Father, we honor you today. Thank you for the
privilege of getting to sit down at this table
on these mics and talk about life, talk about
what matters. What matters to us, not just in
the larger sense, but even just day -to -day,
the things that are happening in our world, the
things that are coming at us. Father, we ask
for wisdom, we ask Holy Spirit, you give us the,
you're, the Bible says you're the spirit of truth
that leads and guides us into all truth. So we
lean into you. and we receive from you wisdom
and that's our heart Lord and fathers we share
I pray that this would help anyone who's listening
to be encouraged to be lifted up and to borrow
our title from another show to live up in a down
world that's our heart for them thank you Lord
in Jesus name amen amen it's Wednesday January
7th 2026 we get to do this this is episode number
17 Happy new year, brother. Hey, we're already
there. Yeah, 26 I was I saw weird I saw a video
somewhere and it was of this this young lady
and clearly an older woman and she's like, you
know, it's 2026 and this this woman's going 2026
I was born in 1926 so I'm going to be 100 this
year. I only feel 50." She says, Lord, let me
make 100, maybe get it through 100. It was just
so beautiful. And Tina and I were talking about
this this morning. I feel so much younger than
the age, than the number that's there. So agree.
I mean, we've talked about it before, but it's
just like, wow, man. What happened? I know. It's
great. I'm like in my own world, right? And then
I walk in front of a mirror or a glass at a store
and I look at myself and I go, who's that old
guy? I'm like, man, what happened? The worst
is the barber chair. Oh, those mirrors are harsh.
I mean, they're there. And I look at all the
gray hair that's laying on the ground around
me. I mean, they used to be black or brown not
too long ago. It's you know, it is what it is.
It's also as good to do this. We do. And it's
given me a a real sense of the generational gap.
For years, for decades, I was the youngest guy.
I was always the youngest in class. I was, you
know, because I'm a September baby, September
64, so although technically a boomer, I am Gen
X adjacent and sorry, the face of Generation
X and the hair of Generation X. For sure. But
I'm on that cusp kind of. And then somewhere
around, I think it was probably around 50 where
that started to switch and now it's really there.
I see, wait a minute, there's a generation that
not only really has a whole different worldview
and perspective. I didn't even know that in school
books, textbooks have not been around for a decade.
It's Chromebooks. Wow. And, you know, that didn't,
there's no lockers subsequently. You got no,
there's no locker for you to put your stuff in.
You don't need to. You just come in, you got
your Chromebook. And that isn't everywhere. Fredericksburg
has a massive locker system. Okay. Not everywhere,
but I'm sure, but yeah, this probably started
with Common Core and all these things. Right.
And Google, of course. overtook. They did what,
you know, Apple initially did this. They were
giving all the computers to schools and Google
came in with the Chromebook and they came in
with Google Docs and what is the Google Sheets
and all of this stuff. And I was watching some
actually a computer lab teacher. He said, the
children have no idea how it works. All they
know is how to hit next and scroll up. That's
all they know. And I'm like, well, First of all,
that's kind of sad. But second of all, that's
the reality of it. We just have to realize. And
with that, I've just been getting so much scripture
that it's just been coming inside. Do you have
some handy? I do, actually. Hold on a second.
Everything just synced this morning. It's been
so busy. Let me see. The one that I wanted to
read, I think, was Timothy or Titus, Titus it
was, Titus 2 .1 -8. And I thought this applies
in all directions. As for you Titus, promote
the kind of living that reflects wholesome teaching.
Teach the older men to exercise self -control,
to be worthy of respect and to live wisely. They
must have sound faith and be filled with love
and patience. Similarly, teach the older women
to live in a way that honors God. They must not
slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead,
they should teach others what is good. These
older women must train the younger women to love
their husbands and their children, to live wisely
and be pure, to work in their homes, do good,
and to be submissive to their husbands." And
then I'll skip a little bit. And you yourself
must be an example. Example to them by doing
good works of every kind let everything you do
reflect the integrity and seriousness of your
teaching. It's just like this whole You know,
we have an obligation for it to go both ways,
you know as Paul was teaching Timothy and We
also have to treat the elders with respect I
just see this there's this gap and the gap is
usually filled by one word two words. Okay boomer
And like, you know, people are missing so much
of, and I don't just want to say wisdom, but
just common knowledge and history that we have
that is lacking even from people younger than
us in their 50s. And I would say what we witnessed
with Venezuela. Nice segue. Well done. It cut
hard. Hard right. But what happened is the narrative
changed overnight. And the first thing I noticed
is that the legacy mainstream media, they still
control the narrative. Overnight Epstein's gone,
Israel's gone, the MAGA America first split is
gone, Candy Land is closed, you know, until further
notice. And everyone's only talking about Venezuela
and regime change, et cetera. And what's interesting,
and I don't expect the legacy media to give us
any kind of historical perspective, but every
influencer, podcaster, they have no perspective
on these things. They have never learned even
the, I mean, maybe, no, I don't think they've
ever learned even the slightest bit about history,
even in our hemisphere, which is just baffling
to me. And of course, it doesn't really fit in
a three second TikTok or real video. And so I
was really sick these past 10 days. It was a
flu which had a confluence with cedar allergies,
which I did not recognize immediately. Cedar
fever, they call it. Cedar fever. And I prayed
like, Lord, please, heal me of this. And he works
in fun ways. So I'm sitting at the breakfast
table three days ago and Tina has a friend on
the phone and she says, you know, Adam could
have a Cedar fever and I hadn't even thought
about it. And so I'm like, well, thank you, Lord.
