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I was trying to OK, we're live here. Cool. I was trying to trying to find the link for you here.

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We wanted to do a link. Oh, but can't find it. Cool. Now we're live, man.

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So, oh, gosh, we are starting. I'm scared. I'm so scared. Cool. Welcome to Dead Man Walking podcast.

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We're going to do a live live episode tonight, right? Who's out there? Just keep it loose.

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Hello, everyone. Should we do an official intro or are we going to do a special live intro?

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What do you think we do? A song doesn't go ahead and go with ours. I was going to go with something ridiculous, but yeah, it's

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OK. All right, here we go. We'll do the ready official start. OK. Now, what was your alternative one?

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You got to do that one. Dead Man Walking. You can't laugh while you do it. It's hard not to whenever we're doing this silly stuff.

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Come on, man. You have that smooth, buttery voice. Well, I have that a little bit of a a throat stuff, sinus stuff going on right now.

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It's going around. It's just my allergies. You know how everybody's like, like you're in a store and you'd like just sneeze or you cough or something and you feel like you have to justify it every single time.

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You're like, well, don't worry. It's just it's just allergies. Don't worry about it. You know, so I went to a meeting.

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It's like a business development court for Albemarle County. Yeah. And I'm there representing the county. I get to the community college that we have here locally.

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And I start looking. There's like 150 people there. Me and one other guy don't have a mask on. Ooh. And someone goes, oh, yeah, the community college.

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The whole campus is still under mask mandate. Yeah. Right. And I go, great. Well, I'm also getting over cold.

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And I tested myself, made sure I didn't have COVID. But I did have a cold. You probably hear it a little bit. My voice. And I'm sitting in this presentation with like 100 other people.

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It's like trying to hold it in about 20 minutes. And I go, I'm just leaving. This is ridiculous.

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I got so many side eyes. People were looking at me like I had the plague. Yeah. You know, it's just the cold, the cold.

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It's just stuffy and a little bit of a cough. Exactly. So I just ended up walking out. I mean, the other day I took my

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Claritin, but nobody else did. So it didn't work, you know? Yeah. I don't get it.

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No, it's it. Get it. I took my Claire. I took my Claritin, but everyone else around me didn't.

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Oh, I didn't hear that. I'm sorry. Well, you know, I'm sorry.

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Well, the cookies, mandatory cookies. Are we allowed to say that? I don't know. I get shadowed on the live stream if you say those words.

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But yeah, we are live streaming tonight, too. This is going to be a regular podcast in our weekly.

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If anyone's on tonight watching, I know we already got some people jumping on and viewing. Feel free to comment and we should get the comments here in our.

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Yeah, I'm trying to watch them right now. I've got it on the stream yard. You've got it up on,

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I think. Oh, you can see stuff. OK, so I can see if it comes in through there. You can see if it comes in through there. Feel free to comment and we can comment on it.

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Or how do we know who's in here? How do I find out who's? I don't know. Good technology.

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OK, we need we. I don't know. You might be able to like click on that like little eye up there.

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The Facebook, it says one person on Facebook, five people on YouTube, six people in here. Does it tell you down there who it is?

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If you click on that? No, it won't let me click on it. So I don't I don't know. Click, click, click, click, click.

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Oh, well, whatever. But this was going to be a my wife. Hi, Mandy. Love you.

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Yeah, so I'm feeling six or seven here. It keeps flashing. But but that doesn't matter what we want to do tonight is we just kind of want to keep this as a loose episode, kind of do current events.

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I know there's so much stuff going on this week. Yeah, that we were like, maybe we should just do, you know, just kind of stuff going on in the news and talk about that.

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And people want to comment on it. They can or, you know, we can talk about it. But I did want to talk about that.

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I know we both brought up the Virgin Virginia governor's race. Yeah. Which was interesting because Glenn Youngkin was the

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Republican. And Virginia has been pretty Democratic now, supposedly for the last 18, 20 years, four presidential cycles or so.

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And he beat Tim Terry. Wait, Terry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The clock, the clock.

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I don't know where to tear it. Time to go is what it is. Yeah, right.

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Not going to not going to be governor anymore. But that was crazy because people like there's no way you can win.

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Trump supported him and people are over Trump. And then, well, it's just crazy because, well,

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I'm going to give my take on it. Yeah, go ahead. I know. Say what you're going to say. Well, I was very cynical. I was well, I was just going to say,

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I think I think a lot of people. Are starting to get to the point where they don't care about that on a on a platform, they don't care about the

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Trump saga. You know, they want to know more about you and what you're running for.

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And it sounded like Terry just kept going after him just because he had

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Trump supporting him or what. It seemed like I was seeing that a lot in the in the news.

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I don't know. I don't know if you're seeing it the same way I am. But no, it seems like, you know,

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I know that there are people out there that still can't stand Trump. I get that. But I think that you're going to have to run on real issues anymore.

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You know, like, right. Not just not just I can't stand Trump. And he was such a bad guy and he was racist.

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He was all these different things. It's like, OK, well, what are you going to bring to the table? You know?

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Yeah. So that's what it's coming down to. But anyway. No, that's good. Don't don't say sorry. That's exactly right, because Democrats have they always aren't running for what they're for.

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They're running for what they're against. And they did that with Trump and they did that right, even through the couple of presidential cycles, too, with George Bush back in the day.

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Yeah, W. Yeah. But it was crazy because I think people now here's my cynical view on this.

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I've been involved in politics for a long time, local, state and some federal stuff. I've been interested in it since I was young in high school.

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And I'm old enough now to start to become cynical. And you see, one, the political parties use the other party's position of power as a way to get reelected.

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And then once they get in, they don't do anything. This goes for Republicans and Democrats. Right. And I identify as conservative, probably libertarian on some things.

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I'm elected as a Republican because that's the party I most closely align with their public platform.

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Now, whether or not Republicans are, you know, obeying and abiding by their national platform.

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That's a whole nother episode. But the problem is, is that you can you can almost tell in 2022, which side note, we hadn't talked about this, but I reached out to Steve D.

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Oh, yeah, Steve. He said he's going to come on closer to the election. Oh, that's great. Election episode with us from Blaze TV.

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So that's cool. We'll get that lined up for you guys because you won't want to miss that. But that's in the future. But as we go into 2022, we are going to see a shellacking of the

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Democrats because it flips every two years. And what it is, unfortunately, is the masses listen to one side and they hear the promises and they go, well,

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I don't like how things are now. So let's flip it back from Dem to Republican, Republican to Dem, whatever it is.

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And the party that's in the minority does a really good job. Both parties do. Republicans and Democrats do a really good job of saying, well, we're not in power right now, but when we are, boy, look at all this stuff.

