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Happy New Year, 2025 survivors! I hope this year you step into the fullness of God's plans for your life! We're starting off January by predicting what weird and wonderful things are likely to happen over the next 365 days. Also, Trump has set his sights on Greenland again. What does Brendan have to say about that?! Watch on, true believer! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Welcome Back & Co-host Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome to From Dobble to Cleveland. I'm Logan Howard. I am back. It's good to be back. It's been a while. It's been about a month, I think, and partially Christmas time and all that stuff has been going on. And I'm not alone. I am joined by the one and only Brendan Thomas Merritt. How's it going, Brendan? How are you?
00:00:19
Speaker
Hey, Brodsky. I'm great. Always great. Got home from work today, and my little brother treated me to a Kinder egg. Sorry, a Kinder egg. Even better, was a cream egg. The only good thing Cadbury's still makes.
00:00:35
Speaker
Since they decided to forego cocoa beans in their chocolate and c said to replace it with ham oil, these still taste decent. And even more blessed.
00:00:46
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He then got a box of Salt and chili, shredded chicken. I am pretty good with spicy food, my eye is on fire.
00:00:58
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you can see me drinking a gallon milk here when you're talking, don't judge me. But yeah, there's a nice little Thursday treat. Nice. I'm
Holiday Reflections
00:01:07
Speaker
good, I'm good. um Christmas was good. um it's I'll be honest, and I don't know if anyone else in the audience had this happen, but it seemed like Christmas was...
00:01:17
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Not like a normal Christmas this year. It seemed like I was off work and Christmas was just a thing that was happening. It was not like normally it's, oh, Christmas is coming. It's going to be exciting. i don't know if it was there were less weeks before Christmas. I don't know.
00:01:34
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it was because he was on a weird day he was like in the middle of the week this year i don't know exactly what it was um whether it was some spiritual thing i don't know but it seemed like christmas was a little bit off um still appreciate it still thought it was good um it was a good reminder even when we went to our christmas eve service about uh christ coming and how awesome that is but at the same time felt a little weird um how about you brendan how was your christmas i agree with that and in fact Anyone I've had such conversations with has agreed that it didn't have a very Christmassy atmosphere.
00:02:10
Speaker
Which is unusual, because even right now I still have, like, Christmas decorations up on my windows. Um, all the different, um... Christmas stickers of reindeer, snowmen, Christmas trees, and all that jazz.
00:02:23
Speaker
Um... We have, don't know, six or seven Christmas trees here. We still have i big seven, eight feet tall one outside my window. Um, but yes, it didn't feel Christmassy.
00:02:39
Speaker
No, it was interesting. um My birthday's on the 3rd of January, and we got snow on my birthday, which always means a lot to me because I was born during a snowstorm 32 years ago now. It feels weird saying.
00:02:54
Speaker
still remember when I was 26. Um, it's a tough year for having around the world. um But yeah, i was born during a snowstorm, so I love when it snows on Earth Day.
00:03:06
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And yeah, I'm going to hearken back to this in a few minutes time, but I hope it snows again next week. Just enough that the bus to work can't run.
00:03:18
Speaker
Just enough. Just enough. Yes. Like, bye. You can't go inside. Yeah, sorry. Interesting you say that, because today was a snow day for me, so I did not have to go to work, which was lovely. ah But the thing that I don't i don't think... um i don't think I've always thought of as a cost to it, but it means I have to shovel the driveway. So if I'm the one left at home, have to shovel the driveway. And that's about a three-hour adventure when it's just you and a shovel. I'm going to shovel my driveway and go to work. yeah but i guess I guess it's better than that. As long as you've got paid for me, it's no day.
00:03:59
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Good. good That's all right, then. I don't think you're going to do the resolutions. What's that? Any New Year's resolutions? um See, i guess my New Year's resolution is a little bit ah misleading because one of the things I've been finding in my life is I am very, ah I sacrifice a lot of things for efficiency. So instead of enjoying some of the stuff I'm doing, i go, well, I need to be more efficient. So I need to do all the things I don't want to do because I should be doing them.
00:04:32
Speaker
um So I guess my resolution this year, I tried to keep it simple, is ah is enjoying life a little bit more by not doing every all the efficient things that i should i I could be doing every single time. It doesn't mean I just quit and drop everything I'm doing. um it does It just means that I don't always try to think efficiently. Sometimes I go somewhere or do something that I enjoy doing instead of just, well, because I have to do it.
00:05:00
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um So that's sort of what I'm thinking. And for for our family, we kind of come up with a ah word for the year. um And i think my word this year is going to be restoring. And not so much that I think there's a stuff ton of stuff lost in my life, but just getting to the the right rhythm and restor restoring some of the things in my my heart that... I know are deep down, deep inside that I haven't dealt with in terms of my thinking or some of the the struggles maybe even from like COVID and all of that stuff and start to work through them, right? that i it's a lot of life is just avoiding
00:05:42
Speaker
feeling bad or feeling some of those, those issues. But my goal this year is to be a little bit more restorative and going through some of those things and um repentant, repenting where repentance is needed as well as healing and letting God heal where healing needs done. So That's sort of my my goal and strategy for this year. We'll see how it goes, but that's what
Health Resolutions
00:06:05
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I'm thinking. How about you? Did you have any resolutions or special words for the year?
00:06:09
Speaker
No, you're there, Grace. and I don't really do resolutions per se, um but definitely a preoccupation of mine is... I'm not going to say anything half as catchy as MAGA, but make the body of Christ tell me again.
00:06:25
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Let's see. M-T-G-B-O-C.
00:06:43
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Yeah, made the body Christ healthy again. That's a big one for me. a Aside from this bit of chocolate, and it was literally a this, and that takeaway, a I've been incredibly good this week. Not this year, this week. The diet started one day and lasted, well, three and a half days.
00:07:05
Speaker
Yep, there goes probably your record. Starts again tomorrow. um one cheeky treat is okay week one cheeky treat yes and once a week that's it why once a week so uh yeah i'm starving myself i have to say i was just withering away yesterday i don't know how i survived um i kind of realized i was having you like a big lunch and then a big dinner and most times Not actually even going out and burning off the calories or anything, because my evenings are taken up with writing or teaching the Bible, what i whether it's podcasts, whether it's and making video versions of my Sunday Joshua Generation sermons, or teaching open house ministries, a and all good things, but...
00:07:56
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I'm responsible for what I put in my body. And I had to say I was eating a lot of empty calories and then just holding on to them. So I said, no, one meal a day. a And yeah, i am every, just about every Saturday, I'm on maybe with one exception because something always comes up.
00:08:15
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But other than that, I'm going to go for more nature walks, more hikes, more forest trails through mountains and all this thing.
00:08:25
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Things that I absolutely love, things I adore, things that I had always intended to do with more regularity, and then, you know, there was all the reason not to, was all an excuse.
00:08:37
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And I've just reached this point of saying, no, no more excuses. So that's a really big one for me. um And then also God's just given me, like,
00:08:51
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I don't even hear the squeaking of the skill I'm on. um Just in case someone thought I was sitting on a cat Nope The microphone picks up everything And Yeah I've got to see me thousands of pages of notes On Bible teachings So I want to be a lot more Proactive and productive In releasing them to the world as well Not this whole thing of We'll get into it someday But actually Let someday be today Just make it happen
00:09:23
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So, and yeah, not so much resolutions, but just necessities. committing to it, yeah.
