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Father, we honor you today. What a privilege

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it is. We thank you that we get to walk by faith

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and not by sight on everything we do and we engage

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even what we're doing here today by faith. Faith

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that someone will hear this and be encouraged.

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Faith that someone will be lifted up. Faith that

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someone will find hope in what sometimes feels

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like a hopeless world. So Lord, it is our privilege

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and it is our our motto and our saying and our

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mantra, we get to do this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Better late than never. Hey, TGIF. Hey, brother.

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It's Friday. TGIFWGTDT. I never can say that.

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The initials have to think about it. It doesn't

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roll off the tongue. I know. It doesn't roll

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off the tongue. But I do not say it quick. WGTDT.

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Yes. That's not exactly the best acronym in the

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world. Hey, brother. How you doing? Man, I'm

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doing great. Just, man, living the dream, getting

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to be on vacation. Yes. Sorry, I got my morning

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voice happening. A little drainage. Yeah. It's

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like we haven't seen each other this week. It's

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been a long time. How many hours? The foursome,

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Pastor Jimmy Damonette, myself, Tina the Keeper

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went to Nashville to the K -Love Fan Awards weekend,

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our third annual trip. Yeah. It's like, what

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is it? It's like a pilgrimage in a way. It's

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become that, right? It is kind of a pilgrimage.

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And it's fun. For those who don't know, K -Love

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is a ministry that bought up pretty much every

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single Christian contemporary music radio station

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in the country. And so they have a massive audience.

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And they are pretty much the outlet for any Christian

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music today. And they do this weekend. where,

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and it's in Nashville where a lot of these songwriters

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and performers live, and they have, it's really,

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it's non -stop worship, music, culminating Sunday

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night with the awards, which I believe airs tonight

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on TBN. Oh, that's right. It's usually Friday

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night after the awards. Yes. Cool. So if anybody

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wants to place a Kelsey bet, we can tell you

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exactly who won the Artist of the Year, but we

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won't. I wonder how many people are betting on

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that. That'd be solid. That'd be awful. It's

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not cool. But it was just like the last year

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and the year before. Our cups got filled to the

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brim. See, we got in. Well, actually, we left

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Thursday night, stayed in Austin. in the wonderful

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courtyard by Marriott with a very small kind

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of uncomfortable pillows and mattress. Yeah,

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I don't want to complain. I just don't want to

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be like that. You know what I mean? It wasn't

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super great. It was not. And so we had an early

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flight and we got in. First thing we did is we

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went straight past. We didn't go to the hotel.

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We went downtown Nashville. What's it called

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the the gulch the gutter the the gulch the gulch

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cool place the gutter It's the happening place

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though. It's pretty cool. Yeah, we met up with

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sir Patrick Cobol who was longtime Well, he's

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the Duke of the South for the no agenda show

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and he's been a huge supporter of we get to do

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this and he took us out to lunch at Arnold's

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That was awesome, which is a barbecue joint,

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which is just so I mean you live for food. It's

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old -school in the south you call that meat and

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three. Oh, meat and three. That's it. Oh, OK.

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So meat and three means you get one meat, you

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get three veggies, or dessert. And it's old school,

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man. Total comfort food, total south, total indulgence.

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And hopefully, I mean, he says, this may be the

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last time you ever eat here because of the property

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taxes. I mean, literally, it's almost like. That

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movie where the old lady doesn't want to sell

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her house and all these high rises around her.

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Yeah, there's construction all over the gulch.

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And there has been for a long time, many years.

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They just keep building and building, but they're

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like some of these smaller, you know, home owned

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businesses and local owned businesses that have

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been there at restaurants. For decades, probably.

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Are just getting swallowed up by the big stuff.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's the sad part. I get it though.

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It's progress. Give and take, right? Yeah, take

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the good with the bad. Patrick also gave us our

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first merch. Yes, which I left sitting on the

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table at home. Made cool coasters. I was running

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late, so I was like, oh man, I got to go. Yeah,

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no, they're really good. I dressed up for you,

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obviously. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it.

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Yeah, it looked like I'm on vacation. I'm actually

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wearing the same thing I wore all weekend at

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Caleb. There we go, man. It's my three nails

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hoodie. That's the way it works. The way we boys

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roll, that's for sure. But it was so, so nice

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just to catch up with him. He's such a beautiful

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man. He really is. And he's on fire for Jesus.

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And he's doing a lot with veterans. He's a veteran

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himself. Man, I love what he's doing. doing and

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he's really trying to help. I mean, so many veterans

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have just so many. Mental issues, PTSD is real.

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I've seen it, you've seen it. And Patrick, too,

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I think was, of course, how could he not be affected?

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He's told us some stories. But really, through

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the love of Jesus Christ, he's really blossomed

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into just a guy doing so much for his community.

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He runs Boy Scout Troops. He's just doing so

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much. And he's doing a podcast, which you can

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find on... Listen to a little bit. I caught some

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of that. It's a lot of local, very local issues,

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which is great. I love what he's doing. Now remind

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me of the name. Now I feel dumb. Hold on a second.

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It's the name of his town. Yeah, you sent me

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a link. It's the name of his town. Hold on. I

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feel... Oh, he lives in Fairview. Fairview, yes.

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Something Fairview. You think it's Hello Fairview?

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I think you're right. Let me just check. I can

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find this. Sorry, Sir Patrick, bro, who totally

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bombing on you. We love this show, man. Yeah.

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Hello, Fairview. I was right. There it is. You

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find that on the Godcast. Hello, Fairview. Oh,

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that's right. Yeah, it is. That's where I listen

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to it. Yes. And then the weekend. I mean, your

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impression? Our buckets are running over. I mean,

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literally, our buckets are filled. Our buckets

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are running over. I'm still buzzing from it and

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just thinking about. There was one moment in

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particular that, you know, the whole thing is

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good. You can't just say, this is the best, you

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know, because it's all good and all the artists

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have something unique to bring. But I have to

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say, if I was just looking for a moment, it was

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when Ben Fuller came out with just his guitar

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in the middle of all this. Oh, at the award show.

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At the award show. Stood up on a table in the

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middle of the audience. With one spotlight on

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him and sang this song with his guitar. Black

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Sheep. one of my favorites. That's such a throwback

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to another day. That sound, that western, it's

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kind of a western vibe. I mean, it felt like

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you're watching, you know, Gunsmoke or something,

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you know, some of the old westerns, but it's

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also a storytelling. It's a story. Anyway, check

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out that song, Ben Fuller, Black Sheep, just

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acoustic guitar and just... pure heart and soul.

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I mean, his story by itself, I think he was saved

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seven or eight years ago, I want to say. Well,

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he's been sober seven years, I think is what

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he said. I think it's been a culmination of things.

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But yeah, I mean, he's got tats head to toe,

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man. He's had a long road, but my gosh, he's

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such a picture of redemption of somebody who

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went and he said he was on cocaine for 15 years.

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just nearly died. I mean, literally crashed himself,

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crashed his plane into the ground. But to see

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somebody like Kim, kind of reminds me of Mel

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at our church who had a hard go of it and then

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got radically converted, saved, born again, and

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is totally grateful. He makes some of the same

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moves. He does that. He gets so excited. That's

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great. And he does a lot of prison ministry too.

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He does concerts in prisons all across America.

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sharing his story because he's been there. He

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knows these guys and he walks in and they're

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like, you're one of us, man. He just has the

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look. But man, what a heart of gold. But that

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moment, I think just the juxtaposition of all

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the glamour and glitz of an award show, massive

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sets and lights and video and bejeweled dresses

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and the whole thing. And then you got him out

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there, just an old... But even Friday night,

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the thing was Friday night, they do kind of like

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an opening concert. And there's a lot of production

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stuff that takes place. I remember the first

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year, the bass was like burning down the walls

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and stuff is happening. First night's rough.