You know, got some, what is it? The... Claritin.
Claritin. Wow. By the way, the non -drowsy, that's
not true. I don't care what they put on the back.
Really? I was crashing at the end of the day,
but within 24 hours it started to clear up and
it's just like, ah, okay, now I'm feeling better.
Yeah, I really did come back. And then I just
saw what was happening and it's been crazy. But
I gave you a boots because I wasn't at church.
It was great too. I gave you like a quick boots
on the ground Sunday morning. Very helpful. Well,
and then I'm watching the service. I'm like,
holy cow. Pastor Jimmy's given an update that
I just sent him on a text message. I did ask
your permission. You did? No, but that was… I
said, do you mind if I share this? Yeah, go for
it. I didn't expect that. I'm like, wow, okay,
that was awesome. And I really appreciated that
you did that because with what happened in Afghanistan,
the way… I don't know if I said it, but you translated
it too. Right now, we just need to pray. for
the people of Venezuela, for our administration.
And today that paid off. I said that the number
one thing with this change, and we can get into
that a little bit, is that something needs to
happen within 72 to 96 hours because these people
will run out of actual resources. And today the
president said, Well, listen, we're going to
take 30 to 50 million barrels of oil. It's about
$2 billion. We're going to give that right to
the people of Venezuela because they have a socialist
system. And so what happened here, I think, and
by the way, I have no clips today. So feel free
to interrupt me whenever, because I think we
just need a talking session. Yeah, this is good.
A talking session. Because I can just play clips.
I'll just outrage. Regime change! Foreign wars!
The thing that is so interesting that is a sub
-narrative is this shows you how socialism works,
or better yet, doesn't work. Bingo. I mean, do
you know anything about the kind of the history
of the past since 1990s of Venezuela? Yeah, Cesar
Chavez was in before, and that started the tumble.
Yes, yeah. Oil was found in Venezuela in like
1925 or something. And then after the war, they
started to develop that after the Second World
War. But really in 1990 is when the American,
the three big American oil companies, Chevron,
Exxon Mobil, and Conoco Phillips, they took a
risk and said, we're going to go in and we're
going to start developing this. and ship it out.
We built refineries mainly in Texas and Louisiana
because the oil is not oil is not oil. The crude
oil in Venezuela is like tar. I mean, you can't
even put it through a pipeline. Really? No, it's
so thick. It's literally like the tar that you
put on the road is that thick, which is really
good because you need that for jet fuel and diesel
oil and shipping fuel too. So it is a very important
resource. But it's not like our shale here in
Texas, we can take it out of the ground, like
shake it around, throw it in your gas tank. I
mean, that's the champagne of oil. And so Hugo
Chavez, he decided that he was going to change
the whole idea of Venezuela into socialism. And
this is when the oil prices started to skyrocket.
So he was doing great. You know, you're looking
at $100 a barrel. Like, yeah, here's free food.
Here's free education. Here's free health care.
Never diversified that. And they used to do cocoa
and, you know, other types of farming commodities.
And so if 98 % of your economy is based on oil
and the price drops by half, oops, we have a
problem, Houston. And so instead of diversifying,
he said, you know what, we're just going to nationalize
these companies. And instead of giving the traditional
60 -40 split, they owned all the oil. America
never owned the resources, but we had a deal
with all these companies, 60 % for us, 40 % for
you. He said, nah, you know what, we're going
to do 25 % for you, 75 % for us, 30 % royalty,
and 50 % tax. So basically, our companies were
losing money. And at that point, it's like, well,
what are we going to do? We can't really do anything.
He fired all of the people who were working at
PVDSA, which is their petroleum company. They
even went on strike. They said, you can't do
this. It's not going to work. Corruption came
in. So everything just started to fall apart.
The thing that he never got to see the full destruction
of the country because he died in 2013. and his
handpicked guy, former bus driver, literally,
I don't know if people know that Maduro was a
bus driver before he was brought into the government,
which is not to say that a bus driver can't be
the president of a country, but it just sets
you up for some expectations. And he went, yeah,
you know what, we're going to take all of this.
We don't need these Americanos. We're going to
kick them out completely. And so, of course,
the result is that Their production went down
to 20 % of what it used to be. Everything got
old. But what did he do? Well, I'm going to diversify.
I know. I'll diversify into drugs and human smuggling
and all this stuff. eight million Venezuelans
left. And it's been, it's been a real problem.
Every single president has said this. Is it true
that upwards of a third of that country has fled?
Yeah, left. Yeah. Wow. I heard that. Yeah. A
lot of them came here and throughout the history,
you know, our presidents have said, well, do
you remember Guaido? Does this name mean anything
to you? This was the candidate that Barack Obama,
President Obama supported. It's like, yeah, no,
this guy should be the president. Of course he
was completely ignored. He was just some, some
dude. And he came into Congress and everyone
was applauding him and nothing happened. And
then Biden, President Biden was there and he's
like, well, you know, we're going to be tough
and sanctions. They never really did what had
to happen until President Trump said, you know,
there's there's so much trouble here because
who was who was in there getting what oil was
left? China, Russia, etc. I guess nobody thought
the national security strategy document was real.
