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World Cup tourists love America, Iran deal explained, Knicks win & SpaceX soars | Ep. 74 · Culture Brief - Christian perspectives on the week's biggest news, sports & pop-culture stories

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Connor Jones, and I'm Ryan Denison.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is Culture Brief, a Denison form podcast where we navigate the constant stream of top stories and news, politics, sports, pop culture, technology, and so much more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In this week, Ryan, I feel like it's sports, Palusa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am overwhelmed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm drowning in the sports chaos of our nation right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got NBA, we've got NHL, we've got World Cup, we've got golf.
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[SPEAKER_01]: man what a week what a time to be alive Ryan welcome to the show thank you very much and no chaos like sports chaos it's the best kind it's the best kind of chaos yep and yeah we're grateful that Ryan is here and Micah's stead he is joining us today you've heard Ryan on here before he was on here a few weeks ago with Micah and so Ryan we're grateful for your time thanks for joining us do you want to give us a quick rundown of what we're talking about on today's episode?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to start by looking at the latest details from the deal with a round.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to talk about what this actually means, whether the war is actually over, like people are saying, or this is just another and a long line of kind of false starts on the path to peace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll take a look at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're also going to talk about one of the coolest parts of the World Cup so far, which has been just the response of Europeans to the American South and American general and just some of the really cool things that have come out of there, some of the really fun parts of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just the chance to look at our country through another shot of eyes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After that, we'll wrap up with some things to keep an eye on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's going to be our story for today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's jump in to The Brief.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Brief.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Ryan, yeah, you wrote a great edition of your newsletter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The focus, if you guys have not subscribed to the focus, make sure you go to dinnisonform.org slash newsletters to subscribe to that Ryan writes every Tuesday deep dives on the biggest topics each week and gives us some newsworth knowing as well and always a God is good moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Ryan, your topic this week was the Iran deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So figured you'd be perfect to come in and tell us what do we in do we not know about this deal?
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[SPEAKER_01]: There seems to be a lot of mystery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, mysteries are great way to put it, but the good news is that the wars over
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of maybe sort of not really but at least there's signs of progress towards a deal more signs and more progress than we've had for a while.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It started on Sunday when leaders from the US and Iran digitally signed what they're calling a memorandum of understanding which is an ironic title considering there's still not a whole lot of understanding and the competing visions of what this thing actually means shows that there's not even a lot of
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[SPEAKER_00]: mutual understanding between the different parties.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, it's an agreement to actually stop shooting missiles and drones in each other for the next 60 days while they negotiate what is hopefully a real end to the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But before we get the details, Connor, I was curious, we'll re-earn initial reactions when you heard about the deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, it's just, we've been tiptoeing along this line for really two months.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Trump has been saying the deals around the corner, deals around the corner, the Iranians say it, different mediating countries say it, and then there's, you know, launching back and forth of missiles or drones or whatnot that delays it, I'm just happy we're finally at a point where it's like, hey, something has been signed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, please, the problem and you're going to point it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: we don't really know what's in this document.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are leaks that are coming out tell us about different things that are apparently in the document and in the memorandum of understanding, but really it seems to me that this is just kind of a temporary next step.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's saying we're going to stop shooting at each other, but we really don't know the full facts of what's going to come down the line with the agreement is we're going to try to just extend our period of time to negotiate those details.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for now, we've got technically a ceasefire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not supposed to
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad there's progress that has been made.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad there's something kind of somewhat official, but I'm still very curious to see what this is all going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 100% and this one does feel different from when they've announced cease fires in the past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have hope that it's going to come to something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, the previous cease fires have essentially been more reduction in conflict rather than a stop to the conflict.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if one of the things that this actually accomplishes is giving us a couple of months where we're not killing each other, then or where there's not bombs, there's not drones.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we can get the straight-of-arm moves back open and it could lead to real progress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it does seem like from what we know at least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that there've been enough concessions on both sides to actually have a conversation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while there is still a lot, we don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're recording it Wednesday morning, and details continue to come out it seems like every few hours we learn more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, gonna try and keep this kind of a broader view rather than get into the specifics because the specifics keep changing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we just don't know them yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But on a broader level, Bloomberg published what they claimed to be a version of the memorandum that seems pretty legit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while some of the details have been contested,
