WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.620 Father, we honor you. Thank you for the privilege 00:00:02.620 --> 00:00:05.540 of what we get to do. We don't take it for granted, 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.400 Lord. Not any of this. Pray for our listeners 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:10.859 today and whenever they're going to be listening 00:00:10.859 --> 00:00:13.320 to this, wherever they find themselves, that 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:15.560 they would be encouraged, they would be lifted, 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:19.640 and Father, they would adopt this simple saying, 00:00:20.219 --> 00:00:23.140 we get to do this. Father, we do this in the 00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:26.059 name of Jesus and for your honor. Amen. Amen. 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.039 It's Wednesday January 28th 2026 we get to do 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:50.700 this this is episode number 20 We get to do this 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:54.280 brother we get to do it again 20 We're racking 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.500 them up. When did we start? I don't even remember 00:00:57.500 --> 00:00:58.920 when the first episode was. I don't. I'd have 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.439 to look at something. It's gone real fast. It 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.959 has gone fast. It's been such a pleasure. It's 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:06.799 been fun. It gets better every time. God, the 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.159 world, and other things. I wanted to get back 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.159 to that a little bit. Good. I'm in. This morning, 00:01:12.299 --> 00:01:15.079 you sent out your daily grind, which we've talked 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.500 about it several times. You write one every single 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:20.319 day. I've been doing it for 137 years. Give or 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:25.439 take. And it was beautiful, Proverbs 16, 24, 00:01:26.099 --> 00:01:28.659 gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness 00:01:28.659 --> 00:01:32.200 to the soul and health to the body. What was 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.939 interesting, my brother, is you sent two versions. 00:01:37.379 --> 00:01:40.939 Oh, I did. I sure did. You corrected, you said 00:01:40.939 --> 00:01:43.579 corrected and I went, hold on a second. You removed 00:01:43.579 --> 00:01:47.319 a piece. I did. Which was like super meta because 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:50.930 it was like, Do you mind if I just read the original 00:01:50.930 --> 00:01:53.810 version? And I'll tell you why I removed it. 00:01:53.829 --> 00:01:56.269 You probably caught it. Of course I did, because 00:01:56.269 --> 00:01:59.930 that really spoke to me. But I think I understand 00:01:59.930 --> 00:02:04.250 why you changed it and removed that. So it starts 00:02:04.250 --> 00:02:07.030 off, have you noticed how people are attracted 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:09.729 to those whose speech is consistently encouraging 00:02:09.729 --> 00:02:12.789 and life -giving? It's not difficult to gain 00:02:12.789 --> 00:02:15.430 attention or approval by exposing what is wrong 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:18.120 with everyone and everything around us. When 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.259 you choose to be gracious, joyful and hopeful 00:02:20.259 --> 00:02:22.319 with your words, it's like the sweetness of a 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.099 honeycomb to others. Today, choose your words 00:02:25.099 --> 00:02:27.379 wisely and release that which is sweetness to 00:02:27.379 --> 00:02:30.680 the soul and health to the body. Have an amazing 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:37.360 day on purpose." So the piece you removed was, 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.780 it's not difficult to gain attention or approval 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:42.419 by exposing what is wrong with everyone and everything 00:02:42.419 --> 00:02:47.199 around us. Actually, I'm so glad you sent me 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.159 the original version because that really centered 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.460 me for a second. Like, wow, I kind of do that 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:57.819 to some degree in my job. And it's kind of meta. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.840 The way I saw it is by, by even putting the sentence 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.759 in there, you were actually literally doing that, 00:03:04.860 --> 00:03:07.620 which you wanted not to do. Bingo. Is that, is 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:10.000 that what it was? That's why. So I posted this 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.939 on several platforms, probably four or five. 00:03:13.419 --> 00:03:17.039 And then all my text groups, you know, be some 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:18.979 of the men in the church. Good morning, brother. 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:24.000 Our staff, you and Tina and that, and then you 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.199 and me, we'd have our own thing. And as I was 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.259 doing that and just read back through it, I thought, 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.479 you know, you write something and then you come 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.560 back 40 minutes later, an hour later, and you've 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.780 got a different viewpoint, right? You've already 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:41.759 moved down the track. and I saw an inconsistency, 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.240 and the inconsistency was I was doing exactly 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.419 what I was saying don't do. I was talking about 00:03:47.419 --> 00:03:49.680 gracious words, but I'm so thankful I caught 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.639 that. And I was able to correct all that on platforms. 00:03:53.780 --> 00:03:55.580 That was no big deal. It had only been up for 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:58.699 a little bit, but it was just that reminder of 00:03:58.699 --> 00:04:01.860 how the Holy Spirit will sometimes tap you. and 00:04:01.860 --> 00:04:04.099 say, hey, hey, I want you to notice something 00:04:04.099 --> 00:04:05.879 the next time you read through it. And I caught 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.759 it immediately. What is so beautiful, thank you, 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:12.300 Holy Spirit. I got the original and I immediately... 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:15.340 It's because you have a green bubble. Green bubble 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:18.879 syndrome. I can't correct anything. Oh, that's 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.839 right. On an iPhone, it would have actually changed 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:22.160 and I wouldn't have noticed. I could have literally, 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:26.199 which I did to the guys. Green bubble, baby. 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.019 No, you can't cover any... police. You can't 00:04:29.019 --> 00:04:31.959 cover up anything with me. No, you can. You send 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.220 it. It's there. But it was so good because this 00:04:35.220 --> 00:04:39.379 is exactly what everybody's doing. Especially 00:04:39.379 --> 00:04:41.439 we have what's happening in Minneapolis, which 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.620 seems to dominate all news. It's like the Zapruder 00:04:45.620 --> 00:04:49.279 tape. We're going back and forth. Who shot JFK? 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.600 By the way, totally tragic. Everything about 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:58.170 it is tragic. It is. Before we can get back to 00:04:58.170 --> 00:05:00.670 the daily grind. I had to step back. It's like 00:05:00.670 --> 00:05:05.769 it used to be Shocking when you saw a movie with 00:05:05.769 --> 00:05:10.810 a murder or a killing of any kind and now in 00:05:10.810 --> 00:05:15.529 the span of two weeks We have two people who 00:05:15.529 --> 00:05:19.589 were killed by gunfire real, you know filmed 00:05:19.589 --> 00:05:23.329 on with by the way, you know video you never 00:05:23.329 --> 00:05:28.179 have a full awareness of the situation, but And 00:05:28.179 --> 00:05:31.420 only just a few months after Charlie Kirk, I 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:35.339 mean, this is affecting us in so many different 00:05:35.339 --> 00:05:40.300 ways. For sure, it's numbing us. It's completely 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:44.740 desensitizing us to it. And even worse, the algorithms 00:05:44.740 --> 00:05:47.759 on social media immediately pick up, oh, look 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.800 at this guy fighting, look at this person getting 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.220 shot, because it's, of course, these things happen 00:05:52.220 --> 00:06:00.480 in daily life. influencers and podcasters, they're 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.160 all, and that's what struck me is like, I'm also, 00:06:04.939 --> 00:06:07.160 part of what I do with No Agenda Certainly and 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:11.060 what we do often here is exposing what's wrong. 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.100 And it really set me back. I'm like, let's not 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:19.560 do that today. Let's look at what's good and 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.680 what's right and the things that are beautiful. 