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The Legend of Colmcille and the Scottish Quiz
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Brendan shares an Irish Legend and Logan challenges Brendan on all things Scotland
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Introduction: Hosts & Irish Story Teaser
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a from double to cleveland production
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hello and welcome to from double to cleveland i am logan howard i am joined by the evergreen brendan thomas merit we're both wearing green today so brendan how are you today uh what made you choose green today I am great. i am always great.
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I am wearing green today because we are going look at another Irish story. This is one that I promised I would teach probably four, five, maybe even six weeks ago when I made a promise to our friends online and I said, even if Logan does not make himself available, will be here for your friends.
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Episode 151, I'll be here and I will tell you about St. Columkill, an Irish saint, And anyone who has listened to episode 151 will know why was' not even featured in that episode
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I was very well behaved. I did record the teaching. I did record the episode. But my laptop didn't have enough storage on memory to hold onto it.
Technical Glitches & Re-telling St. Columkill's Story
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So in the end, I just had to delete it after three or four failed attempts at editing it.
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So that is just an episode lost to the ether. But I'm back of a vengeance today for the power of green. Yes. We have not coordinated Yes, we did not coordinate. It was not a scheduled thing. um Yeah, I just threw on the first green shirt that was soft and comfortable.
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That's nice true answer. Yes, yes. So today, as Brendan alluded to, going to be, he's going to give us a Irish Scottish legend. True story, true story.
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True story, yes. He's a legend, but it's a true story. It is, it yeah. legends Legends do mean true stories at times. That's, you know, that's us. We're legendary, okay?
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So. Just so you know. um And
Misconceptions & Historical Animosity between Ireland and England
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then we'll get into a, i think it's called like the big fat Scottish ultimate quiz or something like that. It's 15 questions.
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I'm going be quizzing Brendan on Scotland and we'll see if he can figure it out, which, you know, why would he know Scotland? Cause he's not from Scotland, but there are, there are people out there who think,
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i'm not I'm not one of them. There are people who think that if you live in ah the general vicinity of the United Kingdom, that you should know everything about the United Kingdom. That they're all on the same page. They have no ill will towards one another.
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They love each other with a perfect love. ah Yeah, all of this stuff. Which, yeah as you... and that we areboing if you're watching If you're watching on YouTube, you saw Brendan like just gagged.
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Yeah, so that's what what us Americans and those who are not from ah that region of the world think how it goes. But um it's more like if you're from the Cleveland area, how much you how much we hate the Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, the same hatred, maybe on a much bigger scale, is how the Irish feel for the English.
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So there's... there's there's There's some animosity there. If you haven't, from over the 151 episodes we've done before this one, I haven't found that out before. Newsflash. Yeah, they don't like each other.
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Or even consider how my bedroom wall starts off with the 1916 Declaration for Independence when we fought against Britain during World War one Their distraction was our
The Story of St. Columkill: Manuscript Controversy and Legacy
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opportunity.
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The tricolor. and and turned and and ah um It's beat Wolftown from 1798, when we also tried to kill them for freedom.
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And the first doll meeting when we established our own government and said we were never going back under bondage of what the Irish Republic was going to look like. But again, just teeny tiny animosity.
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Just little disagreement. A little bit.
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and mean but I actually was at a wedding in England the weekend. I can't really judge.
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Well, it's right next door. You know, it's right across the pond. Yeah, there is a pond there. Yeah, it's true. The number of students who've asked me over the years, teacher, how long to London by bus? I'm like,
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different country, check. Different islands. but What kind of bus are you guys driving? A submarine? Apparently. and that ah think they confuse, you know, bus for sub, because it's backwards.
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a Can't drive there. Can't drive there. You can drive from the UK to France. ah but You cannot drive from Ireland to the UK. Yes, yes. Wow.
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Unless you're including Northern Ireland and the UK. I'll be conservative. I'll say Great Britain.
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Northern Ireland, we will get you back. You're on my to-do list.
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So yes, we so we'll do those. We'll then we'll finish with our Bible passage and then we will end with our new segment that we started last week, which was our shout outs of the week. So things that maybe we came across, maybe we enjoyed from the past week. Maybe we saw on Instagram, YouTube, we heard a song, whatever it is, something that we shout out that we enjoy from the week.
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So Brendan, take it away with our Irish Scottish legend. I forgot we had that segment. I need to think of something by the time I finish this. My shout out will be Timmy.
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Alright, friends. If we're thinking of a working title here, let's go um Kill. Saint. Scholar. Or copyright troll.
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But today we're talking about Column Kill. or as some of you may, but probably don't know him, Saint Columba. This Irishman has enough drama in his biography to fill an entire 22-episode TV series. Remember, TV shows weren't just, like, you know, eight episodes long?
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um Columba was born to Bedlamide and Etchna, of the Kineil Connell in Garton, a district beside Loch Garton in Teer Connell, which is mainly modern-day County Donegal, the very top of Ireland, in what's now Ulster, not to be confused with Northern Ireland.