00:09:32
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Good,
Predictions for 2026
00:09:33
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good. So ah what you saw with with our title today on our podcast or YouTube video that you clicked on is that we are going to be making predictions for the coming year, for 2026. This was something I almost did by myself in between, but then I was like, you know what, I think it'll be more entertaining if if we have somebody else to... not only react to what I'm saying, but also we I get to react to some of Brendan's too. So we're going to be going through month by month. We're going prediction for each month. And what we're going to try to see at the end of the year is see how many we got right. Now, I really hope I didn't get almost any of these right because i let my ah I let the darkness within take over.
00:10:19
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but i let I let the... ah What I don't... I guess ah my um glass half empty take over. The very hard issue he just spoke about wanting to deal with.
00:10:32
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Yes. This is his last full screen out of his system. it It is, yeah. This is this is the the last ah bit of gunk just coming out. so um But it's going to be comical, hopefully. Hopefully you'll enjoy it and think it's a little bit funny. Terrorism.
00:10:48
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I saw the... We saw the Babylon Bee do this, and it was quite comical. Also dark at times, but still funny. um So we'll work through month by month. So we'll start with January. Brendan, what is your prediction for this this January? We're in the middle of the month so far, so we've only got 15 days left. But what do you predict the rest of the month will be like?
00:11:14
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Ooh, I am actually... Really annoyed myself because I had my notes up here that I could just read them off the screen that anybody knowing that think I closed this. Nope, it's still there. Pretend you don't know that. Pretend I'm coming up with this all off my head. Just blew up the illusion.
00:11:33
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um i am really, really hoping for more snow. I am. and We had it for three days from the 3rd to the best I think.
00:11:44
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And then come the 6th, it was pretty severely melted. And and i was like, But that said, got little Kia Picanto. Any other Kia Picanto people out there? Does a little bit of snow just totally destroy your battery? Because every time it snows, it destroys mine.
00:12:02
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But I still love the snow. But yeah, really, really hoping that we get some more next week. Because it's perishing cold out there at the moment. And I don't like cold weather for they get cold weather.
00:12:14
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If it's going to cold, I want it to go all the way, baby. Antop can give me a belated white Christmas. yep a And then, you know, the the normal rigmarole of people scraping for pennies in January. I think there'll be a national conversation erupting about...
00:12:33
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heating bills, briefly uniting the entire island before immediately splitting into arguments about thermostats, jumpers, climate change and transgenderism.
00:12:45
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But i think i'm for a very brief shining moment in um and in our in our dark streets, in our tiny, tiny houses, we can all just freeze together with some sense of camaraderie and oneness.
00:12:58
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There you go. Have you envisaged the second half of January in the U.S. of A? So i I gave some of mine like ah newspaper headlines or like clickbait titles, clickbait headings. And so mine for January is global freezing is announced. And they immediately say, no, thank you. It's not trump not due to Trump at all.
00:13:22
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So it's ah global freezing is going on, but it's not Trump. Trump did not do this. This is just the natural way of things. But global freezing is happening. It's it's no longer global warming.
00:13:35
Speaker
yes Isn't that why they just started calling it climate change? Because the 1970s were global freeze. And then the world saw another ridiculous number of decades.
00:13:47
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And then they were like, global warming. And then they found out that the ice caps are actually freezing again. And then it's like, climate change. So now no matter what the weather is, they go, ah, no.
00:14:00
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Clem. I'm such idiots. Just, oh, morons. Ugh. Alright, moving on to February. What is your prediction for February?
00:14:12
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I don't know if you guys have this. Because you actually have extreme weather. You have the hurricanes, you got the tornadoes. You've got all the things that are actually worthy of being on the news and the weather forecast.
00:14:25
Speaker
In Ireland, we just get various degrees of heavy rainfall and wind. So therefore, in order to actually entice people to watch TV and buy newspapers, they have to give Storms the most asinine, ridiculous names. I'm talking names that you wouldn't even see in the most podunk village in a back end of nowhere. Okay. And they're just...
00:14:58
Speaker
When they go for something like Beast of the East, I kind of like the alliteration. i kind of like the rhyme. Yeah. And then it's like, you know Storm Beatrice. Or like, you know, Storm Pettigrew. That's... That's...
00:15:15
Speaker
That's the level that we're almost engaging with. but it We're almost... At that level of stupid names. They've run out every other name available. So come February, i would not be surprised if we experience Storm something or other.
00:15:31
Speaker
Which basically, everyone hopes means school closures, dramatic seaside photos, and exactly one trampoline to be found three counties away. You know, I remember last year we did the um the Irish Eclipse review. Yeah. And I showed you the weather woman, Teresa Mannion. Don't make unnecessary journeys. Don't take risks on treacherous roads. Don't make unnecessary journeys. yeah it's just an icon, a national icon.
00:16:00
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i We've never had anything half as good as then. Now they just come up with random names and we're expected to be afraid. And and everyone just tunes into the news hoping the schools be closed.
00:16:11
Speaker
But mine, sadly, all remains open. Yeah. Another prediction. I didn't have a job come February. is their name good what's the name of the storm? That's what I want to know. What is what do you what do you think the name's going to be?
00:16:28
Speaker
Oh, good heavens. Susan. Why not? Storm Susan. We'll call her Auntie Sue.
00:16:37
Speaker
Oh my. Sorry, I cut you off at the end. I know you were going to say another prediction, so... you can No, no, no, no, no. That's it. But they'll probably blame, you know, climate change, and if we all had electric cars, this wouldn't be a thing. And if we all choose yeah not to heat our homes or eat food...
00:16:59
Speaker
We might possibly be able to reverse this thing. Basically, the Irish, me and Irish government have just looked at everything that California and London have been spewing these last around decades, and they're like, let's be inspired.
00:17:16
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and And it's it's cringy like when you do it in the US, because you all just know, okay, we're being lied to. It's cringy when London does it to the English because you're like, oh my goodness, these people have like a national broadcast to the BBC. This is like, you know, state propaganda beating other own citizens.
00:17:41
Speaker
It's cringier in Ireland because you know they don't even believe it. You know that they're literally just like reading the notes that other countries have and they're trying to make themselves seem woke. And it's like, you're not even whoa You're just broken.
00:17:58
Speaker
You genuinely... In America and England, they actually put in the time and effort to formulate these lies to destroy their countries from within. Our country's so lazy, they just steal the lies from other countries and try to project it secondhand. Like we haven't already seen what both of our neighbors and left and right are doing. It's it's pathetic.
00:18:21
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Yeah. For you guys, it's evil. In our context, it's just pathetic. It's just sad. But yeah. Storm Sue. Anti-Sue. Anti-Sue. Anti-Susan.
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah. Which in no way reflects my relationship my actual Auntie Susan who decided to bastardize me and pretend I don't exist. That was not a Freudian slip. It was just an Auntie Sue. The alliterated Storm Sue.
