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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Battleground Podcast. I'm super psyched for

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Speaker 1: the guests that we have today. He's an incredible guy.

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Speaker 1: His name is his name's Eddie Lima. He's the founder

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Speaker 1: of Stocking Mill Coffee. He's also a combat veteran, and

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited to talk to him. I heard I

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Speaker 1: heard an interview with him. He's a patriot, he's someone

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Speaker 1: who loves this country, who served this country, and now

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Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur building a business. Eddie, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for coming on the podcast with me. Man, it's great

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Speaker 1: to have you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me Tomorre, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I've heard a lot about you as well,

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Speaker 3: So thank you so much for having me on.

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so your story is fascinating to me because

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Speaker 1: you're somebody that served this country. And what I like

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Speaker 1: to ask people who have served is how did you

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Speaker 1: like what inspired you.

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Speaker 4: To jump right into service.

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Speaker 3: So I was seventeen, and like every other young kid

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Speaker 3: growing up in Florida, I wanted to be an NFL superstar,

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Speaker 3: and it really came to the conclusion that I wasn't

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Speaker 3: going to be an NFL Superstar and I better start.

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Speaker 2: Thinking of something better to do. I think that.

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Speaker 3: I think that we had like a career day and

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Speaker 3: a guy that was an airborne ranger came in and

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Speaker 3: spoke and it was my senior year and told us

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Speaker 3: the stories of Vietnam guy, and it was probably one

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Speaker 2: Guys that I ever looked at outside.

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Speaker 3: Of maybe like my dad or you know, uncles or

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Speaker 3: something that I was like, Hey, that was a man's man.

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Speaker 2: I kind of pretty cool what he did.

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Speaker 3: My dad was served in World War Two in the

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Speaker 3: Army Air Corps and whatnot, so to see I was

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Speaker 3: like raising an Air Force family, but to see this

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Speaker 3: And I walked up to him after and I wasn't

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent honest when I told him. I was

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Speaker 3: thinking about it pretty hard, and I just looked at him.

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Speaker 3: I was like, well, I'm going to be an airborne ranger.

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Speaker 3: And he looked at me with a serious face of

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Speaker 3: such sun you're gonna shit and fall back into it

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Speaker 3: and didn't even talk to me anymore. Literally just went

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Speaker 3: to the next person. And then I ended up speaking

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Speaker 3: to recruiters and joined with a friend of mine who

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Speaker 3: was my best friend in high school, and then went

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Speaker 3: into the army. And so it wasn't actually because I mean,

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Speaker 3: I always liked helping people, even in high school and stuff,

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Speaker 3: but it wasn't anything other that I thought that maybe

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Speaker 3: I would become an infantry grunt, get bigger, get stronger

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Speaker 3: than walk onto a football team at nineteen or twenty

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Speaker 2: Be a football star. So that didn't work.

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Speaker 4: Out, Eddie. What year was all this?

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Speaker 2: Eighty nine is when I started?

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Speaker 4: So, oh my god, man, I was eight.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I know I'm old. Stop. That's why I usually

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Speaker 2: have Nick because he's younger and handsome.

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Speaker 4: You don't you don't look old, man, You don't.

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Speaker 2: You don't look old old.

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Speaker 3: I am so old it's not even funny man, like

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Speaker 3: you know, polishing your boots badu all you know?

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Speaker 1: And then so wait, you wait, you gotta, you gotta,

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, so what football?

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Speaker 4: What so? Did you play football in high school? What So?

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Speaker 2: I played football in high school, but I wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: I actually was really better at basketball and got recruited

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Speaker 2: But I also knew it wasn't a love of mine.

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Speaker 3: I just ended up playing it more than anything else,

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Speaker 3: and I was really good, and I just knew I wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Gonna get anywhere. I'm very, very, very competitive.

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Speaker 3: So if you and I are sitting down having a beer,

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Speaker 3: drinking the coffee, and I see maybe maybe let's say

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Speaker 3: but I see you spit right, and it may amaze

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Speaker 3: practice until I could be. I hate being to be

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Speaker 3: So I've always just been competitive, and and.

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Speaker 2: That's what drove me.

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Speaker 3: Service drove me more and more as you become as

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Speaker 2: Nine to eleven and nine to eleven drove me to

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Speaker 3: I wasn't one hundred percent sure I was in to

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Speaker 1: Sorry, do you know it's okay now at nine to eleven.

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Speaker 1: I look, that was the reason why I joined. It

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Speaker 4: Clearly.

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Speaker 1: It's just something that's emotional for you. You said, and

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Speaker 1: so I got to believe that that hit close to home.

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Speaker 3: You know what though, when you're in you don't have

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Speaker 3: time to process anything. And then growing up in Florida, uh,

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Speaker 3: I wasn't ready for that. You know, it was tough, dude.

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Speaker 1: You weren't ready because you were used to seeing the

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Speaker 3: I just wasn't ready to, you know, like after the attacks,

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Speaker 2: At uh. It makes you think of everything else that

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Speaker 3: So then you're just literally going from service to processing,

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Speaker 1: Where where were you when it happened? It sounded like

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Speaker 4: Do you remember I was?

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Speaker 2: I remember I was. I was in deil Of Air

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Speaker 3: And and then you know the process is from there

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Speaker 3: as anybody that was serving during that time. It was

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Speaker 3: It's like when there's a long, hard bought series and

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Speaker 2: You know, like, this is a fight. Fuck the other guy,

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know in basketball we're gonna get them, or

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Speaker 3: a creat deal to do with it, you know, nine

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Speaker 3: it affected the area of the people there. It was,

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Speaker 3: it was, it was, It was tough, and you can't

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Speaker 3: get the you can't get the you can get nine

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Speaker 3: but you can't get your mind like all the events

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Speaker 3: nine to eleven, Like how many other guys like you did,

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Speaker 3: Like all the lives that affected, from the people that joined,

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Speaker 3: Would you be sitting here at a podcast right now?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think about Eddie.

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Speaker 1: I think about this every day, and it's so it's

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Speaker 1: strange that our paths crossed on like and we're sitting

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Speaker 1: here talking because I do think about that, because you know,

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven was a horrific day in our country,

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Speaker 1: and really it's a day that changed the trajectory of

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Speaker 1: our to our national identity, to our soul as a nation.

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Speaker 1: I mean for real, I mean, in the wake of

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Speaker 1: and there's another and obviously the thousands and thousands of

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Speaker 4: I mean, it just just changed everything.

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Speaker 1: But also, you know, as I processed this, because I

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Speaker 1: mean clearly you're still processing nine to eleven as someone

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Speaker 1: who lived through it and serving through it, I'm still

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Speaker 1: I still think about it every day too. And I

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Speaker 1: it happened. I mean, you were actually in But what's

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Speaker 1: There's also that if nine to eleven didn't happen, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have met my soldiers, who I absolutely loved, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: mean it was terrible. I mean we were in combat

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Speaker 1: all the time. But I also wouldn't have my kids

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Speaker 4: I was divorced.

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Speaker 1: I was divorced, but like a lot of veterans who

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Speaker 1: And now I'm remarried, I got a blended family. I

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Speaker 1: so crazy when you talk about processing it to think

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Speaker 1: I don't care. Just make a decision. I don't care

441
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 1: if it's the wrong decision. Make a decision. Execute, go,

442
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 1: go go, And it sounds like that's who you are now,

443
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: and so you go from yeah.

444
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 4: But it's like but so.

445
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 1: For you, you're going from one thing to the next

446
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: to the next, and just say just hey, yeah, I'll

447
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 1: take the opportunity. I'll say, you.

448
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 2: Know what it is. I also, you know I have.

449
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,880
Speaker 3: Everything that decision I make revolves around God. I mean,

450
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 3: like and sometimes you walk Sampson's path, you know, Samson

451
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 3: with God told him, hey, you raise your kid this way,

452
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:57,680
Speaker 3: don't cut his hair.