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Yeah, yeah. Right. And then, you know, and now I take the cynical view of like, thank

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God they're both liars. Yeah, because if either party did what they said they were going to do, we'd really be in.

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You know, it's almost good when Congress doesn't get along. I'm to that point in my life. Yeah, I'm like, I almost rather you guys be in a deadlock and fighting because then at least you're not passing ludicrous laws and upholding unconstitutional mandates.

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Yeah, both sides. Right. I'm going to get that out right now. Right. George W. Bush, I was against all of his executive orders.

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I was against the majority of Obama's orders. I was against the majority of Trump's executive orders.

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I think it's an abuse of the executive branch. And I'm against Joe Biden. So like I've been consistent across the board on that.

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And that's the problem, is you don't have a whole lot of consistent principled people in politics.

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You have party people. Right. And some are more conservative on the Republican side. Some are more liberal, liberal on the other side, but not a whole lot of principled people who stand by the

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Constitution and go, oh, no, we can't do that as Republicans because it's. Anti -constitutional.

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Right. Constitutional. You know, Democrats, you guys can't do that because it's unconstitutional. And it's this crazy thing where.

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Yeah, I you know, you see it flip back to Republican governorship in Virginia, but I'm kind of kind of pessimistic.

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I don't know if it's going to get any better because who was it? I think it was Rod Martin who's been on the podcast before on his

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Facebook page that just remember where Glenn Young can come from. I mean, he's a you know, he's worth 300 million dollars.

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He's he's big. He's big corporate. He's Wall Street. So you might get a lot of crony capitalism from him, which you tend to get used to only get from the

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Republican side. But now both the Dems and the Republicans are all all for crony capitalism. Yeah. And corporate capitalism, which

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I disagree with. And we can always talk about that on a different episode, too. But yeah, it was crazy because no one thought he was going to win.

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No, a Republican in Virginia. And you got you got to remember, there are so many things happening right now.

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I mean, and we we have covered a lot of this on the podcast. But the story that came out about the boy in the bathroom with the girl.

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And boy in the bathroom, which one? OK, I'm just going to say it. I'm sorry, this boy that was had turned transgender.

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He raped a girl in the back. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. That is the news this week. And they did not do anything about it and sent him to another school.

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He did it again. So, you know, parents are obviously up in arms about a lot of situations right now.

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CRT, a lot of different things that the schools are forcing on kids, more or less, and trying to do slight of hand tricks with what they're trying to ask the kids and promote and whatever.

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And parents are starting to find out about a lot of this stuff. They're going to these these meetings, these parent, you know, teacher meetings, school board meetings and voicing their opinion, which they should because that's their child.

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And and it seems like they're getting pushed back even from the government side just because, you know, they want to label them as domestic terrorists, right?

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Right. I mean, it's like, yeah, under the memo written by the attorney general. Yeah. And these these type of events,

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I mean, this is just it's just absolutely ludicrous. I mean, if if someone has an opinion, especially a father that went through that, you know, with his daughter, went through that.

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And then he's just like, why did you guys not do anything? You know, right. Asking that question is is crazy.

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I mean, there's nothing crazy about that question. So it's it's been there's there's been some things that I think the new

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Republican governor stood up for. And I think that a lot of people, you know, latched on to that.

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But hopefully he does stand up for that. Exactly. Exactly. And I mean, and I and I really think that a lot of this progressiveness is starting to get a lot more pushback.

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And I think that social media in some ways is not allowing some of it to to cut through.

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But you can find it. I mean, Ben Shapiro talks about things Crowder. I mean, even

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Rogan, you know, I mean, I don't agree with everything the Rogan says, but he's talking about, you know, how he doesn't agree with everything that's going on with the progressive side of of politics right now.

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Here's the crazy thing, dude, is our culture is so messed up that we don't latch on to things until it's too late.

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And the people who are talking about it before it happens, we just label them as crazy. Right. Right. You look at Bode Backham, right?

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And you look at how he's been talking about like CRT and and cultural Marxism and all that stuff for like eight, nine, 10 years.

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Yeah. And we're like, oh, he's nuts. It'll never come to the church. You look at Doug Wilson. Yeah. How he's been talking about not giving your kids up to the state, to Caesar, home school your kids.

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I mean, for the last 10, 12 years, he's been creating curriculum and he's been creating, you know, can impress and all those things.

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And everyone's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just you're going, you know, what are you talking about? You're being paranoid.

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Right. And now the exact same thing that Doug Wilson has been talking about for 10 plus years is the fact it's now coming true.

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Yeah. Now we're seeing an uprising of people going to school boards and going, hey, you don't control my kids.

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I do. I raise my kids. And literally you have like the governor of Virginia saying, oh, no, leave it to the experts.

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You don't you don't teach your kids and control your kids. We do. Yeah. Public schools do.

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And like parents are just now starting to wake up to this and realize to where guys like you and I have been hip to this for years.

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You know, I'm in my seventh year of homeschooling. My parents realized this when I was in third grade, started homeschooling me in fourth grade.

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Exactly. And I've told that story before. The reason why I got pulled out of public school because they were teaching relative morality in third graders.

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It's OK to steal if you're hungry. And I was the only kid in class that said, no, it's not. It's not OK to steal.

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Right. I got sent to the principal's office for being argumentative. My parents said, all right, let's do it. You're being homeschooled.

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And I was homeschooled, you know, up until my junior year of high school. So it was like this weird thing where some people, you know, that's what wisdom and discernment is.

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Biblical wisdom is to be able and discernment is to be able to see what's coming from the culture in the future and to start guarding against it.

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And now we have all these parents, whether they're Christians or believers or not. But even the secular's parents are starting to believe or starting to see like, oh, my gosh.

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Yeah, they want to control my kids. Isn't that a kind of a flip side to our belief of the yeast and the and the leaven through the bread?

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You know, like how so? What do you mean the state? The state is has slowly been putting enacting these things government, you know, education.

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And that, you know, it's it's slowly being slipped in there. You know, it's like the mustard seed growing just, you know, ever so slightly.

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Yeah, they're they're trying to take one of our, you know, beliefs and turn it on its head.

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But I think that's the main tool that the secular culture uses is the generational forgetfulness.

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Yeah. From generation to generation. Yeah. It's the frog in the pot. It's the well, this is the way it was for me growing up.

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So this must be the way it just is. When in fact, you know, no, it isn't the way it is.

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Yeah. The fact that we just also come to income tax. There was a time about 100 years ago where we did not have an income tax where you did not have economic slavery.

