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Father, we honor you today. Thank you for the

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privilege of getting to sit down at this table

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on these mics and talk about life, talk about

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what matters. What matters to us, not just in

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the larger sense, but even just day -to -day,

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the things that are happening in our world, the

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things that are coming at us. Father, we ask

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for wisdom, we ask Holy Spirit, you give us the,

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you're, the Bible says you're the spirit of truth

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that leads and guides us into all truth. So we

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lean into you. and we receive from you wisdom

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and that's our heart Lord and fathers we share

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I pray that this would help anyone who's listening

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to be encouraged to be lifted up and to borrow

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our title from another show to live up in a down

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world that's our heart for them thank you Lord

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in Jesus name amen amen it's Wednesday January

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7th 2026 we get to do this this is episode number

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17 Happy new year, brother. Hey, we're already

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there. Yeah, 26 I was I saw weird I saw a video

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somewhere and it was of this this young lady

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and clearly an older woman and she's like, you

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know, it's 2026 and this this woman's going 2026

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I was born in 1926 so I'm going to be 100 this

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year. I only feel 50." She says, Lord, let me

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make 100, maybe get it through 100. It was just

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so beautiful. And Tina and I were talking about

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this this morning. I feel so much younger than

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the age, than the number that's there. So agree.

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I mean, we've talked about it before, but it's

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just like, wow, man. What happened? I know. It's

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great. I'm like in my own world, right? And then

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I walk in front of a mirror or a glass at a store

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and I look at myself and I go, who's that old

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guy? I'm like, man, what happened? The worst

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is the barber chair. Oh, those mirrors are harsh.

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I mean, they're there. And I look at all the

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gray hair that's laying on the ground around

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me. I mean, they used to be black or brown not

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too long ago. It's you know, it is what it is.

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It's also as good to do this. We do. And it's

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given me a a real sense of the generational gap.

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For years, for decades, I was the youngest guy.

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I was always the youngest in class. I was, you

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know, because I'm a September baby, September

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64, so although technically a boomer, I am Gen

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X adjacent and sorry, the face of Generation

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X and the hair of Generation X. For sure. But

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I'm on that cusp kind of. And then somewhere

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around, I think it was probably around 50 where

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that started to switch and now it's really there.

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I see, wait a minute, there's a generation that

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not only really has a whole different worldview

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and perspective. I didn't even know that in school

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books, textbooks have not been around for a decade.

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It's Chromebooks. Wow. And, you know, that didn't,

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there's no lockers subsequently. You got no,

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there's no locker for you to put your stuff in.

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You don't need to. You just come in, you got

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your Chromebook. And that isn't everywhere. Fredericksburg

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has a massive locker system. Okay. Not everywhere,

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but I'm sure, but yeah, this probably started

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with Common Core and all these things. Right.

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And Google, of course. overtook. They did what,

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you know, Apple initially did this. They were

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giving all the computers to schools and Google

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came in with the Chromebook and they came in

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with Google Docs and what is the Google Sheets

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and all of this stuff. And I was watching some

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actually a computer lab teacher. He said, the

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children have no idea how it works. All they

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know is how to hit next and scroll up. That's

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all they know. And I'm like, well, First of all,

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that's kind of sad. But second of all, that's

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the reality of it. We just have to realize. And

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with that, I've just been getting so much scripture

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that it's just been coming inside. Do you have

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some handy? I do, actually. Hold on a second.

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Everything just synced this morning. It's been

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so busy. Let me see. The one that I wanted to

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read, I think, was Timothy or Titus, Titus it

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was, Titus 2 .1 -8. And I thought this applies

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in all directions. As for you Titus, promote

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the kind of living that reflects wholesome teaching.

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Teach the older men to exercise self -control,

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to be worthy of respect and to live wisely. They

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must have sound faith and be filled with love

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and patience. Similarly, teach the older women

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to live in a way that honors God. They must not

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slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead,

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they should teach others what is good. These

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older women must train the younger women to love

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their husbands and their children, to live wisely

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and be pure, to work in their homes, do good,

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and to be submissive to their husbands." And

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then I'll skip a little bit. And you yourself

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must be an example. Example to them by doing

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good works of every kind let everything you do

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reflect the integrity and seriousness of your

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teaching. It's just like this whole You know,

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we have an obligation for it to go both ways,

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you know as Paul was teaching Timothy and We

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also have to treat the elders with respect I

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just see this there's this gap and the gap is

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usually filled by one word two words. Okay boomer

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And like, you know, people are missing so much

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of, and I don't just want to say wisdom, but

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just common knowledge and history that we have

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that is lacking even from people younger than

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us in their 50s. And I would say what we witnessed

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with Venezuela. Nice segue. Well done. It cut

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hard. Hard right. But what happened is the narrative

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changed overnight. And the first thing I noticed

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is that the legacy mainstream media, they still

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control the narrative. Overnight Epstein's gone,

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Israel's gone, the MAGA America first split is

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gone, Candy Land is closed, you know, until further

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notice. And everyone's only talking about Venezuela

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and regime change, et cetera. And what's interesting,

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and I don't expect the legacy media to give us

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any kind of historical perspective, but every

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influencer, podcaster, they have no perspective

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on these things. They have never learned even

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the, I mean, maybe, no, I don't think they've

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ever learned even the slightest bit about history,

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even in our hemisphere, which is just baffling

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to me. And of course, it doesn't really fit in

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a three second TikTok or real video. And so I

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was really sick these past 10 days. It was a

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flu which had a confluence with cedar allergies,

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which I did not recognize immediately. Cedar

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fever, they call it. Cedar fever. And I prayed

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like, Lord, please, heal me of this. And he works

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in fun ways. So I'm sitting at the breakfast

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table three days ago and Tina has a friend on

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the phone and she says, you know, Adam could

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have a Cedar fever and I hadn't even thought

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about it. And so I'm like, well, thank you, Lord.

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You know, got some, what is it? The... Claritin.

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Claritin. Wow. By the way, the non -drowsy, that's

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not true. I don't care what they put on the back.

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Really? I was crashing at the end of the day,

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but within 24 hours it started to clear up and

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it's just like, ah, okay, now I'm feeling better.

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Yeah, I really did come back. And then I just

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saw what was happening and it's been crazy. But

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I gave you a boots because I wasn't at church.

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It was great too. I gave you like a quick boots

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on the ground Sunday morning. Very helpful. Well,

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and then I'm watching the service. I'm like,

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holy cow. Pastor Jimmy's given an update that

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I just sent him on a text message. I did ask

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your permission. You did? No, but that was… I

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said, do you mind if I share this? Yeah, go for

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it. I didn't expect that. I'm like, wow, okay,

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that was awesome. And I really appreciated that

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you did that because with what happened in Afghanistan,

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the way… I don't know if I said it, but you translated

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it too. Right now, we just need to pray. for

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the people of Venezuela, for our administration.

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And today that paid off. I said that the number

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one thing with this change, and we can get into

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that a little bit, is that something needs to

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happen within 72 to 96 hours because these people

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will run out of actual resources. And today the

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president said, Well, listen, we're going to

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take 30 to 50 million barrels of oil. It's about

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$2 billion. We're going to give that right to

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the people of Venezuela because they have a socialist

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system. And so what happened here, I think, and

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by the way, I have no clips today. So feel free

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to interrupt me whenever, because I think we

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just need a talking session. Yeah, this is good.

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A talking session. Because I can just play clips.

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I'll just outrage. Regime change! Foreign wars!

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The thing that is so interesting that is a sub

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-narrative is this shows you how socialism works,

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or better yet, doesn't work. Bingo. I mean, do

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you know anything about the kind of the history

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of the past since 1990s of Venezuela? Yeah, Cesar

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Chavez was in before, and that started the tumble.

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Yes, yeah. Oil was found in Venezuela in like

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1925 or something. And then after the war, they

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started to develop that after the Second World

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War. But really in 1990 is when the American,

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the three big American oil companies, Chevron,

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Exxon Mobil, and Conoco Phillips, they took a

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risk and said, we're going to go in and we're

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going to start developing this. and ship it out.

