Father, we honor you. Thank you for the privilege
of what we get to do. We don't take it for granted,
Lord. Not any of this. Pray for our listeners
today and whenever they're going to be listening
to this, wherever they find themselves, that
they would be encouraged, they would be lifted,
and Father, they would adopt this simple saying,
we get to do this. Father, we do this in the
name of Jesus and for your honor. Amen. Amen.
It's Wednesday January 28th 2026 we get to do
this this is episode number 20 We get to do this
brother we get to do it again 20 We're racking
them up. When did we start? I don't even remember
when the first episode was. I don't. I'd have
to look at something. It's gone real fast. It
has gone fast. It's been such a pleasure. It's
been fun. It gets better every time. God, the
world, and other things. I wanted to get back
to that a little bit. Good. I'm in. This morning,
you sent out your daily grind, which we've talked
about it several times. You write one every single
day. I've been doing it for 137 years. Give or
take. And it was beautiful, Proverbs 16, 24,
gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness
to the soul and health to the body. What was
interesting, my brother, is you sent two versions.
Oh, I did. I sure did. You corrected, you said
corrected and I went, hold on a second. You removed
a piece. I did. Which was like super meta because
it was like, Do you mind if I just read the original
version? And I'll tell you why I removed it.
You probably caught it. Of course I did, because
that really spoke to me. But I think I understand
why you changed it and removed that. So it starts
off, have you noticed how people are attracted
to those whose speech is consistently encouraging
and life -giving? It's not difficult to gain
attention or approval by exposing what is wrong
with everyone and everything around us. When
you choose to be gracious, joyful and hopeful
with your words, it's like the sweetness of a
honeycomb to others. Today, choose your words
wisely and release that which is sweetness to
the soul and health to the body. Have an amazing
day on purpose." So the piece you removed was,
it's not difficult to gain attention or approval
by exposing what is wrong with everyone and everything
around us. Actually, I'm so glad you sent me
the original version because that really centered
me for a second. Like, wow, I kind of do that
to some degree in my job. And it's kind of meta.
The way I saw it is by, by even putting the sentence
in there, you were actually literally doing that,
which you wanted not to do. Bingo. Is that, is
that what it was? That's why. So I posted this
on several platforms, probably four or five.
And then all my text groups, you know, be some
of the men in the church. Good morning, brother.
Our staff, you and Tina and that, and then you
and me, we'd have our own thing. And as I was
doing that and just read back through it, I thought,
you know, you write something and then you come
back 40 minutes later, an hour later, and you've
got a different viewpoint, right? You've already
moved down the track. and I saw an inconsistency,
and the inconsistency was I was doing exactly
what I was saying don't do. I was talking about
gracious words, but I'm so thankful I caught
that. And I was able to correct all that on platforms.
That was no big deal. It had only been up for
a little bit, but it was just that reminder of
how the Holy Spirit will sometimes tap you. and
say, hey, hey, I want you to notice something
the next time you read through it. And I caught
it immediately. What is so beautiful, thank you,
Holy Spirit. I got the original and I immediately...
It's because you have a green bubble. Green bubble
syndrome. I can't correct anything. Oh, that's
right. On an iPhone, it would have actually changed
and I wouldn't have noticed. I could have literally,
which I did to the guys. Green bubble, baby.
No, you can't cover any... police. You can't
cover up anything with me. No, you can. You send
it. It's there. But it was so good because this
is exactly what everybody's doing. Especially
we have what's happening in Minneapolis, which
seems to dominate all news. It's like the Zapruder
tape. We're going back and forth. Who shot JFK?
By the way, totally tragic. Everything about
it is tragic. It is. Before we can get back to
the daily grind. I had to step back. It's like
it used to be Shocking when you saw a movie with
a murder or a killing of any kind and now in
the span of two weeks We have two people who
were killed by gunfire real, you know filmed
on with by the way, you know video you never
have a full awareness of the situation, but And
only just a few months after Charlie Kirk, I
mean, this is affecting us in so many different
ways. For sure, it's numbing us. It's completely
desensitizing us to it. And even worse, the algorithms
on social media immediately pick up, oh, look
at this guy fighting, look at this person getting
shot, because it's, of course, these things happen
in daily life. influencers and podcasters, they're
all, and that's what struck me is like, I'm also,
part of what I do with No Agenda Certainly and
what we do often here is exposing what's wrong.
And it really set me back. I'm like, let's not
do that today. Let's look at what's good and
what's right and the things that are beautiful.
