Go ahead. Coach, a couple of depth chart questions. Keith, moving to tight end, that was all when they really jumped out, right? Well, couldn't put 12 guys on there. No, I mean, it's not. I mean, he's kind of, he can play on multiple spots for us. So it just made a little more sense just to put them in that spot. Keith's got to have a big role. He'll play multiple roles for us. But it was no big time change other than we just put the depth chart out with 12 personnel. And also, they get their captains. What's your captain's philosophy? Yeah, we voted on it. Yeah, no, we voted on it this morning. And I'm going to let the players do it. I've been around it where you vote. And then the head coach then decides who he wants. And I don't think you get an authentic picture of it. We'll release our Bassidy and his crew. They can't wait to put the social media video out. So I'm going to give it to Bassidy here in a minute. But we'll release it this afternoon. Well, they voted this morning. I've covered this in depth already. How much did you know Matt prior to the powering process here? How much time did y'all know? No, I didn't know Matt. I knew of Matt. Obviously, you know, my Milwaukee, I work for Mike in Tennessee. Mike was Matt's first offensive coordinator here in Atlanta. Obviously, Matt's, you know, I'm not that much older than Matt. I know I look a lot older. He's a lot better shape. And he's not as gray. But we ironically played against each other in college. And he's a couple years younger than me. So I knew a lot of the same people from Boston College. And his newest reputation over the years. But I didn't know him until we got started here. Did y'all get together somewhere to just talk for an hour or two early in the process? How did you go about? Not through the hiring process. No. After I took the job, yeah, I reached out to a lot of the veterans. And we had some great conversations.  Kind of what have you learned from him and this? Well, I learned from all our players and coaches.  You stop growing. You're done, in my opinion. And then no matter how long I coach, that's just my general philosophy of life. We have conversations all the time. Matt and I, Dave were going. Charles London, I mean, we had really good staff, guys with a lot of diverse backgrounds. And so there's a lot of good ideas out there. And then once we decide to do something, we go with it. But it's got to make sense for us. But that's any player. I'll always hear the guys out. And then ultimately we've got to make a decision. That suits us. That's great. Staying on the topic of Matt, what are some of the indicators that kind of show you that you and Matt are in sync in the way that you need to be to start the season? Well, it's the way we operate a practice. I mean, there's got to be a lot of trust. You put the play call in. It's my job. Obviously, get the call in there clear. Get in there quick so we're not low on the shot clock and then just watching them operate. And you can just tell about the decision-making. You know, the why. The why is big to me and a lot of things when we're talking about plays. Here's why we're doing this. Here's why I called this and those are conversations we have multiple times a day throughout the week. But you could see it in sync just by his decision-making, how he sees the play, how I see it. Because again, it's how I see it. And ultimately, games played by the guys out in the field and it looks a little bit different than it does when you pause the film or you're on a grease board. You don't forget how it's played through a helmet. And so that's kind of, I just measure that. Yes, and going back to this offseason when you all are out looking for or running back to bring in here, what kind of put him on your radar? Again, with a lot of the free agents, there have been coaches on our staff that worked with them before. I think that helps a lot because there's a lot of unknown in free agency. So you better have somebody you trust that's worked with them. So that's the first, it's not everything. And at some point, you got to fill out a roster. I get that, but we have pretty good familiarity with Mike, the person he was, and then the player, you know, you don't have any film that's stylistically. I think the guy's very productive. He's a physical running back. He can protect. He's got pretty good hands coming out of the backfield and all the things that we value, I saw him film with. Justin, what kind of things, what kind of challenges does Gail and Kurtz present? Presidents, a lot of challenges. You know, I see why they like him in Philly. You know, he's well known coming out.  He played at two of the bigger programs in the country and had success at both of them. I know he's highly competitive. He's got a strong arm. He's got courage in the pocket.  This is always going to be a big week for unscouted loves.  Well, there's a lot of ways. I mean, yeah, you take into account pairs. Sometimes I said the opener, it feels like a bowl game where you can almost talk yourself out of things. If you just kind of rewatch over and over, you know, you're watching his last year play, you're watching stuff from, you know, what did Nick do here? What did Shane do there? I mean, it's the same thing back and forth. There's a lot of unknown a week one, especially you have two new staffs, but you know, with Jalen, what he's been successful with and they'll have a good plan and they've done a hell of a job. You can see the improvement, the progress, all the things that Nick's been talking about. You can see it and just watching him. I know he didn't play a ton in the preseason, but just, you can feel it. Michael, so what was, you know, coaches, oh, it's Scout Base Bay, everybody coming out, right? What was your scouting report on Jalen when? Well, you know, you peaked the quarterbacks of the draft, you know, we weren't really anticipating taking one high that year, but as a guy, he's a winner. I think it's well noted, you know, it already works. I think that was a reputation, you know, to me, again, I don't know Jalen. I'm just, you know, as a fan watching him and watching guys that are good football players, the guy found a way to win. He found a way to win at Alabama when he, you know, when he was a starter and he had to come in at big moments and then obviously at Oklahoma. So got a ton of respect for him. I feel like I've asked you this question so far every step of the way, just keep going with it. Like, for you, have you given thought about Sunday's going to be when it's like actual first one that counts and sure everyone out? Like, what's that going to be like for you? Well, just my mind said, I mean, I'm not going to get, I try to stay neutral and it's a football game and it's so competitive in the NFL. And I'm sure I'm in a different role, but the ball is kicked. I mean, we got to find every way we can to win this football game. And there's things that we'll lean on and I'm not going to sit here and talk about the game plan strategy, but once the ball is kicked, like there's no sentimental value because it's the first game and we got to do whatever we can to win that football game. You were against against the playing as Matt and Colin. Did you actually play in that one game? The ball game? No, the regular season game, yes. So he came in too. He didn't start that game, I believe. I think it came in the ball game, but it definitely won. The one that counted was the next year when they came to the Chapel Hill, they were ranked and we knocked them off. I've reminded him of that a couple of times. So going kind of off of his questions, to kind of battle the first year coaches between you and Nick, does it give you any, I don't know, feel better going against the coach or doesn't have as much experience as the first year head coach or does it help at all? No, Nick's been around the NFL.  His players, he talks about fundamentals and it shows up, it's not just lip service, wherever Nick's coached, especially at the wide opposition, you see those guys improve. Got a familiarity from Indy, but obviously it was Frank Reich and Mike Raible head coaches, but both of us were the coordinators. When the ball is kicked, Nick and I aren't playing. So I'm not blocking anybody and then he's not running any routes. So, you know, it's about the players and making sure both teams will be prepared. There's no doubt about it, especially Philly, I got a ton of respect for their staff. Kind of what's your expectation of a learning curve? Because obviously there's going to be a learning curve going into the first game and Matt's talked about even just trying to understand the dialogue between you and play calling. So what do you expect this first game kind of to do? Well, I expected to go very efficient between that nine. You know, I think in a season, obviously it helps. You know, when you get into multiple games, just going back in my history with Ryan, certainly, you know, year two is easier than year one because you've been through a couple of games, but I expected to be efficient. I expected the communication to be pretty clear. Going back and forth in between the series. It's not Matt's first rodeo. So he said, I expected to play well Sunday. Jeff, following up with a couple of other questions. In the preseason, I don't think you were going to ask this.  And is there anything that you take from those games as you go into the first game? Yeah, I mean, everything's a learning process. You know, I felt at every game that I was a tight end coach or a coordinator and then obviously the role is a little bit different. Head coach, if you're going to call the plays from the field, you got to have trust, your staff, that people have jobs to do when there's good communication. It certainly felt more natural. You know, the preseason, they're just a different feel to it. Obviously it was the first time going to head coach, but there's just a different, there's nothing like when the regular season starts and then hopefully when you're playing in the playoffs, it's even, you can just feel it. You can feel it, obviously the players are out there, but there's a different intensity level and it definitely felt more comfortable through just our communication or a process from the sideline. And then we've talked about Matt and, you know, not playing in the preseason. Obviously a lot of guys either didn't play or played very little. Do you, what's your comfort level right now in terms of just how in sync the offense is going into game one? Well, you know, just going back to the preseason, I get, there are a lot of different philosophies and a lot of guys that are successful. You know, you go back and look at some of the coach gives his team in the preseason. I don't think that's really what you saw. I don't think you go back, look at our 19 season in Tennessee, you know, how you mix and match certainly wasn't the team that it was in the middle of the season. Different cast of, you know, different cast of