WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.280 It is the 9th of January, 2026. 00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:04.400 I am Corey J. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:06.720 Mahler, and this is at any cost. 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:12.880 This is the 11th episode, the second QA episode of 2026, and 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.600 I think I will just jump into things right away. 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:18.560 I will initially go for a question that I happen to notice 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:19.440 in the chat. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.680 Someone asked about the tetragrammaton. 00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:25.040 I see that he's already had some people respond with the episode 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:26.640 on the Judaizing heresy. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.720 That's a good place to start with that. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:32.240 There is also a good thread from Woe on X that is 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:33.360 still up. 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:36.320 I will go ahead and link to that in the show notes. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:37.680 I'll make a note of that 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:43.920 And the short answer is that the word is Lord. 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.600 It's kurios in the Greek, and we just translate it as Lord. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.840 So anytime you see that, and I know there are some English 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:57.040 versions that leave that untranslated just have the tetragrammaton there or have 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.080 I don't even want to say the word because it's it's Yahweh, 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:02.320 which is not what it is, which is the problem 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:06.400 that is Judaizing, you should not use that one. 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:10.320 And so if they leave it untranslated, that's not as bad. 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:15.040 It's kind of silly because when you translate something, you should probably 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.200 translate the entire document, not leave random words untranslated. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.280 Unless there's some particularly important reason for doing it. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:28.880 given that we have it translated in the Septuagint into curios into 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.920 Lord, there's no reason to leave it untranslated in English. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.600 So if you see that, just mentally translate it as the Lord. 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:39.520 That's what I'll do if I happen to be reading the ALV, 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:42.080 the American Literary Version, because it does that. 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:45.600 So So which is unfortunate because I actually kind of like the 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:46.320 English of it. 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:49.040 I wish it were based on the Septuagint instead of being based 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.840 on the Masoretic text, but it is still a nice translation to 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.000 have. It reads very nicely. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.320 Even if it obviously has some des deficits. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:03.680 So I will pull up my list of questions here. 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.720 I don't know that I'll be able to get to the questions 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:08.640 I see popping up in the chat. 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:10.960 I will note them down for next time. 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:13.920 I already have a fairly long list here and I'm going to 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:16.000 try to get to all the ones that I have in the 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.920 list, but we will see how that goes. 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:24.080 And of course the first question is very much related to that 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:27.920 sort of preliminary question, so I guess this is really the second 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:32.400 question, but which is the inspired version of Daniel is basically the 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:39.120 question. And we deliberately did not address that, because we believe that 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.920 is a question that should be left to the men who eventually 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:47.600 do the real work of translating the Septuagint properly into a true 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:48.960 English translation. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.920 The English translation that will be basically the master translation for some 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:55.840 time going into the future. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.640 And personally I am strongly inclined toward just saying use the use 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.480 the one and the Septuagint. 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:05.840 And for those who aren't aware, there's the Edocian, there's the Septuagint, 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.640 and then obviously there's the Masoretic. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:13.360 And there are some questions about which one is basically the original 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.960 version of Daniel and which one should be Should be controlling essentially. 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.280 I am inclined towards saying just use the one in the Septuagint. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.840 I'm not saying the people who do the translating have to do 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.280 that. not saying it's a requirement that you believe that, that it's 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:31.040 sin not to believe it That's just my personal inclination. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:34.960 I have not spent a particularly great amount of time looking into 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.680 it, which is why I don't have a definitive answer. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.160 I'm simply going to say it's this one. 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:42.640 So I'm not particularly worried about it. 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:47.440 It's a question for the eventual translating well, the translation committee, right? 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:48.480 It's for them. 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:53.280 That's why we essentially avoided that in our series on the Septuagint. 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.240 And partly just because it would sort of been getting off into 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:00.560 the weeds, instead of the core focus of that series, which was 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.760 pointing out the Septuagint is the Word of God. 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:07.280 So the short answer is yep, that's for the translators to deal 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:13.200 with that. 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:15.280 The next question I have here 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.080 is one where we can go ahead and just make the feminists 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:22.320 even more angry at me. 00:04:22.320 --> 00:04:25.520 In the episode on the nature of woman, you say a woman's 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:28.080 father. Actually, this is not the episode, the article, rather, this is 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:28.720 on my website. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.160 I'll link to it in the show notes. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.440 You say a woman's father or husband has the duty to rebuke 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:37.120 or punish her when she expresses a wicked desire. 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:39.920 True. I still hold that position. 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.480 What is the punishment for essentially what sort of punishment is the 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.760 man supposed to use with regard to the women who have been 00:04:47.760 --> 00:04:49.280 entrusted to his care? 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:51.760 And of course that's a delicate question and has to be a 00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:55.520 delicate answer, and it's going to make people angry regardless of what 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:56.480 I say. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.600 Feminists are angry anyway, so it hardly matters. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:04:59.920 But 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:05.360 corporal punishment is really the core of what is being asked here, 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.320 naturally. Corporal punishment is very much on the table. 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:10.320 Spanking children is acceptable. 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:13.840 Spanking your wife if necessary and a different context here from the 00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:17.840 normal one perhaps is also something that may be necessary. 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:22.480 It is sort of a last resort because you don't want to 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:26.480 be the sort of man who immediately resorts to using your physical 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.240 strength, which you have an advantage as a man, over if you 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.080 are have young children anyway, over everyone else in your household. 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:36.880 You are much stronger than all of them, probably stronger than all 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:38.560 of them combined. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:41.440 And so you don't want that to be the last resort. 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:43.760 One, it sets a bad example. 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:47.040 And two, it's really showing that you don't actually have control over 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:48.720 your household, that you have to resort to that. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.160 There are other things you should be doing. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.000 A big part of this is simply avoiding those issues in the 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.920 first place by making sure that you are instructing your household well, 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:02.160 that you are bringing up your children in the faith, that you 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.520 are leading your wife, that you are engaging in the things that 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:08.400 you have to do as the head of your household to not 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:10.080 have those problems arise. 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:12.800 Now of course the problems will still arise to some degree because 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.080 we live in a fallen world and everyone has sinful impulses and 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:18.400 sometimes they give into them. 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:23.440 When that happens, basically it is a matter of wisdom. 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:26.960 You are trying to decide what is going to be the most 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:31.840 effective in that scenario to achieve the end you want to achieve 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:34.880 without inflicting undue harm? 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:39.760 It's not because necessarily you're trying to manipulate people or you're trying 00:06:39.760 --> 00:06:44.240 to avoid To avoid exercising the sort of physical authority that God 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:45.360 has given you. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.160 Rather, it's because you're trying to do what is best for those 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.320 entrusted to your care, and that isn't going to be getting out 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:54.160 the belt every single time. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.600 Everyone really knows that. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:56.720 That sort of goes without saying. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:58.960 We all know that you don't just get out the belt and 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:02.400 spank your child every time he does anything wrong. 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:05.840 You know, if he takes a extra cookie off the counter, you 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:08.800 probably don't immediately resort to the belt or the switch. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.480 There are other steps in between just a stern talking to sometimes 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:15.200 that's enough. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:18.480 And then corporal punishment is at the other end of things. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.240 So there is a grade of things. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:23.200 It's going to depend on the nature of the transgression, the nature 00:07:23.200 --> 00:07:28.000 of sort of the relationship you've built up in your family and 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.560 you know why did this person do that? 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.640 Of course that's going to be part of it. 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:35.280 Was it a direct challenge to your authority? 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:39.440 That's different from just a child giving in to a sweet tooth. 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:40.880 That's a different thing. 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:44.800 If he took the cookie because he likes cookies, that's one thing. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.760 If he took it because you told him he cannot have it 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:51.200 until after dinner, whatever you happen to tell him, that's a different 00:07:51.200 --> 00:07:55.280 thing. That's a more serious transgression because he is deliberately saying, I 00:07:55.280 --> 00:07:57.040 don't really believe you're in charge. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.240 He's testing your authority, and that's a different thing. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:04.880 Then it is required of you to more firmly establish that no, 00:08:04.880 --> 00:08:07.840 I am in charge because God has placed me in charge and 00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:09.520 you have to obey. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.080 The same thing is true with regard to your wife, because of 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:15.600 course she is also placed under you in your household. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.720 You are her head, you make the decisions, and you'll answer to 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:19.920 God for those decisions. 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.280 So some people when they hear about headship think that it's just 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:26.080 men getting it to lord it over women and be tyrants in 00:08:26.080 --> 00:08:29.280 their home, and it's not that, because it is primarily a matter 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:33.280 of duty and responsibility, because you are going to answer to God 00:08:33.280 --> 00:08:35.280 for every single decision you make. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:36.880 This is one thing that I 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.040 Tend to say to women when they bring up sort of objections 00:08:41.040 --> 00:08:44.080 to headship and things like that, I point out you should want 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:47.440 to help your husband with these things because he is going to 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:51.200 answer to God for every single decision he made with regard to 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.560 the marriage and leading you and all these other things. 00:08:54.560 --> 00:08:56.720 Don't make it more difficult for him. 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.920 It's similar to the passage that says that you are to give 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:02.960 honor and respect to those who are your leaders and you are 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.040 to do it so that they don't have to do it with 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:09.360 grumbling and basically don't be a terrible follower. