Welcome to this course on NMR spectroscopy. NMR spectroscopy is one technique which has grown enormously ever since its discovery and has generated applications in all areas of science. Let me begin by showing you the pioneers who have made this technique and popular and brought it to the level where it is now. Several people have contributed to it and it is continuing to grow and we will try and see how the technique has developed starting from the very fundamental principles and taking to the level where it is today. If you see here the first pioneers where Otto Stern, I, Rabi, Felix Bloch, Ypressell all four rather got Nobel prizes in physics. It was in the realm of physics as it started. Otto Stern 1943, Rabi 1944, Felix Bloch and Ypressell together got it in 1952. Then it was followed by two more Nobel prizes in chemistry. Once in 1991 to Richard Ernst and again in 2002 to Kurt Wittrick and parallely the developments are going on in different areas. Those resulted in another Nobel Prize to Peter Mann's Field in Paul Otterberg in 2003 and this time it was in physiology and medicine. So you can see the technique has started from physics gone into chemistry, gone into biology and physiology and medicine. So it is all encompassing. Naturally therefore to study this technique in detail we need to have a certain combination of physics, chemistry, biology in our training which would imply that certain amount of knowledge of mathematics and physics and chemistry, biology are required. We will try and develop this course in that manner. What it requires is a certain knowledge of mathematics with regard to the vector algebra, linear algebra, matrix algebra, differential equations and then some quantum mechanics like Schrodinger equations, angular momentum, some knowledge of this is required. Nevertheless we will try and give this knowledge at appropriate places for those who have not studied this in the past. Applications to chemistry will obviously require proper knowledge of chemistry and when it entered the area of biology we need to understand the biological principles. When it entered physiology and medicine of course you also require to understand how the system works in our bodies. So for healthcare this has become an important technique. I will list the important milestones in this process so that you know exactly how the technique has evolved over the years. As I said it started in the realm of physics, then it entered in chemistry, then it entered in biology, then it entered in physiology and medicine and no stopping, keep counting. There may be more Nobel Prizes who knows as the applications pick up in different areas of science. Let me first give you the major milestones of this important technique. It started in 1922 with the discovery of nuclear magnetic moment which is the Stern-Gerlach experiment and this actually led to the Nobel Prize to Otto Verstern in 1943. And in 1929 Zach Rabi discovered the first magnetic resonance in the gas phase in his molecular beam experiments and that led to the Nobel Prize in 1944. Subsequently this continued and in the condensed phase the basic discovery was made in 1946 by two groups one at Stanford led by Felix Bloch, other one at MIT led by E. M. Prussell and they shared the Nobel Prize in 1952. In the 1950s a large number of major discoveries were made. The chemical shift you can see here I am saying coupling constants over Hauser effects, Penn-Echo each one of them is such an important technique. The revolutionized applications in various areas spin decoupling in 1960s cross polarization which led to applications in solid state then the major breakthrough came in 1966 which is the Fourier transform NMR. This laid the foundation for the development of two dimensional NMR, NMR imaging and multi-dimensional NMR in the subsequent years. The idea of this course is that the students who are taking it they must be able to interpret the NMR spectra unambiguously have a clear appreciation of the information content in those spectra and at the end of the day they must be able to develop techniques in case they have two for interpreting their results. Some problems they may come across in their systems and to understand and solve these problems one may have to develop some new techniques and the course is intended to prepare the students from that point of view. So then let us start from the very basics we will as I said we will start from the very basics and take you to the level where the technique has reached today by the end of the course. Nuclear magnetic resonance is a technique which is a consequence of some intrinsic properties of the nuclei. There are two intrinsic properties which are present simultaneously those are called nuclear spin angular momentum first one is nuclear spin angular momentum and the second thing is the nuclear magnetic moment. We will look at these things in some detail. Many nuclei possess an intrinsic angular momentum called spin angular momentum. Notice that this nomenclature spin angular momentum is somewhat of a misnomer because it may tend to give an impression that there is something which is spinning or something is rotating that was a concept which one had thought about because angular momentum deals with angular motions and therefore one thought that it is some kind of an angular motion which is happening. However this is not the case here this is an intrinsic property and this angular momentum is a vector and it obeys all the laws of angular momentum and that is why this nomenclature has survived and it is called as spin angular momentum. The basic laws of angular momentum seem to be applicable here it follows those laws and therefore this nomenclature has remained and so I would like to emphasize again this has no connection with any angular motion of the nuclei within themselves and this is a vector obviously which has a magnitude and an orientation space. The magnitude is given by this formula P is equal to h cross under root i into i plus 1 where i is a number which takes discrete values 0, half, 1, 3 by 2, 2, 5 by 2 etc. This comes as a result of nuclear theory structure of the nuclei and so and so forth we are not going to go into those details we take it that this i value takes discrete numbers 0, half, 1, 3 by 2, 2, 5 by 2 etc. So therefore it implies that the magnitude of P is quantized it is not continuous it can only have a certain values depending upon the value of i. i is thus a quantum number which is characteristic of a given nucleus and it is called its spin. Every nucleus therefore has a particular i value and that is called its spin. The nuclear structure terms this refers to the ground state of the nucleus. So therefore we always deal with the ground state of the nucleus and the i value there is called as the nuclear spin. Here h cross is equal to h by 2 pi where h is the Planck's constant. There are some empirical rules for calculation of i. What values i takes? How do we know which nucleus has what value? As I said this comes as the result of the nuclear theory but there are some empirical rules which have been found to be valid which allows us to calculate the i value for any given nucleus. If the atomic number is e1 and the isotope number is e1 then the spin i takes the value 0. If the mass number is odd then its spin will have a hard integer values such as half, 3 by 2, 5 by 2 etc. For odd atomic number and even mass number the nuclear spin value takes the integral values 1, 2, 3 etc. This is shown in the tabular form here. So on this you have the e1 atomic number e1 or odd and along the rows you have this e1 or odd mass number and you can see that if the mass number is e1 the spin will have the values 0 or 1, 2, 3 etc. If this is e1 e1 it is 0, it is e1 odd it is 1, 2, 3. If the mass number is