April 30, 2025 • 15 mins
The world wants you to think that YOU'RE the crazy one when truth is, the insane asylums have been opened and the crazy people are in charge and are all around you! It's time to pick a course and tell the world to take a hike. Here's how we're going to do it together.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
You know what?
I finally realized that beingthe nice guy just isn't cutting
it anymore.
And here's what I realized.
I realized that when you spendthe better part of your life
trying to please people and makeother people happy, and in so
many cases they turn around andthey don't like you anywhere or
they hate your guts or whateverit is, because nobody likes
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namby-pamby.
Nobody looks...
at people who are just kind ofmilquetoast and just kind of
sitting there like okayeverything's fine everything's
just wonderful because it ain'twonderful and it ain't fine and
people are going to hate yourguts no matter what you do so
you might as well be yourselfyou might as well go after your
convictions you might as wellfigure out what's important to
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you and just lay it down and saythis is what i stand for this is
who i am and to heck with therest of you It happens all the
time.
Have you ever noticed thatpeople, if you're like
codependent or dysfunctional,you've probably spent the better
part of your life trying to makeother people happier to please
them or make them like you or atleast make them not like you.
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And I've got more haters than Ican even count because I spent
my time trying to be just like,oh, whatever you want.
Okay, that's fine.
I won't make waves.
I've kind of had enough of that.
So Maybe you'll want to comealong in this journey, and I've
kind of boiled it down to a fewtypes of people I think might be
interested in this whole conceptof being yourself and looking at
(01:27):
the world and saying thatsomething's not right, something
just isn't right.
And you know what?
It's not me.
It's the weirdos that are aroundme, okay?
So first of all, you may be aperson who's tired of being what
I call a...
a spiritual orphan.
Like, you're trying to beCatholic, and whether you want
to, you know, again, if you'rewatching this, and whether
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you're Catholic, not Catholic,whatever, but my point is, for
those who are Catholic, is whenyou're trying to be a better
Catholic, man, does the peoplecome after you.
Like, It's like nobody wants youto be a better Catholic.
I'll tell you, for our ownfamily, for one.
Let's say you go to Mass onSunday.
You're supposed to have a familygathering in the afternoon, and
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you go to church that morning,and then you go, and it's like,
well, we went to church thismorning.
Oh, my gosh.
Other members are like, oh,well, I didn't go.
I slept in.
I didn't go.
We had to get ready for theparty.
There's almost this seething,like, who do you think you are
trying to be better than us?
It's like, wait a minute, I wentto Mass.
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That's what Catholics do onSundays, right?
Especially Sundays.
It's not a big deal.
It's kind of like, it's liketelling someone you got up and
you ate breakfast and they'reseething angry at you that you
actually ate breakfast.
It is the most ludicrous andcrazy thing.
So if you're a person who'strying to be a better Catholic,
you're trying to pray more andmeditate, read about the lives
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of the saints, you know, grow invirtue, overcome your faults.
You're really trying to be abetter person.
This is the place for youbecause this is where we're, I
want to talk about people whoare actually making a difference
in their life and to be a betterperson because most people don't
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even want to try to be a betterperson and they get ticked off
at you because you're actuallydoing something to be a better
person and especially on TeamCatholic.
I can't tell you how absolutelycrazy it is that people who say
they're Catholic don't even seemto want to be Catholic.
You know, you've got yourChristmas and Easter Catholics.
Oh, we'll go just as we'vealways done.
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The cultural Catholics.
Oh, we don't eat meat onFridays.
It's just what we do.
It's how we grew up.
All these just limp-wristed,non-committal type Catholics.
And it drives me nuts.
Like, aren't you even proud ofwho you are?
Aren't you proud to callyourself a Catholic?
Like, if you're on a, I don'tknow, a Super Bowl winning team,
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pick one, I don't know, SanFrancisco 49ers or some big
team, you tell people, I'm a49er.
I am a, you know, I get up, I goout and practice with my team.
I'm part of a big winning team,and we are devoted to winning.
