This episode of the anxious truth is brought to you by me because I'm not just a podcaster. I'm also an author I've written several useful books and anxiety and anxiety recovery, and I know you're gonna find them helpful You could find them on my website at the anxious truth comm Welcome back everybody welcome to the anxious truth. This is episode number 18180 Entitled are you trying to be recovered before you do recovery? This episode is being recorded in October of 2021 actually on Halloween. So it's a very spooky episode I'm kidding. It's not a spooky episode at all has nothing to do with Halloween But it does have a lot to do with anxiety and anxiety recovery because that's what we talked about on this podcast Anyway, welcome. I am Drew lince a lot a creator and host of the anxious truth I am glad that you are here if this is your first time welcome whether you are watching or listening I appreciate that you're here if you've been here before then welcome back I'm also really glad that you're here. So today.  Are you putting the cart before the horse? Now this sounds like a silly little sort of flippant thing to say, but it's it's real This is a real thing and it's an incredibly common mistake. It's an incredibly common bit of misunderstanding that I see every day In this community. It's not a crime a lot of people get this wrong It's okay because so much of what we talk about here on the podcast and so much of what we talk about in terms of The path to recovery really is counterintuitive sort of the opposite of what you want to do So I get that if you're making this mistake and and you'll know very shortly want to get into the episode here If you're making it and if you are it's okay, really you're in good company many many people make this mistake I made the mistake too. So don't sweat it if you are actually in this boat Are you trying to recover? Before you do recovery. Are you trying to be recovered before you do recovery? Are you putting the cart before the horse? Let me explain. I Get asked almost on a daily basis in the community questions like but how can I learn to not be afraid? So I can go and do my exposures Right people are trying to figure out ways to not be afraid so they can start recovering How can I get it? How can I put my brain around this? How can I convince myself that I'm okay so that I can start to go and do these things that you're telling me that I need to Do to recover and really and truly when you think about that it makes Sense I guess from an emotional or a gut standpoint like well I want to go out and drive around the block But I'm terrified to do that so how I got to teach me how to not be afraid Like how will I convince my brain that I'm okay? So that I don't have to be afraid so that I can go and drive around the block So from an emotional standpoint because none of us wants to be afraid or uncomfortable that question makes all kinds of sense But think about it from a recovery standpoint. It doesn't make sense at all. You're actually flipping it You're you've got things backwards so if you are listening to the podcast or you read my books or you're following other people on social media that Sound like me and talk about these kind of things if you have been racking your brain for any amount of time Try to come up with a way to convince yourself that you're okay so that you can start to do the recovery stuff You got it backwards. So if you're trying to somehow believe that you are safe First before you do the things you're probably getting really frustrated into wondering. Why am I not getting this? Why is my brain? Why is it not clicking with me? Super common and like I said not a crime, but let me explain why this is backwards Why you're putting the cart before the horse and if you really stop for a second and think about it and take away the I don't want to be afraid part. You'll understand what I'm saying You cannot and I've done full podcast episodes. I write about this in my book You cannot tell yourself that you're okay Like I've done some very popular podcast episodes one is called by positive self-talk is bullshit one of my most popular episodes and it's got a funny title but there's truth in it because I did another Podcast episode entitled how can I talk to my anxiety another really popular podcast episode? That's all about how we cannot Talk to our fear centers. You cannot talk or logic or think your way into not being afraid So if you're trying to first lose the fear so that you could do the recovery stuff If you could do that you wouldn't have to do the recovery stuff When you stop being afraid of your anxiety and your panic and the symptoms and the sensations and the thoughts When you stop being afraid of those things you're recovered So you wouldn't have to do the recovery things if you could just decide or somehow Find a magic way to click in your brain that you're not afraid anymore Like you have to do the things first and that's how you learn to not be afraid So if you are trying to find a way to get it to click somehow in your head that you're safe Or you're okay, or you don't have to be afraid if you're trying to get rid of the fear First before you go out the door to do the scary things You're going to wind up very frustrated because you're putting the cart before the horse and you're trying to be recovered Before you do the recovery things and if you could do that you wouldn't have to do the recovery things, right? So think about that for a second. I totally understand why you are trying so hard to find a way to not be afraid. I Get it. I really do everybody would start that way But in the end if you could just find some way through listening to podcasts or what looking at Instagram posts or reading books Or taking online courses on anxiety if you could find a way to do that Just by doing those things then you wouldn't have to do the recovery stuff So again, I've written and talked about this extensively. You can't talk yourself out of this You can't think your way out of this. You can't logic or reason your way out of it You can't use inspirational memes. You can't use quotes. You can't use Instagram posts You can't use books or training courses. You can't do any of that stuff. This is a doing Recovery is a doing exercise We have to take action that is that recovery is an active process It requires that we learn some principles. We start to understand them We do what we can to really take them on and then we begin to apply them by taking action So we can learn all kinds of stuff. We can have a lot of very smart people tell us things Experience people people who have recovered down been down the road before us We can hear all the things and read all the words, but in the end we have to actually do the things So if you're trying to learn how to not be afraid So that you could do the things that you hear me tell you and that other people tell you to do It's not going to work. You're trying to recover before you do the recovery stuff Right. So another thing that I've talked about all the time is that you will not find Recovery in the scroll like recovery does not exist in the in the scroll the social media scroll It doesn't exist in facebook. It doesn't exist in your instagram feed. It doesn't exist on youtube It doesn't exist in the podcast you listen to Recovery is a thing that we do we learn through action through behavioral activation and doing things or changing the way we behave in relation to our anxious thoughts and sensations We change the way we behave and react and those Experiences teach us the lessons we need to learn so that over time We are not afraid of being anxious anymore That's how recovery works But we need the experiences to teach us those lessons. Only experience can teach you the lessons Books cannot teach you the lessons they could teach you why you need to have the experiences But the books can't give you the experiences you need to have them Because your amygdala your fear center your lizard brain that I wrote about in seven percent slower Which by the way, if you don't have that book check it out seven percent slower.com But if you you cannot communicate with your amygdala and your lizard brain your fear center with words and logic and reason It doesn't you know this because i'm sure at least once in your life you thought You know, I know i'm okay But as soon as I panic that all goes out the window, right? We've all said that I hear it all day long in the community And it's a little bit heartbreaking because I understand how it can make you feel stuck But if you've ever said All my logic goes out the window when I get afraid then that's correct So you can't logic you can't read words. You can't listen to songs. You can't do lyrics can't do memes And I won't be the dead horse here The bottom line is all of those things Excuse me can teach you Why you need to have experiences, but then you must have the experiences So all of the things that I talk about All the things I try and teach in this podcast all the things that I've had I've written in my books are all about that This is why we do these things. These are the lessons we learn from them And this is how we learn that over time we can habituate to these things So our fear level goes down and we can learn that rather we panic or we don't panic. It's the same We're always okay. I might have more anxiety or less anxiety. It's okay My intrusive thoughts might be more powerful or less powerful more intense or less and says either way I'm okay So we are using you know habituation inhibitory learning models to to To go down the path of recovery But those require action whether you're involved in ERP with a therapist for for your OCD Or you're doing exposures incremental exposures for your panic disorder or dwarf phobia or you're practicing being home alone Whatever it happens to be these are behavioral things We behave differently in the face of our discomfort and our fear and those different experiences Fueled by those new behaviors or what teach our teach our fear centers the lesson they need to learn It's the only language they know So you must do the recovery stuff first Then you will not be afraid of it So if you're trying to not be afraid so you can do the recovery thing you got it backwards You're gonna have to do it scared I probably should have just said that right in the beginning of the episode And I maybe would have saved you 10 minutes and 41 seconds of your life But in the end this is what it comes down to You cannot just decide to not be afraid so that you can do the hard things You must do the hard things while you are afraid and while you are uncomfortable We intentionally go into fear to learn how to be better at being afraid which leads to not being afraid That's how this works So I've said many many times Similar principle with like I just don't get it. I'm waiting for it to click You might be thinking of it that way some people will will just overtly say Tell me how to not be so afraid or tell me how to believe this is only anxiety You can't you can't just decide to not be afraid. You can't just decide to believe You can only have experiences that teach you that it's only anxiety You can only have experiences that teach you that you don't have to be afraid Some people it's a little bit more amorphous. They don't know why they're stuck and they'll