Well, I'm honored to be able to introduce Sarah, because Sarah has a long history in the North Texas Conference. She served at Wesley Rankin for many years and just really expanded its programs and its ministries. Then she came as the urban strategist for the North Texas Conference, and that was under the Vision 2020 campaign, and I personally, my life was forever changed by her as she was the architect of Christ Foundry and had the idea for Christ Foundry and recruited me from the Texas Conference to serve in the North Texas Conference, and I am forever grateful for her work and having confidence in me and recruiting me into that position because my life just has been so blessed through that ministry and ministry in the North Texas Conference, and she is the one that I credit for and that you can blame for. She is now with the Institute for Discipleship and they are entering into a new chapter. Discipleship has blessed millions of lives and it is known worldwide as a means of discipleship and both for personal and in group discipleship, and they are now entering into a new chapter and I saw her at annual conference and she was telling me about it, and so I asked her if she would be willing to come and share with the North Texas Conference in this webinar format, and she has been very gracious with her time and her willingness to come and share with us, and so we thank you and let's welcome our North Texas daughter, Sarah Wilkie. Thank you. Thank you so much. This is exciting.  Okay, I really would love it if, can you all give me just a little show of hands, a knot of heads, have you seen our little two minute video, did you get a chance to go on the website some, okay, so you are in luck because I am going to show it to you right now, it is two minutes, and that way we will all start on the same page, and that will probably be a good thing. I need to, interesting, okay, I bombed out on that already once, Jessica, do I, how do I not show, if I want to show my screen, how do I not show the, well, we are going to try it this way, I am going to show my desktop and then I am going to, do you see the video, or do you see all of us? We see the video. Oh, sweet, we are golden then, here we go. We will encounter with scripture and community, relying on the tools that you use every day. And you have no geographic limits, fill your small group roster with friends, family, fellow church members, and mission partners from across town and around the world. The app is easy to navigate, intuitive, and designed to accommodate busy lifestyles. The Bible is built into the app, and both the daily commentary and the scripture readings can be accessed through text or audio, so you can choose to either read or listen to your assignments. You can answer all your study questions by typing or voice to text, and you can interact with your group all week through embedded discussion questions, a prayer wall, and a message board. Every week your group will gather live on Zoom or in person. The first studies are from the popular disciple series. Chapter one offers a sweeping survey of the Bible in a 24-week fast-track study. Disciple two, also a 24-week fast-track study, offers a deeper dive into four of the most foundational books in the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Luke, and Acts. We invite you to be a trailblazer with this innovative resource. We are especially looking for local church leaders to recruit and form small groups that can fully experience the power of the app. As a beta tester, you'll receive a special introductory price for putting the curriculum and software through its final paces before the official release in 2024. Simply fill out the form at beadecipleapp.com to express your interest. You will receive instructions on how to purchase the study and download the app. Then, look forward to making the Be A Disciple Study App, your destination for transformation. All right, that gets us hopefully a little bit on the same page so that you can have a taste of what we're talking about. We will, we can happily send you information after this call if you'd like, but if you go to beadecipleapp.com, you can watch that video and a lot of others to kind of get you up to speed on what we're about. So where I want to begin today is before we get into questions because some of you will have them, I want to just kind of lay the groundwork because I think there's some really critical pieces of anytime if you're a local church leader, be you a lay leader or a clergy person, you're looking at, well, what am I bringing into the conversation of my community of faith? And so I want to talk about who started this process. I'm one of four children. I'm the youngest of four. My sister, Susan Fuqua, is actually on the call somewhere hiding, but she's here. And we are all, we have two older brothers. They're all a part of this legacy that our parents created when they wrote the Disciple Bible series 35 years ago. They began to work with the United Methodist Publishing House. Well, they launched it in 35 years ago, so they probably started 37, 38 years ago. Diane Boone, I know you've taught this from early, and I think Eric, I know many of you maybe were early, how many of you all have taught or taken Disciple Bible study? Okay, okay, so you know Disciple. Well, let me tell you then, those who don't, we will not leave you out. There's going to be lots of information about Disciple as well. But I wanted to say, our father and the four of us kiddos have, we just decided to not, the church needs, the church needs us. The church needs us to not stop teaching scripture. You know, when I think of scripture, I think scripture was meant to be the plowshare, not the weapon. And it's been weaponized so much, it's time for us to continue to reintroduce it to tilling the ground of discipleship. And that's, that's really what Disciple Bible study is about. A little history, my folks were at a First United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas. My dad had this just passion for Sunday school. He wanted a thousand people in Sunday school. That was his goal in his decade of ministry there was to get a thousand people in Sunday school. And we hit that number. We hit it because of Disciple Bible study, all actually all the things that led to it. And that my folks, my dad went and started asking key laypeople, will you need to start a new Sunday school class? Would you teach it? And the lay, first layman he went to went, oh, big attorney in town. Oh, I can't teach Bible study. I can't teach Sunday school. I don't know the Bible. And you may have experienced that. You go to somebody and say, hey, we need to start a new Sunday school group or Sunday school or a new small group. And folks are skittish because they don't feel confident. And so my folks began an intensive process of saying we have to teach our laity the scripture. We have to teach our laity the scripture. And as a part of that, we have to teach people how to read scripture. How do you challenge scripture, question scripture, interpret scripture? How do you work in that world of study? And so that's where Disciple Bible Study, they then went with the United Bethes publishing house and put it together. When my folks retired, they created the Institute for Discipleship at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. So the three, and that's where our family efforts are. My brother Steve is our oldest sibling, and he leads the Institute. And we have been working to say, OK, how do we bring Disciple Bible Study back into relevance today? And so I credit my sister, Susan. She's a longtime Christian educator. She was on staff at Highland Park. She may, some of you may remember Susan, I know Eric will. But Susan began as a Christian educator working then later in adult Christian education. She was an original trainer for Disciple. So she began to say, wow, these are churches. People are not signing up for a 34 week in-home study anymore. I mean, some of those were two, two and a half hour group meetings every week for 34 weeks. And our culture just doesn't go there now. And so how do we begin to adapt? And Susan took the curriculum and created Disciple Fast Track, which brought it to 24 weeks and shortened each session. Is it the fullness of the 34 week study? Nope. But is Disciple Bible Study a seminary degree? No. We've got to take what we can and do what we can with where we are. And so we continue to take Disciple the content. And we used to tease our parents. People would say, oh, Disciple, it's so wonderful.  You just wrote the manual. You did not write the Bible. And so the Bible hasn't changed, but we have taken the manual and we have brought it forward. And I credit Susan with that as well as Bruce Spurch, who is the professor emeritus at Wesley Theological Seminary and has tremendous credentials in teaching. What do you all see now? Am I still on my screen? I don't need that anymore. I'm sorry. Let me stop sharing. That'd probably be great. Actually, what we were doing is changing it from everyone to where it's just you, where we can all see you. Oh, OK. Do you see me? Yes. But now you're real small. But now we're going to change it where you're focusing and then everyone else we can scroll up and down to see. OK. Well, I just wanted to try and left the video up, because that would be insane. OK. So I just want to delay a little bit of groundwork here. So it's our family, the Institute for Discipleship. The United Methodist Publishing House came on board early. We began these conversations. How do we build an app? How do we put this in the, how do we put this where in something that everyone has access to? And really, everybody has access to a phone, almost to the point that it drives us all insane. But we have it and we need it. And then we wanted to look at a couple of things. And this is the piece that I want to share before we get into Q&A and that sort of thing. This is the concept that's really attracting my attention right now. As a pastor or as a leader in your congregation, we have tried to figure out how do we get people into the church. And we've been measuring Sunday morning attendance major. We add nauseam. And I've said in many meetings where there was a struggle over, how do we, why are we only counting numbers? It was a phase we went through as a denomination where counting numbers was important. I don't know that we're still there. We need to, I think, shift off of that to focusing. And our push will be to say, we really need to see how many people we have in small group. Because we need to get people into transformational small group studies that will make, that will not only transform their personal lives, but will transform the congregation and the community around them. And so this concept of high impact, low visibility, or high visibility, low impact. When you think of the things your church does, we have lots of, we used to have fall festivals, or Halloween trick, trunk, or treat, or big concerts, and wonderful, wonderful high visibility things where we hope people will enter the doors of our church. It doesn't mean they, it doesn't, it means they might just come once a year to that concert or to that festival or to that trunk or treat. What we're hoping is what we believe, not just hoping it, we really believe it and we want to prove it out, is that through small group study, we have an opportunity to have a real, I have preached this so many times and I'm not even a preacher, but Jesus calls us by name. So if I say to you, Jessica, I am starting a small group to study scripture this year. It's a Bible study, it's all online, it's really accessible, we're gonna have one Zoom meeting a week or we're gonna gather once a week at the church or a coffee shop or in my home for an hour and 15 minutes, but I've done them on Zoom and so I'm gonna say it's on Zoom, it's easy, you can wear sweats, no one will know. Would you, Jessica, I'd love to have you in this because it would just make our group so rich to have you in our, versus all y'all come. There's no scripture I've seen where Jesus says all y'all come. Jesus calls us by name and that, I think, is one of the most powerful pieces of the small group is, yes, you wanna tell the whole congregation about it, but we're recruiting at my church right now and I walked up to people Sunday after church and I said, Debbie, I would just, I really think you'd be great in our group and we need you in this, would you think about it? And she said, I can't lead. And I said, no, no, I'm not asking you to lead it. The pastor, in this case, the pastor are gonna lead it cause he's new and he wants to get to know the congregation. Pastors, you don't need to lead this. Get your lay people to lead it. We have training modules in it, we're gonna train them, they can lead this. This isn't another thing a pastor has to put on their plate. You can lead it, but do trust that it can be lady driven so that you can be about other aspects of the ministry of the local church. High visibility, low impact versus low visibility, high impact. Every Sunday after you start these, you're not saying and the disciple group is gonna meet on Tuesday because it's already a built group and it's not a join in late. It's, you want that group to gel and so over the first two or three weeks, you really just want that group to be that group and to gel into that group.  