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"This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast."
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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Pray then like this.
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Your Father in Heaven hallowed be your name.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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Give us to stay our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our
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debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For if you forgive others, their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive others, their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
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So what in the world am I supposed to do now?
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That particular question has been haunting me, and it's been a question that I've frankly
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been wrestling with for the last couple of weeks.
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So some of you, which by the way, I don't know why my dog is all of a sudden freaking
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out in the background.
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So if you hear a bunch of panting and something that sounds like a collar going crazy, that
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is Roman the Giant, so please forgive him.
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But as most of you know, and I know some of you didn't know by some of the messages that
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I've gotten here recently, but on March the 7th, I sent out an email and made a post on
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social media saying that I had received some very tragic news, and that I would be taking
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an indefinite hiatus from all undaunted life activities, and that included scheduled interviews,
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other recordings, forging tables, those types of things.
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So I wanted to talk with you a little bit about that today.
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Well let's go all the way back.
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So since we started the show back in 2017, if you can believe we've been around for that
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long, but we started back in 2017.
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We have put out at least one episode per week without fail.
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And typically those come out on Thursdays, right?
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And so regardless of what was going on in my life, my career, my schedule, injuries,
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surgeries, babies being born, sicknesses, you know, whatever was coming up, we've always
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gotten the job done and we've done it because we wanted to serve you guys.
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Now we've been able to do that because, and you know, this is for all you people that
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understand the big five personality traits.
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I'm incredibly high in conscientiousness and openness.
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So that means I'm a very creative person.
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That's the openness part, but I also, you know, get a lot of crap done.
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That's the conscientiousness part.
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So even if I knew that I would be out of pocket for a couple of weeks because of a birth of
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a child, or maybe even months because of a pre-planned surgery like last year with my
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planned first vocal court surgery and then the unplanned second vocal court surgery,
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I was able to bust my tail for weeks and sometimes months in advance to ensure that you guys
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didn't have any disruptions to the cadence of our show, that you would have high quality
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content that you could consume and hopefully better yourselves with.
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And that's what we've been able to provide for you.
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But what happened here recently in my family was something that I didn't see coming.
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So I certainly couldn't plan for it.
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And the reason why I put out that statement to all of you is because I felt like I owed
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you, frankly, at least something that resembled a reason for my absence because I didn't feel
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like it would be right to just ghost you.
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Because again, a lot of you guys, since 2017, you've been showing up to your podcast feed
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on Thursday, knowing that there would be an episode there.
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Now we've added the forging table on Sundays and we've added a lot of interviews on Tuesdays
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and some other stuff here and there, but Thursdays kind of like our day.
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That was the day that I picked early on because I was like, okay, I have to avoid this show,
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which releases on this day and I have to avoid that show.
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And so I just kind of picked Thursday.
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So just didn't feel right, just not posting an episode on a Thursday for the first time
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in years and years and years and then not saying anything.
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Now many of you have tried to kind of, you know, read between the lines and, you know,
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speculate about what happened or about what's going on in my family.
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So I didn't want to address that from the beginning.
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In terms of the specifics of what happened inside of my family, what's currently going
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on inside of my family, I've determined that right now is not the right nor appropriate
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time to share any details.
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And frankly, depending upon what kind of happens over the next several weeks and months and
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in different things I'm taking into consideration, I may never share the details.
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So you know, like with all of you guys, there are certain pockets of your life and I'm very
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open on the show.
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I share tons of things on the show, a lot of embarrassing things about me, you know,
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celebratory things, all that I share with you.
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But not everything is for public consumption.
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But what I can tell you are two things.
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Okay.
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Number one, I'm not dying.
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Okay.
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So that should make most of you happy.
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I would assume most of you listening to this don't want me to die, but there were a lot
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of people that were concerned that, you know, I had gotten some sort of, you know, chronic
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disease or some sort of like terminal cancer or something like that, or that I had catastrophically
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lost my voice, like, you know, permanently lost my voice, that type of thing.
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But no, I am healthy.
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And the second thing is also very important.
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And that's no, I did not have a moral failure.
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So unfortunately, a lot of you guys in this audience, you're used to it at this point
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when your favorite Christian, whatever, whether it's a pastor or some sort of parachurch
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ministry leader or some sort of nonprofit leader or something like that goes off the
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deep end and goes and does something crazy and basically disqualifies himself from ministry,
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even if they actually keep their ministry, nothing like that happened here in this case.
