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THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIII - FRIDAYLESSON: COLOSSIANS 1:9‒12“Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:10We have seen in our consideration of this Gospel (Luke 10:23‒37) what God means when He says, “You shall love the Lord your God.” He means you, the whole you, not only your hands, your mouth, or your knees. When we love God with such a fullness of our being, we fulfill this law.   But there is not a single person on this earth who fulfills it in this manner. Indeed, we all do the very opposite. This law makes sinners of all of us, so that not even the smallest letter of this commandment is fulfilled, not even by the greatest saint in the world. No one adheres to God with his whole heart in such a way that he could forsake everything for God's sake. We have, praise God, advanced so far that we cannot endure giving up even one little word, yes, not even a farthing, for God's sake! How is it possible to love God if His will is not pleasing to us? If I love God, I also love His will. When Gods sends us sickness, poverty, disgrace, and shame, that is His will. But what do we do? We rampage, snort and groan, and accept matters with much impatience. This is the least of our problems. What would we do if we had to give up body and life for God and Christ's sake? Then I suppose we would show quite another front! In the meantime I act like this Pharisee and lawyer. I lead a fine life outwardly, honor God and serve Him, fast, pray, and always put on a very pious and holy front. But God does not look for this. He wants His will to be accepted joyfully and in love. In this respect we continue to drag our feet. SL 11:1542 (18)PRAYER: O God, make us ready and willing at all times to obey Your holy will, not grudgingly and impatiently, but wholeheartedly, feely and openly, for Christ our Savior's sake. Amen. Editor's note: No American Edition (AE) equivalent for today's sermon excerpt exists at the time of this publication. For an alternate English translation of this sermon, see Lenker, Church Postil—Gospels, 5:17-35. 

Scripture For Today:Psalm 4:1“Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.”What James Had to Say About Prayer pt 10We have been studying what the Apostle James had to say about prayer. We have been studying the verses from James 5:13-18: “Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any Merry? Let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth by the space of three years and six months! And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit.” We've been studying about verse 15 and 16 these last few days. Mainly about the importance of someone confessing their sins to God and placing themselves, the Bible says, “cleansing ourselves,” in right-standing with God so we can be in position to receive our prayers as answered. James concludes verse 16 by saying, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Then, in verse 17, James gives us an example of a righteous man. At first, when I read those scriptures, I did not understand what point James was trying to make! After pondering it for a bit, I realized EXACTLY what he was trying to get across to us! James was saying the Elijah was a human man, just as we are. In other words, Elijah did not receive the answers to his prayers because he was some kind of super prophet. We may THINK he is – but the point James is trying to get us to understand is – he WASN'T!  In James 5:17, he clearly says, “Elisha (speaking of Elijah) WAS A MAN…” That gives hope for you and me! Praise God! Let's read the entire verse:  “Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth by the space of three years and six months! And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit.” You may say, “Yeah, BUT… Elijah WAS a prophet. And that was the Prophet Elijah praying!  I'm not a prophet – I'm just lil' ol' me!” Yes, Elijah was a prophet. He was a great man of God. And he certainly was righteous!  But James said he was a man, what? “subject to like passions as we are!”   He faced the same challenges we face each and every day! He was just like us! Amen! James did not say, “Elijah was a prophet who knew how to pray!”  He did not say, “Elijah was a prophet who had special favor with God!”  James did not say anything like that about Elijah, did he?  NO!  He said, “Elijah was a man just like us!”  Praise God! I'm going to stop there for today. I want you to think about that. Amen! Let's Pray! Please subscribe to this podcast, leave us a quick 5 star review on Apple Podcasts to help us grow and be sure to visit our website for more information on our ministry: https://podcastersforchrist.com/ (https://podcastersforchrist.com). And while you are at the website, download the free resource I have for you… it is free and is called, “How to Start a Christian Podcast.” It will bless you – go and download it today. You can also WATCH these session on our Facebook Playlist at this link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKWeKtmv-BwgkquBTsSh-GznbmuUp_R2 (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKWeKtmv-BwgkquBTsSh-GznbmuUp_R2)

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: Gospel of Mark, Chapter 9, verses 2-10We veer off of our journey through Matthew's Gospel to hear Mark's rendition of Jesus's Transfiguration. He summons his closest friends to spend some time separate with him, and transfigures before their eyes. His clothes become dazzling white and he is joined by Moses and Elijah. The disciples, however, are filled with fear and soon are surrounded by a cloud. Yet when it lifts they see just Jesus, alone, waiting for them.So much imagery in this beautiful reading - but let's focus on two things: Jesus summoning of his close friends and their descent into fear and a cloud. Both of these things remain true for his disciples today. We often find ecstasy and fear on the same mountaintop.

