Speaker 1: We should read our bibles as men dig for buried treasure.
Speaker 2: One of the most high game of the nations their inheritance.
Speaker 2: When He divided mankind, he fixed the borders of people's
Speaker 2: according to the number of the sons of God.
Speaker 1: In those days and for some time after, giant Nephilites
Speaker 1: lived down to the earth. For whenever the sons of
Speaker 1: God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children
Speaker 1: who became the heroes and famous warriors.
Speaker 3: Of ancient tides.
Speaker 1: Take no part in the fruitless steeds of darkness, but
Speaker 1: yet expose that though a.
Speaker 3: Thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying
Speaker 3: around you these years, we are not touching.
Speaker 4: Lives of garden man.
Speaker 2: You gotta dig it. Hell, old fellow treasure hunters, welcome
Speaker 2: to the excavation side. I'mus in alongside, and when we
Speaker 2: got Ben Steve even in Chad will be your guides
Speaker 2: on this excursion.
Speaker 4: Hope you brought your shovel in your compass, because we
Speaker 4: got the map.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: What's going on, all my local guys and gals and
Speaker 2: long distance pals.
Speaker 4: We're back. Did you guys miss me.
Speaker 1: So much, so so much?
Speaker 2: You had a little bit of technical issues without me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it wouldn't because of me.
Speaker 5: But I tried to get Stephen to say your intro,
Speaker 5: but he wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: Oh, you didn't want to steal my line. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's yours, buddy, that's pat that's you all.
Speaker 4: That's patented.
Speaker 2: Well, man, I'm telling you what it's like in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: You know, be on the shadow of a doubt that
Speaker 2: mother nature is a woman and cannot make its mind up.
Speaker 4: Last week it.
Speaker 2: Was like seventy five eighty degrees and then out of
Speaker 2: nowhere it plumpts to like twenty and we got Steven
Speaker 2: over here. The guy from Michigan bundled up, like what's
Speaker 2: that guy's name again?
Speaker 4: Uncle un Uncle.
Speaker 5: Eddie, sitting next to a kerosene heater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's still enough.
Speaker 2: Got his leather weld and gloves on and everything. Well,
Speaker 2: you guys have fun with Vicky Joy despite the technical
Speaker 2: issues worked out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad that all the audio and everything worked out.
Speaker 4: That's good. Well, I guess the open up in prayer.
Speaker 2: Uh, Father, thank you for today, Thank you for the
Speaker 2: mean blessings that you've given us. We just thank you
Speaker 2: for the opportunity to sit down and dig to your
Speaker 2: word and conversate with all these great guests that you've
Speaker 2: allowed us to speak with. And we just pray that
Speaker 2: the show goes good today and that this is something new,
Speaker 2: a little bit more lighthearted, and hopefully everybody enjoys it.
Speaker 2: And uh, it's in your name, we pray, amen.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing I just wanted to like kind of
Speaker 2: add to the show and make Steven kind of cringe.
Speaker 2: I texted him the other day. I found a like
Speaker 2: a box of dad jokes.
Speaker 5: Dad jokes and are the best jokes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, I'm gonna tell some corny dad jokes
Speaker 2: or something throughout the show that I found this one,
Speaker 2: and I put a picture on Facebook of all these
Speaker 2: books I just ordered. It was like ten books I got,
Speaker 2: and so this one was pretty good. This I'm reading
Speaker 2: a book about anti gravity. It's impossible to put it down.
Speaker 3: Jez.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing about dad jokes is you don't have
Speaker 5: to enjoy them because the person telling them it's all
Speaker 5: about their own enjoyment of their own jokes.
Speaker 4: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make yourself laugh, yep, But don't worry.
Speaker 4: I won't give up my day job.
Speaker 2: But hopefully we got a guest here today that we'll
Speaker 2: be able to succeed in making you laugh and put
Speaker 2: a smile on your face. Today we got with us
Speaker 2: Bradstein from Bradstein has issues and the way he how
Speaker 2: you say that phrase again, Brad when you open up
Speaker 2: your show, I love it. The concofphony.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean, if you really would like me
Speaker 3: to give you my famous intro, It's God's coming brad
Speaker 3: Stein on brad Stein has issues where comedy conservatism in
Speaker 3: Christianita colliite a cacophony of clarity, and I don't really
Speaker 3: know if there's any way to beat that. I think
Speaker 3: I have reached the pinnacle of intros and used as
Speaker 3: many cocky words as I could find.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is amazing, and I would butcher. That's why
Speaker 2: I wanted you to do it. That's a that's a
Speaker 2: tongue twister.
Speaker 3: Well, nobody can butcher things like Southerners. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: that I'm in good hands. I'm in good hands. You
Speaker 3: can butcher it, jerk it, dry it, lay it out,
Speaker 3: barbecue it. Hey man, that's why I move down south.
Speaker 3: I need to be with my people, even though I
Speaker 3: don't have your dialect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, videos on YouTube you're talking about And it was
Speaker 2: a few years ago and it said, you know, Southern
Speaker 2: people get a bad rap.
Speaker 4: He said that accent.
Speaker 2: He said they could be the smartest guy in the
Speaker 2: room working at NASA, and he came up with an
Speaker 2: idea and it could be the best idea in the room, but.
Speaker 4: The dialect kills it.
Speaker 2: And they're like, no, Jethro, We're gonna pass on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean that's the beauty of comedy, you know.
Speaker 3: Is its purpose is to speak truth in a way
Speaker 3: that's humorous and and and of course it can. It's
Speaker 3: gonna use satire and stereotypes and caricatures, and obviously it's
Speaker 3: not always dead on it. It's maybe making fun of
Speaker 3: the way people are made fun of. But it's an
Speaker 3: important and crucial element of culture and humanity, is the
Speaker 3: comedian because we're supposedly, historically the ones that make fun
Speaker 3: of the king and they get our heads cut off.
Speaker 3: We're the ones that tell the monarch, you know better
Speaker 3: than us, and let the peasants have some kind of power.
Speaker 3: And so that's what comedy was for, and it's why
Speaker 3: the left is so destructive, right, now in not only
Speaker 3: destroying free speech in America and around the world, but
Speaker 3: comedy as well, because we're the last ones that kind
Speaker 3: of could get away with murder. So it's important that
Speaker 3: you fight for comics to be able to speak about anything,
Speaker 3: any topic, anytime, anywhere, any place, because if they can't speak,
Speaker 3: there's nobody left.
Speaker 4: Right, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's the end of free speech right there. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it keeps going, the direction is going, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have a job here pretty soon. It's just it's so sad.
Speaker 5: We'll have to teach them how to barbecue.
Speaker 1: I think we could do that. But in all seriousness,
Speaker 1: so that all that stuff that we've seen in the
Speaker 1: news recently with you know this comedian, you know, the
Speaker 1: whole Chris Rock thing that we saw was just it's
Speaker 1: a travesty. It's just a jab at comedians in general.
Speaker 1: And that it's just sad it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, said that they can't even say what they want
Speaker 5: to say. Then they if they say it, they got.
Speaker 4: To apologize, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing I love about his show. It
Speaker 2: is so unapologetic. And the thing is that I really
Speaker 2: admire you for, Brad, is that the Christian you know
Speaker 2: group as a whole, they stay away from politics. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, that's a realm they're not allowed
Speaker 2: to dive into. It's a taboo. And we're just supposed
Speaker 2: to respect the rulers that God put in place and
Speaker 2: not speak out. And I've always been really involved in
Speaker 2: politics and stuff like that. So, uh, I guess if
Speaker 2: you could just kind of walk us through how you
Speaker 2: come up with this show, what inspired you to do
Speaker 2: it and to feel that need and actually make it entertainable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, what happened was I found myself one day
Speaker 3: surrounded by a cult that had taken over my country.
