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Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Student Actions Summit, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Turning Point USA Real America's Voices in Tampa, Florida,

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Speaker 1: with all the coverage all weekend long.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the stage. Brett Cooper is speaking.

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Speaker 3: They're like an extended adolescence, especially as they get into

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Speaker 3: what should be adulthood. It's like this blurry phase between

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Speaker 3: you know, being a child and being adult.

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Speaker 4: We see it on social media all the time, like

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Speaker 4: I'm just the baby, Like I'm like and I'm not

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Speaker 4: going to adult today.

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Speaker 3: Like it's all of these young people just like infantalizing

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Speaker 3: themselves and not wanting to just take life by the horns.

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Speaker 4: And unfortunately, this is.

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Speaker 3: What our culture has come to promote and glorify. And

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Speaker 3: people just assume that their thirties are going to be

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Speaker 3: where their life really starts.

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Speaker 4: That is where they'll get serious, That's where they'll down, that.

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Speaker 3: Is when they will finally figure out their career and

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Speaker 3: find something they're passionate about. They'll just stumble around and

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Speaker 3: have fun for years and somehow, some way, success and

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Speaker 3: fulfillment and happiness will just show up in their thirtieses.

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Speaker 3: The twenties are just all about having fun. But that's

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Speaker 3: really not how it works. Your adolescent does not have

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Speaker 3: to be and should not be, a waiting room. Your

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Speaker 3: teen years and your twenties are.

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Speaker 4: Not a decade to delay real life.

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Speaker 3: But the problem is, as we just talked about, with

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Speaker 3: our culture, most people don't.

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Speaker 4: See it that way.

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Speaker 3: Like our culture loves to promote this idea that young

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Speaker 3: people should just have fun and avoid responsibilities and ignore

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Speaker 3: just hook up to numb whatever you're going through, party

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Speaker 3: all the time, scroll for six hours a night to

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Speaker 3: avoid the existential dread of I guess being an adult.

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Speaker 4: But that is not how it has to be. That's

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Speaker 4: not how it should be.

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Speaker 3: Because in all one, based on what I have learned

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Speaker 3: and observed, your young adult years should be your launch window.

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Speaker 3: And if you don't use this time that you guys

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Speaker 3: are all in right now intentionally, you will miss it.

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Speaker 4: You only get.

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Speaker 3: To go through this once because right now we because

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Speaker 3: I'm in there with you, we are in the most

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Speaker 3: flexible and forgiving an underestimated season of our lives. This

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Speaker 3: is the time for you to try everything. It's the

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Speaker 3: time to use your youth to your advantage. I don't

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Speaker 3: care if you are in high school.

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Speaker 4: You should start networking. Look around at the adults in

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Speaker 4: your life who you admire and respect.

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Speaker 3: And spend time shadowing them and asking questions about why

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Speaker 3: they do what they love and why they love it

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Speaker 3: so much. And instead of going home and binging a

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Speaker 3: new show or starting to play a new video game

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Speaker 3: or whatever you're gonna do when you're off time, like

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Speaker 3: find an internship in a field that you are interested in.

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Speaker 3: Start building a community of people around you who are

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Speaker 3: smart and capable and push you, start exploring what you

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Speaker 3: love or what you think you might love, and you

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Speaker 3: end up hating because I'll tell you I thought I

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Speaker 3: wanted to be a marine biologist for years. I took

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Speaker 3: a class in chemistry and I was like, oh, I

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Speaker 3: will never be a scientist.

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Speaker 4: I could barely make it through math, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: I also thought at one point that I wanted to

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Speaker 3: be an attorney, and then I read a legal brief

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Speaker 3: for the first time, and I spoke to an attorney,

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Speaker 3: and I very quickly realized that that was not going

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Speaker 3: to be my future. When my husband, Alex was in

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Speaker 3: high school. He thought that he wanted to go into medicine,

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Speaker 3: and he realized advertising actually sounds really great and he

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Speaker 3: went on a different path. So, if you have the chance,

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Speaker 3: you should be exploring all of this before you decide

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Speaker 4: You don't have to if that's not the path you

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Speaker 4: choose to pursue. Be like Charlie.

