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Father, we get to do this. That's our heart.

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It's not just the show title. It really is the

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mantra of our life because you have blessed us

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so much that we have an attitude of gratitude

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and we just constantly say it because we mean

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it. We pray for our listeners today. They would

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be encouraged. They would find themselves built

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up and inspired and motivated. to continue to

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put one foot in front of the other and move forward.

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And they too would say along with us, we get

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to do this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday,

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October 14th, 2026. We get to do this. This is

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episode number 54. And a big hello and hallelujah.

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You're getting the hallelujah down, brother.

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Getting the hallelujahs in there. No one does

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that anymore. Just a hallelujah. A hallelujah.

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Are you hearkening back to your father or your

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grandfather? My grandfather. Grandfather. Yeho

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Yeho is what he'd say. He'd do hallelujah, yeho,

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yeho. Wow. Hello and yeho, yeho. Get to nation

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all the believers and the Christ curious it is.

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Your buddies, Adam and Jimmy here with We Get

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To Do This. How you doing, brother? Man, I am

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doing so good. So I drank an energy drink before

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we got here. So I'm feeling a little jittery,

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but in a good way. My face is flushed. This is

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what I drink before I go work out. It's called

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C4. And it, man, it is like intense. C4? C4.

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It sounds like, you know, I know, right? It's

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like something explosive. It does sound that.

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Well, it is. I mean, it's probably, who knows?

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I haven't looked at the ingredients, so I probably

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shouldn't, but. We're here to help everybody

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get through all the craziness of the week. There's

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so much going on. New term madness. Full swing.

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I got to start, though, with something else.

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I was listening to Joe Rogan and he, you know,

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with Joe Rogan is usually whoever the guest is,

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you're going to listen. And I was driving to

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pick up Tina yesterday at San Antonio. She came

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back from a lovely visit with her mom and her

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sisters and her daughter in Chicago and Chuck

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Laurie, who I don't know him. I know he's very

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opinionated. If you've ever seen the end of his.

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television shows. He was the sitcom king of the

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80s and 90s, Roseanne, Two and a Half Men, Big

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Bang Theory. The list goes on and on and on with

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this guy has done. He sometimes had this big

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card and it would be at the very end of the credits.

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You'd have to record it and pause it to read

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it. And it was always politically motivated.

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And he actually just won an award. Uh, and he

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was just cussing on president Trump and you know,

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for this very Hollywood audience. Um, but I'm

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listening to him talk with Joe Rogan. He has

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a book out about his, he was in Scientology for

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10 years and you know, which he got out of all

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kinds of stuff. And, and I'm listening to it

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and like, you know, I kind of got some respect

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for what this guy has done. You know, it's just

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talking about, you know, his career, which is

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40, 50 years. And he also was funny because,

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um, They were talking about why Actors often

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go off the rails. They finally get what they

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especially comics, you know, like I got my own

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sitcom I'm successful I got lots of money and

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then you know drugs drink gambling whatever And

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he said, you know, that's because you can't satisfy

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They think that the money and the fame the success

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will satisfy what they really crave And he says

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not that you need to have you need to find it

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from not from this world and then he said I know

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and he says I'm probably gonna get hammered for

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saying this, but you need some kind of spirituality.

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And Joe says, why do you say that? What are you

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afraid of? Because you live in Hollywood, is

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that why? And Joe was like spot on. Now Chuck

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Lorre didn't actually say, I believe in God,

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but everything, because I think he's still afraid

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to fully decloak, but to me it was a decloaking

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moment. I was, I'm like, oh, okay. And that...

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Perhaps all this performative stuff that he's

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doing is just expected in these Hollywood moments.

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And that's just a basis because I was prepared

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to think this guy is exactly the horrible douche

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that I thought he was. But then at a certain

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point, he's talking about the success of sitcoms.

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And he said, Yeah, it's a story, and you know,

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we're talking sitcoms. It's kind of a genre that's

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almost gone away. Multi -camera, on stage, before

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a live studio audience. Yeah, yeah, I loved it.

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It's almost gone. Which I think is actually probably

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a mistake. I mean, I think you could still be

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very successful with that format, but for whatever

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reason, television decided to go a different

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way. People don't even know what NBC is anymore.

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You know, what? Is it network? What? Streaming.

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It's just streaming, yeah. He said, it wasn't

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really the stories. Yes, it was the characters,

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but he said people felt like they were part of

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that family. And it was the relationship between

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the characters, knowing kind of how one would

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respond and the other one would play into that.

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That's the success. And if you don't have that

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magic that happens, it'll never happen. And this

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is why it's also very difficult to, like on the

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Cosby show, they replaced Aunt Viv. And it hurt

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the show. It was difficult. People were like,

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this is not the same lady. So this kind of happened

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to me in July of this year when my partner on

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No Agenda passed. John passed very slowly. Since

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he had his heart event in, I think, end of February,

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beginning of March, and then he had double bypass

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and it took him a long time to... all things

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considered, not a long time, but he came back,

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he was strong again, then boom, lights out, which

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is just like, whoa, hold on a sec. And so right

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away, 50 % of the on -air staff was gone. This

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is a big show, big production. Houston, we have

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a problem. And as I was trying to sort through

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this, You recognize or I recognize now how all

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the comments that people will send in, I've had

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multiple co -guest hosts, Dana Bernetti, Jason

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Calacanis, Andrew Horowitz, Rob Dew, and even

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our own Matt Long. And people are feeding back

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and it's gonna be... Very divisive, you know,

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but there'll be people say I love it when Horowitz

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is on I hated that Jay Kyle is the best. This

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is the guy for you And I realized that what they're

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not talking about is what we're actually doing.

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Yeah about media deconstruction They're talking

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about a relationship that they want to be a part

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of and they want to hear which is what you and

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I have community we had this relationship years

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before we started the podcast so I realized that

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when John died, the show basically died. What

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that was, it will never ever be. And what do

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I do with that? And now I kind of have to go

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back a year and a half when I was already feeling

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moved. Probably go back even further, three years.

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It's been three and a half years. Was that when

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I got baptized? About 23 and a half. When I was

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saved, you know, Jesus Christ came, he got me,

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he said, all right, here you are. So I was thinking

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about, I've been thinking about this lots of

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conversation with Tina. Before John ever had

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his event, we were talking about, hey, I feel

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that I'm being pulled towards kingdom work. And,

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you know, we just celebrated two years with Godcaster.

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You and I have been doing this show for over

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a year. and I got a book, there's all kinds of

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other things, but the Kingdom work is really

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where I feel I want to go. Moreover, I'm 62,

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I feel pretty good, I feel young, but what am

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I going to do with the rest of my life? Am I

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going to just do stuff? What's the mission? Well,

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the mission is the co -mission. I can read the

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Bible, I see what I'm supposed to do, and I want

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to do that. I see how it's working with this

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show, I see how it's working with Godcaster.

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But here's where I was living and this is the

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here's Adams parable the tale of four pairs of

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glasses Been thinking about this one. This is

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fresh for me Butter it up butter up. So when

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I was 19 and I got this all of a sudden I was

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on television I got this gig and it was amazing.

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You know, I moved out of the house I actually

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had an ultimatum from my parents. I dropped out

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of college. You got one month to go back to school,

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be paying us rent or you're out. And so I didn't

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have to pay him rent because I was paying my

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own rent in my own pad in Amsterdam. And I was

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out and I was good. It was government controlled

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airwaves. So for all intents and purposes, I

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was a government employee with a government employee

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salary. So you're on television, you're super

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famous, but you're not living like a superstar.

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However, We would allow to do commercial work

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on the side and so I was doing this thing called

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drive -in shows and And so you would go to one

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of the many bars or cafes or dance halls around

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the country I had a radio show on Friday night.

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So Saturday and Sunday we go out and you can

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make pretty decent money. I mean, I had it rigged,

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man. I had a limo. I had a guy. It was a 59 Fleetwood

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hearse. It was a hearse. It was a follow card,

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not the hearse itself, but for the grieving families.

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And I had Mario and he would drive and I had

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a DJ who would be there and he'd be my opening

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act for the first hour or whatever. It was fantastic.

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But before I had all that set up, I was driving

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myself and I realized, I'm like, Because, you

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know, driving at night and to all these, we didn't

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have GPS people. This is crazy. We had a map.

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You had to look at road signs. You couldn't miss,

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you know, the sign. And sometimes they weren't

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that clear and the roads weren't lit that well.

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And I'm like, holy cow, I can't see very well.

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And I'm squinting, you know, like I'm seeing

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all the letters kind of with stars on them. And

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so I go get my eyes checked. Yeah, you need glasses.

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And like, I wonder if this explains some of my

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academic career because I really wasn't, I was

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nearsighted and I really couldn't see very well

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in the distance and I had no idea. So I got glasses

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and like, oh, well that was like, this is fantastic.

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This is really good. I can see. Moving forward.

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Eventually, MTV calls me. Four years later, I

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go to MTV. I never really had to use teleprompter

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because I was only doing one TV show. I was so

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rehearsed. I knew all my lines. I knew what to

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say. I could ad lib. I didn't need a teleprompter.

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But at MTV, it was high output, things on the

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fly, even live shows. You relied on IFB, the

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thing in your ear, people talking to you, the

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control room, which I can multitask really well

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that way. And also what's on the prompter and

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things would change. And so I had to be able

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to see it. And guess what? I needed my glasses.

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Well, I'm like, something about the heavy metal

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long hair and everything and the glasses just

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didn't look right. So I got contacts. And I wore

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contacts for years and years and years and years

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until 2006. And so we've gone now from glasses

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to contacts. In 2006, I go for my helicopter

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pilot's license. I got that before I got my fixed

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wing. And as a part of that, you have to do five

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hours of night flying, which in the helicopter

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is pretty cool. And so we're going to go land

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at the airport. I actually took off from my backyard.

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Oh, I had it said. Passed to Jimmy back in the

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day. And we're landing at the airport. I'm like,

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I can't see very well. And I realized that the

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contacts are just not giving me the same clarity

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or definition of glasses. So from that point

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on, I said, why would I deprive myself of seeing

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the world the best I can out of vanity? So I

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had all kinds of different, I had rose -tinted

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glasses, I had lots of glasses, but I was wearing

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glasses. And so, I was really seeing the world

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in a much higher definition. It was kind of shocking,

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actually. And so I would fly with two pairs of

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glasses in case I lost one. If you're flying

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alone and you lose one, like, what am I going

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to do? And not groveling around the floor of

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the cockpit. So, you know, no agenda started

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in 2007, end of 2007, 2008. And pretty quickly,

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I got to the next pair of glasses, which is the

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ones we discussed on the previous episode, which

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is the Roddy Piper, they live, you know, you

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put the glasses on, you can see the elites, you

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can see the propaganda, you can see all that.

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And it made so much sense. And funny enough,

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in many ways, it felt like the world was anything

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that was You were told it was the reverse, and

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that was probably the right direction. If the

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government says go right, you probably want to

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look at the left hand. That's probably where

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you want to go. And so I viewed everything, primarily

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media, through those glasses, through that lens.

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But then I got saved. And something happened.

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This is probably not a foreign topic to people

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who have been saved. And you start to see, well,

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we call it the world through the biblical worldview

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or through a biblical lens, which as a non -believer,

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even to many believers, I still think just sounds

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like a, it's almost like a throwaway line. But

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I really started to understand what that meant.

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And so the, what I realized is that I was in

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a position that goes back to a story. I think

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my dad told me the story. It might've been my

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mom, but I think it was my, and it was just an

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off the cuff thing. And it actually hit me the

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other day. about this experiment that was done

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by a psychologist in 1896 named George Stratton

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and was later replicated. It's been replicated

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several times. So back in the, I think, 69, maybe

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it was 96, some Austrian scientists did it again.

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It was well documented where they had made a

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pair of glasses that when you put the glasses

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on, the world was literally upside down. And

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the experiment was to see how you could function.

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If what would your brain do if you see the world

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upside down? Well, predictably, you know, people

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are trying to pour a glass and they poured on

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the wrong side of the table. They try to grab

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something. They're going in the wrong direction.

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You know, there's a there's a guy, you know,

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he's like trying to sword fight him and the guy

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goes for his chest and he's, you know, in the

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wrong area. So it completely uncoordinated. But

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after a few days of just keeping these glasses

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on, they could function perfectly normally, even

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with the upside down view. And then when you

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took the glasses off, it would take a couple

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days. Now, you take the glasses off, it would

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take maybe a few hours and everything would be

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back to normal. And so the big takeaway from

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this experiment wasn't that your brain necessarily

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translates everything to right side up. Your

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brain helps you and allows you to function in

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that upside down world and this is where I was

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living I Was perfectly able to function in this

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world that I had glasses on so I'd sit down for

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no agenda The the upside down glasses go on I

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can function no problem, but I know it wasn't

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true My brain wasn't deceiving me and this is

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the conclusion that I came to about a year and

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a half ago not with this exact metaphor, but

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that, no, no, I see things differently and I

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can no longer be in this world when I want to

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talk about the world that I actually see. There's

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not a lot of dissimilarities between the two,

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but I function differently. And this is the thing,

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the training of almost 19 years at the end of

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this month, the minute I'm in that seat for that

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podcast, It's like putting the glasses on and

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I don't like who I am because it's not true.

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I still think I'm funny. I'm hilarious in fact,

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but it's not me. I'm not functioning the way

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I know I can function because that's what I have

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here on this show with you. And it's different.

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And what has been so encouraging is all these

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people who I know from no agenda who have now

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started to tune in to we get to do this and like,

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Man, I love the show. I love what's going on

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here And they're also supporting us and just

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you know with their time their talent and their

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treasure that I made a decision a while back

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to stop doing no agenda because Going back to

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what I said earlier. I need to do kingdom work.

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This is this is this is what I want I want to

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finish strong I don't want to waste any time

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the only thing that was holding me back, quite

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honestly, was a great cash flow over at No Agenda.

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So I decided cash flow to calling, but that doesn't

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even matter. I want to do this work and I'm getting

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confirmation everywhere that this is the right

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direction. So for people who are listening to

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this who are familiar with No Agenda, tomorrow

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I will... hopefully be able to explain more.

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You know, a separation is always kind of complicated.

