Speaker 1: Every time you take the direction of the harder road,
Speaker 1: and then you take it again, and then you take
Speaker 1: it again, and you take it again. Every time you
Speaker 1: take it, you're separating yourselves from everybody else that's taking
Speaker 1: the easy road, and the hard road always pays off
Speaker 1: in the long run. You look back and you go
Speaker 1: I did things the hard way over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and that separated myself so that now I'm in a
Speaker 1: place that no one else could get to because they
Speaker 1: didn't take the hard road like I did. So do
Speaker 1: hard things. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Granger
Speaker 1: Smith Podcast. This is episode one hundred and nineteen. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: mister Burns. Thanks for having me. Bernie Calculus again, long
Speaker 1: term guest of mine. How many episodes have you been on?
Speaker 1: Do you think maybe like twelve? Maybe more than that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's I think it might
Speaker 1: be double that. Oh really, I was going to count today. Okay,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot. There's a lot. Yeah, one hundred
Speaker 1: nineteen episodes and I would guess you've been in between
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty two something like that. Okay, somebody out
Speaker 1: there knows, So if you could comment below, Share, with
Speaker 1: us man, and that brings up a good point. Thank
Speaker 1: you to all the long term listeners, the people that
Speaker 1: that will tell me at a meet and greet or
Speaker 1: a show, or in public somewhere or on an email,
Speaker 1: they'll tell me that they've listened to every single episode.
Speaker 1: I love that. That means so much to me because
Speaker 1: because I have certain podcasts that I, you know, listen
Speaker 1: to all the time, or are certain speakers our pastors
Speaker 1: that I listen to a lot, and I know what
Speaker 1: they mean to me. And so just the thought of
Speaker 1: being in someone's ear every Monday morning as like a
Speaker 1: routine Monday commute to work or whatever it might be
Speaker 1: that I love that. So we release at six thirty
Speaker 1: am Central Time on Monday mornings. If that's a good time.
Speaker 1: Let me know if anyone, after so many episodes is
Speaker 1: kind of thinking maybe it should be earlier, like maybe
Speaker 1: I'm missing your commute because you leave the house at six,
Speaker 1: or is there a time I'm assuming it wouldn't be later.
Speaker 1: It would only be earlier if there was a time change,
Speaker 1: But let me know if anyone has any thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: Comment below on if you're watching on YouTube, or hit
Speaker 1: me up on social media. What this podcast is. If
Speaker 1: you're brand new, welcome. This is me and Bernie walking
Speaker 1: through your questions in a very relaxed atmosphere. We'll call
Speaker 1: it like we're in a four door crew cab pickup
Speaker 1: truck heading on a back road and me and you
Speaker 1: I'm driving. You're right next to me, and we got
Speaker 1: someone in the back and we're on a long road trip.
Speaker 1: We're going to see a bowl game. And they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, what can I ask you, guys? Something something
Speaker 1: about something that's been going on in my life I've
Speaker 1: always wondered and I've kind of got something I'm wrestling with.
Speaker 1: And then we walk through it as if we're on
Speaker 1: a four hour road trip and we just walk through
Speaker 1: it with you. That's what this podcast is, and if
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of that, we would
Speaker 1: love it. Email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Don't
Speaker 1: be afraid to write anything as long as you don't
Speaker 1: fill up too much of the space, Like just keep it,
Speaker 1: keep it as small as you can and still get
Speaker 1: your point across and I'll answer it for you. Be
Speaker 1: as creative as possible too, guys, because some of the
Speaker 1: questions come in you're like, whoa, Okay, love it man,
Speaker 1: you can we cannot be surprised anymore as deep or
Speaker 1: as shallow. Yeah, totally, it's all fun. And let me
Speaker 1: just say thank you for letting me be a part
Speaker 1: of this. This is so cool. Like, guys, I'm just
Speaker 1: a regular dude. I met Granger like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: But what I mean is, I'm not a celebrity. I'm
Speaker 1: not an influencer. I'm just a dude. Right, I'm your dude,
Speaker 1: I'm your friend, and so I get to be here,
Speaker 1: and I it's a privilege and an honor. So thank
Speaker 1: you for letting me sit smartest and deepest thinker dudes
Speaker 1: that I know that's you. Well, so you're You're absolutely welcome.
Speaker 1: But it it is my privilege to have you on
Speaker 1: this microphone because you add so much value, you know,
Speaker 1: in life. And you taught me this a long time
Speaker 1: ago when you're raised in Boston who is now eleven eleven,
Speaker 1: when he was younger. You you taught me this because
Speaker 1: you had kids right a year before I started having kids.
Speaker 1: And there's two ways to succeed in life, really, to
Speaker 1: add value or to take value. And so we all
Speaker 1: have to question ourselves and what am I doing to
Speaker 1: get ahead in life? Am I adding value to this world?
Speaker 1: Or am I taking it for my own gain? Because
Speaker 1: you could have success either way, but the choice is
Speaker 1: up to you. That's good, and you chose to raise
Speaker 1: your kids in a mentality of adding to the world,
Speaker 1: adding value back to the world instead of take take take.
Speaker 1: You remember that conversation probably ten years ago, eight years ago.
Speaker 1: I have that conversation with Boston all the time still.
Speaker 1: So the first question here sub line is very unique.
Speaker 1: It says podcast question, and the question is my friend
Speaker 1: introduced me to this girl and I don't know how
Speaker 1: to approach her and tell her that I want to
Speaker 1: go on a date. We've been talking for about a
Speaker 1: week or two. Now, can you help me out on
Speaker 1: this question comes from Braiden. Braiden man up, dude, take
Speaker 1: the hill. Be one of those dudes confidence. She's going
Speaker 1: to say yes if you and I've heard you answer
Speaker 1: this question on this podcast about confidence, be intentional and
Speaker 1: she's going to respond to that and vulnerable and vulnerable
Speaker 1: meaning confidence. Approach her with confidence, but in a way
Speaker 1: that's still you, like, don't don't put on a facade
Speaker 1: like this brave facade. That's not you walk up boldly courageous,
Speaker 1: I guess is that courageous? You could be courageous and
Speaker 1: bold and vulnerable all at the same time. Brene Brown,
Speaker 1: Yes you can. Yeah, yeah, daring greatly. Brene Brown, great book,
Speaker 1: by the way, great motivational speaker. But yeah, be bold,
Speaker 1: be courageous, and be yourself and with that be vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Meaning that means when you walk up to a girl
Speaker 1: and you you boldly take this step to her, you
Speaker 1: open your mouth to let words out, and if you stutter,
Speaker 1: if you fumble, if you shake a little bit, that's
Speaker 1: all part of it. And the right girl will see
Speaker 1: through that and go, wow, this guy's kind of nervous.