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If you tell someone from Donegal they're Northern Irish, they will slap you.
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On Colombo's father's side, he is claimed as being the great-great-grandson of the Nile of the Nine Hostages, a pseudo-historical king.
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Born in 521 Ireland with the name Climstown, which literally means fox, And let's be honest, naming your baby fox is either a bold power move at his craftiness, or the medieval version um calling your kid X-A-21,
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or 12, whatever it is that Elon Musk just did. but but
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So why is he also called Colin Kill? Kil is an old word for church, so together it actually means Dove of the church.
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Little thing that I discovered only earlier today, s Dove is also the meaning of the prophet Joma's name. This all sounds serene and holy, until you realize Kong Kil is the same guy who sparked an actual war over a book.
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Not exactly what you picture when sir and you think um peaceful of doves descending from heaven and landing on Jesus' head and shoulders. More i like the dove of litigation.
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So here's the story. Conkill was ministering for Jesus, copying manuscripts, spreading the gospel, all very wholesome, kind of what Logan and I do, only we have the podcast version.
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until he borrowed a psalter belonging to Saint Finian of Moorville, of Moorville Abbey. But he intended to keep it, which Finian was unaware of, and he copied it in the scriptorium under Finian.
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So yes, we're talking about sixth century photocopying. But Finian wanted the copy back. Palmkill said no. Cue the first ever documented case of plagiarism drama in Ireland, in which Calm Hill's behaviour was less peaceful dove and more caffeinated seagull fighting over bag of chips in O'Connell Street in Dublin City than her.
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Vinian. That's mine. Hill.
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Finian, it's my intellectual property. Conkill, yeah, but God told me fair use supplies something.
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Ultimately, the High King of Tara in County Meads, just south of where I live, um had to weigh in with the judgment. To every cow or cow, to every book, it's copy.
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Or in other words, stop pirating, you absolute gremlin. Congratulations, you just invented copyright law. Somewhere, Disney lawyers felt a shiver down their spine because of their 2010s and 2020s remakes that are all woke, civilists, stolen, criminally copied abortions of works produced by far superior artists.
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And because 6th century Ireland had its own ways of doing things, this dispute was not settled in court. Oh no.
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They settled it on the battlefield. In what was quite literally the medieval version of torrenting Game of Thrones. I've never even read or seen Game of Thrones, but that's what i picture it being like.
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So imagine this today. One of the five Marvel fans left in the world hosts Spider-Man fanfic on Tumblr.
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And suddenly, Kevin Feige declares war on the entire state of Ohio. It would be bye-bye, Logan. So the Battle of Kuldrevna in County Sligo, the west of Ireland, in 561, saw thousands people die.
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thousands of people die but Over, book, hello. Because one monk refused to return.
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Ages. Imagine if every academic plagiarism dispute at university ended an armed conflict. Universities would need their own paramilitary divisions.
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So after triggering and absolute bloodbath, after what was essentially the sixth century version of an intellectual property lawsuit, Columne Kill was exiled.
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His punishment, leave Ireland, go to Scotland. Today, we'd call that being canceled. Only instead of losing his Twitter account or X account,
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um He had to row across the Irish Sea with 12 companions to a land of flagrant alcoholics who were too stoned to realize that the word whiskey has the letter E and it.
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Hashtag Ireland spells whiskey correctly. Scottish people don't.
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But like Luke Skywalker talking to Darth Vader in Return the Jedi, here's where this story goes full redemption arc. Tom Kill turned into a Christian hub and founded the monastery of Iona, one of the most influential Christian centres in Europe.
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Ireland had the most influential. Iona, it was all right too. He evangelised the Picts, trained missionaries, transcribed 300 books in all, and basically turned...
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exile into a franchise opportunity for Jesus. Because if you can't win in Ireland, rebrand and go international. He visited the pagan king, Bridei, British people, you tell me the correct pronunciation, um king of Fortru, at his base in Inverness, winning Bridei's respect.
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Although not his conversion, as far as we can tell. And he subsequently played a major role in Scottish politics going forward. It's the greatest comeback story since Robert Downey Jr. went from court mandated rehab to using black magic to score the role of Iron Man in the MCU.
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True story. and um One of the few, not the only times you returned to Ireland, i am was to found a monastery at Durrow.
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Now, according to traditional sources, Columba, McCall, Crivetown, whatever name you want to give him, died Iona on Sunday, the 9th of June, 597.
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five four hundred And he was buried by his monks in abbey that he himself had created. However, other historians assign 593 as the date of death.
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So Colm Kill became a saint, remembered not for sparking holy copyright wars, but for spreading Christianity, at least in Scotland, building communities and writing poetry.
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He was a great hymnist. Which is nice, but let's not forget, behind the halo was a guy who kicked off the bloodiest book club meeting in history.