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.080 The same thing is true, don't be a terrible member of the 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:17.120 household, making the head of the household's job that much more difficult. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.880 So So the short answer, calibrate the punishment to the person, the 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:24.960 transgression, the relationship. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.040 It's a matter of wisdom. 00:09:27.040 --> 00:09:30.480 As a man, that is your place in the household, and there's 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:31.600 no way around that. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.760 No one is going to be able to just give you a 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:38.320 spreadsheet where you go, here's the transgression, and then here's the number 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.960 of times, and all these other steps, and then oh, I have 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:44.240 to hit him with the belt three times at half strength. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:45.920 That's not possible. 00:09:45.920 --> 00:09:47.760 These are matters for wisdom. 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:51.840 You have to exercise the amount of wisdom that God gave you, 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.200 the degree of wisdom he gave you to make these decisions. 00:09:55.520 --> 00:09:58.000 Part of it, of course, is spending time in God's Word so 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.280 you know his requirements, and if you spend time in God's Word 00:10:01.280 --> 00:10:04.320 with your children and with your wife, it will help them to 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:05.920 know the requirements as well. 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:08.240 These things shouldn't just fall out of the sky, come out of 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:09.120 the blue. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.520 They should know the expectations in the household because you should be 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:14.960 transparent with those. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:17.440 They should know what is required of them, and they should know 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.840 the consequences of not obeying. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.480 Because this is very much a matter of obeying, and I know 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.800 many people hate to hear that word these days. 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:26.560 But that is the reality. 00:10:26.560 --> 00:10:31.120 Because Scripture is abundantly clear wives are to submit to their husbands 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.000 as unto the Lord, and they are to obey him in all 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:39.360 things. The only exception is if a husband tells a wife to 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.800 do something that would say be blasphemy, then it is we must 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:44.480 obey God rather than men. 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.720 That's the only exception. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.880 So So that's the basic answer to that question. 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:54.480 And yes, I'm sure that will make feminists much happier with me 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.960 than they already are. 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:02.160 The next question sort of shifting gears here to politics. 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:06.000 Politics and economics, really, and they are very much related. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.840 I have my general view, just to start out before I give 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.600 the question, is that I don't really think of economics as an 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.640 ideology or an ideological subject. 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:20.400 I think of economics as a tool because I think of it 00:11:20.400 --> 00:11:23.760 as something that you use to achieve a given end. 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:26.400 Now, can there be some ideology along the way? 00:11:26.400 --> 00:11:31.280 Certainly. I think more of that is politics and sociology in the 00:11:31.280 --> 00:11:34.320 proper sense of the term, not the modern corruption. 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:38.240 I think it's more that just applied to regulating the market and 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:41.200 commerce. Again, also tools. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.200 So I don't have really an ideology when it comes to economics. 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.160 One of the ways that I've explained it is that I don't 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.320 have an ideology of hammers. 00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:52.880 or any other tool. 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:56.480 I use the tool when it is suitable for the task. 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.840 The same thing with regard to economics, but the question here, let 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:04.960 me pull the actual wording of the question. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.680 I was hoping you could speak on the economic model or miracle 00:12:09.680 --> 00:12:14.080 of nineteen thirties Germany as well as resources regarding this. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.720 A friend of mine asked me for resources on this and I 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.960 did not have anything to suggest He's a former libertarian, as are 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.680 many on the right, who gave up on capitalism after listening to 00:12:23.680 --> 00:12:26.880 the Stonequire episode on it and talking with me. 00:12:26.880 --> 00:12:29.920 Thank you for your time. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:35.120 This is one of those subjects that obviously could absorb more than 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.040 the rest of the time for this evening. 00:12:39.040 --> 00:12:44.720 But the short version is that the goal of the third Reich 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:52.400 was to break the control of international finance and debt slavery, basically, 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:55.920 to build a currency that was part of it, of course, was 00:12:55.920 --> 00:12:59.920 changing their currency, to build a currency that was based on the 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:04.160 productivity of the people instead of being based on debt, which is 00:13:04.160 --> 00:13:07.200 the case with our currency in the United States, for instance, and 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.040 any other currency that is backed by 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:10.320 well 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.680 a central bank will say to try and not get a strike 00:13:15.680 --> 00:13:21.760 here. But insofar as reading materials are concerned, I think that's really 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:25.680 probably the better recommendation for me to give here because that's what 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:28.880 your friend is going to want if he is interested in economics. 00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:30.480 He's going to want something to read. 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.280 Just like the men who are very interested in theology are going 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:35.120 to want book recommendations. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.320 So the recommendations, and I'll put these in the show notes to 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:40.400 make sure that they're accessible. 00:13:40.400 --> 00:13:45.280 And for those who don't know, I publish this after the stream 00:13:45.520 --> 00:13:48.560 as a podcast, and so that is available with show notes and 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:49.440 other things like that. 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.160 And of course I'll try to remember to put all those on 00:13:52.160 --> 00:13:53.520 the forum as well. 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:56.880 And anyone who's a trusted member of the forum can edit the 00:13:56.880 --> 00:14:00.800 wiki for each episode and add resources or anything I mention if 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:04.000 you are so inclined to help me keep that sort of neat 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:05.280 and tidy. 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:12.000 But the recommendations would basically be Gottfried Freeder would be the primary 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.600 recommendation there. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.080 His manifesto for breaking the interest bondage of money is probably going 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.240 to be the number one recommendation. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.080 And then he also has another work that is the program of 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:29.680 the NSDAP and its ideological principles, which again deals with sort of 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:33.680 the integration of politics and economics because he was an economist, so 00:14:33.680 --> 00:14:35.280 that was sort of his interest. 00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:40.720 Another one would be actually an American writer who was writing on 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.000 related matters? 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.040 This is Friedrich Liszt, L I S T, the last name. 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:46.960 Again, I'll put it in the show notes. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.160 The National System of Political Economy. 00:14:50.160 --> 00:14:52.800 That's going to be another good read for someone who is interested 00:14:52.800 --> 00:14:53.360 in this area. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.640 I'm not saying everyone should read these materials because if you don't 00:14:56.560 --> 00:14:59.600 have an interest in economics or you don't have a background in 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.720 economics, it either will not be of interest or it will be 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:03.840 quite a slog. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.560 It's just going to depend on sort of your your background, your 00:15:06.560 --> 00:15:07.680 interest level. 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:12.000 And then on a more sort of practical level, you have Hermann 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.880 Göring had the four year plan. 00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:18.800 And you can look up the actual plans of the Third Reich, 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:22.240 what they wanted to accomplish, how they were accomplishing it, they basically 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.160 had progress reports on these things. 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:28.080 These materials are all available and many of them are translated into 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.360 English and of course now with AI, you can get a workable 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.240 English translation of certainly any German document. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.640 And then of course, his book as well, Goering's book, Germany Reborn 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.480 is the title in English. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.600 I think those are probably the best recommendations for someone who is 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:48.880 interested in the economics of the Third Reich and sort of how 00:15:48.880 --> 00:15:53.280 they achieved that economic miracle because of course they went from 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:56.240 trying to remember the numbers now, but I think it was six 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.720 million, something like that, unemployed in the in the early nineteen thirties, 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.960 nineteen thirty two, nineteen thirty three. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.280 You can look this up, of course, but that's to the best 00:16:05.280 --> 00:16:06.800 of my recol recollection. 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:10.560 And after a period of five years, so basically basically one four 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:14.400 year program, they were able to bring that number down to under 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:19.200 a hundred thousand, which is to say basically full employment. 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.200 Something that very few nations have achieved historically, other than of course 00:16:23.280 --> 00:16:26.080 nations that have slavery, which is a different matter. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:26.400 So 00:16:28.880 --> 00:16:31.920 that alone is an economic miracle. 00:16:31.920 --> 00:16:35.600 There's also the aspect that they were able to massively increase GDP 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:40.240 because the GDP The GDP basically doubled in that time period as 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.880 well. Roughly that much. 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:46.240 And then on top of that, it's important to note, and I 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.280 know that many who come out of the libertarian school and others 00:16:49.280 --> 00:16:52.640 like that are going to perhaps object to what I say next, 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:56.160 and they're going to think, oh, you're talking about Keynesianism. 00:16:56.160 --> 00:17:00.640 But the Third Reich did use deficit spending. 00:17:00.640 --> 00:17:04.160 And deficit spending should not be a dirty word. 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.640 I'll give a brief, very simplistic example of why this is not 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.000 a problem. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:16.400 If your deficit spending is calibrated correctly and it And it increases 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:17.680 the growth of GDP. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.360 And I know some people are going, oh, don't you not care 00:17:19.360 --> 00:17:20.320 about GDP? 00:17:20.320 --> 00:17:23.360 GDP's not everything, but GDP's not nothing. 00:17:23.360 --> 00:17:28.880 So let's say tiny country, $10 million dollar GDP. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.440 We're just going to use easy numbers for the sake of the 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.480 example. Ten million dollars GDP. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:40.320 They spend a million dollars deficit spending in order to stimulate the 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:41.920 economy and grow the economy. 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:46.400 Let's say they're wildly successful because it makes the numbers easy. 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.840 They increase the economy to a hundred million dollars. 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:51.920 A hundred million dollars GDP. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.960 Well, now how much of GDP is that one million they spent 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:01.840 in order to incentivize and increase basically the velocity of money through 00:18:01.840 --> 00:18:05.120 the system and things like that to increase the GDP? 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:09.440 Well it was ten percent of GDP that they spent, now it's 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:10.400 one percent. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.480 And so you can in fact grow your way out of deficit 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.840 spending. You have to make sure that you're investing in things that 00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:20.080 are actually worth the investment. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:24.320 It can't just be a hundred billion dollars of graft spent in 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:27.120 various places around the world, which is basically a description of the 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:30.240 US budget with bigger numbers. 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.560 But if you spend it on infrastructure, if you spend it on 00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:38.000 things your country actually needs, so for instance in the German case 00:18:38.080 --> 00:18:42.320 the Autobahn, if you spend it on these things, you actually do 00:18:42.320 --> 00:18:45.360 increase the productivity of the country, you increase the productivity of your 00:18:45.360 --> 00:18:51.040 people, you incentivize economic development and you actually manage to effectively spend 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:55.440 nothing because that deficit that you spent is paid for in the 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.360 increase in GDP. 00:18:57.360 --> 00:19:02.320 And so that's the basic outline of how deficit spending can be 00:19:02.320 --> 00:19:03.840 used to incentivize an economy. 