The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really low.

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All right guys, today we are talking to our friend Ross Kennedy. He is an expert in logistics and supply chain.

We talked to him last year in October to tell us why the heck we are not getting the supplies and the food that we need,

why are there food shortages, all that kind of scary stuff and he really walked us back from the ledge and explained why everything is going on but that it's going to be okay.

And so go listen to that episode if you haven't. It's actually one of my most popular episodes ever. You guys loved it because he is so good at explaining complex things in a way that the average person can understand.

So he's going to do that again today. We're going to talk about the state of supply chains why we are still unable to get the things that we want to get but also need to get and how is Russia and Ukraine affecting that but also how is China and their current actions and places like Shanghai affecting that we're also going to talk about this fascinating story that's happening in green forks north Dakota.

Where a Chinese company is trying to build a plant there that is strategically close to an air force base and what is happening there is that project going to go for what does that mean for our national security and it's not just happening there.

That kind of thing is actually happening in strategic places across the country what that's crazy. So we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about what we can do is an average citizen and he's going to kind of paint a picture of worse and best case scenarios for just kind of the state of the world's geopolitics in general but also specifically supply chains what he thinks we can expect over the next couple of years.

He has a great gas you're going to learn a lot from this it's probably going to blow your mind at points and so I'm excited for you to hear it but before we get into the conversation just on a little bit of a lighter note I hope that you guys had a wonderful Easter we had a bonus Easter episode on Saturday was just a little mini episode just talking about the gospel and why the resurrection matters and why we care about Easter I tweeted about Easter this week in a few times and most of them were received how I wanted them to be received they were well received but.

I said one tweet that cost controversy among Christians that I didn't mean for it to I guess I should have communicated it more clearly but I said something along the lines of you know the fact that Google doesn't do a little doodle for Easter if they do a doodle for so many other so many other holidays including other religious holidays but they don't do one for Easter and a lot of a lot of Christians are upset about that or they point out the bias which I totally understand I'm not knocking them for point of the day.

I'm not knocking them for pointing out that bias however I'm kind of glad that they don't like let's not allow Easter to be more commercialized than it already is a lot of people celebrate Christmas whether their Christians are not but the resurrection is different it's different and of course Christmas is just a sacred for Christians but the resurrection is less commercialized and Christmas is and I think that that's a good thing like it can't be boiled down to this like trite little doodle on Google is it's not a good thing to do that it's not a good thing to do that.

Google it is offensive the resurrection is offensive the resurrection is controversial the resurrection is polarizing and I don't mean it's controversial among Christians like we don't know whether it happened or not which is what some people strangely thought that I was saying I mean they were literally people who follow me underneath saying wow you hate Christianity you're calling the resurrection

controversial you hate Christians try try to try to hate other religious I'm like oh my gosh can we just take a little fraction of a second to put our thinking caps on for one second and realize that when I say the resurrection is controversial and polarizing and that it's okay that Google doesn't use a doodle I am not saying that it's bad I'm saying that that's what Christianity is it's always been controversial to the world it is always been polarizing to the world it has always been

the receiver of scorn of the world it's always been the it's always been a victim although I don't really like to use that use that term I don't know recipient of persecution in the world since it's very beginning the cross is controversial and offensive the gospel is controversial and offensive Genesis 1 1 is controversial and offensive that God made the world and he is the authority over all of it if you believe that then you can believe the rest of the world

the Bible if you don't believe that the rest of the Bible is going to be really hard to understand and most of the world does not believe Genesis 1 1 and they sure as heck don't believe John 14 6 that Jesus is the way the truth and the life that no one can come to the father except through him the fact that our God or that our God that he became flash and that he rose from the dead that is what sets Christianity apart that is the controversial part of it and that's what I was saying I don't care if Google likes Easter let them be offended by Easter let them hate Christians

Christianity I really think it's more of like an anti West pro CCP bent that they have been like truly disagreeing with the resurrection or Christian theology but it is a spiritual problem and I'm okay with that I'm okay with Google who I think really operates in some ways in an evil way

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