Watch the video version of this show on YouTube »Alex Ross is the co-founder & CEO at Gregarious, Inc. Gregarious is the company behind Greg, an app dedicated to helping people grow healthier and happier plants. Greg's community has grown from 100 beta users in August 2020 to over 50,000 monthly active users today.Alex graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied data science and statistics at MIT. Alex has worked for companies such as Cisco, The Daily Aztec, and Cannon Trading.Prior to founding Gregarious, Alex spent 4 years as Director of Engineering at Tinder. Alex also co-founded Enplug, a digital signage company that was acquired earlier this year.In this episode, you'll learn: The two critical steps in making a successful app An ingenious strategy for partnering your app with retail companies Why you should involve your customers in content creation Links & Resources Tinder Enplug fitbod app Y Combinator (YC) Alex Ross' Links Greg app Alex's Twitter: @AreteRoss Job opportunities at Gregarious Alex's LinkedIn Gregarious, Inc. on LinkedIn Follow Us:David Barnard: https://twitter.com/drbarnardJacob Eiting: https://twitter.com/jeitingRevenueCat: https://twitter.com/RevenueCatSub Club: https://twitter.com/SubClubHQEpisode TranscriptAlex: 00:00:00The two steps in making a successful app business are make something worth using, and then put it in front of the people who would use it.If you have a plant, and you don't know what to do with it, we solve that problem.So, what we did is we reached out to a bunch of plant retailers, “Hey, we will help your customers have a positive outcome with your product.”Can you put in our little QR code? And now when these retailers ship out a new plant, every single one of them has this little QR code in it.It led to our first 15,000 users, I'd say. David: 00:00:30Welcome to the Sub Club podcast. I'm your host, David Bernard. And with me as always, Jacob Eiting. Hello, Jacob.Jacob: 00:00:53Happy to be here. David: 00:00:55You sound incredibly happy.Jacob: 00:00:57It's great. It's a Friday, David. The sun is shining. They're grilling a bunch of chickens in my hometown. I got nothing to complain about. It's gonna be great.David: 00:01:05Our guest today is Alex Ross, founder and CEO at Gregarious, makers of Greg, an app to help you grow healthier and happier plants. Prior to founding Gregarious Alex spent four years as director of engineering at Tinder.Alex also co-founded Enplug, a digital signage company that was acquired earlier this year. Welcome to the podcast, Alex.Alex: 00:01:27Thank you guys. Good to see you. Thanks, David, Jacob.Jacob: 00:01:29Hi. David: 00:01:30So, I'm going to try really hard this whole podcast and not call you Greg, but I've made that mistake.Jacob: 00:01:36I was thinking like, I get like annoying company name questions. Sometimes. I'm like, I'm sure you get more worse than me.Alex: 00:01:43But I'm considering just legally adopting Greg as alias or something. Jacob: 00:01:48Yeah. You know, I mean, that's a news cycle right there. A little bit of earned PR. David: 00:01:55So I wanted to ask you, so obviously, you know, director of engineering at Tinder that's, I mean, what a rocket ship that must've been quite a wild ride. So, tell me a little bit about, about how you ended up at Tinder and then, you know, if you do have any fun, war stories from there, that'd be great to hear. Alex: 00:02:16Yeah, definitely. It was a rocket ship. Definitely some war stories, some wins, some losses. So, I came across Tinder and I was looking to get into like a consumer application. so I was interviewing with Uber and Twitter, and then I came across Tinder on an angel list. Actually the head of recruiting at the time reached out to me and I kind of took it on a whim.To be honest, I had not used the app before, before even interviewing or anything. that's kind of a challenge for Tinder is like, do you, how many of the teammates need to use Tinder? Because a lot of people are married and in relationships, and those are great people to have on the team. And so it makes it odd, and kind of difficult or complicated. But, basically I joined when it was around 70 people, if I recall. So, it was a pretty small team. There was already a global user base, so it was one of the scrappiest, global brands I think probably has ever existed. Because this was all right before Tinder or right around the time that Tinder launched its first monetization efforts.And so there wasn't really awareness as to like, great, there's this like large, global, many millions of people are using this thing, but is it going to make money? Right? That was still an open question at the time that I joined. So, yeah, basically I joined and it was very, it was definitely still a startup.And, so there was not a lot of structure and I think my manager changed on the first day, like the person I was talking about working with's desk changed, but I had a great time and basically I ended up creating the growth team. So I became very focused on, growing the international user base.One of the coolest things that that team did is we decoupled Tinder from Facebook. And this was from Facebook login because like Tinder came to, came to fame by having, you know, you tap one button, it imports your Facebook photos. It basically made online dating as easy as it possibly can be because like you push a button you're in and then you're dating.Right. And by making it that simple, it made it so you felt less than desperate by using it. I think it was like one of the important psychological dynamic, because if you feel like you have to work to start using that application, then maybe it means that like you aren't having as much success in dating in the real world.So, by making it simpler, it made it less stigmatized. More cool. Right? And so when we decided to then allow people to create accounts with a phone number that introduced all this complexity around like, well, are people going to want to do that? Then they have to add profile photos. They have to type in their name.You have to introduce an onboarding process. You have to worry about spam. So, in any case, my team led that decoupling of Facebook and Tinder, and this was like pre Cambridge Analytica, pre GDPR. So it was definitely pressure. And it was like, it was a lot of good foresight and it did lead. It was a very successful project.So, that was kind of what I cut my teeth on it Tinder. And then from there, I ended up creating the trust and safety team. So we then kind of took on anti-spam, which is a major problem for any global consumer or especially a brand that you're introducing people to each other. Like you're introducing strangers to each other.That is a spammer's dream.Jacob: 00:05:32There has got to be just so much abuse on Alex: 00:05:34So much, and it was all stuff. I agree. Yeah. 24 7. and so we ended up creating a team kind of bottoms up. This is a cool effort. Cause it wasn't like an executive side, like, oh, Tinder needs to needs to create this team. But rather. A collection of engineers that were very motivated to solve this problem.So, we created a trust and safety team again, before, before GDPR, like this was before the world was really focused on, privacy and data security and protect users. Very consciously.Jacob: 00:06:01It's it's interesting. Cause now, you know, even with like clubhouse recently have had issues here. I think now the expectation is you need trust and safety from day one, which even five or six years ago, wasn't really the case. It was kind of like, well, I'll just grow and then you'll solve it later.So, that was, I would say early days for even that concept of like a whole dedicated team to those, those, those aspects of, yeah. If you're meeting people in public mind, God, like you need good Alex: 00:06:28Real. Yeah. You really need to continuously try to protect people. Cause there are, there's a rare selection of people that are not great. Right. SoJacob: 00:06:36Yeah. David: 00:06:37So then, tell us a little bit about the transition from being a tender to founding a company, because you had founded companies before and plug, and been at, other large companies before Tinder, but Yeah. What, what led you to, to found Gregarious? Alex: 00:06:54Yeah. I actually saw Jacob and I shared an experience interning at Cisco systems. Is that right? Did you, yeah, Jacob: 00:07:01Wait, when were we at the same? Like onboarding. Alex: 00:07:04No, no. I was actually in the finance organization, so I was doing internal auditing. it was crazy. I was on a team that like investigated other people for like, you know, abusing their corporate cards and stuff like that. So there'd be likeJacob: 00:07:19Interesting. internally. Alex: 00:07:21Internally. yeah. it was a very, Jacob: 00:07:23We've had interns on that team. Alex: 00:07:27It was a unique, it was definitely the only inboard,Jacob: 00:07:29Yeah. Wow. I was testing, I was testing phones, so I'm actually not sure which one of those is more boring. I think actually you might've had me. So Alex: 00:07:38That's for sure. yeah, so I got exposure is Cisco is interesting for anybody who doesn't know cause you have to drive between meetings. Right? Cause the campus is so large. Jacob: 00:07:48Campus. Alex: 00:07:49Yeah, Yeah, Talk about, oh my gosh. Culture. Yeah, so the, the process leading up to, to starting Greg was very deliberate. because I had done a startup before and that company had gone to success a successful outcome, but it was a lot of hard work was honestly grueling.Definitely like, hardest challenge of my life. And so I knew that I wanted to be involved in starting a company and building a culture from the ground up again. but I knew that I wanted to do it differently. and so basically there was a lot of preparation thinking about really the main thing I was thinking about is what is the industry that I want to be working in, because I think that startups often don't go the way you expect.But you can learn so much. And so I was really thinking like, okay, what do I want to become an expert at? Right. Like what do I want, if it doesn't work out in the way we expect, what would I like to have learned four years, five years, seven years worth of information about.And, I really kept coming back to science. and I wanted to, to kind of use my engineering experience and pivot that into, more real world, like physical phenomenon. Right. And like learning how the universe works. David: 00:08:59That's amazing. Alex: 00:09:00And so that's really, a lot of the thesis of Greg is that we apply computer science and software engineering to this specific domain of how to plants work.Right. And, and basically the, the dots kind of connect looking backwards, but it was a process of discovery of like, what's an area that's emerging and like kind of changing, like where is there an opportunity, right. Because I think it's helpful to position yourself at a place where either you can cause change or this change already happened.And, right now, like a lot of people know there's climate change. and there's also a lot of, rapid things happening in plant science world, specifically around like CRISPR and plant genetics and stuff like that, really at the deep end of it, which we can get into, but it's like way deep. but, but basically, this was before the pandemic.So we were actually looking into plants before COVID and already there was like the rate of people bringing plants into their homes was growing by 50 to a hundred percent per year. And we wanted to validate like, Jacob: 00:10:03I really like, that seems like that seems like a thing that would be fairly stable, like, is it, is it, is it a, is it a generational trend, like millennials or younger folks being? I have a lot of people on Twitter. I follow that seem very interested in plants more than I've ever been. Alex: 00:10:20There's a couple converging trends. Yeah. I think that part of it it's associated to like the mental wellness movement. So it's kind of this trend line follows a one that's very similar to like meditation and yoga just five years later. So I think it's a very, it's a lot of adjacent interests there, but then there's also an aesthetic component to plants where like, people are kind of decorating their spaces and they're getting more like trendy in how they, you know, how they, even people who are eating, like you want to have like a space that you invite someone into and it's very nurturing.Right. so yeah, there was definitely a generational kind of tailwind already happening. And then COVID just like crammed that up. Right. Cause then everybody's on zoom and you look in the background, some people have plants and you're like, oh, that looks kind of nice. Like I'd like that.Jacob: 00:11:04I have this. I have, I still have this like barren white wall back here. That is embarrassing. Yeah, I need, that's why I was excited. I, I, I installed Greg today and I was disappointed. I couldn't buy the plants in the app yet. So we'll have to talk about that as we get a little Alex: 00:11:17That's something that is coming. That is the client segment. Yeah, definitely. yeah, so we kind of saw an opportunity and we did some due diligence, some interesting things I think, to identify like, is there a revenue opportunity in my favorite stat that I like to share that blew my mind when I learned it is home Depot, is a publicly traded company.So you can look up their, you know, annual statements and you can see how are they making money. And if you look up their statements, you'll see that they make more money on indoor garden than on any other product segment. Like home Depot sells lumber, paint appliances, all these other the Jacob: 00:11:54That's like, that's like actual revenues. Is that also margin con? Cause I would imagine these are high margin items as well, I would guess. Alex: 00:12:01Yeah. Depending on where you fall on them. But yeah, they're, they're, they're pretty hard margin. and no, we only looked at revenue, but they make like last night, like $11 billion per year in revenue. Which is, and, and they're like 10 or Jacob: 00:12:15Store, right? That's, one. Yeah. And there's like, every town has four of these. Alex: 00:12:19Exactly. Yeah. And home Depot is like 10 or 15% of the plant retail market. Probably. It's hard to estimate.Jacob: 00:12:26Okay. Yeah.So, it's like roughly like a hundred, a hundred billion dollar a year kind of thing in the US. Wow. That's it. That's the size of in-app subscriptions for anybody. Who's curious, like, roughly like in that ballpark.Alex: 00:12:39Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like Apple's app store, subscription Jacob: 00:12:42Oh yeah. Sorry, app store. It's not even subscriptions. I think that's the app store broadly. Yeah.Alex: 00:12:47So we combined the plant Tam with then the app store growth in subscription revenue. And there's our business model.Jacob: 00:12:56There you go. Did you, did you, I mean, yeah. You mentioned like wanting to get into something physical into something science related. Did you have like a passion for plants or was this something that is like deep in you or, or was it more like me and an app subscriptions, which is like, wow, this looks like a good thing I can work on and I actually care about it and know a little bit about it.Right. So how, how did it, how did you go? Like, Yeah.This is what I want to do. Alex: 00:13:17That's a great question. It was like 75% the ladder. So the same as you, where I was kind of, I got exposed to it cause I started getting plants and I realized I did like them, but there was no brand to guide me. And there was definitely no science to help me keep them alive. Right. but I, I grew up in the mountains and so like, I, I, my family, I lived in Mammoth Lakes, California for any of the listeners know where that is.And so I, you know, I, I went on like a solo backpacking trip, like shortly before starting all of this and kind of communed with like being in nature with no people around me. And maybe that put me in touch with the plans a little bit more. but it was mostly, kind of identifying, this is a realm of science I'd like to work in because plants are mostly.Physics-based, this is something a lot of people don't don't realize, but because they're stationary, you can almost view them as like, like a civil engineer would a bridge. so there's not, so you can kind of really think about like the water physics, the light physics. And so they're a really great vehicle for learning, just physics generally, and also how like the sun and earth orbit matters to that plant and that location.There's so much science there that we learned that there's a depth. That was, we were very interested in diving deeper intoJacob: 00:14:31Yeah. Not to mention, not to mentioned biology, right. Alex: 00:14:33There is, but Jacob: 00:14:34As an intersection, right? Yeah. Alex: 00:14:37Yeah. Biology is difficult though, right? Like if you're like an engineer, who's trying to approach it,Jacob: 00:14:41Right. Yeah. Alex: 00:14:42it's messy, you know, I Jacob: 00:14:44Yeah, exactly. Alex: 00:14:46Yeah, yeah,Jacob: 00:14:47But if you think about it, it was a closed system, right? Like yeah. You have it. It's potted, it's planted, you know, lumens in, you know, water in, you know, nutrients in, you can, yeah, you can, you can make some approximations, right. As we like. Alex: 00:15:02The closed system is really important. I can. so what Greg does is Greg predicts when a given plant is going to need to be watered. And that's like the super simple, like simplified functionality. It's one of the main things you need to know. And the way we figured that out talking about closed systems is kind of a fun fact. you can very accurately measure the amount of water that a plant loses by weighing it on one day and then weighing it the next day. And the change in weight is the water lost in grams. And it turns out, so what we did is we did that for like 700 plants for like six months. And we, we then graft what was the grams of water lost per plant per day?And you get this beautiful pattern. It's like it random, like this is a very clear, like almost a heartbeat of a plant, which is a great fit for like machine learning.Jacob: 00:15:56Yeah. So, so, so how did, how did you pull this off? Like practically, did you have like a big garage or warehouse or something like that? That's, that's more work than I usually do for software. So tell me what that process was. Alex: 00:16:09It definitely did. So at one point I had like 150 plants and they all had a plastic, little pots and I had like labels. I named them like a one through nine and then C one through whatever. Cause I had to keep track of it. Right. It's all in our progress database. And but that didn't scale. And so like me and my co-founders, we were all measuring every day, every single day, hundreds of plants, but that didn't scale.So then we went on Craigslist and we started saying like, Hey, we're looking for people to weigh their plants every day, twice per day for a couple of months. And we had hundreds of responses, like people, people care about their plants and they thought that it was cool to be doing like citizen science.Right. And so we ended up with people in Berlin and, and you know, Sydney.Jacob: 00:16:48All right. Cause it doesn't have to be local, right? Yeah. Alex: 00:16:51And actually it needs to be in like Southern hemisphere versus Northern hemisphere because the location of like the sun and solar radiation effects that. Yeah. So we needed a global distribution for sure.David: 00:17:01This is like way off topic for, for subscription apps. But, but if you, if you squint it's, there are a lot of similar problems in understanding user patterns and user life cycle. And like, there's so many hard to understand variables. Alex: 00:17:18Yeah, David: 00:17:18But one thing I'm curious about on the plant science, like how much does like humidity and other things play into that.So if you, if you have, you know, 40% humidity, one day and 60%, the next does that actually impact things. Alex: 00:17:31No humidity. We don't really need to model humidity very much. it's actually, there's a couple of things that are misconceptions. You don't really need to worry about missing or humidity and you don't need to worry about fertilizing. Like all of that is overdone. for the most part, like there's some cases where it, matters, but, I'd say for like 99 out of 100 plant types that you're likely to own doesn't matter.And even more people don't realize that the humidity reading that we see in the weather is what's called relative humidity. And it, it not actually like super scientific way to measure, like how the water in the air relates to a plant. You need to look at absolute humidity, the whole totally different calculation.There's basically relative humidity changes according to the temperature. And so I see as humidity, you can almost, and to be honest, like, ignore, except for a couple of plants, like really evolved to be in, like, you can picture it. you know, in England, like, United Kingdom, like BHAG, right. Where it's just so much water, like, okay, well does like some, some ferns like are from like the Pacific Northwest, like Washington area where it's like constant rain forest, those types of plans.Yeah. You're going to have a hard time if you're not, in a very human environment, but the vast majority of EBI don't have to worry about it.Jacob: 00:18:47I have, I have more questions on the plant physics, but I think, I think I will let, I will, I will have to like save my curiosity.David: 00:18:55Well, we'll have to do the, we'll have to jump on your podcast and talk, talk points. Jacob: 00:19:00Plant Club, just invite V2 to newbies on there. Just to ask questions. We'll be there. David: 00:19:05So from, from all of this, you, you started to alluded to it a bit, but one of the things I was really impressed talking to you a couple of months ago, was just how I'm vicious. Your plans are with Greg. So you're, you're kicking it off with a consumer subscription app. but tell me a little bit about like, where you want to go from there.Alex: 00:19:25Yeah, definitely. That's a part of like, going back to like how we started it, why we started it. I have seen, or like I've worked at companies and like not naming names that are very, very revenue focused. Like just purely prime directive is we just need to make coin and as much of it as possible. Right.And then the question is, well, if you get there, then what do you do? Because if you do accumulate a level of avenue and a lot of influence, you kind of inherit a social responsibility, right? Because like you're accumulating all these resources. If you're like a Facebook or an Instagram, I think there's like general consensus.Like you kind of need to think about the impact that you have. Cause you're too big to not think about it. Right. And so with Greg, like we really thought about if we manage to navigate this very challenging process of getting to scale. Well then what? Right. And our goal what's really interesting that people don't realize is that plants in our homes are just plants that were taken from various places in the world and put in our homes, right?Like there there's no such thing as a houseplant, it's actually just like a giant jungle tree that somebody took a cutting from and then transported it to England and then ended up the United States. Right. so the physical principles that govern, being able to predict how to keep those plants alive is, are the same as the physical principles required to predict how to keep like crops alive.Right. like plants that are grown for our food system of which there are like billions. Right. And those plants, like it turns out plants are really like an infrastructure piece of our planet, right? Like plants are our like big support system on spaceship earth. And it's kind of interesting. Jacob: 00:21:10It's, the, it's the first stage of catalyzing, the sun's resources, right? Like, Alex: 00:21:15That's exactly it. And a lot of people don't realize this, that basically all of life gets its energy from the sun. Like that is the input of all of energy into what we know as life, as you know, maybe there's more on other planets that works differently. But as far as we know, all of life depends on solar energy.Jacob: 00:21:31Yeah, Alex, you're leaving out some very, very, sensitive, bacteria that live by vents. Okay. That, that Alex: 00:21:40I love that you noticed.Jacob: 00:21:43I'm D I'm disappointed in myself that I can't think of what they're called. They're extremophiles some kind of, I Alex: 00:21:47Yeah. Jacob: 00:21:48All, it's all, it's all discovery documentaries, so Alex: 00:21:51There's a vanishingly small number of, like living things that, thrive on geothermal energy from the earth score. Right. But that's like less than like 1% as far as I know. What people don't realize as an example is that like plants. A lot of people think that plants are just taking things out of the ground that is sucking nutrients out, sucking water out. They're actually also putting things back into the ground at all times. And so plants, like, for example, they photosynthesize. So they take energy from the sun and they are the only thing on the planet that takes energy from the sun and then converts it into energy that all other life can use. And it's not only insects and birds and mammals like us, but plants are also depositing sugar into the soil.So it's a bi-directional flow and that sugar feeds the bacteria. Jacob: 00:22:38Is that an active process while they're alive? Is it, or is it during decomposition? Alex: 00:22:42No, that is an active process. Like plants are actively depositing sugar into the soil and that, that those sugars feed the bacteria and fungi and those bacteria and fungi are responsible for breaking down the, inorganic, nutrients like nitrogen into a format that plants can absorb because plants can't just like stop nitrogen.Now they depend on. Those organic, you know, facilitators. And so it's a very symbiotic relationship and there's growing awareness now that like having a quote unquote, living soil is crucial for our planet. And I'll tell you like an example of how, how much awareness there is around this. during my due diligence for Greg, I went to a plant genetics conference.This is like for any engineers in the call, like imagine like AWS reinvent, accepted the geneticists. Right. And so they're like presenting, like how they run their projects. And it's, it's a really cool parallel world, but half of this conference was dedicated to soil like microbiomes, because that's how important it is.It's like truly like a resource. It's an infrastructure for our spaceship earth. Right? David: 00:23:49That's amazing. So, so one of the things, yeah, you and I talked about was not just, you know, consumer subscription to then like funding science, which is kind of what you're talking about now, but then also the potential to take this from, from B2C to B2B. So like you have, nurturing these who have to manage the planets before the people buy ‘em.You have office buildings that have thousands of plants. You have, you know, commercial facilities like there's, you know, plants existed on so many different layers of are of, of, of use, So tell me a little bit about kind of the long and short term plans of potentially transitioning or not transitioning, but, but kind of building on top of what you've done for consumers to then expand into more B2B, use cases.Alex: 00:24:42Yeah, definitely. Some other examples. people don't realize that cities have to like municipalities have to maintain the plant inventories, right? Like there are people who manage the inventory of plants. Exists, you know, or there are small businesses. there are people in most towns, I grow food for their farmer's markets, for example.And so those are like smaller scale farmers and then there's large scale farmers, right? And there's a real dearth of like talented software teams, writing applications for any of those parties. And that's really the long-term opportunity to be spotted. If we can pull together a talented team to make products for those people, that's a longterm opportunity.And my, my thesis on this, which I think we're aligned on is that, like delightful, simple consumer user interfaces, like simple software is appreciated by everybody. Right? Jacob: 00:25:35Okay. Alex: 00:25:35like enterprises don't want to use complicated integrative Jacob: 00:25:40There's tastes now in software, right. And all levels of, employment. I think it's, it's a bit of like our gen my generation aging into the, the enterprise buying world. And, also just like people have enough software experiences in our lives. They've learned to discern like, oh, this is good.And, oh, this is bad. and I think there's, yeah, I think it's really, I mean, we I've, I've done it a ton in making revenue count. I came from the compute super subscription world. I learned a ton of lessons about onboarding and, and, and, and creating delightful experiences and like, you know, playing, playing against and into people's like, you know, habits and things like this that you carry into the enterprise world or B2B world, and it can really supercharge software.And it's probably what we're going to see. Yeah. I think. I think there's still, there's always this like technical leap or not technical in the sense of computers, but technical in the sense of processes and whatnot, when you leap from consumer to, to selling to businesses. But as you said, you bring those teams together, you, you build your data set, you learn more about Alex: 00:26:45Right, Jacob: 00:26:46Act of growing plants, then someday you, you, you can, you Alex: 00:26:49Right. And there are some, some famous examples of this. I definitely see it with RevenueCat. Cause like you compare the UI to a SAS that was created 10 years ago and it's just more of delightful. Right. It's like simple. And I know to use it. I'm not like getting a headache while I'm on it, but it's nice.Right?Jacob: 00:27:05It's very nice. Very nice of you to say Alex: 00:27:07Yeah. Bye-bye But, but like some examples like strike became famous, right? Because like they had a good Jacob: 00:27:14Same. Yeah, yeah. Say my mindset. Right. Just like, make it easy, make it simple, make the, make the shortest possible path to value. Right. Alex: 00:27:25Or, slack would be another example. Right. Whereas it was almost a consumer level application that just took off like wildfire because individuals liked it. Right. Jacob: 00:27:34And then they added enterprise grid, whatever they have now, or whatever to sell it to, to, to Alex: 00:27:39And then nothing is things, Jacob: 00:27:41Need that to begin with.Alex: 00:27:42Right? David: 00:27:43Yeah. So it's just, it's really cool that there's, there's just such a direct path from selling to consumers right now, and then selling to municipalities who are managing their plants in a few years, and then selling to, you know, the, the company should have to manage this at scale and then selling to farmers.That's really cool. One of the things that, again, that you're not talking about, you and I talked for like two hours a couple of months ago. And so there's, there's so much that I would, I would've loved to have recorded that and released it as a podcast. But, Jacob: 00:28:20Glad I can glad I can contribute. David: 00:28:23Yeah, one of the, one of the fascinating things that you talked about was kind of your view on marketing. And so I'd love for you to talk about that more broadly, but then specifically what you're doing with nurseries is just such incredibly smart marketing. Like, I mean, it, let me say tangent for a minute.So it's just so obvious talking to you that you're not the average like app founder, you know, like none of my apps have had even, even like when, when hundredth of the due diligence and market Jacob: 00:28:55Why I was gonna say, I've never, I've never bought some, like, I've never had a physical warehouse of plantsDavid: 00:29:02Yeah. and so it's just, it's just so clear that you, you think about things in a way that, that most, you know, at people don't most software people don't most even founders don't. and, and so I think, you know, we've talked about this on the podcast before, is it just so many apps are trapped in this?You know, we just, we have to advertise on Facebook to grow. We have to do this. And like that clay book, I've just, you know, dumping money, a bunch of money in ads, I think leave so much on the table. And so I just love that you're, you're going to do that. And that we've talked about that, you know, you've got to do paid marketing and, and maybe I've already started experimenting with it, but, but yeah.So tell me about what you're doing with nurseries and then just kind of, you know, some of your thoughts on, on marketing and virality and stuff. Alex: 00:29:51Yeah, definitely. I think broadly, like what I would, I think I'm definitely aligned with that where, your broader point is that like building an app is half technical and UI design and getting the product really, really, really right. Right. But the other half that people are often uncomfortable about is needing to get it in front of the right people.Right. And so in my mind, the way I break this down is the two steps. Like I have a theory that like the two steps in making a successful app business are make thumping worth using, and then put it in front of the people who would use it. Right. And it's like remarkably hard to do either one of those, but, Once we had, the beginning signs of retention.So we got our first, like, I don't know, 5,000 users by like posting on Facebook and on Reddit and like that kind of stuff. Then we started thinking about, what is like the most optimal time for people to be introduced to grade. And what we came up with is, well, we solved the problem of, if you have a plant and you don't know what to do with it, how to keep it alive, we solve that problem.And so the most natural moment would be when you get a new plant, right. Because it's like, that's a moment. And you're like, oh crap, I have this thing. What do I, how do I keep it alive? And, so what we did is we reached out to a bunch of, plant retailers, like online in-person brick and mortar all over the place.And we basically said like, Hey, we will help your customers have a positive outcome with your product. Right. And so let's do this trade where like, we will give them. at this point we had a subscription tier. And so we said, we'll give them free subscription tier for N number of months. At first it was six.And now it's three. and in return, can you put in our little QR code flyer, like nicely designed four inches by four inches recycled paper card that has a QR code and it takes you to download. Great. Right. And so we did that and now like when these retailers ship out a new plant, every single one of them has this little QR code in it.And it's almost like a digital companion to your unboxing experience. Right. And so that was definitely like a very natural fit and it, it led to our first, probably like 10 or 20,000, 15,000 users, I'd say.Jacob: 00:32:10So can I ask, like, did you do that yourself? Did you have somebody on your team? Cause like, yeah. I'm, I'm in the camp that that's outside of my experience. I don't like calling the pizza person. Like I, you know, I, I don't know how to do that. So how, how did you, how did you delegate that and, and Alex: 00:32:24Yeah. Jacob: 00:32:24The resources and a small team to pull that off. Alex: 00:32:27Definitely. so I I'd say I provided the, the oomph behind it. but then I have a good friend, who I've worked with in the past named Colin, who does like growth marketing stuff and that's his comfort zone. Right. And so I definitely did reach out to a bunch of the biggest partners in the beginning.Because the thing is that like with early stage stuff, founder led sales can be great, right? Like you don't always need it. It's better if you don't need it to be Frank. but, we were so early and we had no partners at all that I was like, I ha this is crucial for us. Like, we need to have a better source of user acquisition.That's like our next major challenge to solve. And so I did reach out to them and then call in kind of like took over and scaled that. Right. Cause like, I, I ultimately like I needed to be writing code and stuff. and so now he owns that relationship and he's been able to keep that going further.Jacob: 00:33:22Yeah, it's just one of these unique channels. you know, I don't know, you can, as a, B to C app founder, I think David's points exactly on, I think we've a lot of us have settled into this world where there's one or two channels to like get growth and that's paid, paid marketing.There's a lot of good, growth resources out there. oh yeah, there's a lot of good growth books. I've read, moving into the B2B world that say there's like seven channels or whatever. There's only like so many like ways to get and in and in, and in B to C we tend to be like, well, yeah, there's these two, essentially, but it's not really true.Like you can try seven, I guess the trick is finding stuff that two things, one is approachable. Like, that's why I asked about you. How did you make it happen? Well, you were able to start it off and then you had somebody to work with you to, to, to bring it to scale. But then the other thing is it has to move the needle. Right. And so, and so you have to figure out and like for a price that's reasonable, right? And, and that sometimes is hard to find as well. Because I think with this, you have this adjacent high velocity market of users. You have a place, your users are going every day, which isn't maybe always the case for all apps.Right. It's hard to find there's no meditation store that people are going to day. Right. Alex: 00:34:33Yeah. I thought about this. Jacob: 00:34:34That's your, that's your advantage? You know?Alex: 00:34:37I thought about parallels. Like I wonder if like fitness apps have tried partnering with gyms. I'm thinking like fit. Jacob: 00:34:44I'm sure the gyms wouldn't be as eager maybe. Right? Alex: 00:34:48Well, I mean, possibly I'm just thinking like, if, if like, Jacob: 00:34:51This also like there's also this like benefit right from the, for the Alex: 00:34:54There has to be. Yeah, yeah. But I would just, I just like theory, graph, like I'm thinking if there's an app That helps you track your workouts. Like I use football, I'm a user, it's a great app and, and it's a complete compliment or a gym. Like I can't do gym without, I can't do football about gym. I don't really do gym about that.So, I, there might be a thing there, or like with meditation, I'd be curious if, like yoga studios. Cause here's the thing is Jacob: 00:35:21Find the adjacencies right. Alex: 00:35:22Yeah. And so here's the thing about a mobile app business that I have found is that one of our strengths is that we're building an audience, right? Like mobile apps only really work with retention.And so you're like building up this audience of people that are committed to your app and your brand over time. And these smaller businesses are looking for ways to get audiences. Right? And so in the scale of a mobile app is such that you might actually be able to accumulate an audience that is valuable to those small businesses.That can be a part of that trade. And so we've actually talked about that with our partners where we basically say like, well, you're referring users to us. We can refer users back to you. And our scale is large enough that it could actually be a meaningful number. so I think you can kind of get, it's definitely a B2B strategy where it's like, I'm thinking of the strategic value I can provide to my partners in return for them providing value.Which might be why it's less common in the, in the B2C, like mobile app world, right.David: 00:36:16Yeah. Any other, experiments that you've done or kind of things that you're working on in the, in the marketing realm that you've seen fail or things that are being successful right now Alex: 00:36:27We really want to tap peer to peer referrals and that has not been easy. And so that, that is one Jacob: 00:36:33Have you seen, have you seen the new store kit to stuff? Alex: 00:36:36Not Jacob: 00:36:36Yeah, they did. This is, I don't know when this is going to go out, but they, they dropped in, in, in the dub DC, this, this, this week they announced there's a new API. That's going to make that kind of possible. Now you'll be able to, you'll be able to like extend somebody else's subscription, based on some sort of like action. I think I, I, I don't know if they made it as like, for extending, for like a customer support use case. So there might be a case maybe Apple's like, no, we didn't want you to use it for incentivized referrals, but it could Alex: 00:37:09Yeah, Jacob: 00:37:09Make incentivize referrals work and like a really smooth way. Sorry, I'll derail. But, Alex: 00:37:14I love it. Jacob: 00:37:15It's, kind of a change.Alex: 00:37:17Well, it's probably useful to listeners. we have definitely hacked around incentivizes invites using promotionals that will say RevenueCat has been helpful.Jacob: 00:37:26Oh, so, and so you guys are, you guys are pushing folks, but they have to go through like this, like a user-driven process, right? Alex: 00:37:33They do. Yeah.Jacob: 00:37:34Is friction.Alex: 00:37:35It's friction. It has been fine, but it's not quite as productive as we like. So that one. Jacob: 00:37:39Have a lot of users that get confused about the process. I would imagine. Alex: 00:37:42Yeah. And it's like a deep Linky thing. So it's like not super transparent. the thing that's worked better, the one that I'm most excited about is I love this one. we, created, user generated content loops. so, basically people, there are certain things you can do in our app that like publish web pages on the web.And so for us very specifically, People like Greg, we don't have a database of like every plant in the world yet. Right. There's like 400,000. It's really complicated. And like, that's actually, one of our core IP is, is developing that database. And the only way we can do it is if we allow users to contribute to it.Right. and we need to be like a crowd source, like model and we get really good at curation so people can create new species in Gregg. And then we curate that and then we publish that page on the web and then it starts showing up in Google search traffic for other people searching for information about that species.Right. And so I love the theory of this and like check back in, in a year to see how it turns out. But I love the thing. Because it's like, okay, a user publishes a web page, which then more users find our app through. So then they join the app and then they publish more webpages. And then so more users find the app and then they publish more web pages.Right. And so it's like a very like positive reinforcement loop. And I think those types of recursive positive reinforcing user growth loops can lead to very healthy, growth curves, right?Jacob: 00:39:08Yeah. I mean, that's the, the challenge of these apps. You said it with retention is the big thing. I think you, you you're you're you're you've got some tables. Keeping a plant alive plants live a long time. Therefore, hopefully your app gets used a long time, but then, finding these things that can take what is inherently like a decaying process, which is people leaving your app and turning it into something more stable, which is how you build this, like yeah.Long-term business. And then, you know, for, in your case, like use this as a platform to move into other segments and whatnot. but, but but moving away, from this, like get them in, monetize them, let them go. Right. Model, which like, it seems just like the whole world is pointing us against right. With, with the way that ad tracking is getting less easy to do and all this stuff.Alex: 00:39:54Yeah. Jacob: 00:39:54So I was gonna say SEO, that's one of the seven good channels. Right. So you've hit at least three, Alex: 00:40:01Do end up dependent on, on Google. AndJacob: 00:40:05It's something can change in Alex: 00:40:06Yeah, Jacob: 00:40:07Or. Alex: 00:40:07But like I've been wanting, I've been watching SEO for a while and I think that generally, as long as you're not doing shady things, you don't have to worry about much. Right, Jacob: 00:40:16Content that people click on and find useful it will work. Right? Like, but when I did our blogs for revenue cat, initially the ones that got really good traffic for us kind of got us off the ground. Like I didn't, I didn't think, like I thought a little bit like, oh, what are people going to Google?Whatever. But no, I was just like, I'll just make plus that people will read and spend time on and share. And like that's all it took. And you'll find the posts that some of the posts that I did that were intentionally like, I'm trying to be like, SEO smart. Didn't do that. Well, the ones where they were just really good posts and like contained a lot of really good content and get referenced a lot. Those are the ones that still generate traffic for us. So like, which is nice because you don't have to be like an SEO master anymore. You can kind of just make good stuff and do Alex: 00:40:56Yeah. Jacob: 00:40:56Things. Yeah, David: 00:40:57Yeah, I was going to ask, I think we talked about this, but have you, have you done some paid marketing and how's that gone for you? Alex: 00:41:05Yeah, definitely. We did use paid marketing to like, scale up, by like a two X factor. So did that add a little bit of extra? And, so we've been running on Instagram and Facebook, and it's been pretty productive to the point where it's almost NetSpend zero. it's like we spend a dollar in advertising and then we make a dollar in revenue.We're still very early. And so we haven't had enough months. Like the, the, the pain point is if you do a trial. It's actually a much longer, payback period or like what finance people would call a float. And then a lot of people expect, because let's say you have, we're generous. We have a 30 day trial, which is like a bit much for a mobile app, but we do it.And so 30 days, and then the user subscribes, and then you get paid and then apple will pay you a month later. Right. So you actually end up with like up to a 90 day float. and so that's not as tight as I would like hope for, but it's better than nothing. And I think that's the key is that like, because we're a revenue generating app we're able to do the ad spend in like a reasonable way.I think if that weren't the case, then it'd be very difficult.David: 00:42:12Yeah. And, and at some point, I mean, with, with your other strategies of referrals, of SEO, of building a base of users, that then you can get more and more partners, you know? So, so if you went to home Depot, 10 million active users, then that's a much more attractive proposition to them. so at some point, you know, spending at a loss might actually make sense, but it's amazing that the subscription, model enables you to even spend break even, but keep that flywheel going, which is it's.That's incredible.Alex: 00:42:52And I think the NetSpend break, even that creates an interesting exercise because then it's like, it becomes, we didn't get into like financing, but like if you fundraise That's then a good reason to fundraise because then if you have more capital, you can put that capital to work. Because if you know, you'll make, if you have a dollar, now you'll have a dollar again in 90 days, as long as you can carry that float.Well, then at the end of 90 days you have a dollar and a user Jacob: 00:43:17Yeah, which is like, has, has value, right? Like you've increased the value of your user base has adult, you know, dollar per user active value essentially in the venture market or revalue reevaluate. Right. So, it, it does make sense. So yeah, I w I want to ask, like, You guys, it seems like your apps pretty developed for how long you've been working on it a year and change.Right. and you mentioned, you mentioned this, like finding iterating to like a retention goal. Like how did that go? Did you start with just like the basic function, like the most basic thing and then add stuff until you got, and what, what I guess specifically, like what metric were you looking at to say like, okay, retention is good now. Alex: 00:43:58Hmm. Yeah, that's a great question. So we did start with the most basic core functionality, and I think one of the things that we did that I would do again, We just solved our own problem. So like I, so we, we started at the beginning of COVID, so like New York where I live, locked down basically the day, almost the day that I left Tinder.Right. And so and so I remember I'll never forget things were shutting down. So I ran to the nursery nearby plant nursery, and I bought like 30 plants. Cause I was like, I need to have the problem in order to be deeply motivated to solve it. Right. Cause like, if you actually have like over 10 plants, keeping track of them kind of socks a little bit, it's hard.And so I knew that I needed the problem and that motivated us and, and our whole team really, we basically just wrote like a prototype app to solve our own problem. and once it was working for us is when we started bringing like beta users in, we did like a test flight, version for a month brought in like maybe a thousand or I think it was 2000 beta users total and there in like August, 2020.And. Jacob: 00:44:59Did you, how did you get that list for the beta? Just Facebook and Alex: 00:45:04Facebook. It was, it was mostly Facebook like groups and stuff like that. Jacob: 00:45:07Mm. Alex: 00:45:08Yeah. and it posted on Reddit. Reddit is hard. but, we did a little bit Jacob: 00:45:15Rip off middlemen made easy. That's my favorite. We posted, I posted right. It was where we launched two and I have this, this favorite hater quote that I have like screenshot it on my desktop that I will hold on to until we IPO. Alex: 00:45:27The hater codes or something people should be prepared for, I think,Jacob: 00:45:30Yeah. Alex: 00:45:32But let's see. So we solved that. Here's the key is that we specifically, for our app, we wanted to solve the retention piece first. And so he chose the behavior in the app that would be associated with retention because the way that I personally think about retention is that right.What happens is you have a trigger. So a person needs an external trigger to think about opening your app. Right? So it could be a feeling that they have like Tinder, it's a feeling I'm bored or I'm lonely. And I want to see people, and that's an external trigger that causes a person to think about your app.Then you need value to them to actually open your app. Right? Like, okay, I have this trigger in this app can adjust that trip. Sure. So for us, we didn't have like an emotion, but we did have, the need for reminders. And so basically we, leveraged push indicator very heavily. Our whole app is like a water reminder app right now that's the core value.And so we built that specific functionality, water reminders before anything else, because we wanted to validate, is that a sticky behavior? Is that something that people will actually want to do and use over like six months? Right. And because we knew we wanted to get six months of data, we had to build it first.Right. Because you have to really think about how long it's going to take to get that validation. and we were bootstrapped. And so we knew that like, well, we can't bootstrap for forever. Right. And so we needed to front load the questions that we knew investors would be asking when we went out to fundraise.David: 00:46:57So speaking of which you just raised $5.4 million seed round, how, tell us about the process. It sounds like you were, you know, having been at Tinder and been in Silicon valley and in the industry, that was your goal that you didn't come into it thinking you were going to bootstrap this forever. and you were specifically kind of building up some of those retention numbers and other things that you knew investors would ask for.So, how did fundraising go having kind of iterated into that direction? Alex: 00:47:35It's definitely hard as hell. I don't know, like you don't ever say that it's not. but it wasn't, it wasn't like excruciating. I think recruiting is actually probably a little bit more difficult, especially right now. There's a lot of, a lot of movement in the, in the why people are working, how they wantJacob: 00:47:51It's easier. It's easier. to write a check than it is to take a job. I think, you know, like to give it to somebody to do, do Alex: 00:47:57You can write multiple checks. Right?Jacob: 00:47:58Yeah. It's not your, it's not your every day, you Alex: 00:48:02Exactly. Yeah. So, let's see. We actually, to go back to your first point, we weren't, completely, we hadn't decided that we were definitely going to raise VC capital. and so there was like, like we did work through that as a team and we ended up deciding, various specifically. Our mission is one that we believe would benefit from us being good at raising capital, because we think that if we can bring capital and talent to this industry and this problem domain, that's a good thing.And then even from a life perspective, like we wanted, we want to move quick, we want to be able to grow. You want to be able to like, build delightful things for lots of people. and so that was, that was the main motivation behind the VC capital. I think it's a big trade-off. so we, we definitely did not take it lightly and we did deeply evaluate Jacob: 00:48:49Closes, off a lot of paths, Alex: 00:48:51It does. Yeah, Jacob: 00:48:52You kind of really narrows what your future, I mean, Alex: 00:48:55Yeah, Jacob: 00:48:55You on a trajectory to something potentially much, much bigger, but it Alex: 00:48:58Yeah, Jacob: 00:48:59Of like brings down your, your options. Alex: 00:49:02It does. Yeah. And I think you just have to think about like, am I okay with needing to focus on eventually providing an exit to these people who trusted with their capital, right. Yeah. And I think maybe something that people don't think about is like the CEO, whoever is fundraising. Like you, you build a relationship with your, your, your VC partners, right?Like I consider them like life journey partners at this point. And so it's not that like, it's certainly not an adversarial relationship. It's more like I have a true responsibility to these people because we had a clear, like, this is the agreement is like capital and then they have obligation to their investors too.And so, you know, I'm aligned with that and I think you're right. You just have to think about like, is that, is that aligned with my vision for this, this journey, right. David: 00:49:45And then speaking of, of an exit, you shared with me, you have a very unique approach to employee equity. I'm actually curious to hear at, Jacob's take on this, having gone through the whole thing, himself, but Yeah. Tell us about your equity structure. Alex: 00:50:05Yeah. We, we definitely are, experimenting and trying something different and I think there's pros and cons.Jacob: 00:50:12Investors love that, by the way. I'm sure those were easy conversations. Alex: 00:50:17Surprisingly most investors were, were okay with it. I definitely had a couple that were concerned about, the implications in the medium term, but here I'll get to what it is. So, yeah. Okay. So basically, like we, wanted to distribute as much of the financial ownership of the company across as many of the early teammates as we could.And the reason for that is like the real thought that I had that whether or not other people think about this kind of thing, I would, I would encourage people to ask the best, which is, if I have an exit, how big of an exit would I really want to feel very fortunate about. Right. And like, really think about like how much money do I actually need.Right. Because I think that there's a lot of people who get caught up with like, I want a billion dollars, right. Or like, I want like a hundred million dollars. I've been fortunate enough. Like we pointed out earlier, my first company was acquired for like a fine amount and then Tinder totally exploded. I didn't own as much of it, but it is still a positive outcome.And I can say that like they didn't change anything. And I know it's a very cliche thing to say, but I think it's a productive exercise that if anybody was founding a company, I would recommend asking, at what point am I again, feeling fortunate about the outcome, right? And then what we really thought about is our ability to recruit a great team.And basically the decision that we made is that, there's really two aspects to equity. and I'd be curious again, Jacob's take on this there's there's compensation for risk. So early teammates take more risks, quote unquote. Right? And so that, that's a typical, like reason for, founders taking a large, large Jacob: 00:51:52Costs risk mostly. Right. But Alex: 00:51:54Opportunity cost and risk.And then the other dimension that I think about is. Where, early stage companies are hard for everybody who's involved. And my prior experience pointed towards like the first 20 people who joined the company, or at least definitely 10 or 15, all worked, pretty much as hard. And definitely at least not like 10, it's impossible to work 10 times harder. Right. And so, Jacob: 00:52:19And with less M with less glory, to be honest, Alex: 00:52:22With less boring. Yeah, Jacob: 00:52:23Don't, they don't get all the likes on follows on Twitter or whatever. Right. Alex: 00:52:27Exactly.Jacob: 00:52:28Try to distribute it, but yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's a grindy place to be for sure. Alex: 00:52:33Not getting the glory is like a, it's definitely a double edged sword because I think that that glory is also a responsibility. Right. But, yeah. And so basically we decided to try this approach where we wanted to do this exercise of distributing that equity as equally as possible. And so he set up a mathematical curve where whenever I make an offer, I just look at this math equation.What is the amount of equity that this next person gets. Right. and, and so, and we did that and basically projected out like, okay, each person gets to like, like if we reached a billion dollar company, each teammate should have an outcome of something like $10 million or more, right. Like something, something above that number.And it was really important to map that out because otherwise it can go forward. And, yeah, basically that, that was our exercise. I mean, basically they decided like, okay, can we, can we turn that around a little bit? And, the side effect that I like, so again, we're, we're early in this, like, we're, we're an eight person team we're in a 15 and it may turn out to be complicated.And again, we check in in a year, but what I like about it is it, did enable a completely transparent cap table. Right. And that's nice. Cause like, I don't think it's like maybe required, but I do like being able to show people like this is who owns this Jacob: 00:53:50Who owns with you? Right? Alex: 00:53:53Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so that's a positive side effect.But there's definitely it's complicated.Jacob: 00:54:00Yeah, I well, so David, my take is actually we do something very similar that's I like also like, so interestingly and, and inside, inside baseball, I think, it it's it's we, we did, something similar. No, we weren't as scientific with it for the first, like we had like a rough rule, but it was like the same, like X, each number, like the number like decreased, like, but this backoff curve, I've found it a very, it's a very hard problem to reason about, because you want, you want to think about this, you want the hundredth employee to have some skin in the game.Right. But you, you need to balance that with like, Hey, like come join this company that you've never heard of. And like probably has like worst benefits and you know, who knows it's going to be, it's going to be a mess. Right. And so like, finding that balance is really hard. and, and, you know, Looking at where we're at 30 people now, and the complexity definitely grows. And then I think also you start thinking about like recruiting leverage and like, what, you know, what, how much equity do I need to offer to be able to like, recruit these different types of roles and things like that. And your systems get more complex, but, but, but it's still, did you guys, did you do something special on special on founder equity to create like more, more room on the cap table?Or did you ha how many co-founders do you have?Alex: 00:55:11That's such a blurry line. I don't know if this is just me by name or no, like, well, is that the fourth person? Like, I mean,Jacob: 00:55:18I guess that's true. yeah. Alex: 00:55:20Yeah. Jacob: 00:55:21A, maybe that's a, it's a YC thing is where they're like very clear, like who are the co-founders and who are not But, but yeah, I, I agree. It's probably mostly a, a label.Alex: 00:55:32I feel like we have six co-founders. realistically there were, there were two of us that were like, thinking about this, you know, like that's not true. There were three of us that were thinking about this, like two years ago. so we, I, I called them co-founders and so we're all on this same plans.Like we have this graph where like, I am the first black. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, It's Jacob: 00:55:51Interesting. Alex: 00:55:53Like as much as possible. And so the hardest, this plan is definitely hardest on the first three people and it requires incredible cultural buy-in to that because it means that the outcome, like, I, I definitely worked on this for a lot longer than like the people who are joining today.Right. And like, it was stressful and hard, but here's, here's my, my, my personal take. And, is that I actually think the risk of doing startups and I feel like YC, you may agree with us. The risk of doing startups is like so much lower than most people realize for people who have the fortune of having a safety net.Right? Like if you're, if you, if you have a family and you don't have savings, then like, of course that is a, that is a risky proposition. for people who are relatively early or mid stage in their careers and they have savings and they're not actually gonna end up in a really dangerous spot, then I think that startups are almost always a net positive.If you really apply yourself, because the amount that you learn and grow by solving that many problems, only accelerates your career. Right. And so going back to the risk versus there's also opportunity costs, and then there's effort. I personally discount the risk for people who are fortunate enough to have that safe space.I discount that risk almost to zero, because I think that it's just such a, even this time around for me, my second startup, I have learned so much and it's been such a good life experience that even if it didn't work out tomorrow, net win. For sure. Sure.Jacob: 00:57:17Yeah. David: 00:57:18So part of the reason I brought it up was that I, when I joined and I've told Dick at this, when I joined revenue, this is way inside baseball. Goodness a open, an open enough on the podcast. But when I joined Romney, I thought more along the lines of you, Alex. Like I thought, well, why is Jacob getting so much more of the company and, and revenue Katz, like the first 10 employees and then the next 20 it's actually, it's very generous compared to the industry, like take a, did an incredible job and has been great with equity.So, but, but early on you, you're at a startup and you're like, wow, I'm working really hard. He's working really hard. Like why, why, why is the outcome going to be so different? But honestly, 18 months in and Jacob having raised a series B and like taking a lot of the hardship, like you as a founder are going to have to do things and be under amount of stress.And like, there, there really is. And I, I don't, it's probably somewhat true for maybe those, you know, those first early employees, how carry a little bit of that load, but the F but a founder just has to carry a different load. And so. Jacob: 00:58:29It's always going to fall on that first two, you know, whatever people on the cap table. Right. Whatever it's going to keep rolling until it hits you at some point. And, you know, as it gets bigger. yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I don't know. It's an, it's an interesting, this could very easily devolve into like the nature of capitalism and ownership.Right. Because it doesn't, it plays very much against this, like, you know, constant, like Marxists debate about like labor versus capital and like, what are the value and what is like value and like, cause you know, you like, you had this whatever period it was one month, one year or whatever. That's like such, you know, if you