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Speaker 3: You can forge your own path and you can start

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Speaker 3: doing that now. And if you're already in college, you

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Speaker 3: should be actively using these years to think about your

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Speaker 3: next steps, Like how can you use these four precious years,

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Speaker 3: tell you from experience, graduation comes really fast.

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Speaker 4: An adult life will hit you like a ton of bricks.

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Speaker 4: So you should be prepared.

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Speaker 3: But right now, in your teens, in high school, in

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Speaker 3: your early twenties, you have energy.

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Speaker 3: You probably don't have a mortgaget. You don't have a

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Speaker 3: can pivot fast, and you can also fail. You can

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Speaker 3: fail publicly and confidently and still rebuild, which takes me

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Speaker 3: to the second point that I wanted to talk to

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Speaker 3: you about.

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Speaker 4: Because you can take this.

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Speaker 3: You can take huge, massive swings, say yes to huge opportunities,

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Speaker 3: this is something that I needed to be reminded of

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Speaker 3: exactly a year ago.

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Speaker 4: Now. I think I have only told this.

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Speaker 3: Story once, and it was in January when I was

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Speaker 3: launching my new show. It was at like a tiny, tiny,

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Speaker 3: the comment section, you might have had no idea.

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Speaker 4: But social media is.

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Speaker 3: Not real, and I was going through it. We had

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Speaker 3: just got married, we had bought our dream property. Everything

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Speaker 3: should have been honky dory and great, and yet objectively

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Speaker 3: I was so unhappy. I felt like I was stuck

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Speaker 3: I felt like I had no out, and so after

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Speaker 3: I literally spent this entire like three hour dinner.

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Speaker 4: Like lamenting and being anxious.

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Speaker 3: And sounding sad, literally like drowning myself and ships and caeso,

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Speaker 3: we were at a Mexican restaurant. My best friend's dad

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Speaker 3: turned to me and said, Brett, do you realize that

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Speaker 3: you're twenty two years old, Like you don't have kids yet,

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Speaker 3: you and Alex can literally afford to burn it all

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Speaker 3: down multiple times and start over multiple times, if that

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Speaker 4: He said, you can swing for the fences and risk

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Speaker 3: And nobody had asked me that, Like everyone in my

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Speaker 3: And in January of this year, I went out on

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Speaker 3: Swung for the Fences, a massive swing for the fences,

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Speaker 3: and so far, thanks to you guys, it seems to

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Speaker 3: be turning out pretty well. I'm glad that you guys

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Speaker 4: But no, I'll be honest, Like last year, guys, it

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Speaker 4: all was worth it. But it was the.

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Speaker 3: Most terrifying and taxing year of my life. There were

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Speaker 4: I'm throwing in the towel. I am stopping.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna stop advocating for myself and my family

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Speaker 4: But again, it was terrifying.

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Speaker 3: And I'd love to say that this was the first

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Speaker 3: through a pre quarter life crisis. And I knew that

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Speaker 4: Literally since I was eight years old.

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Speaker 3: That's when I started working professionally. And I didn't really

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Speaker 5: Thank you to Julio Gonzalez, CEO and founder of Engineer

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Speaker 6: Where the information you gain access and is completely a

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Speaker 6: This is what we need when we talk about centralized power,

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Speaker 6: Thanks, that's such a lovely welcome. I'm incredibly grateful to

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Speaker 6: Who said give me liberty or give me death. Since

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Speaker 6: Why is the nature of freedom? Because perhaps we live.

445
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 2: In a culture. Man, I wish i'd ask from Mike's

446
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 2: stand because there's this bit where I need to take

447
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 2: off my jacket.

448
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 6: Is it too late to ask for a Mike stand?

449
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 6: What do you think you're not involved in that?

450
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: You're separate?

451
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 7: Now?

452
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 6: Is how's the cohesion of the Sonya?

453
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 2: This is that moment where I said I might need

454
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 2: you from the stage because you have.

455
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 6: To you'd hold my jacket. But no, it's not I

456
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 6: don't need the jacket held. I need the microphone held

457
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 6: while I hold the jacket.

458
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 2: Do you think you can traverse these boundaries?

