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And then best of material from 2022, believe it or not.

I've been enjoying going through that.

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right now wherever you get your podcasts man you ever see an ad and you just feel guilty yeah

you know what i'm talking about like this one i love when you answer your own rhetorical questions

like this one from mercedes bins they advertised and i feel terrible this. I don't know how to tell them. Okay. The advertisement was online, but it said they have an all-new advanced A class. Hmm. And the tagline was, it's made just for you. So it just made it for me. Okay. And the issue is. They've gone to a lot of trouble. They said it's all new inside and out. Mm-hmm. And it's made just for me. Just for you, Brandt. And I don't have the money right now. So. And they probably put a lot of thought into it. They do. They know I like puppets. There's puppets in there. Right, sure. Accordians. A toaster. All that. Thanks, guys. And they went to a lot of trouble. I'm just a little short right now. I'm sorry, Mercedes-Benz. Talking to people about becoming a Christian is kind of a strange thing in that I'm basically signing you up. If you you want to become a follower of Christ I know this I want you to know this this is what you're basically signing you up to become being very strange hmm you're going to be strange you're not going to fin in with the larger culture it's a fact um you like the whole culture's been on going up i want to get better my

you know my station in life up up up up up up here's jesus this old thing is down down down down

yeah like humble yeah becoming one of like he's downwardly mobile we're trying to climb the ladder

he's going back down like it's odd if you give that up.

You're not going to fit in.

You're going to think weird.

You're going to decide,

you're going to start to look at stuff like fame and money and all that and start to go,

I'm not sure that that's a solution to anything.

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