We lezen:Mattot: Numeri 30:2-32:42 - Jeremia 1:1-2:3 - Handelingen 9:1-22Masee: Numeri 33:1-36:13 - Jeremia 2:4-28, 3:4, 4:1-2 - Jacobus 4:1-10We lezen de laatste hoofdstukken van het boek Bamidbar (in de wildernis), beter bekend als ‘Numeri' (getallen). Veertig jaar zwierf Israël rond in die woestenij. Aan die reis komt nu een einde.In het eerste gedeelte 'Mattot' (stammen) spreekt Mozes tegen de stamhoofden. Wat zijn de verhoudingen tussen mannen en vrouwen als het gaat om de woorden die we uitspreken? En dan gaat het niet om zomaar woorden, maar om geloften, eden en bindingen. Aan het eind van dit gedeelte lezen we dat de stammen Ruben, Gad en half Manasse het gebied aan de overkant van de Jordaan in bezit mogen nemen.In het tweede gedeelte ‘Masee' (reizen) krijgen we een lijst met plaatsen waar de Israëlieten langs zijn geweest. De reis die veertig jaar langer duurde dan voorzien. Ze waren vol goede moed uit Egypte vertrokken, maar onderweg viel het niet mee, mede ‘dankzij' het gebrek aan vertrouwen in de Eeuwige. Maar, dit laatste gedeelte van Numeri kijkt vooral vooruit: het gaat over het in te nemen Beloofde Land…In dit leerhuis willen we juist stilstaan bij die belofte. En wat is het verschil tussen een gelofte, een eed en een verplichting? We kijken naar de belofte die de stammen Ruben en Gad doen. En wat leert ons dit over G-ds beloften aan Israël over het land. Welke lessen mogen we daar voor ons eigen leven uit halen?Luister je weer mee?Uitzendingen: Elke vrijdag 21:00 uur (herhaling op zaterdag 02:00, 10.00 uur en 19.00 uur, zondag 02:00 uur en 09.00 uur en maandag 02:00 uur).Shalom,Presentatie: Sybe de VosSupport the show (https://radioisrael.nl/geven/)