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Of course, lyrics aren't on the screen. This

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is tough for me because that's one of my main

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features, I feel. That's your pet peeve. I love

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the lyrics on the screen, man. It's like the

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the soundboard rebooted the minute he was supposed

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to come up and you know fashion burn They all

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have in ears. They're standing there. You know,

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they're playing they're like, how come people

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are acting so weird? Everybody's looking at us

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weird and then yeah, but he he just said okay,

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hold on and I just reset he came out and boom

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He just killed him. I mean so many in I've seen

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artists walk away. Yeah and say, I'm not coming

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back. I'm not, I'm not doing this. Get it together.

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I don't want to be a part of this. That's not

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this. Yeah. And the only thing that, and we talked

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about this. So we had the writers round table,

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which is really nice because the writers talk

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about the story behind the song. And so it's

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understandable that many all a lot of great art

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comes out of pain and heartbreak and But throughout

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the entire weekend with the exception of Brandon

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Lake during the award show everything was The

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Lord is here for you when you're going through

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that season when when times are tough you got

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a bad I mean I it's now cliche almost you got

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a bad diagnosis, I mean These are things that

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I hear Christians in performance places say over

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and over again, which of course is true. But

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for me, and I came to Christ in a very happy

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way. Now, of course, I was broken, I'm still

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broken, and there's all kinds of things that

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the Lord helps me with and helps me understand

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and takes me through. But I really didn't get

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anyone ever saying, with the exception of Brandon

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Lake, I have joy right now just because I have

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joy, the Lord is here, I'm happy, things are

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going well. It's almost like he couldn't say,

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hey man, I'm rejoicing, thank you God for everything

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in my life is great right now. And it won't be

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that way, I know, but right now it's great, thank

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you, thank you, thank you, thank you, which is,

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I feel blessed because early on I'm like, hey,

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things are great. Thank you, Lord. This is fantastic.

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And then when it's not, so I think we are so

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quick to forget. And this kind of took me down

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a path of comparing this to the general world

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that we live in right now. Can I comment on that

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before you hit that road? Go for it. It's going

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to be a good road to follow. So I'm the same.

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When I came to faith in Christ, I wasn't at the

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bottom. You know, I just, man, Somebody presented

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the gospel to me. I was leaning over the hood

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of my truck. I prayed, boom, God's there. And

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I never had that gutter to glory thing. I mean,

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I was an idiot. I was an idiot in high school.

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I mean, I was that kid, right? Just partying,

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girls, all that, you know, drugs, sex and rock

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and roll. I mean, I can't see that on you at

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all. I know you can't, but I did like to have

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some fun. I was, boys just want to have fun.

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That was me. And a lot of it was, you know, I

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was kind of mad at my dad and stuff because my

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parents got divorced and said, you know, there's

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that just kind of just a way to plug the pain.

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But when I got saved, it was so good because

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it's called the gospel, which the word gospel

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means good news, not OK news or so. So, yeah,

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you know, maybe you'll make it. No, it's good

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news. It's the greatest news. So when I got born

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again at 18. blending over into 19 right about

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that time. It was all up from there, man. I was

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just like, yes. And I would sit in churches and

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I'm not going to name the denomination I was

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part of, but they were just like somber and sad

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and mad. I was like, Has anyone heard that this

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is a good thing? And I really struggled as a

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young Christian. And you know my spirit, man.

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I'm excited on Sundays. You and I are very much

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the same. I'm happy to be here. We're happy we

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woke up. We get to do this. It's not just some

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cute cliche. It is my life mantra. It's my slogan.

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I mean, it's my declaration, declaration of faith.

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And that doesn't mean crap doesn't happen, and

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bad things happen, and people get hurt, and people

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die, and people betray. I mean, all this stuff,

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wars happen, you know? The world loses its mind

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here and there. However, on the flip side of

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that coin is it's a win -win for a Christian.

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No matter what happens on this earth, this isn't

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the end game. Amen. And so we know, the scripture

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says, where Jesus says, who for the joy set before

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him endured the shame and he despised it, the

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scripture says. It means he stepped over, he

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literally like walked over the shame because

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he knew what was coming for the joy set before

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him. He knew what was coming after the crucifixion.

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He knew there was going to be a resurrection.

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And when you have that mentality of going, man,

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no matter how bad it gets, there's a resurrection

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coming after this trial. There's good coming.

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That's how God is. So I agree with you. The whole

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theme was beauty to ashes or ashes to beauty,

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which kind of sets up a, here's my, here's how

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bad I was depressed last year. Oh, but God's

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good. I mean, every one of them had a depression.

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I know I was kind of like, I felt like you, man.

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At first I was kind of, oh man, this is really

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good. They're really ministering to people. But

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then after a day of it, I was like, okay, can

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you turn the corner now? This is good news. Remind

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people this is good. And I just, I feel your

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pain. And so what this, it made me reflect. I

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mean, all the way home, I'm thinking about this.

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And in particular, I see this pretty much everywhere

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around me. People are stuck. They're angry. They're

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sad. Christians. They don't see the joy or the

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good works God is doing for them. And social

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media. I mean, we talk about this a lot. I mean,

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we cannot ignore that this has really captured

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the... I mean, fear is just such a perfect emotion,

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and the enemy loves to capitulate on that, and

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so do algorithms, and so does advertising. The

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world has always, you know, I've said it before,

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you want these girls, you better be driving this

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car. If you don't drink this beer, then you're

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going to be a loser. So that's fear, FOMO, it's

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all different versions of fear, but you're going

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to die if you don't, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Your kids will have no future, et cetera, et

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cetera. And what has happened in our culture

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today is First of all, I want everything right

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away, right now. I want the world to be great.

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I want everything to be fixed. I want it all

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done. I want everything now, now, now. But also,

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we want to prosecute the responsible. We need

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prosecution. We need justice. End this war. Kill

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the rich. The boomers failed us. Israel controls

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us. Hard seasons, as K -love people would say.

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It's so easy then to identify with people who

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may have it worse than us and then to go after

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the people. This is literally what the hard left

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liberal mantra has been. It's like this is why

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you get gays for Gaza, which by itself is just

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an insane thought. That's an oxymoron. Completely.

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But now you see People on all sides of the political

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spectrum going to this this we got to blame someone

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and you know, and it's Trump the oppressor exactly

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the victim that and and people don't even see

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that they are Doing exactly what they've probably

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even railed against maybe two or three or four

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years ago so I have such a benefit of being a

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new Christian like I can still think hey We say

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so easily, we view the world through a biblical

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worldview. Well, I actually wanted to do that

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in this case. Joe Rogan said once, if only there

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was like a manual or something. I remember that,

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yes. There's some kind of book that could help

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me get through life. And so I did some research,

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completely admit I use some AI for this, which

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is great for research. And it came up with a

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couple, because I'm just saying, show me the

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scripture that talks about internal conflict

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being projected outward. James 4, 1, 2. What

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causes quarrels and what causes fights among

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you? Is it not this that your passions are at

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war within you? You desire and do not have, so

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you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you

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fight and wage war. This struck me so hard. I'm

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like, yeah, when people feel like they don't

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have control over their lives, finances or future,

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which guess what? You don't. I realized this

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in 1990, like you don't control it. You can only

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control what you can do at the moment. Then we're

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always looking to hammer something. This is a

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simple one, Luke 11, 34. your eye is the lamp

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of your body when your eye is healthy your whole

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body is full of light but when it's bad your

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body is full of darkness therefore be careful

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lest the light in you be darkness it's like look

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at your own eye people just and it's it's easy

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to say but when you read it in scripture i mean

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i'm doing it myself i am not immune to any of

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this obviously And then this kind of fits perfectly.