Speaker 1: He must really like me. That says something to the
Speaker 1: girl instead of like, this guy's a charmer. He just
Speaker 1: does it to everyone. He has his lines down perfectly,
Speaker 1: and I'm just the next one in order for him.
Speaker 1: So man, just buddy, the good thing is you've been
Speaker 1: you talked to her for a week or two. I
Speaker 1: would make it simple like, hey, we've been talking for
Speaker 1: a week or two. I would I'd like to get
Speaker 1: something to eat or go see a movie. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the new Spider Man. You know here, I'll Braiden right, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll throw this out there to you. Braiden, if you
Speaker 1: can be bold, courageous, vulnerable go up to this girl
Speaker 1: and ask her out. And Granger has come in to
Speaker 1: do a concert in a city near you. He will
Speaker 1: put you on the guest list for a meet and
Speaker 1: greet if you bring that girl with you. Dude, you
Speaker 1: could be the one that like helped him. I Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, my buddy Granger is doing the show and
Speaker 1: we're going to meet him. Do you want to go?
Speaker 1: And she'd be like, oh yeah, and then they start
Speaker 1: talking more and there you go this question. I know
Speaker 1: I just signed him up for that on the fly,
Speaker 1: but this is a recent question, and I'll take Bernie's
Speaker 1: challenge on this. Braden email me back to this exact
Speaker 1: email from your email so I know it's you and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Bernie promised that I can come and meet you at
Speaker 1: a meet and greet with this girl. The answer is yes,
Speaker 1: I'll get you tickets. I'll get you meet and greets
Speaker 1: when I come to your town or close to it,
Speaker 1: and use that as an excuse for this date. She said, yes,
Speaker 1: we're coming Okay, deal love it. Okay, Burns, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: we've got a list here, you're folder for today's podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read some of these questions at subject lines,
Speaker 1: and you tell me where you want to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: depression and death, pushing people away, picking where to start
Speaker 1: with career saying, hey, college, transition, dating, advice, love or
Speaker 1: excuse me? Life and religion? Did any of those pop out?
Speaker 1: For some reason? The college transition jumped out, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why I didn't go to college. I'm not
Speaker 1: in college. Great. I don't know if I have any
Speaker 1: college advice. Great. Okay, well how about this, let's go
Speaker 1: with that one. It says, Hey Granger, I listened to
Speaker 1: your I listened to your podcast for the first time,
Speaker 1: and I absolutely loved it. I've been struggling with transitioning
Speaker 1: into college. I'm about to start my second semester and
Speaker 1: I don't really want to go back. It's hard because
Speaker 1: I look around and I see my friends loving college,
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering why am I not. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: compare and underst It's just a season, but I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's supposed to get better. How am i
Speaker 1: supposed to navigate through this life transition and find my purpose.
Speaker 1: I hope this email finds you. Thank you and God
Speaker 1: bless Callie Calie like that name. Okay, so she's in,
Speaker 1: she's in, sounds like she's a she's a freshman. I'm
Speaker 1: about to start the second semester and this this email
Speaker 1: is current, So this is happening right now. She says,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to go back. Okay, So one
Speaker 1: thing jumps out that, I'll say real quick, and then
Speaker 1: past Griz. You're looking at your friends and you're comparing.
Speaker 1: So our success success in life is is, you know,
Speaker 1: giving value to ourselves and worth to ourselves based on
Speaker 1: comparison to other people. Excellence is how we give ourselves
Speaker 1: value base based on our own potential. So stop looking
Speaker 1: around at what your friends are doing and think, like, man,
Speaker 1: they're having a successful college experience, And to focus on yourself,
Speaker 1: what is your potential, what are you capable of? What
Speaker 1: are you seeing? And try to pursue that with excellence,
Speaker 1: and I think you're going to find that your whole
Speaker 1: experience kind of changes. So man, absolutely right, I think
Speaker 1: CALLI what's interesting is your friends. There's a good chance
Speaker 1: they're looking at you and thinking the same thing about you.
Speaker 1: My gosh, I'm struggling. CALLI seems to love it. But
Speaker 1: that's just a front you're putting on, and that might
Speaker 1: be a front they're putting on. In fact, it probably
Speaker 1: is because because I did go to college and that
Speaker 1: second semester I felt that, like, oh, I want to
Speaker 1: be a musician. I don't really need this, like why
Speaker 1: am I here? In fact, my one of those early semesters,
Speaker 1: I ended up failing the whole thing because I was
Speaker 1: too worried about I don't need this, I'm an to
Speaker 1: be a musician. I'm gonna move to Nashville. I ended
Speaker 1: up failing out of college and moving to Nashville. That's
Speaker 1: actually when I met Bernie. But then four years later
Speaker 1: I decided to go back to Texas and start a band.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, I thought, I'm going to re
Speaker 1: enroll in the community college and try to get my
Speaker 1: grades up again and go back to Texas A and M.
