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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's on your mind today, Matt? What do we want
to talk about? What's on my mind?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Yeah, go ahead. Thirty seconds ago, I made some cool
stuff for the show. I'm in a new open, a
new a new bumper. Maybe the tryout today if you
like it. That's I mean, that's literally what's in my mind.
That's what I just did. I don't know, I haven't
really been like tuned into anything else. I like working
with audio, you know, I like turtles.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
D No, No, you don't need to drop. You already
said no, you know you don't. You are when you
say it. You can't just also then use the drop.
You can't know. That's it's redundancy, and it's sloppy, noppy, sloppy,
sloppy like turtles. Too many drops, too many drops, there's
barely any drops. Too many drops anyway, all right, So
let's talk about this. I sat in a uh it
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wasn't like a tunnel of darkness. What do they what
did Aaron Rodgers call his darkness retreat? Oh, sensory deprivation chamber?
Yeah yeah, yah, yeah yeah yeah. Okay, So like think
about this, think about this. What's the point of one
of those? Because people have done it before. He's not
the first guy. What helped? What was the point of that?
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Ego death? That's a great song by Polifia featuring Steve Vai.
Look it up for you guitar loving folks out there.
But it's not ego death. It's a it's you're depriving
your entire body. I mean he fasted there too, didn't
he Like he was just eating one meal a day
or something. I don't know how you eat in there? Yeah,
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how do you see what you're doing? Yeah? So anyway,
the idea is like you're in a darkness chamber for
like fuse there for like four days. The idea is
that your eyes stop operating, right, because you can't see
anything it's dark in there. When that happens, and you've
heard this with people who are either deaf or they're blind, right,
it's that the other senses become heightened in some way,
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like the brain can then put more energy and effort
into your sense of smell, your sense of taste. You're
hearing how things on your skin like that, that kind
of tactile feel right, right? Do you think you could
do that? You think you could get to a point
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like that in like six hours of darkness deprivation, like
like a like a miniature retreat.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, it's not enough time, right, A slight return to
the eating in darkness. You ever go to those movie
theaters where you eat a dinner at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, I've been in those.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
If one cannot eat in a sensory deprivation chamber, how
do people eat in a movie theater. I've gotten barbecue
in places I never dreamed of. Trying to eat a
hamburger and fries in a movie theater. I'll stick to popcorn.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Thank you. You're supposed to get the food before the
movie starts, like you, you sit down and not really,
it doesn't get super dark until the movie starts.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Maybe I waited too long. No, they didn't deliver it
to me until the movie started.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Where is this? I don't want to name names. I
went to a movie theater that did this, and we
were watching a soccer the US soccer game, so it
really wasn't the same thing. So I don't know. I
haven't actually gone to one of those to watch a movie.
I've gone to those to watch soccer matches with a
bunch of fans, which is a little different, right, it's
like sports bar sports bar vibe, you know, not really
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interrupting anything. Oh, I don't know. Two eleven. The reason
I bring this up is I was testing my how
like today, what's the temperature right now? It is twenty
three degrees so it's a little colder than it has
been recently. When I woke up this morning, it was
like eleven degrees, Like it was cold, right, Yeah, it's
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a cold start to today. I kind of kind of
just stood outside after I put the bird seed in
the bird feeder and just kind of stood there for
a second and like let the let my skin take
some of the cold. And I don't know, like there's
something that's kind of filled up inside me, Like I
was just like I do feel like somewhat alive in
this moment. Now I say this, I say this, Uh,
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what's the what's the point of this? Like you might
be asking yourself what's important in this life? What's important
in this world? Sensory deprivation chambers. No, No, important in
this life is what you're feeling in the here and
the now and the effect that the world around you
has on you and you specifically. That's it. Now, you
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have a drastic impact on the people and the lives
around you, as well as your house and your land
and maybe your neighbors, the environment, the animals that are
around you. You have a big impact on people. Right
You're living in that coexistence of you taking in what's
around you and then what's around you taking in you.
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How can you be the most positive influence on any
of that. It's to not get to outside your bubble. Now.
I'm not a therapist, I'm not a psychoanalyst, but this
is something that I have, Like over the last couple
of weeks, you know, I've kind of come to like
I've come in here on some days and been like, Matt,
I do not want to be here. I've been like that,
can you attest to that? I've said, my brain is
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not here right now. I'm not thinking in the right mood,
in the right mode to have good radio show like
you're gonna have to help me today. I'm having some
trouble right Like sometimes you get to like mental blockages
of just like what you're doing, where your happiness is,
where your brain is at right And so I'm thinking
to myself, how do I focus on what really matters
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to me? And how to get the best version of
me on a day to day basis. And sometimes it
comes to you when you're making yourself exposed to the cold,
even just for fifteen minutes. You're just standing out there
with no code on, and you're just like letting the
air make you feel something, the way that people talk
about cryologenic chambers. Right, it may be very good for
your actual muscles and stuff, but generally speaking, I think
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a lot of it has to do with you're just
exposing your body to an event where your body has
to react. It makes you feel alive. Right, You're getting
out of that comfort zone in a way, going into
a darkness sensory deprivation chamber with the idea that you're
going to be exposed to thoughts and react to things
that you never even thought you cared about before. You're
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having epiphanies that were far outside the scope of your
own brain, you follow. I'm sitting here today, a humble man,
on this Tuesday, and I just feel like it's got
to start from within that bubble man. Your own personal
happiness doesn't have anything to do with Washington, DC, has
nothing to do with the unicameral. It doesn't have anything
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to do with what's going on one hundred miles away
somewhere else. Start here, Start with yourself in the very
immediate things around you, that little bubble of people that
you see every day. My dogs are a good example
right for me. You know what brings me happiness? Making
sure I know my house is going. You know what
I bought? My wife bought it. You know what it
was like, humidifier for our bedroom. Sounds like a very
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small thing, but you know what, there was a sense
of purpose to me as like, oh, yes, now we
have this thing that I thought we needed for our
bedroom and it's fully functional and it works. You feel
a sense of achievement. We're tackling tasks. I feel a
purpose in that. That's what's important to me every single day,
understanding my relationship with the very things most immediately around me.
