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Exploring theology, doctrine, and all of the fascinating subjects in between, broadcasting from an undisclosed location, Dead Men Walking starts now. Oh, hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome back to the Dead Men Walking podcast. I'm your host Greg Moore. As always, you can find out more about us at dmwpodcast.com. Go there, check out the back catalog, support us through the merch cave, where you can get mugs like this, the Dead Men Walking mug. Or the fun, here we go, we got it on the shelf here, Wineham Dynam, Romans 9 them, or my favorite T-shirt. How about you shut up and let that be your wisdom, Job 13-6, one of my favorite verses in the Bible? Because it's a little sarcastic as well. But yeah, thanks for sharing with a friend, thanks for giving us constructive criticism, giving us texts and posts, outside of the constructive criticism, the support. I get a lot of positive things too. I know I always say constructive criticism, because it seems like that's what most of the internet is nowadays. But it's really nice to get supportive text messages and messages and things like that. Sorry, I'm a little thrown off. I'm not using my in-ears and I'm used to hearing myself talk even when I'm by myself and I'm just kind of now sitting in a room. So not that I need to hear myself talk in my in-ears, but without hearing that, it's a little bit different. But yeah, I wanted to get on here. It won't be a long episode. Just myself today. We've got some guests coming up for you in the future, which we will announce that on X and social media here as soon as we get those nailed down. But today you just got me. It's a family episode. You're just hanging out with me, whether you're on your way to work, driving a truck, sitting in the study, whatever you're doing. I'm happy to be there with you. And thanks for tuning in and downloading and listening. It's an honor. I was just talking and we're going to get into this in a little bit. But I was just talking to two gentlemen from my church, Christ the Word, who hosts a podcast. I was a guest on there. And talking about the responsibility it is when someone comes up to you. You know, last two years ago, I had someone message me and say, hey, came across your podcast, you know, fell away from God or kind of rejected God. And now listening again, and it's really getting me interested to go back into church. And then a year ago, I got a message and he said, hey, just wanted to give you an update. And I'd only talk to him via, you know, a message on my website, you know, I don't know this guy. And he says, you know, back in church, found a wife, I think, you know, a courting girl. And man, I just really want to thank you for your podcast. And I went, wow, sometimes we forget for any of us that are either doing a podcast, creating content. You don't know who you're reaching. You know, it's really crazy when I go and pull the analytics up for the podcast. And it'll say, you know, 812 people in South Africa have downloaded you this week. And you go, what is good? That's crazy. You know, we just have a worldwide reach with this little microphone. You know, this RSS feed. But, yeah, we shouldn't forget that. And that goes for our everyday life. I mean, if you're out there listening and you go, well, I don't have a podcast, I don't create content. Man, Greg, I'm working everyday. I'm providing from my family. I'm doing this. I'm doing that. Look at you don't know whose life you're going to touch when you're reflecting the actions, thoughts, and principles of Christ. If you're doing that every day, your coworkers, your family, your extended family, people you come across, the bank teller. I mean, I know it sounds cliche, but it really is a cool thing, how the sovereignty of God and then the actions of man come together in a mystery to where God uses us in ways that we don't even see. And we should always be aware of that and have that in the back of our mind. So just an encouragement to you, even if you're not, you know, podcasting or content creating or you've got this platform or whatever, that doesn't mean it's any less important. Or especially doesn't mean you're not affecting people's lives. I would argue maybe even more. In person, right? You're having that conversation with that gas station attendant or whatever that you see once a week, probably more effective. You can be more effective in their life than someone talking from a microphone on a podcast. Be encouraged today to be a witness in everything that you do and keep that top of mind when you get up in the morning. But I wanted to review the bracket. We had the best reform podcast bracket the last two weeks. I kind of gave you the live streams and the updates. I did not upload the final live stream with the winner. If you want to watch that, you can watch that on our Facebook page. You can watch that on our YouTube page. You can watch that on our X stream. Deadman Walking Podcast on the first two. And then Twitter X is real