Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique house issue, boy. E-C-O, and I'm here with the lovely official, Ms. Jamaica. Yes, yes. What's going on? Nothing. Save, man. Listen, man. We got a lovely, lovely lady that just entered into the building, man. She's something else, man. Hey, man. I was watching your videos, man. I don't know. Where'd you get this picture? Was this one? It was IG. Mm-hmm. I like the picture, man. We're going to get our own pictures here in a minute, man. Come on. You got that right. Say it, man. Hold on. Hold on. Let me introduce you. Check it, man. Save, man. Jazzy Mac is in the building. You got to play. I got to play it all that, man. I got to play it all that. Say it, man. We so happy to have you, man. Hey, I'm happy to be here, man.  Hey, man. Boss talk 101 when the boss is talk, man. Yeah, I'm with this. Y'all are so uncapped. Man, we just who we are, man. We had to pick her up from Six Flags the other day when I text you and said, we're not going to be able to be back in time. Remember I rescheduled? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was out of town or something like that. I'm going to got to do both of them anyway. Let's get it done. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm glad it worked out like that. You're a cool guy, man.  Yeah, man. I live being around real people.  Man. I can't find a man. You got to value it, right? Yeah. You got to make sure you harness it. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to let it go.  Take this love. Man. Get it.   A lot of people be fake. A lot of people be fake. Oh, man. It's sad. Corona virus is not the worst epidemic out here. Fakeness and clout chasing. Man. By far it's succeeded motherfucking Corona. So, Jazzy, man. Like what's the, what were you from Fort Worth? I'm from Fort Worth, Texas. So, let's get into it, man. Let's go back. Before the music. I like to start back. I like to get that back story. You know what I mean? Yeah. Jazzy, man. Who is Jazzy, man? Before the music. Before the music. Before the music.  Yeah. How old were you at that time? Honestly, I went to Cap, but I was in 4th grade.  And you wrote it yourself? Yeah, I wrote it. And I remember, I used to perform. Like I'd take the little pillows out the couch in the living room and make me a little runway in that beach. Really? Yeah, my mom was a good mom. She used to have us the little karaoke machine. Another dream. Yeah, come on, man. My auntie drug one up in the reunion one time. Yeah, you jump out. Yeah. In the... Yeah, she was on it. No, she was more like that one step one with Yolanda Adams, man. The battle is the Lord's. That's my auntie song. She's gonna play it out, but now that she's sung it, there is no pain. Yeah, yeah, she's gonna go there. You know what I'm saying? Did you have siblings that were doing the same thing? I'm the oldest sibling. That's my blood sibling. So that was... Yeah, that was doing the same thing after a while. Okay, but now... I'm trying to drag them in. Okay.  I'm like, y'all could do it. Hey, man, just hey, hey. Family fair. Oh, definitely. That's good. Definitely. So when... So, okay, so you were at home doing that. So when was the first time you actually had confidence in yourself to say, this is what I want to be? You know, it was like I had, when I was in 10th grade, I went to Eastern here. I actually had a hole in this crack because I thought it was such a big deal. So I sat my mama down on the couch. Like I was trying to tell her I was pregnant or something. I was like, mama, I made this decision.  Sometimes I'm gonna be a rapper. And I'm thinking I'm dropping something profound. And she just looking at me and was like, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's dope. That's dope. Man. She didn't criticize you. She didn't believe you? Nah, honestly, she... My mama, my mama is a, from nothing made us ever to a corporate giant. So she, you know, not out of no, it was out of good intent, but she wanted me to be a corporate person. Wow. Yeah. Parents usually do that, like whatever they're in, they don't want to... And I missed it. 10th grade. 10th grade. That's dope. That's dope. I like it.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where it starts out at. Yeah. I heard you knew Gold Yeyo and All in Boy. That's what he kept telling me. Like you come up in that aero, man. All right.  I didn't have a lot of... I'm like a stark goddamn... I didn't have a lot of goddamn meat, pigs in the pan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.  I kind of, when I was looking, when I went through that tunnel trying to find you, I seen some spaces of where it was gaps in there. Yeah.  What was up with that? And your music was dope. Three years ago, four years, I'm looking at it. You had dope music. So why did you slow down? I'm gonna be honest with you. Shit. Real life. I want to hear it. And music life is two different motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah. And they don't... It's like... I don't know what type of finance people do, but they're like, anybody that's finance minded can think of it. Stocks and crypto. When stocks do not give this fuck, crypto trash for the day. That's right. When crypto is up, stocks is trash. Mm-hmm. So it was trying to figure it out. It was trying to figure it out. And I ain't had no mentor or no role model. Yeah.  I'm writing... I'm trailing... blessing my own treasure.  See, stretch died. Right after we shot that motherfucking video. Yeah, I was gonna get into that.  Yeah, yeah. I've been... Did y'all are really close? Yeah. And this the man that... You know, I've been there in Fort Worth. Because I've been on for a long time. Mm-hmm. So... But that's the first nigga out of town that was like, look nigga, you supposed to be up here. And these niggas is on you.  And he did that without being up. So a lot of niggas be... be kept real. I don't... You know, it's like all they have in the world is they little position that they created for themselves.   And Struggs was awesome. Nah, my niggas say, this is what they making him look like. This what it is. This what you gonna go through. This what you gonna turn up with. Wow. You know, I seen you had that song with Struggs and I shout out to his wife or the young lady that he had the two kids by. Yeah. Me and her talked of it. I was trying to do something with her to kind of push his legacy with the kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I'm gonna... When I be saying this, I be mean. Let me know.  Yeah, yeah. Actually, we're trying to get them over here. I already done bought plaques and everything. Yeah, amen. And was willing to bless if they come. They welcome to it. Yeah. I'm with whatever it's like.  You know what I'm saying? Man, I remember that boy. We used to be in P.B. Tall together. I ain't gonna ever forget that. He a legend. That nigga was dope. I just picked this son up from a pun shop and he was trying to get a bike. I said, boy, we finna... In every interview, this is my first one since then. Hey.   Wow. I like that. I like that. I don't know. We gonna get grid. That's why niggas act like they're with me. They don't wanna pass me. And I'm like, because I'm gonna say everything. Did you get him a bike?   I'm finna make these niggas come together with me and get this man a car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How is he? He in his early 20s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Really? You know what I'm saying?   Yeah. That's what you was depending on. No, that's dope, man. I think you're doing the right thing and if you need our help on something, hit me up. I'm that guy. Definitely. Like when it's going down, you're like, we doing this and watch what happen. Shit. That's how I bring it, man. You know what I'm saying?  If you say it, you got to stand on it. Yeah, for shit's sake. And so back to you, that tackles back to your question. I'm the type of, and then when people meet me, you gon' catch my vibe.   You get what I'm saying? They got a position that they got by doing this, right? And if a real nigga that can do this too, come in the dough, then they feel like that gon' lose that position. I didn't.  Let's go. But they had the little look about them and they don't care that sound, whatever contract as long as they gon' get some followers in, you gon' make them look famous and I got past stuff of that. No, no, no. You dope, man. It ran me in the ground. I loved it.  You know what I'm saying?  But I always say, you know, a lot of times you can't let certain situations discourage you because you have to set the trend for all these younger kids who are coming up who might run into the same problems that you ran into and got discouraged from you. It's like, you know what? I'm not gonna let this stop me because these kids gotta know that you can make it through this. But you know what? I praise God every day that I'm at that point now where I realize that back then nobody told me that back then. Nobody told me that you can calm yourself to a level everybody got to and fall down and get back up and get back up. I didn't, I thought when my world can't crash it down I thought it was over for me. So, you know what I'm saying?  My daddy stay in the same city don't have no relationship and the people I be around don't have the same. And all those people that you've met that's in the music industry that's maybe even sometimes older than you none of them couldn't take you under their wings and be like That's what I'm saying.  It's like everybody it's an industry now.    I've been through that all my life. Okay, so how are you how are you over stepping those boundaries? How am I? How are you getting past it?   Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a ridiculous amount of business is probably something I can even recall for you right now.  Wow, that's dope. I like it. What do you think about it? I like that. Jazzy Mack. I like that. Yeah, get it right. God damn man. Yeah, so what about let's talk about the re-intro. Oh yeah. What's up with that? I'm going back and coming up and all that. What's up with the re-intro? Yeah, yeah. That's gonna be the actual intro on my type. That's the one you got on your display right now. Is it on YouTube I think? But you don't have a video to it or do you? Nah, I just... I'm gonna be at the house and I'll be wanting... Like, I'm in the whole motion coming back right now. I got all my resources set up. Okay.   No, no. I'm a street nigga at heart. No, no. We already know. Imaging part of it. I can tell the streets on you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm a little fuzzy. No, no, no, no. I was at the nail shop when he reminded me how to woo. So I spent a minute and I was like, you use something else. I already know that. I come from where you at. So I get it. So to be honest, that's what it is.  I've already went through that on my own independently. Yeah.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I thought I'd seen you in like a store. Do you have a little setup? Yeah, definitely, definitely. Like, we got a little setup. Here I'll be like... This ain't a little setup. Don't let this man cat with you. This is some real by side. Don't even say. No. No. I'm saving another year, my friend. No. Thank you so much, but you got a setup to where you're working on. Is it merch, or are you trying to press merch out of there, or how are you doing it? I do so much what I got on right now. That's my own brand. That's your own. Yeah. I got a picture of Yellow Beans manager up there. Yeah, yeah, me and little Beans. Yeah.  