say things like I'm I just can't seem to get this to click I need some way to get it to click and the symptom there or or really the way that manifests is Going from book to book to book To to guru to guru, you know, I don't know guru. I shouldn't say guru. It's a bit of a derogatory term But from from teacher to teacher to book to book to podcast to podcast to video to video to discourse that course Like those people and you might be one of them. I just can't seem to get it to click I'm looking for the thing that will make it click Here's the thing This thing that we do is so paradoxical. You really don't get it. It doesn't click until after you do it Like on a logical level, it's probably already clicked But you're looking for it to somehow click into place on an emotional level so that you'll be willing to take that first Those first steps forward into that really scary and difficult territory And you're trying to make it click before you do that But the reality of it here is you can't you're only not afraid After you do the stuff and it only makes sense to you on an emotional level after you do it So you can't wait to get it. You can't wait to be ready. You can't wait to be prepared You can't wait to be less scared. You can't wait for it to click All that stuff happens after the doing So the bad news about this the good news is that when you do it recovery is a hundred percent possible You'll get there like you can do this. I know you can you might be doubting it, but I believe in you I know that this is a hard ask and I know it's really difficult and you don't want to be afraid I didn't want to be afraid either Nobody who is who is recovered Wanted to do this So take heart in that nobody who is recovered Wanted to do this hard work none of us did But in the end we did it and we learned the lessons and we struggled along the way You might be struggling too. We all did but it's very possible The thing is you have to do the recovery things first Before you get it before you are unafraid.  There's a reason why the first C was courage You have to do these things while you are afraid And when you do it then you start to build feelings of competence in your abilities And confidence in your ability to recover overall So are you trying to be recovered before you do the recovery stuff? Maybe if you've been trying to find a way to not be afraid or trying to find some magic thing Words a book that will make it click so that you can actually start to do recovery Then yeah, you're trying to be recovered before you do recovery You're putting the cart before the horse And if you're freely frustrated that could be why So that is this week's episode Are you trying to be recovery? Are you trying to be recovered before you do recovery? Are you putting the cart before the horse? Hopefully this has been 15 minutes That explains what that means and you may see like oh boy. I'm doing that I'm doing that you might feel that you are actually doing that and if you are it's okay Like I said cannot really iterate enough very very common mistake very common misunderstanding And and misconception especially in the early stages So consider this for a little while if you're feeling frustrated or stuck then this might be why just think about that for a little while Anyway, thanks for coming by as always I'm going to play you out with afterglow by my friend ben drake You can find ben and his music online at ben drake music com And if you are listening to the podcast on spotify or itunes or anywhere where you can rate and review Leave us a five star rating take a few seconds write a review of the podcast It will help other people find the podcast if you're watching the podcast on youtube then like the video leave a comment Subscribe to the channel all that good stuff. I appreciate it. I appreciate your time your attention your support Always always always. Thank you guys and I will see you next week. Enjoy afterglow and remember This is the way


Kenya has seen major developments on the political front over the past year. Archrivals President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Rai Laodinga have come together as part of what has been termed the Building Bridges Initiative. The president introduced a plan to alter the constitution which would have affected 13 out of its 18 chapters. Critics say that the plan would have basically made a mockery of political choice for Kenyans due to the two major forces coming to power. There was mass opposition to the bill inside Kenya and the judiciary struck it down although the matter will still come up before the Supreme Court early next year. The Communist Party of Kenya has been in the forefront of the opposition to this amendment as well to other policies of the government. Booker Gessa Omole, National Vice-Chairperson of the Communist Party of Kenya explains the context in the country as well as the prevailing economic situation. The Communist Party of Kenya had declared that 2021 would be the year to dent capitalism in Kenya and the Communist Party of Kenya and its leadership and members are aware of its continental, its global and its national mandate in terms of setting a different narrative or a national agenda away from the neo-colonial capitalist state that continues to dominate Kenya today. The most important task nationally for the Communist Party of Kenya was basically to consolidate all the gains that Kenya has since achieved because we know that since the struggle for independence until today there has been several gains that we actually know that those gains have been a product of the struggle of the Kenyan masses and the workers here in Kenya. The Communist Party of Kenya therefore will not relent in terms of defending those gains. The most important one is the reintroduction of multi-partisan politics and the reintroduction of multi-partisan politics which came under what you call the appeal of Section 2A of the Kenyan constitution under the dictatorship of Moe at that time only makes sense with the present of the Communist Party of Kenya because the other political outfits in our country are bourgeois outfits or what we call capitalist parties and if we are to talk about a democracy we cannot talk about a democracy that only pursues capitalism democracy but the Communist Party of Kenya brings a new democracy which is the democracy of majority. In the recent events in the Kenyan struggle we have seen an attempt by the neo-colonial Kenyan state led by President Mr. Kenyatta in a view to dilute those gains through a constitutional review which was under the infamous Building Bridges initiative that was defeated both in public opinion and also in judiciary and this was championed by the Communist Party of Kenya and we led several demonstrations and street actions to sensitize the Kenyan masses that in the event that we allow the insignificant minority in our country to interfere with the constitutional review of 2010 then it will have unrolled several gains and it will be a sell out to several poor people that have martyred in the streets defending this democratic space. The Building Bridges initiative was a sad architect by the status quo of this country by the rich country the rich people in this country to try and introduce you know a dictatorship absolutely to enforce a dictatorship of the rich in our country but through political literacy and intensive campaigns that was led by the Communist Party of Kenya then we have seen that the Kenyan masses rejected it resoundingly in the in the in the court of public opinion and the Kenyan judiciary played their second role as the defenders of the people to actually throw the constitutional amendment the the proposed constitutional amendment that was mooted by the president and in the leader of opposition at that time the second part of it is that we have also seen nationally that when the pandemic actually came to be the COVID-19 we have seen that it exposed the Kenyan state that and its and its real nature that it's only skewed towards favoring a few businessmen so the Communist Party of Kenya led a relentless struggle in the street to mobilize the hotel workers to mobilize the workers on the forefront that means the the workers in in health sector to demand that the Kenyan state must then now assays the opportunity to nationalize you know and socialize our healthcare in this country but in in many ways there we have only seen that the disaster capitalism that was used at that time was to enrich a few individuals now the infamous COVID-19 millionaires and billionaires most of them are friends and relatives of the high political leaders you know starting with the president's relatives that have assays the COVID-19 pandemic to do business not really to do business but to be the top invoices of work not done to rob the Kenyan people from their taxes so in that way that also highlighted the level of the state repression in this country when the Communist Party of Kenya headquarters in Nairobi was termed by the Kenyan state and the only thing that they were accused for is to organize demonstration to highlight the failure of the this neocolonial puppet government in terms of handling the issues to do with workers and the masses during the pandemic and each and every step that was taken to control the COVID-19 pandemic was basically a copy and paste from the imperialist countries of the west and it was not based on any scientific program to advance the dignity of the dignity of the Kenyan people and the Kenyan workers now in terms of economic progress in this country it has continued to benefit only a few people in fact the president of this country Mr Kenyatta has taken the Kenyan people for granted he has continued repeatedly on the national broadcasters telling the Kenyan people that the GDP has continued to grow but we have seen that we have a budget worth trillions of shillings we have a lot of money in our economy but the social indicators including what we call health food and and even if you go to education the literacy level does not they continue to be deplorable we have also seen the unemployment continued to people to the unemployment in our country the unemployment crisis continued to deepen in our country so in terms of economic it has continued to only favor a few billionaires in our country and we are warning the Mr Kenyatta that he should not continue to hide on GDP but he should be frank with the Kenyan people to talk about the social indicators in our country for its consistent opposition to the policies of the ruling dispensation the communist party of kenya has faced repression from the Kenyan state including an attack on its office how has the party faced this repression and what has been its position on the role played by foreign powers in the affairs of the country the state attack on the communist party of kenya is not unprecedented because the communists that have been organizing in this country both covertly and now we can say overtly has been a target of anti-communist propaganda there have been a target of the state repression in this country several years back before the coming of the 2010 constitution we had seen a calculated well-funded attack by the western media in coalition with them their neocolonial puppet here at home to actually accused anybody that was reading communist literature