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Secrets to Self-Control with Drew Dyck & Redeeming Time as Worship with Alex McFarland · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: and crew.
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  S2: Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome what seems
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  S2: impossible and live as you never imagined.
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  S1: Start your morning with a laugh.
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  S2: Cold spaghetti is great. Okay.
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  S3: Okay, I disagree. I guess not. No, I guess certainly
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  S3: it is not. No. Okay, well, man, I'm going back.
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  S2: To my bachelor days. I guess I thought cold spaghetti
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  S2: was universally loved.
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  S4: I've never been known for, like, high levels of coordination.
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  S4: That's just. It feels like.
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  S2: I've never been known for high levels of coordination.
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S4: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available
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  S4: and you're forfeiting your soul. There's no amount of gain
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  S4: that would make it worth it.
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  S5: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
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  S5: the life source, which is God.
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  S6: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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  S6: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
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  S6: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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  S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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  S1: and crew. Oh.
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  S2: I blew it, I blew it.
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  S5: What are you talking about?
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  S6: What'd you do?
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  S3: Blew it. Uh. Oh.
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  S2: But I got a big green monster and a big
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  S2: blue monster where they don't belong. This morning.
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  S5: Bummed out a big green monster and a big blue monster.
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  S5: Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster.
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  S2: Yeah. Hopefully they pop out and entertain my neighbors because
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  S2: they probably aren't entertained right now. I'll tell you, I
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  S2: missed my garbage day. I'm a day ahead of time,
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  S2: and that's why I walk in here this morning. I'm like,
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  S2: It's Wednesday, right? It's time for. Ali thinks it's funny.
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  S5: No, it is not.
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  S3: That's what I was certain of.
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  S2: And then I'm finding out. No it's not. And I'm like, oh,
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  S2: I know why I got messed up. My bride gets
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  S2: so excited about getting the trash out. Like really excited.
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  S2: Every once in a while, she'll jump the gun. And
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  S2: this last night, she did. So she's like. And I,
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  S2: you know, when my bride tells me it's time to
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  S2: get the trash out. I'm like, you got it. So
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  S2: I walked downstairs, hauled the green blue monster out to
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  S2: the road. And I look around and I'm like, there's
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  S2: no one else out here.
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  S3: MM. Huh?
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  S5: I wonder.
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  S3: I'm first.
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  S2: You know what I was thinking? They're slacking.
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  S3: They're slacking.
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  S5: You're like.
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  S3: I'm like, my neighbors are slacking.
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  S4: So do you have a homeowner's association where you're going
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  S4: to get, like, a note.
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  S3: That says, no.
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  S2: They won't give me a note. They're good about that,
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  S2: but they'll give me a nod like, what's going on?
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  S4: Get those things back in some of those homeowners associations,
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  S4: like they police you like.
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  S2: On that kind.
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  S3: Of stuff. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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  S5: 100%.
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  S4: Like if you're, if you have like a car that's
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  S4: parked a little bit on over the sidewalk.
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  S2: Well, you're in trouble with that one.
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  S5: A little bit over the sidewalk.
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  S4: Well, that's no, like if you If you have your.
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  S2: That's. Ali.
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  S3: Hold it, hold it. Time out.
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  S2: We have to digress here a moment. Ali's ability to
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  S2: back into a slot. She can do almost everything in
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  S2: life wonderfully except getting a car into a slot without
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  S2: it being totally cockeyed.
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  S4: It's.
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  S3: That's fair.
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  S2: I mean, I'm not picking on you.
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  S4: No, no, no, the great irony is that I'm actually
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  S4: really good at parallel parking, because you can't live in
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  S4: Chicago and not.
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  S3: Be good.
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  S4: At parallel parking.
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  S6: That's a good point.
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  S4: But getting in between the lines in parking spots is
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  S4: for some reason, way harder for me. I have a
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  S4: hard time. And so I always I'm always too far.
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  S4: Like to the left. So I'm over, I'm over the
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  S4: line again today. So if you're parked next to me
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  S4: in that garage, I'm really sorry, Ali.
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  S5: The funny thing to me is that you park over
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  S5: the line, but then you just hop out of your
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  S5: car and you get going on your day.
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  S3: Yeah, she just goes.
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  S4: Well.
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  S2: Um, didn't you get a note one time? I did.
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  S4: I did, it was, it was a, it was a
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  S4: lovely handwritten note.
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  S6: Getting better and better.
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  S4: And it said something to the effect of you shouldn't
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  S4: be taking up two parking spots. And it was, it was,
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  S4: it was, um, it was, it was kindly.
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  S2: You weren't if there was a motorcycle next to you, I.
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  S4: Mean, it could have been kinder. I thought it was a.
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  S2: It was a little edgy.
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  S4: I thought it was a little on the line, pun intended.
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  S2: And that was from the president. Mark. Joe. Yeah. That's right. Handwritten.
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  S4: So it was from, you know, maybe a student.
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  S2: Did they sign it?
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  S4: No.
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  S5: It definitely wasn't a student because we park in the
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  S5: prime employee parking.
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  S4: Okay. So then it was an employee and this was
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  S4: years ago. So who knows if this person still works here.
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  S4: Maybe they were having a tough day and my bad
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  S4: parking just.
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  S5: Sent him over.
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  S2: Yeah, just put him over the edge.
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  S4: So, I mean, are you shaming me, Jonathan? I mean.
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  S5: No, no, no, I'm not shaming you for parking over
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  S5: the line. I park over the line, too.
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  S4: Sometimes I think I should.
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  S5: But I think if you see.
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  S4: It.
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  S5: And you got the time, you gotta jump back in
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  S5: your car and reset it.
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  S2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  S4: So here's here's the thing. And this actually happened to
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  S4: me on Friday. So what happens is that because I'm
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  S4: so far over, that other person kind of doesn't have
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  S4: give me very.
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  S2: Much real estate.
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  S4: So on Friday I had to I had to get
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  S4: into my car through the passenger side door, no, climb
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  S4: over the console and get into the driver's seat. And,
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  S4: you know, I don't mind doing that. It was I
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  S4: didn't want to hit the person's car because I'm very
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  S4: careful about that. I don't want to ding somebody's car.
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  S4: So I just I didn't have enough room, so I
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  S4: just just climbed in the other way and just, okay,
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  S4: right there I was.
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  S5: I'd say, I'd say sometimes you just gotta learn the
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  S5: hard way.
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  S2: But so anyway, I, I can't believe I'm the one
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  S2: getting us back on track here. So no, I'm not
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  S2: in an HOA.
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  S4: Okay.
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  S2: So no, I am in an HOA, but we're a kinder,
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  S2: gentler HOA, right?
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  S4: Parking. Some HOAs are very particular about making sure that
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  S4: you get your car in the driveway far enough and
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  S4: you're not hanging over into crossing like the.
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  S2: Side green monsters are now.
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  S4: Today the green monsters are put away in a like
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  S4: really quickly and not put out too early.
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  S2: Did we make that much trash in the 60s and
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  S2: 70s those suckers are huge.
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  S5: Yeah, they fill up my mines completely full.
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  S6: I remember the big steal, the big silver steel garbage cans.
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  S6: Those were the ones dragged out.
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  S2: You kidding me? That was my job.
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  S6: Heavy.
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  S4: Did they have wheels back then?
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  S2: No, no, I had a dog sled. I had to
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  S2: hoist it up onto a sled, push it out to
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  S2: the end of the road. Yeah, push it out, drop
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  S2: it off. But those guys, my dad would be like, man,
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  S2: I wish they'd be easier on these things because they'd
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  S2: throw those steel ones up on the up on the
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  S2: garbage truck and put these things were so boogered up.
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  S2: They looked like something out of Sesame Street.
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  S6: Like something drove over them or something.
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  S4: I'm still stuck at that. You had to put it
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  S4: on a sled and get it down.
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  S5: Only in Alaska.
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  S6: That's clever though.
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  S2: Well, that's in the winter. In the summer, I'd put
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  S2: it on some kind of a wheeled cart or something.
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  S5: I mean.
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  S2: If you had if you had to haul that sucker out,
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  S2: throw it up on your hip and grab those silver handles,
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  S2: cause super dives, right? Man, it was those big Garvey
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  S2: thing's empty. They weighed £429 on their own.
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  S6: Exactly. That was the catch.
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  S2: I mean, that was empty. I mean, those were beasts.
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  S4: So we'll see if you get a note that says. Mr..
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  S2: I don't think I'll get a note, but somebody somebody
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  S2: woke up this morning confused. They're like, what?
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  S5: Yeah. Someone else. I guarantee you someone else is gonna
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  S5: start at least start to rush their trash cans out
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  S5: thinking that they missed it.
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  S4: You don't want to miss trash day. That's a bad feeling.
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  S6: Well, he's got his out.
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  S2: But when you miss Trash day.
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  S4: Then.
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  S2: You got a bad deal.
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  S4: A whole other week.
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  S2: And you got Lazarus effect. Your garage stinketh.
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  S5: Yeah, today I was. I was about two minutes away
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  S5: from missing trash day because today is my trash day and.
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  S2: I'm glad you got it out there.
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  S5: I walked out getting ready to to go to work.
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  S2: Oh, you wake up all your neighbors with the rolling monsters.
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  S5: Yeah, yeah I did. Well, I don't know if I did.
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  S5: We're gonna hope I didn't.
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  S2: Those things are loud.
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  S5: Yeah. They're loud.
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  S6: Well, you may get a note, then.
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  S5: I may get a note. Well, no, they don't know
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  S5: who did it. Everyone's trash cans are out. They're not
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  S5: gonna walk out their door and see just mine so
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  S5: they won't know it was me.
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  S6: There you.
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  S2: Go. Okay, I got a huge update here for you guys.
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  S2: I don't know that we've had downloads at this level before.
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  S2: We're talking redeeming time all week long. And this is
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  S2: so encouraging. We're right at a thousand. AM I right
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  S2: now about 900? We're at about 900 downloads of blank
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  S2: sheets of paper with grids on them that have every
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  S2: day for seven days marked into half hour segments. And
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  S2: it's the time redemption challenge, the Redeemed Time challenge. And
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  S2: it's a cool little blog and it's got a resource
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  S2: link to it. And the whole premise of this thing
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  S2: is you can't know what needs to change unless you
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  S2: have a proper assessment of what is. That's the whole
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  S2: premise behind this thing. And so the goal is to
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  S2: not make this some laborious, funky, heavy yoke thing, but
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  S2: to really enjoy the beauty of seeing where are my
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  S2: hours going in a day? And I keep saying this, guys,
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  S2: but 24 hours is a lot of time in a day.
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  S2: That's a lot. I know they go by quickly, but
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  S2: that's a lot of minutes in a day.
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  S4: So if you miss this resource yesterday, this this will
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  S4: link you to both the blog and this PDF downloadable
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  S4: with that grid for you to fill out this time
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  S4: redemption challenge, just text time to (800) 555-7898. Just text time
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  S4: to 805 557898.
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  S2: So this whole week we're going to be sharing with
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  S2: you what we are. In fact, we plan this a
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  S2: month and a half ago.
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  S5: Yeah we did.
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  S2: It's when our coach came in and said, man, that
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  S2: was an important topic. Now you got to tell him
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  S2: exactly what you're giving up. So I am in it
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  S2: and I'm going to kick us off here today. What
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  S2: is Carl giving up? That has been a bit of
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  S2: a black hole for time for him. And you might say, boy, Carl,
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  S2: you don't have your life perfectly ironed out. No, we're
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  S2: growing up. All of us here.