00:18:48
Speaker
You've heard it here first. Storm Sue. There you Storm Sue in February. Look for that. February.
00:18:56
Speaker
oh Yes. um Yeah, we we do that here in the States. We we name our hurricanes that come through. um And i I don't know. i I think it's kind of silly when they ask you to, ah like, evacuate for Bill.
00:19:12
Speaker
Like, Hurricane Bill's coming through. Oh, yeah. Bill's so scary. Now, if you said this is the mother of all hurricanes, okay. All right. I'll take this a little more seriously.
00:19:22
Speaker
She's a bit more intimidating than Bill, than Uncle Bill. ah Anyway, for me, my February, another newspaper headline, Greenland pledges undying loyalty to Denmark.
00:19:34
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um
00:19:38
Speaker
Because, you know, they already will. They'll they'll come out and say that. But it's sort of tied to what's goingnna happen in March. So we'll come back to me in March and you'll hear what how it's tied together. So anyway, speaking to the Greenland situation.
00:19:54
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Friends.
00:19:57
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Intercontinental colleagues.
00:20:01
Speaker
Heralding from the island of Ireland, every map, every atlas, every children's book will tell you that we are part of the continent of Europe. I have a semblance of likability for my fellow Europeans insofar as holiday making is ridiculously easy and I can travel to other countries faster than I can travel the opposite side of my own island, but I do not feel distinctly European.
00:20:32
Speaker
i am part of an island. If I was submerged, and not just me, my entire island was submerged, The continent of Europe would not give a toss, would not care, would not send planes to our aid. They would let us drown.
00:20:46
Speaker
So Greenland. All, i'm just going to make up a figure here. Three hundred and virtually to three hundred and ninety thousand of you, however many or a few inhabitants there are. Please do not take this personally.
00:20:59
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But I absolutely know.
00:21:04
Speaker
Again, don't say this personally. Zero, zilch, nil, nada emotional attachment to you. don't care America takes you. it will not impact my life.
00:21:19
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You're called Greenland. We're the Emerald Isle. You're kind of our competition. Once you're gone, we will be the singular green island in all of Europe. I don't care about you.
00:21:30
Speaker
If Trump takes you, I guess it's been nice to be your ally and fellow European friend, but I don't care.
00:21:43
Speaker
People of Ireland, please stop pretending you care. Trump can't do that. He can't take- If he does, he does. Please don't pretend you've given this any thought before.
00:21:56
Speaker
Greenland means nothing to us. What is the capital of Greenland? None of us know. Do they even have a capital? Just let them go. Denmark, if you want them so much, sure.
00:22:09
Speaker
Give the newspaper something to write about for a couple of weeks. But Greenland, if this is the end, adios, amigo. i guess.
00:22:20
Speaker
That's all I'll say to that shoot. I don't care. I don't. Oh my. I don't. i don't Anyway, moving on to to March. What do you predict happens in March?
00:22:36
Speaker
They didn't even try to respond to that. You're like, we're not getting involved in these international issues. I will. i will my My prediction for March will give away what I'm thinking. so but Okay, okay, okay.
Weather and Geopolitical Forecasts
00:22:49
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War.
00:22:50
Speaker
What is it good for? Ooh, um... Yeah, you should... My prediction for March is St.
00:23:02
Speaker
Patrick's Day weather, 17th of March. Ireland Day is inexplicably excellent, leading to mass disbelief and at least three opinion pieces asking, is this climate change? Ha ha!
00:23:17
Speaker
Joke. I believe it will be lovely for about 75% of the day and then get our 25% anticipated rain. i i believe our Taoiseach, Michal Martin, rather than being here on Ireland Day, will go to the USA pretending he gives a toss about the Irish who emigrated during and as a result of the Great Irish Famine.
00:23:47
Speaker
1845 to 1852. He does not care about two Americans. He doesn't like Irish people here. he doesn't like Irish people there. And he will do President Trump the absolute dishonor. of handing him a very small pot of shamrocks that Trump will probably take gratefully and smile for cameras, and soon as he gets to the Oval Office, dump in the bin, thinking, what that tosser think I want with more plants in my office?
00:24:18
Speaker
That's what I think. I love shamrocks, they're great. Is it really a gift fit for the president of the free world? think it's rather a sports car, but you know?
00:24:32
Speaker
You know. Oh, me, ho. Yeah, and the patriotic Irish will complain in the media with that, while the lefties are saying, Patrick was probably a slave owner, or whatever their newest line is.
00:24:49
Speaker
And the Patriotics, I forget the fact he had been a slave, you know. The Patriotic Irish will be complaining that our own Prime Minister doesn't even want to be here on Ireland Day.
00:25:01
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You've heard it here for his friends. Watch this space. There you go. so my prediction in March is that and we just had in February Greenland pledges undying loyalty to Denmark. In March, Denmark sells Greenland to LAUGHTER
00:25:19
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think The biggest role reversal ever after Greenland has said, we love you, we want to stay. Denver goes, get out.
00:25:30
Speaker
yeah Do you want anything for the cash? How do you assume that happened? How would you assume but the European Union or European countries, not the same thing, and responding? What do you think the reaction would be over here?
00:25:49
Speaker
Um, they're not going to like it and they're going complain about it. Um, and i I guess if I say too much, it'll give away my April prediction. So, Ooh, okay. Wow. You're very tightly knit together.
00:26:02
Speaker
All right. Are all of yours about Greenland? No, no. April. he comes for irelands All right. So for you, what, what's your prediction for April?
00:26:16
Speaker
Actually, it is about the European Union. Funny enough. A notable swing in this nation against the oppression of the European Union. The European Union is effectively the Roman Empire, take two. They are absolute scum, they are trash, they are a cancer on the continent.
00:26:33
Speaker
and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union, is an absolute hack job. and They have an elite group that no one actually votes for called the European Commission, and they basically tell all the members of the European Parliament what policies to vote on, and what their policies are, and what their opinions are.
00:26:57
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and Small countries like Ireland and others don't actually have a say in any change on the continent. It's basically a group where all the empires who are so weak...
00:27:11
Speaker
that they lost their colonies in World War II and World War one basically have had the chance to regroup and regain the land, the territory, the influence, the power, and the money that they let slip through their fingers.
00:27:28
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um So, yeah, Europe would be better off if the European Union did not exist. and Actually, just there over the holidays... And that's not me being left wing, that's me forgetting if it was Christmas Day or New Year's Day, somewhere around there. a The European Union decided that with their Mercuricer deal...
00:27:52
Speaker
And they're going to heavily regulate and clamp down on European farms. They basically want to manufacture a continent-wide famine. And their solution is to say, oh but we're going to take food from South America. move Which does not have the same regulations their own farmers do.
00:28:15
Speaker
So basically, they're... making it it more difficult for European farmers and Irish farmers and British farmers farm. And they want the competition to come in from across...
00:28:29
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The ocean, a where meat that's less quality ends up trumping ours in terms of sales. a And at the same time, they're saying, you know, that European farms and Irish farms the British farms are responsible for a greenhouse gases and carbon footprint.
