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154. Trump, TikTok, & Tech · 4-Freedom Podcast

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I found my freedom in you. I found a toy I can't lose, and
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thank God it's true. You wrapped your arms around me
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and heaven broke through. From the moment she found me.
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I found. Welcome to the Four Freedom
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Podcast. This podcast exists to bring the
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freedom of the gospel for everyday Christians with
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everyday issues. Now here are your hosts, James
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Seyfried and Brett Moore. Welcome back to the Four Freedom
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Podcast. What a blessing it has been to
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be away from the mic as much as we've been away.
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It has been great to be back in the hot seat here with my man
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Brett. We had our Christmas break, we
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had our New Year holiday and we had a snowstorm come through the
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country. It felt like we've got snow on
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one side of the country and we've got fire on the other side
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of the country. Arctic temperatures it's been
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been. I love the cold weather, so it's
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been great for me and Brett. How was how was your Christmas?
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How was your new year? How was your snowstorm?
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Did y'all? Y'all made it through?
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Everything's good. Yeah, Christmas was great.
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Everybody got what they wanted, had a good New Year's, had a
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good time in church. I'll tell you that.
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The snowstorm, it actually stopped one county above us, so
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we were right below the line. And so here's the thing about
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the snow. When they say, well, for us down
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here, this is the case down here in, in South Central
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Mississippi. If if they say you're going to
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get snow, you're not going to get any.
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And when they say that you're not going to get anything,
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that's when you're going to get it.
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So that's how the weather works down here in South Central
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Mississippi. I love it.
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That's great. Our our weather guy, Brad
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Patovich is his name. He was spot on, dude.
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He was so close. We he was projected in three to
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six inches from my area. We got like 4 1/2 inches.
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So he was right in the middle of it and kids loved their
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Christmas time, had a blessing with just being able to hang out
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together and be able to open gifts.
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And I told our kids that when we, when I, when I became a
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senior pastor, that we would, we'd get a dog.
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I've been putting this thing off, Brett, as long as I can.
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And finally, my wife's like, listen, you promised these kids
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you'd get him a dog, and you ain't got him a dog yet.
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Kept on, kept on, kept on. Finally we decided that this
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Christmas we invested in a dog and we got a dog.
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And so he's running around the house and going crazy.
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It's a puppy. So he's in his puppy stages
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right now. And Hudson doesn't quite
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understand what a puppy is. And so he'll bite him in the arm
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and he'll smack him in the face and they're just going back and
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forth. But it's been good.
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We had a good Christmas. The kids already got a little
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dirt bike. Hudson got a little electric
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dirt bike. And so they've been riding and
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in the snow, man, they had a ball on their dirt bikes out
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there riding around going crazy. But yeah, it was, it was a good
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time and had a great, great time together.
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They got the sled in the snow a little bit.
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So it's it's been good. Oh yeah?
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Well, my kids, you know, they're teenagers.
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And so one thing that we've been putting off is electronic
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devices because, you know, they, they had, they had didn't grow
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up with it. I mean, here lately been seeing,
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we've seen five and six year olds, iPhones and Samsung's.
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And here my boys are 14 and 16 and the first, you know, they're
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getting their first, you know, Galaxy phone, Galaxy phones.
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They both got Galaxies now. They got got them for Christmas.
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And you know, everything, you know, Santa was was hitting on,
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you know, was batting it out of the park this year.
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So everybody, everybody liked what they got.
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And so Christmas was a good time.
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And so we are just ready for the new year and what the new year
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brings. Yeah.
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Well, Brett, Speaking of the New Year, we got to launch our cigar
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company and our cigar company is shipping.
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We have sold several cigars so far.
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Right now we've got three different lines.
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We've got the Sweet Elder, which is not shipping yet.
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It's our sweet cigar and it is going to be shipping soon,
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waiting on just a couple more samples.
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We're trying to finalize that exact flavor that we're wanting.
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We've got the Pastor's Reserve, which is our Maduro and then
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we've got our Bishop's Blend, which is our our Habano bland
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and so blend, not bland blend and excited about that.