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So my conscience is clear.
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I did not have a moral failure.
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I know some of you were speculating that, but no, I'm not dying.
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No, there was not a moral failure.
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So in this quick episode today, and again, it'll just be pretty quick.
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I want to give you an idea of what to expect in the coming weeks and months from me and
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the show.
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So this is going to kind of be a little bit of housekeeping with you guys.
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And then I have a few messages for you that you should definitely stick around for.
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So as I mentioned in my statement that I released earlier this month, I have four forging table
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episodes that have already been recorded that have just not been released yet.
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So those are Matthew 25, 26, 27, and then the final chapter 28.
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So I'm going to start releasing those episodes this Friday.
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So this Friday, I'm going to release Matthew 25.
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And then, you know, every couple of days, I'll release another one.
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And then the final chapter of Matthew will be released on Easter Sunday.
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In the forging table, guys, we got together like over a year ago, I think, and we like
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planned that out.
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Okay, we're going to do this and then we're going to do this.
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And then, you know, we're going to do Matthew, but we're going to end it on Easter Sunday
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by talking about the resurrection.
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So that is the plan.
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It's been in place for a very, very long time now.
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So we just wanted to make sure that that happened.
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And for fans of the forging table, I can tell you that Matthew 27 and 28 are incredibly
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special.
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We have a very, very cool surprise for you guys on those last two.
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So make sure you check those out.
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Again, those will be coming out here in the next couple of weeks.
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And so in those episodes as well, you know, we kind of have our normal cadence of when
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we say, Hey, we're talking about last week or, Hey, next week, and it may just be not
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next week, but like a couple of days from now.
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So I know it'll be a little bit weird, but it'll be fine.
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Also I'm pretty sure at the end, I'm pretty sure we did this, but I'm pretty sure at the
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end of Matthew 28, I said that we were going to be doing some proverbs.
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I think we said we were going to do a few different proverbs, but we will not be doing
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that now.
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Okay.
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So we are currently in the process of getting more forging table recordings scheduled and
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kind of getting everybody like in the right place.
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And as soon as we get some recorded, I'm just going to start releasing them immediately.
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We typically, excuse me, we typically have a backlog of forging tables recorded that
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are ready to go.
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That backlog has basically been taken up now with this little hiatus that I took.
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So we're going to work through the rest of the year to try to make sure that we continue
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to have that backlog so that when we start posting those on Sundays again, that there's
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not going to be some sort of a problem or some sort of like a missing Sunday or something
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like that.
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But we are going to go straight from the book of Matthew into the book of Acts.
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So for any of you overachievers, your overachievers rather, that want to start digging into a new
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book of the Bible, we will be digging into the book of Acts.
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Like I said, I don't know when we're going to start recording that, but we hopefully
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can do that soon.
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And I've got some surprises for the beginning of the book of Acts that hopefully we can
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work out.
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So it'll make up for some of the last time then in that first week of April, okay, so
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that's here just in a couple of weeks, I will release an interview that I already recorded
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with Pastor Joe B. Martin. So if anything, in that interview seems weird, like time-wise,
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we recorded it like a month ago and I was supposed to release it several weeks ago and
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it just didn't get released because of this hiatus.
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So if something's kind of weird, time-wise, just forgive us, you know, whatever, it just
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kind of is what it is.
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But it's a very, very good interview of all the sit-downs that Joe B and I have had.
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This one is perhaps my favorite.
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So in terms of episode releases in Cadence for April, after I released that interview
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with Joe B, I'm not sure what to tell you, honestly.
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But we will at least, I will guarantee you this, we will at least have a weekly episode
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released for the month of April.
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And we will hopefully be back to our three shows per week Cadence by May.
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That's the goal, but I can guarantee you're going to least get one episode a week.
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I canceled a good amount of upcoming interviews and recording.
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So we'll take a, you know, a second for the whip to crack back on that one.
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So I guess I'm technically not like back, back because I have some other very important
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things I will be needing to focus on here in the near term, but the plan is coming together
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for the future.
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So please just be patient with me.
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Now in terms of the new program that I announced that we would be launching on the 18th of
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April, we're not sure when we're going to reschedule the release of that program.
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We still intend to do so, but just stay tuned for that.
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I know I was like teasing it, teasing it and then I announced it on social and via our mailing
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list and things like that.
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We're going to release it.
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We're just not sure when.
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So stay, stay on for that.
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Now I have a few messages before I let you guys go.