DMW podcast. Go follow us there and you can watch those live streams. But we had a great bracket. It was the fourth year. We did it. Started out with 128 podcasts. Got it all the way down to the final two. The final four was Keith Foskey, your Calvinist. Matthew Everhard, the Kings Hall, and Sword and Trollow with Tom Askel. The final two came down to Tom Askel. First time ever, he was ever in the finals with Sword and Troll versus the reigning champ from last year. Keith Foskey, your Calvinist. And Keith Foskey took it with 59% of the vote. We had over, I think almost 100,000 votes, two and a half million views over the 13-day period. We do it every year. It just started as kind of a boredom for me one night. And I did it with 32 podcasts and now it's grown to 128. And honestly, we could probably expand it to 256 if we wanted to. And we do daily voting on X every day. You're voting for multiple brackets. You're eliminating just like, think like March Madness bracket. And it culminates to, I think last Saturday, down to the winner, which was Keith Foskey, your Calvinist. Friend of the podcast, personal friend of mine. And I'm glad to see him win it twice in a row. And we had awesome prize packs. We had Rockwell Bible giving away a rebomb Bible, Des Vault rebinding gave a rebomb Bible to second place. We had book packs from Grayson Truth Press. We had coffee from Squirley Joe's coffee. We had cigar packs going out to everyone from first, second, third place, fourth place, plus Best Mima Ward Dark Horse Award from 1689 Cigars. I mean, just lifetime membership to the reform business association over there. I've Bretton donated that. Bonapace Media, lifetime membership to their media group. So I mean, all kinds of prizes given away to these podcasts. And we had some fun. And I just tell you that to say, next year, it always happens in March. And I don't know the exact dates, but it's usually the first half of March we do it. If you have a podcast and you want to be included in message me and say, hey, include me next year. I want to try to win some prizes, get some notoriety. We really do it to try to bring three reasons. First, to glorify God and everything that we do. Right? That's why we do this podcast. Or I do this podcast. Second, I want to bring some notoriety to some lesser known podcasts. We had some guys that were first time entries, forward by faith by Ken, Jerry over there at the Twitchy Theologian. They made it a second, third round. I mean, they were getting thousands of votes. And people were tagging them and retweeting them. And I had one of them reach out to me and go, man, what a blessing for my podcast. I got all these followers on X. People heard about me. And that's the second reason we do it. And the third reason and why I have sponsors is, I truly believe it's Christians. We need to be putting our money where our mouth is and our money where our money should be, which is with other Christian businesses. People who are building things for the Kingdom of God, who are doing things correctly, running their business with biblical principles. So when I advertise for people like Squirley Joes or for like, Dominoel Strategists, or you know, you see me partnering with Private Family Banking or 1689 Cigars or these guys. These guys, I know them personally. I know how they're running their business. I know how they're supporting their community, their family, their local church, all those things. That's where we want to be putting our money. So we also do it to make sure we give exposure to those businesses that have products and services that we should be patronizing. But I won't say too much more on that. You've already had two weeks of the bracket. It's always fun. I get lots of messages. People get mad at me. People get happy with me. You can't make everyone happy because sometimes I include podcasts. They're not reformed or they're too far right or they're too far left or whatever it is. And look at, I'm a free market capitalist. I love voting. Not only in elections, but also in brackets. Let the will of the people vote them through. And the will of the people spoke. And this year they spoke for Keith Foskey of your Calvinist overwhelmingly with Tom Asker coming in second. Matthew Everhard coming in third. The Kings Hall coming in fourth, which the Kings Hall was the past winner. So made it to the final four. Again, but didn't take the whole thing. So moving on from that. But make sure you check that out next year too. And if you can be, you want to be part of it in any way, let me know or any way you can help. It's all volunteer based and really appreciate it. At two appearances this week, two people call me up, two different podcasts. Hey, would you be a guest? And that didn't happen in quite a while, maybe like a year or so. About two years ago, it felt like I was being a guest on a podcast like every week. And then kind of had to pull back from that. It's just it's a lot, you know. Like when I interview people and they say, yeah, they'll come on here and talk to