WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.859 Abba Father, what a joy and what a privilege 00:00:02.859 --> 00:00:04.839 to come to you today and what a privilege to 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:07.639 be able to do this remotely today. Just through 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.900 technology, we often say it's a miracle any of 00:00:10.900 --> 00:00:13.980 this stuff works, but we get to do this and it's 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:17.160 fun and it's joyful. Pray for our listeners today 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.379 and whenever they're listening to this, that 00:00:19.379 --> 00:00:21.960 they will be blessed, they'll be encouraged and 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.179 even provoked to think deeper and to think critically. 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:28.760 And so we pray for them in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:34.079 Amen. It's Wednesday, June 24, 2026. We get to 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:52.719 do this. This is episode number 38. We get to 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:57.159 do this. Yeah, baby remote. This is so cool. 00:00:57.829 --> 00:01:01.130 It is so fun. I love doing this. I was really 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:03.390 excited and it was like, you are so excited. 00:01:03.549 --> 00:01:05.969 In fact, I was so excited. I was an hour early 00:01:05.969 --> 00:01:11.689 getting on. She was like, wait, why are you so 00:01:11.689 --> 00:01:14.909 ready already? And I'm like, what? And then about 00:01:14.909 --> 00:01:18.530 that time you text me, I'm like, oh, I'm up an 00:01:18.530 --> 00:01:21.430 hour early. It's okay brother. I must have been 00:01:21.430 --> 00:01:24.329 really excited. So you're on vacation and it's 00:01:24.329 --> 00:01:26.370 highly appreciated that you still want to do 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:28.310 the show. You set up the rig. You got the Pod 00:01:28.310 --> 00:01:30.650 Mobile. I just want everyone to know the Pod 00:01:30.650 --> 00:01:33.590 Mobile rig is an amazing little device. Pod Mobile, 00:01:33.629 --> 00:01:37.230 you can find it on Google. It's fantastic. Super 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:39.609 cool device. I'm just sitting here looking at 00:01:39.609 --> 00:01:42.510 it going, this is amazing that we can do this 00:01:42.510 --> 00:01:45.670 so easily actually because I can pack it in a 00:01:45.670 --> 00:01:48.840 very small bag. As long as you have a really 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.760 tiny mic stand, you know, it's I mean, it's very 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.920 small. It's light. I mean, super neat piece of 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.579 equipment. So what's your setup right now on 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:03.200 your in your vacation studio? Yeah, so I'm sitting 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:06.599 at a little table in my room here. We're in Florida 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:12.639 on Longboat Key Island. Just got. ocean on each 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.759 side of us. It's, it's stunning. And then the 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.099 room I'm in, it's not quite as sweet, but it 00:02:18.099 --> 00:02:20.240 sort of is. It's kind of hard to explain, but 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.960 just got one. I'm on a small table and all I've 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.939 got is the pod mobile, my microphone, my computer, 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:29.900 and a mic cable. I mean, it's that simple. It's 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:32.240 the best. It's the best. Very cool. I really 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.599 appreciate that you're doing this because vacation 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.439 is still vacation. You know, so, but it's also, 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:39.939 we need to catch up. You and I need to catch 00:02:39.939 --> 00:02:43.629 up. Really? I know. I've missed you, bro. I mean, 00:02:44.009 --> 00:02:46.069 you were gone some, we've been gone some. I mean, 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:47.990 it's just that time of year where everybody's 00:02:47.990 --> 00:02:50.710 kind of moving, traveling and out and about. 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:54.289 So yeah, what's the latest? Well, there's a couple 00:02:54.289 --> 00:02:57.169 of things going on. You're on vacation. You still 00:02:57.169 --> 00:03:00.409 are doing your daily grind, which is appreciated. 00:03:00.509 --> 00:03:02.650 You're doing kind of an abbreviated version, 00:03:03.009 --> 00:03:05.990 which means, well, actually I'll read the one 00:03:05.990 --> 00:03:11.669 from yesterday. It's just Jesus day two you're 00:03:11.669 --> 00:03:14.289 doing just Jesus and so the daily grind it's 00:03:14.289 --> 00:03:17.110 on It's on hello Fred for those who listen to 00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:21.129 hello Fred on the godcaster in a spoken version 00:03:21.129 --> 00:03:25.949 Pastor Jimmy Sends it out on all the socials 00:03:25.949 --> 00:03:28.849 and I get a an early text version, which I'm 00:03:28.849 --> 00:03:31.849 always very appreciative of so he says we're 00:03:31.849 --> 00:03:34.469 enjoying Time away this week. I'll be posting 00:03:34.469 --> 00:03:37.009 a simple just Jesus reminder each day for the 00:03:37.009 --> 00:03:40.240 next week Signed Pastor Jimmy and yesterday was 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:44.259 Matthew 5 3 from the New King James Version blessed 00:03:44.259 --> 00:03:46.580 are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom 00:03:46.580 --> 00:03:51.659 of heaven and I really enjoyed just the simplicity 00:03:51.659 --> 00:03:54.400 of this daily grind because what it led me to 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.580 do is Something that I've learned from you. It's 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:03.800 like I wonder exactly what poor in spirit means 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.770 if we look at the Greek or Aramaic original and 00:04:09.770 --> 00:04:13.930 because as a new believer I read that is oh when 00:04:13.930 --> 00:04:16.790 I'm down when I'm not feeling good when I'm poor 00:04:16.790 --> 00:04:20.569 in spirit and Imagine my surprise when I figured 00:04:20.569 --> 00:04:23.029 out what it really meant And so I thought maybe 00:04:23.029 --> 00:04:25.649 we could kick things off today with you giving 00:04:25.649 --> 00:04:30.589 an explainer of poor in spirit That's great now 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.740 If you go into the actual Greek of that, it really 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:35.620 breaks it down and it's going to read a little 00:04:35.620 --> 00:04:38.339 bit different than the phrase poor in spirit. 00:04:38.860 --> 00:04:42.120 But the word poor literally where it means reduced 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.000 to beggary, begging, asking alms, destitute of 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.420 wealth, influence, position and honor, lowly 00:04:49.420 --> 00:04:52.279 afflicted destitute of the Christian virtue. 00:04:52.540 --> 00:04:55.000 So, I mean, just that word by itself is very 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.540 intense, but he's not saying just the poverty 00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:01.600 ridden here. He's talking about poor in spirit. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.939 In other words, to me, the way I read it, I'm 00:05:04.939 --> 00:05:07.259 not looking at a commentary. This is just off 00:05:07.259 --> 00:05:11.259 of my heart. When I see poor in spirit, I say 00:05:11.259 --> 00:05:15.949 destitute of oneself. and needing more of his 00:05:15.949 --> 00:05:18.569 spirit. Yes, that's exactly what I came up with. 00:05:19.370 --> 00:05:21.810 Okay, did you look it up? Because I didn't, that's 00:05:21.810 --> 00:05:23.569 just what it means to me. Well, there's a whole 00:05:23.569 --> 00:05:26.209 bunch of Greek words that are unpronounceable 00:05:26.209 --> 00:05:32.490 like Makarioi, and Pochatoi, and Bakchoi, and 00:05:32.490 --> 00:05:37.420 all this other stuff, and Numati. You think Greek's 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:41.439 bad, try to pronounce Hebrew words. I'm hocking 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:48.399 up a loogie the whole time. I speak a little 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.240 bit of Hebrew. That's my go -to. That sounds 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.779 like German. It's still guttural, right? It's 00:05:54.779 --> 00:06:02.420 guttural. What I came up with is... Only those 00:06:02.420 --> 00:06:05.800 who can admit they are completely empty -handed 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.959 in front of God are eligible to receive everything 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.360 God offers. Yeah, because look what the offer 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:16.759 is. The kingdom of heaven. Right. Theirs is the 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.600 kingdom of heaven. So when we come before him 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.600 impoverished in spirit of saying, Lord, I want 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:27.079 to be empty of me and empty of my own spirit 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:32.490 so that I may be filled with yours. Yes. I wonder 00:06:32.490 --> 00:06:39.230 if this is widely misunderstood. Oh, no doubt. 00:06:40.889 --> 00:06:45.870 Just the Beatitudes itself could be an entire 00:06:45.870 --> 00:06:49.470 sermon series for 10 years. It really could. 00:06:49.629 --> 00:06:51.949 And that's why I chose this. First of all, I 00:06:51.949 --> 00:06:55.050 was thinking about what can I do while I'm on 00:06:55.050 --> 00:06:59.120 vacation? That's simple. But also, has some depth 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.339 to it. And so I've started thinking about, well, 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.899 there's nothing more important than Jesus. I 00:07:04.899 --> 00:07:07.379 mean, than what Jesus can bring to the table. 