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[SPEAKER_00]: most of those kind of disagreements come more on the scheduling and the details rather than the general aspects of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so some of the things that seem clear at this point is that it does not appear that Iran will receive any of their frozen assets upfront.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've got about $100 billion in frozen assets that the US and other countries currently hold.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there have been some initial recordings that were going to Iran started to claim that they were going to get those right away, or some of that right away, the US side has made a bundle of clear that's not the case, and if the memorandum has been released is true, then they're not going to get any of their frozen assets right away, but what they will get is the ability to start selling oil on the global market.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the sanctions that have been imposed on their oil markets that have caused them to have to use shadow fleets and sell the countries like Russia and China almost exclusively because the rest of the world can't buy it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of that's getting lifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there was reporting that during the war as soon as the U.S. kind of imposed the blockade that shut down just their illegal sale of oil, they were losing about $4 billion a day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so the sanctions could actually be more money in the short run, which is I think why they've been able to get Iran to the negotiating table maybe in ways that they haven't in the past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, it's important to note that part of the reason the U.S. wanted to go with sanctions even though it means more money for Iran upfront.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is that the sanctions can be re-imposed at any point in time, and while the straight-of-form loses opening, the blockade's going away, the navy is not, and so all of America's forces that have been situated to fight this war in Iran, they're still there, and so while the negotiations are continuing, while the ceasefire goes on, it does feel like the hot work could start up again at any moment, if they choose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And another aspect that this that didn't really get into in the focus and we're still kind of one of the most contentious areas is that Israel is kind of saying this deal doesn't speak for them and we're really not sure what that's going to look like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's still a lot of questions there, a lot of questions in general, but it does look like for the most part what we're seeing is that there is at least the framework of something that could provide the chance to have a genuine negotiation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the other aspect of that that keeps coming up is the nuclear side of it where Iran keeps saying like we're not going to give up we will not pursue nuclear weapon was kind of the big concession there which is a quasi concession considering their public stance for a while has been we will not pursue nuclear weapons we just don't want to get rid of the materials we would theoretically need to build them so they kind of want to keep that threat even if they're publicly
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[SPEAKER_00]: saying we're not going to actually pursue it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so a lot of the details that are going to be most important over the last couple of months to really iron out are what that looks like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with their existing materials, especially the highly enriched stuff that's currently buried under their former facilities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or at least it's supposed to be buried under their former facilities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the biggest changes on the US side has been where the US used to be pushing to be able to take those or export them out of Iran.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now they just want to destroy their deluded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's a bit of a lower bar as well for what might work there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But kind of what we know so far, how do you think all this is gonna turn out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, who knows, that's the real question, is who knows how this all turns out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the hope is it brings some sort of stability in peace to the entire Middle East region.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It brings American forces back home out of that region, and into any sort of violent conflict is great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've been praying for that, for peace to come about, within Iran, for peace to come about, within the entire Middle East, within Israel and Palestine and Gaza, and all the just warring factions over there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I've got so many questions still, your right is real feels like they've been left out of the conversation here, and they're part of the memorandum, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's basically saying they're not going to attack Lebanon anymore, where they believe that Hezbollah is what they know a lot of Hezbollah militants are still hiding out and they're trying to rid Lebanon of Hezbollah militants essentially.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, they do strikes and they send troops up into Lebanon, occasionally, something Lebanon to do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so they're being told, you can't do that anymore, but they were not consulted at all on this memorandum.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're not happy about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But also Netanyahu and the leadership in Israel recognizes that they've got to respect what the United States is saying and wants to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, they're in bad stance with the U.S. And that is a very, very important relationship for Israel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of U.S. people would say, it's an important relationship for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a lot of stake even there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will Israel abide by a memorandum that they were not consulted on?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We will see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I ran is very eager to keep them out of Lebanon, which is very interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It goes back to the proxy wars with Iran, why this might start in the first place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I look at this whole thing, Ryan, I'm sitting here and I'm wondering, what changed from the beginning of this conflict to today with this memorandum of understanding?
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[SPEAKER_01]: did this war accomplish any of the goals that Trump and the United States and Israel set out to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say probably somewhat, I definitely got rid of a lot of the top leadership on day one, you know, that we threatened and said, you got to get out of the way, you need to make a deal with us, you need to make a deal with us, that was Trump saying that back in January and February, then every day and so Israel and the US worked together to go ahead and knock out those people and they also knocked out a bunch of military facilities and strengths that Iran had they took out their
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[SPEAKER_01]: but they're also still so hardened in their mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The leadership there is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I think about what the goals were for this war if it was some sort of regime change, if it was making sure I ran never got nuclear weapons again, if it was to make sure the straight-of-harmews is completely free going forward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that any of those things were fully accomplished.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that they're saying that this is gonna be negotiated further.
