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Speaker 1: Good morning Granger. Me and my kids love your music

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Speaker 1: And then you could actually harvest the very bottom that

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Speaker 1: and it's amazing. It's the best fertilizer you could possibly get,

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Speaker 1: kitchen scraps, and that's like your banana peels and your

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Speaker 1: straight soil, which is amazing. And these black tumblers, they

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Speaker 1: take the heat of the sun and it heats that

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Speaker 1: for your garden. And then the other thing I do

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Speaker 1: from different scraps that are too big for the compost,

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Speaker 1: or grass clippings, or if I cut down a tree

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Speaker 1: the tree, that makes really good mulch. And so then

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Speaker 1: That's going to protect you in Washington from the heat,

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. So these are like the basics of gardening.

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Speaker 1: And so once you have these kind of basic ideas

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Speaker 1: Instead of cutting up your backyard and making rows, you

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Speaker 1: life in general has been pretty rough with the last

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00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: year or so. I've lost a close friend, had my

639
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: younger brother and father both go through rehab for substance abuse,

640
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: and endure a toxic relationship. I feel now that I'm

641
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: stronger than ever in My family is now closer than

642
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: ever too. I see a lot of my peers dealing

643
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: with their problems through drugs, alcohol, and lustful relationships. It

644
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: often seems like I'm the odd man out with my

645
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: moral values. My question for you is this, and what

646
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: ways do you still maintain a social life and still

647
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: uphold your own moral values? And how do you truly

648
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: embolden those values so that no one person or circumstance

649
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: can sway them. Best regards, Connor. Connor shout out to

650
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 1: k State and Manhattan, Kansas. That is a party town, buddy.

651
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: I could feel your sentiment coming out of this party

652
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: town of Manhattan Mechanical Engineering. You're a smart dude, so

653
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: let me break this down for it as if me

654
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: and you are buddies in a campfire. You've had a

655
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: rough year. You lost a close friend and your brother

656
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: and your father have both gone through rehab for substance

657
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: abuse and endured a toxic relationship. You've had a lot

658
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: of stuff going on, and you feel closer than ever

659
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: to them. Now you are struggling than ever and closer

660
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: and closer to your family than ever. That's awesome. That's awesome.

661
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: Let me lay this out for you. In my opinion,

662
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: with your with your younger brother and your father both

663
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: going through rehab for substance abuse, I would stay far

664
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: away from that kind of influence with your friends because

665
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: it's hereditary at this point, could be, could be. So

666
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: that's helping me answer the part of your question that says,

667
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: how do you still maintain a social life? Well, I

668
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: think your social life, because of your family history, needs

669
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: to look differently than what you might think it's going

670
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: to look like. Like if you're thinking, I'll just be

671
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: a designated driver and I'll just go to these parties

672
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: with everyone, and I'll be like the good guy and

673
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: make sure everyone stays in line, and I could take

674
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: everybody home. Man, I don't think connored. I don't think

675
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: that's something a task that you should be taken on.

676
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: Could you? Yes, you could. You're probably the smart dude

677
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: and strong willed and capable. But we're going back to

678
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: the cookie jar thing. You know, we're going back to

679
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,959
Speaker 1: the you're on a diet and there's there's a warm

680
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookie right there, and you got this and

681
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: it's hereditary for you. Why would you want to be

682
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: in the room with the chocolate chip cookie when you're

683
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: trying to be on a diet. It's the same thing,

684
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: it's the same. This is like the same conversation with

685
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: the social media. So a couple of things here. You're

686
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: asking me having moral values, having integrity in today's world. Well,

687
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: if you ever say the word moral to me, to me,

688
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: if you ever say the word moral, I'm going to

689
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: ask you where are you getting your moral basis from? Like,

690
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: where where are you deciding what morals are? And by

691
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: what standard are those morals? Are they from the Bible?

692
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: Are they from a really nice self help book? Are

693
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: they from Sigmund Freud's psychology? You know, where what morals

694
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Because if you just say, you know,

695
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: like worldly good moral So what is that is that?