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You can go to 69 cigars.com back slash collections back slash for
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Freedom Cigars, I believe, but we've got links there as well.
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And excited about this partnership and the ability to
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be able to brand our own brand and excited about the
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conversations that we've been able to have through it.
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And we hope that you'll maybe birthday gift Father's Day is
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coming up. We'll be running some Father's
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Day specials. Maybe your dad's a smoker and
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you want to grab him some, be a great gift for that.
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And so looking forward to what we've got going on in the future
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as well. Yes, we, we, we can't say a lot.
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We're under, you know, we've, we've signed the NDA on some
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things, but we, we were attached to some really, really big
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things and we can't say anything but just know it's big.
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Speaking of big things, Brett got something big coming up in
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just a couple of days. This comes out in November,
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November, this comes out January 17th and 3-4 days, three days
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from when this is releasing. Got something big going on up in
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DC. What's what's going on up there?
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Up in DC it. Was it the 7th?
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17th. Today's the 17th.
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The 20. Three days from now.
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Three days from now, we've got something.
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We've got an incoming president. I thought it was Martin Luther
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King Day. Oh, what is it?
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It is. It is also Martin Luther King
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Day. OK, well, good, good.
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Well, we we got a new president coming in, right?
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Kamala Harris is wait a second. Wait a second.
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No, no, no, not quite there. We got all we got, Trump.
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Huge, huge coming office. Going to be our president.
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Was it 45 and 47? 4547 yeah, Trump will be there.
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You know, as we're talking about politics for just a second, we,
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we don't normally talk about politics on here.
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Jimmy Carter passed away during our break.
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President #4039 maybe I don't, I don't remember what number he
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was maybe been 40. He passed away at 100 years old.
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And they did that, that funeral, that service.
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Trump and Obama were sitting beside each other, which was an
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interesting picture. Yeah.
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It was an interesting picture. And then I had the opportunity,
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Brett, just a couple of days ago.
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You know, every once in a while you get one of those harebrained
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ideas. I get them all the time.
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And I sent a friend of mine a text and just said, hey, I know
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you have a little bit of a connection.
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What, what do you think the possibility of me going to the
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inauguration would be? And he said, well, I may
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actually have a couple extra tickets.
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And I said, we'll see if you can get 21 for me and one for my
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son. And so he texted back the next
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day and said you should be receiving an e-mail and checked
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my e-mail there. It was an invitation from Donald
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Trump and Mr. Vance himself, and they had invited me to the
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inauguration from the Billy Graham Trump Alliance that they
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have there. And so I will be at the
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inauguration on the 20th there in Washington, DC Me and my son
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are going, we don't get to be part of the the, the hoi polloi
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that gets to sit on the stage, but we'll be in the field.
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And in freezing cold weather, it's like 20 degrees, 25°, I
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think it's the high that day. And so we're going to be a part
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of the festivities. I've never been to an
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inauguration before and this is only the second.
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In a lifetime thing. It is.
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I was telling my son this. I said, man, it's a once in a
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lifetime opportunity. And this is only the second time
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we've ever had a president win to non consecutive terms.
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Grover Cleveland was the last one and now Trump is is the
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second one. And so I mean, it's been like
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150 years since that happened. So it could very well never
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happen again. But it's an opportunity for me
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to be able to spend some time with my son, him to be able to
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witness history, something that he's never for going to forget.
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And I get to be there. Looking really forward to that.
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Been planning out some things, been sending out emails to some
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senators that I know and just trying to hook up while we're
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there. We're going to go up Sunday
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night, be there Monday and drive back Monday.
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So being able to get up with other people may be a little
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harder, but I do want to definitely spend some time with
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my son and excited about doing that so.
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Yeah, and of course you're going to get him on the podcast.
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Oh yeah, absolutely, 100%. I mean.
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People think the Joe Rogan interview was something It's
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nothing compared no to the four freedom podcast where Trump
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comes on here and talks about freedom in Christ from Galatians
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51. Absolutely.