And I know the Holy Spirit gave me, you know,
made sure I ordered an iPhone, an Android phone
months and months ago so that I would not get
the correct conversion completely. It's all to
make this happen. And I was just like, wow. And
I hope that people read this and they really
think about it for a second because it is just,
it's become our second nature. Like let's wake
up. what's happening, who said what, you know,
who said what to who. The timelines are filled
with, oh, here are all these people telling you
how to poison ice and, you know, all this crazy
stuff. I mean, broken doesn't even begin to describe
it. It's beyond that. It's just, it's, and I
was, what was I reading this morning? What was
this? It was, this came through on the, on Pastor
Brian's... Oh, right. Men's thing. Yeah, what
is it? It's from Everyman Ministries, I think.
Yeah, Bridge Church, Men's Devo. Yeah, and it
was 2 Corinthians 7, 8 -10. Godly sorrow brings
repentance that leads to salvation and leaves
no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. And
this is it. It's the worldly sorrow. And I think
we get stuck in that, man. We really get stuck
in it. It's painful. It takes us down. We call
it going down the rabbit hole right, down the
black hole. And it's so easy to do. Sensationalism
has just become the pastime, you know, the cultural
pastime. to where we sensationalize everything.
Sadly, it drives clicks and comments and algorithms
and sponsors and all of that. I was talking to
Pastor Brian earlier this morning about this,
that when we had the prior administration in
charge, there were so many outrageous things
happening. It needed to be addressed. people
like me, pastors, influencers, we were all saying,
whoa, whoa, enough's enough. This has gone off
the cliff. We need to take a different tack to
all this. And so it predicated that we needed
to say something, but we're in a different season
now. Now that doesn't mean we don't still need
to say things. And it's not even what you say,
it's how you say. We need to be conscious and
intentional with our words. That's why I've asked
you to write the weekly briefing now so that
I don't get up in the pulpit and pull a Donald
Trump and go off the script as much as I love
Donald Trump. Big, beautiful sanctuary. All you
people look so beautiful this morning. I can't
even watch him do a speech. I love the man, but
I cannot watch. It's too painful. It's like watching
Texas Tech play and lose this playoff. I just
can't. And what did they lose? I'm out of touch.
So I mean, they were doing great and off the
rails. I told my brother, I can't even watch
it. You know, same thing. Yeah. So so that we've
got to be intentional with what we say, because
it's so much more how you say than what you say.
So, you know, in podcast world, it's, you know,
breaking, breaking, breaking news, you know,
alert. Nobody knows anything news alert alert,
you know. And it's just like, you know, we've
got the inside scoop and. And I get it. I understand
the game. I understand how it goes. I get all
that. But at what cost are we doing those things?
You know what I mean? As a believer, as someone
who says, I follow Jesus Christ. I've given my
life to him. But then I jump on a mic and I just
go completely contrary. I go down this track.
Where now I'm saying things that are not in my
character to say but I'm doing it because it's
getting applause I came across because I've been
thinking about this a lot of the others call
them the the YouTube pastors I get it because
I think there's a huge difference between doing
audio which You know the word is meant to be
heard. I mean there's ears to hear now I know
there's also eyes to see theater of the mind
though. Well What was I found? I was writing
all this down. Instead, this is 2 Timothy 4,
instead to suit their own desires that will gather
around them a great number of teachers to say
what their itching ears want to hear. So that's
right there. Now that's just the ears part, but
then I see faithful people, not just pastors,
but people who are preaching the gospel and they're
so hell -bent, if I can just use that in this
context, on doing video. And what hit me was
Matthew 6, 1, be careful not to practice your
righteousness in front of others to be seen by
them. They will have no reward from your Father
in heaven. I really, I'm like, you know, Isn't
everything you do on video, isn't it kind of
performative? I mean, you're doing lighting,
you're making sure you look good. It's so different
to me. It is different. It really just feels
wrong. Well, you have a different sense of consciousness.
You have more self -consciousness if you know
you're being seen as opposed to being heard.
Right. You know, I'm not sitting here fluffing
my hair. I'm wearing headphones. I'm going to
have like a big thing through my hair after.
I could care less. but because I'm not being
seen, sort of. But you know what I mean. I do.
And so it changes the way you say what you say.
It changes even the way you process and think.
You know, we tried, we did video for a while.
We did a few with Annette. We brought some guests
in, did some things. It was fun. I enjoyed it.
But to be honest, I wasn't as relaxed. I wasn't
in my own head space like I am now where I'm
not worried about, you know, micro expressions
and various things, nuances. So I see a lot of
my friends in ministry, good friends, people
I would call dear friends that seem to be, I
call it prefab housing. Remember the Truman show?
Of course. Every house was the same on the block.
