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Speaker 1: now there's nothing another bake in this podcast. Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: I listen when I'm not on it, So I mean

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Speaker 1: I resonate. That resonates with me too, Man, I want

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Speaker 1: to my mom. Yeah, she's was so good. Yesday I

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Speaker 1: law Josh, And the first text I got was like,

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Speaker 1: love you, siss, appreciate. So did do you remember any

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Speaker 1: of these questions? We have what's next? Not clickbait? We

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Speaker 1: have Q and A, we have grief help, no subject,

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Speaker 1: relationship advice, let's go, let's go, no subject, just to

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Speaker 1: It says, what do I do if I like a

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Speaker 1: girl and I'm afraid to tell her? Obviously young? Yeah, Braiden,

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Speaker 1: I feel you, dude. I've asked that question to myself.

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Speaker 1: It's a few moments of fear or a lifetime or regret? Boom,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing today? Man? What's to push into

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Speaker 1: a few moments of fear or a lifetime? I regret? Wow,

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Speaker 1: she could be your wife, Braiden. Yeah, you'll know. I

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Speaker 1: feel like Braiden's like twelve. Yeah, I feel like he is.

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Speaker 1: So it's funny because when I when I was twelve

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Speaker 1: or I wouldn't. I wouldn't deal with that. When I

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Speaker 1: Did you guys? Oh yeah, absolutely? That was like what

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Speaker 1: I bet you got in trouble a lot. I bet

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Speaker 1: I would get into trouble, but I was I would

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Speaker 1: was innocent. Most of it was innocent. I see that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, passing notes, so I would say, I would say,

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Speaker 1: and walk home and just say Mikayla, maybe it's michaela.

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Speaker 1: but what I would do, I don't think i'd be

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Speaker 1: I would get a little card or a piece of

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Speaker 1: I'm terrified even put that be vulnerable. I'm terrified to

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Speaker 1: it in her locker. We're literally assuming he's in junior

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Speaker 1: high right now. It would be funny he's like fifty

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Speaker 1: Like I think a note like this it can go

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Speaker 1: oh man, that was very thoughtful, and like you have

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Speaker 1: And then like you have a box at the bottom,

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Speaker 1: love that we answer these questions and we feel like, dude,

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Speaker 1: It was a terrible in my life, this podcast ruined

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Speaker 1: by I think what you said? You idiots. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: why we we only take questions. We don't take like

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Speaker 1: the outcome of what you do. All right, let's see

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Speaker 1: we have we have Granger Smith podcast. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta do Burnie, I gotta read this. This

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Speaker 1: is a dangerous, dangerous question. Okay, I'm gonna ask it

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Speaker 1: to you. Do we got? We got? We good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're good. I saw this very short but very dangerous. Okay.

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Speaker 1: It says it's from Mark. It says, what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Great Reset? Is it possible? Do you

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Speaker 1: What's this guy's name? Mark? All right, you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to enlighten me on Mark's question the Great Reset. I

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Speaker 1: think what he's talking about. I'm pretty sure what he's

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Speaker 1: talking about, especially since you get to the conspiracies, like

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Speaker 1: the Great Reset. Is this underground deep state, small group

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Speaker 1: of people that are resetting the world economy through and

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Speaker 1: he sent this question in last year, so the end

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Speaker 1: of Okay, So they they're like resetting the world stage

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Speaker 1: for their interest, their purpose, setting it up towards either

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Speaker 1: I think that's what he's asking. Okay, So this is

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Speaker 1: the idea that like, hey, there's like twenty people that

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Speaker 1: the quote unquote deep state idea that's more powerful than

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Speaker 1: DC that actually runs DC. And yeah, Russia, And I

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Speaker 1: let you go first, Well, how I would how I

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Speaker 1: would approach it for me personally? Well, he says, is

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Speaker 1: it possible? Yeah, yeah, sure, I'd agree, it's sure. For sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anything's possible. Aliens could land tomorrow, Come on,

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Speaker 1: it's possible. I mean what But but as a as

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Speaker 1: a Bible reading man, I will say this, it doesn't matter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. So because it doesn't matter much, it

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Speaker 1: It doesn't affect me so deeply that I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: worried about it and stuck on the news or stuck

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Speaker 1: worried about my kids. I'm not one of the people

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about my grandkids. They're going to inherit a

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Speaker 1: if there is some crazy world conspiracy, deep state, great reset.