me. I try to keep it to, you know, 40 minutes because I know they're times valuable. We don't want to extend past what they can do. And I'm very appreciative when people come on this podcast, give me their time. Times the most valuable thing we have. And you know, he want to respect that. But I had a Dwayne Charles met him through a chance over 1689 cigars. We met at a fight left feast conference, I think, briefly. And he started a new channel. I think he's only like episode one, two, three. I don't know. I might be the first handful of episodes called Rise and Kill. And it's and talking about basically hunting and how creation is the glory of God and how more men need to get out in nature and in hunting and providing, you know, sustenance and food for their family. And he kind of gave me the 32nd elevator pitch of what he was doing. And I was like, yeah, dude, I'm in absolutely like, I could sit there and swap hunting stories and talk about, you know, how I do my Bible studies and plan my business for the next year from my hunting blind in Northern Michigan. Like it's some of, it's probably my favorite week of the year. When my brother and I Chris go up north and man, we just, we see the glory of God. We do hunting. We're cooking. We're smoking meat. We're doing all these things that men like to do. And on top of that, we get to reconnect with this beautiful creation that God has gifted us. And Dwayne and I sat down for, I mean, I think it was about an hour and the time just flew because we did. It was a good episode because very laid back, Dwayne's a great interviewer, very conversational. And we just swapped some fun hunting stories. So I'm going to link that up as soon as I get the link from him. If you want to hear two guys just talking hunting and some of the fun, funny, crazy stories that happen when you're out in nature from, you know, maybe tracking down a deer to a bobcat, holler and atcha to, you know, all the different things we were talking about. Go over there and check out Rise and Kill. That's RISE and then the letter N and then Kill KILL. With Dwayne Charles. It's a brand new podcast and I was happy to come on and honored really to have someone else like him say, hey, I want to talk to you for an hour. You know, I still have a little bit of imposter syndrome when someone says, hey, will you come host this conference or will you come on this podcast or, you know, hey, can I be on your podcast? And it's like this bigger name or someone I've looked up to. And I just go, who am I that they would, you know, want me to do those things? And then I remember, well, I have been doing this six years. We do have, you know, a little bit of an audience. Thanks to you guys, Sharon with a friend and, you know, bookmarking us and all that stuff. And I have to realize, oh, yeah, I do have some, you know, some type of authority in this space or some type of, you know, small sphere of influence, you know, it's kind of the same way when I think about like being a county commissioner. I see it as a servant's role. I serve at the pleasure of my constituents. But for some people in the county, I'm a very important person and it never occurs to me, you know, I have people come up a commission or more and I go, please, just, it's just Greg, right? Like literally, and I'm not trying to say this is like, like a false humbleness, but really, especially in the elected official field, we are servants of the people. I'm being paid by taxpayer money. Like I don't take that lightly, but I forget sometimes. Oh, yeah, yeah, we do preside over a $60 million plus dollar budget. There are things that, you know, like the police officer, health department, road commission, like all these things where a county needs to function, we are kind of the stopgap for that as commissioners. And in some people do find you that, you know, you have some authority in this thing. You have some, some say, some importance. And I've always struggled with actually thinking of myself as important, because, you know, I know the way my brain works. I'm just a curious idiot. And sometimes I feel like an imposter too. But then people will come up to me go, oh, no, you're, you know, what you explained to me or, you know, what you said was knowledgeable. And I appreciate that. And the Lord has to remind me, take those things seriously. And I'm saying that to you guys too, listening, like whatever part of the kingdom, the Lord has given you some authority over, like, take it seriously. We're ambassadors for Christ. Like whether you're an influencer or manager, at your job, or you just started and you're scrubbing the floors, right? Like the Lord has given you whatever amount of control and authority and kind of influence over that. Use it wisely, have discernment, reflect Christ and your speech, thoughts and actions. And the Lord blesses it. I mean, proverb says a man plans, plans his path, but the Lord orders his steps. The Lord will take you as far and as long as he wants down that path. And bless it as long as we do it all into the