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We built refineries mainly in Texas and Louisiana

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because the oil is not oil is not oil. The crude

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oil in Venezuela is like tar. I mean, you can't

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even put it through a pipeline. Really? No, it's

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so thick. It's literally like the tar that you

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put on the road is that thick, which is really

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good because you need that for jet fuel and diesel

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oil and shipping fuel too. So it is a very important

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resource. But it's not like our shale here in

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Texas, we can take it out of the ground, like

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shake it around, throw it in your gas tank. I

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mean, that's the champagne of oil. And so Hugo

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Chavez, he decided that he was going to change

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the whole idea of Venezuela into socialism. And

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this is when the oil prices started to skyrocket.

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So he was doing great. You know, you're looking

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at $100 a barrel. Like, yeah, here's free food.

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Here's free education. Here's free health care.

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Never diversified that. And they used to do cocoa

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and, you know, other types of farming commodities.

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And so if 98 % of your economy is based on oil

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and the price drops by half, oops, we have a

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problem, Houston. And so instead of diversifying,

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he said, you know what, we're just going to nationalize

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these companies. And instead of giving the traditional

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60 -40 split, they owned all the oil. America

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never owned the resources, but we had a deal

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with all these companies, 60 % for us, 40 % for

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you. He said, nah, you know what, we're going

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to do 25 % for you, 75 % for us, 30 % royalty,

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and 50 % tax. So basically, our companies were

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losing money. And at that point, it's like, well,

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what are we going to do? We can't really do anything.

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He fired all of the people who were working at

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PVDSA, which is their petroleum company. They

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even went on strike. They said, you can't do

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this. It's not going to work. Corruption came

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in. So everything just started to fall apart.

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The thing that he never got to see the full destruction

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of the country because he died in 2013. and his

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handpicked guy, former bus driver, literally,

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I don't know if people know that Maduro was a

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bus driver before he was brought into the government,

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which is not to say that a bus driver can't be

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the president of a country, but it just sets

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you up for some expectations. And he went, yeah,

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you know what, we're going to take all of this.

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We don't need these Americanos. We're going to

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kick them out completely. And so, of course,

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the result is that Their production went down

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to 20 % of what it used to be. Everything got

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old. But what did he do? Well, I'm going to diversify.

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I know. I'll diversify into drugs and human smuggling

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and all this stuff. eight million Venezuelans

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left. And it's been, it's been a real problem.

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Every single president has said this. Is it true

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that upwards of a third of that country has fled?

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Yeah, left. Yeah. Wow. I heard that. Yeah. A

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lot of them came here and throughout the history,

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you know, our presidents have said, well, do

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you remember Guaido? Does this name mean anything

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to you? This was the candidate that Barack Obama,

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President Obama supported. It's like, yeah, no,

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this guy should be the president. Of course he

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was completely ignored. He was just some, some

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dude. And he came into Congress and everyone

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was applauding him and nothing happened. And

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then Biden, President Biden was there and he's

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like, well, you know, we're going to be tough

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and sanctions. They never really did what had

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to happen until President Trump said, you know,

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there's there's so much trouble here because

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who was who was in there getting what oil was

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left? China, Russia, etc. I guess nobody thought

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the national security strategy document was real.

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Remember we discussed this on the show? Yes we

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did. This was exactly what... We were like, wow

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this is... historic. Yes. And part of it is kind

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of the Monroe Doctrine. I mean, no one really,

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because nobody reads passage to me. That's true.

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Nobody reads this stuff. It wasn't on a 15 second

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video on Instagram. And I'm literally hearing

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news models saying, you know, it's funny in this

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document, President Trump kind of said he was

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going to do this. And now that we read this,

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it seems that it's kind of happening. Wow. But

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the way this is spun into This is regime change.

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No, it's not. And all of that's starting to fall

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apart. And it's miraculous what has taken place

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almost overnight where the loudest voices are

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saying, this is a foreign war. This is regime

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change. They're being shot down by their own

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fans now. Wow. This happened within a 24, 48

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-hour time period. And it is in those poor Vin

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and Swalons, you know, the millions of them that

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went out into the street and been partying ever

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since. It's like, oh, yeah, that country's distraught.

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No, they are celebrating. They're super happy.

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Unbelievable. Some of the footage of these gatherings,

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millions of people. Yeah, it's they're so elated

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that that relief is coming. Yes. Well, and so

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that and that's what my boots on the ground to

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you was like, well, they need to get money in

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there somehow. By the way, I've started to learn

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about the commodity traders. Have you ever heard

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of like Sitgo? Maybe you've heard of Sitgo, but

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Louis Dreyfus? Does that name ring a bell? No,

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Richard Dreyfus does, but not Louis. Have you

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ever heard of Julia Louis Dreyfus, the actress

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from Seinfeld? Yes, yes, yes. So she is the sole

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heir to the Louis Dreyfus commodities trading

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empire. which is probably worth 10 or 20 billion

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dollars. So I talked to Paul the oil baron, our

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guy Paul, and he's been so helpful and he gave

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me a book to read. called the World for Sale.

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And it's all about the commodity traders who

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are actually moving the oil, trading thick crude

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for light crude, wheat from one country for -

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Stuff we never hear about. You've never even

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heard of these companies. I don't have a category

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for that. So literally, oil is literally money.

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So when President Trump says, we're taking this

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30, 50 million barrels of oil, that is truly

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oil. And it's one of these guys, I'm sure it's

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Paul Singer or Sitko or somebody who's doing

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the actual transporting, that money is paid right

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away. That money can actually go to the Venezuelans.

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Wonderful. Now that doesn't fix their socialism.

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No. And it's just amazing to see the shallowness

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of every single commentator. Well, it's always

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about the oil. Please do not confuse what the

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Bush dynasty did in Iraq with what is happening

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here. It is phenomenal. And everybody should

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be really optimistic about this. And I think

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that's kind of the message that came out of the

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gateway that's like, we need to be positive about

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this and not be influenced by this nonsense.

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I got a word today, Proverbs 2, 1, 5. My child,

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listen to what I say and treasure my commands.

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Tune your ears to wisdom and concentrate on understanding.

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Cry out for insight and ask for understanding.

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Search for them as you would for silver. Seek

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them like hidden treasures. Then you will understand

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what it means to fear the Lord and you will gain

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knowledge of God. Oh, that is rich. You can turn

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the air on for me, brother. Well, this by the

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way is being retired after the show. No way.

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The armor of God hoodie. Tina said it's time

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to retire this hoodie. It's stretched out. It's

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faded. But it's so comfortable. And I said, you're

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right, darling. I have a Hanes sweatshirt that's

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an extra large. I don't wear an extra large.

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No. It looks horrible, but it's my f - I wear

00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:03.519
it almost every day when I go home. I have other

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favorites. I'm okay, man. It can be replaced

00:19:05.900 --> 00:19:08.240
in the future. It can be replaced. So we digress

00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:12.410
a little bit. Well, so I agree with you know

00:19:12.410 --> 00:19:17.190
attitude of gratitude For what's happening. We've

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been praying for our president. We've been praying

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for the cabinet We've been praying for America

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been praying for the global scene and situation

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and when movement happens our first reaction

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My knee -jerk reaction isn't to go. What was

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he thinking? No over that dictator. No, it's

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like we've prayed for movement. We've prayed

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for solutions and for the wisdom of God to be

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implemented into these arenas. And when we see

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it, this is why I have so pushed back on media

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that I have to ask Annette and you what's going

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on, because it became overwhelming to where I

00:19:55.799 --> 00:20:01.559
can only swim in a cesspool for so long. This

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podcast gives our people when I say our people

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our church because that's really who I consider

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to be Doing this for if anyone else out there

00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:11.559
gets something out of it We're real happy by

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the way got a lot of good feedback on the Israel

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conundrum nice I mean you saw Sir Brian of London

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his eight -minute reply that was amazing all

00:20:20.059 --> 00:20:22.380
the way it was fantastic I like that guy could

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be friends with him. He's a good guy. Yeah, he's

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I've known him for a long long time appreciated

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it so You know being kind of down for the count

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and you know, I took my Sabbath which always

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always helped so much just Getting you know words

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coming in or I'm you know, I tried to just read

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other things a book, you know some scripture

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I got to pray for America Bible and you're telling

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me about that. This thing is great Because it

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check it out. It starts with it a prayer every

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day for the country and then it has full scripture,

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so it'll have Genesis 3 and then Matthew 25.