453
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 2: He's gonna take down the Philistines.

454
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 3: Well, he didn't have to go through losing his eyes

455
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 3: and all the things that he did in order to

456
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 3: accomplish that. He took his own path. And I know

457
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 3: God has something great for me. But you take your

458
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 3: own path and then he steers you. You keep yourself

459
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,640
Speaker 3: aware of your surroundings. But like you said, make a decision,

460
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 3: go forward, but just do not stay staggant. Don't sit

461
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 3: around and wait for something to happen, and just continue

462
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 3: to move forward, like what you're taught from the minute

463
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 3: you join the military to the minute you get out.

464
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 2: Continue to move forward, like stop it and listen.

465
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 3: And also, you know, don't ask for permission. Just get

466
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 3: it done. You know, Like sometimes you don't have time

467
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 3: to think it out. Sometimes you just like you said,

468
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 3: make the decision, go with it, suck it up if

469
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 3: you lose, like a lot of times we've done.

470
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 2: You know, I spent two thousand dollars on ConA.

471
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 3: I didn't know how to roast properly, and through the

472
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 3: whole damn thing out almost until I finally found.

473
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 4: The proper way to roasting.

474
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 2: So you know, listen, make the decision, but go and

475
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 2: go for it.

476
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 3: No thinking and believing that you're gonna have You're gonna

477
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 3: accomplish the task without any and and almost to extent

478
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 3: where don't think that anything can stop you, because think

479
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 3: that you're more highly changed.

480
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 2: More highly motivated.

481
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 3: Uh, you're smarter, and nothing's gonna be I mean, you

482
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 3: gotta think like that because if you don't, you're not

483
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 3: gonna win.

484
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 2: And that's what we did.

485
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 3: And so the guy anyway, he says, listen, hey, dude,

486
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 3: liberal money is green too. When this whole Alabama thing

487
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 3: happens out, who was a partner And that night I

488
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 3: decided that I wasn't going to be a part of

489
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 3: that company anymore because I can't have partners that think

490
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 3: like that.

491
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 2: Because I already saw the voice.

492
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 3: That we were creating, and to me that was what

493
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 3: was important, Like you know how I mean in a

494
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 3: sense where if you're faithful with a little bit, God's

495
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 3: gonna give you more. So we were faithful with like

496
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 3: keeping our what we believed in and putting out that message.

497
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 2: So now He's gonna give us more.

498
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 3: And I just knew that I can be part of

499
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 3: a negative team, because you know how it is when

500
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 3: you got that one guy on your team that's just

501
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 3: negative as ship and you want to duct tape them

502
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 3: up and throw them the back of the sprinter and

503
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 3: drop them off in the middle of nowhere because you

504
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 3: don't want, you know, like to bring down the team

505
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 3: them morale.

506
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: You know, that's everything.

507
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 3: So I said, you know what, I could do this

508
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 3: better on my own, And that's why I started stocking Mill.

509
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 3: And I think also to be able to have access

510
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 3: to funds to help people veterans and and patriots in

511
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,239
Speaker 3: general without begging for money. And I think as we

512
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 3: were talking about the idea of always moving forward and

513
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 3: like having to fight through every single thing to get

514
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 3: where you want to go, that that's almost why I

515
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 3: called stocking Mill. The story behind stocking Mill, the name

516
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 3: of it was what drove me to say, hey, you know,

517
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 3: this is why I want to call our coffee company that,

518
00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 3: because it's somebody that faced adversity and the hardest times

519
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: but find a way to overcome and get the job done.

520
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: Today, I want to talk about something that's been on

521
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: the minds of many Americans lately, energy and dependence. With

522
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: rising energy prices and geopolitical tensions, it's more important than

523
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: ever for our country to be self sufficient when it

524
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: comes to our energy needs. And that's where Deep Well

525
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 1: Services comes in. They're a company that's not only dedicated

526
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: to delivering top not services to the oil and gas industry,

527
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: but they're also committed to the goal of American energy independence.

528
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: With their cutting edge technology and expert team of professionals,

529
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: they're helping to unlock new sources of domestic energy and

530
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But that's not all.

531
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: Deep Well Services is also a great American company that's

532
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: hiring like crazy right now, and they're not just looking

533
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: for anyone if. They're seeking out talented and hard working

534
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: individuals who want to join their team and make a difference,

535
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: and with competitive salaries and benefits, it's a great opportunity

536
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: to not only work for a patriotic company, but also

537
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: build a rewarding career in the energy sector. So if

538
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: you're looking for a job with purpose and meaning, or

539
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: if you're simply passionate about American energy independence, then you

540
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: should definitely check out Deep Well Services. Visit their website

541
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: at Deepwellservices dot com to learn more about their company

542
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: and career opportunities. Eddie, let me ask you, though, like

543
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: so many people you talked about, you know somebody you know,

544
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: a PAO who will go unnamed, but a part of

545
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: a part of a company saying I'm not going back

546
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: to doing business or any more of events in Alabama

547
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: because they passed a life or they passed a law

548
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: that protected life right, made it harder to get an abortion,

549
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. So many people, though would have like they

550
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't have taken the stand that you didn't say, wait

551
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: a second, this doesn't really align with my values, and

552
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: because of that, I can't be involved with this movement,

553
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: with this company, with whatever. I think so many people

554
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: in this country just go along to get along, And

555
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm getting to is for you to

556
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: take a stand like that also means that like you're

557
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: taking a risk because you don't really know. We talked

558
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: about taking action and just never stop moving, keep moving ahead,

559
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: even if one thing doesn't work out, find the next thing.

560
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: Where does this come from in you that you're willing

561
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: to just say Nope, doesn't this doesn't align with my values,

562
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: Like I'm moving out drawn fire onto the next thing.

563
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: I think one of my I think that comes from.

564
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess maybe One thing is like, I've

565
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 3: never been a follower of anybody, like I always feel

566
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 3: like you know, a lot of people have that thing

567
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 3: where you feel like you could always do something if

568
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 3: you were just gave it a little time better than

569
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 3: anybody else. And some people might say that that's bad

570
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 3: to think like that, but I don't.

571
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 2: I think it's wonderful to think that.

572
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 3: The believe in yourself and say, hey, if you know,

573
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 3: I could be a golfer if I were to put

574
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 3: my time into it, you know, or so whatever it is.

575
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 3: But I hate being just I just hate being defeated.

576
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 3: I want to win everything. So that's where it originally

577
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: comes from, you know, like that drive to to like

578
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: want to get a voice out there.

579
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: Another thing is is you have to like choose a side.

580
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 3: I mean, God says, like I said, everything is based

581
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: around biblical beliefs for me, like how I operate my business,

582
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 3: how operate my life. Not saying I'm not a center

583
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: or anything, but I mean, these are the foundations that

584
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 3: set me. One scripture that stands out is, you know,

585
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: choose your side today who you're going to serve. You know,

586
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 3: when I was in the Army, I didn't go to

587
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: an Army Navy football game and say, hey, go Army.

588
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: I hope Navy does okay. Though at Navy, I hope

589
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 3: they get routed. I hope you get beaten to the ground.

590
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: So I mean it's competition and belief. Like you you

591
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 3: believe that what you're doing is right, and that because

592
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: it's right, nothing's going to stop that. And my belief

593
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 3: that God says, hey, honor me, honor my beliefs and

594
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: put me first and everything else will follow. So I mean,

595
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: to me, that's a godly thing. Like you know, he

596
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: blessed us with a business that was making money, and

597
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: she blessed us with a voice at that time to

598
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 3: be able to say something. And if I don't say that,

599
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 3: that voice will never grow. I mean, I think that

600
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 3: allow people are afraid of confrontation. I think they're afraid.