Speaker 1: And when I did it the second time, it wasn't
Speaker 1: about other people around me, or that's the thing to
Speaker 1: do in life, or that's what society tells us we
Speaker 1: need to do. Is go to college. It was more
Speaker 1: about I want to do this for me. I want
Speaker 1: to do this for me because it because I want
Speaker 1: to make it a priority. And so at some point, Cali,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do that instead of going. I'm
Speaker 1: just here because my parents told me I should, and
Speaker 1: all my friends came and it's kind of a party here,
Speaker 1: and what else am I going to do? I don't
Speaker 1: have any other options. You're dealing with that, and you've
Speaker 1: got to flip that whole thing to go. No, you
Speaker 1: know what, I want to be here because ten years
Speaker 1: from now, I look back and be glad that I
Speaker 1: did go back to that second semester, because I don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna look back in ten years and go
Speaker 1: glad I left and didn't go back. Sure, I'm glad
Speaker 1: because you're there. It's almost like you might as well
Speaker 1: keep going. You're obviously getting funding somehow, like maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you're working for it through a job, maybe you have
Speaker 1: a grant, maybe you have a scholarship, maybe your parents
Speaker 1: have loaned you some money for this, but you're there,
Speaker 1: so I'm assuming it's getting paid for. You have this opportunity.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna regret just doing it. But you need
Speaker 1: to make that switch in your mind that says I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this for me because it's gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: learn something and if anything, even if not in the books,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna learn how to learn. And college and high
Speaker 1: school is a lot about learning how to learn. You
Speaker 1: either do that and there with people around you that
Speaker 1: allow you to stumble and fall, or you do it
Speaker 1: in life and you stumble and fall out loud with
Speaker 1: your own bank account. Yeah, if there's any book nerds
Speaker 1: out there, email into Grangeer and tell me your book
Speaker 1: nerd because we can connect. But let me throw one
Speaker 1: to you. The Art of Learning by Joshua Whiteskin. Go
Speaker 1: read that book if you're a book nerd, because it's
Speaker 1: really good. I don't know if you've read that, but
Speaker 1: I haven't really really good book. So can you read
Speaker 1: There's two different things that I'm kind of thinking here,
Speaker 1: But can you read the part about her friends again
Speaker 1: where they are having a different experience or what was
Speaker 1: It's hard because I look around and see my friends
Speaker 1: loving college, and I wonder why I'm not. Do you
Speaker 1: think that it's her friends at other colleges or do
Speaker 1: you think it kind of feels like she's looking immediately
Speaker 1: around at her own campus. Okay. And the interesting thing
Speaker 1: is we have Burns here with us on the podcast
Speaker 1: who didn't go to college, like you said, but he's
Speaker 1: also very successful in his career right now. So it's
Speaker 1: not it's not you don't go to college equals be
Speaker 1: successful in life, because you can definitely be successful without it.
Speaker 1: So this is different and this is a different question
Speaker 1: for you to wrestle with. Yeah, I'm just I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if this is a lack of community with this girl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, Cali, because if you're really I mean, the
Speaker 1: books and all that is irrelevant really because I mean,
Speaker 1: you and I found community in Nashville and it was
Speaker 1: like this is our college, that this is awesome. We
Speaker 1: are learning in the school hard knocks together. So I
Speaker 1: think that there may be a lack of community and
Speaker 1: maybe some of the I know, the girls are different
Speaker 1: than boys, you know, there's different things going on. But
Speaker 1: I think Cali maybe just consider, you know, pushing into
Speaker 1: your community of friends and like Granger said on one
Speaker 1: of the episodes recently about how are you like giving,
Speaker 1: don't just be looking for like what you get from
Speaker 1: your girlfriends and your community. But like man, how can
Speaker 1: I connect with people? How can I serve them? I
Speaker 1: think that could change your experience and this is not
Speaker 1: And what I love about this podcast is that you
Speaker 1: take questions from everyday people just like us, and we're
Speaker 1: answering Calli's question. But these questions are relevant to anybody.
Speaker 1: So anybody out there that is struggling with man they're
Speaker 1: having I feel like they're having a better experience than
Speaker 1: me or I just I'm not feeling this. I think
Speaker 1: the principle of community can come in and lack of
Speaker 1: community and how Granger has talked about look to the
Speaker 1: community and how you can serve and how can I
Speaker 1: look for the benefit of others? How can I engage
Speaker 1: in each conversation for the encouragement, excitement, and delight of
Speaker 1: the other person. You do that consistently, it's going to
Speaker 1: change your experience. Totally agree. I think I think this
Speaker 1: is a result CALLI of missing home, missing mama, living
Speaker 1: on your own for the first time. It's all that's
Speaker 1: all combined and for what it's worth. For the record,
Speaker 1: when I moved to Nashville, college was really hard for me,
Speaker 1: and it was because I didn't have the right motivation.
Speaker 1: I was away from home, living away. But when I
Speaker 1: moved to Nashville and lived there for four years, and
Speaker 1: like Bernie said, we went through the hard knocks of
Speaker 1: life together. Going back to college the second time was easy.
Speaker 1: It was easy. It was a breeze compared to life,
Speaker 1: you know. And so that says something. I think this
Speaker 1: boils down to one thing. For you do hard things,
Speaker 1: take the hard road. If you take the harder road
Speaker 1: in life. Every time you take the direction of the
Speaker 1: harder road, and then you take it again, and then
Speaker 1: you take it again, and you take it again. Every
Speaker 1: time you take it, you're separating yourself from everybody else
Speaker 1: that's taking the easy and the hard road always pays
Speaker 1: off in the long run. You look back and you
Speaker 1: go I did things the hard way over and over
Speaker 1: and over, and that separated myself so that now I'm
Speaker 1: in a place that no one else could get to
Speaker 1: because they didn't take the hard road like I did.
Speaker 1: So do hard things, and remember this CALLI this is
Speaker 1: probably just a coordinate. It's not the destination. I know
Speaker 1: it can feel like the destination, But if you can
Speaker 1: kind of zoom out a little bit and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there is something to be learned here that is going
Speaker 1: to prepare me for the next place that I'm going.
Speaker 1: Don't miss the opportunity to gain everything out of that
Speaker 1: experience that you can before it's gone, and so you
Speaker 1: can look back on it and be like, man, I
Speaker 1: took full advantage of that present moment. Life's a gift.
Speaker 1: That's why they call the present great. Great question CALLI
Speaker 1: and good luck to you any of these other ones
Speaker 1: Depression and death question for the podcast People Pushing People Away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go pushing people Away. My name is Claire. I'm
Speaker 1: twenty three years old. I live in a small town
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. I've lost so many good friends over
Speaker 1: the last twenty three years just from overthinking things. I've
Speaker 1: been hurt so many times by people I call friends.