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[SPEAKER_01]: there's 60 days remaining to find some sort of agreement on nuclear dust nuclear materials all of that, but we're sitting here saying we got to trust the Iranian government, a government that we have not found trust with for the last 50 years and has been attacking us through proxies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you can fully trust that there were to say we're not gonna we're not gonna pursue a nuclear weapon Yeah, they could put that a writing on a piece of paper and everybody can sign it, but you got to find a way to check that or make sure they give up their nuclear Capabilities that's the hard part and that's what the whole thing was set up to do so I think a lot of people are still pretty disappointed I know we don't know the final language yet
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[SPEAKER_01]: But from what is being leaked out there so far, I think a lot of people are pretty disappointed in saying what was the point of this work?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did we come out on the other side with any benefit and in the meantime we lost 13 US soldiers in this conflict our gas prices shot up the world economy Kind of got rect for a little bit there because of the oil crisis over there in the Middle East What was the point of this?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a lot of questions still to be answered.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be able to look back a few months from now and say
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those things were actually solved or they were not solved, but right now, man, I think it's fair to ask a lot of a lot of big overarching questions here Yeah, and I think part of what makes that so hard is that it feels like 90% of the accomplishments happen in the first two weeks And that for the lot better part of three months, three plus months, it's just been kind of a stalemate
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, while I think the U.S. came out on top in terms of the changes in leadership, I think are substantial.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The undermining of their leadership capacities, I think, is substantial if it does end up with having a more permanent or at least a more easily monitored nuclear capacities of Iran than that's progress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, most of that would have been possible after the first two weeks, it feels like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And everything since just feels
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[SPEAKER_00]: different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels almost not like a waste necessarily, but it's felt like a still mate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's what makes it hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's also why I think you see the messaging, especially around this deal becomes so important for the people that are on both sides.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see you ran kind of just
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[SPEAKER_00]: putting stuff out there that the US will come out and say, no, that's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's just this fight to control the narrative to where you don't really know which side to believe if either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of what we're seeing is that a lot of the disagreement is in the details that the membrane doesn't address.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's hard to really know who to trust.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that kind of led me to the spiritual outside of this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It may be really long for a time when I felt like we could trust people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when I felt like when I heard something on the news, I get trusted, and maybe that was never the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this disillusionment gets as close to reality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's quite possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I also think on just a personal side, it made me wonder like, am I constantly someone that people can trust?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it made me kind of appreciate that part of the reason I have so much trouble trusting Iran, trusting our own government, trusting so many of the reports you see in the media is that over time,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That trust has just been eroded in a lot of ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we see statistics that point that's not just a me thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's a lot of people in our culture that struggle with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as Christians, I think it highlights how much we need to be trusted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because especially if you grew up in the church, grew up in a Christian home, the aspects of the gospel probably seem almost second nature or just true by default.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you step back and think about,
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[SPEAKER_00]: what our message is to people, what we're asking people to believe that God became man, that he lived a sinless life, that he died for our sins and was raised from the dead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now he wants us to place our faith in him for eternal life and dedicate our lives to him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is the core of the gospel message that rolls off our tongue if we grew up in the church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you didn't, then that's kind of crazy in a while, always.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a hard message, I think it's easy to underestimate how difficult that message is to believe it's true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And but kind of one of the things that really suck out to me is that the credibility of the gospel is heavily dependent on the credibility of Christians and I think that's so important for us to keep in mind as we look at all this whether we're talking about Iran and the war there or any other news stories or even just in our daily lives the importance of being someone that people can trust and that wouldn't we say something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: they can believe it's true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's rarely been more important than it is today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was kind of one of my spiritual takeaway from this is just the importance of making sure that when I speak, when I share the gospel, I'm not giving people reasons to not believe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't guarantee they will, but if I'm the reason people don't believe, and that's a problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think as Christians, we have a remarkable opportunity and responsibility to be people that when we share the gospel and trust us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of one of the things that I'm taking away from this, but we'll see how the story turns out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, in a couple of months time, we can talk about the story again and have some really good news to share.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But until then, I think the right response is to have hope, but not much certainty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just kind of take away and see a approach with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that's all really good points.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan, thanks for that spiritual application too, trust is so important with the gospel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With our daily lives with anything we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, do you want people to see you as a person that they can always lean on or do they see as like a snake oil salesman who's always slimy and getting away with different white lies and all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully they can find trust in you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and then the way you approach the gospel and then the way you approach everything in your life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that represents Jesus, because Jesus was the person we trust the most.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While the Pharisees were trying to shape some false narrative about Jesus and everything that he was doing with his ministry here on Earth, Jesus was out there just preaching truth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's always fun to reflect on a remember.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, thanks Ryan for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're just gonna have to keep tabs on what goes on with this whole thing with Iran.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know people are just fed up and they're done with it and they're