I'm, he wearing it on that? Man, so you gon' give her something over here? Oh, definitely. Yeah, yeah, I could wear it on the show. Make me one with Boss Talk and I'll wear it.  I like it. Yeah, but I do every type of press. I got the vinyl, the screen print, the DTG. You talked that, right?  Wow, that's dope.       And we, you know what I'm saying? Wow, I love it. I love it. Like I said, the hustle is real. Yeah, yeah, cutting out the little man. So have you been pressing them to sell them in stores and stuff? These ones? Yeah. I got a couple business partners too. This ain't none of me. I'm a, I like to say, independent franchising. I saw a movement at the beginning of where it was and I jumped on it. It was like, here, this is what y'all want.  So it's, that being said, we ain't probably like 30 stores around the corner in the U.S. It's dope. It's a guy that been blowing me up all day today trying to get, trying to get what that looks like. Yeah.  No, no, no, you definitely putting in that work. How many, how many units can y'all print in a day? It's unlimited. I can give you however many you can afford to buy. Really? And that's what anything that I say. Really? So you have that much manpower to print as many as you want? I have that much Mac power. I don't like that. Mac power, I love it. That much Mac power.  I'm gonna go back. I don't wanna stay up here. I wanna go back, cause I wanna get into the things I've seen where you was pretty much going through it when it came down to legal issues when you got into some stuff. What happened? I stand strong. Now I wanna know the first time you went into some issues, some situations. Let's talk about it. So the first time I ever got arrested? You got arrested, and yeah, all that. The very first time I was arrested. How old were you at that time anyway? I was either 16 or 17. There it is. Okay. There it is, the start of something B.  Yeah, I was still in high school, and then I was getting ready to graduate high school at 17, I graduated early in the year.  I'm smart.  So instead of telling them and fixing it, I finished out of classes. Cause now y'all can't send me these classes off graduated there. Wow. That's smart. That's smart. She was happy. She ain't gonna fulfill my dreams right now. So why did you end up in trouble when you was dope, smart? Because you end up, that's what's gonna happen.  And I believe in it. If you're going by the same status quo, if you swimming in a school of fish, it's gonna be hard for you to get noticed.    You can't put me in no box. No, no, I get it. I get it. So how did you end up going to jail? Yeah, let's get back on that. Just move out of it. Nah, for real, I got to. Hey, but my first time ever was at jail, I got pulled over for some traffic violation and I didn't know the whole, after 11 days of turning to a warrant and you go to jail. I had never been subjected to it. So I pulled over the locker, asked me my questions or whatever, had me open my door and I'm thinking he's talking to me if he can give me another ticket. But at some point he passed on me and just tackled me.  And you know what I'm saying?  But you weren't even resisting, so why would he tackle you? Did he just put you to turn you around? I don't know, scary. Yeah, push that. And it was a blast. Was he a small dude?  People be the bad worst one to you sometimes, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like I said, I didn't even know what was going on. I'm thinking, I'm thinking the ticket. I'm like, why is he, cause he talking and like I said, him, he know he finna arrest me. And I'm thinking, why don't he just give me my ticket and let me go. But he inching closer and like I said, he just passed on me.  I'm like, what you doing? You gonna touch me?  Yeah, he didn't even explain that in the region. No, none of that. With the rights, they were random, Miranda Wright.  He put me in the back of the car. And my phone was in my pocket, so I shimmy and worked my phone on my pocket.  What? I called 911. I said, okay. Hey y'all, I was the guy I mean, he got me in his car, I don't know why. I'm in cuffs and I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, right? I'm pleading for my life.  Cause I ain't never been in no cop situation. She calling, I'm hearing a call. She's like, hey man, but we just, and she put me in hold. And I hear her come across the cops.  Y'all take a goddamn phone phone. She calling this and she, telling us y'all don't leave her with the phone.  So that was my first little run in with a lot. So I never, I never got a, you know, we ain't never had no good relationship.  Y'all scheme me. What about just released from jail? What was that all about when you made that? Which one? With the Jazz and Mac bomb. The bomb video.  The bomb video, you were just getting out of jail. Thanks. I'm gonna tell you this. What was that all about? If you know it's okay, it started out, I was, when I opened my first t-shirt shop on the south side of Fort Worth. So that footage you see in the bounce houses and the people outside, this is my grand opening party. I had this artist I flew out from Denver or whatever, long story short, she bought weed with a, Denver weed is legal. Texas is nice. That's right.  I had him driving.  I had him driving and he didn't put on a blink of light when he pulled in the terminal, so the lives get behind us, they pull us over. So it's really, we supposed to be cool have a decent conversation with them, let us go.  Bitch, Denver being legal and we don't have nothing to do with you having weed here in Texas. So she had a pen and like a gram on her.  Oh man. That appears to be marijuana pens in my possession. And they really wouldn't even, they didn't even check until they, until she was so unruly that it was like, now we're gonna pull this motherfucker apart.  And so I got charged. And this what happened, I threw the grand opening. I went to jail right after that. How long did you stay?  I pay cash money, I'm not sure. You booked yourself out, yeah.  Yeah. This is how this is done. She a vet in this life.  That's it, that's it. I'm not here for none of the bullshit, don't ask me no questions.  So you never did no hard time, you just always went and got out.  Okay, so my question is, you are talented where the music is concerned from a young age. Very talented. Why choose the streets, instead of just strictly just all the music?  Shit, I feel like people like Pimp C, Lil Wayne, Two Chainz. Say it a little stop. Yep. Hold on, let her say Pimp C, she said Pimp C. No, no, no, no, what did you say again? Shit, mama, my favorite humans that ever walked the face of the planet, Pimp C. Look at her when you say that.  The list is ongoing, what it is is to be a thousand, you can't never. So my intent is to say these people over here, right?   If I wanna raise kids, I can teach them Kata's curriculum at first. Correct. You know what I'm saying? Because they're not gonna get there.  So, and that's a big problem, I have my mama and my life.  And I love my mama, but I'm in the streets. I'm gonna get there, but I'm gonna get there on my own way. So you're saying because of the type of music that you be rapping, which is about the street, you have to live that street life to be able to rap about it? No, no, no. Not at all. What she's saying is you can't make no damn money in music, so you gotta stay hustling. No, no, no. Shit, I mean, that's closer than it is. That's closer than what she's saying. That's true.   A lot of, because my mama would, my mama at this very mama would go bankrupt and for me to go back to corporate America is what I choose. But I've never taken pride in having nobody do nothing for me, especially not my mama. All my life, everybody ride my mama back and get to where they wanna go. And so it's a real price.  I don't wanna ride your mama. You don't make it on one?   So I'm not finna do that to you. Shit, I didn't get my first pair of J's till like 11, 12 grade in high school when I can get them hoes myself. Cause I'm not, why I'm gonna make my, the person that loved me so much that she already gone by me some shoes. I'm gonna make her buy me the most expensive shoes. That's dope.   No, it's dope that you thinking like that. That'll just show you what type of level you was on even in high school. You know what I mean? That you care, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just trying to, and as a kid. You know what I'm saying? So did you have a father? Was he alive? That's what I was gonna ask. That nigga was locked up for the longest. That nigga would go. That nigga was locked up for the longest. Is he alive and moving around now?   Yeah, it's really like my partner. That's what's up. And he won't be disappointed with me saying this because he knows what's up. That's dope. That's really my partner. That's dope.  He went through shit that prevented him from playing the role where I thought he was supposed to play. I turned out how I turned out.  That's it. Did you have a male role model in your life? Although he wasn't there, did you have another male role model?      Now they don't touch the work, but they're making a lot of money out of the work. I'm a sponge, no matter what atmosphere I'm in.    Just cause, I don't know, I'm a study in there. So you learn from everybody else's experience? Tweak it to make it your own. Shit, that's how you used to have to do. That's how you used to have to do. I did this so long ago and so thoroughly that, shit, I built up my own, I got my own track record, my own, even my own sound, I don't even sound like nobody number. I used to want to be Lil Mines, I used to want to be Drake.   It's a whole new DNA stream. Already.  You remember what song that was? It's fake.  I walk around with slide eyes. That's on bombs too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I say, I'm glad you like shit, somebody else telling me I need to revisit that idea. No, no, no, no, I'm just checking it out, man.  I know I say that sometimes, but I listen, I listen. If you can't rap, I'm gonna be real with you and be like, nah, I don't, you know, but that's why I was messing with you about dropping something. Cause I know, I know you fine. You know what I'm saying? You ain't just in there just because she really can rap. Like, and you have to be, like most of these girls shaking their butt on or whatever, trying to get naked, trying to fit in it, but for her to be lyrical like that, and only just, it's dope. You know what I'm saying? I'm real dazzling with y'all.   I'm finna finness to slide in there.  She made it because I love it.  I stayed committed to who I wanted to be. I didn't switch. I love it. All y'all told me I'd never make it like this. Man. You said I'd never get here.  I'm here. I'm in the building. But you said you gon' change it. So how are you changing it?   Shit, the best wolf is a wolf in sheep's clothes and god damn it.     You know what I'm talking about?  But the thing I like about you is it's really the hustle. That's all it is. That's what it is.  It's like I had to pull a certain strings of gear.  I had to, you know. I like it, you know. Trust me, I'ma be who I'ma be. I'm dedicated to this mission.  I see the hustle, I love the hustle. I'ma hustle. That's why you need hustle on the walk.  That's why I like it. I like it too. I'm into the interview. I'm like, nigga, my soul is at home right now. I love it. No, that's what it's all about. It's here for you, man. We love our people. That's why you see that. And that wall you keep looking at, that's every nigga that, if I'm selling clothes, I'm touching your hand and we talking about it. That's what you see. You see Steve Madden over there on there with that. Right here, the one with the two fingers up right here to the left. Oh, that's Steve Madden. Yeah, yeah. I knew it. Nobody knows how he look. You go down here on that other picture. That's what I kind of said. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.  I just say I always show people that because nobody don't know how he live a lot of times. Yeah, that's right. That's how I live with my wife down there again. And then at the bottom with me, we rock with him. But the thing I can say is people like that, they hustle. They got so many different ways they get it. So when you say, hey, I'm for to change it up a little bit and do this and do that, I just think about the hustle. I'm like, she's just hustling. You come in different ways because you got to finesse the hustle. You got to flip it. Okay. How do you like this? Boom. How do you like that? And you just coming at him. How do you real hustler? You know what I'm saying?   I got to find out what you like and get what you like at a good value for you. Yeah, man. So what are you, how many kids you have? I got two. Two kids. Boy and a girl. Boy and a girl. My daughter's six and my son is seven. He'll be eight and I'll get. Oh, that's dope.  That's dope. He hit me. He hit me. So what do they think about the music?  Man, that's dope.   Who not? Everybody is. Everybody is. You absolutely right. I mean, come on now. You right.   Nigga, you see that boy. You check that out boy. How did it make you feel? It's proud. It's proud. Proud is an understatement.  You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Like, damn. And then two, that they could come out like this. You know, they're good people. And they, they brought, see, I don't know, I was way too shy for too long in life. I would have been, I'd have been somebody. Yeah. But my kids that they young ages, you know what I'm saying? They're bold. Yeah, they bold.  We went fishing yesterday. And this little boy was, he was crying.  My son and my daughter walked up and grab, grab the worm and this ain't gonna, and they just rolling the worm out. Oh really?  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing. It's live to me. No, it'll be. To like, cause that's all you need in life is confidence.  When you ain't confident, you ain't taking shots. And I spent a lot of my life like that.  Sitting in the background. Man. No, that ain't dope, man. Not taking them shots. Man. Yeah, yeah, you gotta take those shots, right?  Ain't no systems of coincidence. Don't regret anything, right. Everything happened for a reason, no matter how much you understood at the end or where you over to now. I told the kids that. Do any of your kids do music? Okay. Hey, so, yeah, yeah, and they down in there, they finna come out with their own projects too. Really? Because, yeah, and they just now got both of them to tell me, I was like, they should've been telling me they're gonna come out with something to get it.  Have you heard it? I wrote it. You wrote it for them. Yeah, man, that's dope. Yeah, so they come, I mean, we're writing together.  So, even in the credits, I'm just a co-writer. They there on the co-writer, you know what I'm saying? And you teaching them the business, everything. Oh, definitely. Like, they gonna press their own merch, they're coming out with their own kids clothes and all. Everything that I do at the age I've gotten to, I want them to master that while they young. Right. So you might go, I don't never want them to have to work for nobody. If you choose to do business with certain entities, I want that to be your choice. Not, but it can't be because you was ill-equipped because I didn't give you enough to make your decision.   My little brother. Yeah, it up. What's up with that? How did you process that? Is that his song or your song?  Okay, but he featured on it. Yeah, and then what's up?  If you Google women standoff metalbrick, every news station in Texas is gonna pop up with their own link.    And if you notice, a lot of my flows be retarded, but house full of bitches, I slowed down and kind of simplified that whole so I can make room for the other guy.  And my little brother had just got out the pen. I'm like, sorry, bro, I got a song for you. He done wrote beat on tables, everything. He's fully prepared for that. Oh, then, when I'm talking about you ready, you be still with me.  It's my baby shot down there raised that little boy. Yeah.   I had my engineer delete the other verse, put the beat behind it, shout out my nigga tags on the beat because he be, I be not able to tag him all the time and I love you for your real nigga. You got some hits together. But my little brother dropped this verse. I got an engineer and it's been hard. Been hard. And I'm just sitting on the track for a little minute. Yeah, but I'm glad you brought it out. Don't play, man. Stop playing, man. I got to. Don't, man. Don't do it, bro. We looking for that, man. I got to. You know, I'm trying to find me something that I can put on, because I'm a finesse to beat. And then you gonna tell me, hey, can you go with it or not? You know what I'm saying? Why don't we say, can we present it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got to help. Hey, I got, because I know already it's going down, man. You can pick. Is that something that you can rock with? Let me see that a little bit for a second. Check this out that I don't do that.  I got to, I got to let, I got to bring you in. We got to introduce you. Yeah, I can't. Jazz and Matt can't just start rapping in his own. So you like this one? That whole dope. That's how you say it. I like that look. You hear it? I hear it. Okay. We gonna rock out to it? I'm with it. Already. Check it, man. Let me rock with it. Check it, man. Check it, man. We hate, man. Jazz and Matt can't build it, man. We about to go in, man. This boss talk one-on-one, man.  Let's get it. Jazz and Matt can't build it. Hey, hey. Remember this when I reached? Yeah. Hey. All these niggas around me, I know I can't trust a single one.  Plus just got a magic turn, he hit me like he needed one. Flush them bitches, then we change. I spot up for them people come. I can't get no sleep no more. I think it's my anxiety. I got niggas, I rock out. I can't trust them. Try to ride on me. Bitches, Jack must have so much. I swear these hoes be pirate in. I've been up so long, if I look down, I probably can't find my way. Niggas spit that game, but that's how lame it should be. All these bikes I made today, I know I probably missed a few.  They make them miserable. Every time I pop out, I'm gonna shock the room like Pikachu. I got my feelings for these niggas, when the last one there.  I spent this back myself. I remember I was so fucked up, I couldn't even ask for help. Seen a path I had to walk on them. You know I had to steal. Check it man, check it man. Jazz American to build it man. Aw man, she just walked through it, baby. She ain't nobody to play with. I already know I've been listening to her music. She ain't doing no playing, no games when it comes to what she do now. Say man, we ain't top three artists of all time. Dead or alive. Yeah man. Yeah man. Top three artists of all time. No, no, no, you gotta tell me to top three artists of all time. Let's go.  Do you want it? Nah, I'm sorry.  I'm a student of the game. Yeah, I'm a student of the game. So like, you know, wherever I'm at at a current state in hip hop is not where I'm going to end it. But it don't have to be, it don't have to be. Not anybody. It can be any genre. It can be any genre. So you gotta pick three, three, you're top of all time. I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna be the number one. Shit, y'all want to be something.  He does. All right, so I see him in anything I got. I like that, cause that's what.   Yeah, y'all want something? Get in. Wow! It be dead. No! Facts. Look, I got, You gotta tell us so we can look it up.  I can sue for a lot of money now.  So I can't put up with that. So you number one. I'ma say number three. Okay, who's number one? I'ma say, yeah. Number one, my favorite artist of all time. All times. Lil Wayne, man. Lil Wayne, we done had some Lil Wayne's over here. Who built that cut so cool? It's just, it's so beyond me. Just the weight, the wavelength your mind has to be on to bring it back down to the music and make it register with those that might be that much lower or that might be that much, just that spans. See, I'ma, my gift in life is I'ma energy twerker. I can take some energy and no matter what medium it got to live it to me in, I can morph it into some shit that I can give it to all kind of crew. I can say it in Spanish and I speak fluent Spanish. I can say it to these men. It's dope. I can take it to these hood niggas.  I got some A-Rail partners that got some millions and they, people that sent them over here to take some American money to send back. So this one, he's, I'ma energy mutated. Lil Wayne is an energy mutated.   So number two. Number two, who's my next favorite artist? Let me think it back in my head. Have you ever done a Spanish rap?  Really?   I marketed some songs to some niggas that I spent. Wow. And I appreciate it because she. You're dope, man. Cause you talking about making money moves with the music. Yeah, this one. You know what I'm saying? A lot of niggas don't even. A lot of niggas couldn't talk that talk.  I'm most of my every, whatever music I'm trying my, I'm like years beyond it. I can't never get nobody as much as I got. Wow. Wow. You know what I'm saying? And number two is. Who is my favorite motherfuckers ever at it? That's hard, bro. That's real hard. Damn. UGK. Damn. I already told you. I can't even imagine. Let me tell y'all something, man. Y'all gonna start playing every nigga that's sitting here. I'm going to start saying it. Straight go, Pimp C. I'm going to start saying it.  No. I'm going to start saying it. I'm going to start saying it. Pimp C. Pimp Fags. I told you, man. Stop playing. Pimp says the energy in music. This is a nigga that was way before his time. Go on, man.   Do you get it yet? We in Texas. Do you get it yet? And niggas are saying, it's my profit here this time around. Come right on this platform and say, man, Pimp C. This soft thing is real, man. That boy stood in the gap for us when nobody else did. How he did? He stood in the gap.  Because he made a lot of moves that might have attributed to his damn, yeah, to be on.  Already. All ready.  I'm finna open a bunch of doors that niggas didn't try real hard and spend a lot of money to keep closed. So you motherfuckers better ride for me, goddammit. Wow. I'm trying to let, and it was crazy.  He said, hey, look, I'm finna move, y'all better, if these niggas coming. Niggas be knowing, niggas be knowing. And I know I'm very high risk with the way I conduct myself.  So I'm in a, but I'm cool with that. Shit, it beat the alternative.  And I've been doing it all my life. But you see, I always tell people, people who put their life at danger at risk when you have a choice, knowing that you have a family that, cause the same thing when I think about mode three and him, you know, beefing and the things that he did, knowing that you have kids, you have people who are depending on you. Why don't you think about that? Do you actually think about your family when you put yourself in these situations? But I do though, so that's why I moderate heavily cause I used to, I ain't on line.   Like, watch how I even hear you talking because you ain't even gonna have to have said that.  So I ain't on line. I've been a very, you know, careless person a lot of times in my life, but I don't conduct myself in a lot of way because I do have, I love my kids a little more than I love music and shit.  