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There's business and all kinds of entanglements

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that have to be worked out, but Noah Jenner celebrates

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its 19th anniversary this month. Then the show

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after that, the 29th, will be my last. And I

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so look forward to being here with you, growing

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Get2Nation, expanding our show, expanding our

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reach, helping people. You know, we kind of started

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up started off, again, just for the people in

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our church who listen, but it's so much bigger

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than that. So, the No Agenda family will hear

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about that from me tomorrow, and I'll give a

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little more detailed explanation where we're

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going. But I just got to tell you, thank you

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for your encouragement. I thank Tina for her

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encouragement, and Dame Annette as well, and

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other people who have just said, you should just

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go ahead and just do this. So, I'm not exactly

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sure what's going to happen with No Agenda. I

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hope that it can continue in some form because

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I think the format's good and the right team

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would be able to do something with it. But I'm

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getting dizzy from those glasses. And the only

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thing between where I was and where I am is Jesus

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Christ. And that's why I'm here today. So just

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wanted to get that off my chest. As you know,

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it's been weighing on me for a while. Yeah, it

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has. I so appreciate you sharing that. And I

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love the clarity that that you shared with this

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guy, Stratton, George Stratton. Yeah, that's

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fantastic. I actually pulled it up while you

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were talking. Fascinating experiment, by the

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way. But that makes total sense to me. There's

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seasons, right, to things? Yes. And seasons change.

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I mean, God actually designed it. We tend to

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think in four seasons, right? Spring, summer,

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winter, fall. All you got to do is call. I know

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there's a million songs by the way. I like actually

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Ecclesiastes kind of puts it into a form that

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I appreciate. I want to pull this scripture up

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because I think it clarifies and it does this

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from a, to use that word, biblical lens. Ecclesiastes

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3, chapter 1, to everything there is a season,

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a time for every purpose under heaven. The hard

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part about seasons, the good part is the startup

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in the middle. You're going, right? You're on

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your game. Things are clicking. You're running

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on all eight cylinders. Things are happening.

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But the interesting thing about any season is

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there's a beginning, middle, end. I've had to

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walk with people through this so many different

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times. I had a guy who was an elder in a church

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that I was serving. It was obvious that his season

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had ended and he was trying to hang on. Yeah.

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And I had to tell him, and it was a hard conversation

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to say, man, I love you, but there's a beginning,

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middle, end to every season. And I'm just going

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to be honest with you and transparent. You're

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at the end of yours. This is the end of the season.

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He knew it. I knew it. Everybody around us knew

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it. But he was hanging on, maybe out of nobility,

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just trying to do the noble thing or what he

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thought was the right thing or maybe didn't want

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to quit and give up. But at the end of the day,

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everything we do has a beginning, middle, and

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throughout life. And these seasons come and go.

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You know, we're stepping into the fall, right?

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Yeah. Supposedly. I mean, not yet in Texas. 92,

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but OK. 92 today. But it's been nice in the morning.

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We've had cool nights and cool mornings. So there's

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some change in the air. Winds are picking up,

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which I noticed the last few days. We've got

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a front coming in this Friday. It's going to

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cool down and some rain and whatnot. So we're

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seeing the changing of a season. The changing

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of seasons can be exciting, or it can be hard,

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or it can be both at the same time. We've all

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experienced this. I actually wrote a DG called

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The Winds of Change. You mind if I share that

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now? Please do. We'll do this up front. It's

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going off of this Ecclesiastes verse, to everything

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there is a season, a time for every purpose under

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heaven. I want you all to think about that as

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you're just processing what what Adam shared

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about to everything there's a season, everything.

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Everything. And a time for every purpose under

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the sun. So there's timing, the timing of God.

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And we were just joking, it's never ours. No,

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it's so right. It's always His. And as followers

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of Jesus, we submit to that willingly. We submit

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our will to it. So the Daily Grind title, The

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Winds of Change, Fall is upon us, temperatures

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are dropping, leaves are changing, and the winds

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are shifting. Funny, we embrace changing seasons

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in nature, but often resist them in life. However,

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you are not left on your own. God will work with

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you into the next season and order your steps

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as you go. Seasons come and go. Some will be

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difficult and some glorious. However, we have

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a helper. the Holy Spirit who will lead the way.

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And then just always do it today, a little application

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thing. Recognize the season you're in. Release

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the past and step into God's new season for you.

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We'll finish today with a prayer, but this is

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so important to recognize and be aware of the

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season you're in. First Chronicles chapter 12

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verse 32 is an interesting verse talking about

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this group of guys called the sons of Issachar.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a hundred guys or we don't

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even know a small group. Compared to David's

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mighty men and some of the tribes and groups

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and clans that were part of his mighty men, you

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know, they were larger groups. This was one of

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the smallest, but they had something the others

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didn't. And David recognized this. and he recognized

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the wisdom they carried. And it says this, the

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sons of Issachar understood the times and knew

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what to do. So they were able to discern, they

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were able to interpret the signs of the times

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and know when a season was changing or when there

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was a shift. And so we want to discern, this

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is what you're doing right now. We want to discern

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what God is doing now. Yeah, and it may not be

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what he was doing five years ago or six or ten

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whatever it it changes and When we understand

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that it's not such a shock to our system if we

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don't know that it is a shock to our system and

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that's a good point because Well, first of all,

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this has been a long time coming and I would

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also say that I feel I've always felt an obligation

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to this family, the No Agenda family. I love

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the No Agenda Nation. I know thousands of people

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by name, by their email address, by their No

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Agenda name. Their titles. Their titles. And

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I know there's going to be sadness and disappointment,

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and you never want to do that. But it's not like

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I'm disappearing from the face of the earth.

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But this season, oh man, now I feel bad. I forgot

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who sent me this book. I thought I was prepared

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for today's show. I left it at home. One of our

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listeners sent me this book. It was called Transition.

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And I think it's a well -known book. And it's

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not necessarily a scriptural or biblical book.

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It's a very thin book. Why did he send that to

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me? Why did he send that to me? Well, I know,

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of course. And I'm reading it and the thing that

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keeps coming back is there's no beginning without

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an end. You've got to end something to really

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start something new. And that's essentially the

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season. And seasons can... Like we're having

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right now, bleed over a little bit. You know,

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it's cool in the mornings and it's hot and it's

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cold in the evening. It's both. But it'll be

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one of these days we'll wake up like it didn't

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get warm this afternoon. It'll just be chilly.

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Yeah. I want to say something about this too,

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because I don't want people to misunderstand

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and think, Oh, Pastor Jimmy has stolen Adam from

00:26:08.210 --> 00:26:11.470
No Agenda. Oh, yeah. He put a hook around my

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neck and just dragged me out there. No, no, no.

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Listen, we've never had this conversation to

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this degree. And I've done that on purpose, by

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the way, because I've never won a course, somebody

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who's trying to follow God, someone who's trying

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to listen, trying to discern the times. And so

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I've not given you a lot of feedback on this.

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I don't know if you noticed it or not. I haven't.

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I haven't been very verbal about this. I knew

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exactly what you were doing. I'm trusting Jesus

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in you and I'm trusting you to follow Jesus in

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you, not Jesus in me. And so I've done that on

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purpose because I feel like you've always, even

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when I met you before you became a Christ follower,

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I thought, man, this guy's got a solid head on

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his shoulders. I mean, he's sound, he's grounded.

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I knew that before you ever leaned when I was

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still cussing like a truck driver. Sorry, truck

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.400
drivers. Not all truck drivers cuss. Not all

00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.019
truck drivers cuss. I would just laugh inside.

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Remember I told you, as a UBU, and I'll be me,

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we'll be best friends. That's really how it all

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started. That's right. But we discern what God's

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doing now, and we recognize the prompting and

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direction of the Holy Spirit. I just jotted some

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notes down, just knowing where we're going in

00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:28.259
this direction. This is so important to recognize

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the prompting and direction of the Holy Spirit.

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And if you think about the actual word for spirit,

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the word pneumatos and that is the word we get

00:27:36.690 --> 00:27:40.059
pneumatic drill. It's wind. Oh, there's your

00:27:40.059 --> 00:27:42.519
winds of change. It's the wind. That's why I

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:46.480
titled this little piece, the winds of change.

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:50.019
It's percolating in me because the wind, the

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:53.180
Holy Spirit blows and even Jesus told, talking

00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:55.769
about the Holy Spirit said, So the wind blows

00:27:55.769 --> 00:27:58.089
and you don't know where it comes from, but you

00:27:58.089 --> 00:28:00.650
know the effects of it because it moves the trees

00:28:00.650 --> 00:28:03.430
and it moves things. So you know that and that's

00:28:03.430 --> 00:28:06.390
how you recognize. So at the end of the day,

00:28:06.410 --> 00:28:08.750
we have to discern the movement of the spirit,

00:28:09.109 --> 00:28:12.430
not just our circumstances, because it's easy

00:28:12.430 --> 00:28:15.190
to sometimes just be moved by circumstances.

00:28:15.730 --> 00:28:17.710
But anyone who's been around the block a couple

00:28:17.710 --> 00:28:21.410
of times knows that circumstances will always

00:28:22.180 --> 00:28:26.319
conflict, change, realign, conflict, change again.

00:28:26.380 --> 00:28:27.980
I mean, it's going to happen. That's an ongoing

00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:31.119
process. It's actually listening to the prompting

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:34.240
of the Spirit and being sensitive to that and

00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.019
being not just Spirit -filled, but Spirit -led.

00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:39.980
You know, it's been really hard though, and I

00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:43.119
really tried this. Now, when John was still alive,

00:28:43.460 --> 00:28:47.400
I knew his stance on my faith, and I could push

00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.680
to a certain limit. And when I say push, I just

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:54.289
say something. And he would, it gets to the point

00:28:54.289 --> 00:28:56.490
where we'd be like, oh brother, here we go. And

00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:58.150
they're like, okay, well the conversation's kind

00:28:58.150 --> 00:29:02.099
of over at that point. But there's something

00:29:02.099 --> 00:29:05.579
about just doing the show, even though I'm in

00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:09.039
full control, I can't be myself. I can't quite

00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.400
explain what that is, but it's like - No, I think

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.920
you just said it. But I've kind of given up on

00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:16.900
trying to figure out why it's something about

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:20.380
the format, the content, just what it is. that

00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:24.819
just makes me be somewhat mocking, because that's

00:29:24.819 --> 00:29:26.000
always been the format. I've been doing this

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:28.359
for two decades. And so I sit there, I'm like,

00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:31.559
I don't want to mock, but then it happens. Let

00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:34.039
me ask you a question. Is that why you like doing

00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.559
the show here in this studio? Do you think there's

00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.670
something to that? Oh, that's an interesting

00:29:40.670 --> 00:29:43.250
question. Because you've always been averse to

00:29:43.250 --> 00:29:47.819
doing it in your studio. Oh, no. Didn't know

00:29:47.819 --> 00:29:49.720
if there was anything like when you sit in that

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.279
seat you feel like you slip into that's a very

00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:54.480
good point subconsciously I don't know I need

00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:57.960
to contemplate that. I think there's a very psychologist

00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:01.640
over here. Very very well done. Mr. Freud It's

00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:07.440
small my mom's fault. I Think there I think that

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:09.680
has a very distinct I mean we first started talking

00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:11.680
about this. Yeah, you said very emphatically

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:13.779
I want to do this. I want to do it at the bridge

00:30:13.779 --> 00:30:16.220
studio. Yeah, I want to do it there, huh? And

00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:19.240
so this has become our space. Yes. I mean, I

00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:21.380
don't mind when we do it on remote. I mean, that

00:30:21.380 --> 00:30:24.720
works fine. But yes, I think that that is a part

00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:28.059
of it. It's odd. It's like you sit in an old

00:30:28.059 --> 00:30:31.099
car and you drive it a certain way. You get in

00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:33.299
a new car, you're going to drive that car differently.

00:30:33.619 --> 00:30:36.400
Maybe more aggressively, maybe exactly the opposite.

00:30:37.579 --> 00:30:41.319
I'm also a little more aggressive. But yeah,

00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:44.930
it's like, yes. The answer is yes, I hadn't really

00:30:44.930 --> 00:30:47.089
thought about that, but the surrounding is critical.

00:30:47.549 --> 00:30:51.109
You know, if we don't have this film light over

00:30:51.109 --> 00:30:53.349
us and the rest of the room dark, it's not the

00:30:53.349 --> 00:30:57.089
same. I agree. Yes, so that is... Wow. Thank

00:30:57.089 --> 00:30:59.250
you for bringing that up. That is a good point.

00:30:59.509 --> 00:31:02.460
We can still, when we need to... We can still

00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:04.920
handle remotes in different studios. Oh, absolutely.

00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:07.200
And we will, because we both travel. Yeah, there

00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.019
is something about this. And it's also in God's

00:31:10.019 --> 00:31:11.539
house. I mean, we're here in the church. I know.

00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:15.059
I love being here. I'm a church nerd, so I don't

00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:17.680
see this as my place of work. I see it as I get

00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:20.019
to be here. I really do. When I walk in the building,

00:31:20.059 --> 00:31:22.690
I don't feel like... I've got to go to my office.

00:31:22.849 --> 00:31:24.809
I got to go to a staff meeting. I got to do a

00:31:24.809 --> 00:31:29.809
board meeting. Very thankful. So it is a, it

00:31:29.809 --> 00:31:32.029
is a, I told you yesterday you were, you were

00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:34.710
stuck for a little bit. waiting on Jonah to show

00:31:34.710 --> 00:31:36.789
up. He was a little late and you were kind of

00:31:36.789 --> 00:31:40.230
wandering around the worship center with just

00:31:40.230 --> 00:31:42.509
the emergency lights on, so it's real chill.

00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:45.230
I was actually sitting on the front row in the

00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:46.309
worship center. Isn't that a great feeling to

00:31:46.309 --> 00:31:50.049
be in that space when nothing's happening? I

00:31:50.049 --> 00:31:51.869
love it. I'm just looking at this little red

00:31:51.869 --> 00:31:54.509
light from some of the equipment on, but there's

00:31:54.509 --> 00:31:57.849
not even a hum. Everything is quiet. I would

00:31:57.849 --> 00:31:59.950
just sit in there like... Yeah, this is nice.

00:32:00.029 --> 00:32:02.130
I texted you like, I'm just waiting for Jonah

00:32:02.130 --> 00:32:04.230
here. This is really nice. You know what I wrote

00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:07.450
back to you? Because this is the feeling I get

00:32:07.450 --> 00:32:10.269
when I'm in there. I pause and I start thinking

00:32:10.269 --> 00:32:13.029
about all the lives that have been impacted and

00:32:13.029 --> 00:32:15.509
changed in that space. Wow. Including mine. And

00:32:15.509 --> 00:32:17.970
that's why I wrote back, holy place. It's a holy

00:32:17.970 --> 00:32:22.049
ground. It is. And so when nobody's here, I like

00:32:22.049 --> 00:32:25.000
to walk around in there and pray. Yeah. And with

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.019
nobody in the, nobody in the place. I did have

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:28.839
time for a prayer while I was there. Beautiful.

