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Speaker 1: Guess what clickbait baby. It's Sydney Sweeney Day, says Chief

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investment Officer of Bowler Company Management, Zach Abraham. We'll talk

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about this with the help of God Almighty.

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Speaker 2: The Todd Herman show is one disapproved by big pharma

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technocrats in Tyrone sabran where from the hind mountains of

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Free America. Here's the Emerald city exile Todd Herman.

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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these

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are the times to which God has decided we shall

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live in. Joining me from the west coast in a huge,

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secured castle far away from Seattle, armed guards everywhere, drones

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flying up ahead. Zach Abraham, Chief and this munster bolt

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couping mentioned and welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 3: Brother man. Thanks for having me to have you here.

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Speaker 1: I was shocked to get this note from you. I

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had this whole show planned out, did all this research.

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I had the charts and graphs, and your people wrote

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to me, your assistance assistance assistant. And then the inturn

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wrote and said, mister Abraham's made some changes. We're going

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to talk about Sydney Sweeney Day. So lay it on.

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Speaker 3: Us, oh man. Okay, So, first of all, full disclosure.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that irritates me the most in

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this business is when people that do it only talk

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about their wins, because if you do this for a business,

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you've got plenty of loser stock. Yeah, so when it

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comes to retail stocks, and the Sydney Sweeney day is

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because of a retail stock.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to retail stocks full disclosure.

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Speaker 4: One of the last ones I was in and even

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talked about on podcasts was a company called Tailored, And

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about two years after that podcast came out, the company

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went bankrupt.

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Speaker 3: So I had losers too. Now, thankfully we got out

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way before that.

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Speaker 4: We didn't lose a ton of money. I think we

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lost like fifteen or twenty percent of it. So to

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put that out there, but I thought it was a

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really interesting thing, a market observation, and how it seemed

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extraordinarily obvious when you looked at it. I think it

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also says something culturally. I think it also says something financial.

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I think it's really interesting. So American Eagle Clothing this

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was about I want to say, this is about six

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weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Remember the whole Sydney's got great genes and now all

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of a sudden, she's a white supremacist, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, plus she's from the Spokane with that hil area.

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Speaker 3: Well right, that's all that comes from. That's why you

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moved there, right, to be with your ilk.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, Well then also I saw her go through

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a handgun course, and so that really bolstered the fundamental case.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, And so.

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Speaker 4: A really exciting market piece of it is we went,

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you know, I think what people didn't take is all

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of those dynamics surrounding her make her an incredible sounding bart,

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especially for the eighteen to thirty five year old demographic.

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Speaker 3: And she dropped a lot of water, you know.

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Speaker 4: And so we went and looked at American Eagle and

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it was just this wonderful value with the catalyst setup

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that I love. It's my favorite style of investing. Meaning

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you identify something that's somewhat in trouble, that isn't trending correctly,

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but that you think have really good fundamental reasons that

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they can turn it around, and then you wait for

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a catalyst to show up that you think will turn

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it around, and then right when that shows up, you

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jump on it.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: And so we did our work on American Eagle, and

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we said this is a clean company. Revenue has been

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contracting slightly, some periods of growth, pretty flat overall, not

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very impressive. But you looked at the balance sheet, you

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could tell it was responsibly managed, very reasonable level of debt,

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paying a five percent dividend, and trading at nine times

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earnings in a stock market valued at thirty three times earnings. Right,

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and so you're looking at this trend and going, if

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Sydney's he even bumps them fifteen to twenty percent, this

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stock is kind of rip, right, It's not price for that.

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Speaker 3: So we bought it.

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Speaker 4: Then we started managing the credit card data that most

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retailers publish, and you could see it.

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Speaker 3: Man, it's going like this.

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Speaker 1: So wait, you started looking at the data around credit

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card usage in an American eagle. Wow, so you have

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intel like that coming in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so you can see it in

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real time. And we're sitting there watching it going. The

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stock's going in our direction, but this thing should be

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going up a lot more. What you realize is something

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I've been saying for years, and.

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Speaker 3: I felt stupid saying this. But no one's paying attention. Man,

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No one looks, no one's doing their homework.

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Speaker 4: It's What is happening is they're just looking at a

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chart and then they come up.

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Speaker 3: With reasons or a narrative to explain the chart, and nobody.

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You know, it's like Google.

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Speaker 4: How long have you heard me pounding on the table

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about Google being the most undervalued.

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Speaker 3: Big tech company. Yeah, well, well here we are.

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Speaker 4: Nadak's up sixteen percent twenty two percent this year and

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Google's up seventy right. So just it's exciting me because

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there are some we're just starting to get some fundamental,

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fundamental analysis and some and some action there.

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Speaker 3: So on the investment side, we're actually having our best

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year ever.

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Speaker 1: I noticed that are on my account. By the way,

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I meant to send your card on that, so thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for the trust.

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Speaker 4: But it's so much fun because none of it's none

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of our big winners or AI or this or that

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just boring. I don't think they're boring, but wonderful little

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companies that are just so cheap now flip it.

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Speaker 3: So that's the investment side, that's we're having the time

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of our lives.

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Speaker 4: But on the Sydney Sweeny side, I also think it

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shows something really interesting is you have a statistically significant

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percentage of people, and I think people predominantly in the

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eighteen to thirty five year range that are beginning to

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find people like Sydney Sweeney that are somewhat countercultural, right,

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And to be countercultural in this environment, that countercultural means

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liking the country and shooting a gun, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's countercultural.

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Speaker 4: Apparently saying that you've got good genes too, that's kuinter

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of cultural. But and then watching the underlying reaction of

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consumers and it it really gives me heart because I

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think it's a positive sign. I think we're in a

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football game, and I think this qualifies as a touchdown, right, I.

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Speaker 3: Meaning far from over.

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Speaker 4: But this is a good sign for people that think

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like we do, because if we're ever going to get

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real escape velocity from from the insanity that we've all

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been subjected to, right, we got to stack more of

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these wins. But that's a that's a very heartening one

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for it. And then the other thing about it is

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when you can make an eighty five to ninety percent

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win in six weeks bettened against the woke mob, how

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sweet it is. Money's pungible, but not in that scenario.

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It just right that profit is so much sweeter. So

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we're having a good day talk.

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's Sydney's sweety day. I love that

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I have to relate to something because you talked about

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admitting your losses. Let me share with you something that

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back in the day when I was raising money out

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of Silicon Valley, we were at a VC firm. They

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did the coolest thing for entrepreneurs. I'll share that with you,

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and then I want to ask you a question about

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this ambition. You're one of the most ambitious men I know.

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You're a godly man, one of the godliest men I know,

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and I want to talk about godly ambition. We'll do

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that in just a quick second. You will dig this.

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This is something you need to watch with the family.

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I've been talking about this movie. Thank you, doctor Fauci.

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My wife and I sat down and I had her

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watch this with me this time. So, dude, this thing

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the conclusion they reach. Did you know that there's a

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polio tie in to the COVID shots and the Wuhan

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flu I've heard that. Yeah, there is an age tie in.

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And I think you know that Fauci his first fraud

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was was AZT and aids right, remember that they've got

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I've got his teddy Bear. I know you've gots teddy Bear.

