LIVE WEEK 151 December 22 2023

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Good evening, Hello and welcome.Hi there, m Week one hundred
and fifty one and tonight, asyou can see on the screen, we
have four great segments for you.Again. Tell us about your first one,
Healthy Living staying flu Free. That'sa good thing. You know,
flu is a big killer, hasbeen for years. It's not a new

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thing. With the twenty twenty pandemic, there was a lot of news about
flues. So stay tuned for numberone, Healthy Living, yep, staying
flu Free. I like the title. I'm interested to see what you come
up with. Number two. Youknow, we've had Truman's Matrix going on
for a while now, I thinkthree years. It's an original name,

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original podcast based on two shows,The Truman's Show, The Truman Show and
The Matrix. So an interesting thinghappened this week. You know, it's
unbelievable, but for the first timeever we watched the Matrix. I know,
I couldn't believe that I hadn't seenit before, but myself either,

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and we both know all the concepts. We've heard all about it and actually
have repeated a lot of things inthe show before even seeing it. We
saw for the first time seeing clips, but I had never seen the whole
thing, so it was interesting.So with that, we've always wondered if
there was something out there written aboutthe differences and the similarities of the Truman's

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Show and the Matrix, because wehave our own ideas, and I've found
a Princeton paper on it, andso we are going to have some fun
with this one called manufactured Reality.Yeah, tonight, we're going to study
those two shows and bring you areally interesting segment there, and then the

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third segment is going to be theUgly Truth reverse Racism, Reverse Racism.
Yeah. I'm going to start offthat article by telling you, first off,
it doesn't exist. It's an oxymoron. It's not really that's right.
Yeah, Yeah, we talk abouta lot of morons on these shows too.
This this is an oxy one.And on segment four, Faith Matters

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the Mysteries. This is chapter eightin Doctor Days, Jeremiah is the Great
disappearance. It is thirty one waysto be Rapture Ready. And so that's
our four segments that's going to doit for our Look at what we're gonna
have for you tonight. And firstwe're gonna listen to a word from our

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help the body help itself through naturalhealing with plant medicine and other non pharmaceutical
alternatives. Welcome to healthy living,all right, So tonight we're going to
talk about how you can stay healthy. Well, that's what healthy living is

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all about, finding ways to helpthe body, help itself with natural alternatives,
right, So what is this stingflu free? So flu season is
hectic and strip flu and colds arerampant during the winter months, So how
can you stay healthy well? Igathered several healing recipes using ingredients you probably

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already have in your kitchen pantry.And that's what it's all about. Natural
trying to figure out what we haveon hand. Go run into Walgreens or
CBS. If you have it onyour yeah, in your cupboard, don't
say those names. Cut those out. So first we're going to talk about

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prevention. Keep your overall health nourishedand strong against any illnesses with some of
these home remedies. First of all, fruit fruit boosts your immunity. It's
an overlooked but powerful tool to boostyour immune system and keep it strong all
year long. If you seek waysto prevent colds, flues, or any

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other infections without medical supplements, youmust include fruits in your daily meal plan.
Most fruits are low in fat,sodium, as well as calories,
with none having cholesterol. Fruits arerich sources of many vital nutrients that are
under consumed, such as potassi,vitamin C, dietary fiber, and folate.

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Here are listed a few fruit nameswhich will boost your immune system without
any kind of side effects, ofcourse, as long as you're not allergic.
Right. Avocado, blueberries, papaya, watermelon, kiwi apples. Hey,
this is a delicious list here.I like this list. Pomegranate,

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pineapple, and citrus fruits. Yeah. Nice. Another one is elderberries.
Elderberry contains certain compounds and substances thatmight have a beneficial impact. Here are
some of the main reported health benefitsof elderberries. They have long been used

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as an ally against upper respiratory infections. They've been scientifically proven to be effective
against at least eight different influenza viruses, which is pretty amazing. There's some
evidence to support the claim that elderberrycan help treat colds and flu, though
the available studies are small. Elderberryfruit contains high levels of flavonoids, which

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means it might have anti inflammono antiinflammatory, and antioxidant properties. These help
to protect healthy cells from harmful freeradicals that play a role in skin problems.
Elderberries also contain high levels of vitaminA. The ANA also say that

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the elderberries may soothe the skin helpease the appearance of age spots and prevent
or lessen wrinkles. Wow, elderberriesare really full, packed, full of
stuff, lots of benefits. Theydon't look so good there though. How
about a regno oil Discover the powerof oregano oil. An ancient healer and

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modern day miracle. Oregano oil hasbeen used for censure as a potent remedy
for a wide range of health issues. Did you know that? How about
immune boosting again, fighting respiratory infectionsand supporting digestive health. Today, science
has unlocked the secret behind its extraordinarybenefits because it contains powerful compounds like carvicrol

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and thymol. These compounds give oreganooil its impressive anti viral, anti bacterial,
and anti inflammatory properties. In fact, studies show that it's even more
effective than pharmaceutical alternatives. Mmmm.Well about that line, Yeah, I

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like that line. Oregano oil isa true champion in the world of natural
remedies. So how do you makeit? You need about twenty four ounces
of dried oregano and about a sevento fifty milli liter bottle of organic EVO
extra virgin olive oil and in alarge mason jar, fill it halfway with

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your dried organic oregano, then poursome evo in and stir in increments until
the jar is full. Allow theoregonal to infuse into the oil for two
to three weeks, so just letit sit in a dark cool place.
Then strain it and store the oilagain in a dark cool place. But

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when are you supposed to use it? How are you supposed to use it?
Use it topically for nail fungus,athletes, foot insect bites, or
warts. Add a few drops toa diffuser for respiratory health, or take
three to four drops of a regualoil up to three times daily. Just

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in it for immunity. Yeah,and for children one to two drops up
to two times daily, and justbe cautious with infants and toddlers. The
best times to use a regunal oilare when symptoms first appear or when you're
seeing preventive care during cold and fluseason. You know that that's a good

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point. You should just do thatas a preventive medicine. Right. It's
immunity boosts, and these a lotof these first ones are talking about not
only fixing it after you've already gottensome kind of symptom, but the preventative
stuff it's best. It's the best. Yes, Ginger ginger is another one
of those that is a superstar.Definitely want to keep that in your pantry.

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For centuries, people in various partsof the world have used ginger as
a traditional herbal remedy for common healthproblems. According to research, Preliminary studies
indicate that it may have beneficial properties, but clinical trials are necessary to further
investigate. It is worth noting thatstudies tend to use ginger extract rather than

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raw ginger or ginger juice, butginger juice likely offers benefits that are similar
in type, if not in magnitude. In other words, extract is not
it doesn't have as much stuff asthe ju just does, and those benefits
include reducing inflammation. The anti inflammatoryeffects may help relieve the pain of osteoarthritis

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and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis is thewearing way of joint cartilage due to aging,
while rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune diseasewhere the immune system attacks the joints.
It could also be used to relievepain unrelated to arthritis. It may

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help alleviate pain associated with the menstrualcycles and migraine headaches, and improves gastrointestinal
function as well. And this includesenhancing digestion of course itself. Yeah,
decreasing nausea and vomiting. Ginger mayhelp prevent and reduce nausea and vomiting that

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comes with chemotherapy and pregnancy. Itimproves blood sugar control. Ginger may lower
your blood sugar and improve factors relatedto the development of type two diabetes,
such as in selin resistance. Itreduces the risk of other chronic diseases,

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including obesity, including obesity related factorsthat increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease.
It may also decrease risk factors ofmetabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that
raise the risk of heart disease,stroke, and diabetes. Yeah, and
with all of the heart attacks andheart diseases that have sprung up since twenty

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twenty. Mm hmm, all ofthese things would just be doubly good to
heed. So I also read somethingthat's not even on this list about ginger.
You can take maybe half an inchlittle slice of ginger, and if
you have a toothache, oh,you put one piece on the top of

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the tooth where it is, andthen another piece on the side where the
ache is. So usually you putit in between your cheek and your tooth
and then bite down on it andyou hold it there for about five to
ten minutes and it should relieve thepain. Just straight ginger, straight ginger.

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Then it's a root. Yep.So there is a recipe on here
for a lemon ginger shot. Thisis for two servings, so it's not
a lot. But you take oneinch piece of fresh ginger root, one
lemon, and pinch a powdered orraw turmeric. Turmeric is another root,

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but we usually have it in thepowder form. It's true. You slice
off the lemon, peel, chopthe ginger, lemon and turmeric into small
pieces, blitz it in a blenderor a food processor, and divide it
into two shots, strain if desiredor needed, and drink immediately. The
combination of ginger and lemon is apotent fat burning formula that may also help

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you lose weight in all areas ofyour body. This is not only excellent
for weight loss, but also fortreating a variety of illnesses, including colds,
flues, fatty livered and high cholesterolginger decreases inflammation, stimulates digestion,
and suppresses your appetite. Lemons containa high amount of vitamin C, soluble

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fiber, and plant compounds that givethem a number of health benefits. Lemons
may add may aid in weight lossand reduce your risk of heart disease,
anemia, kidney stones, and digestiveissues. So another one to put on
your shopping list. Lemons. Wow, So what if you're already feeling ill?

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If you feel any symptoms of coldor other illnesses coming on, there
are powerful ingredients you can take tohelp your body fight them off. First
thing everybody wants to go to isan antibiotic, Right, That's first thing
doctors will prescribe. They over prescribeantibiotics. Well, guess what, There
is a natural antibiotic. Yes,so the natural antibiotic he asked for.

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If you're looking for something natural tohelp get better quickly, try this one.
This anti inflammatory, anti aging,antibacterial and packed with antioxidants recipe.
Half a cup of honey. Okay, raw raw, unfiltered is best,
but whatever you have on hand isgood. But if you have local and

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raw those are the two best things. The reason you want low is because
it actually has some of the pollenthat's in your area in the honey,
so your body gets used to itand you don't react as much to the
pollen. Yeah. Anyway, halfa cup of honey, one teaspoon of

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ground turmeric, half a teaspoon ofground ginger, and one teaspoon of vanilla.
W You mix that up together andit creates kind of a thick consistency.
Uh syrup. Yeah, take hishoney, take his honey with a
little other stuff. Yes, andmix all the ingredients and take a teaspoon

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a day, or even have itin your favorite tea if you want.
I'd just be eating it. Yeah. So, turmerican ginger another one to
add your list. Turmeric another oneto add to your list. Honey,
make sure you have those in yourpantry. How do you stop a cold?