characters out there, how the seasons evolve. They take on life's of their own. Like I said, there's guys that, that's the beautiful thing about the NFL and you get in the spot and there's 32 different flavors. I've never thought you carried momentum from the preseason into it. They're just different. And you're seeing less and less game plan plays for teams. That's what I observed in the preseason. You saw everybody's kind of core stuff, guys of different philosophies, but I didn't, other than a few, you know, like a schemed up plays, you saw a couple of highlights for this and that, for this player or that, you saw a lot of basic football with a lot of different guys. So I think they're completely different entities. Certainly if we don't come out and play well, that's an easy narrative to grab on to. But whether we played 70 snaps, we don't play well. Week one, there's an issue no matter what. So we got to continue to improve. No matter how we play Sunday, the objective is you have to improve. Whether you start, we've all been a part of this. Whether you start six and oh, I was a part of a team that started six and two, finished eight and eight, missed the playoffs. Obviously been a part of team two and four. You get better as a season one. We make a run to the AFC Championship game. So I said every season it's a life of zone and we have to improve. We got to be ready to go Sunday. And once Sunday's over, we got to continue to evolve and improve. Hey, Coach, what did you see from Caleb LaGarria to make you say in your mind that, hey, this is gonna be our guy at the right type of position going forward? Well, one thing is he wasn't healthy starting out. And we felt that we needed to push Caleb. And really certainly it felt like that's why he played more snaps. You know, he missed it off season and it's not like we were out there calling full metal jacket scrimmage in the spring. But there's a lot of reps individually and really when you can't run, spring you're gonna be a little farther behind. And so he worked really hard and we were able to get him back. Sooner than probably I anticipated. It's a credit to him. And just working in the football shape and then he had to compete for that job. And it's the same thing. We'll make evaluations every week, how he's doing, but he's improved. Feel like he's gotten into football shape and he went out there and won that job. Coach, you talk about the roles and everything as far like how have you prepared yourself to be able to go from okay, young couple plays. Now I've got to figure out whether or not I need to call a timeout or a situation to stand on. Yeah, we discuss it almost daily with certain guys on our staff that we go through that. And that was part of the preseason to Jeff to your question. Like those are some of the, again, it's not the pressure of it.  Didn't really see anybody once I kicked things or getting the four minute, like you maybe would have used the timeouts in a four minute situation. But yeah, those are all factors and could you have to have great communication and trust everybody's got a job to do. And you have to be aware of what's going on in the game. Let's get right to Steve. Yeah, coming in as a new coach and doing a new situation, what were the benefits of you found having a quarterback with Matt's experience and his, I just think he's been here forever. Right, yeah, no, it's, it certainly helps. You're able to put things in probably quicker. You know, had a pretty good educated guess that he could handle most things because he's done a lot of things in this league and that helps when you're putting in an offense. Like I said, if he wasn't where he was in his career then certainly that would have affected whether we needed to play him or not in the preseason. But we got a lot of faith in that and it certainly helps you put in things probably at a quicker pace. No one, he can handle it. He's ultimately the one driving the boat out there, so. And have you given much thought to, I guess the kind of sideline personality you'll have as a coach, or you could be a fiery guy or are you pretty mental? Just gonna do myself a light thing. I mean, that's how I've been as a play caller. You know, certainly there's things that, yeah, you just be yourself. That's the only thing I've ever tried to do. I don't try to emulate anybody.   So, I'm just gonna be myself. Going back to some previous stuff.  Yeah, and that's where you have to trust what you've been working on and emphasizing to try not to reinvent for week one. I mean, we plan this whole thing out going in the spring and who we wanna be offensively and what we've been working on and it'll evolve as a season and obviously working your personnel and that even evolves, you know, as you get more familiar with your team and that'll be the same thing in 22. There is unfamiliarity but personality-wise, I think Nick, John Gannon, I mean, they kind of have a feel and I have a feel for both those guys. So, if there's anybody that probably we both walked out and who we're playing week one. Like I said, we were in that division together, Nick and I were in the AFC South and John was in there too, John Gannon. So, they'll have, I mean, I said, it's a real, it's a staff full of really good coaches. It's a really well-built roster. To me, they got two of the better lines in football. I know they've been banged up but that's a really well-built roster in my opinion, especially up front. So, Barbara, is there any nerves for you? I mean, how do you feel this week, first one? I'm not focused, like I said, I try to stay in the present. You obviously plan out what's coming Sunday but it's not like I'm gonna get geeked up today. No, Sunday at one o'clock and I won't be geeked up losing my mind Sunday at one either. But it's just, it's a focus on the day to make sure we prepare, put in the plan and make sure to practice. You try not to overreact and make sure the guys understand the plan and make sure you're ready to go by Sunday. I don't wanna follow up with something again. You mentioned that McGarran came back sooner than you initially thought, is that right at the time? Well, I guess when did you initially talk to him again? Did you get him back by now or was there- Yeah, but the same thing with Calvin, you know? We got more practice out of him that I initially anticipated, which is a bonus for me, both help him get in my football shape. Josh? Clearly, you don't like the schedule.  That's a heck of an assumption, saying I don't like the schedule. What did I not like about it? No, I said you don't make the schedule. Oh, I was thinking you didn't like the schedule. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. If you made the schedule, would you ease your offensive line in a little easier or are you just as glad to see this Eagles group to see what you've got on the offensive line and you know right away? You told my terms of who we're playing? Yeah. It's gonna be a challenge every week. That's to discredit theirs. And like I said, that we'll have our challenge not to get to our head but Tampa's got a pretty good defensive line.  It'll be a challenge Washington as well. I mean, so you just focus on this week. I don't anticipate there would ever be an easy game in the NFL and that's been proven year after year. Regardless of how cliche it is any given Sunday that's been proven over and over and over again. It's always a challenge. I apologize, I thought you said I didn't like it. I don't want to get trouble. I didn't want to get trouble with the league. I don't want, you know, Rich McKay's here. So I don't want to get in trouble. Well, not superstitious guy. I mean, it's same preparation.  I've got a process that I go through in the morning how I like to get ready to go to call a game. Then obviously you're right. There are new responsibilities. Make sure the inactives are in. They're correct. So there's no pressure on that city. But it's getting the whole team ready. Certainly your mind's focused on all of the entire active roster and you can't just be, you know, obviously get myself ready to call a game. But you're also worried about the whole team.   So, you know, Sophie and Tanner, they start to realize a little bit, but they still, it's kind of nice. They're still kids and they're gonna have an innocence to it. It probably helps their last name, Smith. So you make a poor call. Maybe somebody's not yelling something at school.  Yeah, the first injury report coming out today, then we need to be on alert for that. Oh, you've been waiting for this one. I know. I know. That shouldn't be too much on there. That shouldn't be too much. And then I talked to Tony yesterday, because I was, he said, I want to see if you can carry with it. He think Pitz is gonna be okay, because, you know, the hidden isn't like he used to be, not as much bluffing. And then that Matt knows how to use the tight end.  But Jeremy Shocking was last one that kind of get close to a thousand Ken Cleveland. And then you gotta go all the way back to Dick, sir. But Tony says, hey, he thinks he's gonna be fine. Thanks, Tony. And I know Tony and Tony's obviously one of the best ones to ever do it. But again, you know, Tony's a very different player than Kyle. And like I said, Tony's one of the better ones to ever do it. So, you know, Kyle will play multiple roles for us. And then his progress, like I said, it's not to overreact. We gotta win this, find a way to win this football game. He should be a part of it. But again, they do a nice job or, you know, they take him away. We have to find a way to win this game and it's not about just patting stats. So we look like, hey, we got our buck kick, but hey, look at the stats. Look at our draft of stats. We gotta improve, we gotta win. And ultimately by the end of the season, then we'll see where he's at. What kind of impact did he help us win? You know, if he has 70 catches and we lose a bunch of games and blowouts, who cares? It's like being a high volume scorer on a bad basketball team. So again, I'll reserve judgment until the end of this year and hopefully Kyle has a long year. And then nothing Tony said was wrong and I got all the respect from Rover Tony but I don't view Kyle as the same player as Tony Gonzalez. I don't view Kyle Pitts as the same player as Delaney Walker. I don't view him as the same player as Dallas Goddard or Zach Hertz or Travis Kelsey. He's Kyle Pitts. And so we need to bring him along the right way as a rookie. And with Jeff Schultz, I know you don't wanna make this about you, but how much family is gonna be? A lot. I told Mr. Blank and Rich, when they hired me, at least they sold a lot of tickets. And they'll be here someday. They're excited. Yeah, I mean, I think about 40 people come and give or take and 90% of them are my family. So it's hard to get the fortune that, you know, they all got tickets there. They'll be ready to roll. Appreciate it guys. All right, thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you.