Nobody would look...
Think twice about it.
They wouldn't look at you weirdor funny.
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Like, oh, yeah, well, you wantto be on a team.
You want to get to the SuperBowl.
That's what you have to do.
So rah, rah, I'm good for you.
I mean, you're not my team, butI really respect that.
And if you go to be a Catholic,you're like, hey, I want to go
to the Catholic Super Bowl.
That's heaven.
I want to get there.
I'm going to practice and do allthe stuff that I know I should
be doing, can be doing, and evenbeyond.
I want to go above and beyond.
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I want to be the Catholic whostays late, you know, arrives
really however you want tophrase that kind of thing.
And people look at you likeyou're some kind of freak, and
the ones who look at you likeyou're the freakiest are the
other Catholics.
Drives me mental.
We even have priests andbishops, and God rest his soul,
had a pope, who just, theyalmost look down on you for
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trying to be a Catholic.
Like, you want to be Catholic.
I don't want to be Hindu.
I don't want to be Muslim.
I don't want to be Protestant.
I don't want to be Jewish.
I want to be Catholic.
It's like, well, that's kind ofweird.
Why would you want to beCatholic?
You're on the team of Catholic,but you want to be Catholic?
You know, it's almost like theylook shocked.
Like you come to the door andyou're like, hi, I'd like to be
a Catholic.
Like, what?
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You want to be a what?
So this is for all the spiritualorphans, for the people who are
actually trying, who arestriving.
You know, and it says inScripture that the, you know,
the violent...
bear it away.
It's like the faithful doviolence to themselves,
overcoming their vices,overcoming their faults,
overcoming all the things thatwould keep them from heaven, and
(05:43):
they fight and they work on it.
So if you're one of thosepeople, I don't care if you're
confused.
I don't care if you're notreally sure what's going on
100%, but if you're tryingreally hard to be better, man,
this is the place for you.
Okay, I wrote these down.
Second point, Oh, you'redysfunctional.
Welcome to the club.
God bless you.
I'm so happy to have you.
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Chances are you grew up in adysfunctional home.
Everybody has.
There's always some kind ofdysfunction.
Somebody's not, you know,someone, whatever.
They're narcissistic or theywere just mean or all these
things.
You come out of a family unitand you got stuff.
You're like, man, this couldhave been better.
It wasn't that good.
And for those of you who are theblack sheep, the scapegoats, all
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the people who are looked downon, who just really didn't fit
into your family, welcome to theclub.
This is Dysfunction Depot, baby.
This is where it happens.
And I'm here to tell you thatwhen you look in the mirror...
You're the best dysfunctionalperson I've ever met.
But understand this, you arenever as dysfunctional as the
folks who got you to bedysfunctional.
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So keep that in mind.
If there's a competition forbeing the most dysfunctional, it
ain't you.
All right, got that out of theway.
Number three, you've been aself-help junkie for a long time
because you're really not big ontrusting others.
You probably grew up in anenvironment where it was hard to
trust those that you were aroundor...
(07:10):
I don't know, parents, family,brothers, sisters, teachers,
something in you just said, man,it's hard to trust other people.
People kind of let you down.
And you may have a hard timeeven trusting God as a father if
that was an issue for yougrowing up.
So maybe to some degree, you'vegot a trust issue, right?
And that's another badge ofhonor.
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It's like, okay, I've got atrust issue.
I have a hard time trusting God.
So I'm not even going to ask youto trust me.
I am going to be your non-guruguru.
We're going to talk about stuffand just things that may be on
your plate.
And you're like, aha, no oneever brought that up before.
So welcome to the club.
My point number four is youwant, if you're the person, if
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you want the truth, this is theplace where, you know, I'm
perfectly imperfect.
I don't, I'm not a holder oftruth.
truth, small t, but I'm comingat you from a place of big t
truth from what the CatholicChurch teaches, how it teaches
us to live and breathe andfunction and to get to heaven.
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So I base everything on acapital T.
