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Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip Halloween this year. Let me tell you why. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so the Man's back. We're gonna do this podcast today

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Speaker 1: Halloween style because Halloween's coming up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this Friday, This Friday.

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Speaker 1: As the podcast drops of the podcast laughed before we.

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Speaker 2: Hit I'm gonna talk the whole time.

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Speaker 1: This low everybody. Everybody seems to be doing the the

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Speaker 1: spooky addition of whatever they're doing.

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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have a neighborhood. I mean you do,

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Speaker 3: but it's like much more spread out than my neighborhood. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I haven't noticed any decorations out.

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Speaker 1: That's really interesting about living in the country because as

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Speaker 1: I've gone to see friends in neighborhoods, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: reminded that Halloween is near and that there are decorations everywhere.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we went to Amber and I did a

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Speaker 1: double date with our friend the other day. Our friends

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Speaker 1: and like going through their neighborhood. You see the them now,

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Speaker 1: you see the massive demons. Yes, you've seen these.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they're like fifteen feet tall, absolutely terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Grim reapers. Yeah, skeleton skeleton walking. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We had one family that lived right on the corner

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Speaker 3: as you turned in our neighborhood. They used to decorate

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Speaker 3: like you've seen the houses that go overboard on Christmas,

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Speaker 3: Like it looks like it's a gingerbread house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a graveyard. It was every It.

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Speaker 3: Had witches dancing around a cauldron, it had demons coming

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Speaker 3: up from the front door or what.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: They've since moved and it feels so much more peaceful

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Speaker 3: driving into our neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you know it's not all decorated.

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Speaker 1: There was a guy, you know, probably three miles from here,

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Speaker 1: but I saw his house. He did that last year.

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Speaker 1: It was like so decked out. Yeah, but he also,

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Speaker 1: like our around Halloween, would start dressing up as Satan

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Speaker 1: stopped with the pinagram on a red black gown and

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Speaker 1: a red pentagram and like that's how he just operated.

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Speaker 1: This is like his favorite holiday.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So where you would have Santa's going exactly exactly, that

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Speaker 3: takes the place of Santa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah on June and July, you've got I'm doing this.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that those people are the same people

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Speaker 1: that put up the Santa sleigh and the reindeer and

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Speaker 1: the candy canes.

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Speaker 3: Well, I found that it was like, I'll just say,

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Speaker 3: judging from my neighborhood that that house was not This

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Speaker 2: Go overboard on Christmas. It was almost to prove a point.

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Speaker 2: It felt like, Okay, Halloween, we're going to go all out. Christmas,

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Speaker 2: here's a few lights. Okay, why experienced the opposite?

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Speaker 1: No, I actually don't know. Once again, we've lived in

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Speaker 1: the country for so long Amber and I probably fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: and so I haven't been in a neighborhood where I

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Speaker 1: am constantly reminded of the different holidays, be it Easter

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Speaker 1: or Christmas or Thanksgiving or Halloween. Because, like you said,

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Speaker 1: you saw and you came in here today, there's literally nothing.

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Speaker 1: Nobody does a single thing. Well, we put up Christmas lights,

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Speaker 1: like a lot of people around here put up Christmas lights,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think there's a single skeleton within five

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Speaker 3: I'm waiting for you to put up the permanent Christmas lights,

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Speaker 3: those ones that you see.

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Speaker 1: We have them on the barn.

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Speaker 2: Oh you do. I didn't know that we had.

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Speaker 1: Them on there. About three years ago. We're like, this

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Speaker 1: is great, Yeah, let's just leave them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's cool.

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Speaker 1: So good for you that we have We have a

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Speaker 1: outlet under the awning of the roof that's connected to

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Speaker 2: That's that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty redneck, but they look great.

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Speaker 3: The reason I say this because literally Saturday, our Christmas

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a completely different discussion. That's I forgot about

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Speaker 2: And we do?

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Speaker 3: We talk about this on the on the radio show

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Speaker 3: on After Midnight. But yes, we're we're one of the

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Speaker 3: and I cannot wait. I'm so ready to put up

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not.