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Well, the cold is you knowwhat the cold is. It's one
of those SARS viruses. Uh yeah, right most of the time. Yeah
yeah, yeah, it's one ofthose scary covid viruses. But it's on
the first level, so cold.This recipe is packed with immunity boosting ingredients
as well. Helping your body staystrong and healthy. You can stir it

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into milk, warm water, juice, or simply eat it rough right off
the spoon. This recipe is greatfor cold and flu season, or anytime
you want to boost your immunity.Contains anti septic, antibacterial, and anti
inflammatory properties which help treat digestive issues, arthritis in skin conditions. This one

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is called the honey tumeric ginger bomb. All right, do you notice a
few ingredients already? Some commonalities here, honey, ginger, and turmeric.
Right, it's kind of okay,So this bomb part was new. The
bomb part is new? Yeah,what's that one? Well, this one,

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this one not only has honey andturmeric and ginger in it, but
it also has coconut oil and cinnamonand black pepper. The bomb. There's
the bomb. It's got a littleheat to it. Black. Okay,
Mix all the ingredients and stir well. Pour the mixture into a glass jar

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with a lid and stort room temperature. You can always cut down on the
portion of spices to one teaspoon ifyou find it too strong. Enjoy a
teaspoon a day and feel the powerof the honey, turmeric, ginger bomb
boo b bone. Okay, howabout mucus, cold and cough? Yeah,

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yeah for this, Yes, here'sa natural remedy for mucus, cold,
flu, and covid symptoms. Thisjuice combination really packs a punch.
It's filled with antioxidants and it helpsto boost our immune system. It includes
pineapple, celery, ginger, turmicturmeric, and lime, all of which

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have anti inflammatory properties, meaning theyhelp to reduce inflammation within the body.
It is cold and flu season,so in this season and whatever else is
lurking out there, remember that preventionis better than cure. Always say that
this is a juice combination that canbe consumed daily to help fortify your immune
system. I don't do a lotof the juicing just because I don't know.

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It kind of feels wasteful to mebecause they juice it and then the
all of the pulp is left andthey throw that away or they do something
else with it. I don't know. But you just drink the juice part,
you know. But there is somesome benefit to juicing. I wouldn't
necessarily do it every day, butif you're feeling ill, try this and

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see if it makes a difference.Pineapple celery juice, one half of an
entire pineapple, eight stalks of celery, ten pieces of turmeric, two hands
of ginger, and two key lines. What's a piece of turmeric? Uh?

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Turmeric is shaped kind of like it'sa root. Also, it's a
root, but it's it looks morelike a finger. Oh okay, instead
of instead of the ginger that kindof spreads out a little bit. And
this batch provides three eight ounce servings. Yeah, so that's a lot for

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three servings. But it must bepotent, right, Ten pieces of turmeric
and two hands of ginger. That'sa lot. So here's a simpler one.
How about onion tea? Oh yeah, so onions are another powerhouse when
it comes to healing. I thinkwe did this before. You boil them,

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right, Yeah, this one youto remove mucus and loose loosened congestion.
You can use only the one ingredientonion. It has natural antibiotic properties
that help you heal lungs, colds, and flus that cause bronchitis. It
acts as a natural cough syrup anddecongestion. Mm hm. Cut up one

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medium onion with the skins, placeit in a saucepan with eight to ten
ounces of water and boil until thewater is tea colored so and then just
drink it. There you go.I can't imagine the flavor is the best,
but you know, add some honeyit Honey's good for you, right,

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and some cinnamon and some turmeric.Or here's another tea, cinnamon bark
tea. If you take two sticksof cinnamon bark and steep it in hot
water for five to ten minutes.Then you remove the sticks and drink it
up. You can add a teaspinof honey if you want for a little

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sweetness. But cinnamon bark tea hasseveral health benefits. Like any tea,
it warms the body, but italso decreases sweating, soothes sore throats,
and helps with digestion, and relievescold, flu and viral infections. Interesting,
huh, so cinnamon again? Okay, just salamon bark yep. Another

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way to relieve congestion. There's asteam recipe here to open up your airways.
Steaming fragrant anti viral, antibacterial herbsmight be one of the greatest tricks
to reduce symptoms of a nasty cold, cough, flu, and sinus congestion.
The warm moist air opens nasal passagesand calms and relieves chest congestion.

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Studies have proven the effectiveness of thisancient practice and even show that steam inhalations
help reduce viral load. That's whyI take hot showers, Yeah, to
steam my sinuses, to steam onme. Well, that's something Grandma always
used to do. You know.She would always say, well did you
steam yet? And it would justbe over a pot of water, sometimes

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with lemon in. It is allshe would do. But this here makes
it a little more potent. Soyou heat your water in a pot until
it just begins to boil, andtake the water off the heat. Add
two handfuls of herbs like holy basal, rosemary, thyme, mint leaves,
eucalyptus, cinnamon, clothes of freshtumeric. Two drops of oregonal oil is

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optional. Cover with a lid andlet steep for five minutes. Then,
keeping your eyes closed and maintaining asafe distance from the bowl, create a
tent with the kitchen towel over yourhead and inhale slowly and deeply through your
nose and mouth for at least twoto five minutes, careful not to burn
yourself and let cool longer if itfeels too hot. And children under twelve

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probably shouldn't do this, but youcan do this steam recipe two to three
times a day. So that's reallygood. And then this one kind of
surprised me too. How to reducea fever naturally? Did you know raisins

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can fight infections and reduce fevers?Yeah, no, but you mentioned that
yesterday. Yeah. Raisins are knownto have powerful antibacterial properties for fighting infection
and reducing fevers and children. They'realso high in fiber, which is great
for digestion, so you can addthem to any meal or snack. If
they got a sore throat, thenyou can do this soak. So you

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soak them less than one ounce ofraisins for an hour in warm water.
Then mush them into a paste andgive them to your child. So if
they don't want to chew it,you can mush them up and give it
to them that way. So Ithought that was kind of interesting. So

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another thing that not necessarily proven,right, but a lot of our grandparents
were into this. You've heard ofthe vapor rub on the feet? Not
heard of it? We've done itwhen our children on this and this is

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no ancient Chinese secret or unproven oruntested thing. Let me take this one,
Okay. According to Chinese reflexology,an ancient form of complimentary medicine,
the feet are covered in access pointsthat connect all the other bodies of areas
of your body via your key orlife force energy. Basically, treat the

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feet, treat the whole body.And I am not going to disagree with
this. The feet are the numberone thing you take care of in the
military. True, it's the onething that killed more soldiers is infection,
and they all started in having badfeet in World War Two. If you
have a cold or fluid, there'sa trick you could do to try to

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reduce the cold. This is doneby placing a thin potato or onion slice
underneath your foot and covering them withsocks. Okay, this is where the
ancient Chinese stuff comes in that Ihaven't done. I've done the vapor rub
on the feet and it has absolutelyhelped. Yeah, we'll stop a cough
and cold from coming on, soI'm sure this would work as well.

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Leave the socks on overnight as yousleep in the morning and you wake up
feeling better. That was a thinpotato or onion slice. Mm hmmm,
how does it work well. Thenerves in the feet have been a focal
point of Eastern medicine for a thousandyears and are thought to act as access
points to the internal organs. Westernmedicine and science have shown that sulfuric compounds

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in potatoes and onions have the abilityto kill bacteria and viruses. Now,
science is only said when ingested andvery limited, but when it comes down
to it, there's no solid scientificevidence that food on your feet can cure
a cold. But then again,there's also no evidence that it won't either,

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so it's always worth a try.I saw a couple of pictures where
a couple saw this. It wason a TikTok video, and they took
they took each took a couple slicesof potato, and they put one on
each foot underneath their socks. Andthey also did a control slice and left

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that in the kitchen. Okay,it's all one potato. They used one
potato and he he was sicker.So when they took off the slices of
potato off their feet in the morning, his were really dark, like almost
gray colored and hers were slightly discolored, and the control ones were just the

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regular pinkish orange that they turned whenwhen they're sitting out. So it was
it was pretty interesting. You know, science says that, Nah, but
we all know the story of science, Well, science is the art of
science is proving the last thing youknow wrong. Right, It's a series

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of always proving something wrong. Soit's just one big conspiracy theory, right,
just keep proving them wrong, keepdreaming possibility after possibility after possibility.
And medicine in general cannot acknowledge naturalhealing. Oh no, because a lot

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of it's free. Like Tom McDonaldsays, my immunity is free right now.
There's also foods that can make yourcold and flu symptoms worse. Okay,
kind of surprising, right at thefirst signs of cold and flu,
we reach for hot tea, andwe add lemon squeeze, oranges, add
hot soup. But do you knowsome foods are considered healthy but can actually

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harm you when you're sick. Thisdoes not mean that this food is not
healthy, And it's important to notethat everybody real differently, So if something
from the following list does not havea bad effect on you ignore it,
but when you have the flu,a fever, or a cold, there
is a possibility that your symptoms willbe delayed by the following foods oooo,

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popeye, spinach. It is believedthat spinach can stimulate inflammatory processes and worse
than the feeling of fatigue which accompaniesthe symptoms of flu and colds. Fine
nuts nuts Nuts, although they containmany nutrients that help against infections, still

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refrain from snacking on those nuts inthe initial stage of the disease, especially
walnuts, and especially if it's afever or a stomach virus. Walnuts are
rich in facts that the body burnsslowly and for a long time, so
it robs you of the energy youneed to fight the disease. Interesting huh,

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But certainly good old healthy rockley wouldn'tbe harmful. Well, guess what
when you're sick. Vitamins such asA and C that it contains are very
useful for immunity, but in ordernot to irritate the body further and to
leave room for it to successfully fightinfections and informations, consume foods that contain

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less fiber than broccoli and are easierto digest Because it's just too much energy
usage. Again there, just letthe body have some rest and foods that
are anti inflammatory and easy to digest. That's why they always want to give
you soup, yep, and icecream. Ice cream. So that is

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my list. Now there may bemore. If you have other little tips
and tricks, please put it inthe blog there in the comment section.
I would love to hear what youguys have to say. Yeah, that's
a really good idea because if wegot enough of these natural remedies, we
could put together, you know,a nice little directory or a booklead or

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something and have tabs where you know, this is what you use for this,
and this is what you use forthat. That would be really useful,
right, kind of cool. Soyeah, please comment either on the
post or on the blog itself.We'll round it up, we'll find it.
And that's on Diggingdeper dot net,as well as Digging Deeper podcasts on

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all the social media platforms that we'reon. But I think that's a wrap
for healthy living. It is.Once again thank you for joining us for

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healthy living, working together to findnatural alternatives. For more information about products
than it will help you with healthyliving, visit green gold Naturalpeling dot Com.

