how to turn your guy friend into your boyfriend. So today we're gonna start out with a question from someone in our community. And she asks, my question is how to navigate a friendship when you feel it's more than that. I have feelings for him and I'm pretty sure he has feelings for me too. But we're both being cool and taking our time, which is fine. I just wanna know ways I could start showing him. I like him, so we can finally start making out. I love making out too. It's one of my favorite things, so I get you. There's some woman was asking, saying it was like some kind of childish thing. Adults like making out too. It's not a big deal. It's a lot of fun. I think it's great. We've been together for about seven months now, but he has since left for another job. We text daily throughout the day and hang out just about once a week. He usually initiates contact. It's good. But I'm the one that usually suggests hangouts. It's not as good. I used to be in a committed relationship when we first met, but I'm not anymore. He's shy and has not had a girlfriend in a long time, thanks man. So that's her question. So today I'm gonna talk a little bit about why this is happening with him and what you should do about it. And this is gonna be, I'm gonna have a few different ways to kind of start conversations with him so that you guys can kind of move into the relationship realm if that's really something that you wanna do here. And so my name is Matthew Coast and welcome to the commitment connection. Before we get started with this, if you're really serious about having the relationship that you've always wanted, make sure to go to thegoddaskommunity.com and check out about joining our community there. So if you're here with us right now, make sure that you say hi and let us know where you are in the chat. So this guy that you're seeing right now, he's, you said he's shy and there might be something else that's going on there. And one of the things that kind of, you might be a little bit concerned about, look, I get it. I get being a shy guy. Like I used to be a shy guy and I understand what that means when a guy is a shy guy. However, the thing that concerns me about this guy being a shy guy and not kind of moving things forward and pushing things forward is that he needs to be doing certain things as a man. That he has these certain roles, these certain things that being a strong man requires. And one of them is pushing things forward. One of them is asking you to hang out. One of them is moving towards a romantic relationship between the two of you. Obviously, there's both sides to it. One of the analogies metaphors that I like to use is kind of like the metaphor of tennis where you hit the ball and he has to hit it back, right? And it sounds to me like he's not really taking on those responsibilities. And that's kind of concerning. And one of the reasons why relationships, the reasons why I think relationships are really important to men is that in particular, relationships help men, help build men's character like nothing else. So if you don't know much about my story and who I am, I used to be in the military. I was an Iraq veteran. And when I came back from Iraq, I was when I started like getting into the dating scene and I remember going to a bar and seeing these girls there. And I was like, I saw them over there and I was like, all right, I'm gonna go talk to them. And I like went walking over, you know, and all of a sudden like halfway over there, I like turned around and like didn't about face and started walking back. And one of the biggest challenges for me was that was just the initial approach, approaching a girl, moving things forward, taking things further.  And I'm like, you know, looking at these little girls, right?  And I look at these little girls and I'm like scared to death to even go and talk to them or try to kiss them or try to move things forward which is one of the reasons why I ended up getting into the dating industry was because of all of that. That was kind of what initiated it because I was like this, I was like, oh, I'm this big bad soldier and I can't even go over and talk to a girl which is really embarrassing. I'm glad I told you about that now. So anyway, the point is, is that it's a really important thing for a man to kind of get through and get over. So there's concerns that I have about making things too easy for a guy because all of a sudden it's like, okay, well, if there's other things where he needs to stand up and take charge and be a man, is he gonna do that in your relationship if you're making it really easy for him and he's not being challenged by that so that he has to go and do that? Because it's one of the things that makes men become men is this thing of like going out and approaching and talking to girls and moving things forward. So I'm just throwing that out there just so that you know. Another thing is you wanna make sure that he's not taken or that he is actually interested. My suggestion is that you assume that he's actually interested regardless of whether you know he's interested or not.    So it's an easy thing just talk about it. Talk about being single, talk about going out and having guys approach you and oh well and I'm single or whatever. It's really easy just throw it out there somewhere in the conversation so that it's kind of cherry pick so that he can be like oh okay, she's definitely single, right?  I don't know what to do. And so just make sure that he knows that you're single. Maybe he does maybe he doesn't you really mentioned that in there. Also make sure that you know that he's single so find out information about him, talk to him about it. Find out if he's dating. Just ask him stuff like that. Like hey are you dating? Like have you gone out and met girls? Like what? And just do it in kind of a friendly friendship kind of way. Just finding out fishing for that kind of information. And so what you wanna do next is something that I call force framing. And this is kind of a sneaky technique but what it does is it kind of frames conversations. I have a whole program about framing. It's called the love frames toolkit. And this is it's about like setting up or setting a precedent for a relationship. So setting the underlying meaning for some kind of interaction or something that's going on between you and another person is called framing. And so the idea of force framing is setting it up so that you kind of like throw this meaning onto something that he's doing and it's like you misinterpret it, right? You kind of take something and you interpret it in the way that you want it to be interpreted. And it's kind of like a flirty fun kind of exciting thing to do. And so I'm just gonna give you some ideas on how to do this with him because it's a lot of fun. And when you start doing it, it can completely change the interaction that you have going on with a man, right? So it's like, you know, think about it. One kind of thing that happens a lot with men and women in terms of framing is like sometimes a guy will like check out a girl, right? And he'll be like looking at her and she'll like catch him checking her out.  You know, and he's like hot red handed and kind of like embarrassed. And he's like, oh, I don't, you know, I don't know.  And so that's one of the ways that you can do that. And you don't even have to catch him checking you out.   And if he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, I wasn't. You can say something like, it's okay, I like it, right? And so what you're doing here is you're basically setting this frame where you're saying, you like me, I just caught you liking me, right? Looking at me in a way that's more than friendship. And it's okay, right? You're giving him permission. You're like, hey, no, it's cool, I like it. Which is basically saying, I'm interested. You're interested in me and I'm interested in you. And it's kind of like this fun little flirty way of having a conversation, right? Or another one might be like, stop checking me out, right? Like you just, it doesn't matter if he's actually checking you out or not, right? Because a lot of times what we do as human beings is we're like walking through the world completely in our subconscious mind. We don't know what's going on, we're driving, we don't even remember getting to where we got to or we're walking and suddenly we're somewhere, we get on the subway or something and we aren't paying any attention, we're listening to music. And so most people are just walking through their lives totally unaware of anything.   Did that just happen? I'm not even sure, right? And so you can kind of do that and kind of have this flirty conversation going on between the two of you by just being like, ah, hey, stop checking me out.  Like, no, no, no, it's okay, it's okay. I think it's cute. No, I think it's cute, you know, I like it. I like it, right?   You're framing the interaction so that it's moving out of this, hey, we're just friends and we're having friendship conversations to this sexual realm, this romantic realm of like, we're actually interested in each other.  Another one that you can use is I know that look.  Are you attracted to me? I'll admit, I'm attracted to you, right? And basically it's another one of those conversations, right? And the time you wanna do this is like a different time than when you're talking about him checking you out. You wanna do it like in the middle of like a friendship conversation or a deep conversation or any kind of conversation where he's looking at you or he's like lingering his look at you, right? Because you know, and again, you're kind of throwing this meaning onto his look. And so he's like, am I looking at you like I wanna kiss you? Because I do wanna kiss you, right? If he's attracted to you and he's looking at you, he's like, well, I do wanna kiss her. So I don't know, how is looking at her like I wanna kiss her? What does that even mean, right?  And it'll show you a lot about where he is too as well. And if you're like, hey, are you attracted to me, right?  