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Speaker 3: It feels weird to think about Christmas right now because

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Speaker 3: it was ninety two yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So do you have anything Halloween in your yard

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Speaker 2: Other than the grass being dead? That's about it. Man

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Speaker 2: is dead?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that no, No, we don't. Okay, you don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't do this. This is gonna help transition into

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Speaker 1: this conversation we don't do what about? But first I

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Speaker 1: want to know before we talk about today, I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about growing up. Talk about Halloween growing up

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Speaker 3: Halloween for growing growing up for me was as you

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Speaker 3: probably if you spent any time you know that I'm

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Speaker 3: a big pro wrestling fan. Yes, it was my opportunity

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Speaker 3: at the house as a kid with my friends. But

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Speaker 3: we got to leave the house dressed like Sting with

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Speaker 3: was awesome time because then you got candy too.

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Speaker 2: I had to be a pro wrestler and I got candy.

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Speaker 1: So the whole you did, the whole thing, trigger treat,

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Speaker 1: dress up, trigger treat. What about your house. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that that's right. No, I don't think it was

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Speaker 2: Growing up.

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Speaker 3: We never It was always just a day that that

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Speaker 3: day you did a bunch of stuff on. You know,

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Speaker 3: you dressed up, you did your thing, you got your candy,

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Speaker 3: you went to a new neighborhood, the richer neighborhood where

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Speaker 3: you get the full candy bars. You know, we had

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Speaker 3: those in our town growing up, and that's we had

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Speaker 3: always aimed to go there when you get a little older,

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Speaker 3: and so we did. But it wasn't a decoration of

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Speaker 3: any kind. Fall yes, So like.

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about pumpkins or pumpkins and red and

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Speaker 1: orange corn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think even the candy corn came out

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Speaker 3: around that time, candy corn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have those in dishes and nobody ate them.

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Speaker 1: An it's got to them the ant. Okay, so you're

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would go out trigger treat, you'd dress up,

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Speaker 1: you'd get candy, you'd have pumpkins.

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Speaker 2: What about it?

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Speaker 1: Would you carve the pumpkins?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes yeah, and and and it was more so of

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Speaker 3: You know how they do this shadow or do the

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Speaker 3: the depths that you carve into it and it becomes

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Speaker 3: And you try to make somebody's face, it doesn't look

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Speaker 3: was really it wasn't It wasn't really the scary try

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Speaker 2: The mindset anyway?

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Speaker 1: Were your parents religious?

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Speaker 1: Was that the reason that you did less than maybe

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Speaker 3: No, it was that I think, as far as I knew,

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Speaker 2: There was no there was no house.

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Speaker 2: By himself and you know, didn't keep up the yard.

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Speaker 3: It was, you know, just an old house and there

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Speaker 3: But there wasn't any anyone that decorated or anyone that

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Speaker 1: So I grew up always in a neighborhood growing up,

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Speaker 1: and always celebrated Halloween. I think if I think about decorating,

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Speaker 1: we could say one thing about decorations. Right now, the market,

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Speaker 1: So the like we were talking about the fifteen foot

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Speaker 2: No, they also didn't have the fifteen foot santas.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have the fifteen inflatable Santa with led lights,

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Speaker 1: But we would put out light lights Christmas lights down

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Speaker 2: Up to the sidewalk. That's funny, you know.

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Speaker 1: So we did. We did stuff like that, and then

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Speaker 1: as I got older, started participating more and more in

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Speaker 1: like haunted houses. Oh did you We really actually really

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Speaker 1: I remember Bernie was one of them, you know, he comes.

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Speaker 1: He used to come to the podcast all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: uh Be and Bernie and others. We would go and

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Speaker 1: who interpreted interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or anyone who

443
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Speaker 1: conjureds spells, or a medium or a spiritist, or anyone

444
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Speaker 1: who calls up for the dead. All these things are

445
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Speaker 1: an abomination of the Lord. And then looking up for him,

446
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: did some research speaking to different Satanists, currently former witch's,

447
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Speaker 1: former warlocks.

448
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Speaker 2: The ones that are not anymore. Yes, yeah, I got it.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna stop and say from this point

450
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Speaker 1: this information here, give or take, I don't really care.

451
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 1: This is information from from people that have left witchcraft

452
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Speaker 1: today in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Got it.

