I'm back and Mag is here and Greg is here. I'm amazing when I'm here. Yes. I know I thought I was gonna be by myself today and I had I had Chris kind of Chris almost was gonna come on because Mags know where Mags in the middle of nowhere and Greg was taking care of baby So I might have a great Yep, I was on grandpa Greg duty So we we're gonna try and make this short I have 43% of my battery left Yes, if Mags drops out randomly because her battery died. Yeah There's no power so Thank you, that's nice very kind I'm trying to make it show. It's not showing something's going on weird. Okay. Let's see if I can do this How about oh, how about we go crazy here? Oh Look at what Aon put up for us. This is on the Facebook page Your own appetite. What would it say? We've got pretty good question. She could have been a contender Finally it's quiet. Yeah TV off windows closed though not on like it's off beam me up It's apropos because that's very apropos.  Yeah, really I bet Greg has some really bad Dad jokes now.   I like that. I knew it a Simple man. No regrets. I probably do no regrets No That would be me queen a typo and Peggy's putting a wiki tree ID. Nice Yeah, well, I just put my wiki tree ID. So I don't know enough said she bought us a gift of laughter. Let's check out the G to G post Um and this one got chosen as best and it's devoted mother Very plain and simple and Alexis also says that she'll be in the Fort Gibson National Cemetery Because that's where her mother's Headstone will be so see you later. Ross Haywood Join me in paradise Tommy Buck course Tommy Kathy Forbes says and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days Oh WC fields road. I'd rather be in Philadelphia But hers this Roger Strong's stongs should be finally got the answers to my brick walls Yeah, huh? I Was a descendant now. I'm an ancestor Carol Baldwin She tried her best to Andrea Boudreau Don't let a little thing like my dying stop the party John Vaskey. How about that? My body lies, but still I roam Shelly Burmeister Fell down a rabbit hole and has gone to check out ancestors piano mc Michael Kathy Andrell Now on the other side meeting up with all my ancestors hope heaven can cope Listen, I'm at a family gathering this weekend or this week And there's 40 people here talk about having All of your descendants and ancestors in one place for some of these kids She lived she loved she's at peace. That's June Butka Eric Weddington says the birds have vanished into the sky Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me only Until only the mountain remains lipo. That's a good quote Still figuring things out Matthew Sullivan I'm hoping that if you get there Matthew that some of the things will be answered for you She lived loved and lost but still laugh. That's Cheryl Hess Mrs. McGyver, here's the one thing I could not fix Aurora anonymous uh and uh Leanne Deer says I'm going to answer this some indirectly I know you're across the universe ever so divine But remember me and your dreams and I'll remember you and mine That's assuming we dream when we pass I I have been looking forward to this for Age at at years. That's kind of funny. Luther Brown Camille Racheau from my rotting body flower show grow and I am in them and it is eternity That's edward mooch quote Nick Ziegler says I died. I can't reach my coffee But getting to hang out with my favorite brick walls is a nice trade-off Yeah, I haven't had coffee yet this morning. Can you tell? Here's the next one here lies Ted fell out of bed caved in his head very very dead Um My kids are free of me at last from Christina Adams Uh, George Gibbs says always tried to improve myself as a Christian I never deliberately lied or cheated but always happy to help others so not healthy or happy as myself Oh, that's interesting. Nothing in life is certain when you get the chance Always dance Judy add and that's kind of cool Um, I love this paul ballard done digging Hillary gadsby Gone to join those she spent so long looking for and bored the rest of us talking about There you go. That is the question of the week For this week I had shared it while you were reading mags, but chris said pip should be that's the last time I played bagpipes Or wear a kilt I think Headstone should have a kilt on it Oh, oh, it should be a marble kilt a marble kilt People are giving you ideas write these down, right? Yeah, yeah, because there's different colors of marble, right? So you could have red marble. Yeah I'm not sure what tartan would would fit best with a marble kilt, but nope. I'm sure pit could figure one out I'm very good. You'd probably get have them has favorite kilt get it replicated as it Yes There you go And pip uh, some of my cousin's own golden monuments in rock hill. I bet they could do it for you just saying Oh Gotta have So I like chris's uh here that really is the answer to life the universe and everything And then the follow-up to that is that the shape of the grave would be in the number 42 Or plot number 42 or something like that I've says he likes those ideas That's good Wow, you were super efficient mags Yeah, yeah, I guess it's just like yeah short sweet Short and sweet.  There were a hundred and something and I read every one of them Oh, damn Yeah, it was huge But it's nice to you know give credit for all those who participate And share their ideas and stuff. So nice Well, we might we have extra a little bit of extra time at the end not that I want to make sarah late I can I can always I can always leave you to do your thing greg That's right Actually, they just walk away We'll be going next week when we get back. I know No, I just wanted to show a few of the new features of the six degrees app that I released this past week And there's one new feature brand new that no one even knows about that. I just added five minutes before we started Really wait, wait, wait, wait. You had a baby in your lap You were you were gonna put greg was multi-tasking That's impressive Well, yeah, anyways that will be revealed What also could be revealed is the um profiles of the week That's a good theme this week What's that? It's a good theme this week. I'm just telling mags. My mom's not here, but there this is her favorite Is it?  That's that's my favorite. You're jam. That's my jam. Yeah And I've become a new dr. Who uh fanatic too, so I really like that We would never have known that from your coffee mom. I know you'd never know that at all But um, yeah, the profile of the week is about the star star trek crew member you're most close to connected to And sadly that is because we lost nashel nickels Oh this past weekend Who played of course lieutenant uhura And here's your profile here. So she was born grace del nashel nickels So she went by michelle nashel like with an n Um, she was born on the 18th of december 1932 Um, so the same year that my mother-in-law was born actually now that's In robbins cook county in illinois um daughter of samuel earle nickels and lisha may parks Uh, and she passed away the end of july 30th of july the age 89 all yeah Age of 89 so in her 90th year in silver city grant new mexico Uh, she's a member of the She's part of the us black history project and the black heritage project American actress made famous by her role as lieutenant uhura communications officer One of the first black women to be featured in a major television series and her prominent supporting role as a bridge officer Broke the stereotype of black women characters And she kept and she kept breaking stereotypes because her character was important not only in the original series But in the follow-up films as well Um, she was and she was a captain and an admiral Yeah, if you make admiral, I think she did chris chris. Let us know chris would know for sure um, but uh, it was very impressive and um She inspired lots of lots of people and there's uh something in the profile watch. I'll get to later on Grew up in a suburb of chicago had uh eight siblings But she started as a jazz singer. So this is really cool So she wasn't initially an actress. She was a jazz singer with duke ellington. Who's uh, one of the greats Um in the hampton band sang and danced new york along the west coast in the chicago theater Um had two marriages there and in 1966 this is cool Dr. Martin luther king of all people strongly encouraged her to continue her non-stereopic role as uhura Because of its positive influence on millions of viewers black and white And after star tech was cancelled in 69 She volunteered her time with nasa as a very successful recruiter of minority and female personnel Wow, I didn't know that I didn't know that either, but that's very very impressive. That is really cool Yeah, and a number of people have credited her her role um in her prominence Um as part of an inspiration for their um career whoopie goldberg. I know has gone on record to say that Which I think is one of the reasons why she wanted to be part of star trek when That came time for star trek the next generation Um, she wrote her autobiography in 94. This is sad. I didn't realize this but in 2018 She stopped going to conventions because of her diagnosed dementia. So that's what she would have been battling with the last four years but very impressive person Wonderful role loved her in the show in the movies, but uh impressive person as a human the next one Like some of the ones that have been chosen Um had important roles in the show, but are still living. So their their bios are very short. So denise crossby Um daughter of denis michael