We've done a lot of research in preparation for this. We've really done a deep drill down into small group study, how it's impacting churches. We've done a lot of research into what people are wanting and meeting. We all know that post-pandemic and post just the culture wars and everything else, we know that there are fewer people in our pews. And so instead of beating ourselves up or self-flagellating, perhaps we should say, hey, what gives life back to us as people of faith? Well, the community of faith and to draw people into a small group study allows them to reconnect with that. And then hopefully, and this is what I saw happen in my group that I led last year, there's a place in disciple one where it really kind of convicts you on the need for the community of faith again. And there were at least six women in my study that said, and these were really active lay women. They said, it's been really hard to go back. And but it was kind of a tipping point of, you know what, I do need to go back. Well, so if you can put out all the coffee and donuts in the world, but if I walk in and I don't know anyone, then I'm just, I could go to Dunkin' Donuts. If I think, oh, I wanted to talk to Jane about our conversation in our class on Monday. I wanna get there a little early so I can talk to Jane. Or when I walk in, I see members of my small group that I can connect to. I mean, is this resonating with any of you? And I can't see many of your faces because I mostly see my own, but is this resonating? Are you feeling this? So we are really trying to connect to create a new vehicle. And I'll launch with this too. Our folks and the publishing house, when they created Disciple Bible Study, churches didn't have VCRs yet. Crazy. So churches started buying VCRs because it was the first video driven study that was produced. So that just, you know, so we begin with the VCR and of course went to the DVD. And now it makes perfect sense that today we would take the Disciple Fast Track and adapt it to an app. I wanna talk about the app. Let me ask some questions. I wanna break for a second. I don't wanna lose track but if we have any question around, I see some questions in the chat, anything around just what I've said so far as far as small group, trying to get more high impact, low visibility. Did that resonate for the group? Is that, and remember, I'm a preacher's kid and I'm related to a five clergy in my immediate family. I'm very sympathetic to the life of the local church pastor. It's rough out there. And so anything we can do to support that. But I wanna just do a look around and see, is there anybody who has a pressing question on what we've spoken to or should I jump into the app? Okay, it looks like we're good. Okay, so where do we go from here? We took Disciple Bible Study and we have, first it's Disciple Fast Track. So Susan took Disciple and brought it into Disciple Fast Track. Now we've taken Disciple Fast Track and we've done some things that make it even richer. The app allows you to have interaction.  And then in the traditional, be it Sunday school or small group, you don't see those folks for a week. The app actually gives you access to your group 24 hours a day in the sense that you can post a prayer request, you can send a message, you can be in constant communication. As you read your sections each, as you read your lessons each day, there are discussion threads that run that people are answering. I would get up on Monday morning and I'm sorry, Tuesday morning, we met on Monday nights. I'd get up on Tuesday morning and there'd be this little flurry of the early morning folks who'd read the first day's lesson and already responded to the discussion question. And you'd go, oh, this question's really deep. I have to think about this or you'd quickly weigh in. But it was interesting. Sometimes some of us, it would be, I'd put, I'm gonna have to think about that for a few days and then I'll come back and I would circle back on like Wednesday or Thursday and put my thoughts. And the richness of that interaction throughout the week took it to a whole new level for us. We were, I mean, it was exciting. Or you'd finish a lesson on a Monday night, I just a word about my group. So I had a group that was in four different time zones. We had one member in Australia. And so the only thing we didn't anticipate there was daylight savings. When we changed times, it threw off her world because her world didn't change time. So that messed us up a bit, but that was the only hiccup. We were on East Coast, Central and Mountain Time where the, and then Australia were the four areas of the world that we were in. And so we were at 6.15 on Monday night. We're gonna do it again. We're gonna do Disciple 2, 6.15 on Monday night. I have a few slots open for any women who have already done Disciple 1, come on in. But that allowed us to get in there on Monday night and then on Tuesday morning, start our week again, never losing a beat. And when people would begin it, you'd see the wheels spin. And, oh, I know, okay, sorry, had a little train of thought loss, but I've got it now. Monday night, we ended on time. These, you know, you have people in different circumstances. So you have to end at an hour and 15. And if people wanted to follow up with something, they just put it in the message board. Oh, here's the book I was talking about with my group. Some of you might be interested. It relates to this lesson for whatever reason. And it was awesome. And so I just highly, I can't talk enough about the experience of sharing that daily little thread of connection. Just a little thread, not a lot. I see this question, can the Discipleship app be integrated with our church app in church center? I don't know that. Right now, I would say it's probably just easier to just be another app on your phone. I mean, we all have 1,000 apps on our phone. We're rolling out in beta. We did a test group last year. We had about 50 people going through Disciple in five different groups. But we're probably not at the stage yet to be integrated into other apps. But you will be, as of August 1, you will be able to download it from either Google or Apple stores. And because look, the app is actually a bookstore. It's a small group Christian study bookstore. We are beginning it with Disciple 1 and Disciple 2. But it is basically a small, it's a small group Christian bookstore. And that's the goal of it. I think I'm gonna share, I'll just share this screen for a second with you. The app really just is designed to give everything you need. Are you all seeing that by any chance? Yes, okay. We're good. All right, great. The app, so you could integrate it into other apps, but truthfully, this is like going to UMPH, the United States Publishing House or Coax Bear or whatever, and purchasing Disciple Bible study materials. But let me tell you, if you've had to put together your roster and your email addresses and your phone numbers and all of that stuff for something, the beauty of the app is, it collects all of everything for you about your group. You don't have to do that anymore. It gives everybody, be it on their iPad, on their computer, on their cell phone, they have access to all the class materials. You can have members from anywhere in the world. If you have a mission group, if you have a mission partner somewhere, and now they're only in English right now, I'm just gonna say that. We very much hope to go into other languages. It's the actual technology is ready for any language. But we started, obviously we started with English because that's what we have. We are working to hopefully get some grants to help us put it. We'd like to be in Spanish. We'd like to be in Chinese. We're talking with folks who are very interested in working in Africa and trying to determine, well, that's a lot of languages. We'll have to decide where to go in that. But those are, this was not an inexpensive proposition, friends, we have a million dollars in this app already just to throw the dollars out there. This is, every time you add or change anything, it's just technology. So we very much want to be in other languages and we built the platform to receive that, but we're just not there yet. You can read and listen to assignments. So we have audio.  If you're a commuter, if you have a long drive or even, well, it's not even 30 minutes. It's 30 minutes of audio listening a day or so. If you wanna sit and read your own Bible because you love to touch it and because it's sacred and beautiful, that's okay too. I found myself doing both. I found myself listening and reading because I tend to, I have just enough of a distractibility that sometimes it's good to just hold myself accountable and listen and read together. We have everything, the videos are there. We have new videos to help draw people into theological perspectives from around the world. So we have 24 theologians offering a little piece each week that's from a different cultural context which I think is exciting and important. We did all new videos to answer that question. We did not use any of the originals. There's some awesome ones in the originals but they were meant to be seen together and they're much longer. These are five minute. Remember this is Disciple Fast Track. It's really designed for that introductory survey course, Disciple One especially, is really designed to be an introductory survey course that allows people to experience the Bible often for the first time, really at any in depth level. Thank you for these questions, happy to answer them. And we do have a wonderful training in there. We're growing and learning, but we do have a lot of expertise in just the pedagogy, pedagogy, pedagogy of learning through the app and we're putting everything to the test. I'm running fast because I know you think, oh, it's an hour, that's nothing. But I do want to answer questions and I don't see anything else in the chat. So if I'm missing something, please let me know and I will answer that. I can keep telling you about the app as much as you want to hear, but I do want to answer any questions you have. And I don't really see you. So if you have thoughts, I'm even, you can even just speak them if you want to. Oh, here comes the chat. Oh, thanks, Wally. How are you? Let's see what you're... Ah, so, okay, so the link, it should, did you try over the weekend? No, no, no. I've been paying close attention and tried to sign up as you were talking. Oh! I got too far as to clicking on becoming a study leader, but it only opens up a window of a video. It doesn't get me beyond that point. Stay around that. And let's just see what's happening there. When you scroll down, it should bring you to a registration piece.  