Remember we discussed this on the show? Yes we
did. This was exactly what... We were like, wow
this is... historic. Yes. And part of it is kind
of the Monroe Doctrine. I mean, no one really,
because nobody reads passage to me. That's true.
Nobody reads this stuff. It wasn't on a 15 second
video on Instagram. And I'm literally hearing
news models saying, you know, it's funny in this
document, President Trump kind of said he was
going to do this. And now that we read this,
it seems that it's kind of happening. Wow. But
the way this is spun into This is regime change.
No, it's not. And all of that's starting to fall
apart. And it's miraculous what has taken place
almost overnight where the loudest voices are
saying, this is a foreign war. This is regime
change. They're being shot down by their own
fans now. Wow. This happened within a 24, 48
-hour time period. And it is in those poor Vin
and Swalons, you know, the millions of them that
went out into the street and been partying ever
since. It's like, oh, yeah, that country's distraught.
No, they are celebrating. They're super happy.
Unbelievable. Some of the footage of these gatherings,
millions of people. Yeah, it's they're so elated
that that relief is coming. Yes. Well, and so
that and that's what my boots on the ground to
you was like, well, they need to get money in
there somehow. By the way, I've started to learn
about the commodity traders. Have you ever heard
of like Sitgo? Maybe you've heard of Sitgo, but
Louis Dreyfus? Does that name ring a bell? No,
Richard Dreyfus does, but not Louis. Have you
ever heard of Julia Louis Dreyfus, the actress
from Seinfeld? Yes, yes, yes. So she is the sole
heir to the Louis Dreyfus commodities trading
empire. which is probably worth 10 or 20 billion
dollars. So I talked to Paul the oil baron, our
guy Paul, and he's been so helpful and he gave
me a book to read. called the World for Sale.
And it's all about the commodity traders who
are actually moving the oil, trading thick crude
for light crude, wheat from one country for -
Stuff we never hear about. You've never even
heard of these companies. I don't have a category
for that. So literally, oil is literally money.
So when President Trump says, we're taking this
30, 50 million barrels of oil, that is truly
oil. And it's one of these guys, I'm sure it's
Paul Singer or Sitko or somebody who's doing
the actual transporting, that money is paid right
away. That money can actually go to the Venezuelans.
Wonderful. Now that doesn't fix their socialism.
No. And it's just amazing to see the shallowness
of every single commentator. Well, it's always
about the oil. Please do not confuse what the
Bush dynasty did in Iraq with what is happening
here. It is phenomenal. And everybody should
be really optimistic about this. And I think
that's kind of the message that came out of the
gateway that's like, we need to be positive about
this and not be influenced by this nonsense.
I got a word today, Proverbs 2, 1, 5. My child,
listen to what I say and treasure my commands.
Tune your ears to wisdom and concentrate on understanding.
Cry out for insight and ask for understanding.
Search for them as you would for silver. Seek
them like hidden treasures. Then you will understand
what it means to fear the Lord and you will gain
knowledge of God. Oh, that is rich. You can turn
the air on for me, brother. Well, this by the
way is being retired after the show. No way.
The armor of God hoodie. Tina said it's time
to retire this hoodie. It's stretched out. It's
faded. But it's so comfortable. And I said, you're
right, darling. I have a Hanes sweatshirt that's
an extra large. I don't wear an extra large.
No. It looks horrible, but it's my f - I wear
it almost every day when I go home. I have other
favorites. I'm okay, man. It can be replaced
in the future. It can be replaced. So we digress
a little bit. Well, so I agree with you know
attitude of gratitude For what's happening. We've
been praying for our president. We've been praying
for the cabinet We've been praying for America
been praying for the global scene and situation
and when movement happens our first reaction
My knee -jerk reaction isn't to go. What was
he thinking? No over that dictator. No, it's
like we've prayed for movement. We've prayed
for solutions and for the wisdom of God to be
implemented into these arenas. And when we see
it, this is why I have so pushed back on media
that I have to ask Annette and you what's going
on, because it became overwhelming to where I
can only swim in a cesspool for so long. This
podcast gives our people when I say our people
our church because that's really who I consider
to be Doing this for if anyone else out there
gets something out of it We're real happy by
the way got a lot of good feedback on the Israel
conundrum nice I mean you saw Sir Brian of London
his eight -minute reply that was amazing all
the way it was fantastic I like that guy could
be friends with him. He's a good guy. Yeah, he's
I've known him for a long long time appreciated
it so You know being kind of down for the count
and you know, I took my Sabbath which always
always helped so much just Getting you know words
coming in or I'm you know, I tried to just read
other things a book, you know some scripture
I got to pray for America Bible and you're telling
me about that. This thing is great Because it
check it out. It starts with it a prayer every
day for the country and then it has full scripture,
so it'll have Genesis 3 and then Matthew 25.
Not full, but it's more than just a devotional,
it's not like a devotional book. I'm getting
a little tired of that, you know, just like quick
devotionals, quick hits and… You don't have to
read mine. No, I never get tired of the daily
grind, but with every devotional that I get…
Oh, I know, there's millions of them. But I have
to go, I want to see what came before it and
what came after it. I find that… That's really
important. Anyway, to bring this all around,
there's this gap between the boomers and the
zoomers, if I can just call it that. And when
I distill it down to its very basics, if you
have a conversation with them, it'll always be
like, well, this is tough for us, and this is
tough. And I can refute every single like, well,
you know, we didn't have e -bikes. You know,
we put playing cards in our spokesman. We didn't
have lattes. We had Folgers with flavor crystals.