You know, you look down the neighborhood, everyone's
prefabricated. And a lot of times we can dive
off into prefabricated mentalities, ways of thinking,
constructs. You know, because all my friends
are thinking this way, instead of me thinking,
it's a lot easier to just think like them. I
can park my brain and just jump into a prefabricated
construct. mentality thinking, whether it's about
politics or culture or scripture or theology,
it's just a lot easier to not have to think.
It's a lot easier to just grab somebody else's
thoughts and roll with it and jump on the bandwagon,
the proverbial bandwagon. And now I'm just playing
that tune. It's harder to actually be someone
who's willing to think different and think through
things. outside of those constructs. And what
I hear every single time, because I have these
conversations with all kinds of different people,
and I think that there's valid reasons for people
doing video, you know, if it's really a visual
type of thing, but you know, whenever I make
clips, because I make clips, I have the recording,
like a YouTube, and it's usually some news report,
and I'll be watching, I'll record it, and then
I go and edit it and sometimes not even sometimes
during the edit but sometimes it won't be until
I actually play that clip that I went oh wow
I never heard that I never because I was you're
always distracted by the visuals right true um
uh what did I have here I had another I just
wrote down all these different things in preparation
today so faith comes by hearing and hearing the
Word of God, Romans 10, 17. Just all these things
it telling me like, seems like the video was
really a distraction. It's just, it's pulling
away from things. And I don't know what it is,
but it's really bothering me. It's bothering
me. Like, what do you hope people do? It's like,
well, you'll get more viewers. And I've learned
to say, God doesn't care about size. If He wants
to scale something, He'll scale it. That's true.
It's like, why are you going for that? And the
reason I bring this up is because we've got some
beautiful emails to share. Oh, wonderful. And
so, you know, we've always figured we're doing
this for Bridge Church and the people who go
to Bridge Church. Anyone else who hears it, it's
all going to be a plus. This is from Jody. I
just want to send you an email. I found the new
podcast. I'm loving it. This is us, of course.
Here recently, I've moved away from the day -to
-day news. I'm trying to focus more on the things
of heaven. The Lord gave me a verse a few months
ago, Romans 16, 9, but I want you to be wise
about what is good and innocent about what is
evil. It really spoke to my inner conspiracy
theorizing. It was also heavy and I really needed
more biblical armor. So to find out about the
new podcast, I was stoked. And she says, she's
talking about me, of course, but it is about
our show because she says very specifically,
please say hi to Pastor Jimmy. I can hear the
faithfulness and eagerness to learn and be loved
by Jesus. It makes my heart so happy. These are
coming in one after another right now, one after
another. Brian, I'm leaving everyone's last name.
I don't know if they, it's okay. I love how we
get to do this is a little news and then actually
a sermon as well. And I love to hear about your
walk. I've been a Christian my whole life. Well,
sort of. Because, well, the parable of the seeds,
some in the path, some in the rock, some in the
thorns, and finally some in the fertile soil
is my story. And at some point in my life, I
had been every one of those seeds. My walk is
now truly strong and growing. And we get to do
this is going to be in addition to my podcast.
I mean, this kind of feedback makes me so happy
that, I mean, it's just insane. Well, I mean,
it just goes on and on. So many people are saying
that. I love that. Thanks for sharing that, Adam,
because that prayer we open up with is always,
we're not just praying for us, we're praying
for those that will hear this, that there will
just be this open communication, this open receptivity
to the good news, because it is good news. It's
not okay news. It's not so -so news. It's good
news. It's good news, yeah. We had this big ice
storm here in Texas. The whole message was pre
-recorded in the worship team, and you did the
communion. It's a communion that you're doing
by yourself. It's a union? That must have been
so weird to do that. It wasn't too bad because
we were trained, unfortunately, by COVID, where
we did 11 weeks like that in a row. Now, we didn't
pre -record. We came up and did the service live
in real time. But just doing to a completely
vacant auditorium. Empty. Yeah. Like I said,
at first, when we started COVID, doing it during
that time, we were forced to do that for a while.
And then we decided not to be forced to do anything.
We quit doing it. But it trains you. So I told
our team, this is not new for us. We've been
down this track before. And so what we're going
to need to do is go in and Faith will put it
all together. So we did it all in segments. And
Faith is just so good. She just edited all that,
created transitions. I was more concerned about
Brian because it was his week to preach and he's
never done that before and he likes feedback.
I presume all pastors like feedback. If you're
not getting an amen or something from the sanctuary.