But what we really, I should just put this out there. We are looking to have 300 leaders this year. We have about a hundred. I have to give credit to my sister. She does have a big church, but she did recruit 23 leaders out of their church. They're gonna go big because I think, I think they have 60% of their congregation worshiping online. They just aren't getting them back in the pews. I don't think that's, they happen to be a big church in Indianapolis. I think that's, I know my church. And let me say a word about my congregation. Because that was one of my passions for this. In 2020, we had a tornado go through Nashville, and I attend a historic, gorgeous, beautiful historic church in East Nashville.  That tornado literally destroyed our church to the point we had to scrape the whole property. Nothing, we saved as much as we could, but basically it was a total loss. It's going to be five years before we are back in a building. Then our pastor, total pastor turned over twice in these last years. So we have new clergy leadership, no building. We're worshiping in an elementary school. We tried other churches that were, we were trying to worship in other churches. And, you know, how sad it is that that just never works. So anyway, here we are in an elementary school, and we are, and then COVID was a month after the tornado, or two weeks after the tornado, we had COVID. So even in these pastor turnovers, we had one pastor that I never even met, because COVID, and by the time we were ready to reenter the world, we'd already turned over again. We desperately need something that draws those folks back. We also had a tremendous amount of gentrification in the neighborhood of our church. And so we had people who, you know, if you had a young family, you could sell your property for a lot and move further out. They want to come back to our church, but they don't live nearby. So getting them to come more than on Sunday morning is really hard. So we're going to start, and I am going to co-lead with my pastor because he said, Sarah, I don't know our congregation yet either. So can I do that with you? I said, well, absolutely. I was trying to take something off your plate, but if getting to know people is on your plate, then you should definitely do this. Pastors, you don't need to do this, but if you are in that boat, then yay, that's great. I mean, there's nothing wrong with pastors leading disciple Bible study. I'm just sensitive to the fact that there's a lot on your plate. So Wally, try the link again. Susan's saying that the button on the top right at the red bar that says register is your friend when you land on the Be A Disciple app site. Oh, choose the app. So does that, are you finding that button, Wally? I'm sorry, I didn't realize that. So I've gotten to that. It says Brow studies is the page that it's opened up. So don't click the thing that says more about the studies. Click the actual study itself, the color of the books, whichever one you want. Well, one and two. Then you're home free. Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. Yay. Let me involve everybody in my. No. Yeah. It's good because. Yeah. Hopefully everybody's going to do that today. And that would be just awesome. I want to, I want to invite you all to help us with something. This is beta. Just to be clear, we're in beta. We have tested it twice. We tested it without being in the app. We tested it in the app. And now we're really, we need, we need 300 groups of people really pushing this. Because this is the best way to do it. For the church to use with lots of small group studies. We're already in conversation with the publishing house and some, and the upper room books to look at. Are there some small group studies we can adapt to the app that are six weeks? Because that's not been a question that was thrown at me, but I've. On this call, but I've gotten it a lot. Well, 24 weeks. Oddly enough. Once people are in the groove. It's any, it's like any other muscle memory. They just go with it. But it is sometimes hard to get people to make that full commitment. And we do want to have some six week studies. But our true goal up front right now with where we are as a denomination. And where we are as a people of faith. Is. We really need to reconnect to the scripture and reconnect to one another. We really need that. Sense of community again. And so 24 weeks is, is a. Wonderful way to jail. My group had I. Had we, if we had it been after we were. 14 weeks in our group would have happily gone the full 34, but they wouldn't have signed up for 34. You know, we're funny as people on what we can and cannot do. And to be honest, there's a, there's six of the women from my group last year. I had 14. Who really can't do it. And they really want to, but they can't do it again this time. But we have eight who are coming back. And. Yes, something like that. And we're ready to go back in now and do disciple two together. So if you. I want to answer any questions you all have, but I do want you to know that we've built out the. Be a disciple app. Dot com space to have FAQs. It introduces the who, the what, the when, the where, the how. The biggest thing that I think. And I think North Texas is going to be a huge piece of this. I think it's the ability to learn this year. What's working. What's not working. How do we make it better? And I mean, you already know, I'm, I love the North Texas conference, but mostly because it's a, it's an innovative conference. It's a conference that's never been afraid to innovate. And it fits in our. Kind of same mindset of, well, let's try it. Let's go for it. Let's go big. And make it work. And then we're going to figure out how do we adapt, adapt it. In the future. What do we do different? Do we, do we need more shorter? Do we need more short studies or wow, should we throw our focus into disciple three, disciple four other long-term studies? I will tell you. We're already working on disciple three. That will roll next year. So we're going to keep with the long-term studies, but we're also in conversation with some short-term studies. What, what. What questions y'all have. You've listened to me for a long time. I want to answer questions. We have a question on the shot here from Richard stored. He was asking about the cost. What is the cost? So it's a, the leader cost is $75 to be the leader. And with that, you get your, that you get the professional zoom account. The potential. So we're going to keep with the long-term studies, but we're also in conversation with some short-term studies. You get the professional zoom account. The participant fee is $45. And with the, the leader, I will say something clergy. Guess what we found out about the professional zoom account. It's, you know, all of our churches have one and they pass it around. Yeah. We were going to do a little bit of that on this. And we found out from zoom that that's really not, you can't really do that. So I'm not going to tell y'all what to do, but in our case, we ended up having to buy, we buy every leader, their own pro zoom account. And hopefully you'll, you'll work that account for leading these, these groups and other groups. I mean, it's no, you can, you can use it beyond the, the, be a disciple. I mean, the disciple Bible class. So that's kind of an added benefit to the leader account, but it allows you to do the breakout groups that are, allows you to set the timer.  It is the greatest thing ever invented because you can say, and our script will tell you this conversation should take 15 minutes and here's the material each breakout group is to cover. And you just put that into the timer and it's telling them and it, and it makes people self monitor their own talk, their own comment, you know, I want to tell a story. Oh, there's only three minutes left. I've already told a story. I should let someone else tell a story. So that those, but those are the pricing structure. This is our beta pricing structure. And, and we really want people to go to be a disciple.com to purchase. Because when the app store does open, you can buy it through the app store, but they, they do a 15% upcharge. And so we're pushing people to go first to be a disciple.com, buy it there. And then you can go in, you'll get the code and you'll go in from there. Yeah. Denise, can a group be only participants without a designated leader? No, you really couldn't. It's, it's, this is a disciple is a very rigorous comprehensive Bible study. You really want a leader who's done their homework first because there is a, there is a leader role. And you really do want to, you do want to follow up with that and stay true to that. I guess my real question was, if you don't need the zoom account, can the leader do a $45 participant account? No, no, because there's a whole nother function for the leader. The leader has different materials, curriculums, things that are helping them be prepared for that meeting. Yeah. I have a question from Monica Fraser. She says, is there a video group meetings component like zoom or is it message board discussion only? I think you answered the question with the, when you talked about having the zoom professional account, but I just want to make sure that, that your question was answered. So the groups can be, if I'm hearing correctly, the groups can be held in two ways. You can have a meeting in your local church or in your home or in a coffee shop. You can do that. If people want to meet live. Great. If your congregation is still at a place where they will gather live and hunger for that, then you, you should definitely do that. Or you would host the meeting on zoom. And, and the benefit of zoom is it allows people to not have to be commuter traffic or, or return, you know, drive across town or it allows you to include people who haven't always been able to be included. You know, if you needed elder care or childcare or, or had an illness, we had people who were able to come on the zoom calls that were under the weather, but they weren't contagious through zoom. And they were able to continue to participate.  Thank you. Yes. I see that. Ouch. So sorry. But is that a, is that a wounded wrist? That's there. Yes. Zoom pro access definitely comes with the leader package. You do not have to purchase anything.  