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You didn't get to tax my income. That's an insane thought. When you think about it, I just take your money that you earned.

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You give out labor. You get paid a wage. And I come in as a government and just take that. But think about it.

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Well, we're all cool with it now. It's it's like you get taxed on your wage and then you go to the grocery store, you get taxed on your food and then you get taxed on your car insurance and then you get taxed.

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You know, it's like it doesn't stop. You get a capital gains tax, sales tax, property tax, property tax.

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All of it. You get a real estate transfer tax when you sell your home. You get secondary taxes through driver's license fees and registration fees.

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You get taxed if you want to. I mean, want to go hunting? I want to take deer on my own land.

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I pay ninety five dollars a year to hunt on my own land. That's a secondary tax. You have a state tax.

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You have gasoline tax. Every time you buy pop, it's taxed extra high that now that price is.

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Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. As a syntax, tobacco, bourbon, anything with X amount of sugar in it.

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Now they build it into there. It's not going to just show as a sales tax, but that those prices are higher because the corporations are charged a tax.

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It's corporate tax. I mean, it's insane. The Beatles talked about this. Tax man.

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Yeah, right. Let me tell you how it will be.

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It's just I think you should have saying that. No, I'm sorry. I lost myself for a second.

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I forgot where I was. But that goes back to our bigger point of like frog in the pot. Like if you were to go back in time, a hundred years and you tell.

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And not even more than 1912, right before they passed the income tax. Yeah. And did all the Federal Reserve shenanigans and stuff and said, hey, your great grandchildren will pay about 60 % of of their wage in taxes when it's all said and done.

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All those taxes equal out to about 60%. They're only going to get to keep 40 cents on every dollar that they earn.

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Yeah. They would go, you're insane. Exactly. But now it's just what do you what do you. I haven't really studied the flat tax, but what is your take on flat tax?

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I like a flat tax. So so can you can you have a progressive tax? Yeah. Yeah.

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So certain wage earners pay a certain amount. The next wage earners pay a certain percentage.

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Right. And it goes. So. So flat tax, everyone pays 20 % or what everyone pays just out of their way.

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God only asked for 10%. Yeah, exactly. Government asked for 60. Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, that's that's

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I'm stealing that kind of from Toby over across politics and says it all the time. But it's like it even says that he goes a

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Samuel says, look, God demands 10. You get a king in here. That's not God. Who knows what he might demand?

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Right. We're living that right now. Exactly. But yeah, flat tax would just be flat across the board percentage on income. So so just no deductibles.

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No, you have kids. So you get this deductible or you have this business. You get that straight 10 % gross.

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That's like a bat tax. Yeah. Or I'm sorry, that's a flat tax. That tax would be like a value added tax, which some people propose.

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And go look at only time you get you pay a taxes on a good when values added to it. So I take a piece of wood and I make it into a pencil.

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There's a tax on that because I've added value to that. Yeah. And then take that pencil, put it in a pack and bundle it as a wholesale product.

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I pay a tax because I'm not added value to that. OK, that's a bad example pencil. But but yeah, I get any good.

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Yeah. Or a consumption tax where you only pay tax on goods that you buy. That's that's been floated and that could work.

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And that's so then it's a choice. I'm only paying taxes on something that I purchase. So guess what?

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If I don't want to pay taxes on eggs, I have chickens. I raise my yeah, I have I raise my own beef for energy.

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I have solar panels. So a lot of people don't like that in the upper echelons because it would push people back to be more self -reliant because then they could avoid taxes by just providing for themselves.

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Yeah. What a crazy thought. What a crazy thought. You know? Yeah, exactly.

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I mean, yeah, it's it's been incredible to watch. Just how many extra things have been floated out there.

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I mean, in my field, I mean, I trade stocks. So, you know, I mean,

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Janet Yellen talking about, I mean, 80 percent on crypto. She's like, let's tax crypto 80 percent.

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And then she's talking about taxing. Like, oh, you put that out there on our

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Instagram. Yeah, you owe me. Yeah, you owe me. Because you thought about thought about doing something, you know, and it's like.

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Yeah, no, but yeah, but she but she also talked about unrealized gains.

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I mean, oh, that's just crazy if you're holding a stock. And, you know,

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I don't know if everyone out there knows what that exactly means. So just say that you're holding a stock like AMC.

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Sure. It's at eight dollars. OK, you buy a thousand shares at eight, eight dollars.

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That's eight grand. All right. You're in it for eight grand. It goes up to seventy five dollars.

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And let's just say you really believe in AMC and you really believe because you're an ape and you're like,

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I want this thing to go to fifteen hundred. Right. You know, I'm believing. So you hold on to it.

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It drops all the way back down to thirty dollars. Well, guess what? She's saying she wants you to pay taxes on the 30 all the way up to the seventy five dollars.

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And it was not that even though you didn't realize you didn't take it out of the market, those are unrealized gains.

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Like a realized gain is whenever you pull something out, have it in. And you have it. Yeah. So, yeah, that's just that's so good.

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Just think about how they could bankrupt people. So you got ten thousand dollars worth of stock. The stock goes up to one hundred thousand dollars, dropped back down to twenty thousand dollars.

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They go, oh, no, you owe us taxes and thirty percent on the eighty thousand. Yeah. Think about that. The ten thousand.

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It's crazy. I mean, there's no way that anyone would want to trade on the open market anymore.

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Like it would crush the conspiracy theorists. There is. I mean, he says that's what they want. Right. Yeah. And it's true.

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And I think in some ways, like everyone that has jumped in to the market right now, they really aren't thinking about the flip side of what could possibly happen and just really watching the trades that they're taking.

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It's like a video game, you know, and it's like, man, you cannot treat the stock market like a video game because you can lose like that.

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I mean, so quick. And I'm not a financial advisor, by the way. So everything I say is all entertainment person for purposes only.

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Yeah. Got to cover the cover, the basis for any lawsuits. But I know

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I honestly think you cannot look at. You cannot get people to go along with government if they're not dependent upon government.

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OK, so that's why you have all these social programs. That's why you have all these exorbitant taxes. That's why you have them floating unrealized gain tax.

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Like if I'm a self -made millionaire or even a self -made the new term is nine point nine percent or right.

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Someone who makes up to four hundred thousand dollars is nine point nine percent. You're not going to be reliant.

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You're going to go pound sand government. I'm not going to listen to you when you give me some dumb mandate or when you say, oh, I'll throw you a couple of bucks if you do this, that and the other or send your kids to school and I'll teach them all this crazy stuff because we don't want you to have to pay for homeschool or a private school.

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No people who who have work ethic and who are successful and don't rely on the government aren't going to listen to the government.