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  S4: I'm curious, I haven't. You haven't given us a heads
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  S4: up as to what it is.
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  S2: No, I haven't, so I'm going to give it to
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  S2: you all.
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  S1: He was running from God, but God's love brought him home.
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  S1: Carl is in the crew. It's Carl and crew on
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  S1: Moody Radio.
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  S2: Well, yesterday was Carl and dude, the whole team is
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  S2: here together. That's right.
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  S5: Everyone's here.
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  S2: Yeah. You guys have a good day off yesterday?
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  S6: Sure.
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  S2: Yeah. Super. I had a real great day off.
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  S5: It was almost.
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  S2: Share.
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  S5: It. It was almost really good. It was like.
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  S6: Right at the.
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  S5: End of the day.
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  S2: Super day really injured her foot. She's got to go
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  S2: to urgent care and see what's going on. It's swollen. She.
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  S2: You tripped over her.
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  S6: You used to be a dancer. Used to be. It's
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  S6: the phrase there.
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  S5: No. No amount of gracefulness will, will, you know, overcome
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  S5: tripping over one of your animals because.
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  S6: They realize it was there. My son had decided to
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  S6: give it some treats, and it was like right in
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  S6: the middle of like the hallway there kind of thing
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  S6: and like, didn't know it was there. Turned around and
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  S6: as I tripped over the cat, I seriously kind of
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  S6: pirouetted landed on what to try to like not avoid. And,
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  S6: and I did. I just looked at me like, what's
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  S6: the problem? And, um, landed on the right foot. Very
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  S6: wrong way.
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  S5: Oh, no. Yeah. Sorry.
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  S6: It was very audible when I landed. So.
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  S2: Audible. Don't say that.
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  S6: So I know something. Yeah. So my sweet son came
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  S6: in with me today to help me out.
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  S2: And yeah, he's a trooper. Getting up early in.
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  S6: The.
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  S2: Morning, helping mom get in here.
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  S7: He's like, I'll go in tomorrow.
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  S6: And help you. I'm like, okay. Because actually blessing he
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  S6: is off today from work. I said, well, if you
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  S6: get up, that's fine. If you don't, I get it.
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  S6: It's early. No, he was up. So yeah.
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  S2: Praying for healing.
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  S6: Yes. My grace.
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  S4: And yes, she's going to be going to urgent care soon.
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  S4: Very soon.
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  S2: We're trying to boot her out of here.
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  S6: Right after the show. I'm leaving for urgent care. Promise. So.
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  S2: Okay. Talking, redeeming time all week long. The. The goal
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  S2: of this week is that you do, number one, a
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  S2: really good assessment of kind of where things are at.
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  S2: And I'm tracking along with you. Now I have a
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  S2: day planner that actually has every half an hour broken
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  S2: up all throughout waking hours. So I've got mine built in.
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  S4: So is this. Do you regularly track your hours?
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  S2: Often.
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  S4: Often. Okay.
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  S2: Not all the time, but often. want to see what's
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  S2: going on. So the goal in that is to see
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  S2: how am I doing. Again, let me stress this. I
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  S2: hammered this yesterday. The goal is not workaholism. The goal
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  S2: is not to stay busy. The goal is to redeem
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  S2: time because unredeemed time flows to our weaknesses. Gordon MacDonald
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  S2: coined that phrase 50 years ago, and boy, it's true.
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  S2: I've never heard one person that didn't say that's accurate. Yeah,
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  S2: because it is right.
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  S4: Oh, yeah. I mean, when you think about what do
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  S4: you tend to lose time doing where you all of
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  S4: a sudden you're like, ah, I just spent the last 30, 45, whatever.
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  S4: It's usually not the things that are like super helpful
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  S4: for you.
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  S2: Yeah. So I purposefully did not download the X app,
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  S2: even though I have an account. And I have another
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  S2: way of kind of doing a workaround where it kind
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  S2: of aggregates.
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  S4: Formerly known as Twitter.
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  S2: Yes, Twitter. So I find it to be an interesting
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  S2: feed in that news now breaks almost more quickly on
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  S2: Twitter than it does on networks. Isn't that wild? Yeah. And,
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  S2: and you might say, well, some of that's fake news. Yeah.
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  S2: But a whole lot of it is accurate. And it's
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  S2: amazing these kind of home grown journalistic kind of approaches.
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  S2: It's amazing how they're catching traction. So I'm a breaking
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  S2: news nutcase and I love to follow, especially the Middle East,
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  S2: particularly what's going on with Iran and those kind of things.
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  S2: But there's always something, Ali.
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  S4: Always.
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  S2: Always something that you can track. And God's given me
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  S2: victory over sports. I used to watch way too many sports.
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  S2: I mean, if you've got one sport that you're really
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  S2: dialed in with, that can be too much. If you're
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  S2: reading commentaries, you know what I'm saying? Different.
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  S5: Different podcasts. Yeah. I mean.
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  S2: It can one sport if you've got 3 or 4 gentlemen.
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  S2: I'm talking to you. You really need to take a
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  S2: look at this because it can be a black hole
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  S2: for time. So the purpose here is to not get
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  S2: ourselves so justifying what we're missing out on, because we
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  S2: haven't taken an honest look at what's really going on.
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  S2: So just early indications for me is, and this was
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  S2: good yesterday, I was tracking every half an hour and
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  S2: I would find myself and I, and I purposefully didn't
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  S2: go like crazy on hyper redemption. Because when you go
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  S2: into this challenge your first couple of days, you can go, wow, no,
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  S2: I'm redeeming time. Here's what you're going to find. Your
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  S2: productivity goes up big time. Yeah. No, really, it's really
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  S2: a fun exercise. And then everybody goes, I'm killing it.
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  S2: And then day three, day four, you're starting going, oh,
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  S2: I'm getting into those what is usual for me? And
• 15:38
  S2: then I find black holes of time. For me, a
• 15:41
  S2: black hole of time is just simply newsfeeds, aggregated news feeds.
• 15:48
  S2: And it's amazing to me how I can look at
• 15:51
  S2: the same story from 40 different angles, 20 different opinions,
• 15:57
  S2: 30 different feeds, and it doesn't end.
• 16:01
  S4: And the thing about like those feeds is that it
• 16:05
  S4: starts to it knows you. So it tracks what you're
• 16:08
  S4: looking at. So then it just feeds you more of,
• 16:12
  S4: of what you are interested in.
• 16:13
  S2: Yeah.
• 16:14
  S4: And so it gets, it gets smarter and it gets
• 16:17
  S4: harder to put down because of course, you're going to
• 16:20
  S4: see something that catches your interest because the algorithm knows
• 16:23
  S4: exactly what you're looking for.
• 16:24
  S2: It's so true. And I mean, you can't run from algorithm.
• 16:27
  S4: No.
• 16:28
  S2: It is everywhere. And so this is a hard one
• 16:32
  S2: for me. I'll be candid with you because I would
• 16:35
  S2: say staying up on the news and. opinion editorial. Those
• 16:41
  S2: kind of things. Some thought leaders. Jonathan Turley for all
• 16:46
  S2: things kind of legal. What's happening with Supreme Court rulings.
• 16:50
  S2: Jonathan Turley really he's he plays it by the book.
• 16:55
  S2: I really believe he does. He's a constitutional kind of thinker.
• 17:00
  S2: And I love what he has to say. But then
• 17:03
  S2: if you watch what Jonathan Turley saying, you see what
• 17:07
  S2: people are saying to him, and then you get ticked off,
• 17:11
  S2: and then you go down that path of, well, look
• 17:13
  S2: at what this idiot says. Now I'll prove it to myself.
• 17:16
  S2: Look at the other opinions they've had. See? Sure enough,
• 17:19
  S2: they're idiots. Confirmed. It's funny how that works. Yeah. And
• 17:23
  S2: I'm just being very forthright. So if there's an area
• 17:26
  S2: in which I've got to clean up, it's that I have.
• 17:30
  S2: I've got to reel back the amount of time. And
• 17:34
  S2: you might say, well, Carl, how much time can you
• 17:36
  S2: spend there? I'm going to be really candid with you.
• 17:39
  S2: You can spend 45 minutes going down that bunny trail
• 17:43
  S2: in a heartbeat.
• 17:44
  S4: Oh, easily.
• 17:46
  S2: In a heartbeat. And not just 145 minute session. You
• 17:51
  S2: can do a couple of those in a day. And
• 17:53
  S2: pretty quick, you got an hour and a half of
• 17:54
  S2: time that the purpose for my aggregator is to get
• 17:58
  S2: it in 30s to two minutes and update and I'm bouncing.
• 18:04
  S2: I'm out now. Thank God I have a public figure
• 18:08
  S2: page for Facebook because I don't see anyone's feed in
• 18:12
  S2: some of your like, give me one of those things
• 18:15
  S2: so I don't see anyone's feed on Facebook, social media
• 18:18
  S2: that way.
• 18:19
  S1: Tune in whenever you like. Check out the Carl and
• 18:22
  S1: Crew podcast wherever you like to stream.
• 18:25
  S2: Putting a finger on it and calling it what it
• 18:27
  S2: is is a good thing here, guys. It's important, isn't it, Ali?
• 18:31
  S4: It really is. This isn't the funny thing about this
• 18:33
  S4: is that the thing that causes you to lose. Time
• 18:36
  S4: can be so totally different. So you're gonna go, what?
• 18:39
  S2: So identifying them. Why? Ali?
• 18:42
  S4: So that you can start to be honest about where
• 18:45
  S4: we are losing time. That's the biggest battle I think.
• 18:49
  S4: Is that really being honest about where you're at?
• 18:51
  S2: Yeah. And and this is why tracking it is good.
• 18:54
  S2: We got a resource for you. Use it every half
• 18:59
  S2: hour of a day. Not for the purpose of becoming
• 19:02
  S2: a crazy workaholic. That's not the goal. The goal here
• 19:05
  S2: is to identify where am I not redeeming time? You'd
• 19:10
  S2: be blown away. You will be blown away if you
• 19:13
  S2: do this challenge. And I want you to jump in
• 19:15
  S2: no matter when. Get a grab, grab a friend, be
• 19:19
  S2: accountable to it. It's a lot of fun.
• 19:21
  S4: Just text time to 805 five, five, 78, 98. Happy
• 19:25
  S4: to send you this resource. Just text time 805 557898.
• 19:31
  S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
• 19:34
  S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
• 19:39
  S1: and crew on Moody Radio Time redemption.
• 19:43
  S2: It's a real thing. What? Four years ago. Asked the question,
• 19:47
  S2: what's that one thing holding you back from everything.
• 19:51
  S5: And there were a lot of answers, but the majority
• 19:56
  S5: of them came back to wasting time or not redeeming
• 20:00
  S5: the time that people had.
• 20:01
  S2: Yeah, and then Satan beats you up and the demonic
• 20:04
  S2: forces say you're a loser. You can't seem to get
• 20:07
  S2: your act together. Alex, that's a real thing. You and
• 20:10
  S2: I are busy dudes, but redeeming time, that's a that's
• 20:14
  S2: a spiritual discipline that will never go away. Right, Alex?
• 20:18
  S8: That's right. Yeah. Ephesians five tells us to redeem the time. And, uh,
• 20:23
  S8: you know, for the Christian, all of life is really
• 20:26
  S8: about stewardship. And, uh, we don't want to be wasteful,
• 20:30
  S8: especially about time because time is a non-recoverable resource. We
• 20:36
  S8: don't want to waste it.