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And you know I've been obsessive about this stuff. They

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got some exclusive interviews with people who worked with him

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for a long time, and the things they're willing to

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say about him, like a college professor who says, we

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don't like to say the F word fraud, but he's

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saying it fraud. Do you understand the skin you put

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in the game when you go at the king that way?

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They also contend that Ralph Brick and Peter Dashik are

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probably double agents, probably spying on China for us and

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probably spying on us for China, and they're still around.

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And some of the same people who did the COVID

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swindle with Fauci did the AIDS swindle with Fauci. They

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even they he the producer. The director's name is A

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Jenner versa where it sets to interview him coming up.

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Jenner got an email ex Chaine with Fauci where he

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was like, Hey, it sounds interesting. Maybe I'd like to

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be on your in your movie. Sounds interesting, And the

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last letter he got was from the guy's attorney, from

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Fauci's attorney, one of the most mobbed up attorneys in DC,

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sent them a note, my client will not be coming

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on your pro in your movie. Don't contact him anymore. Gosha,

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wonder what that means. So you, Zach, you can stream this.

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Everyone else can stream this right now. It's at angel

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dot com, slash Herman, Angel dot com, slash hermit. It's

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called thank you, Doctor Fauci. And when you join the

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Angel Guild, you're not just consuming media, you are making

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sure movies like this get made movies at demand accountability.

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Angel dot com slash herman. Do you remember and maybe

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they're still around. I should check on this. Madrona Ventures

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rememberless guys? They yeah, okay, so they are They still

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up on Queen Ann you know Queen Anehill.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I do know that they're in Seattle. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So they used to be in this cool home on

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Queen Ann and they were cool venture capitalists. They'd bring

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you in. There were coffee, there were little snacks. They

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did every their thing. Their jazz was to make entrepreneurs comfortable.

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And they did the smartest thing in this regard. They

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had their wall of shame, so up there they had

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investments they said no to. And I don't remember all

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of them, but I remember the first one was Amazon

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and they put the reason they said no to Amazon.

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Yahoo was up there, the reason they said no to Yahoo.

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There were other and Zach, I'm talking about you know

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thousand bangers, the guys you know a thousand times return

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up on the wall, and they all had their reasons

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and they put the names of the partners who made

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the decisions. And they also had a placard. That's something

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that said, dear entrepreneurs, like you're the producers, you're the

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people who make things. We invest, we get things wrong.

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We may get your investment wrong. Never leave here and stop.

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Never let us saying no stop you from pursuing your

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dream because we get things wrong all the time. And man,

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you get that, and you walk into the conference room

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and you've got a bunch of guys who and they

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did a great jomb of admitting, look, you know what,

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we're fancy accountants.

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Speaker 3: That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: We're just we're numbers guys for fancy accountants. We can

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add some value, but we can't do what you do,

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or you wouldn't be here. I thought that was a

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great way to communicate with with with entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't want to say this in a

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self serving way at all. So everybody taking this with

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a grain of salt or however we want to, but.

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Speaker 4: It all I I they have an outstanding reputation as

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far as being good investors. I didn't have any reason

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to think I think considerably more of them after you

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told that story. And the reason why is if you're

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really serious about this, and and you know investing is

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part art, part science, it just is if you're really

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serious about it, where you spend all of your time

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focused is on the mistakes, because that's because that's where

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the ev wins are. Right.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't need you.

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Speaker 4: I don't need anybody to go through the portfolio and

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tell me what I got right. We got right, we

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made money, We're.

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where the learning is. And the funny thing about like,

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even in that scenario, the reason we had the result

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that we did on the sea at Sydney Sweeney or

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earlier that we lost on.

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Speaker 3: I didn't wait for a catalyst on that other one. Okay,

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I just I just bought value and deep value.

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a risk of ending up with a melting ice cube

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to just keep shrinking. Right, So now you might miss

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but you don't risk getting stuck in something for three

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or four years and ended up exiting with the twenty

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percent loss.

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Speaker 1: Because you're on vacation and you're checking charts and you

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know your you're in bed with your wife. It's a

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romantic night, it's your anniversary. And she says, yeah'll be

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right back. I'm going back to that. I'm going to

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the bathroom, honeybee, right back. And she walks in and

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you're on the phone. What do you hold on a second?

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No buy this? And I said, by right, yeah, no.

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it's a game you can never win. And because of that,

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I'm a really competitive person. And it's just fascinating. But

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it's just like life, right, I don't need to focus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I need to desperately know what I'm doing wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's a good way to put that. That's a good

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way to put that. So when I think about zach Abraham,

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first of all, you can think friend, brother guy who

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is early on to believe in the podcast and radio

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shows and what we're doing here. But I also identify

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you as a mix of really ambitious you don't, you know,

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let God build what God has built with you and

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your wife, And I don't want to overshoot, you know,

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or forget the fact that your wife is a big

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part of the successible work, huge part of that. But

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you're ambitious and godly. And I've been with young men,

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and I really have a burden to help young men

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understand what it is to live in the world and

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not be of it, and to do that for Christ Jesus.

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told me. I've done a couple of different casual focus

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groups with guys. I know young men are struggling with

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what is godly ambition, and they are. Some guys are

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going so far as to say, you know what, I

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won't have anything to do with corporate America because it's

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all perverse. I'm going to do white collar work, even

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though like I've got high IQ and I could go

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be a lawyer. I refuse, I'm going to own an

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air conditioning business or construction business because it's less corrupt,

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and other guys saying, no, it's a mission field. I

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want to take Christ into these corporate worlds. I want

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to take them in. But they don't know, like, is

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it is it godly to say I want to be

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debt free? I want to I want to be rich.

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I want to be super rich and that way I

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can have freedom. And then they'll tell themselves they're going

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to give to ministry. So what do you think? I mean,

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your guy's in the financial business, it's you're in a

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tough business, and I'm I think there's ungodly aspects to

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the financial business for a lot of people. So how

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do you think about ambition that is godly ambition?

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Speaker 1: Can you choose that music? You put together the barbers

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tracing thing.

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Speaker 4: So it's funny ask that I would I would put

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that in the category of one of my greatest struggles,

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not in terms of I don't think that I fail

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Speaker 3: I think that it is very easy for.

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m Sorry, It's very easy for me to move at

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a pace for all the best intentions and leave my

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family behind the times.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, for me, that that's that's what I wrestle with.

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now some things that I think I've done right along

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that way is there was never a number in my mind.

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when I was younger and not in line with God,

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there was. But when we took when we started this journey,

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my wife and I and God we always you know,

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joked around the.

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Speaker 3: Early days and still is is that he's the real CEO.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't about the I think ambition entitles the wrong things, right,

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Jesus Christ was excellent at everything he did. We've called

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to be excellent at everything we do, and that's the ambition, right.

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Speaker 3: And then if one of.

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Speaker 4: The driving forces of that is that you want to

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rectify injustices and that you want to rectify wrongs.

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Speaker 3: That is a healthy ambition. You just better make sure

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you do it.