That's a really good, that's good thinking because I think that that part of the story, it does happen, but it's not on these pages, right? So really we have to use the evidence only on these pages to figure out this answer. So even though Danny might be feeling lonely at other parts of the book, it's not for this piece. So can you think of another word that Danny might be feeling? Think about what's going on here. He's sitting with his dad, his dad's telling him a story about, you know, how he felt in fourth grade and definitely something starts to happen here. His eyes were wet.  What? What's a word that we can kind of describe Danny's mood as, Jessica? Sad. Yeah. What's the evidence that supports sad? That we... Go ahead, go look in your book because that's what you need. You need that book. Are you on page 24 like I am? Excellent. So let's look up here. His eyes were wet. So when someone's eyes are wet, what does that usually mean? Crying. But they're crying, right? So the author doesn't come out and say, hey, Danny's crying over here. No, he uses other words to kind of describe that. So Manuel, do you see how we really found evidence that supports sad? And even though you're right, Danny feels lonely in this book, definitely. But in this specific part, it's more sadness because of that evidence of his eyes were wet.


Okay, so now we are going to be working on the skirt. So we are going to install the pockets and then attach all the skirt panels and then add gathers to our skirt in this video. So without further ado, go ahead and grab all your skirt pieces. You're also going to need all four of your pocket pieces. And if you missed episode zero, my pocket looks a lot different than yours and you're probably wondering why. I like to anchor my pockets into some kind of horizontal seam. So for us, that is the Empire waist seam. So I have an elongated pocket, but all my pockets are not going to flop around and they're always going to stay to the front. It's just a superior pocket, you know, I don't like to brag, but it really fits. Okay. Okay. All right. So first things first, you're going to take your piece D, which is our side front skirt. This, these dots here are where the pocket goes. This notch over here is what gets attached to the center front panel. So we're going to be working along this side here. These dots should match up with your pocket dots like so. Okay. So easy enough. All we are going to do here is take the side with the two dots, one, two. All right. And we are going to place our pockets right side down on each of these side panels matching up those dots. So that's one side there. And then this side, there they are, is this side here. Okay. These get sewn at a three eighths inch seam allowance. Right. Like this. That way when we sew our sides to the back at the normal five eighths inch seam allowance, the pockets kind of hide on the inside a little bit. You don't see that seam as much. Now if you remember, I am making mine with half inch seam allowances. So I'm just going to do a quarter for the pockets and half inch for the side seams. Okay. Your other two pocket panels get attached to the back piece, which is this. And again, you guessed it, you have two dots here. And that is what gets lined up with the two dots on your pocket panel. I was a dodo bird and forgot to surge my pockets. If you've ever watched my soul longs before, then you know that I have this little trick for like kind of like pre-surging pockets, I guess. So when it comes down to this little scoopy part where it meets back up with the skirt again, it is very difficult to surge around this and then come down here. So to get around that, I always pre-surge, I don't know, like this much of my pocket on each of the pocket pieces. And then I'll sew them together and then surge. And I'm only, when I go to finally surge them, I'm only surging from about here and back around and back up again.  So here is the little pocket preparation I was explaining to you with my surger where I just take it from that corner where it's attached to the skirt and then, I don't know, come out six inches or so and then just leave a tail and we will address that whenever we are finishing the pockets. And the next step will be to attach the side panels to the back. So you should, like I said, have two side panels and two back panels. Your back panels are going to be wider, lining these up right sides together, like this, all right.  And then you're also going to sew from the top little dot to your raw edge. If that is just a little bit because you're using the normal floppy pocket, that's fine. If you extended your pocket like mine, that means you're going to be sewing this much. You're sewing all of this and then from the lower dot on your pocket to that other notch, there's a third notch on your skirt pieces. And that's where you're stopping. Okay, you're going to back stitch right here and leave all of this open so that we can attach our hem facing later and have this really cute slit on the side. And again, we're dropping this down and we're only sewing from the top edge if you're doing the extended pocket down to the top. Okay, now you're going to back stitch. Great. Clip your threads there. And then from the lower edge of the pocket, you're going to stitch from what I guess is the technically is the middle dot on your skirt piece down to the lower dot on your skirt piece. Now we need to contend with the pockets themselves.  All right, everybody. So once you get your pockets done, you've got your pocket in here. Mine has a little peek-a-boo with some contrast striphage. I don't know if I really like that or not, but it is what it is. I don't like when you can see it too much. We'll see what happens when I wear it. It could be gathered enough that it's fine. It could be one of those things that bothers me to no end. Only time will tell. Okay, so now you've got to add your center front panel. And it goes in between the two side panels. Essentially, this little thing is just getting inserted right smack dab in the middle of our two skirt pieces that we currently have. So we have a lot of skirt. Many panels that are all very wide. So now we've got to make this something that is going to fit into our little bodice. So we are going to be gathering the upper edge of the skirt. Now I feel like every single sew along I've done in the past, I don't know, it feels like a year, if I'm being honest, has had some form of gathering. Just lots and lots of gathering just keeps happening and that's fine. But if you've been doing all my sew alongs, then you should be pretty well versed in how I like to do my gathering at this point. I do try to create a sense of order in the midst of chaos because instead of just doing like one full on gathering stitch and then trying to pull all that and keep it even, I will go in sections. So I will do the back panel in one section. I will stitch at the largest stitch length my machine has, which for me is a five. The seam allowance is five eighths at this area. So I will stitch an eighth outside of that. So seven eighths, I'm sorry, three quarters. I'll stitch it at three quarter inch seam allowance and then I will backstitch at the end, leaving this one not backstitched, but this one will be backstitched. Then I'll come in and do an eighth of an inch inside of the five eighths inch seam allowance and that's a half inch. So I'll do a half inch gathering stitch here again, leaving this side open and backstitching here. I backstitch at one end because this is so small whenever you gather it up to have this anchored really does allow you to kind of fuss with the gathers and make them nice and smooth. Then I will come in and do the side panel. Then I'll come in and do the same thing for the center panel, other side panel, other back panel of gathering stitches one at three quarters, one at about a half. And then one side is backstitched and the other one isn't. Okay. And because my one of these ends has the backstitching on it, I don't run the risk of ever having to worry about it coming off the other end. I just know that I can distribute my gathers as evenly as I need and everything looks good. I am all done with my gathering. I swear it really does go by faster than it seems like it will. All right. So as I said before, we're replacing these two things together, matching our bodice to our skirt. And the best way to do that is really just to start from one end. Remember, we're using the bottom edge of our skirt of our bodice, which has the darts. And we're going to turn this over and we're just going to start pinning matching as we go. So we're going to match raw edges like this. We are going to match side seams. And even if my gathers are not exactly gathered correctly at this time, I'm going to ignore it and come back to that right now. It's just about matching notches, markings and side seams. Okay. So just illustrating on this back panel, I am going to start letting these out because obviously that's way too many gathers. Got a little excited about the gathering of the back skirt. So just gently, you know, disperse them, keep them kind of even and bubbly. I also like to keep the raw edges turned up as much as I possibly can. That'll help prevent bubbling. I mean puckering later on. Okay. And once you've got them matching kind of one to one, so you're going to just keep doing that all the way down. Okay. So I've got my bodice pinned to my skirt. And we're just going to zip this through at the normal seam allowance and normal stitch length. Now one other little tip I have for your gathers is, okay, as you're going, gently pull on the skirt. The gathers are on the skirt, right? And the skirt is on the bottom of the machine. You know what I'm trying to say? So we're just going to gently pull on this to make sure that any folds that we have are going perpendicular to your body. So they're going to all lay a little bit flatter this way. And then as you're going, make sure again that your raw edges are turned up. Stitch a little bit, you know, gently pull, check on the raw edges, pull them up if you need and go slow. Give your machines feed dogs a minute to kind of help pull those gathers through the machine. And just like that, you've got the beginning, what's looking very much like a dress. And you're just going to come through here and make sure that there aren't any egregious puckers happening. Mine look pretty good. If you have something that's like completely folded over, I'm trying to find an example. Of course, when I need to find one, here's one. Here's one. Okay, can you see how this is like folded over itself? It almost looks more like a plate or something. That would be a no, no. That's a bad pucker. We want this to be straight down. So I would undo that little bit just right here, flatten it all out and stitch over that part again. And then remove your little basting stitch that you can see the gathering stitch there. And then we are going to attach our zipper. I know this is a lot for one video, feel free to pause and use the chapters, you know, to come in and out of the so long as you need. If you're feeling overwhelmed, but between pockets and gathers and all that, a zipper might feel overwhelming right now. I get that. I get that.  