Well, you know, that's

everything.

Everything.

Albert Cheeks, rest in peace.

He taught me something.

He just passed.

The great Albert Cheeks, QN Kim School down in D.C. We were in Madison Square Garden, and he taught me something about distance.

Not everyone can handle that.

Realistically, what kind of timescale do you think that there could be intervention by government authorities to bring the shutter down and to A, protect people against any potential risk that these imports might pose and B, level the playing field from a production point of view so eggs sold in this market are produced to a standard that is legal in this market?

Okay.

So when the scientific methodology of whole genome sequencing came into being, so that is widely used by public health authorities and in particular in our country leads in many respects there.

And I think as some of the reports from UKHSA will indicate, the fact that we use whole genome sequencing probably more than some other countries It looks like we're picking up more cases.

That's probably the way to describe it.

I think for those who perhaps don't know what whole genome sequencing is, and I'm not a scientist or a vet, but effectively it means that if I had a farm and I was producing eggs, then I will be doing my regular sequencing.

operator samples under the National Control Programme.

Now, I think we know that realistically... international trade is a fact of life isn't it and it's important as well that we have outlets for our eggs and there is some product which can move what more can be done at the border and what are you asking government to do to tighten the controls over imported eggs that are coming into the country

to be...

So the guy even describes, Bethel in the video, describes the type of property he's on.

And when I go and stand at the same spot he was standing, it's just exactly what it is.

The road's over here.

Power fuel's over here.

All this bedding area, which is a Metro Park property that's adjacent to this farm, another Metro Park, picking in ponds, poaching that too, taking videos of himself, taking aim at deer.

That's pretty easy to say he was hunting deer there.

into

Reading to St.

Mark.

Glory to you, O Lord.

When Jesus' mother and brothers arrived, and standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.

A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked.

And he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.

Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him crying out, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me.

My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession.

Jesus did not answer a word.

And so his disciples came to him and urged him, send her away for she keeps crying out after us.

He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.

did you first meet Barry, man? When did all this start?

So I'm glad you asked.

I think it's an interesting story.

So COVID.

You know, scary, scary, scary, right? COVID.

I'm at home, you know, twiddling my thumbs, and we had just started renting my equipment.

It was brand new.

And, you know, it hit it was it was a memory they had that just came back.

So Father, I pray that as we gather together this morning to sit at your feet, we may hear all it is you wish to say to us, all the things you wish to challenge us with, all the things that you wish to correct in us that are wrong, so that we may set our eyes always upon you, your truth and your love.

For Jesus' sake we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, we are continuing this short series on three short letters.

And this week I want to look at a letter that perhaps you don't come across very often.

Well, it's good to see, um, Gareth back with us.

This is the last, the home stretch for him because this coming June, I think you, Peter tied with you, isn't it? Uh, he's going to be ordained into diaconate, uh, which is the first stage, if you like, in, um, the priesthood.

Diaconate first, sorry, then the priesthood, and then, uh, when he's done his curacy, they're gonna let him loose on the, the good folk of St. David's, which is, which is a good thing.

[laughs] Um, and he's, he's, he's here because, and he's going through all this because he ha- is called by God.

He feels that God called him to give up whatever his past life was, and to start on this journey, um, as a priest.

And, uh, I don't know what his circumstance is.

[laughs]

But the point I'm making, you see, is this consumer culture in which we're living, we are so used to choice and to choosing that we fee- think we can apply this to everything.

Looking for some images the other day to put on the PowerPoint slides for It Is Church.

And sometimes when you go to images and you Google them, you'll find there the picture, but superimposed on the picture is something like, well, this is copyright or whatever.

And so you don't just have the picture, but you have some image or some words written over it.

And it's almost as if when we think about the picture of Jesus walking into Jerusalem, we can almost say in our minds, I picture the cross superimposed on this scene of jubilation and celebration.

That even though what we see is something glorious and wonderful, yet the cross is there.

It's never far away.

Recently we had a, a wedding here in St. Peter's Church.

It's that time of year.

And, um, the bride had a, a friend of the family to play the organ for that day, and he is, uh, an elderly man.

He used to tell, tell me jokes about various things.

Um, and he told me o- of one time when he was asked to go and play at one of these, uh, chapels out the way up the valleys somewhere.

Couldn't re- can't remember where now, but beyond, beyond, uh, Glinneath, up that way.

well we continue our season on the holy spirit this morning as we look at the work of the holy spirit you may um i've tried to ensure that the pew bibles available in every pew um they got scattered around so if you may want to follow some of the readings that i'm going to look at this morning um the first one of course being the very start of the book and the book of genesis But can I just say how good it is to see Derek here this morning.

And I know that Myrtle is in our thoughts and prayers.

She's making small progresses, little steps forward.

And I'm sure as we continue to pray for her, that she will continue to make that progress in her health.

So please convey to her, Derek, our thoughts and our prayers this morning.

I don't know if you remember when the crop circles began to appear in this country, those mysterious, perfectly geometrical designs in the fields of wheat that caused such puzzlement to, well, not just the farmers, but also to the many experts around.