• 20:37
  S2: 24 hours. Alex. It's such a long time, by the way.
• 20:40
  S2: Let me let me I.D. this guy. Doctor Alex McFarland, apologist,
• 20:45
  S2: author of Angela's religion culture analyst. I mean, literally, he's
• 20:48
  S2: got podcasts, national talk show, and you got a lot
• 20:53
  S2: going on and it's easy to think, yeah, I got
• 20:57
  S2: a lot going on and I do as well. Alex.
• 20:59
  S2: I got a ton. We got two church campuses. I
• 21:02
  S2: speak at different events, got a four hour morning show
• 21:05
  S2: here five days a week. So it could be easy
• 21:09
  S2: for people to say, wow, Carl, you don't have a
• 21:13
  S2: moment of time in your day, but I'm here to
• 21:15
  S2: tell you 24 hours is a long time. It's plenty
• 21:18
  S2: of time to find squandered hours, right, Alex? I mean,
• 21:22
  S2: let's just be real.
• 21:23
  S8: Do you know that is true? Budgeting is so helpful.
• 21:27
  S8: I think just like with our money, if we write down,
• 21:30
  S8: you know, what we're spending, we'll see. Oh my goodness,
• 21:32
  S8: I didn't I didn't really need that $4 espresso or something.
• 21:38
  S8: Time is the same way. I mean if we really
• 21:40
  S8: keep track of where our time goes, and this might
• 21:43
  S8: sound kind of counterintuitive, but one of the first things
• 21:47
  S8: we do with that 24 hour day is a budget
• 21:51
  S8: for sleep. Because the stewardship of our body, uh, your,
• 21:55
  S8: your health is your first wealth. I mean, really, and, um,
• 22:00
  S8: I've been in the, the ministry long enough to do
• 22:03
  S8: a bunch of hospital visits. And when our health meant
• 22:07
  S8: everything grinds to a halt when our health fails. So
• 22:11
  S8: I would just encourage people, as you seriously look at
• 22:15
  S8: good stewardship of the time God gives you, uh, look
• 22:18
  S8: at getting enough rest.
• 22:20
  S2: How do you do that? And what are some life
• 22:22
  S2: hacks that you've learned around that? I mean, I've got,
• 22:24
  S2: I mean, I've got some cool ones, certain amount of magnesium,
• 22:28
  S2: the right kind of magnesium. About an hour before I
• 22:31
  S2: hit the hay, I hit pop. About four of those
• 22:33
  S2: bad boys really changes things. I sleep, I try to
• 22:36
  S2: sleep in a room that's cool or keep a good
• 22:38
  S2: fan on me. I don't have the I don't have, uh,
• 22:42
  S2: small screens on about an hour before I go to bed.
• 22:45
  S2: I try to get those things away from my eyeballs.
• 22:47
  S2: It's that serious for me, Alex.
• 22:50
  S8: Well, you know, what's really cool is that discipline breeds
• 22:54
  S8: discipline in other areas of your life. I got to
• 22:58
  S8: tell you, I was in college, I was a C student,
• 23:02
  S8: but then midway through my undergrad, I became a Christian.
• 23:05
  S8: I found Christ, and I'm not trying to sound like
• 23:09
  S8: super spiritual, but I just think the Holy Spirit did
• 23:11
  S8: this in my heart after I became a Christian. I
• 23:14
  S8: would enter each class and I said, Lord, if you'll
• 23:17
  S8: help me, the grade I make is going to be
• 23:20
  S8: a worship offering to you.
• 23:21
  S2: Sweet.
• 23:22
  S8: And do you know what? From finishing my undergrad to
• 23:27
  S8: doing two master's and a doctorate. I only ever made
• 23:31
  S8: one more be. Everything I ever did was A's. And
• 23:35
  S8: I'm not bragging.
• 23:36
  S2: No, it's.
• 23:37
  S8: Just.
• 23:38
  S2: You know. And this relates to time, redemption and sleep redemption.
• 23:43
  S2: And by the way, those go hand in glove and
• 23:45
  S2: they really do. If we look at those not as
• 23:48
  S2: another life hack on some secular YouTube channel, which by
• 23:53
  S2: the way, you can learn some good stuff, but as
• 23:55
  S2: an offering to God, God, I'm going to go get
• 23:57
  S2: sleep because you built my body where it needs to
• 24:01
  S2: be renewed, and then I can spend the time tomorrow. Better, right? Alex.
• 24:05
  S8: Exactly. Yeah. Everything is worship and gratitude to Jesus. It
• 24:10
  S8: really is. And look, I, I hope to live if
• 24:13
  S8: if the Lord hasn't come back yet. I'm hoping to
• 24:16
  S8: be serving God full bore at 99 years old. Amen.
• 24:20
  S8: You know, and here's the thing, and I, I know
• 24:23
  S8: I'm 62. I'm probably the oldest person listening to this
• 24:27
  S8: show right now.
• 24:28
  S2: Well, I'm listening and I'm 66.
• 24:31
  S8: Oh, well, God bless you. Yeah, but here's the thing. Um,
• 24:36
  S8: you know, part of our assignment is to become a
• 24:38
  S8: good old person.
• 24:40
  S2: Amen.
• 24:40
  S8: And, you know, I, I love people, Carl, but I've
• 24:44
  S8: met some older people, even older Christians, that were pretty
• 24:49
  S8: sad and sour. And I think body, soul and spirit,
• 24:54
  S8: you know, the the total person, we want it to
• 24:57
  S8: be touched by Jesus. Yeah. And, um, you know, redeeming
• 25:02
  S8: the time, uh, whether it's getting enough rest, whether it's
• 25:07
  S8: setting realistic, measurable goals. And I'm going to say this
• 25:12
  S8: because I'm a preacher and we, we, we preach, I
• 25:15
  S8: think we need to honor the Lord in our giving
• 25:18
  S8: and our and remember, the money is not ours. Jesus
• 25:22
  S8: entrusts it to us. Yeah. And, and if we're faithful
• 25:25
  S8: with what he's entrusted, he'll entrust us with more. I
• 25:29
  S8: really believe that. And by the way, I would rather have,
• 25:32
  S8: you know, like going to church on Sunday. I think
• 25:35
  S8: if you're a believer, we're supposed to be in church.
• 25:38
  S8: It's better to have, you know, six days with God's
• 25:42
  S8: blessing than to try to, you know, hold back and
• 25:46
  S8: not give God our time on Sunday. I know I'm
• 25:50
  S8: preaching here, but man.
• 25:52
  S2: No, you're going preaching that.
• 25:53
  S8: Jesus is Lord, you know.
• 25:54
  S2: Yeah. Alex. Uh, let's get really honest on this before
• 26:00
  S2: we leave this topic time redemption. And I've been really
• 26:04
  S2: honest with folks yesterday and today I struggled with sports.
• 26:10
  S2: I should I call an addiction. Young Thunder knows my
• 26:14
  S2: past addictions fair, a sports addiction. I mean, I was
• 26:18
  S2: 40 Niners. I was the Giants back when I was
• 26:21
  S2: a Bay area fan because my dad was raised there.
• 26:23
  S2: And I mean, and then a smattering of other sports
• 26:28
  S2: and playoffs. Golden State Warriors and the like. Man, you
• 26:33
  S2: can spend a lot of time watching sports and being
• 26:35
  S2: entertained by it and then watching blogs and all that.
• 26:38
  S2: Now God gave me victory over that. But the thing
• 26:40
  S2: that still is a battle for me is I love
• 26:44
  S2: to stay up on the news, but there's a point
• 26:46
  S2: at which staying up on what's happened geopolitically, Middle East,
• 26:50
  S2: local news, national news, politics, you name it.
• 26:53
  S8: I'm with you, brother.
• 26:54
  S2: You're with me on this one.
• 26:55
  S8: Mhm.
• 26:56
  S2: Speak to that man.
• 26:58
  S8: Well, you know, it's wild. Is. I mean, there's a
• 27:01
  S8: place for sports and entertainment. Check this out. 800 years ago,
• 27:07
  S8: Thomas Aquinas, who was this great apologist of the Middle Ages?
• 27:12
  S8: Somebody asked, and I don't know what the, quote, sports
• 27:15
  S8: were back then. Maybe, you know. Well, rolling Rock.
• 27:18
  S2: But no, they had the Isthmian games.
• 27:20
  S8: Well that's true, that's very true. Very true. But somebody
• 27:23
  S8: asked the great theologian, is it appropriate for a Christian
• 27:27
  S8: to go to sporting events? Even Aquinas, one of the
• 27:31
  S8: brilliant philosophers that ever lived 800 years ago, he said
• 27:35
  S8: sports and entertainments and relaxation are appropriate for a season
• 27:41
  S8: to refresh the mind. And he said, to pull away and,
• 27:47
  S8: you know, just be entertained. Yeah. So that we can
• 27:50
  S8: come back strengthened and rested and refreshed for more worship
• 27:56
  S8: and service of the Triune God. That's what he said.
• 28:00
  S8: That's Aquinas.
• 28:01
  S2: I didn't know that.
• 28:02
  S8: Isn't that why even.
• 28:03
  S2: Well, I love it because it's normal.
• 28:06
  S8: It is one of the greatest apologetics philosophers in world history.
• 28:12
  S2: He said, go watch a game.
• 28:14
  S8: Yeah. Go watch. Just rest. Relax. Um, you know, give
• 28:18
  S8: your mind a break so you can come back and
• 28:20
  S8: ready to resume loving and serving the Triune God. And
• 28:26
  S8: like with anything like, um, I love to play the
• 28:29
  S8: guitar and, uh, I tend to spend a lot of
• 28:34
  S8: time just fiddling around with the guitar. And then I realized, okay,
• 28:38
  S8: there's stuff I got to do. And I think the
• 28:41
  S8: key and we can pray about this. It's just balance. Um,
• 28:45
  S8: I need to. Number one is my, my personal time
• 28:48
  S8: with Christ and communing with the Lord. And then my
• 28:52
  S8: spouse and I want to say to all the guys
• 28:55
  S8: out there, um, just as Christ serves his bride, the church,
• 29:00
  S8: we mean, if you're a Christian and if you're so
• 29:02
  S8: blessed to have a wife, she is your first ministry.
• 29:07
  S2: Amen, bro.
• 29:08
  S8: And the Holy Spirit has had to, you know, kind of, um,
• 29:12
  S8: give me a little wake up call sometimes.
• 29:14
  S2: But yeah, through first through first Peter three and Ephesians five.
• 29:19
  S8: Amen, brother. Hey, by the way, do you know it says.
• 29:22
  S8: I believe it's in first Peter that says, men dwell.
• 29:25
  S8: Dwell with your wives according to knowledge, that your prayers
• 29:28
  S8: be not hindered.
• 29:29
  S2: I use it all the time. Guys ask me, doesn't
• 29:32
  S2: it say, Carl, why are my prayers bouncing off the ceiling? That's.
• 29:34
  S2: I said, that's because you're not living with your wife
• 29:36
  S2: in an understanding way. God loves your woman enough to
• 29:39
  S2: freeze your booty out of his answer.
• 29:42
  S8: Haha. Well said brother. And you know, it's it's a
• 29:46
  S8: beautiful thing to, as a Christian view all try with
• 29:51
  S8: God's help view all of life in terms of stewardship.
• 29:55
  S2: Amen. Hey, quick question for you. Let's stay on this
• 29:57
  S2: topic a moment longer. When does your fiddling become fatling?