crossby. Oh father's denis. Her name is denise. That's kind of neat uh board in the 50s And uh often remembered as lieutenant tasha yarr in the star trek universe You got eaten by tar eaten by tar Whatever that black thing was that a Yeah, she had the most Take the miniest death and departure from the universe. Uh, like it was very young pretty sad um, I don't know why they did that um story wise anyways, but I I mean if the actress wanted to come back there is a twin of hers or a Alternate universe version of her that is alive somewhere that they could bring back in Yes, if they wanted to so That's a possibility, but she's a great actress I've seen her in other things lately too. Uh, I think she was in ray donovan And she did a really good job at that quite a different role chris fariello says that she also played Romulan sub commander sila. I mean we have to we have to be up on this stuff. Wow. That's that's that's a deep dive The job one said that they thought they did bring her back I thought they did too And one of the movies that she was she was back. Oh, okay As as herself or as an alternate Anyway, I think as herself. Oh well, that'd be nice. That's good. Greg. You're or sarah. Your closest is Uh gene roddenberry Greg, I think it was the kelly 19 unless I'd miss 18 gene roddenberry. I guess I looked I didn't see the 18 never mind And greg your closest is jimmy doing Excellent who's I'm right here. James Montgomery doing and then gene roddenberry and gene roddenberry is my closest too Oh, is he okay? So jimmy doing Is canadian born on the 3rd of march 1920 in vancouver bc Son of william patrick doing and sarah francis Montgomery doing uh, so his parents Uh, or irish, I believe so he's a canadian actor best known for portraying chief chief engineer man gummary scott on star trek Uh, but his parents emigrated from northern ireland. So it's funny his parents were irish, but he played a scottish person And he looks great in a kilt looked great in a kilt. I'm sure he did Yes, his father owned a chemo shop or a pharmacy in bangertown center on main street beside the trinity presbyterian church Um, so jimmy served in the world war two Um landed on juno beach on d days. Remember the royal canadian artillery? wow He was hit by four bullets and A bullet struck his chest, but his life was saved Because it hit a silver cigarette case that he'd been given to him by his brother Wow, cool like you see that in the movies sometime, but this actually happened in real life. So that's pretty cool Sadly he also suffered from Alzheimer's and was also ravaged by parkinson's diabetes lung fibrosis passed away in 20th july of 2005 Chris says he lost a finger during war war two. That's why you never see his left hand on screen I don't know if it says that it does say about him losing the finger But it didn't mention that's why you don't see it on screen And I never actually noticed that she never sees and hillary says that her closest just gene roddenberry The cool one of the coolest things about scottie Is that uh, some of his ash a quarter ounce of his ashes were launched into orbit around the earth Yes, it would be cool if his ash ray could like be was beaming up Then next is jonathan freaks So he was born in the 50s son of james freaks um And uh, number number one number one. Yes uh next generation sir a sir with captain jon luke beckard, of course um born in 1952 so the biography gives the full details that the info at the top privatizes Just kind of funny, um, but all this would have been available on wikipedia anyways, so it's not really that private um Was a uh, uh, he ran track and also was an actor His father was a critic is is an actor is an actor. Yes still still acting So yeah, he started out as william riker number one in the star trek next generation Did a lot of the films, but he's also been involved with um I don't know if he's been involved with every single series But almost every single series for sure coming on either either starring Having some type of starring role as a cameo or as directing because he's done a lot of directing as well I love all the stuff that chris ferrell ferrella was throwing up. That's right He says the t&g cast will reunite this spring Next spring about that in the third season of peccard. Yeah Yeah, i'm pretty excited about that. I mean the the cast they had for season one and two of peccard I really liked so i'm kind of sad to lose some of them um, but uh But having the the originals back that will be nice too. Greg. We have a question for you or or or sarah I don't care. It doesn't matter So a mix of yellow and green, but the alliteration finder won't name a direct connection. Okay So the connection finder that's an excellent question betsey The connection finder finds the closest connection between two people And it uses a combination of blood connections and marriage connections And so when the colors change from well, let me just show you with my connection to jonathan freaks So when the color changes from green To yellow that means that that point Is is a an in-law connection a connection by marriage. So from jonathan up to john hindricks Those are all directly related those connections are all directly by blood You know father father mother sister brother son, but here we're jumping over to his wife So the next yellow ones are all connected by blood, but then when we switch back to green we go from Uh, his sister to a husband. So then that's a switch from it's a switch from because of marriages So when you see this there's actually so there's Two connections are by marriage If it was solid green then that would mean you would actually be the connection would be a direct by blood connection So and then all this also finds the closest connection even if you're blood related So you could still be cousins, but more distant, but this will show The closer one great question though betsey great question question. Yeah Yeah, and it's it surprises me sometimes. Well, I'm a I'm a cousin Why is the connection finder not showing my my cousin relationship? But you know when you think about the cousins have to go all the way up to the most common ancestor in them back down But sometimes by marriage you can sort of short circuit that You know brother two brothers married two sisters or you know, so many combinations, but Excellent question and betsey co is the member of the week this week. Yes Yeah How am I related to her to go betsey co? Thank Well, oh, there's there's grandpa grandpa greg with his grandpa greg Sarah you're 26 degrees from betsey co Greg you are 24 degrees from betsey co and i'm probably close to sarah Up up up. I gotta go back because I go ahead. Keep going. Okay. So next we have bones Jackson de forest kelly born in 1920 as well same as mcgummer stott um And to koa stevens county georgia. So that would explain his accent his southern accent uh on the show Son of urnus david kelly and chloris kelly or casey um He died on 11th of june 1999 the age of 79 in woodland hills, los angeles county california He was born so in georgia. He was born. It was just 90 miles from lanta son of a baptist minister and his wife And delivered by his uncle. That's kind of cool Of course best known as bones mccoy on the original version of star trek Um and in all of the movies and he did have a I believe there was uh one episode where he joined this next generation crew But I Chris can correct me if i'm wrong, but I think he did not want to be beamed aboard So they had to take get him on board by a shuttle because he never trusted those transporter things um After spending his teenage years at the baptist church Um, he left georgia. He recorded a single He was recorded as a single white male Um, he was draught went to the u.s. Arm forces draft um And then enlisted in the army got married did some minor roles and then uh, did he did a number of uh number of tv roles often in uh As a in gunsmoke gunfight those sorts of thing gunslingers and villains apparently was his forte and then he met Jean roddenberry who was an ex-policeman. I didn't realize that was part of his early career And gene of course and then cast him He was originally asked to be mr. Spock. So wouldn't that have been interesting? Yes, that would have been a whole different ball of wax. Wow I just don't know but uh Luckily, he decided that he wanted the less alien role of dr. Leonard bones boy Kind of hard to hide that southern accent. Yes. Yes a vulcan with a southern accent may not have made a lot of sense. No He would could have been a southern vulcan Yeah Anyways, uh, he was said he was proudest of the positive impact his role had as a star trek physician In and cracking young people to become medical doctors. So that's very cool His his body was cremated and his ashes were spread over the pacific ocean Not in space Then we have the real talk Our Leonard simon nemoi born on 26th of march 1931 in boston, massachusetts Son of max mordko nemoi and dora spinner Uh passed away the 20 27th of february 2015 The age of 83 way too young. I still think lost everybody else get disconcerted when they see pictures of him smiling I know it seems weird, doesn't it? Is he talking on a phone or does he just have his hand up? I think he's just like Just like laughing at this and what I do all the time during live casts. Yeah shares like this I see hand on here. Yeah Uh, I really like this. Um, this is bus of him In the there's a town in alberta. That's actually called vulcan. We actually drove through that in our morrow once