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331. The Devil's Playbook For Manipulation - How Society & Individuals Get Hijacked · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: And if you'll seek truth before you seek change, you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be manipulated. But those who are saying
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  Speaker 1: it's and it can come from a good heart, can
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  Speaker 1: come from a good place like man, I'm just sick
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  Speaker 1: and tired, and this is what a lot of people say.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get to the I'm sick and tired
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  Speaker 1: of If you want things to change, and things will change,
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  Speaker 1: but they won't necessarily change for the better, You've got
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  Speaker 1: to decide. I want the truth more than I want
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  Speaker 1: the change. But if you are someone who says I'll
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  Speaker 1: do whatever it takes a change, I just want to change,
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  Speaker 1: and you want that more than the truth, you're setting
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  Speaker 1: yourself up to be manipulated. That's so impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what I believe.
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  Speaker 1: It's your weakness. It is not your technique. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at
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  Speaker 2: a man who, in high school was voted least likely
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  Speaker 2: to be manipulated. That's right, friends, the fore Garrett uncle
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  Speaker 2: Back the only man to ever graduate Seer School with honors.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good I thought, I thought the last little question.
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  Speaker 1: That you got me on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I one for those that don't know what
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  Speaker 2: your school is g what is your school?
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  Speaker 1: Your school is a training program that most people, if
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  Speaker 1: you deployed, you went through here. Uh, survive, evade, resist,
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  Speaker 1: and escape is the acronym force here. I had to
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  Speaker 1: think about that for a second. Haven't answered that?
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  Speaker 2: If you remember that off the top of your head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well they I will say the training does a
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  Speaker 1: good job of making sure you don't forget what this is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay for it has been a minute though, but everyone
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  Speaker 1: who deploys went through some version of ser Pilots go
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  Speaker 1: through a more advanced version of SEER, and then Special
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  Speaker 1: Operations just runs their own program and it's it's intense. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the it's one of the areas of
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  Speaker 1: military training where there's they are intentionally secretive about what
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  Speaker 1: happens there, Like they don't even want you to know
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  Speaker 1: as a student what you're getting into. Like you can
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  Speaker 1: learn a lot about like, hey, what's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: to me in buds beyond what's on the Internet and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and series of training program that they
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  Speaker 1: really try to keep in a box. It is intense,
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  Speaker 1: but also it just adds to the mystique and the
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  Speaker 1: scariness of it because you don't know what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: One of the stories speaking a box that I've heard
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  Speaker 2: about SEER School is that they put you in a
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  Speaker 2: box that's too short for you and they just shut
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  Speaker 2: you in there for an undisclosed amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: You can't sit down but you can't stand up.
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  Speaker 2: Right and and so like that doesn't sound that complex,
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  Speaker 2: but think about how that would start to grind on you.
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  Speaker 2: And they play like noises of babies crying and just
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  Speaker 2: like they try and mess with you.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I ask it's just one of the phases too,
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  Speaker 1: that's that is the when you've been captured face right right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they simulate you getting captured. I remember I
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  Speaker 2: asked you. I was like, brow, how hard was sear school?
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  Speaker 2: You know, like I did after Buzzy You're like and
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  Speaker 2: at that point you're so hard You're just like whatever, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, I will say, mindset is a powerful tool
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  Speaker 1: to get through just about anything.
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of mindset, g thank praise God for this
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  Speaker 2: podcast because that's what we talk about a lot. And
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  Speaker 2: today we're talking about how to not be manipulated. And man,
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  Speaker 2: this is such an interesting one because I think about
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  Speaker 2: where we're at in society and some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that is going on insert whatever you think is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There's this movie called Idiocracy if you've ever seen that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's about like it's this future imagined world where
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  Speaker 2: like Terry Crews is the president and he's like got
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  Speaker 2: his shirt off all the time. He's like yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody's like, drink gatorade is better than water, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just this thing that seems ridiculous. And then you start
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  Speaker 2: looking at what's happening today where we're arguing about what
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  Speaker 2: a man is and what a woman is, and you go, wait,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck, Like, what is going on? So gee,
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  Speaker 2: I look this up because I was so curious about this.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to get hard data on some of these
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  Speaker 2: things because there's not like an official registry. So I
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  Speaker 2: was looking at like, transgenderism is a big topic right
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  Speaker 2: now in America, and it has been spiked in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: It took another spike since twenty twenty on, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been an elevated term. Now, think about how much it's
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  Speaker 2: talked about, how much everybody knows what it is relative
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  Speaker 2: to the actual population. There's no official record, but the
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  Speaker 2: Williams Institute estimates that point eight percent of adults in
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  Speaker 2: America identify as transgender. That's roughly two point one million
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  Speaker 2: people now, of those that have actually used or not
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  Speaker 2: Of those, but how many in our population have actually
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  Speaker 2: used transgender hormones? Less than point four percent how many
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  Speaker 2: have undergone any transition RELAYD surgery any less than point
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  Speaker 2: two percent when we start talking about that have had
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  Speaker 2: the actual general surgery, it's point zero eight to point
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  Speaker 2: one two is the rough estimate, so that you may
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  Speaker 2: not be speaking percentages. So imagine you have ten thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: Of those ten thousand, eighty would identify as transgender, slightly
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  Speaker 2: less than forty you would have used some sort of hormones,
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  Speaker 2: less than twenty you would have had at least one
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  Speaker 2: transition related surgical procedure, and only eight to twelve people
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  Speaker 2: would have undergone any actual surgery.
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  Speaker 1: I mean US populations like three hundred three to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five it's more than that, yeah, no, no, no, five million
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  Speaker 1: US population ye, three hundred twenty Like, it's around three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million. So you just take a
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  Speaker 1: zero point one percent of that, which is what it's saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just doing some numbers here of what it's saying
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  Speaker 1: could be people who have gone through transgender genital surgery.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be three hundred and twenty five thousand people in
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  Speaker 1: total right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so you would think and that sounds like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, but on that large swath, like, what
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  Speaker 2: happens in your life point one percent of the time
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  Speaker 2: that you spend that much time talking about you don't
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  Speaker 2: like you don't spend all your time talking about flat tires,
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  Speaker 2: do you?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: You get when you're like, oh I got a flat tire,
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  Speaker 2: you go get it fixed, and then you just don't
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  Speaker 2: think about a flat tire like ever until you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully you're changing your tires out shout out the firestone. No,
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  Speaker 2: but you know what I mean, It's like, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: crazy that we have such a disproportionate amount of talk
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  Speaker 2: about something that if you look in and once again
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  Speaker 2: we don't have official data, that's that's the best estimates
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  Speaker 2: we have. And so you sit there and you go,
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  Speaker 2: hang on a minute, how did we get to the
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  Speaker 2: point where this is like a major political talking point
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  Speaker 2: where it's you know, we don't follow the WNBA, but like, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's like coming up there and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that that's bringing attention to. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you can sit there and go how did we
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  Speaker 2: get here? And for anybody that's ever had a major
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  Speaker 2: failure in their life, you will wonder that same question,
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  Speaker 2: how did I get here? I remember whenever you asked
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  Speaker 2: me why I got depressed, I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: had to really think about it, man, And I eventually
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  Speaker 2: rooted it back to a very small thing and some
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  Speaker 2: very small deviations, And so I think that that's true.