• 30:04
  S2: And what I mean here is this because you talk
• 30:05
  S2: about fiddle fatling around, you can fiddle faddle around with.
• 30:08
  S2: And I believe God is a okay with video games
• 30:12
  S2: to a point. I think he's okay with guitar playing
• 30:15
  S2: and even rehearsing to a point. And same with anything.
• 30:20
  S2: even my news watching or whatever I'm doing. When? How
• 30:25
  S2: do you know this for you? How do you know
• 30:27
  S2: when you're fiddling becomes battling? I'm playing with words here.
• 30:30
  S2: When when you've got when you've gone beyond. Yeah. That's
• 30:33
  S2: what God has for me. And now I'm into this
• 30:36
  S2: kind of danger zone.
• 30:38
  S8: You know, I know this is going to sound kind
• 30:39
  S8: of subjective. I just, I, I've learned to know when
• 30:43
  S8: the Holy Spirit is kind of boom.
• 30:45
  S2: That's not subjective. That's my answer.
• 30:48
  S8: Yeah. It's, it's almost like, okay, the Lord is like, okay, Alex, you've,
• 30:53
  S8: you've chilled out for a while. You it's time, time
• 30:56
  S8: to you got things to do, whether it's work to
• 30:59
  S8: do or a writing deadline or preparing. Um, now I
• 31:04
  S8: do practice a lot and every chance I get, I
• 31:07
  S8: play in church. So I kind of, I'm like, well,
• 31:09
  S8: you know, I am doing this for the Lord, you know? Uh, Angie.
• 31:14
  S2: I can justify dinking around too, right?
• 31:17
  S8: Yeah. I'm going to the guitar store for Jesus. No.
• 31:23
  S2: I'm buying my guitar for the Lord.
• 31:26
  S8: Exactly. Oh. That's funny. Um, no. But, um, you know, I,
• 31:31
  S8: I really pray this a lot. James one verse five says,
• 31:35
  S8: if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who
• 31:38
  S8: gives abundantly and does not withhold. And I'm, I'm especially
• 31:42
  S8: like when when I've got a really busy day and
• 31:44
  S8: I've got a million points I got to hit. I'm like, Lord,
• 31:47
  S8: help me, give me wisdom. And, um, God is so
• 31:50
  S8: good because I, I'm telling you, I, I'm a recovering
• 31:54
  S8: procrastinator and it's wild life is just this brief little window,
• 32:02
  S8: number one, to come to Christ and be saved. And
• 32:06
  S8: then if we're so blessed to have a family, I
• 32:10
  S8: say this everywhere I go, Carl lose at anything else
• 32:15
  S8: but win with your family.
• 32:17
  S2: Yeah, man.
• 32:18
  S8: And by the way, volumes of psychologists and sociologists say,
• 32:22
  S8: I mean, the, the key matrix for success in life
• 32:27
  S8: is your family.
• 32:28
  S2: It couldn't be more true. Alex McFarland, doctor. Alex McFarland,
• 32:32
  S2: my guest. All right. We spent we spent a lot
• 32:36
  S2: more time on time redemption than I imagined. But that's okay.
• 32:39
  S2: So I've got to do. I got one question. What's
• 32:42
  S2: going on with Gen Zers? We're hearing all kinds of
• 32:45
  S2: different data points here. What's really happening is, are the
• 32:50
  S2: numbers of committed Christ followers growing in Gen Z, or
• 32:54
  S2: is it just spiritual curiosity? What's going on? Alex.
• 32:58
  S8: I really do think the number of Christ followers is
• 33:02
  S8: growing and I rejoice in that. Um, I think there's
• 33:05
  S8: a real spiritual hunger. Good. Um, I, I, I think
• 33:09
  S8: lots and lots of teens, young adults, 20 somethings, they're
• 33:15
  S8: coming to Jesus. And that is wonderful. Um, I, I
• 33:19
  S8: also believe churches and ministries and Christians, we need to
• 33:23
  S8: gently focus on discipleship and, and we got to remember
• 33:27
  S8: this is a generation of, of digital natives, um, Photoshop and, uh,
• 33:34
  S8: you know, all the, the, the narcissism that goes with
• 33:39
  S8: social media, that's kind of their culture. And with the
• 33:44
  S8: help of the Holy Spirit, uh, and patience, we have
• 33:47
  S8: to help them understand that if you're a Christian, that
• 33:50
  S8: means a disciple, and that means a follower of the
• 33:54
  S8: Son of God by the Word of God. Amen. So what, Carl,
• 33:59
  S8: while I rejoice in the young people that are coming
• 34:01
  S8: to Christ everywhere I go, yesterday I was talking to
• 34:04
  S8: an audience. Everywhere I go, I talk about we. We
• 34:08
  S8: must live by the Word of God, the Bible, and
• 34:11
  S8: we have to amend our lives in light of what
• 34:15
  S8: God's Word says.
• 34:16
  S2: Yeah. Love it. Alex is my guest right now. Alex McFarland. And, uh,
• 34:21
  S2: we got a link for you. Boom crew. It's good.
• 34:24
  S2: It's a link on. It's. It's the latest Gen Z
• 34:27
  S2: article he's written. Speak the truth now, and it'll be
• 34:31
  S2: linked here. Just text the word Alex to 805 557898.
• 34:36
  S2: Some of you parents, grandparents of Gen Zers, listen to
• 34:41
  S2: what Alex is saying. They need the most. Text the
• 34:44
  S2: word Alex to 805 557898.
• 34:49
  S1: You're listening to curl and Crew on Moody Radio.
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  S2: Potential to be one of the biggest, uh, forward movement
• 34:57
  S2: discipleship weeks we've ever had. Time. Redemption is that big
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  S2: a deal?
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  S5: I think so it's, uh, it's important because when we
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  S5: got our our time in the right place, our growing
• 35:09
  S5: becomes exponential.
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  S9: You know what hit.
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  S2: Me this morning when I got up really early, I
• 35:14
  S2: was standing in the bathroom looking in the mirror and
• 35:18
  S2: this thought hit me. This is not just a matter
• 35:22
  S2: of redeeming time. This is a matter of endorphins. Joy.
• 35:28
  S6: Yeah.
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  S2: Tasting your purpose? Yes. No, I'm serious about this.
• 35:32
  S5: You're not wrong.
• 35:33
  S2: I think we've hit this. I'm. I'm afraid I've hit
• 35:37
  S2: this a little bit too much from an angle of.
• 35:40
  S2: Let's redeem the time. Let's quit killing time. But the.
• 35:45
  S2: The man in the mirror, the Spirit of God, told
• 35:47
  S2: me this morning, no, the the payoff here is if you've. Okay,
• 35:52
  S2: if you've ever come home after a hard day at
• 35:55
  S2: work that you felt like, man, I knocked those things
• 36:00
  S2: down and I had some consistent wins. Or you go
• 36:05
  S2: to bed at night and you had a full day.
• 36:08
  S2: It wasn't just busy for busy's sake, but you had
• 36:10
  S2: a full, fruitful day. You stack about 20 of those together. Whoa, Nelly.
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  S4: Oh. It's true. Because, you know anybody who's struggled with time, redemption.
• 36:21
  S4: And I will put myself at the top of the list.
• 36:24
  S4: You you don't feel good. Like when you when you
• 36:26
  S4: know that you've wasted time that so.
• 36:29
  S2: Right.
• 36:29
  S4: You feel like this gnawing sense of, like, failure.
• 36:33
  S2: I'm a loser.
• 36:34
  S4: And you get.
• 36:35
  S2: Words like.
• 36:35
  S4: That. The enemy can use that in a major way.
• 36:39
  S4: But like, if the flip side is if you could
• 36:41
  S4: redeem some of that time and reflect on your day
• 36:46
  S4: and go, okay, I had times of rest. Yeah, I
• 36:50
  S4: had times of work. I had times of connection. Like,
• 36:53
  S4: so it's not that like I was busy all day
• 36:55
  S4: and I did, I just filled my day with like tasks.
• 36:58
  S4: So I was productive. No, but I, the time that
• 37:01
  S4: I spent reflected the values that I have, my commitment
• 37:05
  S4: to people, my commitment to the Lord. You sleep well
• 37:08
  S4: at night. And so I, I'm, I'm with you on that,
• 37:10
  S4: that there's a there's a joy that we lose when
• 37:14
  S4: our time gets frittered away.
• 37:15
  S5: Big time. I had one of those good days yesterday.
• 37:18
  S5: You did? I did. I came home from work and, uh,
• 37:22
  S5: and I got.
• 37:22
  S2: Did you have this on your mind?
• 37:24
  S5: Well, I did have this on my mind. I think
• 37:26
  S5: it helped in a way. So I'll I'll I'll lay
• 37:29
  S5: out the whole thing. I got my daughter down for
• 37:31
  S5: her nap. And I walked into the kitchen and there
• 37:32
  S5: was some water on my floor near my fridge. There had.
• 37:36
  S5: This has happened a couple of times and I had,
• 37:38
  S5: you know, I dried it up and I'd kind of
• 37:40
  S5: let it, let it be, uh, go on a couple
• 37:42
  S5: of days. And yesterday it was time to fix it.
• 37:46
  S5: And I was like, I've gotta fix this fridge. And
• 37:48
  S5: I don't know how to fix fridges, but I gotta
• 37:51
  S5: figure it out. And so.
• 37:54
  S2: I called it.
• 37:55
  S5: And I spent, I spent my day fixing the fridge.
• 37:58
  S5: So I called my dad, I went and I picked
• 38:01
  S5: up some coolers that I could, I could put my
• 38:04
  S5: frozen stuff in there and the fridge stuff on top
• 38:06
  S5: of that so it could stay cool and stay stored
• 38:09
  S5: while I defrosted the fridge. Then I got down in
• 38:12
  S5: the freezer. I took the doors off. I removed the
• 38:15
  S5: back panel and my defroster. Uh, like drain pan was
• 38:20
  S5: all frozen up. So I got that thing all broken up.
• 38:23
  S5: I had to push the fridge out from the back,
• 38:26
  S5: and I had to unscrew it, and I had to
• 38:28
  S5: get some things unclogged and fixed up. It took me
• 38:31
  S5: until about 830 last night to to get everything put
• 38:34
  S5: back together.
• 38:35
  S2: But you're full filled, I was fulfilled.
• 38:39
  S5: I texted my dad, I said I did a man thing, dad.
• 38:43
  S4: You know what, dude? That is so that's so great.
• 38:46
  S2: That's a great illustration of the point here it was.
• 38:49
  S5: And you know what? Uh, Alex McFarland even gave this point.
• 38:52
  S5: We just finished talking with him and he, he talked
• 38:54
  S5: about like when he went to school and he said, God,
• 38:56
  S5: let let my grades be a worship to you. Yes,
• 38:59
  S5: I was, and when I, when I pushed the fridge
• 39:01
  S5: out and I looked at all the things I was
• 39:03
  S5: gonna have to take apart, I got anxious and I
• 39:05
  S5: didn't want to do it. And every part of me
• 39:06
  S5: wanted me to, wanted to push that fridge back in
• 39:09
  S5: the corner and just wipe up the water every few
• 39:11
  S5: days when it came out. But I said, God, I'm scared.
• 39:15
  S5: Help me through it and let this time be worship and.
• 39:19
  S5: And I got through it.
• 39:20
  S2: Jonathan. That is so cool, dude.