Speaker 3: A cult, of course, is any ideology, philosophy, or construct
Speaker 3: that is outside of Judeo Christian worldview that created the
Speaker 3: West and gave us our freedom. The intrinsic dignity of
Speaker 3: the human being comes from the Judeo Christian ethic. It
Speaker 3: comes from no other place on Earth in history, and
Speaker 3: it gives us something that is more important than anything
Speaker 3: that could ever be uttered in humanity. And that is
Speaker 3: what is the actual, immutable, transcendent truth by which all
Speaker 3: truth derives. So one day, as a comic, I found
Speaker 3: myself locked down and imprisoned in my own home because
Speaker 3: a cult had taken over the DNA and the milieu
Speaker 3: of my country. And that cult was called Corona, And
Speaker 3: it was the use of a virus that was unleashed
Speaker 3: on the world by China to basically create fear amongst
Speaker 3: weak minded folks who don't think, don't care, don't study,
Speaker 3: don't go deep, don't observe, aren't aware, aren't sensitive to
Speaker 3: God in the Holy Spirit and truth and reality, and
Speaker 3: allowed a bureaucratic, governmental ttalitarian vision of earth to control.
Speaker 3: And I don't do that. I don't believe in that,
Speaker 3: and so but I'm kind of stuck. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: I still went to the store, and yeah, I didn't
Speaker 3: wear a mask from day one. In twenty twenty, when
Speaker 3: the rest of the cowards in America buckled, I said,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing this. This isn't constitutional, This certainly isn't
Speaker 3: something's wrong here. And never in our history have we
Speaker 3: punished the healthy. Never our history have we shut down
Speaker 3: the free enterprise of those who choose to make their
Speaker 3: own risks and create their own risks and take their
Speaker 3: own risks. As an American not foolish, I didn't mean
Speaker 3: being foolish. If this was the Black Plague and sixty
Speaker 3: five percent of every human being from every age group
Speaker 3: was getting it in, puking black blood and dyeing the streets,
Speaker 3: yeah I'd probably join. But if you're going to tell
Speaker 3: me that this ninety nine point eight percent survival, that's
Speaker 3: essentially only going to harm people who are over seventy
Speaker 3: years old, who are obese and have a precondition, And
Speaker 3: I'm going to destroy my freedom for that. I'm not
Speaker 3: doing it. I'm not playing. So I got on my
Speaker 3: Facebook page out of boredom. I thought to myself, and
Speaker 3: if you've been around long enough as a Christian and
Speaker 3: as a performer, you don't take your press seriously. So
Speaker 3: I'm literally thinking, I'm no buddy. I'm just some guy
Speaker 3: that does comedy, have been doing comedy, but I'm nobody.
Speaker 3: But I'm bored. What would happen if I got on
Speaker 3: Facebook Live and just talk, just for something to do,
Speaker 3: and I did grab my little laptop, set it all
Speaker 3: my lap, probably legitimately, if not just on a little
Speaker 3: coffee table I remember, and just push Facebook Live and
Speaker 3: just thought, well, maybe twenty people that want to I
Speaker 3: don't know, just bored. Yeah, And I don't know, three
Speaker 3: four or five hundred people suddenly were watching me, like instantaneously,
Speaker 3: and I'm going, what is going? This is ridiculous. I
Speaker 3: was just shocked buy that I just because I'd never
Speaker 3: used Facebook, I didn't know how it worked. Frankly, I'm
Speaker 3: a techno idiot. So I did it. And I just
Speaker 3: started extemporaneously talking, didn't have any notes, didn't have any agenda,
Speaker 3: just started talking. I don't know, here's what I'm thinking
Speaker 3: about right now, guys. And I said, well, listen, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what. How about I'll come back next Monday.
Speaker 3: We'll do it again. And I did, and there was
Speaker 3: all these folks paying attention, and finally I said, well, listen,
Speaker 3: I guess we're going to need to set a time
Speaker 3: frame so that we can be considered, you know, if
Speaker 3: you guys. And from day one, I made it very
Speaker 3: clear to the to the people that were watching, I said, listen,
Speaker 3: if you're watching me in this intest, I'm humbled by
Speaker 3: it and grateful for it. If I have something to
Speaker 3: say you think matters. But may make this very clear,
Speaker 3: I don't need this to feel good about myself. I've
Speaker 3: been in front of stages, in front of thousands and
Speaker 3: thousands and thousands of ten fifteen thousand men, in an arena,
Speaker 3: in a basketball arena. When I was a promise keeper.
Speaker 3: I've been in front of national television audiences. I've been
Speaker 3: in front of sold out comedy club boobs. I've had
Speaker 3: standing ovations. I don't need my ego stroked to say, Look,
Speaker 3: I'm on YouTube, I'm on Facebook and everybody's watching me
Speaker 3: on and I somebody. I don't need it. I have
Speaker 3: my place, I have my stage to do the thing
Speaker 3: that I enjoyed doing that God who's gifted me to
Speaker 3: do and inspired me to do. So. I'm not here
Speaker 3: to try to feel good about myself. I'm here for
Speaker 3: one reason. If what I'm saying bears fruit, If what
Speaker 3: I'm saying matters to you and you feel like it
Speaker 3: helps you, inspires you, educate you, convicts you, and you
Speaker 3: know whatever, if that's what it's doing, so it has
Speaker 3: some value, some weight, and you keep showing up. I
Speaker 3: will do if because maybe there's something here that I
Speaker 3: don't even realize is helpful to people. Because I don't
Speaker 3: think of myself as some kind of you know, some
Speaker 3: kind of genius or whatever. I'm not. I'm just me.
Speaker 3: But you have to realize that when God anoints you,
Speaker 3: you are who he says you are, now who you
Speaker 3: think you are? And so you know, am I now
Speaker 3: saying ah, I see, So you're some special anointed of God? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I am, actually, but so are you? I mean, if
Speaker 3: you know God, you're anointed for a particular territory that
Speaker 3: you've been given to be of influence. That's the point.
Speaker 3: Jesus christ last words to humans, go into all the world,
Speaker 3: make disciples of everybody, teach them. That's it. That's your reason.
Speaker 3: Do you want to know what the meaning of life is?
Speaker 3: Just gave it to you? Find God and tell others.
Speaker 3: That's it. Now you know, how do you get that? What? What?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Style of communication? What access do you have to that? What? What?
Speaker 3: How do you facilitate that? Through your skill set, through
Speaker 3: your job, through your relationships. That's your territory of influence
Speaker 3: and you're responsible for it, So go do the work.
Speaker 3: So that's the way I framed it is, I'll just
Speaker 3: I'll do this if you guys think it matters. And
Speaker 3: they kept showing up, and that is all I cared about.
Speaker 3: If they're If they're there, then there's fruit. If there's fruit,
Speaker 3: it has value. I'll just accept on on that level. Now.
Speaker 3: Prior to that, I'd had a guy in California who
Speaker 3: was interested in trying to create a podcast kind of
Speaker 3: Christian aggregate site. He called it Christian podcast Central, and
Speaker 3: he wanted to see if he could monetize it. Asked
Speaker 3: me to be on the show, and I'd say, Nah,
Speaker 3: I don't do it. It's too hard. I'm not going
Speaker 3: to get an audience. I mean to go jump into
Speaker 3: the mix of hundreds of thousands of podcasts, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I don't have that kind of you know, authority that
Speaker 3: people will find me that in compelling compared to the
Speaker 3: other people that are already out doing it. But eventually
Speaker 3: I told the guy, I'll tell you what, if you
Speaker 3: will film me kind of going off on a rant
Speaker 3: and give me a set, make it look like a
Speaker 3: TV show, more like a talk show, I'll do that
Speaker 3: because who knows, I've always been interested in that kind
Speaker 3: of style of art, is the talk show kind of
Speaker 3: stuff and talking and being funny off the cuff, but
Speaker 3: having people on it. I mean, I said, so, if
Speaker 3: you let me do that, and see if that gets anywhere,
Speaker 3: then that would be worth an investment. So we would
Speaker 3: get together and and I would write on basically organic
Speaker 3: rants about a topic. Because we had to shoot them
Speaker 3: all for costs sake, we had to film them all
Speaker 3: in two days, so I couldn't be topical. I couldn't say, hey, today,
Speaker 3: this happened. I couldn't do that because we had to
Speaker 3: shoot everything and then put it out every week on
Speaker 3: its own. So I had to make it more of
Speaker 3: just an organic topic that would be evergreen, men and
Speaker 3: women are different, marriage, whatever, stuff that would never change
Speaker 3: and not be specifically to a topic. And I filmed
Speaker 3: a bunch of those, and it was called Bradstein has
Speaker 3: Issues as an idea. And once I went over to
Speaker 3: this podcast thing, which essentially is a Facebook live YouTube
Speaker 3: live that's morphing into a podcast and finding a place
Speaker 3: to go put it so people can go listen to
Speaker 3: the audio on their own time. It was called the
Speaker 3: at Steinshow, and I thought, you know what, I think,
Speaker 3: brad Stone has Issues is a great name. It's much
Speaker 3: catch here. I like it. Let's just let's just turn
Speaker 3: this little other thing that we stopped doing into my
Speaker 3: podcast name and let that be the brand. And then
Speaker 3: if people stumble upon the old rants, it'll still be
Speaker 3: in the category that they were looking in though, and
Speaker 3: it might drive people to my podcast, and let's see
Speaker 3: what happens. And so obviously a very very very long
Speaker 3: answer to your simple question, but I'm just giving the
Speaker 3: backstory as to how I ended up in this podcast
Speaker 3: that I honestly did not have any intention of having.