When I was younger that would make me very insecure
and I'd have to do something, you know, like
a seal, you know, balancing a ball on my nose
or something, you know, to get reaction. I don't
do that anymore, but I can hopefully outgrew
that. but I knew it would be hard on him. And
he did fantastic. And the whole team, the worship,
we were going to have worship practice on Thursday
night anyway, before the storm hit. So I said,
hey, just don't show up in your pajamas. We're
going to record this. And everybody showed up
gray, ready to go. And it just... That was one
of our better worship sets, not because we were
being filmed, but because we were all in the
moment. It was good. It was. Well, and our friend
Brent put his mojo spank on the sound. Amazing.
That's the best it's ever sounded. The only thing
that I forgot to tell Faith is like, remember
to trigger Hello Fred to go live. Well, she was
doing it from home, I guess. Was she streaming
it from home? Boxcast did a live stream thing
for churches that were Showing video. Yeah. Yeah,
which was a real nice thing. They did. Yeah,
I know that she had all their settings here I'm
like, ah, and I'm like see can I patch this in
real quick? She was trying yes She was all good.
You came through. Yeah big time. It was really
really good. It was fantastic Thank you. It was
I enjoyed it because I got to sit in a different
seat. Yes through the whole thing So it was good
for me and we came back on Tuesday for staff
meeting and we unpacked the whole thing and just
said, what did we learn from this? And we took
notes, you know, we learned some things and so
it was good. And, you know, what was adopt, adapt
and overcome. There it is, adapt and overcome.
So yeah, it was a privilege to do it. Do you
have the air conditioning remote control here
by any chance? I do not. It's because you're
wearing a hoodie. I know, I know. I wanted to
represent as always with my iron. It was 27 degrees
outside when I woke up this morning. No, it's
going to be 56 today. So. Yes. No, I'm just saying
so. What's next? Well, we both read this this
article about how. I think this article calls
it The Machine, which kind of started in 2007,
2008. And I'll put it in the show notes. The
person who wrote this thesis has all this data
about how men and women, and it's not just America,
it's global, have really separated in their values.
or women going very, very liberal, almost anti
-man in a way, because of this whole machine
that started with smartphones and algorithms
that completely target women in such an evil
way, in particular women, by really pushing them
towards Being in the group a hundred percent
empathy You you you cannot at any point have
any other opinion and when I thought about it
You may remember more than I do, but when I thought
about us like it's not just the phones. It's
not just the algorithms It's the entire culture
this road caster is crapping a little bit The
entire culture has been geared towards this and
I'm like how Lord how do we? do something about
this. Again, we're back to prefab thinking. It's
prefabricated. If you want to belong to this
group, these are the things you need to espouse.
These are the things you need to talk about,
and you'll be in the group. I mean, you go back
to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what's the number
one thing? Belonging. Everybody wants to fit
into a group. You want to go to a place where
everybody knows your name, where that song came
from. Cheers. But they were playing on something
that's real. And that is this need to connect,
need to belong. It's important. Are you hearing
that snap? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll just pretend
it's not there. Not today, Satan. Oh, by the
way, we got construction going on. There's drills
running out. Oh, yeah, of course. It all matters.
It's always something. But anyway, this prefabricated
thinking, this falls right back into it. And
there's such a need for connection and belonging.
Yes. And even more so than women, or at least
they're more verbal about it. I think we're the
same. We just don't say anything about it. More
to ourselves. Yeah. But definitely. And so these
algos, this article was fantastic, by the way.
I was immersed in it. I showed it to Annette
and we were both like, yeah, this is exactly
what's happening. Interesting thing is it's not
just American, though. This is what one of the
discoveries in the article was. This is global.
Yeah. That women are more susceptible to this.
And, you know, the emotions, the tugging on the
heartstrings, the So you look at the outrage
you're hearing and the raging you're hearing,
and you look at a lot of these protests, even
in Minneapolis, look who's there. Yeah. And droves.
And that's what kind of, not freaked me out,
but I'm like, man, people aren't even aware of
what, I mean, I see people saying things on social
media, women in particular. I'm like, you can
actually be arrested for the things you're saying.
You're making unbelievable threats. And the fact
that they're oblivious to it is concerning. And
I guess the only thing you can do is tell people
or ask them, are you aware of what you're actually
doing and what's actually happening? I just feel
compelled. I'm like every single time so because
of course people send me these videos all the
time like, you know I'm not gonna play this as
a clip. It's just completely But I just pray
I'm like, oh, please help this person. There
you go. There's your trigger It's trigger is
to pray for humankind because the world it's
always been bad We were talking about some of
the period pieces. We're watching right now some
of the period series Yes that are on they're
fascinating. Yeah, one of the revelations for
both of us you mentioned this is that Human nature
hasn't changed at all. It's the same song 300th
verse Where we keep going around these same mountains
we keep getting in these same These same issues
of flesh less of the flesh less of the eyes,
you know greed all those things It just happens
over and over cyclical. So human nature is not
changing globally and The tragedy is if you don't
have any sense of self -awareness You'll get
hooked like a fish, you know, and you'll go right
down the same track. And that's what we're seeing.
