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Hey. Welcome to the Stephanie Stevens show where

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I help you discover the power of communication

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and the keys that unlock the doors to

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freedom

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in every area of your life. Well, hi

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friend, I am so honored to be connecting

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with you spending some time with you today.

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Thank you for letting me. Man, where do

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I begin?

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So we talk about a lot of different

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kinds of things on this podcast. I've shared

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my personal story. I've talked about my advocacy

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for individuals with special needs, especially autism. I've

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talked about my journey in therapeutic

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my own personal struggles with panic and anxiety

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and some really hard situations in my life.

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I've talked about my years and broadcasting and

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what I learned about being in the media.

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I've talked about being a mom, a single

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parent and all sorts of stuff. I typically

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don't talk a lot about politics

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which is kinda funny because I have a

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degree in political science. So I have a

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degree in communications and also degree in political

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science because if you'll recall in my story,

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I thought It was going to be a

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very famous talking head pun.

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On some all news channel, 24 hour news

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channel somewhere,

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and I was gonna be just preaching with

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as though from the gods, and I was

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gonna be an oracle of truth, and everyone

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was gonna listen to me, and I was

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gonna help change the world in that way.

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I yeah, you can laugh off. It's okay.

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You should. I was totally

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delusional. It only took me a couple of

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years in television to realize how un

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jade cynical sarcastic and downright,

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untrue, most of it is.

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But I did get to see at firsthand.

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So when I speak to you about things

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pertaining to the media, you have to remember,

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I spent over 25 years in the media.

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I worked in television news first for about

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5 years, and then I moved into radio

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and worked there for about 25 years. I

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know that age is me. But I've had

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experience at the point, and I did work

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for a national news channel. In fact, after

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I left the small town and that I

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started my Tv career. I was immediately hired

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at a 24 hour news network, and it

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was the second 1 of its kind. There

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was 1 that I had started the trend

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that was pretty popular, and then I was

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working at the 1 that actually owned all

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of the satellites, but that was not yet

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quite as popular.

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Nonetheless.

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The point is it was a 24 hour

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news cycle, and I worked there. And I

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saw all of the raw video that would

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come in from all of the news feeds

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around the country. And that in and of

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itself can be a little bit traumatic because

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anytime a horrible event would happen, where in

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life was lost and tragedies were occurring, we

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would see the raw video. We would see

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what the cameraman was seeing. Unfiltered une edited

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and that was all of the feed that

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would come in into that what was called

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a feed room. So in order to do

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the kind of job that allows you to

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take that video in and then go ahead

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and edit it, you have to be very

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disconnected.

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That was not my job. I was a

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news writer and an anchor. And so I

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had to be in the feed room all

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the time asking the production guys for video,

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but I didn't have to sit there and

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go through every frame and edited down. I

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cannot imagine having that job. Nonetheless, the job

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I had was difficult

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enough. But I learned so much. I learned

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that you could con try

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absolutely anything

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by sp and editing in exact ways.

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You can literally can try any story out

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of a couple of pieces of video. And

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I know that this has been going on

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for a very, very long time. And now

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on top of it all, decades later we

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have Ai that can literally put someone's face

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onto someone else's body and match their voice

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to things that they didn't actually say, which

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is beyond terrifying. We should be terrified by

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this. Is it funny when we see funny

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videos and memes that people have created it

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sure is, it's really funny and unless until

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it becomes about us. Right? And thank goodness,

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we're not public figures enough, At least not

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at this point. I'm not where I don't

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think anybody would be interested in taking my

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likeness and image. And hurting it in such

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ways to make me do stupid dances or

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say stupid things. I don't know. Maybe maybe

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I do that without the help of ai.

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But the point is is that we're living

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in a very bizarre time my friend where

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it's hard to know what's real.

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It's hard to know what's real.

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And tragic

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things have happened lately,

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regarding political violence, we have a presidential candidate

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that was almost killed live in front of

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the world on television.

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It goes beyond saying that there are faults

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and in discrepancies in the stories that we

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hear now. In terms of how something of

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that nature could be allowed to occur or

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how something of that nature could be facilitated.

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We're not gonna bury our heads in the

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sand and pretend to be silly and ignorant

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and thought

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and right brain, we do need to use

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our logic and we do have to discern

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when dozens if not hundreds of people come

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forward with video tape and timelines,

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and we can see negligence very clearly for

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what it is. We call it that. We

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need to call it that and say what

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it is. I have my own personal views

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on what happened that day. I know you

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do too. And that's why I wanna come

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to you today and talk about truth.

