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Speaker 1: First question says living the Dream with a broken Heart.

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Speaker 1: My name is Christian, twenty six years old from Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: I'll listen to your podcast every week and it's helped

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Speaker 1: next question has no subject line, and here we are

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Speaker 1: back to Christianity. It says, hey, Granger, I'm getting baptized soon,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really nervous about sharing my testimony in pointers.

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Speaker 1: Thanks man, don't no one says you have to tell

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Speaker 1: your testimony. Tell them you don't want to. Don't do it?

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Speaker 1: Is that what your church does? It makes you get

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Speaker 1: baptized and then get up and say your testimony. Tell

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Speaker 1: them you're passing on that done. There's nothing requiring you

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Speaker 1: to do that right now. Until you're comfortable with it.

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Speaker 1: I think you will be one day, but don't worry

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Speaker 1: about it. By the way, I get a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions about baptism. How you should do it, Should babies

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Speaker 1: get baptized, should adults get baptized? It is not required

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Speaker 1: for salvation at all. It's the outward expression of an

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Speaker 1: inward change. The thief on the cross next to Jesus

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Speaker 1: went to Paradise with Jesus. He never got baptized. You

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Speaker 1: could be on the way to get baptized in your

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Speaker 1: car and get killed in a car crash. Does that

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Speaker 1: mean all of a sudden you're not saved? No, of

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Speaker 1: course it doesn't. Keep that in mind. Man, going through

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Speaker 1: these questions. Let's see subject line Guarding your Heart. Hey Grangeer,

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Speaker 1: this is Lane from Texas. I'm twenty one. My last

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Speaker 1: relationship found me very vulnerable. I didn't guard my heart

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Speaker 1: at all. Eventually, after two years, it ended with her

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Speaker 1: saying she loves me and wants everything with me, but

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Speaker 1: not right now. We walked away from each other. However,

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Speaker 1: I still don't know how to guard my heart. What

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Speaker 1: is too much and what is too little? Thank you.

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00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: I find the podcast comforting in your knowledge. Thank you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate this. Lane. Man, I'm just a I need

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Speaker 1: you to know I'm just a normal guy. I'm just

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Speaker 1: I'm one beggar telling another beggar where I found bread.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing more than that. So guarding your heart is

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Speaker 1: so much easier, Lane, It's so much easier at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the relationship. It's much more difficult later on

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Speaker 1: six months in one year in it's hard because you've

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Speaker 1: already committed your heart and and you keep going so

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00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: it's easier at the very beginning to set your own boundaries,

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Speaker 1: your own guidelines before you start. I'm talking before you

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Speaker 1: pick her up for the first date, you tell yourself,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell this girl I love her

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Speaker 1: for X amount of time. I'm not going to go

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Speaker 1: on a second date until X amount of time. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to text her tonight. Little tiny things. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to open up about my past relationships until

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Speaker 1: there's a moment when that's ready to happen. There's things

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Speaker 1: like that, the little guidelines that you could protect your

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Speaker 1: heart with instead of you pick her up and you go,

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Speaker 1: oh oh, I feel butterflies that think I love this girl.

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Speaker 1: Might tell her tomorrow, maybe we should, maybe she should

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Speaker 1: come and move in with me next week. It's much

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Speaker 1: easier at the beginning to set the guidelines because once

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Speaker 1: you go too far, it's too late. So you're at

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Speaker 1: a good spot right now, just out fresh out of

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Speaker 1: a two year relationship that ended that you didn't guard

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Speaker 1: your heart and your heart broken. So now starting over,

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Speaker 1: you go, Okay, I'm good, I'm going back into a

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Speaker 1: new relationship, and the next time that happens, I'm setting

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Speaker 1: these rules before I pick her up for that first day.

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Speaker 1: Do it early early on next question, subject line dating

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Speaker 1: for years. Heygre andur had like to remain anonymous. In

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Speaker 1: episode one and thirty six, you said dating someone for

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Speaker 1: years usually doesn't work. I'm talking about before marriage. I'm seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I've been with my girlfriend for three years. What's your

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Speaker 1: advice on dating multiple years when you can't get married?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Yee Yeah, Nathaniel, you wrote this. I have

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Speaker 1: heard this a bunch people that are in high school

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Speaker 1: asking me this kind of question. So I will say this.

