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Yeah, there are certain words that fall into disfavor. They're called archaic at some point. I use a lot of them. I like them. Some of them are directly from Yosemite Sam. Yes. And you say when you are fatigue, you use them more. I will lapse into archaic language because I can't interpret for myself rapidly enough. It's like I get tired. Anyway, this is actually a little disturbing.

Seriously, like we just, by the way, on our podcast, we're just talking about the fruit

of the spirit in reality of this stuff in our lives.

There's this list in the Bible, stuff that will happen to you when you are following

Jesus, when God's filling your life.

And it's called the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, that kind of stuff.

Well, those words aren't used very much anymore.

You can do like a Google Trends search on these words.

Words like faithfulness are used less now.

Gentleness, that's fallen into disfavor.

Patience is used 53% less over the last couple decades.

Isn't that something?

So those things are all fruit of the spirit.

Kindness has dropped by 56%.

The words for gratitude or thankfulness have dropped by half. Oh my goodness. Isn't that interesting? They're not replaced by other words per se. They're saying, we just don't talk about this stuff. It's just not something you want to do, which just says a lot. Well, this is tough. You ever get on a plane and you're just nervous. You've got a lot of things going on. Well, this lady, you know what? I got breaking animal news to talk about what happened on an airplane with this poor lady. So we're not actually interrupting a news story. This is the news story. It's breaking animal news, but it has to do with an emotional support squirrel that a woman brought aboard a Frontier

Airlines flight. She tried to. She got approval from home. From Frontier Airlines for her emotional

support animal. And then when she showed up with her emotional support squirrel, they said no.

So that's why she instantly got a lawyer and she is out for it now. She is. Because they wouldn't let a squirrel. Yeah. Okay. So they pick and choose. It's like, yeah, you can bring this but not that. And they're like, oh, we don't allow rodents. Okay. Yeah, that's a good thing. Okay. So is there in your mind, honest question, is there any animal that is off limits?

No.

Okay.

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