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Not full, but it's more than just a devotional,

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it's not like a devotional book. I'm getting

00:21:09.869 --> 00:21:12.470
a little tired of that, you know, just like quick

00:21:12.470 --> 00:21:14.630
devotionals, quick hits and… You don't have to

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read mine. No, I never get tired of the daily

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grind, but with every devotional that I get…

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Oh, I know, there's millions of them. But I have

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to go, I want to see what came before it and

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what came after it. I find that… That's really

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important. Anyway, to bring this all around,

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there's this gap between the boomers and the

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zoomers, if I can just call it that. And when

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I distill it down to its very basics, if you

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have a conversation with them, it'll always be

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like, well, this is tough for us, and this is

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tough. And I can refute every single like, well,

00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:54.759
you know, we didn't have e -bikes. You know,

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we put playing cards in our spokesman. We didn't

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have lattes. We had Folgers with flavor crystals.

00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:04.680
You know, come on, give me a break. But the one

00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:07.380
thing they all come down to, and this is interesting

00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:09.579
for all the griping, and I've spoken to many

00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:13.299
over the past few weeks, it always comes down

00:22:13.299 --> 00:22:20.819
to buying a home. How does helping Venezuela,

00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:23.920
how is that helping us here in America? And this

00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:27.180
is such a valid question, but again, it's not

00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:31.000
being addressed. What President Trump is doing,

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and it started with shutting down the border.

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You shut down the border, you get illegal immigrants

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out of the country who were literally, their

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homes were being funded by the government at

00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.440
exorbitant prices. It was a scam that started

00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:50.690
pretty much during COVID. Rents will come down.

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And of course, there's all kinds of nefarious

00:22:53.750 --> 00:22:56.769
actors like Blackstone who bought up a whole

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bunch of houses and are just there to jack up

00:23:00.009 --> 00:23:03.450
the rents. This is all going to start coming

00:23:03.450 --> 00:23:06.390
down. If anyone's interested, look at the price

00:23:06.390 --> 00:23:09.289
of a barrel of oil. It's going down now. Now,

00:23:09.289 --> 00:23:12.150
it's not great for our friend Paul the oil baron.

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Luckily, he ate 60 % of his... His revenue is

00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:19.400
gas, natural gas, which is good. But the oil

00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:21.720
revenue go down. What happens when oil revenues

00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.339
go down? The cost of energy goes down. Energy

00:23:26.339 --> 00:23:30.200
is life. Energy is life. And the cheaper you

00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:32.579
can get the energy, the better your life is going

00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:36.839
to be. And that will make everything more prosperous.

00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:39.799
So there's really... But look how long... Donald

00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:43.160
Trump's been president. Not even a year. I mean,

00:23:43.539 --> 00:23:45.440
this should have happened in the first five weeks,

00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:47.720
right? See, that's the thing is we have such

00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:50.279
a temporary, temporal mindset. I just want to

00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:52.579
like and subscribe and immediately be gratified.

00:23:52.579 --> 00:23:54.359
Exactly. I need that dopamine pump now. Right

00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:57.660
away. It's got to happen. And so we've lost our

00:23:57.660 --> 00:23:59.839
ability, and we see this in a lot of research,

00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:02.929
we've lost our ability for the long game. We

00:24:02.929 --> 00:24:06.029
have a different worldview where we're so used

00:24:06.029 --> 00:24:09.809
to instant everything. I mean, literally everything.

00:24:10.569 --> 00:24:13.329
I mean, you sit at a Chick -fil -A line, which

00:24:13.329 --> 00:24:15.029
I've only done once. I've only been to Chick

00:24:15.029 --> 00:24:17.690
-fil -A once here. But you sit in line there

00:24:17.690 --> 00:24:19.549
and if it's more than three or four minutes,

00:24:19.730 --> 00:24:23.549
you're like, what in the world? So we've been

00:24:23.549 --> 00:24:26.769
conditioned. Trump comes in and says, here's

00:24:26.769 --> 00:24:28.450
what we're going to do. It's going to take a

00:24:28.450 --> 00:24:30.529
while. He said that multiple times. He said it,

00:24:30.529 --> 00:24:32.049
and he said it may get a little worse before

00:24:32.049 --> 00:24:34.829
it gets better, and it did, and it had to. But

00:24:34.829 --> 00:24:37.970
now we're starting to see this domino effect,

00:24:38.549 --> 00:24:43.910
the ripple effect. I'm not knocking the next

00:24:43.910 --> 00:24:46.349
generation. I'm a champion for the next generation.

00:24:46.349 --> 00:24:49.619
We have to be. have to be addressed. And one

00:24:49.619 --> 00:24:52.460
of them is this attention span of a gnat. You

00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:54.299
know, it's like, if it doesn't happen right away,

00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:57.539
then it's not working. And that's sort of the

00:24:57.539 --> 00:25:00.680
value of getting older is we've got a long span

00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:04.019
of life and a lot of history under us. And because

00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:07.220
of that, we've got a longer view on things simply

00:25:07.220 --> 00:25:10.420
because of age and time and timing. And we've

00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:13.359
seen how things work and roll. But when you're

00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:18.480
19, 17, 22, you know, everything you've been

00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:20.660
used to and conditioned to getting everything

00:25:20.660 --> 00:25:22.680
instantly. We even had this conversation in our

00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.680
staff meeting this morning about deconstructionism

00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:30.180
and what's going on with young people not having

00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:33.240
the value of hard training. Everybody gets a

00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:35.619
ribbon. Everybody gets a trophy. You're amazing.

00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:37.380
You're wonderful. You're special. You're one

00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:40.200
of a kind. I mean, they hear this from day one

00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:45.769
because our culture in an attempt to rescue the

00:25:45.769 --> 00:25:50.390
hurt we felt, supposedly, not me, but some, now

00:25:50.390 --> 00:25:54.390
we go overboard to make people feel special and

00:25:54.390 --> 00:25:56.690
wonderful. So now we do that and we mean well,

00:25:56.769 --> 00:25:59.609
but at the end of the day, if they don't face

00:25:59.609 --> 00:26:01.690
any real hardship until they move out of the

00:26:01.690 --> 00:26:05.910
house, which is like 25, 30 now, you know, then

00:26:05.910 --> 00:26:08.710
they're not trained for longevity. They're not

00:26:08.710 --> 00:26:12.509
trained for hard things to do difficult in those

00:26:12.509 --> 00:26:15.309
kinds of things. I see more and more, certainly

00:26:15.309 --> 00:26:18.490
men, young men who are saying, hey, you know,

00:26:18.890 --> 00:26:22.250
like, I saw where the opportunity was and I moved

00:26:22.250 --> 00:26:25.869
to this state and I took this course and now

00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:28.490
I'm either... driving a certain type of truck

00:26:28.490 --> 00:26:31.890
for a construction company or I'm welding and

00:26:31.890 --> 00:26:35.130
that doesn't mean that if those businesses are

00:26:35.130 --> 00:26:37.130
successful, we'll need marketing people, we'll

00:26:37.130 --> 00:26:40.410
need lawyers. It's not like anyone gets tuned

00:26:40.410 --> 00:26:44.470
out of it. But just to go back to the affordability,

00:26:44.769 --> 00:26:47.650
because that's what the Democrats jumped on so

00:26:47.650 --> 00:26:50.730
quickly. Affordability, affordability. It is

00:26:50.730 --> 00:26:54.079
absolutely true. that inflation, which comes

00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:56.119
from one thing and one thing only, the printing

00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:59.039
of money, that's how you get to be $37 trillion

00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:04.599
in debt, that's what raises or reduces your purchasing

00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:08.920
power of each individual dollar. Wages are already

00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.680
going up. I mean, it's not like everyone's seeing

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.099
an immediate change, but in certain sectors at

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:17.299
the bottom end of the economy, construction,

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.759
manual labor, wages are going up because the

00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:24.460
cheap illegal labor has been removed or they've

00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:27.339
removed themselves, actually. You know, everybody

00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:30.799
had the opportunity to take $2 ,000 and self

00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.400
-deport. A lot of people have done that. And

00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:35.799
they can actually come back in if they want to.

