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We Get To Do This - The Next Chapter Is Calling · Providence Voice

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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,
• 20:52
  middle, end to every season. And I'm just going
• 20:54
  to be honest with you and transparent. You're
• 20:57
  at the end of yours. This is the end of the season.
• 21:00
  He knew it. I knew it. Everybody around us knew
• 21:02
  it. But he was hanging on, maybe out of nobility,
• 21:06
  just trying to do the noble thing or what he
• 21:09
  thought was the right thing or maybe didn't want
• 21:10
  to quit and give up. But at the end of the day,
• 21:13
  everything we do has a beginning, middle, and
• 21:15
  throughout life. And these seasons come and go.
• 21:18
  You know, we're stepping into the fall, right?
• 21:20
  Yeah. Supposedly. I mean, not yet in Texas. 92,
• 21:23
  but OK. 92 today. But it's been nice in the morning.
• 21:25
  We've had cool nights and cool mornings. So there's
• 21:28
  some change in the air. Winds are picking up,
• 21:31
  which I noticed the last few days. We've got
• 21:33
  a front coming in this Friday. It's going to
• 21:36
  cool down and some rain and whatnot. So we're
• 21:39
  seeing the changing of a season. The changing
• 21:41
  of seasons can be exciting, or it can be hard,
• 21:45
  or it can be both at the same time. We've all
• 21:49
  experienced this. I actually wrote a DG called
• 21:53
  The Winds of Change. You mind if I share that
• 21:56
  now? Please do. We'll do this up front. It's
• 21:59
  going off of this Ecclesiastes verse, to everything
• 22:02
  there is a season, a time for every purpose under
• 22:06
  heaven. I want you all to think about that as
• 22:08
  you're just processing what what Adam shared
• 22:11
  about to everything there's a season, everything.
• 22:15
  Everything. And a time for every purpose under
• 22:18
  the sun. So there's timing, the timing of God.
• 22:22
  And we were just joking, it's never ours. No,
• 22:25
  it's so right. It's always His. And as followers
• 22:28
  of Jesus, we submit to that willingly. We submit
• 22:32
  our will to it. So the Daily Grind title, The
• 22:35
  Winds of Change, Fall is upon us, temperatures
• 22:38
  are dropping, leaves are changing, and the winds
• 22:40
  are shifting. Funny, we embrace changing seasons
• 22:43
  in nature, but often resist them in life. However,
• 22:47
  you are not left on your own. God will work with
• 22:51
  you into the next season and order your steps
• 22:54
  as you go. Seasons come and go. Some will be
• 22:58
  difficult and some glorious. However, we have
• 23:01
  a helper. the Holy Spirit who will lead the way.
• 23:04
  And then just always do it today, a little application
• 23:07
  thing. Recognize the season you're in. Release
• 23:11
  the past and step into God's new season for you.
• 23:15
  We'll finish today with a prayer, but this is
• 23:17
  so important to recognize and be aware of the
• 23:21
  season you're in. First Chronicles chapter 12
• 23:26
  verse 32 is an interesting verse talking about
• 23:29
  this group of guys called the sons of Issachar.
• 23:32
  Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a hundred guys or we don't
• 23:35
  even know a small group. Compared to David's
• 23:38
  mighty men and some of the tribes and groups
• 23:40
  and clans that were part of his mighty men, you
• 23:43
  know, they were larger groups. This was one of
• 23:45
  the smallest, but they had something the others
• 23:48
  didn't. And David recognized this. and he recognized
• 23:52
  the wisdom they carried. And it says this, the
• 23:55
  sons of Issachar understood the times and knew
• 23:59
  what to do. So they were able to discern, they
• 24:02
  were able to interpret the signs of the times
• 24:05
  and know when a season was changing or when there
• 24:08
  was a shift. And so we want to discern, this
• 24:11
  is what you're doing right now. We want to discern
• 24:14
  what God is doing now. Yeah, and it may not be
• 24:18
  what he was doing five years ago or six or ten
• 24:20
  whatever it it changes and When we understand
• 24:25
  that it's not such a shock to our system if we
• 24:28
  don't know that it is a shock to our system and
• 24:31
  that's a good point because Well, first of all,
• 24:34
  this has been a long time coming and I would
• 24:36
  also say that I feel I've always felt an obligation
• 24:39
  to this family, the No Agenda family. I love
• 24:43
  the No Agenda Nation. I know thousands of people
• 24:45
  by name, by their email address, by their No
• 24:48
  Agenda name. Their titles. Their titles. And
• 24:52
  I know there's going to be sadness and disappointment,
• 24:55
  and you never want to do that. But it's not like
• 24:59
  I'm disappearing from the face of the earth.
• 25:01
  But this season, oh man, now I feel bad. I forgot
• 25:05
  who sent me this book. I thought I was prepared
• 25:07
  for today's show. I left it at home. One of our
• 25:12
  listeners sent me this book. It was called Transition.
• 25:17
  And I think it's a well -known book. And it's
• 25:21
  not necessarily a scriptural or biblical book.
• 25:28
  It's a very thin book. Why did he send that to
• 25:31
  me? Why did he send that to me? Well, I know,
• 25:34
  of course. And I'm reading it and the thing that
• 25:38
  keeps coming back is there's no beginning without
• 25:41
  an end. You've got to end something to really
• 25:45
  start something new. And that's essentially the
• 25:48
  season. And seasons can... Like we're having
• 25:50
  right now, bleed over a little bit. You know,
• 25:52
  it's cool in the mornings and it's hot and it's
• 25:53
  cold in the evening. It's both. But it'll be
• 25:55
  one of these days we'll wake up like it didn't
• 25:57
  get warm this afternoon. It'll just be chilly.
• 26:00
  Yeah. I want to say something about this too,
• 26:02
  because I don't want people to misunderstand
• 26:04
  and think, Oh, Pastor Jimmy has stolen Adam from
• 26:08
  No Agenda. Oh, yeah. He put a hook around my
• 26:11
  neck and just dragged me out there. No, no, no.
• 26:14
  Listen, we've never had this conversation to
• 26:17
  this degree. And I've done that on purpose, by
• 26:19
  the way, because I've never won a course, somebody
• 26:23
  who's trying to follow God, someone who's trying
• 26:26
  to listen, trying to discern the times. And so
• 26:29
  I've not given you a lot of feedback on this.
• 26:32
  I don't know if you noticed it or not. I haven't.
• 26:34
  I haven't been very verbal about this. I knew
• 26:36
  exactly what you were doing. I'm trusting Jesus
• 26:40
  in you and I'm trusting you to follow Jesus in
• 26:44
  you, not Jesus in me. And so I've done that on
• 26:47
  purpose because I feel like you've always, even
• 26:50
  when I met you before you became a Christ follower,
• 26:54
  I thought, man, this guy's got a solid head on
• 26:57
  his shoulders. I mean, he's sound, he's grounded.
• 27:01
  I knew that before you ever leaned when I was
• 27:04
  still cussing like a truck driver. Sorry, truck
• 27:07
  drivers. Not all truck drivers cuss. Not all
• 27:09
  truck drivers cuss. I would just laugh inside.
• 27:12
  Remember I told you, as a UBU, and I'll be me,
• 27:14
  we'll be best friends. That's really how it all
• 27:17
  started. That's right. But we discern what God's
• 27:19
  doing now, and we recognize the prompting and
• 27:21
  direction of the Holy Spirit. I just jotted some
• 27:23
  notes down, just knowing where we're going in
• 27:25
  this direction. This is so important to recognize
• 27:28
  the prompting and direction of the Holy Spirit.
• 27:30
  And if you think about the actual word for spirit,
• 27:33
  the word pneumatos and that is the word we get
• 27:36
  pneumatic drill. It's wind. Oh, there's your
• 27:40
  winds of change. It's the wind. That's why I
• 27:42
  titled this little piece, the winds of change.
• 27:46
  It's percolating in me because the wind, the
• 27:50
  Holy Spirit blows and even Jesus told, talking
• 27:53
  about the Holy Spirit said, So the wind blows
• 27:55
  and you don't know where it comes from, but you
• 27:58
  know the effects of it because it moves the trees
• 28:00
  and it moves things. So you know that and that's
• 28:03
  how you recognize. So at the end of the day,
• 28:06
  we have to discern the movement of the spirit,
• 28:09
  not just our circumstances, because it's easy
• 28:12
  to sometimes just be moved by circumstances.
• 28:15
  But anyone who's been around the block a couple
• 28:17
  of times knows that circumstances will always
• 28:22
  conflict, change, realign, conflict, change again.
• 28:26
  I mean, it's going to happen. That's an ongoing
• 28:27
  process. It's actually listening to the prompting
• 28:31
  of the Spirit and being sensitive to that and
• 28:34
  being not just Spirit -filled, but Spirit -led.