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Welcome to Truman's Matrix, a podcastbuilt around the craziest headlines around the
world. The production of Digging DeeperMedia owned by Hale Multi name where you
don't know who's watching who or who'scontrolling you. All right, Well,

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good evening and welcome to Truman's Matrix. You are in for a treat tonight.
Yeah, look at what we haveon the screen for you here,
Manufactured Reality. Recognize that face,Hi, I do. Several years ago
we put together the similarities between TheTruman Show and The Matrix, hence the

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name of this podcast. That's howwe came up with Truman's Matrix. It's
an original name. But it seemsthat we weren't the only ones that have
compared the two films. We didn'tthink we were, but we hadn't found
anything until recently. Now. Inthis thesis, what is manufactured reality parallels

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between The Truman Show and The Matrix. Princeton Senior Jonathan Gomez presented some great
points. Before we take a lookat that thesis and give you this citations
there and quote some of the thingsthat Jonathan wrote, We're going to give

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you some of our own thoughts,and first watch that trailer if you haven't
seen The Truman Show. This isthe trailer for a very weird show that
we hadn't viewed until about twenty nineteenor twenty twenty, I think it was.
Yeah, can we play this righthere from our screen? Yeah,

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all right, let's do that.Let's try comments are still hated? Who
else? John, Yeah, let'sdoe. What else's coming to you now
from the largest studio ever constructed?It's The Truman Show. Yeah? Good
morning, money. Oh and incase I don't see you, good afternoon,

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good evening, and good night.What if most scripts morning, Spencer,
how's it going? What if youwere watched every moment of your life?
How many cameras you got there inthat town? Five? I believe
Truman is the first child to havebeen legally adopted by a corporation. That's
correct, brilliant. What if everyoneyou knew was pretending? Look what I

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got. I could check out dishwash. You're safe. That's amazing. What
if your world was make believe tothe sun while the world he inhabits his
counterfeit. I'm not allowed to talkto you. That's how I look a
you're type there's nothing fake about Trumanhimself. What if you didn't know it?

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Hold onto now, A lot ofstrange things have been happening. Stand
my ring cap? Is he lookingat us? Does he think he knows?
I think I'm mixed up in somethingsomething big? Oh, hopefully accept
the reality with which were presented.Everybody's pretending Truman's cant of here. Come
and find me, Truman, tryanything happened? You might find yourself in

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hels like the whole world revolves aroundme. Everybody seems to be in on
it. I'm going away for awhile. You yourself, this is not
not vertical. You may ask yourself, I'm not in a Trumman because the
last thing that I would ever dojust lie to fade up music. That's
our hero shot. He's gone.O you want to do it again?

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Now? Truman? Where are yougoing? You can tell us how do
we stop? Give me some likeI like your bet. I was wondering
that myself. Jim Carrey, theTruman Show, Watch what happens. There's

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a whole lot more to that show, but that gives you a little bit
of an idea. There were thousandsof cameras set up around the town,
and everything in his life was manufactured. Like the best friend quote. Best
friend said, nothing in this showis not real. Nothing in this show

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is fake. It's all real.It's just very controlled. That should give
you a clue as to what thismovie was predicting. Right, so many
years ago, when did this comeout? Nineteen ninety six, eighteen ninety
eight, and nineteen ninety nine wasthe Matrix? So what a one two

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punch there? Well, the TrumanShow predicted the way social media and reality
TV would come to dominate our lives. It was just we're fixated on those
screens, right yep. The taglineof the show is an entire human life
recorded on an intricate network of hiddencameras in broadcast live and unedited twenty four

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hours a day. Wow. Thisstory about a man who doesn't know his
life is filmed and broad cast liveto a large audience foreshadowed our present landscape
of oversharing, and the young youngercrowd doesn't even understand that they're oversharing.

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Yes, I cannot believe some ofthe things that I saw, even in
the beginning, but even now,But in the beginning, when people had
no idea how long and how damagingthese things could be. But there were
people like saying things that nobody neededto know about her here, like I'm
on an airplane and I'm going togoing to go pee. Now, No,

(39:37):
you know, who cares? Somemusic star that was coming to a
concert, you know, in Nebraska, you know, and she had to
announce that she had to go peeon an airplane. What the hell?
Okay, that's a little bit ofoversharing there, and that was way back.
Yep, that's what I wrote.In fact, I think I tweeted
at or to you am I Well. Truman says, it feels like the

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whole world revolves around me somehow.Isn't that the way Facebook is? It's
not about everyone else, It's aboutyou. It's about what is going on
in your life, and everybody hasa camera into that. Those of us
who have embraced social media are encouragedto act like the entire world revolves around

(40:19):
us. It's true that sometimes realitycan be overwhelming and it creates an escape.
Hey, let's go scroll through socialmedia for wyep. The Truman Show
actually sends the message that we shouldfight against our impulse, fight against that
impulse to reduce our lives to ahyper controlled artificial narrative. Stay away from

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AI. This is our beginning warningof how social media or watching others can
overtake our lives. Well, Ithink we've seen even with the high schoolers
that we teach, that they havea harder time visiting face to face it

(41:05):
they've lost that social aspect. Yes, absolutely, I mean you've seen I
don't know if it's in a video, if it's in a movie or a
cartoon or something, but maybe we'veseen it. But we have two kids
in a room texting each other.Yeah, they're in the same damn room.
Come on, guys, talk toeach other, right, Yeah,
that's crazy. So while the filmexposes how turning real life into entertainment can

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dehumanize people, it reminds us thatprivacy is a valuable, even essential component
of an authentic life that really needsto be explored. That thought there,
that is the word there is dehumanized. Transhumanism or artificial intelligence or evolution all

(41:55):
means the same thing. And it'sgetting rid of humanity. It's reducing humanity.
It is dehumanizing people. And it'shard to be authentic if you know
people are watching you, you're notgoing to be the real you. That's
right, that's right. And throughsocial media many people now live like Truman

(42:21):
by choice. Mm hmm. Itallows us each to start in our own
personal Truman Show yep, making almostevery aspect of our private existence public knowledge,
Like I don't need to know thatgirl. But the Truman Show points
to central questions that we need tobe asking ourselves in this climate. What's

(42:43):
lost when you no longer have privacy? What do you have? H the
Truman Show? You don't know who'swatching who, or who's controlling you?
Mm hmm. That is our originalslogan for our Truman's Matrix podcast. Yep.

(43:05):
How appropriate m In the Truman Show, there's no difference between public and
private life. And if you livelife with others always watching, it is
almost impossible to live authentically. Howcan you even know if you're being authentically
yourself when others are watching? Haveyou ever tried that? Like, right

(43:25):
now, my voice is different.I am projecting different than if I were
sitting here in a room talking toyou. It's true, I know,
I know. Yeah, it's humannature. It is. When you are
up on stage and you are singing, you project project the gift of projection.

(43:49):
That's a igh. I met agirl with some power. So one
can say, how do you knowyou're not living in the matrix right now?
Oh, hold on a minute,the matrix, Yes, the Truman
Show. Let's shift our thoughts alittle bit. Now, that was a

(44:12):
little beginning on the Truman Show.Okay, store that away. A life
of being unauthentically watched twenty four toseven, a very controlled environment, but
real manufactured reality. The matrix.What is the matrix that we found out

(44:37):
recently is the question that mister Andersonwants to know. It is what is
the matrix? Keanu Reeves says inthe classic. So one can say,
how do you know you're not livingin the matrix right now? The matrix,
according to the definition in the movie, was being duped with our wool

(45:02):
pulled over our eyes about what's actuallygoing on? Right So everybody gets it
because people know about the matrix.The matrix is just a brilliant depiction of
the idea that the universe were incould be simulated, very reminiscent of some
ancient questions posed by the philosopher ReneeDescartes. Did you know that discart has

(45:29):
said how do you know that anevil demon isn't fooling you into thinking the
world around you is real by feedingyou sensations when in fact nothing is real.
The Matrix is just using digital technologyto take that four hundred year old
idea Descartes had to turn it intosomething we can all viscerally appreciate. Wow.

(45:57):
What an introduction to the matrix.The matrix an altered manufactured reality.
Shall we watch the trailer? Let'swatch the trailer on this one too.
Ya? All right, let's dothat. Whoa Have you ever had a

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dream, Neo that you were sosure was real? What if you were
unable to wake from that dream?How would you know the difference between the
dream world and the real world?What is happening to me? The answer
is out there. It's the questionthat drives us. What is the matrix?

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The matrix is the world that hasbeen pulled over your eyes to blind
you from the truth. What truth? They're watching you? Neil human beings
or disease. You are a cancerof this planet. We are the cure.

(47:17):
Get me the hell out of here. Welcome to the real world.
So you are here to save theworld. That's what they need. Guns
lots of guns. No one hasever done anything like this. That's why

(47:39):
it's going to work, Buckley,you see belt, Dorothy, because Kansas
is going bye bye. Unfortunately,no one can be told what the Matrix

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is. You have to see itfor yourself. What is the Matrix?
You have to see it for yourself. Yes, So The Matrix was definitely
and arguably one of the most influentialmovies ever made. I mean, the

(48:47):
funny thing about this is that weknew all these concepts that we saw in
the movie. Yes, and we'veeven spoken on them, but we'd never
watched the movie until us a coupleof nights ago. Down the Rabbit Hole,
for instance, right, or yeah, that was very familiar in the

(49:07):
Red Pill, Blue Pill, wemeet that man. Yeah. Yeah.
And although I had not heard abouttake Me to the Oracle. Oh,
I had not heard the Oracle before, but I actually heard a it was
fun. I heard a song fromTom McDonald in here take Me to the
Oracle. Yeah it was. Itwas one of the lyrics. Yeah,

(49:31):
yeah, yeah, yeah. There'sreally a lot of interesting ties there.
So Thomas Anderson is a computer programmerby day and operates as a hacker under
the alias Neo. In his offtime, he discovers the truth about the
world he's living in when he becomesaware of the Matrix. The Matrix.