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.539
But a lot of, I think, over a million people

00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:42.000
have self -deported. So that's where, you know,

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.460
it's just, you're right. It's a longer term,

00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:47.160
but not even that long. It won't even take that

00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:50.839
long. If you're used to instant gratification,

00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:54.400
it seems that way. And the mainstream media is

00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.420
all about instant. Well, it's everything. And

00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:00.900
everybody has an agenda, of course. Right. And

00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:05.619
I see a lot of influencers, podcasters who, mainly

00:28:05.619 --> 00:28:07.819
because of the algorithms, but also just for

00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:10.240
their model, they have to do a show every single

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:13.000
day. I could not do this show with you every

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.279
single day. We wouldn't have enough to talk about

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.329
unless we just do... Outrage! What's happening

00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:20.250
in the news? Let's talk about it. Let's get all

00:28:20.250 --> 00:28:23.549
over it. Isn't that what moves algos? Controversy?

00:28:23.549 --> 00:28:25.950
Of course it does. And getting people to DM you

00:28:25.950 --> 00:28:28.609
and have conversations and comments back and

00:28:28.609 --> 00:28:31.049
forth. That breaks the algo. There's something

00:28:31.049 --> 00:28:32.789
else. We're not here for that. There's something

00:28:32.789 --> 00:28:35.789
else that I didn't do any preparation on to talk

00:28:35.789 --> 00:28:40.170
about, but I think probably since 2015, but really

00:28:40.170 --> 00:28:44.369
massively in 2020 during COVID, the feminization

00:28:44.730 --> 00:28:47.009
the world, but let's just talk about America

00:28:47.009 --> 00:28:54.210
for a moment, which is the idea of instead of

00:28:54.210 --> 00:28:58.710
men and women being equally important but designed

00:28:58.710 --> 00:29:02.769
by God for different types of roles in the world

00:29:02.769 --> 00:29:06.190
and the household, it just became we're all equal

00:29:06.190 --> 00:29:12.029
and gender is a construct. I think It feels like

00:29:12.029 --> 00:29:14.210
people are starting, even young people are starting

00:29:14.210 --> 00:29:17.569
to say, no, wait a minute. This is just not true.

00:29:18.650 --> 00:29:21.329
And I mean, I can get in so much trouble for

00:29:21.329 --> 00:29:24.730
this. I'm trying to walk a very thin line, but

00:29:24.730 --> 00:29:29.269
having a lot of women in certain roles in organizations

00:29:29.269 --> 00:29:33.210
overrepresented, it may just not be a really

00:29:33.210 --> 00:29:36.420
great thing. I mean, how do I put this in the

00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:38.420
context without people throwing stones at me

00:29:38.420 --> 00:29:40.680
the minute I walk out of the studio? Well, because

00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:44.140
it's not about their competency. It's about roles.

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:48.019
It's about what we have strengths in, where our

00:29:48.019 --> 00:29:52.140
wisdom lies. If I did not have half of my life

00:29:52.140 --> 00:29:56.740
being Annette, I would be lost. I need her. She

00:29:56.740 --> 00:29:59.619
keeps me firmly planted on the ground. She keeps

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:03.420
me thinking. She keeps me everything. I'm just

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:08.660
saying, The role is so valuable that I would

00:30:08.660 --> 00:30:12.700
elevate that, but she does not have any desire

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:15.160
to be the senior pastor of a church. She said,

00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.359
I could never do what you do. I could never live

00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.400
with the weight. And she said, I get the value

00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.599
of being married to you. You carry the weight

00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:27.099
and I get to tell you what to do. But she understands

00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:32.039
that role. I lived half of my life on a farm,

00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.420
half of my life in the city. growing up, growing

00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:39.920
up. Ask anyone who was raised on a farm and they'll

00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.599
tell you the difference in gender. Anyone who's

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:46.599
ever birthed a calf, castrated a hog. I'm just

00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:51.160
saying, I mean, most of America gets this because

00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:54.599
it's so obvious, but I don't want to just digress

00:30:54.599 --> 00:31:00.559
into that. Simplicity. Yes. And I think it's

00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:05.720
destroyed a lot of young lives. My podcast partner,

00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:08.200
Noah Jen, the Dvorak, he's always bringing in

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.839
TikTok clips of women going nuts on TikTok or

00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:15.140
whatever. And first of all, I'm really sad, but

00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:18.640
I listen to it. I think here are women who are

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.740
past their prime dating age. They're now in their

00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:25.880
30s. And I think they're frustrated. They've

00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.039
missed out on something because they were told

00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:32.940
to do things a certain way. I don't think it's

00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:35.500
biblical. I don't think it's right. And then

00:31:35.500 --> 00:31:39.660
the complete feminization and demasculinization

00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:43.180
of men has been very destructive. And so when

00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:46.119
I see young men standing up and saying, hey,

00:31:46.339 --> 00:31:48.660
I want to grab the bull by the horns. I want

00:31:48.660 --> 00:31:51.079
to go out there and do something. I'm not afraid

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:56.059
of being a man. It sounds so simple to us boomers.

00:31:56.329 --> 00:31:59.529
But it's really a big deal. It is huge really

00:31:59.529 --> 00:32:03.250
it is and I see this whether I'm in the gym Which

00:32:03.250 --> 00:32:05.450
which I love to go to a gym because I still like

00:32:05.450 --> 00:32:08.269
the smell of a gym I still like the feel of real

00:32:08.269 --> 00:32:11.809
weights, you know It's the the part of me that

00:32:11.809 --> 00:32:14.690
that gravitates towards athleticism and all those

00:32:14.690 --> 00:32:18.250
things and to a large degree a masculine You

00:32:18.250 --> 00:32:21.910
know a masculine worldview. Mm -hmm. So that's

00:32:21.910 --> 00:32:24.269
not to put anybody down who doesn't I'm just

00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:27.619
saying It's interesting looking at the different

00:32:27.619 --> 00:32:31.799
ages that come into a gym and how they're wired

00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:35.819
and how they work out Yeah, and how they approach

00:32:35.819 --> 00:32:39.039
working out guys from my generation. They were

00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:42.180
raised Very masculine. I mean our generation

00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:46.740
was and they they walk into a gym with a different

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:50.500
Stroll. Yeah, different stride the little swagger.

00:32:50.539 --> 00:32:51.980
You know what I'm saying? There's a different

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:55.549
mentality I see this on farms. I see this in

00:32:55.549 --> 00:32:59.210
rodeo. I see this in things that the oil field.

00:32:59.430 --> 00:33:03.950
I see this in various arenas where it doesn't

00:33:03.950 --> 00:33:06.349
take long to figure out, okay, this guy's never

00:33:06.349 --> 00:33:08.549
turned a wrench. This guy's never changed his

00:33:08.549 --> 00:33:10.990
own oil in his car. These guys never had to change

00:33:10.990 --> 00:33:13.049
a flat tire. By the way, all these things are

00:33:13.049 --> 00:33:15.430
gone. You can't work on your car. You can't change

00:33:15.430 --> 00:33:18.170
your tire. I open my hood and it's a big piece

00:33:18.170 --> 00:33:21.109
of plastic. I'm like, really? I got to take this

00:33:21.109 --> 00:33:23.390
piece of plastic off even to get to the engine.

00:33:23.750 --> 00:33:26.269
I know it's hilarious because we've specialized

00:33:26.269 --> 00:33:29.190
everything out. There's no wrenching anymore.

00:33:29.230 --> 00:33:33.349
We still contract life now. So it is a different

00:33:33.349 --> 00:33:37.480
approach. I'm not here to put that down. They

00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.160
didn't have the value. We were talking about

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.019
this in our staff meeting how some of us had

00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:44.380
the value of being raised by dad, who my dad

00:33:44.380 --> 00:33:46.779
was a firefighter, so that's masculine to start

00:33:46.779 --> 00:33:50.940
with, just that intensity. But I was raised building

00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:56.180
fence and welding and digging post holes and

00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:59.960
changing my own oil and just doing the stuff

00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:02.500
that it takes to keep a farm running, working

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:05.289
our cattle and stuff. I grew up with that and

00:34:05.289 --> 00:34:08.230
I'm so thankful because I was kind of the last

00:34:08.230 --> 00:34:11.090
generation that did. Now, a lot of young people

00:34:11.090 --> 00:34:13.289
who've raised in rural settings, they'd go, no,

00:34:13.409 --> 00:34:15.929
me, I did that too. But you see a difference

00:34:15.929 --> 00:34:19.230
in those young people than you do the kids that

00:34:19.230 --> 00:34:21.949
were raised on a screen in a bedroom. This is

00:34:21.949 --> 00:34:25.550
really it because all of the push was towards

00:34:25.550 --> 00:34:28.730
going to university, go to college, get into

00:34:28.730 --> 00:34:32.079
debt. which is just a horrible, horrible trap.