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And while I'm standing outside in the cold for fifteen
minutes today letting that twelve degree air brush up against
my skin and give me the goose pimples, I was like, man,
it's good to be alive, and it's good to know
that you're having some sort of positive effect on the
immediate people around you, and also accepting the things that
are happening around you as it happens to you. That's
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the relationship that gets you across the finish line on
a day to day basis, you and the things in
the immediate bubble that you live in. How is that
that was good? Some thoughtfulness? We are all in a
sensory deprivation chamber on this day. Come alive, my brothers
and sisters. Are you starting a cult? No, I'm just saying, uh,
you know, sometimes you just needn't And I think nature
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does it to me more than anything else. Sometimes you
just need a slap in the face of to what
really matters. Stop being a weirdo. Wake up. You have
a lot to be thankful for. What about your life sucks? Nothing? Nothing?
Could things be better? They always could be. But you
want to know something else. Man, you're here, You're making
an impact on the things around you. The things around
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you are making an impact on you. That awareness, that acceptance,
that's what keeps you going man. And that was my
epiphany today. Yeah, and you can have one too. For
three easy installments of ninety nine ninety five didn't say that. Nope.
I'm not taking money from nobody except the people that
sign my paychecks. For me getting to talk into a
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hunk and metal everything, you know, whatever. It's two seventeen.
If I have at all triggered some thoughts that you've
already been having, I know this isn't politic talk. I'm sorry.
One day out of you know, several weeks, we're spending
a segment with me just being very intrinsic to myself.
I apologize. But if this does trip you trigger, I
have the phone lines open. You can call in, we
(09:03):
can share some thoughts back and forth, or if you'd
like me to move along, you can bring up something
that's bothering you or it's on your mind today. Four
oh two five five eight eleven ten is the phone number.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten. We're here
learning about life together on news radio eleven ten kfab
and raised honor, infusion of self confidence and thoughts about
(09:25):
you know, I'm figuring myself out on a day to
day basis, and I had that today, shared my thoughts
with you, and I'd love to shit hear your thoughts
because that's what we do here. It's a talk radio show,
which means that you know, like I can talk, you
can talk, we can listen. To each other. I kind
of like that. Corey's on our phone line at four
oh two, five five, eight eleven ten, Corey, what's going on, no, Emery.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I was hearing you talk about the pride and like, yes,
it's the humidifier, but they're useful and there's all I mean.
It's not like being a being a kid and wanting
that new bicycle, but it's some something very decent to have.
And it reminded me of the time when I was
honestly excited about spending about three dollars on a rain gage.
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And that's when I realized I was old.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well not only were you old there, Corey, but you
thought to yourself, this is actually going to be useful
to me, right, And at some point we go from
just looking for immediate gratification on something that we think
is going to make us happy or joyful in a moment,
to all of a sudden looking for things that are
going to be functional and helpful in our life, which
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in turn ends up making us happy as we age.
I think that's actually an asset to us, is that
all of a sudden, the happiness comes from things that
we actually can find useful in our life.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, so, dude, I appreciate. I appreciate the twist on
the show and the lack of politics. And you could
probably make a wholet show out of things where people
have bought something mundane, kind of boring but helpful and beneficial.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, and maybe I will, Corey. You know that's a
not a bad idea if some people want to call in,
like you didn't talk about some of the stuff that
has inspired them to have different thoughts or different levels
of excitement, where you know, twelve year old them would
be like, what the heck are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Like, how does that make me happy? But I think that, Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
That rain gage lasted for about three weeks and then
my twelve year old boy rented over with the bicycle. Ah, well, well,
well I can go get another one.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
The circle of life, I suppose, right.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Absolutely, someday he'll think, I wonder where my dad's rain
gauge went to?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah he could have that.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
He had to fix my flat tire and the bike.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah that's awesome, Corey. Hey, thanks for sharing with us today.
We appreciate it, all right, you'd be good, dude, Yeah,
you as well, only sends in an email and says,
I just had an epiphany of what the hell is
Emory talking about? Lol? I kind of thought that that
would be a reaction from people he had an epiphany of.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So he's he understands what you're talking about, or I'm well,
he said, I had an epiphany of what the hell
is Amory talking about? Like that's his epiphany is like
he's trying to figure out what the heck I'm talking about.
I cann't tell you. I mean, I guess my best
explanation is, you know, number one, I wasn't inspired to
talk about politics today, at least right now. I will
(12:23):
get to some later, but in the moment here to
start the show, it's like, what's important, what's weighing on
my mind? And for once, I'm just gonna say I
don't need you know these you know fifteen different news
sources that I used to generate my content on my show,
like to help me figure out what is or isn't
important to me, or what you know, political angles that
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we can take today Instead, it was today I found
myself coming to terms with what makes a person feel
fulfilled in life. That person being me, the person I
know the best in the world. Do you feel like
you know yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's kind of a It's kind of like if I
if I if I gave you like a questionnaire and said,
fill this out as honestly as you can, and then
I'd give it to five people who know you better
than anybody outside of your own personal body. Do you
think yours would line up with theirs? Or do you
think oh no, not necessarily no.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now see, like that's like, how do you feel about that?
Because we would I would like to think that we
know each other the best, Like I know me better
than anybody else knows me. But do you know you?
Even even though like I think that I would have
a very skewed version like variation of what of who
I am? You know what I mean? Like you talk
(13:38):
about you talk about understanding who you are, and that's
one thing you talk about who's uh you know, where
you're lining up as a person down the line and
trying to improve yourself. And I'm not saying everybody's trying
to improve themselves, because I know several people that just
are like I am who I am, Take me or
leave me, Eh, that's fine too. I Mean, everybody's free
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to kind of have their own perspective on this stuff.
So do you know you or do you think that
maybe you're a little bit biased in your own opinions
of yourself. Oh, that's an interesting question. That's pretty philosophical.
I might have to. Uh, that's how I feel today,
that philosophical.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I know myself better than I'll tell this, I know
myself better than I did a couple of years ago.
There's that's guaranteed. I've done a lot of learning in
the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Have you intentionally done that or is that something that
came with just time and experiences?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Oh, all of the above. There's there's certainly been an
intentionality to it, and a necessity to that intentionality. I
would say, though, that it's a constant. You're constantly learning
about yourself as you go throughout life. It was it
Socrates that said know thyself. I think it's important to
know yourself. And I think anybody could have said that
for the record, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Just Socrates was the first one.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Somebody said, Hey, he said that, right, and he probably
said it within a context that explained what he meant,
and maybe that's why it's a pertinent quote. But yeah,
you know, I think it's important to know yourself. I
think that it's important to know yourself, especially in trying times,
because you know what I mean, we can get it.
I mean, you want to talk about secular humanism and
how we let our community decide the culture of the moment,
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and how dangerous that is, and how some people fall
in line with that thinking.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You got to stand strong.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Sometimes you got to be Gandolf with your staff throwing
it down on the on the ground and saying you
shall not pass. Sometimes you got to know yourself well
enough to do that. You got to be emboldened in
your identity. This is a very strange star to our show.