601
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 3: You know, I was never the kid in high school

602
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 3: that wore my varsity letter jacket to school, like.

603
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: I'm already on the team. I don't really care about that.

604
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 3: I don't need to be accepted by somebody by you know,

605
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: from because I think we're cool together, or I believe

606
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 3: in this belief I believe in my beliefs, you believe

607
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 3: in yours. I'll stand for mine. If we could see

608
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 3: eye to eye somehow in between, it great. But if not,

609
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 3: I'm definitely not going to go to your side or

610
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: or even like admit that, or we could just see

611
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: in two ways. To me, there's only one truth, one

612
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: way in my life, and I'm just going to race

613
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 3: at it as hard as I.

614
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: Can to that.

615
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: So where did that come from, Eddie? I mean, were you?

616
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 4: I mean, did you learn that from somebody?

617
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: I mean maybe I think my mom more than anything,

618
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 3: like she was even though my dad was like a

619
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 3: logger and you know, world warts shoe Vett or whatever

620
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: and the lumberjack.

621
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 2: It.

622
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: My mom was just always moved forward, move forward, know like,

623
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 3: and not in the sense where you hear politicians say

624
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 3: every day, you know, because they got caught with doing

625
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 3: something like cocaine with a hooker or something like, hey,

626
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: if you're on out, we're just going to move forward.

627
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 3: And you know everything's you know, not that kind of

628
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 3: move forward in other words, like I suck it up,

629
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 3: figure it the hell out, and keep going, like don't stop.

630
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: And I mean, I guess I get that from my

631
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 3: mom more than anything. And I guess it's normal to

632
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: me though, Like so I don't know, but I mean

633
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: I see my moms like that.

634
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 2: I think I became more determined when I became a.

635
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: Christian because it's a big world out there and we're

636
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: fighting a spiritual war. So like you have to be

637
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: focused intent, you know, on completing your mission, and my

638
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 3: mission is to do to you guys.

639
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: Well, so, so how did you like, how did how

640
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: did you find Christianity?

641
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 4: How did you get on that path?

642
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: It's kind of a long story.

643
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 3: I wasn't a Christian growing up, I asked, and I'll

644
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 3: try to fasalidated into a little.

645
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: Take Hey, I'll take your time, take your time.

646
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: All right.

647
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 3: I was at He'sler Air Force Base doing some training.

648
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: I met a local from Biloxi. That was an attractive

649
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: young lady after all, and she said, you can take

650
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: me out, but you have to go to church with

651
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 3: myself and my parents.

652
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: I went to the church with him. Uh. The preacher

653
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 2: had preached the word, and I wasn't moved or anything.

654
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: I dug him.

655
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 3: He was an Air Force guy, retired, preached and at

656
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 3: the end when he was releasing everybody, he says, uh,

657
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 3: just points me out of the crowd and says, you're

658
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 3: going to preach the word of God to millions of people.

659
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: Like verbatim. And when I left, her parents looked at me.

660
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: Her father, I think, more than anything, was like, hey, listen,

661
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 3: I ain't tell the preacher anything. You know, I didn't

662
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 3: tell everything. You dated my daughter, so you know, he'said,

663
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: I've never seen that before. And I'm not gonna say

664
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 3: that it moved me, but it it stuck with me

665
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 3: for a second, like it was weird to me.

666
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 4: I mean it would it would have moved me.

667
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean by moved is now

668
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 3: that I am a Christian, I know that people are

669
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 3: drawn in by the spirit, and I just want to

670
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: say that in my heart, I wasn't moved at that point,

671
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 3: I wasn't a person that didn't believe in a guy.

672
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: I wasn't dumb enough, in my opinion, to believe that

673
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: this all happened from an explosion, and because I've seen

674
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 3: explosions and nothing good happen strong men.

675
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: So I just, I mean, that was just always my thing.

676
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 3: I just didn't believe that, but I just didn't know

677
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 3: and I don't even think I looked into it. So

678
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 3: then a teammate of mine in state asked me to

679
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 3: go to Connecticut. He knew that my mom was living

680
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 3: in Connecticut and he was from there and we were

681
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: going to be there at the same time.

682
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: He says, hey, you want to go to church with me?

683
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 3: And this is like three or four months later, and

684
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 3: he was a Christian, but he wanted me to meet

685
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 3: his parents and it was Middletown, Connecticut, and I.

686
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 2: Said, yeah, sure, why not, and I went there with him.

687
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 3: Had the exact same thing happened with a totally different

688
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 3: pastor that didn't didn't know each other. Nobody knew what

689
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 3: happened in Mississippi. So like, I'm not gonna say that

690
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: it didn't move me, but it didn't move me where

691
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 3: I wanted to become a Christian, let's say, but I

692
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 3: the hair on my next rose when that happened in

693
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 3: the church, and the same thing happened where the parents

694
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 3: were like, hey man, you know and he said, I've

695
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 3: never seen that before here. And then from that point on,

696
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 3: I'm somebody that likes to look into things. So I

697
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 3: started reading the Book of Revelation, and I think that what.

698
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 2: Drove me to become a Christian was the Book of Revelation.

699
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 3: I must have read it like two hundred times from

700
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: the bat throughout the right after that happened, and I

701
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 3: just kept reading it.

702
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: And I don't know why that's.

703
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 3: The book I chose. It was just the first book

704
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: that came to mind that I opened it up. And

705
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: I don't know why. I remember why he intrigued me

706
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 3: because to me it seemed to be a battle plan,

707
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 3: a mission written out, but letting you know you're gonna

708
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 3: win in the end, which I've never seen before, like

709
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 3: a guarantee, like this is gonna be some hard, a

710
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 3: hard battle.

711
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 2: To be fought.

712
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 3: You have to stay together, you have to be a team,

713
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: you have to fight together, you know, but in the end,

714
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 3: you I promise you, as the ruler of all things,

715
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 3: You're gonna win. And that was my take from it,

716
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: and I think that's why I kept reading it. And

717
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 3: then what happened was I got off one day. I'm

718
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 3: reading the Book of Revelation and it was speaking to

719
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: how like two guys will come out of heaven. And

720
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: at this point to me, it all seemed like a

721
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 3: magical Disney thing, but intriguing, you know, like a good

722
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: science fiction novel maybe, But they would come out in

723
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: the end times, they preached the word of God, the

724
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: one world ruler would come against them, and for forty

725
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 3: days and forty nights they wouldn't be able to be overtaken,

726
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 3: you know. But then at the end of forty days

727
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: and forty nights they would and the eyes of the

728
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 3: world would see them. And it kind of shruck me

729
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 3: right there, because I had looked into the Book of Revelation,

730
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: after I had read it so many times that I

731
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 3: knew that John was on the island of Patness thousands

732
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 3: of years ago writ in this book. Didn't get the idea.

733
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 3: I didn't get the idea of it. So right at

734
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: that point, where how did this guy even fathom the

735
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 3: fact that two dead bodies could lay in the.

736
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 2: Street because it said that though God would, they'd be overtaken.

737
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 3: And it says the eyes of the world would be

738
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 3: able to see them in three days, not the eyes

739
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 3: of Jerusalem or wherever they were at, but.

740
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: The eyes of the world.

741
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 3: And the investigation in my mind begins like, well, how

742
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: is this possible?

743
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: You could fathom this, you know?

744
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: So I start to read about the Bible, not read

745
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 3: the Bible, but about it while I'm continuing to read

746
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 3: the Book of Revelation, and in my mind, what I

747
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 3: came up with was there's sixty six books in the Bible,

748
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 3: and that sixty five of them. If you're a Christian,

749
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 3: you believe are God breathed, God inspired, Like God just

750
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: took over the spirit of somebody and wrote out what

751
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: he wanted you to get, and through his infinite power,

752
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: here it is in this time and age. But the

753
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 3: Book of Revelation isn't like that. He literally showed John

754
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: the future and told him he didn't take him over

755
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 3: and let him write through the spirit. He says, I'm

756
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 3: going to show you a vision. Write down what you see.