00:07:07.860 --> 00:07:10.339 And so that's why I just kind of took it on, 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.420 okay, just Jesus. And I always ask the question, 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:19.040 is just Jesus enough? And so that's kind of why 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.639 I went that direction. And I've been actually 00:07:23.400 --> 00:07:26.699 encouraged by the response to that because usually 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:29.699 I write two or three, well, about six, seven 00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:34.199 sentences. That's the daily grind. But just putting 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:37.259 the verse only and keeping it simple, people 00:07:37.259 --> 00:07:39.360 have been responding as if I've been writing 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.360 a whole paragraph or something. And it's been 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.220 really neat. Oh, interesting. Because people 00:07:43.220 --> 00:07:46.720 are thinking. And so that to me makes me happy. 00:07:46.939 --> 00:07:49.300 Yeah, well, and spot on though, because and maybe 00:07:49.300 --> 00:07:52.019 the simplicity of just Jesus in the daily grind, 00:07:52.100 --> 00:07:55.139 maybe that's what actually spurred me on to like, 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.660 huh, what does that actually mean? I'm glad you 00:07:58.660 --> 00:08:02.759 did that. Way to go. Well, I pay attention to 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.600 what you say. Keep diving in. I didn't say it. 00:08:06.699 --> 00:08:09.279 Jesus did. That's the whole point. Good point. 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:12.699 Good point. Jesus' words. Just Jesus. I love 00:08:12.699 --> 00:08:15.459 it. I bring messages from Bridge Church in Fredericksburg 00:08:15.459 --> 00:08:19.660 as well. Everybody misses you. And James handed 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:22.759 me, you know James who's on our safety team and 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.279 he sits in the corner in the morning. So every 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.620 Sunday I come in, I have a little chat with James. 00:08:29.499 --> 00:08:32.860 He listens to the podcast all the time. He loves 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:36.980 the podcast. And he handed me a note and he said, 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:41.460 I think we should own this. Hold on a second, 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:46.399 James. And this is what's written on it. It was 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.460 a question. Do you know what God left out of 00:08:49.460 --> 00:08:53.059 the Bible? And then underneath is the answer. 00:08:53.659 --> 00:08:59.259 Your opinion. Oh, boom. I'd never heard that 00:08:59.259 --> 00:09:02.460 before. He says, I came up with this or it came 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:05.679 to me and I think we should own this. I love 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.720 it, James. I love it. I think that's fantastic. 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:10.679 You know what? He's named something that is the 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:13.039 tension that me and Pastor Brian live with when 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:14.820 we're preaching the word, when we're preaching 00:09:14.820 --> 00:09:17.460 scripture. Every time we stand in the pulpit, 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:20.139 I gotta tell you, I still get nervous every time. 00:09:20.419 --> 00:09:22.360 And I'm not nervous because I'm nervous about 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.759 speaking in front of people. I'm way past that. 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:27.419 I'm nervous because I wanna rightly divide the 00:09:27.419 --> 00:09:29.779 word of truth. The last thing I ever want to 00:09:29.779 --> 00:09:34.039 do is perpetuate just my opinions. And yet if 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.490 you think about it, That's what an interpretation 00:09:36.490 --> 00:09:40.450 is, right? It's your opinion. That's why even 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:43.769 when I read commentaries or scholars or experts, 00:09:43.929 --> 00:09:46.909 I always take them with a grain of salt because 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:49.529 it's just their opinion at the end of the day. 00:09:49.830 --> 00:09:53.009 And so I'm very cognizant of that. It's very 00:09:53.009 --> 00:09:56.649 humbling to me. And I remind myself of this often 00:09:56.649 --> 00:09:58.710 because I don't ever want to get in a pulpit 00:09:58.710 --> 00:10:01.590 and just bang the pulpit and just this is the 00:10:01.590 --> 00:10:05.960 way it is because I'm telling you, There is so 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.419 many layers to scriptures is so many layers of 00:10:09.419 --> 00:10:12.399 truth that you peel one back and there's a hundred 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.059 more and Yet you may peel one back and think 00:10:15.059 --> 00:10:18.179 I finally found the secret. I found the answer 00:10:18.179 --> 00:10:21.759 This is it This is what this means and yet the 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.179 Bible even describes itself that the word of 00:10:24.179 --> 00:10:27.320 God is living and active and Sharper than any 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:30.879 two -edged sword. So if the word is living and 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:35.100 active then that means it's not just it's not 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:38.899 just stayed, it's actually fluid, not static, 00:10:39.059 --> 00:10:42.620 but fluid. And so to me, that's why the Bible, 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:44.759 you know this, you'll stumble on a scripture 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:46.480 and you go, oh, I've read that scripture before. 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.299 And then you read it and a different word catches 00:10:50.299 --> 00:10:53.220 you, pops out. And it's like, well, I've never 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:56.440 seen it that way before. Well, that's the beauty 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.490 of the Word of God. It's the Word of God. Yes, 00:10:59.669 --> 00:11:02.509 written by Paul, written by men, written by people 00:11:02.509 --> 00:11:05.490 who dictated things, but yet it's inspired by 00:11:05.490 --> 00:11:07.970 him. And that's why we call it the Bible, the 00:11:07.970 --> 00:11:11.250 Word of God. It's inspired by him. God breathed 00:11:11.250 --> 00:11:13.889 is another way to say it. You know, you said 00:11:13.889 --> 00:11:15.889 something that I hadn't even considered when 00:11:15.889 --> 00:11:21.570 I read James's note because I took it as, yeah, 00:11:21.610 --> 00:11:26.289 my opinion, okay. I didn't even consider what 00:11:26.289 --> 00:11:29.679 you just said there that as a pastor, You literally 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.100 are giving your opinion whenever you're in the 00:11:32.100 --> 00:11:35.600 pulpit. Absolutely. I mean, just by definition 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.500 of what you're doing, you give your opinion. 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.980 That's a little deeper than I thought it would 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:43.539 be, actually. Well, what it means is I got to 00:11:43.539 --> 00:11:46.299 be careful about what hills I die on in terms 00:11:46.299 --> 00:11:50.019 of convictions about things, because as we're 00:11:50.019 --> 00:11:53.120 always hopefully ever learning, ever growing, 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.080 then the hill I died on five years ago probably 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.100 is not the hill I would die on today because 00:11:59.100 --> 00:12:02.039 I've learned, I've grown. And that's the idea. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.320 At my age and season of life, I wanna still remain 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:10.460 as teachable, as moldable, as open to hearing 00:12:10.460 --> 00:12:14.919 other people's thoughts and dare we say it, opinions. 00:12:15.580 --> 00:12:19.500 And say, you know what? I have not considered 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:21.820 it that way. Thank you. You've added something 00:12:21.820 --> 00:12:25.879 to my, now you're helping inform me as I read 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.480 scripture. And that's part of the journey of 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.860 faith. And that's why the scripture says we walk 00:12:30.860 --> 00:12:35.440 by faith and not by sight. So the day we think 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.039 we've got God figured out or we've got the Bible 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:42.340 figured out and I see a lot of, you call them, 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:46.470 what do you call them? YTPs. Yes, the YouTube 00:12:46.470 --> 00:12:50.389 pastors. Man, those guys are ripping off like 00:12:50.389 --> 00:12:53.049 they have got it figured out. And I'm sorry. 00:12:53.549 --> 00:12:57.929 And I just, I have a hard time with any level 00:12:57.929 --> 00:13:01.210 of pride or arrogance in preaching. That's just 00:13:01.210 --> 00:13:04.090 a personal thing with me because when we're before 00:13:04.090 --> 00:13:07.350 God and we're handling His word, man, you better 00:13:07.350 --> 00:13:12.929 be at the most or in spirit you can be. Yeah. 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.440 Is what you said there is deep again because 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.940 another J another one of my favorite James has 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:22.000 said be quick to listen slow to speak and even 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.480 slower to get angry and it seems like a lot of 00:13:26.509 --> 00:13:30.090 YTPs go straight to the anger part and the outrage. 00:13:30.570 --> 00:13:32.990 They just skip over everything. They're like, 00:13:33.409 --> 00:13:35.429 oh, what are we doing here, man? What are you 00:13:35.429 --> 00:13:37.590 talking about? It always reminds me of that band 00:13:37.590 --> 00:13:40.330 Rage Against the Machine. They're the killer, 00:13:40.649 --> 00:13:42.730 right? But man, one thing they had was passion. 