and they of having committed an offense through a seditious and you know a illegal act that so most of our comrades are not just jailed but some of them are exiled and we as the communist party of kenya today recognizes their struggles and we say that we are only advancing the Kenyans the Kenyans the Kenyan struggle that has been on the moving you know trajectory and then we also have seen the international you know the international organizations that are west leaning for example the IMF and world bank that has continued to enforce not just austerity measures against in attack of the Kenyan workers but they have continued to get into illegal you know agreements with the Kenyan government to loan them in a view you know to have a double layer of colonization in the event that they want to over burden the Kenyan people with the debts and in that view the communist party has led a front to reject the imperialist loans and their internal interference on the Kenyan issues the the other issue that we cannot fail to mention is the program that was introduced by George Bush in our country that has continued to construct what we call we may call call it the modern day slavery the Agoa program that led to the construction of epz the economic processing zone where people all the labor laws have been thrown out of the window and the multinationals are having a filled day to pay as low as possible they are benefiting from tax breaks they are they are benefiting from you know subsidized cost of water and electricity while the workers in those areas are paid for actually they are literally working for free because in those areas they are paid as low as one dollar a day and in areas like uh naivasha where we have the flower farms they are even exposed to difficult chemicals that the multinationals will never imagine to use in their countries the communist party of kenya has continued to consolidate the workers movement in those areas to demand just not for the workers right but for the political mobilization that will lead to an ultimate change of this system that have continued to subjugate the majority of the kenyan people we've also had the the what we call the foreign military basis that is led by our the imperial britain that colonized our country they still retain the abatuk in nanyuki that continued to you know to move in in in unlawful ways including raping children and and interfering with our internal affairs of these countries detonating bombs that you know are detrimental to people's health so the communist party of kenya has continued to sensitize the kenyan workers and the people that we do not have a room in this country for any foreign military basis and what they're calling the african that is meant to incalculate the imperialist army among the local army the communist party of kenya has led campaigns to reject those initiatives and most importantly next year in 2022 we are going to go to the national elections and the communist party of kenya is taking a forefront to challenge the organization around money the organization around the dictatorship of the rich the organization around mobilization of the kenyan people around the ethnicity


okay guys so today I got something kind of weird to show you that happened a couple days ago and I'll show it to you and see what you guys think of it I think somebody's messing with me I don't know so let's get into this and let's see if we can figure out what's going on okay guys so the other day I uploaded this video creepy and bizarre noises at 1 a.m. as you can see right here I had a comment that says that scared the crappy out of me that night well I wrote lol who is this now I wrote who is this because if you look up here where my pointer is see that name Bruno Schumann everyone knows Schumann is my last name and Bruno's our dog and if I'm not mistaken that looks like Bruno like it was captured like a screenshot of Bruno I know a lot of dogs look alike but she is kind of like your kid you get to know so let's click on this and there's one subscriber me I subscribed because I was hoping maybe someone would tell me who this and that that's Bruno that's definitely Bruno now when I downloaded that image it was real tiny so when I blew it up it kind of got real blurry so but it looks like in the background let me give my glasses on here looks like our house in the background like out in the kitchen area my phone is buzzing so but when we when we go to the about if you look this person joined May 22nd or May 2nd 2022 which was the day before they made the comment and as you can see I there's nothing else here I can go by they have no channels no playlist no videos and there's home this channel doesn't have any contact Bruno Schumann so I was just wondering who that was and why I mean it's not that big of a deal to me but I'm just kind of wondering who's because in order to do that they have to come up with a you know they have to have a which is weird also they have you have to have an email account there is no email here I don't know guys so this was just a quick one I just wanted to right there they are it was three days ago when they made a comment which was the third because today's the sixth so I don't know okay sorry about that I was a monkey's visiting her mom and she's letting me know how she's doing so sorry about that I don't know what's going on so I'm buzzing now I who is it like I said they they would have to have an email and they do not have an email because your email would be right here it would say show email and like like I have that on mine so people can get a hold of me because you know they took away the direct messaging from here which was they said nobody used it I find that hard to believe because I know I used it a lot to talk to my subscribers and the people on subscribe too so but there's usually right here it will tell you you know that it'll say something on here about you know alright let's let's find one here just for instance let's go like this one okay this one here just want to pick out see it says view email address under details so there's no description no details see right there if I click on that it'll give me their email address right there and as you can see Bruno has I don't know who that is that's my last name that's my dog's name and I'm 99.9% sure that that's my dog so we can't figure it out so if you guys know something if it's a joke or whatever you know like that's not that big of a deal to me it just when you know that scared the crappy out of me that night I don't know somebody's they're playing like they're Bruno you know what I mean like that's Bruno is saying that's because he was there with me you know when that noise happened so when we heard the noise now I know he don't have his own channel and I know he doesn't have a email address I have an email address my email address that you guys get ahold of me on here is Bruno bear 5000 at gmail.com so but that's my email address for YouTube I don't know guys let me know in the comments below what do you think if that was you let me know why and you know I mean like I said it's not that big of a deal to me I thought it was kind of funny so I wrote lol who is this Bruno I haven't taught him how to type yet cuz he can't spell anyway guys thanks for watching I appreciate it we'll see you guys in the next one shave every myth man legend God for now y'all be cool and stay safe bye bye now


The human thymus is the primary organ responsible for developing T-cells, which are essential components of the immune system. It has been observed that hematopoietic stem cells, HSCs, which are precursors to all blood cells, migrate to the thymus from the fetal liver and bone marrow after birth. However, the exact mechanisms behind this process remain unclear. In this study, researchers used a three-dimensional microfluidic device to investigate how HSCs move through the thymus. They found that the presence of human thymic stromal cells, TSC, increased the rate of HSC extravasation into the extracellular matrix by up to three times. Additionally, they discovered that the interaction between endothelial cells, thymic epithelial cells, TEC, and interstitial cells, TIC, was important in regulating HSC migration. This study provides insight into the mechanisms involved in HSC migration to the thymus, and could potentially be used to develop treatments for diseases such as autoimmunity. This article was authored by Sarah A. Watson, Yusef Javimardi, Luca Zanieri, and others.


نحن نتحدث بشكل مهل yesterday and we dealt very briefly on the aspect of the two extremes which was pre destinations and free will and what the School of Thought of Ahle-El-Bayt says about it or the JAFRI School of Thought says about it. Now tonight, insha'Allah, as a continuation from yesterday. A continuation in which we want to learn how to go about preaching, How to go about teaching people the school of thought of Ahle El Bait How to go about distributing the knowledge of Ahle El Bait Because someone will come forth and say that Imam Hasan, for example Imam Hasan Some people come forth and say why did Imam Hussein do that بعض الناس يقولوا أن إمام الصاديق كانت تأكيدة وكل أحد أحد من مجموعة إمامات كانوا مختلفة أخبار في التي كانت لديهم أن تستخدم لأفضل الإسلام أو أنهم يقومون بأنها ستمتع الإسلام في المشاركات المتأكدة في سكانهم إمام الحسن رأيت أن أحسن لم أستخدم لأنه رأيت فيه أنه عندما أدأوا إلى الحرب أنه هو شخص أسود في قلبي كل شخص that he thought that was a friend became an enemy through means of what through means of the money of Mu'awiya Therefore Imam Hassan we analyzed that Imam Hassan if he was given the position of Imam Hussein Everything was flipped around Imam Hussein was at the time of Imam Hassan Our jurists and our theologians come forth and state If Imam Hussein was in the time of Imam Hussein he would acted in the same manner If Imam Hassan was in the time of Imam Hussein he would have acted in the same manner There are from one light They are from one message to protect the message each and every error Each and every timeline has a particular way the حجة of the time must act That's why when we analyze nowadays in the 12th Imam Imam صاحب العصر والزمان We look at it, why is it that Imam is in غيبة And this is something we need to research as time goes past But the analogy is what that Imam صادق The one that we commemorate tonight We want to analyze from his life Because someone may come forth and say Well Imam Hussein was mentioned year in and year out And there is so much emphasis put into Imam Hussein Yes, we said yesterday every land is Karbala Every day is Ashura But let's look at the aspect of Imam صادق How does the Imam صادق applied to our life Imam Hussein without a shadow of doubt Every single Imam applies to our life How can we look at the teachings of Imam صادق عليه الصلاة والسلام And apply it to our life nowadays Because someone comes and says Imam Hussein Because it was warfare Because he had to stand against the oppressive of his time That's why he acted in that manner Some people come forth and say Well the warfare is not in the modern society It's not in the first world countries Such as the lands we're living here Such as the European countries Therefore let's look at Imam صادق's life If some people come forth and say Imam Hussein doesn't apply nowadays Because it's not war Let's