Speaker 1: I push people away once I get close to them
Speaker 1: because I'm afraid that they're going to leave if I
Speaker 1: do anything wrong, say something wrong, open up more, become
Speaker 1: more emotional, and when I push them away, I automatically
Speaker 1: regret it and try to fix it by making things
Speaker 1: worse and saying I'm sorry and bringing up past situations
Speaker 1: and then arguing with them I just don't know how
Speaker 1: to communicate what I'm feeling without it coming across as
Speaker 1: too emotional or someone who's expecting them to be there
Speaker 1: for me all the time. I just don't know what
Speaker 1: to do anymore. I don't know how I can stop
Speaker 1: pushing people away that I care about and our friendship.
Speaker 1: I honestly am scared that people really care and do
Speaker 1: want to be my friends. I just don't know what
Speaker 1: to do, Claire, thanks for Sharon. Claire. On the last
Speaker 1: podcast that I was on Granger and I kind of
Speaker 1: stress tested this idea that these questions can fall into
Speaker 1: these three c's of answers right lack of community, communion,
Speaker 1: or communication on the fly. I think a fourth one
Speaker 1: may have just hit me. Counseling, because I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: sometimes if you have ingrained neuropathways in your thinking of
Speaker 1: how you navigate situations, it's gonna it may sometimes take
Speaker 1: professional help to help you re establish those pathways of
Speaker 1: thinking to where if you see this and you automatically
Speaker 1: go to this place of hurt and protection, it may
Speaker 1: not be as easy as I need to just be
Speaker 1: vulnerable and trust people. It's like you may, Claire, you
Speaker 1: may need to think about. And again, this is for
Speaker 1: anybody out there who's maybe struggling with what Claire is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a form of anxiety she's having. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: shame in asking for help and like reaching out to
Speaker 1: a professional that a counselor at your church or a
Speaker 1: professional therapist or somebody that can help you maybe navigate.
Speaker 1: There's some deeper hurts going on. Yeah, probably from the
Speaker 1: past that have brought you to this place, and until
Speaker 1: you really take the time and work through those things,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to probably continue the same habits.
Speaker 1: That's great. That's why I love you on this podcast
Speaker 1: because that's something I probably wouldn't have gone to first
Speaker 1: out of the arsenal. So that Yeah, yeah, Claire, I
Speaker 1: think Bernie's right, there's more things than we could sit here.
Speaker 1: We could sit here and tell you to be bold
Speaker 1: and be courageous and be vulnerable and open up from
Speaker 1: the beginning, and to pour into the friends instead of
Speaker 1: instead of expecting what they're going to give you, lower
Speaker 1: your expectations on what you're going to get out of
Speaker 1: a friendship and raise the expectation that you're going to
Speaker 1: put into it. So expect that you're going to be
Speaker 1: the one doing the work. You're pouring in. You're the
Speaker 1: one giving thankfulness and gratitude for these friends and adding
Speaker 1: value to their lives without worrying about reciprocation, without worrying
Speaker 1: about what they're going to give you in return, including
Speaker 1: emotional respect or or acknowledgment or or politeness. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just lower all those expectations because I think you're
Speaker 1: you're expecting that they're they're going to go, hey, Claire, Wow,
Speaker 1: you're a great friend, and thank you for picking up
Speaker 1: this lunch tab. I just you're you're you're really great,
Speaker 1: and thank you for spending it some extra time with
Speaker 1: me tonight dealing with my mother in law's problem. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're expecting that, And when you don't get it, you go, gosh,
Speaker 1: this is this is a bad friendship. I'm putting in
Speaker 1: more than I'm getting, So flip that and start thinking
Speaker 1: how could you add value to the friendship without getting
Speaker 1: anything in return? And usually that kind of approach leads
Speaker 1: to them pouring back into you, or it's it gives
Speaker 1: you a good discernment on who's a good friend and
Speaker 1: who's not. But I think Bernie said it before I
Speaker 1: say any of that, though, I think Bernie's right that
Speaker 1: with you and your situation and the way you worded this,
Speaker 1: it sounds like some kind of wise counsel or professional
Speaker 1: counsel or therapist could help you, and I know there's
Speaker 1: one in your town, and that's probably something to consider
Speaker 1: at this point. H Yeah, great, great question anything you picked.
Speaker 1: The next one, I'm going to go to life in
Speaker 1: religion because there's that word religion that we yelled at
Speaker 1: on the last podcast, last podcast, we said before I
Speaker 1: even read this, we said on the last podcast, religion
Speaker 1: is man made. When we all said it together to
Speaker 1: religion is man made, Okay, it's not from God. God
Speaker 1: seeks a relationship with us, not a religion from us. Hey, grang,
Speaker 1: your my name is Austin. I'm from Cambridge City, Indiana,
Speaker 1: near the Ohio line. I'm seventeen, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: life early so I don't mess up. What is your
Speaker 1: best advice for never backing away from God? What is
Speaker 1: the best way to deal with people who dislike you
Speaker 1: because you're a Christian. Okay, so there's two main questions here.
Speaker 1: Let's hit the first one first. What was the first one?
Speaker 1: How do you so that he doesn't mess up. He's
Speaker 1: trying to figure this out at the age of seventeen.
Speaker 1: What is your best advice for never backing away from God?
Speaker 1: That's the first question, best advice for never backing away
Speaker 1: from God? Well, you're you're gonna mess it up because
Speaker 1: you said how do I not mess it up? You're
Speaker 1: gonna mess it up? But you can mess it up
Speaker 1: and still not be backing away from God. Like we're
Speaker 1: gonna mess it up. It's just in our nature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think you quite. Your question that you probably
Speaker 1: meant to say would be something along the lines of
Speaker 1: how do I keep the faith? How do I how
Speaker 1: do I not lose my faith? Right? And so so
Speaker 1: that that that goes back to it, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things. You can't do anything to earn your privilege
Speaker 1: from God or to earn your status with God. God
Speaker 1: does not look at you like like Santa Claus with
Speaker 1: the checklist and go, okay, Austin, how many things have
Speaker 1: you done for me today? Because you can't. You're you're
Speaker 1: not righteous enough. And sometimes when we start thinking of
Speaker 1: God as Morgan Freeman sitting on a cloud, it messes
Speaker 1: up our mentality when you look, you look at him,
Speaker 1: like the Bible says, and he's the creator of all things,
Speaker 1: and he created He You walk outside, look at the stars,
Speaker 1: look at the galaxies, look at the Milky Way, look
Speaker 1: at the moon and the sun, and the Grand Canon
Speaker 1: in the mouth, mountains and snowflakes. And like I said
Speaker 1: on a podcast with Amber Eyeballs, he made eyeballs, Like
Speaker 1: have you ever looked at an eyeball up close? It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. And so that those are all forms of worship.