Where did you go for them music?  I do it again today. Let me ask you this, spiritually do you try to, and I don't matter what spiritual grounding you do, do you try to keep them spiritual grounded just something to where they can think about themselves? Have something to try themselves to? Yeah, definitely. I have to say that. I tell my kids, yeah, yeah, I feel it and I respect the shit out of there because a lot of people that's what they're gonna need to understand, because if they align themselves with me, they wanna know where I'm standing on that time. And I tell you this, I'm not a Christian, but I'm very, very spiritually rude. No, no, no, I get it. Energy is everything. Everything that you're looking at that appears to be solid right now is vibrating. So fast that we can't even see it. Everything is operations from music court to a particular mood to everything. And so I teach my children everything that I know whether it's conducive to my beliefs or counterproductive to them. I'm gonna give you the opportunity. I'm gonna give you this info and you make your own decision.  I go with what my heart feels.  I'm going with the laws of nature, what appease my soul. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, spirit. What make me feel good. I'm not finna hold nobody. I ain't finna do nothing to nobody that ain't deserve how I did them. And if you ever seen me do some heinous and trust and believe the situation cost for me to be heinous at that time.  They look at you as God. When that's who they look at. And so you're who they pretty much, they pretty much look at you as their idol. And like you said, they believe in what you tell them and teach them. You know, so that's why I asked that question. And that's true for the man is there and the parent is not there. That's right. That is so true. That's the dysfunctionality is what you just spoke on. Like it can be a disconnect or dysfunction because of the way it was. But the kid is doing conducting themselves as nature intended. That's right. They love and they parents equally. And often too much times in black families, both parties not contributing equally. So I'm not gonna put no blame on either one and say, hey, this one doesn't work. The bear root to the situation is kids love unconditionally, equally. And a lot of times, should they not get an equal participation from both sides. So they spend a lot of time believing this and then they have to grow into realizing, hey, this ain't what I thought. Correct.  That they been dealing with.   We just now finding out as a species that damn, we don't have to only do what they told us we could only do. If the male race said, man, I can't raise my right hand and I do this and my right hand raised, they lied to me. So I wonder what I say lie to them bad and we're exploring and we're trying to see. I think it's a little better that going on with both of us with the way we came up. Yeah, yeah. For as, when you look at our background, I think it's a lot of times, we're trying to figure it out as a culture cause our culture would be down so much.  You remember when a lot of the stuff at Child Sale, we thought that only the stores we walked into would get vending contracts again. Yeah, it was a lot of hurdles. We had to climb to even break some of these brands. We're coming right now. Yeah, they didn't want us to even sell certain brands. I had to, really I was threatening them with lawsuits and everything because I seen how they was trying to keep us out because what clothes do, if you get certain brands, it breaks culture barriers and they know that. And the devil is visit, I believe so. And it breaks, yeah. So we have to break those culture barriers by carrying things that'll bring other people. You're absolutely correct. You want to know something that we're doing so we're just gonna speak on it. You want to know something that's happening right now and they can't stand?  You know how many niggas didn't got T-shirt businesses now? Oh man, these are dealing with it right now, I know.  I don't text on no product I provide all type of products.  So like, you know, we, people feeling this in their pockets right now across all type of industries. And I believe that. I like it. Even the stock market, right? Because what's going on, like with the AMC and the GMEs, right? You got these corporate big companies founded on, okay, when we know something that's worth a lot of money, we're gonna do what's called put options, right? We're gonna short the stock and we're gonna act like we expect it to go down and it's gonna literally draw the price down, right? And so that's gonna keep people selling and buying, right? And now we own all these shares. So we got them for this price and we're gonna make this much because we're scaring the public. The public ain't being scared of these, that women not being scared by men's hectares, black people not being scared by the t-shirt store inside the motherfucking mile, phone companies not being scared of T-Mobile and so on and so on. So I went in motherfucking Parks Monument, Arlington today, and right across from Foot Locker, it's a store called JD, something like that.  So people are bucking right now. And if you got that spirit in you, that buck-ass spirit, then what I'm gonna tell you to do is align yourself with God so you know what you're doing is on the right path and go for what you know. So for what you know. Don't deny that feeling. Jump. Don't hold, yeah, yeah, for sure.  And that's why I win. I take educated risks all the time. You have to. All the time. You have to stretch. All the time, you have to because if you hear it and you wanna get there, you will never go, if you wait all your life to get every piece to get there, you probably never get there. You probably never get there. And if you say, hey, I'm gonna jump from here to there while, you will never get there. You gonna fall in the depth of this prison system or that so and so and so.   Yeah, you gotta go for it. You know, so do you think that, do you like the way the music is going now?  How do you like what the music is at now? And it's on the whole level. It's yourself up there. I'm here at that. I don't even listen to this. Yeah. I'm here. It's sad. If we right now, if I go to my music app, I play music on my phone and press play. And how about it's UGK. Switches and Earth. See that? And the Sunday went off right before that with Jazzy Mac. Hey, Jazzy Mac. And the Sunday went off right there before that was Kevin Gates. It's always going to be some people who, my spirit, if I'm a positive spirit, I haven't put so much into the dude's pain in spirit. Shit, I brag on my spirit because my spirit is paid those dudes. I can stand on it. So I listen to people who attract my spirit. If I'm hearing your music, right?  And you trying to mimic it.  I can't listen to that. It's Kev. She said that's Kev. I can't call no homeless person and listen to them for an hour, tell me about how to make, buy no motherfucking home.  Hey, that's dope.  You know what I'm saying? I ought to learn from a tried and trusted method.     No, we don't let me like that. I get it. So do you, so your 17 year old or 16 year old self, what would you say to- If I had a chance to talk to her. If you had a chance to talk to her, how would you, what would you do to get her prepared for what she's about to face? Cause people always say if I could go back, I would do this or I would do that. I'm be a thousand. One, for starters, if I had the option, write it for Angel Candyman and say, would you go back till 16, 17 year old self and would you remain on this path? I'm be a thousand. Now you wouldn't go back. I know. But still, what would you say to her? But if I could go back and give her some game- Just speak to her.  I say that about myself. I'm glad I wasn't listening to you.   Wow, that's dope. I like it. So if, and I'm gonna say how can people get a hold to you? I can get a hold. Yeah, like social media wise, how can they tap into your music and all that? I'm sitting right here. I'm gonna put this, I'm gonna put this in the camera. I got 683 missed calls. Wow, that's dope. 1,538 missed messages.  You don't be checking it. It ain't that I don't check it. They come in at such a high rate. I can't keep up. I can't keep up. You need an assistance. I need a lot of assistance. I need a lot of help. I need a lot of people out right now. I'm out in several sectors. What are you talking about? Sell the camera, what you doing?  How can they reach me? Book me a Mac movie. The Maxos factory customer pair, energy nerd apparel. You can hit me up for the studio because we've got a big night studio too. You can hit me up at my number,<PHONE_NUMBER> and find out about anything. You can find out about options trading, forest trading, stock trading.   They said I always leave a situation in a better situation than you found it in. So anybody I come across, because I feel personally charged by karma, that if I don't expend some type of resource about myself, whether it be time, energy, love, or just empathy or whatever, for you come across me and I don't send you out, but then you can. I might be texted on the other side. So I can't afford to be charged.  So hit me at<PHONE_NUMBER> if you talking about some money and you want to make yourself better in life or you want to make me better in life, let's do it. My Facebook is JazzyMag. Don't you put no motherfucking why behind my name? It's J-A-Z-Z-I-E, space, M-A-C. Don't put no K behind the I-C. You got to see me. Hey, man, love you, man.  Call and call and call and see how many, you see how many, how many voice, you see how many missed calls she have? She cannot keep up with calling, calling, calling, calling.  You just be busy. Facts. If you need, hey, man. I got 17,000 things going on at one time.  I got to answer this. Facts is something going on. And then I'm gonna feel charged. I'm gonna feel like, damn, God, I hear you. Let me get this person. Hey, man. I got you, bro. Well, we love you, Jazzy Mac. And anytime you got some new project coming out, you feel free to come through on Boss Talk 101 and let it be known. I appreciate it. We've been here now doing this for about four, going on five months. And, you know, yeah, everybody tapping in. You know how many people been in that seat, man? We killing the game when it comes down to loving. I'm saying that now, I'm gonna have to go watch my movie. I'm gonna go in and listen to that. We killing the game when it comes down to loving, man. We love y'all, man. Hey, y'all got very, very proud for energy, man. I say I tell people all the time, I speak four languages. I speak English. I speak money. I speak Spanish and I speak energy. And y'all are very profound to each one of them.  I'll do respect. The vibes in this motherfucker is real. If you're in the click, the type of person, I mean, you gon' feel love when you walk in the room.  Long time, man. Thank you so much for recognizing it. When you say Boss Talk, you mean it.  No, no, no, no.  Boss Talk 101. Hey, Boss Talk 101.  And man, God gon' continue to bless you, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101, man. And we out.