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Speaker 4: And and the one thing I would say to all

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those men, here's a really good way to keep yourself

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Speaker 3: Don't wait tell when starting that?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, starting now with with with what if God can't

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trust you with a hundred, he's not going to trust

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you with a million?

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'm not making any value judgments. I'm

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just saying, if God can't trust you with a little,

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he's not gonna trust you with a lot. And I

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think that's pretty biblically rooted.

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it said in parables time and again Jesus talks about

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why is investing right? Sometimes have talents, and sometimes it's

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talking about Look, you've been given salvation and mercy. You

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better be returning interest in that mercy.

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Speaker 3: That couldn't have said it better myself.

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when that ambition or those or those outcomes begin to

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get realized, like you hit it on the nail, it

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is not time to go a wag a finger in

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the face of the people that said you couldn't do it.

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really humble. M Because yeah, because if you believe that there's.

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Speaker 4: A God out there and you've been given a significant

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amount of more success or or resources or money, you can't.

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you earned it. You can't. You can't tell me that

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because because to say that it means that God.

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Speaker 4: Cares about my babies more than he does about the

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ones that are starving to death in Africa.

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to me. The only thing, and this is this, is

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that getting back to that ambition the way to keep

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Speaker 4: The only reason that you've been given more than you

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need is because you are trusted.

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in need. That's it.

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how do I know it's a driving force. Show me

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your bank account where your money is.

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Speaker 1: Show me your calendar, show me your count too. So

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this is another thing that came up with the young guys,

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because I can relate fully to you what you said,

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Zach about leaving the family behind.

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Speaker 1: Ego, my desire for notoriety. Hey, well, look at I

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made it on the front page of the New York

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Times Arts and Culture section. That's me right there, right

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there on the cover, and people notice, And hey, I

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was on a section header within ad Age magazine. I

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was the media guy at Microsoft and I still have

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that picture. And hey, look, I made it up under

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the order chart thing that the analyst track at Microsoft.

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calling me, could you buy you coffee? And I let

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that ambition talk me into going to Washington, d C.

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Apart from my growing little girl, but you know, we

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and we talked at night, and I read books to

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her and she had copies of the books, and we

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send each other little letters, and I would send her

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a picture of my hand with my wedding ring on it,

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and I would cut it up, and she put it

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together as a puzzle and send it back to me

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and look what I got. I didn't go to DC

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as a mission of God. I didn't go there to say,

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bring Jesus into this. I didn't do that. I went

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there because look what I've told myself, Well, I'm gonna

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go try to save the country from Barack Obama. I

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do think the country needed to be save from Barack Obama.

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I think we failed to do it. I think we're

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living in the poison fruits of Obamahood. But it was

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not God the ambition. God the ambition would have been

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to get my wife and daughter together and to pray

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about this, to bring a pastor in. Why am I

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doing this to examine about? Are am I going there

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to serve Christ?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: What are the opportunities I have here to just continue

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to serve? I have a church community, The church is

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in trouble. Why am I not just helping to fix

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the church. Why don't I just take this job off

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at Amazon? Why don't just stay at Microsoft and do

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this and make Microsoft a mission fields, and how am

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I stewarding my family? And what am I showing my

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daughter here? Oh, look, daddy's running off on an adventure.

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So but when people look at zach Abraham and they

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look at your company, they look at Bulwark, and I

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know sometimes I joke with you about your house and possessions.

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Well I know the full story. I know you and

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your wife lost a house, and I happen to know

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some stuff we don't talk about in the show, about

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you getting money for this house and some struggles that

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you went through, because process is punishment in this country.

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I know some things. Yeah, but people look at zach

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Abraham and they look at what you guys have achieved,

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and they might say, and young men might say this

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to you, Yeah, but you ran hard and then you

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came and said, oh, let's give it all to God.

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might say that to you, God was the process. God

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was the process.

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Speaker 3: It's it if you if you embark on a journey

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like that.

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Speaker 4: First of all, I one of the things I look

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back on in is before I always had the ambition.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it never it never worked without him.

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Speaker 4: And to this day, if I'm really looking back that

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even more than than than Bulwarks succeeding, that is the

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thing I'm the most thankful for because had it come

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then I don't know if I'd be married.

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Speaker 3: I really don't. And and I had to get a

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Speaker 4: You need to have hustle and you got to get

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after it. And you and most importantly in my in

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my belief, you better be hold in God's hand because

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it's just because if you succeed, everybody always thinks you're

477
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gonna fail.

478
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Speaker 3: You're gonna fail, guys.

479
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,839
Speaker 4: Failure is Failure is not the worst outcome in most scenarios,

480
00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:29,480
right like most the biggest, the biggest blow ups I've

481
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,000
ever seen in life. That damage is the most people

482
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,480
were personal failures that came after financial successes, because that's.

483
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Speaker 3: A bomb, right. People were all used to failing. Most

484
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,960
of us fail every time we start a diet.

485
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Speaker 4: Most of most of us fail every week when we

486
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determined to finally go outside and pressure wash the old

487
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picnic table.

488
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, there's there's failure all around us.

489
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Speaker 4: I think the thing that you've got to think about

490
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and you've got to pray about is Lord, please bless

491
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,119
my work and bless the work.

492
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Speaker 3: Of my hands.

493
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Speaker 4: Another one was, you know, teach my fingers to fight

494
00:24:01,319 --> 00:24:04,039
my hands to ward. David talked about that make me

495
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excellent at what I do. They even prayed to God

496
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,240
to be excellent at killing.

497
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when they were told to kill by God, right right.

498
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Speaker 4: But my point is saying, like, if you don't think

499
00:24:14,839 --> 00:24:17,279
God wants you to kick but at your job and

500
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,839
to be excellent, you're not reading the right Bible.

501
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 3: Well.

502
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Speaker 1: And there's also this aspect of Zach and this is

503
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I think where it's hard for young people coming up

504
00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:27,359
and sometimes you and I have problems remembering this is

505
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,200
that like I would go back and think of the

506
00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:32,559
times at Microsoft where because that was my big corporate experience.

507
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,240
I mean, yeah, sold the company to a big PR

508
00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:37,599
firm and all that, but we were they hated us,

509
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,160
and they were just you know, they were approaching us

510
00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:43,599
to purchasing the tech to park it because they didn't

511
00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:46,640
want it in the business model. That's my estimation.

512
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Speaker 2: Anyway.

513
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Speaker 1: So I had a boss who stole my stuff, like

514
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,759
stole my work, literally stole it, stole a paper I wrote.

515
00:24:57,599 --> 00:24:59,079
And the way I found out about it is I

516
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,480
got a note from his admin saying, hey, can you

517
00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:05,680
pop into conference room whatever Rob needs you? And I

518
00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:08,480
walk in and I see on the I see my

519
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,000
PowerPoint on the screen in on in front of these

520
00:25:12,039 --> 00:25:17,799
executives and they're discussing it, and Rob sits me, you know, say,

521
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,319
Todd's here, he's he's my strategist, chief strategist, chief chief analyst,

522
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,480
and strategy guy. Hey, Todd, can you explain this scenario? Oh, Rob,

523
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,599
I had very little to do with any of this.