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So that's one. So they float all this stuff because they need people at some point dependent upon the government, whether that's monetary or whether that's in tax breaks or whatever that is.

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You can't take a successful person and control them because by nature, they're they're almost self -reliant because they built that success.

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Exactly. You know what I mean? And I think that's part of the bigger picture. And I think even bigger picture when you're talking like one world order or you're talking like a global economy, you can't have a bunch of little independent, self -reliant people in the

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United States and have this country with all these critical thinkers and entrepreneurs and self -starters and like, hey, you know, go pound

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Sanders. When you're trying to get this world government. Yeah. Where it's like, wait, we got

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Australia on board. We got Canada, Canada on board. We've got Europe, eastern and western

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Europe for the most part on board. But then we got this stupid country over here with the Constitution that says people can do what they want and they have freedom and they have liberty.

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And, you know, they believe this creator who gave them these rights. Do that throws a stick in the spoke of the global economy.

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So I think it's a larger plan. I know we're probably getting into like weird. No, but yeah. But but isn't that what

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Satan wants? Ultimately, anyway, is his kingdom under his foot. Right. He is the ruler of this air, in a sense.

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Yeah. God is it says God has given him some dominion over this earth. We know that Christ is ruling and reigning.

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Yeah. Right. From his throne. But I look at that and I go, yeah, that's like this globalism in this whole move towards control.

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That's exactly if I was, you know, if I was Satan, that's how

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I would do it. I would want full control. Right. Because he has to force is to force people to worship him or has to trick them into it.

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Yeah. Like no one openly wants to, unless they're deceived, obviously wants to worship him.

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Our hearts are naturally the Bible says our hearts naturally know that there has to be some type of creator or some type of good

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God out there. Some moral lawgiver. We see it in nature. We see it in said who's the famous atheist that said it was.

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Well, he turned Christian. I'm almost positive. I'm so sorry, guys.

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I can't remember his name, but I'm almost positive the quote was it was too hard to be an atheist.

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Right. Like, yeah, it was like took too much. It took two. Yeah, something about. Yeah, I can't remember who it was.

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Well, it's so funny. I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on some interview, and he always is so pompous and confident and everything that he says.

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And they said, yeah, but if you always go back one, it's what I always say. Like, well, the universe came from the

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Big Bang. Well, where'd the Big Bang come from? A bunch of heat and all this stuff in a real tiny space. Well, where'd that come from? He goes, well, now we know how we're speculating.

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It's coming from multiverses. Yeah. Like where there's multiverse because of the multiverse theory. It's basically like the

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Big Bang slipped in from another reality and our reality, and that's what created this reality. And the guy goes, well, where'd those multiverses come from?

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So it's like you always have the same. Right, right. Yeah. You either have to admit that there is a creator that sits outside of time, space you know, the time space continuum.

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Yeah. And he created all those things. Or you're just always going to be left with the philosophical question of like, well, then where did that come from?

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Right. Something from nothing, you know. But but these guys, these secular scientists and physicists, a lot of these guys talk with such confidence and they have no answer.

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Right. You know what I mean? It's weird. It's like, how can they get away with that? Right. Yeah, it's it it gets hard to hear the argument and and to not just kind of shake your head.

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And I mean, you know. Christianity gave the science community what it has, right?

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Like, I mean, I mean, God created all in Colossians tells us that in Colossians one, 16, 17.

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And yeah, I mean, this is this is it's really hard to have conversations when it's it's like.

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That's all that that you hear is a bunch of rebuttal and and but with no actual facts and answers to the, you know, to the questions from the the atheist scientist.

28:18

Yeah, all I hear when everyone is supposedly a scientist, too, right? All I hear when they give answers is what

28:25

I hear. I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. I'm sorry I had to put that drop in there.

28:36

Yeah, right. Oh, man. But yeah, it's it's nuts, dude. Yeah. Like the world is upside down right now.

28:42

But I mean, it's what the Bible said, though, too. I mean, evil being good, good being evil. But I'll tell you, one of the crazy ones this week was how.

28:50

So here's another thing. So like the left always eats its own, which is pretty crazy. And I would distinguish between I almost always do.

28:58

And I talk to people when I'm talking about political stuff. I distinguish between Democrat, liberal and leftist.

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There are actually three different things on that side. You know, I posted something about John F.

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Kennedy a couple of days ago on my Facebook page and was like, John F. Kennedy was against abortion.

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He was pro gun. He wanted to reform or abolish the Federal Reserve. He believed in it, didn't believe in fiat money.

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He wanted good currency. He was believed in personal liberty, like all these things.

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And it's like, do you think he could? And he was a proud Democrat. Could he run as a Democrat today? No. You know what

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I mean? Like pro life, pro gun, pro liberty, you know, all these things. And it's like so that's how far the left has moved.

29:43

And leftists always eat their own. And they're kind of eating their own right now with like Aaron Rodgers.

29:49

It's great. That whole thing. Yeah, yeah. It's great to see that. It is. I do kind of sometimes feel like Elisha laughing at the profits of bail.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. When I watch these leftists and it's like men, men can be pregnant and they have ovaries and you're like, what?

30:06

Yeah, no, no. And then you see the feminists go, what are you talking about? You know, right. They're taking our jobs.

30:13

They took our jobs. You know, woman of the year is Caitlyn Jenner. It's like, oh, that's that's real feminist.

30:19

Yeah. Yeah, right. A male took it from a woman is the woman of the year, you know.

30:25

But yeah, like the Aaron Rodgers stuff this week where he was. Yeah, he had COVID and he had

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COVID. Yeah. And then he decided not to get the vaccination or cookies.

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The cookies. We got to watch our words. But it was crazy. I already said it. Whoops. So back in it was funny because back in August, they asked him, have you been vaccinated?

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And he's like, I'm immunized. Yeah. And then they didn't follow up. Yeah. So everyone just assumed. Yeah. He had he took his jabber

30:52

Rooney. And not to be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was funny because now he comes out and he has

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COVID. Right. Right. And they're all like, oh, my gosh, he did get vaccinated. And one of his quotes was like,

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I'm going to read this. This is look, I'm not some sort of anti -vax flat earther. I'm someone who is a critical thinker.

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You guys know me. I marched to the beat of my own drum. I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your own body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture, crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something.

31:27

Health is not a one size fits all for everybody. That seems pretty logical, doesn't it? It does.

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I mean, like I don't see anything wrong with someone being like, look, man, like I don't want to put it in my body.

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You know, like like why? Why does this have to even be a discussion? And why does someone have to feel so bad or, you know, someone has to act like they have to feel bad about that decision?