• 39:22
  S5: And and you know what I did when I woke
• 39:24
  S5: up this morning? I took my breakfast out of a
• 39:27
  S5: working freezer. Felt good. And I'll tell you what.
• 39:30
  S6: And no water.
• 39:31
  S5: I could have stared at that freezer for an hour.
• 39:35
  S2: No, I mean no. Hey, listen, man, this is for real.
• 39:39
  S2: And there's some of you that have got. It's it's
• 39:42
  S2: it's what? David Allen, he's a Lifehacker. He wrote a
• 39:44
  S2: whole book on called Eat that Frog. Yeah. And the
• 39:47
  S2: whole premise is we have things like a freezer that
• 39:50
  S2: keeps leaking. Right? We have the, the breaks that need
• 39:53
  S2: to be fixed, the the fill in the blank, the
• 39:57
  S2: art room that you've been called by God to that
• 40:00
  S2: you never get into. Yep. And whatever it is, guys,
• 40:05
  S2: whatever God has called you to redeem the time. Go.
• 40:09
  S2: Eat that frog today and watch the endorphins grow.
• 40:12
  S4: We've got a resource that's going to help you. Just
• 40:14
  S4: text time to (800) 555-7898. Now this is a blog and
• 40:20
  S4: there's an attachment for you to track the time to
• 40:22
  S4: really see where you're at with this. So take this
• 40:26
  S4: challenge this week with us. Text time to 805 557898.
• 40:31
  S2: I'm telling you what. If we can become time redeemers,
• 40:34
  S2: the amount of joy and endorphins that are that God
• 40:37
  S2: is holding out in his hands to you today, that's
• 40:40
  S2: for real. He invented endorphins. Yep.
• 40:43
  S4: Yeah.
• 40:43
  S5: God did. It's for a reason.
• 40:47
  S2: I'm pumped for you, bro.
• 40:48
  S5: Yeah, it was a good time.
• 40:49
  S2: That a man up moment there.
• 40:52
  S5: And I went to bed feeling much easier than if
• 40:54
  S5: I had just let it be and kept procrastinating.
• 40:56
  S2: Yeah. And your bride is digging you. If she is.
• 40:59
  S2: If she could dig you anymore, she's digging you more. No.
• 41:02
  S2: I'm serious.
• 41:03
  S5: Absolutely.
• 41:03
  S2: That's my man. He Defrosted that fridge and freezer man.
• 41:07
  S5: Which makes you want to go and fix more things.
• 41:09
  S2: Oh yeah, it does.
• 41:12
  S4: That's awesome.
• 41:13
  S2: Oh, that's so cool. All right. I had to sit
• 41:15
  S2: down with a good dude.
• 41:16
  S4: Good dude. Yeah. His name is drew Dick, and he's
• 41:19
  S4: been super honest about his own struggles with time. Redemption.
• 41:22
  S4: He wrote a whole book on it.
• 41:24
  S2: Yeah, really good stuff. Brain science in the Bible meeting together.
• 41:30
  S2: Break it down. Coming up.
• 41:32
  S1: Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl
• 41:36
  S1: and crew.
• 41:37
  S2: So Jonathan, got a question for you, man.
• 41:40
  S5: Uh oh.
• 41:40
  S2: Have you ever been walking down maybe on Moody campus here,
• 41:45
  S2: walking down and somebody goes, Jonathan reaches out his hand
• 41:49
  S2: or waves at you, and they're walking toward you, and
• 41:51
  S2: you're going, who in the cat hair is that?
• 41:54
  S5: Yes, yes, that has happened to me, by the way. Uh,
• 41:57
  S5: it's the worst because sometimes you get stuck in a
• 41:59
  S5: conversation and, and the one, the worst ones are I
• 42:03
  S5: know this person, but I don't remember their name or
• 42:06
  S5: I don't remember quite how I know this person, but okay,
• 42:10
  S5: we're just gonna we're just gonna stick with it. Yeah.
• 42:12
  S5: And that's difficult.
• 42:13
  S2: No. It's crazy. And you being in radio and having
• 42:17
  S2: a familiar face and voice that hits you a little
• 42:21
  S2: bit more, 100%. Okay, so what if this happened? You're
• 42:25
  S2: walking down Wall Street. That's the street right here against
• 42:27
  S2: Moody Radio, right in Chicagoland. You're walking down Wall Street
• 42:31
  S2: and here's a guy walking at you. And what it's
• 42:35
  S2: your future self. He's like 20, 30 years older than you.
• 42:40
  S5: Say, hey, good looking.
• 42:45
  S2: Who's saying good looking to who, by the way?
• 42:47
  S5: Me. To me.
• 42:48
  S2: Okay. Just whatever direction.
• 42:50
  S5: Yeah.
• 42:50
  S2: Okay, well, let's get past that self-aggrandizing stuff and your
• 42:54
  S2: future self puts out his hand and says, thank you
• 42:57
  S2: for redeeming time. Thank you for getting off the video games.
• 43:02
  S5: Man. You know what that actually. I know we're we're
• 43:04
  S5: kind of having fun here, but like that actually would
• 43:06
  S5: be pretty nice to know that I. I could make
• 43:09
  S5: a difference now to where I'm benefiting my future self
• 43:13
  S5: in a great way.
• 43:14
  S2: Name of the book is your future self Will. Thank you.
• 43:16
  S2: That's kind of what you meant by this, drew, right.
• 43:19
  S10: Yeah. I don't know if I was thinking that far
• 43:21
  S10: into the future now. Now I'm thinking about what my
• 43:24
  S10: hairline is going to be like in 20 years. And
• 43:26
  S10: I don't know if I like that. Here's drew.
• 43:28
  S2: Oh, no. There's a receding hairline, drew says to himself. No,
• 43:33
  S2: it happens to all of us. But you know what?
• 43:35
  S2: If there's one thing that your future self would thank
• 43:38
  S2: you for, it would be you've learned how to redeem time. Well,
• 43:43
  S2: don't you think?
• 43:44
  S10: Yeah, 100% that really. I mean, it's a cliche, but
• 43:47
  S10: it is true, right? That time is the most precious
• 43:50
  S10: commodity that we have. You know, money is important. Your resources.
• 43:55
  S10: But man, time is the number one thing. And here's
• 43:58
  S10: the sad thing is that it's easier than ever to
• 44:01
  S10: waste our time. There are two big companies with billions
• 44:05
  S10: of dollars, and their single aim is to make sure
• 44:09
  S10: they steal as much time and attention from you as
• 44:12
  S10: they can.
• 44:13
  S11: Isn't that crazy?
• 44:14
  S2: I mean, I cannot think of another time in history
• 44:18
  S2: when the chief end of a whole sector of commerce
• 44:23
  S2: is to take your time from you.
• 44:26
  S10: Yeah, and they're really good at it too, right? I mean,
• 44:29
  S10: they invented infinite scroll. They do extensive testing to see
• 44:32
  S10: which color of blue on their website is going to
• 44:34
  S10: keep you engaged for.
• 44:35
  S11: The.
• 44:35
  S10: Longest time.
• 44:36
  S11: Are you serious about that?
• 44:37
  S10: Oh, yeah. I'm talking about Google. There. They tested like
• 44:40
  S10: a B, tested 42 different shades of blue to see
• 44:42
  S10: what people would look at the longest or, you know,
• 44:45
  S10: whether it's news, they craft headlines to activate the fear
• 44:47
  S10: and anger centers in your brain and draw you in.
• 44:50
  S10: So what I always tell people, and I know we're
• 44:53
  S10: just focusing on one aspect, there's more to this time saving,
• 44:56
  S10: using your time well than just tech. But man, if
• 44:58
  S10: you don't have guardrails against these devices in your life,
• 45:02
  S10: you're going to lose every time.
• 45:03
  S2: No, I mean, you're not overstating it. Drew Dick, my
• 45:06
  S2: guest right now, acquisitions editor for Moody Publishers, contributing editor
• 45:11
  S2: for Christianity Today for pastors, former managing editor of Leadership
• 45:16
  S2: Journal guys. His work has been featured USA today, HuffPo,
• 45:21
  S2: Christianity Today, cnn.com. He's been all over out there and
• 45:25
  S2: he's with us here regularly. Uh, let's keep going after this.
• 45:29
  S2: Think about it. This is not overstatement, drew. We're up
• 45:33
  S2: against an industry that is trying to suck us in.
• 45:36
  S2: I did not know that about a B testing color patterns,
• 45:39
  S2: for crying out loud. And then doomscrolling. And here's here's
• 45:44
  S2: the numbers I've got. The numbers are we spend 4.5
• 45:47
  S2: to 5 hours a day on average per person scrolling, uh,
• 45:53
  S2: using phones, the lion's share of which is wasted. That's
• 45:59
  S2: a lot of time every day.
• 46:01
  S10: That's right. And sometimes when you tell yourself, I just
• 46:04
  S10: don't have enough time to, you know, spend time in
• 46:06
  S10: the word or in prayer or in this, you know, project,
• 46:08
  S10: I feel called to look at your schedule, see how much,
• 46:12
  S10: take a clear, honest look at your schedule and see
• 46:14
  S10: how much time you're actually spending in digital distractions. And
• 46:18
  S10: I'll bet that you could probably free up some time
• 46:20
  S10: to do the things that are more important.
• 46:21
  S2: Yeah, I know it's there. It's huge. Okay. We're going
• 46:24
  S2: to get into some hope here coming up in a
• 46:27
  S2: little bit, but I want to go after this a
• 46:28
  S2: little bit more. So it's 4.5 to 5 hours on digital.
• 46:32
  S2: That's not even including one 5 to 2 hours of
• 46:38
  S2: TV time or binge watching or whatever. 24 hours is
• 46:43
  S2: a lot of time. We've got hundreds, if not thousands
• 46:46
  S2: of people in the boom crew right now that are
• 46:48
  S2: going there in the middle of assessing every half hour
• 46:51
  S2: of their day to see where they're spending their time.
• 46:54
  S2: There's value in assessing where you're at, isn't there, drew?
• 46:57
  S10: Oh, huge. Because I think that's that's the thing that's
• 47:00
  S10: so tough about this topic is that you don't realize
• 47:03
  S10: how much time you're wasting until you actually break it
• 47:06
  S10: down and look at segments of your life and go, hey,
• 47:08
  S10: where am I actually devoting my time? There's a similar
• 47:11
  S10: thing with diet. You know, one of the first things
• 47:13
  S10: that a trainer will do is, hey, we're going to
• 47:15
  S10: track everything you're eating. We're not even going to change
• 47:17
  S10: anything yet. We're just going to look at what you're
• 47:19
  S10: actually eating in a day. We're going to tabulate the calories.
• 47:21
  S10: And so we can get a good understanding of where
• 47:23
  S10: you're at and where we need to change. It's kind
• 47:25
  S10: of similar with time. If you take a look at
• 47:27
  S10: your time often, this has been my experience. I've been
• 47:30
  S10: horrified to realize the places I've been wasting time. And
• 47:33
  S10: here's the thing too we need to be vigilant against temptation.
• 47:37
  S10: We have an enemy of our souls that's after us.
• 47:39
  S10: But I'll tell you something. If he can't get you
• 47:42
  S10: with explicit sin that you're going to fall into, he
• 47:44
  S10: is just as content to distract you with endless reams
• 47:48
  S10: of nonsense that steal your joy, your time, your passion,
• 47:51
  S10: and pull you away from the call that God has
• 47:54
  S10: placed on your life.
• 47:55
  S11: That is so quotable.