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.800 And I know the Holy Spirit gave me, you know, 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.699 made sure I ordered an iPhone, an Android phone 00:06:28.699 --> 00:06:30.980 months and months ago so that I would not get 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:35.360 the correct conversion completely. It's all to 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:39.560 make this happen. And I was just like, wow. And 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.879 I hope that people read this and they really 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.040 think about it for a second because it is just, 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.079 it's become our second nature. Like let's wake 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.829 up. what's happening, who said what, you know, 00:06:51.850 --> 00:06:55.310 who said what to who. The timelines are filled 00:06:55.310 --> 00:06:58.129 with, oh, here are all these people telling you 00:06:58.129 --> 00:07:01.829 how to poison ice and, you know, all this crazy 00:07:01.829 --> 00:07:06.230 stuff. I mean, broken doesn't even begin to describe 00:07:06.230 --> 00:07:10.850 it. It's beyond that. It's just, it's, and I 00:07:10.850 --> 00:07:15.970 was, what was I reading this morning? What was 00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:20.199 this? It was, this came through on the, on Pastor 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.839 Brian's... Oh, right. Men's thing. Yeah, what 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.360 is it? It's from Everyman Ministries, I think. 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.160 Yeah, Bridge Church, Men's Devo. Yeah, and it 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:49.519 was 2 Corinthians 7, 8 -10. Godly sorrow brings 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.579 repentance that leads to salvation and leaves 00:07:51.579 --> 00:07:55.060 no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. And 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:58.839 this is it. It's the worldly sorrow. And I think 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.480 we get stuck in that, man. We really get stuck 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.240 in it. It's painful. It takes us down. We call 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.300 it going down the rabbit hole right, down the 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:11.399 black hole. And it's so easy to do. Sensationalism 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.139 has just become the pastime, you know, the cultural 00:08:15.139 --> 00:08:18.420 pastime. to where we sensationalize everything. 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:23.240 Sadly, it drives clicks and comments and algorithms 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:29.699 and sponsors and all of that. I was talking to 00:08:29.699 --> 00:08:32.379 Pastor Brian earlier this morning about this, 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:36.799 that when we had the prior administration in 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:38.940 charge, there were so many outrageous things 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:44.039 happening. It needed to be addressed. people 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.559 like me, pastors, influencers, we were all saying, 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.820 whoa, whoa, enough's enough. This has gone off 00:08:48.820 --> 00:08:52.460 the cliff. We need to take a different tack to 00:08:52.460 --> 00:08:56.340 all this. And so it predicated that we needed 00:08:56.340 --> 00:08:58.419 to say something, but we're in a different season 00:08:58.419 --> 00:09:00.100 now. Now that doesn't mean we don't still need 00:09:00.100 --> 00:09:03.100 to say things. And it's not even what you say, 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:08.139 it's how you say. We need to be conscious and 00:09:08.139 --> 00:09:11.399 intentional with our words. That's why I've asked 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:15.039 you to write the weekly briefing now so that 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.940 I don't get up in the pulpit and pull a Donald 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:20.500 Trump and go off the script as much as I love 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:23.820 Donald Trump. Big, beautiful sanctuary. All you 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:28.419 people look so beautiful this morning. I can't 00:09:28.419 --> 00:09:31.220 even watch him do a speech. I love the man, but 00:09:31.220 --> 00:09:33.740 I cannot watch. It's too painful. It's like watching 00:09:33.740 --> 00:09:36.519 Texas Tech play and lose this playoff. I just 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.740 can't. And what did they lose? I'm out of touch. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.919 So I mean, they were doing great and off the 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.179 rails. I told my brother, I can't even watch 00:09:45.179 --> 00:09:48.600 it. You know, same thing. Yeah. So so that we've 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.320 got to be intentional with what we say, because 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.779 it's so much more how you say than what you say. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.940 So, you know, in podcast world, it's, you know, 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.500 breaking, breaking, breaking news, you know, 00:09:59.500 --> 00:10:02.220 alert. Nobody knows anything news alert alert, 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:05.279 you know. And it's just like, you know, we've 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.799 got the inside scoop and. And I get it. I understand 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.379 the game. I understand how it goes. I get all 00:10:11.379 --> 00:10:16.240 that. But at what cost are we doing those things? 00:10:16.580 --> 00:10:20.440 You know what I mean? As a believer, as someone 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:23.519 who says, I follow Jesus Christ. I've given my 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.480 life to him. But then I jump on a mic and I just 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:31.440 go completely contrary. I go down this track. 00:10:32.029 --> 00:10:35.350 Where now I'm saying things that are not in my 00:10:35.350 --> 00:10:37.590 character to say but I'm doing it because it's 00:10:37.590 --> 00:10:41.029 getting applause I came across because I've been 00:10:41.029 --> 00:10:42.809 thinking about this a lot of the others call 00:10:42.809 --> 00:10:47.029 them the the YouTube pastors I get it because 00:10:47.029 --> 00:10:49.330 I think there's a huge difference between doing 00:10:49.330 --> 00:10:54.049 audio which You know the word is meant to be 00:10:54.049 --> 00:10:56.470 heard. I mean there's ears to hear now I know 00:10:56.470 --> 00:10:59.309 there's also eyes to see theater of the mind 00:10:59.309 --> 00:11:03.379 though. Well What was I found? I was writing 00:11:03.379 --> 00:11:08.720 all this down. Instead, this is 2 Timothy 4, 00:11:09.059 --> 00:11:11.159 instead to suit their own desires that will gather 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:12.980 around them a great number of teachers to say 00:11:12.980 --> 00:11:15.440 what their itching ears want to hear. So that's 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.220 right there. Now that's just the ears part, but 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:24.620 then I see faithful people, not just pastors, 00:11:24.820 --> 00:11:28.039 but people who are preaching the gospel and they're 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.419 so hell -bent, if I can just use that in this 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:39.100 context, on doing video. And what hit me was 00:11:39.100 --> 00:11:43.200 Matthew 6, 1, be careful not to practice your 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.080 righteousness in front of others to be seen by 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.879 them. They will have no reward from your Father 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.639 in heaven. I really, I'm like, you know, Isn't 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:54.799 everything you do on video, isn't it kind of 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.700 performative? I mean, you're doing lighting, 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:01.659 you're making sure you look good. It's so different 00:12:01.659 --> 00:12:04.080 to me. It is different. It really just feels 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:06.700 wrong. Well, you have a different sense of consciousness. 00:12:07.059 --> 00:12:10.740 You have more self -consciousness if you know 00:12:10.740 --> 00:12:13.580 you're being seen as opposed to being heard. 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.340 Right. You know, I'm not sitting here fluffing 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:17.940 my hair. I'm wearing headphones. I'm going to 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:19.940 have like a big thing through my hair after. 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:23.669 I could care less. but because I'm not being 00:12:23.669 --> 00:12:27.129 seen, sort of. But you know what I mean. I do. 00:12:27.350 --> 00:12:32.129 And so it changes the way you say what you say. 00:12:32.330 --> 00:12:34.450 It changes even the way you process and think. 00:12:35.610 --> 00:12:38.549 You know, we tried, we did video for a while. 00:12:39.529 --> 00:12:42.690 We did a few with Annette. We brought some guests 00:12:42.690 --> 00:12:45.549 in, did some things. It was fun. I enjoyed it. 00:12:45.610 --> 00:12:50.100 But to be honest, I wasn't as relaxed. I wasn't 00:12:50.100 --> 00:12:52.460 in my own head space like I am now where I'm 00:12:52.460 --> 00:12:55.639 not worried about, you know, micro expressions 00:12:55.639 --> 00:13:00.100 and various things, nuances. So I see a lot of 00:13:00.100 --> 00:13:02.419 my friends in ministry, good friends, people 00:13:02.419 --> 00:13:07.000 I would call dear friends that seem to be, I 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.539 call it prefab housing. Remember the Truman show? 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.139 Of course. Every house was the same on the block. 