00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:35.820
And people will say, well, you guys did that.

00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:38.199
Yeah, I guess. I guess we weren't paying attention.

00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:44.079
Sorry. We have to move forward now and get degrees

00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:48.400
that just really aren't that meaningful. But

00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.960
if you open your eyes, there's going to be so

00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.500
much opportunity because even though no one will

00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:59.690
say it, literally the tariffs are bringing factories

00:34:59.690 --> 00:35:02.769
back to America, which will be, you know, Japanese

00:35:02.769 --> 00:35:06.849
auto factories, building cars here. Yep. We are

00:35:06.849 --> 00:35:10.570
going to build eight icebreaker ships in America,

00:35:10.570 --> 00:35:14.070
which is a deal we did with Finland, which kind

00:35:14.070 --> 00:35:16.909
of leads into my the next thing, just so I can

00:35:16.909 --> 00:35:19.389
let you all know what's coming this week of nonsense

00:35:19.389 --> 00:35:20.849
and what everyone's going to be yelling about.

00:35:20.929 --> 00:35:24.869
It's already started. And when you need to build

00:35:24.869 --> 00:35:28.769
big, big, beautiful ships. Big, beautiful icebreakers.

00:35:29.309 --> 00:35:32.329
You need all kinds of people. You need accountants.

00:35:32.429 --> 00:35:34.429
You need lawyers. You need marketing people.

00:35:34.570 --> 00:35:37.329
You need managers. You need workers. This is

00:35:37.329 --> 00:35:43.309
going to be a bonanza. Pennsylvania, Louisiana

00:35:43.309 --> 00:35:46.730
is all going to be built here. All of this oil.

00:35:47.050 --> 00:35:49.289
Oil is not just a bunch of guys with hard hats,

00:35:49.550 --> 00:35:54.530
twists and wrenches. millions of opportunities.

00:35:54.530 --> 00:35:57.090
It's also not Land Man. Don't watch a stupid

00:35:57.090 --> 00:35:59.409
show. No, it's not Land Man. I grew up in that

00:35:59.409 --> 00:36:01.969
culture. It's not like that. It's fun to watch,

00:36:02.130 --> 00:36:03.710
though. It is funny, but it's not real. So the

00:36:03.710 --> 00:36:08.250
next thing is Greenland. Oh, gosh, Trump's going

00:36:08.250 --> 00:36:11.809
to invade Greenland just like he did Venezuela.

00:36:12.010 --> 00:36:16.469
I didn't vote for this. No, you did. If you look

00:36:16.469 --> 00:36:20.070
at it, can we? So remember the national security

00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:24.300
strategy. our hemisphere, north to south. If

00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:27.860
you understand the globe, if you believe in the

00:36:27.860 --> 00:36:30.860
round earth, if you look at the globe from the

00:36:30.860 --> 00:36:34.519
top, you'll see that it's a very short distance

00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:39.380
between Alaska and Russia and how there's this

00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:44.179
thing called the GIUK gap. And this is the water

00:36:44.179 --> 00:36:48.039
in the Arctic between Iceland, Greenland, and

00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:51.650
really the United Kingdom. and United Kingdom

00:36:51.650 --> 00:36:55.210
protectorates. And that is just as important

00:36:55.210 --> 00:36:58.269
now, particularly when you start breaking the

00:36:58.269 --> 00:37:00.750
ice with your big, beautiful icebreakers, which

00:37:00.750 --> 00:37:04.269
you got from Finland, who are a really good ally,

00:37:04.329 --> 00:37:07.429
who, by the way, have a thousands of mile border

00:37:07.429 --> 00:37:11.289
with Russia, still haven't been invaded. If you

00:37:11.289 --> 00:37:13.789
look at it from the top, that is as important

00:37:13.789 --> 00:37:19.119
for shipping as the Suez Canal or the Panama

00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.880
Canal, because all of that has really started

00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:25.880
to open up. It is the exact same reason why China

00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.659
uses the 200 -mile economic zone in the Straits

00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:33.380
of China. It's like, hey, this is our protectorate

00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:35.519
here. If you want to come through here, you can

00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.199
only go this far. Otherwise, you're going to

00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:39.900
start spraying your boat with water. You've probably

00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:43.449
seen that in the past. So when Britain reports

00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:46.349
that a Russian submarine was right off of their

00:37:46.349 --> 00:37:49.969
coast, which happened just a few weeks ago, don't

00:37:49.969 --> 00:37:52.110
worry, you didn't read about it because you wisely

00:37:52.110 --> 00:37:57.369
are not watching the news feeds. That sub came

00:37:57.369 --> 00:38:03.690
through the GIUK gap. And that is our hemisphere.

00:38:04.349 --> 00:38:07.230
It feels like it's a long way away, but it's

00:38:07.230 --> 00:38:10.269
really just Alaska. It's our part of the world.

00:38:10.309 --> 00:38:14.170
It's our hemisphere. So no one is policing that.

00:38:15.309 --> 00:38:20.469
So trade is very important to have some control

00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:23.429
over that in case somebody decides to do something

00:38:23.429 --> 00:38:26.829
nefarious. Look at all the problems we had with

00:38:26.829 --> 00:38:31.650
the Houthis. in that region of the world, big,

00:38:31.650 --> 00:38:37.489
big oil shipping lanes. So we need to, sorry

00:38:37.489 --> 00:38:40.530
to say it, be the policeman of that region so

00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:43.030
that we can at least control legal goods, et

00:38:43.030 --> 00:38:45.210
cetera. This is all part of the national security

00:38:45.210 --> 00:38:48.610
strategy. So we're not going to invade Greenland.

00:38:49.050 --> 00:38:50.630
We're not going to, I don't think we're going

00:38:50.630 --> 00:38:52.929
to buy it. If it was for sale, we would. I mean,

00:38:52.929 --> 00:38:54.710
we've tried it in the past. I think Roosevelt

00:38:54.710 --> 00:38:57.570
tried to buy it for $100 million. They said no.

00:38:57.949 --> 00:39:01.789
All we have to do is say, hey, we don't even

00:39:01.789 --> 00:39:04.909
have to do a deal, really. But because there's

00:39:04.909 --> 00:39:07.650
a 1954 agreement, we just have to say, we're

00:39:07.650 --> 00:39:10.250
going to expand this, we're going to be patrolling

00:39:10.250 --> 00:39:12.929
this, and we already have a base in Greenland,

00:39:12.969 --> 00:39:14.469
and we're just going to expand that, which we

00:39:14.469 --> 00:39:17.170
have the agreements and the right to do. So where's

00:39:17.170 --> 00:39:20.989
the outrage coming? What's the fear of? The outrage,

00:39:22.409 --> 00:39:25.159
well... There's two parts. One is just, what

00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:27.480
are we doing? Trump is going to invade Greenland.

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.159
He's out of control. He's crazy. We didn't vote

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:35.619
for this. The real fear is NATO. Because we are

00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:40.280
kind of withdrawing from NATO and saying, you

00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.500
know, you guys are insane. You clearly don't

00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:46.619
really want peace. You want to continuously have

00:39:46.619 --> 00:39:49.099
Russia as your boogeyman for all kinds of political

00:39:49.099 --> 00:39:51.199
reasons, mainly so they don't have to say we

00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:56.099
were wrong. and they can stay in power. There's

00:39:56.099 --> 00:39:59.059
this security agreement that supposedly was just

00:39:59.059 --> 00:40:04.699
signed in Paris, and EU is going to have a security

00:40:04.699 --> 00:40:08.179
agreement for Ukraine when peace comes with Russia,

00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:11.000
and America is a part of it. But if you read

00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:14.480
the fine print, it says, we will assist with

00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:16.380
monitoring intelligence. We're not even going

00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:18.519
to do intelligence. We're not even really a part

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:22.860
of it. So there's a bit of a withdrawal. And

00:40:22.860 --> 00:40:26.460
if we actually invaded Greenland, well, then

00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:28.260
NATO would fall apart. I don't think President

00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:31.739
Trump wants to do that. But that's just the familiar

00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:34.840
response of people who have been left out of

00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:38.239
the deal. I hate to say it, but I think the EU,

00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.320
the president is just saying, hey, you do your

00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.420
thing up there. We'll do whatever we can to help

00:40:45.420 --> 00:40:47.519
you. But we're really not interested in being

00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.760
involved anymore. We're busy here keeping America

00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:54.079
fantastic for our people. By the way, you want

00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:55.699
to leave Europe and come over here, come through

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:58.000
the legal means. There's the front door. Come

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:02.039
on in. We're happy to have you. And it's the

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.619
anti -globalist move. Do you think we're going

00:41:04.619 --> 00:41:10.210
to see a migration of people out of Europe? The

00:41:10.210 --> 00:41:12.650
wheels are coming off. I sure hope so. All over.