And then you're like, hey, no, it's okay. No, I'll admit it, I'm attracted to you too, right? And you're just having, you're leading, you're kind of leading the conversation, but you're romanticizing it. You're creating kind of this sexual tension that goes on top of the conversation that you have. And if he denies it, what you can do is find evidence. So that's the other way to kind of frame things, right? To set kind of precedence or belief systems or thought patterns is to find evidence for things, right? Any kind of thing that he does that you can interpret as him being attracted to you, like, hey, you keep on coming out to these hangouts with me, we keep meeting up, like you keep buying dinner, you keep doing these things, you keep saying these compliments to me, like, look, I know you like me. So if he denies it, just find the evidence for it, because if he's really shy, he might try to deny it, like, oh no, I'm not doing that, because it's kind of this taboo thing for a lot of guys where they feel like they can't be overtly interested in a woman in this day and age, especially if a guy's shy. And so if you give him permission and you let him know that it's okay and you show him evidence and you're doing these kinds of things, it'll frame the situation into this thing where he's like, oh yeah, actually I am, you know, and you can get him to admit it eventually and it'll be really cool. And it might sound like a lot of work here, but you gotta remember, one, it might not be a lot of work. It might be you just say one of these things and it kind of triggers his mind and his brain where all of a sudden he's like, okay, I have permission now, right? Because that might be all he's looking for is a little bit of permission that says, hey, she actually is romantically interested in me and that might kick his drive into gear and he might start kind of pushing things forward and moving things forward, but he's just not sure what's going on right now and he's not sure how to approach the subject. And so this gives him a way to do things. And the other thing that I wanna say here is that he needs to kind of have that drive kick into gear and he needs to step up and he needs to move things forward because that's his job as a man. And he won't ever feel like he's a man if he doesn't do those things. You can water the seed, but the seed has to grow on its own. And so you don't wanna be doing everything for him, but you wanna be giving him permission and opening it up and having that conversation and turning it into this flirty thing so that he knows that he can kind of move things into the relationship that he wants to have and the relationship that you wanna have. And so I just wanna mention again, if you're serious about wanting to get the relationship that you've always wanted, make sure that you go and check out thegoddiscommunity.com and see if it's something that you wanna join and become a member of our community. And it's really cool. So go check out thegoddiscommunity.com. If you're here and if you're just joining us, make sure that you say hi in the comments and let us know where it is that you are in the world and watching this from right now. So the next thing we're gonna talk about is sexualizing the conversation because what may end up happening is you, that stuff might kind of kick into gear a little bit, but you're still kind of in this, like I'm not really sure what's going on kind of mode and if you want to kind of really move that forward, I actually have a live stream that I did. It was called, I believe it was called the seven, seven questions to, I don't know, flirting or something. I don't even remember what the name of the live stream was, but there's another live stream that I did that you can just search for about, it's something about like seven questions, seven flirty questions to ask a guy or something like that. And so sexualizing the conversation, what that looks like is you might ask questions like what's your favorite feature on a girl or where do you like to be kissed or anything like that, anything where you're moving it from like this, kind of generic conversation that you're having, maybe it's about whatever and then all of a sudden you bring it into this realm of like actual like romantic kind of stuff where he's thinking about it and he starts thinking about it with you and all that kind of stuff. And so that's the next thing that you can do if you want to kind of move it out of the friendship realm and into more of a romantic realm and romantic relationship with romantic relationship possibilities. The next one is giving him permission to touch you because what we're kind of doing here is it's kind of like a step ladder, right? You're kind of creating this flirtatious, fun, kind of conversation with him and then you're kind of moving it into this romantic realm and then the last thing is giving him permission to touch you because he's gonna wanna touch you and if he's a really shy guy, he might be a little bit scared. He's like, oh, I don't know, me too movement. You know, am I gonna get sexual harassment charges put on me?  Like you meet him sometimes when friends meet each other, they'll like walk up and they'll be like, hey, what's up?     And then when you get done, just say that you liked it. Just be like, yeah, I really enjoyed that hug. Like that was a good hug, right? Another thing that you can do to kind of give him permission to touch you is brush him with your body, right? And so sometimes, you know, things that you can do is, you know, like if you're walking together, you might kind of like bump into him or whatever, right?   And another one that is really, really good is grabbing his elbow. And when you do this, you wanna do it like when you're walking with him. And when you're walking with him, what you do is, so you're gonna wanna grab his arm, like with your right arm, this feels so awkward doing this right now. So what you're gonna wanna do is, you know, let's say that his left arm, you're on his left side, and you take your right arm and you grab his bicep, right where his elbow is, like right here, and you just pull down on it, right? Or pull back on it a little bit and you kind of hold it in like this. And what this does is this is a very like feminine kind of way to touch a guy and grab onto a guy. And what it kind of signifies is almost like, you know, if you grab onto him and you kind of like walk with him, holding him like that, what it kind of signifies is almost like, hey, he's your like protector, he's this guy that's like, you know, he's leading the way, he's taking charge and you're going along with him and you're holding onto his arm and it's almost kind of like something a little girl would do with her dad or something like that, but it kind of opens up this possibility of you and him touching together and it can be a really powerful way to connect with him with touch and give him that permission because once you start giving him permission, what he'll probably start doing is touching you more often, which can escalate into more of a romantic situation.  Second thing is doing the force framing to initially set up the conversation that you're having into this romantic realm instead of it being in a friendship realm and then sexualizing the conversation by asking him questions about just, you know, like what's your favorite feature on a girl? Like, you know, where do you like to be kissed? Like, you know, any kind of like flirty questions like that, I have a live stream, you should go check out about that. And then the last one is giving him permission to touch so that he can move up and escalate things with you and feel comfortable doing that, especially if he's a really shy guy and he doesn't really feel like doing that. And so next what we're gonna do is we're gonna go into question and answer. If you have any questions, make sure that you post them in the comment section. And last thing I wanna mention, again, is if you're serious about wanting to have the relationship that you've always wanted, make sure that you go to thegoddiscommunity.com and check out Joining Our Community there. It's really cool. We've got a lot of cool stuff that we give you for joining our community. So check it out. So I'm gonna go through all of the, what people have said here and see what everybody's saying. Jennifer says, hello, Matt. Hi, hi, hi, good-ish, good-ish. It's a fun name. Met Monk here again. Yeah, Denmark. Going strong in Denmark. Love it. So Allison, good day from Brisbane. Good day. Thanks. Vicki, South Carolina. Lots of people here from all over the world. It's awesome. Allison says she forgets what making out is. Well, that is a sad, sad state of affairs. We need to get you on the track to making out again because it is amazing. Prisa says she's from Cameroon. Nice. Shirley, San Diego. Naka Zimboui from Kenya. Jersey, Jennifer, Missouri. Yep, caught me live. Good job. Misty from Oregon. See, anybody have any questions here? Anybody have any questions here? Diana from Michigan. Hello. Alina says, hello, my favorite friend. Thanks so much for encouraging us. You're welcome. You're welcome. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're my, I'm your favorite friend. I'm your older brother is really what I am. I'm dishing out advice as your older brother. Don't care how old you are. I'm dishing out advice for you. So, Shirley says thank you for serving our country. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah, so, let's see. Gwias, I'm not gonna say that whole thing again. She says that her cousin was in Iraq too. Cool. Latita says my son was a very strong Marine. Awesome. Sharon Kelly says, love the hair. Thank you, thank you. I love compliments. If you guys, if you guys give me compliments, I love it. So, thank you. Any compliments that you wanna give me? I love compliments. Latita says you are right. Soldiers are sensitive and great. Okay. Margaret says Queensland, Australia. This guy is crazy. This guy crazy for him. Wanna take this further? Okay. Dianna says you have a nice smile, hon. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we need some questions here. I need to get some questions here. I love all the compliments, but we need to get some questions too. Shirley says, should I be the one texting all the time where he's not texting me back regularly? I feel he's pulling back. No, you should not be texting all the time where he's not texting back regularly. It needs to be a back and forth. And so, a couple of days ago, I did a video on, it was something, I don't remember what video I did. There was a video a couple of days ago that I did on making a man value you. And that one I would definitely suggest going in and watching because that's all about making sure that you put yourself in a really powerful position so that when he pulls back, it's really not a big deal for you and it doesn't feel so bad. And you don't wanna be smothering a guy. That was another one I did was a video on texting mistakes. And one of the things you wanna make sure that you're not doing is chasing him and smothering him. You wanna make it at least kind of like a 50-50 or 30-70 where you're messaging him 30% of the time. He's doing it 70% or 50-50 where you're both kind of messaging each other back and forth. And if he's kind of pulling back, what you wanna do is kind of pull back as well because you don't want to smother him and end up just being all on top of him and all over him and him being like, oh my God, again, deal with this anymore.  And usually, so, space gives people a lot. There's a saying out there, like absence makes the heart grow fonder and it's totally true. And so, you don't wanna be all over a guy, especially if he's not messaging back. It, guys actually do this as well. There's a lot of guys that make this mistake as well. And what you wanna do is just kind of lean back and let him go back and forth and whatever. It's not a big deal if you're reaching out to him, but if he's not really reaching out back to you, you might wanna just chill out for a little bit, take a few days and just find some dogs to pet and get busy with some work and hobbies and stuff like that and just give him some space and then wait a few days, a week, something like that, reach out back to him if he hasn't reached out to you yet or whatever, because if you're messaging a guy a whole bunch and then all of a sudden you take that away and pull back and just chill, the guy's gonna be like, at first he's gonna be like, oh man, she's messaging me a lot or whatever, depending on how long you guys have been seeing each other and where he is as far as his attraction level goes.  