• 28:37
  You know, it's been really hard though, and I
• 28:39
  really tried this. Now, when John was still alive,
• 28:43
  I knew his stance on my faith, and I could push
• 28:47
  to a certain limit. And when I say push, I just
• 28:49
  say something. And he would, it gets to the point
• 28:54
  where we'd be like, oh brother, here we go. And
• 28:56
  they're like, okay, well the conversation's kind
• 28:58
  of over at that point. But there's something
• 29:02
  about just doing the show, even though I'm in
• 29:05
  full control, I can't be myself. I can't quite
• 29:09
  explain what that is, but it's like - No, I think
• 29:11
  you just said it. But I've kind of given up on
• 29:14
  trying to figure out why it's something about
• 29:16
  the format, the content, just what it is. that
• 29:20
  just makes me be somewhat mocking, because that's
• 29:24
  always been the format. I've been doing this
• 29:26
  for two decades. And so I sit there, I'm like,
• 29:28
  I don't want to mock, but then it happens. Let
• 29:31
  me ask you a question. Is that why you like doing
• 29:34
  the show here in this studio? Do you think there's
• 29:37
  something to that? Oh, that's an interesting
• 29:40
  question. Because you've always been averse to
• 29:43
  doing it in your studio. Oh, no. Didn't know
• 29:47
  if there was anything like when you sit in that
• 29:49
  seat you feel like you slip into that's a very
• 29:52
  good point subconsciously I don't know I need
• 29:54
  to contemplate that. I think there's a very psychologist
• 29:57
  over here. Very very well done. Mr. Freud It's
• 30:01
  small my mom's fault. I Think there I think that
• 30:07
  has a very distinct I mean we first started talking
• 30:09
  about this. Yeah, you said very emphatically
• 30:11
  I want to do this. I want to do it at the bridge
• 30:13
  studio. Yeah, I want to do it there, huh? And
• 30:16
  so this has become our space. Yes. I mean, I
• 30:19
  don't mind when we do it on remote. I mean, that
• 30:21
  works fine. But yes, I think that that is a part
• 30:24
  of it. It's odd. It's like you sit in an old
• 30:28
  car and you drive it a certain way. You get in
• 30:31
  a new car, you're going to drive that car differently.
• 30:33
  Maybe more aggressively, maybe exactly the opposite.
• 30:37
  I'm also a little more aggressive. But yeah,
• 30:41
  it's like, yes. The answer is yes, I hadn't really
• 30:44
  thought about that, but the surrounding is critical.
• 30:47
  You know, if we don't have this film light over
• 30:51
  us and the rest of the room dark, it's not the
• 30:53
  same. I agree. Yes, so that is... Wow. Thank
• 30:57
  you for bringing that up. That is a good point.
• 30:59
  We can still, when we need to... We can still
• 31:02
  handle remotes in different studios. Oh, absolutely.
• 31:04
  And we will, because we both travel. Yeah, there
• 31:07
  is something about this. And it's also in God's
• 31:10
  house. I mean, we're here in the church. I know.
• 31:11
  I love being here. I'm a church nerd, so I don't
• 31:15
  see this as my place of work. I see it as I get
• 31:17
  to be here. I really do. When I walk in the building,
• 31:20
  I don't feel like... I've got to go to my office.
• 31:22
  I got to go to a staff meeting. I got to do a
• 31:24
  board meeting. Very thankful. So it is a, it
• 31:29
  is a, I told you yesterday you were, you were
• 31:32
  stuck for a little bit. waiting on Jonah to show
• 31:34
  up. He was a little late and you were kind of
• 31:36
  wandering around the worship center with just
• 31:40
  the emergency lights on, so it's real chill.
• 31:42
  I was actually sitting on the front row in the
• 31:45
  worship center. Isn't that a great feeling to
• 31:46
  be in that space when nothing's happening? I
• 31:50
  love it. I'm just looking at this little red
• 31:51
  light from some of the equipment on, but there's
• 31:54
  not even a hum. Everything is quiet. I would
• 31:57
  just sit in there like... Yeah, this is nice.
• 32:00
  I texted you like, I'm just waiting for Jonah
• 32:02
  here. This is really nice. You know what I wrote
• 32:04
  back to you? Because this is the feeling I get
• 32:07
  when I'm in there. I pause and I start thinking
• 32:10
  about all the lives that have been impacted and
• 32:13
  changed in that space. Wow. Including mine. And
• 32:15
  that's why I wrote back, holy place. It's a holy
• 32:17
  ground. It is. And so when nobody's here, I like
• 32:22
  to walk around in there and pray. Yeah. And with
• 32:25
  nobody in the, nobody in the place. I did have
• 32:27
  time for a prayer while I was there. Beautiful.
• 32:28
  Just a thank you prayer. Like Lord, thank you
• 32:31
  for just, that can be here. Yeah. So there is
• 32:34
  something about space and place, but I, and I
• 32:36
  want to get back to this cause, cause the first
• 32:38
  thing was you got to recognize the season you're
• 32:40
  in and that's, you've been recognizing this for
• 32:43
  a long time. You've brought this up many times,
• 32:46
  but yet you weren't in a hurry. You, I love that
• 32:48
  you weren't like trying to just bail or trying
• 32:51
  to quit. No. You were like, you just know, You
• 32:54
  could sit and I remember you'd say things, gosh,
• 32:56
  a couple of years ago. There's a it's changing.
• 32:59
  I can sense a change. Yeah. And also before you
• 33:03
  go ahead. It's good. So I wanted to bring this
• 33:06
  up with John and talk about some form of longer
• 33:09
  transition. And when he got his heart. his double
• 33:13
  bypass, like, well, this is not the time to bring
• 33:16
  this up. And right as he, I talk about it with
• 33:20
  Tina, I'm pretty sure we discussed it if we went
• 33:22
  out to one of our dinners with the four of us.
• 33:26
  And he was back, he was strong, he was moving
• 33:29
  back into his house and like, okay, it's gonna
• 33:31
  be time soon to bring it up again. And then,
• 33:34
  you know, like God had a different plan. And
• 33:37
  so, which I'm also not taking just at face value.
• 33:41
  Right, right. Exactly. So recognize the season.
• 33:45
  You've been doing this for a long time. And I
• 33:48
  want people to understand too, we didn't start
• 33:50
  that show because of that. No, no, no. You and
• 33:52
  I had been talking about for years doing this
• 33:55
  show. Oh yeah, for years. So it wasn't like there
• 33:57
  was a strategy of creating another space for
• 34:00
  you to jump off to. Nope. We just look at it
• 34:03
  as God set this up, not us. I mean, we just finally
• 34:06
  knew it was time to hit the button. Absolutely.
• 34:08
  But that's the same way I've started, the same
• 34:11
  way John and I started. We were talking for months
• 34:14
  and months and months. We should probably record
• 34:16
  this. You and I have had these exact conversations,
• 34:20
  either at the kitchen table or your house or
• 34:22
  in a restaurant. Look, the first thing I said
• 34:26
  to you was, Pastor Jimmy, I love your show. That
• 34:29
  was the first thing that came out of my mouth
• 34:31
  when I met you. So Tina frog your arms. You said
• 34:36
  that. Oh man. I'm sorry. No, this is good. Cause
• 34:41
  I'm going down what you're doing here. You recognize
• 34:43
  the season. The second piece of that is you have
• 34:46
  to release the old season. This is where it gets
• 34:49
  hard. Yeah. Because no matter what we're talking
• 34:53
  about podcast, a job, a city, you know, whatever
• 34:57
  that means there's people attached to that. and
• 35:00
  the ripple effect is going to impact people or
• 35:03
  affect them. Maybe impact's a strong word, but
• 35:05
  it's going to affect people. And because we're
• 35:08
  good -hearted and we don't want anyone to suffer,
• 35:11
  especially at any decision we make, it's a little
• 35:14
  harder sometimes to release the old season. Isaiah
• 35:18
  43, 19 talks about where God says, behold, I
• 35:22
  am doing a new thing. He's talking about this
• 35:25
  new thing, a new season, a new beginning. So
• 35:28
  don't let yesterday's victories or disappointments
• 35:31
  hold you back because it's easy to look back
• 35:33
  and go, man, that was so good. I want to hang
• 35:37
  on to that a little bit longer. You know, timing
• 35:39
  is the biggest thing when you're following God.
• 35:43
  We always want it now. We're conditioned. Yeah.
• 35:47
  To getting things quick. Click, click, click.
• 35:50
  Where's my result? I know. I mean, if I have
• 35:53
  to wait on my grokbot for more than 10 seconds,
• 35:55
  I'm like, what is up with this data center, man?
• 35:59
  They need to build, they got to get those things
• 36:01
  coming. Build it here. Yeah, I need one closer.
• 36:03
  I don't know where this is going to. I'm just
• 36:06
  getting fidgety. It's crazy because we're trained
• 36:08
  to that, right? And then we're told, walking
• 36:11
  with God, wait upon the Lord. Like what? Wait?
• 36:14
  We don't wait for anything. So, surrender what
• 36:20
  was to embrace what's next. And that surrendering
• 36:24
  isn't a mean or brutal thing. Is that in the
• 36:26
  scripture? Surrender what was? No, no, that's
• 36:29
  just something I was thinking this through yesterday.
• 36:32
  So, don't let yesterday keep you from following
• 36:34
  the Spirit today. I've been watching you for
• 36:37
  years do this. I saw you do this with the Godcaster.