It's Not About You. 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Indeed, we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” is the same one who made light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ. 7We hold this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not despairing; 9persecuted, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of the Lord Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11To be sure, while we are living we are continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. 12So then, death is working in us, but life is working in you. If you have any questions or comments, contact Pastor. If you have any questions or comments, contact Pastor.

Smitty along with panelists Abby McKiernan, Jeremy West and Matthew Zerilli stopped by Mars to talk 6 topics over 6 proverbial beers, and keep the conversation going on...Are you ready for maskless crowds? 01:10Will you go maskless now that the CDC says fully vaccinated people are clear? 09:30What's the most panicky thing you've done? 20:20Smitty always says, "We're living in the future". What about the future are you impressed with, and what are you disappointed in? 26:55Probably the dumbest topic on the podcast to date. Somebody did a study that said men that wear logos on their shirts are more promiscuous, so we talked about that dumb shit 41:10We talked picky eaters 47:40Dig the podcast? Become a subscriber. Audio versions on Spotify, Google and Apple podcastsWanna become a Patreon? Click the link https://www.patreon.com/we3smithsWant to support Smitty’s Five Year Plan without the Patreon rigamarole? Click the link https://www.gofundme.com/manage/smittys-fiveyear-planDon’t know what the Five Year Plan is? Click the link https://youtu.be/KlmIxK1wUToThanks for watching, and thanks for sharing in the journey!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Smittydicks)

Scripture For Today: 2 Chronicles 33:13 “And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. THEN, Manasseh KNEW, that the Lord was God!” The Prayer of Petition pt 10We have been studying about the Prayer of Petition for the last several days. We've covered the reasons why it works. We covered how to do the research. How to layout the Petition. We covered how to present it. We covered the reasons why this works and the need for your Faith to grow in the process of preparing your prayer of petition. Today, I want to just layout the importance of WRITING OUT your prayer of petition. If possible, do so word for word. That way, when you pray, you are simply reading it to the Lord. Another way, is to list out the bullet points for your case. For example, you have the introduction, where we covered you are presenting this to God, your Heavenly Father, Creator of all things. You are coming before Him in the Name of Jesus, your Savior. You are coming before Him in accordance with your right standing based upon what Jesus did, etc. Then, you present your reason for the petition. Healing, salvation of loved ones, employment, finances, whatever the case is for your petition. Then, you have a bullet point for past cases where a petition just like yours has been answered by God before… Here, you may have your 100 scripture references, minus the scripture passages. Remember, I'm talking right now about your WRITTEN petition. In your prayer, you SHOULD HAVE a separate list of ALL of these scripture references. You need to READ every single one of those scripture references AND the scriptures, “into the record” (if you want to call it that, you've seen that done in court cases, etc.). In each and every single scripture, you start with, “IT IS WRITTEN…(then give the reference and then read the scripture).” This is what will take the majority of your time as you pray and present your petition to God. Once you have finished with that, you draw to your conclusion. Something to the effect of “seeing how you have answered the prayers of other with similar petitions, I know I am standing on good ground right now to believe you will grant this petition as well. I know this because I have based this petition completely on the Word of God, that cannot lie. In addition, (and you need to say this as well), IT IS WRITTEN in 1 John 5:14-15, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” There for, Sir, I am here, before you this day, with these scripture references of where you have heard the prayers of others in similar circumstances. You heard their prayers. You answered their prayers. I know you have heard my prayer this day. Therefore, I know I have the assurance that you will grant this petition as presented this day. In the Name of Jesus.” AMEN (which means “so be it!”). Then, you need to sign and date it!  Yes, just like a legal brief would be signed and dated and put on file – you need to do the same thing with your Prayer of Petition. If you and your spouse are praying this together, BOTH of you need to sign it! Amen! Just like a legal document. What then? Keep it on file. It is a written record of a legal brief you filed with God Almighty Himself. And what did you state from 1 John 5:14-15...?  “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” So, when the devil brings up, “you're going to die of cancer” or “you're not going to be able to pay your bills,” or whatever it is you created and presented this “Prayer of Petition” for – you can refer back to it. This...

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.Ephesians 2:10We are God's masterpiece.

Series:  The Light & Love of Jesus: A Study In 1 JohnScripture: 1 John 2:18-3:10We hope you enjoyed listening to this message! If you’d like to stay updated on what God is doing at Citylight Council Bluffs, be sure to follow us:Citylight Council BluffsFacebookInstagramCitylight Council BluffsSunday Gatherings at 8:00, 9:30 & 11:15 AMLivestream at 9:30 AM2109 Railroad Hwy, Council Bluffs, IA 51503Support the show (https://www.citylightcb.org/give/)

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love.  Honor one another above yourselves.” Romans 12:9-10We cannot love sincerely without being taught by Love himself, God. This episode we discuss what is sincere love, the importance of being taught how to love sincerely by spending time with Jesus, and honoring our brother and sisters by  knowing their inherent dignity as children of God.  What is love? Peter Kreeft https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9375

Davis Burleson (@davisburleson2) joins 2Old4TikTok this week! Dena and Melissa start the show talking about New Year's resolutions. They get excited discussing how Cheerios (@cheerios) is on TikTok recreating one of their classic 1990’s commercials thanks to a TikTok creator’s (@corispruiell) idea. Davis Burleson Interview ~7:40Davis tells us how he first got into TikTok earlier this year and how he’s grown his following to over 270k. We hear more about his Jeffree Star impression and his first year in college during the pandemic. Melissa gets riled up about bagels. We all bond over living in New York City during college, Trader Joes, Bagel Bob’s, and Newsbar Cafe. David tells us how he became real life friends with TikTok stars Audrey Peters (@theaudreypeters) and Serena Shahidi (@glamdemon2004). We hear about his experience as one of the TikTok creators invited to tour the Empire State Building. He tells us why his profile picture is of Jamie Lee Curtis and what type of content is on his For You Page. Fashion and Beauty TikTok ~34:30We get into Fashion and Beauty TikTok, discussing some of our favorite accounts like Nabela Noor (@nabela), Brittany Xavier (@brittany.xavier), and Kate Bartlett (@kateebartlett). Melissa asks Davis to explain some Youtubers she doesn’t know: Tana Mongeau (@tanamongeaulol), Tati Westbrook, Jeffree Star, Emma Chamberlain (@emmachamberlain). He explains what happened with James Charles (@jamescharles), Tati Westbrook, Shane Dawson (@shanedawson), and Jeffree Star at Coachella. Davis tells us more of his favorite TikTok creators like Noah Miller (@nmillz1). Lightning Round: New Years Eve Edition ~50:10We ask Davis for his NYE resolution, fashion predictions for 2021, hype house picks, thrift store advice, favorite TikTok trends, worst TikTok songs, and more. Find TikTok videos from all the creators we mention on our blog (2Old4TikTok.com) and Instagram (@2old4tiktokpod).

Welcome to this week's Quickie, our super fast take on all the adulting things that matter to you. The holidays can be super jolly and joyful for some, but they can also come with a ton of stress, pressure, grief, and loneliness for many. So, today we’re diving into five expert-backed mindset hacks to survive the holidays.Listen to our chat to learn more about:Setting clear boundaries with yourself and loved ones: 1:50The benefits of an *easy* gratitude practise: 4:08How to “gamify” holiday drama and stress as a way of (pretty damn fun) coping: 5:30Dealing with grief and the loss of loved ones during the holiday season: 8:16Creating new traditions and making your own meaning during the holidays: 12:10We hope this episode helps you survive the “most wonderful time of the year” a little better during these particularly strange times. Remember, you’re not alone—we’re all on this together. Stay safe and happy holidays, friends!Teach Me How To Adult is a podcast that serves up expert interviews, candid experiences and actionable advice on everything you never learned growing up. Follow along as we figure it out together!For show notes and more adulting tips, visit:teachmehowtoadult.caFollow us on the ‘gram:instagram.com/teachmehowtoadultpodcastFollow Gillian:instagram.com/yunggillianaire/Follow Cailyn:instagram.com/cailynmichaan/ 

A video game provides players with insights into pandemic responses, and our annual festive fun.In this episode:01:02 Balancing responses in a video game pandemicIn the strategy video-game Plague Inc: The Cure, players assume the role of an omnipotent global health agency trying to tackle outbreaks of increasingly nasty pathogens. We find out how the game was developed, and how it might help change public perception of pandemic responses.Plague Inc: The Cure from Ndemic Creations10:02 “We three Spacecraft travel to Mars”The first of our festive songs, we head back to July this year, and the launch of three separate space missions to the red planet. Scroll to the transcript section at the bottom of the page for the lyrics.12:54 Research HighlightsGiant pandas roll in piles of poo to keep warm, and how different bread-baking styles have led to distinct lineages of baker’s yeast.Research Highlight: Why pandas like to roll in piles of pooResearch Highlight: Sourdough starters give rise to a new line of yeast15:17 The Nature Podcast Audio Charades Competition: Lockdown editionIn this year’s festive competition, our reporters try to describe some of the biggest science stories, using only homemade sound effects. Results are mixed, at best...24:15 Nature’s 10We hear about some of the people who made it on to this year’s Nature’s 10 list this year.Nature’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 202032:20 All I want for Christmas is vaccinesIn our final festive song, we celebrate a huge scientific achievement, and one that’s offering a little hope for 2021. Scroll to the transcript section at the bottom of the page for the lyrics.Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.Song lyrics:"We three Spacecraft travel to Mars"We three spacecraft travel to MarsBearing probes we traverse afarRockets firingLaunching, flyingOne by one we departOh-oh one from Chinaone the Statesone the Arab Emirates…Careful timingWorlds aligninglaunching on the perfect dates.First is Hope from the UAEI map weather, orbitallyMy ambitionour first missionInterplanetaryOh-oh one from Chinaone the Statesone the Arab Emirates…Careful timingWorlds aligninglaunching on the perfect dates.Next Tianwen-one will debutI’ve a rover and orbiter tooPlus a landerAnd I’ve planned aMission returning soonOh-oh one from Chinaone the Statesone the Arab Emirates…Careful... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Series: Immanuel: The Predicted KingScripture: Isaiah 10:33–11:10We hope you enjoyed listening to this message! If you’d like to stay updated on what God is doing at Citylight Council Bluffs, be sure to follow us:Citylight Council BluffsFacebookInstagramCitylight Council Bluffs | Sunday Stream at 9:30 AM2109 Railroad Hwy, Council Bluffs, IA 51503Support the show (https://www.citylightcb.org/give/)

A listener recently reached out to us to share her story and let's just say it's heartbreaking. She told us that she had worked in the healthcare industry for over 30 years, but now because of a failed surgery, she can no longer do that. Her question after going back and forth with me was this, "I can barely walk, what in the world can I do now for God's kingdom?" Essentially, she feels useless, worthless, and no good. After reading this, I thought this would be a great opportunity to talk about the difference between the way the world views worth and the way God views worth.The world views worth by doing, producing, making, and creating. Once you can no longer do that in the world's eyes, there's not much more you can do so you go to the sidelines. But the Bible talks a whole lot more about being than doing. God is a lot more concerned with who we are than what we do because who we are is going to bleed over into what we do. God is far more concerned about us growing in Christ-likeness and being more and more like His Son.If you have ever felt like you just don't know what to do or you want to do something but you feel limited, I want you to remember something. Ephesians 2:10 says:"For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." - Ephesians 2:10We should walk in those good works that God has prepared for us and you know what? That doesn't change if you can't walk. What that is simply saying is that if you are focusing more on who Christ is and your relationship with him, those works have already been laid out before you. All you have to do is listen to the Lord's voice!

