Ep. 23 "We The People Are Ready"

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Welcome to episode twenty three of theoriginal Unspoken Podcast with host Dan and Donna
Wilson. So I'm going to pouryou a little bit of this bourbon.
It's a black feather bourbon given tome by a friend of mine. I'm
looking forward to that. We havetwo today, two friends gave me each

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a bottle. You have two friends. Well, I know you're expanding your
circle. I'm gonna put this foryou in this little sniffer cup. That's
a great idea. We were inHollywood. For me, it was the
first time. It was a monthor so ago, and you know,
I thought Dan came with me onthis trip. It was it was business

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for me. He came along forthe ride, and before we jetted out
of town, I thought, youknow, I want to visit a local
cigar bar on make the most ofthis. And I knew that would be
something interesting for the both of usbecause it's it's become a favorite pastime for
me on something that originally interested you, and I want to be involved in

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your life that way. So whenwe travel, visiting local cigar bars is
a highlight for both of us.Antiqui bars and cigars. This is episode
twenty three of the Unspoken Podcast doa little Google search for local cigar bars
in Hollywood. Didn't want to dothe Beverly I mean, I'm part of

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me wanted to do the Beverly Hillsthings. I'm the one that said absolutely
not come on Beverly Hills. ButI thought, Okay, that's a little
a little high flute, and well, they're going to charge twenty dollars for
a five dollars stick or probably acover just to even get in, and
then who knows from there. I'ma cheapskate. So we think, okay,
Hollywood, let me see what's outthere. Find one in an Internet

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search that seems to be attainable forus Idahoan's in Hollywood and look more unassuming,
relaxed, and we're ubering wherever wego. So we got to be
decisive on this one. So wemake it to the corner where our uber
driver left us off and it's like, oh, we're kind of eking down

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Hollywood or what what is it,Hollywood Boulevard. I don't know, Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard. And I'm like,I don't know. I think the further
down we got it, it wasa little dicey but we got out on
the corner because again, you don'tyou don't have a lot of margin for
error when you're ubering. It's goingto cost you if you change your mind.

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What did you think when we pulledup to that establishment? It was
a very unassuming little establishment. Yeah, look to picturesque. So are we
both having the black feather? Weare? Okay, cheers. I got
a good ring that time. Wedidn't even have to do take two and
half of it, come in withextra effects or anything that work out.

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Yeah, I was an interesting building. It was unassuming on a corner next
to a Delhi. It was duskas we were walking in, and so
we opened that front door and walkedinto the establishment, a very big,
open air room with couches and tables, sort of similar to what you see

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in a cigar lounge. And thenwe were immediately met by a wall of
a man who looked like he wasan enforcer. Yeah, a bouncer maybe,
big old dude. Dan's a bigguy. You're a big guy,
and this guy had had some prettyserious size on you. Yeah. So

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when he says we were met withhim, he the dude jumped up,
comes straight toward us and I'm thinking, what did we just walk what do
we just walk into? What arewe being met with here? What did
we do? A couple of dudesand suits sitting around, and then guys
in shorts and T shirts. Therewas apparently no dress code, but they

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were friendly, friendly, but justa twinge of uneasiness when it was almost
like too much attention, too fast, right with all eyes on us,
kind of I thought I walked intoa Godfather scene. It is what it
started to feel like. And thenwhat, well, we got taken back

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into the little room off of thebig room. The room that had it
had a point of sale counter,and it had a display case, a
humid or display case of these cigars. And immediately I'm like, what did
we just walk into? Because Idid not recognize one single cigar in that

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case, had never seen this brand, and it became immediately apparent that these
cigars were proprietary. So then we'remobbed, right, So I'm walking in
and with you on my on myon my side, and we get taken
back to see what's behind the curtain, so to speak. And we've talked

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about the cowboy in Hollywood and thatthat was the attire for the evening,
Dan walks in and his black cowboyhat, So it was an immediate standout
from what's typical in Hollywood or HollywoodBoulevard. So the big brick of a
man that is leading me back topurchase these cigars is preempted by a little

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Ricky Ricardo. For those of youknow who Ricky Ricardo is. I love
Lucy's husband, Desi arnez So.And he's dressed extremely chic, open collar
shirt, you know, expensive suitjackets, slacks, hair quoift, slick,

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whatever you call that, and bulkyexpensive watch. Yeah yeah, yeah,
probably on the and he asks me, where are you from? Are
you from Texas? Because I'm wearinga Cowboyhattan the only place that anybody wears
a hat, they have to befrom Texas, right, must be?
I said, no, from NorthIdo. And he immediately says, oh,

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we're opening up a cigar bar inin Boise. I said, well,
yeah, that's about eight hours away, and he names the Cigar Lounge,
and I happened you and I happento be fans of this lounge.
We've been there before in a Meridian, and so we happen to know the

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same establishment in the same owner.Apparently there's a collaboration. I don't know
if it's a brand new venue orwhether or not they're combining the old and
the new. I'm not I stilldon't know what that is. But immediately
we were family and we were invitedto sit at his booth, this this
Ricky Ricardo, if you will,and his investment banker, and they're trying

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to tell us, really quick though, how to buy all these cigars and
they're proprietary, and he starts ramblingabout this, that and the other,
and I'm getting lost, and I'mlike, Okay, I'm gonna take one
of those. We'll take two ofthose immediately. No, no, no,
no, you can't. You can'thave both the same. You have
to try one because a man's paletteis different than a woman's palette. Remember

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that, remember that plane? Yeahyeah, now I'm looking. There's no
prices on these cigars. That's kindof a little bit of a warrnant.
So we each take our cigars andthen we're offered a drink. No,
we don't want to drink. Atthat time, I was I was behaving
myself, drinking kooniak, some kooniak, and I'm a whiskey man anyway,
not really way it's being presented.I got to I got to well know

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the way it's being kind of presentedwith the Kooniak. It's his special blend.
It's it's almost like it's on thehouse. Fortunately we were we learned
later, or fortunately we were discerningenough to just be like, oh,
yeah, you know, we hada couple of drinks earlier. So we're
kind of laying low right now.So we get these cigars. I clip

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yours and light it, clip mine, light it. We're sitting down at
the VIP set. I guess andI still don't know who this guy is,
but he tells us he's the ownerof the cigar company. Because guess
what, we figure out no othercigars. They're proprietary and he owns his
own line of cigars. Never heardof them before, never heard of them
before, but whatever. So we'resitting down, we're listening to him talk

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to this other dude who happens tobe an investment banker and he's high fluting
and they're gonna make this company gopublic, but first we have to have
a Since we're not drinking, we'rejust gonna have a cup of water,
little glass of water, and heinsists we had the big cubes in it.
So anyway, setting this story up, well, yeah, and we

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were told that it's important when yourcigars resting too. There were special slots
in the water glasses a regular tumbler, but any and it was too you
can rest your cigar on top ofthe glass because it appropriately cools in between
while the cigars resting, and thisis important to the smoking process. Sure.

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Yeah, well I'm calling bs becauseI've smoked cigars for how many years
and never had to cool one downyet. So anyway, we're sitting down
and all of a sudden, asI am smoking my cigar and listening to
Ricky Ricardo who is talking very fast, sucking the life out of you fast,

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and going on and on and onabout everything, We've basically come to
the conclusion that this owner happens tobe a businessman, and he keeps throwing
around the fact that he's a billionaire. Yeah, and I'm thinking, yeah,
whatever, bro. Yeah. Asthe conversation progressed, we were being
told that if if we ever sohappened to make a trip, you know,

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he was surprised at our lack ofbeing world travelers, experienced world travelers.
So if we ever did make atrip to the country that he was
from, yeah, then um,you know he owned some castles, yeah,
and he would cover all that.We'd be welcome to stays because we're
family and you know, because we'refamilies of the cigar brand, and we

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could drink his wine and his kneiakand all this stuff. So we're sitting
there and listening to the billionaire tellus all about his business adventures. And
he's talking a million miles a minuteand never stops talking about himself and his
accomplishments, which I guess we're impressive, but we're you and I are just

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trying to listen to observe, right, and it was you know, originally
it was unique. Originally we're thinkingand actually, well I maybe do this.
You can clip our thoughts. Let'smove forward. Speaking of cigars,
which one which ones are these?All? Continue the story here in a
second, But which ones are thesedrew estates? They are the Undercrown,

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Maduro's where smoke at the Toros fiftyring gage hundred and fifty two millimeters in
length, well known, old faithfullove these things not a high flute Hollywood
proprietary cigar. This is good oldfaithful, good old faithful. I'm light
years out for you. By theway, we originally thought walking into this

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Hollywood cigar bar that it was goingto be a nice getaway for the two
of us a romantic date night.Became pretty apparent from the moment we walked
in the door we were kind ofbeing mobbed or sequestered in a way.
So that that's a little backpedaling toto say we end up sitting, you

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know, in a seating area withthis guy who who owns the shop.
Turns out owns castles were quickly learningbillionaire status. I'm still thinking I can't
wait to step away from all this, reflect on it and verify because they
were over the top and that too, never once inquiring anything about I mean,

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we could have just been anybody,so we could be somebody or nobody.
They'd never know. Well, I'vesmoked cigars thirty years. I'm a
cigar enthusiast. I've litten lit manycigars. Thank you for correcting that I
had almost exploded. I have litmy own cigars on many, many occasions.