696
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: Is that obeying the law? Is that staying within Kansas law? Uh?

697
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: So my point is it's very gray. You got to know.

698
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: If you're gonna say morals, you gotta know a concrete

699
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: level of what those morals are. Like this is what

700
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: I could do and this is what I can't do.

701
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: There's no gray. The Bible tells me where where my

702
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: black and white is. It doesn't it doesn't allow me

703
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: to fall into gray. There is no gray. So for you,

704
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: my first piece of advice is if I'm gonna I'm

705
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: gonna dissect your question. When you say I see a

706
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: lot of my peers dealing with their problems through alcohol, drugs,

707
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: and lustful, lustful relationships, let me say that again. You

708
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: say I see a lot of my peers dealing with

709
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: their problems through drugs, alcohol and lustful relationships. Yes, brother,

710
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: you need new friends. You need to change your friends.

711
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: Change them out. They are having an impact on you,

712
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: even if you don't know that they are right. You've

713
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: got to change your environment because your environment makes you.

714
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: If I meet your five friends, I'm going to know

715
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: who you are. Through your five friends, you will not

716
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: be the odd man out. As much as you think it.

717
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: That's not what humans do. We are always a product

718
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: of who we hang around, what we do. The society

719
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 1: we're living in the in the environment, the civilization, the city.

720
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: We are a product of our environment. That's how we

721
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: are built. So unless you change that environment, unless you

722
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: change your friends, you will be dealing with the same

723
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: problems with drugs, alcohol and lustbul relationships period. There's no

724
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: way around it. You will be that. You will be

725
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: those guys. You might be a slightly better version of

726
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: them with the same problems, solving it with the same remedies.

727
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: Some of them might be really bad at it and

728
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: you're not so bad. But it's the same thing. So

729
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: you got to change your friends. You gotta hang out

730
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 1: in a different circle. You gotta find a new group.

731
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: You gotta go to a different organization. You gotta go

732
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: down the other side of the campus at k State.

733
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: You gotta get out of the least with your roommate. Man,

734
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live on my own or I'm gonna I'm

735
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: going to get a pot luck roommate. You gotta change

736
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: the script. Why am I sounding desperate right now? Why

737
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: is my voice getting desperate to you right now? Buddy,

738
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Connor, it's because you told me your

739
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: younger brother and your father are going through rehab for

740
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: substance abuse. This is in your blood, man, and now

741
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: you're hanging out with these dudes. I'm not knocking you.

742
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 1: I'm saying this as a friend around a campfire, connoring

743
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: you need new friends. Now, I want to tell you

744
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: what suggest that you go. You know me. You know

745
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast. You know me. I'm gonna

746
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: tell you that I would suggest you go to church.

747
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: You find a good church in Manhattan, and Pastor Chad,

748
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: who's a guest on this podcast all the time, could

749
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: help you. I guarantee you there is an awesome church

750
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Kansas with some awesome people and probably possibly

751
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: a future wife for you waiting for you there. Just saying,

752
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 1: but that is a place you can go and get

753
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: involved and become a member. Say what can I do

754
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: to help serve you? Guys? Are y'all going out on

755
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: Saturday and you're giving out backpacks to little kids that

756
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: need them for elementary school? I'm in all. You're going

757
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: out next Tuesday. You're going out to help the lady

758
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: down the street because she had a tree fall in

759
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: her yard and you're using chainsaw and you're cutting up

760
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: her tree to clear her front yard for this widow

761
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: lady I'm in. That's what a church will help you do.

762
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: And then you're out there and you're like, man, I'm

763
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: got this chainsaw. I'm helping cut this tree down for

764
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: this lady. And these dudes I'm doing this with are cool.

765
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: They're good guys. I bet you those aren't the guys

766
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: that are going out with drugs and alcohol and lustful

767
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: relationships trying to get me in trouble. Bro you're a

768
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: freshman in case that you got a lifetime ahead of you.