look at Imam صادق Even though Imam Hussein doesn't apply But you can always give them another example Because we have 12 lights to look at 14 معصومين to look at Imam صادق what did he do in his time People would come from all across the lands To come towards Imam جافر صادق To what? To look at his knowledge To look at his debate To look at what Allah's vision Is on this earth And Imam we want to learn from tonight The ethics, the morality And the way we can distribute The message of أهل البيت Let's look at it in this perspective Number one We want to look at it in two different perspectives One, how can we verbally distribute The message of Islam How can we verbally distribute The knowledge of أهل البيت And how can we non-verbally Distribute the message of أهل البيت Because there's two different faculties When we look at the study of communication The leading scientists of the time They say most of the communication is non-verbal Up to 70% of communication is non-verbal That's why the first instances are very important When someone looks at you And you're being You're smiling You're very polite You're very helpful That in itself is communication You might not look at it That I haven't said anything Or asked it in a particular manner But Insha'Allah we'll get to it In the second part of the lecture tonight So first and foremost The verbal section We look at the Imam Because how do they distribute Imam Sadaq when they come towards his university And they say 4,000 people Studied under Imam Sadaq Yet not even once Imam Sadaq's mentioned In their greatest books of صحيح Even though that person studied under The people that studied under that person There's nothing to get into too much detail But let's remember that Imam Sadaq Was the teacher of every other school of thought That is now excelled Around the world And most of the Muslims have gone towards Imam Sadaq was the original teacher Of those people And we look at particular debates That Imam Sadaq had with these people That went and started their own School of theology And school of jurisprudence Now number one We want to look at the morality of Ahl al-Bait And how we can learn from it And apply it We want to look at the knowledge of Ahl al-Bait How to learn from it How to apply it And the final aspect we want to learn In the verbal section Is the patience of Ahl al-Bait How to learn from it And how to apply it And then to conclude We'll look at the nonverbal aspect And how we can take from the Ahl al-Bait So first and foremost When we look at the knowledge of Ahl al-Bait We know An Imam Sadaq says this A person that we commemorate He says There is no knowledge found on this earth There is not a rock that you lift Except that the knowledge of Ahl al-Bait Will be found under that rock And stilling what? That every knowledge that we have nowadays Whether that knowledge is correct Whether those theories are correct Are from Ahl al-Bait Those theories that are not correct Fabrications etc Let's look at it in that perspective Every knowledge that we have That has an essence That has a reality That is correct Comes from Ahl al-Bait Imam Sadaq says this And he says All the knowledge that you do have Is not even a letter Or not a complete letter Of the entire alphabet What knowledge do we have nowadays? And I want to give you a couple of stories From the Imams to analyze The level of knowledge that they had And how is it that we can only Hold on to these people And no one else? When we look at Imam Ali عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام As the first Imam As the beacon of knowledge When he's approached We got to remember these things That we taken a thousand Four hundred years ago We have to apply it nowadays I've mentioned these Miracles of Imam Ali I want to call them miracles Even though it's knowledge to us But it's miracles If we look at Ali ibn Abi Talib A group of monks come After the prophet of Islam Was murdered After the martyrdom Of the prophet of Islam A group of rabbis Come towards Or monks come towards The Khalifa of the time That stood on the chair Which was Abu Bakr They come to him with a group And they had A range of questions To ask the Khalifa of their time Or what they believed To be the Khalifa of the time So they came to him And they said Are you the person That's been instilled After the prophet And he says yes He says okay Then we'll ask you These set of questions If you answer these questions We'll submit to the religion Of Islam If you do not We'll go our separate parts So he says ask And they began to ask And ask and ask And the Khalifa of the time He said What's the next question What's the next question And he did not answer One of these questions And if anyone wants to look At these particular Questions that were Asked to the Khalifa You go look At a particular series Known as And you can find it on YouTube And these questions Are mentioned there Then they go Towards the outskirts Of Medina They left it They say What is Islam Salman he's Salman al-Muhammad He goes towards Ali ibn Abi Talib He says Oh Ali Come and save the religion He says What's going on He says AB Happened He couldn't answer They're going back towards Where they came from He says bring them They came to a conclusion They said If you answer again These questions Will come towards A religion of Islam If you cannot Then you're not The correct religion Because our religion Promised us That the religion That will come At the end of time Will answer these questions And it's a massive list I want to give you Two questions That they asked And to put it into Nowadays How little we know Of the knowledge That they had Of the knowledge That Allah has Installed into the Ahlulbayt One of the questions Ali ibn Abi Talib Was asked And I've mentioned these Before But look at the beauty And the depth Of knowledge of Ali ibn Abi Talib One of the questions That they asked He says Oh Ali How do you differentiate Between the animals That give birth And the animals That lay eggs How do you differentiate Ali ibn Abi Talib Nowadays If you open up A biology book They will go Into the root ancestor Then the divisions Of the genes Then they have The whole theory Of evolution And then they study One particular Animal This particular Side of the world Another animal That's very similar And another side Of the world Do they lay eggs Which ones Give birth How can we analyze They have each And every animal Separate Ali ibn Abi Talib Two words He said He divides The entire Chain Into two Separate beings Which ones Give birth Which ones Lay eggs Ali ibn Abi Talib Says back then He says If an animal doesn't Have a physical E If the animal doesn't Have a physical E It lays eggs If it has A physical E It gives birth This was what 1400 years ago Nowadays In the 2000s They've taken The word Ali ibn Abi Talib And they found 1400 years ago Was correct On another occasion The people come forth And they ask Ali ibn Abi Talib They say Oh Ali In our books It's written That there's a source of water That's not From the heavens Not the earth Not from the skies And not from the earth Our books Have told us That there's a Pure source of water Where is this water Can you tell us Oh Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali turns around And he says I will answer you He says The pure source of water Is the sweat That drips from the horse Scientists nowadays I think it was 2007 That they studied this And they found That the Sweat of a horse Doesn't have any sodium Concentrate What does it make it Makes it A pure source of water 1400 years ago That's the knowledge That was sent And instilled In these people And these miracles Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى These mirror images Of the names Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى On earth This is This is what Ahlulbayt's knowledge Was comprised of When a person Comes towards Ali ibn Abi Talib He gives him a mathematical equation He solves it In the blink of an eye The person Asked Ali ibn Abi Talib He says Oh Ali How did you solve that So quickly Ali looks at that man Look at the beauty Of this narration He looks at that man And says How many fingers Do you have The man Right away He answers I have five fingers on one hand He says How do you know that He says Well this knowledge Is known to me I have five fingers Ali says That is the knowledge That Allah has instilled in me How Was it evident to you That you have five fingers In that hand The knowledge Of what was And what will be Is given to me Like the knowledge That you have For your hands On the first level Knowledge That's Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Let's look at the other imams Let's look at Imam Al-Sadaq Ali ibn Abi Talib When he has a debate With one of the people That nowadays has His own school of thought He studied two years under Under the university Let's say Of Imam Ja'far Al-Sadaq And then he goes out And gives his own fatoes The Abbasid Khalif Of the time He saw an opportunity He says Let me get this particular person By the name of Abu Hanifa And let me get Ja'far Al-Sadaq He says Imam Ja'far Al-Sadaq He brings them both In his courtroom And he says Why don't you have a dialogue Why don't you have a debate Let's see who has more knowledge And you can see If you read the history How many of the Khalif Is of the time Are the Abbasids Whether they're Abbasid Or Umayyids Try to Put the imams In the spotlight And look at the Ma'amoon In the next story We'll look at Imam Al-Sadaq He looks at the beauty Of the knowledge of the imams He looks at Abu Hanifa And he says Tell me Who gave you the permission To go out And give these Just potential fatoes Who told you And who gave you the permission And authority To give these rulings And he says I've studied enough So look at What the Imam replies He doesn't humiliate him Like that He says Tell me what's your strength What's your strength That's what I want to tackle Where is your greatest strength What is your deepest knowledge And understanding Which subject And he says First and foremost He says He goes through a long list Then he goes up And he says Well My strength Is in So the Imam asks him In reference to The question that he asks He says What's more in pure If you think That you have the knowledge And the depth of knowledge Of this particular aspect Of تحارا And نجاصة Tell me what's more in pure Yourein or semen He says What's more in pure So Abu Hanif is sitting on his chair Says Of course Yourein is a lot more in pure Than semen He says Okay Imam doesn't answer him He lets him Rethink His own answer Question himself Within himself He says If yourein is more in pure Tell me Why is it Then when yourein Leaves the body But when When semen leaves the body You wash your entire body So the person is thinking to himself How do I answer this He says No, no, no تحارا and نجاصة Is not my strong point Is what he says I buy that I buy that's my strong point Through I think 20 odd questions He says this So Imam Sadik looks at The man he says Okay What's more important صلا or صيام So Abu Hanif Says Of course Imam doesn't answer him He says Okay If صلا is more important Why is it that when the woman Have their menstrual cycles For that period of the month That they do not have to Repay their صلاة They don't have to Repay However If they miss the fasting They have to fast