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  Speaker 1: It's really it's one of the most interesting studies. We
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  Speaker 1: looked at some of this in the military when we
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  Speaker 1: were going through When you study like mass casualty events,
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  Speaker 1: things like an aircraft accident, like when an airplane crashes,
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  Speaker 1: they spend millions, if not tens of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: picking that thing apart to understand how could this have happened.
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  Speaker 1: They taught us those in the military when I did
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  Speaker 1: things where we also studied like where really horrible events
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  Speaker 1: like dropping a bomb in the wrong place happened. As
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  Speaker 1: a jtech, we went through like training and who the
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  Speaker 1: people who have like picked picked apart mass casualty events
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  Speaker 1: the most is the FAA. They're kind of they're like
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  Speaker 1: leading experts on analysis of poor decision making, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: they break everything down into like a massive fishbone diagram. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and from the time that that plane, you know, crashes
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  Speaker 1: into the ground, they trace it all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to what was happening before as the plane was taxing,
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  Speaker 1: and they take it back to these tiny little events
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  Speaker 1: and you don't realize the small decisions that you're making,
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  Speaker 1: like what your every decision that you make, you're cutting
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  Speaker 1: off possibilities for good or for bad in the future.
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  Speaker 1: And the way that they show that to us and
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  Speaker 1: then they teach, like what they the whole point of
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  Speaker 1: this exercise is they say, you see ow this plane crash,
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  Speaker 1: and you literally follow the chart backwards to there was
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  Speaker 1: this tiny little rule that doesn't seem like a big
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  Speaker 1: deal that they'd stepped over. Yeah, if you do what
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  Speaker 1: you know is right, this is scripture. This is anyone
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  Speaker 1: who's done dangerous things in their life. Don't step over
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  Speaker 1: what you know is right. Do the little things that
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  Speaker 1: you know are right, and it will save you from harm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not deadly, but it's where my mind went,
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  Speaker 2: and it's probably a lot more relatable for people who
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  Speaker 2: have not done deadly things, which you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what swath of our population that listens to our
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  Speaker 2: podcast has really taken their life in their own hands.
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  Speaker 2: But I like to watch a lot of baseball g
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  Speaker 2: and because of stat cast, now every pitch that happens,
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  Speaker 2: they can tell you based on the player that's up
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  Speaker 2: and the picture what the hit probability is and it
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  Speaker 2: changes every pitch. Ye, so I think it's so.
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  Speaker 1: Fast or has like a two fifty batting average, but
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  Speaker 1: against this picture is like one seventy dude.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But then it's like, oh, if it goes to
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  Speaker 2: one to oh, well, his probability jumps up. If it's
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  Speaker 2: O one, it jumps down. And you see it, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very fascinating because you're watching this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you're in the box, you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: get to two man, you're on defense mode. Like anything
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  Speaker 2: that's near the zone you're gonna swing. And pictures know that.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll throw you a nice slider that looks like
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  Speaker 2: it's going to stay in the zone then drops out,
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  Speaker 2: and so like that's great.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be han solo in the box. Never tell
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  Speaker 1: me the odds.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, there you go, But you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's where you can see it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what if you had that for life? As you're walking
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  Speaker 2: through like like, hey, you're at the gym, you looked
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  Speaker 2: at something, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I think it would make most people just more
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  Speaker 1: fearful and more that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. We don't need death counts on the
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  Speaker 2: news again. Okay, So how to not get manipulate? Ad
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  Speaker 2: G So manipulation you define this in your typical Garrett,
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  Speaker 2: I stare up the ceiling and it just comes to me.
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  Speaker 2: Influence with a negative connotation.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, if you just understand the definition
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  Speaker 1: of manipulation, it doesn't have to be a bad thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: But it's not. But manipulation as a word in culture
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  Speaker 1: has a negative connotation. Like you manipulation is like, well
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  Speaker 1: you made me do something, right, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I can make you do anything. Now. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can physically force someone to do something, but people don't
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  Speaker 1: call that manipulation, right. Manipulation is like you hijacked my brain.
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  Speaker 1: It's your brain, not mine.
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  Speaker 2: There's been many cases argued in the court of law
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  Speaker 2: about false advertising, false claims, it and so like it's
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  Speaker 2: a very legal thing. Yeah, did you manipulate people?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, But manipulation is influenced, correct with a negative connotation,
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  Speaker 1: with a negative connotation.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think it's for us. So in culture, I
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  Speaker 2: think we can all you know, when I gave that
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  Speaker 2: example earlier with trans genderism and the stats as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to how much airtime it.
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  Speaker 1: Receives before we jump onto the jump jump on past
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  Speaker 1: that for example, like, if I help you become a
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  Speaker 1: positive person, if I help you lose weight, are you
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  Speaker 1: going to say you manipulated me? No? Probably not, probably not, like,
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  Speaker 1: but I did, right, So I just I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: this for everyone to get where we're at on this manipulate.
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  Speaker 1: People only say you manipulated me after they don't like
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  Speaker 1: what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but we're warned about it often. I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say, we all think of like because it's
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  Speaker 2: so easy and we're not the hot the Hot Takes podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we're ever going to be the Hot
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  Speaker 2: Takes podcast. But you can see it so much in
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  Speaker 2: American society and in society today as a whole. But man,
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  Speaker 2: this like we've been worn about this. Scripture warns over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over again about false teachers, false prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Matthew seven fifteen through seventeen says, watch out for
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  Speaker 2: false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but
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  Speaker 2: inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit, you will
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  Speaker 2: recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or
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  Speaker 2: figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit,
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  Speaker 2: but a bad tree bears bad fruit. Jesus is saying,
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  Speaker 2: watch out, like they're going to be out there people
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  Speaker 2: who are looking to take advantage of you. Fortunately, g
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  Speaker 2: we have you know. The fruit Test is an episode
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  Speaker 2: that we actually did episode two ninety three. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about how to see the fruit in a person's life,
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  Speaker 2: because wouldn't it be great if you could just instantly
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  Speaker 2: assess fruit? And the truth of matter is you got
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  Speaker 2: to have a little bit of proximity to the person.