glory of God. But go check out Rise and Kill with Duane Charles. That was fun. And then just last night I recorded, oh, geez, I think we went two hours on a podcast called Fellow Heirs, which is hosted by Isaac and Nick. Two buddies of mine that I go to church with, two young guys at Christ the word church in Sylvania, Ohio. And they really do it as, you know, they talk about very interesting topics and subjects. And then they also do like testimony, get to know guys in the church. And our church has grown pretty substantially in the last three to four years, probably doubled in size up to probably, I don't know, maybe 700 and 50, 800 people every week now. And so we have a very large, you know, when you grow fast like that, in hospitality is a core of your church, having meals at each other's houses and things like that. It's hard to keep track of everyone and get to know everyone when you grow that fast. So this was kind of born out of that, I think. And then on top of that, they bring in very wise men in our church. And they talk about subjects like, you know, there's one with our associate or our founding pastor David Bailey talking about ice and or, you know, like how to manage money or all these different things. And they had me on, they just go, hey, we want to talk about your testimony. And, you know, they didn't know too much about me and my background. And it was a great podcast. It should be coming out sometime this week. You're listening to this right now. It'll be less than seven days. I'll go and update this, this stream here. If you look at the bottom in the description, if there isn't a link there, link there, there will be a link. And boy, did we have fun? We joked a lot. But we also got serious about my testimony. If you've listened to this podcast for any amount of time, you've definitely, you've definitely heard, oh, I mean, you know, you've heard my testimony, but I added some other stuff in there and got a little more detailed. Like I said, it was two hours long, but it was fun. And it's always fun talking to younger guys in the church too. When I say younger, I'm 44, you know, when they're in the 20s and early 30s, whatever it is, geez, I don't know. They're probably in their 20s. That's another thing, guys. When you get to your 40s, you don't know how old anyone is. I got to have a guy come up to me, go, I don't know if you're 39 or 21, dude. Like I just know you're younger than me. And it's tough. So don't be offended if, if Nick or Isaac, you're listening to this. I don't even know how old you are, but I'm sure you're, we know you're younger than me. But you get their perspective on things, too. Like what's going on in the culture a little differently, like a 25 year old guy right now is going to have a different perspective than a 35 year old guy, a 45 year old guy and a 55 and 65 year old guy. It's just, it is what it is. It's generational. It's the world they grew up in. It's their past experiences. So that's always fun too. So go check out fellow heirs. It's a Christ the Word production. You can find it in Spotify and Apple podcasts everywhere you get podcasts. But was a guest on both of those, Ryzen Kill and then fellow heirs, both of them. I was very appreciative for them to ask me to be on and I was more than happy to sit down and chat with all those guys. But you know, I had a lot of people messaging me and asking me about the Iran conflict. I think they're calling it epic fury, the Iran war. And I call it a war. Air strikes boots on the ground. Doesn't matter to me. That's a war. And that's probably, I'm giving away my position here a little bit. And I know some of you're going to be listening and you're not going to like this position. But I put out a post a couple of weeks ago and this thing started. And I just very simply said, didn't agree, didn't agree with the air strikes for Clinton, for Bush, for Obama or for Trump. It was wrong when Obama did it. It's wrong when Trump did it. And what I meant by that was constitutionally, I probably fall more on the side of like Rand Paul of Thomas Massey of a few in Congress that say, hold on a minute. Air strikes are considered war. We've lost 13 soldiers already, 13 dead. So it's not like we're just sending in drones. You know, Iran is firing back. And I have a real issue with it from a constitution, constitutional aspect. You know, Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, only Congress can declare war. And then Article 2, Section 2, the Commander-in-Chief can direct the military operations, right? And then this was even so much on the top of minds of Congress and the executive that back in, I don't know what was in 1973, you have to double check me on the year of the the war powers resolution. Actually said, hey, no, actually, Mr. President, you've got to notify us of what you're doing. Only week into clear war. Like you got to notify the Congress. It can't just be one guy in his group of people making a decision and then going in, you know, bombing people. And really it's become a political