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Speaker 1: You remember, you remember your son, You remember that he

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Speaker 1: well you redeem that day. What's up everybody? Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, episode number one hundred sixty two. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for watching and listening. We answer, well, I say, we

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Speaker 1: I answer your questions. That's what The format of this

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Speaker 1: podcast is. Email me Granger Smith podcast at gmail dot com,

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Speaker 1: and I'll just talk about it in long form. And

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Speaker 1: you might see a short form of that on Instagram

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Speaker 1: or Facebook or TikTok, but in this place, right here,

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Speaker 1: talk about it in a long form, So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get right to it. The first question, subject line says

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Speaker 1: mental drained parenthesis urgent he granger. My name is Matthew.

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty years old. I'm from North Carolina. Just started

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Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. I appreciate everything you do for us.

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Speaker 1: I'll send you this email because I struggle with anxiety

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Speaker 1: her friends, and she keeps trying to make me happy.

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Speaker 1: What she says, we were happy together, but we weren't

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Speaker 1: happy with ourselves. She thinks it's best that we just

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to give her space. So I'm turning to

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Speaker 1: God to help me. Lower case G is there any

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Speaker 1: and shout out to North Carolina. But thank you for emailing.

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Speaker 1: This is a good way to start the podcast, because

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be I'm gonna make this quick. Matthew,

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Speaker 1: I think we should just stay dating. That's borderline psycho,

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Speaker 1: and that is borderline stocker. Matthew. I love you, brother,

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Speaker 1: I love you. You are part of Yege nation and

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you trusting me. And I want to start

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Speaker 1: saying thank you for being a light in the dark world.

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Speaker 1: You always have your arms wide open for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: can't even make this up. And people hear it though,

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Speaker 1: her idea. Okay, so however you could do that. You're

424
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: just like, you're let's just dream together, babe, We're just

425
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: dreaming together here. What's something you wish you wish you

426
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: could do for yourself? And so eventually you want her

427
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: to say, well, I wish I could lose some weight.

428
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm three hundred and sixty pounds. I wish I could

429
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: lose some weight, and you just let it sit there

430
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: for a second. I mean, you're not gonna jump on

431
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: it and be like yeah, yeah that total love, total servitude,

432
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: total honoring, and you're gonna go. You know, I feel

433
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: the same way. I feel like I should lose some

434
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: weight too. Even though I love you, I don't love

435
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: you because of the way how much you weigh. Like

436
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: I love you because you I love your heart, I

437
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: love your soul. I love the way you love me.

438
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: You know which is should be true? All that should

439
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: be true. And then you say something like if you

440
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: want we should try to try to lose weight together,

441
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: we should challenge each other, we should hold each other accountable,

442
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: not because we're trying to gain each other's favor or

443
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: love each other more, but just let's just you know,

444
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: we're married, Let's work on this together. Let's encourage each other.

445
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: Will you encourage me? And she's like yeah, and You're like, well,

446
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: I'll encourage you because I think if we both if

447
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: we lost a little bit of weight, we could enjoy

448
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: things more, we could enjoy life. Okay, do you see

449
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Everything I've just said, you don't have

450
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: to do it that way, but just come from a

451
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: place of humility, come from a place where you're it's

452
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,239
Speaker 1: not judgmental, it's it's not vanity. You know, you're not

453
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: saying you're not pretty anymore. You're saying I love you,

454
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: And because I love you, I want to be there

455
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 1: for you, and I want to be there in a

456
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: place of sympathy where I could hold your hand and

457
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: we could walk through this together. Not because I want

458
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: you to, but because I love you and I know

459
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: you'll enjoy life more if you do. If you could

460
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: do that, I think that's your answer to a very

461
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: tough situation. Nice question. Subject CLIENTE says school bully, Hey Granger,

462
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm fourteen years old. I'm homeschooled. I used to go

463
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: to school and I was a bully. I asked everyone

464
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: for forgiveness last year, but one girl did not forgive

465
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: me and told me that my friend made her try

466
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: that me and my friend made her tried to commit

467
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: suicide but it didn't work. How do I show her

468
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: that I'm really sorry. That's a lot for a fourteen

469
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: year old, that's a lot. That's a lot for an adult.

470
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: And did you say your name? Your name's Evan. Evan,

471
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: that's a lot for an adult, and you're gonna have

472
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: to have to deal with this at fourteen. The good

473
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: news is you already have a repentant heart about this.

