Hello, welcome everyone. I'm Varun Kataria. I'm the owner of the Turks Inn and Salton Room in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Thank you. We are a restaurant bar nightclub in Bushwick. I'd like to welcome Mayor Eric Adams to our space and to express gratitude for the efforts this administration has made to assist our industry through unprecedented challenges. Hospitality is a hard gig. The hours are long, the margins are thin, and that was before we had to work through a global pandemic. But we do it because we love it. We believe that what we do matters and contributes greatly to the spirit of this city. What would New York be without its restaurants, bars, and clubs? They are our gathering places, our places of work where memories and careers are made. There are safe spaces for misfits and the marginalized communities of this city where so much culture and joy is fostered. Historically, our industry hasn't always had favorable interactions with the machinery of government. So it's incredibly refreshing to see that the challenges we face are recognized by the mayor's office. What we're doing here today is just another example of the support we're getting from the city. This bill written by council members Powers and Brannon cuts back on our liquor license fees. When it comes to reducing the cost of doing business, every little bit helps. Thank you for everything you do on our behalf, and I hope that you continue to have our back. With that, I'd like to introduce Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City. You promised me I was going to have a T-dose and sell some. Okay, all right, all right, we're going to do a toast in a minute.  And you tell me, has there ever been a mayor that enjoyed the nightlife of the city like I have? But when you think about nightlife, don't think about the beautiful club that we saw downstairs. You know, do what I do, go into the kitchen, speak to the dishwasher, the waiter, a waitress, talk to the person behind the bar, talk to the people who are cleaning up after it closes. And you'll understand that our nightlife industry is more than a place that plays good music. It is a place that allows people to have the symphony of possibility in their lives. This is an important industry. The city does not end at 5 p.m. What we do from 9 to 5 helps one population, but what we do from 5 to 2 a.m. helps another population. That's why we're out here. And we look at what these councilmen did in introducing the bill and legislation. It's stated to all New Yorkers, we have everyone's back. This is a financial ecosystem that if we lose one part of it, it's going to impact another part of the ecosystem. And so I thank you for this beautiful space. I'm going to be coming here and hanging out. And I thank you for our partners here that they just get it. And you have an amazing borough president who is just pushing it through, making this borough continue the excitement that it deserves. I sat down with Con Edison's once at a meeting and they stated that after 7 p.m., the electricity drops throughout the entire city, but one borough, it increases. And that's Brooklyn. The electricity goes through the roof. People enjoy this borough so much. This puts real money back in the pockets of those who struggle during a difficult time. It's estimated to be $6.5 million. This was a small piece of legislation. We're going to continue to find ways of empowering our small businesses and our nightlife establishment. That is the order that the commissioner has put in place of what we're doing by removing all of those rules that stopped you from being profitable. We're going to continue to be partners in doing that. And I'm just really happy that this is a time, the administration, that just gets it. And we like to get stuff done. And this great council, these council people right here, they got it done for us. Thank you very much. Hi everyone. City Council Member Keith Powers. First of all, I want to start on the sponsor of the bill. And I want to first of all, and I will agree, it is amazing to have a mayor who understands and recognizes the importance of nightlife, hospitality, restaurants and bars to this city. And I think we should give him another round of applause. And this is not the only thing that he's doing. We've been out there standing in my district in Koreatown talking about removing fines and fees for small businesses all across the city. But this is such an easy and common sense proposal. I always say, why did we not do this sooner? And when I called Council Member Brannon, our finance chair, when we were talking about the budget, and I said, I think we should partner and do this together, we both looked at each other and said, this is so common sense. And yet the bars and the restaurants and the businesses and artisans are going to appreciate that the City of New York and the City Council and the mayor are actually reaching out a hand to them to say, how can we help and how can we use all resources to help you. And the story, my life story is that my dad was a bar owner. My dad owned a bar in Stuyvesantown where everybody went and hung out. And I spent a lot of my young days in that bar. It was my first job as well, was busing tables in that bar and my dad's restaurant after that.  And when you see the City come forward and say, we have some ideas too, I think it is quite, I hope, refreshing to see the City step forward and actually volunteer our services to make their lives better. And this one particularly is just so common sense. We should not be charging small businesses the right to have our liquor license that we as a city don't even issue ourselves. It's so, and you were a state liquor commissioner. I know you appreciate that. We have a duty and a right in this city, particularly at this moment, to be helping out these industries that have been hurt so much during the pandemic. And I want to thank Andrew Ridgey. I want to thank all my friends over here who are doing a lot of advocacy to make sure that their industry has a voice. And our job as elected officials is to listen and to do something about that voice. So on behalf of people like my dad who are out there right now wondering how they're going to pay the bills next month, I want to say thank you to everybody here for advocating for an industry that is New York City. This is New York City. This is what happens the 9 to 5 we get lunch and it's, I go to 4 a.m. sometimes, but I have a little more in me, but the other 9 to 4. But it's so important to us and I really want to say I hope we can continue doing this. I hope we can extend this even further. I think we continue fighting this industry. But on behalf of every New Yorker who's I think appreciating, it's not in here, but we'll appreciate that we're here fighting for these businesses. I say a very big thank you to the mayor and his whole administration for being here today and reminding New Yorkers that we are here to help them. Thanks so much. And I think I am now want to recognize and bring up my partner and our finance chair, Justin Brunham. Thank you. The true story is Keith called me up and said I have an idea that's going to get us free drinks in every bar in the city. I said hit me with it. Let's hear it. You know, I don't think you'll find a politician who doesn't love saying that small businesses are the backbone of the city. It sounds great. Everyone agrees with it. You can't get in trouble saying that. But what does it mean? If you don't back it up with actually helping small businesses, it's just words. It's nothing. Small business are the backbone of the city. All right. Good night, everybody. What is that? Right? It's about what are you doing to actually help small businesses? I was a former, I'm a recovering small business owner. My wife and I owned a business for a long time. I played in bands for 20 years and played in places like this. Now I'm in bed by about 4 p.m. with a hot cup of cocoa. But it's about having a mayor who you can go to with an idea and he goes, that sounds good. Can we do it? Let's do it. It's that easy. That's how it's supposed to be. We need seven years of hearings and figuring out if it's possible. See if it's possible. Can we legally do it? Do we have the jurisdiction as a city to do it? Let's do it. People complain about taxes. The dark secret is that unfortunately the city doesn't control a lot of our own taxes. So we'd love to bring all this stuff down, but we can't do it without Albany's help. We found something here that the city actually controls and we said, what are we doing? Let's get rid of this. It makes no sense. And we're actually, like the mayor said, literally putting money back into the pockets of small business owners that it took a miracle to run a small business before a global pandemic. Now you got to walk on water on a daily basis to survive. So we're doing everything we can. We're putting our money where our mouth is literally and figuratively as a city to make sure that small businesses truly believe that we believe as your local elected officials that you are the backbone of this city. So we're really, really happy to be here today. I now want to call up our Brooklyn Borough President. He's still the Borough President for Bay Ridge as well. We're checking the charter. The Brooklyn Borough President, Antonio Reynoso. All right. Thank you so much. That's the number 10 most powerful Brooklynite according to city and state. So you're around a lot of power here today. So first and foremost, I just want to say welcome to everyone to the center of the universe that is Brooklyn, New York, which is the most important thing. And I keep telling, I always tell the mayor, he doesn't need to say that anymore. So I'll say it for him. He called me the other day and said, hey, you got to say a little more when I'm around. I was like, I got you, Eric. Don't even worry about it. But it's true. Look, the nightlife in this city employs hundreds of thousands of people that otherwise are in the shadows. They're behind the bars, in the kitchens, washing dishes, all jobs that I've done except cooking, washing dishes, busing tables, and tending bar to people in the city of New York. It's been a tough two and a half years. People are dying to get out. These businesses need people to get out. And we should be doing everything in our power to make it as easy as possible for them to do well. That's what we should be doing. I push forward the outdoor dining bill to do just that. To have that conversation, the governor made it so that we can do to go drinks. The mayor is now eliminating the fee for liquor licenses. This is what businesses have been telling us for decades. There's a bunch of nonsense in our code, in our laws, that we could just turn around overnight and help small businesses. But we never do it. But every candidate runs and says they'll do something. And then it goes in deaf ears. And then we've got to wait another eight years for the next candidate to tell us the same thing. Well, this mayor said the buck stops with him. He's going to do it. And it's mostly because he likes hanging out a lot. That's what it is. And he needs to make sure that he walks around and gets us at least a dollar off of these drinks. You know what I mean? No, but I do want to say that. I think it's important that people understand that every bit counts. This business gets to invest an extra $250, $300, $400, $500 to do something else, to pay his workers more, to fix a back of a bar, to fix an electrical issue, to deal with a speaker system. It all matters. It all adds up. And I'm happy to be here in Brooklyn supporting our mayor for thinking these things through and also actually getting stuff done. It's important that we know, yes. Councilmember Brandon said it. It's true. We have studies for everything. I'm surprised we didn't put this through a study for seven years. And he said, why do we need to study this? Everybody knows it's practical. It makes sense. Let's get it done. This mayor doesn't tie anything up. He just does it. And I really appreciate that. And I'm glad he's back in Brooklyn, his home space, doing the best he can. And I'm excited to come back here. This is, I've been here before. I love this place. If you know anything, take time to hear the story of this owner and what they did to make this space special. And what makes New York special is because they do things like this. So thank you so much. Don't forget to spread love. It's the Brooklyn way. Thank you. And now I'll call up Andrew. Come on, Andrew. Thank you. So nightlife. I mean, this is some of the stylist nightlife people right here. Andrew Ridgid, the New York City Hospitality Alliance. It's made me 17 or 18 years. I've been fighting on behalf of restaurants and nightlife. And through most of those years, it was hosting press conferences, fighting about government against them, what we didn't like, what we didn't want to see. I think in the past six months, we've probably done 17 press conferences about what can we do to help small business, help our restaurants, help our nightlife. And the borough president was spot on. You hear the story about how this restaurant, the nightclub, the whole business exists, what they did. You see people like Megan Joanne here that have just especially throughout the pandemic fought tooth and nail for the future and survival of the industry. Because we know our city never recovers unless our nightlife, our restaurants, our hospitality is at the core of the recovery. And talking about communication with government, people are asking, what do we do? Council Member Powers, Brannon, the Adams Administration, what can we do? We're talking about the big picture issues. Yes, outdoor dining, streamlining the permitting licensing process. But when you speak with small business owners, they'll give you a long list of small items that are not insignificant, but they're very important.  I was talking with Max Bookman over here who works with a lot of restaurants and bars and saying how many times they get someone a liquor license. And all of a sudden they get a bill in the mail for hundreds of dollars saying, I thought I already paid my liquor license fee to the state. Why am I getting this taxes surcharge from the city on top of that? The privilege of employing people in the city, of paying taxes in the city, having an incredible business in the city of New York, it didn't make sense. And it's amazing to have leadership like the council members, like the mayor, who are standing up, eliminating this surcharge, suspending it, working on so many different issues to make sure that we're not only just thinking about the normal nine to five, right? But also the five to nine. Because there's a lot of people in this city that impact. So I want to thank you all. Glad you're all here. And let's keep going, right? Because what are you, get stuff done? I don't know who I'm introducing.


