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Introduction and Tea Talk
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A From Dublin to Cleveland production.
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Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. I'm Logan Howard. i am joined by the one and only Brendan Thomas-Meritt. How's it going, Brendan? How are you today? You're interrupting me mid-cup of tea. Just keep it rolling.
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Just keep it rolling. Yeah. get how I get who am. Talk about yourself. His tea is is t is good. We just had a whole tea chat about what kind of teas that he drinks and what he puts in his tea, which is milk and sugar.
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um And I asked him if they do any like iced tea over there like we do here in the States. And it's truthfully, they wouldn't want that because it's too cold and they need the warmth that's that goes inside their souls when they drink hot tea and scalding hot tea. And the hotter the tea, the better it is because you want to burn everything that is inside of you and give you the warmth that will last for a long time.
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Gonna stop those bones from knocking together. Yes, yes, yes.
Political Topics Overview
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So on today's podcast, we will be doing a ah more of a political one. um Brendan has some specific ah things that they've been setting up in his county that he is nonplussed by, non does not like.
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um So he will have that after i give a An interesting review on how the Democrats have been doing lately. A checking in on our dear friends on the blue side of the aisle.
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um And it's not well. They are not doing well. They are in... They're in some bad places, and I have a feeling they're going to be struggling to get out of the hole that they're digging themselves in.
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um Then, of course, we will end with our passage of scripture, and then we will have our shout-outs of the week. So if you liked those last week, awesome. We've got more of them.
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um So anyway, let's get into it. So I just want to go through. One of the crazy things living in America – and Again, whatever side of the aisle you're on and you're listening to us, if you're a Democrat, you're probably not going to like this episode, but it's OK. It's
Trump's Presidency and Policies
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OK.
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um But any side you're on, I think one of the things we can all agree on is that Trump has been doing a lot of things. um like a lot, a lot.
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Like it's not, i've I've lived through now a couple presidencies and most of the time you don't even remember who the president of the United States is or let alone what he's doing.
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Whereas here for this term, for Donald Trump, it has been all gas, no brakes, go, go, go, go. go Things are being signed. Things are being done all the time.
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And and in my opinion, a lot of good things have come out of this this term. And so I want to go through ah at least a list of some of the things that Trump said he was going to do and that he's done, which is something that I don't think um I have ever seen the Democrats do.
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Most of time when they promise to do things or they say they're going to do things, it's a big fat load of poop and they're not going to do it. um So this first one, this is a thing that the Democrats really hate, right?
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ah Seal the border and stop the immigrant invasion. Oh, they do not. they They are perfectly okay and have been. for years and years, allowing people into our borders and you can do whatever you want.
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You can, if your name's Manuel, come on in. We'd love to have you. We are have no shame in letting people into our country who don't belong here and more often than not are ah doing illegal things in our country because they they have no they're they're not subject to any criminality because they're not supposed to be here in the first place.
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um And so Trump has done a really good job of getting rid of that much to the Democrats to grin. He has been doing everything in his power to throw them all out, um whether that's deportation, whether that's airplane rides to your country back home.
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um He has been throwing people in. What is it called now? Something like an alligator alligator prison, Alcatraz, alligator trash or something like that. Yeah.
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Which I just keep seeing these funny articles about, oh, this is just going to be so horrible for those people who in there for their, their mental health. And I'm like, I think that's what the purpose is.
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say Just saying, just saying, we don't want them out. Okay. Um, So he has really been been throwing out a lot of of people. And that deportation has been a a huge thing and deporting people. And it it happens every single day and it has been happening for months.
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um And that's been a huge thing that if you listen to any sort of Democrats, they will say this is wrong. We shouldn't be putting these people out of our country. We should. It's not even necessarily that we should love them or anything.
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It's not even out of more of a morality thing. They just want them here because of what the benefits they can they can have on them and have them vote for them so that they can stay in power. It has nothing to do with actually caring for these people or wanting what's best for these people.
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um It has more to do with ah what they want to get out of it. um The other thing that Trump has been working on very heavily has been the economy, right? The inflation has been insane under um Biden. It was just ridiculous. We were things were going through the roof. If you looked at the end of Trump's term into Biden's term and the end of Biden's term, the comparisons are just insane by how much we were paying for things. And that, I think, was the big thing that made people choose Donald Trump was his
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willingness and wanting to reduce prices. um And there's a lot of people who get upset because Trump is doing all these tariffs and tariffing the world. But in reality, tariffs have always been a part of any kind of international trade.
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And we have used no tariffs on anyone for forever. That has always been America's policy. We've allowed everybody in. And that has finally come to an end during Trump's term. And so to me, i don't think The tariffs might happen or might cause problems for a tiny bit of time at the beginning.
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But I think as time goes on, it's not going to be as impactful as everybody's panicking about. um And it seems that it will add to helping us as Americans reduce our deficit and reduce a lot of the stuff that America has been wrestling with for a long time.
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Can I also jump in there for a second? and Yeah, go ahead. Because a lot of, let's say, leftists in Europe, including here, um especially media personnel, are now shifting the blame very conveniently for, let's say, all the problems we have in Europe caused leftist politicians.
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and Especially during 2020, 2021, so on, using the whole um and so on using the whole Russia versus Ukraine war as an excuse and to further tax us and further increase inflation. oh we have international obligations that I never remember agreed to be obliged to um look after people from Ukraine who aren't white, don't speak Ukrainian, and can't just give me a Ukrainian address.
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So what the media is doing now with politicians is they're using the tariffs to shift blame for inflation, hyperinflation.
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And they're saying, oh, see, you know, this wasn't an other world. It's America. It's Trump's America. But the reality is, when you actually look at what the U.S. had been charging European governments for importations, and then you look at what Europeans had been charging Americans for importations,
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Americans was charging like down here and Europeans were policing the USA. So the reality is when Trump said I'm increase the tariffs, all the European leaders had to say was, we'll meet you.
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We'll match yours. But they didn't. So instead, in a battle of wills, someone had to cave.
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Someone had to increase or decrease. And because the European governments would not decrease their tariffs, the US had to increase theirs. So Trump may be vilified, as he always is, for literally grieving.
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But actually, if we're looking for him to blame, all he did was match what European governments were already charging you guys.