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ready to move on, so we'll see if that's what this is the first step towards is and into this conflict, a peaceful resolution, hopefully that's the case, and then we'll be able to move on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for now, let's talk about some stuff that's going on within our own country, because I don't know if you are proud to call yourself an American or not, but I hope you are, and we're gonna talk about why you should be, because if there's anything that's happened in the last week and a half, it is these foreign tourists coming over for the World Cup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and making sure they know, or making sure they're essentially that they're sharing to America, hey, your country is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you guys haven't made over here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are just enthralled by everything that you have, everything that goes on the way y'all's life goes about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I really want to harp on this today because it's a great refresher of Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I just feel like our country has been divided or at least we are being told it's divided.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the whole thing
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our government can make us always feel like our nation is at war with itself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, there are aspects of that that are true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People do disagree on things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think, and Mike and I have talked about this multiple times on this podcast, if you walk outside and talk to your neighbor, you will have disagreements on big philosophical things, maybe on politics, maybe on religion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But at the end of the day, you're going to recognize, hey,
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[SPEAKER_01]: weren't just trying to be neighborly friends here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to, you know, we're trying to build community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're either Americans together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are Christians together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are neighbors together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our kids go to the same school or on the same soccer teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All of that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can easily be told that that's just not how life is in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think these foreign tourists are reminding us that actually, that is how life is in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we have things to be proud of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And things that we should enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things that we normally just look right past is great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing things about this nation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that we take for granted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I love that they're calling this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they're documenting their travels across the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Many of them are road tripping the south.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You called that out earlier, Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them are up north.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them are staying in one city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just doing Boston or New York or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, this place is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to just point out and I want to hear what you've got, Ryan, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of the things that I've seen on social media the last week and I have a lot of these videos, or posts have gone extremely viral.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're probably seeing them in TikTok and Instagram and Twitter of these tourists saying,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So here's a couple of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've personally just seen that crack me up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They love drinks that are served with ice because that is just not something that they get in a lot of these people are European, but we're also seeing people from Africa coming over South America and Asia, a lot of the Japanese people here in Dallas were pointed this stuff out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They also love free chips and salsa, free bread before a meal comes out of the restaurant, free refills.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, things that we just normally would not give a second thought about, but this is like life changing for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, they love 711 Big Olps and Slushies and Buckys and Bass Pro and Chick-fil-A in and out in Chipotle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Chicken fried steak, man, they're mind blown by chicken fried steak and biscuits and gravy and tater tots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them are calling out country music, especially Ella Langley.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That guy Freddie from Germany is like an Ella Langley fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're getting brought to the concert now with Ella Langley next week in Oklahoma.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's blowing their minds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're blown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: away by the size of the trucks in America like cement trucks and dump trucks and trash trucks and high school football stadiums.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The size of our grocery store is specifically like Walmart and Costco.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are blown away by the neighborhoods where houses have yards and sidewalks that they walk down and they're just like everybody has a landscape in an American flag hanging on their front porch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are blown away by yellow school buses, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: This one gets me because they say it looks like the school buses in the movies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They said the same thing about our neighborhoods, it looks just like the movies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, the friendliness of everyday people is something else they're calling out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like everybody here is so nice and hospitable and friendly, especially in the south, like overly nice down here, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then some of them have even called out just how they feel safe walking in the streets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a guy from South Africa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was recording himself walking down the side of a highway,
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[SPEAKER_01]: night to go was like the middle of the night is like I don't feel like I'm going to be attacked or mugged or anything like I feel safe out here and then a lot of them are calling out car culture this is a problem we have in our country everybody just drives cars they're like why can't you walk anywhere also why is everything so far apart this country is huge Ryan are you are you seeing this too are you like amazed by these small things to us but are big things to these foreign tourists