Live from New York City, it's theCUBE. Covering Lenovo Transform 2.0, brought to you by Lenovo. Welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of Lenovo Transform. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman. We've got two guests on the show right now. We've got Nash Hussein, the CEO of Cloudistics, and we're welcoming back Rod Lappin, who is the Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing here at Lenovo. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Great to be here. Nice to meet you. Rod, why are you so lazy at the show? MC in the show, on theCUBE twice. I know, it's been an exciting day, hasn't it? I've actually done a few meetings between I saw you last time as well. So, I think I'm living on two and a half hours sleep last night, and I'm running hot. So, I'm looking forward to a drink at the end of the day. A well-deserved drink. Sleep fast, sleep fast. Exactly. So, I want to start with you, Nash. Tell our viewers a little bit about Cloudistics. It's based in Reston, Virginia. What do you do? Yeah, so we build a private cloud with a premium experience. We founded the company in 2013 on the idea of simplifying infrastructures. In our previous world, we actually lived the problem. So, in our previous company, we actually took Amazon as an analog and tried to move our QA resources to Amazon to simplify it, because we were tired of managing complex infrastructure. So, as a company of 500 people in a software development company, we wanted to simplify our world. So, we went to Amazon, we spent three months or so developing code to implement QA. Great, real simple. You don't have to worry about hardware at all. It's a great value proposition. All of a sudden, we started to implement this thing. Month after month one, it was 100,000 bucks. After month two, it was 150,000 a month. After month three, we're creating the 200,000 a month in fees to run Amazon, right? While the value proposition is all about simplicity is awesome, the problem is very, very expensive. So, as a company of 500, like I said, we had to figure out what to do next. So, I spoke to my CTO and I said, how can we solve this problem? So, he said, okay, I can bring the infrastructure back on-prem. Great. So, he priced that out. It costs less than one month of OPEX in Amazon. So, we did. And then we had a problem where, okay, now we need software to run on it to make it work. We needed a virtualization platform. So, he looked at what was out there and the cost for at the time in 2012, 2011, it was a million dollars in virtualization software. So, we can't do this, right? It just were too small. We don't have the funds to do that. So, we decided at that point, we're going to found a company to go solve that problem and democratize IT, to give companies of any size the ability to implement cloud computing behind the firewall at an affordable price. And you call it composable cloud. We do. So, when we looked at the market at that point, there was different types of technologies out there and there was things called hyper-converged and traditional converged infrastructure. And what we did is we took a page out of how the public cloud operated. And the way the public cloud operates is they have composable resources. So, you can scale resources independently. So, I can scale network separate from compute, separate from storage. And that's a big deal when you're running a cloud because you have to worry about economics. So, when we architected the product, we started there. So, we started with this scalable architecture that's composable so companies grow as they need to grow. So, they don't have to tie resources together, right? So, there's no resource drift we call it. So, it's independent scaling and that's one of the big differentiators in our platform. So, Rod, why don't you help bring in some of the, your customer views that you hear on this. I know, I'm sorry, but I smirk a little bit when I hear we're going to simplify things. Because in my career, I've talked to lots of companies and everybody, we always have the goal to be simple. But, oh wait, I need to change this a little bit and I need this other thing and, oh wait, I've got this Lenovo product but oh, you've got this other product that's good and how do I manage all of these and cloud is supposed to be just an easy button and low cost and everything. It's helped but it's also added new silos and new things that I have to now get my arms around. So, maybe set up for why the OEM relationship and what you hear from customers. Yeah, to Naj's point, firstly, I think the cloudistic solution is really unique and it's very compelling. Actually, it's a very compelling offering. Firstly, because under one management set that they've got, you can basically run storage, compute as well as networking, sitting over the top of the hypervisor on-prem to his point. To Naj's point, you're at like 50% of the cost of a normal cloud infrastructure that you'd be going out into the market for and still have the management suite sitting up in the cloud that they obviously manage for you and that's very cool but one of the other things that's very cool about the cloudistic's offering is you can scale up and scale out depending on customer's requirements. So, once you've got yourself in this composable cloud model and you're actually running with cloudistic, instead of saying, okay, my business is growing, now it's getting bigger, I have to pay this much for an extra amount of X, whatever it might be, if you want more compute, you can add more compute. If you want more storage, you can add more storage. You can actually add the components of the cloud that you require based on the consumption that your business is actually running to and that's one of the very, very compelling events that the cloudistic's offering actually has. It's composable and customizable. Yeah, and very simple. One of the key tenants of the platform is making this thing really, really simple. So, when we designed the product, when we started, we started with the application first because at the end of the day that's what you're trying to run.  So, we focused everything on making them really simple to deploy, making the hardware invisible, automating all the updates so you don't never have to see hardware. And all you can focus on is delivering your services. I want you to get really specific for a second here because many of the things I hear it, I think, oh, it reminds me of what the companies that do hyperconverge say they're doing. Simplicity in the enterprise, easy to manage, things like that. Is this a software offering? Is there hardware involved? How does this all go together? Is this a management suite that ties into what I have? It's a great question. Make sure I understand. Yeah, so it's a completely integrated hardware software platform. So think of it like your iPhone. When you buy an iPhone, it's hardware software beautifully integrated. Better all of fun, by the way. Yeah. Okay, better all of fun. But it's a phone that's integrated with hardware software.  It's a beautiful experience. So we took that as an analog for our platform. So literally, it's completely plug and play cloud. You roll it in, plug it into your network, go to our marketplace, log in, download apps and start running them. You can run containers, you can run Docker, you can run Windows SQL. All those apps are available for you to run with a click. So businesses now can be much more agile, right? Because now they're worried about delivering services not messing with multi-solid hardware, right? So now generalists now can manage this platform. DevOps can manage this platform, just like the public found. And so to make the setup really simple, in our OEM agreement, what we're doing is we're taking the Think Agile solution, which is our pre-configured preset rackable solution. So compute, storage and networking all in one solution. At factory, we're setting it up with all of the cloudistic structure that we need to set it out and basically ship it on site for customers. They only need two plugs, right? They need plugs for the network and a plug for power and basically it's ready to go. It's amazing. Roy, can you help it? So we were just talking to you about the big news with NetApp. You've got no OEM relationship with Nutanix. How does this fit in the portfolio? What are the customer kind of pain points as to when Lenovo would lead with this? Yeah, I think that's a fair question, Stuart. I think if you have a look at what our go-to-market strategies in the hyper-converged space is largely guided by customer demand. So basically a customer demand point will go in and we'll obviously lead with our customers and understand what are the pain points they actually have in their environment because many customers have got different environments, right?  The reality is everyone's got so many different clouds in their environment. They've got so many different environments set up. You know, whether it's the Adobe cloud in marketing or AWS or whatever it might be, you've got to manage all these different environments. So it sort of is dependent purely on what the customer's environment is as to where we actually go. Now, from our perspective, this is a brand new relationship. It's only six months old. We are setting up dedicated people specifically to sell this with Cloudistics and I feel like it's got a really good future. We've got to get this business growing and I think we've got to be talking to more customers about it. Yeah, yeah. So who is your sweet spot? You said that the impetus of starting this company was that companies of any size could be able to do these things and act more agilely, as you said. So who's your sweet spot? What's your target? Yeah, so we target medium-sized enterprises. So, you know, 500 employees to 5,000. Kind of in that range is our initial target. And we drive into applications like Windows SQL applications. Applications that rely on performance potentially or even general-purpose workloads where they just want to simplify management of the stack. And as Rod was saying, the management of the platform is pretty unique in the fact that that's in the cloud, the management of the platform's in the cloud. So it makes it very simple to manage. So from one central spot, I can manage my multiple stacks throughout my company and it makes it very easy to deploy applications and manage everything. Do you have any specific examples of sort of the pain points that you've helped solve? Yeah, so in our case, it was really around drive and simplicity. So in many companies, many medium-sized companies, they struggle with the complexity of multi-tiered infrastructure. So I have to have a VM or a virtualization expert. I have to have a storage expert. I have to have a network expert. Then I have to have an app expert as well. And I got to make all those people have to work together. So businesses now are trying to be more agile to push applications out the door so they can run their business. So by all those interdependencies, it creates a lot of complexity. So we've cut out all that and we've created a platform where you don't need all those interdependencies. It's done for you. So it's literally plug and play. So businesses get right to their work of deploying applications. So there are a number of things that we've looked at from a research standpoint at Wikibon as to what makes a private cloud and a lot of it is kind of measuring the bar against the public cloud. And you said simplicity, absolutely a good one. One of the ones that, you know, we're starting to see some movement in the private cloud is starting to go to more OPEX or as a service office. Actually was walking through the show floor and talking to the Lenovo people doing that. Is that part of the discussion today? And maybe talk about how that fits. The platform is fully multi-tenanted, for example. So we took a page out of the public cloud where if you go into any public cloud you can create yourself a virtual data center. And then within that virtual data center you can deploy your applications. With our platform you can do the same. So you can have a pool of resources. We have extracted everything to pool. RAM, cores and storage is all you need. You can allocate those to your constituents, your customers, your departments. And they have a completely multi-tenanted, fully secured environment to work under without impacting anybody else. And with our core technology around networking we've completely isolated it at the layer three networking layer to make sure that it's highly secure within that box. Okay, so I understood. So they can almost be like a service provider themselves. Yes.  