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Speaker 2: I'm glad to be back.

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Speaker 1: You're with me in so many other things, but not

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Speaker 1: Once again, Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. First quest

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Speaker 1: since says subject line dating apps. Hey, mister Smith, vague question.

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Speaker 1: I was just wondering what is your opinion on dating apps,

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Speaker 1: think that they are healthy. But I'm also not denying

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Speaker 1: that a lot of people have met on traditional dating apps.

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Speaker 1: And there will be people that would comment on this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. I can see that.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any experience with dating apps because obviously

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Speaker 3: you said, I think when you have other options where

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Speaker 3: lot of people just don't put on a true vision

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Speaker 1: Get catfished. Listen to this On After Midnight. I told

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Speaker 1: a story about Tender, the swipe right app that is

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Speaker 1: You give it a bunch of pictures, It picks the profile,

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Speaker 3: And that's what the world is coming to with all

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Speaker 3: Well, and there are exceptions to every rule. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're all, we're all, we're still sinners and

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Speaker 1: we believe in him. So that's a first here doctrine.

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Speaker 1: You cannot disagree on that or you are not a Christian.

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Speaker 1: Everything else after that it's just a place matt and

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Speaker 1: a nice fire and a meal. And so I and

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Speaker 1: I think it's really neat. C. S. Lewis. Now I

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Speaker 1: have strong opinions about second third tier, fourth year doctrines.

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Speaker 1: I have those opinions, and I'd be willing to talk

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Speaker 1: about it, but that's they're not selvific. They don't save

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Speaker 1: you or not. Only faith in Jesus does that in

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Speaker 1: realizing the the power of the Cross and what it

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Speaker 1: means for humanity. Who God is as revealed in his son. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So everything else that you're asking really is Halloway questions.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's what you mean about religion. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you mean is there a right religion

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism, is

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Speaker 1: it all the same? That's not what you're asking.

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Speaker 2: No, Well, if you are, it's not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are, If you are asking that question,

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Speaker 1: just briefly, none of those other religions would agree either. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that every religion, no religion. Let me say it

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Speaker 1: this way, none of the major religions will will agree

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Speaker 1: that all paths lead to God. They're all going to

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Speaker 1: say this is the path. That's a different question on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Happy to answer that at another time. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's what you're as.

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Speaker 2: I think it was more denominational.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is like you said, you need to agree

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Speaker 3: on self efit on things that are that are important

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Speaker 3: and needed for salvation. After that, it's like you said,

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Speaker 3: people sometimes disagree on baptism or alcohol or things like that.

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Speaker 3: Those are different things that Granger said, or like the

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Speaker 3: different doors that you can go in to get into

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Speaker 3: deeper theologically, you need to know that you're saved by

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Speaker 3: grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

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Speaker 1: And don't don't use that word convert like that's the

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Speaker 1: wrong word to use. That's what you said, Am I

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Speaker 1: turning my back on God? If I think about converting

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Speaker 1: to another religion? Don't that's a wrong word. If you're

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Speaker 1: talking about going from Presbyterian to Baptist or whatever, Baptist

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Speaker 1: and non denominational, if that's IF's that's a different discussion,

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Speaker 1: and we could have deeper discussions on that. But that

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with conversion. Conversion happens when you're

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Speaker 1: dead in your trespasses and you're reborn, your eyes are

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Speaker 1: now opened, and you are a Christian. That is conversion.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't decide to do that.

