WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.800 And we are rolling, brother, if you want to pray 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:04.580 us in. All right, Father, what a joy, what a 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:08.500 privilege we get to do this. It's not just the 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:10.939 name of a podcast. It's our hearts, our mantra. 00:00:11.099 --> 00:00:13.400 It's our it's our statement, our declaration, 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:16.100 our decree that we truly get to do this. We are 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.019 blessed to do this. We pray for today as we talk, 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:22.640 as we have conversation that you by your Holy 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.660 Spirit would literally lead us and guide us through 00:00:25.660 --> 00:00:28.100 these conversations. A pray, Father, for our 00:00:28.100 --> 00:00:31.230 listeners. that they would be encouraged, inspired, 00:00:31.649 --> 00:00:34.509 motivated, lifted up. That's our heart. And Lord, 00:00:34.509 --> 00:00:38.530 as we do this, as we press record, we thank you 00:00:38.530 --> 00:00:41.149 that we get to do this in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:00:41.590 --> 00:00:46.689 Amen. It's Wednesday, December 10th, 2025. We 00:00:46.689 --> 00:01:04.650 get to do this. This is episode number 14. We 00:01:04.650 --> 00:01:07.530 get to do this. I had to think for a second there. 00:01:07.689 --> 00:01:10.469 What is the date? December 10th? Yeah, that's 00:01:10.469 --> 00:01:12.909 what it is. Should we start with old man talk? 00:01:13.430 --> 00:01:17.250 Oh, about our hearing aids? Yes. Man, we're just 00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:21.250 talking about that. So Apple did this big update 00:01:21.250 --> 00:01:25.950 new on their iOS and on their Taho on their thing. 00:01:27.069 --> 00:01:30.269 So I can't get the settings to come up. I left 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:33.159 it on. I'm sure it has to do with the update. 00:01:33.340 --> 00:01:36.700 Well, yeah, what happens is, you know, then sometimes 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:40.879 apps have to reconfigure stuff and release new 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.819 versions. And then they have to have people write 00:01:43.819 --> 00:01:45.900 in and say, wait, this isn't working. There's 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:48.299 a glitch here. Yeah. The thing that is interesting 00:01:48.299 --> 00:01:51.000 about us talking about the hearing aids, I think 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.760 I've received 30 emails, 30 more, because I've 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.420 talked about hearing aids before on my shows. 00:01:56.620 --> 00:02:00.400 That's funny. And people saying, you know, I 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.319 think I need them, I need to try them out, my 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.840 dad, my grandfather. Oh, my brother wanted the 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.819 link. He's like, what's the link to that thing 00:02:08.819 --> 00:02:11.120 you're wearing? It's a job, right? And it just 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:15.240 made me wonder, do people really have hearing 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:18.740 issues? One, could it be that we're so used to 00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:22.460 reading captions that we're losing some of our 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:28.960 oral or audible capacity? Or have people blown 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.259 out their ears with earbuds and music too loud? 00:02:31.539 --> 00:02:33.780 It feels like this is a little bit of everything. 00:02:34.020 --> 00:02:35.960 It should not be happening. This should not be 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.340 that many people who feel like their hearing 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:40.919 is affected. And I would say that, you know, 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.099 with the advances through our childhood in music 00:02:45.099 --> 00:02:49.610 and loudspeakers and I think in going to concerts 00:02:49.610 --> 00:02:52.250 and everything you do, even Christian concerts 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:54.409 are rocking. I mean, you know, you go, it's like, 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:58.430 Ooh, I got some ear, give me some plugs. Definitely. 00:02:59.069 --> 00:03:01.189 So I think, I think there's that, there's a lot 00:03:01.189 --> 00:03:03.330 of environment and there's a lot of, they call 00:03:03.330 --> 00:03:06.669 it noise pollution. just environmental. Everywhere 00:03:06.669 --> 00:03:10.689 you go, there's refrigerators running in restaurants. 00:03:10.909 --> 00:03:12.830 You go to a coffee house and you want some quiet. 00:03:12.930 --> 00:03:14.930 There is no quiet in a coffee house anymore. 00:03:15.189 --> 00:03:19.569 People are loud, but there's the espresso machine, 00:03:19.770 --> 00:03:22.330 their froth and milk. I mean, there's noise pollution 00:03:22.330 --> 00:03:26.430 everywhere. The fourth option is that people 00:03:26.430 --> 00:03:30.629 actually desire control over the sound in their 00:03:30.629 --> 00:03:32.370 environment. Cause that's what it gives me. And 00:03:32.370 --> 00:03:34.030 that's the way I've spoken about it. I would 00:03:34.030 --> 00:03:37.169 say you and me for sure, we're audiophiles in 00:03:37.169 --> 00:03:39.969 the sense that we love sound. We love good music, 00:03:40.490 --> 00:03:42.870 but we love good tone. You know what I mean? 00:03:43.250 --> 00:03:45.330 Being a guitar player, I'm a tone chaser. That's 00:03:45.330 --> 00:03:47.550 what they call us. Cause, and it's never quite 00:03:47.550 --> 00:03:50.289 there. I mean, I've done this for 30 something 00:03:50.289 --> 00:03:53.629 years. Tone Chaser, do you like that? I do. I'm 00:03:53.629 --> 00:03:55.990 writing it down. Show title. Yeah. Thank you 00:03:55.990 --> 00:03:57.770 for writing it down because after the show's 00:03:57.770 --> 00:03:59.490 over with, what people don't know, you'll go, 00:03:59.930 --> 00:04:01.909 okay, what do we call this? I'm like, duh. I 00:04:01.909 --> 00:04:04.689 mean, I literally am blank. It's second nature 00:04:04.689 --> 00:04:06.830 to me to write down stuff. Like, oh yeah, yeah. 00:04:06.949 --> 00:04:09.909 At least we got an option now. I think people 00:04:09.909 --> 00:04:13.050 though have blown their ears out. I think the 00:04:13.050 --> 00:04:16.029 noise pollution. So like if I try to go silent, 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:20.019 right? Dead silent. All I get is tinnitus. But 00:04:20.019 --> 00:04:23.019 it is getting better. Since I've been using these 00:04:23.019 --> 00:04:25.040 hearing aids, I'm noticing and I'm doing these 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.040 little exercises for my jaw. And it seems to 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.899 be getting better. Like right now, it's very 00:04:29.899 --> 00:04:33.420 minimal. Very minimal. Like freakishly minimal. 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.860 It feels good. It's just like silent. That's 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:39.920 very not normal for me. And I didn't even notice 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.800 it until we were just talking about it. But I 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.139 think also there is this innate desire these 00:04:46.139 --> 00:04:48.860 days. for people to just have control. We want 00:04:48.860 --> 00:04:52.000 control over our body. We're testing all kinds 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:56.680 of things and stuff that's out there. It just 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.839 feels like there's more people wanting this. 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.139 And I just questioned like, and maybe I should 00:05:02.139 --> 00:05:04.860 just ask them, why do you want it? Do you really 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:07.470 think you have hearing loss? they should ask 00:05:07.470 --> 00:05:09.649 their wife or their husband or their friends, 00:05:10.170 --> 00:05:13.350 and they'll tell them, yeah, you say what after 00:05:13.350 --> 00:05:15.149 everything. You know what I mean? Because that's 00:05:15.149 --> 00:05:19.009 how it was with Annette. She was like, please 00:05:19.009 --> 00:05:22.370 do something, get your ears checked. That was 00:05:22.370 --> 00:05:25.329 back when you had a spare pair sitting around 00:05:25.329 --> 00:05:28.370 and I started fiddling with that and I saw such 00:05:28.370 --> 00:05:30.310 a marked difference, but I'll be honest, there 00:05:30.310 --> 00:05:34.639 was a stigma. Did you feel a stigma? Yes. I had 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.839 to overcome it. But that's your own stigma. No, 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:38.720 it's mine. People weren't actually pointing at 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.860 you and saying, hey, look at that boomer. Nobody 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:43.819 even notices until I say, hey, have you seen 00:05:43.819 --> 00:05:46.740 my new hearing aids? I mean, nobody even looks. 00:05:47.699 --> 00:05:52.480 But again, we're so egocentric by nature. So 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:55.480 yeah, I had to get over that. That's interesting. 00:05:55.540 --> 00:05:59.759 That reminds me of... It's a good show title. 00:05:59.899 --> 00:06:01.860 Get over it. Get over it. Get over it already. 00:06:02.060 --> 00:06:06.040 Comma already. Sorry. This is the devotional 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.800 that Pastor Brian, I think, has set up. Oh, the 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.800 men's devotional. The men's devotional. And the 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.980 verse is 1 Corinthians 13, 11 to 12. When I was 00:06:14.980 --> 00:06:17.000 a child, I talked like a child. I thought like 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.720 a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.560 a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 00:06:22.899 --> 00:06:25.720 For now we see only reflection as in a mirror. 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.139 then we shall see face to face. Now I know in 00:06:29.139 --> 00:06:31.819 part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully 00:06:31.819 --> 00:06:35.360 known." And the way this devotional broke it 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:40.720 down is into the three types of men we are, which 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.379 happens as we grow older, but also interchanges 00:06:45.379 --> 00:06:48.920 sometimes several times in an hour. And the first 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.459 one is the little boy chair. Have you seen this 00:06:51.459 --> 00:06:54.819 one? No, no, no. This is when we live in fear. 00:06:55.050 --> 00:06:57.730 are only really concerned about our own needs. 00:06:58.189 --> 00:07:01.509 So it's kind of like, I just want my toys. Survivalist. 