You know, come on, give me a break. But the one
thing they all come down to, and this is interesting
for all the griping, and I've spoken to many
over the past few weeks, it always comes down
to buying a home. How does helping Venezuela,
how is that helping us here in America? And this
is such a valid question, but again, it's not
being addressed. What President Trump is doing,
and it started with shutting down the border.
You shut down the border, you get illegal immigrants
out of the country who were literally, their
homes were being funded by the government at
exorbitant prices. It was a scam that started
pretty much during COVID. Rents will come down.
And of course, there's all kinds of nefarious
actors like Blackstone who bought up a whole
bunch of houses and are just there to jack up
the rents. This is all going to start coming
down. If anyone's interested, look at the price
of a barrel of oil. It's going down now. Now,
it's not great for our friend Paul the oil baron.
Luckily, he ate 60 % of his... His revenue is
gas, natural gas, which is good. But the oil
revenue go down. What happens when oil revenues
go down? The cost of energy goes down. Energy
is life. Energy is life. And the cheaper you
can get the energy, the better your life is going
to be. And that will make everything more prosperous.
So there's really... But look how long... Donald
Trump's been president. Not even a year. I mean,
this should have happened in the first five weeks,
right? See, that's the thing is we have such
a temporary, temporal mindset. I just want to
like and subscribe and immediately be gratified.
Exactly. I need that dopamine pump now. Right
away. It's got to happen. And so we've lost our
ability, and we see this in a lot of research,
we've lost our ability for the long game. We
have a different worldview where we're so used
to instant everything. I mean, literally everything.
I mean, you sit at a Chick -fil -A line, which
I've only done once. I've only been to Chick
-fil -A once here. But you sit in line there
and if it's more than three or four minutes,
you're like, what in the world? So we've been
conditioned. Trump comes in and says, here's
what we're going to do. It's going to take a
while. He said that multiple times. He said it,
and he said it may get a little worse before
it gets better, and it did, and it had to. But
now we're starting to see this domino effect,
the ripple effect. I'm not knocking the next
generation. I'm a champion for the next generation.
We have to be. have to be addressed. And one
of them is this attention span of a gnat. You
know, it's like, if it doesn't happen right away,
then it's not working. And that's sort of the
value of getting older is we've got a long span
of life and a lot of history under us. And because
of that, we've got a longer view on things simply
because of age and time and timing. And we've
seen how things work and roll. But when you're
19, 17, 22, you know, everything you've been
used to and conditioned to getting everything
instantly. We even had this conversation in our
staff meeting this morning about deconstructionism
and what's going on with young people not having
the value of hard training. Everybody gets a
ribbon. Everybody gets a trophy. You're amazing.
You're wonderful. You're special. You're one
of a kind. I mean, they hear this from day one
because our culture in an attempt to rescue the
hurt we felt, supposedly, not me, but some, now
we go overboard to make people feel special and
wonderful. So now we do that and we mean well,
but at the end of the day, if they don't face
any real hardship until they move out of the
house, which is like 25, 30 now, you know, then
they're not trained for longevity. They're not
trained for hard things to do difficult in those
kinds of things. I see more and more, certainly
men, young men who are saying, hey, you know,
like, I saw where the opportunity was and I moved
to this state and I took this course and now
I'm either... driving a certain type of truck
for a construction company or I'm welding and
that doesn't mean that if those businesses are
successful, we'll need marketing people, we'll
need lawyers. It's not like anyone gets tuned
out of it. But just to go back to the affordability,
because that's what the Democrats jumped on so
quickly. Affordability, affordability. It is
absolutely true. that inflation, which comes
from one thing and one thing only, the printing
of money, that's how you get to be $37 trillion
in debt, that's what raises or reduces your purchasing
power of each individual dollar. Wages are already
going up. I mean, it's not like everyone's seeing
an immediate change, but in certain sectors at
the bottom end of the economy, construction,
manual labor, wages are going up because the
cheap illegal labor has been removed or they've
removed themselves, actually. You know, everybody
had the opportunity to take $2 ,000 and self
-deport. A lot of people have done that. And
they can actually come back in if they want to.
But a lot of, I think, over a million people
have self -deported. So that's where, you know,
it's just, you're right. It's a longer term,
but not even that long. It won't even take that
long. If you're used to instant gratification,
it seems that way. And the mainstream media is
all about instant. Well, it's everything. And
everybody has an agenda, of course. Right. And
I see a lot of influencers, podcasters who, mainly
because of the algorithms, but also just for
their model, they have to do a show every single
day. I could not do this show with you every
single day. We wouldn't have enough to talk about
unless we just do... Outrage! What's happening
in the news? Let's talk about it. Let's get all
over it. Isn't that what moves algos? Controversy?
Of course it does. And getting people to DM you
and have conversations and comments back and
forth. That breaks the algo. There's something
else. We're not here for that. There's something
else that I didn't do any preparation on to talk
about, but I think probably since 2015, but really
massively in 2020 during COVID, the feminization
the world, but let's just talk about America
for a moment, which is the idea of instead of
men and women being equally important but designed
by God for different types of roles in the world
and the household, it just became we're all equal
and gender is a construct. I think It feels like
people are starting, even young people are starting
to say, no, wait a minute. This is just not true.
