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2078 Election Day Special: The Black Hole of Centauri · Brant & Sherri Oddcast

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  Welcome to the Brant and
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  Let's see a couple pretty good tips for Election Day.
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  Number one, if at all possible, vote as early as you possibly can.
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  Okay. That is smart for any election.
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  On election day.
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  That way you can be obnoxious about how I voted.
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  Yeah. Yeah. With your little sticker and stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  The second one was I read this: If your election official hooks you up
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  to a machine via a needle in your arm, you are actually donating blood.
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  Okay. Yeah.
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  Keep that in mind, everyone. Yeah. Keep that in mind everyone.
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  Here's a reminder: And this is something
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  we talked about a lot, but hey, today's a great time to talk about this.
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  You can outsource your worries to God.
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  You give them to him.
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  And if it's election based
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  or for our country, that's that's a legit thing to be concerned about.
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  I get that, but we don't need to be anxious.
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  And so what we're told to do explicitly is to cast our cares on him,
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  because he cares for us.
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  If we're casting them on him.
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  They don't stay with us. Right.
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  So we're actually giving them to him.
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  He can handle it.
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  I can't, I just can't.
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  He can. So I'm going to do that.
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  And then I'm going to thank him for what he's done.
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  That's what we're told to do. Outsource the worry to God
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  for something completely different.
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  We had breaking animal news.
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  Okay.
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  Animals are out there doing stuff.
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  This is so interesting.
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  The Seattle Times had an article about T-Rex's.
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  Okay.
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  And a headline says T-Rex may have been smarter than you think.
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  I don't know that I was okay, but the byline.
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  So it says who the reporter is, Guy named Dino.
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  Get out of here.
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  Are you serious?
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  Somethin like Dino Grande Doni, was his last name?
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  Dino.
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  I mean, I bet you he doesn't even bring that up in the article.
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  T-Rex’s maybe smarter than you think.
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  Really, Dino?
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  It was an article in the Seattle paper written by Dino.
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  Just being brutally honest here.
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  We don't have a mentally fit nation.
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  No, we have, mental health crisis.
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  Actually.
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  And I think 2020 made it, after that and made it a lot worse.
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  Would you agree? Or no you think, I don't know.
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  I think it's I think it was there. Yeah. Yeah.
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  And it's just maybe gotten more obvious.
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  Okay. Yea.
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  But we're not healthy, and, and we're having an election.
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  So this is what you get.
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  You get a lot of stress and anxiety and fear.
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  And it can be even spread to people who are generally healthy.
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  And I would say don't beat yourself up for that if that's you.
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  But but do tell God what you're concerned about.
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  Be honest.
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  Like I'm concerned about this or that on that.
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  And tell him and then thank him for all he has done in your life.
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  This is the way we were told that we will experience God's peace.
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  You do that.
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  You tell him really honest, get honest.
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  And then, and then thank him for all he's done.
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  So this was in the news just now.
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  Scientists now think there's a black hole in Omega Centauri.
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  Now, follow me with this.
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  It's a star cluster just outside the Milky Way, which is our galaxy.
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  We apparently have one in the center of the Milky Way,
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  but they say this one is actually closer to us because where we're positioning.
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  Sure, of course.
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  And the reason I mention it is because
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  I kind of want to go there.
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  To the black hole of.
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  Yeah, Centauri? Yeah.
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  I don't know. No particular reason.
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  It seems like it has a little more peace.
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  Somehow the black hole of Centauri has a certain...
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  I don't know.
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  Tranquility?
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  So thanks for listening to the podcast, as always.
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  We’re really honored.
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  And it's really weird because, as you may know, you probably know,
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  like, a lot of the stuff that we do is from our radio show.
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  So it's, it's taken and put on Christian music stations, cross country.
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  And it goes in between these songs and we have to record it
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  therefore in advance because it's not on at a set time.
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  It might be an afternoon show here, a morning show there.
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  And we have to record it in advance.
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  But we know with the election that there's going to be huge news things happening.
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  And please don't forget because this is an important factor as well.
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  There's time constraints.
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  Oh yeah.
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  You know what I mean.
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  Whatever you're doing has a time constraint of 45 60s top.
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  You can you know,
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  you get away with a few seconds over that, but you have to say it
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  in a very short amount of time.
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  And this is a real dilemma if you think about this because of the time thing,
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  because we don't know everybody's head space anyway, right?
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  It's really difficult to come on a nonpolitical station.
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  The next morning.
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  Because you have a bunch of people who are elated if you have a winner.
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  Oh we don't even know that. It's nothing we don't know. Yes.