00:07:02.149 --> 00:07:05.449 The soul man chair. This is the man of the world 00:07:05.449 --> 00:07:08.410 hiding his true identity, putting on masks, not 00:07:08.410 --> 00:07:11.569 living as his genuine self. He lives out of his 00:07:11.569 --> 00:07:14.350 temporal self, concerned about reputation, image, 00:07:14.670 --> 00:07:17.430 status, money, material things, and his own needs. 00:07:18.649 --> 00:07:20.670 Which is kind of what you just said there. When 00:07:20.670 --> 00:07:22.430 you have a stigma like that, you're concerned 00:07:22.430 --> 00:07:24.449 about what people think about you. And then we 00:07:24.449 --> 00:07:27.680 have the spirit man chair. This is the chair 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.000 we sit in when we are walking with the Holy Spirit. 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:32.980 It represents our authentic self living according 00:07:32.980 --> 00:07:34.939 to God's plan and direction. In this chair, we 00:07:34.939 --> 00:07:37.180 are vulnerable and are concerned about the needs 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:40.759 of those around us." I was like, I always want 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.959 to be the spirit man chair. But you're saying 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.600 I'm not. That's not what I'm saying. No, seriously, 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.139 that was a thing. And I had to ask myself, why 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:52.519 does this bother me? Why am I worried about what 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:54.680 somebody else thinks? If I can hear well. Isn't 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.040 that crazy? If I can hear three tables over behind 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.439 me in a restaurant, I should be happy about that 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.240 and quit worrying. It's too bad what you had 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.000 to hear, because it's never pretty what you're 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.199 hearing. I'm almost stuck. Turn it down. I actually, 00:08:06.379 --> 00:08:08.360 when I first started wearing hearing aid, I just 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.319 immediately went to, if you can't cover it up, 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.740 turn it up. I was like, look at these things. 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.180 I'm living in my own soundscape. You don't have 00:08:16.180 --> 00:08:18.889 that, do you? No. Right now I'm listening to 00:08:18.889 --> 00:08:20.350 music while I'm talking to you and you don't 00:08:20.350 --> 00:08:26.149 even know it. It was still the second chair, 00:08:26.490 --> 00:08:28.649 like please don't look at me and think of me 00:08:28.649 --> 00:08:31.629 as cool. Gotcha. So I just thought that was kind 00:08:31.629 --> 00:08:34.450 of an interesting thing and I recognize it now. 00:08:34.700 --> 00:08:36.820 Ever since reading it, I recognize, oh, wait 00:08:36.820 --> 00:08:39.139 a minute, I'm in a little boy chair here for 00:08:39.139 --> 00:08:41.220 a second. Gosh, that's really good, yeah. It 00:08:41.220 --> 00:08:45.379 was an interesting devotional. That's very informative. 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.860 That reframes things. I like that because, so 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:52.139 I took a class in my master's studies, my grad 00:08:52.139 --> 00:08:56.220 studies called, it was called Youth Development 00:08:56.220 --> 00:08:59.080 Psychology, but it actually went through adulthood, 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:03.600 but we were in a youth -focused class. But it 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.740 talked about the different stages of developmental 00:09:05.740 --> 00:09:08.840 psychology. That's very much in line with that. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.340 The child, the adolescent, and you can break 00:09:13.340 --> 00:09:15.659 those down into early adolescence, middle, late. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.320 Some of us never get out of adolescence, and 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.259 I say us on purpose. I was talking to Annette 00:09:22.259 --> 00:09:24.980 about that this morning. That I'm still in late 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:27.379 adolescence. I think so. I don't think I'll ever 00:09:27.379 --> 00:09:28.980 get out of it when you're playing that guitar 00:09:28.980 --> 00:09:33.100 you are Oh brother No kidding. No kidding leaves 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:35.700 me to today's daily grime. It's good, isn't it? 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.480 Yeah Hopefully that helps somebody out there. 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:43.059 Yeah today's daily grind which You do every single 00:09:43.059 --> 00:09:45.840 day and you post it on X and Facebook and you 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.559 always send me my personal copy as we Greet each 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.460 other in the morning one John four four You dear 00:09:53.460 --> 00:09:55.980 children are from God and have overcome them 00:09:55.980 --> 00:09:58.159 because the one who is in you is greater than 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.519 the one who is in the world. And your accompanying 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.500 text was, it's interesting how quickly we can 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:06.919 get overwhelmed by what is making the news in 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.639 the world. There's a war for your attention and 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.059 we must guard our hearts from the evil one and 00:10:12.059 --> 00:10:15.080 his minions. And I picked up on that because 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.860 I have been tracking for the past week and a 00:10:18.860 --> 00:10:24.929 half the podcast wars, which is basically Tucker 00:10:24.929 --> 00:10:28.809 Carlson, Candice Owens, Nick Fuentes, Milo is 00:10:28.809 --> 00:10:32.809 now back on the scene, Tim Poole to some degree 00:10:32.809 --> 00:10:35.610 on the outside, Megyn Kelly. They're all going 00:10:35.610 --> 00:10:39.070 and now Pierce Morgan has entered the fray. They're 00:10:39.070 --> 00:10:41.909 all talking about each other being on each other's 00:10:41.909 --> 00:10:49.429 podcasts. And it has consumed a I think a reasonable 00:10:49.429 --> 00:10:53.320 portion of the online audience and they are, 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:58.100 they're just consumed with it. And to me, well, 00:10:58.100 --> 00:11:00.320 there's two things going on there. One, if you 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.899 read comments and you know, so I really made 00:11:02.899 --> 00:11:06.840 a study of this. I'm not involved in it and I'm 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.100 the, nor do I intend to jump into this fray, 00:11:09.259 --> 00:11:12.559 but as a, um, as something that's happening is 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.179 very interesting to observe because you can see 00:11:15.179 --> 00:11:19.019 how the algorithm on comments, people often think 00:11:19.019 --> 00:11:22.769 about that. It literally is. pro against, pro 00:11:22.769 --> 00:11:25.649 pro against against, pro pro pro against against. 00:11:26.110 --> 00:11:29.049 They are continuously, and that's very easy to 00:11:29.049 --> 00:11:31.009 rank. I've never thought about Al Goh's impacting 00:11:31.009 --> 00:11:34.929 comments. Oh yeah, brother. That's the big one. 00:11:36.169 --> 00:11:38.950 But it's not even, it's not like a bunch of people 00:11:38.950 --> 00:11:41.990 at Metta or Elon Musk is not sitting there going, 00:11:42.409 --> 00:11:45.100 ha ha ha ha, watch this. It is built into the 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:47.220 algorithm. It's built into the system to do that. 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:51.860 That is our American way. We want to always create 00:11:51.860 --> 00:11:53.840 strife. That's why politicians do it. This is 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.480 how we win attention. That's how advertising 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.840 works. The whole thing is based on that. It's 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.840 starting to sound like CB radio. Remember when 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:14.250 it got really saturated? That guy's no good. 00:12:14.490 --> 00:12:16.909 You hear what he said to you? What kind of antenna 00:12:16.909 --> 00:12:19.950 you got there? Is that a Moonraker? Remember 00:12:19.950 --> 00:12:23.169 those? I had a Moonraker. I had a GPA actually. 00:12:24.049 --> 00:12:25.529 You probably have a lot more going. Halfway, 00:12:25.830 --> 00:12:31.309 baby. But it's good for us to stop and once you 00:12:31.309 --> 00:12:36.669 realize that the machine is doing that intentionally. 00:12:37.620 --> 00:12:39.940 That's when you have to figure out it's time 00:12:39.940 --> 00:12:43.179 to step. It's gotten so crazy It's got I mean, 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.519 it's not even about Israel anymore. Now. It's 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:50.860 just about who said what? Literally, and I don't 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:52.580 even spend time on this stuff. You don't even 00:12:52.580 --> 00:12:55.360 have to it's so obvious and in your face. Mm 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:59.659 -hmm So I connected a dot here between Oh, and 00:12:59.659 --> 00:13:08.370 I lost it gosh talk about old man stuff No, noise 00:13:08.370 --> 00:13:11.309 pollution, noise pollution. We were talking about 00:13:11.309 --> 00:13:13.629 noise pollution before being like physical noise 00:13:13.629 --> 00:13:16.070 pollution. Like you will go into a coffee house, 00:13:16.149 --> 00:13:17.750 you want it to be quiet, but you got the roar 00:13:17.750 --> 00:13:22.690 of 18 refrigerators in a row, right? So that's 00:13:22.690 --> 00:13:25.409 just noise pollution everywhere. Sirens on, you 00:13:25.409 --> 00:13:27.250 know, there's an intersection, there's a siren 00:13:27.250 --> 00:13:29.850 going on. There's always something going on because 00:13:29.850 --> 00:13:31.389 we're talking about how it can damage your hearing. 00:13:31.850 --> 00:13:34.470 But think about the noise pollution online that 00:13:34.470 --> 00:13:36.909 we're experiencing. Massive. When I think about 00:13:36.909 --> 00:13:39.590 comments, I think about that CB radio scene you 00:13:39.590 --> 00:13:43.529 just did. Just this chatter and this nonstop 00:13:43.529 --> 00:13:47.110 verbal assault, which is at the end of the day, 00:13:47.149 --> 00:13:50.110 it's an assault on your heart. Yes. Because that's 00:13:50.110 --> 00:13:52.470 the point. Yes. That's what the enemy is doing. 00:13:52.509 --> 00:13:55.649 He's assaulting our hearts because if he can, 00:13:56.029 --> 00:13:58.750 it's the same thing in advertising and promotion. 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:02.000 If you can get their heart. Yeah. If I could 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.899 get your attention. Yes, sir. That's it. And 00:14:04.899 --> 00:14:07.940 so you called it audience capture, is the word 00:14:07.940 --> 00:14:11.659 you used. This is what we're talking about. Whether 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:16.340 it's spiritual audience capture, it's all the 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:18.899 same. At the end of the day, it's an assault 00:14:18.899 --> 00:14:22.639 on the heart. So I don't really have a conclusion 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.159 other than exactly what that verse says. It's 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.960 like, you know, in fact, let me pick it up again. 