In your app. There's no having to remind people of the code or how to get in. It's a link in the app to your meeting time. There's a reminder of when it meets. Literally everything they need is in the app. And your roster is in the app. They're, they're all their con all their dial in information. There is, I mean, they just click on the join my meeting. And they're in there. All their notes are there. Everything we have tried to make it incredibly accessible. So that I don't know if you know this, but when they did disciple Bible study, they actually sold book bags for people to carry their manual and their Bible and every, did any of you all have those? They, because there was so much to lug around, right? And now it's all here. There's literally nothing that won't be on your iPad or your cell phone or your computer or all three, however you want to do it. Oh, so. If you're reading the chats, you can see my sister weighing in. There is a strong leader training in the app. Along with specific leader guides. A leader does not need to know the Bible. They must be a good facilitator. They, their job is not to answer the questions of the group. And you all know this. Many of you have led disciple a million times. It's, it's better to let the, the group. Think. Wesley, Wesley was all about us using our minds when we read the scripture. And, and so we definitely want, if people learn anything from this, it's that you can question and challenge and learn and, and push it around in your small group. That's the beauty of this. Does the app include the extra resources recommended for outside study in disciple to, and my sister is answering that we have integrated in much of, we have integrated in much of the many of the extra resources. So I guess that's a yes. In many ways. Disciple to. We'll have those resources integrated into them. So we are baiting disciple to as well. Who wrote that. Denise, are you going to lead a disciple to group? I lead groups. We lead groups all the time. And so, but we just haven't done the short course because the old short course. Material wasn't. What are. Participants were looking for. So we're interested in seeing if the new short course material would be a better fit. Well, if you, if you'd like to connect with my sister, Susan, are you going to weigh in? I was just going to say. Yes, that's it. Then a difficult thing. What happened with disciple to is Bruce Birch. Yeah. We took a group through and we, we significantly. Added to the commentary, much of that information and the maps in, but we still, we did not. They do not have all of those resources. So I don't know if your group would be. Excited or not. But what I will to. You is the videos are much, much stronger now and the maps and the, the commentary is so upgraded with today's language and with a lot more contextual information, just a whole lot more. So I guess it'd be something to try with a group and get their opinion. We, we had a lot more. Last year of several pastors in Texas were in my group, believe it or not. And California, I had a nationwide group. And we had terrific responses. So I don't know, but there's nothing wrong with doing any, any of the disciple studies, the, the book, the fast track or this, they still are reading tons of the Bible. People are reading the Bible. And they're discussing in small groups. So. Well, I'm just thrilled y'all updated the videos when, when your classes up spending 10 minutes laughing at what people are wearing instead of the, the content, you know, there's a problem. In the disciple one, the videos. You can go on the website and scroll under about this study and let us know. And you can see the 24 new scholars from all around the world. And we're really trying to make this be much more global. So even the scholarship is more global. The language. And lots more understanding about the context of a patriarchal world. Lots more information on women. And we're really trying to make this be much more global. And we're trying to make this be much more global. Lots more information on women. And just a lot of things that trip people up. And we also, any passages that are really different, difficult in the Bible. Sometimes they were not discussed in disciple one. Or two, they weren't discussed in the group, even though people read it. And that was mostly because when dad wrote it, he was staying to the theme. But we've had so many people say, yeah, but what about this passage? I mean, I think that the passages that are extremely difficult, we have hit straight on. We've had the scholar talk about it. We put a paragraph in, we have a question for discussion. So even though it may vary a little away from the theme, we have made sure that we've really hit it hard. Things like why all the violence in the times of the judges. I mean, we have hit that hard to help give the best understanding there is issues of some of the passages on. Just really trying to help people understand how to read the Bible, how to understand context, the importance of that. And I think most, I think all United Methodist will continue to be very, very happy with the study. I will say that we, we kept true to disciple to where people are led. They are led to the scriptures to read and to each other to think and process. It is still not a question, answer of, it is not a spitback. What do you think it is? Definitely helping people develop their own thoughts, their own theology with each other in a grace filled setting. And that is the power of disciple. And that power has not been changed at all. We've just updated the language, made it more modern to help people today. That's really the main difference. And I just, I want to, I want to answer some of these quick questions that are on the board real fast. You can, there are places on the webpage to preview materials. You can go and look on there. There's a sample session. I think if it isn't up, it's getting up. It's up. So there's a whole, Laura, there's a whole sample session on there. I think it's session for just to kind of give you a complete overview. So if you're looking for a website that you're looking at, you look at a whole session, Wally, that may answer your question as well. You can go to all that trouble, or you can just really dig into the website. And I think you'll see enough to go forward with it. You could do three or four start three or four weeks in, and then start over again. There'd be nothing to keep you from doing that. It's not as hard as we're making it sound. It's really just. It really, it really isn't. It's just that if you're co-leading, you don't need to both sign up with the leadership package. Sarah, that's not true. You do. Oh, well, sorry, sibling moment. Okay. Sorry. I mean, it depends how you're going to co-lead, but there's a whole training module on it in the training. And to co-lead to truly co-lead, you need to both go through training, both have understanding of the whole thing, and then determine how you're going to divide it up. Now, if you don't want to truly co-lead and you want one person to be the caregiver or the attendance taker or kind of your assistant, then that's different. But if you're actually going to both be leaders, you need to fully understand the whole thing. So it's, it's kind of true, Sarah, or kind of not true. It depends how you, if you're going to co-lead to where one of you leads part of it, you've got to both have the leader guide. You got to both know what you're doing. So I think if you're going to co-lead, you've got to have the leader guide. You've got to both know what you're doing. So I guess it depends on what your style of co-leadership is. I would say you can, a lot of this you can shoot us. There's an FAQ on the, on the website, but there's also a place for you to email us questions or you can always email me or Susan anywhere. I will, I'll make sure that my contact information is available to you, but it's, we're happy to answer your questions. Or you can call, there's Susan's email. If you want to go straight to the source of the curriculum developer, Susan Fuquay at yahoo.com. If you want to reach out to me, it's Sarah.Wilke, W-I-L-K-E at s-c-k-a-n-s.edu. And I'll put that up as well. And I guess since we're recording those will be accessible. I'm going to make sure answered all the questions. Keep them coming. You can ask them if you don't have time to type fast enough, because I'm watching our time and I want to honor it. I'm what we, we would ask you to please, if you're, if you're feeling this is useful and valuable, and you go and you look at the website, spread the word. Tell other people about it. And that would be awesome if you could do that. It would make a big difference for us. If more people can contact us. What Bible version was used? Was it the common English version? It's all built around the common English Bible. The publishing house had us do. The common English Bible had us, I mean, the United States publishing house had, had us write the fast track version with the common English Bible. Okay. Thank you. What are your thoughts? I see a message here. Let's. Oh, yeah. Yes. The United Methodist publishing house owns disciple Bible study. So we are working obviously with them and they're supporting us in this. Let's see. Your church can still purchase your, your leader package for you if you'd like.  If you need to, if something happens or if you, I had a situation where I was out of the country. And there was going to be one night when I was in the air and could not fly and lead the group. And I was able to give the host code. I was able to do that. I was able to do that. And have two other people in our group lead that week. I also highly recommend recruiting someone. It doesn't have to be another leader, but someone that will help you manage the. The, just the time. I found doing it alone was really hard. So I enlisted a friend to help. So that one person could be managing the. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the groups and the logistical stuff. While I was taking people through the curriculum, or if you do have a true co-leader, it's lovely to break it up. Cause you like, just right now you've listened to my voice for. An hour. Sarah. One thing that might give people confidence is that we have a very, very gracious return policy. And if people have been in your group. You can still get a refund of everything. So I feel like that should give you a lot of confidence on. And even the leader package, if you don't fill a group and you can, we have, we have ways. You need, you have to have a minimum of six, but if you get six people, but you wish you had a few more, you can make it an open group and you can grab people from all over the country. If you want, that's your choice. You can, they can sign up for your group. At what we're finding at St. Luke's is a lot of people didn't think this way. They didn't think, Oh, I can invite my sister that lives in Oregon to be in our group. I'd love that. Helping people see the bigger picture. Yes, it might just have eight from our congregation in it, but what if it has three or four more? They, that aren't their church has nothing to offer them like this, or they always wanted to do a Bible study with their sister or their sister or their friend.  And you can change that at any time. If you start with a closed group and then you fill it to 13 and you say, I wish I had two more people. Well, you can open it and get two more. If, if people pick your, they, they choose by picking your time. And you're, but you know, you don't know what you're going to get. I don't know what you're going to get, but you don't know that no matter what. Hey, I know it's 230. I'm aware it's now 231. It clicked over. I'm happy to stay around, but I also want to respect that a lot of people signed up for one hour and we need to respect that. Oh, and please, on behalf of me and my sister, I really do appreciate the opportunity to be with people I love and care about and to share this great adventure with you. We are accessible at all times. Please put it out on your social networks. Help people know that this is out there and help us get the word out because it's, it's really good. I think it could be a game changer again. I think this has a chance to make a difference again. So appreciate you so much.