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Speaker 1: First of all, if you're seventeen, you've been dating your

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Speaker 1: girlfriend for three years, that means you started dating at fourteen.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty young man. It's pretty young to be in

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Speaker 1: a serious relationship. I want to say this was hard

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Speaker 1: for me. I struggled with this in high school too,

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Speaker 1: so I'm absolutely in not a better place than you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking back on my life and going Man,

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Speaker 1: if I could have changed a couple of things, this

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Speaker 1: would have been one of them. Guard my heart. Don't

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Speaker 1: stay in these relationships for multiple years and years and years.

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Speaker 1: But we get this idea that we need the relationship

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Speaker 1: like we need it because it makes us a better person.

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Speaker 1: We're a better part of ourselves because we're in a relationship.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes it doesn't even matter who we're in the

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Speaker 1: relationship with. We're just better because we're in one and

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Speaker 1: everyone else is in one and it looks really good

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Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook. So, Nathaniel, you're already in this

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Speaker 1: three years. You have a lot of thinking to do.

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Speaker 1: You're seventeen. You have to ask yourself, am I going

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Speaker 1: to be twenty and dating this girl for six years

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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna be ready for marriage at twenty five?

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Speaker 1: And that's going to be eleven years into this dating

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Speaker 1: relationship and I'm never gonna really have known any other

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Speaker 1: girls besides her because I started dating her when I

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Speaker 1: was fourteen, and then ten years down the road after marriage,

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Speaker 1: You've been with her twenty one years, married for ten.

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Speaker 1: You're thirty one or no, thirty five at that point,

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Speaker 1: according to my bad math, you're thirty five years old,

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Speaker 1: been with the same girl for twenty one years, and

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Speaker 1: you've been married for ten Is that Do you think

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Speaker 1: that that's leading you to a good place? Do you

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Speaker 1: think that's healthy? I'm asking you all these rhetorical questions

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00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: and you got two kids running around, and you're confident

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Speaker 1: in this relationship enough to know, because maybe you are,

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00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: maybe it could work. But I'm here to tell you, Nathaniel,

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00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: if it didn't. If it did work, it would be rare.

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Speaker 1: You would be an exception to all other humans. You'd

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Speaker 1: be a one percenter if this works. If you're thirty

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Speaker 1: five years old, same girl for twenty one years, married

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Speaker 1: for ten and a couple kids, you'd be like a

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Speaker 1: one percenter that's happy in their marriage, no divorce on

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Speaker 1: the horizon. Everyone else is getting divorced around you, and

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00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: you're still totally happy. There's some bad odds. That's all

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's all I'm bringing up here. So at

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Speaker 1: some point it's like, hey, babe, I think I need

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Speaker 1: some space. Oh my god, why because I'm seventeen and

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Speaker 1: I started dating you when I was fourteen, and I

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Speaker 1: just I feel like I'm not going to be good

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Speaker 1: for you if I don't at least see the world

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Speaker 1: myself as a single man. If I don't go to

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Speaker 1: coffee with another female and see what another voice sounds

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00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: like on the other end of a phone, it's a

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Speaker 1: disservice to her. If you don't do that right. So

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00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: many people right now are going no. I've been married

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Speaker 1: for seventeen years and we started dating when we were eleven.

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00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: I know. I see your messages on TikTok. People want

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00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: to argue everything I say. All I'm saying is I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to get you to play the correct odds here.

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00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you the best odds at the

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00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: blackjack table. And right now you have a really bad

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00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: hand and you're trying to beat the dealer, and you

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00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: can because the dealer could bust. But odds are you're

587
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: going to lose this hand? Is that what you want

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00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: to play? Are you going to wait and keep your

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00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: chip on the table and throw out another hand, maybe

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00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: a better one next time? How many hands would you

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00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: have to play to finally beat the dealer? There's relationships

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00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: for you. It's like how many dates do you want

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Speaker 1: to go on until you're confident with one for marriage?

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00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: You want to just take one hand at that? And

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00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: you got a two and a four sitting on your table,

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00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: bro Is that what you want to do? Or do

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00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: you want to say I fold, I'm gonna keep playing

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00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: some more hands. I'm gonna get some more experience at

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00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: this table before I'm confident with putting all my chips

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00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: on it. Right. That's my answer in a long way.