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And I'm sure he's going to call me up to pray during the
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ceremony. When he gets sworn in, I'll have
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my Bible there. My Hey James, Hey Man Bible and
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I. Am such an over preparer that if
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it was me going I would have a prayer ready to go just in case.
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You know you never. Know, is that Brett Morton out
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there? Brett, come on up here and pray
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for us, brother. Yeah, come on.
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Yeah. Give us A and I'll tell you.
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I'll tell you this and this can guy.
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We want to talk about this anyway.
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I I am like so ready to go back to Israel.
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It is just like, you have no idea how bad I want to go, how
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bad I want to take a trip. And I've said when Trump gets in
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office, I'm going to give him a couple of months to get this
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Gaza thing under control. And this is this is something
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that I've been saying for a while.
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And so I'm going to give him to March, April to get this thing
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done. He says he's going to he's going
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to stop it. He's going to stop the war.
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And so my thing was, OK, I'll give him the March, April, if by
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sometime mid-april, he has not fixed it yet.
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We're going to plan Missionary Paul journey, which we're going
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to do one day anyway. And so we're going to do
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Missionary Paul, go to Greece. And so that was the plan.
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And so I was waiting on that. And then we get news today.
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I mean, I'm talking, I found this out an hour ago that they
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have just signed a ceasefire right now for the Gaza conflict.
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They're releasing like 30 hostages.
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The Israel is releasing Palestinian hostages and they're
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releasing about 30 Palestinian hostages for one, for one
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Israeli hostage or it's not hostage.
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Israel doesn't take hostage. I misspoke.
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They're Palestinian prisoners to 1 Israeli hostage and the
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they're they're releasing the sick, the elderly, the women and
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about 30 make between 30 or 50. I'm I'm you know, I just found
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out about it. I so it's between 30 and 50
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hostages are being released, but this has led to a ceasefire.
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A6 week 6 ceasefire. This is the first stage.
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And so we'll see how things go after six weeks.
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We'll see how, you know, how things progress.
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It really isn't going to completely be over until all the
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hostages are free because, you know, Israel, Israel's not going
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to let up until every single hostage is accounted for.
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And so, I mean, look, Trump's doing this.
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He's not even taking office yet. He's already, he's already doing
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this stuff. So it's amazing what, what Trump
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can do the man. I am glad that you get to go to
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that inauguration. That's going to be a great
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thing. It's going to be a memorable,
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memorable thing. If I was closer up there, I
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might, you know, push for tickets for myself.
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But you know, it's, it's pretty far away from me.
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But I am glad you get to go. And I can't wait to see to see
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Trump get into office. And so which by the way, if he
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gets into office, he gets into office on the 20th, but that's a
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day late. Day late and the dollar short,
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my friend. To save TikTok.
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That's right. Which brings us into our next
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subject. Topic #2 TikTok and what that
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means for what's going on here, for the future of that.
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I actually had a conversation last night at the dinner table
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with my family about it. They were like, hey, what's
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going on? What what's then?
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You know, they know I follow politics pretty well.
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And I said, well, Congress has passed a law that if, if, if
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TikTok doesn't change ownerships from their parent company, I
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don't even remember what the name of the parent company is
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Bike Dance that is Chinese owned and Chinese ran that it will no
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longer be downloadable or updatable in North America, in
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America, in the United States. And that passed in Congress.
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It passed in the House and Joe Biden signed that into office
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that it would go take effect January 19th.
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And the only way this gets reversed is Brett, how does this
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get reversed? Do you know?
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Well, we've got a couple of options.
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It's before the Supreme Court right now.
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OK, so they have some things that they can do.
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First thing they can do is they can say, OK, we're going to
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postpone this. Trump says that he can save the
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app. So we're going to push this a
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few months past and give Trump a go at it.
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The Supreme Court could an option #2 they could say, OK,
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well, we don't see how this is, you know, hurting national
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security. And if you listen to their
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argument, they don't have an issue with directing people's,
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you know, directing videos to be anti American, directing videos
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with an agenda. Because like Kavanaugh said,
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that's what apps do today anyway.