Speaker 3: I just wanted something to do, and God said that
Speaker 3: got bigger plans, and.
Speaker 4: That's how it works. That's worked for us. Yeah, yeah, us.
Speaker 2: I had read Michaelhauser's Unseen Realm and wanted to expose
Speaker 2: that material to some friends and buddies at church. So
Speaker 2: I started a small group and I invited, like, you know,
Speaker 2: ten twenty people. We had four guys show up, and
Speaker 2: then three meetings later, my buddy Steve and he's like,
Speaker 2: we should be recording these and.
Speaker 4: I was like you.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I ain't doing that. I don't
Speaker 2: know the first thing about that. And he's like, well,
Speaker 2: I know a guy so his brother's into podcasting. So
Speaker 2: we just pitched in and got the equipment and just
Speaker 2: like you said, just showed up and the people showed
Speaker 2: up and God has blessed it. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: it's amazing. Just when he calls you stepped forward an answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're smart, because you know it'll cost you
Speaker 3: if you don't. People don't understand that a Christians Christ
Speaker 3: follows don't understand that. I made a joke about it
Speaker 3: years ago. I said, you know, being called by God
Speaker 3: is like being made in the mafia. God uses you
Speaker 3: until he kills you, and that's how it works. There
Speaker 3: is no way out, there's no way out, and you
Speaker 3: can run. And I was called twenty five years ago
Speaker 3: and didn't answer. Until the last few years now, I
Speaker 3: was a Christian and I was doing comedy and honoring
Speaker 3: God by not cursing and not doing sex jokes and
Speaker 3: maybe using biblical references and going into churches and maybe
Speaker 3: bringing some inspiration, but just the sort of understanding that
Speaker 3: this is a ministry I've been called to and just
Speaker 3: sort of leaving the stand up comedy world like that's
Speaker 3: who I am, and this is my ministry and it's
Speaker 3: delivered in the package of comedy that took me years
Speaker 3: to do because I just didn't want to, didn't want to,
Speaker 3: didn't want to be in ministry. Didn't want to do that.
Speaker 3: Just let me be a comic. I'll throw got a bone,
Speaker 3: but I don't want to do anything else. Don't have
Speaker 3: any titles put on me when I'm stuck. And what
Speaker 3: I say to people as you wake up on the
Speaker 3: beach in a whale vomit. Enough times I sit there,
Speaker 3: you say yourself, you know what, maybe maybe I'll maybe
Speaker 3: I'll head to nine of us. And so that's the key.
Speaker 3: You can't get out now. You can run, but you
Speaker 3: can't hide, and you can't be at peace because you
Speaker 3: are not following your purpose. And so that's how it
Speaker 3: ended up with me. Every single man of God he
Speaker 3: used in the Bible of significance to do hard and
Speaker 3: important work with different people with different educations, different skill
Speaker 3: sets and whatever, but they all had one attribute in common.
Speaker 3: They were all absolutely convinced they were the wrong man
Speaker 3: for the job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all broken people.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the moment you realize I am the last
Speaker 3: guy you should be using for this because I know me,
Speaker 3: I know my sense, I know my dark places, I
Speaker 3: know my secret struggles. So I'm not worthy. So naw,
Speaker 3: you really don't want to use me for this thing?
Speaker 3: And the moment you do that, God says, oh good,
Speaker 3: So you'll get out of the way yourself so I
Speaker 3: can just jump move in and work for you, because yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't want you to think you can do jack,
Speaker 3: because you can't. That's exactly where I need you to be,
Speaker 3: so that you are an open vessel for me to
Speaker 3: facilitate what I need to say through you. And so
Speaker 3: the only thing you're asked to do is obey. That's
Speaker 3: your responsibility is I'll do it, and then let the
Speaker 3: chips fall what they may, because you're not responsible for
Speaker 3: the results. And it's difficult, especially for somebody like me
Speaker 3: who comes out of the performing arts. It's difficult to
Speaker 3: assess your success because all you know is numbers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I went to the show and three hundred people showed up.
Speaker 3: I did the thing, and they paid me, and I
Speaker 3: went home and people clapped and they laughed, So I
Speaker 3: guess I did it right. You don't know how else
Speaker 3: to even evaluate your value. And so oftentimes in things
Speaker 3: like like this, where God is starting or launching your ministry,
Speaker 3: your specific call, it starts slowly, as it should. You're
Speaker 3: not gonna throw you right into to the to the
Speaker 3: midst with with with all this power and authority and responsibility,
Speaker 3: before you've got your feet wet, tell you understand how
Speaker 3: to do it. I mean, you don't do that in
Speaker 3: any profession. You got to you gotta be Uh, you've
Speaker 3: got to be mentored first. You you have to what
Speaker 3: do they used to call it? A Yeah, that's it. Yes,
Speaker 3: Uh that you need apprenticeship. That's exactly the word. I
Speaker 3: need to teach you first and so that you so
Speaker 3: by the time you get into the war. Uh, you
Speaker 3: you can defend yourself. You know. I don't want if
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a pilot, he's going to fly
Speaker 3: my my, my, my plane into some jungle or some
Speaker 3: difficult place to land. I don't want a guy in
Speaker 3: a sparkling, beautiful uniform and his hat's just right and
Speaker 3: he's got a new haircut and he just got out
Speaker 3: of his flight trained. Don't want that guy. I want
Speaker 3: a guy with one eye, scars on his face, grizzled
Speaker 3: where Because that fricking guy has been there, he figured
Speaker 3: it out, and he's gotten through hell and came home.
Speaker 3: I want him on my side. Yeah, what's that.
Speaker 2: You won't be in?
Speaker 3: Well, that's it. Well, I haven't seen Ben, but I'm
Speaker 3: guessing if he's a one eyed looking dude.
Speaker 1: Earlier.
Speaker 3: But you know, you want to go to war with
Speaker 3: men that have been in war. If you find if
Speaker 3: you're on a team and when the game's over, your
Speaker 3: uniform is spotless, it means you didn't do anything. You
Speaker 3: didn't play, you didn't get in. I don't want you.
Speaker 3: I want the guy with a freaking dirt and blood
Speaker 3: and half ripped off crap. That guy played he was
Speaker 3: in a war. I want that guy that's a masculine
Speaker 3: uh warrior that I need. It's why it's so crucial
Speaker 3: that masculinity is revered and lifted up in a culture
Speaker 3: that fears it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: They actually have the audac for the same people identifying it.
Speaker 3: You know, the same people that talk about identifying as
Speaker 3: this magic word that as soon as identify something, I
Speaker 3: magically am and you need to respect that. You need
Speaker 3: to respect that. You need to whether you like it
Speaker 3: or not. You whatever I say I am, you have
Speaker 3: to agreep the illusions. You have to. You have to
Speaker 3: because what I identify as is my essence and it
Speaker 3: has to be dignified. Those same people will take masculinity
Speaker 3: which is my identity, and call it toxic? What how
Speaker 3: dare you? I actually am a man? I actually really am.
Speaker 3: I was here first. Okay, if you can't pee on
Speaker 3: a treat, you ain't me, So you don't get to join,
Speaker 3: you don't get to play with us. We're real, We're
Speaker 3: the legit everything you're trying to be. I'm already am.