odd regardless of what this atomic number is it is always half integral values, half 3 by 2, 5 by 2 etc. Here are a few examples of this. Take proton is atomic number is 1, mass number is 1, spin is half. Deuteron atomic number is 1, mass number is 2, spin is 1 it fits with that. If you take carbon 12 it is atomic number is 6, mass number is 12 so it has a spin 0 that is e1 e1. Carbon 13 atomic number is 6, mass number is odd which is 13 therefore it has a value of half. Nitrogen 14 atomic number 7, mass number 14 it is 1. Nitrogen 15 is 7, 15 this spin is half. F 19 is atomic number 9, mass number 19 it again has a spin of half. Phosphorus 31 atomic number 15, mass number 31 this is half again. Oxygen 17 atomic number 8, mass number 17 this is 5 by 2, silicon 29 this is 14, 29 and 3 by 2. I have listed here only a sum of those isotopes and elements which are of common use. By and large it is proton, deuterium, carbon 13, nitrogen 15, P31 are the ones which are used in chemistry and biology and things like O17 or silicon these are used in material science. Therefore they come in the area of materials chemistry or condensed matter physics. So we said the angular momentum magnitude is quantized as it is a vector it turns out that not only the magnitude of the angular momentum is quantized but also its orientation in space. What does it mean that for any vector you will have 3 components along the x, y or z axis and it turns out that one of the components of P takes discrete values as given by this equation PQ is equal to m h cross where Q is equal to x, y or z. One of them is quantized other can be any continuous value one of the components is quantized. The number m takes discrete values i, i minus 1, i minus 2 up to minus i for a given value of spin i that means there will be total of 2 i plus 1 values and this number m is called the magnetic quantum number and sometimes it is also called azimuthal quantum number. What does it mean conventionally the z component of the angular momentum Pz is taken to be quantized we could have chosen other ones also but it has been a convention to use the z component as the one which is quantized and therefore we always say it z component is only some discrete values. So for any spin i the orientation can be such that the z component can have any of the one of the 2 i plus 1 values. For i is equal to half 2 i plus 1 is 2 therefore there will be two orientations in space this is indicated here. These various arrows which are there these represent the orientations of the different spins some of or with the m is equal to plus half and some are with m is equal to minus half. In each case they are of different place but the component along the z axis for all of them is the same this is the z component which is here and the x components or the y components can be anything that is why you are having so many vectors here and similarly for the m is equal to minus half the z component is the same for all of these orientations which is minus half h cross and the x and the y components can be anything. So therefore we say one of the components is quantized the other components are not quantized. Let me show this more explicitly and you also notice here that all these vectors which are drawn they have a certain angle with respect to the z axis. I will show you why you can immediately guess it why it should be so but I will explicitly show in the next slide. This is the case for i is equal to half I have shown only one vector here this is the case for i is equal to 1 there are three orientations possible I have only shown one vector again there will be many vectors and for i is equal to 3 by 2 there will be four vectors. So what are these why are why is this an angle and what is the angle between them. So this can be seen by recognizing that the magnitude of this vector is h cross under root half into 3 by 2 i into i plus 1 and the z component here is half h cross the two values are not the same therefore the length of the vector and the z component are not the same. Therefore there is an angle in this which is dictated by the ratio of this the cosine theta is equal to half divided by under root half into 3 by 2 for the case i is i plus 1 this length of the vector is h cross under root 1 into 2. So this is root 2 and the z component for this is 1 the z component for this orientation is 0 and if I went to draw the z component here for this the it is minus 1. Similarly for i is equal to 3 by 2 I will have the magnitude 3 by 2 into 5 by 2 i into i plus 1 and the z component for this is 3 by 2 h cross because that is i z is 3 by 2 and for this it will be half h cross and for this it will be minus half h cross and for this it will be minus 3 by 2 h cross. So therefore all of them have different orientations in space because the z components are different compared to the magnitude of the angular momentum. Now we turn to the other important property of the nucleus which I mentioned in the beginning and that is the nuclei with non-zero magnetic moment. There is a magnetic moment and only those which have the magnetic moment of course are NMR active. Nuclear with non-zero i value have an intrinsic magnetic moment we represent as mu and whose magnitude is linearly proportional to the angular momentum. So mu is equal to gamma times p, p is here the magnitude and therefore it is equal to gamma h cross under root i into i plus 1. The gamma is a constant known as gyromagnetic ratio. This is characteristic of a nucleus can have positive or negative values. Once again this comes from the theory of nuclear structure and we simply take what is the result that is coming from there and p is a vector as we said earlier it can have certain orientations and therefore mu is also a vector. Now if we write this vector equation mu is equal to gamma times p now both these now are written as vectors. So it follows that depending upon whether gamma is positive or negative the magnetic moment is parallel to the angular momentum or anti-parallel to the angular momentum vector. That is an important factor and here are some of the values of certain nuclei of the magnetic moments and the magnetic ratio. In early days the aim of the NMR experiment was to measure the magnetic moments. People used to measure the magnetic moments of all the different kinds of nuclei. Of course they have measured it and here is the summary of some of those nuclei which are for relevance to us in the context of chemistry, biology and material science. Proton which has the 100 percent almost 100 percent natural abundance most abundant nuclei and this has a spin of half and it has a magnetic ratio 26.753. Deuterium has very low natural abundance 0.01 percent so and therefore this is extremely and this has a spin of 1 this also we saw earlier boron 11 is spin of 3 by 2 it is 81 percent natural abundance and it has the magnetic ratio as indicated here. Carbon 13 is 1.1 percent natural abundance the spin of half O17 is 0.037 percent abundance 5 by 2 F19 is 100 percent this is of course a very abundant nucleus silicon is 4.7 percent so these ones have a spin of half each and all of these P31 is 100 percent abundant spin of half NN15 is spin of half but 0.37 percent natural abundance. Therefore some of these nuclei are very abundant and therefore they will be the most sensitive nuclear from the point of observation of signaling NMR and for those which are low abundant nuclei some special things are required of course this will be discussed as we go along. And notice here for O17 the magnetic moment is negative. Likewise for N15 it is negative for silicon also it is negative for all others this the gyromagnetic ratio is positive and therefore magnetic moment and angular momentum are collinear and they have the same orientation whereas for