757
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 3: And there's even one point where he was like, listen,

758
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 3: don't write that down, you know, So it was a

759
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 3: totally different book. And it also was the only book

760
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 3: that ever said at the beginning, blessed are you if

761
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 3: you read this? So up to that point that being

762
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: intriguing that how could the eyes of the world see this?

763
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: And then you know, like we're growing up in.

764
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 3: An age today where was just being taken out of society,

765
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: and the Book of Revelation was talking about that, and

766
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: I really couldn't fathom the idea of somebody two thousand

767
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 3: years ago thinking how would a capsual society occurred?

768
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: So now I'm more intrigued.

769
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 4: Well, now that's what I wanted to ask you.

770
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: So how did you go from reading the Bible and

771
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: then and then obviously reading the Book of Revelation and

772
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: understanding that we're in a spiritual war in America here today?

773
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 3: At that point I had it. Okay, So at that

774
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 3: point I had it, But I'll tell you how I

775
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 3: got there.

776
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 2: So it comes to.

777
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: Night where I arrived somewhere on a bird and I

778
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 3: remember turning around when I left and looking at the

779
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 3: guy through the glass of the burden and like this friends,

780
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 3: a friend of mine to this day, who was actually

781
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 3: the driver, and going back to a teen house that

782
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 3: night to read the Bible, and I start to read

783
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 3: Revelation of course again and it starts to speak a

784
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: place in time, and now knowing like I had just

785
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 3: said that it was God saying to him, hey, listen,

786
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 3: I'm showing you the future.

787
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: Describe what you see. He describes a plague and in

788
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 2: the plague and I had read this one hundred times

789
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 2: and it just never hit me until that one moment.

790
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 3: Thinking of the bird. It says that he looks and

791
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: the things released from the depths of hell or whatnot,

792
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 3: and that it has breastplaces of armor that sounded like

793
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 3: the who's a thousand chariots, you know, beating, and they

794
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 3: had the face of a man. And instantly I knew

795
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 3: this guy John's Island of patents looking at the vision

796
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 3: of a helicopter, this is what he's describing, because I

797
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 3: had just seen it that day, thinking like the smell

798
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 3: of the diesel fumes and all that and the sound

799
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: of the bump, bump, bump, two thousand years ago.

800
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 2: How would you describe a helicopter? How else to see?

801
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 3: You fathom that armor, breastplates, you know, the power to

802
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 3: hurt things from the tail of you know.

803
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: So to me, instantly, I knew, this, did you see

804
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: in the future?

805
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 3: And like, because I'm I'm in the present of what

806
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 3: he's the present time of what he's seeing.

807
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 2: And it was at that point I was now moved.

808
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 3: And the more I continued to read throughout the next

809
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 3: few weeks, the.

810
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 2: More I was convinced.

811
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 3: I had been to church twice, so I understood the

812
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 3: process of giving yourself to the Lord, you know, like

813
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 3: become and saved. So I did by myself, and I

814
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 3: continued to read. I remember the pastor the second one

815
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 3: who had told me that said, hey, listen, I'm sorry.

816
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 3: The first one who had told me that, who I

817
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 3: had kept in contact with from the Air Force, had said,

818
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 3: if you ever do become a Christian, He's like, don't

819
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 3: be stagnant.

820
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 2: He told me.

821
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 3: He was like, like, you're chasing this young lady right here.

822
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 3: Because he knew I was dating there. He was like,

823
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 3: make sure you chase the Lord.

824
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 2: And uh I did. So some time had gone by,

825
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: I was building myself up in the Lord.

826
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 3: And the point that got me to realize that we're

827
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 3: in spiritual warfare happened where I was in an area

828
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 3: with other teammates and I was sleeping.

829
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 2: I'm not sleeping. I was getting ready to go to sleep.

830
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 3: And it was twelve o'clock at night and Star Trek

831
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 3: was coming on, and everybody watching the Star Trek at

832
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 3: twelve o'clock at night when they.

833
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 2: Have free time.

834
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 3: And what I would do at times was I would,

835
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 3: you know, before the episode would started, I would pray.

836
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 3: And it happened that, like I was starting to understand

837
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: more about the Bible at that point, and that was

838
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: one day where I decided to pray in fast and

839
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: not tell anybody, but you know, just walk around reflect

840
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 3: on the things of God and fast. And so this

841
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 3: I've only told a few people with story, so some

842
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 3: people might think that it's weird, but I'm just gonna

843
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 3: tell you.

844
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, let me tell you. Not this audience.

845
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: So we've had people on here that I have that

846
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: have had similar experiences.

847
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: You.

848
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 4: So just just rock and roll, my friend.

849
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 3: So I uh am watching the show starts and so

850
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: I literally just lay back instantly as the show starts.

851
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: So I'm still wide away, it's still wired up from the.

852
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 3: Day and Star Trek starts and kathn Kirk's doing this

853
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 3: thing or whatever, and all of a sudden, it seems

854
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 3: like I have two vacuums plugged into my ears, just

855
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: like a loud, loud, loud rushing of a wind sound.

856
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 2: And I tried to jump up, but I.

857
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: Couldn't move, and I tried to cry out. I couldn't

858
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 3: say a word. I can't even move my eyelids, dude.

859
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 3: And so the first thing that came to my head

860
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: was like, it's just like a biological attack.

861
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 2: Or something like.

862
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 3: But I wasn't in an area where I should have

863
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: been worrying about that, and so then I'm like, am

864
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 3: I having a heart attack?

865
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: Like is this what it's like to have a heart attack?

866
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 2: And this is it?

867
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: This is time to go out, And I'm telling you,

868
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 3: I'm trying to move but I cannot move and this

869
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 3: is rushing win win, win win, And so a couple

870
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 3: more thoughts go through my head like this is it.

871
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: It's over a type of thing. But then I relaxed instantly.

872
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 3: It's like well, and the words in my mind and

873
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 3: I know this may not sound holy or scriptural or anything,

874
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: was like, fuck it, I'm saved. Like I just felt

875
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 3: good about it. And as soon as I relaxed and

876
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 3: said that it just went So I told you about

877
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 3: the man that brought me to his church in Connecticut,

878
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 3: who was a Christian. He contacts me the next day.

879
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 2: And he says, dude, you know I'm not like this.

880
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 3: He says, I don't ever like preache you anything or

881
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 3: say God told me this or God told me that.

882
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 2: But God laid on my heart last night around twelve o'clock.

883
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 3: So right now, as soon as he said that, the

884
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 3: hair comes up on your neck, you feel the spirit.

885
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: I guess this is the best way to describe it.

886
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: And he says averse from the Book of.

887
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 3: John, that the wind comes and you know not where's

888
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 3: where it comes from or where it goes. So is

889
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 3: everybody that's born in spirit. And at that point broke

890
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 3: down crying as you can see, like you know, like

891
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 3: when God moves on you.

892
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 2: Spiritually, it affects you physically too. Man.

893
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: So you know, like I all I can say is

894
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: from that point on it I just realized that it

895
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 3: wasn't about you verse the enemy anymore.

896
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: In the flesh is way bigger than that.

897
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 3: And if we continue to focus on the enemy being

898
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 3: a fleshly enemy, we're not going to get anywhere, because

899
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 3: that's not the fight. Because when you feel spirit move,

900
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 3: then you realize what they mean or what the Bible

901
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 3: means by what we fight a spiritual warfare.

902
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 2: So you have to expand your.

903
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 3: Your your whole target package now like you know, like

904
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 3: you put it together, see who your target is, and

905
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 3: then expand on how are you going to fight the enemy?