Speaker 3: You're trying to counterfeit what I am, and I'm already there.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to fight for those ideas. That doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that you don't be kind or that you can't
Speaker 3: be sensitive at times. That's part of being a man
Speaker 3: is learning how didn't become what you need to be
Speaker 3: for every specific moment. But the idea of someone having
Speaker 3: them in the audacity to decry my very essence as masculine,
Speaker 3: as toxic, I draw my sword against such nonsense. And
Speaker 3: why would they fear men? Because when men get together
Speaker 3: in are like minded, all we do is create things
Speaker 3: like the United States, the Constitution, airplanes, computers, and we
Speaker 3: land on the moon. That's what we do because we're essential.
Speaker 3: We were made first, and we were created to go
Speaker 3: and habit the earth, make more and use the raw materials.
Speaker 3: God gave us to make the best out of the
Speaker 3: world that he gave us.
Speaker 4: Amen, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: As I'm gonna say, you think you look back to
Speaker 1: the garden of Eden, then you know God made Adam
Speaker 1: and didn't sit there and say, well, Adam, what do
Speaker 1: you feel like today? You know you wanna you wanna
Speaker 1: wear a bikini today? Or do you want to you
Speaker 1: know wear It's just there's no He made man, right,
Speaker 1: and then he made woman from the rib.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and like if you're talking about the garden,
Speaker 3: which is the beginning, notice what God said to do
Speaker 3: he didn't make. It wasn't a socialist Marxist arrangement. All right,
Speaker 3: I made you. Now you go sit and relax on
Speaker 3: a hammock while I feed you. He said, go tend
Speaker 3: to the garden. You got work to do. What you're
Speaker 3: gonna You're gonna work now. You get things to do,
Speaker 3: things to accomplish.
Speaker 1: People have to work, yes, real, well, some of us.
Speaker 4: I just get a check.
Speaker 1: We just see that. It's just the degradation of society
Speaker 1: is just It's one of the things that I cannot
Speaker 1: watch the news. I just can't do it because I
Speaker 1: get angry.
Speaker 4: I turned it off.
Speaker 1: I just get angry because you just see the degradation
Speaker 1: of society. There's a there was a news article that
Speaker 1: came out last week and I can't remember what state
Speaker 1: it's in, but there's the governor's put out a a
Speaker 1: grant for anybody who is transgender to get twelve hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month as as a and they even worded
Speaker 1: it as reparations for all the struggles and hardships they've
Speaker 1: gone through. An actual and it doesn't and it says
Speaker 1: it was based on the honesty policy. So if you
Speaker 1: come forward, I could walk down there and say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I feel like Tina today. Well here's twelve hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: But that's the society we're in right now, and that
Speaker 1: just it. Wow.
Speaker 2: Well, what I hate, honestly of that country is they
Speaker 2: incentivize ungodliness. I mean, if you think about it, with
Speaker 2: that situation you just talking about, Oh, you just claim
Speaker 2: to be transgender, you get these government funds, and then
Speaker 2: at the same time they encourage you know, broken families,
Speaker 2: A single mother gets subsidized housing, food stamps and all
Speaker 2: these things. And it's like whether and I think it's
Speaker 2: on purpose. Its designed to bust up the home. And
Speaker 2: then while people that are trying to live, you know,
Speaker 2: good whole, godly lives, getting married and creating families, you know,
Speaker 2: they don't get any support or any kind of help.
Speaker 4: And it's just you can't.
Speaker 2: It's just a system that's built to manufacture just chaos, intopravity.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think you can do is vote.
Speaker 2: But I mean, and I'm being honest, and I know
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be this way. I always vote, I mean,
Speaker 2: I always vote, but it's like, honestly with me, it's like,
Speaker 2: after twenty twenty happened, It's like, how does a man
Speaker 2: that gets more votes than any sitting president in American history,
Speaker 2: It sells out stadiums when he speaks, gets beat by
Speaker 2: a man with just a few thousand followers and most
Speaker 2: of them are robots, can't even feel a high school
Speaker 2: gymnasium when he speaks, wins got more votes in the Obama.
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 2: You can't help but feel just like the the deck
Speaker 2: is stacked against you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean. But you have to vote.
Speaker 2: That's your god given right, you know, I mean, you
Speaker 2: have to go vote but it's it's frustrating at times.
Speaker 1: But I think it goes beyond that. When we're talking
Speaker 1: about what can we do, it's it's exactly what we're
Speaker 1: doing right now. It's what it's following. Like Brad said,
Speaker 1: it's following what God has you. You know you're planning,
Speaker 1: you know that He has for you is reaching as
Speaker 1: many people. God didn't tell us, you know, that everything
Speaker 1: was going to be easy, and it did say at
Speaker 1: the end that Christians were going to suffer. Christians are
Speaker 1: going to be under attack. It's gonna happen, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna affect everybody around us. But what we have to
Speaker 1: do is follow through in God's calling for us as
Speaker 1: long as we're bearing fruit, as you said, from doing
Speaker 1: what we're doing, because we're doing what God's telling us
Speaker 1: to do that and in the end we still win,
Speaker 1: right we know the end of the story, we know
Speaker 1: we win. It's going to be bumpy along the road,
Speaker 1: but we got to see how many people, how many
Speaker 1: people can we take with us to heaven when we
Speaker 1: when we're when we're on our way, when it gets
Speaker 1: to that point when the trumpet sounds, you know.
Speaker 3: Yep, well I just made it a point when I
Speaker 3: and I've said it many times on my podcast, is
Speaker 3: I'm not interested in a podcast that tells conservatives how
Speaker 3: smart they are. Uh. There's certain formulaic rhetoric I hear
Speaker 3: all the time from conservatives podcast, like they'll bring up
Speaker 3: some story and they'll go so and so said blah
Speaker 3: blah blah bo he said, could you imagine what would
Speaker 3: happen if a conservative has said that, like they did
Speaker 3: some insight, like they had some deep wisdom and they
Speaker 3: got into the deep places and look what I've discovered,
Speaker 3: And then we all sit and go, oh my god,
Speaker 3: thank you, you're right. Never even never even thought about comparing.
Speaker 3: I don't need to hear that ever again. Obviously, obviously,
Speaker 3: if you're a Christian Conservative, you are shadow band, you
Speaker 3: are kicked off, you are censored, you are maligned, you
Speaker 3: are attacked, you are demean that's obvious. Don't need to
Speaker 3: ever say it again. I'm not five. My thing is,
Speaker 3: what are you going to do about it? If you're
Speaker 3: not having everyone in your podcasts with some marching orders,
Speaker 3: if not every one of them gives you some tool
Speaker 3: to take with you to the next to day two
Speaker 3: when you are done or whatever. And I'm not saying
Speaker 3: I've always done it right. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: you get caught up in trying to speak to the
Speaker 3: folks that you're talking to or do the work you're doing,
Speaker 3: and and uh, you know, I don't I don't want
Speaker 3: to even turn that into a formula as well. But
Speaker 3: I just can't stand whining and hand ringing over crap
Speaker 3: we already know. Give me solutions. What can we do?
Speaker 3: I tell people, you are the government of the United
Speaker 3: States of America, not not Joe Biden, not Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: not Mitch McConnell. Okay, you're not. They're not the government.
Speaker 3: They represent the government, which is me, a citizen of
Speaker 3: the United States of America. I am in a republic
Speaker 3: where I vote for representatives of my voice. I voted
Speaker 3: for you to go represent me, Go talk for brad
Speaker 3: Stein in the Senate, in the House, and tell them
Speaker 3: what I think about A, B and C. Because that's
Speaker 3: why I'm You just represent You don't rule me, You
Speaker 3: represent me. So we're we're living, you know, in a
Speaker 3: culture that so many of Americans, and they proved it
Speaker 3: with the greatness of the great result of Corona was
Speaker 3: it exposed so much it helped us get some clarity.
Speaker 3: I now know how many Americans are fools. I now
Speaker 3: know how many Americans don't treasure liberty. I now know
Speaker 3: how many Americans don't care about the First Amendment and
Speaker 3: especially religious liberties. I know how many Americans are cowards.