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While searching for a man named Morpheus, he meets another hacker named Trinity,
who takes Neo to Morpheus. Morpheusvaguely describes the Matrix as this all encompassing
prison, as the world that hasbeen pulled over Neo's eyes, blinding him
from the truth. He also admitsthat no one can be told what the

(50:14):
Matrix is. You have to seeit for yourself, he states. Morpheus
offers Neil another choice, a bluepill and a red pill. We talked
about that, yep. If hechooses the blue pill, he remains in
his everyday life and believes whatever hewants to believe. But if he chooses
the red pill, he'll set footin the real world and find out what

(50:37):
the Matrix truly is. All I'moffering is the truth, says Morpheus,
and so Neo takes the red pilland tumbles down the rabbit hole. The
rabbit hole is a reference, ofcourse, to Alice in Wondering Line Right.
The Matrix is considered a philosophical filmto contains many existing philosophical and religious

(51:02):
themes like prophecy, love, truth, karma, the nature of reality,
and living in assimilation. So oneof the most interesting things that I learned
about it I had no clue aboutbefore that wasn't part of my like pre
knowledge of it though we hadn't watchedit, right, is that I didn't

(51:22):
realize there were so many references toreligion or Christianity, prophecy names like Trinity
or the ship that they were on, that morph and and the Oracle,
the Oracle, and the the one, the one, the one you know,

(51:45):
the one you you will never bebut will someday meet, you know,
I mean, there was just alot of almost like references, almost
like on Narnia with the I andstuff, you know. Yeah, sure,
yeah. So there seems to bea particular close connection between the Matrix

(52:06):
and Plato's allegory of the Cave.Have you ever heard of the Cave?
I hadn't until I read this.Yes. In this allegory, presented in
Plato's Republic, Socrates describes a groupof people chained to a wall within a
cave. Their whole lives, theonly reality they know of is the mere

(52:29):
shadows projected on the wall in frontof them, and they believe these are
real entities. Then one of theprisoners is freed. He leaves the cave
and gets the experience of the realworld outside, But when he returns to
the cave to enlighten the other prisonerswith the truth, he faces resistance.

(52:49):
Exploring the following question, do we, as human beings actually want the truth?
It's a good question, it reallyis. Most of us would probably
answer yes, But when comparing TheTruman Show and The Matrix in relation to

(53:12):
Plato's allegory, we discover that thehuman relationship with truth is not that simple.
Sometimes we welcome the truth, whileother times we hide from it,
temporarily, suspend it, reject it, and even wish to forget the truth
if we had that option. Oneof the most striking examples is the character

(53:34):
Cipher. Remember that guy in thefilm? Yeah, I wish you would
have just left me? Right?Yeah? He was a negative one,
right, he was. Both Plato'swork and The Matrix show people's disdain for
a truth that threatens their reality.We tend to attach to the familiar,

(53:55):
the comfortable, the meaningful, andare sometimes willing to defend it with our
lives. So again, do wewant the truth? I think a lot
of it has to do with thefact that our pride doesn't allow us to
admit we're wrong, or to admitwe've been snowed. Yeah, I believe

(54:16):
or to I really believe. Thatis almost a fifty to fifty. You
know, I don't know the percentages, and I haven't done the studies,
but it almost seems like people aresplit down the middle. On those that
are just going to absolutely jump onOh really, let me check it out.
I didn't know that, let mefind the truth, and the other
half that are just like, oh, stay away from me. You're not

(54:37):
my friend anymore if you tell methat, right kind of thing, Like
no, you can't tell me anydifferent. Yeah, it's really strange.
Yeah, really study in psychology.Really, the answer on that, like
we're kind of talking about right now, really depends. We tend to handle
the facts selectively, as the truthappears in many forms with different magnitudes.

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Truth can uplift us, it canleave us indifferent, but can also make
us depressed and miserable. Now isthis a quote from him? This is
direct? Yes? Okay, sothis right here, we have it in
italics here on the screen for you. This is from Jonathan Gomez, Jonathan
Gomez's senior thesis on this manufactured realitythat comparison between the two movies Princeton paper

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used by citation and under the fairUse Act. So we read on here
in the third sentence. For example, in Plato's allegory, learning the truth
has virtually no downsides. The onlydownside is the hostility by those in the
cave. But aside from that,it's pretty evident that Plato's truth leads to

(55:51):
something better and would uplift almost anyone. But in the Truman Show and in
The Matrix, the truth is lessenjoyable. However, the effect that truth
has on us doesn't necessarily depend onthe truth itself. It also depends on
the person receiving it. Yeah,in the case of Neil and Morpheus,
the state of the world provided themwith meaning and legitimized the battle they were

(56:15):
fighting as liberators of humanity, whichis quite an incredible goal to have in
life. On the other hand,Cipher pokes fun at that goal, which
shows his cynicism and lack of meaninghe found in his existence. People tend
to adopt surrogate truths to cover upa painful reality, which in the end
is what Truman does. According toJonathan. Yeah, now in this comparison,

(56:45):
I had another thought before you goup there. Yeah, and maybe
he'll save this later on, andso I'll save my thought for a little
bit later. If he doesn't talkabout the direction of the enlightenment, remind
me direction of the enlightenment. Okay. So by contrast, this is Jonathan

(57:06):
Gomez again continuing on in his thesispaper here quote by contrast, others love
painful realities, but these are ofteninstrumental to their already dark worldview. Both
people, people from both camps,excuse me, also tend to ignore facts
that oppose how they want to seethe world. So both sides, yes,

(57:30):
my words. Now, both sideswant to believe what they want to
believe true, what's in their worldthe way they want to see the world.
Now back to what Jonathan says,and many, if not most cases,
they share their worldviews like like mindedpeople. Sharing a certain truth,
regardless of whether it's true, hasbenefits. Again, look at religious groups,

(57:53):
political movements, and even the flattersociety. Being part of such groups
can provide people with purpose and socialconnections. Yeah, we can see how
the belief in the One binds Morpheusand his people together. You could see
that in the film, Yes,the One. I mean they all bound
around the fact that they had faiththat they were going to be okay because

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they had the One. My wordsagain, doctor Jonathan. The downside is
that adopting opposing views as a member, even if they were true, could
lead to other members ostracizing you.And here's where the dark side of suspension
of disbelief comes in. Some,if not many, are willing to turn

(58:35):
a blind eye to the truth,not just for innocent enjoyment, but also
out of convenience. For example,someone keeps subscribing to a false belief against
one's better judgment just to belong orout of fear of being ostracized. True,

(58:57):
very true. And I don't knowthat they actually talk about the directionality.
Okay, So I'll cut in hereand I'll talk about the other portion
I read in his thirty seven pagethesis. We only gave a couple of
paragraphs out of this paper here fromPrinceton, but we do appreciate that research.
It seemed to be the only researchon the entire Internet on the differences

(59:20):
or similarities between these two movies.We thought it was an original thought.
We were pretty darn close to beingan original and anyway, it is an
original podcast and an original name.So when I talk about the direction of
enlightenment, what I want to fillin here is that it was interesting in
Plato's allegory, the enlightenment came fromcoming up from the buried the lower cave.

(59:46):
The cave was underground, dark,no light, but there was a
fire in the cave and it wasbehind them. They were actually chained to
a pole, so they were changedto a wall. They were changed to
a pole where the light was providedthat made the reflection on the walls was
actually the fire behind them. Soif you read deeper into that article,

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that's what it said. So thestudy they actually saw moving figures, So
they saw, you know, figuresdancing on the wall in front of them,
and that's why they thought they werereal. So anyway, other than
the light of the fire behind them, and they couldn't turn their heads,
so they didn't know what it was. They just knew that it was in
shadows in front of them. Sowhen the enlightenment came, it came from

(01:00:30):
going up and out into the world, into the outside world, and actually
hurt his eyes a lot, buthe was able to adjust eventually. But
the truth was blinding, and hecame back down to share it with others.

(01:00:53):
So he reached down to lift othersup with the truth. So that
was the Plato allegory, and Ifound that to be completely opposite in the
in the ideas of a rabbit hole, yes, or digging deeper and go
down into the rabbit hole, rightgoing into the darkness. Everything is down

(01:01:13):
in this case when you when you'regoing down into the matrix, I mean
you you were going down deep intothe recesses virtually of hell. Yes.
So it was an interesting take onboth of those comparisons, not just between
the two movies, but with theallegory from Socrates. Yeah, with Socrates
by Plato, I didn't realize thosetwo were right about each other. It

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was Plato's allegory about Socrates. Socratesis when we went and told people.
So all in all, people seempretty opportunistic when it comes to the truth.
We all want a truth, atruth. We all want a truth,
not necessarily the truth, yep.We want a reality, not necessarily
the reality, but the truth andthe lie often have something in common.

(01:02:00):
They both appear as stories. Socould it be that we fundamentally don't want
the truth but a story, astory to believe in, identify with,
share with others, dwell on,and perhaps most importantly, to provide us
with a sense of meaning and belonging. Hm. That was a great quote

(01:02:22):
by Jonathan Goemans right there. Yes, all in all, people seem pretty
opportunistic when it comes to the truth. We all want a story to believe
in and to provide us with asense of meaning, which then leads us
to the ultimate book that are readin college Man's Will to Meaning by doctor

(01:02:44):
Victor Frankel, one of the Jewishprisoners in the Nazi Auschwitz camps in Germany
and Austria, and his whole lifewas doctor Frankel. His whole life,
as he survived a prison camp andthen became an author and founder of a
university, was based on one thing, finding purpose, the meaning of life,

(01:03:09):
and of course the forty day bookthat we read when we first got
married, forty days you know,purpose driven life yep. Finding our blog
finding your purpose, yeah, rightthere, diggingdeper dot net. And so
that's a lot to ingest when itcomes to this comparison between these two movies,

(01:03:30):
but that gives you a taste ofwhere we got our idea for the
actual title for the show. SoTruman's Matrix really is something that is the
wildest headlines from around the world ina place where you don't know who's watching

(01:03:51):
who or who's controlling you. Andthat's going to do it for this edition
of s Truman's Matrix, a podcastbuilt around the craziest headlines around the world.
A production of Digging Deeper Media ownedby Hale Multi Gekia. You can

(01:04:11):
find Digging Deeper with Brian Hale onyour favorite podcast network, or visit all
of our podcasts under one room atdiggingdeper dot us. And one more thing,
Good afternoon, good evening, andgood night. Welcome to the Ugly
Truth. Step why train the peopleonly to consume? Step two? Infiltrate

(01:04:35):
adults with the news Step three,and doctor Nathan children through the schools and
the music and the apps on thephones that they use. Step four.
Separate the right from the left.Step five, separate the white from the
black. Step six, separate therich from the poor. Use religion,
then the quality to separate a morestep sevy, fabricate a problem, made
a lie, step eight, putit down the news every night, step

(01:04:58):
night. When people start to fightand by take control, this is called
situational design. They can us becausewe're ready to fight. Why, Bubbly
Well that bread or died? Thewhole world's brain. Everybody picking teams on
the white in the streets, thewhole world's brain. Why gets them?