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Again, I love James. For whatever reason, James

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just always hits me so well. Let every person

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be, of course, quick to hear, slow to speak,

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slow to get angry for the anger of man does not

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produce the righteousness of God. Galatians 5,

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but if you bite and devour one another, hello

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social media, watch out that you are not consumed

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by one another. I mean, come on, this is so good.

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So how do we get out of it? this is, I also went

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searching for this. And I'm just trying to say,

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you know, it's like, I got a new car. I didn't

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know how something worked. I went to look at

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the manual. The manual actually wasn't in the

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car. They forgot to give it to me. And I called

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the guy, I said, hey man, I don't have my manual.

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And I really felt lost even though I went online

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and you go online. Oh, well, this is manuals

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.com and there's 8 million different versions.

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It's not the right one. It's a different variation.

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So I was so happy. It was just this one light

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that was coming on. What does this mean? And

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it's to me, it's exactly the same thing. Galatians

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6, 4, let each one test his own work. We've talked

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about this. For each will have to bear his own

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load. Focus on what's right in front of you,

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what's happening in your community. It's so limited

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to go straight to Washington DC. Tend your own

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garden. Yeah, oh, there's a good one. Thessalonians

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4, aspire to live quietly and to mind your own

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affairs and to work with your hands, I want you

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to explain that in a second, as we instructed

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you so that you may walk properly before outsiders

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and be dependent on no one. Could you? Give me

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some enlightenment on this one. The work with

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your own hands. It's mind your own business,

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literally. There you go. That's what he's saying.

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With your own hands. You're not pulling everybody

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else to your stuff. You do what you do. Stay

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focused. It's very simple. It's so simple, we

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miss it. There's a lot of things in Scripture

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that are right there. but we're always looking

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for a complex answer. If it's not complex, then

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it must not be truth. Truthfully, I think it's

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the transverse. If it's simple, it probably is

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true. These simple truisms, we want things complicated.

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We're so used to we complicate everything, right?

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Yes. Anything left to itself moves that way.

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I mean, just think about an extra room somebody

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has in their house. It just starts to collect

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things. You know what I mean? It becomes that

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room, the one that you keep the door closed and

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you warn people not to go in that door. That's

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called my studio. And my office at home. So yeah.

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And it comes in here and she always has that

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look and says, are you going? I said, don't even

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finish the sentence. I know exactly. I'm not

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going to clean it up. It's perfect. Unless Adam

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comes over and then I might clean it up. Wow,

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thanks. Well, you don't have to do that for me,

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which I appreciate. I moved it from the studio

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into the closet. Oh, I get it. The closet that

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has a warning label. You haven't seen my closet.

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First of all, it has about eight guitar cases,

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all stacked in a row. And then, oh, it's unbelievable.

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Anyway, we... Digress, yeah, digress a little

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bit. So it literally means focus on your own

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stuff and quit worrying. Run your own race. Stay

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in your lane. There it is. We're always worried

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about somebody else. And the only thing I learned

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in track in high school, because I hated it,

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because I had to do it to run to play football.

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So it was stay in your own lane. You run out

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of your own lane, you're disqualified. You're

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out of the race. Not only that, when you look

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at what other runners are doing, you lose your

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pace. You lose your pace, your rhythm. I love

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that as believers, we have these words because

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it's just a reminder. I think we forget. I forget

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all the time, but I'm so new in my faith. Let

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me stop for a second here. What happened three

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years ago? What was it three years ago? Not 35

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years ago. Right. Oh, yeah. I remember it was

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James. A lot of it was James. I can't forget

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last what week. I mean, yeah. Which brings me

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right back to A Great Awakening, where not even

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a decade after the Civil War, they had all forgotten

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what really got them to that great victory. Oh,

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man, we've been praying for our daughters because

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they all go through different things at certain

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points. And it's two things. It's fear. And we

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just we live in this fear based culture and blame

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the guy at the top. You know, and we just we've

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forgotten to. It's because fear sells. Well,

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yes, it does. It seems very well. I don't think

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people even want to get clicks. You want to get

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comments. You want to get followers and just

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Crank out the fear. I don't even think that people

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are doing it for the clicks and for the followers

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They're doing it because that is the loop the

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whole world the whole culture focuses you on

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that and agree and I Sometimes don't even see

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it I I got into a couple of comments on X this

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morning And I'm like and I had to stop myself

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even as I was preparing for this very show. I'm

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like, what am I doing? Why am I doing this? Yeah,

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no fish on a hood and people weren't even Yeah,

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there's some trolls in there, but people, I love

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this, it's like, you're not as critical as you

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used to be because you're now a Christian boomer.

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I'm not sure. By the way, I was the face of Generation

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X. Give me those three months. outrage culture.

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It basically is saying, what's wrong out there

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that I can't fix, that I'm going to yell about.

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Remember that band Rage Against the Machine?

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I have to say, I love that. We were all yelling

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with them. Even now, I'll pull up on YouTube

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and watch one of their videos live at one of

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the festivals. I'm like, wow, that rage was real,

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man. Those guys, they were mad. But it created

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amazing art. When you rage against the machine,

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what do you really get? A hit record? Tired?

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Or a hit record. There you go. A hit record.

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That's it. You become a three -hit wonder, you

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know. That's it. Yeah. So, do you have more Scripture?

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Are you going back to... Well, I was just going

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to say that... So, what I realized is... So,

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the outrage culture is saying, you know, what

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is wrong in the world that I can't fix? I'm going

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to get, you know, rage against the machine. And

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everything I see in Scripture is... And this

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is what is good right here, right now that I

00:26:18.940 --> 00:26:21.559
can praise. This is what I missed a little bit

00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:23.799
at the weekend. What can I praise right now?

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And what is broken here that I'm responsible

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for mending, which can even be just a word with

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your spouse in the morning where you just kind

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of got shifted in a weird way. And man, the more

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I think about this, the more I am stopping in

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the middle of my day all the time praying. You

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know how sometimes your spouse can have a bad

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day and that affects you. And I catch myself

00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.000
like, well, I'm having a bad day now because

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my spouse is having a bad day. I'm like, no,

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stop. pray for your spouse. And that lifts your

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spirits too. And this is a free gift that I got

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from our Lord Jesus, and I love exercising it

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every single day. Man, that's all win and no

00:27:07.009 --> 00:27:09.230
loss, you know what I mean? I got a scripture

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I want to share. You started in James, so I want

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to loop back to James to the first chapter. Consider

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it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials

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of many kinds, because you know. pure joy, and

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you know that the testing of your faith develops

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perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work

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so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking

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anything." I mean, that is just so down to earth.

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Mature and complete. Mature and complete. That

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means finished, man. In perseverance, I mean,

00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:49.960
we've talked about just how we've cultivated

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a culture through decades of having no resilience,

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no endurance, no perseverance. And we talk about

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being forged by hard things, but our parents,

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I just remember my dad teaching me what it meant

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to persevere when things got hard. It wasn't

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easy. There were things that were hard in our

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family and hard in our life. And man, I remember

00:28:17.230 --> 00:28:19.890
when he was a firefighter and four firemen got

00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.660
killed in a fire, in one fire. Cause their Scott

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:26.740
air packs failed. It was devastating to that

00:28:26.740 --> 00:28:28.859
community. And I was part of that community growing

00:28:28.859 --> 00:28:32.900
up. And I just remember watching my dad persevere.

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:36.759
You know, they didn't quit. They didn't run away.

00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:39.460
You know, when I was in high school playing our

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:41.339
coaches, man, you talk about getting your grill,

00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:44.400
man, they would like today would be considered

00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.000
abuse. Then it was, then it was called coaching.