again So Abu Hanif is thinking What's more important He begins to question himself He comes He thought he had knowledge Or a glimpse of knowledge But what does he think he has In aspect of knowledge In comparison to the people That Allah has instilled Knowledge in What kind of comparison is there When Imam رضا عليه أفضل صلاة و السلام Look at the beauty of this المأمون Takes him into his courtroom He wants again Just like The Abbasid Khalifa before him He tries to embarrass the imams He puts the imam into perspective He says I'll bring forth Not only one person to debate you I'll bring forth Every single religion we have And not any normal person The best of the best In that religion So they can debate you So he brings him forth In his courtroom Imam Ali رضا ست المأمون watches from the other side And he says Begin He says Begin your debate Begin your dialogue Let's see the knowledge Of أهل البيت Is it what they say it is So the Christian straight away Looks at the مأمون And look at what he says to the مأمون He says How can I have a debate with a man That has his own book And I have my own book As in How can I debate him from my book I can't debate him from his book Either because I don't have knowledge from his book So where is the debate Where is the reference point So Imam رضا looks at him He says Not a problem I know your book better than you do Let's have a dialogue with your book With your إنجيل So the person is thinking to himself How on earth does this person know My book better than me And the Imam Put him on show The Imam gives him evidence And sound evidence from his books From the إنجيل Story after story Analogy after analogy An anecdote after anecdote And the person is thinking Every single time I come In one corner The Imam brings me back There is not a chance That these people have Because why Because Allah سبحانه وتعالى The religion of Allah Is not Christianity Or Judaism Because that's all impacted into one The Quran says Christianity is Islam Judaism in essence is Islam It's been reformed And reformed It's the same message But it's been corrupted Throughout the times We have these analogies That this particular religion This is what happened Throughout time This is how it fell Christianity 300 years after What they believed Jesus son of Mary died 300 years after Then they began To call him divine Do you think after Jesus son of Mary They believe that he died They straight away Called him God It was 300 odd years later That they began To call him divine But to give us an image Of what On the first level The imams Had knowledge The imams The morality We know the examples Of Imam Hassan We have an example Of Imam Baqar When someone comes towards him In Hajj And begins to curse his mother On the first level He says Are you the son of The cook As in there's no problem With a woman cooking For her children It's a job It has no shame So the imam doesn't react The second He begins to call her Are you the son of the bidee Which means what Which means a woman has A long tongue She says Unmoral things She causes trouble So the imam He's at the Kaaba Look at the morality Look at the difference Between these People That Allah has chosen And any normal person I say myself First and foremost If someone was to call My mother that particular name I don't know how I would react But I can assure you I would not react I would not react That's not even Thinking about it The imam What does he say He says We're at the house Of Allah If what you say is true I ask Allah To forgive her But if what Information has reached Is untrue I ask Allah To forgive you What morality Do we find nowadays In that particular aspect Do we apply it to ourselves Someone looks at us In a different manner Whether it be at school Universities College Looks at us In a wrong way Allah All the boys are in speed dial All the boys are in speed dial Come Let's have a fight Outside And that's the message Of Islam Why do we sync To that level Without imams Do that That's what we have to question ourselves That's something beautiful That the Christians have They used to give out I think about 10 years ago Wristbands That Would write on it What would Jesus do Let's take that Why don't we have something like that What would Imam Mahdi عجل الله تعالى فرجه الشريف Do If he was in our position What would Abu Fadl Al-Abbas Having an analogy Or an example Of the best companion On the 10th of Muharram What would he do If he was in our state Would he Use his mannerisms And morals And the teachings from the Holy Quran Or would he sync down The level that they And the shaitan Wants them to sync in That's What we have to look at So on the first level The way we go about Insha'Allah I might have to conclude it tomorrow With the non-verbal aspect But let's put the verbal aspect To a conclusive state tonight Someone may come forth and ask In the time that we have nowadays Because of the capacity The technology The advancements We have nowadays That we didn't have 10, 20, 30 years ago What is our role As the followers of The Ahlul-Bayt What can we do To best distribute To acknowledge The life The teachings The knowledge of Ahlul-Bayt And I told you from now It's limitless what we can do We have the internet We have social media We have our friends and families We have every single aspect That we need to distribute this However, many people may come forth And use it in an indirect manner Or an immoral manner We find people come forth And they attack different people However, the imams we saw The imams teach us That use morality Always have the Quran And the Ahlul-Bayt As a reference point Because you have to hold on to them too As the Prophet said Use that as a reference point We don't need to sink to the level Of other people When other schools come forth And they attack Ahlul-Bayt When they attack Our jurisprudence and theology We don't have to do that When you attack It's either one of two You're defending Or that you're too weak To defend yourself We're not weak Our madhab is not weak Our madhab has been attacked since the start Until now Back in the days When we used to cut off their hands And their legs To visit the grave of Aba Abdullah Did it stop them back then? Why do they think it will stop us now? The Shahid has a rank That no one knows of The followers of Ahlul-Bayt They crave Shahada They crave To look at the face of Aba Abdullah The Noor of Aba Abdullah When the narration that we have says That people will forget That there is a hole in the day of judgment Because they will be mesmerized By the beauty And the illumination And the Noor Of the face of Aba Abdullah That's the aspect that we have But let's look at it nowadays On a very social level Let's look at how Arabs are being portrayed Because there's one thing as the media Yes, it has a very negative Distribution of Muslims in general But let's look at it on a social level Let's look at it nowadays On a very social level Let's say someone wants to go out And buy a car Out of very honesty And I don't mean to offend anyone In saying this But it's a reality If someone wants to go out nowadays And wants to buy a car Tell me, is it true or is it not true That when we go look for cars We look at the more Australian areas If you find the cars to be in Arab-originated areas Or heavily populated Arab areas We try to stay away from it Why? Have we ever asked ourselves We think to ourselves No, that's a Muslim name Or that's an Arab name There's something dodgy maybe In the kilometers Maybe there's something dodgy with the engine Maybe something doesn't sound right It looks too clean It's a reality Some of us might find it funny Yes, it is funny When you first look at it But on the second level We think to ourselves What has drawn us to that level When the Prophet of Islam came When he reformed We were the cradle In which the Europeans And everyone outside the Middle East Was living in the dark ages We had the golden eras People would come all across the world And gain knowledge from Imam صادق عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام Number one It's because on the first level That we have this knowledge We have the examples We have the Ahlul Bayt We have every single tool necessary To achieve greatness However, we've neglected it We haven't used it to the full capacity Because we're too intertwined With the social media We're too intertwined With what the media wants us to be What the media wants us to achieve What social circles wants us To be like Who to be like Who to follow And we've forgotten What Allah has told us to be like We've forgotten What Allah wants us to be Wants us to do Wants us to achieve We've forgotten That the Imam is between us We've forgotten That the Imam looks at our أعمال every Friday We've forgotten all this But if we do remember this Look at how prosperous we will be If we apply this to our lives It's our social circles Look how the Imam He says it himself If you just If you just do that Which is Halal And leave that which is Haram Don't have to come towards me The Imam says You don't have to pray excessively And do dua excessively And do worship excessively For you to come towards me He says do what Allah has told you I will come to you Stay away from Haram Do what is Halal I will come towards you That's what the Imam teaches us Yet we find it so hard And it is a difficult set Especially in the west That's why we are rewarded in excess It's multiplied And insha'Allah tomorrow We want to look at the non-verbal aspect Tomorrow we want to look at How we can achieve closeness towards our Imam How to follow in the footsteps of the Imam Without verbally going about And teaching the teachings Or teaching the knowledge Or distributing the knowledge How we can gain people towards the message of Islam Without even uttering a word By our mannerisms The way we move, walk Smile, act And insha'Allah we will discuss it tomorrow But for now We want to conclude By praying to Allah That He allows us To understand The message of Islam Allows us to understand What the Imam صاحب العصر و العمان Wants from us Allows us to understand What our goal should be Allows us to understand What steps to take To achieve closeness towards Allah Subhanahu و تعالى ببركة الصورة ببركة الفاتحة تسبقها 3 يولاود السلوات على محمد و آل محمد