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.940 You know, you look down the neighborhood, everyone's 00:13:14.940 --> 00:13:19.679 prefabricated. And a lot of times we can dive 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:24.059 off into prefabricated mentalities, ways of thinking, 00:13:25.259 --> 00:13:28.360 constructs. You know, because all my friends 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.759 are thinking this way, instead of me thinking, 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.240 it's a lot easier to just think like them. I 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.940 can park my brain and just jump into a prefabricated 00:13:36.940 --> 00:13:40.299 construct. mentality thinking, whether it's about 00:13:40.299 --> 00:13:43.399 politics or culture or scripture or theology, 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.200 it's just a lot easier to not have to think. 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:49.340 It's a lot easier to just grab somebody else's 00:13:49.340 --> 00:13:51.700 thoughts and roll with it and jump on the bandwagon, 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:54.519 the proverbial bandwagon. And now I'm just playing 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.720 that tune. It's harder to actually be someone 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.419 who's willing to think different and think through 00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:05.549 things. outside of those constructs. And what 00:14:05.549 --> 00:14:07.809 I hear every single time, because I have these 00:14:07.809 --> 00:14:09.789 conversations with all kinds of different people, 00:14:10.169 --> 00:14:13.789 and I think that there's valid reasons for people 00:14:13.789 --> 00:14:17.850 doing video, you know, if it's really a visual 00:14:17.850 --> 00:14:21.250 type of thing, but you know, whenever I make 00:14:21.250 --> 00:14:24.929 clips, because I make clips, I have the recording, 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:29.129 like a YouTube, and it's usually some news report, 00:14:29.570 --> 00:14:32.480 and I'll be watching, I'll record it, and then 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.200 I go and edit it and sometimes not even sometimes 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.299 during the edit but sometimes it won't be until 00:14:37.299 --> 00:14:39.779 I actually play that clip that I went oh wow 00:14:39.779 --> 00:14:44.000 I never heard that I never because I was you're 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.860 always distracted by the visuals right true um 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:53.399 uh what did I have here I had another I just 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.480 wrote down all these different things in preparation 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:59.419 today so faith comes by hearing and hearing the 00:14:59.419 --> 00:15:02.879 Word of God, Romans 10, 17. Just all these things 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:07.259 it telling me like, seems like the video was 00:15:07.259 --> 00:15:11.360 really a distraction. It's just, it's pulling 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:19.200 away from things. And I don't know what it is, 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.919 but it's really bothering me. It's bothering 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:24.059 me. Like, what do you hope people do? It's like, 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.480 well, you'll get more viewers. And I've learned 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:32.500 to say, God doesn't care about size. If He wants 00:15:32.500 --> 00:15:35.320 to scale something, He'll scale it. That's true. 00:15:35.580 --> 00:15:38.399 It's like, why are you going for that? And the 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.480 reason I bring this up is because we've got some 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.820 beautiful emails to share. Oh, wonderful. And 00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:46.399 so, you know, we've always figured we're doing 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.580 this for Bridge Church and the people who go 00:15:48.580 --> 00:15:50.220 to Bridge Church. Anyone else who hears it, it's 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:55.580 all going to be a plus. This is from Jody. I 00:15:55.580 --> 00:15:57.379 just want to send you an email. I found the new 00:15:57.379 --> 00:16:00.159 podcast. I'm loving it. This is us, of course. 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.419 Here recently, I've moved away from the day -to 00:16:03.419 --> 00:16:05.480 -day news. I'm trying to focus more on the things 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.500 of heaven. The Lord gave me a verse a few months 00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:10.840 ago, Romans 16, 9, but I want you to be wise 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.899 about what is good and innocent about what is 00:16:12.899 --> 00:16:15.500 evil. It really spoke to my inner conspiracy 00:16:15.500 --> 00:16:19.779 theorizing. It was also heavy and I really needed 00:16:19.779 --> 00:16:23.220 more biblical armor. So to find out about the 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:29.000 new podcast, I was stoked. And she says, she's 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:31.460 talking about me, of course, but it is about 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:33.340 our show because she says very specifically, 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.700 please say hi to Pastor Jimmy. I can hear the 00:16:36.700 --> 00:16:38.620 faithfulness and eagerness to learn and be loved 00:16:38.620 --> 00:16:43.159 by Jesus. It makes my heart so happy. These are 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.639 coming in one after another right now, one after 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:52.080 another. Brian, I'm leaving everyone's last name. 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:54.899 I don't know if they, it's okay. I love how we 00:16:54.899 --> 00:16:57.139 get to do this is a little news and then actually 00:16:57.139 --> 00:16:59.659 a sermon as well. And I love to hear about your 00:16:59.659 --> 00:17:02.679 walk. I've been a Christian my whole life. Well, 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.329 sort of. Because, well, the parable of the seeds, 00:17:06.470 --> 00:17:08.509 some in the path, some in the rock, some in the 00:17:08.509 --> 00:17:10.430 thorns, and finally some in the fertile soil 00:17:10.430 --> 00:17:13.009 is my story. And at some point in my life, I 00:17:13.009 --> 00:17:15.210 had been every one of those seeds. My walk is 00:17:15.210 --> 00:17:18.569 now truly strong and growing. And we get to do 00:17:18.569 --> 00:17:20.809 this is going to be in addition to my podcast. 00:17:21.390 --> 00:17:25.269 I mean, this kind of feedback makes me so happy 00:17:25.269 --> 00:17:31.079 that, I mean, it's just insane. Well, I mean, 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.160 it just goes on and on. So many people are saying 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:34.359 that. I love that. Thanks for sharing that, Adam, 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:37.480 because that prayer we open up with is always, 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.299 we're not just praying for us, we're praying 00:17:39.299 --> 00:17:42.400 for those that will hear this, that there will 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.880 just be this open communication, this open receptivity 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.779 to the good news, because it is good news. It's 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:51.579 not okay news. It's not so -so news. It's good 00:17:51.579 --> 00:17:55.980 news. It's good news, yeah. We had this big ice 00:17:55.980 --> 00:18:01.930 storm here in Texas. The whole message was pre 00:18:01.930 --> 00:18:05.450 -recorded in the worship team, and you did the 00:18:05.450 --> 00:18:09.089 communion. It's a communion that you're doing 00:18:09.089 --> 00:18:15.230 by yourself. It's a union? That must have been 00:18:15.230 --> 00:18:18.230 so weird to do that. It wasn't too bad because 00:18:18.230 --> 00:18:21.930 we were trained, unfortunately, by COVID, where 00:18:21.930 --> 00:18:25.940 we did 11 weeks like that in a row. Now, we didn't 00:18:25.940 --> 00:18:28.480 pre -record. We came up and did the service live 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:33.019 in real time. But just doing to a completely 00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:37.599 vacant auditorium. Empty. Yeah. Like I said, 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.180 at first, when we started COVID, doing it during 00:18:40.180 --> 00:18:42.400 that time, we were forced to do that for a while. 00:18:42.940 --> 00:18:45.180 And then we decided not to be forced to do anything. 00:18:45.220 --> 00:18:50.700 We quit doing it. But it trains you. So I told 00:18:50.700 --> 00:18:53.299 our team, this is not new for us. We've been 00:18:53.299 --> 00:18:55.740 down this track before. And so what we're going 00:18:55.740 --> 00:18:59.420 to need to do is go in and Faith will put it 00:18:59.420 --> 00:19:02.900 all together. So we did it all in segments. And 00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:06.220 Faith is just so good. She just edited all that, 00:19:06.420 --> 00:19:10.099 created transitions. I was more concerned about 00:19:10.099 --> 00:19:12.819 Brian because it was his week to preach and he's 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:15.599 never done that before and he likes feedback. 00:19:16.779 --> 00:19:20.099 I presume all pastors like feedback. If you're 00:19:20.099 --> 00:19:23.319 not getting an amen or something from the sanctuary. 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.440 When I was younger that would make me very insecure 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.240 and I'd have to do something, you know, like 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:32.859 a seal, you know, balancing a ball on my nose 00:19:32.859 --> 00:19:35.140 or something, you know, to get reaction. I don't 00:19:35.140 --> 00:19:37.259 do that anymore, but I can hopefully outgrew 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:39.640 that. but I knew it would be hard on him. And 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.140 he did fantastic. And the whole team, the worship, 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.460 we were going to have worship practice on Thursday 00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:47.980 night anyway, before the storm hit. So I said, 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:51.440 hey, just don't show up in your pajamas. We're 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:54.619 going to record this. And everybody showed up 00:19:54.619 --> 00:19:58.400 gray, ready to go. And it just... That was one 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.619 of our better worship sets, not because we were 00:20:00.619 --> 00:20:02.460 being filmed, but because we were all in the 00:20:02.460 --> 00:20:06.619 moment. It was good. It was. Well, and our friend 00:20:06.619 --> 00:20:10.980 Brent put his mojo spank on the sound. Amazing. 