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So for those who in the US s who perhaps don't always see things from European perspective, because your country is so big, you forget the rest of us exist. Hopefully that lessens it out for bit more.
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Yeah, that was good. Thank you. Thank you for adding that.
Energy and Economic Policies
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um One of the other things was ah energy producing. One of the things that America has been dabbling with during Biden's term and Obama's term was um this natural energy and getting away from nuclear energy, getting it into solar energy and energy.
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Getting it into those, you know, driving out west for me going out west for into our country, you see these huge um like fans or whatever that are just everywhere. And that's the way to get clean energy is how people would put it. But what happens when the wind doesn't blow?
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You don't get any energy. And then, oh we didn't store any energy and it's hard to store that energy. Yeah. And what happens when you don't get the energy and then you start to have blackouts and not have as much energy or lighting energy?
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our nation And so what Trump has done has been working on is getting that reinvestment into making energy here in America that isn't based on this this technology of making it on batteries and all this stuff that you know you have to have your your electric cars and all this stuff that was going to be forced on our throats very quickly had we had another four years.
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So good so Trump has done a good job of switching that around. And again, that's not something that the liberals want. They want you to be paying in these companies that they've invested in um of that are making cost to finish in energy that are, you know, making.
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fake animals or insects to be your burgers instead of cows because cows have too much emissions because they ah fart too much. Right. And so we've got to we've got to we've got to get rid of that. We've got to have impossible burgers that isn't meat and messing with all this stuff that they were doing.
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um Tax cuts as well. One of the things that you would think that the Democrats would be a a group of people that would want you to have less taxes, that they would want less national national government. But...
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At some point in the last 15, 20 years, they have gone from doing that and thinking tax cuts are a good thing to now they think that tax cuts are bad and that they shouldn't touch tax and you shouldn't have a great, strong national government that tells you everything and what you should do and what you should think and what you should believe and that you should get a vaccine and all of this stuff.
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um They found that very convenient versus trying to lower taxes and getting people their money back in their pockets. They are not worried about the American people.
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And that is the thing that is going to continue to cost them going forward is they don't care about you as as human beings. you You mean nothing to them. um And you're at well your value to them is what you give them.
Media and Perception
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no And that leads into freedom of speech and freedoms of religion. Again, they don't want you to be thinking your own independent thoughts. They want you to be thinking the thoughts that they have and that they are telling you and um reverberating back to you. That's why when you watch NBC, when you watch ABC, any of the huge networks that we have here in America, they will tell you things that you are not hearing properly.
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from the president that you're not hearing from other people, they will tell you lies because they want their own agenda pushed. um At some point, again, in the last 20 years, it's gone from reporting facts to reporting opinions. so And we've gone from what opinion, opinionated based um reporting in from what used to be just saying, hey, this is what happened.
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Here's what's going on. And now it's become, here's what's going on. But also, I think this is horrible and here's why. And telling you their opinion instead of just telling you what is going on, what the truth is.
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um Trump has been preventing a lot of wars and stuff that America was probably going to get involved in, um whether that was Ukraine, whether that was um Israel and Iran. It's been able to do a good job of doing those those kind of things.
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Really, the the government has been starting under Biden's terms to be weaponized against Trump. um the American people and um taking out people who dissent.
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And so Trump has done a good job of clearing out those people in office um and people in um like FBI and CS, the FBI ah group and, um and the police forces and trying to reset those. um Lately, we've gotten into, ah fixing Washington, DC, which I have never been, but it's not a place that I would go on any kind of vacation to go to Washington, DC, even though it's our political capital.
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um It is not a good place. It's a place that's filled with crime. And, you know, I i have known don't go to Washington, and ten DC. And so Trump is trying to fix Washington, DC to deport and get rid of people and criminals who are on the streets that shouldn't be on the streets.
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um And again, the Democrats who run the city don't like what Trump is doing because they are Trump is messing with what they had in power and he's meddling with them.
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And right now, one of the things that is very encouraging is that Trump has the ability and has the support to be able to influence and change things that Um, if the Democrats were in charge would never have changed and would have stayed the same.
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Um, you know, strengthening our military is another thing. We still own the greatest military on the world, like over and over and over, but he's been able to do that.
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Um, and, uh, Yeah, it's it's just been a lot of these areas where you know he's even gone after the big thing for Democrats has been allowing men and women into the opposite direction.
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gender sports and transgenderism and all of this stuff. And he has been um on war with that and pulling support for states that think it's okay.
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um And is it a aggressive tactic in negotiations to say that you're going to take their money? Yes. But it's also a tactic that works very well because money talks.
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Money is the way that the world moves. And so um there is a lot of wokeness that was going very woke and would have probably doubled or tripled under a Kamala Harris regime that Trump has been able to completely eliminate and reverse. And it's not to say that they' that it's gone, and I don't think it'll ever go completely.
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immediately um or instantaneously, but it is no longer a, the push of our government, which is a really encouraging sign. Um,
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And ah yeah, I've also heard they've been working on the ballots.
Election Integrity and Democratic Challenges
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One of the things that was a problem in the 2020 election was the mail-in ballots, which allowed for huge voter fraud and allowed for Trump to not be elected, honestly. um I'm not one of those who's going to say that it wasn't God's plan because I think God allowed that to happen and allowed America to see the dark side of what America was becoming with the Biden's thing.
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But God has righted that. And now Trump is in office. And one of the things he is focused on is making sure that we get the mailing and the ballots correct and that they're not these machines that aren't counting the ballots correctly or counting them for the wrong side when it should be this side. And um I think it's going to be very interesting to see here next year what the midterm elections look like.
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um And does do the Democrats gain any ground back or because Trump has now pulled out the illegal immigrants who are voting and pulled out all the voter fraud,
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Is it going to go more Republican? It'll be very interesting to find out. We'll be interested to see how the rest of this year plays out. But that has been my sort of rundown of what's been going on. And there is so many more things I could get into or but talk about.
00:18:42
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But for sake of time, that was my general address is it seems like the Democratic Party is adrift. They don't really know what to do or how to combat what Trump is doing, because even the judges are not helping them out.
00:18:57
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um Those the Supreme Court has been ruling that they can't just stop everything that Trump is trying to do. And that's what they've been trying to do. They thought they could do that.