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  Speaker 2: You need to know what to look for, and it
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  Speaker 2: takes a little bit of time.
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  Speaker 1: You will know. People buy their fruit. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said. The Lord weighs the heart, and the heart
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  Speaker 1: is such an important matter, and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the heart today. But people know each other by
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  Speaker 1: their fruit. Don't miss this episode two ninety three, going
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  Speaker 1: back to talk about the fruit test. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to those of you who Nick and I
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  Speaker 1: were looking reviewing some of the stats. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say reviewing the stats, it's me asking Nick question questions
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  Speaker 1: at five in the morning, questions about the stats, and
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  Speaker 1: because he is the keeper of the data for The
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, dude, Yeah, any.
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  Speaker 1: Way, well no, I'm sure. Well, I'm sure we'll put
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  Speaker 1: out an app or something for those who have listened
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: to that many episodes too.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: It goes back to what you said from before we
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: start this said, I want everything that we say to
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: stand up for all time. And I at that point
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: realized I was going to say very little. Here we
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: are three hundred and thirty one. Let's get it okay. So,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: like we said, you get warned so often about this,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: and I think it's you know, imagine you're getting ready
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: to say something to the people you love for the
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: very last time. What would you say to them? Most
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: people would be like, man, I love you, thank you,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: like you know you. You would really connect the person.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: When the Apostle Paul is getting ready to go to
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Jerusalem and be arrested, he says to people, for many
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: of you, this will be the last time I see you.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: So what else does he add in there? Well, I'm
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: glad you asked. Acts twenty Verses twenty eight through thirty.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the Church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: in among you and will not spare the flock, even
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: from your own number. Men will arise and distort the
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: be on your guard. Remember that for three years I
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. Man, Like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that's crazy that so much of their message was not
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: just like here's the truth, but also watch out because
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: people are coming to twist, They're coming to manipulate. There's
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: gonna be false prophets, there's gonna be savage wolves. I mean,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I just the amount of times I think it's like
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: virtually in every book they're like, be on guard, these
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: people are coming. And here we are, you know, thousands
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: of years later, and I think manipulation happens all the time.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: And this is not the Hey, we're about to go
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: throw a bunch of rocks at the church and specific
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: people podcast. We don't never do that, but you need
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: to know that manipulation is happening, and we're gonna give
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: you the blueprint. Like Garrett in his very fortunate we
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: have somebody who's got a little bit of experience and
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: understand psychological operations and or psyops if you want to
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: sound cool, And we're gonna break down exactly how manipulation
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: happens and how not to get manipulated and if you're wondering, like, okay,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: truth once again. Just one reference episode was the Danger
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of Deception. How to find truth in a world of illusion.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: You need to know truth. And I look at Garrett,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: It's like, why is Garrett hard to manipulate? Well, it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: hard to manipulate someone who knows who they are, where
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: they're going, and what's right. Like, you love truth, you
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: know who you are, and I've tried to manipulate you,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and like in fun ways, like I remember I fed
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you some things on text and you literally you didn't
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: even respond to what I actually was looking to get you.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Do you just go, don't try and manipulate me. That's
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: why you text me back. I was like, dang it,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you saw straight through it because you know where you're going.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And if I try and divert you a little bit,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you know, you're a very obstinate person, as we've covered,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: which helps you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Well, let's let's just we're gonna get into this here. Yeah,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: because the first question Nick asked me is like, how
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: would you manipulate someone? And I said, well, first, let
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: me tell you how to, you know, not get manipulated.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And we're going to come back to this is going
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to be the end of the show. But that was
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: my first answer to the question. I said, Well, Nick,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: let me tell you why I'm hard a person that
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: is hard to manipulate. I know what I want, I
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: know where I'm going, I know what I want to
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: do with my life, I know who I am. And
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: because of that, it doesn't mean that I won't listen
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to anybody. But if for me to listen to you,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to convince me more than I've
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: convinced myself. And I've spent a lot of time thinking
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: like It's one of the things that Nick thinks it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: funny about me is that I have very formed opinions
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: on everything. If I give you an opinion, it's not
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: something I just thought of.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why it's hard to get mad at
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you for your opinions because they are always well backed.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I've asked you about random stuff and I'm like, man,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that's actually a good point.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, So, if you know who you are, if
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you know where you're going, if you know what you
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: want and why you want it, it's hard for someone
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to pull you in any specific direction. However, if you're
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: missing one of those, if you don't know who you are,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: if you don't know where you're going, if you don't
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: know why you want what you want, or you don't
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have a strong sense of what is right, it's going
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to be very easy for people to pull you in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: a certain Yeah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: One you said this whenever we were when we were
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: preparing you said, if you're seeking change more than the truth,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you put yourself in a position to get manipulated. Really,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: if you're seeking change more than the truth.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And that's where that's where so many people like you
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you fall into a trap of manipulation, not out of
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a desire to truly. If you if you say I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: want to know God, I want to know what's right,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I want to know how the world works, that'll put
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you in a position to make great change. Again, this
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: is one of the dichotomies. It's the one that I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like to reference in proverbs as it relates to wisdom.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It says, don't chase wiz don't chase money, right, but
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: wealth and treasure exists in the house of a wise man.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Don't chase the fruit, but the good tree produces fruit. Right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And in this same sense, if you're at I just
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I just want to lose weight. I just want to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: be rich. I just want all these things. You're so
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: prone to be manipulated. Now, if you'd understand, I do
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: want these things. But before I proceed, I want to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: know how to get there. I want to know what works.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I want to know what are the principles that governed
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: outcomes as it relates to money, What are the principles
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that government outcomes as it relates to weight loss? And
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: if you'll seek truth before you seek change, you're not
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: going to be manipulated. But those who are saying it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and it can come from a good heart, can come
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: from a good place. Like man, I'm just I'm just
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: sick and tired. And this is what a lot of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: people say. You got to get to the I'm sick
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and tired of. If you want things to change, and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: things will change, but they won't necessarily change for the better,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you've got to decide I want the truth more than
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I want to change but if you are someone who
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: says I'll do whatever it takes a change, I just
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: want to change, and you want that more than the truth,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you're setting yourself up to be manipulated.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, seeking the wrong thing, right? And what you said,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I just want to feel better, you know, I don't
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: want any more pain. I'm tired of being broke.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Or running from pain or running towards pleasure. Yea, these
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: are also manipulation paths.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, okay, so we got to get we got
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: to go into this because this is going to make
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: sense in about give us four minutes.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And let me just finish that thought. Yeah, right, if
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: running from pain or running towards pleasure are the manipulation paths,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and we take you'll appreciate this, and we take what
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I said is the definition of manipulation. Right. If I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: get you to the right place, you're not gonna say
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm manipulated you, right, Okay? And if you end up
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: on your purpose, you have not been manipulated. But and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and what if we if you if you're a listener here,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you know we've talked about this before. You can run