And I mean, I can get in so much trouble for
this. I'm trying to walk a very thin line, but
having a lot of women in certain roles in organizations
overrepresented, it may just not be a really
great thing. I mean, how do I put this in the
context without people throwing stones at me
the minute I walk out of the studio? Well, because
it's not about their competency. It's about roles.
It's about what we have strengths in, where our
wisdom lies. If I did not have half of my life
being Annette, I would be lost. I need her. She
keeps me firmly planted on the ground. She keeps
me thinking. She keeps me everything. I'm just
saying, The role is so valuable that I would
elevate that, but she does not have any desire
to be the senior pastor of a church. She said,
I could never do what you do. I could never live
with the weight. And she said, I get the value
of being married to you. You carry the weight
and I get to tell you what to do. But she understands
that role. I lived half of my life on a farm,
half of my life in the city. growing up, growing
up. Ask anyone who was raised on a farm and they'll
tell you the difference in gender. Anyone who's
ever birthed a calf, castrated a hog. I'm just
saying, I mean, most of America gets this because
it's so obvious, but I don't want to just digress
into that. Simplicity. Yes. And I think it's
destroyed a lot of young lives. My podcast partner,
Noah Jen, the Dvorak, he's always bringing in
TikTok clips of women going nuts on TikTok or
whatever. And first of all, I'm really sad, but
I listen to it. I think here are women who are
past their prime dating age. They're now in their
30s. And I think they're frustrated. They've
missed out on something because they were told
to do things a certain way. I don't think it's
biblical. I don't think it's right. And then
the complete feminization and demasculinization
of men has been very destructive. And so when
I see young men standing up and saying, hey,
I want to grab the bull by the horns. I want
to go out there and do something. I'm not afraid
of being a man. It sounds so simple to us boomers.
But it's really a big deal. It is huge really
it is and I see this whether I'm in the gym Which
which I love to go to a gym because I still like
the smell of a gym I still like the feel of real
weights, you know It's the the part of me that
that gravitates towards athleticism and all those
things and to a large degree a masculine You
know a masculine worldview. Mm -hmm. So that's
not to put anybody down who doesn't I'm just
saying It's interesting looking at the different
ages that come into a gym and how they're wired
and how they work out Yeah, and how they approach
working out guys from my generation. They were
raised Very masculine. I mean our generation
was and they they walk into a gym with a different
Stroll. Yeah, different stride the little swagger.
You know what I'm saying? There's a different
mentality I see this on farms. I see this in
rodeo. I see this in things that the oil field.
I see this in various arenas where it doesn't
take long to figure out, okay, this guy's never
turned a wrench. This guy's never changed his
own oil in his car. These guys never had to change
a flat tire. By the way, all these things are
gone. You can't work on your car. You can't change
your tire. I open my hood and it's a big piece
of plastic. I'm like, really? I got to take this
piece of plastic off even to get to the engine.
I know it's hilarious because we've specialized
everything out. There's no wrenching anymore.
We still contract life now. So it is a different
approach. I'm not here to put that down. They
didn't have the value. We were talking about
this in our staff meeting how some of us had
the value of being raised by dad, who my dad
was a firefighter, so that's masculine to start
with, just that intensity. But I was raised building
fence and welding and digging post holes and
changing my own oil and just doing the stuff
that it takes to keep a farm running, working
our cattle and stuff. I grew up with that and
I'm so thankful because I was kind of the last
generation that did. Now, a lot of young people
who've raised in rural settings, they'd go, no,
me, I did that too. But you see a difference
in those young people than you do the kids that
were raised on a screen in a bedroom. This is
really it because all of the push was towards
going to university, go to college, get into
debt. which is just a horrible, horrible trap.
And people will say, well, you guys did that.
Yeah, I guess. I guess we weren't paying attention.
Sorry. We have to move forward now and get degrees
that just really aren't that meaningful. But
if you open your eyes, there's going to be so
much opportunity because even though no one will
say it, literally the tariffs are bringing factories
back to America, which will be, you know, Japanese
auto factories, building cars here. Yep. We are
going to build eight icebreaker ships in America,
which is a deal we did with Finland, which kind
of leads into my the next thing, just so I can
let you all know what's coming this week of nonsense
and what everyone's going to be yelling about.
It's already started. And when you need to build
big, big, beautiful ships. Big, beautiful icebreakers.
You need all kinds of people. You need accountants.
You need lawyers. You need marketing people.
You need managers. You need workers. This is
going to be a bonanza. Pennsylvania, Louisiana
is all going to be built here. All of this oil.
Oil is not just a bunch of guys with hard hats,
twists and wrenches. millions of opportunities.
It's also not Land Man. Don't watch a stupid
show. No, it's not Land Man. I grew up in that
culture. It's not like that. It's fun to watch,
though. It is funny, but it's not real. So the
next thing is Greenland. Oh, gosh, Trump's going
to invade Greenland just like he did Venezuela.