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and So that's Colin Kill in nutshell. Born Fox, like a TikTok influencer, he was rebranded, Dove. Bought over book, accidentally started a civil war, got canceled, and then invented Scottish Christianity.
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He's the only saint who can say he was both a patron of peace and the original copyright troll. So if you enjoyed the story, like, comment, or subscribe, or call kill, regarded as one of the 12 apostles of Ireland, will show up at your house demanding you return that library book you borrowed 1990.
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in nineteen ninety s And trust me, you don't want another battle of cool dravna. So is he a saint? Is he a scholar?
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Is he ah plagiarism, copyright troll? People at home, you decide and let us know www.fromdowlandocleveland at gmail.com and the www. is probably even necessary,
Scottish Trivia Quiz
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but that's what happens when we win this episode with no prep.
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Over to you, Logan Howard. There you go. Yeah. There you go. Was it worth six weeks? That was a crazy story. I don't know. I think that was that was pretty pretty worth it because, boy, ah talk about a guy who who could have easily gone down in infamy for all the wrong reasons.
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That God still used him. You know? it's it's That's it. We're still usable by God. That is quite a story. Yeah, I would... I don't think I'd want that guy hunting me down with a with the library book that I hadn't turned in.
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I also think it's interesting that like the Irish welcomed him back and were like, oh yeah, you can be one of our Irish saints when you love holy and we totally kicked you out and sent you to Scotland.
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Get out.
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Isn't forgiveness at the heart of Christianity, though? Isn't it one of our central tenets? Well, it's kind of like how the English do with anybody who's from, you know, not necessarily England. They're from, like, Scotland or other parts. They become English when they do something good.
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Yeah.
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You're no longer Scottish. You're now English. We adopted you. You're with us. bad But as soon as you do something bad, he's from Scotland.
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He's not. He's not one of us. Oh, dear. No, but you know what? um I do think
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we Irish do like a bit of a rascal. Bit of a rascal. yeah But um we do like to see our own thriving internationally or whatever. um You know, when they but my when leave and then no God uses them amazingly or sets them up to win or the likes.
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There's always that sense of home pride. and We were responsible for you. We made you um Like Wellington, the Duke of Wellington, for instance. You've already heard Abbott's song Waterloo. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, you know, Waterloo, you know, on Waterloo. Yeah. My favorite band is I Love That So Much. But actually, there is a lot of history in that song. Now, okay, it's Napoleon surrendered to Wellington and you're surrendering to love. that That's the kind of mentality or idea in the song.
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But the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, was Irish. Now, he led that division of the British army, but actually he was of Irish origin, Irish descent.
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um So, remember an article coming out a few years ago, and the writer, I think they were trying to do, like, kind kind of what Democrats do on on your end, and take...
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anything historical and turn it into a race baiting against the native population. And um but I read through all the feedback and and and comments people were posting.
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We were not having it. We were like, this guy is ours. we we We name him. They claim him. He's our boy. And you cannot turn us against him.
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If your intention is to make Wellington ah word that tastes bad in your mouth, It's not going happen. We've got Wellington Key in Dublin, Wellington Obelisk, and the largest enclosed garden park in all of Europe.
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We have Wellington boots, and we're still going to wear them come the winter. We're going to wear our wellies. We're going know who it is we're talking about. Didn't happen. We still love the guy. So, yeah.
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yeah It's okay if sometimes they our heroes make some decisions that we're not happy with or would rather they hadn't made. so We still love them. There you go.
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There you have it. Alrighty. Well, now it's time to transition into challenging Brendan on what he knows ah about Scotland. so that I told you what I know.
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What just said is all I know. It's all you know. All right. We'll see. We'll see if that's true. So I have 15 questions.
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have 15 questions. You guys can play along at home with Brendan. See if you know more about Scotland than he does. um And if you can do do better if you can do better than him, let us know. Send us an email. Let us know how many you got right so we can rub it in Brendan's face.
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Yeah, send proof.
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David Ensign All right, here the first question, what is the national animal of Scotland is. David Ensign PB, Oh yeah. David Ensign PB, This one even like you saying it.
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David Ensign ahead. David Ensign Because.
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Ensign everyone agrees, we should do this, but we do actually preserve our history very well in terms of colonialism. David Ensign And we do have like some buildings even Dublin Center where.
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People would have looked at it in centuries gone by, if Bates would have told them, you're under the thumb of the Empire. So we would have lions representing England and unicorns representing Scotland.
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And they're still there today, so it's the unicorn. You're absolutely correct. It is the unicorn. Very good, one for one. Off to 100% success rate.
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Let's hope that continues. Probably won't. but All right, which sport was invented in Scotland?
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You ready for the options? All right, option number one, bowling. Option number two, archery. Option number three, golf. Option number four, javelin.