Welcome everyone to New Testament Surveys. So we're going to be starting with New Testament Surveys. Is anyone joining us who was not with us in the last two hours? Looks like we have everyone from the first two hours here. Okay, if you were not with us, please just post on chat or just let us know if you're a new student, but welcome. We will do a small course overview. Look at some of the things that we'll be going over in this course and then we'll get into the content as well. Let me just share the screen with you. Okay, so through this course we are going to be looking at the whole of the New Testament and our goal is basically to get an overall picture of what each book in the New Testament talks about. So we'll have an introduction to the author of the book, when the book was written, why the book was written, what the main theme of the book is and some of the key verses, key passages in the book. We also want to look at an outline of Christ himself as revealed in the New Testament. And then we learn about the New Covenant in Christ, which is a covenant of grace. And we look at the life and ministry of Jesus and how it applies to our lives as believers. So that's the objective of the course. I've just written three outcomes or three goals that we'd like to see by the end of this course. So that each of us would have an overall picture of the New Testament narrative, so understanding how all of it ties together, that we would have a deeper understanding of what the New Covenant is in Christ that we are invited into and how it impacts our lives and then that we would be inspired to live as Jesus lived. So as we look at the life of Jesus that we would be inspired to live like him. We will also do two assessments here and again it will be a multiple choice assessment. I've given two dates, February 26th and April 15th. So we have a midterm and a final each will be 50 marks and it will just be a multiple choice exam. I've also put on Google Classroom a rough schedule and some more information about generally student guidelines and things like that, especially for the online students. Okay, so I think we can go into our content with someone like to prepare us before we begin. Okay, let's pray. Yes, please. Loving Father, we bless your name. We give you glory and honor. We want to thank you for this time. We want to thank you Lord for the wisdom, knowledge and understanding that you have given unto us, O God. We humble ourselves above Father to listen and to hear from you and we welcome your Holy Spirit to open our understanding in our minds that we may know more from you, King of Glory. We thank you. We give you glory and honor. In Jesus' name we are prayed. Amen. Thank you. So we'll just go into a small introduction to the course for today. If we finish early then we'll continue on Thursday. So our classes are Monday and Thursday so we do one hour each day. So we'll start and we'll see how far we get. So we're going to be looking at just a small background to the New Testament world. So between the writing of Malukai which is the last book in the Old Testament and then the first book of the New Testament which is Matthew, there's a 400 year period that has lapsed. So Malukai is considered as one of the last prophets in the Old Testament and the prophets were the people through whom God spoke to the Israelites. So when people wanted to know what God was saying, they were going to the prophet. They were listening to what the prophet was saying. So for 400 years God had not spoken through any prophets. And so this time is considered as the silent years where there were no prophets, there was no one who was speaking on behalf of God to the people of Israel. But during that time there were other things happening politically, religiously, although there was no prophetic revelation of who God was, there were things that God was doing in the background, preparing the way for Jesus's coming. So we'll look at what was happening during those 400 years, politically, religiously what was happening and what was the situation into which Jesus came when Jesus was born. So 400 to 334 BC. So if we read in the Old Testament, we know that before 400 BC, so before the Persian Empire took over, there was the Babylonian Empire which was reigning over Israel. So the Israelites were in exile in Babylon. And at that time the temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed. And so many of the Israelites were not even living in Jerusalem, they were living in Babylon. At this time around 500 and let me just get the dates right, 539 BC is when the Persians came into power. And we read about this in the scriptures where we read about Cyrus who was a Persian ruler. He came into power and he allows some of the Jews to return back to Jerusalem to start rebuilding the temple. So Cyrus is seen in scripture as someone whom God put in power and God uses Cyrus to start restoring his people. So it was during Cyrus's reign that about 50,000 Jews returned to Babylon. So there was a much larger, there were about 2 million Jews still remaining in Babylon. So just a small number of people actually returned to Jerusalem and they began to rebuild the temple there. Post this time we can also look at what was the religious implication. So while the temple was being rebuilt, we also know that Ezra and Nehemiah, there were several prophets that started to preach to the Israelites and talk about what God was going to do. And Ezra was one person who returned to Jerusalem and he began to teach the people. So he was like a priest to the people and he was teaching them about the Torah or he was teaching them from the Hebrew scriptures. So for very long the Israelites had not had that kind of teaching because they had been in exile. So this was being re-established now, their faith was being re-established. And during that time synagogues were also set up. So before there was only Jerusalem and everyone used to go to Jerusalem to the temple to worship. That was the one place. But now they started to have synagogues that were local places where people could come to learn the Torah. So there was still only one temple for worship. But the synagogues were a place of learning for the people that they could come to, they could learn the Torah in the synagogues. And so the synagogues played a very important role in Jesus' ministry. So when we know that Jesus went into so many synagogues and he preached there and then when the disciples started to take the gospel to people, they went into the synagogues. So synagogues played a key role in the spreading of Christianity later. But at this point is where synagogues were starting to be established as local places for people to come and learn the Torah. And then in 445 BC is where Nehemiah comes in and he begins to rebuild the city wall. So as of now the Persians are rolling. Jerusalem is starting to be rebuilt. The walls are starting to be rebuilt. The temple has already been rebuilt and there is some restoration of the Jewish faith as the priests are coming and continuing the work in the temple. And the synagogues are being established as well. After the Persian period, we have the Alexandrian period. And this is where Alexander the Great started to establish a Greek empire. So Alexander comes from Macedon which is in Greece. So he came from there and started to take over large parts of the globe. So if you look here on the map, this whole part is where Alexander the Great established his empire. That is from Greece to India is where he had established the Greek empire. And so this is called the Alexandrian period. So Alexander's goal was to have everyone come under the Greek culture. Everyone speak Greek and everyone to follow Greek rules, to follow Greek religion. That was his goal because he viewed the Greek culture as superior to every other culture. And he wanted to see that spread across the globe. And so he tried to take as many nations as he could and establish control over them. So he defeated the Persians and he took control of all of their land in an attempt to make a worldwide empire. This time is where a lot of people started to speak Greek. So a lot of Jews also started to speak Greek because they were under the Roman, under the Alexandrian empire. And Greek became the common language. So Hebrew was no longer the language that they amongst themselves. Greek became the daily language in which they were conversing. And a lot of the culture also became normal for the Jews. So that culture is called Hellenism. That's Greek culture. And we will read a lot about Hellenistic Jews. So Hellenistic Jews were Jews who had been influenced by this Greek culture. So they had their Jewish faith. But their culture was this Greek culture that had come in through Alexander. And because Greek became such a common language, we see that so much of the New Testament then was written in Greek. The New Testament was written in Greek because that was the common language. So like English is today, Greek was the language at that time. So post Alexander, Alexander's reign was pretty short. He died only when he was 32 years old. So he established this great empire, but it lasted for about 10 years. And after that, the empire was split between rulers who were under him. So two of the major rulers were Ptolemy and Seleus. And they were the two empires that were kind of fighting over power, trying to establish power over each other. So Ptolemy established his reign in Egypt. We can see that here in the purple color. So he established his empire in Egypt and he had power over this Palestine region, which was where Israel was. So before this was Alexander the Great and before that was the Persian Empire. Before that was the Babylonian Empire. Now Ptolemy is also from a Greek background, but he is ruling over Egypt and he's ruling over this Palestine region. That's from 324-204 BC. So it was during his time that the city of Alexandria was established. Alexandria became a center for education in the north of Egypt. So we read about Alexandria later on, which actually was a key place even in Christianity. Alexandria became a very important place when the church was established later on. So Ptolemy is the one who established the city and it was the largest city in the ancient world. And also during this time the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek. So this became very important because that is what the New Testament writers used. So a lot of the time when the New Testament writers are talking about what is written in the Old Testament, they're quoting from that Greek translation, which is called the Septuagint. So it's also written as LXX, which is kind of to say 70 in Roman numerals because there's a legend that 70 people translated the scriptures in 70 days. So they say LXX for the Septuagint. So it was during this time that the scriptures were translated and the scriptures became available to everyone in the language they were speaking. So that was also very important. The Jews had stopped speaking Hebrew and to have their text in Hebrew didn't make much sense because they didn't understand Hebrew anymore. Greek was the language that they were familiar with and so now they had their scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures in Greek. So after Ptolemy's reign comes the Seleucid period or Seleucid Empire, which is when the other side. So after Alexander the Great, Ptolemy and Seleucid were the two leaders who had taken over the empire. At first Ptolemy had control over this Palestine-Syria area and then Seleucid took over. So this 204 to 165 BC is where he has power over this region. And he is not very favorable towards the Jews. He's very against their religion. And one of the rulers during this time is called Antiochus IV or Antiochus Epaphany. And what that means is that he viewed himself as a revelation of who God is. Epaphany means someone who is a revelation of something or someone who is a representation of something. And so he considered himself as a representation of God and he was completely against the Jews, completely against their religion and he wanted to establish the Greek culture and Greek religion there. And so the Jews and their practices became something that was very contrary to his desire for the empire. So something he wanted to completely demolish or completely destroy. So this is, Seleucid was in the Syria region and Syria had power over the Jews at this point. So what Antiochus did is he went into the Holy of Holies, he went into the temple, sorry, and on the altar there he set up an altar for the Greek gods Zeus and obviously offended all of the Jews. But to make things worse, on top of that altar he sacrificed a pig which is considered unclean for Jews.  