This could be the next boba. Thank you, Hokie, for keeping this alive. Pickle garlic, a little chili oil. Mishiga mixologist, ma. Mishiga mixologist, ma. That was good. If you've seen any of our videos, you know that the 626 is a food haven. And since we're back in LA for a quick trip, we have to eat at every new restaurant that is open in the past year. Authentic Quai Vietnamese, yogurt as the new boba, Hawaiian Cambodian grilled shrimp, and a place that's recreating Chinese McDonald's. It's going to be epic. But first, we got to go see an old friend. All right, everybody. I got to give a quick shout out to our sponsor, Crowd Cow. They are an online marketplace for high quality meats, such as beef, pork, chicken. They come vacuum packed and delivered straight to your door and it's all ethically farmed. This is all sustainable packaging. Your order is 100% carbon neutral. Basically what you're going to do, you're going to go on the website. 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And if that's not enough, Crowd Cow is actually throwing in free items with a lot of the orders right now. So now is a good time to be part of the herd. All right, yo guys, we are back into 626 right here. And we are going to embark on a new 626 food crawl, meaning that we're going to check out all the new concepts that have opened up in the past year, year and a half. But of course, starting off, we've got to start off here at Bull Toe Cafe. You guys always are what? Reinventing your menu. Yeah, we got seasonal items all the time because we use real ingredients so we have to keep the things fresh, you know. All right, so what are we looking at real quick to start off our journey?  So it's real watermelon juice that we cold press in-house, pure fresh with a splash of oat milk on there as well. It's a really, really special because a lot of places they do watermelon drinks but they blend it. So it gets cut with ice and everything but this is pure watermelon. This is our mighty Thai tea. So it's basically my Thai tea with espresso. All right, this is our summer blossom. So this is a real lychee juice, real pear juice with green tea. A lot of places use like pumps of syrup for lychee flavors or for whatever flavor. So this is lychee pear. This is lychee pear green tea, yeah. This is our Crimson Smash. It's blood orange syrup. Same thing, we make our real blood orange syrup in-house with blood oranges. We have a limeade that we also make in-house and guava nectar. It's all in here. Mix that up too. Color change, all right. Fresh watermelon juice. That's the summer right there. We only have this during the summertime. This is a 10 out of 10. 11 out of 10. Please you guys come to Bo Po Mo Fo, Bo Po Mo Fo, Bo Po Mo Fo. Phil, if nothing else is a cultural void filler. Yeah, I guess so. That's their words. We are looking to expand right now. We haven't really told a lot of people yet but there's a second store that's in the works. We haven't announced where it is yet. If people want to invest with you guys, where should they email? DM us or something, I guess. Cool, all right. Thank you so much. Welcome back guys. You guys know that as we go on these food crawls, our intention is not just to eat tasty foods but to also talk about just the societal trends or community trends that kind of inform these food changes. Behind me is Five Stars Way. Now, a lot of the people who work here just moved here from Vietnam like five, six years ago. So they are bringing regional authentic cuisines. They do not even serve pho here. They only are serving bumbo huay, mee quang, bun rieu. And obviously dishes like nem lui, me and Andrew have never even had this before. So we gotta appreciate what every immigration wave of Asian brings new to the table. So let's check it out. All the dishes here from Huay guys is five star huay, and one vali, gokio, ham bro. Guys, I never thought that I would be having dishes that I've only had one time or never before in my life in the six to six because typically in the Chinese zone you would say that the Viet food is kind of like surface level. But I do think there's a lot more Viet's from Vietnam moving here in more recent years. And like we said, they're bringing regional stuff. I never even had this before. So I'm excited to have it. It tastes sort of like a more Viet version of Korean barbecue when you get your own rice wrap to Korean barbecue and you mix it with, you know, all the different pan chans and the bulgogi. That is what it tastes like. We've got the nem lui. This is a really cool dish. Never had this before in my life. Let's get into it. He said that there's some rice paper here from Huay. They brought it in straight off the boat. So typically with rice paper, they're going to give you that little like plastic like half circle thing to like dip it in. But he said this one is designed to work with strictly just veggies on here. All right, now I know some people like to leave it, you know, with the stem, some people like to peel the leaves. I'm just going to be lazy today for the sake of speed. Boom, I got my pork. I've been dipping it. You can pull the pork out. Nem lui. This is really, really difficult to describe with the dry rice paper, but it's actually pretty good. Regional delicacies from the Huay region. That's the middle part of Vietnam.  I can't even explain it. Yo, this is super good. My goodness. So far, this was the best thing I had. All right, so our next spot on our 626 new concept food crawl is a spot that is in an unassuming plaza. It's a ghost kitchen and they are bringing that famous North Shore Hawaiian shrimp to the 626. Man, for all y'all who have never been to Hawaii, Giovanni Shrimp is one of the most popular shrimps in the North Shore and, you know, a lot of people try to emulate that here in LA, but I think this place is probably the closest to it. They are going viral in the foodie circles and the one twist for this shrimp is they're not trying to copy like just Giovanni's shrimp truck. They got Cambodian flavors infusing the shrimp. Wow, that's crazy. I'm really looking forward to it, man. Cambodian Hawaiian shrimp. Let's go. All right, we are here with the owner and chef, Mara. You're of a Cambodian background. Can you tell us what is going on with your shrimp right now? So I started back in, like, October and, like, I got laid off. I was, like, from tech. I was actually a recruiter. I'm not from the industry. I, like, just missed, like, family and going on vacation because we're all, like, locked up in COVID. So one dish that I missed was Giovanni Shrimp. So I reinvented it at home. But then I added some, like, Cambodian flares at the end to have, like, you know, some, like, umami, earthy tones. When I first started, I was using a shrimp head. That was taking me a little much time, but then, so that was, like, oh, shrimp paste. I use it every day. So I put that, and then I put fish sauce, and that's what really elevated the taste. Right here, we have a whole shrimp extravaganza right here at Chia's Kitchen. I mean, you're talking about Hawaiian-style shrimp with Cambodian flavors and fuse. Here we have the medium. This is spicy. It has some extra chili pepper flakes on top, as you can see. And I got the little lobster tail right there. Yopsta. Garlic rice, of course. If you guys are familiar at all with the num-pong, it is the Cambodian sandwich. You know, kind of like the equivalent to the ban-mi. And here, you have an egg on top of the medium shrimp. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Cambodian Hawaiian shrimp shell-on. That's a big, juicy gulf prawn right there. Wow. First off, I like how buttery it is. It's dumb, buttery, but I really like the Cambodian spice that they put on it, you know, the chili paste. It really differentiates that from, you know, like a Hawaiian-style, like Javanese. Okay, coming over to the num-pong, the Cambodian sandwich right here. Let me just chop this up real quick. Well, that is definitely one of the best shrimp sandwiches I've had in a very, very long time. The coleslaw's a little spicy. The balance is out with the shrimp. The bread's soft. Egg is right there, you know, neutralizing and bringing everything together. That was delicious. It's just so cool to get these ghost kitchens popping up. You know, these are people who didn't necessarily work in the restaurant industry, but they saw an opportunity during COVID and they're just cooking and putting all this love and care into these recipes. And sometimes you get the best deal. You just don't get a storefront. That's it. Man, I'm just glad that, you know, we're seeing a lot more shrimp spots here in mainland, especially in the 6-2-6. And the West Coast does have a lot of Hawaiian influence. So shout out to Chance Kitchen. I love how she's fusing kamai flavors into the shrimp here. And, man, overall, you guys got to check it out. All right, you guys, the next spot on our 6-2-6 investigative food trend crawl is meat-chin noodle. I'm very excited to share the Chinese name. I'm going to take a stab at it. Qingmian fang. Qing is for the Qing Dynasty. Also abbreviation for Shanxi. Mian is for noodles. Fang is for factories. So that's where you get the name from. No, you were playing pro-ball in Asia. You have been to Shanxi. I've been to Shanxi, man. The type of food that I have, there was mind-blowing. This is going to be some spicy stuff. You know what's interesting is on the East Coast and in New York City, they've had Xi'an famous foods, which kind of made Xi'an food very accessible for very long. But this is the first time I've seen somebody try to do that for the West Coast. In the 6-2-6, they've always had Shanxi, like Xi'an food. But it was like really deep in St. Gabriel, like almost everybody who went there was from China. No ABCs would go there. No, they're going to be here on Main Street. Main Street is Main Stream. So the question is, is Xi'an food getting Main Stream in 6-2-6 now? It's been Main Stream a little bit in New York, but can Xi'an food become Main Stream on the West Coast and commercialize? Let's check it out. All right, you guys, this is round one of that Mee-Chi noodles. So as you can see here, we've got cilantro on top. You got green onions. So, David, what's really special about this bowl of noodles, man? All right, so the really thing that's special is the carb or the noodles. Actually, I ripped up pita and that's the palmore. Some people speculate that there's a lot of, like, Middle Eastern influence in this dish because Xi'an was the landing place of the Silk Road. Here, we got the three-in-one belt noodles.  