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Speaker 1: There's another question about baptism. That's the subject line. It says,

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00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: thanks for this podcast. It's helped me in ways that

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00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: I needed help that I didn't even know. My question

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Speaker 1: is does getting baptized as a baby count as baptism

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Speaker 1: or do you need to get baptized on your own

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Speaker 1: choice in accepting Jesus into your life. My church does

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Speaker 1: bad baby baptisms, but I feel like it's more for

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00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: the parents to show off their kid than it is

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Speaker 1: for the church. Thanks Grangor. This is Justin from Wisconsin. Yes, Justin,

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Speaker 1: I believe with you. I believe that you need to

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Speaker 1: be at an age of reckoning where you could understand

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Speaker 1: what baptism actually means. I don't think there's anything wrong

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Speaker 1: with baptizing babies, but I do think you should go

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Speaker 1: back and do it again. But it is not required

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00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: for your salvation. Keep that in mind. It's a great

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00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 1: outward expression of an inward change, and a baby can't

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00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: do that. But hey, if there's nothing wrong with a

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00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: family taking up a baby in front of the church

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Speaker 1: and getting baptized and sprinkling their head or whatever. You know,

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00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. I think it's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't tell anybody that's wrong. But I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you, don't put that much emphasis on it.

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Speaker 1: You do you? Okay? Here's a man. You guys, there's

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00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: like back to back, back to back God questions. Here's

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00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: this next one says Hey Granger. I'm twenty eight years old.

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Speaker 1: I'm a married man from Rockton, Illinois, with my first

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00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: daughter on the way. I've seen you play many times.

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Speaker 1: I love your music, and I have reading comprehension problems,

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Speaker 1: and I find it hard to read the Bible every

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Speaker 1: day and understand what it says. I mostly picked chapters

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Speaker 1: at random and hope that it speaks to me, but

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00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: without direction or clear goal to learn, I find myself

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Speaker 1: getting inconsistent. Do you have any advice for specifically choosing

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Speaker 1: what I can understand better so that I can have

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Speaker 1: a closer and more clear relationship with Christ. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: all you do spreading the word. Yeah, man, justin shout

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: out to Illinois. Thanks for the question. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a problem with picking random chapters and reading them and

639
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: just hoping they speak to you, like Bible roulette. The

640
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: reason I think there's a problem with that is because

641
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: it's the same problem as picking random verses like what

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00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: I like to call them coffee mug verses, and that

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Speaker 1: you you know, the kind of verses that you see

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00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: on T shirts and coffee mugs and people put them

645
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: on wooden signs and hang them in their house. Because

646
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: it gets it out of context. You lose when you

647
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: pick a verse or even a chapter like that, you're

648
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: losing the context of who was writing it, where they

649
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: were writing it, why they were writing it, and the

650
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: purpose of writing it to those people that they're writing

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00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: it to. Does that makes sense? So if you pick

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Speaker 1: a random chapter, it's hard to keep that context in

653
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Speaker 1: mind of why it matters to you, because you would

654
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: know if you read everything in whole why those people

655
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: were hearing it at the time, by the person for

656
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Speaker 1: the right reason. Then you can go, yeah, that's me,

657
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: that's me too. So consistently, consistency starts with creating a habit,

658
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: and the habit would start with picking a time of

659
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: day mineus the morning before everyone gets up, a cup

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00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: of coffee, and I have a plan every morning. I

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00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: have a plan. I can't live randomly in the Bible,

662
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: so I read. There's a many Bible reading plans, many

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Speaker 1: my personal one that I read of I'm on my

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Speaker 1: second year of it. It's called the McShane plan. And

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Speaker 1: the McShane plan takes me through four chapters a day.

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Speaker 1: My little brother Parker says that force too much. He'd

667
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: rather do two. Whatever. Okay, maybe you'd rather do one,

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00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: Maybe you'd rather do a paragraph. As long as you're

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Speaker 1: keeping consistent with the context of it, and you're going

670
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: day to day, paragraph after paragraph, that's fine. I like

671
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Speaker 1: it because it skips me around from the Old Testament

672
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: to the New and then back to the Old and

673
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: then back to the New again. It gets me through

674
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: the New Testament twice in a year, Psalms twice in

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Speaker 1: a year, Old Testament once in a year. But it

676
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: all starts with one idea, and this idea is and

677
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Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to the very first question

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00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: I had about atheism and creation. If if there is

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00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: an almighty career, which we which I pretty pretty well

680
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: established that I believe there isn't in my first question

681
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: on this podcast, If there is, and you think would

682
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: this creator speak to his creation or when he goes silent,

683
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: and then we believe, well, yeah, of course he did.