00:13:43.029 --> 00:13:45.769 They did. And a lot of drugs. Do you know that 00:13:45.769 --> 00:13:50.009 they got really famous at a Dutch concert? No, 00:13:50.009 --> 00:13:51.330 I didn't. Yeah, it's the live performance. I've 00:13:51.330 --> 00:13:54.009 seen some of the YouTube stuff. Yeah, so the 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:56.250 live performance where they're really going at 00:13:56.250 --> 00:13:59.409 it, that really broke through that live performance. 00:13:59.629 --> 00:14:04.110 That was a Pink Pop is a Dutch summer concert 00:14:04.110 --> 00:14:06.690 series. Okay. Yeah, and so I think it's really 00:14:06.690 --> 00:14:09.409 the Dutch that pulled them out and put them front 00:14:09.409 --> 00:14:11.309 and center with that particular song. They were 00:14:11.309 --> 00:14:12.590 known, of course. It's fascinating to me because 00:14:12.590 --> 00:14:14.490 the thing about it is, you know, I may disagree 00:14:14.490 --> 00:14:18.340 with a lot of their philosophy, but... But I'm 00:14:18.340 --> 00:14:21.120 intrigued by their passion. I'm intrigued by 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:25.139 their intensity, albeit drugs, albeit whatever, 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:28.580 youthful rage, whatever. But I also see that 00:14:28.580 --> 00:14:33.580 same spirit, that same mindset on a lot of YouTubers, 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:37.320 a lot of. podcasters. I mean, it's just rage, 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.620 rage, rage. And we're the people who are living 00:14:40.620 --> 00:14:43.039 up in a down world. We're the people that are 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.299 saying, you know what? It's not all bad out there. 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.480 There's good people on this planet. Man, we got 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.200 a bunch of them that listen to this podcast and 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.399 they reach out to you and me or they hit us up 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.220 on X and they add things or they encourage us. 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:57.620 And it's like, man, there are good people everywhere, 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:02.259 everywhere. And Jodie White, known as the Pickle 00:15:02.259 --> 00:15:07.970 Princess, She sent in a note. I don't know if 00:15:07.970 --> 00:15:09.610 you got, but I think she only sent it to me. 00:15:09.649 --> 00:15:12.029 She wanted it to be show content, which I appreciate 00:15:12.029 --> 00:15:15.129 since you bring it up. And I'll read it to you. 00:15:15.269 --> 00:15:17.710 She says, Adam, we get to do this. It was wonderful 00:15:17.710 --> 00:15:20.190 this week. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The thing 00:15:20.190 --> 00:15:22.370 Pastor Jimmy read was a good reminder of exactly 00:15:22.370 --> 00:15:25.789 how spoiled we really are. I'm trying to think 00:15:25.789 --> 00:15:28.769 what that was exactly. It was that thing about 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:32.720 I get to travel. Oh yeah, exactly. I have to 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.559 pack, but I get to travel. I'm doing the dishes 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.299 because I get to eat. Yes, perfect. Right. As 00:15:38.299 --> 00:15:40.620 she continues, also I too am enjoying all the 00:15:40.620 --> 00:15:43.399 patriotism and the FIFA visitors enjoying our 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:47.700 country. Which it just continues, man. It's snowballed. 00:15:47.779 --> 00:15:50.299 I saw an English guy at Java Ranch the other 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:52.139 day when I was playing chess with Willie. Oh, 00:15:52.779 --> 00:15:55.159 yeah. I love it. Yeah, we love the hill country. 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.019 You know, we were in Houston. Now we're going 00:15:57.019 --> 00:15:59.759 to Dallas. It's just, it's amazing. It really 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.799 is so cool. We're at a resort today, this week. 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:07.419 So we're hearing lots of, lots of accents from 00:16:07.419 --> 00:16:09.919 other worlds and other places. It's beautiful. 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:14.909 I love it. So The Pickle Princess's question 00:16:14.909 --> 00:16:19.889 is regarding When Calls the Heart, which she 00:16:19.889 --> 00:16:22.570 says she is now binge watching as well. I have 00:16:22.570 --> 00:16:26.269 not seen this. I have not seen this. Can you 00:16:26.269 --> 00:16:30.129 explain briefly what this series is about? It's 00:16:30.129 --> 00:16:33.289 set in the early 1900s, so it's a period, historical 00:16:33.289 --> 00:16:35.769 period piece. It's a romance. It's like watching 00:16:35.769 --> 00:16:38.070 a Harlequin romance basically, but without all 00:16:38.070 --> 00:16:41.950 the fluff. But it's based on family. It's based 00:16:41.950 --> 00:16:46.590 on values. We use the three F's, faith, family, 00:16:46.629 --> 00:16:49.190 and freedom. They're all included in this. Interesting 00:16:49.190 --> 00:16:51.250 enough, though, it's not in America. It's set 00:16:51.250 --> 00:16:54.769 in Canada, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. 00:16:55.409 --> 00:16:58.750 And it has the Canadian mounted police in the 00:16:58.750 --> 00:17:03.490 early days. These guys were constables of their 00:17:03.490 --> 00:17:08.880 communities. So it goes into some politics. It's 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.519 very lighthearted. It's somewhat predictable. 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.180 It's made by Hallmark back before they lost their 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:19.259 minds. And yet it's the longest running series 00:17:19.259 --> 00:17:24.180 on Hallmark. They're in the 14th season, 14 years. 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.160 And all the same characters, now they come and 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.640 go. But oh my gosh, the character development 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.680 is amazing, but they constantly hearken you back 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.579 to God, hearken you back to faith. One of the 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:39.359 main characters is a guy named Joseph. He's black, 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:43.420 by the way, and he's the town pastor. And it's 00:17:43.420 --> 00:17:45.700 beautiful. Well, Tina and I have been looking 00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:47.900 for something to watch. So we're going to start 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:51.819 on that because we're a little tired. And I'm 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:54.980 just going to say it. It's maybe because it's 00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:57.799 the month of June, which is known as Pride Month, 00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:02.799 but every single show for no reason has to have 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.019 gay guys kissing. I grew up in Amsterdam, like 00:18:07.019 --> 00:18:09.980 nothing shocks me. But it brings nothing to the 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:13.940 story. You're doing it just to do it. And I mentioned 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:16.319 this on no agenda and people said, oh, you have 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.180 no idea. It's happening in books. It's everywhere. 00:18:19.579 --> 00:18:21.819 Like this. Wow. This is a, this is an attack 00:18:21.819 --> 00:18:25.339 we got to be careful of. Anyway. Yeah. Obligatory, 00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:28.380 right? It's just, and I got to tell you, if, 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:32.400 if I was that, I'd be insulted by the way they 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.640 treat it. I mean, so even, even from that angle, 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.140 it's like, just sort of a tip. And anyway, I 00:18:39.140 --> 00:18:41.460 don't want to dive deep in that. But this is 00:18:41.460 --> 00:18:43.980 what I love about this particular series that 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:47.019 has been such a blessing to us is because it 00:18:47.019 --> 00:18:50.619 has faith. It's all about family values, and 00:18:50.619 --> 00:18:54.319 it's about freedom. And in a time period too, 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.400 which is fascinating, they've just entered into 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.839 the roaring 20s. And so the youth are wanting 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.869 to learn these new you know, scandalous dances, 00:19:03.069 --> 00:19:06.690 you know, the shimmy and the Charleston. And 00:19:06.690 --> 00:19:09.230 it's like, oh my gosh. And so they had an ethical 00:19:09.230 --> 00:19:13.569 moral dilemma over a youth dance, you know. And 00:19:13.569 --> 00:19:17.450 it's so fun because there's an innocence about 00:19:17.450 --> 00:19:20.569 it too. And the things that startled them, like 00:19:20.569 --> 00:19:24.069 when comic books came on the scene, all of a 00:19:24.069 --> 00:19:25.890 sudden, it created a scandal because now all 00:19:25.890 --> 00:19:28.269 the use of tension is going to be stolen by these 00:19:28.269 --> 00:19:32.829 books. Not much has changed. I mean, the dynamics 00:19:32.829 --> 00:19:35.930 don't change, even though the methods do and 00:19:35.930 --> 00:19:40.589 the delivery. of it changes. Whether it's a phone 00:19:40.589 --> 00:19:42.269 in your hand, well, they were struggling with 00:19:42.269 --> 00:19:46.250 the kids having comic books in classes. Everything 00:19:46.250 --> 00:19:48.930 you're saying, it's like, oh yes, I have this 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:51.750 topic ready. I've got this topic ready. So put 00:19:51.750 --> 00:19:53.970 a pin in that. I just need to finish the letter 00:19:53.970 --> 00:19:59.329 from Jodi. She has five questions about the show. 00:19:59.849 --> 00:20:03.049 You may not be able to answer them, but I figured 00:20:03.049 --> 00:20:06.990 she wrote in, we love Jodi. We love that she 00:20:06.990 --> 00:20:11.289 introduced us to Bose Pickles Louisiana, Louisiana 00:20:11.289 --> 00:20:14.430 dill Pickles at gmail .com. So here's question 00:20:14.430 --> 00:20:18.130 number one Why do the people of Hope Valley never 00:20:18.130 --> 00:20:21.250 close the door when they walk in a room? And 00:20:21.250 --> 00:20:24.170 I've noticed that I Don't know, you know, they 00:20:24.170 --> 00:20:26.650 had no air conditioning there. I mean literally 00:20:26.650 --> 00:20:31.309 that no AC brother number two when bill sold 00:20:31.309 --> 00:20:33.829 his land to Madeline They never set a price. 