I didn't vote for this. No, you did. If you look
at it, can we? So remember the national security
strategy. our hemisphere, north to south. If
you understand the globe, if you believe in the
round earth, if you look at the globe from the
top, you'll see that it's a very short distance
between Alaska and Russia and how there's this
thing called the GIUK gap. And this is the water
in the Arctic between Iceland, Greenland, and
really the United Kingdom. and United Kingdom
protectorates. And that is just as important
now, particularly when you start breaking the
ice with your big, beautiful icebreakers, which
you got from Finland, who are a really good ally,
who, by the way, have a thousands of mile border
with Russia, still haven't been invaded. If you
look at it from the top, that is as important
for shipping as the Suez Canal or the Panama
Canal, because all of that has really started
to open up. It is the exact same reason why China
uses the 200 -mile economic zone in the Straits
of China. It's like, hey, this is our protectorate
here. If you want to come through here, you can
only go this far. Otherwise, you're going to
start spraying your boat with water. You've probably
seen that in the past. So when Britain reports
that a Russian submarine was right off of their
coast, which happened just a few weeks ago, don't
worry, you didn't read about it because you wisely
are not watching the news feeds. That sub came
through the GIUK gap. And that is our hemisphere.
It feels like it's a long way away, but it's
really just Alaska. It's our part of the world.
It's our hemisphere. So no one is policing that.
So trade is very important to have some control
over that in case somebody decides to do something
nefarious. Look at all the problems we had with
the Houthis. in that region of the world, big,
big oil shipping lanes. So we need to, sorry
to say it, be the policeman of that region so
that we can at least control legal goods, et
cetera. This is all part of the national security
strategy. So we're not going to invade Greenland.
We're not going to, I don't think we're going
to buy it. If it was for sale, we would. I mean,
we've tried it in the past. I think Roosevelt
tried to buy it for $100 million. They said no.
All we have to do is say, hey, we don't even
have to do a deal, really. But because there's
a 1954 agreement, we just have to say, we're
going to expand this, we're going to be patrolling
this, and we already have a base in Greenland,
and we're just going to expand that, which we
have the agreements and the right to do. So where's
the outrage coming? What's the fear of? The outrage,
well... There's two parts. One is just, what
are we doing? Trump is going to invade Greenland.
He's out of control. He's crazy. We didn't vote
for this. The real fear is NATO. Because we are
kind of withdrawing from NATO and saying, you
know, you guys are insane. You clearly don't
really want peace. You want to continuously have
Russia as your boogeyman for all kinds of political
reasons, mainly so they don't have to say we
were wrong. and they can stay in power. There's
this security agreement that supposedly was just
signed in Paris, and EU is going to have a security
agreement for Ukraine when peace comes with Russia,
and America is a part of it. But if you read
the fine print, it says, we will assist with
monitoring intelligence. We're not even going
to do intelligence. We're not even really a part
of it. So there's a bit of a withdrawal. And
if we actually invaded Greenland, well, then
NATO would fall apart. I don't think President
Trump wants to do that. But that's just the familiar
response of people who have been left out of
the deal. I hate to say it, but I think the EU,
the president is just saying, hey, you do your
thing up there. We'll do whatever we can to help
you. But we're really not interested in being
involved anymore. We're busy here keeping America
fantastic for our people. By the way, you want
to leave Europe and come over here, come through
the legal means. There's the front door. Come
on in. We're happy to have you. And it's the
anti -globalist move. Do you think we're going
to see a migration of people out of Europe? The
wheels are coming off. I sure hope so. All over.
I hope it starts with my daughter. I know. Me
too. I'm praying the same thing. Come on, Christina.
Come on, Kevin. Come on, hang out with us. They'll
be much better. I'm looking at a top down map.
I've never looked at a top down map before. Isn't
it crazy when you see it? What's crazy is how
connected everything is. When you look at bottom
up, it's different. It's completely different.
But when you look at top down, everything converges.
there at the top of the world. That's wild. I
did not realize, like you said, those waterways
all around the North Pole, that whole, wow. It's
all very close. You see how close Russia really
is to Alaska. Is that the Bering Strait? That
is the Bering Strait, yeah. There's talk of a
tunnel being built between, believe me, we're
going to be doing lots of business with Russia.
And we should be. And we're going to be doing
lots of business with China, which we've done
for decades and decades and not necessarily our
enemy. China is not going to attack us because
they need us. We are right now still their customer.
So it's ridiculous to think that China, you know,
they could come take us over now. No, they don't
want to be buying from themselves. They want
to buy from us. So it's called ARC, America,
Russia, China. We may add India. You know, there's
the Core 5. You probably haven't heard of this
yet. C5, the Core 5, which is kind of like the
new G7. And it's United States, Japan, Russia,
China, and India. And we will be kind of the
Core 5 independent nations with respect for each
other's cultures. but also trading with each
other for the resources we have, the customers
we have, the services we have, which could be
really good and is a blatant full -on assault
on the globalist system, which you and I have
basically grown up with and have seen just create
crap, particularly for our brothers and sisters
in the Zoomer generation. So, guess what? We've
got the biggest boomer of the universe. actually
working for the zoomers. President Trump is really,
really doing it. But it's hard to understand
it and not be swept up with, well, that guy's
just doing this. We really are. It really is
happening. And I think our job is to help communicate
that because the president, he has he's not a
perfect man. He does not know how to. I don't
know if it's it must be intentional. But no one
ever, he said, well, it's our oil and we're going
to take it back. No one understands that unless
you have the context of the history that it literally
is our corporation's oil, which was stolen in
the first place. If no one gives you that context,
and I don't know why he doesn't do that. It would
be great if he, remember Ross Perot, when he
was running for president, and he'd buy airtime
on television. You got to look this up, people
on YouTube. He was like, right here, and he'd
have his chalkboard, right here is the money
we're spending, and the money's coming in, and
this is why it's not working. And he was great.