• 47:56
  S2: That his powerhouse drew Dick, my guest right now coming up,
• 48:00
  S2: we're going to talk about the link between brain science
• 48:05
  S2: and the Bible and how to grab self control, the
• 48:08
  S2: name of his work, your future self will thank you.
• 48:11
  S2: A lot of you have this. It's a great read.
• 48:13
  S2: I've read it cover to cover and go back to it.
• 48:15
  S2: It's powerhouse more with drew Dick straight ahead.
• 48:18
  S1: She was trying to earn her way to God, but
• 48:21
  S1: God showed her she didn't have to. Allie is in
• 48:25
  S1: the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
• 48:28
  S2: Drew Dick is my guest this morning and we have
• 48:32
  S2: a phenomenal conversation cook and we've already established the fact
• 48:36
  S2: that there's time wasters all over there. You were just
• 48:38
  S2: riffing on something. I don't know if you can recreate that,
• 48:41
  S2: but come close. What the truth is, Satan. Yeah. He
• 48:46
  S2: wants to bait us into some pretty horrible stuff. But
• 48:49
  S2: the fact is he's content to do what drew.
• 48:52
  S10: Oh, just to distract us, I think, especially in our
• 48:55
  S10: day and age, right? Yes. He wants to tempt you
• 48:57
  S10: into sin, but at the same time, especially if he
• 49:01
  S10: can't succeed on that front, he'll be just content to
• 49:03
  S10: distract you so that you aren't you aren't loving people.
• 49:07
  S10: You aren't growing in Christ. You're not sharing the gospel.
• 49:10
  S10: You're not dedicating your time and attention and passion to
• 49:13
  S10: the to the work that God has put in front
• 49:15
  S10: of you. And it's so easy to do. So I'm
• 49:18
  S10: sympathetic because I struggle with this myself, man. It's just
• 49:22
  S10: sometimes when you're bored or you're frustrated, it can kind
• 49:25
  S10: of be an emotional coping mechanism just to reach for
• 49:28
  S10: that phone, jump on whatever platform that you like and
• 49:32
  S10: scroll endlessly. But it's really something we got to take
• 49:35
  S10: a hard look at and go, is this the best
• 49:37
  S10: way to spend my time, especially as a believer?
• 49:39
  S11: Yeah.
• 49:39
  S2: Give us some correlation between brain science and the Bible.
• 49:42
  S2: What's brain science? Tell us that the Bible confirms and
• 49:45
  S2: already knew.
• 49:47
  S10: Wow. Yeah. As I, I remember I was reading on
• 49:49
  S10: this topic, reading all these studies on self-regulation and self-control
• 49:53
  S10: and willpower. And what jumped out to me is how
• 49:57
  S10: much correspondence or how much of it just validated what
• 50:01
  S10: Scripture said, right? Like the one thing that I remember
• 50:03
  S10: reading about willpower is that it's finite, that it's this
• 50:06
  S10: limited resource that runs out. And I think of what
• 50:09
  S10: Scripture says. It talks about us as as fallen finite creatures. Uh,
• 50:14
  S10: the Bible says flee temptation. Why is that? Well, even
• 50:16
  S10: if you can withstand it once, you probably can't. The
• 50:19
  S10: second or third time you get weaker as you go.
• 50:21
  S10: And I go, wow, there's so much wisdom in there,
• 50:23
  S10: just given the way that we're wired. The other thing is,
• 50:26
  S10: you know, the Bible is full. It doesn't call it
• 50:28
  S10: this all the time, but it's full of habits, of
• 50:31
  S10: holy habits that God commands us to kind of stitch
• 50:34
  S10: into the fabric of our lives. And we know now
• 50:37
  S10: from neuroscience how powerful habits are to the point where
• 50:40
  S10: you're kind of going on autopilot. And that can be
• 50:42
  S10: a very bad thing, whether it's, you know, smoking or
• 50:45
  S10: whatever the habit is, or it can be a very
• 50:47
  S10: good thing if you just have a habit built into
• 50:50
  S10: your life of reaching for your Bible every morning or
• 50:52
  S10: praying whenever you encounter a difficulty or loving people without
• 50:56
  S10: almost even thinking about it. Those are habits. And that's
• 50:59
  S10: a that's a good thing. There's a, there's a maxim
• 51:01
  S10: in brain science that says neurons that, that fire together,
• 51:05
  S10: wire together. And basically what that means is you kind
• 51:07
  S10: of where these ruts in your, in your gray matter,
• 51:09
  S10: in your brain that make certain behaviors easy. And I
• 51:13
  S10: think the goal for the believer is to obey God
• 51:16
  S10: so consistently that these patterns get built into your life.
• 51:21
  S10: So you're not always relying on grit and willpower at
• 51:23
  S10: the moment, but it can actually carry you. And that's
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  S10: just how we're designed. And I think it's, it's advantageous
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  S10: to know about that.
• 51:30
  S2: You know, for years someone would say, hey, pray for
• 51:33
  S2: me on this thing. And I would say, yeah, and
• 51:35
  S2: my intentions were good. But invariably nine out of ten
• 51:38
  S2: times I'm forgetting about it, if I'm honest with you,
• 51:41
  S2: and I have, I forget who turned me on to this.
• 51:45
  S2: Somebody said it and I said, I'm going to do it.
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  S2: And we had it happen two days ago. I'm driving
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  S2: down the road with my bride. We got my sister
• 51:53
  S2: in law on speakerphone. She asked for prayer. For one thing.
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  S2: I said, let's do it right now. So we just
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  S2: stopped and we went before a holy God. And I
• 52:00
  S2: just took her before God. And I said, here, we're
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  S2: lifting this up, Lord. In Jesus name. Amen. There is
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  S2: something about the immediacy of something when you feel prompted
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  S2: to do it, rather than saying, I'll get it later.
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  S10: Amen. Or when you see that person and you go, oh,
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  S10: I remembered. I told them I'd pray for them. And
• 52:17
  S10: you say, God, I pray for Bob. Hey, Bob, I've
• 52:20
  S10: been praying for you. You know, don't do that. Uh. Uh,
• 52:25
  S10: I speak from experience, sadly. Uh, but yeah, like, one
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  S10: thing in my life that was powerful is, you know,
• 52:30
  S10: I struggle with anxiety. And so I decided that whenever
• 52:34
  S10: I had these intrusive thoughts of something catastrophic that could happen,
• 52:37
  S10: something bad, instead of indulging that fear, I'm going to
• 52:41
  S10: turn turn to God in prayer, maybe not even about
• 52:44
  S10: that particular thing, but I'm going to pray for someone else.
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  S10: Get get outside my head, outside my concerns, and think
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  S10: about someone else. That's man. That's powerful, that's powerful. And
• 52:52
  S10: we know from brain science, again, that just little redirection
• 52:55
  S10: habits like that are really powerful in rewiring your brain
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  S10: and changing the patterns in your life.
• 53:02
  S2: We talk a lot around here about God's grace, his
• 53:07
  S2: unmerited favor, and his unlimited power to really do the
• 53:12
  S2: work in us. There's something about living in that constant
• 53:15
  S2: awareness of God's grace that's ever present. Uh, we've been
• 53:22
  S2: given everything we need for life and godliness. And have
• 53:26
  S2: you had any life hacks to tap that grace more consistently?
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  S10: Yeah. Well, first of all, it's just so important. You know,
• 53:35
  S10: a lot of people assume that grace is kind of
• 53:39
  S10: the opposite of self-control because you kind of the thinking goes,
• 53:43
  S10: and Paul talks about this in Scripture like, well, hey, listen,
• 53:45
  S10: if there's always more grace on tap, why would I
• 53:48
  S10: grow in godliness? Why would I exercise self control? Why
• 53:51
  S10: would I resist sin? Well, it's actually because of grace
• 53:54
  S10: that you do when you get grace down into your bones,
• 53:57
  S10: when you feel God's forgiveness that he has redeemed you.
• 53:59
  S10: Like you said, it's unmerited too. It's nothing. You climbed
• 54:02
  S10: up on a hill and accomplished. It is God's unmerited
• 54:05
  S10: grace in your life. Man, that doesn't make you want
• 54:08
  S10: to have license to sin or do what you your
• 54:11
  S10: own way or indulge your sinful impulses. You turn to
• 54:14
  S10: God when you really feel that and you go, I
• 54:16
  S10: want to live for you. And it's not that I'm
• 54:18
  S10: going to pay it back or earn it, but man,
• 54:21
  S10: it's just out of the overflow of a grateful heart.
• 54:23
  S10: So reminding yourself of that, and incidentally, heaping shame on
• 54:27
  S10: yourself actually has the opposite effect. Your behavior actually deteriorates.
• 54:31
  S10: You'd think that, oh man, if I can just beat
• 54:33
  S10: myself up about, you know, about a besetting sin or
• 54:35
  S10: a problem I've been encountering, then then I'm going to
• 54:38
  S10: reform in my behavior. No, just the opposite. And we
• 54:40
  S10: see this actually from studies. I think I've mentioned this
• 54:43
  S10: to you before, Carl, but it's hilarious. There's this diet
• 54:45
  S10: study that they did where they looked at people that
• 54:47
  S10: are on a diet and when they had a small indiscretion,
• 54:50
  S10: whether they ate like a piece of cake or a
• 54:52
  S10: slice of pizza, what would often follow that is a
• 54:55
  S10: full on binge because they felt so bad about themselves,
• 54:58
  S10: they said, I've already messed up. What's the point? They
• 55:01
  S10: called it the what the heck effect? You know what
• 55:03
  S10: the heck? I've already messed up. I'm just going to
• 55:05
  S10: go crazy now. Um, and then they also saw an
• 55:08
  S10: opposite thing where they called it the, the fresh start effect,
• 55:12
  S10: where when you perceive that you have this blank slate,
• 55:14
  S10: your behavior actually improves. And I just thought, man, there's
• 55:17
  S10: a corollary in the Christian life, isn't there? When we
• 55:19
  S10: internalize God's grace and forgiveness, when we have that fresh start.
• 55:22
  S10: What follows that is a desire to please God and
• 55:25
  S10: to love him and to grow in our faith. Uh,
• 55:27
  S10: whereas if we just kind of keep heaping shame on ourselves,
• 55:30
  S10: there's listen, there's, there's godly sorrow, there's repentance that's absolutely needed.
• 55:35
  S10: But once you've received that, my goodness, don't stay stuck
• 55:38
  S10: in that shame. Walk in the freedom that God's promised.
• 55:40
  S2: I'm thinking of two promises right now new mercy every morning, right?
• 55:44
  S2: Every morning there's new mercy and there is absolute clean slate.
• 55:50
  S2: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
• 55:53
  S2: to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Whiteboard.
• 55:58
  S2: Total whiteboard. Right there. Clean. Scrubbed. Ready to go. Drew,
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  S2: this is awesome. Give me a final word here, my man. Uh,
• 56:05
  S2: what do you want people to know? Because we're in
• 56:07
  S2: the middle of a week challenge where people are saying,
• 56:10
  S2: all right, I want to redeem time. Here's the real rub.
• 56:14
  S2: Conviction is good. When does conviction turn into condemnation?
• 56:20
  S10: No, that. That's huge. Have a little grace for yourself
• 56:23
  S10: because we're all going to waste a little time. Okay,
• 56:24
  S10: let's just be honest. You're not going to become a
• 56:27
  S10: scheduling ninja where every second of the day, nor do.
• 56:30
  S2: You want to be.
