early on and set himself, it's what I'm doing going to lead to my happiness, to success, to prosperity. It's lying, cheating and stealing really good for me long term. Is it good for me? Is it good for the people I love? Is it good for the things that I cherish, the things that I value, my friends? And he would say, well, of course not. And he would stop what he was doing immediately. And Bernie Madoff, you know, probably by the time he thought those thoughts, it was too late because he was so deep in it. But the problem is he didn't think. And the essence of selflessness is not to think. The essence of selflessness is not, is, the essence of selflessness is to not think about self, to not think about what's good for you, to not think about the consequences of your actions long term, to you, to your life, to your happiness, to your friendships, to your financial success, to everything. Financial success, to everything. Don't call it irrational egoism, because you shouldn't condition egoism. Egoism is taking care of self, is caring about self, it's taking care of your ego. And by doing that irrational, you can't do it irrational. It's a contradiction in terms. Those terms cannot stand next to one another. It is not irrational egoism. It's not irrational self-interest. It's not irrational selfishness. It's irrational. Period. In other words, it's irrational selflessness. It's self-destructive. Now, sometimes you do something that is bad for you, but you couldn't have known. Or you didn't know. You really did the thinking, but you made a mistake. That's not being selfless.  Don't be honest. Don't fake reality. That's it. Just do it all the time. Don't fake reality. And if you do that, you're not going to make many mistakes in that realm. This is the value of having virtues and having a moral system. Is it gives you a framework? It gives you shortcuts. It gives you cognitive shortcuts. To be able to live a selfish life and to make fewer and fewer mistakes, errors. But there is no... It's just like there's no such thing as conscious capitalism. I don't know what do you call it? State capitalism. There's no such thing as irrational egoism. They're not conditioned. Egoism is egoism. Staking yourself and taking yourself requires what? The number one thing taking yourself requires. Rationality. So how can you have irrational thinking care of self? You can't have that. It just doesn't make any sense. So the thing he's missing, the thing everybody's missing is the thinking. The thing everybody's missing is the reason, rationality. That's what it means to be selfish. What it means to be selfish is to think. To think about what? Think about how to make your life the best life that it can be. Think about how to pursue your values. How to achieve your values. It's not about other people. True.  All right. Hopefully that was enlightening to some of you. Expanding horizons to others of you and probably somewhat repetitive to many of you. But hopefully that was a value. I'm happy if we get a bunch of questions about ego, about being selfish, about being selfish and so on on the show. That would be now when it's time for the super chat. That would be great if we got a lot of those kinds of questions. All right. We are on our way into the show. In spite of Catherine being here, I think she's here. We are way behind on our super chat. We do have goals. And I just want to re-emphasize how important those goals are to the show, to being able to sustain it. I sustain as many shows as I do. 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I'm curious about wasn't intrigued. Why weren't you intrigued or is that a typo? So anyway, yeah, artificial wombs make it somewhat optional in terms of when in a sense they're born. So many babies are born now prematurely and have to be incubators or just very small and very sensitive and very difficult. But making this artificial makes it all the more likely that they will be more fully formed and more fully developed when they come out. Less time dealing with diapers and vomit, good thing, good thing. But of course, those early days, weeks, months of development, of engaging with the world are probably pretty crucial to cognitive development of the baby. So I'm not sure it'll turn out that it would be a value to keep them in for longer, even though it might be more convenient. So it was a typo, Charles Batesz. He was intrigued by the news story about engineering egg cells. I thought it was a fascinating story. I hope you guys check it out. All right. So we got John with $5, Catherine with $5. We need 100 more people to do $5 and they're watching right now. We're at 100 like people. So just everybody. I know Gail's already done $5. So we've got a bunch and they're just doing stickers. They're not even asking a question. So any one of you can do that. Please consider doing it. All right. Hugh Ruhm, thank you. Hugh Ruhm, thank you so much, Ruhm, for doing this live stream. Patrick with David is a really dynamic individual and has done what I think we're extremely important with a lot of people on both sides of the law. Yeah.  