And when we see these derangement videos, you
know, it was Karen there for a while now. They've
morphed into the super Karen. Yeah. And it's
wild to watch. It's heartbreaking though. It
hurts my heart to see. I don't laugh at those.
I did maybe at first, just because it was so,
what did we just see? It gets to the point now
where people will play this like, look at this.
And I'm like, I'm sad. I'm just sad. And people
look at me like, what? Don't you get it? Say,
yeah, I get it. Exactly. This is the problem.
2 .0, brother. 2 .0. Adam, 2 .0. But anyway,
it is clear that the less You allow yourself,
and algorithms get men in a certain track as
well. There's all kinds of issues there. You
look at my Instagram, it's surfing videos, like
just bombarding. Mega waves, you know, Indonesia.
Oh really, that's your algo? I know, that and
motorcycles. or Red Bull videos of guys doing
stupid stuff. Yeah, climbing crazy stuff. Climbing
up towers. Yeah, jumping motorcycles off ski
jumps. Why not? That's my stuff. And guitars.
But it is truly, it's just every day it's a reminder.
It's like, just put down the screen. You have
to have such self -discipline to do this. I mean,
because I've turned off every notification. It
actually wasn't on silent then when I came in
here to do a show, I heard it binging away. But
just, you know, it's hard though. It's hard not
to go, oh, click, click, click, click, click.
Let me do my round of apps, taking the apps off.
But it's really, and I think everybody can feel
this when you're being sucked in and it's like
click, click, click, click. The phone actually
should be. should be beeping at you. You know,
like when you're in the car and you're doing,
you go over the speed limit and it'll go, you
know, and everyone turns that off. Of course,
it doesn't have to be in his car. If I look in
the mirror, it says you're moved your head off
of it. I mean, it's got a camera. I don't want
to put a piece of tape on the road. This is ridiculous.
You're slumping. Sit up. I mean, he'll tell me
that. And I'm like, I don't like your car. That's
a little extreme. It is very. But what you're
saying is so spot on. This is important. Because
again, you can lead or be led. You know, there's
not a lot of in between there. And leading, I'm
talking about the micro choices we make every
day. The micro, not the big epic stuff, you know,
that gets all the press. But I'm talking about
the micro choices that all of us make on an ongoing
basis. And we make thousands of them a day. And
a lot of them are subconscious, you know, not
always. You know, we're doing things autopilot.
But this chasing dopamine and all that, that
just takes you down this track. Because it feels
good when people applaud. It feels good when
somebody jumps on your comment. You're like,
oh my gosh, I got more comments on my comment
than you did on your actual piece. You know what
I mean? We start to live for things that have
no value whatsoever. Exactly. And we become the
tool. We're getting used. And meanwhile, we're
missing all the fantastic things that are taking
place in our world. We're missing the God, the
world and other things. We're missing all of
the big picture stuff, which is phenomenal what
is taking place. I mean, no one's even talking
about Greenland anymore. Not that that was really
actually the president Trump, the Trump I call
him now. He has an uncanny business sense of
how to Focus people on something while he's doing
something else over here, and then he says oh,
yeah That's exactly what I wanted because he
gets it man. It's getting worse. He gets exactly
what what he wants But then in the background
he's doing the the board of peace Which is this
is gonna has that gotten any press whatsoever
very little it's only like well You know you
got to play a billion dollars. Do you know how
much? The United States pays the United Nations
that we support. It's an unbelievable amount
of money. So I think there's 21 countries now
and it's growing every single day and it's real
arch enemies. President Netanyahu has been asked,
he's joined. President Putin will be joining,
but also leaders from Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar, Hungary, of course, the European
Union. Now that's interesting because everyone's
been invited and they're all like, well, the
president of Finland is like, well, I can't just
join because this would be a parliamentary thing
and we have to get approval from the Starfleet
command, et cetera, et cetera. But the idea that
instead of having a big, beautiful building in
New York and having all these meetings and round
tables and all this different stuff, that instead
we sit down and try to solve things from a business
economic perspective, like how do we all help
each other and work together? This is what the
president has said. He says, I believe America
will reunite when we have success as a people.
