Reformed Bracket Kickoff!

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Hello, welcome everyone to the live stream for the 2025

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Best Reformed Podcast bracket kickoff. We've still got some people coming in.

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I see some people dropping out, coming in, but we got a full house tonight. How you guys all doing out there? Doing good.

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Good. All right, let's see, let's see, let's get Brandon back in there. It's like he's jumping in. Adam from Rockwall Bible said he's gonna be coming in.

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So, um, yeah, so this is the kickoff. What we do is we do a live stream before we kick off. I do a live stream after each, uh, round of voting, um, which this year, just so everyone watching and you guys listening, um, it'll be, uh, 64, then down to 32, then down to 16, then down to eight, then down to four, and then the final two.

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Uh, so we're gonna have a little more voting because we expanded it to 128 podcasts this year. So on Monday, we're going to be going through and we're going to be doing 16 a day, 16 match -ups basically.

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Hold on. We got someone coming in here. Is that, uh, who'd we get back there? Okay. We got, uh,

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Parker, but, um, I want to introduce all you guys for everyone watching. These are our sponsors. These are the guys who came on board and said, yeah, we want to see you do this again.

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Uh, we want to be part of it, uh, because we believe in podcasting. We believe in getting those guys exposure.

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Uh, we love bringing glory to God. I think this is a fun thing that we can do online and people really get into it.

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Uh, and of course, as soon as I start talking, people start jumping in. Hold on here guys. So it's a live stream. Is that, uh, is that Adam from Rockwell?

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Hey, it is. It is. All right. And we can hear you. Cool. So everyone's got audio. Everyone's got visual. Excellent.

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I was just going over. I'm going to start where, where I'm looking at my screen and kind of just work around the screen.

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It might be out of order for you guys, but what I want you to do is, um, is say, you know, uh, what's your product, what's your service, uh, as a sponsor, what you do, how you heard about the bracket, whatever.

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And give us a little 30 seconds about what you do too, because the cool thing we all have in common here is we are all believers.

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We're all building something. Um, we all want to glorify God in both our personal lives and our professional lives.

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And that's why I'm ecstatic to partner with each one of you because I know each one of you personally, I've met you, I've talked to you.

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I know you're good guys. And as Christians, I think we really need to stick together in the business world.

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Like if we know a guy who manages wealth, I want to go to the believer. If I'm getting my

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Bible rebound, I want to go to the believer. I'm getting my cigars and my coffee in my podcast edited.

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I want to go to the believers. So, um, that's why I wanted to talk to you guys for a minute. So on this live stream, let's start out with Josiah Stowe.

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and, uh, what business you bring to the table. Yeah. So, uh, good to be here.

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Uh, I am a California native that transplanted to Louisville, Kentucky after five years in the army as a chaplain's assistant.

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Uh, worked at the Southern Baptist theological seminary handling their $31 million annual operating budget before eventually transitioning into personal finance.

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Uh, and, uh, we basically just do everything. So full service, financial planning and wealth management from a distinctly reformed point of view.

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Uh, so we help you with your budgeting, help you with debt pay downs and savings accounts and life insurance and retirement planning and estate planning and business coaching kind of the whole nine yards.

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Uh, and we do that all for free. Uh, we're, we're independent brokerage agents. So we, we get paid on the backend when we set you up with a, with a carrier, with a, with a company, they pay us because as far as they're concerned, we just brought them a client.

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They didn't have to go looking for it. So it's a way for us to kind of structure our business and pull into the Egyptians, uh, while providing top tier, uh, financial planning without compromise.

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Now, not only do you have the best URL in the business reformed dot money, right?

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You just type that in, take you right there. But, um, give me your tagline. Cause I love your guys' tagline. You have two of them.

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Yeah. Yeah. Uh, all of life. Yeah. All of Christ for all of life and all of finance for Christendom.

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And then, uh, from baptism to burial, Dominion's got you covered from baptism to burial. I like that.

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All right. So guys make sure you go support Dominion wealth strategist, uh, Terry Mann, you're the next one in line, Patriot cigars.