00:20:33.970 --> 00:20:36.210 He just offered to sell it and she accepted. 00:20:36.670 --> 00:20:39.569 Was there no money exchange? And did he just 00:20:39.569 --> 00:20:43.150 deed the land over to her? That was weird. That 00:20:43.150 --> 00:20:46.250 was weird. They did not discuss a price, maybe 00:20:46.250 --> 00:20:48.630 because of values back then. I don't know. But 00:20:48.630 --> 00:20:50.710 yeah, you're right. She's absolutely right. I 00:20:50.710 --> 00:20:53.250 noticed things, quirky things like that as well. 00:20:53.509 --> 00:20:55.349 So I'm on the same page. All right. Number three, 00:20:55.410 --> 00:20:57.630 what happened to Pastor Frank? He was there and 00:20:57.630 --> 00:20:59.789 then he wasn't. Did he go work with orphans or 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:02.380 something? Okay, so here's what I do. When I'm 00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:05.339 watching a show like this, I've got my iPad on 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:07.900 my lap and I'm looking up stuff. Oh, you're like 00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:10.619 Tina. Oh, man. I like to know the background. 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.559 I like to know what's going on. She's looking 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.720 up actors. She's looking up historical facts 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:17.539 and she's, no, you don't have to pause it. Keep 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:19.759 going. How can you even do that? All right. So 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:21.299 you're like Tina in that regard. So the people 00:21:21.299 --> 00:21:24.839 that are followers of this show are called hardies. 00:21:26.029 --> 00:21:29.630 Yeah, when he calls the heart. And man, it's 00:21:29.630 --> 00:21:33.210 a culture, brother. I'm just saying. The question 00:21:33.210 --> 00:21:35.190 she's asking, the questions everybody's asking. 00:21:36.009 --> 00:21:37.869 But Pastor Frank was great because he had a great 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:40.589 redemption story. He had a really hard past. 00:21:40.650 --> 00:21:43.390 He had been convicted and had a felony. He was 00:21:43.390 --> 00:21:46.089 in prison for a time. And then he was redeemed, 00:21:46.329 --> 00:21:48.369 radically redeemed by Jesus. And so he comes 00:21:48.369 --> 00:21:51.170 on the scene, great redemption story. But for 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:54.890 some reason, They have different showrunners 00:21:54.890 --> 00:21:57.650 that cycle in and out of these shows, and then 00:21:57.650 --> 00:21:59.450 the shows will kind of take a different direction. 00:21:59.569 --> 00:22:01.730 You know what a showrunner is, right? Kind of 00:22:01.730 --> 00:22:06.230 the CEO of the set, he kind of oversees the direction 00:22:06.230 --> 00:22:08.970 a show is going. Well, when they hire a different 00:22:08.970 --> 00:22:11.769 showrunner or another showrunner has gone somewhere 00:22:11.769 --> 00:22:14.730 else. The shows will take a different direction. 00:22:14.769 --> 00:22:16.750 That's why when you watch a long series, you'll 00:22:16.750 --> 00:22:20.609 notice changes and shifts and emphases on different 00:22:20.609 --> 00:22:23.670 characters or different themes. And so I think 00:22:23.670 --> 00:22:26.170 they had a showrunner change and they wrote him 00:22:26.170 --> 00:22:30.049 off. He ends up going to serve a children's, 00:22:30.170 --> 00:22:32.430 an orphanage somewhere and falls in love with 00:22:32.430 --> 00:22:34.750 that as his primary ministry. So we did. Okay. 00:22:34.869 --> 00:22:37.990 And he gets replaced by Pastor Joseph, who's 00:22:37.990 --> 00:22:40.640 phenomenal. Precious, precious man. I can't wait 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.259 to see this show now. This is already intriguing. 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:44.119 You're going to get into it, bro. Number four. 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:46.559 It's going to be good. Where does Henry live? 00:22:46.619 --> 00:22:50.200 They never say, but I do love Henry. Oh, I don't 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.220 know where she's at, so I don't want to go too 00:22:52.220 --> 00:22:56.319 deep into it, but his redemptive story arc is 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:58.960 the highlight of the show. OK, we'll leave it 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.279 at that. We get to follow Henry Gowan, who starts 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:06.680 off as a scoundrel, greedy, angry, mean, powerful. 00:23:07.150 --> 00:23:11.509 and his life goes through a major massive redemption. 00:23:12.190 --> 00:23:16.369 So his whole story arc, we're now in season 12, 00:23:16.369 --> 00:23:19.750 I think. And it's still going, by the way, it's 00:23:19.750 --> 00:23:22.529 still in production for season 14 right now. 00:23:23.069 --> 00:23:27.230 But his story by Hardee's is one of the most 00:23:27.230 --> 00:23:29.950 beloved story arcs in the whole thing. And the 00:23:29.950 --> 00:23:33.650 final question, no one ever pays a tab at Abigail's. 00:23:33.789 --> 00:23:36.190 especially when they're taking food from the 00:23:36.190 --> 00:23:40.269 kitchen. How does Minnie stay in business? I 00:23:40.269 --> 00:23:43.390 don't know. I've never seen money exchanged. 00:23:43.769 --> 00:23:45.549 Every once in a while, I see somebody drop something 00:23:45.549 --> 00:23:47.849 on the tables. They're heading out like Lucas 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:51.349 or some of those guys. But yeah, that's interesting 00:23:51.349 --> 00:23:53.490 to me. I said that to Annette. I said, no one 00:23:53.490 --> 00:23:56.250 ever pays for anything. That's great. I don't 00:23:56.250 --> 00:23:58.680 know. It's that local thing, right? Beautiful 00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:02.519 show. Well worth a watch. And it will be refreshing 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:06.920 to you because you will not hear the crap that 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.019 Hollywood is putting out. Well, we actually, 00:24:09.019 --> 00:24:11.599 so we, we watched two different things that I 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:13.279 wanted to highlight because people are always 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:14.940 looking for something good to watch. And this 00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:19.069 was on, this was on Angel. It's called an interview 00:24:19.069 --> 00:24:21.990 with God. It's from 2018. Have you ever seen 00:24:21.990 --> 00:24:25.170 this movie? No, I haven't. Oh, man. I'm intrigued. 00:24:25.430 --> 00:24:28.069 Yeah, it's a journalist who gets a three session 00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:31.849 interview with a man who claims to be God. And 00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:35.849 I mean, the whole story is just fantastic. It's 00:24:35.849 --> 00:24:39.769 a great movie. You'll enjoy watching it. It's 00:24:39.769 --> 00:24:43.650 streaming. It's on Angel. It's Angel Guild approved. 00:24:44.269 --> 00:24:46.750 Very cool. And then the other thing since we 00:24:46.750 --> 00:24:50.269 both love period pieces was Seeking Persephone 00:24:50.269 --> 00:24:52.849 Huh, and you know the story of Persephone in 00:24:52.849 --> 00:24:55.410 Hades. I don't know if not everyone knows their 00:24:55.410 --> 00:25:00.869 Greek mythology Persephone is P -E -R -S -O -P 00:25:00.869 --> 00:25:03.710 -H -O -N -E So you look at it you go Persephone, 00:25:04.069 --> 00:25:06.769 but it's a Persephone a period piece now. This 00:25:06.769 --> 00:25:11.569 is nice It's a four -part miniseries And I think 00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:15.460 that was also an angel Fantastic. Absolutely 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:17.700 fantastic. All right. I'm going to have to remember 00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:19.200 them. You're going to have to text those to me 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:21.200 because we're always looking for something. There's 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:24.420 not as much God in that as the obviously interview 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:27.059 with God, but man, you want a good movie, a period 00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:31.279 piece, a beautiful love story. That's the one. 00:25:31.700 --> 00:25:35.140 It's fantastic. People are calling out for wholesome 00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:39.559 TV in movies and that's why you see the onslaught 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:42.640 of... Christian and faith based movies and moral 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.900 morality base and wholesome movies coming out 00:25:44.900 --> 00:25:47.299 right now And it's working because people are 00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:49.960 sick. Yes tired of Hollywood. We were supposed 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:53.119 to have Dietrich and his wife Kelly who's the 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.079 CEO of The wonder project that was supposed to 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:57.680 come out this weekend supposed to have dinner. 00:25:57.980 --> 00:26:00.359 They had to cancel unfortunately So we'll catch 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.559 them, you know back to her back from from Europe 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:05.900 But I can't wait to hear her story since she 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:09.240 you know, she was at YouTube Right, exactly. 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:12.039 And they're both, you know, faithful people. 00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:15.019 And she's one of the founders of Angel, correct? 00:26:15.140 --> 00:26:18.339 No, Wonder Project. A Wonder Project. Yeah, they 00:26:18.339 --> 00:26:22.279 did House of David. Yes, subsidiary of Amazon? 00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:26.299 No, Amazon distributes for them. Okay, got you. 00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:28.440 It's all confusing to me. Yeah, it's a standalone. 