Very interesting, yes. So the platform is elastic in a sense where you can plug and play resources. So you can add memory, you can add cores, you can add storage, you can add network on demand and jack it in and scale the resources. We are working on coming out in a future period hybrid where you can burst and scale into public clouds which is a big deal, right? Because we have very unique layer three networking technology we can eventually stretch those networks into some other cloud which is very interesting. So that means that our Lenovo customers can then burst into on demand on a monthly payroll system into the public cloud as necessary. So that's a future thing we're working on. And to your points, you know, as a service stuff you heard today obviously when we had a little bit of a keynote up there Kirk hinted at the fact that we're trying to drive an as a service solution around on the hardware which would really match in perfectly with the cloudistic solution that Naj was just talking about. We're really, really close to this. I would have loved to have been able to announce today but we've got a few other things going on. So we will come forward with a market with an as a service, a fully metering as a service solution that we think is very compelling in market to match up with the cloudistic offering very, very shortly actually. It's fun. How are you getting the word out? We already know you need to increase your budget. That was our last guest who said that. Exactly. So Naj and I were on our phone call about this just this week. We need to get out the word out a lot more aggressively, a lot more compelling than we are today. So we have dedicated resources now in Western Europe and North America. We're about to expand our dedicated resources into China and Asia Pacific and then down into Latin America.  Then we're going to have to drive into a marketing campaign of some description. So we can actually start to drive a more compelling story to market so they actually get to know what Naj's company's developed because once again, it's really compelling. Right, great. Well, Naj, Rod, thanks so much for coming on the show. It was great having you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman. We will have more from Lenovo Transform and the Cube's live coverage in just a little bit.


Praise to Lord and Shalom everyone. Thank you Paul, Lyndon, Subashish and Zaluttholi for joining class this morning. We'll begin. Can I ask Lyndon to lead us in prayer please? Lyndon, can you lead us in prayer please? Okay, Subashish, thank you. Yes. Loving Father, once again Lord, we thank you so much for this beautiful morning. Lord, thank you for adding one more day in our live Lord. Thank you for bringing us together, Lord, to know your word and to Lord work in your truth, Lord. I ask your presence in midst of us, Lord, and I ask, Lord, you lead a faster Lord as you will be teaching us, Lord. Holy Spirit, I pray that you bless her Lord annoying with your power and bless us that Lord will have a good network connection and I pray for all that you once Lord will be attending and bless them. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you Subashish. So last Friday we began studying Titus chapter 3 and in Titus chapter 3 Paul admonishes or encourages, tells Titus that the church or the believers in the churches at Crete have to be obedient to the governing authorities. And that is in verses 1 and 2 and then in verses 3 following right up to verse 8 Paul lists seven characteristics of unbelievers and then Paul goes on to mention in verses 4 and below the basis of our salvation. So he says what is the basis of our salvation is God's kindness, his love and mercy. And then he goes on to talk about the effects of our salvation, which is regeneration and renewal. And verse 7 he also talks about another effect of our salvation, which is justification. And then he presents the means for our salvation and he says the means for our salvation is to the power of the Holy Spirit that is at work through Jesus Christ. So the power of the Holy Spirit through the work of Jesus Christ. So we'll move on to verses 9 following of chapter 3 of Titus. So can somebody please read verses 9 to 11 that Paul is writing about rejecting false controversies. So can one of you please read Titus chapter 3 verses 9 to 11 please. But our voice fully disputes, geniolosis, contentions and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and useless. The rejects a divisive man after the first and second admonition. Knowing that such a person is worked and sinning, being self-condemned. Amen. Thank you Spashis. So in verse 9 Paul begins by writing says, but avoid. So the but introduces the readers to the contrast between what is important, that is what is the priority and what must be avoided. Not only because it is useless, but because also it is very dangerous to one's spiritual life or to one's faith in Christ Jesus. And then he says avoid.  So like he wrote to Timothy as well in first and second Timothy, here again he is writing to Titus and to the believers at Crete and he's telling them, you know, avoid, try to avoid, do your best to avoid, you know, useless discussions. And he mentions foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions and strivings about the law. Now, these four basically describe together, you know, the nature of what Titus or the Cretans and all believers may face.  You know, with their false disputes, contentions, strivings about the word of God, and in Paul's time it was about the law and also about the Old Testament genealogies. So what are these foolish disputes? Paul describes controversies as foolish because, you know, no matter how brilliant the presentation is or how scholarly these false teachers may appear, you know, the stress seems to be on an exchange of words rather than just genuine search of truth. So if somebody is genuinely searching for truth, then yes, we can, you know, discuss with them, we can present the truths of the gospel. But if somebody is just looking for exchange of words rather than searching for the truth, then, you know, it's important that we avoid such foolish disputes and arguments because they're anyway not interested in the truth. They're anyway not going to heed the gospel, the truth in the scripture. So there's no point talking to them because they're just interested in words. So Paul is saying, you know, don't spend time in these useless, unprofitable discussions with the faith and which is not, you know, useful and productive for one's faith or for one's Christian living. Now these, the words genealogies and disputes about the law point to us more precisely the nature and the source of these foolish arguments and empty discussions. So it's basically, you know, these foolish discussions about these genealogies and disputes about the law, which is kind of fictious additions that were added by a few Jews to the existing genealogies in the Old Testament or to the Old Testament saints. So he's saying, hey, this is really, you know, not profitable. This is useless. So just avoid it totally. Okay. And then he says it's unprofitable and useless, which he refers back to verse eight in the same chapter three where Paul instructed Titus to speak confidently about the truth of the gospel. So Paul's standard is whether, you know, a matter is worth debating is does it relate to the gospel? Is the conversation genuine? Is the person looking out for the truth? Or they are going to heed the truth that you're going to present from scripture? Is it going to lead that person to faith in Christ Jesus? It's going to lead them to godliness. Or is it going to lead them to, you know, godly living and to good deeds? If it's not, then Paul is telling Titus, don't waste your time on this. Okay. Verse 10 and 11, he says, reject a divisive man. So reject means basically avoid them, shun them, you know, just decline them, don't have anything to do with discussing with them.  And he says, have nothing to do with them. Have nothing to do with them means have nothing to do with either warning them, rebuking them, or even having a dialogue or discussion with them. So totally avoid them. Now, don't have any dialogue, discussion. Don't even warn them and rebuked them. Okay. And then he says, a divisive man. A divisive man means a man who causes divisions by his teaching. And he says, you know, reject a divisive man after the first and second admonish it.  And if he continues to disobey, if he continues to hold on to the false teachings and his disputes and his endless genealogies, then he says, have nothing to do with them, you know, just simply leave them to their self, to their own plans. And he says, such a man is warped, warped means twisted, you know, these false teachers turn away from the truth inside out.  So it's inside out what is inside is coming out, and they having a negative impact on the person's life and they themselves are living in sin. Okay. And then he says being self-condemned. So a warped person, a divisive man is basically, all is saying, they're aware of their true spiritual state, you know, the Greek term self-condemnation may also be understood to mean that the twisted teachers are condemned by their own behavior. Okay. So they know that, you know, they're aware of their true spiritual status or their spiritual position. Okay.  Okay. And then Paul goes on to, you know, tell, he's nearing the end of his letter, so he's telling the Cretans and telling Titus to provide for God's people, which he mentions in verses 12 to 14. Before we read verses 12 to 14, any of you have any questions regarding verses 9 to 11? So how does verses 9 to 11 practically apply to us in our present day situation? Would anyone like to throw some light on that? How does verses 9 to 11 of chapter 3, you know, relate to us in our context today? Anyone would like to share? Anyone wants to share? Yeah, there are people we meet. They pretend to know Christ by asking too many questions. Okay. We also have, but they deny the deity of Christ. Yes. They just want to discuss for the sake of discussing just empty words, but they're not really interested in knowing the truth, in believing the truth or being led to the truth. Right? So with such people, you know, don't waste your time.  