I really like it. Steve's on a phone line of
four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten. What are
you thinking about today, Steve?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't know. He just made me think about another
subject that I wasn't thinking about.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I got to get back to the I gotta get
back to the first one. Oh okay, Well, the first
subject I was thinking about was fulfilling. And it turns
out when man hits sixty or sixty five, they go
a great extent making sure the house is maintenance free
and Mama's going to be okay, mm hmm. And the
other thing I learned about was that when you find
out that you have ADHD sixty five and it explains
(16:03):
things struct your life as to why it's really strange.
I have a very high IQ, but it could not
do good in school. I just couldn't do the work.
And it took sixty five years to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Is that now, does that make you feel like do
you have ease in your brain now that you feel
like there's an explanation for how some of this stuff
in your life is a little bit there's at least
a reason or an explanation for some of the stuff
that you could not figure out before.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, now I understand why I was the way I was.
Doesn't mean that I'd changed anything. It just it just
never could figure out, you know. I mean, do you
know what you about ADHD? The impulsivity? Yeah, it's really
bad for you to be impulsive.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Right, not good at all?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, Steve, luckily I never got in legal children. No.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But but Stephen's fascinating that you know you still cared
enough about yourself to care about that diagnosis, right, because
then you started use the application of Okay, so what
does this mean if I've had this all along and
then you're able to kind of help yourself understand why
certain things in your life actually worked and actually happened.
So that's really cool, Steve, thanks so much for sharing
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with us today. We appreciate it. Right here we are,
let's talk about this. There's stuff on your mind, If
there's stuff intrinsically that you're thinking about, We're going outside
the box today. On your Tuesday, please call us at
four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. I'd like to explore
a little bit more of you know, what life is
(17:34):
like for you and maybe the things that have been
epiphanies for you as you are understanding your place in
this world and what motivates your purpose to be the
best version of yourself that you can be. Yes, a
very interesting show today on news radio eleven ten KFAB
and recent on news radio eleven ten KFAB talking very
(17:55):
philosophically today we were talking about things that I was
just coming to a kind of a conclusion about what's
important to me and how I can live my best life.
And uh, I would love to be inspired by some
of the things that you've thought about on this and
our phone lines are open at four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Four oh two, five five eight
eleven ten is that number, and we have hey Zeus
(18:16):
on the line. Hey Zeus, welcome back. What's going on today?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Hey, how are you doing? Thanks for taking my call.
You know, I work with kids for a living. I'm
a coach. I've been doing this for like forty seven years.
And what you're going through and what you're talking about,
I see that with a lot of kids I've done
from young kids all the way up to college. It's
that search for meaning, that search for that purpose in life,
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and we try to find it in success. What the
world says it is successful, and they say it's through trophies,
are through winning, are it's through money, It's through this
And it's not that all these things are bad, it's
just when you make it into the be all the
it's everything. I can't live without it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And people will.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Find out that when God created us, it created us
with the void in our heart that can only be
filled with a relationship with Jesus Christ. And that's where
you will find meaning and finding that relationship. Now God
didn't make us, so we automatically have to follow. He
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has given us a free will to decide are we
going to follow the world? Are we going to follow
God through his son Jesus Christ. And with that free will,
you find out what you're made of. With that free will,
does it bring you crushing and crashing and finding yourself
(19:50):
feeling at the foot of the cross and saying, God,
I need you, I want you in my life. I
surrender my life now. Just because you're to become a
Christian or you're born again or saved, as the Bible says,
doesn't mean you're going to have a perfect life. But
you have somebody that's going to be there, that is
constantly that will never lead you, and that's God, and
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he's there to help you. He's there to guide you
in your footstep. These are the things that he promises,
and he will never, never, never disappointment. The apostle Paul
says that I have had many I have had and
I've had you. But it's living that contentment with your
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life with Jesus, and that's what it meant. That's purpose.
But we don't teach that anymore because we don't have
we don't have that Bible readily available to teach us
that we cannot do things without God. We need God
because we have that void in our heart for purpose.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, it's such a great, great point, Jeseus, and I
really appreciate you calling in with that today. Thank you
for listening, good bet, thank you find out. Yeah, you know,
and this I'm sure Matt, you can kind of attest
to this yourself as a guy who you know, you
said before we started twenty twenty five, one of the
things that you were really going to focus on is
you know your faith is going to be like taking
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front and center of your life, and you want to
recenter around that. Yeah, and there's something about that that
is always there as long as you have the open heart.
And Tom sent an email and said, even before this call,
when you take your last breath of your relationship with God
is the only thing that ends up mattering. And that's
that's true if you're a faithful person or you're somebody
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who is religious, especially in Christianity. I mean, everything kind
of builds around that nucleus, and there's just something that
kind of fills you up when you're able to kind
of recent to yourself on that I.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Think absolutely, Yeah, it's it's a gift that never seizes,
you know, and and it's it's it is a gift
that you have to receive, and I think that.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
But yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Heesus put it in a very eloquent and wonderful way,
and I agree with what he said.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's really cool that we have a chance to share
these things with ourselves or each other. And this intrinsic thought,
right is just me deciding making an executive decision that,
you know what, we can talk about ourselves every once
in a while on this show and how we feel
about different things that are happening in the world around us.
We get stuck, we get bogged down talking about international politics,
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American politics, and you know, I just I found myself
coming to a you know, I don't know, a crossroads
isn't the right word for it. You know, It's just
sometimes you just kind of feel like you're just wandering
through life and you need to kind of find what
grounds you and makes you appreciative of the world that
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you have around you. And today I just got woke
up by eleven degree weather when I just stood out
there and I was like, you know, sometimes you have
those moments where like thoughts just start racing like race
car around your frontal lobe and you're just like, you know,
you're just kind of like feeling it, like you feel
it happening in your head. And I don't know, there's
something so refreshing about just having that moment of like, hey,
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I got some stuff figured out just now, Like I
want to chase that feeling of like, oh oh oh,
this is what I need to be thinking about right now.
I need to be here, I need to be present.