And I'm hoping he's right. I am too. But once
everyone feels better about their life, about
their city, about their economic position, which
I truly believe we're going to see some big changes
because all these tax benefits are kicking in
this year. And you'll see people taking less
withholding from their paychecks, which is money
straight into your pocket right away. What he's
doing with And I know I sound like a fanboy,
but I am a fan of what he's doing. I am. I call
it as I see it. I'm a fan of what works. Exactly.
I could care less. CW Miller came up to me a
couple of weeks ago, and he just went off and
he said, you know, I don't care about his tweets.
I don't care about his hair. I don't care about
his complexion. He said, America needs a leader
who will lead, who will be decisive and will
get it done and do what they, and then he said,
that's what he's doing, but no one seems to be
looking at that. They're looking at all the ancillary
things, the silly things. And I said, there are
narratives out there that are designed for that.
There's algos in the digital world, but there's
another algo rhythm in the cultural world, behavioral
world and the thinking. The mob think all of
that is happening too. So, you know, it's not
popular to talk about that. It's not a water
cooler discussion to say, can you believe what
he just did? How amazing that is. We should all
try it from time to time. I'm saying we should
be operating some gracious speech. And what I
tend to do is I say, did you see what Secretary
Rubio did? Because he's really running the board
of peace. Great memes about him, by the way,
with the multiple hats. He's the general of every
country. And, you know, we were talking about,
we're all kind of watching these period pieces
right now. We kind of went in reverse. We started
with the Gilded Age, then went to Downton Abbey,
then went to Victoria, had a little detour on
Death by Lightning, which is about President
Garfield. And now we're watching The Crown. And
you're going to have to pick up the Empress.
I've thought about you. We're going to do the
Empress. That'll be next. But the crown, not
only have I met this queen that it's about most
of the time in her older days, I went to Buckingham
Palace. I went through these gates and everything.
I went, but I didn't get to go in. I was a tourist.
They opened the gates for me, Pastor Jimmy. Like,
welcome, sir. Funny enough, They picked me up
into Mercedes, which is just so unbelievable
for not to have a British car to bring me. But
anyway. A lot of German influence there. They're
all Germans. Exactly. But the whole thing, certainly
in the 19th century, up until now we're Princess
Diana, 87, 88. And I was very aware of what was
happening. I lived in Europe. I'd been to London
several times before that. The royal family.
seemed to only care about appearances. And particularly
underneath the Queen, it's like, well, you got
more press than I did, and look at what the news,
and it's all, it's the same thing as today. Only
there it's newspapers. Look at what the Daily
Telegraph said. Look what the Times said. Oh,
this is, it was just all about appearances, everything.
And it's kind of really disappointing. Like,
you know, and they, well, I care about the Commonwealth
and our constituents. No, you don't. You care
about your own ego, says the lady who is supposed
to be the connection between God and the Anglican
Church. Yeah, that's another conversation. Yeah,
it's just… And I just look at that, I'm like,
we have had nothing but examples for this. In
a way, President Trump hurts us because he is
all about making the headline and he does it
on purpose. In a way. At least he tells you what
he's doing. I mean, there's nothing hidden here.
Well, it's in parables though. It's still kind
of a parable because he'll go on and on and on
about all these other countries and they let
people out of jail and insane asylums. And he
says it so much. And so often I went back and
looked at this. And then when you look at what's
actually happened, it's true that there's been
a whole organization of countries, South American
countries, who have literally done this as a
tactic to take over America from inside. And
they've done this in collusion with some political
organizations. specifically, Democrat Socialists
of America. There's documented evidence of this.
They're not even shy about saying it. It's true.
But because the president has said this over
and over and over again, without any kind of
further explanation, even I was completely desensitized.
And I'm like, OK, I got it. But it's actually
true. And it's just mind boggling to me. how
he sometimes doesn't help with the way he does.
The thing is, he's so honest. Maybe this is it.
We're so used to people covering up the truth
when they speak publicly, particularly in leadership
roles. I agree. That we forget that he's actually
just telling you exactly like it is. Isn't that
crazy though? It is. Yeah, we don't know what
to do with him. We don't know what to do with
the truth. It's cringeworthy. Yeah, you're exactly
right. We don't because we're not used to seeing
somebody that open, that transparent. especially
at that level. My takeaway is we have to remember
this. We have to remember that he's actually
telling the truth and that we just forget that.
Well, everything he's been doing, I can't say
everything, but most everything he's done, it
ends up being the right thing. It just, you look
down the line, it's kind of like Queen Victoria.
I remember, you know, her Albert was like, Am
I getting, I've watched so many period pieces.