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:33.019 She and John Irwin, the director of House of 00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:35.839 David. One of the Irwin brothers. Yeah, so they 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.269 founded this together. literally as a HBO for 00:26:40.269 --> 00:26:44.829 believers. Nice. I love it. I mean, listen, now 00:26:44.829 --> 00:26:47.369 we're watching the Hallmark series and that again, 00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:49.829 back when things were more wholesome and they've 00:26:49.829 --> 00:26:52.589 stayed with the formula. They have not ventured 00:26:52.589 --> 00:26:57.650 outside the lines on that. Right. So far. And 00:26:57.650 --> 00:26:59.670 I'm assuming it'll stay that way because I mean, 00:26:59.750 --> 00:27:02.950 this is what it has a massive following. Yeah. 00:27:03.109 --> 00:27:07.190 And the Hardys are intense. And so yeah, anyway, 00:27:07.369 --> 00:27:09.869 you'll enjoy that. And man, thanks for the suggestion 00:27:09.869 --> 00:27:12.029 for some good wholesome things to watch. Yeah. 00:27:12.130 --> 00:27:14.829 You guys got your streaming sets there. If you're 00:27:14.829 --> 00:27:17.950 sitting in the hotel in the evening, like, oh, 00:27:17.950 --> 00:27:19.369 what am I going to do? Just chill. We plan our 00:27:19.369 --> 00:27:21.930 evenings around this. We ate at six, so we can 00:27:21.930 --> 00:27:24.289 be back in the room at seven. Six? Wait, at half 00:27:24.289 --> 00:27:26.410 hour later than usual? What are you talking about? 00:27:26.470 --> 00:27:28.950 This is not AARP approved? We couldn't get a 00:27:28.950 --> 00:27:33.089 530 reservation. We had the big dinner last night 00:27:33.089 --> 00:27:37.720 at the CW. Oh, nice. A steakhouse. And it's like 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.519 elite. It is like a, it cost a shiny penny. I'll 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.119 bet it did. But it was worth, everybody had a 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:49.839 16 ounce Kentucky ribeye. Amazing, amazing food. 00:27:50.299 --> 00:27:55.970 Yeah. So you were talking about, in the series 00:27:55.970 --> 00:27:59.309 how comic books came along and this would be, 00:27:59.369 --> 00:28:04.230 this is going to destroy our youth. Scandalous. 00:28:04.230 --> 00:28:08.410 Scandalous. And you correctly say that the challenges 00:28:08.410 --> 00:28:11.910 are the same. It's always, it's the, actually 00:28:11.910 --> 00:28:14.650 it's the medium that has changed throughout the 00:28:14.650 --> 00:28:16.990 years. Comic books were a whole new medium. And 00:28:16.990 --> 00:28:20.529 something came out, And this is really for parents 00:28:20.529 --> 00:28:23.670 at a bridge church and of course anyone who's 00:28:23.670 --> 00:28:25.690 listening We we do this for our church first 00:28:25.690 --> 00:28:28.309 and foremost and but anyone else is listening. 00:28:28.410 --> 00:28:32.210 You're welcome to it and we appreciate it Do 00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:35.990 you remember the Commodore 64 computer? Absolutely. 00:28:36.390 --> 00:28:39.069 So my my first actually my first first first 00:28:39.069 --> 00:28:42.210 computer was a Sinclair ZX80 at night. People 00:28:42.210 --> 00:28:45.150 can go look that up. Mine was a Tandy. Right. 00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:47.410 So you had the color computer probably, the TRS? 00:28:47.410 --> 00:28:52.369 No, monochrome. Monochrome. So the Commodore, 00:28:52.490 --> 00:28:58.150 I started with, after the ZX80, I had the VIC 00:28:58.150 --> 00:29:01.529 -20. And that was the precursor to the Commodore 00:29:01.529 --> 00:29:05.329 64. And I really learned a lot of my computing 00:29:05.329 --> 00:29:10.160 chops, understanding data and for people who 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:13.359 don't know back in the day, you didn't have hard 00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:17.079 drives or floppy disks. You actually recorded 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:20.660 computer programs on a cassette tape. Oh, wow. 00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:25.019 And so if you if you bought a program, it would 00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:28.279 come on either two ways. It would be a big ROM, 00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:31.220 like a module, like a cartridge that you stuck 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:34.359 into the back of the computer. Or you could hook 00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:37.480 up a cassette recorder. And then you'd put the 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:39.380 cassette in and the cassette would literally 00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:41.799 have tones. It sounds like an old school modem 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:47.140 like, and then that would read into the memory 00:29:47.140 --> 00:29:49.519 and then you could load the program. And just 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:53.960 as an aside, back in the day, the BBC had a computer 00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.759 program and I think it was Monday night at seven. 00:29:58.539 --> 00:30:02.019 They would broadcast a new computer program. 00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:05.519 That's pretty cool. So you would sit there with 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:08.500 your cassette, you record it, and so over the 00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:10.700 air for maybe three or four minutes, all you'd 00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:14.619 hear was... You record it on the cassette and 00:30:14.619 --> 00:30:17.819 then you could play that into your computer and 00:30:17.819 --> 00:30:22.700 it would load the program. So anyway, long historical 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:26.500 walk down memory lane. Fascinating. To get to 00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:31.559 a new device which... I've always been searching 00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:36.799 for the perfect phone, what I call the OTG, off 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.819 the grid phone. Then I've never really been able 00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:42.980 to find the right combination. I mean, I've had 00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:47.119 the light phone, I've had flip phones, all kinds 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.339 of different devices for just when I just don't 00:30:50.339 --> 00:30:54.079 want to be bothered. And it actually hampered 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:57.420 my professional life quite a bit because it was 00:30:57.420 --> 00:31:01.099 hard for me to even participate in certain text 00:31:01.099 --> 00:31:04.380 conversations because of how Apple doesn't want 00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:07.019 to work with Android, et cetera, et cetera. And 00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:10.619 so Commodore, the company was purchased by really 00:31:10.619 --> 00:31:14.339 an enthusiast several years ago. He bought the 00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:16.619 company, which meant he was able to buy a lot 00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:20.670 of the old computer casings. via the classic 00:31:20.670 --> 00:31:26.369 Commodore 64 style and he rebuilt the whole operating 00:31:26.369 --> 00:31:32.390 system based on Linux which is very analogous 00:31:32.390 --> 00:31:35.930 to how the old computers felt and how they operated 00:31:35.930 --> 00:31:38.869 but it's very modern and it's actually quite 00:31:38.869 --> 00:31:42.039 usable and of course it plays all the old classic 00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:44.660 Commodore 64 games and everything. So it's a 00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:47.180 real, it's a hobbyist device, but it's, it's 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:50.480 cool. And it's, you know, I'm actually considering 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:53.640 ordering one just because it's such a cool nostalgia, 00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:57.720 nostalgic item, but they just came out with a 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:02.000 phone and, and it's a, it's, it's a real phone. 00:32:02.579 --> 00:32:06.119 It's I look at this thing. It's like, it's actually 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.220 cool to look at. It has a very Commodore kind 00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:13.839 of look to it. and there's the way they've set 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:17.779 it up is well actually I have a clip here of 00:32:17.779 --> 00:32:21.299 one of the YouTube reviewers who explained shortly 00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:24.259 exactly what the big deal is about the it's called 00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:27.559 the callback the Commodore callback very weird 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:32.059 and kind of retro it's a flip phone which runs 00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:36.720 Android but purposefully blocks web browsers 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.740 and social media apps not that it doesn't include 00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:44.440 them It blocks them so you cannot install them. 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.680 And apparently it has a touch screen, but it's 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:50.759 disabled so that you won't be tempted to use 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:57.059 a touch screen. And it costs $550. So this thing 00:32:57.059 --> 00:33:01.079 is kind of, you know, lead us not into temptation. 