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: from pain, you can run towards pleasure. These are finite loops.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They are loser loops. But the best loop that you
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: can be on is the path of running towards your purpose,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: which is not about running from pain or running towards pleasure. Right,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And as I'm saying is if you want to not
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: be manipulated, end up on like, if you chase after
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: your purpose, you're not going to end up being manipulated.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: And we got a lollt episodes on purpose. I don't
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: have all the references handy, okay, So gee, we're gonna
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: get into the manipulation blueprint, which is what Garrett answered
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: me with whenever I said how would you manipulate somebody?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: And you basically said, I would take the Devil's Playbook,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: which is the ultimate manipulator.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: But it took me about three minutes through it. Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So the blueprint scripture though, because we're always founded on scripture,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and this is going to give you all the clues
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: and then we'll just lay it out for you. Two
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Timothy four, three through four. For the time will come
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: when people will not put up with sound doctrine instead
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to suit their own desires, they will gather around them
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a great number of teachers to say what their itching
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: from the truth and turn aside to myths. And we
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: are going to extrapolate the points for manipulation right here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: So very first thing, I said, gee, what would you do?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And you came back and you said, I would ask
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that I would find out what I need one key
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: piece of intel.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: If there's any person like whoever it is, because I
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: thought about, because we're going to cover this in both ways,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: how do I manipulate someone? But then how to not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: be manipulated? And as I was thinking through this, it's like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just take a person. It's like, if I want
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to manipulate this person, the most important piece of information
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that I can know about you is what do you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: want most? Right? Right? And so when in culture or
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: in capitalism, and you know the dark side of capitalism,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: because I believe in the greatness and the truth of capitalism,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: but they're certainly a dark side of it. It is
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a place where greed can take advantage of people, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: it's also a place where great product can be created,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: where people can be served well. And I would rather
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: have a free society and give good the chance to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: overcome evil. Than try to just live in a world
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of you know, well, we can't have the good, so
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: let's just throw it all out. But anyway, it's not
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: going to talk about capitalism, capitalism and communism right now.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: But if I knew what someone wanted most, and this
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is what companies will do. It's like, I know what
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you want. You just want to lose weight so bad.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Now that I know what you want the most, easy
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: for me to get you. And they speak to these
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: people like who gets sold the crap product? It's people
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: who can be manipulated. It's people who don't know the truth.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You'll do anything. You're sick and tired of be in fat.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You'll do anything to change. Great. You are my customer
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: because after you know what they want, I'm not here
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to help you. I'm here to sell you something.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Right man. Anyways, you're speaking into my world now. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'm very careful about this because I actually hate min
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: it peop of marketing. And I've worked for a lot
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: of different companies, some of which I've removed myself from,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: which I won't speak about publicly, but because I once
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I realized what they did, it was not righteous. But anyways,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: so what do you want most. And then the second
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: one you said is just twisting the truth.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Just change it a little bit, okay, because people people
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: have a general idea God has made as this way,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and truth still exists in society, right, but you can
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: bend the truth and turn it into something that's very evil. Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: And this is also again we're not just I'll just
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: hit some examples here, not always trying to hit on
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: these things. But when you talk about or when you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: see what's happening in culture today, like what's how is
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: culture being hijacked? Well, we've taken words and changed the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: meaning of them. For example, equality, It's written in the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: governing documents of this country that people would essentially have
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the ability to have equal opportunity, not equal outcomes, but
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: taken equality and made it mean equal outcomes. Okay, so
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you start changing the definition of words and you can
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: change everything. So, but it's twisting the truth a little bit.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And you do this through continuous repetition of false statements.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And when you allow these things that aren't true to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: continue to exist. When it's when just one person is
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: saying it or you're hearing it one time, that's a thing.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: But when you've heard it hundreds of times and thousands
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of times in either you or a community or a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: culture has allowed these half truths to exist. This is
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the same as standards. Standards aren't what you say, it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: what you allow. And when you have allowed the definition
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of words to change, that has become the new cultural truth.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It may not be what is really true, but it
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: has become cultural truth. And cultural truth is what everyone
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: generally believes and accepts, and that is the secular definition
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of truth. What is the majority of people saying is right? Well,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that's what's right. That is I mean truly, that is secularism.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: This is what everyone believes, so it must be right.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That's not true. Right. You've got to understand what truth is,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and you can also test truth by the fruit that
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it produces. What has the seeking equal outcomes for everyone produced?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It hasn't gotten us any further to equal outcomes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: You could even say it's taking us the opposite direction.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: But when you know what people want most, then you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: begin to twist the truth a little bit. And you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: can do this in any category, whether it's just and what.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Always come back to this because it's such a common
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: theme and a easy one to pick. At because I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: don't think it bothers. Anybody is, you know, fitness and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: nutritional supplements. This is part of all of our lives.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We all buy nutritional products and fitness supplements and things
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like that, and you can begin to twist the truth
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: by you know, it's like, well, yeah, well of course
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I want to eat healthy ingredients. But then let me
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: take that a little bit further and let me start
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to tell you, well, this thing's toxic or this thing's bad,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and it's like, well, it is bad, but it's bad
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: if you, you know, eat a thousand times the normal
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: daily can some r right this thing. But I'm not
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: going to talk about that. We're just gonna talk about
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: how this thing is.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Evil and over and over and over again. I know
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: this to be true because when brands want to get
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: themselves to be awareness the broad range, I've heard anywhere
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: from twelve to thirty two impressions before somebody will actually
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: remember who you are. So think about how many times
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you have to continue to repeat this manipulated, twisted truth
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: for people to finally start to accept it the way
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you said, and it becomes quote unquote truth is that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: they believe and they accept it right. It takes a
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: lot of impressions that repetition is important, it's an important part.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: But then once you twist the truth a little bit,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: here's this is where the inception happened. Inception happens. Okay,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: if you've watched the movie Inceptions, such a great movie,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: because in our intro it is I appreciate that movie
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: great for many reasons, some of Christopher Nolan's best work.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But essentially the concept there is it's very hard to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: plant an idea in someone's head. They have to believe
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: that the idea is their own. Yeah, okay, And this
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: is where inception happens. In manipulation is when you add
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: emotion to it. It's like I've been giving you all
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: this information, but as soon as you attach your own
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: feelings to it, now it's yours. Because that's the sensation
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that you'd like you to attached to your identity. It
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: becomes a part of who you are. As soon as
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you start fighting for this thing you send, you get
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a feeling of injustice, you get a feeling of love
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: or helping another person, or like, you know, whatever strong
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: emotion you can think of that becomes your strong emotions
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: become attached to a half truth. You have now been manipulated.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: You've taken on that idea as your own.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and think about that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: So if you tie in the emotion and then then
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: now the like you said, the manipulated person, they run away,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: they feel the fire for you. It's the best thing