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um So it has been encouraging to see that um the right things and what we saw as problems and issues for the last five years, God is starting to right those wrongs and switch to them um through the vessel that is Trump, that some people like, some people hate.
00:19:28
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um But that is it is who he is. He is a person who gets things done. And so it's been ah encouraging to see him get things done here in America.
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Anyway, Brendan, over to you with your interesting um artsy, fartsy people.
00:19:47
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You know what? That is such a a great rundown, actually, in the last, what's been, seven, eight months. um And you know what? Sure, you're still going to have some Christians who are like,
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donald yeah Why? He uses bad language. Seriously? Seriously, body of Christ? Is that where we are?
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but your pastor probably uses bad language when he or she's not on the stage. Just saying. um But you know what? What I've really and thinking about a lot recently I think it was Charlie Kirk.
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said it. He likened Donald Trump to Samson. And, you know, we all know Samson was a bit of a scallion.
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bit of a devil, we would say in Ireland. Although, not everyone likes calling someone a devil. A bit of a scallywag. He couldn't really keep it in his pants. yeah He was a little naughty.
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But you know what? God still used him. um When the Philistines came against his people, um God didn't say, oh you fall in love with literally every woman. I would rather you didn't.
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um So therefore you're excluded. No, God said, okay, you're making all the wrong choices, but you know what? I'm still going to work through your bad decisions. Could...
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God have done something amazing and wonderful and powerful if Samson had behaved? Yes. Could God have done an even better job if Samson had lived righteously? Sure.
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But God knew what Samson would do. God saw what Samson did. And God said, I will work with what I've got. And in the same way with Trump. and Okay, he might drop the occasional F-bomb on TV.
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He might not be as pro-life as your grandmother is. He might not be as 100% aligned on everything as you are.
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There may be things that you can say around the kitchen table about, you know, this nation's leader and that nation's leader and that issue that in terms of his office,
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He can't say right now because he's trying to create a degree of peace in a world that's bent on ushering in World War III.
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you know, we've seen other politicians before getting, speaking into... um situations like the Jussie Smollett debacle, or taking the side of George Floyd, just ignoring the fact he was high as a kite and just beating up his girlfriend. yeah That didn't matter. He was Black, so he was a victim.
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Or in Ireland, you know, when illegal immigrants stab Children, it's fine. When they kill teachers in my profession, it's fine. But, oh, retaliates against the murderers, and then, oh, Irish are far-right Nazis.
00:23:19
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um There are things that he shouldn't speak into prematurely. They should be the courts hands and hands of judges and hands of juries.
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So if he's not doing absolutely everything you want him to do, how you want him do it, when you want him to do it,
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take a breath, relax, take a chill pill and pray. um Pray for wisdom for him. Pray for an increased revelation.
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of the cross to Jesus and the power of the resurrection. and He definitely has at least a growing relationship with the Lord. He might not be praying you know for two hours like you do in your prayer closet, but you know what? If all he's doing right now is in our Father, he is far better than those people on earth are.
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ah not Yeah. So, uh, sometimes Christians kind of lose their minds and they're like, he's doing everything the prophet said he would. Relax. Take a breath and pray for him.
00:24:32
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Uh, because I assure you, if you're living in a nation like moi, where you don't have him, you really feel the lack. Um, and...
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Perhaps at some point.
Irish Political Challenges and Cultural Symbolism
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Logan's just giving you rundown how great the US is doing right now. I might do one soon on how screwed Ireland is looking at this minute in time.
00:24:58
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Because our politicians basically look at everything Democrats do, or try to do, or aspire to do. That the United Nations wants, which is such an anti-Israel and anti-Christ.
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I mean, that's... almost literally, organization. They look at the European union which we should never have joined. It's an absolute ball of scum that should be wiped off the face of the earth and the world be better for us and The World Economic Forum.
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And what a lot of my politicians do, I say most, is they glean from the most evil people in the Western world and say, let's mimic this. So, any issue you have a Trump?
00:25:44
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Pray for him. Because if you but did not have him, let me tell you, he looks great to us. If you don't want him, we'll take him. Yeah.
00:25:57
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Alright, so i'm not going to look at politics per se today, but I'm going to look at a certain artistic abomination that's been erected over the last few weeks.
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And those of you listening to the podcast, I'll do my best to describe it. Those of you watching the YouTube video, let me know and the box down below what your thoughts on this are.
00:26:27
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All right, so I believe that art, especially taxpayer-funded art, um should be relevant to a location, should be beautiful, and should be of some significance.
00:26:43
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So let's say this statue is of Kukolin and Feridia. This is in my town. My town is called Oha Feridia, which is the Ford of or the town of Feridia, where the statue shows two best friends who went up the sides of a war, and one of them, Kukolin, ultimately had to kill his best friend, Feridia.
00:27:07
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Do I like this? Yes. Where is it? Smack bang middle my town. Why do I like it? Because my town is named after this guy, and it keeps the history and the mythology of our name of our but our nation and our town alive.
00:27:26
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I live in a small town in the smallest county in one of the smallest countries and Europe, a but yet everyone in my country knows about these guys.
00:27:38
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That's how important it is. That's how culturally rich it is. It's a story that's 3,500 years old.
00:27:48
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After this battle, and a certain queen Maeve was very unhappy that Kukulun survived. So she had three magical spears created.
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to kill his charioteer, Leg, who helped him win the battle against Furtia. One against his horse, because... why not? And one for Cucullin.
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So this sculpture, The Death of Cucullin, spoiler alert, hangs in a general post office in O'Connell Street, which is the city centre of Dublin, our capital.
00:28:28
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As you're walking past the window of the post office, this is looking right through you from inside the window. um But again, he's one of our most famous heroes and he tied himself to a tree.
00:28:41
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He decided he had been such an incredible warrior in life that he would not be found dead on his back like a normal mortal man. he would die on his feet like a hero.
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um And the general post office in Ireland is so culturally relevant to us. I name dropped 1916 rising speech week. rising speed last week and The General Post Office was the rebel's base of operations in the 1916 uprising against the British Empire, where and amazing men, and yes, women too. Ireland created the kind of feminism you want in the world, opposed the tripe that everyone talks about nowadays.
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and Women who... did not despise all men, human beings, children, and their country, women who were willing to die for their country, and were seen as equal, politically and morally.