Speaker 1: And so what we're created to do, like we are.
Speaker 1: If you're going to put any kind of obligation on us,
Speaker 1: it's to worship. And worship comes in all ways. It
Speaker 1: comes in singing, it comes in praise, It comes in
Speaker 1: the acknowledgment of your your creator. When you walk outside
Speaker 1: and you see a beautiful sunset, you take the time
Speaker 1: and look at it, and you go, God, you created that.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. You created art, You created music, You created
Speaker 1: love and humor, and and you you acknowledge those things
Speaker 1: in a form of praise. And we see this when
Speaker 1: we walk through the psalms in the Bible. You see
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff over and over like here I
Speaker 1: go again, grabbing my grabbing my digital Bible. Okay. Psalm
Speaker 1: forty two, David writes, as a deer pants for flowing streams,
Speaker 1: So pants my soul for you, Oh God, my soul
Speaker 1: thirst for God, for the living God. When shall I
Speaker 1: come and appear before God? My tears have been my
Speaker 1: flood day and night. So he's he is so emotional
Speaker 1: over the fact that he is craving his creator. Can
Speaker 1: you say that, Austin, Can you say out loud as
Speaker 1: a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul
Speaker 1: for you, Oh God, my soul thirst for God. Can
Speaker 1: you say that? And if you can't, then ask Him
Speaker 1: for it? Say God, make your presence burn inside me,
Speaker 1: the passion for you burn within me. That I need you,
Speaker 1: that I crave you, that I thirst and hunger for you.
Speaker 1: That's a form of praise. And through that your faith
Speaker 1: grows and increases. Because no matter all the bad stuff
Speaker 1: happening around you, and the lack of understanding and the
Speaker 1: lack of righteousness that you have when you're trying to
Speaker 1: be good and you can't, when you always flip it
Speaker 1: and turn around and face God and go. But you,
Speaker 1: but you, but God, but before the grace of God,
Speaker 1: you created me for a purpose. And when you continue
Speaker 1: to look at that through your problems and through your sin,
Speaker 1: that's praise, that's worship. Yeah, that's good. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of an answer. I'm trying to put myself
Speaker 1: in seventeen year old Bernie's position, and what could I say?
Speaker 1: What could I hear a seventeen year old Bernie that
Speaker 1: I would be like, that's okay. That impacts me, and Austin,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I got it, but I feel like
Speaker 1: if you go back and read the parable of the
Speaker 1: sewer and the good soil and the sea that was
Speaker 1: thrown on the rocky soil, and the thorns and thistles
Speaker 1: and that whole passage, I think that there's going to
Speaker 1: be something for you in there, because because really, if
Speaker 1: you're wanting to stay close to God, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: this firm foundation. You've got to have good soil. And
Speaker 1: so just maybe maybe read that and see see if
Speaker 1: there's something in there for you, and then look around
Speaker 1: and think think through it, like, Okay, is my faith
Speaker 1: in the right soil to where it can be nourished,
Speaker 1: to where it can be protected to where it can grow.
Speaker 1: I think this is like a trifecta answer as far
Speaker 1: as the you need what can I do to stay
Speaker 1: close to God? You need communion first. You need community
Speaker 1: and you need communication and that communication comes in forms
Speaker 1: of really processing life's questions and stress testing the scripture
Speaker 1: as you're wrestling with it with you know wise counsel Austin,
Speaker 1: we're out of time for this break. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break and get back to the second half of
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Speaker 1: half of Austin's question, going back to this is how
Speaker 1: what is the best way to deal with people who
Speaker 1: dislike you because you're a Christian? Love them, Love them.
Speaker 1: That's that's really the essence of any situation as a Christian.
Speaker 1: There is there is no judgment, there is there is
Speaker 1: nothing but love. That's that's that's our requirement as stewards
Speaker 1: of this message of the gospel. In Austin. You're seventeen, dude,
Speaker 1: you're that's Burnie and I were saying on the break
Speaker 1: that's you're asking incredible questions that I did not ask
Speaker 1: at seventeen. It didn't even really occur to me this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So that's, you know, kudos to you.
Speaker 1: But if you're dealing with people that dislike you because
Speaker 1: you're a Christian, first of all, I think there's something
Speaker 1: missing in that question, like that they're seeing something in
Speaker 1: you in today's world, like this is not the Roman
Speaker 1: Empire where they literally burned you at a stake. I
Speaker 1: think I think they're seeing religion and not Christianity, because
Speaker 1: if they were seeing true Christianity, it's just you would
Speaker 1: say I love you, brother, and instead of maybe they're
Speaker 1: thinking you're going to judge me, or that there's things
Speaker 1: in the Bible that I don't like and that you're
Speaker 1: telling you're thinking that about me, and you need to
Speaker 1: just dismiss that, because this is not about you judging
Speaker 1: others at seventeen, and this is about you seeking a
Speaker 1: relationship with Christ and loving them. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be really hard to dislike you, Austin. If that's the
Speaker 1: mentality you have, Yeah, that's really good. I think Western
Speaker 1: Christianity has done a really poor job of I think
Speaker 1: that we have created a culture that views Christians in
Speaker 1: a way of like, oh, well, they're hypocrites and there's
Speaker 1: going to judge me. So people outside the faith will
Speaker 1: look at you, you Austin, and automatically make that you know,
Speaker 1: notion without actually talking to you. So the best thing
Speaker 1: that you can do is draw near to them the
Speaker 1: best that you can. If they really don't like you
Speaker 1: and they're you know whatever, just let them haters gonna hate,
Speaker 1: you know, to shack out. I have a theory about
Speaker 1: this that you said Western Christianity. I think it's been
Speaker 1: Christians since the beginning have messed up. And that's understandable.
