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Greetings to you.

My name is Brandt.

Sherry is here.

We're very different. If you're new to the show, there's a lot of, like, Sherry's a social magnet. She attracts people.

You know what? I'm also a social magnet. Yes, you are. Because magnets have two poles.

I wasn't thinking of her. There's one that repels. So we're both magnets in our own way.

This is a magnetic show.

Yeah.

Yeah, check out the news today.

I don't even have to know all the headlines, but it's going to be stuff that you'll be like, oh, hmm.

Wow.

And let me tell you something.

If you wear it, like, if that's the thing you feel like, oh, I need to feel compassion for that. And I need to feel compassion for this. And I need to feel you can't handle it. No. Too much. There's no way. And I'm not arguing against compassion at all. It's just like, but the idea that it's a feeling and you have to feel for every tragic thing, every horrible crime, everything.

Like, I really do think that we're taught that we're supposed to feel that way, especially if you're a believer.

But other people are too that you feel like you have to feel this.

And we saw this study.

We talked about it last week about millennials, for example, feeling anxiety like six hours a day. I think it's linked to that because of social media and constant influx of news and information. Like you can't do it. And I don't think you should feel guilty if some horrible crime happens and you don't get all emotional about it. I don't think so.

You still pray for it, but the idea that you're supposed to just wear this, like you're supposed

to enter into the entire world, like we're not created for...

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