00:29:43
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um But you know, would you be willing to die on your feet for your country? Again, another beautiful sculpture, another one which is very relevant to the location where it's been situated.
00:29:58
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We've got Molly Malone also in the streets of Dublin. Put your hands on her boobs for 10 seconds and you will pass whatever exam you have coming up at college or university that year. That's all I'll say.
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so people like her for, well, different reasons.
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Then we have Daniel O'Connell in O'Connell Street. um The first Irishman to be elected mayor of Dublin. And under him are the people. He would host monster marches with one million attendees fighting for home rule from the British Empire.
00:30:37
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ah That was back when we had one million people to march. ah The Great Famine happened while he was alive, and our population decreased by four million in seven years. But surrounding him are angels such as fidelity and chastity.
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to that the push for Irish independence and home rule and self-governance was a godly endeavour, a godly mission.
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And then we also have a statue of the Children of Lear. Four children who are transformed into swans for 900 years. They got reverted by the power of the gospel back into humans, but in the story, they died when they got their freedom back.
00:31:27
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But after almost a millennium as a colony, when Ireland got free again, would we perish like those kids or would we get it right and survive? All sculptures, all beautiful.
00:31:41
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all in very specifically chosen places, all culturally important and relevant.
00:31:54
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And then we get to June, 2025. ah twenty twenty five and I do ask myself where, ah where did it all go wrong? I said June, it's July, forgive me.
00:32:07
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and so yeah, let me show you what this one looks like and then I'll give my opinion on it. So this is in Drogheda. Drogheda is the biggest town in Ireland. It's in County Lourdes. It's in my county and crossed into County Mead.
00:32:26
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So it's the biggest town in the smallest county. um This is one image. It looks like An upside-down ice cream cone with weird stylized abstract wave around it.
00:32:41
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um Unnecessarily abstract kissing swans with a big nose ring between them and a star inside.
00:32:53
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It looks very Muslim. It looks ridiculously Muslim. And that is exactly what people said as soon as it was erected. And then we have... this.
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It's like a stylized number six.
00:33:08
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Did they turn the comments off for this? They did not. However, there are some posts about it which have very few likes very few ah and examples of traction.
00:33:24
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So I wonder if at some point they did begin deleting or hiding responses. But... That said, some of the some of the responses are still up there, and they are lit. They are fire.
00:33:39
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that that that All right, so this is what Tidy Towns had to say. Two beautiful new sculptures are now proudly in place at Southgate, Culp, thanks to the incredible efforts of the volunteers from Tidy Towns Draha.
00:33:59
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Uh-huh. The Well of Wisdom, that's like the number six, and Bowen, Goddess of the Boyne.
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Created by award-winning mead artist, Rita Marin, these striking pieces celebrate the myths and natural heritage of the Boyne Valley. On the north roundabout, Well of Wisdom draws on the legend of the Seis Well, ah sacred source of knowledge,
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with spirals and bird motifs representing the life force of the River of Wayne. Well, that doesn't sound witchy at all. On the side of the road, Bowen, goddess of the Wayne, rises with grace and symbolism.
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Her flowing cloak transforms into two swans in an embrace, a powerful image of love, the transformation, and... Unity, not a word that I trust.
00:34:53
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I think when Westerners read the word unity, it basically today just means Islam. Accept it, tolerate it, rejoice in it, don't question it. Across Stradar, East Mead, and the wider Boyne Valley.
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These inspiring, not sure who they're inspiring, sculptors offer a stunning welcome into the town. and Yes, all the townspeople whose comments I've read despise it.
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and are a testament to the strength of local collaboration and pride in place. No, Takedita. The other sculptures I showed show pride in place, not this.
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If you have to look at it and ask yourself what it means, there's no pride of place. Make sure to take a moment to admire them next time you pass through. Thanks, but no thanks. I think I will be grand.
00:35:47
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Okay, the story behind Bowen, I have shared it before, but I'll share a little bit again, is Bowen was cao goddess in Irish mythology.
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um She cheated on her husband with the sun god, and then she felt so dirty and ashamed. well For scorn.
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So she went to the well of Sigace, Now, the well had and and magic fish in it called the a salmon, thats the salmon of knowledge.
00:36:27
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And there were nine hazel trees around the well. And when the hazelnuts fell into the lake, or into the so well, um they would fill the water with all the knowledge and all the wisdom and all the cosmos.
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This fish would gobble it all up. And people spent centuries trying to catch the salmon of knowledge. If you caught it, you would get all the knowledge and all the wisdom on Earth and of things above the Earth.
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But if you looked at it, it would blind you. The fish did not want to be caught. That's separate story. In the end, teenage boy got hungry, touched the fish while it was cooking,
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Got a blister, sucked his tongue, and that was enough for him to get all the knowledge and wisdom in his head. Different story. But for Bowen, she also came to the well.
00:37:25
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Not for knowledge and wisdom, but she came for repentance. She came to the well and was like, oh my goodness, I've slept with a god who is not my husband, how terrible of me.
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um So she came to the well and she knew that if the priests of the well walked around it three times, they'd be forgiven of all their sins. But they had to walk around it clockwise.
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However, she did not need no man, as they say. So instead, as a feminist, she walked around this three times anti-clockwise.
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And on one hand, she wanted forgiveness. But on the other hand, she did not want tradition telling her how she ought to behave. And the well was absolutely disgusted with this display of anti-patriarchal sentiment.
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So the well shot up a river called Bowen, or Boyne, River Boyne,
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struck her and her dog. They killed her dog. Maybe the dog had witnessed the adultery, who knows. and She lost an eye, she lost her hands, she lost her feet. Totally dismembered her.
00:38:46
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So her body became the mata, which is a massive river creature with many heads and breathes fire and all this that would hide within the river.
00:38:59
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Her soul and spirit shot up into the sky and and became the way of the cow. Or as most people today call it,
00:39:11
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the Milky Way. So the story is related and i to the geography of Ireland as a creation myth, but also to Irish cosmology as well.
00:39:24
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So it's related to a building called Newgrange, which is 5,000, maybe 5,200 years old. Not our oldest building, but our most famous building.
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and Which again isn't too far away from where I live. So when it's Bowen, that's what it means historically.
00:39:50
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But then you look at it. Yeah. now this is located a town in Drogheda.