And I'm going to throw thattruth at you whenever I can.
But I'm also going to throw youthe small t truth at you.
The best I know it, I'm notgoing to be dishonest with you.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm not going to throw stuff.
I'm not going to blow smoke atyou and Tell you black is white
and white is black because Ijust, I can't do that.
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And if you're like me, you'veprobably had enough of that
already.
You know, it's like the littleboy in The Emperor's New
Clothes.
He looks at a big old fat guywalking down the street and he's
naked and all these people arelike, oh, look, he's got the
most beautiful clothes.
Isn't he amazing?
Oh, how beautiful, spectacular.
And the kid's looking and youand I are looking and saying,
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the fat dude is naked.
He ain't got no clothes.
And then you walk away inconfidence because you saw what
you saw.
You trust your senses.
What you don't trust are all thepeople around you who are lying
to you left and right, who are,I don't know why, they're just
trying to save their skin,trying to fit in, trying to be
part of the crowd, trying to dowhatever they're doing.
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We don't fit in with the crowd.
You don't fit in with the crowd.
You probably never have and younever will.
Thank God for that.
So let's be excited about that.
Let's be excited that we're kindof wide-eyed.
We're kind of looking at theworld as it really is instead of
people lying to us.
And I've been called, what's it,curmudgeon, negative,
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melancholic, all these horriblethings.
When I point out things, I wasjust like, they're in front of
me.
You know, working at companieswhere they sit there and they're
looking for cheerleaders.
They're looking for the boss tocome down and say, hey, do this.
This is the best project thatever happened.
And isn't this amazing?
And they're like, wait a minute.
In my experience, I don't know,man.
And here's why.
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Here's my case and everything.
You know what?
Just sit down and shut up.
We're just going to do it thisway.
And then you do it like you'retold and everything falls apart
and it fails.
And it's not an I told you somoment.
It's a moment of, hey, just...
Just come to even thepossibility that you may have
been wrong and you want to trysomething, do something
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different.
And you can carry this out inany part of your life where you
try to look at thingsrealistically because you're not
fooling yourself, because you'renot lying to yourself.
And you're sick and tired ofpeople who look at you like
you're the crazy one becauseyou're looking at the same thing
they are It's not making anysense.
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It doesn't make you negative.
It makes you a realist.
It makes you a real person.
So glorify in that.
And number five, the big one,the big one, and I alluded to it
in the last one, is just you'resick and tired of pretending
that everything is fine.
It's not fine.
It's not fine.
It's not fine when you go to afamily get-together and...
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your family is either ignoringyou or they're not talking to
you or they're doing stuff thatyou're just like, you know,
again, you're trying to live abetter life and they're talking
about, you know, I don't know,going out and getting drunk and
everything or doing all thesecrazy things and you're just,
man, you don't fit in.
You want to call yourself ablack sheep?
Be a black sheep.
You're trying to live a betterlife based on what you were,
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well, maybe, hopefully taught orwhat you've learned is true and
See, that's the thing.
When you know you found truthand you try to live that truth,
we're back to full circle.
People don't want you to livethat way.
They want to live theircomfortable lives.
But you're going to get in aworld of hurt if you don't
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believe those lies.
If you don't fall in and say,everything's fine.
So I'm back to my emperor'sclothes analogy.
You're looking at the obvious.
You're like Captain Obvious.
This is black.
It's not white.
The sky is blue.
It's not purple.
That's a man, not a girl.
That's a girl, not a man.
Right?
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You're swept up in society.
You're supposed to be part ofeverything.
It's the whole don't make waves.
It's the crabs in the bucketthing.
You're trying to get out of thebucket because the bucket's
filled with crazy crabs.
It's like they let the insaneasylum out.
out and all these people are outthere and they're trying to
they're trying to drag you backinto the bucket of their
craziness so rejoice in beingindividual or rejoice in being
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yourself i've said it beforesaint francis sales said it he
says be who you are and be thatwell god created you to be a
certain way he created you asyou are so be the best you can
at that fight vice go for virtueand and when you look at the
world do it with with your eyesopen Quit falling for the
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garbage that everyone's throwingat you.