But because he did this and he offended them to such a great extent, there arose a revolt within Jerusalem. And this revolt is called the Maccabean Revolt. It was led by the Maccabean rulers who were Jews. So there was a priest named Mattathias and he had five sons. So there's Judas, John, Simon, Jonathan and Eliezer. And Judas was the main leader of this revolt. He was really efficient as someone in warfare and so he was able to lead people against this empire. Even though the Jews were very, very small and weak population compared to the Seleucid Empire, they were able to overpower them and they were able to take over Jerusalem. And over 100 years they started to slowly gain control. So we see here in this map from Jerusalem and Judea they started to gain control over other parts of the land of Israel and Israel and Syria and then also Samaria. So Samaria was in between and then there were Israelites on both sides. So people from Judea on the top and below. But during their reign there was a lot of corruption because power flowed from generation to generation within their families. And the following generations started to take advantage of their place of power. They were just making money. They were not taking care of the people. And so their rule was not something that the Jews were happy about. For 100 years they were under their power. But some things that we see during this time is that the temple was restored. So after the temple was desecrated by Antiochus IV, this temple was now restored by the Maccabines. And temple worship began to happen again. But the problem was that the Maccabines who had established themselves as kings were also controlling the priesthood as well. During this time when they took over the temple, when they restored worship as was talked about in the Jewish scriptures, is where this festival called the Hanukkah was established or the Feast of Dedication. So in John 10.22 we actually read about Jesus being in the temple during this feast. So it became a feast that was added to the other feast that happened in the Old Testament that God had established. This feast also became one that was celebrated by the people. It was not a religious feast. It was more like a political celebration because they had politically been freed from the Seleucid Empire. And the Maccabines had brought freedom to them. So it was more like Israel as a nation celebrating that feast. Also during this time the Sadducees and Pharisees became two groups of people that rose up when the temple was re-established. When biblical worship was re-established, the Sadducees and Pharisees became two groups of people. The Sadducees being more also politically inclined whereas the Pharisees were more inclined towards religious, like following religion completely. They were very zealous about their religious practices. And Sadducees were more also influenced by the empire having some political power as well. And then after the Maccabines revolt, although now the Jews had control over this land because they were so corrupt in their leading of the people. Once there was a ruler from Rome who came in from Egypt and his entrance into Egypt was actually welcomed because of all of the corruption that had happened because of Maccabean rulers. So his name was Pompey and he was from Rome. He came in and he took over this whole region. He took over Judea and then there was established under the Roman Empire. There were local leaders who were established to kind of report to the Roman Empire on behalf of what was going on there. So they were governors. So Herod the Great, who was there when Jesus was born, was one of the people who was appointed as a local governor, leader over the region to report to the Roman Empire and to make sure that whatever was happening in that region was in accordance with the Roman rule. So Herod was not actually a Jew. He is an Edomite, but he wanted to please the Jews. So he in 20 BC started to rebuild the temple and it took him over 80 years to rebuild because the Jews didn't fully trust him. So they didn't allow him to destroy the temple and rebuild it. He had to do the work slowly over time, restoring different parts of the temple. But in order to gain favor with the Jews, he rebuilt the temple. So when Jesus was ministering, the temple was still being rebuilt because they started in 20 BC. It was only in about 60 AD that it was completed. So from that till that time, they were still constructing or reconstructing the temple. So under the Roman Empire, there was much more peace for the Jews. There was also the establishment of a legal system. There was establishment of a commercial system. There was a lot of roads that were built across the Roman Empire. So the Roman Empire was really huge. And in this picture, we see just some of the regions that they had here, but eventually they actually covered a lot of this whole area, the Roman Empire. And so they established roads to connect their whole empire, which also was a key to the spreading of the gospel. Because of all of these roads that had been established, the disciples and the followers of Jesus who took the gospel to other places were able to use these roads to take the gospel to other parts of the Roman Empire. So this is generally a picture of the political and religious situation between 400 BC till when Jesus was born. So I just wanted to start us with a background. We won't go into more detail for the New Testament, for today's class. We'll continue on Thursday. But just these 400 years gives us a picture of how much turmoil was there in that place, right? That small piece of land that was between Egypt and between the northern or between that Persian Empire. It was at crossroads. And so every time there was a war between the north and the south between Egypt and Asia, Israel would get caught in between. And so that's why all of these empires wanted to also establish their reign there because it was so important for trade. So it was a very difficult period for the Jews to have so many different empires ruling over them. So many different groups of people influencing their culture, influencing their religion. So for themselves as an identity, having their own identity, having their own culture was something that they had to figure out in those 400 years. Which is why the Pharisees came up as such zealous people because they were trying to re-establish the Jewish culture. They were trying to re-establish what does it mean to be a Jew and what is it that we should be following? What is our religion about? So in that zeal to protect their identity as Jews, they started to make strict rules about following their scriptures to the T following the Sabbath, all of those things became strict ways to protect their identity, their cultural and religious identity. Anything you want to share for what we covered? If not, we'll just close for today and we'll continue on Thursday. Any questions? Okay, there are no questions. What we'll do is we'll stop here. On Thursday, we'll go into some of the introductory terms or some of the key things for us to understand as we look at the New Testament. So we look at groups of people that existed, the different key figures that were present, some things that will help us better understand the New Testament as we go into it. We are ending early today, but we'll continue on Thursday. Thank you so much. Thank you, sister. Thank you so much, sister. Thank you.


He's gonna be so mad, he's so confused. All right, babe, I'm leaving. Ah, I'm nervous. It's prank time. This is gonna be freaking crazy. What do you mean? Who cares? I know, but- Why, how would you wear that? Guys, oh my goodness. Look at Taco, he's sleepy. We took him to Bill's house today, so he is exhausted.  Everybody, comment down below how cute Taco looks sleeping. Get some sleep. You deserve it. You were a good boy today. You know how to prank Daddy, he's gonna be so mad at me. You have to have my back. You have to have mommy's back, okay? When he's mad at me, you need to come protect me, okay? You keep sleeping, but when I get back home, you better come down. But Marvel Squad. Good morning, Marvel Squad, and welcome back to our channel. If you guys are new, make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on your post notifications so you guys get notified every single time we post, and you don't miss out on any single one of our videos. Make sure to give this video a big thumbs up, and try to get this video 25,000 likes.  I'm really nervous to even do this. Kayla's currently downstairs right now, editing our thumbnail for today's video, but today is Friday, so you guys have already seen today's video. As you guys drive by the title, today I'm gonna be doing going to the store, fully dressed, then coming home like this. And I got this idea from Cam and Ney, or me. I got this idea from them. I thought it was super funny. So basically what you do is you go out wearing, you know, a normal outfit, and then coming back home in a totally different outfit.   Now this is what I'm wearing right now. I'm wearing just a sports bra thing with these pants. So it's pretty simple, pretty chill. Definitely not something he would suspect me doing anything in. And I just wanna say this too, Bill does not control what I wear. He loves everything that I wear. He never like, you know, talks down to me. He's so sweet, he's amazing. It's just what's gonna be funny is me going out in this outfit, and then coming back home in a totally different one. And I'm gonna make sure this outfit's frisky, and I'm gonna come back inside with my hair all messed up, which is gonna make it even more sus. This is gonna be hilarious. I cannot wait to see his reaction.  He's gonna think I freaking cheated on him. Babe, you know I will never cheat on you. You're my baby forever. I love you to death, but I gotta get you today. I have this one piece lingerie top. It's kinda like a see-through. If you guys remember our scandalous video, you'll remember me wearing this with a pair of shorts. Okay, and then I have these black shorts. So actually I can fit it in my freaking pocket. So I'm gonna put it in my pocket. I'm gonna walk downstairs, basically tell him that I'm waiting for the salon.  