I'm going to get them all mixed up. You're doing
good. Queen Victoria, her husband, you know,
remember he kept trying to do different things
and then it would come back to she was right
after all. Yes. She was right after all. And
he kept bucking it. That's kind of like marriage,
modern marriage. In general. I always come back
to Annette. Your wife is always right. Yes. I
can't believe I haven't learned that by now.
You were right. And so yeah, that happens a lot.
But that idea that He may actually know what
he's doing. Oh, totally. He totally knows what
he's doing. That's what I'm saying. And he's
been saying this for 30 years. You go back, he's
been saying the same stuff over and over and
over again. But he has broken something, this
Davos thing. Something broke, something really
changed. in what they call the liberal rules
-based order, i .e. globalism. And all these
other leaders are saying it. And now they're
all off like, well, we don't need America. We're
going to do a trade deal with the South American
countries. That's the EU with the Mercursor deal.
Keir Starmer just went to China with executives
from GlaxoSmithKline and Range Rover. And we're
going to do a deal. And our president's like,
yeah, you should. You should do a deal. By the
way, it's such a misconception. I still hear
lots of podcasts about, well, the CCP, the CCP
and the Chinese Communist Party, and they're
going to, you know, they're sending all these
people in, they're going to take over our country,
military age, man. I'd like people to understand
that we are China's customer. We are definitely
in bad together. And they would never want to
hurt their customer. We're their best customer.
We are. Best price. Yep. And so you remember
the National Security Strategy document that
we discussed? Yes. Guess what? A new document
dropped. Oh, really? It's also only about 35
pages. Everybody can read it. It's in pure English.
This is the National Defense strategy. And I'll
just summarize it because it's not what you think
it would be. One, Fortress America. We're protecting
ourselves. This is, of course, part of the Golden
Dome, whatever that is, but it'll be something.
It'll be big and beautiful. But it's also putting
China down a couple notches. We're not going
to go and be all freaked out about China if China
wants to take over It's really about Taiwan because
all semiconductor chips basically still come
from Taiwan. The president has started building
our own capacity here. That will take a while.
But ultimately, okay, so if China decides, you
know, we just want to show everybody that this
really is ours, and there's lots of arguments
to say that it is, but it's not even our argument
to have. What, they're not going to sell us chips?
They're just going to shut it down? No. The deterrence
by denial is what it's being called. So we're
going to we're not going to be all freaked out
about China, which I think is probably good.
Burden sharing is a big one. We're no longer
going to be the guys who you call every single
time. We pay for everything. You don't do any.
That's that's really a big part of what Greenland
was. It's like, hey, we just want to have this
Greenland thing that we can take care of because,
you know, it's a. a big new shipping routes and
someone needs to be watching over that. We want
to do that for our own because it's, you know,
it's Alaska. It's up there. It's the North Pole,
you know, it's North America. Yes, Canada, we
actually want to help you too. But like the European
Union, no, we'll still, you know, I think NATO
is still good to go, but it's very much, you
know, you guys got to take care of your own business
now, which I think is really, it's about time.
We've been fighting wars for other people for
a long time. And then, of course, the number
one thing is to rebuild our industrial base,
which has been ongoing. And man, I sure hope
I see these factories coming. I hear about them
a lot. I hear about $18 trillion of investment.
I'm just praying that it comes because only the
people who make stuff get to get their survive
in this world. And that is seen as a part of
our defense strategy. And I think it's, I mean,
this is so different than, you know, we're going
to spread democracy in the Middle East. How many
times have we heard that nonsense? And how many
times has that come to burn us over and over
again? So I just pray that people will see some
of the bigger picture and enjoy, if anything,
enjoy this time in this administration. You're
never going, you will never see anything like
this again in your lifetime. That's been an important
theme that I've been trying to help people understand
that when we had the other administration and
the Biden administration, things needed to be
said and loud and often. We were in major crisis.
We were at a turning point, tipping point, so
to speak, and it needed to be said from pulpits,
from podcasters, from everybody. We're in a different
season now. That doesn't mean we don't need to
be speaking, but we need to be speaking differently.
We need to have a different tone. First of all,
we need to be cheering on the good that's happening
and not just constantly focusing on the hard
stuff. That will always be there. There will
be more than enough material for that from now
on until Jesus comes back. I mean, literally,
He said it. In fact, If we are in the last of
the last days, there is a good chance things
could get worse. And globally speaking. So my
attitude right now is I want to accentuate the
good things that are happening. Still address
what needs to be addressed. Immorality, unrighteousness,
ungodliness, corruption, still there. I mean,
all that needs to be spoken into. But let's let
us... I don't want to just be known for what
I'm against. Amen. We're right back to the beginning.