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.160
Yes, you're right. If one of my coaches piled

00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.119
drive me into the ground to show me how to block

00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.759
somebody I didn't get up and say I'm quitting

00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.180
I saw you're abusing me if I can just energize

00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:03.700
I saw we saw this happening in 2000 I want to

00:29:03.700 --> 00:29:09.440
say it's around 2009 2010 where bullying bullying

00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:16.519
in schools and then bullying became a hate offense

00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:19.680
which later became a hate crime and And I remember

00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.940
I was astounded by all these news reports about

00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:29.160
bullying. I said, I grew up with sticks and stones

00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.279
will break my bones, but names will never hurt

00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:36.400
me. And then we saw words are violence. This

00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:41.740
shift happened 15, 16 years ago, and it was real.

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.220
And I can only say it was the enemy, probably.

00:29:46.750 --> 00:29:49.910
But it was virtue signaling of the highest order,

00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:53.509
where it was like, oh, these poor people, they're

00:29:53.509 --> 00:29:59.390
being abused. And there's a rightness to that

00:29:59.390 --> 00:30:01.829
because bullying shouldn't happen. I mean, it

00:30:01.829 --> 00:30:07.289
is a terrible thing. But what became a part of

00:30:07.289 --> 00:30:10.170
culture and normalcy or normative for all of

00:30:10.170 --> 00:30:15.279
us, I learned to navigate social issues by avoiding

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.839
bullies. You learn things. I was like, okay,

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.579
here's what not to do. Don't look weak. Don't

00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:25.400
stick yourself out there. Don't go over in that

00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:28.019
corner of the cafeteria or the playground. You

00:30:28.019 --> 00:30:32.220
learn to navigate hardness and hard things. I'm

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:35.359
not pro -bullying. Don't hear what I'm not saying.

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:39.750
But I'm saying whatever trial you're going through

00:30:39.750 --> 00:30:42.849
or test you're going through, how you respond

00:30:42.849 --> 00:30:45.950
to that will dictate the outcomes of your life.

00:30:46.349 --> 00:30:49.170
And I just learned to avoid, I learned to navigate,

00:30:49.789 --> 00:30:53.710
I learned the politics of life. And it's not

00:30:53.710 --> 00:31:00.259
a bad thing. I think I failed my daughter in

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:02.839
some ways and to some degree on that and made

00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:07.279
it easy. I made a lot of things much easier for

00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.000
her than I had. I mean, just the fact that we

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.019
all have a thousand dollar phone in our pocket

00:31:12.019 --> 00:31:16.680
is by itself. I remember I had to beg my parents

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:18.920
because I saw the wild one with Marlon Brando.

00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.339
I begged them for a year for a leather jacket.

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:26.000
And here's what they made me do. So it was, you

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.000
know, a leather jacket is expensive. They got

00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.240
me a leather jacket for my birthday. It took

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.579
me a year of, I need a leather jacket. And they

00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:36.759
forced me and I did it. When at school, there

00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:39.460
was, I had a chain and a padlock and I had to

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:43.390
chain and padlock my leather jacket. to the coat

00:31:43.390 --> 00:31:47.430
rack so it wouldn't get stolen. And I was simultaneously

00:31:47.430 --> 00:31:50.789
cool because I had a leather jacket and the biggest

00:31:50.789 --> 00:31:57.619
dork because he's locking up his jacket. And

00:31:57.619 --> 00:31:59.940
maybe it was 300 bucks. But I mean, it's a question.

00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:03.779
Did you appreciate that jacket? I did. Of more

00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:06.180
than you can imagine. I think we all have stories.

00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:08.980
For me, it was getting a set of Firestone white

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:13.279
letter tires for my 69 Chevelle. Bam. I had really

00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.940
bad tires on that car because I pretty much burned

00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:18.940
them up. So driving on bald tires, I was talking

00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:21.500
to my dad, dad, I gotta have new tires. And here's

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:24.700
what I want. I have to have them and here's what

00:32:24.700 --> 00:32:28.000
I want. And he was like, Hey, I can't afford

00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:29.140
that right now. You're going to have to wait.

00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.920
I don't want to wait. He said, yours are not

00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.539
dangerously bald. You're still safe. And I'm

00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:38.380
like, well, it depends on how fast I'm going.

00:32:38.779 --> 00:32:42.180
At a 119, that may not be safe. But I was like,

00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:47.240
same thing for a year. Not quite a year. But

00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:49.279
I'll remember him. He said, hey, I'm going to

00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.769
take your car to town. Today, I was like, why?

00:32:53.029 --> 00:32:56.910
And he came up with some excuse. He lied. Dad

00:32:56.910 --> 00:32:58.829
lie. Because he was going to do something nice

00:32:58.829 --> 00:33:01.450
for me. I'll never forget hearing him come down

00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:04.250
the road and I saw him turn the corner and those

00:33:04.250 --> 00:33:07.829
white walls were glistening. I still have that

00:33:07.829 --> 00:33:11.789
memory burned in my brain and I cherished and

00:33:11.789 --> 00:33:16.009
valued that because I had delayed gratification.

00:33:16.210 --> 00:33:19.599
Delay is not denial. No, but boy, it makes it

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:23.140
sweeter when it finally comes. So this kind of

00:33:23.140 --> 00:33:25.180
fits into what happened on our way back from

00:33:25.180 --> 00:33:27.339
Nashville. You guys stayed there, visited family.

00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:33.480
So we're in the plane. It was one of those small

00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:37.680
Embraer regional jets. So one seat on the left

00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.329
side, two on the right side. A seat and a half

00:33:41.329 --> 00:33:44.069
ahead of me because a family was sitting there

00:33:44.069 --> 00:33:47.170
a husband wife two kids behind them and one to

00:33:47.170 --> 00:33:49.509
the left Yeah, and it's okay. It was a relatively

00:33:49.509 --> 00:33:54.430
short flight And so I'm listening to this is

00:33:54.430 --> 00:33:58.849
the crazy thing. I'm listening to Another Glenn

00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:01.730
Beck episode this now it was about George Washington,

00:34:01.730 --> 00:34:04.589
you know, we talked about this and George Whitefield

00:34:05.129 --> 00:34:07.869
and Benjamin Franklin. So he continues with the

00:34:07.869 --> 00:34:11.869
series of, you know, early America. And I'm kind

00:34:11.869 --> 00:34:16.210
of, you know, fading away. And, of course, you

00:34:16.210 --> 00:34:18.110
can't tell that I'm listening because I'm a hearing

00:34:18.110 --> 00:34:20.809
aid, and I'm doing on the Bluetooth thing to

00:34:20.809 --> 00:34:23.849
the hearing aids. And the guy, he's on the one

00:34:23.849 --> 00:34:26.010
row ahead of me on the right, turns around and

00:34:26.010 --> 00:34:29.250
says, Adam. I'm like, huh, what? And I have to

00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:31.889
turn off my player. He says, he starts talking

00:34:31.889 --> 00:34:35.309
in Dutch to me. He said, you know, I'm Diederik

00:34:35.309 --> 00:34:38.369
and I just want to say hi. I grew up watching

00:34:38.369 --> 00:34:41.050
you in the Netherlands and listening to you on

00:34:41.050 --> 00:34:43.389
the radio and I've been following your career

00:34:43.389 --> 00:34:46.730
this whole time and I just wanted to say hi.

00:34:46.750 --> 00:34:48.949
It's so cool to meet you. I said, oh, that's

00:34:48.949 --> 00:34:51.130
really nice. He said, you know, what do you do?

00:34:52.650 --> 00:34:55.590
I write screenplays, and he's wearing this hat

00:34:55.590 --> 00:34:58.849
with Young Washington on it. And he said, I wrote

00:34:58.849 --> 00:35:00.989
the screenplay for this new movie, Young Washington.