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: you could have. It's like how to take somebody from
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't care to an extremist. Is you
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: just gave those four steps. Here's a large cultural area
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: where we saw this. Racism in this country was like
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the hot topic. And if you look back, you start
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: off with a lot of different things starting to happen
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: about how cops are racist, how you know, and it
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: was and then you started it would always blow up
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: with like look at this reel, this this poor person,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: this poor black person, typically was a black person and
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: this white cop. And so you would get little pieces
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and you would get these little stories and things would
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: just be covered by the news and they would blow
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: up a little bit. And so what is that you
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: twist the truth cops are racist? And like you would
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: always get the people that are going, hey, there, I
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: remember what's his name? Who's the guy that did the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: ten thousand hours. Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell did a study
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: on this. He said, there's twenty five million traffic stops
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a year in the US, and so when you actually
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: look at the stats, there's nothing to back up that
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: there's racism from a statistical standpoint. But we're not looking
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: at statistics, right, because, like you said, it's what people accept.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: So if you start seeing these stories when the George
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Floyd incident happened, which no one is defending, like what
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: happened there was awful, But when that happened, what did
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: that do?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: That was the emotional emphasis that went on to how
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: many I don't even know thousands of reps that can
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: happen on social media and in the news to suddenly convince.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: People it's the truth is when you make an outlier
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of generalization. Correct, Okay, yes this cop might have been racist. Yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: does not mean cops are racist.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Correct, But you start pouring the fuel on the fire
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: over and over again, and then you get the one
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: big one, right, and now everybody's up in arms, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: what do they do? We should defund the police? And
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: what do people campaign off of? We're for you?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And now it's now you've you're on that line, and people,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: masses of the population are being manipulated based on something
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: that's not.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Actually people become a part of the emotional fire when
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: they never went back so well. Another great example for
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: this is Charlie Kirk. Right, Okay, there's this great video.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I should know the guy's name because I've seen hi
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: multiple times, but there's this great video that's going around
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: social media of this guy who was on on the left,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and when he first heard that Charlie Kirk had died,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: he's like good, Like he's like good, you know, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: said a bunch of horrible things about the guy. He's like,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that's how I felt when someone told me that Charlie
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Kirk was assassinated, and he said, I had like an
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: epiphany in that moment. It's like I don't even know
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: this person, Like who am I becoming that I would
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: celebrate that this person was assassinated and it took And
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: what he realized is like, I don't actually even know
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the guy. All I know is what people have told
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: me about this person. And this guy's completely flipped over
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the other side and is you know, a great supporter
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of Charlie's content and basically after Charlie died. Having felt
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that way about Charlie when he died, went and watched
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of his content and was changed by Charlie's content. Yeah,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: well that's amazing.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: And you know, we use the big ones because I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: think when you look at it and you realize how
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: masses are manipulated, you see the framework. Let's give a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: smaller one that will relate to virtually anybody, whether you're
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: in the United States or not. Well, I'm a marketer,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: g and unfortunately, like I said, there's a manipultive marketing
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: and you touched on it earlier. Those good old healthy
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: energy drinks, man, we all love them. You can all
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: think of whatever brand is your favorite one right now.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how many are actually healthy, but gee,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: they might market themselves.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: They're healthy, bro. I read the marketing on their website.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: They've done studies, you know, science sixty percent of the time.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It works every time. So what do you want? I
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: want to look great? Who doesn't want to look great?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: We all want to be in better shape. We want
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: to be healthier, we want to be thinner, we want
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to be leaner. So what do you do that's what
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: do you want? Now, I know what you want. You
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: want to look great, you want to be leaner. So
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: how do I twist the truth? Well, when combined with exercise,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: our formula is clinically proven to boost your metabolism and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: help you burn body fat. That's taken directly from one
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of these websites. I'm not going to shout out which
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: one it is. That's exactly what they said. And they
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: talk about thermogenics right, which man, thermogenics will help you
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: burn more calories. So they're starting to feed you a
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: portion of like what it is now. I actually spoke
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to one of the scientists. I spoke to them last week.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, who's clinic.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Well, no, it was University of Oklahoma. It was a
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: well known research, like it was a respected study. But
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: here's what he said. And I spoke like, this is
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: a doctor who I'm working with on a whole other venture.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I highlight this drink company, and he said, yeah, that
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: was I was actually at the labs when they were
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: doing this. I was one of the subjects that was
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: used in that study because it was done like thirteen
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: fourteen years ago. And so what it is is ge
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you and I are going to do workout. I'm going
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: to drink this energy drink. You're not. And then they're
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: going to measure how much I burn. Well, I burn
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: thirty more calories, right.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got a bunch of caffeine and sugar
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and you got up and moved around more. And it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: also a paid study, right, But it's not a net
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: effect of person who drinks the drink and person who
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't do the drink does the exact same workout, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: one person burns more calories. Right, Well, it's got to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: drink the drink and he burn more calories, but you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: shot them up with meth and he ran twenty lapse
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: on the truck.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Who knew? Right, But you get my point. So now
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: we can say with a clinical study that I burn
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: more calories than you did when I drank this drink.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: And it's true. Now we don't say how much, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: certainly burning thirty more calories is not going to change
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: your life at all, but now it's true. So now
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: we repeat it over and over again. Man, this is
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the thermogenic And you use a term that people don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: use unless you're like in boilers, unless you're in like
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the heating industry. You don't use the term thermogenics unless
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: you're a scientist or in a very small industry. So
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, thermallyrogenics sounds complicated, twisted language, repeated over
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and over again, and then tie in the motion, man,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: feel great, great.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Elogenics is such a buzzword that well, it goes back
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to like some of the supplements like a phedron that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: people used to say, yeah, which is essentially i'll burn calories,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: but I don't have to work out exactly. People love
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: that idea, like, oh, I just got to turn up
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the furnace in my body, right, my body will burn
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the calories itself and I can sit on the couch
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: with a thermogenic effect. Yeah, dude, because it's not me,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's my metabolist.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Obviously, it's not my fault.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Bro, Don't you know That's that's one of the nasty
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: half truths of And again right to my point of
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: changing the definition of words, Oh, like, oh, I just
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: need a better furnace, I need a better metabolism, I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: need a better I need thermogenics. And if I just
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you know, you understand half of what these things mean.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: If you understood what they really mean, you wouldn't be
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: able to be manipulated.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Right, So I feel great, I look great, it tastes great. Man,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I'm more focused like all these things that like all
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, these idealized lifestyle they don't. I'll never
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: show somebody who's like one hundred pounds overweight drinking one
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: of these things. In the ads. It's always somebody that has,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of course the idealized life. And then what happens you
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: take you drink it, and of course because it has
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: two hundred milligrams of caffeine, you feel the boost. And
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: now what is what's happened?