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Like, yeah, I but here's the thing. This is the crazy thing. Yeah. Aaron Rodgers is by no means a conservative in on social issues.

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He's pro choice. Yeah, he's pro trans. He's out there talking about gay marriage and supporting it and all that.

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And the left is like, oh, yeah, another another celebrity quarterback in the

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NFL that believes all these social. The minute he came out with this vice ran a thing on him.

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New York Times anti -vaxxer. You know, Trump's crazy, you know, all these crazy, you know, things that maybe not, you know,

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I don't even know if he supported Trump or not. Someone can correct me on that. If he did, I don't know if he did. I know Tom Brady was a big

32:37

Trump guy, but it was like instantly. If you do not go along with every single thing point of their agenda, they just jump on you and they'll just eat you.

32:46

They'll try to cancel you. Right. And the crazy thing is, is we got to be careful as Christians because we see some of these guys out in the secular, the

32:53

Dave Chappelle's talking about free speech and going, hey, look at gender as a reality, right? Sex is a reality.

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What sex you're born and all this. And we see the Aaron Rodgers agreeing with us on, hey, we should have, you know, bodily choice and stuff like that.

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And we go, oh, we want to bring them into our camp. But it's like, make no mistake. These guys aren't believers, right? These guys are not.

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When I say conservatives, I'm not saying it in the political sense. I'm saying it in like conservative Christian sense.

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Yeah. Like social issues and stuff. So it's like you got to be careful because. Yeah. You know, a broke a broke clock is right twice a day, right?

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So it's like we might identify with those guys on one issue, but let's not just bring them into the fold.

33:34

Yeah, yeah. You know, almost like that thing is a boy. You sent me that thing about like Justin Peters, like cautioning about Kanye.

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Oh, yeah. With it. Yep. Yep. Yep. Remember, you were like he was like, pump the brakes. Yeah. Let's give him a little bit of time.

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We don't know. We can't go all in on him. We claim him as one of our own. We don't know his confession of faith. I mean, man, now look at him now.

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He's like, we're all gods. We're all we are all God. Wow. That is one album later.

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We're all first now. First, you sound like you're a Calvinist. And now all of a sudden you sound like you've been listening to Creflo Dollar.

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Right. So it's like we're not laughing at him. Right, right, right. Hope he comes to know the one and true living

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God. Exactly. We've been so beaten down sometimes in the last 10 years as believers that we just we see someone in pop culture, the secular culture, we're going to latch on and go, she's one of us.

34:24

Right. We're not that weird. Yeah, that's strange. We got some good points. And it's like, no, dude, yeah, the world is going to hate you if you stand for Christ.

34:32

And you saw them turn it on him just. Oh, yeah, man. In the last year when he started just talking about being against abortion.

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It was like as soon as he said that, it's like, oh, he's lost it. He's crazy. Well, when he started supporting

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Trump, too. Right. Like, you know, it was like, you can't do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heaven forbid you'd be black and support.

34:50

Exactly. A Republican. Yeah, yeah, exactly, man. Yeah, I saw a clip on CNN not to go back to the governor's thing, but some guy can't remember his name.

34:59

But he debated Ben Shapiro a while ago. And he was he was like he was basically saying because the lieutenant governor that that.

35:07

Oh, young kid won with. Yeah. Yeah. Like, what is she? She's Jamaican or no, I can't remember.

35:13

But yeah, South African. I love I love that picture of her with the air, with the air. And he's like, see what this is is this is this is ventriloquist.

35:23

Yeah, yeah. White supremacy. What they do is they get a black person to go out there and speak their white supreme.

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And I'm like, how belittling this woman who is like accomplished. She rose to the level of lieutenant governor.

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Exactly. Like she's a smart, accomplished black woman. And you're like, oh, no, she's too dumb to think for herself.

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She's just a puppet of this white guy. So crazy. And it's a black guy saying that about another black woman.

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And I'm like, I would go slap him upside his head if I was her. That word, that word white supremacy. You hear it about just like racism.

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Like it's racist. It's like it doesn't even equate anymore to what it really is.

36:02

You know, like this this is not what we're talking about anymore. You know, like, I mean, it's yeah, there's just been a line that's been put in the sand by the progressives, and they're just like, look, everything needs to start over.

36:15

They want the great reset. You know, it's like I don't know about that.

36:22

It just blew my mind how quick they turned on Aaron Rodgers because he was a darling for a while in the media. Right. And then he just goes, oh, no,

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I just think I should make my own personal choice about my own medical choices.

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And they're like, anti -vaxxer, flat earther. Right, right. You know, crazy Trump supporter.

36:40

What white supremacist? And you're like, what? Yes. Just like anyone with a brain. Yeah. It's going.

36:45

What is going on? Just because he doesn't want to take the mandatory cookies.

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And along with that, you know, Ford was the first.

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I think the first of the big three or the largest company in America. As of right now, a few days ago to say that they were mandating mandatory cookies.

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You guys know what I'm saying? Yep. Mandatory cookies for each worker at Ford Motor Company.

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So by I think it was like January 5th, January 8th. You guys can check me on that.

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Everyone has to be have their mandatory cookies taken care of. So, you know, it's like,

37:32

OK, well. What if I what you know, you get in a sticky situation, even if you say,

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OK, well, I'm using my religious exemption. They can still drill you over and over and over about that, even if you do have a religious exemption.

37:50

You know, if you're like, I don't want to do it. It just it just seems like there's more that we're going to run into with these mandatory cookies.

38:02

Yeah, but it's just crazy when you look at the science behind it and just how fast it went through. Yeah, it's like no test subjects.

38:07

And I just read a report to where heart attacks are on the rise. Well, yeah, it's safe from blood clots.

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And they're going, ah, well, it's up to 150 percent this year, but it has nothing to do with the vaccine. Exactly. Well, it'll take a year and a half to get through those studies.

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And, you know, what is it? Correlation isn't. Oh, what's the you know, just because those two things are happening side by side doesn't mean that one relates to the other.

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But who knows? In a year and a half, we'll get through something and go, OK, yeah, there was a correlation between blood clots and vaccine.

38:39

I mean, we've already seen some of that in the first six months of study. These things usually go through three to five years of testing.

38:46

Yeah, we're in 12 to 18 months. And so but you're crazy.

38:51

I don't want to make this whole thing about cookies. You don't know. Sure. Yeah, mandatory. Yeah, yeah. We'll get off the subject in a minute because I know we.

38:57

Right. Geez, we started this thing in a pandemic. We've been talking about cookies. I know. Right. Two years. It blew in the face with these dang cookies.

39:04

But it's like, yeah, it's like, but you're insane. You're illogical.