• 36:41
  It didn't happen overnight. You start getting
• 36:43
  downloads when you're walking Phoebe, because
• 36:44
  you're telling me, I'm getting downloads with
• 36:46
  Thone Central walking Phoebe. It took two years
• 36:49
  until things really started to crank up. It was
• 36:50
  a conversation for a long time before you ever
• 36:53
  really stepped into it, and then it began to
• 36:55
  coalesce, and then it happened fast. But then
• 36:58
  now it's the journey. You don't want to let what's
• 37:02
  happened in the past keep you from following
• 37:04
  and stepping into what's happening now. I think
• 37:07
  the Lord's made this abundantly clear that you're
• 37:13
  right in sync. You're right in step. Then the
• 37:16
  last R is respond to the new season. This is
• 37:19
  where we embrace what's new. Romans 8, 14. For
• 37:23
  as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these
• 37:26
  are the sons of God." And it's that sense of
• 37:29
  getting in lockstep with him. I always tell the
• 37:32
  story of me following my dad out to the pasture.
• 37:34
  And it was on this very narrow trail that had
• 37:38
  a ditch on each side. And if you stepped off
• 37:41
  to either side, I mean, you're a little kid.
• 37:44
  But it was snowing and I remember following my
• 37:47
  dad and he said, just step in my footsteps. So
• 37:50
  I just like following a map. You know, I just,
• 37:53
  one step after another, you know, stretching
• 37:54
  out as much as I could. And I always think about
• 37:58
  being in lockstep with the Lord like that. Just
• 38:01
  step where He steps. And that means you go at
• 38:04
  His pace, not yours. And so... This has been
• 38:10
  one of the first times where I've really, with
• 38:13
  my prayer, I've been like, Lord, tell me, what
• 38:17
  should I do? Not like, you know, If you're listening,
• 38:21
  Lord, flicker the lights. That doesn't tend to
• 38:24
  work very well, but He will do things and He
• 38:28
  will put things on your heart. And it's been
• 38:31
  so abundantly clear and with confirmation everywhere.
• 38:35
  And it's easy to see confirmation of things with
• 38:37
  some things like, no, man, this is a very, very
• 38:41
  clear sign. And I've already surrendered to God
• 38:44
  that I know that He's in control. me surrendering
• 38:50
  completely. All right, let's go. I was listening
• 38:55
  to, you know, one of the things I really like
• 38:58
  about our friendship is we both have things that
• 39:01
  the other doesn't know or isn't knowledgeable
• 39:04
  about. And you are, in a way, a classicist, a
• 39:07
  linguist. You know a lot about certainly the
• 39:09
  classic languages and the etymology of words.
• 39:13
  And I've always been interested in that. I have
• 39:15
  kind of this weird uh, interest in legal language
• 39:19
  too. And so it's always fun to see what, what
• 39:21
  does this exactly mean? I was listening to Victor
• 39:24
  Davis Hanson. And I don't tip, you know, it's
• 39:29
  a little slow for me. I don't remember why I
• 39:30
  was listed. The title of the podcast must've
• 39:33
  been interesting. And he said, and he was talking
• 39:36
  about, uh, some other politician and talking
• 39:40
  about that person being a classicist and and
• 39:43
  that he was really into etymology and all of
• 39:47
  his studies. He has a PhD in some study. And
• 39:51
  he said, the etymology of the word enthusiastic,
• 39:55
  which I am, enthusiastic, and I'm gonna take
• 39:58
  his word for it, means in theos. So you're in
• 40:01
  God. So God is like - I actually knew that one.
• 40:05
  And so I was like, yeah, that's me. I'm excited
• 40:08
  about what's, and this was just the other day.
• 40:10
  I'm excited about what's happening. I am in theos.
• 40:13
  I am enthusiastic. You're energized in it. Yes.
• 40:16
  And I see it because I walk with you every day.
• 40:19
  So I see the lift. I see the I see the wind under,
• 40:23
  you know, the wind beneath my wings. Right. Yeah,
• 40:26
  man. That lift creates lift as you get momentum
• 40:28
  and speed and all of that. So I see the lift
• 40:32
  under your wings. Man, when you when you first
• 40:34
  start talking about Godcaster. I saw an energy
• 40:38
  in you. I'd never seen it. And you were saying
• 40:40
  it harkened back to the early days of podcasting.
• 40:42
  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That, man, I've got the same
• 40:45
  excitement, and I see it again in you right now.
• 40:48
  I mean, I just see that life. I am excited. Enthusiastic.
• 40:54
  Enthusiastic. I love it, brother. So good. So
• 40:57
  good. And I'm excited to see where God takes
• 40:59
  this podcast. I'm pretty sure it's going to take
• 41:03
  it to two times a week. Let's do it. Ready for
• 41:06
  that. Let's do it. Well, we need to because I
• 41:09
  don't want it, you know, long podcasts are long
• 41:15
  podcasts, you know, and we're doing probably
• 41:18
  about an hour and a half now with thank yous.
• 41:22
  I'd like to try and keep it at that, but it's
• 41:24
  not really enough. I mean, we've been talking
• 41:25
  about me a lot today, which is not typical. Hey,
• 41:28
  this is a big thing. This is a huge thing. It
• 41:32
  is. And some of your listeners, Some will say,
• 41:34
  I saw this coming. Others will be like, oh my
• 41:38
  gosh, what just happened? Well, just to go back
• 41:41
  to that, so many people have been so supportive
• 41:45
  of whatever you decide is good. We know that
• 41:48
  you're going to make the right, not even knowing
• 41:50
  what I was thinking or where I was going. And
• 41:53
  the amount of decloaking believers in the no
• 41:59
  agenda world has been nothing but astounding
• 42:02
  to me. And if you saw Sunday, I left, because
• 42:08
  Tina wasn't here, so I was here by myself. And
• 42:11
  I left, and I get in the morning, I'm like, what?
• 42:14
  He says, hi, I'm Tim. I forget his night name.
• 42:18
  Oh, Sir, certainly, I think. And his son had
• 42:22
  driven up from Austin on their motorcycles. And
• 42:24
  I'd seen the motorcycles outside, because they
• 42:26
  both had like ham radio license plates. I'm like,
• 42:29
  who are these nerds? and they were here. They
• 42:33
  were at the service. They just wanted to say
• 42:36
  like a little mini meetup. I'm like, that is
• 42:39
  so cool. This is the stuff that I love. He's
• 42:42
  like, hey man, just want to encourage you and
• 42:44
  it's great to see you and love the church and
• 42:46
  love. Of course we had Abraham Enrique who gave
• 42:50
  the message, which is really, really good. So
• 42:53
  that kind of stuff, it just happens continuously.
• 42:56
  And I'm just loving that so much. Let's make
• 43:00
  more disciples. Come on, come on. So to land
• 43:05
  the plane on this, which way is the wind blowing?
• 43:08
  That's what we have to discern, okay? We know
• 43:11
  the wind's blowing. We know the season's changing.
• 43:14
  Which way is it blowing? And I feel like you're
• 43:15
  way down the road on that. You mentioned to me
• 43:18
  recently that you feel like you've got the energy.
• 43:21
  You're feeling that energy again. And what I
• 43:24
  love about that, Adam, is because Man, the last
• 43:27
  time you really felt that energy, you started
• 43:29
  podcasting. Something big happened. I love that
• 43:34
  at the age you and I are, we're not looking at
• 43:38
  quitting. We're actually, what's next? Let's
• 43:42
  go. I forget who it was. I was getting coffee
• 43:45
  Sunday before coming in. It was two weeks ago.
• 43:48
  I actually said, Adam. you're in the third quarter,
• 43:52
  not the fourth quarter, just the third quarter.
• 43:54
  Cause we were talking about what quarter of life
• 43:56
  he said, and I think he's older than them. We
• 43:58
  are. You're in the third quarter, brother. Thank
• 44:00
  you. Thank you. Beautiful to hear that. Oh, I
• 44:04
  love that. But also this is a time and it's been
• 44:10
  so phenomenal to see people's feedback on our
• 44:14
  discussions about robots. It's been, we're seeing
• 44:20
  people not being afraid, not being intimidated,
• 44:25
  using it for things that will benefit their life
• 44:27
  based upon our conversations and our suggestions
• 44:30
  and what to look for and not look for. But we
• 44:34
  are in an age, we are about, and so if anything,
• 44:39
  my goal and my mission in life has always been
• 44:43
  pave the way 10 years early, and someone else
• 44:48
  to get rich off of it. That's always, that's,
• 44:50
  and believe me, I'm good with that because the
• 44:53
  Lord has blessed me and I've never been without.
• 44:57
  So I have no worries about that. But there's
• 44:59
  something about this current moment we're in
• 45:03
  with these systems that is, it is going to open
• 45:07
  up an era of massive personal empowerment. And
• 45:12
  I can see it. I'm developing systems for it.