I think um, but we didn't see this because we would have taken a picture beside this But anyways, yeah, see that's a bust of spock with the the long and prosper hands I've always wanted to do a fun tour of the us in canada and go through all of the places that have Weird funky stuff like that. We when we did our motorhome trip with our kids when they were younger We did that. We saw the giant nickel in sudbury The giant winnie the pooh and white river the the big goose and wawa Anyways, there's lots of those sorts of things across canada Um Anyways, his parents were russian and in fact, which is the word nemoy means person who cannot speak in russian Isn't that neat Um, so russian jews and nemoy himself have been long been active in the jewish community and he could speak and read yiddish Um, he also served in the united states army reserve So many most of these people have a connection to the army. So that's pretty impressive Um, unfortunately, he died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Or c.o.p.d. Is it's more common? Chris that's the wrong. We're talking about the wrong series Bill Bowman's yes But no he's saying that song Oh, he's saying Oh, I did not know that nevermind chris. Sorry. He's probably a very strong Then william shatner um Anyways Are we going to talk about william shatner? That's right. Is that how I should do his profile? Oh Dean roddenberry the guy who started rolling born 19th of august 1921 el paso texas Passed away the 24th of october 1991 um, and he's married to major lee hudeck and do we have her down here as one of the I don't think oh, she should but she's not Well, she is now Now Okay, magell barrett roddenberry who just skipped over her husband. We're talking about her We'll come back to him in a bit But magell barrett like she was a major part of every star trek series up until she passed away because not only did she play um, well she was um Okay What else is she so she was played locks on a choice. So she was deanna Troy's mother But she was the voice of the computer in every episode up until she passed away, but she was also what's she nurse chapel? Yes Yeah Why does it not say that here? Well, I guess you're gonna have somebody's gonna have to fix her profile Is it chris confirm with me, please that she's she was nurse chapel as well I'm pretty sure she was um But even though even after She was no longer acting she still had um, actually she she was hilarious as deanna Troy's mother walks on a Troy in the next generation Um, she was um, but then continuing on as the voice of the computer It just seems wrong now when I hear modern star trek without her voice So she was nurse mother mother nurse chapel chris your your assignment should you choose to accept it is to Adjust her profile to include that nugget So she had um, I would argue she had at least as as as big an impact on star trek as uh as her husband I agree And probably easier to get along with I just uh now his bio is pretty short. Maybe because he didn't go along with people. I don't know Uh I heard that he could be a little crotchety at times Um And that's my that's our closest right max Yeah the crotchety guy But I guess we'd be I wonder how much closer we'd be to her his his wife To his wife I wonder for closer more further away closer or whatever one step further. Well, who knows further Yeah, but you know No matter what he started it all off and without his vision of the you know wagon train to the stars Then none of this would have happened. So you got to give him huge kudos um for that Uh, anyways, there's lots of other source. The wikipedia has lots of articles It's also interesting that you say that he was sometimes hard to get along with when he wrote about In societies, okay Any faith in again? Okay We have guests here. Oh, I know Sophia's parents are here to pick her up Oh Sorry about that Animals are always welcome. What's that animals are always welcome. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you yeah, you're you're favorite. You're forgiven William Shatner cap and james t curt born in the 30s still kicking um Actually What's that? He's the only one that's been no, I was gonna talk about that. He was not the first he was not the first one You know who was he was the well scott. Well alive The first one The one time start star trek actress who beat william shatner space. She was an astronaut I wanted to bring that up when we talked about him I thought you were gonna say it was jimmy doing now. Yes. I was gonna say he was the first live one to be in But uh But he's famous getting getting an actor musician singer. So Have you ever heard his um Which was it? Um Oh, was it lucy in the sky with diamonds that he sang?  Yeah, so chris has updated her profile. Okay That's right. She was also number one in the original pilot Yeah, anyways I always liked welliam shatner and the things he did you just can't take him too I don't think he doesn't I don't think he takes himself too seriously sometimes No, no, so, you know, you got to appreciate that Someone who's able to laugh at themselves after the fact um Brent spiner so born in the 40s um also Short bio here because he's still still alive but uh most famous of course for playing The android star fleet officer lieutenant commander data on star tech next generation And he's portrayed data in on that show in the movies and in the latest Picard series He portrays one of data's um Not ancestors because he was one of his the The forebears of one of data's creator. Um But anyways, he continued to find acting roles in star trek and does quite a good job of that Then we have sir patrick stewart sir patrick sir patrick sir patrick stewart or or to the british empire born in the 40s um Filming or I think they finished filming season three of the card, but he had a three year run there Uh, probably long after he figured he was done portraying that character But uh, I'm glad he brought it back because he did a great job um In many ways, I think he's one of the best star trek captains because of his reserve and his intellectual approach to it Um, but it's interesting each of the captains has their own niche and their own way of approaching things. So Um, but he's had many roles on stage in television and film not just uh in star trek of course Uh born in july 1940 youngest of three boys um He credits his english teacher with uh starting an exacting career He basically put a copy of shakespeare in my hand and said now get up and perform So there you go When your teacher says get up and perform i guess you do and you just didn't stop the teacher doesn't say stop performing now Um, he had several brief jobs, but he and brian blessed who's also a well-known british actor um received grants to enable them to study at the uh old vic theater school and he joined the royal shakespeare company did lots of shakespeare and Roles and then of course 87 came the breakout roles captain picard And he wasn't sure What's that? That was only in 1987. I know Oh Wow, that was the year. So he's been portraying picard for as long as we've been married. That was our year. We got married I have not married to you greg. No, not not us. I mean And then of course the other big role that chris is probably screaming at us in the chat is about his role as professors to charles xavier from the x-men films he's Yes Um, but he his first love was the stage He did a big show a one-man show on the called the christmas carol where he played all 40 parts Oh, wow, that would be wonderful to see anything. I don't see that None of you guys have seen that right anyone on the chat seen that that would be amazing to see I wonder if they were Or it feels like non-recorded. Oh I don't know He needs to do it again. So I need to do it again In 2012 he carried the olympic torch as part of the summer olympics. That was pretty cool Ed but he was only voted third greatest yorkshireman After monty pythons michael palin an actor shawn bean Really shawn being on being Do you know shawn being is yes shawn beans the garrick the actor who always dies He does always die poor shawn every movie. I like how you pull them up At least he's still alive didn't know who he was there. He is He's game of thrones and lord of the lord of the rings He does a lot of sci-fi not fantasy stuff His name bothers me too I like this he shares the goodness world record. This is we're back to patrick stewart now. Okay Shares the longest the Guinness world record for longest portrayal of a superhero with his professor x That's an interesting world record to have June says during covet stewart red daily on facebook Oh, yeah I heard that I when that um, remember the ice bucket challenge for Hmm I know I know I just can't think of the name either Yeah, the ice bucket challenge when that was going around he did a really niche demonstration for that so because And it looked like, you know, he was about to do it, but then what he did was he just took it took out his checkbook and wrote a check Instead of actually dousing himself in ice al s al s I was thinking started with a but I knew it wasn't Alzheimer's but I was thinking al What a al s I just had to go one more letter Uh, Richard What's that? This is the last one. This is the last one Richard Wheaton the third So that's born in the 70s Also known as will Wheaton Um, it was born to actress debby o'connor and medical specialist richard william Wheaton jr Uh, he was born on july 29th 1972.  