All right, you guys, authentic Xi'an food. Round one, I've got the young girl palmore. I got the biang biang noodles. What size belt is that? Size what? 32? All right, I just tried the biang biang noodles. It kind of tastes like a nice pasta. It's the young girl palmore. That tastes the most different out of everything. I personally prefer the biang biang noodles, but the young girl palmore tastes different. Yo, I am interested to see, David, if people on Main Stream come to like the young girl palmore because it's actually really easy to eat and it does no offensive flavors. It's actually not that strong, but it's just the form factors a little bit weird. Okay, round two here at Meat Chen Noodle. We've got the Qi Shan noodle, aka the Qi Shan Mian. And here I have this very tasty-looking Shan Shi Chao Fan, aka the Shan Shi Fried Rice. So I'm pretty excited to try this Qi Shan one. It's got potatoes. It's got carrots in it. Obviously, I'm not fully sure what to expect on a flavor profile level. Examining the fried rice here, obviously it has some different elements. It's got the big chunk of jalapeno in there. It actually has the wood ear mushroom, which is a common theme at this restaurant, and I'm not mad. And also you can tell by the color of the fried rice, it is a little spicy. Qi Shan Mian, Shan Shi Fried Rice. I would say that the Qi Shan Mian tastes pretty medicinal, pretty clean, but definitely doesn't really have that fatty, luxurious vibe that the lamb or the biang biang Mian had. This is exactly what I thought it tastes like, and it is so good. There's pieces of potato in there. There's little bits of pork. There's spiciness. This is one of the best fried rice I've had in a long time, because, let's be honest, a lot of spots when they serve fried rice, it's just like a whatever dish. It's like a side filler dish, but this one, this got the flavor. Of course, you guys, we have the roe jiam mua. It still has the same mua, which is the pita that you can break that up, turn it into sort of noodle, or you can eat it. That's a pork, and I have a cumin lamb over here. David, would you say this is the closest thing that Chinese people have to a traditional hamburger? You can see the oil and the juices from the fat is seeping into the bread right here. That's what I like to see. That's how you know the meat is juicy. For a plain, traditional roe jiam mua, that is really good. It was juicy, and everything got lots of flavor. I'm gonna add a little pickled garlic, and then I'll add a little chili oil. Oh, you talking about from the young roe pan mua? Ha, ha, ha. Don't play with me. Hey, Henry, me shriek a mixologist ma. Me shriek a mixologist ma. Me shriek a mixologist ma. So will Xi'an food get as popular in LA as it will in New York? I doubt it just because in New York there's such a heavy Middle Eastern influence, and there's a lot of halal food, and there's a lot more reference for that type of flavors. But I think this spot's gonna be successful, and these are my two favorite dishes. Come here and get the fried rice in the young roe pan mua. Living in China for like a year and a half, God traveled to a lot of cities where I would never imagine. And trying some of those foods just really blew my mind, and it really opened up a lot of doors for me to eat this more frequently. And I think what I really like about it is the spice, man, the spice. I don't know, there's a lot of, you know, spicy foods, especially in like, you know, China, but this one probably might make more sense. So you're saying you like Xi'an spice even more than Sichuan spice? Yes, for sure. Spice here is just tasty. I'm gonna go, you know, as far as my favorite goes, I'm going with the biang biang. That's why I love that dish. It tastes like pasta. Guys, if you come to, if you're in SF, go to terracotta. If you're in 626, come to meet Chen Noodle. You will not be disappointed. On to the next spot. Andrew, this may be one of the most interesting spots that we're gonna hit on this 626 food crawl new for 2021. You know, one of the things that we always miss about our trips to China, particularly Shanghai, is that McSpicy sandwich from McDonald's, China. Look at that vision right now. This is gold. Can we do a selfie real quick? This is big. It's actually so famous around Asia. They call it in Seoul, Korea, the Shanghai McSpicy. Yeah.  So how does that relate to this spot right here behind us? Ace Burger is two guys from Shanghai and they decided to bring the chicken sandwiches from McDonald's Shanghai and KFC Shanghai and recreate them in America. Crazy. Let's check it out. All right, everybody. I'm here at Ace Burger. This is the recreation of the Chinese McDonald's crispy chicken sandwich. This is one of my favorite fast food sandwiches in the world. And now they're here at Ace Burger's trying to recreate it. I got to take a bite and tell you what I think. Let's see if it takes me back to Shanghai. It is going to take me back to Shanghai. It's kind of like it. It is really juicy. It's chicken thigh. It's spicy on the inside. Does it taste like the Chinese McDonald's crispy chicken sandwich? I would give it an 8.5 out of 10 on the mimic scale. That is actually really good. In fact, it might be bigger. The bun is a little bit more crumbly. I think obviously McDonald's, they have their own buns. But taste-wise, it's pretty close, man. If you ever want to know what that Chinese McDonald's chicken sandwich tastes like, you might have to come to Ace Burger's and try it out. It's a pretty close one. Here are the interpretations of the KFC wings in China. So this is kind of like your New Orleans style, kind of like this weird kind of red texture. I know in America, I don't think they would make wings that look like this. They'd probably have to make it redder.  Let's try it out. This is the New Orleans style wing. Little peppery kick, kind of sweet. Does kind of taste like some of those braised soy sauce chicken wings. I would say overall, this is not bad. I'd give this a 3.5 out of 5. All right, so what do you guys think about kind of the Chinese McDonald's or Chinese fast food being its own genre in America? Because for many, many years, people would go over to China and say, oh, I like the McDonald's and KFC better out there. How come they don't bring any of those recipes to America? Well, guess what? It's not KFC or McDonald's that's going to bring those recipes. It's actually people like these who are going to recreate them. Man, between the New Orleans wing and the crispy chicken sandwich from McDonald's here, I would say you guys got to go check it out at Ace Burger's. But this is a really, really interesting concept. All right, you guys, we are checking out all the new concepts in the 626. Of course, there's some evolution, even a pre-existing concept. The Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich has sort of taken all these crazy turns. Now we're throwing mac and cheese at them. Well, I think actually the 626, whether it's the mixture of Asian people and Latino people, they actually love the chicken sandwich because Asians are going to love it. And then Latinos are too. So everybody, it's got a market out here. This has mac and cheese on it. This is called the Mac Daddy J-Bird. They pride themselves on building in that flavor into the chicken before even the spices come in. Mac and cheese on your chicken sandwich. I would say it's pretty good. Pretty good. You added a different texture and also the cheese flavor. I mean, I also like the chicken sandwich traditional, you know, with more of the coleslaw and stuff like that. I think that's how I usually imagine it, but that's pretty good. Chicken was high quality. It was super juicy. Had that brioche bun. Very soft. J-Birds, if you're at the mall and you like the chicken sandwich, definitely get it. All right, next we are trying their very spicy chicken and waffles, but they do it a little differently. They put on toast, which is very southern. Okay, I've seen this toast when I was at those Texas barbecues and then they put them on these little circular waffles right here, J-Bird chicken waffles. Spicy style, guys. Man, no, you got to take the other bite of this, man. I've never had my chicken and waffles this spicy before. I like it. They got the center. I like this. I wasn't too big a fan of the mac and cheese one, but they're chicken and waffles. I'm going to go ahead and give it a 4 out of 5. Really, really enjoyed the waffle. That waffle was