Anyone else? We have people knocking at our doors in Bangalore City. They have either the Church of Christ, Jehovah Witnesses, different cults, and they come in and, you know, they just want to, you know, discuss, propagate their own teachings. So they are blinded to the truth and they don't want to know the truth and listen to the truth. So it's basically a waste of time. If you are going to really spend time discussing with them because it's going to end, lead to nowhere and end nowhere because they are already blinded by the truth and they don't want to know the truth. You know, if they're looking for the truth, they're searching for the truth, their desires to know the truth, then, you know, we can speak to such people. We have a lot of people who come from New Age philosophies, cult movements who basically endlessly talk and talk and talk, but people who don't want to know the truth and believe the truth and to be led by the truth. So such people are walked in their understanding, their divisive, and like Paul says, you know, just totally avoid them, okay? We'll move on to verses 12 to 14. Can somebody please read verses 12 to 14, please? When I send Artemis to you, O Tychus, be diligent to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey with haste that they may lack nothing. And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs that they may not be unfaithful. Amen. Thank you, Lobega. So here Paul is continuing his discussion about how to maintain good works, and even as he's drawing the end of his letter to Titus, he's talking about his fellow laborers, and we know that usually, you know, it's very characteristic of Paul's letters in his, the ending of his letters. He mentions names of various co-laborers, so we know that Paul did not labor alone. He worked with others, he worked together with a team of people who were, you know, who labored along with him for the cause of Christ, were committed to the cause of Christ into the kingdom of God. And so these verses shows that Paul was somebody who was a very friendly person, who was, you know, into team building and engaging with people, and also somebody who was appreciative of what others were doing to build God's kingdom, which is something that we all must learn. And also very thankful to people who labored along with him is something also that we need to learn. So here he mentions a few significant members of his team. He mentions Artemis. He says, when I send Artemis to you, now this is the only reference of this person, Artemis, that is mentioned here in Titus chapter three. And from his name, we can guess that he's a Gentile. And from the fact that Paul considered him as a worthy replacement for Titus at Crete, we can come to a conclusion that he was somebody who was well established in the ministry. He was a faithful, mature man of God. He was competent. He was also somebody who knew the scriptures very well.  We read about this in 2 Timothy chapter four, verses 10 and 12, and most probably Artemis would have replaced him in Crete. So we see that Artemis was a good, able, capable leader who Paul thought of. Somebody would take the position or the role of Titus at Crete. And then he mentions Taikikis. Taikikis is another faithful Gentile minister and fellow worker with Paul. He was a native of Asia, which is a modern day Western Turkey. He had traveled with Paul, you know, and with him on his third missionary journey. We read about this in Acts chapter 20, verse four. And later he was with Paul during his first Roman imprisonment. We all see that Paul sent the letters to the church at Ephesus and the church at Colosseum at his Ephesians and Colossians with Taikikis, who told those churches about Paul's circumstances. We read about this in Ephesians chapter six, verses 21 and 22, and Colossians chapter four, verse seven and nine. And later we see Paul sent him to Ephesus to relieve Timothy of his responsibilities so that perhaps Timothy could join Paul in Rome before his execution. We read about this in 2 Timothy chapter four, verse 12. And Paul also refers to Taikikis as our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow-born servant in the Lord. Colossians chapter four, verse seven. So we see that Taikikis was a valuable member in Paul's team. Then Paul mentions Zenos, the lawyer, and this is the only reference of Zenos here in the Bible. So his Greek name means he was also a Gentile lawyer, but he was not very well off. Maybe he was poor and that's why Paul asked Taikikis to supply his needs. It may mean that Zenos was a Jewish expert in the Law of Moses or the Mosaic Law. But anyway he was a well-read man. He was also a lawyer, so he was well-established. He set aside his career to accompany Apollos on the Strip. And so Apollos and Zenos probably would have carried the epistle of Titus to Crete and met Titus at Crete. And then we have Apollos. He was a Jew who was from Alexandria, which is the northern part of Egypt. He was a good orator, a man who speaks very well, eloquent orator. He also knew the scriptures very well and that's why he was maybe a good orator. And Acts chapter 18, verses 24 and 25, mentions Apollos as somebody who was very fervent in spirit. We see that when he came to Ephesus where Priscilla and Aquila were there, they took him aside and they taught him about the way of God, the Holy Spirit and all things concerning the Gospel more accurately. And even though he was somebody who was learned, he was a Jew, he knew the Old Testament Law because he was good in the scriptures like Paul, but just willing to listen to this couple, Aquila and Priscilla shows that, you know, he was somebody who was very humble, who had a teachable heart. And also we see that later on he had a powerful ministry amongst the churches at Corinth. And then Paul writes here and says, you know, after he mentions Artemis, Tychicus, Xenus and Apollos, you know, he says, and let our people also learn to maintain good work. So let our people is basically referring to the believers of the church, the Christians at Crete. And then he's saying, you know, let these believers at Crete take the lead to do some good works. What he is talking, what he had mentioned in verse 8, the same chapter. And Paul, you know, tells Tychus that the Christians at Crete must learn to do some good deeds. So he talks about Xenus and Apollos who need financial help in their journey and in their ministry. So he says, here's a good opportunity to put into practice what I have been telling you. So let the Cretans engage in good works that they just bless Apollos and Xenus. And he reminds them of this privilege to bless them with their good deeds. And then verse 15 is the farewell where Paul says, all who are with me greet you, greet those who love us in the faith. So basically all with me is Paul may have been in Macedonia or Akia. And we know that Paul was never alone. So besides Xenus and Apollos who were there to take this letter, Paul was also maybe connected to a church where he was staying and fellowshiping. So here Paul is talking about all of them with him and their greetings and those who love us in the faith. So Paul is talking about the fellow saints in Crete. And then Paul closes his letter by saying, grace be with you all, amen. So Paul closes all of his letters with the dimension of God's grace, which is not just something that, you know, a polite formality that Paul uses. But here the Greek text literally reads the grace be with you all. So the grace is basically the abundant, sustaining, all sufficient, the full grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul was so mindful of this grace because he knows it was this grace that saved him, that reached out down to him, even as he was this angry persecutor, persecuting the churches, the believers, the Christians who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says this grace reached out to him as he was struggling on the road to Damascus and changed his heart. So he was completely someone undeserving of the love, the grace, the favor, the mercy of God. He deserved God's judgment and punishment, but he received his mercy. We also know that God's grace motivated Paul to suffer hardships and go through persecutions for the sake of the Gospel. It motivated him to serve Christ with unstoppable zeal. And we also know that God's grace, as shown on the cross, was Paul's only message that he was preaching out to the people. And God's grace was sufficient to sustain Paul in all his trials and keep him from exalting himself by keeping or exalting the Lord Jesus Christ in everything that he did. So even as he closes with grace be with you all, which expresses not only his affections but his desire for all believers since the grace is so important for our experience and with God, our Savior. And even as we walk our journey in this life, we need his grace. So grace is not only the source of our salvation but it's also the basis of our sanctification. It's also the basis of our foodfulness and also the basis of our reward. So he ends this letter by saying, Grace be with you all, amen. Okay, so this is the end of Paul's letter to Titus. Anyone has any questions, any doubts? Before we move on to the last book that we have to study, it is Philemon. Any questions, doubts? Okay, there are no questions, no doubts. We'll move on to the book of Philemon. So what do you all know about the book of Philemon? Any of you have read the book of Philemon before? Yes, no. Do you have some answers? I have read that book for the last 25 years. Okay. Thank you, Lubega. Anyone else has read the book of Philemon? Nobody was interested in reading the book of Philemon? Okay. Even if you've not read the book of Philemon, can you share some things that come to your mind when you think about this letter that Paul writes? It's just the book of Philemon. Anything you all know? Yes, Lubega? The book of Philemon, we all know that he was a slave, a runaway slave who had runaway. The guy, no, the man, the book was written to Philemon, but it was about a guy they called Onesmas, who was a runaway slave. Philemon was a very rich guy who was staying in the town of Colossi. When he had a sale group, according to these days, we would call it a sale group. He was having a sale group in his house, and he had runaway. And when he ran away, it's possible that he had taken some belongings. The man they called Onesmas had taken some belongings from Philemon, but according to the interpretation, even taking his time because he was a slave, being away from work, that alone is a loss to Philemon. So it is just a short book talking about it pictures. It pictures Christ's master before us about God. That would be the implication or the application of the gospel to that book to me, or to us in the current generation. Let me keep this coming out of my shirt for now. Thank you, Lubega, that was quite a detailed briefing on the book of Philemon. Good, thank you. Anyone else? I'd like to share your thoughts on the book of Philemon. Okay, if not, we will look at the introduction to Philemon. Who do you think wrote this book? The man himself, Paul. Paul, yes. Thank you, Lubega. Paul wrote this letter to Philemon. It's a more personal letter, so we don't call it an epistle, but it's more a personal letter to Philemon. And Paul, who's the author who writes this letter, refers himself three times as Paul here in verses 1, verse 9, and verse 19. Now, the book, the letter of Philemon has only one chapter, so very small and a very short book. So the author is Paul. Let's look at the place of origin and date. This book was, or