459
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,719
Speaker 6: What do you think this is January sixth, You're going

460
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 6: to burst through the boundaries. You're gonna step over the

461
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 6: velvet rope?

462
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 2: Can you do the jail time?

463
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 6: Thanks very much, Sonya, I check that out. I mean,

464
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 6: what do you think we're amplifying my groin? I spent

465
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 6: ten years speaking from there, my whole career speaking from

466
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 6: my middrift.

467
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: Nothing but trouble let me tell you.

468
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 6: I know that you are young people in this primarily

469
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 6: as a student action group. Let me get my knees

470
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 6: where God wants me. I'm here to tell you this.

471
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 6: The pursuit of the realm, of the flesh, the pursuit

472
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 6: of carnality, the pursuit of the worldly, cannot fulfill you.

473
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 2: How do you know that, Russell? Say? How do you

474
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 2: know that? Russell?

475
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 6: Because I tried it, Because I tried all of it.

476
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 6: Now you could say, I'm like a man out and

477
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 6: all you can eat buffet, chowing down on the endless

478
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 6: treasures and pleasures, gorging myself on dough and croutons and

479
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 6: a million types of bread, before discovering there is only

480
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 6: one bread that can ever fulfill you. Oh, it's all

481
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 6: right for you, Russell. Because I have known worldly pleasures.

482
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 6: I've known what it is to worship being grave an image.

483
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 6: I've known what it is to worship the false idols.

484
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 6: I have known what it is to bow down at

485
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 6: the false altars and the high poles. I have known

486
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 6: what it is to worship the transient. I know what

487
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 6: it is to worship the self. I know what it

488
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,439
Speaker 6: is to feel weak and vulnerable and when we do

489
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 6: some questions, because I've decided I reckon that probably you know, Look,

490
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 6: I've got sixteen minutes and twenty eight seconds to talk

491
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Speaker 6: to you, beautiful young people. You young people who hold

492
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 6: in the very palm of your hand and at the

493
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,719
Speaker 6: center of your beating hearts the future of the greatest

494
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 6: nation in the world. I want to hand over half

495
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 6: of my life time to taking.

496
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Speaker 2: Questions for you.

497
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 6: So if you have a question for me, that believe

498
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 6: there are a microphone situated. But I particularly want to

499
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 6: appeal to any of you that feel that you are suffering,

500
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 6: that you are in pain as a result of addiction

501
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 6: or loss, if you feel bewildered in this world, if

502
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 6: you feel exiled here, if you feel like you don't

503
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 6: thin or you don't belong, if you feel that this

504
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 6: country and this culture continually issues to you Ed Dixon

505
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 6: idols to pursue that don't fulfill you, then step forward

506
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 6: and ask me a question. If you want to almost

507
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 6: the opposite of Charlie Kirk. Well, you know, when Charlie

508
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 6: Kirk just sits down and argues with people, I'll call

509
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 6: him the right wing.

510
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

511
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 6: I'm happy down here Sonya, don't you worry. In fact,

512
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 6: I could use this one, and Sonya, you could use

513
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 6: this one. We could be like a look at this

514
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 6: she loves the limelight. Now, I don't think I want

515
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 6: that one hovering above me like a triffid, like an HG.

516
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: World's War of the Words. Then get that thing out here.

517
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: I'm happy. Also, by the way, I know how it works.

518
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: I'm only mucking about. I'm a professional. I'm a professional

519
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: fucking comedian. Get that thing out of here.

520
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 6: Let the false poles for Heavenly Father, Lord God. I

521
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 6: asked today that people may receive the message that I

522
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 6: was blessed enough to receive me as an odd posty

523
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 6: of a culture that wants you devout, that tells you

524
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 6: that it's wrong to worship, and demands your fealty to

525
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 6: his false gods. Any of you that stare vacantly at

526
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 6: the screens, any of you that gets will get lost

527
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 6: in the limpid, lurid, ever flying pools of pornography that

528
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 6: denigrate yourself.

529
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 2: And your kin and your kind.

530
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 6: Staring at flesh exlated, though it may be more naked

531
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 6: bodies than your forefathers would have seen in a lifetime,

532
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 6: adorning a screen in a mat of moments. I am

533
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 6: telling you that fruits are available to you, for salvation

534
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 6: is available to you. How do you know that, Russell,

535
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 6: Ha ha ha, Because I've been there, because I know what

536
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 6: it's like to walk upon.