So Bridget Black says I have and he said he waiting. I replied waiting for what? Okay, Shirley says Matthew, you are drop dead gorgeous. Well, thank you. I love it, I love it. Thank you for the compliment, you're making me blush. Making me blush here, Shirley. So Bridget says we are at this point at framing. Yep, so, lots of laughing going on. I think I'm gonna try the abundance technique. Yes, yes, yes, you are watching the other one. Do that please. There's nothing better that you can do than put yourself in a position of power and have abundance in your life. I mean, it's, it changes everything. The women that I've worked with that do this, I haven't been talking about this before maybe like a week and a half ago or two weeks ago because I've kind of been, I've had a lot of things going on and however this is something that works and you like my suggestion is that everybody does this and most people are scared to do it, but it's so important and it helps so much. So Rebecca says I'm trying the abundance thing too, awesome. I'm glad that I'm getting people to start the abundance thing because it's so important, so important. Yeah, Allison says match his investment. It's what I'm talking about. Bridget says, Matt, that's hilarious evidence, it is funny. Yeah, a lot of this stuff, it should be fun and playful and funny. It shouldn't be like serious stuff, right? A lot of the conversations that you're having, that's what flirting is, that's what romance is. It's this fun, playful, that's what love is. It's this playfulness, right? It's like, you guys are playing together, wrestling and picking flowers and being romantic and doing this stuff back and forth. That's what love is, that's what romance is, that's what being in all this stuff is. It's this fun connection thing that you have going on. Jennifer says, such a great community. I'm glad you like our community, Jennifer. The other Jennifer says, I'm sleeping with a guy, my guy friend and we were talking almost daily for a month and a half, but now he's distant. We discussed not being F buddies, but he hasn't asked me out, even though that's what, guessing your comment got cut off there. Go back and watch my live stream from a couple days ago. It was called something like, how to go from a casual to a committed relationship with man. Go watch that. It's very, very important. That's the video you need to go watch. Bridget says, hi Matt from Ireland sending you blessing. Thank you. I like blessings. Hello, hello, hello. I told him I wanted and he agreed. Awesome. Hi from California. Yvonne is back from Chicago. Welcome back.  So people giving advice to each other in the chat here. What else do we have? Yeah, give him a big hug. Give him a big hug. Nigeria. This is great advice.   One is just practice getting over your shyness a little bit at a time, right? If you're like really shy, like I was really shy when I was younger, like and you can talk to my friends about that and everybody thinks I'm like this natural extrovert because I like go out and I'm like, yeah and I like talk to everybody and I don't really have problems a lot anymore. Sometimes I do but it's, most people don't see it and so people think I'm a natural extrovert but I'm really like a super introvert, computer nerd, guy that doesn't really, that used to be super shy and the way that you get over it is just slowly but surely kind of building things up where you go and try things out a little at a time. So if you're like super shy, what you might wanna do is just go to like stores and just talk to people a little bit and just talk to people about stuff and just walk around and just get used to talking to people and if you go out on a date with a guy and you're trying to get over your shyness with him, just do something a little bit more than what you've done before in terms of opening up and the more that you do that, the easier it'll get, the more you'll see that it's not a big deal and eventually it'll be easy for you to do all kinds of things.  I don't know, you might not do that but it would be funny. It would be really funny if you did. So anyway, yeah, go out and do that. The other one is you can kind of create emotional states in yourself, right? Like you can create this state of confidence and there's a really good, if you join our community, we have a coach in there that does some really cool stuff around emotional, getting into your emotions and connecting with your emotions a lot and it's really, really power. We have some videos in there. It's called The Goddess Initiations. If you join our community and you get into the programs that we give you for it, then you can check that out. It's really powerful stuff. Metmonk says, love this, awesome. Glad you love it. Glad you love it, Metmonk. Glad you love it. Samira says, other women are interested in the same guy as me and they started to gossip about me. Do these things have a negative influence on a guy in the beginning? Maybe, I mean, it depends on the guy, right?  I mean, it depends on what they say and what he believes and kind of what kind of a guy he is. So it just really kind of depends on him. Rachel says, I'm a classy woman but how come I don't get approached? I don't know, I'm exhausted. What are you doing to get approached, right? So right now we live in a time where a lot of guys aren't approaching because they're afraid, right? They're afraid of the Me Too movement. They're afraid of getting sexual harassment charges against them. They've become lazy because they have Tinder now and so you can get on Tinder, depending on where you are, you can jump on Tinder and have a whole bunch of matches within a few days or hours, depending on where you are. And so if you wanna get approached, what you need to do is you need to make yourself available to getting approached. One, you need to go to places where there's gonna be a lot of traffic, there's gonna be a lot of people going through, like maybe find a busy park depending on where you live or going to a place, going to any kind of place where there's a lot of people that come. If you're into bars and stuff, you can go and do that and go hang out in bars. And the best is if you go alone. Sometimes you might not feel comfortable going alone and if you don't feel comfortable going alone, especially in the bar and club kind of area, what you wanna do is go with one girlfriend and at max two girlfriends. As soon as it goes above that, the guy's gotta have super balls in order to come over and have the confidence to approach you. Or if you have a guy, don't bring any guys with you, just go and make your one. That's the first thing is go to places where there are a lot of guys. Maybe I'll do a video on this. Go to a place where there's a lot of guys or a lot of traffic. Go alone preferably or with one or two friends. Three is, is that three or four? I don't know. The next one is make sure that you look around.  And it's like, you're just trying to not get approached, right? When you're on your phone or you have headphones in or any of that kind of stuff. Like if a guy's really confident, he'll come up because he doesn't care. But for the most part, try to make it as easy as possible for you to get approached. So look around, if you see a cute guy, look at him and smile, right? And there's kind of this body language that women give when they want to be approached by a guy and it kind of signals to him because guys aren't great at getting hints, but most guys get it if you're interested. If they're above the age of 25 and they've gone out and dated more than a little bit. There's signals that they get, right?  So this is what it looks like. It looks like you're looking at him, he looks at you and that's what it looks like, right? And you can look at him again if you want to but that signals to him that he should come over and approach you, right?  She looked at me, she started smiling. That doesn't mean that he's going to approach you though because he might be taken, he might be shy, he might be a lot of different things. And so, however, that's one of the ways to make sure that if a guy's around and he sees you that he knows that you want him to approach you. There's other things that you can do as well.  I'll probably just do a live stream on it because there's a lot to be said about it. All right, Jennifer says, "'How do I change from friends casually sleeping together "'to something more serious?' "'I talk about that in the other live stream "'I just did two days ago, "'called how to go from a casual "'to a committed relationship with a man. "'Go and watch that because it's in detail "'about what you should do.'" Bridget says, Matt, thank you, great coach for masculine side of things. You're welcome. You are welcome. DJ Dorej says, ditto the hair. Thank you, I'm glad you like my hair. Is it crazy? Do I have crazy hair right now? Never know if I have crazy hair these days. Katie says, hello there, thank you for the great advice. You're welcome. Bridget says, Matt, you're cute. Hope you also find what you're looking for too. Bridget says, that's what it is, Matt, back and forth. Latita says, how do I know if he is the one I want to kiss? How do you know if he's the one you wanna kiss? It seems like a strange question. Well, do you like him? Do you like him? If you like him, he seems like he's probably a good person to kiss, right? If you're attracted to him, he seems like a strong man. He's making moves.  That would be a good, that would be a good thing. Nanette says, how do I know his sexuality, guys, gay, straight or bi? How do you know? Well, if he's, I mean, if it depends, like are you, is this somebody that you know? Is this a friend of yours? Is this some random dude walking up and talking to you? Kinda depends on what you might do then. I mean, most guys only approach girls if they're straight at least. Most guys aren't bisexual. There's very, very few bisexual men.   Okay, what else do we have here? Jennifer says, I've since stepped back and I'm just letting things flow as they may. Bridget says, Matt, abundance I'm not sure about. Well, you should become sure about it because it is by far one of the most important things you can do. That is something you should get certain about immediately. Sean Kelly says, what is the abundance technique? Go and watch the make him, how to make a man value you so much he will do anything for you video. Go watch that. Annette says, thank you, Matthew. I love your lessons. You're welcome, you're welcome. And we have a lot of comments here. I've done the abundance since I'm 18 and it really works when I stopped because I thought I was doing wrong. That's when problems started, exactly. Go back to it, go back to it. I'm back to the abundance. Good on ya. Katie says, we've been platonic friends for almost two years. I'm crazy about him and he knows it. We hang out all the time but he hasn't made a move yet. Advice please, that's exactly what we were talking about today. So go back over the video from the beginning and that's exactly what I was talking about. Brittany says, find someone that does not see you as a friend. Most times guys will move on what he wants. Yeah, I mean, ideally you would want a guy that does everything, right? He steps up, he moves things forward, he pursues you, he pushes things towards a romantic relationship. That's the ideal situation for you and however, if you have a guy friend and you really like him and you think he likes you, go and start the video over and watch that. Watch those, watch those things. So, what else do we have? Turkey on his head, yep. Bridget says, for security have a friend on speed dial. Yeah, do that for sure and bring some pepper spray with you. Always have pepper spray with you, just in case. Never know when you have to just pepper spray somebody. Hopefully you're not running around pepper spraying people. Don't run around in pepper spray people.  