Speaker 1: We mess up. I'm holding my coffee mugs as wretched
Speaker 1: center right here. I believe this is how Islam started,
Speaker 1: this is how the Muslim faith started by bad Christians
Speaker 1: that we're judging and, like you said, hypocrites. And Mohammed
Speaker 1: has this dream under the tree that angel speaks to
Speaker 1: him and Gabriels gives him basically the truth, the New Gospel,
Speaker 1: and Mohammed is able to take that and go to
Speaker 1: his people and go, hey, guys, do you think that
Speaker 1: these Christians are hypocrites? And everyone goes, yes, do you
Speaker 1: think they're judgmental on you? Yes? Well, good because I
Speaker 1: have a new Gospel and here it is, and it's
Speaker 1: easier to believe it's like, well, yeah, absolutely, because what
Speaker 1: they're teaching and how they're acting is two different things.
Speaker 1: They're total hypocrites. So I believe that you have to
Speaker 1: be right, Muhammed. So I think bad Christianity has caused
Speaker 1: all kinds of problems in this world, all kinds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now that's a good point. But you know, to book
Speaker 1: in the question, not everybody's gonna like you. I think
Speaker 1: even the people that don't like you, because you're a Christian,
Speaker 1: you probably have it way better than people in history.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that right totally? There's there's been Christians
Speaker 1: that have, you know, experienced just dramatic persecution because they
Speaker 1: said I'm a Christian and it's probably not gonna happen
Speaker 1: to you. So just check them off and keep the
Speaker 1: you know, keep trucking along. I think you'll be good.
Speaker 1: I want to dive into this question, and we could
Speaker 1: hit this briefly because it was it was more of
Speaker 1: a statement and not a question. But the subject line
Speaker 1: is episode one fifteen. It says this comes from Blake,
Speaker 1: and it says, your faith won't help you. I'm in
Speaker 1: the army. I promise if you're in a firefight, nothing's
Speaker 1: going to help you besides great training and a great platoon.
Speaker 1: I was in for six years, so quickly, I just
Speaker 1: want to say, and I replied to this. I hardly
Speaker 1: ever reply to emails, but actually replied to this and said,
Speaker 1: thank you for your service. Are you an atheist? Blake,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you didn't reply back to that. I
Speaker 1: was going to actually engage with you here, but I'll
Speaker 1: do it on this podcast because I think it's very
Speaker 1: important to kind of clarify this. You're saying you must
Speaker 1: have listened to the podcast and you're probably agnostic or atheists,
Speaker 1: And you're listening to me talk about faith and how
Speaker 1: it saves and you're thinking, well, it can't help you
Speaker 1: in a firefight. And I want to tell you a
Speaker 1: couple things. One, it absolutely can. It can. But and
Speaker 1: your question, your scenario, it probably you're looking at it
Speaker 1: completely wrong. Faith doesn't stop a bullet from hitting you.
Speaker 1: It can. God can do anything, but that's not how
Speaker 1: he hardly ever shows himself to us. Your faith, first
Speaker 1: of all, will save your soul after the bullet hits you,
Speaker 1: So it can save It will save you after the
Speaker 1: bullet hit your skull and you die. It saves your soul.
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about on this podcast. So we're
Speaker 1: not talking about it's going to stop physical harm, because
Speaker 1: so many times physical harm is needed. That's part of
Speaker 1: the struggle that we go through in these temporary tints
Speaker 1: that we live in. So yes, you're of course great
Speaker 1: training in a great platoon helps you in a firefight.
Speaker 1: But please don't misunderstand that Bernie and I are saying
Speaker 1: that if you believe in Jesus that he creates this
Speaker 1: Star Wars force field around you and bullets bounce off
Speaker 1: of it, that is never what we're saying, and that's
Speaker 1: never what the Bible says. Like you could go through
Speaker 1: some sometimes like in First Kings, and you could go
Speaker 1: through scenarios where God did enter a battle, but that's
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen like that. Okay. So I want you
Speaker 1: to understand, Blake through your question that I've never said
Speaker 1: it will prevent physical harm if you believe in God.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm saying. God is much greater than that,
Speaker 1: and he has much greater interest in you as a
Speaker 1: temporary being on this earth than the battle that you're
Speaker 1: in right now. He cares about that and it matters
Speaker 1: to him, but he's not willing to just jump down
Speaker 1: and block a bullet for you. Got to keep saying it.
Speaker 1: He can, but that's not Yeah, I think you've misunderstood
Speaker 1: what we said in this podcast. Yeah, No, I one
Speaker 1: hundred percent agree. I want to go to one that
Speaker 1: is says subject line question for you and Bernie. My
Speaker 1: name is Lindsay. I'm from Utah. I love your music
Speaker 1: and your podcast. I know we've touched on this subject
Speaker 1: a couple of times on the podcast, but no matter
Speaker 1: how hard I try, I cannot seem to find the
Speaker 1: answer that makes my heart happy. I'll try and keep
Speaker 1: this short, but I'm looking for some help. My husband
Speaker 1: grew up in the LDS Church. My mom gave him.
Speaker 1: His mom gave him no choice, and my husband was
Speaker 1: forced to choose everything and live the LDS Church beliefs. Myself,
Speaker 1: I did not. My parents left religion and left it
Speaker 1: up to us for free choice. Excuse me, let me
Speaker 1: say that again. My parents left religion up to us
Speaker 1: as a free choice. My great grandparents lived a very
Speaker 1: Christian lifestyle, and thanks to my great grandparents we lived
Speaker 1: we live the Christian lifestyle. I have a strong belief
Speaker 1: in God lower case G, and I know that there
Speaker 1: is a higher power. My husband, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: continues to shoot religion down if it gets brought up.
Speaker 1: He is negative. I think after my miscarriage in February,
Speaker 1: I was hoping to lean to God lower kse G
Speaker 1: and get the help we both needed to grow and
Speaker 1: work through the miscarriage, but it backfired. I want my son,
Speaker 1: who is two, to have a religious freedoms I had
Speaker 1: while I was growing up, and to have a belief
Speaker 1: in God lower kse G. But I'm very worried my
Speaker 1: husband will continue to shoot any thought or speech of
Speaker 1: religion down. What is the best way to work through this.