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Speaker 1: God does that, And Jesus said in John three, no

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Speaker 1: one enters the Kingdom of Heaven without being reborn. You

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Speaker 1: must be born again, is what Jesus said. A baby

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Speaker 1: can't be born, It can't make himself be born, right,

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Speaker 1: you just are. It happens outside of yourself. Nothing bores

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Speaker 1: itself when he was the word nothing births itself. You know,

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Speaker 1: something cannot birth itself. So I don't think that's what

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Speaker 1: you mean. And I hope this clears it up. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a break and be right back. Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Just want to say quickly, if you're struggling with that,

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Speaker 2: just pray. The Bible says.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says, anyone who is seeking wisdom to ask

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Speaker 3: ask for it. Get on your knees and ask the

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Speaker 3: Lord to reveal things to you. Open up your Bible

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Speaker 3: and begin to read.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we could go. We can go and talk

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Speaker 1: about episcopals and we could talk. We could, but that

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Speaker 1: would take it. It's merely a preference of food. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: if y'all haven't gotten a copy yet of my book

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Speaker 1: Like a River, I would encourage you to check this

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Speaker 1: book out. If you're not much of a book person, well,

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Speaker 1: the audio book is something that I read and it

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Speaker 1: has some bonus features in it, some added commentary, plus

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Speaker 1: Amber and I do about an hour long interview with

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Speaker 1: each other, just us too at the end of the

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Speaker 1: audio book. And so it's got a bunch of extras.

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Speaker 1: And maybe even if you have read the book and

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Speaker 1: you have the hard copy, maybe you could check out

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Speaker 1: the audiobook as well. It's something I was really excited

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Speaker 1: had an audiobook before, you could use Audible or the

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Speaker 1: reason or to anyone, check me out on cameo dot

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Speaker 1: Back to the podcast. All right, guys, back here on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Got my wife Amber join in.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time. I'm so glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: I love sitting here with you.

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Speaker 1: That makes it so much better to have you.

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Speaker 3: We actually get to have a conversation without the kids

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Speaker 3: pulling on us. So yes, sometimes this is kind of like.

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Speaker 2: A little date for us.

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Speaker 1: It is. I found out this week, and maybe some

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Speaker 1: of y'all listening already know this, but found out that

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Speaker 1: Like a River is a New York Times bestseller.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: That's so incredible crazy. I was telling you today that's

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Speaker 3: a very small portion of books that get to put

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Speaker 3: that on the cover.

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Speaker 2: So that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: And it's like you said, we don't do it for

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Speaker 3: you didn't write that book to get that title, but

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Speaker 3: that title will hopefully get the book into more people's hands.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we want, is just to share the message.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we answer your questions here. Grangersmith Podcast

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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com is the email this episode two

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Speaker 1: o five continuing here with the next question, subject line says,

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Speaker 1: the Book of Enoch, how do you grang your My

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Speaker 1: name is Joshua. This is my second time asking you

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Speaker 1: a question. The first response was so amazing, I figured

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Speaker 1: i'd ask you another one because of all your knowledge.

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Speaker 1: The Book of was once in the Bible, however it

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Speaker 1: was removed. I just wanted to ask you what you

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Speaker 1: think of about this book and if or not it

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Speaker 1: is scripture. Ps. Your book is amazing. It brought a

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Speaker 1: tear to my eye. Thank you for being so vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: Your words mean a lot, Joshua, Thank you, Joshua, appreciate

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Speaker 1: you man. Thanks for also thanks for reading like a river.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, so let's talk about the Book of Enoch.

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Speaker 1: But maybe not just that book. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: books that were that were in dispute and still are

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Speaker 1: maybe to this day. The Book of Enoch is one

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Speaker 1: of the newer ones that has been in dispute because

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Speaker 1: I believe it was discovered more recent than most and

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Speaker 1: so then it's been in like scholar debates as of lately.

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Speaker 1: I believe it came up recently, like within the last

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Speaker 1: fifty years, there was a there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: books and about the discovery of the Book of Enoch

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Speaker 1: and why it was purposely left out of the canon.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, happy to discuss. And I love love this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I love history of the Bible. I love the canon,

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Speaker 1: the formation of the Canon. I love the formation of

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Speaker 1: the Four Gospels. It's really fascinating to think about the

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Speaker 1: and the Book of Enoch and stuff like that. But

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Speaker 1: why are there four? Matthew Mark Luke and John Man.