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Dare I say a couple thousand times? Dan smoking his proprietary cigar,
and Ricky Ricardo essentially rips it rightout from your lips, just right away,
rips it away, and he's like, I gotta get the guy.
I gotta light this for you.You gotta know, we gotta get this

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burning right. And I sat there, I thought, oh, oh,
how's this gonna go. So hegrabs a cigar and again in his flashy
baby blue suit coat, and hetakes his little flame burns the end of
my cigar over and over and overagain, and then he finally hands it

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back to me. And from thatpoint forward, it never burned correctly.
So I'm thinking, okay, I'mI'm gonna you know, I'm gonna carry
on, gonna put the h Imean, we're here now, we're here
now, so we're all right now. And now I want to hear all
the stories. So I'm hearing theinvestment banker and his story about how he's
multimillion dollar entrepreneur that was driving uberstwo years ago when he lost his fortune.

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You know, just typical me me, me, me me stuff.
And so while you and the twogentlemen are continuing the conversation, I have
to get up and buy another cigar. I walk over, and, by
the way, do you remember whatthe billionaire told you about the the Gucci
bag that he had come out withhis own line, and how much that

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Gucci bag was that was sitting inthere, oh, right there, right
there in the cigar shop. Hehas been in my ear that he had
his own line of snakeskin or luxuryluxury. Everything that he said was the
luxury, luxury, luxury cigars.And I'm thinking luxury cigars. That's a
bad sign. Yeah, we've alreadychosen to Dan's getting in for a third,
so he's talking to you about theeighty thousand dollars handbag and wout our

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wallet, whipout eighty thousand bucks.You know, like, is there something
about the way I walked in herethat was indicative of a person who was
going to buy an eighty thousand dollarshands like a multimillion dollars bucks? Say
thank you. I walk over tothe uh, the little hostess that was
guarding the proprietary cigars. And bythe way, the ring gages on most

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of these things were over sixty Imean, they were huge, fatter than
what I would normally smoke. Iwalk over and I say, hey,
I'll take one of these, andI can't even tell you now which one
it was. And I said,now, so how much do I owe
you so far for these? Andthe sticks were over thirty dollars apiece.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I don't think in my entire life,

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even when I was down in Mexicobuying cubans, did I ever pay
more than twenty dollars maybe twenty twodollars for a cigar, let alone thirty
dollars to thirty five dollars for acigar that I've never heard of, no
name, and they tasted, inmy opinion, like garbage. Mine was

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okay, but it had a prettyeven burn throughout. I think you lit
it so and then I had noissue. It wasn't ripped from my mouth
to be re lit or you knowthat it was done incorrectly and first place.
So my mine was okay, Butdefinitely one of those funny scenarios.

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It's so subjective, kind of liketop shelf liquor. Yeah, that somebody
could be paying a thousand dollars weirdlike weirdly high prices, a thousand dollars
a shot for some untouchable kind oftop shelf liquor, and I think,
Okay, it goes down the hatchin one end and out the other,

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and it's so subjective as to what, and it messes with your head that
this is something that's luxury or premiumbecause of the way it's presented to you.
Look, being in Hollywood, youanticipate you're going to be paying a
premium, so there's there's no allusionto you know that you're you're going to
spend some bucks when you're in LaSo it wasn't like that, and it's

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not like that's going to devastates However, I just didn't like it, right.
I didn't like the cigar, Ididn't like the atmosphere. I was
really I was really me out.Yeah. From a communication standpoint, is
more of a there are people whofeed your soul and refresh you Michael,
yes, and then there are instanceswhere you have an encounter with somebody socially

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and the communication sucks out your soul. I mean, that's a way I've
always described it. We used theexcuse that we had an early morning flight,
which we did, so I orderedour uber and we were able to
get out of there. But itwas confirmed later on. This individual absolutely
is a multi billionaire, very successfulindividual. I wasn't believed. I spent

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really that whole time in the cigarshop Hollywood Boulevard not believing what I was
being told. But we did it. I mean from the references. Yea.
The dude, as far as Ican tell from what I researched later
on, is absolutely truthful as muchas any of us are, and truly
has the lines of the things thathe says. But he did charge us

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two dollars for those little little icecubes. By the way, oh,
two dollars for the water because theconiac sells for six hundred bucks of bottle.
So yeah, imagine that shot.Well, we're lucky. We're lucky
we walked away. These could havebeen hundred, one hundred and twenty dollars
a piece. Cigars we didn't know. Really, Yeah, so we're I
mean at the thirty dollars mark,we got off. We got off pretty

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easy. I guess the moral tothe story is just because you are rich,
famous, weren't you impressed? Imean when you when you went and
verified. Okay, we not onlysat next to a billionaire, we were
ushered in with him. Invited tosit at his table, so to speak.
He wanted his picture taken with you. So when we verified he was

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who said he was, he actuallyposted that picture on his official did I
mean weren't weren't didn't you? Weren'tyou feeling pretty good about that? Or
not? Really? Why not?Never been a lover of celebrities. Do
you feel like he was ever actuallylistening? Did he inquire about it?
Felt like the entire time it wasa complete sales job and it was all

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about status and all the people thathe kept running back and forth to and
the investment banker. Just odd,genuine people is what I miss? Yeah,
when we're in those situations, right, yeah, I mean, we
spent last night with Michael and Luannare our absolute favorite next door neighbor neighbors,
and we spent what three or fourhours, and you just come away

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from their feeling completely refreshed. Michaelis not a billionaire. Just case there's
any misunderstanding, oh, I mean, maybe it is. He's hiding it
from our groundskeeper. Now. Itwas a great reminder of how we are
all the same, We are allequal under God. Some people have more

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resources than others, but at theend of the day. You're either a
good person towards other people or you'renot. And in this case, I
don't know. I guess I wasjust bored senseless over having to listen to
all of the achievements. Well,I mean, we live in a world
where we have easy access to otherpeople. And look at how this is

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confirmed in what we just shared withyou, that it was a simple decision
to find an unassuming cigar bar inHollywood, and beknownst to us, we're
being ushered in to something that putsus in direct communication with a guy who's

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a billionaire multiple times over. Yeah, we have easy access to other people.
We know too much about another person'slife because of what's shared on a
variety of platforms. In that case, guy was sharing about himself and something

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that we've talked quite a bit aboutand we're going to talk more about it
right now, is people sharing onthemselves with zero ability to inquire about another
person. I was joking with ourneighbors last night, Michael and lu An
who you just mentioned we got togetherthis Really, when you're in communication meeting

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another person, it almost becomes asuperpower. You know, when you're a
little kid, if you had asuperpower, what would it be? And
it's like, well, I wouldchoose invisibility because I want to be in
a room or in a scenario whereI'm invisible. Well guess what you got
it? You got the superpower.Because this is the way our world has
been trained. There that majority ofthe time, as you're meeting other people,

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what are they going to talk about? They're going to talk about themselves
and they're not going to turn itand ever genuinely ask about you use it
as a superpower. Will come backto that later. But we know so
much about other people's lives because ofwhat's shared on a variety of platforms.
It's daily routines, habits, likesand dislikes, information about family members,

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kids, progress in life, grandkids, travel plans, all of it.
Right now, before you say wellI'm talking about you, I don't.
I don't have social media. Sowhoever you are, whether it's a Dan
or whoever, you cannot rule yourselfout. If you're still trolling these platforms,
and we all do it, it'seasy to gain access to other people.