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Tell me a little bit about the business. Tell me a little bit about the price pack that you're giving out too. Yeah. So my name is

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Terry Mann. Um, I'm one of three partners in a Patriot cigar company. We're based out of, uh,

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Southern Oregon. Um, basically, uh, a couple of buddies and I at, at our local church, uh, our wives were not real happy with our cigar budget.

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So we thought what can we do to try to help that? And so we started a cigar company and, uh, that's, that's kind of how it started.

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Um, but really we, we've got a real similar vision. I think to a lot of you guys, we've actually, we've talked to Josiah. Um, we just want to build something that's

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Christian and I think cigars are a great way to do that. Yeah. He's got one, right? Yeah. Um, you know, it's just, if you're a cigar guy, you know, when you come around a great cigar with some guys, it's just a great time to slow down and have some good fellowship.

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And, uh, we, we just thought it was a great thing for some Christian brothers to be involved in and are ultimately we want to have, you know, a local brick and mortar here, a cigar lounge, a place that people can just meet.

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And, um, you know, whether it's Bible studies to just, just whatever kind of fellowship, we just want to facilitate that in any way that we can.

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Um, and we're all three partners and I'm, um, myself, uh, Brian Ferguson and Ethan Harris.

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Uh, we're all full -time. I'm a logger. Uh, we've got a family logging company. Brian's a cattle rancher and Ethan's a forester with, with warehouser.

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Um, you know, so this is kind of our, our hobby side gig that's turning into a lot of work.

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Yeah. I don't think you can have a more masculine cigar. So that's what

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I want to say too. So you have a prize pack, you're giving out a legacy cigar prize pack, but yours is cool because it won't necessarily go to whoever the final winner is, but you are our most reformed in content judge.

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So you get to pick, there's two sponsors here that do something special. You get to pick, uh, who you feel exudes the most reformed man, whether in content or gifts or posts throughout the whole entire, uh, 10 days, and then we're going to allow you to award them that cigar pack.

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So I think that's pretty cool. What's, what's included in that legacy. Are there any good? Yeah. So what we've got, it's, it's, it's basically our entire line right now is our legacy line.

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That's what we started with. Uh, so there's two different Cameroon cigars. There's a Toro and a box press that'll be in there.

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There's a really great Nicaraguan Puro Maduro. Uh, there's a, another Puro that's a

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Habano. Um, and then our new Sumatra, uh, and that, and that's actually real

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Sumatra tobacco from Sumatra, from Indonesia. And that is my personal favorite. That cigar is a baller.

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It's just, it's, it's really good. So we'll ship that out to you. And I'm, I'm, I've been checking the mail,

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Greg, every day. You said I was going to be the reform czar. So I've been waiting for my funny hat and my robe. I'm pretty excited about that, but yeah.

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Well, we're reformed. We're not Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. Well, I still want a funny hat. My head gets cold, you know,

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I'll see what I can find. All right. Moving right along. Uh, the real Parker Brown watch well podcast, but here on behalf of, he's the owner of vindicated productions, uh, professional audio video editing and give us a little bit, uh, about your company, uh,

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Parker and what you do. Yeah. So we started, um, I started this, um, a few years back, um, got really into video editing.

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I started, uh, filming, uh, weddings and, uh, did that for a while.

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And then the brides got really tough to deal with. So I was like, I don't want to do that anymore, but I fell in love with the podcasting space, made some great friends and got really good.

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Really quick Parker, just so you know, reform guys can be just as catty as Brian. I mean, if you've been on Twitter for, you know, five minutes, you've, you, you, you, you find that out real quick, but, um, but no, what,

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I mean, it's real simple. Uh, we, we do podcast editing so that we can put the creator in the best possible, uh, position or seat that they, that they enjoy, uh, to be in.

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So they, they create, they do all of their filming so that they can be in a complete creative control.

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And then they upload their raw files to the cloud. They, I download it and I edit it for them and send it back.

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Um, so can I just say really quick too, is I will go through my reels and I will sometimes skip over someone's podcast that's did a little clip, but I always find myself watching all of yours.

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And after about 10 of those, I was like, why am I naturally gravitating towards that? You're quick edits. Um, you're always in HD, uh, your text on the screen grabs you.

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So you have not only the technical, but you really do have a creative eye for that stuff. And I would say anyone listening that has a podcast that's at that space, they go look at,

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I want someone to professionally edit, do the audio, even help me a little bit creatively to get more views and have people actually stay on my site or my reel instead of bouncing.