I feel so bad cause he just got me this. When we were in Las Vegas, we were at the pawn shop. You guys ever seen that TV show? And Bill got me a new promise ring. I am obsessed, and it's definitely an upgrade from the last one. These are like, this is like my favorite type of shade. Tell me that is not pretty. I am literally so obsessed with it guys. You guys have no idea. All right guys, let's go. All right babe, I think I'm gonna head out. Mm-hmm. No. I know. I also filming, you know I'm filming with my nails at the salon. Yeah. Can you give me a kiss? No, you're spying me. And I wanna get, my nail guy said to film it cause I guess it's gonna be crazy. Really? I love you. Huh? Didn't you just get his done though? Yeah, but I'm getting him. He's gonna do it for free. I like that. He's gonna do it for free for me cause he's been crazy. Really? Yeah, he wanted me to try it on me. All right. I love you. You're back in like an hour, so I love you. You look pretty. Thank you. I like your hair. Thanks. Do you like my outfit too? Huh? You like my outfit too? I think it's super cute. No, it is. You like it? I like it a lot. It's like marble. I know. It's like purple marble. It's so cute. And our new tattoos. They look fire. They look fire hot. Can I get mine? Can you film here now? I can film. Let's see. Turn it on. Okay, it's on. All right guys, look at how nice our tattoos are. Okay, lower. Woo! It says record the Mariah hers right here. Yours looks good too. I know. Look at it with my stuff. Oh my lord. All right, babe. I'm leaving. All right, love you. What time are you going to be? I'll probably be back in like an hour, 30 minutes. Should I take long? All right, bye. Love you. Bye guys. I will. I won't. Love you. Love you. Bye. See you guys. I told you you can tell us for literally anything and everything. In our neighborhood, we have a lot of supporters. So, I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to change in the car right now in the garage because there are fans. I don't want them to see me. I'm going to change into my clothes right now. He's going to be so confused, guys. This is going to be freaking insane. He had no idea in there. I told you guys. I can get his little booty button night in day. All right guys, so I just changed. As you guys see him in my laundry tub, I feel so uncomfortable as I already want to take it off. I'm going to drive around the block and kind of like wait like 20 to 30 minutes. I want him to think that I actually left. And then when I come back, I'm going to just tell him that it was a really quick one. Oh, shoot, my nails aren't going to be done. Oh, I have an idea. I'm going to tell him when I get home that when I got there, my nail guy couldn't do them anymore. I think that's going to be his last concern. So, I'm not going to really worry too much about that part.  Ah, I'm nervous. He's going to be so mad. Even if we do get upset, we know after the prank is over, like no hard feelings. We laugh about it. We think it's funny. And honestly, we enjoy pranking each other. It's no matter what, we will always be each other's lives. I'm with him forever. He's with me forever. These pranks are harmless. They're just us having fun and laughing about it. All right guys, I'm going to go back to the house. I'm really freaking nervous. Oh, I'm really excited guys to this prank. I feel this is going to be so freaking funny. You could be like, why aren't your nails done and why are you in a different outfit? I'm going to be like, what are you talking about? I was with us all day.  If you're watching this, just know how much I freaking love you. All right guys, so I just pulled in. It's prank time. It's going to be freaking crazy. He's going to be so mad. He's going to be like, what the heck? Oh, here's the outfit one more time and then shorts and this. As you guys, you guys will see it when I set up the camera and I'm full out wearing it. But I checked team Ryan in the comments guys. Me, she gets video to 25,000 likes because it's about to be insane. And I really need that. I really need the likes right now. I just need to get in there. I just need to go. I need to go. I need to just stop talking because I'm getting really nervous and antsy. So let's just go on in there. I just pulled in. Just pulled in. How's it going now? Good. It's good? Yeah. How's it going? You know, I walked out like that. It was different. You had something brighter on. No. 100%. That's a different outfit. I don't know what you're talking about. You were wearing a brighter outfit when you left that is different. Well, yeah, I... This is like lingerie. Why are you wearing that? Well, my nail guy said that he couldn't get me in today. So I just went... Yeah, your nails aren't even done. Yeah, but... What do you mean? Yeah, but I went... So you've been gone for like a half hour. Yeah, I couldn't get my nails done today. So my nail guy said I come in every day. So I went out. Okay. I just went out. I stopped... Why are you changed? I could see your bra through that. I stopped somewhere really quick. Where? To get... To buy that? Did you buy that and want to bring it here? No, I had it in the car. So why'd you change into it? You should not be wearing that in public. Why? I think it looks good. Because I could see your freaking bra through it, babe. Well, the people I was didn't complain. What do you... You were with people. Yeah, I was... I went to a friend's house. No, you did not. Not in that. No, you did not. I didn't get my nails done. I... My nail guy texted me when I was halfway there and I'm like, oh shoot. So I just stopped at my friend's house. Yeah, all right.   Why are you wearing that? Because I... You were not at a friend's house. I was getting... I was first of all, it was overheated and I was like, oh shoot, I have shorts on in this top in the back. So did you even have an appointment or did you just go straight there? I did have a nail appointment, but I... Why would you just randomly go to a friend's house, especially in that... Well, I got hot in the car. Okay, so you had to bring that, though. That was not in the car earlier. No, yes, it was in the car. No, it was not. Yeah, I put it in the car, like when I got here.  I brought it just in case I got hot. So yeah, I dig it up. No one wears that in public. Well, I do, so look here. I do. What do you mean, who cares? I know, but I don't see the problem on just wearing this. I just wore it out. I got hot and I was kind of required to wear something like this wherever I would go. Stop messing with me, come on. You're joking. This is a joke. This is not a joke. You're not. First of all, I'm overheating and I stopped at a friend's house. But why would you wear that? Okay, so you- You should've looked hotter than that outfit.  Exactly, so you didn't even have an appointment. Why would you go? I did have an appointment. Who was the friend? Nobody, Bill, it doesn't matter. This is a girl. Why doesn't that matter? It shouldn't matter. It wasn't a guy, though. It shouldn't matter. It wasn't a guy, though. It shouldn't matter. I think I look great in this outfit. I don't need to nominate- Where's your outfit? At their house? No. Then where is it at? You're lying. This is a joke. You would not wear that in public. You're not like that. Bill, yes I am like that. So why did you lie?  I was scared, Bill. I didn't want to tell you I wasn't actually going to my nail appointment. Let's go, let's go to my house, then. No, we're not going to the house. I'm going to go to the house a lot. I want to see where you're off to, come on. No. No, I don't want you to see where I was at. Why? Because it doesn't matter. You should trust me. I don't trust you because you're saying all this in your line to me. I'm not lying to you. So why would you wear a lingerie? I was overheating in the car. No one brings lingerie with them. If they don't, I'll use it. But I like it. I wore it in the car because I was overheating. So you never brought it in the car ever before? I knew it was hot outside. I was wearing pants and I decided, you know what, I need to- Why don't you tell me the truth?  Okay, then what is that? Why would I be pissed? What did you do that? I told you I slept at a friend's house. What friend? You're literally, you need to fill in the pieces because I have no idea.  I don't even want to tell you because you're going to freak out. What were you doing? I don't want you to think it, I don't want to get, I don't want it to get twisted. Like, I- But why are you wearing a different outfit? That is my question. I'm confused- Because first of all, I was overheating and I wanted to look good. But why did you bring it with- Because I wanted to look good at my friend's house, Bill. Okay, you've never worn that at a friend's house. In your life. But this was a different type of friend. This was a different type of friend. Stop. Just stop. Tell me. Are you really getting mad? Why wouldn't you- Would you be mad if I came here, like, came back and I'm seriously changed into like, I have my shirt off and- I didn't, I really didn't see a big deal. I see a big deal about it though. Well, you can complain, I didn't see a big deal.  Okay, stop. What were you doing? I don't see a big deal. Because you said what were you doing though? I don't want to tell you. See, that's why I don't trust you. And then you're going to get mad why I don't trust you? And then, who, what's the name? I'm not telling you the name. It's not a dude, because I literally- Yes, I wanted a good first impression and I thought this would be a good first impression and I was hot, so I'm like, you know what, it's perfect. I had an extra set in the back. I decided to do that. I know you're lying. Stop looking. There's nothing. Are you lying? No.  Like, please. I don't see a big deal wearing this. I see it. Come on. Are you really getting that mad, bro? Why would I? He's just a friend. It shouldn't matter. What's his name? It doesn't matter. Has someone you haven't- I'm not telling you who it was. Why? Because you're just going to go over there and freak out and I don't want you to freak out. I think I look good. I decided to put this on. And who cares if some other guy saw me in it? It's like, I don't see a big deal. He thought I was good. Just tell me the truth.  I already told you. Please tell me if you're messing me right now because I'm about to freak out. Please tell me right now. I'm not messing around.  I didn't see the problem. He thought I looked good. You want to break up? Obviously. You don't want to hide me up.    You're lucky.  I should be freaking out even more. You should not freak out because I do whatever I want. And I can do whatever I want. Then I won't be with you anymore. If you literally went to a dude's house, it's cheating. Especially in that. How can you bail? So just like that, like that's it. I don't see the big deal. I'm just wearing an everyday outfit. Whatever. Are you really getting that mad? Yeah, I'm not mad. Right.   Bill, I literally didn't do anything. That's so wrong. Bill, I didn't do anything wrong. Yes, you did. Like what? You went to a dude's house, huh? Are you getting so mad? I've never seen you that mad in a long time. Man, I really got you in your feels, didn't I? I really got you in your feels, guys. Hashtag Team Mariah in the comments. Tacos even said Team Mariah. I was looking for the damn camera too. Oh my God. I'm sorry I had to get you on this one. That's not even funny. I think it's pretty funny. It's not. You know it's funny. Look at you. I got you so good. I got you in your feels.  I was literally happy to leave. I did not want to be here anymore. Know that. You know I love you. Our love is forever. I'm sorry. How'd it get you today, Bill? Hashtag Team Mariah in the comments, guys. I got him so good. And don't even deny that, Bill. You did not. I so did. No, you did not. I so did. I'm sorry that I had to get you like that. You know I didn't mean to. Now I'm all like depressed. Don't be depressed. I came home to you. I didn't go to no boys house.  I didn't go to no boys house, so it's okay. Immediately, I was just like. It's okay, I didn't go to any boys house. I noticed this immediately too, because you never, I barely see her wear this before. You could literally see through it. Yeah, that's why I kept my promise. Yeah, don't be showing that. Don't be showing that. That's horrible. Oh my God. Thank you too. I love you. You know why I've never cheated on you or do anything like that? I know that. That's why I was so confused.  