00:28:49
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But yeah, it's okay to import meat from halfway across the world. Illogical. a So, during the holiday And the farmers drove to Brussels, where the European Union's unfinished Tower Babel is, and just, like, sprayed the whole building full of poop.
00:29:08
Speaker
It was just amazing. Just totally and utterly destroyed in BC. The least they deserved. um Classic. Classic.
00:29:18
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So kind of hope the Irish farmers do the same here. Sometimes they'll hold up the motorways as, like, a peaceful protest, which I'm all for. and But I'd like them to drive outside Leinster House.
00:29:30
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i have the Irish-covered building and just absolutely that free Masonic building. It would be iconic. So, so fun to see. There you go.
00:29:41
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So, I could imagine... People are already upset. But I can imagine come April... Because especially, you know, it's really springtime when you're really beginning to notice the deficiency and the lack of...
00:29:58
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And as the lack sets in, the prices go up. I think by then people really, really begin to see, okay, we're in the dregs now. And that's when anger will shoot through the roof.
00:30:11
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So... Farmers, let it spray. There you go. There you go. And... How do you see the...
00:30:24
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Fourth month going. So, in April, ah people make jokes about World War III starting. World War III actually starts on April 1st, but nobody knows it.
00:30:39
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Wouldn't that be borderline hilarious?
00:30:44
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Like, we are going to war with everybody. oh Trump. not going to say he's no star at it, but whoever does, you know? Oh, Trump, yeah. Iran. Well, doesn't matter who's star at it, he would still get the blame. oh Anyway, what about May? What's your prediction for May?
00:31:03
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May. Someone posts a faux show of a sunny beach in Donegal, which is the Republic of Ireland. Yes, it's the very top of the country. is not Northern Ireland. It is the Republic Ireland. sparking the annual we don't need to go abroad hashtag staycation um that we all like to tell ourselves there you go there you go there you go uh mine is and people inevitably complain about the hotel prices because all the other side of coming yeah of course yeah they they will they will inevitably do that
00:31:36
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ah For mine, May, Logan turns 30. It snows on his birthday, showing that a new thing has happened. Oh, wow. That's how describe the date of my birth.
00:31:47
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Maybe two years ago, baby. mine it May is not normally a time when it snows, but it could be this year. Stranger Things that Happens. Yes.
00:31:58
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but Speaking of Stranger Things, have you ever seen a single episode of that show? Nope. Nope. I saw the first episode, thought it was crap, and then I've watched it again, and now I'm happy because people are livid with how it ended.
00:32:09
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Yep, I've seen the drawings. People will give the horse drawing that looks beautiful, and then the last season is like a derpy head. i do love not watching a show, hearing how much people hated how the show ended, and feeling vindicated in my decision. Yep.
00:32:24
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Yep. Grindelander, I guess. Alright, what about June? What do you have for June? Alright, so our state examinations for teenagers before they go to college or university is called the Leaving Certificate Examination.
00:32:42
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i Normally in June, the sun actually does come out for a couple weeks while they're happening. And then they go back to our ah summertime rain and wind.
00:32:56
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um But I can imagine Leaving Certificate Domination National Media With at least one exam described as strange, but fair.
00:33:07
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And another as an absolute disgrace. And we are long overdue an instance where an examiner hands out the wrong exam. If that happens, and when it does, oh my goodness, like a drama llama.
00:33:24
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We had one a few years ago where it was, I know it was a dude, he handed out... Let's say in English, there are two English papers. The first one is more...
00:33:36
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a Can you read this unseen poem, unseen text, and and write responses to them? Can you answer this imaginative creative question?
00:33:48
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Paper two is more based on material you've studied towards poems, novels, plays, movies, etc. I think he handed out the paper two. By accident. On the day when it showed up paper one. And the teenagers we like, you know, Oh, wow. Sylvia Plath is on this.
00:34:11
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Emily Dickinson.
00:34:15
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WBA. And then they finally, know, photographing it and sent to their friends and texting their friends and it spread all across the nation within like an hour. a Maybe less.
00:34:26
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So... So literally every single student in the country was disallowed from completing the correct test paper, English Paper 1.
00:34:40
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and instead they had to come in on a Saturday and do a brand new English Paper 1. and but Because every test there is a second version created. And they had to do the second version. And the guy was absolutely scorned and mocked and...
00:34:57
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hated and reviled. But everyone who came under a myriad, so i imagine other houses said this too, said, well, you know what? If the bloody teenagers had kept their mouths shut, this would have happened.
00:35:11
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But they all began texting around the country and posting on this, that, and the other. and So it's actually their fault. I think we're long overdue such a scandal. So bring it on.
00:35:24
Speaker
Let's have another muck up with the tests and have to come in on a Saturday. There you go. There you go um Let's see. So for June, so for my june um i I'm pretty sure in the Biden administration, they made this thing called June 19th as a holiday here in America, which is some sort of liberal, you know, I don't even remember what it was. I don't care, right? I don't care.
00:35:52
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I don't care what it was. But in June, liberals are going to call everyone to stop fighting World War III on June 19th because of love or something, and they are all ignored.
00:36:07
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Is call Juneteenth? Juneteenth, yeah. I think that's the specific holiday. Are we so stuck for vocabulary that we have to start making up words like this?
00:36:18
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Yep. Friday, June 19th, 2026. Oh my goodness. Ugh. Yep. The pictures on social media and they've got like you know the yellow, green, and red hands. Looks like this weird... Yep.
00:36:32
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Yep. Wrecky... reg j
00:36:40
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Palestinian, Islamic, Marxist, black, everyone who's not white is involved parade. Yep.
00:36:53
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Yeah. I don't think much about that iconography. Yeah. long Jesus didn't die for this. Well, he did. He shouldn't have. No. Nah, that looks like crap.
00:37:05
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yeah Yeah, so the liberals are going to call for everyone to stop fighting on Juneteenth and because of love or something, and they are all soundly ignored. Well, probably because they'll be ignoring themselves because they'll always find an excuse to fight with somebody. They'll be too busy fighting while telling everyone else to be pleased. Yep. What they do.
00:37:25
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Yep. All right, what about July? What what do you have for July? ah July here is not even a prediction. It's just an annual event at this point. We enjoy a glorious five day heat wave of probably about 23 degrees, maybe less.
00:37:44
Speaker
And some people will say, oh my goodness, it's too hot to work. And offices will come to a grind. RTE, our national broadcaster, aka propaganda machine, which I do not believe should exist, will say, this is a disaster. We need to import water from UK.
00:38:03
Speaker
because we're an island and apparently don't have access to water ourselves. um And then we'll be told about, you know, climate change and global warming and global boiling, and people will be berated for having cars because the car made the sun shine and all this nonsense.
00:38:24
Speaker
And after about five days, maximum 13. And when say 13, I'm not talking 13 on broken days of sunshine. I'm talking broken with rain and sprinkles of showers and wind and whatever else. a We'll go back to our our our wind and rain.
00:38:44
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There you go.
00:38:47
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um For me, my July prediction is that American AI infects Chinese AI with COVID.
00:38:56
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Justice. Justice.
00:39:07
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You might need to elaborate on that one. I have to? Go on, why not? but Lay it all on the table.