Speaker 3: I now know how many Americans will turn on me
Speaker 3: when they're supposed to be a fellow citizen. I know
Speaker 3: how now much which fellow Americans can be recruited to
Speaker 3: go to Auschwitz and be a guard, like happening to
Speaker 3: German citizens. I see it all now. Those who wore masks,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how many times, and it's all come
Speaker 3: out now. It didn't work, didn't help, didn't change. They're
Speaker 3: wearing a mask like a rabbit's foot to pretend that
Speaker 3: they've done so. I mean, I'm looking at American citizens
Speaker 3: who are like children begging the government, which is so
Speaker 3: corrupt in the United States. That don't I vote only
Speaker 3: out of my own dignity of autonomy. I don't trust
Speaker 3: any of them. I find the Republicans more despicable than
Speaker 3: the Democrats by far, because the Democrats have completely given
Speaker 3: their party over to the left and They're demonic. There
Speaker 3: is no It's the most demonic ruling class I've ever
Speaker 3: seen in my country. Let's butcher babies up until the
Speaker 3: second before they're born. And if they are born, and
Speaker 3: you win for abortional and we'll leave them to die.
Speaker 3: This is demonic, This is moloch, this is sacrificial children.
Speaker 3: This is evol Men and women are not different. If
Speaker 3: you say magically you're a woman, you say you're a man,
Speaker 3: you are it's just making crap up. It's so absurd
Speaker 3: you couldn't even made a movie. Is surreal as this,
Speaker 3: And yet it literally that nothing could be more perfectly
Speaker 3: illustrate the Democratic Party than the fact that their champion
Speaker 3: is a Fetterman and Joe Biden, two men who have
Speaker 3: actual brain damage, as their heroes. We will vote. This
Speaker 3: isn't hyperbole, it's not right wing rhetoric. It's not some
Speaker 3: Republican maligning the Democrat. Vetterman had a stroke, he has
Speaker 3: brain damage, and they voted for him to lead them. What.
Speaker 3: I can't write a punchline that that good. You have
Speaker 3: demonstrated this is what represents the way Democrats think. People
Speaker 3: with brain damage are our rulers.
Speaker 2: Well, do you really think that the American people are
Speaker 2: honestly that that stupid or the system is that corrupt.
Speaker 4: In European both that's okay. I was about to say, yeah.
Speaker 3: The correct the system is corrupt. Carry Lake was stolen
Speaker 3: from Oh yeah, John Bush Bush Trump. Obviously his election
Speaker 3: was stolen in twenty twenty. All of that is true,
Speaker 3: and I was so proud I would listen to this
Speaker 3: woman speak and the way she attacked political correctness, which
Speaker 3: is what I was interested in with Trump when people
Speaker 3: would ask me back in the day before he was
Speaker 3: even the representative of the Republican Party, what did I
Speaker 3: think of him? Is that I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know if he'll be a good president or not. Here's
Speaker 3: what I do know. He's a businessman, and maybe what
Speaker 3: we need right now is a businessman, because he will
Speaker 3: make the cuts that are necessary for the federal deficit
Speaker 3: that has to be fixed. He'll do that. Businessmen don't
Speaker 3: give a crap whether you get your feelings hurt. Businessmen
Speaker 3: don't give a crap whether somebody's going to be displaced.
Speaker 3: We'll say, look, this isn't profitable. We have to slash
Speaker 3: a B and s. Yeah, Well, what am I going
Speaker 3: to do. I don't know. Good luck anyways. Next, hey,
Speaker 3: you're being insensitive, screw you. Next it's like, holy, this
Speaker 3: is who we need. We need that guy who simply
Speaker 3: stands on principle. Is he a good moral guy? Oh no,
Speaker 3: he isn't either of mine.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, uh. I voted for him because I thought, well,
Speaker 3: maybe he'll go in. I presumed he wouldn't be controlled
Speaker 3: by lobbyists because he already has money, he already has power,
Speaker 3: he already has fame. So a lot of the things
Speaker 3: that are used to these to this first year senator
Speaker 3: or congressman that can be used to entice them and
Speaker 3: control them and get them into your grid, he isn't
Speaker 3: gonna instially move him because he's already got everything that
Speaker 3: they usually used to to to uh, to control you.
Speaker 3: He already has it. So I felt like, maybe this
Speaker 3: monkey wrench in this broken system will shake things up,
Speaker 3: which is exactly what he said he was gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna drain the swamp. Well, boy, boy, did we
Speaker 3: see what the swamp does when it's being exposed? And
Speaker 3: so I appreciated that he wasn't politically correct. I appreciate
Speaker 3: that he's spoken, you know when people ask me about
Speaker 3: Corona and how I handled that. As a performer who
Speaker 3: needs a live audience, that's how I make my livelihood. Well,
Speaker 3: I said, well, first thing I did is I went
Speaker 3: to I went looking for states that I knew wouldn't
Speaker 3: play this game. I went to Idaho, I went to
Speaker 3: sort of North Dakota. I went to South Dakota. Some
Speaker 3: of the southern states kind of you could depend on
Speaker 3: a little bit. They still kind of got nervous and
Speaker 3: scared as well. But obviously there were blue states. You
Speaker 3: didn't have a shot. They were full totalitarian. But I
Speaker 3: didn't care. I don't care if I go to California.
Speaker 3: I wanted to go where people wanted to hear what
Speaker 3: I had to say and be enthused by it and
Speaker 3: be inspired by it. I actually have a video of
Speaker 3: me in Chicago O'Hare Airport in twenty twenty. I filmed
Speaker 3: myself with no masks. I wouldn't wear a masks walk
Speaker 3: in Chicago up and down this twenty twenty before people
Speaker 3: started getting the balls to sap back a little bit
Speaker 3: and that, and most of them didn't do that until
Speaker 3: after a thing was over and after all the data
Speaker 3: come in, and after it was safe to stand up
Speaker 3: for things, I did it when it mattered, when it
Speaker 3: costs you something. Why because I'm a hero. No, because
Speaker 3: I'm American and I'm a Christian, That's why. Because I
Speaker 3: put my money where my mouth is. And when I
Speaker 3: was walking down there and put my phone up and
Speaker 3: you could see all the people behind me with their
Speaker 3: masks going, I was naive enough to believe that people
Speaker 3: American citizens in that airport would look at me. Not
Speaker 3: all of them, not most of them, but some of
Speaker 3: them would look at me and go, damn it, he's right, No,
Speaker 3: this can't be the way we do this. I literally
Speaker 3: believe that's what would happen. I would inspire somebody to say,
Speaker 3: you know what, he's right, the Empress naked, he's right
Speaker 3: because we all love. Those stories costs you something. Love
Speaker 3: Those stories tell you you're the guy all by yourself.
Speaker 3: And that's where I saw the ballish cowards of Americans,
Speaker 3: and it broke my heart because I realized we can't
Speaker 3: survive as a nation because the Revolutionary War Americans, the
Speaker 3: Civil War Americans, the World War one and two Americans
Speaker 3: two thousand and one bring down the towers of Islamic
Speaker 3: terrorism Americans, those who showed unity and a desire for
Speaker 3: freedom in America and liberty as more sacro sank than
Speaker 3: your little feelings. Or you're free, you're not freedom because
Speaker 3: you're giving that away, your ability to just sort of
Speaker 3: go about your business without ever having to sacrifice anything.
Speaker 3: Those people that are necessary for this country to continue,
Speaker 3: they're gone. They're gone, and I'm not gonna sit and
Speaker 3: talk about it anymore. I'm looking for warriors who want
Speaker 3: to fight and do something about it. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: And if you're a Christian and you're given me your
Speaker 3: freaking rhetoric, I'm not interested in you. You can live
Speaker 3: by yourself. You can find your own church. I'm fighting
Speaker 3: with real men who have real swords and real in it.
Speaker 3: And that's the sort of spirit, the sort of the
Speaker 3: word of God, the sort of truth. When people would
Speaker 3: ask me, aren't you supposed to be the best citizen
Speaker 3: as a as a Christian? Yeah, I am. But you
Speaker 3: know what, there are some things that are sacro saning.
Speaker 3: There are some areas of biblical aspect of foundational truths
Speaker 3: that will never change. Jesus Christ was sinless. Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: was born in virgin he died in Rose again bodily.