But I'm going to go ahead and install the zipper, which is going to go into this center back seam here. We've got our zipper. Our zipper is going to go right side down onto our back seam. Okay, so it's the seam that's closest to me at this point. This is this notch here is the bottom of your zipper. I think it even says that on the pattern piece. So I'm going to put the bottom of my zipper right there. And typically, if you're super worried about fit, and you need it to be very, very close fitting, you will measure out your seam allowance and take this part very seriously. I'm not super concerned with that. So I'm just going to kind of eyeball it. But pin your zipper tape, lay this out.  I like to go ahead and pin through the seam allowances so they don't, you know, want to get stuck. Okay, now you're going to go put the zipper foot on, on your machine, and you're going to zip along here. Now this is what you've got. Okay, really easy. Don't overthink it. I'll meet you at the table. Okay, this that we're about to do right now is the trickiest part. Well, second trickiest part. But we are going to unzip the zipper. Okay, your zipper is face down. See how I have this little thing loose here? This has to get over there. And it has to be right sides together. And the raw edges have to match. In order for all that to happen, this is all you do. You flip, see how I'm rotating, boom, one time, and then flip again. So now you've got this little twisty little bit here, which looks scary, but it shouldn't be. Our raw edges are together. And everything is right sides together. Okay. Now normally I would use the top edge of my dress to measure. I don't have that because my zipper is too long. So I'm actually going to zip this back up. And at the, what's it called? Empire waist seam. I'm going to put a little snip here. Boom. It's baby. It's baby snip. And then at the top of the dress, I'm going to do another one up there. That way, when I unzip this, I have some guides. Okay. So again, this is the free one. Flip once, flip twice. That's it. Okay. Lay this down. Find your snippety-doodles. And you're also going to be stitching from here to here this time. So when you put your pins in, you know, put them in facing that way. Okay. Now that I've got this where I know it needs to go, I'm going to rotate this because it's easier for me being a right-handed person to do it this way. So now this is facing me. Okay. Now where's that other little snip? She's right there. Okay. So that's going to get lined up right there. Okay. And I know that if these two snips are at the right places, then when I zip this up, I'll have an even seam line and an even like top line of my dress. Whatever happens below that, I don't, I mean, I definitely care, but I don't care as much. If this has to be a little bit eased in, it's fine. All that really matters is these horizontal lines because that's what your eye is going to see. Okay. Let's all say a wish and a prayer and send up good vibes for all of our zippers to look bomb when we're done. Okay. So dropping it here, drop down a little bit longer stitch length. And where are my snips?  So that will matter. Like 16th of an inch will just show up out of nowhere and you're like, how did that happen? So I'm going to yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. That looks good. And now I just need to make sure that this also stays in. Okay. This feels good to me. And again, you can pretty much baste that if you want just to make sure and then we zip it up. That looks pretty darn good to me. Obviously we need to stitch a little bit closer to the seam lines, but as long as these things are looking good now, they will in the end as well. So I can finish installing the zipper and then go back with the shorter stitch length and get a little bit closer to the tape. Okay. Moment of truth. Oh yeah. Look at that. Oh my gosh. Easily the best one I've done on the first try ever ever in my life ever. Okay. So now we've got to contend with the, you know, bottom opening of your skirt. So turn your dress inside out. Okay. Find the center back of your dress where the zipper is below the zipper.  Match up your, those notches where the zipper is supposed to end and then pull this guy as far out of the way as you possibly can, keeping everything kind of even. This is just fiddly. It's not difficult. It's just, you've got to smoosh some things around and make sure that underneath, you know, nothing's, it's just, you'll see as you get doing it. So just make sure this is out of the way and that your raw edges are even and you're going to pin right there. Okay. Everything's out of the way. Looking flat, looking gorgeous. Okay. So where we stopped stitching right there, we're going to start stitching again just to the very outside of that.   Okay, you guys, that is going to conclude this portion of the sew-along. We have something that looks a lot like a dress. We're getting very, very close. Come back for the next video, we're going to tackle the hem facing, which I'm actually super excited about. I love the hem facing. It's just such a nice finish. And so yeah, I'll see you back for that.


Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the match preview Manchester City vs. Evan. This video is sponsored by One Football, One Football's app, makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores and stats in one place. To download the One Football app, click the link in the description. We have done that and Baz will be throwing stats at you. All day. It's good. Don't stop it, Baz. It's good. Stop it. I know you want to be here. You want to be standing here in your undies. I don't have you in my undies. In case catalogue's. For my undies. Commando Baz. No, not Commando Baz. That's the new action figure for Christmas, Commando Baz. Comes with Kung Fu Chop. And little... Actually, you've got the kind of action man here. Yeah. He was boss that little... Oh, man.  I got one. What? I should add. A show, Man City Away. Yeah. Tough game. Yeah. But, you know, we've been that good against Newcastle and Wofford and don't they? Full of confidence this week. Flying into the weekend. Into the weekend. That's it. Just sliding into that. Etihad. Full of confidence. Really should have a couple of things. They hear that wouldn't have gone down well. Yeah, that's it. Oh, listen. By far the most difficult away game that you face in the season. Is it though? No, I'm feeling it. But, you know, to be fair, my D's are the best team on the planet. How do you know? If the planet was just England. The best team. The summary is... They're the best team in England by quite a stretch, I would say. Liverpool are second best team, but it's shitty for me, by far, the best side. So it's going to be a massive, massive, massive for us. But the flip side is they are missing up to... Guardiola Rechens, up to half a dozen players for the weekend. Whether that makes much difference or don't know. But they're going to be missing players. People like Kevin De Bruyne are doing his obviously fabulous footballer, his mission. And the last time he played, I thought he was going to be fantastic over the last few weeks of the season. So that's obviously a big positive for us.   So, obviously, who's going to face the backlash? Yay! Us! It was mad last week, wasn't it? Because the first half, they tried to walk the ball in the net, it had just been a bit more ruthless. They could have been two or three up before Chelsea scored. Once Chelsea scored, they thought they were brilliant. This is the thing about Man City, though. I know the Brains, and they do play brilliant football. But I do think that back had hit them long time. I'm going to say long time, I mean, title race. Because when I've watched them, there's been a lot of games where they do that. And yeah, normally it all works out well, but you're looking at a Premier League where it's going to come down to maybe two or three games. But don't you think Liverpool do that as well? Like against us, we could have been... No, I'm not going to give them any... They just don't concede. No, but they don't concede, not because you don't get the answers against them, because people just have to take it. No, no, they just don't concede. People haven't taken it. No, no, but in reference to... I just think the weights then can't have seen you play like the Liverpoolers do. But I do think that most... I do think that majority of the time, City are going to beat you comfortably. But I do think that that just leaves them open. That if you can take your chances against them, it's not out of the realm that we could possibly beat them. I'm not saying we will, and we'd have to be a lot more clinical than we have. I just mean that. I do find that because they are a team that just likes to try and walk the ball in. You get a chance. That you get a chance.  