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: You? Just you run?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: You feel the fire? Dude, these things make me feel
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: so much better, like I do I have to when
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I have these things. I've noticed it. Man, when I
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: go to the gym, like I can feel it. Oh,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: off you go. And you know what these are million
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: tens of millions. I mean, the energy drink market a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: billion dollar plus industry. I haven't done the research, but man,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the amount of energy drinks that are sold awesome, right,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: and so like this is this happens all the time
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I use energy drink.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: An obvious one billion dollar brands built in eighteen months
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and twenty four months in the energy drink space. So yeah,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: there might be some people that are a little attempted
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to bend the truth.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hate that that's the case, but that
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: happens all the time in marketing products. Can we say
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: this without it being without it being a complete lie?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, because technically it's true. Great, that's our marketing slogan.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And it's it's wrong. It's it's just absolutely wrong. Happens
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: all the time. So whether we're talking about masses of
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: populations being manipulated for political gain or whether we're talking
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: about just hey, spend two ninety nine of my energy drink,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it happens all the time. So gee, we talked about
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and just to repeat them again, the manipulation blueprint is
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: what you want most and you desire, Then you twist
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the truth with an ad repetition, tie in emotion, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: then let the manipulated person fuel the fire. That's the
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: four ways it happens. So how do we not get manipulated?
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Because that's what we really want, This is.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: What we really want. How to not be manipulated? If
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you want to be a person who I can't say,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I can make you bulletproof in this, but I can
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: give you a bulletproof vest and take it. That's not perfect,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: but it helps a lot and it'll change the way
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: that you live. You want to be someone that, like
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: we talked about in the beginning, I know who I am,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I know what's right, I know where I'm going. Right,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: So let me give you just a formula for how
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to not be manipulated. Most important thing? Right, If I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: want to manipulate you, what do I need? I just
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: need to know what you want the most? And if
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you want to be someone who is very hard to manipulate,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: it the most important thing for you. Scripture talks about
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it often. Guard your heart. Guard your heart with all diligence,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: for from it flow the issues of life. Proverbs for
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: twenty three. You need to know what you are chasing
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: after and why are you chasing after it? Okay, the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: thing that you want most in your life, and be
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: careful again. You know people say it, and it's true.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You got to get to that place of I'm sick
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and tired of being sick and tired, right, sick and
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: tired of being fat, sick and tired to be important
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: sick and tired of whatever. Get to that place. But
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: be careful as you get to that place, because sometimes
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that I don't even want to call it boldness, I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: would want to call that just that zeal. In a moment,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: it'll lower your your wisdom barrier, it'll lower your You're
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: just like I'll do I'll run through brick walls. I'll
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: do whatever it takes. And you think that that's what's
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: going to get you what you want. Right, I was
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: unmotivated before. Now I'm really motivated. You need to remember
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: one of the most important things in life, and this
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: is a great reminder, effort does not equal outcome. Just
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: because you want it really bad, just because you try
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: really hard doesn't mean you're going to succeed. Right. The
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: race is not to the swiftest, says Scripture, and victory
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: does not go to the person who's sweat the most. Okay,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: you also need to know what's right. But before we
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: get there, it's guard your heart, and that multiple times
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: in Scripture it talks about guarding your heart, guarding yourself.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I want to give you this thought of Okay, what
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: does that mean? Okay? Guard is what's the Bible really saying?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Guard your heart. Right, I'll make it simple. Be careful
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what you want, be careful why you want what you want.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Let me give you a thought that'll maybe stick with
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you as it relates to guarding your heart. Okay, well
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: what does it mean to guard? Okay, we don't live
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: in a place where there's like city guards anymore. But
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: what did city guards do back in the day as
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: anyone was entering the city? Why are you here? State
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: your business? Right, like, what did you come here to do?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean that the city guards like can
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: do a background check, but you know what, they're going
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: to look a person in the eye, ask him a question,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Look at all the things
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: that they got with them and see if that checks out. Yeah,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: it's like border crossing now, yeah, yeah, they're gonna at
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: least make an attempt. You know, if you go into
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: a bar, there's a bouncer there, one's gonna check your
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: ID and then he's gonna he's gonna look at you
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and like, are you here to cause trouble? And if
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you even look kind of shady, he's gonna say, hey, look,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: here's the rules. Don't do any of this or you're
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: gonna find me right right, state your business, and I
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: would say, have the same thing about what you let
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: into your desire center in life? Right when some like
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: do you just let stuff come into your city? Right? Right?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Do you just let stuff come? Well? I saw this thing,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I really like that. Yeah, state your business?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Why are you here? Guard your heart? That's what it means,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: to guard your heart with all diligence you need. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: you've got to get to a place. And I love
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: programs and systems that help people do this where you
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: can find it the hard way or you can find
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: it the right way. But you've got to get to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a place where you're submitted before the Lord and you say, Lord,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I want what you want. Yeah, okay, And once you
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: find yourself from that place, you must guard your heart
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: with all diligence.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Very very good. I did think about the border crossing
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: because being a young man growing up in southern California,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I did dip down into Mexico and there Tequana for sure.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: And when you come back across Man. I had a
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: guy who messed with me once. He's like that car
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: in front of you because it was my friends. He's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: like they said you had some weed on you, and
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I was like, he caught me out. So I was
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: like what. I was like, why would he say that?