It really is.
It's like we're living in a timewhere all the insane asylums
have been let out.
All the crazy people are incharge.
All the crazy people are allaround you and living.
And they're trying to convinceyou that their crazy,
narcissistic, gaslighting viewof the world is the right one
and that you're the crazyperson.
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So I've got to...
Kind of a note for you.
You're not crazy.
Keep doing what you're doing.
But I just want you to know youhave a kindred spirit on this
journey.
This journey where you're tryingto be a better person and you
want someone to not lie to you.
You want someone to just say,hey, this is what I see.
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Here's what it is.
What do you see?
Tell me what you see.
Without all the garbage.
They call it fake news for areason.
They lie to you.
They just lie to you about whatis and what's going on in the
world.
And it's not going on.
And the cover ups.
You don't have to fall for it.
You don't have to go.
And there's people out there.
I know there's people out there.
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There's a lot of us out therewho aren't falling for it.
We're not going for it.
And I'm mad about it.
I'm mad that people sit thereand they try to force their
stuff on you.
And you've spent a good longtime convincing yourself that
you're the one who's messed up.
That you're the bad person.
That you're screwed up.
People have done a job on you.
They've done a job on us.
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And it's time to fight back.
It's time to say, no, that's nottrue.
No, that's not black, it'swhite, and on and on and on.
So that's the direction I'mheading.
If you want to join and stayalong, that's great.
If you have things you want totalk about, put them on YouTube,
put them in the comments.
And yeah, let's talk.
Let's go on this journey.
Let's have some fun because thisworld is absolutely beyond
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nutso.
So let's fight together.
If you want to call it fightingtogether, at least let's
commiserate together.
Let's get together and know thatwe're not crazy, that we're the
sane ones, and the rest of theworld, you better watch out.
So here we go.
I'm excited.
Hope you are too.
See you in the next episode.
You know what?
I finally realized that beingthe nice guy just isn't cutting
it anymore.
And here's what I realized.
I realized that when you spendthe better part of your life
trying to please people and makeother people happy, and in so
many cases they turn around andthey don't like you anywhere or
they hate your guts or whateverit is, because nobody likes
(00:21):
namby-pamby.
Nobody looks...
at people who are just kind ofmilquetoast and just kind of
sitting there like okayeverything's fine everything's
just wonderful because it ain'twonderful and it ain't fine and
people are going to hate yourguts no matter what you do so
you might as well be yourselfyou might as well go after your
convictions you might as wellfigure out what's important to
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you and just lay it down and saythis is what i stand for this is
who i am and to heck with therest of you It happens all the
time.
Have you ever noticed thatpeople, if you're like
codependent or dysfunctional,you've probably spent the better
part of your life trying to makeother people happier to please
them or make them like you or atleast make them not like you.
(01:02):
And I've got more haters than Ican even count because I spent
my time trying to be just like,oh, whatever you want.
Okay, that's fine.
I won't make waves.
I've kind of had enough of that.
So Maybe you'll want to comealong in this journey, and I've
kind of boiled it down to a fewtypes of people I think might be
interested in this whole conceptof being yourself and looking at
(01:27):
the world and saying thatsomething's not right, something
just isn't right.
And you know what?
It's not me.
It's the weirdos that are aroundme, okay?
So first of all, you may be aperson who's tired of being what
I call a...
a spiritual orphan.
Like, you're trying to beCatholic, and whether you want
to, you know, again, if you'rewatching this, and whether
(01:48):
you're Catholic, not Catholic,whatever, but my point is, for
those who are Catholic, is whenyou're trying to be a better
Catholic, man, does the peoplecome after you.
Like, It's like nobody wants youto be a better Catholic.
I'll tell you, for our ownfamily, for one.
Let's say you go to Mass onSunday.
You're supposed to have a familygathering in the afternoon, and
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you go to church that morning,and then you go, and it's like,
well, we went to church thismorning.