How can that be? Uh, but he started a long way home and the secret of nymph Um, mrs. And then mrs. Ross boy lost boys The loss, uh, was in the lost boys too Last star fighter Oh, but his part of the last star fighter was cut. So he ended up on the cutting room floor There was a big young youth movie that he did that is huge Stand by me stand by me stand by me. There you go. Not lost boys. Yeah, stand by me He was uh, yeah gordy lechance um That movie like you watch it again and there's lots of nuance in there that I missed the first time around It's kind of it's kind of a sad. Yeah, it's uh It's interesting. It's a good movie. It's well done Uh, but yeah, he did he played in that and then of course he went on to play resty crusher in the first four seasons of next generation um And that character even actually came back in the season finale of pacard Oh spoiler alert. Sorry. Uh, oh I won't say what But I loved his when he shows up in the big bang theory Yes, yes, he has he's like he's almost like sheldon's nemesis. Yes Sheldon doesn't realize it. He's like seinfeld newman to to show exactly. Yeah, he's foil Oh, yeah, but um after he left star trek though he took part he um Worked in a tech company and has appeared in video games and comic books Video toaster four thousand. Yeah, the video toaster four thousand Um, I almost feel I should know what that does, but I don't know what it does Can you video chat somebody while toasting? Maybe or I'm not quite sure He was also in the sand blot According to Yeah, okay So he suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression and supports mental health non-profit organizations and raising awareness for these conditions So that's that's really important work Um supporting that because lots of people suffer from that It's one.  I was ready. Kind of I was kind of ready I was kind of ready. You were kind of ready. Oh, I'm sure you would have a wonderful job You would have to get your mom off holidays to get her on the screen with you. Yes that was Not in the sandlot. Not in the sandlot. Oh Okay, thank you, judy. Judy. We almost trusted you, but then Sarah Sarah Oh photos. I wasn't even ready for photos. Oh my gosh. What is the theme this week? Let's see Well, let me The theme this week is reunion unless we want to do Let's see See how many photos there are There's only four so we'll do two since I have do you guys do the photos last week? I'm assuming Okay, I think so there's only four photos to share. So we'll just share four I did the photos last week from the cottage. Remember? Yes. Yeah Let's count how many Okay, so the theme is reunion So this should go quick. We'll look at these four go to the gg post see if there's any extra one We have mary with two of her brothers That's an interesting lamp make that lamp. Yeah Well, sometimes people drape them with stuff to make them not be so bright. I don't know all that's oh, yeah Maybe that's that Oh, cool nice Alexis shared this with us Them in front of the travel lodge at the travel lodge Do we have to to pay does the travel lodge have to pay us? Product placement travel lodge Where you travel to a reunion of daughters from three families two daughters not available Oh In british columbia I Have no photos from the actually I do have great photos from this weekend. I have the best photo. I've ever taken in my life And this one says Shuler's mingle at the mansion and it's a newspaper article A little literary in there Nice mingle at the first national shuler reunion in 1980 hosted by the friends of shuler mansion Followed by one in 1983 We're very We're very worth traveling long distance to attend my family tenant and contributed information to the meetings I'm posting this to notify shuler families and a family um The or those interested new new netherlands culture that was quite worthwhile Very cool. Yeah, I would have pronounced that skylare Hmm I don't know Let's see if we have anything else here. Okay. So there's five answers. So we might have a photo that Let's see. We saw that one. So this one was this was a photo taken last week from the 39th bomb group reunion in balthmore mariland He was a world war two pilot and he flew a b24 and b29 missions and um We had their reunion near frank's home and we plan to have our next reunion in may on his 98th birthday Wow That's cool Oh Nikki said that my pronunciation was right Oh really skylare Know what you said? That's what I said. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, niki I will we didn't see this So we didn't see this photo Um when I was barely past 20 in the early 1970s I did a napsack tour of europe with my friend jan our friend koreen went at the same time But was traveling alone We all met in london for a few days then koreen left for amsterdam greece and israel jenn and i were headed for france Spain italy See you back there in three See you back home in three months And then there are the three of them Okay, is there in the painting and behind there? Is there a horse in that? No, it looks like a bridge.  Okay. Yeah because I was trying to get Chris was trying to count animals and I don't think we've come across any yet. No, we have not Oh, what's this so in 1824 to 1825 the marquis lafayette hero of the american revolution Toward the u.s traveling some 6 000 miles and pittsfield As in many other cities he was greeted by local residents and reunited with revolutionary war veterans Wow And we saw this one this was the reunion of three siblings and their home in 1987 in six england And then this was the travelage travelage And that's it. That's all that's all photos guys. I'm gonna share mine real quick. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Um add to stream There we go Oh, it looks like you guys are you guys setting off fireworks that we sent them? No, we built my brother in law actually built a rocket Out of uh paper towel tube and stuff super glued it together built a rocket He's the one pulling it uh setting it off and that is my nephew In front of me watching his dad do this, but what's incredible is I caught the rocket in the frame That is pretty cool. That is pretty cool. That's like the How high up did it go? About 300 feet. They they set one off last night that went really high. It was cool Yeah Are they building them at there? Yes, yes We're building them in the in the garage and then we're going there's this this is a Loyalist track, so it's 10 acres and there's lots of lots of room back here. So lots of fun Oh betsy just said she shared a photo. Oh, let's go. Let's go look at it real quick I am out of power guys. Oh, no So i'm gonna check out you guys have a great wiki tree week and i'll see you later But i'm gonna share betsy's photo real quick joining betsy's photo real quick Oh, where is it? Oh, she missed it. She was almost ready Look aw That's so cute That's great when was this photo in 2006? Thank you for sharing that betsy very nice Yeah, I guess you can give us some updates for your I was trying to find my picture that I posted on facebook of my reunion when I The first reunion when I got together with my biological siblings and my adoptive settings We met for the first time, but I can't find it that fast It should be easy to find something you've posted on facebook. You'd think but it's not It's not Sadly, okay, so I will get out of my facebook page. Okay The dog needs to come back the dog.  That's our our animal We've at least met our quota for the week. I mean, I have one right there, but she's sleeping. So she's not actually on okay, so So I actually did a um I updated the the six degrees app On monday and I made a gtt post about that and I actually did a youtube video talking about all the features of the app And I actually went through all the features not just the new ones And took 25 minutes.  So, you know, sometimes the app is loading and stuff. So Um, I didn't talk to I didn't talk super fast. So you it shouldn't be too confusing in that regard You should be able to just follow along But anyways, I I thought I just show you some of the some of the things that are new Oh, there's your kitty nice. I just I just stole her from her. She wasn't she's not very happy What do you do when she says Oh So I've loaded up one of my great great great grandmothers um and So one of the new things about it is that it can load Um, it's nothing that's large because it goes now to seven degrees To match the cc seven score um So see I've got over 6100 here now Kay has asked me and I still haven't figured out why sometimes The number of dots does not equal the total number of connections I'm thinking that because some of them are doubly connected And I only put one dot per person But I haven't validated that so ignore that little bit of uh Math inequality up there, but so this is a huge see like there's that's a big circle That's a big circle in the previous version. I couldn't do that It would die after the first that like it would die Maybe even before degree six, but I revamped the algorithm. So it keeps on going in the background. So You can play with you know as it loads a degree you can play with things up to that degree While it loads the next degree in the background. So That's one of the things if you're getting patient, you know, you can start playing with it But let's let's go down a few so that it's a little bit more manageable. Maybe So I want to show you um When you're at this view One of the things you can do is you can you can zoom in on and show different subsets of people. So if you want to show all who are living um, there's not that many because Alfon seen herself