But they're already qualified, haven't they? Yeah, but he still said he's going out. But they're going to rest loads, aren't they? Well, they're going to try to, because he's got six out. But I mean, the thing about it is, I do think they're going to look to bounce back. I think, you know, Gaddiola's going to try and... I'm sure that's the next thing he's going to instill in them. I'd seen it against Wofford when they were playing Wofford and they were 2-0. They were absolutely cruising and then Wofford got a goal and they looked rocky towards the end. He was very angry with that and, you know, that should be the game we've got to sum up. And I do find that the man's that he plays, it must be such an enjoyable team to play in that sometimes they do forget that the game is there just to be won. It doesn't matter how you play. Play all that great football, but get the game won almost, you know, and then start digging about if you want to. And ask them if you should do this when they were at the pump and then coming out of it, he still was too many passes and he'd leave chance to... I've seen us. They were a few, I've seen us. They were under my this when we'd be 1-0 up and think it was all sand. And I remember going to the first game of the season in this second season when we went to Leicester and we were 2-1 up and everyone was just like, yeah, yeah, and then they scored and it was like, did you forget that we were only with the win? Maybe done it the other night, yeah. People 1-0 up in that first half and it was almost like, the way that didn't come off then that little flick went really, I'm sure there's a shot, you know, and things like that and then attained. But I mean, the last time City lost 2 consecutive games was December 2016, they lost to Chelsea in Leicester in the league show. You know, it's coming up, it's 2 years since it happened, so it could happen again. But like we've said, it's going to take a monumental effort. I mean, Everton, some of the stats, City have won just 2 of the last 7 against Everton. And I've only kept one clean sheet in that time and that was that 0-0 the week before or after the league cup. I don't remember which way it went. When the beaters on the semi, we drew 0-0 the week before, it might have been 3-0, which was brilliant. You know, we've generally got a decent record up the Etihad. We've gone there the last 2 years and got 1-1 draws. Straight 3 years on the 1-0. Yeah, we've gone there the last 2 years. There's no general, I don't think Everton fans have this. There's no fear factor. We don't go there as fans worried at all, whatever it will be, but we don't go there fearing it where we've gone into it. And it's weird that mentality, where the mentality comes from because we've got a good record there, so no fears going there. And that's the mad thing about this mentality thing we have, we're going to say in grounds is, it doesn't matter how well they played, it's just the fear of the fear. We're going to the Etihad where you should be like, oh, we're going to get destroyed. I remember going there last season, everyone was like, buoyed in confidence second game this season. We'd just about beaten Stoke in the first game, but everyone was like, we'll get something tonight. We'll get something tonight. Everyone was dead positive about it. You know, and there was no like, ah, these are batterers. Everyone was like, no, we'll get something tonight. I'm confident, I feel confident. And yeah, we've got, we've got a better side now, but we've had for a while, haven't we? Have you looked at the players? But in general, I don't, I still, but that's the point. I don't think, like, we're sitting here going, oh, it's going to be horrendous Saturday. Everyone's just sitting here going. If both teams play at the top level, she's the only, because they're the best team around, it's as simple as that. But that doesn't always happen. We've just seen it ourselves. They'll look at it and go, these are the, these are the danger of the side, but we'll beat them. We're at home, we've won nine on the run at home. Something like that. They'll be looking and go, we'll beat these. The same as we were doing before Newcastle and Wofford, and then games turned out that Newcastle had just been beating three-nil at home by West Ham, and they come to Goddison. And after the first half, they had a comfortable second half. Now, I'm not putting us on a level with City, but what I'm saying is, it's not always just straight forward. So for them, they might be looking and going, I will beat Evan on Saturday, we'll get back to winning ways. But Evan, I've got players, if it clicks, you could really hate City. And that's what we have to hope. When you write it, because of our record, I mean, it's there, the Premier League record. Can't read his own writing. Yeah, because it's with the thingy. It's no team. Ocean Liverpool, it is. I've got the best away records at the Etihad in the Premier League there. So everyone else, think of all the other teams, like you beat it in Chelsea all the time. And it's Evan in Liverpool, I've got the best away records there. City, the last game they lost against them on top six side was Evan when we beat them 4-0. So when you look at it like that, while the Ola's only beat us once out of four attempts, you start looking at them and going, you know what, some of these stats are probably playing to their mind as well.  And other teams come and go, we never get a result there. You know what our record's like today. City fans know that, they always know, or this. Because we're flipping on the table. This is the early kickoff Saturday, which also can produce matters. Liverpool and Man United don't play till Sunday. Man City will be thinking, right, we can win this game, we go back to the top of the league, and then Liverpool playing United, who knows, Marino, Michael Daydon't go for a point, and that leaves them back at the two. But that brings it on pressure, because they'll be thinking, well, we drop points today, and then Liverpool beat United, which they should. Then suddenly the gap's opened. Four points then, isn't it? So that flips the pressure on Man City. And that's the only way Evan should be thinking about it. The pressure's all on them to win. Of course it is. It's not on us to win. We've said this before, we've got three, four months into a new managerial era, with new players, we're still learning. He's still learning about his players. This is a really, really tough game, right? But you're absolutely right. This, for some reason, this is one of the best teams you've ever seen in the Premier League, right? And I sat there going, we haven't got a chance. I'm not, I'm thinking, you know what? If they haven't off, they weakled win. And it's mad because all the times we go to Anfield and Liverpool have been nowhere near as good, you like. But it's the fear. It's the fear Dechlenberg have won the greatest games of it. I've seen Tim Howard have an equally great game. I've seen the missed two penalties against this. You know, seeing all kinds at the end of the day. It's born out of the fact that Moise used to go there hated them because of what he did with them. We beat them, every year. Virtually. Oh, we'd have had a really great echo there, didn't we? So you look at it and go for a Tim Cale. Well, that was here, isn't it? So Saturday, you just look and go, all right, well. It's almost, I've never liked saying this because I think we're better than that now, but it's almost like a free game, if you like. Just because they're expected to beat us. We've, our forms dropped a little bit the last couple of games. So that, the pressure is all on them, you're right. Go there, it's early kick-off. Sometimes they're early kick-off, produced results you don't expect because it's a bit early, you know, whatever. The atmosphere is a little bit. Yeah, it's a bit, it's not perfect. No one's quite up yet.  They're a wonderful team. Oh, yeah, full of it. And they're the great teams are watching.  Football's probably not for you. I think what we need to do, though, is obviously, we need to go out there like we have done, like we did at Anfield, like we did at Stanford Bridge, where as we engage them, and then there'll be times where we'll have to, we'll have to get in our shape and we'll probably go into that sort of 4-4-2 shape that we go into. The two banks are 4 and with Charleston and Guilfrey Sigurdsson waiting in the centre backs to make sure that they don't have too much of the ball. And we'll have to do that, but we've done that already in games with success. You know, going, you know, particularly our last two away games against Chelsea and Liverpool, which Chelsea, we've got a good point at, you know, and Liverpool, we should have had the point at, you know, we were for an error in the last, with the last kick of the game, it cost us a point. No, no, Eddons. So, I believe we're ready this morning. So we've done that quite defensive shape and everything else, but we also carried a threat in both of them games. We'll carry a threat in this one. They, it might weigh 4 or sure against us. Like I said, these are by far for me the best team in the country. You've got the best players. Do you envisage any changes? Three at the back, maybe? I don't know. And who's who? Bernard. Because it'd have to be Coleman. He wouldn't lose, Coleman. But he'd walk off to the right as a wing back. He probably should do, but he won't. I just think he could go three fans, not saying he wouldn't play, three-five to you because he may well do, and that may well actually help Seamus. If he's got someone else behind him, he doesn't have to defend as much. And like I said, Seamus probably plays a little bit better away because he has less of the ball. If he plays a three-five-two then, you're almost, what I hope he does then is I hope he puts, well-cut right along side of it to Yarlison and says, right, we're going to run you. We've got two lads who are quick and we're going to play balls through you. Guilfeasig it's an old goal, mate. Get them in, spin them, get them into the channels. But is that changing too much the way we play? Well, some people would say, would it be a bad thing to just change things up a little bit? I don't know. I honestly don't know. But then will be Saturday morning at four o'clock and Saturday going, why did he play three at the back? Or are we giving him the trust and going, you know what? He's the side of that. Because I do. If he come out and went to play in three-five-two, I've got no buddies. I've got no problem with anything he does. I'm going to see Elf at four o'clock, so. Oh yeah? Yeah. In the Philonner. In the Walton. So, yeah. You're going to see Elf at four? Yeah. Okay. So. Isn't there on, telly on Sunday as well? Yeah, Sunday as well. And I've got to leave you there. Well, good.  But you never know. I mean, look at the last nine home wins. They've won nine on the spin. They've scored 33 and conceded six. So. I don't believe you. You know, matter what you believe. I just think you're making these stats up. Where would you have got these kind of stats? You get these stats from the one footballer. I've got them from a buddy. You've got the one footballer, Elf! And stats them. Elf! And, yeah. Raheem Staling's been in football. Well, Raheem, there's some Raheem Staling's obviously. He's thick this week. Again. He's been in the forefront of everything this week. He's also won the Premier League play of the month this week. Yeah. But obviously he...  