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Every app, you know, adjusts their algorithm and videos to
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push a certain agenda. So that's nothing new.
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Yeah, but their issue is really the data collection that is the,
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you know, that is the big the big thing.
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And so. The other big thing is Brett, if
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if America had an app such as TikTok that was owned by America
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that we were able to collect data from Chinese individuals or
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Japan, that app would not be allowed in their country because
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we would be collecting their data and they would not allow
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it. So the, the premise of this is,
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hey, you wouldn't allow this in your country, so we're not going
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to allow it in our country. Sell your ownership to someone
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that's going to be able to work well with us because we don't
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work well with China in that sense of data.
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And we'll maybe have this conversation, and it's not
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looking like bike dance is going to do that.
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Right. And so they could say, OK, well,
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we agree that it violates First Amendment rights.
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We're going to we're going to Kick It Out and say that TikTok
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is OK. Then three, they could, they
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could say, Oh no, we're just going to agree with it and let
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the ban go through and it's over.
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Now, Trump, if they do that, Trump could get in office on the
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20th and say, okay, we're not going to enforce the law.
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It's a law, but we're not gonna enforce it.
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But then that puts a lot of liability on the app.
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Stores like Google and Apple play in stores because they're
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still liable. And if one day the government
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changes their minds, they're gonna get these hefty fines.
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There's a bill put forth by a senator a couple days ago to
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kick the can down the road 270 days to give him more of a time
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to find a solution that would have that bill would have to
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pass in the next two or three days to save the app.
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And so there's a lot of options on the table to save the app.
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So I think there's good applications, there's bad
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applications for TikTok. And so we're just, we're in the
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road and we're just waiting to see what happens if, if it can
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be saved or not. I know that like the world is
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going to be completely decimated if the RFP TikTok page that I
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run gets taken down. And so I know I'm going to be
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devastated. I think that that it's going to
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be shut down. This is my my James Safer had
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here. I think that that Trump's not
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going to have the ability to say we're not going to follow this
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law once it's signed into law. You can't just say we're not
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going to follow that law. That's not how laws work.
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I think Supreme Court it. Shouldn't be how they work?
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But I think the Supreme Court's going to uphold it because their
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arguments are so weak. And the Supreme Court's going to
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have to say, hey, we, we back the other two forms of
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government, the the legislative and the presidential.
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So I think they're going to uphold it, which doesn't mean
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that TikTok will cease to exist. This is what people don't
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understand. It's going to still be there.
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It just won't be downloadable. And then as phones and new
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devices update, you won't be able to put it on new devices
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and then it won't be accessible on your desktop view.
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So those are the, the implications.
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And I don't think I have to look into it because Bertie asked me
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this question. Will Dad, can you still upload
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videos and watch videos after it's no longer after it's
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banned? And I said, I think if it's on
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your device, just like other apps, you'll still be able to
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use it. There just won't be any support
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for it from the App Store anymore, right?
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And, and all the American companies that that the support
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and update won't do that anymore.
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So slowly but surely the app will lose function and it won't
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work as well and it'll start getting glitchy.
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But on then on the other hand, byte Dance is saying that the
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TikTok is saying that if the band goes through, they're just
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going to shut it off. So there's a chance that it will
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just go completely dark. Tik Tok's lawyer said that that
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there there's a chance that the app just could go completely
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dark. So, you know, hey, you know me.
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I mean, China wants the, the chicken soup recipe I sent to my
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aunt the other day. Let him have it as far as I'm
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concerned. But I but I know there are
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bigger implications for for data and so you know.
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But I know you're, I know you're really concerned because you're
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going to lose your millions of dollars that you get from your
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views by being the the RFP TikTok guy.
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I mean all your millions. Are on horseback, man.
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Yeah, all your million. I mean, you're gonna have to
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sell your jet plane now. I mean, Jesse, The Planets is
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gonna have to buy it back from you.
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Do you know how expensive insurance is on a Lamborghini?