00:35:01.070 --> 00:35:04.969
I'm like, I was just listening to a podcast about

00:35:04.969 --> 00:35:07.650
George Washington. And you know me, I'm like,

00:35:07.849 --> 00:35:10.210
no coincidences in the kingdom. And he says,

00:35:10.489 --> 00:35:12.530
yeah, is this your family? He said, you got a

00:35:12.530 --> 00:35:15.769
beautiful family, like 10, 12 year olds. And

00:35:15.769 --> 00:35:19.730
he said, my wife, Kelly, she's the CEO of Wonder

00:35:19.730 --> 00:35:23.739
Project. I'm like, what? Crazy. I send you $9

00:35:23.739 --> 00:35:28.260
a month. That's awesome. And so we're chatting

00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:32.260
and he says, well, you know, we're just talking

00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:36.639
about, he's telling me about the movie and how,

00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:38.699
what a struggle it's really been. Cause his wife

00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:41.340
set up Wonder Project three years ago with John

00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:43.920
Orman, the director who did High David and Jesus

00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.960
Revolution. And, you know, how it's been a struggle

00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:49.699
to get marketing going and stuff. I said, well,

00:35:49.699 --> 00:35:51.929
I can, I can introduce you to Glenn Beck. I'm

00:35:51.929 --> 00:35:54.309
sure you'd have a fun story to talk about on

00:35:54.309 --> 00:35:57.550
his radio show. Yeah, it'd be awesome. And I

00:35:57.550 --> 00:36:00.989
was really, it was really just one of those meetings.

00:36:01.110 --> 00:36:03.190
I'm like, there's too much going on here. That's

00:36:03.190 --> 00:36:06.510
amazing. And he sends me a text as we're, you

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:09.130
know, we're deep playing and we're leaving and

00:36:09.130 --> 00:36:11.329
he says, hey, we actually have a screening of

00:36:11.329 --> 00:36:13.889
this movie coming up on Wednesday. We'd love

00:36:13.889 --> 00:36:18.280
for you to come. Wow. And this movie is exactly

00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:20.300
what we're talking about. It's almost like the

00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:24.000
prequel to Star Wars. It is about George Washington

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.179
before. everything happens. I can't wait to see

00:36:27.179 --> 00:36:29.579
that. And you want to talk about going through

00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:32.239
some hard times and what shaped him and what

00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:35.260
shaped the Virginia militiamen to becoming the

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:38.199
Blue Coats and becoming them who... Notwithstanding

00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:40.340
that he chopped down the cherry tree. Yeah, you

00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:43.119
know, there's none of that in the movie. I don't

00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:44.280
want to give it away. That's the only thing I

00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:48.139
remembered as a kid. There's definitely some...

00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:51.760
I think that is probably the biggest lie about

00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.260
George Washington, which is literally about not

00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:58.119
telling a lie, which is kind of funny. And there's

00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:02.139
Kelsey Grammer in it, Ben Kingsley, Mary Louise

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:07.980
Parker, very, very good cast. And it's a good

00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:10.139
date movie because there's a little bit of romance

00:37:10.139 --> 00:37:13.039
in there, a lot of stuff blowing up and guns

00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:16.570
and stuff. But also history I really didn't realize

00:37:16.570 --> 00:37:19.650
about the British and the French and the the

00:37:19.650 --> 00:37:22.369
Indians I'm sorry Native Americans the Indians

00:37:22.369 --> 00:37:25.949
they call themselves Indians in the movie Who

00:37:25.949 --> 00:37:29.769
were here in the Ohio Valley so but the resilience

00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:32.809
that built George Washington one of the founders

00:37:32.809 --> 00:37:36.360
of our country is really phenomenal. And they

00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.000
previewed it at the LBJ library. They're doing

00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.840
it at the Bush library, the Reagan library. They're

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.239
doing it at all these different libraries. And

00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:48.679
it'll be out July 3rd for July 4th weekend, which

00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:52.300
is a great opportunity to go and see this. And

00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:56.679
I realized, once again, I don't know hardly anything

00:37:56.679 --> 00:37:59.820
about the true story of our Founding Fathers.

00:37:59.980 --> 00:38:03.159
You just don't know much about it, which I think

00:38:03.289 --> 00:38:06.190
Why this is so exciting. Well, we tend to romanticize

00:38:06.190 --> 00:38:08.349
a lot of it to think, oh, man, these had this

00:38:08.349 --> 00:38:10.530
charmed life and, oh, they had some hardships,

00:38:10.949 --> 00:38:13.150
but we don't realize, you know, your feet falling

00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:15.329
off because of frostbite, you know, no big deal,

00:38:15.409 --> 00:38:18.449
right? I mean, we just don't, we can't put ourselves

00:38:18.449 --> 00:38:20.590
into that situation. I'm talking about the death

00:38:20.590 --> 00:38:22.389
march that they made, you know, during the war.

00:38:22.469 --> 00:38:24.869
I don't know if that - No, this is even before

00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.829
that. It's before all that. But what produced

00:38:27.829 --> 00:38:31.369
and forged and formed them, to use Bret Hahn's

00:38:31.369 --> 00:38:37.219
words, was hardness, hard things formed great

00:38:37.219 --> 00:38:41.059
men, strong men, resilient men, not perfect men,

00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:45.840
but strong men who were able to defeat the greatest

00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.119
force on the planet at the time, which was the

00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:55.079
British. They were just shining them, like, okay,

00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:58.889
you stupid little boys. You can have a rank here.

00:38:59.030 --> 00:39:00.570
You're Colonel. It means nothing because it's

00:39:00.570 --> 00:39:02.829
not an appointment by the by the crown, et cetera,

00:39:02.889 --> 00:39:08.289
et cetera. So it's just a great movie. I love

00:39:08.289 --> 00:39:11.750
this young couple who have been building this

00:39:11.750 --> 00:39:16.369
wonder project. And whereas I kind of felt a

00:39:16.369 --> 00:39:19.079
little bit. hoodwinked when Amazon gave away

00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:21.280
House of David for free the first season and

00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:23.659
then it's like now you got to subscribe for a

00:39:23.659 --> 00:39:25.460
wonder project. That was sneaky, wasn't it? No,

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:29.139
I felt good. I want to support these people.

00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:33.920
Man, I'm glad you got to meet them. The distribution

00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:37.340
is by Angel. They're distributing it in theaters.

00:39:38.099 --> 00:39:40.239
It was funny because I said yesterday on Noah

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:42.920
Jenner, I said, hey, I saw this movie and Dvorak

00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.760
goes, oh, is it one of those Christian movies?

00:39:46.190 --> 00:39:48.650
He said, why do you say that? You only go to

00:39:48.650 --> 00:39:50.730
the movie theater if it's a Christian movie.

00:39:50.929 --> 00:39:56.329
I said, yeah, I guess. A lot of it was blowing

00:39:56.329 --> 00:40:01.389
people and things up. Man, I'm glad that happened.

00:40:01.909 --> 00:40:04.449
There's a reason for this. I'm going to see these

00:40:04.449 --> 00:40:06.250
people more. I know there's something that's

00:40:06.250 --> 00:40:07.849
going to come out of this. One of the things

00:40:07.849 --> 00:40:10.150
Annette and I said as we got on the plane to

00:40:10.150 --> 00:40:13.630
come back, there was so much favor on this trip.

00:40:13.789 --> 00:40:16.670
I don't know that I've ever been on a trip where

00:40:16.670 --> 00:40:20.949
more things happened in terms of just, oh, you

00:40:20.949 --> 00:40:23.710
pray, you and I are in the parking lot. Last

00:40:23.710 --> 00:40:26.329
year we had to park a mile away from the Grand

00:40:26.329 --> 00:40:29.050
Ole Opry in the mall parking lot. We're out in

00:40:29.050 --> 00:40:31.590
the boonies, right? And we were late. We had

00:40:31.590 --> 00:40:34.090
dropped the girls off for the award show. We're

00:40:34.090 --> 00:40:36.429
probably not going to get in, so we're hustling.