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:06.160 So you can load your, you know, like your, your 00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.900 messaging apps. And a lot of people use WhatsApp 00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:12.339 that's increasingly popular throughout the world 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:16.160 just because there's no text cost to it. But 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:18.579 it does text messaging. You can put, you know, 00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:22.779 if you need a navigation app or, you know, like 00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:25.400 a rideshare app, like Uber, it'll load all that 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.819 fine, just standard Android, but literally blocks 00:33:28.819 --> 00:33:32.700 all social media apps and the web browser. And 00:33:32.700 --> 00:33:35.420 I'm thinking, parents, you might want to look 00:33:35.420 --> 00:33:38.779 into this. This might be the perfect device for 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:41.720 your child who still needs to be able to communicate, 00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:44.480 still needs to be able to call and text, and 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.920 you need to be able to reach him because Lord 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:47.700 knows these days we have to be able to check 00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:52.559 on our kids all the time. And it has other apps 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.480 that are useful and productive apps, but it literally 00:33:56.480 --> 00:34:01.039 blocks anything else. So how do you get access 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:05.200 to this? They sell it at, I think it's Commodore 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:08.079 .com. I'm not sure if that's it. So it's called 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:11.199 Commodore phone or what? It's Commodore Callback. 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.059 Let me see. I have it. I'm going to look it up. 00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:15.159 That's it. You got me interested. It's a good 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.119 question. Commodore Callback. It might be Commodore 00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:22.400 .net. Yeah. Commodore Callback. There we go. 00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:26.219 Callback 8020? Commodore .net. Yeah. Callback 00:34:26.219 --> 00:34:30.530 8020. Exactly. It's a flip phone. Yeah, it's 00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:33.650 a flip phone. Oh, classic looking too. Isn't 00:34:33.650 --> 00:34:38.570 that awesome? Ooh, I like. I know. You look at 00:34:38.570 --> 00:34:42.369 it like, I kind of want that. So it runs 99 % 00:34:42.369 --> 00:34:45.190 of all Android apps. It's a flip phone, so it 00:34:45.190 --> 00:34:47.969 is kind of cool. You know, you can do your podcast, 00:34:48.110 --> 00:34:52.349 you can do music. It has old school and FM radio 00:34:52.349 --> 00:34:54.650 built in. All right. We haven't had one of those 00:34:54.650 --> 00:34:59.289 in a while. Does Wi -Fi. but block social media 00:34:59.289 --> 00:35:03.969 and browsers, no data selling, it's a complete 00:35:03.969 --> 00:35:08.530 open source version of Android called Sailfish, 00:35:10.389 --> 00:35:14.869 and almost no pop -ups, it has LED notifications, 00:35:15.329 --> 00:35:18.889 and you can completely go off grid with a physical 00:35:18.889 --> 00:35:22.690 privacy switch. Wow, I'm showing here, starting 00:35:22.690 --> 00:35:27.760 at $3 .99. It could be, yeah. Starting it. WhatsApp, 00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:31.000 SMS pre -installed, support signal, Telegram, 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:34.039 WeChat, and more. Even iMessage, it says. So 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.099 there's a way to connect your iMessage to it. 00:35:36.659 --> 00:35:39.179 At the speed of predictive, all at the speed 00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:42.480 of predictive text input. So it is, it is the 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:46.900 old school way of using the keyboard, the keypad 00:35:46.900 --> 00:35:50.019 to text. But you can get pretty good at that 00:35:50.019 --> 00:35:53.119 because we were fast back in the day. So you 00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:55.619 can bring back your old skills. I just I just 00:35:55.619 --> 00:36:00.079 saw this I'm like, yeah, that's very cool Yeah, 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.739 I'd give my you know, I love it they're little 00:36:02.739 --> 00:36:07.760 byline not your granny's flip Good marketing 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:11.940 there. Yeah That was my fantastic. That was my 00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:14.500 yeah, how's the weather there by the way? Weather 00:36:14.500 --> 00:36:18.980 is hot here. Very humid. It'd be like 89 degrees 00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:23.480 and a hundred and two heat index So yeah, it's 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:29.000 the heat, the humidity is like having a hot wet 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:34.079 blanket on an August Texas day. As we would say 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:42.139 in the old country, which translates to the sparrows 00:36:42.139 --> 00:36:46.969 are falling dead from the roof. Oh, that's a 00:36:46.969 --> 00:36:50.750 good one. Bro, that's a good one. I mean, literally, 00:36:50.949 --> 00:36:53.050 it's just a different kind of heat here. You 00:36:53.050 --> 00:36:54.670 know, being on the coast, it's a different kind 00:36:54.670 --> 00:36:58.570 of sun too. I mean, it'll fry you in a very short 00:36:58.570 --> 00:37:02.010 amount of time, but it's beautiful though. It's 00:37:02.010 --> 00:37:04.829 stunning. No rain this week, I think maybe a 00:37:04.829 --> 00:37:07.449 little bit tomorrow and Friday, but very little. 00:37:07.550 --> 00:37:10.550 So it's been gorgeous. We come back on Saturday. 00:37:10.650 --> 00:37:13.809 We'll get in late Saturday night. And it has 00:37:13.809 --> 00:37:17.690 been... Such a great experience. Man, I love 00:37:17.690 --> 00:37:20.809 our city. I love our town. But the truth is, 00:37:20.809 --> 00:37:23.510 if we don't get away, we can't get away. Of course 00:37:23.510 --> 00:37:25.389 not. It's one of those things. We got to get 00:37:25.389 --> 00:37:28.809 out of town. And so every year we try to get 00:37:28.809 --> 00:37:32.849 to a coast and we love Florida. So we tend to 00:37:32.849 --> 00:37:35.710 come this way. And Florida is weird for me because 00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:40.429 it feels very familiar. I don't feel no culture 00:37:40.429 --> 00:37:44.610 shock whatsoever around Florida. I feel very 00:37:44.610 --> 00:37:46.650 at home here. Not that I want to move here, just 00:37:46.650 --> 00:37:49.309 we love visiting. I don't like hurricanes. I'm 00:37:49.309 --> 00:37:51.570 sorry. I'll take tornadoes any day. Talk to Tina 00:37:51.570 --> 00:37:55.210 about that. Talk to Tina about that. She'll tell 00:37:55.210 --> 00:37:57.750 you. She lived there for many years. Yeah. I 00:37:57.750 --> 00:37:59.650 mean, it's beautiful. And the people here are 00:37:59.650 --> 00:38:02.250 very, very Southern, gracious, just very much 00:38:02.250 --> 00:38:04.409 like Texas and Tennessee. Oh, you should see 00:38:04.409 --> 00:38:07.369 the tourists who are going to World Cup in Miami. 00:38:08.550 --> 00:38:10.820 They're like, holy mo... They're like... This 00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:14.119 is, this is like the most multicultural place 00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.840 I've ever been. You know, they're going to, you're 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.960 seeing all the Cuban stuff and that was wonderful. 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.619 Doesn't it make you feel good though, watching 00:38:22.619 --> 00:38:26.260 these clips? It gives me such a pride in the 00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:28.579 right way. Not a weird pride, but a good pride. 00:38:28.860 --> 00:38:31.780 Patriotism. I'm proud of my country and what 00:38:31.780 --> 00:38:34.659 it also highlights for me are all the entitled 00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:37.519 people who talk bad about our nation and about 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:39.920 our country. Here's the thing, let's be real. 00:38:40.600 --> 00:38:48.000 presidents, different cabinets, different red, 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:51.420 blue, whatever, they come and go. And we need 00:38:51.420 --> 00:38:54.659 to get over who's in office right now and get 00:38:54.659 --> 00:38:59.320 back to our local level, our local life. We get 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:02.099 so spun up, and thanks to news media and social 00:39:02.099 --> 00:39:04.920 media about what's going on in Washington, when 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.039 we need to be focused on what's right in front 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:09.380 of us. Now, that's not to be ignorant of, we 00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:12.559 need to be praying for. But we've got to get 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:16.099 people with their eyes back on their own terra 00:39:16.099 --> 00:39:19.150 firma, right where they live. and be involved 00:39:19.150 --> 00:39:22.349 in that and quit over worrying about the world 00:39:22.349 --> 00:39:25.829 scene. And because of social media and because 00:39:25.829 --> 00:39:28.130 of these bricks, by the way, I wanted to say 00:39:28.130 --> 00:39:32.750 this on the show. I've never seen more men sitting 00:39:32.750 --> 00:39:36.210 with their wives at a pool, at a restaurant that 00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:38.510 all are on their phone. I want to go take it 00:39:38.510 --> 00:39:40.949 out of some guy's hands. I've been leaving my 00:39:40.949 --> 00:39:44.039 phone in my room in the safe. So I don't have 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:46.579 to see it. And praise God, what I love about 00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:48.559 our church, they're so good. When they know we're 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.559 gone, they don't text us. They don't mess with 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.019 us. Our people are wonderful. But I see these 00:39:55.019 --> 00:39:58.980 men at breakfast, three kids losing their minds. 