00:14:30.730 --> 00:14:33.090 Because the one who is in you is greater than 00:14:33.090 --> 00:14:35.690 the one who is in the world. Come on Yeah, I 00:14:35.690 --> 00:14:37.370 mean and we just have to remember these things. 00:14:37.490 --> 00:14:40.509 I woke up. I wake up almost every single day 00:14:40.509 --> 00:14:45.830 the first Seven seconds I can feel my brain going. 00:14:46.169 --> 00:14:50.649 Oh, no. Oh, no this that that that and and because 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:53.850 I'm weak when I awaken Yeah, we're in a bit of 00:14:53.850 --> 00:14:56.750 the vulnerable moment completely vulnerable and 00:14:56.750 --> 00:15:00.000 and now I can reckon I'm like oh Uh -uh. No, 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.820 you don't. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Good morning, 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:05.980 Lord Jesus. Good morning, Abba. Our Father, which 00:15:05.980 --> 00:15:10.539 art in heaven, I do it if I'm awake enough, my 00:15:10.539 --> 00:15:13.259 extended version with all of my extra bits and 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:17.720 bobs in there, and then I'm ready. And then straight 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.120 to, in this case, I usually do the you version 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.539 now. Just give me the verse of the day. And I 00:15:22.539 --> 00:15:26.799 can physically feel myself calming down and at 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.039 the same time recognizing how before three years 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.059 ago when I got saved, how that would determine 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:38.179 my mood, the mood in my house, the mood with 00:15:38.179 --> 00:15:41.679 my reactions towards other people. Absolutely. 00:15:41.899 --> 00:15:44.080 And it's like, what does it really take out of 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.159 my day? I mean, I do a lot more, but 10 minutes, 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.460 10 minutes from start to finish, and you are 00:15:49.460 --> 00:15:52.460 good. And it's going to change your life, man. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.600 There's both a spiritual and a scientific explanation 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.120 for that. we wake up, we're having a cortisol 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.059 dump to start with. Cortisol takes you down. 00:16:02.259 --> 00:16:04.679 It's a stress hormone. You're starting to feel 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.360 that spin up. It's autopilot. It's auto. So that 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.600 starts the minute you wake up, cortisol is flowing. 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.139 And there's various stages through sleep, in 00:16:14.139 --> 00:16:17.179 REM sleep and then other types of sleep, where 00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:20.600 cortisol gets released. And depending on how 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.799 you wake up and the first thing you do, the first 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.210 few minutes of what you do, determines. It literally 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:28.309 can set the course for your day. You just said 00:16:28.309 --> 00:16:30.370 that literally. That's exactly how it feels. 00:16:30.610 --> 00:16:33.210 I actually talked to the staff yesterday about 00:16:33.210 --> 00:16:35.370 this very thing. Everything you're saying, I'm 00:16:35.370 --> 00:16:37.509 like, I just had this conversation with our team 00:16:37.509 --> 00:16:41.350 because I want them to, as I'm getting older, 00:16:41.450 --> 00:16:44.570 I'm learning things that work, and things that 00:16:44.570 --> 00:16:48.149 don't. The biggest thing I said yesterday about 00:16:48.149 --> 00:16:51.519 waking up, same thing, routine. Good morning, 00:16:51.539 --> 00:16:56.639 Holy Spirit. All that. But then is to put Scripture 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.700 before screens. Do not grab your phone first 00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:02.759 thing and see how many notifications you get 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.660 head through the night. You're toast. You're 00:17:04.660 --> 00:17:06.980 toast. I mean, you're done. Even if you see the 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:09.519 notification, but you don't go to it, the quarter 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:11.640 saw dumps happening already and you're already 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.759 in a stress moment and you don't even realize 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:17.299 it. And now you're jittery. Now you rush through 00:17:17.299 --> 00:17:19.220 your quiet time, you rush through your prayer 00:17:19.220 --> 00:17:21.039 time, you rush through your Bible reading. Why? 00:17:21.299 --> 00:17:23.940 Because I need to get to that notification. It's 00:17:23.940 --> 00:17:26.140 already got your heart. Your phone is a cortisol 00:17:26.140 --> 00:17:28.180 activation unit. Totally. Here's how I leave 00:17:28.180 --> 00:17:32.220 my phone. Upside down, no vibrator, no vibration, 00:17:32.500 --> 00:17:35.980 just exactly. Only thing goes off is the alarm 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:38.279 and it's not even the phone. It's in my earbuds, 00:17:38.539 --> 00:17:41.660 my Oslos, my sleeping ear buds. I only use one. 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:44.819 I'm weirdo. I'm so whacked of my hearing with 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:47.700 the right side and left. So I just put it in 00:17:47.700 --> 00:17:50.819 the left so I could have also, and all it runs 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:55.039 is brown noise. How is that different from white 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.619 noise? It's a deeper sound. It's lower frequency. 00:18:00.940 --> 00:18:03.519 White noise makes me nervous. It makes me edgy. 00:18:03.609 --> 00:18:05.650 Because it's interesting. It's high pitched. 00:18:06.109 --> 00:18:08.529 I like the low pitch. I don't think I could sleep 00:18:08.529 --> 00:18:11.349 with that. When Tina's not home, which doesn't 00:18:11.349 --> 00:18:17.490 happen often, I can easily put on a sermon or 00:18:17.490 --> 00:18:20.069 a podcast and listen to it and fall asleep to 00:18:20.069 --> 00:18:22.710 it. And I always have the feeling, I got it. 00:18:22.829 --> 00:18:25.089 I got something from that. Your spirit's definitely 00:18:25.089 --> 00:18:26.490 getting something from it. I got something while 00:18:26.490 --> 00:18:31.210 I was sleeping. Absolutely. So kind of on that, 00:18:31.210 --> 00:18:36.529 because Everything is so unreliable and so full 00:18:36.529 --> 00:18:41.630 of, pardon my French, crap. I took a gander at 00:18:41.630 --> 00:18:43.650 a very important document that our president 00:18:43.650 --> 00:18:46.710 published. Because if you look at the news feeds, 00:18:47.630 --> 00:18:50.849 like it's drug boats, it's we're going to take 00:18:50.849 --> 00:18:54.170 over Venezuela. We're slaughtering people on 00:18:54.170 --> 00:18:57.990 the seas. It's innocent people. It's innocent 00:18:57.990 --> 00:19:01.210 drug runners. Trump cares more about other countries 00:19:01.210 --> 00:19:05.140 than our country. And so this document is something 00:19:05.140 --> 00:19:09.900 every president releases. It's the National Strategic 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:13.660 Security briefing document. I think that's what 00:19:13.660 --> 00:19:16.240 it's called. Let me see what the official term 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:21.339 is. I have it on my pad here. I have the PDF. 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.599 National Security Strategy of the United States 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.519 of America. And so this is literally, this is 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.420 what we're doing. Sounds weighty. It's only 33 00:19:30.420 --> 00:19:33.809 pages. I know, magic number. But it's 33 pages. 00:19:34.109 --> 00:19:37.710 It is plain English. It is well worth everybody's 00:19:37.710 --> 00:19:40.410 time to read if you want to understand what the 00:19:40.410 --> 00:19:42.410 president is doing. And, you know, you and I 00:19:42.410 --> 00:19:44.630 have talked about this. It's not really 5D chess. 00:19:44.890 --> 00:19:48.809 It's just it looks like that because your attention 00:19:48.809 --> 00:19:51.990 is pulled to, you know, Candace Owens, you know, 00:19:52.170 --> 00:19:55.490 Tim Poole, Fuentes. Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk. 00:19:56.309 --> 00:19:59.670 Sadly, he's at the bottom of the discussion now, 00:19:59.670 --> 00:20:03.700 even though it all started with him. Right. I 00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:10.039 won't read the opening from the opening. So he 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:14.460 had a one page and it's basically, everything 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:18.220 sucked until I showed up. We understand that. 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.019 And he says, what follows is a national security 00:20:22.019 --> 00:20:24.819 strategy to describe and build upon the extraordinary 00:20:24.819 --> 00:20:27.640 strides we have made. This document is a roadmap 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:30.039 to ensure that America remains the greatest and 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.640 most successful nation in human history and the 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.660 home of freedom on earth. In the years ahead, 00:20:34.660 --> 00:20:36.640 we will continue to develop every dimension of 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.000 our national strength and we will make America 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.819 safer, richer, freer, greater and more powerful 00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:45.220 than ever before." So very Trump -esque. This 00:20:45.220 --> 00:20:49.339 document is well written, not by him. And it 00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:52.059 starts off with what is the American strategy? 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.339 And if you ask people on the street, I don't 00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:57.589 think they'd have a clue. as to what is our strategy? 00:20:57.730 --> 00:21:00.049 What is our strategy as a country, as a nation? 00:21:02.309 --> 00:21:05.569 And, you know, of course, to ensure that we achieve 00:21:05.569 --> 00:21:07.450 our goals, we have to have a strategy. So lay 00:21:07.450 --> 00:21:09.890 the whole strategy out. Is that on your Remarkable? 