00:40:37.070 --> 00:40:39.949
So we dropped the girls off. We turned into the

00:40:39.949 --> 00:40:42.769
first row of the parking. and you prayed out

00:40:42.769 --> 00:40:46.349
loud, Holy Spirit, something would you give us?

00:40:46.369 --> 00:40:47.949
Yeah, I said, Holy Spirit, could you please give

00:40:47.949 --> 00:40:50.070
us parking favor at this moment? And it wasn't

00:40:50.070 --> 00:40:53.489
10 seconds later. I saw family walking to their

00:40:53.489 --> 00:40:56.809
car. We rolled up beside them like criminals,

00:40:56.829 --> 00:41:00.030
going, hey. You're getting out of there. Hey,

00:41:00.289 --> 00:41:03.190
don't be afraid of us. We just want something

00:41:03.190 --> 00:41:05.130
from you. You're a parking spot. You're right.

00:41:05.489 --> 00:41:08.349
It was so cool. I mean, the rooms we had, which

00:41:08.349 --> 00:41:14.329
are the most... Unbelievable. Unreal. These are,

00:41:14.530 --> 00:41:16.510
that wasn't a junior suite, that was a senior

00:41:16.510 --> 00:41:18.070
suite. There's only like five of these rooms.

00:41:18.349 --> 00:41:21.210
I looked, you know, just, it happens to be this

00:41:21.210 --> 00:41:24.289
one configuration. We have this huge living room,

00:41:24.489 --> 00:41:26.889
with basically a regular room attached to it.

00:41:27.269 --> 00:41:29.389
And that's the room. And we both got those rooms.

00:41:29.389 --> 00:41:31.650
I know, right? And then it was right around the

00:41:31.650 --> 00:41:33.550
corner from the venue. And if you've ever been

00:41:33.550 --> 00:41:37.250
to the biodome, it's usually a mile to wherever

00:41:37.250 --> 00:41:40.090
you're getting to, right? And it's a maze to

00:41:40.090 --> 00:41:41.909
get through that place. But we were literally

00:41:41.909 --> 00:41:46.679
right there. Everything was favor. From beginning

00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:50.219
to end, even coming back, I got to meet this

00:41:50.219 --> 00:41:54.500
amazing lady from Africa who was helping out

00:41:54.500 --> 00:41:58.659
at the Delta Lounge. She was the sweetest person.

00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:00.820
She came over to Annette. She started talking

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:03.440
to us with beautiful accent, beautiful older

00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:07.639
lady. She talked to us like she knew us. Annette

00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.400
was like, do we know her? She literally talked

00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:14.599
to us. as though we know each other. And then

00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:18.559
she said, maybe she saw Jesus in us. Because

00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:21.380
you know how lounges are. Nobody looks up. It's

00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:24.739
like, oh, don't be friendly. Headphones on. Don't

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:27.539
be friendly. I'm in a covey hole. I'm protected.

00:42:28.900 --> 00:42:32.019
It's a weird dynamic in those lounges. I just

00:42:32.019 --> 00:42:34.809
watch and I'm going, ooh. Just a lot of coldness,

00:42:34.969 --> 00:42:37.190
you know? Yeah. Maybe they just feel like you're

00:42:37.190 --> 00:42:39.170
supposed to do that. It's also built that way.

00:42:39.170 --> 00:42:41.670
It is. With the streets that are kind of like

00:42:41.670 --> 00:42:44.610
little cubicles. Please don't interact with your

00:42:44.610 --> 00:42:47.769
neighbor. Put your earbuds in and don't interact.

00:42:48.329 --> 00:42:50.809
But we're just always nice to people. So I'm

00:42:50.809 --> 00:42:53.489
always talking, hey, thank you so much. Oh, and

00:42:53.489 --> 00:42:56.369
here's how I hit it off with her. She said something.

00:42:56.510 --> 00:43:00.409
I said, you have a beautiful accent. Yeah. Where

00:43:00.409 --> 00:43:03.739
are you from? Which in some... in some cases

00:43:03.739 --> 00:43:06.840
is a microaggression. Really? Oh, you have no

00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:09.360
idea. To say you have a beautiful... Or even

00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:11.860
worse, where are you from? Oh, wow. Oh, you didn't

00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:14.559
know this? No. I ignore it too, brother. So far

00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.780
it's been good. I've never had anybody get weird

00:43:16.780 --> 00:43:18.780
with me. The thing is, when you do it, people

00:43:18.780 --> 00:43:21.460
are always happy to tell you. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:43:21.619 --> 00:43:24.300
Every Uber. Hey, man, where are you from originally?

00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:27.000
Yeah, that's what I say. How long have you been

00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.400
in America since you were a kid? Most people

00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:33.199
love to talk about themselves. That became a

00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:34.719
microaggression. I'm sorry, that didn't mean

00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.480
anything. Interesting. Anyway, she was so sweet,

00:43:37.619 --> 00:43:40.039
and she took care of us after that. She was coming

00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.820
over, picking our stuff up. That's a simple thing,

00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:48.460
but when I see the favor of God on things, I

00:43:48.460 --> 00:43:51.000
don't see it as simple or less than, because

00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:53.630
anything in the kingdom is good. Yeah. Even if

00:43:53.630 --> 00:43:55.590
it's little things. Yeah. And really, if you

00:43:55.590 --> 00:43:56.969
think about it, it's the little things that make

00:43:56.969 --> 00:43:59.250
up your day. It's not the big epic moments that

00:43:59.250 --> 00:44:01.889
happen every once in a while. It's the dailies.

00:44:02.250 --> 00:44:04.809
And as those things happen and you get a whole

00:44:04.809 --> 00:44:07.409
string of good things, boom, boom, boom, boom,

00:44:07.409 --> 00:44:11.150
boom, and you go, that's the favor of God. That's

00:44:11.150 --> 00:44:13.769
not normal. And to bring it all the way around.

00:44:14.010 --> 00:44:16.269
These are the moments that I keep trying to remind

00:44:16.269 --> 00:44:19.489
myself. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, God. Thank

00:44:19.489 --> 00:44:21.929
you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, thank you. This

00:44:21.929 --> 00:44:24.909
was amazing. This moment, let me rejoice in this

00:44:24.909 --> 00:44:28.489
moment and not just when I'm feeling down or

00:44:28.489 --> 00:44:33.690
feeling bad or going through a season. I've talked

00:44:33.690 --> 00:44:36.050
about this before, but I think it bears repeating.

00:44:36.289 --> 00:44:37.829
Some things you just need to say over and over,

00:44:37.969 --> 00:44:41.090
right? I need to be reminded and re -reminded.

00:44:42.739 --> 00:44:44.699
Most of my prayers, you know, I've been a Christian

00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:47.880
now a long time, you know, 40, nearly 50 years,

00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.739
and I'm still as excited as I was when I was

00:44:51.739 --> 00:44:54.199
a kid. I mean, I'm just like, boom, you know,

00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:58.099
get to do this. And living up in a down world,

00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.320
right? I mean, all of my little phrases have…

00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:09.260
Pjisms, yeah. Most of my prayers, I'd say 90

00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:13.760
% of what I pray is pure gratitude. I am a broken

00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.320
record. I'm sure God's like, I get it. I get

00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:20.679
it. Move on to another topic, but I can't help

00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:23.980
it. Partly because I've had hard things happen

00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:27.199
in my life at different seasons. Had my wife

00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:29.719
leave me for another man, not Annette, obviously.

00:45:30.659 --> 00:45:34.679
And that was devastating and just crushing, soul

00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.769
crushing. But yet God brought Annette into my

00:45:37.769 --> 00:45:43.230
life 34 years ago. We have such a great marriage.

00:45:43.429 --> 00:45:47.590
It's crazy. We're best friends. We love to do

00:45:47.590 --> 00:45:49.670
things together and be together and we work together.