• 45:18
  I'm evangelizing some of it as well. And I'm
• 45:22
  enjoying, just like podcasting as well. I'm enjoying
• 45:25
  people getting great benefit. Like just the other
• 45:28
  day, Mike came over to my house. Yeah, this is
• 45:31
  great. And Mike, he just turned 81. He got baptized
• 45:34
  on his 81st birthday in your pool. Unfortunately,
• 45:38
  we came back one day later. It was an honor to
• 45:41
  do that. It was beautiful. You and Pastor Brian
• 45:43
  in the water. We double teamed him. He and his
• 45:48
  wife Jill have been good friends of ours, good
• 45:50
  friends of yours. And he said, Adam, I need some
• 45:54
  help with my devices. And by the way, I really
• 45:58
  wish an Apple product manager had seen this because,
• 46:02
  I mean, first of all, I haven't really used any
• 46:05
  Apple devices for a while and I'm confused, like,
• 46:08
  okay. And I'm just seeing how, you know, it's
• 46:09
  always interesting, especially if you make apps
• 46:12
  and devices to see how somebody uses them. I'm
• 46:15
  like, wow, and this, okay, that's an interesting
• 46:17
  way of getting there. But above all, he said,
• 46:20
  I really want to be able to use the robot because
• 46:23
  we have lunch from time to time, I showed the
• 46:25
  robot. And so I set him up with Muse, and I'm
• 46:29
  like, wow, what a phenomenal thing for someone
• 46:32
  who's just a little bit older. It can do certain
• 46:37
  things for you on the device just by you telling
• 46:39
  it to do it. It can help him remember certain
• 46:42
  things. It's truly an assistant for him. And
• 46:46
  with his usage, it will adopt and adapt to what
• 46:50
  he needs. And I am excited for him. because he
• 46:56
  really, you know, he wants to say, look, you
• 46:59
  get older, we start forgetting things like, I
• 47:01
  don't know, what did you say? I mean, I do it,
• 47:03
  you do it. My robot's telling me, remember what
• 47:07
  Tina asked you about going to HEB? It knows,
• 47:11
  it knows. So stuff like that. And we are, I truly
• 47:17
  believe it's going to bring enormous leverage
• 47:23
  to us as individuals. We actually will not be
• 47:27
  subject to the whims of technology companies.
• 47:31
  We're in a transitionary period. And just like
• 47:34
  the early days of the internet, you know, it's
• 47:37
  evil. It's not, it's no good. You're going to
• 47:39
  get every angle. Why would you want to have a
• 47:42
  place where people can just send you mail all
• 47:44
  the time? You know, who wants that? Who needs
• 47:46
  that? This will never work. And some of it, admittedly
• 47:50
  has not necessarily been great for humankind.
• 47:55
  But that's because we haven't really had the
• 47:56
  power to change that. And these systems are going
• 47:59
  to bring that power. And this is why computing
• 48:03
  itself is going to change. If you look right
• 48:06
  now, every technology company is trying to sell
• 48:10
  you some gadget for Christmas. This is early,
• 48:14
  early, early days. It's probably not worth it.
• 48:18
  want you to be enamored by their gadget and then
• 48:22
  be connected to their services, like you're enslaved
• 48:25
  to iCloud or to Gmail. All of this is going to
• 48:28
  change. Will it be 10 years, 10 months, 10 weeks,
• 48:32
  10 hours? Man, it's just like the coming of Christ.
• 48:35
  I don't know. And maybe it's connected. I don't
• 48:38
  know either. But it's going to be fantastic.
• 48:42
  And I want people to know that Whatever we see
• 48:46
  whatever we whatever vibes we get we're gonna
• 48:49
  tell people about it But right now, you know,
• 48:52
  so this was the latest story because please we
• 48:55
  want you to be afraid of all things AI Because
• 48:59
  you know, you really don't want anything unless
• 49:01
  we're controlling it for you or the government
• 49:03
  controlling it for you and this was just Hilarious.
• 49:35
  gets into your refrigerator and then it becomes
• 49:38
  a transformer, right? This is not like taking
• 49:40
  over people's personal devices. This is rather
• 49:43
  using what is known as the Internet of Things,
• 49:45
  this increasingly large connected network of
• 49:49
  internet connected devices, whether that be smartphones
• 49:51
  and laptops, but also increasingly like refrigerators
• 49:54
  and microwaves and ovens and garage door openers
• 49:57
  and smart home cameras and things like that.
• 50:00
  That is a network. And the idea here that Anthropic
• 50:03
  is floating is that potentially these AI models
• 50:07
  could. copy themselves within Anthropic and then
• 50:10
  get access to this Internet of Things and then
• 50:12
  use that basically as like a replacement for
• 50:14
  a data center. Sure, a refrigerator is only one
• 50:18
  small piece of a larger network. It is not enough
• 50:22
  to replace a data center. But, you know, when
• 50:24
  you add that to all the other Internet connected
• 50:26
  stuff in your house and then everybody else's
• 50:28
  connected stuff on your block, everybody in the
• 50:31
  city, that becomes quite a big network for this
• 50:33
  thing to play around in. And that's the real
• 50:35
  concern that Anthropics raising. OK. Let's break
• 50:38
  this down for a second. So they're actually kind
• 50:43
  of level -headed about it. Yes, AI, I guess,
• 50:49
  could use things and get on different devices.
• 50:53
  Your iRobot vacuum cleaner is not going to start
• 50:57
  spinning out of control and chop your head off.
• 51:00
  But this does bring up something that is incredibly
• 51:03
  important. And you know, when we moved into this
• 51:05
  house here in Fredericksburg, the first thing
• 51:07
  I did is I took all of that stuff out. I took
• 51:11
  out the Amazon door locks, the ring doorbells,
• 51:16
  all of that stuff. Now, we have a robot that
• 51:19
  cleans the house, and I'm willing to accept whatever
• 51:22
  risk that may be. But our washing machine is
• 51:24
  not connected. Our fridge is not connected. The
• 51:27
  fridge does what it's supposed to do. It keeps
• 51:30
  stuff cool or frozen. But it's going to need
• 51:32
  updates. I don't need updates. For a refrigerator.
• 51:36
  I'm like, what? Well, interestingly, if you connect
• 51:40
  your refrigerator and you get updates, the updates
• 51:45
  are one thing. Updates can be... wrong you know
• 51:48
  this you've seen it with your phone at some point
• 51:51
  oh bad update and you know restart get the new
• 51:53
  update with our sound system out here same so
• 51:56
  this just happened in france that said we just
• 51:58
  reported on that french supermarket hacking where
• 52:01
  someone hacked and messed with the temperatures
• 52:03
  of the refrigerators and the freezers Going into
• 52:05
  these devices, can they collect data on you and
• 52:08
  could they maybe mess with the devices in that
• 52:10
  way? I mean, there's there's the potential for
• 52:12
  that to happen. But again, that's not really
• 52:14
  what Anthropic is outlining here. Certainly we
• 52:17
  have seen instances where AI models go wrong,
• 52:20
  but usually that goes back to like internal testing
• 52:23
  that OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or somebody
• 52:25
  else is doing. And then these things kind of
• 52:27
  get loose. Last Friday, for example, in testing,
• 52:31
  Anthropic reported that one of their models accidentally
• 52:34
  submitted a murder tip to the Philadelphia Police
• 52:36
  Department that was completely erroneous. That's
• 52:38
  the nature of that sort of threat. OK, so did
• 52:41
  you hear about the French supermarkets? What
• 52:43
  happened? I did not hear that. This so a lot
• 52:46
  of these supermarkets and this was a hundreds
• 52:48
  of supermarkets use the same refrigeration system.
• 52:52
  There's a central control box and at night it
• 52:55
  does heat up a bit to defrost and then it goes
• 52:57
  down. So it's a controlled system connected to
• 53:00
  the unit with full trust of these supermarkets.
• 53:04
  that they would get their upgrades whenever it
• 53:07
  was necessary. I guess it's necessary. Well,
• 53:10
  somebody hacked into this one particular brand,
• 53:15
  which is used by this 400 supermarkets and turned
• 53:19
  it up to like 100 degrees and everything melted,
• 53:22
  everything spoiled, millions of dollars or euros
• 53:26
  of damage. This is not an AI story. This is a
• 53:32
  connected world story. And there is legitimate
• 53:35
  concern. It's legitimate concern. As fun as it
• 53:40
  seems to be able to monitor your washing machine
• 53:45
  from an app, there is a 50 % probability that
• 53:49
  people listening to us right now, their washing
• 53:52
  machine is actually being used to mine Bitcoin.
• 53:56
  This is a fact. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
• 54:01
  And it's gigabytes of data are going back and
• 54:04
  forth from your washing machine. This is not
• 54:06
  AI. This is smart hackers who have probably taken
• 54:10
  over 90 % of our routers for bot networks. This
• 54:13
  is all happening. And it's because people have
• 54:17
  been so accustomed to, yeah, no problem. I'll
• 54:19
  just hook this thing up and it's good. Passwords
• 54:22
  are insecure. There's all kinds of things that
• 54:25
  go wrong all the time. We need to be wary of
• 54:28
  this. and just be careful what you connect to
• 54:32
  what. Now, it's not going to bother you that
• 54:34
  your washing machine is mining Bitcoin. It probably
• 54:38
  won't bother you that your Wi -Fi is being used
• 54:40
  as part of a big bot network. You may get slow
• 54:43
  from time to time like, man, my Netflix is buffering.