I need to be thinking about where I am, where
I'm standing, what's around me, how I'm affecting the world
around me, How I'm affecting my wife, my dogs, my house,
my neighbors, the birds, the groundhogs that potentially could be
(23:33):
living in my yard right the people that listen to
me on every day on the radio, how I'm affecting
their life. When you are able to start kind of
intrinsically looking at how you're approaching your life from that
standpoint and how these things affect you and you affect
them in turn, kind of that mutual relationship kind of
opens up opens up a couple of those little windows
(23:55):
of like, ah, clarity, Craig sends this email in I
just wanted to read this y before we move on. Hi, Emory,
thank you so much for your encouraging words. I've been
under the weather since Christmas. My health hasn't been the
best lately. I've been feeling sorry for myself and been
bitter about my world, my circumstances, and my life. I
needed your comments today to remind me just to concentrate
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on the bubble I live in. I have a wonderful
wife and family, and I need to appreciate and what
I have rather than all the stuff that just doesn't matter.
Thank you, my friend, and you too, Matt and Craig.
I appreciate you for sending that note because those are
the kinds of words that make us feel fulfilled in
what we're doing. Because we are providing a public service.
We're here to entertain, but we're also here to inform.
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But sometimes you just need to kind of have each
other as quasi therapists, if you will, you know, certainly
not certified, but just here to be good ears and
to listen to what people are thinking about on their
daily lives. Because we are a part of people's daily lives,
and you are a part of Mattini's daily life.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Absolutely, I'm going to do something I've never done before.
I'm going to make a second Gandolf reference in one hour. WHOA,
I think they call that the double Dolf. It's not
you know you mentioned wandering, right, Yeah, like wandering figuratively right. Yeah,
of course, Gandalf says, not all who wander are lost.
(25:14):
Sounds like there was a purpose for your wandering after all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
WHOA. That actually was incredibly pertinent to the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I am surprised, and the incredible pertinent drop that I
don't have good in front of me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I'm not surprised. There's still time, hold on, hold on
for people waiting for it. Here it comes. That's all
returned to the shire one more time.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
It's a throw toe of Baggins with his hairy feet
standing a wee bit three foot eight. But he's got
a big heart and he's got a friend, Sam Wise Gamchi.
That's right, let's not forget about Sam Wise Gamci also
known as Rudi for a Notesre Dame and he played
some other bit roles and other movies. Is where he's out,
(25:56):
Okay that the BET's coming down. He's giving me the
motion folks. It was fun, well it lasted.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Frodo was four feet one inches tall. You liarn is
the Time News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery Sunger talking
about my personal feelings and things that I have come
to some sort of understanding of. And that has happened
even just today as I filled my bird feeder up,
and I think I was rewarded today. You know, sometimes
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when you have true care for nature in the world
around you, it feels like there's a payback in some way.
And I got to see starlings in my bird feeder
for the first time in a long time. I wonder
if that is some sort of sign that maybe I
need to be more intrinsic with myself more because I
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don't see starlings in the bird feet of that often.
So as soon as I come inside, I look back
outside the window and I'm like, there are starlings eating
out of my bird feeder. Makes me feel like everything
that I've done today has been right, That's all I'm saying.
Cindy's on our phone line of four h two five
five at eleventon. Welcome Cindy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I wanted to contact a person whose name was Corey.
Corey called in about half an hour ago and he
said he had purchased a rain gauge and that was
important to him. But somehow the rain gauge got broken
three weeks after he had it by a family member.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, as his twelve year old ran it over with
a bike. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Yes, So living your best life is about making other
people happy. And here at Headwind Consumer Products in Syracuse, Nebraska,
we make rain gages. So if Corey could contact us
at Headwind Consumer Products, we would love to send him
a rain gauge.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That is fantastic, Cindy. I really appreciate you shouting Corey
out and hopefully Corey still listening to us. What's the name?
One more time?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Yes, just contact the manager Barry B. A. R. R
Y at head Wind Products dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Awesome, Cindy, Hey, that's awesome. Thanks so much for listening
and calling in.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Doesn't that make you all warm and fuzzy inside? It's
I love it when people love people. I mean, what an.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Hour of radio philosophy radio? This hour had it all.
Multiple Gandolf references, I Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
They both worked.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
I I am not a huge fan of you playing
the Lord of the Rings music because you got you
lost the plot on your philosophy for a second, because
you wanted to talk about Frodo and you got his
height wrong by a solid five inches.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
That's pretty remarkably close, I would say remarkably close.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
What Hobbits are like two to four feet tall mostly okay,
and he is just a hair taller than the average Hobbit.
So theoretically, yes, you were in the right range. But
there's only like twenty four inches that you would have
guessed and had like some sort of accurate ring, like
like level year. It's just like you've guessed harder things
(29:02):
and got them closer right.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
And I feel like that my record, my history, almost
is making a a a too harsh of an expectation
to get within five inches of Protos. Let's put it
this way, if this was the price is right, I'd still.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Be in the game.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I didn't overshoot it. I feel like if you undershoot it,
then at least you're right. At some point, at some
point in Proto's life, he was three foot eight. Say
that with specifics.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, but we don't have that documented. We don't actually
have any video video evidence that Seawan Aston was eight
inches at any point. Sean Aston, I mean Frodo Baggin. Sorry,
Sean Aston. He's talking about Sam Waitz Gamci. Yeah. Whatever
they both are, they're both hobbits.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm about to play the theme again. Don't play the theme.
I'm going to fly across this.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Remember that video of the guy that jumped over the
judges like desk yes and tried to like like grab her.
I'm going to do that to you if you play
that music again. Man, can we just get somebody to
film that. I don't know. Thomas says Starling's are trash birds.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Kes.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
No, there are no such things as trash birds. Every
bird is trying to be alive. Okay, birds to eat
from trash, they certainly are not. Starling's are loud, They
are obnoxious. They have a history and a reputation that
they bully other birds and sometimes eat the babies of
other birds, you know, kind of like blue jays. Look,
I'm not here to judge. I'm here to say if
they're coming to my bird feeder and I get a
(30:29):
chance to see them up close and personal, it tickles me. Pink, Sorry,
what do you want from me. That's where I'm at,
you know what I'm saying, Like, if parakeets decided to,
you know, come in, macaw parrots wanted to come in
and take you know, something out of the feeder, more
power to them, even if they're allowed and obnoxious. And
I don't really like them all that much. They're super colorful,
(30:50):
and I love the idea that I give a chance
to feed them. I'm helping them live their lives. That
makes me feel good about myself. Hey, Second Hour on
the Way News Radio eleven ten kfab
What's on your mind today, Matt? What do we want
to talk about? What's on my mind?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Yeah, go ahead. Thirty seconds ago, I made some cool
stuff for the show. I'm in a new open, a
new a new bumper. Maybe the tryout today if you
like it. That's I mean, that's literally what's in my mind.