these ones they are collinear but they have opposite orientation magnetic moment and angular momentum have opposite orientation. This will have an effect with regard to the interaction energies and we will see as we look at the interactions between the nuclei and between the nuclei and externally applied magnetic fields which is an integral part of the NMR spectrometer. Now we see what happens to these nuclear spins we talked about the nuclear spins in isolation the nuclear spins suppose we put them in a magnetic field they have a magnetic moment and therefore there will be certain interaction with the magnetic field. So what does the magnetic field do since it is a magnetic dipole it induces a torque it applies force on the two dimensions on the two edges of the magnetic dipole and which results in a torque. So it will try to orient this it will induce a motion in this nuclear magnetic moment and tries to cause a motion because of the torque. However since the magnetic moment has a definite orientation in space it cannot align itself with respect to the magnetic field axis typically the magnetic field is applied along the z axis. It cannot orient itself with respect to that it induces a motion which is called as a processional motion and that is called as a Larmer procession. The nucleus if it is oriented here it will move in this fashion it exhibits a motion in along this circle here and this is called as a processional motion. A nucleus which is oriented in this direction will also move and this will exhibit a motion in this circle along this circle the edge will represent a motion along this circle here this is a also the processional motion. Here I have considered two orientations because this is typically true for i is equal to half but if it is i is equal to 1 there will be three such motions three such orientations and all of them will move around the magnetic field axis with the particular speed this is called that is the angular frequency and this is the processional frequency. Now any such motion is described interaction is described this by this kind of an equation d mu by dt because it has to change with time magnitude does not change it is only the orientation that changes and that is given by this equation gamma times mu cross H naught this is the Larmer procession motion which is described by classical physics. Now any angular motion of this type is written by an equation of this type you have angular frequency if you have angular frequency for a vector mu then you write this d mu by dt is equal to gamma into omega times mu and here the motion is assumed to be in the anticlockwise sense this equation tells you that. Now both are representing the same where one case you actually have taken into account the field in the other case you represent it in terms of the frequency of motion. Now therefore if you compare this you will find that omega is equal to minus gamma H naught. So if I consider the motion as clockwise so you get a minus sign here this by comparing these two I get to omega is equal to minus gamma H naught that would imply that I have a clockwise motion here for the nuclear magnet. The same thing now can be represented in another fashion that is you as I said for a spin half this is shown more explicitly here we have two orientations in space as indicated m is equal to half here m is equal to minus half these states are represented conventionally as alpha and the beta states for the two spin system. The interaction energy is given by this kind of an equation the interaction energy is equal to mu dot H naught both are vectors here this is a vector and this is a vector here and therefore if you take the dot product of this you get minus mu z H naught. Now nullity is the minus sign here now if alpha is the state which you are considering m is positive so therefore mu z is positive and then therefore the energy here becomes less compared to what it was in the absence of the field and that is indicated by the minus sign therefore this goes down in the energy compared to what it was in the absence of the field and this state which is minus half here therefore mu z will be negative because this will have a negative z component this will be negative therefore this interaction energy becomes positive therefore this one goes up in the energy the two states earlier the two orientations were degenerate in the earlier case in the absence of the field when you apply field these degeneracy gets lifted because of the interaction between the magnetic moment and the field and once this is lifted the two energy states will get separated like this and now therefore the spins will have to redistribute themselves between the two states the ensemble if you have a sample we consist of trillions of nuclear spins and they will be populated in these two energy states and that follows what is called the Boltzmann distribution. Typically one thinks that if you have a nuclear spins which have the spin of half often one uses what is called as the Fermi Dirac statistics but if there is a spin of one often one uses Bose Einstein statistics but here we will see that we can use Boltzmann statistics for both kinds of spins and this has this is the consequence of the fact that this energy difference is very small compared to the sample temperatures what we might have we will discuss that later. So for all the spins we can discuss the distribution of the spins in terms of Boltzmann statistics and this has important implications for the signal strength. So I think with this we will stop here we have covered the basic aspects of the properties of the nuclei we talked about spin angular momentum and nuclear magnetic moment both are intrinsic properties of the nucleus because that is how the nuclear structure tells us and these are quantized angular momentum is quantized nuclear magnetic moment can take also certain specific values it can have certain orientations in space in the absence of any external magnetic field the all the orientations are degenerate when you apply a field the degeneracy gets lifted and the different orientations have different energies the spins in a ensemble get distributed according to the Boltzmann statistics this will have important implications for the signals that will you observe and that will be discussed later. Thank you.


Aaron this is this team's now ninth walkoff of the season. How are you guys doing it? Where does the never quit mentality continue to come from? You know, it comes from believing in each other. Not to those teams about, you know, we believe in each other. When you got to pack towels like this, how can you not? This is, this is amazing. This is amazing, man. It's, you know, a lot of great at bats throughout the whole night to get to this moment. Yours obviously was the difference maker in this one. Stanek threw you four straight splitters. How did you remain locked in throughout that at bat? I know I was going to get the job done. You know, I had faith that I was going to go up there and do my job and I was able to get a pitch I could handle and I got it done. How much do you love coming to the plate in those situations with the opportunity to end the game with one swing? That's when those games, you know, at its best right there. Moments like that, crowds on their feet, games on the line.  You mentioned some of the other at bats. You don't get the opportunity to be the hero without that home run from Aaron Hicks. Just how much life did that inject? Not only into the stadium, but into that dugout. Oh, this was the playoffs atmosphere right there. When Hicks hit that home, I just looked into the bleachers. Everybody was jumping around going crazy. This is the big series and we're looking forward to tomorrow. Aaron, thanks for the time. Congratulations. Thank you.