906
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,959
Speaker 3: And a whole different way and and and the best

907
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 3: way to do it. God tells you he's like, you know,

908
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 3: as one man's sharp it's better for two people. You know,

909
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: one man's counting, it's sharpened it for another team up.

910
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 2: You know, the the apostles.

911
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 3: Didn't receive the Holy Spirit until they got together, got

912
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 3: into the upper room and prayed in one mind, one spirit.

913
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 2: So teamwork is what's all about.

914
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 3: Something that we learned in the military, but something that

915
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 3: was a foundation before the United States even was a country,

916
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: because it was God's work.

917
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: So now that's where now I see Now I see.

918
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: I asked you a question earlier, like where you get

919
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: the courage to just say, okay, these views don't align

920
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: with my principles, I'm out now it makes sense.

921
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to be whatever you're at you got

922
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 3: to be all in, dude. You know, like whatever side

923
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 3: you're on, the whatever side of the fence, be all in.

924
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: You can't be part of you know, the world and

925
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: part of the God's kingdom.

926
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 3: So you have to be all in and expect that

927
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 3: what he says is true, that it'll be rough, it'll

928
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: be tough, it'll be hard, but.

929
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: You're gonna win.

930
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 3: And like, what person that served in their lifetime would

931
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 3: ever not take that as as like, how of course

932
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 3: doesn't get hard, But you're guaranteeing me a victory. You're

933
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 3: literally guarantee me that victory. All you gotta do is

934
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 3: run the race.

935
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 2: You know.

936
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 4: Where does that faith come from?

937
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: Though, because that takes a lot of courage going out

938
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: on a limb, Like it's like in I hate to

939
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: liking it to something like Indiana Jones in The Last

940
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: Crusade where he steps out onto the bridge but thinks

941
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: he's stepping out into a canyon, the depths of which

942
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: can't be known, but it's a leap of faith.

943
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 4: Where did that come from? For you?

944
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: I think it came from I think it came from

945
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: that night when that thing happened to me and I

946
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 3: felt the spirit I felt physically and I just felt different.

947
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 2: Man. I almost felt.

948
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 3: Invincible to this, to the to the sense where as

949
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 3: long as I followed his path, like his book, it's

950
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 3: his book, isn't the Bible. Isn't a book, now that

951
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 3: I realized it isn't a book where a lot of

952
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 3: people think it's a don't do this and don't do

953
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 3: that book. It's like, this is how you do this,

954
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 3: this is how you do that, and now you win

955
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 3: in the end.

956
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 2: And so with that whole You know, dude, when something

957
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: like that physically takes your body over to a certain

958
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: extent where you can't move and you see all these

959
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 2: things happen.

960
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 3: And then the next day a friend of yours who

961
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 3: knows not like spying on you or like making this

962
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 3: happen to you, says to you, hey, listen, and you

963
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 3: already gave your life to the Lord, and says, God

964
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 3: told me to tell you this, Like how can I.

965
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 2: Mean, somebody could come up and show me Jesus's bones

966
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 2: right now.

967
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 3: But I couldn't believe it because I've seen every time

968
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: I say or anytime I do something that He says

969
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 3: to do, it happens.

970
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 2: You know, like you don't have to be a Christian

971
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 2: to see the formula behind it.

972
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 3: You know, like if you go out and you're a

973
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 3: fat body and you start running and you start working

974
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 3: out and you see your body start slowly getting into shape,

975
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna tell you you're not doing.

976
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 2: It right because you see the fruits of the labor.

977
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 3: And I see it every day from the day that

978
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 3: happened on, Like, whatever I touch turns pretty good.

979
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 2: Man.

980
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,479
Speaker 3: But like you know, from training somebody in a gym

981
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 3: to TV, you know, from starting my own little coffee

982
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 3: shop to actually turning into a big voice.

983
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: It's it's you're faithful with a little, you get a lot.

984
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 3: And I just believe it because I see it in

985
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 3: progress every day, like I see him work every time.

986
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 3: The more you read the word, the more you see

987
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 3: everything around you happening. You see that everything he says

988
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent true. You can't deny it. So

989
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 3: if your father or the person that you worship is

990
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 3: the person in charge of everything, you're in good hands.

991
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 2: Man.

992
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 3: It's like being Hunter Biden, you know, like you can

993
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: get caught with coker, hookers in the White House or

994
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 3: guns and you're good to go.

995
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get in trouble, you know.

996
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 3: So you're a winner in that sense, but with God,

997
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 3: you're a winner with everything.

998
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 2: And I know it's a cliche and allow people say it,

999
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 2: but I physically see it.

1000
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 3: I mean, dude, we haven't spend a dollar on advertising,

1001
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 3: and we've easily given away over five hundred thousand dollars

1002
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 3: in this point to causes and stuff. Because we're faithful

1003
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 3: with the little bit people give us. We work through

1004
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 3: whatever problems we're going through. We get together, we team up,

1005
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 3: and God gives us more. Stock and Mill of the

1006
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 3: name I think the foundation, and that was an important

1007
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 3: because you know, let's think about it. It's not as

1008
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: cool as fucking black rifle.

1009
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 2: It's not. You know, if you're a guy, you go

1010
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 2: to a store and you see a coffee.

1011
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 3: Things say that says black rifle or pale horse or

1012
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 3: something to that nature. It's a cooler name Stock and Mill.

1013
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 3: You think to yourself, what the hell is that? When

1014
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 3: we talk to people on the phone and place orders,

1015
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 3: they're like, you know, stocking what how? And you say,

1016
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 3: you know, stocking over your leg or oh okay, I

1017
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 3: get it. But it's a story that most people haven't

1018
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 3: heard from the revolution that I think everybody should have

1019
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 3: learned first. And there was a stock milk gunpowder factory

1020
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 3: in Glastonbury, Connecticut. And as we all know, gunpowder and

1021
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 3: coffee synonymous in the military. Let's think about it, right,

1022
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 3: you know, like we all call it. You have a

1023
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: couple of gunpowder, you know, like it's synonymous. And in

1024
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 3: seventeen seventy seven, while she's delivering the wife and her

1025
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 3: one son are.

1026
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: Delivering gunpowder to the front line.

1027
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,280
Speaker 3: It's from the Stocking Miell gunpowder factory to George Washington.

1028
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 3: The factory explodes and kills her husband and three other kids.

1029
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 3: She comes back she actually they say, the story goes

1030
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 3: that she saw the explosion on the horizon. But as

1031
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 3: a woman in seventeen seventy seven losing her family, I mean,

1032
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 3: that's a stumbling block.

1033
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: Man.

1034
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,720
Speaker 3: You come across this is like not only you're fighting

1035
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 3: a war and you're supplying the troops, but you're also

1036
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 3: making a living off of that. I mean, this is

1037
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 3: where your food comes from and everything trade, and you know, everything.

1038
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 2: Going on during the colonial times.

1039
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 3: And she's a woman and during the colonial times, dude,

1040
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 3: I think it was a little bit harder to Maybe

1041
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 3: she's a harder business back then if you're a woman,

1042
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 3: you know, she borrows money, rebuilds the factory, and continues

1043
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 3: to supply Washington the much needed gunpowder because it's the

1044
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 3: highest quality that he needed to operate his cannons.

1045
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 2: And so we won the war. And you don't hear

1046
00:51:58,920 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: about stories like that.

1047
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 3: And to me, that's like the ultimate overcoming an obstacle

1048
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 3: figuring out in your mind.

1049
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 2: You know, how am I gonna.

1050
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 3: Like you said, like this happens, all right, Let's not

1051
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 3: talk about it, Let's not have a let's not getting

1052
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 3: a crew together to investigate what we can do in

1053
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 3: the future to move forward without it happening again.

1054
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,479
Speaker 2: Let's just figure it out, fix it, and keep moving,

1055
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 2: you know.