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:12.759 That's the best it's ever sounded. The only thing 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.519 that I forgot to tell Faith is like, remember 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:20.839 to trigger Hello Fred to go live. Well, she was 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:22.579 doing it from home, I guess. Was she streaming 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:25.880 it from home? Boxcast did a live stream thing 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.000 for churches that were Showing video. Yeah. Yeah, 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:30.859 which was a real nice thing. They did. Yeah, 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.359 I know that she had all their settings here I'm 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.500 like, ah, and I'm like see can I patch this in 00:20:37.500 --> 00:20:41.920 real quick? She was trying yes She was all good. 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.440 You came through. Yeah big time. It was really 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.619 really good. It was fantastic Thank you. It was 00:20:46.619 --> 00:20:49.200 I enjoyed it because I got to sit in a different 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.039 seat. Yes through the whole thing So it was good 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.740 for me and we came back on Tuesday for staff 00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:58.000 meeting and we unpacked the whole thing and just 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.900 said, what did we learn from this? And we took 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:02.380 notes, you know, we learned some things and so 00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:07.380 it was good. And, you know, what was adopt, adapt 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:09.740 and overcome. There it is, adapt and overcome. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.640 So yeah, it was a privilege to do it. Do you 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.680 have the air conditioning remote control here 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.779 by any chance? I do not. It's because you're 00:21:17.779 --> 00:21:20.559 wearing a hoodie. I know, I know. I wanted to 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:23.819 represent as always with my iron. It was 27 degrees 00:21:23.819 --> 00:21:27.140 outside when I woke up this morning. No, it's 00:21:27.140 --> 00:21:32.740 going to be 56 today. So. Yes. No, I'm just saying 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:38.700 so. What's next? Well, we both read this this 00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:45.119 article about how. I think this article calls 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:54.799 it The Machine, which kind of started in 2007, 00:21:54.940 --> 00:21:59.519 2008. And I'll put it in the show notes. The 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.619 person who wrote this thesis has all this data 00:22:02.619 --> 00:22:06.640 about how men and women, and it's not just America, 00:22:06.740 --> 00:22:10.859 it's global, have really separated in their values. 00:22:11.339 --> 00:22:17.319 or women going very, very liberal, almost anti 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:20.539 -man in a way, because of this whole machine 00:22:20.539 --> 00:22:25.079 that started with smartphones and algorithms 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:30.859 that completely target women in such an evil 00:22:30.859 --> 00:22:39.119 way, in particular women, by really pushing them 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:43.119 towards Being in the group a hundred percent 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:47.900 empathy You you you cannot at any point have 00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:50.839 any other opinion and when I thought about it 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:53.680 You may remember more than I do, but when I thought 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.200 about us like it's not just the phones. It's 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.880 not just the algorithms It's the entire culture 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:03.660 this road caster is crapping a little bit The 00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:06.400 entire culture has been geared towards this and 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.640 I'm like how Lord how do we? do something about 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:14.079 this. Again, we're back to prefab thinking. It's 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:17.559 prefabricated. If you want to belong to this 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:19.619 group, these are the things you need to espouse. 00:23:19.660 --> 00:23:21.240 These are the things you need to talk about, 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.660 and you'll be in the group. I mean, you go back 00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:25.779 to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what's the number 00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:28.720 one thing? Belonging. Everybody wants to fit 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.200 into a group. You want to go to a place where 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:32.980 everybody knows your name, where that song came 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:36.460 from. Cheers. But they were playing on something 00:23:36.460 --> 00:23:39.170 that's real. And that is this need to connect, 00:23:39.250 --> 00:23:41.670 need to belong. It's important. Are you hearing 00:23:41.670 --> 00:23:44.430 that snap? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll just pretend 00:23:44.430 --> 00:23:46.809 it's not there. Not today, Satan. Oh, by the 00:23:46.809 --> 00:23:48.569 way, we got construction going on. There's drills 00:23:48.569 --> 00:23:50.890 running out. Oh, yeah, of course. It all matters. 00:23:51.089 --> 00:23:54.069 It's always something. But anyway, this prefabricated 00:23:54.069 --> 00:23:56.910 thinking, this falls right back into it. And 00:23:56.910 --> 00:23:59.190 there's such a need for connection and belonging. 00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:02.450 Yes. And even more so than women, or at least 00:24:02.450 --> 00:24:04.130 they're more verbal about it. I think we're the 00:24:04.130 --> 00:24:06.240 same. We just don't say anything about it. More 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:09.859 to ourselves. Yeah. But definitely. And so these 00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:12.299 algos, this article was fantastic, by the way. 00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:14.660 I was immersed in it. I showed it to Annette 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:16.559 and we were both like, yeah, this is exactly 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.200 what's happening. Interesting thing is it's not 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.759 just American, though. This is what one of the 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.319 discoveries in the article was. This is global. 00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:28.980 Yeah. That women are more susceptible to this. 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:31.660 And, you know, the emotions, the tugging on the 00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:34.559 heartstrings, the So you look at the outrage 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:36.519 you're hearing and the raging you're hearing, 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:38.299 and you look at a lot of these protests, even 00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:42.279 in Minneapolis, look who's there. Yeah. And droves. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.819 And that's what kind of, not freaked me out, 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:51.000 but I'm like, man, people aren't even aware of 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.400 what, I mean, I see people saying things on social 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:59.690 media, women in particular. I'm like, you can 00:24:59.690 --> 00:25:01.670 actually be arrested for the things you're saying. 00:25:01.769 --> 00:25:05.849 You're making unbelievable threats. And the fact 00:25:05.849 --> 00:25:10.470 that they're oblivious to it is concerning. And 00:25:10.470 --> 00:25:14.630 I guess the only thing you can do is tell people 00:25:14.630 --> 00:25:17.410 or ask them, are you aware of what you're actually 00:25:17.410 --> 00:25:19.609 doing and what's actually happening? I just feel 00:25:19.609 --> 00:25:22.819 compelled. I'm like every single time so because 00:25:22.819 --> 00:25:24.599 of course people send me these videos all the 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:26.859 time like, you know I'm not gonna play this as 00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:30.220 a clip. It's just completely But I just pray 00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:32.359 I'm like, oh, please help this person. There 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:35.299 you go. There's your trigger It's trigger is 00:25:35.299 --> 00:25:38.880 to pray for humankind because the world it's 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:40.279 always been bad We were talking about some of 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:42.720 the period pieces. We're watching right now some 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.079 of the period series Yes that are on they're 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.380 fascinating. Yeah, one of the revelations for 00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:50.640 both of us you mentioned this is that Human nature 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:55.299 hasn't changed at all. It's the same song 300th 00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:58.779 verse Where we keep going around these same mountains 00:25:58.779 --> 00:26:02.420 we keep getting in these same These same issues 00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:05.680 of flesh less of the flesh less of the eyes, 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.900 you know greed all those things It just happens 00:26:08.900 --> 00:26:12.160 over and over cyclical. So human nature is not 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.700 changing globally and The tragedy is if you don't 00:26:16.700 --> 00:26:20.160 have any sense of self -awareness You'll get 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.920 hooked like a fish, you know, and you'll go right 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:25.819 down the same track. And that's what we're seeing. 