537
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: The crimson carpets.

538
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 6: Whilst one of our great forefathers may have pied the

539
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 6: red seas, no coincidence. Surely it is that it's a

540
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 6: red pathway that we walk along to Hell, as glistening

541
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 6: ball balls and idols are placed before us in the

542
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 6: form of the screens that we hold in our hands

543
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 6: even now, and that we've given up a perpetual and

544
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 6: perennial present available to us on the crucifix when we

545
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 6: allow ourselves to die, that He may be reborn in us.

546
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 6: We're invited continually to worship the force counterfeit light, Ah Lord,

547
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 6: seek thee first the Kingdom of righteousness, and all this

548
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 6: plus more will be granted to you. Have faith to

549
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 6: trust the ever lasting flow of the moment. We may

550
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 6: not have the same skills in this room, but let

551
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 6: me tell you that.

552
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 2: We're all on our knees.

553
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 6: Before the cross, saved by the covenant of the same blood.

554
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 6: Before I wanted to live only in specialness. I spent

555
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 6: my life trying to separate myself from people when I

556
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 6: was young.

557
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: When I was young, like you.

558
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 6: I felt inferior, worthless, like my body wasn't good enough,

559
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 6: that my life wasn't good enough, that something magical and

560
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 6: special would happen to me.

561
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 2: And that led me into a path of endless indulgence.

562
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 6: First drugs for a long long time, the crack and

563
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 6: the heroine there alone, the drugs that are available to

564
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 6: you a lot now, an endless hurricane of fent and

565
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 6: ill available to you. Whether it's coming across the border

566
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 6: or permeating up through the soil.

567
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: Don't matter much to me.

568
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 6: What matters to me is that you don't become spell bound, hypnotized,

569
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 6: looking to aniese ties on these phony substances that you

570
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 6: find the one true self, the one true healer, like

571
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 6: the serpent held aloft by Moses, he was held aloft,

572
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 6: that we may be saved upon a cross.

573
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: Prove me wrong. That's what Charlie does in It. Prove

574
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: me wrong.

575
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 6: Charlie Kirk, I call him the right wing rain Man.

576
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 6: He's on the edge of beautiful autism, a fantastic mind.

577
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 6: I chatted to him earlier.

578
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: I love him.

579
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 6: He's a brave person. And hey, there may be a

580
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 6: thousand things that I disagree with Charlie Kirk on. There's

581
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 6: a thousand things I disagree with my own wife on.

582
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 6: But what I agree with him on and her on

583
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 6: is that Jesus Christ is our savior as long as

584
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 6: and that you, in particular, more than me, must be

585
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 6: particularly vigilant not.

586
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: To bow down by any order, any order other than Him.

587
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 6: You know, like I read in Luke the first piece

588
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 6: of scripture that hit me hard after I turned to

589
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 6: this faith, after I was saved. You know how, there's

590
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 6: bits of scripture that we all have illuminated for us

591
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 6: by people that walk the path ahead of us. And

592
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 6: there might be some things you find for yourself that

593
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 6: resonate with you, just because it feels like the Lord

594
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 6: is reaching through time and space, through them manifest from

595
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 6: the unmanifest to you, particularly speaking to you, like the

596
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 6: Spirit hovering over the water, the water of your consciousness,

597
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 6: that you might feel His presence, that you might feel

598
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 6: the light that He lets there be within you in

599
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 6: the present moment where you can only feel it, and

600
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 6: where I thought it was Luke ten to eighteen when

601
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 6: I read about the seventy two returning from their missions

602
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 6: from their early discipleship, where they had been healing and

603
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 6: where they were perhaps somewhat hubristic and excited to have

604
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 6: been doing great things.

605
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: And when they.

606
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 6: Returned, our Lord Jesus said to them, you will do

607
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 6: many great things, for your names are written in the heavens.

608
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 6: You will move among scorpions and snakes. But then he adds,

609
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 6: almost as an aside, I saw Satan fall from heaven

610
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 6: like lightning.

611
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 2: Why is it that that gets said there?