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, I don't have that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I don't even I've never even tried that. And my
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: friend in the past she's like, no, it's true. Man,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: he's pretty straight. He doesn't do any of that. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: then the guard like, so he messed with us. He
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: asked us like two more questions, and I was like,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I was like, I swear. I was like, they wouldn't
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: say that, and he's like, all right, you can go.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Didn't even I was he must have just been laughing
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: because like he had me, oh yeah, well you know what, dude.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I I just thought you're not who he's looking for.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I thought he was just good, Like I was gonna
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: show my idea and he was gonna look at me
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and like I was like, all right, yeah, you can go,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: and instead he was like, let's have some fun. Well
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: there you go. So you need to guard your heart
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: like that state your business, all right, So we've guarded
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: our heart. G What's number two.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Number two is to know the truth. Like we said earlier,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: if you want to change more than you want to
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: know the truth, you're probably going to get manipulated. Man.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you can't want to change, but guard
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: your heart. Right again, there's nothing wrong with wanting money, right,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But if you chase after it, it's like, hey, i'd
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: like to be successful too, right, I'd like to be
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: able to take care of my family. I'd like to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: be able to be generous. That's great. But if it's
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: what you want most and you start looking past all
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: these important things, you're going to end up being manipulated.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Number two is to know the truth. This is what
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Scripture says Proverbs chapter fourteen, verse fifteen. The simple believe everything,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: but the prudent gives thought to his steps and what
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: is it? And the Bible talks about the truth, and
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: it says Bible says, to know the truth. Jesus says,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I am the way, I am the truth. I am
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the life. Jesus is the truth. Right, And so really,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: what it means to know the truth is to know him.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Everything should fit into this is. You can laugh at this,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: call it cheesy, but it really is that this is
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: the way everything should fit. The more you know Christ,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the more you're going to know what you should and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: shouldn't do right. The more you're going to know what's possible,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the more you're going to know is acting. If you
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: can look at something and say acting that way, it
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: would not be into christ like nature. Now you've got
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to have way more than an elementary Sunday school understanding
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of what it means to be Christ Like. But the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: more you know Him, the easier it's going to be
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: for you, in any situation to say, no, that's not right,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: that's not what's true. Ephesians Chapter four, verses twelve through fourteen.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: To equip the saints for work of ministry and to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: build up the body of Christ, until we all reach
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Son of God, as we mature to full measure of
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the stature of Christ. That's what God wants for us.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: But this is what it says verse fourteen. Then we
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: and carried around by every wind of teaching and by
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming. Okay,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the more you get built up, the more you get equipped,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the more you pursue God. When I'm living in righteous obedience,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: faithful living towards God. It's going to be very hard
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: for me to be manipulated. I have but like, why
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: is the Bible so important in our life? Because it
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't change, Okay, And if I really know it and
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: understand it, then I'm going to be able to live
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: a life that's consistent. And being manipulated is just being
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: taken from one side to the other side. And this
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: is what we've seen in culture, this is what you've
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: seen in the marketplace, that people get taken from one
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: place to the next place in the next place, and
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: they are sheep led to the slaughter because they are
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: not in charge of their destiny. They're just following every
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  Speaker 1: single whim. So what you've got to do is know
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And to know the truth really is to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: know Christ. And this is also no I would say
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: in the word that I love to get to because
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I've studied it is the Greek word ganasco, which means
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: to know through intimacy. Okay, this is you know, if
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: some people who come to mighty Men, or you listen
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: to my messages online or you listen to this podcast,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to seminary, Okay, I don't have an
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: education in a formal manner, and to some groups of
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: people that would completely you know the fine. I can't
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: listen to this guy because he didn't go to seminary.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: But you know what, I've also met the people who
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: went to seminary. I met people in the military that
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: had had their masters in theology and people that went
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: to seminary. And not only do they not display the fruit,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: they're not even following God. Okay, now they might do
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: better on like a difficult test of theology or a
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: test of the Bible. They might answer questions better than me,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: But who is living it differently?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: And so just because you know, like this is what
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I'm this is what I'm resetting here to know the truth,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: It's not just having the information in your head. Jesus said,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: turn away from me. I never knew you. And what
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: he's saying is not that I didn't have knowledge of you.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Of course, God knows all of us, knows the hairs
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: on our head. Said he never let you, never let
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: me change who you are. To know the truth isn't
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to be able to pass the test, to get the
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: right answer on the test, but that you've lived it
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and when I have lived the truth, when I've walked
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: in it, and to walk in it, you're gonna have
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: to have some faith. You've got to test it. It's like, man, yeah,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I know this is what God's word says, but taking
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: this next step is going to be scary. When you
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: have done that, when you've had some faithful courage and
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you've tested the truth, you know how hard it's going
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: to be to manipulate you. But if you are a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: fearful person, it's like, man, I know this what the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Bible says, but that seems scary. And this option over here,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you know they're making a really good offer. You're going
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: to get manipulated over and over and over again. And
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: so I would just summarize this by saying, you've got
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to know the truth. But to know the truth means
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: not only do you have the information, but that you've
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: lived in it, you've had some courage to walk with it.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: And it's Colossians chapter two, verse six, threugh eight. Therefore,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: just as you have received Christ, Jesus is the Lord,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: continue to walk in him, rooted and built up in him,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: with thankfulness. See to it. Okay, what does that mean.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: It means it's your job. Yeah, see to it that
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: of the world rather than on Christ. Okay, if it's
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: in Christ, if you're walking with God, if you're living
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: who he is and what He's called us to, and
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you've seen the fruit of that in your life, you're
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: going to be very hard to manipulate.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one gee of know the truth is such
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: a sobering one because it's not I don't I don't
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: think it always. It definitely doesn't feel good all the
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: time because just think because when you when you you
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: gave some examples, and it's just hit me. I think
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: about how many people out there want good things. They
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: want to please God, they want to make more money,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: they want to have a better marriage. And so what
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: that does is that sets you up for like, Hey,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I've got you know, a fourteen day program that's going
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: to give you the marriage of your dreams. I've got
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: you know this investment that's going to give you ten
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: X and all these different things are Hey, I've got this,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: this this deliverance thing that's going to make you instantly
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: never want to sin it again.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Remember the people who if you're seeking me how to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: change your marriage in fourteen days, you're in the category
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of I want to change more than I want to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: know the truth?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Right, And but that's what I'm saying. But these things
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: come from a good place. And that's like, like I said,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I want to please God. Well I've got this deliverance thing.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: You come to it, and then when you're done, like man,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you just won't want to sin anymore. Here's all these examples.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Of people are the people who are the people who
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: actually get healthy. They're the people who go to their
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: doctor and the doctor says, well, here, just take this
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and say, no, it's not what I asked, Right, what's
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the root of the problem, correct? Why am I having
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: to come see you in the first place. I know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I know you're saying, if I take that pill, it'll
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: make my pain go away. But why do I have
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: the pain in the first place? Those are the people
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: who get healthy, And that's the mindset that you have
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to have if you want health and free them in
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: any area of your life.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because what truth would tell you whenever all those
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: things pop up, is you would go like, you know what,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: God's a god a process God. God's a God of eternity,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: which means it could take a lifetime. God's God of principle. Okay,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: God gave me a body? How do I strengthen it?