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.359 And when we see these derangement videos, you 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:31.720 know, it was Karen there for a while now. They've 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:35.559 morphed into the super Karen. Yeah. And it's 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:38.420 wild to watch. It's heartbreaking though. It 00:26:38.420 --> 00:26:40.759 hurts my heart to see. I don't laugh at those. 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:43.259 I did maybe at first, just because it was so, 00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:45.700 what did we just see? It gets to the point now 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:47.819 where people will play this like, look at this. 00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:52.259 And I'm like, I'm sad. I'm just sad. And people 00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:56.240 look at me like, what? Don't you get it? Say, 00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:59.740 yeah, I get it. Exactly. This is the problem. 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:07.960 2 .0, brother. 2 .0. Adam, 2 .0. But anyway, 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:12.019 it is clear that the less You allow yourself, 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:15.640 and algorithms get men in a certain track as 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.180 well. There's all kinds of issues there. You 00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:21.000 look at my Instagram, it's surfing videos, like 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:24.200 just bombarding. Mega waves, you know, Indonesia. 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:27.279 Oh really, that's your algo? I know, that and 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.519 motorcycles. or Red Bull videos of guys doing 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.180 stupid stuff. Yeah, climbing crazy stuff. Climbing 00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:35.759 up towers. Yeah, jumping motorcycles off ski 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.079 jumps. Why not? That's my stuff. And guitars. 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:43.380 But it is truly, it's just every day it's a reminder. 00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:47.220 It's like, just put down the screen. You have 00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:50.039 to have such self -discipline to do this. I mean, 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:54.339 because I've turned off every notification. It 00:27:54.339 --> 00:27:56.700 actually wasn't on silent then when I came in 00:27:56.700 --> 00:28:00.119 here to do a show, I heard it binging away. But 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.859 just, you know, it's hard though. It's hard not 00:28:03.859 --> 00:28:06.259 to go, oh, click, click, click, click, click. 00:28:06.339 --> 00:28:09.220 Let me do my round of apps, taking the apps off. 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:14.799 But it's really, and I think everybody can feel 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:17.960 this when you're being sucked in and it's like 00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:20.559 click, click, click, click. The phone actually 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:22.670 should be. should be beeping at you. You know, 00:28:22.690 --> 00:28:24.170 like when you're in the car and you're doing, 00:28:24.430 --> 00:28:26.950 you go over the speed limit and it'll go, you 00:28:26.950 --> 00:28:28.750 know, and everyone turns that off. Of course, 00:28:28.849 --> 00:28:31.150 it doesn't have to be in his car. If I look in 00:28:31.150 --> 00:28:34.789 the mirror, it says you're moved your head off 00:28:34.789 --> 00:28:37.130 of it. I mean, it's got a camera. I don't want 00:28:37.130 --> 00:28:39.950 to put a piece of tape on the road. This is ridiculous. 00:28:40.349 --> 00:28:42.710 You're slumping. Sit up. I mean, he'll tell me 00:28:42.710 --> 00:28:44.769 that. And I'm like, I don't like your car. That's 00:28:44.769 --> 00:28:47.670 a little extreme. It is very. But what you're 00:28:47.670 --> 00:28:50.859 saying is so spot on. This is important. Because 00:28:50.859 --> 00:28:55.799 again, you can lead or be led. You know, there's 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:58.359 not a lot of in between there. And leading, I'm 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:00.539 talking about the micro choices we make every 00:29:00.539 --> 00:29:03.500 day. The micro, not the big epic stuff, you know, 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:05.940 that gets all the press. But I'm talking about 00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:10.000 the micro choices that all of us make on an ongoing 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.700 basis. And we make thousands of them a day. And 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.799 a lot of them are subconscious, you know, not 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.960 always. You know, we're doing things autopilot. 00:29:19.230 --> 00:29:22.089 But this chasing dopamine and all that, that 00:29:22.089 --> 00:29:25.609 just takes you down this track. Because it feels 00:29:25.609 --> 00:29:28.250 good when people applaud. It feels good when 00:29:28.250 --> 00:29:30.450 somebody jumps on your comment. You're like, 00:29:30.549 --> 00:29:33.730 oh my gosh, I got more comments on my comment 00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:35.690 than you did on your actual piece. You know what 00:29:35.690 --> 00:29:39.970 I mean? We start to live for things that have 00:29:39.970 --> 00:29:44.849 no value whatsoever. Exactly. And we become the 00:29:44.849 --> 00:29:47.619 tool. We're getting used. And meanwhile, we're 00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:49.880 missing all the fantastic things that are taking 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:52.460 place in our world. We're missing the God, the 00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:55.380 world and other things. We're missing all of 00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:59.319 the big picture stuff, which is phenomenal what 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:01.400 is taking place. I mean, no one's even talking 00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:04.900 about Greenland anymore. Not that that was really 00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:07.980 actually the president Trump, the Trump I call 00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:13.839 him now. He has an uncanny business sense of 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:18.539 how to Focus people on something while he's doing 00:30:18.539 --> 00:30:21.339 something else over here, and then he says oh, 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.240 yeah That's exactly what I wanted because he 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:25.960 gets it man. It's getting worse. He gets exactly 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:28.940 what what he wants But then in the background 00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:33.599 he's doing the the board of peace Which is this 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.880 is gonna has that gotten any press whatsoever 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:38.500 very little it's only like well You know you 00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:40.480 got to play a billion dollars. Do you know how 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.390 much? The United States pays the United Nations 00:30:43.390 --> 00:30:46.450 that we support. It's an unbelievable amount 00:30:46.450 --> 00:30:52.089 of money. So I think there's 21 countries now 00:30:52.089 --> 00:30:54.809 and it's growing every single day and it's real 00:30:54.809 --> 00:31:00.910 arch enemies. President Netanyahu has been asked, 00:31:00.910 --> 00:31:04.369 he's joined. President Putin will be joining, 00:31:04.450 --> 00:31:11.160 but also leaders from Saudi Arabia, United Arab 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:17.960 Emirates, Qatar, Hungary, of course, the European 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.740 Union. Now that's interesting because everyone's 00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:24.480 been invited and they're all like, well, the 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:27.319 president of Finland is like, well, I can't just 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:29.759 join because this would be a parliamentary thing 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.900 and we have to get approval from the Starfleet 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:35.940 command, et cetera, et cetera. But the idea that 00:31:35.940 --> 00:31:39.200 instead of having a big, beautiful building in 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:41.980 New York and having all these meetings and round 00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:44.880 tables and all this different stuff, that instead 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.180 we sit down and try to solve things from a business 00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:51.140 economic perspective, like how do we all help 00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:54.660 each other and work together? This is what the 00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:57.259 president has said. He says, I believe America 00:31:57.259 --> 00:32:00.960 will reunite when we have success as a people. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.880 And I'm hoping he's right. I am too. But once 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:07.380 everyone feels better about their life, about 00:32:07.380 --> 00:32:12.359 their city, about their economic position, which 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.420 I truly believe we're going to see some big changes 00:32:15.420 --> 00:32:19.640 because all these tax benefits are kicking in 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:23.720 this year. And you'll see people taking less 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.500 withholding from their paychecks, which is money 00:32:26.500 --> 00:32:30.299 straight into your pocket right away. What he's 00:32:30.299 --> 00:32:32.960 doing with And I know I sound like a fanboy, 00:32:33.099 --> 00:32:36.180 but I am a fan of what he's doing. I am. I call 00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:39.000 it as I see it. I'm a fan of what works. Exactly. 00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:44.640 I could care less. CW Miller came up to me a 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.099 couple of weeks ago, and he just went off and 00:32:47.099 --> 00:32:50.079 he said, you know, I don't care about his tweets. 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.680 I don't care about his hair. I don't care about 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:57.049 his complexion. He said, America needs a leader 00:32:57.049 --> 00:32:59.450 who will lead, who will be decisive and will 00:32:59.450 --> 00:33:01.430 get it done and do what they, and then he said, 00:33:01.650 --> 00:33:04.009 that's what he's doing, but no one seems to be 00:33:04.009 --> 00:33:07.269 looking at that. They're looking at all the ancillary 00:33:07.269 --> 00:33:10.589 things, the silly things. And I said, there are 00:33:10.589 --> 00:33:12.589 narratives out there that are designed for that. 00:33:12.690 --> 00:33:15.769 There's algos in the digital world, but there's 00:33:15.769 --> 00:33:20.170 another algo rhythm in the cultural world, behavioral 00:33:20.170 --> 00:33:25.279 world and the thinking. The mob think all of 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:28.740 that is happening too. So, you know, it's not 00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:31.640 popular to talk about that. It's not a water 00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:35.720 cooler discussion to say, can you believe what 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.039 he just did? How amazing that is. We should all 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:40.220 try it from time to time. I'm saying we should 00:33:40.220 --> 00:33:43.299 be operating some gracious speech. And what I 00:33:43.299 --> 00:33:47.420 tend to do is I say, did you see what Secretary 00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:50.539 Rubio did? Because he's really running the board 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:54.529 of peace. Great memes about him, by the way, 00:33:54.970 --> 00:33:57.089 with the multiple hats. He's the general of every 00:33:57.089 --> 00:34:01.829 country. And, you know, we were talking about, 00:34:02.049 --> 00:34:03.809 we're all kind of watching these period pieces 00:34:03.809 --> 00:34:06.109 right now. We kind of went in reverse. We started 00:34:06.109 --> 00:34:10.030 with the Gilded Age, then went to Downton Abbey, 00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:14.429 then went to Victoria, had a little detour on 00:34:14.429 --> 00:34:17.050 Death by Lightning, which is about President 00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:21.210 Garfield. And now we're watching The Crown. And 00:34:21.210 --> 00:34:22.550 you're going to have to pick up the Empress. 00:34:23.289 --> 00:34:25.190 I've thought about you. We're going to do the 00:34:25.190 --> 00:34:29.789 Empress. That'll be next. But the crown, not 00:34:29.789 --> 00:34:32.409 only have I met this queen that it's about most 00:34:32.409 --> 00:34:37.130 of the time in her older days, I went to Buckingham 00:34:37.130 --> 00:34:39.349 Palace. I went through these gates and everything. 00:34:39.630 --> 00:34:42.570 I went, but I didn't get to go in. I was a tourist. 00:34:43.710 --> 00:34:45.869 They opened the gates for me, Pastor Jimmy. Like, 00:34:45.989 --> 00:34:51.090 welcome, sir. Funny enough, They picked me up 00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:53.289 into Mercedes, which is just so unbelievable 00:34:53.289 --> 00:34:56.710 for not to have a British car to bring me. But 00:34:56.710 --> 00:35:00.690 anyway. A lot of German influence there. They're 00:35:00.690 --> 00:35:04.210 all Germans. Exactly. But the whole thing, certainly 00:35:04.210 --> 00:35:08.389 in the 19th century, up until now we're Princess 00:35:08.389 --> 00:35:13.050 Diana, 87, 88. And I was very aware of what was 00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:16.050 happening. I lived in Europe. I'd been to London 00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:19.210 several times before that. The royal family. 00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:25.840 seemed to only care about appearances. And particularly 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:29.619 underneath the Queen, it's like, well, you got 00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:32.340 more press than I did, and look at what the news, 00:35:32.380 --> 00:35:35.039 and it's all, it's the same thing as today. Only 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.480 there it's newspapers. Look at what the Daily 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.179 Telegraph said. Look what the Times said. Oh, 00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:45.619 this is, it was just all about appearances, everything. 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.239 And it's kind of really disappointing. Like, 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.639 you know, and they, well, I care about the Commonwealth 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:56.380 and our constituents. No, you don't. You care 00:35:56.380 --> 00:36:01.039 about your own ego, says the lady who is supposed 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:04.300 to be the connection between God and the Anglican 00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:07.960 Church. Yeah, that's another conversation. Yeah, 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.980 it's just… And I just look at that, I'm like, 00:36:11.980 --> 00:36:16.119 we have had nothing but examples for this. In 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:19.980 a way, President Trump hurts us because he is 00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:22.820 all about making the headline and he does it 00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:27.099 on purpose. In a way. At least he tells you what 00:36:27.099 --> 00:36:29.460 he's doing. I mean, there's nothing hidden here. 00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:31.400 Well, it's in parables though. It's still kind 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.739 of a parable because he'll go on and on and on 00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:38.219 about all these other countries and they let 00:36:38.219 --> 00:36:43.139 people out of jail and insane asylums. And he 00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:45.500 says it so much. And so often I went back and 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:48.840 looked at this. And then when you look at what's 00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:52.139 actually happened, it's true that there's been 00:36:52.139 --> 00:36:55.599 a whole organization of countries, South American 00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.059 countries, who have literally done this as a 00:36:59.059 --> 00:37:03.460 tactic to take over America from inside. And 00:37:03.460 --> 00:37:07.900 they've done this in collusion with some political 00:37:07.900 --> 00:37:11.559 organizations. specifically, Democrat Socialists 00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:15.699 of America. There's documented evidence of this. 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.239 They're not even shy about saying it. It's true. 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.139 But because the president has said this over 00:37:21.139 --> 00:37:25.420 and over and over again, without any kind of 00:37:25.420 --> 00:37:29.480 further explanation, even I was completely desensitized. 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.940 And I'm like, OK, I got it. But it's actually 00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:39.309 true. And it's just mind boggling to me. how 00:37:39.309 --> 00:37:43.090 he sometimes doesn't help with the way he does. 00:37:43.150 --> 00:37:45.329 The thing is, he's so honest. Maybe this is it. 00:37:45.329 --> 00:37:48.949 We're so used to people covering up the truth 00:37:48.949 --> 00:37:51.630 when they speak publicly, particularly in leadership 00:37:51.630 --> 00:37:55.190 roles. I agree. That we forget that he's actually 00:37:55.190 --> 00:37:57.210 just telling you exactly like it is. Isn't that 00:37:57.210 --> 00:37:58.869 crazy though? It is. Yeah, we don't know what 00:37:58.869 --> 00:38:01.030 to do with him. We don't know what to do with 00:38:01.030 --> 00:38:03.750 the truth. It's cringeworthy. Yeah, you're exactly 00:38:03.750 --> 00:38:05.929 right. We don't because we're not used to seeing 00:38:05.929 --> 00:38:08.420 somebody that open, that transparent. especially 00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:12.159 at that level. My takeaway is we have to remember 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:14.260 this. We have to remember that he's actually 00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:17.739 telling the truth and that we just forget that. 00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:20.699 Well, everything he's been doing, I can't say 00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:23.980 everything, but most everything he's done, it 00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:26.679 ends up being the right thing. It just, you look 00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:28.440 down the line, it's kind of like Queen Victoria. 