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I would absolutely suggest you, but you're the second guy that is going to be doing something special. Um, you're going to be looking over all the content for the whole week and you're going to be giving away a prize pack, which is one month of free editing a $500 value from you've indicated productions for, for the best contents that that's posted in that 11 days.

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So although Terry's looking for most reformed and he's looking for kind of a theme, you're looking for what visual pleasing.

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Uh, it's funny if it's engaging. And tell us about that. Yeah. So you're good for free episodes, $500 value.

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And, um, you know, obviously we're video production. So we want to see people get in there and uh, you know, create, create some mischief, get up to some shenanigans with the video and, and uh, just really have a good time.

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So the, the person that, that has the best creative idea, whether it be a gift or a meme or video content, um, emphasis on the video, but we're looking at all of it, you know, regular tweets all the way up to video, whoever has the best one, we'll award them with the four, the four free episodes.

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So you're one of those ones. If you're a podcast watching right now, both Terry and Parker, you could win something, even if you don't get down to the final one or two.

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So, um, be active, be involved moving right along. Brandon would eschatology matters.

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My man from Amsterdam. Uh, tell us a little bit about the podcast, how that's been going and, uh, about your prize pack as well.

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All right, brother. Thanks for including us in this. I just want to say that Parker, if you were doing this last year, you would have had to have picked us because we had the video of, uh, us cutting

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Keith Foskey's head off. And we had our own, we had our own theme song and everything.

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I feel like we, we, we should almost win just because of that. But anyways, um, we'll see what we can do this year.

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Um, well, you guys got, you guys got to step it up for sure. I'm not worried, bro.

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We got this, but, uh, I'm a co -founder of eschatology matters.

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Uh, we, uh, we are essentially a content publisher. Uh, a lot of people know us from YouTube because that's where we spend a lot of our, our time and energy, but we are on, uh, the fight

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Blackfeast network and we do podcasts on Apple and Spotify. Uh, we're not huge, but we, we continue to grow every year very steadily and God's been good in that.

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And we just want to, um, you know, I was raised dispensational in a charismatic dispensational environment, which was pretty intense.

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And so I had a pretty skewed view of eschatology. And so our goal is to, uh, people usually fall into two ditches.

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They are very fanatical about eschatology and you can think of all the Colts that have been started because of eschatology or they're very indifferent because they don't think that it really matters.

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And so our goal is to go right down the middle and say, Hey, this should be a source of joy and motivation for you and your daily

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Christian life. And so that's what, that's what we're about. Um, and so I, I used to host conferences.

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I might host one this year, but until I do, I've got, I'm sitting on a lot of books that, uh, companies have sent me.

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And so I've got some stuff to give away. Um, and I don't know if the winner, I know we haven't talked about this.

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I don't know if you want, you know, someone that's participating or, uh, voting to get these, or if you're wanting the podcast that wins to get them,

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I don't know if they'll need them, but I have a, uh, commentary on revelation, uh, here.

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This is actually from James Hamilton. It's just more creepy. I'm posting. No, by the way, but, um,

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I think that'd be useful. Um, while the bridegroom Terry's by, uh, banner of truth, it's a really good book.

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Uh, and then my partner, Josh Howard, who started eschatology matters with me, he rants and raves about this book.

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So this is an eschatology of victory by Marcella's kick. And I mean, this is his go -to when he's talking to people about eschatology and I'll throw in,

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I'll throw in a few more. They'll probably be six, seven books that we'll give to the winner. So. Yeah.

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So we originally had you in with the final winner, but sometimes that winner does say if you want to bless someone else with that.

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So keep an eye out, just be watching the whole bracket. If the final winner says, I don't necessarily need those.

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We'll bless someone in, uh, in the bracket with those. Um, so awesome. Glad to have you here,

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Brandon. Thanks for jumping on. Uh, and then of course we come to squirrely Joe, Joe Morris.

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I just had some this morning, baby. Look at this. The best reformed coffee that you're going to have on the internet.

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Joe, how you doing brother? Tell us about what you do. I think everyone knows right now, but they probably know.