soft and fluffy. The waffle was a 5 out of 5. It was exactly how it was supposed to be. Wipe your mouth, man. As far as these different Nashville chicken sandwich concepts coming up and, you know, it started with howlin' rays. Now there's like 30 of them. Which ones are you guys like leaning towards? The classic versions or some of these wacky versions? I usually don't say this very often, but I like the traditional style, the Nashville hot chicken sandwich. They also have it here at J-Birds, but I think the spicy chicken and waffles is the way to go. All right, you guys. We are with the elusive Yomi's yogurt with rice in it. This is their signature item. I think their second one was this mango pomelo. Then we've got a dragon fruit one over here. And of course we've got like an energy grain one like that. It's not even rice in there's energy grain. Now, before you think that this is a weird drink, I mean, through a lot of cultures, there is such thing as like rice puddings and rice yogurt. So they're just putting it in a drink form. This could be the next boba. Yomi's yogurt. Okay, that's playing two things I really like is that kind of Beijing yogurt flavor that I eat after hot pot mixed in with purple rice. I like it, bro. It kind of reminds me of this Indian dish called pier, which is like this rice pudding. Oh, this is what old people would drink. Wow. Like me though. What are they selling? Hot tape. Hot tape. I take it over for over. I take it over for over. Whoa. Whoa. But specifically this one, the mango pomelo. Whoa, David. No, the mango pomelo. David, you're going to say something crazy like that because I was asking if this is the next boba and you basically just said in your personal life it is. Hey, a lot of us ate yo-play yogurt growing up. Chobani, Beijing yogurt, Beijing swanai. This yogurt could be the next boba. Last but not least, as far as the mall goes guys, we have noodle street. Now, this is a concept that meant to mainstreamize a lot of more obscure foods like the neurodrembing here, which actually was somewhat invented California, I believe. Yeah. All the elements are traditional obviously with the scallion pancake and the beef, but the whole wrapping burritoization of it, I believe it was done in America. That's what the legend is. Anyways, this next dish is crazy to see this in the mall because David, this is big plate chicken. This is one of your favorite dishes. This is Dapangji. And usually this comes on a humongous plate. It's like $35 at least. Dapangji at the mall, neurodrembing at the mall. Oh, what do you thought? Neurodrembing. It's not the greatest one I've had. But for the mall, very solid. I give it a four out of five. Well, you know, that's a high score for solid. Solid like three out of five. How are you going to tell me what's solid? Solid, yeah. I come up with what's solid. I would say solid is more 3.5. Yeah. Okay, 3.75 for the neurodrembing at the mall. We're going to go with the Dapangji here. Now, David, a lot of people are not going to think that you can recreate a good Dapangji at the mall at an American mall. Let me tell you this. It doesn't fully taste like it, but for the mall, it totally gets the job done. Let us know if you wish your hometown mall had all these traditional Asian foods. Is that something you'd be interested in? Let us know in the comment section below. And we'll make it happen because I got pulling like that. Wow. Again, guys, we've got to give a big shout out to Ho Chi, which is the Cantonese Empire, buying out old concepts and modernizing them. They actually bought out a old Chiu Jiao noodle shop. So, Chiu Jiao people are people from Taozhou, China, who moved to Vietnam maybe like 50 to 100 years ago, created a new cuisine of food. They bought it out, revamped it up the prices of the quality, but you guys, I'm telling you, if you guys don't know about Chiu Jiao noodles, you're missing out. All right, you guys, it is no secret that Chiu Jiao noodles are sort of disappearing because mostly the people that were cooking them from a older generation, a lot of them were refugees from Vietnam or Cambodia. It's really interesting to see people buy up the concepts and modernize them to keep the style of noodle alive. And by the way, guys, the style of noodle is incredibly delicious. So here we have the Chiu Jiao chou mean, which is a dry style of egg noodle. It's got a bunch of different flavorings in there. It is very subtle. Trust me, guys, this is probably one of the most underrated noodles on planet Earth. I have a little vinegar, soy sauce, chili flakes. Oh, and if you're feeling a little frisky, to be honest, you hit it with a tiny bit of fish sauce, too. It's amazing. Thank you, Hokie, for keeping this alive. All right, you guys, this is not your regular satay chou mean, because this has been hit in the wok. So this is actually a new thing I've never had before. This is satay beef noodles with egg noodles chow mean. Yeah, this does kind of taste like a Hong Kong-style wet noodle, but it actually has way more flavor. You guys know a lot of the most flavorful Cantonese or Hong Kong dishes actually have some Chiu Jiao influence. There's a saying in Chiu Jiao, we're not Chiu Jiao, but it's ho chi po nen zai, which means ho sik mo yen zi, hao chiu meo rian zhi lao, which basically means it's really good, but nobody knows. And that is the whole thing about Chiu Jiao noodles, guys. You know, once this older generation of like Southeast Asian Chinese refugees, as they retire and things like that, who's gonna keep it alive? Guess what? Hokie is. All the women back here cooking food are actually Cambodian Chinese, so that means they actually speak Kao Chou, aka Chiu Jiao. They speak Cantonese, Mandarin. They speak Cambodian, they speak some English, and they also speak Thai within our conversation. Not that I know all those languages, but I know how to say it's just some words and phrases. We were just able to kind of throw it around, so that was pretty cool. Man, it's just so interesting. Different languages, crazy. All right, you guys, our next spot on this 6-to-6 food crawl is Aliyah Lava Land.  Now, we went in there, we talked to them real quick. What are they serving? They're serving Thai-style mooncakes. The owner is from Bangkok. I believe he's of Thai-Chinese descent, but it reminds me a little bit more of the Suzhou-style mooncake. Pop it up right here that looks like a pastry. Let's go in and check it out. Aliyah Lava Land. Nitorapsu, Aliyah Lava Land. What?  Try one. Oh, man. The ui gui. This is good, yeah. It's good and unruh. Straight up, the Aliyah Lava Case, man. You guys are really hyping this up, man. You know I do not like these traditional Chinese cakes and mooncakes. I usually hate it because it's so dry, but it tricks you because it's flaky. But anyways, Lava Land. Surprisingly good. Hey, man, I'm like, all of it is locked in into this thick, flaky outer exterior. Shout out to them, they're doing some new things. Yo, Aliyah Lava Land, five out of five. Alright you guys, I believe this is a little bit more based off the Suzhou mooncake because that's who mostly went in Minnan region. That's, you know, Fuzhou as well, Hoken. A lot of Hoken people went to Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand as well. So, this is not a lava cake. This is not a lava cake, this is a mooncake now. Thai mooncake. Pretty good. Okay, the mooncake inside right here. It's actually really good. I mean, this is not the most traditional even of the Thai mooncake. They like flavored the inside. It reminds me of, you know, in Chinese, the Lu Po Bang. They're kind of dry but still very favorable. Overall, if you come to Aliyah Lava Land and get the lava cake, but I will say this, even these Thai mooncakes, it kind of reminds me of like Pad Siu versus like Gwantau Hall, like Beef Chao Fun. Same root dish. There's a lot of Chinese in Thailand, but I'm not gonna lie, the Thai version usually has a little bit more of a Muay Thai bun. Next up on our investigative food crawl is a second generation owned business. It just opened up in the past two years. It's called Mr. Obanyaki. Guess what they're serving? Obanyaki. You know, they got the wheel cakes with ice cream inside of it. You know, they got some fillings. They got all types of flavors. And then they got like a bowl of bao. Yeah, they got all types of, you know, fusion flavors. Because a lot of people, they do like the doughnut ice cream sandwich, right? This is a bowl of bao, which is a kind of influence. Check it out, guys. Yo, I got to shovel with the monster cookie dough ice cream. I got to cuss it up on the ice cream. Are you gonna shovel the ice cream into that thing? No, have you ever had? I mean, you spent a lot of time in Cantonese speaking countries. I mean, we'll... Never have I had a bowl of bao ice cream sandwich. Oh, that's good. Straight up. I'll tell you this right now. This ice cream in this Obanyaki wheel cake is good. I really like how fluffy the bowl of bao is, man. And the ice cream is just delicious. Yo, I'm just really excited to see the Asian views horchata drinks here, you know, in the 60s. When I first moved here to America from China, you know, I went to Lincoln Heights. You know, I drank a lot of horchata, you know, growing up, but it's crazy to see Asian flavors now with it. Here, I got the ube horchata and the matcha horchata. Definitely, you know, really authentic with the flavors. I think I like the matcha more. Not a big fan of ube, but still pretty good. What is the rule of three?