I was confused, but I thought it was a prank too, so I didn't want to overreact. But I was literally bothered. Well, I love you. You're okay. I was also telling them that even though we prank each other, at the end of the day, we just laugh at the pranks. And it didn't cause harm. Well, yeah, it's funny afterwards. But in the moment, it's just like, oh my God, what the heck? If you enjoyed today's video, make sure to give this video a big thumbs up. If you're, let's give this video a 25,000 likes. 25K, 25K for my reaction. For your reaction. My reaction. Team Raya, I guess, came back pretty good today. But I'm going to get her back. You already know if you're new to this channel, make sure to subscribe and turn on post notifications because when you see those team bill pranks coming up, when you see those team bill pranks coming up, you're going to literally love them. Also, we are announcing the $100 winners on- To three people. On Wednesday's video. So if you guys want to win $100, make sure to comment down below. Make sure you're showing love on our stuff. We're going to be picking winners and announcing them in Wednesday's YouTube video. So all you have to do is be subscribed with post notifications on. Make sure you're viewing and watching commenting down below and liking the videos. 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So, these signs here, what do they mean to you? The first thing I thought of when I saw the sign was why love one but eat the other, choose vegan. I've got a really rotten sense of human, I said, or you could eat both. You could eat both? Yeah. Okay. So you wouldn't think, there was anything wrong with killing and eating a dog? I, in certain cultures they do it, I don't like it, but in certain cultures they do lots of things I don't like, so you can't do it. Is there any difference to their culture and our culture? There's a big difference, of course, history for a start. In the way they treat their animals for food. Yeah, very much so. What are the differences? The differences are that there's very little supervision or protocol or even cultural history. In some parts of the world I won't name them, but everybody knows who they are, where the animal life is treated as just basically a commodity to give it, you take it. But in a lot of parts of the world we're human life is treated the same way. Now in Australia we also have ethical issues about our intensive farming industries and particularly our live animal exports, which are not being addressed, so even in Australia we're, you know, we're better, but we're definitely not kill free, that's for sure. We've got factory farms here in Australia, massive pigarees and animals are treated like commodities because that's what they are, they're a product at the end of the day. A bolt gun and a pig's head, would you say, is the same as a bolt gun and the dog's head? It's regrettable that both are killed, the thing is that if the pig is lucky enough to get a bolt gun and I said it's probably doing pretty well. In this world? In this world, yeah. A lot of worse ways to go. What if we said like why love one but eat the other, what if we gave the alternative of loving both? No, no, no, it's a good line, I can understand the line.  And you do it, the thing is that often if you want change, very often asking for a large step is very difficult for most people to get their head around, whereas if you work continually, continually, continually for small steps, small steps, small steps, you're more likely to get a good result. Because there's obviously a victim on the other side of this choice? Well it's only the victim that you're identifying. We're identifying the pig as a victim? Yes. You don't think the pig is a victim? Well the dog can be a victim as well. Oh yeah, in some cultures, yeah. But in our society, in this Western culture, it applies to us. You're definitely pigs that are in intensive farming situations, are probably treated along with chickens, but they're probably treated worse than probably any other intensively farmed animal. So you personally would disagree with our treatment of animals for food? I agree. Wherever possible, I'd buy free range, and if there was another brand or branding level that came through that was ethically farmed, humanely farmed, humanely slaughtered free range, I would definitely buy that product. So the free range animals go to the same slaughterhouse as the factory farmed animals? Not always. Definitely not always. No, definitely not in pigories. What slaughterhouse? Some of the country pigories have their own small slaughterhouses where they're done much better and they're not just herded into a truck and cut it off. Can you define better for... Better? It would be as much as possible that the animal is not traumatised, it has a good life within that lifespan. It's not slaughtered too early, I don't particularly like lambs, little piglets. Lambs are slaughtered at six months and pigs are slaughtered at around six months as well? Yeah, that'd be right. But you know, for example, I won't eat veal, pure and simply for the ethical reason that I won't touch the stuff. Okay. I won't... Because it's young? Yeah, very often the veal is slaughtered only a couple of days old. And chickens are slaughtered at? Chickens also, I buy... Six weeks old. Okay, I buy free-range chickens. I happen to like chicken. Yeah.  For what reasons? They're evangelical. Meaning they feel like they're superior... The whole time, the whole time, the whole time they're trying to convert. You convert, convert, convert, convert. You can't go out to a restaurant with a vegan and I'll guarantee you 50% of the time that vegan will be having a bash at the owner or the manager about why they don't have vegan options on the menu. And the manager will say, well, hang on a minute, if I tangled up my kitchen with half the kitchen being vegan and half the kitchen being normal, it's just too hard. It's like half the kitchen being kosher. Do you think it's annoying that people stand up for the rights of animals? It's not annoying, but they can definitely express opinions. I'm saying evangelical, they're not just standing up for the rights, they're trying to convert you. Whereas vegetarians don't do that. Because vegetarians are diet and veganism is about animals. Veganism is a much bigger concept. It's a philosophy against... The butter, eggs, the whole lot. Anything that exploits or hurts animals, vegans will say, we don't agree with that. Okay, I think the vegan philosophy is a good one and in an ideal world it's a good one. At the moment we're not in an ideal world and there's no way you're going to go, we're all vegan tomorrow unless... Look, all the evidence is there that mankind is going to have to change its eating.  It's bad for the environment, bad for overpopulation. That's the jury's out on that. Saturated fan cholesterol. If you want to give as much evidence about how this stuff is bad for you, there's as much counter evidence that says how much this stuff is good for you. So don't even get into that argument. It's very confusing. The science behind eating bacon and eggs and cholesterol and saturated fat. Okay, there's nothing wrong with eggs. Bacon in moderation, there's nothing wrong. Full of saturated fat? No, it's not. And cholesterol?  Coconut oil, full of saturated fat. Coconut oil is full of saturated fat, yeah. It's a refined product. Shabble it down, telling everybody what a great product it is. When it comes to diet, there is a lot of misinformation around. There is. There is. If you want to... But when it comes to ethics, we can't really argue that it's long to stab an animal for no reason. And I'm a big believer in ethical animal husbandry, okay? And so if a vegan issue aside, if somebody comes out and says, this is a moral issue, and I really do... This is not my quote originally, but I really do think that in future generations they're going to look back on our part of history and how we treated our animals with great shame. I do think that's going to happen. If you can go into a shop or a supermarket and you can buy an ethically farmed cut of lamb or even a salmon, because even salmon is intensively farmed. If you can buy it knowing it's had a good life, it's been well treated, it's been free range, it's been fed proper food that suits it, it hasn't been put in a store, deprived of life and freedom ethically and as painlessly as possible slaughtered, but you're going to pay five times more for that product, I would say good.  Yes. How is that good for the animals? It's not good for the animal. That's what we're saying. And we're omnivores, okay? We eat vegetables and we eat meat. And you veg vegans will disagree with that and say, no, no, no, we herbivores. Well, we don't need to eat meat to be healthy and thrive. We've got vegan athletes here, bodybuilders. I know that, but we can choose. So we're doing it for no reason, just because we like the way they taste. No, we're doing it, well, it's true. We're doing it to animals for no reason because we...  Culture is no justification for injustice, though. Okay, now, already in your interview, you're taking an evangelical approach to the animal's perspective. But already, but what I was complaining about before, that vegans are my observation, is that they will not conduct a reasonable discussion without getting hot and without evangelicalising and trying to convert the people who they're doing it to. And you're doing it now. Just from the animal's perspective, though, it's an injustice to enslave them and kill them, even if we do that in a kind way. I can see the poster. You wouldn't think so? You don't think of bolt gun in the head in a happy animal? We've got a whole history of doing that.  Okay, and you want to look at idealised cultures like, oh, the American Indians and, oh, the Australian Aboriginal and what are they doing? They're out there, they're hunting stuff, they're eating it. In survival situations, it's a bit different to... No, no, no, no, not survival. A lot of these American tribes are very prosperous. They just have a lot of eating bugs. There's a lot of things that happen in tribes that aren't ethical. You would agree? I think that...  Yes, yes. That happens in culture. Culture's a big catalyst for these injustices. Okay, well, now you want to bang on about anti-war and everything like this. No, we're just saying, all I'm saying is like, just because we've always done it and just because it's part of our culture, just because it's traditional and we like it's a habit, it still doesn't justify a bolt gun in an animal's head if they want it, from the animal's perspective. It's better than a rusty knife in a car park in Saudi Arabia. There's obviously better ways to kill people too, but it just doesn't make it justify. A few people think... You know, there's better ways to take someone's life, but if they didn't know about it behind them and... Yeah, and it's called... What is it, rules of war and war crimes? War crimes. No, humans, we've got a lovely big list about what you can and can't do in war, which everybody ignores anyway. We'd probably say that. You would agree that war, no matter how kindly it's done, like shooting people and killing people and dropping bombs on people is just not... Nor is it never justified, yeah. Sometimes it's justified. To defend yourself in a defensive way, yeah. But pigs and cows and chickens haven't done anything wrong to us for us to do this to them. Okay, now you're getting an evangelical and I'm getting a little bit over this interview now, so I'm gonna walk on it on Sunday and mainly because your tone has changed. Oh, no, no, this is my normal tone, but... Here's a card, take a card. Oh, well, we tried, didn't we? We tried.