interpretation game. The administration that's in power will go, oh, well, you know, if it's less than 60 days and it's a limited air strike and we don't have boots on the ground, then it's not technically a war. And so we can do it. Clinton did it. Obama did it. Biden did it. Trump is doing it. All of them are wrong. That's all unconstitutional act. Only Congress has the right to declare wars as the Constitution. And I think that's smart. I think 535 people in the house and 100 people in the Senate should collectively decide. I think when you have 635 people mauling something over instead of maybe one president or one president in his group of 10 or 12 closest counselors, right? I think it's smarter that we have a consensus style when it comes to invading a sovereign nation. And I think the Constitution is very clear that invasion does include air strikes, right? We had air strikes when the Constitution was written. Now it was cannons and muskets and arrows and things like that, but it was still air strikes just because you're physically not standing on that ground. You're taking the lives of sovereign citizens of a sovereign nation, whether it be leaders or military personnel or even in this case in Iran, innocent civilians. That's a very heavy weighty thing to consider when you take other people's lives. I mean, Obama is the drone king. He took hundreds of thousands of innocent lives with drones because his administration reclassified what a military combatant was. It was a male over the age of 18 and they were allowed to have up to 25 citizens or civilians around them to be able to strike them. So you could just be a kid that's 19 years old, your male, you have nothing to do with the Taliban or ISIS or whatever. And you could be at a wedding with 20 other people or small gathering, a dinner, let's say. They would just drone you and bomb you and kill you. We didn't even know if the 19 year old guy was a terrorist. Too bad. That's how we've classified just a terrorist. And no one said anything. The media definitely didn't. They were on the pocket, the mainstream media for Obama. Obviously the conservatives were in the right and Fox News. Oh, this is unconstitutional. This is illegal, right? You can't do this. For eight years, they they cried like that and they rallied their troops and then rallied against Biden doing it. Then as soon as Trump gets in and their guy, that party, the Republican party, you know, the party of the right gets in. Well, heck, we have to do it. I mean, I ran, could have nuclear capabilities and you go, man, for those of us that are old enough to remember the weapons of mass destruction debacle, you know, and how we got into the Iraq war, it seems like that same thing that we just go, well, they could have. They might, they possibly, you know, and I chuckle because, you know, I laughed if it wasn't a more serious, I mean, such a serious situation I shouldn't, but there's a there's a bit by Jeff Garland where he said, you know, he was reading his, reading his cereal box one morning and it said, could be a, could be a nutritional source of your diet. And he goes, could be, could be maybe who knows? You know, he's making fun of the fact that they, they're trying to make a statement, sell you on, this is a nutritional source, but could be a nutritional source. We don't want to say for sure, it could be and you got to laugh and go, who, who are you trying to fool with that statement on a cereal box? Well, our leaders do that. Congress does that, you know, the president does that, you know, could have, we might have intelligence that they could have nuclear capabilities. Maybe, well, we should go in there and start bombing them. So that's a long way of me saying, look at, if Congress approved a war with Iran, maybe I would be closer to going, okay, we have the constitutional authority to do it, but as it's being done right now, epic fury and look at, Higgseth, I've talked to him at length that at a couple of different conferences. It's not like I have a cell phone number or anything, but we're friendly enough to wear the second time you saw him, he said, oh, hey, Greg, right? So it's like, I'm, I know these people that are doing this, I've met Trump twice. We're not on a first name basis. He'll never remember me, but it's like, I voted for Trump. So please don't get me wrong when I start criticizing something he does, but I can't be hypocritical. I can't for the last 20 years in content I create in podcasts that I put out in Facebook posts and ex posts and, you know, call out the Biden's and the Obamas of the world and say, you're doing this unconstitutionally, but then when Trump, when my guy gets in, I can go, ah, well, the constitution doesn't matter. Same way I feel about executive orders. Executive orders are so overused. They're so unconstitutional in the aspect of how they're used and what they do, ah, you know, Bush, uh, W, the 2004 or whatever, 2000, 2008 president, not daddy Bush, but, you know, the son, ah, I mean, I think he issued more executive