Speaker 3: He is the only way to get to Heaven. There
Speaker 3: are certain things that are the principles of Christianity that
Speaker 3: will never change or be altered at all. But there
Speaker 3: are some times in living your Christian life that things
Speaker 3: are gray. But we're not sure what to do. There
Speaker 3: isn't some obvious answer. So I said, I do know
Speaker 3: what I can do, though, there is one principle of
Speaker 3: Christianity that I know I can rely on. When things
Speaker 3: are like this, well, we're not sure exactly how to
Speaker 3: navigate this. And that's this the single If somebody were
Speaker 3: to ask me, give me, give me Christianity and one word,
Speaker 3: what would you say? I said, truth. That's it. If
Speaker 3: you are my president, if you are my governor, if
Speaker 3: you are my mayor, if you are my school board supervisor,
Speaker 3: if you are my neighbor, if you are my parents,
Speaker 3: if you are my family, and you believe I should
Speaker 3: do a B and C to be a good citizen,
Speaker 3: to be a good American, all work together, we're gonna
Speaker 3: beat this. It's based on one idea. Is the information
Speaker 3: you're given me based on truth or lies? And if
Speaker 3: it's a lie, I rejected. I will not live by
Speaker 3: a lie because Satan is the father of lies and
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ is truth. Period.
Speaker 1: I'd say, you look at it the way from exactly
Speaker 1: what you're saying is you can you can resist and
Speaker 1: be a Christian. You can you can show that you
Speaker 1: think about Jesus and the temple, flipping tables righteously, righteously,
Speaker 1: and if it's the.
Speaker 5: Truth, it's not always God, it's not always what they
Speaker 5: want to hear.
Speaker 3: Well. I've used that analogy when I've spoken at men's events.
Speaker 3: I said, if I if I went into my room,
Speaker 3: grab a stick, attached leather frongs to it, came into
Speaker 3: your church, started swinging it around to people, turning over
Speaker 3: your table with your DVD merchandise and your bookstore, what
Speaker 3: would you call that? Because there's a legal turf, or
Speaker 3: it's the soul mattery, You're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 3: It's destruction. If you are swinging towards someone trying to
Speaker 3: harm somebody else's assault, most people would consider that a sin. Yep,
Speaker 3: Jesus did that. So we have two choices now, Either
Speaker 3: Jesus sinned, which means he's not God, and you and
Speaker 3: I are wasting our time on this podcast as we speak.
Speaker 3: Or sin isn't always what we have been told it is,
Speaker 3: and you better figure that out, because there is such
Speaker 3: a thing as rage and anger and violence which is
Speaker 3: out of control, undisciplined, inappropriate behavior. But there's another side
Speaker 3: to the coin that I love about my rule book
Speaker 3: for life, which is the Bible. It literally tells us
Speaker 3: how the world got started, where it went wrong, and
Speaker 3: how we fix it. It literally exposes the world to those
Speaker 3: who seek to understand how it works. And it said
Speaker 3: this be angry sin not Oh so there is a
Speaker 3: delineation and where does that fall? What category gives us
Speaker 3: that permission. There's the most beautiful word given to us
Speaker 3: in the Bible. It's called righteous indignation. You are allowed
Speaker 3: to fight for righteousness against injustice, against evil. We read
Speaker 3: these stories in the Bible and we forget these were real.
Speaker 3: David and Goliath, we've read a million times. He killed
Speaker 3: a guy, he threw a stroke, and then by the way,
Speaker 3: cut his head off, cut his head off. Oh hey, David,
Speaker 3: ha ha he ca. Yeah, it's not so fun. When
Speaker 3: we've watched Christians in the last ten years have their
Speaker 3: heads cut off by Islamic terrorism. It is about as
Speaker 3: brutal and evil as it gets when you see what
Speaker 3: it really is. It ain't funny, it's not flippant, it's
Speaker 3: not trivial. It's pretty raw and rugged and dark. God said,
Speaker 3: that's a story I want to tell my guy cut
Speaker 3: his head off. I got a story to tell. My
Speaker 3: guy who I love had sex with another man's wife
Speaker 3: and then killed him. Why did he tell that story?
Speaker 3: Don't tell that story. It's not going to make us
Speaker 3: look good, he said, no, no, no, I need you to
Speaker 3: know what I have to work with when it comes
Speaker 3: to redeeming this nation that you screwed up in the
Speaker 3: first place. God made the rules, we broke them, and
Speaker 3: then he had the audacity to say, don't worry, I'll
Speaker 3: fix it for you. I'll make I'll make a way out.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get ready all. I'm going to
Speaker 3: find a way for you to maintain this beginning of
Speaker 3: what I wanted it to look like, what I wanted
Speaker 3: it to be, and I'll do the work for you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to punish myself with the punishment that I
Speaker 3: created that was for those who fell, those who disobeyed.
Speaker 3: I'm going to punish myself with a punishment I created.
Speaker 3: There's no love like that in human There's nothing like it.
Speaker 3: There's no other equivalent philosophically, there's no equivalent in any other religion.
Speaker 3: There's no other equivalent in any other mythology. There's nothing
Speaker 3: like it. You know why, because it's true.
Speaker 2: Which I just recently read a book and I can't
Speaker 2: remember the name of the author, but it was called
Speaker 2: More Than a Carpenter and it was produced like in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3: That said Josh mcdaal, Yeah, such.
Speaker 4: A great book, and I loved At.
Speaker 2: The end of it, he used an analogy and he
Speaker 2: was talking about you know, Christ and stuff, and it
Speaker 2: was along the lines of what you were talking about.
Speaker 2: And it said, he told a story about this girl.
Speaker 2: She got a speeding ticket. So she goes to court
Speaker 2: and the judge asked her how she pleaded. She pleaded guilty.
Speaker 2: The judge slapped the gavel and charged her a two
Speaker 2: hundred dollars fine. And then the judge removed his garments
Speaker 2: and come down from the poem and paid for the ticket.
Speaker 2: And it said, it turns out that that judge was
Speaker 2: the father of that daughter. And it said he used
Speaker 2: as an analogy with God. He said, you know, we
Speaker 2: were guilty and we had a price to pay, but
Speaker 2: our heavenly Father took off his heavenly robe, came down
Speaker 2: to earth and paid our fine for us. Because he's
Speaker 2: a just God, he has to keep you know, his
Speaker 2: name holy and show that he is just and.
Speaker 4: Follow the rules.
Speaker 2: But he lowered himself and took care of it for us.
Speaker 2: I loved that. That was such a beautiful analogy.
Speaker 3: It is well, it's it's like I said, I think
Speaker 3: we you know, and I don't know exactly everything you
Speaker 3: guys talk about on your podcast, but what you prefaced
Speaker 3: it with it sounds like you try to go pretty
Speaker 3: deep and you try to get to the to the
Speaker 3: really essentials and the sophisticated nuances of Christianity, which is difficult.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a long journey and it's a hard journey,
Speaker 3: and you can even have disagreements or different interpretations of
Speaker 3: certain ideas. That's just the nature of being flawed people
Speaker 3: trying to figure out perfection. But you know, Jesus was
Speaker 3: man and God, but and the only way he could
Speaker 3: pay the price is because he was a human that
Speaker 3: was perfect. So that he could be a sacrifice that
Speaker 3: was spotless. I mean, that's part of that. But he
Speaker 3: was also God. Yeah, and so he willingly gave up
Speaker 3: his right to defend himself and to destroy those who
Speaker 3: are trying to harm it out of love. But I
Speaker 3: think what what I think we forget sometimes is we
Speaker 3: look at the humanity of Christ, which we should, and
Speaker 3: that he was human, which we need to because it's
Speaker 3: the only way this sacrifice worked. But we forget he
Speaker 3: was also God, which means when he died. And I'm
Speaker 3: not sure how this works. God died, God died what now?
Speaker 3: Because we believe in a trinity, God was always there.
Speaker 3: But this aspect of God that he used to be
Speaker 3: an arm of his interaction with his creation, the Jesus,
Speaker 3: who was the only flesh God, the Father, isn't flesh.
Speaker 3: She's spirit. The Holy Spirit obviously is a spirit. Here
Speaker 3: comes the one guy that had access to it, who
Speaker 3: dimensionalized himself so we could see him. Everybody's always can plain, well,
Speaker 3: I could just see God, then maybe I believe. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll read the Bible. He showed up. It's the way
Speaker 3: you could see of spirit. Is if he's not a spirit,
Speaker 3: it's flesh. Now, now you got what he asked for.
Speaker 3: But I just when I think about the idea of
Speaker 3: the death of God, it's mind boggling. It's like he
Speaker 3: and only in the Christian system because of the try
Speaker 3: you know, Uh, format could that happen? That that God's
Speaker 3: love was so beyond our understanding that he creates the system,
Speaker 3: he creates the punishment for breaking the system, and then
Speaker 3: he punishes himself for the system he created, and and dies.