(01:05:23):
And you will catch me? We'rewith you, Tom, We will not
back down. This is the uglytruth. Hard to listen to, but
impossible to ignore. Man, Igot some things to say on this one.
I'm telling you in the intro,Welcome to the Ugly Truth. By

(01:05:44):
the way, reverse Racism is ourtitle tonight. But go ahead, we're
gonna say something. No, no, you look like you're taking a breath
there, because I need to takea breath. I'm gonna go off here
on this one because I do nothave anything written, because I have thoughts
spinning in my head about so manydifferent things. Racism is a topic that

(01:06:05):
I would have never thought of orever thought of even writing about or speaking
about for most of my adult life, which is almost six decades. Yeah,
and all of a sudden, inthe last decade, all this bullony
and garbage is coming up about racism, and in a sense, now hold

(01:06:25):
on a minute, in a sense, hold on, don't attack me if
you think, oh, he's thinkingone way or the other, because I
actually have beliefs on both sides.Here is racism real or is it not?
Does it exist or does it not? Oh? Of course it does.
Of course it doesn't. Where dowe go from here? Racism has
existed throughout humanity forever, forever.It is nothing new under the sun human

(01:06:51):
nature. For people to judge others. True, it's how wars are decided.
I mean, you don't you're bornto hate others that are not like
you because we're born into sin well, and it's also a self defense type

(01:07:14):
of mechanism, it is. Andyou're gonna hear that tonight. You're gonna
hear that from Tom McDonald. I'vegot a clip in here. As a
matter of fact, we got allkinds of clips. This is going to
be one of those podcasts where I'mprobably gonna break in say some things.
We're gonna listen to some music becausethere's an artist that several artists that we
have on tonight, but all independentartists in fact, who have given us

(01:07:38):
permission actually to use their material inour podcasts, and we have that on
tape. So anybody try to makea dang uncopyright, don't do it,
because we have permission to use thesesongs and clips of these songs, and
of course under the fair Yuse Act, we're gonna use that to evaluate this,
talk about it, and present itto you tonight. So the songs

(01:07:59):
you're gonna here and here are goingto have to do with race. Let's
get started on the actual article.Go ahead and get it up on the
screen and scroll down a little bitfor me there. And let's first of
all, let's start talking about somedefinitions, because without definitions or a foundation,
then nobody can agree on anything.There has to be an agreement somewhere,

(01:08:21):
a foundation of any truth. Ifyou walk up to somebody and they
don't believe in gravity, you can'ttalk about falling, right, You just
can't. So let's start with whatMerriam Webster states. Okay, so belief
racism according to Miriam Webster, andactually, well anyway, we won't go

(01:08:43):
into Webster a belief that race isa fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities,
and that racial differences produce an inherentsuperiority of a particular race, behavior
or attitudes that reflect and foster thisbelief. Oh gosh, I didn't know
you're gonna throw this in there.I mean, I knew you were gonna

(01:09:03):
put some definitions in this article toget started. But this one itself in
itself has a problem already because they'retrying to say that it is racism if
you believe that certain races are superiorat certain things. Yeah, and that's
flat ass true. Hello, whitemen can't jump, and you're a white

(01:09:30):
man, so you can say that. Why, boy, you can't say
that. Yeah, we're gonna hearthat tonight too. No, the point
here is that there are physiques andgenetics involved in races. True, they're
you know, a Viking is biggerthan a Chinese guy. True, it's
just bigger. Light right, Okay, that's not racism, No, that's

(01:09:55):
it's a truth, thank you.Yeah. So, first of all,
racism trying to be defined by thefreaking Mirriam Webster here. Yeah, by
saying that belief that there are racialdifferences of superiority. Yeah, there are
in certain things. There are,so that's kind of wrong there, It

(01:10:16):
doesn't. But behaviors are attitudes thatreflect and foster this belief. I'm sorry,
I have the attitude that basketball players, I mean, excuse me,
most six foot nine black athletes aren'tgood baseball players. Was that racist?

(01:10:42):
Yes? Because I said black?Right? Right? No, it's just
the truth. If I'm a recruiter, if I'm an owner of a company
or a team, i'm and Ineed a linebacker. I Am not gonna
look at the table tennis champion fromTaiwan? Right? Is that racist?

(01:11:03):
Okay? You see, I've neverbeen racist in my life, and I'm
probably being called the biggest racist rightnow for saying this stuff. Well,
but extremes like that are obvious andpeople should understand that. But they've taken
this word and they have twisted itso much. That's saying it's a China

(01:11:24):
virus was racist? I mean,come on, people, that's where it
was from. Then maybe they forgotabout the nineteen eighteen Spanish flu. They
blamed it on the Spanish when itdidn't even come from Spain. No sense,

(01:11:45):
France or Kansas. They haven't,they haven't settled it yet we actually
think it came from Germany. Butthat's another side point. So let's get
out to number two. It's goingto be a fun segment. We're supposed
to be number two. It saysthe systemic oppression of a racial group to
the social, economic, and politicaladvantage of another, or a political or

(01:12:09):
social system found it on racism anddesigned to execute its principles. Okay,
now here's where we have some seriousagreement. I if this is saying,
especially in two B here on thescreen, I absolutely agree. There is
a political divide in the political inthe court justice system, yes, and

(01:12:32):
the justice system, there is adivide between two things, not necessarily colored,
but rich and poor. Yes,there's an absolute radical divide between justice
of rich and poor. Because ifyou have a little bit of money,
you can actually get a charge completelythrown out and never face anything. Whereas

(01:12:57):
if you don't have money to paysomebody to go up there and represent you
whether you're right or wrong, whetheryou did it or not. Too bad.
Yeah, if you don't have themoney, you're going to get the
sentence and you're going to be theone incarcerated. So when we have songs
that are going to be coming upthat are going to be talking about the
differences between you know, the prisonnumbers and blacks and whites, and is

(01:13:21):
there a right privilege or is itjust a system we agree with There absolutely
there is an injustice there. Thereabsolutely truly an injustice. So but we
called this reverse racism. Yes,so what are we talking about here?
So the definition of reverse racism whichseems like an oxymoron to me, but

(01:13:42):
anyway, intolerance or prejudice directed atmembers of historically dominant racial groups. Historically
dominant. Okay, now I thoughtthat it was racist to consider one dominant.
Yeah, they're telling you to considerone historically dominant in order to make
this comparison. Yeah, they're tellingyou to So what right? So first,

(01:14:03):
first of all, first of all, I thought, okay, what
is the reverse of racism? No, yes, that's that's what I thought
when I first heard it. Well, this was the title I gave you.
Yeah. Yeah, So when yousay you first heard it, well
I had heard it before you gaveme the title. But that was my
first thought. Is reverse racism?What are you talking about? The reverse

(01:14:26):
of racism? Is not being racistat all? Yes? Yes, yes,
yes, we did want to coverthat part reverse of racism, but
the word of isn't in there,I know. So what is reverse racism?
Well, there's two different angles onthat, Yes, there is.
The one that's I believe wrongfully assumedis that it's black versus white, and

(01:14:48):
so reverse racism is racism against whites. Everybody believes. That's what the majority
of people will believe right now ifyou ask them the definition of reverse racism.
And that's a little bit of whatI meant when I gave you the
title. I said, let's doreverse racism for this Ugly Truth this week.

(01:15:10):
And that's because there's an artist thatwe're going to feature that came to
America and started singing about this racismissue in America. He's from Canada.
His name is Tom McDonald, andhe just says it like it is,
and he isn't trying to cause problems. He's trying to get people to talking

(01:15:38):
and discussing the issues and figure out, you know, what is racism.
So he just wants people to knowthat people are people regardless, right right.
So there are, like I said, two different ways to look at
reverse racism. One actually maybe three, reverse of racism would be treating everybody

(01:16:00):
equally reverse racism. Most people wouldthink, like I said that, that
means that it's a white and ablack thing. Tonight we're going to present
to you that it's not black andwhite. Like I said earlier, I'm
a justice in the justice system beingracist itself. It's actually monetarily racist rather

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than skin color racist. But infact, statistically most people that can't afford
an attorney are of a minority.So therefore, excuse me. Therefore they
get the they get the acts,they get the shaft, And if you're
white and you can't afford it,then you're you're gonna shaft. Yeah,

(01:16:46):
you're gonna get it too. Butthose who can, So there's definitely a
divide there, and it's always it'snot always about race. So tonight we're
going to present to you a fewuh demonstrations through music about racism and trying
to understand where this heat comes from. Right, So, could I say

(01:17:08):
one more thing about this reverse racism? So if it truly is racism against
white people, then why isn't itjust racism? Why do we have to
add that other word on there?Exactly? It makes racism is racism,
whether it's whiting it's orange, red, black, or blue or yellow or

(01:17:30):
yellow or yeah, and I don'tthink there's actually any blue or oranges either.
No orange man, Orange man,Orange man, and the blue people
they get saved from the lasers.Oh right, and there's the lizard people,
but they're green, they're greeny.We're not there yet. But we're
not there yet, but we arewhite boy. You can't say that.

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So Tom McDonald wrote a song intwenty eighteen called white Boy, and it
was most people thought that the songwas his whining and complaining about how people
are racist against white people. Butin fact, this will clear it up
for you. That's not where hisheart was and what it was all about.