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And I remember getting really upset, grabbing my two dogs at that time, Sadie and Monkey, clipping on their retractable leashes and sort of in a huff going outside because I was frustrated with what he was saying. He was frustrated with me. And I went and took the dogs back behind our building. Now to understand the story, it is important that you know the layout of how this building is situated. So I actually made it back to that apartment complex just so I could take footage for what I'm about to show you. So a little weird to be back here. So we lived on the bottom floor and behind us was this wall of rock that went up two stories. At the top of those two stories, there was a very, very busy road, very busy intersection. But between the building and the wall, there was a strip of grass where you could walk your dogs, take them out back, that sort of thing. So I went out there with the dogs that night. I'm sure it was like trying to make a point by staying outside and being mad. When all of a sudden, I hear three very loud noises above my head. Now keep in mind the street is above me and I hear a crashing and a crunching and then again and then again. And I remember I had enough time to think. I think there's a car wreck. I think a car wreck just happened right above me. And so I looked up to where the sound was coming from when I swear this was just like an action movie. I experienced it in slow motion. A truck flew over my head, crashed into the apartment building and came careening to the ground in a smoking mess. It's kind of weird to be standing underneath this again. So the truck flew over that gate there and then hit the second story there. Well, me and my dogs were standing about here when the truck hit about right over there. Where this very large vehicle hit was a few feet from where I was standing with the dogs and I was actually headed in that direction as I heard the sound. When I say it felt like an action movie, like my memory of what happened really is so slowed down. Like I picture the arch of the truck and then the collision with the building it kind of bounced back off the building and then came to a shockingly still, stand still on the ground. The dogs were terrified, took off running, ripped the leashes out of my hand and ripped my hand open. I actually still have a scar which you can see to this day. And when this happened I was very much in shock. My apartment was right there and so I ran to get my husband and then we ran to the truck and that's when the reality hit me that I was probably about to walk up to find someone dead and I had never seen a dead body at that point in my life. And I remember actually standing there for a brief moment and sort of inhaling and realizing that what I might see in this moment would change me for the rest of my life. Wanting to run away if I'm entirely honest and then choosing to walk forward and we were able to get around to the driver's side and there was a girl in there who was still moving. And the weirdest thing to me was she was asking where's my phone? Where's my phone? As she has just flipped over a very busy intersection hit an apartment building and fallen three stories. She was bloody. Her seatbelt was still on it. She obviously wasn't okay but she was okay. Like I fully expected her to be dead. I remember calling 911 and then she ended up giving me her mom's phone number. I was on the phone with her mom like directing her into the apartment complex as emergency vehicles arrived and incredibly the paramedics were able to get her out of her truck. She went to the hospital. All I know is she did survive. She was okay but I was not allowed to know anything beyond that. So something I forgot to mention here is that this is what our apartment looked like after the crash. She actually hit mostly the second floor so it was much worse up there but our apartment was significantly damaged as well and they did take like four months to fix it but you know, is what it is. So let's put on pause for a moment that I was almost crushed by a truck and that that was terrifying to see and go into what actually happened at the intersection that night. So like I said, two major roads in Colorado Springs are right above this apartment complex. One is a very long hill coming down and apparently this girl was texting on her phone, ran a red light, hit another vehicle, flipped three times in the intersection, missed a lot of telephone and like lighting poles after flipping a number of times continued to fly over the fence and into the apartment building where the truck then fell down. In that vehicle that she hit there was a man and a pug who were 100% okay. They were hit going like 60 miles per hour. This truck flipped multiple times like this was a very bad accident and they were 100% okay. Now when the car went over obviously she flipped over my head. I was very frightened but I was physically okay. And in the back of her truck there was a tire. When her truck flipped that tire went flying through the second story window and the window that it went through was the bedroom of a two-year-old boy. When first responders went up to the second floor and got into that room they told me they fully expected to see a dead child because the bed was smashed to pieces. But even though this was not their normal schedule the kid was with his dad that night because the mom had some specific engagement. So he should have been in his bed and he would have instantly been killed but he was 100% okay. The lady in the apartment above us had just gone out meaning she did not get hit by the flying tire that literally left tire marks on the back wall of that room. So including the dog there were five lives that probably should have easily all been killed that night and literally all of us walked away from that accident. It was mind-blowing. Now I want to get into one of the reasons that I wanted to share this story which was how I reacted to this event. At this point in my life I was pretty fresh out of a lot of trauma. I was just married. I was very happy but I was also in a very difficult mental and emotional place where I felt like the world was kind of out to get me. There had been a lot of traumatic and bad events that happened in my life back to back to back be it medical or relational or anything. And when this happened it felt like the nail in the coffin that life was just out to get me. Like I truly believed that me being outside of the exact moment that happened was somehow the universe continuing to taunt me and torment me and tear me apart.  Like everything was so unfair and I had been singled out by the world, by God, by hell. I didn't know to just constantly be traumatized. Like that is where my mind went. In the days following this crash I was a mess. I was like traumatized by this. I realized I almost could have been killed. It was very jarring but the thing that I had the hardest time with was this idea that everything was out to get me. And man, that just caused me to spiral down so quickly. I was already consistently seeing a counselor once a week if that gives you any indication of my mental state.  And through our conversations I realized that yes, I could look at the situation like that or alternate theory. I could look at it as a random event that I survived and I'm very grateful to have survived, right? Like I could look at this as a thing that was orchestrated by some force to continue to break me down or it could be something that was not tied to anything else and just happened. And when I began thinking about it like that it suddenly lost its power over me. Now, I'm not saying that the event itself wasn't traumatizing because it absolutely was. It was very frightening. I remember a friend showed me a video of a car doing a jump like six months later and I instantly started crying because it like took me back to the moment that a car flipped over my head. It had an impact on me but this narrative that I had formed in my head of the world was out to get me and I would never be okay. It was the thing that was actually damaging my life so much more than that trauma that I had been a part of separating out what I believed about the event and the story that I created about what caused it and why it happened to me from the reality that something just happened and I was there and it was difficult. It was scary but I made it out really helped me to begin to move forward and I was able to kind of bring some of those tools with me throughout the rest of my life. When really crappy things happen I think it is very easy and I don't blame anyone myself included for initially thinking this it's really easy to think that it's about us that like the world or whatever is out to get us is out to hurt us because this happened to us. So that's a very logical conclusion to come to especially when you experience difficulties or traumas kind of back to back but in my opinion most of the time that is not the case most of the time bad things do happen but we are not utterly powerless in every situation we are not perpetually the victim of life. I spent a lot of time feeling like I was that and I almost feel a lot of shame saying that out loud because you're not supposed to say that like you felt like a victim but I sure did I had been a victim of things and I felt it when I had that mindset it didn't enable me to really gather any tools to fight back or to stand on my own two feet I just kept like falling further and further you know but through working on it through therapy and journaling and reflection and conversations coming to the realization that sometimes bad things happen and they suck and we have to deal with them and it's really hard and it hurts but that the world is not here to make us into victims that was something that was