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And this is something that Dan andI have talked about at nauseum.
I just want to use that phrase. It's possible that this is the part
Dan and I have talked about.It's possible that as humans we were never
created to operate effectively when no allof these things about other people, many

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of whom we have no real relationships. Yes, and the more you and
I have talked about it, Iagree. That's why I don't have Facebook.
There was a time that you hadto know a person or their family
personally and exert effort to stay intouch, genuinely inquire about them, their
health and all the things that wereimportant to them. If the relationship was

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mutually beneficial, you both had towork at communication. There was value in
it, and it cost you somethingto pursue that. But now we've been
immersed exponentially into what I call bargainbasement communication. It's cheap. You've got
a problem with somebody, go ventabout it on your favorite platform, Sit

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back and wait for your flying monkeysto come to your defense, to come
alongside you and justify your feelings.Ye oh wait, wait, wait,
but it's not a problem because you'veblocked the culprit. You've blocked them so
they'll never see it. The personwho's the source of your problems they're never
going to know that you're defaming them. It's cheap. Or you've got something

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you want to say, it's ait's a hot current topic and I just
got to get off my chest.Well, here's a free platform to voice
your opinions. And it gets better. There's a playground monitor, so if
anyone's mean or offends you, theycan be reported, block, banned,
and banished from your kingdom. Bythe way, on Instagram, I think

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one more, Yeah, you're out, You're out, and after all,
this is your kingdom, something youcan control, an entire world centered around
you and only you. It's apretty good feeling, feels good. It's
like the grade school play ard.When you think about it, we're regressing,

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not progressing. And communication then sometimesyou leave your social kingdom to explore
somebody else's you notice they say ordo something you don't like. On impulse,
you lash out with no regard ofconsequences. It's easy, it's cheap,
it's free. Actually it feels great. But were we meant for more

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than that? Communication has hit rockbottom. But we had a friend share
something today that got Dan and Italking, and it's this. Most people
listen to respond or most people.Yeah, they listen to respond. They
don't listen to listen to learn orto understand. We're listening to defend our

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position, to reinforce our importance,why we matter, why we're here.
The insecurities are mind blowing, andit's human nature. That's all of us
insecurity, cloaked as bold, braveand somehow extraordinary, when in reality it's

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watered down, cheap polyester suit,used car salesman, kind of dripping,
slimy words. And why because wehave something to protect. We crave validation
and importance in the eyes of otherpeople. But we don't want to do
that if it's not easy, ifit doesn't make us feel good or feel

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better, it's instantaneous gratification. Sohow do we reverse course? Maybe it's
too late. Here are some practicalchanges that I thought a lot about.
I know Dan has two because againwe talk about this comes up, like
every time we go out, itcomes up. Cigar bar on Hollywood Boulevards

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one small example, but every timewe go out, here's this. You
don't need to quit your social platforms, but if you're engaging in a way
and it's knee jerk, stop,if you're emotional. Now emotional is it's

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not always like negative, I'm mad. Maybe you're pumped up with delight,
you feel proud, you're excited.On the other side, maybe fuming with
anger. Wait a few days,even wait twenty four hours. It's pretty
wild how your ability to make soundjudgment increases, I mean probably eighty to

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when you remove emotion from the equation. And that can happen if you just
wait, you know, is iteven important anymore? If you, after
a day of thinking about it,focus more on how you can provide thoughtful
responses to others, but do itin a private message, and what does

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that reinforce? Because when you thinkabout it, when you're commenting on something
on a variety of these platforms,you're really, in a way looking to
gain something by coming across as thegood guy or joining an entourage of people
who agree with you. But ifyou're reaching out in private, you're really

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only in support of the person who'seither celebrating or struggling. Bringing it back
to personal communication, you're not lookingto gain favor. But actually it's a
tiny small step of investing in anotherperson when you have no other you're not
looking for other social support in that. That's one quick idea. Another is

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consider other forms of valuable or expensivecommunication instead of this idea of cheap It's
not that you can't brighten a person'sday and a quick comment. But if
you truly have a message to bringto the world, are you willing to
sacrifice by writing a book that mightseem extreme? How about producing a podcast?

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Something that Dan and I have chosento do, and it comes at
a cost that sometimes you feel tired. Sometimes you feel like I don't know
what my messages anymore, I'm losingtrack of that. But I want to
be a voice for good. I'mnot qualified to talk about this, not
qualified, And those are things thathe and I both fight constantly. You

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listen back to yourself, I'm notqualified. Why am I doing this?
How about leading or meeting with alocal group, starting a networking group or
forum? Do you believe and whatyou have to contribute enough that you're compelled
to make personal sacrifices to disperse yourmessage and employ positive change? Now,

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Look, we can't just blame socialmedia for ruining communication and changing the way
that we relate to people. Isit an aspect, Yeah, it's huge.
Has it changed the world we livein. Yeah, but rather than
playing a victim on this subject,which is easy to do, it's time

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to be more intentional. If youhave the capacity do something you never dreamed
of doing. That's a form ofexpensive communication, it's going to cost you
something. At minimum, it's goingto cost you more of your time.
Maybe it'll cost you something monetarily.It might come at the cost of bravery,

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which really, if you look atbravery is what it is, it's
a response to fear. That meansthere's going to be fear present. Bravery
isn't possible. Bravery doesn't exist inthe absence of fear. Don't forget that
top tier, top shelf expensive communication, the way you relate to people,

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it's going to cost you more thanprobably what it's costing you right now.
So we've all got work to do. We all do, and like I
was saying, for Dan and I, we've chosen to take the time and
expense. You know, we wantto produce quality. We don't want to
do something that's half baked, halfwaythought through the lowest level investment of time.

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So sometimes it takes time before we'rein production. Between episode twenty three
and twenty four, because you wantto vet out what is it. I'm
trying to say, what if Iam bringing value to this world despite all
the friction and negativity in the directionthat I think it's going. If I'm

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going to bring value, it isgoing to require something more of me.
Yeah, cheap communication is just that. Communication can bring so much good.
It can also bring bad. Butyou've hit it on the head when you
say that we have cheap communication today, right, bargain basement, bargain basement

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polyester suit used car lot. Isaw a post the other day where somebody
said, in essence, if you'retexting me and then immediately pick up the
phone and call me, basically you'rea schmuck, meaning, bro, if
we're texting, don't call me.And I'm just the opposite. I do

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text all the time now because itis now a form of communication, but
I hate it, absolutely hate it. And I pick up the phone and
call people. And I'm thinking,if you're texting me right now, you
have the time to talk, ormaybe you're in a meeting or whatever.
That's on you. But if I'mcalling you, I'm calling you for a

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reason. The kids that drives mecrazy. We all have You and I
both have teenagers and adult children whothey'll text you something and then it's too
complicated to try to text back,so you call and they don't answer the
dang phone. And they've been trainedby the world that we're in that and

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part of it's funny, I mean, there's the funny aspect of what you're
calling me. Are you some kindof freak or something? Well, you
know, in the line of mywork, one of the things that I
do is I go and I consultfor construction, defect for attorneys, and
I am continually amazed when I startto do in my investigation and I realize

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that people are making hundred, multiplehundreds of thousands of dollars deals not by
email, not by a written contract, but agreements via text message. And
I am not joking. Well,I mean it's happening in my line of
work. It happens. I meansometimes daily weekly. You've got to go

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back to all different messaging platforms,not even email anymore, where you can
quickly run a search, but youhave to remember what messaging platform these agreements
are being made on. Out ofcontrol, It really is, and it's
stupid. One of my mentors growingup I say, crying up. One

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of my mentors when I was ayoung businessman it's an adult ault, was
Gary Moore. Gary Moore was amajor in the Broward County Sheriff's Department in
Florida, and I built him ahouse twenty years ago. Gary was old

(35:07):
school. He did communicate via email. But you know what was unique about
Gary. Every once in a while, I would get a hand written letter
from him, might be one ortwo paragraphs, but he'd put a stamp
on that envelope, address it tome and send it. And I always

(35:30):
enjoyed getting those cards from him,and it really taught me the power and
the genuineness of sending out a handwrittencard to people. We both talked this
week about our kid's birthdays. Wehad three birthdays in our family, all

(35:55):
within the span of less than twoweeks. And most of these birthdays that
our kids are out of state.So how much rigmarole is it to get
a gift certificate and even send thoseAnd I'm thinking, man, back in
the day, when I was akid, we look forward to a box

(36:20):
with wrapping paper on it and itwas addressed, because it made you feel,
hey, this is this is kindof you know, my special occasion,
and we've become so informal that eventhose things are lost because of the
bottom bargain cheap communications. I thinkit's always good to keep in mind that

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people still do need other forms ofcommunication. It's a it's a form of
intelligence. When I write something outmy hand, I'm far more thoughtful than
I am when I text. AndI think that we need to all of
us work hard at not losing Myhandwriting is getting bad about yours? Yeah,

(37:07):
mine's bad. I'm writing less.And I looked at my handwriting the
other day and I said, thislooks like crap, and that you know,
we can add that to the listof what can I do to combat
this? If you just want tostart somewhere small handwrite a note or journal
to somebody. Dan Dan journals often, if not every day, and so

(37:30):
he's in practice of doing that.That that could be one method. Is
I haven't been doing it as much, yep, And I've noticed a declining
of that skill set. Yeah.But I really like what you have to
say because I think it is poignantto today. I think that it is
important that as we're talking about thiscommunication, whether it's people that talk NonStop