orders than any other president in his time. And I was so against it, I said, look at these executive orders. I mean, they went against, ah, third, you know, fourth amendment, fifth amendment, first amendment, and no one, no one said a thing. Hey, man, we're in a war. We got, we got, you know, privacy rights violated with executive orders. We got to do this. We can't legislate from the executive branch. President is not allowed to legislate from the executive branch. All he's allowed to do is he has control over the executive. Now granted, the executive is huge. The federal government is so bloated that you're talking, you know, a million employees that the president oversees or whatever that is. I mean, it's probably more than that now. But executive orders was another thing where I couldn't be hip, hypocritical on. I don't think the president should be issuing executive orders that essentially acts as a mandate, which essentially is legislation, which essentially is a law. They use a bunch of word salad and word games and go, oh, no, it's not a law. It's a mandate. Oh, no, it's, it's not legislation. It's an executive order. Well, what's the actual use of it? How is it being used in reality? It's a law. You have to bet or things happen to you, right? Like a mandate is just a fancy way of saying a law without saying we created a law, you know, a federal mandate that you have to do x, y, or z, right? So executive orders and declaring war, I have to call both parties, Democrats and Republicans, they both do it. And it's very, it's a political game. It's our guys are in power. So now we're going to use the excuse. We're going to make the legal arguments that we hated just a few years earlier when our opponents from the other party made those arguments. And if that isn't two-faced hypocritical and just basically calling you a liar, I don't know what is. Now, I think a lot of these guys in the Trump administration, especially like a Hegseth and these guys that are in kind of the inner upper echelons and inner workers of this, they've all got themselves convinced that it, you know, ends justify the means, national security. We're doing this for the safety of our country, right? And I think, you know, when you have a goal and you kind of have an ideology, that can really push you through and get you through on something where deep down you might think, is this unconstitutional? I don't know if this is hypocritical. You can look past those things. Because deep down you want to do it, deep down you say to yourself, I know this probably isn't right, but man, the ends justify the means. This is for national security, right? And that's why you see them do this. I think a little water here. I'm rambling. And it's unfortunate because a principled man doesn't let his ideology get in the way of principle or morality, right? Like that's what you always have to fight against. And your ideology can really be based on past experiences, culture, politics, all those things, worldview. And you have to let the principle stand, right? So the principle has to outweigh the means, the ends, and what you feel like you want to do. And unfortunately, today in politics, that's pretty much gone. We only have a few in the house, maybe one or two in the Senate that really stand on principle and not even all the time. Probably my favorite, federally elected officials, Thomas Massey. And I don't think that's any surprise. I've known Massey six months before he ran down there in Kentucky and went back and forth with him on policy. And when I say went back and forth, like agreed with him, but thanked him and told him this and he said this to me, this is before you was even a congressman and then became a congressman still stayed in contact with him. And now he's just so, so busy. I've actually reached out to him. We're going to try to get him on the program and have him talk politics and liberty and kind of why it's Trump down there trying to primary him. Well, we know why Trump is trying to primary him. But the fact that Trump is doing that, he's got to realize a majority of Trump's mega base is absolutely adorist, Thomas Massey. I mean, they keep throwing guys up against him to try to primary him, outspend him 10 to one. And he keeps winning because especially people in his district love him. I mean, this guy's an MIT graduate, totally off the grid, libertarian says no to just about everything that will increase taxes, start wars, isn't sound money. I mean, all the conservative, right? I say it in quotes because even conservative has changed on the last five to eight years. Conservative principles that 10, 15 years ago we yearned for, you know, out of the fed, end the fed, sound money, gold standard, less taxes, less government, no wars, no nation building. Like release the Epstein files, prosecute pedophiles. Like there's nothing this guy stands for where you go, oh, yeah, that's that's a horrible thing. I can't agree with that yet. Because he puts, because he calls hypocrisy on some of the Trump administration and