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Yeah, you're everywhere. It's all right now. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah. Glad to be here. Uh, so Joe Morris owner of squirrely

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Joe's coffee. Um, you know, we'd go to a lot of conferences and people just started calling me squirrely

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Joe. So I never even intended for that. So we're just going to go with it. Um, but yeah, so we are a specialty roaster.

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So, you know, we import green coffee, we roast it, we ship it out. Super easy process. Um, you know, we're just trying to provide good coffee and uh, you know,

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I know all these guys on here except for Adam. Uh, good to meet you, Adam. Haven't met you before. Um, but I've met everybody else.

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Um, done some stuff with, uh, several podcasts in the bracket. So, um, and they're all on the left side, all the ones that I deal with are on the left side.

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So I've only got one shot to win with all the podcasts that we do business with.

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So, um, but yeah, you know, we're going to be giving out prizes too. So we don't have like a big grand prize.

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So what we're kind of going to do this year is, uh, I'm just going to scroll my feed and, and just pick a random person every day of voting and they're going to get a free bag of coffee.

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So, um, so basically the, the, you know, the entry is engage in some way with the bracket and you are entering into to get a free bag of coffee.

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Uh, and then I will say that one of the podcasts that we work with, uh, they are sending me some swag to do some giveaways.

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So if any of the other podcasts that I deal with want to maybe sweeten the pot and you know, buy a few votes, you can send me some stuff and we'll do some giveaways for you too.

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So Hey, I don't mind it. I'm a politician. I'm not against buying some, you know, swaying some votes.

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Right. Uh, and by the way, guys, for those watching, this is the one that I got addicted to in Tullahoma compassion, drank that for three days straight.

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Uh, cause I think you sponsored, uh, Jeff's rice, uh, Jeffrey Rice's, uh, conference a few years ago.

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And I went, how have I not heard of these guys? And then once you drink coffee, uh, you know, five or six cups on 14 hour conference days for three days straight, uh, you pretty much get addicted to it and you go, this is my new coffee.

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So, um, go, go check out squirrely Joe's premium coffee here. And last but not least, we have

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Adam from rock wall Bibles who reached out to me and said, would you, would you be willing to, uh, to give away one of my

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Bibles? I said, willing, are you? I have an obsession with rebounding. It's beautiful. Oh, look at this thing.

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It is a ESV creeds and confession, uh, gray, uh, cow hide.

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I think is this is happy app, right? Is that half full? Yeah, Adam. Yep. Yep. That's like a semi app.

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Semi app. Okay. I mean, just absolutely gorgeous. It's almost got like a grayish, uh, olive color to it stamped.

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Um, but I'm talking too much about it. I should let the expert, uh, Adam from rock wall Bibles tell, tell me about this

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Bible that the winner is going to get an absolutely gorgeous Bible. Yeah, sure. Yeah. That's a, uh, you, well, you kind of mentioned it.

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ESV, um, with creeds and confessions. So really nice Bible to have rebound.

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That's one of the more popular ones. Um, and yeah, it's in like a gray, great cow hide, man.

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I, I labored over what, what leather to use for that one and the design. So, um, yeah, yeah.

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That it's a, it's a pretty sweet Bible. I kind of wanted to keep it, but we better give it away.

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Yeah. He shall reign forever and ever etched in the back. You got a great, great spine here.

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So yeah, a podcaster is going to have an absolutely gorgeous Bible. And thank you for doing that and taking your time.

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Now I took it out of the box. It's it's fully wrapped. It's going to come in a, in its own box with its bubble wrap and everything, but we'll get that sent out.

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So Adam, thanks so much for, um, for, for donating that. Tell us a little bit, tell us a little bit about the business.

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How long you've been doing it. What kind of stuff do you do? Do you do just Bibles or do you do all books? Yeah. Yeah. I can do a basically any book as long as it's a sewn binding.

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Uh, we've been selling rebinds for about a year now. Uh, it's gone, gone really well.

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Um, and so I had plenty of business. So I just want to thank everyone out there who has, uh, put in orders with us.

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Um, you know, I'm, I'm kind of slow at work and I just do it part time. So I have a regular day job and then three, three girls under four.