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I mean, it's just, it's highway robbery.
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We can't handle this so well. Hey, what?
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Let's add one more tea in there, Brett, because you mentioned
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something. We've got Trump, we've got
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TikTok. We're going to talk about one
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more in just a minute. But I did a tea thing this oh,
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this this Christmas, I went out and I bought me one of those.
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They're Tesla's and I've been driving 1 around.
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And so I've been enjoying it. It's been fun.
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It's electric, it's fast, it's crazy the amount of technology
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that's in it, and it's pretty cool, man.
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I've always thought they were a cool car.
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And I, of course, I got it used, didn't buy it new.
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We don't make that much money as pastors, but I got it.
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I told Ally sort of what we were paying in gas and I said, hey,
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if we can find a Tesla for this cost based on what we're paying
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in gas, I said we would essentially be putting our gas
21:30
money into a car payment and wouldn't have a gas payment
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anymore. And in a couple years, once it's
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paid off, you know, we would be sitting on the plus side versus
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the negative side. And so we've been looking for
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about 6 months and one came up on Black Friday, went and looked
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at it and bought it on that Saturday.
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And really good home. Mom pop used car dealership
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there in Conover. And it's been fun.
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Kids like it. We drove to the beach and back
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and it was a definitely fun trip.
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So yeah. Do you do you read The New York
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Times going down the road? Yeah.
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Driver's seat, yeah, read the New York.
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It does have a little camera in there, so you have to actually
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keep your eyes on the road. You can't look around.
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Like one time I was sitting there looking at Allie, talking
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to her and like everything started flashing.
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Pay attention, pay attention. So is.
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It weird having the car drive you.
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It's it's really cool. I actually, so you have to pay
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for that subscription. They give you like 45 days for
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free. And then after that it's $100 a
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month to keep the full self driving.
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And mine does come with the full self driving.
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Some of them don't. So for that first 30 days, yeah,
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I, I put in my destination, hit the, the, the, the, the stick on
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the steering wheel and it drove me to my destination, pulled
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into the parking lot or poured into the driveway.
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And I didn't have to touch the wheel or the gas.
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It changed lanes. It did everything.
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It was pretty spectacular during those 30 days.
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If I knew I was going to be driving a lot like long
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destinations then I may would pay for that month, but I'm not
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going to pay $1200 a year to have that function on my car.
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It has an autos. If I'm going on a long trip,
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like on vacation, I'd pay for it. 100% yeah, it and it I'm
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telling like you put it in and it goes it, it stops at charging
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stations. It does everything for you.
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You don't have to touch a wheel or the gas or the brake or
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anything. So it was pretty, it was pretty
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wild. That's crazy.
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Speaking of crazy technology, since we're on RTS, what's the
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last topic we'll talk about before we introduce what we're
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going to be talking about this this season on the podcast?
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I don't want to talk about a little bit about tech as in AI
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tech as in specifically AI in the church, AI in the ministry.
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AI is a big thing. It's becoming more part of our
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everyday life. Artificial intelligence is I
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mean, you've seen some of these big these big rooms with these
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computers that do this AI for every 4000 words that ChatGPT
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right to take takes up a gallon of water to put to to cool the
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computer. And then other people writing
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novels today, 4000 words is nothing.
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But there's a lot of applications.
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Before I get into how I use AII want to ask you, have you ever
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used AI? Brett I've used Chat GB TGPT
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maybe 4-5 times total. Every once in a while I'll be
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playing around and I'll pull it up and throw something in and if
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I'm trying to alliterate something or or get something
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right, I may put it in there. But man, it's been 3-4 five
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times. That's about it to the extent
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that I've used it. I know some guys are using it
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every day. I have several guys in my church
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that work in the tech field that do a lot of coding and they use
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ChatGPT to help them with a code.