00:39:19
Speaker
it's it's It just writes itself. It's a headline that just writes itself. we're gonna We're going to introduce to American AI COVID. And of course, it's American AI, so it's stronger than other nations' AI. And it is then going to, ah because there's a ah war, we're fighting China with AI bots. And we will let one of our Americans be killed, one of American AI bots be killed, so that the Chinese bot can, or they take the American bot, and it infects all the Chinese bots. thereby giving them all COVID and they're stuck at home for two to four weeks. 15 days the still is still this price.
00:40:04
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Make it a month. Make it six months. Make it a year. ah year and a half. Yeah. You'll never be free. All right. What about August? What is your plan? What is your your vision for August?
00:40:19
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Yeah, this is not my plan. I have absolutely no interest in musical concerts. But Electric Picnic is a big one that a lot of people are interested in for some reason. and Tickets will sell out instantly, as they always do.
00:40:33
Speaker
Some people, probably including my brother, who's literally like, you know, eight meters that away, will be on the web website trying to boot tickets, and all a sudden it will crash because so many millions of people are on it, and they'll regard this with an air of surprise.
00:40:48
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um And then afterwards, all those people who spent the day in bed crying that they didn't get a ticket will pretend that they weren't all that bothered anyway until they see people on Facebook and Instagram reselling the tickets for an exordid price.
00:41:06
Speaker
And then their care and concern that they've had all along will indeed be expressed when they pay 500 euros for For a ticket just to sit soggy, wet field with drunkards, junkies, and singers who will probably stop every second song to say Free Palestine.
00:41:35
Speaker
well Sounds like a Taylor Swift concert. We don't mention that name under this roof. I wouldn't go to see her if she were in my bathroom. just Just can't, Amber.
00:41:48
Speaker
Just can't. so Me neither. Anyway, um for my August, I am or i am predicting that Micheal Martin is found committing fraud and a new special election is done. Due to this special election, Logan and Brendan attempt to meet in person, but Ireland is closed and therefore the meeting never happens.
00:42:11
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At least in 2026.
00:42:16
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yeah Even if the first, like, you know, 10 sentences and that one didn't apply, every year we tell ourselves, we'll meet up this year, we'll meet up this year, and it never happens. Oh, I'm definitely gonna go to Ireland with my sister this year. Oh, yeah.
00:42:31
Speaker
God told I'd go to America this year. Never happens. But, yes, you know what? I hope that he is exposed to biggest fraud and long before August. He is currently hanging on by the skin of his teeth. and and I remember...
00:42:48
Speaker
We had the presidential election a few... just couple months ago. And I spoke to you about the woman who was God's choice, Maria Steen, still is.
00:42:59
Speaker
um And how the government manipulated the system basically to put two lefties on it. One who couldn't string a sentence together because she's adult, and one who couldn't string a sentence together because she's...
00:43:17
Speaker
half dead, and the half dead one won. But most people spoiled their vote, which was amazing. As we form protest. But there was a third candidate which Micheál Martin had put forward, actually, knowing that he was involved in a scandal regarding rent and accommodation. So he had to ultimately step out in disgrace.
00:43:39
Speaker
So if certain things are set in motion, and the uniparty state fails, we might not have to wait until August.
00:43:53
Speaker
There you go. And in fact, in a very encouraging note, a lot of politicians here, almost every month, are being caught out for spending charity money on Brazilian prostitutes, and kiddie porn, and human trafficking, and everything. So the wheels of justice are turning.
00:44:15
Speaker
Slowly. Far more slowly than any of us would want them to. But let's be honest, if the justice of heaven hit the earth to the level we think we want, none of us would cope. but None of us would survive. no a But the wheels of justice are turning.
00:44:31
Speaker
It's encouraging to see. yes, noa yes i don't I don't have full confidence in Michal's ability to survive this year. So yeah. Bring it on, Lord.
00:44:43
Speaker
and Indeed. Well done on your impeccable pronunciation of the name. I have a good teacher. ah thank me that
00:44:53
Speaker
All right. What about September? what ah What are you thinking? What are you seeing for September? o All right. So I don't know if you've heard this news, but Nigel Farage, who I do believe will be the prime minister of England sooner rather than later,
00:45:10
Speaker
and has said that after his crew, Reform UK, put pressure on the Labour government, Labour is doing away with their digital ID initiative.
00:45:22
Speaker
COVID empowered them. to see that they could take away people's rights, and most people would bow the knee to the state, so they decided to go for an all-out total evisceration of people's privacy, and um basically create the ultimate surveillance state.
00:45:43
Speaker
Our government then said, our procedure clapping said, let's do that too. i No, if for a fact, it is grossly unpopular. have never heard a single person here support it.
00:45:59
Speaker
And I think come September, to save their own skin, they will try to quietly bury the idea and behind the excitement of students returning to college, parents rediscovering silence, children going back to school, Ireland still collectively debating if if it's okay so society to wear shorts.
00:46:23
Speaker
And and the answer is always yes, even winter. um But I think we've gotten to the stage when people are just about fed up to back teeth of the Irish government wishing evil on the people, bearing it and creating a crisis to move on.
00:46:42
Speaker
i actually think that...
00:46:46
Speaker
I think with this, they've taken it one step too far. They want all out Chinese Communist Party style here. And I think actually it's going to cause lot of them to be knocked off the political chessboard.
00:47:03
Speaker
Okay, cool. rome lords Yeah, mine is also sort of comical because in September, I said a war draft happens in the U.S. Only liberals are drafted because it was based on old voting machines from 2020.
00:47:20
Speaker
ah These liberals don't last long and they're as they're only used for canon cannon fodder. Who is this war against? like you know Liberals who...
00:47:32
Speaker
Spell black with like a lowercase b and liberals who spell with capital B. Liberals who are feminists versus liberals who believe transgender is is more important. That would be an interesting one. There's a book in that.
00:47:45
Speaker
There is a book in there. Somebody's probably writing it. Probably. Need to beat them to this. Copyright us. You heard it here first, friends.
00:47:56
Speaker
Alright, what about October? o but so for us it's Spring forward, fall back. So the clocks go back, and morale drops by 40%. They call it sad, isn't the car sad isn't it Seasonal disorder. yeah seasonal something like that. That's what we call it here, anyway. Yeah, yeah. um Because people will be at home more in the evenings because it's so dark outside, I can imagine tea consumption actually...
00:48:31
Speaker
For the first time ever, not rising. Normally, you when you're sitting at home and at it's cold outside, people like bit of warmth in their bones. Especially not Irish wind. It doesn't make your skin shiver and crawl. It gets into your bones. It's a different kind of wind.
00:48:47
Speaker
yeah and But i actually don't think tea sales and rise um to compensate. I think more and more people are going to accept And boldly admit and reflect with their finances that biodegradable teabags taste like trodden on grass.
00:49:12
Speaker
And sales for teabags will finally dip. I remember last year, for months and months and ends through the summer and the early autumn, thinking mid-autumn. Is it just me or do I just not make tea as well as I used to? Have I lost my touch? Is the problem me?