I like the interview he did of me. I encourage you guys to go watch it. Just put his name and my name. I think there are three different videos of me, one on his channel, one on the Iron Man Institute channel, one on my channel of the interviews. It's been watched by a lot of people. I thought it was a good interview. And he's a dynamic guy. He's a great salesman. He's super articulate. And he has some of the biggest guests in the world on. And maybe what you should do is, now that I've critiqued his selfish video, maybe you should encourage him to do another interview with me. Maybe talk to him about having me back on and talking about more things. Maybe talking about the state of the world, talking about what's going on in the world and also talking about why I think he's got selfishness wrong. James asks, what's making you well known is not your podcast. It's your appearances on Lex Friedman and other large platforms. I think you should do, if you pray your university videos, those are what propelled Alex to notoriety. I don't think so. I don't think that's what propelled Alex to notoriety. I think what propelled Alex to notoriety is the work he did with all companies. It's just the conferences he attended, the seminars he did, the constant work with the industry itself. I think the pre-GAU videos are nice, they're nice to have, they're a big splash. But in terms of actually getting people to identify you as an expert, actually getting people to identify you as somebody connected to this particular industry, that is all about the things that he did with the industry and the book that he wrote and the marketing that he did around that. The pre-GAU university helped a little bit. It helped with the marketing, I'm sure, but that's not what propelled him. At all, I don't think. But I agree. What made me well-known is Lex Friedman and other large platforms. And I would love to do large platforms. I don't particularly want to do pre-GAU university unless it's kind of on my terms, because I don't like pre-GAU university, I don't like that platform, I find it anti-a lot of what I believe in and what I hold dear. And it's just not worth it. Plus, they've never approached me to do it. And they would want me to pay them a lot of money to do it. So, you know, I got Lex Friedman, I got, what's his name, Shapiro, I've done Ben Shapiro. I've been on a lot of big podcasts. I'd like to be on more. I think the best way for you guys to help me get on more of these podcasts, I'd like to be, again, on Patrick, I'd like to be again on some of the even bigger platforms the best way for that to happen, Dave Rubin, Mike Amalus, all these, I mean, Mike Amalus, I don't think added much to me. You didn't see a real bump in terms of subscribers. Is you guys, right?  And then he interviewed me once and he interviewed me a few times after that. The way Lex did it is he'd been following my podcast. He still shows up once in a while over here in the chat. That's how I've got all of them. It's either you guys have urged them or they have known about me for one way or the other through something that I've done, a talk I've given, a valuable video that's gone. I've tried to get on Trigonometry. They kind of said that they weren't available when I wanted to do it. So I keep trying every time I'm in London to get on Trigonometry. But you should let them know that they should have me on. I mean, the number one way in which I will get on people's shows is if you, their customers, if you will, their supporters, their audience, tell them, hey, we'd really like you to interview it. You're on Brook. And not just do it once, but do it regularly so that they know there's real passion here. And I don't see a lot of my audience doing that. A few of you do it. And I really appreciate that. But do it consistently, do large numbers of you. The 1,000 people or 1,500 people are going to watch this video. It would be great if every single one of you did it. All right. We are still looking for $5 from everybody who hasn't done anything on the Super Chat yet. We're still $450 short. So please consider providing some support. Catherine, where are you? I don't know what's going on.  All right. Catherine's going to be very sad. Fender Harper says, Egoism being the beneficiary of your own action. Urational Egoism to me is having an irrational standard of what it is a benefit to oneself. But benefit from oneself is an objective standard. Benefit from oneself is not whatever. Benefit oneself, benefit, means something. Self means something. So if I do something and I die and I say, whoops, you know, there was irrational benefit to myself.  It hurt you. So Madoff didn't even think he was benefiting. He didn't think. And even if he didn't think he was benefiting, he was wrong and he was wrong, not in a subtle way. He was wrong big time. He was wrong through evasion. There's no way he really could think about it and come to the conclusion that this was good for him. So no, I think it's very, very dangerous to associate in any way benefiting of your own action with something that clearly irrationality does not benefit your own action. That's just a, it's inconsistent, those two. All right. We've got a few more five and $10 questions. If you want to ask a question now, make it a $20. I'm starting to have a feeling that, like what you guys are questioned out, that's, that's, you know, there are no more questions for me to answer in the world. That's right.  