It'd be easy to say, oh, he's had a bad week. I don't think he has had a bad week. He hasn't had a bad week. He's just... Again, he's just... The papers like to bring. No, but in fact, I don't think he's had a bad week. I think he's had an empowering week. Hmm. I think he is. Well, he's fully, yeah. He's finally... Well, not too. Well, yeah. I mean, personally, not professionally, by the end of the week. But, you've got to be very careful. He meant empowering. I think he's had a very empowering week. I hope he's changing people's opinions. I think he's come out. He's come out, and he's made his points very eloquently. And things like that. And, yeah. Dead eloquently, and things like that. Um... Ha, ha, ha! It's like, listen, I said this. I've said this in the summer, and I've said it on Twitter, and I've said it in conversations with people.  You've just made out, like, summer and Twitter are almost, like, similar things to each other. Well, they are. You've just got... I've said it in the summer, and I've said it on Twitter as well. Yeah, because... Like, they were somehow... When they're together, in the summer, everyone's nice with the floor.  In the winter. There's no place for Twitter in the winter, because everyone's pissed off. Do you want it to be all beneficial in the winter? No, no, because people are angry, and then it's very easy to argue. People are always angry. I know. And Twitter's on its way out for me. But, as I was saying, I think you get a rough time. I like Stirling, I think. I wanted them to do even better than the World Cup, than he did. People were waiting for him to fall.  I mean, look at the stats there. The last 26 goals for the Etihad, and that's 21 games. He's got 17 goals, nine assists. He's absolutely brilliant. But, why can't you like him? He's f*****d, if I feel that for another month. But, but, but, but, yeah. He still runs like Velma from Scooby-Doo. He runs like a toddler. You see the toddler with the little... That's what he runs like Velma. But, I don't think I'm out of line, saying... I don't mind if he runs like that. I wish Jen Towson ran like Velma, and be as quick as Stirling. He is a very, very good man. He's rad, I think. Oh, he's brilliant. I think he's brilliant. I mean, look, when you look at those stats, last time he lost the top six, was us, since then, he's won 139 out of 153 points. I was going into this, they're confident, and they're like me. Oh, yeah, they are. Yeah, without Richie Arleson, Everton would be nine points worse off without his goals, no player. That, I suppose, would make me feel better. No, I'm saying no player has been more directly involved in winning games for 30. Once again, that's supposed to make me feel better. Yeah, because he doesn't actually make me feel better. Because on Saturday, he's got eight goals. On Saturday, he's going to get up to 10, 12. He might get four, who knows. But, you know, it is what it is. It's a tough game, but like we said before, and I think it's because of the manager as well, this, is that we've seen how we've played at Arsenal, okay, the result wasn't great, but the performance was good. We played well at, played okay at Old Trafford, lost to the Dodgy Pen. We played well at Chelsea, got a point. We played well at Anfield, lost the game, but we, so on the four games here at the top side, we've expressed ourselves well at one time, you would expect or hope that we'd take our chances. So it's four nil to the city now? Seven. Well, you don't know. I mean, what I'd like to see us do is actually score a goal, that, you know, the only goal we scored in those four games was guilty. To be fair, it was a significant penalty though, which is like rocking us into the corner. Which is like rocking us. It is. I wouldn't say any more because that Twitter account might come after us. But rocking us? No, I think you're allowed to mention rocking us as the stats one. Oh, him? Yeah. Well, he'll make you follow him, then unfollow him apparently. That's what he does. I have no idea. I don't. I don't check who follows me, I just say. But his penalty that day was exactly what he should have always been, taking his pens right in the corner, but I'd like to see us score a gold mountain play in one of these games. So that's another little thing because at the minute, our play, our football's been excellent at those places without just being excellent. Yeah, and that's the thing. You want to be positive and everything, but at some point, you've got to be like, I don't want to be the hard-lock story anymore. I want to actually go to these. And this is probably the worst one for it because they're the best team. But you've got to get to a point where you're like, it's all well and good going when we play there, go well there, play there and have this sad story. At some point, you've got to go and beat one of these teams. Because you've got to, I think you've got to score. You've got to win a game. You've normally got to score. You're doing it on your own. It's facts. Well, like I've said, mate, I went to the only Premier League game we're able to shot on target. And we still lost the game. So Manchester United are all tough. So technically, they didn't score, they watched and scored for them. The only game we're able to shot on target in it, and we lost one of them. But how Everton is that? And Kevin Campbell missed an absolute shift. I don't remember. Yeah, I doubt. But, yeah. So we'll see. But like I said, they're a fantastic side. But they do, you know, it'll be a good open game. They do give you opportunities. I think that's what's important. I think because of the way they play, they're just brilliant at that kind. So it is, we always say, the only risk and reward, isn't it? But they're risk and reward at the very top level. The capable of beating the best teams, 89-0, but they're also on and off day. You just never know. And we'll see. Now, Leon and Watson against Leon in the other weekend. Leon cut through them quite easily. At times. The French hit man. Yeah. Yeah. They had just a game behind closed doors, but you could see. Natalie Portman, isn't it? The city was Natalie Portman, isn't it? I don't think she played, to be honest. She had a groin strain. Yeah, she had a groin strain. He stretched, warmed her up, pulled in the warm-up. Okay, fair enough. Spent most of the time in the treatment room with... Show her up. Kind of like that. Just stop talking. You're the one bringing Portman into it.  I'm not digging, innit? I'm digging your seat. Full bucket of tea there. Anyway, let's wrap this up. Yeah. 3-0. I don't know. 3-0, I'm not saying which way. 3-0, everton. Charleston. Hatterch. Wands of penalty. Daddy Dinks. With his zaha runny, daddy... Zaza. Zaza. Zaza. Penenches it. Penenches it. And this is just knocked him out. See it all day.  I'm visualising it now. I'm visualising the more I visualise it, the more it's going to come to. Well, that's how visualisation works. That's why I brought her up. Quantum physics, though. It's definitely not quantum physics. Quantum physics. Isn't that when the fellow went back in time and just kept on... That's quantum leap. That's quantum jumping, mate. That's quantum leap. That's called quantum jumping. Well, it might be, but that's what the TV... That was the TV. That was the TV. The problem was called... Do you ever remember the last episode? What happened? No. Why? I can't remember. You can't remember the last episode. You never actually watched it, did you? Just pretending you watched it. So all the bigger boys would be nice to you. You should be on BBC too, mate. You should have watched it. I just didn't watch it. And you can't remember the last one, right? No, because I probably didn't watch every one of them religiously. You wouldn't have watched it without seeing religiously as a good point, because then the last one, he meets God. Yeah, he did meet God. You didn't know that, though! You didn't know that. You never even watched it. You just wanted to seem cool. Anyway, let us know your thoughts. Once and it wasn't cool. It was cool. It was cool. It wasn't cool. It was cool. Might have been fitting your screw. You weren't even in school and it was on. You've been waiting for about 15 years. I will do you. What? I will do you. Light. Light is massively... Yeah. Anyway, let us know your thoughts in the comments. About four years between us or six or something.  Elvis. See you later. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Subscribe if you haven't already. Click the bell if you want to later. 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news, old things have passed away and behold, all things have become brand new. Can we just take a praise break and say thank you Jesus? I'm Amy Schaefer and I'm here with Corey and with Sydney and Sydney today. This shows for me, it is a great topic. It truly is. We're two months into 2023 and today we want you to do a spiritual check-in, a personal inventory about the current state and place of your life. If you're feeling stuck or unfulfilled, then you don't wanna miss our conversation with Carl Klosson, who's gonna teach you the seven resolutions you can make with God that will help you overthrow old patterns and live fully in his power. And you saw Carl right there and we're so excited to speak with him in just a moment. So stay tuned with us and I know Corey, this is something that is deeply in your heart about just the spiritual change and evolution that people are really stepping into this season. Yeah, yeah, it's just so important that we come into alignment with God in this season and so that God could speak to us about the inner gifts that's inside of us and deal with the sin areas, but also just help to just mitigate some things and just manifest some things in our lives. So I'm excited to really, really hear what he's gonna say this morning. If you think about resolutions, I mean, I made some, you made some, we all made some, some we've done well with, some we've let down already, but I wonder if it's okay, guys, if we just say, Holy Spirit, come and just do whatever you want. Shake up all of my plans, invade my life, my family, my church, not just Kentucky, invade Pittsburgh, invade our life, invade this program today. Let's make sure we leave room, Sydney, as we're structuring resolutions, we leave room for the Holy Spirit to just do what he needs to do and move. Because if we don't have the Holy Spirit, I think all of us, we can say, what's the point? Why are we here? Why are we doing what we're doing? One thing God has really put in my spirit and my heart is I feel like there was such a push even within the body of Christ, it's like, oh, I'm in inflores on that. And I was like, God has really put my heart, like lay those idols down because it means nothing. What are you willing to let go of? What are you willing to surrender? What are you willing to lay at the altar down at the Father and being like, okay, do a work inside of me, oh God. What do I need to transform? What do I need to do so I can truly be your vessel because I truly live, Corey, we're called to be glory carriers in this season to be a light in our world like never before. Oh my goodness.  