I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that. So don't do that. I mean, do it if it's needed, definitely. But don't just do it for fun. I'm just running around, I don't know. Okay, Rachel says, okay, thank you so much Matt for your reply advice, you're welcome. Jennifer says, but I told my friend I want to date him, know his stories and not GSB. Yes, go back and everybody wants the shortcut. The answer is that you need to go and watch the video, the live stream that I made about how to go from a casual to a committed relationship with a man. Just did it two days ago, go and watch that. Go and watch it, telling you it's important. Do I give up? You should go and watch the video. Let's eat this says, how do I get signed up for the goddess community?  Matt, I've noticed you can read in Spanish, but my name is Sissy, so you can just call me Sissy. Oh, okay. Yeah, hablo un poco de español sometimes. I also speak some other languages sometimes, like Inagda, Yamagú, Gaviriparovsky. I can speak a few different languages. I'm a world traveler, I like to learn about languages. You guys are learning about me. Yeah, Bridget says, busy lives Matt, sometimes we skip videos. No, and I totally understand that. And for the person asking about the friend with benefits specifically, she needs to go and watch that video. Like, I don't care if she watches any of the other videos. Go and watch that one, because I give super detail about exactly what you should be doing.  Yeah, I was actually thinking about whether I should go and start wearing a dress shirt or something, make it more professional. I don't know, I kind of like the little casual vibe, like we're hanging out, talking on Skype or something like that. And sometimes I think maybe I should try out the button down shirt or maybe a suit jacket or something like that and see what people say about that. Maybe it'll look really, really fly and everybody will be like, oh my God, Matt, you're so awesome with that. Great T-shirt on, Klaus, you look so professional. I don't know, sometimes I get people that tell me I'm not very professional. To which I reply, I don't care because I'm not trying to be professional here. I'm trying to give you great information that you can use to create the relationship that you ultimately wanna have. I want to empower you, that's my main goal. And if I have to wear a suit jacket and a tie and a dress shirt in order to help empower you, I'll do it, I'll do whatever I need to do to help empower you, so that's what I'm gonna do. So Jennifer says, I actually watched the video. Must've missed whether I walk. I've been working on the abundance just not getting anywhere with that. I tend to block myself emotionally when I care for someone else. Should you walk? So if you watch the video, am I gonna go back over it right now? Okay, all right, I'm gonna go back over it real quick. All right, so what you need to do is put yourself into a power position and like I said, be willing to walk and communicate with him and make sure that he knows what's going on and like I said, make sure you're in a world of abundance because if you're not, it's gonna be really, really difficult for you. And what you want to do is just let him know and leave the door open for him, right? That's the metaphor. What you want to do is leave the door open that way if he decides, if you pull back and you're like, hey, I don't want to be friends. And so somebody else was asking about this. You don't want to stay friends with him.   Just completely cut him off and just let, leave the door open for him, communicate with him, let him know what you're doing and just be like, hey, I really like you but I don't really want to be friends and I believe that I wanna have a real relationship, where somebody really is committed to me and wants to give me what I want and I'm giving him what he wants and you can use the metaphor of the king and queen if you want to, I talked about that in another video. But really what you wanna do is leave the door open for him. So when you leave, that vacuum happens and if he's like, oh God, it was so good hanging out with her and I wanna hang out with her and just be like, look, I'd really like to be with you and have a relationship with you but I wanna have a real relationship and it's not fair to me to not have a real relationship here because what I'm gonna do is spend however long we are together and it's ultimately gonna lead to nothing because I'm gonna have to leave you at some point because you don't want something real and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. However, I want something real and so I'm gonna go for that and so I'm gonna go out and find out if I can have that instead of this and it's been really great and I really love what we have but I want it all, I want everything and so you have to be willing to walk and you have to have that vacuum happen because if it doesn't happen then he's never gonna miss you to the extent that he's gonna be like, hey, I've decided, I've changed my mind, I've decided this is what I really want and end up giving you the relationship that you want if that's something that he steps up and gives you and decides that it's that important to him. Okay, so what else? You are Matt, like I said, thank you for masking inside, great relationship, advice, thanks. You're welcome, flower child, stay casual, all right, we'll do. Rania says, you know you talk a lot to younger couples, I am 61 in the man that I am talking to as 61 is so much different for us older folks. How do you think it's different? You know, it's interesting to me because it's so funny like talking to different people because sometimes a lot of people like to, and I'm not saying that it isn't different, right? There are definitely different things, especially for women when they go above the age of 40, things kind of change a little bit but what exactly do you think is different that you need help with? Because if you just say, oh, this is advice for younger people and my situation is different but I'm not gonna tell you how it's different, right? Like there's no way that I can help you specifically if you don't talk to the problem that you're actually having because just saying, oh, my situation is different doesn't tell me anything. And you know, it's one of those things where I talk about for the most part, most of what I'm talking about is human psychology, stuff that works with people all over the world of all kinds of different ages and things are different once you get to a certain age because men's testosterone goes down, women's testosterone goes up, different things end up happening, the kids aren't really as much in the picture or having kids isn't really as much in the picture. You know, actually having kids that are grown becomes something that's in the picture and there are a lot of different things but what exactly are you talking about so that we can have a conversation about it? So Rachel says, oh, my God, a woman should never ask for a commitment it makes you look desperate. You know, I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. I think that women typically are the ones that ask for a commitment whereas guys typically don't, although sometimes guys do but it's kind of that feminine energy that wants that kind of reassurance and that security, right? It's not a masculine energy that wants security and reassurance. And so I don't, you know, you might say it sounds really super thirsty but I don't really believe that. I don't agree with that. I think that if you want a relationship then you need to make sure that that's something that you get that's part of the deal because if you don't, what you're doing is you're setting yourself up for getting hurt in the long run because you aren't making sure that that precedent of what you want is getting put into the conversation that you're having with a man. And, you know, there's kind of this shaming on a lot of people out there right now for wanting relationships and wanting commitment and for women being women or like asking for those things. And men a lot of times now are asking for relationships because they're kind of getting insecure and whatever. I don't think it's a problem at all. I don't agree with that but that's just, that's my opinion. I think it's a normal conversation for somebody to have. I don't think it's a problem for women to have that. So Jennifer says, thank you, Matt. That's the information I was asking how to address that topic. Thank you, you're welcome. Some of the advice Metmonk says some of the advice you can use even though you're 61, I'm 65 and surely are going to try some of it. Exactly. Bridget says, seriously, Matt, feminine energy. Yeah, Helena is part of our group. She's great. She talks about feminine energy. It's great stuff. Sharon says it's hard when I don't want to have the talk. I think I know the answer by his actions so I just leave it the way it is. He's younger and active so I let him live his life. Yeah, and you can do that if you want to. Just realize though that if you don't talk about it you can just assume that you're not in a real relationship. It's what you can assume. You can assume that. Not just as a woman, right? Men have to assume this as well. So Sharon says, I use the theory of a flower. You've got to let it bloom naturally. You do got to let a flower, I don't know if you're talking about a man being a flower or a relationship being a flower. Bridget says, sometimes I'm in my masculine energy. Helena, help there. Awesome, cool. And I'm just gonna go back. It doesn't look like there's any more questions. So it looks like we're running out of time here. So if you really want to get into your feminine energy and attract a man from your feminine energy you should really join our community. Go over to thegoddiscommunity.com. Helena's got something like 24 videos in there that end up going out over a year or something like that. And there's videos in there from all of our different, a bunch of our coaches, a bunch of different coaches in there that help you get into your feminine energy, that help you connect with men, that help you have some of these relationships, that help you or have some of the conversations and things going on. I'm gonna be putting my new program in there. You're gonna be getting it for free forever for joining. We'll probably have that out in probably maybe three or four weeks from now. You'll be getting my new program. It's called the forever woman formula. The forever woman formula.  It's gonna have my best advice that I've been learning. I've been teaching in the dating industry since 2005. And so this is gonna be a culmination of all of my best stuff that is absolutely awesome. So thank you everybody for being here. You guys are the best part of our community. I appreciate you coming and having these conversations with me and allowing me to be a part of your journey. I think you're really awesome. And you're not alone in all of this. We get a lot of women that come to our community and they're like, it's been so great to just hear these other women and see these questions that have been asked and answered because they think that they're alone in a lot of these struggles and confusion that they have. The modern dating world is a nightmare for a lot of people. And if you wanna make sure that you are navigating the modern dating world in an effective way, in a way that makes sure that you're getting your needs met, that you're connecting with men in the right way, go and check out thegoddaskcommunity.com and join our community there because it is awesome. So thank you so much and I will speak with you again soon.