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I think some of my favorite things are what you talked about as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the Bucky's ones always get me and it's cool that even people from the North that come down and see those are like, what are you doing south and it's a fantastic in the best ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I got I love the videos aspects of this as well because I think there's one thing when you hear it, but when you actually watch someone eat biscuits and gravy for the first time, I just see their life change.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's something about that that's just wonderful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do think it's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other aspect of it is it's not just people from Europe like you were saying it's people from all over the world which kind of reinforces that it really is just a uniquely American things that they're finding amazing it's not just something that they're missing in Europe or something they're missing in Africa or missing in Japan it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's stuff that just the U.S. has and things that we take for granted because they are every day occurrences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But no, I mean, that's been one of some of my favorite stories with the World Cup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just, it's really cool to be able to see our country through the eyes of someone else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to kind of fully appreciate the things we take for granted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think other things you listed, Bucky's and Biscuits and Gravy have been my favorite ones that I've seen so far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one of my favorite videos to it's been this British family that went to Chick-fil-A for the first time and the mom ordered the she said jalapeno Chicken chipotle club or whatever the chicken ranch club, but jalapeno cracked me up and then she got it And she's filming herself like eating it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like I've got a chicken burger here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just
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[SPEAKER_01]: Correct me up the kind of phrases the pronunciations are different too, but they were just in love with Chick-fil-A, and who isn't?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just can't stop thinking about like wait till July 4th for all the tourists who are still here and they're experiencing like Americana at its fullest and especially when they get to watch the Nathan's hot dog eating contest and they see that So we celebrate July 4th over here
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[SPEAKER_01]: But fireworks and everything they're going to love that wait for the tweets on that day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but it has also seen a few things where people are kind of like if you are still here in July and near in the south like prepare it gets worse on the tip on the weather side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the weather side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, a lot of them are complaining about the heat, but that's just part of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in turn, we as Americans are also getting to see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: these other cultures come over here and show us some of what they're about which has been really cool too so like the Scottish fans for instance they played in Boston so a bunch of Scottish fans came over they have been taken over the streets of Boston chanting and singing their songs they're taking over the pubs in Boston chanting and singing the song they took over Finnway Park chanting and singing the songs so all the videos have been really cool they are just
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[SPEAKER_01]: so ecstatic to show us what they're about what the life is like in Scotland, especially at the soccer games they're bringing that to baseball and the streets of Boston has been awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen Europeans around the country leading restaurants and bars and song and chance taking over like any even here in Dallas where we've got games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The
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[SPEAKER_01]: The British fans have been taking over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw the Netherlands fans take over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen the Japanese fans show up and clean after themselves at the stadium in Dallas, 18T stadium in Ireland to really, they watch the game and then they all picked up the trash.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After the game, it showed us what it means to be respectful of the places that host you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really cool to see that in American helping them out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once they realize what was going on, they all carried around a bag and picked up their trash.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They pick up after themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's this town of Lawrence, Kansas, where the University of Kansas is at.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are the host city for Algeria, which is really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This town is like adopted the Algerian soccer team and they have made them kind of their own.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've started playing their national anthem for them with the University of Kansas band.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The players are going around the campus and seeing different things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: field goal kicking their shooting hoops on the core at the campus and the people of the town have come into the football stadium to watch them do their practices and they've just got kind of this cool unique adoption going on where the Algerians are going to share their culture and the fans are coming to Lawrence Kansas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The most random thing, can you imagine a bunch, like if you want to go say a bunch of Algerians are going to land in Lawrence Kansas for a week, that's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you tie all this in with this like just massive US win that we had on Friday against Paraguay, which was the first game for the United States.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a huge win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Big boost for the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, but I even, I would think for our culture like everybody's like, whoa, America, hey, maybe we're not that bad of a team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got a shot here to go a little bit further than this group stage, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it feels like the vibes are just high in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm just seeing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm feeling this like immense pride, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So why do I bring all of this up because this seems like just kind of a natural thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like a massive massive news story that you know, we like to cover here at culture brief, but I bring it up because prior to the World Cup, there was a lot of talk that you know that foreigners had a bad bad impression of America and would not even travel over here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Los Angeles Times had an article about this whole thing this week and they said President Trump's aggressive immigration and terror policies, general and continual dismissal of NATO, and especially his decision to join Israel in a war against Iran prompted many calls to boycott this year's World Cup tournament, which the U.S. is co-hosting, of course, with Mexico and Canada.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As recently as last month, the combination of those concerns as well as high ticket prices were blamed for the many unbooked hotel rooms and unclean seats in various host cities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that was about a month ago,
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[SPEAKER_01]: is the opposite of what they were stating there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's a lack of hotel room bookings or ticket sales, it's really probably because fee fund corporations way upticked the price and made it unattainable for a lot of people, including Americans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, don't think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of their fault.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But foreigners are, in fact, traveling here in droves, documenting
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[SPEAKER_01]: really, they're all of our nation, and feeling deeply welcomed by Americans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they might have their qualms with Trump and our government, but they're coming over here and they're experiencing America at its fullest, even here in Dallas, we've seen these other countries come in and just, again, take over the streets, lead chance, stand with American side by side singing songs, waving flags.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing with the Japanese and the Netherlands and Croatia and England.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just here in Dallas where we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're seeing all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's in a time when it feels like Americans, like I said, are being told by institutions