00:41:12.809 --> 00:41:15.690
I hope it starts with my daughter. I know. Me

00:41:15.690 --> 00:41:17.690
too. I'm praying the same thing. Come on, Christina.

00:41:17.909 --> 00:41:20.349
Come on, Kevin. Come on, hang out with us. They'll

00:41:20.349 --> 00:41:22.889
be much better. I'm looking at a top down map.

00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:26.170
I've never looked at a top down map before. Isn't

00:41:26.170 --> 00:41:29.630
it crazy when you see it? What's crazy is how

00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:33.010
connected everything is. When you look at bottom

00:41:33.010 --> 00:41:34.829
up, it's different. It's completely different.

00:41:34.909 --> 00:41:38.489
But when you look at top down, everything converges.

00:41:38.750 --> 00:41:41.110
there at the top of the world. That's wild. I

00:41:41.110 --> 00:41:44.170
did not realize, like you said, those waterways

00:41:44.170 --> 00:41:50.030
all around the North Pole, that whole, wow. It's

00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:52.710
all very close. You see how close Russia really

00:41:52.710 --> 00:41:54.969
is to Alaska. Is that the Bering Strait? That

00:41:54.969 --> 00:41:56.989
is the Bering Strait, yeah. There's talk of a

00:41:56.989 --> 00:42:01.369
tunnel being built between, believe me, we're

00:42:01.369 --> 00:42:03.849
going to be doing lots of business with Russia.

00:42:04.289 --> 00:42:06.170
And we should be. And we're going to be doing

00:42:06.170 --> 00:42:08.150
lots of business with China, which we've done

00:42:08.150 --> 00:42:10.949
for decades and decades and not necessarily our

00:42:10.949 --> 00:42:13.989
enemy. China is not going to attack us because

00:42:13.989 --> 00:42:16.730
they need us. We are right now still their customer.

00:42:17.289 --> 00:42:19.570
So it's ridiculous to think that China, you know,

00:42:19.590 --> 00:42:22.389
they could come take us over now. No, they don't

00:42:22.389 --> 00:42:23.710
want to be buying from themselves. They want

00:42:23.710 --> 00:42:26.829
to buy from us. So it's called ARC, America,

00:42:26.889 --> 00:42:29.809
Russia, China. We may add India. You know, there's

00:42:29.809 --> 00:42:31.889
the Core 5. You probably haven't heard of this

00:42:31.889 --> 00:42:34.869
yet. C5, the Core 5, which is kind of like the

00:42:34.869 --> 00:42:40.110
new G7. And it's United States, Japan, Russia,

00:42:40.309 --> 00:42:43.130
China, and India. And we will be kind of the

00:42:43.130 --> 00:42:46.829
Core 5 independent nations with respect for each

00:42:46.829 --> 00:42:50.460
other's cultures. but also trading with each

00:42:50.460 --> 00:42:52.940
other for the resources we have, the customers

00:42:52.940 --> 00:42:55.920
we have, the services we have, which could be

00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:59.719
really good and is a blatant full -on assault

00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:03.219
on the globalist system, which you and I have

00:43:03.219 --> 00:43:06.159
basically grown up with and have seen just create

00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.239
crap, particularly for our brothers and sisters

00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:13.000
in the Zoomer generation. So, guess what? We've

00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.349
got the biggest boomer of the universe. actually

00:43:16.349 --> 00:43:19.670
working for the zoomers. President Trump is really,

00:43:19.750 --> 00:43:25.469
really doing it. But it's hard to understand

00:43:25.469 --> 00:43:29.230
it and not be swept up with, well, that guy's

00:43:29.230 --> 00:43:33.610
just doing this. We really are. It really is

00:43:33.610 --> 00:43:36.849
happening. And I think our job is to help communicate

00:43:36.849 --> 00:43:40.610
that because the president, he has he's not a

00:43:40.610 --> 00:43:43.389
perfect man. He does not know how to. I don't

00:43:43.389 --> 00:43:46.070
know if it's it must be intentional. But no one

00:43:46.070 --> 00:43:48.570
ever, he said, well, it's our oil and we're going

00:43:48.570 --> 00:43:51.610
to take it back. No one understands that unless

00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:54.150
you have the context of the history that it literally

00:43:54.150 --> 00:43:56.929
is our corporation's oil, which was stolen in

00:43:56.929 --> 00:43:59.510
the first place. If no one gives you that context,

00:43:59.530 --> 00:44:02.619
and I don't know why he doesn't do that. It would

00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:05.440
be great if he, remember Ross Perot, when he

00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:08.320
was running for president, and he'd buy airtime

00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:10.179
on television. You got to look this up, people

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:12.559
on YouTube. He was like, right here, and he'd

00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.199
have his chalkboard, right here is the money

00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:16.960
we're spending, and the money's coming in, and

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.719
this is why it's not working. And he was great.

00:44:19.739 --> 00:44:21.980
And of course his life got threatened, and he

00:44:21.980 --> 00:44:23.639
had withdrew because they said, we're going to

00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:25.860
kill you and your family, because he was splitting

00:44:25.860 --> 00:44:28.360
the Republican vote. Oh, yeah. Oh, and he even

00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:30.900
said, I'm withdrawing for the safety of my family.

00:44:31.019 --> 00:44:34.199
Wow. Yeah. But I wish President Trump would do

00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:35.659
that, but I guess I'm not going to get that from

00:44:35.659 --> 00:44:38.340
him. That's just not his vibe. But if you listen

00:44:38.340 --> 00:44:42.519
closely to Secretary of State Rubio, he says

00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.300
a lot more. You got to listen to him. That guy's

00:44:45.300 --> 00:44:47.820
sharp. He is very sharp. And by the way, he speaks

00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:49.880
the language of all these countries that were...

00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:52.519
Invading. I'm sure you've seen the meme with

00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:54.699
him wearing all the uniforms of those countries

00:44:54.699 --> 00:44:58.340
as like being the president. It's hilarious actually.

00:44:58.500 --> 00:45:01.019
Quite funny. It is funny. It is funny. But yeah,

00:45:01.099 --> 00:45:04.820
he's gold. So without bringing any clips to rant

00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:09.019
on, I just want everyone to know that this is

00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:12.420
a plan. It's written. You can go download the

00:45:12.420 --> 00:45:15.400
National Security Strategy document. It's written

00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.539
in English. We read some of it on the show. It's

00:45:19.539 --> 00:45:22.139
very enlightening. It literally says, no, we're

00:45:22.139 --> 00:45:23.699
not going to be part of the globalist system

00:45:23.699 --> 00:45:26.719
anymore. The globalist organizations, no. So

00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:29.000
for you people who are listening, that means

00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:31.800
United Nations, World Health Organization, World

00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.219
Trade Organization, even NATO to an extent, United

00:45:36.219 --> 00:45:39.000
Nations, all of this. No, we're not going to

00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.219
be a part of that big system where they're running

00:45:41.219 --> 00:45:45.639
the show. We are literally, in my opinion, being

00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.949
pulled back from the brink of destruction. It's

00:45:49.949 --> 00:45:53.190
not just rhetoric when President Trump says,

00:45:53.269 --> 00:45:55.989
if I wasn't elected, we'd be Venezuela. I think

00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:59.909
he's probably right. Here's the beautiful thing

