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I got to hit the road here in a minute to get to that funeral that I was speaking of the other day.

And I had enough time to do everything this morning and do a proper podcast,

but as soon as the radio show was over, the kids opened up, came in the studio here,

and said that they opened up their own restaurant downstairs. And they had their aprons on and the table was all set. So I needed to go

downstairs and have a delicious breakfast made by my seven, six, and four year old. So now I don't

have time to do what this topic fully deserves. We'll do more of it on Monday. But here's what needs to happen. We got to talk about lament. We had Doug called in today this morning. When Doug said, things are terrible, things are awful. We're trillions of dollars in debt. People can't scrounge together any money for savings, barely make ends meet and it's hopeless goodbye and he hung up

and said whoa whoa whoa Doug we got some stuff to talk about here man and then a bunch of other people

called in and we spent an hour talking about how things are really hard things really tough and it was

so important because as much as I wanted to change the topic

and get back to what I was going to talk about, it's like, oh, no, let's just let this sit because maybe we've lost the plot a bit. Or it's easy to lose the plot and be like, oh, we've got to win the election. It's like, well, why? Why? What's the problem exactly? So it's worth taking time to

reflect why what's the problem exactly so it's worth taking time to reflect on how hard it is right now

in a lot of ways not just economically but just in a lot of ways there's a lot of despair a lot of

hopelessness which is not good can't be hopeless i also think there's a lot of despair, a lot of hopelessness, which is not good.

Can't be hopeless.

I also think there's a healthy amount of compassion that's happening.

We had some callers call in who are, our, was one guy called he owns a business. And he said, just this last week, I got five people come to me asking for help pay for groceries things like

that and he's like I just feel blessed that I'm in a situation where I can do that that's that's great

compassion compassion means to suffer alongside someone calm it means with passion like passion

of the Christ means to suffer so you're suffering with someone there's been a lot of that and

that's that's great we need to lament. I could feel

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