Oh, my gosh.
Other members are like, oh,well, I didn't go.
I slept in.
I didn't go.
We had to get ready for theparty.
There's almost this seething,like, who do you think you are
trying to be better than us?
It's like, wait a minute, I wentto Mass.
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That's what Catholics do onSundays, right?
Especially Sundays.
It's not a big deal.
It's kind of like, it's liketelling someone you got up and
you ate breakfast and they'reseething angry at you that you
actually ate breakfast.
It is the most ludicrous andcrazy thing.
So if you're a person who'strying to be a better Catholic,
you're trying to pray more andmeditate, read about the lives
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of the saints, you know, grow invirtue, overcome your faults.
You're really trying to be abetter person.
This is the place for youbecause this is where we're, I
want to talk about people whoare actually making a difference
in their life and to be a betterperson because most people don't
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even want to try to be a betterperson and they get ticked off
at you because you're actuallydoing something to be a better
person and especially on TeamCatholic.
I can't tell you how absolutelycrazy it is that people who say
they're Catholic don't even seemto want to be Catholic.
You know, you've got yourChristmas and Easter Catholics.
Oh, we'll go just as we'vealways done.
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The cultural Catholics.
Oh, we don't eat meat onFridays.
It's just what we do.
It's how we grew up.
All these just limp-wristed,non-committal type Catholics.
And it drives me nuts.
Like, aren't you even proud ofwho you are?
Aren't you proud to callyourself a Catholic?
Like, if you're on a, I don'tknow, a Super Bowl winning team,
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pick one, I don't know, SanFrancisco 49ers or some big
team, you tell people, I'm a49er.
I am a, you know, I get up, I goout and practice with my team.
I'm part of a big winning team,and we are devoted to winning.
Nobody would look...
Think twice about it.
They wouldn't look at you weirdor funny.
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Like, oh, yeah, well, you wantto be on a team.
You want to get to the SuperBowl.
That's what you have to do.
So rah, rah, I'm good for you.
I mean, you're not my team, butI really respect that.
And if you go to be a Catholic,you're like, hey, I want to go
to the Catholic Super Bowl.
That's heaven.
I want to get there.
I'm going to practice and do allthe stuff that I know I should
be doing, can be doing, and evenbeyond.
I want to go above and beyond.
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I want to be the Catholic whostays late, you know, arrives
really however you want tophrase that kind of thing.
And people look at you likeyou're some kind of freak, and
the ones who look at you likeyou're the freakiest are the
other Catholics.
Drives me mental.
We even have priests andbishops, and God rest his soul,
had a pope, who just, theyalmost look down on you for
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trying to be a Catholic.
Like, you want to be Catholic.
I don't want to be Hindu.
I don't want to be Muslim.
I don't want to be Protestant.
I don't want to be Jewish.
I want to be Catholic.
It's like, well, that's kind ofweird.
Why would you want to beCatholic?
You're on the team of Catholic,but you want to be Catholic?
You know, it's almost like theylook shocked.
Like you come to the door andyou're like, hi, I'd like to be
a Catholic.
Like, what?
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You want to be a what?
So this is for all the spiritualorphans, for the people who are
actually trying, who arestriving.
You know, and it says inScripture that the, you know,
the violent...
bear it away.
It's like the faithful doviolence to themselves,
overcoming their vices,overcoming their faults,
overcoming all the things thatwould keep them from heaven, and
(05:43):
they fight and they work on it.
So if you're one of thosepeople, I don't care if you're
confused.
I don't care if you're notreally sure what's going on
100%, but if you're tryingreally hard to be better, man,
this is the place for you.
Okay, I wrote these down.
Second point, Oh, you'redysfunctional.
Welcome to the club.
God bless you.
I'm so happy to have you.
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Chances are you grew up in adysfunctional home.
Everybody has.
There's always some kind ofdysfunction.
Somebody's not, you know,someone, whatever.
They're narcissistic or theywere just mean or all these
things.