00:49:31
Speaker
Now, as I told you when we first became friends, i have two rules. Memorize them. I am never wrong and I'm always right. So of course the problem was not me. So one day i got the tea bag box, turned it around, i just said, what's going on here? They must have changed the ingredients.
00:49:47
Speaker
I knew that they used to be pyramid tea shaped bags and they'd gone to square. And I said, that can't be it, can it? And then I saw intensey, tiny writing at the back, at the bottom.
00:50:00
Speaker
It said they were biodegradable. And I just said, give me plastic any day. I'm okay drinking Plastic by the gallons.
00:50:13
Speaker
This tastes like dirt. And for someone who is probably drinking upwards of 70 mugs of tea, and I'm not saying cups, I mean mugs. When I say mugs, my mugs are the size of bowls.
00:50:27
Speaker
Bowl-sized mugs of tea. 70 maximum a week. 52 weeks a year. I just went stone cold against it. Cold turkey.
00:50:41
Speaker
And I do not miss it. I believe that I am paving the way for so many others. And I believe more and more people are going to find courage from my story.
00:50:56
Speaker
And they are going to rise up against the biodegradable tea bag complex. I really need the complex nowadays.
00:51:07
Speaker
And they're going to resist. And as tea bag sales drop, they will either shut their doors. Even tea bags, which are institutions, will shut their doors.
00:51:18
Speaker
Or they'll go back to plastic. Then, and only then, might I consider i making a cup of tea for myself again.
00:51:26
Speaker
That's probably the most impassioned of all my predictions for this year. There you go. ah For me, October, kids love a new phrase called 789 because A-T-E. The new Yes.
00:51:42
Speaker
eight nine oh you chiki boer eighteen e
00:51:51
Speaker
but the you six seven yes Oh, anyway. Enough said about that. um What about November?
00:52:02
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What do you have for November? The government released a budget that nobody fully understands, but everyone has strong opinions on come lunchtime.
00:52:15
Speaker
Yeah. And the 18,000 bureaus that they currently give towards transgender reputation in theater will probably increase to about 21,000.
00:52:28
Speaker
There you go. Yep.
Thanksgiving & Black Friday Critique
00:52:30
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ah For me, I wrote, thankfulness is once again ignored because we've got to get that new AK-47 for home defense on Black Friday because it's on special.
00:52:41
Speaker
a but but We here in the quite strange do you find that twice Strange, maybe degrading.
00:52:58
Speaker
Yeah. That your country has an extra holiday even before Christmas and New Year's and my birthday. And on all you know on then Thanksgiving and and gratitude and appreciation and every TV show must have an episode obligatorily about turkeys and whatnots.
00:53:17
Speaker
And then within hours, you're all queuing outside at department store and run in stampede style to get televisions and guns we do think it's bit mental yeah it it is kind of ridiculous it's funny but uh also yeah it's a mess all right um december last prediction that we have all right so we have
00:53:54
Speaker
Is it a show? Is it an event?
00:53:58
Speaker
It used to be an event. Is it still? I don't know. Called the Late Late Toy Show. So have a show called the Late Late Show, which is basically we basically what helped Ireland somewhat to revolutionise with regards and with regards to talking about contraception and divorce and things. Saying the Catholic Church didn't want people talking about it. Suddenly they were like, oh my goodness, we can have conversations and the parish priest wouldn't have be involved.
00:54:25
Speaker
um It kind of exists today in like a dinosaur kind of form of what it once was. I'm not saying it was ever a good thing necessarily, but it was a for a dialogue, whereas now and it's RTE, which the channel it's on.
00:54:41
Speaker
it's It's reviled across the nation. and as a propaganda tool by the government to use their own taxes against us. But every Christmas they have the Late Late Toy Show, where basically they tell all your children all the things that Mammy and Daddy can buy for them, or that Santa Claus can bring. Okay.
00:55:02
Speaker
And... Growing up, I used to think, more than not, it was excellent. it was the highlight of the year. Yeah. Nowadays, not so much. I think people have largely lost they are their interest.
00:55:16
Speaker
Their interest in it. But then there are those who will still say they have no interest, but they'll still watch it. And you know that they watch it because they're the ones who bring up a conversation the next day at work. So I think RTE will announce the late, late toy show host is very excited about this year in particular. Viewers will complain in advance.
00:55:37
Speaker
That it's not what it once was, and it's lost its charm. And ever since Ryan Tuberty and deeply struggled his way through this is the greatest show and a really, really poor man's rendition of The Greatest Showman, despite putting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer euros towards it, some people will still watch it and secretly enjoy it.
00:56:05
Speaker
But like I said, burn or to eat to the ground with fire. Not the people inside, but the institution. But yeah, I think most people are done with it.
00:56:16
Speaker
Some people will still watch it and like it for the nostalgia that offers. But eh. Yeah, turn off your TV screens, people.
00:56:26
Speaker
Just watch podcasts on YouTube. Namely, From Dublin to Cleveland.
00:56:33
Speaker
We could do our own version of the toy show. Yes. We'll review all the toys on the market and tell kids tell parents what to buy their kids. That sounds like a great idea. We will literally go toe-to-toe with Ori to Eat. That sounds great. Let's do I'm going to write that down in our calendar. I don't care even if it's a live show. If we have to do it live, I... Why wouldn't we?
00:56:58
Speaker
That'd be amazing. We need to start doing these live. Really put our feet to the fire. Yes, we should. We can't rely on post-production every week. I've given up on post-production. You know how much I cared about post-production.
00:57:13
Speaker
started i was like i've got to edit every single second and now i'm like forget it just go i don't care i usually have things popping up on the business screen on another time at all times and i have to like upload yep i don't care i don't care if they're not if you guys aren't listening it's as much as i love each and every one of you who do listen if you're not listening it's okay have a go ah go go do what what whatever you want to do but listen to us if gonna listen to us i disagree that stay here tell your real version he doesn't know what he's saying not the uh the ai version or whatever logan's gonna like you know doctor who choosy gashua it's like if you don't want to watch us go touch grass no he doesn't know what he's saying he's just tired the snow has gotten to him all right uh in so my last prediction in december the um last version of chinese ai dies after a long battle with covid
00:58:11
Speaker
No more Chinese AI, which means no more Timu. Timu. Have you ever bought anything on Timu? What's that? Have I ever bought anything on Timu? No, no, no, no. But mar but my sister has. Yeah.
00:58:27
Speaker
Oh, wow. Was she happy with the product? Um, can't say she was. Can't say she wasn't because most times she just returns the stuff. So I don't know.
00:58:38
Speaker
Even if from Amazon, she'll just send it back. He'll go, yeah you know what, I'll just return it. Maybe we chose the wrong example. but This is why we still need to hold on to post-production for now when we have examples like that that go absolutely nowhere and just wait 30 seconds.
00:58:54
Speaker
It's okay. We've wasted more than 30 seconds most of our lives. Oh, anyway. um So, thank you for listening. These are predictions. Some of them are ridiculous and silly, but the world is ridiculous and silly. so just i have a I have a feeling if I had to put a guess, I would guess at least four of these will come true for me. That would be my guess. For you, you probably will have a higher rate. I think you will actually...