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Speaker 1: So bring it on, come on, come on. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: really what my mind goes to is like I can't

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00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: really give my short time here on earth give my

635
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: energy to something like this when it's like it doesn't matter, man,

636
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: God's will in front of me, and that's what I

637
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: got to focus on. And if for some reason this

638
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: great reset intersects with God's will for my life, then

639
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to address it, and He'll give me

640
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: the tools to address it and how how to approach

641
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: it and whatever. But at this time, I believe that

642
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: he's sovereign and he's in control of this deep state. People,

643
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: you're on fire. Whatever, you're on fire. You're on fire. God,

644
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: You're always on fire. Yeah, that's that's that's awesome. Our

645
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: short time here on this earth is just we can't

646
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: focus on things that we can't control, and we can't

647
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: control that we can't control. That's something outside of our government.

648
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: We could We could vote, We could protest if you want.

649
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: If if you're the kind of person that likes to protest,

650
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: you could do that. You could march in the streets

651
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: if that's the kind of thing you like to do.

652
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: But that's about it. It's about it. The most important

653
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: thing you could do is raise your kids with a

654
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: loving family, with a mother and father. Yeah, and be present,

655
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: be present, know the difference between the things you can

656
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: control and the things you can't. Yeah, and the things

657
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: you can't you gotta let them go. There are so

658
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: many things mark in our lives that are in need

659
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: of repair in some way that we can fix today, absolutely,

660
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't waste a second on the things that

661
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: we can't. We don't have time, brother, There's too many

662
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: problems today. There's too many things in disarray and things

663
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: that need to be reordered and fixed and rebuilt and

664
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: restored and mended. There's too many things today to worry

665
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: about anything that we can't touch, that we can't that

666
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: we can't affect in any way, So why worry about it?

667
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: That's so good man. I will say this one quote

668
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: from Piper, and I'm gonna try my best not to

669
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: butcher this even though I know I'm going to. But

670
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 1: he says, in the end days social media will prove

671
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: as evidence that our lack of prayer was not due

672
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: to lack of time. Man, that's crushing, you know. So, Yeah,

673
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: we got a short amount of time to be about

674
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: what you need to be about. Don't get caught up

675
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: in this nonsense. Yeah, I don't care. I don't mean

676
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: to mean this in any kind of bad way, but great,

677
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: reset don't care. I love when you have your dumper

678
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: don't care. Let's go we have life advice regarding lack

679
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 1: of relationship. Do we have the one still that says

680
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: not clickbait? Because I mean, I've heard it a few

681
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: times and he's kind of got me. Okay, He says, Hey, Granger,

682
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: have been a long time fan of your music. I

683
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: listen to all your podcasts. I want to keep this

684
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 1: short and sweet, since I assume you get hundreds of emails.

685
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 1: It says you've had a long career in country music,

686
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: playing hockey talks and charting on radio and albums. What

687
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: are your goals moving forward? If you could see Granger

688
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: Smith five to ten years from now, where do you

689
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: see yourself? Also, I want to great question, he said,

690
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: I want to update on Earl's truck that by the

691
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: time this podcast is out, there'll be an update on

692
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: the truck. That's Cody. Cody asked that question, Well, what

693
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: are you so excited about? I want to hear what

694
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: the answer to the question? Man? Yeah, what's next? Well,

695
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 1: it's crazy because I have on my phone this voice

696
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: memos of my band from twenty sixteen. I went around,

697
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: I passed my phone around to everybody in the band

698
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: and crew, and I said. I asked him a series

699
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: about five questions, and one of the questions was, where

700
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: do you see yourself in five years? Well at twenty sixteen.

701
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 1: Now it's been five years. So I'm going to play

702
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: it for him this weekend. It was June actually of

703
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. That's such a great idea. And I listened

704
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: to a couple of them and I was like, well,

705
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: you didn't do that, and a couple of them I

706
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: was like, bro, congrats, you did that. I don't know

707
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: this show. I'm going to play it from this weekend.

708
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: That's so cool. And and to you, Cody, what man,

709
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: what's crazy is what I have learned in the last

710
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 1: decade is unbelievable. This is ten years of my life.

711
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: If I would look back at at twenty eleven and

712
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: then I could say this, I could say, London was born,

713
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: my daughter I was just freshly married. Earl Dibbles was invented.