And of course his life got threatened, and he
had withdrew because they said, we're going to
kill you and your family, because he was splitting
the Republican vote. Oh, yeah. Oh, and he even
said, I'm withdrawing for the safety of my family.
Wow. Yeah. But I wish President Trump would do
that, but I guess I'm not going to get that from
him. That's just not his vibe. But if you listen
closely to Secretary of State Rubio, he says
a lot more. You got to listen to him. That guy's
sharp. He is very sharp. And by the way, he speaks
the language of all these countries that were...
Invading. I'm sure you've seen the meme with
him wearing all the uniforms of those countries
as like being the president. It's hilarious actually.
Quite funny. It is funny. It is funny. But yeah,
he's gold. So without bringing any clips to rant
on, I just want everyone to know that this is
a plan. It's written. You can go download the
National Security Strategy document. It's written
in English. We read some of it on the show. It's
very enlightening. It literally says, no, we're
not going to be part of the globalist system
anymore. The globalist organizations, no. So
for you people who are listening, that means
United Nations, World Health Organization, World
Trade Organization, even NATO to an extent, United
Nations, all of this. No, we're not going to
be a part of that big system where they're running
the show. We are literally, in my opinion, being
pulled back from the brink of destruction. It's
not just rhetoric when President Trump says,
if I wasn't elected, we'd be Venezuela. I think
he's probably right. Here's the beautiful thing
to watch. Well, not really beautiful, but here's
the thing to watch. You have what President Trump
is doing, and I think he'll achieve a lot in
the next three years. In fact, a lot of these
globalist institutions, they're saying, well,
they were saying six months ago, We can just
sit them out. We'll just wait until Trump's gone
and we'll get a new guy in and we'll go back
to where it was. And now they're like, can we
really sit them out? Because these changes are
pretty drastic. Oh man, I was going to make a
point and now I lost it. Oh, so there's two ways
to solve the Zoomer crisis, which is real. I'm
recognizing it. You do not have the purchasing
power you should have. One is what President
Trump is doing, and it will take time. Two, you
elect Mamdani and you become New York. Let's
see which one turns out better. If I'm wrong,
I will eat my hat and say, boy, I had no idea
a socialist approach would work. I also don't
believe he's going to implement much of any of
what he said he would. But that is a short -term
Like and subscribe instant gratification strategy
is to elect Someone who clearly says I'm all
about socialism and collectivism and no property
rights Which is now literally being said by people
in his in his administration Wow about property
right now. So, you know next is Centralizing
production and then you know before you know
it It will fall apart. I hope not. I always love
New York. I love living there. I love working
there. I love visiting there. Not so much in
the past five, ten years because I just can't
stand the smell of weed everywhere. They made
a mistake somewhere like Vegas. She's like, I
can't stand this. It's too much. But that is
not the, I don't think that's the strategy, but
that's clearly, and I have loved ones in New
York who were like, yeah, go for it. Mamdani,
he's going to help us out. You're going to learn,
you're going to learn and you're welcome back
to stay with us for a little while when it falls
apart. You want to find some footing in the United
States of America outside of New York. So prayer,
let's talk about how we can direct people to
pray for our country. Now you've started down
the track with your new Bible, and what are some
things you're gleaning out of that so that we
can direct our friends listening to this, how
do we pray for our country and our president?
Wow, you caught me flat -footed on that one.
I was not prepared to answer that, but I have
a feeling that I know a theologian somewhere
who would give us a couple of ideas and some
scripture that might work, or just a way to pray
for our country and our president, which to me,
Tina and I, Yeah, we pray meals before we go
to sleep in bed, we'll pray. And for the past
several months, we've been including like, just
we pray for our president, for all of our elected
representatives, all of them. which includes
Democrats. We have senators and representatives,
and we have local government and county government.
All of them need prayer. That's actually a lot
of what is in... I'm only, of course, on January
7th, so I've only read... Just getting started
in this Bible. But it literally has, it starts
with this prayer, you know, pray for our representatives,
pray that... And it will, as it brings in...
Abraham, when he was Abram, and how he trusted
God and how he didn't trust God, or how Sarai
didn't trust God initially, and then how it does
pay off when you trust in the Lord. So that's
my short version of the answer, which I hope
you'll expand on. Well, very short. General is
better than nothing. I mean, if you don't know
what to pray, you can pray in general terms.
I mean, it's not like God's up there waiting
for us to say the right thing. He just wants
to hear from us. In fact, I read this morning,
you don't need to repeat words and say things
over and over. God already knows what you're
praying for. Take just out of your prayers. That'll
really impact you. Take what? Just. Just, yeah.
Like, I need to take um out of my podcasting.
I'm still learning. It's very hard. It's not
an easy thing to do. Take just out of your prayers.
You should write that down and see how that goes.