this letter, sorry, is written from Rome in AD 60 and 61. And Paul wrote the epistles of Colossians and Ephesians, and this letter to Philemon during his first Roman imprisonment. So Paul is writing this from Rome during his first Roman imprisonment, along as he writes the letters of the epistles of the church at Colossia and Ephesus, which is Colossians and Ephesians. Now, how do we know that Paul wrote this letter during his first Roman imprisonment? In this letter to Philemon, Paul clearly mentions in verses 1, verse 9, verse 10, and verse 23. He mentions himself as a prisoner, so it's very clear that he was in imprisonment. And Paul's imprisonment also seems to be from the same location that he writes, that location as we read in Colossians, because the names mentioned in Philemon, chapter 10 and, sorry, verses 10 and 22 and 24, or the names that are mentioned in verses 10 and verses 22 to 24, are the same names that Paul mentions also in Colossians chapter 4, verses 7 to 17. So it becomes clear that, you know, he wrote this at the same time, he wrote the epistle of Colossians to the church at Colossia, and the names of Epiphras, Mark, Aristakis, Archipus, Deimos, Luke, Onissimus, Paul and Timothy, which is mentioned in Colossians chapter 4, verses 7 to 17, is also mentioned in Philemon chapter 1, verses 10 and 22 and 24. We also know that this letter was written during his first Roman imprisonment because in Colossians chapter 4, verses 7 to 9, Tychicus was entrusted to deliver the letter to Philemon and the Colossians of the church at Colossia. So he was accompanied with Onissimus, and this is the same Onissimus that is mentioned also in Philemon. And Paul was under house arrest at Rome, which would have allowed him to, you know, have visitors and also his co-workers, and hence there was this possibility that he could meet Onissimus and lead him to the faith and also mentor him. And Dr. Luke, who wrote the book of Acts, was with Paul in Rome, and details of this are given in the book of Acts. So all this very clearly points out to us that Paul wrote this letter along with the Colossians, the episodes of Colossians and Ephesians during his first Roman imprisonment. Now some scholars debate and say or present their understanding that, you know, Paul wrote this letter from Caesarea, but it's unlikely for these following reasons, just two reasons. It's unlikely that Onissimus was the runaway slave, Phum Colossae would have fled to Caesarea because if he escaped to Caesarea, he would have been easily noticed and caught. And it's unlikely that he would have had access to Paul, like he would have had access to Paul when he was at Rome, because at Rome he was under house arrest and it was, you know, feasible for him to meet visitors and other people to come and visit him. So it's not possible that Paul wrote this letter from Caesarea. Also Paul expects to be released in the near future since he requests Philemon in this letter we read in verse 22 to prepare a place of lodging in his house because he is going to come and visit him. So this probably would not have been the case if Paul was writing at Caesarea where Paul knew that his only appeal would have been to appeal to or his only hope would have been to appeal to Caesar. So it's unlikely that he wrote this letter from Caesarea. Now some understand or some scholars debate and say that Paul wrote this letter from Ephesus but it's not possible because there's no evidence that exists to affirm that Paul was imprisoned in Ephesus and it's unlikely that Onissimus would have fled to Ephesus because it was 100 miles away from Colossae which is a long journey. It's not possible and hence Rome was the only place that he could have gone to because it's closer to Colossae and also it is so highly densely populated that his presence would not be very evident there of a runaway slave. Now who is Onissimus? Onissimus like Rebecca mentioned is the slave of Philemon. How does he come into contact with Paul at Rome is even as he was a slave who ran away from Philemon we know that he had also stolen money like Rebecca said. We read this in verse 18. He had stolen money from his master and runaway and he most probably ran away to Rome because I said he was densely or heavily populated and it was a safe place for him to hide but how does he come into contact with Paul? Two suggested possibilities is how this came about. Now Epaphrys had come from Colossae and he would have come around this time to visit Paul. We read about his visit in Colossians chapter 1 verses 7 and 8 verses 12 and 13 of chapter 4 and when Epaphrys had come to meet Paul at Rome he would have seen and recognized Onissimus because Epaphrys was one of the leaders of the churches at Colossae so he would know Philemon, he would have attended this church that Philemon hosts in his house and he would have known Onissimus and he would have brought him to Paul. Another possible reason that scholars mentioned how Onissimus met Paul was Onissimus may have exhausted all his money and he would have been in a desperate need and maybe he would have been familiar with the name of Paul and in a situation bearing large and looming large over him he would have turned to Paul as a last resort. He would have known Paul because Paul would have visited Colossae stayed at Philemon's house and would have been acquainted with Paul even as he served him known that he was a good man maybe somebody would help him out not send him back to Onissimus or hand him over to the authorities so he goes over to meet Paul. So these are the two possible reasons how Onissimus would have met Paul. Now when Onissimus met Paul Paul took a deep interest in this runaway slave he led Onissimus to accept Christ and then Onissimus becomes very useful for Paul he ministered to Paul while Paul was in house arrest at Rome and Onissimus becomes very dear to Paul that Paul calls him as a son in the faith in verse 10 in this letter and Paul also would have grown very fond of him liked him very much so in verse 13 in the same letter Paul is telling Philemon that he wants to keep Onissimus with him because Onissimus is very useful to him but because Onissimus belongs to Philemon Paul knew that it was his responsibility and it was right on his part to send him back to his master and send him back to Colossae so he sends him back to Colossae with Taikikis who carried the epistle of Colossians along with his letter to Philemon and Paul could have exerted his authority his suppostorship, his acquaintance and taken the advantage and not sent back Onissimus kept him with him because he was very useful for Paul but Paul followed the Roman law the Roman law required that if a runaway slave was found the person had to send the runaway slave back to his master so Paul we see even as he's writing to Taikikis he says submit to authorities obey the authorities in chapter 3 verses 1 and 2 here we see him obeying the authorities even though he had up a hand even though he was in a better position of just keeping back Onissimus and also doing what is right in the Christian fellowship sending back the slave to his master so something beautiful that we can learn from Paul here is even though we might be people who are in great leadership responsibilities elders in the church or maybe you are the head of your home you can use your authority in the right way but also important to be mindful that even as you exercise and use your authority that you are mindful of obeying the law of the land obeying what the law of God says in his book in the scripture keeping to that obeying it and not coming to a place of arrogance and pride and saying I am an elder I am in place of responsibility I can do what I want to do and sometimes I can even step over the law of the land I can step over even what the law of Christian fellowship requires me to do I can do what I want to because I am in authority but we see here and we can learn from Paul that he did what was rightful even though he loved Onissimus he wanted to keep him he was of great use, great help but he does what is right in sending him back so in this letter Paul requests Philemon to receive Onissimus not back as a slave as a beloved brother in the Lord talks about this in verses 10 and 16 and perhaps the hope that Philemon will return to Onissimus to him for ministry in verse 21 now I don't know if you ever thought of this question why would this personal letter of Philemon to a person Philemon, it's not even talking about church administration it's not talking about how to run a church it's not talking about church growth it's not talking about church principles or even how to overcome false teachers just a very personal letter to Philemon about his runaway slave and just accept him and receive him back why would this personal letter to Philemon be in our Bibles any thoughts? any thoughts? Yes, Tobega? it just it pictures what Christ did for us to the Father in heaven for instance we also had wronged God by trespassing his laws dipped their back there in the Garden of Eden through Adam and Christ paid the price just as poster is encased of this man did anything wrong to you put that on my name so it is basically I think that's the major reason to why it appears it pictures what the Christ did for us and is still doing for generations to come Thank you Thank you, Tobega Yes, maybe anyone else has any thoughts you'd like to share Okay, so history tells us scholars tell us that in 8010 the Bishop of Ephesus was a person called Onesimus and they say it could have been the same runaway slave Onesimus so if Onesimus was in his late teens or early 20s when Paul wrote this letter to Philemon he would have been about 70 years old when it was 8010 and this was not an unreasonable age for a bishop in those days so they say that most likely Onesimus would have wanted this letter to be part of the Bible because there are some historical evidences that the letters of Paul were first gathered as a group in the city of Ephesus and it would have been at that time when Onesimus was the Bishop of Ephesus and perhaps Onesimus who first compiled all of Paul's letters ensured or made sure that his letter or his contract of freedom was included in the Bible as well so maybe that's the reason why this letter to Philemon is there in the Bible apart from what Lubega mentioned would have been the guidance of the Holy Spirit any questions, doubts or clarity you would require about introduction to Philemon if there's no questions or clarity that's required we'll move on to study Philemon there's only one chapter so we'll study chapter one can somebody please read verses 1, 2 and 3 please anyone? Paul is the prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother to Philemon our beloved friend and fellow liberal to the beloved Amphia, Archipos our fellow soldier and to the church in your house grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Thank you Subashish so Paul you know beginning this letter to Philemon is very unusual because of all the 13 letters Paul wrote to the churches or individuals in 9 of them he calls himself as an apostle in the opening verses but in this letter along with the the epistle to the church at Philippi that's the Philippians and the third church at Thessalonica which is 1st and 2nd Thessalonians Paul appealed to his readers more as a friend and less as an apostle so all of the 13 letters that Paul wrote you know to the churches or to individuals in 9 of them he calls himself as an apostle but Philippians 1st and 2nd Thessalonians and in this letter he appeals you know to them more out of sympathy and of love more as a friend and less as an apostle so in the very beginning itself when Paul is writing this letter he's telling trying to tell Philemon Philemon I'm not coming here and writing this letter to you in terms of my authority and I'm not exerting my authority to take back on a semester not as a slave but as a beloved brother but I'm writing to you as a dear friend and on that I'm making an appeal of sympathy and of love alone and not on basis of authority we'll come back after the break and we'll continue