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Chris Tarrant, I would like to go with 5050, please. like to choose a lifeline. A lifeline? You don't get the Who Wants to be a Millionaire reference? No, I do. I do. and All right, yeah, yeah.
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I'll give you a lifeline if you want to use it on this one. dont I don't. i don't Someday we will do Who Wants to be a Millionaire for the crack, because that's actually a brilliant idea. That is that is a lot of fun. yes
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Javelin throwing was done by the ancient Greeks, was it not? and Archery is ridiculously old. i
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I can imagine ah group of hairy Scots throwing balls at beer bottles, so bowling's a very possible option.
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But I'm going to go with golf. Golf. I have no reason why. Golf is absolutely correct. They did invent golf. Two for two.
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Two for two. I feel like this is what's going to trip them up right here, folks. Number three. If you are in Scotland on New Year's Eve, who do you kiss at midnight?
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Do you kiss everyone in the room? The floor? Your next door neighbor? Or the oldest person in the room?
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Once again, you kiss? Yeah, your grandmother or grandfather might be dead by the following 31st of December. So yeah, give her grandparents a cheeky kiss. It's okay.
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So you're you're going with the oldest person in the room? Yeah. Show the old people some love. All right. Sorry, it's incorrect. The Scottish think you should kiss everyone in the room.
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That's just greedy.
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It is pretty greedy. If I'm in a room full of people, they'd be lucky if I'd even look in all their directions, let alone pucker my lips towards them. That's just...
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That's just selfish. um'm not I'm not kissing any dudes, all right? Not doing it. only are if you're in Scotland. apparently I think I might rather kiss the floor.
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All right. with the consumerer head maybe Which famous annual festival takes place ah in August in Edinburgh, Scotland? Every August. Is this the Frill Festival?
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The Hem Festival? The Fringe Festival? Or the Trim Festival? The only one I've heard of is Fringe.
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But I don't think it's really to hair. I think it's, well, we're the edgy artistes kind of nonsense. You got it. It is the Fringe Festival. Yeah. Well done. had that one Well done. Three out of four so far.
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Not too bad. Not too shabby. Nope. Not too shabby at all. All right. Keep in mind, I had told you I would probably get three out of 15. So I may have peaked.
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We'll see. We'll see. This was mentioned earlier in the podcast, but how many years must a Scottish whiskey spelled with no E, just a Y at the end, mature to be considered whiskey according to the Scottish?
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Is it half a year, three years, seven years, or 12 years? Oh, 12 sounds like a very a long time.
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i think they could... i think they're patient enough to wait for a good... good bottle of whiskey, though.
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Seven.
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Seven years? It is three years to be considered Scottish whiskey. They are semi-patient. a Semi-patient and greedy for kisses, my two least favorite qualities in any human.
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that is that is That is a fair assessment, yes. All right, three out of five. Three out of five so far. Still doing okay. Haggis is Scotland's national dish.
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I don't know why. Do you know what its traditional primary ingredients are?
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No, I just know it's despised. Okay. These are your options, okay? they are There'll be three options per... choice. I think it's an internal organ.
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Is it A, a sheep's heart, lung, liver, and stomach? Oh, I think it's that one. Is it a cow's tongue and stomach? I've heard someone eating that too recently.
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Is it eggs, sausage, that sausage, and breadcrumbs? No, people say it's controversial, so it's not that one. Or is it pork blood, pork fat, and oatmeal?
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Nah, that's just obviously taking the mick. like
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So is it a sheep or is it a cow? Sheep or cow, sheep or cow, sheep or cow, sheep or cow.
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I have heard of people eating cow tongue, but I don't know if they're talking in relation to Scotland. going go sheep. Sheep. You are absolutely correct.
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Well done. Happy Four out of six so far. All
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all right. Now comes the time where Logan mispronounces something from Skywind. That's all right. So what is the traditional title of the song?
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All the long sign sign. Yeah. All long sign. and is there A, zero, B, It's A-U-L-D. i Old.
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Old, long, L-A-N-G. And then s sign, S-Y-N-E. Could be song, I guess. Old, long, sign.
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Yeah. Is it A, years gone by? it's it B, times gone by? is it C, years passing?
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Or D, time passing?
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They are way, these options are way too close together. i don't even know what the question was. What are options a and B? and The option is, what is the, or the the question is, what is the translation of this song title?
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ah Your options, the options are years gone by, time gone by, years passing, or time passing.
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Say those options again more slowly. Sure. A is years gone by. b is times gone by. C is years passing.
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Or D is time passing. Final answer is B. B, times gone by. Yeah, because B for Brandon. That is absolutely correct.
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Well done. Shut the front door. No, it's right. It's right. Five of seven. He is doing very well, folks.
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All right. We'll see if you can get this one. i i think I think there is a good chance you can get this one, too. Which famous British chef was born in Johnstone, Scotland?