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All we got left is prism basketball PYT's and then contenders optic PYT's So if you guys are looking for your spots both of those are on sale all teams left are on sale And Phoenix four-pots PYT So other than those things that all those things I said Alright guys. Good luck Box one got my finger right there a couple times I'm gonna take a nail off of it one time. That would not be cool Malik to Vegas actually would kind of work Victor Kind of work Andrew Painter gonna start with a blue shimmer for the twins Ylva Herrera to 150 Nice chrome there for the 20s Muncie top 100. I honestly forgot the Raiders had Jimmy G I was like, why aren't they taking a QB or trading for one? They already did I completely forgot about it You were rumored for Levist for a bit. Yeah, I feel like everybody was rumored for that. Yeah He was really supposed to go like everywhere. He could have gone like two overall Lunar glow moon yos is what people thought. Yeah, I saw people even thinking he was going first I was like, there is no way No real world is no will ever should be drafted first overall or in like the top 10. That's ridiculous song flavors Florida team around was Jackson Meryl I So they say about Richardson to like getting over to throw to like I'm pretty sure Florida probably had some five star recruits Richardson is only started one season. I'm not saying bad It's just like he looked rough because he started only one season. Yeah God like Carter game one and like game 13 Richardson are so different like it's kind of great I'm certainly not mad that the nobles don't have to play Richardson anymore. It was like when a Cadarius Tony and What's his name? Kyle Pitts were there. It was like those guys are getting over a hundred and two touchdowns each like I Just don't want to play them Minga's top 100 First auto is gonna be Mets refractor auto William Lugo or the Mets pager Leon I greet that at off. I think the Colts. I think the Colts are a good spot for Richardson for sure Yeah, I think so too. They got good receivers. They got good running back They got a good line obviously the line didn't play as well as it should have last year, but I think it's a good spot for him to Just to ball out honestly, they're gonna be relying on him a lot. So Jerome, oh, he's got good weapons though. I see it to me. We got blue Jays on the auto It's gonna be Gabriel Martinez first bowman base auto there For the blue Jays as Bradley top 100 Go raise Munoz Guys force is very upset that nodding in force is losing It's pretty terrible. Actually, they just went down 95th minute LVAR. We're varnit. We're varnit boys. Didn't happen Oh, I'm sorry. We got Marcus saying Lee. This is Aqua shimmer. It's a 125 No, go get those Brent frauds at Brent fraud off the pitch, please the Brent frauds Brent fraud Force is Premier League force today. Get him out. Watch out boys We've got Ellie Dela Cruz. Nice atomic. They're really good prospect for the Reds On the atomic insert Purple paper. This is Trey Sweeney the 250 Tink hints top 100 is pink paper Miguel Vargas rookie for the Dodgers to 299 and Freely in Karnacion is gonna be a gold shimmer auto for the Red Sox Nice gold shimmer to 50. That's 12 of 50 Nice hit socks. There's the polychrome Door out there Rochio What's going on Premier League forest is out dude sprinkles. What's up? Oh boy What up Dylan drew Jones on the chrome Box to box to Yeah, we need a force is shadowing me, but he needs a top-loader shadower figure if you're not busy Dylan We need some help over here Oh forces a force is rusty on top loading man. I won't mention the Bruins now that Dylan's here as well True Spencer Jones. Oh, yeah, that was Blake with the Discommon in depression Yeah, it was the price to 250 Joshua bias Cardinals Hank Davis is like if they lose I it's over for me, dude. I Might not watch the sport again No more hockey, I'm done You're our go-to hockey guy two men you're quitting on them Warming Bernabelle freezing cold-ing alarm Race or a lightning gotcha It's a 399 Frankie lindor force is top-loading Dylan. Yes Not just top laughing. He's laughing. He's not surprised Think I want to be here. I'm one of my days. I'm my only day off. I was an SGC. What do you mean? I didn't have the days off My best day off was last Saturday. I didn't say anything.  I'll stay here, Kyle He's getting the old group break run down. I need to be monitored by Hall monitor like UFC Prism there is the 250 Josh hood Blake Oh boy Whole gang's here to 250.   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I've been missing a bunch of them Yes, Arrangers up to nothing doubles up 3-2 now. Hey Game six tonight 8 p.m. And you're gonna leave Mike Make a make a trip to Tampa. We're gonna go to Oilers Kings There's Ronnie Simon. That's gonna be the lunar glow first for the race Make able do the only LI team that's currently like could be in the playoffs.  No That's like 11 home runs He's like he leads league at OPS tomorrow Johnson 299. Of course he does you want to talk about a bounce back? Yeah, it's bad year last year. Max Muncie Destroying this year because there's another Max Muncie coming for his coming for his paycheck. He's only hitting 260 but his OPS is like outrageous We have auto it's gonna be refractor auto of Andrew Taylor That's gonna be pitcher for the Astros Yeah, he leads league in OPS and slugging It's it's crazy and home runs That's kind of I feel about the lightning right now and they They've been giving up a bunch of big leads like we should have sealed this series game four or five honestly like We had a couple four one leads three one leads. It's been rough Yeah, the bro. Well, the Bruins set the record for regular season points and now we're gonna have zero to show Lose the bums and sunrise for the Pan-frogs force is not happy. They Have a great day. Otherwise I'm having a great day Lining of force also just lost it's getting better and better over here We're just smiling through immense pain. Blaper. Blaper. Got a blaper There's Matt Mervis chrome Carson Williams No, they're really not bad, but with the way that Bruin season went man It can't be anything but disappointment if oh, yeah No, the Panthers are not your regular eight seed for sure like they won the president's trophy last year, but you can't lose to them there is a first for The Orioles there disarm on the first lunar glove If the Bruins have just as much star power and way more depth and the Vesna winner who is allowing all the color We got blue lunar crater nice hit here for the Phillies gonna be Justin Crawford Here we go Phillies Very nice hit there on the blue lunar crater to 150 And there you go Blake. She knows Blake it should have been swimming one of the last two games at least she knows Blake It's too late now. Now we're in game seven now. It's like backs against the wall and Now you got a now you got a fight on your hands They should have put him in game five or six definitely should have been last night That was something to do with the Something to do with the brakes says it's too late now It's like something sold out. That's just my sadness right there. I got you seven to go on prism seven at two go guys Justin Crawford and Gabe Gonzalez chromes seems like Gabe Gonzalez is always around another good chrome Interesting not always the same one though. It's right. I didn't see any blakes in that bag. I'm finding it. Come on Where's the color dude pull a Blake super so I can do a cartwheel.  What else do you need? Smoking a pancake Inserts for the Mets and the Pirates They're on a waffle We have pirates this is going to be first a bow in there a few shoulda 199 of Jase Bowen Jordan Walker, you believe I'll be at the National the literal one week of the year that there's gonna be a Premier League game in Orlando Ah Dude full of it.  It doesn't matter Jackson really do Tim Rehm Tim Rehm US men's action team legends Tim Rehm There's a junior Camarino Or Camarero Blake is we're gonna be in next series. I'm like I'm fine with all mark Sounds like the girl the bar is not very convinced they needed a day to the switch. Oh, she thinks they're done We're a fellow Coleman RS girl the bar needs to be behind the bench was Montgomery doing out there Those game five lines were terrible to call her up to coach Manage that isn't no the coach the spotlight the Cairo Coloss Lee top 100 Yeah, exactly Iber he should have started last game. It's like too late now though now we're in game seven and it's just chaos So I'm in top 100 to 99 on the auto this is gonna be Jordan Loller Nice hit there for the D-backs on the insert auto That's Eric W with the D-backs Nice Loller there He is a big prospect should have shown your baseball cards Blake We had Austin Charles on the Aqua Lunar Crater 125 she really want to see all my first bonus going for right now. He begs your baseball card, Blake. Oh My good legit though like you ever seen Bowman, you know 2023 Bowman recently 499 we got yes, sir Yes, sir Mercedes. Oh my goodness Do you have any color? Yeah, great dude the Bruins thing No, man, Marino Marcello Bro, I'm almost Yes, that's a good Hand out Blake's he's got his own baseball car with a number on the back Look at that. You just put it like a like a stack of 20 at the door Oh, I mean that's If you're not selective you're gonna get trouble It's like the The parks in rec. He's like he gives his Tom gives his number out to every girl in the bar He doesn't know who he gave his number to or he gives like a quarter or something classic Classic a rota top 100 My money The greatest character he is like the best cut run over by Alexis. Oh My lord Matos top 100 Yeah, the bottle cap up He's asking every girl if they get if he gave him a bottle cap because he forgot That'd be Blake like did you get a car to me with my number on it by chance? Alexis You know, I just realized Blake's photo is his card. I just realized that oh It is we got Nolan Jones rookie aqua to 499. It's very tough to see from where you're sitting. Yeah And first Bowman base auto gonna be Tommy spec for the ranges Tommy Texas Ranger Man when you're in Texas look behind you That's where the ranger is gonna be very strange But hey Ain't pulling nothing over on Walker Armador top 100 Tristan Casas Brady house There's a Drew Jones chrome Drone The cars of the bouncer let him decide. I don't know if he's gonna be a You gotta get me picky enough get him like ten bucks at least got first bowman Gabriel Martinez Let's toss them all in the try to get at least give him like half an hour's worth of work Bouncer probably make more than that. I would say what up Joshua No forest is with me You got forest. Yeah, who'd you expect?  Just don't do it dude. You should do wear hats enough. I probably wouldn't even You don't have to wear sunscreen on my head and keep the beard with the shaved head. Probably That's the book nowadays. It seems like it's just I don't know. Maybe maybe just mustache and bald head post way to Paul Oh my god, maybe just no hair. I would be a terrifying looking human I think no eyebrows no hair just a mustache Stop Joshua. Oh, yes by us There's a depaulet chrome again. There is Gavin cross lunar glow. Which one on one book? There's Munoz refracted before 99 woman multi auto book. Oh Didn't you pull one of those? Alas, I was at Sam Sam pulled that recently. There was like a bunch of names Yeah, I think you pulled a draft like a couple weeks ago Like a they had to random it. It was like a 20 friggin person random. I don't remember gonna Think of a chase that is I've never looked at the proper comps on it We've got neon green paper Sammy Zavala to 399. It's big hit the Padres still want the first bowman. Yeah There's Jace Bowen first bow in there to 399 on the lava Netto Me too Blake. That's why I don't do it I Just says he's a breaker lane sports cards. We've got Lazaro Montez. There we go mariners the 299 Nice hit there on these speckle first bowmen of Montez That'll do Seattle. That's what gets them. Oh, I'm pretty into uh, it's orange baseball card Yeah, you seen Blake on that chrome car. I pulled a bunch of those the other night Just go with Blake. Yeah Got baseball cards, I open the baseball Makes Blake look really good if I'm just the one opening the baseball card The good wingman that way Yeah, I know Mount Castle's been uh, he just got married. He's been dating the same girl since like seventh grade So I don't think he ever told the girl that he was a baseball player He just got married. I do. I'm the guy in the yellow. Uh, the yellow suit The guy announcing it all you don't want to say that either Steve Even worse there's Matt Mervis chrome mash Mervis Tell me in finance That sounds worse Veen Hernandez We have a speckle first bowmen to 299. This is christian serda For the dbx or that chair out there.  