714
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: I actually got significant touring going for the first time

715
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: in my life. My dad died, I got a record deal,

716
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: my son died. I moved probably four times. You lived

717
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: in a barn, lived in a bar in irb It

718
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: got under zero degrees in Texas, there's a lot of

719
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: things that happened to me, significant things that happened to

720
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: me in the last ten years, all to say that

721
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 1: I've learned more than any other time between age thirty

722
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: and age forty. I've learned that those ten year plans

723
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: can change, and the one thing that cannot change is God.

724
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: It does not change His word and his plan does

725
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: not change. So I read that, and I hang on

726
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: for dear life, because the tossing and turning of the

727
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: seas of life will take you overboard every time. And

728
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: if I had, if I had realistically given you in

729
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: twenty eleven a ten year plan, I would have given

730
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: you a beautifully written, you know, little parable of what

731
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: a life could be. But if I had followed it

732
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: word for word, letter for letter, note for note in

733
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, I would have missed out on so much

734
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: if I just held fast to the to the winds

735
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: and my sales that God gave me. And that's something

736
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: I couldn't told you. I couldn't have told you that

737
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: at age twenty or age thirty, But I'm telling you

738
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: now at age forty, that I've learned much more just

739
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: to hang on to God, hang on to his plan

740
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: and make the best opportunity that I can with the

741
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: events that arise around me. And so part of that

742
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: is keeping my eyes open to the events that are

743
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: rising around me, like, well, this is a great opportunity

744
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go for this, and I feel really

745
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: good about it. And it could be EEE radio or

746
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: it could be preaching a sermon on Sunday morning at

747
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: a church. It could be that big of a range.

748
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: It could be a new coat we're coming out with

749
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: a ee or something. But I just, man, I'm just

750
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: I'm kind of against five and ten year plans now, yeah,

751
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: because I think I think it could get you either

752
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: highly disappointed or you could miss your you could fail

753
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: in expectation in some way, or maybe worse, you could

754
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: follow a path too long that you never were supposed

755
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: to be on. Yep, So what about you? A lot

756
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: has changed for you in the same amount of time. Yeah,

757
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: Like I have tattooed on my arm some words from

758
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: my mom. It's an adventure. And I think, really, when

759
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: you're on an adventure in the most fun ones, like

760
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: you don't really know what's coming. Like I've been on

761
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: the back of a motorcycle writing through the remote villages

762
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: of Honduras, don't speak a lot of Spanish, and this

763
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: guy's taken me to meet his family. It's like, well,

764
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: this will be fun. You know what, It's an adventure.

765
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, man, I I could have never planned that.

766
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: I could have never written that. But when it was happening,

767
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like you said, you're you're staying

768
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: close to the will of God, and you know that,

769
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: like he's before the foundation of the world, he wrote this,

770
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: these good works he prepared for us to walk in

771
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: the feeling of knowing that, like, man, I'm in that

772
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: good work. I know that I'm in it. I would

773
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: have never planned this rather than oh yeah, here's my

774
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: plan and checked it off. There's there's some sense of accomplishment,

775
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: but there's some sense of like, I think that can

776
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: develop a sense of control that we don't really need

777
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: to have. One we're going to miss out, we're going

778
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: to suffocate life. Yeah, but two we're going to be

779
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: we're going to tend to be outside of the will

780
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: of God because it's like, and let me just say,

781
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: I don't think planning is a bad thing. I think

782
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: planning and preparation is a good thing. I think Grizz

783
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: and I both feel that, but there's a difference between

784
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, man will make his plans, but God will

785
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: determine the steps. Yeah, so much has changed, and it's

786
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: almost like I would rather be in the will of

787
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: God unprepared, then know exactly where I'm going and have

788
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: to deal with that, the failure of the expectation, the responsibility,

789
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: the you know, the mind games that go along with that. Yeah,

790
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: I don't think that I can operate in that. Let

791
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: me tell Cody, let me tell you in my life

792
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: what I've planned. I planned on playing music. I still

793
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: do that, That's about it. I planned on having a family.