his fellow Republicans, boy, do they want to crucify him? Because you have to realize it's also a caucus game, right? Like the reason why you put an R or a D in front of your name is so you can block vote. So you can say, hey, you have to go along with the Republican caucus, the Democratic caucus. We that way when the floor leader, the majority floor leader goes out and whips votes, meaning he's going, hey, we got this bill coming to the floor. We want to make sure it passes. We want to make sure all the Republicans vote together, or you'll see then smaller caucus within the Republican and Democratic party, right? Like the freedom caucus, which goes, you know what? We're caucus within the Republican party that's really concerned with personal liberty. So when personal liberty legislation comes up, you know that we're going to vote a certain way on this. And that way the floor leader can go to the liberty caucus and go, okay, you've got 88 members, let's say, I don't know how many members are right now. I need you guys, I need your 88 members on this vote. And they'll say, no, we disagree. Yes, we agree with it. No, but if you change this or what can we get out of it for our constituents of our 88 members in the caucus? So caucus voting is the way anything gets done in Washington. It's the way anything gets done at your state capital in politics. And when you have someone who breaks caucus, because he goes, well, hold on, you know, like a Thomas Massey, hang on, I'm a Republican. And our platform says we agree that we should have limited government. Yet you guys want to increase the size of government. I'm going to vote against that. And the Republicans go, well, we don't like that because hey, yeah, we're against big government, but not when we're in power, not when we have the presidency, the Senate and the, and the House, and we can pass this. I'm just giving one example, but that's how both parties act, right? They're against it. In fact, I've talked to many Republican elected officials who like to be in the minority, like meaning they, their party is an empower because then you can go, look, there's nothing that you can rally and say all these things, less government and spend less money and fix the roads and and all, you know, whatever it is that they're saying. And then they can go, oh, but I can't do anything about it personally because we're in the minority. I mean, they've got the governorship or they've got the presidency or they've got the legend, you know, the House or the Senate or whatever, they're the minority and then they can fundraise on the ideas without actually having to vote on them. And they'll gladly vote yes on something that makes you happy as a conservative, let's say, but they know that it's going to fail, right? But when it actually is going to pass and learn the majority, the Republicans, let's say in this instance, getting the majority, you go, okay, let's cut government spending. All right, let's stop nation building. All right, let's stop sending 50, 60, 70 billion dollars to these countries, Israel and Ukraine and all these places. All right, let's talk about abolition now in our state and outlaw abortion. Okay, let's talk about, you know, the defensive marriage. And you start bringing it on now. Now it's, oh, I can't, you know, I don't know if that my constituents, all of them won't agree to that. They start, you know, doing the dance because now the rubber hits the road, rubber meets the road, excuse me. And they actually have to put their name on something that's going to pass. That's going to get them a lot of flack from mainstream media, leftist, centrist, you know, whatever it is. And that's the way it works. And it's sad. And it works all the way down on, you know, from little issues, little baby funding issues, all the way up to big issues like Federal Reserve and air strikes in Iran. And that's the way it goes. So as of right now, I don't agree with the way that that we went into Iran. I think it's unconstitutional and I think it needs to have a voter congress. Did we need to air strike Iran? I don't know. When I look into it, I don't see really the data support that they have nuclear capabilities are close to it. Now you could argue they're not going to provide that with this. We're only as good as our intelligence, right? I mean, that's always the issue. Like they're trying to hide it from us. They're definitely trying to pursue a nuclear bomb. We don't have the intelligence to show that. But I think we could do a lot with sanctions. I think we could do a lot with economic purchasing power, not purchasing oil from it. Remember, too, like I rent like OPEC in those countries over there with oil. Very little percentage of our oil comes from over there. Like the United States gets more oil from Canada than we do from in the Middle East. I mean, it's they make it seem like 95% of the oil comes from them. I don't know what the percentage is. Let's look it up here. I got Grock in front of me. What percentage of US oil comes from the... It comes