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Sheldon Pierce, have you ever seen the Albert Brooks movie defending your life?

I have not.

Oh, I love that movie so much.

The idea behind the movie is that when you die, you go to this sort of way station where you go on trial and they look at footage from

across your life and you have to defend the life that you've lived in order to convince them that you know you can go on

to the next level for sure whatever that is and the big question that the judges

and the lawyers and every everyone the big question they're trying to sort out is,

did you live a life without fear? You know, if you lived a life of fear you got to go back you got to do it to try again

But if you were brave even in small ways then you get to go on to the next level. It's my all-time favorite concept of what the afterlife,

if there is one, must be like.

Sure.

You know, and I'm thinking about all of this

because one of the recurring themes that I heard in some of the songs that we're going to play. of this

one of the recurring themes that I heard in some of the songs that we're gonna play

it's not just fear but like how we process fear

how we make sense of it what it does to us

how we release it. Yeah. And I think there's a little bit of that

in the song that I know you want to play. Yeah this this is a song by the prodigal

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