Interesting. Yeah. Lord, we just, we just, we
just, we just what? Lord, we be direct. Okay,
so I'm digressing big time. No, that's interesting
because remember we've had the episode with the
interview with the devil? Yes. And one of the
devil's recommendations for defeating him was,
don't whine and beg your God. Just tell him what
you want in your prayer. And I thought that was
really interesting. So I found myself saying,
Lord, I pray for this. Being more direct. Instead
of, would you please maybe kind of, if you have
a moment, I know you're a busy guy. That's what
just is. It's that fear of walking in too harshly.
Because it's like we're going to disturb him.
It's like we're bugging him. It's like... Kingdom
come will be done. There it is. Kingdom of God
come will of God be done. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So
very simple, but maybe that'll help somebody.
So praying for our country, praying for our president,
just pray for them. Don't make a big deal. Lord,
we need your help. Yeah. Lord, we're crying out
as a people. Second Chronicles 7 14 is a great
go -to for that. It says, if my people who are
called by my name will humble themselves, pray,
seek my face, and turn from their land. I will
hear from heaven and I will heal their land.
And he says in the next verse, I will be with
you. So there's a good start, 2 Chronicles 7,
14. I recommend the New King James or the ESV
for that. Another simple thing to do, and I do
this on occasion. I don't do it all the time,
but I get a thing called the Texts. I get it
every day in email, so I've gotten so familiar
with it, I don't even look at the title anymore.
The Texas flyover, there's another one. There
it is, Texas flyover. So what you can do with
that, you can go down to the end of it and it
actually gives you, you can look up all your
representatives. Actually, it's Texas Minute.
I get so many of these things. Texas Minute,
at the end of it, it gives you links. And when
you click on it, it says, here's your representative
in your district. Here's a representative of
the state, breaks it all down. And you can take
a few of those and pray for them by name. It
felt good when I met several representatives,
when I prayed for the Senate last time, to say,
I've been praying for you by name. They're just
like, what? I mean, they appreciate it. It has
an impact. After I got saved and I went public
with it on Rogan, the amount of people who said,
I've been praying for you for 10 years. That
has a huge, huge impact. We can do the same thing
for them, but I would start with your local government.
Find out who your city council is. And this is
the deal. We don't pray against people. We pray
against the enemy, which is the devil himself.
But for people, we pray for them. And if they're
doing things that are nefarious or they're greedy
or whatever, they're off, they're corrupt, you
can still pray for them. for three things, for
truth, for justice, and for righteousness. Those
are the three things that I always pray for.
You know, it can get real complicated and long
if you get down in the weeds. We don't need to
get down in the weeds. Stay up at the 30 ,000
foot level and pray for our country. Pray for
godly justice, for godly righteousness, and for
godly truth, biblical truth, and that's it. And
then do it again tomorrow. Come back and do it
again. But it doesn't have to be a 30 -minute
prayer. It's keep it simple, saint, the kiss
thing, right? It used to be keep it simple, stupid,
but we're not stupid, we're saints. So keep it
simple, saint, and just those three things, truth,
righteousness, and justice. And I pray that for
our government constantly, local, state, federal,
and international, global. So anyway, there's
a simple pro tip. Pastor Pro Tip! You need a
thing for that. We need some sound effects. I
don't have enough jingles and sound effects in
my life. I need that. We got a really nice email
from Casey. I just want to share it. Adam, I
want to introduce myself. Been a long time follower
and listener of No Agenda since around 2008.
So that's like episode one. I found myself praying
for you and your salvation for a long time. So
this is one of these notes I was talking about.
It's been amazing to watch you find your way
to Christ. I enjoyed listening to your conversations
on Tina with your podcast, by the way. Tonight
we're recording a new one. You probably got the
newsletter. And I just started listening to your
new podcast with Pastor Jimmy. I'm hungry for
connection like what you have with Pastor Jimmy.
I love that you two found each other and listening
to you and Jimmy, I feel like I'm sitting at
the table drinking coffee with you. It's absolutely
wonderful to see you growing in your faith. God
bless you and TNM pastor. Jimmy, hope we get
to meet someday. Casey. Thanks, Casey. Man, that's
encouraging. Just the fact that you feel like
you're here sitting coffee, drinking coffee with
us. Because we are drinking coffee. We are drinking
coffee. I can't say on the air what we're drinking.
It's Black Rifle and it has an expletive in it.
But it's really good. Those guys have funny ways
of naming products. Well, thanks for joining
us, Casey. And thanks for taking time to send
in encouraging notes. There's not a lot of feedback
loops in Podcast Land. Well, we haven't really
opened it, honestly. I think we're getting close.
I think we should start thinking about feedback
loop and some sound effects. Oh, definitely.
Bring the sound effects, man. I love it. OK.
And on the next show, I'm sure there'll be something
that I have clips. Before we started this podcast,
we were already doing the podcast. We'd sit together.
We'd hang out in the kitchen, your kitchen. The
girls are talking to each other. We're just deep
into it, going back and forth without any clips.
But it was just too much stupidity for me. It
was too much outrage. No one needs to hear what
they've been hearing all day. No, we don't always
have to have that. Brother, I love doing this
show with you. It is the highlight of my week.
Same for me, brother. It really is. I mean it.
So should we do it again next week? Let's do
it again next week. One more. Let's give it another
shot. One more. We can do one more. All right,
everybody. We get to do this. We'll see you next
week. Till then.