00:31:24
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I know one British chef. And his name is Gordon Ramsay. Is it Jockery Petrie? Is it Tom Kitchen? Is it Gordon Ramsay?
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Or is it Lorna McKee? Only one of those staffs is famous. It's got to be C, Gordon Ramsay. You are absolutely correct. Well done. Six of eight.
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He's doing great, folks. Doing great. Unless there's somebody out there, 8 8 so far, I mean, he's doing pretty well. All right.
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Next one.
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How long is the Royal Mile in Edinburgh? I have heard of it. Is it 1.1 miles? Is it 1.11 miles? Okay. is it one point one one miles Is it 1.21 miles or is it D 1.31 miles?
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I'll have those options in kilometers, please. All right, well. We need kilometers here, but they do use miles.
00:32:42
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They do use miles. Give me the question and the first couple options again. Sure. How long... I haven't done the whole thing, but I have been on that road. yeah How long is the Royal Mile in Edinburgh?
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Is it 1.1 miles? 1.11 miles? 1.21 miles? 1.31 miles? D. 1.31? is it one point one one miles one point two one miles or one point three one miles d one point three one Why not?
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Oh, he's got another one wrong, folks. It is. The correct answer was B, 1.11 miles. The hop on, hop off tour both lied to me.
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I guess they did. Maybe they were adding something that they shouldn't have. Yeah, their own Bulls-Rush. Yep. have yeah All right. there Here is your next question, number 10. You have gotten, what is it, six of nine so far. What is the capital of Scotland, or what was the capital of Scotland before Edinburgh?
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Was it Perth, B, Glasgow, C, Aberdeen, or D, Dundee? It could be absolutely any of them, but I'll be honest, I only realized that Edinburgh was the capital when I had already arrived in Edinburgh.
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I actually thought Glasgow was the capital. Okay. It was possible that Glasgow is like the industrial capital and
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Edinburgh is the actual capital, same way like Dublin industrial capital. Galway, cultural capital. USA, New York's like your cultural capital.
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And your industrial, I suppose. But politically, it's Washington, D.C. Yeah. um But I always thought it was Glasgow up until I went. so I'm going to go Glasgow. Glasgow is not correct.
00:34:52
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The answer is Perth. I thought that was in Australia. Yeah.
00:34:59
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ah You will find a lot of places in Australia and America have the same names as Britain. Yeah. I'm fairly certain, though, that i you guys also have a Dublin somewhere. We do.
00:35:11
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Not too far from us. It's actually a Columbus area. We have, ah so probably three hours south of us, we have a Dublin. Dublin, Ohio. Three hours south of me is the sea.
00:35:23
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this is This is true. we We drive two or three hours, and it's no big deal for us. Yeah. All right, on to question number 11. You've gotten six of 10 so far.
00:35:34
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What are you not supposed to do on the first day of the new year in Scotland? What's your obsession with new year? You know, I can't tell you why the big fat Scottish quiz has a very heavy obsession with the new year. But anyway. i think the answer is kiss everyone in the room again. Because I might start getting an idea to like them.
00:35:59
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So this is what you're not supposed to do. Apparently you're supposed to kiss everyone in the room. This is what you're not supposed to do. So the first thing is flush the toilet. The second thing that could be that you're not supposed to do is eat beef.
00:36:15
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Third thing is take out the garbage. Or fourth is sing.
00:36:23
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Probably because everyone is so hungover and has sore heads.
00:36:30
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But... you thing but I could imagine some weird religious rule where men try to monopolize power of the people by saying, you can eat whatever you want.
00:36:47
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I'm going to go beef. Beef. You're not supposed eat beef. Beef is class. Beef is class, but it is not the right answer in this case. The thing you're not supposed to do is take out the garbage.
00:37:01
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You cannot take the garbage out on New Year's Day. My property, I'm going do what I want.
00:37:07
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I don't take it out for the other 364 days a year. If I want to start the year off right and pretend I'm going to take care household management and maintenance better, um will not be stopped.
00:37:22
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I'll not be treated like a citizen. Continuing on, we're on to question 12. It is ah Scotland is home to the world's tallest what?
00:37:34
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Is it home to the world's tallest traffic light, the world's tallest hedge, the world's tallest bridge, or the world's tallest man?
00:37:47
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There is an Asian who's got them beat. and
00:37:55
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There's nothing as fancy as, let's say, the Golden Gate Bridge.
00:38:00
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So it's not a bridge. um
00:38:06
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Scotland gets about the same amount of rain as we do, I'm going to hedge. Yeah. Let your hedge grow, Scots. Let your hedge grow free. Hedge is absolutely correct.
00:38:19
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You have your seventh correct answer. All right, moving on. Which soft drink is often described as Scotland's other national drink?
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Iron Brew.
00:38:35
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Iron Brew. Wow. That was quick. And he got it right, folks. yeah It is very unique to taste. When I first drank it, I thought, well, my cousin was like, this is amazing. So I convinced myself that I did like it too.