00:21:09.950 --> 00:21:12.609 It is. You can import PDFs and you can highlight 00:21:12.609 --> 00:21:14.289 it. Oh, yeah, this is a note. That's why he was 00:21:14.289 --> 00:21:16.410 showing me his today. I love the highlighting 00:21:16.410 --> 00:21:21.109 ability of PDFs. So I'm just going to do a paragraph 00:21:21.109 --> 00:21:22.930 here or there. I just want people to hear it 00:21:22.930 --> 00:21:25.349 so that you can say, yeah, I read that. It's 00:21:25.349 --> 00:21:28.650 a great document, even if you didn't. Our elites 00:21:28.650 --> 00:21:31.710 badly miscalculated America's willingness to 00:21:31.710 --> 00:21:34.069 shoulder forever global burdens to which the 00:21:34.069 --> 00:21:36.430 American people saw no connection to the national 00:21:36.430 --> 00:21:39.529 interest. So he's talking about elites. I love 00:21:39.529 --> 00:21:41.390 that. You know, this is a term that the common 00:21:41.390 --> 00:21:43.269 man, you know, the elites over there. Right. 00:21:43.390 --> 00:21:45.970 They overestimated America's ability to fund 00:21:45.970 --> 00:21:49.630 simultaneously a massive welfare regulatory administrative 00:21:49.630 --> 00:21:53.029 state. alongside a massive military, diplomatic 00:21:53.029 --> 00:21:56.670 intelligence and foreign aid complex. They placed 00:21:56.670 --> 00:22:00.069 hugely misguided and destructive bets on globalism 00:22:00.069 --> 00:22:03.029 and so -called free trade that hollowed out the 00:22:03.029 --> 00:22:05.230 very middle class and industrial base on which 00:22:05.230 --> 00:22:08.410 America's economic and military preeminence depend. 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.500 They allowed allies and partners to offload their 00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:13.859 cost of their defense onto the American people 00:22:13.859 --> 00:22:17.220 and sometimes suck us into conflicts and controversy 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:20.740 central to their interests, but peripheral or 00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:24.759 irrelevant to ours. So this is exactly the complaint 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:28.279 that people have, that some detractors of the 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.680 president will say, he's only doing that. He's 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.539 saying, no, this is what we were doing. The questions 00:22:33.539 --> 00:22:35.980 before us now are, what should the United States 00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:38.839 want? What are available means to get it? How 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:41.680 can we connect ends and means into a viable national 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.140 security strategy? So obviously I'm not going 00:22:44.140 --> 00:22:45.700 to go through the whole thing. I will give some 00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:47.940 highlights, but there's important words in here. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.259 Right off the bat, what do we want overall? First 00:22:51.259 --> 00:22:54.160 and foremost, we want the continued survival 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:56.980 and safety of the United States as an independent 00:22:56.980 --> 00:22:59.980 sovereign republic whose government secures the 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:03.000 God -given natural rights of its citizens and 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.579 prioritizes their well -being and interests. 00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:09.240 Love it when he puts God right on page one, you 00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:13.500 know that that really that that that just Gave 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:18.259 me a good feeling love that so What he's doing 00:23:18.259 --> 00:23:20.480 what people but you're not being told because 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.319 we're too busy with other things in the media 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:27.019 is there really Look over here. Look over here 00:23:27.019 --> 00:23:32.779 alert alert We want the world's most robust industrial 00:23:32.779 --> 00:23:35.960 base. And if you see, we're going to be building 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:38.579 more Toyotas in America. We're going to be building 00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:43.019 ships in America. Yeah, the data centers is all 00:23:43.019 --> 00:23:47.259 in America. And there's a million apprenticeships 00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:52.559 which have been stimulated by the U .S. government. 00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:56.579 So for the Gen Zs out there listening, and maybe 00:23:56.579 --> 00:24:00.349 even the Alphas, Is that your coffee machine? 00:24:00.509 --> 00:24:04.730 I'm hearing that. Yeah, the coffee machine is 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:08.269 doing its thing. It's growling at us, Jimmy. 00:24:08.730 --> 00:24:11.849 Don't worry about it. It's fine. It's only me 00:24:11.849 --> 00:24:14.710 who hears that stuff. How do you have those turned 00:24:14.710 --> 00:24:16.730 up? It's just me. You're rocking your hearing 00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:21.589 aids. If we can get away from the, I need to 00:24:21.589 --> 00:24:24.710 go to college, go into debt and get a poli sci 00:24:24.710 --> 00:24:28.259 degree or whatever, And think about, I mean, 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:30.660 there's going to be an opportunity for people 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:34.700 to make $150 ,000 to $250 ,000 as electricians, 00:24:34.940 --> 00:24:37.880 welders, builders, construction. And when we 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:40.420 have that, then we will have companies that need 00:24:40.420 --> 00:24:43.140 marketing executives and other things. He is 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:47.440 rebuilding our country from the bottom up and 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:51.296 kicking all the nasty stuff out. It truly... 00:24:51.289 --> 00:24:54.390 And everything I read in this document, kind 00:24:54.390 --> 00:24:57.549 of like the Monroe Doctrine, which is like, we 00:24:57.549 --> 00:25:02.849 want to be us and we're going to be mainly concerned 00:25:02.849 --> 00:25:06.250 with the Western hemisphere. So from north to 00:25:06.250 --> 00:25:09.930 south, instead of continuously focusing on the 00:25:09.930 --> 00:25:14.309 East and the Middle East and Asia. And it's just. 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:17.559 It is an incredible... When did this document 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:19.400 come out? When was this released? This came out 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:23.319 about a week ago. Okay. And there's a couple 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:24.779 of other things. Has anyone talked about it? 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:26.799 Because it seems like... Well, the only way it's 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.359 talked about is, Trump says that the European 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.480 Union will be extinct in 20 years. Well, he does 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.559 kind of say that. He said, if you continue with 00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:39.640 your immigration policy and by removing the natural 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.480 resources of energy that you have, energy equals 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:46.119 life. So the European Union just today said, 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:49.539 we're going to be 90 % renewables by 2030. You 00:25:49.539 --> 00:25:52.480 will be dead. Yeah. My daughter literally got 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.140 a shell of who you were. My daughter lives in 00:25:55.140 --> 00:25:58.779 Holland. She literally got a brochure, a full 00:25:58.779 --> 00:26:02.779 color, five page booklet, what to do in an emergency 00:26:02.779 --> 00:26:06.250 when the electricity goes out. like, you know, 00:26:06.269 --> 00:26:09.410 you need candles and a flashlight and food. They're 00:26:09.410 --> 00:26:12.710 scaring these kids because they know that if 00:26:12.710 --> 00:26:15.869 they go down this path, eventually, yeah, you 00:26:15.869 --> 00:26:18.710 can't have all electric cars and have windmills 00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:20.430 powering it at the end of the day. You know, 00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:25.490 it's just, they're crazy. I just want to read 00:26:25.490 --> 00:26:30.509 this one. Oh yeah, here it is. So what are America's 00:26:30.509 --> 00:26:35.650 available means to get what we want? The courage, 00:26:36.009 --> 00:26:39.250 willpower and patriotism of the American people. 00:26:39.730 --> 00:26:43.250 I love these kinds of words. Returning economic 00:26:43.250 --> 00:26:45.829 freedom to our citizens via historic tax cuts 00:26:45.829 --> 00:26:49.910 and deregulatory effects. He just changed the 00:26:49.910 --> 00:26:52.490 mileage requirements for automobiles, which is 00:26:52.490 --> 00:26:54.369 the reason we couldn't build really cheap cars 00:26:54.369 --> 00:26:57.299 in America. Because you have to get 50 miles 00:26:57.299 --> 00:27:00.000 to the gallon. Oh, right. Yes. We remember that 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.640 right? So that's now gone, you know, so now there 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.119 will be $14 ,000 brand new cars available Yeah, 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.579 that's that's why I made to yeah Wow. Yeah, you 00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:16.000 literally couldn't build that stuff Okay, let 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:21.640 me just find the last bit here Non -intervention 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.720 is Primacy of our nation pro -american worker. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:29.039 He's literally this is the split You're kind 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:31.140 of seeing this MAGA versus America and he says 00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:33.660 America first everywhere here Which is he was 00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:35.980 just trying to make sure he reclaims that word. 00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:40.480 Yeah, but people who are Confused that what he 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:43.180 is doing overseas is for other countries. They 00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:46.019 are confused It is for is bringing the money 00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:48.440 and the production to us. They've been manipulated 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:51.500 to be completely whole point. Yes completely, 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:57.390 which is Always a political move. The era of 00:27:57.390 --> 00:28:00.450 mass migration is over. Then he says, hey, if 00:28:00.450 --> 00:28:02.869 NATO doesn't want to pay up, then they can go 00:28:02.869 --> 00:28:06.349 figure it out, which is probably energy dominance. 00:28:06.470 --> 00:28:08.109 We'll get to that in a moment. I have brought 00:28:08.109 --> 00:28:12.130 some clips about that. We will deny non -hemispheric 00:28:12.130 --> 00:28:14.769 competitors the ability to position forces or 00:28:14.769 --> 00:28:17.410 other threatening capabilities or to own or control 00:28:17.410 --> 00:28:19.890 strategically vital assets in our hemisphere. 