524
00:25:31,559 --> 00:25:34,400
And he looks at me because you're being humble. I go, no, right, Rob,

525
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:39,200
this is completely your show. I mean, I yeah, I'm

526
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,000
I'm just really humble that you even brought me in

527
00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:44,480
to even be able to see this and he is

528
00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:47,759
just red in the face. If he could reach across

529
00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:50,559
the table and strangle me, he would, oh yeah. And

530
00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:53,640
he said well, and I said, well, look, let me

531
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,400
just look at this for a second. And I guess

532
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,599
I might think of it this way and with this scenario,

533
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,799
and here's why this is this place, and here's why

534
00:25:59,839 --> 00:26:01,960
these you know. I go through the basically do the

535
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,960
PowerPoint for him, and okay, well thanks for that. Yep, grinders,

536
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,759
just guessing throwing stuff against the wall. And I walk

537
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:11,359
out of there, and I go to the break room

538
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,400
to get some coffee, and a senior vice president walks

539
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,839
up and he goes, hey, backs me up against the wall.

540
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:22,440
Come here, here we go. That was beautiful because everybody

541
00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:27,920
knows that was you. But was that godly? What I

542
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,440
should have done is walk I mean, yes, Rob stole

543
00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:34,079
my work. He wasn't being godly. But we're to serve

544
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,359
as if we're serving the Lord Jesus himself, even when

545
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,720
we have bosses who're corrupt. I should have walked in

546
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,960
to that meeting and said, hey, thank you for bringing

547
00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:48,519
me in on this. I appreciate it. Rob is gracious enough.

548
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,319
So let me have the freedom to write goofy things

549
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,759
like this, so obviously it needs explanation because you know,

550
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,000
this is just chicken scratch. And I always turn these

551
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,319
things over to Rob because he's really the strategy mind.

552
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,519
And you know I'm junior, but listen, here's what I

553
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,160
was thinking. And I think if I'd done that that way,

554
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,160
serving Jesus, the senior vice president would have seen the

555
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,759
same thing. I get it, it's your paper. But Rob

556
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:14,359
could have come out of that room and Rob could

557
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,759
have said, dude, thank you, like you pulled my bacon

558
00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:20,680
out of the fire. And so I think it's easy

559
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:23,640
for you and I and again for young people looking

560
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,079
at Zach Abraham, there's Bulwark Capital. You and your wife

561
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,240
had the success right, beautiful house in the water, kids

562
00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:33,119
are doing well, that the fund's doing well. And for

563
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,240
them to say, yeah, but you don't work for a meanie.

564
00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:39,759
So what's god the ambition when you're working for a mini.

565
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 4: Well, I think I think that you hit the nail

566
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,559
on the head first of all, on the on the

567
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:49,640
godly ambition side, which is if you're in a if

568
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,680
you're in a job that to be successful at it

569
00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:55,000
or to move forward in it, that you have to

570
00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:58,000
do something to violate your personal ethics, you need to

571
00:27:58,079 --> 00:28:01,880
leave that job and you don't really need to console

572
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,599
with God to get that answer.

573
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: Yeah.

574
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 3: So, now if the boss is just mean.

575
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say this and I'm just gonna be

576
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,599
a little bit blunt, fuck it up, otter coup like

577
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,920
just and look God, but you know God and all

578
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,759
that kind of stuff is the most important. But right

579
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,599
after that significantly below that. But in my opinion, number two,

580
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,559
the biggest advantage you can have in this life right now,

581
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,440
whether you're an adult, especially if you're a younger kid,

582
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,759
get tough, start doing hard things, Get tough right because

583
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,799
the world doesn't care. And the one thing that you

584
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,279
and I I know will answer this question precisely the same,

585
00:28:43,839 --> 00:28:48,039
which is, if you think a moderate or good level

586
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:52,759
of effort will engender those results, you are lying to yourself, okay,

587
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,000
if you want those results. And I know that you

588
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:58,559
and I are the same in this way, we did

589
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,519
our best to manage the fire that was our ambition

590
00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:05,880
because we gave it everything we had.

591
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:06,599
Speaker 3: Right.

592
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 4: I bet you that you and I do business very

593
00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,960
similar to the way that we probably both played football

594
00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:15,599
right full hill all the time.

595
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: If you're not doing that. You aren't in the game.

596
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not. And you're now also not doing that

597
00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:26,240
thing you talked about being excellent, right right, Jesus said,

598
00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:29,920
you know, Jesus told us we are to seek to

599
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,839
be perfect as our father in heaven is perfect. Right,

600
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:37,119
And man, that's seek. And I know you guys, you golfers,

601
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,720
like to talk about a game you can never win.

602
00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:41,279
It is a game you can never win. And let's

603
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:44,559
let's continue this conversation here in a second, Zach. And

604
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,319
when we continue this, here's here's another point of excellence.

605
00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:51,559
This this drives me crazy. I am insufficient when it

606
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,680
comes to explaining the big, big difference between the so

607
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,240
called stem cell approach in America and what we get

608
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,079
at renew Healthcare. I'm completely so let me just boil

609
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,279
this down. I'm going to offer you a dinner of

610
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:07,799
your choice, prepared by the chef or the chef of

611
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,759
your choice, in the courses of your choice, at the

612
00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:14,720
health level of your choice, at the table of your choice,

613
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,799
with the waiter of your choice. Or I'm gonna get

614
00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:23,720
you some sushi from a roadside mobile gas station outside Amarillo.

615
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:25,279
Speaker 3: You choose.

616
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,119
Speaker 1: When I talk about the difference between stem cels in

617
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,680
America and the stem cells at Renew Healthcare that have

618
00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:34,359
cured things like male pattern baldness because it brings the

619
00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:38,960
cells back to life. Ed because it brings the cells

620
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:44,480
back to life, preventing knee replacement surgery, cartilage blown out

621
00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:47,920
because if there's enough cartilage, these stem cells regrow cartilage,

622
00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:53,039
they regrow muscle, they regrow tendon, they destroy inflammation. And

623
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,960
they do that because they're the best stem cells in

624
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
the world, because they have the at Renew the luxury

625
00:30:58,039 --> 00:31:01,440
of rejecting ninety percent of the stem not because they're bad,

626
00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:05,039
because they're not good enough. In America, you are literally

627
00:31:05,079 --> 00:31:07,160
getting a box. I could show you an autograph. They

628
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,920
look like a business card sized box, a little bit

629
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,160
bigger than business card size box. They're frozen for however

630
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,920
long they've been through, however many postal stops, whatever percentage

631
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,440
of them are dead. And what was the health of

632
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,319
the people who gave the stem cells done out that

633
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,359
Renew They know exactly who gave them, because they know

634
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,279
the women. They're there when the baby's born, they pay

635
00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:28,400
for the birth. They mutter to their health. So you

636
00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:32,200
choose two day old sushi from the mobile outside Amarillo,

637
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:35,640
or renew the Healthcare. It's renew R E and U

638
00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:38,400
E dot Healthcare, telling me part of the Todd Hermanshaw family.

639
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,400
Renew R E and U E dot Healthcare. Zach you

640
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,880
got when you were talking about excellency, go ahead.

