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You know what happens in religious worlds?

Like you can become famous or get lots of attention in that world for being good at Christian talk or music or whatever.

There's a poem.

I just heard about this poem called Palm Monday.

The day after Palm Sunday,

and it's about this donkey that goes walking back into Jerusalem.

Oh, that's interesting. And he's like, hey, I'm that donkey.

Why aren't you guys making a big deal out of that?

Just yesterday, I was coming down here.

You guys were throwing down the palm trees and all kinds of things.

Sure.

Going on, where's the, hey, hey, what's up? I guess in the poem, his mom has to be like, hey, actually wasn't about you. It was about Jesus. Oh, man, that's good. Yeah, and you're an awesome donkey. Don't get me wrong. You mean a lot to me, but it wasn't about you after all. Is it genius? I don't know. I don't know if it's genius. But I'm now wearing one contact lens. You are? Yeah, I'm profoundly near sighted. It always have been. But I have found now, like, if I have a good contact lens, then I can't see up close, can't read little print. Okay. So I keep one contact in for distance. That can't be right. And then the other one, I leave it out so I can read easily, like, left my phone. Didn't optometrist suggest that to you? No, because they're very limited in their thinking. This is innovator.

I have more of an expansive, innovative.

I don't know.

Am I a steep job like innovator?

When it comes to optometry, interesting.

I'm not having that discussion.

If people are out there having that discussion, they're going to

I can't, I can't weigh in on that.

Been an adult for a while now, and I've seen a lot of stuff. One thing that has not been as big an issue is I thought it was going to be in life from when I was a kid was, is quicksand. Because when you're... I do remember a lot of lessons. Yeah, a lot of lessons of people say. I'm going to at least run into that a few times. Right. And never did. It was going to be up to my neck and the time picking out. It was like Princess Bride, Batman. No, it was very prevalent when we were growing up. Every show at some point. I think Fonzie at some point. It really has turned out to be okay.

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