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're bad country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody hates us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is proving that that's not entirely true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That same LA Times article I just mentioned also said it perfectly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They said, just in time for America's 250th birthday, the turning waves of social media discontent have parted in giving us a glimpse of how these United States look entased to white-eyed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: World Cup attendees and it is glorious and I got to say I agree, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a breath of fresh air to see people come to America and experience what we get to experience literally every single day of our lives, you know, if you're an American, now some of you listen to this might not be an America, you might be overseas, would love to hear your perspective of what you think of America and Americans, I know we've got some Canadian listeners and I think they're seeing some of this too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Foreign tourists are coming to the games of Canada and they're gonna experience Canada at its fullest, which is really awesome It's just a fresh breath of air for me at least and I think Ryan, maybe you feel the same way We've talked about this a little bit offline.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that how you're feeling to?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely and it's such a good reminder because at times like I think we all have the desire to be proud of our country
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to be proud of who we are, to be proud of being an American.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But there is just so much you see sometimes that makes you almost feel guilty or wrong for having those emotions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think stuff like this, or like this, or are a good reminder, it's like now it's, we live an amazing country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has its problems every country does, but the core of who we are is good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The core of what we have here is something we need to appreciate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And something we're not wrong for appreciating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The us the negatives exist, but they don't outweigh the good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's really easy at times to feel like they do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so this story has been, and all these cool,
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[SPEAKER_00]: videos, all the fan experiences have been just a really encouraging reminder that America is pretty great and we are right to think it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's really interesting as well is like a lot of times the things that they appreciate most are the aspects of American culture that maybe we're not always great at showing to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of kind of the friendliness, a lot of the welcomeness, we're willing to offer that to foreigners before we are Americans and I think that's something where maybe this is also a good reminder that the best of America is when we're
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[SPEAKER_00]: not just our guests, but to our neighbors and the people in our community and the people we disagree with that we look for those areas commonality and trying to be as hospitable to one another as we are to the people coming from the outside.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I think it's a great point that's honestly a great segue because I was going to say the same thing, and it's kind of a call for the church, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What we're seeing here of these foreign tourists coming over and saying, wow, this place is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We see why everybody raves about in why Americans have so much pride.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I hope that's a step towards healing of the division that we do have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there is division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I think sometimes it's overstated how much division we have, and especially to the rest of the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And even to Americans themselves, I'm hoping this is a step towards healing like, hey,
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[SPEAKER_01]: actually our country is kind of great and others are telling us it is maybe we should listen so I'm right there with you Ryan I think it is not just okay to be proud to be American it's good to be proud to be American show the world why we're proud and what we're proud of yeah there are moments in our history we are not proud of and we
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for the most part, it's really cool to give these people a taste of why we've got so much pride and a lot of them are even noted how many American flags are there everywhere right like another thing we just look past all the time, but they're like there are flags for America and some, especially the people in Texas, they're like there's Texas flags everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's good Texas is all in the breed down here, but it's really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, all the online discourse and the news desks that are on media every night or the Washington DC people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not fully reflective of the everyday reality of most of our lives, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what is reflective of everyday life here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's that Chick-fil-A dinner with a family with your family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a stop at Bucky's or 711 to get a big group on your way to a beach lake or mountain because we have all of those beautiful pieces of nature here in our country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's helping a stranger reach something on a shelf that they can't reach in Walmart or Costco.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's mowing your neighbor's lawn when they're sick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's holding a door open with a welcoming smile, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's a friendly conversation at a neighborhood block party with somebody that you would not normally associate with, but you're like, hey, nice to meet you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And most importantly, I would say this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's that freedom to express our faith boldly like you were saying, Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if there's one thing I hope that the foreigners are truly seeing it, I hope there's thing to love of Christ from many, many people over here, because many of the values in our culture stem from deeply rooted Christian values.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the way it's gone through history is Christianity helped found the way we see morality and values here in our nation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's an inherent sense of community and morality in the hearts of Americans that come straight from scripture.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Roman's
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus welcomed everyone in the culture, and even those that were rejected, such as the tax collectors, the sick, the lame, the poor, the elderly, the children, the widows, the foreigners, he welcomed all those people, and he loved them, and he showed them that he loved them, and that's our call too, you know, if you run into a foreigner this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or like you were saying, Rhine, if you run into another fellow American, don't treat somebody differently just because they're foreign, treat Americans the same way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you were to run into a foreigner this week, who's here for the World Cup or for any other reason, will you be seen by them as an impatient and rude, or will you be seen as welcoming and loving?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How would a World Cup tourist feel if they walk to the doors of your church on Sunday?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to be happy to see them there and welcome them or you're going to be like, why is this person here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't they don't belong here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully you choose the first option there, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because there's this call to love to love anyone and everyone that we encounter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be it someone from our community or someone from the other side of the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just leave us with this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Galatians 328.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is neither June or Greek.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is neither slave nor free.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is no male and female for you were all one in Christ Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's on us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: to welcome and love everybody no matter where they are from no matter their history no matter their past and to love them and share the gospel with them and so that is our call this week as we talk about and see all these people from around the world come here yet be proud to be American but more so be proud to be