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  But you have a bunch of people who are absolutely elated
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  and a bunch of people who are devastated. That's right.
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  So if you come on and you're like, I wanted to just talk about peace, right?
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  But then that's going to sound,
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  defeatist.
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  Right. To half the people.
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  And the other half are going to be like yeah I needed to hear that.
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  Right.
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  So and they and half for like what do you mean peace?
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  We won. Yes, yes. Why are you... And you sound mournful.
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  But we just won. Right.
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  So shrug emoji.
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  Yeah. I do.
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  This is a real tough thing. We've been talking about this.
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  Yes, we've been sitting here going back and forth for quite some time off air,
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  trying to figure out ahead of time what to say. Yes.
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  And and to be sure, this is every presidential election.
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  So every time this has happen, this is what we have to do.
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  But it's worse in this case because we do expect.
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  I do expect violence. Yes.
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  On election night, if they announce a winner and maybe even if they don't.
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  Yeah. That's fair. I think that's fair.
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  I think that's fair to expect it everywhere.
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  By everyone. Right.
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  Because it's just been.
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  That's the that's where we're living right now.
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  And that's, you know, that that's what's in the air.
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  Yeah.
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  And I don't, Yeah.
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  I don't think that that's unfair to expect.
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  And so then how do you talk about that?
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  Yeah. So you don't want to be completely.
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  What I would like to do is touch base with the news
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  touch touch base with the zeitgeist or whatever, whatever's going on.
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  And then have a different take on it.
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  Where you quickly pivot.
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  Yeah.
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  To something that would, would be encouraging it
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  deeply spiritually encouraging.
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  Not just like blandly encouraging. Yeah.
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  But buck up buck up. buckeroo
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  it turn that frown upside down.
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  So when you don't know and you maybe you've even listening to this.
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  Yeah. Like oh yeah. That was,
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  that was that didn't work. Yeah. Yeah.
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  You know why?
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  Because then it's so difficult.
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  I have I have been really struggling with it in,
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  in, personal life and in personal relationships because,
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  you know, you can come off, trying people think you're trying not to say anything.
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  Right.
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  You don't want to take a side.
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  I don't,
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  I don't want you.
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  Yeah. That's how they sound if you remember you know.
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  No I don't want to play a game.
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  You know what I mean.
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  Like you're playing a game I don't want to play the game.
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  So therefore no, I wouldn't take a side
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  because the whole game I don't want to play.
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  So when you're talking in your in,
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  even when you start talking about kingdom things, it's hard
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  because if people are dialed in like that, they, you know, it's difficult.
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  The, it's almost like they're waiting for you to say
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  a thing, to show the hand of what side you're on.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  You know what I mean? And so then you start.
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  I make it personal.
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  I start dancing around the landmines of, oh, I don't want to say that,
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  because I don't want you to think I'm talking about that.
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  And I don't want to say that because I don't want you to think I'm against that.
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  And then before you know it, you aren't saying anything because that's 100%.
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  You know what I mean?
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  You know what?
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  Here's another problem, that I think I know is, it's just you didn't say it;
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  But it's actually I might be able to give you the red meat you want.
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  And I'm not going to do it. Yes.
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  Like like you actually want me to make a commitment that I'd be kind of like “I
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  Yeah, I agree with that.” I'm still not going to say that
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  because I don't want you, I don't want you in that space. Right.
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  Yes. That is right. I want to talk about this other stuff.
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  That's right.
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  And if I put you in that, then we will forever.
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  Yeah. Great. In that space. Great.
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  We will forever be in that space. You got more of that? Yeah.
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  Congratulations. Right.
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  We're all affirmed.
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  People wanted Jesus to do that all the time.
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  Yeah. Just just affirm me. Affirm us.
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  Affirm our position in front of these other people.
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  Just tell us. And he just doesn't do it.
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  Well, I keep thinking about more and more and more.
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  You know, love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Who is my neighbor?
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  Like, once we get to that question, the next sentence
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  is, there once was a man. Yeah, you have to tell a story.
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  Because it's...
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  we're not going to be able to. Okay. I can't do anything else.
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  No academic debate here.
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  No, because once you've asked that question, you're in a space
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  that you've already justified or you're trying to justify.
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  The Bible said that it was an attempt to justify him.
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  So once we've gotten there, story is going to work.
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  We have to transcend the cultural language or the cultural lenses of the day.
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  Now, how about this?
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  Again. Again.
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  We've talked about this before, but not enough, maybe.
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  And that is: Look, it's not...
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  it's not us denying the importance of such and such issue at all.
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  Not even close. Right.
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  But but I would ask people: Let us do our thing.