Oh, baby, I'm excited for this one as if I haven't been for the past couple But we are at the peak of what appears to be this battle in this arc Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster. I should know me today We have episode 43 of our one-piece watch through I've been told that this one would work Well as a standalone but nonetheless, we're going to get into it very quickly I want to see how all of this goes down because in the last two We saw the beginning of the fight between Luffy and Arlong everything that has built up up until this point Drop us up on the channel if you're new so you don't miss any future episodes We're just getting started on this journey now.   I wonder what I mean.  It's all the work This is it is like she's like feels freed the desk was like the center point of this prison I think I don't know.  Oh, he got him My god, they're just like getting hits it left and right against each other That's the bottom our long park is not looking good. Oh my oh He's sitting all the way down No, why does he get up from that? He simply cannot oh it's gonna fall on him. Oh It's gonna collapse oh My gosh everything I think Luffy will be okay, maybe He's rubber I mean if that falls on our line, he's dead dead He's this insanely strong dude, but that building is easy an absolutely absurd amount of weight just right on you I swear if I don't see a body, I'm not counting anything out I thought he meant the room at first I think he did mean the room at first, but it is the entire park It's beautiful the island is free Just dead. Okay. Oh, yeah, it's all stitched up. Oh No No, no, he's actually dead. We're all looking to see if Luffy can walk out if he's there do the whole place It fell on him Dover whoever walks out. It's like the victor. There's our man The sheer power of Luffy Bro, son. She's just got absolutely Obliterated right there feels bad and Ken and all of them have just that has been like the dream the hero of Kokuyashi village You did pretty good us up Nothing more needed Pirates I say it goes to the villagers Zoro God dang no, you monster He'll take credit the money everything. Yeah beat him down. I'm not me.  Oh, so I haven't seen a body and that worries me I He's corrupt, it's okay.  That's so feels good. The bond grows ever stronger Nami genuinely smiling She's found her people It ironic, yeah I'm glad that like everybody made it through Oh, is this like oh, this is a flashback. I was like, bro, what that was so misleading Why would they do that if I feel like if I don't see a body or long is not dead I'm going to assume he is not even the building fell on him. Like how do you survive that? I feel like it's more likely that he's not though. I don't know. Like I said If I were them, I would just sort of dip from the island either way They don't even risk anything anymore That's a good village right there, baby. Gin's a real one. All of them. Oh never mind. My boy is dead Are they all dead? Oh my gosh Bellamere, she'd be so happy to see this site Oh, he has a whole thing a whole thing 00733 Oh, no, ah words going around that. Luffy is pretty important Oh, no, no, okay, maybe they're in deeper trouble than I was anticipating They're threatened. Oh Luffy has a bounty. I'm so proud. He's a real pirate now, baby Wait, what's the picture he took?  My boy is as official as it gets now At least the rest of the crew aren't included in this in the whole uh, one of dead or alive thing But boy, what a cap off to this entire Insano arc and fight. It's like they knew they like they didn't need to waste your time like re I mean They recapped like a tiny bit because there's a lot we went over but like it was like, yeah We did it. We beat him and we feel good. That's all there is to it And now what comes out of all of this is not some heroism that spreads throughout the lands about Luffy and his crew But instead he's now an enemy of the government Which I like I said, I feel like it was inevitable at a certain to a certain extent They they are pirates and they just get a bad rap no matter why but again We've seen the corruption and the marines the navy either way It's not like being on their side is inherently a good thing. I don't think they don't need anyone They just need their crew. I'm very excited to see where this goes next and like what kind of venture we pursue But all in all this arc was fantastic. Definitely my favorite of the series thus far But there haven't really been much like overarching types of stuff guys This has been it for episode 43 of our one-piece watch to drop a comment down below Either the episode without my reaction and as always I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day I ask for your usual and I'll catch you in the next one This base


Tyler, welcome to Bradford City. You've signed a two-year contract. What's your thoughts on that? I'm over the moon. Wives can't describe how I'm feeling right now. It's all surreal. Just being sat here next to the pitch, such a big stadium.  The world can't describe how I'm feeling, to be honest with you. You trialled with us. You played in an under-23s game against Middlesbrough. You've had a little bit of time, but you've had time elsewhere at other clubs. Charlton, Barnsley, for example, and your former club have allowed you to do that. What did you pick up from that and how came we to sign for Bradford when Gary showed an interest? I picked up a lot going from to Barnsley, Charlton on trial. It's different, very different, because you're with the 23s. And with Bradford, obviously, it's first-team. Being at Salbury, I'm more used to a first-team environment. Whereas 23s, I feel like you're still treated like a kid. I'm more used to being around a men's group. It's just natural to me now. As soon as Bradford got in contact and I got the opportunity to come up here, it was just a no-brainer, really. When I spoke to Gary as well, he was nothing but good to me and got me on board straight away. I couldn't think nothing better than to sign for this club. In non-league circles, you're regarded as one of the highest-regarded up-and-coming players. So what can we expect to see from you next season? Solid defensively, quick, good on the ball. I'll play out from the back and I'll give everything for the shirt, for the badge. When I'm training, anytime I've got the badge on, I'll give my all for the club. Expect good things from me, because I'll give my all. Is a large step up to league two for you, but do you feel you're ready for that? Yeah, definitely. I can't wait for my opportunity to show what I'm about and what I've got. Because I know I can do it and I'm grateful for Gary giving me the opportunity, because now I can show what I'm about and prove Bradford that it was worth getting me in. And obviously we signed Ben Richards-Everton, another centre half, so already the back line for next season is just starting to take shape at a very early stage. What are you making of the recruitment so far and what you know about what might be coming next? It's strong, it looks strong. Good mix of players and it only looks positive to be honest with you. I can't speak highly enough of Gary and I'd trust his recruitment. And a good mix of players, I'm very happy with what's coming in. And you mentioned the stadium, we sold over 30 and a half season tickets so there will be big crowds here next season. Will you be someone who absolutely relishes that kind of atmosphere to play in front of that kind of audience here? Yeah, 100%. I love playing in front of big crowds, any opportunity I had at Sudbury.  I couldn't think of nothing better, especially the Bradford supporters. I know I've got a good reputation, great crowd and I can't wait to get in front of them and show them what I've got. And what do you want to achieve over the next couple of years, particularly next season? Obviously the supporters would obviously like to see us straight back up to the league. One, is that a realistic game and what will be needed to achieve that? That's definitely a realistic game. This club shouldn't be where it is, it should be in the league, one at least. So I'm hoping we'll go straight back up, I'm positive we will. With Gary in charge and the recruitment he's getting in, I'm positive we'll bounce back straight away.


Okay. The talk is called JavaScript Gone Wild. I will ask again, how many people get the cultural reference here? It's a parody on something. Oh, good. Yeah, some people know about this. So it's cultural. It's an American cultural icon. Okay. The reference I'm trying to point to is that there are a series of videos, website DVDs about something called Girls Gone Wild, which is popular in the US. The important part to get from that is that the premise of the USP of those DVD series or whatever is that it's supposed to be unexpected. They don't know what they're going to shoot next because it's unscripted. Okay, it's a little abstract or whatever. I wanted to try all these jazzy text effects. There's a warning. I'm warning you the content of the code is not safe for work. I'm being absolutely clear about it. Okay, so the content, okay, but you will learn something interesting. Some of you may already be using this, but I just wanted to, you know, try this. The content of the code is not safe for work.  So get your permissions in place. There are no dirty pictures. It does not have any dirty pictures. That's from a movie which is going to release next month or something. It's got Vidya Balan in it. And it's light on technical content. It's a different kind of presentation. I might like really, you know, fail at this. It might bomb completely, but I'm guessing you guys have fun. You'll laugh. And it's important. It's a session after lunch. That's actually a, you know, the bottom half of Miller's light, which is a beer in the U.S., if you want to do know. Why bother? If it's light on technical content, there are no dirty pictures. The content of the code is not safe for work. Why bother? Okay. What I'm trying to do is like plant a seed of an idea, which is from another Hollywood movie Inception. You can see the totem. It doesn't look that good right now, but whatever. It's from this movie called Inception, which had a bunch of things. There are theories around what really happened in the movie. They were like dream, dream, dream, whatever. But you know, a lot of you, almost all of you are developers. I guess there are more server-side developers who do JavaScript than purely front-end JavaScript developers. But JavaScript is a very powerful language. And some people might not agree. They think that flash is also important in this whole thing, but whatever. So, since he mentioned Silver, are you still working for Microsoft? He used to. So, Microsoft ships this, you know, new OS called Windows 7. And mostly you get the 64-bit edition. And you know what's with SilverLite? If you go to a Microsoft.com page where they want you to install the plugin for SilverLite, and then you click on that link to say install, then you get to this other page where it says, sorry, this plugin doesn't work in 64-bit operating systems. So it's kind of like a non-starter right now. Okay. Come in, come in. We haven't done anything important yet. So the interesting thing is I would like to cover something which maybe a lot of you don't really think about because you are really busy with your continuous integration and, you know, your test suits and a bunch of other cool things, especially Node.js. Do you want to close the door? What is the idea I'm going to plant? Oh, it looks better on my screen. Okay. I don't know what goes wrong here. The idea is JavaScript code showing up in unexpected places can have unintended consequences. That's it. You know, that's all the gyan I have.  