That's what I just did. I don't know, I haven't
really been like tuned into anything else. I like working
with audio, you know, I like turtles.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
D No, No, you don't need to drop. You already
said no, you know you don't. You are when you
say it. You can't just also then use the drop.
You can't know. That's it's redundancy, and it's sloppy, noppy, sloppy,
sloppy like turtles. Too many drops, too many drops, there's
barely any drops. Too many drops anyway, all right, So
let's talk about this. I sat in a uh it
(00:45):
wasn't like a tunnel of darkness. What do they what
did Aaron Rodgers call his darkness retreat? Oh, sensory deprivation chamber?
Yeah yeah, yah, yeah yeah yeah. Okay, So like think
about this, think about this. What's the point of one
of those? Because people have done it before. He's not
the first guy. What helped? What was the point of that?
(01:05):
Ego death? That's a great song by Polifia featuring Steve Vai.
Look it up for you guitar loving folks out there.
But it's not ego death. It's a it's you're depriving
your entire body. I mean he fasted there too, didn't
he Like he was just eating one meal a day
or something. I don't know how you eat in there? Yeah,
(01:26):
how do you see what you're doing? Yeah? So anyway,
the idea is like you're in a darkness chamber for
like fuse there for like four days. The idea is
that your eyes stop operating, right, because you can't see
anything it's dark in there. When that happens, and you've
heard this with people who are either deaf or they're blind, right,
it's that the other senses become heightened in some way,
(01:49):
like the brain can then put more energy and effort
into your sense of smell, your sense of taste. You're
hearing how things on your skin like that, that kind
of tactile feel right, right? Do you think you could
do that? You think you could get to a point
(02:10):
like that in like six hours of darkness deprivation, like
like a like a miniature retreat.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, it's not enough time, right, A slight return to
the eating in darkness. You ever go to those movie
theaters where you eat a dinner at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, I've been in those.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
If one cannot eat in a sensory deprivation chamber, how
do people eat in a movie theater. I've gotten barbecue
in places I never dreamed of. Trying to eat a
hamburger and fries in a movie theater. I'll stick to popcorn.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Thank you. You're supposed to get the food before the
movie starts, like you, you sit down and not really,
it doesn't get super dark until the movie starts.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Maybe I waited too long. No, they didn't deliver it
to me until the movie started.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Where is this? I don't want to name names. I
went to a movie theater that did this, and we
were watching a soccer the US soccer game, so it
really wasn't the same thing. So I don't know. I
haven't actually gone to one of those to watch a movie.
I've gone to those to watch soccer matches with a
bunch of fans, which is a little different, right, it's
like sports bar sports bar vibe, you know, not really
(03:15):
interrupting anything. Oh, I don't know. Two eleven. The reason
I bring this up is I was testing my how
like today, what's the temperature right now? It is twenty
three degrees so it's a little colder than it has
been recently. When I woke up this morning, it was
like eleven degrees, Like it was cold, right, Yeah, it's
(03:36):
a cold start to today. I kind of kind of
just stood outside after I put the bird seed in
the bird feeder and just kind of stood there for
a second and like let the let my skin take
some of the cold. And I don't know, like there's
something that's kind of filled up inside me, Like I
was just like I do feel like somewhat alive in
this moment. Now I say this, I say this, Uh,
(03:58):
what's the what's the point of this? Like you might
be asking yourself what's important in this life? What's important
in this world? Sensory deprivation chambers. No, No, important in
this life is what you're feeling in the here and
the now and the effect that the world around you
has on you and you specifically. That's it. Now, you
(04:19):
have a drastic impact on the people and the lives
around you, as well as your house and your land
and maybe your neighbors, the environment, the animals that are
around you. You have a big impact on people. Right
You're living in that coexistence of you taking in what's
around you and then what's around you taking in you.
(04:41):
How can you be the most positive influence on any
of that. It's to not get to outside your bubble. Now.
I'm not a therapist, I'm not a psychoanalyst, but this
is something that I have, Like over the last couple
of weeks, you know, I've kind of come to like
I've come in here on some days and been like, Matt,
I do not want to be here. I've been like that,
can you attest to that? I've said, my brain is
(05:05):
not here right now. I'm not thinking in the right mood,
in the right mode to have good radio show like
you're gonna have to help me today. I'm having some
trouble right Like sometimes you get to like mental blockages
of just like what you're doing, where your happiness is,
where your brain is at right And so I'm thinking
to myself, how do I focus on what really matters
(05:29):
to me? And how to get the best version of
me on a day to day basis. And sometimes it
comes to you when you're making yourself exposed to the cold,
even just for fifteen minutes. You're just standing out there
with no code on, and you're just like letting the
air make you feel something, the way that people talk
about cryologenic chambers. Right, it may be very good for
your actual muscles and stuff, but generally speaking, I think
(05:49):
a lot of it has to do with you're just
exposing your body to an event where your body has
to react. It makes you feel alive. Right, You're getting
out of that comfort zone in a way, going into
a darkness sensory deprivation chamber with the idea that you're
going to be exposed to thoughts and react to things
that you never even thought you cared about before. You're
(06:10):
having epiphanies that were far outside the scope of your
own brain, you follow. I'm sitting here today, a humble man,
on this Tuesday, and I just feel like it's got
to start from within that bubble man. Your own personal
happiness doesn't have anything to do with Washington, DC, has
nothing to do with the unicameral. It doesn't have anything
(06:31):
to do with what's going on one hundred miles away
somewhere else. Start here, Start with yourself in the very
immediate things around you, that little bubble of people that
you see every day. My dogs are a good example
right for me. You know what brings me happiness? Making
sure I know my house is going. You know what
I bought? My wife bought it. You know what it
was like, humidifier for our bedroom. Sounds like a very
(06:54):
small thing, but you know what, there was a sense
of purpose to me as like, oh, yes, now we
have this thing that I thought we needed for our
bedroom and it's fully functional and it works. You feel
a sense of achievement. We're tackling tasks. I feel a
purpose in that. That's what's important to me every single day,
understanding my relationship with the very things most immediately around me.