from Iran, let's say. Well, that's working. So it's very little. So it's all very political, too. Oh, in 2022, small sporadic amounts appeared. Let's see. EIA data on US imports from Iran of crude oil and petroleum products shows near zero or zero volumes in recent years. Wow. So yeah, it's very, very small. Seven percent Saudi Arabia, 4 percent Iraq, 10 percent Mexico, 50 to 60 percent Canada. So there's your numbers. We have 50, 60 percent of our crude oil from Canada, 10 percent from Mexico, 7 percent Saudi Arabia, 4 percent Iraq, and nothing from Iran. So I mean, we don't, you know what I mean? So if you're talking like this is a thing about oil, too, we can lean on other countries to go, hey, let's make a treaty with them. No more purchasing oil or whatever their exports are from Iran. There's other ways besides drone strikes and air strikes and taking out leaders. Now, I say that and you guys would go, Greg, you're a concealed carry guy. You're a hunter. You're a self-defense guy. You're conservative in that sense. You're, you're the first guy to be like, let's raise up arms and defend this Christian nation. Like, I get it. But I also am a man of order, I'm an a principal and I think we have to adhere to those things. I don't think God does anything in chaos. He does everything orderly and we have to reflect that even in our lives. I think even when you see how God instituted government, how he's instituted police officers to be administrators of peace, there's order to that. There's order to the hierarchy. And when we start saying, hey, we got a guy in there. He's on our team and we want to go take out another country with air strikes. Yeah, let's do it. Let's let's ignore the rule of law. Well, we've got a big issue, right? I think that's the same with ice as well too. Like we have a rule of law. And if you come here illegally and you do stupid stuff like jumping your car and try to run over a ice officer, we can talk about whether Renee Good should have been shot or not or could have avoided that. But at the end of the day, you do stupid things. Stupid things happen to you. And when you impede an investigation, you might have a trigger, happy ice agent that has been dragged before and goes, I don't want to die today and shoot you 10 times. Like had that person, uh, been a believer or had just read a little bit of some of the wisdom literature in the Bible, who to very clearly said, be very careful what you do when you come up against kings and those in authority because it could end badly for you. I'm paraphrasing some proverbs there. Um, but I digress. We're getting off here. But, um, yeah, this was only supposed to be a few minute episode, but of course, I rambled. Uh, hopefully I took up a little bit of your time doing whatever it is you're doing today. Guys, I'm so excited for spring. Uh, because that means summer and summer means late time. It means camping. It means hanging out with family and friends. It means really what doing Charles and I talked about and rising kill being out in nature among God's creation. Enjoying that, uh, obviously I'm up here in Michigan. I think it's about 55 degrees today. It was 19 degrees yesterday. So that's the season we're in right now. You wake up one morning and everything's frozen. You wake up the next day and the sun's out and you're like, should I put on my shorts? So, um, excited for that. I'm going to be doing some episodes from the camper. I'm going to be doing some episodes from the lake like I have in the past. So we'll do some Bible studies. We'll interview some guests and you will see Lake Michigan. Maybe even like here on coming to you. Thinking about doing an episode or two from deer camp this year, people have messaged me and said, Hey, why don't you give us a little video, a year in your brother, or, you know, talking around the campfire, talking about deer camp. We take our sons up there. Our sons are 11 and 12 years old. They just started going with this the last couple years and it's, it's a fun time. So when I get up north to the property, I'll bring a microphone and hook it up and maybe we'll do some small episodes there too. So that's what you kind of got to look forward to when it's just me and then we'll have an announcement coming for guests as we line those up going into the second quarter here of 2026. But guys, thanks for sticking around. Once again, thanks for telling a friend. Make sure you share this. Hey, and it rate us too. That's always good. You know, I haven't said that in like four years, but you know, when we first started, I was like, rate rate rate, but that does help. When you go on to Apple or Spotify, rate us, give us five stars, bumps us up in the listeners ship there. And that's how we gain new listeners as well too. So there's things you can do without spending money or a lot of time to support the show. Right? You can literally just go, yeah, I'm going to go say, I like this podcast. Greg's a good dude. Rate it five stars. That helps. 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