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Speaker 1: John Ramirez, a former high ranking Satanist and warlocks, spent

455
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Speaker 1: twenty five years in witchcraft, including animal offerings and demonic

456
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Speaker 1: weddings on Halloween, and he said, why would you put

457
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Speaker 1: your kids, your family, and your entire eternity on the

458
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 1: demonic altar? Why'd you bring that curse into your house,

459
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Speaker 1: into your family. Genny Weaver, who's a former witch, warns

460
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: that Halloween normalizes occult practices through media and culture, deceiving

461
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Speaker 1: even Christians into spiritual compromise. HERMIONEA Galvez, a former occult

462
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Speaker 1: and Sentaria follower, says, when you're allowing your children to

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Speaker 1: participate in Halloween, it opens the door to demonic things

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Speaker 1: in your life and in their lives, which could be

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Speaker 1: more dangerous than you ever might realize. You're desensitizing your

466
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Speaker 1: children to evil things, and you're hindering their ability to

467
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Speaker 1: discern what is darkness and what is light. Another former

468
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Speaker 1: satan has said that Halloween was a night of real

469
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Speaker 1: power in the occult world. Rituals had opened doors demonic forces.

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Speaker 1: Christians participating today are unwittingly inviting the same influences into

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Speaker 1: their own homes and lives. So this is this is

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Speaker 1: the part I pumped the brakes a little bit because

473
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Speaker 1: I when I hear stuff like this from a former Satanist,

474
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Speaker 1: there there's there's truth to it, but there's also there's

475
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Speaker 1: also this this idea that if you are a Christian,

476
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Speaker 1: then you the Holy Spirit is in you sure, and

477
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Speaker 1: there is no go ahead.

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Speaker 2: That was going to be.

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Speaker 3: I wanted you to finish that thought, but I was

480
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Speaker 3: going to say, what do you What do you say

481
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Speaker 3: to a parent who goes I'm just letting my kids

482
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Speaker 3: have fun. We're not celebrating Satan. We're not celebrating these things.

483
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Speaker 3: We're letting them have fun with other kids and go

484
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Speaker 3: go get candy from houses and come home and have fun.

485
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Speaker 2: That way, it's not we're not celebrating.

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Speaker 1: Will you doing me a favor? And asked me that

487
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Speaker 1: question in about five minutes?

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Speaker 2: That's what I say, like, I should just let you

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Speaker 2: finish that thought.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I have, I have I kind of have

491
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Speaker 1: a wrap up thought to that. Great, because I have

492
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Speaker 1: the same question. What if there's a lot of questions

493
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: on what if it we just don't take it seriously.

494
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Speaker 1: What if we dress up as you know, like Teddy

495
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Speaker 1: bears and stuff, there's nothing demon about it.

496
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Speaker 3: What if you went just the complete extreme? And what

497
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Speaker 3: if you dressed up as Bible characters?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, Bible tracks at your house?

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Speaker 2: We did.

500
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Speaker 3: We did bags of candy with verses on them. And

501
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Speaker 3: that's what we did not last year of.

502
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Speaker 2: The year before.

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Speaker 1: And inherently I don't think any of those are bad things.

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Speaker 1: And in fact that I pumped the brakes on hearing

505
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Speaker 1: from all the Satanists. I think. Here's one from a

506
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Speaker 1: former medium says, Halloween was my high holy day for

507
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Speaker 1: channeling the dead. Believers who participate are playing with fire,

508
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Speaker 1: opening spiritual doors that lead to oppression, just as it

509
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Speaker 1: did for me before Christ. Yes and no, you know,

510
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Speaker 1: yes that that that opens doors, as Jesus would say,

511
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Speaker 1: for you know, you you clean the inside of your house,

512
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: and seven more spirits come in, you know, and find

513
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Speaker 1: the place cleaner than it was before. And then and

514
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: then the second demonic possession is worse than the first. Sure,

515
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Speaker 1: but that's not talking about a believer, you know what

516
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Speaker 1: I mean. Yep, let's not talking to somebody about somebody

517
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Speaker 1: who's fortified with the Holy Spirit.

518
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Speaker 3: That's someone who's cleaned the inside and didn't fill the

519
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Speaker 3: inside with Anything's exactly right. Yeah, where if you are

520
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Speaker 3: a believer, the inside is full now.

521
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Holy Spirit.