Good morning everybody Another new day And we got a weasel. It's been a beautiful week So we've been getting a lot of work done and I plan to get more done today So today when I'm filming this is Thursday, I believe all the days are sort of running together But I believe it's still Thursday, and I leave Sunday. I've made myself available Sunday afternoon Still have no load yet, but my truck is ready. It's done. The window has been fixed I've also asked if they could do something about that smoke smell In the truck and apparently they have this special product that they can put through the air system And it's supposed to take the smell out of there. So that'll help a lot. I appreciate that they did that and For today Thursday Friday Saturday Now I'm gonna be doing some work around the yard here today I'm gonna be trying to get things done around here tomorrow. My dad is coming We're gonna install our back door or at least start installing our back door and Saturday we'll finish it up if we need a little bit of extra time Can't get it all done in one day. I'm hoping we can just get it done one day and then Saturday night will just be sort of doing my laundry getting ready getting packed up Sunday morning will be loading up and Sunday afternoon will be headed to the truck And it's probably gonna be a long trip that we're gone for it's They're probably I have a feeling they're gonna send me out pretty far I'm guessing which is totally cool because I've been home for so so long now that I I need to make some miles I need to make up for this Wasn't really my fault, but they they helped me out a little bit because the part that they Ordered for my truck that was for the window not the window itself, but like a regulator in the door I'm not too sure what that is, but they ordered it and FedEx was supposed to deliver the part apparently FedEx lost the part We haven't been having any looting around our region yet Hopefully it doesn't come it's ridiculous, but so I don't think that the part would have been stolen But for portable prairie to Winnipeg, it's about a 45-minute drive and somewhere in between there the part was lost by FedEx so They helped me out because it wasn't my fault that that happened So that's okay.  It's almost feeling like summer out here already. We got a we got a lot of stuff done And today is no different when we get some stuff done so Let's get to it We go gonna help me get stuff done today man and help me get stuff done So the previous owners here used to have goats. Yes, they used to have goats and This was their goat house in here Wires running down here. Yes, this was The goat house and I want to tear this thing down If I don't tear it down it's gonna fall down itself. So it's uh, we got to get this all cleaned up and all of this Long weeds I want to get these cut down You can see a blue cord running through there yet. I have to get that out of the way so My dad has given me this like walk-behind heavy-duty weed trimmer Which is gonna be great because I'm gonna use that here. I already used it down by our creek yesterday and Get these mowed down lower and then I can look for any debris or anything in here that would hurt the mower So I don't want to damage our new mower One over this stuff here That's sort of my project for today and then over there yet we have Some chicken wire that they had up for their goats that I got to take down It never ends and look at this they got a bale and There's a bale and it just falls apart.  So I Got a tow rope and a pickup truck Since we're working so far got it dislodged anyway Now I just got to figure out where I'm gonna pull it to where would you put an old bale? It's composted pretty much into dirt already. That's why it doesn't want to burn. It's so old It's probably like a decade old Ah Maybe we'll like mulch it up and then we'll till it into our garden one of these days Hey, that'll be a good idea. I think this is freaking out Chevy a little bit Barking over your screen. Yeah, there's something following you dad. Something's following. You don't let it get you So I'm gonna pull it into this open area here and throw it right over there and spread it out Out of the way. I'll just say it out of mind. I don't know what else to do with it We need to pick up when you got these Britt is that work if you've been wondering. She's not home right now That's why I'm out tinkering around in the yard trying to make this a better place Slowly but surely slowly but surely we're making this a much nicer much nicer yard And I'm taking advantage of all this extra time I have at home. So this is where the bale was I got a little bit to clean up here yet Twine and plastic and everything but it's it's a lot better already and I smooth it out and then Hopefully the grass will grow right away and this over here I'm gonna till up after rent a tiller because I don't have one yet But this section right here from where this edge is here a rectangle going that way That's going to be that's gonna be our garden. That's why we're burning all this here I'm gonna mix it up into the soil and it's gonna be really good for the garden At least that's the idea anyways, I mean, we'll see what happens Dad's here We're gonna start installing that back door. I'm gonna get a good start today and I've already got drywall dust all over me. So you can see we've already started Looks like we should be able to get it done tomorrow. Well, but we're gonna get a good start on it today Anyway, so we've got the house and a mess right now And I'm sure the wife is Biting her tongue Here's the door we got it standing upright. There's the master Making sure we don't screw up trying to be any pretending to be one Yeah So at least kind of hold out You never know what you're gonna face you open up the wall here. I need live wires. We shouldn't be live wires. Yeah It's it's pretty Okay, and then they got this behind the drywall. This is why we had no problem mounting our TVs or anything We got this find our drywall Oh, it's not quite far enough. Yeah, I thought maybe could do it up to here. They've had a different window in here at one time or a door This has been an opening here at one point, but now we got to go a little further because the party door is going to reach up to here somewhere Mm-hmm and There's a stud right here. Well, that's good news. Okay, and we can cut it off right here and then just fill it in with two You can put the header back in there And this has backing on here and it should be able to fit in here hoping is that Door again 80 by 60 80 by 60 The opening should be 80 by 60.  This one and this one. No, okay, and then the new header anyway Old houses we have no idea when this house was built But it was probably before the world war, so that's what I'm thinking Most likely yeah before the war So it's been fun. Well kept the people safe. This used to be a school, right? I think I think so this used to be a school Well, they made a strong one up. No one's gonna punch through this wall. Yeah Bank you get through this one So the time is quarter to 11 Time got away from us because the sky stays bright until 1030. It's just starting to get dark northern skies still light though out there But as far as we got dad went home called it a day for today Tomorrow we will continue. I'm gonna take the drywall off all the way to that window over there yet just redo it all why not and Get this door put in here one way or another So glad that my dad knows how to do these things I'm learning so this is a learning experience for me Installing a new door and it's kind of an easy one because there's already a window there So there's already an opening. She's got to make it a little bigger And we're gonna do the same thing in our master bedroom, which is also Under renovations right now, but this is a long-term renovation Back here. This is gonna take a little while longer yet This room sealed off So This is our master bedroom I'm gonna turn this light on here so you guys can see better So this is like I've shown you guys before right This is where the bed was supposed to go but our bed doesn't fit in there And then this was the master ensuite right in the middle of the room for some reason middle of the room And then this was like a makeup area like we're put a mirror in there and you know Life can do her makeup or the man can Look at how good he looks. I don't know. What do we do with me?  Excuse me There you go, is that better sorry it's been dusty this whole time hasn't it Anyway, so we're taking this master ensuite and we're moving it behind that wall there This wall is just it's gonna stay there But I'm just gonna replace the two by fours that we don't have this little mess in there And this wall is gonna come straight through to here and we're putting in a sliding door here and that's the the bathroom In there so it'll have a entryway into our hallway here.  It's there for you Well for us, it's our house. It's there for us It's not why and anyway, I was bringing you in here because I'm learning how to do the door on that Wall out there because we're doing the same thing here We're taking this window out and we're putting a sliding door in here and that Leads out to our front porch So our master bedroom, which our bed will be here, I believe or will it be here? I think it'll be here Yes here, I think Pretty much in line with this window That way and then our closet is going to be in there where the toilet is In the sink and then bed will be here. You'll be able to walk around the bed right here And go Slide open the door and Go sit out on the porch. I've got a lot of things going on A lot of things and that's not even counting all the stuff. I'm doing outside Trying out loud This is why I'm so tired all the time Okay, I just have this blanket hanging here just so that Seals off that room a little bit so any dust that's built up in there while I've been working in there doesn't Freely flow out here. It's gonna look nice. I promise Once it's done Anyways, thanks for watching today everybody. It's been a day at home tomorrow is another day at home We will be continuing with this project and finishing it almost we're not doing the drywall tomorrow We're getting the door put in and it's sealed tomorrow Next time I come home We're gonna do the drywall Can't do everything at once Despite what you may think of me. I don't think that may I'll see you guys tomorrow. Thanks for watching