474
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: You already feel sorry, and you've already asked for forgiveness,

475
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: hopefully from a true place of humility. And one girl,

476
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't blame her right She was bullied

477
00:30:54,280 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: to a point where she tried to commit suicide. So

478
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: where are you now? This is my thing, Evan, Where

479
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: are you in your head? Are you trying to reconcile

480
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: her and have her forgive you so that you could

481
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: sleep better at night? This is this about you just

482
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: a question? Or are you coming from a place where

483
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: you just genuinely from a selfless place where you genuinely

484
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: want her to be healed because of the damage you did.

485
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: There's a big difference between those two things. If it

486
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: comes from a place where you just need a clean

487
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: slate and you need to check off one another box

488
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: so your conscience feels a little bit better. If that's

489
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: the case, then I wouldn't mess with this girl ever.

490
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't talk to her anymore. I wouldn't move on

491
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: because you could come to a spot that could be

492
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: dangerous to her again. You've already done damage and you

493
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: could her not accepting your apology again could trigger anger

494
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: with you. If you get triggered, that could trigger a

495
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: suicidal thought for her again. So don't do it. The

496
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: only way you ever see her again or interact ever

497
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: ever again is through complete selflessness and humility. And it

498
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: could start with some flowers and a card. You put

499
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: flowers on her doorstep, and you put in your right

500
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: a card you say it's Evan, I'm pretty much the

501
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: worst person in the world. And I know I've asked

502
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: you for forgiveness, but I just want to tell you again,

503
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you every day that what I did

504
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: is nothing. It's not related to you at all. It

505
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: comes from a place for me being insecure, from me

506
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm not worthy. It comes from a place

507
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: of me hurting. And then I put that out, I

508
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: put that forward and hurt you because I wanted to

509
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: drag other people down with me. And you're just a

510
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: victim in that, and you're a casualty and I will

511
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: see it now. Then you're such a special person and

512
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: you deserve so much more than what I gave you,

513
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: and I know these flowers are nothing and this card

514
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: is nothing, but I hope that one day it could

515
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: just be the beginning of mending a heart that I've crushed. Sincerely, Evan,

516
00:33:51,520 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: something like that. Next question no subject here. It says,

517
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, I'm Joseph. I'm thirty four. I have a

518
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: beautiful wife and family. We currently live in Savannah, Georgia.

519
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: We have six beautiful kids and live off the sweat

520
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: of my brow. We are a blended family. My wife

521
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: had two little girls prior to me, and I had

522
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: a son and daughter prior to her. Now we have

523
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: two sons together. I love all of them. My problem

524
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: is the distance from my other two and being the

525
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: dad I need to be for them. They live on

526
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: the other side of the state. I work night shifts

527
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: on a loading dock at Southeastern Freight Lines. I'm struggling

528
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: trying to be everything I need to be for my family,

529
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: and it tears my heart out. How do I be

530
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: sure that I'm doing my part to fill this void?

531
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: Any advice is greatly appreciated, your friend, Joseph. And then

532
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: Joseph puts a picture on this email, just beautiful family

533
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: with everybody one, two, three, four, five, six kids. Brother,

534
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate you emailing, and it's a legitimate question. And

535
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: here's the thing that might like. Okay, we're riding the

536
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: truck together. We're back road, me and you, Joseph, we're

537
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: going down some back roads, and you're you're dumping this

538
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: on me. You're like, man, this is a big deal.

539
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: And and Joseph, I'm glad that it's a big deal

540
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: to you, and I hope it's a big deal to

541
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: other dads that hear it too, because so many times

542
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: in a when a family divorces, splits up and some

543
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: kind of distance comes between the two, so many times

544
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: the kids that are born after become the priority and

545
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: the others are kind of forgotten because it's just too

546
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with in a lot of ways. But

547
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: not to you. You're looking at all of them as

548
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: a priority equally, which you should. Here's the deal, Okay,

549
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: riding in the true me and you. You got this

550
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: job at the loading dock at Southeastern Freight Lines. My

551
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: question would be this, how do you get the other

552
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: kids here with you in Savannah or how do you

553
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: uproot where you are and go to them? Because my

554
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: question would be what's more important here, the job or

555
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: the kids? Because could you get another job where the

556
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: kids are? How could you get these families together? That's

557
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: my question. Are you doing all that you can to

558
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: get to them? I mean, surely your wife understands that now,

559
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: and I under understand that six kids, that's a big deal.