Hi everybody, I Want to make an announcement on the budget The budget I have that was given to me doesn't work the math doesn't work and that Continues to be a real problem because we need our commonwealth to work We need to make sure our schools are funded. We need to make sure there are agricultural extension Organizations and services get the money they need and we need to make sure our local and county governments get the state support They need We need them to get these these funds so that they keep doing what we all want them to do That's what we all need, but this bill 1801 doesn't do that Hb 1801 simply doesn't add up once again the math doesn't work the money it claims to provide Really doesn't exist This budget is not in balance It has the kind of problems that have plagued past budgets here in Harrisburg it under funds medical assistance payments It under funds corrections. It does not restore the funding for reimbursing schools for construction projects They've already undertaken It relies on prior year appropriations that supposedly were not spent It only adds really to the two billion dollar deficit that is looming right ahead of us in July In other words the money just isn't there Democrats in both the Senate and the House have been working together With me for a fiscally sustainable budget. We've been making the point that our budgets really have to balance really That's not a Democratic idea, and it's not a Republican idea. It's just a fact All you have to do is ask our outside ratings agencies who have downgraded our debt five times in the last five years Just ask the people who lend us money lend money to the Commonwealth Who expect a higher rate of interest because our fiscal house is not in order? But all these calls to do the right thing to do the right math here in Harrisburg have gone unheard So I cannot in good conscience sign this bill. I cannot in good conscience attach my name to a budget that simply doesn't add up But to allow us to move on to face the budget challenges of 2016 17 I am going to allow HB 1801 to become law This means that schools will stay open through the end of the year But unless Harrisburg changes its ways, they won't have adequate funds for next year This means that counties will have the money to they need to make it through the end of the year To do provide the services that their citizens want them to provide but unless Harrisburg changes its ways They won't have enough for next year It means that seniors will have the help they need in getting their prescriptions at affordable prices for the rest of this fiscal year But unless Harrisburg changes its ways, they won't be able to count on that for next year So we are now confronted with the challenges of the 2016 17 budget And I am asking the legislature to work with me to do the right thing Let's build a responsible and balanced budget for 2016 and 17 We need to get back to work to create a budget in fiscal year 2016 and 2017 that actually has the money. We all know we need Let's get to work real work to create that budget Let's do the things we all know we need to do to make sure it really adds up Let's not pretend We cannot afford a budget that no one believes is truly balanced We cannot afford a budget that the ratings agencies don't believe We can't have a budget that the independent fiscal office believes has a fiscal deficit And we cannot afford a budget that doesn't provide the things that pennsylvania's need from their government So let's be honest with ourselves and with the people we serve and let's create a responsible budget in 2016 17 and move on


What's going on here, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping 15 boxes for Johnny H. We've got seven 22 tops, clearly authentic baseball, three 22 mosaic choice, and five 22 Donner's optic choice. So good luck here, Johnny. Thanks as always, my men. Let's get right into it. We'll start with, I'll start with mosaic choice. Yeah, that's not bad, Gus. Optic is gonna be, let me take a look really quick. We got optic choice at 110, 110 a box on optic choice. You got three autos in there, shot it like the Liberty, the Freedom, the Eagle parallels. So we'll go with this one first. Start with mosaic, we'll go in it clearly, and we'll end with optic. So we've got three mosaic choice to start us off. We're looking for our peacocks out of here. Variations, all that kind of stuff. Gold, black, golds. Got Luke Williams on the mosaic variation, followed by Nick Allen as well on the variation. Got Silver, Redulfo, Castro. And John Means for the Orioles on the mosaic, just base mosaic. Our autos, we've got Shane Baz, that's not numbered, go into the rays. Shane Baz, as well as Zach Thompson, not numbered for the Pirates on the Rookie Auto. Then we've got Vladimir Guerrero, a senior for the Expos, not numbered on the 2000s All Stars. And Frank Schwindle is gonna be not numbered for the Cubs. We've got mosaic choice at, where's mosaic choice? 120 a box, 120 a box. Again guys, Lincoln Bio, if you're interested, then select Rip On YouTube and you'll be added to the queue. We're looking at about, probably a little under an hour queue right now. Just had Andrew L pick up a box, Origins Blaster. Variations, Mackenzie Gore is gonna be the first one that's going to the Pirates, or Padres. And Hans Kraus for the Phillies, nice one there. We've got Silver Rookie is gonna be Riley Adams. And Mosaic Whitmerefield, auto's coming up next. We've got Jake Myers, nice Rookie Auto not numbered for the Astros, Jake Myers. And then Matt Veerling for the Phillies. Also on the Rookie Auto again, these are not numbered. Nice one here on your exclusives. We've got Seasazuki Rookie not numbered for the Cubs. Take that for sure, there you go Johnny. And Eudarvish, that is not numbered as well for the Padres. All right, last box, Mosaic Choice, and we'll go into some clearly. Do that, we'll do Thomas Sipaki. That's gonna be a choice exclusive. And Max Freed as well on the choice exclusive. Both not numbered. Got Gabriel Arias on your Mosaic variation. And Lars Newt Barr as well on your Mosaic variation. Got Silver Rookie is gonna be Glen Otto. For the, yeah, honestly. We do not dragon. We have an in-person shop in Florida, but we don't sell singles over the internet or over like social media. Also, Heimer Candelaria for the Tigers. Our two autos, we've got Louise Heal for the Inks, from Rolly, and TJ Friedel. Rookie Autographs numbered 57 out of 88 for the Reds. Congrats on that one, Johnny. We're in Apopka, Florida. So like right outside Orlando, about half an hour outside of Orlando. If you look us up on, yeah, top of those. If you look us up on Google, it's 450 Lifeline Circle in Apopka, Florida. That is our address. We're open 11 to six every day. All right, we've got seven boxes of 22. Top's clearly authentic. What do we just got? No. You other East? Uh-oh, that ain't good. Oh, cool way to start it. We got Rhino Ryan Sandberg for the Cubbies. Nice red ink auto there, 56 out of 99. Take that for sure, there you go, Johnny. Nice Hall of Fame hit. Love picking up the Hall of Famers out of this. Do it for box one, we're on to box two now. Sandberg, you got the size of six Sandberg. Yeah, that's a really cool Sandberg. Dan's being to the Cubbies. Cubbs, I know, that's kind of a weird signing to me. Nice one here, Rookie Auto for the Pirates. Hoy Park, three out of 99 on the green. There you go, congrats on that, Johnny. Nice Hoy Park, good low QB of stud. We're in Apopka, Apopka, Florida, outside of Orlando. Nice one here, we got the Wizard Ozzie Smith, 32 out of 50 for the Cardinals. Nice one there, congrats, Johnny. Couple of Hall of Famers coming in now. Yeah, we do Watson. We've got basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, Formula One, Star Wars, what else do we have? Pretty much covered everything, right? We did right there, yeah. Yeah, nice one there. You don't have to watch any more, then. We will be opening some NFL boxes a little bit later on. We're going in Q right now. You've got half power. Oh, that's awesome. I love always making a snotty remark to it, too. That's always fun. We've got, nice one here, Twins Legend, Tori Hunter, 57 out of 75, cool one there.  There you go, nice Tori, 57 out of 75. Yeah, Angel's Legend, where else do they play twins? Feel like Tigers, do you know what Tigers at one point? Yeah, for sure. Definitely play with Maggie. Yeah, yep. Rookie Otto going to the Pirates is going to be Rodolfo Castro. Oh! Nice one there for the Pirates. Argentina. Yeah, Rodolfo Castro's got a really nice say. I agree with that poll. Nice one here. Another Jake Meyers Otto, second one of the break. That's 81 out of 99. On the green, Rookie Otto for the Astros. Congrats on that, John. Nice one there, buddy. And last clearly, and then we'll do our five optic choice as well. Optic choice baseball? Yes, it just came out like a few days ago, I think actually. We've got, nice way to end it. Another Rookie Otto this time for the White Sox, Jake Berger. Jake Berger. Go, go, go. And Mubby, good Mubby. All right, five, 22, Panini Donner's Optic Choice Baseball. Lucky everybody. Who's Argentina's really? Uh, I don't know his name off the top of my head. Thanks, Watson. Send us some gifts. Emiliano Martinez. Gotcha. Yeah, he's in some of the products. He's good, he's a good player. So we've got George Brett, number two 99 for the Royals. We've got Matt Brash, number two 99. What? And Shaz McCormick, nice one there. Eight out of 25 on the Liberty Parallel. Congrats on that, Liberty Parallel's pretty cool. Yeah, exactly, Morgan. It's a pretty solid deal, honestly. Overall, I would say. Silver Yachty, Silver Connor Siebold Rookie. You guys boys, rock fan legend. God, that's gonna be Jose Abreu, number two 99 on the Green, as well as the Aaron Judge, numbered 93 out of 99 on the Green as well. And we're going into autos. First off, we've got Eli Morgan. That is for the Guardians, number 23 out of 88 on the Green. Green Mojo or Green Choice Parallel. Nice one there. Cool one coming up, we've got Purple Choice. It's gonna be Riley Adams, 86 out of 88 for the Nationals. Nice pop on those cards right there. And last one, we've got Rated Prospect, Henry Davis. First overall pick from 21. Congrats on that, Johnny. Nice, Henry Davis. Overall Prospects, I think. Yeah, Henry Davis is awesome. I like that these are all hard to. Yeah, that makes it so much nicer. Ooh, nice one here. We got a Bobby Whit Jr. on the Green to 99. 44 out of 99, there we go, Johnny. Congrats, buddy. Nice one there, nice Bobby Whit. Not super well centered unfortunately, but still a nice card. Got Josiah Gray, rookie to 99. Cody Bellinger to 99. Now a Cub. Charlie Blackman to 99, nice Chuck Nasty. And the Stars and Stripes Parallel is gonna be Manny Machado, number 19 out of 46. Our two Silvers is gonna be Tray Mancini and Kevin Smith. All right, next up we've got Gavin Sheets, first off. Going to the White Sox, 81 out of 88 on the Green Mojo. The Green Choice. We've got Luis Frias, number two 88 on the Green Mojo Auto again. And Purple Mojo, Rated Prospect, South Relic for the Brew Crew, three out of 20, nice one there. On the Green Mojo. All right, to 99, Max Scherzer for the Mets. Mookie Betts for the Dodgers. And Randy Rosarana for the Rays. We've got Diamond Kings, that is number 33 out of 46. Stars and Stripes for Nando Tatis Jr. And Matt Chapman on the Liberty Parallel, number 15 out of 25, nice one there. Grats on that for the Blue Jets. Yeah, exactly what you guys are saying. They're more like, it's pretty common in optic, it's like warping rather than, their cards aren't actually bent, doesn't take off on grading or anything. Got Silver Teosca Hernandez and Silver Lars Newt Barrooky. First Auto, we've got going to the Royals, John Heasley. 70 out of 88 on the Purple Mojo. The Royals. We've got Colton Welker, that's 20 out of 88 for the Rockies. And for the Giants, Camilo Doval, 48 out of 88 on the Green. Grats on that. All right, Johnny, two boxes left, buddy. See if we can get out of here. Got to 99, Giancarlo Stanton. Yanks. Followed by Josiah Gregg. Oh, close, the Nationals. Diamond King, Giancarlo Stanton again to 99. Peter Lanzo to 99 for the Mets. And Shohei Otani on the Stars and Stripes to 46. Or the Liberty, the other one might be Stars and Stripes. Got Silver Glaver Torres, Labor Day. Silver Josiah Gregg. Nice one here is AJ Alexi for the Rangers 19 out of 88. Seth Beer, that is 16 out of 99 for the Diamond Backs. Little bit of a color match there. Very underrated rookie. And not numbered is going to be one, Yepez on the Choice Exclusive Auto for the Cardinals. Rookie on it. And last box, good luck here, Johnny. Yeah, Nick, we'll have case breaks of Triple Threads later on today, starting about 5 p.m. Eastern time. Forest will be live with Top Home Black, Triple Threads, as well as the R, we have a 30 box NFL mixer we do every Sunday. Hello, Doval. Top Marshman to 99. Katal Marte to 99. And Clayton Kershaw to 99. Wilson-Contreras, Green also to 99, 11 out of 99. And Liberty to 46 is gonna be McGill Cabrera for the Tigers. Got Silver, Kyle Schwerver, Tyler McGill. Next up we've got, Green Auto is gonna be Gavin Schietz, numbered 15 out 88. At least he didn't put up three points against the Browns, Marshman, like the Ravens did. That was sad. Next up we've got Blue of Ronzi Contreras, 48 out of 99. Nice one there, Pirates, Rookie Auto. And last auto of the break is going to the Brew Crew. Aaron Ashby, 92 out of 99. That'll do it for your break there, Johnny. Thanks as always for the support, my friend. Do appreciate it. We will get those cards right out to you, buddy.