I think Dang, can't believe somebody went there. Comanar as prospects behind there the bright highlight There's a Framie de Leon first bowman, uh, lunar glow They're nice Wow, oh we walk Let's see what we got here. You got true blue andreis mesa first bowman for the rangers Nice one there 22 of 150 for the rangers Andres texas ranger that works anything works Serda and gutierrez. Hello, my name is steve. I own a bank. I mean I work in a bank Got hector vermirez or rodriguez. Sorry on the refractor first bowman auto It's a phone 99 you learning about somebody. Yeah, it's pretty good looking dude What? stats I got you He's not ugly guy Working construction Good lord. It's gonna be some timeouts pretty soon. Good lord We've got baby and turmar There's a host way to Paula But caro This guy's everywhere today. We've got william lugo base auto first bowman base auto Or the mets again In a bunch of lugo insert burrures There's camonero. There's valera Marcello insert Justin crawford chrome I mean not to collect the stuff you like blaster Not to be rich plenty different cards for sale on ebay. I got a lot of five dollar keto turquilu cards and they're my favorite so Got drew jones spotlight cheerio Or Elvis Martinez Yeah, no uh, no blake autos just the base There's lizaro montez on the bowman invicta insert I said again for the mariners There's max wagner on the uh purple wave to 250 going to the orioles now to mart johnson Not sure tony. I don't know. I don't work with them. I'm not sure primarily forested max wagner mesa cheerio top 100 insert debacks Blue paper is nikau uh poke aca grego. It's 499 Aqua paper Blake didn't you sign there's blueberry jakeberry Not blueberry his name is jake Jacob I guess I don't know him Could be jake him could be jake Yeah, just keep going back and forth Yeah, just don't send blake too good of a card. He might uh Might need it Don't send him a red red paper to sign or a red chrome Hey, we need the blake bow ASAP I know rich has a bounty out on the blake uh Super fracter so you guys blake super rich is paying 5k Rich is paying 5k for the blake blubie a super fracter guys. I'll pay less But I'll give it to blake keep an eye keep an eye out keep your uh keep your eyes peeled boys and girls See what we can get on the uh The blooper see if we can get the blooper The blake super The lube lube fracter lube lubey fracter rodriguez. There's still three left and You know sold out right We got a prism for sale guys as the next to fill um prism basketball We have three four boxers So it is a full case of pyt if you guys are trying to get your team All three would be a full case break Airs Reese Hoskins the 125 blue pattern It's all pyt after f1 every team today is on sale every team basketball and football We got a green grass refractor a really nice one here jace bow and go into the pirates Love the green grass It's a very uh welcome addition to bowman More big fan of those They are pretty Yeah, you would send blake the card and then what would happen is is hey I can sign it send it back to you or I can give you x amount for the card This is how that's how he works in the deals Uh, he's in chat blaster cam call your first he's uh He's a pitcher. Yeah, I've got cards in here. That's our guy blake. That's blake sin chat. He works for lsc Currently but he's on retainer. Yeah, we've got marian boy.  Tampa lane. Tampa lane lightning lane. Oh Lightning lane lightning lane. I'm in on that I'm in on that Probably gonna be jay mow lane here in a little bit I'm trying to be funnel cake forest jacks jackson ferris first bowman auto for the cubs I'm trying to be funnel cake kyle, dude corn dog kyle.  There's a broom.  I'm sorry. Oh, we got a Blue lunar crater blueberry jake a berry to 125 nice hit there for the marlins Blue lunar crater on the first bowman to 125 mayo coffee. Uh, no No, we'll lavish around these parts. Dude, that is messed up That is messed up. I'll never I'll bring that up for the rest of my life I don't care if he becomes the best player of all time.  What show was it lane? Is it a big one? Like not at this convention center, obviously either that quick Is that being top 100? Mayo coffee dude, that is so messed up like Who even thinks of that? Much, let's do it will let us cards are going down a valley as we speak dude Paraza pretty house inserts That's something so egregious that it makes me mad thinking about him even like becoming a member of the Patriots Like I don't know how mad I would be I know not him Cheerio insert drew jones Like we thought we thought ketchup on steak with mohomes is bad. Oh boy. This is like 24 And jaco berry again. This time we got the lunar glow Nice hit miami Lowberry moonberry.  Like you know, I sent him on bites and crunch berry bites, but it had the same No, dude I've never heard of that in my life. I like that. Oh my god. They were so good. There's j dom jason domingas the 399 The mayo factory The mayo factory everyone knows that one feel like there's the main a mayo factory Yeah, watch out hurts We got atomic to 100 nice one here of brailin bishop Nice hit for the pirates 88 of 100 on the atomic there you go pirates brailin bishop There's a uh, was it a blaze? No, that's not a blaze Blaper. Blaper. It's a blaper. Miguel blaze is also a ransacks prospect. Yeah Not Miguel blaze two left Box seven. Good luck guys. This is case number 22 We got two f1 breaks after this both sold out still fill in spots in uh, py t prism basketball as well as py t contenders optic football And into the end of the day, we're gonna have a phoenix four box py t as well All teams are on sale for those three uh, those three types of breaks guys We're doing three four boxers of prism So if you do buy all three you are getting a full seal case we got back there Worth of that team of that team. Yeah, you're not you're not getting a full seal case So what a deal that would be I'd be like all right. I'm buying them all right now. What a deal We're on us Yeah, Lane and uh Lane and sam were putting in work on that yesterday That was a lot of fun a lot of big hits out of that too, man Mets and ellie There's cam collier chrome Spencer jones chrome candy pages Oh boy, what did I do? Got to mark johnson spotlight Jordan Lawler Got everybody and uh buying full cases. I'm gonna give out like 30 of them I'm gonna be in trouble We got one almost Almost not almost Uh first bowman on the lunar glow Yeah, they did tony. They got the orange wave. They got a gold shimmer auto I think another auto as well. Yeah, that was uh, that was a killer break We got a rookie of kodai sinega Uh to 250 kodai sinega rookie our senga for the mats I saw uh Masataka has uh as a rookie in here There's gaben zala's chrome Volpi top 100 We got a giant's auto it's gonna be a speckle auto to 299 von brown Downtown von brown there you go ed remember you you said you had the giants there Von brown on the speckle to 299 Downtown von brown See if you can get your uh picture as well There's montez chrome And refracted a 499 yo free solano Yeah, I haven't seen that one yet. Steve the cracked ice force was saying that's his favorite too I saw the red the red looked really nice to adley the red looks great. Oh, what do we got to see? It was very sweet the uh How the spot or the color kind of just like faded out you got to see a super Jackson holiday There's a brome lake chrome Carp tya Yeah, lane's pulling supers over here, man. We need to get him over here You get here in time for this next box lane Lakeland lane we got rainy day. Hey, suesford probably lakeland lane by now. Oh my god Lakeland lane Lainland Do you see the lakeland magic of the kisimi? I did see that. I did see that. Do we got to go? I know Go see uh john is next rehab stint Come on, man. What am I supposed to say? Admiral scopes Oh, I'm down Maybe some devon canadae still He was lighting up the uh The leak for a little bit The minor league plays jordan top 100 Yeah, I was probably done one last night. I just left it on the desk. I'm gonna do that after this I didn't feel like making one at a time My new mat wouldn't be there till monday. So I did have time top 100 soda strum there Oh, that would be sweet. Tony. I think the spotlight complete set in general would be nice Hey, uh, they're really nice cards. I'm a big fan reminds me of like a Like a prism case hit We've got a blue pattern. This is man. Well bell trade a 125 top 100 Two packs left and we got our last box We have purple uh true purple auto braille and tavera That's gonna go to the orioles on the first bowman auto I said ohs I'm a clean top 100 Framie and alcantara and last box guys. Good luck Box eight. This is jumbo case number 22 pyt We got two Um f1 breaks next And then we are filling And then we are filling uh pyt prism basketball breaks as well as contenders optic pyt And a phoenix four boxer to end the night in the daytime Oh boy, get you on camera so we can see a struggle Lids are the easy bird Matt McLean, there's a chrome host suede apala John kenzie noelle There you go lane one in one out. I like it Stay grading There's spencer jones rafella cossus rafella There's drew jones on the lunar glow nice one there for the debacks eric Not numbered on the lunar glow drew jones Behind that we got refractor to 499 louise on helicumna It's a cow Harrison top 100 Our auto is going to be a rookie auto to 499 leo for peguero Pirates getting some hits Here's lazaro montez chrome We got blue paper to 499. That's trey turner Captain america on hell and gray rod Pousses luller and will be marté. I don't know. He got traded from the mariners Stio trade Castillo, that's what I thought Makes sense This is gonna be blue jays on the first woman base auto louise garcia He's got a very uh Very long auto there G Just just a g You're a g It's true. It's true. Jackson joe Her lane goes a hundred non-stop That's impossible on saturday on On i4 actually no you's going the you go in the grass.  I'm like we're not going anywhere Like why are you guys just filling the shoulders like they're not standable? It killed me one guy was one guy pulled out and wouldn't let him go any further I was cracking the other all honking at him Good he wasn't having it dude. You're not getting past me. You should be publicly shamed if you drive like it We got prospect on the blue lunar crater jackson holiday. There we go orioles Jackson holiday to 150 on the uh second bowman Yeah, I made that up right second bowman nice jackson there 50 of 150. That's uh, that's divisible I Sit there. We'll mag that for your orioles for any de Jesus mason win and two packs left It's k-ray get a get in do you know k-ray is not lucky enough for almanac, dude Maybe sab sab's lucky enough for anything. Yeah, that's true. Sab's you're probably by a case got pink paper sami zavala 299 just by the whole all by all of it Probably probably do well We got edwin aroyo to 399 on the lava Edwin aroyo behind it and last pack good luck young and moonyos and dylan lesko on the back all right guys that will do it for uh case number 22 bowman jumbo Do a quick recap here And we'll move on to f1 Race tomorrow in azer by john It smells fun Jordan lawler on the auto insert auto rainy day hasus garcia ferris lugo martinez spekt martinez hood martinez uh paguero on the refractors now we got refractors rodriguez andrew taylor lugo We've got a speckle auto downtown von brown Uh, josh hood purple 250 tavera purple the 250 We have jesson crawford on the blue lunar crater to 150 for the fillies We've got a blue andres mesa to 100 for the pirates uh brailand bishop We've got jace bowen green grass to 99 really like this new insert our new refractor Who's going what do we want usfl? What dion kane kicker in touchdown gold shimmer is fraily incarnacion. We got two mags. We got lazaro montez nice hit there for the mariners uh refractor 299 or not refractor um speckle 299 And justin or jackson holiday to 150 on the blue lunar crater All right guys that will do it for 2023 bowman jumbo case number 22 p y t. Thank you so much We will get these right out to you