James 4:1-10We look at the desires that battle within us and how they can hurt, not only us, but the church we are a part of. We see that the way we resist our selfish desires and the temptations that come in the form of spiritual attack is to draw near to God.Support the show (http://drumalliance.com)

1 Corinthians 13:1-10We are called as Christians to cultivate the fruit of patience, kindness, and goodness.  Do you find this easy to do?  Are their particular people or situations that try your patience or kindness more than others? God has shown you tremendous kindness and goodness.  He wants you to go and show the same kindness and goodness to others.https://www.soulstrengthfit.com/

Principle 16 – Eternal Hope Psalm 16: 1-10We’re to be absolutely confident that because of Christ’s resurrection from the dead we too will live eternally.Support the show (http://www.bibleprinciples.org/donate)

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.”  Matthew 18:10We honor, today, our glorious Guardian Angels!  They are treasures and helpers beyond what we could imagine.  A few days ago we honored the Archangels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.  In that reflection we looked at the hierarchy of celestial beings created by God.  Though the Guardian Angels are on the bottom of that list, they are no less glorious and magnificent than the host of other celestial beings.  Guardian Angels are traditionally said to have been created for the sole purpose of serving us in our needs.  Yes, God could have chosen to care for us directly without the use of angels, but He didn’t.  He chose to create angels as mediators of His grace and care.  It’s fair to say that our Guardian Angels love us with a perfect love.  They know us, care for us and desire deeply that we become holy.  Their primary purpose is to get us to Heaven and to draw us into the heights of sanctity.  How do they do this?They do it by mediating God’s grace to us.  The word “angel” means messenger.  Thus, our angels play a central role in communicating to us the will and mind of God.  They can speak all that God wants to say to us.  They are also protectors in that they bring grace from God to particular situations in life to fight against evil and to help us do good.  Reflect, today, upon the gift of your own guardian angel.  This celestial being was created for the sole purpose of caring for you and getting you to Heaven.  Speak to your angel, today.  Rely upon your angel’s intercession and allow this holy angel to communicate to you God’s abundant grace.  Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.  Angels of God, pray for me.  Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2020 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.

Jaren Singh continues the series on the Armor of God. This is the second installment talking about the Breastplate of Righteousness. Preached on 9/6/20Ephesians 6:10-17Proverbs 4:23Ephesians 2:1-10We’re a startup church, we just planted in September 2020. At the Kalamazoo Church we believe that Christianity is done best when it is done together. And so if you live in the Kalamazoo area we would love to connect – be it coming to a Sunday Service, one of the small groups, or even just grabbing coffee with a member to learn more. You can visit Kalamazoo.Church for more. We pray that you’re inspired by what you hear today.We're a part of the International Churches of Christ.Intro and Outro by R3ason. Check out his music here.

IMPACTING LIFE’S DISASTERS Getting the most out of your storms - Pastor George Lehman  I want us to talk about: - Getting the most out of the difficulties, sorrows, hurts, pains, disasters that we will face in this life. Summed up in one word “STORMS” So that we can come out victoriously even when you have been knocked down many times. 2 Corinthians 6:4,6-7,10(NLT & NCV): “In everything we do, we try to *show that we are true servants of God.  We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.  We show we are servants of God by our pure lives, our understanding, patience, and kindness…  We use our right living to defend ourselves against everything… 10We have much sadness but we are always rejoicing”. *Not by our effort but by the Holy Spirit Power. This is Paul’s personal testimony, which God has given to us so we can draw strength and victory from. He says :- “With all these ‘storms’ – hey!! We are still standing”. We talking about “Getting the most out of our storms”. #1 Last week we spoke about “You’ve got what it takes” -   I want to share the following 3 thing you can count on: 1 – Count on storms to come. 2 – Count on strength for the storm. 3 – Count on joy in the storm. 2 Corinthians 6:4 :- “We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind (all kinds)”. Do you know storms come to make us – not to break us? #1. Count on storms to come. There are 3 kinds of storms we encounter. a) Storms caused by everyday life. Troubles = pressures of this life Do you experience any of these pressure Storms? Pressures of money – financial problems, family problems, marriage problems, peer pressure, job pressure, health problems. These are common to all of us, some more, some less than others, but they are a part of our everyday life. Jesus said in Matthew 6:34 :- “So, don’t worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own, sufficient for each day is its own trouble”. Don’t ask why – ask how I can get the most out of my storms. b) Storms caused by the actions of others. “Hardships” and distress brought on by others. Bible examples: David/Saul - Joseph/Brothers. I’m sure we can all tell stories how others caused hurts, offences, troubles, heartache and pain for our lives. We all experience the actions of others at one time or another in our lives. There are many hurting people that don’t go to church – because of people. “It’s our choice to get the most out of our storm”. c) Storms caused by our own mistakes. “Storms” – The one with our own signature on it – our own name written all over it. How many of you have brought storms on yourself by intentional or unintentional stupid mistakes or decisions? It’s so easy to blame others and not take ownership for many of the stupid calls we have made in our life. Anonymous :- “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them and strong enough to correct them” For the most, we expect so much from ourselves – but – we say and do things that bring misery and pain and storms, and even disaster into our lives. Paul called them “calamities”. #1. Count on storms to come. #2. Count on strength for the storm. 2 Corinthians 6:7 :- “We use our right living to defend ourselves against everything”. What is Right Living? - It is our response to the storms of life. When we live it out right – we come out right. The opposite is also true – When we live it out wrong – we come out bitter and all twisted. In other words, life can hurt you or help you. Life can make you a better or a bitter person. 2 Corinthians 6:6 :- “We show we are servants of God by our pure lives, our understanding, patience and kindness”. a) God will strengthen our purity. How do we purify Gold? – Turn up the heat. b) God will sharpen our understanding. What understanding is he talking about? Our greatest truths are learned in our greatest storms.  c) God will stretch our patience. Patience is always learned by repetition (herhaling) – the same things over and over and over. That is why God lets the storms blow into our lives because He is more interested in character than our comfort. d) God will shape our kindness. Let us be honest, the hardest time to be kind is in times of crises and storms. When things go wrong we become so self focused on our problem, our hurts, our pain, our storms… We can have all the excuses in the world – about pressure – but when we treat people in an unchristian, unkind way, it just shows God will have to keep the storm going so you can change your attitude. Crises bring out the ugliness or the loveliness in you. #1. Count on storms to come. #2. Count on strength for the storm. – Count on joy in the storm. 2 Corinthians 6:10 :- “We have much sadness but we are always rejoicing”. James 1:2 :- “Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds”. How can God say that? Because – Joy is a matter of choice - It is an act of your will Joy is a matter of obedience Philippians 4:4 :- “Rejoice in the Lord always”. It has nothing to do with how you feel – over 80 times we are instructed to be joyful in God’s Word. Joy is matter of focus -Think about this – What you are focusing on is the direction you are going right now. e.g. White piece of paper with a small black dot. You see, it is all about focus. Focus on getting the most out of your storm. Job 40:6 (NCV) :- “Then the Lord spoke to Job from the storm” Ask God to speak to you in your storm and be ready to respond.

Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference.Angela “AJ” Super 0:00Angela Super is the author of Erebus Dawning, forthcoming from Aethon Books. We caught up with her while she took a break from woman-ing the table for the Debut Novelists 2020 booth. She hands out lovely advice to up and coming writers/neophytes/worriers on her Bloggy Blog and was an absolute joy to kick off our AWP special episodes. Follow her on Twitter @AllBrevityWit, where she delivers lovely advice free of charge on how to #PitMad, #PracPic, and #FriFirst. Outspoken Bean 15:30Performance poet, teacher, and slam poetry coach talks with us about all the ways poetry can connect people in the community. Bean shares about his youth advocacy work for young writers with Space City Youth Slams. If you’re a young person looking for a way in, check for updates on Youth Poetry Slams and opportunities to engage. We talk five minute poems, #midweekstanzas. Bean loves his poetry kids so much, he is missing Coachella. That is dedication. Also we learn things about sand clocks. Bean would love to hear from you @outspokenbean on all the social media.Katharine Coldiron 37:10We speak with Katharine Coldiron about her gem of a novel, Ceremonials, a “bisexual ghost story about love and obsession,” inspired by the Florence and the Machine album of the same name. We talk about the non-profit organization, VIDA — for which she writes interviews — and the good work they do to shine light upon the gaps in representation across gender lines in all aspects of the publishing industry. We reference an amazing interview on the origin of VIDA in Literary Publishing in the 21st Century. Book Recommendation Bonus: check out Katharine’s listical, 5 Craft Books off the Beaten Path.Follow Katharine @ferrifrigida.Johnny Payne 58:30Director of the MFA program at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Johnny Payne, talks with us about how to make your creative writing sample especially attractive to the application committee. He talks about the virtues of finding a CWP that fits your exact needs and is honest about delivering on those. Continuing a favorite thread of this our beloved podcast, we address the concept of literary citizenship (i.e., why it pays to not be an a**hole). Craft book manual he teaches: Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays.Icess Fernandez 1:10:00We finish up Day 1 on an optimistic note from Icess Fernandez, author, teacher, and generally inspiring woman of all trades. From finding the right place to submit your work, to writing away the stigma of mental illness, and feeling fantastic doing it, we cover all the topics. Phuc channels the spirits of John Grisham or Johnny Cash (who can tell?). Icess dispenses quality writing advice in her blog and podcast, Dear Reader: Mental Health and the Writing Life. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Pick up a free local newspaper down Put on the nature strip or underneath a hedge new you today. Unknown Speaker 5:00On have a rain. Actually, we don't care if you do, we've already been paid by the advertisers. So they're Unknown Speaker 5:10fair. During the last taping of irrational fear. We did speak a lot about the crazy pandemic and panic buying that people are going through when it comes to stockpiling toilet paper. But you know, some people have no choice to take this stuff seriously. Here is a chat I had with someone who has to do just that. Unknown Speaker 5:31Joining us now is one person who has a real reason to be cautiously pragmatic. It's journalist Tasha wolf. She suffers from Ehlers danlos Syndrome and autoimmune progesterone anaphylaxis. She's basically allergic to her own hormones. And while she's actually a young person, even the slightest threat to her immune system is very, very real. Ashley, thanks for joining us. Unknown Speaker 5:55If someone who, whose body is actually probably more prone to this virus than Unknown Speaker 6:00But being still a young person how do you deal with all the jokes about missing toilet paper and things like that? Look on one hand there is some crazy cracking going on where people are right out there grabbing Kansas, you know my wife cheese Unknown Speaker 6:16but on the other hand it's a privilege to make fun of people who Unknown Speaker 6:21probably are at a higher risk of being seriously ill if they catch cruda virus but you have people who are like, you know, it doesn't matter to me like the 1% of people who are seriously ill who are going to die and I'm like, yet I'm one of those 1% who have low immune to skin issues. If I catch a general flu, I walk away feeling terrible. For months. I really like not to catch coronavirus. Unknown Speaker 6:45It's a risk. It's a real risk to me, but I also didn't want to go wild, I guess you could say with prepping, but I wanted to be cautious. The other night you put out a list on Twitter about things that folks with disabilities have to think about. Unknown Speaker 7:00During this oncoming crisis, what are some of those things that people with disabilities kind of need to consider when you're a person with disability quite often you have a very different experience of life and survival than the average Christian you know, you might not have the income to order Unknown Speaker 7:18on a regular basis, you may be allergic to certain foods, and it becomes quite hard to eat out, or you know, order a great because now even if you did have the cash to do it, then you're allergic to half of the things that get put in, you know, take away food, you really do need to cook for yourself, if you have some allergies and sensitivities say, for me, it would be completely it'll be both impractical and potentially cause me a good deal of pain if I was just you know, 100 or a noodle dish for demonstrate if I had to stay home. So there's a few people who I've talked to on Twitter, who said certain things going off their shelves like crazy like people are obviously Unknown Speaker 8:00bulk ordering. So they call doc storage. And then distortions that are used for online orders, things that they really seeing flying off the show. Nothing formula. If you're a parent with a small toddler quite often, you find that some toddlers have certain issues with like regurgitation, and they can only use certain sorts of formula. If you had a child like that. And it's already difficult to find the right formula. I would be stocking up as a parent with a child like that. I mean, to me, it's just if things go badly wrong, I don't want to injure myself tryna handle a trial and illness and your mid I had to to access any my schedule, right? You might want to have a chat to your doctor about the supply chain of short, sir, get you like drugs because it's absolutely awful to detox off those kinds of meds at home without support just because you want out and you can't get anymore. The other thing people might want to have a chat to their doctor about is is they have meds that are already hard to access. Unknown Speaker 9:00Kind of like acid to start building sometimes. And sometimes it takes interrupted for migraines you want to get for the packet when it comes to sumatriptan with trying to mimic acid dozle already some problems with supply chain, you might want to put aside a little bit extract or getting early research your scripts now because proximately 90% of our meds come from China and things not shipping as per normal contract. What kind of late time Can Can people still those kinds of meds on their own in their own fridge? right they weren't that's the problem. There's a thing called psycho script, which means that you get deemed a pharmacy if you try and take out certain men early. For one way around. It may be that doctors decide to order the script, put it in their own fridge and hold it for a month for patients. And then they can release it to patients when needed. But I think it would be a really terrible situation. If you ended up with people who are or IPS. You know, there's a range of skinny Unknown Speaker 10:00Drugs fortunate Unknown Speaker 10:03including palliative care patients. Unknown Speaker 10:17turning out to Super Tuesday, Joe Biden's search past all predictions and knocked the wind out of Bernie Sanders the sales. The most surprising thing of was, of course, was that Mike Bloomberg didn't win anything after spending $700 billion of his own money, except for American Samoa. Earlier today I spoke with Bernie Sanders Die Hard and comedian Francesca if you're intending on just how she's feeling a day after the bomb and wipe out Unknown Speaker 10:48in a bunker somewhere in California is a comedian and broadcaster too scared to face the reality of what could be the return to normcore 90s politics in the USA from AJ plus and MSNBC and TYT Unknown Speaker 11:00Francesca Fiorentina. Hello, Francesca. Hello? No, just Yeah, all the acronyms. I love it. Unknown Speaker 11:08I assume people know what all those things. Unknown Speaker 11:12It's the day after Super Tuesday in the USA right now or I, as I believe you call it woeful Wednesday. How is progressive America dealing with the news that Joe Biden could be the new daddy? Unknown Speaker 11:24Yes, it's it's Boxing Day for our hopes and dreams. And what the Biden pill has been, the vitamin pill has been one that's a little bit tough to swallow, because, you know, he is a very rapid, rapidly ageing, cognitively eating old man. And I know that's strange to say when someone like Bernie Sanders is in the race, but, you know, Biden has like regular mental gaffes. And you're kind of just like, I don't know if I want to watch this debate between Biden and Trump, which effectively is like you're in Unknown Speaker 12:00Laws arguing over who's going to carve the turkey with it? Oh, you gotta use an electric knife. No, you know. And that, I think is the fear that a lot of people are looking at like, Are we really going to put our senile old man up against their senile old man? Unknown Speaker 12:20And I don't know if our see no man's gonna win? Well, at least you know being from the left. It's a fair fight. No. And obviously it's not over yet. I mean, that's the big thing is that there's still more than half the delegates to get remember, in this country for some reason we have and just in this party, we don't elect the nominee based on popular vote. It's just this ridiculous, kind of wonky delegate math that nobody gets. And so there's still more than half the delegates. It's not over yet. Of course, a lot of folks are saying that young people didn't turn out to vote over Super Tuesday. Why is it that young people in America don't like divide? It's not cool, and it's long Tick Tock? No, it's got it. Unknown Speaker 13:00Once and this is a thing, Bernie or Biden will have to be big on Tick Tock and once they are, if they have a coordinated dance where every elbow jab also points to like, where the voting station is like that's, you know that that's when voting becomes cool, but no, I think Bernie, Bernie is the renegade Ben Bernie could do the renegade. He is the original Renegade. Oh, absolutely. Unknown Speaker 13:25I mean, I think young folks, I'm not sure about all the data. That's like one article that I saw that was like young folks aren't turning out. Unknown Speaker 13:32I do think that of all the young people, it's the Sanders campaign that has overwhelmingly the majority of support among young folks of all races, religions, ethnicities, etc. But it is a hard moment in your life to go out and vote in a primary, right? You're like, just starting to have sex and smoke weed. You are you're you're maybe in college, you're like, how am I gonna afford to pay for this? Also, I'm learning about Unknown Speaker 14:00colonialism. Oh my god. So you're like voting that feels stupid. So I think there's a lot of reasons why young people, especially in a primary are like I got, you know better things to do. Why would I vote without? There's only six on me? Yeah, I just exactly get it off. Now even though Mike Bloomberg did get in the race quite late, he spent half a billion dollars he did win American Samoa, what do American Samoans see him Bloomberg and no one else can listen. I'm pretty sure he bought the entire island. Oh, my mistake. This is the thing with every time there's a you know, there's an election and we're like, wait a minute, we still have American Samoa what like what are these like vestiges of colonial past that for some reason the US wields way too much power over and as like devastated and impoverished. And I think it is kind of sad to be totally honest with you that people aren't reaching out to American Samoa and then it was advertised Unknown Speaker 15:00Mint dollars, mostly that reach them. But it's hard to send canvassers out there or it's hard to get, you know, canvassers there. Listen, I'm happy to be sent to Americans and volunteer work on the very end. I thought that'd be fun. I would learn how to serve and cook barbecue or something. I think a hunger a hunger, I think I think they call it a honey. It's a barbecue in a pit. Yeah, a honey. Exactly. And we will barbecue the billionaire's roast them on an open flame. When Bernie Sanders gets into office. Obviously, that's what democratic socialism is about. At the time of recording right now. Warren still hasn't conceded she's still hanging in there. Why do you think that is? Unknown Speaker 15:40Yes, it's this is a very interesting for progressives in the US. Unknown Speaker 15:46And people out there just progressives, again, people want actually something a little bit different than then, as you said, a return to 90s politics, which is the Warren question and whether she should have dropped out sooner or not. I just want to say from the outset, like Unknown Speaker 16:00I distinguish between her supporters who I feel like, I'm not all but a lot of them, their hearts are in the right place. They do want, as she says big structural change. They believe that she was the best messenger and the best vehicle and the best leader for that structural change, I think after three or four races, and US states where she came in, third, fourth, and fifth, you can't really say that anymore. You can't really claim that she's got a plan for everything because clearly that plan should have included at winning at least one of the early states, whoever is running her campaign, and her herself. They've really been watching this. It's been hard to watch the heel turn away from Medicare for all the heel turn when she was swearing that she wouldn't raise the taxes of the middle class. And it's like, you know, that's a trick question. Elizabeth, like, you know, you were just being asked whether you were going to raise taxes on the middle class, just to Unknown Speaker 17:00appeal to a conservative voter who would never even vote for you anyway. And you kind of fell for it in the same way that you fell for a DNA test to prove that you were point 03 percent Native American. She absolutely needs to drop out now. And but we'll see. You know, I liken it a little bit to Game of Thrones, no spoilers, but you know, the generic question is like, which way is she going to go? How is it going to end is Khaleesi going to be on the side of good or on the side of burn it all down? And that would be I think, going with Biden, throwing the progressive movement under the bus, a rational fear. Knowing your viewers know how crazy Trump is, and they know that same people have to work together. Unknown Speaker 17:48You can listen to the full interview of Francesca on our Patreon. Also, you can check out Francesca's work on a j pluses news broke and MSNBC. Red, white and hurt now next week on irrational fear. Unknown Speaker 18:00promise we will have a show that I won't lose. Chris Taylor will be on the show from the chase bridey corner from tonight will also be here, and we're back weekly until our Comedy Festival show so please head to our Patreon and give us a few bucks to help us make the show cost us a little bit of money each way to make it a big thank you to Robert De gas Peter G. Jacob brown FBI radio and our fear mongers tonight Lewis harbour Christian Van Buren, Madeline Stewart, who have all got great things on that they need to plug including Madeline Stewart has got a comedy festival Sharon called the underdogs. She's taken to the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival. She runs a great night called crypts and crepes. It's for comedians who have got disabilities. And she runs it monthly at one of seven projects in Redmond. So do go check that out. We'll leave you right now with the latest news fighters episode on coronavirus from DJ diabolical Until next week, there's always something to be scared of, namely, pulling the USB disk out before it's free. Unknown Speaker 19:00fully exploited a rational fear and I haven't touched my face in weeks and weeks. This is News fighters. Unknown Speaker 19:10We fight the news so you don't have to. Okay, so first up, it's time for an update on the coronavirus and a New South Wales. Things are getting real health minister Brad has suggested that people stop shaking hands. I think it's time for us to stand shaking. It will be sensible not to be hand shaking, no hand shaking, no hand shaking. I mean, I think for sydneysiders this will be normal for us. I mean, our traditional grading when we encounter someone for the first time is just to get out of my way. So what is the New South Wales health minister suggesting we do instead of shaking hands then why would be suggesting to the community in New South Wales and a more morally afoot, the time that Ozzy's actually gave each other a pat on the back, you know, like your parents never gave you But it doesn't stop there. You could be exercising a degree of care and caution with Unknown Speaker 20:00Whom you choose to kiss? What no more indiscriminately French kissing my mailman and my barrister on a daily basis. Sorry Corey normal kissy kissy for you the new self was fun police have ruled it out. But New South Wales health minister bread has odd says there's no need to be totally alarmed. Common Sense should prevail. Unknown Speaker 20:19It's not as if faces are constantly touching public spaces. Yeah, except for this passionate fellow in Iran. This man is one of several who've posted videos of themselves licking a famous shrine to prove it safe. Yeah, he was just looking at trying to see if it was safe from the coronavirus. He wasn't still high from Mardi Gras on the weekend or anything. Meanwhile, around the world the authorities are saying there's one simple way to protect yourself from coronavirus. Wash your hands so you got to do we all have to be washing our hands. The single most useful thing that we can all do is to wash our hands washing my hands. This is Sydney we haven't had a public toilet with soap in it since 1998. All right. How long should I Unknown Speaker 21:00wash my hands for two times Happy birthday. Keep scrubbing until you've sung the Happy Birthday song twice. You know that song your parents never sung you to get the hand marching message out the World Health Organisation has joined us social media platform, tik tok normally harm to lip synching videos and dance offs. Here's a clip from their first video frequently clean your hands using an alcohol based hand rub product like in jail or wash your hands with soap and water. Boring who you should add some rap music or some dancing at least. Unknown Speaker 21:32New coronavirus Unknown Speaker 21:35Yeah, I did a bit of a troll through the old tik tok means and it turns out there's already the perfect tik tok Corona virus meme template. It's this one for when the government tells you you have to self isolate for 14 days, but you can't because you've never had paid sick leave in your entire life. You know, I'd really like to do that. But I don't have any fucking money. I don't have any fucking money. And if this is making you feel doomed, maybe that's why Unknown Speaker 22:00Doing this as the virus spreads, so too does the panic buying bulk buying at supermarkets as shoppers stockpile food essentials and toiletries. Yes, everyone is panic buying because of the corona virus. Or at least that's what I said when I ran into a workmate who caught me buying 10 frozen pizzas and four blocks of chocolate last night. Yeah panic buying coronavirus got a stuck up, but there's no need to worry everyone while the Australian media keeps us up to date and well informed with this smartest and brightest coronavirus experts. Well for more on the coronavirus emergency we're joined by nationals and pay Barnaby Joyce. Unknown Speaker 22:36This is Unknown Speaker 22:38where we fight the news. So you don't have to A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.- Ephesians 2:10We’ve all felt worthless, hopeless, or useless. But God promises you have a special purpose. You are created by God and for God. You are not an accident or a mistake. You are God’s masterpiece, hand-crafted with pride and joy.God has planned out good for us to do from the beginning of time. Don’t allow yourself, Satan or anyone else to say your life has no purpose, meaning, or value. If you are alive and breathing, you can be sure God is working in you and working through you. God promises He will fulfill your destiny.Reflect: Is there a time when you have doubted your worth to God?How does this promise make you feel? Ask God to show you the “good work” He is doing in your life.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/yourdailybible)

The Devils may have the weekend off, but the DBR crew is here to preview next week's games and talk about the state of the ACC (hint- it ain't good). Plus, we delve into the latest Pay the Players debate. 0:00 Devil with the Blue Dress 0:30 Donald, Jason, and Sam want to talk about breakfast drinks 2:30 Time for some actual basketball talk, we preview Duke’s next opponent, Pitt and Jeff Capel returning to Cameron 10:05 A preview of the 4th place team in the ACC, the Syracuse Orange… a different Syracuse team than what we are used to seeing 15:10 We talk about how Duke can exploit the Syracuse zone defense 19:50 A shout out to our wonderful sponsors, Byrd Campbell 20:25 A look at the ACC and which teams from the conference can make the tournament 37:40 Pay the players! The head of the NCAA talks about where they are now on that debate 46:10 Duke band, take us home! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ephesians series message 12Text: Ephesians 2:8-10We bring to a close this remarkable section which speaks to our salvation from heaven's perspective. The mighty power of God is displayed in us by His raising us from the dead to new life. By His power, our eternity is sealed and we can expect to see His life manifested in us now as He conforms us to the image of His Son, from one degree of glory to another. We are saved by grace, and faith is the mechanism by which God accomplishes this. Boasting is excluded, 100%, so none of this is by our works or efforts.

2 Corinthians 7: 9-10We have all felt the burden of sorrow, but did you know we can use our sorrow for God? I came across this concept while studying this morning and I thought I would pass it along to you guys. Let's discuss how we can recognize Godly sorrow and utilize it to become stronger Christians. 

Galatians 6: 10We have discussed previously the difference between doing good and doing well. Today I want to discuss the doing good part: are we doing good? Who are we doing good things for? The Bible has clear and exact instructions on doing good and I thought them especially relevant in the holiday season. 

Spoilers for Kingdom Hearts III from approximately 1:14:22 to 1:15:10We’re in the eye of the storm, we've had one weekend of relative quiet before another crop of new games drop. For now though, Austin is living his best deliveryman life in Death Stranding. Rob is feeling cold on Need for Speed Heat, a racing game with less than stellar racing but a plot so wild he’s gotta to see it through. Patrick is feeling the burn with Ring Fit Adventure, especially in his deltoids (those overhead presses are no joke!) Cado is catching up by playing … Nier: Automata, a game he should’ve finished two years ago, and Outer Wilds, a game he wished he’d picked up sooner, and both games that will make you feel sad.Discussed: Ring Fit Adventure 4:48, Need for Speed Heat 17:02, Death Stranding 46:50, Nier: Automata 1:08:48, Outer Wilds 1:15:10, The Outer Worlds 1:21:40, Pokemon Sword and Shield 1:28:20, Stadia 1:34:41, Radio Commander 1:40:01 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brian and Corey are back at it this week to discuss Corey's adventure for Extra Life, and then we comb through Polygon's list of Top 100 games of the decade.Polygon's 51-100Polygon's 11-50Polygon's 1-10We know you've got thoughts, so send them to us by tweeting to the podcast at @astartingpoint, Corey or Brian.  Or simply email us at StartingPointFeedback [at] Gmail dot com.Starting Point on Google PlayStarting Point on iTunes

Brian and Corey are back at it this week to discuss Corey's adventure for Extra Life, and then we comb through Polygon's list of Top 100 games of the decade.Polygon's 51-100Polygon's 11-50Polygon's 1-10We know you've got thoughts, so send them to us by tweeting to the podcast at @astartingpoint, Corey or Brian.  Or simply email us at StartingPointFeedback [at] Gmail dot com.Starting Point on Google PlayStarting Point on iTunes

Habakkuk 3:16 “I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. 17Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to tread on the heights.” To answer this question we need to answer these:1- Are you dependent on material things?“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-212- Are you patient in the fight?“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7Our hope is that we can be wise in the race, our joy comes not only in running the race but finishing well.3- Are you strong?“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.” Ephesians 6:10We also need to remember there is joy in helping others and the strength we are given is to be used in this wayWe who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1 Conclusion: Joy comes not from our circumstances, but from our relationship with God. “This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.” Jeremiah 9:23-24

Join us for days 3, 4, and 5 of Star Wars Celebration Chicago! Be sure to check out the post on our website for photos and links and all of the good stuff that goes along with this episode: https://childrenoftheforce.com/2019/04/21/episode-131-days-3-4-and-5-of-star-wars-celebration-chicago/After some opening thoughts about Celebration and some news of how we’re acclimating back into our regular lives, we get into it…SATURDAY [7:40]The Rebels Remembered panel was great, emotional and hilarious. We stopped by the Star Wars Show stage and Cameron took our picture, as you can see here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BwNZbZqAnv1/Then we witnessed The Running of the Hoods, which is delightfully bizarre. Check out the videos on our Twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/ForceChildren/status/1117291095543701505Then we went to the Sisters of the Force panel on the Celebration stage, which was a great conversation full of appreciation and tears. The energy in that stadium was so amazing. And we ended the day with A Star Wars Let’s Play, the video game panel. Which was so funny my face was sore at the end of it. I wish I would have taken video of this panel. Alas...But actually, we ended the day with the Podcast Meetup at the hotel bar. It was a blast. So fun to meet some of our fellow podcasters. SUNDAY [34:50]We went to the Mandalorian panel on the Celebration stage. It was awesome and we’ll talk more about it on an upcoming show! (It's hard to see, but there are ton of Mandalorian Mercs right in the middle of that photo holding up their helmets.)EK Johnston signed a couple books and we had a great conversation with her about Crokinole. Then we met Andi Gutierrez and Anthony Carboni and Scott Bromley!   I got Anthony Daniels autograph on my 1977 trading card of 3PO! And he held the action figure I’ve owned nearly my entire life! Then we went to the Clone Wars panel, which was awesome! You can watch it here (including the clips from upcoming episodes and the trailer for the new season!):https://youtu.be/I0XlB2EJZuA?t=10We ended the day with laughter again at the Anthony Daniels one-man show. Which included us all singing along to this video of 3PO on Sesame Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDRlZHn_oPEMONDAY [54:00]We went to the Celebration Store, which was pretty cool. The kids got this photo with a Loth Wolf: We saw the awe-inspiring completed diorama. Met Ryan and Dillon from the Me and My Padawan podcast. We ran into the Geeky Bubble crew!And we got Peter Mayhew’s autograph on my 1977 trading card of Chewbacca!FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT CELEBRATION [1:16:35]OUTRO [1:20:10]Thanks for listening! Send us a voicemail or email us at forcechildren@gmail.com if you want to take part in the discussion or just give us some feedback. Thanks!