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If they're trying to find a code instead of searching for it,
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they can just drop it in and it'll spit out the code they're
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looking for. One guy who built our website
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for our church, he used ChatGPT to build the web our website,
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which was insane and crazy. I haven't I thought about it
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more I talk to you about it, the more I may may do a little bit
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of it, but but tell us how you're using ChatGPT and AI and
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your day-to-day life. So I just started, you know, as
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most people know, I just started working on my master's to New
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Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and one of the first
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orientation orientation classes that took for one of my classes.
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He said, look, we don't, we don't want you to use AI to
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write your research papers, to write your essays and stuff like
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that. But at the same time, if you
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don't use it at all, you're gonna get left behind.
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And so as far as school goes, what I use AI for is I use it to
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research. I can plug in my syllabus and it
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can say I need give me 10 sources for this paper, make
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sure they're free, that I can use online.
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It'll pop up ten sources that I can use for my paper.
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They're online, they're free, It gives me the links to every one
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of them. They meet all the requirements
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of my syllabus. Once I get done, I don't let it
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type my paper for me. Then once I get my paper, then
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I'll take it, I'll plug it in. I was like, check for spelling,
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grammar, syntax, logical consistencies, whatever else I
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can think of, check all that for me.
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And so it's just a really great way to use, you know, AI in that
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regard. So then I started using AI more
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for church applications. And I think that this is
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something that a lot of pastors that they knew about, they would
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start using. Now, I'm not at all advocating
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that somebody use AI to write their sermons for them, not at
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all. But if you want to use ChatGPT
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to help you research for your sermons, say look, give me, you
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know, commentaries on this verse, you know, give me, you
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know, I want to preach on praying in the Holy Spirit.
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Give me some some information about that.
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Give me some Bible verses about that.
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And it can do a lot of research for you.
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Another thing that I'll do is I'll say, OK, I here's the
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points of my sermon. Here's the subjects here the
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verses for each point. Now give me illustrations for
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each point and they'll pop out sermon illustrations for each
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one. I might not use those exact
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sermons, but I mean those exact illustrations.
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But I'll read the illustration. But you know, something similar
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like that happened to me in my life.
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And so then I can use that as a catalyst, as a jumping off point
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to write my own illustrations that AI kind of gave me, you
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know, gave me the idea for here's another thing that you
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can do with AI that I think would be good to help churches
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help pastors is repurposing your old sermons.
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So what you can do is you like for me, I manuscript all of my
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sermons. OK, if you don't manuscript.
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We talked about this before we started.
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You can go on YouTube if you post your, your sermons to
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YouTube and copy and paste the transcript of your, you know,
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the, the, you know where it says the words, the closed captioning
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you, you can, you can copy and paste that and use that as well.
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But I manuscript my sermons. I go to the pulpit with every
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word that I'm going to say typed out.
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So then you I take those old sermons and I plug it into
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ChatGPT and I'll say OK, take this sermon and write me 5 blogs
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in my voice and that I can post throughout the week and it'll do
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that. Now these are my sermons that I
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wrote. So it's not like I'm cheating.
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It's not like it's writing it for me.
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Basically it's taking my sermon and it's organizing it into five
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blogs that I send to our tech guy and he posted them on the
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church website. And so I've been blog using my
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old sermons that I preached years ago that I think I will
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never use again. And I'm repurposing those.
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I'm turning those into blogs for our church website.
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Another thing that I do on Monday mornings, I take my
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manuscript, I plug in and ChatGPT.
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All right, give me 7 quotes, pull 7 quotes from this sermon
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that I can post on my Facebook page and it'll pull 7 is of
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seven of the best quotes from the sermon.
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I go to Canva which is free and I make like a inspirational
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Facebook Instagram type post with a, you know, a moon in the
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background or mountain or something.
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Just like a inspirational quote that you post on Facebook.
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Put our church logo and address on it and post it on Facebook.
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And so from blogging to writing inspirational quotes, it has a
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lot of applications. I'll give you one more
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application that I use it for. I'm writing a book.
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And what I'm doing is, you know that a lot of people say take
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your old sermon series and turn them into a book.
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And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I want to do a little booklet on marriage.
