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You know, it's tricky. You listen to this radio station. You know, we talk about God here and who Jesus is and the good news about who God is and how he loves us and stuff. The weird thing is, though, for a lot of people, they associate religion with trying to climb this ladder to get to him. Like, you do something good, you go up a rung. If you do something bad, you go down a rung rung hopefully go up enough that you can make it to him okay you know what's weird about that actually religion

is a great way to avoid god because you can make it all about this scoreboard or it's really about you

you did this you did that or i was good've been good. I've been praying every day and

read my Bible. I went to church. God has to do whatever I asked for. Like that's, that's not it.

That's relating to a computer. It's actual relationship with a personality. And God wants us to

enjoy him. It's just odd that we can use a lot of different methods to avoid him. And unfortunately, religion can be one of them.

What's up? My name is Brandt. Glad you're listening. It's really cool and hit radio show. Oh, my goodness. The show has been interrupted. I'm sorry. I've just been handed to important news. This is breaking animal news. This is from China. A guy was with some ladies at the zoo, and he thought it would be impressive to them. And maybe it was. I don't know. But he jumped over the fence and decided to wrestle a panda. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay. Now, the panda is just this big ball of fur. It's not that huge. It's like 300 pounds, but it's not like a full grown thing. But it's strong. It's pretty strong. Yeah, he was trying to sleep, and he went over there and poked it. Okay. He literally poked the bear, and the bear got up and decided you're going down. Right. And theyled for about five minutes and nobody got hurt. Oh, okay. And he left. So here, I guess, I guess this breaking animal that turns into a question. I'll ask you, producer Sherry. Great. Kind of impressive? No. A little bit? No. Okay. I guess that answers the question.

That's very instructive.

Guys, if you heard this, I just bounced this off.

Sherry, dude, jumped into the panda enclosure to zoo and China to impress the ladies.

Sherry doesn't think, now this is, you're just speaking for yourself.

I am, yes.

But you don't think that the ladies would be that impressed by him jumping in there and wrestling a panda. No, I don't know a woman. I'm not saying there isn't any, but I don't know a woman who went to the zoo with a guy and is hoping that he'll jump into one of the animal enclosures. Not even deep down, not even like. I don't know that woman. I'm not saying she doesn't exist. I'm saying I don't know her. Okay. All right. So, just trying to think about the inner heartbeat of a girl. Like if she grows up, you're not picturing someday I'm going to get me a panda wrestling man? No, I didn't.

Now there may be panda wrestling people out there that say, yes, that's what I want.

But I don't know any women like that.

Because they don't quote the ladies in this news story.

They just mentioned that this guy was arrested.

And it should be.

We're not saying trespassing is ever a good idea.

Right.

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