00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.500
Just a thank you prayer. Like Lord, thank you

00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:34.160
for just, that can be here. Yeah. So there is

00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.859
something about space and place, but I, and I

00:32:36.859 --> 00:32:38.900
want to get back to this cause, cause the first

00:32:38.900 --> 00:32:40.980
thing was you got to recognize the season you're

00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:43.240
in and that's, you've been recognizing this for

00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.059
a long time. You've brought this up many times,

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:48.819
but yet you weren't in a hurry. You, I love that

00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:51.059
you weren't like trying to just bail or trying

00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:54.109
to quit. No. You were like, you just know, You

00:32:54.109 --> 00:32:56.329
could sit and I remember you'd say things, gosh,

00:32:56.529 --> 00:32:59.230
a couple of years ago. There's a it's changing.

00:32:59.490 --> 00:33:03.730
I can sense a change. Yeah. And also before you

00:33:03.730 --> 00:33:06.430
go ahead. It's good. So I wanted to bring this

00:33:06.430 --> 00:33:09.369
up with John and talk about some form of longer

00:33:09.369 --> 00:33:13.750
transition. And when he got his heart. his double

00:33:13.750 --> 00:33:16.190
bypass, like, well, this is not the time to bring

00:33:16.190 --> 00:33:20.109
this up. And right as he, I talk about it with

00:33:20.109 --> 00:33:22.710
Tina, I'm pretty sure we discussed it if we went

00:33:22.710 --> 00:33:24.869
out to one of our dinners with the four of us.

00:33:26.230 --> 00:33:29.029
And he was back, he was strong, he was moving

00:33:29.029 --> 00:33:31.829
back into his house and like, okay, it's gonna

00:33:31.829 --> 00:33:34.670
be time soon to bring it up again. And then,

00:33:34.670 --> 00:33:37.289
you know, like God had a different plan. And

00:33:37.289 --> 00:33:41.609
so, which I'm also not taking just at face value.

00:33:41.990 --> 00:33:45.430
Right, right. Exactly. So recognize the season.

00:33:45.589 --> 00:33:48.509
You've been doing this for a long time. And I

00:33:48.509 --> 00:33:50.569
want people to understand too, we didn't start

00:33:50.569 --> 00:33:52.809
that show because of that. No, no, no. You and

00:33:52.809 --> 00:33:55.009
I had been talking about for years doing this

00:33:55.009 --> 00:33:57.150
show. Oh yeah, for years. So it wasn't like there

00:33:57.150 --> 00:34:00.829
was a strategy of creating another space for

00:34:00.829 --> 00:34:03.049
you to jump off to. Nope. We just look at it

00:34:03.049 --> 00:34:06.609
as God set this up, not us. I mean, we just finally

00:34:06.609 --> 00:34:08.730
knew it was time to hit the button. Absolutely.

00:34:08.989 --> 00:34:11.650
But that's the same way I've started, the same

00:34:11.650 --> 00:34:14.849
way John and I started. We were talking for months

00:34:14.849 --> 00:34:16.849
and months and months. We should probably record

00:34:16.849 --> 00:34:19.929
this. You and I have had these exact conversations,

00:34:20.130 --> 00:34:22.670
either at the kitchen table or your house or

00:34:22.670 --> 00:34:26.909
in a restaurant. Look, the first thing I said

00:34:26.909 --> 00:34:29.210
to you was, Pastor Jimmy, I love your show. That

00:34:29.210 --> 00:34:31.090
was the first thing that came out of my mouth

00:34:31.090 --> 00:34:36.900
when I met you. So Tina frog your arms. You said

00:34:36.900 --> 00:34:41.719
that. Oh man. I'm sorry. No, this is good. Cause

00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:43.860
I'm going down what you're doing here. You recognize

00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:46.900
the season. The second piece of that is you have

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:49.719
to release the old season. This is where it gets

00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.679
hard. Yeah. Because no matter what we're talking

00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.300
about podcast, a job, a city, you know, whatever

00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.469
that means there's people attached to that. and

00:35:00.469 --> 00:35:03.789
the ripple effect is going to impact people or

00:35:03.789 --> 00:35:05.829
affect them. Maybe impact's a strong word, but

00:35:05.829 --> 00:35:08.630
it's going to affect people. And because we're

00:35:08.630 --> 00:35:11.650
good -hearted and we don't want anyone to suffer,

00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:14.909
especially at any decision we make, it's a little

00:35:14.909 --> 00:35:18.610
harder sometimes to release the old season. Isaiah

00:35:18.610 --> 00:35:22.829
43, 19 talks about where God says, behold, I

00:35:22.829 --> 00:35:25.610
am doing a new thing. He's talking about this

00:35:25.610 --> 00:35:28.869
new thing, a new season, a new beginning. So

00:35:28.869 --> 00:35:31.929
don't let yesterday's victories or disappointments

00:35:31.929 --> 00:35:33.929
hold you back because it's easy to look back

00:35:33.929 --> 00:35:37.070
and go, man, that was so good. I want to hang

00:35:37.070 --> 00:35:39.289
on to that a little bit longer. You know, timing

00:35:39.289 --> 00:35:42.090
is the biggest thing when you're following God.

00:35:43.670 --> 00:35:47.530
We always want it now. We're conditioned. Yeah.

00:35:47.809 --> 00:35:50.090
To getting things quick. Click, click, click.

00:35:50.309 --> 00:35:53.070
Where's my result? I know. I mean, if I have

00:35:53.070 --> 00:35:55.449
to wait on my grokbot for more than 10 seconds,

00:35:55.510 --> 00:35:58.510
I'm like, what is up with this data center, man?

00:35:59.250 --> 00:36:01.090
They need to build, they got to get those things

00:36:01.090 --> 00:36:02.769
coming. Build it here. Yeah, I need one closer.

00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:06.139
I don't know where this is going to. I'm just

00:36:06.139 --> 00:36:08.480
getting fidgety. It's crazy because we're trained

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.659
to that, right? And then we're told, walking

00:36:11.659 --> 00:36:14.639
with God, wait upon the Lord. Like what? Wait?

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:20.579
We don't wait for anything. So, surrender what

00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:24.559
was to embrace what's next. And that surrendering

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.960
isn't a mean or brutal thing. Is that in the

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:29.139
scripture? Surrender what was? No, no, that's

00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:31.739
just something I was thinking this through yesterday.

00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:34.440
So, don't let yesterday keep you from following

00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:37.059
the Spirit today. I've been watching you for

00:36:37.059 --> 00:36:40.739
years do this. I saw you do this with the Godcaster.

00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.119
It didn't happen overnight. You start getting

00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:44.760
downloads when you're walking Phoebe, because

00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:46.179
you're telling me, I'm getting downloads with

00:36:46.179 --> 00:36:49.619
Thone Central walking Phoebe. It took two years

00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:50.960
until things really started to crank up. It was

00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.679
a conversation for a long time before you ever

00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.539
really stepped into it, and then it began to

00:36:55.539 --> 00:36:58.510
coalesce, and then it happened fast. But then

00:36:58.510 --> 00:37:02.429
now it's the journey. You don't want to let what's

00:37:02.429 --> 00:37:04.429
happened in the past keep you from following

00:37:04.429 --> 00:37:07.650
and stepping into what's happening now. I think

00:37:07.650 --> 00:37:13.309
the Lord's made this abundantly clear that you're

00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:16.510
right in sync. You're right in step. Then the

00:37:16.510 --> 00:37:19.670
last R is respond to the new season. This is

00:37:19.670 --> 00:37:23.460
where we embrace what's new. Romans 8, 14. For

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:26.599
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these

00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:29.480
are the sons of God." And it's that sense of

00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:32.039
getting in lockstep with him. I always tell the

00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:34.000
story of me following my dad out to the pasture.

00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:38.219
And it was on this very narrow trail that had

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:41.159
a ditch on each side. And if you stepped off

00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:43.639
to either side, I mean, you're a little kid.

00:37:44.539 --> 00:37:47.059
But it was snowing and I remember following my

00:37:47.059 --> 00:37:50.239
dad and he said, just step in my footsteps. So

00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:53.000
I just like following a map. You know, I just,

00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:54.940
one step after another, you know, stretching

00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:58.360
out as much as I could. And I always think about

00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.199
being in lockstep with the Lord like that. Just

00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:04.699
step where He steps. And that means you go at

00:38:04.699 --> 00:38:10.219
His pace, not yours. And so... This has been

00:38:10.219 --> 00:38:13.599
one of the first times where I've really, with

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.659
my prayer, I've been like, Lord, tell me, what

00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:20.809
should I do? Not like, you know, If you're listening,

00:38:21.050 --> 00:38:24.929
Lord, flicker the lights. That doesn't tend to

00:38:24.929 --> 00:38:28.610
work very well, but He will do things and He

00:38:28.610 --> 00:38:31.969
will put things on your heart. And it's been

00:38:31.969 --> 00:38:35.429
so abundantly clear and with confirmation everywhere.

00:38:35.710 --> 00:38:37.969
And it's easy to see confirmation of things with

00:38:37.969 --> 00:38:41.690
some things like, no, man, this is a very, very

00:38:41.690 --> 00:38:44.989
clear sign. And I've already surrendered to God

00:38:44.989 --> 00:38:50.190
that I know that He's in control. me surrendering

00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:55.849
completely. All right, let's go. I was listening

00:38:55.849 --> 00:38:58.429
to, you know, one of the things I really like

00:38:58.429 --> 00:39:01.590
about our friendship is we both have things that

00:39:01.590 --> 00:39:04.349
the other doesn't know or isn't knowledgeable

00:39:04.349 --> 00:39:07.750
about. And you are, in a way, a classicist, a

00:39:07.750 --> 00:39:09.829
linguist. You know a lot about certainly the

00:39:09.829 --> 00:39:12.949
classic languages and the etymology of words.

00:39:13.329 --> 00:39:15.889
And I've always been interested in that. I have

00:39:15.889 --> 00:39:19.920
kind of this weird uh, interest in legal language

00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:21.980
too. And so it's always fun to see what, what

00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:24.480
does this exactly mean? I was listening to Victor

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.070
Davis Hanson. And I don't tip, you know, it's

00:39:29.070 --> 00:39:30.869
a little slow for me. I don't remember why I

00:39:30.869 --> 00:39:33.170
was listed. The title of the podcast must've

00:39:33.170 --> 00:39:36.969
been interesting. And he said, and he was talking

00:39:36.969 --> 00:39:40.550
about, uh, some other politician and talking

00:39:40.550 --> 00:39:43.980
about that person being a classicist and and

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:47.440
that he was really into etymology and all of

00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:51.619
his studies. He has a PhD in some study. And

00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:55.039
he said, the etymology of the word enthusiastic,

00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:58.460
which I am, enthusiastic, and I'm gonna take

00:39:58.460 --> 00:40:01.539
his word for it, means in theos. So you're in

00:40:01.539 --> 00:40:04.420
God. So God is like - I actually knew that one.

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:08.900
And so I was like, yeah, that's me. I'm excited

00:40:08.900 --> 00:40:10.480
about what's, and this was just the other day.

00:40:10.829 --> 00:40:13.650
I'm excited about what's happening. I am in theos.

00:40:13.809 --> 00:40:16.789
I am enthusiastic. You're energized in it. Yes.

00:40:16.929 --> 00:40:19.250
And I see it because I walk with you every day.

00:40:19.510 --> 00:40:23.170
So I see the lift. I see the I see the wind under,

00:40:23.269 --> 00:40:26.030
you know, the wind beneath my wings. Right. Yeah,

00:40:26.170 --> 00:40:28.469
man. That lift creates lift as you get momentum

00:40:28.469 --> 00:40:32.230
and speed and all of that. So I see the lift

00:40:32.230 --> 00:40:34.949
under your wings. Man, when you when you first

00:40:34.949 --> 00:40:38.429
start talking about Godcaster. I saw an energy

00:40:38.429 --> 00:40:40.210
in you. I'd never seen it. And you were saying

00:40:40.210 --> 00:40:42.550
it harkened back to the early days of podcasting.

00:40:42.550 --> 00:40:45.809
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That, man, I've got the same

00:40:45.809 --> 00:40:48.309
excitement, and I see it again in you right now.

00:40:48.429 --> 00:40:53.989
I mean, I just see that life. I am excited. Enthusiastic.

00:40:54.590 --> 00:40:57.289
Enthusiastic. I love it, brother. So good. So

00:40:57.289 --> 00:40:59.429
good. And I'm excited to see where God takes

00:40:59.429 --> 00:41:03.170
this podcast. I'm pretty sure it's going to take

00:41:03.170 --> 00:41:06.789
it to two times a week. Let's do it. Ready for

00:41:06.789 --> 00:41:09.670
that. Let's do it. Well, we need to because I

00:41:09.670 --> 00:41:15.840
don't want it, you know, long podcasts are long

00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:18.980
podcasts, you know, and we're doing probably

00:41:18.980 --> 00:41:22.019
about an hour and a half now with thank yous.

00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.199
I'd like to try and keep it at that, but it's

00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:25.820
not really enough. I mean, we've been talking

00:41:25.820 --> 00:41:28.679
about me a lot today, which is not typical. Hey,

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:32.260
this is a big thing. This is a huge thing. It

00:41:32.260 --> 00:41:34.789
is. And some of your listeners, Some will say,

00:41:34.789 --> 00:41:38.690
I saw this coming. Others will be like, oh my

00:41:38.690 --> 00:41:41.409
gosh, what just happened? Well, just to go back

00:41:41.409 --> 00:41:45.090
to that, so many people have been so supportive

00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:48.969
of whatever you decide is good. We know that

00:41:48.969 --> 00:41:50.889
you're going to make the right, not even knowing

00:41:50.889 --> 00:41:53.989
what I was thinking or where I was going. And

00:41:53.989 --> 00:41:59.030
the amount of decloaking believers in the no

00:41:59.030 --> 00:42:02.769
agenda world has been nothing but astounding

00:42:02.769 --> 00:42:08.739
to me. And if you saw Sunday, I left, because

00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:11.860
Tina wasn't here, so I was here by myself. And

00:42:11.860 --> 00:42:14.380
I left, and I get in the morning, I'm like, what?

00:42:14.739 --> 00:42:17.300
He says, hi, I'm Tim. I forget his night name.