• 56:32
  S10: Exactly. Sometimes you got to chill a little bit. You know,
• 56:34
  S10: you gotta, you gotta unwind. You got to relax. And
• 56:36
  S10: that's okay. That's how we're wired as well. Um, but
• 56:39
  S10: at the same time, I guess something that is encouraging
• 56:42
  S10: to me, uh, and at the same time a little
• 56:45
  S10: scary is Colossians 323 whatever you do, work at it
• 56:49
  S10: with all your heart as working for the Lord. So
• 56:52
  S10: whatever it is that you're doing, man, your boss is
• 56:54
  S10: not your boss. Ultimately, your boss is the Lord Jesus
• 56:58
  S10: because he sees what you're doing. And that's not meant
• 57:00
  S10: to be a scary thing, that that's meant to be
• 57:02
  S10: a hopeful, joyful thing. Because even if no one else
• 57:05
  S10: sees the work that you're doing, even if you feel invisible, man,
• 57:08
  S10: Jesus is looking down on you and going, there's my kid,
• 57:11
  S10: and you can work to please him, and it matters.
• 57:14
  S10: Whatever you do, it matters. For now, it matters for eternity.
• 57:18
  S10: So even when it's a slog and you're, I don't know,
• 57:20
  S10: you know, you're hammering something or you're returning emails or
• 57:23
  S10: whatever mundane task. It all matters. It's all part of
• 57:26
  S10: what God's called you to do today. So redeem the time,
• 57:29
  S10: use it well, and let God lead you where he will.
• 57:32
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• 58:04
  S2: All right. So. So I'm confessing this morning that. So
• 58:13
  S2: we're all taking turns explaining the things that become black
• 58:17
  S2: holes for us for time. And we're talking time redemption
• 58:21
  S2: all week long. If you haven't gotten that yet. Well,
• 58:24
  S2: stick around because that's what we're tackling. So one of
• 58:29
  S2: my black holes is looking at these aggregated news feeds
• 58:33
  S2: that I have for the purpose of finding out what's
• 58:36
  S2: going on in the world. And I want to stay
• 58:38
  S2: on top of this stuff for sure. And by the way,
• 58:40
  S2: there's no harm, no foul in and staying on top
• 58:42
  S2: of that stuff. But sometimes if you're anything like me
• 58:46
  S2: and I know a ton of you are where you
• 58:47
  S2: want to know what's going on in the world, you
• 58:49
  S2: can go down these bunny trails of what the opinion
• 58:52
  S2: ers think about that hole that we're going down that
• 58:57
  S2: front that we're working on. And I'm focused right now
• 58:59
  S2: geopolitically on Taiwan. I'm very curious what's going to go
• 59:03
  S2: on there and praying. My goodness. I mean China signaled
• 59:08
  S2: in Trump's visit over there. Don't mess with us when
• 59:11
  S2: we come get it. Oof not good. In fact, he
• 59:15
  S2: tried to get an assurance out of Trump, and Trump
• 59:17
  S2: played it smart. He says, I'm not going to tell
• 59:19
  S2: you what I'm going to do, which is really dicey, man. Yeah.
• 59:24
  S5: Internationally, talk about uncertainty.
• 59:26
  S2: And so Iran, they were supposed to come back with
• 59:30
  S2: what their plan is. And so he put on hold,
• 59:33
  S2: going back in and blasting away over there. And let
• 59:37
  S2: me see if I can find this here. Yeah, I
• 59:39
  S2: can they, Iran came back here in just the last
• 59:44
  S2: little bit, and they're saying, I can do it from memory.
• 59:48
  S2: I can't find it right now. Um, they want to
• 59:51
  S2: be able to, uh, they want to be able to
• 59:56
  S2: take all their weapons grade uranium and enhance it still.
• 1:00:01
  S2: They want reparations for everything that was blown up, and
• 1:00:05
  S2: they want a few other things that are absolute nonstarters.
• 1:00:08
  S2: This is a bizarre thing that we're watching play out.
• 1:00:11
  S2: We're negotiating internationally, geopolitically with Iran to get the strait
• 1:00:17
  S2: opened up and to get the uranium out of there, which,
• 1:00:19
  S2: by the way, every president has said, we can't let
• 1:00:22
  S2: these guys get a nuclear warhead, right? I mean, from
• 1:00:24
  S2: a political standpoint. So it's fascinating what's going on here.
• 1:00:32
  S2: I mean, you go to Jeremiah 49, you look at
• 1:00:34
  S2: what's going on in Scripture. You see the breaking of
• 1:00:36
  S2: the bow of Elam. That is Iran. And there's the
• 1:00:42
  S2: reason I'm so captivated by what's happening in the Middle
• 1:00:45
  S2: East is that there's prophecies that are lining up here, guys,
• 1:00:51
  S2: but my goodness. Okay. So that that's an update on
• 1:00:55
  S2: that thing that we didn't have in your news source there.
• 1:00:58
  S5: But no, I'm glad.
• 1:00:59
  S2: For the latest update is the, the offer that the
• 1:01:03
  S2: UAE and other countries around there, Saudis and others had said,
• 1:01:08
  S2: hold off and they're going to join in on this,
• 1:01:10
  S2: by the way, if they need to. But hold off
• 1:01:13
  S2: until we get this proposal back from Iran. Well, the
• 1:01:16
  S2: proposal is not only not close, it's so far away,
• 1:01:22
  S2: it's not even funny. So here we go, man. It's
• 1:01:26
  S2: going to be dicey days in front of us here.
• 1:01:29
  S2: But the point is when you get down these bunny
• 1:01:32
  S2: trails for me, my black hole is news and it's wild.
• 1:01:39
  S2: There's no end to the different angles. You can hit
• 1:01:42
  S2: on one story.
• 1:01:43
  S4: And you can start reading the the different angles, plus
• 1:01:46
  S4: the comments on the angles, on the angles, and then
• 1:01:49
  S4: it becomes like an interesting back and forth. And then
• 1:01:52
  S4: you start clicking on other profiles because you're like, oh,
• 1:01:54
  S4: this person has a unique opinion. I wonder what their.
• 1:01:58
  S2: Boy, you sound well versed at this alley.
• 1:02:00
  S4: Yeah.
• 1:02:02
  S2: So that's my deal. I need to reel that in.
• 1:02:05
  S2: And when I do, here's the payoff. And we hadn't
• 1:02:09
  S2: talked much about it, but Jonathan shared this story. It
• 1:02:12
  S2: bears repeating, give us the give us the cliff notes
• 1:02:15
  S2: on this bad boy. This is really cool.
• 1:02:17
  S5: So I had a leak in my fridge that I
• 1:02:18
  S5: really needed to handle. I had kind of settled for.
• 1:02:21
  S5: I'll wipe it up until I can kind of figure
• 1:02:23
  S5: out what's going on here. And then I realized yesterday,
• 1:02:25
  S5: that's not going to work anymore. It's got to get
• 1:02:27
  S5: fixed now. So I spent a day fixing the fridge.
• 1:02:30
  S5: I went and got coolers. I stored all my frozens,
• 1:02:33
  S5: I defrosted the fridge, I took pieces off and then
• 1:02:37
  S5: I was able to clean out this ice from the defroster.
• 1:02:40
  S5: Drain that was clogged up. And so all the water
• 1:02:43
  S5: was just freezing. And I got that cleaned. I had
• 1:02:46
  S5: to push it out from the back. And I realized
• 1:02:48
  S5: I was going to have to unscrew a big panel.
• 1:02:50
  S5: And I got anxious about that. And I said, Lord,
• 1:02:53
  S5: I am nervous about this. And I said, but I
• 1:02:56
  S5: need you to help me. I want to make this
• 1:02:58
  S5: a time of worship. Um, and he helped me. He
• 1:03:01
  S5: helped me get through it. And I found that classic.
• 1:03:04
  S5: I was messing with Matt and Andrew, one of our workers,
• 1:03:07
  S5: and said the classic duck billed grommet. And so I
• 1:03:10
  S5: had to pull the grommet off and unclog it and
• 1:03:13
  S5: clean it out and then put it all back together.
• 1:03:15
  S5: Took me a long time, but at the end of
• 1:03:17
  S5: the day, I was so satisfied because I could get
• 1:03:20
  S5: up this morning, I could pull my breakfast out of
• 1:03:22
  S5: the freezer, and I could have started that freezer for
• 1:03:24
  S5: an hour.
• 1:03:25
  S6: Because I love that part.
• 1:03:26
  S5: Because God gave me so much joy for one, being
• 1:03:30
  S5: able to fix things, but being able to provide for
• 1:03:32
  S5: my family.
• 1:03:33
  S2: I won, I beat this.
• 1:03:34
  S5: I won, I beat the fridge and. And it took
• 1:03:37
  S5: some time, but all of that time was redeemed time.
• 1:03:40
  S2: Yeah. Here's what's interesting about time, redemption. Oftentimes we'll get
• 1:03:45
  S2: into black holes of time wasters because we don't want
• 1:03:48
  S2: to do what David Allen has coined the phrase eat
• 1:03:51
  S2: that frog. And I think he's the guy that came
• 1:03:53
  S2: up with it. He wrote a whole book called Eat
• 1:03:55
  S2: That Frog. And it's basically how to deal with these
• 1:03:58
  S2: refrigerator issues in our life. And invariably, as I was
• 1:04:01
  S2: talking with drew Dick, you, you conjure up in your brain,
• 1:04:05
  S2: this thing's going to be costly. It's going to I
• 1:04:10
  S2: might not get it. I. And then we get overwhelmed
• 1:04:13
  S2: with whatever it is. And he was mentioned in filing taxes. What.
• 1:04:17
  S2: But whatever it is, that thing can loom so large
• 1:04:22
  S2: in our brain. And then it steals power from you
• 1:04:24
  S2: because it's mocking you from the shadows.
• 1:04:27
  S4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:28
  S2: Right.
• 1:04:28
  S4: Yeah. And then you end up losing joy because you
• 1:04:32
  S4: feel a sense of regret and kind of I'm a
• 1:04:36
  S4: loser because you, instead of doing the thing that you
• 1:04:39
  S4: had planned on doing, you ended up on Facebook for
• 1:04:41
  S4: two hours.
• 1:04:42
  S2: Yes.
• 1:04:42
  S4: And then you go, oh, I'm such a loser.
• 1:04:45
  S2: Yeah. And and there's no one that's born into this world.
• 1:04:52
  S2: That's a got a PhD in eating frogs.
• 1:04:56
  S5: Nope. 100%.
• 1:04:57
  S2: They're just they're just constantly coming at you. So here's
• 1:05:03
  S2: here's the beauty though. And this is the payoff that
• 1:05:07
  S2: we hadn't hit until this morning. It just dawned on
• 1:05:10
  S2: me early this morning when I was looking in the mirror,
• 1:05:12
  S2: getting ready to come down. I looked in the mirror
• 1:05:15
  S2: and the Spirit of God just, just very clearly said
• 1:05:20
  S2: the payoff for this whole week, Carl, is the amount
• 1:05:24
  S2: of joy endorphins got invented. Endorphins. I mean, he built
• 1:05:28
  S2: us with those, right? The amount of joy that can
• 1:05:35
  S2: be when we redeem time, go eat that frog, whatever
• 1:05:39
  S2: that frog is. And it's usually a frog, isn't it, guys?
• 1:05:42
  S2: Oh yeah. That's that's holding us up on everything.
• 1:05:45
  S5: Absolutely.