00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:01.500 Mama's over there trying to control them. And 00:40:01.500 --> 00:40:04.280 they're on their phone and cannot put it down. 00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:05.980 I want to go over and grab it out of his hand 00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:08.920 and say, what really matters is sitting right 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.829 here. Oh, they're, you know, they're moving, 00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:14.829 shaking, you know, doing business or they're 00:40:14.829 --> 00:40:17.510 watching the next soccer game or whatever. But 00:40:17.510 --> 00:40:20.909 it's like, it has really, I've noticed it on 00:40:20.909 --> 00:40:24.170 this trip more than any because this is a really 00:40:24.170 --> 00:40:26.809 a getaway resort. You're on an island and it's 00:40:26.809 --> 00:40:31.849 like, there is no excuse for being on your phone 00:40:31.849 --> 00:40:35.070 24 seven here. This is where you put it away 00:40:35.070 --> 00:40:38.570 and just go about. trying to have fun. It took 00:40:38.570 --> 00:40:41.530 me a couple of days to unplug, to wind down once 00:40:41.530 --> 00:40:44.289 I got here, but man, I'm in full relaxed mode 00:40:44.289 --> 00:40:47.210 now. I was having a conversation with my buddy, 00:40:47.429 --> 00:40:51.090 Dave Jones. We do the Podcasting 2 .0 podcast. 00:40:53.030 --> 00:40:56.570 The Podcasting 2 .0 is an open source, open group, 00:40:56.969 --> 00:41:02.739 and we kind of came together to improve podcasting. 00:41:02.860 --> 00:41:05.159 And part of that was by creating an independent 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:09.019 index that so that no one really owns podcasting 00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:11.900 and anybody could develop an app. And it's like 00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:15.619 190 apps are now out there then. Yeah, this some 00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:18.940 are very small. You'd be amazed how many people 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:22.579 in South America use what is that thing called 00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:28.079 pod two? It's a very small podcast app that fits 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:32.929 on Flip phones and smaller cheap devices Africans 00:41:32.929 --> 00:41:35.369 a lot of Africans use it as well and that all 00:41:35.369 --> 00:41:38.070 connects to the index You know people can't just 00:41:38.070 --> 00:41:42.269 easily use an iPhone for the cause And so they 00:41:42.269 --> 00:41:44.030 have these different kind of flaws, but that's 00:41:44.030 --> 00:41:47.369 beside the point So this group is it's ad hoc 00:41:47.369 --> 00:41:50.590 and we do a podcast and the podcast we do once 00:41:50.590 --> 00:41:53.719 a week And it's very interactive because we have 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:56.420 a live chat room. We record it live and we call 00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:58.159 it the board meeting. We're just talking about 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.440 whatever's going on in the group. And through 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:03.360 this, you see transcripts in your podcast that 00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:05.579 comes from us. You see chapters in your podcast 00:42:05.579 --> 00:42:08.300 that comes from us. There's a whole bunch of 00:42:08.300 --> 00:42:10.820 improvements that we've created that now are 00:42:10.820 --> 00:42:14.440 being adopted by this whole quote unquote industry. 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:22.230 And so we have a mastodon, a closed Macedon server, 00:42:22.289 --> 00:42:24.030 which is kind of like a social network, but it 00:42:24.030 --> 00:42:25.949 doesn't, there's no algo. So it doesn't really 00:42:25.949 --> 00:42:30.090 behave like a, like Facebook or Instagram or 00:42:30.090 --> 00:42:34.170 X. Um, but then there's technical discussions 00:42:34.170 --> 00:42:37.789 take place on something called GitHub and GitHub 00:42:37.789 --> 00:42:41.110 is literally where you publish code. People can 00:42:41.110 --> 00:42:44.030 say, Hey, I want to add some code, take a look. 00:42:44.110 --> 00:42:46.329 It's called a PR, a pull request. You can take 00:42:46.329 --> 00:42:49.900 a look at this code, merge it in. But then there's 00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:53.219 also discussions so someone will have a proposal 00:42:53.219 --> 00:42:55.639 in this case. It was doesn't even matter what 00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:01.360 it was for but The github discussions it's kind 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:04.119 of like a forum almost like reddit I should say 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:06.719 where you have someone proposes something and 00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:09.699 then there's a hundred and fifty comments below 00:43:09.699 --> 00:43:13.539 and people are quoting another person and This 00:43:13.539 --> 00:43:16.019 thing it always I don't care what project it 00:43:16.019 --> 00:43:19.849 is github discussions about code Always get heated. 00:43:20.469 --> 00:43:24.449 Always. And Dave, who was part of my faith journey, 00:43:24.750 --> 00:43:29.809 is the most loving, kind, calm man I know. You 00:43:29.809 --> 00:43:34.429 and he are kind of equal in that regard. And 00:43:34.429 --> 00:43:38.650 he was getting upset. And we talked about this. 00:43:38.929 --> 00:43:43.369 And he says, you know, I realized that... And 00:43:43.369 --> 00:43:46.449 he actually is also kind of a hack philosopher. 00:43:46.989 --> 00:43:49.739 He was... telling me about this book he was reading 00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:52.880 with right brain left brain and there's a lot 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:56.320 of talk about that and and these days we use 00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:59.519 a lot of our left brain which is really controlled 00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:03.059 um controls the right side of your body so your 00:44:03.059 --> 00:44:05.219 right eye what you see with your right eye right 00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:08.340 and you know the feeds into your left brain and 00:44:08.340 --> 00:44:11.820 left brain is analytical and you know it's it 00:44:11.820 --> 00:44:14.079 controls a lot of other things like your amygdala 00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:17.320 and how upset you get or how you analyze things. 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:20.460 And the right brain is kind of the loving creative 00:44:20.460 --> 00:44:23.739 half. I'm really cutting corners here on this. 00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:28.360 And he said that he read that sparrows, I think 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:31.719 it was sparrows, when they're like picking seeds 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:34.920 off of the ground, one eye is focused solely 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:37.460 on the food and the other eye is looking out 00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:41.179 for predators. Whoa. And as we're talking about 00:44:41.179 --> 00:44:44.179 this, we realize that what happens is, us humans, 00:44:44.420 --> 00:44:46.920 we focus both eyes, we're probably the right 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:49.900 eye more than the other. And what you're seeing 00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:52.900 on your screen, and it's even worse on your phone, 00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:56.440 at that moment, what is happening right there, 00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:59.019 and you can feel this, next time you look at 00:44:59.019 --> 00:45:02.159 your phone, look at a newsfeed, that is at that 00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:05.039 very moment, your entire world. That's why the 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.070 fathers you see, They're locked out. They're 00:45:08.070 --> 00:45:12.190 not seeing anything. We don't have the sparrow 00:45:12.190 --> 00:45:14.869 capability to have one eye on what's going on 00:45:14.869 --> 00:45:18.690 around me. Like, are my kids in danger? Is my 00:45:18.690 --> 00:45:20.710 wife getting frustrated? There's none of that. 00:45:20.989 --> 00:45:24.570 We are focused and that literally becomes your 00:45:24.570 --> 00:45:29.969 world. And so then, now you see why people respond 00:45:29.969 --> 00:45:32.449 the way they respond because the whole world 00:45:32.449 --> 00:45:37.539 is tuned out. Wow. Now, I had a solution to this, 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:42.000 which is you should just cover your left eye 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:44.780 when reading anything so then your right brain 00:45:44.780 --> 00:45:46.940 kicks in, you'll have love and better normal 00:45:46.940 --> 00:45:49.800 emotions. Does that work? No, it doesn't really 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:54.079 work. But it just dawned on me that that is what's 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:55.780 happening. We used to have this, we call them 00:45:55.780 --> 00:45:59.079 TV junkies, you know, Willy Wonka famously had 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:02.820 TV mic. And our parents would tell us, you better 00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:04.739 not sit in front of that TV, your brain's going 00:46:04.739 --> 00:46:08.840 to rot. But we were mesmerized, hypnotized. And 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.699 then the remote control came along. Oh man, if 00:46:11.699 --> 00:46:14.380 I'm bored for two seconds, I can zap over to 00:46:14.380 --> 00:46:17.949 something else. It is the same mechanism. but 00:46:17.949 --> 00:46:20.949 it becomes your world. We've got to be on the 00:46:20.949 --> 00:46:23.929 lookout for something like that. Becoming your 00:46:23.929 --> 00:46:26.690 world because literally you don't see that your 00:46:26.690 --> 00:46:29.750 wife is frustrated, your kids are mucking about, 00:46:29.849 --> 00:46:33.090 they're giving her a hard time, they're not settled. 00:46:34.829 --> 00:46:38.030 The awareness is really what helps me every single 00:46:38.030 --> 00:46:41.269 time. Just the awareness of, oh wow, I'm sucked 00:46:41.269 --> 00:46:45.070 in, I'm focused. That's why we all have that. 00:46:45.150 --> 00:46:47.619 You say something to your spouse and then they 00:46:47.619 --> 00:46:52.320 respond seven seconds later. Because it takes 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.119 that long to process, to get through all the 00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:57.480 synapses for them to process, hey, wait a minute, 00:46:57.780 --> 00:47:00.000 someone outside of this world that I'm in is 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:03.340 talking to me. Wow. You've really hit on something 00:47:03.340 --> 00:47:06.380 here. I mean, even as you were speaking, I was 00:47:06.380 --> 00:47:09.340 thinking how one of the reasons I've been able 00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:12.500 to relax so much is I've put my phone away. I 00:47:12.500 --> 00:47:14.460 just haven't been messing with it. I'm doing 00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:16.860 these little simple daily grinds that don't require 00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:19.119 anything other than putting together a little 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.760 graphic and sending it out. So I'm not drilling 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.519 in and going, okay, what are people going to 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:27.300 like? What's going to help somebody? You know, 00:47:27.300 --> 00:47:30.639 I've been able to kind of check out and what 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.619 I've become very aware of is my environment. 