She lived from 1893 to 1931 So all of her contemporaries will have passed away by now. Unfortunately. So these dots represent her Uh, let's see are there any her children live? Uh, yeah, so one daughter is alive that I know of um and A niece and then these would be grandchildren and whatnot and so on uh So when you go into show you living connections But if you click on it again, and then there's an x in front of it That means it's not living connections. So these are all the people we're not living in the same with actual relatives versus Not actual relatives. So the criteria here for relatives is those who are blood related. So Father mother son brother sister But not spouse or spouses relatives. So when you go to this all of these dots are in-laws of some sort Um And then the other thing is the profiles I manage so someone asked early on, you know, it'd be nice to know which Of if you're looking at all the connections, which ones are ones that you manage and which one someone else manages Especially if you're trying to figure out where when one got updated, you know, you could zoom in You know what to who to blame or whatever or who's gonna be blamed who's gonna be blamed. Yes Uh, so the other thing is I've got this option for Profiles by date so you can show anyone who was alive on a certain date That's cool So if we choose, let's see, I'll put in my birthday for example And these are connected to you when you were born So yeah, the people who were alive and connected to me when I was born All of these people are people I could potentially have met. Um So that's kind of cool But the one thing I one feature I added so these were in the last the alive on alive Um deceased by so which that's sort of the opposite of that someone who the people who had died by the by birthday Um, but the feature I added that that was new as of last week is The alive during a lifetime so you can pick a person here. So if I picked queen victoria These are all of the connections that were alive during the lifetime of queen victoria And you can see her lifespan is up here for your quick reference Oh And or oscar peterson great canadian jazz artist Um Can you Can you only pick you only have like certain people there or yeah I was going to put everyone's name But then when you get when the list is going to be that long like four thousand six thousand people It would just be unmanageable. So what I did was at the top of the list will actually be the target person herself And then her parents and her grandparents So if you wanted to see who was alive at the same time as alphonseen herself That seems like a rather smaller Oh, well, maybe not um And that's her who was alive at the same time as her father Or mother and then for one of her grandparents But I also if you look down I also Go to the wiki page home page and I find people who are on there and then every week this gets updated So nashel nickels is there so now you can see who was alive during her lifetime Or any of the other people who are on the home page at any given time So i'll just press the apparently is on right now so you can see Who was alive during his lifetime? cool um The other new thing is I brought back the animation feature. Oh like that like Yes, yes, so the way that works is you can if you choose by birthday and we just go by Do it continuously At first off it picks the oldest birth date and then you just hit play and then it just adds people now There we go see people are popping in And it just builds as it goes along cool And if you stop it, then you can go forward Oh this this happened Go to the very beginning or to the very end um, or you can jump Say you want to jump every five Years instead of going one year at a time and let's say we want to start in 1800 1850 Okay, just hold on a sec Just saying bye to my daughter and some of the law and my little granddaughter So There we go see how it just Builds that way and again you can pause it go one at a time cool So that's kind of cool. And so you can do that for a birth date or the profile or alive on a certain date So this is kind of neat because if you do that Let's say about 1900 here. So these are all the people who are alive at 1900. So if I could If I go forward one, so like a little add and subtract. Yes, exactly. So see people popping in and other people popping out That's cool. Isn't that kind of cool? I think that's kind of neat Um, anyways, like how it goes to 2025 Well, it goes to it Five and it stops when it's past the days date But I didn't you know, like I thought well, I could have just ran it future It's guessing you're gonna be alive. Everybody the people that are alive now. It's a feature. We'll call it a feature So that's all the new things on this side and on the other side The is the other exciting thing is that so I'm gonna switch back to my profile Um, so there's my profile, but you see it says currently showing 97 connections biological and adoptive Because I've now got it working so that You can actually if you have if you yourself are adopted and you put the adopted template adopted child template on your profile Then it pulls in both sets. So I'm going to First of all, one of the features I have is that you can so there's a new feature here So you can choose which family you're going to show There's also a privatization feature. So I'm going to Hit privatize. So now I'm going to go to first name So there's me patrick and bernadette are my adoptive parents Dwight and pauline are my biological parents um, and then in the next row so that all these privates are my Are my actual siblings? or children um And then we have thomas and louisa and eve and donald are my adoptive grandparents and then lile margaret elie Eni and germin are my Biological grandparents and so on so this is this is a mix of my adoptive family and my biological family And if I wanted to choose just one of them, I can just click on this and there's just the adoptive side And there's the biological side And when I go to the family tree version Uh-oh when I go to the family tree version, uh Is there a bug? Uh-oh, he found a bug Nikki says it's the best update ever that she loves to see her both her adopted and bio family It would be great if they didn't the family tree would work If I didn't have a bug in it Okay, so when you get to here Let's see if I reload it There we go. Okay So there um, let me go back to private And so now it's showing let me go to there's my adoptive family And let's do two degrees. There's my adoptive family patrick and bernadette My mom and dad that I grew up with and then I can switch to my Biological family dwight and pauline Well, I just discovered and my Two siblings and a half sibling And then the really cool one is I can show Both families at the same time, which is what I've always wanted to do and never been able to do with software before So there is all of my siblings the first two green ones are my biological siblings and then see there's where the split is These two are my adoptive siblings Melissa says wonder if you color code them adopted versus biological or maybe have different circles Like dotted versus, I don't know Unless you already have that somewhere what I've done is this the the divider divides where they are And then also then this half of the tree says adoptive So there that goes up leads up to patrick and bernadette my adoptive family and the biological Marker goes up to my biological family and so I can go up And it goes on and on and you can See so that's for for me. That's very exciting and um someone else also likes that I've actually had some very nice feedback from adoptees And so that's that's heartwarming too. So Those are the biggest updates And uh, thank you, great And it's 11 o'clock and I guess if you guys have any I guess if you're playing with this and notice any other bugs Let's Greg know The oh the last I teased you with one feature I added five minutes before the video started Oh And you know what that is under other views. I've now added a link to the new timeline app Steve Harris just created and just released this week Awesome. So this is a very cool app that Steve put together um And it just basically gives you when you put in a profile name here Um, it gives you the timeline of all the events That's really cool. Isn't that neat? So here we go, so Brand new you heard her hear her first folks heard it here first Yes, I also yes chris. I did make a map an app for the ontonati, which is the italian's sources website I'm posted to that that has a maybe smaller target audience It's a very specific. It's a one-trick pony app, but that's what it needs to do for those that need it Anyways, thanks Yeah, well, I guess that it's time to go. We will see you next time guys. Yeah See ya


The first thing to bear in mind about Alphabete, it is a very widely drawn portfolio, so we have lots of different parts of the business and they're in different parts of the economic cycle and indeed in different economic cycles around the world, so it's very difficult to generalise. In the UK our business has been very robust. I think it's fair to say that in the nature of our business we are here, we are probably quite late cycle. So we still have some of the headwinds particularly around public spending that's yet to really emerge, but if I just take the view for the longer term there are real reasons in our sector I think more generally to believe that the UK economy will grow in the medium and long term and we remain very optimistic about the future.