(37:55):
about themselves and don't want to knowanything about you. Or the text messages
that are trite or you know,an angry tweet or whatever you want to
you know, or the text messagethat's question mark, question mark, question
mark. Those are my favorite.I sent one question not multiple, but

(38:17):
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appreciate everybody that uses that code.I'm gonna switch for a second. This
black Feather whiskey, given to meby my buddy Matt, is a pretty

(40:53):
doggone good American whiskey. How doyou like that? Thinking about it,
Dan caught me off guard because Iwas just taking a small I did so
much talking. I wasn't trying thisout here. But this is another very
smooth, easy caramel. It isyeah, easy to take. Um,

(41:19):
just a really good whiskey that nowI've enjoyed this straight because a lot of
times you'll have you'll have a harsher. I guess you could say whiskey
that you almost have to drop alittle water or put a cuban. But
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a couple of minutes, we're goingto switch over to this Angel's Envy.
We're going to talk a little bitabout the topic that we discussed last month

(42:12):
and in episode sixteen, which isGood Times and Bad Times and getting ready
for it, I'm going to talkabout the scar a little bit. I
did not give you the history ofthis Drew States undergrown Maduro cigar. Allegedly,
as the legend has it, therollers in the factory, we're smoking

(42:37):
too many of the good cigars,and management came in and said, you
guys got to quit doing that.We actually have to sell these things.
So the rollers came up with theirown blend. And the reason I say
this has got to be true becauseit's on the Drew Estate's website, must
be true. So this this cigarwas born out of necessity by the rollers

(43:00):
that needed to have their good qualitysmokes. I have loved this cigar for
a couple of years now. It'sit's actually a beautiful dark brown Maduro rapper.
And look at that band, thatband that's got my favorite blue for
the background with the lion's head andthe lion's heads in that champagne. Go

(43:22):
take a look at that thing.Look at the burn on, that great
tobacco taste. Nick Arguin, asI recall overall great smoke just bought I
don't know about thirty forty sticks ofit. Love these things. Toro's a
good size for this time of year. So cheers to you on that.

(43:45):
I'm going to start talking about preparingfor bad times, and I'm gonna smoke
my cigar, maybe interject a littlebit. I am all ears okay soup.
Episode sixteen, I shared a storyabout this young man I knew,

(44:07):
and it got me to encouraging himabout good times and bad times because I
didn't want him to feel like thebad times we're gonna last forever. And
during that episode we talked really thatgood times are often followed by bad times.
It's cyclical, it's not always proportionate. You don't always go good time,

(44:30):
bad time, good time, badtime. Oftentimes it's good time,
bad time, bad time, badtime, bad time. And you know,
you can either sit there and wallowin the bad times and become a
victim. But on the unspoken wedo not believe in being a victim a
self proclaimed victim. We believe inaction. So episode twenty two, we

(44:54):
talked once again about good times andbad times and did a quickly recap.
If you want to hear that recap, go back to episode twenty two or
sixteen. But there are basically fivedifferent areas I believe that we can do
to prepare to go on the offensewhen bad times come. We need to

(45:20):
be on the offense by being preparedfor when eventually we will experience these bad
times. And so we're going tospend the next several episodes discussing one of
these five areas of offense that wecan do to get ourselves prepared four bad

(45:45):
times. So once again, goodtimes. They're often followed by the tough
and or bad times cyclical you gottaexpect it. Most of the time these
bad times are out of our hands. Sometimes they are our cause. We

(46:06):
spend more than what we're supposed to, We run our mouths, we do
things that are not right, wemake poor choices, poor relational decisions.
Sometimes actually not sometimes. The majorityof the time bad times are out of
our hands. A medical diagnosis,a fire in our house, tragedy that

(46:30):
happens to one of our family membersor friends, the loss of a job.
So it doesn't matter really how weexperience the bad times or the cause
of them, if you will,but it is important that we are ready
and know that bad times are goingto be here. We have to plan

(46:53):
for these bad times. So thevery first offense that we can prepare pair
ourselves for these bad times. Forme, the number one is spiritually and
what does that really mean. Itmeans knowing my creator, your creator,

(47:15):
what his promises are, and howto keep my eyes on eternity. It's
kind of like swimming underwater and youyou're submerged and you have to have that
point of light for reference to getout from under the depths. Keeping your
eyes on eternity is ultimately what wehave to do to be spiritually encouraged,

(47:40):
right, It's what keeps driving us. So how do I break that down
a little bit more. It's importantthat you find God and that you enter
into a personal relationship with him.Many of you are going to say,

(48:00):
I don't need God, there isno God. Whatever. You're entitled to
that that opinion. But you mightbe entitled to the opinion, but it
doesn't change the circumstance. Yeah,if there's a God, no matter,
no matter your opinion. Why isthat important? Because we I need to

(48:21):
know my place? Why am Ihere on this earth? What is my
mission? And what are my limitations? What's my limits? Why? Am
I here? There isn't a personthat I know that at some point hasn't

(48:42):
wondered, well, why am Ieven on this spinning ball? Or if
you're a flat earth, why amI on this flat earth? Why am
I here? What's my mission?And then is there a limit to what
my effect is going to be?And it starts out with your relationship with

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God, specifically with Jesus, andit sets the tone for how I'm to
interact with the world in the community. I can't make I can make stuff
up on my own all day long, but I know about you. My
creativity after a while runs pretty dry, pretty low. I lose sight,
like what was my original intent?Well, you just said something really important

(49:27):
too that relates to the bargain basementcommunication or people not listening if you know,
because a lot of that comes fromits validation. I need to validate
myself. I need to prove whyI'm here. Well, if you know
why you're here, you can relaxinto genuinely listening to and caring for other
people because you're no longer coming fromthat vantage point of constantly trying to prove

(49:52):
your worth or validate yourself or proofwhy you have you're here exactly. And
every one of us was created byGod, and He does have a purpose
and a mission for each and everyone of us. And I'm reminded in
John chapter one, verses one throughfive. It's one of the most profound

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passages in the Bible, and itsays, and this is where I'm coming
with why I believe that the wayI believe in the beginning was the Word,
and the word was with God,and the word was God. We're
talking about Jesus. He was inthe beginning with God. All things were
made through him, and without himwas not anything made. That was made

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in him was life, and thelife was the light of men. The
light shines in the darkness, andthe darkness has not overcome it. My
relationship with God and Jesus. Itsets the tone for how I'm too interact
in the world in the community.God is God, I am Man.

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God is greater than all. I'mnothing without Christ. I can't create from
nothing. There isn't anything that Ican make right now. I'm a carpenter.
There is nothing that I can buildwhere I actually made from nothing.

(51:29):
The component that I need in orderto build whatever it is that I'm going
to build. But yet I thinkwe live in a world that is trying
to somehow prove that they can.They can create from nothing all the way
too, I can create life.You're creating life from something that was already

(51:51):
created. Yeah, they don't createsomething out of nothing. So God is
greater than I am. I can'tcreate anything on my own. And it's
important for me spiritually to understand thatbecause when I understand that very truth,
it puts into perspective once again whatmy limitations, what my purpose are,

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and what more importantly is my placein this universe. The Bible is a
roadmap to truth. Jesus is truth. So the Bible being a roadmap to
truth and includes where I get mymorality, my principles. It gives me

(52:40):
commands of the things that I'm supposedto do and to not do. It
gives me warnings, It gives mepromises, and it gives me inspiration because
I read about those in the faiththat went before me, and I learned
from their examples. Because we're allmessed up individuals, and yet how God

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has used us broken individuals for greaterpurposes. Even our founders were imperfect men,
and yet they had such a profoundeffect for the good of those that
came after them. A lot ofpeople will avoid the Bible because they say
it's a guilt trip, it's agreater than but you just said it provides

(53:30):
inspiration. I mean, all ofthe drawing out of your humanness that comes
from the Bible. It's ultimately thegreatest part of that is offering you hope,
Yes, offering the impossible. SoI know that. In Romans three

(53:50):
twenty three it says every man hassinned and fallen short of the glory of
God and John it also says thatGod's love the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that who soeverbelieves in him will have eternal life.
Once I know my place, thenI can operate in the world with purpose

(54:17):
despite what is thrown at me sobad times. Right, I'm in bad
times. But spiritually, if Ihave the basis of who I am and
what my position in life is,then I'm secure. I know the boundaries,
I know the hope. I knowthat I have to do what I

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gotta do if it's right, andto abstain from the things that are wrong,
even if it would be convenient forthe tough time. That I'm in.
But once you become a believer,it's that Holy Spirit that we are
promised that it's key to discernment forboth truth help an action. I'm a

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man, I am I am notable to make good decisions all of the
time. I may make good decisionssome of the time, and maybe more
so than some people most of thetime, but ultimately, the only ability

(55:34):
that I have the superpower, ifyou will, is because the Spirit prompts
us. And when you are abeliever in Christ and you have that gift
of the spirit, you can gointo a difficult situation and the Spirit will
prompt you on what move to makenext? Is that a hocus pocus?