Action Jackson, if I'd done a show on, you know, on Trump and Putin, I would have raised $650 like that. All right. Taze, he says it's nearly May. Can you believe it? I can't actually so much to do so many plans to execute. Absolutely. It's the year is just push. It's the year is just push passing quickly. Hoppe Campbell. Thank you. Michael says, do you think it makes people uncomfortable that I ran was right about everything. They can't accept that one person originated all these profound truths. No, I mean, I, some people, I think are made uncomfortable with that. But, but no, I think most people just don't accept that they are truths. If they accepted that their truths, we'd be way ahead. And then we could deal with the discomfort. They don't accept them as truth. It's not like these truths are obvious and they, they, they go, oh, but one person. Nah, no, the truths are not obvious and they don't accept them. Liam says, no one thinks about individual rights. They think about the outcome they desire. It's pure narcissism. Yes. And it's in, in, in, in that sense, it, it's a selfless strategy because it leads to bad outcomes for self. You know, it's other people are never the standard. It's always about negating self. I gave you, I give that example of my morality of capitalism talk. If the standard was other people, businessmen would be heroes. But the standard is not other people. The standard is your own suffering. The standard is being selfless. And as Patrick with David said, I think just to follow me, very few people are actually selfless. Nobody's actually really fully, completely selfless. There's a typo, some way he said, all right. Al says, these are the same people who believe that sacrifice is about giving something up for something better. Yes, the Jordan Peterson's of the world. The sacrifice somehow becomes investment. No, investment is investment. Sacrifice, sacrifice. Sacrifice is a net loss. That's the whole point. That's what makes it a sacrifice. Investment is a net gain. See, action, action. Nobody really cares about, about you asking them to do superchats. Sad reality. All right. Tim says, keep up the good work you're on.  Appreciate that. Thank you. Daniel says, has anyone mentioned to you Ron about Elon Musk responded to Ayn Rand's tweets? Go Ayn. Yes, I saw that. He responded by saying, yeah, Ayn Rand was right, but so was O'well, and so was Huxley, and it's all coming together. All three of them were right. It's all coming together right now. Yeah. He's read Ayn Rand. There's no question. Elon Musk is right. All right. Thank you, everybody. I am, I have to admit a little concerned about the inability to raise, to raise the $650. Usually we at least make, get close. We get semi-close, but we didn't even get close tonight. So I am concerned. Maybe it's because it's Sunday night. Maybe because we've had so many shows one after the other, I am not sure. We didn't even make the $250 for the, for the, for the new shows that, you know, that we do on a daily basis. So that is, that is concerning, let's say concerning. And it was a great topic. Yes, actually, Jackson, it actually was a great topic. Well, we didn't get any of the whales here, obviously. We didn't get any of the people who can write, or who are happy to write $100 or $500 or stuff like that to, to get us over the top as often happens. Yes, we need many, many more people to, to follow you on book show and to participate in, in the live shows. But no whales today. Maybe we'll get them tomorrow. All right, so tomorrow we'll have a noon or one o'clock. We'll do our news roundup. We'll do the same thing on Tuesday. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do a show tomorrow night. We'll see. I will try, but, but no guarantees. And, but, but we definitely will do Monday and Tuesdays. The news shows. All right, everybody. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. We had well over 100 people watching live. So there should be 100 thumbs up over there. So I'm not sure, I'm not sure why we don't have. John, thank you. Thank you for, for additional support. I appreciate that. Thanks, everybody. I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here Just wanted to come out here really quick and share my thoughts in the upcoming sequel to don't breathe Don't breathe to which is slated to come out later this year in August sometime This is the long overdue sequel to the 2016 hit horror film that stars Steven Lang Jane Levy and Dilla Manette Who we know is gonna star in the upcoming screen five? That film centered around three friends who basically had a get rich quick scheme They decided to break into the house of this old war veteran and they're trying to steal the settlement that he was That was recently given to him due to a tragedy that had occurred in his life with him losing