1056
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 3: And that's what she did, and that's what we need

1057
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 3: to do in order to get ahead, because the more

1058
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 3: time that you sit back and think about what's going on,

1059
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 3: and I mean, you have to, of course have a plan,

1060
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 3: but it's never going to go according to the way

1061
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 3: you want.

1062
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 2: This sort took over a year to open that I'm

1063
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 2: sitting in here right now. We thought it'd be open

1064
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 2: in three or four months. I complain about it.

1065
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 3: If I don't cry about it, I always figure a

1066
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 3: different way to keep moving forward, to keep it.

1067
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 2: Going and figure it out.

1068
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 3: And now we're like a couple of days from being

1069
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 3: like certificate of occupation.

1070
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: You're good to go, get out of here. So let

1071
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: me ask you this. You're a pretty political guy. You

1072
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: don't shure you clearly don't shy away from those beliefs.

1073
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: Is does your spiritual battle weave into the political one?

1074
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's.

1075
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 3: It does because in a sense, it whoever is in

1076
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: charge politically has a hand on the way that they're

1077
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 3: moving the chessboard around how your country that you're operating,

1078
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 3: your business and your life and goes.

1079
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,919
Speaker 2: So you know, it has to has to play a part,

1080
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 2: you know.

1081
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 3: I think I try to just vote for politicians more

1082
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 3: that like have more godly principles or more freedom based principles,

1083
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 3: because to me, freedom is what allows me to practice

1084
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 3: what I believe in and then to be emininely anti

1085
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 3: against people that are against what I believe in. I mean,

1086
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 3: I don't think that enough people speak out because they're

1087
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 3: afraid of the backlash.

1088
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 2: That will come at him.

1089
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 3: And it doesn't even have to be a business just

1090
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 3: a person, you know, to say, hey, you know what

1091
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 3: I'd love to go. I love to go to Like

1092
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 3: I'm a football fan. I told you want to be

1093
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 3: an NFL star. I love to go to a football game.

1094
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 3: But you know they kneel or whatever. You know, like

1095
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 3: some people are just afraid to take a stand because

1096
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 3: there are other friends may say, hey, man, you know

1097
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: you're this or you're that, And it's like, I can't

1098
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 3: really worry about what other people think about me.

1099
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 2: Because God told me this is how to act.

1100
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 3: So I have to feel like if he's telling me

1101
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 3: how to act and I'm doing it obviously not perfect,

1102
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 3: but striving to do that, that I'm okay, I'm.

1103
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 2: Doing the right thing. And you know what, It's worked

1104
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: for me and it won't stop, you know.

1105
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 3: And I guess you also have to know that if

1106
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 3: if you're a firm believer in the Word, that it's

1107
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 3: going to come a point where if I'm still alive,

1108
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 3: then they're gonna shut our business down.

1109
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 2: You know, they're gonna shut people down.

1110
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 3: In their faith based they're gonna control everything because that's

1111
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 3: what the Bible says it's going to happen at one point,

1112
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 3: and you have to accept that it could happen and

1113
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 3: that you can see some really rough times. But I mean,

1114
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: I think that anybody that's served in combat, I think

1115
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 3: pretty much have gotten to like one of the lowest

1116
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 3: points that they're going to get to you there in

1117
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,399
Speaker 3: their life, you know, as far as a rough time.

1118
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that that's a harder time than

1119
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 3: somebody a civilian having to deal with like a wife

1120
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 3: battling cancer or something like that. But I haven't dealt

1121
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 3: with that. So in my life, the hardest I might

1122
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 3: have probably been combat, you know, or being deployed for

1123
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 3: a long amount of time. So I mean, that's where

1124
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 3: that mindset comes from. You know, where do you see

1125
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 3: the worst?

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00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: Tell me about America right now, Eddie, where do you.

1127
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 4: You say that?

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00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: I mean, and I agree that we're in a spiritual fight,

1129
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: and that fight isn't necessarily Democrat versus Republican. It's it's

1130
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: good versus evil lives I see it.

1131
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 2: Right.

1132
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 4: Do you think we're winning that fight?

1133
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 3: It's weird as this sounds, and I'm not trying to

1134
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 3: sound as to be defeatist. I don't think we're winning

1135
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 3: for sure, and I don't I don't see where like

1136
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,479
Speaker 3: sometimes I hear Christians and I'm not saying I don't

1137
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 3: hope for it, but I don't see like a great

1138
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 3: revival happening where we go back to a time where

1139
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 3: maybe God was more front in the lives of Americans.

1140
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna happen.

1141
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 3: I mean, and I know that may sound like pretty gloomy,

1142
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 3: but to me, like again, you know, God promises us

1143
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 3: a bunch of things, and these promises us this is

1144
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: what will happen at one point in the future, and

1145
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 3: you know, there'll be some pretty grim times and and

1146
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 3: then you know you'll go through you know, however you

1147
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 3: believe it, you know, through the seven year reign Antichrist

1148
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 3: rule to rapture. All these things. None of them sound good.

1149
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 3: So it's sounds that their great times or they're you know,

1150
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 3: there's a lot of plagues going hard. There's like you know, uh, famine.

1151
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 3: So it's definitely not a good future that you're looking at.

1152
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 3: But to me, it's it's pretty awesome because like, I know,

1153
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna win if I'm there when it happens, you know,

1154
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 3: if it gets to that point, because he tells me

1155
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 3: I'm going to win, and so the only thing that

1156
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 3: I can do is just focus that I've heard this

1157
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 3: before and I use it a lot, and focused on

1158
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 3: the eight hundred yards around me. You know, change was

1159
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 3: you could change around you, and then hopefully everybody else

1160
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 3: is doing the same thing. Be prepared for your family,

1161
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 3: to raise them the right way, the administry of God,

1162
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 3: to conduct your business that way, and you know, to

1163
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 3: try to spread the word. So I mean, that's all

1164
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 3: that I can do. I don't think that we're gonna

1165
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 3: win the battle. I don't think that we'll ever vote

1166
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 3: our way out of what's currently going on, as some

1167
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 3: patriots may believe of like, you know, losing rights in

1168
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 3: all these things that are happening. So I don't think

1169
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 3: that there's a positive outcome coming in the near future.

1170
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 3: I don't think that we're gonna have this great renaissance

1171
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 3: of American freedom, but I'll push for it in I'll

1172
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 3: fight as hard as I can to represent the value

1173
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 3: of that and to help others see that.

1174
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 2: What else can you do? You know, but then you

1175
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 2: have to think big. You can't.

1176
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 3: I mean, so I think that's why I focus it

1177
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 3: to try to do it as a company, because as

1178
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 3: a company. You're not begging for money, you're working for it. Honestly,

1179
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 3: we're sorry for it.

1180
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: That was my next question. What's the future of Stocking

1181
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: Mill Coffee in all of this fight?

1182
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: So the future is.

1183
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 3: It's interesting, you know, I'm gonna take coffee back. There's

1184
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 3: an interesting story. I read the first coffee house ever

1185
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 3: in the city of New York, and it was built

1186
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 3: by John Hutchinson prior to the Revolutionary War. And the

1187
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 3: cool part that I read right off the ballut about

1188
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 3: it was he had been arrested for speaking ill of

1189
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 3: the king and put in prison for that.

1190
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 2: And the other cooler.

1191
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 3: Parts that I had read was that, you know, he

1192
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 3: got out of prison for speaking against the king and

1193
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,919
Speaker 3: he continued to kind of push back against the king

1194
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 3: with the finances that he made through his coffee business.

1195
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 3: And he was successful. He brought he brought tons of

1196
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 3: land up and down the Hudson River. And you know,

1197
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 3: in order to create change in any sort, you have

1198
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 3: to have finances. I mean, it's just unfortunately, that's how

1199
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 3: it is. And everybody knows that you ran up to

1200
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 3: the Senate without finances, your voice doesn't get out there exactly.