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So if we start from the top 10 this article is saying oh well you know ah Bowen is the pentagram star in the crescent star because the Milky Way and, you know, outer space and her spirit became the whatever nonsense.
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Yeah. This is the symbol of Drahara.
00:40:25
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Yes, it's the five-legged star and yes, it's the smiley face crescent. But there is a minor difference. It's turned. Exactly. Exactly.
00:40:36
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Drahada's symbol, because I know in the US, you're very proud of your stars and stripes, and that flag is everywhere. Ireland is not like that. In Ireland, we have the Republic of Ireland flag.
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We also have a flag for every province, of which we have four. We have a flag for every county, of which we have not 26, 32 prophesying or unification, but also every town.
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has a flag. So in Ireland, you're not going to see white, orange, and green everywhere. you might be in a certain location, and people will fly their town's flag.
00:41:18
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You'll be certain location, and they'll fly their province's flag. Then they'll fly their county flag. They'll fly the tricolor. So it's more variegated in Ireland. It's not just one. we have hundreds, maybe thousands.
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But for Drahara, their symbol... is crescent moon, sorry, a crescent moon, kept saying star, yeah like like a happy face, like a smiley face, and the star is above it.
00:41:47
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I think it's very curious that they would invert it so that the star is in the moon, but actually the moon is standing up. It looks a lot more Islamic.
00:42:02
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And then when tidy tans who are like, oh we put it up, we're amazing, talk about unity. and You kind of have to ask yourself, well, who is the unity with?
00:42:15
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Because if you're sitting under the sign of our voices watching our podcast, we love you. You're amazing. Even you disagree with things we say, watch till the end. We're glad you're here. But Islam has absolutely no place in the Western world. so There, I said it. so Sue me.
00:42:31
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If they want to get you, they're going to get you. It doesn't. Human rights violations. The fact that they want every Christian and Jew dead. Their maltreatment of women. Their absolute abhorrence for the gospel of Jesus Christ and for the Western world.
00:42:51
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Islam should not be found here. If you are a Muslim in the West, you're ditch it and turn to Jesus. You will live far more freely and in far more loving kindness you could ever possibly imagine. Allah will not give it to you.
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And that's it. That's it. So something like this, it's abhorrent and it led to a lot of people immediately piping up and saying, this looks like an Islamic state sculpture in Ireland.
00:43:31
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Then her dress is supposed to be like two swans, but I'm gonna be honest with you, that's an eyesore. When you compared this even like to the Children of Lear sculpture that I showed, where like, you know, the swans are transforming into children and the children are like seconds away from dying.
00:43:53
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That's more beautiful than this is. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me, though. From the story you told, don't why are we doing swans? That doesn't make sense. And what's with the the blue blue band around the bottom? It looks like it's like a bow that you tie on ah present.
00:44:12
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Exactly. So they would i think they would suggest that this is the river boy coming up out to the river. That's trash. But...
00:44:29
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it's ah There's a word for it, obscuritinism, think is the word they use, which is when you look at a piece of art that's rubbish, an unmade bed.
00:44:43
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um I think there was one an art museum, possibly in England, where literally there was nothing there. And then you had this big detailed description of how nothing created the created this sense of nothingness and this sense of space.
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And you're supposed to look around the nothingness and compare the around the nothingness with the nothingness. And the whole thing is designed to make you do the work of ascribing meaning to it. Oh, well, this must be this and that could be that.
00:45:17
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Not quite sure what that is. Is is that that? And because you feel stupid. Yeah. you are then like, ah you wait for someone else to throw some crap at You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, that that's totally what it is. Yeah, I agree.
00:45:32
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it like the Emperor has no clothes. Yeah. pretending you don't Stop pretending he he's fully clothed. Stop pretending his crown is larger it's ever been before. Stop Saying that it's silk and then saying velvet when this person says velvet and then saying it's cotton when that person says cotton in a more sort of tone.
00:45:52
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Be the child who says he's naked. The Emperor has no clothes. It is eyesore. It is ugly. Yeah. and And then as for this, this is apparently, this is the stylized six,
00:46:10
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This is apparently the the well of Seges itself. Gonna be honest with you. yeah I've seen very many wells in my time. Ireland is a nation full of wells. We have ancient wells which were used by druids, wizards and witches.
00:46:28
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And then the Christians came along and Christianized wells. And now the well is celebrated used by whoever gets there first. We are a nation full of wells.
00:46:39
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That's not a well. That is an upside down ice cream cone wearing a ribbon with an unnecessarily stylized six on the top of it. um But again, you're supposed to look at this and think, oh, it's beautiful. Oh, it's amazing. Oh, unity.
00:46:54
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Unity. I'm sorry. The stories about cosmology, gods and goddesses, at adultery, feminism, magic, killing a woman and her dog because of feminism,
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And a river monster.
00:47:14
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How does unity fit into this story? Again, the only unity that people looking at it seem to be extracting is that it's supposed to be a pro-Islam statement.
00:47:30
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And then we have WTE News, which is despised by most right-wingers and conservatives in the country. It stands for Radio Telefisch Ehrin. which is radio, television, Ireland news. and It's the national broadcast. Or think of what BBC is to Britain or TE is to us.
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i I do not think we should have one. um Maybe I could possibly understand it when Ireland first became independent, and wanting to create something with a sense of Irishness about it.
00:48:06
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I still don't think I would have agreed sending taxpayer money there, but i maybe I can get what their thinking was. Today, totally unnecessary. Today, totally part of the establishment.
00:48:18
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No matter how often they break the law, and the government reward them with more taxpayer funds. No matter how wicked government is, seemed to be protecting them and vilifying people.
00:48:32
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And that's what RTE had to say. Too striking, that is one word for them. New sculptures have been installed in Drogheda, County Mead. Drogheda is so big, it's a layer than Mead.
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um With those behind the project, stating the artworks will create a stunning gateway to the Boyne Valley. The more words they use, the more witchy that sounds.
00:48:58
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um The sculptures named the Well of Wisdom, well, they didn't have the wisdom not to build it, did they? And Bowen, goddess of the Boyne, so we really need to start naming sculptures after demons, now stand on the south gate roundabout in Culpe.
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Okay, so not much opinion there, but no honesty in just talking about how ugly they look either. And this is the woman who made them, Rita Marin.