00:38:28.619 --> 00:38:31.280 I remember, you know, her Albert was like, Am 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.119 I getting, I've watched so many period pieces. 00:38:33.179 --> 00:38:34.760 I'm going to get them all mixed up. You're doing 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.039 good. Queen Victoria, her husband, you know, 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:39.079 remember he kept trying to do different things 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:40.980 and then it would come back to she was right 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:44.019 after all. Yes. She was right after all. And 00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:45.780 he kept bucking it. That's kind of like marriage, 00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:48.880 modern marriage. In general. I always come back 00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:51.380 to Annette. Your wife is always right. Yes. I 00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:53.440 can't believe I haven't learned that by now. 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.900 You were right. And so yeah, that happens a lot. 00:38:57.099 --> 00:39:00.230 But that idea that He may actually know what 00:39:00.230 --> 00:39:05.210 he's doing. Oh, totally. He totally knows what 00:39:05.210 --> 00:39:07.130 he's doing. That's what I'm saying. And he's 00:39:07.130 --> 00:39:10.909 been saying this for 30 years. You go back, he's 00:39:10.909 --> 00:39:13.510 been saying the same stuff over and over and 00:39:13.510 --> 00:39:18.610 over again. But he has broken something, this 00:39:18.610 --> 00:39:21.469 Davos thing. Something broke, something really 00:39:21.469 --> 00:39:25.019 changed. in what they call the liberal rules 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:29.619 -based order, i .e. globalism. And all these 00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:31.300 other leaders are saying it. And now they're 00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:34.199 all off like, well, we don't need America. We're 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:36.980 going to do a trade deal with the South American 00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:39.679 countries. That's the EU with the Mercursor deal. 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:44.980 Keir Starmer just went to China with executives 00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:49.920 from GlaxoSmithKline and Range Rover. And we're 00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:51.949 going to do a deal. And our president's like, 00:39:52.050 --> 00:39:54.670 yeah, you should. You should do a deal. By the 00:39:54.670 --> 00:39:57.570 way, it's such a misconception. I still hear 00:39:57.570 --> 00:40:01.230 lots of podcasts about, well, the CCP, the CCP 00:40:01.230 --> 00:40:04.309 and the Chinese Communist Party, and they're 00:40:04.309 --> 00:40:05.809 going to, you know, they're sending all these 00:40:05.809 --> 00:40:07.809 people in, they're going to take over our country, 00:40:08.289 --> 00:40:11.769 military age, man. I'd like people to understand 00:40:11.769 --> 00:40:17.000 that we are China's customer. We are definitely 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:20.619 in bad together. And they would never want to 00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:23.019 hurt their customer. We're their best customer. 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:27.400 We are. Best price. Yep. And so you remember 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.920 the National Security Strategy document that 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:33.199 we discussed? Yes. Guess what? A new document 00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:35.900 dropped. Oh, really? It's also only about 35 00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:38.320 pages. Everybody can read it. It's in pure English. 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:44.510 This is the National Defense strategy. And I'll 00:40:44.510 --> 00:40:46.409 just summarize it because it's not what you think 00:40:46.409 --> 00:40:50.369 it would be. One, Fortress America. We're protecting 00:40:50.369 --> 00:40:53.670 ourselves. This is, of course, part of the Golden 00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:57.150 Dome, whatever that is, but it'll be something. 00:40:57.329 --> 00:41:01.150 It'll be big and beautiful. But it's also putting 00:41:01.150 --> 00:41:05.110 China down a couple notches. We're not going 00:41:05.110 --> 00:41:08.090 to go and be all freaked out about China if China 00:41:08.090 --> 00:41:11.190 wants to take over It's really about Taiwan because 00:41:11.190 --> 00:41:14.329 all semiconductor chips basically still come 00:41:14.329 --> 00:41:17.070 from Taiwan. The president has started building 00:41:17.070 --> 00:41:19.369 our own capacity here. That will take a while. 00:41:19.929 --> 00:41:23.929 But ultimately, okay, so if China decides, you 00:41:23.929 --> 00:41:25.409 know, we just want to show everybody that this 00:41:25.409 --> 00:41:28.969 really is ours, and there's lots of arguments 00:41:28.969 --> 00:41:31.289 to say that it is, but it's not even our argument 00:41:31.289 --> 00:41:33.750 to have. What, they're not going to sell us chips? 00:41:33.789 --> 00:41:38.550 They're just going to shut it down? No. The deterrence 00:41:38.550 --> 00:41:42.309 by denial is what it's being called. So we're 00:41:42.309 --> 00:41:44.670 going to we're not going to be all freaked out 00:41:44.670 --> 00:41:47.469 about China, which I think is probably good. 00:41:47.750 --> 00:41:49.989 Burden sharing is a big one. We're no longer 00:41:49.989 --> 00:41:53.530 going to be the guys who you call every single 00:41:53.530 --> 00:41:56.489 time. We pay for everything. You don't do any. 00:41:56.610 --> 00:41:58.489 That's that's really a big part of what Greenland 00:41:58.489 --> 00:42:01.230 was. It's like, hey, we just want to have this 00:42:01.230 --> 00:42:04.510 Greenland thing that we can take care of because, 00:42:04.510 --> 00:42:07.469 you know, it's a. a big new shipping routes and 00:42:07.469 --> 00:42:09.409 someone needs to be watching over that. We want 00:42:09.409 --> 00:42:11.949 to do that for our own because it's, you know, 00:42:11.969 --> 00:42:15.210 it's Alaska. It's up there. It's the North Pole, 00:42:15.309 --> 00:42:18.130 you know, it's North America. Yes, Canada, we 00:42:18.130 --> 00:42:21.190 actually want to help you too. But like the European 00:42:21.190 --> 00:42:24.070 Union, no, we'll still, you know, I think NATO 00:42:24.070 --> 00:42:27.829 is still good to go, but it's very much, you 00:42:27.829 --> 00:42:30.409 know, you guys got to take care of your own business 00:42:30.409 --> 00:42:34.889 now, which I think is really, it's about time. 00:42:34.969 --> 00:42:38.429 We've been fighting wars for other people for 00:42:38.429 --> 00:42:42.469 a long time. And then, of course, the number 00:42:42.469 --> 00:42:45.809 one thing is to rebuild our industrial base, 00:42:45.869 --> 00:42:48.210 which has been ongoing. And man, I sure hope 00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:51.030 I see these factories coming. I hear about them 00:42:51.030 --> 00:42:53.869 a lot. I hear about $18 trillion of investment. 00:42:54.570 --> 00:42:57.190 I'm just praying that it comes because only the 00:42:57.190 --> 00:42:59.469 people who make stuff get to get their survive 00:42:59.469 --> 00:43:02.690 in this world. And that is seen as a part of 00:43:02.690 --> 00:43:05.980 our defense strategy. And I think it's, I mean, 00:43:06.059 --> 00:43:09.260 this is so different than, you know, we're going 00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:11.440 to spread democracy in the Middle East. How many 00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:13.519 times have we heard that nonsense? And how many 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.659 times has that come to burn us over and over 00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:19.199 again? So I just pray that people will see some 00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:24.199 of the bigger picture and enjoy, if anything, 00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:28.119 enjoy this time in this administration. You're 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:31.019 never going, you will never see anything like 00:43:31.019 --> 00:43:34.760 this again in your lifetime. That's been an important 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.360 theme that I've been trying to help people understand 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.880 that when we had the other administration and 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:42.940 the Biden administration, things needed to be 00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:48.239 said and loud and often. We were in major crisis. 00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:50.340 We were at a turning point, tipping point, so 00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:53.860 to speak, and it needed to be said from pulpits, 00:43:54.179 --> 00:43:57.280 from podcasters, from everybody. We're in a different 00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.570 season now. That doesn't mean we don't need to 00:43:59.570 --> 00:44:01.809 be speaking, but we need to be speaking differently. 00:44:01.909 --> 00:44:04.510 We need to have a different tone. First of all, 00:44:04.570 --> 00:44:06.409 we need to be cheering on the good that's happening 00:44:06.409 --> 00:44:09.150 and not just constantly focusing on the hard 00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:11.869 stuff. That will always be there. There will 00:44:11.869 --> 00:44:14.949 be more than enough material for that from now 00:44:14.949 --> 00:44:18.409 on until Jesus comes back. I mean, literally, 00:44:19.309 --> 00:44:22.860 He said it. In fact, If we are in the last of 00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:24.639 the last days, there is a good chance things 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:29.500 could get worse. And globally speaking. So my 00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:32.099 attitude right now is I want to accentuate the 00:44:32.099 --> 00:44:33.920 good things that are happening. Still address 00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:37.380 what needs to be addressed. Immorality, unrighteousness, 00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.360 ungodliness, corruption, still there. I mean, 00:44:40.460 --> 00:44:43.980 all that needs to be spoken into. But let's let 00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:47.579 us... I don't want to just be known for what 00:44:47.579 --> 00:44:51.159 I'm against. Amen. We're right back to the beginning. 