You come out of a family unitand you got stuff.
You're like, man, this couldhave been better.
It wasn't that good.
And for those of you who are theblack sheep, the scapegoats, all
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the people who are looked downon, who just really didn't fit
into your family, welcome to theclub.
This is Dysfunction Depot, baby.
This is where it happens.
And I'm here to tell you thatwhen you look in the mirror...
You're the best dysfunctionalperson I've ever met.
But understand this, you arenever as dysfunctional as the
folks who got you to bedysfunctional.
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So keep that in mind.
If there's a competition forbeing the most dysfunctional, it
ain't you.
All right, got that out of theway.
Number three, you've been aself-help junkie for a long time
because you're really not big ontrusting others.
You probably grew up in anenvironment where it was hard to
trust those that you were aroundor...
(07:10):
I don't know, parents, family,brothers, sisters, teachers,
something in you just said, man,it's hard to trust other people.
People kind of let you down.
And you may have a hard timeeven trusting God as a father if
that was an issue for yougrowing up.
So maybe to some degree, you'vegot a trust issue, right?
And that's another badge ofhonor.
(07:31):
It's like, okay, I've got atrust issue.
I have a hard time trusting God.
So I'm not even going to ask youto trust me.
I am going to be your non-guruguru.
We're going to talk about stuffand just things that may be on
your plate.
And you're like, aha, no oneever brought that up before.
So welcome to the club.
My point number four is youwant, if you're the person, if
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you want the truth, this is theplace where, you know, I'm
perfectly imperfect.
I don't, I'm not a holder oftruth.
truth, small t, but I'm comingat you from a place of big t
truth from what the CatholicChurch teaches, how it teaches
us to live and breathe andfunction and to get to heaven.
(08:15):
So I base everything on acapital T.
And I'm going to throw thattruth at you whenever I can.
But I'm also going to throw youthe small t truth at you.
The best I know it, I'm notgoing to be dishonest with you.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm not going to throw stuff.
I'm not going to blow smoke atyou and Tell you black is white
and white is black because Ijust, I can't do that.
(08:36):
And if you're like me, you'veprobably had enough of that
already.
You know, it's like the littleboy in The Emperor's New
Clothes.
He looks at a big old fat guywalking down the street and he's
naked and all these people arelike, oh, look, he's got the
most beautiful clothes.
Isn't he amazing?
Oh, how beautiful, spectacular.
And the kid's looking and youand I are looking and saying,
(08:57):
the fat dude is naked.
He ain't got no clothes.
And then you walk away inconfidence because you saw what
you saw.
You trust your senses.
What you don't trust are all thepeople around you who are lying
to you left and right, who are,I don't know why, they're just
trying to save their skin,trying to fit in, trying to be
part of the crowd, trying to dowhatever they're doing.
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We don't fit in with the crowd.
You don't fit in with the crowd.
You probably never have and younever will.
Thank God for that.
So let's be excited about that.
Let's be excited that we're kindof wide-eyed.
We're kind of looking at theworld as it really is instead of
people lying to us.
And I've been called, what's it,curmudgeon, negative,
(09:42):
melancholic, all these horriblethings.
When I point out things, I wasjust like, they're in front of
me.
You know, working at companieswhere they sit there and they're
looking for cheerleaders.
They're looking for the boss tocome down and say, hey, do this.
This is the best project thatever happened.
And isn't this amazing?
And they're like, wait a minute.
In my experience, I don't know,man.
And here's why.
(10:02):
Here's my case and everything.
You know what?
Just sit down and shut up.
We're just going to do it thisway.
And then you do it like you'retold and everything falls apart
and it fails.
And it's not an I told you somoment.
It's a moment of, hey, just...
Just come to even thepossibility that you may have
been wrong and you want to trysomething, do something
(10:22):
different.
And you can carry this out inany part of your life where you
try to look at thingsrealistically because you're not
fooling yourself, because you'renot lying to yourself.