Speaker 1: I'm very lost and I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: have the conversation. Thanks Lindsey. A couple things, A lot
Speaker 1: of things. Geez, there's that word religion. Religion is man made.
Speaker 1: Living a Christian lifestyle will do nothing for you, lindsay,
Speaker 1: means nothing. I'm sorry. It might help you get some
Speaker 1: points in your community because you're helping old lady across
Speaker 1: the street, but it does nothing to go philanthropy, philanthropy, philanthropy. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I just I want to say that first that religion,
Speaker 1: religion does nothing for you. Guys, I'm sorry, it does nothing.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're of a different religion, then that's
Speaker 1: that's what you believe. But but but that's not what
Speaker 1: you said. You said Christian. You said Christian three times
Speaker 1: in this email. My grandparents lived a very Christian lifestyle.
Speaker 1: And let me let me just clarify what Granger saying, like,
Speaker 1: it does nothing for you. It does nothing for you
Speaker 1: in reconciliation with your relationship to God. Correct? Correct? So
Speaker 1: you are wanting to let your kids have religious freedom.
Speaker 1: That sounds like it sounds like a government saying we
Speaker 1: want our people to have religious freedom. But but once again,
Speaker 1: that will do nothing for your children, and we'll do
Speaker 1: nothing for your husband and for your husband to to
Speaker 1: grow up in the way he did and to look
Speaker 1: at to look at life like it's a judgment system,
Speaker 1: a grading system where if you mess up, then you
Speaker 1: have to get better the next time and continue to
Speaker 1: get better. Once again, I like to say it like
Speaker 1: a Santa Claus. No, not in good list, not in
Speaker 1: nice list. It does nothing. It does it does nothing.
Speaker 1: There is one thing that Bernie and I would tell
Speaker 1: you when you're talking about Christian lifestyle. First of all,
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't manifest himself to Earth to bring Christianity to us.
Speaker 1: That again, that even that term that phrased Jesus never
Speaker 1: said Christianity. That is a man made term. That is
Speaker 1: categorization of that of that way that sometimes Paul called
Speaker 1: it the way the fault the believers. Paul also said,
Speaker 1: the believers a way to categorize all that is calling
Speaker 1: us Christians followers of Christ. But it does not mean
Speaker 1: that the lifestyle matters in your reconciliation. Like Bernie said,
Speaker 1: with God, I'm saying all this to just kind of
Speaker 1: like deconstruct your whole question and deconstruct your whole email,
Speaker 1: and just I would take your whole email out of
Speaker 1: love and hope, I hope you guys understand that everything
Speaker 1: we say on this podcast, Bernie and I is truly
Speaker 1: from our heart, is from a place of love, and
Speaker 1: it's not it's not my intent to come out here
Speaker 1: and be critical, but I want to take your whole
Speaker 1: email and just completely mush it up and deconstruct it
Speaker 1: and say this, your husband and your children will be
Speaker 1: lost if they continue to look at it as religion
Speaker 1: like a like a man made system that and this
Speaker 1: is what Jesus came and he just he did. He
Speaker 1: said this to the Pharisees over and over. He deconstructed
Speaker 1: and he he wrecked their world when they were trying
Speaker 1: to live a religious lifestyle to please God. Jesus came
Speaker 1: and said, what are you doing? He flipped tables and
Speaker 1: he just he completely disorganized everything that they were trying
Speaker 1: to do because he was saying, you guys got it
Speaker 1: all wrong. And so that's what I'm telling you, lindsay,
Speaker 1: he got it all wrong. The thing is leading your
Speaker 1: husband and your children to Christ, to Jesus to fall
Speaker 1: madly in love with him. As the creator, the one
Speaker 1: true God manifested on earth two thousand years ago in
Speaker 1: the flesh, living the perfect life as an example. He
Speaker 1: came to save sinners like me. I'm corrupt. I was
Speaker 1: born with a sinner's heart, a sinner's soul, and Jesus
Speaker 1: came to save that for any that choose him to
Speaker 1: believe in him. And he died on a cross and
Speaker 1: was killed in the most horrific way. Crucifixion was a
Speaker 1: horrific form of capital punishment by the Roman Empire. And
Speaker 1: he died three days later. He was resurrected under in
Speaker 1: front of five hundred plus witnesses that saw this and
Speaker 1: wrote it down and scattered across the globe to write
Speaker 1: down these stories so that we could have at the
Speaker 1: Bible is a collection of these stories that we have
Speaker 1: that we have over five eight hundred copies of the
Speaker 1: original writings from the first century. It is unbelievable that
Speaker 1: we have a Bible today that has lasted through the
Speaker 1: tyranny and corruption, but we have copies. We have the
Speaker 1: Dead Sea scrolls. I'm going way off on a tangent
Speaker 1: to tell you that all that matters for your husband
Speaker 1: and your kids and you and me and Bernie and
Speaker 1: anyone listening is loving Christ, learning him, getting a relationship
Speaker 1: with him, going to him and admitting that you're a sinner,
Speaker 1: telling him, telling him that you have no other hope,
Speaker 1: that you're in need of a savior. Lindsey is that
Speaker 1: her name? Yes? So yeah, lindsay. I think until you
Speaker 1: just in hearing your email and kind of where the
Speaker 1: position of your heart is and where your husband's heart
Speaker 1: currently is, until you see yourself on the cross and
Speaker 1: you look over and see Jesus and you say, will
Speaker 1: you remember me when you're in your kingdom, and you
Speaker 1: hear him say I tell you this today, you will
Speaker 1: be with me in paradise. Nothing else matters, No advice
Speaker 1: that we can give you, no eloquent speech or charismatic language,
Speaker 1: anything we can say, doesn't really matter until you, in
Speaker 1: your heart of hearts, are moved by the spirit to
Speaker 1: actually view yourself as that guy on the cross about
Speaker 1: to die. So he didn't do anything good by any
Speaker 1: religious or worldly or Christian or whatever standards that we
Speaker 1: could say. This is a true story he's telling by
Speaker 1: the way that really happened. The thief on the cross
Speaker 1: next to Jesus. The thief on the cross, he was
Speaker 1: a thief like and he was being murdered, and he
Speaker 1: looked over in his last moments and just his eyes
Speaker 1: were open. He was like, he's the Christ, He's the one.