00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:22.119
Oh, Sir, certainly, I think. And his son had

00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.340
driven up from Austin on their motorcycles. And

00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:26.500
I'd seen the motorcycles outside, because they

00:42:26.500 --> 00:42:28.820
both had like ham radio license plates. I'm like,

00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:33.559
who are these nerds? and they were here. They

00:42:33.559 --> 00:42:36.099
were at the service. They just wanted to say

00:42:36.099 --> 00:42:39.619
like a little mini meetup. I'm like, that is

00:42:39.619 --> 00:42:42.239
so cool. This is the stuff that I love. He's

00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.420
like, hey man, just want to encourage you and

00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:46.940
it's great to see you and love the church and

00:42:46.940 --> 00:42:50.039
love. Of course we had Abraham Enrique who gave

00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.579
the message, which is really, really good. So

00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:55.840
that kind of stuff, it just happens continuously.

00:42:56.059 --> 00:43:00.880
And I'm just loving that so much. Let's make

00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.079
more disciples. Come on, come on. So to land

00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:08.599
the plane on this, which way is the wind blowing?

00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:11.059
That's what we have to discern, okay? We know

00:43:11.059 --> 00:43:13.300
the wind's blowing. We know the season's changing.

00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.880
Which way is it blowing? And I feel like you're

00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:18.679
way down the road on that. You mentioned to me

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.440
recently that you feel like you've got the energy.

00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.980
You're feeling that energy again. And what I

00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:27.880
love about that, Adam, is because Man, the last

00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:29.699
time you really felt that energy, you started

00:43:29.699 --> 00:43:34.659
podcasting. Something big happened. I love that

00:43:34.659 --> 00:43:38.579
at the age you and I are, we're not looking at

00:43:38.579 --> 00:43:42.119
quitting. We're actually, what's next? Let's

00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.559
go. I forget who it was. I was getting coffee

00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:48.840
Sunday before coming in. It was two weeks ago.

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:52.130
I actually said, Adam. you're in the third quarter,

00:43:52.329 --> 00:43:54.150
not the fourth quarter, just the third quarter.

00:43:54.170 --> 00:43:56.010
Cause we were talking about what quarter of life

00:43:56.010 --> 00:43:58.230
he said, and I think he's older than them. We

00:43:58.230 --> 00:44:00.829
are. You're in the third quarter, brother. Thank

00:44:00.829 --> 00:44:04.590
you. Thank you. Beautiful to hear that. Oh, I

00:44:04.590 --> 00:44:10.469
love that. But also this is a time and it's been

00:44:10.469 --> 00:44:14.070
so phenomenal to see people's feedback on our

00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:20.389
discussions about robots. It's been, we're seeing

00:44:20.670 --> 00:44:24.829
people not being afraid, not being intimidated,

00:44:25.489 --> 00:44:27.750
using it for things that will benefit their life

00:44:27.750 --> 00:44:30.849
based upon our conversations and our suggestions

00:44:30.849 --> 00:44:34.809
and what to look for and not look for. But we

00:44:34.809 --> 00:44:38.389
are in an age, we are about, and so if anything,

00:44:39.130 --> 00:44:43.289
my goal and my mission in life has always been

00:44:43.699 --> 00:44:48.159
pave the way 10 years early, and someone else

00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:50.179
to get rich off of it. That's always, that's,

00:44:50.780 --> 00:44:53.719
and believe me, I'm good with that because the

00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.559
Lord has blessed me and I've never been without.

00:44:57.139 --> 00:44:59.920
So I have no worries about that. But there's

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:03.159
something about this current moment we're in

00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:07.320
with these systems that is, it is going to open

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:12.619
up an era of massive personal empowerment. And

00:45:12.619 --> 00:45:17.119
I can see it. I'm developing systems for it.

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.039
I'm evangelizing some of it as well. And I'm

00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.559
enjoying, just like podcasting as well. I'm enjoying

00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:28.679
people getting great benefit. Like just the other

00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:31.360
day, Mike came over to my house. Yeah, this is

00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:34.699
great. And Mike, he just turned 81. He got baptized

00:45:34.699 --> 00:45:38.510
on his 81st birthday in your pool. Unfortunately,

00:45:38.889 --> 00:45:41.170
we came back one day later. It was an honor to

00:45:41.170 --> 00:45:43.449
do that. It was beautiful. You and Pastor Brian

00:45:43.449 --> 00:45:48.530
in the water. We double teamed him. He and his

00:45:48.530 --> 00:45:50.369
wife Jill have been good friends of ours, good

00:45:50.369 --> 00:45:54.789
friends of yours. And he said, Adam, I need some

00:45:54.789 --> 00:45:58.760
help with my devices. And by the way, I really

00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:02.099
wish an Apple product manager had seen this because,

00:46:02.300 --> 00:46:05.639
I mean, first of all, I haven't really used any

00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:08.079
Apple devices for a while and I'm confused, like,

00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:09.900
okay. And I'm just seeing how, you know, it's

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:12.000
always interesting, especially if you make apps

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.099
and devices to see how somebody uses them. I'm

00:46:15.099 --> 00:46:17.300
like, wow, and this, okay, that's an interesting

00:46:17.300 --> 00:46:20.280
way of getting there. But above all, he said,

00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.519
I really want to be able to use the robot because

00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:25.940
we have lunch from time to time, I showed the

00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:29.599
robot. And so I set him up with Muse, and I'm

00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:32.599
like, wow, what a phenomenal thing for someone

00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.500
who's just a little bit older. It can do certain

00:46:37.500 --> 00:46:39.599
things for you on the device just by you telling

00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:42.079
it to do it. It can help him remember certain

00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.739
things. It's truly an assistant for him. And

00:46:46.739 --> 00:46:50.500
with his usage, it will adopt and adapt to what

00:46:50.500 --> 00:46:56.239
he needs. And I am excited for him. because he

00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:59.119
really, you know, he wants to say, look, you

00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:01.500
get older, we start forgetting things like, I

00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:03.619
don't know, what did you say? I mean, I do it,

00:47:03.619 --> 00:47:07.900
you do it. My robot's telling me, remember what

00:47:07.900 --> 00:47:11.579
Tina asked you about going to HEB? It knows,

00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:17.659
it knows. So stuff like that. And we are, I truly

00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:23.070
believe it's going to bring enormous leverage

00:47:23.070 --> 00:47:27.710
to us as individuals. We actually will not be

00:47:27.710 --> 00:47:30.789
subject to the whims of technology companies.

00:47:31.090 --> 00:47:34.489
We're in a transitionary period. And just like

00:47:34.489 --> 00:47:37.769
the early days of the internet, you know, it's

00:47:37.769 --> 00:47:39.849
evil. It's not, it's no good. You're going to

00:47:39.849 --> 00:47:42.090
get every angle. Why would you want to have a

00:47:42.090 --> 00:47:44.349
place where people can just send you mail all

00:47:44.349 --> 00:47:46.650
the time? You know, who wants that? Who needs

00:47:46.650 --> 00:47:50.789
that? This will never work. And some of it, admittedly

00:47:50.789 --> 00:47:54.530
has not necessarily been great for humankind.

00:47:55.130 --> 00:47:56.829
But that's because we haven't really had the

00:47:56.829 --> 00:47:59.710
power to change that. And these systems are going

00:47:59.710 --> 00:48:03.710
to bring that power. And this is why computing

00:48:03.710 --> 00:48:06.530
itself is going to change. If you look right

00:48:06.530 --> 00:48:10.659
now, every technology company is trying to sell

00:48:10.659 --> 00:48:14.400
you some gadget for Christmas. This is early,

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:17.539
early, early days. It's probably not worth it.

00:48:18.489 --> 00:48:22.210
want you to be enamored by their gadget and then

00:48:22.210 --> 00:48:25.230
be connected to their services, like you're enslaved

00:48:25.230 --> 00:48:28.449
to iCloud or to Gmail. All of this is going to

00:48:28.449 --> 00:48:32.269
change. Will it be 10 years, 10 months, 10 weeks,

00:48:32.369 --> 00:48:35.150
10 hours? Man, it's just like the coming of Christ.

00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:38.230
I don't know. And maybe it's connected. I don't

00:48:38.230 --> 00:48:42.230
know either. But it's going to be fantastic.

00:48:42.250 --> 00:48:46.619
And I want people to know that Whatever we see

00:48:46.619 --> 00:48:49.460
whatever we whatever vibes we get we're gonna

00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:52.579
tell people about it But right now, you know,

00:48:52.699 --> 00:48:55.139
so this was the latest story because please we

00:48:55.139 --> 00:48:59.199
want you to be afraid of all things AI Because

00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.000
you know, you really don't want anything unless

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.820
we're controlling it for you or the government

00:49:03.820 --> 00:49:07.550
controlling it for you and this was just Hilarious.

00:49:35.590 --> 00:49:38.130
gets into your refrigerator and then it becomes

00:49:38.130 --> 00:49:40.090
a transformer, right? This is not like taking

00:49:40.090 --> 00:49:43.090
over people's personal devices. This is rather

00:49:43.090 --> 00:49:45.210
using what is known as the Internet of Things,

00:49:45.750 --> 00:49:49.380
this increasingly large connected network of

00:49:49.380 --> 00:49:51.900
internet connected devices, whether that be smartphones

00:49:51.900 --> 00:49:54.619
and laptops, but also increasingly like refrigerators

00:49:54.619 --> 00:49:57.519
and microwaves and ovens and garage door openers

00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.179
and smart home cameras and things like that.

00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.820
That is a network. And the idea here that Anthropic

00:50:03.820 --> 00:50:07.139
is floating is that potentially these AI models

00:50:07.139 --> 00:50:10.130
could. copy themselves within Anthropic and then

00:50:10.130 --> 00:50:12.829
get access to this Internet of Things and then

00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:14.750
use that basically as like a replacement for

00:50:14.750 --> 00:50:18.389
a data center. Sure, a refrigerator is only one

00:50:18.389 --> 00:50:22.170
small piece of a larger network. It is not enough

00:50:22.170 --> 00:50:24.530
to replace a data center. But, you know, when

00:50:24.530 --> 00:50:26.289
you add that to all the other Internet connected

00:50:26.289 --> 00:50:28.570
stuff in your house and then everybody else's

00:50:28.570 --> 00:50:31.010
connected stuff on your block, everybody in the

00:50:31.010 --> 00:50:33.690
city, that becomes quite a big network for this

00:50:33.690 --> 00:50:35.289
thing to play around in. And that's the real

00:50:35.289 --> 00:50:38.449
concern that Anthropics raising. OK. Let's break

00:50:38.449 --> 00:50:43.989
this down for a second. So they're actually kind

00:50:43.989 --> 00:50:49.289
of level -headed about it. Yes, AI, I guess,

00:50:49.650 --> 00:50:52.369
could use things and get on different devices.

00:50:53.929 --> 00:50:57.309
Your iRobot vacuum cleaner is not going to start

00:50:57.309 --> 00:50:59.769
spinning out of control and chop your head off.

00:51:00.489 --> 00:51:03.210
But this does bring up something that is incredibly

00:51:03.210 --> 00:51:05.820
important. And you know, when we moved into this

00:51:05.820 --> 00:51:07.940
house here in Fredericksburg, the first thing

00:51:07.940 --> 00:51:11.239
I did is I took all of that stuff out. I took

00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:16.199
out the Amazon door locks, the ring doorbells,

00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:19.599
all of that stuff. Now, we have a robot that

00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.159
cleans the house, and I'm willing to accept whatever

00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:24.760
risk that may be. But our washing machine is

00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:27.920
not connected. Our fridge is not connected. The

00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:30.039
fridge does what it's supposed to do. It keeps

00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.519
stuff cool or frozen. But it's going to need

00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:36.500
updates. I don't need updates. For a refrigerator.

00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:40.340
I'm like, what? Well, interestingly, if you connect

00:51:40.340 --> 00:51:45.820
your refrigerator and you get updates, the updates

00:51:45.820 --> 00:51:48.889
are one thing. Updates can be... wrong you know

00:51:48.889 --> 00:51:51.070
this you've seen it with your phone at some point

00:51:51.070 --> 00:51:53.369
oh bad update and you know restart get the new

00:51:53.369 --> 00:51:56.389
update with our sound system out here same so

00:51:56.389 --> 00:51:58.650
this just happened in france that said we just

00:51:58.650 --> 00:52:01.110
reported on that french supermarket hacking where

00:52:01.110 --> 00:52:03.190
someone hacked and messed with the temperatures

00:52:03.190 --> 00:52:05.800
of the refrigerators and the freezers Going into

00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:08.619
these devices, can they collect data on you and

00:52:08.619 --> 00:52:10.900
could they maybe mess with the devices in that

00:52:10.900 --> 00:52:12.820
way? I mean, there's there's the potential for

00:52:12.820 --> 00:52:14.920
that to happen. But again, that's not really

00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.480
what Anthropic is outlining here. Certainly we

00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:20.780
have seen instances where AI models go wrong,

00:52:20.780 --> 00:52:23.539
but usually that goes back to like internal testing

00:52:23.539 --> 00:52:25.719
that OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or somebody

00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:27.940
else is doing. And then these things kind of

00:52:27.940 --> 00:52:30.960
get loose. Last Friday, for example, in testing,

00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:34.119
Anthropic reported that one of their models accidentally

00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:36.349
submitted a murder tip to the Philadelphia Police

00:52:36.349 --> 00:52:38.949
Department that was completely erroneous. That's

00:52:38.949 --> 00:52:41.329
the nature of that sort of threat. OK, so did

00:52:41.329 --> 00:52:43.070
you hear about the French supermarkets? What

00:52:43.070 --> 00:52:46.090
happened? I did not hear that. This so a lot

00:52:46.090 --> 00:52:48.809
of these supermarkets and this was a hundreds

00:52:48.809 --> 00:52:51.730
of supermarkets use the same refrigeration system.

00:52:52.489 --> 00:52:55.349
There's a central control box and at night it

00:52:55.349 --> 00:52:57.650
does heat up a bit to defrost and then it goes

00:52:57.650 --> 00:53:00.050
down. So it's a controlled system connected to

00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:03.429
the unit with full trust of these supermarkets.

00:53:04.409 --> 00:53:07.409
that they would get their upgrades whenever it

00:53:07.409 --> 00:53:10.610
was necessary. I guess it's necessary. Well,

00:53:10.789 --> 00:53:15.150
somebody hacked into this one particular brand,

00:53:15.670 --> 00:53:19.090
which is used by this 400 supermarkets and turned

00:53:19.090 --> 00:53:22.469
it up to like 100 degrees and everything melted,

00:53:22.909 --> 00:53:26.469
everything spoiled, millions of dollars or euros

00:53:26.469 --> 00:53:32.329
of damage. This is not an AI story. This is a

00:53:32.329 --> 00:53:35.849
connected world story. And there is legitimate

00:53:35.849 --> 00:53:40.969
concern. It's legitimate concern. As fun as it

00:53:40.969 --> 00:53:45.050
seems to be able to monitor your washing machine

00:53:45.050 --> 00:53:49.989
from an app, there is a 50 % probability that

00:53:49.989 --> 00:53:52.849
people listening to us right now, their washing

00:53:52.849 --> 00:53:55.610
machine is actually being used to mine Bitcoin.