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Speaker 1: That is such a such a crazy, deep deep well

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Speaker 1: just about.

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Speaker 2: To say that you're a deep well about this, And yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: I've read a lot of books about apologetic types of

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Speaker 1: books about the Canon itself and the sixty six books,

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Speaker 1: and even saying sixty six. There's some people that are like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's not sick. There's more in that.

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Speaker 2: There's more in the Catholic Yeah, yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we you know, happy to have that

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Speaker 1: discussion in another time as well. But what we find

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Speaker 1: as in twenty twenty three is a great time to

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Speaker 1: talk about what books belong in the canon or not,

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Speaker 1: because we have now compiled a lot more evidence over

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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand archaeological digs. We have more ancient manuscript

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Speaker 1: fragments of the Bible and complete pieces of different books

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Speaker 1: or different scripture than any other ancient document combined times

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Speaker 1: a lot. And I'm talking about if you know ancient

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Speaker 1: documents like Homer or Aristotle or Plato or those kind

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Speaker 1: of ancient documents that we'll read in school, and you

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Speaker 1: look at it like this is a fact, like Homer

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Speaker 1: wrote this. Wow, the odds that Homer wrote what we

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Speaker 1: if Moses wrote Deuteronomy, or if the apostle John wrote Revelation,

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Speaker 1: or if if if Isaiah wrote the Great Isaiah Scroll.

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Speaker 1: I'd try to do the biggest sweep of fifteen hundred years.

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Speaker 1: I could right there And what I mean is, we

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Speaker 1: but people believe, but people believe it. Maybe he did,

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Speaker 1: he probably did. But the fact is that the I

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Speaker 1: don't know much about Homer, but the I do know

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Speaker 1: that the evidence the fragments of the ancient documents are

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Speaker 1: so few and so far few in between, or whatever

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Speaker 1: don't think he actually wrote that. But when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the Bible, we have so much more mounting evidence

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty incredible, and it's the most researched book

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Speaker 1: in the planet, and we have the most evidence, more

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Speaker 1: than any other ancient document. I read that it would

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Speaker 1: be if you stacked all of our fragments up, it

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Speaker 1: would be miles high as much as we found. So

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Speaker 1: how do you know what is included and what's not?

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Speaker 1: And was there some one council or maybe some constantine

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Speaker 1: is what goes in here, and I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: it because I want to get I want to gain power,

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Speaker 1: or I want to gain control over people. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to make sure that these books aren't included, and

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Speaker 1: these are because these make me look better in my kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Is that what happened or was it a council of

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Speaker 1: people that came together in Nicea in the fourth century

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Speaker 1: that said, Okay, let's randomly look at Israel and look

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Speaker 1: at all the pieces of literature, and let's pull together

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Speaker 1: the ones that we want, and we'll call it the

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Speaker 1: b I, B L E. And we'll make it. You know,

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Speaker 1: they no, none of that is true. That's what people

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Speaker 1: want to think it's true. But we have writings that

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Speaker 1: go way before the fourth century of people reading scripture,

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Speaker 1: and starting with the Gospels, you have them as Jesus

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Speaker 1: is quoting Psalms, He's crediting Psalms to David, he is

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Speaker 1: crediting Isaiah to his writings, and Jeremiah and Moses writing Genesis,

649
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: and so we have connections. The Bible is self testifying,

650
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: It testifies to itself through its own its own authors.

651
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: And then we see that play out as apologist and

652
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: early Church fathers were writing in the same the same

653
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: lifetime as others. So we have the apostle John was

654
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: the last writer of the Bible. We have a lot

655
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: of evidence to believe that one of John's students was Polycarp,

656
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: and one of polycarp students was Irenaeus. And these guys

657
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: are writing in the same lifetime of other eyewitnesses that

658
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: were there with Jesus. And that goes back and back

659
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: and back and back and back to David writing the

660
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: Psalms in the minor prophets and the major prophets. So

661
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: we have so much testifying evidence to why we have

662
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: authorship for certain books. And then we come to certain

663
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: things like the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Mary,

664
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Enoch, where we go, oh,

665
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: hang on, there's a major gap here. The Gospel of Thomas.