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and I'd be very interested in knowing how much she got paid because I would like to think that someone actually offered up better alternatives if they really wanted to artistic works on that roundabout.
00:49:47
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But no, totally ugly. Eyesores. a Could have chosen something of Marlon's Christian past if they wanted something fantastical and or mythological.
00:50:03
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Why not just make them? Why hide it behind something abstract, something ugly, something that you have to stop and think, okay, what's, is this this, is this this?
00:50:17
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You shouldn't have to decode art. Even if you know nothing about it, it should just be beautiful and bring beauty and a pride in place. and a level of respect for that place on the basis of being there.
00:50:31
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and They are my thoughts. But to me, and there are already websites out there like the Journal who have come against those of us saying it's Islamic and it's promoting and getting cozy with Muslim theology.
00:50:53
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Screw it. I don't care what they have to say. It's ugly. Shouldn't be there. Tear it down and stick up something that actually pleasing to the eye and more appropriate for the location.
00:51:11
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And they're my thoughts. Yeah, yeah. I agree that from what you had before and what you showed us before, much better artist things, whereas nowadays that's That just looks like an ice cream cone upside down.
00:51:29
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that Good job, guys. You're the worst kind of ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, if you have any comments on Brendan's artsy-fartsy neighbors, we'd love to hear you hear your opinions about that or even the political talk we had earlier at fromdublintocleveland at gmail.com. You can send us an email there, um and we'd love to hear from you and hear your opinions on what we talked about.
00:51:56
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um Now we're going to transition into our Bible time today.
Faith and Society
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We will be in Philippians chapter 4. four And we will be in the verses four through seven. So I will read them for us.
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Give you a quick um a quick, I guess, synopsis of what ah my thoughts are on it. Throw it over to Brendan. And then i will close this out in prayer.
00:52:19
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We'll finish our time with our shout outs. All right. So Philippians four, verses four through seven says, Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men.
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The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
00:52:46
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This is a section of of scripture that is written by Paul, and Paul is in prison. um He is writing from prison, and for those of you who have never been in prison, prison is not a great place to be. Have in prison?
00:53:03
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I have not been in prison either. you can imagine it not being a great place to be. You're not. You don't have the freedom as an American to do whatever you want. um So Paul is is stuck here, but he's commanding or telling them to rejoice in the Lord regardless of what's going on.
00:53:20
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um Always. He says rejoice always. And again, this goes kind of back to what we talked about last week. You need a big a big understanding and a big belief in God in order to be able to rejoice in him.
00:53:34
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um if god if If your view of God is that you know he's not going to come through for you, if he's going to let you down every single time, why would you ever rejoice in that? um If your money or your stuff is more important than God, then or more valuable to you than God, then why would you ever trust in your God? Your God isn't big enough. That is not and it's not God.
00:53:58
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um So he wants us to rejoice always in the Lord, um and he repeats it.
00:54:06
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He then continues on talking about our gentleness because Christ will return. The Lord is with us. He is always around us. He isn't um hiding. He isn't, you know, a far off like the prophets of Baal's God was where Elijah teases them and saying, where's your God? Is he on a journey? Is he gone to the bathroom? Is he doing a little dance and a jig?
00:54:31
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No, our God is at hand. God is with us. If we have the spirit living within us, We have Christ with us. He is with us always. um And then he says to be anxious for nothing, um to not be afraid of things, to not be worried or...
00:54:46
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um thinking about worrying of of what's going to happen in the future or what's going to, when, when am I going to be married or when am I going to have children or when am I going to go to heaven?
00:55:00
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Don't be anxious for any of that stuff. Don't be worried about what's going to happen. Um, rejoice in the Lord. And he says that if you are anxious, what you need to do? Or if you are afraid, pray.
00:55:13
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And then concludes with that God's peace will be given to us, that God will give us peace um in spite of what's going on, in spite of our circumstances. Again, none of this we can have without knowing our Lord and Savior as our Savior.
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um We have to put our faith and trust in him. Without having a relationship with him, we are going to be anxious, um miserable people. And we don't want to be like the world is once we've accepted Christ. We don't want to be that miserable, lonely people. Again, we have to be able to have a relationship with Christ and let that peace that comes into us.
00:55:52
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Uh, Brandon, anything else you want to add? Could I be very cheeky? Sure. Look at verse eight friends. Finally, brothers and sisters, cause I'm sure women are there too.
00:56:04
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Whatever is true. Noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy. Think about such things. To backtrack to our last section.
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Is that sculpture true? No. It's false, demonic mythology. Is it noble? Yeah, sure. Adultery is great. Is it right?
00:56:29
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Everything about it is wrong. Is it pure? Like I just said. Is it lovely? It's an absolute utter eyesore.
00:56:41
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Is it admirable? Yeah. Subverting Western norms for Islam. Wahoo. Let's see how that's working out for us. Is it excellent? It really isn't. I'm sure there are better options.
00:56:54
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Is it praiseworthy? Have you heard me compliment at once? Think about such things. Rita and Maren? Sorry, chick. You look lovely, but you're not an artist.
00:57:05
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And God agrees. Yes. Yep. That's a a good list of how of of what to keep in our brain when we're thinking about things or we're reviewing things or um I know people don't like the word judge, you know, but we judge things. Yeah, it's necessary.
00:57:23
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We judge everything. It's condemnation. Condemnation is the thing that that when they say, don't judge me, they don't want to be condemned. That's right. And so it's one thing to judge people and ah to see where they're at.
00:57:37
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It's a completely other thing to condemn them as whatever. So we don't condemn, we do judge. Oh, I do both.
00:57:48
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ah Pay some points. Yeah. Anyway. We digress. let me Let me close this in a word of prayer and then we'll give our shout outs and send you on your way. Dear Lord, we thank you for this day. I'm thankful for Brendan. I'm thankful for his time that he has given to um to chat and to talk about some of the stuff that's in his country and talk about stuff in my country. Lord, we just pray for both of our countries that you would um protect them, that you would...
00:58:20
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that you would bring them, um, them, bring them peace and also bring them the right thinking. Um, Lord, we think of Ireland and some of the decisions they've been making. I pray that you would help them to seek you while you may be found.