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You're whatever. Wanting to kill all of the grandparents. You want to kill everyone. If you just go, well, hold on, let's pump the brakes.

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We were like, I was like this with all. Yeah, yeah. By the way. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, for sure. You know, chocolate chip cookies, raisin cookie.

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I check all the cookies. All those cookies. You know what I mean? Like before it goes. Put him in. Yeah. Right.

39:28

But it's just it's I don't know, you know. And then meanwhile, you got Biden over there visiting the

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Pope. I know. Telling me who put his pants. Black baseball player possibly poop in his pants. Like, no, he did.

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He totally put it. Allegedly. I know. Gosh, we got to preference everything, allegedly.

39:51

But, you know, look, I don't really want to get into that, too. Like, I try to. I do.

39:57

No, no. I want to get all up in there. Look, I want to get up all up in them, depends and see what's going on there.

40:03

Look, it's sad. Yeah, it is. It is. I used to I used to love like even like two, three years ago,

40:09

I used to love like when someone from the opposite of my political party did something dumb and I go, ha ha.

40:15

See, it's like, dude, we got guys in all parties, guys and girls and all that. All parties that do dumb stuff.

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Republican, Democrat, libertarian. They're mostly all idiots, almost all politicians. I'm sorry, but I will take that line.

40:28

So I try not to revel in those rumors. I look at it and I go, OK, my brain tells me, right.

40:33

My my critically thinking brain goes, he definitely has a mental deficiency. He's in some type of early dementia.

40:40

And now I almost feel bad. I almost like have a little bit of empathy for it. It's like, for sure.

40:46

I don't like that. He's destroying the country. And that the cabal that's running the country behind him as he's propped up is is, you know, ruining the country.

40:54

Of course, I get righteously angry at that. But you look at it and you go, could you imagine if that was your grandfather, your grandmother?

40:59

They're losing their mind. They don't even know where they are half the time. And you're just pushing them out. Could you imagine the panic he goes through when he's in front of 30 people?

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Doesn't know where he's at. And he's just mumbling through things on a car. Right, right. You know, and then trying to find the right words to say that they've been training him to say.

41:15

Right. For those times in front of the press. And it's and it's nuts because and he did this whole thing because people were bringing up the well, you're pro -choice.

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You believe in abortion. The Catholic Church staunchly pro -life.

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Right. And people were saying, oh, he shouldn't get communion as a Catholic. And this now he comes out today and he goes, oh, yeah.

41:36

Or yesterday, I had a good talk with Pope Francis, and he basically said, I'm a good

41:41

Catholic and I still should receive communion. And he just offered that up out of nowhere.

41:47

And people were like, oh, the question was about climate change. President Biden. But OK, you know what

41:52

I mean? But it's like that's a whole nother weird thing. Yeah. So you're telling me so either the either the pope said that.

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And that's the truth. Right. Here's your options. Pope said that. That's the truth. There's an issue there. Pope didn't say that Biden's lying.

42:06

Yeah, there's an issue there. It really depends on what Pope Francis would say to, you know, if he did say that or not.

42:14

If he did say that, it's like what kind of, you know, hash or hashtag air quotes,

42:20

Pope, are you to where you're going to still give communion to someone who is too staunchly pro -choice as a

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Catholic? I mean, if you go back in their church history and their dogma, it's like, no, that is the one thing that they do not bend on murder.

42:36

And it's crazy because I talk to a lot of my conservative Catholic friends and we go round and round on theological, doctrinal issues and stuff.

42:45

They do not like Pope Francis. If you're conservative, you're like, he's the he's the antichrist.

42:50

Exactly. I'm like, yes. Come on to my side. All right. Now we can have a discussion. Yeah. You know, and he's also not infallible when he's wearing his big, big pointy hat, you know.

43:02

Priests aren't the vicar of Christ. OK, open indulgences aren't biblical. All right. OK, works based church tradition doesn't usurp the inherency of scripture.

43:10

OK. There's a. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. I mean, we don't venerate Mary. Do they iterate?

43:17

I really would would like to hear. Truth, sometimes, though, you know, like like like how so?

43:24

I mean, with like, you know, Biden being like, yeah, well, you know, Pope Francis said this to me, said said these things to me behind closed doors, you know, like,

43:33

OK, what what was really said? You know, did you poop your pants? You were running out the room and he was he was like, hey, smell something.

43:40

You're like, oh, I said something great. But but anyway, oh,

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I can't get off the pants. Oh, sorry, Pope Francis. I have to.

43:52

Yeah. Oh, man, I need to do it. Oh, geez. Oh, oh, peace be with you.

43:59

And with you, my son. Now, see, look,

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I was trying to take the high road. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's a we don't revel in that. And then, of course, well, poop your pants.

44:11

My brain automatically goes to the fart. You kind of have to bring that up, though, because that was a pretty big story and they were trying to downplay it.

44:21

I think it has to do with like, hey, let's keep you. Let's keep you looking over here about this whole pope communion issue.

44:28

Why? You know, we're passing OSHA mandates saying that we're going to find you at ninety thousand dollars as a business up to ninety thousand.

44:36

If if you're if your employees aren't fully vaccinated or showing a vaccination record every week to private businesses.

44:43

Oh, my gosh. How could you even afford it? Which, by the way, just just got just got stopped where it's on stay.

44:50

It's what is that called? The mandate was put on hold, basically, by a three panel, a three judge panel in an appeals court.

44:57

Josh was probably eventually going to get taken up at the Supreme Court as soon as he announced that OSHA thing where it's like, hey, you got to get a some private companies, they got to vaccinate.

45:07

Everyone knew it was unconstitutional. It's going to get challenged. But they did it because there's no repercussions.

45:13

Yeah. I would love if we had a rule or a law that said if you're president or if you're

45:18

Congress or you make some type of unconstitutional rule in the Supreme Court, then says like an executive order that's unconstitutional and then it's deemed unconstitutional.

45:27

You have to pay some type of this has to be some type of repercussion. Yeah, there should be. Because that's what they do right now is

45:33

Biden goes, oh, just make this mandate and we'll get everyone moving in that direction. Right. And we'll cause all this horrible, you know, all these issues with private businesses and put all this, you know, these costs and fines on them.

45:45

And then if it gets unconstitutional, sorry, our bad. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, we're we're looking at that with the infrastructure bill.

45:54

OK, with with with certain things that the free one point four trillion dollar infrastructure. Yeah, it's like I mean,

46:01

I think cost the thing. I can't remember who it was that I was listening to the other day speaking in the house, but he said that he had gotten.