Speaker 3: I can't I can't matter. I can't put my mind
Speaker 3: around that God was dead and then God resurrected God
Speaker 3: not man, and man was there too. I get it.
Speaker 3: Don't get all weird and legalistic. I'm just making a
Speaker 3: point about this, the depth of nuance to this faith
Speaker 3: that we've committed our lives to, which is also a
Speaker 3: juxtaposition of spirit and and uh and material. Because he
Speaker 3: said faith is the substance, material of things hoped for,
Speaker 3: immaterial evidence, material of things not seen, immaterial. He gives
Speaker 3: us answers to this question that we can't really articulate
Speaker 3: that the immaterial and the material work is one. In
Speaker 3: the Christian analysis of how humans interact, we have a
Speaker 3: spirit and a body, it's no other religion has figured
Speaker 3: this out as to what is really going on, and
Speaker 3: the sophistication of it, and the the mind boggling means
Speaker 3: by which God has revealed himself to us, starting with Jews,
Speaker 3: starting with Israel. I'm going to start with the people
Speaker 3: that I've chosen, and because they're better than anybody else,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to have one people who are going
Speaker 3: to be so meticulous about writing down their lineage that
Speaker 3: you would have actual records of people who actually existed.
Speaker 3: It's not Thor, it's not Zeus, it's not Saturn. It's
Speaker 3: a real guy named HYBATHI who'd be got to the
Speaker 3: super go and it's like, what are you right now?
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I read the Bible once. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you guys have probably done this, if you read
Speaker 3: through the Bible one year. I remember going that I
Speaker 3: did that years ago, saying I'm gonna do that again.
Speaker 3: It's a couple years ago, said I'm gonna read through
Speaker 3: the whole Bible, and I remember thinking, oh, crap, I'm
Speaker 3: going to get into Deuteronomy. Crap, this is going to
Speaker 3: kill me. And I remember thinking to myself, but you
Speaker 3: know what if that's in the Bible.
Speaker 4: It's important.
Speaker 3: God wanted it there. I don't know why. I don't
Speaker 3: know why, but I'm going to read it. And I
Speaker 3: literally would read every guy instead of skimming over it.
Speaker 3: I'd read every guy's name, trying the best I could do,
Speaker 3: you know. But yeah, let alone that and not having teeth.
Speaker 3: But the thing is.
Speaker 4: Easy, easy.
Speaker 2: They're fake, but they're fake.
Speaker 6: But the fact that I had to the fact that
Speaker 6: I chose to read because I said, we if God
Speaker 6: wrote it down, and then I'm going to give this guy,
Speaker 6: this man that I've never met thousands of years, his
Speaker 6: dignity by.
Speaker 3: Saying his name. I realterally said all this stuff to myself,
Speaker 3: and I read it. And when I read it, assuming
Speaker 3: that there was a reason it was there, because God
Speaker 3: put it there, I began to understand why why was
Speaker 3: he this boring and academic? And I realized because he
Speaker 3: wanted you to know these were real people. This was
Speaker 3: a real guy who really existed, who had this son.
Speaker 3: And he was a real guy who had this son.
Speaker 3: So we have the documentation, the analytics, the data that
Speaker 3: no other religion has to give a through line as
Speaker 3: to how God got here and there's a story that
Speaker 3: you can watch so that you get what you want. Atheists,
Speaker 3: I want proof. What this? Show me another book that
Speaker 3: was written that has sixty six different letters from forty
Speaker 3: something different guys over fifteen hundred years, that, when put together,
Speaker 3: makes one story. Show me any other book that's even
Speaker 3: close to that. Show me. Does that make it the
Speaker 3: word of God? No? Nope, it makes it so unique
Speaker 3: you ought to give it a listen, You ought to
Speaker 3: give it a look. See certainly interesting change. The West
Speaker 3: created modern science, created universities, created hospitals, created the dignity
Speaker 3: of human beings, ended slavery, made women equal to men,
Speaker 3: made children to be protected, did things that said that
Speaker 3: there's no ethnicity that superior. It got rid of race
Speaker 3: and actually said there is no race, the human race.
Speaker 3: It's the only religion in human head history that actually
Speaker 3: got through the CRT that we're just seeing the nonsense.
Speaker 3: The Marxist cancer is destroying America right now because it's Marxism,
Speaker 3: and it's atheism, it's and it's demonic cancer of communism.
Speaker 3: Well we already figured that out when when when the
Speaker 3: Bible said there's no male or female, no bond or free,
Speaker 3: no jew or gentile. He already figured out. Ah. Bible
Speaker 3: says there's no male or female. See he's non binary, right,
Speaker 3: there's no agenda. Right he said, no, no, no, there's male female.
Speaker 3: What he said was you no longer identify as that
Speaker 3: as the primary source as to who you are. You
Speaker 3: honor your maleness, You honor your femaleess. We know that's
Speaker 3: the way it's designed because every single LGBTQ person that's
Speaker 3: ever exists on the face of the earth came into
Speaker 3: existence because on male female had sex. So we know
Speaker 3: that must be the way it works, because that's how you,
Speaker 3: guys all came into existence. So that's the principle. That's
Speaker 3: the foundation that makes humanity work. And God said, love
Speaker 3: your femininity and made it unique. Love your masculinity. I
Speaker 3: made it unique. Honor it. Come together, be one. But
Speaker 3: you are not to be identified by your gender, but
Speaker 3: by a child, a living God. There is no bond
Speaker 3: or free Oh I see. So there's no class system
Speaker 3: in your world. That's right. Rich guys, if you've been rich,
Speaker 3: be grateful for it and take care of those who
Speaker 3: are poor. Poor guys, do your best to get out
Speaker 3: of it. But by the way, you don't get to
Speaker 3: complain or covet this guy's stuff. Go live the best
Speaker 3: you can because you're no longer identify by your class,
Speaker 3: because there is your child, a living God on there's
Speaker 3: no true or gentile. You're no longer get to identify
Speaker 3: by your culture or by your ethnicity. You are grateful
Speaker 3: for it. You say, I'm glad that my people came
Speaker 3: from this difficult thing. I never want to forget that story.
Speaker 3: Never want to forget that story because it teaches me
Speaker 3: how to work through hard things. And I should be
Speaker 3: proud of that. And look what I've overcome and whatcome
Speaker 3: my people did? Yes, be proud, be proud. You don't
Speaker 3: identify is that you're a child in the living God.
Speaker 3: You do those three things. Guess what. There is no
Speaker 3: more racism, There is no more sexism, There is no
Speaker 3: more inequality. Will we ever get there? No? No, we're sinners.
Speaker 3: We're pride filled. Number one sin. Pride the only sin
Speaker 3: that matters. Pride, the original sin. Pride. We will sin that.
Speaker 3: God says he hates the most pride. Why all sin
Speaker 3: comes from pride, All sin comes from pride, All sin
Speaker 3: comes from pride. I will be God. Yeah, So that
Speaker 3: is where we're at in America. The problem in America
Speaker 3: churches and I always always differentiate American Christianity from any
Speaker 3: other because, let me tell you something. My brother Christians
Speaker 3: in China aren't wondering if it's difficult because somebody called
Speaker 3: them a name on Facebook. Yeah, that ain't their biggest problem.
Speaker 3: And the Afghanistani Christians that stayed in Afghanistan after Biden
Speaker 3: cowardly bailed out there in the catastrophe, that is everything
Speaker 3: that man touches. They stayed because they said, who's going
Speaker 3: to be amongst my people? Yeah, they knew the cost.
Speaker 3: That's Christian, I mean, that's what it looks like. But
Speaker 3: the problem in American Christianity is that most people that
Speaker 3: go to churches aren't believers. Too many church goers, not
Speaker 3: enough Christians. Because, ay, if you really believe Jesus was God,
Speaker 3: if you really believed God was here, why wouldn't you
Speaker 3: tell people, well, I'm embarrassed. Then you don't get them,
Speaker 3: you don't deserve them. I wonder if you're one of us, well,
Speaker 3: somebody might be offended it. Yeah, you know why they're
Speaker 3: offended because you have exposed their sin, and that offense
Speaker 3: is the Holy Spirit's means to draw them to repentance.