00:45:59.909 --> 00:46:01.489
to watch. Well, not really beautiful, but here's

00:46:01.489 --> 00:46:04.170
the thing to watch. You have what President Trump

00:46:04.170 --> 00:46:07.909
is doing, and I think he'll achieve a lot in

00:46:07.909 --> 00:46:13.010
the next three years. In fact, a lot of these

00:46:13.010 --> 00:46:15.269
globalist institutions, they're saying, well,

00:46:15.510 --> 00:46:17.840
they were saying six months ago, We can just

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:20.639
sit them out. We'll just wait until Trump's gone

00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:22.619
and we'll get a new guy in and we'll go back

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:25.280
to where it was. And now they're like, can we

00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:27.800
really sit them out? Because these changes are

00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:33.039
pretty drastic. Oh man, I was going to make a

00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:38.280
point and now I lost it. Oh, so there's two ways

00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:41.280
to solve the Zoomer crisis, which is real. I'm

00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:44.059
recognizing it. You do not have the purchasing

00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:46.340
power you should have. One is what President

00:46:46.340 --> 00:46:50.079
Trump is doing, and it will take time. Two, you

00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.820
elect Mamdani and you become New York. Let's

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:58.059
see which one turns out better. If I'm wrong,

00:46:58.059 --> 00:47:02.260
I will eat my hat and say, boy, I had no idea

00:47:02.260 --> 00:47:04.380
a socialist approach would work. I also don't

00:47:04.380 --> 00:47:06.920
believe he's going to implement much of any of

00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:13.300
what he said he would. But that is a short -term

00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:18.219
Like and subscribe instant gratification strategy

00:47:18.219 --> 00:47:22.460
is to elect Someone who clearly says I'm all

00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:25.619
about socialism and collectivism and no property

00:47:25.619 --> 00:47:27.920
rights Which is now literally being said by people

00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.900
in his in his administration Wow about property

00:47:31.900 --> 00:47:34.860
right now. So, you know next is Centralizing

00:47:34.860 --> 00:47:36.860
production and then you know before you know

00:47:36.860 --> 00:47:40.000
it It will fall apart. I hope not. I always love

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:41.820
New York. I love living there. I love working

00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:45.039
there. I love visiting there. Not so much in

00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:48.360
the past five, ten years because I just can't

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:51.900
stand the smell of weed everywhere. They made

00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:54.360
a mistake somewhere like Vegas. She's like, I

00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:57.780
can't stand this. It's too much. But that is

00:47:57.780 --> 00:48:00.280
not the, I don't think that's the strategy, but

00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:03.079
that's clearly, and I have loved ones in New

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:05.599
York who were like, yeah, go for it. Mamdani,

00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.460
he's going to help us out. You're going to learn,

00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.579
you're going to learn and you're welcome back

00:48:10.579 --> 00:48:13.920
to stay with us for a little while when it falls

00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.519
apart. You want to find some footing in the United

00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:19.960
States of America outside of New York. So prayer,

00:48:20.139 --> 00:48:22.780
let's talk about how we can direct people to

00:48:22.780 --> 00:48:25.670
pray for our country. Now you've started down

00:48:25.670 --> 00:48:29.349
the track with your new Bible, and what are some

00:48:29.349 --> 00:48:31.030
things you're gleaning out of that so that we

00:48:31.030 --> 00:48:34.349
can direct our friends listening to this, how

00:48:34.349 --> 00:48:36.389
do we pray for our country and our president?

00:48:36.670 --> 00:48:39.050
Wow, you caught me flat -footed on that one.

00:48:39.090 --> 00:48:41.269
I was not prepared to answer that, but I have

00:48:41.269 --> 00:48:44.590
a feeling that I know a theologian somewhere

00:48:44.590 --> 00:48:46.809
who would give us a couple of ideas and some

00:48:46.809 --> 00:48:48.909
scripture that might work, or just a way to pray

00:48:48.909 --> 00:48:51.690
for our country and our president, which to me,

00:48:51.849 --> 00:48:56.639
Tina and I, Yeah, we pray meals before we go

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.599
to sleep in bed, we'll pray. And for the past

00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:01.760
several months, we've been including like, just

00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:05.659
we pray for our president, for all of our elected

00:49:05.659 --> 00:49:08.409
representatives, all of them. which includes

00:49:08.409 --> 00:49:13.090
Democrats. We have senators and representatives,

00:49:13.289 --> 00:49:16.269
and we have local government and county government.

00:49:16.650 --> 00:49:19.230
All of them need prayer. That's actually a lot

00:49:19.230 --> 00:49:22.110
of what is in... I'm only, of course, on January

00:49:22.110 --> 00:49:25.929
7th, so I've only read... Just getting started

00:49:25.929 --> 00:49:28.530
in this Bible. But it literally has, it starts

00:49:28.530 --> 00:49:30.869
with this prayer, you know, pray for our representatives,

00:49:31.070 --> 00:49:35.829
pray that... And it will, as it brings in...

00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:40.280
Abraham, when he was Abram, and how he trusted

00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:44.159
God and how he didn't trust God, or how Sarai

00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:48.739
didn't trust God initially, and then how it does

00:49:48.739 --> 00:49:52.440
pay off when you trust in the Lord. So that's

00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:54.320
my short version of the answer, which I hope

00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:58.059
you'll expand on. Well, very short. General is

00:49:58.059 --> 00:50:00.119
better than nothing. I mean, if you don't know

00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.340
what to pray, you can pray in general terms.

00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:04.159
I mean, it's not like God's up there waiting

00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:06.519
for us to say the right thing. He just wants

00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:08.980
to hear from us. In fact, I read this morning,

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:12.139
you don't need to repeat words and say things

00:50:12.139 --> 00:50:14.059
over and over. God already knows what you're

00:50:14.059 --> 00:50:17.219
praying for. Take just out of your prayers. That'll

00:50:17.219 --> 00:50:20.380
really impact you. Take what? Just. Just, yeah.

00:50:20.489 --> 00:50:23.809
Like, I need to take um out of my podcasting.

00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:26.530
I'm still learning. It's very hard. It's not

00:50:26.530 --> 00:50:29.070
an easy thing to do. Take just out of your prayers.

00:50:29.289 --> 00:50:31.650
You should write that down and see how that goes.

00:50:32.269 --> 00:50:34.929
Interesting. Yeah. Lord, we just, we just, we

00:50:34.929 --> 00:50:38.869
just, we just what? Lord, we be direct. Okay,

00:50:39.250 --> 00:50:42.130
so I'm digressing big time. No, that's interesting

00:50:42.130 --> 00:50:45.329
because remember we've had the episode with the

00:50:45.329 --> 00:50:48.300
interview with the devil? Yes. And one of the

00:50:48.300 --> 00:50:50.920
devil's recommendations for defeating him was,

00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:54.579
don't whine and beg your God. Just tell him what

00:50:54.579 --> 00:50:57.219
you want in your prayer. And I thought that was

00:50:57.219 --> 00:50:59.539
really interesting. So I found myself saying,

00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:02.820
Lord, I pray for this. Being more direct. Instead

00:51:02.820 --> 00:51:05.559
of, would you please maybe kind of, if you have

00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.260
a moment, I know you're a busy guy. That's what

00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:11.820
just is. It's that fear of walking in too harshly.

00:51:11.820 --> 00:51:13.539
Because it's like we're going to disturb him.

00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.610
It's like we're bugging him. It's like... Kingdom

00:51:15.610 --> 00:51:19.150
come will be done. There it is. Kingdom of God

00:51:19.150 --> 00:51:22.369
come will of God be done. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So

00:51:22.369 --> 00:51:24.590
very simple, but maybe that'll help somebody.

00:51:25.050 --> 00:51:27.809
So praying for our country, praying for our president,

00:51:28.030 --> 00:51:30.849
just pray for them. Don't make a big deal. Lord,

00:51:31.309 --> 00:51:33.690
we need your help. Yeah. Lord, we're crying out

00:51:33.690 --> 00:51:37.610
as a people. Second Chronicles 7 14 is a great

00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:41.090
go -to for that. It says, if my people who are

00:51:41.090 --> 00:51:43.920
called by my name will humble themselves, pray,

00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:46.519
seek my face, and turn from their land. I will

00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:48.539
hear from heaven and I will heal their land.