(07:17):
And while I'm standing outside in the cold for fifteen
minutes today letting that twelve degree air brush up against
my skin and give me the goose pimples, I was like, man,
it's good to be alive, and it's good to know
that you're having some sort of positive effect on the
immediate people around you, and also accepting the things that
are happening around you as it happens to you. That's
(07:38):
the relationship that gets you across the finish line on
a day to day basis, you and the things in
the immediate bubble that you live in. How is that
that was good? Some thoughtfulness? We are all in a
sensory deprivation chamber on this day. Come alive, my brothers
and sisters. Are you starting a cult? No, I'm just saying, uh,
you know, sometimes you just needn't And I think nature
(08:00):
does it to me more than anything else. Sometimes you
just need a slap in the face of to what
really matters. Stop being a weirdo. Wake up. You have
a lot to be thankful for. What about your life sucks? Nothing? Nothing?
Could things be better? They always could be. But you
want to know something else. Man, you're here, You're making
an impact on the things around you. The things around
(08:22):
you are making an impact on you. That awareness, that acceptance,
that's what keeps you going man. And that was my
epiphany today. Yeah, and you can have one too. For
three easy installments of ninety nine ninety five didn't say that. Nope.
I'm not taking money from nobody except the people that
sign my paychecks. For me getting to talk into a
(08:43):
hunk and metal everything, you know, whatever. It's two seventeen.
If I have at all triggered some thoughts that you've
already been having, I know this isn't politic talk. I'm sorry.
One day out of you know, several weeks, we're spending
a segment with me just being very intrinsic to myself.
I apologize. But if this does trip you trigger, I
have the phone lines open. You can call in, we
(09:03):
can share some thoughts back and forth, or if you'd
like me to move along, you can bring up something
that's bothering you or it's on your mind today. Four
oh two five five eight eleven ten is the phone number.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten. We're here
learning about life together on news radio eleven ten kfab
and raised honor, infusion of self confidence and thoughts about
(09:25):
you know, I'm figuring myself out on a day to
day basis, and I had that today, shared my thoughts
with you, and I'd love to shit hear your thoughts
because that's what we do here. It's a talk radio show,
which means that you know, like I can talk, you
can talk, we can listen. To each other. I kind
of like that. Corey's on our phone line at four
oh two, five five, eight eleven ten, Corey, what's going on, no, Emery.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I was hearing you talk about the pride and like, yes,
it's the humidifier, but they're useful and there's all I mean.
It's not like being a being a kid and wanting
that new bicycle, but it's some something very decent to have.
And it reminded me of the time when I was
honestly excited about spending about three dollars on a rain gage.
(10:10):
And that's when I realized I was old.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well not only were you old there, Corey, but you
thought to yourself, this is actually going to be useful
to me, right, And at some point we go from
just looking for immediate gratification on something that we think
is going to make us happy or joyful in a moment,
to all of a sudden looking for things that are
going to be functional and helpful in our life, which
(10:33):
in turn ends up making us happy as we age.
I think that's actually an asset to us, is that
all of a sudden, the happiness comes from things that
we actually can find useful in our life.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, so, dude, I appreciate. I appreciate the twist on
the show and the lack of politics. And you could
probably make a wholet show out of things where people
have bought something mundane, kind of boring but helpful and beneficial.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, and maybe I will, Corey. You know that's a
not a bad idea if some people want to call in,
like you didn't talk about some of the stuff that
has inspired them to have different thoughts or different levels
of excitement, where you know, twelve year old them would
be like, what the heck are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Like, how does that make me happy? But I think that, Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
That rain gage lasted for about three weeks and then
my twelve year old boy rented over with the bicycle. Ah, well, well,
well I can go get another one.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
The circle of life, I suppose, right.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Absolutely, someday he'll think, I wonder where my dad's rain
gauge went to?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah he could have that.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
He had to fix my flat tire and the bike.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah that's awesome, Corey. Hey, thanks for sharing with us today.
We appreciate it, all right, you'd be good, dude, Yeah,
you as well, only sends in an email and says,
I just had an epiphany of what the hell is
Emory talking about? Lol? I kind of thought that that
would be a reaction from people he had an epiphany of.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So he's he understands what you're talking about, or I'm well,
he said, I had an epiphany of what the hell
is Amory talking about? Like that's his epiphany is like
he's trying to figure out what the heck I'm talking about.
I cann't tell you. I mean, I guess my best
explanation is, you know, number one, I wasn't inspired to
talk about politics today, at least right now. I will
(12:23):
get to some later, but in the moment here to
start the show, it's like, what's important, what's weighing on
my mind? And for once, I'm just gonna say I
don't need you know these you know fifteen different news
sources that I used to generate my content on my show,
like to help me figure out what is or isn't
important to me, or what you know, political angles that
(12:44):
we can take today Instead, it was today I found
myself coming to terms with what makes a person feel
fulfilled in life. That person being me, the person I
know the best in the world. Do you feel like
you know yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's kind of a It's kind of like if I
if I if I gave you like a questionnaire and said,
fill this out as honestly as you can, and then
I'd give it to five people who know you better
than anybody outside of your own personal body. Do you
think yours would line up with theirs? Or do you
think oh no, not necessarily no.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now see, like that's like, how do you feel about that?
Because we would I would like to think that we
know each other the best, Like I know me better
than anybody else knows me. But do you know you?
Even even though like I think that I would have
a very skewed version like variation of what of who
I am? You know what I mean? Like you talk
(13:38):
about you talk about understanding who you are, and that's
one thing you talk about who's uh you know, where
you're lining up as a person down the line and
trying to improve yourself. And I'm not saying everybody's trying
to improve themselves, because I know several people that just
are like I am who I am, Take me or
leave me, Eh, that's fine too. I Mean, everybody's free
(14:01):
to kind of have their own perspective on this stuff.
So do you know you or do you think that
maybe you're a little bit biased in your own opinions
of yourself. Oh, that's an interesting question. That's pretty philosophical.
I might have to. Uh, that's how I feel today,
that philosophical.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I know myself better than I'll tell this, I know
myself better than I did a couple of years ago.
There's that's guaranteed. I've done a lot of learning in
the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Have you intentionally done that or is that something that
came with just time and experiences?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Oh, all of the above. There's there's certainly been an
intentionality to it, and a necessity to that intentionality. I
would say, though, that it's a constant. You're constantly learning
about yourself as you go throughout life. It was it
Socrates that said know thyself. I think it's important to
know yourself. And I think anybody could have said that
for the record, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Just Socrates was the first one.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Somebody said, Hey, he said that, right, and he probably
said it within a context that explained what he meant,
and maybe that's why it's a pertinent quote. But yeah,
you know, I think it's important to know yourself. I
think that it's important to know yourself, especially in trying times,
because you know what I mean, we can get it.