641
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:45,799
Speaker 3: I am not.

642
00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:49,319
Speaker 4: I am not affiliated with renew at all. I just

643
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:52,319
for people that are doubting it though. Yeah, I know

644
00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:56,400
we have some excellent, excellent uh stem cell doctors up

645
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,599
here in the Seattle area yea that have that have

646
00:31:58,759 --> 00:32:01,279
generated some really positive results for some people I know.

647
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the hit rates.

648
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 3: About fifty to fifty. That's kind of of what I know.

649
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,400
And to their credit, these guys are really honest about

650
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,279
that all that kind of stuff.

651
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: I yet do not know of somebody that has not

652
00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:17,000
gone down to renew and had a significant improvement in

653
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:17,720
their situation.

654
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: So thank you.

655
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you are one of I've sent three dear

656
00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:23,720
friends there.

657
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:24,799
Speaker 2: Ye right.

658
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: And you don't do that when you don't trust. And

659
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,799
I wish you could have seen the face of my

660
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,920
friends who held the world record squad for all those

661
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,839
years when I saw him after he got back from

662
00:32:33,839 --> 00:32:36,200
exhow and he walks up and he's this like bear.

663
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,599
It looks if a man looks like a grizzly bear.

664
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,559
It's Brent. And he walks up in all of his

665
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:44,599
fifty eight fifty nine year old body that can deadlift

666
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,119
seven hundred and seventy five pounds.

667
00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: I know, I know.

668
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: And he doesn't have any rotator cuffs left because he's

669
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,920
just blown him out. But the dude still pause bench

670
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,359
presses four ten, four fifteen for reps.

671
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,519
Speaker 3: He doesn't need rotator. What does he need that for?

672
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: He doesn't need hands. So he like bops up to me, goes, dude,

673
00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:06,920
I went upstairs.

674
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: I go.

675
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: Right, So he goes, No, I didn't tell you he

676
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:12,799
was For the past five years, I haven't been able

677
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:14,200
to walk upstairs but sideways.

678
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,559
Speaker 3: Oh I remember you telling me so he could walk

679
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,000
up and down.

680
00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: He ran up the stairs the day after he gets

681
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,359
the semstells. So anyway, they do that excellently. You talked

682
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,519
about godly ambition, doing it excellence, seeking to be perfect

683
00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:31,519
as God sold us. You know, he's perfect word to

684
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,160
seek perfection. But you got really emotional about leaving the

685
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:40,039
family behind. Sometimes. Hey, this is a tough question. Have

686
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,440
you ever been called out have you ever had your

687
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:46,200
kids call you out for dad, you're working too much?

688
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,160
Have you ever had that experience where kids indicate to you.

689
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:52,240
Maybe they don't call you out verbally, but they indicate

690
00:33:52,319 --> 00:33:54,960
to you, or maybe your wife or your parents says hey, Zach,

691
00:33:55,559 --> 00:33:56,200
wind it back.

692
00:33:57,839 --> 00:33:59,599
Speaker 3: My fifteen year old daughters told me last night that

693
00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:00,839
I didn't enough attention to her.

694
00:34:01,079 --> 00:34:05,319
Speaker 1: For real, Yeah, didn't or don't didn't.

695
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,199
Speaker 4: We've got a good relationship, but she's right there. There's

696
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,679
there's some mistakes I've made there, and.

697
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,199
Speaker 3: Thank god she's.

698
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 4: Got a wonderful mom and thank god she's such a strong,

699
00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:23,880
awesome young woman and so so proud of her in

700
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,360
so many ways, and just it's it just it's it's

701
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:32,239
you know, to me, it's a lot like fitness in

702
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,639
a way that if you're not working on it, it

703
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,440
is not getting better, and by not and by not

704
00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:41,280
getting better, you're you're loo. And in her case, so

705
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,039
there's nothing big, horrible thing or anything. I just don't

706
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:46,400
ever want there to be an intero space and to

707
00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:49,639
know that my baby thinks that I haven't paid.

708
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 3: Attention to her. And then I listened to what she says,

709
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,360
and I go got a point. It's just the you know,

710
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:56,679
the whole.

711
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,639
Speaker 4: If anybody you know, one of the things I always

712
00:34:58,639 --> 00:35:00,400
tell young guys is I go, hey, don't I realize

713
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,760
my life. I have just as many faith frailties and

714
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,679
just as many faults as you do. It's money is

715
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,480
not a panacea. Business success is not a panacea. If anything,

716
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,119
I'll actually say this, and this is truthfully right down

717
00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:19,039
to the bones of it. When when when things were

718
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:24,519
tight and scary in the beginning and you're forced to

719
00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:27,360
walk hand in hand with God every single day, that

720
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:32,760
was the funnest part looking on it. There was it was,

721
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,320
it was it. Success comes with its own prices too,

722
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,719
and everybody downplays those.

723
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 3: And I'm not complaining, Okay, not at all. I've been

724
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,880
blessed beyond belief.

725
00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:50,679
Speaker 4: But if the points or if your aim is material

726
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,719
things you don't it has and really, honestly it doesn't

727
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,360
have to do. It doesn't matter if you're a Christian

728
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,039
or not, You're gonna be really bummed out. It's just

729
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:01,440
not what you and you and I have talked about this.

730
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:08,360
The funnest, most guilt free, most wonderful part about being

731
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,119
successful is the ability to give.

732
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 3: Money away, and that is the only money, that is

733
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,519
the only.

734
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:19,159
Speaker 4: Allocation that I feel one hundred percent confident about, confident

735
00:36:19,199 --> 00:36:23,679
about right. And if your goal is that, I just look,

736
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:25,760
you're just gonna be bummed out. Just take my word

737
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,679
for it. Your goal has to be bigger than that.

738
00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:30,920
One of my biggest purpose in drivers and for bullwork

739
00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:34,360
was that I had a firm belief economically but also

740
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,960
due to my perspective as a Christian, that we were

741
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,039
going to go through some really crazy and really rough

742
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:43,800
times financially. And there's a little bit of arrogance embedded

743
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,679
when I say this, but it's not arrogant. It really

744
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,639
is confidence, and I pray about God tempering it every

745
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,280
single day.

746
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 3: But I have a belief.

747
00:36:54,039 --> 00:36:56,519
Speaker 4: I have a belief that each client that is with

748
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,239
us was sent to us for a reason, and I

749
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,840
believe that it is our duty to do everything in

750
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,719
our power to a make sure we're locked up with God,

751
00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:10,320
but be make sure that we're doing everything we can

752
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,159
to not make them like you know, not make them richer,

753
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,920
but to be the one that got the highest return

754
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:21,440
and was the most productive with their capital. So they're

755
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:23,880
going to be in positions where we can all turn

756
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,800
around and help people out when it gets nasty and

757
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:31,159
be the white horse that rides in and says you

758
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,880
can't afford that treatment for your wife.

759
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,199
Speaker 3: Here, right, you're about ready to lose. You're out here.

760
00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:37,440
We're going to take care of each other because we're

761
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:38,519
a community.

762
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,119
Speaker 1: Right, and that's what Jesus called us to be.