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: While I eat, I breathe, I drink water. I do
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: these things every day. So how else am I going
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to change by doing little things all the time. And
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: it's the same for finances. It's the same for your marriage.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: You know how your marriage is going to get better.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: You are going to get better, right, you have better ingredients,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: you get a better outcome as far as the actual
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: dish that you prepare, it's the same for your marriage.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: The ingredients matter. And that, like I said in the moment,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: that feels terrible because what it means is it's not
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: going to be instant. But man, if you can actually
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: understand the truth, like you said, now, you're not going
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: to be manipulated and you're actually on the road to
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: real change. So what's number three?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: G So these first two are the big ones. Okay,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: guard your heart, know the truth, do that every single day.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: And you said this, and I want to say it again,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: you're literally just going the opposite of because remember the
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: manipulation blueprint is what do you want most? Well, we
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: said guard your heart from what you want most. The
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: next one is twisting truth? So what was the actual
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: not to be really not to be manipulated? Know the truth?
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I just I'm just highlighting when you know,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the same way that Satan tried to twist the truth
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: to Jesus, and Jesus split the truth back to him.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: He didn't just know what it says, he knew what
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: it meant. Right.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: And so if number three of manipulation is tie in
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: some emotion, what's number three for not to be?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Number three is equanimity. Okay, we have an entire episode
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: on this, Nicole, tell you what it is here in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: just a second. You should see the look on his
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: face right now. But Proverbs, let me just give you
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a couple of scriptures, and I'm going to talk about
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: equanimity briefly, but we have a whole episode on this.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty five, verse twenty eight, A man without self
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: A man without self control, Remember we talked about guard
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: your heart. If you are someone that does not have
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: self control, you are a man without walls. Things are
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: just penetrate, reading into your mind and into your heart.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Proverbs sixteen thirty two. Whoever is slow to anger is
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: than he who takes the city. You have to be
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: able to govern yourself, and one of those is equanimity. Okay,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: what is equanimity? Equanimity? It is self governance. Equanimity is
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: what it's two words together, aqueous animity. These two things
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: means calm mind. That you can keep yourself any calm mind,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: not over elated or over depressed. Is the way it's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: defined that you don't get too excited and like freaked
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: out about something because you know what, Like I can
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: manipulate you through pain, I can also manipulate you through
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: pleasure or excitement. Oh man, I just thought it was
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: such a good deal. Yeah, you just sold your soul
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: son right. You bought off on the wrong product because
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: you were too excited. You have to be able to
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: calm your mind, at least if you're going to be
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: in a decision mode. Maybe you just need you know,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you're a hype person. You want to feel some don't
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: be making it. You know, you gotta take the decision making.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Leave your wallet at home if you're gonna go hype.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Leave your wallet at home if you're going to go
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: to the hype conference, right right. But essentially you have
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: to have a calm mind. Equanimity they taught us and
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the Seal teams is where this word came from. There's
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: not a lot of ten dollars words in the ninety
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: but this was one of them. Equanimity for us as
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: you don't panic when you're getting shot at, right, okay,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: because you know what that is. If I'm shooting at you,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to manipulate you. I want you to run
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: away from me. I'm gonna shoot at you, okay. And
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: literally what you have to be able to do is Okay,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I know my training, I know my mission, I know
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: what I'm capable of. I know I've got cover in
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: front of me, and I'm gonna kneel here behind this cover,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: take a second, come up with a plan, and I'm
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: gonna maneuver on the enemy. They're shooting at me. They're
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: trying to manipulate me to run away, and I'm going
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to continue to do what I know to do. That
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: is the power of equanimity. Yeah, I'm going to run
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: towards the gunfire.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Episode fifty eight. We also don't recommend running towards gunfire
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: if you're not heavily trained. So just as I know,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: all right, So episode fifty eight was equanimity. That was
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: number three g number four in the mapulation.
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  Speaker 1: Last last here, last step is to test it right
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  Speaker 1: first Thessalonians, chapter five, verse twenty one. But test everything
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: that is said, hold on to what is good? Okay?
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: What does it mean to test this word? And the
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: new testament is to is docamo? And I've talked about
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: this before. The DoCoMo was a person back then who
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: tested counterfeit money. He would take it. It looks like it,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Let me test it and see if it's true, right, okay?
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: And okay? To do how do you test something? Well,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to know the truth first, and you're
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: also gonna have to be able to say what does
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the truth produce? Here? What is the fruit of a
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: good tree? Right? Man? An apple tree might look like
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: a really good tree. It might look all healthy, The
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: apple might look good, but you know what good fruit is?
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna walk up to this thing and cut it open.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Looks all right, let me take a bite. Okay, that's
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: a good tree. Right. You know how to test something.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: You want to say, well it looks like it, or
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: well this guy knows a lot about apple trees and
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: he said it's a good tree. No, test it, yeah,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: test it. This is where so many people get misled.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: They outsource the work that they're called to do. Right.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, well this guy said, or you know the other.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: It's the question your parents ask you all the time
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: if all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you jump off a bridge? And my response to my
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: parents often was well, I'm usually the first one to
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: jump off a bridge and they're all following me.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: I reject your entire.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Premise, but test everything that is said, hold on to
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: what is good or as my dad said, Dad would say,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: if the shoe fits, wear it. And so we'll talk
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: about this more. As I was getting into this point,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm going to talk
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: about testing more. So I'm not going to get into
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: all of it today. But you've got to test the word.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: You've got to test the fruit of what people are saying,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: And how are you going to be able to do that?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Because because you know the word like literally, you know
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: what the scriptures say about what is right, about what
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: is true. And I'll tell you another way that you're
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: going to be able to test is have good people
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: around you. Be a part of a good community. Okay.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: You can't know everything, you can't do everything. Be on
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: a great team where you know what I may not like,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: for example, if I wanted to, like, I'm pretty sharp,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: but I don't know everything as it relates to marketing, okay,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: especially like the technical side of marketing. Now, the principle
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and philosophy side of marketing, I'm pretty good there, but
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: there's also there's a technical side. It's like I don't
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: have this skill set. Okay, And I know Nick. I
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: know Nick is a person, I know Nick's character. I
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: also know the fruit of what Nick has produced in business.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: So you know what I can do. I can just
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: ask Nick. Right, That is a practical example of how
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I can test something. Now what I do like more
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: than me trying to like Nick might show me the
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: math of like the technical side of marketing, and I'm
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: not smart enough to know. But I know Nick I
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: knows character, and I've seen what Nick is already produced.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Now I can have him help test, help me test something. Okay,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: So have great people around you, be a part of
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: a great community. You can use this to test any
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: wisdom in your life. Test things in marriage, test things
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: in business. Decide that you're going to be someone that's
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: not going to be manipulated. And I would just I'm
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: not going to paraphrase all the points here, but I
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: would just remind you with all diligence, guard your heart.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Don't let things creep into your mind. Don't let things
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: creep into your life without you having a clear understanding
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: of where does this want to take me? What does
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: this want to do to me? You need to know
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: who you are, You need to know who God is.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: You need to know what you want and decide you're
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: not going to be someone who can be manipulated.
• 55:44
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