00:28:20.329 --> 00:28:22.849 Yay. So this is kind of critical when it comes 00:28:22.849 --> 00:28:26.250 to what's really going on with Venezuela. And 00:28:26.250 --> 00:28:29.609 I have a couple of clips that I brought so that 00:28:29.609 --> 00:28:32.769 we can understand what's really happening. And 00:28:32.769 --> 00:28:35.230 you have to understand that Venezuela should 00:28:35.230 --> 00:28:37.609 be one of the richest countries in the world, 00:28:38.069 --> 00:28:40.250 considering the resources they have, which are 00:28:40.250 --> 00:28:44.509 mainly to oil and drugs. I hate to say it, but 00:28:44.509 --> 00:28:48.759 you know, and I was listening to podcast, it 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.400 was actually a Christian podcast and they're 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:54.779 saying well you know if if Trump is willing to 00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:56.839 kill those guys with those boats why don't you 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:01.220 kill the drug dealers like you know You have 00:29:01.220 --> 00:29:03.599 to cut the head off, the snake off at the head. 00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:06.599 You can't just be wagging at the tail the whole 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:08.960 time. So here's two clips from the same report 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:11.200 about Venezuela, because it's really two issues. 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:13.700 Just this year, the U .S. Coast Guard has seized 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.900 almost a half a billion dollars worth of cocaine 00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:18.599 off the coast of Venezuela. And the Trump administration 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:21.619 has gone on the offensive. In recent weeks, the 00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:24.279 U .S. military deployed eight warships, surveillance 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.680 planes, a nuclear submarine, and 10 stealth fighters 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.650 to the region. Last week, the U .S. struck a 00:29:30.650 --> 00:29:34.049 suspected smuggling vessel killing 11 in a mission 00:29:34.049 --> 00:29:37.369 authorized directly by the president. Officials 00:29:37.369 --> 00:29:39.509 say the surge is part of an aggressive counter 00:29:39.509 --> 00:29:43.009 -narcotics campaign. Billions of dollars of drugs 00:29:43.009 --> 00:29:45.809 are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. 00:29:46.250 --> 00:29:50.190 Venezuela has been a very bad actor and we understand 00:29:50.190 --> 00:29:52.849 that. Maduro's government denies the charges 00:29:52.849 --> 00:29:56.250 and insists the drug war is being used as a reason 00:29:56.250 --> 00:30:00.059 to destabilize his government. Venezuela is not 00:30:00.059 --> 00:30:04.259 a relevant country in terms of drug trafficking 00:30:04.259 --> 00:30:08.960 and in all related matters. So this lie is as 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:12.819 crude and false as the claim that Iraq had weapons 00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:16.180 of mass destruction. Maduro has mobilized millions 00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:18.519 of militia members and warned Venezuela could 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.180 declare a republic in arms if attacked. Venezuelan 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:24.579 fighter jets have twice buzzed U .S. Navy ships 00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:27.279 in international waters. The U .S. commanders 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.359 say any further threats could be met with force. 00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.539 So it's important to understand that that is 00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:37.180 of course an analogy that's not true. There may 00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:39.319 have not been weapons of mass destruction in 00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:42.059 Iraq. But there's most definitely drug production 00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:46.720 in Venezuela. And this is cutting off of important 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:49.160 money supplies. I think we've talked about this 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.140 before. By the time it gets down to the street, 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:54.380 and if you go all the way back to who's running 00:30:54.380 --> 00:30:57.539 it, it is hundreds of billions of dollars, which 00:30:57.539 --> 00:31:00.640 is flowing all throughout the money system. If 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.440 all of that went away worldwide, Wall Street 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:06.259 would literally collapse. You just have to look 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.869 at some of the numbers to understand. how important 00:31:08.869 --> 00:31:13.509 that is. So reducing that slowly is good. In 00:31:13.509 --> 00:31:18.569 Europe, illegal drug prices have doubled. So 00:31:18.569 --> 00:31:20.869 what happens? Maybe I'm not going to buy some 00:31:20.869 --> 00:31:22.710 drugs today. Maybe I'm not going to do that. 00:31:22.750 --> 00:31:26.329 So it has a very positive effect. This is a true 00:31:26.329 --> 00:31:28.769 war on drugs, which you've never actually had. 00:31:29.170 --> 00:31:32.450 I've heard it throughout my lifetime. Now there's 00:31:32.450 --> 00:31:34.430 something else going on. If you look at the map, 00:31:34.809 --> 00:31:37.990 You've got Venezuela and right next to Venezuela, 00:31:38.490 --> 00:31:43.309 snap quiz, Guiana. So they border on each other. 00:31:43.390 --> 00:31:47.130 And there's been a dispute between Venezuela 00:31:47.130 --> 00:31:49.589 and Guiana. And this is the thing that no one 00:31:49.589 --> 00:31:53.210 talks about that started. Well, it's been going 00:31:53.210 --> 00:31:56.069 on for 100 years, but it really started to heat 00:31:56.069 --> 00:31:59.750 up about a year ago when the president of Venezuela, 00:31:59.750 --> 00:32:03.529 Maduro said, yeah, I think I think that's our 00:32:03.529 --> 00:32:07.130 land. This report will kind of explain why this 00:32:07.130 --> 00:32:09.369 is a problem for the United States. And this, 00:32:09.470 --> 00:32:12.329 by the way, is only, you know, you can fly for 00:32:12.329 --> 00:32:14.029 30 minutes, you know, or a little bit longer. 00:32:14.210 --> 00:32:16.329 You're right down in Venezuela. It's not that 00:32:16.329 --> 00:32:18.970 far from the south of our country. You know, 00:32:18.970 --> 00:32:21.430 this is, and it's Western Hemisphere. Another 00:32:21.430 --> 00:32:24.109 facet to this conflict is playing out here in 00:32:24.109 --> 00:32:27.500 Guyana. Venezuela's tiny neighbor has been under 00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:30.960 threat as Venezuela claims sovereignty over approximately 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:33.599 two -thirds of the country, along with massive 00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:37.019 offshore oil reserves. One key in this conflict 00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:39.960 is the U .S. has major business interests here, 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:42.740 with ExxonMobil and other companies developing 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:45.700 huge new fields. Washington's security posture 00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:48.779 may also be aimed at deterring Venezuelan moves 00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:51.569 against Guyana. Venezuela doesn't even have any 00:32:51.569 --> 00:32:53.950 roads that connect it to its neighbor to the 00:32:53.950 --> 00:32:57.069 east here in Guyana, and the border dispute between 00:32:57.069 --> 00:32:59.490 the two countries was supposed to have been settled 00:32:59.490 --> 00:33:02.220 more than a hundred years ago. Venezuela never 00:33:02.220 --> 00:33:05.420 really made much of a fuss about it until 11 00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:08.240 billion barrels of oil was discovered offshore, 00:33:08.380 --> 00:33:12.079 and now Venezuela wants to take over an area 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.140 of Guyana about the size of Florida. And that's 00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:17.480 why when Secretary of State Marco Rubio came 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.720 here in March, he made it very clear to the Venezuelan 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.440 government, keep your hands off. There will be 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:28.490 consequences for adventurism. There will be consequences 00:33:28.490 --> 00:33:30.910 for aggressive actions because you have a very 00:33:30.910 --> 00:33:33.970 difficult challenge on your hands with a dictator 00:33:33.970 --> 00:33:36.609 that's making illegitimate territorial claims. 00:33:37.029 --> 00:33:39.230 Pressed on whether the U .S. would back Guyana 00:33:39.230 --> 00:33:42.450 militarily, Rubio left little doubt. It would 00:33:42.450 --> 00:33:44.970 be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if 00:33:44.970 --> 00:33:47.509 they were to attack Guyana or attack ExxonMobil 00:33:47.509 --> 00:33:49.329 or anything like it. It would be a very bad day, 00:33:49.509 --> 00:33:51.740 a very bad week for them. The Trump administration 00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:55.220 has a $50 million bounty on Maduro. So while 00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.460 U .S. officials frame the buildup as counter 00:33:57.460 --> 00:34:00.680 narcotics, the sheer firepower deployed raises 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:02.880 questions whether Washington is preparing to 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.279 go beyond interdiction and possibly move to oust 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:09.480 Nicolas Maduro from power. For certain, the stakes 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:12.139 are rising. Whether this confrontation stops 00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:14.659 at drug enforcement or escalates into regime 00:34:14.659 --> 00:34:20.900 change may depend on Maduro's next move. ExxonMobil 00:34:20.900 --> 00:34:26.280 has had the oil contract with Guyana for several 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:31.039 years. That's an American company. And when you 00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.579 have a neighboring president saying, well, we're 00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:37.780 just going to move in. Right. That's our interest. 