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  You do your thing, right.
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  We're all part of the body.
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  If you're a believer, if you're a Jesus follower, we're part of this body.
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  Maybe that's your thing.
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  Like to get on the school board and do that thing.
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  Or to get.....run for office to help the like
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  okay. Yeah.
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  Like how about let us do our thing? Yeah.
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  Or does everything have to be that thing?
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  That's a yeah.
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  It's not even acknowledging it's not important.
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  It it is important. But that's.
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  Yeah. All the parts of the body have an important role to play.
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  Can we be this or does it have to be completely usurped by your thing?
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  And I've had some...
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  a lot of email discussions with people that would like me
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  to “Blah blah blah”, I'm like dude just let me, let me do this.
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  Yeah.
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  Let me do this. Let me talk...
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  let me be like one place
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  where people can just go at this level and talk about Jesus.
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  And it's not as a...
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  this isn't a means to an end either, a means to a political end.
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  Right.
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  Like we're just going straight to the thing about discipleship
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  which that will have repercussions down the line if that makes you feel better.
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  Yeah.
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  If people are discipled we'll see a lot more justice in the world.
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  Yeah. And a lot more mercy. Yeah.
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  A lot more protection for the vulnerable.
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  Yeah.
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  So, yeah. Let us, let us...
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  You know what, man?
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  That's a - that's that's a really great plea.
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  I would make that plea.
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  That you would love your brothers and sisters in a way.
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  My friend Danny, to read the book about,
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  being single.
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  She lives in Australia.
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  She, she always refers to the household of God.
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  I think I talked about it before, like like...And she talks about
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  if from single and married and all that, that we're all in this household.
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  But in what you're saying I love because we're in this household together.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  Like, you got your thing in this, but we're still in this household.
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  Yeah. We're not all going...
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  That's the beauty.
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  That's why Jesus said: And they will know you're my disciples
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  because in this household, they can look in that window and know that
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  and see us loving each other. Yeah. Right.
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  Not it's not.
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  We're not doing ....and respecting all of that.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  I mean, I got this burning thing in me to to like,
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  like get people to go: Wait a second.
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  We're, we're misunderstanding Christianity.
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  We actually need to be followers of Jesus.
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  However let's say you are trying to make ends meet
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  and you got two little kids in the house, single mom or whatever.
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  And like no you need to drop it all.
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  You need to find a radio gig and proclaim my thing.
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  Drop it.
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  No, that's not right.
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  That's not. That's so good.
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  You're like.
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  Yeah, all building each other up, encouraging each other
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  and to into the unity of oh, that's that's exactly what that is.
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  Yeah.
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  You keep talking because I'm going to find that scripture that's in Ephesians.
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  Okay. Good.
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  I did we just noticed this other scripture which should probably be mentioned
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  on the podcast, but I remember it's first Timothy chapter two, and it starts with
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  I ask you to pray and give thanks for every all those in authority,
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  and then seek to live in a quiet life.
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  First Peter or first Timothy two two.
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  Yeah.
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  I urge then first of all that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving
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  be made for all people, for kings and all those in authority,
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  that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
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  So there's something about peaceful and quiet.
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  You can be peaceful and quiet even if you say stuff.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Still have this spirit about you.
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  That's God's spirit.
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  Yeah.
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  And it, it's not coercive in hateful
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  and and.
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  Yeah. Condescending. Go ahead. Sorry.
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  No, I love that.
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  In Ephesians, it's, starts with verse 13.
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  It talks about us all being built up and this is until we all reach unity
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  in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,
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  attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
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  And then it talks about: then we'll no longer be
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  infants tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here
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  and there by every wind and teaching, and by cunning and craftiness of people,
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  and deceitful scheming, meaning that unity and that maturity
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  will then give us that stature where we're not like babies.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean? You.
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  It matters. This, this this matters.
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  So I'm glad you said that, because I could,
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  I could
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  stand some of that on my end of saying, you know what?
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  If that person is passionate about that.
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  That's because, that's, that...
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  that's their thing, Sherri.
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  And they don't have to be passionate about your things.
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  So, yeah. So, if the...
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  if the rest of what we do for the radio doesn't quite
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  ring the bell, the right way, we apologize. But.
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  Wow. It's tough.
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  It is.
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  3D chess, which I've played. Okay.
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  And that was tough.
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  That was tough.
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  And this is tough. It is.
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  That's what we're trying to say.
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  My friend had a Star Trek edition.
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  It was really fun.
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  So we played it at work all the time.
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  Okay, when we get on the other side of this,
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  just let me know if it's, any if it equates.
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  It's really fun.
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