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:05.040 And I have nothing wrong with that. 00:19:05.040 --> 00:19:07.520 I have no objection to that whatsoever. 00:19:07.520 --> 00:19:10.800 We did do that with Works programs and things like that in 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:12.800 the US in order in order to help get out of the 00:19:12.800 --> 00:19:14.960 depression. That was one of the things that we did. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:19.120 If you go to particularly those of us who like hiking and 00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:22.560 camping and things like that, go to the national parks. 00:19:22.560 --> 00:19:26.000 Some of the nicest parts of the infrastructure in the national parks 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.240 were public works programs. 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:31.600 They still are to some degree because of course the National Park 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:35.200 Service is socialism, if you want to use that word. 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.120 It is something that is paid for by the government that benefits 00:19:39.120 --> 00:19:43.760 society at large, but it was literally a public works program for 00:19:43.760 --> 00:19:47.520 men who were out of work during that interwar period that built 00:19:47.520 --> 00:19:49.280 many of those things. 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:54.000 One example would be the roadway that goes up to the Sequoia 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.080 Park in California. 00:19:56.080 --> 00:20:01.040 If you go up to that from the south side, the stonework 00:20:01.040 --> 00:20:05.600 was done by that works program, and it's beautiful stonework done exceptionally 00:20:05.600 --> 00:20:09.440 well, better than most of the stuff we do today. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.200 Tangential note, don't take that route if you're in a large vehicle. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:14.880 It has hairpin turns. 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.240 Take the one from the north. 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:19.520 But it is something that was produced by what many would call 00:20:19.520 --> 00:20:21.760 socialism. There's nothing wrong with that. 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:25.920 It works, it can be done well, and it was certainly done 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:31.120 well, at least one time in a Western country, with exceptional, virtually 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:32.960 miraculous results. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.920 But at the same time we shouldn't really call it miraculous, because 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:37.600 it can be repeated. 00:20:37.600 --> 00:20:42.080 If you call it miraculous, you're sort of implying that it shouldn't 00:20:42.080 --> 00:20:43.760 have turned out that way. 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:48.400 It was contrary to what you would expect to be the outcome, 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.560 and that's simply not the case. 00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:54.400 Because I fully believe that if we replicated those programs here, we 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.960 would have the same sort of success. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:59.600 Now, there's going to be some problems, we have to clean out 00:20:59.600 --> 00:21:02.640 some corruption and things here, but I still think it could be 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.040 done. But I think those are those books are the place to 00:21:07.040 --> 00:21:08.640 start for your friend. 00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:13.280 The next question is sort of a more lighthearted one. 00:21:13.280 --> 00:21:14.960 Someone asked me about my favorite tank. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.160 Unfortunately for the person who asked, the answers I don't really have 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:20.880 one. I never really got into tanks. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.240 That was never really my particular interest. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.920 So I mean obviously I like some of the German tanks from 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:29.200 World War II. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.000 I don't think anyone is surprised by that answer. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.200 But I don't really have a favorite tank. 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:35.520 And 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.760 A more serious question from the same person, not a follow up, 00:21:39.760 --> 00:21:42.000 but I guess it's sort of related. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:46.160 Having already listened to A Young Man's Life, the Stone Choir episode, 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.280 would there be any other words of encouragement to a younger guy 00:21:49.280 --> 00:21:51.200 trying to find love? 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.520 This is one of those questions that comes up all the time 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.280 and it's not surprising if you look at the marriage statistics, and 00:21:59.280 --> 00:22:02.480 don't look at the divorce statistics and think that it's as bad 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:03.840 as they look. 00:22:03.840 --> 00:22:07.840 Because bear in mind when they give you that number, it's for 00:22:07.840 --> 00:22:09.680 all marriages. 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:14.720 The number you want is first marriages, because if you marry and 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:20.240 stay married, well the number of divorces you had is zero, right? 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:26.400 But if there's another person who marries and divorces fifteen times, well 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:33.280 now the average divorce rate for this small system is seven plus. 00:22:33.280 --> 00:22:34.560 That's the problem. 00:22:34.560 --> 00:22:38.000 You have people who are included who marry and divorce like they're 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.200 changing shoes. 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:42.720 If you exclude those people, the numbers are nowhere near as bad. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.440 But obviously the big problem for younger generations, that's certainly millennials like 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:52.240 myself, zoomers and younger, although for the much younger generation it's not 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.760 an issue yet, will be in the coming years. 00:22:55.760 --> 00:22:58.560 It's that first marriage, right? 00:22:58.560 --> 00:23:02.800 Because many of the younger generation are not married. 00:23:02.800 --> 00:23:04.320 They've never been married. 00:23:04.320 --> 00:23:07.520 And some of them are not dating and things like that. 00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:10.000 And there are a lot of reasons for that. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:10.320 And 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:14.160 there's a related question that I know I have later on in 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:16.880 my list for tonight that I'll comment on more of this stuff 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:17.520 there, but 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:21.920 the biggest thing is you just have to get out there and 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.560 try. And I know it's not the sort of advice that most 00:23:24.560 --> 00:23:27.520 people want to hear, and I know it's hard advice to hear, 00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:29.360 and there are going to be those who think, oh, you're just 00:23:29.360 --> 00:23:29.760 out of touch. 00:23:29.760 --> 00:23:31.600 No, I know how hard it is out there. 00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:33.120 It's terrible. 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:36.720 It is not good at all for the younger generations. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:37.040 And 00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:41.840 that doesn't mean that you can't find a wife. 00:23:41.840 --> 00:23:44.400 It doesn't mean that you don't have an opportunity to start a 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.600 family. It does mean that it's going to be much more challenging 00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:49.440 than it was for previous generations. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.720 It's certainly going to be harder if you are a Zoomer, if 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:58.160 you're Gen Z, than it was for your boomer grandparents, or whatever 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:01.840 they happen to be for you, probably grandparents in your case. 00:24:01.840 --> 00:24:05.520 That is the reality of the situation, but we do the best 00:24:05.520 --> 00:24:06.880 with what we have. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:09.600 And I've recommended to guys one of the best things you can 00:24:09.600 --> 00:24:13.840 do is go out there and just ask out a barista or 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:19.760 someone working at cat as a cashier, wherever it happens to be. 00:24:19.760 --> 00:24:23.520 Some guys get hung up on they are trying to find this 00:24:23.520 --> 00:24:27.200 perfect woman, and I don't really necessarily hate to be the bearer 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.640 of bad news, but I'm gonna tell you she doesn't exist. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:34.640 Perfect wives don't exist. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:38.800 Now, you can find women who will make better wives sort of 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:43.040 out of the gate, as it were, because if they were raised 00:24:43.040 --> 00:24:47.040 by a staunch Christian father, if they were told from the time 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:50.160 they were little that you know, your duty in life is going 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:51.920 to be a wife and a mother, you're going to be a 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:54.320 homemaker, you're going to do X, Y, and Z. 00:24:54.320 --> 00:24:57.520 It's going to be a lot easier for you to step into 00:24:57.520 --> 00:25:00.800 the shoes that he's sort of already prepared. 00:25:00.800 --> 00:25:05.280 And many of the older generation drop the ball on that. 00:25:05.280 --> 00:25:09.600 And so you are going to find some women who don't have 00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:11.840 any of that background. 00:25:11.840 --> 00:25:15.120 You can sort of train those women to be good wives. 00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:17.120 And that's sort of the point I'm getting at here. 00:25:17.120 --> 00:25:20.560 Good wives are made, not just found lying around. 00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:23.120 You don't just go to some random church and it's full of 00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:26.800 perfect wives waiting for a husband to appear. 00:25:26.800 --> 00:25:29.040 But the kind of women you do want to avoid are the 00:25:29.040 --> 00:25:34.960 ones who have been so damaged by their path through life that 00:25:35.040 --> 00:25:38.000 they have decided they are going to do everything they possibly can 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.680 to never be a wife, or to be a terrible one. 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.320 And that's going to be a matter of discernment. 00:25:44.320 --> 00:25:47.440 It's not always going to be the easiest call, but to some 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:50.160 degree guys have sort of an instinct for that. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.640 You know when a woman is going to cause trouble in your 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.600 life. Every woman is going to cause trouble in your life, but 00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:57.760 you know when she's going to cause the kind of trouble that 00:25:57.760 --> 00:25:59.680 you don't want to have. 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:03.200 Because Paul's not wrong when he says if you marry you're going 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:04.480 to have trouble in this life. 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:06.480 That's true in every marriage. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.280 Even if you have a very good marriage, there's still going to 00:26:09.280 --> 00:26:11.120 be days that are difficult. 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:14.000 There are going to be things you have to work through together. 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.840 There are going to be problems. 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:18.640 That is the reality of living in a fallen world. 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:20.720 You're fallen, she's fallen. 00:26:21.040 --> 00:26:23.680 Together you have to work through some things. 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.160 Some women are going to be more work than others, and some 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.600 are going to be so much that you are just creating a 00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:32.320 disaster for yourself in your life. 00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:32.640 So 00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:35.520 there's the aspect of wisdom having to find 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.920 the woman who has the potential to be a good wife, but 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.760 don't turn down a woman just because she doesn't seem like the 00:26:43.760 --> 00:26:46.400 exact perfect image of a wife that you've built up in your 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:50.000 head. Because you're not going to find that perfect image in the 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:50.960 real world. 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.080 You're going to find a woman who is willing to put in 00:26:54.080 --> 00:26:56.640 the effort to be a good wife. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:58.320 That's the woman you want. 00:26:58.320 --> 00:27:00.960 And there are still a lot of those around. 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.920 Even if there are, of course, the other kind that are a 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.800 lot of trouble, and that's going to depend partly on where you 00:27:06.800 --> 00:27:07.760 live in the country. 00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:11.280 Some areas are better than others, some are certainly worse than others. 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.000 And 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.800 just go out there and put in the effort and take some 00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:20.240 risks. You may not find her on the first try. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:22.560 It is partly a numbers game. 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.240 But if you put in that effort, and do, of course put 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:29.520 in the effort into yourself as well, you know, make yourself presentable. 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.720 One of the best things a guy can do is not I'm 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.120 not saying go to the gym six hours a day and get 00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:36.720 absolutely shredded, right? 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.680 It would seem a little hypocritical if I said that perhaps, but 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:40.960 it's not that. 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.120 It's just stay in decent shape. 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:45.600 Don't be a fat slob, basically. 00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:50.000 Dress decently, and you'll stand out quite a bit just doing that 00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:53.360 since no one dresses well dresses well at all anymore. 00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:56.160 If you just wear a button down shirt, you're already ahead of 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:57.200 the crowd. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.160 The bar is pretty low for guys that these days. 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:04.000 It's extremely low for women, but it's pretty low for guys as 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:05.760 well. Stay in decent shape. 00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:11.920 Have some ability to talk to women without stumbling all over yourself. 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:13.360 Part of that is practice. 00:28:13.360 --> 00:28:16.400 Part of that is just developing that confidence. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:16.720 But 00:28:17.840 --> 00:28:20.560 if you just put in some basic effort and then go out 00:28:20.560 --> 00:28:24.960 there and take the risk, there's reward to be found. 00:28:25.280 --> 00:28:26.880 the world is not hopeless. 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.840 So the guys who think that, oh, there are no good women 00:28:29.840 --> 00:28:34.080 left and everyone is terrible and that's not reality. 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:36.880 That's just them and sour grapes. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.560 They are looking at the state of the world and perhaps some 00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:44.320 of their past experiences many times as that, and just deciding that 00:28:44.320 --> 00:28:47.120 everything is hopeless and there's no point. 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:48.560 That's never true. 00:28:48.560 --> 00:28:50.320 Certainly it's not true today. 00:28:50.320 --> 00:28:52.640 So there are good women out there. 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.080 Go find one. 00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:57.120 Maybe she's currently making coff hopefully not this time of night, but 00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:58.720 maybe she's currently making coffee. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:02.320 I guess it's not that late West Coast, but or she's a 00:29:02.320 --> 00:29:04.160 cashier at Kroger. 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:05.760 There are good women out there. 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:08.400 Maybe you're looking in the wrong place and maybe you have that 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.240 mental image of what you think is perfect that is preventing you 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.440 from finding something that will make you very happy for the rest 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.320 of your life. 00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:19.680 And do bear in mind, perfect is what you get in the 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:20.640 next life. 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:22.720 And someone in the chat said women are malleable. 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:24.000 That's true. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:28.160 You are going to conform her to yourself. 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:33.760 So don't start looking for her being exactly what you want because 00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:36.000 she Because she's not going to be. 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.320 You are going to make her into a good wife. 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:41.440 Part of it is going to be that she is a wife, 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:44.880 and so she's going to conform to the role over time. 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.200 Men and women both change. 00:29:47.600 --> 00:29:49.600 Women change more than men. 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:51.680 And that's a blessing and a curse. 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.360 In this case, it's a blessing. 00:29:53.360 --> 00:29:54.960 She can become what you want. 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:59.280 Just find one who doesn't have the sort of baggage that is 00:29:59.280 --> 00:30:02.400 going to destroy the potential. 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.160 You know what you can deal with. 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.240 You know what you can't handle. 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:10.720 Find a woman who has baggage that you can handle and go 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:12.080 for it. 00:30:12.080 --> 00:30:14.160 Part of life is taking risks. 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.640 Sometimes things don't go perfectly. 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:18.960 Generally things don't go perfectly. 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.040 But perfect isn't the goal. 00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:22.560 The goal is sort of good enough. 00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:25.360 It's not that I'm telling you to settle, it's I'm telling you 00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:27.920 to look at life realistically. 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:33.040 You're not going to find perfection, particularly not in human relationships, so 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.680 go out and try. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:38.960 I think you'll be surprised at sort of the ease with which 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.000 you can find sufficient success. 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.760 And also bear in mind you only have to succeed once. 00:30:45.760 --> 00:30:48.960 It's not like you have to succeed a thousand times, you have 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:53.680 to find one woman you can tolerate for sixty years. 00:30:53.680 --> 00:31:00.400 You can probably do that. 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.040 Someone said her having a job can be a red flag. 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:04.240 It depends. 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.760 You know You know, the reality of the society and the economy 00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:10.240 in which we live, a lot of women are going to have 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.360 a job. 00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:14.000 It's going to depend in part on the kind of job. 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:19.360 So if she's a barista or a cashier or anything like that, 00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:21.680 I don't think it's a red flag. 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:27.360 If she is a high ranking executive in a tech firm, then 00:31:27.520 --> 00:31:30.720 well, first off, she's probably in her forties, but second, yeah, that's 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:32.320 probably a red flag. 00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:34.320 But matter of wisdom. 00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:36.480 Use the wisdom God has given you. 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.960 These days a woman having a job, I don't think it's a 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:39.920 red flag. 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.160 You're not going to find a woman who doesn't. 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:43.760 And quite frankly, all women do. 00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:45.120 Being a wife is a job. 00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:46.400 It's a lot of work. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.000 Keeping a home, cooking, cleaning, all those things, that's a lot of 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.080 work. That's a lot of hours per day. 00:31:52.080 --> 00:31:54.720 And it's one of the things that's so terrible about feminism because 00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.520 it took the women out of the home, which means that all 00:31:57.280 --> 00:32:00.080 that work that should be done in the home, there was no 00:32:00.080 --> 00:32:01.520 one around to do it. 00:32:01.520 --> 00:32:02.720 That's all it did. 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:05.920 It made everyone more miserable and made everything worse. 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.680 That's sort of a an aside though, so I'll leave that perhaps 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:12.800 for another time. 00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:17.760 The next question sort of shifting gears here a I guess a 00:32:17.760 --> 00:32:19.840 theological question one could call it. 00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:21.840 It's about casting lots. 00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:28.160 I don't think I have the specific wording that the gentleman used. 00:32:28.560 --> 00:32:32.800 Pull that up. 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:42.160 That may be the fullness of the wording that I have. 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.800 So I will just comment on it generally then. 00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:48.560 Obviously, we have the example in the New Testament of casting lots 00:32:48.560 --> 00:32:52.960 to replace replace Judas, right? 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:58.640 Now do note they narrow it down to two men first. 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:03.360 They don't just break out the dice and throw them and go 00:33:03.360 --> 00:33:04.720 for broke, right? 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.160 They narrow it down to two men, and basically they're in a 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:12.320 position where they're going, we can't decide between A and B. 00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:14.640 We don't know which of these two men, both of whom are 00:33:15.120 --> 00:33:18.640 qualified, we don't know which one to choose. 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.960 And so they cast lots. 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.440 I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.480 And you know part of it of course is going to be 00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:30.800 why, we do have the New Testament example, of course, but two, 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:36.240 I'm Western European, and we definitely have a very strong conception of 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:40.000 fate in our cultures, and I don't think that that's a wrong 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.440 way to look at the world. 00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:46.640 So I don't think that relying on lots for something like that 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:48.240 is impermissible for Christians. 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.160 I think we can certainly do that. 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.240 I think the biggest part of the reason we don't do it 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.120 today is Today is we just don't need it. 00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:59.760 How often does it come down to A or B for an 00:33:59.760 --> 00:34:00.800 important decision? 00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:04.560 I'm not talking about which restaurant you go to tonight, but when 00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:07.120 it comes down to picking which person is going to replace Judas 00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:11.600 and you have two equally qualified men, that almost never happens. 00:34:11.600 --> 00:34:14.080 So you almost never have to cast lots. 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:18.160 But I think if you came down to A versus B and 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:20.560 you didn't really know what to do, I think it's totally fine 00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:21.840 to flip a coin. 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:25.680 If you are going to call a pastor for your church and 00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:30.320 somehow miraculously, and I think in this case it actually is, you 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:34.000 manage to find two candidates who are equally qualified and you can't 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:38.160 possibly decide between them, go ahead and break out a coin. 00:34:38.160 --> 00:34:41.680 Go ahead and do the sort of easy version of casting lots. 00:34:41.680 --> 00:34:44.080 I think that's completely fine for Christians to do. 00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:45.760 I don't think it's testing God. 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:47.360 I don't think it's mocking God. 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:50.880 I don't think it's impermissibly leaving things up to, you know, the 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:54.240 fates uppercase F relying on the gods of chance. 00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:58.480 I think it's just recognizing that sometimes in life you wind up 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:03.120 in a position where you have equally good or equally bad, hopefully 00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:07.600 the former not the latter, but you have equal choices and you 00:35:07.600 --> 00:35:09.280 don't know how to choose. 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:11.600 Leaving it up to fate is fine. 00:35:11.600 --> 00:35:13.040 Go ahead and flip the coin. 00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:16.080 Make it a challenge coin if you're so inclined. 00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:19.840 A little harder to flip, but a little more interesting for those 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:21.680 observing what you're doing. 00:35:24.560 --> 00:35:29.120 Let's see, the next one is sort of a follow-up question. 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:33.600 I commented very briefly on the stock market and said that I 00:35:33.600 --> 00:35:36.720 am not invested in the stock market, which is true. 00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:38.800 I don't hold any stock. 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.120 I don't think I hold any stock whatsoever. 00:35:41.120 --> 00:35:45.200 Unless there is maybe a small exception somewhere, you know, companies occasionally, 00:35:45.200 --> 00:35:48.320 if you buy something, they'll give you like one stock as a 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:50.880 you know, a throwaway thing they put in the box. 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:52.960 Maybe I have something like that somewhere. 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:56.880 I don't have any deliberately purchased stock or investment in the stock 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.440 market, other than I do have 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:02.480 a money market account. 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.760 So I do have a savings account that is technically an investment 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.640 in the stock market. 00:36:06.640 --> 00:36:08.720 That's as close as I get. 00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:13.520 So I did say my objection is not to all investment. 00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:14.880 I don't think it's all wrong. 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.240 I'm not going to say you can't do that. 00:36:16.240 --> 00:36:18.400 I'm not going to say it's anti Christian. 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:24.080 I would abolish those things under an ideal system, but Christians do 00:36:24.080 --> 00:36:25.280 have to live in the world. 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:28.240 We can't just say the world isn't perfect, and so I refuse 00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:29.600 to live in the world. 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:30.880 That doesn't work. 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.960 That would be like saying, Well, this food in front of me 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:39.120 is not absolutely 100% pure and perfect, and so I'm going to 00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:40.480 starve to death. 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:44.400 That would certainly not be exercising the wisdom and the judgment that 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:45.680 God has given you. 00:36:45.680 --> 00:36:48.240 That would be horrible foolishness. 00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:51.840 The same thing is true with regard to how you manage your 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:54.720 money. That's one of the resources that God has given you. 00:36:54.720 --> 00:36:58.640 And so managing your money is something that you have to do 00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:01.680 wisely as a Christian. 00:37:01.680 --> 00:37:03.760 So how do you do that? 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.800 Again, I'm not going to say that you can't invest 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.120 in the stock market. 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:12.000 You can certainly do that. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:13.920 Don't become obsessed with it, right? 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.480 Because some guys sort of use that as a proxy for gambling 00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:17.760 and it becomes a problem. 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:19.440 That's a different sort of pro thing. 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:21.280 Don't do that. 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:26.720 But But these days, personally, my firm recommendation would just be invest 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:31.120 in things that are a little more tangible because the state of 00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:35.680 the world is such that I think I would probably rather have 00:37:36.080 --> 00:37:44.080 a really well situated personal family compound, so animals, a garden, 00:37:44.080 --> 00:37:47.120 all the sorts of things you need to be self-sustaining to some 00:37:47.120 --> 00:37:47.920 degree. I'm not saying be 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:52.640 you know crazy prepper fifteen years worth of food in the basement 00:37:52.720 --> 00:37:53.840 sort of thing. 00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:58.560 Because there's a balancing of relying on God and exercising the wisdom 00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:01.440 and using the resources he gave you wisely. 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:06.400 But I do think that most people would benefit from more concrete 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:10.240 investments. And so do bear do bear in mind when someone says 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:15.200 investment, it doesn't just mean stocks, bonds, whatever it happens to be. 00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:17.200 It doesn't just mean the market. 