46:09

And I don't know if this is how it works. Maybe you could fill me in on this, Greg. But, you know, in the house, they ended up getting a just say that they got 700 pages within a day or two.

46:22

They got 900 pages. They added 200 pages to this bill. And then they added like 500 more pages within a few days or a week or whatever it was.

46:33

And then by the end of it, what there was, there was I'm almost positive 2 ,700 pages or something.

46:39

Yeah, it's like thousands of crazy. But but it's like they just kept on adding things and just handing it to these guys.

46:45

And they just had to read through it super quick. And then they had to go take the vote. It's like, how does this even how is this even right or fair for the

46:54

American people, for them to push things through that way? And, you know, it's like no one wants to reform it in Congress.

47:01

That's the problem that I mean, this is we talked about this with Obamacare.

47:07

If you're old enough to remember sitting through that in 2008, like we have to pass it, Pelosi says, so we can know what's in it.

47:13

Yeah, that's literally so we know what we know what's in it, because there have been multiple bills that have come both in the

47:19

House and the Senate at the federal level. They said, hey, there's a minimum of like one hour per page.

47:26

Just give us an hour per page to read it. Right. It started out like two weeks. All bills have to be held for held on for two weeks so everyone can read it and they know what they're voting on.

47:36

They said, no, one week. No, give us an hour, a page, then just an hour page so I can give it to my interns and they can read it.

47:43

Yeah, no, no, no. No one will vote for it. Yeah, because they don't want you to know what's in it. Right.

47:48

It's a bunch of garbage. Exactly. You know? Yeah. And so this has been going on for like years, for like decades.

47:54

This isn't something new. And the other thing they do is they tie bills together under the same bill. So it'll be like, you know, defund

48:02

Planned Parenthood. The Republicans will introduce a bill defund Planned Parenthood, but then spend three point two billion dollars on this like weird side project in Delaware.

48:13

So right, right. That, you know, to test to see if pigs can have baby kangaroos.

48:19

Right. And you're like, what? Yeah. And they put it under the same bill. So you have to vote for it by voting no on something.

48:25

You're voting yes on something. I'm for voting yes on one thing. You're voting yes. You know what I mean? So they they've

48:30

Justin Amash, who was a who was a congressman here in Michigan in the

48:36

Grand Rapids area who was more libertarian. He introduced bill after bill. He finally just retired. He's like,

48:41

I'm tired of this. I can't, you know, yeah, paraphrasing. I can't do this anymore like these idiots. He would put in stuff like you can't have two different bills and under one bill, give two different subjects under one bill.

48:52

Yeah. Because they would tie an infrastructure bill, which you have to have or a debt relief bill, which you have to with some like pork spending, as they call it, you know, a new highway in Texas, a new, you know, algae bloom payments in Michigan.

49:09

They would just tie it to all this stuff. And he goes, look, let's just vote on one issue at a time. No one would even bring it.

49:15

No one would even co -sponsor it. That's so crazy to me. I mean, like what? Like, how is that helping anyone?

49:21

I mean, it's not helping the people in Congress. That's why they go in with a negative net worth.

49:27

And after eight to 10 years, come out right at ten, twelve, twenty million dollar net worth.

49:33

I mean, Pelosi has over 100 million dollars now, you know, I mean, I mean, she knows exactly which stocks to trade.

49:41

I don't know if that's an accident or not, but she's doing pretty good in that stock market.

49:47

I tell you, that's crazy that you can there's people who follow. Yeah. What's that website you sent me?

49:52

You remember? I don't know it off the top of my head, but we can always put it in the links. But yeah, you essentially can follow

49:58

Congress. You know, Congress, people's congressmen, congresswomen's stock trades.

50:03

Right. Because it's public. Right. And I think she's got like a 40 percent return year over year. Pelosi does 40 percent.

50:11

You're managing a hedge fund like 40 percent return. Exactly. Can you imagine this crazy lady that.

50:19

Yeah, she's just. Oh, nothing funny is going on. Yeah, exactly. Her husband doesn't work for a major company to where she dumps her stock the day before he makes an announcement saying, you know, that retrogrades the stock down by 200 percent.

50:32

Oh, no, we don't talk about it over the dinner table. Exactly. Dude, it's they're so crooked.

50:38

It's they're also crooked. Just a big game. And then on top of that, you know, politicians at the federal level get paid very well.

50:45

Yeah. I mean, not I'm not saying they're paying a million. I mean, you know, like a like a like a house rep at the federal level in Congress, you know, one hundred eighty three thousand dollars a year plus full benefits.

50:57

And that's for how many years? Four years of office or two? Two years. They have to run every two. But a senator's like two hundred fifty thousand.

51:04

And they run only once every four years. What? OK, what's the breakdown of that? So senators.

51:11

Four years. Right. At the at the we're talking Congress, federal. So federal government. So like Rand Paul.

51:17

Yep. He's a junior. Two hundred fifty. Yep. Right. So then if after four years that he's in, does he get that the rest of his life?

51:27

No. So they have like a they have a pension. So like in the state house or not state house, the federal house, you have to at least serve five years.

51:36

OK, so you got to win three elections to your terms. OK. So once you win your third election.

51:42

Yeah. Now you have based. So it's like any other pension. It's based on what you paid in and how much money you've made.

51:49

So, you know, it could be as little as eight to ten thousand dollars a year for life at five years.

51:54

But you get these guys that have been there for 10, 15 years. Yeah. Now they're making eighty to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year for life as their pension.

52:04

And all they've got to be in there for is eight or ten years. OK, well, you know, that's a long time. But it's like you can accrue eight or ten years pretty quick.

52:11

Yeah, exactly. The grand scheme of things, you know, and then you look at guys like Biden and and who's who's the old old guy?

52:21

Come on, the which the senator that ran for president. I mean, there's names of there's there's there's so many.

52:30

The socialist guy. How is his name? Oh, Bernie Sanders. Sanders. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Ben on government take for over 40 years.

52:37

Gotcha. I mean, these guys got million dollar pensions for life. Gosh. And they've never held a real job.

52:44

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't look at as serving as a senator or a congressman is a real job.

52:51

It's a public service. Right, right. You know. Yeah, yeah. I would love a part time government act like they did 200 years ago.

52:58

You know, you meet two weeks out of the year. I mean, we start of the year. There's so many people in government.

53:04

Like, it's crazy. Whenever you see that, that so many departments, that speech, you know, that that the president puts on the

53:12

State of the Union. Yeah. State of the Union. Yeah. I mean, you got you got like a thousand people in that room and they all they all make what, 250 grand a year.

53:22

Oh, it's like, oh, that's the tip of the iceberg. They elected the elected officials are the tip of the iceberg. That's just who's elected.