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Because I'm gonna argue that it is harder

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today to know truth than ever before. In

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terms of who's is behind what how things

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really happen who helped who do what, how

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this was allowed ABCXYZ.

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You can take any situation. You can take

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any

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single situation that you see in the media

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today. And you have to run it through

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your own series of filters and questions because

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you just cannot know. You can't know anymore.

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The agencies that are contracted to keep us

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safe, don't appear to be able to do

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that. And we can't appear to be able

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to trust really who is in charge at

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times. And friend, the truth is we really

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don't know who's been in charge.

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For a very, very long time.

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That's not specific to the country I live

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in. It may be true in the country

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you live in as well. We live in

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a time where up is down and down

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is up. And I would also argue that

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in most cases and in many cases right

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is wrong and wrong as right. And if

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you have the spirit of the divine living

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on the inside of you, you're feeling it.

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You feel it. Things feel out of alignment.

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Things feel skewed. Things feel

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uncertain.

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Things feel downright right wrong in some and

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many in many areas in many ways. We

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feel deceived.

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We feel lied to. We feel as though

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our voices

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really don't matter.

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And that is upside down. We the people

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at least in the country I live in

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are p to be in charge. That's not

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the case.

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country in the country I live in. The

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idea was,

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there would be freedom to worship our creator

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in the way we chose best, and that

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we the people would contract with something called

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the government and the government would do duties

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and perform tasks in an effort to help

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preserve and protect our god given rights, not

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our constitutional rights, not our government allowed rights,

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but our god, given

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or una.

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That means can't be taken away, rights.

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Do they do that?

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Do you feel that they do that for

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So back to my whole up is down

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down as up right wrong the whole thing.

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How are we gonna be able to know

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then, how to navigate ourselves in a climate

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wherein you cannot trust what you see or

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hear from the very people who are hired

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to keep your god given rights safe.

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But then? Well, I think this is an

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inside job, and I mean you and me.

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I mean, we gotta get clear. On truth,

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we have to have eyes to see. We

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have to have ears to hear. We have

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to have a heart that knows and can

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discern truth because we know how to and

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are willing to drown out the noise. We

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need to be able to silence the noise

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long enough to check the spirit that lives

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on the inside of us, the spirit that

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gives life. The spirit that creates that lives

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on the inside of us,

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we need to be able to hear it

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friend.

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We have to be able to lean into

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it. We have to wrap it around us

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like a mama bear hug, and we better

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lean back into it. Lest we be deceived.

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know that in Matthew 13, 16, it says,

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but blessed are your eyes if they see.

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And your ears, if or because they hear.

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And it goes on to say for truly,

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I tell you many profits and right people

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long to see what you see, but did

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not see it, and they long to hear

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what you hear, but they did not hear

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it.

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Why not? They were deceived. So this then

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goes into a story about or parable of

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the sow. And this is where a farmer

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starts sow seeds, and there are 3 different

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things that come along to damage or destroy

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the seed. If you've never heard the parable,

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look it up its matthew 13 18, it's

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fantastic. The point goes to the need to

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hear truth, receive truth and hold on to

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it and not let something someone or some

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news entity knock you outside of truth. When

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you hear something that sounds off chances are

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it is, but see we've been so trained

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and so programmed not to trust ourselves, but

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to trust somebody in a white coat or

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somebody who's

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face is front and center on a big

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screen somewhere as though they are some sem

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of credibility or authority.

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They're not. You can do just about anything

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to get your face on a big screen

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somewhere.

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Doesn't have to be good. Doesn't have to

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be noble.

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We have got a responsibility to ourselves to

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our families to our communities to our tribes

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to know, perceive here, see and comprehend truth,

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so that we can act accordingly

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so that we can know how to filter

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out how to sip and how to really

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educate ourselves

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so that we can put our own house

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and order and help others do the same,

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so that we can learn to rely on

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those of us who are like minded and

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who seek truth. Who's knowledge and wisdom and

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understanding and the ability to

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support and help others and raise the collective

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in truth because at the end of the

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day, end. What do we have? If we

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don't have truth, If we can't operate in

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truth. If truth cannot be revealed when it

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needs to be so that changes can be

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made then what do we really have?

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So my invitation to you today is, please

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take time daily to drown out the noise

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and the chaos

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put yourself under the protective covering in a

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quiet space,

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go in,

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let the spirit that gave you life speak

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to you and guide you in all truth

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because that spirit promises to do so if

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you will seek, knowledge and truth.

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I am with you in it as always

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my friend. So much love to you, and

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I can't wait to see you on the

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next episode.

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