• 1:05:46
  S2: Is immense. So I'm going to do something really different here. Uh,
• 1:05:51
  S2: we're going to have a frog celebration segment here. So
• 1:05:57
  S2: you were just procrastinating. That's usually what happens. You're procrastinating.
• 1:06:03
  S2: You were finding everything else to do. And sometimes it's
• 1:06:07
  S2: little honeydews. It's like, I won't eat that big frog,
• 1:06:09
  S2: but I'm going to knock out all these little things.
• 1:06:13
  S2: But then you went and ate that frog by the
• 1:06:15
  S2: grace of God, and you've got endorphins. It's like Jonathan
• 1:06:18
  S2: looking at the freezer going, I beat you. I got
• 1:06:21
  S2: victory over you as if it's got a personality, right?
• 1:06:26
  S5: Like it cares that I beat it. I care that
• 1:06:30
  S5: I beat.
• 1:06:30
  S2: It, but you care.
• 1:06:31
  S5: I care.
• 1:06:32
  S2: And God cares. Yeah. God cares that you.
• 1:06:35
  S5: I agree, I genuinely felt like he was with me
• 1:06:38
  S5: last night while I was working on the fridge. That's
• 1:06:40
  S5: so cool. And that's an experience I don't think I've
• 1:06:42
  S5: ever really had before. So I was grateful.
• 1:06:43
  S2: Okay. So taking your calls, we're taking calls. We ready
• 1:06:47
  S2: to go on this one? That frog that you ate,
• 1:06:52
  S2: that big thing, that was kind of an impasse to
• 1:06:55
  S2: a lot of other things get knocked out. And boy,
• 1:06:57
  S2: did God give you some joy in your soul. We
• 1:07:00
  S2: want to hear your story. (800) 555-7898. Come on, frog eaters.
• 1:07:06
  S4: I love that.
• 1:07:08
  S2: 805 557898 let's go to spots, man. Let's go to
• 1:07:14
  S2: spots 805 5578, 98. That's live radio right there.
• 1:07:20
  S4: It's giving Jonathan some cues.
• 1:07:21
  S2: Yeah. Give us a call right now. You ate those
• 1:07:24
  S2: frogs and you got a story to tell. Light them up, guys.
• 1:07:27
  S2: Let's just celebrate. And this is going to spur others on, right?
• 1:07:30
  S4: Yes, yes. So we're going to celebrate with you 805, five, five, 78, 98.
• 1:07:36
  S1: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to cast and crew.
• 1:07:41
  S2: Redeeming time because the days are evil. Ephesians five, Psalm 90. Uh,
• 1:07:47
  S2: teach us to number our days. That we may gain
• 1:07:49
  S2: a heart of wisdom. Here's the beautiful thing. We hadn't
• 1:07:52
  S2: hit it much, but there's a huge payoff when we
• 1:07:55
  S2: redeem time. Huge payoff. And the one of the coolest things.
• 1:08:00
  S2: And it's so true, this. Eat that frog kind of
• 1:08:03
  S2: issue that David Allen, who's just a life hacking dude,
• 1:08:06
  S2: I don't think he's born again. But all truth is
• 1:08:08
  S2: God's truth. And he says there's things in our life
• 1:08:12
  S2: that loom so large that it impedes our ability to
• 1:08:15
  S2: almost go do anything, because it's that big thing that's
• 1:08:18
  S2: in the way. It's that project, it's that phone call.
• 1:08:20
  S2: It's that it's that thing that seems so big. It's like,
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  S2: how am I going to knock this out? But when
• 1:08:27
  S2: we bust through, by the grace of God. Knock that
• 1:08:30
  S2: thing out. Eat that frog, boy. It changes everything. Eat
• 1:08:33
  S2: that frog Jonathan just shared is. That's huge.
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  S5: Yeah, that's my big one for now. And it kind
• 1:08:38
  S5: of makes me want to look at the other. That's
• 1:08:40
  S5: the kind of funny thing about this is it can
• 1:08:41
  S5: be a domino effect sometimes that you've got a couple
• 1:08:45
  S5: things you've been procrastinating on. You handle one of the
• 1:08:48
  S5: big ones, and as soon as you do, you're like, well,
• 1:08:50
  S5: let me go get on the other things. Right now.
• 1:08:53
  S5: I'm also building some dressers, uh, or assembling some dressers.
• 1:08:56
  S5: I'm not building from scratch. I got them from Ikea.
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  S5: But now that I fixed the fridge, I'm like, give
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  S5: me a couple hours on those dressers.
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  S2: No it's true.
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  S5: Absolutely.
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  S2: I'm able to knock this thing out.
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  S6: Absolutely. I mean, mine's not as big as Jonathan, but
• 1:09:12
  S6: I do have a smaller one. I finally this past
• 1:09:15
  S6: week tackled it. There was this bin and the bin
• 1:09:18
  S6: actually was all the graduation stuff from last year. My
• 1:09:20
  S6: son graduated from high school last year, but mama's hanging
• 1:09:24
  S6: on to like decorations and table stuff and I'm like,
• 1:09:27
  S6: when am I hanging on to this for? Like, it's
• 1:09:29
  S6: been a year. It's like I'm tears. I'm like, come on.
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  S6: So I sat down and I went through the bin.
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  S6: I saved a couple things, which is good for me.
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  S6: This is a big frog for me. And I was
• 1:09:39
  S6: able to clean out that bin and say, okay, stop
• 1:09:40
  S6: staring at it for a year.
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  S2: That's so cool.
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  S12: That's a big deal.
• 1:09:45
  S6: It was a big deal for me. My mom was
• 1:09:46
  S6: trying to let go of this. It's been a year. Okay.
• 1:09:47
  S6: Come on. He's graduated. It's been a year. Let it go.
• 1:09:49
  S6: Let it go.
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  S2: That's so cool. Christina, you're a first time caller here, Christina.
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  S13: Um, no, sir. I call pretty often. I love.
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  S2: I'm pumped. Frequent flyer here from Florida. All right. What's
• 1:10:03
  S2: the frog you ate?
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  S13: Well, I tackled the big job of getting my house
• 1:10:09
  S13: organized so that I could get ready in the morning
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  S13: on time for work, and so that I can get
• 1:10:15
  S13: to my appointments on time. Because I was always running late.
• 1:10:18
  S13: I was always having to speed down the road, trying
• 1:10:21
  S13: to get where I needed to go, putting my life
• 1:10:23
  S13: at risk in other people's lives. So God, ugly, um,
• 1:10:27
  S13: convicted me in my heart that I needed to get organized. And, um,
• 1:10:32
  S13: because I was wasting so much time trying to find
• 1:10:35
  S13: my keys and everything else in the morning time. And
• 1:10:39
  S13: now I have a table where I put.
• 1:10:43
  S2: We just lose her. We got it, though. Christina. That's dynamite. Sister.
• 1:10:48
  S2: Big boom. That's why we call you the boom crew, guys. Those.
• 1:10:53
  S2: That's big. That's not small.
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  S4: I mean, that's huge. And I loved how she linked
• 1:10:57
  S4: it to the things that the ways that it was
• 1:10:59
  S4: causing issues in other areas. So it wasn't just my
• 1:11:02
  S4: house wasn't organized. It's that I'm wasting so much time
• 1:11:05
  S4: finding my keys, and then I'm having to speed to
• 1:11:08
  S4: try to get to where I need to go. So
• 1:11:10
  S4: I'm always running late and that doesn't feel safe. And
• 1:11:13
  S4: it's stressful if you're always running late. So the trickle
• 1:11:16
  S4: down effect of tackling that one big thing, and then
• 1:11:19
  S4: now there's more peace and joy in those other areas.
• 1:11:22
  S2: We've got just take radio, for instance. We've got a
• 1:11:25
  S2: feature element that's coming up here on Thursday.
• 1:11:30
  S5: That's right, we do.
• 1:11:30
  S2: Yes we do. And we've been talking about this feature
• 1:11:34
  S2: and one other for a long time.
• 1:11:36
  S5: Yes, we have.
• 1:11:38
  S2: In our in our radio coach said, let's get on
• 1:11:41
  S2: that thing. In other words, eat that frog.
• 1:11:43
  S5: Eat the frog.
• 1:11:44
  S2: And now I heard the opener for it. It'll be
• 1:11:46
  S2: debuted on Thursday. That's all I'm going to tell you.
• 1:11:48
  S2: You need to be here. And it's like, that is awesome. Yeah.
• 1:11:54
  S2: And this is going to work so well.
• 1:11:56
  S5: It's exciting to see stuff like that.
• 1:11:58
  S2: Eating frogs.
• 1:11:59
  S5: Is.
• 1:11:59
  S2: A good thing. Ali.
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  S4: It is. So if you have something that you are
• 1:12:04
  S4: procrastinating on, procrastinating on that God gave you victory to handle,
• 1:12:09
  S4: what was it you ate? The frog 805, five, five, 78, 98.
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  S1: Standing on the rock each and every day you're listening
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  S1: to Carl and crew.
• 1:12:21
  S2: Hallelujah. We're asking eating that frog. Got a quick one
• 1:12:24
  S2: for you?
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  S4: Yeah. What is that thing that you were putting off
• 1:12:27
  S4: and putting off? And God finally gave you the strength
• 1:12:29
  S4: to finish. 800 555, 78, 98. Maria from Chicago, Illinois.
• 1:12:35
  S4: What was that thing for you?
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  S14: Hi. That was cleaning up my blue room. It turned
• 1:12:42
  S14: into a junk room, but I only ate half the frog.
• 1:12:46
  S14: But still, it's an accomplishment. And I was only able
• 1:12:49
  S14: to do it because I know that God has always.
• 1:12:52
  S14: I attribute any accomplishment I make in life to him.
• 1:12:56
  S14: So I know he was there with me.
• 1:12:59
  S2: You got half of it cleaned up.
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  S5: Amen.
• 1:13:01
  S2: That's an endorphin rush right there. It's a big deal. Yeah.
• 1:13:05
  S2: Another Maria from Illinois. First time caller. What do you say, Maria?
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  S15: God bless you. And I'm so glad to be on
• 1:13:12
  S15: the radio today. Give God glory. Amen. God bless me.
• 1:13:16
  S15: It's my degree. I was out of, uh, work staying
• 1:13:21
  S15: home with my children, raising them to glorify and to
• 1:13:25
  S15: magnify God. And when my son turned ten years old,
• 1:13:29
  S15: the Lord told me, it's time to go back to school.
• 1:13:31
  S15: I took one class, one semester, two classes the next semester.
• 1:13:35
  S15: I nickeled and dimed it, but God blessed me to
• 1:13:38
  S15: finish my bachelor's degree. Now God has blessed and open
• 1:13:42
  S15: the door. I'm an HR manager at a production company
• 1:13:46
  S15: and I give God all the glory. My children, God
• 1:13:49
  S15: has given them to be beautiful, loving the Lord and
• 1:13:52
  S15: serving him in the beauty of holiness. God bless you all.
• 1:13:55
  S2: Bless you Maria. Sister, that is awesome. Eating that frog
• 1:14:00
  S2: and finishing college up. And now she's HR exec.
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  S4: One class at a time. That's the way to do it, guys.
• 1:14:06
  S2: I don't know what it is for you, but time
• 1:14:08
  S2: redemption is not just about getting busy. It's about getting
• 1:14:11
  S2: those big things knocked out and watching God get the
• 1:14:14
  S2: glory and you get the joy. Do it today. Do
• 1:14:17
  S2: it today. What is that thing that God's telling you?
• 1:14:19
  S2: Go eat that frog.