00:44:51.780 --> 00:44:54.320 Perfect. Perfect. There it is. Yeah, that's exactly 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.199 right. Boomshakalaka. And that is part of the 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:02.340 problem is we got our shows, we got our influence 00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:05.860 sphere, we got our ex and our Instagram account 00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:08.679 and we're so trained. It's like, can you believe 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:11.880 this? Look at this. Look at that. Yeah. the world 00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:15.219 is changing around us and it's hard for people 00:45:15.219 --> 00:45:17.800 because it's always a draw. What is that? Is 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.539 it the enemy that always just wants us to be 00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:24.940 all enthralled by the negative? Why is positivity 00:45:24.940 --> 00:45:29.800 so hard? Think about it. How you build something 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:32.119 is typically how you have to keep and maintain 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.179 it. So if your podcast or whatever you're doing 00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:41.070 was built on controversy, built on conspiracy, 00:45:41.449 --> 00:45:45.309 built on outrage over whatever. You know, it's 00:45:45.309 --> 00:45:49.070 hard to shift gears midstream and go to a more 00:45:49.070 --> 00:45:53.050 positive orientation when you built that way. 00:45:53.250 --> 00:45:56.469 And I think a lot of great podcasters who are 00:45:56.469 --> 00:46:01.369 sharp and tuned in and culturally savvy are finding 00:46:01.369 --> 00:46:04.929 themselves. And we sense this, you and I talked 00:46:04.929 --> 00:46:07.460 about this right after the election. and things 00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:10.139 started to really work. Those first 115 days 00:46:10.139 --> 00:46:12.840 were insane. Every day, you couldn't keep up 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:14.800 with the good things that were happening. And 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.000 it left podcasters going, what are we talking 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:19.440 about now? What do we do now? You know, a lot 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.460 of them were like, and I could sense that as 00:46:22.460 --> 00:46:25.340 I looked at some of the people I enjoy, or I 00:46:25.340 --> 00:46:27.920 wouldn't even say enjoy, people that I was getting 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:31.019 informed by, they were struggling because they 00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:33.460 didn't have the most obvious low -hanging fruit 00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:35.380 like they did for the last four years. That was 00:46:35.380 --> 00:46:37.699 easy. But all of a sudden, they're having to 00:46:37.699 --> 00:46:42.340 find problems within that. And even the narratives 00:46:42.340 --> 00:46:45.420 on TV, for a while, they didn't know what to 00:46:45.420 --> 00:46:47.980 do. We've talked about this. They were in a little 00:46:47.980 --> 00:46:49.820 bit of a shutdown mode. I mean, they're firing 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:51.539 people right and left. They don't know what to 00:46:51.539 --> 00:46:55.260 do. I mean, now we've reinvented things. We've 00:46:55.260 --> 00:46:58.619 now found Minneapolis. We've found ice issues. 00:46:58.739 --> 00:47:02.019 We found things to go after. And now it's kind 00:47:02.019 --> 00:47:04.599 of... It's like the Weather Channel, you know? 00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.760 They get so excited when something bad happens. 00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.559 Exploding trees! They're trying not to. You know, 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:11.840 you can tell they don't want to be excited about 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:14.639 it, but they live for this stuff. And so we just 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:17.400 have to be... I just want to be a positive voice. 00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:20.559 I want to live up. I want to live up in a down 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:25.039 world. Exactly. But do address what needs to 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:27.079 be addressed. Yeah. I just want to live there. 00:47:27.219 --> 00:47:30.619 I think that... Is that living? No. I don't want 00:47:30.619 --> 00:47:33.340 to live there. No. I think the hardest thing, 00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:35.719 and we've talked about audience capture before, 00:47:36.579 --> 00:47:41.440 is because whenever I speak positively about 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:45.159 what's happening, the first thing you get is 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.019 there's a section of people who say, oh, you're 00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:52.280 such a fanboy. Why don't you kiss Trump's ass 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.159 more? Pardon me for saying that. But I'm like, 00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:58.619 don't you see that it's not about that. It's 00:47:58.619 --> 00:48:02.139 about seeing something that's good. Everybody, 00:48:03.739 --> 00:48:07.219 a large portion of people just want to hear bad. 00:48:07.300 --> 00:48:10.440 Doesn't matter. President A, President B, they're 00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:13.239 all bad. They all suck. Well, yeah, they're all 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:15.480 human. So they're all going to be broken. But 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:18.940 when good things happen, they just have a problem 00:48:18.940 --> 00:48:22.239 here. This is the rage syndrome. But it drives 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.500 me mad. It's just rage syndrome in general. We 00:48:25.500 --> 00:48:28.940 used to have The shining moment of the day news. 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.980 Remember we had Paul Harvey. Yes, yes. And the 00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:33.320 rest of the story. And that's the rest of the 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:35.679 story. Oh my gosh, classic. But it was always 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:38.659 this life -giving, positive thing. And here I 00:48:38.659 --> 00:48:41.559 was a teenager, you know, driving to school, 00:48:41.699 --> 00:48:44.739 high school, coming down 380 into post, you know, 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.480 off the Caprock in my truck. And either I had 00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:50.980 kiss going or bad company or I had Paul Harvey 00:48:50.980 --> 00:48:53.780 on the radio. I was like, man, this is so cool. 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:56.639 In that AM. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah. 00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:59.599 When the lightning would strike, you'd hear it 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:02.760 crackle on your radio. That was the day. But 00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.280 there were so much more positive voices out there. 00:49:07.699 --> 00:49:10.679 I just wish there would be a revolution in podcast 00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:14.420 world into a different tone. Again, you don't 00:49:14.420 --> 00:49:16.820 have to not address things. You can address them. 00:49:16.980 --> 00:49:20.619 But again, tone is everything and intent. Why 00:49:20.619 --> 00:49:23.000 am I saying what I'm saying? I'm so glad that 00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:25.800 we're not sponsored or anything, we can get in 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:29.159 here and talk like this and have a real conversation 00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:31.139 as opposed to, man, we got to lean into this, 00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:34.000 lean into that, because we got to get the comments 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.539 up, got to get the likes. Or a friend of mine, 00:49:36.699 --> 00:49:39.360 I'm not going to say a name, but every podcast 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:43.239 he comes out, this will be controversial. Listen 00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:45.539 until the end. And you know what? His podcast 00:49:45.539 --> 00:49:48.039 is blowing up. Of course it is. Yeah, it is. 00:49:48.659 --> 00:49:51.599 Real Christianity that isn't in America anymore. 00:49:52.329 --> 00:49:55.010 Wow. I mean, he's just going there and I'm like, 00:49:55.769 --> 00:49:57.690 I'm almost sad I was on a show. I've started 00:49:57.690 --> 00:50:00.210 saying no to some shows. I've kind of backed 00:50:00.210 --> 00:50:03.150 off. Yeah. And I've been invited and said, Hey, 00:50:03.309 --> 00:50:05.889 thanks. But man, and a lot of times I do have 00:50:05.889 --> 00:50:09.030 schedule issues, but I literally just, I'm not 00:50:09.030 --> 00:50:11.250 trying to get out there like that anymore. I'm 00:50:11.250 --> 00:50:13.710 a local church pastor. I want to help people 00:50:13.710 --> 00:50:17.230 live up in a world. I want to. Find some good 00:50:17.230 --> 00:50:19.630 in this thing. You are doing it brother find 00:50:19.630 --> 00:50:23.150 hope so let us end again gracious Gracious words 00:50:23.150 --> 00:50:25.769 are like a honeycomb sweetness to the soul and 00:50:25.769 --> 00:50:28.750 health of the body Let's be graciously come on 00:50:28.750 --> 00:50:31.429 for this week just for this week and the enemy 00:50:31.429 --> 00:50:34.170 is all over our system here He's telling us I'm 00:50:34.170 --> 00:50:37.469 trying to shut this down He can't do it. He can't 00:50:37.469 --> 00:50:40.570 do it. All right, brother We'll do this again 00:50:40.570 --> 00:50:45.159 next week. We get to do this God, the world, 00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:47.079 and other things. We get to do this. We'll be 00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:49.119 back next week. Thanks for listening, everybody.