00:38:55
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um And I kept up the pretense for about three or four years. And then there came a point I just had to Say, you know what? It's Independence Day.
00:39:07
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I just have to say this as it is. It's not that great. It's not that great. Sorry, Scott. You're allowed to drink what you want, but I think it's... So, it's not alcoholic, right?
00:39:20
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No, no, no. I think it's made the Coca-Cola Company. Is it like a ah soft drink, or is it more like an energy drink? It's like a soft drink. Imagine...
00:39:33
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You guys have a Lucas 8, I assume, yeah? A what? Do you know what Lucas 8 is? I don't think I've heard of it, no. Lara Croft used to run down, like, you know, the Night Doom, um like a Lord of the Rings, faced by the dogs, and she'd do all these backflips as you hold out a Lucas 8, and that's how she was empowered to, like, defeat Wild Beast.
00:39:59
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Yeah, I don't know. That's a lie, that's okay. For those who do know what I'm talking about, Europeans... It is like...
00:40:13
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It's like bubblegum and medicine put into a bucassade and just shaken together. oh
00:40:25
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Why would you want bubblegum as a soda? Why would you want haggis? I... aye I don't know. Can't answer that question. and i wouldn't want it. you unique and All right, we've got two questions left. You are sitting at eight correct so far.
00:40:46
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um Which of the below is Scotland's biggest city by population? So they're looking for population. Is it Edinburgh? Is it Aberdeen? Is it Paisley? Or is it Glasgow?
00:41:03
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Where is the most amount of people located in Scotland? I could be wrong, but I think Edinburgh is smaller than Dublin. Or at least it felt less people when I went. Which was in winter, so may that explain why the streets were empty.
00:41:16
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I'm going to say Glasgow. Glasgow, he says. Let's see He's absolutely correct again. Great job. Nine out of 14 so far. We're on to the last last question.
00:41:33
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Scotland is home to one of Europe's oldest living things. Can you name that thing? Is it a yew tree, Y-E-W tree, an oak tree, and albatross bird, or a sea turtle?
00:41:58
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No, I cannot name that thing.
00:42:03
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Would you like a 50-50? A turtle.
00:42:09
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Or a bird. Bird. And what was the other tree? It was an oak tree or a yew tree. A Y-E-W tree.
00:42:24
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What's option C? Option C is an albatross bird. I don't know what that is.
00:42:35
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Turtles can live for a couple hundred years while soaking trees, I suppose. um I was going to say the turtle, but... Trees are also old. Let's go the oak tree. Oak tree?
00:42:51
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oh Well, it was a tree. it was the other tree. It was a yew tree. yeah yeah so all totted up, you have 9 out of 15 points.
00:43:05
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Well done. well I will not be patronized.
00:43:12
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So for those of you listening, of course, you can send us an email at from Dublin to Cleveland at gmail.com to send us your results and how you did on this quiz. ah We would like, if you could also send us a quiz, maybe from your country that has questions ah that have to do with your country. And in a future episode, we will use that quiz and go through it and figure out, uh,
00:43:39
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if we can figure out where where your country is and what your country is known for. Probably not, but at at least it'll make for some fun content. Yeah.
Discussion on Psalm 27 and God's Protection
00:43:48
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Germany, Sweden, America, Ireland, Pakistan.
00:43:53
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We know you're listening. There may be others... that Logan has all the data on, but I don't. We know you're listening. Send us a quiz and let's see how much we don't know.
00:44:05
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Yes. have weed in We would love to hear from you. So, transitioning quickly to our next and final complete segment, is we'll be in God's Word. And, Brendan, where are we going to be in God's Word today?
00:44:19
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Sure, let's have a cheeky gander at Psalm 27. Hmm.
00:44:33
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All right, so before the podcast began, logan and I were having a conversation about, yes, how dark the world is, but how things which, you know, we'd spoken about in the podcast years ago are all beginning to unravel right now.
00:44:57
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We'd spoken about a move of God's justice across the nations, starting in the USA and working towards Europe and beyond. And we see that every day, it seems, barrels of unbarreled and truckloads of untruckloads of revelation is coming to the surface and things which perhaps, you know, we'd known before, but now the evidence is there to substantiate it.
00:45:26
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And what I love about Psalm 27 is It doesn't shy away from the fact that the world is messy, that the world is nasty, that we have an evil spiritual enemy and we have people who are eyes wide open complicit.
00:45:46
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But God loves his kids. He is a good, good God. He's a good, good father. He is absolutely good. And he brings liberation to his people.
00:46:02
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So whether you're going through something this week, persecution on a political level, on an employment level, in your church, in your family, in your community, hopefully you'll be able to sympathize with David to some extent in the psalm, but also...
00:46:25
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glean from the revelation of God's goodness, and that it's not a concept of goodness, it's an act of goodness. It's not a concept of love, it's an act of love.