(55:57):
I'm going to get a Wuiji boardout or eight ball magic eight ball,
and it's going to give me theabsolute answer Nope, or talk to my
ancestors. That's why you go rightback into the examples that we see in
scripture to be able to kind ofhelp guide us. But God ultimately wants
us to make our own decisions.Yeah, And when you live in a

(56:19):
world that says you're not an expert, you can't research this, you can't
know, you don't have any powerof discernment because you're not an expert in
this field or your research is bogus. I mean, this is the power
in the discernment that the Holy Spiritbrings to you. Really is the difference.
Not that you can't intellectually dig intosources and learn and grow in that

(56:45):
aspect, but you have a worldthat is fighting against you, telling you
you can't know. Yeah, andthe Spirit also helps us when we're listening
to people that claim they're from thefaith and are doing things contrary. I'm
going to call him out like theBiddy Hands, these fake faith healers,

(57:07):
the Jimmy Swaggert's, Jimmy Bakers fromwe were kids, sure, and those
are those are big ones that arebig names from from our past or our
youth. And then you can't eventhink now in modern times the ones that
have big names. But this comesall the way down to also your local

(57:27):
church, because you have many whoare not speaking truth and you could just
say this is a big, growingmovement, there's energy here. It makes
me feel good on a quote spirituallevel. But to not have the power
in the discernment of the Holy Spiritto say this is an emotional response,
Yeah, it makes you feel good, refreshed. Whatever that's not right,

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Yeah, absolutely not right. Sothe Holy Spirit being the key to discernment
for truth and help will when youput your faith in trust and are seeking
righteousness. Righteousness does not mean perfect. I tell my boys us all the
time, be righteous men. Thatdoes not mean perfect. You're going to

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sin, You're gonna fall short,You're gonna do dumb things, you're gonna
offend people, make amends, repentof what you've done, and move towards
once again, going towards the truthand the life. Part of what you
face when you're in these difficult timesas many overwhelming factors that hit you,

(58:34):
right, and it's important for youto know. God does not allow evil
or is the cause of it.God is not evil in this broken world.
Well what do you so? Andnot to get you off course,
but when you say God doesn't allowevil or is it more or not,

(58:58):
that doesn't cause, It doesn't cause. And thanks for correcting me on that.
In other words, you know,James talks about that God does not
tempt anyone to do evil, andman while we're here on this earth right
now with our overall mission to dogood for the time that we have.

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We are going to be faced continuallywith difficult evil things because the world right
now is being run by evilness becausea man's decision to not follow God and
start all the way back in thegarden of Eden. But man, we

(59:42):
our own selves, are the causeof these many evils because we live in
this broken world and people don't knowwho God is, or they refuse to
acknowledge him, and they're running anddoing whatever seems right to them. And
I'm reminded as I'm talking to youabout being spiritually ready. Spiritually ready also

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protects us and Ephesians. It says, finally, be strong in the Lord
and in strength of his might,put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to standagainst the schemes of the devil, which
is what we're living in right now. For we do not and I've got
to emphasize this next part, wedo not wrestle against flesh and blood.

(01:00:40):
It's not really what we're fighting against. We're actually fighting but against rulers,
against the authorities, against the cosmicpowers over this present darkness, against the
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlyplaces. This isn't just a physical atole

(01:01:00):
right now that we are facing.And when you're in difficult times, it's
not always physically a thing. Sometimes, and I've experienced this for several years,
several years back, for several yearsdeep spiritual warfare, that I was

(01:01:27):
being hit from all sides by peoplethat I thought were my allies, that
were my brothers and my sisters,and abandonment, And it wasn't really about
that I was being personally attacked.I wasn't being shot at or stabbed or
assaulted, imprisoned. I was actuallyfighting the very evilness the demons that were

(01:01:55):
perpetuating all this assaulting into me.And I'm not afraid to say this,
by the way. Yeah, Anddon't you think we were discussing this with
some friends of ours yesterday that sometimeswhen there is an attack on you,
it would almost be easier if itwas really black and white, if it

(01:02:17):
was cut and dry, if you'rein an abusive relationship, it would be
easier for me to exhibit discernment orunderstand what's going on if I was being
physically hit or physically betrayed. Butoftentimes those betrayals come in other forms that

(01:02:40):
are harder, worse than being physicallyattacked because when your spirit is attacked,
is there anything worse? When youget a diagnosis and a life altering medical
diagnosis, Sure your body is isfighting, but don't tell me that it's

(01:03:04):
not your spirit that's broken. Moreright, I've been there. Yeah,
So how do I bring encouragement outof this? Right? We're wrestling against
the things that are more cosmic thananything, And even if we do something
that is bad that causes us thishard time, you can still most likely

(01:03:29):
push it back towards or trace itback towards, you know, wrestling against
not flesh and blood, but againstthese powers. Because I chose to do
something that was wrong, even thoughfrom a spiritual standpoint, I knew I
should have done right, and thenI'm required to do right or sometimes again

(01:03:49):
it's it's people that hate you becauseyou are a follower of Christ, because
you speak the truth, and youare now a target. But that's why
this encouragement when I when I startout, the very first thing that I
want people as they're preparing for toughtimes, the bad times, if you
will, is to remember that ultimately, when you know your place, know

(01:04:12):
who your God is, know whatyour mission is, we have tools spiritual
tools at our fingertips that everyone getsthat falls Christ, Well get this.
People who listen and have the discernmentof the Holy Spirit, those people build

(01:04:34):
arcs. Yeah right, yeah,and more so you will be in the
minority. So is that a Biblestory, Noah built an arc? Yeah,
it's a Bible story that a guywho listened more than he talked,

(01:04:57):
more than he had to prove hisworth, listened, did something that God
was instructing him to do, anddid he have the full knowledge. Was
he able to complete his research fromall the experts and know that it was
the right thing to do. No, and looked like a fool building an

(01:05:18):
arc, And it saved mankind.God allowed mankind an opportunity to say I
will continue to let you live onthis earth, to go through your process
of discovery to understand who I amas God so that you can relate to

(01:05:39):
me and live in an eternity withme. And that's what we're being called
to do. We're not We're beingcalled to be fools according to a lot
of people and be a minority tobuild an arc. And building that arc
is I mean draw that into modernsociety. That's going to be something different.
For every single one of us.The entire world experienced the evilness of

(01:06:08):
the COVID scam, and in theWest it's even more intolerable. Intolerable because
the West should know better. Andin our own United States we had great

(01:06:30):
evilness that was perpetrated on us topeople. I've seen a great awakening start
to take from a small ember intoa raging, out of control wildfire with
people that are awake now. Andpeople knew at the time that something wasn't

(01:06:53):
right, but they just got tolisten to people right because the so called
experts and really know what's going on? And are you a virologist? You
know? I mean, what doyou know? And I would argue and
say that believers that had the spiritknew what was going on, you and
I from day one. And youremember the rants that I would go on

(01:07:15):
when they start talking about fifteen daysto stop the spread, and I knew,
not because I'm a genius, butI knew in my spirit that it
was wrong. We're gonna start talkingabout this a little more in our next
segment coming up shortly. Well Ican't wait. But here is how I'm

(01:07:35):
going to wrap this up about beingspiritually prepared. Here's a great thing that
we have. We have the spirit. And it goes on after it talks
about wrestling against flesh and blood,that we're not wrestling against flesh and blood.
But therefore take up the whole armorof God, that you may be

(01:07:59):
able to withstand the evil day.And having done all to stand firm stand.
Therefore having here it goes fastened onthe belt of truth. Truth should
never ever be squelched, hidden,never ever hide the truth. And then

(01:08:24):
having put on the breastplate of righteousness. I tell my boys this again.
Righteousness is seeking after to obey Godand to live a life that God has
commanded us to do. It doesnot mean being perfect. I sin.
I've sinned several times today, yesterday, the day before it was probably more
than several Bam, you're right,I don't know me too repent. But

(01:08:49):
once again, you have to havethat breastplate that protects you because you're continually
working towards being a righteous man andwoman. Having on as shoes for your
feet, put on the readiness givenby the Gospel of Peace. We're to

(01:09:15):
be peaceful, we're not to bedoormats, but we're also supposed to be
wiser instead of doing those angry tweets, which I don't have a tweet Twitter,
but I have been two strikes onInstagram. So yeah, wa,
wait twenty four hours before you angrytweet, So to speak slowly becoming angry,