612
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 6: I asked myself in a moment of reflection and gentle

613
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 6: self interrogation. And of course I realized almost instantly, for

614
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 6: the Word will speak to you and through you, and

615
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 6: with you, and create circuits that lay open within you,

616
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 6: providing you solutions that are inaccessible through reason. For what

617
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 6: is the peace that passeth all understanding, but the peace

618
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 6: that's accessible to us beyond this material world, where we

619
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 6: will know much suffering, where all things are terminal, where

620
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 6: there will be death, where.

621
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: There will be disease.

622
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Speaker 6: For surely Isaac did die eventually. Isaac did die eventually.

623
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 6: So Abraham made a very very good decision when He

624
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 6: put the creator of all things ahead of even the

625
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 6: worthy idol of love of your kin, of love of

626
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 6: your son, of love of your friends. For surely the

627
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 6: flesh will die and decay except us, how it might

628
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 6: be resurrected.

629
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 2: Through and unto him.

630
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 6: What is it, then, that Satan fell from heaven like lightning?

631
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 6: Why does it get mentioned in that moment where understandably

632
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 6: the disciples were somewhat excited, having been healing and casting

633
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 6: out demons. I mean, if I cast out even a

634
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 6: single demon.

635
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: I'd dine out on that for months.

636
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 6: I'd love to move among scorpions and snakes. But I've

637
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 6: been in Hollywood, so maybe I have a little bit.

638
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 6: Because whatever gifts he is rendered unto you, they belong

639
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 6: to you insomuch as you serve him. Even if you're

640
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 6: excited about the good you're doing. And I pray that

641
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 6: a lot of good is being done. At turning point,

642
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 6: I hope that you are turning away from the values

643
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 6: of a culture that does not value you, that sees

644
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 6: you as a blob, as a consumer, as a recipient

645
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 6: of vaccines and bad food and bad agriculture, little more

646
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 6: than a cog.

647
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: In a machine to serve elite.

648
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 6: I hope that you are finding within him and within

649
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 6: yourselves a great fire and a great feel. For when

650
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 6: I see Satan fall from heaven like lightning, I recognize

651
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 6: the luser for in me, the one that wants to

652
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 6: be in charge, that wants to sell out my own kingdom,

653
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 6: that wants to run my own life, that thinks that

654
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 6: I could compete with christ Man.

655
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 2: Maybe it took me such.

656
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 6: A long time to surrender to him because I wanted

657
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 6: to be him, because I thought that I was the

658
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 6: center of the world. Well now I know that I'm not.

659
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 6: Now I know my place. It's here with you on

660
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 6: my knees before the cross, in eternal praise of his greatness.

661
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 6: Let's take some questions from you fantastic young people.

662
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: We'll start with the young lady.

663
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 6: Over there, and I'll try and be as quick as

664
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 6: I can be, so I know we're tight for pressure.

665
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 6: Because Riley Gaines she may swim fast, but by God,

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Speaker 6: does she talk a lot. We could have got a

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Speaker 6: blokeout there done that a lot quicker A man, I'm joking.

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Speaker 2: I'm joking. I shouldn't have said that's a joke.

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Speaker 6: I shouldn't have said the word bloke English colloquialism damn

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Speaker 6: as a good joke in England where we are not?

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Speaker 2: Do you want that? Revolutionary warfare? And square? What's your question? Mate?

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Speaker 2: They were British generals.

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Speaker 6: George Washington was trained by British names forget it, yes.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Hi Russell? Is that you there, wife?

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Speaker 6: Because the audio is confusing since coming out of there

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Speaker 6: for me and it's like I'm talking to this little

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Speaker 6: black arc.

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Speaker 2: What's your name, mate?

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Speaker 4: My name's Ethne, all right, Ethne.

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Speaker 7: I want you to know that I was praying for

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Speaker 7: you before your conversion. I saw one of your interviews

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Speaker 7: with Shapiro, and I just felt it was late upon

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Speaker 7: my heart to do so. So I'm very happy to

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Speaker 7: see where you are today.

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Speaker 2: God bless you, Ethne.