I remember once I was in a church giving a talk and I went into some of this stuff and started talking about goals and this and that and how we've all learned all these beliefs and then we have all these specific goals. It's good to be goal-oriented. I was always taught, you know, and how when I finally got to the core, if I was seeing that, that's a bunch of baloney to be goal-oriented because all those goals were specific goals and all those goals were based on the self-concept. That's where the goals were springed from. It's kind of like if you think of an aquarium and a little pump at the bottom that blows the bubbles, pumps the air into it, that the bubble seemed to come up and to float up to the top and to top on the surface. And that's like all these specific goals that I had in my life all the time. Make more money, get this, get that, develop these skills, you know, do this, do that. I mean those are pop-pop-pop-pop-pop, that's all the bubbles. But what about the little thing that where the bubbles are coming with generating the bubbles? I mean, you know, that's finally the point, I came to my point in my life where it's like I'm going to get down there to that generator and I'm going to question that little mechanism that seems, the bubble seemed to be coming from. So all specifics come from the self-concept. Yes. If you want to, the lesson's 24 and 25 and the course just addresses very, very directly. And to me, it's kind of like when I was talking about this and sharing this with this fellow at this church, he started to get a little bit angry because he was saying like, it can't be, it can't be what the course is. Is that advocating? And I said, he's saying, does that mean we shouldn't have any goals? I said, no, no, the course is not advocating that you shouldn't have any goals. The course is advocating that you should have one goal, an only one goal. And that goal is abstract, that goal is universal, that goal does not have a specific reference. What? What does that mean? It's not quantifiable. It's not quantifiable. It's not majorable. It's a goal of purpose. It's not a specific goal. It's not X amount of dollars or a better job or better physical health or a warmer climate or a better looking mate or all the specific goals that are popping up here on the surface. This goal, that's a universal goal, has to be learned very carefully because the mind that thinks in terms of specifics, that's all it can think in terms of. That's what it prays for all the time. Prayer is its desire and it's always praying for specific outcomes. When you think, even you have the thought, gee, I'm hungry, and then something pops to mind that seems to satisfy that hunger. When you seem to have to go to the restroom or you have a need to, you perceive a need to urinate and it pops into mind where the restroom is in the house of the building that you're in. When you seem to go and urinate and it seems to satisfy that momentary, temporary need, those are all answers to prayers. Going to the bathroom is an answer to prayer. Having a Dorito chip is an answer to prayer. Having sexual intercourse with someone is an answer to prayer. Going for a walk on a sunny day is an answer to prayer. Everything on the screen is an answer to prayer. It's just bringing witness to what the mind wants and also what the mind believes will answer that want or will satisfy that want. That's all what the surface is. So the key thing is, gee, I have all these splinter desires and that's part of that self-concept. It's bubbling away, bubbling away down there, sending all these bubbles up. The only way out is for me to have a single unified goal or to bring it to the point that my desire is single. And that I want only God. I don't want anything else. If you think of the center of the mind being like an altar, it's just saying, I want to remove everything but the altar except God. God can't be on a defiled altar. He can't be on something that's made unclean, something that's so pure. We talk about the source. Something that's so pure as the source.  Can you not share the altar? All the spirit will do will wait. The spirit will not try to come in and try to take over the mind again. The mind has to willingly empty its altar. The Holy Spirit is not going to try to rustle this world away from the mind. The Holy Spirit, in one sense, even though the beliefs are unreal, he respects or he honors them in one sense because the Son of God or the mind that fell asleep made them. And he has to honor that mind because of what that mind truly is. He honors the source of it. He honors the source of it and he honors the true power of that mind. But he's just working, you know, it's like a general reminder for the mind to voluntarily bring those beliefs to the light or to open them to question. There's no coercion involved. There's no, you know, forcing. I mean, when I started to follow this, the more I would have... I would have some moments of fear where I would just... Again, it would be that ego belief system in my mind saying, you know, if you follow this all the way out, if you really follow what he's saying, you know, the ego is saying you could end up in dire straits because you're withdrawing all of your seeming support in the world. What was before, regarding that support system, you're cutting your support system. That's the ego's interpretation of following Jesus is cutting your support system. It's burning all your bridges. All that learning and, you know, we talk about resumes, learning all the different things that seem to be, like, just such symbols of support that you've worked so hard on to build, build it, polish it, build it, polish it, build it, polish it, as if that's your support and then you really start to follow this and you say, well, wait a minute here. This is the direction that's completely the opposite of all that. Turn around from that. That's where the trust comes in.  There will come a time when images have all gone by and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is. When every concept has been raised to doubt and question and been recognized as made on no assumptions that stand alight, then is the truth left free to enter its sanctuary, clean and free of guilt. There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this. I do not know the thing I am and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself. Yet in this learning is salvation born and what you are will tell you of itself. In one sense, that's what symbolically the messengers of peace are. We probably won't put this on a pamphlet. In one sense, that is just a witness or a symbol of giving your mind permission to let go of everything that it believes and knowing that it is going to be safe. That it may seem disorienting at times. You know both? Durban and Rhonda have been sharing over the last number of months that there have been these moments of not knowing and feeling out of time and space. What am I doing? Where am I? No sense of orientation. And what we're doing is we're like kind of metaphorically holding hands and saying, yeah, that's the way it's going to seem at times. And that we will keep gently reminding each other, good, good, you're not nuts. You don't need to be locked up in a famous asylum. This is a good sign. You know, that when it's, you know, even at times it can seem like, deeper you go, the more at moments it seems almost like you're non-functional. You cannot function in the world. Good. Good sign. Of course, but I felt when that happened to me because I've had that experience of other times in my life where you just momentarily you feel like, you know, you have this sense of like, where am I? Or like even waking up in a sort of strange place, you know, like for an instant you forget where you are or what you're doing there or something. And there's a panic. I mean, in the past it's always been associated with a panic feeling to me, even if it was minor or momentary, and that as soon as I seemed to reorient myself it was like, oh, the panic's subsided. Oh, okay, I remember what I'm doing here and where I am and stuff. And this time when it happened, when I felt that sense of, one of what I think was in the car, I forget where the other one was. I was driving and I just had this feeling of like I had a clue what state, where I was in, what road I was on, what I was doing there, where I was going, anything. But it didn't feel panicky. And that was the distinction that I made in my mind. I was like, wow, that was interesting. You know, to have that feeling and not feel like panicky and feel a relief when it seemed to, when the memory seemed to come back, oh yeah, driving on such a special remedy. That was neat for me. I mean, that was, that was, it did feel like, oh good, this is good. Nothing's a panic of both. Drank is not necessarily scary. We're bad.