• 54:46
  But eventually the things we connect and we just
• 54:50
  have to discern what we connect and how we monitor
• 54:54
  that. If anything, we have very poor education
• 54:58
  about these things. So on one hand, the AI is
• 55:01
  going to jump in and use your washing machine
• 55:04
  to do other things. It might, but yeah, it's
• 55:07
  not going to come out and kill you. But you have
• 55:10
  to think about these things. Every single time
• 55:12
  there's a power outage, they barely report on
• 55:14
  it anymore. But people are left out in the cold,
• 55:17
  couldn't get into my house because I have an
• 55:19
  Amazon door lock that needs the internet to work.
• 55:22
  So these are things that... we need to be careful
• 55:25
  of. Wow. But we're not gonna, we're not going
• 55:28
  to be taken over by the evil AIs. Okay. And I'm
• 55:31
  not going to worry about my garage door opener
• 55:32
  then. Well, someone could open it remotely. That's
• 55:36
  true. That's any, any garage door opener though.
• 55:40
  Oh yeah. On a signal of any kind. Absolutely.
• 55:42
  That can get captured. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.
• 55:45
  Keep the, keep the inside door locked. Yep. That's
• 55:48
  the big one there. Now some really good news
• 55:50
  about the death of AI. It got me thinking. No,
• 55:53
  I'm happy about this. So when we first started
• 55:56
  talking, people said to me, Kuri, you were anti
• 55:59
  -AI. Now you're all in. When I was anti -AI,
• 56:03
  it was chat bots. And I said, that's a parlor
• 56:06
  trick. It's tricking you into thinking you're
• 56:07
  talking to a person and it's a human and it's
• 56:10
  destructive to people and they develop relationships.
• 56:13
  That was literally a year before the agents started
• 56:19
  to become the new way that they interact with
• 56:22
  humans and the large language models. So it was
• 56:25
  a whole different ball game. One of the ones
• 56:27
  I was most disturbed by was character .ai, which
• 56:31
  included, they had Jesus and Moses. You could
• 56:34
  talk to them. You remember that? Yes, we talked
• 56:37
  about it. Here's the latest. An early AI startup,
• 56:39
  Character AI, filed for bankruptcy. Is that some
• 56:42
  kind of foreshadowing about these businesses?
• 56:45
  I mean, I don't want to jump up and down on the
• 56:47
  grave, but. I'm kind of happy this happened and
• 56:50
  it is foreshadowing for things that don't belong
• 56:52
  in our world. Yeah, this is the other side of
• 56:53
  the AI coin, right? We talked about how scary
• 56:56
  some of this technology can be if it's allowed
• 56:58
  to progress to the degree that some of these
• 57:00
  leaders have been predicting. But also, no one's
• 57:03
  really figured out a way to make money on this
• 57:05
  technology yet. Character AI was a startup that
• 57:08
  built itself as a way for you to go and like
• 57:10
  create a little AI character. You could interact
• 57:12
  with it, but it really failed to, you know, find
• 57:16
  a robust monetization. despite the fact that
• 57:20
  millions upon millions of people use this thing
• 57:22
  every month at its peak. That really just goes
• 57:25
  back to underline how much spending is happening
• 57:27
  in the AI space with not really a robust monetization
• 57:31
  strategy, just yet a real threat, especially
• 57:33
  as companies even as big as Anthropic and OpenAI
• 57:36
  look towards future public offerings in possibly
• 57:39
  just the next couple of months here. So as I've
• 57:41
  always said. this cost too much. They better
• 57:46
  figure out a way to actually make money on it
• 57:48
  or it's just going to wind up where it belongs,
• 57:50
  which is in our own possession for us to use
• 57:53
  securely and safely ourselves. It'll be quite
• 57:57
  a while before this happens, but we're going
• 57:59
  to have it. And that is going to be so super
• 58:02
  empowering, particularly dynamic pricing. Have
• 58:07
  you been hearing about this? No. Where Walmart
• 58:10
  will They're gonna do it in store too, but I
• 58:14
  think on the app is where they've already just
• 58:15
  like uber and Lyft They look at you. How much
• 58:18
  can I charge you not? What is the price for everybody?
• 58:21
  What do I charge you based upon your your history?
• 58:24
  What I know about you and we know a lot about
• 58:27
  you because you can buy it from data brokers
• 58:29
  from right Activity on Facebook and Instagram
• 58:31
  and your credit card activity all this is known
• 58:34
  And so that this is going to be a conversation
• 58:38
  people like well, wait a minute. I mean The AI
• 58:41
  is now trying to squeeze the last bit out of
• 58:44
  me. I'm going to predict what's going to happen.
• 58:47
  Our robots will negotiate. And so you have an
• 58:52
  app or whatever to Walmart, and it will say,
• 58:55
  yeah, I don't want to pay $7 for that detergent.
• 58:58
  I can get it at Target for $6. Well, maybe I'll
• 59:02
  give it to you for 650. No, I can still get it
• 59:04
  for six over there. Okay, I'll do 550. Make it
• 59:07
  five and then I'll do it, because otherwise my
• 59:09
  robot's gonna go and negotiate with Target. This
• 59:11
  is where it's going to be deflationary. Interesting.
• 59:14
  It is going to put, and it'll be the same with
• 59:17
  drive -throughs, any subscription you have. Well,
• 59:21
  it makes sense, because the same thing they're
• 59:23
  gonna weaponize against us, we can use to guard.
• 59:26
  Yes. To shield. negotiate. I don't like weaponized,
• 59:31
  I like negotiate. I sound like a headline. We
• 59:33
  are going to have incredible power to make anything
• 59:37
  we want to come up with great ideas and build
• 59:41
  them ourselves and use those for our real world
• 59:44
  work that we do. You and I, we have real world
• 59:47
  work. We work in the absolute world and we talk
• 59:52
  to people and the tools that we have to make
• 59:55
  that better, deeper, more broader, they're just
• 1:00:00
  gonna be so amazing. I'm already benefiting from
• 1:00:02
  my grokbots. Exactly, exactly. This is so good.
• 1:00:06
  I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 1:00:09
  eight, nine of them now. Hey now! I've got a
• 1:00:14
  working and I've got a CEO who's in charge of
• 1:00:17
  all of them. And the CEO disperses whatever I
• 1:00:21
  ask into whichever bot it'll even say communicating
• 1:00:24
  with. People need to really start experimenting
• 1:00:27
  with this with Gronkbot or with Muse because
• 1:00:31
  you will, I mean, obviously you're still renting
• 1:00:34
  basically a virtual computer in the cloud from
• 1:00:38
  XAI. which right now is good. I mean, it was
• 1:00:43
  funny. People sent me this article. Hey, you
• 1:00:47
  know, this person is saying, you know, this news
• 1:00:49
  article that Muse has an entire file on you and
• 1:00:53
  all your friends. I'm like, yeah, that's the
• 1:00:56
  entire point is for my robot to know who Pastor
• 1:01:00
  Jimmy is and the things that pertain to him and
• 1:01:04
  to me. Now, do I want Metta looking at that?
• 1:01:08
  They say they don't. I'll take them at their
• 1:01:11
  word, but really I would like to have that on
• 1:01:13
  my device so I know that there's no temptation
• 1:01:16
  there. We're going to get there. Your phone will
• 1:01:19
  not look like a phone in the future. It'll just
• 1:01:22
  be a thing. And you ask the thing to do something.
• 1:01:25
  So I should hold off on the folding iPhone. Brother,
• 1:01:28
  stay away from it. Were you considering? No,
• 1:01:32
  I'm not actually, because I don't use my phone
• 1:01:34
  that much, to be honest. I actually use an iPad
• 1:01:38
  or whatever, but yeah, same thing. Is Annette
• 1:01:40
  foaming at the mouth? She wants to. She was,
• 1:01:43
  but she's calmed down about it. Because I was
• 1:01:45
  like, OK, just do it. She's been talking about
• 1:01:47
  that for so long. The foldable, the foldable.
• 1:01:50
  We'll see. It's just another reason to, oh, I
• 1:01:55
  got to open this fold and look at it again. Yeah,
• 1:01:57
  yeah, yeah, we'll see. I like my crappy Android.
• 1:02:01
  It's doing just fine for me. I do have one other.
• 1:02:05
  The story I don't know if you have anything else
• 1:02:07
  brother you want to talk about well, I think
• 1:02:09
  it's I Read a really interesting post from Tony
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  Perkins of Family Research Council. Oh, yeah,
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  sure He was talking about the public execution
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  of Nadal Hassan. Mm -hmm And I would like to
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  read that if that's okay. Sure I'd actually have
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  you have something on that. Well, I have the
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  clips. What you buy. Yeah So here's feel free
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  to share. Yeah. Hold on a second. Here is the
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  Here was the announcement from the Secretary
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  of War, Pete Hedges, egg Seth. Execution by firing
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  squad. Army major betrays his country, radical
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  Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort
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  Hood. Of course we're going to do it at Fort
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  Hood. We're going to do it on a Thursday. We're
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  going to do it at one o 'clock, which is when
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  he did it. And it's going to be soldiers with
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  rifles executing the firing squad. It hadn't
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  been since World War II, since we've done that.