00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:40.739 Right. And it's like there's no doubt. We're 00:34:40.739 --> 00:34:43.360 not there illegally. We're not hijacking. We 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:48.000 pay. We pay Guyana. It is a huge resource. It 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:51.619 is so big that the president actually did two 00:34:51.619 --> 00:34:55.400 things in one, because if you have too much oil 00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:58.059 flowing, you're going to hurt the producers in 00:34:58.059 --> 00:35:01.380 Texas and South Dakota because the price is already 00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:04.380 kind of at a break even point for them. So you 00:35:04.380 --> 00:35:07.019 want to reduce the oil somewhere else. So he 00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:09.500 just said to Chevron, another one of our companies, 00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:12.940 we're going to do a twofer here. You're not going 00:35:12.940 --> 00:35:15.659 to drill in Venezuela anymore and pay the Venezuelan 00:35:15.659 --> 00:35:18.139 government. As the Trump administration is ending 00:35:18.139 --> 00:35:21.460 Chevron's license to operate in Venezuela, which 00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:24.800 allows the Maduro regime to export oil to the 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.139 U .S. Oil experts are a financial lifeline for 00:35:28.139 --> 00:35:31.639 the Maduro regime. Chevron producing about 220 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:36.619 ,000 barrels of oil in Venezuela every day. Joining 00:35:36.619 --> 00:35:39.079 us now, Ryan Berg, Director of the America's 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.639 Program at the Center for Strategic and International 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.440 Studies. Ryan, thank you very much for being 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:47.400 with us today. You study Venezuela. How significant 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.579 is President Trump's decision? Well, thanks for 00:35:50.579 --> 00:35:53.239 having me on, Jose. This decision cannot be underestimated. 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:55.760 It's very significant. You said it yourself in 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:58.719 the opening. Chevron produces well over 200 ,000 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.320 barrels of oil per day. In Venezuela, on average, 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:05.199 the country only produces about 850 to 950 ,000 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.239 barrels of oil per day, depending upon the month 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.460 that you're looking at. And so this is 20 to 00:36:09.460 --> 00:36:12.500 25 % of Venezuela's overall production. So much 00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:14.739 so that Venezuelan economists were starting to 00:36:14.739 --> 00:36:18.019 refer last year to El Efecto Chevron in Spanish, 00:36:18.099 --> 00:36:20.579 or the Chevron Effect, how Chevron is actually 00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:23.440 revitalizing our oil industry and therefore our 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:26.159 economy with its partnerships with the Pedevesa, 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:28.409 the state -owned Venezuelan enterprise. So this 00:36:28.409 --> 00:36:31.329 is very, very significant that the Trump administration 00:36:31.329 --> 00:36:34.409 is deciding to end GL 41, which is the license 00:36:34.409 --> 00:36:36.889 that gives Chevron the ability to operate in 00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:42.130 Venezuela. So reading the national security strategic 00:36:42.130 --> 00:36:44.809 document and seeing what's happening, he is following 00:36:44.809 --> 00:36:48.409 exactly on what he said he would do. And there's 00:36:48.409 --> 00:36:52.030 no reason for us to invade Venezuela. I think, 00:36:52.030 --> 00:36:54.730 you know, we have an entire fleet there for two 00:36:54.730 --> 00:36:57.960 reasons. One, If you decide to go into Venezuela 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.440 or into Guiana, as Secretary of State Rubio said, 00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:03.840 it's going to be a bad week for you. Yeah, because 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.239 that is actually an act of war if they did that. 00:37:07.179 --> 00:37:10.159 It's crazy. That actually came from CBN, that 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:13.500 report. I was blown away because you won't find 00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:16.119 it on any other news network because they're 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:19.400 all wrapped up in all kinds of things. So, that's 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:21.599 part of the reason we're there. Also, I think 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.679 the signals intelligence, if you're right off 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:27.420 the coast, they know exactly how the drug routes 00:37:27.420 --> 00:37:30.199 work, where it's being fabricated, etc. And I 00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:34.340 do expect that to be taken out. Trump is anti 00:37:34.340 --> 00:37:38.880 -drug. He's anti a lot of stuff like that. So, 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:41.699 it's to keep us safer and keep us prosperous 00:37:41.699 --> 00:37:45.059 with international deals we have that we just 00:37:45.059 --> 00:37:48.349 love to keep without any intervention. So does 00:37:48.349 --> 00:37:51.150 Venezuela, do they run their drugs through Cuba, 00:37:51.289 --> 00:37:54.590 Havana, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico? Or are 00:37:54.590 --> 00:37:57.150 those just gas points for them? Well, you mentioned 00:37:57.150 --> 00:38:02.349 a lot. A lot of it goes to the British islands. 00:38:04.050 --> 00:38:07.250 And from there, it's shipped out. Because most 00:38:07.250 --> 00:38:09.269 of these drugs, I think, are probably going to 00:38:09.269 --> 00:38:12.670 Europe. Some of it's coming to the US. But that's 00:38:12.670 --> 00:38:15.590 where the money laundering all takes place. So 00:38:15.590 --> 00:38:19.989 it's much bigger than just Venezuela. But it 00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:24.250 does not go to Cuba, no. And they'll hand it 00:38:24.250 --> 00:38:28.110 off, either they'll refuel. Most of these drug 00:38:28.110 --> 00:38:30.610 boats are filled with fuel at the bottom. They'll 00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:33.329 refuel, or they'll hand it off to a ship at sea. 00:38:33.389 --> 00:38:36.250 It all kind of depends on where you're at. And 00:38:36.250 --> 00:38:39.250 so everyone who's complaining about this, and 00:38:39.250 --> 00:38:41.530 I don't like, death is no good. Killing people 00:38:41.530 --> 00:38:45.570 is no good. But they're not complaining about 00:38:45.570 --> 00:38:48.670 the people. They're complaining about the value 00:38:48.670 --> 00:38:53.710 of what has been destroyed. Because it's even 00:38:53.710 --> 00:38:57.090 hard to explain how much money that is and how 00:38:57.090 --> 00:39:01.030 important it is to people who are not necessarily 00:39:01.030 --> 00:39:04.170 our friends. And it's also sending a signal to 00:39:04.170 --> 00:39:06.849 the rest of the world. It sure is. I mean, this 00:39:06.849 --> 00:39:10.989 is like a wake up call. And if you look at the 00:39:10.989 --> 00:39:14.199 document, President Trump is kind of clear. There's 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:19.440 three big sovereign nations. America, Russia, 00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:24.019 China. We want everybody to have their own vibe, 00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:27.679 be yourself, have your culture, whatever. Let's 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.300 have trade amongst each other. Let's make it 00:39:30.300 --> 00:39:34.099 balanced and fair. And I think this ARC idea, 00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:36.239 America, Russia, China, I think that is going 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:39.780 to be our future. It's a total zig to the to 00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:44.300 everybody else's zag. Wow. It's all in the document. 00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:47.000 We don't want globalist institutions telling 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.519 us what to do. That's your World Health Organization. 00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:51.860 That's your NATO. That's the United Nations. 00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:56.190 World Economic Forum is a drinking club. I was 00:39:56.190 --> 00:39:58.869 going to say, that's why I didn't finish that 00:39:58.869 --> 00:40:01.829 statement. No, that's not up there. Well, they 00:40:01.829 --> 00:40:04.489 had Klaus Schwab. He got kicked out because of 00:40:04.489 --> 00:40:07.170 some funny business with expenses and other things. 00:40:07.829 --> 00:40:12.130 But he was the perfect lightning rod for globalism 00:40:12.130 --> 00:40:14.090 because he just has the voice, everything. He 00:40:14.090 --> 00:40:17.469 looks evil. They say evil things. He's the villain. 00:40:17.590 --> 00:40:20.730 He looks like a villain. Completely. But the 00:40:20.730 --> 00:40:22.929 real villainous organizations are the ones that 00:40:22.929 --> 00:40:25.550 are right in your face, United Nations being 00:40:25.550 --> 00:40:28.650 one of them. So I'm really bullish on what's 00:40:28.650 --> 00:40:31.510 happening. And man, I love these cabinet meetings 00:40:31.510 --> 00:40:34.349 that the president does, three hours, four. It's 00:40:34.349 --> 00:40:36.630 like a board meeting. It's like the staff meeting. 00:40:36.750 --> 00:40:39.150 I mean, yours is shorter, I'm sure, although 00:40:39.150 --> 00:40:42.510 maybe not all the time. But everyone does their 00:40:42.510 --> 00:40:44.429 report. Here's what we're doing. Here's what 00:40:44.429 --> 00:40:47.949 we're getting to. And I literally saw the Secretary 00:40:47.949 --> 00:40:51.599 of Agriculture bring in the rice farmers. And 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.460 the rice farmer, she said, you know, think Mr. 00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:55.119 Trump thinks President Trump things are going 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:58.039 well, but we have a problem because India and 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.860 Japan are dumping their rice, which means they're 00:41:00.860 --> 00:41:04.039 getting rid of it under the price into America. 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:06.920 And the president does what any CEO would do. 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.340 Who is it? Give me two paragraphs. I'll end that 00:41:10.340 --> 00:41:13.480 tomorrow. I mean, this is running a business. 00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.960 He's running the business of America. Yes. So 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.170 when we need to be run that way. Well, political 00:41:20.170 --> 00:41:23.670 patty cake, the business of America is business. 