Perfect. Perfect. There it is. Yeah, that's exactly
right. Boomshakalaka. And that is part of the
problem is we got our shows, we got our influence
sphere, we got our ex and our Instagram account
and we're so trained. It's like, can you believe
this? Look at this. Look at that. Yeah. the world
is changing around us and it's hard for people
because it's always a draw. What is that? Is
it the enemy that always just wants us to be
all enthralled by the negative? Why is positivity
so hard? Think about it. How you build something
is typically how you have to keep and maintain
it. So if your podcast or whatever you're doing
was built on controversy, built on conspiracy,
built on outrage over whatever. You know, it's
hard to shift gears midstream and go to a more
positive orientation when you built that way.
And I think a lot of great podcasters who are
sharp and tuned in and culturally savvy are finding
themselves. And we sense this, you and I talked
about this right after the election. and things
started to really work. Those first 115 days
were insane. Every day, you couldn't keep up
with the good things that were happening. And
it left podcasters going, what are we talking
about now? What do we do now? You know, a lot
of them were like, and I could sense that as
I looked at some of the people I enjoy, or I
wouldn't even say enjoy, people that I was getting
informed by, they were struggling because they
didn't have the most obvious low -hanging fruit
like they did for the last four years. That was
easy. But all of a sudden, they're having to
find problems within that. And even the narratives
on TV, for a while, they didn't know what to
do. We've talked about this. They were in a little
bit of a shutdown mode. I mean, they're firing
people right and left. They don't know what to
do. I mean, now we've reinvented things. We've
now found Minneapolis. We've found ice issues.
We found things to go after. And now it's kind
of... It's like the Weather Channel, you know?
They get so excited when something bad happens.
Exploding trees! They're trying not to. You know,
you can tell they don't want to be excited about
it, but they live for this stuff. And so we just
have to be... I just want to be a positive voice.
I want to live up. I want to live up in a down
world. Exactly. But do address what needs to
be addressed. Yeah. I just want to live there.
I think that... Is that living? No. I don't want
to live there. No. I think the hardest thing,
and we've talked about audience capture before,
is because whenever I speak positively about
what's happening, the first thing you get is
there's a section of people who say, oh, you're
such a fanboy. Why don't you kiss Trump's ass
more? Pardon me for saying that. But I'm like,
don't you see that it's not about that. It's
about seeing something that's good. Everybody,
a large portion of people just want to hear bad.
Doesn't matter. President A, President B, they're
all bad. They all suck. Well, yeah, they're all
human. So they're all going to be broken. But
when good things happen, they just have a problem
here. This is the rage syndrome. But it drives
me mad. It's just rage syndrome in general. We
used to have The shining moment of the day news.
Remember we had Paul Harvey. Yes, yes. And the
rest of the story. And that's the rest of the
story. Oh my gosh, classic. But it was always
this life -giving, positive thing. And here I
was a teenager, you know, driving to school,
high school, coming down 380 into post, you know,
off the Caprock in my truck. And either I had
kiss going or bad company or I had Paul Harvey
on the radio. I was like, man, this is so cool.
In that AM. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah.
When the lightning would strike, you'd hear it
crackle on your radio. That was the day. But
there were so much more positive voices out there.
I just wish there would be a revolution in podcast
world into a different tone. Again, you don't
have to not address things. You can address them.
But again, tone is everything and intent. Why
am I saying what I'm saying? I'm so glad that
we're not sponsored or anything, we can get in
here and talk like this and have a real conversation
as opposed to, man, we got to lean into this,
lean into that, because we got to get the comments
up, got to get the likes. Or a friend of mine,
I'm not going to say a name, but every podcast
he comes out, this will be controversial. Listen
until the end. And you know what? His podcast
is blowing up. Of course it is. Yeah, it is.
Real Christianity that isn't in America anymore.
Wow. I mean, he's just going there and I'm like,
I'm almost sad I was on a show. I've started
saying no to some shows. I've kind of backed
off. Yeah. And I've been invited and said, Hey,
thanks. But man, and a lot of times I do have
schedule issues, but I literally just, I'm not
trying to get out there like that anymore. I'm
a local church pastor. I want to help people
live up in a world. I want to. Find some good
in this thing. You are doing it brother find
hope so let us end again gracious Gracious words
are like a honeycomb sweetness to the soul and
health of the body Let's be graciously come on
for this week just for this week and the enemy
is all over our system here He's telling us I'm
trying to shut this down He can't do it. He can't
do it. All right, brother We'll do this again
next week. We get to do this God, the world,
and other things. We get to do this. We'll be
back next week. Thanks for listening, everybody.