This is your beautiful hobby garden and it's full of fruits and vegetables and flowers of various kinds.  You quickly google about them and find out that they're apparently called ball worms and they're known to be a menace. So you rush for that insecticide container hoping that it will take care of this infestation. But then you wake up the next morning only to find that these ball worms are still demolishing your garden because they are insecticide resistant. Now what? How do we deal with this situation? What can we possibly do to fix this ball worm problem? Well, the solution lies with genetic engineering and a bacterial species. In this video we will be talking about BT crops and how they can actually solve our problem over here. Bacillus thuringiensis which is a very long name and quite a mouthful to be honest. So let's just stick to BT. So bacillus thuringiensis or BT is a soil bacterium which is found pretty much everywhere in the world. So chances are it's also there in our garden soil. So these little fellows have a secret. They can produce a bunch of toxins that target very specific insects. Insects that usually wreak havoc in crop fields like these pesky little ball worms over here. These toxins are called the insecticidal crystal proteins or simply the cry proteins encoded by the cry genes. Now cry proteins are pro toxins meaning that they are present in their inactivated forms inside the bacteria. When they are ingested by the ball worms then these proteins get activated into the toxins by the alkaline pH of the insects digestive juice. So like just like how we have digestive juices these insects also have a gut juice or a digestive juice and the pH of that juice is really really high and it is this very high pH that will activate the proteins into the toxins. Now the activated toxins aka the proteins will now bind with these certain receptors which are present on the surface of the epithelial cells of the gut. So these are the epithelial cells you can see in yellow and then we have the blue receptors and these boxes that you see the rectangles in pink these are the cry proteins. So you can see that kind of like a lock and key mechanism they have bound with the receptors present on the cell surface. Now what happens after this is that once they have bound together like this it's going to create pores in the epithelial cells. So wherever you can see the binding there will be these pores. So these cells become perforated. And when that happens these other proteins or these other toxins which are present all around it can now easily enter the cell. So all these extra proteins they will now enter into the cell. And because of that what happens is more and more toxins or proteins enter penetrate and enter the cell the cells swells up like a balloon and soon they burst open or they lies. And because of this eventually this keeps on happening with all the epithelial cells of its gut. So after a point all of this damage will eventually kill off these ballworms and we would get our garden back to its original glory. But how exactly do we use these toxins? Do we extract the proteins out of these bacteria and use it as an insecticide? Well you can. In the olden days that is exactly what the farmers did. They made insecticides out of these cry proteins. But we have better options now available to us. So genetic engineering allows us to create these things called GMOs or genetically modified organisms. Using this technology we can insert the cry genes which are responsible for coding the cry proteins. We can take those genes and insert them directly into the plant's DNA kind of like this. So the red DNA is the DNA of the tomato plant. I have kept it as red because it was easier. And these yellow lines that you see over here these are the cry genes. So we can insert the cry genes directly into the plant's DNA and then the plant itself will start producing these toxins or the cry proteins with zero help from anyone else whatsoever. Does that mean that you have to insert bacterial genes into your plants? Of course not.  But for average people like you and me we can just go to the market and get these upgraded variants instead of the normal plants. GM plants or genetically modified plants are quite easily available in the market these days so we don't really have to worry about that. But wait, you can't just pick any GM variant that you want. You have to be very very careful what you get because cry genes and proteins are super insect specific. That means different toxins target different insects. For example the cry proteins cry1ac and cry2ab. Now these two cry proteins they work specifically against or they target cotton ballworms. So we insert these genes or the genes which encode these proteins into the cotton plants and then this plant will become BT cotton. Then there's one more cry protein called cry1ab. Now this one is very specific towards these things called corn borers which are these caterpillars that can wipe out mace fields or corn fields. So this cry protein will target those corn borers and so we're going to insert the gene that encodes this protein into the mace plants and then we're going to get BT mace. So if we have to replace this tomato plant over here with its GM counterpart or its upgraded counterpart then we'll have to look for that BT tomato plant which will specifically the tomato destroying ballworms. We need to be very very careful about that. So you've probably guessed it by now that whenever we're adding these cry genes into the plant's genome then that plant becomes a BT plant or a BT crop and today these BT crops are resistant against a large number of insects and pests. Most of which include members of three major families the beetle family the butterfly family of which ballworms are a part of and the fly family and these BT crops have revolutionized the world of agriculture especially in India about 80% of all the cotton that is harvested is BT cotton. Now after all of this one thing might still be bothering you you may you may say that hey we we are working with bacterial toxins here what if we eat these variants so we have a tomato variant over here these yellow dots they signify that it's upgraded because it has the cry genes so what if we eat this tomato variant and we get affected too I mean these genes or these proteins are killing insects so they will definitely do something to us right well not really us humans and other vertebrates and even beneficial insects like bees we don't get affected by these cry proteins why because we don't have the receptors for these cry proteins so if there are no receptors then there will be no binding if there is no binding then there will be no damage so it is 100% safe to consume all the consumable variants of vegetables and fruits with which have like the plants if they have cry genes they are still completely safe because we won't be affected by them at all so now you can quickly go to the market and get these GM plants worry-free and return the glory of your super awesome garden once again


What's the word y'all welcome back to the recap today? I got a lot to talk about me. I got a lot So before we even talk about The heat letting us down the Lakers toying with their food Austin rivers taking over a game. I had a rant about something man A lot of y'all were expecting an episode of called game recap yesterday and my apology Something came up that didn't allow me to watch as much basketball as I normally do and if I don't feel like I watched enough I'm not gonna force a video You know what I'm saying, but three things happen yesterday that I have to talk about have to run I have to ramble So give me a few minutes before we talk about today's slater games. Okay first thing to happen Russell Westbrook goes down with an injury He's walking back into the tunnel and a fan from DC decides to pour an entire thing of popcorn on Russell Westbrook's head If it wasn't for the training staff and those guards that were there Russell Westbrook was pulling the Steven Jackson pulling the metalware piece and going into going into the DC stands and smacking everybody So said out to the trainers for holding him back and excusable effects by the DC fan The second thing to happen We have this amazing series between your Lena Hawks and the New York Knicks Madison Square Garden is jumping the Knicks win a game and they're in the streets had going crazy for winning the playoff game But in the process of winning that playoff game Trey young is inbound in the ball and a fan that is close to court sad decides He wants to spit one of the biggest loogies I have ever seen and Trey young direction and I don't care the circumstance I don't care if you are my worst enemy spitting on somebody is the worst thing you can do It literally is the worst thing you can do in my eyes So that happened and the third thing that happens that may not have been getting that much press and that much coverage Is that the Memphis Grizzlies? They're new top course for game number two I'm a rent is in the process of having his best game of his NBA career, right? Like I said, I didn't get to watch as much basketball yesterday So this is one game that I miss live, but I went back to watch it. Jamarra is being unstop unstoppable. They lose his game Jamarra doesn't travel alone. He's got his family there So his family his dad and some other people in his family are cheering him on as they should the man Is having the best game of his young NBA career and while he's cheering his guys on Pop skits into a little altercation with a Utah Jazz fan and his altercation leads to the Utah Jazz fan Send some inexcusable racist things towards Jamarra and his family shout out to the teams because they found Individual culprit and banned them for life amazing But still this is one day of playoff basketball. We have three inexcusable offenses from fans Now, I'm not saying that this fan that dropped popcorn is speaking for the whole DC Every watch the Wizards fan same thing with Madison Square Garden same thing with the Utah Jazz fans But these things happen and it has to go away If there's one thing you learned from me ever ever my job is to talk basketball. I'm blessed I'm fortunate, but you have to remember It's just basketball, bro. It's a game And I know we're deeply invested in our favorite teams are deeply invested in the league, but it is just basketball, bro I see I see way too many times that people end up in these big old crowds were would like mindedness happens And they lose themselves, but you know, I actually I take that back I take that back the three people that did these three things They were assos going into it It don't matter if they were in a group mentality or what these are bad people doing bad things But I have to remind people we are just doing it's bouncing a little orange ball, bro I know we use it to get away from our normal lives and it's great. It's a good outlet, but it is just Basketball you could hate Trey young you can hate Russell Westbrook you can hate John Morett and his family But they are still people that you don't really know you don't know these people as much as you follow them on social Media is a thing you don't know these people these people have families and things I'm always pro protect the players or protect the people Like it's