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  Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in
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  World War II, which was when, which was... Second
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  time I'm hearing this, he's wheezing. You hear
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  that? Yeah, yeah. He's like really... You can
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  hear the wind blowing, too, wherever he's at.
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  To me, it feels like he's kind of hyper about
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  it. It's not easy for him to be talking like
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  this, I can tell. I kind of like the mentality
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  we had in World War II, which was wind. Which
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  was, understand when the enemy attacks you, you
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  need to stand your ground. So it was radical
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  Islamist terror attack. Remember what Obama called
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  it? Workplace violence? I mean, that's what we're
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  up against. That's the worldview we're up against
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  is workplace violence, CVE. We know what it is.
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  It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside
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  the ranks. And so he's going to get a firing
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  squad of soldiers, as it should be. And we'll
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  make sure that people are able to watch it, that
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  it's public, because people need to understand
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  that there's serious consequences for these types
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  of things. Has Major Hassan made any final requests,
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  reached out to the president, anything like that
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  to your knowledge? Don't care. We'll see him
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  on December 3rd. December 3rd, Fort Hood. And
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  then President Trump responded a little more
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  subdued, I think, to some degree. And sources
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  say people across the Army and the Pentagon were
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  caught off guard by the announcement that the
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  execution of the Fort Hood shooter would be public.
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  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the announcement
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  in an interview with a far -right podcaster aboard
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  the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday. Hegseth
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  said it would be public because, quote, people
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  need to understand that there's serious consequences
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  for these types of things. One source says Hegseth,
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  the acting Army secretary and Pentagon spokesman
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  Sean Parnell decided public would mean it would
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  be live streamed. There are two thoughts. Don't
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  show it and show it because, you know, by showing
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  it, maybe other people won't be doing what he
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  did. So I'll make a decision. Ultimately, I know
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  what the military would like to do. But we'll
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  make a decision. Okay. So it's, you know, the
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  president has waited. He wasn't his usual bravado
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  self on that. He was like, you know, we'll see.
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  I'll make a decision. So Tony Perkins came out
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  with a statement on this. I want to read it to
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  you because I really, I really am in alignment
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  with this. I can be swayed by somebody smarter
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  than me, but I'm just saying I like what he said.
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  He said, as a former police officer and as a
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  pastor, I understand both the purpose and the
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  biblical foundation of capital punishment. It
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  is not merely punishment for a crime, it is also
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  intended to deter others from committing similar
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  acts. Scripture not only provides justification
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  for capital punishment, but in cases of murder
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  explicitly calls for it. We read this last week.
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  Genesis 9, 6 declares, whoever sheds man's blood
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  by man, his blood shall be shed, for in the image
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  of God he made man. Capital punishment properly
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  administrated is not a rejection of the sanctity
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  of human life. It is an affirmation of it, but
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  that does not mean executions should become public
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  spectacles. So this is where he switches. And
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  I agree. This is where my concern was not over
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  capital punishment. Mine was where we settled
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  that last week. My concern was publicizing this,
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  showing it. Now he gives some, what I think are
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  some sound reasons to be wary of this. He says
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  this, I oppose the proposed live streaming of
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  the execution of convicted Fort Hood terrorist
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  Nidal Hasan for two reasons. First, when we separate
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  capital punishment from its moral foundation,
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  we risk turning an act of justice into what appears
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  to be an act of vengeance. Rather than affirming
• 1:06:32
  the sanctity of human life, a public spectacle
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  of death can communicate the opposite message.
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  The human life has little value. Second, as House
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  Speaker Mike Johnson has warned, Broadcasting
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  Hassan's execution could provide jihadist organizations
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  with a powerful recruiting tool. Rather than
• 1:06:49
  deterring future terrorists, it could give them
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  propaganda to inspire more violence. Nadal Hassan
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  should receive the punishment imposed for his
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  horrific crimes. Justice should be carried out,
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  but it should not become entertainment. The purpose
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  of capital punishment is to uphold the value
• 1:07:07
  of innocent human life, not to make a spectacle
• 1:07:10
  of taking the life of the guilty. Well, there
• 1:07:12
  goes my pay -per -view idea. Oh, you have to
• 1:07:16
  pay for it? What? Oh, and we're going to make
• 1:07:20
  money on this at the same time. Wow. That's another
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  level. As you were reading that, because I think
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  a lot of people agree with your stance. Not all
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  pastors, though. In fact, I heard Pastor Josh
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  Howerton say he thought it was okay to be public.
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  Yeah, to be public. And I'm thinking this is
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  not... the first public execution that has been
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  live -streamed. And I want to remind everybody
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  of what happened on the last one. This happened
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  on September 12th, when Charlie Kirk was executed
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  live -streamed before the entire world replayed
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  over and over and over again. I... didn't see
• 1:08:06
  any great benefit to that. It made people say
• 1:08:09
  horrible things. It started just an entire category
• 1:08:15
  of podcasts. And it was shocking. It was shocking
• 1:08:19
  to see that. I was like, just think about that.
• 1:08:25
  Do we need to see this? I don't think so. That
• 1:08:28
  one's still in my mind, that one. And I'm like,
• 1:08:30
  OK, I really didn't need to see that then. Yeah,
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  I think it's interesting because when you have
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  execution by injection or various means, electrocution,
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  whatever, it's in a very closed facility. It's
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  very private. Only certain people can enter.
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  Well, there are witnesses who are there by design.
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  And it's usually a handful of people. And it's
• 1:08:54
  not videotaped, you know, to be seen. forever.
• 1:09:00
  So I feel like we're moving back towards the
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  Roman gladiator days where let's throw the Christians
• 1:09:06
  out there in there and let's just watch the lions
• 1:09:09
  devour them or watch the soldiers crush them.
• 1:09:11
  Wasn't it like a Christian monk who jumped into
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  the arena and said to Caesar, you've got to stop
• 1:09:20
  this. He actually wound up getting eaten by the
• 1:09:22
  lions, but it was a Christian monk who jumped
• 1:09:24
  there and said, stop. And that kind of ended.
• 1:09:27
  This is after Christianity had become Augustine
• 1:09:32
  had said, this is the official church. And it
• 1:09:37
  ended from that. Bloodsport or whatever you want
• 1:09:41
  to call it. I understand the anger of Hegseth
• 1:09:45
  and I understand the anger of the military and
• 1:09:48
  I think it should be... reiterated what Hassan
• 1:09:50
  did. I mean, he killed 13 people, cold blood.
• 1:09:53
  It was awful. It was horrible. Alawakbar, the
• 1:09:55
  whole deal. As a psychologist, he was a psychologist.
• 1:09:59
  So think about someone you trust to such a degree.
• 1:10:03
  So that should also, that should be something
• 1:10:06
  that we're reminded of and we're told over and
• 1:10:09
  over. But yeah, public executions, they're ugly.
• 1:10:13
  They're bloody. It's shocking. We don't need
• 1:10:15
  it. You know, we say, well, you know, it's going
• 1:10:17
  to be limited to pay -per -view or whatever.
• 1:10:19
  It's going to end up everywhere. Well, we saw
• 1:10:22
  Saddam Hussein get hanged. Yes. We saw Colonel
• 1:10:25
  Gaddafi get torn apart by a mob. The list goes
• 1:10:34
  on and on and on. It's not pretty. It's not pretty.
• 1:10:37
  But it'll provide content for a lot of people.
• 1:10:43
  monetized, maximized, sensationalized. Well,
• 1:10:47
  that's what happened just over a year ago. I
• 1:10:49
  just feel like it's, yeah, not wise. That's my
• 1:10:53
  thought. Well, I think the president's going
• 1:10:55
  to make that decision, that he's going to say
• 1:10:57
  no. Oh, you think he'll back? Yeah, I think he'll
• 1:11:00
  say, let's not do that. I mean, you heard him
• 1:11:02
  go. I thought it was already decided, so that's
• 1:11:05
  good. No, I don't know. I don't have any proof
• 1:11:07
  of that. It just sounds like they were moving
• 1:11:09
  forward with that. The president can still tell
• 1:11:12
  the secretary what he needs to do. And the president
• 1:11:15
  keeps saying, well, we'll see about that. I haven't
• 1:11:17
  made a decision yet. He's asked his wife. As
• 1:11:21
  all good men would do. That's right. That's the
• 1:11:24
  only way to come up with the right way to get
• 1:11:26
  the right thing out there. Just to follow up
• 1:11:30
  on something you've been following about Noah's
• 1:11:32
  Ark. Yeah. And it's just. You know, there's not
• 1:11:36
  a lot of mainstream reporting on this. Have you
• 1:11:39
  noticed that it's? Yeah, it's a lot of other
• 1:11:42
  side, you know, smaller podcasts and different
• 1:11:45
  influencers or different outlets have picked
• 1:11:47
  it up. Yeah. And the people who are in these
• 1:11:51
  clips, and I just want to play it because you
• 1:11:53
  don't get it anywhere. Let's see. It's a former
• 1:12:00
  US Senate candidate from Delaware, Edward Szal.