very empowering to me and from that moment onward as additional things have happened to me in my life I've been able to kind of separate out that victimization narrative from simply acknowledging the severity of something or feeling the effects of it without this complication of believing that I will always be victimized and I will always be hurt because believing that is really difficult it makes it hard to like want to stay alive but we are not perpetually victims of this world and that was such an important thing for me to learn and it took a car flying over my head to kind of connect the dots and realize that that is how I was thinking about things looking back at the situation it just blows my mind how how much worse things could have been like I said there were five lives involved that night that all walked away it was a bizarre thing to experience but looking back on it now it's just that it doesn't really hold any emotional charge it was just man it felt like some kind of like John Wick or Indiana Jones or something kind of movie like just seeing the truck fly above me man it was weird also very important point the dogs were perfectly okay they were not harmed in any way they were just very scared the poor babies I love them so much so yeah I was almost crushed by a truck but I wasn't which is the reason why I am here making videos today thank you for listening to my story I truly appreciate it I kind of like telling stories from different points in my life I've spent a lot of this channel talking specifically about my life in the last two and a half years you know becoming an amputee and all that jazz but I like talking about other things too so thanks for hanging with me and hearing my story a huge thank you to our sponsor Lemonade please click the link in the description to check it out if you are a renter I highly recommend finding good renters insurance so check out Lemonade today they also have a super cute name so that's great thank you to my patrons for continuing to support these videos you mean the world to me I truly appreciate your support and to you watching this video right now thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today you could be anywhere else in the world doing absolutely anything else but you chose to hang with me for a few minutes and that means a lot to me thank you I love you guys I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video bye guys


Welcome back. So, let's continue from where we stopped in 2 Corinthians chapter 6. So, in that second verse Paul references Isaiah 149 with someone willing to read that for us. So, maybe we can read a long chapter. We'll just read from verses 1 to verse 8 or verse 9, the beginning of verse 9, maybe more complete. So, Isaiah 49, verses 1 to 9, the beginning of verse 9. Isaiah 49 verses 1 to verse 9, right? Listen, O coastline to me, and take heed, you peoples from afar. The Lord has called me from the womb, from the matrix of my mother, he had made mention of my name, and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me. And made me a polished staff, and in his quiver he has hidden me. And he said to me, you are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have lived bad in pain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain. Yet surely my just reward is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now the Lord says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him. So that Israel is gathered to him, for I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. Indeed he says, it is too small a thing that you should be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the Gentiles, that you should be my salvation to the end of the earth. That says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, their holy one, to whom, to him whom man despises, to whom the nation abhors, to the servant of rulers. As kings shall see and rise, princes also shall worship because of the Lord, who is faithful. The Lord, the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you. That says the Lord. In an acceptance, in an acceptable time, I have had you, and in the day of salvation, I have helped you. I will preserve you and give you as a covenant to the people to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the destroyed heritages. That you may say to the prisoners, go forth to those who are in darkness, show yourself. They shall feed along the roads, and their pastures shall be on all destroyed hives. Amen. Thank you. So why do you think Paul goes back to this passage here in verse, or in chapter 6? That is he quote from Isaiah 49. Whenever we see a quotation from another part of scripture, it's good to go back to that passage and read what was the context within which it was written. So we read here in Isaiah 49, it is the promise of the coming Messiah who will restore Israel from a place of judgment to a place of exile. They will be restored to their land. They will be brought back. They will once again experience the prosperity, the blessings of God that had been taken away, that they had lost because of their sin. So that is a promise that the Jews were holding on to and waiting on to see that restoration happen. And now Christ had come in fulfillment of that. So when Paul in previous chapters talked about all of this reconciliation that is ours, he's now also telling them that this Christ is the fulfillment of that hope of Israel. The hope of Israel that has been there for hundreds of years, been longing for this restoration that was promised to us. Christ is that promised Messiah. And he has come to give us, this is the day of favor. This is the day of salvation. That day that Israel had been waiting for for hundreds of years is now there. And it's now being given to them. It's now being presented to them. And so he's saying, don't ignore this great grace that is here for you, that has been given to you. Receive it, be reconciled to God. Come back to God. And he says, I tell you now is the time of God's favor. Now is the day of salvation. That is, it has been fulfilled. These promises that were given have now been fulfilled and now is available to us. So receive that. He's encouraging the Corinthians to receive it. So verse three, we put no stumbling block in anyone's path so that our ministry will not be discredited. In the NKJV, it uses the word offense. We give no offense in anything that our ministry may not be blamed. So the word offense here refers to causing someone to fall, causing someone to stumble. And so he says, in carrying out our ministry, we do want to cause somebody else to fall. So the way we carry out our ministry, whether in the words we use, in the way we live our lives, in the actions, what we do, in all of that, there should be no cause for someone else to fall. So he's saying this is the way we carry out our ministry. So that's something for us as well to think about. We carry this great gospel. We carry this great message of reconciliation. But how are we presenting that to others in the way we are doing our ministry? Is our ministry itself reflecting the gravity, the power, the grace that is in the gospel? And if it is, then that itself should be a testimony from the people. But if there are things within the ministry, if there are issues that are unresolved, that are remaining undelivered, then that may be a reason for people to fall away. And so we shouldn't be giving people any reason by the way we are doing our ministries to discredit the work that we are doing or to discredit the gospel itself. Then we go on from there, verses 4 to 13, if someone read that for us please. But in all things, we commend ourselves as ministers of God in much patience, in tribulation, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonment, in term lots, in labours, in sleepless nights, in fastings. By purity, by knowledge, by long sufferings, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the Word of God, by the power, by the Word of truth, by the power of God, by the hammer of righteousness, on the right hand and on the left hand, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened and yet not killed, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, yet possessing all things. O Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you. Our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affection. Now in return, for the same, I speak as to children, you also be open. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness and what communion has light with darkness. Amen. Okay, Jeffina posted what the word now in chapter 6 verse 2 is. So Paul is saying that day of salvation, that time of God's favor that was prophesied about in the Old Testament is here and now, meaning Christ has fulfilled that and it's available to you at present. So, and he's saying now also in terms of I'm hoping that you know that I'm calling you back to be like this. So you have the opportunity now to be safe to experience that favor of God. So, in that, just to go back to that, I have 49 verse 8 in the time of my favor, I will answer you in the day of salvation, I will help you. So it was looking forward to this time of favor to that day of salvation. So Christ's coming. And since then till now, till Christ's return is this time of favor this day of salvation. So it's not a specific day or a specific moment, but it is this opportunity that is being offered to be seen to come into the favor of God. And so it's an extended period of time. So, yeah, verse 3 we covered in verse 4. So he's saying in verse 3, he says, we're not doing anything that will cause you to fall away from the faith or to discredit the work that we're doing. But on the other hand, what we are doing is in the way we are conducting ourselves, that itself tells you that you can trust us. It works itself the way we are doing things. And then he'll go on to elaborate what all he's talking about. That commends us to you. That is our recommendation, or that is our evidence, or that is our good report that stands before you. And then all of the things he lists here as examples are things of sacrifice, suffering, endurance. It's not the things that people would boast in generally. It's not about his knowledge, not about his speech, his eloquence as a feature, not about using wisdom, worldly wisdom. All of those things are not the things that are commending them. It's their sacrifices for the gospel, their perseverance in spite of the suffering. So the reality of suffering is definitely there. But it's not that they are giving up in the face of suffering. Instead, they are continuing to faithfully serve and continuing to take the gospel to places they're continuing to pursue this church itself that has rejected, that is only ways is rejecting him. And so all of the things is its endurance in spite of all of these things. We are continuing to do this work in spite of all of the challenges that we faced. So just the first verse four, verse five is talking about all of the sacrifices, the persecution, the suffering. Then verse six talks about more of their own heart and their own spirit in this. So in purity, understanding patience, kindness and holy spirit and essential love. So talking about their own motivations and attitudes in serving and then in truthful speech in the power of God. So their words have been words of truth. So there were other people who were coming in who was saying certain things, but the truthfulness of what they were saying was questionable. But with Paul, he's saying you can trust what we are saying that in our words is also the power of God that is being displayed weapons of righteousness. So however they were doing their work was in a way that displayed the righteousness of God in both the right hand in the left. So in both ways, in the way they were defending themselves, in the way they were carrying out their work in everything the righteousness of God was displayed. And then in aid, it says even if all of these challenges are coming up within the church, we have continued to serve you. So glory and dishonor, bad report, good report, genuine yet regarded as imposters, known yet regarded as unknown dying in yet we live on. So these challenges have come up here in this ministry, but we have continued to serve, whether y'all have dishonored us, whether there have been bad reports about us, whether we've been regarded as imposters, whether people are questioning whether they truly know us in all of those things we've continued to serve. So I'm fully yet always rejoicing for yet making many rich, having nothing in yet possessing everything. And yeah, so just to see that contrast of that last verse, verse 10, to say that even in the suffering we have rejoiced, even in our poverty, we have continued the work of enriching people spiritually. And even though we've had nothing yet, we know that everything is available to us, there's nothing that we lack. And then verses 11 to 13, we have spoken freely to you and opened wide our hearts to you. We are not withholding our affection for me, but you are withholding yours from us. And so here is where he goes back to that, what he was talking about in chapter five, being reconciled. So he's calling them to be reconciled to him. So to defend himself that whatever we've said, we've said openly, we've said honestly, we've spoken freely. And we have loved you fully, we've opened wide our hearts to you. That is, we've allowed y'all to come in fully, we've not withheld our love for you. But on the other hand, you have not loved us with that same kind of acceptance. You have not trusted us, you have withheld your love for us. And so he's saying, he's asking them to open their hearts, so verse 13, open wide your hearts to us also, because that would be the fair thing when we have come to you in this way and speaking to you as my children, as someone who loves you all, as someone who can be trusted, you also come to us with that same level of trust and love that we have shown towards you. So as we go on from there, verses 14 to 18. Someone read that for us, verse 14 to 18, chapter 6. Chapter 6, verse 14 to 18. Do not be un-mutilating together with unbelievers for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness and what communion has light with darkness and what accord has Christ with the real or what part has a believer with an unbeliever and what agreement has the temple of God with idols. Therefore you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. I'll be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. So Paul here kind of switches focus to something else and then he will go back to what he's talking about before. So that is quite common in this time. In the way they wrote letters, in between they would talk about another topic and then they go back to what they were saying. He does that here and he goes into being yoked with unbelievers. So the context for this is not clear why he's bringing this up at this point. But it's interesting that he brings it up at the same time that he's on the other hand calling them to be reconciled to God. So if you're not reconciled to God, if you're not, you're not coming into this oneness with Christ. Then who are you coming to oneness with? Is it that you are looking yourself with people who are on the other side who are not in Christ? You're looking yourself with unbelief. So in verse 14, he talks about this idea of being yoked. So that is like this picture of two animals having, like how we see being used in farms or being used to plow the ground. They have a wooden piece that is put over two animals and they walk with that together to plow the land. And so if that yok is being used or that wooden piece is being used with two different animals, then they can't actually do that work effectively. They can't actually carry out that work of plowing. So this is in reference to Deuteronomy 2210. And there are various other verses in the Old Testament, but this specifically is from Deuteronomy 2210. If someone could just read that for us, please. Deuteronomy 2210.  So here we see where that specific example of your king is used between two animals. So that is kind of the image of being yoked with somebody who is not your equal, who does not match where you are. So some ways in which we can understand this, what is he referring to when he talked about being yoked together. We can understand it from the perspective of marriage, where you do come together and you becoming, you're carrying on that purpose that God has for each of you.  So if you are getting married to an unbeliever, then you will not be able to fulfill your purpose. And you will not be able to carry out what God has entrusted to you because the unbeliever won't have that same vision, that same perspective that you have of serving God. And so that is one way in which we can look at what does mean to be unbeliever, yoked, how we can take that into where we can apply it in our lives. Another aspect is in a business, if you have a partnership with somebody you're carrying out a business, that is a place where really you're working so closely with someone else. You have to have the same values, the same vision, the same way of carrying out your day to day work. So it's a very big thing to handle money, to handle decision making, to handle relationships with other businesses. All of those things will be affected by the person's fate. And so if you are getting into a business partnership with somebody who does not have the same fate as you, then doing that work will be very difficult, it will be very challenging. So that's another way to look at how you avoid being yoked to the unbeliever. And then a third way is in the way we let the world influence us, or how do we allow the world, what place are we allowing the world in the Lord? So if we are allowing it to influence the way we think, if we are conforming ourselves to the way the world does things, then we cannot also stay in step with God. Because we are yoking ourselves to the world. And so we will start to come under the influence of the world in the way we are doing things, rather than taking on the yoke of Christ. And being led by Him and following through on His purposes, His vision for us. So those are three ways we can apply that practically to not be unequally yoked to an unbeliever. So Paul goes on from here to look at certain differences between a believer and an unbeliever. And he brings out a few things. So the first is fellowship. So fellowship between righteousness versus lawlessness. So righteousness is what we talked about, right? That you are walking in this perfect unity with God, with His purposes, with His plans, with His desires, with His will. Versus lawlessness, this is indirect opposition to that. It's walking by your own standards, your own will, whatever pleases you, not desiring to submit, not desiring to do what is said to be right or what is said to be wrong. Not following those rules. So saying these two cannot share with one another, cannot be participants with one another. If you are in the perfect will of God, then you can't at the same time be opposing the will of God or walking in your own ways doing what pleases you. So that is one contrast, one difference between the believer and the unbeliever. The other is that there cannot be intimacy or communion between light and darkness. So light representing purity, representing truth, representing spiritual understanding, right? Spiritualized being opened. So when you're spiritualized open, when you're walking in truth, when you're walking in purity, then at the same time, you cannot have intimacy with somebody who is blind, right? Somebody whose eyes