his daughter And they think they're just gonna get in and get out real quick But this war veteran despite him being blind all his other senses are very heightened And he basically gives them the fight for their life All in that one night while they're trying to steal this money from him And I know a lot of people back when that film came out It was being heralded as having one of the best twists in recent memory The movie itself was pretty pretty good. It was a definitely a very good home invasion film One of the better movies from 2016 a very well-made horror film, but the twist was was over exaggerating my pain I feel like the twist Saying it's the best twist in recent memory. I saw a lot of people saying that I'm like no not not really but don't breathe to is coming later this year and It looks like the blind man is up to his old tricks again And it looks like he might be the hero this time because the synopsis is reading a little differently than what we were accustomed to From the original film basically in this one The blind man has been hiding out for years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and Raised a young girl orphaned from a house fight Now fans of the first film or if you've seen the first and you know that he lost his daughter Due to an unfortunate accident, which is what lets him getting that money and he tried to get his daughter back You know that infamous turkey baster scene He had someone down there holding that holding the person responsible for his daughter's death hostage and since she took his daughter His mentality tell him you're gonna give me another one that he was basically you know putting his semen inside of her And she was pregnant with his child. So the fact that he now is Living with a orphan child out in the cabin somewhere. It seems like he has found his replacement daughter in some in some ways from this from what we're seeing from this brief synopsis and Basically what ends up happening is that While he's raising her Their quiet existence is apparently shattered when a group of kidnappers show up and take the girl Forcing the blind man to leave his safe haven and save her now See that's very different. It's making it sound like the blind man is the hero here, but here's here's my thing They're saying that she was orphaned How do we not know that what I'm expecting to happen is that there's gonna be a twist in that? Where while we're thinking the blind man is gonna be the hero here in many ways this could be other relatives of that orphan girl who have Somehow located her and her whereabouts and have been following this blind man, and they've constructed a plan to take their their cousin cousin niece whatever Back from this blind man that has been taken care of her. That's what I think could be ended up happening here They could very well have a twist Come into effect where these kidnappers they're actually relatives of hers And the blind man is gonna go after them because you know he wants to have his daughter back in his life He was very heartbroken over that and he wants to have his daughter back in his life So of course if his replacement daughter gets stolen, he's gonna go after her But I feel like what we're into finding out is that these kidnappers they have a connection to this little girl I'm expecting them to have some sort of connection. They'll probably be other relatives of hers who have been looking for her Maybe they'll explain something that will probably debunk my theory explaining how he became How he how he got custody of her what I'm thinking is that maybe this girl will end up being shown like a missing child and He's just been keeping her and they've been looking for her Maybe this is a missing child scenario that we could see But I'm really excited for it I can't wait to see what this has to offer because it's kind of flipping the narrative a bit With the blind man seem like he's gonna be the hero this time around because they're describing these people as just kidnappers I feel like we're gonna learn something about these kidnappers that aren't gonna make them Seem like the typical kidnappers that we're envisioning these could very well be her relatives trying to save her from this crazy man And then on top of that I've seen speculation that maybe Jane Levy could return cuz you know at the end of don't breathe There was a there was a scene that got cut They alternate ending showed him like following her out of the airport, you know, she left for California So I'm expecting Jane Levy to appear in some capacity that I'm just holding out hope for that She doesn't have to I'm just excited to see what this film has to offer and what direction they'll take this in Because Steven Lang is saying that this is very much his own film But it's connected to the first movie in ways But let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below If you haven't already make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications at never miss a video in the description I have links on my social media accounts on my Facebook Twitter and Instagram. 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