Dave Mazda welcome back to TFNN. Hey, happy to be back. So so fit to this Dave, right? You're too young to remember inflation. I remember inflation, but I just barely do when this was happening, okay? So all weekend long man. I'm hunting hunting hunting like okay, you know We got hard assets inflation all that but anyway I get over to your website and I say you know the heck with inflation Because something that is really out here that we know is out here And this was this is right on the direction website folks is the four trillion dollar trade and it is infrastructure transportation, right? I mean, this is here now, right? Yeah Exactly. So what we find interesting is obviously they're interconnected people are saying we're gonna spend it's gonna spend all this money Then you'll get even more inflation, but to your point. Let's set that aside What we do know is these are live negotiations, but what we're hearing You know, you don't need to be a Washington insider. You can read your favorite newspaper They're gonna get something done if they have to go at it alone on the infrastructure side I think everyone can agree the bridges the tunnels the roads need to get done But what he's talking about is this much broader sense of infrastructure. So we're seeing opportunities With in the 5g space and the communication side building up broadband. There's opportunities with health care to build that out So this this infrastructure package is much broader than it was historically and the trades that can come out of it Are not just kind of your traditional Industrial materials, etc. Even though that they are there too. No, there's no doubt in folks as you're over there So you get a couple symbols you get D. U. S. L. Which is it which ends up being the industrials. Yes, you have Tpor which is the Transportation's you know, you know what is really cool about these days what I mean you're talking about big established companies That actually can be growing pretty dramatically when we're talking about the kind of money that we're talking about and we I think no matter You know whether it's Republican Democrat or independent. I think everyone knows we need Infrastructure period. Okay, so I agree that something's gonna be done here. You know what I'm saying Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, we're already starting to see it with some of the the moves that we that are happening in T. Or again, that's your your bull side of Transportation because that's an area that to your point has been under invested in under this broader framework of Infrastructure, the beneficiaries are gonna be found in there along with your traditional industrial side But look at what we're seeing even with biotech today with what have who and lab D Tons of extra you know unbelievable performance a lot of trading volume because you know again this all-timers drug I think that's what's getting the attention here But they're gonna be if you again if you go through the package, it's all on the it's all on the website They're gonna be diverting money to more of these treatments You can apply that to tons of other diseases and things so the money that's gonna start flowing into those areas is really robust Even though biotechs had an unbelievable run It's we're just had an interesting juncture here that for traders can take advantage of some of these moves coming out of Washington There's no doubt and and what had happened out here today folks Okay, just in case you're just in your car coming home from work The bottom line is that a biogen, you know got okayed by the FDA For now Simon's drug and as Dave was talking about the lab you lab you is the bull You know direction three three hundred percent Leveraged a product and you can see These are always sweet Dave when you build a base and then they're coming off a base, you know Which I know that the bottom line is that we've we're coming off the base so Pretty and in the same type of deal meaning that we have large companies that are inside here that are basically just get going in the aspect of You know basically helping people Hopefully in this particular case that disease is a terrible disease Yeah, exactly and look by it's your point biogen might not be the biggest Healthcare company, but it's not just some focus on some experimental drugs and some rare disease You know some of those names are gonna be in that basket too But what we're seeing here is this opportunity set in your point if you look at the technicals in a lot of these spaces We certainly know there's been a rotation a rotation from rotation But biotech even some of the outperformance of the NASDAQ today Interesting relative to the broader market that again Maybe we're finding ourselves a bit of a floor in some of these these growth your names And we're just kind of sold off in unison when people moved away from big cap tech giving some opportunities and areas It's still our growth, but maybe not just your you know again your Microsoft Google's Amazon's of the world Yeah, it's certainly Exciting time to be alive. There's no doubt about it. Well, listen man Thank you so much for the great education and folks just you run our website just hit the direction bandie You're gonna be able to see and it's very exciting Dave that we have Bottom line that infrastructure and transportation trade that's something that's gonna go on for quite a while man I mean, yeah, it's pretty cool Yeah, exactly. I encourage everybody take a look at that article because Tom's point is the right one Have a great one Dave. Have a safe one. See you soon. Thank you


Okay, good afternoon folks for TFN in Larry Pesavento. We're looking at the gold chart folks on a weekly basis going back over the last four years. As you can see, we've had a target programmed in there at 2291. I today was 2297. We're trading at 2280 right now down just a few bucks from the high, but there's a possibility because there's multiple ABCDs coming in here that we're looking at something really quite significant. In fact, I actually missed one here. I should draw this in. Just give me one second to get the little ABCD tool correct. There's the bigger ABCD when coming in there and that also comes in at a little lower level at 2261. So we have a whole bunch of them in this area of 2290 to 2260. Now this will not mean very much until we get below 2250 if in fact we ever do. But in fact that's how patterns work. Sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't. Several people have asked me, you know, when I put these charts up each day of the things that we're looking at, how do I get so close to these numbers? Well, it's a combination of a whole bunch of things folks. And when we come up for the regular show, what I'm going to do is to show you the process of what I learned over the past 60 years. It'll take about 15 minutes and give you some ideas that you can make the markets work in your favor. They are predictable within limits. We know this from the work from MIT with Dr. Andrew Lowe plus all the old masters, you know, Gartley and Wycoff and all these other fellows that were in there doing this stuff. So there's a lot of stuff all related to numbers. And if you understand what the numbers are trying to tell you, it'll give you an edge that is, you know, really working in your favor. Regarding the stock market, let's take a quick look at that. Here is the stock market. You notice folks that we're sitting at a Fibonacci relationship of the Lowe from way back here on the 15th of March. You see that is and that's one standard deviation folks. They're at 52.31. The Lowe was 52.35. So it should stop right there. Now, is that an important number? I don't know. But if you go back and look, see how many times we've had these moves like this, and you'll see what we're doing now. They're having pretty much the same type of move now. So stay tuned. We'll have some fun. 877-976648. We'll be right back.