have not been opened to the truth, who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, who is walking in that kind of darkness, in immorality. So because they don't have that same revelation of truth versus what is true versus what is false or what is right versus what is wrong, they walk in sin, in their ignorance maybe, or in their willing projection of truth. Whatever it may be, there can be no intimacy between this, between light and darkness. Light is the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. So those two can be together. Another is you can't walk in. There can be agreement between Christ and Belian. So Belian was a Jewish term that was used to refer to Satan. And it means worthlessness. That means worthlessness. So Christ, this anointed Messiah, Son of God, between Satan. There can be no agreement between those, between Christ and Satan. The fourth one is there can be no share or no portion apart between a believer and an unbeliever. So we know, obviously a believer is somebody who has put their trust in Christ, who has surrendered their life to Christ, is following Christ. An unbeliever is someone who does not have that relationship with Christ. So it does not have that faith or that desire to follow to be obedient to Christ. And then the last difference he talks about is there can be no agreement between the temple of God versus idols. Now here, the temple of God is referring to the body of believers, not referring to an individual, but the body of believers in this passage. And so the body of believers in which the presence of God is, the spirit of God dwells, cannot walk in agreement with an idol that is from the demonic realm. So it's a false God, a God that represents evil, that represents this darkness that represents the demonic realm. And so that cannot be in agreement with the spirit of God. So these are just some standards that he's setting for the church, that if you are looking at walking with an unbeliever, you are basically walking in complete contradiction to anything that is even possible spiritually, because of all of these differences that exist between the holy spirit and between walking in this area, being led by Satan, being under the authority of anything that is demonic. There can't be anything between these two rights. So he asks all of these questions, these are atonical questions. So he's saying, can this happen, can this happen? Or what fellowship can there be? What does a believer have to do? What agreement is there? All of those things say there is no agreement. So the answer to all of these questions is there is no compatibility between all of these things. And then he says, he goes on from there to worse. Okay, so verse 16 again he quotes from the Old Testament. So verse 16, I will live with them and walk among them and I will be their God and they will be my people. That is from a few verses, a few different chapters in the Old Testament. Maybe we can just read Leviticus 26. Someone can read that verse, just from verses 1 to 13, Leviticus 26. You shall not make idols for yourself, nor shall you edit an image, a sacred filler, or an obelisk, nor shall you place any fingered stone in your land, so that you may bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and have residence for my sanctuary, I am the Lord. If you walk in my status and keep my commandments and do them, then I will give you rain in the season and the land will yield her produce and the tree of the seed bear their fruit.  I will also grant peace in the land so that you may lie down and there will be no one to make you afraid.    For I will turn toward you with favor and regard and make you fruitful and multiply you and I will establish and confirm my covenant with you. You will eat the old supply of produce and clear out the old for the new. I will make my dwelling among you and my soul will not reject nor separate itself from you.   So we see here a lot of things that Paul talked about, right? So what have I done to do with the temple of God? And then in this last verse do not be yoked, that same language of yoked here in verse 13 of Leviticus 26. It's being yoked under the Egyptians versus being yoked under Satan would be the spiritual equivalent of what Christ has done for us. He has freed us from the yoked of Satan. And so we see here in Leviticus 26 where God is calling them to honour him, right? To worship him alone as God and to revere his sanctuary. So verse 2 it says, observe my Sabbath and revere my sanctuary. So why was his sanctuary to be given that kind of respect and honour was because his presence, the presence of the Lord was it? And so Paul is saying that same thing. So honour the presence of God in your midst as a body of believers.  And in doing this there will be a blessing upon you. You will have victory over your enemies. You will experience God's favour. But the greatest thing will be that God himself will be present among you and he will be walking with you. And so this is what he's saying in verse 16. What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will live with them, walk among them, I will be their God and they will be my people. And then verse 17 he says, therefore come out from them and be separate says the Lord. Factional, unclean thing and I will receive you. So this again is a reference from the Old Testament. So let me just read one of those passages. So the two verses that are given here is Isaiah 52, 11 and Ezekiel 20, 34 and 41. Maybe we can just read Isaiah 52 from verse 7 to verse 11. Isaiah 52. Yes, Isaiah 52 verses 7 to 11. Okay.  They shall sing together for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord brings back Zion. Breakfast with joy sing together. You waste places of Jerusalem for the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has made bear his holy arm in the eyes of all nations. And all the end of the earth shall see the salvation of our Lord God. Depart, depart. Go out from there. Touch no unclean things. Go out from the midst of her. Be clean. You who bear the vessels of the Lord. Amen. Amen. Thank you. And if someone can read as Ezekiel 20 verses 32 onwards till 41. Ezekiel is going to verses 32 to 41. What do you have to do and shall never be when you say we will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries serving good and strong? As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, with the Lord's blessing, I will rule over you.  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people and there I will plead my case with you face to face. Just as I plead in my case with your father in the wilderness land of patriot. So I will plead my case with you, says the Lord God. I will make you pass under the rod and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. And those who transgress against me, I will bring them out of the country where they do. But they shall not enter the land of the same. Then you will know that I am the Lord as for you. So every one of you is idols and hereafter if you will not obey me, but profane my holy name, no more gifts and your idols.  So we see here. Yeah, so we see in both these passages that are quote, it reminds I have 52 and is it 22 is this promise of restoration of Jerusalem and bringing out of Jerusalem from under bondage to nations that have taken control of it and come to reign over it. And then in Ezekiel 20 is also again this promise that the people will be brought out from their place of judgment and a new covenant will be established with them. But the difference we see between Isaiah 52 and Ezekiel 20 is that Ezekiel 20 also talks about judgment of those who have turned away to worship idols. So even though everyone will be brought out of, out of their exile, out of their bondage, not everyone is going to reach that promised land. On the way to the promised land is where God will execute judgment on those who turned away from his worship idols. And so in this verse second to 1617, he's calling them to separate themselves. So he's saying separate yourselves from these idols, separate yourselves from these unbelievers. Because if we are looking at Old Testament history, those who didn't separate themselves will be the people who come under God's judgment. So you all have received this gospel, you all have been invited to freedom in Christ. But if you do not walk in obedience to Christ, do not walk in oneness with Christ in Holy Spirit, then you will not have the privilege of being in God's presence in eternity. You may have come to this place of believing in Christ at one point, but now if you are choosing to yoke yourself with idols, with darkness, with unbelievers, then you are going to experience judgment. And so he says, come out, separate yourselves from them. And then verse 18, and I will be a father to you. You will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Again, a reference from the Old Testament, which I don't think we have time to look at, but that's from 2nd Samuel 7, verse 14, where this promise is given to the people of Israel that you will be restored and you will come to this position as being sons and daughters. So we see here in this chapter verse 5, Paul talks about being reconciled, being brought into a right standing with God, being made the righteousness of God. And then he calls them to recognize what a huge blessing this is and how they should respond to that blessing, to that grace that they have received. And one of these ways in which they need to recognize that they are being drawn away is being yoked to unbelievers or in some way joining with darkness. So you can separate yourself from that darkness, come back to Christ because in that place of coming back to Christ is where you will experience your true identity as children of God. So we continue from there next week. Have a good week and God bless you.