So if you have another talk, you can please, you know, give me a plus one and go. Okay. I'm making it efficient. And the important part is if unexpected places and unintended consequences, that's not a bad thing. Okay. What I'm trying to say is that can you have fun and somehow profit from that? Okay. See, a lot of you are intrigued now. You're like really thinking this is like a how to become a millionaire kind of talk or something. It can be. A lot of people in Eastern Europe have become rich because of this, simply because of JavaScript, not silver light, maybe flash, but definitely because of JavaScript. And anyone who's run a website for some time, maybe like, you know, three, four years, anyone who has like multiple websites and does not have a lot of technical resources has faced issues of security. And maybe, you know, they had bugs in their SQL code or whatever, might be familiar with this. Okay. The important and the operative words are unexpected places. Now that's what I'm going to talk about. Maybe you have not really thought about this or maybe you're already doing this. You're the expert. Please jump in. But you know, that's the interesting part about why I like JavaScript at all trivia question. First, do you know who this is? Do you know the movie? Yeah. What's the name? Someone said, yes, it's, um, oh, yes. Brilliant. That's the only relation has. Okay. I just added this slide. I needed some extra content. Yeah. Well done. The movie is called major league and, uh, uh, this guy is like kind of half blind in the movie.   There's no balling and all.  The only reason it's added is because JavaScript gone wild. So my wild idea number one, how many of you have tried this? Anyone? What? Why wouldn't it work? I mean, that's the example I have. I have limited JavaScript skills. I'm starting with that. Okay. That's why it's light on technical content. So what are we doing? We are sealing a session cookie.  Anyone disagrees with that? So all this code does is that, I don't know if it's visible. Yeah, it's visible. So I have a, uh, I control a domain called evil.cxm and my script is called, you know, conveniently cookie and all I do is create an iframe and point the source to that. So if this gets executed in any user's context, which means that when they load some website and this JavaScript gets executed, this request, which is basically a get request, will get logged in their web server logs, in my web server log, sorry. Okay. And the part about, uh, that's just a DOM create whatever you call it.  But in this sense, if you set the width and the height of the iframe to 00, so it's kind of invisible. Right? So in any place where you're able to inject JavaScript or you have a code where, you know, JavaScript can be injected, uh, cookie can be stolen. If someone steals a cookie, they can, you know, hijack the session. How? They can just create the same cookie in their browser and log in. Uh, there was this tool called, uh, Firefox extension called fire sheep. How many of you tried that? Okay, bunch of people. Uh, it was doing exactly this. You know, it was doing a session hijacking, which is like taking the cookie and, you know, doing all the hard work for you so that you can log into your friends' Facebook or whatever you're doing. No, no, no, no. I'm just talking about size, session hijacking. That's just an extra, uh, piece of information. The stealing the cookie is session hijacking, so that's what it was doing.  If a website has persistent, uh, XSS, I could do that. I could create a link which someone could load in their browser. I could send that link to them. There are a bunch of ways, but right now I'm not trying to talk about how you would inject, but, like, what you could do with the JavaScript after that. This is more about, like, what do you do with the JavaScript? It may not be an ad to bookmark, it's just, you know, a tiny URL you create which you share on Facebook or something. Could be anything. So the idea is working. That's wild idea number one. Uh, this is today morning. Okay. If you have a login form and if you have, uh, you know, if you can inject JavaScript there, you can essentially, uh, repoint the action of the form to a domain that you control and submit it back to this domain. And, uh, I was looking for a screenshot and, uh, this is something that I found in the morning. It's still there. What? See, it's, it's pretty clear. The, uh, the logo is there on the image. It's kind of blurred. It made a request like that. And, and the, uh, the alert basically says JavaScript gone while it was just something that I thought was fun at that time. Whatever. Uh, so this is the other wild idea. It's like if you can inject, uh, if you have what we call XSS in your login form or it could be a registration form. Something similar can be done. Right? Uh, you can seal the username password and then you don't have to do the hard work of sealing the session and recreating it and doing the hijacking and all that. Then you just have the username password and clear text with you. Any questions about this? There's another wilder idea. I have seen this happen in, uh, a lot of, uh, sealing the Google page rank. Now the code isn't proper. This value is different. Okay. This is just for clarity. But what happens is when someone, uh, searches for this site in Google, they get the link. You, it could be the top link. So which means there is some Google page rank attached to that. I think a value between zero one to nine or one to 10 and, uh, paste only if you're coming from Google, you're redirected. Okay. So what it's essentially doing is stealing your page rank, the Google page rank. Okay. But, uh, do you guys just, you know, ever check that that how does my site look from, you know, when I go from Google or something. So that's another wild idea. JavaScript makes it possible. You can also do it in, uh, other server side ways. But since this is about JS foo, so you know, we'll, we'll stick to that. And it's not very difficult to do basically if you're able to inject the JavaScript again. Have you ever encountered this? Everyone? So, uh, this is what happens when you use, uh, either Firefox or Chrome because they're subscribed to something called safebrowsing.org, which has a database of sites which might be serving, uh, malware. And, uh, is there a question? Okay. So, so the wilder idea still is what if the JavaScript rather than, you know, redirecting to another page to steal Google page rank redirects you to, uh, you know, a page which is, which will allow downloading of some malicious software. Okay. And again, this JavaScript will enable this. It's as simple as that. There are server side ways of doing this, but a small piece of JavaScript can enable this as well.  This kind of link gets added and the users of these pages of, when they visit these websites, get redirected and then, you know, if the software gets downloaded then maybe they'll get an ant, uh, virus or something. Another idea, which is the wildest one, you can log into an internal router. I mean, I'm using ADSL because most of our broadband connections are ADSL routers. When you're using a default username and password, okay, so if you have a broadband internet connection and you have not changed the, you know, I'm guessing all of you have done, done that because you're all very smart people, but some people don't change the user, default username password, uh, for the website with, which manages the router. Okay. And in a lot of cases it's usually a subnet, uh, or a network address of <IP_ADDRESS> or, uh, you know, 0.0. And again, it can be a get request in any other way, but a lot of times how it happens is using JavaScript where you just set the documental location and you can log in. Because that's basic, uh, HTTP authentication happening right there. Anyone who's not changed their default username password and then willing to admit that, I guess that's one way to be secure. Yeah. So this again, this is known to happen. I have tried it a couple of times. I mean, it works with my atl, uh, router. There is someone who would like to answer your question.  So what happens once you start the next part is to start changing the router password or do I have to get into your home network? You do that by, since you know the end point, so where is the router? Guess which router it is and put yourself in the DMC. So you can start accessing the router from outside. Which, which, uh, which ADSL router have you seen with any CSER protection ever? I am yet to see anyone any, any router with that. Why can't you submit a form? You can submit a form with JavaScript, right? No, you just, you know, the password is not changed. But I have seen a lot of people not change their default username password. You can disable the firewall. Why? This is a direct request. It runs in the context of the user's computer because JavaScript is executing in the user's computer. You can disable the firewall. You can change the DNS record. CSER protection will happen on the subsequent pages because when you log in, it will send you a link and it will ensure to pass the subsequent request. And you have that. If this succeeds, all subsequent forms will be submitted to you. Right. You can start at that. But how will, uh... The fast page is not available. It's not available. It's like all the CSER applications are coming to you.  The CSR XSR or CSR is closed log in. It assumes your log is already done. So you are able to do a log in. If the user is already logged in, then it is CSR. And then if CSR protection exists, then you will not be able to do a subsequent send. No. The thing is, if you send this request where the user has already logged in, it will still go to the page. No. That's assuming the big name password works. Yeah, obviously. Your talk about scenario on the user is already saved as a user and a password. Or he has a session. Yes, in that situation, if there is CSR protection on the router, you can't do anything subsequent. But he is saying that he is starting from a fresh log in. Because he knows the user and the password. And if he doesn't put fresh log in, then he is the one who will get the CSR token from the server. I mean, if I am going to... You see, the document and the location of the log in, which is the router is logged in, right? No, no, no. We open a lot of web pages. We go to a lot of websites. If you load a page which has this, it doesn't have to be an XSS. A lot of people don't use something like NoScript. By default, they trust the JavaScript they get from multiple domains on a page. So if that happens, then a log in will go through. I have to move on. I am really happy with the discussing. That was the idea. So, since he mentioned Jeremy Grossman, this is a screenshot from one of the presentations he has done, where using the script tag and in the source, just putting the IP address. If we assume that the network subnet is <IP_ADDRESS>, that's the network address, just sending... Doing a loop with the script source, he's figured out if web server is running on port 80 or not. If web server is running, the script source will get HTML rather than some JavaScript, and it will give an error. If you handle the error, it's an assumption because it's like a remote attack, but you can do that. The other is something called history stealing, which has kind of become a little popular. More people know about it now because I blame Reddit for that, but whatever. It's been there for a long time. Again, why? Because we tend to trust the JavaScript, which comes from different pages. There are times when there are popular websites, they run their own ad servers, and I can't... What's our open source ad server? OpenX, right? Yeah, so they've had a couple of exploits in their code which were not fixed for over three months. So when an ad server gets hacked and those ads are being served from another page, JavaScript can again come to your browser. It will get executed, which is why I said JavaScript is very powerful. You're allowing untrusted code to execute in your browser. And it's in the context of your computer. So if your computer can reach another IP address, then the JavaScript can reach another IP address because it can make these requests. And it becomes... I think it becomes a little shady when you enable XHR as well. And I guess you guys are better at writing these Ajax requests than I am, so... There are two things they're showing here. One is being able to figure out what are the internal web servers. Now what you do with those internal web servers is a separate discussion. The second is what are the kind of websites you'll visit. Right? And since we're talking about this, as far as this attack is concerned, it was first detected being used by a lot of pornography websites to figure out what kind of content to be served if you somehow stumble on a pornography website and if you visited something before. It's called a history-stealing attack based on the color of a visited link being different from an unvisited link. Yeah, I know, I read about that, but again, a lot of people have been talking about that these browsers are not updated and all that. Allowing untrusted code in the browser is not the smartest thing to do. So use Firefox, use NoScript. And if Chrome has something similar, use that. Does it? That would happen definitely. You can, but that would happen definitely. Can I come by? Okay. You code, why not? Set the developer in. Yeah. Who did not demo his socket.io code today. Okay, so this is a site, okay? You get the movie reference? So this movie is also going to release sometime soon. They're not paying me for all this, okay? It's called, It's actually called, It's actually called, The reason I'm showing this slide is like, it's very interesting. If you are JavaScript programmers, this is one person you should be aware of, not the people from that movie, the Bollywood movie, but this guy called Sammy, which is not showing up there now. So Sammy was this guy who didn't have a lot of friends on MySpace and he wanted to be popular.  