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#218 - 2025 Wasn't What We Expected: Here's What Happened · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Oh, 2025 is in the books. It's in the books. I don't know about you. I am ready to move on.
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  I feel like the black man off of the Green Mile, the big black guy who was in
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  prison, and he says, boss, I'm tired. I'm tired, boss.
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  And that's how I feel about 2025. I am so ready to move on to the next.
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  I want to get to the next year. I've never felt like this in my life.
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  I was actually, this is the first time in my life I was actually happy to get past Christmas.
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  Usually I look forward to Christmas so much and I don't want it to be done.
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  I was cool at being done this year because for some reason, 2025 just,
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  it stank to all hell, you know?
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  I just, I want to just bury it and move on.
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  And I don't know about you, I'm ready for a fresh start.
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  I wanted to find what are the most notable events that have happened in 2025
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  and go through them and just looking at, trying to pull them up on AI.
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  One thing about AI is you cannot get events that are taking place.
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  Like it doesn't give you good news.
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  Even Google, which has everything at its, you know, at its reach.
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  It doesn't seem to give you the latest and greatest news immediately.
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  You have to really just, you have to woo it. You have to like,
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  hey, come on. You got to give me something.
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  I mean, give me at least something. I pulled something up. I was able to find
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  something on Google that I'm going to read to you.
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  But, and then I'm also going to like, let you know some things that in my life,
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  what I experienced in 2025 and why I'm ready to move on.
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  Something I did notice recently, I just saw on X and I trust it. If it's on X, I trust it.
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  Whatever it says, it's the truth. It's the gospel.
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  I saw that Snoop Dogg has become a Christian. That is awesome.
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  That's awesome, you know?
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  And that goes to show you that anybody in their life, you get older,
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  eventually, you know you're going to burn through everything and you're in soup
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  dogs case, he's burned through everything, but you want to move.
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  You realize what there's more to it.
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  There's in the bottom line of it is Christ. I mean, we all understand that.
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  And that's why everybody's like, I'm going to be praying like hell on my deathbed.
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  You know, I, I would say, I wish I would have become a Christian.
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  Just, just a little anecdote for me.
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  I wish I would have become a Christian out of the womb.
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  I wish I was like John the Baptist, that I was a Christian, even though I don't
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  know if he would have called himself a Christian.
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  I don't know if that term was available at that time, but he knew the Messiah
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  in his mother's womb, which is pretty cool.
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  I wish that was me. I don't know if it was you. I want to get the most out of life.
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  And because just the here and now, I know it's all about health,
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  wealth, relationships, all that good stuff.
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  That's what sells. That's what people want to hear about.
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  But at the end of the day, it's the things that we're going to carry on with us to the next chapter.
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  I mean, the next chapter of our life is what's going to matter.
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  And not just the next year, you know, but the next actually when we take our final rest.
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  All right. So this is what Google has to say about 2025.
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  2025 was a turbulent year marked by geopolitical shifts, including Donald Trump's
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  return to the U.S. presidency.
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  Amen. intensified conflicts russia ukraine gaza but also a gaza ceasefire and
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  significant leadership changes in several nations alongside historic uh first
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  like japan's i was like going to the next line it.
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  Alongside historic first, like Japan's first female head of government and the
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  first American Pope Leo the 14th.
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  And then we're going to go, I was like skipping forward. I was,
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  I was missing that whole female head of government thing. I was like, ready for the next line.
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  That first American Pope, which is pretty significant. That's pretty cool.
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  We got our first Pope, you know, even though I'm not Catholic,
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  I think it's pretty, it's pretty neat that we got a, a homegrown first Pope Chicago, Chicago guy.
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  I don't, I don't want to disrespect the office. I honor to whom honor is due,
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  you know, I don't know what your whole things about the Catholic,
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  my mixed, I have mixed emotions about Catholicism. I don't know about you.
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  I have a love. I mean, I love, love relationship, I guess.
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  I don't know. But that's kind of, that's the, that was the, the shindig I wanted
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  to kind of touch on, you know, about 2025.
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  I, we had peace in the Middle East, you know, the, that historic event,
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  you know, that happened, the Gaza ceasefire and that is moving into,
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  it seems like huge events, like, I mean, eternal significant events that are happening in Israel.