it's so crazy that it has to even be said But the fact that somebody decided that he wanted to And try to spit at somebody that he doesn't even know oh because Trey young has had two good games against your favorite team Because Trey young told you to shut up at the loudest and re That's my rent. It's just basketball y'all and even to a lesser scale We see stuff like this on Twitter all the time and part of it We're gonna talk about today. We should get to that Lakers game Let's start off by talking about the Miami Heat because just like that they are down 3-0 and another abysmal performance from the Miami Heat another performance that makes you really Mad and listen, I ain't going for either these two teams I thought this is about to be one of the better series when you think about what happened last year, right? The Miami Heat punched them Milwaukee Bucks in the face. You kind of figure the Miami Heat are basically the same team They lost Jay Crowder. They tried to supplement him with with Iggy They tried supplement him with with a little bit of Trevor Riza And I know the Milwaukee Bucks made a couple moves here But you expected this series to be more than the 3-0 series and I saw somebody on Twitter That was like, oh what a surprise the team with a negative net rating the whole season is actually bad Which is uh, I just I don't know man. Maybe we just got we got we got confused by the bubble run That's what it is. And I'm not one of the people to call them bubble frauds I've been seeing people photoshop them on like bubble guppy things. That's crazy. Y'all y'all are going a little bit too far But for them to be three games into this Jimmy Butler at one point in this game had like half of the team points early in the in the first half But in the second half he didn't do a thing. Bam out of bio is on a Missing poster. I don't know what happened to them out of bio this this series specifically because the whole season He's been good. He didn't make the all-star game, but he's been good He's been a defensive player of the year conversations. He's always been been solid But three games in this man has an impact at the game positively at all At all and I'm super excited to see what this office is It looks like for them because if I'm not mistaken. They have a max spot They have the heat culture that people are always talking about but is that real? Are we questioning the culture now? I want to give a lot of love to Milwaukee Bucks, man The honest before the series even started was like, I don't know if things are gonna be different. I don't know He didn't get too high. He didn't get too low And you know what? He probably has the same mentality right now because though it is a 3-0 series And it's like a 97% chance that you're gonna win this series He still has to know that hey, we want to put our foot on their nests Don't get them a single game and if the heat walk out of here with no games. Oh That's rough, bro That's really really rough. Drew. Drew Holiday has been the absolute xx factor that everybody thought he was Them giving up all the picks them giving up players And it doesn't matter at this point because Drew Holiday has already cemented himself in these three games as as the reason as the The saving grace of the Milwaukee Bucks because if you do not remember After the Drew Holiday trade, Yannis was like you got me. I'm in deal. I'll sign it. I'll sign it So you get your holiday who's been amazing for you You extend him you get Yannis of course to come back and now you have all these pieces around them They're a more complete team and this is gonna sound crazy because of all of the things that happened with coach But throughout the regular season and last year I was calling for his head last year because he made literally zero adjustments in the series last year Making adjustments in a series, but we saw a team last year that really switched anything to a team That is switching everything and being dominant this defensive performance that they've put on through these three games Has been led. I don't know if the statistics are gonna tell you this but it feels like it is as legendary They won by 30 and they didn't have a good offensive game You hear me they won by 30 and they didn't perform well on offense until we got like to the fourth quarter They start to pick it up, but until up until that point. They didn't even have a good offensive game I'm excited about this next series. I'm calling it's a wrap. I mean 3. Oh, it's a wrap You know I'm saying of that if the he can make a push and make a comeback that'd be crazy But you you don't come back from 3. Oh, especially with this type of momentum. I mean, it's it's insane shout out to the Bucks I'm excited for next series when they go against the Brooklyn Nets next game Let's talk about this Lakers versus Sun's game because things got really really chippy and I'm already seeing things on Twitter between the fan bases going at it this and that because before we even talk about the stuff That happened that mattered within the game. Devon Booker fouls out and the last foul Dennis shooters in the air Devon Bush Devon Booker pushes him and Jay Crowder kinds of give him a shove too and in my eyes I've seen people called calling them both ways and it's just been a few minutes since that game is wrapped up I've seen people calling them both ways that is a dirty slash bad play from Devon Booker. I love Devon Booker I even like Jay Crowder But I have to call a spade a spade Devon Booker did not go for the ball whatsoever and saw a player in a vulnerable position And made it even worse and excusable, so I'm okay with the ejection you have to send a notice I know these two teams are your chirping at each other is to play off This I think is what Anthony Davis says to playoffs the chirping at each other That's all cool and even the occasional hard foul is cool, but a defenses guy in midair. That's that's not cool to me That's not cool to me and I like I said, I want the Phoenix Suns to be competitive. I want the Phoenix Suns to win this series But the fact that Chris Paul can't play Is the real detriment to the team obviously? I mean he was the all-star player He's the captain. He's the guy that's an MVP conversations to some people and he just can't play I mean he ended with 27 minutes played. He's not shoot. I watched Chris Paul for a decade He very rarely unless he had a super big defender on him He very rarely goes to a different shot like a shot form since the shoulder injury Every shot is look different. He hasn't even felt confident enough to attempt a three in the whole series The entire series Chris Paul has not attempted a three because I don't know if he feels confident in that shoulder Now he did look better today than he did in game number two And maybe there's a bit of optimism for them for game number four because game number four is a do or die game I know people come back from 3-0 But I find it hard to see I don't see LeBron and Anthony Davis and company blowing a 3-1 lead I just don't see it. I just don't see it So they need to go into LA and win game number four and hopefully by the time this game happens Chris Paul is healthy This is a bad game for Devon Booker that the two players that came to show up was was Deodre Aiden and Cameron Payne I always wanted to call Cameron Payne a tank commander because of all the years He spent in Chicago how bad he was here We need so much better now man He was better than Chris Paul today and he was one of the reasons why they had that many come back in this game Because he had a couple shots. He was diving on the floor. He was getting steals He was everywhere today. I love to see a player out there really playing hard because I mean I guess his next contract is not really promised But after this playoff push, maybe it is J crowd absolutely terrible Absolutely terrible today man shot some shots some things that well didn't even look like they had a chance to go in I was seeing the number circulate on Twitter He he was like two for 30 or something from the three this entire series not the J crowd of me And you know not the J crowded that we got last year that helped that he get to the finals He's been he's been really really bad And it doesn't help that he's also guarding LeBron and LeBron Anthony Davis and the Lakers Have won the mental game against the Phoenix Suns and this is this is from my perspective I don't know how true this is But the fact that you had a flag refowl that that ended in two ejections kind of shows in a game that was already out Kind of shows that the Phoenix Suns kind of lost the mental battle at least in this game I'm not calling it for the series and the part of part of the way the Lakers do that is that they clamp you up It's hard to score in them, bro They got a Devin Booker got a good dose of KCP before he went out with his injury He got a good dose of Wesley Matthews and a little bit of been Macklemore and that was enough to throw him off of his game Jay Crowder was doing all the app it's a LeBron a LeBron is yapping yapping back and the LeBron's like You know what give me four isolations in a row with Jay Crowder, and I'm gonna just score I'm gonna get the crowd involved I'm gonna get the bench involved one of the greatest things I see with this Lakers team and why they're still so Very dangerous is a guy like Montress Harrell who was a six-man of the year last year He's been a big part of this team up to this point is get his Dean getting D&P's coach decisions But he's still on the bench yapping at the opposing team. He's still dancing. He even got a technical foul from not mistaken For just talking trash or whatever he was doing So they have this team camaraderie that you cannot be whatsoever and and one of the main things that I see with this Laker series is like The Suns don't have a big other than Deondra Aiden now Deondra Aiden has been the most consistent player in this entire series 100% or 100% But if Deondra Aiden is not playing and in this game he had to play 41 minutes It's just like free cheese Frank Kaminsky got seven minutes of play and it was a bad seven minutes You know what I'm saying so and then the Lakers have technically four centers They have four centers that they can run out there like I said my trez is not playing Anthony Davis. I'm classifying Andre Drummond again another good game It's two games in a row where Andre Drummond is starting to find himself a little bit as long as you're not giving Andre Drummond's his own personal feeds like giving him post touches. He's fine You know catch some lobs get some offensive rebounds. You're good and then you of course Marcus all getting them back in the rotation They have so many bigs It's just not a good matchup for the Phoenix Suns that only have Deondra Aiden as good as Deondra Aiden has been in this series So that that's a game that the worst thing about these things though And I think I mentioned this on the last episode of the call game recap Is that they're starting these games so close together that they make they make you pick in the regular season I have no problem watching multiple games because you don't have to give your whole attention on a Cavs versus I don't know pistons game I can have that just up and checking scores and looking for moments, but we're talking about playoff games I want to be able to sit down dissect Analyze every single minute of every single game But with the nets or the nuggets versus a trailblazer game starting 30 minutes later I didn't get to watch as much of this game as I really wanted to and it was the best game of the day According to like the lat like the final score. It's really unfortunate because I have a method that remedies this But if I do this method then we won't get recaps anymore like my guy days kids does it He's like hey I'm gonna focus on Lakers versus Suns tonight and I'm gonna wake up early tomorrow morning to watch nuggets versus blazers I would do that 100% but I know y'all like these recaps the night of you know what I'm saying So let me let me break down what I saw because I tuned in the last six minutes Basically after the Lakers game was over and it was also Rivers taking over There's also Rivers taking over Yoko's gets that last bucket But the crazy thing is bro at one point I think this is like a 12-point game for like a minute and a half to go the trailblazers decided They want to hit they wanted to hit more threes in the last a minute than they did in the entire game Dang CJ mellow had some moments in that fourth quarter by the end of the day Didn't matter and you know I was on the edge of my seat because I saw the Portland Trailblazers do this before Against my favorite team. They did it against us earlier this season or like Yeah, it's a nine-point game with a minute to go. It's a foul game.  