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00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: He spoke to his creation, and he still speaks to

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Speaker 1: him actively through what through the word through the Bible.

686
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: So then then you have to come to this realization

687
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: at some point. It's like, there's this creator that created

688
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: this universe that we could see all around us in

689
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 1: perfect order, and it has flaws because it's a fallen

690
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: world and there's bad things that happen here. But through

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00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: the bad we see this order that happens, I mean,

692
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: starting with the sun and the Earth rotating around the

693
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: sun in a perfect order create an atmosphere that we

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Speaker 1: live perfectly in as humans. So then we say, if

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00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: that creator, with that kind of order spoke to us

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Speaker 1: through a certain word, why would I not read that

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Speaker 1: every single day? And why wouldn't I read that like

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Speaker 1: my life depended on it. If it mattered to the

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00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: Creator to speak to his creation through a word, why

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Speaker 1: would I not treat that like the most valuable book

701
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: on the planet. And so once you come to that,

702
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: then you set your alarm in the morning, you get

703
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: up before your family does, and you get that cup

704
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: of coffee your daughter's on her way, your wife's pregnant,

705
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: and you get that book and us you say, oh God,

706
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Speaker 1: I am lost and I need renewal. Speak to me

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00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: today through this word, this ever living word. It's presents,

708
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: it's profound, it's relevant to me. Let it speak to

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Speaker 1: me today, because I got a feed here, angree, and

710
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: I have to feed right here, the living food. Speak

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00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: to me through these words. Let me find my meaning.

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00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: Let me find how to be a better father for

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00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: my daughter and a better husband to my wife, because

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00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: every day I need it, because I get broken and

715
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: I fail and I fall, and I have to pick

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00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: up again right back here where I left off at

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00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: this word. Why, Because the creator gave me this word,

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Speaker 1: arrived there with that mentality before you read, and you're

719
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna have no problem digging into a reading plan. If

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00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: you don't believe that, if you don't care about that,

721
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: then it's useless. It's gibberish. None of it makes sense.

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00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: Why would it? Just ancient writings doesn't matter. Look at

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Speaker 1: it from that perspective. Next question says depression from the

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Speaker 1: weather in Texas. Question mark says lighthearted question. Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is Lisa from Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada. I always struggle with

726
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: seasonal depression, as winter here is so cold and long,

727
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: it's hard to get out and get sunlight and fresh

728
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: air for a good six months. I always dream of

729
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: one day moving south. I was just wondering if you

730
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: could struggle from seasonal depression if the weather is too hot,

731
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Speaker 1: or is life always good in Texas. Lisa, thank you

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00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: for the question. Shout out to my friends in Saskatchewan.

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Speaker 1: I love your question because I am very affected by

734
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: the weather and I lived, you know, many years ago.

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00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: I lived in Nashville, and in Nashville there in February,

736
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: they'll see like one or two days of sunlight in

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00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: the month of February. And I remember going home to

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00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: Texas and visiting friends in February, and they're going out

739
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: in Austin. They're going out on Lake Travis. They're out

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00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: on a boat. It's sixty degrees in February. It's sun

741
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: it's not a cloud in the sky. They're just living

742
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: it up and I'm just feeling so good. I was

743
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: just loving it. And then I'd go back and get

744
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: on a plane and go back to Nashville, where it's

745
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: just it's like forty degrees and misting rain and overcast,

746
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: and Nashville's on the very eastern side of the Central

747
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: time zone, so the sun goes down earlier in Nashville

748
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Speaker 1: than it does in Texas because they're on the same

749
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: time zone, but Nashville is so much farther east, so

750
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: it gets dark at like four point thirty and it's

751
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: just so so depressing. You know, people in Seattle because

752
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 1: of the rain so much, they'll they'll put UV lights

753
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: in their home to soak it in. I traveled to

754
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: Alaska recently and we played a tour. It's like five

755
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: days and it was freezing cold, and it was overcast,

756
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: and it didn't get light till like ten am, and

757
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: it got dark at five pm. And I just felt it.