769
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: You gotta change these things right now. You gotta get

770
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: this stuff lined up. You got a big future in

771
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: mechanical engineering. You're gonna have a good You're gonna be set,

772
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a good life. You're gonna get a

773
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: good job. The world needs mechanical engineers right now. You're

774
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: gonna have a good set job with a good education

775
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: from a grit university. But you got to make some changes.

776
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: If you want to see that fulfillment, go down to

777
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: your local church. See what they're doing. Change your five,

778
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: Change your five friends. Start with that one, two through

779
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: four five, Change them out. Man, where do I go

780
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: after that? After that rant? I'm not sure if I'm

781
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: just like debating, if I should read this question with

782
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: the subject line why I got to now right? It

783
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: says why. I'm fourteen, But when I was eight years old,

784
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,720
Speaker 1: my mom and dad both passed away in a car accident.

785
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: I went into foster care, where I got the best

786
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: family I could ever ask for, And in December of

787
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, my foster dad died serving and then in

788
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, my foster mom committed suicide. Your music has

789
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: saved me, but my question is why is God taking

790
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: everyone I love away from me? I'm tired of this life.

791
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 1: I'm ready to give up. Question comes from a fourteen

792
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: year old named Cooper. Cooper first thing I'm going to say.

793
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: First thing I'm going to say is there are there

794
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: are hotlines set up for people to talk to you,

795
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: and I would really want you to go speak to

796
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: a counselor and pour your heart out to somebody. You

797
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: said you mentioned God with the upper case. So I'm

798
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: gonna tell you that to go to Christian counseling, go

799
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: to your local church, and just pour your heart out

800
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: to these very qualified people that are set up for this,

801
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: that have heard stories like yours. You're not alone. You're

802
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: not the first one that this has happened to, and

803
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't take away the fact that it's so hard

804
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry. A fourteen year old shouldn't have

805
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. But there's a strength in you.

806
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: You're questioning too, There's a strength And part of it

807
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: comes from you saying that music saved you. Part of

808
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: it comes from you capitalizing the g in God, which

809
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:54,959
Speaker 1: is something. Part of it is saying that you got

810
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: the best foster family you could ever ask for, which

811
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: is a blessing. Part of it comes I know that

812
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: you loved your mom and dad, which is what we're

813
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: part of. This pain is coming from when you were

814
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: eight years old when that happened. So I would ask

815
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: you this, Your subject is why. So you're questioning why God?

816
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: Why God? Why are you doing this to me? Why

817
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: are you taking everyone a love away from me? And

818
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:38,720
Speaker 1: through counseling through your grief, through a lot of people,

819
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: trained professionals that you need to talk to. On the

820
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: other side of that, on the other side of all

821
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: those people, here's me. Here's me. And I would say, Cooper,

822
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: is God is talking to you. God is preparing you

823
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: through this suffering. He is, he is making a he is.

824
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: This is profound, right, this is a profound story. And

825
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: so the way I see it, Cooper, is that a

826
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: story like this of so much pain and tragedy and suffering,

827
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: to a person of faith that believes in God only

828
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: has a good story, a good ending, a good ending,

829
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: And God is setting you up for something big. He's

830
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: going to put you in a place. It's just me

831
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: thinking out talking out loud. He's putting you in a

832
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: place where one day you'll be able to make an

833
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,919
Speaker 1: impact because of your story. You'll be able to sit

834
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: in front of people and no matter what someone throws

835
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: at you, no matter what kind of loss they have,

836
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: no matter what kind of disability they've they've endured, no

837
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: matter what kind of hardships they've had to go through,

838
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: you could look at them and say I lost my

839
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: parents in a car accident, and then I got a

840
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: great foster family and both of them died. And then

841
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: everyone at that point is listening to you because you

842
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: have the floor, Cooper, you have the floor, You have

843
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: the upper hand of suffering at that point to them

844
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: for them to listen to you. So then I say, Cooper,

845
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: what will you do with that? What will you do

846
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: with the chance to have the upper hand and a

847
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: conversation to people that are hurting? Would you say to them,

848
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: I gave up. That got the best of me. It

849
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Speaker 1: was the end of me. One loss was hard, a

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Speaker 1: second loss was harder, and then the last common losses,

851
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: I just gave up. Would you be comfortable telling a

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Speaker 1: panel of people in a room of suffering people that

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Speaker 1: or would you say something like that? Happened when I

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00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,399
Speaker 1: was fourteen, and by the time I turned twenty five,

855
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Speaker 1: and I knew that God brought me through this suffering.