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So to all the people that sent me emails and DMs and text messages and called me and left
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comments on social media and all that over these last couple of weeks, encouraging me,
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praying for me, letting, letting me know that, hey, our entire home group is praying for
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you and are, you know, hey, I let our church know to be praying for you and gosh, you know,
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our family's praying for you around the dinner table.
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You guys have no idea how much that means to me because there are some guys out there
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and I love these guys for years.
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Every few months or so they'll send me an email just like an encouragement or a question
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and a lot of these guys are donors, some of them are not, but just, you know, I kind of
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get a sense of who I'm talking to because I get some of the same emails from some of
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the same guys.
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A lot of the same guys will comment on social media or share on social media.
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But I got a bunch like literally hundreds of messages from people that I had never seen
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their names before.
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So people that have been consuming this show some for a few days and some for since the
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beginning for years and years and years and you just came out of the woodwork to let me
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know that that you care about me, you care about my family, even though you've never
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met them and even though you've never met me, but you care about us enough to add us to
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your prayers and I know, you know, that statement, you believe me, I spent days on that statement.
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I went over that statement with a fine tooth comb with a couple of really smart guys to
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try to like make sure I could communicate fully and clearly without, you know, giving
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away all, you know, everything that's going on with the Thompson family.
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But I did want to give you just that from the bottom of my heart.
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Just thank you so much because I know I didn't respond to any of them.
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As I told you, I wouldn't be responding to anything and to be honest with you.
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The backlog is just kind of crazy.
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So I'm not going to be responding to every single one of those messages, but know that
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I read them and know that it did have a profound impact on me.
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Now this message is to the donors that have stuck around.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for believing in us and believing in our content and for sticking around when
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you didn't know when we'd be coming back because I'm very well aware that most of you
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are donating to this show because you're wanting more content to be created.
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And when that content stops, I guess this would be my message to the donors that have
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left us.
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Unfortunately, there have been many.
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I get it.
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If you were giving a service provider money and they stopped providing you that service,
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it makes sense to stop giving them that money.
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Now I would say for those of you donors that have fallen off, maybe you weren't sure.
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Hey, did I have a moral failing?
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Did I disqualify myself from ministry, which didn't happen?
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Am I never coming back?
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You know, I kind of gave you a sense of what life's going to look like starting here in
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the next few days and on into April and on into May, we would encourage you to come back.
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As I told you over and over, we're trying to find ways where we can do other verticals
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where we can get some more money flowing through here.
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So we're not as dependent on donations and so that we can be very, very flexible in terms
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of what we're trying to accomplish with this ministry.
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But as of right now, the overwhelming majority of what we do here is paid for by donors,
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like you guys giving 20 bucks a month, 100 bucks a month in every other different iteration
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in between.
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It's you guys that are helping us equipment around the globe to push back darkness.
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I know I beat that drum all the time, but it's true.
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And so we're so thankful to the donors, even if you did leave us, we're thankful for as
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long as you supported the show in this ministry and to those that are still sticking around
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to this day.
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You guys are gangsters.
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We're so glad you're in the foxhole with us.
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To our sponsors, I know that, you know, you guys have gotten used to us talking about origin
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and Jocko fuel and primal beef and we have some others that we were in the works with
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and we're still in the works with.
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We're so thankful to all of you guys.
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I talked with all of our sponsors, y'all are being very patient with us.
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You're not demanding.
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You got to put out an episode and you got to put out social media posts and you got to
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do this and you got to do that.
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You've all been amazing to us and we're so thankful for that.
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And I guess that's a good thing to know.
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You will notice me putting some more stuff out on social media here soon and all that.
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So that'll kind of get wrapped ramped back up.
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But my closing message to you guys that have stuck around this long and gosh, you've heard
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me beat this drum before as well.
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But if you don't have a fox hole full of guys that love you and that aren't worried
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about offending you, you might not make it when and if your world falls apart.
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So I'm certainly not the first person to point out something like this.
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But most of us, I would say probably all of us, we are one phone call away from hitting
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our knees and having an attack of conscience and attack of faith and just an attack in
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general.
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And most of you know what that one phone call could be.
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It could be about a diagnosis that you're waiting on.
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It could be about an accident that's happened to someone that you love or something like
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that.
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But most of us are just one call away from needing to rely on men around us to help take
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some of the burden.
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And so I thought about listing the men that have showed up and showed out and supported
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me over the last several weeks in a myriad of different ways.