00:47:34.269 --> 00:47:37.289 I'm looking at the ocean. I'm looking or we're 00:47:37.289 --> 00:47:40.730 at the pool and just watching kids have a blast 00:47:40.730 --> 00:47:43.449 and be kids. That's refreshing right there. Just 00:47:43.449 --> 00:47:45.869 seeing kids throwing a Nerf football, you know, 00:47:45.949 --> 00:47:47.889 across the pool and having a big time, you know, 00:47:47.929 --> 00:47:51.170 or a tennis ball. And listen to this out of Proverbs 00:47:51.170 --> 00:47:55.210 425. Let your eyes look directly forward and 00:47:55.210 --> 00:47:59.110 your gaze be straight before you. And then in 00:47:59.110 --> 00:48:03.070 Psalm 119, turn my eyes from looking at worthless 00:48:03.070 --> 00:48:07.769 things and give me life in your ways. There is 00:48:07.769 --> 00:48:11.469 a lot of scripture about what we're looking at 00:48:11.469 --> 00:48:14.769 and where we put our, what we gaze upon. I've 00:48:14.769 --> 00:48:17.539 always said, you become what you behold. Yep. 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.480 And it's just this idea that whatever you're 00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:22.940 setting your eyes on is also going into your 00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:25.179 mind and it's transforming you, whether you think 00:48:25.179 --> 00:48:28.079 it is or not. Now, neurologists are proving what 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.519 the Bible said all along on these issues, right? 00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:35.000 Neurology is fascinating to me because it actually 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:37.659 confirms and affirms so much of what the Bible 00:48:37.659 --> 00:48:41.119 teaches. And this is one of those where we're 00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:45.079 actually rewiring our brains as we're so focused 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.380 on this one little screen in our hand. It's literally, 00:48:49.380 --> 00:48:52.340 we're rewiring our brains. We're training ourselves 00:48:52.340 --> 00:48:56.639 to 144 plus characters, you know, where we can't 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.199 hardly read a book. We can't read anything long 00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:02.739 form anymore. And I know I found myself, if there's 00:49:02.739 --> 00:49:05.260 something that's too long, that's why I've enjoyed 00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:07.519 going back to Substack, because there's some 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.360 long form things in there and I am forcing myself 00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:14.880 to read them. because I want to retrain my brain 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.820 to have long span attention and long form attention 00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:21.139 as opposed to just short term. And it's helping 00:49:21.139 --> 00:49:24.000 me and it's helping me think different too. And 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.159 I'm finding I'm more at peace and more at rest. 00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:28.840 I keep asking Annette, so did anything blow up 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.420 today? I mean, I'm just not looking. In fact, 00:49:32.500 --> 00:49:34.260 Annette said, what are you and Adam going to 00:49:34.260 --> 00:49:35.679 talk about? You don't even know what's going 00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:38.239 on. I said, I know, I'm just going to bring scripture. 00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:41.460 He's going to bring the issues. I'm going to 00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:43.960 find a biblical worldview towards it. It's easy 00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:48.500 for me. Well, as predicted, it looks like the 00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:54.099 war is over. Gas prices are falling down drastically 00:49:54.099 --> 00:49:56.739 every single day. It will be a good Fourth of 00:49:56.739 --> 00:49:58.940 July celebration. I'm quite confident of it. 00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:01.360 Just like you called the ball on that one. He 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.219 said he will get it done one way or another, 00:50:04.460 --> 00:50:06.099 whether all the terms or whatever everybody's 00:50:06.099 --> 00:50:08.230 liking, because all I've been reading is how 00:50:08.230 --> 00:50:12.949 mad everybody is. We can't just say, hey, but 00:50:12.949 --> 00:50:17.329 we're not firing bombs right now. Ultimately, 00:50:18.250 --> 00:50:20.250 what we care about is the price of gas. That's 00:50:20.250 --> 00:50:23.989 the American way. That is the metric. That's 00:50:23.989 --> 00:50:25.889 what you talk about at the cookout, man. You 00:50:25.889 --> 00:50:28.989 believe those gas prices? Yeah. That's Annette's 00:50:28.989 --> 00:50:30.809 first thing. That's the first thing she notices. 00:50:31.010 --> 00:50:34.059 She's, oh, look. Gas is down another 15 cents. 00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:36.380 I'm like, honey, you have an electric car. Why 00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:42.579 does it matter? It's amazing. Tina, she's like, 00:50:42.699 --> 00:50:47.219 it cost me over 50 bucks two months ago. 50 bucks 00:50:47.219 --> 00:50:52.139 to fill it up. I'm like, it's okay. I know it's 00:50:52.139 --> 00:50:55.679 expensive, but that particular expense is not 00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.769 going to break us. We're okay there, but she 00:50:58.769 --> 00:51:01.250 still gets really mad. I mean, that's the Indiana 00:51:01.250 --> 00:51:05.849 girl still going, this is no good. Outrage. And 00:51:05.849 --> 00:51:08.389 so the inverse has happened. It's like, wow, 00:51:08.590 --> 00:51:13.210 it was like $4 .29. It was almost under $4 and 00:51:13.210 --> 00:51:18.889 she's really happy. But this is good. And what 00:51:18.889 --> 00:51:22.210 you're seeing on social media people, it's probably 00:51:22.210 --> 00:51:25.840 8 % of our entire country who's on there. It's 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.840 not everybody. It's not everybody. Not everybody 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.239 cares. Not everybody is as spun up as you think 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:33.099 they are. That's right. There are some people 00:51:33.099 --> 00:51:35.019 that are actually grateful in this world that 00:51:35.019 --> 00:51:37.699 they have a car to drive. Amen to that, brother. 00:51:37.860 --> 00:51:42.300 Yes. Hey, can I land the plane with this bite 00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:44.480 your tongue and read this thing that I did last 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:45.880 week? Yes, please do. I think it's one of these 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:48.780 things we need to keep in front of us, especially 00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:52.260 in these times when the news just keeps trying 00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:55.519 to spin us up. Let's spin down with this. You 00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:57.920 complain about traffic because you have a car. 00:51:58.340 --> 00:52:01.039 You complain about laundry because you have clothes. 00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:04.760 You complain about dishes because you ate. You 00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.300 complain about packing because you get to travel. 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.340 You complain about taxes because you earned. 00:52:10.780 --> 00:52:13.280 You complain about your job because you have 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.239 one. You complain about a full inbox because 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:19.619 people need you. You complain about noise because 00:52:19.619 --> 00:52:22.860 you have a family. You complain about exercise 00:52:22.860 --> 00:52:26.219 because your body moves. You complain about wrinkles 00:52:26.219 --> 00:52:29.719 because you lived. You complain about gray hair 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.980 because you made it this far. You complain about 00:52:32.980 --> 00:52:36.500 change because you're growing. And listen, I 00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:40.420 agree with Mr. Adam Curry that we need to put 00:52:40.420 --> 00:52:44.829 down our phones and pick up our Bibles. Put down 00:52:44.829 --> 00:52:47.369 your screens and pick up your Bibles. Yes. Scripture 00:52:47.369 --> 00:52:50.570 before screens in all cases. Amen, brother. Brother, 00:52:50.769 --> 00:52:54.690 enjoy the rest of your vacation. Just have a 00:52:54.690 --> 00:52:57.349 great time. Thanks. And we look forward to having 00:52:57.349 --> 00:52:59.889 you back home and back in our church too. We 00:52:59.889 --> 00:53:02.449 miss you. Hey, one quick shout out to my church 00:53:02.449 --> 00:53:05.469 family. Listen, don't think we're out here, woo 00:53:05.469 --> 00:53:08.050 -hoo, we're out here going. Good night, we miss 00:53:08.050 --> 00:53:11.630 our church. We miss our family. So just know 00:53:11.630 --> 00:53:14.250 you're missed and you're loved, and I can't wait 00:53:14.250 --> 00:53:17.670 to be back, but also so thankful that we get 00:53:17.670 --> 00:53:21.769 this time away. It's such a gift. And we pack 00:53:21.769 --> 00:53:23.949 because we get to travel. That's right, brother. 00:53:24.010 --> 00:53:26.630 We'll see you next week, everybody. We get to 00:53:26.630 --> 00:53:38.849 do this and we love it. The chance we did not 00:53:38.849 --> 00:53:43.949 miss This is the life we get to do this