‘Forest for the trees’ #13 Paul Engel
AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Okay, so we've all heard that saying about can't see the forest for the trees, right? |
| 0:30.6 | We've all heard that, that idiom that describes someone that's too into the details that they don't see what's really going on. |
| 0:40.4 | I remember hearing that as a young lad. |
| 0:42.2 | And actually, as I researched that statement there, get a load of this. |
| 0:47.3 | That dates back to 1546. |
| 0:49.8 | I had no idea dated back that far. |
| 0:53.0 | 1546. |
| 0:58.5 | But Miriam Webster says it suggests being overwhelmed by the components, which is the trees, and missing the big pitch of the forest. It's kind of in many |
| 1:03.3 | ways where I see ourselves right today. And in some ways, kind of is what came to my mind a little |
| 1:08.3 | bit here. And a very cool thing today is we have in the |
| 1:11.7 | house here a constitutional scholar author speaker and the heroic american uh paul angle is here |
| 1:18.8 | hey paul how you doing today all right doing good buddy doing good and uh this paul has really |
| 1:25.0 | dedicated his life to some pretty big things i mean we're talking, it's been over a couple of decades of this Constitution and the Bible |
| 1:32.6 | and done some amazing things, Paul. |
| 1:34.8 | So, and I've got to know you pretty well over the years, and your work continues to amaze me. |
| 1:39.9 | You're like a machine. |
| 1:41.6 | You're like a, you're like a Constitutional machine. |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, you put out so much content, huh? |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, you know, it's, God gave me a warped mind to organize all this stuff and, |
| 1:52.4 | and keep up on it. |
| 1:53.6 | And I'm, I also have that thing. |
| 1:55.2 | I hate being late. |
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