(01:18:15):
So this is actually a presentation withhis cast and of people that are
in the video before the shoot.So let's watch that first and then we'll
actually watch the white Boy video andwe'll follow it up after that. Check
this out. So, being asthis is like a super like EDGPSU content,

(01:18:38):
I'm gonna play you guys a songright now, everybody sort of knows
what to expect. The first verse, especially, it is pretty rocky,
purposefully to engage the people that arewatching it. Second verse, or as
soon as out day. That's prettymuch it. Alright, that's just I

(01:19:11):
feel sort everybody out here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't be as
two questions for sure, Yeah yeahcool. Feel free to ask, oh
just gonna ask what makes it good? You need to like just a fuck
that shure? Not racist? Idon't feel like I do, and I

(01:19:33):
don't really feel like this song islike I'm not racist, but has been
said like so many times. I'mCanadian. I gotta so that the yeah,
so that the soul the social climatein Canada in terms of like race
relations and and that everything is completelydifferent than it is here in America,

(01:19:54):
and like quite simply, but likeI wasn't prepared for that. How intense
the racial shit is out here.Obviously, like the roots in America runs
far deeper than they do in Canada. So it was like pretty eye opening
to come out here, and especiallylike under Donald Thrump's administration and everything that

(01:20:14):
that perpetuates. It was pretty likeeye opening for me to to experience that.
And because the last two songs Ireleased were targeting the content of Mumble
Wraps, so like over sexualization ofwomen, alcohol consumption, Xanax, Who's
overspending party, culture, like thattype of thing. And because I targeted
that content, I had a lotof people like my pavement from a thousand

(01:20:38):
likes to like almost two hundred thousandlikes in the in the course of like
three months. So there's hundreds ofthousands of comments on these videos, and
a small portion of them but enoughfor me to like, my phone blows
up all day and I look downat what people are saying on these videos,
and a quarter of these hundreds ofthousand comments are people saying, like,
Yo, this guy's a fucking racist, he's targeting black rap he's a

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culture vulture, et cetera, etcetera, which just comes with the territory.
But it's like, we never targetedblack rappers. We didn't target any
rappers in particular color. We targetedrappers of a particular content, and there's
white rappers and there's Asian rappers,and there's all types of rappers that talk
about that exact same shit. Sothis song was fueled by pretty much the
reaction to my last two videos,and it has less to do with me

(01:21:29):
feeling like I need to stand upand say, hey, I'm not racist,
and more to do with me feelinglike I need to respond to these
people that have been saying wild shiton a public forum that is my page
for the last three months. Soit's more like a culture show up for
you moving and to these people assumingthat you're racist. Absolutely, And I
mean my neighbor some of the stuffhe listens to is like straight up it's

(01:21:50):
anti white and it blas from hishouse all the time, and he talks
to me, He's like, oh, you got a pun with this shit,
and I'm like, no, Rosemusic, like it's all good.
So anyways, I had them overto the house and I played him this
song before I even decided to gothrough with the video or whatever. And
Ken is like very very very likepro black, like very pro black,

(01:22:12):
And he straight up told me,he said, look Tom, like I
understand that, Like you're a rapper, and like, yeah, you're one
of the good ones and you wantto be down with like hip hop culture
and da da da da da daDad. He's like, I'm gonna tell
you straight up, just because Ilive in America and I grew up here
and as my experiences as a blackman in America, if I didn't know
you and I saw you walk downthe street and I'm hanging out with my

(01:22:34):
black friends. I'm assuming a racistbefore I even fucking talked to you,
because his analogy was, if there'sa barrel full of snakes and half more
poisonous, I don't have the fuckingtime to stick my hand and the figure
out which one are poisonous and whichone are because at the end of the
day, they all fucking bite.That's what he said to me. And
it's that that it's and he's myfriend, but it's that mindset that a

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lot of people and I'm not sayingthat he's wrong, but it's not something
that I relate with being from Canada, and it's that mindset that a lot
of people came to me on Facebookwith in response to the mumble Rap videos,
and at the end of the day, like, that's what I was
responding to with this record. Youcan only read these things on Facebook for
so long until it does start touchingyou on some emotional level and it does

(01:23:23):
start to anger you and stuff.So some of this is fueled from anger.
I did my best to have itcome from an angry place at times,
but not a hateful place. Butsome of it was done intentionally so
that people stop and say, well, that's bullshit. He shouldn't have said
that, because the reason this hastaken place in a classroom setting is because

(01:23:44):
this is a learning environment and anenvironment that insights discussion. So like I
want some of those people to say, hey, this is bullshit. You
shouldn't have said that. I needthose people. That's what's going to spark
the conversation. So I didn't understandthe reason being I just moved from Release
Who long ago, and race isnot really like something we focus on,
Like you know, there's Chinese teachers. We know there's different types of people,

(01:24:05):
but we don't really focus on blackof life. Yeah, so a
couple of months moving out here whenI was going to community college and there's
something happening but I can't remember whathappened. But one of my friends at
the time on the track where you'relike, oh, that happened because you're
black, and I looked at them, I was like, what does that
mean. I didn't understand the jokeand the context of the joke, so
like I have to ask me toexplained it. And that's how I learned

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about race. So I definitely relateto which is Yeah, I mean people
aren't that it's not such a nonissue in Canada where it's at a point
where people wouldn't understand something like that, Like it definitely does exist in Canada,
but not to the degree of intensitythat it exists out here, right,
So so yeah, that's where that'swhere I'm at. So I just

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wanted to The reason I told everybodyabout it on the phone is just I
didn't think we're spared to bring everybodyit's here and then to play the song
and expect everybody to just deal withit, which is why it's of gave
everybody in this playing on the phone, And that's why I wanted to play
you guys a song right now.So as long as everybody's cool, we'll

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get on with it. Yeah,like they said, if everybody's cool,
we'll get on with it. Becauseright there you could see right the first
video on the screen right there isWhite Boy itself, and so now we're
gonna move down to it and listento it. This is one of the

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first songs, one of the firstvideos that really started racking up the millions
and millions of views for Tom.Of course, there are others back in
this timeframe around twenty eighteen. It'sreally a big time for him when he
broke out, but White Boy stillleads among the most watched videos on YouTube

(01:25:54):
by any Canadian rapper or any anymusic artists for that matter, gets millions
of you. So let's listen tothis. It is pretty intense, but
it's not that long. So let'stake a lesson to this. This is
white Boy from Tom McDonald. Youwanted to say something else before we push
play here, something about where hesaid it's not as radical in other countries

(01:26:19):
like Canada or Beliefe. And thenyou also said it's the same in rural
versus city, same ratio. That, yeah, most most rural areas don't
see the amount of racism. Itjust doesn't happen. I mean, well
we didn't see it. We grewup in a rural area, but that

(01:26:41):
was also the Midwest, so yeah, it just didn't happen a lot.
There's just some areas of the countryjust are not as infiltrated with it now,
although we're not saying it doesn't exist, okay, and we did see
it, So before we go anyfurther, I definitely have to have an
acknowledgment for one very large facet ofracism that does happen in the United States,

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still in rural areas, and thatis with the Native Americans and sometimes
even the Hispanics. When the Mexicanworkers who may be illegal come up to
work the fields and end up roamingaround, there's a lot of prejudice against
those human beings and the Natives also. The Natives are the worst they have

(01:27:36):
been the race that has been reallyabused throughout the years. It's a tragic,
tragic history, and there is nodoubt in my mind that that is
definitely a problem. It has beena problem for a long time. And
my friend James enlightened me to thatproblem. Yeah, when I had denied

(01:27:59):
it to that. So this isn'tjust black versus white. So let's buzz
through these songs. The first oneis gonna be White Boy. We'll move
right through to race Wars you seeon the screen there, and then we'll
finish up with a clip from Blackand White. All Right, I cannot
feel guilty that I didn't do,but I can understand the reasons why you

(01:28:23):
think that I should. Yeah,I'm white, but I never put your
neck in no news and I neverburned the cross or hit my face with
a hood. You can't dislabel meracist because I'm related to people who did
some terrible way back before I wasalive. My parents brought me up to
treat everyone. It's an equal.I refuse to feel ashamed because of my
pretty blue whyes and not the whitesupremacist. Anyone who labels me is that

(01:28:45):
because of my family genetics, thehate for Caucasians. It's so pathetic.
Don't be proud that you're black,but don't hate me for some credit.
I'm not the white devil, pyoNazi cop trying to pull the trigger.
You can call me what you want, but I still never say the white
boy. He says a whole ofthe enemy just racest white people, but
we're far from that collectively. Whiteboy, don't say that, white boy.

(01:29:08):
Oh you so bad? White boy? You wis you were glad?
White boy? White boy? Whyboy? Why can't say? Why boys?
Why boys? Why? Don't tellme how to see it through my
white If a black man is sittingon some kanyak sitting next to me,

(01:29:30):
I don't assume that every black's favoritedrink is hennessy. I don't dislike Tanisha
because their first name is Stephanie.Not only is that wrong, it's a
waste of energy. Ivory or Ebanforty five or seventeen. We all beleed
to say Martin, Luther, Kingor Kennedy. They're angry. I'm reciting
the facts. He's white in theracks and still the culture rights in the
facts. Okay, fire, butwe lick the flame. He's siphon in

(01:29:50):
gas. So this carny lt ahonky man, the WHITEI is wack letting
history perpetuate to hate you with them, and then you paint me with the
brush you painted Sleigh with. Yeah, white boy, don't say that?
White boy? Oh you so badwhite boy? You and super bad white
boy? O? White boy?Why boy? Why? Nor can't say?

(01:30:15):
Why boys? Why boys? Whydon't tell me how to sing it?
Do? My white? I gota mother, a father, a
sister with Auntie and uncle Lenna Grandma. That I picture when you're openly hating
the god willing one day I havea kid on my own. I refuse
to let you findly hate my wifefor my babies. So go ahead and
hate the races. I pray fortheir extinction if you want to hate the

(01:30:38):
white people. Just make their distinctionbetween the ones who want the best for
everyone regardless and the ones who buildthe system just to bother you with hardship.
To stop before you say it.I know what you've been thinking.
How's a straight white male in twentyeighteen. You're making me the villain by
demonizing my race for things I didn'tdoing decisions I didn't make. No one
that I call a friend is everown a slag, and neither did our

(01:31:00):
dads or our dad's dads sakes.Acknowledging atrocities we're wrongly committed is all that
I can offer when I'm wrongly convicted. I would never hate a man for
what God gave him impigments, andI would never plot against him just because
he is different. I would neverjudge a human for the cards he was
given, or call him lesser thanmyself because of the race that he's mixed
with. White people that you hatearen't your neighbors or lawyers. They're the

(01:31:23):
Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Bushes, andRoyals. They're the people who monopolized the
water and oil and injected your communitieswith drugs that they spoiled. God no
patience for Nazis. I think they'rebetter rough dad, the fighting hatred with
hatred, making the hate more intense. I don't want nothing to do with
either side of the fence. Sodon't finally attack me for wearing braids on
my head. Hate the people whobelieve you put yourselves in the ghetto.