So do we fast forward all the way to the season of 2024? I would say there's a lot of preparation that happened in between two, though,

still.

So it was mostly a hiatus.

Metro Parks had a narrative put together.

I wound up talking to Stefan a bunch because this case, you know, we wound up working a lot on a bunch of different cases throughout the year anyways.

But he would always come back to this one and be like, how am I going to catch these guys when this happens again? And so I started showing him a bunch of our different, you know, what sections of law about all this stuff.

And he started really studying wildlife codes, what stuff can be seized in a wildlife investigation.

Did you guys make contact right away?

Well, I'll let you go first because you've already – I don't want to steal any of your answers because I know you've thought about

this more than I have.

You know, I guess for me it's that, you know, money, success, trying to get ahead is not as important.

Because obviously as a young man I wanted more and I wanted to accomplish things and I wanted to get there and – And, you know, you get our age – whether you accomplished it or not, okay, regardless of whatever level of success you made in your life, it's so much – Less important now.

I mean, I look back on – I mean, it's fleeting.

It's fleeting.

100%.

I don't even know who's in the World Cup now.

Again, if you add up all of my NBA viewership this year, it adds up to about 20 minutes.

Yeah, no.

Because I just don't watch it.

I'm not far behind you.

I mean, if anything, I'd probably hit the ESPN app or watch Highlight Reel and just see.

Yeah, but – You know, it's funny how the game, how, you know, it's all three ball.

You know, literally when you bring in the minds, the guys that run statistics and everything, why would you not want to shoot the three and go to town on three and score three versus two? Well, somebody talked about that today.

said he fed 500 people in an hour and 15 minutes.

I know you came up short of the national championship, but still an incredible season to look back on and reflect, isn't it?

Yeah, you know, um, we, we had a great championship.

We won the qualifying day, uh, you know, going into the final.

Uh, got to start on parallel bars and, uh, you know, we, we gave it a run.

Like, I don't know how much more we could have done.

Stanford ended up being the national champion this year again.

They, uh, they had 100% performance.

I'm so, uh, I'm so excited for the future of this program, but I'm sure for you there's still, you know, obviously looking back on 2026 and kind of, I don't know if the term would be reminiscing or reflecting, but is there, I don't know, maybe one moment this year that stands out as a moment where it's like, "Hey, this team kinda took a turn," or, "This team really found another level"? Again, when you say, [laughs] it's pretty incredible to be where OU gymnastics is, and I know you wanna win a championship every single year, but still to be in that position, Coach, when was a moment where you're like, "This team's got a chance to be special"?

Would you – I mean, again, we're not going to get into the logistics of it, but in the future, if like a Rock Creek Entertainment District comes to fruition, is that a place that could host this in the future? Have you ever looked even maybe at like Oklahoma City? Or is the idea just to have it on campus?

No, I think that they've been open to having a championship wherever the highest bid is and where they feel like they can get a good crowd.

uh... back in the old days when you know i was still doing gymnastics the nebraska hosted a couple years in a row and there was talk about just making that the permanent site but you know nebraska's was on a winning streak in one five championships in a row and people were like now we don't keep having them win you know so we started moving it around uh...

but yeah you know if you can get a good crowd to the event we we want to kind of play to where we have good audiences and where there's good support for the sport.

But how do you handle that? What's kind of been the process and does it change?

Well – I think it'll change depending on...

Often, you know, you're not going to get the same session in prelims.

Finals is kind of the same.

Is there any difference in where you're ranked in your opinion? You do, like you said, you kind of avoid having to worry about what's in Stanford in that first session, but what's kind of the benefits of going in as the top seed?

Well, we get to pick the event we start on, uh, which is kind of a big thing.

You know, it allows us to practice what we want to be on, you know, the first event, which sometimes you have some nerves.

So we plan on starting on vault, a pretty easy way to start where you, you know, just run down the runway and you have one skill in the air and land.

So usually you come up with a pretty good score right from the beginning.

Everybody kind of settles in.

Um, You know, we want to put a good enough score up that we win the session so that the next day we're at least the first or second pick for the finals.

I mean, what's it like having that amount of time? Did you wish it was maybe closer together, or is it good for you at this time of year?

How important is that to make sure that even when you're focused and even whenever you guys are as dialed in as you want them to be or should be, to take some time to get away a little bit and experience a little bit of where you are?

I think that's something that we rarely get a chance to do.

Too often you're at a hotel and then you're at the field or at the competition gym and and then competing and then turning around early the next day.

So we got to go out Friday, and we got in early enough that we could go down to downtown San Francisco and kind of spend a couple hours just out.

It was just a really beautiful day.

Had lunch where we could see Alcatraz from where we were eating and get a little bit of a walk in and still had time to go.

practice that afternoon in their facilities, their gym, and then compete on Saturday.

Where's the mindset at going forward for you, Coach?

I feel like I ask you this every single week, Mark, but how are you feeling about where this team is right now as you guys start to really posture for the postseason?