00:53:56.130 --> 00:54:00.909
This is a fact. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.

00:54:01.210 --> 00:54:04.210
And it's gigabytes of data are going back and

00:54:04.210 --> 00:54:06.769
forth from your washing machine. This is not

00:54:06.769 --> 00:54:10.269
AI. This is smart hackers who have probably taken

00:54:10.269 --> 00:54:13.670
over 90 % of our routers for bot networks. This

00:54:13.670 --> 00:54:17.289
is all happening. And it's because people have

00:54:17.289 --> 00:54:19.869
been so accustomed to, yeah, no problem. I'll

00:54:19.869 --> 00:54:22.489
just hook this thing up and it's good. Passwords

00:54:22.489 --> 00:54:25.110
are insecure. There's all kinds of things that

00:54:25.110 --> 00:54:28.190
go wrong all the time. We need to be wary of

00:54:28.190 --> 00:54:32.500
this. and just be careful what you connect to

00:54:32.500 --> 00:54:34.800
what. Now, it's not going to bother you that

00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:38.460
your washing machine is mining Bitcoin. It probably

00:54:38.460 --> 00:54:40.820
won't bother you that your Wi -Fi is being used

00:54:40.820 --> 00:54:43.019
as part of a big bot network. You may get slow

00:54:43.019 --> 00:54:46.360
from time to time like, man, my Netflix is buffering.

00:54:46.900 --> 00:54:50.599
But eventually the things we connect and we just

00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.500
have to discern what we connect and how we monitor

00:54:54.500 --> 00:54:58.230
that. If anything, we have very poor education

00:54:58.230 --> 00:55:01.730
about these things. So on one hand, the AI is

00:55:01.730 --> 00:55:04.789
going to jump in and use your washing machine

00:55:04.789 --> 00:55:07.110
to do other things. It might, but yeah, it's

00:55:07.110 --> 00:55:10.690
not going to come out and kill you. But you have

00:55:10.690 --> 00:55:12.550
to think about these things. Every single time

00:55:12.550 --> 00:55:14.989
there's a power outage, they barely report on

00:55:14.989 --> 00:55:17.269
it anymore. But people are left out in the cold,

00:55:17.429 --> 00:55:19.170
couldn't get into my house because I have an

00:55:19.170 --> 00:55:21.690
Amazon door lock that needs the internet to work.

00:55:22.250 --> 00:55:25.869
So these are things that... we need to be careful

00:55:25.869 --> 00:55:28.010
of. Wow. But we're not gonna, we're not going

00:55:28.010 --> 00:55:31.050
to be taken over by the evil AIs. Okay. And I'm

00:55:31.050 --> 00:55:32.650
not going to worry about my garage door opener

00:55:32.650 --> 00:55:36.840
then. Well, someone could open it remotely. That's

00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:39.900
true. That's any, any garage door opener though.

00:55:40.219 --> 00:55:42.780
Oh yeah. On a signal of any kind. Absolutely.

00:55:42.780 --> 00:55:45.099
That can get captured. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:48.340
Keep the, keep the inside door locked. Yep. That's

00:55:48.340 --> 00:55:50.780
the big one there. Now some really good news

00:55:50.780 --> 00:55:52.980
about the death of AI. It got me thinking. No,

00:55:53.019 --> 00:55:56.099
I'm happy about this. So when we first started

00:55:56.099 --> 00:55:59.219
talking, people said to me, Kuri, you were anti

00:55:59.219 --> 00:56:03.300
-AI. Now you're all in. When I was anti -AI,

00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:06.260
it was chat bots. And I said, that's a parlor

00:56:06.260 --> 00:56:07.940
trick. It's tricking you into thinking you're

00:56:07.940 --> 00:56:10.699
talking to a person and it's a human and it's

00:56:10.699 --> 00:56:13.159
destructive to people and they develop relationships.

00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:19.599
That was literally a year before the agents started

00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:22.260
to become the new way that they interact with

00:56:22.260 --> 00:56:25.340
humans and the large language models. So it was

00:56:25.340 --> 00:56:27.739
a whole different ball game. One of the ones

00:56:27.739 --> 00:56:31.900
I was most disturbed by was character .ai, which

00:56:31.900 --> 00:56:34.860
included, they had Jesus and Moses. You could

00:56:34.860 --> 00:56:37.300
talk to them. You remember that? Yes, we talked

00:56:37.300 --> 00:56:39.719
about it. Here's the latest. An early AI startup,

00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:42.599
Character AI, filed for bankruptcy. Is that some

00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:44.960
kind of foreshadowing about these businesses?

00:56:45.380 --> 00:56:47.539
I mean, I don't want to jump up and down on the

00:56:47.539 --> 00:56:50.110
grave, but. I'm kind of happy this happened and

00:56:50.110 --> 00:56:52.590
it is foreshadowing for things that don't belong

00:56:52.590 --> 00:56:53.909
in our world. Yeah, this is the other side of

00:56:53.909 --> 00:56:56.309
the AI coin, right? We talked about how scary

00:56:56.309 --> 00:56:58.150
some of this technology can be if it's allowed

00:56:58.150 --> 00:57:00.630
to progress to the degree that some of these

00:57:00.630 --> 00:57:03.550
leaders have been predicting. But also, no one's

00:57:03.550 --> 00:57:05.110
really figured out a way to make money on this

00:57:05.110 --> 00:57:08.210
technology yet. Character AI was a startup that

00:57:08.210 --> 00:57:10.369
built itself as a way for you to go and like

00:57:10.369 --> 00:57:12.530
create a little AI character. You could interact

00:57:12.530 --> 00:57:16.130
with it, but it really failed to, you know, find

00:57:16.130 --> 00:57:20.199
a robust monetization. despite the fact that

00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.659
millions upon millions of people use this thing

00:57:22.659 --> 00:57:25.300
every month at its peak. That really just goes

00:57:25.300 --> 00:57:27.840
back to underline how much spending is happening

00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:31.380
in the AI space with not really a robust monetization

00:57:31.380 --> 00:57:33.840
strategy, just yet a real threat, especially

00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.380
as companies even as big as Anthropic and OpenAI

00:57:36.380 --> 00:57:39.599
look towards future public offerings in possibly

00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:41.820
just the next couple of months here. So as I've

00:57:41.820 --> 00:57:46.010
always said. this cost too much. They better

00:57:46.010 --> 00:57:48.190
figure out a way to actually make money on it

00:57:48.190 --> 00:57:50.670
or it's just going to wind up where it belongs,

00:57:50.710 --> 00:57:53.829
which is in our own possession for us to use

00:57:53.829 --> 00:57:57.190
securely and safely ourselves. It'll be quite

00:57:57.190 --> 00:57:59.250
a while before this happens, but we're going

00:57:59.250 --> 00:58:02.849
to have it. And that is going to be so super

00:58:02.849 --> 00:58:07.369
empowering, particularly dynamic pricing. Have

00:58:07.369 --> 00:58:10.489
you been hearing about this? No. Where Walmart

00:58:10.489 --> 00:58:14.010
will They're gonna do it in store too, but I

00:58:14.010 --> 00:58:15.789
think on the app is where they've already just

00:58:15.789 --> 00:58:18.690
like uber and Lyft They look at you. How much

00:58:18.690 --> 00:58:21.190
can I charge you not? What is the price for everybody?

00:58:21.630 --> 00:58:24.590
What do I charge you based upon your your history?

00:58:24.829 --> 00:58:27.110
What I know about you and we know a lot about

00:58:27.110 --> 00:58:29.110
you because you can buy it from data brokers

00:58:29.110 --> 00:58:31.949
from right Activity on Facebook and Instagram

00:58:31.949 --> 00:58:34.710
and your credit card activity all this is known

00:58:34.780 --> 00:58:38.659
And so that this is going to be a conversation

00:58:38.659 --> 00:58:41.349
people like well, wait a minute. I mean The AI

00:58:41.349 --> 00:58:44.489
is now trying to squeeze the last bit out of

00:58:44.489 --> 00:58:47.239
me. I'm going to predict what's going to happen.

00:58:47.940 --> 00:58:52.579
Our robots will negotiate. And so you have an

00:58:52.579 --> 00:58:54.699
app or whatever to Walmart, and it will say,

00:58:55.719 --> 00:58:58.360
yeah, I don't want to pay $7 for that detergent.

00:58:58.460 --> 00:59:02.440
I can get it at Target for $6. Well, maybe I'll

00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:04.440
give it to you for 650. No, I can still get it

00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:07.739
for six over there. Okay, I'll do 550. Make it

00:59:07.739 --> 00:59:09.519
five and then I'll do it, because otherwise my

00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:11.840
robot's gonna go and negotiate with Target. This

00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:14.659
is where it's going to be deflationary. Interesting.

00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.900
It is going to put, and it'll be the same with

00:59:17.900 --> 00:59:21.719
drive -throughs, any subscription you have. Well,

00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:23.519
it makes sense, because the same thing they're

00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:26.460
gonna weaponize against us, we can use to guard.

00:59:26.699 --> 00:59:30.809
Yes. To shield. negotiate. I don't like weaponized,

00:59:31.110 --> 00:59:33.969
I like negotiate. I sound like a headline. We

00:59:33.969 --> 00:59:37.789
are going to have incredible power to make anything

00:59:37.789 --> 00:59:41.570
we want to come up with great ideas and build

00:59:41.570 --> 00:59:44.929
them ourselves and use those for our real world

00:59:44.929 --> 00:59:47.650
work that we do. You and I, we have real world

00:59:47.650 --> 00:59:52.050
work. We work in the absolute world and we talk

00:59:52.050 --> 00:59:55.090
to people and the tools that we have to make

00:59:55.090 --> 01:00:00.280
that better, deeper, more broader, they're just

01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:02.559
gonna be so amazing. I'm already benefiting from

01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:05.900
my grokbots. Exactly, exactly. This is so good.

01:00:06.460 --> 01:00:09.940
I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:14.150
eight, nine of them now. Hey now! I've got a

01:00:14.150 --> 01:00:17.690
working and I've got a CEO who's in charge of

01:00:17.690 --> 01:00:21.250
all of them. And the CEO disperses whatever I

01:00:21.250 --> 01:00:24.309
ask into whichever bot it'll even say communicating

01:00:24.309 --> 01:00:27.630
with. People need to really start experimenting

01:00:27.630 --> 01:00:31.329
with this with Gronkbot or with Muse because

01:00:31.329 --> 01:00:34.909
you will, I mean, obviously you're still renting

01:00:34.909 --> 01:00:38.130
basically a virtual computer in the cloud from

01:00:38.130 --> 01:00:43.280
XAI. which right now is good. I mean, it was

01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:47.300
funny. People sent me this article. Hey, you

01:00:47.300 --> 01:00:49.579
know, this person is saying, you know, this news

01:00:49.579 --> 01:00:53.860
article that Muse has an entire file on you and

01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:56.079
all your friends. I'm like, yeah, that's the

01:00:56.079 --> 01:01:00.880
entire point is for my robot to know who Pastor

01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:04.820
Jimmy is and the things that pertain to him and

01:01:04.820 --> 01:01:07.980
to me. Now, do I want Metta looking at that?

01:01:08.219 --> 01:01:11.510
They say they don't. I'll take them at their

01:01:11.510 --> 01:01:13.809
word, but really I would like to have that on

01:01:13.809 --> 01:01:16.469
my device so I know that there's no temptation

01:01:16.469 --> 01:01:19.690
there. We're going to get there. Your phone will

01:01:19.690 --> 01:01:22.230
not look like a phone in the future. It'll just

01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:25.090
be a thing. And you ask the thing to do something.

01:01:25.309 --> 01:01:28.250
So I should hold off on the folding iPhone. Brother,

01:01:28.809 --> 01:01:32.409
stay away from it. Were you considering? No,

01:01:32.690 --> 01:01:34.690
I'm not actually, because I don't use my phone

01:01:34.690 --> 01:01:38.019
that much, to be honest. I actually use an iPad

01:01:38.019 --> 01:01:40.920
or whatever, but yeah, same thing. Is Annette

01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:43.219
foaming at the mouth? She wants to. She was,

01:01:43.260 --> 01:01:45.639
but she's calmed down about it. Because I was

01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:47.900
like, OK, just do it. She's been talking about

01:01:47.900 --> 01:01:49.980
that for so long. The foldable, the foldable.

01:01:50.380 --> 01:01:55.219
We'll see. It's just another reason to, oh, I

01:01:55.219 --> 01:01:57.820
got to open this fold and look at it again. Yeah,

01:01:57.820 --> 01:02:01.019
yeah, yeah, we'll see. I like my crappy Android.

01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:05.300
It's doing just fine for me. I do have one other.

01:02:05.900 --> 01:02:07.860
The story I don't know if you have anything else

01:02:07.860 --> 01:02:09.599
brother you want to talk about well, I think

01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:14.059
it's I Read a really interesting post from Tony

01:02:14.059 --> 01:02:17.159
Perkins of Family Research Council. Oh, yeah,

01:02:17.219 --> 01:02:19.780
sure He was talking about the public execution

01:02:19.780 --> 01:02:23.460
of Nadal Hassan. Mm -hmm And I would like to

01:02:23.460 --> 01:02:26.619
read that if that's okay. Sure I'd actually have

01:02:26.619 --> 01:02:28.380
you have something on that. Well, I have the

01:02:28.380 --> 01:02:32.179
clips. What you buy. Yeah So here's feel free

01:02:32.179 --> 01:02:35.219
to share. Yeah. Hold on a second. Here is the

01:02:35.650 --> 01:02:38.489
Here was the announcement from the Secretary

01:02:38.489 --> 01:02:41.590
of War, Pete Hedges, egg Seth. Execution by firing

01:02:41.590 --> 01:02:44.489
squad. Army major betrays his country, radical

01:02:44.489 --> 01:02:46.309
Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort

01:02:46.309 --> 01:02:48.150
Hood. Of course we're going to do it at Fort

01:02:48.150 --> 01:02:49.969
Hood. We're going to do it on a Thursday. We're

01:02:49.969 --> 01:02:51.150
going to do it at one o 'clock, which is when

01:02:51.150 --> 01:02:53.710
he did it. And it's going to be soldiers with

01:02:53.710 --> 01:02:56.349
rifles executing the firing squad. It hadn't

01:02:56.349 --> 01:02:58.469
been since World War II, since we've done that.