(01:31:45):
Hate the ones who teach the childrenyou ain't because they said so. Hate
the ones who think you're all thesame and judging profusely because the way that
you're portrayed on our news in themovies, being white and being racist not
the same, man, I promiseno, it's hard to tell the difference.
If I'm just being honest, Ideserve the chance to show you I'm
not part of the problem, andyou I would see yourselves. We got
so much in common. White boy, don't say that, white boy,

(01:32:09):
Oh you so bad, white boy, you wish you were black? White
boy? Deal, white boy?Why boy? Why you say you can't
say? Why? Boris? Whyboris? Why last? Don't tell me
how to see it through my whiteus. White boy, don't say that

(01:32:30):
white boy, Oh you so bad, white boy, you wish you were
black? White boy? Deal whiteboy. It's okay to be racist,
as long as you hating on theCaucasians teaching white kids that they're shades the
same as school shoots and rapists.Maybe I'd tripping because the white children have
been getting taught that they got whiteprivileged by the white guys and the high
heels whit identify the white women.I'm not aloud to be white, but

(01:32:51):
I'm fine with it because I'm notallowed to have hid it because the colonizer
isn't the white, biggest, bigwhite history my business. I ain't never
gonna give a damn if you likeme, hind Gold trip when the Dario
type I'm a white boy and awhite boy light. He knows that all
lives matter. Fight me. WhenI always younger, they caught me didn't
never see color, to treat everyminut as if he was my brother.
But now that we're coming up,we hate one another for other o the
ways that we struggling to suffer.They come and forget it. We run
and for cover. The government wantsus divided and dumber, adicted and knocking

(01:33:12):
the cutter so we never wake upanother recovered coming culture votre Because I'm back
good, I don't pops hands ofsmoke back boys. But they call me
a wiggering live at me hither andhate like I'm wearing the clan hood and
ain't left the right or black orwhite. It's good and evil. The
lead folks hain't all people. Youknow that we stand in the divide and
we follow Amemberica. We gotta getreal. You were segregated. That was
not fair. You were enslaved.They did not care. But you were
never on a plantation and my generationwas not there. That's drama and your
dnay cause them what we see today. I pray to God you staying strong,

(01:33:36):
don't want to see no man andpaying me. White folks, I'm
in garage. Some of y'all aresuch carriage. The prejudice you went every
day was racism from your carvage.Get that poison out your fins. Whites
and blacks are will the same.They want us in our graves. Just
let me trying to explain. Iswear they want us in a lace dying
every day for oose lives had boardying the laced lifestagr. If you born

(01:34:15):
black, you lose, might aswell go get that you're gonna die before
you twenty five, get shot overyour shoes, you're gonna get killed by
police. Then when you follow therules, if you listen to the news,
you're gonna believe all this is true. But I feel no white kill
don't die for me when I'm killed, I guess white life don't mat It's
sad, but that's the way thatI feel. I feel like they feel
like like I don't know what theyy'all call me six white male figure,
racist, he's a Nazi. That'snot me. I'm not one of these

(01:34:39):
white liperable comedies who think that theAfrican these allies and they are me.
Your neighborhoods are game and claim youthrow black? Would you creating God,
I'm dying on the pavement. Allyour hashtags will save them? That gangsters
people begging for their life. Still, I know black people who can't afford
to pay their life bill who mightfeel like they're the ones who losing their
life. When the worst thing youcould be is not a shame to be

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one. White privilege is a systemthey position for division. If you're black,
you go to prison. If youblame your life is different. Takes
the money race when they just sprinkleit's a manunition, and make everyone believe
that the other team is the villain. Nice pro black, nine pro white,
a pro American, every color cousof both. One day when you
carried them, white and blacks areall the same. They want us in

(01:35:20):
that places. Let me trying toexplain. I swear they want us in
a race for dying every day forwhose lives had bar be dying in a
race war color man is bad forour lives matter, mark the race in

(01:35:47):
a race war dying in the streetsshould be us against them, but it's
you against me. Ain't nobody gonnawin? Everybody go see that the color
or your skin don't trees the colorthat you bleed. I swear they want
us singing alway star dying every daybefore dying our lives matter, all right?

(01:36:27):
Now here is that was Adam Calhounand Tom McDonald. And there's another
partner that they have in this,and it's Dax and he's kind of funny.
Sometimes we're not gonna listen to thiswhole song here, We're only gonna
listen to the last minute of it. But Jack starts off laughing here.
And if you can keep up withwhat he's talking about here, he's definitely

(01:36:48):
talking about it's silly to be racist. It's not a black and white thing.
It's a matter of doing the rightthing. And I'm gonna you said,
I'm not that mad at the past. I mean it was only a
couple of centuries. Well, actuallyI'm packed, But won't that be my
identity? So on be half theballplast I forgiven. Don't want to be
enemy. It's just like you're sorryand talk to me nights. This is

(01:37:10):
comedic. If you get a fitter, that's a reflection of your own life
and how you failed to live it. Right. So it's not black first
whites, it's wrong first right,because color is just a result of these
multiple factors that we didn't choose.I mean, mom, dad, race,
religion, things were born into generationalcourses that get undone once we undo
move seems like from a different viewbeyond our own stem and imated buy the
new crude crewd things they used toconfuse the masses, put us in social

(01:37:31):
classes separated by percentage of pay fortaxes, income practice, closed car shoes,
size of masses. I mean they'retrying to blackmail me once side blackout
and all these democrats the plus passes, we diferent bul caps and get black
bolted. They cutting all my traffic. Oh my god, he need I
can't get the window on the drugsdream and not don't give play? Every

(01:37:53):
time you see me? Will enoughthat be like, oh my god,
heels a why yeah fine? Daxon YouTube and find Tom on Hangover Gang
dot com. And then there's acal and then Adam Calhoun a Cal and
of course you can find Adam Calhounon YouTube. And now we're gonna go

(01:38:14):
ahead and close it on out withthat crazy trio there, and thanks again,
and thank you for listening to theugly truth because because we're ready fight,
why well that read or die?The whole world's raining, everybody picking

(01:38:36):
teams dot A ride in the streets, the whole world's rain. Why against
them? And you against me?The ugly truth hard to listen to,
but impossible to ignore. Now.Faith is the assurance of things, hope

(01:39:00):
for the conviction of things not seen. And without faith, it is impossible
to please God because anyone who comesto him must believe that he exists and
that he rewards those who earnestly seekhim. Seek ye first, the Kingdom
of God, and all these thingsshall be added up to him. Everything

(01:39:23):
is possible for one who believes.Welcome to faith matters. All right,
it's time for our fourth segment.We had some craziness in those first three
there, and now it's time totalk about something even crazier. How about

(01:39:45):
the end of the world. Canyou think of? Right? Right?
Well, how about people just disappearingoff the earth poof mid air. That's
pretty crazy on or a man comingback to life and then heading up into
the clouds. A man up inthe clouds, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:40:06):
Or I get this. How aboutthe United States going to the moon?
Oh no, I'm just kidding,just kidding, it's not that crazy.
But we are talking about the mysteriestonight. This is chapter eight from
doctor David Jeremiah's book The Great Disappearance. That's right. I was listening in

(01:40:28):
my ear for our intro there.Thank you for covering me on the title.
This is the mysteries, So thisis going to be fun. Here.
We're going to read through this usingthe Fair Use Act of whatever year
it was made. I'm used tosaying the Privacy Act of nineteen seventy four
because I used to be in themilitary and that was the like the hippo

(01:40:50):
laws of right, right, right. But anyway, with Fair Use Act,
we're gonna give credit to doctor DavidJeremiah and his book and read through
it and encourage you to go outand find his book and purchase it as
well as others. We just lovethe writings that he does and we just

(01:41:11):
want everybody to have the truth.These programs that we do everything and digging
Deeper has to do with getting tothe truth. You know. In our
first segment it was about the health. In the second segment, usually it's
kind of political or just the biglies of the world of the day.
Today we talked about our naming ofTruman's Matrix. The ugly truth is always

(01:41:36):
just terrible. It's terrible and it'sdespicable. But the mysteries. In this
fourth segment, we try to giveyou something positive and this is absolutely positive.
This is good news. But youdid talk about some crazy things.
We're talking about people just disappearing offthe face of the planet in an instant.

(01:41:57):
Yes, let's dig in the mysteries. Can you name the best selling
novelist of all time? I'll giveyou a few clues to solve the mystery.
Well, there, you already haveone. The person is a mystery
writer. Second, the writer isa woman. Here's a third clue.
She died in nineteen seventy six atthe age of eighty five. I don't

(01:42:24):
know. It's Agatha Christie, ofcourse, the author of sixty six detective
novels. Oh she Nancy Drew?No? Oh, no oh? What
did she do featuring two primary heroes, Hercules Hercules Perrot and Miss Marple.

(01:42:45):
Oh, I guess it's before ourtime and we are old. Well,
she died in seventy six. Yeah, yeah, wow. Blessed Doctor Jeremiah
for talking about something from so longago. They did make some movies out
of some of her books, RememberAgatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express,
Death on the Nile, The Murderof Roger Ackroyd. Things about death

(01:43:08):
here, Well, it's a mysterynovel. Yes. She also wrote an
autobiography in which she shared a storyof her own life. Right, mm
hmmm right. She was also aplaywright, and The mouse Trap remains the
world's longest running play to this day. I had no clue. She wrote

(01:43:28):
an autobiography in which she shared thestory of her own life and what led
to her fascination with the concept ofthe mystery. She wrote, to be
part of something one doesn't in theleast understand, is I think one of
the most intriguing things of life.Interesting. Huh. Well, you might

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be surprised to learn that the Bible, and particularly the New Testament, is
filled with mysteries, though not thetype we find in novels. Here's an
example from the Book of First Corinthians. Behold, I tell you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, butwe shall all be changed in a

(01:44:10):
moment, in the twinkling of aneye at the last trumpet. For the
trumpet will sound, and the deadwill be raised, incorruptible, and we
shall be changed fifteen fifty one fiftytwo. Which verse is that Corinthians,
First Corinthians Corinthians fifty one fifty two. In this case, Paul was not

(01:44:33):
shedding light on a problem to solveor a crime to investigate. Instead,
he was referring to a truth thathad never before been revealed, the reality
of the rapture. When you findthe word mystery in the Bible, it
always describes something God has waited andtell the right time to tell us these

(01:44:54):
truths or realities have always existed.They have always been a part of God's
plan, yet were not They wereonly disclosed at a specific point in history.
Biblical mysteries are an important part ofthe New Testament. The word mystery
occurs twenty six times from Matthew toRevelation. It's found nowhere in the Old