We're still hanging on to the number one ranking, so we should be able to select our start event for the conference meet, which is a little bit of an advantage.

It gives us time to practice that rotation and feel good about how we start the meet and where we finish and all that.

If we have a good conference meet, the same thing happens at the NCAA meet.

We can pick the rotation going into prelims.

Again, we feel that's a little bit of an advantage to know that ahead of time.

It's good that we've Stayed pretty healthy.

I mean, Mark – It's something you can't prepare for, but what do you do to make sure that you're ready in case something like that

It's – we don't have – what, do we have competition that weekend? Does everybody pretty much send their gymnasts to that event? Is that something you do? And is it common to have this second bye like this?

Yeah, I mean, it's – the Winter Cup is one of those events you have to individually qualify for.

So, you know, we had three guys from our team that were there.

The rest of the team was back home training.

And, you know, that kind of makes a little bit of a split in what the training plan is for everybody.

But, you know, having this weekend where we kind of get a little bit of rest, last away meet, last duel for the season, then we have another week off before the conference meet.

Conference meet hits, we have another week off.

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What really kind of jumped out? What caught your eye?

Well, they were fantastic from the beginning.

We, you know, go to the Olympic order, started on floor, and we had four stuck landings on floor.

And up to this point in the field house, We hadn't had anybody stick a landing at the end of their routine, so that set us on a great path.

The rest of the night, we ended up sticking 13 landings, which was double what we had for our last best performance, and that's a lot of points because every stuck landing is a plus one instead of a minus one, and so you're gaining two-tenths per routine, so that was a big boost, and And the guys were great.

You know, we finished the same way we started on high bar, four stuck landings there, put up the highest score in the country by quite a bit, and it was a fun night.

You know, we really kind of demolished Nebraska and hopefully crushed their soul, and they won't come back at us again.

We'll be celebrating his senior night, one of the seniors Saturday night at 6 o'clock, but what have you seen from Fuzzy over the last few weeks? I know he's been grinding, trying to work through a little bit of everything.

Am I confusing him with someone else?

No, that's Kelton.

Yeah.

He, you know, he, he was from Yule Mulder's gym.

So I'd been kind of keeping track of him and he got an offer that, you know, Boise state was going to have a gym at team and that he could go there and they were going to do things for him.

And over the summer, it kind of fell through.

So, you know, I called Kelton and I go, you need to come to Oklahoma and see if we can make our program and we'll give you a chance to walk on and see what you can do.

What a cool story Mac is.

with that, being home.

Yeah, you know, we still had kind of this, Same training schedule, the morning practices we just finished, and, you know, the afternoons and kind of just change of how the atmosphere is.

We didn't have a meet necessarily, but the three guys that were preparing for Winter Cup kind of had their own separate thing.

Francisco Velez, he's going to a competition in Dallas this weekend at the Elite Ladies' Cup.

with Puerto Rico so actually he joined those other guys and they're training this week to get ready for a competition so Francisco's trying to get ready for some World Cup events with Puerto Rico and their team is coming over for that so he's going to be a part of that.

Mark, I'm curious, just from your lineup and the way you feel about it, and I know injuries factor in and can happen at any moment, but do you feel like you're pretty set – in your rotations? Is there a few areas, you know, that I don't know how, if there's constant competition or what that looks like for you, but do you feel pretty set with the lineup right now, or is there potential for shifting or change still?

Yeah, I think we're going to still see a lot of change in here in the last four or five weeks because, you know, honestly, we have a 12-man team that goes out, but we'd be better off competing 15 and because we've got certain guys that are just stronger on rings that don't have the strength to do floor or vault, some guys that are doing pommel horse that don't do some of the other events.

So we run through four guys on horse and four guys on rings, and that only leaves four more guys that we can put in the lineup to fit the rest of the six events.

So is there a key to that with the guys, or just letting them know, hey, you can't let it bother you?

Yeah, I mean, you just kind of have to roll with it at that point.

And, you know, we just kind of readjusted, and we're flexible with our schedule the week after, you know, given different guys opportunities to get out there.

Our meet with Greenville turned out to be, you know, great under the circumstances of only having a couple of days to kind of get back into our rhythm.

And then we had a full week last week getting ready for Ohio State and having a Cleveland night and our alumni back.

And it turned out to be, you know, just a fantastic weekend for us, putting up the high score.

of any program this season with a .328.65. We had like a 95 hit percent, stuck a lot of dismounts, finished the meet out really, really well.

I mean, is that even a call that you really get to make, Mark, or do you put that more on the athlete and the trainer?

Can you take me through his path in bringing him here to Norman? Because he's been here for seven seasons now.

Yeah, I mean...

I've had a lot of assistant coaches who have world gymnastics experience, starting with Doug Macy was my first assistant.

He was from the Canadian national team.

He only stayed a year, but then I had Ewan Hsiao, who is from China.

Now he's the head coach at Michigan.

After Hsiao was here, I hired Rastam Sharapov, who is an Olympic gold medalist on the parallel bars and now the Ohio State head coach.

Can you take us through that foundation and what that relationship has meant for you and your program?