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But I'm going to just keep those names to myself.
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But to those of you that are listening to this right now, you know exactly who you are.
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Okay.
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You know exactly what you did for me.
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You knew the state I was in and the state my family was in when you know this all the
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stuff was initially going down and just the craziness that I personally I'll keep it to
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me personally was dealing with trying to figure out a heading and trying to find my way through
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the fog.
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And I mean guys showed up in immense ways.
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And so that clip that went viral from the Mike Glover show when I was on there talking
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about the difference between a 6 p.m. and a 3 a.m. friend by since December that clip
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has been shared across a bunch of different pages and we're talking tens of millions
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of views and shares and downloads in the whole the whole nine.
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The funny thing about that clip is I think some people are purposefully not getting the
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point because they're like, oh my gosh, this guy's advocating for violence.
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He wants you to be able to call a friend at 3 a.m. and they're going to get a shovel
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and a pistol and they're going to go bury a body.
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That's crazy.
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Who is this person?
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Christian nationalist, you know, it's some sort of nonsense like that.
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The point is obviously not, hey, you should have guys in your life that will help you
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commit murder and hide it you morons.
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The idea is that up to and including something crazy like that, that none of us are ever
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going to have to call about, you need to know that you've got 3 a.m. guys that are ready
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to throw down for you in whatever way that means because there are guys that are ready
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to throw down with these.
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There are guys that are ready to throw down with prayer.
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They're ready to throw down with with their money and their resources.
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They're ready to throw down with their influence.
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They're ready to throw down with their time.
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They're willing and ready to pause their life because your life got flipped upside down.
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And guys, if you don't have those men in your life right now, that is your number one priority
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after God, your marriage and your children is to figure that out because I've talked
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about this a lot.
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You have to make deposits in certain bank accounts if you expect to make withdrawals
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in the future.
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So let's use an easy example, your body.
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So if you get into a crisis situation where you need to perform with your body, whether
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it's your strength or your cardio or something like that, at that moment, you're only able
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to make a withdrawal.
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So if you're in that extreme situation, buddy breaks his leg on a hiking trip, sat phone
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isn't working and they have to send a runner to go get help to get this guy out of there
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or something like that.
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Well, guess what?
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You can't train for that now.
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You're in the moment.
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But if you've been making deposits and that cardiovascular strength and that muscular strength
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bank account for months and months and years and years, well, now it's time to make a withdrawal
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and you're going to be able to do that and potentially save a life, right?
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The same goes with every other situation with the men that are in your life.
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I'm thankful that God gave me the wisdom in the foresight to say, look, you need to invest
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and make deposits in a lot of different men's lives.
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Just do that.
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Do it over and over and over and then do it again.
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Now to be honest with you, I made it a priority to invest in the lives of other men because
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I assumed one day they would need me, right?
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It's a pretty arrogant thing to think, but that's what I thought.
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Hey, something's going to go wrong for these guys.
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Like I'm squared away.
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Nothing's ever going to happen to me, you know, aside from, you know, like a, you know, shark
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nato or something like that, trying to take me out.
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But these guys, I love these guys so much.
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I love their family so much that I am willing to just make sacrifices so I can, you know,
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put an investment into these guys lives because one day their life's going to fall apart and
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then I can jump in and save them.
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I can get under the bar and hold some of that weight up like I can give them some of my
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resources and some of my time and attention to serve them.
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And wouldn't you know it?
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It wasn't their lives that got flipped upside down and it was mine.
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And so those deposits I made in those bank accounts that I thought was going to be for
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their benefit ended up being to my redounding benefit.
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And to be honest with you and again, you guys know exactly who you are.
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I'm not going to say your name, but you know exactly who you are.
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I have no idea where I would be spiritually, mentally and physically right now today as
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I record this, if not for those men.
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That's not hyperbole.
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That's not being being exaggerated to make a point here on a podcast.
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That's just real life.
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Guys, if you don't have a foxhole, if you look to your left and right and you see nobody
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that's a problem.
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If you look to your left and you're right and you're like good, I don't want to go to
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war with these guys.
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You got to fix that.
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There's no more important thing you can put on your goal sheet for 2024 than getting a
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handle on that.
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So I appreciate your guys' attention on this.
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Like I said, we're going to start releasing some of these forging table episodes.
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I appreciate all of you in our audience.
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Thank you so much for your patience.
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We'll talk to you again soon.
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Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode.
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