(01:09:35):
quick to listen in all circumstances,take up the shield of faith,
which you can extinguish all the flamingdarts of the evil one. And that
is important because why that shield,as we know from the great epics,
the Gladiators, the brave hearts,it protects you from those arrows, those

(01:10:00):
javelins, those clubs that would killyou. So when we pick up our
shield, we're remembering our faith ofwho we believe in, why we believe,
and what ultimately has been promised tous, so we can protect ourselves
from that way instead of letting itget into our heads and getting us down

(01:10:23):
and taking on that helmet of salvation. If you take out the head,
everything's gone. You can lose theleg and still live an arm, etc.
But if you take a direct hitto the head, you're most likely
not going to survive. So weremember that we have ultimately salvation in Jesus
Christ alone. And finally we havethat sword of the spirit which helps us

(01:10:50):
to defend ourselves and to go onthe offense. We have to pray all
times in the spirit, with allprayer and supplication. I've been purposing supplication,
requests, pleadings. Okay, I'mprobably wrong, I don't have it

(01:11:11):
exactly, but well, you know, sometimes it's easy to get into that
that old school Bible ease and notthink, okay, in this modern society,
when I'm watching a crippled world aroundme, I get into this thought
of I'm I'm just a little oldme. I'm defenseless. But you've now

(01:11:32):
drawn this picture of if I havethe power of the Holy Spirit. I'm
I have a complete armor. I'mnot defenseless. I can go on the
offense. I have that power.So we use a word like supplication,

(01:11:55):
requests, needs, request and needs, So pray all times. I have
been making a effort to change myprayer, my prayer life daily minimum of

(01:12:15):
early morning, in a late nightprayer of all things, confession, acknowledging
who God is and his greatness andall of his wonders. The Psalms are
full of great things for us tocopy in our prayers, and then asking
God for things and doing it withoutselfishness, but praying for others. I

(01:12:40):
got to jump in here because sometimesas humans we get into this mode that
how can I really experience change inmy own life? Whatever this faith I
have, it's old, it's moldy, it's crusty. I don't I'm not
feeling anything. Here's what I needto testify to. I have now known

(01:13:03):
Dan in an adult life when webecame reacquainted, and I personally have seen
his transformation as not just a physicalbeing and a physical man, but as
a spiritual man. I have witnessedthat. So when he's saying, look,

(01:13:25):
recently, I've changed the way Ipray when I get up in the
morning, these specifics that I'm askingfor, This isn't just an old,
moldy sermon, because sometimes we getlost in that. It's like, okay,
these words are flying off like assome kind of spiritual thing. But
I want to say I have sathere and witnessed over it the last year,

(01:13:47):
two years, three years, histransformation as a man who's been through
extremely difficult times, some circumstances thathe he stepped into and then in a
lot of ways spiraled out of hisown control and became a life that he

(01:14:08):
didn't want to be living, alife where he was understanding the experience of
a lot of abuse, and itchanged him in a negative way. But
I have watched him transforming over thelast couple of years, like it,
physically changing his responses to me,responses to his children, responding to circumstances

(01:14:35):
in his life through work and communicationswith other people. These are are pitfalls
that we all go through, andyou go, okay, again, this
it can be an old sermon I'veheard over and over again, But what
is the practical application of this ina person's life. I have seen that
transformation in let me draw it extremelypersonally in my relationship with him, because

(01:15:00):
we've had our own struggles in anew marriage. We both had really bad
things that we've come through, andbad habits and how we responded in previous
relationships, and those were things thatwe didn't want to bring into how we

(01:15:20):
responded and communicated with each other.And so you can just say, here's
somebody giving advice that they're not practicing. But I just want to say,
because I'm interrupting you, that Ihave watched you practice that, and I
have watched how even though you canknow all these things from the time you're
a little boy, that you stillhave to reevaluate as a man and say,

(01:15:44):
if I have been negatively infected,affected by my experiences and by a
sinful world, how am I goingto reevaluate and then walk toward change to
be who I know God intended meto be. Because I have practice that
perfectly, but my life's not over. So every time I wake up and

(01:16:04):
I still have breath, it's myresponsibility to do that and to do it
better. I've been witnessed to that. I appreciate you bringing that up.
That's encouraging, and I appreciate havingthe spirit for the conviction and guiding me
along. Look, ultimately, here'swhat I want people to take away from

(01:16:30):
this as we're gearing up spiritually,and you think about the spiritual component of
being ready on the offense for badand or tough times. When you sum
all of this up, here's whatthe encouragement is. Eternity, what we
those of us who believe, haveto ultimately look forward to. And it's

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summed up in these words of Jesusand revelation. Hold, I make all
things new, And I think that'sa pretty encouraging thing. Now, after
that heavy topic, an inspiring butheavy topic, I'm excited because this very
weekend we are celebrating once again ourindependence, the fourth of July, one

(01:17:20):
of my absolute favorite holidays to remember, and I'm going to pour for us
as we get ready to discuss somegreat things to remember about our constitution in
our government. My buddy Oscar.Now, Oscar and I have been friends

(01:17:41):
almost longer than I haven't been hisfriend, so that means we've been friends
a long time. Oscar came overand visited us at the New Green Dragon
Tavern, which is where we arebroadcasting right now in the Great Republic of
Idaho, Northern Idaho. He broughtme this bottle of angels Envy. I

(01:18:02):
have never tried angels Envy before.I did pop the cork at the time
he came over, and we enjoyeda couple of fingers. This Angel's Envy
is a Kentucky straight bourbon and it'sfinished in port wine barrels, so it's

(01:18:25):
got a little bit of a fruitytaste to it. So have you had
any of this yet? I don'tremember if I did. This might be
the first it occurred for me topour in that previously adultered goals. Yeah,
well we'll go ahead and all righttry this. Cheers angels envy h

(01:18:47):
you taste a port in that?Definitely? That's that. That is actually
a good whiskey as well. Twogood whiskey's one cigar. How did you
do that? Like, we needto break things up. So it is
the fourth of July weekend while weare recording this episode twenty three. Everybody

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that listens to this, anybody that'slistened to this more than two episodes,
has to know how much I loveare founding documents, the Declaration of Independence
and the US Constitution, along withthe Bill of Rights. You cannot separate

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both documents. The Declaration set upfor what would eventually become the Constitution,
and the Constitution Bill of Rights looksback towards the Declaration. So, without
further ado, when in the courseof human events, it becomes necessary for

(01:20:03):
one people to dissolve the political bandswhich have connected them with another, and
to assume among the powers of theearth the separate and equal station to which
the laws of nature and of Nature'sGod entitle them. A decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that theyshould declare the causes which impel them to

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the separation. We hold these truthsto be self evident, that all men
are created equal, that they areendowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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That to secure these rights, governmentsare instituted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it isthe right of the people to alter or

(01:21:13):
to abolish it, and to institutea new government, laying its foundation on
such principles, and organizing its powersin such form as to them shall seem
most likely to affect their safety andhappiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changedfor light and transient causes. And accordingly,

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all experience has shown that mankind aremore disposed to suffer while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves byabolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abusesand usurpatients suing invariably the same object,

(01:22:01):
invinces a design to reduce them underabsolute despotism. It is their right,
it is their duty to throw offsuch government and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such hasbeen the patients sufferance of these colonies,

(01:22:24):
and such is now the necessity whichconstrains them to alter their former systems of
government. I absolutely love the Declaration. I'm not going to give a history
once again of the Declaration itself.We have covered that in previous episodes,

(01:22:48):
as well as we talked about itin length at our Green Dragon events the
Night with the Founders last year.But I highly encourage you to pick up
a copy of the Declaration and toread it, look at the five parts
of it, and especially about allthe grievances that follow that first great introduction.