01:02:58.489 --> 01:02:59.969
Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in

01:02:59.969 --> 01:03:04.139
World War II, which was when, which was... Second

01:03:04.139 --> 01:03:06.219
time I'm hearing this, he's wheezing. You hear

01:03:06.219 --> 01:03:09.099
that? Yeah, yeah. He's like really... You can

01:03:09.099 --> 01:03:10.619
hear the wind blowing, too, wherever he's at.

01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:14.699
To me, it feels like he's kind of hyper about

01:03:14.699 --> 01:03:17.920
it. It's not easy for him to be talking like

01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:19.340
this, I can tell. I kind of like the mentality

01:03:19.340 --> 01:03:22.260
we had in World War II, which was wind. Which

01:03:22.260 --> 01:03:24.960
was, understand when the enemy attacks you, you

01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:27.179
need to stand your ground. So it was radical

01:03:27.179 --> 01:03:29.760
Islamist terror attack. Remember what Obama called

01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.260
it? Workplace violence? I mean, that's what we're

01:03:32.260 --> 01:03:33.880
up against. That's the worldview we're up against

01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:37.619
is workplace violence, CVE. We know what it is.

01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:39.820
It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside

01:03:39.820 --> 01:03:41.699
the ranks. And so he's going to get a firing

01:03:41.699 --> 01:03:44.159
squad of soldiers, as it should be. And we'll

01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.519
make sure that people are able to watch it, that

01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.500
it's public, because people need to understand

01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:52.260
that there's serious consequences for these types

01:03:52.260 --> 01:03:55.980
of things. Has Major Hassan made any final requests,

01:03:56.079 --> 01:03:57.340
reached out to the president, anything like that

01:03:57.340 --> 01:04:00.710
to your knowledge? Don't care. We'll see him

01:04:00.710 --> 01:04:04.110
on December 3rd. December 3rd, Fort Hood. And

01:04:04.110 --> 01:04:06.329
then President Trump responded a little more

01:04:06.329 --> 01:04:08.710
subdued, I think, to some degree. And sources

01:04:08.710 --> 01:04:11.710
say people across the Army and the Pentagon were

01:04:11.710 --> 01:04:14.269
caught off guard by the announcement that the

01:04:14.269 --> 01:04:17.349
execution of the Fort Hood shooter would be public.

01:04:17.789 --> 01:04:19.949
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the announcement

01:04:19.949 --> 01:04:22.969
in an interview with a far -right podcaster aboard

01:04:22.969 --> 01:04:27.940
the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday. Hegseth

01:04:27.940 --> 01:04:30.139
said it would be public because, quote, people

01:04:30.139 --> 01:04:32.719
need to understand that there's serious consequences

01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.019
for these types of things. One source says Hegseth,

01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:38.619
the acting Army secretary and Pentagon spokesman

01:04:38.619 --> 01:04:41.820
Sean Parnell decided public would mean it would

01:04:41.820 --> 01:04:44.960
be live streamed. There are two thoughts. Don't

01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:48.000
show it and show it because, you know, by showing

01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.659
it, maybe other people won't be doing what he

01:04:50.659 --> 01:04:54.000
did. So I'll make a decision. Ultimately, I know

01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.309
what the military would like to do. But we'll

01:04:56.309 --> 01:04:59.329
make a decision. Okay. So it's, you know, the

01:04:59.329 --> 01:05:02.630
president has waited. He wasn't his usual bravado

01:05:02.630 --> 01:05:04.889
self on that. He was like, you know, we'll see.

01:05:04.969 --> 01:05:09.489
I'll make a decision. So Tony Perkins came out

01:05:09.489 --> 01:05:11.210
with a statement on this. I want to read it to

01:05:11.210 --> 01:05:13.610
you because I really, I really am in alignment

01:05:13.610 --> 01:05:16.409
with this. I can be swayed by somebody smarter

01:05:16.409 --> 01:05:18.889
than me, but I'm just saying I like what he said.

01:05:18.969 --> 01:05:21.670
He said, as a former police officer and as a

01:05:21.670 --> 01:05:24.409
pastor, I understand both the purpose and the

01:05:24.409 --> 01:05:26.969
biblical foundation of capital punishment. It

01:05:26.969 --> 01:05:29.250
is not merely punishment for a crime, it is also

01:05:29.250 --> 01:05:32.030
intended to deter others from committing similar

01:05:32.030 --> 01:05:34.909
acts. Scripture not only provides justification

01:05:34.909 --> 01:05:37.489
for capital punishment, but in cases of murder

01:05:37.489 --> 01:05:40.289
explicitly calls for it. We read this last week.

01:05:40.769 --> 01:05:43.690
Genesis 9, 6 declares, whoever sheds man's blood

01:05:43.690 --> 01:05:46.949
by man, his blood shall be shed, for in the image

01:05:46.949 --> 01:05:50.000
of God he made man. Capital punishment properly

01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.400
administrated is not a rejection of the sanctity

01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:55.500
of human life. It is an affirmation of it, but

01:05:55.500 --> 01:05:58.159
that does not mean executions should become public

01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:00.460
spectacles. So this is where he switches. And

01:06:00.460 --> 01:06:03.460
I agree. This is where my concern was not over

01:06:03.460 --> 01:06:06.139
capital punishment. Mine was where we settled

01:06:06.139 --> 01:06:09.539
that last week. My concern was publicizing this,

01:06:10.019 --> 01:06:12.079
showing it. Now he gives some, what I think are

01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:15.559
some sound reasons to be wary of this. He says

01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:17.880
this, I oppose the proposed live streaming of

01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:19.739
the execution of convicted Fort Hood terrorist

01:06:19.739 --> 01:06:23.639
Nidal Hasan for two reasons. First, when we separate

01:06:23.639 --> 01:06:25.920
capital punishment from its moral foundation,

01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:28.960
we risk turning an act of justice into what appears

01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.179
to be an act of vengeance. Rather than affirming

01:06:32.179 --> 01:06:34.420
the sanctity of human life, a public spectacle

01:06:34.420 --> 01:06:37.219
of death can communicate the opposite message.

01:06:37.619 --> 01:06:40.559
The human life has little value. Second, as House

01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:43.289
Speaker Mike Johnson has warned, Broadcasting

01:06:43.289 --> 01:06:47.230
Hassan's execution could provide jihadist organizations

01:06:47.230 --> 01:06:49.989
with a powerful recruiting tool. Rather than

01:06:49.989 --> 01:06:52.769
deterring future terrorists, it could give them

01:06:52.769 --> 01:06:56.269
propaganda to inspire more violence. Nadal Hassan

01:06:56.269 --> 01:06:59.150
should receive the punishment imposed for his

01:06:59.150 --> 01:07:02.030
horrific crimes. Justice should be carried out,

01:07:02.030 --> 01:07:04.550
but it should not become entertainment. The purpose

01:07:04.550 --> 01:07:07.530
of capital punishment is to uphold the value

01:07:07.530 --> 01:07:10.230
of innocent human life, not to make a spectacle

01:07:10.230 --> 01:07:12.969
of taking the life of the guilty. Well, there

01:07:12.969 --> 01:07:16.489
goes my pay -per -view idea. Oh, you have to

01:07:16.489 --> 01:07:20.650
pay for it? What? Oh, and we're going to make

01:07:20.650 --> 01:07:23.789
money on this at the same time. Wow. That's another

01:07:23.789 --> 01:07:26.989
level. As you were reading that, because I think

01:07:26.989 --> 01:07:29.969
a lot of people agree with your stance. Not all

01:07:29.969 --> 01:07:32.630
pastors, though. In fact, I heard Pastor Josh

01:07:32.630 --> 01:07:36.909
Howerton say he thought it was okay to be public.

01:07:36.909 --> 01:07:41.880
Yeah, to be public. And I'm thinking this is

01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:46.039
not... the first public execution that has been

01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:48.900
live -streamed. And I want to remind everybody

01:07:48.900 --> 01:07:52.840
of what happened on the last one. This happened

01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:57.280
on September 12th, when Charlie Kirk was executed

01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:01.500
live -streamed before the entire world replayed

01:08:01.500 --> 01:08:06.449
over and over and over again. I... didn't see

01:08:06.449 --> 01:08:09.730
any great benefit to that. It made people say

01:08:09.730 --> 01:08:15.610
horrible things. It started just an entire category

01:08:15.610 --> 01:08:19.229
of podcasts. And it was shocking. It was shocking

01:08:19.229 --> 01:08:25.319
to see that. I was like, just think about that.

01:08:25.579 --> 01:08:28.600
Do we need to see this? I don't think so. That

01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.760
one's still in my mind, that one. And I'm like,

01:08:30.939 --> 01:08:34.560
OK, I really didn't need to see that then. Yeah,

01:08:34.640 --> 01:08:37.359
I think it's interesting because when you have

01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:41.319
execution by injection or various means, electrocution,

01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:44.979
whatever, it's in a very closed facility. It's

01:08:44.979 --> 01:08:47.539
very private. Only certain people can enter.

01:08:47.539 --> 01:08:50.600
Well, there are witnesses who are there by design.

01:08:50.979 --> 01:08:54.800
And it's usually a handful of people. And it's

01:08:54.800 --> 01:09:00.159
not videotaped, you know, to be seen. forever.

01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.439
So I feel like we're moving back towards the

01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:06.979
Roman gladiator days where let's throw the Christians

01:09:06.979 --> 01:09:09.060
out there in there and let's just watch the lions

01:09:09.060 --> 01:09:11.659
devour them or watch the soldiers crush them.

01:09:11.979 --> 01:09:16.899
Wasn't it like a Christian monk who jumped into

01:09:16.899 --> 01:09:20.659
the arena and said to Caesar, you've got to stop

01:09:20.659 --> 01:09:22.880
this. He actually wound up getting eaten by the

01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:24.899
lions, but it was a Christian monk who jumped

01:09:24.899 --> 01:09:27.500
there and said, stop. And that kind of ended.

01:09:27.619 --> 01:09:32.220
This is after Christianity had become Augustine

01:09:32.220 --> 01:09:37.199
had said, this is the official church. And it

01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:41.359
ended from that. Bloodsport or whatever you want

01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:45.779
to call it. I understand the anger of Hegseth

01:09:45.779 --> 01:09:48.159
and I understand the anger of the military and

01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:50.619
I think it should be... reiterated what Hassan

01:09:50.619 --> 01:09:53.920
did. I mean, he killed 13 people, cold blood.

01:09:53.939 --> 01:09:55.340
It was awful. It was horrible. Alawakbar, the

01:09:55.340 --> 01:09:59.300
whole deal. As a psychologist, he was a psychologist.

01:09:59.920 --> 01:10:02.680
So think about someone you trust to such a degree.

01:10:03.539 --> 01:10:06.220
So that should also, that should be something

01:10:06.220 --> 01:10:09.340
that we're reminded of and we're told over and

01:10:09.340 --> 01:10:12.939
over. But yeah, public executions, they're ugly.

01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:15.399
They're bloody. It's shocking. We don't need

01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:17.159
it. You know, we say, well, you know, it's going

01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:18.899
to be limited to pay -per -view or whatever.

01:10:19.060 --> 01:10:22.399
It's going to end up everywhere. Well, we saw

01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:25.859
Saddam Hussein get hanged. Yes. We saw Colonel

01:10:25.859 --> 01:10:34.619
Gaddafi get torn apart by a mob. The list goes

01:10:34.619 --> 01:10:37.260
on and on and on. It's not pretty. It's not pretty.

01:10:37.779 --> 01:10:41.319
But it'll provide content for a lot of people.

01:10:43.859 --> 01:10:47.039
monetized, maximized, sensationalized. Well,

01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:49.479
that's what happened just over a year ago. I

01:10:49.479 --> 01:10:53.659
just feel like it's, yeah, not wise. That's my

01:10:53.659 --> 01:10:55.500
thought. Well, I think the president's going

01:10:55.500 --> 01:10:57.520
to make that decision, that he's going to say

01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.680
no. Oh, you think he'll back? Yeah, I think he'll

01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:02.779
say, let's not do that. I mean, you heard him

01:11:02.779 --> 01:11:05.479
go. I thought it was already decided, so that's

01:11:05.479 --> 01:11:07.539
good. No, I don't know. I don't have any proof

01:11:07.539 --> 01:11:09.359
of that. It just sounds like they were moving

01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:12.819
forward with that. The president can still tell

01:11:12.819 --> 01:11:15.579
the secretary what he needs to do. And the president

01:11:15.579 --> 01:11:17.800
keeps saying, well, we'll see about that. I haven't

01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:21.819
made a decision yet. He's asked his wife. As

01:11:21.819 --> 01:11:24.779
all good men would do. That's right. That's the

01:11:24.779 --> 01:11:26.840
only way to come up with the right way to get

01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:30.220
the right thing out there. Just to follow up

01:11:30.220 --> 01:11:32.420
on something you've been following about Noah's

01:11:32.420 --> 01:11:36.739
Ark. Yeah. And it's just. You know, there's not

01:11:36.739 --> 01:11:39.260
a lot of mainstream reporting on this. Have you

01:11:39.260 --> 01:11:42.119
noticed that it's? Yeah, it's a lot of other

01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:45.119
side, you know, smaller podcasts and different

01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:47.340
influencers or different outlets have picked

01:11:47.340 --> 01:11:51.279
it up. Yeah. And the people who are in these

01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:53.539
clips, and I just want to play it because you

01:11:53.539 --> 01:12:00.560
don't get it anywhere. Let's see. It's a former

01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.819
US Senate candidate from Delaware, Edward Szal.

01:12:04.170 --> 01:12:08.449
Uh, and Lauren Witzke, I believe she's, uh, I'm

01:12:08.449 --> 01:12:10.829
not sure if she's a scientist or anthropologist,

01:12:11.529 --> 01:12:13.890
but they, there's really a lot of stuff showing

01:12:13.890 --> 01:12:16.689
up. And where did I have to go to get these clips

01:12:16.689 --> 01:12:18.569
to get these people who were excited, who were

01:12:18.569 --> 01:12:22.489
part of the, uh, what is it? The Noah arc scans

01:12:22.489 --> 01:12:28.949
project X Alex Jones. Okay. It was a very serendipitous.

01:12:29.140 --> 01:12:31.039
Now, this was to come out this year. You think

01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:32.579
of all the things that have happened this year

01:12:32.579 --> 01:12:35.079
that have shooken people's faith or people have

01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:37.340
tried to shake people's faith, like the UFO disclosures.

01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:39.460
They said it was going to make everyone an atheist.