So he wrote this code which when his friend visited got copied to his profile and when other people visited that guy's profile, they all became Sammy's friend and he single-handedly brought MySpace.com down like in 24 hours. And I'm talking about this before Facebook gave and MySpace was big and people were like using it at least in the US. So apparently that's again from his website that he had from zero, he had like okay from one. As soon as you used to log into MySpace, there was a guy called Tom who would be your friend. He had a million friends in 24 hours. So if you're talking about performance and server load, that's something interesting to look at. He still has the code hosted on his website and he was afraid that he'd get arrested but he's still doing web app hacking. He has this amazing talk called How I Met Your Girlfriend. You should definitely watch it. If you're like somewhat interested in security after this talk, you should definitely watch that thing. It's brilliant. You agree, right? It was, no, he misused one of the places where you could change the CSS, right? It was a theme. MySpace allowed themes at one point. So I don't think it was a request for this. No, no, but to change the theme, you have to do an XSR app. No, no, it was allowed. It was a feature given by them. It's not paid to change my profile. It's using my number to do an XSR app request so that it gets my theme, right? And then the base of theme is XSS because then somebody else who's in MySpace will essentially get that. So it is a combination of both. But Oracle was never that popular, right? Apparently, till this guy figured it out, it was a mythical thing in XSR's worm. That's what I understand from this. So in that way, it was a path breaker. It was very cool. And all he wanted to do was he wanted some friends. He wanted to be popular in MySpace, yeah. And the code is available. You can actually go through the entire code of his worm. It's on his website. Just search for Sammy is my friend or something. I think they suspended his account and he was glad that he didn't charge him and put him in jail or something. But he was not allowed to touch a computer for two years. He was on probation. But he came back and then figured out stuff with Facebook and then he was like, how am I to a girlfriend? Okay, so jumping to certain conclusions about this, JavaScript can be pretty wild if it shows up in unexpected places. One of the things that I wanted to talk about, and obviously there are some very qualified people sitting here, is that a lot of us don't think about that JavaScript can have consequences if they turn up in places where they're not meant to. You know, they're not meant to execute or whatever. Like injecting JavaScript where, you know, you're expecting CSS to be there. So, and again, it's very powerful. The very idea that outside code is allowed execution in the browser is radical and dangerous.  Like if you actually use NoScript diligently, most of the websites will not work, at least parts of the websites. Like even Google Analytics doesn't work if you have NoScript enabled. But in some websites, you know, you can get away with just enabling parts of the websites, parts of the domains that you trust. I'm not asking you to start, you know, distrusting or start trusting JavaScript, but be aware that this is still code outside, okay? And apart from the internet or whatever, you know, you don't really see that happening. Like, you know, like there are these ads for car spare parts where they say that you should not buy spare parts which are not genuine or whatever. I mean, they say it for a reason, right? Well, since he's mentioned this, they were like three three instances of them finding bugs in that. Why is it better? Okay, I promise I did not plant him there, okay? He's asking all these questions on his own account. Why is it better? But you're trusting? Okay, I'm going to move on because I just have five minutes and I want to like pin myself. My name is Akash Mahajan. I'm a web security consultant. I have a website or whatever. If you have any questions about security or anything generally about JavaScript, interesting stuff, please feel free to send me a mail. Any questions? I think we've covered some of it. I don't have a place where, you know, you can put any user input in my website. I don't have a form on my website. It's just some... Yeah, that's... Yep, just the last part. It's your dress level. The last part, the trivia answer which this guy got, there was a theme song that was played every time that guy would walk into pitch with those weird glasses and it said, wild thing. You make my heart sing and all. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you so much. Pack forms on your way out. Thank you.


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم This lecture is organized by Masoum Islamic Center Illinois Chicago أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وبهين استعين والصلاة والسلام على خير خلق الله المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطواهرين المعصومين أما بعد فقال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتابه الكريم أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم لقد كان في قصصهم عبرة لأولل الباب صدق الله العليج والعظيم My dear brothers and sisters السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Thousands of years ago Egypt was ruled by the pharaohs One day one of those pharaohs saw a dream that made him worried He saw that seven lean cows ate up seven fat cows And seven dry ears of grain ate up seven green ears of grain When he woke up he told this dream to his courtiers And he asked them to interpret this dream But the courtiers said this is just a nightmare We cannot interpret nightmares One of the servants of the pharaohs said to him I know of a man who can interpret this dream So please allow me to go to the prison Because that man is in the prison That servant had spent some time in the prison And had known that man who could interpret the dreams And who was that man? None other than the great grandson of Prophet Ibrahim The grandson of Ishaq The son of Yaqub Yusuf, peace be upon them all So long story short The servant went to the prison And he told the pharaohs dream to Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him said That the interpretation of this dream Is that there will be seven years in which you will sow the crops And there will be abundance of food and vegetation and crops During those seven years You should eat a little bit out of the crops And save the rest Because then, after those seven years There will be seven years of drought You should eat that what you would have saved During the first seven years of vegetation and crops During the later seven years of drought And after that there will be a year in which again There will be rain and you will come out of the trouble When the servant told this interpretation to the pharaoh He became very pleased And eventually Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him Was released from the prison Not only that He was also appointed by the pharaoh As the head of the treasury And he started to manage the affairs of the kingdom And he helped the Egyptians through those 14 years First seven years of vegetation and crops And then the seven years of drought He delivered the Egyptians He helped the Egyptians And the story continues But I'm going to stop it here What does this story have to do with the topic of this lecture? Why did I start this lecture with this story? You see, if we pay attention We'll get to know and realize That this story has a close connection With the topic of this lecture Which is the return of Imam Al-Mahdi, peace be upon him What are we waiting for? In fact The story of Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him Contains clues for us And can make us aware Of what is going to happen When the final messiah When the 12th Imam Imam Al-Mahdi, peace be upon him Returns So what you're going to learn In the next 30 to 35 minutes or so Is the following First of all I will discuss What can we learn from the story Of Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him And apply the lessons learned From this story on us In the current circumstances And what is the connection This story has with the return Of our Imam, peace be upon him After that I will briefly discuss What the Imam Is going to return for What is he going to do After he returns In the light of a hadith I will explain the main agenda Of Imam Al-Mahdi, peace be upon him And then in the third and the last Part of the lecture I will discuss What does it entail To be waiting for the Imam What does it mean To wait for the Imam And what we are supposed to do As we wait for his return In Sha Allah But before I proceed Wherever you are Please recite A full of love From the bottom of your heart Salawat Ala Muhammad Wa Ali Muhammad In the beginning of this lecture I recited The part of verse number 111 Of Surah Yusuf In which Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says لقد كان في قصصهم عبرة أولي الألباب Indeed, in their story There is عبرة For أولي الألباب In their story Who are they Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him His brothers And other people associated With Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him In simpler terms In the story of Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him There is عبرة For أولي الألباب Now Who are أولي الألباب In simpler terms They are the people Of a deeper understanding The people who are not superficial The people who are Interested Core Not about the shell They are the أولي الألباب Who use الأقل They use the reasoning And intellect And think And derive Deeper understanding about things And what is عبرة عبرة is usually translated Into English as lesson Or moral However It has a deeper meaning عبرة which is in A non-Arabic languages Like Farsi Urdu Punjabi Or spots to another Moving from one place To another أبور كردن أبور In this context أرح is Deriving deeper lessons By looking at the story Of Prophet Yusuf Peace be upon him So what can we learn What is a deeper lesson That we can learn And then applied On our situation In the current circumstances Of our world You see Prophet Yusuf Peace be upon him Pulled Egyptians Out of trouble And he helped them Go through a period Of not seven days Not seven weeks Not seven months But seven years Of calamity Seven years of trouble Seven years of problems Lack of food Drought No rain But he had divine wisdom He had the knowledge And he had the management skills And he was the divinely Appointed حجت الله On earth At that time So he delivered The Egyptians He was what He was a foreigner He was forgotten By the Egyptians He was sitting in the prison And people had forgotten about him Even that servant Of the Pharaoh Who had spent time with him In the prison Had forgotten about him No one remembered Yusuf And then he appeared All of a sudden And he came back To the people And he was a foreigner Who had been sold as a slave In the market of Egypt And he came back And he said Do not eat You are living in abundance For seven years You have a lot of crops A lot of vegetation Eat little Give the rest to me So that I can store it In my silos For you Because there