00:46:39
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It's not a concept of justice. He moves in justice. He's already justified you. He looks at you just as if you'd never missed the mark morally to begin with.
00:46:53
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The enemy is trespassing on your life illegally. And get ready to see God move on your behalf and vindicate his people.
00:47:04
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Amen.
00:47:07
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The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh,
00:47:23
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When my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though an army besiege me, my heart will not bear.
00:47:35
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Though war breakouts against me, even then will I be confident.
00:47:41
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One thing I ask of the Lord. This is what I seek. My list for the Lord is very long. only had one thing. that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
00:47:58
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To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble, he will keep me safe in his dwelling. He will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.
00:48:15
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That rock is the rock of ages, Jesus.
00:48:20
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Then my head will be exalted above of the enemies who surround me. At his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy. i will sing and make music to the Lord.
00:48:35
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Hear my voice when I call, ah Lord. Be merciful to me and answer me.
00:48:45
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My heart says of you, seek his face.
00:48:49
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Your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger.
00:49:00
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You have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God, my Saviour. Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
00:49:14
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Teach me your way, O Lord. Lead me in a straight path. because of my oppressors. Do not turn me over the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
00:49:34
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I am still confident of this. I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord.
00:49:46
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Be strong and take heart. And in case you missed it the first time, wait for the Lord.
00:49:56
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Amen.
00:49:59
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Amen indeed. Amen indeed, yeah. I liked the, you know, focused how many times does he remind him not to be afraid and how many times you remind him to wait on God.
00:50:11
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um And we can... Wait on him and trust him for everything. He will take care of us. He'll be with us. He'll give us joy. He'll teach us, make our paths smooth. And um I think it's all about getting a bigger idea of who God is and a bigger faith in him of what he can do for us.
00:50:32
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Not so much that we know, because I think we all know God can do really awesome things and he can do some great things, but yeah. believing that he'll do them is a bit another step it's a little bit deeper than just knowing that you can do something it's it's trusting that he will do things which he will that's right that's again it's shifting your focus from a concept to an active loving kindness and compassion not just knowing with your head though there's time for that but knowing in your heart
00:51:10
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And not having a concept that he loves you, but knowing that you know that you know that you know that he loves you. Not having faith, like if I sit on an armchair, it will sustain my weight.
00:51:26
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But having the faith in the heart that if I'm in and desperate situation where it looks like I'm going to have something stolen from me, gonna be killed, gonna be destroyed, that he is life itself, and life will out.
00:51:50
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And even if things look dark and dead and destroyed right now, Jesus is resurrection, and his resurrection dunamis dynamite power will still save me.
00:52:03
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It's amazing. It is. It is. ah Would you close us in prayer, Brendan? Amen. Amen.
00:52:15
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Father God, I thank you for this beautiful time together, Lord, as we've all learned something new about Scotland. ah but I don't know how that will behoove us in the future, but surely the Scottish people listening in felt affirmed and validated.
00:52:29
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love our God. No, it's good to laugh.
00:52:36
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Lord of tongues have risen up against anyone under the sound of my voice, Lord.
00:52:42
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The foe and the avenger have come to tear them to shreds, to tear them down. The enemy's prowling around them like a roaring lion. And I give you useless that you are the Lion of Judah.
00:52:57
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Yet the enemy has come, Lord God, to set fires in their lives, to burn them. I thank you, God, that you are the all-consuming player.
00:53:08
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The enemy has assigned wicked, sick spirits their way. I thank you, Lord, that God is spirit.
00:53:21
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If they've been blinded, Lord God, by counterfeit life, I thank you that our Jesus is the life of the world and the lifelike that's in them. To everything of the enemy As forged and set up counterfeits, you are OG.
00:53:41
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The ones who are original. The all-powerful one. The almighty. So move, my God. Move on behalf of your kids. Fight the battles they cannot see.
00:53:53
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down their enemies to shreds. Consume their enemies to dust ashes. And give them victory over it.
00:54:05
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that they will see with their eyes in the land of the living that God is absolutely good. In Jesus' name.
00:54:18
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Amen.
00:54:21
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Amen.
Entertainment Shout-outs & Episode Conclusion
00:54:22
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and man Amen. Thank you, Brendan. um Well, before we go quickly, i will give you my shout out for this week. I'll let Brendan think about his because i he may not have thought about it or gotten his one yet.
00:54:34
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But. yeah Mine this week, ah this, I think the past month or so, I've been going through the Celebrity Apprentice, which was Donald Trump's reality TV show ah back in the early, well, mid-2000s or so.
00:54:54
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And he would have celebrities. Originally, it was just ah The Apprentice, which he was like trying to find people to hire. And then eventually realized he couldn't hire more people. So we just put the celebrities on there.