• 1:12:04
  Uh, and Lauren Witzke, I believe she's, uh, I'm
• 1:12:08
  not sure if she's a scientist or anthropologist,
• 1:12:11
  but they, there's really a lot of stuff showing
• 1:12:13
  up. And where did I have to go to get these clips
• 1:12:16
  to get these people who were excited, who were
• 1:12:18
  part of the, uh, what is it? The Noah arc scans
• 1:12:22
  project X Alex Jones. Okay. It was a very serendipitous.
• 1:12:29
  Now, this was to come out this year. You think
• 1:12:31
  of all the things that have happened this year
• 1:12:32
  that have shooken people's faith or people have
• 1:12:35
  tried to shake people's faith, like the UFO disclosures.
• 1:12:37
  They said it was going to make everyone an atheist.
• 1:12:39
  You know, when Lauren and I jumped into this
• 1:12:42
  project, we knew that God's hand was on it. And
• 1:12:45
  going out to it, I mean, Alex, getting to see
• 1:12:47
  the valley that Noah and his family would have
• 1:12:49
  seen when they got out of the ark. was just breathtaking.
• 1:12:52
  At least you put some shots up of the topography.
• 1:12:54
  You can see the boat. You can see the ship right
• 1:12:56
  there. And it's the exact same length the Bible
• 1:12:59
  says. Absolutely. Yep. 300 cubic meters. Yep.
• 1:13:02
  Which is exactly 510 to 515 feet. So it matches
• 1:13:07
  the exact same biblical dimensions as Genesis
• 1:13:09
  and not just length, but also in width. So it's
• 1:13:12
  85 feet wide, which is 50 Egyptian cubits as
• 1:13:16
  well. So it's exact to the I'm kind of excited
• 1:13:42
  by this. It is, it is cool. I mean, it's kind
• 1:13:45
  of like when the Shroud of Turin came out. Right.
• 1:13:48
  And that's, man, it's been out a long time and
• 1:13:50
  they keep going back over and over and over and
• 1:13:52
  as new tech is developed. Oh, of course. You
• 1:13:55
  know, they get another documentary made, you
• 1:13:57
  know, it just keeps coming back. At the end of
• 1:14:00
  the day, it doesn't matter for me, but it would
• 1:14:03
  be kind of cool if it is. Yeah. And, you know,
• 1:14:07
  I mean, it's exciting. It's kind of hopeful.
• 1:14:09
  This is fascinating. I thought they talk about
• 1:14:12
  all the rocks, you know, that have the holes
• 1:14:14
  in them. They're massive stones that would have
• 1:14:17
  been there to balance and, you know, give the
• 1:14:20
  boat stability. And also there's all these seashells
• 1:14:24
  and everything all around. Not fossilized, actual
• 1:14:28
  seashells still, because they haven't been around
• 1:14:30
  for millions of years and haven't fossilized.
• 1:14:32
  It's fascinating. Yeah. I mean, it really is
• 1:14:35
  fascinating. It'll be fun if it all turns out
• 1:14:38
  that it is. I mean, I'm looking, I just jumped
• 1:14:41
  on X and typed in Noah's Ark. Wow. Wow. People
• 1:14:46
  are excited about this. I mean, this is like
• 1:14:49
  unreal. models. People like to use this. They
• 1:14:53
  say, see, it's all true, but that's not how you're
• 1:14:55
  going to win people. And that isn't at the end
• 1:14:58
  of the day. That's not how you're going to win
• 1:14:59
  them over. But if it turns out to be for real,
• 1:15:03
  man, it'll be kind of like, woo, you know, it's
• 1:15:06
  great. Another one. Now what else? You know,
• 1:15:07
  there's, cause there's been other things discovered
• 1:15:09
  as well. I also saw where a guy has discovered
• 1:15:12
  Noah's Ark underneath. What do you have now?
• 1:15:18
  This is hilarious. I thought you're going to
• 1:15:20
  love this. So let me find the picture of it.
• 1:15:23
  So I've got a picture. Explorer claims he found
• 1:15:26
  the Ark of the Covenant. Oh, in Nigeria. The
• 1:15:30
  Ark of the Covenant. Isn't that supposed to be
• 1:15:31
  in? It's supposed to be in Nigeria. But this
• 1:15:34
  one, American Explorer Ron Wyatt claimed to have
• 1:15:37
  discovered the lost Ark of the Covenant in a
• 1:15:39
  chamber beneath Jerusalem, directly below Golgotha.
• 1:15:43
  the site of Jesus' crucifixion. He reported finding
• 1:15:46
  an earthquake crack extending into the chamber,
• 1:15:48
  which he linked to Matthew 27 -51, the earth
• 1:15:51
  shook and the rocks were split. Inside he claimed
• 1:15:53
  to have found... It's a lot of he claimed, like
• 1:15:55
  there's a lot of past tense here. I'm like, and
• 1:15:58
  we have a picture. We see this. What is that?
• 1:16:03
  That's it. It's in a dusty old chamber. I mean,
• 1:16:06
  think of that. Is that over by... No, is that
• 1:16:12
  near Lady Bird Park? Is that enchanted rock?
• 1:16:18
  Enchanted rock, it could be actually. So anyway,
• 1:16:22
  you know, this stuff comes up from time to time.
• 1:16:24
  We see things like that. But you know, when the
• 1:16:26
  Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, people were
• 1:16:28
  probably shaking their heads going, nah. That
• 1:16:31
  was pretty amazing. It turns out to be a real
• 1:16:32
  deal. And so, you know, could it be that Noah's
• 1:16:38
  Ark has been discovered? I think it'd be great.
• 1:16:40
  If it is, I'm not worried about it if it isn't.
• 1:16:44
  Same way with this Ark of the Covenant here.
• 1:16:47
  That would be fascinating. I wouldn't go touching
• 1:16:49
  it. This pretty bad stuff happened to people
• 1:16:52
  who touched it. I think I'd stay away from it
• 1:16:54
  and let it sit. But there's a picture of it here
• 1:16:56
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• 1:16:59
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• 1:17:01
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  as the Bible says, who knows but that we have
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  been born for a time such as this. Sincerely
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  from Gwen Cunningham and Annette Shapie in Memory
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  of Alan Smith, 10 -4 -23, and Irene Smith, 10
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  -26 -22. I just loved that. It was a handwritten
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  note. It's so sweet. Do you remember? Yes, I
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  do. I remember sitting at his bedside and asking
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  him because we knew he was in the final hours.
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  And I just was very, I'm very direct in those
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  scenarios. And he said, absolutely. And he said,
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  and I'm ready. I'm ready to go. When you have
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  somebody tell you that, and they know they're
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  going, they are persuaded. He was sure. That
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  was a beautiful, beautiful thing. We did his
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  memorial, and I was able to share that with the
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  people there. There's just something beautiful
• 1:21:54
  about believers who pass on, because we don't
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  see death the same way the world sees it. We
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  don't see it that way. We see they're graduating,
• 1:22:05
  they're promoting, they're leveling up, you know?
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  And that to me is so beautiful, especially when
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  you're sitting with someone like him who was
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  so sure, so knew what was coming. So that's beautiful.
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  Yeah. Wow. Absolutely beautiful. Man, I appreciate
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  that. So where are we at on donations? Steve,
• 1:22:26
  Steve, number three, number three. I've got a
• 1:22:29
  whole different list here. I've got Marco Mack,
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  Joe Price. No, no, no. Did I send you the wrong
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  one? That's what you gave me. Really? No. Yeah.
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  That's what I got. Well, that was a mistake.
• 1:22:42
  I'm sorry. Not odd. And I also gave Annette the
• 1:22:46
  wrong one. Well, I will continue. You go ahead.
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  Yeah. Steve Weiss. We know Steve from Las Vegas,
• 1:22:54
  Nevada. Good guy. $77 .70. He says, Steve and
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  Steph, checking in again. As always, thank you
• 1:23:02
  both for the weekly insight and keeping us all
• 1:23:04
  grounded. Colleen and Edward Cota from Summit,
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  New Jersey, $20, always with a check, which is
• 1:23:14
  a send to the PO box. We appreciate that. And
• 1:23:16
  okay, so I finally recognize that Dr. Graham
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  Brian Bishko, I should have known with a $19
• 1:23:23
  .48 that this was actually code for Sir Brian
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  of London. And the reason I should have known
• 1:23:30
  is 1948 is the independence of Israel. And he
• 1:23:35
  is our boots on the ground in Israel. Adam and
• 1:23:40
  Jimmy, I'll stick to using my pod ping email
• 1:23:42
  address so this lines up with Stripe. That's
• 1:23:45
  a lot of crypto talk there. Sir Brian of London,
• 1:23:47
  in Israel this time. You better figure out the
• 1:23:50
  significance of the number. Yes, we've got it.
• 1:23:52
  We got it, Sir Brian. Sending you love and prayers
• 1:23:54
  from Jerusalem where I spent a couple of days
• 1:23:56
  at the now notorious National Conservatism Conference.
• 1:23:59
  Just wanted to send you one of the great talks,
• 1:24:01
  which was the dinner speaker, Maggie Tabibi.