763
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 3: That's right. Now.

764
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: We can remove this from the show when it goes

765
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,280
live and it goes out, and we can remove it

766
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,400
in post production if your daughter is at risky forring this.

767
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,119
But I think this is going to be a lot

768
00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:55,039
better once you get the robot you bought her, because

769
00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:58,239
at that point it's got all the attention she needs.

770
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,679
Speaker 3: And you know, well I got her an e dad, Okay,

771
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,840
good good? Right? Yeah there, yeah, there you go. Yeah. No, no, yes,

772
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,320
keep it in there, keep it no, keep it in there.

773
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,079
Speaker 4: And I quite honestly, I hope she does hear it,

774
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:11,920
because no one of the I'm just a big believer

775
00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:16,519
of I am a strict dad, but I'm a big

776
00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:19,440
believer of when I make mistakes, I need to apologize

777
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,960
to all the people in my family, and I want

778
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,840
them to hear me saying I screwed up.

779
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'll never forget this moment. We were

780
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,639
at the Silver Diner it's called, and I think it's

781
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:30,599
still there. It's in Arlington, Virginia. My daughter and I

782
00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:33,480
had had her tradition since she was tiny off Saturdays

783
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:37,559
were our days period sakrasanct and she and I had

784
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:39,360
been out on a hike. We went down to the

785
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,920
river the Potomac. Beautiful place to hike. Who always saw

786
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:47,639
deer back there? And we saw water marcus in that day,

787
00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:50,960
which I wasn't that excited about because they're I mean, yeah,

788
00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:54,639
where was this that this is in Virginia outside of DC.

789
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,559
I had really always wanted to swim into Potomac River,

790
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:00,239
And one day I was down there getting ready swim

791
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,559
by myself, and and I kept reading about water moccasins,

792
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:06,360
and I just was manically throwing rocks in there, like

793
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,599
are the eddy? And I went in and got out

794
00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:11,840
like okay, I swam at the Potomac. I'm done my water.

795
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,559
My daughter and I saw a we saw we saw

796
00:39:16,599 --> 00:39:20,519
the water moccasin, we saw deer. We're pretty sure we

797
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:23,320
saw a blue jay at a cardinal. I mean, it

798
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,280
was an amazing day. So we went out to lunch

799
00:39:26,679 --> 00:39:29,280
at the Silver Diner and later I don't remember what

800
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,400
was next on the maybe the park or something, but

801
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,320
there'd been a huge, terrible week at work. We you know,

802
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,280
had all these hacking attempts. And this is when I

803
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,800
was in digital and I took up my stupid BlackBerry

804
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,480
and I was on it, and I looked across the

805
00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:46,880
table at my daughter, and she was almost in tears.

806
00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:53,440
And I turned the stupid thing off, and I took

807
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,440
out the battery, and I put the battery in my

808
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:57,400
coat pocket and I handed her the phone and she

809
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,559
put it in her little kid purse and they didn't

810
00:40:01,559 --> 00:40:04,119
see anything. I just wanted her to know I am

811
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,920
so sorry that I even looked at this stupid thing,

812
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,360
because I have deputies who are running stuff on the weekends.

813
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 3: You know. You know, there's a part of that that

814
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,760
you bring up that I think is one of the

815
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:18,880
toughest things about it.

816
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,639
Speaker 4: And for all young men out there, especially when you

817
00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:24,679
have little children, please hear this. There is a time

818
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,880
I believe that as the provider of a family, especially

819
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,559
when the kids aren't there yet, and especially when they're one.

820
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,639
Speaker 3: Or two years old, you go one or two years old.

821
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't need you two okay, they need you

822
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,760
at ten, they need you at twelve, they need you

823
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,239
at fifteen. What they need you to do is they

824
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,760
need you to bust your tail in those early years, right,

825
00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:48,840
so you can fulfill your duties and you can and

826
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,519
take care of your family. But that you can dial

827
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:54,000
it back because one of the trickiest things that nobody

828
00:40:54,079 --> 00:40:57,239
ever tells you is when you start off like that

829
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:00,960
and when you're grinding, it's not at least when my

830
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:06,000
I'm not thinking about my family isn't important. Well, I'm

831
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:08,559
thinking they are important, right, the best thing I can

832
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:10,639
do is work for them and bust my tail and

833
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:15,079
all that, and then you go, oh, shoot right, like

834
00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:15,960
it's it's not.

835
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 3: That's what makes it so hard, because it's right.

836
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 4: It's you and I don't need to go to a

837
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,679
seminar where people are teaching you how to not cheat

838
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:25,360
on your wife.

839
00:41:25,199 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 3: And how to not murder people.

840
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, And and the tough thing about that

841
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,800
is that when you're out there fighting dragons and killing

842
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,639
and making wins for your family, that's what you should

843
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:37,079
be doing.

844
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 3: And that's awesome, right.

845
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 4: But like everything in life, it's balance it is balance.

846
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:45,440
And you can have the best hire in the world.

847
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,039
And if that thing's off balance.

848
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 3: You're gonna blow it. Yep, right, it's gonna.

849
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 4: Blow And and that's and and it's it is a

850
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,559
One of the best analogies I ever heard was in

851
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:56,880
a Bible study. One morning a guy that was in

852
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,880
charge of plane testing for Boeing, so he did fly,

853
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,920
he did test flights for the planes, and he said,

854
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,159
you know something that people don't realize about autopilot is

855
00:42:06,199 --> 00:42:06,559
he goes.

856
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,599
Speaker 3: It doesn't make a big turn once you've gotten off course.

857
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,559
Speaker 4: It is constantly making little, tiny adjustments because even the

858
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:19,239
autopilot knows that it is impossible for it to chart

859
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,679
a course and stick to it perfectly. So it's all

860
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,400
about minimizing the missus. Right, Yeah, that's the way we

861
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,559
should look at life. Don't expect to get it down

862
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:30,559
the middle every time. You're not gonna but make those

863
00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:34,360
adjustments as quick and as painless as possible. And to

864
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,320
do that, you've got to be connected with God, because

865
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,079
to be connected with God is to be adapt ubility.

866
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:42,360
You cannot be connected to God and not be humble, right,

867
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,760
And you've got to be humble to see that stuff

868
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:46,280
in yourself.

869
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,079
Speaker 1: I totally agree. And there's one and there's a tool

870
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,039
I use. It's a spiritual KPI. And when I don't

871
00:42:52,119 --> 00:42:55,639
use it, I fall apart. KPI meaning key performance indicator.

872
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,280
So let's talk about this in a second. You relate

873
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,440
to this because we have a common friend, Crookshank on

874
00:43:01,639 --> 00:43:04,440
front coffee CEO. Dude, you want to get you want

875
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,920
to get tears in your eyes. You remember the story

876
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,360
of his wife, Liz. Okay, you met her at that event.

877
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,440
We spoke at my event we did in Seattle, remember

878
00:43:11,519 --> 00:43:14,920
that outside in Bothel And this is obviously before Liz passed.

879
00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:17,239
Tim helped keep her alive for a number of years.