You could become trapped in the idea of what I'm supposed to be for God, especially when you talked about that influencer aspect, like I'm an influencer for God, I'm this and that. But ultimately we have to give that glory back to God so that we don't literally marginalize God out of what he wants to do. And that's very dangerous to start to feel like, hey God, this is on me. And so we're gonna talk about the Holy Spirit a little bit later, but I'm excited to really, really get into this. This is exciting, so excited. So we are so glad that you're with us because our next desk desires for all people to come out of the shadows of shame and trust God to heal what has been hidden. Carl Colosson is the morning host of Carl and the Morning Crews, excuse me, Carl and Crew Mornings on Moody Radio and the lead pastor of 180 Chicago. Carl was on a mission to spark a spiritual revolution in the church that reaches the world. In his book, The Seven Resolutions, Carl Impacts Where Self-Help Ends and God's Power Begins. Carl, welcome to Hope Today. We're so glad that you are joining us. So good to be with you. I sense God's spirit in this morning show with you guys. What, what, what a blessing. Thank you. It is such a blessing that you are with us and we're all partnering together and just seeing how Holy Spirit is gonna move and work. And speaking of Holy Spirit, Carl, you and your wife actually recently had an opportunity to go to the Asbury Revival. I saw you posted on your social media. Can you talk to us about your experience and even what God revealed to you?  Can't believe I married that long to this great woman. But 35 years, we've been praying for awakening or revival. And I think it's important to note that the definition of terms here, I've been really drilling down on this, but we're called in the church to be revived. It implies that we have been touched by God, experienced his power, but we need a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit filling us up. And we know that this is true. Jesus said to the church of Laodicea, he says, you think you're rich. You think you have needed nothing. But he says, I'm standing at the door and knocking. If you'd open the door and let me come in, I'll be with you. And that is not a verse of salvation. It's a reverse of, it's a verse of revival. He's saying, come on, man, you are the church of Laodicea. You're leaning on your stuff when I've got Holy Spirit for you. And that's what I'm thrilled about. So the revival at Asbury, it's real. It's genuine. This is not a splash. This is gonna make a difference. And I got there before the crush of people got there. There were just a thousand people in line when I was there, but there were thousands of people in line at five different venues on campus at Asbury University to see what God was doing. And I will say this, they were not spiritual gockers. They were there to seek and to take back with them what God is doing there. So I have great hope for our nation. I've wondered, can we have an awakening God? And it's gonna begin with a revival in the church. No, Carl, that's so exciting. What we're seeing is this like the spiritual awakening, this fervor that is rising within people's hearts like never before. And I know something that you're passionate about is really that being revived within. And can you tell us a little bit about your story, your background of, you know, you had to come to the end of yourself in some pretty amazing and powerful and dramatic ways. Can you share your story with us? Yeah. Yeah, I think we, no one's fit for the kingdom of God until you do come to the end of yourself. And for me, it was pretty dramatic because in the early 80s, you know, I competed in something called the Iditarod trail sled dog race when I was 18. It's an 1,100 mile dog sled race across Alaska. And I remember at the age of 18, I was feeling this incredible sense of hollowness. Even though I was gonna be this hometown hero and boy, I did this when I was 18, I felt hollow. And I sensed the spirit of God saying, Carl, come this way, come with me. And there was another voice of demonic influence that was saying, go your own way. And I went my own way for a few years. And I wasn't born again at this point. I'd been raised in church, but I did not. I memorized a lot of verses, won a lot of candy bars for memorizing a lot of verses, but I didn't know the author of those verses. I didn't know them personally.  And I was a pretty good kid at the age of 18, but I started drinking and one drink couldn't contain the hollowness in my, they couldn't fill that hollowness in me. And I became really hooked on crown, oil and cocaine guys, early 80s in Alaska worked in the oil fields. And I was snorting coke so heavily that I would have chronic nosebleeds. I couldn't get enough cocaine to fill that void in my life. But on February 11th of 1984, I was driving down a road in Anchorage, Alaska. And every crack was kicked out from under me. I'm making good money, but my soul was empty still. And God came into my car and he said to me, are you done yet? And I broke into a bundle of sobs. And I said, God, I'm so done. I give you everything. And on that day, he's so radically changed my life. I'm living it right now with you guys. He's so radically changed me and put me on this path less traveled. And I've been on it ever since and the fire does not have to go out for Jesus. Like some say, no, he can stoke those goals right to the end. Wow. Carl, just so you could just feel like just like what you were experiencing and sensing the Holy Spirit. Like I just like doing a new thing. Can you just take a moment to speak to someone? Because we know in this area in Pittsburgh, beyond even in across the country, that addiction has such a stronghold and a root on people. So can you just take a moment and speak to somebody who may be watching or that family that has a loved one that is in the throes of addiction. Can you take a moment and just minister to them? To both groups, I'll say this, it's an amazing thing, but there is no one, we can't save anyone and we can't save ourselves. Jesus said to Nicodemus, he says, man, you gotta be born of the spirit. And then he went on to say where the spirit of God blows, we don't know, but there's someone watching right now and the Holy Spirit is blowing into your life right now. And he's saying you can get free. And it's not just from cocaine or alcohol or food, it can be addiction to latter climate in the corporate world. It can be an addiction to sex. It can be an addiction to any number of things that are just derailing your life. But Jesus said it is to his glory that you bear much fruit. And so he invites you to be a branch that abides in the vine because apart from him, we can do nothing, but in him, it's to God's glory that we bear much fruit. So the hope is out there. And if the winds of the spirit are blowing in your heart right now, just know this, you feel like you've got nothing. That is your strategically positioned for God to do everything. And that isn't hype, those aren't words. That's the gospel message.  And so reach out and give us a call. Carl, thank you so much for what you just shared in that moment and being led by a Holy Spirit and something that you are so passionate about is a spiritual revolution, just taking over the body of Christ and you have a new book that you wrote that's seven resolutions. Can you talk to us about how it came about and tell us what are the seven resolutions that God revealed to you? Well, the whole premise of this book is that we in American Christianity, I think it's unique to us because our brothers and sisters in the underground churches around the world, in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, you name it, all these 1040 window countries that are under a lot of affliction, they have a built-in mechanism that drives them back to the feet of God. We struggle and here's what we've done. We've actually layered the American dream over God's vision and they don't jive. I'm not again, the American dream's great but God's economy is the way up is down. And my concern was for myself because it was three weeks after I was born again that I had one of the mother of all faceplants. I found myself being discipled now by my uncle who was a golf pro but a radically committed, freshly committed Jesus follower and I'm three weeks in the word. I'm highlighting Romans like, I mean, you might as well just dunked it in some yellow paint because I highlighted every verse and I'm just weeping over the word and then one fateful Friday afternoon after I knocked off work, now I'm taking my, I was taking at the time my construction skills and working, building a health club. And it was hot, central California and my buddies invited me out and I'm like, I'm gonna go witness to them. That's what I'm gonna do. Well, I tipped up a wine cooler that afternoon with these guys and I got on a slippery slope that never ended well for me. And I found myself, this is shocking what through.  Here I am, brand new in Jesus, fallen off the cart and the minute I took a hit of that, it's like the play was revealed. It's like curtain fell down and I could almost see physical demons in that room. I ran for my life out of there that day. I ran home. I knelt beside the bed where my uncle was around the corner with his bride and I started to pray.  And I meant it. I said, God, I know your grace has saved me. Now just take me out of here. In fact, I said, kill me. My uncle heard my prayer and he put his arm around me and he knelt down beside me and he said, no. You're God's kid. We're gonna get you on your feet by the power of God and we're gonna see victory in your life.  