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[SPEAKER_01]: with Jesus and share that share that with them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's where our true pride lies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got the Holy Spirit, which is really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you've got thoughts on this whole thing, if you are here from overseas, if you are seeing tourists in your town, if you are loving the world cup and all these things, please let us know your thoughts, let us know your experiences, shoot those to our email, cultivatefeddinisonformed.org or shoot us a message on Instagram, at CultureReef Podcasts, go follow us and DM us there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to hear your stories, rhyme with your stories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Michael wants to hear your stories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let us know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think that's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And hey, men to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if we can be known for being Christians first in American second, like that's I think what we're called to do, but those two things don't have to be in conflict either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so the best being the best Christian makes us the best Americans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's been part of the Christian message from the first 100 years of the church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's been the idea is like, were the best people, our culture needs, when were the best versions of who Jesus made us to be?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really cool to see all the world pride.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I just people come from all over the world so proud of their nation The Japanese are here and the Germans and the Croatians and the Algerians and everybody's just it's really cool to see every country step up and show their pride And I'm cannot wait for the next few US games to just go all out again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's jump into our check-in section
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got several news stories that have happened this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna hit on this as a lot with sports.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But first off, I just kind of want to hit on a little bit of a somber thing here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're worth three aircraft crashes over the weekend, going into Monday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just want to point this out because several people definitely, man, lost their lives here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So on Sunday, two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro, down in Brazil, and he killed all six of board.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This normally probably would not make the news up here in America, but one of the people on board, the helicopter was Pop Artist Oliver Tree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was on a world tour.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You might not recognize the name Oliver Tree some of you will but you would probably recognize his most popular song life goes on that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went back to listen to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh man I hear this song all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're walking through a store or something and it's always playing has over 479 million views on YouTube in 713 million streams on Spotify.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really big artists really sad him and the others that lost their lives in this helicopter collision Very sad about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on Sunday a skydiving plane crashed and butler Missouri shortly after take off and it killed 11 skydivers and the pilot You know one of those things where sometimes the actual aircraft is more dangerous than the jump in skydiving I think more people have died.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure of this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would need a double check
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think more people have died in America in the planes crashing on skydives than actually jumping accidents.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So really tragic there as more comes out about that and the people who lost their lives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on Monday, a US Air Force B52 also crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Space and California.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I killed eight crew members, which was made up of military, the pilots were a military, maybe a couple of the other crew members.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were some government employed civilians and contractors on board as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So massive crash and explosion came out of that and just really tragic to see, hate that and we're just praying for all those families, everybody who lost loved ones this week and those crashes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be grateful sometimes when you're playing land safely and you're like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You just walk off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's sometimes it's cool to be like God, thanks for landing us safely I think by the way when I get off a plane sometimes like thanks for that safe flight lord.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was good You know, and what else is going on this week?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's oh Yeah, you know pray for safe travels and we'll pray for your safe travels, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think it's good to be grateful sometimes we need get off a plane or it when you get out of your car And you got back home safely all that travel something to be grateful for
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[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so another interesting thing has been going on in the culture is just the launch of SpaceX.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stock opened last Friday and kind of boomed, made Elon Musk the first trillionaire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And most people will thought maybe this is like an initial boom and then it's kind of bust, but that has not been the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It closed Tuesday at $211.68 a share, which puts the company up to roughly $2.64 trillion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That means in less than a week of public trading, it's behind now only in Vidya, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, and it's actually kind of like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: keeps switching places with Amazon as to what the most valuable companies are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what's interesting is like SpaceX has not been profitable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's best year is like 19 billion dollars or something in revenue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's really people are betting on Elon Musk more than the company.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And given his history, that doesn't seem like a bad bet, but we'll see how it goes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And next story is kind of getting into the sports, the Carolina Hurricanes for the first time in two decades are Stanley Cup champions after they beat the Las Vegas Golden Knights 4 to 2 in that series and I didn't watch much of the Stanley Cup finals, but they really is nothing like playoff hockey in terms of just like the emotions behind it, how tense it can be, especially the end of close game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So congratulations, Cindy Hurricanes fans out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I saw that I caught the end of that last game and man, seeing the team celebrate together, looking up the big Stanley Cup trophy is always really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So congrats to the hurricanes, you know, would be nice to see the stars up in there waiting one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been to the Stanley Cup a couple of times here in the last few years, but I have not actually,