00:41:23.949 --> 00:41:26.869 It's always been that. Mainly farming, which 00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:32.730 I love that his whole mantra is the farmers don't 00:41:32.730 --> 00:41:35.670 want handouts. They just want a fair shake. And 00:41:35.670 --> 00:41:41.090 so I just hope that people pay attention to some 00:41:41.090 --> 00:41:44.800 of the things that are not in the noise. or they're 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.199 actually hidden in the noise. Maybe I should 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:49.280 say it that way. Because you're missing one of 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.239 them. You should be able to say to your grandkids, 00:41:52.619 --> 00:41:55.860 I was there when all that happened. It was amazing 00:41:55.860 --> 00:41:59.119 what took place. It was transformational. Now, 00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:01.539 maybe he doesn't pull it all off. I don't know. 00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:04.480 But man, for just less than a year, I'm seeing 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.679 this happen. I am very excited about this. So 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.099 talk about for a minute, because this goes hand 00:42:10.099 --> 00:42:13.280 in hand with this. the bait and switch things 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.119 that happen with the media. I know you talk about 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.960 it a lot. I've heard heard you on no agenda. 00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:19.280 You and I have had many conversations about this. 00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.639 I've talked about it from the pulpit. Yeah. But 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.900 we need to like say there's new listeners. Somebody's 00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:28.119 just jumped in on us. Talk about over here, over 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:32.320 here. Why that's a problem. What media is trying 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.119 to draw you into? Well, media. Well, everybody 00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.699 has their own agenda for whatever reason. And 00:42:39.699 --> 00:42:47.739 not Fox News. Everybody has their own agenda. 00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.019 As odd as it seems, the best thing sometimes 00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:56.019 is just to go to the source. What is the source? 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:59.760 Well, they're talking about some document. You 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:03.679 can ask your AI, you can type it into Google. 00:43:04.539 --> 00:43:07.619 And it's always amazing to me. I took three months 00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:10.199 of college and dropped out. I've been a disc 00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.219 jockey most of my life. I can read this. You 00:43:13.219 --> 00:43:16.500 can read this too. It's not all that hard. It's 00:43:16.500 --> 00:43:19.800 not written for elites. It's written for you. 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.960 This is probably the thing I like the most. So 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.599 if you want to know what the president is actually 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:28.039 doing and what each one of his cabinet members, 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.340 it's on C -SPAN. You can get the live streams 00:43:32.340 --> 00:43:35.340 on YouTube. Just watch it. They're speaking English. 00:43:36.019 --> 00:43:39.079 And it's actually, it's like The Apprentice. 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:41.679 I mean, he's running it like The Apprentice. 00:43:41.699 --> 00:43:44.599 He's trying to make this an exciting, interesting 00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:48.539 type of show. And it's really, you know, you're 00:43:48.539 --> 00:43:50.880 not incentivized by anybody to do it. But if 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.579 you actually do that, you'd be surprised how 00:43:53.579 --> 00:43:55.599 much you learn. And you can do the same with 00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.440 the European Union. You may feel dark or gray 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:01.239 after watching some of their European Commission 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:03.719 sessions. But that's really, I started watching 00:44:03.719 --> 00:44:07.380 C -SPAN 20 years ago. Wow. And I was always always... 00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:09.420 Because it just runs constantly. It's just ongoing 00:44:09.420 --> 00:44:12.340 feed. It's now on YouTube TV. They just added 00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:17.139 it. And even the clips they have, I've always 00:44:17.139 --> 00:44:20.599 been amazed at like, well, this is exactly the 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.480 opposite of the way I heard the news talk about 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:27.849 it, which includes Fox News. Or, how come no 00:44:27.849 --> 00:44:30.449 one's talking about this? This is actually interesting. 00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:33.489 Now, a lot of it is show, particularly when you 00:44:33.489 --> 00:44:36.130 get like the house and they're doing their back 00:44:36.130 --> 00:44:39.670 and forth. But there are committee meetings and 00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:42.469 other things that are actually super interesting. 00:44:42.969 --> 00:44:45.849 And of course, you want to be listening to, we 00:44:45.849 --> 00:44:49.329 get to do this podcast. This is your little palate 00:44:49.329 --> 00:44:53.260 cleanser midweek. You need that. And yeah, no 00:44:53.260 --> 00:44:56.940 agenda. But there are others out there. But try 00:44:56.940 --> 00:44:59.460 to go to the source as much as possible. You'd 00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:02.400 be so surprised. And ultimately, what is the 00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:04.920 source, brother? Come on. The source is the book. 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.400 Truth. When you get back to that and you're just 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:11.440 looking for something to help you understand 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:14.170 what's going on in the world. I'm starting to 00:45:14.170 --> 00:45:16.210 figure that out. It's perspective. What happens 00:45:16.210 --> 00:45:19.309 is it puts your feet back on solid ground where 00:45:19.309 --> 00:45:21.929 you can get perspective on what's going on because 00:45:21.929 --> 00:45:25.010 there's nothing new under the sun. I mean, Solomon 00:45:25.010 --> 00:45:27.489 had it right in Ecclesiastes. There is nothing 00:45:27.489 --> 00:45:31.510 new under the sun. Everything is spin. Everything's 00:45:31.510 --> 00:45:36.670 a rehash. Same song, 7 ,000th verse. And what 00:45:36.670 --> 00:45:39.820 happens is that We keep thinking there's something 00:45:39.820 --> 00:45:41.639 new coming along. There's something different, 00:45:41.699 --> 00:45:43.559 or this is different. We've never seen things 00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.780 like this before. You hear that all the time 00:45:45.780 --> 00:45:50.920 in media. And the truth is, yes, we did. 1967, 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:54.980 1974, whatever. This has happened before. Nothing 00:45:54.980 --> 00:45:58.099 new under the sun. That has helped me just understanding 00:45:58.099 --> 00:46:02.699 the truth of that. So that when I walk into Planet 00:46:02.699 --> 00:46:04.980 Fitness and there's 32 screens up there and they 00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:08.760 all say, alert, breaking news. I yawn now. I 00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:11.039 used to like, oh my gosh. And you can see the 00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:13.440 whole gym stop. People stop and they're gawking. 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.320 Oh really? The stop that stopped working out? 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:16.940 Gawking at the screen. Oh yeah, they're gawking 00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:18.659 at the screens. No way. Oh, that's crazy. Oh 00:46:18.659 --> 00:46:20.860 yeah. And I mean, they may still be on their 00:46:20.860 --> 00:46:22.639 elliptical. Okay, they're still moving. They're 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:24.699 still moving. Yeah. But they're like looking 00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:27.280 and I'm watching this dynamic and I'm going, 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:29.739 they're saying, look over here, look over here. 00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:31.599 There's something else going on. If there's anything 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:33.559 you've taught me, it's that. There is something 00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:37.789 else going on and we've got to begin to get The 00:46:37.789 --> 00:46:39.570 sons of Issachar, we've talked about this, the 00:46:39.570 --> 00:46:43.449 men of Issachar understood the times and knew 00:46:43.449 --> 00:46:47.690 what Israel should do. I think that Ecclesiastes 00:46:47.690 --> 00:46:51.269 is really good right now because of the time 00:46:51.269 --> 00:46:54.750 and Solomon was the richest, wealthiest king 00:46:54.750 --> 00:46:58.329 in the world. And for him, it always came back 00:46:58.329 --> 00:47:02.449 to... Yeah, but that didn't satisfy me. That 00:47:02.449 --> 00:47:04.710 didn't do it for me. That's just vanity. It's 00:47:04.710 --> 00:47:11.130 all vanity. It's all vanity. It is. What other 00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:12.909 scripture do you think would fit in for this 00:47:12.909 --> 00:47:16.090 time that we're in right now? Well, I mean, definitely 00:47:16.090 --> 00:47:18.510 the first Samuel, that's the Mendevissa car. 00:47:19.110 --> 00:47:21.630 But I think too, we got to think in terms of 00:47:21.630 --> 00:47:26.190 truth, what truth is. So in John 15, let me just 00:47:26.190 --> 00:47:29.050 find this real quick. I love this scripture. 00:47:29.190 --> 00:47:31.449 It talks about the spirit of truth will lead 00:47:31.449 --> 00:47:33.909 you and guide you into all truth. So hold on. 00:47:36.250 --> 00:47:38.409 I'm going to give a trade secret away. Bible 00:47:38.409 --> 00:47:45.849 verse. Here's his prompt, everybody. About the 00:47:45.849 --> 00:47:53.769 spirit of truth. Quote, ellipsis. Yeah, trying 00:47:53.769 --> 00:47:55.630 to help people out who want to do research and 00:47:55.630 --> 00:48:00.289 stuff. So it's John 16, 13. I love this scripture. 00:48:00.409 --> 00:48:03.710 So it wasn't 15, it was John 16, 13. Oh, we'll 00:48:03.710 --> 00:48:07.550 let you slide. One off, oh boy. Off a chapter. 00:48:08.969 --> 00:48:10.829 So with that whole, that's all about the Last 00:48:10.829 --> 00:48:12.750 Supper. That's when Jesus is sitting around the 00:48:12.750 --> 00:48:16.130 table with his guys. So it says this, he says 00:48:16.130 --> 00:48:18.809 in verse 12, I have much more to say to you, 00:48:18.809 --> 00:48:21.550 more than you can now bear. There's more to say, 00:48:21.590 --> 00:48:24.269 but you can't handle it all. You're already weight 00:48:24.269 --> 00:48:27.869 content loaded. Verse 13. but when He, the Spirit 00:48:27.869 --> 00:48:31.829 of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth. 00:48:32.289 --> 00:48:34.150 He will not speak on His own. He'll speak only 00:48:34.150 --> 00:48:36.829 what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet 00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:40.929 to come." So we're told by Jesus that the Holy 00:48:40.929 --> 00:48:42.389 Spirit, the Spirit of truth, He's been talking 00:48:42.389 --> 00:48:43.670 about the Holy Spirit through this whole thing. 