are going to be Seven years of drought And then we will consume it And people listen to him People followed The people Who were not from his race Not from his ethnicity People who believed In different kinds of gods They did not believe in one God He was just a foreigner In that land But people followed And what he taught to them He taught something Very important to those people That we can learn That we can learn from He taught collective Selflessness to the people Collective Selflessness What is collective selflessness? When you work together For one another For all the people When you are not selfish When you are not opportunist Now we find ourselves In times when we need Collective selflessness In the United States Perhaps some people would hear The word collective And they would start to think This is something like Communism Or something No Collective is a system For the people For everyone Where everybody works together That does not have to be communism There is a system Like in many European countries So collective selflessness Is when we are not concerned About only ourselves When we are not selfish When we care about all the people Regardless of their ethnicity Their religion Their background Their culture Their race Their language And so on This is one Important lesson that we learn From the story of prophet Yousaf Peace be upon him Some people say that In the time of Corona Period and COVID-19 Religion has no place What can religion help us with? This is a very superficial thinking This is silly thinking What religion can help us with Is with the values Give us the values That help man-kind Help one another And get through difficult times ماذا يجب علينا أن نضع محاولة في أحد الله و to be selfless and to help one and the other. The Abrahamic values, the values that Judaism teaches, that Christianity teaches, that Islam teaches. Those values are the values that religion promotes and that can help us get through these times. That was one thing that we can learn. Another thing that we can learn from this story is that whenever there are difficult times, whenever there are bigger challenges, we need a divine leader to get us through those times. What happened in the time of Prophet Joseph, peace be upon him, was a big disaster. They did not have science, they did not have technology. They could not predict droughts and rains and so on, which we can predict now. And despite that, we have a situation. We have a virus that comes and sweeps through our world. And then the whole world is virtually under lockdown. Of course, we will find a solution to this problem. Insha'Allah, with the help of Allah SWT, the cure will come or the vaccine will come. Eventually, we will get out of this situation. But what we see now is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg. Maybe it is only a trailer of a film or God forbid films. Because I read a few years ago, I read an article which you can still find on BBC or maybe some other sources as well, which says that under the permafrost, there are many viruses and bacteria that we, our bodies and our immune systems do not know about, are not used to, don't know how to deal with them. And now, because of climate change, the permafrost might one day start to melt and those viruses and bacteria come out. How will we deal with that kind of situation? We live in a world that is very complex and complicated, interdependent world and it has become very apparent in the recent crisis how interdependent this world is. It starts from one city in a faraway country and it spreads across the world and how the interdependency of different countries and the supply chains just all has become very evident. Now, if we are in a situation when many bacteria and viruses, they spread that we have no idea about or other problems come, God forbid, how are we going to deal with those things? And human beings have a tendency to try and find solutions to problems and in doing so, create a number of more problems that has happened. For example, human beings invented the refrigeration systems and in doing so, they also used free-on gases and then ruined the ozone layer and then they realized, oh, we have to ban the free-on gases so that we can fix the ozone layer. And then, thank God, the ozone layer has started to fill. But this is what we do. We try to find comfort to our bodies. We've tried to find comfort through technology and then in doing so, we ruin the nature. We do something else due to which problems come. Then we try to solve the problems and then we create more problems. Eventually, what is going to happen is that mankind will become tired of all the problems. A complicated economic system, an unjust system and eventually everybody will be longing for just messiah, someone that can deliver mankind, someone who can pull us out of the troubles, someone who can help us get through difficult times and deliver mankind. And that is Imam Al-Mahdi, peace be upon him, about whom we pray every day for his return. اللهم كل وليك الفراج. But are we even aware of what we are waiting for? The question is, what are we waiting for? What is it? What is the agenda of the Imam, peace be upon him, that we are waiting for? Now I'm going to explain this with the help of a حديث. But before I do that, wherever you are, recite a full of love. صلوات على محمد وآلي محمد. The Holy Prophet peace be upon him has told us the agenda of the Imam of our time. What is the agenda? He will fill the earth with justice the way it will have been filled with injustice. Now there are four key words. ظلم جاور قيسط and عضل. And all these four words have different meanings and details, explanations. But since we have limited time, so I'm not getting into the details. For simplicity's sake, let's call it, the earth will be filled with injustice, ظلم and the Imam, peace be upon him, will fill it with justice, عضل. So what is عضل? What is ظلم? In order to understand justice, which can be a very abstract term. Everybody uses the word justice, عضل. We want justice, everybody wants justice on earth. But what does justice mean? In order to understand what justice means, what عضل means, let us understand what ظلم means. Because after all, if we can understand the antonym of something, then we can understand that thing. Because night is what day is not. So if we understand what night is, we can also understand what day is. What night is day is not. What dark is light is not. What cold is hot is not. What نمرود is Ibrahim is not. What فرعون is موسى is not. What معاوية is علي is not. What يزيد is حسين is not. And what ظلم is عضل is not. What is ظلم? ظلم, a simple definition of it, is that putting something in a place where it should not be placed. Putting things not in the right place. In justice. And justice is to put everything in the right place. Still very abstract. What does Islam tell us about the types of ظلم? What is ظلم that is prevalent in our world? We need to understand that and become aware of what we are waiting for. We are waiting for the Imam so that he can come back and establish justice on earth. But if we are not aware of what justice means, then we might be taken by surprise. Oh, I thought it was something else that was going to happen. First of all, when we wait for something by default, it means that we want the status quo to change. So when we say that we are waiting for the Imam, it means that we are not happy with the status quo. If we are happy with the status quo, it means that we are not truly waiting for the Imam. And what is the status quo? The status quo has different types of ظلم and injustices prevalent in our world. And we have to become aware of those injustices before we can truly want them to disappear. And in order for that to happen, we want the Imam to come back and establish justice on earth. So what are different types of injustices? When I look in the Islamic books, there are three main types of ظلم injustices. And I'm going to discuss each of the three one by one briefly. The first type of injustice that is the worst kind of injustice is the injustice ظلم related to the beliefs. The beliefs, the عقائد. شرك is the worst kind of ظلم. شرك is the worst kind of injustice. And the Imam, peace be upon him, will return and he will remove all kinds of شرك. All sorts of شرك from the face of the earth. What is شرك? شرك is that not believing in one God. The Imam is going to fill the earth with توحيد. The Imam is going to fulfill the mission of all the prophets because all the prophets said قولوا لا إله إلا الله تفلحوا. Say لا إله إلا الله. There is no God but الله سبحانه وتعالى تفلحوا so that you can succeed. قولوا. They did not say تلافظو. تلافظو means just say by tongue. قولوا means say with conviction, with a firm belief that there is no God other than الله سبحانه وتعالى. When someone truly believes in لا إله إلا الله then once life changes, one automatically moves away from different kinds of ظلم and injustices that I'm going to discuss in a bit. But first, شرك. The Imam is coming, going to come back to establish the توحيد system of توحيد in the world. Okay. Now, the Imam is also going to thrash all sorts of idols. All sorts of idols. And when it comes to idols you'd think okay, the Imam is going to break the idols made of stone and wood and so on which in certain parts of the world people do worship. It is easy to take distance from the idols made of stone that we all do. None of us likes idols. We all take distance from idols. We all hate idol worship. Alhamdulillah, we believe in one God. But there are many other things. Many different types of idols that we worship despite saying لا إله إلا الله. And I want to make you aware of some of those idols because if we continue to worship those idols then be sure that we are not truly waiting for the return of the Imam because worshiping those idols does not match with the agenda of the Imam of our times. Peace be upon him. What are those idols? The worst kind of idol is the one that is inside us. الله سبحانه وتعالى says Have you seen that man who has taken his desire his the desire of his the wish of his نفس as his إله as his God he worships his نفس his نفس as his idol so we have to break that idol from within and many problems are related to that when someone worships that idol then one also worships many other idols some people worship money some people worship power some people worship ideologies and ideas and concepts some people worship their own knowledge some people worship their career and what do I mean by worship anything that you use to make yourself prominent and make yourself better than others to project that you are better than others you are superior than others and therefore everybody should listen to you therefore everybody should follow you therefore everybody should obey you then that thing becomes an idol that is the thing that you start to worship then you are willing to do anything and everything to hold on to that idol to hold on to that power hold on to that wealth and so on and then there are other types of idols that the Imam of our time is going to thrash and one of those idols is ethnocentrism and racism if we have ethnocentrism in our communities if we are ethnocentric people if we worship our race our language our cultural background ethnicity then be sure that we have not understood the agenda of our Imam we have not understood that at all when our mosques become ethnocentric clubs when our mosques and Islamic centers turn into ethnocentric centers then we have definitely not understood what the Imam is going to return to do because the Imam is going to thrash ethnocentrism ethnocentrism and racism and nationalism all that pride in your languages when the mosques and Islamic centers are called the after the nationalities and the languages and then you want to do things in your own way excluding others then you can be sure that your agenda does not match with the agenda of the Imam of our times because the Imam is not going to exclude anyone he's going to include everyone Prophet Joseph peace be upon him included everyone everyone the Imam is going to include everyone mankind he is an inclusive Imam the inclusive Imam the Imam represents the Imam is the Imam of all types of people of all ethnicities his own bloodline has so many different ethnicities look at the different the mothers of different imams peace be upon them all