So this will be the last problem we do today in office hours, so it says Which of the following solutions can act as buffer solutions? And then it gives you these four Okay, so What we're going to Remember about a buffer solution. You guys remember what a buffer solution is from the last lecture I know you all were studying for your exam I'm doing right here, but buffer solution is made up of a weak acid And it's a conjugate base, yeah Okay, so that gives you a clue as to what you need, right? You have to have a weak acid first Okay, and then the conjugate base of that weak acid So already I can cross off two of these, okay, so if I look up here, right? HCl that is not a weak acid. That's a strong acid. Okay, so can this be a buffer? No, it cannot be a buffer this one here Same reasoning sulfuric acid H2SO4 is a strong acid So we can't even though this is the conjugate base This is the conjugate base of that acid We look over here So we've got H2PO4 minus and HPO4 2 minus. That's a weak acid That's the conjugate base of a weak acid. So yes, that could be a buffer solution Okay, what is this one strong acid or weak acid? Do you guys remember how to identify? We cast it right is that its conjugate base? Do you remember how to do it? Cover that up and put a minus It's the conjugate base, okay, so can that be a buffer? Weak acid and it's conjugate base? Good job. Any questions on this one? So you got to know your weak acids and strong acids if you don't know that them And you got to know what your conjugate acid and conjugate bases are. You don't know that you can't do this


Reminder, these are the lucky ones, the ones who got a second chance. Most animals are shown no mercy and are tortured and killed for people's dinner plates. Dairy products, egg products and all meat products are inherently cruel and are the main reason these animals are suffering greatly. Humane versions of these products do not exist. Please think of these innocent souls the next time you purchase any animal product. It's our dollar which puts them in the slaughterhouse. Thank you. Enjoy the video. Who's this? This is Myrna, myrna was born in March, March the 5th. Wait, we should do an introduction, can you tell? You are the owner, the founder, tell everyone your name and what you do here. I'm Billy and I'm the founder of the Retreat Animal Rescue. Wow. How many animals you got here? About 1500. Oh my lord, mercy. Yes. Beautiful. Alright, so who do we have here? We've got Fiona who's Myrna's mummy, so she's rescued at the end of last, well summer last year, was going to, obviously going to go to a slaughterhouse. Pregnant. Okay. Good girl. So we went 100% sure she would be pregnant but then obviously she was. So 16 year old cow, still having young. Wow. So she's suffering from a term, I don't know if you know about cancellation of hope. She's suffering from cancellation of hope because every baby she's ever had has been taken away from her. So she's not maternal at all because she just assumes you're here today or we're here today to take her baby. Princess has never had a baby, is so maternal. Oh wow. Come on Chopper. Hello. Hello darling. Do I get a kiss? Do I get a kiss? Do I get a kiss? Do I get a kiss? Do I get a kiss? Do I get a kiss? Mama. Mama. Mama. Ooh I got a big kiss for you. Mama. Mama. Is that your friend? Is that your friend? Is that your friend? She was a terrible friend. Yeah. Oh, good girl. Man, look. Oh, she's good. Man is a girl, obviously, yeah? Yeah. Man is a good girl. Oh, look. She's like, I want no teeth. Oh, look at her. Oh. There you go. Hello, Ducky. So, Jane, tell you like, in the sanctuary. Pretty good? No, that's not Jane's, but it could be his, like, cute little brother, couldn't it? Got this year's lambs, as well. Hello. Lambs, my favorite. I like it. Want some of my grass? Look, I've got grass. Hello. Hello. Hello, people. What's your t-shirt, say? Scarlet. Not your mom, not your milk? Yes. Who's the milk belong to? The cows. Which one, the baby cows? Baby cows. So, how long haven't you eaten animals for? Since you were little, yeah? Ten years, about ten years. Yeah. Why do you think people shouldn't eat animals? Because they're our friends. They're our friends? It's not nice to eat our friends, is it? Do you love all the animals here? Yeah. You think they've got a nice home here? I don't like the geese because they're scary. The geese are scary? Yeah. Joey. Joey's your favourite animal? Yeah. Who's Joey? Tell everyone who Joey is. I'll show you who Joey is. This one isn't, that one isn't. That's Joey the donkey? Yeah, don't know. Oh, she's got a good name, you know what my name is? Scarlet? Scarlet, do you know what my name is? This is my favourite. Joey the donkey? Doesn't? Yeah. Why is Joey your favourite? Because he just loves me. Okay, here's a good question for you. Why do you think other kids shouldn't eat animals? Because they're our friends. Because they're our friends? Do you think everyone should go vegan? Yeah. When is everyone going to go vegan? Kind of in March. In March? Oh. Are you going to help everyone go vegan? Help all the animals? They'll go vegan on their own. They'll go vegan on their own? Can I give you a kiss? You're my new mate. What have I got for you? You want some? You want some? There you go. This is Joey too. What is there? Joey's been here almost since birth. He was found by poor old mum. He passed away. A woman saved him. Joey, you're so cute. Just like me. He's the best girl in the world. Hello, beautiful. Oh my. You love Parrot? No, he's not sick. Wow. You're going to give her one? You're going to give her one? What's Lara's story? She was saved from a dairy farm because she got a hind hoof missing. Oh, she's missing a hoof. So Farmer Kepital, she was seven months old. Because he was open, she'd be part of the, you know, the replacement herd by a third every year. And the vet came that day and said no, she can't have any more weight. Okay. For Lara, our handyman was there for some work when the vet arrived to shoot her. Sorry, Lara. So the handyman says, no, I know someone that will have her. So we've had her since she's seven months and she's seven years now. So she was a calf about to get shot. Literally that minute. So lucky Lara. Lucky Lara. Here you go, have an apple.  And she come from the dairy industry? The commercial dairy farm. Her disability saved her life really. Oh, darling. Okay, okay, okay. You want some more apples? Oh, yum. Apples are her favourite. Give me a kiss. Give Uncle Joey a kiss. Go on. Give me kisses.  Where her hoof used to be? I nearly got a kiss. See how close that was? She's teasing me. A kiss for a carrot. Kisses? I want a kiss. Oh, I got you. I got you. I know her one weakness is carrots. Of course. My new girlfriend. I've made a lot of girlfriends on this trip. She's giving me love. Can you take a picture? She likes my booty. She can't help it.  Are you maybe just a bullet? Oh, darling. Oh, we're out of credit for that couple. So the next one, Joey. She's pretty gentle, even though she's really strong. You're very gentle. Next minute. Next minute. I was waiting for it. I was waiting for that. Like a big puppy, hey? Like a big dog? Larra's our new friend. They're gentle? They're goats are gentle? Hello, Mr. Goat. How are you? Look at your horns. You like scratches? You like scratches?  Wow, handsome. Oh my God, Jeffrey. You're like the coolest goat ever. These goats are like, so gorgeous, aren't they? Is this a normal size for a goat? Can you film that? That is the coolest thing ever. You're beautiful. I've got a kiss for you. There you go. My face. You notice you pulled the oat down. Yeah, they went mad. Billy's going to go on some ice cream. Billy, what sort of food do you sell in the cafe here? Pretty much. Everything's 100% vegan. Vegan? Why is that important? Well, it's important because people like Bramble Bill. Oh my God, Bramble? It's Bramble Bill. Hello, Bramble. How are you? Oh my. You're handsome. Bill, do you want some ice cream? What are we doing in here? No, I'm alright. £500 a day. Billy, I just want to say it's really touched my heart to see all the animals.  Very selfless individual. Not many people work this hard for animals and this is one man here. Thank you so much. Thank you for visiting. My pleasure, my pleasure. Places like this is over 1,500 animals here. They don't run themselves so any help that you can give will leave a donation linked down below and give generously because it all goes obviously to these beautiful animals. Come and visit. The food is amazing. Thanks, Neil. Go vegan. Why should they go vegan? Because animals are our friends. Yeah. Because we love animals.


interactive. Hope you're all having a great day. Big, big, big day for many of us all over the world in the markets. And I hope you're having a big day as well. Very excited about some of the big news that's happening that we're going to talk about while we're live and interactive this morning. I guess depending on where in the world you are, some of us are in the morning, some of us in the afternoon, some of us are enjoying an evening, depending on where in the world we are. If you guys have any questions, feel free to drop your questions in the chat. We are live and interactive. How you doing, Cody? Cannabis is hot. Cannabis is hot. How you doing, Quinton? Good to see you. MSOs are hot, my friend. And Sabrina. Good afternoon, Sabrina. Good morning, Jacob. Hope you're having a great day. Amjad. How's your day going so far, Amjad? Hello, hello, hello, my friend. It's probably having a nice day. Yes, cannabis stocks are having a nice day. Sproutly having a big day, absolutely. Still long on baby.  Hey, Rich, did you take a look at DPLS Dark Pulse? I didn't, but I'll definitely try to take a look. Good morning from BC here, Beatrice. Hey, good morning, Beatrice. JJ Edwards. How you doing, JJ? No, the stock MSOS. Not familiar with them, but I'll definitely take a look at them. Thank you. Hello, Dave. How you doing, Carol? Hope you guys all having a great day. Big news. Lots of big news today. Markets back after a long weekend in North America. What do I think about BTC touching 100K? I don't even think it's a matter of if at this point. It's just a matter of when. You're doing good. Awesome, my friend. Glad you're having a good day, brother. Mark says, Richie Rich, how you doing? I hope you get solar when I told you about it last year. I didn't, but great pick. It's absolutely on fire. Great pick. Absolutely great pick. Any thoughts on MCUR? Well, I'm a shareholder. I own 10,000 shares and I'm just going to hold for the explosion. Argo blockchain. Yes, Argo blockchain has been a beast. Jeremy says PLTR. I'm getting crushed today, but up overall. Well, as long as you're up overall, that's the most important thing. You're going to have ups and downs in the markets. Is baby still a hold? I think the upside is tremendous for baby. Ferrez says TAT is killing it as predicted. Dylan Fraser, there's the big news. I was waiting for someone to mention it. Hexo just took over Xena. So I am a shareholder of Zenibus and we knew that they were going to be acquired. I was hoping it was going to be till right today. It was announced that Hexo was acquiring Zenibus. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about it. I'm not a huge fan of Hexo. So I feel better that they're in Hexo than being by themselves because Zenibus was a dumpster fire, but going into Hexo, it doesn't seem like a huge upgrade for me. So honestly, I don't know how I feel about it. Do I know anything about HCMC? Yeah, I know it's been doing well. Paul had some news this morning. Yes. Paul had some news. Let's take a look at Paul's news. So we're gonna have a CEO joining us live and interactive here at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Stay tuned. One of the companies that we've been talking about quite a lot and has been a big success story so far. So pretty excited to speak to this company and speak to them live and hopefully you guys will be here to enjoy the show. Yes, Mjad. TRCH is a rocket. Yes, Tad is absolutely on fire. Drew says, hello, Rich. Tad and hello, Paul. A lot of our pics are flying. Am I in TSNP? No. Do I recommend to invest in GBTC? I was recommending to invest in GBTC when it was at $7. Wow, look at that, Tony. Tony saying baby signs distribution contract for 180 countries. I don't think anyone should be surprised there. Subdillon. HLTH signs letter of intent to acquire ASIC power company. Thank you for sharing. Hero left a bad taste. Oh, Hexo. Yes, me too. Yep, Hexo took over Xena. It's true. Got a pic for you. ETMC. Thank you, Dylan. 