856
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: He didn't eliminate the suffering. He brought me through it.

857
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: He carried me through it. That's where the power of

858
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: God is. And you look at this room and you

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Speaker 1: go and now I'm here to help you. I'm here

860
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: to walk you through it. I'm here to tell you

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Speaker 1: how I did it, How, Cooper, how I did it.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you how the most painful childhood

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00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: can turn into the most fruitful life. Because now this

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00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: is you talking, Cooper, still talking for you. Because now

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Speaker 1: I'm married, beautiful wife, beautiful kids that I have treasure

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Speaker 1: that I love. And guess what my daughters eight, and

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was eight, I lost my parents

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Speaker 1: in that car accident. And my son is fourteen, and

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was fourteen and I lost my

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Speaker 1: foster parents. And so now I love them and I

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00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 1: cherish them, and I build them up, and I encourage them,

872
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: and I lead them on a path towards God, and

873
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: I teach them about integrity and honor and truth. And

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Speaker 1: now they're great humans. And now I could stand in

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Speaker 1: front of this group and I could help them, and

876
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: I could help them through their suffering, all because I

877
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: kept moving forward. I trusted God that he was carrying

878
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: me through this all because I suffered. And now not

879
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: only am I better because of it, but my family is,

880
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Speaker 1: and now all these people. Because then, Cooper, you'll have

881
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: a platform that no one else has. None of that

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00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 1: might help you right now, but a counselor can and

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00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: some some people could come that that are trained for this.

884
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: But after that, after that, after after you get through

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Speaker 1: the day by day, because right now it's a day

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00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: by day thing. It's it's a if day by day

887
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: is too much, then it's it's hour by hour. And

888
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: if that's too much, then it's minute by minute if

889
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: that's too much, it's the next breath. That's all you have,

890
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Speaker 1: the next breath. But once you get through that, then

891
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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to what I told you

892
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: will listen. I want you to listen to this, this

893
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: potential story that you have of redemption, of restoration. A

894
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: local church could help you through this. A good, a good,

895
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: solid local church, not a weak one, not a not

896
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: a not a weak gospel church, not a cowardly church.

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00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 1: There's a lot of those. A strong passionate pastor that

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00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: has that has a shepherd's heart, that wants to that

899
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Speaker 1: wants to grow. You know, that's there's one of those

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00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: in your town. There always is. I appreciate you guys.

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00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: It's uh it's different when I sit here and go

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00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: on rants by myself in a room, but these these

903
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: solo podcasts are kind of good for me too. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just a few hours away. I'm about to go

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Speaker 1: to bed, and then I'm literally a few hours away

906
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,959
Speaker 1: from heading to uh the hospital and bring this little

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00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: baby into the world. This is a baby that and

908
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: and some somehow, some way this will be He'll know this,

909
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Speaker 1: But this is a baby that's coming into this world

910
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: because another is not in this world. This is a

911
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: sibling that's coming into the world because of a sibling

912
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: that died. It's very special. It's heartbreaking, and it's very,

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Speaker 1: very very special. I don't take that lightly. I don't

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Speaker 1: take that as a fluke or as an accident or

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Speaker 1: as a strike of luck. This is it's a really

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Speaker 1: big deal to me, so into our whole family, and

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Speaker 1: it's just the beginning. This is just the beginning. This podcast,

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Speaker 1: episode ninety eight's just the beginning. So love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Email me. I hope I can answer

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Speaker 1: it for you. See you guys next episode. Yigee, thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all

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Speaker 1: like me to answer, email Graingersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Yie