01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:42.159
You know, when Lauren and I jumped into this

01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:45.180
project, we knew that God's hand was on it. And

01:12:45.180 --> 01:12:47.079
going out to it, I mean, Alex, getting to see

01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:49.140
the valley that Noah and his family would have

01:12:49.140 --> 01:12:51.890
seen when they got out of the ark. was just breathtaking.

01:12:52.529 --> 01:12:54.449
At least you put some shots up of the topography.

01:12:54.510 --> 01:12:56.409
You can see the boat. You can see the ship right

01:12:56.409 --> 01:12:59.029
there. And it's the exact same length the Bible

01:12:59.029 --> 01:13:02.510
says. Absolutely. Yep. 300 cubic meters. Yep.

01:13:02.810 --> 01:13:07.430
Which is exactly 510 to 515 feet. So it matches

01:13:07.430 --> 01:13:09.449
the exact same biblical dimensions as Genesis

01:13:09.449 --> 01:13:12.609
and not just length, but also in width. So it's

01:13:12.609 --> 01:13:16.510
85 feet wide, which is 50 Egyptian cubits as

01:13:16.510 --> 01:13:42.960
well. So it's exact to the I'm kind of excited

01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:45.949
by this. It is, it is cool. I mean, it's kind

01:13:45.949 --> 01:13:48.329
of like when the Shroud of Turin came out. Right.

01:13:48.569 --> 01:13:50.270
And that's, man, it's been out a long time and

01:13:50.270 --> 01:13:52.510
they keep going back over and over and over and

01:13:52.510 --> 01:13:55.109
as new tech is developed. Oh, of course. You

01:13:55.109 --> 01:13:57.390
know, they get another documentary made, you

01:13:57.390 --> 01:14:00.390
know, it just keeps coming back. At the end of

01:14:00.390 --> 01:14:03.949
the day, it doesn't matter for me, but it would

01:14:03.949 --> 01:14:07.220
be kind of cool if it is. Yeah. And, you know,

01:14:07.260 --> 01:14:09.600
I mean, it's exciting. It's kind of hopeful.

01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.180
This is fascinating. I thought they talk about

01:14:12.180 --> 01:14:14.899
all the rocks, you know, that have the holes

01:14:14.899 --> 01:14:17.140
in them. They're massive stones that would have

01:14:17.140 --> 01:14:20.319
been there to balance and, you know, give the

01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:24.840
boat stability. And also there's all these seashells

01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:28.319
and everything all around. Not fossilized, actual

01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:30.600
seashells still, because they haven't been around

01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:32.659
for millions of years and haven't fossilized.

01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:35.220
It's fascinating. Yeah. I mean, it really is

01:14:35.220 --> 01:14:38.380
fascinating. It'll be fun if it all turns out

01:14:38.380 --> 01:14:41.279
that it is. I mean, I'm looking, I just jumped

01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:46.279
on X and typed in Noah's Ark. Wow. Wow. People

01:14:46.279 --> 01:14:49.420
are excited about this. I mean, this is like

01:14:49.420 --> 01:14:53.199
unreal. models. People like to use this. They

01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:55.859
say, see, it's all true, but that's not how you're

01:14:55.859 --> 01:14:58.199
going to win people. And that isn't at the end

01:14:58.199 --> 01:14:59.939
of the day. That's not how you're going to win

01:14:59.939 --> 01:15:03.279
them over. But if it turns out to be for real,

01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:06.060
man, it'll be kind of like, woo, you know, it's

01:15:06.060 --> 01:15:07.840
great. Another one. Now what else? You know,

01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:09.680
there's, cause there's been other things discovered

01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:12.560
as well. I also saw where a guy has discovered

01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:18.239
Noah's Ark underneath. What do you have now?

01:15:18.260 --> 01:15:20.399
This is hilarious. I thought you're going to

01:15:20.399 --> 01:15:22.819
love this. So let me find the picture of it.

01:15:23.079 --> 01:15:26.420
So I've got a picture. Explorer claims he found

01:15:26.420 --> 01:15:30.119
the Ark of the Covenant. Oh, in Nigeria. The

01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:31.720
Ark of the Covenant. Isn't that supposed to be

01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.500
in? It's supposed to be in Nigeria. But this

01:15:34.500 --> 01:15:37.399
one, American Explorer Ron Wyatt claimed to have

01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:39.579
discovered the lost Ark of the Covenant in a

01:15:39.579 --> 01:15:43.359
chamber beneath Jerusalem, directly below Golgotha.

01:15:43.369 --> 01:15:46.109
the site of Jesus' crucifixion. He reported finding

01:15:46.109 --> 01:15:48.350
an earthquake crack extending into the chamber,

01:15:48.829 --> 01:15:51.390
which he linked to Matthew 27 -51, the earth

01:15:51.390 --> 01:15:53.850
shook and the rocks were split. Inside he claimed

01:15:53.850 --> 01:15:55.909
to have found... It's a lot of he claimed, like

01:15:55.909 --> 01:15:58.710
there's a lot of past tense here. I'm like, and

01:15:58.710 --> 01:16:03.140
we have a picture. We see this. What is that?

01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:06.020
That's it. It's in a dusty old chamber. I mean,

01:16:06.100 --> 01:16:12.600
think of that. Is that over by... No, is that

01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:18.260
near Lady Bird Park? Is that enchanted rock?

01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:21.960
Enchanted rock, it could be actually. So anyway,

01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:24.359
you know, this stuff comes up from time to time.

01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:26.520
We see things like that. But you know, when the

01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:28.819
Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, people were

01:16:28.819 --> 01:16:31.079
probably shaking their heads going, nah. That

01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:32.859
was pretty amazing. It turns out to be a real

01:16:32.859 --> 01:16:38.220
deal. And so, you know, could it be that Noah's

01:16:38.220 --> 01:16:40.380
Ark has been discovered? I think it'd be great.

01:16:40.750 --> 01:16:43.829
If it is, I'm not worried about it if it isn't.

01:16:44.130 --> 01:16:46.329
Same way with this Ark of the Covenant here.

01:16:47.489 --> 01:16:49.130
That would be fascinating. I wouldn't go touching

01:16:49.130 --> 01:16:52.189
it. This pretty bad stuff happened to people

01:16:52.189 --> 01:16:54.149
who touched it. I think I'd stay away from it

01:16:54.149 --> 01:16:56.850
and let it sit. But there's a picture of it here

01:16:56.850 --> 01:16:59.289
on this and it's kind of interesting. It has

01:16:59.289 --> 01:17:01.569
the exact right dimensions. It's made of the

01:17:01.569 --> 01:17:05.229
right stuff. It's phenomenal. Hey, let's thank

01:17:05.229 --> 01:17:08.430
some of our listeners who have been so supportive

01:17:08.430 --> 01:17:13.289
of us, value for value. We just love getting

01:17:13.289 --> 01:17:16.489
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01:17:17.430 --> 01:17:19.590
The best way is just telling someone about the

01:17:19.590 --> 01:17:22.069
podcast, let them know about it, get them to

01:17:22.069 --> 01:17:25.760
listen. Hit them in the mouth. I stole that from

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01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:30.359
app. That's always cool. Go to Bridge Radio on

01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:33.939
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01:17:33.939 --> 01:17:36.359
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in broadcasting today, providing us with feedback,

01:17:43.199 --> 01:17:48.649
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01:17:48.810 --> 01:17:51.750
talent and treasure portion, Brent Stricker,

01:17:52.090 --> 01:17:54.770
from Alexandria, Virginia, which as you know

01:17:54.770 --> 01:17:59.970
is data center central and spook central, sent

01:17:59.970 --> 01:18:04.989
us $400. And he says, gentlemen, I pledge to

01:18:04.989 --> 01:18:07.390
make matching donations to both No Agenda and

01:18:07.390 --> 01:18:09.949
We Get To Do This. I love Pastor Jimmy's opening

01:18:09.949 --> 01:18:14.270
prayers and Adam's enthusiastic amen and hallelujah.

01:18:14.829 --> 01:18:17.149
Thank you for your advice and courage from Sir

01:18:17.149 --> 01:18:21.270
Wild Bill. Oh, and our fine friends over at Guadalupe

01:18:21.270 --> 01:18:25.649
Bank, I wanted me to ask all of the people in

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Get2Nation, if you send us a check, and we love

01:18:27.770 --> 01:18:32.510
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01:18:32.510 --> 01:18:38.729
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01:18:38.729 --> 01:18:43.310
the whole staffer on. Can we say, yes, you can

01:18:43.310 --> 01:18:47.409
accept it? And this one came in through the P

01:18:47.409 --> 01:18:50.069
.O. box. It's a long note, but do you want to

01:18:50.069 --> 01:18:51.430
read that, brother? You know what? I don't have

01:18:51.430 --> 01:18:53.670
mine up yet, so you go ahead. I'll read this

01:18:53.670 --> 01:18:57.869
one. This is from Gwen Cunningham and Annette

01:18:57.869 --> 01:19:02.130
Shapey, I think, from Canyon Lake, $206 .60.

01:19:03.189 --> 01:19:07.670
And they sent a check together. Dear Pastor Jimmy

01:19:07.670 --> 01:19:10.189
and Adam, my sister and I are sending this donation

01:19:10.189 --> 01:19:13.090
of $206 .60 in memory of our parents, Alan and

01:19:13.090 --> 01:19:16.090
Irene Smith. We recently found your podcast and

01:19:16.090 --> 01:19:19.109
have been devouring the episodes. Thank you for

01:19:19.109 --> 01:19:21.149
being a voice of reason about how to deal with

01:19:21.149 --> 01:19:23.489
the daily news, which is filled with fear mongering.

01:19:23.890 --> 01:19:26.010
It's so helpful to hear your balanced Christian

01:19:26.010 --> 01:19:28.109
perspectives on what's going on in our society.

01:19:28.689 --> 01:19:30.770
The amount of the donation reflects the anniversary

01:19:30.770 --> 01:19:33.069
dates of our parents' deaths, which occurred

01:19:33.069 --> 01:19:35.770
in the month of October. Mom and dad found their

01:19:35.770 --> 01:19:38.210
church home at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg

01:19:38.210 --> 01:19:41.149
and attended faithfully for several years until

01:19:41.149 --> 01:19:44.579
their passing. Mom in late October of 2022 and

01:19:44.579 --> 01:19:48.479
Dad a year later in early October 2023. The body

01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:51.000
of Christ loved on our family in such meaningful

01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:54.119
ways during that difficult time. The staff and

01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:56.220
congregation always remembered Dad and reached

01:19:56.220 --> 01:19:59.300
out to him after Mom died. Lori and the other

01:19:59.300 --> 01:20:01.739
ladies of the church helped us with food and

01:20:01.739 --> 01:20:04.119
with planning both our parents' memorial services.

01:20:04.529 --> 01:20:06.770
Pastor Jimmy came out to the house when we called

01:20:06.770 --> 01:20:08.869
to tell him our dad was rapidly declining. He

01:20:08.869 --> 01:20:11.949
gave us the very precious treasure of the assurance

01:20:11.949 --> 01:20:14.409
of dad's salvation when he shared some of the

01:20:14.409 --> 01:20:16.390
conversation he had had with our father that

01:20:16.390 --> 01:20:19.189
day. Daddy died the very next morning, and we

01:20:19.189 --> 01:20:21.649
will always be so grateful for Pastor Jimmy listening

01:20:21.649 --> 01:20:24.109
to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and coming

01:20:24.109 --> 01:20:26.409
out right away when called, because that's what

01:20:26.409 --> 01:20:30.029
you are. You and Damon are first responders.

01:20:30.619 --> 01:20:33.260
Thank you. Mom and dad also volunteered with

01:20:33.260 --> 01:20:35.060
the Tea Party because it was important to them

01:20:35.060 --> 01:20:37.560
to get involved to help preserve our freedoms

01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:39.979
here in America. It seemed appropriate then that

01:20:39.979 --> 01:20:41.840
we first came across the podcast when we heard

01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.279
Adam on the Matt Long show. The folks were always

01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:48.520
well -informed and practical, never interested

01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:50.800
in sensationalism, and we think they would be

01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:53.810
so pleased with your podcast. There, folks. Even

01:20:53.810 --> 01:20:56.029
the title you chose for the show, We Get to Do

01:20:56.029 --> 01:20:58.510
This, is an inspiration, reminding us to have

01:20:58.510 --> 01:21:01.930
a positive attitude in troubled times and that

01:21:01.930 --> 01:21:04.989
as the Bible says, who knows but that we have

01:21:04.989 --> 01:21:08.149
been born for a time such as this. Sincerely

01:21:08.149 --> 01:21:11.270
from Gwen Cunningham and Annette Shapie in Memory

01:21:11.270 --> 01:21:14.729
of Alan Smith, 10 -4 -23, and Irene Smith, 10

01:21:14.729 --> 01:21:18.520
-26 -22. I just loved that. It was a handwritten

01:21:18.520 --> 01:21:21.840
note. It's so sweet. Do you remember? Yes, I

01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:24.939
do. I remember sitting at his bedside and asking

01:21:24.939 --> 01:21:27.140
him because we knew he was in the final hours.

01:21:27.739 --> 01:21:29.939
And I just was very, I'm very direct in those

01:21:29.939 --> 01:21:33.920
scenarios. And he said, absolutely. And he said,

01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:36.739
and I'm ready. I'm ready to go. When you have

01:21:36.739 --> 01:21:38.939
somebody tell you that, and they know they're

01:21:38.939 --> 01:21:44.260
going, they are persuaded. He was sure. That

01:21:44.260 --> 01:21:46.340
was a beautiful, beautiful thing. We did his

01:21:46.340 --> 01:21:50.579
memorial, and I was able to share that with the

01:21:50.579 --> 01:21:53.319
people there. There's just something beautiful

01:21:54.050 --> 01:21:59.130
about believers who pass on, because we don't

01:21:59.130 --> 01:22:02.090
see death the same way the world sees it. We

01:22:02.090 --> 01:22:05.180
don't see it that way. We see they're graduating,

01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:08.800
they're promoting, they're leveling up, you know?

01:22:09.100 --> 01:22:12.420
And that to me is so beautiful, especially when

01:22:12.420 --> 01:22:14.939
you're sitting with someone like him who was

01:22:14.939 --> 01:22:20.239
so sure, so knew what was coming. So that's beautiful.

01:22:20.899 --> 01:22:22.979
Yeah. Wow. Absolutely beautiful. Man, I appreciate

01:22:22.979 --> 01:22:26.420
that. So where are we at on donations? Steve,

01:22:26.420 --> 01:22:29.060
Steve, number three, number three. I've got a

01:22:29.060 --> 01:22:31.399
whole different list here. I've got Marco Mack,

01:22:31.539 --> 01:22:33.880
Joe Price. No, no, no. Did I send you the wrong

01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:36.560
one? That's what you gave me. Really? No. Yeah.