Speaker 3: So for all of you politically correct, woke, progressive deconstructing
Speaker 3: Christian heretics who are loving people and not forcing them
Speaker 3: to deal with the choices in their life, you're loving
Speaker 3: them right to hell, and your lack of wanting them
Speaker 3: to feel their distress is literally eliminating the Holy Spirit's
Speaker 3: access to their soul so they can convict them and
Speaker 3: bring them to repentance. You are going to stand in
Speaker 3: front of God and say, let me tell you the
Speaker 3: things I did in your name, and God's going to say,
Speaker 3: I want to ask you about that? How dare you
Speaker 3: use my name? Go to hell?
Speaker 4: M powerful?
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that was I don't know if you were
Speaker 1: called to be later, I don't know if you're called
Speaker 1: to be a comedian or a preacher, because that was
Speaker 1: spot on. Give me a little chills there by the end.
Speaker 1: But I think the number one thing coming out of that,
Speaker 1: and this is to everybody out there who's actually listening
Speaker 1: to this, what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: What is all of our roles?
Speaker 1: Everybody needs to look in the mirror and say, am
Speaker 1: I doing what God wants me to? Do pray about it.
Speaker 1: Read the Bible, listen to God. You know so many
Speaker 1: people pray about those things and they they they pray.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I really I just want to give me
Speaker 1: a raise so I can get that new car.
Speaker 5: Give me that.
Speaker 1: No, pray for what God wants in your life, and
Speaker 1: then listen. Most people who pray, most people who pray
Speaker 1: don't take the time to listen either. But in the end,
Speaker 1: when we get through all this and we look at
Speaker 1: the news and we look at how terrible everything is,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 3: I will say this. You obviously will have people that
Speaker 3: will hate you if you bring up their choices in life.
Speaker 3: Of course they will. And by the way, by the way,
Speaker 3: how do you know if you're believe right? I mean,
Speaker 3: because I'll tell you this, my friends, the the days
Speaker 3: of bow your head, close your eyes, say a little prayer,
Speaker 3: raise your hand if you did. But don't worry. Don't worry.
Speaker 3: Everybody's eyes are closed and their heads down so they
Speaker 3: won't see you, because we don't want to barrash it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what you're about to get your life away with God?
Speaker 3: So when God died for you, When God died for
Speaker 3: you and came back to life so that you could
Speaker 3: have eternal life. And you're about to say thank you
Speaker 3: for that, and I humbly say thank you for that
Speaker 3: in front of a bunch of people who've already done that.
Speaker 3: You're embarrassed, don't accept Christ. Go find Go be a Buddhist,
Speaker 3: go be something else. But if you're embarrassed, you don't
Speaker 3: deserve him. And I can pretty much tell you that
Speaker 3: ain't going to get you saved anyways. The prayer isn't
Speaker 3: the magic. The Bibles constantly replete with what is your fruit? Is?
Speaker 3: This guy has no fruit? How am I supposed to
Speaker 3: assess something that's happened to them? I don't know what
Speaker 3: God does. Maybe he lets everybody on guys, I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's not what I see. That's not what I see.
Speaker 3: I see a God that expects us to stand for things.
Speaker 3: That is his principles. If you think this is true,
Speaker 3: then live like it, prove it. But here's the thing,
Speaker 3: just to give you a little encouragement. Yeah, you'll have
Speaker 3: people that will hate you, that's for sure. Jesus promised that.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact. It's a good checklist. Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: I a jackass to that. Guy, I was and he
Speaker 3: hates me. Yeah, that's on you. You're a jerk. Did
Speaker 3: I speak truth and he hated me? Yeah? Okay, Well
Speaker 3: Jesus said, don't worry. They hate They were hating me,
Speaker 3: not you. You did your job. That's how you know
Speaker 3: you one of mine. They will hate you for speaking truth,
Speaker 3: not for being a jerk. They'll hate you for speaking truth.
Speaker 3: But just to let you know, there will be some
Speaker 3: others out there who will be so grateful that you
Speaker 3: gave them the rules because they don't know what to do,
Speaker 3: especially young men young women growing up in this postmodern,
Speaker 3: post truth generation. What they're really begging for when they're
Speaker 3: out march and for their rights and their equity and everything.
Speaker 3: What they're really saying is, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the truth. I don't know what
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to do. How do I live my life?
Speaker 3: What is the meaning of all of this? That's what
Speaker 3: they're asking for, the lost and so some of them,
Speaker 3: when you speak these truths, are going to say, tell
Speaker 3: me more, show me how to come home.
Speaker 2: Brad, this has been a really a riveting conversation. I
Speaker 2: really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us,
Speaker 2: and this has just been which I mean, I was
Speaker 2: already looking forward to this. I love your stuff, but
Speaker 2: this was even better than I was thinking, and I
Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Above and beyond.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you. But you know what, We're all in
Speaker 3: the same boat. We're all a body. Yeah, and we
Speaker 3: all have a piece of the puzzle. God told me
Speaker 3: many years ago, he said, I'm going to have you
Speaker 3: speak to the church. I'm a prophet to the church.
Speaker 3: That's what he told me. I was not signing up
Speaker 3: for that. Guys, I give you that, I give you
Speaker 3: that word. And it was years ago. I was embarrassed
Speaker 3: to say that because it sounded so ostentatious and absurd
Speaker 3: and egotism. It was embarrassing. And finally I realized, I'm
Speaker 3: not allowed to call what God has anointed anything less
Speaker 3: than what He's decided it is. So when if I
Speaker 3: say I'm a prophet's church, not because I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 3: amazing guy, it's simply the title God gave me. Like
Speaker 3: yours is whatever yours. If you're a pastor is, you're
Speaker 3: calling just what it is that he said, They'll be
Speaker 3: pastors and prophets and teachers and black people. So anyways,
Speaker 3: I'm not an evangelist. I care about the loss, but
Speaker 3: it's not my call. My call is to the church
Speaker 3: to let him know. We need real Christians that are
Speaker 3: all in. There's no more time for games. Lukewarm makes
Speaker 3: God puke, but hot, hot, committed Christianity has a shot
Speaker 3: of a third grade awakening in this nation. And until
Speaker 3: I'm dead, I'm gonna believe for that. And if you
Speaker 3: guys want to come alongside and assist me, we got
Speaker 3: each other's back Listen. God wins every time.
Speaker 4: Yes, amen, every time.
Speaker 2: Well, Brad, before we close out, you want to give
Speaker 2: everybody your information, your website and where to find you and.
Speaker 3: Stuff, Bradstein dot com. The last name is Stein is
Speaker 3: st i an e like fine wine. It's an odd spelling.
Speaker 3: It's not e I n or I e an e
Speaker 3: st i n E. Brad Stein Has Issues is on
Speaker 3: every Monday at seven pm Central Standard on YouTube or
Speaker 3: on Facebook. And then I think I'm on an other platform,
Speaker 3: you know, a podcast platform for later, but it's always archives,
Speaker 3: so you can watch it this Monday. I don't know
Speaker 3: when yours when this airs, but if it's soon, this Monday,
Speaker 3: I'm actually my interviews with NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's who my interviews with about mask mandates and
Speaker 3: vaccine mandates because he stood up against that and he
Speaker 3: lost his season tickets to Gonzaga because he wouldn't wear
Speaker 3: his stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, sure wasn't you Sure it wasn't because of
Speaker 1: them shorts he was.
Speaker 3: Wearing right exactly. But anyways, God is opening up doors
Speaker 3: for me in that regard. So if this is of
Speaker 3: interest to you guys of what I'm doing, what I
Speaker 3: stand for, it's not what they expect. They think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be funny because they think of me as the
Speaker 3: comic that's what they see. But God said to me,
Speaker 3: that's just your delivery system. That's just your delivery. So
Speaker 3: that's just the flavor it comes in. But you have
Speaker 3: a bigger thing to say. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 3: Go to Bradstein dot com to find touring and if
Speaker 3: you're a church or somebody that would like to bring
Speaker 3: me in and do some comedy and the stand for truth,
Speaker 3: just get the connect button and send me a notton.
Speaker 3: I'll be happy to come over.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Brad, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Appreciate buss you boys. Thanks guys, have it God.
Speaker 2: Guys, thanks for tuning in. That was a very pleasant
Speaker 2: surprise and hope to see you next time and keep
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