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So, um, it just kind of, uh, when I can get to them thing and, uh, but it's been, it's been really good and the

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Lord has blessed it. Uh, and in, you know, proceeds from, from me selling Bibles, it kind of started off as a way for, for me to eventually pay for their

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Christian education. So whether that be, uh, you know, a Christian school or, uh, maybe starting a school someday or, or homeschool, one of the three.

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Um, so, you know, when you buy a Bible from us, that's what it's going to go to. Oh, you can't have a better sales pitch than that.

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Yeah. I mean I'll help send my kids to Christian school. Exactly. About a

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Caesar school. Yeah. Awesome. Hey, let's, let's try to make it full time for you that we can just be rebinding Bibles all day.

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Um, all right, cool. We got a few minutes left here, guys. So I just wanted to go over the, uh,

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Oh my gosh. I mean, we got, I don't know if we can see that. Um, I have a copy in front of me, but we've got 128 podcasts on the list.

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I've gotten all but five of their social media contact. I'm waiting on the final five.

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So they will be tagged in each one. That way if you're not familiar with it, you can always click through on X or their social medias and check them out.

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I started this, uh, four years ago, uh, with 16 and it was just podcasts that had been on my podcast.

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Then we expanded it to 32, then 64. And now this year, 128 past winners have included dividing line, which

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James White bowed out this year. He said, I'll tell you what, give my spot to someone else, uh, for a new up and coming podcast since he's a past winner.

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And I appreciate that. That's why you won't see James White from dividing line in here. Haunted cosmos is one Apologia one, uh, one year and they're back in it.

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So we've got a lot of good podcasts here. Do any of you guys look at any of these and maybe cause

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I don't know every single podcast. I know probably 80 % of them. Um, but I've been in contact with every one of them.

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Uh, do you get, does anyone see on here like a dark horse that could go really far into the bracket?

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Just looking at these 128. I know there's a lot here, but um, throw it out for me.

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If you've been looking and you go, man, one of these might make it farther than we think. Yeah.

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I mean, eschatology matters for sure. That is true.

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You guys are like a low key, sneaky, can weasel your way into, uh, you know, some situations for sure.

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As we've seen, you know, uh, yeah,

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I don't know. It'll just depend on the response they make to Corey. I think, I think Corey's really, um, he's putting in the work with the, with the videos, man.

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Corey wing from civically minded. Yeah. Civically minded. He's, he is laying a smack down on eschatology matters right now.

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So they're going to have to read it. You guys are gonna have to do something to, to, uh, put him down.

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Well, he's gotten a lot of shares on that video of the most reformed man with his pipe and his hat.

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That, that was really good. Um, but I, yeah, I agree with you, Parker. Uh, he's really, he's really starting off strong early.

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Another one is even Andrew Rappaport from rap report, because I agree with this and he goes deep into his like email list and he goes over to his

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Facebook page and posts it. He's like, guys, go vote for me. He went a couple of rounds last year and almost beat, uh,

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James White, which is a tall order, but came, came pretty close. And you go, man, he might have a path that takes him far into the bracket.

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Um, just thinking is always a sneaky one. If they actually post about it, a Virgil and those guys actually post and go,

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Hey listeners, go vote. He could be one that goes far. It really comes down to for all the podcasts listening to this is only on X.

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So if you have interaction or you repost, I've seen much smaller podcasts meet larger podcasts just because they were engaged and said,

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Hey guys, could you vote for me and move them to the next, uh, you know, to the next round in the bracket, which

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I found very interesting. So it's just not necessarily how big the podcast, how many listeners or how many

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X followers you have. It really is like, how active are you during that 11 day period and will people respond to the request?

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You know? Yeah. And I'm, I'm just gonna, I'm going to stay at right now. I didn't watch well. I think we've got a good chance.

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Oh, I, I, uh, who are you up against in, in, uh, We're up against the Ezra Institute. Oh yeah.

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Cause you're already taking him down. You've already got, uh, we've got names rolling posted. We've got a video being filmed, uh, tomorrow.

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So, I mean, I really hope they can take a joke. I think you,

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I think you legit, I think you legit have a shot just because I don't think that Joe and them do a whole lot as far as did they interact with it last year,

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Greg? They were like five days too late, Brandon. So their team reached out to me as their ex and said,

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Hey, we didn't know this was going on. Can, can we still vote? I said, you lost already. You got to start at the beginning.