522
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Speaker 1: So that's why I hear from this medium and I

523
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Speaker 1: go yes and maybe no, Yeah, you know it's like

524
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Speaker 1: and so where does that leave us? Let's let's get

525
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Speaker 1: to that point. Well, let's let's use the Bible. Let's

526
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Speaker 1: use the Bible. I like that, you like that Ephesians

527
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Speaker 1: five eleven. We'll start here. Take no part in the

528
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Speaker 1: unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them, for it

529
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Speaker 1: is it is shameful even to speak at the things

530
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Speaker 1: that they do in secret. So when anything is exposed

531
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Speaker 1: by the light, it becomes visible. For anything that is

532
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Speaker 1: visible by light is of God. So we would take

533
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Speaker 1: this and go, why would we partake in works of

534
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Speaker 1: darkness even in jest?

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Speaker 3: And you just heard from from ones who have come

536
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Speaker 3: out of that that says, oh no, no, no, this day

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Speaker 3: is very serious to us. When I was a when

538
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Speaker 3: I was an o cult leader, when I was a Satanist,

539
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Speaker 3: when I was a witch.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to say it now because I don't

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Speaker 1: want to forget that I'm thinking this right now. Part

543
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Speaker 1: of the reason I go, you know, be careful with

544
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Speaker 1: the listening to the Satanists and the former occult members.

545
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: The Bible gives a lot of warning passages, and I'll

546
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Speaker 1: read some of them right now, but we have to

547
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Speaker 1: be careful that we are. We're using these warnings to

548
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Speaker 1: press people into the cross and get Christians to hold

549
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Speaker 1: fast and stay strong and not discourage them and say

550
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Speaker 1: I'm not good enough, because ultimately you're you aren't good enough.

551
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Speaker 1: You must have the Holy Spirit and So the warning

552
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Speaker 1: passages in the Bible aren't to say you were a Christian,

553
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Speaker 1: but now you let this stuff happen, you're not a

554
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Speaker 1: Christian anymore. I don't believe the Bible speaks of that

555
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Speaker 1: kind of language. Instead, the warning patches passages in the

556
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Speaker 1: Bible are made to transform dead hearts, to make them alive,

557
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Speaker 1: and then the hearts that are alive, to keep them steadfast,

558
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Speaker 1: stay steadfast, and endure till the end. You know, run

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00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: the race. You know, faith is ongoing. It's not a

560
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: one time thing. You don't just accept Jesus and you're done.

561
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: It's an ongoing thing. But that these warning passages help

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Speaker 1: keep us strong, fortified in the race itself. Grails guardrails

563
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Speaker 1: from the spirit like that. Not on our own power

564
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: we but we're made. He He is what empowers us

565
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Speaker 1: to be fortified for the endurance. Third John. It's not

566
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Speaker 1: often you get to quote Third John, but here we go,

567
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Speaker 1: h Third John eleven. Do not imitate evil, but imitate good?

568
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Speaker 1: Can it be any more clear than that? Do not

569
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Speaker 1: imitate evil? Granger, when you're playing Dracula at thirteen years old,

570
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Speaker 1: do not do that? Okay, I don't. I don't I

571
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Speaker 1: don't see a way to compromise.

572
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Speaker 3: That at Allah dressing up like demons and witches and.

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Speaker 1: Yep, don't do it. It's all for fun. Don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Don't do it. I mean we could. And then it

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Speaker 1: goes on to say, whoever does good is from God.

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Speaker 1: Whoever does evil has not.

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Speaker 2: Seemed God exactly. Yep, that's interesting. What do you have

578
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Speaker 2: a couple? Yeah? Kind of.

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Speaker 3: When I asked that question, I also thought about this

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Speaker 3: verse in Proverbs fourteen. There's a path before each person

581
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 3: that seems right, but it ends in death.

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Speaker 1: Seems right. Huh, it seems right.

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Speaker 2: It seems right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I would say that be careful of those

585
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Speaker 3: things that seem okay and seem right. And I think

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Speaker 3: that that, like you said, it's more of a guardrail.

587
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: Go back and check what you're doing with the word.

588
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 3: Does the word are you shining? Are you on Halloween

589
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 3: shining a light into the darkness? Then I would say

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Speaker 3: continue shining a light into the darkness. Yeah, But if

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Speaker 3: you're doing what you just said and like, hey, we're

592
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Speaker 3: just having some fun and dressing up like the characters

593
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 3: from Twilight, well, the characters from Twilight were.