00:45:49.750 --> 00:45:54.210
It's insane. I have so much to be grateful for.

00:45:54.289 --> 00:45:58.170
This life I have, friendships. Man, you and Tina,

00:45:58.550 --> 00:46:02.030
we travel so well together. It's almost insane.

00:46:02.659 --> 00:46:05.199
Very few people can do what we do. That's actually

00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:10.199
kind of cool. We came back from the concert or

00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:11.679
dinner or whatever. We get into the elevator.

00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:14.320
You're on four. We're on five. And we don't even

00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.260
have to make a plan. It's like, hey, we'll see

00:46:17.260 --> 00:46:18.860
you tomorrow morning, right? Yeah, OK, call in

00:46:18.860 --> 00:46:20.699
the morning. Boom, done. We're gone. We're going

00:46:20.699 --> 00:46:23.719
to bed. And there's no stress. There's no weirdness,

00:46:23.780 --> 00:46:26.480
no awkwardness. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for whatever

00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:29.460
that is that makes that so easy. It's called

00:46:29.460 --> 00:46:33.010
good friendship. I mean, it's real. Yeah, we're

00:46:33.010 --> 00:46:38.320
so blessed. We're so blessed Thank you. I'm so

00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:40.699
blessed. Hey, by the way, on the Godcaster, let's

00:46:40.699 --> 00:46:42.679
give a plug for the Godcaster. You've dumped

00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:44.780
some new music in there. Oh, you like it? I've

00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:46.519
been hearing the new tunes. Okay. Thank you.

00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:49.440
Loving it. Thank you for doing that. I was listening

00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.639
on my Godcaster coming in. Not like I didn't

00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:54.079
get some inspiration from the weekend. I know,

00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.019
right? I'm like, worshiping hands up, phone.

00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:57.820
Okay, let me just put that in there. Let me just

00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:00.340
add this. A lot of new songs. Yeah, thank you.

00:47:00.659 --> 00:47:03.320
Thank you. Also, some of that comes from Ben

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:10.860
Hillegos. He's managing Providence Voice, which

00:47:10.860 --> 00:47:16.380
is their version of Hello Fred. He is so all

00:47:16.380 --> 00:47:19.440
into this. I gave him the new interface. He's

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.679
actually my guinea pig for the AI console that

00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.340
helps you manage the station. It says, I'm just

00:47:26.340 --> 00:47:28.400
keeping a spreadsheet here. So, you know, here's

00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.880
another 15 songs. And so I listened to them all,

00:47:32.099 --> 00:47:34.400
like, yeah, and they're pretty much all spot

00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:36.719
on. I found some shorter versions for some of

00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.019
this stuff, which he appreciates because he just

00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:41.179
finds the songs that this is it. I'm like, man,

00:47:41.179 --> 00:47:43.179
let's get the studio version of that and not

00:47:43.179 --> 00:47:45.239
the eight minute worship version. Yeah, yeah.

00:47:46.019 --> 00:47:48.579
So, but it's really, it's a collection I get.

00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:53.159
texts from many of the women in our church who

00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:56.059
text me, like, how about this? Do you have this?

00:47:56.059 --> 00:47:58.099
Is this on there? It's 11 minutes long. I mean,

00:47:58.139 --> 00:48:00.059
I can't do that, Karen. No, but most of them

00:48:00.059 --> 00:48:02.599
are just like hit stuff, you know? They're like,

00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.619
this has really been helping me this morning.

00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:09.179
I want other people to hear this song. So it's

00:48:09.179 --> 00:48:12.019
a community effort. It really is. I'm noticing

00:48:12.019 --> 00:48:14.139
something too. You're getting a lot more community

00:48:14.139 --> 00:48:16.000
stuff in it. I've noticed you've been adding

00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.119
layers. Yeah. you know, city council stuff, also

00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:23.400
other podcasts, beginning to boost other podcasts

00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:25.280
that are out in our community. I love what you're

00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.280
doing there, brother. I'm noticing those nuances.

00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.000
Someone who doesn't listen all the time might

00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.179
not notice, but I do. I'm listening. And so I

00:48:33.179 --> 00:48:35.840
know you do. You're doing great. I love it. We

00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.179
need to let people know how to get the Godcaster

00:48:38.179 --> 00:48:41.280
so they can start listening. Well, you can just

00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:44.239
go to your app store and type in Godcaster and

00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.619
get it that way. That's really the best way.

00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.219
And of course, we also have web versions, so

00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:51.900
if you just want to give it a shot, you can go

00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:54.539
to the Bridge Church website, and there's a tab

00:48:54.539 --> 00:48:56.679
right there, Godcast, you can listen to it that

00:48:56.679 --> 00:49:00.800
way. But that's really the ease. And we're building

00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:03.099
this. And what you're also hearing, brother,

00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:08.760
is over time things, you know, I'm like the carpenter,

00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:11.599
you know, like I'm... putting stuff together.

00:49:11.780 --> 00:49:14.539
I'm testing it. You're a big help, you know,

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.460
like pushing back. You should nuke that. Nuke

00:49:17.460 --> 00:49:20.659
that. Sometimes if it's real direct, that's from

00:49:20.659 --> 00:49:22.480
a net. I just say, hey, I'm driving, go, hey,

00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.719
would you tell, you know, so if it's real short

00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:27.760
to the point, that's a net. I'm a little more

00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:29.960
diplomatic. We were in the car on the way back

00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:32.420
from the movie Wednesday night and I'm like...

00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:35.000
Do you like this song? It was a worship. It was

00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.900
an elevation worship, but it was long and it

00:49:37.900 --> 00:49:41.860
was a little screechy. Where's you at? I don't

00:49:41.860 --> 00:49:43.900
know what you're talking about. This is not good.

00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:46.599
And so I go, you know, hey Google, sorry if anyone's

00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:50.460
phone just triggered, remind me. And it went

00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:53.539
into this whole thing. It went, well, instead

00:49:53.539 --> 00:49:56.519
of just saying, okay, I set the reminder, it

00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:58.699
went into this. Well, Adam doesn't like this

00:49:58.699 --> 00:50:00.619
and it's probably because of Hello Fred that

00:50:00.619 --> 00:50:03.500
he had. And it's like, and I said, stop, stop.

00:50:03.619 --> 00:50:05.880
What are you doing? I had a whole bunch of AI

00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:08.079
stuff. We're going to save that for next week.

00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.739
Because there's actually good and fun stuff to

00:50:11.739 --> 00:50:15.199
report. We had the Pope weigh in with his encyclical.

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:18.780
In the fountain in DC that Trump finished. Oh,

00:50:18.820 --> 00:50:22.230
you mean... He's making Washington beautiful.

00:50:22.349 --> 00:50:27.250
He went on for 10 minutes. I watched the entire

00:50:27.250 --> 00:50:31.670
cabinet meeting. Someone actually made a song

00:50:31.670 --> 00:50:35.809
about it for no agenda. He was like, if you put

00:50:35.809 --> 00:50:37.829
this thing like a skyscraper, it'd be the tallest

00:50:37.829 --> 00:50:40.230
building in the world, and it's like an Olympic

00:50:40.230 --> 00:50:44.409
pool, and we took 11 containers of crap out of

00:50:44.409 --> 00:50:49.909
it. He's hilarious, man. It was a builder's conversation.

00:50:50.710 --> 00:50:52.670
And, you know, I'm like, okay, we have some other

00:50:52.670 --> 00:50:55.570
stuff. But, you know, we have this rubberize

00:50:55.570 --> 00:50:57.809
it. We rubberize it. First we sandblast it. Then

00:50:57.809 --> 00:51:00.230
we pebble blast it. And the color is going to

00:51:00.230 --> 00:51:04.809
reflect much better. Everybody enjoy this moment.