794
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: I didn't plan on this podcast. I didn't plan on

795
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: Earl or ye ye are restoring Earl's truck or living

796
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: in Central Texas or building a farmhouse or anything else

797
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: besides playing music and having a family. There's only two

798
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: things I planned on doing for a long time, and

799
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: everything else has just happened. So but even with planning

800
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: on having a family, even in that dynamic, you didn't

801
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: plan on losing riv exactly. But how life changing and

802
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: impactful has that been in your story? Yeah? You know,

803
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: and I think that one thing I've taken from you

804
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: and Amber over the years, the many years is just

805
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: a sense of being present, being content, and always leading

806
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: with gratitude. So I think if you do those things,

807
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: the plan's already written for you. You don't have to

808
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: write it, like, just let me throw let me throw

809
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: another one out. We didn't plan on having a fourth

810
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: biological baby, that's right. Yeah, and we're due next month,

811
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: so yeah, there's you know that that this list is deep.

812
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: I just I just think the joy of life is

813
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: in the adventure. I really believe that, And it's in

814
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: letting go of control. I think you said it right,

815
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: Like you have to be present and see like the

816
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: opportunities or the things are, be aware of the things

817
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: around you. But know that man, if you are abiding

818
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: in him, he's gonna say, hey, I know, no, go

819
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: this way, go this way. Okay, Yeah, I don't care.

820
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: I'll go wherever you want me to go because I

821
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: know that's where life is, that's where joys. That's what

822
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: we're all pursuing, right. People that plan their five year

823
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: plans are like, how can I be happy? What can

824
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: I plan to be happy? We're all trying to be

825
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: happy and what we're saying, is abide in Him, and

826
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: that's where your joy is going to be. It doesn't

827
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: matter if the road is rocky, or if it's smooth,

828
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: or if it's uphill downhill. It doesn't matter if it

829
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 1: takes you here or there. I was a musician and

830
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: now I'm not. And I was at the point where

831
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: I had no job, and I took an ad on

832
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Craigslist to take a construction job. Who would have thought

833
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: that God was saying, hey man, actually this is the

834
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: way we're gonna go. Okay, Yeah, it's fine. I think

835
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: when we are satisfied most in Him, the road doesn't matter. Yep,

836
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: the plan doesn't matter. He's got the plan when we

837
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: trust him. Boom dropped the mic. You want to hit

838
00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: one more? Yep? Should we go deep or should we

839
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: stay shallow? How much time we got got we could

840
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: knock it out in ten eight minutes, eight minutes, go

841
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: for it. Okay. I'm gonna trying to find a short one. Guys,

842
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: they'll say this Bible question. Okay, says he Graander. I'm

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Speaker 1: a huge country music fan, and I was thrilled to

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Speaker 1: find a mainstream artist that reads the Bible every morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, so of course I won't hate you

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Speaker 1: for your Calvinistic views, even though I don't agree with

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Speaker 1: every point. We live in a society that we were

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Speaker 1: told that marriage is unnecessary, et cetera. So what are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts in the importance of marriage, sex before marriage, divorce, remarriage.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dave, I'm sixteen. I'm from Pennsylvania. Have

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Speaker 1: a great day, future Calvinist, David. Just kid me, Hey, buddy,

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Speaker 1: as soon as you start reading the Bible a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, you'll be a calvinistent me. What what What

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Speaker 1: a world that we live in where Dave at sixteen

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Speaker 1: one that he's thinking about these kind of things. I

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Speaker 1: was not just that progressed as a human, and that

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Speaker 1: he has the ability to email his favorite country music

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Speaker 1: singer and then have him answer it and listen to

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Speaker 1: What a world? Yeah? Okay, yeah, that's a good question, though, David,

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Speaker 1: sixteen and you are. I'm unpacking this slowly. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for thank you for emailing your way ahead of me.

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Speaker 1: And when I was sixteen in any of this thoughts

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Speaker 1: to even understand Calvinism at sixteen way way beyond me.

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Speaker 1: That's way beyond And I'm not. I'm completely unashamed to

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Speaker 1: say that. I'm a Calvinist and comp completely unashamed, and

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Speaker 1: i will scream it from the rooftops and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it every day if I have to. So that being said,

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Speaker 1: you are you are a you said, yeah, I'm a Christian.