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00:00:00 Introductie / Teaser 00:01:40 Gesprekje vooraf 00:02:00 Introductie sponsoren: www.linkfotografie.nl / www.myrthekoppelaar.nl / www.rootmedia.nl / www.amberscript.com 00:04:30 Waar gaan we het over hebben tijdens deze podcast 00:08:10 Wie is Patrick van de Vrie 00:09:30 Op dit moment kun je niet werken, wat zou er gebeuren als je wel zou werken? 00:10:00 Wat is de invloed van jou PTSS op je omgeving, en andersom? 00:17:30 Welke hulpbronnen / organisaties zijn er voor de omgeving voor iemand met PTSS? 00:20:20 Hoe wordt er thuis op gereageerd? 00:21:30 Het bewuste moment waarop jij dacht er is iets mis? 00:30:10 We gaan het niet hebben over het trauma, Patrick verteld waarom. 00:31:20 Hoe ontstaat PTSS eigenlijk? 00:33:00 Welke therapieën ben je vanaf 2010 gaan volgen. 00:42:20 De ondersteuning van een 0-e lijner, wat doet zo iemand en hoe ben jij hiermee mee geholpen? | Via een Facebook groep van veteranen. 00:43:00 Even een time-out……. 00:45:00 Wat betekend een 0e lijner voor jou? 00:49:30 Vertel eens over centrum 45. 00:55:00 Hoe werkt 3MDR, met virtual reality? 01:00:00 Hoe is het voor jou om kwetsbaar te zijn? 01:06:00 Wat heeft kwetsbaarheid jou gebracht? 01:07:40 Kom je van PTSS af? 01:09:00 Wanneer accepteerde je dat je PTSS had? 01:10:00 Waarom is een feest met 55000 personen oké maar een familie feestje ontzettend lastig? 01:15:00 Hoe kunnen mensen rekening houden met iemand die PTSS heeft? 01:24:00 Omgaan met geen sociaal wenselijk antwoord is latig voor veel mensen. Hoe moeten mensen hiermee omgaan. 01:27:30 In de omgang bij iemand met PTSS, lijkt op een dans! Patrick legt uit waarom. 01:29:00 Kun jij mensen beter helpen dan daarvoor, sinds jouw PTSS? 01:31:00 Waar ben je trots op op dit moment? 01:32:30 En hoe nu verder? Wat zou jij graag willen gaan doen hierna? 01:35:30 Patrick wil gewoon mensen gaan helpen! 01:37:00 Je gaat naar de Warrior Games in Tampa Florida. Wat ga je hier doen? En hoe sluit wounded warriors hier bij aan, en stichting de gewonde soldaat. 01:10:00 Zijn er zaken die jij graag kwijt wil Patrick?

Closer to Him - What Does God Really Want #1Matthew 4:8-11John 8:44Satan uses Lies to Destroy us. God uses Truth to Develop usA Lie to Man About God – Genesis 3:4Genesis 2:17A Lie to God About Man – Job 1:6-11A Lie to The God ManPlace – Person – PurposeMatthew 4:1-3Matthew 4:5Matthew 4:8-10We all Worship SomethingWorship is our Response to what we Value the MostGod doesn’t mind you having other things, as long as they are not Above Him. (Matthew 6:33)Romans 1:21-23Deuteronomy 6:14-15Hebrews 13:15James 4:8Hebrews 10:22Psalm 50:8-15Worship is Giving God something He Doesn’t HaveThank Him – Offer Him – Include HimWorship is More than a Service. Worship is More than a Song. It’s an expression; an action; an offering; a lifestyle. Worship is how we Connect with the God of the Universe. And as we draw closer to Him, He draws even Closer to Us.Support the show (https://carolinachurch.org/giving/)

Well, now we know how good Duke can play. Beating Virginia at Virginia while not trailing a single second is almost certainly the most impressive win any team will have all year. We bask in the glory of it. 0:00 Welcome to the pod, where we are recruiting geniuses to attend Duke grad school 2:00 Time to talk about Duke raining threes down on Virginia 3:50 Donald says RJ Barrett’s postgame quote is the most cold-blooded comment EVER! 5:10 Sidebar about Zion defying the laws of physics to block a shot 10:45 Sam leads our discussion about the quality of Duke’s D against Virginia 14:15 Marques Bolden is a heck of a defender 16:05 Jason points out Coach Scheyer’s assessment of Duke’s 3-point shooting 20:20 Virginia’s strategy to stop Zion and how Zion defeated it 24:50 Duke stole the ball a lot lot lot of the time 26:15 We have an amazing new sponsor, GTHCGTH.com, for everyone who knows where Carolina can go 27:40 The BC game… yawn, we beat the !#@^!^ out of them in the second half 30:20 In praise of Cam Reddish, who found his shooting touch and led the team in scoring 32:15 We marvel at Zion filling up the boxscore 33:10 We strongly urge you to skip the next 2 minutes as Jason struggles to say the Byrd Campbell promo… really, you do not want to listen to this. It is ugly. 35:10 Previewing the Louisville and NC State matchups this week 45:00 The NCAA releases its current look at the top seeds, Duke is the overall #1 52:55 Jason makes a bold prediction about who Duke will play in the NCAA tournament 55:00 Player of the week, we like the outside shooting 56:35 Parting Shots – Sam on his guest shot on WXDU and some fun buzzer beaters 1:00:20 Parting Shots – Donald on the new Alliance of American Football 1:02:50 Parting Shots – Jason on the newest Dukie in the NBA 1:05:25 Bonus talk about the NBA trade deadline 1:08:00 Goodbye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John 10:1-10We open up a new series exploring the idea of "the good life?" Most people want a good life, right? What is the good life? What are the parts and pieces that give us an opportunity to have a good life? Over the next six weeks, we will explore this through the lens of Jesus' words in John 10:10 and we'll look at topics such as peace with God, peace with ourselves, simplicity, anger and relationships. This is the first in the series.

News links for the week:‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/07/make-better-choices-endangered-hawaiian-monk-seals-keep-getting-eels-stuck-up-their-noses-scientists-want-them-stop/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1244b272c595Elf murder exercise leaves student 'traumatized,' mom claims: 'There was a crime scene in one of the classrooms': https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/elf-murder-exercise-leaves-student-traumatized-mom-claims-there-was-a-crime-scene-in-one-of-the-classroomsNuns steal $500,000 from Catholic school, go gambling: https://www.ksat.com/news/national/nuns-steal-500-000-from-catholic-school-go-gamblingSchool turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/school-turns-students-lunch-debt-over-to-collection-agency/1645349811Man arrested in Texas after telling kids Santa isn’t real: https://apnews.com/db74bbbb02c948398bf3808f1751b785Wedding photographer arrested for having sex with guest, urinating on tree: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/wedding-photographer-arrested-for-having-sex-with-guest-urinating-on-tree/amp/Woman who was married to ghost of a 300-year-old pirate issues warning after split: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-who-married-ghost-300-13708550Police make grovelling apology after describing ‘fat naked’ FLASHER’S ‘small penis’: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/743723/police-crime-flasher-penis-fat-naked-york-facebook-north-yorkshireWe would to thank Cajun Curl Original Spice for their support! For some spice thats extra nice that taste spicy but dosen't feel spicy, check them out over at www.cajuncurl.com.Special thanks to Silencyde for providing the music! Check out his music on Soundcloud here, on his YouTube channel here, and on Facebook here.Music Break: Culture Code - Make Me Move (feat. Karra) [NCS Release] Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGiFtb8Rpw&list=RD9rujCfYXhQc&index=10We want to hear from you! Please email the show earthoddity@planetmail.net You can also follow us on Twitter @_earthoddity and on Instagram at _earthoddity. You can call us at (662) 493-2059! Please don't hesitate to leave us a voicemail, we want to hear your voice!  Also like us on Facebook here and while your there, don't forget to join our group page and take part in all the hilarity that ensues! Have a great week and we love you! God bless you every one!

Countdown to Craziness is here and the guys are in a basketball mood! 0:00 Byrd Campbell means business 0:30 Jason welcomes you to pod #130, it is gonna be full of basketball! 2:25 Countdown to Craziness recap. Sam was in the stands and gives us the view from there. 5:30 Donald talks about why not to read too much into what happened in this game. 8:05 Jason is still quite concerned with our outside shooting and raves a bit about what he saw from Tre Jones. Sam is a little more cautious. 17:10 We need to talk about Zion’s hands. 19:50 We get to the really important stuff from CTC, the player intros! 26:20 Wild and whacky facts we learned about the players during the broadcast. 29:00 We review the presentation of the non-basketball stuff. Sam was underwhelmed. 35:30 DominateTestPrep.com is your place to go for GRE and GMAT help! 36:35 The NBA and the GLeague are in the market for high school basketballers. Will any kids pick the GLeague over going to college? We have very different opinions about this. 57:45 Byrd Campbell has a message about the start of the basketball season. 58:35 Football time… what happened against Virginia and what will happen against Pitt? 1:10:05 Parting Shots – Sam can’t wait until the future when we learn what has really been going on behind the scenes in college basketball. 1:11:55 Parting Shots – Donald on the upcoming ESPN+ series on Duke, “Earn Everything” 1:13:25 We celebrate the advent of “Chicken!!” 1:14:50 Parting Shots – Jason on the ACC’s dominant position in the new KenPom rankings. 1:17:05 Sadly, we are postponing the live DBR podcast… goodbye, and here is the Duke band! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 A Star is Born – Bradley Cooper sings 0:25 Welcome to Jason & Josh Fight About the Movies, we introduce ourselves 1:40 Josh sums up A Star is Born, if you are not familiar with the plot from the previous four versions. 4:25 Jason says his favorite scene in the film was the first time Gaga and Bradley sung together. 7:10 We discuss this film’s potential for awards. 9:30 Time to fight a little bit. Jason has some serious misgivings about the Star is Born story. 16:40 We heard straight from the horse’s mouth about making this movie. Our thoughts on Bradley Cooper, the Director. 17:50 Jason wants to fight about how Lady Gaga embraced her Lady Gaga persona instead of being “true to her music.” 25:50 We give our final words on A Star is Born

Series: Acts: Jesus MultipliesScripture: Acts 3:1-10We hope you enjoyed listening to this message! If you’d like to stay updated on what God is doing at Citylight Council Bluffs, be sure to follow us:Citylight Council BluffsFacebookInstagramCitylight Council Bluffs | Sundays at 8, 9:30 & 11:15 AM 2109 Railroad Hwy, Council Bluffs, IA 51503Support the show (https://www.citylightcb.org/give/)

0:00 Byrd Campbell love the podcast! 0:35 Jason hosting this week. Sam is officially a Duke student again. Donald is no longer in Utah. 2:10 Jason intros our very special guest, the Alaskan Assassin, Trajan Langdon. Jason’s intro is long and full of gushing. 5:00 Jason’s intro is finally over, we hear from Trajan about the how great that 1999 team was. 9:15 Trajan talks about the final game and the controversial travelling call that cost Duke a title. 10:30 Trajan talks about his close relationship with his teammates that has lasted well beyond their hoops careers. 12:45 Jason asks about the transition from the 1995 disaster to the 1999 success. 14:45 Trajan reflects on his minor league baseball career and why he chose basketball over baseball. 17:35 Trajan talks about how K has changed over the years, including talk about Duke playing zone. 18:50 Donald takes over and wants to know about the difference Trajan saw in NBA versus college ball. 21:10 Trajan talks about his remarkable career in Europe. 24:20 Donald asks about winning the Euroleague title. 26:30 Trajan talks about leadership and how his desire to be a leader has driven his entire career. 30:45 Trajan gives his favorite Coach K story… and it is a great one! 35:10 We react to the interview. 44:55 Byrd Campbell gives a tribute to Trajan Langdon. 46:15 Jason plays: What was the most significant thing to happen for Duke this summer? Topic #1- RJ’s play for team Canada. 47:40 Topic #2 – Zion breaks the vertical leap record at Duke. 48:30 Topic #3 – K says Bolden will be one of the best big men in the country next season. 49:10 Sam and Donald react to Jason’s nominees and they both say Zion’s freak athleticism is the biggest thing happening for Duke. 55:30 Jason just can’t stop talking about how great RJ Barrett is going to be. 58:25 We preview Duke’s tour of Canada coming up in a couple weeks. 1:00:30 Donald says he will be paying close attention to the rotations and how much K experiments with different combinations. 1:01:45 Sam values PG play and wants to see what Tre Jones is like. 1:03:55 Jason is going to be watching who takes and who makes 3 pointers. 1:06:50 Parting shots – Donald talks about a brilliant twitter thread about ACC Football 1:10:55 Parting shots – Sam can’t believe how much Duke’s campus has changed since he left. 1:12:05 Parting shots – Jason wants to know why there is no Duke team at the $2 mil TBT?!?! 1:16:15 Goodbye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Approaches to the Christian Life:1. Trapped in a performanceThe giver who blows his own trumpet v2-4The pious prayer v5-8The Lent-time moaner v16-182. Trusting in a FatherWe care about Him v9-10We trust Him to care about us v11-13