00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:20.400 Building a greenhouse is an investment. 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.000 You know, you can spend some number of hundreds or you can 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.280 spend twenty thousand dollars on a greenhouse. 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:30.560 At any level, that's an investment. 00:38:30.560 --> 00:38:33.680 And if you can manage to produce some of your family's food, 00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:35.680 that's an investment in their future as well. 00:38:35.680 --> 00:38:41.840 Because even if things continue, even if things go really well, right? 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:44.400 Let's say everything goes great. 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:50.640 We manage to win politically, the problems are solved peacefully, we don't 00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:53.200 have any of the bad outcomes. 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:56.080 I'm gonna go ahead and decline to list those, but let's say 00:38:56.080 --> 00:38:58.000 we have none of the bad outcomes. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:02.240 Are you worse off for having built the greenhouse? 00:39:02.240 --> 00:39:03.680 The answer is no. 00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:05.920 I know someone's going to say, well, the opportunity cost and you 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.000 could have done X, Y, and Z with the money. 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:13.200 Sure. But your family's going to benefit from the greenhouse. 00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:15.680 There's not just the better food. 00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:18.960 There's not just the certainty of that food. 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:21.040 There's also the fact that it's good for you to go out 00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:22.640 and get your hands dirty. 00:39:22.640 --> 00:39:26.720 So I think investing in sort of those concrete things is something 00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:30.240 that is often neglected, but something that would be far more 00:39:31.120 --> 00:39:33.440 beneficial these days. 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:37.360 It is something that I think is a good option, not necessarily 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:41.360 an alternative, but sort of something to add to your portfolio. 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:47.120 Don't just think of your investment options as buying more stock or 00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:52.560 you know cryptocurrency, and I have thoughts on that, but don't think 00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:56.880 of that as your only option, those as your only options Remember 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.600 there are other things you can do with your money that are 00:39:59.600 --> 00:40:01.200 also investing. 00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:05.920 You can invest in a local business, you can invest in your 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.400 land, you can acquire more land. 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.080 There are all sorts of things that you can do. 00:40:10.080 --> 00:40:10.560 It just depends 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:15.280 on the amount of money that has been entrusted to your care 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:16.240 by God. 00:40:16.240 --> 00:40:22.080 So basically, your liquid cash and also your abilities. 00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:24.720 Maybe you're a truly terrible farmer. 00:40:24.720 --> 00:40:28.640 If no one in your family has a green thumb, and no 00:40:28.640 --> 00:40:32.480 matter how hard you've tried you can't manage to grow even tomatoes, 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.960 then maybe the greenhouse isn't the best option in your case. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:41.440 As an aside, basically everyone can grow some produce, no matter how 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:43.600 bad you think you are at it. 00:40:43.600 --> 00:40:46.240 So just keep those concrete things in mind. 00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:47.360 They're a very good option. 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.640 option and they're often neglected these days. 00:40:50.640 --> 00:40:52.640 I'm gonna take a sip of my tea. 00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:56.320 Unfortunately for those who liked it, I didn't go at the ambiance 00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:00.880 of the teapot, the candle in the background this time because I 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:08.160 was out and about today so I made tea in a thermos. 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:11.760 Which actually does just about as good of a chance a job, 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:13.760 rather, of keeping it warm. 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:14.720 So 00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:20.560 Despite appearances I am not sponsored by Hydra Flask. 00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:22.960 So the next question here 00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:27.760 What are my thoughts on Satan's little season? 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.320 Of course, that is referring to Revelation and the interpretation, the exegesis 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:33.840 of Revelation. 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.640 I think it's just a tribulation. 00:41:36.640 --> 00:41:39.440 Satan is released for a short period of time 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:42.720 at the end of the church age. 00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:47.120 And I don't necessarily want to get deeply into eschatology in the 00:41:47.120 --> 00:41:48.240 timeline here. 00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:49.600 I've done that elsewhere. 00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:52.160 We did it on stone choir, so I think I would just 00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:55.280 recommend you look at those resources. 00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:00.320 And the Lutheran stance on this is also very accessible, very wide 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:01.280 widely known. 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:03.200 Many people have commented on it, so you can of course look 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:06.320 at that and I don't deviate from the general Lutheran stance on 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:10.560 this, so there's nothing specific for me to say. 00:42:10.560 --> 00:42:13.440 The basic outline is this. 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.880 You have the church age, and I'm not going to deal with 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:20.720 things before the church age because it's not relevant to the question. 00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:26.880 The church age begins either at the resurrection or at Pentecost. 00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.280 It really doesn't matter when you pick there because you know a 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.360 difference of a very short period of time. 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:32.400 Hardly Hardly matters. 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:37.200 It begins in the New Testament era, the beginning of the New 00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:38.560 Testament church. 00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:43.680 And then the church age runs until the second coming. 00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:46.720 Or if you want to say it ends at the tribulation, fine. 00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:49.920 It doesn't really there's sort of an overlap there. 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.320 That's the thousand years. 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.440 One thousand being a number of perfection, because what is one thousand? 00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:00.000 Ten's a number of completion, it's ten cubed cubed, three Trinity God. 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.240 This is obviously the Cliff Notes version of this, but one thousand 00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:05.360 is a number of perfection. 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.880 You can think of this also in terms of God saying that 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.360 he owns the cattle on a thousand hills. 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:14.800 He doesn't own the cattle on a literal thousand hills because he 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.160 owns all of the cattle. 00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:19.360 And so a thousand is a number of perfection, number of completion. 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.040 The church age is the period during which you have the in-gathering 00:43:23.040 --> 00:43:25.120 of the New Testament church. 00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:29.200 And then at the end of that, Satan is basically let off 00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:31.840 his chain for a little while to be terrible. 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:33.600 That's the tribulation. 00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:35.440 Seven again is a symbolic number. 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.680 It's not necessarily literally seven years. 00:43:37.680 --> 00:43:38.720 Maybe it is. 00:43:38.720 --> 00:43:40.000 Hardly matters. 00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:43.920 There's a period of tribulation, and then the second coming. 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:44.720 That's it. 00:43:44.720 --> 00:43:49.760 There's no rapture, there's no you know, earthly rain, all these other 00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:56.480 things that are various forms of chiliastic theories, millenarianism, whichever term you 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:58.720 want to use, Greek versus Latin. 00:43:58.720 --> 00:44:00.960 That's not really part of it. 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.600 That comes from reading parts of scripture that are are not literal, 00:44:05.600 --> 00:44:09.520 as if they were literal, and then turning parts of scripture that 00:44:09.520 --> 00:44:12.480 are literal into symbolism. 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:15.120 You have to know the kind of book you're reading. 00:44:15.120 --> 00:44:17.280 Genesis is history. 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.920 You read history literally. 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:24.400 There's some symbolism in there, of course, obviously, but it is a 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:28.560 literal recounting of history with symbolic elements. 00:44:28.560 --> 00:44:30.720 Revelation is not. 00:44:30.560 --> 00:44:35.120 it even says it isn't, because Revelation is a symbolic book. 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:36.880 It is an eschatological book. 00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:38.640 It is an apocalyptic book. 00:44:38.640 --> 00:44:41.520 You have to interpret it in a different way. 00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:44.800 But so the basic version is that yes, there's a little season, 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:48.880 it's just Satan is allowed to be particularly terrible for a period 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:53.120 of time near the end of things, culminating in the second coming. 00:44:53.120 --> 00:44:56.080 And that's part of the reason, of course, that Lutherans and others 00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:59.600 will say there's no rapture because that would be the second coming, 00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:03.120 and then the second coming would be the third. 00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:04.560 That doesn't work. 00:45:04.560 --> 00:45:07.760 So that's the short version of that. 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:16.720 Someone asked me sort of basic question about Wells, which is the 00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:19.200 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. 00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:22.480 It's the other Lutheran Synod in the U.S, and I know there 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:24.400 are going to be people who object to that because there's some 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:27.200 tiny microsynods, but it's not the point. 00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:29.280 You have the LCMS and Wells. 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.720 And they asked what are some problems with Wells or why would 00:45:32.720 --> 00:45:33.920 I object to Wells? 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:38.000 And I don't have any objections to Wells other than their doctrine 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.360 of the ministry is wrong, which is why you have the split 00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:44.240 between the LCMS and Wells, but that's inside baseball. 00:45:44.240 --> 00:45:47.040 Most people aren't going to care, and it's sort of hyper technical 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:51.280 and Wells is just obviously wrong. 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:51.600 But 00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:55.920 the reason that I would tell people you're not going to avoid 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:59.120 the problems the LCMS has if you go Wells is because Is 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:03.200 because the way the structure works in Wells, they are going to 00:46:03.200 --> 00:46:07.360 speedrun the problems in the LCMS, and they are going to probably 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.360 wind up worse. 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:12.800 And they're going to do it, like I said, more quickly. 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.880 So if you can find a good wells congregation, go ahead and 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.280 attend. I think that their obviously their doctrine of the ministry is 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.800 wrong, but I don't think that endangers your soul. 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:28.800 I think that's something for the theologians and others to argue about 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.720 and hopefully come to some resolution. 00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:33.360 Realistically they won't, because we're going to wind up forming a new 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:38.720 synod. But if you find a good congregation, you're fine. 00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:43.520 Because Wells, like the LCMS, is congregationalist in its polity. 00:46:43.520 --> 00:46:49.040 And so if synod, if the corporate structure tells the congregation to 00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:51.920 do something, they have They have the option of just saying no 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.520 thank you and then leaving. 00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:57.120 You have to leave the synod, but that is something you can 00:46:57.120 --> 00:46:59.920 do because you probably own your building. 00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:03.680 Which is the advantage that you have if you have a congregationalist 00:47:04.080 --> 00:47:08.800 this is lowercase c polity, not theology, but polity, you probably own 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.840 your building, you probably own or you know at least rent your 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.200 land, rent your building, whatever it happens to be. 00:47:15.200 --> 00:47:18.160 Your bishop equivalent doesn't own it. 00:47:18.160 --> 00:47:22.160 So they can't use that to force you to stay. 00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:24.960 So if you find a good Wells church, go ahead and attend 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.600 it. If you find a good LCMS church, go ahead and attend 00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:29.120 it. If you have a problem 00:47:30.640 --> 00:47:32.960 that you know something 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:38.880 your local bishop equivalent or your synod starts to do, then you're 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:42.160 going to have to work to have that congregation leave that corporate 00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:44.720 body. And that's completely fine. 00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:48.080 And then once you have a faithful corporate body somewhere, you can 00:47:48.080 --> 00:47:49.520 go ahead and join that one. 00:47:49.520 --> 00:47:52.400 So short answer is go ahead, join Wells. 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:56.560 They have the same problems as the LCMS, but they're congregationalist, so 00:47:57.040 --> 00:48:01.200 You can certainly find a congregation that is good if you happen 00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:04.960 to be in an area where you have a good congregation. 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:06.000 It's going to depend. 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.840 Some areas of the country have basically no Lutherans, right? 