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And if you're watching live, I'm going to drop the flux checklist into your chat right there so you can check that out too.  It's alphabetized by team and we're going to pause the video when we come back. We're going to see if there's any trades, then we will have the break stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done here in the half case number two here on Thursday the 16th. Thanks everybody for getting in on the action. Appreciate it, appreciate it, appreciate it. Looks the same as the list you saw on the previous screen right there. Let's go. Now remember, I marked all of these boxes too so you know that they're from the same case. I don't think we saw the full capacity insert unless I missed, I don't think I, I don't think I missed it. I don't know if they're guaranteed a case or if they're even more rare than that, but I don't know, something to look out for. This is a really solid product, ladies and gentlemen. So get in on the action. It's at a, a really, I mean, you know, how expensive basketball can get. So this is actually at a pretty friendly price point. For the purposes of the promo, the St. Nick promo that we have going on on jaspeascaserace.com, excellent odds here. Great price, excellent odds. Because remember, we're only randomizing the original, the original list. Carl Anthony Towns, Refractor, Malachi Flynn, Carmelo, and here's the auto. It's a redemption. Any guesses on that? There's an Anthony Edwards bass card, but that actually might be a parallel. I think this color is the, the greenish color is the bass. Anyhow, nice Anthony Edwards. Um, the youngest player to hit 10 threes. I think that was last night. Pretty, pretty amazing stuff. That goes to Jesse and the T Wolves. There's Hamanu Diallo to 99. Terry Rosier, those are not numbered. And we've got a nice Emmanuel, quickly rookie red for the Knicks. That's going to be for Steve Birch. Nobody wants to take a guess on the redemption. All right, well, it's Lamello ball. Rookie autograph influx, Lamello. And that's Josh Schneiderman getting randomized to Charlotte Hornets. Nice. We'll post it notes. Run out, maybe you have to use big post it notes. There you go. Congrats, Josh. Although the chipping team knows where this goes, but just make it easier on them. It did not, Mike. Whenever we do those promo randomized, we'll always do a video for it and post it, but we fell short. That, that big basketball mixer was standing in our way. And unfortunately, that did not get done. All right. There's Mason Jones for the Sixers. These encased cards are kind of cool too. The Titan design. That'll be for Philadelphia. That's going to go to Andrew and the Sixers. But Mike, it's in lieu of that promo not happening since people left money on the table. Well, we, we decided to take that money and then some for our latest promo and even bigger promo. So check out the Saint Nick promo on Jasper's case breaks.com set up by our very own Nick Jasper. The man behind the curtain pulling the strings at Jasper's case breaks.com. Josh, you're just like swimming in like lamellos now. Congrats. If you ever run into a cold street, Josh, just remember moments like this. You want a picture? I mean, you can take a screenshot right here of the redemption. I wonder if that's an inc, I don't think it's in case. They're usually not. The Saban Lee to 75. Just a Marta Rosen. Do you see Davante Graham with that? See Davante Graham with that like 61 foot shot? I think it was Davante Graham. It was John Morant, blew to 99. John Morant for the Gris, of course, Jesse. And then the Saban Lee for the Pistons rookie card for Jesse as well. What does Ben Simmons end up? And your autograph is Larry Nance Jr. Nice. Ultra Violet autograph. Cleveland. This is for you. It goes to Carlos and the Cavs, and that was last fought mojo for Carlos. And a silver, James Weissman. Nice. It's pretty cool. Golden State, Jesse with the Warriors. He's making his way back from injury. Hopefully come back strong. Chimo Kiki Red. And the encased card is a Killian Hayes rookie silver for the Pistons. It's going to go to Jesse. The next box. What's going on? What kind of NBA action do we have? Oh yeah, the Chicago Toronto game was postponed. Been COVID related stuff. At the end of the first, Brooklyn up 39-25 on the Sixers in Brooklyn. Almost at the end of the first half. Pacers up 66-64 on Detroit. And then New York is at Houston. Knicks are at Houston later tonight. Or actually, that game should tip off pretty soon. And Washington is in Phoenix. The Wizards are in Phoenix. All right, next. Oh, Tyrese Halliburton would be pretty nice out of here. Flux insert. It's pretty cool. Here's a Kevin Porter Jr. blue. 63 out of 99. We've got a troposphere, Kelton Johnson. Killian Hayes rookie silver. That's for Detroit. That's going to be for Jesse. Kevin Porter Jr. for the Rockets. Eric Kay. Josh Jackson Red. Another James Weissman. Bam out of bio. Tyrell Terry. Rookie Red. Jaylen Brown Silver. Lamello Ball. Will Barton. And Sean McDermott. Rookie autographs in Flux. I think that's what this is what the uh, that Lamello autograph redemption should look like. This one will go to the Grizzlies. Jesse with the Grizz. There's Lamello's brother Lanzo. I don't think we've seen a parallel for these Lamello rookie cards yet, but maybe we'll find some in the next half of this half case break. And we've got Uduka. Azubuike. Rookie card. A Titan rookie card for the Jazz. Serranyu with the Jazz. Like that Flux sticker that's right there too. Another box. Another basketball news. I think some more Lakers added to the COVID protocol. They got, they've got Isaiah Thomas on a 10-day, on a 10-day deal.  We're going to wear you out. It's 35, 40 minutes a game. Just put up shots. Have fun. Onwards. We've got an Al Horford, 275. It's a cool pattern back there. Got Donovan Mitchell. Pretty good last night. Watch that game. Shea Gilgis Alexander, SGA for OKC. There's Luca Donchich Blue. 6 out of 99. Trying to work his way back from an ankle issue for him. And we've got Lamar Stevens as your Cavs autograph. Cleveland. This is for you. Carlos with Cleveland. The encased card is Sabin Lee. Detroit Pistons. That's going to go to Jesse. Two boxes to go. We've got a little Thursday night football happening tonight as well. That's pregame shows on in the background. Who wins tonight's game? You can vote in our poll that's in the chat right now. Personally, I have a little uh, I have a little interest. I've got a little position on uh, Kansas City minus three. The short road dog or road favorite on a short week. Chargers are a the short home favorite plus three. Currently the poll says the poll has 58 percent going with Kansas City minus three. So feel free to vote. Get your opinion in there. Talk about it in the chat if you want to. We had one person earlier say, Hey, Chiefs easy. Another person say no way. Chiefs are uh, it's a letdown spot for the Chiefs. We'll see what happens. Total is kind of a big number too. Like 54-ish I think on the total. So should be expecting some points. We've got a Garrett Temple 21 out of 25 for the Bulls. Matthew Hedges. Nice little number there. We've got a Dorian Finney Smith 22 out of 49 for Dallas. That'll be for Josh. Kyle Lowry Red SGA. Kyle Lowry, the Reds are not numbered. And the autograph behind AD is Sabin Lee. Detroit Pistons Jesse with Detroit. Nice rookie autograph. A lot of good youngsters on the uh, on that Detroit team. Maybe just a matter of time before it all clicks. You look pretty good. I forgot that too, Gila. I forgot Gila was like, I forgot Josh Gordon was on the Chiefs for the longest time until he scored the other day. We've got Ben Simmons. Where does he end up? The uh, I think the trade deadline is in early February maybe? So we're halfway through December already, so there's not getting closer, inching closer and closer to the trade deadline. Where does he go? All right, that's Andrew Zeller by the way with the Sixers. We'll get that Titan card in case. David thinks Portland. So who, who do you think Portland gives up? Ben Simmons, what Portland, is that what Portland needs? Maybe. There's Tim Hardaway Jr. 24 out of 49 for Dallas. That'll be for Josh. You've got a Devante Graham, 18 out of 25. There's still Charlotte edition here, but yeah, Devante, is it Devante Graham? Yeah, it is this Devante Graham and had a buzzer-beating 61-foot shot to win the game. With like 1.4 seconds left. I'm actually watching the highlight right now on ESPN. And he just heaves it from almost the three-point line on the other side of the court, on the other end. Jacks one up and goes in. Like, I feel like I'm sure he's knocked that down in practice. Just goofing around, but in a game situation at that moment, it's crazy. All right, behind Deandre Hunter, the auto is Xavier Tillman. Rookie autographs in flux for the Grizz. That's going to go to Jesse with the Grizzlies. All right, and the last encased card is going to be Zach Levine. Chicago Bulls, Matthew Hedges with the Bulls. And there you go, gang. That was the second half. That was the nice second half of Panini Flux Basketball, brand new release. There's the Lamello and there's the Anthony Edwards. Just came out yesterday, and this is a St. Nick promo break. And remember, I said at the beginning of the video, we're going to use the original 15 names. So here are the original 15 names right here. Top two. We'll get into the St. Nick promo randomizer. That means you're guaranteed something. I don't know what it's going to be, but you're guaranteed something. So good luck. Check out the full prize list on jaspyscasebreaks.com. Four and a six, 10 times. Top two after 10. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And once more, 10th and final time. Fingers crossed. Good luck. It's, wow, Jesse with both spots. Congrats to you. After 10, you've got both spots.  You're going to win something. You could win the grand prize. Check out the details on jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us, and I'll see you next time for the next St. Nick break. Bye-bye.


