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Hey guys, thanks for having me. I'm relatively new to the reformed Christian world. A lot of you

guys have walked up and asked me about

all the people I'm aligned with and all the people I probably know, and I usually don't,

because I'm still very new to this. So there's a lot of people with a lot of theological

knowledge in this room, and don't worry, I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to hang

with any of them.

What I do know about is political theory, and so what Joel asked me to discuss today is

the school that I tend to specialize in on my show, Elite Theory.

So if this is incredibly boring, I'm sorry, and you can blame Joel, because he's the one

who came up with the topic.

So I don't know about you guys, but I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church.

And as a Southern Baptist, my dad was in the Air Force.

We traveled all the time.

We moved every year or two.

So I had a very transient childhood, never set down roots, never had friends for more than

a few years.

It can be kind of isolating. But the one

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