00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:13.120 And so there you are going to have to start a home 00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:15.360 church. But if you live in parts of the country that have 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.120 Lutheran churches, I'm not going to say you can't go to Wells. 00:48:19.120 --> 00:48:20.000 Wells is fine. 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.600 The LCM even the LCMS is fine. 00:48:21.600 --> 00:48:25.200 I'm not going to say the LCMS is if you join it 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:26.000 you're damned, right? 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:27.120 I'm not going to say that. 00:48:27.120 --> 00:48:29.360 Because they're good congregations. 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:31.280 But you have to make that assessment. 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.200 You're not just going to be able to go, oh, it says 00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:35.280 LCMS, they must be faithful Lutherans. 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:36.640 That's no longer true. 00:48:36.640 --> 00:48:39.360 The same for Wells. 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:44.320 And yes, I will get to super chats and things like that. 00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:47.920 And I do always note down the or at least attempt to 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.480 I'm not going to make a blanket statement because perhaps I'll miss 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.080 them in the chat. 00:48:52.080 --> 00:48:54.960 But I do try to note down questions from the chat and 00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:58.400 then answer them usually in future episodes because usually by the time 00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.880 I get around to those I can answer a couple at most 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.600 at most before I run out of time for the particular episode. 00:49:05.600 --> 00:49:08.640 Not because I'm limited on time as it were, but because, again, 00:49:08.640 --> 00:49:12.400 I've explained, I don't want these to really run over an hour 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.440 each week, for various reasons. 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:19.120 The next question is about 00:49:20.560 --> 00:49:24.320 how to improve American birth rates. 00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:28.400 And obviously that means for actual Americans, this is it someone asking 00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:31.840 about the American race, not about people who happen to be living 00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:35.600 in the country that is called America, because America is the nation. 00:49:35.600 --> 00:49:38.240 The United States is the country. 00:49:38.240 --> 00:49:39.440 Distinction there. 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:42.640 We've gone over that at length for Stone Choir, so people can 00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:45.440 go and listen to that if they have questions about those, or 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:47.520 perhaps I'll address at some point in the future. 00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:49.040 It's worth repeating. 00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:49.360 But 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:56.000 the This is the one that is related to the earlier question 00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.480 about basically how do you go out and find a wife. 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:03.280 The issue with regard to the birth rates 00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:06.000 is multifaceted. 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:11.680 A big part of it is that the economy has been destroyed 00:50:11.680 --> 00:50:13.600 for actual Americans. 00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:14.240 And so 00:50:15.200 --> 00:50:22.560 if you don't have the economic ability, the wherewithal, the means to 00:50:22.560 --> 00:50:25.920 raise a bunch of children, you are going to have people have 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.640 fewer children because people actually do respond to economic ins incentives to 00:50:30.640 --> 00:50:32.000 a certain degree. 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:38.800 So So someone who is having trouble making rent is probably not 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.640 going to try to have six or seven children. 00:50:42.640 --> 00:50:44.720 So you have to address those issues. 00:50:44.720 --> 00:50:47.440 That's one of the things that needs to be addressed. 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:50.480 Trump actually just did something that I'm willing to say he did 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:52.720 something good when he does something good. 00:50:52.720 --> 00:50:54.800 And I'm certainly willing to say he does something bad when he 00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:55.920 does that as well. 00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.240 But he's recently been talking about capping interest on credit cards and 00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:05.200 prohibiting the ownership of single family homes by large corporations, investment firms, 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:06.640 things like that. 00:51:06.640 --> 00:51:08.720 That is very good. 00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:11.920 That is exactly what we should be doing. 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:14.640 I would, of course, say abolish interest, but that's sort of a 00:51:14.640 --> 00:51:18.320 more radical step, a little more difficult to take, certainly when you 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:19.920 have certain backers. 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:20.160 But 00:51:22.160 --> 00:51:27.040 if we make single-family homes, or even if they're they don't have 00:51:27.040 --> 00:51:31.280 to necessarily be single-family homes, I don't object to nice apartment buildings, 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:32.000 for instance. 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.480 I lived in an apartment in California, I lived in an apartment 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:34.880 in Berlin. 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:36.560 I don't object to apartments. 00:51:36.560 --> 00:51:39.120 I think they can be done very well, and they can be 00:51:39.120 --> 00:51:42.480 suitable even for families with, say, two or three children. 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.120 Once you start to get more children than that, then you probably 00:51:45.120 --> 00:51:49.360 want a single family home, or a multi generational family home, which 00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:51.280 is obviously even better. 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.480 If your parents or even grandparents live with you and help you 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:57.680 to raise the children, do things like that, various tasks around the 00:51:57.680 --> 00:52:00.640 home. And then you can care for your grandparents as they age. 00:52:00.640 --> 00:52:03.200 That is a more natural way for human beings to live. 00:52:03.680 --> 00:52:10.320 The isolated, atomized, immediate nuclear family home and no one else is 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:12.560 very unusual historically. 00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:14.080 And it's sort of anti-human. 00:52:14.080 --> 00:52:15.040 It's not what you want. 00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:19.040 But to sort of return to the question, if we make it 00:52:19.040 --> 00:52:22.480 so that these homes are more accessible, whatever form they happen to 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:27.040 take, but we make them more accessible for Americans, then you can 00:52:27.520 --> 00:52:29.680 remove one of those hurdles. 00:52:29.680 --> 00:52:32.880 It's particularly a mental hurdle, but it's not entirely a mental hurdle 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:34.480 because it is a real hurdle. 00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:38.880 If you can barely afford housing, then wisdom is going to tell 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.000 you maybe you shouldn't have a bunch of children right now. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:44.480 The problem is you only have a certain number a year, particularly 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:45.760 as a woman, obviously. 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:47.760 You have a certain number of years. 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.560 You probably got about fifteen, sixteen years during which you can have 00:52:50.560 --> 00:52:53.120 children. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less. 00:52:53.120 --> 00:52:54.480 But right about there. 00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:55.280 That's limited. 00:52:56.080 --> 00:53:01.360 If you are scrambling to try to make rent and student loan 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:04.720 payments which are deeply accursed and the short answer there is they 00:53:04.720 --> 00:53:05.840 should just be abolished. 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.480 Period. Wipe the slate clean, be done with it. 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:11.600 That would be a huge step in the right direction. 00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:16.240 But if you can't make these payments, if you have these problems, 00:53:16.240 --> 00:53:20.320 you are going to have more trouble convincing yourself that you should 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:20.720 have children. 00:53:21.680 --> 00:53:25.040 You're probably going to take steps to not have children, and then 00:53:25.040 --> 00:53:28.720 you're going to be scrambling for money and all these things for 00:53:28.720 --> 00:53:33.040 these dwindling number of years during which you can have children. 00:53:33.040 --> 00:53:37.280 And then you're going to wind up with two or three instead 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:38.960 of six. 00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:42.160 And I don't think that we should necessarily be aiming at you 00:53:42.160 --> 00:53:45.120 know infinite growth and have forty billion people on the planet, that's 00:53:45.040 --> 00:53:46.560 not what I'm saying. 00:53:46.560 --> 00:53:49.520 But I do think we should have more Americans. 00:53:49.520 --> 00:53:51.920 I do think we should have more Europeans, and I think we 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:54.400 need to increase our fertility rate to do that. 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:59.360 Part of it is getting rid of the pernicious debts that are 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:00.560 student loans. 00:54:00.560 --> 00:54:03.120 And I know some people object to that, but when you look 00:54:03.120 --> 00:54:07.200 at the numbers, it's pretty obvious that we have to do it, 00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:12.960 or we are shooting ourselves in the foot to vastly understate things. 00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.200 A significant percentage 00:54:16.240 --> 00:54:23.360 of American women in their fertile years have student loans. 00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:26.960 That is going to stall family formation. 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:31.760 It is going to delay at the absolute least having children. 00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:36.080 It is going to delay at the absolute least purchasing a home. 00:54:36.080 --> 00:54:37.440 And all these other milestones 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:42.560 that lead toward having that stable environment in which people are more 00:54:42.560 --> 00:54:43.680 inclined to have children. 00:54:43.680 --> 00:54:47.840 We're talking about incentives, or perhaps as economists would say, nudges, although 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:51.360 in this case the pretty big nudges, you have to take these 00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:52.720 things into account. 00:54:52.720 --> 00:54:57.600 If we don't have proper policies in place, we're going to continue 00:54:57.600 --> 00:55:01.520 to see this abysmally low fertility rate. 00:55:01.520 --> 00:55:05.360 So part of it we could just basically borrow things from the 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:06.800 Third Reich. 00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:11.200 So if you have X number of children, your home loan is 00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:15.920 forgiven. So you forgive some percentage, whatever it is, twenty, twenty-five, some 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:19.040 percentage of the loan for each child. 00:55:19.040 --> 00:55:20.160 I think that makes sense. 00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:21.520 That's a good thing. 00:55:21.520 --> 00:55:26.320 You can also help young families with things like their first car. 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.600 Or education if someone needs training in order to 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.000 get a better job, in order to support more children. 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:38.080 These are things that a functioning society should have. 00:55:38.080 --> 00:55:38.880 Excuse me. 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.440 And I know that some people object and say, oh, it's socialism 00:55:41.520 --> 00:55:43.520 and of course it is. 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:45.760 But it's not a bad thing. 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.840 The reason it's not a bad thing is because you've just been 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:51.680 taught that word is bad. 00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:55.040 Call it communitarianism if you don't like the word socialism. 00:55:55.040 --> 00:55:58.880 It is caring for your own people, desiring what is good for 00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:03.280 them, and taking concrete steps toward helping them. 00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:06.480 That's just loving your neighbor as yourself. 00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:09.440 That's Christianity translated into politics. 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:13.520 And no Christian should ever object to any of that. 00:56:13.520 --> 00:56:17.280 You can object to the individual wisdom of individual programs, that's a 00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:18.560 different thing. 00:56:18.560 --> 00:56:21.040 But you can't object to the socialization of 00:56:22.160 --> 00:56:26.560 all costs, of all programs and things like that. 00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:29.920 We have plenty of them already, to which no one really objects. 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:32.000 I mean, I'm sure there are people out there who think we 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.520 should just completely get rid of the Postal Service, but that's often 00:56:35.520 --> 00:56:36.880 libertarian land. 00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:38.960 Those are the same people who think you can have a market 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:42.960 for roads, which is insane for many reasons. 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:43.280 But 00:56:44.560 --> 00:56:47.120 there's nothing wrong with having social programs. 00:56:47.120 --> 00:56:51.200 As long as they are managed well and achieve the ends toward 00:56:51.200 --> 00:56:53.680 which they were aimed, for which they were created. 00:56:53.680 --> 00:56:56.960 So, yes, there should be audits, you should have oversight, these things 00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:00.160 should not just be a black hole in which you throw money. 00:57:00.160 --> 00:57:04.400 But there are concrete programs we can enact in order to improve 00:57:04.560 --> 00:57:09.040 particularly the fertility rate. 00:57:09.040 --> 00:57:09.360 On 00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:14.880 sort of a practical and I guess a not so much policy-driven 00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:16.880 note, but more of a social note. 00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:19.440 One of the things that needs to be done is older generations 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:23.440 need to step up and start trying to pair people off. 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:28.560 That's been part of human culture, human society from the very beginning. 00:57:28.560 --> 00:57:32.720 This modern idea that you just have to go out and aimlessly 00:57:32.720 --> 00:57:36.240 search for a wife is insane. 00:57:36.240 --> 00:57:38.240 No one did that historically. 00:57:38.240 --> 00:57:41.600 Your parents helped you because historically your parents happen to know the 00:57:41.600 --> 00:57:44.880 parents, who had a young woman who was, you know, five years 00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:46.480 younger than you. 00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:48.960 Seemed like she'd probably be a good match for you, and then 00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:52.640 somehow they magically made it so that you two spent time together. 00:57:52.640 --> 00:57:54.240 That works really well. 00:57:54.240 --> 00:57:55.600 That's how things should be done. 00:57:55.600 --> 00:57:58.880 And so the old ladies at church should be trying to find 00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:01.360 wives for the young men at church and trying to find husbands 00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:02.480 for the young ladies at church. 