560
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 1: The move. You can't just move them. It takes planning,

561
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: it takes effort. It takes finding a new job. It

562
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: takes your wife finding a job, It takes looking at schools,

563
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: it takes looking in a place. But I want to

564
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: tell you this. I want to be your friend, Joseph

565
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: and tell you that although all that stuff is stacked

566
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: against you and it's very difficult, all of that would

567
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: be worth the sacrifice to have everybody together in the

568
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: same town. Like if you could do one thing, if

569
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: we thirty years from now, you could look back on

570
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: your life at thirty four. Say you're sixty four years

571
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: old and you're looking back thirty years ago. If you

572
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: could do one thing, if you could say I had

573
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: one chance, I could do one thing to change I

574
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: had a chance to get everybody in the same town

575
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: where all the kids grew up together. And I was

576
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: the dad equal to all of them. I was there

577
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: for him. I went to their sporting events, I went

578
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: to church with them. I was there when they needed

579
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: me for their birthdays and their proms and whatever. You

580
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: get that chance now and thirty years it's just a memory,

581
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: possibly or regret. Is this job worth it? Could you

582
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 1: get another job at a loading dock where they are?

583
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: Could you uproot that family and get them to with you?

584
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: Get them with you? All questions I have in the

585
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: cab of the truck. Thanks for the email, brother, all right,

586
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,439
Speaker 1: cruising right through here, Let's grab another. We've actually, we've

587
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: actually moved and gotten some gotten some stuff done today.

588
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: Subject line here says social media, and the email says,

589
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: hey Granger, my name is Brian. I'm from Idaho. I'm

590
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: in the ninth grade. I don't have social media because

591
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: my parents won't let me. I feel like it's the

592
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: thing that will help me make friends and just overall happier.

593
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: I molawn's make good money. I have friends, but I

594
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: just feel like I need social media. Any advice would

595
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: be appreciated. Things ye ye, all right, Brian, shout out

596
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: to Idaho. I love your state, and man, I remember

597
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: I remember being a ninth grader. It's not an easy time.

598
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: And obviously I didn't have that issue growing up when

599
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: I was in ninth grade. But I'm gonna say this.

600
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: You might know this already. You know. I'm gonna say,

601
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: you got to honor your parents. Why do they not

602
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: let you have social media? It's because they want to

603
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: make your life miserable. No, because they love you, Brian,

604
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: I love you, and it's dangerous. We don't know the

605
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: effects of what social media is doing to kids. We

606
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, you're you're just a kid. Your man,

607
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: you're almost a man. You're like right on the border

608
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: of becoming a man, but in a lot of ways,

609
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: like you might look like a man, but a lot

610
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: of ways you're still a boy. And your parents know

611
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: some things that I don't. They know something that your

612
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: teachers don't. They know some things that your friends don't.

613
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: They know some things that you don't about you. Why, man,

614
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: they raised you, They changed your diapers, Man, they give

615
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: you bottles. They taught you to walk, they taught you

616
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: to talk, they put you in school, they taught you

617
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: how to throw a ball. And now they're saying I

618
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: don't want you on social media for a reason that

619
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: you might not understand. And I could tell you one

620
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: thing for sure, Brian. It will not bring you more happiness.

621
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: It will not bring you more friends. That's the lie

622
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: that social media brings to our world today. In fact, Brian,

623
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: here's the crazy thing. You might not believe me. Maybe

624
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: you won't, and I don't really care, but I can

625
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: tell you that social media has the opposite effect of happiness.

626
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: It brings you loneliness, It brings you insecurity. It makes

627
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: you feel like you're not worthy if it makes you

628
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: feel like you're not perfect, It makes you feel like

629
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: you'll never be there. You start seeing likes and hearts

630
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: and comments and posts, and then you post and you

631
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: don't get a comment, you don't get a like, you

632
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: don't get a heart. You start seeing some of your

633
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: friends talking to each other about something you're not a

634
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: part of. The conversation is endless on what this could

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Speaker 1: course I do. Yeah, that's obvious. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: miss out. You have fomo. You don't want to walk

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Speaker 1: you didn't see because you're not on social media. Bro,

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Speaker 1: you're better off. You are better off. That's my opinion.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would tell you. And then the whole

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Speaker 1: other side of the coin is what I started with.

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Speaker 1: Honor your mother and father. They just know what's best. Brian.

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Speaker 1: I say all this out of love, man. I have

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Speaker 1: everyone every question I've answered on this podcast, on this

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Speaker 1: no reason. I have no reason to lead you astray

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Speaker 1: from what I don't feel in my heart, in my

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Speaker 1: I have no reason to lead you any other direction. Besides,

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Speaker 1: I genuinely just love you guys, like it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: on purpose. I believe everything I'm saying, and I'm only

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Speaker 1: That's it. I love you, guys, and I appreciate you listening,

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Speaker 1: and as always, we'll see you next Monday morning. Thanks

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