We find ourselves living with 80% victory but 20% of our lives lived in the shadows and we're getting our booties kicked by Satan because he tempts us to live with this compromised life. We know that we're new creatures in Christ but we're wondering how in the world do I get my life aligned with Jesus that actually fits a picture of the scriptures? How do I do this? And so the premise of seven resolutions is where self help ends and God's power begins. And whether it's Galatians three where Paul says foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? And this is what he says, verse three. That that you began in the spirit why are you working out in the flesh and what he's saying is this. He says you're going to church and you're now living in your own strength what was begun by the power of the Holy Spirit. And that's what we do in Americanized Christianity. This is why we have this bifurcated life where we've got this thing. Oh, I'm all in for Jesus over here but we got this whole chunk of us living in the shadows over here. And we try to rationalize it or minimize it but God wants us to address it because he wants to give us victory. Are we gonna be sinless and perfect? No, but do we have to let certain battles never be won? No way. That is not God's plan for our life. No, ma'am. No, sir. That is not God's plan. And I live to tell the world about it.  We're sitting here soaking it all up but I just want to go through the seven resolutions because I love them what you'd like to have down. So join God, think truth, kill sin, choose friends, take risk, focus, effort, redeem time. So Carl, what would you say to the person today that's watching that feels like they've been right where you are. Maybe they've took a hit of something or feel like everything's collapsing and they're just in this place that they feel sick. What are the things that they can do right now to truly experience God's power made manifest in their lives? There's not a natural progression necessarily in these seven resolutions except that join God is preeminent. And this is what I would say. No matter what it is that's living in the shadows of your life, no matter how big or small you have may have characterized it, Satan's baiting you and then he beats the Taradiyah. The sin, repent, shame, cycle goes on and on. And we all know that. The key element, and Andrew Murray says it this way and I capture it in joining God, that one resolution. He says humility is the one virtue that gives birth to every other virtue. And it is true, blessed are the poor in spirit, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Apart from me you can do nothing, John 15. So there between the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus's last words with his disciples on the way to die for our sins. He gives us the secret. We've got to come to the point where we realize this God who saved us is the same God that wants to train us. According to Titus 2, 11 through 12, the key to understanding the grace of God is that the same grace that saves us, that same power that saves us is the same power that's gonna train us. And we can't live by shoulds and ought tos. It's time today that we live in the power of Jesus and that's best by humbling yourself. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourself under God's mighty hand and He will lift you up. Humility is not a spiritual gift that we go out in the woods and hum a little bit and it's gonna fall on us. It's a choice we make every day. And if we have that choice to humble ourselves, I'll tell you right now, I was a horse's rear end as a husband. Here I am following Jesus, leading people to Christ. But the first seven years of our marriage I was a horse's rear. And my bride grabbed my hand when I was walking past her one day and I looked down at her and her chin was quivering. I got a great bride. I said, what's going on? And she said, Bub, I don't love you anymore. And I said, what do you mean? You don't love me anymore? He said, I'm scared to death. We'd let so many things just go in our marriage. And I walked around the corner that day, Mr. Alaska, I fix it, build it, restore it. And I walk around the corner, guys. I looked in the mirror at our bathroom vanity and there was a battle raging. And it was like, am I gonna rationalize and blame my wife for which she would have owned plenty of things in our marriage? Or am I gonna own what I've gotta own? And on that day, by God's grace, God humbled me, broke me and showed me that another Bible study isn't what I needed. Another little trick, another person that I witnessed to wasn't the secret sauce. The secret sauce was humbling myself under God's mighty hand. And he would allow me to be the man that loves my wife as Christ loved the church and it revolutionized our marriage. And I'm here to tell you today that if you wanna bear fruit in your life, the primary thing we need to do is constantly, not for salvation, but for sanctification. It's a big, fancy word for growing up in Jesus. We need to be clinging to Christ and let the winds of the spirit lead us along and that can only be found through humility. Carl, so beautifully said and put and we just say amen.  You are truly a gift and a blessing and a voice that is needed right now in this season, this hour for the body of Christ and for believers. Thank you so much, Carl, for joining us today. Thank you, joy to be with you guys. It is such a joy to have Carl with us today in this conversation and Corey and Amy. Wow, I think we're just all soaking it up of what he shared, of what he imparted into us. Corey, what are your thoughts? I'm really honestly in awe right now. As he was ministering, I just could feel the presence of God just really just permeating into the atmosphere. There was such authenticity. Did you hear what he was talking about in his scripture, in his testimony about what he was saying? And it just hits. I mean, it really, really does, it goes down. You know how the word, it goes down to the bone marrow. You know, when you have some greens, you put the bone in the greens, you know what I mean? Because it's like the bone marrow, it has the flavor that you cannot make that up.  And I don't think we talk about that enough as believers. It's like, oh, I gave my life to Jesus and then everything is just sunshine. And I was like, no, I gave my life to Jesus and I relapsed and I failed.  That's what he said. And so just that level of transparency and authenticity, I believe that's where God really wants to live with us. Like take off that mask of perfection and that pressure and that weight to please God. Listen, without Jesus, without the Holy Spirit, we can never amount to what we feel God wants from us. We need the Holy Spirit. We need that presence with Jesus, not relationship with Jesus to be able to do that. Listen, the scripture today, the focus of it was coming from John chapter 14 verse 26. And it says this, but the helper of the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all the things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Listen, just to talk about this just for a moment. The Holy Spirit is, there's so many different names for the Holy Spirit. It's the Comforter, the Helper, the Advocate. But one that I really love is the Intercessor. The Intercessor to enter scene, to intervene into things. And the word intervene means to come in between. And it reminds me of interception. I used to play football all the time. Played college football and high school football. And sometimes things are going one way and then there's an interception.   They're meant to take you out in your mind. But he is interceding on your behalf. And that's what we need. We don't just need more money. We don't need more influence. We don't need more likes or loves. We need more of God's presence because in his presence is the fullness of joy. And I'm just excited.    Now, we're in a self-help world and culture. Self-help everything, self-care everything. And there is an importance and a value to that. But there is something called the power of God. There's something called the Holy Spirit, my helper. He does for me what I cannot do myself. We have this thing called flesh and it's so strong. And that flesh craves bad stuff, sin. He said, I was addicted to crowned royal and cocaine. That is what we call the flesh nature, the sin nature. And sin or sin, that's what you crave. So how does that break in our life? We need the Holy Spirit, our helper. And guess what? He's as close as the mention of his name. It's not like he's off in some far, far away land just with magic pixie dust. Like I hope everything works out. Jesus said, listen, I'm gonna go away but I'm gonna send you a helper, the Holy Spirit, the comforter, the one that's called alongside to help you and he will never leave you nor forsake you. So today, sin me, no matter what we're going through, no matter what challenges, no matter what setbacks, no matter what hang ups, no matter what sin, the Holy Spirit is there to help us down deep on the inside. We want revival in the land. Let's start right here, baby. Yeah, you two are on fire. That's like, so I just have been so ministered to what both of you were just sharing about Holy Spirit being the interceptor about intercession for us.  These are my sins. This is where I've fallen short. This is where I've messed up. Just pause for a moment. Have you taken a moment to look at your heart? Sometimes I feel it grease my heart so much as Christians that we're out calling all out the carap and the garbage of the world, but we don't look at us. We are so, we'll cast out judgment. We'll speak about this group and that group and look at them, but look at us, the plank in your own eye. And I am guilty of that. This past weekend, God had me so wrecked. I felt like I got delivered, set free and saved all over again at this woman's conference. I mean, it's not coming out my nose. I'm keeping it all the way real. It was not pretty, okay? Because I had to take a good look at myself and being like, oh my gosh. So maybe that's you today. And I feel that that's what God is doing in this season.  In that scripture when he says, depart from me, I never knew you? Does Jesus do you know Jesus? Let him into your heart today. Don't back away from Jesus. This is not a game. Jesus paid the ultimate price. He laid it all down. He paid a price that we could not even afford. It's unimaginable. So if you feel right now is stirring in your heart, if you feel a conviction in your spirit, Jesus is saying, come. And I guarantee and I promise you when you lay it down before him and you just surrender at all, it'll be amazing the things that he begins to do, the deep work he does and the healing because he wants you to be.  Are you done yet running from me?  Are you done yet trying to fix this career problem yourself, your marriage problem yourself? Today is a great day to run to Jesus like fast, like quit like now.  On tomorrow's Hope Today, we're teaching our children to shine God's love on everyone. Author and pastor Daniel Darling helps children discover that the biggest best light is God's love and that walking in it protects them from sins, harmful shadows. That's tomorrow on Hope Today. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.