And you're sick and tired ofpeople who look at you like
you're the crazy one becauseyou're looking at the same thing
they are It's not making anysense.
(10:44):
It doesn't make you negative.
It makes you a realist.
It makes you a real person.
So glorify in that.
And number five, the big one,the big one, and I alluded to it
in the last one, is just you'resick and tired of pretending
that everything is fine.
It's not fine.
It's not fine.
It's not fine when you go to afamily get-together and...
(11:07):
your family is either ignoringyou or they're not talking to
you or they're doing stuff thatyou're just like, you know,
again, you're trying to live abetter life and they're talking
about, you know, I don't know,going out and getting drunk and
everything or doing all thesecrazy things and you're just,
man, you don't fit in.
You want to call yourself ablack sheep?
Be a black sheep.
You're trying to live a betterlife based on what you were,
(11:31):
well, maybe, hopefully taught orwhat you've learned is true and
See, that's the thing.
When you know you found truthand you try to live that truth,
we're back to full circle.
People don't want you to livethat way.
They want to live theircomfortable lives.
But you're going to get in aworld of hurt if you don't
(11:52):
believe those lies.
If you don't fall in and say,everything's fine.
So I'm back to my emperor'sclothes analogy.
You're looking at the obvious.
You're like Captain Obvious.
This is black.
It's not white.
The sky is blue.
It's not purple.
That's a man, not a girl.
That's a girl, not a man.
Right?
(12:13):
You're swept up in society.
You're supposed to be part ofeverything.
It's the whole don't make waves.
It's the crabs in the bucketthing.
You're trying to get out of thebucket because the bucket's
filled with crazy crabs.
It's like they let the insaneasylum out.
out and all these people are outthere and they're trying to
they're trying to drag you backinto the bucket of their
craziness so rejoice in beingindividual or rejoice in being
(12:37):
yourself i've said it beforesaint francis sales said it he
says be who you are and be thatwell god created you to be a
certain way he created you asyou are so be the best you can
at that fight vice go for virtueand and when you look at the
world do it with with your eyesopen Quit falling for the
(12:59):
garbage that everyone's throwingat you.
It really is.
It's like we're living in a timewhere all the insane asylums
have been let out.
All the crazy people are incharge.
All the crazy people are allaround you and living.
And they're trying to convinceyou that their crazy,
narcissistic, gaslighting viewof the world is the right one
and that you're the crazyperson.
(13:21):
So I've got to...
Kind of a note for you.
You're not crazy.
Keep doing what you're doing.
But I just want you to know youhave a kindred spirit on this
journey.
This journey where you're tryingto be a better person and you
want someone to not lie to you.
You want someone to just say,hey, this is what I see.
(13:44):
Here's what it is.
What do you see?
Tell me what you see.
Without all the garbage.
They call it fake news for areason.
They lie to you.
They just lie to you about whatis and what's going on in the
world.
And it's not going on.
And the cover ups.
You don't have to fall for it.
You don't have to go.
And there's people out there.
I know there's people out there.
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There's a lot of us out therewho aren't falling for it.
We're not going for it.
And I'm mad about it.
I'm mad that people sit thereand they try to force their
stuff on you.
And you've spent a good longtime convincing yourself that
you're the one who's messed up.
That you're the bad person.
That you're screwed up.
People have done a job on you.
They've done a job on us.
(14:25):
And it's time to fight back.
It's time to say, no, that's nottrue.
No, that's not black, it'swhite, and on and on and on.
So that's the direction I'mheading.
If you want to join and stayalong, that's great.
If you have things you want totalk about, put them on YouTube,
put them in the comments.
And yeah, let's talk.
Let's go on this journey.
Let's have some fun because thisworld is absolutely beyond
(14:48):
nutso.
So let's fight together.
If you want to call it fightingtogether, at least let's
commiserate together.
Let's get together and know thatwe're not crazy, that we're the
sane ones, and the rest of theworld, you better watch out.
So here we go.
I'm excited.
Hope you are too.
See you in the next episode.
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