(01:45:17):
Testament the word mystery. Yeah.These mysteries are theological truths connected to salvation,
the Church, God's Kingdom, andother important topics. According to Fruchtenbaum,
for something to qualify as a NewTestament mystery, it must be something

(01:45:39):
totally unrevealed anywhere in the Old Testament. If it is knowable from the Old
Testament, it is not a mystery. As I mentioned, there are many
mysteries revealed in the writings of theNew Testament, but for the purposes of
this chapter, we will focus onfive specific mysteries connected with the Church,

(01:46:00):
including the critical mystery of the rapture, the mystery of the stars of the
lamp stands. Will begin our mysteriousexploration with the first chapter of Revelation,
the mystery of the seven stars whichyou saw in my right hand, and
the seven golden lamp stands. Theseven stars are the angels of the seven

(01:46:24):
churches, and the seven lamp standswhich you saw are the seven churches Verse
twenty. The revealer of this mysteryis none other than Christ. As he
reintroduced himself to the apostle John onthe island of Patmos, John saw the
Lord standing in the midst of sevenlamp stands and had his right hand seven

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stars. Christ's appearance was overwhelming inevery way, causing John to fall at
his feet as dead. Christ touchedjohn shoulder and began speaking. After comforting
John and before dictating his letters tothe seven churches in Asia, Jesus revealed

(01:47:09):
the mystery of the stars and thelamp stands. The stars represent angels that
watch over the seven churches, whichare represented by the seven golden lamp stands.
The mystery is this, each ofthe seven churches to which Christ addressed
a message was watched over by aheavenly messenger or angel to carry out blessings,

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provide discipline, or deliver information directedto the church. Nowhere was this
truth prophetically revealed in the Old Testament. HM. The mystery of the body
of Christ next is a subject thatfeels commonplace for Christians today but was revolutionary

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for the early Church. God maybe known to me the mystery that the
Gentiles should be fellow heirs of thesame body and partakers of His promise in
Christ through the Gospel Ephesians three,three and six. Ephesians three one through
twelve is a detailed description of God'srevelation of the existence of his Church.

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Paul used the word mystery six timesthroughout Ephesians, and three times in Ephesians
three three through nine. This mysterywas never revealed nor even hinted at in
the Old Testament, that God wouldcreate in himself one new man from the
jew and the Gentile, thus makingpeace, and that he might reconcile them
both to God in one body throughthe Cross Ephesians two, fifteen and sixteen.

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In other words, God always plannedfor the church to be multinational,
to include both Jews and Gentiles,but he kept the plan secret until after
the Resurrection of Christ. It's clearin the Old Testament that the Jews are
God's chosen people. It's also clearthat we are called They were called to

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be a light to the Gentiles.God desired to display his glory to the
gentile world through Israel and attract theworld to himself through his chosen people.
But nowhere in the Old Testament wasit revealed that the Messiah would create one
new spiritual man, the Church.It is now possible for gentiles to share

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in the promises of Abraham by beinggrafted into the olive tree that is Israel.
The mystery of the indwelling Messiah,our personal connection with the creator of
the universe, is another biblical mysteryworth exploring. Quote to the Church,

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God willed to make known, whatare the riches of glory of this mystery
among the gentiles, which is Christin you, the Hope of Glory Colossians
one, twenty seven. In versetwenty six, Paul offered a clear definition
for a New Testament mystery, themystery which has been hidden from ages and

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from generations, but now has beenrevealed to his saints. That mystery is
this Christ in You, the Hopeof glory. While the Old Testament is
filled with references to the coming Messiah, the fact that the Messiah would in
dwell every one of his subjects andfollowers, that God would actually become part

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of us by means of the HolySpirit was never mentioned or considered. It
was a brand new truth. Jesushinted at this mystery in his upper room
conversation with his disciples. He toldthem that soon after the resurrection, they
would realize I am in my Father, and you are in me, and

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I am in you. He promisedthat whoever loved him my Father will love
him, and we will come tohim and make our home with him.
John fourteen, twenty twenty three.The full meaning of that, however,
only came with the day of Pentecostand the teaching of Paul the Apostles.
The church would come to realize thatit is no longer I who live,

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but Christ who lives. In meGalatians two twenty the mystery of the Church
as the bride of Christ. Notonly are we connected with Christ as individuals,
but also as a community, whichis described as the bride of Christ.
Paul said this is a great mysteryin Ephesians five thirty two. This

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is the only time Paul described whathe was revealing as a great mystery.
That mystery has to do with therelationship between Christ and his body the church.
Several times in the Old Testament,God is implied to be the husband
of Israel, an expression of hissacrificial love for his church people. But
nowhere does the Old Testament reveal thatthe Messiah will take a bride for himself,

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and that the bride will be hischurch, for which he will lay
down his life sacrificially. This isindeed a great mystery. Throughout Ephesians five,
Paul used human marriage as a wayof illustrating this truth. The husband
is expected to love his wife sacrificially, and the wife is expected to submit

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to her husband. It's the husband'sgreat love for his wife that motivates her
honor and respect. The husband iscalled to love and nurture his wife and
to promote to promote her holiness.Such a mutual relationship also exists between Christ
and his church. His sacrificial lovefor his bride becomes the impetus for the

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Church's willing reverence for him as Lord. Paul deepened the magnificance of this mystery
by quoting from Genesis two twenty fourin verse thirty one, a man will
leave his parents and become one fleshwith his wife. So the church is
one with Christ. We died withhim, were buried with him and were

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raised to new life with him nowonder. Paul called this a great mystery,
the mystery of the rapture. Nowlet's look at first Corinthians fifteen once
more, because it's time to explorethe mystery most connected with the theme of

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this book. Behold, I tellyou a mystery. We shall not all
sleep, but we shall all bechanged in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed. On

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Corinthians fifteen, fifty one and fiftytwo Again, the Old Testament was clear
about the coming of the Messiah toestablish his kingdom on earth at the end
of the age. Less clear,but still expressed, was the understanding that
a resurrection would take place job PsalmsDaniel. What was not revealed at all

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was any understanding about the return ofthe Messiah coupled with the resurrection of the
righteous. That is, the OldTestament didn't reveal there would be a generation
of saints alive at the hour ofthe Messiah's return who would passed into eternity
without first going into the grave.This is the mystery of the rapture,

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the translation of living saints from mortalityto immortality, from perishable to imperishable in
the twinkling of an eye. That'spretty quick. In Corinthian fifteen fifty through
fifty eight. First Corinthians, Paulexplained the instant translation from the mortal state

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to the immortal state. In FirstThessalonians four, sixteen and seventeen, he
explained the bigger picture. At thesound of the trumpet, the dead in
Christ will rise first, followed bythe translation of those living at the moment.
Thus, all who belonged to Christ, those who died in Christ,

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and those living in Christ will beinstantly caught up to meet the Lord in
the heir. This was the mysteryPaul revealed in One Corinthians fifteen, where
we learn of God's unfolding plan forour future. I recently read about a
visit made by Queen Elizabeth the Secondto Sydney, Australia in nineteen eighty six.

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What caught my attention wasn't the visititself, but a letter the Queen
wrote to the citizens of that city. What does the letter say? We
don't know. And that's the pointnear the end of her stay down under,
the Queen presented the letter to Sydney'smayor with the following instructions, on

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a suitable day to be selected byyou, in the year two thousand and
eighty five, aed, would youplease open this envelope and convey to the
citizens of Sydney my message to themtwenty eighty five. Really, to this
day the letter has not been opened. Of course, it's not that day
yet. It rests somewhere in aglass vase with a restricted room at the

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top of Sydney's Queen Victoria's building.Decades from now, that letter will be
opened and the good people of Sydneywill finally hear what the Queen wanted to
tell them in her timing. That'sakin to the idea of mystery in the
Bible. A biblical mystery is nota problem to be solved, but a

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truth to be revealed. Ah.Yes, there will be murder in Mayhem
during the tribulation, but the bestmysteries are those given to us by God
to inform, encourage and prepare us. From the beginning of history, God
planned to call his people to himselfthrough the vehicle of the Rapture, but

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that plan wasn't revealed until God wantedus to know. He delivered those plans
through the Gospels and the epistles ofthe New Testament. He waited until the
timing was right to give us theinformation we need. So it's the Bible,
after all, not Agatha Christie's novelsthat represent the best selling mysteries of

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all time. M the best sellingmysteries those are. That was an interesting
chapter. I did not realize thatPaul said those things, that he used
those words, and I tell youthis mystery. I remember that word a
little bit, but I didn't realizeit was never said in the old time
estimate. I didn't realize that either. That isn't really pretty deep. Yeah,

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yeah, hmmm. Well that waschapter eight, and I hope this
is starting to bring some understanding toyou. If you haven't been able to
review the first seven chapters with us, they are on our blog and on
our Rumble channel and on our newPodbean channel. Just go to Digging deepertv

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contact information if you want to contactus in all of our social media links.
But we we have found a lotof success when I say success,
and that's getting God's word out topeople through reading this book. Here,
this last chapter, chapter seven,the Resurrection of the Saints, is our

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highest viewed video so far in ourbrand new other channel that we just started,
and it's just it's going well sofar. That's great because we want
to keep the main thing the mainthing, and that's teaching people about Jesus.
That's right. All these other thingsthat we talk about all lead to
the fact that we need him.Yeah, let's let's pray about that and

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just give it to him and askhim to guide us, and then close
out our day tonight here our night. Lord, we thank you for this
book. We thank you for doctorDavid Jeremiah. We thank you for our
time together and just bringing it alltogether and your timing and for your purpose.

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Lord, We love you, andwe thank you so much for your
word. Without it, we wouldn'thave any guidance. Without it, we
wouldn't know what these mysteries are.But as we as we read through it
so many times as a kid,and and we don't understand it. Lord,

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thank you for giving us grace andtime to re meditate and reevaluate all
of the stories and the purposes behindyour word. Lord, we love you
so much. Me just thank youso much for this time together. In
Jesus name, we pray, Amen, don't worry about anything. Instead,

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pray about everything. Tell God whatyou need and thank him for all he
has done. Then you will experienceGod's peace, which exceeds anything we can
understand. His peace will guard yourhearts and minds as you live in Christ
Jesus. And now, dear brothersand sisters, one final thing. Fix
your thoughts on what is true andhonorable and right and pure and lovely and

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admirable. Think about things that areexcellent and worthy of praise. Then the
God of Peace will be with you. And that does it for another edition
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