00:48:44.349 --> 00:48:47.469 It's the Holy Spirit will come after Jesus was 00:48:47.469 --> 00:48:51.210 crucified and ascended, which He did. We saw 00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:55.179 that in Acts chapter 2. He says, He will guide 00:48:55.179 --> 00:48:59.639 you into all truth. All right. That is a defining 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:03.940 statement. All truth. And He will guide you into 00:49:03.940 --> 00:49:07.239 all truth. So if we're willing to listen and 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:11.099 we're willing to press pause or shut our computer 00:49:11.099 --> 00:49:14.039 screen or put our phone face down for five minutes 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:18.099 and say, Lord, is this true? Holy Spirit, you're 00:49:18.099 --> 00:49:20.900 the spirit of truth. Your word also says, I have 00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:22.980 the mind of Christ so I can think different. 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:28.760 I can reason well. It also says, you've not been 00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:30.619 given the spirit of fear, but of power and of 00:49:30.619 --> 00:49:34.219 love and of a sound mind, the ability to think 00:49:34.219 --> 00:49:38.420 well. So we've got all of these tools, but a 00:49:38.420 --> 00:49:40.420 tool is only as good as the person who actually 00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:44.860 picks it up and uses it. So we've got this. So 00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:47.480 when I read this, the spirit of truth comes when 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:50.260 he comes, which he already has, and he takes 00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:52.960 up residence in a believer. He will guide you 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:56.340 into all truth. If it said nothing more, that's 00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:59.940 all I need. He already know I've got somebody 00:49:59.940 --> 00:50:04.460 in me, with me, dwelling in me, that will literally 00:50:04.460 --> 00:50:06.380 guide me into all truth. So we need to be able 00:50:06.380 --> 00:50:10.320 to ask and listen. Now you can read your news 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.019 feeds, you can watch C -SPAN. Those are good 00:50:12.019 --> 00:50:16.300 things. Just in terms of being aware of more 00:50:16.300 --> 00:50:20.079 specifics. But at the end of the day, what matters 00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:24.739 more, facts or truth? Yeah, truth. Facts are 00:50:24.739 --> 00:50:27.480 temporary and subject to change. Truth is eternal 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:30.059 and never changes. So he's saying he's going 00:50:30.059 --> 00:50:33.300 to lead us into all truth. So that to me speaks 00:50:33.300 --> 00:50:35.699 to what we're learning here. Yeah, we're learning 00:50:35.699 --> 00:50:39.940 this stuff. the title of the two shows ago, Hair 00:50:39.940 --> 00:50:42.380 on Fire, my favorite title so far in our series 00:50:42.380 --> 00:50:44.440 of doing podcasts. We could do it every single 00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:48.460 show. Hair on Fire 2 .0, 3 .0. I mean, we can 00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:51.239 literally rename all these that, but that'd be 00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:54.659 a good podcast. Hair on Fire podcast. But to 00:50:54.659 --> 00:50:57.880 me, that's what happens is people run off. And 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.019 I see people I love and respect. People go to 00:51:00.019 --> 00:51:02.019 our church and I just love them. I know them. 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:04.960 I do life with them. And I see them posting and 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:09.809 reposting. Again running with their hair on fire 00:51:09.809 --> 00:51:12.630 when when we have the spirit of truth available 00:51:12.630 --> 00:51:15.090 to us who will guide us into all truth Which 00:51:15.090 --> 00:51:19.409 means when I hear truth it trumps facts Every 00:51:19.409 --> 00:51:23.710 time yes, it always trumps facts. And so that's 00:51:23.710 --> 00:51:27.869 how I lean into Breaking alert, you know all 00:51:27.869 --> 00:51:32.110 the stuff that's going on, you know Well exclusive 00:51:32.110 --> 00:51:34.190 this kind of brings us all the way back to where 00:51:34.190 --> 00:51:37.670 we started exactly that is all that is all noise 00:51:37.869 --> 00:51:40.349 It's just noise. That's what it is. Noise pollution. 00:51:40.469 --> 00:51:43.909 It's noise pollution coming in through all your 00:51:43.909 --> 00:51:47.750 senses, through your ears, your eyes, not smell. 00:51:48.570 --> 00:51:50.869 But I think if you really got close to the screen, 00:51:50.949 --> 00:51:53.530 you'd probably sniff it. It definitely hits you 00:51:53.530 --> 00:51:57.130 auditory with all the background. tracks they're 00:51:57.130 --> 00:52:01.110 running, the sound of busyness and running and 00:52:01.110 --> 00:52:04.630 sirens. When they first started, I was laughing 00:52:04.630 --> 00:52:08.510 because I'd go on, soundtrack. You've got to 00:52:08.510 --> 00:52:12.570 get it dramatic. Well, you'll start to recognize 00:52:12.570 --> 00:52:17.630 they're called nat pops, natural pops. I didn't 00:52:17.630 --> 00:52:18.869 bring that up. I learned something new every 00:52:18.869 --> 00:52:23.150 day. Someone actually did a report of this national 00:52:23.150 --> 00:52:27.400 security document. 15 seconds, you heard a missile 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:32.079 going off or a machine gun. Wow. And you're like, 00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:34.719 well, the national security, strategic document. 00:52:36.380 --> 00:52:39.679 Wow. Like they're somewhere out on the battlefield 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.780 giving this report. And it's not even that. It's 00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:49.789 just there to form your opinion. And it's subtle. 00:52:49.949 --> 00:52:52.449 It was like, go to the movie theater. Yeah. Jaws, 00:52:52.650 --> 00:52:54.650 boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Classic, 00:52:54.869 --> 00:52:57.070 right? Classic. Even that, you just made my pulse 00:52:57.070 --> 00:52:59.929 go up. And then even though it turned out to 00:52:59.929 --> 00:53:01.809 be some kid with a fin on his back swimming, 00:53:01.969 --> 00:53:03.650 boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you 00:53:03.650 --> 00:53:06.969 get all worked up and then, ah. I hear tubular 00:53:06.969 --> 00:53:09.650 bells to this day freaks me out from the exercise. 00:53:09.789 --> 00:53:12.929 Old field, man. I'm just like, dah. Yeah, I know. 00:53:13.550 --> 00:53:17.869 So let's go back to where we started. It's an 00:53:17.869 --> 00:53:21.610 assault on your heart and it's an attempt to 00:53:21.610 --> 00:53:26.889 steal your attention. Audience capture. At some 00:53:26.889 --> 00:53:29.650 point is not even stealing your attention, it's 00:53:29.650 --> 00:53:32.789 holding on to it. That's the true capture. We 00:53:32.789 --> 00:53:37.170 have to wrestle ourselves out of it. Because 00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:40.110 the minute you get triggered by, and it's easy, 00:53:40.309 --> 00:53:42.789 you know, we still have the COVID trauma, like 00:53:42.789 --> 00:53:45.349 we don't trust our government, you know, this 00:53:45.349 --> 00:53:47.980 is a different government. You shouldn't trust 00:53:47.980 --> 00:53:51.119 them everybody all the time. I'm not saying that. 00:53:52.059 --> 00:53:55.679 But the noise that's being created is pretty 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:58.260 thick and dense and it's pretty dirty. I'm going 00:53:58.260 --> 00:54:02.199 to put an Easter egg for Annette. Sitting across 00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:04.280 the living room. At the end of the show, really? 00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:06.980 That's almost unfair. We'll see what happens. 00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:12.139 We'll be sitting across the living room and our 00:54:12.139 --> 00:54:15.739 TV's off or whatever and I hear her go, oh my 00:54:15.739 --> 00:54:21.559 goodness. Oh my gosh. Out loud. And it's hard 00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:25.019 not to say, what? I know. I do the same thing 00:54:25.019 --> 00:54:27.820 with Tina. And she says, have you read this? 00:54:28.059 --> 00:54:30.340 No, I haven't actually. She's been keeping me 00:54:30.340 --> 00:54:31.960 more informed than anything right now because 00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:35.320 I'm literally running from this stuff. And she 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:37.239 said, well, this is what so -and -so said. Let 00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.420 me read it to you, you know, or let me play this. 00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:42.719 I'm laughing now because I used to be the one 00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:45.440 that was swimming in that water. Really? Oh, 00:54:45.500 --> 00:54:48.639 yeah. Man, I was news feeds. I'm an info junkie. 00:54:48.940 --> 00:54:51.059 Before the internet came along, I was an info 00:54:51.059 --> 00:54:54.320 junkie. It just fed what was already there and 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:57.260 made it worse or better, depending on what you're 00:54:57.260 --> 00:54:59.920 being a junkie over. But because I'm a study, 00:55:00.019 --> 00:55:02.500 I'm a nerd. I like information. I like to get 00:55:02.500 --> 00:55:05.500 in the weeds of words and semantics and all that 00:55:05.500 --> 00:55:08.909 and vocabulary. So the internet comes along and 00:55:08.909 --> 00:55:11.389 I'm like a sitting duck. You're like mainlining 00:55:11.389 --> 00:55:15.489 it. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. So I've gotten 00:55:15.489 --> 00:55:18.750 better about pushing back. And so it's so funny 00:55:18.750 --> 00:55:21.449 to hear, oh my gosh, just a visceral reaction. 00:55:21.949 --> 00:55:23.969 She didn't realize she said it out loud. What 00:55:23.969 --> 00:55:27.610 is that? That's audience capture. It's getting 00:55:27.610 --> 00:55:30.510 hooking, hooking you. It's like a good song has 00:55:30.510 --> 00:55:33.550 a good hook, but so does a good... Good news 00:55:33.550 --> 00:55:35.769 article a good news article always has a good. 00:55:35.769 --> 00:55:42.550 Oh speaking of her How are you doing? Yeah, well 00:55:42.550 --> 00:55:44.590 we're landing the plane we're landing it right 00:55:44.590 --> 00:55:49.940 now. Yeah With that, why don't we end it? Come 00:55:49.940 --> 00:55:53.099 on, brother. Everybody, check us out on the Godcaster 00:55:53.099 --> 00:55:55.920 app. You'll find a lot of... It's spirit -filled, 00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:58.340 all kinds of beautiful stuff there, or of course, 00:55:58.500 --> 00:55:59.980 anywhere where you get your podcast. Brother, 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:01.519 thank you so much for another... Always a pleasure. 00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:03.440 ...another catch up with the mic on, man. Always 00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:05.199 a pleasure. I love you, brother. We get to do 00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:08.019 this, and we will do it again next week. Join 00:56:08.019 --> 00:56:09.199 us there. Bye, everybody.