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Speaker 7: I've been a Christian my entire life, as long as

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Speaker 7: I can remember, and so I often wonder what it's

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Speaker 7: like as an adult convert reading the Bible for the

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Speaker 7: first time, and I wanted to know if there's a

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Speaker 7: specific first chapter or book that's made an impact on

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Speaker 7: you recently and how it's impacted you.

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Speaker 2: Ethne. There's a lot to answer there.

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Speaker 6: Firstly, thanks for praying for me when you saw me

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Speaker 6: on Ben Shapiro. I felt them prayers, your prophylactic of

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Speaker 6: prayer around me. I appreciate it. Is it Ethne or

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Speaker 6: Bethany ethne Ethne?

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Speaker 2: All right? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Reading the Bible as an adult is crazy, particularly if

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Speaker 6: you've consumed a lot of New Age literature and philosophy

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Speaker 6: and you think you're all that and altho die, that's

701
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Speaker 6: super clever, super smart, knowing who thou art continually, just

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Speaker 6: through your own mind, ruminating continually. Little bit of niature

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Speaker 6: is the kind of creature that I used to be

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Speaker 6: back then.

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Speaker 2: Little bit of.

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Speaker 6: Sartra make me feel a bit smarter. But the simple

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Speaker 6: truth of the matter is, I read that book, I'm

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Speaker 6: the same as when I heard His Holiness the Dalai

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Speaker 6: Lama the other day talking about his Buddhism. I thought,

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Speaker 6: all of this is in Christ, every single word, every

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Speaker 6: single word. But why I want to convey to you

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Speaker 6: young people, is the Christ that I follow sounds like

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Speaker 6: a radical revolutionary, opposed to Phariseism, opposed to the Saddessees,

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Speaker 6: opposed to those of his own faith who are not

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Speaker 6: worshiping the spirit.

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Speaker 2: Of the law but the layer of the law.

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00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 6: Opposed to bad government, opposed to.

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Speaker 2: Too much control.

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Speaker 6: Reading it as an adult, it's rich. Indeed, all else

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Speaker 6: is insipid and tepid compared to his bright and luminous light.

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Speaker 6: To think of him knowing the suffering he would endure,

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Speaker 6: and that he came anyway, and that he would come

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Speaker 6: for any single one of us, again and again.

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Speaker 2: For all attorney.

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Speaker 6: It is red the learn and it's like breathing lightning.

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Speaker 2: It's like being.

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Speaker 6: Consumed by holy light, to see that everything is a

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Speaker 6: burning bush, that the Kingdom of God is all.

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Speaker 2: About us, as as it says.

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Speaker 6: I think in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, the Kingdom

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Speaker 6: of Heaven is spread upon the earth. But man sees

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Speaker 6: it not that all things are a luminous with God's light,

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Speaker 6: but not immolated, not burned up.

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Speaker 2: It is our duty to become temples.

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Speaker 6: Did you not know that your body is a temple?

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Speaker 6: Did you not know? Did you not know that your holy?

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Speaker 6: That you're a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit. So

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Speaker 6: I like what that from Corinthians. I loved the bit

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Speaker 6: from Luke ten eighteen. I loved I love Isaiah. Fear not,

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Speaker 6: for I have redeemed you. I've called you by your name,

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Speaker 6: you are mine. Redeem don't just mean saved me. It

742
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 6: redeem means you belong to him. You individually belong to him.

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Speaker 6: The price of his freedom is surrendering your identity to

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Speaker 6: surrendering your connection to fullse idolatry, surrendering fealty to anything

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Speaker 6: but him. Love your family, love your son, love your nation,

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Speaker 6: but above all things, love Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. We alternating sides.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Sagage is the color of your top. Sage is

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Speaker 6: the type of wisdom that you are already communicating.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.

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00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: I'm also a type of spice or herb. Herb. That's

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Speaker 2: everything I know about sage. We'll do the question.

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Speaker 8: Okay, so I'm gonna be totally honest.

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00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: All I know is I can't fit in with these

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Speaker 6: some sage. I'm struggling sage.

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Speaker 2: I have been a Christian my whole life.

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Speaker 6: God bless you.

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Speaker 8: I should have one stronghold that I have been always

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00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 8: struggling with. I started smoking weed when I was thirteen.