00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.240 That's how things are supposed to go. 00:58:04.240 --> 00:58:09.680 The older generations have long ago given up on doing that. 00:58:09.680 --> 00:58:12.240 They have been negligent in their duty. 00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:15.040 They need to be reminded that is one of the things they 00:58:15.040 --> 00:58:17.120 have to do as an older generation. 00:58:17.120 --> 00:58:18.800 That's one of the things you're supposed to do as an elder. 00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:22.000 You're supposed to make sure the next generation starts off on the 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:22.400 right foot. 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:24.800 And part of that is certainly getting married. 00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:31.440 Because the overwhelming majority, the absolutely overwhelming majority of people should be 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:34.880 married. That is the default state. 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:38.000 God says to Adam, It is not good that man should be 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:42.560 alone. And that's Adam walking with God in the garden. 00:58:42.560 --> 00:58:45.360 I don't know how you can possibly interpret that except thinking that 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:47.920 marriage is one of the most important things in life and should 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:51.280 be a priority for society. 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:55.200 In fact, Lutherans in particular can't object to it because we're confessionally 00:58:55.200 --> 00:58:59.200 bound in our confession, it says that one of the duties of 00:58:59.200 --> 00:59:04.160 the state is to ensure that people get married and have children. 00:59:04.160 --> 00:59:08.960 Not just parents, not just grandparents, not just the church, the state. 00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:11.280 It goes so far as to say is the prince will be 00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:13.920 judged for whether or not he does that. 00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:14.240 So 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:22.960 that's certainly something that the older generation generations need to be doing. 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:23.680 And then I guess 00:59:24.560 --> 00:59:29.200 one more brief comment would just be sort of the biological reality. 00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:34.240 Some of you listening undoubtedly are single and millennial, so perhaps like 00:59:34.240 --> 00:59:35.120 me, right? 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.400 If that is the case, if you're a male and you are 00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:43.200 late thirties, early forties, you're going to have to date younger if 00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:44.800 you want to have children. 00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:47.200 If you want to have any number of children, because that's just 00:59:47.200 --> 00:59:48.400 the biological reality. 00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:49.600 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:59:49.600 --> 00:59:51.680 Go ahead and date a woman who's 10 years younger. 00:59:51.680 --> 00:59:53.520 That's fine. 00:59:53.520 --> 00:59:54.800 Is it ideal? 00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:58.080 Maybe not 10 years is ideal, but we're not dealing with ideal 00:59:58.080 --> 01:00:02.080 circumstances. We're dealing with reality as it has been handed to us 01:00:02.080 --> 01:00:07.040 by previous generations that were incredibly negligent to say the absolute least. 01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:10.240 So if you have to marry a woman who's ten, twelve years 01:00:10.240 --> 01:00:15.120 younger than you, so that you can have four, five, six children, 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:18.880 however many God chooses to give you as blessing, then by all 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:19.920 means do that. 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:21.840 That's the biological reality. 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:25.040 If you're forty five and you marry a forty five year old, 01:00:25.040 --> 01:00:27.360 chances are you're having no children. 01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:28.880 Maybe one. 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:34.400 And also bear in mind, there are more consequences when the mother 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.840 is older than there are when the father is older. 01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:39.120 There aren't zero. 01:00:39.120 --> 01:00:42.800 There are risks as well when the father is older, but they 01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:46.640 are nowhere near as bad, and they are nowhere near as prevalent 01:00:46.640 --> 01:00:48.240 as when the mother is older. 01:00:48.240 --> 01:00:51.280 So just the the biological reality of it. 01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.560 There are people who object, will say it's terrible, someone will surely 01:00:54.560 --> 01:00:57.600 try to take that out of context and say something awful about 01:00:57.600 --> 01:00:59.440 me, but that's inevitable. 01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:02.240 But the biological reality is that if you don't marry someone who 01:01:02.240 --> 01:01:05.520 is in that window, and again, it's only about sixteen years, whatever 01:01:05.520 --> 01:01:07.840 it happens to be plus or minus a number of years. 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:11.040 If you don't marry a woman who's in that window, your odds 01:01:11.040 --> 01:01:14.080 of having children drop off precipitously. 01:01:14.080 --> 01:01:19.200 That is simply the reality of being a flesh and bone creature, 01:01:19.200 --> 01:01:21.040 a biological creature. 01:01:21.040 --> 01:01:24.400 Women have a fertility window. 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:25.920 Men really don't. 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:26.240 So 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:29.200 you can't get mad we mean you can. 01:01:29.200 --> 01:01:31.360 You can get mad at biology, but you can't ignore it because 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:36.880 if you ignore it, you're not going to obtain the desired outcome. 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:40.480 A question I've fielded before, moving on to the next question. 01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:43.760 A question that I've fielded before, but I'll answer it again just 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:45.760 because why not? 01:01:46.560 --> 01:01:49.120 I will pull up a 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.280 web page here so that I can actually show people. 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:57.920 Someone asked about the intro and outro music for Stone Choir. 01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:59.360 Probably spell it correct. 01:01:59.600 --> 01:02:03.840 So if you go to stonequire.com slash resources, it will give you 01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:05.200 the intro and outro music. 01:02:05.200 --> 01:02:06.480 Those are available there. 01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:08.880 It also gives a little bit of information about it. 01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:11.360 And so the intro music is the tune. 01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:14.160 And of course the tune's all that matters because there's no singing. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:18.720 The tune is Ebenezer, and most Lutherans will recognize it as thy 01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:19.360 strong word. 01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:21.680 It is one of the more famous, one of the more well 01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:26.560 known hymns in Lutheranism at least, that uses that tune. 01:02:26.560 --> 01:02:30.240 Baptists will probably hear O The deep love of Jesus, because that 01:02:30.240 --> 01:02:33.600 is more common in their tradition, same tune. 01:02:33.600 --> 01:02:38.720 And then the outro music is Ach Gott von Himmel, which is 01:02:38.720 --> 01:02:42.320 translated into English as O Lord, look down from heaven. 01:02:42.640 --> 01:02:46.320 You can go ahead and look up those lyrics on hymnery is 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:48.720 usually the best website, hymnery.org. 01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:51.760 I will again try to remember to put those in the show 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:57.360 notes. Make a note of that quickly so I remember that. 01:02:57.520 --> 01:03:00.320 Till I have a secretary doing this live I have to take 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:03.200 the notes myself, but you can go and look at the lyrics 01:03:03.200 --> 01:03:08.000 for those, and basically I just edited those in garage band, because 01:03:08.080 --> 01:03:10.880 yes, I'm a Mac user, as you might already know. 01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:13.920 So I edited those in garage band and that's the intro and 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:14.720 the outro. 01:03:14.720 --> 01:03:21.200 And we just sort of ran with it. 01:03:21.200 --> 01:03:24.400 The next question here, I think I will try to at least 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.160 get through a couple more questions. 01:03:26.160 --> 01:03:29.040 I will go ahead and answer the the super chat here because 01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:31.680 I think that I think that just seems like the right thing 01:03:31.680 --> 01:03:36.240 to do before I get to some questions that I just pulled 01:03:36.240 --> 01:03:38.400 off X in various other places. 01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:42.320 I got through all the questions I wanted to get through from 01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:43.760 the forum for tonight. 01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:46.480 I did not get through all the questions on the forum, so 01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:48.800 don't think that I missed your question. 01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:51.200 There are some questions that are going to take me a little 01:03:51.200 --> 01:03:53.680 more time and are going to take me a little bit of 01:03:53.680 --> 01:03:57.120 prep work because I got asked about a couple things that were 01:03:57.120 --> 01:04:00.880 less familiar to me, sort of things in other countries, things like 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:02.960 that. And so I want to spend a little more time and 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:04.240 I just had a very busy week. 01:04:04.240 --> 01:04:05.520 I didn't manage to get to it. 01:04:05.520 --> 01:04:07.440 As you might have guessed from the fact that I'm doing the 01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:11.680 Q and A at at ten o'clock at night on Friday. 01:04:11.680 --> 01:04:15.760 But the question from the superchat here is what is your take 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:18.880 on Stephen Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist? 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:24.000 Particularly his opinion that sodomites cannot possibly ever be one to Christ. 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:29.040 So I have mixed feelings about him for a number of reasons. 01:04:29.040 --> 01:04:31.440 One, he's really bad on race. 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.480 Two, he of course is a Baptist, and so I disagree with 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:39.200 him vehemently with regard to the sacraments, and he is particularly obnoxious 01:04:39.200 --> 01:04:42.320 when it comes to his treatment of the sacraments and things like 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:43.520 that. But 01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:49.040 to comment more specifically on the question of sodomites, and sort of 01:04:49.120 --> 01:04:53.200 that's my general sense of the man, but I've interacted with him 01:04:53.200 --> 01:04:54.880 a little bit on X. 01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:59.440 Just a little bit, but when it comes to Sodomites, can they 01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:00.800 be one over? 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:02.640 The answer is yes. 01:05:02.640 --> 01:05:07.680 And the New Testament actually says that explicitly, because there's a listing 01:05:07.680 --> 01:05:11.600 of sins and then it says such were some of you who 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:13.760 were past tense. 01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:18.400 These are men who have converted and become believers. 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:25.120 Now this interacts with something that is a question actually, someone brought 01:05:25.120 --> 01:05:25.440 up 01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.320 Excuse me, a question to which I do not think I will 01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:32.240 get tonight, but I'll get to it next time. 01:05:32.240 --> 01:05:36.960 It's sort of the confluence here of the punishment for certain crimes. 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.800 In that case particularly adultery was one of the ones mentioned, blasphemy, 01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:43.040 sodomy is certainly another. 01:05:43.040 --> 01:05:43.360 The 01:05:44.240 --> 01:05:48.800 recommended punishment, and I would say required punishment because 01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:53.200 thinking about how deeply I want to get into this for this 01:05:53.200 --> 01:05:58.560 particular episode, but I think it's worth addressing this facet of it. 01:05:58.560 --> 01:06:03.520 In the old testament, there are two kinds of abomination that are 01:06:03.520 --> 01:06:03.840 listed 01:06:05.200 --> 01:06:09.120 as something that is prohibited or must be punished. 01:06:09.120 --> 01:06:10.640 Typically both. 01:06:10.640 --> 01:06:16.160 But there is the abomination for you, which is addressing Old Testament 01:06:16.160 --> 01:06:22.160 Israel. And so for instance, a lot of seafood is an abomination 01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:25.200 for the Old Testament Israelites. 01:06:25.200 --> 01:06:30.160 Pig's flesh is an abomination for the Old Testament Israelites. 01:06:30.160 --> 01:06:33.040 It is prohibited to them by God. 01:06:33.040 --> 01:06:38.240 What God does not say is that it is an abomination, period. 01:06:38.240 --> 01:06:42.880 It is an abomination to you, to them specifically. 01:06:43.120 --> 01:06:44.720 There are other places where it says something 01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:52.320 is an abomination full stop or is an abomination to God. 01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:58.720 Sodomy homosexuality is listed as an abomination to God and the punishment 01:06:58.720 --> 01:07:02.320 is a capital punishment. 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.520 My belief, my firm belief, and I don't see how anyone can 01:07:05.520 --> 01:07:09.360 get around this despite the fact that many modern exegetes so called 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:13.920 have tried, is that when God says something is an abomination to 01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:17.760 him and says that it must be punished with capital punishment, I 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:19.760 don't think we get any say. 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.280 I think at the absolute most, perhaps we could suspend the capital 01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:26.000 punishment for a period of time if you wanted to use the 01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:27.440 person for hard labor or something. 01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.840 I think that's probably permissible. 01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:33.920 But I don't think you get to avoid the reality of what 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:35.440 it says in the Old Testament. 01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:38.640 And so the question is, can the person repent? 01:07:38.640 --> 01:07:43.120 The answer is yes, but that doesn't mean the state shouldn't punish 01:07:43.120 --> 01:07:45.040 him for what he has done. 01:07:45.040 --> 01:07:47.520 The same thing is true with regard to murderers. 01:07:47.520 --> 01:07:52.560 A murderer can certainly repent of his sins of his crimes before 01:07:52.560 --> 01:07:54.320 he is executed. 01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:56.880 But the state must still execute him. 01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:00.720 Just because you have been forgiven your sins does not mean the 01:08:00.720 --> 01:08:04.880 temporal consequences of that of those sins are washed away. 01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:09.840 The temporal consequences remain particularly for those sorts of crimes. 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:15.280 So yes a sodomite can certainly repent, yes the state should still 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:23.920 absolutely punish them, and the Old Testament is the guide for that. 01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:27.200 So, yes, I I don't think that his conclusion that sodomites never 01:08:27.200 --> 01:08:28.400 repent is true. 01:08:29.040 --> 01:08:31.200 I would say they rarely repent. 01:08:31.200 --> 01:08:34.160 I think history bears that one out, and I think we all 01:08:34.160 --> 01:08:36.240 know that from looking at our culture today. 