вот здесь была пробита мы его дяли под сыма письком напихали маску и бьет вот здесь вот прилетела такая темно надел таким что рядом что вот отсюда бля она летит вот сюда вот наску спел сейчас у нас вот он люк летит брата люк открылся лопатка подперли лопатка подперли это все смысл здесь находиться я не вижу никакого сверху блядь будут скидывать на то стране prepare population for war with russia all civilians may join military reserve units lithуэния is establishing permanent military training centers that will operate nationwide to prepare personnel to serve in the rear during war defense minister lorinas casinos told a total of 27 command headquarters that are due to be fully operational next year will be set up in the major cities of the NATO member countries in an effort to prepare the public to send a deterrent signal to the enemy the official said the Baltic states defense ministry expects such command posts to become a link between the lithuanian armed forces and the citizens who can defend the country with arms in the event of war we are talking about the fact that the public will already know where to go if they want to contribute to the defense of their homes and country casinos explained he further clarified the purpose of these territorial defense units by saying that they will fight against diverse groups protect objects and carry out other tasks the bill submitted to the lithuanian parliament the cimas envisages the command centers having units under their command made up of existing reserve troops riflemen as well as all owners of firearms including hunters according to casinos some 10600 members in civilian reserves around 2000 riflemen and 800 members of the national defense volunteer forces are expected to join the official encouraged the wider public to enlist saying that all civilians may join and that everyone will find their place in the earlier this week germany sent its first military unit to lithuania as part of a plan to have a full armor brigade permanently stationed in the Baltic state it is believed that all this is related to lithuania's preparation for a possible war with russia there are warnings that russia may attack the Baltic countries after ukraine european countries reject calls from ukraine to strengthen air defense financial times european capitals have rejected demands from kiev to send its air defense systems to ukraine after a week of relentless missile and drone bombing by russia that destroyed critical energy plants in the war-torn country as the financial times notes ukraine has long warned that it needs urgent supplies of air defense systems to protect itself from the overwhelming number of russian missiles aimed at the country's energy and heating infrastructure president baladomir zelensky stepped up calls for the transfer of american made patriot batteries criticizing kiev's western partners for turning a blind eye as the capital region witnessed the destruction of its largest power plant kiev is lobbying to send patriot systems to ukraine from poland rumania and spain two sources familiar with the negotiations told the financial times they only need seven but it's difficult one person said european capitals have said they have no plans to send more systems to ukraine arguing they need to preserve defense capabilities germany gave ukraine two patriot systems but made clear that it would not provide more we will not be able to offer any more systems at this time the defense department said this position outraged some representatives of the opposition christian democratic union norbert rutgen a christian democratic union lawmaker and member of the bundestags foreign affairs committee said berlin could provide ukraine with two more patriot systems especially since those lent to poland and slovakia have now been returned ukrain's demands have focused attention on strategic minimum levels of defense capability and whether european nato states will decide to go below their self-imposed minimum level needed to defend their states in order to send equipment to ukraine i would say that any decision to reduce strategic stockpiles is largely in the hands of our defense forces and our armed forces and should always remain confidential finish president alexander stope said this week when asked whether he believed that other countries could send more weapons to ukraine the polish military insists it cannot supply patriot to ukraine while it itself awaits supplies from the united states after washington approved a 15 billion polish order for patriots and related equipment last june


Did y'all hear the news? NBA Live 20 is delayed, which is no surprise to anybody. Usually every year EA Play comes around and EA releases all the big juicy details for all their titles. This year they didn't do that with NBA Live. And then just last week, NBA Live 19 updated their roster, which no sports titles ever do. So everybody at that point was like, alright, the game is done, right? Being canceled is being delayed is definitely not coming out in September. And they were true. I think Operation Sports was the first to break it. They dropped the article, NBA Live 20 delayed until late 2019, as team plans a different approach. Yo, gotta give it to EA and NBA Live. It took them 10 years to decide. It was time for a different approach. And they only gave themselves three months to do it, ladies and gentlemen. Yo, I'm gonna be very, very blunt in this video.  This video is not for you. You might get your feelings hurt. I'm not a delusional fan. I'll play the best product, period. And most of you guys who know me know, I was a live fanboy back in the day. I used to go to school ready to fight if you tried to tell me NBA 2K9 was better than NBA Live 09. We were fighting. But there reached a point, especially around NBA Live 10, where I played 2K's my career and I was like, alright, alright, you got me. You got me. The game is dope, okay? And I switched over. I don't know what it was about the game, but it was magnetic. And it was a lot of people who made that switch. So throughout the 2000s, EA was dominating. They had NBA Street for the first half. NBA Live 06 and 07 was fire. So they were murking the whole genre. They added nowhere to 2K King. EA realized it was time to rethink things. And so we didn't get NBA Elite 11. We didn't get NBA Live 12 or NBA Live 13. Meanwhile, 2K dropped the greatest basketball product of all time, NBA 2K11. So at that point, it didn't matter where your allegiances was. If you were a basketball fan, you were playing 2K. And I'm pretty sure that was the year they had the crew. And yo, that was fire. It was, Adidas Live Run was cool, but the crew was fire, man. So a lot of people had a lot of good memories and a lot of people were switching over. And then came NBA Live 14. They had three years to drop this product. And I was so excited. I originally started this channel to do GTA 5 videos. But when I saw NBA Live and NBA 2K 14, I was so gasped I started to make basketball for you. If it wasn't for Live 14, I would have never started doing 2K on this channel. So that's what I did. I just began to speculate and I was so excited. EA was feeding me all the right information. They came out to E3 and showed off their new Ignite engine, tried to tell us Madden, FIFA and NBA Live are gonna use this new Ignite engine. And when FIFA learned something, all the other games benefit. And I was blown away. This was a game changer, ladies and gentlemen. NBA Live was back. Did y'all see the game? Hahaha! Yo, my brother got NBA Live 14 and came with his PS4. So I played it. Flat out it was the worst basketball product of all time. No exaggeration. You might've thought, So whatever they missed a mark, NBA Live 15 is gonna be better. They had all these years to make the game better, to catch up to what 2K was doing. But instead of catching up, they'd been letting 2K get away. 2K introduced the park mode. They added the MyGM and the My League Online. They 2K beat EA at their own game. Think about that. EA is the king of Ultimate Team. I didn't think in my wildest imagination my team would be destroying Ultimate Team the way it is. So I was like, damn. Every year I came with the excitement enthusiasm that it was gonna be the year. They was gonna come back this year and every year I was left disappointed. Then when they was talking about NBA Live 17 and hyping that game up, I just didn't care anymore. Part of me hoped that it was true and the game was gonna be great, but I was no longer foolishly optimistic about the product.  And that's what it's been for this franchise. It's a failure. Now that's kinda harsh, agent. I know. But let me put this into perspective. Across all platforms, NBA 2K is regularly selling five, six million copies. Meanwhile, NBA Live is selling three, 400,000. Think about this. The year NBA Playground came out, it outperformed the NBA Live that came out that year. So you might've been wondering, all right, what's the issue?  Why are they struggling to compete with 2K? Especially because they used to dominate 2K. What's different? I think what EA thought was that they can put in very little effort and then still take market share away from 2K. They tried all kind of strategies. They tried to deceive people. They tried to make the game on sale for like $4, $3 months into launch. Nothing works. The game is deficient in so many categories and this is, okay, let me get this across. A lot of people will tell me like, but your agent, you ain't even playing NBA Live like that, so how could you know?  I have to play a game for 80 hours to know it's trash? All right, so let's get down to the details. The main thing people don't like is the animations. They just don't look realistic. I don't know what it is that they're doing down at that Dev Studio at EA for NBA Live, but it's just not coming across as natural movement. It looks weird and anybody that sees it for the first time that's not delusional sees that. And so it's like they already have that one big obstacle. The game doesn't look real. And the couple times NBA Live has even invited me out to their events, the developers knew that. I talked to them about that. They're not delusional, so they know it's an issue. They just don't know how to fix it, okay? But let's put aside the animations and talk about the rest. Just in terms of the amount of animations, dunk animations, dribble animations, shooting animations, all of that stuff.   