• 1:24:04
  Channel 14 TV news anchor who broke a fast during
• 1:24:07
  her news broadcast with a sip of water and said
• 1:24:10
  the blessing on TV during the broadcast I want
• 1:24:12
  to put this YouTube video Yeah, cuz you know,
• 1:24:16
  I watched it and this had never happened before
• 1:24:19
  in Israel that they'd a news anchor, had even
• 1:24:23
  spoken openly about their faith. Decloking is
• 1:24:25
  happening everywhere, and she's doing a prayer
• 1:24:29
  at the end of her newscast. Was that in an X
• 1:24:32
  piece that he sent us, one of the X DMs? Yes,
• 1:24:36
  but it's a YouTube video. People can see her
• 1:24:39
  speech at this. Very cool. Fantastic. Love that.
• 1:24:43
  I'm telling you, when you decloak in public,
• 1:24:47
  people will not throw rocks at you. That's right.
• 1:24:50
  Everything I thought would go wrong did not happen.
• 1:24:53
  It opens the floodgates. It does. People come
• 1:24:55
  up and say, you too? Yeah, there you go. It's
• 1:25:01
  beautiful. It is beautiful. Michael Mason comes
• 1:25:05
  in with $10 .14 and he says, as Christmas draws
• 1:25:10
  near, I hope you will touch on the Christmas
• 1:25:12
  tree. Well, we got some time. The Christmas tree
• 1:25:16
  has always been a part of my family history and
• 1:25:19
  I have no problem with it. But two years ago,
• 1:25:21
  I started also putting up a small nativity set
• 1:25:24
  as I feel with this, I can focus on the birth
• 1:25:29
  of Christ, not as an idol, only to remind me
• 1:25:31
  what Christmas is about. I think this might be
• 1:25:34
  a good topic. I would love to hear your thoughts
• 1:25:36
  about this. Michael Mason in New Hampshire, P
• 1:25:39
  .S. As Halloween draws near, I also have started
• 1:25:42
  focusing on October 31st, 1517. Martin Luther
• 1:25:47
  posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle
• 1:25:51
  Church in Wittenberg, Germany, challenging the
• 1:25:54
  practice of purchasing forgiveness for sins,
• 1:25:57
  arguing instead for salvation by faith alone
• 1:26:00
  through God's grace. For me, this seems more
• 1:26:02
  fitting, perhaps another show topic. Well, you
• 1:26:06
  are nodding your head here. Yeah, Romans 5, 8.
• 1:26:08
  I mean, yeah. The Wittenberg door, it was famous
• 1:26:13
  where he... nailed his theses, 95 of them, really
• 1:26:17
  completely countering the idea of paying for
• 1:26:22
  indulgences and the idea of salvation by works.
• 1:26:27
  He went back to Romans and talked about salvation
• 1:26:31
  is by faith and faith alone. So it's brilliant.
• 1:26:35
  Yeah, fits huge, huge deal. Okay, here's some
• 1:26:38
  Dutch history for you. Growing up, There was
• 1:26:41
  a holiday, they didn't, they never had Halloween
• 1:26:44
  in the Netherlands. Now they do. Well, they have
• 1:26:48
  Halloween movies. No one goes out trick -or -treating.
• 1:26:51
  But they had a day called St. Martin for St.
• 1:26:55
  Martin. Is this the same St. Martin? Martin Luther?
• 1:26:58
  I believe so, no. Could be. I got it because
• 1:27:01
  he was later burned at the stake for what he
• 1:27:04
  did. I mean, he paid a high price for this. And
• 1:27:06
  the kids will go out with lanterns? I've got
• 1:27:10
  to look into this, because I remember all this.
• 1:27:12
  It was kind of like a trick or treat, but it
• 1:27:14
  wasn't. I've got to figure this out. Thank you,
• 1:27:17
  Michael, for bringing this up. Yeah, that's fantastic.
• 1:27:19
  Now we've got stuff to look into. So, Romans
• 1:27:22
  5, let me just give the backdrop on this. Therefore,
• 1:27:24
  since we've been justified by faith, we have
• 1:27:28
  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1:27:30
  He took that and said, we come to Christ through
• 1:27:34
  faith. Not through works. This isn't about what
• 1:27:38
  we're doing. And this was a complete... I mean,
• 1:27:41
  it was considered a heretic at the time, but
• 1:27:43
  it was a very bold brazen move to hammer that
• 1:27:47
  onto the door. No kidding. And then the next
• 1:27:50
  scripture after that, through him, we also have
• 1:27:53
  obtained access by faith, this is all about faith,
• 1:27:57
  into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice
• 1:28:00
  in hope of the glory of God. So he talks about...
• 1:28:04
  That was what this was all based on. We come
• 1:28:07
  to Jesus by faith, through grace, and not of
• 1:28:12
  ourselves. That's Ephesians 2 .8. So he was laying
• 1:28:16
  that out, and it was revolutionary, literally,
• 1:28:19
  in the truest sense of the word. It was like
• 1:28:21
  a revolution started. And that's, of course,
• 1:28:25
  the Lutheran church was birthed out of that.
• 1:28:28
  all by faith. So anyway, man, great, great distinction
• 1:28:31
  there. I appreciate that. I love that. Wednesday,
• 1:28:34
  today is his birthday. He'll be 62. I'm right
• 1:28:37
  there with you, Robert. He says, I'm thankful
• 1:28:39
  to have made, which I'm thankful to have made,
• 1:28:43
  62, with the grace of God, I hope the Get To
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  Nation will pray for me for health and service
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  until the Lord calls me home. Today, I donate
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  $10 .14 for John 10 14. I am the good shepherd.
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  to you as well at WGTDT .com. You're going to
• 1:29:36
  take us out with your part of the daily grind?
• 1:29:39
  Yeah, I'll do that. But I also got this. This
• 1:29:41
  is from the Pickle Princess. Yeah, we got some
• 1:29:44
  notes. Yes. So she sent a beautiful note and
• 1:29:47
  it was it's kind of an answer to made a comment
• 1:29:49
  about Wild at Heart being written for men. But
• 1:29:52
  she ended up reading it and it really impacted
• 1:29:54
  her. Oh, nice. So listen, this is cool. I want
• 1:29:57
  to share this because this will help any of the
• 1:29:59
  ladies out there that are thinking, OK, well,
• 1:30:02
  I can't read that. Good morning, Pastor Jimmy.
• 1:30:04
  For some reason, today's daily grind made me
• 1:30:06
  remember I wanted to email you about something
• 1:30:08
  you said in the podcast last week. I was urged
• 1:30:11
  to read While at Heart years ago. It was presented
• 1:30:14
  to me as a good read to understand my then young
• 1:30:17
  husband and young son. And it really did. When
• 1:30:20
  it talked about, and now it's been years since
• 1:30:22
  I read it, so don't quote me, men doing dangerous
• 1:30:26
  things and doing things to prove their manhood,
• 1:30:29
  it really resonated with me to let my boys be
• 1:30:31
  boys. to not coddle them too much. Hold my breath
• 1:30:35
  and clap when they succeed. So don't discourage
• 1:30:37
  women from reading it. In fact, I would highly
• 1:30:40
  encourage it as a wife and a mother. It's kind
• 1:30:42
  of a good insight into their minds. Thanks for
• 1:30:45
  the daily grinds, and we get to do this. I look
• 1:30:48
  forward to them daily and weekly. The Pickle
• 1:30:50
  Princess, AKA Jodie White. So that was great.
• 1:30:54
  And that's actually what she said is excellent,
• 1:30:56
  really. It is definitely good for women to read
• 1:31:00
  and get an understanding, especially if you're
• 1:31:01
  raising boys, right? I wouldn't know. I've only
• 1:31:05
  been around women and girls my entire life, sisters,
• 1:31:08
  mom, everything. You're my first real dude friend.
• 1:31:13
  Look at those guns. Come on now. Come on now.
• 1:31:16
  So here's the Daily Grind today. I'm going to
• 1:31:18
  go back a couple of days on talking about the
• 1:31:21
  weight of every word. The words we speak matter.
• 1:31:25
  And so this is the Daily Grind. Today's scripture
• 1:31:28
  is Proverbs 18 -21. Death and life are in the
• 1:31:31
  power of the tongue, and those who love it will
• 1:31:33
  eat its fruit. Today's title is The Weight of
• 1:31:37
  Every Word. What you say matters. People measure
• 1:31:41
  your character by what you do and by what you
• 1:31:44
  say. Are you a person of your word? Can people
• 1:31:47
  depend on you to do what you say you will do?
• 1:31:50
  Words can also produce death or life. Gossip,
• 1:31:54
  criticism, and judgment can break one's spirit.
• 1:31:56
  Life, encouragement, and hope can lift someone
• 1:32:00
  out of the depths of despair. Speak life, because
• 1:32:03
  you'll eat what you say. Today, notice the words
• 1:32:07
  that come out of your mouth, especially when
• 1:32:09
  angry or under duress. You leak out what you
• 1:32:12
  are full of. In today's prayer is this, Father,
• 1:32:15
  may my words be laced with grace and bring life
• 1:32:19
  and hope to those I encounter today. In Jesus'
• 1:32:23
  name, everybody said, amen. Alright everybody,
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  come on back next Wednesday. We'll be here for
• 1:32:30
  another episode of We Get To Do This.