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And So what I'm doing is I'm taking an old sermon series that
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I preached on marriage and I'm using AI to help convert that
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sermon into the chapters for this new booklet that I'm that
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I'm typing. It's my words, it's still my
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voice, it's my point, it's my research, but it's organizing it
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into a book format for me, saving me so much time, so much
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effort. And I think it's just, it's
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something that we really need to look into.
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You know, we don't need to be like, oh, well, that's not how
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my grandpa used to do it. So we're not going to use AI
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because that's not how they did it back in the 1950s.
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No, no, we're, we're, we're we're free to use these tools.
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These are here. There's nothing wrong with using
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them. You know, there's nothing wrong
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with taking an iPad to the if there's nothing wrong with
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taking an iPad to the pulpit, there's nothing wrong with using
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AI to help you in your research. Now, I will say once again,
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don't let AI write your sermons for you at all.
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But using it as a tool, a research tool, a tool to help
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you do some of these other other things to save you some time.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all.
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Yeah, I love it. That's great.
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Great thoughts and things I haven't even thought of.
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Often times we do get stuck in doing things a certain way.
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You know, I know some of these big time preacher men back in
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the day, they would have research assistants and they'd
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say, hey, I need you to research this passage.
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And you're basically just outsourcing that person to an AI
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program that's doing the same thing a whole lot quicker than
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what that person's going to do. So it is saving you time and
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effort. And again, it's, it's your work,
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it's your, your, your background of all that and love that.
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Thank you for sharing that, Brett, and sharing what you've
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done and, and ways that you're using technology to further the
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gospel ultimately and provide freedom for those who have been
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struggling. And it's been been great to to
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hear that and to see that. And I do see your blogs and I've
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been following those online. I was wondering how you did
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that. So it's good to know.
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Maybe I'll steal some of those ideas and use them for myself,
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but love that. Last thing that we'll talk about
33:05
before we sign off is our upcoming season.
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We'll be starting next week and man, we are excited about what
33:12
we've got coming up. We are going to be talking about
33:14
wokeness in the church, what that means, how that's defined.
33:19
We've got some different topics that we're going to bring it on.
33:22
We're going to bring our old founding host back, John for a a
33:26
victimhood episode. Been woke in victimhood and
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victim blaming and hurt in the church.
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And so he's going to come on and talk through that and we'll be
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talking through several different issues.
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But next week, hopefully you'll TuneIn and maybe share some of
33:41
these ideas because often times some of these new fandangled
33:45
words like woke and other things get mistranslated or misdefined
33:50
over the years. And so we wanted to find that
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and what that means and what that looks like.
33:55
And then we're going to be looking at two different sources
33:58
that talk about wokeness in the church and begin to talk through
34:02
that, begin to look through it and really dive deep over the
34:06
next probably 8 or 10 weeks, maybe even longer than that on
34:11
different issues that have gone woke in the church.
34:14
And so man, we're really excited about that and hopefully you'll
34:17
be tuning into us. And again, if you want to
34:20
purchase some cigars from us, we'd love for you to try some of
34:23
those. If you ever have any questions
34:25
for us, feel free to reach out to us on our social medias and
34:29
we would love to talk with you. Brett, any final words from you,
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my friend? No.
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Just I'm looking forward, I'm, you know, looking forward to
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this series mean you kind of put our heads together and come up
34:43
with this. I think it's really relevant.
34:45
I think it's something that needs to be talked about, people
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afraid to talk about it. We don't need to be afraid to
34:52
talk about it. You know, we don't need to be
34:54
afraid to talk about controversial subject,
34:57
especially if they affect the gospel.
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And these subjects are becoming the center of our culture.
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You know, we, we, we, we need to, you know, stay awake to the
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gospel, not woke to the culture. And so it's really needed and
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I'm looking forward to it. Absolutely.
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Well, until next time to God. Not the pastor.
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Be the glory. Found my new name, found that
35:23
good grace, found that healing. And the tears fell down my face
35:28
when I found my beginning has no ending.
35:32
From that second chance, from my best friend, from my
35:34
forgiveness, from my happiness. I've been singing ever since
35:36
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