30 million shares outstanding put on your list. Hey, thank you for sharing. Hey, guys. So, Paul, I brought you guys this pic pre-IPO, around 40 cents. It's now at 79 cents today. Up 5% traded, 678,000 shares. Let's just read some of their news that came out this morning. Another tight float stock that I brought you guys first. So the big news for pure extracts, it agrees to licensing deal with Taste T LLC, the U.S. manufacturer of fireball cannabis gummies. It's the big news for pure extracts. Taste T utilizes a proprietary manufacturing system to produce and package branded cannabis gummies and sells them in multiple U.S. states, including Nevada, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Oklahoma. Pure extracts assign an agreement with exclusive rights for Canada and first rights to other countries around the world. Some big news for pure extracts. Obviously, this dog's doing well and it's up very close to about 100% since I brought it to you first since their IPO. Mark says, Hey, Rich, we see Ethereum at 20,000 by year end. No, no, no.  I'd be very happy if it did. I just don't see that happening. Genie3 says, got out of Xena last week, wrote it from six to 20 and still happy to be rid of it. Yeah, I mean, they're, they're a big mess. What do I think of plug power? Well, I brought the pick under 10 bucks. They've been a huge success. So very happy with plug banner power. Yes, guys, if you guys like these video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere, and subscribe. Yes, neurosis. Neurosis. You're finally talking about my picks, bro. You're talking about my picks. You know how I love tat and I brought you tat first. When do I think MCUR will explode? I have no idea. I just know that when it does, I'll be in. I'll be in for the win. I have no idea when exactly a stock's going to explode, but I do know a good company when I see it. And I like MCUR. I think it has everything I need for it to be a winner. And that's what matters to me. Hey, KU Christian trader, how you doing, brother? Hope you're doing well, my friend. Will you make any videos on MCUR? I don't know. I don't know. I'll think about it. I'll think about it. It depends. Rich stock MSOS. Yeah, I know you guys are constantly talking about MSOS. What are your thoughts on Vega? They seem to be struggling doing my research. I think it's consolidating and getting ready for a run up. Neurosis says WDLF, EPWCF, NSAV. Hey, thank you for sharing, bro. Mark White says, made a lot of money from you, Rich. Rich got tat under 80 cents, 10,000 shares and still holding. Thanks, Rich. Wow. I like Stellar. Green Bull says, bought CBDU. Extremely impressed after watching Rich's video and seeking alpha video. Huge things to come. Yeah, I think CBD.U is a future five and then a $10 stock. Do I have a position in CBK? No, I don't. Any thoughts on FAF listing on the Nasdaq? I think it should be pretty bullish. Thank you, Neurosis. I appreciate you, brother. I appreciate you. There's a lot of news. There's a lot of picks. There's a lot of things happening in the markets right now. I think it's important for us to stay disciplined in our approach. And if you're going to ride momentum, just know what is possible, good and bad when you ride momentum. If you're looking to buy a company on a dip, typically we just look for stocks that are red on red days that we really like and we buy them on the dips. Very simple. It's not rocket science. And we've made a living doing it this way and we've had a lot of success doing it this way. Ooh, gotta love that CBK today. I do a video yesterday, tell everyone about Copper Bank first and it explodes. Surprise, surprise. Hey, brothers for life, brothers from another mother, my friend. What is a good time to pick up Air Canada stock? I wouldn't touch it. I'm not touching airlines in a COVID world, but that's just me. You can do whatever you like, but I won't touch it. Brandon, I bought Sugar Mayticker Symbol SGMD. It's a marijuana delivery service. I'm up around 1000%. Wow, well done. Well done. Hey, Seth, I appreciate you, man. Thank you. Tony says Quinton Simmons MSOS is not a stock. It's an ETF just so you know and invests in US cannabis stocks. HCMC has been doing quite well. They are in the middle of a patent infringement case with Philip Morris and the stock's done quite well. So definitely want to put on your radar and put on your watch list. See, Hexo bought Zenibus. I'm assuming this is good news. Well, probably good news for Zenibus and Hexo. I'm not a huge fan of Hexo. Kind of disappointing them to be honest with you. So how do I feel about this news? It's okay. I would have been happier if it was Til Ray. Hey, Rich, great to see you today and thank you for CBK. I bought and sold it this morning, locking in my profits. Hey, well done, Robert. Playing like a true sniper ninja, my friend. Locking in profits. The way to trade, my friend. That's how you do it. Green Bull says HBM will be another copper giant. Hey, thank you for sharing. If you guys have any other picks you want to share, please feel free to share it. We will be having a CEO joining us soon. Stay tuned. We will have a CEO joining us in 19 minutes. Stay tuned. If you guys like these videos, smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. If you guys have any picks you want me to talk about, you want me to look at, you want my opinion on, just put it in the chat and I'll let you know what I think. Empire Clinics is now doing over 1,000 COVID tests per day. When do you see TAT at 7, Rich? I kind of think it hit 7 this week. I might be wrong, but it almost hit 6, so I'm not that far off. Which CEO? Oh, you're going to have to stay tuned. Greg Love says, I just hope Zena hits 40 so I can get out. You and me, both, my friend. We all went out as Zenibus, trust me. CloudMD and SPONF. Thank you for sharing your picks. Did I figure out the Echo thing? Hopefully we're going to have a CEO joining us and hopefully there's no Echo. There's no Echo on my end, so there's nothing I can do. I can't control someone else's volume and sound quality. I can only control my own volume and sound quality. Anna says, oh, there we go. Hey, Ben, how you doing? I'm doing really well. Good to have you on the show. Thanks very much. Thanks for having me. Hey, my pleasure, my friend. So you guys have got some big news and some big things that have been happening. Excited to have you on the show to talk about it. We're live right now. We've got 84 people watching. Is it okay if I start asking you some questions? Fire away. Absolutely. And congratulations. The stock's doing well.  Almost up close to about 100% since your IPO. So obviously been already a success story. And I know it's just getting started. So Pure Extracts Technologies is a plant-based extraction company focused on cannabis, hemp, functional mushrooms, and psychedelic medicine. Can you tell us a bit more about what the company does? Sure. So exactly, we're a plant-based extractor. We focus on three legs of the business. The cannabis business and hemp functional mushrooms. And then we're in the psychedelic market. We continue to expand the business. We just signed a deal with ACT, which is the Fireball Community Division in the States. You know, continue to grow that. That's out of the business. And we continue to grow the functional and psychedelic part of the decided deal. Early this year with Purica functional brand. And we're working on the nasal gel, R&B, and the psychedelic product. So, you know, we look at ourselves as an extractor of a plant-based product. And we have different segments that generate right from different platforms. That's great. What fueled your decision to enter the Edibles market? It was a natural market for us. We bought the IP from Pure. They were a legacy brand. They were in the Edible market before. So we knew it was highly successful. And we looked, you know, at California and the way the brands developed out to the border. Gummies are the hottest Edible product, outselling chocolate and brownies are like 10 to 1 plus. So we knew we want to be in that case, but the Fireball T-STT packaging is proprietary packaging. We look at the website. It's more of a blister pack. So the gummies don't stick together when there's heat applied to it. It's a big picture of gummies, especially with DHC and them. So we wanted to look at something different in the market. And with this partnership with HDTD, it really brings a new level of gummy product into the place. What is the history of the Fireball brand? So the Fireball brand started off as an alcohol brand from our college days. We all remember having a shot or two of that. So Fireball is the second largest brand in the U.S. by health volume. So very successful, cinnamon based alcohol, usually taken in shot format. They branched it into the cannabis market, very similar to the constellation brand. They saw that cannabis was a direct competitor to alcohol and they wanted to have exposure. They signed a deal with HDTD, which is a licensing deal to have THC and TBD gummies in the marketplace. They're in five states today. They're the best-selling brands within those states from market sales. And we looked at them saying, obviously, we can't necessarily make them Fireball because Health Canada has a problem with alcohol and cannabis branding. Our partnership is strong. We'll be on their website. Their formulation is exactly the same as the pure chews, which it'll come under. The cinnamon flavor will have three different flavors rolled out when they hit the market or the next month or so. So it's a very strong brand. And the flavoring is exactly the same. That is the alcohol that you would receive in your bottle of Fireball. So we're pretty excited about it. Ben, we're having a little bit of issue with Echo. A lot of people are saying they're having issues hearing an Echo. Do you have any other streams open at the same time here? No, but hold on. I know we're on the air. Can you switch to something? I can do something super quick. Well, the only thing I can do is I can cancel this and we can go on Zoom and start over because everyone's saying there's a major Echo and I don't want to continue with the video if there's going to be an Echo. Yeah, I think I can go over. Hold on one second. Sure. Unfortunately, guys, I can't control anyone else's Echoes. I can only control mine. I don't know why we're having an Echo from other people. I don't know where it's coming from. I can only control my side of things and there's no Echo on my side. So I'm not sure why there's an Echo. The ticker for pull is PULL in Canada, PRXTF in America. If you guys have any questions for Ben Nicolavsky, the CEO of Pure Extracts, please let me know. You know what, Ben? You know what let's do? Why don't we jump on Zoom and we can do this on Zoom without any issues? Does that sound okay, Ben? Okay, guys, we're going to jump on Zoom and we'll be back shortly, okay?