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Speaker 1: Ones that were based Yeah, yes, right, vampires.

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00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then another one I have is the U in

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Speaker 3: Second Corinthians chapter six. Don't team up with those who

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Speaker 3: are unbelievers? Who can How can righteous be a partner

599
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: with wickedness? And how can light live in darkness? What

600
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Speaker 3: harmony can there be between Christ and the devil?

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Speaker 2: That's why? Yeah, talking about being a light in it.

602
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Speaker 2: Don't look like.

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Speaker 3: And act like and be like everything else that's going

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Speaker 3: on during Halloween.

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Speaker 2: Also, don't don't you know?

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Speaker 3: I would you know, don't set yourself up too for

607
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: having what was it when we were kids, if you

608
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 3: didn't have the light on, you didn't do trick or treating,

609
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: you either got egged or your screens got soaked.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever do that or have that happened? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You can, you can. You can still be what I

612
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: didn't have it marked. But you can be in the

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00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 3: world and not of the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's a good way to think about

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00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: Halloween and this holiday is to be you can be

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Speaker 2: in the world, just not of the world. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Rome Is twelve two. Do not be conformed to this world,

618
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Speaker 1: but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

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Speaker 2: Amen, And.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways to not conform to it, yep,

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Speaker 1: to be to be in it and not conforming, and

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Speaker 1: I think we would well. The Bible also says that

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Speaker 1: that that solid food is for the mature, for those

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Speaker 1: who have their their power of discernment trained by constant

625
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: practice to distinguish good from evil. Sure, so this is

626
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Speaker 1: what the Word of God does, is we're washed with

627
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Speaker 1: the word of God daily intake of the Bible at

628
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Speaker 1: some level, whether you're listening to preaching, you're listening to well, no,

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Speaker 1: not listening to preaching unless it's good expositional preaching. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to listen to topical preaching as a deal

631
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Speaker 1: daily intake. But I would recommend and actually reading the

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Speaker 1: Bible daily, never skipping. You know, a man cannot live

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Speaker 1: in bread alone, but from every word that comes from

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Speaker 1: the mouth of God. Why would we ever skip a meal?

635
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: Why would we ever skip the daily intake of what's

636
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: even more important than any meal, that the thing that

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Speaker 1: sustains us. So if solid food, the Bible says, is

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Speaker 1: for the mature, for those who have their powers of

639
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: discernment trained by constant practice, reading over and over to

640
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: distinguish good from evil. Then that protects you from going

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00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: into the world and not being conformed to it. So

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00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: the word of God instructs us in these ways and

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Speaker 1: it trains us. This is where I wanted to go now,

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Speaker 1: is to your question of you know, like, well, what

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Speaker 1: do we do, like how do we how do we

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Speaker 1: think through decorations and costumes and trigger treating?

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Speaker 2: First, how can you be in it and not others? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: First Thessalonians verse five twenty two is like, if you

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00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: just take that versus it's a very short verse. If

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Speaker 1: you just take first Thessalonians five twenty two, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: get any more clear than this to me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are some things that you go, eh, you might

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Speaker 1: be interpreting it wrong. It says, abstain from every form

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Speaker 1: of evil. That's a command from the Apostle Paul. Abstain

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Speaker 1: stay away from, don't deal with, get away from every meaning,

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00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: all forms meaning, different manifestations, different interpretations. Get away from

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Speaker 1: all kinds of what might even be thought to be

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Speaker 1: called evil. You know, like like whatever you're is that

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Speaker 1: evil or not? Is it a form of it? Is

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Speaker 1: it a is it a scary clown evil? Is it

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Speaker 1: a scarecrow with that looks like it has some dark

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00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: eyes in it?

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Speaker 2: Evil alive? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it a pumpkin with a face that looks like

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Speaker 1: it's trying to hurt you? Evil forms of it, all

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Speaker 1: forms of it. Abstain from every form of evil. I

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Speaker 1: don't it just you have to be you have to

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Speaker 1: work from that. So whatever you're gonna do for Halloween

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Speaker 1: as a Christian, you have to to be informed of that.

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Speaker 1: You have to work out outwardly from that. But London

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Speaker 1: asked me the other day yesterday in the car, Daddy,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you something. Me and my friends, my

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00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: volleyball girlfriends. Can we go trigger dreading? I said no.