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So, well, I'm having a dilemma here because I'm sorry.

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Go ahead. No, go ahead. I have a dilemma here. I'm friends with Nathaniel Wright Institute.

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I'm friends with Parker and I'm like, do I tell Nathaniel he better get out? Do I just let it go? So Parker has a better shot.

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So you can do like, I really like the, uh, the disqualified due to inactivity rule.

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Look, you guys can do whatever you want as the one who makes the bracket and does the posts. I don't get in.

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I retweet everyone equally. I'm an equal retweeter, right? Uh, I'm a DEI retweeter.

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Um, but what I do is, is I don't, I don't go through first and say, Oh, by the way, this coming up, they see it when they get tagged in the post.

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So from there, they're on, you know, they've been warned. So if they've got a very active, uh, acts where they're on there every day, or they have a social media manager that's actually looking at it, they'll see it and they'll retweet it.

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If not, then, uh, the other person going up against them has the advantage. That's kind of the way I feel about it.

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All right. I'll go ahead. No, go ahead, brother.

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I was just going to say, there's two of you here that are actually in the bracket that are on this call right now we're on this live stream.

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Um, outside of that, outside of YouTube with your own podcast, what podcasts on this list and anyone can answer.

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Have you guys listened to the most? Do you think out of, uh, everyone on here, cause some of these go back pretty far.

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I mean, you talk about like apology, uh, let me go in 10 years as a podcast. Yeah. Well, so, uh,

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I don't know if this is, uh, is, if this is a fair take, but I did for reformation red pill.

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So due to editing some of their stuff for them, I, uh, I've listened to Joshua Haynes voice a lot.

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Oh, you're their client. So, okay. That's a little conflict of interest. I think.

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Well, I mean, I've got, I've got a haunted Cosmos shirt on right now. I don't know if anybody can see that, but Oh, that's funny.

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I, it's the only podcast shirt I had. And I thought, you know, I don't care. I'll I'll, I'll put a plugin for them.

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Maybe they'll, maybe they'll notice me one of these days and want to want to advertise my cigars. But right.

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I mean, I, those guys and theology applied, those are probably the ones I've listened to the most, but, um, yeah,

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I don't know if there's a lot of possibilities for dark horses in this thing. I was talking to Ethan, our other partner about this today.

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And man, there's just so many that you could point to. He's really watching a base

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Boomer and the Heidel cast. So we'll see. Yeah.

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So another funny one too, is center for Baptist leadership. And, and William Wolfe asked me to write it that way, because that's the name of the podcast.

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And I said, brother, unless I tag you, uh, with your name, I don't know if you'll get any votes.

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I don't know if anyone listens to center for Baptist leadership. Now I, I'm sorry, William, if you're watching,

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I'm sure it's a very popular podcast, but everyone just knows William Wolfe. You know what I mean? They just know the name cause that he's, he's on X that way.

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So I told him, I said, don't blame me if the new startup for the King podcast, uh, you know, uh, maybe gets past you in the first round.

28:12

You gotta be out there retweeting it. I don't care if you are meeting with Trump or not. You say, Mr. President, I have a bracket to attend to.

28:18

I need to go retweet Greg's tweet. You asked president Trump to tweet out the bracket.

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Yeah. Can you, can you tweet this out? But, uh, yeah. So overall, man,

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I'm excited because we have 128 when we get down to that 64, it'll clear things up a little bit.

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And then it really gets fun in the third round at that 32, because once you get through two rounds, then it really starts getting into tough competition.

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And you've got people who've been voting for you multiple times. So the 32 and the sweet 16 are always very exciting.

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But just for everyone watching, uh, just so you know, we're going to start Monday night. That's the 10th at 9am

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Eastern standard. We're going to start from the upper left in the upper right side, and we're going to do 16 matchups.

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So we'll get rid of 32 a day. So there's going to be four days of just first round voting.

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Then it goes down to 64 at eight matchups. So that's eight or I'm with a 16 a day.

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So that's two days of second round voting and so on and so forth. When we get down to the final 16, we'll probably do four a day.

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Essentially it works out to about 11 days. And for anyone watching, uh, I do not work, uh, do brackets or do any podcasts on Sunday.