Oh, you miss two free throws dame. Go ahead and shot Oh, we caused a turnover dame go ahead and shot and then against us dame hit the game winner But he didn't get the opportunity today because with with Who fouled out use of nerk it's fouled out of the game Now you got Robert Covington as the center and Yoko just overpowered him for the offensive rebound tip up Boom by the BAM MVP player makes MVP play and they end up winning this game and it gives them a 2-1 lead They take home court advantage back from the Portland Trailblazers and again, this is one of the group one of the greater series We have two MVP caliber players going hand-to-hand. That's pretty much all I have for today Let me know what you think about this whole fan situation. I don't think there's a Fix to it because 99.9% of the fans that were in attendance to all of the games so far this year have been great They've been cool But it's just that point one percent or whatever of people that just take it too far Take it too far like even I even tweeted you gotta love brawn. It's okay to not like brawn I was just tweeting for myself gotta love brawn because when he was toying with Jay Crowder I had I got flashbacks. I love when LeBron is being great, right? And then I just saw some some very disgusting comments under my tweet about LeBron And it's not a LeBron century tweet But the fact that you would say like oh, I want to see X player tear their ACL that's that's that's very wild to me And it wasn't I don't want people to think it was a site wasn't even a Suns fan It was just somebody that hates LeBron, you know, it's just it's very weird to me. It's very weird or activity See people with people and I think everybody gets along


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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2021 Ford F350 Crew Cab Long Box Dual-Rewheel XL STX Package is stock number 14248Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 Ford F350 has the 6.7-liter Powerstroke diesel engine, puts out 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot-pounds of torque, it's paired up with the 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has six brand new tires, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, and just give you the most accurate representation that I can of the truck. Carbonized, gray metallic is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K. Now if you like the video, consider subscribing to the YouTube channel, click the bell notification to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube, and keep updated on our ever-changing inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with these 17-inch polished aluminum wheels, they're in really nice shape. This is brand new, Kumho Krugin LT245 75 R17 tires, these are brand new, you can still see the little wear knobs on there, we put those on in our safety inspection. The frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck, this is a one-owner clean title history, clean car fax out of Kentucky. Front fender is absolutely perfect, didn't see any denser dings on there, headlight lenses are nice and clear. The front bumper and lower valance are in really nice condition as well, I didn't see any major denser dings, scuffs or scrapes or cracks on that valance. You get the chrome-trimmed grille with the STX appearance group, the Ford logo is in nice shape, the hood is in excellent shape as well. Get the super-duty imprinted on the hood there, cab lights up top, passenger side front fender is in excellent condition as well, didn't see any denser dings on there, and the passenger side front wheel is in really nice shape, maybe one little scuff right here, but other than that, very nice and clean. As you go down, actually let's take a look at carbonized gray here, it's got a lot of metal flake, so this is a little bit lighter color than the old Magnetic, but this is the new gray for the super-duties, looks really good. Believe it came out in 2021, so this is the first year that you could get it. As you go down this side of this 2021 Ford F350, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make a buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very nice down that side, you also get the really nice factory chrome step bars. The dually tub in the front here is in really nice shape, but I didn't see any major rock chips or road rash on there. The back wheel is in excellent shape as well, and the back tires are brand new too. Do you get the camper package with the anti-sway bar there? I think that's standard on all the duallys, but this one's not excluded, as all the remaining factory exhausts, so it hasn't been altered in any way, and definitely advantageous to get a truck out of Kentucky, very little to no corrosion under there. The dually tub is in nice shape, like I said, no scuffs, scrapes, or cracks on there. Coming around to the back, the rear bumper is in really nice condition, does have the full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wire, and four full disclosure, and we'll point out there is one tiny little ding on the bumper there, but that does not affect the performance of this truck. The tailgate is in really nice shape as well, and it comes with a truck's port, roll-up tonneau cover, I didn't see any rips or tears on there, has the shock down assist tailgate, so it's never going to slam down on you, and it has a line-ex spray and bed liner. I personally consider line-ex the best bed liner on the market, I got it on my truck, absolutely love it, and a really nice texture, looks really good, and it goes on to the tailgate on this one as well. Tailgate's very light, shuts nice and easily. Coming around to the driver's side, dual-eat tub and box side all look really good, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Front of the dual-eat tub looks really good, and for full disclosure, this back wheel is in really nice condition as well. Going down the rest of the side of the truck, cab and doors all look really good. You can always tell if it's got the STX package by the sticker right there. It does have the telescopic tow mirrors, they are heated, they telescope out like so, they fold in like that. Take a look at the back seats quick. Very nice and clean back here, no rips, no tears, does have latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have, fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats are in really nice condition. It does have a set of, I think it's max liner or smart liner, all-weather formats, it also has the heavy-duty rubber floors, so nice easy cleaning. And the floor is completely flat back here, so if you've got pets, put the seats up and they've got a nice flat place to lay. Side curtain airbags, child safety locks on the back doors, and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good. Take a look at the VIN sticker here, no Canadian trucks here. And the tire and loading information sticker. Inside the XL package gives you the gray cloth interior. You get the 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front here, no rips, no tears on those seats, they are very clean, like new. You get the smart liner all-weather floor mat up here as well, auto headlamps, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, locks, and mirrors. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Get the nice built forward tough animation there, you can see this one has 47,048 miles, and you do get the digital speedometer and compass display on that instrument cluster. Instrument cluster is nice and clean. Multi-function steering wheel, cruise controls and information center controls on the left, very little wear on that steering wheel. Bluetooth and volume controls on the right, there's your shifter for that 10-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift there. You get the sync 8-inch radio, you get AM, FM, and Bluetooth capabilities on this radio. You also get all your different mobile apps, you get Ford Pass Connect, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, where you can project your cell phone to the screen, so while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and if you got Waze or Google Maps, project it right to the screen, it's like you have Nav right on the screen. Here is your turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, climate controls down here, more volume and tune controls as well. You get a USB-C and a USB and a 12-volt power point there, 12-volt power point and 110-volt 400-watt max plug-in. You get the dual glove boxes right there, passenger side, format and seat are in excellent condition as well, no rips or tears on there, and the headliner is like new, smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And you do get map lights up here. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that other than my hoods of track. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options, and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around. This thing is in fantastic shape, considering it's got 47,000 miles on it, looks like it has 10,000 miles on it. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine, engine base is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot-pounds of torque, and this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, 6 brand new tires, there's the emissions sticker. Shocks are doing a great job holding that hood up. And this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. I'd ship this one anywhere, California, Texas, New York, Florida, back to Kentucky. Whoever's going to get this truck is going to absolutely love it. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, rain glows, half-tons or quarter-tons, one-tons, you name it, we got to go to the website right there. 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