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Speaker 1: That's what he says. So you're a Christian and you're

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Speaker 1: asking me my thoughts on the importance of marriage, sex

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Speaker 1: before marriage, divorce and remarriage. Yeah, so I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: this is a super easy one. I'm gonna go just

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Speaker 1: what the word says. And it's the same thing you're thinking, David.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't disagree with you or with what

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Speaker 1: it says. So there is a high, high level of

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Speaker 1: importance on marriage, even though it's not a requirement by

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Speaker 1: any means in the Bible, but high there's a high

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Speaker 1: level of importance. There's a high discouragement of sex before marriage,

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Speaker 1: a high discouragement of divorce, and the remarriage part, there's

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Speaker 1: not a that's kind of a that's kind of null

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Speaker 1: because you are encouraged. You're encouraged to remarry as a

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Speaker 1: as a woman, especially if you're under sixty. You know

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to you're supposed to remarry, and men, of

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Speaker 1: course you're you're encouraged to remarry, So remarrige. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: throw that one out. I'll throw that out of the discussion.

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Speaker 1: But just three questions then our marriage, sex before marriage,

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Speaker 1: and divorce. It's pretty cut and dry. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: so sixteen, he's asking some questions that he's thinking about

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Speaker 1: his future here. Yeah. I think the biggest misconception of

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Speaker 1: marriage these days is that it's about the two people involved.

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Speaker 1: That's good, it's only about the two people involved. When

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Speaker 1: assuming that what was this guy's name again, David Dave,

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Speaker 1: if he's a Bible believing Christian, that the Word tells

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Speaker 1: us that this thing of marriage is a reflection. That's

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Speaker 1: what it's meant to be. It is the number one

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Speaker 1: ministry that you have, is the way that you love

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Speaker 1: and serve your wife and give yourself up in all things,

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Speaker 1: the way that Jesus did for the church. Yeah, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's a reflection, it's a tool. It's a ministry that

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Speaker 1: we have to show everyone around us and the world

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Speaker 1: the way that Jesus loved and gave himself up for

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Speaker 1: the church. It's important too, to realize, David, that these

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Speaker 1: things aren't set up in the Bible so that it

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Speaker 1: hurts us or inhibits us, or restricts us, or puts

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Speaker 1: laws or chains us. It's set up because we were

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Speaker 1: created that way. We were created in such a way

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Speaker 1: that God knows divorce crushes families. He knows that. Ye,

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Speaker 1: And so that's why it's high discouraged. It's not forbidden,

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Speaker 1: it's highly discouraged. Why because he knows the repercussions. So

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Speaker 1: then you back up, so what causes divorce, Well, sex

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Speaker 1: before marriage doesn't help, so that let's start talking about that.

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Speaker 1: And there's these little things. It's not restrictions, it's not laws.

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Speaker 1: It's just like, hey, you were built this way, and

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Speaker 1: this is your best roadmap for you. Dave, it's age

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Speaker 1: sixteen to have a successful marriage. Yeah. I think the

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Speaker 1: one of the things you sent me from vote or

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Speaker 1: maybe I sent it to you, I can't remember. But

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Speaker 1: he talks about marriage being an illustration, right, and how

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Speaker 1: some things can defile that illustration. I think that divorce

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Speaker 1: can do that. I think that sex before marriage can

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Speaker 1: do that. I feel like David's question really for us

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Speaker 1: being sixteen is about the one in the middle, and

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Speaker 1: I think I think he put the two on the

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Speaker 1: ends just to make it seem like he's asking about

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Speaker 1: all of them. Think you're right, But if he's sixteen

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Speaker 1: year old dude, he's asking about the one in the metal.

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Speaker 1: Think you're right. So I think you're right. If you're

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Speaker 1: asking me, Dave, obviously look at the Word of God.

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Speaker 1: See what it says is very clear. That's my final word. Yep,

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Speaker 1: thank you for emailing. Dude. You're way ahead of me

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Speaker 1: when I was sixteen. You're on a great path. And

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Speaker 1: find a community of dudes too that believe the same thing,

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Speaker 1: and older guys that can kind of help coach you

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Speaker 1: along the way because it is a tough road. Brother. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for emailing. Brother. I'm going to give a couple

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Speaker 1: of shout outs here, Daisy Ward, Trevor Suer, thank you

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Speaker 1: guys so much for being listeners of this podcast and

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Speaker 1: everybody else. Thank you for your questions and if you're

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Speaker 1: not even I know there's most people don't ask questions,

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Speaker 1: they just listen, So thank you for all the bystanding listeners,

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Speaker 1: Passer buyers. Love you guys so much, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: you next Monday. Yihi. Thanks for joining me on the

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