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Speaker 8: Prepared and yeah, that's basically where I'm at. What was

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Speaker 8: your light bulb moment? Because I know you have dealt

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Speaker 8: with all of these physical fleshly desires, Sage, all addiction.

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Speaker 6: And by the way, how interesting that your question ended

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Speaker 6: up being about.

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Speaker 2: The ultimate herb.

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Speaker 6: All forms of worship are the inappropriate substitute for the

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Speaker 6: adulation that we owe to He that saved us.

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Speaker 2: Why do we smoke weed? Why do we eat food

771
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Speaker 2: except for when we are hungry?

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Speaker 6: Why do we revere the graven images?

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Speaker 2: What is it? What is it we are looking for?

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Speaker 6: Or what is it that every drug addict, every man

775
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Speaker 6: prostituting women?

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Speaker 2: What is it that we are looking for?

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Speaker 6: The intimacy and salvation of Him that made us to

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Speaker 6: love him? The word dependency, did you know means hung upon?

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Speaker 2: They say.

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Speaker 6: The great Saint Francis of a CC would sometimes get this,

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Speaker 6: stand on his head like a landscape painter, to get

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Speaker 6: a different vista of the town of ASISI and look

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00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 6: that upside down, those the stone masonry and towers didn't

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00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 6: look permanent, but delicate and tender. Once, Sage, looking through

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Speaker 6: a telescope, I spied three of the moons of Jupiter,

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Speaker 6: black and white, and far away. They look delicate as

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Speaker 6: they hung there, the same way as once at Mara Lago,

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Speaker 6: I caught a glimpse of Trump in repose, traveling from

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Speaker 6: place to place, event to event, talking to a security person,

790
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 6: and I thought, oh, is this the moment when I

791
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 6: trouble him? But then I remember the moons of Jupiter,

792
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Speaker 6: that king planet, thought how they hang upon the moment.

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00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 6: Then I remembered Saint Francis, how he looked at the

794
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Speaker 6: towers and masonry of the town of ASISI upside down,

795
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Speaker 6: where its strength suddenly suggests.

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Speaker 2: A kind of dependency. There is only one.

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00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 6: God, and that God is outside time but works through time.

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00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: There is only one God.

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Speaker 6: That God works around and through space, but it's outside

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Speaker 6: of space that God is manifest here.

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Speaker 2: What you are looking for, what you are.

802
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Speaker 6: Pursuing, may I say, is an addictive recovery myself twenty two.

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Speaker 2: And a half years, one day at a time, no.

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Speaker 6: Drink, no drugs, now for several years, no pornography, and

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00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 6: a covenant with mine eyes to look upon you with

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00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 6: honor and respect, and to remember that our mutual duty

807
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 6: to one another here is to serve and to love

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00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 6: one another. That we should never reduce another person to

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00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 6: an object, whether that's someone that we're attracted to sexually

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00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 6: or somebody that could help us financially to see the

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Speaker 6: Christ in everyone, that the Christ in us may rise

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Speaker 6: to the surface. There ain't no drug that can do

813
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 6: what you need to do. It ain't no crap, no heroin,

814
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 6: no fillacio. There's nothing that can give you the highs

815
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 6: that you crave deeply and at depth. All of it

816
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 6: is part of your calling stage and you must accept

817
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 6: your calling.

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00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: You must accept it. That's what we're here to do.

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Speaker 6: That's what you are here to do, each of you

820
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Speaker 6: called by name, each of you in a new discipleship.

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00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 6: Don't even be distracted by patriotism or bipartisanship. You are

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00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 6: here as part of the family of Christ. You are

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00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 6: here in your own kingship, in your own sonship, in

824
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 6: your own daughtership.

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Speaker 2: You have been chosen. We can put that there.

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Speaker 6: We have been chosen out of exile, that we may

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Speaker 6: be free, and only through love and devotion.

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Speaker 2: To Him may we know perfect freedom. My time with you,

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Speaker 2: I'm sad to tell you, is at an end.

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Speaker 6: I wish I could talk to you for longer, but

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Speaker 6: I'm a goddamn professional and it says zero and the clock.

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Speaker 6: I love you, Praise Jesus have a beautiful time.

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