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I talk with so many people thatare upset right now with not only
the American government, whether it islocal, state, or federal, the
people that are globally pissed off.They know things are not what they should

(01:23:43):
be, and they're constantly saying thegovernment is the government that, and they're
upset. And as I talk tothem and ask questions, it becomes apparent
to me that many people really don'teven know what the government is. It's
kind of like the Constitution. Peoplehave read the Constitution, they can sort

(01:24:06):
of quote some of it, butmost people haven't actually read it. I
believe I'm accurate when I say mostpeople the government? What is it?
Why do we have it? Whydo we have the United States? Was

(01:24:27):
it because King George and the Britishgovernment were heavy handed, and so therefore
we had to form our own Well, you've got one, Well, we're
going to up yours and do onebetter. Well, I was reading through
Hillsdale College is a book that theypublished through their Constitution one to one series,

(01:24:53):
which I would highly recommend. Itis a free resource. You log
on, fill out a profile,and then you have these great half hour
lectures on everything from the Declaration allthe way up to modern progressivism and the

(01:25:13):
attempted undoing of the Constitution back inthe early nineteen hundreds. Well, and
Hillsdale College courses are you can eventake somebody like me who says, I
don't know, if this gets tooheady, if it gets too didactic,
I can't. I just have atough time fitting this in my day.
This is so well done and indigestible portions that so we'll provide a link

(01:25:40):
to this because again, it's oneof those small steps you can take to
go, Look, I'm starting fromground zero. I get that I need
to take a stride. I needto do something. That's a great place
to start in the Constitution one onone And I won't get too heady into
this, but really, as mylovely diame of a wife just said,

(01:26:00):
it takes the Constitution and it breaksit down historically with what were the events,
what were the actions that we're takingin place, and why did it
unfold the way it did. Soit gives you a little bit of history,
but it gives you also references becausethe Constitution didn't happen in a vacuum,
no, And you can also seehow it relates to exactly a lot

(01:26:24):
of what we're experiencing right now.It brings it into vivid color and life.
So this Hillsdale book that I amquoting from it is a companion to
this lecture. The one on onelectures that you can download and take a
little test at the end. Youdon't have to have the book. I

(01:26:45):
purchased a book because I thought itwas such an absolute great resource, especially
for my own growth towards all thingsConstitution and our Founders. So I'm going
to be this is taken from thatbook and it's entitled The United States Constitution

(01:27:06):
A Reader, and it was writtenby Hillsdale College. So I did not
write any of this. I'm goingto give a little bit of you know,
interject some of my own thoughts.But here is really what I wanted
to relate to those that maybe kindof don't even really know what government is

(01:27:26):
and why we have it. Youknow, here we are living in twenty
twenty three, and we all readhistory books from the ancient Samarians and the
Babylonians, and you know, allthe Roman and the Greeks and the medieval
times, but really, what isgovernment and why do we have them?
In the book they write, theysay, and I'm paraphrasing a lot of

(01:27:47):
this, so some of its directquotes. Again, if somebody has already
gone through this and you want tosay I'm wrong, I'm just acknowledging right
now that I'm hitting the highlights.It's a short read. It's two pages
long in the book. But theywrite and they say, there are four
basic principles of the American Revolution.And remember, the revolution is why we

(01:28:13):
decided that we were going to breakoff from England and form our own representative
government, our republic. We didn'thave the republic at that time. There
was no constitution. We went throughafter the Revolutionary War, we went through
the Articles of Confederation, and eventually, because of the dysfunction of the Articles
of Confederation, it was decided thata new agreement had to be made,

(01:28:34):
and hence eventually we got the Constitutionand or the Bill of Rights. But
it all started with the revolution.Four basic principles of the American Revolution.
These principles, Americans founders held,They're true always, They're always true,
and they are true everywhere globally.These principles guide the statesman and the citizens

(01:28:59):
of the colonies. As a protestedand resisted changes in policies enacted by the
British government following the end of theFrench Indian War in seventeen sixty three,
all the way from the first Battlein Lexington Concord in seventeen seventy five,
which was, you know, acouple months before the Declaration was signed.
And they continued all the way throughthe final Battle and eventually to the surrender

(01:29:24):
of the British to the Americans inthe Treaty of Paris in seventeen eighty three.
So here's the very first of thefour principles that are basic for us
in the Constitution. Every human beingis equally a creature of God, endowed
with a natural right to life,liberty, and not the pursuit of happiness,

(01:29:50):
but property. And you'll find thatwhen you look into it, the
pursuit of happiness is to own things, have personal things, your own property,
your own freedom, your own dominion, so to speak. That can
be found under I guess you canelaborate more by saying that regardless of your

(01:30:12):
race, this, all these thingsthat I just said apply regardless of your
race, your gender, your birth, your national origin, whatever right,
it doesn't matter. It applies toall, and that every person in the
world has the right to life,liberty, and property. Humans are unequal

(01:30:41):
in many respects. I can't playbasketball, I couldn't win an MMA fight.
I'm not the greatest marksman, ihaven't written any bestseller books. I'm
taller than some, better looking thanwell, I think so. But that's

(01:31:04):
not what we're talking about. Humans. They are unequal in many of our
abilities, etc. But the onething that does not change is every human
has the right to be equal intheir possession of natural rights. What are

(01:31:26):
natural rights? The laws of natureand Nature's God. Those are those things
that we talked a little bit earlierspiritually about things in the Creator and how
things are set into place. Thoseare those rights that God and God alone
gives to man. And nobody isgreater than man. Therefore, nobody has

(01:31:47):
a right to violate those very thingsthat God has allowed us to do and
designed us to be so. Notgovernment dependent, not government issued, no
God given. These supersede all ofit. They're they're truth for eternity,

(01:32:10):
and that no man is naturally ordivinely ruler or subject to another man.
That means we do not have kingsand people that rule over us, nor
should we be able to rule overothers. Now, look, people have
bosses. I'm a boss. We'renot talking about people in authority, but

(01:32:31):
we're ultimately talking about You cannot beGod to anyone, nor are you subject
to anyone being God to you.You don't create life. We talked about
this earlier. There is no human, none of these great brainiacs that are
trying to make AI and to maketranshumanists. None of these idiots, these

(01:32:55):
fools, these evil individuals can dowhat they do by themselves. They took
something that they didn't create and theynow manipulate it to create life. They're
fools. They think they're God,they're not. And we were not designed
to have kings. Now, lookthroughout most of history, people have been

(01:33:16):
subjects of tyranny and kings. Andwe'll talk about that a little more so.
The very first principle, every humanbeing is equally a creature of God,
endowed with a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Number
two, the purpose of government islimited to securing natural rights. And read
that again, the purpose of governmentis limited to securing natural rights. What

(01:33:44):
are those natural rights? Right tolife, liberty, and to own property.
So natural rights exist prior to anygovernment. Government is not the source
of rights. When you say,well, I have the right to free

(01:34:05):
speech, the government didn't grant thatto you. Remember that the right to
bear arms, the government didn't giveyou permission to bear arms. They are
not the source of our rights.Governments are created to secure our rights.

(01:34:25):
Understand that. That's what the intentof government is is to secure your natural
rights. Government is to be limitedin its powers. It's not to be
all knowing all powerful. It's notmeant to be absolute. We talked about
this is a second ago majority.In history of governments or tyrannies, people

(01:34:53):
have been ruled for thousands of yearsby tyrants who often stole sovereignty from the
people by the four by force becausethey had such great physical force, and
they took advantage of it, andthey seized upon and they enslaved their people.
All of these types of government areillegitimate period. Any kind of government

(01:35:21):
that does not recognize and protect people'sright to life, liberty aka freedom.
And I have a son who Inamed liberty. I love the word liberty
and property. They're all illegitimate government. The purpose of it can be summed

(01:35:45):
up in this Justice is the truepurpose of government. Justice. Now some
of you are going, well,wait a second, would you mean justice?
Well, if a government is protectingyour natural rights, We're going to
get into this a little more herein just a second. Then it's going

(01:36:06):
to do so by making certain thatjustice prevails when those rights are attempted to
be usurped or violated. So onething I just got out of what you
were saying. Equality and equity.We hear a lot about. Now are

(01:36:30):
off course, when it's devoid ofGod. Absolutely, government is not the
source of your rights. The intentof government is to secure what rights are
God given. Yes, when governmentis out of step, it's enslaving you,

(01:36:54):
like right now, And I'm notgoing to do it today. I
don't want to lose focus. Butif you read the Declaration of Independence right
now and read through all of itand its entirety, including where they start
calling out King George over all ofthe violations that he was committing on the

(01:37:21):
Americans, do the math. Comparethat parallel to what is going on today,
and it doesn't take any imagination foryou to realize some pretty profound similarities

(01:37:42):
and nothing new under the sun.Yeah, And a lot of times what
stops us up is the lack ofimagination for that kind of evil. Yeah.
And what you're just now saying isit doesn't just with a little bit
of listening, it doesn't take anyimagination to realize how easily we can be
right back where we started, whatwe were originally enslaved too, and what

(01:38:05):
we were working to gain freedom from. So the purpose of government being limited
to securing our natural rights, here'sthe third principle. The authority of government
derives from the consent of the governed, and that's us, the governed,

(01:38:33):
and the Declaration talks about that.It talks about that. It happens from
the consent of the people. That'show governments get its power. So under
the authority of government driving its consentfrom the governed. Following the principles of

(01:38:56):
equality, which we just defined.Equality isn't well I get to run as
fast as the next guy, orhave the same amount of wealth in my
bank account, or be as tallas I am. We're talking about the
equality of life, liberty, andproperty. Following the principles of equality,
every man ought to be subjugated andobligated only to God and not obligated to