from different countries Berbers Africans Iranians and Arabs and Roman and so on so how can we be so ethnocentric and start and then we are so occupied with our own thing our own language our own and then the mosque has to be only one type of people so before I take more time because we have limited time we have to get rid of these ideas the ideas like ethnocentrism and so on and after that the other kinds of idols the Imam is going to thrash are all those wrong ideologies and wrong concepts that we have to become aware of we might not be even aware of certain ideas and certain concepts and ideologies that do not match with the agenda of the Imam that do not match with the Quran and the Ahadith and the outlook towards life that Islam teaches us but since we do not have time so I have to move on the next type of zolm the second type of zolm is the zolm related to the society social injustice if we are not aware of social injustices happening in our world then we are definitely not waiting for the Imam of our time the social injustices like that are related to the corporates looting and plundering the countries in Asia and Africa and other parts of the world things that we do not even bother about does it bother you that migrants from Africa and other countries are trying to reach the shores of Europe and the border of United States and in doing so they are losing their lives does it bother you that the corporate you work for has left heaps of environmental disasters and a big footprint in African countries and Asian countries and other countries in which they operate does it bother you that the people who work in important fields like like the nurses and the kindergarten teachers and the teachers they are often in many countries underpaid while actors and actresses and sport stars they are they receive millions of dollars isn't this a social a type of social injustice does it bother you that one of the indecent and dirty websites has recently announced that it is going to give the Italians free access to its website for 30 days so that they can spend time when in isolation looking at that website this is the kind of social injustice that is happening around in our world and there are many other different types of social injustices racism xenophobia people of Abrahamic religions being harassed by the militant atheists does it bother you that many Jews in different parts of Europe and North Africa North America are harassed and they have to live their lives in fare does it bother you that Christians in many countries in certain African countries and other countries are persecuted does it bother you that Sunni Muslims in Myanmar are persecuted by Buddhists and no one cares about it and there are many other injustices happening to Muslims and non-Muslims Shia Muslims Sunni Muslims Zeidi Muslims Sufi Muslims and so on we have to become aware of those injustices before we can truly wait for the Imam of our times we have to become aware of those injustices and we have to genuinely and truly want to remove those social injustices and then the third and there are many different types of social injustices but since we have limited time Insha'Allah some other time I'll dedicate a separate lecture on this topic then the third type of ظلم injustice is the injustice that we commit to ourselves ourselves like in دعارة كوميل we recite ظلمة نفسي now ظلم that we commit to ourselves and what is that ظلم that is sinning not obeying الله سبحانه وتعالى disobeying الله سبحانه وتعالى and committing sins if someone wants to commit sins مرحبا and is not aware of those sins and does not want to quit sinning that person definitely is not waiting for the Imam of our times it is very important that we try to improve ourselves if we are listening to haram music if we have been watching haram movies if we are not wearing حجاب if we have not been saying prayers then we try to get rid of those bad habits we say اصطغفر الله ربي وقتوله and we decide today that I am going to change for better I am going to repent and I am going to obey الله سبحانه وتعالى no matter how big your sins are they are still not as great as the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى says قل يا عباد يلدين أصرفوا على أنفسهم قل يا عباد يلدين أصرفوا على أنفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله قل لأجل هؤلاء هؤلاء من هؤلاء الذين يكونون مجردين لهم by committing sins that they should not be in despair of Allah's mercy so we should do what we should have hope in Allah's mercy no matter how many sins we have committed we should repent and move on and that way we become one step closer to our Imam one step closer to the Imam of our time peace be upon him so what we have learned so far we have learned so far is that the story of Prophet Yusuf peace be upon him has deeper lessons and I have discussed only a few lessons from it it has deeper lessons for those who use reason who use intellect they can derive lessons that can point to the reappearance of our Imam just like Prophet Yusuf peace be upon him a pair out of out of the blue from the prison and then he delivered the Egyptians pulled them out of the difficulties similarly insha'Allah one day the Imam of our times will emerge and then he will deliver mankind he will help the Muslims he will help the believers and he will also help the known Muslims and all mankind and help them get out of troubles and solve the problems of the world that mankind would have become tired with and would not have become able would not have been able to solve those issues that is one lesson and then the second lesson is that the Imam is the second point that I have discussed in this lecture is that the Imam is going to return for one agenda and that is to establish justice on earth and justice is to remove injustices and the injustices are three main types that I have discussed one is the injustice is related to beliefs shirk and also the injustice is related to things like racism and ethnocentrism and the things like worshiping your own nafs the idol of your own nafs this is one type of zone that we have to work on and free ourselves from this kind of injustice and then after that the second type of injustice is social injustice and the third is the injustice in the form of the sins that we come into ourselves but Allah's رحمة Allah's compassion is much greater than our sins so we should always turn to him because he has made compassion الرحمة obligatory upon himself he says كتب ربكم على نفسه الرحمة your lord has made mercy obligatory upon himself obligatory علامة طبطبي رحمة الله عليه says that this verse means that everything that happens in the kingdom of الله سبحانه وتعالى is nothing but a manifestation of his mercy and he unfolds his mercy after people have become desperate people go in despair الله سبحانه وتعالى says وهو الذي ينزل الغيثة ينزل الغيثة من بعدما ونطول الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one who then sends down rain after the people have become desperate become hopeless after that he sends the rain and then he unfolds his mercy he he spreads his mercy وول وولي جل حميد this verse ends with the two divine names وولي جل حميد perhaps this verse also is telling us that when people have become hopeless than الله سبحانه وتعالى sends his mercy when mankind would have become hopeless and desperate than الله سبحانه وتعالى will send his وولي will send the guardian of the affairs and then the final messiah will appear who will lead the mankind towards a system a world in which there will be worship for one god justice will prevail and people will genuinely love one another and live in peace forever إن شاء الله so now in the end let us pray to الله سبحانه وتعالى that for the sake of his final messenger Prophet Muhammad and his progeny peace be upon them all he makes it easy for us we have no one to turn to other than you الله الله make it easy for all the brothers and sisters who are going through difficult times who are going through hard times in these days the days of lockdown the people who have smaller businesses smaller and medium enterprises the people who earn their wages daily who work on hourly basis they're having a hard time الله make it easy for them make فرج for them just like Prophet Yusuf peace be upon him make فرج for the people of Egypt made an opening فرج do you make فرج for the people in our times all the people of this world the people who are believers or non-believers you are الرزاق you are الرحمن you are الرحيم all are your creatures you give sustenance to everyone even to those who do not believe in you الله make فرج for the mankind make it easy for all of us and eradicate this virus and the disease COVID-19 sooner then later so that the doors to your house can open again so that the doors to businesses can open again and oh Allah make us truly wait for the return of your final حجة the حجة the ولي الأمر إمام زمان إمام المهدي أجل الله تعالى فرجو الشريف دعونا التوفيق to truly understand what it means to wait for us and become aware of what the waiting entails and make us pray genuinely and truly from the bottom of our hearts for his return


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Good evening. We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order at 7 o'clock p.m. Tuesday January 19th, and certainly welcome all of you that here with us this evening if we just take a moment for a silent meditation, please Thank you. We'd ask Councilor Davis if he would leave us in a pledge Or could you call her role, please? Mayor bill present mayor pro-tem coal McFadden councilmember Davis councilmember Johnson Councilmember Moffitt Councilmember Reese here and councilmember shul Don't have any ceremonial Items this evening. I would ask are there any announcements about members of the council if not First our prior times about a city manager Thank you, mr. Mayor. Good evening everyone. No priority items. Likewise, city attorney. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. No priority items likewise city clerk Mr. Mayor members of the council We have this evening brian k sterling who was recently appointed to the citizens advisory committee He's here this evening to be sworn in before the city council. Thank you I brian k sterling I brian k sterling do hereby solemnly swear do hereby solemnly swear that i will support and maintain That i will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the united states the constitution and laws of the united states And the constitution and laws of north carolina and the constitution and laws of north carolina not inconsistent therewith Not inconsistent therewith and that i will faithfully and impartially that i will faithfully and impartially Discharge the duties of my office discharge the duties of my office as a member of the citizens advisory committee As a member of the citizens advisory committee, so help me god So help me god Thank you, and we do appreciate your willingness to serve and if we'll be of assistance I'll feel free to give us a call Thank you. Uh, we should have a relatively short agenda this evening Uh, I will read the items consent agenda items that can be passed with a single vote if a council member or someone from the audience chooses a poor item We'll discuss that later in the agenda Uh, first on the consent agenda is item one award of dedicated housing funds to habitat for humanity of Durham Inc Item two is award of dedicated housing funds to to habitat habitat for humanity of Durham Inc Item three is amendment to professional services agreement for web database application development with vc3 ink Item four is lease agreement with the state of north carolina for the mountain sea trail Item five is greater Durham team of carmerist legacy foundation grant project ordinance Item six is contract amendment number two for contract st Dash two five eight and your driver street skate streetscape Item seven is contract amendment number two for contract sd 2013 dash o one stormwater infrastructure repairs and improvements Item eight is contract for telecommunication system managed services and support with nwn corporation Uh, that concludes the consent agenda and entertainer motion for approval consent agenda It's been properly moving second madam clerk. We open the vote Close the vote It passes seven is zero are there any other items to come before the council? The night we adjourn at 7 0 5 p.m. Thank you