1201
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 2: And what you have to come to the print.

1202
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 3: We have to come away to find out is how

1203
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 3: do I get that money without compromising my principles Because

1204
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 3: a lot of people have a lot of heart and

1205
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:10,919
Speaker 3: want to make a lot of change, and then maybe

1206
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 3: they run for office or something, but then they realize,

1207
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 3: holy shit.

1208
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 2: If I don't endorse this person or endorse this stay

1209
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 2: which I may not totally align with or believe, I'm

1210
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 2: not going to get this money.

1211
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 3: And with me, I just figure, you know what, I've

1212
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 3: always been a hard worker. I don't ever want to

1213
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 3: be out work. I'll be embarrassed to be out work.

1214
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 3: You're not going to clean the barracks better than me.

1215
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 3: You're not going to clean a weapon better than me.

1216
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 3: You're not going to hunt down somebody better than me.

1217
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 3: I'm going to be better than anybody at what I

1218
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 3: can be at. And why not start a business? Earn

1219
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 3: it hard, earn the money. You know, nobody has control

1220
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 3: over that anymore, like nobody can tell you what to

1221
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 3: do with your money, Like you could put whatever whatever

1222
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 3: you earn, you could do what you want with it.

1223
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 2: And so that's what I wanted to do. And I

1224
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 2: wanted to just earn money, and in a sense.

1225
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: Where I want Stacking Mill to be is I want

1226
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 3: to be John Hutcheson, you know, pushing back against the king.

1227
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 3: I want a coffee house to be a place where

1228
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 3: people who can gather, exchange thoughts come up with a

1229
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 3: way to Hey. You know, maybe like in Mitown in

1230
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 3: Vlusia County, maybe the people that believe in freedom come together.

1231
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 2: We pool our resources.

1232
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 3: We find out how we move local elections. You know,

1233
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 3: and you could do it quietly, or you can do

1234
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 3: it out in the open, but just do it. You know,

1235
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 3: we have resources now because we have such a great family.

1236
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: We don't have customers. We have family.

1237
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 3: Like I just opened the door for the people to

1238
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 3: come in, or not even open yet. I've had people

1239
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 3: from Costa Rica to Kansas coming here already. And you know,

1240
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 3: our family doesn't come in and buy a coffee in

1241
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 3: the store and say what's the in store discount? I mean, dude,

1242
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 3: ninety percent of them come in they say I want

1243
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 3: to bag keep the change, put it towards your next

1244
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 3: fundraiser for veterans, or like like when we did something

1245
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 3: when Kentucky had the floods. You know, we help people

1246
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 3: out there and shove them mind put it toward the

1247
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 3: next thing. So if you got a family like that

1248
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 3: backing you up, all you have to do is get

1249
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 3: your voice out there so that others can hear it.

1250
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 2: But if you lose.

1251
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 3: Focus and and and make it become business first, you're

1252
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 3: going to crash like other companies do.

1253
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 2: Like, you have to keep it.

1254
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 3: You have to keep to your principles from day one,

1255
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 3: and almost to me, I think that in today's world

1256
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 3: you have to be maybe a little bit extra about

1257
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 3: it because you have to be heard. I mean, unfortunately,

1258
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 3: unless you make a commotion to a certain extent, nobody.

1259
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 2: Wants to hear you, you know.

1260
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 3: But with more people behind us and everything in the

1261
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 3: voice we have, we're starting to get heard and listen.

1262
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 3: I'm not saying we're changing the world, but if we

1263
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 3: could start to just continue to go at the pace

1264
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 3: we are growing, Like we're connecting with our local communities,

1265
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 3: using our money to almost you know, help elections in

1266
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 3: a sense too, you know, like put money toward people

1267
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 3: that we believe in. Help local people that say, hey,

1268
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 3: like the local VA nursing home.

1269
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 2: You know, we hooked up with them.

1270
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 3: I'm not a bunch of old cool guys there and

1271
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 3: now I go want to do poker nights with them

1272
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 3: and stuff, and you know, we're bringing something into their life.

1273
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 3: And when you're sharing your life with them, you're sharing

1274
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 3: their values. When you share your values, you're going to

1275
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 3: get a chance to hear where they're coming from. Politically,

1276
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 3: that's what everybody is about nowadays. Like how often can

1277
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 3: you get into a conversation with somebody nowadays without almost

1278
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 3: within five minutes getting into a political Let's see which

1279
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 3: way this person goes, you know. So, I mean, that's

1280
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 3: the world we live in. So fight it hard man,

1281
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 3: and fight it and and don't think you're gonna lose.

1282
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 3: Just be confident you're gonna win. And we are winning

1283
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 3: to like around us. But in the in the greater aspect,

1284
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 3: I just think that we're empowering other people to see that,

1285
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 3: Hey man, it's gonna get rough, it's gonna get tough.

1286
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 2: Let's team up, Let's get together and get.

1287
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 3: Each other through it together like we're used to in

1288
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 3: our military careers. But let's do as civilians now. And

1289
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 3: that's the biggest part of stack Millan. While we don't

1290
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 3: really push the whole military thing is because listen, man,

1291
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 3: like half the people that come in here aren't military

1292
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 3: and they don't understand like that life.

1293
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 2: But man, they're freaking patriots, dude. Like they give just

1294
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 2: as much to whatever cause that we do as anybody else.

1295
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 3: I've had dudes walk in here and say, hey, you know,

1296
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 3: I thought, I don't know if you know Clay Martin.

1297
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 3: He's an author and he was in the Marines, obviously

1298
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 3: green Beret brother, and he's a good writer. And he's like,

1299
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 3: I have every book that Clay wrote, and I have

1300
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 3: and he starts showing me pictures on his phone. I

1301
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 3: have these nines and I have this, and I have that,

1302
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 3: and he's like, you don't know it, man, but you

1303
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 3: guys have helped me through the COVID thing, listening to

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Speaker 3: you guys on social media because I had a lot

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Speaker 3: going on in my life and I listen to you guys,

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Speaker 3: And dude, what's better than that? You know, somebody's like

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Speaker 3: got through a hard time because of us. Shit posted

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Speaker 3: on Twitter about our shoe beliefs, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: but what we truly believe in, And there's nothing better

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Speaker 3: than that. I mean, to me, I'd rather have more

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Speaker 3: people walk in and say that to us than say hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, you got the best coffee in the world,

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Speaker 3: which I think we do, but I'd rather more people

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Speaker 3: say that, And I think that everything else follows after that,

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Speaker 3: Like your business is going to continue to grow, so

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have more money, and you're gonna have a

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Speaker 3: larger voice, and more people are gonna want to get

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Speaker 3: involved in the things that you do.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, I want to be the company that

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Speaker 2: shows up.

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Speaker 3: At like an event that's not going to be a

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Speaker 3: set up by the government to get us all in trouble,

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Speaker 3: but to support somebody that may possibly be fighting for

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Speaker 3: our freedom or our Next thing that.

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Speaker 2: We're looking to do is buy a church. There's tons

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Speaker 2: of churches for sale. Why give up ground?