00:58:34
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Um, Lord, we know that's not going to be forever. We know that there's going to come a time when, uh, you're going to take your people home and, uh, let Satan have this world. I pray that you would help them to make the right decisions now to be able to seek, uh,
00:58:47
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Jesus Christ is their Lord and savior to, um to start to change their hearts in the leadership um that you would even be bringing people, even if it's Brendan to go to speak with those in authority and those in power and to be able to share the gospel with them and to be able to speak into their lives in a powerful way. We pray for any demonic influences that they have that are in, in,
00:59:12
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and dwelling them or messing with them. I pray that you would remove those, that you would help them to see clearly and to seek you while they can be found. I pray for those who are listening.
00:59:23
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I pray for them that hopefully this was not a a discouraging um conversation, but hopefully that they were able to take and get some encouragement, if only from God's word.
00:59:34
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I just pray that it was a blessing to those who listen. I pray you'd help us the rest of our afternoon and evenings to two glorify you in all we say and do and that you would get the glory and honor for what we're doing here on our podcast. Give us a wonderful rest of our day in Jesus name.
00:59:51
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Amen. All right. So um do you have what your next shout out is or I can give you mine because mine is a decent ah decent one. it'll give it It'll give you some time.
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You go first because mine is better so we'll finish mine. Okay. That's fair. nice fair um So I'll start with a question. Brendan, do you know um you know what baseball is?
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Yes, we play it with a tennis racket. You play with a tennis racket? Non-competitively. Okay, so you at least know ah jack um you know the general rules of baseball, right?
01:00:32
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You smack the ball, you run to one base, another base, another base. Yes. So there's this video. This is what my shout out is today. There is this guy who does reviews of baseball and he basically watches the video of the situation happening and then he tries to read people's lips and then say what they're saying. So whether they're saying swear words or not, he's just...
01:00:57
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saying what they're saying. And he's trying to said do either make fun of or make light of a situation that is sort of humorous or interesting. um So there was this guy. It's ah the the specific title of the episode is called Mariner's Outfield Throws His Bat at the Pitcher.
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um And this is by John Boy Media. So the the the thing that's the best part about this is the comment section. okay So anyway, there's this this this guy. he ah He was down at a lower level of baseball because he had been injured and he was rehabbing. and So his this was him playing against lower competition.
01:01:35
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Well, in the span of two or three games, he gets hit with a baseball five times from this opposing team. right And the first time and the first couple times it's like he's swinging. And so there's, there's maybe some, okay, he was just swinging into it or whatever.
01:01:55
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um But he gets hit five times by this pitcher. He gets hit by the same pitcher three consecutive times, like three times in this, in a span of like a couple of days. not looking like an accidents after but It's not looking like an accident. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So.
01:02:10
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He gets really upset by the fact that he gets hit, that he just stands like really far away from the plate at one point. And just doesn't even care about what pitches they're throwing.
01:02:23
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I think he's wondering if he can get like a walk for free because they don't know how to throw the ball over the plate. um Whatever it is, they, they strike him out. He, he walks away. He's like, okay, at least they know how to throw the ball correctly.
01:02:36
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um So he gets hit for the fifth time and he's like livid. So he takes his bat and he chucks it at the pitcher and is like, what is your problem? Why have you tried to hit me like three times? What is your deal? Throw the ball normal, like a normal human being.
01:02:55
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And then he he takes his base or whatever. And the best part is the comment section. OK, there is a whole thread of comments of these people just going back and forth at each other about this.
01:03:07
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And basically, it all started with this one guy who's like, look, if you don't know how to throw the ball over the middle of the plate, you should probably be thrown out of the game because obviously you can't pitch in a way that doesn't hit people.
01:03:19
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Right. That's logical thinking. Somebody responds with, well, that doesn't make sense. He wasn't intentionally trying to hit him. It wasn't intentional. I mean, yeah, he did it three times, but it wasn't intentional. And so then it's it spawns like a huge comment section of people going back and forth, just attacking each other as the comments continue on of saying, no, you're an idiot. You don't know how to do, you don't know baseball.
01:03:42
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You don't know the rules. all you're just so worried about the rules, rules, rules, rules. And I'm just watching this go and it just keeps going. It just keeps going for probably 30 messages. And there's all these people who are jumping on to people.
01:03:55
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it It almost needs like a deep dive, like a deep review of each comments of as it goes down, because it is amazing. I have never seen so much vitriol and hatred from people who don't even know who the heck they each other are just throwing stuff at each other back and forth.
01:04:14
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It is horrifying and amazing at the same time. But you know what? Now that things have kind of settled down to an extent, to extent, on the political front, yeah I love that you Americans, the next thing that you're all getting so obsessed over is sports.
01:04:31
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Whether it's throwing green dildos at the WNBA throwing... balls and men you know you had to do one for one gender it's one for the other yep i'm you know what this is what society should be bickering and falling out over really stupid things because life is so good that you don't have to worry about the bad the big things Oh, they brought in politicals too. that's like yeah in this
01:05:03
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In this chat, they even brought in political. They're like, well, if you followed the rules, what if they told you you had to deport people? And that was like a law. And would you follow that law? Are you just such a law person follower? It was just insane.
01:05:16
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These guys were nuts. It was it was so much comedy. i got a kick out of it. I hope they post more messages back and forth. I hope it's not done. I hope it continues because it was gold.
01:05:28
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We should do that at some point, actually. We'll watch a really funny or scandalous clip on mute. And we'll have lib. Yes. For the people.
01:05:39
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Yeah. We have a list of videos to do from now until November, but we'll add that to us. Lip reading. Lip reading.
01:05:50
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Anyway, so that was mine. How about you? What was your what you shout out for the day? Ooh, okay. So I was in England at the weekend. My cousin... Aoife got married. Shout out to Aoife. She is not my shout out though. um My shout out is to the taxi driver.
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Because when my cousins decided to boot the taxi for, don't know, 14 of us maybe. 10 of us. 14. I think it was 14.
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um To get to the wedding reception. And my uncle, the father of the bride, had said, yeah married. All of you must be early. Remember to be early. Because some of my relatives have a reputation for late coming and being very, very elastic.
01:06:35
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Rich schedules. And we were like, what's fine? 100% we'll all be there. Woohoo! Family wedding. Yeah.