758
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: I felt the gloom on me. So short answer, yeah, yeah,

759
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: it can affect you, and I hear you. I hear you.

760
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: But then the longer answer it would be that finding

761
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: a warmer client climate with more sunshine doesn't necessarily fix

762
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 1: your problems. There's other things you got to deal with.

763
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: There's other ways to find joy and peace and happiness

764
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 1: and love. There's other ways besides the weather that bring

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00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: those to you. In fact, Most of those things come

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00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: from different sources than the weather. The weather is just

767
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: one factor. So should you move to Texas? Sure, it's great.

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00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: It gets really hot, really hot. I don't know if

769
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: you'd handle the heat in August it's one hundred and

770
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: ten and gets terrible, but we do see beautiful February

771
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: days when it's sixty and sunny. Just know that it's

772
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: a joke, and I know you're joking to say is

773
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: life always good in Texas? Because it's not. That depends

774
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: on the person. That depends on where you're seeking your

775
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: joy from. Remember that, and there's also a lot of

776
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: people that could absolutely love Saskatchewan, Canada. It's a beautiful place.

777
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: So find the source of your joy and then supplement

778
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: that with the source of your sunlight. Later, let's hit

779
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: another one question subject line talking to girls. Hey Granger,

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00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: I'm Bobby. I'm fifteen. I know that you say at

781
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: my age I should stay out of relationships, and I

782
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: don't really want to be in one. But when I

783
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: talk to girls or when they talk to me, I

784
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: always seem to get very awkward, even if the conversation

785
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: is something that we're doing in class. So I guess

786
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: what I'm asking is what is the best way to

787
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: seem cool and not awkward? Love the podcast, the music

788
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: in the smith, Thank you, what's up? Bobby? Fifteen? Man?

789
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: You are just right on track of where I was,

790
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: and so many people, so many boys at fifteen, would

791
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: say the same thing. So my best solution for you

792
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: is just wait a few years. It's going to come.

793
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: You won't be awkward forever. Fifteen is an awkward age.

794
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: I remember being fifteen like it was yesterday and being

795
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: so awkward in front of girls. I didn't know what

796
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: to say. I grew up with two brothers. I didn't

797
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: know what it was like to have a girl in

798
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: my life besides my mom, and that's different. I didn't

799
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: know anything about girls. I didn't know how to talk

800
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: to them. They're like aliens to me. But you will.

801
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 1: And a good way to start this is to stay

802
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: in groups or like herd animals. So stay in a

803
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: group with your friends, and you get six guys and

804
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: six girls, and you go to a movie together, or

805
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: you go to a football game together, and you mingle

806
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: and you mix up in there, and so you're still

807
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: with your pack. You're with your boys, and they're with

808
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: their girls, and so you feed off each other. If

809
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: it gets too awkward, you just kind of nudge your

810
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: buddy and you go back into guy mode. But every

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00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: once in a while you get stuck in this little

812
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: conversation with the girl and you're still surrounded by your

813
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: safety around you, your guys, and you slowly learn little

814
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: things like ooh, that was dumb. I probably shouldn't have

815
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: said that. That's something I would only say to my

816
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: guy friends. Or I just said that, and she actually

817
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: really was interested in that mental note. Girls like it

818
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: when I talk about stuff like this or when I

819
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: talk in this way. Okay, good, you're learning, and that's

820
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: what you do at fifteen, Bobby. This is totally natural,

821
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: and this is good. It's totally normal. Stay in groups,

822
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: mingle with other girls, slowly learn and that'll allow you

823
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: eventually to break off and be with a girl, just

824
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: you and her, and you go to dinner, and you're

825
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: confident by that point because you've talked slowly to girls

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00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: for a few years before that. Thank you, guys so

827
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: much for these questions. If you have one for me

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Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, we'll see you next Monday.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate

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00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: all of you guys. You could help me out by

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Speaker 1: rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, subscribe

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Speaker 1: a video. If you have a question for me that

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Speaker 1: you would like me to answer, email Grangersmith Podcast at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Yiyi