I mean, you want to talk about secular humanism and
how we let our community decide the culture of the moment,
(15:13):
and how dangerous that is, and how some people fall
in line with that thinking.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You got to stand strong.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Sometimes you got to be Gandolf with your staff throwing
it down on the on the ground and saying you
shall not pass. Sometimes you got to know yourself well
enough to do that. You got to be emboldened in
your identity. This is a very strange star to our show.
I really like it. Steve's on a phone line of
four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten. What are
you thinking about today, Steve?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't know. He just made me think about another
subject that I wasn't thinking about.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I got to get back to the I gotta get
back to the first one. Oh okay, Well, the first
subject I was thinking about was fulfilling. And it turns
out when man hits sixty or sixty five, they go
a great extent making sure the house is maintenance free
and Mama's going to be okay, mm hmm. And the
other thing I learned about was that when you find
out that you have ADHD sixty five and it explains
(16:03):
things struct your life as to why it's really strange.
I have a very high IQ, but it could not
do good in school. I just couldn't do the work.
And it took sixty five years to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Is that now, does that make you feel like do
you have ease in your brain now that you feel
like there's an explanation for how some of this stuff
in your life is a little bit there's at least
a reason or an explanation for some of the stuff
that you could not figure out before.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, now I understand why I was the way I was.
Doesn't mean that I'd changed anything. It just it just
never could figure out, you know. I mean, do you
know what you about ADHD? The impulsivity? Yeah, it's really
bad for you to be impulsive.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Right, not good at all?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, Steve, luckily I never got in legal children. No.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But but Stephen's fascinating that you know you still cared
enough about yourself to care about that diagnosis, right, because
then you started use the application of Okay, so what
does this mean if I've had this all along and
then you're able to kind of help yourself understand why
certain things in your life actually worked and actually happened.
So that's really cool, Steve, thanks so much for sharing
(17:13):
with us today. We appreciate it. Right here we are,
let's talk about this. There's stuff on your mind, If
there's stuff intrinsically that you're thinking about, We're going outside
the box today. On your Tuesday, please call us at
four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. I'd like to explore
a little bit more of you know, what life is
(17:34):
like for you and maybe the things that have been
epiphanies for you as you are understanding your place in
this world and what motivates your purpose to be the
best version of yourself that you can be. Yes, a
very interesting show today on news radio eleven ten KFAB
and recent on news radio eleven ten KFAB talking very
(17:55):
philosophically today we were talking about things that I was
just coming to a kind of a conclusion about what's
important to me and how I can live my best life.
And uh, I would love to be inspired by some
of the things that you've thought about on this and
our phone lines are open at four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Four oh two, five five eight
eleven ten is that number, and we have hey Zeus
(18:16):
on the line. Hey Zeus, welcome back. What's going on today?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Hey, how are you doing? Thanks for taking my call.
You know, I work with kids for a living. I'm
a coach. I've been doing this for like forty seven years.
And what you're going through and what you're talking about,
I see that with a lot of kids I've done
from young kids all the way up to college. It's
that search for meaning, that search for that purpose in life,
(18:44):
and we try to find it in success. What the
world says it is successful, and they say it's through trophies,
are through winning, are it's through money, It's through this
And it's not that all these things are bad, it's
just when you make it into the be all the
it's everything. I can't live without it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And people will.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Find out that when God created us, it created us
with the void in our heart that can only be
filled with a relationship with Jesus Christ. And that's where
you will find meaning and finding that relationship. Now God
didn't make us, so we automatically have to follow. He
(19:29):
has given us a free will to decide are we
going to follow the world? Are we going to follow
God through his son Jesus Christ. And with that free will,
you find out what you're made of. With that free will,
does it bring you crushing and crashing and finding yourself
(19:50):
feeling at the foot of the cross and saying, God,
I need you, I want you in my life. I
surrender my life now. Just because you're to become a
Christian or you're born again or saved, as the Bible says,
doesn't mean you're going to have a perfect life. But
you have somebody that's going to be there, that is
constantly that will never lead you, and that's God, and
(20:15):
he's there to help you. He's there to guide you
in your footstep. These are the things that he promises,
and he will never, never, never disappointment. The apostle Paul
says that I have had many I have had and
I've had you. But it's living that contentment with your
(20:35):
life with Jesus, and that's what it meant. That's purpose.
But we don't teach that anymore because we don't have
we don't have that Bible readily available to teach us
that we cannot do things without God. We need God
because we have that void in our heart for purpose.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, it's such a great, great point, Jeseus, and I
really appreciate you calling in with that today. Thank you
for listening, good bet, thank you find out. Yeah, you know,
and this I'm sure Matt, you can kind of attest
to this yourself as a guy who you know, you
said before we started twenty twenty five, one of the
things that you were really going to focus on is
you know your faith is going to be like taking
(21:18):
front and center of your life, and you want to
recenter around that. Yeah, and there's something about that that
is always there as long as you have the open heart.
And Tom sent an email and said, even before this call,
when you take your last breath of your relationship with God
is the only thing that ends up mattering. And that's
that's true if you're a faithful person or you're somebody
(21:39):
who is religious, especially in Christianity. I mean, everything kind
of builds around that nucleus, and there's just something that
kind of fills you up when you're able to kind
of recent to yourself on that I.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Think absolutely, Yeah, it's it's a gift that never seizes,
you know, and and it's it's it is a gift
that you have to receive, and I think that.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
But yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Heesus put it in a very eloquent and wonderful way,
and I agree with what he said.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's really cool that we have a chance to share
these things with ourselves or each other. And this intrinsic thought,
right is just me deciding making an executive decision that,
you know what, we can talk about ourselves every once
in a while on this show and how we feel
about different things that are happening in the world around us.
We get stuck, we get bogged down talking about international politics,
(22:27):
American politics, and you know, I just I found myself
coming to a you know, I don't know, a crossroads
isn't the right word for it. You know, It's just
sometimes you just kind of feel like you're just wandering
through life and you need to kind of find what
grounds you and makes you appreciative of the world that
(22:49):
you have around you. And today I just got woke
up by eleven degree weather when I just stood out
there and I was like, you know, sometimes you have
those moments where like thoughts just start racing like race
car around your frontal lobe and you're just like, you know,
you're just kind of like feeling it, like you feel
it happening in your head. And I don't know, there's
something so refreshing about just having that moment of like, hey,
(23:10):
I got some stuff figured out just now, Like I
want to chase that feeling of like, oh oh oh,
this is what I need to be thinking about right now.
I need to be here, I need to be present.