01:06:43
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Now I had been told on the Friday that from our hotel in Woking, which I kind of jokingly said is where Wilkinson began. Actually, it's where H.G. Wells set War of the Worlds.
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So there's a sculpture of him holding the globe. And then, you know, the big three-legged alien from the 1960s version. Mm-hmm.
01:07:10
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Came out. And a that was also in Wilkinson as well. It's like 12 feet tall. It's amazing. Um... So I'd been told that from walking to the wedding venue, which is on a golf course, it was going to take about 20, 25 minutes to get there.
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um But the morning of the wedding, someone said it would take eight minutes. and I thought, of a difference. Yeah. And thought, oh, was maybe we'd been told it would be a 25 minute walk And like, you know, if you're in, you know, your wedding dress and high heels or your wedding suit and your dancing shoes, you're probably better off getting an Uber or a taxi.
01:07:54
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So I said, OK, well, unclear information, but I suppose that makes sense. So we're all heading off together. Yeah. And, i've you know, we landed in, I think it's pronounced Chopem or Chopem or I don't know, Chopem.
01:08:11
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British places have a very unusual pronunciation. Like as an English teacher, as someone who teaches English words professionally. yeah When you actually go to the UK, especially England, um I find English place names are very unusual. have a very unusual pronunciation. And it's not that English is a phonetic language. It isn't.
01:08:30
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But I still think its place names are very strange. and Probably dating, you know, of course, all the way back to ancient times. And you probably maybe with but a Dutch or a Germanic influence there in the middle too. um So we arrived at Chopper, Chopper, Chopper, whatever it was.
01:08:50
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Golf course. And yeah, we all got out. 14 of us dolled to the nines. People at home. Backtrack on my Instagram feed. Look for me a pink jacket.
01:09:01
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That's wedding day. It's great. And, im you know, we are were all like, you know, wedding day. Thank you. all the stupid stuff family do for proposing. And we looked around and thought, this is a really, really wonderful location. It's a beautiful day. It was a very hot weekend in the UK.
01:09:23
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awesome Golf course, you know, lovely. I learned that golf course had 18 holes. That was something I'd never known before. And then something kind dawned on us.
01:09:35
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We were the only guests at the wedding. Now, I've been to ridiculously small weddings before. I've been to weddings where there are maybe 20 people. And I was fortunate enough to have made the list.
01:09:47
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um But I had been told that the grooms of the family was pretty extensive. So I thought, a bit strange. So one of my uncles, sorry, Noah was my cousin-in-law.
01:10:02
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and And then my uncle. went into the reception area and they were like, hey, there's a wedding taking place here today. And she was like, in yeah. And he was like, okay, great.
01:10:13
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And then five minutes later asked again, hey, there's a wedding here today, right? And her yeah became a no.
01:10:25
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And we were like, eh.
01:10:29
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So we all came back and we were like, oh my goodness, this is the wrong location. So thankfully the taxi drivers had not, or the Uber drivers hadn't driven off yet. And now we'd been there for ah good 10 minutes, and getting photographs and posing and acting the maggot. It was by the grace of God that they hadn't tied out.
01:10:50
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And we were like, hey, listen,
01:10:55
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we were told the wedding was taking place I think it was C-H-O-P-A-M or something, at a golf course. And whatever pronunciation, My cousin had given them in Buchan the Uber there.
01:11:11
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There's a place in England 20 minutes further down the road. The exact same spelling or very nearly exact same spelling, but very different pronunciation. The difference from a C-H being a ch to a ch.
01:11:26
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Which was also on a belt horse. And he was like, yeah. you're not gonna make this wedding. And we were like, so? And he was like, people, I've got other people booked who want the Uber.
01:11:41
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And we were like, please, we'll pay you anything. So he called his office, explained the situation and head office said, you're already with them. Get them there, race against the clock. ah So you'll hop back into the Ubers and den and and and and and and dinner minute and and and wedding day.
01:11:59
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And we did get there just as the bride was getting out of the car and making her way toward the front door. So we ran past like in slow motion.
01:12:12
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Our uncle gave us the stink eye. He was not impressed with our tardiness and late coming. We had held up the show. I think they had to do a few extra loops with the bride or a few laps just to wait on us.
01:12:24
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And they'd gotten to stays. They were like, screw it If they're not coming, they're not coming. So we all ran through the doors and everyone got up and turned around and 14, sweaty, beautifully dressed, but sweaty, tardy Irish people.
01:12:37
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And they touched it and they frowned. They wouldn't let us sit beside them, to put their handbags down. Like, you're latecomers, you've held up the wedding by 15 minutes. Ugh, nonsense. But we shifted their luggage and baggage and we took our receipts And yeah, the wedding itself is 20 minutes long.
01:12:56
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And I do love a good fast wedding. I do. Oh, yeah. In and out. That's what I say. Yep. So my shout out is to the Uber drivers.
01:13:10
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Yes, they charge us an extra 70 pounds because, you know, they had a longer journey. But in a race against time. They got us where we needed to be.
01:13:21
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The Toastmaster, Passmaster, Ringleader, whoever he was, who was six feet tall, wearing his long red jacket. He was not happy with us. yeah The other guests were not happy with us. But we had a great story to tell by the end of it.
01:13:34
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And those Uber drivers, they they knew where they were going. And they got it done. So my shout outs to those bros. Yeah, they helped you out of a pickle there.
01:13:45
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Otherwise, you would never have made it. We really and truly would not have. You would have been left in the middle of ah England somewhere.
01:13:56
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Touring the countryside. Hitchhiking. Across the golf courses. Same spelling, different pronunciation. Oh, brother. Same spelling, different pronunciation. That's diabolical.
01:14:09
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Absolutely diabolical. I had something similar happen recently because I was looking for a McDonald's and The only McDonald's that came up was like 15 minutes away from the one that I was actually supposed to go to.
01:14:23
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And so then i I pulled into it and then went, this doesn't seem right. And I looked on it again. oh yeah, it's not because it's 15 minutes away. Whoops. Whoops. Barely an inconvenience.
01:14:35
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Yeah. Yeah. Barely an inconvenience. Well, anyway, thank you all for listening and and hanging out with us today. Hopefully it was an enjoyable podcast.
01:14:46
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It was for us. And we'll see you all next time. Bye, friends. know but No, that's not nice, friends.