666
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: We don't have any ancient fragments of that. We don't

667
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: have anybody talking Ironaeus, Polycarp, Apostle John. No one is

668
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: talking about the Gospel of Thomas like they did everything else.

669
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: No one is talking about the things that Thomas talks

670
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: about that are the apparent Thomas talks about in the

671
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: Gospel Thomas. And we go, hang on a second, this

672
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: is introducing new ideas. The Greek literary style is different

673
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: than the other four gospels. That wasn't the style of

674
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: conversation that the disciples had. We don't find as many

675
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: of the fragments, and we have some people actually speaking out,

676
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,479
Speaker 1: like iron As speaking out against the Gospel Thomas, saying

677
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: this is heresy, this is a fake. So then what

678
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: happens is a couple hundred years go by, there's people going, hey,

679
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: this is a fake. Of course, why there were humans,

680
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: why wouldn't there be fakes. You would imagine there would

681
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: be fake books that people write and credit it to

682
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: an author it's not themselves, right, and so of course

683
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: that you would imagine in humanity that there would be

684
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: books that are coming out that are plagiarizing somebody else

685
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: for something. So we go back and we read these historians.

686
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: Josephus is another one, and we can go, oh, we

687
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: have a lot of evidence to say that Thomas did

688
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: not write this book. So does everybody vote this this

689
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: Thomas book is fake? And everyone's like, yeah, I did

690
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: my research here. This guy's like yeah, I did my

691
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: research here. I talked to so and so he said

692
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: Thomas didn't even write he talked to Thomas whatever, and

693
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: so they go. Book of Thomas is out, the Gospel

694
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: of Thomas is out. Mary, same thing, Peter, same thing,

695
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: Book of Enoch, same thing. There, these books are not

696
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: in the Bible today in twenty twenty three, not because

697
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: of some conspiracy, not because of some old king or

698
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: some emperor or some secret council. It's literally because historians

699
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: have come together and go, that's uh, that's a that's

700
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: that's a false book. We can we can verify through

701
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: multiple sources that that's not the right person that wrote that.

702
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: And so we have to trust that the spirit that

703
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: these books are in spirit motivated, and we can go, yeah,

704
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: the spirit is also motivating these wise men saying men

705
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: women saying no, we're not going to trust with these

706
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: books supposed to be here. And that was a long

707
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: goodness s grangers, shut up, move on.

708
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 2: You're like a deep oil of history and I love it.

709
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: The next next subject says, how to move on. That's

710
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: a good piece of advice for me. Move on, man,

711
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: shut up. Hey granger. My name is Jose I'm twenty

712
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: three years old. I still can't get over my ex

713
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Here we go, there's a good one now, we're back

714
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: to the good stuff. Still can't go over get over

715
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: my ex. It's been two years since the breakup, and

716
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: I can't move on. I have her on social media

717
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: and she's the first one I see on everything that

718
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: I post. She's the first one to see everything I post.

719
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: I've been on dates, but it just doesn't feel the same.

720
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: Can you give me any advice. I have read your

721
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: and it has helped me. I think he meant I've

722
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: read your book. Sorry, there wasn't a lot of punctuation

723
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: in that that, so I let me say it again.

724
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: This guy's Jose and he's twenty three. He can't get

725
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: over ax, his ax. It's been two years since the breakup.

726
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: Can't move on. He has her on social media and

727
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: she's the first one to see everything that he posts.

728
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm assuming because she likes it or views it or something.

729
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: He's been on dates didn't feel the same, Bro, Jose, blocker.