(01:39:25):
obey or to be subject to theauthority of any government. What does that
mean. We're ultimately responsible to God. That's who our obligation ultimately lies in.
Even if you don't believe right now, I'm here to tell you you
are obligated. It matters not thatyou don't believe. Eventually you will figure

(01:39:49):
out if you don't bow your kneenow, that you had an obligation to
be obedient and to follow what Godsaid. So we are not to be
obligated to be obedient to a governmentbecause it's a government. Now, look,
I'm not saying that we don't followlaws that are righteous, laws that

(01:40:11):
we consent to that don't violate thosethree things life, liberty, and property.
But we're talking about government is notour God. Through consent. Men
create government to secure their rights andthey cannot secure them that they cannot secure
themselves. So you form a governmentbecause look, I can't protect myself against

(01:40:35):
a thousand people, but five thousandof us together, formed up as a
government, can definitely protect ourselves againstthat. Correct. We can't secure these
rights by ourselves. So therefore weform the government, and we delegate certain
powers to the government, just likeour president and Congress. Right, we

(01:40:58):
say, hey, here's our representatives, you go do the right thing for
us. And these powers are circumscribedby the original contract, which is government
is formed by the consent of thepeople to protect life, liberty, and
property. Okay, I'm repeating kindof a theme here, right, But
I want those of you that arelistening to get this ingrained in you because

(01:41:20):
once you do, it gives youso much more clarity and understanding. This
is from the founders. Look,everything that I'm reading right now that was
written in this Hillsdale Reader. They'vegleaned from what the founders said in the
various documents. This is just asummarization of these universal beliefs that eventually led

(01:41:42):
to our great Constitution. They cannotviolate our original contract with them. And
then lastly, no government can violatelegitimately the laws of nature and of Nature's
God, or aviate from the socialcontract by transferring, altering, or expanding

(01:42:03):
the powers granted it without recourse tothe constituent authority or we the people.
And this is where it really irksme, because look at what's going on
right now, out of control federalgovernment, a immoral, corrupt, evil

(01:42:31):
FBI, CIA, EPA, EnergyDepartment, all of these different groups,
these parts of the administrative state thatare crushing we the people, that are

(01:42:55):
usurping our rights to life, libertyin property. So the authority of government
derives from the consent of the government. Remember that doesn't matter what laws they
pass and the horseshit that they're they'recontinue continually perpetrating on us. They do

(01:43:16):
not have the authority to do that. Right now, that was not part
of the original contract, which waspaid for in blood during the Revolutionary War.
So one thing you just said isthe phrase we the people, and
I know that can be a popularI'm going to get a T shirt.
I'm getting a T shirt. I'mmore a T shirt. It says we

(01:43:39):
the people. But where that statementbecomes very poignant goes back to what you
were just saying, government should gainits power from the consent of the people.
That that is what we the peoplemeans Americans universally, it's in our

(01:44:00):
heritage. Our fathers formed the stategovernments and eventually those state governments entered into
a pact to form the United Statesto protect our natural rights. We have

(01:44:27):
tyranny right now because we're too stupidto not hold these cowards, these robber
barons accountable for their deeds. Because, as I talked about earlier, when
I say we need to be spirituallyready and we need to have truth,
and you cannot hide the truth.Jesus is the truth, the way,

(01:44:48):
the truth, and the life.You do not when we talk about spiritual
warfare and get our armor ready truth. We have allowed too many times for
the truth to be hidden. Andinstead of holding these people accountable and making

(01:45:08):
life miserable, for them because wecontinually hit them with the truth, and
we are unashaved. We are notgoing to be unspoken about the tyranny they
have broken, the contract that ourforefathers paid dearly for. The fourth principle

(01:45:38):
is this, whenever any government routinelyand continually I'm going to repeat that,
when any government routinely and continually goesbeyond the consent of the governed, free
men must resist. Is tyrannical usurpation, even at the risk of their lives

(01:46:04):
and fortunes, as required by theirsacred honor. Our forefathers, when they
sign that declaration, pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor,
and we have the duty the obligationto also risk our lives, our

(01:46:31):
fortunes the Green Dragon tavern by andfor our sacred honor. Every man has
an obligation to live free or die. When government usurps power that it was

(01:46:57):
never granted, it becomes illegitimate,and the people, if they acquiesce,
we become slaves. I said,I'm not going to talk about current events,
but I'm gonna say this really fast. The January sixth, defendants that
have been denied their rights that havebeen imprisoned in violation of the Bill of

(01:47:30):
Rights for what they supposedly did,have been granted bail that they cannot even
remotely afford, or because of thePatriot Acted, the bullshit that they're saying
that they now have the authority tosupersede the Constitution, they don't even get

(01:47:50):
a chance to remain free until theirtrial because they've been denied bail. Are
we not slaves? When government colludeswith social media where most of us now

(01:48:11):
communicate nationally and globally in the FBIand the CIA, and I'm not afraid
of you bastards want to come inand tell social media or collude with them
on what truce you will squelch,you'll deplatform people, you will take their

(01:48:33):
message and scrub it from the servers. Violation of the community standards, We
become slaves. Patrick Henry was famousin his speech give me liberty and or
give me death. He says,you know, basically, we're surrounded.

(01:48:56):
The chains can be heard dragging aclock across the plains of Boston. If
we acquiesce, we become slaves.And I will never be a slave.
Men have a duty to defend theirnatural rights against whatever authority would enslave them.

(01:49:20):
Not men should, men can.Men have a duty. When you're
in the military, when you're inlaw enforcement, you have as a parent
duties. These are obligations, responsibilitiesthat you must do for the good of

(01:49:42):
others. Their duty is not forthe good of yourself. It is always
for the good of others. Menhave a duty to defend their natural rights
against whatever authority would enslave them.If government has broken the contract, and

(01:50:04):
they have a contract. If theyhave broken the contract, free men,
and this is what freedom means.Free men must resist, and it is
going to cost you. Thomas Jeffersonsays, it is their right, it
is their duty to throw off suchgovernment. And when you don't because the

(01:50:30):
words slavery, the idea of slaverygets thrown around a lot as though it's
something in our past, something thatwe need to offer retribution for now,
a thing of the past. Butreally slavery is something that in real time
we're all experiencing, we're all lookingat right now, and the cost of

(01:50:54):
freedom. If you truly view yourselfas a free man or free woman,
it is going to cost you tocombat government that's broken a contract. Yes,
and man that have the duty todefend their natural rights against whatever authority.
And I go back to when Iwas talking earlier spiritually about not wrestling

(01:51:20):
against flesh and blood, but againstrulers and against authorities, against the cosmic
powers. Don't think for a secondthat this is not too a spiritual battle.
The authorities aren't just the people inthe pretty suits going back and forth
to dinners and campaign fundraisers in DCor at your local state. Yeah,

(01:51:45):
the authorities who are pursuing their career. Authorities that ultimately want to enslave us
are those spiritual cosmic beings that useman who don't know their God, don't
know their place, don't know thebeginning from the end, their puppets,

(01:52:06):
their avatars for these tyrannical illegal governments. And lastly, the people must unite.
United. We stand divided, wefall. We are the United States

(01:52:31):
of America. And I still believethat in North Idaho, the people that
we live around in our community lovelife, liberty, and their property the
same as they do in eastern Washingtonand in eastern Oregon, in northern California

(01:52:57):
and in Utah, and in Montanaand in the Great Planes and on the
East coast, in those havens wherepeople still believe in the message of the
Founders, which ultimately culminates in thisNo man is to be governed by another
man, nor is he to governanother. We on this earth, the

(01:53:20):
minute we are born, have theright to life and the liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, which is theproperty that we accumulate, whether it's intellectual,
whether it is our relationships, whetherit is that house on the forty
acres or the condo on the ocean, To have our children and to be

(01:53:42):
able to enjoy those relationships that wehave here on earth. To take our
talents, whether it is music,or it is engineering, or it is
climbing or writing, or creating thingswith your hands, whatever that is.
God made us all to have somany different loves and interests and talents.

(01:54:11):
And remember the evil one ultimately,and those cosmic powers hate that. They
hate the fact that you were createdin God's image, and they are doing
everything they can to continually enslave us. And man am I thankful that I
was born at a time and ina place like the United States of America

(01:54:32):
where our founders took these truths andthese principles, and they solidified them.
They made a plan of action,and they carried out their convictions and their
duties for their sacred honor, inorder that the generations that came after them,

(01:54:56):
their descendants, could live in aman which the world has never experienced
before and may never experience again.Stay incouraged, Remember spiritually, be ready.
We did not descend from fearful men, but men who put their sacred
honor and their fortunes on the line. Go do the right thing. You

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