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[SPEAKER_01]: lifted the trophy so that would be really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah and to the Elon Musk thing it is interesting you mentioned the profitability I was doing some research on this we talked about this in depth last week why SpaceX is or is not worth the trillion plus dollars it's apparently worth 2.6 trillion now with the stock shooting up and I know it's going up and down every single day and you like you're saying with Amazon it's surpassing or falling under it either way it's up there in that territory with those top five companies in the world in terms of revenue and the thing
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[SPEAKER_01]: about a decade ago, finally reached profitability.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They spent those first really 15-ish years not making a profit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had the plan, hey, it's a long-term plan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We will not just make profit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We will make insane profits if you trust us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they did, and their investors did, and it ultimately paid off for a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the hope here with SpaceX 2 is sometimes you don't make profit until you get the influx of cash that you need which is what this IPO is doing So they can start building more spaceships and satellites and internet connectors and everything and AI models So all of a decision a lot of people looking at Tesla as sort of an example They picked up 40% on their IPO with public then after a few days it dropped down below the initial price and now if you invested $1,000 in Tesla at their launch It would be worth I think it's like $358,000 today
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[SPEAKER_00]: That $1,000 investment, and so I think you got a lot of people that are not going to make the same mistake this time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's going to give space extra a lot more rope to play with in terms of just the patience from their investors.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think the biggest question is how much will Elon dedicate to it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will he pull off the Tesla thing or is he going to go the dojo route and leave after three months?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, something else, guys, the next.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The New York nicks did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They won.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was so fun to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The city of New York is just elated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they partied all night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw videos all night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there were the videos also of some people destroying things and setting up us on fire and all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The majority of the city went out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and just went crazy, they partied all night, they celebrated this 53-year drought ending of championships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All the celebrity row was having the time of their lives as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really, I'm just happy for the next, and the next fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I feel it, man, Brian, you feel it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're Cowboys fans, we get the idea of being like the biggest name brand in a sport and not being able to capitalize, not being able to make it...
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[SPEAKER_01]: just to the next phase and they did it and so congratulations to them and Jalen Brunson former maverick traded away goes to New York and just dominates and he's probably he might be the best player in the league right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he got the MVP award for the finals and all that, but yeah the spurs just could not keep up so they the next one for the one they really kind of dominated the series.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were one of those games by double digits and just kept coming back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and kept coming back, so they're unique team and a lot of cool ways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're really unique.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Congratulations to them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, let's talk a little bit of soccer because, yeah, the US Mint, we won!
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every thought we could be pair-away, but not as dominantly as we did, we won 4-to-1.
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[SPEAKER_01]: which is huge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So congratulations to the U.S.民 soccer team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are so ready.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are so alive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is thriving over here in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got foreign tourists, remind us of how great our nation is and our team is just looking good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I'm pumped.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got another game on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 3pm Eastern.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 2pm Central.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are playing Australia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, it's going to be awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you excited for that one?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a tougher game than Paraguay, but in some ways that just couldn't make it a more fun game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it could.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was watching with some friends, including Michael last week, and I was like, well, you know, this suspense is kind of gone by like, minute 60 because we had such a dominant leader.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, I liked that we have this lead, but also there's no suspense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we'll have a little bit of suspense with some of these future games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: something else going on is the U.S. opening golf is this weekend so make sure to tune in to that they're playing at Shinnacock Hills golf club in Southampton, New York where this is the exciting part, Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you're not a golf fan, you'll understand how difficult this is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The winds are projected to get between 40 and 50 miles per hour during this tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you imagine golfing in that and now you're asking the world's best players to come out here play along the Atlantic Ocean there in New York The Hampton's essentially and try to hit a golf ball to a small little hole 400 yards away good luck guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be tuned in all weekend to that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another thing is you can catch both Ryan and I on this week's Faith and Clarity podcast episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Mark Turman, Ryan, you talked about AI and the Pope's in cyclical and everything that he was warning about and where we're going with government regulations on AI and taxes and everything we really get to dive into AI and will it become sentient in some sort of form, how should Christians respond to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we also talked about Spielberg and his latest movie Disclosure Day all about UFOs and aliens and if they were real Would it shattered the Christian faith?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a lot to take in there a lot of people were asking that in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I got to see the movies best weekend and I thought the movie was fine I didn't think it was like
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[SPEAKER_01]: an existential thing, but Spielberg does pose the question, what does the revelation of alien life out there, what does that do to the church and its foundational beliefs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Ryan, Mark and I had the discussion, I would encourage you to go tune in over there, we'll link that in the show notes, faith and clarity podcast, check that out, we love a little alien talk around here, don't we, Ryan?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well guys, that's it for today Ryan.
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