730
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: Blocker blocker, you're causing yourself more damage, and especially after

731
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: if it's been two years, that's a long time to

732
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 3: stay stuck, and you're just hurting yourself by still continuing

733
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 3: to follow her or look at her, or let her

734
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 3: look at you.

735
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: Or post things because you want her to get jealous

736
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: or whatever. The things in the games that people play,

737
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 2: you got to just delete it. Will it will help

738
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: you keep your sanity.

739
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're going on these dates and it doesn't

740
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: feel the same because you literally just looked at her Instagram, Yeah,

741
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: right before you walked into the new date. So you're

742
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: not gonna heal until you stop seeing her every day

743
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: and you stop worrying about what she's doing. This was

744
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: not a problem they had in the nineties or eighties

745
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 1: or seventies or any year before that. Yeah.

746
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think Sam Hunt has a song

747
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 3: about that, something about breaking up to the nineties.

748
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,919
Speaker 1: Breaking up was easy in the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, there's

749
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: there's a there's so many country songs that I love

750
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: that I that I hear sometimes from the nineties or

751
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: eighties and I just think, Wow, that's not possible anymore.

752
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: There's this old song no one knows it, but it's

753
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: from the nineties by this band called Blackhawk, and it's

754
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: called Postmark Birmingham, and it's about he got this letter

755
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: from her. She left and he got a letter and

756
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: she says, I'm sorry, I'm moving on. Basically, saying it's

757
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: it's not you, it's me, And the only evidence he

758
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: has is it's postmarked Birmingham.

759
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 2: It's such a good songs.

760
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: The only thing he knows about where she is, and

761
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: he can't understand because she doesn't have any family there,

762
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: no relatives there, she's never even been there, she's never

763
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: even been to Alabama whatever. And then Garth brooks, what

764
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: she's doing now, what she's doing now is tearing me apart,

765
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: filling up my mind. And he has no idea what

766
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: she's doing.

767
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 2: And now we know everything everybody's doing.

768
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of those those songs, and I

769
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: hear them and I just think it's impossible because now,

770
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: if you date today in twenty twenty three, if you

771
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: date somebody, you're probably always going to know what they're doing. Yeah,

772
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: So you gotta walk her, Yeah, you gotta block it.

773
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 2: You gotta try to find a hobby. Yeah, try to

774
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 2: find something else to pour yourself into.

775
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: Every now and then Garth brooks, every now and then,

776
00:43:54,320 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a good song. The next one says

777
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: subject I'm trying to meet people. Hey, Grangeery, my name

778
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: is Blake. I'm eighteen from Minnesota. I just wanted to

779
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: say thank you for being an inspiration in my life

780
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: as well as my buddies. I've been listening to you

781
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: since I was nine. Just wanted to ask you how

782
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: I should go about interacting with new girls since most

783
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: of them since most of what I do is hang

784
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: out with my buddies on the farm and work. And

785
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: I know I'm still somewhat young, but I feel like

786
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: I should start being around more people and open myself

787
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: up to a future slash girlfriend slash wife. Thanks for

788
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: what you do. Also, I saw you performing Goodhre. It

789
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: was great. Lincoln was with me and Good Hu and

790
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: he did the gritty on the stage.

791
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 3: Sometimes he does the gritty and other times he's so.

792
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 2: Scared to go on stage.

793
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: Ye stage fright Blake eighteen years old. Man, dude, first react.

794
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my first reaction. This podcast really

795
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: is like driving down in the truck down a country

796
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: road and you're riding Shotgun and we got the windows

797
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: down and you say, man, could I ask you a question?

798
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: And you say, how do I go about interacting with

799
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: new girls since most of what I do is just

800
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: hang out with my buddies on the farm and work.

801
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: My first reaction, like knee jerk reaction, is bro, you're eighteen.

802
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: Just keep doing that. Keep doing that for a while.