Don't think that I'm coming and posing a threat. No sir, I am coming to challenge you. What's good with Josh your boy Ross back again with another video. So I wasn't about to watch raw last night.  We all know what that's for. It's a rating ploy because our ratings have been God awful and I wasn't about to watch that. I don't care to see the legends. I don't care to see Hulk Hogan do the same old tired stick. I don't care. I just don't. I respect the legends for what they've done for the business but this is the whole point of building new stars. And it's not the wrestler's fault. It's not. It's the booking. It's the storytelling. No one wants to watch the show. No one cares about the new wrestlers because WWE don't care about the new wrestlers. So I wasn't gonna watch it. And then you guys kept sending me DMs, messages saying, yo, Goldberg challenged Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. You need to check it out. Goldberg challenged Drew McIntyre for the championship. You need to check it out. So I did check it out. Now I'm probably not, I can't really post to read my reaction to it obviously because WWE will definitely block it and it'll be a waste of video but I will say this, what I saw was complete hot doodoo water, bro. I thought we learned our lesson. I thought we learned our lesson last year when they fed Daphine to Goldberg. And I'm sorry, you guys love Daphine and I loved his character. But Daphine, he died when he lost to Oldberg. He died. He died. Simple as that. His character never really regained his team back. He lost the championship to Oldberg. So Oldberg is back again. And now he's challenging Drew. Basically saying you don't respect these wrestlers, these legends up here. You talk to them as if they're old people and they still don't have it or something to that effect. Basically saying you don't have respect for the legends which I'm pretty sure Drew's character that they're building right now, it's all about respect. He even said it himself. But this was Lane. I don't wanna see this at the Royal Rumble. It's gonna happen. I don't wanna see this. You know what I would have liked, actually? Him versus Roman. And the only reason why I say that is because we could have watched, well, it doesn't work then. It doesn't work because then, honestly, him going against Roman, Roman would be the face in that situation and Drew would be the heel. And people would want Roman to pretty much retire. I sent Drew a Goldberg. And people would want Roman Reigns to retire Oldberg. I need to say Oldberg, not Goldberg because Goldberg was back in the day. Last time we saw Goldberg was when he went against Brock Lesnar. That was the last time we saw Goldberg. We got Oldberg now. He was old then, but at least, you know what I'm saying? It made sense. He wasn't botching matches. Yeah, bro. Even then, him going against Roman Reigns is still not the best idea. But it would be counterproductive to them building the heel character that is Roman Reigns right now. But I would much rather see that only because I know they would destroy Goldberg just to build up Roman. Here, I hope and pray that someone with a competent mind does not pull the same shenanigans they did with Bray Wyatt. I'm sure this match is going to happen. Do I care about this match? No, this match should be no longer than a minute and 30 seconds. That's not including Goldberg's entrance, my bad. Oldberg's entrance. Drew, couple Claymore kicks.  And I like the fact that Drew didn't just automatically accept it. He was basically like, bro, it would be like me fighting my dad, bro. Like, what are you talking about? I just, I don't care. I just don't care. This is Rant's coming in. Rant is coming in. I hope you guys are ready, man. I'm out to rant, bro.  This is the problem with WWE right now. You think bringing back old legends is going to help your product? There's a reason why AEW is the premier better show. And I don't even watch AEW, but I can tell from just people's reaction and just the views alone. People prefer AEW over Monday Night Raw. Hell, SmackDown is killing them, even though SmackDown ain't the best either. SmackDown is a much watchable show than Monday Night Raw. Monday Night Raw is trash.  I wish you could put both of the top champs on SmackDown, bro, like for real. This is awful, bro. This is the dumbest thing. And he got all these legends sitting on the ramp, waiting for Old Berg to come out there. Bro, this is dumb, dawg. This is dumb. Yeah, you may get a spike in ratings because people want to see the nostalgia of the old wrestlers from their favorite wrestlers from back in the day, but no, bro. This is dumb. Instead of promoting the wrestlers you have, you end up doing this. You end up bringing these legends back for what? And I know you guys have actually been sending me the Mustafa Ali clip where he basically talks about that. I watched a little bit of it, but he basically talks about that.  I guess what, they're not even gonna utilize him. They're not the way he should be utilized. Like I'm just sick and tired of watching, like I don't even watch a show. I don't watch Raw. I haven't watched a segment of Raw in a minute. The last time I really was interested in Raw is when Randy Orton was feuding with Drew and when he was feuding with Edge before he got hurt. This is the last time I was really enjoying some segments on Raw.  I don't.  My mans was sweating as soon as he got down to the ring. No, bro. My mans was sweating more than Drew McIntyre who just had a match. And he just walked to the ring. No, bro. You know somebody getting up in age when they start wearing the under armor shirts, bro. And nothing wrong with under armor, but we know under armor is, you know, it's more of a, you know, in my opinion, the way I view under armor, you know what I'm saying? It's more of like a old, older dad type, dad bod type situation. You know, they're about to go work on the Mustang and the garage. That's what I get from Goldberg, bro. I got the Mustang, I'm fixing the baby up. We're about to take a Sunday, fun day drive. Me and the kids, not champion, not ruthless, bad as I was destroying people. No, what? This is dumb.  WWE has once again, they found a way to make a situation even worse. So I'm not even gonna ask you guys, are you guys excited about this match? If there's anybody excited about this match, you must be new to wrestling and you must, maybe you've never seen Goldberg or something like that. There's no, I don't, there shouldn't be anyone excited about this garbage, bro. No, this is hot garbage dog. Drew should not be wasting his time at the Royal Rumble fighting Oldberg.  I'm sorry, if I see someone in the comments talking about, oh, just give it a chance, bro.  Not gonna block you.  That's it, I'm gonna just type SMH, shake in my head and put your part of the problem with WWE as it stands. Because people will accept anything.  I never wanted to see Goldberg and WWE ever again after he pretty much essentially buried Bray Wyatt. What makes you think I wanna see him go against Drew? I'm sorry, that's not gonna sell the Royal Rumble. The Royal Rumble is gonna sell itself. That wasn't, you know what will sell the Royal Rumble better? Roman Reigns versus Kevin Owens. That's what people will wanna see one more time. The Royal Rumble itself, that's what people will wanna see. Can Daniel Bryan win it? That's what people will watch it for.  The literally the WWE Championship match will be an afterthought at the Royal Rumble because Goldberg's involved. I'm done with this, man. Appreciate all the love and support, bro. I'm literally detached. I knew I was gonna be agitated when I watched the clip. I'm agitated because this is dumb. This is dumb. WWE, dumb. They're creative, dumb. Vince McMahon, revolutionary genius at one point. Now just see now, doesn't know when to step down and it definitely is not with the times, bro. It's 2021, bro.  I'm done with it. I love you guys. Road to 40K.