00:59:21
Speaker
You might get eight right. Is it okay if I have a sliding scale or are we time locked? Are we locked into those dates? I think if it happens within the year, I think we'll count it next year. That's all right. I think that's fair.
00:59:34
Speaker
That's all right. If it happens within the year. if If it happened like, you know, in the next year, maybe we could say, I demand retribution. But I think it has to happen in 2020. That's not.
00:59:50
Speaker
Even if it's off by a couple months. No, that's okay. We'll get ourselves to December 2026. That's okay. that's line yeah So we will we do something like this next year as well. we We'll go through and we'll make predictions for 2027 while also reviewing our predictions from 2026 and see how far off or how, unfortunately, we were very correct on what we said.
01:00:16
Speaker
We're not going to remember this episode, but this time next week, let's not pretend we're going to remember it 365 days from now. I will keep my list, all right? So I will keep my list on my computer so I will be able to find it when we need it.
01:00:32
Speaker
Anyway, um let's we've got tooth two segments to close. Let's go to the Bible. So, Brendan, what Bible verse do you have for us today?
Biblical Inspiration & Conclusion
01:00:43
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Well, Logan... My Bible verse today is in 1 Samuel, chapter 30. Verse... Check notes, pause for suspense.
01:01:02
Speaker
and I know it's on the right page. I can do this.
01:01:10
Speaker
Well, folks, what you're seeing now is a man who's forgotten his glasses.
01:01:16
Speaker
I have. It's verse six. Do you want me to read it? I was giving everyone time to find the page. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Open their own Bibles. I'm so sorry. Yeah, i go on, read it. All right. Now, David was greatly distressed for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his son and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
01:01:46
Speaker
Thank you, amazing, lovely. Well read. Impeccably so.
01:01:52
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All right, guys, so for context, David and his men were all marching into battle with the Philistines towards Israel. What were his intentions? I have no idea.
01:02:06
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Was his intention to let the Philistines kill us Saul so he could possibly grab the throne Maybe, but I don't think that's in his character. Personally, i think the Philistines are going attack Sol, then David and his men are going to be like, let's change sides and let's kill the Philistines. We'll attack them both sides and sandwich between them.
01:02:27
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That's what I think, but we don't know. Yeah. God knows. i don't even know if David knew what his plan was. a But the Philistines were like, you know what?
01:02:40
Speaker
This would go very badly for us. He might actually betray us. Maybe they were right. And they sent David and his men back to Philistine territory. They returned to Ziklag, which would later be annexed into Judah, but it was Philistine territory, ah as a stronghold where David and his men were living with their old, with our wives, with their young.
01:03:02
Speaker
And when they got back, they found that the Amalekites had raided Ziklag and kidnapped the women, the children, and the elderly. David's men were like, No! Disaster! And they wanted someone to pay.
01:03:18
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So they decided to get angry at David. you know We trusted you. You led us there. And while we were following you, look what happened. And what happened? He was distressed.
01:03:30
Speaker
He was heartbroken. He was freaking out. And maybe you feel that way, friends. We are living in very, very...
01:03:39
Speaker
Compestuous times, very dangerous times. Yes, very exciting times, but very economically uncertain times. Times when all across the nations and native population native citizens are being killed and illegal to murder them get away with it.
01:04:02
Speaker
It seems like every day or every week we hear more about human trafficking and sex rings and satanic and ritual sex rings for her kids.
01:04:14
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um We see days when the occult is not even hiding themselves anymore. They're right out there, front and centre. We see people bewitching themselves to the most obscene music and perversion and calling it entertainment.
01:04:31
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ah We have a church that's absolutely riddled with compromise. And... It feels like we are being i oppressed on all sides, crushed on all sides.
01:04:43
Speaker
The walls are closing in and they're very real concerns. And David just understood that. He understood the distress. He understood the fear. And he understood what was what it was like when your own side to turn on you.
01:04:57
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The men he had trained and raised up and led turned on him.
01:05:05
Speaker
So what did he do? don't He encouraged himself in the lower words. words You know, Logan and I have jokingly predicted, well, maybe some jokingly, some not so much, i what 2026 might hold for our nation.
01:05:20
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i But i do despite the external circumstances, just despite political circumstances, just despite economic circumstances, and I'm not saying they're not important, they all are, but you are responsible for your own heart.
01:05:37
Speaker
Above all things, guard your heart forth the wellspring of your life. It is not the government's responsibility to look after your heart. If you want it to be, get some help.
01:05:51
Speaker
Have you learned nothing from history? Hello.
01:05:56
Speaker
You're responsible. God gave you a will and you a mind to take care of your heart. So despite what things are looking like externally... and the pressure, and the stress, and the fear, and the wickedness, and the evil, and the malignance, you have to encourage yourself in the Lord.
01:06:14
Speaker
You do that by getting into his word. You do that by soaking in fun and revelation. I like to think we have a pretty good balance on this platform.
01:06:27
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I like this. You get it from being in communion with God's people. Not only electronically, and but also in person when possible.
01:06:38
Speaker
and To get as built up in the word as possible in fellowship and community, in destiny and purpose, being about the Father's business. Not sitting around idly watching destiny pass you by but getting swept up in what God's doing on the earth.
01:06:54
Speaker
You encourage yourself in the Lord. What does that mean? It means God puts courage into you. If you don't know how, start off by reading the letters of Paul in the New Testament and see how God sees you.
01:07:08
Speaker
Learn about your identity. Learn what God calls you. The names he has given you. And from that place, you stand up and you say, to to the Amalekite camp we go to take back what the enemy stole from So don't go into this year afraid or terrified or like a plastic bag drifting in the wind, blowing wherever the TV tells you it does, wherever social media tells you does.
01:07:45
Speaker
You take your courage from the Lord. You take your instruction from the Lord and be strong and mighty in his power. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
01:07:57
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01:08:00
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Yeah, I couldn't have said it better myself. um I think maybe one more thing to add, and this isn't a criticism at all, but to think about if you read the rest of this chapter, you David consults God. So not only do we need to be encouraged and strengthened in the Lord, we need to go to God for what we're doing. I think a lot of us sometimes we we forget that part. Yeah.
01:08:23
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We get encouraged and maybe we we listen to a sermon, we listen to a song and we're like, oh, I'm encouraged. But then we don't actually ask what does God want us to be doing. kind of like i want to do what i I want to do what I want to do and then Lord put a stamp of approval on what I'm doing. um And David um here, even in this story, is do I go after him?
01:08:45
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Do i wait? what What do you want me to do, Lord? Because this is a a chaotic situation. um I think a lot of us, when we have crisis, we go to God. But even in our day-to-day, we need to go to him.
01:08:58
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We have to go to him daily. We have to go to him daily. hourly, sometimes by the minute, what does God want us to do in this minute? What does God want us to do with in this moment? um So going to Him is is a big thing, and if you make that part of your goal or your mission in 2026, that is definitely going to help you out because we want to be about God's business, and we're here to glorify Him. um We're not here to do what we want or to live the American dream or um
01:09:31
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Make it about us. It's all about him. So seeking his will and seeking what he wants and trusting him through the minutia of the day and the minutia of the week and what's going on right in front of us, trusting that he knows what's best um and relying on him. Because at the end of the day, i don't think you're going to regret doing what God wants you to do.