803
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: Don't worry about how to interact with new girls. That

804
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: might be hard to do because your brain is there's

805
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: like things firing in your brain that's going you need

806
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: to look at a girl, you need to talk to

807
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: a girl. You need that's natural, that's your biology. It's

808
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: coming out saying, hey, it's time to get going on

809
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: this girl thing. You don't necessarily have to listen to

810
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: that at eighteen, though. I would much rather this email

811
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: than an email of someone eighteen going this, I've been

812
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: with this girl for six years, she's going off to college.

813
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I love her, she's

814
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: of my life, she's pregnant, whatever. Like. The list goes

815
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: on and on of emails I wouldn't want to see.

816
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: But the one I do like is the one that says,

817
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm eighteen, I work on the farm, I hang out

818
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: with my buddies. Should I start thinking about girls right now? Dude?

819
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: I love that email.

820
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 2: And there's there's we don't know too much.

821
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 3: We don't know what school he goes to or if

822
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 3: he's in school right now, or if his buddies have girlfriends,

823
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 3: or it's it's kind of hard without getting some more information.

824
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: My dad used to always take My dad raised three boys,

825
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: and he used to always tell us, guys, don't have

826
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: a girlfriend, just be friends with girls, and be friends

827
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: with a lot of them, but don't go steady with

828
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: any of them. And I know exactly what he meant,

829
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: and I would encourage the same thing with my kids,

830
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: because you only get blake. You only get this chance

831
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 1: one time to be eighteen, and it's going to fly by,

832
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: and Lord willing, most of your life, most of it,

833
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: you'll be with a girl. You'll be with your wife,

834
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: and you'll be raising babies and grand babies, Lord Willing,

835
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: you will spend the rest of your life and your

836
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: roommate will be a girl. Right But the only time

837
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: in your life when you're not going to have a

838
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: girl and you're just gonna be with your buddies hanging

839
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: out working on the farm is right now. And you're

840
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: asking me how to throw all that away and go

841
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: find a girl to worry about.

842
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 3: You could invite some of your girl quote, your girl

843
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 3: friends over to do some farm work and see if

844
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 3: they can handle whatever kind of farm work you're doing.

845
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: It's the same thing my dad said, be friends with them. Yeah,

846
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: and be friends with a lot of them. And Blake,

847
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: here's your main question is how do I go about

848
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: interacting with new girls since most of what I do

849
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: is hang out with my buddies on our farm work.

850
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: That's your main question. And my main answer to that,

851
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: besides the fact is please just enjoy being eighteen. My

852
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: main answer to you is, like Amber said, invite a

853
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: group of them together with your group of boys. So

854
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: you got a group of girls with a group of boys.

855
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: Nobody's singled out, and you guys make a bonfire. Somebody's

856
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: got to pick up a guitar. You play some guitar,

857
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 1: You pass the guitar around, you sing along. You then

858
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: get a really unique chance to watch the girls how

859
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: they interact, and they watch you and how you interact.

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Speaker 1: But you don't get stuck needing to know what to

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Speaker 1: say or do in the moment. You learn from the outside,

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Speaker 1: and you'll quickly learn things like, man, maybe next time

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Speaker 1: I'll wash my shirt, like maybe next time I'll comb

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Speaker 1: my hair or something. But those are really cool things

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Speaker 1: that happen as these two opposite creatures get together and

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Speaker 1: start socializing. You don't have to do that one on one.

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Speaker 1: You could do it in groups.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And eighteen is kind of tricky because

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Speaker 3: that's about the time when girls and guys start going

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Speaker 3: off to college. So even if you did kind of

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Speaker 3: strike something up, you don't know if I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you're gonna if you're just gonna work on the farm,

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Speaker 3: which is awesome. But a girl that you might be

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Speaker 3: talking to you might be getting ready to go away,

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Speaker 3: so you might not want to start something up if

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Speaker 3: she's about to leave. So I agree with the group thing.

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Speaker 3: You can always have fun in groups.

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Speaker 1: I think that's all we got. We're out of time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know where you live and I know you're

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