00:51:48.980 --> 00:51:51.179
And he says in the next verse, I will be with

00:51:51.179 --> 00:51:55.079
you. So there's a good start, 2 Chronicles 7,

00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:58.679
14. I recommend the New King James or the ESV

00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:02.500
for that. Another simple thing to do, and I do

00:52:02.500 --> 00:52:04.059
this on occasion. I don't do it all the time,

00:52:04.380 --> 00:52:08.159
but I get a thing called the Texts. I get it

00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:10.099
every day in email, so I've gotten so familiar

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:13.019
with it, I don't even look at the title anymore.

00:52:13.859 --> 00:52:18.199
The Texas flyover, there's another one. There

00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:21.260
it is, Texas flyover. So what you can do with

00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:23.920
that, you can go down to the end of it and it

00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:25.880
actually gives you, you can look up all your

00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:28.400
representatives. Actually, it's Texas Minute.

00:52:28.619 --> 00:52:32.320
I get so many of these things. Texas Minute,

00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.420
at the end of it, it gives you links. And when

00:52:37.420 --> 00:52:39.300
you click on it, it says, here's your representative

00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:41.860
in your district. Here's a representative of

00:52:41.860 --> 00:52:44.079
the state, breaks it all down. And you can take

00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:46.820
a few of those and pray for them by name. It

00:52:46.820 --> 00:52:49.059
felt good when I met several representatives,

00:52:49.139 --> 00:52:51.820
when I prayed for the Senate last time, to say,

00:52:51.940 --> 00:52:54.019
I've been praying for you by name. They're just

00:52:54.019 --> 00:52:56.460
like, what? I mean, they appreciate it. It has

00:52:56.460 --> 00:53:00.619
an impact. After I got saved and I went public

00:53:00.619 --> 00:53:03.440
with it on Rogan, the amount of people who said,

00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:05.920
I've been praying for you for 10 years. That

00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:09.760
has a huge, huge impact. We can do the same thing

00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.380
for them, but I would start with your local government.

00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:15.800
Find out who your city council is. And this is

00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:18.300
the deal. We don't pray against people. We pray

00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:21.260
against the enemy, which is the devil himself.

00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:25.820
But for people, we pray for them. And if they're

00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:28.139
doing things that are nefarious or they're greedy

00:53:28.139 --> 00:53:30.320
or whatever, they're off, they're corrupt, you

00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:33.409
can still pray for them. for three things, for

00:53:33.409 --> 00:53:36.730
truth, for justice, and for righteousness. Those

00:53:36.730 --> 00:53:38.809
are the three things that I always pray for.

00:53:39.469 --> 00:53:41.070
You know, it can get real complicated and long

00:53:41.070 --> 00:53:44.070
if you get down in the weeds. We don't need to

00:53:44.070 --> 00:53:46.710
get down in the weeds. Stay up at the 30 ,000

00:53:46.710 --> 00:53:49.750
foot level and pray for our country. Pray for

00:53:49.750 --> 00:53:52.570
godly justice, for godly righteousness, and for

00:53:52.570 --> 00:53:55.510
godly truth, biblical truth, and that's it. And

00:53:55.510 --> 00:53:58.980
then do it again tomorrow. Come back and do it

00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:01.000
again. But it doesn't have to be a 30 -minute

00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:03.480
prayer. It's keep it simple, saint, the kiss

00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:05.940
thing, right? It used to be keep it simple, stupid,

00:54:06.059 --> 00:54:09.440
but we're not stupid, we're saints. So keep it

00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:11.519
simple, saint, and just those three things, truth,

00:54:11.780 --> 00:54:14.659
righteousness, and justice. And I pray that for

00:54:14.659 --> 00:54:18.300
our government constantly, local, state, federal,

00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.860
and international, global. So anyway, there's

00:54:21.860 --> 00:54:29.829
a simple pro tip. Pastor Pro Tip! You need a

00:54:29.829 --> 00:54:33.289
thing for that. We need some sound effects. I

00:54:33.289 --> 00:54:35.489
don't have enough jingles and sound effects in

00:54:35.489 --> 00:54:38.869
my life. I need that. We got a really nice email

00:54:38.869 --> 00:54:42.230
from Casey. I just want to share it. Adam, I

00:54:42.230 --> 00:54:43.989
want to introduce myself. Been a long time follower

00:54:43.989 --> 00:54:46.230
and listener of No Agenda since around 2008.

00:54:46.329 --> 00:54:49.449
So that's like episode one. I found myself praying

00:54:49.449 --> 00:54:52.730
for you and your salvation for a long time. So

00:54:52.730 --> 00:54:54.590
this is one of these notes I was talking about.

00:54:54.869 --> 00:54:56.570
It's been amazing to watch you find your way

00:54:56.570 --> 00:54:58.670
to Christ. I enjoyed listening to your conversations

00:54:58.670 --> 00:55:01.269
on Tina with your podcast, by the way. Tonight

00:55:01.269 --> 00:55:03.369
we're recording a new one. You probably got the

00:55:03.369 --> 00:55:05.809
newsletter. And I just started listening to your

00:55:05.809 --> 00:55:09.150
new podcast with Pastor Jimmy. I'm hungry for

00:55:09.150 --> 00:55:11.469
connection like what you have with Pastor Jimmy.

00:55:12.010 --> 00:55:14.349
I love that you two found each other and listening

00:55:14.349 --> 00:55:16.190
to you and Jimmy, I feel like I'm sitting at

00:55:16.190 --> 00:55:18.969
the table drinking coffee with you. It's absolutely

00:55:18.969 --> 00:55:21.329
wonderful to see you growing in your faith. God

00:55:21.329 --> 00:55:23.610
bless you and TNM pastor. Jimmy, hope we get

00:55:23.610 --> 00:55:27.730
to meet someday. Casey. Thanks, Casey. Man, that's

00:55:27.730 --> 00:55:30.710
encouraging. Just the fact that you feel like

00:55:30.710 --> 00:55:32.670
you're here sitting coffee, drinking coffee with

00:55:32.670 --> 00:55:34.210
us. Because we are drinking coffee. We are drinking

00:55:34.210 --> 00:55:36.769
coffee. I can't say on the air what we're drinking.

00:55:37.789 --> 00:55:40.570
It's Black Rifle and it has an expletive in it.

00:55:41.389 --> 00:55:43.710
But it's really good. Those guys have funny ways

00:55:43.710 --> 00:55:45.650
of naming products. Well, thanks for joining

00:55:45.650 --> 00:55:48.469
us, Casey. And thanks for taking time to send

00:55:48.469 --> 00:55:50.750
in encouraging notes. There's not a lot of feedback

00:55:50.750 --> 00:55:52.909
loops in Podcast Land. Well, we haven't really

00:55:52.909 --> 00:55:55.809
opened it, honestly. I think we're getting close.

00:55:55.889 --> 00:55:58.250
I think we should start thinking about feedback

00:55:58.250 --> 00:56:00.670
loop and some sound effects. Oh, definitely.

00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:04.260
Bring the sound effects, man. I love it. OK.

00:56:05.099 --> 00:56:07.579
And on the next show, I'm sure there'll be something

00:56:07.579 --> 00:56:11.719
that I have clips. Before we started this podcast,

00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:13.960
we were already doing the podcast. We'd sit together.

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.900
We'd hang out in the kitchen, your kitchen. The

00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:20.340
girls are talking to each other. We're just deep

00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:23.840
into it, going back and forth without any clips.

00:56:24.860 --> 00:56:27.559
But it was just too much stupidity for me. It

00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.570
was too much outrage. No one needs to hear what

00:56:30.570 --> 00:56:31.949
they've been hearing all day. No, we don't always

00:56:31.949 --> 00:56:35.269
have to have that. Brother, I love doing this

00:56:35.269 --> 00:56:37.130
show with you. It is the highlight of my week.

00:56:37.269 --> 00:56:39.210
Same for me, brother. It really is. I mean it.

00:56:39.489 --> 00:56:41.289
So should we do it again next week? Let's do

00:56:41.289 --> 00:56:43.989
it again next week. One more. Let's give it another

00:56:43.989 --> 00:56:46.030
shot. One more. We can do one more. All right,

00:56:46.150 --> 00:56:48.449
everybody. We get to do this. We'll see you next

00:56:48.449 --> 00:56:49.170
week. Till then.