And because I have those eyes to see, I'm going to read the Koran and dismantle it. Many Muslims during that time reached out to me via YouTube, many followers of mine are Muslim, and said, hey, give it a shot. I said, no worries. I'm going to check it out, and I'm going to find the devil in your book. All right, guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, this video is long overdue. I read the Koran, the whole Koran, as a Christian. Yeah, I never believed myself that I will ever make such a video. But, yes, I did read the whole Koran. Today, I'm going to tell you about it. But before I start talking about it, I want to tell you a little bit more about myself, in case this is the first time for you seeing me. I am a Christian, a Christian Orthodox, in fact. My parents are from the Balkans, from Northern Macedonia, and I have been baptized as a Christian Orthodox from birth. Back then, Yugoslavia was still under communist rule, and therefore it was illegal for me to get baptized. So we had a priest coming over to our flat that baptized me undercover, so to speak. So therefore, all of my family members are identified as Christian Orthodox. However, most of them are not practicing, like most people nowadays, all around the world. People became very secularized, and therefore they're not truly practicing Christians in that sense. However, as being Slavs from the Balkan, they, of course, identify as Christians. The Slavs on the Balkan are predominantly Christian Orthodox, that is due to the reformation of Kirillin Metodi under the Bulgarian Empire at the time. The Slavs used to be Pagans, and Kirillin Metodi came and reformed the Slavs, so to speak, and brought Christian Orthodoxy from Byzantium over to the Bulgarian Empire. And the rest is history. Since then, the people on the Balkan are very identified culturally with their religions. Most people on the Balkan don't know much about their religions. However, they went to church or went to the mosque and know that they are Christians or Muslims. Of course, this fuels a lot of conflict. For example, me as a Macedonian, I grew up hating the Albanians because the Albanians were our enemy. The Albanians were Muslims and they were our enemy. Of course, there is this big history on the Balkan that we were under the Caliphate under Ottoman rule for over 500 years. That fuels even more anger against Islam, against Muslims. So, I grew up like that. That being said, my parents, yes, they are from Macedonia and every year we would visit. However, I grew up in Germany, in Nordrhein-Westfalen. In Nordrhein-Westfalen we have a huge Turkish population. So, I had a lot of Muslim friends, but at the same time I observed that most of those Muslim friends got into some sort of criminal activity at the time. Many of them were smoking weed. Many of them were selling drugs. Many of them were into prostitution, robberies, gang violence and whatnot. So, my experience with Muslims was pretty negative after all I have to say. Therefore, I had no interest whatsoever to look into Islam. I was identified as a Christian and that's that. In my 20s I kind of let go of my faith and I doubled in the New Age. I started using psychedelic drugs such as mushrooms, LSD, ayahuasca. I explored dietary venues such as veganism which led me to Buddhism, Hinduism and other pagan religions as well. I got interested in the occult, the Mayan calendar and whatnot. I let go of Christianity for roughly a decade I would say and was identified as nothing, as pure consciousness. If you will, I was just Bobby just doing my thing. I didn't want to label myself. I just wanted to live life. So, I started traveling the world. 2014 I left Germany and I went to Australia, then Indonesia, then Thailand, then back to Australia and New Zealand over to South America, Machu Picchu in Peru and whatnot. I visited many places, many different cultures, saw different religions and was convinced that religion is just that. Cultural norms that people adhere to and I don't want to be part of that. I saw myself as above that in a sense. I saw myself as the enlightened one that doesn't need any of that. Until I returned back to Europe, to Bulgaria and I felt that yearning for God and I felt empty. I felt broken. All of those things that I tried let me nowhere. I felt as if I had failed. I felt abandoned. I felt left alone. Therefore, I seeked God. Naturally, I returned to Christian orthodoxy and at that time it felt like a home come in. It felt like something that I used to know, but at the same time have never truly explored. As I said, I was identified as a Christian orthodox, but I never really studied the religion. So, now I returned to and now I really want to know what's up. I really wanted to understand my own religion. So, I started digging deep and I found out about the Trinity. I already made a video about this. Guys, for two years I was battling with this thought and I was trying to understand the Trinity. I was trying to make myself believe the Trinity, but after all, all of those intentions have failed miserably because I couldn't convince myself of a three-headed God. Didn't work. No matter how I looked at it, it just didn't add up, didn't make sense for me and therefore I was quite surprised, honestly quite shocked that my religion entailed that. This was a wake-up call for me because I was seeking God in its unity, in its oneness, if you will, and not God as some sort of deity that I cannot comprehend. I always remind myself of the saying, your God is not a God of confusion. So, it was very confusing to me, after all. Hence, for the very first time in my life I considered, you know what, I'm going to read the enemy's book, The Quran. Why not? Because I started watching David Wood videos and David Wood was so confident in his message that Mohammed was this degenerate guy and Islam was this evil, evil religion coming from Satan himself, the biggest deception known to mankind. The real anti-Christ is Islam. So, I got convinced even more about my own faith. I became arrogant, pompous. I said, God brought me back to orthodoxy, the real religion. He brought me back to the truth and now I can truly see that Islam is from the devil and because I have those eyes to see, I'm going to read the Quran and dismantle it. Many Muslims during that time reached out to me via YouTube, many followers of mine are Muslim and said, hey, give it a shot. I said, no worries. I'm going to check it out and I'm going to find the devil in your book. So, I opened the Quran and I started reading. In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the merciful. That was surprising to me. It really was. I know to most Muslims this is simply common sense. They're wondering what I'm talking about. But for me as a Christian, I didn't remember a page in the Bible that addresses God like that first. I kept on reading and I noticed that every surah, every chapter starts like that. In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the merciful. And I was impressed. I thought, yeah, that makes sense. You should address God first. You should give praise to the Lord first before you start talking about him. That makes sense. I couldn't find anything like that in the Bible. Now, I don't want to discredit the Bible because the Bible is very, very different than the Quran. The Bible is more like a library and not so much like one book. The Quran, on the other hand, is exactly that. The Quran is one concise book, one manual, if you will, much shorter than the Bible. The Bible is a diverse variety of different books, of different advices and doesn't even claim to be the Word of God at all times, but much more a compilation of divinely inspired books put together by the Church Fathers. And that is fine. The Bible itself is an epic tale with an abundance of knowledge. It's absolutely beautiful to read. However, the Quran is much more concise, much more simplistic, if you will, even repetitive, I have to say. But nevertheless, the message is crystal clear. By reading the Quran itself, it doesn't posture up or pose as something else. It simply says what it is. It comes as a guidance, it comes as a clarification for those that want to see. Again, very, very powerful, I have to say. So I continued reading. So, devout yourself to the religion of monotheism. The natural instinct Allah, God, has instilled in mankind. Yet again, simple, but powerful. It rings true to me. It makes sense that we have a natural disposition in which we seek God. I think anybody can relate to that. When you were a child, most of us, we knew that there was a God. The oneness of God was crystal clear to us. We didn't think about other deities. We didn't think about a three-headed God system. With this, I already agree. I want to make that very, very clear here. I do not believe in the Trinity yet again. Even as a Christian that doesn't add up to me, that doesn't make sense. Therefore, when this natural predisposition is described within the Quran, it resonates with me and it makes sense. Even in Hinduism, you have the Brahmin. The Brahmin is the Godhead and out of that Godhead, all the other deities come forth. In Christianity would call it angels and demons. The Muslims would call them djins. However, the Hindus went down the path similar to the pagans of worshiping those deities and making gods out of them. But naturally, that doesn't make sense. The origin of all things is of course a oneness, is a singularity of sorts, so to speak, where everything collapses, where everything originates. Yet again, the alpha and the omega, this is crystal clear to us. I always thought that it's crystal clear to all Christians. I really