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Speaker 3: Why should I rent in old McDonald's here, at least

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Speaker 3: in old McDonald's right here beached out in Daytona. When

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Speaker 3: I could buy a church and turn that into a

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Speaker 3: roast house a place of worship. I mean, when Jesus spoke,

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Speaker 3: what did he do before he spoke to people? He

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Speaker 3: fed him, he gave him water, he gave him place

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Speaker 3: to sit down and relax, and then he preached the

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Speaker 3: word to him. You know, so we're looking into that like,

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Speaker 3: we don't want to give up any more ground, and

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Speaker 3: we're just gonna use our finances to continue to promote

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Speaker 3: freedom as much as we can, however it may be,

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Speaker 3: and hopefully in ways that matter more than the average

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Speaker 3: company does. Hopefully, you know whatever, you know, whether it's

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Speaker 3: going to a hurricane area helping somebody out, or you know,

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Speaker 3: like going to a place where maybe there's a riot

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Speaker 3: and things are getting torn down. We're like, you know what,

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna let this happen peacefully, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, in a smart way if possible. But people

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Speaker 3: have to band together, and I think somebody always looks

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Speaker 3: for somebody to make that first move, you know, like

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Speaker 3: who's going to be the first guy and set this off,

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Speaker 3: you know, and start it? And I don't know a

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Speaker 3: better way to start and start your own business, make

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Speaker 3: your own money, follow God's word, and then let him

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Speaker 3: lead you to see where that changed you can have,

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Speaker 3: what change you can make, and how it occurs.

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Speaker 1: Man Eddie, thank you so much for coming on and

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Speaker 1: giving us your time today. You are a you're a patriot,

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Speaker 1: you're a true believer, and you are you are a

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Speaker 1: man on a mission. Tell Tell before we get out

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Speaker 1: of here, tell us tell this audience you know where

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Speaker 1: they can find you and what they can do to

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Speaker 1: help and join your family.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean obviously on the internet, stock Mill copy

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Speaker 3: and dot com you look us up. We ship everywhere

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Speaker 3: a pos all over the you know, all over the US,

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Speaker 3: the world. And you don't have to be a coffee drinker.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you could just be on social media and

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Speaker 3: if you believe in something that we say regarding freedom

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Speaker 3: or regarding the Bible, hey man.

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Speaker 2: Retweet it, like you know, signal boost us.

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Speaker 3: Let the voice out there that there are companies that

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Speaker 3: have your values that aren't thinking bottom bottom line first,

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Speaker 3: like they're thinking more, let's do something cool and let's

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Speaker 3: make a change.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Voice is just as important as as patriotized, you know,

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01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 3: patreony being a patron of us.

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Speaker 2: So I mean that's really all you could do.

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Speaker 3: Pray for us, that's even another big thing, like pray

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Speaker 3: for us man, Like you know that our voice is heard,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I mean by our voice, not just

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Speaker 3: stock and Mills voice, but the whole family that's involved

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Speaker 3: with it. I mean, I believe that if you follow

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Speaker 3: what we say on Twitter and you believe in our values.

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Speaker 2: Then let's team up.

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Speaker 3: You know, if there's something that you need done in

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Speaker 3: your neighborhood that uh, you don't think that you have

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Speaker 3: the voice to do, you do. We're a family. Give us,

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Speaker 3: you know, shoot us a DM, shoots an email. We're

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Speaker 3: on Twitter. We're bigger on Twitter than anything else. We're

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Speaker 3: our Instagram stocking milk coffee. I'm not here, though I

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Speaker 3: do do most of the tweeting. I'm not big into

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Speaker 3: I don't like social media as much as so many

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Speaker 3: people may think. But it is a way to get

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Speaker 3: the voice out there, and you have to utilize what

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Speaker 3: God gives you.

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Speaker 2: So I try to do that.

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Speaker 3: But emails dms, you know, following us on those, we're

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Speaker 3: in Daytona, stop by and say hi. I mean, we'll

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Speaker 3: sit down and make you some coffee. We'll talk if

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Speaker 3: there's something that you think that we can help you do.

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Speaker 3: Maybe financially, we have a great backing where we raise

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Speaker 3: money faster for things like you know, like there's a

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Speaker 3: group called Phantom Airborne Brigade here where they do jumps,

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Speaker 3: airborne jumps into the water with airplegics and quadrant alegics,

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Speaker 3: And we've teamed up with them.

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Speaker 2: They're a great organzation. Uh, you know. And and and

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Speaker 2: you can go down there be a part of that.

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Speaker 3: Watch just how we help people there to doing anything

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Speaker 3: that we do with politics, you know, like say like

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Speaker 3: if you I don't know, if you're deciding to run again, you.

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Speaker 2: Can help yourself out, you know, I mean.

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Speaker 3: Like look at you always got to stay in the fight, dude,

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01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 3: you know now every listen, I mean I went from

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Speaker 3: doing TV training to bass fishing to now actually having

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Speaker 3: a very successful company gratefully and thankfully and coffee of

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Speaker 3: all things.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, you don't give up.

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Speaker 3: You just keep pushing forward and and find where it's

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Speaker 3: going to happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, I could easily see you running again.

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Speaker 3: People are getting sick and tired and winning hands down,

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01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 3: people getting sick and tired.

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Speaker 4: Well we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you never know what the future hold is,

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Speaker 1: like you said, but one thing I can guarantee you.

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Speaker 1: The motto of this of this show is never quit,

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Speaker 1: never surrender. So I am completely on board with your mission.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, you never seen the movie The Kingsmen, remember that,

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Speaker 2: you know?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Uh, And and so imagine you have the resources behind

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Speaker 3: yourself to do the things that they do in a

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Speaker 3: different world like in our real world today, you know, uh, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean resources to create a change for the well.

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Speaker 3: I know it's a movie of fantasy and fiction, but

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Speaker 3: I mean, and it may be beyond somebody's idea and grasp,

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Speaker 3: but there's people in the world with the finances to

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Speaker 3: make change today and the drive to do it. And

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Speaker 3: that's all you have to do. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 3: that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna we're gonna make

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Speaker 3: a change before I die somehow.

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Speaker 2: And I think we're slowly doing it.

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Speaker 3: And I think you know, people with the personalities and

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Speaker 3: the background like yourself, uh, they'll do it too. And

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Speaker 3: and as long as we support each other and team

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 3: up and always think about each other, and and and

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Speaker 3: and and never try to do it on our own

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01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 3: and realize our limitations, like hey, you know, I can't

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Speaker 3: do this, but I know somebody that can do this.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna team up and do it. I think that

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Speaker 2: we can make a pretty decent change no matter how

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Speaker 2: the world goes and the future. And that's all we

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Speaker 2: can do, you know.

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Speaker 1: Well, Eddie, thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 4: Brother.

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Speaker 1: We keep us updated and I'm sure we'll talk more

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Speaker 1: after the show, but in the meantime, Man, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming on. God bless you and we will see you soon.

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Speaker 2: Man, all right, dude, I really appreciate it. It's been

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Speaker 2: an interview on your show. It's the first one and

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Speaker 2: probably the last one, I do. I think Nick will be.

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Speaker 3: The sobbing a sobbing old Tom Selleck want to be

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Speaker 3: like trying about the half or something, but uh, you know,

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01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:34,799
Speaker 3: like I appreciate it more than anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it, man, Yep, We'll talk to you soon,

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Speaker 1: all right, everybody. That is it with Eddie Lima, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Stalking Mill Coffees, also a Special Forces combat veteran.

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Speaker 1: A lot of leadership lessons in that one, I mean, man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, Eddie is one of a kind as always,

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Speaker 1: you know, like subscribe wherever you listen to podcast, leave reviews,

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Speaker 1: screenshot the fact that you're listening and send them to

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Speaker 1: me on social media so that I can share them.

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Speaker 1: We're doing everything that we can here to build a

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Speaker 1: movement and you are part of that movement and ultimately,

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Speaker 1: this show is for you. It's all about you. And

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Speaker 1: people who truly believe in the mantra never quit, never surrender,

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Speaker 1: people who are relentless, and we want you to be

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Speaker 1: of something much bigger than ourselves. So go to official

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Speaker 1: we're almost sold out, so get them while you still can.

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Speaker 1: And as always, thank you so much for watching and

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Speaker 1: listening to this show. God bless you all, and God

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Speaker 1: bless this amazing country that we live in.

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Speaker 4: Take care