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here welcome back to class of Fridays every Friday We look at the GI Joe classified series figures this time. We are looking at snakes supreme Cobra Commander I got this from Hasbro Pulse a long time ago. It's just been sitting on my shelf I opened it on my New Year's Eve live stream, and I'm ready to take a closer look at it now Let's start by looking at the box and the front of the box has some gorgeous character artwork really nicely done And there is a very ornate design on the other sides of the box on the sides on the back and On the top not on the bottom. That's just the copyright information The back of the box has these die-cut windows which reveals more artwork behind it The outer box is a sleeve which can be slid off to reveal the inner box The inner box has this very ornate Cobra design. This is special. I really love this This does make this look like a special action figure the character artwork is continued on the side And the back has more of that design in gold black and red that artwork is also on the top This is number number nine in the series. That's number nine not number 60 This side of the box has some symbols which represent his specialties This one means he is a fan of the movie Patton This has four bullets, which is too shy of being a six shooter This symbol means he is a fan of Marilyn Manson and this means in order to fall asleep. He counts sheep Seriously, what is that supposed to be turning our attention back to the front of the box? There is a seam down the center and to reveal the action figure He just split it at that seam pull it apart and there is Snake Supreme Cobra Commander. Let's take this figure out of the packaging and take a look at it Here is Snake Supreme Cobra Commander out of the packaging and what an amazing looking action figure This is mostly a re-release of an earlier Cobra Commander action figure And this is something a lot of collectors have complained about with this line is so early in the line We get a lot of re-releases of the same character And I do understand that complaint if you're going to re-release the same action figure We already bought with some different colors You really have to do something special with it to make it worth buying again with this figure though There is a lot more than just a color change and we will look at all of it before we move on Let's take a moment to note the Cobra throne artwork on the inside of the packaging That is a nice touch and really beautiful Let's take a look at Snake Supreme Cobra Commander next to the first Cobra Commander action figure from 1982 And we can see there are some similarities. They have the helmet, they have the faceplate They have one common accessory but the colors are wildly different Version one of Cobra Commander is in light blue This coloration for Snake Supreme Cobra Commander is more similar to version two The hooded Cobra Commander which was in a darker blue and had red and gold highlights Here is Snake Supreme Cobra Commander with a couple other classified Cobra Commander action figures And this is what I'm talking about They are giving us the same character and really the same figure multiple times with minor updates These two retail release Cobra Commanders were both number six in the series And this one has a darker color scheme similar to the Snake Supreme Cobra Commander So if you did not want to shell out extra money for this guy I can see why you would be perfectly happy with this one For accessories Snake Supreme Cobra Commander included a Cobra headed scepter Looks really good in gold plastic It is a tight fit in his hand But fortunately the plastic on both the figure And the accessory are flexible enough that they will bend rather than break That is nice. I wish more vintage figures were made that way There's that scepter on all sides Really excellent sculpting And the next accessory also has a Cobra head It is the sword which does have a sheath on the figure It's a tight fit but it works The sword has a sculpted Cobra head It's a bit different from the scepter But still really nicely done in gold on the handle It has red and gold on the blade Really wicked looking blade and nice accessory Looks like something Cobra Commander would carry Not really a combat weapon but more of a ceremonial weapon Perhaps he uses this to bestow knighthood on his favorite troopers This is how you get your codename in Cobra His next accessory has this holster This gold holster on the figure's belt And that is this gold laser pistol This laser pistol in gold plastic is an update of the Venom laser pistol That came with version 1 and version 2 of Cobra Commander An excellent callback to that vintage accessory That laser pistol will fit in the figure's hand It looks really good That gold coloring fits with the deco on the figure And again it has the holster This holster is essential It is my preference when an action figure Can carry all of his accessories at the same time You don't have to leave anything in a box And you don't have to leave anything on a shelf The figure has all of his stuff The figure includes this gold globe Which is symbolic of Cobra Commander's goal of taking over the world And this will fit in the figure's left hand He can hold onto that And this accessory isn't really necessary But it's nice that he has it You can imagine Cobra Commander in his hubris Having something like this The other accessories are extra hands Which you can swap out The other Cobra Commander figures also came with extra hands like this Let's go ahead and pop out the other hands and put these in Here are the alternate hands on the figure He has a fist and my finger points I know collectors like these I get it It provides opportunities for more poses But this is also a problem I have with some modern action figures I mentioned my preference for action figures That can hold all of their accessories I don't want to leave things in the box And I don't want to leave things on a shelf to get lost Well, this is what I'm talking about The figure can't have all four hands at the same time And these hands cannot hold any accessories So to swap these out Something is going to be left behind I put the other hands on the figure So we can take a look at the articulation He has the excellent articulation We should expect from classified figures Excellent range of motion on the head All the way around Up and down Not much side to side tilt though Arms up at the shoulder And swivel at the shoulder all the way around A twist at the upper arm Double jointed elbows Twists at the wrists And hinges at the wrist as well Hinges on both wrists He has a hinge at the rib cage For a bit of an ab crunch My figure doesn't move very far forward though He has a twist for the torso That is not hindered by this overcoat He has a leg split that is kind of hindered by the overcoat He has a good forward motion on the leg at the hip Not so much a back motion He has a thigh cut He has double jointed knees He has a twist at the boot cut He has hinged and rocker ankles Let's look at the figure itself And let's start by putting it side by side With a retail release Cobra Commander And you can see it is basically the same figure There are some differences other than the color There are some differences in the accessories The retail release does not have the holster It also has this plastic cape Rather than the softwood cape on the Snake Supreme Cobra Commander The base figure is the same though They started with the same figure and built up from there On his head he has a helmet that I want to say is a very dark blue almost black It looks more black in person But it's turning out more blue on my camera It's a very very dark blue if it is blue almost black He has gold and red highlights on that helmet and a gold faceplate He has a soft goods cape with two gold Cobra emblems on the fasteners The cape has a dark snake skin pattern on the outside And it is red on the inside And that cape is forked like a snake's tongue I like that a lot The cape is held on with elastic bands that go around the arms And if you're careful you can remove it He has a red and gold collar red epaulets on his shoulders A black snake skin pattern on his upper chest and back And upper arms trimmed in gold On his chest he has a gold chain and red Cobra buttons And a black Cobra emblem directly on the front of the chest That is molded in not just painted on And on the chest and the back he has this extremely ornate Gold Cobra pattern printed on This is taken from the box art This is basically the box art printed onto the figure It looks great, it looks very regal And this is what makes this figure special He has red armor on his forearms with gold Cobra emblems He does not miss an opportunity for Cobra branding The belt which has the sheath for the sword And the holster for the pistol is a separate piece It's not really intended to be removable But you probably could remove it if you worked with it The tail of his waistcoat is also a separate piece The legs have a black snake skin pattern on the outer legs Trimmed in gold, looking really good He has tall boots with red knee pads Again with gold highlights He has more of that printing on the outer boots With that snake pattern That looks really excellent And he has gold straps on his feet and red pointy toes Is this Snake Supreme Cobra Commander figure worth it? I think this is the perfect figure to release as an exclusive And not as a standard retail release If you don't want the extra bits and the extra deco And you see this as just a re-release of a previous action figure And you already have your definitive Cobra Commander You could easily pass on this If you do like alternate versions of figures And you like the extra effort put into this figure Well, there you have it But if you don't get it It will not leave a gaping hole in your collection That was my review of Snake Supreme Cobra Commander I hope you enjoyed it We'll be doing these classified figure reviews every Friday And of course we are still doing vintage G.I. Joe Toy Reviews Please subscribe to the channel I have a huge back catalog of vintage G.I. 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