53:29

You got to look at the bureaucrats and people who are appointed to the government, to the governmental agencies, the agency for everything, man.

53:38

So National Forestry, FATF, an FBI, CIA, NSA. You know what

53:43

I mean? You've got agriculture. You've got Secretary of the Interior. You've got I mean, just Department of Homeland.

53:50

Like it goes on and on and on and on. You know, Health and Human Services and then the

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Attorney General stuff. And it's like, dude, there's there's. And I think that's part of the thing is they want to grow that public space as big as they can.

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Yeah, because then they can mandate under the executive to the public space. So it's like, you know, you got to have a vaccine if you're in the federal government.

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Yeah. Do that compromises. It's it's composed of like four to five million people. Right, right.

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The federal government. Yeah. You know, it's like whatever, 10 percent of the working class. Yeah.

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Or, you know, in fact, check me in. But it's close to that. Yeah, yeah. So it's just a lot of people. It's a lot of people in the federal government.

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And then you start talking about the state government and you start talking about the local government. And that's why we pay taxes on our income and our groceries.

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And it all comes back to taxes on tobacco on our. Well, I don't. Yeah. Well, cigars,

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I guess. Oh, man. But it's like a cigar in a really long time, actually. You know, I just had one last night.

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Serious first time went over first time in almost eight months. Serious.

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Yeah. I went over to our buddy Ryan Martin's house. Oh, you did go, man. I wanted to go. Yeah. Yeah. We had a little hang out there for his 35th.

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Yeah. And he had some cigars. I said, I will partake in those. Yeah. We were watching the

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I don't even know. I don't follow boxing, but we had boxing on one room. The Canelo Canelo Canelo.

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OK, I don't fight on one. And then UFC fight in the other ones. We had two pay -per -views going. Yeah. And we sat out on his back porch and we had cigars and it was it was good.

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Had some brothers in the Lord just hanging out. Yeah, we missed you, man. Yeah, man. I wondered where you read. Almost text you. I was like,

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I probably got family stuff going on. You know, that was we. Yeah, the the the family has a little bit of allergies going around the house.

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So, you know, we had. Yeah, I had to stay in. But, you know,

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I'm with you tonight. So absolutely. I'm feeling a lot better. And we should. I don't have any cigars.

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We should have let some of those. Yeah, I don't know. My wife's watching. She might yell at me. I get in trouble. They ban us on YouTube and Dennis Prager for that.

55:53

What? So Dennis Prager, conservative Jewish political commentator, he had it was called

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Fireside Chats. OK, smoke a cigar next to his fire going. And it's like little man room.

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And he would live stream and answer questions. And they said, oh, no, cut him off. You're smoking cigars on YouTube.

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That's that's bad for people's health. Now, Joe Rogan and yeah, all these other guys smoke.

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We talking about all kinds of smoking weed and cigars. No, we don't get banned. Yeah. But here's a very conservative, orthodox

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Jew. Oh, my gosh. And they went, nope. And they just banned his whole page. It's crazy. So he can't smoke a cigar on camera anymore on YouTube because, heaven forbid, some eight year old might stumble across it.

56:35

Why would you smoke a cigar? Yeah, yeah. Or whatever their reason is. And it's like shame on the parents.

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First of all, don't exactly to any parents listening. Do not give your kids free reign of a phone. I don't care if you got blockers on it or whatever.

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A tablet like monitor that. Watch it. Yes, they have to be sure in the world and they have to know how to use technology.

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But do not let them in their bedroom with that. No, just so much garbage on there for a young mind. Way too much.

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And they get curious for sure. Yeah. What kid does it? I mean, yeah, I know

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I did. But that's our job is our as parents is to guard that. Yeah, you know, exactly. And we talk about a lot of stuff on here.

57:10

You got anything else? We got it up on an hour. I know we might need to. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe we could shut it down and do one maybe next week.

57:19

Cool. Or, yeah, we'll see. All right. Well, guys, hey, thanks so much for listening to another episode of Dead Man Walking.

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Yeah. Catch us here. Me and Jason basically riff, complain and riff. I don't want to be complaining, but here's

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I know. Here's the takeaway. And I think Jason would agree. Yeah. The world is crazy right now.

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Right. It's upside down for people who have wisdom and discernment and who have principles and who believe in biblical principles.

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It's so crazy. You just want to pull your hair out. Yeah. But at the same time, we know that Christ is ruling and reigning right now from the throne.

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We know that every thing is under his foot. The Bible says we know that all things work out.

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For good. Yeah. For those who love him, according to the counsel of his will, all his enemies are being put underneath his feet.

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We know that our God is sovereign. Yeah, we know that we are to be light here in this world.

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So even though we get on this podcast sometimes, we might seem like we're frustrated. Yeah, we're just we're real.

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We're real people, real people. You know, and we know you guys have frustrations in your life and you go, my job, my promotion, my wife, my husband, my kids, my whatever it is, the vaccine, the cookies, whatever.

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Whoops. I just use it. Whoops. We got to get back into the car so we don't get shadowbanned. Cookies, cookies. That's what

58:36

I meant. We're talking about chocolate chip cookies. But it's like, but man, we have to focus on Christ.

58:41

Yeah. And Christ crucifying and resurrecting. Amen. I mean, that's what this is all about, because it's like without that.

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Could you imagine being someone without the hope of Christ right now in this world? No, I think of that all the time. I'm not at all.

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And I and I hurt for people like that. And I pray for people like that all the time. I mean, I I don't know, man,

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I Christ is everything to me. I mean, my my family wouldn't be, you know, as put together.

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And it just, you know, I mean, like we're not perfect people, but we we love each other, man.

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You're pretty close to this out, man. Yeah. Right. Amen. You know, I tried to be a joke, a joke.

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But, you know, we try to live. We we we live our our life out in Christ.

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And, you know, it's like, man, like I remember when I was lost. I mean,

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I was lost, man. I was now I'm found, you know, I was blind. Now I see. I mean, it's this is, you know, this is very serious.

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Like like we're not just talking about some made up person in the sky or just talking about, you know, going to heaven.

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You know, when we die or whatever, but it's like this real life stuff. Yeah, this is the gospel.

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I mean, like we have to bring the gospel into every situation in our life. All right. Like it can't just be, you know, just on Sunday morning or, you know, just, you know, when you finally have something bad happen in your life and you want to pray all of a sudden, like, you know, this like this goes into politics.

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This goes into every facet of every facet of life. Right. Yeah. Everything.

01:00:18

All all worship. All life is worship. So. Yeah. And yeah, absolutely.

01:00:24

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01:01:05

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