880
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,679
He's a medic, well physician's assistant in the real world,

881
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,800
a medic when attached to the Seal teams. Is the

882
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,199
Seal three deployments he did he learned that he was

883
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,079
being deployed. He's one of those guys their first baby

884
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:32,000
was born. He is one of those guys who was

885
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:35,440
in the hospital with his first baby when nine to

886
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:41,039
eleven happened. Oh and he's one of those guys who

887
00:43:41,199 --> 00:43:44,199
was in the hospital and they look at the TV

888
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,039
and Liz looks up and she says, you're gonna have

889
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:51,480
to go to work. You got to start packing, and

890
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,920
and him said, well maybe, and then the pagers go off, right,

891
00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:58,599
and they were in a hospital where there were a

892
00:43:58,599 --> 00:44:02,000
lot of servicemen and pagrites are going off. Babe, I

893
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:06,000
gotta go. And so Liz stuck with him through these

894
00:44:06,039 --> 00:44:10,920
deployments and he has created a blend at Bone Frog Coffee.

895
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,000
It's called Sisterhood and on the back of the bag

896
00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:16,400
there's this story about Liz and so you can learn

897
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,760
about this this incredible woman attribute to his wife. So

898
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,199
the coffee is the Lamenta coffee. It's from the Terra

899
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,719
Zoo region in Costa Rica. This is a super clean coffee.

900
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,920
It's a really high altitude coffee. It's as bright, citrusy.

901
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,119
Timson as furral notes a little chocolate finish. And the

902
00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:34,800
people who make this uff and Tim works with the

903
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,239
guy named Dave Stewart who started Sales' Best Coffee, the

904
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,480
Coffee Legend, and they've considered this arguably one of the

905
00:44:41,599 --> 00:44:45,199
top one percent of coffees in the world. And that's

906
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,519
why he chose it. And by the way, every purchase

907
00:44:47,679 --> 00:44:51,440
goes to benefits gold Star Wives. So go to Bonefrog

908
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909
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910
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subscription coffee Bonefrogcoffee dot com slash todd. So we've covered

911
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,639
a lot of ground on the godly ambition front. And

912
00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:05,280
there's something I use in what I don't I fall apart.

913
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,079
And it's another thing. It's like I noticed the other

914
00:45:08,159 --> 00:45:10,480
day that I was starting to get a little bit

915
00:45:10,519 --> 00:45:13,719
heavy so here, and I wasn't weighing myself. And that's

916
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,400
first step to getting heavy is to stop measuring. Second

917
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,440
step is to start bargaining with yourself that you know,

918
00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:22,440
I've been washing my clothes a little bit longer, so

919
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,119
they're getting a little bit tighter, and so you start

920
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:29,039
bargaining with yourself. And so I made a course correction.

921
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:31,599
What have I been doing. I've been eating up to

922
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,599
what the calorie chart says. It's what my fitness Pal says.

923
00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:36,320
I've been eating right up to that. I've got a

924
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,480
half calard to go, all right, So all I did

925
00:45:39,679 --> 00:45:41,920
is a slight course correction. You know, let's go back

926
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,920
to the sixteen to eight fast that works for you.

927
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,760
Let's go back to a five hundred to one thousand

928
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,960
calory per day deficit that works for you. I was

929
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,559
doing pull ups the other day. I'm like, wow, these

930
00:45:51,599 --> 00:45:54,280
are easy, right, because you now have lost six or

931
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,000
eight pounds, You're gonna get back down to nine percent

932
00:45:57,079 --> 00:45:59,519
maybe eight percent body fat. My wife says, I'm too skinny.

933
00:45:59,639 --> 00:46:03,480
I don't agree. But any case, that was a course correction.

934
00:46:03,599 --> 00:46:05,360
And when I stopped doing those things, look at that

935
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:11,920
I went off course spiritual KPI. Am I experiencing the

936
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:17,280
fruit of the spirits around people? Am I displaying Biblical love?

937
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,239
So one of the things my wife and I need

938
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:21,719
to get back to doing is say, how am I

939
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,559
doing on you feeling biblical love for me patients kindness

940
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,880
either both know for proud and not keeping lists of

941
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,199
grievances right, And how am I doing in the fruits

942
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:35,639
of the spirit. When you measure those things as a KPI,

943
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,559
as sort of an L graph or line graph, you

944
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:43,519
can measure your life and your outcomes and you can

945
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:45,440
do this like for me, I need to be able

946
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,599
to identify my flesh because flesh men are taught to

947
00:46:49,639 --> 00:46:52,519
think about our flesh as lust doesn't need to be lust.

948
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,000
It could be I'm driving home and there's a guy

949
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going extra slow in front of me, so I'm thinking,

950
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you stink an idiot, and I'm the guy who look

951
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,920
at that go he's doing this to me. Oh yeah,

952
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,119
He's all about, I'm going to get this guy in

953
00:47:03,159 --> 00:47:05,280
the big truck. I'm gonna screw this guy. And I'm

954
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,119
all about, like, oh, I'll get you, buddy. You want

955
00:47:07,119 --> 00:47:08,559
to play that game. You want to play that game,

956
00:47:08,599 --> 00:47:09,960
I'll play that game. We can play the game all

957
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:11,840
day long and I'll end up doing some kind of

958
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,280
crazy things. That's my flesh. I need to be able

959
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,480
to identify that. The other day I caught my flesh

960
00:47:17,519 --> 00:47:22,039
telling me, you're old. You don't have the entrepreneur zeal anymore.

961
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,360
Wind it up, go small. I had to sit down

962
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,400
and take wise council. Wise council said, go big, like

963
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:32,239
you've got a big plan.

964
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:32,639
Speaker 3: Go big.

965
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,639
Speaker 1: Why you're waiting in the big plan? And I're going

966
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,119
to look at the big plan the right zac. The

967
00:47:38,159 --> 00:47:40,880
big plan is a big plan, and it's a godly

968
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,239
plan and has to go reach young men and teach

969
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,559
him how to be in the world or not of it.

970
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:47,440
Can you Imagine what God would do if a whole

971
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,400
bunch of people like you and me who screwed up

972
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,199
royally and somehow still God pulled us out if we

973
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,400
focused our effort on teaching them to be in the

974
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,239
world and not of it. That's by coach football, right right,

975
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,039
And I'll do it through the youth groups. Yeah, and

976
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,119
now we're going to do it to the business. So

977
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,199
that's what I'm talking about. How do you measure how

978
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,239
do you not go off course? I mean on a

979
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,159
day to day basis, minute by minute? How do you

980
00:48:11,199 --> 00:48:13,039
make sure you're not going spiritual lef course.

981
00:48:14,039 --> 00:48:14,559
Speaker 3: Day to day?

982
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 4: It's funny you bring up key performance indicators. I've never

983
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,599
thought of them that way. But there's there's two things.

984
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 3: There's other things.

985
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,079
Speaker 4: But this to me I think of I think of

986
00:48:25,159 --> 00:48:28,000
my life with God or my life generally speaking, is

987
00:48:28,079 --> 00:48:28,559
like a chain.

988
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, don't.