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0:00 Byrd Campbell, the best Duke lawyers around 0:30 Jason welcomes us to the pod… and where in the world is Donald Wine? 1:50 Zion Williamson shocks the world. Donald gives us a breakdown of his game. 5:45 Jason says Zion is Charles Barkley 2.0 and that this is the real start of positionless basketball at Duke. 8:35 The Star Wars Empire theme gets us to Sam talking about what it is like to get all the recruits, all the time. 15:30 Will it be hard for so many studs to play together with just one basketball? 21:45 Jason on how much fun this is for Coach K. 23:20 Time to talk about the Pitt game where we rave about Wendell’s game. 26:50 Is Grayson coming out of his shooting slump? 31:35 Our thanks, once again, to our wonderful sponsors Byrd Campbell. 32:20 Sam leads the preview of Virginia, the best defensive team in America and he wonders how many points we need to win the game. 38:50 Jason says Duke’s offensive focus, pounding the ball inside, is exactly what Virginia is most effective at stopping. 41:20 We all make predictions on the game. Jason says Duke 68-62, Sam has it Blue Devils 69-61, and Donald says 71-65 Duke. 42:10 We discuss Trevon Duval’s left eye. 44:25 Player of the week, we all love Mr. Carter, & we say goodbye! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 Byrd Campbell, the lawyers who love Duke. 0:30 We are recording early in the day and you can blame the college football playoffs. 4:00 We finally get to the Duke basketball game against FSU, and it begins with Jason talking about what Trevon Duvall does well and what he does not. 13:10 Donald chimes in about how many shots we took and how we got them… OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS! 17:15 Sam talks about Duke’s foul trouble philosophy and how we managed to win despite 4 starters with 4 fouls. 23:30 We talk about Duke giving up a lot of 3-pointers. Is that Duke’s biggest weakness? 32:10 We preview NC State and Jason warns about a guy who could be a real 3-point threat. 39:00 Donald thinks the NC State crowd could be real trouble for our young players. 41:30 Jordan Tucker transfers. We debate whether he had a realistic future at Duke. 50:30 Another shout out to our sponsorship buddies, Byrd Campbell. 51:15 Donald talks about attending the Quick Lane Bowl, perhaps Duke football’s best game of the year! 1:00:35 Player of the week picks… Donald starts off with a surprise. 1:02:30 Parting Shots – Jason goes off on how much better college hoops is than college football. 1:05:40 Parting Shots – Donald talks about how cool outdoor hockey is. 1:07:10 Parting Shots – Sam likes to watch coaches talk. 1:10:15 Goodbye and Duke band… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 Those legal eagles, ByrdCampbell earn our thanks once again. 0:30 Jason is in an unfamiliar place… and so is Sam. 2:40 We recap the Florida game, and Jason begins by asking, “Did you think we would win when we were down by 17 points?” 6:30 Sam says, “Duke looked around and said, ‘Hey, we’re better than this,’” and with that the Blue Devils took control of the game 9:10 We sing the praises of Florida. Donald is really impressed and says Florida will be a contender all season long 9:55 Jason unveils his unified theory of the 2017-18 season… it boils down to one word: Rebounding! 14:10 Donald talks about Marvin Bagley, and we wonder where he ranks among the all-time greats at Duke, freshmen or otherwise. 18:30 Donald brings up ESPN’s “odds of winning the game” silliness. Duke was a decided underdog at times during the tournament. 22:10 Jason brings up some other folks who played well, starting with Wendell Carter, who was great down the stretch against Florida. 25:00 Donald: “It is almost like Jay Bilas got married last night to a woman named Second Jump because he was in love with it…” 26:50 We turn to the Texas game, which Jason says was “The dawn of the Alex O’Connell era” 32:20 Sam discusses the shot chart from the Texas game, and how every shot was made in the paint. 34:50 Donald points out that we lead the nation in points in the paint… and Jason wonders how scary good we will be in a few months when the youngsters mature. 37:55 Jason wonders if we need to lose a game to really learn the lessons we need to be truly great. 40:30 Sam is forced to eat crow over his earlier prediction that Duke would not develop the bench. 50:25 ByrdCampbell is the choice of Dukies in FL and TX for legal advice 51:10 Jason previews the ACC-Big Ten challenge and our mediocre opponent, Indiana 58:15 Sam sidetracks us into a conversation about the amazing Minnesota-Alabama game which turned into an insane 5-on-3 contest… and the 3 almost won! 1:03:20 Jason wants to know how much we should blame Richard Pitino for not being able to coach Minnesota better against the 3-man Alabama team. 1:09:05 We turn to Duke Football and Jason admits he lost faith in this team and they proved him wrong by winning their last 2 games to make it to a bowl game. 1:15:25 Player of the week… which we are re-naming the non-Bagley Player of the Week 1:19:35 Parting Shots – Donald with some love for the Duke women’s soccer team 1:21:15 Parting Shots – Sam congratulates Matt Luke, a Cut disciple, for becoming the new head coach at Ole Miss and then Sam tries to curry favor with noted Duke billionaire David Rubenstein. 1:23:25 Parting Shots – Jason tips his cap to JWill, who was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame alongside some other legends, some of whom Sam has never heard of! 1:25:30 We want your stories about your earliest basketball memories. Send them to us at DBRPodcast@gmail.com 1:28:15 Goodbye and the Duke band plays us home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do not miss the amazing interview with former Dukie Chris Burgess! One of the best interviews ever on this podcast. 0:00 Byrd Campbell means business! 0:30 Donald welcomes us to a midweek edition and teases something special coming up 2:05 Sam kicks off our coverage of the MSU game by talking about what it was like to be there, live, in the arena for the game 6:30 Donald asks Jason about the rebounding… we are impressed with how Duke hits the glass 8:45 Jason gushes about Trevon Duval, who made several moves that seemed reminiscent of Kyrie Irving 12:50 Jason talks about the transformation of Coach K in his 38th season… it is truly stunning 14:50 Donald talks about how Duke demoralized Michigan State by beating them at their own game 17:25 We spend a little time talking about the maturity and leadership of Grayson Allen 20:30 Tucker Byrd of Byrd Campbell has a message about Grayson’s intensity and perseverance 21:25 A very special interview – former Dukie and current assistant coach at Utah Valley Chris Burgess 24:40 Burgess talks about how he scouted Duke and what impressed him about them 27:45 Burgess agrees that Duke is the best team in the country 29:20 We find out what it was like to play Kentucky and Duke on back-to-back nights 32:15 Donald asks Chris about his memories of being at Duke 34:05 Chris talks about the pain of losing the national title in 1999 36:10 We ask Burgess about being a part of one of the great recruiting classes of all time and he tells us a crazy story about Baron Davis 40:40 What is it like to be a coach versus being a player? 42:55 Burgess tells a couple great stories about being behind the scenes with his 2 head coaches… Coach K and Rick Majerus 48:55 We talk about how great the Burgess interview was. Sam loved the Majerus story, Jason talks about Bagley’s “second jump,” and Donald talks about how much the 1999 loss hurts 1:00:20 Parting Shots – Jason recommends a movie 1:02:50 Parting Shots – Sam mentions the loss of Jeff Capel’s father and then tells a story about the nicest airport ticket attendant in history! 1:05:10 Parting Shots – Donald says you should go see the play, Mean Girls: The Musical 1:06:55 Goodbye folks! Have a happy Thanksgiving! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 Thanks to the Dukies of Byrd Campbell for loving the podcast! 0:40 Donald intros our discussion about the huge Adidas scandal and learns that Jason has A LOT TO SAY about all this 3:50 We start with the obvious, Rick Pitino’s career is over… or is it? 5:15 Jason says Pitino won’t be the only guy fired over this, and points out the difference in a NCAA investigation and one led by the FBI 11:40 Jason explains the two different aspects of the scandal, the Adidas side and the agent/financial planner side 17:40 We get into the Auburn part of the scandal and Sam equates each school to a mafia family 21:00 Donald brings up the question as to whether fired coaches will be able to move into pro coaching 24:20 Jason wonders what other programs aside from Louisville have been using Adidas to pay recruits 28:10 We hear what a former sports agent/financial planner thinks about all this 32:00 Donald says none of this should be even a mild surprise to folks who pay attention to the way the AAU basketball world works 37:10 Sam brings up a scary thought… could Duke get enveloped in all this? 42:20 We talk a bit about Jay Williams admitting that he was offered money by other programs before he committed to Duke back in 1999 49:00 Jason looks to the past and the future, and wonders if this could lead to important reforms that fix some of the problems with college and pro hoops 54:35 Thanks to the Dukies at ByrdCampbell.com for sponsoring today’s podcast! 55:25 Donald wants to talk about the football uniforms. He loves em… Sam and Jason, not so much! 1:05:45 Good bye and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 Hello, this may be Ep #78 but Sam and Jason explain “the missing podcast” that happened but got trashed before being posted. 2:05 Donald joins us and explains where he has been… Downunder 2:35 Sam launches the discussion about Duke’s roster, those leaving and coming… this could get a bit haphazard. 4:10 We start with Frank Jackson’s decision to enter the draft… Jason seems to have a bunch of intel on this including some speculation about who might take Frank in the draft. 8:30 On to recruiting, our 6-man recruiting class is mostly comprised of kids from Atlanta, GA 12:00 The Trevon Duval conversion begins and Donald compares him to John Wall and (pre-injury) Derek Rose. Wow! 16:15 The conversation turns to the big men. Will Duke play 2 traditional bigs at one time? 21:10 Time for a debate about minutes/rotation. This was inevitable. Sam thinks the bigs won’t play as much as others have predicted. 27:05 Prediction time… who will be our second leading scorer next season? Sam gets a history lesson. 30:55 Sam wants us to talk about the one-and-done trend at Duke. We understand it, we accept it, but we are not fans of it. You can hear the strain and the angst in this discussion. 41:00 Jason says what we need to look at is not the one-and-done players, it is the players who could be here long term but who leave via transfer. 46:30 Sam time travels 10 years in the future and says we will barely remember Jabari Parker, Brandon Ingram, and other one-and-done guys… and that is a shame. 51:00 Jason dissects why players rush to the NBA and has a suggestion for how to fix the flawed NBA Draft system 58:20 Parting shot – Jason on the Duke teams still competing for a national championship 1:00:50 Parting shot – Donald gives a travel update and shout out to the American Outlaws 1:01:45 Parting shot – Sam on the woes of being a DC sports fan… which Jason says does not compare to getting crushed in the Super Bowl 1:06:50 Bye bye… and Duke band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:10 Hello… it is early but we are mostly awake 1:50 Wake Forest recap – Donald was impressed with our heart and our shooting percentage late 5:20 With the season on the verge of collapsing, Jason thinks Grayson’s composure saved us 8:05 Sam wants to know if what we think about Duke’s recent rebounding success 12:15 Time to talk about Notre Dame, which was likely Duke’s best game and the stellar D played by Duke 16:00 Jason Evans has figured out what will make Jayson Tatum truly great 22:35 We all wax poetic on the absurd between-the-legs pass by Luke Kennard 27:20 Jason has a cool stat about Duke’s 2nd half shooting 29:10 Previewing Pitt, a game Sam will attend! 32:10 We marvel at how badly Pitt has gotten beaten lately, ACC record-breaking losses 36:00 Player of the Week – we split the vote 3 ways 40:00 Parting shots – Donald was kickin’ with a legend! 41:35 Parting shot – Jason talks the success of the K coaching tree at Marquette and Northwestern 45:40 Parting shot – Sam reflects on January this year and in recent years… some surprising similarities! 46:30 Duke band, take us home! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

0:00 Welcome to podcast #62. Do we really have to talk about that football game? 1:30 Recap of the Kansas game. We lost but aren’t despondent over the result. Jason was really impressed with Josh Jackson; Sam talks about the rebounding and the strange flow of the game; and Donald is relieved that we got the undefeated pressure off our back nice and early. 14:30 Time for something more fun, the wins over Penn St and Rhode Island. We were quite impressed with Hassan Martin of Rhode Island. 18:10 Sam has a hysterical story about how he experienced the Penn St. game 20:10 We are really getting sick of everyone getting injured 23:05 Jason has a shocking statistic he wants everyone to know about that he pulled right from the rules of basketball 29:20 Donald starts the, “Grayson needs to get healthy” conversation which Jason morphs into his weekly man-love for Luke Kennard and then Sam morphs into a discussion about who is going to get minutes once we finally get healthy. It takes a while for us to talk about minutes. 40:30 Recruiting news- Wendell Carter will choose this week between Duke and Harvard. Amazingly, even though we really want this stud player, we all think it would be kinda cool if he picked the Crimson. 45:30 We recap the absolute beat down Pitt put on our football team 48:30 Time to look at the scenarios that get us to a bowl game at 5-7 51:30 Player of the week. It is a 2 man race and we split our votes. 56:00 Parting shots – Sam has a funny story about Marshall Plumlee’s path to his first NBA game 58:15 Parting shots – Jason is here to praise Tony Bennett 1:01:40 Parting shot – Donald goes back in time exactly 2 years… to the very first DBR podcast. 1:03:25 We give thanks at Thanksgiving and say goodbye! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October 3, 2016 #YaJagoffPodcast / Episode #040 We went “Pink!” Yinzer Pink as a matter of fact. Recorded live at the “Real Men Wear Pink” party at Jerome Bettis Grille 36, we had a chance to meet Pittsburgh fashion designer to the WWE, ESPN and NFL, David Alan. His The Proper Knot invention is crushing the fashion world. Then we met 4 of the guys in the American Cancer Society’s month-long fundraiser, “Real Men Wear Pink,’ including John Bettis! Yeah… he’s the older brother of… well… you get it. And, yes… he has stories! VIEW the Episode Promo Video: LISTEN to the Podcast show right here below or on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Tunein Radio via the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” channel. YaJagoff! Podcast - SHOW NOTES: Episode 40, The Pink Podcast With David Alan Music: Mac Miller, “Dang” 01:10 We are in pink “Yinzer” t-shirts at the Jerome Bettis Grille 36 on the North Shore. Make sure you click one of the links below to get all of the details on the American Cancer Society’s “Real Men Wear Pink” fundraisers. 04:28 Laura McCurdy, ACS rep, tell us all about the Pittsburgh version of “Real Men Wear Pink” campaign. Search for the #RealMenWearPinkPgh hashtag on social media! 10:07 David Alan, fashion designer who works with the WWE, NFL, ESPN and he only started sewing at age 27! David invented the coolest accessory for men’s ties, The Proper Knot. It’s launching nationally. His launch party is a fashion show at Room16 in Pittsburgh’s Strip District on October 14th and will be hosted by Jonathan Coachman of ESPN! Pittsburgh Steelers, WWE stars and others will be walking the pink carpet! Get tickets here. 21:56 Four of the Real Men who are wearing pink all throughout October and in competition to raise funds for the ACS: Scott Clarke, Todd McCurdy, Brian Holzer and John Bettis. They all have a story and upcoming fundraisers that you can get in on, but… can we get them into an ultimate cage match to raise big dollars? And, who does John’s Aunt like better, John or… well... you know? Find daily #Jagoffs posts at www.YaJagoff.com How to Listen Regularly: All shows on the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” are free and available to listen 24/7/365 worldwide. Audio On-Demand in-your-hand, on smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop computers. – APPLE users can find us on the iTunes and Podcast app. – ANDROID users can find us on Google Play Music, – ALL users can listen on computers, tablets, and smartphones via RSS, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts or tunein radio, website or apps. * SEARCH: Pittsburgh Podcast Network • iTunes • Google Play Music • SoundCloud • tunein radio • RSS • Website Thanks To: • Photo Credits: The Food Tasters & The Pittsburgh Podcast Network • Production: Frank Murgia & Wayne Weil How to Follow Everyone on Twitter: • The Podcast @YaJagoffPodcast • John Chamberlin @YaJagoff • Craig Tumas @CraigTumas • John Knight @JKnight841 • Jason Havelka @SportsMongerPGH • Mac Miller @MacMiller • Jerome Bettis Grille 36 @Grille36 • Real Men Wear Pink @RealMenPinkPgh • ACS Pittsburgh @ACSPittsburgh • Brian Holzer @BKH726 • David Alan @DavidAlanStyle • The Proper Knot @TheProperKnot • Jonathan Coachman @TheCoachESPN • Room16 @Room16Pgh • The Food Tasters @TheFoodTasters • Pittsburgh Podcast Network @PghPodcast Produced at talent network, inc. @talentnetworktv by the Pittsburgh Podcast Network @pghpodcast

Gather ‘round, True Believers. We’re getting all geeked up for the Rose City Comic Con, Sept 10–11. It’s always a hot ticket, given the critical mass of comics creators making their home around these parts now, but we were especially charmed by this year’s crop.Image Comics Moving to Portland - 1:10We start things off with some breaking news. Rumors have been flying that we were the first to confirm: Image Comics is moving to Portland. Image is the third largest publisher in the industry with annual sales around $50 million. Relocating is kind of a no-brainer, given the pool of high-powered Image creators already living here. We explore what sets Image apart (and makes it a prime team-up with Portland), before sitting down for an exclusive interview with the company’s publisher, Eric Stephenson.Bandette Steals Hearts, Jewels, Awards - 10:53The husband and wife creative team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover are getting ready to publish “The House of the Green Mask,” the third volume of their effervescent creation, “Bandette.” The series won two Eisner awards for best digital comics series in 2013 and this year. Bandette is a pert, teen-aged thief living a barely-closeted life of crime — the Audrey Hepburn of master thieves. She steals to delight herself, leaping across the rooftops of the city to tweak the noses and egos of the real bad guys. We talk with Tobin and Coover about the pleasures of fleshing out the world around a different kind of action heroine.Blast Off For Bitch Planet - 19:07Kelly Sue DeConnick is riding high with a comic series she created that made a lot of best-of-the-year lists for 2015, and continued going strong this year. “Bitch Planet” is about an all-female, interstellar prison colony in a not-too-distant future. Society sends women there for a variety of crimes — collectively categorized as non-compliance. We talk to Kelly about how she handles the series’ satirical edge, and chat with artist Taki Soma, who did a single-issue story for the series last winter. If you like what you hear in this week’s show, the extended version is right here on our Soundcloud feed.The Loveliest Horror Story of the Year - 27:30Portland comic book artist Tyler Crook and writer Cullen Bunn are behind the series “Harrow County,” a tale of a gentle teenage girl named Emmy, whose coming-of-age is overshadowed by her realization that she’s connected to a deceased witch named Hester Beck and a wide range of ghosts and spirits. We talk to Crook and Bunn about the gorgeous watercolors and heavy psychodrama they use to bring the story to life. “Harrow County” was nominated for an Eisner award for Best New Series, and it’s been optioned for development as a TV series on Syfy Channel.Comic City USA - 38:09Oregon’s comic book community is part of a much wider mosaic of creative work — animation, political cartooning, comic strips. Think Out Loud recently talked to some of the minds behind the Oregon Historical Society’s new exhibition covering artists in all these disciplines, Comic City USA. We hear from long-time creators on the Portland scene Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett and OHS curator Lori Erickson. You can hear the entire conversation here.Good Guys Win: Ibrahim Moustafa - 43:08We listen back to our February interview with artist Ibrahim Moustafa. He’s racking up a string of solid titles, including his widely-read Himalayan thriller, “High Crimes”, with Chris Sebela. He also shares some news about his brand-new series for Stela Comics — a spy thriller called “Jaeger”, about a French-Algerian agent hunting down Nazis in a post-World-War-II setting. Stella series are designed specifically for smart phones, which posed new kinds of challenges.

To prep for Design Week Portland, we're listening back to our guest curator show with user experience (UX) designer Elena Moon. She has this fantastic way of explaining what works and why, and she’s going to lead us through her own work and the designed world, from parking meters to space ships.User Experience 101 - 01:08We kick off with a quick primer on UX. Whether you’re talking about everyday objects or brand new apps, solid design is anything but accidental. Elena explains why some brands stand out. Take Uber, for example. Whatever you may think of the company’s business practices, the interface of the Uber app is a gold standard for how to serve up visual information.Portland’s Parking Meters: Design Fail? - 05:04We explore how design is in play in even the simplest of tasks. Elena and April scout out a hub of meter activity in the Pearl District and speak with some of the people who maintain the meters, technicians Anto Bayu Aji and Molly Twoohey.How to Teach Grandmothers to Install Solar Panels - 15:20UX isn’t just for software. Elena talks about working on a project with India’s Barefoot College on a project that trained grandmothers to do their own solar engineering in rural communities in India. How can teachers work across language barriers? How do you keep learning going after everyone heads home to their village? As Elena explains, the conversation gave rise to some unexpected answers.How Do You Improve on the Coolest Hotel in Town? - 20:10We eavesdrop on Elena’s meeting with the Ace Hotel design team for a look inside the design process. The company already has a robust brand and online presence, but it enlisted Elena to help refine the experience of visiting its website. What’s most intuitive to potential customers?Designers' Film Club - 25:55A few years ago, Elena and her partner, Jos Vaught, had the chance to work on some UX projects for NASA and SpaceX. Can a designer who’s seen a real space capsule interface ever look at Ridley Scott the same way again? We reality-check "The Martian,” “Minority Report,” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness.”On the Designers Shelf Life and the Accumulated Wisdom of Fly Fishing - 36:20It’s no secret that, within tech circles, the industry is not kind to workers over 35. Elena contrasts this for us with another discipline in which practitioners don’t get anywhere without decades of hard-won knowledge: fly fishing. We head out to Maupin with seasoned guide Amy Hazel of Deschutes Angler to find out about the beauty and craft to be found on the river.Are Tiny Hobbit Homes the Way of the Future? - 45:58Elena turned us on to the amazing work of Abel Zimmerman Zyl: the totally charming gypsy caravans that look plucked right out of "The Hobbit." Zyl tells us about the nuts and bolts of tiny house construction.

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Pastor Z. Legend May 4, 2014 Living My Truth 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 13It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. 16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Isaiah 41:10We will have moments where we:1. Will be attacked by Fear and Apprehension2. Will be overcome by dismay3. Will feel we are shinking.