01:22:37.140 --> 01:22:40.760
That's what I got. Well, that was a mistake.

01:22:42.539 --> 01:22:46.420
I'm sorry. Not odd. And I also gave Annette the

01:22:46.420 --> 01:22:49.720
wrong one. Well, I will continue. You go ahead.

01:22:50.239 --> 01:22:54.119
Yeah. Steve Weiss. We know Steve from Las Vegas,

01:22:54.319 --> 01:23:00.020
Nevada. Good guy. $77 .70. He says, Steve and

01:23:00.020 --> 01:23:02.060
Steph, checking in again. As always, thank you

01:23:02.060 --> 01:23:04.199
both for the weekly insight and keeping us all

01:23:04.199 --> 01:23:08.199
grounded. Colleen and Edward Cota from Summit,

01:23:08.300 --> 01:23:14.000
New Jersey, $20, always with a check, which is

01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.760
a send to the PO box. We appreciate that. And

01:23:16.760 --> 01:23:19.960
okay, so I finally recognize that Dr. Graham

01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:23.119
Brian Bishko, I should have known with a $19

01:23:23.119 --> 01:23:26.680
.48 that this was actually code for Sir Brian

01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:30.739
of London. And the reason I should have known

01:23:30.739 --> 01:23:35.159
is 1948 is the independence of Israel. And he

01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:40.300
is our boots on the ground in Israel. Adam and

01:23:40.300 --> 01:23:42.699
Jimmy, I'll stick to using my pod ping email

01:23:42.699 --> 01:23:45.260
address so this lines up with Stripe. That's

01:23:45.260 --> 01:23:47.699
a lot of crypto talk there. Sir Brian of London,

01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:50.140
in Israel this time. You better figure out the

01:23:50.140 --> 01:23:52.140
significance of the number. Yes, we've got it.

01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:54.279
We got it, Sir Brian. Sending you love and prayers

01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:56.180
from Jerusalem where I spent a couple of days

01:23:56.180 --> 01:23:59.199
at the now notorious National Conservatism Conference.

01:23:59.659 --> 01:24:01.359
Just wanted to send you one of the great talks,

01:24:01.500 --> 01:24:04.079
which was the dinner speaker, Maggie Tabibi.

01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:07.659
Channel 14 TV news anchor who broke a fast during

01:24:07.659 --> 01:24:10.359
her news broadcast with a sip of water and said

01:24:10.359 --> 01:24:12.640
the blessing on TV during the broadcast I want

01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:16.779
to put this YouTube video Yeah, cuz you know,

01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:19.760
I watched it and this had never happened before

01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:23.260
in Israel that they'd a news anchor, had even

01:24:23.260 --> 01:24:25.699
spoken openly about their faith. Decloking is

01:24:25.699 --> 01:24:29.439
happening everywhere, and she's doing a prayer

01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:32.420
at the end of her newscast. Was that in an X

01:24:32.420 --> 01:24:36.180
piece that he sent us, one of the X DMs? Yes,

01:24:36.279 --> 01:24:39.380
but it's a YouTube video. People can see her

01:24:39.380 --> 01:24:42.439
speech at this. Very cool. Fantastic. Love that.

01:24:43.420 --> 01:24:46.399
I'm telling you, when you decloak in public,

01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:49.359
people will not throw rocks at you. That's right.

01:24:50.569 --> 01:24:53.329
Everything I thought would go wrong did not happen.

01:24:53.369 --> 01:24:55.590
It opens the floodgates. It does. People come

01:24:55.590 --> 01:25:01.789
up and say, you too? Yeah, there you go. It's

01:25:01.789 --> 01:25:05.010
beautiful. It is beautiful. Michael Mason comes

01:25:05.010 --> 01:25:10.199
in with $10 .14 and he says, as Christmas draws

01:25:10.199 --> 01:25:12.300
near, I hope you will touch on the Christmas

01:25:12.300 --> 01:25:16.949
tree. Well, we got some time. The Christmas tree

01:25:16.949 --> 01:25:19.369
has always been a part of my family history and

01:25:19.369 --> 01:25:21.510
I have no problem with it. But two years ago,

01:25:21.510 --> 01:25:24.109
I started also putting up a small nativity set

01:25:24.109 --> 01:25:29.109
as I feel with this, I can focus on the birth

01:25:29.109 --> 01:25:31.890
of Christ, not as an idol, only to remind me

01:25:31.890 --> 01:25:34.489
what Christmas is about. I think this might be

01:25:34.489 --> 01:25:36.170
a good topic. I would love to hear your thoughts

01:25:36.170 --> 01:25:39.350
about this. Michael Mason in New Hampshire, P

01:25:39.350 --> 01:25:42.109
.S. As Halloween draws near, I also have started

01:25:42.109 --> 01:25:47.010
focusing on October 31st, 1517. Martin Luther

01:25:47.010 --> 01:25:51.189
posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle

01:25:51.189 --> 01:25:54.430
Church in Wittenberg, Germany, challenging the

01:25:54.430 --> 01:25:57.029
practice of purchasing forgiveness for sins,

01:25:57.670 --> 01:26:00.229
arguing instead for salvation by faith alone

01:26:00.229 --> 01:26:02.890
through God's grace. For me, this seems more

01:26:02.890 --> 01:26:06.109
fitting, perhaps another show topic. Well, you

01:26:06.109 --> 01:26:08.810
are nodding your head here. Yeah, Romans 5, 8.

01:26:08.909 --> 01:26:13.170
I mean, yeah. The Wittenberg door, it was famous

01:26:13.170 --> 01:26:17.869
where he... nailed his theses, 95 of them, really

01:26:17.869 --> 01:26:22.989
completely countering the idea of paying for

01:26:22.989 --> 01:26:26.770
indulgences and the idea of salvation by works.

01:26:27.409 --> 01:26:31.949
He went back to Romans and talked about salvation

01:26:31.949 --> 01:26:35.270
is by faith and faith alone. So it's brilliant.

01:26:35.710 --> 01:26:38.050
Yeah, fits huge, huge deal. Okay, here's some

01:26:38.050 --> 01:26:41.729
Dutch history for you. Growing up, There was

01:26:41.729 --> 01:26:44.590
a holiday, they didn't, they never had Halloween

01:26:44.590 --> 01:26:48.310
in the Netherlands. Now they do. Well, they have

01:26:48.560 --> 01:26:51.260
Halloween movies. No one goes out trick -or -treating.

01:26:51.760 --> 01:26:55.500
But they had a day called St. Martin for St.

01:26:55.720 --> 01:26:58.590
Martin. Is this the same St. Martin? Martin Luther?

01:26:58.829 --> 01:27:01.810
I believe so, no. Could be. I got it because

01:27:01.810 --> 01:27:04.010
he was later burned at the stake for what he

01:27:04.010 --> 01:27:06.189
did. I mean, he paid a high price for this. And

01:27:06.189 --> 01:27:10.409
the kids will go out with lanterns? I've got

01:27:10.409 --> 01:27:12.829
to look into this, because I remember all this.

01:27:12.890 --> 01:27:14.789
It was kind of like a trick or treat, but it

01:27:14.789 --> 01:27:17.810
wasn't. I've got to figure this out. Thank you,

01:27:17.810 --> 01:27:19.670
Michael, for bringing this up. Yeah, that's fantastic.

01:27:19.970 --> 01:27:22.310
Now we've got stuff to look into. So, Romans

01:27:22.310 --> 01:27:24.649
5, let me just give the backdrop on this. Therefore,

01:27:24.850 --> 01:27:28.069
since we've been justified by faith, we have

01:27:28.069 --> 01:27:30.109
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

01:27:30.149 --> 01:27:34.350
He took that and said, we come to Christ through

01:27:34.350 --> 01:27:38.270
faith. Not through works. This isn't about what

01:27:38.270 --> 01:27:41.109
we're doing. And this was a complete... I mean,

01:27:41.109 --> 01:27:43.170
it was considered a heretic at the time, but

01:27:43.170 --> 01:27:47.069
it was a very bold brazen move to hammer that

01:27:47.069 --> 01:27:50.850
onto the door. No kidding. And then the next

01:27:50.850 --> 01:27:53.529
scripture after that, through him, we also have

01:27:53.529 --> 01:27:56.829
obtained access by faith, this is all about faith,

01:27:57.289 --> 01:28:00.489
into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice

01:28:00.489 --> 01:28:04.210
in hope of the glory of God. So he talks about...

01:28:04.270 --> 01:28:07.270
That was what this was all based on. We come

01:28:07.270 --> 01:28:12.109
to Jesus by faith, through grace, and not of

01:28:12.109 --> 01:28:16.090
ourselves. That's Ephesians 2 .8. So he was laying

01:28:16.090 --> 01:28:19.489
that out, and it was revolutionary, literally,

01:28:19.609 --> 01:28:21.510
in the truest sense of the word. It was like

01:28:21.510 --> 01:28:24.649
a revolution started. And that's, of course,

01:28:25.170 --> 01:28:27.369
the Lutheran church was birthed out of that.

01:28:28.069 --> 01:28:31.710
all by faith. So anyway, man, great, great distinction

01:28:31.710 --> 01:28:33.909
there. I appreciate that. I love that. Wednesday,

01:28:34.409 --> 01:28:37.670
today is his birthday. He'll be 62. I'm right

01:28:37.670 --> 01:28:39.489
there with you, Robert. He says, I'm thankful

01:28:39.489 --> 01:28:43.050
to have made, which I'm thankful to have made,

01:28:43.229 --> 01:28:46.189
62, with the grace of God, I hope the Get To

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01:29:36.960 --> 01:29:38.979
take us out with your part of the daily grind?

01:29:39.260 --> 01:29:41.460
Yeah, I'll do that. But I also got this. This

01:29:41.460 --> 01:29:44.760
is from the Pickle Princess. Yeah, we got some

01:29:44.760 --> 01:29:47.159
notes. Yes. So she sent a beautiful note and

01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:49.800
it was it's kind of an answer to made a comment

01:29:49.800 --> 01:29:52.439
about Wild at Heart being written for men. But

01:29:52.439 --> 01:29:54.920
she ended up reading it and it really impacted

01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:57.859
her. Oh, nice. So listen, this is cool. I want

01:29:57.859 --> 01:29:59.979
to share this because this will help any of the

01:29:59.979 --> 01:30:02.340
ladies out there that are thinking, OK, well,

01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:04.329
I can't read that. Good morning, Pastor Jimmy.

01:30:04.390 --> 01:30:06.289
For some reason, today's daily grind made me

01:30:06.289 --> 01:30:08.890
remember I wanted to email you about something

01:30:08.890 --> 01:30:11.850
you said in the podcast last week. I was urged

01:30:11.850 --> 01:30:14.930
to read While at Heart years ago. It was presented

01:30:14.930 --> 01:30:17.850
to me as a good read to understand my then young

01:30:17.850 --> 01:30:20.909
husband and young son. And it really did. When

01:30:20.909 --> 01:30:22.970
it talked about, and now it's been years since

01:30:22.970 --> 01:30:26.569
I read it, so don't quote me, men doing dangerous

01:30:26.569 --> 01:30:28.909
things and doing things to prove their manhood,

01:30:29.229 --> 01:30:31.649
it really resonated with me to let my boys be

01:30:31.649 --> 01:30:35.109
boys. to not coddle them too much. Hold my breath

01:30:35.109 --> 01:30:37.890
and clap when they succeed. So don't discourage

01:30:37.890 --> 01:30:40.149
women from reading it. In fact, I would highly

01:30:40.149 --> 01:30:42.909
encourage it as a wife and a mother. It's kind

01:30:42.909 --> 01:30:45.170
of a good insight into their minds. Thanks for

01:30:45.170 --> 01:30:48.319
the daily grinds, and we get to do this. I look

01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:50.279
forward to them daily and weekly. The Pickle

01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:53.760
Princess, AKA Jodie White. So that was great.

01:30:54.140 --> 01:30:56.340
And that's actually what she said is excellent,

01:30:56.359 --> 01:31:00.000
really. It is definitely good for women to read

01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:01.560
and get an understanding, especially if you're

01:31:01.560 --> 01:31:05.220
raising boys, right? I wouldn't know. I've only

01:31:05.220 --> 01:31:08.340
been around women and girls my entire life, sisters,

01:31:08.579 --> 01:31:12.680
mom, everything. You're my first real dude friend.

01:31:13.140 --> 01:31:16.100
Look at those guns. Come on now. Come on now.

01:31:16.500 --> 01:31:18.819
So here's the Daily Grind today. I'm going to

01:31:18.819 --> 01:31:21.439
go back a couple of days on talking about the

01:31:21.439 --> 01:31:24.439
weight of every word. The words we speak matter.

01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:28.100
And so this is the Daily Grind. Today's scripture

01:31:28.100 --> 01:31:31.619
is Proverbs 18 -21. Death and life are in the

01:31:31.619 --> 01:31:33.779
power of the tongue, and those who love it will

01:31:33.779 --> 01:31:37.260
eat its fruit. Today's title is The Weight of

01:31:37.260 --> 01:31:41.739
Every Word. What you say matters. People measure

01:31:41.739 --> 01:31:44.439
your character by what you do and by what you

01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:47.260
say. Are you a person of your word? Can people

01:31:47.260 --> 01:31:49.819
depend on you to do what you say you will do?

01:31:50.260 --> 01:31:53.880
Words can also produce death or life. Gossip,

01:31:54.140 --> 01:31:56.760
criticism, and judgment can break one's spirit.

01:31:56.970 --> 01:32:00.270
Life, encouragement, and hope can lift someone

01:32:00.270 --> 01:32:03.569
out of the depths of despair. Speak life, because

01:32:03.569 --> 01:32:07.250
you'll eat what you say. Today, notice the words

01:32:07.250 --> 01:32:09.310
that come out of your mouth, especially when

01:32:09.310 --> 01:32:12.409
angry or under duress. You leak out what you

01:32:12.409 --> 01:32:15.729
are full of. In today's prayer is this, Father,

01:32:15.770 --> 01:32:19.710
may my words be laced with grace and bring life

01:32:19.710 --> 01:32:22.829
and hope to those I encounter today. In Jesus'

01:32:23.149 --> 01:32:27.539
name, everybody said, amen. Alright everybody,

01:32:28.279 --> 01:32:30.819
come on back next Wednesday. We'll be here for

01:32:30.819 --> 01:32:33.000
another episode of We Get To Do This.