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Speaker 1: I said, but you could come and y'all could come

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Speaker 1: spend the night and have a sleepover. Okay, that was

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Speaker 1: gonna be my next question.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, and I'll buy you a ton of candy

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Speaker 2: if you want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're going to abstain from every form of evil.

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Speaker 1: Part of that deal on the side. On the side

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Speaker 1: note was we were collect their phones at midnight if

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Speaker 1: they have If they have phones, we collect them at midnight.

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00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: I wanted eleven pm because I was like, I'll give

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Speaker 1: them I'll be up, I'll get their phones and let

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00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: them like, what if they need to call their parents

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Speaker 1: because if something happens. And I was like, we'll have

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Speaker 1: them ready at seven am, back in back in the

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Speaker 1: kitchen available. I didn't have phones when I was no,

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Speaker 1: they're going.

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Speaker 2: To be fine, and you still got a hold of

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Speaker 2: your parents if you needed them.

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Speaker 1: Now, the thing of my kids too, is that they

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Speaker 1: don't feel overly oppressed, or they don't feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm a overly religious, legalistic dad. I told him, they

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Speaker 1: know this story I just read from looking up for him.

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Speaker 1: We all read this together. So I said, would it

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Speaker 1: be loving of me or controlling of me? You know,

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Speaker 1: like to just say yeah, do it go trigger treating?

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Speaker 1: Would that be loving?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: It would it be controlling oppressing to say you can't. No,

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Speaker 1: what's the loving thing to do to protect us spiritually?

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you got it. I'm working on their heart.

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00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm not working on creating a bunch of rules that

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Speaker 1: they must follow. Check these boxes. Do these rules. God

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00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: will like you, God will be pleased, God will hate

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00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: you if you don't like. I'm not creating this. I'm saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's look at the heart. What does God's words say,

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Speaker 1: God's words has abstained from every form of evil.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to do that when you turn eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I'd say this about a lot of things. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say it about Halloween, but I've said it about many things.

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Speaker 1: When you turn eighteen and you leave this house, you

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things that you're gonna be

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00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: able to choose on your own to do a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. But when you're in our house right now,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be informed by the word of God

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00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: that says abstained from every form of evil. And I

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Speaker 1: don't do that because I'm trying to hold this book

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Speaker 1: over your head like a like a prison. Yeah, I'm saying, no.

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Speaker 2: This will set you free. It's good, dude.

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Speaker 1: I love you, and this word will set you free,

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Speaker 1: not bind you, not hold you back. Guess what holds

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00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: you back? The evil you participate in. That's what's holding that.

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Speaker 1: Those are the chains. My yoke is easy, My yoka

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Speaker 1: is easy. My burden is light.

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Speaker 2: Follow me. The burden of sin is really heavy and crushing,

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Speaker 2: and the ultimate payout is death.

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Speaker 1: Christ says, come to me, Yes, all you who are

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Speaker 1: weary and burden, and I will give you rest.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Oh, my word is good.

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Speaker 1: My burden, my birden. In this light, my commandments are

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Speaker 1: not burdensome, he says, this is easy. Follow me for rest. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I tell my kids these things, not to hinder them,

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Speaker 1: not to chain them, not to press them down, but

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Speaker 1: to let them fly, let them be set free in

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Speaker 1: the word of God.

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Speaker 2: Hey man, Yeah, that's great, So I can I can

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Speaker 2: still do pro wrestler. Awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Look, look for a forty eight year old sting

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Speaker 3: this October thirty first, that's Friday.

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Speaker 1: I will not be at your house. I'll be managing sleepover.

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Speaker 3: Apparently we have a final football game on the final

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Speaker 3: one on the on the current turf. There's a brand

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Speaker 3: new stadium going in next year, so we have one

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Speaker 3: final what happens to be on October thirty first, So

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Speaker 3: we dressed like a football player.

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Speaker 2: I guess I'm.

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Speaker 1: Careful going back for your car might get egged.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.

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Speaker 1: See you guys, thank you so much for hanging out

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Speaker 1: with me on this episode of the Ranger Smith Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here. If you're listening right now,

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, you could actually set this podcast as one

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Speaker 1: answered right here on the show, just email me podcast

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Speaker 1: at grangersmith dot com. I'd love to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for being here. We'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Ye