didn't believe that Christians think about God in a Trinity, in a fashion of a Trinity. I don't think that anybody truly does anyways, to be honest. When you're praying to God, how do you imagine God? How do you think of God? How do you remember God? How do you even believe in God? In a God that is three-headed, in a God that consists of three deities. That doesn't add up to me. Anyways, I continued reading. Whoever strives, strives only for himself. Allah, God, is independent of the beings. And again, I had to admit, powerful man, powerful. God is beyond all beings. He is not the creation. For me, naturally, instinctively, that is crystal clear, but moreover, as I said, I had psychedelic experiences. I went to the Amazon jungle, and I drank the ayahuasca with the shamans, with indigenous people in South America, and I experienced the oneness of God over there as well. God himself is beyond all comprehension. God himself is beyond all beings. He is indeed the only reality. This is the way that I saw God, that I experienced God to this very day. Nothing else is real but God. And that already excludes a trinity. And of course, it excludes any type of being. Even the messages of God, even though they are exalted figures, are nothing but that. Exalted figures, creations of the Almighty. That is crystal clear to me. And when I saw it in the Koran, I was shocked. Yes, I was shocked, because Islam for me was a violent religion, a religion of the enemy, a religion of the devil, not a religion of the oneness of God. The oneness of God that everybody comprehends. Even my father, who is a Christian Orthodox, he doesn't go to church. He never read the Bible. When I ask him about God, he tells me that God is one, that God is the most powerful. He understands that too intuitively. And I am of the firm conviction, Sumi, but that you don't have to be an intellectual in order to understand God. Intellectualism, study, doctor titles, all of that is fine here on earth in this creation. And you can impress other people with it. But instinctive understanding is embedded in you. And even a beggar can understand God with it. That's how I see it. And therefore the Koran confirmed that. For me, it was quite shocking, however, to realize after reading the Koran, that most Muslims that I've met in my life, not all, but most Muslims that I met in my life, actually didn't follow the Koran at all. Actually, weren't even considered real Muslims. The Koran talked about humility. The Koran talked against being boastful. The Koran talked about no compulsion in religion. The Koran talked about that God guides who He wills. And that you shouldn't argue about faith. The Koran even talked about that everything will be clarified once we are returned to God. Moreover, the Koran said that if God willed it, we all would have had the same religion. But God willed it otherwise. Most of us have different religions and we argue and we debate and we discuss about it. But in the end, we will stand in front of our Lord and He will clarify it for us. You don't take your religion to the other side, man. The religion is here for us to guide us, to make us better people. Once we face God, all of that evaporates. All of those human conceptualization ends and we face the ultimate truth, the only truth, which is God of course. Another powerful message yet again is, it is Allah's pattern. Ongoing since the past, you will never find any change in Allah's pattern. That sentence really struck home because it showed the beautiful simplicity of the message. God's way is always the same. There is no change in the way, in the pattern of God. It is always the same, always accessible the same way. And that of course made me think a lot about my own faith and about Christianity. Thinking about the sacrifice of Jesus for us, him being crucified, so our sins can be forgiven, made me truly think about the people before him and people that didn't hear the message, etc. etc. Out of a sudden, I realized that there must be a red line, a clear underlying reality that is always the same. Meaning that if you're alone in the jungle and you never heard about any type of religion, there must be this natural religion that is instilled within you, this understanding of the worship of one supreme being. That made all the sense in the world yet again. So now I've been rambling for quite some time and I still didn't clarify if I found the devil within the Quran. Guys, needless to say, I obviously didn't find the devil within the Quran, but I found many many warnings about the devil. The Quran warns multiple times about the devil. It clarifies how sneaky the devil is, it warns you of the devil and it glorifies God over and over and over again. Honestly, I tried to find the devil in the detail, but I failed. I couldn't find the devil within that scripture, no matter how hard I looked. Now looking back, I really wonder where David Wood is getting his information from. It's quite interesting because I was following David Wood for roughly one and a half years and he was so adamant in his work warning all the people of bad, bad Islam. But after reading the Quran, I couldn't find the devil in it. I couldn't find the evil in it that was proclaimed by all the Christian apologists. I couldn't find the maliciousness, the perversion within the Quran. I found a concise, clear message within it. So now after giving the Quran so much praise, you're probably wondering why I'm not converting to Islam already. Already become a Muslim Bobby. I saw it in the comments section before because I do have respect for the religion. Guys, as I said, culturally, I'm a Christian Orthodox. I'm from the Balkan. I'm a Slav and this is the religion that I was brought up with. In my heart, I know God is one. In my heart, I know that creation is creation and the Creator is the Creator. Nothing can change that. The Quran confirmed that. It didn't change my mind. However, as I said, over the years, I have been exploring many, many different ideologies. And by now it is already one year in of me studying Islam. I have not only read the Quran, but I started reading Hadiths and I have looked into the different conceptualizations of God into what Tahit means, the fitrah and so much more. This time around, I'm taking my time. This is not an emotional decision. I have to learn much, much more about the religion and about the customs and the practices of Islam before I truly decide to change my whole religion. Because at the moment, I am in a very happy place. Intuitively, my natural religion is intact. Culturally, yes, yet again, I'm a Christian Orthodox. Intuitively, I am following God's will. I am following God's path with no ifs and buts, with nothing surrounding him. The only truth. Nothing changed about that. As I said, the Quran was a beautiful confirmation of exactly that. I will see where God guides me to. Until then, I welcome every single one of you in the comment section. Let me know about your faith. Let me know about your understanding of God. Let me know if you're Christian, if you're Muslim, if you're Jewish, if you're Hindu, or if you're Buddhist even. Let me know what your perspective is and we can discuss it in the comment section. That's it for today's video. If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel, all the links are in the description box below. 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headline news update everyone Basil Chapman here on Friday the 5th of November a lot to do so let's run through the Dow futures up 141 at an all-time high we're looking to see whether or not there's some kind of both the jobs report obviously has been approved by the market so we're looking at higher highs all-time highs in the Dow the all I can say is that if after 1 32 o'clock this afternoon the Dow is 90 points or more the cash the Dow itself is 90 or more points higher then there's probably going to be a bit of a squeeze into the close but if there's a pullback gradual pullback over the day we'll see because the Dow is only up 30 points it says oh could see some weakness into Monday we're looking at the S&P right now the S&P futures I'm going to go to the continuous contract very sharply up up 20 at 46 93 all-time high the actual cash has gotten that leg D that we were talking about probably going to extend today and we'll see because if the futures are up well less than eight points after two o'clock it says oops some kind of a digestive phase could be unfolding over the next couple of days into Monday Monday Tuesday but if it's holding 12 or 15 points higher that's going to be really good for the close QQQ QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ Gold is unchanged right now. It's had a good move up, but look at the dollar. The dollar is close to its most recent high. In fact, the penny is away from that high. If it actually breaks into the 94.70 area or higher, and in fact, it's now at 94.60, this is going to be very strong, good action. Crude oil, I think, is pulling back. It's made at top for subscribers from opening call. We had already got this as a turnaround the other day at 85.41. It's now trading at 79.66. It looks to me like crude oil is going to be settling down for a little while. Just wanted to go through these quickly. Look at wheat. Wheat is made of peak, e corn is made of peak, even the grains are pulling back. This is a very diverse market with some things pulling back and others going to all-time highs. So have a wonderful day. Watch the VIX index. If the VIX index trades at 15 or lower, that's very positive for the market. And watch it if it goes to 15.60 or higher. Have a wonderful day. Stay tuned for Tommy.