That's how I put it. The story mode for most live games is horrible. I forgot what year it was, but when they were doing that first take Steven A. Smith stuff, I literally almost wanted to break my monitor. The graphics are all right, especially when it comes to the things like shoes. Those look clean. The UI is great. The soundtrack is usually amazing. But for NBA Live, there was just too many holes in the game. There was no park mode. And even the one mode NBA Live should be killing 2K on, which is ultimate team, they're not doing that. Yo, be serious. NBA 2K is doing all the shenanigans of micro transactions and nobody likes it, right? There's all these server issues and bugs and glitches on NBA 2K. And yet nobody wants to go and just even try the other product. What does that say about what you have going on? So there's no if, ands, or buts about it. They need to, as the article says, try a different approach. They should've did that the first year they took off. When they canceled NBA Elite 11, they should've went different direction.  They should've been going in a different direction. NBA Elite 11, if you guys have ever heard of it, it was like they released a demo for it and it was so poorly received they had to cancel the game. But still, you have articles back then saying things like this. Unfortunately, NBA Elite 11 is not ready and we have made a decision to delay it till next month's launch. The decision to delay NBA Elite was hard because the game had great promise? Who are you lying to? Who's buying this stuff? That game had no promise and everyone across the entire genre knew it. If you played the game, you knew it had no hope. That was the one thing you knew, if anything. So while NBA Live should've been moving in a different direction, instead they were focusing on full roster updates for the current year, plus dynamic DNA updates that track players' real-world performance and tendencies. This DLC will be free. God damn, they are so out of touch or they were so out of touch. And then it happened again with NBA Live 17, which was delayed. I don't think this game ever launched. I'm pretty sure it didn't. No, it didn't. EA will double down on the title, pushes release to normal fall timeline, says CEO. But it didn't help that the last installment of NBA Live, NBA Live 16, only sold 8,000 copies in its first week. At this point, I don't even know why the game still exists. I mean, it's good because everybody wants competition, but Jesus, that's a game that's published by EA that has 8,000 copies in the first week. Oh my God. But still, they just trooped through that and for some reason did not change their direction. Until Polygon dropped this article, same things going on with NBA Live 20. Notice a pattern? So you might be wondering, I agent, there's all these problems with the game. What can they do to make it better? Hey, thank you for asking. I have some solutions for you. First of all, holy, why have you guys not done it yet? Release a my part competitor.  What planet are you living in right now? I'm not trying to be rude and disrespectful, but come on now. I don't know if you guys know this, but back in the day, when they used to compete with one another, 2K and NBA Live, anytime one game came up with a good idea, the other game would just copy it. That goes for most genres, when it comes to Battle Royales, when it comes to MOBAs, when it comes to strategic games, et cetera. So I can't fathom for the life of me why EA has not already done something like the park. They need a competitor on their game and that's just obvious. That is the first thing they should start working on. If you're gonna beat 2K, you have to start doing what they do better than them. You need more animations, that's for sure. You need better looking animations. I don't know who's working on the animation team, but you need to like get better people or add people to that team, get better technology, whatever it takes to get your game looking realistic. There was hope a few years ago, I remember, that EA was gonna switch to the Frostbite engine. And I don't know too much about engines and all the technical stuff, but I thought that was a good idea back in the day, but I've been reading articles and it doesn't look like the move whatsoever. Just take a look at what happened to games like Mass Effect when they switched over to the Frostbite engine. So maybe Frostbite isn't the answer. Okay, then what is? Maybe they need a proprietary engine specifically designed for NBA Live. Yeah, but that costs money and takes a lot of time. Two things that EA seems like they're not willing to put into their game. So where do you go? Do you make a better story mode? Maybe my career sells pretty well for 2K, so maybe you just continue working on the story mode and try and sell people on that part of the game. The game just doesn't have nearly as much depth as 2K has. 2K has been sweeping the floor with NBA Live for a whole decade. It's gonna take a lot for them to come back. Honestly, I don't even think it's worth it. I keep trying to tell y'all, I really hope they just go back to make it NBA Street. Those games are dope. Literally every year there is this hope. Disappointment after disappointment caused by EA Sports to rethink its yearly basketball series, but NBA Live 18 seems to be headed in the right direction. Every year they're supposedly headed in the right direction. Jesus, man. And then they have to find a different approach. But no, this time for sure. They're 100% guaranteeing that it's the right direction.  Numbers never lie. And it's a graph of just how meteoric the growth of 2K has been over the last decade. And this is not catching up. This is the opposite of catching up. This is dying. This game is currently dying and they're not doing much to revive it. And I don't even know if I wanna blame the developer. There are some games I look at like NBA 2K or Apex Legends where I say, yo, those developers are talented. They're really good at what they do. They just don't have enough resources, which is sad because the publishers for those companies have a ton of resources. They just don't spend it on the games, whatever. And then there's other titles like NBA Live where I even question whether or not the developers can actually create a good basketball product. And keep in mind, like, I know these are real people I'm talking about. I'm not trying to be disrespectful. I'm just giving my opinion. Yo, that's just disrespectful. To make matters worse, the Switch version of NBA 2K18 sold more than the PlayStation 4 version of NBA. Did you guys see the Switch version of NBA 2K18? Yo, people will do anything to not touch that game. That is sad. Okay, all right, EA. I have a last ditch effort strategy for you, okay? Listen, my consulting fee is free. My guys, you can use this. You and you had to pay me one bit. Spend the next two years creating a new engine. And that engine should be proprietary. It should be designed specifically for NBA Live. That's if you're serious about the game. Meanwhile, release your game free to play. Drop it. Stop doing yearly releases. Stop trying to play with 2K. You can't do it, you try. Release your game one time. Call it NBA Live online.  Maybe they won't like it, but it's free. You can't get mad at a free game. Then over time, as you make updates to the game, people will be like, huh, this game's not so bad. Maybe it's improving. And then when you're in like two to three years, when you guys are done making all the improvements that you need and you've spent those resources to make sure that NBA Live can be that game, then you could release the published version, the final version. This is no beta and make it $60. Or just release it free to play and just won't lab around. That is free strategic analysis right here you got from me. And you don't even have to pay me for that. That is free. There's a lot y'all have to do for that game. And it almost seems insurmountable at this point because back in NBA Live 14, maybe you guys stood a chance. But yo, 2K is running away with it, man. But at the end of the day, it's EA. They have money and they make a ton of money. So if they once, they could really make something happen. Or of course, you guys could just make an NBA Street game. And I would buy it. I would literally be your first customer. I'm just saying, man. Maybe you guys just can't compete with 2K on sim. What's the point of trying? Maybe it's not worth the effort and the time and the resources. Maybe it's just not worth it. So those are my opinions, ladies and gentlemen. I think that NBA Live 20 is going to be canceled. I think that because EA has tried so many different direction, just make it free to play. Just take a shot, man. What's wrong with y'all? You don't want to try something new?  You literally released Apex Legends free to play and that game's been killing it. Now granted, it's actually a good game. But hey, who knows? Maybe people will play a bad game if it's free. You never know, guys. I want this video to come on cost as disrespectful. I've realized over the course of doing these videos, years over years over years, these are people and yo, sometimes they tie their ego to the game because it's their baby. They created this baby. But this is my opinion. You don't have to like it or you don't have to agree with me. But most of it is facts. Hey, if you enjoyed the video, drop a like, subscribe to the channel. I'm hopeful, but am I optimistic? No, because I'm not falling for that trap again. Until EA proves me wrong. I'll catch you guys in the next one.