00:51:04.929 --> 00:51:08.210
You will not see another president like this

00:51:08.210 --> 00:51:12.409
in your lifetime. Enjoy him while he's still

00:51:12.409 --> 00:51:17.469
with us. You know, one in maybe a billion. So

00:51:17.469 --> 00:51:19.449
we'll do that on Wednesday. Couple of things.

00:51:19.730 --> 00:51:21.510
I just want to give Brett Hahn another shout

00:51:21.510 --> 00:51:23.929
out. I've been reading, he is like taking me

00:51:23.929 --> 00:51:26.150
on this journey. You and your Substack crew,

00:51:26.369 --> 00:51:28.369
man. I know, I'm all of a sudden into, I love

00:51:28.369 --> 00:51:30.889
Substack, man. It's not typical social media.

00:51:31.050 --> 00:51:32.909
That's what I like about it. I mean, long and

00:51:32.909 --> 00:51:36.309
short form articles, people writing, it's a supportive

00:51:36.309 --> 00:51:40.070
community. There's junk on here. Yeah, those

00:51:40.070 --> 00:51:42.449
people don't last on this one. He just wrote

00:51:42.449 --> 00:51:45.670
one called Whitfield in the open field. I haven't

00:51:45.670 --> 00:51:48.769
read it. I just came up. Five hours ago. I'm

00:51:48.769 --> 00:51:51.150
like all, I'm going to read that today. I'm super

00:51:51.150 --> 00:51:54.070
excited about that. But Brett, and he listens

00:51:54.070 --> 00:51:56.449
to the podcast. So Brett, man, thank you so much,

00:51:56.510 --> 00:51:59.789
bro. Keep writing. Keep bringing us our original

00:51:59.789 --> 00:52:02.610
history, our actual history. And one of his things

00:52:02.610 --> 00:52:04.869
that I like he's doing, he wrote a book called

00:52:04.869 --> 00:52:07.989
Forged. And I love that because he's talking

00:52:07.989 --> 00:52:11.690
about what forged and formed the men that did

00:52:11.690 --> 00:52:14.530
these amazing, we see them as heroes now, right?

00:52:14.590 --> 00:52:16.489
Yeah. Well, I guess if you're on the right, you

00:52:16.489 --> 00:52:18.210
do on the left. They're terrible. They're just

00:52:18.210 --> 00:52:21.429
bad guys. Old white men. Oh, sitting in a room

00:52:21.429 --> 00:52:24.250
making decisions for us. But yeah, so we see

00:52:24.250 --> 00:52:27.170
them as heroes and rock stars, but there was

00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:29.389
something that formed and forged that. So Brett

00:52:29.389 --> 00:52:31.110
does a great job of that. Just want to give him

00:52:31.110 --> 00:52:34.409
a shout out. Beau Lacoste. I need more pickles.

00:52:34.610 --> 00:52:37.969
I'm just straight up. I will pay you, Bo. Man,

00:52:38.190 --> 00:52:40.550
send us another batch. I know you're going to

00:52:40.550 --> 00:52:43.190
hit him up. I'll hit him up. We need more pickles.

00:52:43.730 --> 00:52:46.230
I've got five left. What is Brett's Substack?

00:52:46.389 --> 00:52:51.670
What is his? Am Rev Resurrected. Am Rev, like

00:52:51.670 --> 00:52:55.329
American Revolution Resurrected. Am Rev Resurrected.

00:52:56.389 --> 00:52:58.849
So good. So yesterday, I'm not quite sure how

00:52:58.849 --> 00:53:02.010
it came up in the donation segment. And I said

00:53:02.010 --> 00:53:07.269
to John, because I I didn't know if he listens

00:53:07.269 --> 00:53:12.210
to no agenda or just we get to do this. I didn't

00:53:12.210 --> 00:53:14.369
really know. And so I said, well, you know, I

00:53:14.369 --> 00:53:16.289
got the Louisiana Pickles and Dvorak's like,

00:53:16.449 --> 00:53:18.030
what Pickles? I didn't get any Pickles. Who sent

00:53:18.030 --> 00:53:21.949
you Pickles? I'm like, well, it's the Louisiana

00:53:21.949 --> 00:53:25.750
Pickles guy. I got an email right after the show.

00:53:25.989 --> 00:53:29.039
He says, I always listen to every show, even

00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.239
the donation segments all the way through. I'm

00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:34.099
sending John Pickles. Oh my gosh. Make sure you

00:53:34.099 --> 00:53:36.400
ask him what he thought about the labels. Because

00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.019
he always writes on top of them. Well, not just

00:53:39.019 --> 00:53:41.059
that, but all the script and description of the

00:53:41.059 --> 00:53:45.289
label itself. So this will be another ministering

00:53:45.289 --> 00:53:47.650
moment to Dvorak. Well, I'm giving Bo a shout

00:53:47.650 --> 00:53:49.969
out because I need more pickles. My dad and I

00:53:49.969 --> 00:53:51.769
are going to fight over the last five in the

00:53:51.769 --> 00:53:55.369
jar. I've already eaten all the peppers and onions.

00:53:56.309 --> 00:53:57.829
And I've done everything but drink the juice.

00:53:59.130 --> 00:54:02.829
LouisianaPickles at Gmail. Man, the best pickles

00:54:02.829 --> 00:54:06.730
you will ever eat, I promise. And if you don't

00:54:06.730 --> 00:54:08.170
lock them, just send them to me and Adam will

00:54:08.170 --> 00:54:11.920
eat them. And we'll bless him. with anything

00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:13.599
you need to make that happen. Any other shout

00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:15.079
outs you want to give? I mean, we're just so

00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:16.960
thankful. Hey, real quick, because we're good

00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:19.599
on time. Yeah, we're good. A little vision airing

00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:21.639
into where we're going with this podcast. Just

00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:23.119
a little. You don't have to get deep in the weeds.

00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:29.360
Well, merch. I know, right? Already. I think

00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:31.579
we're both listening to the Holy Spirit in this

00:54:31.579 --> 00:54:35.099
regard. We feel like there's something here.

00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:38.300
There's something we want to grow. Maybe not

00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:40.500
beyond the time limit per episode, but maybe

00:54:40.500 --> 00:54:45.219
more. In the week, I mean, I'm also, you know,

00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:48.019
just looking at my life and sure where I want

00:54:48.019 --> 00:54:53.300
everything to go I love doing this. This is You

00:54:53.300 --> 00:54:58.199
know, there's a big crossover of people In my

00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:01.139
life who listen to this and and other things

00:55:01.139 --> 00:55:05.409
that I do I brought two or three More than two

00:55:05.409 --> 00:55:09.690
or three. I love how our church is listening

00:55:09.690 --> 00:55:12.329
and involved. We always kind of said, this is

00:55:12.329 --> 00:55:15.010
for our people here, our church, and like you

00:55:15.010 --> 00:55:16.989
pray in the beginning, if anyone else out there

00:55:16.989 --> 00:55:20.690
is hearing it. I just feel like there's something

00:55:20.690 --> 00:55:23.309
here that we need to continue moving forward

00:55:23.309 --> 00:55:26.849
and building and growing. And like everything

00:55:26.849 --> 00:55:29.050
else, you know, are we really in control? Probably

00:55:29.050 --> 00:55:31.329
not. We just got to have ears to hear. That's

00:55:31.329 --> 00:55:34.309
it. And listen to our steps are ordered. Yes.

00:55:34.530 --> 00:55:36.730
And he delights in the details of our life. There

00:55:36.730 --> 00:55:39.420
it is. Brother, thank you for coming in on your

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vacation day for this. Hey, I want to do this.

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Not only do I get to, I want to. And we will

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be back on Wednesday, just a few days until the

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next one. We get to do this. Have a great weekend,

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everybody. Get to do this