989
00:48:30,519 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 4: I don't need to deal with the nots. I got

990
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,519
to find the thing furthest up the chain. There is

991
00:48:34,559 --> 00:48:36,400
the tank, and I straightened that out. Everything will take

992
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,280
care of itself, right. So my key performance indicators are

993
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,440
when I wake up in the morning, when I am

994
00:48:42,519 --> 00:48:44,760
close and where I need to be with God. When

995
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,119
I wake up in the morning, Inevitably I have a

996
00:48:48,159 --> 00:48:50,039
praise song in my head every single morning.

997
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:52,679
Speaker 3: Okay, when I'm not, I don't.

998
00:48:53,679 --> 00:48:58,599
Speaker 4: The other thing that happens inevitably is before I reach

999
00:48:59,159 --> 00:49:03,119
for the that I listen to when I'm waking up

1000
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,719
and then doing my Bible studies. If I reach for

1001
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,000
my phone to look at markets prior to that, that's

1002
00:49:08,039 --> 00:49:09,119
another one that I'm off course.

1003
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, when those two things are locked.

1004
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,119
Speaker 4: Down, And that's what I other thing I tell young people,

1005
00:49:15,199 --> 00:49:18,239
I go, look, you get a lot of bad advice

1006
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,360
out there. If you want to make a change in

1007
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,639
your life, start with one thing and make it the

1008
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,239
first thing whatever that I think it should be a

1009
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,760
time with God. But make it right, start correctly, and

1010
00:49:29,119 --> 00:49:31,880
just that will get you off to a great position.

1011
00:49:32,079 --> 00:49:36,360
That those are my biggest two key component factors. The

1012
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:39,559
other thing that I have found is that it's not

1013
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:44,199
enough for me to do it during football season, that

1014
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,760
I don't experience the full gamut of being close to God.

1015
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,920
I don't experience and feel the full joy and contentment

1016
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,360
that I have when I'm not serving. I have to

1017
00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:00,719
be serving regularly in some capacity, especially the more service

1018
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:01,079
it is.

1019
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,519
Speaker 3: Ye right, the less the less upside it has for me,

1020
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,599
it just keeps me. It just keeps me on track.

1021
00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 4: And when I lose track of those three things, I

1022
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,480
really quickly start behaving and acting like a person that

1023
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I don't like.

1024
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,519
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, I get that, and I try to keep

1025
00:50:16,599 --> 00:50:20,000
I'm thinking of having a chart created to put in

1026
00:50:20,119 --> 00:50:23,480
my car, my truck, right in the dashboard, the Spiritual KPI.

1027
00:50:24,519 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 1: In fact, I've even thought it'd be cool to have

1028
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,960
an app. This would be a really cool app, Spiritual

1029
00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:34,519
KPI app where your your wife sits down and she

1030
00:50:34,679 --> 00:50:38,920
rates the day Spiritual KPI. You rate it, and you

1031
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:40,639
come back and you're looking at her rating. A.

1032
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,039
Speaker 3: Really, you know what, I would trust my wife's rating

1033
00:50:44,039 --> 00:50:44,639
one hundred percent.

1034
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,639
Speaker 1: I really sure I trust my wife's rating. A.

1035
00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1036
00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1037
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: I was talking to a young guy that this is

1038
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,079
so cool. He was a young young kid that I

1039
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,280
mentor a little bit, and and I asked him. He'd

1040
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,880
been in a in a youth development process and so

1041
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,360
I'm mentoring him in this and they were talking about

1042
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,719
abiding and what it is to divide, and I asked him,

1043
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,599
I goes, so, how do you rate your relationship with

1044
00:51:04,639 --> 00:51:09,119
the God, who's definitely nine out of ten. Wow solid, man,

1045
00:51:09,199 --> 00:51:11,440
that is so solid. Like, how many times have you

1046
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:12,000
prayed today?

1047
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 3: Oh?

1048
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm maybe eight out of ten. Wait, so you

1049
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:25,199
haven't prayed today? No, talk to anyone about Jesus today. No,

1050
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:32,400
did you read the word sorry? He gets into this

1051
00:51:32,639 --> 00:51:37,039
like downheaded. He goes probably six out of ten, and

1052
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,480
he was apologizing. Dude, you don't need to apologize to me.

1053
00:51:42,159 --> 00:51:44,679
Let's just adjust the rating, like how does God see it?

1054
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,519
Sometimes I think if we ask ourselves at the end

1055
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:50,360
of the day, how does God see us? I use

1056
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,239
Psalm twenty six and Psalm twenty six is begins with

1057
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,239
David asking the Lord to check him because I've walked

1058
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,320
in my integrity. And if you read through that Psalm

1059
00:52:01,519 --> 00:52:03,440
every morning and every night, that's also helpful because you

1060
00:52:03,519 --> 00:52:05,400
can look back and go for today, I've walked in

1061
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,000
my wait, oh wait, and I trusted you fully without

1062
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:13,039
Oh hold on, I didn't. That's another great KPI.

1063
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,519
Speaker 4: Yeah you know, it's really a KPI, but it's something.

1064
00:52:17,639 --> 00:52:20,360
Another part of this has been a big deal for me,

1065
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:23,239
and I forgot about it. But the other part of

1066
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:28,920
it for me is to remember when I am thinking

1067
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,119
about God and what I'm doing right and what I'm

1068
00:52:33,159 --> 00:52:33,800
doing wrong.

1069
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 3: That God never speaks in the negative. You might tell

1070
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,360
you not to do something, but he tells you not

1071
00:52:40,519 --> 00:52:42,079
to do it because you're better than that.

1072
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 2: Yep, right.

1073
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 4: And if you want to get close to God, you

1074
00:52:48,079 --> 00:52:52,440
cannot do it through self flagellation and beating yourself up

1075
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,119
and telling yourself not good. If you're listening to God,

1076
00:52:55,559 --> 00:52:58,400
the first thing you're gonna hear is you're good and

1077
00:52:58,440 --> 00:52:58,880
I love you.

1078
00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:01,039
Speaker 3: Yeah. And if you hear there's something other than that,

1079
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:01,920
it ain't him.

1080
00:53:02,079 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's at least gonna tell us he loves us,

1081
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,559
because Jesus said, wait, why are you calling me a

1082
00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:07,119
good Rabbi? No one who's good except my father?

1083
00:53:07,159 --> 00:53:07,639
Speaker 2: And heabit right.

1084
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: So he's at least he begains with I love you,

1085
00:53:11,119 --> 00:53:13,320
You're made for better. I didn't design you this way.

1086
00:53:14,199 --> 00:53:14,639
Speaker 3: I love that.

1087
00:53:15,199 --> 00:53:17,159
Speaker 1: Great to have wise counsel with you today, my brother,

1088
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,360
Thank you for the time, and thank you for being

1089
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,159
brave enough to speak of things your daughter told you

1090
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,280
and to get emotional with us. That's, by the way, God,

1091
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,159
the ambition should involve transparency between brothers. Really should this

1092
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,679
is the Todd Hermann Show, please go, be well, be strong,

1093
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,119
be kind, and go out and make a decision today

1094
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,079
to begin, at least if you haven't yet, choose Christ

1095
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,360
and then walk with him