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So we will go Monday through Saturday. We will skip Sunday and then we get right back to it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and finish up on Thursday.

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So, um, you know, if you're on X daily or every other day, I would say be on daily, check in at real, real

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DMW podcasts. You're going to have multiple votes going all day. They're all 24 hour votes.

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So they'll start at 9am. They'll end at 9am each day. So we'll have 24 hour votes and you get to vote for one or the other.

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And then we tell him up at the end of the day and we put him in the, uh, bracket so you can see it and you, you will be able to see every day.

30:11

Who is it? Who's advanced to the next round. That seems to work out the best. But guys, did you have any, uh, final words for anyone out there, uh, for the couple hundred people watching right now?

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Well, at least on X, I can't see on my YouTube, um, uh, that are, that are watching anything, uh, about the bracket.

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You want to tell them? I would just say that, um, I would just say go vote because, you know, we all know that, you know, all of us guys that make content, how much work it goes, it goes into, you know, bringing a message to an audience and, uh, even, even just voting, you know, voting for your favorite podcast goes a long way.

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So I would say just go vote and support the podcast that you really, really like. And even if you don't support them, vote, just vote for someone that you like when you see the poll, just vote for somebody, because it means a lot to us who create the content.

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You know, I just want to echo that very quickly. Share, share this stuff, vote, you know, uh, promote all this stuff you can.

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And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm judging everybody's reform.

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So you got to tag me in it if I'm going to see it. So tag patriarch cigars. And, uh,

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I, I have no standards. I can be bought. So, you know, that's, that's a very good point.

31:29

You guys both made great points that I forgot for forgot to mention real quick before we go. If you are making content and you want to be in on the free editing, you got to tag real

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Parker Brown right there on the screen. He needs to be able to see it. He's got a life. He's got kids.

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Same thing with Terry man. They're not, they can't go through hundreds of posts, tag them. So they see it. Same thing with a

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Terry man at Patriot cigars. If you've got something that you're making a joke on being the most reformed or something reformed, make sure you tag him to Patriot sir.

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So he can look at it because those are our two creative judges in those two areas. And then like you said,

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Parker, uh, for everyone who's watching, who's not in a podcast, we really do appreciate when you guys vote for us.

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I had a gentleman who was two weeks into podcasting and I put him in and he, he lost in the first round.

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He said, and he private messaged me and he said, Greg, I got 650 votes in round one.

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That is amazing. I never thought anyone would see 600 and you know, see my name 650 times.

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I picked up some listeners from it. Thanks for doing it. And I went, that's neat. I love that because it does.

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It takes a lot of time for all of us to make content and from the sponsorship view too, for you guys listening that aren't on this live stream, these guys work really, really hard to build a business to provide for their family, to do sponsorship.

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Money isn't free. We're not the federal government. We know that money is just something personified in labor.

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So these guys are laboring very hard at where they work. Uh, and if you have some extra money, throw it to Josiah, he's going to hook you up and then manage that.

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Well, my point being is follow, follow every one of these guys, which it'll be posted every day.

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Follow every one of these guys on X and go patronize them, buy their coffee, buy their

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Bibles, uh, help them, let them manage your money. Listen to their podcasts, buy their cigars.

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That's the reason I do this too is because we have to support small business within the Christian community.

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And it's really great when you're in the Christian reformed community too. It's a very loyal group. And I know we're all trying to do something that glorifies

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God. That means in every aspect. That's why I started covenant real estate. I'm a broker of a real estate company and a covenant is a legal contract in real estate.

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It's also a theology, nice little double play on words. Why I named it that, but I get to meet people face to face, share the gospel, glorify

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God and do the absolute best job I can do in real estate. And if you are watching out there anywhere in the United States, call me,

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I can help you out. Investment, recreational, residential, commercial. That's my own commercial right there. But my point is support and patronize and follow each one of these guys.

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They'll be posted every day. All right, guys. Thanks so much for jumping on. I know we're all busy. It's the, uh, 2025 reform podcast, bracket kickoff

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Monday morning, baby voting starts. It's going to get wild. Let's do it. Let's go. All right, guys.

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Have a good night. All right. We'll see you Monday guys on the live stream. Oh, peace.