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  And there's just this major drift in this disconnect with people in Israel.
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  Israel is becoming much more of a hot topic.
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  People are getting more and more divided over it. And what is happening there is very significant.
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  Especially with Donald Trump's relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel,
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  the government there, that there has never been a president they have loved
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  more in Israel than Donald Trump.
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  Say what you will. I'm actually, I'm happy about that.
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  I mean, I know people don't want to get involved in a lot of that stuff.
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  And I think we do need to take care of our own, but that relationship with Israel is super unique.
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  And if the longer that we have that, the better it is. I'm not saying that Israel
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  needs to control our government from the inside, you know, and manipulate us or anything like that.
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  But they are our greatest ally. They are. I know that's cheesy and stupid.
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  It sounds stupid, but it's not. It's not.
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  It's not. It's a good thing that we have good relations with Israel.
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  They are the chosen people.
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  And I don't care what you say. You want to say like, oh, that was just the biblical
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  thing. That was about the Old Testament.
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  And now who is this phony government over there? They call themselves Israel. They are Israel.
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  Call it what you will. They are. They are. Even though they don't look perfect.
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  And I think if you look to the Bible, they're not perfect. They're never perfect.
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  I think we understand that.
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  And then also, I mean, a very noteworthy event of Charlie Kirk's assassination
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  that happened this year on 9-10 and everything that has transpired from that.
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  And as we get into next year and we get closer to the trial that's going to
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  happen with Tyler Robinson and everything that's gone on with Candace Owens, that is falling apart.
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  Candace Owens whole charade and
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  thing that she's she's probably pulling out some gems you know getting some
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  insight because there probably was something going on obviously there's something
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  went down you know that it happened too nicely and conveniently if it was just
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  this guy a lone shooter I understand that but the way she's going about it and just.
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  Dragging everybody's name through the mud and just leaving chaos and wreckage
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  behind her is something I know what she brought up about Fort Hachuca or whatever it is,
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  that place that's down in Arizona.
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  That has completely just turned her most ardent supporters against her. She's not—she is not—.
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  At all, she's lost a lot of steam by that because her most famous supporters,
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  the people who have been with her, you know, from the beginning,
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  it locked in with every episode, with everything that she said.
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  And for them to start turning on her, I'm thinking of that Evan Kilgore, him specifically.
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  And I know I'm going to dive into more deeper in 2026 of him,
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  as well as other people that have been there along for the ride,
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  you know, on the edge of their seat,
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  watching everything that she said and now they're
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  she turned against them first because they called her out on something
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  very subtle and now they're like their eyes
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  are becoming opened what she's doing and now they're going to be able to just
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  you know rapid fire be able to say all these things about her and she having
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  your best supporters turn against you on this is not good especially when you're
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  saying everything out of both sides your mouth because she is she said a lot of things that aren't,
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  I know you want to stick as closely as possible to the truth,
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  but when you're saying so many things and then you have all this web of things
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  that contradict and they can't, don't line up, it's hard to keep it, keep it straight.
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  And I know that's what she's struggling
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  with right now. I don't know about you, but I am ready for 2026.
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  I'm ready to move on with life. I don't want to see 2025 again.
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  Anything that I see in the past, if I see an email from the past,
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  it makes me want to throw up. I hate the past. I want the future. I want the new.
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  I want to gain and get wisdom and learn from the past. I don't want to just
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  go through it for nothing.
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  And I always struggle. I don't know about you, but I always struggle if I could
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  go back and change anything, if I could go back and do it over.
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  Hell no, I wouldn't want to do it over. But I might. It's like,
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  would you learn the same things?
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  Would you have those things in your head? Would you be the same person you are
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  if you hadn't gone through them, you know, and that's where like,
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  I almost, I needed my head to be smashed in so that I might learn something.
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  And maybe that's why I went through that.
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  Maybe that's why I did that thing. Maybe that's why I screwed up, you know,
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  gigantically, whatever it is. And I don't know about you.
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  We have things. It's a life learning lesson. We're being tested throughout life.
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  And it's so that God is shaping us. He's conforming us to the image of his son
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  so that we are heaven ready when we're called home.
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  All right. I hope you'll have a great New Year's Eve and bring on 2026.
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  Everyone stay safe out there.