All right, what's up, ladies and gentlemen?

You're not used to seeing me solo on the podcast, but I wanted to share a special, I guess, message with you this morning

because it's been very heavy on my heart.

So thank you guys for tuning in.

Just yesterday, I recorded a 90-minute-long podcast with the rest of my team where we were sitting down and

having intentional conversation and deliberation to try to figure out exactly what is happening

in Minneapolis right now. And a lot of great points were brought up, a lot of evidence was presented.

We had cornbread and Blake coming at it from a law enforcement angle to talk about things

specifically based off of the knowledge and the skills in the background that they have in law

enforcement.

We had chili coming out with lots of really interesting information about how these protests are being funded and what is the agenda behind the chaos that we see happening in certain places here in the United States of America, the government theatrics, the evil billionaires who are funding these things,

all great stuff, right? Now, I actually chose to pull that episode off of public release.

It was supposed to come out this morning, as a matter of fact, and I chose to do that. I'm going to

tell you why I chose to do that, and then I'm going to tell you why I'm here to talk to you today. The reason that I chose to do

that is because as I have watched and listened to and read the public discourse around what is

currently happening in our country, I have just about come to the realization that there are very few reasonable, reasonable

people left who are interested in actually trying to deliberate on what is happening and get as

close as they can possibly get to the truth. All right? There's very little just conversation going on on the public platforms.

And what I realized is, is when we sit down here and have a conversation, no matter what we say

here, all we are going to do is add to the anger and the vitriol and the just the chaos around the conversation in the public arena.

And that's the reason I chose to pull it down, to be quite honest with you.

The amount of reasonable people that exist, at least online, based off of the conversation that I see, is waning. And it is

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