I need to be thinking about where I am, where
I'm standing, what's around me, how I'm affecting the world
around me, How I'm affecting my wife, my dogs, my house,
my neighbors, the birds, the groundhogs that potentially could be
(23:33):
living in my yard right the people that listen to
me on every day on the radio, how I'm affecting
their life. When you are able to start kind of
intrinsically looking at how you're approaching your life from that
standpoint and how these things affect you and you affect
them in turn, kind of that mutual relationship kind of
opens up opens up a couple of those little windows
(23:55):
of like, ah, clarity, Craig sends this email in I
just wanted to read this y before we move on. Hi, Emory,
thank you so much for your encouraging words. I've been
under the weather since Christmas. My health hasn't been the
best lately. I've been feeling sorry for myself and been
bitter about my world, my circumstances, and my life. I
needed your comments today to remind me just to concentrate
(24:16):
on the bubble I live in. I have a wonderful
wife and family, and I need to appreciate and what
I have rather than all the stuff that just doesn't matter.
Thank you, my friend, and you too, Matt and Craig.
I appreciate you for sending that note because those are
the kinds of words that make us feel fulfilled in
what we're doing. Because we are providing a public service.
We're here to entertain, but we're also here to inform.
(24:36):
But sometimes you just need to kind of have each
other as quasi therapists, if you will, you know, certainly
not certified, but just here to be good ears and
to listen to what people are thinking about on their
daily lives. Because we are a part of people's daily lives,
and you are a part of Mattini's daily life.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Absolutely, I'm going to do something I've never done before.
I'm going to make a second Gandolf reference in one hour. WHOA,
I think they call that the double Dolf. It's not
you know you mentioned wandering, right, Yeah, like wandering figuratively right. Yeah,
of course, Gandalf says, not all who wander are lost.
(25:14):
Sounds like there was a purpose for your wandering after all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
WHOA. That actually was incredibly pertinent to the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I am surprised, and the incredible pertinent drop that I
don't have good in front of me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I'm not surprised. There's still time, hold on, hold on
for people waiting for it. Here it comes. That's all
returned to the shire one more time.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
It's a throw toe of Baggins with his hairy feet
standing a wee bit three foot eight. But he's got
a big heart and he's got a friend, Sam Wise Gamchi.
That's right, let's not forget about Sam Wise Gamci also
known as Rudi for a Notesre Dame and he played
some other bit roles and other movies. Is where he's out,
(25:56):
Okay that the BET's coming down. He's giving me the
motion folks. It was fun, well it lasted.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Frodo was four feet one inches tall. You liarn is
the Time News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery Sunger talking
about my personal feelings and things that I have come
to some sort of understanding of. And that has happened
even just today as I filled my bird feeder up,
and I think I was rewarded today. You know, sometimes
(26:21):
when you have true care for nature in the world
around you, it feels like there's a payback in some way.
And I got to see starlings in my bird feeder
for the first time in a long time. I wonder
if that is some sort of sign that maybe I
need to be more intrinsic with myself more because I
(26:43):
don't see starlings in the bird feet of that often.
So as soon as I come inside, I look back
outside the window and I'm like, there are starlings eating
out of my bird feeder. Makes me feel like everything
that I've done today has been right, That's all I'm saying.
Cindy's on our phone line of four h two five
five at eleventon. Welcome Cindy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I wanted to contact a person whose name was Corey.
Corey called in about half an hour ago and he
said he had purchased a rain gauge and that was
important to him. But somehow the rain gauge got broken
three weeks after he had it by a family member.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, as his twelve year old ran it over with
a bike. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Yes, So living your best life is about making other
people happy. And here at Headwind Consumer Products in Syracuse, Nebraska,
we make rain gages. So if Corey could contact us
at Headwind Consumer Products, we would love to send him
a rain gauge.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That is fantastic, Cindy. I really appreciate you shouting Corey
out and hopefully Corey still listening to us. What's the name?
One more time?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Yes, just contact the manager Barry B. A. R. R
Y at head Wind Products dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Awesome, Cindy, Hey, that's awesome. Thanks so much for listening
and calling in.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Doesn't that make you all warm and fuzzy inside? It's
I love it when people love people. I mean, what an.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Hour of radio philosophy radio? This hour had it all.
Multiple Gandolf references, I Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
They both worked.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
I I am not a huge fan of you playing
the Lord of the Rings music because you got you
lost the plot on your philosophy for a second, because
you wanted to talk about Frodo and you got his
height wrong by a solid five inches.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
That's pretty remarkably close, I would say remarkably close.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
What Hobbits are like two to four feet tall mostly okay,
and he is just a hair taller than the average Hobbit.
So theoretically, yes, you were in the right range. But
there's only like twenty four inches that you would have
guessed and had like some sort of accurate ring, like
like level year. It's just like you've guessed harder things
(29:02):
and got them closer right.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
And I feel like that my record, my history, almost
is making a a a too harsh of an expectation
to get within five inches of Protos. Let's put it
this way, if this was the price is right, I'd still.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Be in the game.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I didn't overshoot it. I feel like if you undershoot it,
then at least you're right. At some point, at some
point in Proto's life, he was three foot eight. Say
that with specifics.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, but we don't have that documented. We don't actually
have any video video evidence that Seawan Aston was eight
inches at any point. Sean Aston, I mean Frodo Baggin. Sorry,
Sean Aston. He's talking about Sam Waitz Gamci. Yeah. Whatever
they both are, they're both hobbits.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm about to play the theme again. Don't play the theme.
I'm going to fly across this.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Remember that video of the guy that jumped over the
judges like desk yes and tried to like like grab her.
I'm going to do that to you if you play
that music again. Man, can we just get somebody to
film that. I don't know. Thomas says Starling's are trash birds.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Kes.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
No, there are no such things as trash birds. Every
bird is trying to be alive. Okay, birds to eat
from trash, they certainly are not. Starling's are loud, They
are obnoxious. They have a history and a reputation that
they bully other birds and sometimes eat the babies of
other birds, you know, kind of like blue jays. Look,
I'm not here to judge. I'm here to say if
they're coming to my bird feeder and I get a
(30:29):
chance to see them up close and personal, it tickles me. Pink, Sorry,
what do you want from me. That's where I'm at,
you know what I'm saying, Like, if parakeets decided to,
you know, come in, macaw parrots wanted to come in
and take you know, something out of the feeder, more
power to them, even if they're allowed and obnoxious. And
I don't really like them all that much. They're super colorful,
(30:50):
and I love the idea that I give a chance
to feed them. I'm helping them live their lives. That
makes me feel good about myself. Hey, Second Hour on
the Way News Radio eleven ten kfab
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