01:08:36.240 --> 01:08:39.440 But if you're asking about the possibility of it, yes they can. 01:08:39.440 --> 01:08:40.480 Will they? 01:08:40.480 --> 01:08:42.560 Much less likely. 01:08:46.240 --> 01:08:51.200 The next question and this may be the last one I will 01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:56.400 do, maybe. 01:08:56.400 --> 01:08:58.560 I think this will be second to last. 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.360 This will be the penultimate one that I do tonight. 01:09:01.360 --> 01:09:07.120 But a question about do I support absolute monarchy basically is the 01:09:07.120 --> 01:09:08.960 the short form of the question here. 01:09:09.040 --> 01:09:10.880 And the answer to that is yes. 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:15.120 And I'm actually going to pull something up here because 01:09:16.480 --> 01:09:20.640 Lutherans, I don't want the Athanasian Creed. 01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:26.640 Lutherans are technically bound to believe that the monarch is absolute. 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:29.760 Because it's actually in our confessions, one of those things that people 01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.480 tend to ignore and I don't know why. 01:09:32.480 --> 01:09:36.080 OBS decided to zoom there, but it will hardly matter. 01:09:36.080 --> 01:09:38.000 Thankfully I I know where this is. 01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:42.720 It's in the article on the bishops, the ecclesiastical power here. 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:47.440 So in this article, and we'll see if I can get 01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:54.640 OBS to agree to show the fullness of the page instead of 01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:56.880 that. Maybe I'll just pull up the browser's the full thing. 01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:59.040 You don't need my face for this. 01:09:59.040 --> 01:09:59.360 So 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:04.480 speaking of the bishops, because this of course is an article on 01:10:04.480 --> 01:10:10.160 church authority, but in passing it mentions something about the power of 01:10:10.560 --> 01:10:12.400 kings and tyrants. 01:10:12.400 --> 01:10:16.640 But their power, speaking of the bishops, is not tyrannical, that is, 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:20.560 without a fixed law, nor regal, which is to say, of a 01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:23.840 monarch, above the law. 01:10:24.160 --> 01:10:27.920 Well, monarchs are above the law. 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.800 That's just stated as a simple fact in the confession. 01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:32.240 I know there are going to be those who will try to 01:10:32.240 --> 01:10:34.480 say, oh well it's not a theological point. 01:10:34.480 --> 01:10:35.840 I strongly disagree. 01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:38.080 I think it's a core theological point. 01:10:38.160 --> 01:10:41.200 And so I would say that Lutherans are actually bound to believe 01:10:41.200 --> 01:10:45.280 that the monarch is above the law, because it very clearly says 01:10:45.280 --> 01:10:50.560 here in the apology that the regal power. 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:52.000 Someone said muted. 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:52.720 Am I muted? 01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:59.360 I don't know how I did that. 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:05.200 Am I muted? 01:11:05.200 --> 01:11:05.520 Is 01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:09.840 someone in the chat say if you can hear me because nothing 01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:13.920 shows is muted on my end during full screen. 01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:16.080 Wow, that's okay, cool. 01:11:16.320 --> 01:11:20.800 So apparently OBS just decided to be very cooperative there when I 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:21.680 was full screen. 01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:25.600 Okay, so I will just re-say what I said. 01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:29.520 In the Book of Concord, in the Apology, it says that of 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:32.800 the of the bishops, but their power is not to be tyrannical, 01:11:32.800 --> 01:11:38.320 that is, without a fixed rule, nor regal above the law. 01:11:38.320 --> 01:11:41.920 And so what that says is that the monarch is above the 01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:45.920 law. I would say Lutherans are confessionally bound to believe the monarch 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:49.600 is above the law, and I think that that also flows logically, 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:53.360 both theologically and politically, because 01:11:54.800 --> 01:11:58.160 the question ultimately is what is the source of the power of 01:11:58.160 --> 01:12:00.000 the law? 01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:06.320 Well we've tried in modern democracies and republics to say it's this 01:12:06.320 --> 01:12:09.600 document, it's the Constitution, right? 01:12:10.160 --> 01:12:13.600 The Constitution doesn't have any power. 01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:15.600 The piece of paper doesn't have any power. 01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:19.760 The Magna Carta doesn't have any power. 01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:24.560 What backs those ultimately, of course, is the military, but then you're 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:28.480 just down to raw naked use of force, which yes, of course, 01:12:28.480 --> 01:12:31.520 might makes right to a certain degree. 01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:37.520 But I think that it is entirely proper to ground the law, 01:12:37.520 --> 01:12:41.600 the force behind the law, in the person of the monarch, or 01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:44.560 at least in the monarchy as an institution. 01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:49.760 And so necessarily, the institution from which the authority of the law 01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:53.760 flows is itself above the law, not bound to it. 01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:56.160 That just follows naturally and logically. 01:12:56.160 --> 01:12:59.920 And so I agree, I affirm what the Book of Concord says 01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:04.480 that the monarch, the regal power, is above the law, and so 01:13:04.480 --> 01:13:08.240 I do support an absolute monarchy in that sense. 01:13:08.240 --> 01:13:12.240 But the law that the monarchy has, because of course, the comment 01:13:12.240 --> 01:13:16.960 about tyrannical is also, I think, fairly applied to the monarch in 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:20.720 the negative, which is to say the monarch cannot be a tyrant, 01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:23.280 because he is not without law. 01:13:23.280 --> 01:13:27.040 He is under the moral law, because he is bound by God's 01:13:27.040 --> 01:13:31.680 law. One of the duties of the Christian prince is to transpose 01:13:32.080 --> 01:13:34.160 the moral law into the positive law. 01:13:34.160 --> 01:13:36.640 And for those who don't know, the moral law is the god 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.520 is the law that flows from God's nature. 01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:43.520 So for instance, Genesis nine six He who sheds the blood of 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:46.720 man by man shall his blood be shed, for God was made 01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:49.440 in the image for man was made in the image of God, 01:13:49.440 --> 01:13:49.920 right? 01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:57.120 That is moral law that is unchanging that flows from God's nature. 01:13:57.120 --> 01:14:01.520 The positive law is the written law that men use in our 01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:04.000 governments, our courts, our day to day life. 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:08.640 And so for instance, you have thou shalt not kill in the 01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:12.880 moral law, or thou shalt not murder to use the modern term. 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:16.320 Kill is the old English term that means what murder means today, 01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:22.480 basically. In the positive law, we have laws defining types of murder, 01:14:22.480 --> 01:14:26.320 and then charging that person and then punishing that person with various 01:14:26.320 --> 01:14:29.840 punishments depending on the kind of murder he committed. 01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:33.840 That is a transposition of the moral law into the positive law. 01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:37.120 That is one of the duties of the king, because the king 01:14:37.120 --> 01:14:41.200 is in fact bound by the moral law, and king and Christian 01:14:41.200 --> 01:14:43.760 prince are interchangeable in this case. 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:45.600 Christian prince is the generic term. 01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:47.600 It doesn't mean that he's a prince, it just means that he 01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:50.560 is the Christian ruler of a particular area. 01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:53.600 Of a particular nation, particular land. 01:14:53.600 --> 01:14:55.920 So that's one of his duties. 01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.320 He's not above all law, he's above the positive law, because he 01:15:00.320 --> 01:15:03.280 is the one that is the source of the authority for that 01:15:03.280 --> 01:15:06.720 positive law in his lands, being the one who has the duty 01:15:06.720 --> 01:15:10.320 to transpose the moral law into the positive law. 01:15:10.320 --> 01:15:15.280 So yes, I do believe in that sense in an absolute monarch. 01:15:15.280 --> 01:15:18.800 I don't believe the monarch can say adultery is now legal. 01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:22.400 don't think he can say murder is legal, Because that would be 01:15:22.400 --> 01:15:25.200 to put his throne above God's throne. 01:15:25.200 --> 01:15:29.920 That's to be antichrist, and that man does not deserve to remain 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:35.760 king. And so I think I will end with perhaps a more 01:15:36.160 --> 01:15:40.160 lighthearted, easier to answer question here. 01:15:40.160 --> 01:15:46.160 Someone asked if I have any knowledge about sort of the number 01:15:46.160 --> 01:15:49.840 and existence of female listeners to Stone Choir? 01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:53.040 And I guess this as well, because it was a more generic 01:15:53.040 --> 01:15:55.360 question. The answer is yes. 01:15:55.360 --> 01:15:59.120 There's actually a fair number, a fair percentage of female listeners to 01:15:59.120 --> 01:16:04.000 Stone Choir and I haven't looked at the statistics specifically for this 01:16:04.320 --> 01:16:06.960 and I don't keep any creepy statistics. 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:08.080 YouTube does. 01:16:08.080 --> 01:16:11.200 So I can look at YouTube and see the rough breakdown of 01:16:11.200 --> 01:16:15.040 male and female and unfortunately, at lists other as well, but 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:19.760 there are female listeners to this, and there are certainly female listeners 01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:21.280 to Stone Choir. 01:16:21.280 --> 01:16:26.480 The overwhelming majority of listeners to Stone Choir are male, at least 01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:28.480 according to YouTube. 01:16:28.480 --> 01:16:29.120 Now 01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:37.440 that's not perfectly accurate because the YouTube audience for particularly this kind 01:16:37.440 --> 01:16:40.000 of content anyway, skews mail. 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:42.880 And it skews younger in male. 01:16:42.880 --> 01:16:46.640 So it's sort of z like zoomer to m Gen X, right? 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:49.120 I'll pretend Gen X exists for the case of this. 01:16:49.120 --> 01:16:52.400 That's sort of the YouTube audience, the bulk of the audience for 01:16:52.400 --> 01:16:54.880 at least this type of content. 01:16:55.040 --> 01:16:58.240 And so that's going to skew the percentage. 01:16:58.240 --> 01:17:01.760 And then there's also the fact that YouTube is the only platform 01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:04.240 from which I have any real analytics. 01:17:04.240 --> 01:17:06.560 There's some for Spotify. 01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:09.920 But like I said, and like I've said many times before, I 01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:14.240 don't use creepy analytics, and we never used it for Stone Choir. 01:17:14.240 --> 01:17:18.640 Literally all that I have for Stone Choir, insofar as analytics are 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:24.000 concerned, is in order to make the system robust to support changes 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:28.240 to the URL structure so that downloads would continue to work, I 01:17:28.240 --> 01:17:34.160 can tell roughly how many times an episode was downloaded directly. 01:17:34.320 --> 01:17:39.600 For anyone who understands this technology in this area, you know how 01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:41.200 little that means. 01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:44.080 Because it means that anything that was cached on a third party 01:17:44.080 --> 01:17:48.480 server, Spotify, YouTube, I don't think Apple caches, I think Apple does 01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:50.480 direct downloads. 01:17:50.480 --> 01:17:51.920 I have no idea. 01:17:51.920 --> 01:17:54.960 So all I know is this rough number of people who download, 01:17:54.960 --> 01:17:58.160 and then I can look at YouTube and figure out like kinda 01:17:58.160 --> 01:18:00.640 roughly male versus female. 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.880 So I don't have good numbers, but I can certainly say that 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:06.720 we do have female listeners. 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:08.400 I've I've met some of them. 01:18:08.400 --> 01:18:09.200 I know some of them. 01:18:09.200 --> 01:18:10.000 I've talked to them. 01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:12.640 So I I know that we do actually have female listeners. 01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:16.240 There are women who are interested in this material in these things. 01:18:16.240 --> 01:18:18.480 And so perhaps that's some 01:18:19.360 --> 01:18:21.600 good news for the men who are looking for wives. 01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:23.920 There are women out there who actually do have an interest in 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:25.520 these things. 01:18:25.680 --> 01:18:28.640 Again, that's not something you have to require in a wife, right? 01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.200 You can introduce her to these things, but you know, it's one 01:18:31.200 --> 01:18:32.960 hurdle not to have to overcome. 01:18:32.960 --> 01:18:33.680 They exist. 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:34.640 Those women exist. 01:18:34.640 --> 01:18:35.600 They're not all married. 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:36.960 Some of them are single. 01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:38.000 Go find them. 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:40.880 That's one of the things you need to do as a man. 01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:45.280 I think that pretty much sums it up for this episode. 01:18:45.280 --> 01:18:47.600 I think that's where I'll close it out for tonight. 01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:51.040 I don't want to take up all of your Friday evening. 01:18:51.040 --> 01:18:54.560 Although I suppose most people who are going to watch this will 01:18:54.560 --> 01:18:57.280 probably watch it after instead of live since I did it on 01:18:57.280 --> 01:18:57.680 a Friday. 01:18:57.680 --> 01:18:59.680 It's part of why I tried to do it on Thursday, but 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:01.200 like I said, I had a very busy week. 01:19:01.200 --> 01:19:04.160 I did not manage to get around to it yesterday. 01:19:04.160 --> 01:19:07.920 But thank you for those who submitted questions and I will try 01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:11.760 to note down all of the questions in the chat that I 01:19:11.760 --> 01:19:16.080 did not answer and the ones that were in responses to the 01:19:16.080 --> 01:19:19.440 ex post and things like that and get to them next time, 01:19:19.440 --> 01:19:23.600 hopefully. There are also the pending questions from the forum. 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:26.880 I know that those are still outstanding, in particular's one about South 01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:28.000 Africa and a few other things. 01:19:28.160 --> 01:19:31.040 So if you ask those questions, I have noticed them. 01:19:31.040 --> 01:19:31.920 I know they're there. 01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:34.800 I will get to those when I have the time. 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:37.920 And again, thank you for submitting the questions and thank you for 01:19:37.920 --> 01:19:38.800 your time. 01:19:38.800 --> 01:19:41.280 And I hope that you all have a wonderful evening 01:19:42.320 --> 01:19:44.240 and a great rest of your weekend. 01:19:44.240 --> 01:19:46.720 And of course, go to church on Sunday. 01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:48.640 And God bless you all. 01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:53.680 See you next week.