00:55:06
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um So I remember watching it as a child and loving it. And then it's one of those crazy moments when you're when Trump is nominated or becomes president. You're like, wow, that guy was on reality TV um because that's where I knew it from.
00:55:21
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So it's kind of cool to now knowing that he's the president United States to go back and watch his reactions and his interactions with people um even back then. And I think what blew me away going back was how many friendships and how he was able to build those friendships with these celebrities who you would say were on from like multiple sides of the the fence in terms of politically or mentally or spiritually or any of those kinds things.
00:55:46
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um And so it's very interesting to watch Donald Trump in his uh his early days of not being president and still using all his hand gestures and still doing his his things that we all know him for um but it was like back back when he was younger so it was kind of cool i i enjoyed doing that that was a uh informative thing i got some uh some quotes out of it that were just just ridiculous.
00:56:18
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They had ah Gene Simmons on this show, which he's the guy from Kiss, I think it is, um the the band or whatever. So normally they'd have all this makeup on, but he he just had he just had great lines. like um He would just walk up to guys and just be like, you are a strong and intelligent and beautiful man.
00:56:40
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And I'm just like, you know, that's a great, that's a great, I need to use that sometime in my life. it New Year's in Scotland? What's that? Was it New Year's in Scotland? and Yeah. is but Strong, beautiful man.
00:56:54
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Yeah. um Yeah. it he it was It was a good show. I quite enjoyed ah going back and seeing Trump and seeing all these old celebrities um and then finding out where they're at now.
00:57:06
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So that was pretty cool. How about you, Brendan? What is yours? Ooh, okay. I...
00:57:16
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I'm gonna say the despot of Antrim. Antrim is a Kennedy in Ireland. And there's YouTuber whose videos I've only seen a couple.
00:57:31
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I think I saw me one yesterday, 2, and then one this afternoon just before. Logging on to talk to you.
00:57:42
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fact, I haven't finished that episode. a But he puts on quite lengthy but very detailed commentaries on movies. Especially woke, trash, Disney movies. Tearing them to shreds.
00:58:00
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But from a very...
00:58:07
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ah he's he's He's a film critic, but you know what? It's deep. It's funny. It's witty. It's clever, but it's an inform informed, informed takes. Okay. And then there's another guy, Desperu, who I listen to write every week.
00:58:23
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And I would, multiple times a week actually, and I'd throw him in there too. So yeah, I've very much decided that I have no interest whatsoever in watching woke movies or wasting my time or hurting my eyeballs or my ears.
00:58:41
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But I do like hearing other people telling me what is wrong not to see them. So yeah, though those two are great. And a little shout-out for me.
00:58:53
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um For older movies, one of which is Troy. You know, the Grease versus Troy, the Trojan War movie. I re-watched that yesterday on YouTube.
00:59:08
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And I love saying it. forgotten just how absolutely amazing it was. Like, for a sword and sandals movie, it's phenomenal. CGI still holds up.
00:59:20
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um The level of detail in the armor, the weaponry, the battle scenes, all very, very excellent.
00:59:33
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a And, yeah, you know, bring back Bring back good movies, bring back good entertainment. and Back in the day, you know, when heroes were actually heroes in villainsbergland and and you didn't have to subvert expectations.
00:59:50
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So, yeah, I'd no sooner watch a from 10, 15, 20 years ago, even even older than anything produced with my 20s, hands down.
01:00:04
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Yeah, just as long as they don't bring back that same movie and make it worse, ah I would prefer that. Because in America, we like to just redo the same movie over again, just worse.
01:00:14
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Yeah, you're a drivel. Just get better at storytelling, guys. Come on, come on. Not that hard. Brendan's right here. Brendan's right here. He will gladly take your millions just to rate. 100%. Now, when was about Troy, there was one scene in this where Hector is one of the big heroes.
01:00:36
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one of the leader Trojans, prince, and they're facing against the enemy. And he just shouts out, all my life long, I've lived by a code. It's got three parts.
01:00:48
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Honor the gods, which for us you know is just God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, but we don't know how to go. They were Gentiles. and Love your woman and defend your country.
01:01:00
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And with that, all the men are psyched up and charged into battle. And what I love is, you know what, even in the Christian journey, put God first.
01:01:14
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Your family, cannot be neglected. They have to be prioritized. um And you you take a stand for your nation as the whole, the people of God's entrusted to you.
01:01:28
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and Whether that's in a military sense, professional sense, through charity, or prayerfully interceding for your people. and And, you know, a real man's man movie.
01:01:42
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But... Some beautiful messaging to write it to. Even get over the nudity scenes and the blood, guts, and core.
01:01:52
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There you go. There you go. Well, anyway, check out those things. ah You will hear from us pretty soon. In fact, we're just about to sit down and record another episode for you. ah But it will not be out till next week. So you gotta tune back in for next week.
01:02:08
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um But hopefully you all have a wonderful day. We will see you all next time. Bye, friends. on that.