Speaker 1: I'm not even worthy enough to ask you to go
Speaker 1: and save me, but could you just remember me and Jesus, Hey,
Speaker 1: today you will be with me. And I guarantee you
Speaker 1: the moment that you get to a place in your
Speaker 1: heart where you see yourself in that light that nothing
Speaker 1: you can do is worth anything that you don't deserve it,
Speaker 1: and you look over and you hear him whisper that
Speaker 1: to you, Oh, the life that you will then experience
Speaker 1: is gonna be awesome. And the words that you hear
Speaker 1: from Granger and I and from other people that you
Speaker 1: start to hear that are just soaked in the scripture,
Speaker 1: they're gonna start to resonate with you in a different way.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's not going to resonate because your heart's
Speaker 1: not there. So so good that story. So there's there's
Speaker 1: two thieves on the cross. There was three men that
Speaker 1: were crucified that same day, Jesus was one of them,
Speaker 1: and then there was two thieves on either side of them.
Speaker 1: So one thief was laughing the whole time, like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you really are a son of God, save yourself
Speaker 1: and save us. Come on, man, what you got? What
Speaker 1: you got? Mocking him, and everyone was mocking him around
Speaker 1: except for the other thief on the other side. That's
Speaker 1: not what he said. He truly looked at him and
Speaker 1: just said, will you remember me when you go into
Speaker 1: your kingdom. That's all he said. And we know from
Speaker 1: that story that he was saved and nothing else mattered.
Speaker 1: Nothing he did, no amount of merit that he did,
Speaker 1: no amount of teaching or learning. All he did was
Speaker 1: put all of his belief. He gave everything to Christ
Speaker 1: that day. So imagine this, lindsay, imagine your You're at
Speaker 1: your house in Utah. You don't say what town you're
Speaker 1: in Utah, right, and you get a phone call from
Speaker 1: some kind of security guy and he says, there's a
Speaker 1: prince in Persia. He's the richest man in the world.
Speaker 1: He is the richest. I'm just making this up. There's
Speaker 1: a prince in Persia who's the richest man in the world.
Speaker 1: He has king a massive kingdom and palaces and castles
Speaker 1: and servants and this entire kingdom. And he's gonna come
Speaker 1: to your house for dinner tonight. And you go, what,
Speaker 1: this prince is coming to my house? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's coming. Can you make dinner for us? And you
Speaker 1: go yeah, and it's and he's gonna come in thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: like no time to go to the grocery store, and
Speaker 1: so you just you frantically go around the house and
Speaker 1: you start cleaning up, and you're like vacuum and you
Speaker 1: start wiping the tables down, and you open the fridge
Speaker 1: and all you have is last night's left over fried chicken,
Speaker 1: and you quickly pull it out and you put it
Speaker 1: in the microwave and you start heating. And then you
Speaker 1: see these like SUVs all blacked out. They start pulling
Speaker 1: up security and suits and radios and they all walk out.
Speaker 1: They're talking, they got their sunglasses on, they're looking around,
Speaker 1: and they start coming. Then and more and more limos
Speaker 1: are pulling up, and you're like heating up the fried
Speaker 1: chicken and the microwave and you're like lighting candles to
Speaker 1: make it smell good, and you're like running to your
Speaker 1: closet and you start putting on some like the nicest
Speaker 1: clothes that you have, and the first security guys come in,
Speaker 1: and then the entourage, and then here comes the Prince.
Speaker 1: He's just dressed in white, and he's got all these jewels,
Speaker 1: and he's just perfect. And he walks in and he
Speaker 1: goes to your table, your little table, and he sits
Speaker 1: down in the chair, and you go, what could I do?
Speaker 1: What could I do? Do you think at that point
Speaker 1: that prince could look at you and go, I wish
Speaker 1: you had done more for me. I wish you had
Speaker 1: made better food. He's the prince. He has everything. He
Speaker 1: has everything in his kingdom. There's nothing you could do
Speaker 1: to him. There's no food that he hasn't eaten, or
Speaker 1: no delicacy that he hasn't indulged in. There's no fancy
Speaker 1: table that he hasn't sat in. But he's coming to
Speaker 1: yours and all you could do. All you could do
Speaker 1: is bow to him and say thank you for blessing
Speaker 1: me in my house with your presence. That's what you're
Speaker 1: doing to the creator of the earth, The creator of
Speaker 1: the universe is coming to your house. It says this
Speaker 1: in John fourteen He's coming to your home, and he
Speaker 1: will make a home with you in your where you
Speaker 1: are in your life right now, the thief on the cross,
Speaker 1: where he was right then in his life. He's coming
Speaker 1: to you to make a home, and all you have
Speaker 1: to do is open the door and let him in.
Speaker 1: There's no food, there's no clothes, there's no special chair.
Speaker 1: You only have what you have to offer. That's what's
Speaker 1: happening to you right now. That was so good man.
Speaker 1: If that's not in the book, that needs a book, Man,
Speaker 1: you got me, good night, I just made that up. Goodness, gracious,
Speaker 1: that was great. Well, I think that's all the time
Speaker 1: we got to that. I don't know how you tough
Speaker 1: that you go anywhere from that. That was so good man.
Speaker 1: Well then, hey Burns, thanks for coming today. Man, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys for listening. It's such a privilege to have
Speaker 1: you on the podcast. And thank you guys for emailing.
Speaker 1: I hope that the tough love wasn't too tough, and
Speaker 1: I hope you don't take offense to anything we said.
Speaker 1: But we're we're trying our best to give you the
Speaker 1: truth that we know, that we believe, that we that
Speaker 1: we're so passionate about and I hope that you could
Speaker 1: take that with a grain of salt and hear that
Speaker 1: from from two centers, two desperate men just just wanting
Speaker 1: to Like Vodi Bacham says, we're just too beggars trying
Speaker 1: to tell you where we found bread. That's good man.
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