01:09:57
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You might feel that way, but that is still not true. ah When you get to heaven, you're going to say, I'm glad I did what God wanted me to do. That was what's best, because I would have messed it up.
01:10:11
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So, Brendan, would you pray for us? And then we'll ah we'll close with some, I guess, shout outs, or I forget what we even call these things. I'd just like to tell everyone that you can trust everything Logan just said, because he used the word minutia twice.
01:10:28
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You didn't trust a man. used minutiae once. You should take a bullet from a man. uses it twice.
01:10:37
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oh That's not to incentivize anyone to assassinate Logan, but you know what mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what you mean. Appreciate it.
01:10:48
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Indeed. Alright, Lord, we thank you for this day. thank you that we are back again for From Dublin to Cleveland, 2026. Lord God, I pray that it's a year of productivity, year of fun, a year of sharing your light and your joy um yeah
01:11:14
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ah pumping biblical masculinity and stamina. into your people. Obviously the biblical masculinity into our male listeners. We don't need any gender bending.
01:11:27
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But stamina for both, men and women, to be about the Father's business, to run the race that you have set for them. To pick up their cross, not that it weighs them down, but to pick up the cross of Jesus, that they carry his cross with pride.
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Showing the way
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From death to life. From bondage to freedom. From sickness to healing. From brokenness to restoration.
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Lord God, take this itsy bitsy little podcast and do something amazing with it. Amen. And it forward to the masses, God, for your sake. For the sake of your son's name.
01:12:17
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Amen. but more and more people would sit under your word and their eyes would be opened. The dragon scales blinding them would fall.
01:12:31
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The people was
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would see a genuine expression of Christ's love, even through us, Lord.
01:12:42
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And perhaps their experience of your family has been cold. And they would see it's actually very warm. Perhaps their experience of your family has been divisive and they'll see that actually unity is possible.
01:13:01
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Perhaps their experience of your people, your church and your word has been hateful and they'll see that actually God is love and his love alive and active His children is a very powerful, beautiful, and authoritative thing on the earth.
01:13:21
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That people would watch the po this podcast, God, or listen to this podcast and literally cross over from sin to holiness, from death to life.
01:13:36
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Lord, you give ideas for the future episodes. We know what we've planned, Lord. Let it be your plan.
01:13:45
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Take this little and do much. We pour our oil on you, Lord.
01:13:56
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Multiply. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. So as we close out, we're going to close with our shout-outs of the week. My shout-out this week is ah a YouTube channel called Wild Sights. It's spelled W-I-L-D-S-C-I-T-E-S. And it's a guy and a couple of his friends, and they go and they do silly things. They do fun things. they They've done... um
01:14:31
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Recently, they did one where they went out tenting in the backyard where it's freezing cold outside. or They went out and basically there was a place where there was possibility of running into like wolves, white wolves, I guess. And so they went tenting and they had this little ah stove fireplace that they were trying to like keep going.
01:14:49
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And um they didn't realize how much wood they should have brought or how much they should have gotten. And they only had like a little pile. And so they ran out of wood by like one in the morning and had to leave and back up because they didn't.
01:15:02
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out it was a complete failure um but he's also done some like um uh he made a tree house in his backyard for his son and uh that was pretty cool so um he's a he's a christian guy and a lot of his friends his his friends are christians and so um it's uh cool to support those little little youtube channels so um like i mean we are a little youtube channel too so the support us but go support wild sites so That's my shout-out for this week. What about you, Brendan?
01:15:33
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What is something you could shout-out? shout-out is basically what got me through Christmas. Malcolm in the middle, the the one through seven.
01:15:47
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I just took an ocean to perch myself on the sit-room couch and watch episode one,
01:15:58
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To 151. Back to back. Because why the heck not? Why not? If Jesus could come as a baby, I could watch Mark in the Middle. That was my rationale.
01:16:14
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but but And yes, those two things did perfectly equate in my head during the Christmas break. a And yeah. Soon had it ended, then I found out that four episodes were coming this year.
01:16:26
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So I'm cautiously optimistic. and i don't trust things that are made in the twenty twenty s I think I've made that abundantly crystal clear.
01:16:37
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And actually in our next episode, we're going to talk about did Bonnie Tyler put it? Where have all the good men gone? are all the gods? going to look at what's happened to heroes and how the world leads to them.
01:16:51
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Um, so yeah, hopefully they don't ruin it when they bring it back, filling it with 2026 leftist Californian messaging. But, uh, yeah.
01:17:03
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What an iconic show. I watched it when I was a child, but I didn't see too many episodes of it, because... We would have a soap opera Coronation Street, the longest running soap opera in the world.
01:17:17
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Then Malcolm the Middle. And then there was a broken double bill, then more Coronation Street. So after the first episode Coronation Street, my brother would have to go to bed, this bunk bed here beside me, lower bed.
01:17:28
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And I would have to go with him until he felt a fleet. And after a while, he kind of realized that he would wake up in the morning and I'd be on the top bunk. And he was like, hang on a second.
01:17:39
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How did you get from there to there? And I was like, oh, i sleep climbed. And at a young age, he was thinking... he reminded me a lot like of Dewey back then, the youngest kid.
01:17:52
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And eventually he was on to my tricks. So he would pretend he'd fallen asleep. And then... And then whenever I try to get out bed to watch Malcolm Middle, he'd be like... And I was like, shut up, I'm just stretching.
01:18:07
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And then... and Where am I even going with this? This is just overexposure. I'm just going to say it doesn't matter. I started going to... Things you didn't know, my friend. I didn't go into this much detail in the tell-all episodes.
01:18:24
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And um then after a while, i could just hear in the other... room you're not the boss me you're not the boss of me now and i'd be like crap i've already missed the the cold open and i'd be like you know bubba just pretend you're asleep have to get up just pretend you're asleep i will not pretend because he sucked his tone back then and by the time he actually fell asleep malcolm would be over and the double wheel of carnation street would be starting so i actually only had seen a few episodes
01:18:57
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Um, so I just said screw it, I'm gonna watch the whole darn lot of them and that's... There you And that's where the last ten minutes justified such a... A flat... anti-flymax, but there you go.
01:19:11
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Yeah, my my parents would always watch it after I went to bed, so... Yeah, they... But... It was a different time in the early noughties. Yeah. You didn't have children staying up till 11pm back then. was a different time.
01:19:24
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Or going to bed with a tablet, but we digress. We didn't even have tablets. No. they Different time. Different time. Well, thank you all for listening today. Hopefully ah you got some check chuckles, laughs, um and enjoyed our our time in God's Word, as well as trying to predict the wild thing that is 2026. So we will be here for 2026. Like we said, our next episode is going to be on the review of heroes and um why where have all the good men gone? Where have all the heroes gone? So we'll be looking into that next time. So join us next time. Thank you for all your support. Thank you for support through all your years. This will be once we get to August, our fifth year, which is pretty crazy. So thank you all for that. And we'll see you all next time.
01:20:16
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Goodbye, friends. ron